Two resurrections are a must for all who want to go to God’s Heaven. Unless the Rapture takes place first, you won’t make it to Heaven without these two resurrections—the resurrection of the inner man and the resurrection of the physical body.

The inner man is the part that came from the breath of God. When sin entered, life went out of the inner man and death took it over. The only way you can live in God’s Heaven is for the inner person to be resurrected from the dead, spiritually speaking. All must receive a born-again experience. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light (Ephesians 5:14). We are going through this old Earth crying out, “Awake! Awake! And Christ will give you life!”

Always remember that Jesus came so we could have abundant life. His light brings true life. With resurrection power, Jesus conquered death, hell and the grave; so awake from the dead and receive Jesus into your heart. Jesus said, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this (John 11:25,26)?

You can learn much about the resurrection of Jesus in the Gospels. Had the Resurrection not taken place, the Crucifixion would have been meaningless; but Jesus did rise on the third day.

There is greatness in the power of Jesus’ resurrection, and that blood power is yours to use in this final hour. Believe it all and accept it all. That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead (Philippians 3:10,11).

Many saints of God mentioned in the Bible endured persecutions because they knew they would have a resurrection one day. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection (Hebrews 11:35). That resurrection was a Jesus resurrection.

Death Came through the Curse

Man was created with divine blood, not physical blood; physical blood came through the curse. The whole body was cursed when sin entered in; and sickness, disease and death took it over.

The Lord had told Adam and Eve that on the day they ate of the forbidden fruit and sinned, they would die; and they did die spiritually. Later, they also died physically, but spiritual death is the worst death of all. Almost the whole human race was spiritually dead when Jesus came, so His purpose in coming was to resurrect man and woman from the dead. The inner person, the soul, must be resurrected; and that is the greatest miracle of all.

Without salvation, your soul will exist in eternal death; and everyone faces that destiny when they are born. No one can save themselves; it is not within man or woman to do that. Only through the blood of Jesus can anyone be saved and resurrected. You have to have a divine blood resurrection from the deadness of sin.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (I Peter 1:3).

The Walking Dead

Spiritually speaking, people were like the walking dead when Jesus came. Very few had real life, and very few had been resurrected from the dead and been brought into the newness of life. Still today, most people throughout the whole Earth are the walking dead.

Before Paul was converted, he was one of those walking dead. He had no understanding of Christ, and he didn’t want any. He was dead in sins and was even having Christians put to death. He confessed later that he once had been the chief of sinners, but he learned about the resurrecting power of Jesus when he met Him on the road to Damascus.

Before Jesus came, mankind had no resurrection and no abundant life. People had lost the wonderful life God had intended them to have. Without God, the Son and the Holy Ghost, there is no abundant life; so Jesus came to give us that abundant life.

The New and Living Way

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh (Hebrews 10:19,20). The new and living way can be yours only through the resurrection of the inner person. Your soul must be resurrected from the dead.

When Jesus called each disciple, He called them from spiritual deadness. When Jesus resurrected Lazarus, it was a physical resurrection; but the great resurrection for Lazarus had already taken place in his soul. A physical resurrection is a miracle, of course; but it is not the greatest miracle.

The Bible states, You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1). We were all born dead in our sins. The Bible says, The soul that sinneth, it shall die (Ezekiel 18:20). That was the cry from Eden, and the same cry is going forth today.

If you haven’t had a resurrection of your soul, you don’t have Jesus. Jesus told Nicodemus, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God (John 3:3). Jesus was letting Nicodemus know, “Nicodemus, you must have a resurrection. You are a great teacher, but you are one of the walking dead.” Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born (John 3:4)? It isn’t a matter of entering the womb again; it’s a matter of entering into the heart of God through the divine blood. When God gave us Jesus, He gave His whole heart.

Children of Disobedience

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience (Ephesians 2:2). The children of disobedience are those who disobey the Lord. A false doctrine exists that says everyone sins a little, but that is not true. Real born-again Christians do not sin because if they did, they no longer would be born again. They would be backsliders and lost forever unless they repented and came back to God.

