Show Me The Body
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Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Introduction
Introduction
The writ of habeas corpus … (Literally “Let us have the body” or “show me the body”) is a summons with the force of a court order; it is addressed to the custodian (a prison official, for example) and demands that a prisoner be brought before the court, and that the custodian present proof of authority, allowing the court to determine whether the custodian has lawful authority to detain the prisoner.
If the custodian is acting beyond their authority, then the prisoner must be released. Any prisoner, or another person acting on their behalf, may petition the court, or a judge, for a writ of habeas corpus.
The Word Lamb has been put on trial, and kept in a Denominational Tomb.
The Lamb has the Right of “Habeas Corpus”, and we are the defenders of that right.
The Message of the Hour Produces the Body of Christ in it’s fulness.
The Word Lamb has been put on trial, and kept in a Denominational Prison.
Ever since the body of Christ was born on the earth, the prosecutor, Satan, has been trying to prove a case to bind the Word.
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
A trial was held, with false witnesses.
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Satan was desperate to contain the Body of Jesus.
He was place unjustly in a sealed tomb.
So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Even a sealed tomb could not contain Christ, because He was the Word. He was more than a man!
Even when they had His body shut up in a tomb he was working.
111 He wasn’t idle when He was in the tomb. We think He was just laying there, dead. But He was down still conquering,
He went down and took the keys away from Satan, He’s got the keys of both death and hell, tonight. He said, “Because I live, you can live, also.” 57-0420 - The Entombment
Souls in prison.
Hell.
Paradise
Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
Satan lost His prisoner, and He’s been trying ever since to put Him back in the tomb.
96 God settled the sin problem there at Calvary, that’s where the debt was paid. When this Adam, Second Adam, died, He paid the debt of sin for the human race.
And the world put Him in a tomb, and sealed Him up in that tomb.
97 And they would do the same today. They are trying to do the same today. I don’t want you to miss this. The world is trying, and will get worse all the time, to seal Christ back in the tomb again.
They’re trying to make Him a historical God, One that walked in days, and give power to disciples to heal the sick, and to cast out devils.
98 But what did they do? As soon as they thought they had got rid of Him, just like Cain did when he thought he got rid of Abel, they sealed Him in a tomb, and put Him in there.
99 And today they’re trying to keep Christ in a tomb. But, oh, what an Easter morning done! An Easter morning ruined all of their theology.
And when a Easter morning came for a people, a Church here, nineteen hundred years later, and it ruined their theology.
He’s not dead, He’s alive for evermore! They cannot keep Him in no tomb. You can put Him in a Methodist tomb, or a Baptist tomb, or a Presbyterian tomb, or whatever you want to.
But He raised out of that tomb, and is alive today! I had a Baptist tomb, and you might have had a Methodist tomb,
but one day Jesus rose from there, from a historical God, to a living, present God, alive for evermore. 61-0402 - The True Easter Seal
2. The Lamb has the Right of “Habeas Corpus”, and we are the defenders of that right.
Show Me the Body.
The writ of Habeas Corpus had already been issued by the father.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
He cannot be entombed or imprisoned, because He is alive forevermore.
103 Now, we find that He…no seal could hold Him, He come forth. God broke the seal, the seal of the tomb, broke the seal of death, broke the seal of hell, broke the seal of the grave, and came forth triumph.
What did it? That great Seal that was on the inside of Him. They could destroy the body, but they could never destroy that Seal.
God gave the Church a Seal, then, that could never be destroyed. When they destroyed Abel, He raised up Seth. When they destroyed one prophet, there raised up another.
They kept destroying. But God give them something, then, that they cannot destroy. It’s the supernatural Spirit; It’s the Holy Ghost Itself, and It’s infallible and It’s imperishable.
It cannot be destroyed. It’ll live on, and on, and on. And because He lives, we live with Him because we’re sealed into the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. 61-0402 - The True Easter Seal
That was one of His rights, written in the law.
And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
231 “Seven horns” was the seven churches, see, the seven church ages, because that was the Lamb’s protection.
What He protected His rights with, on earth, was a God-sent Group of people that protected; see, the horn on the Lamb.
63-0317E - The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals
Someone who will say give me Liberty or give me death.
We need another Patrick Henry. We need an American who can stand out regardless of where the politics are, and call right, “right,” and wrong, “wrong.”
45 Did you know preachers today can’t judge which is right, the Word of God or the church denomination?
They don’t know which road to take. They can’t judge between right and wrong. “I know the Bible says it, but our church says…”
See, people are not capable of judging right from wrong. And anything that’s contrary to the Bible is wrong.
God’s Word is right, and every man’s word is a lie, that’s contrary to It. 64-0614E - The Oddball
287 O God! That’s like the pulpit. Where is man, man that’s man, that stands for a principle? Where is women that stands for a principle?
