Therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord, but he sent unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails,
and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them.
Then came Jesus, and the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold thy hands, and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side,
and be not faithless, but believing.
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God,
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, and thou hast believed.
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Many of the signs truly to Jesus and the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book,
but these are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that believing you might have life through his name.
Let's pray. God, just thank you for this Christmas season, Lord, where we remember you sending your Son to be born, to die, Lord, for us.
And I just pray that you bless this service, Lord, and I pray you bless Pastor and film with your Holy Spirit, Lord, as he preaches your word unto us, Lord.
Pray this on Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
OK, we are in Luke chapter 20 nearing the end of our Bible study here on the book of John.
And of course, tonight we're going to talk about the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Wonderful chapter here that, of course, is highlighted in all the four gospels.
Very important doctrine here.
We're going to look at the empty tomb first.
Look at verse one. It says the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early when it was yet dark unto the sepulcher
and see at the stone taken away from the sepulcher.
Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and sayeth unto them.
They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher and we know not where they have laid him.
I do want to mention here that when you read the various accounts of the gospels regarding this particular event,
you'll see that there is major a major variety of information that's being given.
And sometimes when you read it at face value, you may think to yourself that there's some contradiction here
because of the fact that one account seems to be vastly different from the other.
Obviously it possesses some of the same elements, but it almost seems as though the chronology is a little off.
And obviously we know that all scripture is given by inspiration of God.
It doesn't contradict.
We know that it's God's word.
It's not erroneous.
What's taking place there is various authors, human authors that are basically giving their own account.
And there's instances where maybe they describe a particular event and they choose to emphasize one
particular detail more than the other writer would write.
They are emphasizing a person, a group of people, a particular event within the story more than the other
accounts would.
And so when you look at Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, this particular story regarding the resurrection seems to
have some variance within it.
But it's only because the authors, the human authors are focusing in on a particular aspect of the story more than
the others.
And so in Matthew 28, for example, you have Mary Magdalene coming, but it talks about the fact that Mary Magdalene
did not come alone.
She came with another Mary.
There's other individuals that came with her to the sepulcher, even though John chapter one clearly says that Mary
Magdalene comes.
So John obviously is more so focusing on Mary Magdalene more than the other Mary, more than the other women that
came to the sepulcher with her.
We also see, according to the Gospels, that this was not her first time coming to the sepulcher.
She goes first to the sepulcher with the ladies, and prior to them arriving to the sepulcher,
the stone has already been removed.
When she gets there, they meet the angels.
One of the angels tells her to go and get the other disciples.
She goes, and then we have the story here in John chapter 20, where John outruns Peter.
They come to the tomb.
They see that it's empty, and then they leave, but Mary actually stays behind.
This is where we find Mary encountering Jesus Christ, thinking that he's the gardener, and
then he reveals himself to be Jesus.
He commissions her once again to go and tell the other disciples, and it's between that
time that Jesus Christ goes to the road to Emmaus, and we know this to be true because
of the fact that they're touching him.
Whereas here in this particular story, he tells Mary, "Don't touch me," right?
And in other instances, he also tells them not to touch him, but we know that that basically
takes place a little bit before the eight days or the week accomplishes, because of
the fact that later on in this particular story, Thomas does touch Jesus Christ, showing
us that between Mary's encounter with Jesus, believing him to be the gardener, and Thomas
touching him in the same chapter, Jesus Christ ascends up to his father.
He places the blood on the mercy seat, he comes back down, and we'll get into that in
just a little bit.
The point that I'm making here is that never read the Bible and think, "Oh man, there's
a major contradiction here," okay?
You don't want to start casting doubt on the Bible or doubting that there's some error
or contradiction found within the Word of God.
Just understand that the Bible is deep, okay, first and foremost.
And it takes a level of just investigation and layering of understanding in order to
know what's going on.
You've got to understand there are various authors, human authors in the Bible, and they
are giving their own biased accounts, so to speak.
Not contradicting the other accounts, but just giving the details that they deem to
be more important, or the people they want to talk about the most.
For example, in one of the gospels you have two maniacs of Gadara, right?
Whereas in the other gospel account, there's only one.
Is that a contradiction?
No, it's just that one human author seemed fit to highlight the more prominent maniac
of Gadara, and so it's not a contradiction.
It's simply the emphasis that that human author is placing on the event or the person that's
being talked about.
And so that's what we see here with the resurrection and Mary Magdalene coming to the steplicher.
So she runs and comes to Peter and to the other disciple.
We know that other disciples referring to John, John is simply being humble here, as
I mentioned in times past, which I do believe to be a little funny because obviously, you
know, there's times when he calls himself the disciple whom Jesus loved and you could
either interpret that as being like, oh, he's being real humble, but he could also interpret
that as like, what do you mean?
The disciple whom Jesus loved, didn't he love all the disciples?
But then also, you know, we have here the other disciple leaving out his name, but then
he also kind of inserts the fact that he beat Peter in a race, right?
So it's just like, you know, he's kind of like leaving that in there, like, all right,
I'm not going to put my name, but I am going to mention for all time that people will know
that I was faster than Peter.
Okay.
So he says, whom Jesus loved saved them to him.
They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher.
We know not where they have laid them.
Peter therefore went forth and that other disciple and came to the sepulcher.
So they ran both together and the other disciple did outrun Peter and came first to the sepulcher.
Was that necessary to put in there?
I don't know.
Apparently he seemed like, you know, it was, it was very much a necessity to put in there.
We obviously know that, you know, John was faster than Peter.
So he comes there, but it's pretty interesting that looking for his five, it says, and he's
stooping down, looking in, saw the linen clothes line, yet went he not in.
So even though he outran Peter, he made it to the sepulcher.
He made it to the point where he can look in, but he never actually stepped in right.
And here and we find the strength of Peter because Peter in verse six says, then come
a time and Peter following him and went into the sepulcher and see at the linen clothes
lie.
So even though he was slower than John, he was actually willing to actually go in and
investigate for himself.
And then obviously John still stayed out side.
We don't necessarily know why these details are given.
