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EASTER SUNRISE
E-1 ^sow in tears, come up in joy. Amen. Oh, because I live ye
shall live also. Oh my, if the Old Testament saints could think that,
what ought we to think this morning, after nineteen hundred years
of seeing suffering and toils and so forth; knowing that we’re right
into the front door of the resurrection. Amen. The church has moved
right up to the hour now where the resurrection can come at any
time. And I’m thinking what would it mean to us at that day, the
believers, what will it mean on the day.
E-2 I can see on that early morning when Martha and Mary went
out to the grave. They were coming along the side of the hill after a
night^Think of that poor mother’s heart. Her Baby all the way,
when she was_when It was born, they said It was an illegitimate
Child, that It absolutely didn’t belong to Joseph, and the_and It
was_or It was Joseph’s, and they were^The Baby was born out of
holy wedlock. She’d had all that to go through, and the_on_think
about your baby, and how It’d been rejected, and despised, and spit
on, yet he claimed it. And she somehow with a quivering heart, said,
“God brought me that Baby, how could it be?” Seeing Him yonder
in that great crucial hour.
She thought surely, when they went to put a crown of thorns
on His head, and beat Him till the Blood showed through His back,
striped Him up and down and all these things; she thought surely
that any moment He will throw that cross down and turn around,
hit His foot on the ground, and the earth will quake from one side to
the other, and proclaim Who He was. But He had died yonder, like a
poor, defeated malefactor hanging on the cross.
E-3 He had died in disgrace. You see the picture of course with
the clout around Him, that was wrong. They stripped every bit of
clothes off of Him, just forând disgraced Him to the world and
everything they could, and they nailed Him to the cross. And there
He seemed to be standing helpless. Standing, the earth didn’t want
Him, Heaven couldn’t have Him, He was a sinner. Oh my! If you’d
only realize, just think, the earth didn’t want its Creator. Heaven
couldn’t receive Him because He had the sin of the earth on Him.
They didn’t even have a place^talk about a place to be born,
didn’t have a place to die. That’s right. The earth didn’t want Him.
They rejected, said, “Away with such a fellow.” Heaven couldn’t
receive Him because He was already, He was a sinner.
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E-4 Oh, what a Saviour! Coming from Glory and becoming that
for me. So rejected by His Own, that “He came to His Own, His
Own received Him not.” No place to be born, no place to die. What
did the world want? What could they do but cast Him into hell. But
there was Somebody Who loved Him. “I’ll not leave His soul in hell,
neither will I suffer Him to see corruption.” But He raised Him up
from the grave, and He come forth on Easter morning, triumph.
Hallelujah! Broke every bound and every fear and everything, rose
again and stands alive today, forevermore.
His presence is here, He’s at this place this morning of
worship. He meets wherever two or three are gathered together. You
know what a happy heart I have. You know that the very promises
He made in the Bible, “The things that I do, shall you also. I’ll be
with you to the end of the world.” The poor, rejected, despised
people of this world can still have His Presence with us. Omnipotent,
omnipresent always, all present, all powerful, everywhere at all
times. How He made a way of escape, in every hour of_of trouble.
“I’m a very present Help in the time of trouble,” He said.
E-5 Now, this morning He lives. He’s with us today, we may be
just a little church today. We may be just a little, old boarded-up
tabernacle here, not very much to look at; but there’s never a place
too humble, but what He will come to. He’s alive today among the
living. He’s not dead, but He’s alive. And He lives among the living.
Sinner friend today, if you’re dead in sin and trepasses, why
not live? Why do you stay in death? Why^what have you gained
by staying in death? Why not come to life? Why not live today
with Him? And with this great blessed hope, that even death itself,
separating from your loved ones, can never stain or mar or take
away anything from. What a blessed hope. What a wonderful thing
that we have today, because of His resurrection. And He lives, and
we live with Him, and someday He will come, and we’ll go with
Him. For, said, “Go tell My disciples and Peter that I’ll go before
them into Galilee.”
He always goes before us to make a way. Where there is no
way, He said, “I am the Way. I’m the Resurrection, I’m the Life.”
And may today, as we gather here today^You love Him?
He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today!
He walks with me and talks me along life’s narrow
way.
He lives, He lives, salvation to impart!
You ask me how I know He lives;
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He lives within my heart.
E-6 Isn’t that marvelous? How many has this blessed hope this
morning, will you raise your hand? Sure. Is there one here without
the hope, that would say, “Brother Preacher, this morning, you
in this congregation, knowing that I’m assembled with you here
on the resurrection morning, and yet, there is not immortal Life
resting within me, and this hope doesn’t lie within my bosom. I’d
like for you all to remember me today in prayer that this will be
the resurrection in me, that my soul will be resurrected into this
marvelous hope knowing that someday I must press a dying pillow
and must be buried in a cemetery somewhere, in the graveyards,
or out in the sea, or wherever it may be my lot to fall; but I want
to have that hope. I raise my hand and ask you to pray for me”?
