<TITLE>27. Par 78-80</TITLE>L-78 She said, "Well, He was--He was a good man; I believe He was a prophet."
I said, "He was either God or the greatest deceiver the world ever had." He was God Himself.
And she said, "I'll prove to your own Bible. You said you was a fundamentalist. I'll prove by your own Bible that He wasn't nothing but a man."
I said, "Prove it."
And she said, "Saint John the 11th chapter when Jesus went down to the grave of Lazarus, the Bible said He wept. That proved that He was a human being like you are."
And I said, "Is that your Scripture?"
She said, "Yes."
I said, "Sister, that's thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that starved to death." I said, "That would never stand."
She said, "What do you mean by that?"
I said, "He wept like a man, that's right, going to the grave. But when He stood His little stoop shoulders and pulled them together and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again, that took more than a man. Yes, sir, It was God. 'I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith God.' Not a man, not a prophet, but God. That's what He was. 'I am the resurrection and life,' saith God. 'He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.' Said, 'Believeth thou this?'"
And she said, "Yea, Lord, I believe." That's it, something's got to happen. Not a man, God...

L-79 Now, let's follow Abraham. So Sarah... Abimelech said, "You know, there's that beautiful Hebrew woman." Said, "Is that your husband?"
"No, that's my brother."
He said, "That's right, that's--that--that's my sister." Which is was, his half sister.
"Well," so he said, "Well, I'll take her over to the palace and I--she'll become my wife, and I'll just give you a lot of things. See?"
"All right." So he took her over there. And could you imagine a man doing a thing like that? So he stepped over there...

L-80 See why--why--why he done it? Why did he compromise? He was out of the promise. He went down in Gerar. That's the reason you women chop your hair off, and use makeup, and you fellows smoke cigarettes, and--and carry on the way you do; you get out of the promise, and still remain deacons and members and so forth. Like these Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodist, Pentecostals, and so forth; you just get right out of the promise, that's all. The devil pushed you and he... Stay over here where you belong, prayed up. That's right. Let the devil speak to you, listen to him...


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