Participants: Pr. Walter Pearson
Series Code: BOL
Program Code: BOL000427
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00:02 Announcer: BREATH OF LIFE PRESENTS: EXPERIENCE THE POWER
00:08 WITH WALTER L. PEARSON, JR. 00:16 TODAY, PASTOR PEARSON'S MESSAGE IS ENTITLED "THEY 00:18 CRUCIFIED MY LORD." 00:20 (theme music) WP: I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW 00:29 THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SERMONS THAT I THINK 00:33 I PREACH, BUT IT'S THE MOST DIFFICULT ONE TO DO, BECAUSE 00:39 I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO FEEL, BUT EVERY TIME, EVERY 00:46 TIME I SEE HIM, WHEN I SEE WHAT HE DID FOR ME, I 00:54 CAN BARELY TAKE IT. 01:00 SO PRAY THAT I GET THROUGH THE SERMON, BUT PRAY MORE THAT GOD 01:04 WILL SHOW US HIS SON AGAIN. 01:07 WOULD YOU PRAY WITH ME ? 01:09 FATHER IN HEAVEN, TODAY WE WOULD SEE JESUS. 01:15 WE RECOGNIZE THAT HE NO LONGER HANGS ON A CROSS. 01:19 TODAY JESUS MINISTERS AS A HIGH PRIEST IN 01:24 THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY. 01:26 HE'S THERE WHEN WE PRAY. 01:28 HE'S THERE WHEN WE HAVE NEEDS. 01:31 HE'S THERE TO FORGIVE OUR SINS. 01:34 BUT TODAY WE WANT TO SEE HIM AS HE SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US. 01:39 SO AS WE OPEN THE WORD OF GOD LET THE SPIRIT BE WITH US; LET 01:43 US BE GUIDED INTO ALL TRUTH, AND I PRAY, FATHER, THAT AS I 01:48 DETERMINE TO SPEAK THE TRUTH BY THE POWER OF YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, 01:53 THAT EVERY HEART WILL RECOGNIZE THE TRUTH AND BE CHANGED BY IT. 01:56 THIS IS MY PRAYER IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN. 02:01 IT IS IMPORTANT, I BELIEVE, TO KNOW WHY JESUS DIED. 02:07 I AM NOT ANGRY AT THAT MOTION PICTURE THAT GOT EVERYBODY'S 02:12 MIND FOCUSED AGAIN ON JESUS. 02:15 I SAT THERE AND SAW A FEW PLACES WHERE I WOULD HAVE DONE THINGS 02:19 DIFFERENTLY, BUT SINCE I DIDN'T HAVE THE DISCRETIONARY FUNDS I 02:25 COULDN'T MAKE THE MOVIE. 02:27 I TELL YOU WHAT. 02:29 I DON'T THINK IT TAKES A MOVIE TO SEE IT. 02:32 I BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS ARRANGED IT SO THAT IF YOU UNDERSTAND 02:37 WHY HE DIED, AND THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS MY BURDEN TODAY, 02:42 NOT JUST THAT HE DIED. 02:45 I THINK ALL OF US ARE IMPRESSED WITH THE PAIN THAT HE SUFFERED. 02:49 BUT IF IT WAS FOR NOTHING, IF IT WAS SOMETHING HE BROUGHT 02:53 UPON HIMSELF AS I HEAR SOME THEOLOGIANS EVEN SAY, 02:58 THEN WHAT WAS IT FOR ? 03:00 BUT I DARE TO DIFFER WITH THEM. 03:03 I BELIEVE THAT THE CENTRAL ACT OF ALL ETERNITY WILL BE THE 03:09 DEATH OF JESUS ON CALVARY, BECAUSE IT WAS NOT FOR HIM, 03:14 BUT FOR ME THAT JESUS DIED. 03:17 AND THE FIRST REASON I SUGGEST TO YOU IS FOUND 03:20 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 20. 