<TITLE>17. Par 183-195</TITLE>L-183   She got to where He was at. Watch how she was. She run up to Him. She had a right to upbraid Him, she had a right to tell Him, saying, "Now why didn't You come when I called You?" If that would have been a--a Pentecostal of today, or a Baptist, or a Presbyterian, they would change churches right quick. See? Sure. "Why didn't You come when we called You?" She had a right to, seemingly. But she didn't have a right to.

L-184 As I said last night, you've got no thought. It's His thought, see, what He does. "'Thy will be done,' pray like this." He is not an errand boy. He is God. Notice, "Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done."

L-185   And when she got to Him, she approached Him in the right way. She said, give Him His right title, "Lord!" Not upbraid Him, but, "Lord, if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died." Oh, my! I can see Him pulling His little, tired body together. And--and He said... "If You would have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." See, she knowed what the God of creation was. She knowed He was the anointed Messiah. She approached Him right, upon her knees, said, "Lord, if You would have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." Oh, if we could only think that! "Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You."

L-186   He said, "I am the resurrection and Life." No other man could ever say that. "I am the resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?"

L-187 She said, "Yea, Lord. I believe that You're the Son of God that was to come into the world."
He said, "Where have you buried him?"

L-188 I was talking to a woman not long ago, and she said to me, she said, "I--I--I like to hear you speak, Brother Branham, but," said, "there is just one fault you have."
I said, "Thank you," just one fault. I said, "What's that?"
She said, "You brag too much about Jesus, of being Divine."
I said, "I hope that's the only one He can find in me," I said.

L-189 "You brag too much about Jesus being Divine." Said, "He wasn't Divine."
I said, "Oh, yes, He was Divine."
She said, "Well, you make Him God."

L-190 I said, "He was either God or the greatest deceiver the world ever had." See? And I said, "He was God."
She said, "He was just a Man. He couldn't have been God."
I said, "He was. He was God and man, together."
And she said, "You said you believe the Bible."
I said, "Yes, ma'am, I do."

L-191 And she said, "If I prove to you, by your own Bible, that He was not Divine, would you accept it?"

L-192 I said, "Certainly, if the Bible said He wasn't. But," I said, "I don't believe it's in the Bible."

L-193 She said, "In Saint John, the 11th chapter, the Bible said, 'When Jesus went down to the grave of Lazarus,' the Bible said, 'He wept.'" And said, "If He wept, He could not be Divine, and weeping."

L-194   I said, "Well, lady, that won't stand up." I said, "I want to tell you." I said, "That's thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that starved to death," I said, "because that won't hold up to the Bible." I said, "Look, He goes down to the tomb, see, and He stood before the tomb, and He said, straightened His little body up and said, 'Lazarus, come forth!'"

L-195 He might have been a Man, crying; but when He called that man out of the grave, that had been dead four days, and his soul a four-days journey somewhere! I don't know where it was at, neither do you. So, anyhow, He called him back. Corruption knew its Master. The soul knew its Creator. And a man, had been dead, stood on his feet and lived again, after being dead four days. That was more than a man. That was God!


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