Where is a church that stands for a principle? I ain’t got a nickel’s worth of time for a wishy-washy, give in, compromising spirit.
A woman is a woman, let her be lady. If a man is a man, let him be man.
288 If he’s a president…Where is our John Quincy Adamses? Where is our Abraham Lincolns, men of principle? Where is our Patrick Henry, said, “Give me liberty or give me death”?
289 Where is a man that stands for what’s right? Where is the man that’s not afraid to speak out?
Regardless, the whole world’s against him, speak out for what’s right; and stand for it and die for it.
Where is our Arnold von Winkelried again today?
Where is men of integrity? Where is men with spirit? They’re so wishy-washy and gaumed up until they don’t know where they stand.
290 God, let me stand with the principles of one Man, as a minister, the Word of Jesus Christ.
“For heavens and earth will pass away, but It’ll never fail. On this rock I’ll build My Church; the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” 65-0815 - And Knoweth It Not
The Message of the Hour Produces the Body of Christ in it’s fulness.
Catholicism tried to shut Him in a tomb and keep the Bible from the people but here came one of the protectors of the rights of the Lamb, and nailed 95 theses to the church door.
Lutheranism tried to keep Him entombed in Justification, but Wesley came preaching in a field.
The Wesleyan’s tried to stop at Sanctification but the Pentecostals came beating a tambourine on a street corner.
The Pentecostals tried to limit His rights to speaking with tongues, but here comes a might angel, Christ, with an open Book, handed it off to a prophet named William Branham, and there is a Bride on the earth today with writ of Habeus Corpus, defending the rights of the Lamb on the earth, until He comes.
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
In this hour he comes as a Judge into His chambers, and demands to see the body. Show Me the Body!
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Why the white wool? And then I…The Holy Spirit seemed to speak to me about a picture I saw one time, of an ancient judge.
Then I went to the history; I went back into the Bible history and all, to find out. And the old judges, like the high priest in Israel, he had to have that white, gray woolly-like hair and beard,
because the white over him signified that he was supreme authority of the judges in Israel.
All the English judges, no matter how young they was or how old they was, when they went in for judgment, they wore a white wig;
and to show that there’s no other authority, in that kingdom, above their word. Their word is the ultimate of the kingdom. What they say, that’s all of it.
33 And now, then, I seen that. There He was standing there, yet a young Man, but the white wig on.
He was the full, supreme Authority. He was the Word. And He’s having, wearing the white wig.
...there He was standing there, still wigged with that supreme authority. He is the Head of the Church. He’s Head of the Body.
There is nothing like Him, anywhere. “He made all things by Himself. He made all things for Himself, and without He there wasn’t nothing made.”
“He has all authority in Heavens and earth,” and everything belongs to Him. “And in Him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”
“And the Word was God, and made flesh among us.” And He was the One Who revealed the entire secret of the whole plan of salvation, that all the prophets and wise men had spoke of.
He alone was that wigged One and supreme Authority. 65-0822E - A Thinking Man's Filter
For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
He comes down to pick up His body.
380 And in there, there would be a time come forth when He could express Himself in fullness of His Godhead, Deity, through His Church, have the preeminences in this Church.
Oh, my! What? The anointed Man; now the anointed people; oh, my, to bring back the anointed Bride and the Bridegroom.
Anointed by (why?) accepting what Eve turned down, and Adam; coming back with the anointing of the Word, because He said, “My Word is Spirit.”
See, anointed with the Word. What Eve turned down, He comes back and we accept.
63-0728 - Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed
The Judge declares that the Body is free! I am the Bride’s Revival.
Conclusion
Conclusion
This Message was a Message of Deliverance.
33 And I thought, “Well, how could I deliver them? I haven’t got strength enough in my arms to break those bars.”
34 So I said, “House of hell, give way to the Name of Jesus Christ.”
35 And all the creaking and popping, and rocks rolling, and bars falling; and people running, screaming, “Delivered!”
and screaming at the top of their voice, and was all delivered. 65-1126 - Works Is Faith Expressed
He didn’t have the strength, but He declared freedom in the Name of Jesus Christ. We have the rights to that name.
Cancer, you who are bothering her, Satan, in the Name of Jesus Christ, as a servant of God, I say, “Cursed be you. You’re not afraid of me, but you are of Him.
So I have the rights to His Name, being a Christian, and ordained for this work, come out of the woman, in the Name of Jesus Christ.”
52-0715 - Faith In The Son Of God
When the Judge demands to see the body, someone at Word of Life Tabernacle would raise up and say “here we are”.
We’ve got the Power.
satan you’re kingdoms coming down
im not giving up