They're simply contrasting characters here and we see various strengths and weaknesses
that they have.
I want you to notice here that it says that he goes into the sepulcher, he see it the
linen clothes lie and the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes,
but wrapped together in a place by itself.
This is obviously referring to the cloth that Jesus Christ was wrapped in at his death.
Now the first thing I want to mention here is that this completely destroys the stupidity
of the shroud of Turin.
Right?
You say, what is that?
Well Catholics often propose that they possess a relic known as the Shroud of Turin.
Basically it's the grave cloth that was wrapped around the body of Jesus.
Okay?
And, you know, people all around the world just marvel at this grave cloth like this
must be Jesus.
Because when you look at the imprint or the impression that it leaves on the cloth, the
blood impression, it's a figure of a man.
Okay?
And they will say, well, this is Jesus Christ.
But this is why we know it's not Jesus.
Okay?
There are three reasons why we know it's not Jesus Christ.
Number one, obviously God would not allow something like that to survive because he
knows full well that if something like that did survive, people would worship it like
they're worshiping this fraudulent Shroud of Turin, right?
First and foremost, secondly, the impression that's being left on the Shroud of Turin
looks nothing like Jesus.
You say, well, how do you know that?
Because he has long hair and he's very long.
He does not look like a Middle Eastern guy.
He looks like the Catholic Jesus, which automatically disqualifies him from being Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ did not have long hair.
You say, well, how do you know?
Because of the fact that to have long hair is sinful, according to the Bible.
Does not nature teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Obviously showing us that Jesus Christ did not have.
And some people would argue, well, he was a Nazarite.
That's why he had long hair.
No, he was of Nazareth.
There's a distinction between the two, a Nazarite is a vow that someone would take.
Someone who's of Nazareth is a Nazarene, or Nazarene is of Nazareth.
You understand?
So those are two separate things, okay?
First and foremost, but secondly, it would be sinful for him to have long hair because
the Bible clearly states that if a man has long hair, it's a shame unto him.
He would not be disobeying the word of God.
God prohibited men from having long hair in order to make gender distinction, understand?
Men are to have long hair, men are to have hair becoming to a man.
And sometimes people say, well, how long is too long for a man?
Well, here's the standard.
If you're walking away and I'm looking at you and I'm wondering if you're a woman, it's
too long, right?
And obviously everyone has a standard of shortness that they want to have with their hair.
Some people are military, short, you know, high and tight or whatever.
Honestly, at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter as long as you look like a man
and you're not mistaken for a female.
And so here's the public service announcement that if you're in our church and you have
long hair like a woman, chop that thing off.
It's time to get a haircut and look like a man because the Bible commands it of you.
So obviously we know that the Shroud of Turin is false because of the impression that's
left there.
But secondly, the Shroud of Turin is one grave cloth, whereas we clearly see here in verse
number seven that there are two cloths, right?
There's the napkin that was laid about his head, not lying with the linen cloth the Bible
says.
There's two cloths that we see here, one for his body and one for his actual head, completely
debunking this whole concept of the Shroud of Turin.
And quite frankly, let's just pretend for a second and say that it was Jesus Christ.
You know, we shouldn't be worshiping it.
It should be tossed in the garbage because at the end of the day it has no power.
Okay.
Jesus Christ did not say, Hey, I'm going to leave this for you.
If you touch it, you'll be healed.
You should pray into it or something like that.
It's obviously has no divine power whatsoever and should be completely disregarded.
But we know that it's not Jesus's, you know, grave cloth.
And so it's people trying to make money and you know, propagate Catholic propaganda and
doctrine that's false.
And so Christians should not be swayed by those things.
But we see here that he has, he had a napkin about his head and when he resurrected the
napkin was, it says here that was wrapped together in a place by itself.
And it seems to be some, a piece of information that almost seems out of place.
It doesn't give us a whole lot of details as to why God is divulging this information.
It's like, Oh, he looked and he saw the grave cloth, but he also sees or the linen cloth,
but he also sees the napkin that was wrapped about his head, kind of folded up or wrapped
together, rolled together by itself.
What's the significance of that being stated here in John chapter 20?
Well, let me give you some insight here of what I believe this is referring to.
Obviously, the resurrection is a major event in biblical history because of the fact that
it highlights the beginning of the New Testament, right?
The death of Jesus Christ brings about the completion of the old and the resurrection
obviously pictures the new.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is essentially showing us that now we are in that new covenant.
Now when we look at, for example, Moses of the Old Testament, he is the representative
of that old covenant, is he not?
He would essentially be considered like the human mediator of that old covenant.
He's the one who met with God on Mount Sinai.
He brought the two tables of stone.
He taught the children of Israel the commandments of God, the meats, drinks, diverse washings.
He was that prophet of that Old Testament.
And we know that he pictured the Lord Jesus Christ to a certain degree, right?
Like he had a lot of characteristics and attributes becoming to Jesus Christ.
And we see in the Old Testament that when Moses went up to the mount and he came back
down his face shone, right?
It had that glory about himself.
And to the point where people couldn't look at Moses's face, you know, he had that aura,
right?
There was just the bottom.
He's like, Oh man, everyone.
So what he had to do is he had to get a veil to put over his face so that people can actually
look at him.
And obviously that's something that literally happened.
Like, you know, this is not obviously there's a lot of symbolic representation, but this
is something that literally took place with Moses.
I'm saying if we were to live back then, if we were there, we would see that we would
see that Moses had a veil over his face and that his face was shining, you know, behind
it.
It was a very supernatural occurrence that took place.
And the reason God allowed that is because it represented the fact that God the father,
right?
The glory of God was hidden, so to speak, to Old Testament saints in the Old Testament.
You know, essentially, as the New Testament tells us, that they saw through a glass darkly.
So even though they lived in the Old Testament, had the Old Testament scriptures, they couldn't
quite clearly see what the future had for them, right?
Who Jesus Christ was going to be.
They didn't know the name of Jesus.
They didn't have all the pieces.
Obviously, we know even the disciples, for example, they knew about the resurrection.
