In today's troubled world,
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people are
wondering where we're heading.
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Revelation Today
presents the answers.
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Bible prophecy reveals
what the future holds in store.
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Revelation Today.
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A man was sailing his
yachts in the Pacific Ocean
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when he encountered a storm
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and he got into
all kinds trouble.
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He sent out a distress signal,
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but he was a
long way from anywhere
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way out there in the vast ocean.
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Rescuers had to figure out
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how they were
going to locate the man.
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So commercial
airlines flying in the area,
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were asked to watch out
for this stricken sailor.
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A Canadian airline
that reduced its altitude
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came down low over the water
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and passengers
looking out the windows
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of the plane saw the yacht.
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Authorities were loaded
and the man was rescued.
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He was rescued from above.
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Humanity has been
rescued from above.
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And tonight, we'll
learn all about that
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in our subject
"Revelation's Slain Lamb."
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Please, welcome the presenter
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of Revelation
Today, Ron Halvorsen.
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Wonderful night.
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Already God has
brought us blessings to us.
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Amen? Amen.
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And we're going to be blessed
again as we open God's word.
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We're going to look now
at Revelation's Lamb Slain.
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Tonight, I want to
introduce you to the Lamb Slain.
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By the way, the lamb
is mentioned 28 times
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in the Book of Revelation alone.
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John could not have
used the more fitting symbol
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for the Jewish
readers that were reading
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the Book of
Revelation in the 1st century
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because 1,000
years the lamb had been
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the central focal point
of their worship services.
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The offering of a
perfect lamb on an altar,
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it was everyday, twice a day.
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It was punctual,
it was predictable.
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I mean, that
there was never a time
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when a lamb was not burning
on the altar, day or night.
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The cry of John,
"Behold the lamb of God
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which takes away
the sin of the world."
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I mean, this was in the context
of Jewish sacrificial practice.
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Only the lamb slain
takes away my personal sin.
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The lamb in Revelation
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is none other than
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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He is the lamb
slain and He is the one
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who hangs on the cross
or the altar of the cross
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for the
sacrifice once and for all
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for the
salvation of lost mankind.
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And the Bible tells us
that we must go to the cross
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to find that kind of salvation.
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It's only at the cross
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that the men
and women are saved.
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Men and women are redeemed.
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And so, let's
go to that Calvary.
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Calvary, a
pinnacle of divine love.
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Calvary, altar
of God's sacrifice.
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Calvary, a place of oblation.
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At Calvary, the center of
the Great Controversy rages,
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good triumphs over evil,
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mercy over maliciousness
and love over hate.
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And there we go to Revelation
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and old John is
writing about that cross,
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and he's writing
about it and saying,
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"Saying with a loud voice,
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worthy is the
Lamb that was slain
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to receive power, and riches,
and wisdom, and strength,
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and honor, and
glory, and blessing."
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The cross has always been
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above every other
reckon death or shame.
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I mean, the axe,
the sword, the hemlock
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had been used by executioners
in history past to kill,
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to kill men and to
kill men and women,
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but it was execution with honor,
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but not so the cross.
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You see, the cross,
man hung upon the cross,
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nailed in agony to the tree.
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I mean,
suspended naked to the torn
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and gaze at the multitude.
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It's always been a
specimen of disgrace,
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dishonor and degraded humanity.
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Rather to be marked
he who hangs upon a cross
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than to be pitied.
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Now, God had allowed that idea,
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that concept in the
minds of men and women
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that Christ might be
loved, not for His martyrdom,
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but for His
miracle, the cross of Christ.
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Man's death of shame
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became God's way of
salvation to save the lost.
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God saves through His death.
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Tonight, we need to
go back 1900 years ago.
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We need to go back to
a place called Calvary.
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The magic carpet
that shall take us
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back in time and
place is the Bible.
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And there are two
passages of scripture
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I want to read as we
begin this message tonight.
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One is taken from the
Book of Galatians 6:14.
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The Bible says, "But God forbids
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that I should
glory, save in the cross
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of the Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom the world
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is crucified unto me,
and I unto the world."
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And then a passage
taken from 1 Corinthians 2:2,
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"For I'm determined not
to know any thing among you,
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save Jesus Christ,
and Him crucified."
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On the south shore of China,
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looking over
the Harbor of Macaw,
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Portuguese settlers once built
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a massive
cathedral to their God.
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It's stood against time,
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but a typhoon
came to that harbor
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and knocked that
cathedral into ruins.
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All that stood was the
front wall of the cathedral
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and on that front wall
was a great bronze cross.
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And when Sir John
Bowring went to that place,
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brought his ship into the harbor
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he'd looked and
saw the church in ruins
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and he saw the
great bronze cross.
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And he wrote, "In the
cross of Christ I glory,
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towering o'er
the wrecks of time;
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all the light of sacred story
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gathers round its head sublime."
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The years come and the years go,
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but the cross of
Christ still stands
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and men glory in the cross.
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When Paul came
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to the intellectual
City of Corinth he said,
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"I am determine not to
know anything among you,
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save Jesus Christ
and Him crucified.
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Now the cross to the
pagan was foolishness.
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For one to
believe that their God
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had to die on the cross
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to redeem mankind,
it's sheer foolishness.
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To the Greeks, it
was a stumbling block.
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To the philosophers and
those who were so smart,
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it was a stumbling block.
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And to the Jews, it was a
hindrance to their faith."
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But we Christian
believers, we who come
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under the shadow of the cross,
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we who felt the
dynamic power of the cross
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moving on our hearts,
we know something better.
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The cross is still foolishness
to a perishing world.
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Talk to your
secular people about a cross
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and they'll laugh at you.
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The cross is still foolishness.
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Now, when Paul
entered the City of Corinth,
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that intellectual
city, there was many things
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he could have talked about.
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He could have gloried in
the pre-existence of Jesus.
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I mean, he
could've glory in the fact
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that Jesus
existed before Bethlehem.
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Bethlehem was not the
beginning of the Christ.
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That was the
incarnation of Christ.
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Christ had to touch us.
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He had to put
His arms around us.
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And the only
way He could do that
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was to come into our world
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and to suffer and bleed and die.
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You see, pre-existing
Christ in time and eternity,
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ever since, all time,
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Jesus is alpha
and Jesus is omega.
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In Revelation, He is alpha,
in Revelation He is omega,
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He is the beginning and end.
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He could have glory
the pre-existence of Jesus.
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When he came to their
intellectual City of Corinth,
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He could have
gloried in the virgin birth.
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This great miracle, this
woman given birth to that child.
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Hey, if you
pre-existed your mother,
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what kind of
mother would you chose?
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Of all the
Mary's that ever lived
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God chose that
woman to bare the son.
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That was the woman
that He could trust
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the hands of Jesus
to, that was the woman
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He could trust
the body of Jesus to,
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that was the
woman He could trust
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the life of Jesus to,
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that he will be
trained in faith.
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He could have gloried
in the miracles of Jesus.
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Christ took a
few loaves of bread
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and fishes and
fed 5,000 and more.
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Jesus walked on water
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and there Peter
came out onto the water
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and he felt so secure
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and turned away from
Jesus, began to sink.
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Don't ever turn away
from Jesus when He calls you
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or you will sink
into a deeper hell
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than you've ever been in before.
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There was a miracle of Jesus.
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The miracles of
Jesus touching blind eyes,
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they saw the light of day.
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Bringing a baby
back to life again,
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placing it in the
arms of that mother.
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Jesus, the miracle maker.
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Jesus, who can
change water to wine.
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Jesus, who could change the life
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of those who
came in His contact.
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Give living water
to a thirsty woman.
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He is the way, the
truth and the life.
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He could have gloried
to the miracles of Jesus.
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He could have
gloried in the resurrection.
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Never before had the world seen
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that dead man like
that rise up from the dead.
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He who said He would rise again
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and they put a
seal over His grave.
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They put guards against--
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They've never had to
put a God against the grave.
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Afraid that this person
inside would come forth,
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but the Romans did.
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I mean, the Jews
didn't believe it,
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but the Romans did.
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And they put their guards,
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but the guards
could not hold Him,
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the seal couldn't hold Him.
