<TITLE>14. Par 150-160</TITLE>L-150   Now if it's something in you, telling you, "Well, that was the days past. And Mark 16 is not true, and that Pentecostal idea of the baptism of the Holy Ghost." That ain't the Spirit of God in you. I don't care how well you're trained, you, that's not the Spirit of God. You say, "Well, my mother belonged to this, and my father, through years, and my brother." Whatever you want to say about your relatives, and so forth, that might have been all right with them; but it ain't for you, see, you've got to this day come into Christ Jesus, for this age and the promise that's meant for this age.

L-151   Notice, we find out that this great quickening power struck Enoch, it quickened him and he went Home without dying.

L-152 It struck Elijah, quickened him till he went Home without dying.

L-153 We find out his successor was Elisha, which is a type there of Christ and the Church, Elisha. Elijah done four miracles, and Elisha done eight miracles. He had a double portion, like was poured out upon the Church. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Later they had a dead man, throwed it over on his bones, and he come to life. That quickening power was in the grave with him. You can't...

L-154 It's always there, when you get that quickening power of God, being quickened up with Him now.

L-155   Now remember, in Christ, we are flesh of His flesh, bone of His bones. When God wounded Christ at Calvary, He was wounded for me and you. We are flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone, body of His body, Name of His Name, Bride of Him. See, we are in Him, we are His flesh and His bones.

L-156 And God has already raised us up, potentially. The quickening power that raised us from a life of sin, and changed our being, it has potentially raised us up in Christ Jesus, which, the resurrection will bring us forth in the fully maturity.

L-157   Now remember, we died in our own name, was buried, and raised in His. See, we're no more of our own. Of which, that great Name of "Jesus Christ" which the Bible said over here in Ephesians 1:21, that, "Both families, in Heaven and earth, is named after that Name." That's where God put His Name. That's the family's Name in Heaven. That's the family's Name on earth.

L-158 And we're in Jesus Christ, by spiritual baptism, not by water; by Spirit, we are baptized into one Body, which is Christ, the worshiping place. Then, being in there, we are being on this ground, it's like the abstract deed.

L-159   You say, "I bought a piece of ground." It isn't yours yet until you got an abstract. But if you got an abstract, it shows that everything was ever against that piece of ground has been stricken off.

L-160 And then when you've become a Christian and accept Christ as your Saviour, then, when God sends down the abstract, it shows that no matter what your father did, your mother did, what anybody else did; your mother, daddy might have been drunkards, prostitutes; whatever it was, every sin is stricken off! You've got an abstract title. There is nothing can put you off of it. And, look, everything that's on that ground belongs to you! Amen. And when you're in Christ Jesus, by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, every gift of God belongs in the Church. Amen. It's an abstract title deed. You, it's yours, it belongs to you. It quickens your mortal bodies. Oh, my, if we'd think of it!


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