<TITLE>10. Par 106-119</TITLE>L-106 She had the right approach to God's gift. And that's the only way to ever receive anything, is come the right approach. She was the first Gentile that a miracle was ever performed on. Faith admits the Word is right, it's humble and reverent. And the same is today, be willing to take any part, anywhere, "just so I get there."

L-107   Did you ever notice Martha, in the Presence of Jesus, was persevering? Martha, when she came out, though she had a brother that loved Him, though she had opened up her house and left the church, and so forth, and Lazarus and He was friends; and Lazarus was dead, in the grave, and had been in there for four days, already deteriorating. The nose had dropped in, the flesh off his bones. He was dead.

L-108   I was talking to a woman that belongs to another faith that don't believe that He was no more than just a prophet or a good man.

L-109 I'll admit He was a prophet. But, He was more than a prophet, He was the God of the prophets. He was all the prophets was, was in Him, plus God, and all of it together made Him.

L-110 We was going down, one night, she said, "If I prove to you, Mr. Branham!" Said, "I've just got one fault with your Message."
I said, "I hope the Lord has, only has one fault, find with me."

L-111 Said, "You brag too much about Jesus." Said, "You--you make Him God."

L-112 I said, "He was God. If He wasn't God, He was the greatest deceiver the world ever had."
She said, "You make Him Divine."
I said, "He was Divine."
"Oh," said, "He was--He was a good man."

L-113 I said, "He was more than a good man. He was God. He was Divine."
Said, "I'll prove to you, by your own Bible, He wasn't Divine."
I said, "How can you do it?"

L-114 She said, "In Saint John, the 11th chapter, when Jesus went to the grave, to raise Lazarus up, the Bible said, 'He wept.'"
And I said, "Is that your Scripture?" I said...
"Yes."
I said, "You fail..."
Said, "How could He weep and be Divine?"

L-115 I said, "He was both man and God. That was a man that was weeping, certainly. I'll admit that was a man weeping. But when He stood by the side of the grave, straightened His little frail body up, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man been dead, four days, stood on his feet and lived again, that was more than a man." Yes, sir.

L-116   Corruption knew its master. The soul knew its Creator. And he was four-days' journey somewhere; I don't know, neither do you. But, anyhow, when He spoke, he come forth. Amen. That was more than a man.

L-117 He was a man when He come down off the mountain, that night, after He come, been hungry; come down looking upon the trees, to find something to eat, looking on a tree, when He cursed the tree that had no fruit. He was a man when He was hungry. But when He taken five biscuits and two fish, and fed five thousand, taken up seven baskets full of fragments left, that was more than a man. That's it.

L-118   He was a man when He laid out there on the water that night, in the back of a ship. Virtue had gone out of Him, all day long, preaching, and healing the sick; virtue leaving from Him, from the people, discerning the thoughts in their heart. And ten thousand devils of the sea swore they would drown Him that night. That little old ship like a bottle stopper out there, flopping up-and-down. The devil said, "I got Him now." And it looked like it was all over. But when He once aroused, come up and put His foot on the brail of the boat, and looked up and said, "Peace, be still," and the winds and the waves obeyed Him, that was more than a man. That was God.

L-119 He was a man when He cried for mercy, at the cross, true. When He cried for a drink and they give Him vinegar, that was a man. When He died, bleeding, crying, crucified, nailed to a cross, He was a man. But on Easter morning when He broke the seals of the tomb and rose again, and said, "I am He that was dead, and alive for evermore," that was more than a man. It was God in a man, His Son.


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