03:23 SOME OF YOU KNOW THAT WE GO THROUGH TEXT FAIRLY QUICKLY. 03:26 I HAVE THESE JUST ABOUT MEMORIZED, BUT I'LL 03:29 FIND A FEW WITH YOU. 03:31 REVELATION 20:6, IT SAYS: 03:51 THE BIBLE SPEAKS ABOUT THE SECOND DEATH, SUGGESTING 03:55 THAT THERE IS A FIRST DEATH. 03:56 THE FIRST DEATH IS THE KIND OF DEATH THAT WE SEE EVERY DAY. 04:00 THE SECOND DEATH IS ETERNAL DEATH FOR THOSE WHO REFUSE 04:05 JESUS' BLOOD AND ITS SAVING QUALITIES. 04:09 SO THE FIRST DEATH IS THE RESULT OF SIN. 04:12 MANY OF US WILL DIE. 04:13 IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE ARE DYING WITHOUT CHRIST. 04:17 IN FACT, I'M HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE TODAY THAT YOU CAN LIVE IN 04:21 CHRIST AND DIE IN CHRIST. 04:24 AND IF YOU DIE IN CHRIST IT'S A SLEEP. 04:28 IT'S A SLEEP BECAUSE YOU WAKE UP WHEN YOU 04:30 HEAR THE VOICE OF JESUS. 04:33 THOSE WHO ARE IN THEIR GRAVES, THOSE WHO HAVE COME 04:36 TO KNOW THE NAME OF JESUS AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THE VOICE OF 04:41 JESUS SOUNDS LIKE WILL HEAR HIS VOICE IN THE TOMB. 04:45 NOBODY ELSE CAN BE HEARD IN THE TOMB. 04:49 THE LIVING KNOW THAT THEY SHALL DIE; THE DEAD KNOW NOT 04:51 ANYTHING, THEIR LOVE, THEIR HATRED IS PERISHED. 04:53 THEY HAVE NOT THE POWER TO HEAR UNTIL THE LIFEGIVER CALLS, 05:00 AND WHEN JESUS CALLS, EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAD WILL 05:03 HEAR HIS VOICE AND WILL RISE. 05:05 THE SAME ANGEL THAT USHERED THEM TO THEIR GRAVES WILL WAIT FOR 05:09 THEM AS THEY RISE UP IN THE POWER OF DIVINITY AND WILL TAKE 05:13 THEM TO MEET WITH THEIR LORD. 05:14 I LOVE THE THOUGHT OF IT ! 05:16 WHAT DO YOU SAY ? 05:17 BUT THERE IS A SECOND DEATH. 05:21 PEOPLE WHO DIE THE SECOND DEATH WILL BE RESURRECTED 05:23 QUICKLY AND DIE AGAIN AT THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. 05:26 AND I SUGGEST TO YOU THAT THE FIRST REASON THAT I WANT 05:29 TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT JESUS DIED WAS SO THAT I COULD 05:33 AVOID THE SECOND DEATH. 05:37 SO TODAY I KNOW THAT I MIGHT DIE THE FIRST DEATH, 05:42 AND I'M NOT AFRAID. 05:43 I'VE ALREADY BEEN IN SITUATIONS WHERE I THOUGHT 05:46 IT WAS ABOUT TO COME. 05:47 I SHARED ONE WITH YOU. 05:48 I REMEMBER ONE TIME MY WIFE AND I WERE DRIVING ON A LITTLE 05:51 NARROW ROAD IN THE COUNTRY. 05:54 IT WAS SLIPPERY AND WET. 05:55 WE ONLY HAD OUR DAUGHTER THEN. 05:57 SHE WAS STANDING BETWEEN US ON THE FRONT SEAT OF THE CAR. 06:01 ANOTHER CAR CAME OUT OF ITS LANE, RAN INTO THAT BIG 06:04 BUICK WE WERE DRIVING, RIPPED IT OFF AT THE FIREWALL. 