<TITLE>21. Par 213-232</TITLE>L-213   You vote for your pastor, a lot of you, in your church. And when you do, you want the highest-polished scholar, so you can tell the neighbors, "Our pastor has a--a doctor's degree, our Dr. So-and-so." Oh, my! You're--you're getting away from God. You...

L-214 God reveals Himself in simplicity. Listen. That was too much for that high, scholarly education people, educated people of them day. God hiding Himself in simplicity, in a little Baby.

L-215 Watch when they crucified Him, oh, that hit the nail. Nineteen hundred years ago, this afternoon, they crucified the Prince of Life. When, them high priests who had wondered, when they see Him doing the miracles that He did, and knowed that He condemned their organizations. He stripped them down. He shook the hide off of them. And He told them they were nothing but a bunch of devils, and, "Repent!" And they...

L-216 "God is able of these stones," said John, "to rise children to Abraham. Don't think you're God's children because you're born a Jew. And so Mo-..." He said, called them there, "snakes in the grass," and everything.

L-217   Then when He stood there on the cross, they said, "Now, if You are the Son of God, if You be the Son of God, won't You come down off the cross and we'll believe You." See? The same things. When they could think of this Man doing a miracle, then they couldn't deny that. But to see Him standing there, the very God of creation!

L-218 Now, I know this modern trend today try to make Him some other person. But He was no other person but God Himself. That's right. Today, the modern trend said, "He was a great teacher. He was--He was a prophet." He was a great teacher, and He was a prophet. But He was more than a teacher. He was more than a prophet. He was God, nothing less than God.

L-219 "God was in Christ, reconciling Himself to the world." Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth these things. It's My Father, and He dwells in Me. It's the Father in Me." He was God manifested in flesh.

L-220   Some woman of a Christian Science be... Excuse me, I didn't aim to call that name now. I'm--I'm sorry I said that. But she said to me, she said, "Mr. Branham, I enjoy your speaking, but," said, "you brag too much on Jesus."

L-221 I said, "Thank you. If that's all I do, that's too--too bad," I said, "then I'm sure for Heaven." I said, "I wish I had about a million more languages I could brag about Him."

L-222 She said, "Well, you make Him something He isn't."
I said, "He's everything to me."

L-223 And she said, "Well, now, I can prove to you... You make Him God."

L-224 I said, "He was God. If He wasn't God, He's the greatest deceiver the world has ever had." I said, "He was God. He's nothing short of God."

L-225 His Own Blood was God. We're saved by "the Blood of God." He wasn't Jew, neither was He Gentile.

L-226 The male sex produces the hemoglobin. Doctor knows that. A hen can lay an egg, but if she hadn't been with the male bird, it won't hatch. It's not fertile. That's right. See? It's got... The blood cell comes from the male sex.

L-227 And in this case, Jehovah God was the male. He created a Blood cell in Mary.

L-228   And you Catholic people call her "the mother of God." How could she be a mother of God, and God is infinite and Eternal? She wasn't no mother of God. She was an incubator that God used, to bring His Son here. Certainly.

L-229 But said, "She was the egg?" No, sir. She had, she'd have to have a sensation, then look what you make God.

L-230 He was absolutely the created, God, God of creation being created in a form of a Man. That's exactly right. And when He did...

L-231 She said, "Why, I can prove to you by your own Bible that He wasn't nothing but a man."
I said, "Do it."

L-232 And she said, "When He, in Saint John 11, He went down to raise up Lazarus." And said, "When He went, the Bible said, 'He wept.'" And said, "It showed He had to be mortal, or He couldn't weep."


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