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When Jesus decides to
come, nothing can hold Him back.
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Amen! The
resurrecting of Christ.
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He cold have gloried in
the resurrection of Jesus,
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but Paul the Apostle says,
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"No, I glory save in
the cross of Jesus Christ,
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I save in the
cross of the Lord."
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That was the center
of Paul's preaching,
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that was the
center of Paul's teaching.
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That was the
center of Paul's living,
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the cross of Jesus Christ.
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You see, friend, the
cross makes God real.
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And love not just the word,
but a condition, a condition.
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At Calvary--
Listen to me, friend,
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through the Holy Spirit.
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At Calvary, our Lord
wrapped the world in light
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and He wrapped the world in love
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and He wrapped the
world in life at the cross.
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When Haynes wrote his
life of Abraham Lincoln,
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he wrote 5,000
pages about the man,
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that great man,
that great president.
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Five thousand pages.
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They probably
could put my lifetime
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in five page comic book, but no.
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Lincoln, 5,000 pages.
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Of the 5,000 pages in
life of Abraham Lincoln
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only 25 pages are
given over to the events
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that surround the death
of that great president,
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but not so with
the death of Jesus.
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One third of the gospel,
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one third of the
Gospel of Matthew,
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one third of the Gospel of Mark,
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one third of the
gospel that we find Matthew,
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Mark, Luke, one
third of the gospel.
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But John, the Disciple of Love,
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one half of his book is
given over to the events
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and His death on the
cross and His resurrection.
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Amen.
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And that's the
John who's on Patmos.
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And that's the John that
writes about a lamb slain,
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and that's the
John whose pen is dipped
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in a red blood ink of Calvary
to drop new found faith like,
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golden pollen from
stems of shaken lilies
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to sweeten the
lives of men in every age
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and even in our generation.
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Amen. This is
the John who writes.
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And he writes, and he
writes the Love of God
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in Christ
Jesus, the Love of God.
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You see, you and
I tonight in spirit,
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we must walk Via Dolorosa.
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You see, we must climb
that hill called Calvary.
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We must recall
again the pain of God.
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We must again
understand the suffering of God.
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We must understand
the buffeting of God.
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We must understand the speaking
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and we must hear
again the cries of Calvary.
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We must hear the hammer blows,
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pounding the
nails into His hands
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and pounding the
nails into His feet.
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We must again see and discover
the truth concerning His death
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so that we might come into life.
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But cross of Christ
must be the centrality
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of all preaching, of
all Biblical teaching.
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As long as sin
kindles the blush of shame
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of our cheeks,
and as long as tears
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glisten in our
eyes, tears of repentance.
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Now, we arrive at Jerusalem,
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as we go back on the carpet
of His word we come Jerusalem.
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From the heights
of city, we notice
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we can see that this great city
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is the pearl of the Middle East.
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Upon viewing the
city from the heights
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we can see the golden
temple gleaming in the sun
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and we can see this
being the fortress of faith.
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Three great
religions were there.
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Judaism, Muslim
and the Christian.
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There it was in that
great City of Christianity.
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When we enter to
the City of Jerusalem,
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we find you the
stir that morning.
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I mean, the sun had been
up for sometime over the city,
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the whole city is
in a festive mood,
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it was Passover.
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To the Jews, Passover is
the highest of all holidays.
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Passover is when Moses--
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When Mosses told
the children of Israel,
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put blood on the doorpost,
put blood on the lintel
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because the death angel is
going to fly over the land.
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And when the death
angel flies over the land,
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the blood of the lamb
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is the only thing
that can protect you.
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It was Passover.
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And for
centuries at that Passover,
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they reflected
on that great moment
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when Israel was protected
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from the death angel
by the blood of a lamb.
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You see, the whole
city, this is Passover.
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They came far away.
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They came as far as
Cyrene on the Mediterranean.
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They came as far from Rome.
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They came as
pilgrims not as tourists,
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but as pilgrims
to that Holy City.
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And there, blind men groping
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as they walked
along the streets.
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I mean, lay man
hobbled on crooked crutches.
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The crowed was difficult to make
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one's way
through the procession.
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I mean, that had
started out at Roman palace.
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Three men under
the weight of crosses
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staggered of Via
Dolorosa the way of the cross.
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I mean, three men under
the weight of the cross,
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crowds, Roman
solders, Jewish rabble,
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they all wondered as they went.
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What is this?
What's the meaning of this?
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Pilate had already
washed his hands of Jesus
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as many will
through every century.
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I mean, the Jews
have rejected Him,
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as many will to
every century, even now.
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I mean, the Romans crucified Him
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and when I look at the cross,
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when I look at the
cross I see plainly
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an angry mob tearing the
cloak of the body of Jesus.
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The son of God.
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I see them taking
long leather thong
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and a whip beating
the back of the son of God
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to the lacerated
His back until it tore
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like ribbons of
flesh on His back.
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He who bore the
burden of the whole world
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upon the back is
beaten on His back.
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Listen, when I see the cross
I see the blood dripping down
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the face of Jesus
into the eyes of Jesus.
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At the cross, I see
plainly at the cross,
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I see suffering
of the son of God.
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I see the red blood in His eyes.
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He alone is to suffer. Jesus.
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He is alone to
bleed and alone to die.
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The only ones that
will remain at the cross
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is His mother
and Mary Magdalene.
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The women will be at the cross,
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but the disciples will
run in fear, run in fear.
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And there upon on that
cross I hear His words,
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my God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me?
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God, forsaken of God.
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That was His
suffering, that was His pain.
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And every moment He
stood, hailed upon that cross,
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every moment He lay
there, every burden, Jesus.
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You see, that moment
the world's lies burnt
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into the lips of Jesus
as if He had spoken them
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and world's lustful desires
burned in the mind of God
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as if He had fought
them and the world's
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unpleasing language
burnt into tongue of Jesus
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as if He had spoken them.
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He was made sin for us. Amen.
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I can't go to the cross
without seeing three things.
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When I go to the
cross, when I go to the cross
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I see first of all I see
sin in its rightful place.
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You see, its sin
that put Him on the cross.
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By the way it wasn't
the sins of the people
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of that day alone,
it's your sin and my sin.
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Amen.
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It's the sin of our generation,
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it wasn't the sin
of that generation.
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It's the sin
that you and I commit,
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the sins that
put Him on the cross.
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It's not someone long
ago thinking to yourself,
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oh, I wish I
would have been there,
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I would have defended Him.
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You are here now,
have you defended Him?
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Amen. No.
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Have you defended Him?
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You see, I see sin in its
rightful place at the cross.
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You never
understand your sinfulness
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until you come to the cross.
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You'll never know salvation
until you come to the cross.
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You see, the problem with sin,
sin made the cross a necessity.
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Man call sin an act and
God calls it an abomination.
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You see, man call sin
blunder, God calls it blindness.
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You see, man call sin a
chance, God calls it a choice.
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Man calls sin a liberty
and God calls it leprosy.
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Man calls it luxury and
God calls it a lawlessness.
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Man calls sin a try for
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and our God hanging on
the cross calls it a tragedy.
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You see, at the cross we
see sin in its rightful place.
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You see, it puts sin
that put Jesus on the cross.
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You see, sin is the one word
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that describes
all human tragedy.
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You see, sin, the crowns
that are made of thrones,
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the sin the day of
it is horrible night
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and sin put Him
on the rugged cross,
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your sin and my sin,
whatever that sin may be,
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little sin or big
sin, it's all one sin
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and one sin puts
God on the cross.
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It wasn't the
so called big sins.
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Great problem later
on, you know, the church,
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they made mortal
sins and venal sin
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and little less
sin and little more--
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Sin crucified Christ.
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All sin is dangerous,
all sin is destructive.
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What was the sin?. Was it--
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I mean, look at Caiaphas,
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what was his sin
there at Calvary?
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I mean, was it
adultery? Was it murder?
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Was it stealing? No.
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And you know it was
all of these to break
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one of the commandments
is to break them all.
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And to feel righteous about nine
00:20:08.43\00:20:10.37
and turn away from the fourth,
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you've broken them all.
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You broken them all.
