<TITLE>10. Par 75-82</TITLE>L-75 There in the garden that morning, when sin was so black, Jehovah come in. There stood His couple, standing condemned. There would be no more human race; they had to die; death on the human race, give the world back to wild beasts and there'd been no human race. But in that darkest of hour, in that time when all hopes was gone, grace come pouring through, said, "I'll give you a Saviour, a Messiah." Oh, it's a wonder how God could ever do it. God's amazing grace in the garden of Eden, that give them the promise of a Just One Who could come through the woman. "The woman's Seed shall bruise the serpent's head," the guilty one, "and his head shall bruise her heal," to show there'd be an affliction to the church. But He promised a triumph. What provided a Saviour? Grace.

L-76 What could they show to merit grace? What could they show to do it? The army expression, excuse it, I only want to make it from my pulpit here to make a point, "passing the buck." Adam said, "The woman You give me did it." The woman said, "The serpent beguiled me." One laying it to another.
There was no hopes for them, but God provided grace, and it come breaking through. And He said, "But I'll make a way, somehow. I'll save you, regardless. You've done wrong; you've trespassed My laws. And My laws will have to be...?... The judgment from My laws will have to be executed. Therefore there'll have to be death, because I've said death." [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit--Ed.]

L-78 Now, my Christian friends (And these tapes here that's being made will spread across the world.), let me ask you something; you who try to make God be three Gods, or you who try to make Him to be one like your finger. He's one in person.
It would not be right for God to make an Angel die. He could not be the right kind of a Judge and make an Angel die for a human being. That still doesn't cure it, because His great law demands death, and something's got to die, and an Angel can't die. Neither could He say, "Eve, because you've caused Adam to do this, I'll make you die, let Adam live," because Adam was partaker also.

L-80 Like someone said, "Pilate was justified; he washed his hands." You can't wash the Blood of Jesus Christ off your hands. You'll never leave this building this morning and go to heaven, if you die in your sins. It's on your hands. So it isn't right.
There was only one just way. There's only one way that could be, God's great law demands could be met. He had to meet it Himself. He had to do it. God's a Spirit and He can't die. So God had to be made man, and He died in human flesh in the form of a Man called Jesus Christ, and that was the promised Messiah that bought the grace. There where you see that God and Christ is the same Person, God dwelling in Christ. "I and My Father are One; My Father dwells in Me. It's not Me that speaketh the Word, but My Father that dwelleth in Me." God in Christ, certainly...

L-82 The grace was promised in the garden of Eden, and grace came, grace to Adam and Eve. Nowhere to go, no which way to turn, and yet grace made a way.
Let me say this, my sinner friend. You may be here this morning a prostitute; you may be here this morning a woman-chaser; you may be here a drunkard, or a gambler, or a murderer. You might be here as an impure husband, an impure wife. You might be the vilest of sinner. You say, "I'm a past that stage of redemption." No, you're not, or you wouldn't be at the church this morning. Grace will make a way for you in this dark hour if you'll just accept it. Adam had to be willing to accept it, so do you. Accept it.


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