Even many evangelists today say that no one can live free from sin; so my question to them would be, “How much can you sin and still go to Heaven?” The answer, of course, is that you can’t sin and still go to Heaven. You are dead in the eyes of God if you are in sin.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) (Ephesians 2:4,5). The Bible clearly states that we were dead in sin; but even then, the Lord loved us so much that He planned a resurrection. It was the only way to save us, deliver us and bring us back from eternal damnation.

Your passport to Heaven comes by accepting the blood of Jesus in your soul. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber (John 10:1).

The Grave Cannot Hold the Soul

Within self, no one can get out of a physical grave; and within self, no one can do away with spiritual deadness of the soul. Only through Jesus Christ can you be saved. Without Jesus, our loved ones who died in the Lord and are in the grave today would have no resurrection; but because of Jesus’ sacrifice, the bodies of the righteous will come forth in the resurrection. Their souls were resurrected when they found salvation, so their souls are already in Heaven.

I see all the tears, sorrow and heartaches of those who have lost a loved one; and my heart bleeds for them. To have someone you love better than you love your very life snatched away is awful! Death is cruel, and it is not of God. Death is the last of our enemies to be destroyed. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:14).

I once heard a preacher say that death is not our enemy but our friend. What a dead soul he must have had to have said such a thing! The Bible says, He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith (Revelation 2:7). And the Spirit is saying, “You must be born again! It doesn’t matter how many sins you may have committed, the power of Christ’s resurrection is offered you. Come, meet the resurrected Lord!”

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him (I Thessalonians 4:13,14). Since the Bible clearly tells us that Jesus is going to bring our saved loved ones with Him when He returns, we know they are not in the grave. The grave holds only the old house of clay they once lived in. Many saints of God have been delighted to move out of that old house and into Heaven.

Jesus was resurrected when He was on Earth; and if we die before the Rapture takes place, we will have a physical resurrection as well when Jesus comes to take His children home. Holy Ghost-filled christians who do not die before the Rapture takes place will be changed instantly from a corruptible body to an incorruptible body in just a moment of time. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed (I Corinthians 15:52). Through the grace and the power of the blood, the Rapture will take place.

Saved by Grace

By grace we are saved, quickened and brought to life. Even when we were dead in sins, [God] hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:5,6). In the spiritual realm of grace, we sit in heavenly places when the inner person has been resurrected. Jesus made it possible.

When Jesus went to Calvary, the veil in the temple was rent from top to bottom, signifying that God had come down. Man no longer had to be a servant of sin if he would accept that sacrifice because the Lord wanted them to be free to serve the Lord in righteousness and holiness. Now the message is, Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely (Revelation 22:17). How marvelous indeed that everyone can have this spiritual resurrection that Jesus made possible.

There was a time when man had favor with God only through the Law; and before the Law was given, Abraham found favor with God by using divine faith. The Law was bondage, a cruel schoolmaster bringing us up to the grace of the New Testament. The Law came through Moses; but grace came through Jesus Christ, the divine One.

Grace is the favor of God; and the Bible says, That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:7–9). You are resurrected by grace when you give your heart to God; and it is a spiritual resurrection from dead works to live works, from hatred to eternal love. You are resurrected from disgrace into Heaven’s grace, from doubt into God’s divine faith.

A New Creature

The resurrected person is made new. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17). A new creature who is resurrected from the dead now has life.

Jesus said, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live (John 11:25). That verse contains a twofold message—I believe Jesus was talking about both the sinner and those who are physically dead.

You may be dead in sins today, but you can find the same eternal life Adam and Eve had in the beginning if you believe that Jesus is the resurrection and the life. In His great love, God never would have created a human being to have anything but life. Man was never created to die or need a resurrection; he was to have eternal life because there is no death in God and no dying in Heaven. Death comes from the devil.

When you are resurrected from your dead works and delivered from all sin, you become new. Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace (Ephesians 2:15). You become a new man or woman when you are born again.

Fellow Citizens in the Family of God

The first Adam failed and sold the human race to the devil, but the Second Adam, Jesus, did not fail. He was the perfect Adam who, so many years ago, helped His Father make the first Adam. Then Jesus came to Earth and took on the form of flesh; and as a human being, He defeated the devil using the same power He brought for each person on Earth to use. Jesus used no powers that we cannot use. He preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father (Ephesians 2:17,18).

