<TITLE>05. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 When He was on earth, Adam's race had many fears. And it's true, they still have them, but they shouldn't have them. As Arnold Von Winkelried ended war once for all. And it--Christ won once for all at Calvary.
When He was here on earth, He walked up to a--a sick man, that sickness had bound the human race, and He said, "Thou spirit of the devil, I charge thee, come out of the man." He conquered the devil.
When a man lay in the grave dead, He conquered death for the man, or the sickness when the maniac come out to destroy Him, and the maniac realized that He was the Son of God; he said to Him, "Oh, if You'll cast us out, suffer us to go in that bunch of hogs." For he knew the authority that Jesus Christ had. He conquered the devil everywhere He met him. And He not only conquered in Himself, but left the commission to the church that, "Anything that you ask in My Name, that I will do."

L-19 Fight with what's in your hands. If it's singing, sing the Gospel. If you can't do nothing but whistle, whistle just as loud as you can for the glory of God. If you can't do no more than pat your hands, pat them. Conquer with whatever you got in your hand. Clap them in such a way, that all the neighbors will love you. Whistle in such a way, that all denominations will know that you belong to Christ. Conquer them; play the game fair. Play it right.
We're living in a day that when this social gospel is becoming predominate, when the--the churches are uniting themselves together and making a social religion, and binding themselves together; it's a terrible day. They're trying to take all the Deity, and all the--the--the glory away from Christ, and trying to make Him just a prophet. If Christ was just a prophet, we're every one lost. He was more than a prophet, and today when...

L-20 A woman told me some time ago; she said, "Mr. Branham, there's one thing that I do not like about your speaking."
Well, I said, "What is it, sister?"
And she said, "You try to magnify Christ too much; you brag on Him too much. You try to make Him more than what He is."
I said, "If I had ten thousand languages, I would--could exhaust them, and could never explain what He really is. He is worthy of every praise."
She said, "Mr. Branham, I heard you say from the platform, that you was a fundamentalist."
I said, "According to the Word, yes."
She said, "If I'll explain to you, and prove to you by the Word, that He was just a man, and you try to make Him Deity."
I said, "He was Deity." I said, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself." I said, "If He's just a prophet, we're all lost."
She said, "If I'll prove to you, by the Bible, that He was just a man. Will you accept it?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am, if the Bible said that."
She said, "When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, in Saint John the 11th chapter, the Bible said, 'He wept,'and if He'd been Deity, He could not weep. So that made Him nothing but just an ordinary good man."

L-21 I said, "Sister, your argument's no good. I said, "You failed to see. You saw the man, but you failed to see the God in the man." I said, "It is truth. When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He was weeping like a man, but when He pulled those little shoulders back together, and looked at the face of a dead man, that had been dead and his soul was four day's journey, and He said, 'Lazarus, come forth.' That dead man stood on his feet again; that was more than a man speaking there. He is a mighty Conqueror. That was God speaking through His Son.
And He was a man, when He come off the mountain, that night, hungry, had nothing to eat, and looked around on a fig tree to find something to eat. He was a man when He was hungry, but when He took five biscuits and two little fishes and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. That was God speaking through His Son, Christ Jesus, Deity in man."


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