Is there a person? Would you raise your hand that’s without^? I
suppose you’re all Christians then. That’s wonderful. Let’s^
E-7 I believe today, after the returning back, coming back, I
believe that God Almighty will send the Lord Jesus here to this
platform today, and will prove to you beyond a shadow of doubt
that Jesus is alive and among people today. Amen. I know He is
right here now. Amen. He’s here. He lives. We see Him. We^He
said to Thomas, “How much greater is their reward who has never
seen Me and yet can believe.” Amen. He’s wonderful.
E-8 Now, let’s sing this. Give us a chord, Sister Gertie, on that,
He Lives. I just like to hear that sing this morning. Oh, we see the
sorrows and the toils and what the price was, but now, just think,
it’s all over. Hallelujah. Daylight has come. Sheol is finished. Hades
is no more. Death is for a principality. All darkness is faded away.
We live. Amen. We live and He lives. He lives, and we live in Him.
Amen. All together now:
And He walks with me and He talks with me along
life’s narrow way.
You ask^how I know^(Come on now.)
Everyone, loud as you can now.
And He walks with me, He talks with me along
life’s narrow way.
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You ask me how I know He^(Hold up your hand
now.)
E-9 Shake hands with somebody sitting next to you and say,
“Praise the Lord.” You’re all Christians. You’re a fellow citizen. Oh,
my. Doesn’t that make you feel good? Past all forgotten, it’s all over.
Who did it? He lives, He did it. Who did? Christ. Let’s sing it again,
now, top our voice.
He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today! (All
fears gone!)
^with me and He talks with me along life’s
narrow way.
You ask me how I know^(Light up now.)
E-10 Oh, my. Isn’t that wonderful? Somehow, another, that just
has a special ring this morning to me. Your voices all blending
together, sounds so beautiful. Did you notice it? Just seem like it’s
really coming from the depths of your heart.
The cares of the past is gone now. The resurrection has been
proven. Jesus has risen from the dead, and He lives, and I live with
Him. Amen. He appears to us, and talks to us along the way; shows
us visions, things that’s passed, and things that will come. He heals
our sickness and He gives us joy. He gives us peace. And when death
stares in the face, we holler, “I’ll fear no evil, for Thou art with me.”
How I love that! “Oh, death, where is your sting? Grave, where
is your victory? I’m going from victory on to victory.” Is death a
victory? Absolutely, death is a victory. Amen. Death is a victory
now, not a sadness. It’s, well, it’s a victory. Amen. I’ve^
Paul said, “Leaving those things behind, I press to the mark of
the high calling.” Amen. When they was fixing to cut his head off,
and beheaded there at Rome, he said, “I’ve fought a good fight, I’ve
finished the course, I’ve kept the Faith: Henceforth there is laid up
for me a_a crown of righteous, the Lord, the righteous Judge, will
give me at His appearing: not only me, but all those who love His
appearing.”
E-11 You love to see Him come today? [Congregation says,
“Yes.”_Ed.] Would you love to see Him? And when we meet
Him in peace, just think, be standing there, these old vile bodies.
May^they may be young and youthful, but they’re going to get
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old. The gray hairs and theând teeth gone, and eyesight dim,
shoulders dropped over. But just beyond this veil here, there stands
a brand-new man. When this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we
step right into the new one, like that. [Brother Branham snapped his
fingers_Ed.] Sure. For, He lives; we live, also. And we live in this
blessed hope.
If He could take our faces this morning, and pull the veil back
and show us, it wouldn’t be faith no more, then. We just believe
it now. And we feel, from the other World, the echoes of Glory
moving back into our souls, indicating, “It’s true! It’s true! Press on
to the mark of the high calling!” What a wonderful time! Amen. Oh,
He’s so real!
E-12 Now, folks, it’s almost time for services to close. And we
want you to get your breakfast, slip back now for_for the
continuation of the service. I hit around the borders of it today,
I’llând hit the resurrection. But this morning, in about couple
hours; I want to go home and shut myself away for prayer now, for
I_I pray that God will give us a real, real prayer line today. And_
and then I want to preach, after a while, about a couple hours from
now, on the ascension, what He did when He went up. We see what
He did here with the price, now we want to see what He did when
He went up, and what God did by Him, and what He is today.
May the Lord bless you, is my prayer. Everybody feeling the
resurrection? Do you just feel the resurrection in your heart?
All right. Let’s bow our heads for prayer. Brother Neville, I
wonder if you’d dismiss us, in a word of prayer, if you would, while
we have our heads bowed. God bless you, brother.
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