06:07 ANOTHER CAR HIT US FROM THE BACK. 06:09 I REMEMBER THAT THERE WAS A CHASM OVER TO THE RIGHT. 06:12 I THOUGHT THE SECOND CAR WOULD PUSH US OVER. 06:15 AND ALL I HAD TIME TO SAY WAS, "LORD HELP US." 06:22 WHEN THAT CAR STOPPED, GLASS WAS EVERYWHERE. 06:26 I REMEMBER THAT I HAD A BIG AFRO HAIRSTYLE IN THOSE DAYS. 06:32 I WAS QUITE PROUD OF IT. 06:35 PART OF THE CAR HAD TOUCHED MY HAIR; PART OF THE CAR 06:38 HAD TOUCHED MY LEG. 06:41 MY WIFE HAD JUST A TINY NICK ON HER LEG. 06:44 OUR CHILD, OUR DAUGHTER, WAS SITTING BETWEEN US, 06:47 GLASS ALL OVER US, BUT NOTHING HAD TOUCHED US. 06:53 GOD IS ABLE. 06:55 BUT IN THAT MOMENT BEFORE WE WERE SAFE I THOUGHT, IF I MUST 06:58 GO, I WANT TO JUST CALL ON JESUS ONE MORE TIME, BECAUSE IF I DIE 07:03 IN HIM, I'LL RISE AGAIN. 07:06 IF CHRIST HAD NOT DIED, EVERY ONE OF US WOULD BE SUSCEPTIBLE 07:11 NOT ONLY TO THE FIRST DEATH, BUT TO THE SECOND. 07:14 I TELL YOU TODAY THAT WE HAVE HOPE BECAUSE 07:17 JESUS DIED ON CALVARY. 07:20 THEN WE ALSO HAVE PROOF THAT THE CEREMONIAL LAW IS ENDED. 07:29 WE TALKED ABOUT HOW CUMBERSOME THEY WERE. 07:31 THERE WERE LAWS THAT SAID YOU COULD ONLY WALK A CERTAIN 07:33 DISTANCE ON THE SABBATH. 07:35 YOU COULD ONLY CARRY SOMETHING ABOUT EQUAL TO A HANDKERCHIEF. 07:40 YOU COULDN'T DO CERTAIN THINGS, AND EVEN WHEN YOU DID WHAT 07:44 WAS LAWFUL ON THE SABBATH, THERE WOULD BE SOMEBODY 07:47 THERE TO CRITICIZE YOU. 07:49 JESUS CAME INTO CONFLICT WITH THESE LAWS BECAUSE HE HEALED 07:53 THE SICK ON THE SABBATH. 07:55 THAT'S PROPER FOR THE SABBATH. 07:57 SOMEBODY TODAY OUGHT TO TAKE TIME TO GO VISIT SOMEONE. 08:00 YOU OUGHT TO BRING LIGHT TO SOMEONE'S LIFE. 08:02 YOU OUGHT TO TELL HIM ABOUT THE JESUS OF THE SABBATH. 08:06 BUT THE FACT IS THAT UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THOSE CEREMONIAL LAWS, 08:11 THE SABBATH HAD BECOME A BURDEN. 08:12 YOU HAD TO SIT THERE AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU COULD DO AND 08:15 WHAT YOU COULDN'T DO. 08:16 YOU COULDN'T HAVE THE JOY OF THE SABBATH, AND I TELL 08:19 YOU THAT GOD HAS CREATED THE SABBATH AS A DELIGHT. 08:23 IN FACT, IF YOU DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE LORD ON THE SABBATH, 08:27 HE WILL GIVE YOU A PARTICULAR BRAND OF JOY. 08:31 THERE IS A JOY IN COMMUNING WITH JESUS ON THE SABBATH THAT NOBODY 08:35 ELSE CAN HAVE EXCEPT THOSE WHO BELIEVE WHAT HE SAYS AND 08:39 THEN HE WILL MAGNIFY YOUR JOY. 08:43 SO, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE EAST TO WEST UBIQUITOUS SMILES 08:47 THAT PEOPLE HAVE ON COMMERCIALS. 08:49 I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE THEMSELVES HAPPY. 08:52 I'M TALKING ABOUT THE JOY THAT SPRINGS UP FROM INSIDE WHEN YOU 08:56 KNOW THAT GOD IS IN YOUR LIFE, THAT JESUS IS THE ONE WHO 09:00 GOVERNS YOUR ACTIVITIES. 