Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
It's great to see everybody here this afternoon.
If we can go and find our seats and grab a hymnal,
we will get started with song number 437.
Song number 437, Battle Hymn of the Republic.
437. Battle him of the Republic. Let's all sing it out.
Holy let us die to make them free, while God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah.
Glory, glory, hallelujah, while God is marching on.
We love you.
We just thank you for allowing us all to gather here and sing unto you, Lord, in such an awesome
church.
We just ask that you fill it with your spirit.
In Jesus' name, we pray.
All right, for our next song, let's go to song number 13.
the world go free. Song number 13. Song number 13. Let's all sing that out together.
Great singing.
Thank you for coming to St. Baptist Church.
If you didn't already get a bulletin,
you'd need one.
Just lift your hand real quick.
One of our ushers can come by
and get you guys a bulletin.
We have Jude verse 11 for our memory passage of the week.
and any children 18 or under that can quote it can get a ice cream after the service.
We have our service in soul winning times there on the inside
and we just got over 3,000 for our half-year mark and so we're just barely ahead of our
Evangus. Evangus Urbanic he's been catching up and so we got to go really hard this latter half
really, really outstanding.
I mean, almost 6,000 salvation so far
for a church for the year
and a lot of baptisms as well.
And we're gonna go ahead
and just keep working really hard.
I think we're on pace to basically break every record
that we've ever had as a church this year.
And so we'll keep going and doing that likewise.
I'll probably announce this again a few different times,
but...
We're gonna start another baptism challenge for the latter half of the year and instead of doing it by tribe
It's actually gonna be individual and so
There's an individual prize every time you get someone
That's a convert or someone knew that you get to baptism will have a prize for the individual
And so we'll just kind of have us and then we'll have a special prize for whoever can have the most
converts or people baptized so exciting to
Bring someone to church that you can you can encourage them to take the next step after salvation and get baptized
On the right is a list of our expecting ladies. Please be in prayer for them
Upcoming events the Springdale, Arkansas July 4th event is happening
If there's there's a sign-up sheet if you are still interested in going
Our dates are a little bit out order there, but
The business meeting we're gonna have is gonna be next,
not this upcoming Sunday, but the following July 13th.
It's gonna be happening in the evening.
We have the Lancaster Sony Marathon on the 19th.
Then we have a Teen Summer Bowling Night July 29th.
We have another Teen Event, the Adventure Park on the 9th.
We have our men's retreat August 14th through the 16th.
And then our FBBF conference is August 27th to the 31st.
I just today updated our website that
has just kind of like an itinerary for the event.
And then I also posted that exact same thing
in our chat group, our Steadfast group.
And I posted online as well.
And so.
any of the details that I shared on the website can of course obviously be
shared with anybody publicly. So if you want to share those details you can.
I'm also going to be uploading a video about it as well.
So, we have an awesome conference scheduled with all kinds of super cool events.
We are having our annual kids spelling bee and I put the spelling bee words list out
there on the website as well that you can download if you want to study for that.
And then there's a lot of other things there if you want to pay attention to that.
We did print out kind of a church listing.
update us and give us an idea if you're planning on being here in town. For our conference we would
love to know that just because we're trying to anticipate how many extra seats and kind of
all the stuff that we need and what's likely. It's difficult when you don't make people pay
for a conference because you never know exactly how many people are coming and so all we're asking
We won't kick you out or anything.
You can still make it.
But we're just trying to just plan for that.
Mexico Mission's trip, Brother Diego's helping leading
this September 8th through the 12th.
We have two inserts.
And I guess one of these is tonight.
I'll probably have whoever does an announcement Sunday
read or give a little bit of an update about that as well.
But here we had for June 673 salvations
and all the work they're doing, they've been really having a lot of success with their
church services as well, and so we're just looking and seeing what options we may have
of expanding our church operations over there.
Currently they're only meeting, I think maybe once or twice a month right now, and so
If we can procure a location and everything else,
we might end up kicking that up
and doing it more regularly.
For now, he's just kind of alternating
with Verity Baptist Church Services
and then having his own where he's at.
But they've been having,
I think their last church service,
they had like 38 people, I think, on a Sunday morning.
So really, really healthy church attendance
for a Sunday morning, especially a church plant like that.
continue to pray for Evangelist Urbanic and the work they're doing.
