The first effect of the reception of the word in the power of the Holy Spirit. We are quickened by God (Rom. 4:17), by the Son (John 5:21), and 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.