He Is Risen

By Bessie Mae Brooks

About three years ago, one of my church members voted for me to be the Sunday school teacher. I tried to decline the position twice, but I failed. I know that I had difficulty standing in front of an audience, but everyone voted me to be their teacher.

One member said, "I remember when you would come to Sunday school and would not say a wo

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Oct 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781647735234

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Preface

The Future Glory

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made us free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh: but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 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. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if you live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they ae the sons of God. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, where by we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and join theirs with Christ. If so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seethe, why doth he yet hopes for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: For we know not what we should pray for as we ought: But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which can not be uttered. And He that searched the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose (Rom. 8:1–28 KJV).

God’s righteousness for whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified. What shall we say then to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He spares not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is He that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors though Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor power, not things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. 8:29–39 KJV).

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

"A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

"A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up;

"A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

"A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

"A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

"A time to rend, and a time to sew, a time to silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate, a time of war, and a time of peace (Eccles. 3:1–8 KJV).

I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work (Eccles. 3:17).

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the publisher of the King James Version of the Bible for letting me use these verses of the Bible to publish my book. I am not knowledgeable enough to express what I want to say without them.

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and bounds of their habitation (Acts 17:26 KJV). When I was about to write about the different races, I went on the internet and requested material to start my writing of the races from different skin colors. Then I heard in my spirit, Get the encyclopedia and read it. I did not know what encyclopedia to get. But since the Bible verse talked about the blood, I got the B volume to check first. I had read the entire volume of the New Standard Encyclopedia that my mother purchased for my younger sisters and brothers back in the sixties, but what I had read, I could not remember. Before I started reading, I would write the month, the date, the time of day, and the year. That was what I found in the B volume I read on April 28, 1981, at 10:45 p.m.

In the B volume, page 297, it was written, Long investigation of human blood shows that there are four main types or groups of human blood. The types or groups are called A, B, AB, and O types. In the race book it was written, However, grouping by blood types cuts across other groups, and every type of blood is found in every race (p. 8). (One blood, all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth. Acts 17:26 KJV) This was what I found in the R volume I read on March 19, 1983, at 6:15 p.m.

Introduction

My name is Mrs. Bessie Mae Williams Brooks, and I am a retired nurse. After working as a nurse’s assistant for a few years, I attended nursing school to become a licensed practical nurse. Attending two years of college to become a schoolteacher was not satisfying to me; to become a teacher was the only profession that this college trained women to do. I am very thankful to have been admitted to this college, because these two years of educational training helped me tremendously in my training to becoming a nurse. After I received my LPN license and became a nurse, I worked at a hospital for eight years. Because I enjoyed being a nurse, my employment at the hospital didn’t seem like work. During the experience of working in different departments in the hospital, I received the confidence of taking care of patients in the nursery and delivery room and caring for patients before they went to surgery and after they returned from surgery, in the minor surgical room, and most of all, in the emergency room. When my mother passed, I went to work at the nursing home. Working in the nursing home was quite different. Even though working with patients was very rewarding, it took me a little while to get acquainted with the duties at the nursing home. But I worked much, much longer at the nursing home than at the hospital. I retired from the nursing home. When I retired from the nursing home in December 2010, my coworkers tried to get me to work part-time jobs and not just go home to sit down and do nothing, but I refused. They even tried to frighten me jokingly by saying that people who retired and went home and did nothing usually died earlier. Now, this did frighten me somewhat, because this seemed true, but I did not let my coworkers know that it frightened me, and I didn’t let them know what I planned to do when I retired. I certainly did not plan to sit down and do nothing. One book was ready to publish, and one book I was still working on. One book was successful, and one was not. In January 2016, I had a vision. I saw Jesus in a vision. I saw the Creator in a vision, and He talked to me. I did not tell my children or my sisters or brethren, nor did I tell my church members. Everything that I wrote down about the vision, I kept in a private place. I was going to write about my children first and even collected my material from the journal that I had been keeping about my children and my grandchildren up to about twenty-five pages. I thank the Almighty God that He did not let me type these pages; I had only made copies of the pages. I heard in my spirit to write about our parents first. This happened all through my book.

The Way, the Truth, and the Life

"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God believe also in me.

"In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive ye unto Myself; that where I am, there ye maybe also.

And wither I go you know, and the way ye know (John 14:1–4 KJV).

Saved

To deliver from sin Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God (John 3:3 KJV). Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit (John 3:5–6 KJV).

Jesus Crucified

And one of the male factors which were hanged railed on Him, saying, if Thou be Christ, save Thyself and us. But the other male factor crucified with Jesus answering rebuked the first saying, dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we received the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord remember me when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with Me in paradise (Luke 23:39–43 KJV).

"A Jesus came and spake unto His disciples, saying All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with always, even unto the end of the world. (Matt. 28:18–20 KJV)

And He said unto His disciples, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power. But ye shall receive power, after the Holy Ghost is upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in Judaea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:7–8 KJV)

The day of Pentecost

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, The Apostles were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began speaking with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:1–4 KJV). But the Apostle Peter, standing up with the eleven Apostles, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it come to pass in the last days, saith God. I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit and they shall prophesy (Acts 2:14–18 KJV)

"And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:

"The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:

"And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of Lord shall be saved.

"Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:

"Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

"Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that He should be holden of it.

"For David speaketh concerning Him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for He is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

"Therefore, did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover, also my flesh shall rest in hope:

"Because Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption.

"Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; Thou shalt make me full of joy with Thy countenance.

"Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

"Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with and oath to Him, that of the fruit of His loins, according to the flesh, He would raise up Christ, to sit on His throne;

"He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in hell, neither His flesh did see corruption.

"This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.

Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear (Acts 2:19–33 KJV).

Salvation

You must be born again. Admit that you have sinned. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23 KJV) As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none that understand, there is none that seek after God. They are all out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one, There throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the person of aspsis under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes (Rom. 3:18 KJV). There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit of God. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hat made me free from the law of and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh (Rom. 8:1–3 KJV). Admitting that we are sinners and separated from God is the first step of repentance, which is turning from sin and self, turning toward God. Believe that Jesus Christ died for us. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). Believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of the Living God. And receive Jesus’s death on the cross and the shedding of His blood for the remission of the sin of the world, because we cannot do it on over own. Confess your sin to God, and then confess that Jesus is Lord of our life. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Jesus Christ from the dead, thou shall be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation (Rom. 10:9–10).

Confess your faith in Jesus as Savior and Lord to others.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised Him from the dead thou shall be saved (Rom. 10:9).

Born Again

"And the angel of the Lord spake unto Apostle Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for worship.

"Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.

"Then the Spirit said to Philip, go near, and join thyself to this chariot.

"And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said Understands thou what thou readest?

"And he said, how can I, except some man guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

"The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, and opened He not His mouth:

"In His humiliation His judgement was taken away: and who shall declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth.

"And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? Of himself or of some other man?

"Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.

"And as they went on their way, they came to a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?

"And Philip said, If thou believes with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

"And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, and both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

"And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea" (Acts 8:26–39 KJV).

Cornelius’s Vision

"There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.

"He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.

"And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and he said, What is it, Lord? And he said, unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.

"And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:

"He lodged with one Simon a tanner; whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughts to do.

"Ans when the angel spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;

"And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.

"On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the house top to pray about the sixth hour:

"And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.

"And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to earth:

"Wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.

"And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.

"But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is