They knew about the millennial reign.
They knew about the kingdom of God, but the chronology of those things was kind of blurry
to them, right?
They were a little foggy.
They couldn't really see.
So even though they can, they had Moses, they couldn't necessarily see past the veil, right?
They couldn't see past it to the glory that was there, okay?
And that's how all people are, even today, by the way, okay?
If a person is unsaved, they cannot see behind the, beyond the veil until what, until they
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And once they believe on Jesus Christ, then they can see beyond the veil and they can
see the glory, okay?
But specifically, obviously I'm applying that broadly to all people, but specifically it's
about the Jews, right?
In Israel.
And so, you know, Jews today, for example, or Jews so-called, those who claim to be of
Israel, they cannot see beyond the veil.
They are blinded, right?
God, the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not.
The veil is over their hearts, the Bible says, just as the veil was over the face of Moses.
And so, you know, on a practical level, that's why we're not supposed to learn the Bible
from Jews.
We're not supposed to learn the Bible from Jews, from anybody who's unsaved, but especially
Jews.
And today you have a lot of people who esteem the knowledge of Jews a lot, right?
Even to the point where they're just like, oh, grab this Jewish encyclopedia.
I mean, even if you were to look up the significance of the veil over the face of Jesus, or not
the veil, the napkin over the face of Jesus, what does it signify?
They always give you this like Jewish interpretation of it.
Well, in Jewish tradition and Jewish customs, it's like exit out.
You lost me at hello.
You know, it's just like, soon as you said shit, shit, it's just like, you know, they've
been infiltrated.
You know, they'll say like, oh, according to Jewish custom, you know, after a wedding,
the napkin would be folded and it signifies that one day he would return or something
like that.
And they say, well, this basically means Jesus is basically saying that he's going to come
back again.
And obviously we know he is going to come back again, but that's not what this is signifying.
You know, I'm not going to learn that from Jews is just the lame.
You made that up, you know, and so don't learn Bible doctrine from Jews.
You know, I'm not saying that history isn't, uh, you know, reliable.
Obviously we can look into the Israeli history of the Old Testament, but quite frankly, you
know, the history that's found in the Bible is sufficient.
You know, we could obviously look at other history outside of the Bible as long as it
coincides with the Bible and use that as a resource and references, but you've got to
be careful because there are a lot of Jewish infiltrators throughout history that have
inserted their Jewish customs and traditions and interpretations and you say, what's the
problem with that?
Well, they're not saved.
You know, it's a blind man teaching you the Bible and they themselves can't understand
the Bible.
And it's not until they choose to believe on Jesus Christ that they will, you know,
they're going to keep being blinded and not understanding the scriptures until they place
their faith in Jesus Christ.
And so, you know, don't let some Jewish, some Jew out there or some Christian so-called
who esteems Jews to tell you like, Oh, wait till someone tells this guy that his savior
was a Jew or something, you know, there's a stupid nonsense and rhetoric that comes
from these Zionists.
When you criticize Zionism and you tell people what the Bible says about Israel and the Jews,
they have to, Oh, Jesus was a Jew.
Yeah.
And you why?
So why don't you believe on him?
You see that Jesus Christ was a Jew, yet you have an entire nation out there that rejects
him.
So why am I going to learn from them?
Okay.
It's, it's nonsense.
We have everything we need to understand scripture and Bible interpretation in the Bible.
Okay.
And I'm not against commentaries.
I don't use commentaries.
I'm not against all of them because I'm not going to, I'm not going to paint them all
with the broad brush and say they're all wrong because there might be some out there that
are legitimate.
Okay.
You know, but at the end of the day, you just got to make sure that you prove all things
whole fast, that which is good.
And at the end of the day, go with what the Bible says, okay.
Not what some Jewish encyclopedia is telling you or some commentary or whatever it may
be.
What I'm saying here is that Moses, this is obviously a call back to Moses having the
veil over his head, the glory shining behind it.
But now in the new Testament that veil has been removed, right?
That napkin has been removed and the Bible says that the word of God was made flesh
and dwelt among us and we beheld his what glory as the glory of the only begotten of
the father full of grace and truth.
So now that we have the new testament that napkin is left behind and we can see Jesus
Christ and in fact you can know God the father through Jesus Christ understand.
So the people in the old testament they saw the veil they didn't know they many of them
believed on the Christ but they didn't necessarily know the name of Jesus right showing us that
believers in the new testament are superior in their knowledge to those in the old testament.