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It was self seeking,
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that's what the
sin of Caiaphas was.
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Self-righteousness,
pride, he was so proud.
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Pride is a dangerous thing.
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Listen to me, pride caused Satan
00:20:29.72\00:20:31.36
to fall from heaven to earth.
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I mean, pride cause
Caiaphas to fall into sin.
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He thought his religion
was good enough for him,
00:20:36.58\00:20:38.87
he was too proud to follow
Jesus and when Jesus said,
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I am the way,
the truth, the life.
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He said, no, no, I want
nothing to do with that.
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He probably quoted from
Torah, not realizing it was God
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who wrote the Torah
through the prophet.
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How may of I met too proud?
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You say, Ron, I
believe all these things
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but you don't understand, I
am so important in my church.
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You don't
understand, Brother Ron,
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I mean, I am the
leader of my family,
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I mean-- too proud.
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What was the sin of Pilate?
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The Bible says, oh,
Pilate didn't actually put
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the nails in the hands
of Jesus, you know that.
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I mean, he washed
his hands off Jesus.
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Hey, listen to me, it's
easy to wash your hands.
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It's easy for you
to wash your hands
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of all the things you've heard.
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No, listening
to the Word of God,
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hearing in this seminar.
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It's easy to walk away
and say, oh, that was nice,
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and wash your hands off Jesus.
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And that's what Pilate did.
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I find no fault in him, but
he washed his hands off Him.
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You can't say, I
find no fault in Him
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and not worship Him and
serve Him and walk after Him.
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Amen. What was
the sin of Pilate?
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Oh, listen to me, he was afraid
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to associate
himself with God's truth.
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He was so ashamed, I mean,
00:22:05.95\00:22:07.68
he don't want to
associate with Christ.
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And many of you perhaps
will sin that sin of Pilate.
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What's your fear?
00:22:13.12\00:22:15.41
What your neighbor may
say, what your family may say
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if you stand for,
you know to be right.
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What is it that holds you back?
00:22:20.97\00:22:23.37
Afraid to take your
stand, afraid of the cost,
00:22:23.40\00:22:25.81
afraid of the
position of your family.
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In other words,
you don't want to
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identify
yourself with Jesus Christ
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and that's why baptism
is so hard for some of you
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because baptism is
identification with Christ.
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In other words, you don't want
00:22:38.97\00:22:41.26
to identify the
command you obey,
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the Sabbath you keep,
the stand that you chose.
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It means the world hated Christ
and the world will hate you.
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You know, friend,
don't wash your hands,
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don't wash your hands off Jesus.
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You can't afford to
do that. Look at Herod.
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What was his sin?
It was immorality.
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Listen to me, I am
gonna talk straight.
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Immorality robs a man and woman
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of their ability
to respond to the call
00:23:15.29\00:23:18.23
of the Holy Spirit
of the God and Christ.
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It blinds the eyes
and solidifies the heart.
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It leads to death and to hell.
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And what was the sin of
Herod? It was immorality.
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Look at Judas, he sold his
Lord for 30 pieces of silver.
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You say, oh, that's terrible.
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But what cheap things
do we sell Christ for?
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For what cheap things
that we sold our Lord for?
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What cheap things?
Thirty pieces of silver.
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What are you willing
to sell your Lord for?
00:23:52.33\00:23:57.33
To wrong kind of
friends, come on?
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To party? Would you? What is it?
00:24:04.83\00:24:11.59
Look at Judas, 30
pieces of silver dropped.
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Two men died upon
the tree that day,
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Judas on the tree of shame,
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Christ on the tree of sacrifice.
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Behold, Judas hanging.
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And then there was the crowd.
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Oh, they sat
there. This is nice.
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I think I'll go Saturday
night, I enjoy those meetings.
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The crowd sitting down
they watched Him there.
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You are not against the truth.
00:24:44.96\00:24:46.01
I mean, you are not
opposed to the written word,
00:24:46.04\00:24:48.50
you're not opposed
to what God has said
00:24:48.53\00:24:50.74
through His word
night after night.
00:24:50.77\00:24:52.23
You've listened to it,
you believe it in your heart,
00:24:52.26\00:24:54.37
you know it's true.
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I mean, you sit there
00:24:55.58\00:24:56.83
and you're not
opposed to the church,
00:24:56.86\00:25:00.22
you're not
opposed, you believe it.
00:25:00.25\00:25:05.03
You're convinced even in
your mind but not converted,
00:25:05.06\00:25:11.37
not willing to change.
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I mean, what sin hold you back?
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For sin at the cross, I
see sin in its true light.
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Secondly, at the
cross, I see the love of God.
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I can't come to the
cross without seeing Him
00:25:26.90\00:25:28.53
hanging there and see
love, that sacrificial love,
00:25:28.56\00:25:35.17
agape love, eternal love.
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"Father, forgive them
for they know" that's love.
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You will be with me some day
soon in paradise, that's love.
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Father, don't hold this to
their account, that's love.
00:25:51.61\00:25:57.03
The man who beats
the nails into my hand,
00:25:57.06\00:25:59.93
father, don't hold
this to his account.
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The one who crushed the
crown of thorns on My head,
00:26:05.47\00:26:09.30
and I bled first from
My head for all sin begins
00:26:09.33\00:26:13.89
first in the mind,
don't hold them accountable.
00:26:13.92\00:26:20.33
This is why I am dying.
00:26:20.36\00:26:23.81
This is why I am dying.
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Wow.
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There's no sin He
cannot forgive you of.
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I met so many
people in my 76 years,
00:26:36.78\00:26:40.21
there's so many
people in my 50 some years
00:26:40.24\00:26:42.44
of preaching the
gospel that they always think,
00:26:42.47\00:26:44.65
well, no, God can't forgive me,
00:26:44.68\00:26:45.86
I keep doing it over
and over and over again.
00:26:45.89\00:26:48.22
Don't you
understand the patience of God?
00:26:48.25\00:26:50.86
He's not like you.
00:26:50.89\00:26:53.16
Thank God, He's
not like me or my wife.
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Okay, be careful, honey.
00:27:02.16\00:27:07.12
There's no sin
that God cannot forgive
00:27:07.15\00:27:10.17
but you need to
come to the cross.
00:27:10.20\00:27:13.34
You can't just sit there
and say, oh, I can't do--
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There's no habit that
God hasn't a victory for you.
00:27:16.17\00:27:19.41
I've met people that
were down in gutters so far,
00:27:19.44\00:27:23.36
they were death
wormed over and they rose up
00:27:23.39\00:27:26.70
out of the gutter
freed from drugs and alcohol
00:27:26.73\00:27:31.09
and whatever you say,
00:27:31.12\00:27:32.82
and walking now
in the ways of God.
00:27:32.85\00:27:35.66
There's no sin that
God cannot save you from.
00:27:35.69\00:27:38.75
There's no habit that God
cannot give you victory of.
00:27:38.78\00:27:41.88
No burden that God cannot live
if you'll just let Him do that.
00:27:41.91\00:27:45.80
Amen.
00:27:45.83\00:27:47.41
He loves you with infinite love.
00:27:52.39\00:27:55.45
I mean, He loves
you with infinite love.
00:27:55.48\00:27:58.55
And that's why that
the value of the gift
00:27:58.58\00:28:02.22
is in the love of the giver.
00:28:02.25\00:28:04.97
The value of every gift
is in the love of the giver.
00:28:05.00\00:28:07.29
Every drop of blood
was a gift He gave us.
00:28:07.32\00:28:10.06
You see, every whiplash
that lacerated His back,
00:28:10.09\00:28:12.93
that was love.
00:28:12.96\00:28:15.59
Every sharp point of
a thorn, that was love.
00:28:15.62\00:28:20.26
He could have
turned away from it,
00:28:20.29\00:28:21.95
He could have with a flash
destroyed the Roman soldiers,
00:28:21.98\00:28:26.12
set Himself free and gone back
00:28:26.15\00:28:28.24
to heaven and left you for hell.
00:28:28.27\00:28:30.77
Amen.
00:28:30.80\00:28:33.42
But He said, I will die
first. I will die first.
