Quickening Power Part 2 "We Must Get Them to Christ"
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And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
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.
Jerome Hurricane
We found last week that the Rising Son dispels all gloom.
This Message is not gloom, it is resurrection.
Bro. Branham goes on to explain how that happened.
51 The trinity of the devil; death, hell, and the grave; for Satan is the author of death, he is the possessor of hell, and also the grave.
And that was the trinity of Satan, being caused by one thing, that was death. Death, you go at the grave; and being a sinner, you go to hell.
All the very one thing, the trinity of Satan, which was death. That had held man in captivity all these years.
52 But now the true trinity of God, being One manifested in Christ, Who was Life, and had broke the Seals and conquered the enemy, and rose up, the one true and living God.
“I am He that was dead, and I’m alive for evermore, and have the keys of death and hell.” God, in One, made Man, and dwelt among us, and conquered every enemy.
And had proved that the trinity of Satan was conquered, and that the trinity of God was made known, ’cause only God alone had power to bring Life back again. He was that Emmanuel. God had been manifested in the flesh.
(No wonder He made these claims)
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
He had conquered both death, hell, and the grave. Not only did He do that; and come out, triumph, with all the power in Heavens and the earth.
All that was the Father, all that was the Holy Ghost, and all that there ever was, was in Him.
“All powers in Heaven and in earth is given unto Me.” Everything else is powerless. He had conquered it.
54 Now! And then, not only that, He sent Word to His disciples, His believing. “Fear not, for I am He that was dead, and is alive again for evermore.
And I have the keys to death and hell; I’ve already conquered it. Don’t fear anymore, for every foreordained, predestinated Seed of God shall come to Life when that Light spreads across the earth, of the glorious Gospel.
In every age, It’ll bring forth the crop that God ordained It to do.” He had raised from the dead.
55 Oh, what a wonderful thing that is, “I am alive, or quickened.” The word means, the word quickened, the Greek word means that’s something that’s “made alive after death.”
56 Like the seed that goes into the earth, it has to die, every bit of the seed. It has to rot, every bit of the seed. And every bit of the life, that was in the seed, has to come forth again.
57 He was “quickened.” Not only that. “And will send the same Life that quickened Me, the Power that brought Me from the grave, I will send It upon you, to quicken you, that where I am there ye will be also.”
58 In Luke, 24th chapter, 49th verse. He said, “Behold, I send the promise of the Father upon you; but tarry ye, or wait ye, in the city of Jerusalem, until you be endued with Power from on High.”
To show that not only did He draw all the benefits out of it, but He shared those benefits.
59 He come to redeem, or to bring to Life, those predestinated Seed that God seen before the foundation of the world and put their names in the Book of Life.
And here they are on the earth, without a hope; He came not only to be the Blessing, but to share the Blessing with every predestinated Seed.
Now, if the Seed wasn’t on the earth, it could not live. It had to be on the earth, and also germitized.
No matter how long It’s kept in darkness, It’ll come forth when the S-o-n shines upon It. Notice now, He come to share It with us.
60 No wonder the Gospel is good news. The very word Gospel means “the good news.” The good news, what? If a man died for our sake, that’s good news. If Christ was born, that’s good news.
But never a news, never was there news like this news, that, He Who made the promise has confirmed the promise, that, “He’s alive for evermore, and have the keys of both death and hell, in His hand.”
All the gloom was shook away. There was no more gloom to be seen, for the Son was up from the grave. There was no, “Well, He will come, or He may come.” He had already come, the Gospel, good news!
61 Notice, the very Message of the Gospel, Itself, is to prove to the people that He is risen. “Go tell My disciples that I am risen from the dead, and I’ll meet with them, to confirm this to them.”
O God, how in this last day there shall be Light again across the earth! “And I’ll prove to My disciples! Go tell them that I am not dead, and I’m not a tradition, but I am a living Christ.
I’ll meet them. Take this Message to My disciples, that I am risen from the dead,” the Gospel, good news. You say, “Is that right?”
62 Hebrews 13:8 said, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.” We, His beneficiaries, are to prove His Life is in us now, the beneficiaries of this Life.
