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We see we have to maintain and have this Spirit of God within us. The Holy Ghost has been placed in us at
Baptism. It has been anointed at sealing and it will stay with us until after it has fulfilled its power to resurrect
our bodies from the grave, provided as the apostle said we are debtors to this, meaning that we owe this to have
this blessing. We must be thankful that we have been called, and we must keep our bodies as a place where the
Holy Spirit can live and dwell at all times so that this presence is there at all times. If we doubt that this Spirit
has that power, that is the first step where it will not happen according to the Bible in many places. Hebrews 4:
9-11. “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath
ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man
fall after the same example of unbelief.” There must be no doubt. There is evidence through the whole
Scriptures that this can take place. The Prophet Elisha when he departed from this life was put in a sepulchre.
We know the Prophet Elisha had a double portion of the Holy Ghost given unto him when he witnessed the
ascension of Elijah. The Prophet Elisha had been in the sepulchre for a long time and his body was now just
bones. We can read in the scripture 2 Kings 13: 20-21 a burial going on in that graveyard, and those doing the
burial looked up and saw the enemy army coming, so they had to abandon the burial, so they took the body of
the one they were burying and they lowered it into the sepulchre of Elisha, planning to come back and continue
the burial later. When that body touched the bones of Elisha, that man who they were burying stood up alive,
witnessing and proving without a doubt that the Holy Ghost was still with Elisha. The Holy Ghost was still
there and still had this power to bring back life. We must never doubt that, for it is through that doubt that we
could find ourselves not part of this resurrection. The Prophet Ezekiel 37: 1 – 10 prophesied when he saw a
valley of bones and he was asked – Can these bones live? He said – Thou knowest. God told him to prophesy to
the bones that they could live. He prophesied and they all rattled and came together, and sinews and skin came
over them, but there was no life in them. The prophet did not have the power. It is the same today, the church
must testify that there can be this resurrection, but it does not have the power to bring it about. The prophet was
told – Call on the four winds of the earth to come and breathe again life into these people; and so the Holy Spirit
was called upon and he saw them rise up a great army that walked the earth again. And so it will be that it is
only the Holy Spirit that can bring about this resurrection when our Lord returns. That is why we must treasure,
be a debtor as the apostle said, do all that we can, keep ourselves clean, repent for our sins, receive remission
through Holy Communion, keep watch on what we speak, watch what our actions are, keep at all times these
bodies as a vessel for the Holy Spirit to dwell in, for none of us know when we need to take that spirit with us
into the grave to await that great day. We must not doubt. We can read in the scripture what happens when
doubt comes in. Matthew 14: 24 – 31. We can read the Apostle Peter, when they were on a ship and our Lord
walked across the water, and they were amazed and thought it was a spirit, but He said – It is not a spirit, it is I.
He said to Peter – Come to me. Peter did not doubt. He had no doubt that it was the Lord. He had no doubt that
the Lord would have the power, and he also walked towards the Lord on the water, but the moment a storm
came and the wind blew then doubt came within him and he sank into the water, and our Lord had to take him
by the hand and rescue him. It is the same for us. We must not doubt that there is a Paradise. We must not doubt
that there will be a day of resurrection. We must not doubt that we will be re-born. We must not doubt that
there will be the Kingdom of God for all faithful souls.