<TITLE>20. Par 58-60</TITLE>L-58 Not calling any different religions, I don't represent any of them; I represent them all. Here some time ago, I was at the Robinson Auditorium in Little Rock. There was an old man that was on crutches; he'd been called out, sold pencils on the corner for years. He was a Nazarene. The next day, he was going down the street holding these old crutches, saying, "My old buddies, I'm through with them." Testifying. That night, I was--got in the pulpit to preach, and he said, "Just a minute, Mr. Branham."
I said, "Yes, sir." He was up in the balcony.
And he said, "You know, when I heard you preach, I was sure you was a Nazarene." And he said, "Because you preach holiness." And he said, "Then I hear somebody tell me you was a Baptist. Nearly all these people are Pentecostals." Said, "I don't understand that."
I said, "Oh dad, that's easy." I said, "I'm a Pentecostal, Nazarene, Baptist." That's--that's it. We are representatives of Jesus Christ, that's the thing, not your denomination, your God.

L-59 Now, this woman belonged to a--a Christian Science church, very fine lady, and she said. 'Course, they do not believe in the--Jesus being Divine. She said, "Mr. Branham, I enjoy your teaching." But said, "The only thing that makes my blood shiver is you trying to make Jesus Divine." Said, "You brag too much on Him."
I said, "I can't brag enough on Him."
She said, "Well, you're always bragging about Him, bragging about Him."
I said, He's--I--if I had ten thousand tongues, I couldn't brag about Him enough." I said, "What He's done for me."
She said, "But you make Him Divine."
I said, "He was Divine. If He wasn't Divine, the whole world's lost." That's exactly right.
She said, "If I... You said, you was a fundamentalist. You just stayed with the Bible."
I said, "That's right."
She said, "If I'll prove to you by the Bible He wasn't Divine, will you accept it?"
I said, "If the Bible said He wasn't, I would." She--I said, "But the Bible doesn't say it."
She said, "Oh, yes it does too."
I said, "Where's it at?"
She said, "All right, in first--in Saint John the 11th chapter, when Jesus was going down to the grave of Lazarus, the Bible said, 'He wept.'" Said, "Mr. Branham, He could not weep and be Divine."
"Why," I said, "lady, your argument is thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken, that starved to death." I said, "Well, you... Well, that's no Scripture." I said, "Looky here, He was both God and man." I said, "He was a man, when He wept, at the grave of Lazarus, but when He pulled His little shoulders up, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man that had been dead four days, stood on his feet, and lived again, that took more than a man. That took Divinity to do that. God was in Christ."

L-60 He was a man coming off the hill that night hungry, looking down along--or that morning, rather, looking for food on that fig tree and found none. He was a man when He was hungry, but when He took five biscuits and two fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. That was God living in a man. Sure it was.
He was a man when He was tired, laying on that little old boat out there that night, virtue had gone from Him from visions and things through the day. And the devil swore that night, probably, ten thousand of them of the sea, that they'd drown Him, and there He was in that little old ship, out there, tossed about like a bottle stopper in a storm on a mighty sea. There He was floating about like that, and Him laying in the back of the ship, the waves never even woke Him up, sleeping. So He was tired and weary. He was a man when He was asleep, but when once aroused (Hallelujah. Oh... ), put His foot on the brail of the boat and said, 'Peace be still,' and the winds went to its coves like a baby to its... The winds and the waves obeyed; that took more than a man to do that; that took God. That took inspiration; that took the power of Divinity to do that. God was in His Son. Do you believe that?


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