We are no more just strangers and foreigners wandering on this Earth; we are fellow citizens of Heaven in the family of God. To be one of those fellow citizens, you must be resurrected from the deadness of sin. Everyone who believes on Jesus and accepts Him will receive a spiritual resurrection of the inner person and become a son or a daughter of God in the household of God.

Paul called himself the least of all saints, but God gave him grace. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ (Ephesians 3:8). The riches of Christ are a mystery to those who are in sin—those who are blind, deaf and paralyzed to everything of God. They don’t see God as those who are born new do because salvation takes people back into the spiritual Eden.

The Gate into Eden

After God had thrown Adam and Eve out of Eden, they couldn’t get back in. Therefore the LORD God sent him [Adam] forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life (Genesis 3:23,24). Angels with a flaming sword kept man, the devil himself and His demons out of Eden; and only divine blood would take the death angels away from that gate.

Then after thousands of years, the Second Adam came. He took the sword of death out of the death angels’ hands, and replaced it with divine peace, love and life. How did He do it?—through the divine blood He shed on the Cross of Calvary. The Bible plainly says that without the shedding of divine blood there is no forgiveness for sin. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission [for sin] (Hebrews 9:22). For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). The gate back into spiritual Eden is in the form of the Old Rugged Cross.

Put Off the Old Man

Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness (Ephesians 4:22–24). The “old man” this verse speaks of is the spiritually dead man, one who is full of his old, sinful self and corrupted with deceitful lusts.

When a person is spiritually resurrected, his soul is reborn, meaning it is re-created through the perfect, divine blood of Jesus. His soul is cleansed and made just as clean as when the Lord gave it from Heaven in the first place. The soul came from God; and when it is made clean and kept clean, it will go back to God when the time comes. However, if the soul is dead through sins, it will go into eternal, spiritual death. Nothing in Heaven is dead, so no sin or sinner can enter there. There is no such thing as a “no-harm sin”, so just one speck of sin means eternal death. Eve took one bite of the forbidden fruit and found out for herself that there was no such thing as a no-harm sin.

All Unrepentant Liars Will Burn in Hell

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another (Ephesians 4:25). Some people think they won’t go to hell for telling what they consider to be little white lies, but they are wrong. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Revelation 21:8). The Bible makes no distinction between a little lie and a big lie, so all liars will be cast into the lake of fire. All liars are spiritually dead. If you have been resurrected on the inside, you will lose that resurrection if you lie. Your soul will become dead in sins, trespasses and iniquities, even if just one little lie is the reason. The Bible teaches that eternal death is the fate of unrepentant sinners.

Never Give Place to the Devil

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil (Ephesians 4:25–27). To not give place to the devil, you must first be born new.

Adam and Eve were told not to give place to the devil. The Lord definitely let them know that the devil was in the Garden along with the death tree of evil fruit; and He told them that if they tasted of that fruit, they would die. Adam and Eve were created perfect, yet sin destroyed that perfection. Therefore, no matter how much salvation you may think you have, you will die if you willfully taste of sin and don’t repent. Sin kills the soul instantly, so don’t give place to the devil by willfully sinning.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth (Ephesians 4:28). No goodness exists in man and woman unless they have God. God makes that goodness possible in people; so if you don’t have God, you are not good.

A Holy Conversation

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers (Ephesians 4:29). The guideline for your speech is to speak only that which edifies.

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ (Philippians 3:20). Our conversation is to be the same here on Earth as it will be in Heaven. If you say things that are not fit for Heaven, you have the speech of the dead; and that is just worthless talk. Those who are spiritually dead have nothing to say that matters to Heaven.

Jesus Stands between His Children and Judgment

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30). You have a seal of blood on your soul when you are born again and resurrected into the newness of life, and no one can break that seal but you yourself. When you are resurrected from the dead and all your sins are washed away, the Holy Spirit seals your soul, the inner you, with a divine blood seal; however, you can break that seal by willfully sinning. Then Jesus is no longer your sacrifice that stands between you and judgment.

The Holy Spirit may call you a number of times to salvation; but when you grieve Him on that last call, He will never call you again. Then Jesus will no longer stand between you and judgment. You will be on your own, and you will be like one of the walking dead without hope or even one drop of mercy. You will have wasted your last drop by grieving the Holy Spirit.

