<TITLE>04. Par 31-39</TITLE>L-31 Therefore, if God raised up Jesus from the dead, did He raise Him up for a memorial? And is this resurrection morning only a--a one day in the year, or a certain day that we celebrate this? Or, are we benefactors of His resurrection? What does it mean to me? What does it mean to you? Now we believe, by faith, that He raised from the dead, but what has that got to do with me? That was two thousand years ago.
Now to find this text!

L-32   As I was tired, my arm hurting me, from shots that the nurse gave me. For, leave overseas now, as you know, in a few days, and I must have these shots, son and I. And with cholera, yellow fever, and everything, I was pretty weary, making me sick. Which, Caesar requires to have these shots before you go into the other nation. And He said, "Give Caesar that which is Caesar's, but then give God that which is God's."

L-33 And as I was setting there, wondering what would I speak to this waiting audience this morning; which I am very thankful for, and man and women who would lay their life on the line for what you would say. "How should I do it? What should I take for a text?"

L-34   And then while I was setting there, almost asleep, my door rattled, out on the front side of the house. Nobody being there but myself, as far as I knew. I listened. I didn't get it just right. After a while, the den room door, where I turn into my study, it rattled, and someone kept shaking the door. And I--I went to the door and opened the door, and, to my surprise, a--a pretty, little, yellow-haired, blue-eyed girl stood there, looked like a little Easter flower; that's setting here looking at me now.

L-35   She handed me a card. And it was the... Course, I guess when I get home there'll be Easter cards, and so forth; but the only one, being leaving home, that I had received. And she said, "Brother Branham, this is from daddy and me." She wanted to be sure that "me" was in it. And her arthritic father, setting in a wheel chair, had sent this card. When I took it and thanked the little darling, as she turned and walked away from the door, I opened up the card.

L-36 And in the form of this card I drew my text. For, on the card was the Saint Mark 16:1 and 2, sunup, the sun was rising. Then I thought of that, and then the subject of "the quickening," of Jesus Christ to be raised up from the dead, I drew my subject.

L-37   Now, the sun, at the rising of the sun. Well, there was a time when the world was laying in utter darkness. It was without form, and was void. And it was all covered with water, and was laying there in the dark, dismal, gloomy atmosphere. And the Spirit of God moved upon that water, and said, "Let there be light." God had a reason to do that, for down beneath that water there was seeds that He had planted, and it had to have that sunlight to make it live.

L-38   And the first Light was ever given in the earth was God's spoken Word. The first Light that ever struck the earth was God's spoken Word. He said, "Let there be light," and there was light. That turned darkness into light, in order to bring forth a creation of joy and life upon the earth. Then, the Spirit of God, as It moved with love and compassion, at that great day, the first day of the dawn of creation upon the earth; the sun rose and swept across, its rays, and dried up the waters from the earth, and made an atmosphere above. And, for its first time, it was to bring joy and life to the earth, by a seed. That was a great hour.

L-39 But, oh, it wasn't nothing, that sunrise, like the sunrise on that Easter morning. This time, with the sun leaping into the skies, it brought forth a greater sunrise than ever; because it came greater news with this sunrise, than it did with the sunrise at the beginning. This sunrise brought a news, that, "He is risen! He is quickened from the dead, as He's promised. He's risen from the dead."


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