The Life, there never was a life lived like it; He was the Son of God. And He died, and that shut it out;
but when He raised again from the dead, on Easter morning, then we, as His servants, are commissioned by Him to go into all the world and to bring this good news to every person, that He is a living.
And how can we do it by Word only? For it is written, “The Gospel came not by Word only, but through the power and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, to prove that He is alive.”
63 Now, if there is another gospel, as Paul spoke to one of the groups, “I am so surprised that you turned to another gospel.” Which there is no other, but a make-belief gospel, to a denominational fiction, turning from that good news.
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
64 “And because I live, ye live also. And I live in you, and the works that I do,” John 14:12, “the works that I do will identify Myself in you.” What a Message!
No wonder, we’ve had a dark world of theology, but in the evening time there shall come Light again. There will be a resurrection in the evening time. It shall be Light at the evening time.
65 Now, the very essence of the Message that was sent, that, “He is risen from the dead,” we His beneficiaries, we who share the resurrection with Him, draw benefits from this, by proving to the world that He is alive.
We cannot do it by word only. We cannot do it by some tradition of man. We only reflect exactly what we’re pointing to.
66 I’m afraid today that too many of us are not getting people to Christ. We’re getting them to a church, to a theory.
But we must get them to Christ. He is the only One, and the only One that has Life. “He that has the Son has Life.” 65-0418M - It Is The Rising Of The Sun
How do we get them to Christ? How did Peter do it on the day of Pentecost.
(One accord in one place, tongues of fire fell)
And while they were influenced by the Holy Ghost, they went into action, staggering like drunk man, screaming, speaking in tongues, out into the street they went. 64-0215 - Influences
They thought they were drunk.
Peter stood up:
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
This is God manifesting His Word “I will pour out my Spirit”.
He goes on to indict them for crucifying their Messiah.
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Lexham Theological Wordbook χριστός
χριστός (christos). n. masc. Christ. This noun refers to a person divinely anointed but more primarily to the Messiah.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Logos (Word) and the Logos is the anointing. You cannot separate the two and make it Christ.
The Word became flesh. God didn’t send a Book, He became flesh.
They cried “What should we do?”
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
He got them to Christ.
Paul deals with gifts in 1 Corinthians 12:
Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
Does the gift point to Christ the Word? If it does, it’s of God.
Paul tells us he did not get them to Christ by Word only.
1 Thessalonians 1:5 (KJV 1900)
For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
The letter is not Christ, the manifestation is Christ. We cannot get people back to the Word without power being in the church.
We get the people to Christ, the Messiah, by becoming messiahettes. You can only reflect what you are pointing to.
A messiahette is Christ by measure. Same quality in a different quantity.
Then when God was made flesh and became the Messiah, then if we can yield ourselves to be the anointed like He was, we become Messiahettes, little Lights.
That’s what the church is supposed to be: lights, little anointed ones. That’s God’s church. 61-0117 - The Messiah
We are little Messiahs.
There will also be false Christs. False Messiah’s.
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
The anointed, of the same water that watered the wheat, as we talked about, also waters the tares, anointed ones.
Only the Elected, or predestinated, will be able to detect the difference between them. 65-0725M - The Anointed Ones At The End Time
The right seed is the Word. That plus the anointing (rain) manifests the wheat.
They are not false because they are anointed, they are false because they will not stay with the Word. Their fruits are wrong.
And now, we become anointed with that same Spirit, anointed messiahs; messiahs of the last day, to shine forth the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
to show that He is not dead, but in the form of the Holy Ghost, He’s in His people; moving among His Bride, with a love affair to Her, pouring out into Her, Himself.
They are becoming one for the Wedding Supper; and the same signs, promised by the same God, in the same Word, is making His same manifestations.
There’s nothing left for us to do but believe It, and “believe it” is the substance, and that creates a Perfect Faith. 63-0825E - Perfect Faith
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
How did Bro. Branham get us to Christ? By manifesting the Word of the Hour. God with skin on it.
Manifest the gifts of the Spirit, the Fruit of the Spirit and live a life worthy of the Gospel.