<TITLE>17. Par 187-201</TITLE>L-187 God could not send another person to take the place. It would be unjust again. For me to make this brother die for what this brother done, would be wrong. God had to come, Himself. And the only way He could do it, would be come in His Own flesh, which was His Own creative body that He made, Himself, that He could suffer death. Amen.

L-188 There is the Gospel in the power. That's God manifested in the flesh, Emmanuel, to take away the sins of the world. And in that Blood we trust; not in the Jew or Gentile; but in the Blood of God, which was Jesus Christ. That's the reason He said, "I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me." It was the Father in Him.

L-189   A woman said, "Who did He pray to, in the garden of Gethsemane," on a street meeting one time.

L-190 I said, "I want to ask you something. You testified you had the Holy Ghost. Where is It at? What do you pray to?" It's on the inside of you, of course.

L-191 Well, we have the Spirit with measure. He had It without measure. We are sons and daughters of God, by measure. Like taking a spoonful of water out of the ocean, and He's the whole ocean, but the same chemicals that's in the spoon is in the whole ocean. It's quantity, but the same quality. Therefore, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever," God is in us. Yes. Notice.
God in His universe. God in His Word. God in His Son.

L-192   Now, in this day where the social gospel preachers, brethren, try to make Him some kind of just a prophet, or--or some good philosopher, or something like that. He was either God or the greatest deceiver the world has ever had. He was God; nothing less, nothing more.

L-193   A woman belonged to a certain cult that doesn't believe in the literal virgin birth of Jesus, doesn't accept it. They just believe it's mind over matter. And she comes to hear me preach quite often. One night she met me going out. She said, "Brother Branham, I love to hear you speak."
I said, "Thank you."
She said, "I only find one fault in you."

L-194 I said, "Well, thank the Lord. I hope the Lord just finds that, only one." And I said, "My! Many faults as I have, and you only find one of them?" I said, "Thank you, very much." I said, "Might I ask what that fault is?"
She said, "Yes. You brag too much on Jesus."

L-195 I said, "I'm sure going in, if that's all the fault I have, if I brag on Him," I said.
Said, "You brag on Him too much."
I said, "How do you mean, I brag on Him?"
She said, "Well, you make Him Divine."
I said, "He was Divine."

L-196 "Oh," she said, "Mr. Branham, you're wrong, there." Said, "He was a good Man."
I said, "He was more than a good Man."
Said, "He was a prophet."

L-197 I said, "He's more than a prophet. He was the God of the prophets."

L-198   And she said, "Oh, Mr. Branham!" Said, "If I prove to you... You said you were fundamental. And if, you, I prove to you, by your own Bible, that He was not Divine, will you accept it?"
I said, "If the Bible said so, I believe the Bible."

L-199 She said, "All right, I'll give you your own Scripture." Said, "Saint John, the 11th chapter. The Bible said, that, 'When Jesus went down to the grave of Lazarus,' the Bible said, 'He wept.' And He could not weep and be Divine."

L-200 I said, "Is that the end of it?" I said, "Is that all you got to say?"
She said, "Yes."

L-201 I said, "Lady, your argument is thinner than the broth made out of the shadow of a chicken that starved to death." I said, "Why, you know. You know better than that."
And she said, "What do you mean by that?"


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