Brother James and some others, Brother Eric and Theodore out there and they were
helping with that church plant. They actually got to go to a school,
Verity Baptist Church, had an opportunity to go to a school where a lot of people went
and I think they preached to thousands as a collective. Evangelist Urbanic
gave his total that he preached about 149 students himself
and they got a lot of people saved there so
there's some prayer requests just continue to pray for their soul winning
that have more soul winners that have good weather
that their church plan would go well and if you pray for Ms. Argie's
mother who has stage five kidney disease and so we're praying for them
And then some positive news.
We had the congratulations to the weathers
on the birth of Hannah Ruth,
who was born on the 25th, eight pounds, eight and a half ounces,
19 and a quarter inches long.
And also the congratulations to the goers
on the birth of Walker Norman,
who was born on the 24th, eight pounds, 12 ounces,
and 20 and a half inches long.
Congratulations to those families.
And on the back, we have our prayer list.
We'll go over this this evening.
We'll continue to pray for the Carlson's parents
for their health, also Ms. Faith has a friend
whose mom is struggling with cancer.
We'll continue to pray for the Scots,
both Brother Horace and Ms. Grace,
and then also if you continue to pray for Ms. Olivia.
If you'd pray for Brother Garcia's health.
And then Brother Brad had given me an update about his father's surgery.
I think things went pretty well, but if you just continue to pray for him
and then also for his sister's health and his work, I continue to pray for
Brother Diego's friend, Ms. Morris.
And then if you pray for Miss Cindy's friends and mother, looks like they
also have health and a surgery.
And then brother.
Brother Jared, if you'd pray for his co-worker Josh
for his health, or continue to pray for the Foley's
for their dad who has kidney disease as well.
And then Brother Perez was asking for prayer
for his son Elijah, who was enlisted.
Brother Philip, praise report,
his wife actually is back home
and they actually were here Sunday,
so praise report on that one.
Pray for Brother Gabe's mom.
for her health, and then we're continuing to pray for the Urbanix grandmother and also a friend who's recovering from heart surgery.
Brother Billy is asking for a prayer for his co-worker, and then Brother Goodwin, if you'd pray for him, and then pray for the Illy's dad, who also has a lot of kidney stones and pain.
So, a lot of prayer requests there. We'll go ahead and say a quick word of prayer as a church family.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for our church. Thank you so much for all these ladies who are expecting I pray that you
Please help them with their pregnancies. Please help them with their delivery
I pray that you would bless those new moms and new babies that have just recently been born that you would just help them with their
Development and they you would be gracious unto them. I pray that you'd also just help our church family that needs
just some kind of a miracle or need some grace for their health. I pray that if possible you
just give them healing. Please give them recovery. I pray that you give them patience.
I pray that those who are friends and family members,
those who are thinking about,
that you could also bless them with favor and with health.
And also if they need the gospel,
that you'd give us the boldness
to preach the gospel to them.
I pray that you'd help those that are needing favor
with their work or with their jobs,
that you could please bless them.
Please continue to bless the work that's been done
in the Philippines with Avengers or Panic.
Please help their parents with the health
and please help their church with this church plant.
Please bring them more laborers
help build their church. I pray that you would help our church just continue for
the latter half of this year. You bless our soul-winning events and our trips
and that you'd help us to give all the honor and glory to your Son. It's in
Jesus' name we pray. Amen. That's all I have as far as announcements. We're gonna
sing our Psalm of the week. It's Psalm 15. It's in our special Psalm and Hymn
Binder. So if you can pull that out. Psalm 15.
Psalm 15.
Psalm chapter 15.
and walk in the brightly and work in righteousness
and speak if the truth in his heart be that.
against his neighbor.
Even that fight, if not with his son,
in whose honor.
Grace singing everybody now it's offering plates are being passed around go ahead and open your bibles to the book of Matthew chapter
27 that's the book of Matthew chapter number 27
Matthew chapter number 27, the Bible reads,
When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.
And when they had bound him, they led him away and delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
Then Judas, which had betrayed him when he saw that he was condemned,
repented himself and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
saying, I have sinned in that, I have betrayed the innocent blood.
And they said, what is that to us? See thou to that.
and he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed and went and hanged himself,
and the chief priest took the silver pieces and said,
it is not lawful for it to put them into the treasury because it is the price of blood,
and they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field to bury strangers in.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy, the prophet saying,
And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued,
Whom they of the children of Israel did value,
And gave them for the potter's field as the Lord appointed me.
