<TITLE>10. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 What happened? The blood comes from the male sex. We know that. A hen can lay an egg, but if she hasn't been with the male bird, it'll never hatch. It's infertile. The baby that's born of a woman is wrapped in her blood, but not one speck of her blood. The hemoglobin is in the male sex. So we can...
Just like, it's coming springtime. And we notice old mother birds get out here and make them a nest, lay them a nest full of eggs. And she can get on that nest and hover those eggs till she's so poor she can't fly off the nest, so reverent, so respectable to her eggs. She turns them this way and turns them that way. She's starving to death, but she's afraid that they... she'll... they'll be exposed if she flies from the nest. She's a loyal mother and tries to hover these eggs. But if that male... that female bird that laid the egg, if she hasn't been with the male bird, the mate, them eggs, no matter how much she hovers them, how well she treats them, they'll rot right in the nest. That's exactly right.

L-43 That's what's the matter with a lot of our old cold formal churches today. They got a nest full of rotten eggs. Only thing they are is professors, and never been with the Mate, Jesus Christ. Only thing to do, is clean it out, and start over again with men and women who's been in contact with the Mate, Jesus Christ to His church.
How can they believe the supernatural power of God when they haven't got anything to believe with? My old mammy of the South told me, said, "Honey, you can't get blood out of a turnip, because there's no blood in it." How can you get faith out of a person that's got nothing to have faith with? If you've never been born again of the Spirit of God, you don't know the first principles of the power of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's right. They don't understand it. Oh, we got them. And they're big payers in the church, and we make them deacons and everything else, and hover them--and they're just unbelievers to begin with.
Now, how true that is, to see the mating time. The mate... Now ought to be the mating time, when the church gets in contact with Christ and gets real genuine Holy Ghost faith.

L-44 And this lady said to me, she said, "Brother Branham, you said you was a fundamentalist--you just spoke what the Scripture said and stayed with it."
I said, "I do."
And she said, "I can prove to you that He wasn't divine."
I said, "If He was anything less than God, He was the greatest deceiver the world ever had." I said, "The Holy Ghost, God, overshadowed the virgin and created a blood cell in the womb. This blood cell was the Son of God. Through that blood we have remission of sins. Man knowed nothing about that woman. She said, 'I never knew a man.' And that was God Himself tabernacling with man--God, Himself."
She said, "And you make Him divine."
I said, "He was divine."
She said, "I'll prove it by your own Bible He wasn't divine."
I said, "Let me hear you say it."
She said, "In St. John, the 11th chapter, when Jesus was going to the grave of Lazarus, the Bible said, 'He wept.' And if He was divine, He could not weep."
"Oh," I said, "lady, that's thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that's starved to death." I said, "How could you base any theology on that?" I said, "He was both man and God." No man has seen God at any time but the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Exactly right.


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