<TITLE>14. Par 145-156</TITLE>L-145 Quickly. 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. See?
But this eagle said, "That's not so."
"Well, look at the chickens!"

L-146 "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!"

L-147 The Word to the Word! "The works that I do shall you also. He that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he also." See? "Because I live, he lives also." "And if the Spirit that raised Him from the dead dwells in you, It quickens your mortal body." See?

L-148   What does It do? Now listen, so that you'll know. And this Easter, I want it to mean more to you than any Easter ever did. See? I want you to see it. We know what It done for Him; but I want you to see it, not will, It has done the same for you. See? What does It do? It quickens the mortal body. This mortal body that we live in, It quickens it, in other words, brings it to Life.

L-149 Now, you who once walked along with a great big cigar in your mouth, and everything, or a bunch of cigarettes; and you women who once had short hair, painted, and carried on, and wore shorts, and things like that; all at once, Something screamed, and you looked down here and It was the Word. See, It quickened your... You said, "No more shorts for me, no more liquor for me, no more lying, no more stealing, no more this, that." See? The Spirit that raised Him from the dead, dwelling in you, will also bring your mortal bodies, the dust of the earth, into subjection. You see? What is it? Subjection to what? Christ. Who is Christ? The Word. Not the theology, but the Word!

L-150 Then you say, that, "These things, oh, I think it's all right for women to wear slacks."

L-151 When, the Word said, "No." See, It quickens you to That. See? You are drawed to It. See, it's you, then. It becomes... You become part of the Word. It brought your body, not...

L-152   Well, you say, "Well, now, let me tell you something. My pastor..." I don't care what your pastor said; it's what the Word says! If you want to be a chicken, go on with him. But if the pastor speaks different from this Word, then he is not a feeder of the eagles; uh-huh, he's a feeder of the hens, see, not of the eagles. See? The Eagle eats on eagle's Food. See? It quickens!

L-153 The Bible said it's wrong to do that, and the man and so forth and what all you do, it's wrong. Say, "Days of miracles is past." This Bible said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. If they say, "That's mental telepathy. And it's some kind of a mind-reading, this discernment. And all these visions and things, is nonsense," see, they are chickens. They don't know what eagle Food is.

L-154   But, brother, when you hear that scream, there's Something in you! You're a eagle, to begin with. Why? You are that Seed, that the resurrection of the S-o-n has dawned, and the wave Sheaf upon the earth, to make you recognize that you are a eagle and not a denominational chicken. You see it? Hah!

L-155 "If the Spirit that raised Him from the dead," the Word, the Dynamic of the Word, "dwells in you, It also quickens your mortal body." Now how we flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone? Because, quickly, while we're yet mortal sinners, mortal, ready to die, these bodies, It quickens that body. What's quicken? "Brings to Life." The spirit that once liked to drink, run around, commit adultery, and all these, it's quickened; why, the thing died, and you are resurrected. It quickens your mortal body.

L-156 Therefore, your bodies is the temple of the Dynamics, because (why?) from the beginning you are part of the Mechanics. Oh! There is your resurrection. There is the Church in the resurrection, with Him. These bodies right now are quickened. See, you've heard; you believe. It changed you from a denomination to the Word. See?


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