And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him saying,
Art thou the king of the Jews?
And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
And he answered him to never a word, in so much that the governor marveled greatly.
Now at the feast the governor was want to release unto the people a prisoner whom they would,
and they had then a notable prisoner called Barabbas.
Therefore, when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you, Braavis, or Jesus, which is called the Christ?
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
When he was set down on his judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask.
Brabis and destroyed Jesus the governor answered and said unto them weather of the twain will ye that I release unto you
They said Brabis
Pilate saith unto them
What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?
They all say unto him, let him be crucified.
And the governor said, why?
What evil hath he done?
But they cried out the more, saying, let him be crucified.
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing,
but that rather a tumult was made,
he took water and washed his hands before the multitude,
saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person.
See ye to it.
Then answered all the people and said his blood be on us and on our children then released he Brabant's into them
And when he had scourged Jesus he delivered him to be crucified
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers
And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe and when they had
Planted a crown of thorns
They put it upon his head and a reed in his right hand, and they bowed the knee before him and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews.
And they spit upon him and took the reed and smote him on the head, and after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him and put his own raiment on him and led him away to crucify him.
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, him they compelled to bear his cross, and when they were come unto a place called Golgotha,
to drink mingled with gall, and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
And they crucified him and parted his garments, casting lots.
That it might be fulfilled which is spoken by the prophets, they parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots, and sitting down they watched him there, and set up over his head his accusation written, this is Jesus the king of the Jews.
Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand and another on the left, and they were that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save thyself, if Thou be the son of God.
come down from the cross likewise also the chief priests mocking him with the
scribes and elders said he saved others himself he cannot save if he be the king
of Israel let him now come down from the cross and we will believe him he
trusted in God let him deliver him now if he will have them for he said I am the
son of God the thieves also which were crucified with them cast the same in his
teeth
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour and about and about the ninth hour
Jesus cried with a loud voice saying Eli Eli lamassabhaktanem. That is to say my God my God
Why has thou forsaken me?
Some of them that stood there when they heard that said this man called for Elias and straightway
One of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a read and gave him the drink
The rest said let it let be let us see whether Elias will come to save him Jesus when he had cried
again with a loud voice yielded up the ghost, and behold the veil of the temple was rent
and twain from the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent,
and the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of
the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Now when the centurion and they that were with him, watching Jesus saw the earthquake,
and those things that were done, they feared greatly saying, truly this was the Son of God,
women.
Were there beholding a far-off which followed Jesus from Galilee ministering unto him
Among which was Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and
Josie's and the mother of Zebedee's children when the even was come there came a rich man of Arimathea named Joseph
Who also himself was Jesus's disciple?
He went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered and when Joseph had taken the body
he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and said
and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone
to the door of the sepulchre and departed. And there was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
sitting over against the sepulcher. Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation,
the chief priests and Pharisees came together into Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that
deceiver said, while he was yet alive, after three days I will rise again. Command therefore that
Until the third day, lest his disciples come by night and steal him away, and say unto
the people, He is risen from the dead, so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch, go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
So they went and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone and setting a watch.
Let us pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for the chapter of the Bible.
Thank you, Lord, for this church. Thank you for all the salvations we've gotten, Lord.
I just pray that you bless and fill the past with your Holy Spirit. Help us to preach unto us
and help us to receive it and make any applicable changes to our lives. And I pray it is in Jesus' name. Amen.
Amen.
On Matthew 27, the Bible starts in verse one,
when the morning was come, all the chief priests
and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus
to put him to death.
And when they had bound him, they led him away
and delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
Now this is right after Jesus Christ has been arrested,
he's been taken by night under the chief priests
and the Pharisees and they all cornered him
and they asked him if he was the Christ.
And he plainly stated that he was the Christ.
And because of that, they rent their garments,
declared blasphemy, and the Bible's
says it's now about the morning of that particular night
and they're dragging Jesus out to pilot
to have him to be crucified
because the Jews don't have the power or the authority
to kill anybody at this time.
They're not truly in charge of their area.
They have someone over them, which is the Romans.
The Romans don't allow them to perform execution.
The Romans do give the Jews a lot of power
and a lot of authority to do different things,
but when it comes to execution specifically,
it's not lawful for them to put any man to death,
and so they have to take him to the Romans to kill him.