When you have been resurrected from the dead, the Lord stands between you and judgment; and He makes intercession to give you all the grace and power you need. Jesus stands for the living; He does not stand between the dead and their judgment.

Love Is Everything

The Bible plainly tells us that without love, we are dead. Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity [love], I am nothing (I Corinthians 13:2). Without God’s love, there is nothing of value about you. You may feel you are valuable to yourself and others, but you are worthless to Heaven. To be of value, you have to be resurrected from the dead, brought into the righteousness of God and made brand new. The old you has to go; so if it keeps showing up, there is a problem. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God (Ephesians 5:5).

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you (Ephesians 4:31,32). You receive forgiveness because of Christ. He stands as the sacrifice for every sinner who comes to God saying, “Father, forgive this one for my sake.”

Works of the Flesh

Many people are committing one or more of the seventeen works of the flesh that are listed in Galatians 5. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19–21). The sins of these seventeen works of the flesh pile up like mountains, and committing any one of them means you are dead unless you repent and take Jesus into your heart.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them [those who are dead in their sins]. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light (Ephesians 5:7,8). If you have come into the divine light of God, you must walk in that light. Not one speck of sin is found in that eternal blood light; but if you don’t walk in that light, it will become darkness to you. Then you will be spiritually dead, and there will be no life in the body when the soul takes its departure.

If you are planning to go to Heaven, you must be very careful to walk God’s way. It doesn’t take much effort to be what the world calls a Christian—most any drunk can stumble up to you and claim to be a Christian, and the devil is happy about that. But if you have gone through the gate, the Cross, and been truly resurrected, people will notice the difference. You are living in Eden, and you are as much alive inside as Adam and Eve once were.

If you are really born again and resurrected from the dead, let people know about it. Those who are dead will turn and run the other way because the dead flee from the living. For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth (Ephesians 5:9).

The Soul Will Never Die

When a righteous body comes forth from the grave on Rapture Day, it will be changed into a new, glorified body. That body will finally get its redemption because Jesus paid the price for the resurrection and the life.

Many of you have received the resurrection of life for your soul. You were once dead, but you came to life when you believed in Him. The soul can never die; it will exist in an eternal death in hell or an eternal life in Heaven. That which came from the breath of God can never be destroyed, so there is no such thing as the destruction of the soul.

We have the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit; they are eternal fruits for the eternal soul in Heaven. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law (Galatians 5:22,23). When your soul is resurrected, it brings you the joy and peace of the fruits of the Holy Spirit; but some of you don’t use His fruits the way you should.

Adam and Eve didn’t use the fruit in the Garden as they should have, and that is why Eve got into trouble. She went after that one forbidden tree. Had she stayed with all the other trees of righteousness and holiness, she would have had power and strength to defeat the devil and trample him underfoot. Then he would have been long since in the lake of fire.

With the devil out of the way, this whole Earth today would be a paradise for the descendants of Adam and Eve because all sin and darkness would have been dumped into hell. However, sin changed God’s divine plan. The devil will not be cast into the lake of fire until the last soul on Earth is dealt with. Death and hell will not be destroyed until the end of civilization as we know it.

Stand against the Works of Darkness

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them (Ephesians 5:11). You must stand up against any works of darkness, even if those in your own family are committing them. Don’t endorse them, and never sympathize with sin. Give people the truth in love. If the works of sin are found in one of your own children, no matter how old he or she is, you must say in love, “Honey, you are Bible wrong. What you are doing means death for you; your soul is dead within you. You can’t do those things and still go to Heaven.”

In this last hour, whosoever will can come to Jesus and be just like Him. Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord (Ephesians 5:16,18,19).

You can’t be filled with the Holy Spirit and commit willful sin. Sinning willfully means you know something, but you don’t care and do it anyway. You can’t make melody in your heart to the Lord unless you have a resurrected heart because your voice will not reach Heaven. However, if you are sincerely crying for the resurrection of your soul, your voice will reach Heaven because either the Holy Spirit or Jesus Himself will carry your cry all the way to the throne of God. Only those two can plug you in to God, so you must always keep the line clear.

The Bride’s line to Heaven is clear; and the Bible speaks of her saying, That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (Ephesians 5:26,27). One sin makes a blemish.

