<TITLE>29. Par 228-236</TITLE>L-228 Here He goes, stoop-shouldered, crying, He weeps with you when you weep. He feels your pains. He's a High Priest can be touched by the feeling of your infirmity. Weeping, going down to the grave, knowing what the Father had told Him, for He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him. There He was (See?) going. He was going to raise him, but He could weep humanly with humans. Going to the grave, weeping, but when He stood there, oh, my, said, "Take away the stone."...
Said, "He stinketh." His nose had done fell in. Seventy-two hours (See?) is four days and nights. See, his face has fell in, he's corrupted; he's rotten.
Said, "Take away the stone." He stood back there and said, "Father, I thank You that You've always heard Me, but I--I just said this." See, He'd already told Him. He said, "I just say this for these that stand by. Lazarus, come forth." Amen. And a man that'd been dead four days, stood on his feet and lived again. That was more than a man. That was more than a man. Sure was.

L-231 That was more than a Man that come down off of the mountain one night, hungry looking for something to eat. He was a man; He was hungry for something to eat. But when He took five fish, or five biscuits and two fish, and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. That's right. It's true. Yes, sir.
He was a man when He was laying in the back of that boat that night, so tired, virtue gone from Him, preaching, and healing, and a devil come up, and probably ten thousand devils of the sea, said, "We'll drowned Him now; He's asleep." Like they did Paul out there in the storm. "We got Him now; we got Him trapped. He's asleep, we'll sink that ship." And the devil blowing his breeze across there, and it bouncing up and down like that. The waves didn't even wake Him up. He was a man laying back there, tired, asleep, but when He once aroused, oh, my. "Oh, go wake Jesus." Put His foot... Oh, church, that's what you ought to do. Wish I had some time I'd preach now (See?) on that. See? Put His foot upon the brail of the boat, looked up, and said, "Peace, be still." And the waves and the winds obeyed Him. That was more than a man: took God to do that.

L-234 Yeah, He cried on the cross, for mercy (That's right.), thirsted at the cross. He died like a man. But on Easter morning, when the Angel rolled away the stone, and a Man that had been dead, conquered both death, hell, and the grave, come forth, triumphed over death, hell, and the grave... Said, "I am He that was dead, and alive forevermore." That was more than a man. That was God in that Man. Yes, sir.
Faith never denies His Truth. Oh, such as saying, "The Pillar of Fire, that wasn't right. And the miracles of Moses wasn't right," it always said. No matter how ridiculous it is, it stays right exactly with the Word. Exactly. Oh, you can be--you can be perseverant. You can be persistent whenever you really get ahold of God's Word, when you hold to It.

L-236 Like Micaiah was, Micaiah right there, when four hundred prophets was standing there saying "Go on up, Ahab, go on up." Micaiah knew that his vision was according to the Word of God. He spoke the Word anyhow. They said, "We'll slam you in a prison, and give you waters of sorrow and bread of sorrow."
He said, "Slam me in if you want to." What was he? He was persistent. He knowed the Word of God. He knowed the will of God. He had saw a vision. He knowed what it was. The vision come from God, because the visions compared with God's Word. Today, every believer has to fight, and you have to fight too.


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