09:02 AND WHEN YOU CAN WALK WITH HIM AND TALK WITH 09:05 HIM, THEN YOU UNDERSTAND THE JOY OF THE SABBATH. 09:09 BUT THOSE LAWS ALSO SAID THAT WHEN I SIN I HAD TO 09:12 TAKE A SACRIFICE TO THE PRIEST OR TO THE TEMPLE. 09:15 THE PRIEST WOULD SOMETIMES CUT THE LAMB'S THROAT OR 09:19 EVENTUALLY EVEN THE SINNER WOULD CUT THE LAMB'S THROAT. 09:22 JESUS UNDERSTOOD, AND SO EVERY SYMBOL IN THE 09:27 CEREMONIAL LAW POINTED FORWARD TO THE REAL SACRIFICE. 09:32 ONE DAY WHEN JESUS WENT TO THE CROSS, THE PRIESTS WERE STILL 09:39 THERE AT THE TEMPLE, KNIFE IN HAND, A LAMB ABOUT TO DIE. 09:44 BUT WHEN JESUS DECLARED IT IS DONE, IT IS ACCOMPLISHED, 09:51 THE PRIEST'S HAND BEGAN TO TREMBLE, THE KNIFE FELL. 09:56 THE LAMB LEAPED FROM THAT PLACE AND SCAMPERED AWAY 10:00 BECAUSE THE REAL LAMB OF GOD HAD GONE TO THE CROSS. 10:05 SO IN COLOSSIANS 2:14, YOU WILL READ THAT THERE WERE LAWS THAT 10:11 WERE NAILED TO JESUS' CROSS. 10:13 IT WAS NOT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE BIBLE SAYS THEY LAST 10:17 FOREVER; THEY ARE HOLY, JUST AND GOOD. 10:21 THEY ARE THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY; THEY LAST FOREVER, TILL 10:26 HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY. 10:29 ONE DOTTING OF AN "I" OR CROSSING OF A "T" WILL NOT 10:32 PASS FROM THE LAW OF GOD UNTIL ALL IS ACCOMPLISHED. 10:36 SO IT WAS THE CEREMONIAL LAW THAT WAS NAILED TO THE CROSS; 10:41 THE LAW THAT DEUTERONOMY 31:24 SAYS THAT MOSES WROTE 10:45 WITH HIS OWN HAND. 10:47 THE BIBLE SAYS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE WRITTEN 10:51 BY THE FINGER OF GOD. 10:54 WELL, LET ME PAUSE JUST A MOMENT TO SAY THIS. 10:56 ONE OF MY FAVORITE PREACHERS POINTED OUT THAT WHEN 10:59 JESUS WRITES LAW, HE WRITES IT IN STONE. 11:05 I'M WRITING BACKWARDS; IT'S HEBREW. 11:10 ONLY THE FINGER OF JESUS COULD WRITE IN STONE, SO WHEN JESUS 11:15 WRITES LAW HE WRITES IT IN STONE, BUT ONE DAY THERE WAS 11:20 A GROUP THAT CAME TO ACCUSE A WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY. 11:27 ON THAT DAY JESUS WROTE ON THE FLOOR OF THE TEMPLE IN 11:31 DUST, HE WROTE THE UNCONFESSED SINS OF THOSE WHO HAD 11:36 BROUGHT THIS WOMAN. 11:38 AND WHEN HE HAD FINISHED WRITING THEY WERE ALL GONE. 11:42 SO TODAY I DECLARE TO YOU THAT WHEN JESUS WRITES LAW 11:47 HE WRITES IT IN STONE SO YOU CAN'T FORGET IT. 11:51 BUT EVEN IF HE WERE TO WRITE YOUR SIN, HE WOULD ONLY WRITE 11:53 IT IN DUST, SO THAT WHEN YOU CONFESSED IT AND FORSAKE THEM, 12:01 HE CAN SAY BLOW THEM AWAY. 12:07 THAT'S THE POWER OF MY JESUS. 