Quickening Power Part 7 "Quickening Our Mortal Bodies"
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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.
We’ve all heard the statement “you can’t see what’s on the inside”. That is true, but you cannot quicken a seed without that quickening fundamentally changing the dirt around it. It’s still dirt, but it is dirt affected by the life of the seed.
A side effect of being filled with the Holy Ghost is the quickening of the mortal body.
The “mortal body” is a body of death.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Now, for instance here, Jesus made a statement, a promise. The inside man says that’s true; the outside man reasons that it can’t be true to you, then ignore the outside man and accept the inside man.
Now, that’s the same thing that Paul is speaking of. He was sold under the law to carnal sin. Every one of us is the same.
That’s the reason we have the troubles we do, of married four or five times, and this, and that, and all kinds of sin, and adulteries, and everything else along in our lives, is because of those things.
We are carnal, and that part must perish; but then, inside, we are a spirit man, soul inside, and that’s faith in God’s Word;
then we bring our outside body under subjection to the Word by faith, by accepting what God said.
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The new birth is the quickening of the inside man, that begins to dominate the outside man.
It is possible to still give in to the sticky nature after you are born again. You have to fight it every day. (Good and bad dog). Yet the Scripture calls us to live above sin.
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
We must take up our cross daily and follow the Word, but now we have a helper, who quickens us to that Word.
It’s the same Spirit, that raised Him up, that quickened the true believer to Eternal Life.
Now remember, potentially… Notice, “the same Spirit,” In Romans 8:11, “But if…” There is the problem. There’s His catch.
But if the Spirit of him (God, the Holy Spirit) that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,…
Now, there you are, “If the Bridegroom Spirit dwells in the Bride!”
When God made His first bridegroom, He made the bridegroom first, and he was both man and woman, in spirit; formed him in the dust of the earth, to make him material.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And notice when He made Eve, from Adam, He took not another piece of clay, He took from the same piece of clay; the same Word, for Adam was a spoken Word.
He had masculine and feminish spirit. And He took the feminish spirit away from Adam, and placed it in Eve; so it’s still part of Adam’s spirit, it’s Adam’s flesh.
Then, it was Adam’s spirit, the dynamic, that quickened the mechanics of his body.
So the Bride must also be flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone. Then how is this mortal flesh going to become His flesh?
We’ll get to it in a minute, see. How is it done? How? What is this great transformation? Notice.
Now if the Spirit of him (God) 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.
Oh, my! The predestinated One, of course, like the Seed laid upon the earth, the One that had Life in them.
Many of them were dead; they were just rotten seed; the waters and things burnt them out. But, you know, there was a Seed laying there ready for Life. God knowed It was laying there.
Now, the predestinated Ones are the first to be quickened by the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit comes to claim Its Own. Now, this is deep now, and be sure to catch this good.
Now, as the sun was sent across the earth, not to bring rocks, which was dirt also, to life, it was not to bring all the dirt to life, but was to bring the part of the dirt which was enclosed around a life.
(The only thing special about your flesh is the seed within it.)
Not all men will receive Christ. Oh, no. But those which God foreordained Life, is housed around some of the dirt of the earth, that’s the One He comes to quicken. They’re the Ones.
That, now, that dirt would lay there in the sun, and say, “Oh, this old sun is so hot!” That rock, say, “This old sun is so hot!”
But that little seed, said, “That’s what I’m looking for,” and it begin to spring forth to life. It quickened that part of the dirt.
Because, the sun was sent not to quicken the rock, not to quicken the dirt, but to quicken the life of the seed.
(You can’t quicken the dirt by itself. that is why psychology does not work.)
Now, the Holy Spirit comes now. Of course, It wasn’t sent…Why won’t all the people receive It? It wasn’t sent to them.
A guy told me, “I don’t believe. I don’t care what you’d say. If you could raise up the dead, or anything, and heal the sick; and prove It, any way; I still don’t believe It.”
I said, “Certainly not. You’re a unbeliever. It don’t mean a thing to you. It wasn’t even sent to you. It’s sent to those who will believe.”
The Message is to the believer. To them that perish, It’s foolishness; but to them that are in Christ, and part of that Seed, It’s Life.
My crude little story about the farmer putting the eagle egg under the hen. That little eagle was, he was a odd-looking, little creature.
When this farmer had did that thing that he did, to put this eagle egg under this old hen. And she hatched out a funny-looking chicken, and it was a odd, little fellow.
He didn’t look like them. His feathers wasn’t like the rest of them, and he just…He was an odd, little guy.
