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As
we have read in the previous section, Paul wrote that God’s Spirit
will quicken our mortal bodies:
"But ye are not in the flesh, but in
the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any
man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but
the Spirit is life
because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that
raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up
Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit that dwelleth in you.” (Romans 8:9-11)
What Spirit dwells
in us? The Holy Spirit! It is the Holy Spirit that raises
us up at the rapture. Yet, Jesus taught this in the book of
John:
“And this is the Father's will which
hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose
nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is
the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son,
and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise
him up at the last day.”
(John 6:39-40)
Jesus
claimed that He would raise us up, not the Holy
Spirit. Did Jesus take all the credit, when He knew that another
person would raise believers up? Or is the “Holy Spirit” the “Spirit
of Christ” because there is only one Spirit (Ephesians 4:4) and
Jesus is the one God of Israel in human form?


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