Obviously you know what old testament saints you know what they have to flex on us is the
fact that they saw a lot of the miracles supernatural occurrences but quite frankly they didn't
have the new testament which is far more valuable than the old covenant according to the bible
it's a better testament it's a revelation of Jesus Christ it's the napkin being taken
away it's the napkin being left there and of course the napkin and the linen clothes
there is a picture of the old covenant which is a ministration of what death and the fact
that Jesus Christ left it there is an indication that the old covenant is being left behind
okay as Hebrews eight puts it it's ready to what vanish away okay it's been removed now
you can see Jesus Christ now you know who he is this is why it's important that when
you preach the gospel to someone for example if you were to preach the gospel to a Jew
and you show them from the scriptures that Jesus is the Christ if they deny that they're
basically just outright denying that the fact that the veil has been taken away right because
they have no excuse anymore it's like the veil has been taken away you know God's not
hiding this from you he's not trying to keep it obscure it's a very well-known fact that
Jesus is the Christ and so you know it's a beautiful picture here regarding the napkin
about his head not lying with the linen clothes but wrapped together in a place by itself
it's essentially picturing the completion of that old covenant the fact that the old
covenant has been removed the glory of God can be seen through Jesus Christ and of course
this is confirmed by his resurrection look at verse 8 it says then went in also that
other disciple which came first to the sepulcher and saw and believed for as yet they knew
not the scripture that he must rise again from the dead now a lot of times dispensationalist
will look at a passage like verse 9 and say see the disciples didn't believe or they didn't
know about the resurrection and I believe that's erroneous I don't believe that's true
because there's so many Old Testament scriptures that point to the concept of the resurrection
right I mean think about like Abraham for example who's willing to sacrifice his son
and the New Testament tells us because he had faith that God would raise his son from
the from the dead so they obviously knew and believed in the resurrection again the chronology
of these events were just mixed up and here's the proof that they believed in the resurrection
or they knew about the resurrection should I say because people will point the first
night and says oh they didn't know the scripture that he must rise again from the dead but
yet verse eight tells us that he went in came to the sepulcher and saw and believed believe
what the resurrection you understand so obviously the information are being given and in fact
you can scour the gospels and see multiple times where jesus christ is talking about
the fact that he's going to rise again i mean the gospel of john is just saturated with
teachings on the resurrection and it's not until he actually resurrected that they believed
the scripture you know they didn't necessarily have the knowledge of all the scriptures that
were being put forth and you know these dispensations will often say well the old testament doesn't
teach that well that's interesting because first corinthians 15 says that jesus christ
died was buried and rose again according to the scriptures isn't that interesting how
is it that the old testament didn't teach that if the apostle paul saying that the resurrection
was taught according to the scriptures it's not referring to the new testament because
the new testament was literally being written in real time at that point right it's obviously
referring to the and it's not even referring to the gospels because the gospels are some
of the letters or writings of the new testament that were written last okay the epistles were
written first in the new testament so first corinthians 15 was one of the first portions
of scripture that were written and he's talking about you know jesus christ dying and resurrecting
according to the scriptures well we can point to a slew of scriptures of the old testament
that clearly taught the resurrection not with the same explicit detail that the new testament
teaching because again they saw through a glass darkly you know there's a lot of information
in the old testament enough for them to go by and place their faith in but it's incomplete
is it not and so this is why it's important when people tell you oh you know you need
to stick to the old testament no you need to get on the new testament you can't understand
the new testament without the old no you can't understand the old without the new and in
fact you know I dare say we can be great Christians just having the new testament you know why
because we're new testament Christians now thankfully we don't have to do that you know
God has given us the entire Bible but quite frankly if all we had was Matthew through
revelation we'd be just fine okay because we have essentially all of the details whereas
if we only have the old testament then we have a problem okay because there's stuff
that's being left out like oh you gotta you gotta in order to understand the book of revelation
you gotta go to Daniel no in order to understand Daniel you gotta go to revelation the old
testament is the new testament concealed the new testament is the old testament revealed
okay and so don't be ashamed of being a new testament christian don't allow don't allow judizers
to try to make it seem as though the old testament is superior folks the old testament has been done
away with this doesn't mean we throw it in the trash because these things were written a four
time four hour admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come you know the emphasis of the
old covenant was vastly different from the emphasis of the new though of course the entire bible is
about jesus okay but i digress so look at verse 10 says then the disciples went away again
unto their own home now this is pretty interesting and it kind of just shows you the nature of man
because these disciples are like oh he resurrected all right let's go home it's like how about go
look for him you know how is it that you just you see the resurrected christ but it kind of goes to
show you that just because someone believes the right thing doesn't mean they'll do the right
thing right sometimes people get saved and they don't live a godly life thereafter they don't
pursue godly things i mean here we have an example of two men who saw the fact that jesus christ
resurrected though they haven't seen the resurrected christ his body's gone and they believed right but
in spite of that they still don't go and search them out why because sometimes that's how man is
okay and sometimes people are like well if you believe right you're gonna do right you're gonna
behave right you know that sounds really poetic and everything and that'll go great on a hallmark
card at hobby lobby or something with an nlt verse behind it but you know just not biblical
we have to be taught to do right we have to learn to do right and in fact the old testament
literally says in the book of isaiah learn to do well what does that mean you have to accumulate
knowledge on how to live righteously you know batteries don't come included with the christian
life i wish it did i wish as soon as i got saved it was just like just matrix style just like plug
me in it's like i know the bible you know forget kung fu i know you know i i know n times bible
prophecy that'd be great but it just doesn't work that way you know we have to like learn these
things we have to put into where we have decided to show ourselves to prove them to god and we
just have to learn how to live virtuously which takes a long time which by the way you know kind
of goes to show you that you have to be patient with people people don't just automatically live
virtuously they have to learn these things and it takes time it takes coming to church for quite
some time hearing preaching ripping their faces getting exhorted tearing them down building them
up then teaching them how to go soul then teaching them how to read the bible then teaching them how
to talk i mean it's just like it's just a lifetime of work to do well it just doesn't come automatic
and it's funny the people who teach that it comes automatic they just some of the most godless
people out there they're just godless they're just super major hypocrites you know i had this guy in
my dms earlier today and there's this account called women propaganda most of you know who i'm
