<TITLE>07. Par -</TITLE>L-8-4 Someone called and said, "Preacher, I wondered where you was going with that." Said, "I thought, 'Oh, oh, here Brother Branham tied hisself that time.'"
Not when the Bible says so. See? The Bible said He gave us death.
Well, what can we do with death? You know, Paul coming to death, he said, "Oh, death, where is your sting?" Death don't control us; we control it. That's right. All things is given to us.

L-8-7 And then, I gave the illustration of how that Israel on the march to the promised land, they had never seen that land; they knowed nothing about it. They just had a promise of God there was a land, and it was full of milk and honey and good and--and a great place. And it was... They never had seen it; nobody had ever been there, or know anything about it, but they had the promise of it. And by faith they sojourned to--through the desert. And when they got right to the borderline, they had a warrior there by the name of "Joshua" which means "Jehovah Saviour." So he crossed over the Jordan into the promised land and brought back the evidence that the land was there. (I like that.) And it was a good land. Two men packed one bunch of grapes. It was a good land. So he brought back the evidence that the land that they were going to possess was there.

L-9-1 Now, to the church, we are journeying to a land of immortality, a land where there's no death, a land where the dead's raised up; and we had a great Saviour in our camp, "Jesus" means "Jehovah Saviour, beloved." And He crossed the Jordan of death over into the other land, and come back, and brought the evidence that we live after death. Amen. So where is death at?

L-9-2 And then, He gave us all things. Now, we have the earnest of our inheritance, insomuch (Now, listen close. I'd like preach on that subject, but I just--feels good to me right now. See?) that we have the earnest of that, for one day we walked in sin; and after being baptized in His Name and raised with Him in resurrection, we've been brought out of sin, never no more to want to go back again. See? We are raised from sin with the evidence that we have--we're potentially in the resurrection from all death. See? If we could raise up from sin by faith in Him, and if there's sin... Who would want to go back to the garbage cans of sin again? See, we pass from death to Life. See? And that's the earnest (Amen.); that's the earnest of the complete resurrection. All death, physically and spiritual, we done overcome spiritual death, 'cause we've passed from death unto Life.

L-9-3 And as the Elijah went down to Jordan one day and struck it (with Elisha), and it parted back and he crossed over, he come back with a double portion. And when we strike Jordan (with Christ), we got one portion, but when we return we're coming with two portions. We got Eternal Life, resurrection from sin now in righteousness with the Holy Ghost, and then on the return with Christ we come back with both physical resurrection; and we already got spiritual resurrection; we have a double portion of it...?... Always a type of Christ and the church, Elisha and Elijah.
Oh, I don't want to get started on that. My, my, my, we'd never get on this six hour message here. [Brother Neville speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Yes, not--meat on the bone, Brother Neville, still a-gnawing it. Oh, aren't you glad? See?

L-10-2 We don't have... There ain't no bother no more. Death is nothing; we got it; it's ours. It can't control me; I control it. How? Through Him Who made me an overcomer, because I've already overcome death. How did I do it? By believing on Him. See? Death's in sin, unbelief. I'm not an unbeliever; I'm a believer. I've raised from that thing, resurrected. And it's the earnest of all my complete physical, spiritual resurrection, everything. Yes, sir. You get it?


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