<TITLE>13. Par 138-149</TITLE>L-138   Now we're looking here now to find out. Now let us, now at this same time that it does, that this strikes us; and, when, we're once dead in sin and trespassing, trespasses, rather, he... we been quickened together unto His Word of this age.

L-139 Now let us think about way back in the old times, of somebody that was quickened by this Word; just before we have the prayer service for the sick. Let's take a few characters, watch their characteristic.

L-140   Let's take a man here that kept all the Word of God, back in the Old Testament, by the name of Enoch. He was so quickened by the Word of God, that he had a testimony, that, "He pleased God." There wasn't one thing that God commanded Enoch to do but what he did it.

L-141 I wonder how many Enoch's would be here this afternoon, that, if you know it's in the Word of God? How many of you bobbed-haired women could call yourself an Enochist, see, see, and know that God condemns that? How many of you man, that let's them women do that, could call yourself an Enoch? Oh, my! That's just one thing, how about the thousands? And we smother down, say, "I belong to this, and I belong to that." You may belong to that, but... till you come into God's provided place! And you can't get in there unless you become part of that Word. And, being part of It, you become all of It, subject to all. Notice, we have this here that the Bible calls "the Word of God," and, which, it is the Word of God.

L-142   Now we find out that Enoch come into God's provided way, with His Word, and walked five hundred years, and pleased Him. And we find out that the mechanics was so perfect in Him, that when the dynamics got to working in the engine, It just took him off the earth. He took the first airplane flight, like, to Heaven. Working on God's mechanics and dynamics, together, "he was not," because God took him out of the earth, without death. That's exactly right. He was walking in God's provided way.

L-143   The same thing we find out on Elijah. Old Elijah had bawled out so many of those painted-face Jezebel's, and haircuts, and so forth, that they were using of that day, the old man had spent his life just condemning sin amongst them women, because they had a woman, Jezebel, there to set a pace.

L-144 Just about like your Hollywood here has, and got all the sisters all wound up into it out there. And, the Jezebel still lives, you can just look around and you can see she does. And she is still in great power, too.

L-145   Now we find out, the old fellow being a prophet, he had cursed that thing and everything, stayed perfectly in the will of God. When all the rest of the preachers weakened off, he stayed right there with It.

L-146 And one day he got so tired, that, God sent a chariot down from Heaven, and horses of fire, and took him up. He was so full of that quickening power! Just think, with the Word of God in his heart, he become so full of that quickening power that quickened him!

L-147 "If the Spirit of God, He..." I believe we find in Romans, 11, or one, 11... "If," it says, "if the Spirit..." Romans 8:11, it is. "If the Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead be in you, it will also quicken your mortal bodies. If the Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead, if--if It be in you, It'll also quicken your mortal bodies."

L-148 Quickened it! What does the word quick mean? The Greek word means, "to be brought to life after death." Hallelujah. There's the gate of worship. Worshiping in the Spirit and in Truth, mechanics and dynamics, together. You see what I mean?

L-149 "If the Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, It will quicken, make alive, your mortal bodies, because It's already Life." And when It comes into your body, It brings your whole body subject to It. Subject to what? The Word of God. "If it's in you."


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