<TITLE>08. Par 83-96</TITLE>L-83 I said, "Yes, lady. You fail to see. He was a--a man going along there, crying with those that were crying, that's right, grieving with those who grieved. He was a Man. But when He straightened His little, frail body up, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man that been dead four days, stood on his feet. That took more than a man, that was God in the Man." Who can raise the dead, but God? He is the Resurrection and the Life! That's right.

L-84   That night out on the sea, when He was out there, tired, laying in the back of the boat, where ten thousand devils swore they would drown Him that night, and that little old boat flopping around like a bottle stopper out there on a stormy sea. Them devils thought, "We got Him now. He is asleep; we'll sink the whole bunch." Oh, He was a Man, tired, but when once aroused, He stood His foot up on the brail, and looked up and said, "Peace, be still," and the winds and the waves obeyed Him. That was more than a man.

L-85 He was a man when He was hungry. He come down off the mountain, looking for a piece of bread or something to eat, or a fig off of a tree. But when He took five biscuits and two fishes, and fed five thousand, that was God in that Man. That's right.

L-86   Oh, every man that's ever amounted to a hill-of-beans believed that, all the poets that believed that. No wonder one wrote:
Living He love me; and dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified freely forever;
Someday He is coming, O glorious day!

L-87 Eddie Perronet, when his songs would not sell. One day, staggering under the impact of the Holy Spirit, grabbed a pen, he wrote the inauguration song, when he wrote:
All hail the power of Jesus' Name!
Let Angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem,
Crown Him Lord of all!

L-88 Hallelujah! Certainly, that's what we believe He was. Yes, sir.

L-89   She has got to believe for the impossibles now, to modern thinking of that day. So do you have to believe for the impossibles, to see new Life, to see something happen. But if He recognized... She recognized Him to be the Word, then the impossibles can take place, because He is the creator, and will stand by everything He said.

L-90 "And all things are possible to them that can believe." That's His Word. But the impossibles are made manifested when God is took at His Word. Yes, sir. When God is took at His Word, the impossibles are--are made manifest. When God says it'll be, then you take that Word and watch what, the impossibles happen. It certainly will.

L-91 But notice, even in all that, she said, "Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it." She knew that she could just get that Word to come from Him. That's all she needed to do, was get that Word. Yes, it was her darkest hour, and Jesus come along and called. Oh, what a thing they saw, a resurrection!
Let's look at some more where the dark hours come.

L-92   There was a man one time, named Job, one of the oldest prophets in the Bible. He was a great man. He had--he had loved the Lord, and he done all he knowed how to do. And Satan desired to sift him, so he said to God one day... Yeah, God said to him, rather, "Where have you been, Satan?"

L-93 He said, "Oh, walking to-and-fro and up-and-down on the earth."

L-94 He said, "Have you considered My servant Job? There is none like him in the earth. He is a perfect man."

L-95 "Oh," he said, "sure, You give him everything, do everything for him. Certainly, he's a great man. But let me have him one time, I'll change the tune. I'll make him curse You, to Your face."

L-96 He said, "You can't do it." That's His confidence in a believer. Why? He is Infinite. He is Eternal. He knows the end from the beginnning. He knowed Satan couldn't do it. For, He is the Word, He knowed what Job would do.


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