00:28:33.45\00:28:39.53
If He is willing
to die in such a way
00:28:39.56\00:28:41.74
why don't you willing to live?
00:28:41.77\00:28:43.62
Amen.
00:28:43.65\00:28:45.08
I mean, love-- close your
eyes and try to see that love.
00:28:50.89\00:28:57.60
Love pierced.
00:28:57.63\00:29:00.10
I mean, try to see that love.
00:29:00.13\00:29:03.03
I mean, try to feel the
arms of Jesus surround you.
00:29:03.06\00:29:06.29
Father, forgive them.
00:29:06.32\00:29:08.00
He's speaking
your name right now.
00:29:08.03\00:29:09.85
He's speaking of
your need right now.
00:29:09.88\00:29:11.74
Father, forgive
him, forgive her.
00:29:11.77\00:29:14.28
She wants to respond.
00:29:14.31\00:29:15.53
He's talking about your
sin, He's talking about my sin.
00:29:15.56\00:29:18.23
Finished.
00:29:18.26\00:29:21.07
My salvation full and free,
Jesus paid the debt for sinners
00:29:21.10\00:29:27.56
when He died on Calvary.
00:29:27.59\00:29:30.16
We are one to Christ
through His suffering.
00:29:30.19\00:29:34.40
Shed tears,
00:29:34.43\00:29:37.46
shed blood and shed life.
00:29:37.49\00:29:43.19
The Bible says, "For
God so loved the world,
00:29:43.22\00:29:49.13
that he gave his
only begotten Son,
00:29:49.16\00:29:52.79
that whosoever believeth in him
00:29:52.82\00:29:57.93
should not perish,
00:29:57.96\00:30:01.13
but have everlasting life."
00:30:01.16\00:30:07.18
I mean, I know no other way.
00:30:07.21\00:30:08.81
Thirdly, I go to the cross.
00:30:08.84\00:30:11.18
I go to that cross and
see the agony of the hands
00:30:11.21\00:30:14.10
reaching out to us.
00:30:14.13\00:30:15.65
The hands are
reaching out to you,
00:30:15.68\00:30:17.08
those nail pierced hands.
00:30:17.11\00:30:18.78
I mean, they reaching out to
every one of you in some way.
00:30:18.81\00:30:21.13
You need to put
your hand in that hand
00:30:21.16\00:30:23.18
whether you are a
believer for a long time
00:30:23.21\00:30:24.78
or you're just finding God
00:30:24.81\00:30:26.31
or maybe about to ready
to give your life to God.
00:30:26.34\00:30:29.29
I don't know, but you
have to reach out to the hand
00:30:29.32\00:30:31.68
which reaches out
from cross to you.
00:30:31.71\00:30:33.80
I mean, that's the
point and that's the fact.
00:30:33.83\00:30:37.47
Father, forgive them.
00:30:37.50\00:30:39.24
I mean, that's
the fact. Finished.
00:30:39.27\00:30:43.23
Crossed the bridge back tot God.
00:30:43.26\00:30:46.25
There's no
other way back to God.
00:30:46.28\00:30:48.04
You are backslidden,
there's no other way back to God
00:30:48.07\00:30:50.37
but to come down to the cross.
00:30:50.40\00:30:53.69
You are lost,
there's no other way to God
00:30:53.72\00:30:55.67
but by the bridge of the cross,
built in the wood of the cross.
00:30:55.70\00:30:59.42
The way-- the cross
is the highway to heaven.
00:30:59.45\00:31:01.74
The cross the
estrangement is healed,
00:31:01.77\00:31:03.87
at the cross the
enmity is taken away
00:31:03.90\00:31:06.30
and at the cross
the price is paid.
00:31:06.33\00:31:09.54
The price is paid.
00:31:09.57\00:31:12.43
I remember-- I don't
know if I told you the story,
00:31:12.46\00:31:14.94
I'll tell it again.
00:31:14.97\00:31:16.00
It get's better
with the telling.
00:31:16.03\00:31:20.24
The little boy at Wall Street,
did I tell you that story?
00:31:20.27\00:31:25.07
I did? Yeah.
00:31:25.10\00:31:27.02
Shall I tell it again? Yeah.
00:31:27.05\00:31:28.74
Can I get
permission to tell it again?
00:31:28.77\00:31:30.30
Yeah.
00:31:30.33\00:31:31.49
How many heard that
story, let me see your hands?
00:31:31.52\00:31:34.17
How many did
not hear that story?
00:31:34.20\00:31:36.52
You are outvoted, I
can tell the story again.
00:31:36.55\00:31:42.08
There was Wall Street
and I told the people,
00:31:42.11\00:31:44.21
if you ever-- in
New York at 3 o'clock,
00:31:44.24\00:31:45.96
go down the Wall Street, right?
00:31:45.99\00:31:47.50
So it's the authentic story.
00:31:47.53\00:31:50.15
And the man came
out, it was 3 o'clock,
00:31:50.18\00:31:52.30
he was running to
his stretched limousine,
00:31:52.33\00:31:54.96
want to get out to the suburbs,
00:31:54.99\00:31:56.11
have a cocktail and go to sleep,
00:31:56.14\00:31:57.50
wake up again, go
off to work, get back,
00:31:57.53\00:32:00.23
win money, million
dollars, loose money,
00:32:00.26\00:32:02.63
million dollars, win
500,000, loose a million.
00:32:02.66\00:32:07.44
And there he is
in his cashmere coat
00:32:07.47\00:32:09.15
and he's running
towards his limonene
00:32:09.18\00:32:11.14
and he noticed a little boy
00:32:11.17\00:32:12.87
standing in the shadow of
a building and he was crying
00:32:12.90\00:32:16.89
and right away the man thought
when he was a little boy.
00:32:16.92\00:32:18.89
And so turned around,
walked over to the boy
00:32:18.92\00:32:21.13
and he said, young
man, can I help you?
00:32:21.16\00:32:23.41
The boy says, bug off, mister.
00:32:23.44\00:32:27.02
He says, look, I can help you.
00:32:27.05\00:32:29.52
He says, bug off, mister.
00:32:29.55\00:32:31.39
No, I can help you.
00:32:31.42\00:32:34.30
And the boy started to
cry. And he said, what's wrong?
00:32:34.33\00:32:38.09
He says, well, I was
going to the store for my father
00:32:38.12\00:32:41.21
and I had a dollar bill
and it was cold and windy
00:32:41.24\00:32:44.13
and the wind blew the
dollar down the storm drain
00:32:44.16\00:32:47.67
and I've lost a dollar.
00:32:47.70\00:32:49.91
A dollar.
00:32:49.94\00:32:51.36
Here's a man with a cashmere
coat, of stretch limonene,
00:32:51.39\00:32:53.82
he probably lost
a million dollars
00:32:53.85\00:32:55.36
or gained the
million dollars that day
00:32:55.39\00:32:57.31
and the boy is
crying over a dollar.
00:32:57.34\00:33:01.51
So he says, why don't you just
go home and tell your father?
00:33:01.54\00:33:05.04
Boy, you don't know my
father, he's home, drunk.
00:33:05.07\00:33:08.93
You don't know my father.
00:33:08.96\00:33:12.66
Hey, listen to
me, the little boy
00:33:12.69\00:33:16.90
didn't have an answer.
00:33:16.93\00:33:18.86
But the man said,
what store were you going?
00:33:18.89\00:33:20.03
Around the corner.
00:33:20.06\00:33:21.10
Well, you come with me
00:33:21.13\00:33:22.42
and we'll get
what you need to get.
00:33:22.45\00:33:24.58
Walked around,
little boy ran in the store
00:33:24.61\00:33:27.15
and the man came with him
and he got what he had to get,
00:33:27.18\00:33:29.69
brought it to the counter
and laid it on the counter,
00:33:29.72\00:33:31.53
95 cents.
00:33:31.56\00:33:34.17
The man looked through his
bill fold among the $100 bills,
00:33:34.20\00:33:36.82
finally found a
dollar, laid it on the counter.
00:33:36.85\00:33:43.00
The man took the nickel
in his hand and the package
00:33:43.03\00:33:45.31
and gave it to the boy.
00:33:45.34\00:33:47.36
He said, now you
go home to your daddy.
