Quickening Power Part 1 "The Rising Son Dispels Gloom"
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And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Introduction.
Introduction.
Bro. Branham preached a sermon titled “It is the Rising of the Sun” on April 18, 1965. His subject was “Quickening Power”.
There are so many questions today as to what the Holy Spirit is and does that I thought we would go to this sermon and study it so long as the Lord allows us.
This sermon was preached 2 years after the Seals, during the last year of Bro. Branham’s life. Bro. Branham didn’t stop believing in the Holy Ghost after the Seals.
He begins by calling attention to the picture of the cloud. (Show on screen)
11 Now, they asked, to know. Science, the one of them in Tucson, wanted to know any significance, but I didn’t tell them. You all knew it, told beforehand. But it wasn’t for them; it was for you.
12 And so there He spoke to me, and said, “The Seven Seals will be opened. The seven mysteries, sevenfold mystery of the Bible, that’s been closed up since the foundation of the world, will be revealed.” And we, yet a humble little group, compared with all the world, we’ve enjoyed these blessings, a hearing those mysteries.
Marriage, divorce, serpent’s seed, all these different questions, has been completely revealed to us, not by man, but by God, Himself, that’s opened those seven mysteries; of what the Church was, how It was in Christ at the beginning, and how It would be revealed in the last day.
(the Lamb opened the Seals. It’s an important distinction. There’s a doctrine now that says that Bro. Branham was God’s voice speaking whenever the tape recorder was on. He said differently.)
18 Now I want you to turn in your Bibles, as we always believe that the Word must come first, of the reading of the Word. I always read That, because It…My words is the word of a man, it will fail; but the Word of God can never fail.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Bro. Branham goes on to talk about the importance of Easter, but put it in its proper place.
29 As people today are trying to say, “We should wash feet once a year, on Thursday, and on Friday we should take the communion,” and all different doctrines of…They argue about whether it should be this day or that day, or whether it should be a sabbath day or the first day of the week; or…
All these things are just merely tradition. What good would any of it do you, whether you had Lent or not Lent, if there is no Life in you? It’s only a memorial. Which, there’s nothing against it, but they have certainly carried out their traditions, but left off the main thing.
30 Satan doesn’t care how religious you are, or how right you are in your Doctrine. If you miss that Life, you won’t come up, anyhow. No matter how religious, how good, how many churches you’ve belonged to or will belong to, it doesn’t matter one thing unless you have been born again.
31 Therefore, if God raised up Jesus from the dead, did He raise Him up for a memorial? And is this resurrection morning only a one day in the year, or a certain day that we celebrate this? Or, are we benefactors of His resurrection?
What does it mean to me? What does it mean to you? Now we believe, by faith, that He raised from the dead, but what has that got to do with me? That was two thousand years ago.
(This finishes the introduction)
He goes back to the beginning.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
37 Now, the sun, at the rising of the sun. Well, there was a time when the world was laying in utter darkness. It was without form, and was void. And it was all covered with water, and was laying there in the dark, dismal, gloomy atmosphere.
(He’s typing this to our lives, and also to the church world)
And the Spirit of God moved upon that water, and said, “Let there be light.” God had a reason to do that, for down beneath that water there was seeds that He had planted, and it had to have that sunlight to make it live.
38 And the first Light was ever given in the earth was God’s spoken Word. The first Light that ever struck the earth was God’s spoken Word. He said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. That turned darkness into light, in order to bring forth a creation of joy and life upon the earth.
Then, the Spirit of God, as It moved with love and compassion, at that great day, the first day of the dawn of creation upon the earth; the sun rose and swept across, its rays, and dried up the waters from the earth, and made an atmosphere above.
And, for its first time, it was to bring joy and life to the earth, by a seed. That was a great hour.
39 But, oh, it wasn’t nothing, that sunrise, like the sunrise on that Easter morning. This time, with the sun leaping into the skies, it brought forth a greater sunrise than ever; because it came greater news with this sunrise, than it did with the sunrise at the beginning.
This sunrise brought a news, that, “He is risen! He is quickened from the dead, as He’s promised. He’s risen from the dead.”
40 The first time the sun rose, in Genesis, it was bringing a message that there will be life upon the earth, mortal life.
41 But this time, when the sun rose, there was a dual sunrising; another, Son, rising. It was the…not only s-u-n rising, it was the S-o-n had risen to bring Eternal Life to all God’s promised Seed that by foreknowledge He had seen laying upon the earth.
42 No more could the botany life lived back there at the beginning without the s-u-n to bring it to life; no more than, today, when sons of God is upon the earth, it takes the S-o-n Light to bring them to Eternal Life, His chosen ones that He knew before the foundation of the world. He had chosen them in Himself before the foundation of the world.