12:11 SO JESUS GOES TO THE CROSS SO THAT I CAN ENJOY THE 12:16 SABBATH, AND I DO. 12:18 IF YOU SEE ME ON A SABBATH AND WONDER WHY I'M HAPPY, IT'S 12:22 BECAUSE I'M TOLD TO BE HAPPY. 12:25 THE SABBATH BRINGS JOY, ITS A DELIGHT, AND I THANK GOD FOR IT. 12:31 I HAVE AN EXTRA 52 VACATION DAYS PER YEAR. 12:43 SO IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD A VACATION, RECOGNIZE 12:46 GOD'S HOLY SABBATH. 12:48 YOU'LL GET 52 VACATION DAYS AND THEY COME JUST IN TIME, JUST AS 12:53 YOU ARE ABOUT TO GO SLOWLY OUT OF YOUR MIND THE SABBATH COMES. 12:58 IT'S NOT A TIME TO GO TO SLEEP AND STAY ASLEEP, IT'S TIME TO 13:02 COMMUNE WITH GOD AND THE ONLY QUESTION YOU NEED TO ASK ON THE 13:05 SABBATH IS, "DOES IT HONOR GOD?" 13:08 AND IF IT HONORS GOD THEN IT'S WORTHY OF DOING ON 13:12 GOD'S HOLY SABBATH. 13:13 THEN JESUS WENT TO THE CROSS TO SHOW THAT THE COMMANDMENTS 13:17 ARE FOREVER BINDING. 13:20 THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT JESUS DID AWAY WITH LAW. 13:25 AND MY QUESTION IS SIMPLE, IF HE DID AWAY WITH LAW, 13:28 WHY DID HE DIE ? 13:30 IF LAW WAS EXPUNGED, THEN JESUS NEED NEVER HAVE 13:36 COME TO THE EARTH. 13:38 IF I KNEW WHAT HEAVEN LOOKED LIKE COMPLETELY AND HAD 13:41 LIVED THERE, WHY WOULD I CHOOSE TO COME HERE ? 13:46 NOT A BAD PLACE IN SOME SPACES. 13:49 SOME OF YOU LIVE IN VERY NICE HOUSES. 13:51 WRITE ME A NOTE; INVITE ME OVER. 13:55 I KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE MYSELF IN NICE HOUSES. 13:59 BUT I'LL TELL YOU ALREADY, YOUR HOUSE IS NOTHING 14:02 COMPARED TO GOD'S HOUSE. 14:06 I DON'T CARE WHERE YOU LIVE, YOUR HOUSE IS NOTHING COMPARED 14:09 TO THE HOUSE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE WHEN GOD TAKES YOU TO HIS 14:14 PLACE, WHERE THERE ARE RESTING PLACES, DWELLING PLACES THAT 14:19 ARE PERMANENTLY MINE. 14:22 IN FACT, ONE OF THE BEAUTIES OF MY HOME THERE WILL BE THAT YOU 14:24 CAN'T TAKE IT AWAY; NO TAXES, NO MORTGAGE, NO RENTAL PAYMENT. 14:34 SO IF HE CAME--LET'S GO QUICKLY. 14:37 I NEED TO LOOK THESE UP, BUT LET ME MOVE--EZEKIEL 8:4 SAYS: 14:41 "THE SOUL THAT SINNETH SHALL DIE." 14:45 THE GREATEST LIE THAT SATAN EVER TOLD WAS THE ONE HE 14:48 SAID DISGUISED AS A SNAKE. 14:52 HE SAID TO EVE, "YOU SHALL NOT SURELY DIE." 14:55 GOD HAD SAID IN ROMANS 6:23: 15:03 IF YOU DO AWAY WITH THE LAST PART, PARDON ME, IF YOU DO AWAY 15:07 WITH THE FIRST PART OF THAT TEXT, THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, 15:11 YOU DON'T NEED THE LAST PART, GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE. 15:15 IF THERE IS NO LAW, IF THERE IS NO DEATH FOR SIN, THEN 15:19 WHY DO YOU NEED JESUS TO GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE ? 15:22 YOU ALREADY HAVE IT ! 15:23 I SUGGEST TO YOU BY DEDUCTIVE REASONING THIS TEXT PROVES 15:28 THAT THE LAW IS STILL STANDING. 