00:33:47.39\00:33:50.35
And the boy ran as far
as the front door, stopped,
00:33:50.38\00:33:52.31
turned around, ran back,
00:33:52.34\00:33:55.65
threw his arms around
the man and said this,
00:33:55.68\00:33:57.49
I wish you were my
daddy, and he went in the night.
00:33:57.52\00:34:01.94
Hey, listen, we
all lost the dollar.
00:34:01.97\00:34:06.92
Come on now.
00:34:06.95\00:34:09.70
We all lost the dollar
00:34:09.73\00:34:11.85
and some was afraid
to go to the father.
00:34:11.88\00:34:14.67
But may I tell you,
there was a heavenly Father
00:34:14.70\00:34:17.94
that you can turn to right now
00:34:17.97\00:34:20.45
and He will give you the change.
00:34:20.48\00:34:22.74
That's the fact
because He paid the full price.
00:34:22.77\00:34:28.21
You see, it's a narrow
way to the kingdom of God.
00:34:28.24\00:34:32.09
I mean, only the
way of the cross,
00:34:32.12\00:34:34.41
only the altar
tonight, the place of the cross,
00:34:34.44\00:34:37.31
right here in this
place your Calvary,
00:34:37.34\00:34:39.33
you must come to your Calvary.
00:34:39.36\00:34:41.62
There is no other way
and it's a narrow way.
00:34:41.65\00:34:45.46
Why is it that you
want to be so broadminded
00:34:45.49\00:34:47.31
when it comes to religion?
00:34:47.34\00:34:49.98
Well, we're all going
in a different direction
00:34:50.01\00:34:51.66
but we'll get there.
00:34:51.69\00:34:52.72
Come on.
00:34:52.75\00:34:54.46
We all going to Chicago
00:34:54.49\00:34:55.72
but we're all going
in different direction.
00:34:55.75\00:35:00.62
Straight is the way.
00:35:00.65\00:35:02.84
Narrow is the way.
00:35:02.87\00:35:05.02
Few there be that find it
00:35:05.05\00:35:08.20
but when you find it
you better walk in it.
00:35:08.23\00:35:12.84
You better walk in it.
00:35:12.87\00:35:14.18
I remember, I took my wife
00:35:14.21\00:35:15.38
for the first flight,
flying on an airplane.
00:35:15.41\00:35:22.43
My wife, she believes
in the Bible that says,
00:35:22.46\00:35:25.18
"Lo, I am with you always."
00:35:25.21\00:35:29.40
Well, some of you get
that by Thursday but anyway.
00:35:29.43\00:35:34.76
This group, I think I
got to stay with you longer.
00:35:34.79\00:35:36.64
I don't know.
00:35:36.67\00:35:37.70
This group, I got to train here
00:35:37.73\00:35:39.66
but anyway, I was
trying to tell my wife,
00:35:39.69\00:35:41.76
this is the
safest way to travel.
00:35:41.79\00:35:44.92
I says, honey, it's more
dangerous in the bathtub.
00:35:44.95\00:35:48.15
Yeah.
00:35:48.18\00:35:49.25
She says, but it's not
35,000 feet in the air.
00:35:49.28\00:35:53.18
She had something on me on that.
00:35:53.21\00:35:55.01
No, I said, honey, this
is the safest place to be.
00:35:55.04\00:35:57.53
I said, please.
00:35:57.56\00:35:58.68
And I talked to
her and talked to her
00:35:58.71\00:36:00.00
and talked to her
and talked to her.
00:36:00.03\00:36:01.10
Finally, I persuaded her.
00:36:01.13\00:36:04.07
And we went down to the
airport in Dallas, Texas,
00:36:04.10\00:36:09.68
got on a plane.
00:36:09.71\00:36:11.59
My wife does a lot
of praying on a plane.
00:36:11.62\00:36:14.93
In fact, if I kept her on planes
00:36:14.96\00:36:17.79
she would be
continually in prayer.
00:36:17.82\00:36:21.28
And then she
holds my hand always.
00:36:21.31\00:36:23.47
I mean, not holds it,
she kinds of digs her nails
00:36:23.50\00:36:25.87
right through into the chair.
00:36:25.90\00:36:30.39
She figures, if it's going,
the chair, we're going with it.
00:36:30.42\00:36:36.81
And we took off.
00:36:36.84\00:36:40.40
By the way, the first
date I had with my wife
00:36:40.43\00:36:42.13
I took her on a roller coaster.
00:36:42.16\00:36:44.81
She prayed all
the way up to the top,
00:36:44.84\00:36:46.93
went it went over she fainted.
00:36:46.96\00:36:50.70
I had to carry her off
the-- this was our first date.
00:36:50.73\00:36:57.40
Well, anyway, we were
on the plane up to Boston.
00:36:57.43\00:37:01.70
You know, I like narrow
minded pilots, don't you?
00:37:01.73\00:37:05.79
Come on now.
00:37:05.82\00:37:07.66
I love-- now, "Runway 33."
00:37:07.69\00:37:12.91
Well, I think I'll go
in on Runway 41, I think,
00:37:12.94\00:37:15.71
you know, we'll get in
there two minutes fast.
00:37:15.74\00:37:18.19
I don't like pilots like that.
00:37:18.22\00:37:19.79
When those pilots
call over the line,
00:37:19.82\00:37:22.04
I'm saying, our
Father, backwards.
00:37:22.07\00:37:26.90
I mean, we lost an
engine once on an airplane
00:37:26.93\00:37:32.60
and the pilot, they come
over very calm, you know,
00:37:32.63\00:37:35.21
"We're having a little trouble."
00:37:35.24\00:37:36.53
When a pilots
having little trouble,
00:37:36.56\00:37:38.09
say your prayers.
00:37:38.12\00:37:42.32
And so he said, we're
having a little trouble,
00:37:42.35\00:37:43.92
we lost an engine.
00:37:43.95\00:37:45.04
Lost an engine? I am
looking out for this in.
00:37:45.07\00:37:47.13
Then a woman came by,
00:37:51.46\00:37:53.43
she says, here's
this plastic bag,
00:37:53.46\00:37:55.63
put any sharp object
in it, pens, false teeth.
00:37:55.66\00:37:59.13
When they start collecting
false teeth on a plane
00:37:59.16\00:38:01.82
you are in deep trouble.
00:38:01.85\00:38:05.90
I mean, I was so
frightened, I confessed sins
00:38:05.93\00:38:10.24
I could even
commit just in case.
00:38:10.27\00:38:14.15
I mean, you talk about--
00:38:14.18\00:38:15.65
Well, my wife, she's like that.
00:38:15.68\00:38:18.34
And I like narrow
minded pilots, don't you?
00:38:18.37\00:38:21.49
Come on now.
00:38:21.52\00:38:24.11
Yes, the moral law is narrow.
00:38:24.14\00:38:27.36
The Sabbath? It's narrow.
00:38:27.39\00:38:30.53
Healthy living?
Yeah, it's narrow.
00:38:30.56\00:38:33.69
Holiness? It's narrow.
00:38:33.72\00:38:36.34
I mean, believing in the Bible
00:38:36.37\00:38:38.54
in spite of what men
say, taking it as word.
00:38:38.57\00:38:41.56
That's narrow.
00:38:41.59\00:38:43.35
To disagree
with the whole world,
00:38:43.38\00:38:44.90
the whole Christian
church and be different?
00:38:44.93\00:38:47.38
Yes, it's narrow.
00:38:47.41\00:38:50.37
Bu straight is the
way, narrow is the way
00:38:50.40\00:38:56.04
and few
there'll be that find it.
00:38:56.07\00:39:00.96
Few there'll be that find it.
00:39:00.99\00:39:03.87
We need to go to
Calvary where God finished it.
00:39:03.90\00:39:11.83
On that cross
what God gave to us
00:39:11.86\00:39:13.71
is the opportunity to get out,
00:39:13.74\00:39:18.11
to rise up and to go to heaven.
00:39:18.14\00:39:22.90
And it's there that we
see sin in its rightful place,
00:39:22.93\00:39:27.21
all right?