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones (Ephesians 5:30). Yield to the Lord, the Holy Spirit and the power of God knowing you are flesh of His flesh and bone of His bones—that is the only way to yield. Ask God to help you use His abounding grace.

Justified through the Blood

You must study what Romans 5 has to say about sin. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him (Romans 5:8,9). Notice that only through Christ can you have life. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned (Romans 5:10,12).

Sin brought death; it couldn’t get to man any other way. Once man sinned, death reigned from Adam to the present day. All are born sinners, but the life-giver has come. Thank God for Jesus!

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein (Romans 6:1,2)? When you are resurrected from sin, you become dead to it and alive to righteousness. That is profound. I love to ponder it because it thrills my inner person and feeds my soul.

Water Baptism

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (Romans 6:3,4). Water baptism won’t wash away sins. It is an answer of a clear conscience toward God, showing that you believe Christ died, was buried and then resurrected.

When you are baptized in water, you are buried in water and then brought up, symbolizing Jesus’ burial in the grave and His coming forth in the newness of life at the Resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin (Romans 6:6). The old man of sin has to be destroyed. Jesus brought about the death of the old person to kill out your sinful self and resurrect you from death to life in the Spirit. The soul that was dead then lives.

Death Has No Dominion over Christ

For he that is dead is freed from sin (Romans 6:7). If you are dead to the old man, he is crucified within you; and you are free from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him (Romans 6:8). To be dead in Christ means you are alive in righteousness; but until you die spiritually in Christ, you are not alive in God.

Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:9–11). When you are resurrected into the life of Jesus, you have eternal life. Your body may die before the Rapture takes place, but Jesus paid the price for the resurrection of the body; so you will have a new body and a new life.

Alive from the Dead

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof (Romans 6:12). If we had only the sixth chapter of Romans as our reference, we would know without a doubt that sin is never justified. No one can get to Heaven with one sin in his or her life.

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace (Romans 6:13,14). When you are alive from the dead, spiritually speaking, your members are instruments of righteousness unto God; but you must have the resurrection of the real, inner you before you can be a holy instrument in the hands of God. If you accept blood grace and are resurrected from the deadness of sin, then sin no longer has the power to make you do anything.

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness (Romans 6:15,16)? Your salvation depends on what you do. If you obey sin, you are of your father the devil. If you obey righteousness, then God is your father.

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:18,20–23). The gift of God, the resurrection of the new you, is eternal life. Jesus brought deliverance for us from sin, sickness and diseases through the power of His resurrection.

They Wouldn’t Believe

Jesus told His followers again and again of His coming resurrection, but they wouldn’t believe it all. But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee (Matthew 26:32). The idea of a resurrection was something beyond the disciples’ comprehension, but it happened. The angel at Christ’s tomb said, He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay (Matthew 28:6).

I have been to the Garden Tomb and have seen the place where Jesus was laid. The first time I was there, I had the Tomb to myself; and I experienced a wonderful visitation from the Lord showing me the great resurrection of the righteous dead that will come on Rapture Day. I saw people everywhere coming out of their graves.

Go Tell!

Mark told of the message of the angel at the tomb as well. And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him (Mark 16:6).

An angel of the Lord told the two women who were at Christ’s tomb on Resurrection morning, Go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you (Matthew 28:7).

After Jesus had been resurrected, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene. Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils (Mark 16:9). Mary Magdalene had once been a degraded woman; but she was cleansed through the greatness of the Lord which showed the great power of the resurrected soul. The Bible tells of how she had been living before she met Jesus and how she changed afterwards. The Lord doesn’t make people appear better than they really are. If people sinned, the Lord says they sinned. If they backslide, the Lord lets us know.

The Lord Taught Me Demonology

Devils are awful to look at, and I despise seeing them; but God has had to bring them before me so I could learn about them. He wanted me to know how they look, how they act, what they do and how they deceive people. The Lord has allowed me to look into the souls of human beings and see the devils that bind them.

Learning about demonology was almost more than I could bear. I don’t know how long I could have lived like that had the Lord not lifted some of the compassion I had for those who were bound. I would just groan as I looked into a lost soul and saw those devils looking back at me. Their eyes, teeth and expressions were hideous. They have the same look I saw in the devil himself when the Lord brought him before me eye to eye one day. He is the ugliest creature you could ever see. Never could anything or anyone be that hideous unless it is a person who takes on the devil and resembles him.

