<TITLE>17. Par 128-140</TITLE>L-128 I spoke to a woman here sometime ago, or she called my attention. She said, "Pastor Branham," she said, "I appreciate your sermons. I--I'm a... I attend your meetings." But she belonged to a certain denominational church that does not believe that Jesus was Divine. And she said, "Well, He wasn't Divine." And I said... Said, "You try to make Him too Divine."
I said, "He was Divine."
Oh, she said, "Sir, I'll admit that he was a good man." And I don't want to hurt your feelings; some of them people are my precious friends. It's Christian Science. And he said, "He--he isn't Divine." Said, "I'll admit he was a prophet, but he wasn't Divine. And you try to make him Divine."
I said, "He was either Divine or the greatest deceiver the world ever had." That's right. I said, "He was Divine. He was more than a prophet. He was God over the prophets. Sure He was." I said, "He was Divine."

L-131 And she said, "Now, you said you was fundamental and you believed the Scripture."
I said, "I do."
And she said, "If I'll prove to you by your own Bible that he wasn't Divine, will you witness that I'm right?"
I said, "Yes, sir. If the Bible said He wasn't Divine, then I'll believe the Bible." And I said, "But I've got to see the Scripture."
She said, "In John, over in St. John it said when Jesus went down to the grave of Lazarus, he wept." And said, "You know, if He was Divine, he could not weep."
I said, "Sister, is that where you base your thoughts?"
She said, "Yes, sir. And that's true. He went to the grave of Lazarus, he wept, that showed that he wasn't Divine."
I said, "Your argument is thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that starved to death." I said, "Well, you know better than that."
And she said, "Oh, he was--he was--he was a prophet; he was a good man."
I said, "He was more than... God was in Him. He was a man, but He was a--a dual Person. One, He was a man; the Spirit in Him was God." I said, "God was in Christ."
She said, "Aw, no."
I said, "Look, lady, I'll take your own Scripture. He was a man, but He was a God-man. When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He did weep like a man. That's true. But when He stood there, straightened His little stooped shoulders up, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a dead man, that'd been dead four days come to life. That was more than a man. Man couldn't do that. That was God in His Son."

L-140 He was a man when He come off the mountain, hungry, looking for something to eat, looking right on a tree to find something to eat. He was a man when He was hungry. But when He took two fishes and five biscuits and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. That was God in His Son. Sure was.
He was a man when He was laying out there on that boat that night; virtue had gone out of Him, till He was so weak he couldn't--the waves didn't even wake Him up, tossed about in that little old boat like a bottle stopper out there on a mighty sea. The ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drowned Him that night while He was asleep. He was a man when He was sleepy and tired. But when He put His foot upon the brail of the boat, looked up, and said, "Peace, be still," and the winds and the waves obeyed Him, that was more than a man. God was in His Son. Absolutely.
He was a man when He died there on the cross, screaming for mercy. He was a man when He died. He cried like a man; He had pain like a man. But on Easter morning when He broke the...?... death, hell, and the seals of the grave, and rose again; He's more than a man; He proved He was God.
Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, he justified freely for ever;
Someday He's coming, oh, glorious day!


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