talking about and you know he puts out a lot of stupid stuff but sometimes he puts out good stuff
and there's this one particular video and i like it by the way just let you know when i like a post
i want you all to see that i like the post because i know you're going to see it so i like that post
it was a post about like some black guy and before you before you you come to the conclusion of what
i'm going to talk about just let me finish here there's some black guy telling this jew to delete
all the child pornography on his phone and he's like delete it right now he's like getting on him
and the guy's like scrambling and he's like all right now go to the delete files and delete it
off of there and the guy's like freaking out he's like get out he's like rebuking him and i'm just
like heart i mean anything against you you know i mean it's just you don't you can't go wrong
most of the time 90 percent of the time to just hit a heart but that specifically i'm just like
and then this guy dms me he claims me he's just like why are you liking this racist post
i was like because i hate pedophiles like talking about he's like yeah but the caption reads rare
black people win it's like and he's like you can't believe you're just liking this racist guy or
whatever i'm like i'm liking the post because the black guy is telling the jew to delete pedophilia
off his phone you idiot and then he's just like oh no you you think that you think racism is funny
i was like yeah i do actually i think racism is very funny you know and i said do you think
he's like oh i can't believe you call yourself a pastor or whatever i'm like yeah i've been i've
been doing this for quite some time i am a pastor and he's just like you think that's a proper
response i said how do you think i should respond when like black people called me like a wetback
should i get all offended and be all sensitive or should i just laugh it off and this is what
he said well you know you should just change i guess i'm like yeah exactly keep my back dry i
guess right or something i said now you're getting it now you're getting it but you know
you know it's astounding that he was mad about this so you know i just go on his on his on his
account he has like two pictures you click on one music about fornication you know just the most
filth perverse things out there rap hip-hop just talk about nonsense and i sent it to him i said
so you're trying to get this moat out of my eye called racism which is not really is not really
even a moat all the while you have this beam in yours and he's just like you know is racism in
heaven or he's a is god racist i was like i mean it really depends on how you see it you know there's
gonna be a lot of black people mexicans and all types of races in hell does that mean god races
because he's sending him to hell or something and i and he's like well answer me this you know is
is racism in heaven i said is is music about fornication in heaven and he's like all sin is
equal though nonsense so he's like condemning me and it wasn't even a post that i like laughing
about racism which there's posts that i have like about racism just let you all everyone know here
you know don't be all you know offended and sensitive about it or whatever you know just man
up stop being a little wuss you know uh we don't support black lives matter here okay i mean that
trend died long ago we don't take it we don't need we bow here to the lord jesus christ okay
but you know it's just like it's a post against pedophilia and all of a sudden he's just like a
victim oh you just you just hate black people i said i'm gonna tell all the black people in
my church to go like that post morrie got that all right he's got it and so you know but he's
like condemning me for that but all the while he has this massive beam in his eye you know and
what does it show it shows us that just because someone believes the right thing which i don't
know if the guy is saved or not let's just let's just pretend he is saved okay you know he's
obviously not thinking right and doing right he's and i guarantee you there's a lot of safe people
out there that are a bunch of liberals in their thinking political liberals you know just on the
wrong side of the fence of the cultural wars that are going out there it exists i'm talking about
safe people you're like oh how can you say there's safe people that believe that because not everyone
who gets saved does right i mean we have a clear example of people here of two disciples peter and
john like top tier disciples amongst the 12 right within the group right peter james and john john
and peter there they see the fact that he's not there and what do they do they go home you have to
learn to do right okay it doesn't come naturally look at verse 11 he says but mary stood without
at the sepulcher weeping and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the sepulcher
and seeth two angels in white sitting the one at the right hand excuse me the one at the head
and the other at the feet where the body of jesus had lain and they say unto her woman why weepest
thou she sayeth unto them because they have taken away my lord and i know not where they have laid
him and when she had thus said she turned herself back and saw jesus standing and knew not that it
was jesus isn't that interesting we're talking about the fact that you know the veil is over
their heart right the veil is over their face and they can't really see and she's looking at jesus
but she can't really tell that it's jesus and this actually happens a couple times in the gospels
the road to Emmaus is an example of another one right where jesus is literally walking with the
disciples on the road to Emmaus and they didn't know who he was and i think what that's doing is
is the bible kind of giving us this impression that like the veil is about to be taken away from
the eyes of israel and everyone else where it's going to be very clear that jesus is the christ
so she turns around she sees jesus standing there but doesn't know that it's jesus
jesus sayeth unto her woman why weepest thou whom seekest thou she supposing him to be the gardener
sayeth unto him sir if thou have borne him hence tell me where the help thou has laid him and i
will take him away jesus sayeth unto her mary she turned herself and sayeth unto him rabbani
which is to say master so as soon as he speaks to her and calls her mary because you know my sheep
hear my voice and they follow me right then she realizes this is jesus and what is the significance
here the significance is the fact that yeah the veil is there but it's removed when you respond
to the word of god right the veil being removed is in direct connection to the word of god not to a
dream not to some feeling not to some experience it's the word it's being spoken and that's when
she knew master it's you right jesus sayeth unto her touch me not for i am not not yet ascended
unto my father but go to my brother and say unto them i ascend into my father and your father into
my god and your god mary magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the lord and that
he had spoken these things unto her now let me mention a couple things here obviously going back
to that point regarding the word of god being directly connected to the veil being taken away
we see this also with the disciples on the rotaimaeus right they didn't realize it was him
and then he opens to them the scriptures and what does the bible say oh he fools and slow of heart
to believe all that the prophets have spoken he says beginning at moses and all the prophets he
expounded unto him in all the scriptures the things concerning himself and then they're just
like this is jesus what does it tell us it tells us that in order for people to know jesus the bible
needs to be involved you have to use the word of god how is the veil taking away i'll tell you how
it's taken away by using the bible using the scriptures not illustrations not you know your
own personal testimony you got to use the word of god because faith cometh by hearing and hearing
about the word of god right he opens the scriptures and then they're like this is jesus you know and
look there's a lot of people out there that claim to know jesus can't believe in jesus but quite
frankly the veil is still there and it's not until they place their faith in what the bible actually
says that the veil is removed then it's just like and i can tell you how many times i've witnessed
to someone where i preach the gospel to them and i can not physically see but almost almost physically
see like the light bulb go on i've seen it with children i've seen it with adults or it's just like
i get it you know i witnessed to a guy brother christian and i witnessed to a guy