00:39:27.24\00:39:28.54
It's there that we
see love, the love of God.
00:39:28.57\00:39:33.46
And it's there that we
see the only way to salvation.
00:39:33.49\00:39:41.08
Many years ago in a little
town of Walla Walla, Washington,
00:39:41.11\00:39:45.81
a fire broke out
in Hansen's house.
00:39:45.84\00:39:49.82
Now Ernest Hansen
was taking care of his
00:39:49.85\00:39:51.40
seven brothers and sisters.
00:39:51.43\00:39:53.71
Mom and dad went to
store and they said, Ernest,
00:39:53.74\00:39:56.11
watch the
children, watch the children.
00:39:56.14\00:39:59.01
And Ernest was a good boy.
00:39:59.04\00:40:02.10
He watched his
brothers and sisters.
00:40:02.13\00:40:04.86
Somehow one of the
children got hold of matches
00:40:04.89\00:40:07.14
and when he was
turned another way
00:40:07.17\00:40:09.21
soon the house was
bursting into flame.
00:40:09.24\00:40:12.65
And Ernest being a good boy,
00:40:12.68\00:40:14.93
ran around collecting
his brothers and sisters
00:40:14.96\00:40:17.11
and he got then
out onto the lawn
00:40:17.14\00:40:18.90
and the house,
Hansen's house was in flames.
00:40:18.93\00:40:20.86
By the time the
volunteer fire department
00:40:20.89\00:40:22.60
got to that house it
was unquenchable fire
00:40:22.63\00:40:25.79
like we talked about.
00:40:25.82\00:40:29.00
Ernest Hansen, 17 years
old, Walla Walla, Washington.
00:40:29.03\00:40:33.11
And as he was
standing there and the fireman
00:40:33.14\00:40:35.20
pouring water on the
house and realizing that
00:40:35.23\00:40:37.17
there was nothing
that they could do,
00:40:37.20\00:40:38.29
it burned to the
ground and burned out.
00:40:38.32\00:40:40.88
Just then Ernest
looked and beheld
00:40:40.91\00:40:43.82
baby sister wasn't there.
00:40:43.85\00:40:47.42
She was up in the
crib, up in the second floor.
00:40:47.45\00:40:51.48
He ran over fireman
and said, Mister, Mister,
00:40:51.51\00:40:54.35
I got my brother and sisters out
00:40:54.38\00:40:55.83
but baby sister is
upstairs in the crib and--
00:40:55.86\00:40:59.72
there's nothing
we can do, young man,
00:40:59.75\00:41:01.24
there's nothing, it's too late.
00:41:01.27\00:41:02.86
He says, no, you don't
understand, that's my sister.
00:41:02.89\00:41:07.85
And he ran towards
the burning building.
00:41:07.88\00:41:09.95
Ernest Hansen, 17 years
old, Walla Walla, Washington.
00:41:09.98\00:41:14.46
He ran into the
fire, beating out the fire,
00:41:14.49\00:41:18.11
making his way up the stairs.
00:41:18.14\00:41:20.16
His hair caught on
fire and one ear was burning
00:41:20.19\00:41:23.46
and he was trying
to put out the fire
00:41:23.49\00:41:24.90
and crawling along the--
up there on the staircase
00:41:24.93\00:41:30.27
and down the hallway,
and to his baby sister's room
00:41:30.30\00:41:33.21
and burst in,
the smoke and fire.
00:41:33.24\00:41:35.71
And he heard little
baby crying and he ran over
00:41:35.74\00:41:38.29
and took a blanket and
wrapped his baby sister
00:41:38.32\00:41:40.20
and held it close to
his body and started out.
00:41:40.23\00:41:42.55
And by then,
coming down the stares
00:41:42.58\00:41:44.29
he collapsed, he fell
00:41:44.32\00:41:45.61
but he protected that
little, that little baby.
00:41:45.64\00:41:49.66
You don't understand, Mister.
00:41:49.69\00:41:53.97
The people were
waiting and watching,
00:41:54.00\00:41:55.54
wondering what's happening.
00:41:55.57\00:41:57.25
Just then a little
white bundle was thrown out
00:41:57.28\00:42:00.30
on the green grass
00:42:00.33\00:42:02.00
and the fireman came
over the little tiny flame
00:42:02.03\00:42:03.85
but it was
nothing, they put it out.
00:42:03.88\00:42:06.21
And the Ernest
tumbled out of the building
00:42:06.24\00:42:07.79
and burst into flames.
00:42:07.82\00:42:10.48
Ernest Hansen, 17 years old.
00:42:10.51\00:42:12.32
You don't understand,
Mister, that's my sister.
00:42:12.35\00:42:17.52
They rushed him to the hospital.
00:42:17.55\00:42:20.17
He hung between life and death,
00:42:20.20\00:42:21.64
sometimes he wish he was dead.
00:42:21.67\00:42:25.25
His body was terribly
scared and disfigured.
00:42:25.28\00:42:28.99
I mean, it was
burned, unrecognizable.
00:42:29.02\00:42:34.45
Ernest Hansen, 17 years old.
00:42:34.48\00:42:39.00
Finally they got
him well, at least.
00:42:39.03\00:42:42.18
But you see, something
on the campus of Walla Walla
00:42:42.21\00:42:45.32
years later.
00:42:45.35\00:42:47.27
You'll see a beautiful co-ed
walking down, talking in joy,
00:42:47.30\00:42:50.97
laughing with a
terribly disfigured old man,
00:42:51.00\00:42:56.06
ear burned off.
00:42:56.09\00:42:57.87
And when kids would see him,
00:42:57.90\00:42:59.30
they turn away and
run away, frightening.
00:42:59.33\00:43:02.63
But there this
woman walking along,
00:43:02.66\00:43:05.61
a beautiful woman walking along
and people say, what's that?
00:43:05.64\00:43:08.35
They said. Well,
that's Ernest Hansen.
00:43:08.38\00:43:09.62
That's baby sister.
00:43:09.65\00:43:10.83
You see, he
became scared for her
00:43:10.86\00:43:17.20
and she's not
ashamed of his scars.
00:43:17.23\00:43:22.62
He's not ashamed of his scars.
00:43:22.65\00:43:29.49
Are you ashamed
of Christ's scars?
00:43:29.52\00:43:37.18
Are you ashamed to
reach out and put your hand
00:43:37.21\00:43:41.18
in His scared hand?
00:43:41.21\00:43:45.05
Are you uncomfortable
to come to the shadow
00:43:45.08\00:43:51.78
under light of the cross?
00:43:51.81\00:43:54.41
For God so loved the
world He gave His son.
00:43:54.44\00:44:00.58
Tonight I want
to make an appeal,
00:44:00.61\00:44:05.25
I need to make an appeal.
00:44:05.28\00:44:07.96
Some of you've been
coming night after night
00:44:07.99\00:44:09.59
to this meeting.
00:44:09.62\00:44:11.29
We've been giving
you decision cards,
00:44:11.32\00:44:12.91
some of you check baptism
00:44:12.94\00:44:15.18
and we're gonna start a
baptismal class tonight.
00:44:15.21\00:44:19.10
And God is going to
give you an opportunity
00:44:19.13\00:44:20.56
to respond to Jesus tonight.
00:44:20.59\00:44:24.86
And I want to
talk to you seriously,
00:44:24.89\00:44:28.60
you believe this in your heart,
00:44:28.63\00:44:29.84
some of you
believed it for a long time,
00:44:29.87\00:44:32.58
don't you think it's
time to put your hand
00:44:32.61\00:44:33.99
in the hand of God?
00:44:34.02\00:44:36.27
Don't you think it's time,
00:44:36.30\00:44:38.93
don't you think it's
time to say yes to Jesus?
00:44:38.96\00:44:44.15
Bow our head now and I
am gonna make an appeal.
00:44:44.18\00:44:46.75
I am gonna invite you.
00:44:46.78\00:44:47.81
Listen to me, I
don't know who you are
00:44:47.84\00:44:49.91
but you need to
respond to Jesus,
00:44:49.94\00:44:51.48
you need to come to Him tonight
00:44:51.51\00:44:53.22
and you need to
come to the cross
00:44:53.25\00:44:54.64
and get ready and
go through the baptism.