Otherwise, they would have just drug him out of the city
and stoned him to death, which kind of is interesting
because the Bible knew all along
that Jesus Christ would not be stoned to death,
be crucified, that he'd be lifted up and hung upon a tree. And so it's kind of
interesting how God just knows the end from the beginning and can tell us he's
gonna be crucified way before the Romans even existed, way before crucifixion
was even really a thing. They already knew, God already knew, hey this is how
Jesus Christ is going to die. The prophets of God already knew these things.
Now it says here in verse number three,
Then Judas, which had betrayed him when he saw that he was condemned,
repented himself and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying,
I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood, and they said,
What is that to us?
See thou to that.
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed and went and hanged himself.
And the chief priest took the silver pieces and said,
It is not lawful to put them into the treasury because it is the price of blood.
And they took counsel and brought with them the potter's field to bury strangers in it.
Strangers in.
Wherefore, that field was called the field of blood under this day.
then was to fill that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet saying,
and they took the 30 pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued,
whom they of the children of Israel did value,
and they gave them for the potter's field as the Lord appointed me.
So...
As Jesus being led away, Judas ends up regretting his decision, realizing the error that he's made,
because whenever they came to bear false witness and they're coming against Jesus Christ,
they have nothing legitimate to have him executed except for the fact that he said he was the Son of God.
And even Judas can recognize that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,
otherwise he would not say here very clearly that he's betrayed the innocent blood.
Because if Judas also thought that Jesus Christ was just a blasphemer and declaring himself God falsely,
he would really have no problem with what he did.
So to me, this is a really interesting story.
Because it proves a lot of different things.
Number one, Judas is a reprobate according to the text.
He's been entered by the devil himself
and the devil led him out to betray the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Bible says about him in John chapter number six
that he did not believe
and that he was a devil from the beginning.
And so Judas is what we would consider a reprobate.
But what's interesting about this reprobate
is he can still feel sorry, can't he?
He can still be upset like don't get this idea that reprobates don't have emotions anymore or that they can't feel bad about themselves
You know, why are the why is there weeping and wailing in hell?
They obviously feel really bad about their situation.
They feel really bad about their circumstance.
Even we see Pharaoh, which is a huge reprobate in the Bible,
one of the most famous reprobates in the Bible,
Pharaoh feels very sorry for himself,
is very disappointed when his son dies.
He's depressed about that.
He's very upset about that.
He gets very angry about that.
So it's not like a quote reprobate has no emotions.
It's just...
Typically, their emotions are going to be selfish motions.
It's just how they feel about themselves.
They're sorry that they got caught.
Whenever Bill Clinton has to apologize,
he's not apologizing because he's sincerely sorry.
He's sorry that he got caught and he looks bad
in front of the public opinion.
And so you have to understand that just because someone
says sorry doesn't mean that they're not necessarily
a bad person.
or possibly even a devil, or possibly even a reprobate.
Reprobates can still trick you because, hey, they can still have emotions,
they can still cry, they can still be upset about their situation.
Notice he even repented himself,
and yet he's not saved. The Bible's very clear.
In Acts chapter number one, that he went unto his own place.
The Bible tells us that he's not going to go to heaven,
he didn't go to heaven, even though he repented,
because repenting of your sins doesn't save you.
What's interesting is, repenting your sins doesn't save you, recognizing that Jesus Christ is innocent, or the Son of God alone also does not save you.
You have to be a believer. And Judas is not a believer. It never says that Judas believed in Jesus Christ or trusted in Jesus Christ.
Telling the truth here because this is what's crazy to me think about what it says here in verse number
Six it is not lawful for them to put into the Treasury because of the price of blood
Why in the world is it not okay for them to accept this money if if Jesus is like a bad guy
Right, it's it's almost like they themselves even realize. Hey, this isn't legit
We shouldn't be you know taking money and doing this. It's funny. They're moral compass
It's like it's okay for me to take money out of the Treasury to kill someone
But it's not okay for me to bring that money back
In order to use it into the Treasury. It's like that's a weird moral compass
But this is also to show you that bad people often still have their own moral code
It's just a perverted moral code. It's like thieves if you are in a band of thieves
It's wrong to steal from them
Like if I'm in cahoots with bandits and we're all gathered. We're partners together
It's wrong for me to steal from them. They would look at me as bad
They would try to hurt me if I stole from them yet for an occupation we steal for a living
Isn't that kind of crazy because the reality is since the ten commandments are in everybody's heart
Everybody wants the ten commandments to apply to them in their inner circle. It doesn't matter who their inner circle is
It doesn't matter if they're a Democrat
It doesn't matter if they're in the highest position of authority.