on tuesday his name is david and he was a catholic and you know he very open to the word of god and i
was preaching the gospel to him and you can like see it you know and people respond they have
different reactions when the light bulb goes on right some people are just like stern they're
just like yep get it all right you know and they're just over it which i'm cool with that
there's other people they're very emotional they start crying i'm good with that too you know
there's other people that just kind of laugh and one of the i kind of like those too because
they're just like oh man like they just kind of laugh like oh it's just right there i remember
witnessing to a black guy and you know he was he was he was doing some yard work and i went up to
him i preached the gospel to him and then he's looking out and i was showing them the scriptures
and he's like oh man it says it right there and he just kind of laughed he's like it says it right
there he was like shocked regarding the concepts that i was showing him he's just like oh yeah i
believe it's it's like right there and he kind of just laughed it off not because he was being
disrespectful to the word of god but it's almost as if he's laughing at himself you know the people
who laugh they're just kind of laughing at themselves they're just like man this whole
time i just thought differently and i see it right there it's clear as day so you know david the guy
that i was witnessing to on tuesday he's kind of laughing he's just like oh man and then he's
he's getting it the light bulbs going on he gets saved then it's funny because you know i pull out
the invite i'm just like hey if you ever have a question you know here's the info blah blah blah
and then i'm walking away he's like hey i mean can i have that he's like i'm like oh i didn't give
you one he's like no he didn't give you one okay what if i get that you can take it or whatever
but the point that i'm making here is that you know everyone believes in God because the fool
said in his heart there is no God and the fool is a liar okay everyone believes in God but if they're
not saved they have that veil and it's not until you use the scriptures to show them because the
word of God has power my friends it's powerful and you know the longer i'm a pastor the more
i believe that the longer i preach God's word and i preach the gospel the more my faith is just
reinforced on how powerful the Bible really is why because i'm realizing more and more it doesn't
really matter how great of an orator preacher you know how great of a personality a person may have
or the giftedness that they have if they're preaching the word of God the word of God will
always have power it will always affect them it will always impact them because God can use
anyone because at the end of the day it's not the person it's the word the words have power
and folks I've seen people come to our church just absolutely hate my guts they just don't like me
they're just they think I'm rude they think I'm crass they just don't like but then they get saved
and and then they're just like I actually love this preaching now and it's not because they love
pastor Mejia I'm sure they do love me but it's not because of that it's because the word of God
impacted them you know so now I just know like I'm just going to keep preaching the Bible and if
someone tells me they hate me I'm not going to leave the door closed on whether that person can
be converted and like the preaching thereafter because it's possible it can happen why because
the Bible is that powerful the point is in order for me to reach those people I have to keep
preaching the Bible I have to keep exposing people to the word of God why because that's
how the veil is taken away look at second go to second Corinthians if you would let's look at
second Corinthians briefly chapter three second Corinthians chapter three you say well you know
Jesus you know he just said Mary yeah but Jesus is the word of God though he's the one speaking
anytime Jesus speaks it's the word of God right the word of God made flesh and so when he said
Mary is just like the eyes are open the scales fell and it's just like oh this is this is Jesus
this is my master look at second Corinthians chapter three in verse number 12 it says saying
seeing then that we have such hope we use great plainness of speech not as Moses which put a veil
over his face that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is
abolished but their minds were blinded for until this day remained at the same veil untaken away in
the reading of the old testament which veil is done away in Christ but even unto this day when Moses
is read the veil is upon their heart nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord the veil shall be
taken away now the Lord is the spirit is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is
there is liberty the Bible says so this is simply and obviously this is in context of Jews but it
just applies to everyone okay and you know we need to make sure that we uphold the Bible as being
the authority and the tool that needs to be used for any person who needs to get saved there's not
like a special way to witness to one people that's different from another person the word of God is
the same for all people okay don't worry it's just someone just messing around or whatever
but you know the word of you know the word of God should be preached to the Mexican the same way it's
preached to the Muslim same way it's preached to the Jew it's all the same we don't we don't
you know reconstruct our gospel presentation in order to witness to one person and and you know
put it in such a manner that this these particular people can understand this no the gospel is the
power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth okay and so that's important for us
to realize that and let me just say this you know our church you say well you're speaking as though
you're like the authority or the expert in the yeah i am the expert in preaching the gospel yeah
our church is the expert in preaching the gospel you know how i know that because we preach the
gospel every single week that's how we know that i'm speaking as an expert because i am the expert
because i do the work been doing it for the last 19 years okay you know i love it how people
who don't preach the gospel want to tell me how to preach the gospel oh you should have witnessed
to him translation let him come into the church put his little prayer rug pray to the false god
and not offend him that's what they mean when it comes to that muslim guy or whatever you know
it's nonsense no you need to be able to discern i mean the bible literally says
not to cast your pearls before swine give not that which is holy unto the dogs
yeah interpret that for me it's not talk about literal animals you just talk about don't give
the gospel to people who are unworthy of the gospel you see how do you deem someone being
unworthy of the gospel i'll tell you how when someone just doesn't want it when they want to
disrespect the house of god christianity jesus christ they want nothing to do with it then i'm
not going to cast my pearls before swine you're just going to get a rebuke you're going to get
reproved you're going to get corrected you're going to get shamed you're going to be embarrassed
i'm just going to openly rebuke you i'm not going to take my pearls known as the gospel i'm not
going to take that which is holy which is the word of god and cast it before swine and dogs
you know i'm going to give it to those who ask those who seek and those who knock and i know that
guy knocked but i'm talking about like you know literally not he wasn't if he if he really wanted
the god of the word of god he could have just came in he knocked on the wrong door what does
that mean when he says you know uh seek or ask and it shall be given you seek and he shall find
knock and it shall be open it's referring to the fact anybody who wants the word of god can get it
if you're looking for it you're always going to find it you know why you're here because
you sought the truth and you found the truth god is only interested in hiding the truth from dogs
and swine those who don't want it oh that's mean why does it mean if they don't want it
so stupid oh it's so mean that you're just you're talking like that i mean can we should we just go
to the gospels and show the instances where jesus christ spoke to them in parables because he didn't
want them to understand how about that well that's jesus yeah that's your card that you always pull
out when jesus does something that you don't like folks at the end of the day you're supposed to
