Quickening

The first effect of the reception of the word in the power of the Holy Spirit. We are quickened by God (Rom. 4:1717(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. (Romans 4:17)), by the Son (John 5:2121For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. (John 5:21)), and by the Spirit (1 Peter 3:1818For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (1 Peter 3:18)). It simply means to make alive. Considerable stress has been rightly laid on the distinction between quickening and sealing, the two operations of the Spirit on the individual; for the former invariably refers to the dead sinner, the latter to the living saint, the former being an imparting of life, the latter an indwelling consequent on life being there. See SEALING.