It doesn't matter if they're of the synagogue of Satan or a Jew or whoever it is, they want
to make sure that their little inner circle does not lie to them, steal from them, commit
adultery with their wife, or harm them in any way.
So they do believe in the Ten Commandments, they just, sometimes they have an exception
for people outside of their circle, outside of their inner little group here.
Everybody wants these things to be true about themselves and even with them they have their own little sense of justice here
Their own little perverted ideas of morality here where they think like yeah
It's no problem to take money from God and kill somebody that's innocent
But we could not receive that money back
Because it was the price of blood it is like the logic here is just really kind of insane if you think about it
But that's that's the world that we live in
even bad people sometimes have a conscience.
Even bad people have a certain limit
where they won't cross certain boundaries
or certain guidelines.
And you know, to me, this is like,
why it's still important to put pressure.
politicians because even if the politician is just a wicked evil person or
even if politicians don't have any like genuine moral compass you know just by
political pressure or by public perception oftentimes they'll still
even make good decisions just because hey even they won't cross the specific
line or they won't cross this threshold you know it's kind of set of JFK who is
really a rotten person
That he was assassinated for kind of wanting to blow the lid off of a lot of the conspiracy stuff that was happening in our government
And a lot of shady things are happening because it's like he grew a conscience at some point
And so they kind of had to eliminate him even though his conscience didn't apply to the fact that well
I guess he still commits rampant adultery, and yet he's still a Catholic and yeah
He's not a believer in Jesus Christ
He's not even saved but he still had some level of conscience
And so we don't want to necessarily think that man can't have a conscience or make a good decision
Even when they're bad sometimes they do they have a perverted sense of justice we look at false religion today even Islam
has plenty of tenets and plenty of godly principles
that they apply themselves.
It's just that they're not saved
and they're obviously, they're a little bit perverted
in their own morality or sense of justice.
But look, you go to Muslim countries,
drinking alcohol is illegal.
You go to some Muslim countries,
they'll throw fags off the roof.
You know, I mean, they have a little bit more morality
than in some cases, America or Israel.
That's like a whole nother sermon that I want to preach, but it's kind of funny how even sometimes false religion is
closer to God's commandments in many ways than the supposed, you know
Christians or God's supposed people and stuff like that, but at the end of the day
We can learn a lot of different little subtle things from this particular picture
The big piece here is that for 30 pieces of silver. He was killed now. This is brought up
Um, in Zechariah, I want to keep your finger here, go to Zechariah chapter 11.
But what's interesting is it says that Jeremy the prophet is the one who said this.
It says, Jeremy the prophet sang, and then it pretty much just quotes Zechariah chapter 11, verse 12 through 13.
And I want to kind of explain, you know, why it could possibly be doing that.
People try to like fix this, they try to say like maybe that was a scribal error or like, you know,
it said Jeremy, but it's really supposed to be Zechariah, you know, or something like that.
But, you know, it's possible, and the Bible contains this, where prophets will speak and it's not in their, their book.
Okay, but look at Zechariah chapter 11 verse 12.
The Bible says and I said to them if you think good give me my price
And if not for bear so they wade for my price 30 pieces of silver and the Lord said to me cast it under the potter a
Goodly price that I was prized out of them
And I took the 30 pieces of silver and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord
So this is what's being referenced and what I find interesting about Zechariah chapter 11
As well, 30 pieces of silver is, you know, kind of locked in time.
We don't really know exactly what that value is.
This gives us a little bit of an indication because notice what it said, it says a goodly
price that I was prized at of them.
So this amount of money was not a small amount of money.
It was a goodly price.
And then secondly, we know from the text
that an actual field was purchased
with this amount of money,
giving us some idea of how much money
this would have possibly been.
I kind of looked up, you know, like ask the internet,
like how much money this could possibly be.
And it was, one estimate was $90 to 3,000.
But here's the thing, I just don't think that that makes sense, like $90 because good luck
buying a field for $90 in today's money, you know, that doesn't seem realistic whatsoever,
okay.