And all the rest the chickens recognized him an odd fellow. And the hen went around…
He didn’t even like the diet she was feeding him. He just didn’t like that scratching in the barnyard. He, he didn’t have nothing to do with that.
So he wondered why he had to be the odd one around there, anyhow. And he never tasted anything that…He just eat enough to keep him alive, because he didn’t like the taste of it, see. Cause, he wasn’t a chicken, to begin with.
And the hen would cluck, and, you know, “The days of miracles is past. There is no such a thing. Join the church.” It just didn’t hit right, with the little guy.
So he followed around the hen until one day his mammy… The old eagle knowed she had laid so many eggs, and there was one missing.
She knew that that eagle was somewhere, so she starts out on the hunt for him. And she circled over the mountaintop, and down in the valleys, and over in everywhere where he might be.
By this time, he, it’s time for him to be born. It’s time for him to be hatched out. Said, “Maybe a crow come in and picked up my egg; maybe a vulture. I don’t know. Something picked up my egg. But I know…That egg is in my mind. I got a son somewhere. I got to hunt him.”
So does God. He is that Great Eagle. In His thoughts He knowed He’d have a Church. He knowed He’d have a people. No matter what’s cuddled them, no matter what they was hatched out under, He is hunting. He is hunting for His Own.
And one day, the story goes, this old eagle flew over the barnyard. She was looking everywhere, and she found him.
Oh, for that resurrection, to recognize that he really wasn’t a chicken, after all. He was an eagle!
And he was always taught to look down, look for a bug or something in the barnyard. But he heard a scream, that said, “Look up this way!”
And he looked above him, and there was a creature with fourteen-feet wings, powerful-er than all the chickens there was in the barnyard, and claimed him to be her son.
(All the other chickens heard the scream, but they didn’t respond)
He said, “Mama, how can I get to you?” Said, “Just jump, start flopping your wings, for you’re an eagle.”
See, she knew she had a son somewhere. No matter what he’s been raised up in, she’s got a son somewhere.
And God knows! Hallelujah! He’s got a predestinated, foreordained Church!
He knowed He’s got sons and daughters, and a Bride, waiting somewhere; when the Holy Spirit begins to fly over it, that wave Sheaf.
Oh, my! He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. Not some mythical story, but a reality!
No matter how many tried to tell him, “a eagle,” he didn’t know what a eagle was. Yet, he was a eagle.
He would not understood it until he seen something that reflected him, that he reflected, rather.
And when we see, not a denomination, not a Ph.D., not a LL.D., not a good neighbor; but a son of God molded in the image of God, with the dynamic Power of God to answer the request of this day,
that He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever, there ain’t no hen going to hold you. He hunts for his Mama. He’s an eagle, to begin with.
He recognizes. This real eagle recognizes the call of God’s Word. Why? He’s an eagle. A eagle to a eagle! The Word before the foundation, the Word to the Word!
The Word, predestinated, to the Word written for the hour. You realize your position. He hunts for It.
This then, this earthly body, is quickened and brought by the quickening Spirit of God to obedience to the Word of God.
When he wanted to know how he could get there with her, he had been taught he couldn’t do that. “You can’t get no higher than you can jump.” He’s a chicken.
But this eagle said, “That’s not so.” “Well, look at the chickens!”
“No matter what the chickens are, you’re a eagle. Just start spreading those wings, and get a little exercise in them. Start moving up!” 65-0418M - It Is The Rising Of The Sun
Shamgar was quickened by realizing who he was.
The promise was “Thy seed shall possess the gate of their enemy” He had always been a seed, but one day that Word was quickened to him.
“He heard something. He looked out the barn window, here come a thousand Philistines, march, march, march, great big plates of armor over them, big, well-trained men, spears in their hands, march right up to take what he had.
He looked down at his kids. He looked at his wife. He was concerned. But he was helpless. He’s not a swordsman.
Now, he didn’t say, “Now, wait a minute. Maybe I better go to school and learn how to duel the creeds.”
If he’d have done that, that’s all he’d knew about. But here’s one thing that he knew: he happened to think, “By birth I’m an Israelite, and God promised Abraham my father, that his seed would possess the gate of his enemy.” That’s enough.”
The Spirit of God came on him, he jumped out the window and killed Six Hundred Philistines with an ox goad. Because the Spirit had quickened his mortal body to the Word.
Many of us can testify the same. I’ve been changed, I’ve been reborn. I used to not enjoy church, but the dirt has been quickened. I used to love the things of the world, but the dirt has been quickened.
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
Let the Spirit quicken not only the seed, but your mortal body to the Word today.
