<TITLE>17. Par 59-62</TITLE>L-59 When He was going up Calvary that day, them little red spots on his coat, they all went into one; the bee of death stinging around Him, humming, "I got him now." They just put a rag around His face and hit Him on the head. You know He could discern the thoughts. They said, "Tell us who hit you and we'll believe you." They spit in His face, pulled handfuls of beard out.
The devil said, "I got him now." And when He was going up the hill, he said, "That couldn't be God," the devil said. "That can't be God. He'd never put up with nothing like that."
And I can see Him as He goes up, His little frail body falling like that as He staggered up the hill, that bee humming around Him, that buzz of death right in His veins, knowing in a little bit He was going to be gone. That bee said, "I got him now."
The devil said, "Go on, death, get him. That's all there is. He's nothing. He's just like all the rest of them. He's going to die. You sting him right on down there, and he will die."

L-60 But look, brother, when a bee ever anchors his stinger real deep, he will never pull a stinger again. He will have no more stinger. He will pull the stinger out... When sting of death could come upon an ordinary man, because he was a sinner he could pull that stinger out and sting another one.
But that time he anchored his stinger in Emmanuel's flesh. Hallelujah. It pulled the stinger out of death. A bee can buzz and make all kinds of noise, that old... And any insect that ever stings deep enough, it loses its stinger. And when death stung the Son of God, he lost his stinger.
No wonder Paul could say, "Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory?" Sure. He was more than a man. That was Emmanuel, God with us.

L-61 And she said, "I'll prove to you by your Bible that He wasn't Divine."
I said, "Let's hear you do it."
Said, "Saint John the 11th chapter, the Bible said that when Jesus went to the grave of Lazarus He wept."
And I said, "Is that your Scripture?"
She said, "Yes. He could not be Divine and weep."
I said, "Later--Lady, you know what? That argument you've got is thinner than the broth made out of the shadow of a chicken that's starved to death." I said, "Well, you haven't got a room for nothing there." I said, "You failed to see He was both God and man. He was the God-man. God was in Him. That's right." I said, "Let me ask you something. He went down to the grave a weeping. He was a man. He weeps with those who weeps. He's sad with those who's sad. He's happy with those who's full of joy."
"But when He went down to the grave, standing there, His little shoulders stooped down... The Bible said, 'There's no beauty we should desire Him.' Said, 'Take ye away the stone,' straightened up them little shoulders. 'Lazarus, come forth.' And a man had been dead four days in the grave, rotten, come to life and stood on his feet. That was more than a man. Amen. That was God in His Son." Hallelujah. Man can't do that.

L-62 He... I'll admit He was a Man when He come down off the mountain that night, been up there hungry. He come down looking for something to eat, looking all around over a tree for something to eat. He was a man when He was hungry. But when He took five biscuits and two fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. That was God in His Son. Believe it?
He was a Man when He laid out there on the back of that ship that night, it tossed about like a bottle-stopper in a storm; when ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drowned Him. He was a Man laying there asleep, tired, virtue gone from Him. He was a Man. But when He was aroused, walked up to the brail of the boat, put His foot on it; looked up and said, "Peace be still," and the winds and waves obeyed Him, That was more than a man. That was God in His Son. Amen. Hallelujah.
He was a Man crying on the cross, "I thirst. Give Me drink." But on that third day when He broke the seals of death, hell, and the grave, and rose again, He proved He was God. Amen.


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