preach the gospel to those who want it and look obviously we don't know everyone who doesn't want
the word of god so our default setting is just to preach the gospel to everyone unless it's
explicitly made clear that they don't want it you know when we go on the door and they say blank you
get off my property i was like okay i think this guy doesn't want it that's pretty clear but if they
take the invite they're open they listen okay this person wants it plain and simple folks it's not
rocket science point that i'm making here is that this is these are pearls this is holy and you know
what yeah we're to preach the gospel to every creature but the bible does give some parameters
and guidelines on how to do it and it literally says don't cast your pearls before swine he's
it's literally a commandment not to do that it's literally telling us like i'm commanding you
don't do that why because at the end of the day god does not want to give the truth to people who
don't want it why because it's valuable truth is more valuable than currency more valuable than all
the silver and gold and rubies and doesn't the bible say that we're stewards of the mysteries
of god a steward is someone who manages the truth can't just give it to everyone why because at the
end of the day not everyone wants it and god doesn't want us to just waste it on hateful ears
of the truth okay let me move on here so you know he tells mary don't touch me for i've not yet
ascended to my father but go to my brother and say to them i ascend to my father your father
to my god and your god now what is he referring to well after the death of jesus christ we see
actually in john chapter 7 he foretells of the holy spirit indwelling those who would believe on him
but he says in john chapter 7 that this had not yet taken place because he was not yet glorified
so the holy spirit during this particular time the ministry of jesus the ministry of jesus christ he
did not permanently indwell believers right it's not until afterwards that he began to indwell them
and it specifically says that it was after his glorification now obviously we know that he's
glorified now but there's a reason why he's saying don't touch me and then later on in the chapter he
tells Thomas all right handle me the side the prince in my hand what's the difference here
well what's taking place is that after this particular event he does ascend into this father
he goes to heaven okay now does this does the scripture explicitly tell us that no but there's
enough evidence to point to that's what what's taking place right go to hebrews if you would
hebrew chapter 9 real quick hebrew chapter 9 and basically what i'm saying is that after the
resurrection he tells mary not to touch him so between that moment and the time that he talks to
thomas and between the time that he in matthew 28 when he sees mary again he had already gone
to heaven and he placed the blood on the mercy seat came back down and that's why he was able
to be touched by his disciples okay now look at hebrew chapter 9 and verse 7 this is referring to
the earthly priest it says in verse 7 but into the second went the high priest alone every year
once every year not without blood which he offered for himself and for the heirs of the
people but keep in mind that all of the religious rites of the old testament were a symbolic
representation of the heavenly right in other words the tabernacle that we see in the old testament
is not the first tabernacle it was constructed after the pattern of an eternal tabernacle that
exists in heaven that is currently still there the mercy seat that was created in during the time of
exodus when the children of Israel are going into the wilderness was a pattern of a mercy seat that
already existed in heaven understand it literally talks about that in hebrew chapter 9 it's made
after the pattern of that which is heavenly okay and so again the this little era known as the
old testament specifically you know the from the time of moses up until the crucifixion of jesus
christ you know all picture things that existed before and still will exist thereafter right so
that's what it says in verse seven look at verse 11 but christ of course he's the high priest being
come and high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with
hands that is to say not of this building neither by the blood of goats and calves but by his own
blood he entered in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us for if
the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctified to the
purifying the flesh and so forth what we see here is that jesus christ went into that heavenly
tabernacle and he spread his own blood just as the priest of the old testament did in the earthly
tabernacle go to go back to john chapter 20 if you would point that i'm making is that when he
says do not touch me for i've not yet sent them to my father well obviously he ascends into his
father as noted by the fact that they're able to touch him thereafter what was he doing up there
he was putting the blood on the mercy scene look at verse 19 then the same day at evening evening
being the first day of the week when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for
fear of the jews came jesus and stood in the midst of them say and say unto them peace be unto you so
now we're going to look at the fearful disciples being empowered and i just want to mention
obviously that somehow jesus christ obviously is able to walk through walls there's a reason why it
says that the doors were shut yet he just appears in the midst right he's physically there he's not
a spirit he is physically in the flesh there and this is important to note folks the resurrection
is a bodily resurrection it's a spiritual resurrection in the sense of it's a supernatural
spiritual occurrence but he's physically there and that's important we're going to emphasize that
to the end of time because there's always going to be false religions that are perverting the
gospel of jesus christ and the element of the gospel which is the resurrection asserting
that jesus christ resurrected only in spirit right and you even have some predators they'll
say well it was a spiritual resurrection wasn't really like a bodily resurrection it's more like
spiritual no it was a physical resurrection he physically came out of the grave okay and in fact
you know he tells well let's keep reading here look at verse 20 and when he had so said he showed
unto them his hands and his side then were the disciples glad when they saw the the lord then
said jesus to them again peace be unto you as my father had sent me even so send i you and another
the other account he says you know look at my hands and my side for a spirit hath not flesh and
bone as you see me to have and i've talked to joe's witnesses one time we're out zoning i've
talked to joe's witnesses like yeah we agree on everything don't we i'm like no we don't you know
you don't believe jesus christ resurrected from the grave physically and they're like well does it
say that he resurrects you know isn't it say it was just spiritual wasn't physical i'm like he said
you know flesh the spirit has not fleshed him bone as he see me to have and he's like hmm i'll have
to think about that there's nothing to think about believe it bro i hate it when people say that when
it's like a clear scripture this is what the interpretation of the matter is let me figure
out a way to debunk that that's what that means whereas this should just be like oh i was wrong
dang Jehovah's witnesses are stupid i'm Lee where's your church you know that should be the reaction
there's no other way there's no underlying interpretation flesh and spirit hath not flesh
and bone as he see me to have have what flesh and bone okay now the difference is with the
resurrect of christ is that he does not possess any blood the blood went on the mercy seat in heaven
and he's not empowered by blood okay you say why because now he's empowered you know the
a human a person is kept alive by the blood right the life of the flesh is in the blood
you lose your blood you die how it works right you bleed out you die well in the resurrected state
we're not empowered by blood we're saved by the blood of Jesus Christ but when we are resurrected
what empowers us what helps us to live what keeps us alive eternally is the spirit so the spirit
is essentially substitutes the blood that once indwelled our bodies okay and now it's the spirit
that is now that life that's within us okay and so um the point being here is that Jesus Christ
had flesh and bone and he says here as the father has sent me so send I you that is the commission
