<TITLE>15. Par 169-185</TITLE>L-169   A woman said to me, some time ago. I might have re-... said that here some time. It'll bear repeating. She was a Christian Science. And she said, "Brother Branham, I--I appreciate your remarks that you say of the Scripture. But," said, "there's just one fault you have."

L-170 I said, "Thank you. Just one? My!" I said, "I'm certainly got grace in your sight."

L-171 And she said, "This fault is, that, you brag too much about Jesus."

L-172 I said, "Oh, my!" I said, "If that's the only fault I got, I hope God feels--feels I only got one fault when I get there. And if that's the only one, I'm sure I'm going in." I said, "If I had ten thousand tongues, I couldn't brag on Him enough. No matter what I'd say, I couldn't brag on Him enough."

L-173 She said, "But, Brother Branham, you make Him Divine. You make Him God."

L-174 I said, "He was, and He is. And if He wasn't, He was the greatest deceiver the world ever had." That's right.
She said, "Oh! Don't..."
I said, "Don't you believe that?"

L-175 She said, "Oh, Mr. Branham, I believe He was a teacher." And said, "I believe He was a prophet, but He was just a plain prophet like the rest of them."
I said, "Oh, my! Oh! You're so mistaken."
She said, "I'll prove it to you."
I said, "How?"

L-176 She said, "In the Scriptures, when Lazarus... Saint John, the 11th chapter, when Lazarus died, the Bible said, that, 'Jesus wept.'" And she said, "How could He be Divine and weep?"

L-177 I said, "That was the Man part weeping. That was the Man. The immortal part was inside. That was God in Him."
She said, "Ah, nonsense!"

L-178   I said, "I want to ask you something. When, that night on the ship, He was a Man laying there, sleeping. That's true. He was sleep and tired, like a man. But when He could put His foot upon the brail of that boat and say, 'Peace, be still,' and the winds and the waves obeyed Him. He might have been a Man, crying, but when He said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man had been dead four days come on it. He was a Man when He come down off the mountain, hungering for something to eat, looked on a tree; but when He took five biscuits, and two, fed five thousand, that was the Creator." That's right. Sure.

L-179 In action, God in action! Oh, I love that! Not some idol, not some mythical thought of rubbing a statue, not some totem pole, but a real, living God in action. Amen. Amen. Not something that was. Something that is right now. Sounds silly, to the world. But, oh, how gracious, to the saint who believes it. How wonderful! Certainly. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-180   You know, He was more than a prophet, and yet He was a Prophet. He was a God-Prophet. See? Because, the prophets was the Word. The Bible said the Word came to the prophet, and as long as the prophet was speaking the Word, that He and God was... The man knowed not what he was doing. He was just speaking the Word of God. See? Not knowing what he was doing, he was prophesying under inspiration. See? Then, it wasn't the man's word. It was God speaking through lips.

L-181 Now, God chose to use man. Now, He could have chose to use the sun to preach the Gospel. He could have chose to use the wind to preach the Gospel. He could have chose the stars. He could chose anything He wanted to, but He chose man.

L-182   And somebody is going to do it. That's right, somebody. If He could just ever find Him a man, one man that He could get in his hand, He will do it. He's had such a hard time, finding one man.

L-183 I think of Samson. He found a man with plenty of strength. And Samson dedicated his strength to God, but he wouldn't give his heart. He gave that to Delilah. See?

L-184 God wants your heart, strength, soul, body, mind, all you got. It's the only way He can use you, use the whole man. Yes.

L-185 That's what Jesus was. "In Him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily." We have It by measure.


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