<TITLE>14. Par -</TITLE>L-279-422 Said, "You destroy this body, and I'll raise it up in three days."...?... For He said, "I'll not leave My soul in hell, neither will I suffer My holy One to see corruption." He knowed, in three days that body was coming out of there. He didn't stay the full three days. No, sir, He certainly did not. He stayed just from Friday afternoon until Sunday morning, not one cell of that body could be corrupted.
And He was dead, and embalmed, and was laying--or wrapped in cloth, and laid into a tomb. In that hot, boggy country, just take a few hours and He go to corrupting. You go to morti--mortifying, you know, his body, his nose dropping in and things, corruption sets in; that hot, damp country. And it would've went to corruption, because it was a body. But He knowed before that cell corrupted, that God said through David the prophet, "I'll not suffer My holy One to see corruption."

L-279-425 How He took the Word of God and lived by It... Now, every one of them promises in there that pertained to Him, God fulfilled every one of them. And every promise that pertains to the believer, God will fulfill every promise of It. Amen. Just rest assure that It's the Truth. Amen. So His soul...
Do you think it is... No, I'm sorry.
Where was Jesus' spirit through the three days His body was in the tomb?
His Spirit was in hell, down in the lower regions; and He arose. And I might add a little--little statement here that would--might help you a whole lot. When He arose, His... When He arose from the dead, He absolutely wasn't finished with the work of redemption yet. That's right. He had to clean the whole thing out. The price had been paid, but that horror of hell, that horror of the grave... And here, when He--when He died, He went right on. He never ceased working when He died; He kept on preaching. Blessed... Excuse my immodest acting, I guess. But He never ceased.
You're never to cease. Your body might rest for a while, but God will raise it up; He promised He would. But you can no more perish than God can perish. That's right. Look, His... after He was dead, to what? Dead to the disciples. He was asleep, what He was. They put Him to sleep; like He said about Lazarus, "I'll go wake him." God had to wake Him.

L-280-428 Look, He went right on down and continued preaching. And He preached to the souls here in prison. Went right on into hell, got the keys from the devil. Come right back up and preached again in paradise, and rose back up again on the third day. Visit with His apostles for forty days, and on the end of the fortieth day, He went right on up; because everything over us, the superstitions and everything else... He cut every superstition, every doubt, and made a prayer line from earth to glory in His ascension. Went up and set down at the right hand of His Majesty, Overcomer, the great Conqueror, absolutely. Death couldn't hold Him. Hell couldn't hold Him. Earth couldn't hold Him.

L-280-429 When He was here on earth, He was given the... He went to the lowest city and to the lowest people, and was give the lowest name. That's what man done to Him. He went to Jericho, the lowest city. The smallest man had to climb up in a tree to look down at Him. That's where man put Him. He was a foot-wash flunky, the worst job that could be given. He become the lowest. And He was called the lowest name that could be given, Beelzebub, "the prince of the devils." Man give Him the lowest name, the lowest place, and sent Him to the lowest regions of the lowest hell.
God raised Him up and sent Him to the highest heavens, and a Name above every name. Hallelujah. Why, He would have to look over to see heaven. Thy throne is exalted above the heavens of heaven. And the greatest Name that ever named in heaven and earth has to be--is bound around Him. That's what God did to Him. Man put Him the lowest, and God made Him the highest. There He was, from the lowest to the highest.


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