15:30 JESUS SAYS: 15:36 MATTHEW 5, STARTING WITH VERSE 17, HE SAYS I CAME 15:38 TO ESTABLISH THE LAW. 15:40 SO JESUS CAME TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THE LOST, BUT NOT BY 15:43 THROWING OUT THE RULE BOOK. 15:45 HE CAME TO SHED HIS BLOOD, FOR IN HIS BLOOD THERE 15:49 IS POWER TO REMIT SIN. 15:52 SO THE DEATH ON CALVARY ESTABLISHES THAT THE LAW 15:57 OF GOD IS STILL BINDING. 15:59 THE LAW IS THERE. 16:00 THEN SOMEBODY SAYS, "DOES GOD REALLY LOVE ME IF HE ALLOWS 16:07 ME TO WORK UNDER LAW ?" 16:11 AND MY ANSWER IS REAL SIMPLE, GOD HAD TO HAVE RULES. 16:16 THE PROBLEM TODAY IS THAT WE LIVE IN A LAWLESS SOCIETY. 16:21 I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT PEOPLE IN OUR PARKING 16:24 LOT RIGHT HERE. 16:29 I DON'T WANT TO TALK LONG, BUT IT'S AMAZING TO ME HOW SOME 16:34 PEOPLE ARE VERY LAW-ABIDING UNTIL THEY WANT TO GET CLOSE. 16:40 AT YOUR HOME YOU HAVE A TREADMILL. 16:43 YOU BOUGHT IT SO YOU COULD WALK, BUT THEN YOU GET TO 16:46 A PLACE LIKE THIS AND YOU DON'T WANT TO WALK ANYMORE. 16:50 YOU WANT TO PARK JUST BESIDE THE DOOR. 16:54 SO PEOPLE BECOME LAWLESS. 16:56 THEY FLY INTO PARKING SPACES WHEN THEY SEE SOMEBODY ELSE 16:59 COMING, RUSHING TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD. 17:08 ROMANS 5:8, I NEED TO READ THIS ONE, IT'S POWERFUL. 17:13 ROMANS 5:8, HERE'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS: 17:31 THE FACT IS THAT WHILE YOU WERE STILL A GLEAM IN YOUR 17:35 FATHER'S EYE, BEFORE YOU WERE BORN, JESUS KNEW THAT 17:41 YOU WOULD BE BORN A SINNER, BUT HE DIED FOR YOU ANYWAY. 17:48 SO HE PROVES HIS LOVE, THAT HE KEEPS RULES, BUT THAT HE 17:54 DIES FOR US SO THAT WE CAN BE SET FREE BY HIS BLOOD. 17:58 THEN SOMEONE SAYS HOW ABOUT THIS ? 18:02 IF GOD IS OMNISCIENT, IF HE KNOWS EVERYTHING, AND I BELIEVE 18:07 HE DOES, THEN GOD KNEW BEFORE MAN WAS CREATED, THAT MAN WOULD 18:13 SIN AND THAT THE WAGES OF SIN WOULD BE DEATH, SO WHY WOULD GOD 18:18 MAKE US IN THE FIRST PLACE IF HE KNEW WE WOULD SIN AND BE 18:24 GUILTY AND PUNISHABLE BY DEATH ? 18:28 ISAIAH 53 IS WHERE I'D LIKE TO TAKE YOU BECAUSE I POSIT 18:34 TO YOU TODAY THAT ISAIAH 53 PROVES THAT WE WILL BE IN 18:40 BETTER SHAPE AFTER SIN AND CHRIST THAN WE WERE BEFORE. 18:46 ISAIAH 53, AND WHY DON'T WE START READING AT 18:51 ABOUT VERSE THREE: 19:30 SO WHATEVER SIN INFLICTS UPON US, WHATEVER THE DEATH PENALTY 19:38 MIGHT HAVE INSIDE OF IT, JESUS, BY HIS SACRIFICIAL DEATH ON 19:44 CALVARY, TAKES IT ALL AWAY. 19:48 IN FACT, I BELIEVE THAT HE NOT ONLY TAKES IT AWAY, BUT PLACES 19:52 US IN A NEW POSITION SO THAT NO LONGER ARE WE JUST SERVANTS OF 19:59 GOD, BUT WE ARE ADOPTED BY FAITH INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD. 20:07 WHEN WE SURRENDER OUR LIVES, WHEN WE ARE BORN AGAIN, WE'RE 20:13 NOT BORN BACK INTO THE SAME FAMILY WITH ALL OF THE SAME 20:16 FAMILY TRAITS, BUT NOW WE ARE BORN INTO THE FAMILY 20:20 OF GOD, SO JESUS BECOMES MY ELDER BROTHER, AND I 20:25 AM NO LONGER JUST A SERVANT, BUT I AM NOW IN THE FAMILY. 