00:44:54.67\00:44:56.80
Have your sins washed away,
00:44:56.83\00:44:58.37
start a new life
over with Jesus Christ.
00:44:58.40\00:45:00.76
You may need
re-baptism, I don't know,
00:45:00.79\00:45:02.80
but I want you to come.
00:45:02.83\00:45:04.32
As every head is
bowed, every eye is closed,
00:45:04.35\00:45:06.33
won't you stand now
for Jesus where you are
00:45:06.36\00:45:08.60
and now I want you come.
00:45:08.63\00:45:10.14
Please, stand up for
Jesus and make sure your respond
00:45:10.17\00:45:13.99
at this moment as
Christ speaks to your heart.
00:45:14.02\00:45:17.59
Come to Jesus, come to Him
tonight God-- God bless you.
00:45:17.62\00:45:24.59
Pastor, pastors, God bless you.
00:45:24.62\00:45:27.35
God bless you, come.
00:45:27.38\00:45:28.87
I want you to come,
God wants you to come.
00:45:28.90\00:45:30.94
Wherever you are
in this auditorium,
00:45:30.97\00:45:32.58
today is the day of
your salvation, not--
00:45:32.61\00:45:34.71
come right down,
sis, come right down.
00:45:34.74\00:45:37.05
God bless you. I
want you to come.
00:45:37.08\00:45:38.84
Jesus wants you to come.
00:45:38.87\00:45:40.41
Respond to Him
right now, tonight.
00:45:40.44\00:45:42.42
God bless you, God
bless you young people.
00:45:42.45\00:45:44.86
And older people, come on down,
00:45:44.89\00:45:46.46
don't be a bashful
for Jesus, just come here.
00:45:46.49\00:45:49.26
Right now God is
giving you opportunity.
00:45:49.29\00:45:51.48
I can't come for you.
00:45:51.51\00:45:53.14
If I could come for
you, I'll be up here for you
00:45:53.17\00:45:55.38
but you need to
come on your own.
00:45:55.41\00:45:57.14
You say, Ron, I
am not good enough.
00:45:57.17\00:45:58.54
That's not what it's about,
its God making you good enough
00:45:58.57\00:46:01.73
and I want you to come.
00:46:01.76\00:46:02.83
God bless you,
God bless you here.
00:46:02.86\00:46:04.89
Come right here to the altar.
00:46:04.92\00:46:06.50
There's others
here that need to come.
00:46:06.53\00:46:08.27
Holy Spirit's been
working on your heart,
00:46:08.30\00:46:10.03
I see it every night.
00:46:10.06\00:46:11.43
I see what God is
doing for you, just come.
00:46:11.46\00:46:15.63
Mothers and daughter and
sons and husbands and wives,
00:46:15.66\00:46:18.57
you need to come.
00:46:18.60\00:46:19.63
Jesus is offering you the
way, the truth and the life.
00:46:19.66\00:46:22.81
I want you bowing your
head, praying for those people.
00:46:22.84\00:46:25.33
It takes courage,
of course it does.
00:46:25.36\00:46:27.53
Didn't it take courage
for Christ to come here
00:46:27.56\00:46:29.76
and die for you
and for your sin?
00:46:29.79\00:46:31.69
Just stand and come right now.
00:46:31.72\00:46:36.50
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Another Bible question
that we're gonna look out
00:47:44.67\00:47:46.40
right now, here it is,
00:47:46.43\00:47:48.56
"I've always been
told that when you die
00:47:48.59\00:47:50.85
and if you've been good
then your soul goes to heaven.
00:47:50.88\00:47:56.44
Now looking at the Bible
I'm seeing things differently.
00:47:56.47\00:47:59.54
Can you clear it up for me?"
00:47:59.57\00:48:01.63
Yes, I can.
00:48:01.66\00:48:02.70
Firstly, whether
you go to heaven or not
00:48:02.73\00:48:05.36
is not a matter of
whether you've been good
00:48:05.39\00:48:07.41
and I appreciate the sentiment,
00:48:07.44\00:48:09.27
now heaven isn't for the people
who are continuing to be bad.
00:48:09.30\00:48:12.14
That's not correct.
00:48:12.17\00:48:13.64
But the Bible says and
this is really important
00:48:13.67\00:48:16.36
that we know this.
00:48:16.39\00:48:17.42
There is none that
does good, no, not one.
00:48:17.45\00:48:19.75
There is none that
does good, no, not one.
00:48:19.78\00:48:24.11
Remember, somebody came to
Jesus and said, good master.
00:48:24.14\00:48:27.42
And Jesus said, why
are you calling me good?
00:48:27.45\00:48:30.75
There's only one who is
good and that is the Father.
00:48:30.78\00:48:34.31
So here's what we got to know,
00:48:34.34\00:48:37.22
heaven isn't for good people,
heaven is for holy people.
00:48:37.25\00:48:40.96
Heaven isn't for good people,
heaven is for saved people.
00:48:40.99\00:48:43.98
Heaven isn't for moral
people, heaven is for people
00:48:44.01\00:48:47.57
who have received
new hearts, new minds.
00:48:47.60\00:48:51.20
I fear that some even Christians
00:48:51.23\00:48:53.14
are merely moralists.
00:48:53.17\00:48:55.52
They subscribe to
good tenets of living,
00:48:55.55\00:48:59.71
when what we want to do is to be
00:48:59.74\00:49:01.38
thoroughly
transformed inside and out.
00:49:01.41\00:49:03.27
Now that's not to say that
00:49:03.30\00:49:04.33
heaven is for the
immoral and the un-good.
00:49:04.36\00:49:05.95
You know what I am saying.
00:49:05.98\00:49:07.55
But what's clear is
that salvation comes to those
00:49:07.58\00:49:10.89
whose lives have
been surrendered to God.
00:49:10.92\00:49:13.01
So let's clear that up.
00:49:13.04\00:49:14.25
It's not about being
good because no one can be
00:49:14.28\00:49:17.28
good enough to deal
with the problem of sin.
00:49:17.31\00:49:20.21
But what about this thought that
00:49:20.24\00:49:21.66
when we die our
soul goes to heaven?
00:49:21.69\00:49:24.69
I am gonna cover this briefly
00:49:24.72\00:49:26.67
and I'll read to you
from the Book of Genesis.
00:49:26.70\00:49:29.12
In Genesis 2:7, it says,
00:49:29.15\00:49:31.59
"The Lord God formed man
of the dust of the ground,
00:49:31.62\00:49:34.57
and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life,
00:49:34.60\00:49:37.85
and man became a living soul."
00:49:37.88\00:49:42.95
So a soul is what you
are, it isn't what you have.
00:49:42.98\00:49:48.51
In spite of what many people say
00:49:48.54\00:49:52.71
and teach and
believe and think and sing,
00:49:52.74\00:49:55.92
in spite of the
influence of the new age
00:49:55.95\00:49:58.14
and movement
that has encouraged us
00:49:58.17\00:49:59.90
to think along these lines,
the truth of the matter is
00:49:59.93\00:50:03.42
that a soul isn't what you have,
00:50:03.45\00:50:06.08
a soul is what you are.
00:50:06.11\00:50:08.26
The combination
of body plus breath
00:50:08.29\00:50:11.07
equals a living soul.
00:50:11.10\00:50:12.57
When a person dies,
00:50:12.60\00:50:14.43
what happens is their
breath leaves their body.
00:50:14.46\00:50:18.07
I know the Bible says
the breath goes back to God
00:50:18.10\00:50:20.26
but that's if to say,
00:50:20.29\00:50:21.59
God holds the power of
life and death in His hands.
00:50:21.62\00:50:25.77
When a person dies who
has the ability to bring
00:50:25.80\00:50:27.64
that person back?
00:50:27.67\00:50:28.71
God.
00:50:28.74\00:50:29.77
It's as if their
breath goes back to God.
00:50:29.80\00:50:31.94
If you've seen someone
die, sorry if you have--
00:50:31.97\00:50:34.36
That's what happens,
their breath just goes out.
00:50:35.86\00:50:38.57
But God has the power to
boot that person up again.
