<TITLE>24. Par 270-282</TITLE>L-270 You know, well, that quickening Power didn't leave him. Many, many years after that, when the flesh had all rotted off his bones, he was laying in a tomb. And they were packing a dead man one day, and they saw the enemy, and they just throwed this man in on top of Elisha's bones. There was so much quickening Power on those bones till the man jumped up to life again. Oh!

L-271   "It'll quicken your mortal body." Though dead and rotten in the grave, and yet that quickening Power rested over that dirt. Hallelujah! Uh! "He that raised up Christ from the dead also quicken your mortal body." The Elijah back there, Elisha and Elijah...

L-272 Remember, that dead man, that prophet, full of that quickening Power, laying in the grave and rotted away; there was so much quickening Power, till, they throwed a dead man on him, he come to life. He could still lay hands on the sick. Couldn't he? Amen. There you are.

L-273   And remember, we are flesh of His flesh, Jesus Christ. "We are flesh of His flesh, and bones of His bones." Oh, there's no way out of it. We're going to rise, and that's all. You're going to rise, that's all.

L-274 Easter means more than just a tradition. It is also now, for our bodies are quickened with Him and we're sitting in Heavenly places.

L-275 And this body may rot in the sea; it may rot in the ground; there may not be a spoonful of ashes; but she is coming forth. For, the Spirit that raised up my Lord from the dead has quickened this mortal body. It's quickened your mortal body. And we are His beneficiaries of His resurrection, His policy of Eternal Life that I talk so much about, you know. No wonder He said, "Fear not." He would know.

L-276 For as Paul said, "Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? I'm full of quickening Power. Thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." Yes, sir! Quickening Power. Oh, my!

L-277   He is alive forevermore, "the same yesterday, today, and forever." Hebrews 13:8. Notice, Messiah, the anointed One; so is His Bride, the Messiah-ettes, see, the anointed One.

L-278 Notice, death does not stop God's quickening Power. Death can't stop It. When you've got It, It's Eternal. There ain't nothing going to stop It. You can't harness It; you can't--can't do nothing to It. You live your life out, that still don't stop It; just as good as It was.

L-279 Notice, Moses is full of that quickening Power. Was he? He was a prophet who the Word came to. He was part of the Word. He was the Word of that day. Is that right? And after he was dead, eight hundred years; on Mount Transfiguration, there he stood, with Elijah. That right? The quickening Power, death don't never take It away. No, no. "I'll raise it up again." The Angels come; buried him down there in a valley. He had been rotten and gone, his bones was gone, and everything else, but the quickening Power was still there. It quickened him and brought him up. And there he was, standing there. Notice.

L-280   You say, "Is that right, Brother Branham, after eight hundred years?" Oh, my!

L-281 If you would read in Matthew, I got a Scripture, Matthew 27:51. You can write, put it down. When all those back there, that believed that He would come... The Bible said here, after He come, they were sleeping in the ground. Quickening Power was upon them, and they were a part of Him, them saints. They were a part of Him, because they had believed on Him.

L-282 Potentially they had that Life, through the sacrifice of a sheep, a propitiation, which could never bring spirit of a sheep back upon the man. How about now with the Spirit of the Man, God Himself, upon you, see, how much more quickening Power do we have! But through the propitiation for sin was offered a lamb, in type. What we have is not the type; it's the antitype. What are we scared about? And those fellows who only had a type, pointing to His resurrection, and went down into the grave with it.


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