43 And on Easter morning, then, in this dirt somewhere laid our bodies at that time, for we are the dust of the earth. And in Heaven, there was a Book of memory, and His attributes was in Him, knowing that because this Son of God raised, It would also raise to Life every son that was foreordained to this great time.
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
He knew it would be. And what a more glorious sunrise that was than it was at the beginning, at time when it first dawned. Now, on this great breaking of the Easter Seal!
(Tuberculosis Easter Seal. There was a Message on the inside. This was a fundraising project during that time) Show picture
45 And now, the true Easter Seal, on this sunrise, was broken; and the secret, of Life after death, was revealed. Before that time, we didn’t know.
(God interprets His Word by bringing it to pass)
The world grouped in darkness, groped around, man’s suspicion. Theories was among man’s heart, tradition made up. Men worshipped idols. They worshipped the sun. They worshipped all kinds of gods. And all kinds of people that made claims, they all went into the grave, and they stayed in the grave.
46 But the real Seal had been broken, and One Who once lived as we live, died as we will die, was risen from the dead. What a morning! Never one like it, in all the history of the world. The secret was made known that He was both resurrection and the Life.
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
47 And He said, when He come forth on that morning, “Because I live, you live also.” Not only was He the beneficiary of the resurrection, but all those Seed that was resting in God’s great promise was a benefactor of that resurrection to Life.
Because, He said, “Because I live, ye shall live also.” That was the breaking of the Seal. Because He was brought up, so will every one that’s in Christ be brought up with Him.
For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
48 At this glorious sunrise, God had proven, or vindicated, His Word. All the glooms and doubt that had moved in people’s minds was taken away, because here was He Who once lived, eat, drink, and fellowship with mankind, that said, “I have power to lay My life down; I have power to raise it up again.”
And now not only had He made the statement, but He proved it to be the Truth. Oh, what a glorious thing that is!
49 I’m sure this morning that even we, who believe it, cannot comprehend what a great thing that was. Because He raised from the dead, we also have already raised from the dead, for we were in Him.
50 Notice now. As the gloom covered the earth, and the seeds could not live without the s-u-n to rise, and gloom had covered the earth.
And now the S-o-n was risen, and all gloom was vanished by this Light, as It spread across the nations, to the people, that, “He is not here, but He has risen!” What a statement! He had proved His Word. He had proved It be, to be true, for He had now conquered death, hell, and the grave.
(I want to dwell on that gloom for a moment.)
I read an article yesterday that 1 in 5 teenagers and 1 in 10 adults are suffering with clinical depression.
Many times we feel like nothing can dispel that gloom. Bro. Branham said saying “get next to yourself” doesn’t work. You need something to put your foot on. Something to melt away the gloom.
Discernment:
Between you and I comes a dark shadow. It shaking and jumping. There’s only one thing that can mean that. That’s a demon, and that’s a demon of nervousness. Is that right?
You think sometimes that you’ve lost your mind. Isn’t that right? But he’s a liar. You’re not. You’re just as sane as anybody else. But he’s trying to get you down, lady. Don’t you pay no attention to that.
Do you believe me to be his servant? Looky. Let me tell you something. You’ve tried so long to even get one place, you thought if you…just like you put your foot you could start from there. Isn’t that right? I’m not reading your mind, but you was praying about that.
That’s right. You said a many times in your thoughts in there, “If I could just get one place to start from.” Is that…This is your starting place, right here. 53-0509 - The Pillar Of Fire
Where could you start from, that would dispel the gloom?
234 Look this way, lady. What you scared of? You got a nervous condition. It’s been bothering you for a long time. You believe that God can heal that nervousness and make…Ninety percent of this audience is vibrating with the same thing right now.
And that’s exactly right. See? You want a place to put your foot always. You, they all tell you, “Get next to yourself, and believe this, that.” But you’ve got to have a starting place.
You’re on it right now. Believe it, will you? The Word of God says you’re free. You believe it? [The sister says, “Amen.”—Ed.] All right, go and be free of that thing. 64-0401 - The Identified Christ Of All Ages
This is your starting place, the Word of God.
Where can you put your foot down?
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Away with Satan and his gloom, and up with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the faith of Almighty God. Faith can take its holy stand on the Rock of Ages, and pierce a eagle eye through every stormy cloud when the very waves of death and disappointment’s trying to wash its foundation out from under it.
It can stand there and look beyond the skies and say, “God is right,” and believe the counsel of the wise and living God. Amen. 55-1005 - The Power Of The Devil
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
I have the keys John, don’t be gloomy. Let that same quickening power come in you, and melt away the gloom.