<TITLE>17. Par 137-149</TITLE>L-137 He said, "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-138 She said, "Yea, Lord. I can't explain it, but I believe it. I believe that You're the Christ that was to come into the world. I believe, by the noted Scripture, that You meet the qualification of That."

L-139 Said, "Where have you buried him?" Oh, my! Something has to happen. Every wheel is coming right together at the right time. See?

L-140 He walked down to the grave. The Bible said, "No beauty we should desire Him." Probably a little, stoop-shouldered Fellow, stood with the little shoulders down, tired and weary from walking.
He said, "Lazarus, come forth!" And a man that had been dead, four days, stood on his feet.

L-141   A Christian Science woman. Excuse me if I hurt your feeling; I don't mean to. A Christian Science woman, right from this church, met me out there one day. And she said, "Mr. Branham," she said, "I like your preaching, but there is one thing you do too much upon it!"
I said, "What's that?"
Said, "You brag too much on Jesus."

L-142 I said, "I hope that's all He got against me." See? See? See?

L-143 She said, "You make Him Divine." See, they don't believe He was Divine. They believe He was just an ordinary man, good teacher, philosopher. Said, "You make Him Divine. And He wasn't Divine."

L-144 I said, "Oh, yes, He was."
She said, "If I prove to you, by your own Bible, He's not Divine, will you believe it?"

L-145 I said, "My Bible said so, I--I believe the Word. That's Who He is."
And she said, "In Saint John, the 11th chapter, when Jesus went down to the grave of Lazarus, the Bible said He wept."
I said, "What that's got to do with it?"
She said, "Well, that showed He wasn't Divine."

L-146 I said, "You just fail to see Who the Man was. He was both God and man. And as a man, weeping, when He was weeping for their sorrow. But when He stood and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man had been dead, four days, stood on his feet again, that was more than a man." Yes, sir! Yes, indeed!

L-147   And I've often made the expression, when He come down off the mountain that night, hungry, He was a man. He was hungry the next morning. He was a man. But when He took two biscuits and five fish, and fed five thousand, taken up seven baskets, that was more than a man. Yes, sir. He was a man, on the cross, when He cried, "My God, hast Thou forsaken Me?" When He cried, "Give Me a drink," and they give Him vinegar and gall, He was a man, crying. But on Easter morning, when He broke every seal of death, hell, and the grave, and rose up, He was more than a man.

L-148   He was a man that night, laying on the back of that little boat where He was out there with the disciples, and ten thousand devils of the sea swore they would drown Him. Uh-huh. Out there in a little old ship, like a bottle stopper out there, like that; He was so tired, didn't even wake Him up. He was a man when He was asleep. But when He put His foot on the brail of the boat, then looked up and said, "Peace, be still," and the winds and the waves obeyed Him, that was more than a man. It was God!
No wonder the poet said:
Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified freely forever;
Someday He's coming, O glorious day!

L-149 Yes, sir! Go beyond the camp. I don't care what it costs.
This consecrated cross I'll bear
Till death shall set me free;
Then go Home, a crown to wear,
For there's a crown for me.


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