Questions & Answers
Questions 41 & 42 (COD Page 193)
41. If you are supposed to be baptized in Jesus’ Name, why would Jesus say in Matthew 28, “Be baptized in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost”? That’s just what I just got through explaining, that one.
278 All right, are you getting tired? I know you are.
42. But doesn’t God have respect for the baptism of the “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost”? Isn’t there people being baptized in the name, in these names, have received the Holy Spirit? Did Jesus come to glorify the Father? Wouldn’t this baptism be recognized?
279 Yes, Jesus came to glorify the Father. Look in Saint John the 14th chapter. I’m just about... I got... If you’ll just wait just about three more, we’ll have it over, I believe. Look, then we get some new ones tomorrow, then, ’cause I’ll really get some back from tonight, I believe. Notice, this is church, though, this. We’re going on.
280 Look, Jesus come to manifest the Father. Look, in the beginning, God made man in His Own image. Is that right? Well, what is God? A Spirit. Saint John the 4th chapter, Jesus speaking to the woman at the well, He said, “God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth.” Is that right? If God made man in His Own image, what kind of a man did He make then? A spirit man.
281 In Genesis 2, there was no man to till the soil, and God made man out of the dust of the earth; not in His image, but in the image of animal life. And He put the spirit of man in this animal man here, and he become a living soul. Now, that’s the difference between the man and the animal. The animal don’t build automobiles, and he doesn’t do things like to help his living, and so forth like that. He’s an animal, dumb brute. He hasn’t got a soul. He can’t read and write. He can’t talk, speak. He’s a dumb brute. But a man is in flesh like a brute, but he’s got a soul of God in him, which makes him immortal. And he can invent... Look what he can do! He’s almost on the equal with God, because he’s a son of God even in his fallen estate. He’s wonderful! Look at him! See? That’s it.
282 Then when man fell in flesh... And if God sent another individual besides Himself down, He was unjust. The only way God could justly do it was take the man’s place Himself.
283 What if I made Brother Neville die for this woman here? What if I made this woman die for this woman here, if it had been that I had the rule over you? I could not be just and do that. If I pronounced death, and want you to live, I’ve got to take your place to justify you.
284 And then God, Who was in the image of Spirit... without image, rather. The Bible said, “God is without form.” All right. Then God had to take on form, and He overshadowed a virgin and created in her a blood cell, without sex or anything to do with it, and created a blood cell that developed into the Son of God. And God came down and dwelt in His Son, Christ Jesus, making Him God on earth.
285 When, Saint John... Thomas said, “Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.”
286 He said “I’ve been so long with you and you don’t know Me?” He said, “Why sayest thou, ‘Show us the Father’?” Why, He said, “When you see Me you see the Father. I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me.”
287 A lady here not long ago, I was talking there, jumped up, said, “Oh, Brother Branham,” said, “I know what you mean. They are one, sure they’re one.” Said, “You and your wife are one, too. That’s the kind of one they are.”
288 I said, “I beg your pardon,” I said, “they’re not.”
I said, “Do you see me?” Said, “Sure.” I say, “You see my wife?”
Said, “No.”
289 I said, “There! Then they’re in a different kind of one than what me and my wife are.” See? I said, “That’s right.”
290 Jesus said, “You can’t see Me without seeing the Father.” Certainly not! It’s the second part of the three-foot rule, the same rule. It’s God. Jesus Christ was either God or the greatest deceiver the world ever had.
291 Listen! A woman said to me not long ago, said, “I’ll proveto you,” a Christian Science woman. Now, Christian Science friend, be reverent just a minute, see. They said, “I’ll prove to you that He wasn’t nothing but a man.” Said, “You put too much bragging on Jesus.”
292 I said, “If I bragged day and night I could not give Him what coming to Him.” I said, “No wonder... ”
293 Why, Isaiah tried to name Him, he said, “He’s Wonderful,
Counsellor, Prince of Peace, Mighty God, Everlasting
Father.” All of that! “He’s Alpha, Omega, the Beginning and
the Ending, the Root and Offspring of David, the Bright and
Morning Star; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” “In Him dwell
the fulness of the Godhead bodily,” said the Bible. The fulness
of God was in Him!