Um,
Okay,
Another estimate was maybe 12 to 15 thousand dollars with some other one that I was looking up
That might be a little bit closer
But even then like buying a field in today's money
12 15 thousand dollars will probably not get you anything
Maybe the smallest portion of land like way out really far
I don't even think you buy anything for that cheap necessarily maybe completely undeveloped land
like that has forests on it and it's like less than an acre
and it's like out in the middle of nowhere, maybe.
But like for the most part, you know, this is like really, really, you know, unlikely.
It's probably much more than that.
And again, I can't put a number on it, maybe $50,000 or something like that.
So, you know, what Judas went and coveted with the Pharisees for was a sizable amount of money.
It wasn't just a little bit, in the Bible there's explicitly, it was a goodly price that I was prized at and of course they ended up buying some land with this.
Now, you can go back for a sake of time, maybe go, actually go to one more place, go to Nehemiah chapter 8, go to Nehemiah chapter 8.
But you know in the book of Jude in chapter, in verse 14, the Bible says that E not prophesied.
is written at a time well after Enoch.
I mean, we're talking about thousands of years separated.
And what Enoch prophesied about Christ coming with 10,000 of his saints
is not recorded anywhere in the Bible prior to that.
It's not recorded in the book of Genesis or anywhere else,
yet it's something that he preached, it's something that he had prophesied,
and then it's recorded for us in the book of Jude.
Also, Ezra is a priest that's kind of at the same timeline or contemporary
Nehemiah specifically, and you have the book of Ezra.
But then yet Ezra is still mentioned in the book of Nehemiah.
Look at Nehemiah chapter 8 verse 1.
And all the people gathered themselves together as one man in the street
that was before the Watergate, and they spake unto Ezra the scribe
to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded Israel.
And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation,
both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding
upon the first day of the seven month.
I'm sorry, read their end before the street,
that was before the Watergate,
from the morning until midday before the men and the women,
and those that couldn't understand,
and the ears of all the people who were attentive
under the Book of the Law,
and as were the scribes, stood upon a pulpit of wood,
which they had made for the purpose,
and beside him stood Matathiah, and Shema, and Anaya,
and Eurydia, and Hilkiah, and Messiah,
on his right hand on his left hand,
Badiah, and Michelle, and Micaiah,
and Hashem, and Hashem,
Bad Dana, and Zechariah, and Meshulim.
And it says in Ezra, open the book in the sight of all the people,
for he was above all the people, and when he'd opened it,
and all the people stood up.
And Ezra, blessed the Lord, the great God,
and all the people who answered, amen, amen.
And I'm not going to read any more, take a time,
but it's just over and over, just bring up Ezra.
So like, here's what I'm trying to say.
Is that Ezra could be mentioned and things that he says or does
in the book of Nehemiah.
Enoch can be mentioned in the book of Jude
with the things that he says.
So why can't it be true that Jeremiah
also preached things or said things
that are end up later recorded in the book of Zechariah?
That would be how I would explain why it says
that Jeremy said these things yet.
It ends up being quoted.
in the book of Zechariah, let alone the fact that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all record
virtually the same things of Jesus saying over and over again in the multiple gospels. So
just because it says Jeremy, don't think that like, oh, this has to be the book of Jeremiah.
You know, we don't want to get this like locked in view.
There are times when it says Jeremy, the prophet says such and such,
and it's literally a reference to somewhere in the book of Jeremiah.
But I don't think that it has to be in the book of Jeremiah
that it's being quoted from.
It can be in the book of Zechariah.
Not all that could literally be nowhere.
Because, like Enoch's example, Enoch is quoted and it's nowhere else in the Bible whatsoever, okay?
Because everything is freshly inspired here in the New Testament,
and so the authors can, of course, bring up things that have been preached in the past
or repeated or stated by other individuals.
Look at Matthew 27 and look what it says in verse number 11 now.
It says in Jesus stood before the governor and the governor asked him saying art thou the king of the Jews and Jesus said in him
thou sayest and
When he was accused of the chief priests and elders he answered nothing now. It's kind of funny
He says thou sayest we don't know exactly what all the communication is
But we know that when Jesus Christ is actually on the cross. It's written over him king of the Jews
so it seems like
Ever he's just referring to him as the king of the Jews
Pilots sitting there, and there's like hey, why'd you bring the king of the Jews to me?