20:31 IN FACT, MY RECORD IS NOT WORTHY TO GET ME INTO HEAVEN, 20:37 BUT JESUS WIPES MY RECORD CLEAN AND PUTS HIS THERE, 20:41 BECAUSE ALL OF MY RIGHTEOUSNESS IS LIKE FILTHY RAGS, SO I HAVE 20:46 HIS RECORD INSTEAD OF MINE. 20:48 THEN IN EPHESIANS 1:7 YOU MUST KNOW THAT THERE IS ANOTHER GIFT. 20:54 EPHESIANS 1:7 SAYS THIS: 21:07 THERE IS NO REASON WHY ANYBODY IN THE FAMILY OUGHT TO CARRY 21:10 SIN BECAUSE OUR REDEMPTION HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THE 21:16 DEATH OF CHRIST ON CALVARY. 21:17 NOW, ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND, IN FACT, JEREMIAH 8:22 ASKS, 21:30 IS THERE NO MEDICATION FOR MY DISEASE ? 21:34 I'VE GOT A DISEASE THAT THE PHYSICIANS DON'T QUITE 21:37 COMPREHEND BECAUSE IT'S NOT A PHYSIOLOGICAL DISEASE. 21:43 IT IS A DISEASE IN MY SOUL, IT WAS SOWN THERE, BOTH BY MY 21:48 GENETICS AND MY CULTURE EACH. 21:51 I AM BORN IN SIN AND SHAPED IN INEQUITY. 21:55 IT CAME THROUGH MY PUNICH SQUARE; IT CAME THROUGH MY 22:00 FAMILY TREE, BUT IT ALSO CAME BY HOW I LIVED, AND THE QUESTION 22:06 IS, CAN YOU FIND A MEDICINE THAT WILL TAKE THAT AWAY ? 22:11 AND ACCORDING TO HEBREWS 9:22: "ALMOST ALL THINGS ARE BY BLOOD 22:19 CLEANSED," ALMOST ALL THINGS. 22:22 "AND WITHOUT BLOOD THERE IS NO REMISSION." 22:26 I TELL YOU I WAS BORN WITH THE CANCER OF SIN, AND I 22:32 HOPE THERE IS SOME CANCER SURVIVOR LISTENING TO ME 22:34 BECAUSE I THANK GOD FOR WHAT'S HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE. 22:38 I'M GLAD THAT GOD HAS POWER OVER CANCER. 22:41 I'M GLAD THAT GOD HAS POWER OVER PHYSICAL DISEASES, 22:44 AND YOU ARE HAPPY TO HEAR THAT WORD REMISSION. 22:47 BUT LISTEN, JESUS ALSO HAS POWER OVER SIN. 22:52 AND WHEN YOU TAKE INTO YOUR LIFE, THE BLOOD OF JESUS, 22:56 THERE'S POWER IN THE BLOOD, AND BLOOD, THE BLOOD OF JESUS, 23:02 PUTS MY SIN INTO REMISSION. 23:05 I PRAISE GOD FOR IT. 23:08 NOW LET ME SHARE WITH YOU, IF YOU WILL, WHAT THE AMERICAN 23:12 MEDICAL ASSOCIATION WAS INCLINED TO DO. 23:16 I WAS SHOCKED WHEN I SAW IT BECAUSE THIS AUGUST GROUP OF 23:22 PHYSICIANS RARELY LOOKS AT ANYTHING IN THE RELIGIOUS REALM. 23:26 IT'S TOO RISKY. 23:29 BUT I PICKED UP AN ARTICLE SENT TO ME BY A FRIEND, 23:31 A FRIEND WHO KNOW THAT IF I SAW IT I WOULD PREACH 23:34 AT LEAST ONE SERMON ON IT. 23:38 AND THE PHYSICIANS BEGAN TO EXPLAIN WHAT THEY SAW 23:42 IN THE DEATH OF JESUS. 