there right he's saying hey the lord sent me to this world to save to seek it to save that which
is lost that's your job now you are now commissioned to go out and preach the gospel to every creature
because that's what he did throughout those three and a half years he i mean he preached the kingdom
of god he preached doctrine but he also won a bunch of people to christ and that my friends
is a balanced ministry right there is it not our job is to preach the gospel and preach the bible
oh i keep calling out the jews just preach the gospel do both i do both it seems you're just
focusing on the jews yeah on my instagram but you know it's funny you weren't there with me
on tuesday when i'm preaching the gospel or on sunday when i'm preaching the gospel
or on any other day when i'm preaching the gospel or how about just on days when i'm not
preaching the gospel i'm preaching other subjects other topics you know on sunday i'm preaching
against muslims how about that and some person told me oh you're calling out the muslims you're
bought yeah i'm bought with the blood of jesus christ yeah for you're bought with the price and
you're not your own that's what the bible tells me yeah i'm bought by jesus christ which is why
i'm preaching against all you so he says i'm sending you to preach and notice what do the
disciples do when they were sent they preach the gospel but they also preach against the jews
they preach doctrine preach the entire council of god and when he had said this he breathed on them
and said into them receive ye the holy ghost this is essentially referring to the permanent
indwelling of the holy spirit at this time whosoever sins you remit they are remitted
unto them and whosoever sins you retain they are retained it's basically saying you know you can
forgive people and you cannot forgive people that's basically what it's saying this is not giving them
some supernatural power to forgive sins eternally okay look at verse 24 it says but thomas one of
the 12 called didymus was not with them when jesus came the other disciples therefore said into them
we have seen the lord but he said into them except i shall see in his hands the print of the nails
and put my finger in the print of the nails and throw us my hand into his side i will not believe
man this guy has a tall order he's like all right this is what i need here okay and after eight days
again his disciples were within and thomas with them and they then came jesus the doors being shut
and stood at the midst and said peace be unto you then saith he to thomas reach hither thy finger
and behold my hands and reach hither thy hand and thrust it on my side and be not faithless
but believing and thomas answered and said unto him my lord and my god jesus said unto him
why are you calling me god i'm not god i'm not the son of god i'm not divine i'm a god
i'm different you know what is that what he said he says because that was see me and thou has
believed now what is he believing that he's lord and god blessed are they they have not seen and
yet have believed believe what that he's lord and god that's for you jehovah's witnesses out there
not in our church of course but you know those who are out there are like oh jesus and for the
muslims too oh jesus never said he's god well how about the fact that someone called him god
and he's like you've believed thomas is like my lord and my god and jesus is not like whoa
muhammad peace be upon him you know he's like oh you're blessed because you believed and the
people who don't see are gonna be blessed because they haven't seen and they believe that he's god
you know why it might be because he is god hey look muslims hope you you know come to the
saving knowledge of jesus christ but if you see this and just completely reject god jesus christ
as being god you're gonna split hell wide open and you know what you deserve it you deserve hell
for rejecting the clear scriptures that explicitly say that he's god show me one verse of the bible
show me one verse of the bible where jesus said that i am god well that's indian huh show me one
verse of the bible says that jesus christ is god well how about the fact that someone else called
him god and he didn't correct them for it he didn't say whoa whoa blast for me because you
know muslims think that's blasphemy right oh the prophet jesus nowhere did he's like oh hey don't
do the hell man blast for me there's only one god no he's like oh you know you see me you believe
man the people who haven't seen what you've seen are going to be blessed because they believe that
jesus christ who himself is lord and god give me one verse in the bible means i don't care what you
show me i'm never going to believe this so what do you call those people swine and dogs in some
cases you are what you eat but apparently not them you know i mean they refuse to eat the swine but
according to the bible they're spiritual swine because you know they don't want the truth and
look folks a five-year-old can understand this let me just say something else about that real quick
you know people every time i post like a child getting baptized in our church which we have
children getting baptized quite frequently you know people get children get saved in our church
and then they get baptized they're just like not biblical shouldn't be baptized i'm like except you
be converted become as children become as children you cannot see the kingdom of god and it's just
like red receipt just doesn't say anything else after that because they're like oh why would you
baptize children they can't understand our children do you know why our children understand the gospel
and the word of god because they stay in the service with us we don't send them off to some
you know circus of a sunday school class where they throw candy and sing stupid songs and just
talk about david and goliath every single sunday they actually get deep doctrine here you know
which is why they're they they have an accelerator this is an acceleration program for them they end
up understanding the word of god a lot sooner than most because they're in the services well you know
we just think they should go to a sunday school class where they get all well let's talk about
all the people that died in Noah's flood here i'm more interesting than a sunday school teacher
anyways you know they understand when i when i talk about that my son understands that my kids my
girls understand that your kids understand that you know children understand when we tell them
Jesus Christ is God they're like i get it they believe it they're like oh yeah Jesus Christ is
God what's the problem no problem many other true many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence
of his disciples which are not written in this book but these are written that you might believe
that Jesus is the Christ the son of God and that believing you might have life through his name
now it almost seems as though he's concluding the book and I'll explain why in chapter 21 the point
is here is that you know Thomas obviously wanted to see with his own eyes and feel with his own
hands and you know what Jesus Christ was merciful to his faithlessness right but at the end of the
day what was it that really converted him obviously we can say that it was him putting his hands in
his side and touching his hands and you know the wounds on his side in his hands but Jesus said
be not faithless but believe him the command to believe I believe is what converted Thomas why
because the narrative of the Bible is that the word of God converts you you know I don't buy
into this what if I just would see God if he just presents himself to me I would believe doesn't
won't happen literally you there's an entire nation that saw some of the most gnarly stuff
ever in history and still rejected God I mean there's people in history who literally saw
God in the flesh not only did they not believe in him they had him straight crucified you know
seen is believing no it's not no it's not you have to trust what the Bible says that's the
lesson for tonight let's pray Lord thank you so much for your word and Lord continue to create
faith in us as we read the Bible and have faith that the word of God does have power sometimes
maybe we have a family member a relative a friend we sometimes wonder if they'll ever get saved
but we just have to have faith in the Bible when the scripture is given to them that it will not
return back void help us to have faith in the Bible Lord to preach it faithfully to spread the
word of God faithfully Lord and recognize that the word of God has the power to change the heart
and I pray Lord that you bless us as we go on our way we love you we thank you pray this
thing is in Jesus name amen