The First Fruits

After Jesus had been resurrected, two men walked with Him on the road to Emmaus; and they told the disciples, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon (Luke 24:34). Simon had been a doubter. He had lost sight of what the Lord had taught him, and he had backslidden at the Crucifixion; but thank God, the Resurrection made him a believer.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept (I Corinthians 15:20). Christ’s resurrection is an example of the resurrection of the saints that will take place when Jesus returns for His Bride. And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many (Matthew 27:52,53).

When you die in Jesus, the body goes to sleep for a time; but not the soul. The soul goes to Heaven. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God (Colossians 3:1). If you are risen in Christ and born again, that is not the end. You must never stop seeking the things of God.

A Review

There are two resurrections that are a must—the resurrection of the real you that can never die and the resurrection of the dead, physical body. A born-again person who has died will come forth with a new body on Rapture Day to be reunited with the soul. That new body, like the soul, can never die.

Jesus overcame all the demons of hell and the devil himself. The forces of evil couldn’t keep Jesus from being resurrected because He had conquered all—death, hell and the grave. He declared, “Because I live, you will live also.” Because He conquered death, you will not die if you accept Him. Your soul will live forever with His eternal life.

If you die before the Rapture, your house of clay must go back to the dust of the Earth—that is a curse that came with sin. But the blessing of God’s wonderful grace ensures you that a new body will come forth one day soon. It will be an eternal, glorified body that is not subject to sadness, despair, pain, sickness or death.

Accept Christ into Your Soul

Sinner, where art thou today? How do you feel knowing that you have a dead soul within you? You may pass by a cemetery and think about how sad it is that all those people have died...but you are dead as well in the eyes of God. Your spiritual tombstone reads, “He is dead!”

Will you accept Christ and be resurrected? This may be your last chance, so what are you going to do with it? What is on your mind? Are you the kind of person who is gambling with your soul—the real you that will never die?

Just one little thread of life is keeping you out of hell. Heaven used to be far off; but through the blood of Jesus, it is made nigh. Oh, Sinner, be glad for Jesus today! The devil is doing his best to keep you out of Heaven; but if you will take the way of the Cross, it will lead you home. You won’t make it back into that great eternal Eden if you don’t go through the Cross gate. No other gate will suffice because there is no other way back into Eden.

If you are without Jesus, pray the sinner’s prayer with me now: Oh, God, I believe in Jesus of Nazareth. I believe He was crucified and died for me, and I now want to live for Him. I confess all of my sins. I know I must separate from all sin so I can live in the righteousness of God. Forgive me, Lord! I accept your blood. I believe that it will destroy every sin in me and give life to my dead soul right now. I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all my sins. Come into my heart, Jesus! I am going to keep you forever. Because you live, Jesus, I know I am now alive and will live for eternity with you. One day, my body will be glorified and resurrected into glorification. I love you, Jesus. You are my life.

Jesus Is the Healer

When Jesus was here, He healed all manner of sicknesses and diseases; and through the power of His resurrection, He is still doing that today. I went to the edge of the grave when I was just twenty-three, and it got to the place where I didn’t think I would live through another week. My soul had been resurrected from sin, but my dying body needed a resurrection as well. Then Jesus came and stayed the hand of death for me. He healed me of every disease that afflicted my body and made me whole all over.

Do you need to be made whole today? Just as the Lord healed me, He can heal you. Lord, I bring the sick and afflicted to you. Lay a healing hand on them. From your supernatural gifts of miracles and healings comes the miracle power that will make them whole. In the name of your Son, Jesus, heal! Heal! Lord, deliver those who have cancer, heart trouble, AIDS and paralysis. Set the little afflicted children free. Make them all well in the holy, holy name of Jesus.

Believe God’s miracle of healing with all your heart and have no doubt. Accept His changing power of the spiritual resurrection, and then you will be ready for the physical resurrection. Cry out to God; He is there for you. He is your hope and your help. Let Him bless you and resurrect your soul, mind and body into good health so you can do a great work for Him. Touch Jesus right now. He is the resurrected, all-powerful one, so let Him bless you.

Praise God for the two resurrections. Accept them both, and then you will be safe in the arms of Jesus for all eternity.