23:44 THEY BEGAN IF YOU WILL, IN LUKE 22. 23:49 YOU MUST KNOW THAT DR. LUKE, THE PHYSICIAN WAS THERE 23:52 WITH JESUS FROM BEGINNING ALMOST TO THE END. 23:58 LUKE 22--THE BIBLE HAS TO SAY HERE THAT THERE WERE CERTAIN 24:06 PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNS THAT JESUS WAS IN TROUBLE AS HE BEGAN TO 24:13 FACE THE SPECTRE OF CALVARY. 24:16 VERSE 44: 24:32 THE PHYSICIAN STARTS BY SAYING THAT THIS PHENOMENON, CALLED 24:36 HEMATIDROSIS, IS WHEN BLOOD HEMORRHAGES INTO THE TINY 24:44 BLOOD VESSELS OF THE BODY. 24:48 SO THAT INSTEAD OF PERSPIRATION COMING THROUGH THE PORES AS 24:51 NORMAL, BLOOD MINGLES IN THE VESSELS WITH PERSPIRATION, SO 24:58 THAT WHEN THE FACE BEGINS TO HAVE DROPLETS ON IT, THEY 25:03 ARE NOT CLEAR DROPLETS, THEY ARE BLOODY DROPLETS. 25:10 SO EVEN IN GETHSEMANE HAVING GONE THROUGH THAT LAST SUPPER, 25:16 YOU REMEMBER WHEN THEY BEGAN TO DIP INTO THAT LITTLE SAUCE 25:20 THAT THEY SHARED, THE HERBS, AND THERE WAS ONE HAND THAT 25:25 CAME DOWN WITH CHRIST'S. 25:27 REMEMBER WHO IT WAS ? 25:29 IT WAS ONE ISCARIOT--JUDAS--HE DIPPED IN. 25:36 JESUS LOCKED EYES WITH HIM AND THE QUESTION DIDN'T 25:42 HAVE TO BE SPOKEN, BUT IT WAS. 25:45 JESUS HAD WALKED FOR MONTHS AND YEARS TRUSTING IN THESE TWELVE. 25:52 BUT ONE OF THEM THOUGHT THAT HE WAS SO WORLDLY WISE THAT 25:56 HE COULD GO MAKE A DEAL WITH THE ENEMIES OF CHRIST. 25:59 SOME SCHOLARS BELIEVED THAT HE THOUGHT IF HE PUSHED JESUS 26:02 INTO A SITUATION WHICH WAS IMPOSSIBLE, JESUS WOULD 26:06 HAVE TO SHOW HIS POWER. 26:09 JESUS DOESN'T NEED YOUR HELP TO BE GOD. 26:15 AND SO HE SOLD HIS MASTER. 26:18 TOOK THOSE PIECES OF SILVER AND AS JESUS LOOKED INTO HIS EYES, 26:23 IN FACT, ONE OF MY FAVORITE WRITERS SAYS THAT THE MOMENT 26:26 THAT WAS MOST TELLING WAS WHEN JESUS WENT TO WASH 26:30 THE DISCIPLES' FEET. 26:31 THERE WAS NO SERVANT THAT DAY WHEN THEY 26:33 WENT TO THE UPPER ROOM. 26:34 THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUT THERE WASN'T. 26:36 NO DISCIPLE WAS HUMBLE ENOUGH TO GET ON HIS KNEES 26:39 AND WASH ANYBODY'S FEET. 26:41 SO JESUS TOOK THE TOWEL AND KNELT DOWN AND 26:45 WASHED THEIR FEET. 26:46 YOU REMEMBER PETER SAID NO, BUT WHEN JESUS SAID LOOK, 26:48 IF YOU DON'T LET ME DO THAT, YOU CAN'T MAKE IT. 26:50 THEN WASH MY FEET AND MY HEAD, WASH ME ALL OVER. 26:54 YOU CAN TALK ABOUT PETER IF YOU WANT TO, BUT HE KNEW HOW TO 26:56 MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT MIDSTREAM. 26:59 SOME OF US ARE SO PROUD THAT WE WILL NEVER CHANGE. 27:02 Announcer: JOIN US NEXT TIME FOR MORE OF PASTOR 27:04 PEARSON'S MESSAGE, ENTITLED "THEY CRUCIFIED MY LORD." 28:11 (theme music) |
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