<TITLE>20. Par 183-193</TITLE>L-183 What did Jesus do, to do it? He made a public testimony. When Satan could not die for sins because he was the sinner... He's the father of sin. But Jesus, the innocent One, God of heaven, Who didn't have to die, come down and made a public testimony by dying, lifted up between heavens and earth: A public testimony, stripped His clothes off of Him; and hung between heavens and earth in shame, and died a sinful, shameful death to redeem us: a public testimony. Amen.
What did He do? Kicked off His own righteousness, kicked off His own glory, kicked off... "I have power; I could speak to My Father and straightway He'd send Me twenty legions of Angels." They could change the course. One Angel could've done it. He could've called for twenty legions, that'd been about forty thousand Angels. What could they have done? He said, "I could speak to My Father, and straightway (That's right now.) He'd send Me twenty legions of Angels; would come here and take this over." And what would one do? One would destroy the earth in a second. Just look, He had thousands that could've come. See? But He kicked that off. He laid that aside. He laid all of His dignity, everything aside and become a sinner and died for you and I.

L-185 Now, in closing, we might say this in closing. He did--He did that. Then he took Ruth, and he married her. And she brought forth a son called Obed. Obed was the father of Jesse. Jesse was the father of David, who was a father of Christ (Amen), father of the Lord Jesus.
Don't you see? Through that righteousness, through that clear cut decision, He become our Kinsman Redeemer. God became Kinfolks to us, to come down and be made like us, a human being, suffer hunger, suffer thirst, "I thirst; give Me a drink." And they put vinegar in His mouth and gall.
He thirsted like we did. He knowed how to do without. He was sick like we are. He said, "Won't they say to Me the old parable, 'physician, heal yourself'?" But His great powers wasn't for Himself. He had the power to do it, but He couldn't use it on Himself. No.

L-188 Somebody said to me the other day, said, "Brother Branham, before anything happens, you know all about it. What's going to happen to you?"
I said, "The gift is not for me. I cannot use it for myself." It's for you. You're the one that gets the benefit, not me. I'm just a public servant of God to you.
The preacher's a public servant. He just holds himself there like a lily of the field; the bumble bee flies in and get his part; the honey bee flies and gets his; the by-passer gets his, and everything. He toils day and night to keep his radiance. And the Gospel minister does the same thing: walks in the line of God, holds his testimony true, that the world might partake of him. See? Mr. Pastor Lily, he's a good one. Jesus said, "Consider him. Solomon is not like him." That's right. Dr. Lily, I guess you all know him. See?

L-191 "Consider the lilies of the field, how they toil, and spin neither... I say, and yet, Solomon in all of his glory..." A lily has to struggle day and night to get the radiance, to keep his garments, to keep the perfume and things going. And others... He just opens up hisself and they come by and take it out of him. The bee, and the fly, and everything comes by, good or bad just takes from him.
That's the way the servant is of Christ, the Christian servant: opens himself up, "Just take from me, world." There's nothing for himself, it's for the others. That's what Christ become when He become Kinfolks to us. He become man that the world might partake of His righteousness (See?) and be made sons of God.

L-193 Now, what did they do? They got married, and through that come this great thing. Then Ruth was rewarded by getting Christ--or getting Boaz for her husband. Which the church is rewarded by... When the coming of the Lord shall come, on that bright and cloudless morning... We're resting, waiting now. It shall come. Now... Why, it's redeemed.


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