Quickening Power Part 3 "He Proves What He Said"
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So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
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.
No service next Wednesday, Bro. Matt’s Meetings.
Evening Light meetings
Moundville meetings
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.”
We must get them to the Holy Ghost. The Baptism of the Holy Ghost is the New Birth.
You cannot have the true baptism of the Holy Ghost and go to hell. You can have the Holy Ghost anointing your flesh, but it cannot awaken that seed unless there is a seed there.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Now there is only one thing that we know to do, is to follow the instructions that our Lord left us, “Preach the Gospel to every creature.”
He knows who is saved and who is not. We do not that. We just cast the net into the sea, bring forth of all kinds, but God knows who is saved and who is not.
“And no man can come to Him except the Father has drawed him; and all the Father has given Him will come.” We know that, see.
So we can’t say this one is a Christian and that one isn’t, because He said, “The kingdom of Heaven is like unto a man that took a net and went to the sea and cast it in.
When he had taken the net in, he had all kinds of things in there. There would be water spiders, bugs, snakes, and fish, and scavenger fish, and good fish.”
And, but, you see, the water bugs and things finally crawl back into the water again, but the good fish was kept for the Master. Now we don’t know which is. We just cast the net.
But remember, that water bug was a water bug when the net went over him. The influence of the meeting was what caught him. The snake was still a snake, the Gospel net just pulled him in.
And the scavenger fish was a scavenger fish, the turtle was a turtle, the crawfish was a crawfish, see. But the real fish was a fish, to begin with.
So He knows which is, because He has their names on His Book, put there when the Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world. 63-1113 - The Sign Of This Time
You’re still in the net, that’s a sign that you’re a good fish.
Bro. Branham deals with this in depth in a section of the Smyrnaen Church Age titled “The New Birth in Every Age”. Please read that sometime.
Believing is not the Holy Ghost, that’s just being caught in the net.
Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
They were in the net, now Peter drew them in.
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.
Paul found some caught in John’s net.
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.
Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Back to “It is the Rising of the Son”.
How do you know you have the Holy Ghost?
67 And if the life of a man that’s dead be projected in you, you will live the same life he lived.
(Beethoven, John Dillinger)
The Token (Holy Ghost) is the literal life of Jesus Christ lived through the believer.
68 If the blood of a man was a certain type, and you took the blood from one man and changed the blood of the one man into another, he would absolutely be that type blood.
69 And if your spirit that’s in you is reckoned dead, and you are anointed with the Life that was in Christ, is upon you!
Romans 8:11 said, “If the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead, dwells in you, It’ll also quickens your mortal body,” that same Life, them same powers, them same beneficiaries, that He had here on earth, from God.
He redeemed you, a Seed that was foreknown by God, whose names was put on the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
70 And that Gospel Light of the resurrection, the confirmation of the Word! How did we know He was the Christ? Because He proved what He talked about.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
How will I know the Message of the hour? God proves what He promised, and He talks about it. That is the identification, that we are beneficiaries with Him in the resurrection. He proves what He has talked about.
71 What He promised to do in Christ, He proved on the resurrection. What He promised to do in the days of Moses, He proved it. What He promised in the days of Enoch, He proved it. In all the days of the apostles, He proved it.
72 Now in this day, He proves what He said, because they are a part of that Seed that was represented on the Book of Life that He came to redeem back to God again. Oh, what a Message!
73 On Easter morning, not only did He raise, but His beneficiaries raised with Him. They were in Christ at His crucifixion. They were in Him at His resurrection. We are His beneficiaries, quickened after being dead in darkness.
74 The darkened world of unbelief, where churches and denominations, and so forth, had drawed us out. And there’s something in us calling, “Oh, we want God! We’re hungering and thirsting for God.”
We joined the Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, and what-more, and still there was something wrong, we just couldn’t find It yet.
And all of a sudden, while we was groping in darkness, the great resurrection came to us in the manifestation of the promised Word of God.
75 Like, He was the manifestation of the promised Word of God. “I will not leave His soul in hell, neither will I suffer My holy One to see corruption.”
He manifested It, every Word of God that was promised to Him. He proved it when He raised on the Easter morning.
76 Now, them who were once groping in darkness and wondering around, if they should wash feet on this day, or if they should keep a certain day, or do a certain set of rules, all those things passed away.
For, there was a glorious resurrection that defied every man-made thing that man had ever done, every man-made reason.
77 There had never been, to that time, a man that could lay his life down and pick it up again. He defied that scientific proof they had, by raising again.
78 When they say, that, “Jesus Christ isn’t the same yesterday, today, and forever,” that, “His Power isn’t the same,” that, “His Gospel isn’t the same,” when the Bible says It’s the same!
God defied every denomination, every creed, and He moved forth with His Holy Spirit, as He promised, and proved it to us, that He is alive.
79 We are the benefactors of His resurrection, quickened after being dead in the world, in sin and trespasses. “He has quickened us together with Him, raised with Him, now sitting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”
80 His Spirit brings His same Life again on the earth. “If the Spirit of God, that raised up Christ,” the body, the anointed body; if the Spirit of God anointed that body in such a way that, when that Seed fell into the earth, He just wouldn’t let Him rest there. No.
He quickened Him and raised Him up. “That same Spirit,” by the same works, by the same Power, by the same signs, “be in you, It’ll also raise you up.” 65-0418M - It Is The Rising Of The Sun
Bro. Branham begins teaching on the wave Sheaf. We’ll get into that next time.
This is a resurrection Message. Proof that God is alive after 2000 years. If He kept His word on Malachi 4, if He kept His Word on Revelation 10, if He kept His Word on Luke 17:30, He will also keep the Word about me.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
This Bride that is presented to Christ is a faultless Bride. Completely sinless.
If He kept His Word about Ephesians 5, He will keep 1 Cor 15
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
He waved Himself over the congregation through the Son of Man ministry. He presented us to Himself by the Washing of the Water of the Word, now He will keep His Word, We Shall Be Changed.
When Wellington won his great victory over Napoleon at Waterloo, they set up signal flags to spell out what had happened to the people back home across the channel. the Message was supposed to read “Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.” However, a fog set in and all they saw was “Wellington Defeated”. The Rising son Dispels all the Fog and Gloom, so you can see the Message clearly. Satan has been defeated, Christ has won!