<TITLE>28. Par 212-223</TITLE>L-212 But little Martha, something down in her heart, something... She was always kind of dilatory; she wanted to keep the house clean and everything, and Mary listened to the Word. But this is where she showed her color; she slipped right out and went down there. Now, she, you know what I believe, she'd read about that Shunammite woman, Shunammite, you know, in the Bible. Now, what'd she say? She went down; she said, "Lord." That's what He was. It looked like she had a right to upbraid Him, say, "Why didn't You come? Why, we'll not... We believe now You really are a holy-roller." See, that miracle wouldn't a-happened.

L-213 And that's the reason it can't happen today. Oh, He's here in the Spirit form, not that you see Him, but what--He's Spirit with His Word. See? Oh, sure. You pray for a revival, and it breaks out in the church, something or another takes place and somebody holler, "Glory to God, hallelujah," you'd close the church. Don't know what a revival is. Christ comes to the church, then you don't even make Him welcome. Perform a miracle and heal somebody, and say, "Well, it might have been telepathy." No wonder He can't deal among you. No wonder the Laodicea church... He's on the outside, knocking, trying to get back in His Own church. That's the age we're living in now. These denominations has turned Him out till He's on the outside, trying to get back in. That's right, put out.

L-214 Now, we find that Martha walked up to Him, said, "Lord, if Thou would've been here, my brother had not died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You."
Watch Him, He tested her. He said, "Thy brother shall rise again."
Said, "Yes, Lord. He was a good boy, he'll come up in the general resurrection. He'll rise in the last day."
He said, "I am the Resurrection and the Life." There He put the test. A man standing there saying... He was the only man that ever lived, the only man that ever will live that could say that, the Son of God, said, "I am the Resurrection and Life."

L-218 The Bible said, "No beauty we should look at Him." Probably His little shoulders stooped down, turning gray, when He was thirty years old He was judged to be fifty.
Said, "You're only fifty years old, and say that You seen Abraham. Now we know You're crazy." See? His work probably brought Him down.
He said, "Before Abraham was, I am." Amen. They didn't know it. There He was inveiled in human flesh.
Said, "I am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?"
She said, "Yea, Lord. I believe that You are the Son of God that was to come into the world."
"Where have you buried him?"

L-223 I got a little thing here that I've always said, you know, I hope if I hurt anybody's feelings I don't do it meaningly. A Christian Science woman told me one time; she said, "Brother Branham, you brag too much on Jesus."
I said, "Oh, no, no." I said, "I don't brag half enough. Wished I had some more language I could brag Him with." See?
And she said, "Well, you make Him God."
I said, "He was God. He's still God. He'll forever be God."
She said, "He was a mortal. He was a man."
I said, "He was both man and God. "
She said, "I'll prove to you He was only a mortal man by your own Bible."
I said, "Let me hear you do it."
She said, "St. John the 11th chapter, Jesus went to the grave of Lazarus and He wept."
I said, "Is that your Scripture?"
She said, "Yes."
I said, "Sister." I don't mean this sacrilegious. This is no place for jokes, but I just said it for her. I said, "That's thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that starved to death," I said, "Why, you know good and well that it couldn't be such a thing as that." I said, "Let me tell you something."


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