294 She said, “I’ll tell you, when He went down to pray for
Lazarus, to raise Lazarus up,” said, “I’ll prove to you He was
just a man.”
295 I said, “Let’s see you do it!”
296 Said, “The Bible said, ‘He wept.’ And that proves that He was a man, He could weep.”
297 I said, “Sure, that was the Son that was weeping.”
298 He was a God-man. He was a triune being just like I am, you are; we’re soul, body, and spirit. He was Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in the Deity of God; that’s Who He was. He was Deity Himself! How could He do anything there when the... His own children crying for His blood? If it had been something else... That was His Own children crying for His blood; no wonder He wept for them. How would a man... and His own kids crying for His blood, how could He feel? Either condemn them to hell forever, or give His life; He was God giving His life for His children! Deity dwelt in Him! That’s Who He was.
299 The woman said, “Looky,” said, “Rev. Branham, I’ll prove to you! When He wept, it proved He was a man.”
300 I said, “Lady, He was a man when He was a pray-... or when He was weeping, that’s right. He was a man when He was weeping, but when He straightened His little frail body up and said to a man that had been dead four days, ‘Lazarus, come forth!’ And a man had been dead four days, and rotten, and the skin worms crawling through him, corruption knew its Master and the soul knew its Creator, and a man that had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again! That was more than a man!”
301 He was a man when He come down off the mountain that night, hungry, looking around over a tree for something to eat. He was a man when He was looking there for something to eat on that fig tree. But when He took five biscuits and two pieces of fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man! That was God in there! The one Creator Who could take cooked fish and break it off and it was still cooked fish, took baked bread and break it off; what kind of an atom did He let loose? Hallelujah! He was God, the Creator of atoms and all things! That was more than a man!
302 He was a man when He was out there on that boat that night, after preaching all day and healing the sick, so tired, till ten thousand devils of the sea swore they would drown Him. That little old boat out there, bumping around like a bottlestopper, the great waves flashing from place to place, and Him laying, so tired till the waves didn’t wake Him up. The devils was a roaring, said, “We’ll get Him now while He’s asleep.” But when He awoke, woke up there, He was a man, He was so tired. But when He put His foot on the brail of the boat, looked out and said, “Peace, be still!” and the winds and the waves obeyed Him. That was more than a man! That was God, the Creator Who made the Heavens.
303 No wonder the apostle said, “What manner of man is this that even the winds and waves obey Him!”
304 That was more than a man. That was God. He was a man when He was tacked at the cross as a Sacrifice, to take away sin. He was a man with nails drove in His hand. He was a man with thorns over His head. He was a man with mockery soldiers’ spit on Him. He was a man was bruised, striped, and wounded. He was a man! He was a man when He cried, “My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?” He was a man crying for help. But on Easter morning when the seals of death broke loose there at the tomb, that was more than a man! He proved He was God.
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!
Oh, mid rendering rocks and darkening skies,
My Saviour bowed His head and died;
The opening veil revealed the way
To Heaven’s joys and endless day.
305 No wonder Eddie Perronet screamed out:
All hail the power of Jesus’ Name!
Let angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem,
And crown Him Lord of all.
306 That’s that great Person, the Lord Jesus. He was Jehovah, God inveiled in flesh. The Bible said, “Whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in His Name.” The Bible said, “The whole family in Heaven is named ‘Jesus,’ and the whole family on earth is named ‘Jesus.’” Let’s pray in His Name, live in His Name, teach in His Name, die in His Name, buried in His Name, baptized in His Name, resurrect in His Name, go to Heaven in His Name. That’s His Name, and His Bride is named “Miss Jesus.” It’ll take a people out of the Gentiles, for His Name’s sake.
307 And I’m not a oneness. No, sir. You trinitarian people get that away from you. I am not a oneness. No, sir. I’m not a oneness, neither a trinitarian. I believe what the Bible says. That’s correctly. Amen. Whew! I get too much on one. What was that? Did I get it out? Or, let’s see, what was it? Oh, yes, that’s right, about the... how the Father was in Christ. He was a man, He was a God-man.