<TITLE>07. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 Then finally one day come the Royal Seed, not borned of a man, but conceived in the womb of a virgin by God Himself with no sexual desire, Holy Spirit borned. When the Holy Ghost overshadowed a little virgin and conceived in there the true Seed of Abraham, the faith that Abraham had in God... God had made a promise of this Seed, borned of virgin birth, then He had power over all the gates of the enemy. When He was on the earth He had the gates of sickness in His own power. He spoke to the sick and the gates opened up, and they walked out free. He had the--the keys to the gate of leprosy, of cripples, of afflictions, of temptations.
They smacked Him on the face, and done everything by pulling beard from His face, and spitting upon Him, and trying to get Him to do something was wrong. He said, "I could speak to My Father and straightway He'd send Me twelve legions of Angels." He could do it. But He had the power. Why? He had to taste death. All of these other warriors had done victories and so forth, but He had to conquer that one who could not be conquered by these men. And when they killed Him on Calvary, He was--soul ascended into hell and He turned the keys on hell down there, and unlocked the place, and took over. He possessed the gates of hell. On Easter morning He possessed the gates of the grave. He has the keys of both death, hell, and the grave, and rose triumph.

L-26 And we who are dead in Christ are Abraham's seed, and we are more than conquerors through Him Who conquered everything for us. No reason for us to have to come--overcome anything because it's already conquered. The last enemy, sickness, death, temptation, all things are put under His feet. And we are the seed of Abraham. Being dead in Christ we are Abraham's seed, marching on to victory, to victory, to victory, holding God's promise out before us and going on. Abraham's seed with a sworn promise by Jehovah God, that he will possess the gate of every enemy.

L-27 Now, death has no gate for us. "Death doesn't have, Brother Branham?" No, it doesn't. "What about that? You think you'll die?" I'll never die; I can't die. I'm already dead, my life...?... I'm buried, and my life is hid in God through Christ, sealed by the Holy Ghost. The devil couldn't get me if he had to. "Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection on which the second death has no power." We've overcome because Christ overcome it for us.
When He went up Calvary there was spit hanging in His face, tears and blood mixed together with mockery spit, that old wet garment of blood over His back, beating Him across the legs as He climbed the mountain. Death begin to buzz around Him. Death said, "I'm coming to get You."

L-28 Oh, that sting of death, you watch it in a person's face. I've held them in my arms and see them quiver and straighten out, then quiver and straighten out, and cry and scream for mercy, nothing like a sting of death.
But you know, when the bee of death begin to buzz around Him... You know, if a bee, a insect that's got a stinger, if he have ever sting deep enough, it pulls its stinger out. It hasn't got no more stinger after that.
And when death anchored its stinger in the virgin born Son of God, He pulled the stinger out of death. It doesn't have any more stinger in it. The only thing it is, is a bluff. A bee that has no stinger can buzz but he can't sting. It's been tried. Saint Paul said, when the bee begin to buzz around him, he said, "O death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? Thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." The true royal seed of Abraham, we possess the gate of every enemy. Amen.


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