00:50:38.60\00:50:42.15
The breath goes back to God.
00:50:42.18\00:50:43.92
You live, you die, you sleep.
00:50:43.95\00:50:48.49
Don't go to heaven at
all until Jesus returns.
00:50:48.52\00:50:53.00
That's when the
dead in Christ rise.
00:50:53.03\00:50:59.09
Tell me, why would we even
need to have a resurrection
00:50:59.12\00:51:02.58
if every good person
00:51:02.61\00:51:04.97
who died went to
heaven right as they die?
00:51:05.00\00:51:08.12
And you don't need to say,
00:51:08.15\00:51:09.19
we have a resurrection
00:51:09.22\00:51:10.31
so we can come
back to get our bodies.
00:51:10.34\00:51:12.21
You mean, it's necessary to
come all the way from heaven,
00:51:12.24\00:51:15.75
and that's a long way,
00:51:15.78\00:51:17.11
back to this tiny little speck
00:51:17.14\00:51:18.61
in a distant
corner of the universe
00:51:18.64\00:51:20.21
to get a body out of the ground
00:51:20.24\00:51:22.93
so a saved person can
have something to inhabit?
00:51:22.96\00:51:25.49
That's all a
little bit unnecessary.
00:51:25.52\00:51:27.43
So we look at our question,
00:51:27.46\00:51:29.93
"I've always been
told that when you die
00:51:29.96\00:51:31.17
and you've been good then
your soul goes at heaven?"
00:51:31.20\00:51:33.98
Now looking at this I'm
seeing things differently.
00:51:34.01\00:51:36.14
Hallelujah, you're
seeing things differently.
00:51:36.17\00:51:37.74
See things biblically.
00:51:37.77\00:51:40.49
When you die you sleep
and then at the resurrection
00:51:40.52\00:51:45.53
living souls come
out of the ground,
00:51:45.56\00:51:48.47
body and breath together
00:51:48.50\00:51:50.67
and so shall we
ever be with the Lord.
00:51:50.70\00:51:56.48
Great question. Thank you.
00:51:56.51\00:51:59.54
Another Bible
question for us to look at now.
00:51:59.57\00:52:03.07
"Isn't there a
danger of being legalistic
00:52:03.10\00:52:05.27
when talking about the
importance of the law?"
00:52:05.30\00:52:09.46
Yep, there really is
anger of that, there is.
00:52:09.49\00:52:12.86
Here's what we know, Jesus said,
00:52:12.89\00:52:13.95
"If you love Me,
keep My commandments."
00:52:13.98\00:52:15.63
Now, if you love Me,
keep My commandments,
00:52:15.66\00:52:17.98
John 14:15.
00:52:18.01\00:52:20.58
Now there's a danger,
00:52:20.61\00:52:22.08
there's a real danger
that a person could say,
00:52:22.11\00:52:24.92
okay, what are the commandments?
00:52:24.95\00:52:27.13
There are 10 of
them, starts off with,
00:52:27.16\00:52:28.47
"Thou shall have no
other God before me.
00:52:28.50\00:52:30.64
Don't make any
graven images" and so forth.
00:52:30.67\00:52:33.89
All right then,
if I just do that
00:52:33.92\00:52:37.90
then that's enough
to get me to heaven.
00:52:37.93\00:52:39.86
If you think like
that, that's a real danger.
00:52:39.89\00:52:42.86
You just don't
want to think that way.
00:52:42.89\00:52:45.13
What you want to think is this,
00:52:45.16\00:52:47.80
because of what
God has done for me,
00:52:47.83\00:52:50.45
because of His great goodness,
00:52:50.48\00:52:52.27
because of His love and
my responding to that love
00:52:52.30\00:52:55.53
salvation is
mine as a free gift.
00:52:55.56\00:52:58.38
Jesus said, if you love
Me, keep My commandments.
00:52:58.41\00:53:01.93
And He wasn't
saying, okay, if you love Me,
00:53:01.96\00:53:05.62
prove it by
keeping the commandments.
00:53:05.65\00:53:08.23
He was saying, if you love Me,
00:53:08.26\00:53:09.74
something's going
to happen in your life.
00:53:09.77\00:53:11.87
The fruit of the spirit is love,
00:53:11.90\00:53:15.25
joy, peace and so on.
00:53:15.28\00:53:18.52
What's a fruit?
00:53:18.55\00:53:19.99
Fruit is the stuff that
naturally grows on a tree.
00:53:20.02\00:53:25.86
If you are an apple tree,
00:53:25.89\00:53:27.66
you're going to produce apples.
00:53:27.69\00:53:28.98
It's just an inevitability.
00:53:29.01\00:53:31.63
When the Holy
Spirit comes into your life
00:53:31.66\00:53:34.35
you keep the
commandments of God,
00:53:34.38\00:53:35.67
it's an inevitability
in the life of the person
00:53:35.70\00:53:38.45
who is
surrendered to Jesus Christ.
00:53:38.48\00:53:41.12
Isn't that something?
00:53:41.15\00:53:42.40
So, if you love the God
00:53:42.43\00:53:44.55
you won't have
any Gods before Him.
00:53:44.58\00:53:47.00
If you love Jesus you
won't worship graven images.
00:53:47.03\00:53:51.09
If you love God you
won't commit adultery
00:53:51.12\00:53:54.39
or lie or steal or covert
00:53:54.42\00:53:57.51
because your
heart is God's heart
00:53:57.54\00:54:00.43
and He is
living His life in you.
00:54:00.46\00:54:03.01
Philippians 2:13,
00:54:03.04\00:54:04.65
"It is God who
works in you both to will
00:54:04.68\00:54:07.52
and to do for
His good pleasure."
00:54:07.55\00:54:09.59
Let's understand
something about salvation.
00:54:09.62\00:54:11.31
Salvation isn't
about you saying,
00:54:11.34\00:54:12.86
oh, yeah, Christianity is right,
00:54:12.89\00:54:15.03
God exist, Jesus died for me,
00:54:15.06\00:54:17.37
so I am gonna live a
good life and be saved.
00:54:17.40\00:54:21.54
I want you to live a good life
00:54:21.57\00:54:22.66
and God wants you
to live a good life
00:54:22.69\00:54:24.54
but Christianity is
this, the Bible is true,
00:54:24.57\00:54:29.31
Jesus lived and died as
the Creator of the world
00:54:29.34\00:54:33.06
and the Savior of the
world, He died to save me.
00:54:33.09\00:54:38.54
I can only
respond to that in love,
00:54:38.57\00:54:40.68
I am so
thankful for what He did.
00:54:40.71\00:54:42.96
His great sacrifice draws
out of me a response that says,
00:54:42.99\00:54:48.67
I want to follow
You and serve You.
00:54:48.70\00:54:50.63
And now because I
surrendered to God and say,
00:54:50.66\00:54:53.19
have Your way in
my life completely,
00:54:53.22\00:54:55.60
the Spirit of God fills me up
00:54:55.63\00:54:57.59
and my life now is
simple the outworking of
00:54:57.62\00:55:00.38
God's will in my life.
00:55:00.41\00:55:02.07
There it is.
00:55:02.10\00:55:03.13
It's not you trying to be good,
00:55:03.16\00:55:04.93
it's about you
00:55:04.96\00:55:05.99
surrendering and Jesus
living His life in you.
00:55:06.02\00:55:12.64
Now when it comes to
the commandments of God,
00:55:12.67\00:55:13.87
should we keep them?
00:55:13.90\00:55:14.93
Yes, we should.
00:55:14.96\00:55:16.00
Of course we should
keep the Ten Commandments.
00:55:16.03\00:55:18.17
But do we keep
the Ten Commandments
00:55:18.20\00:55:20.33
to be saved?
00:55:20.36\00:55:21.99
No, we keep the Ten Commandments
00:55:22.02\00:55:24.69
because we've been saved.
00:55:24.72\00:55:27.78
If you love Me,
Jesus said in John 14:15,
00:55:27.81\00:55:32.90
you will keep My commandments.
00:55:32.93\00:55:35.36
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00:57:08.61\00:57:12.37
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"It is written,
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'Man shall not
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but by every word that proceeds
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