And maybe he's doing it in a mocking tone, maybe not,
but he's obviously been referencing to Jesus
and calling him the king of the Jews
because Jesus is saying, hey, you're calling,
that's what you're calling me.
But then when he's accused of the chief priests and elders he answers nothing then said pilot on them
Here's thou not how many things they witness against thee and he answered him to never a word in so much that the governor marveled greatly
Now for a second time. I probably can't do this, but really what's interesting about Matthew 27 is how it's basically just taking the entire Old Testament
and it's just fulfilling like every single thing
that you could think of.
One of them is about how he's a sheep
who's dumb before his shearers.
And the word dumb there is meaning not speaking.
And so it's just Jesus is sitting there
just taking all these accusations,
taking all of these railing accusations really as it were.
There's another example where there's a goat.
that you're supposed to take and you're supposed to confess all of your sins like onto the goat's head
and you're supposed to bear that sin. So in both cases you kind of just have like just them just
saying all this manner of evil and falsely accusing Jesus and railing and he's just he's just kind
of taking a verbal lashing for us and and just kind of in our place and he's like this little innocent
sheep who's just dumb before his shears isn't saying anything and just taking this assault against him.
It says in verse 15,
Now at the feast the governor was wont to release
unto the people of prisoner whom they would
and they had then a notable prisoner called Barabbas.
Therefore when they were gathered together,
Pilate said unto them whom will ye I release unto you
Barabbas or Jesus which is called Christ.
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
Here's another really interesting thing is that
it's like everybody just knows what's going on
I mean, the chief priest, no, he said he was the son of God.
No, they have nothing to accuse him for.
No, that they're lying about him.
No, they paid in order to destroy him.
Yet, they're still just going through it.
And then Pilate, he even recognizes,
hey, this guy's innocent.
The only reason they've even delivered him is for envy.
This is not a legitimate thing.
But if you were a governor or a ruler
and you realize that the case against this person,
is bogus wouldn't you just say all right you need to get out of here they're just
this isn't real
but he doesn't do that he's trying to kind of
he's trying to like
get out of this situation with public favor
so he's like trying to figure out all these ways to kind of just
get out of the situation like
hey i'm supposed to release somebody why don't you just let me release this guy
Verse 19, when he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent in him saying,
Have thou nothing to do with that just man, for I've suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
So it's like he can see right through the motive of the chief priest, then his wife even is like, hey.
Don't don't do anything to this guy. You know, let's not touch him
Let's like you have nothing to do with him yet
Pilate's still gonna go through this and you know the Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter number six
It's it's talking about not suing your brother because why would you want to go before the unjust?
And you have to realize that a lot of times these judges they can see through things
They know exactly what's right and wrong, but they're not gonna necessarily do what's right or wrong
It's all about politics, it's all about perception,
it's all about money.
You know, the Bible tells us in Acts when the Apostle Paul
is kind of drug through court, through the Romans.
I'm pretty sure it's Felix,
but I'm pretty sure it's like Felix is like,
says, hey, if he had offered me money,
I would have just let him go,
but he never offers me money.
So he's like, he keeps meeting with Paul like regularly,
hoping that he'll give him some money
so that he can just let him go.
Not because he cares about what's right or wrong again.
It's all about money, it's all about politics, it's all about public perception and things like that.
And look, most judges today are not going to judge righteously, they're not going to just figure out who's right or wrong.
They already know that and they don't really care about that.
It's more about public perception, it's more about politics, it's more about getting re-elected,
it's more about their career and all these different things.
And so that's why our judgment of this world is something you want to try and avoid as much as possible.
Now, that being said, obviously the Apostle Paul wants to go through that judgment and
you know, there's other times when he's like saying, hey, why don't you have them drag
us out of prison because I've been beaten and un-condemned as a Roman and he's kind
of taken them to task.
So there's a time and a place, but generally speaking, we shouldn't be taking each other
in this room to court.
You know, that's a foolish, that's a foolish idea,
and they're not gonna try and figure out
who's right or wrong.
They're gonna just, you know,
figure out what's most convenient for them.
And at the end of the day,
pretty much everybody loses in the court system.
So, you know, that's why you want to try
and avoid it if you can.
Obviously,
You know, we've been through court and a lot of those things, and it's hard to know exactly how that's going to turn out.
But, you know, I do know this. It's expensive and it's terrible, and I hate all of it.
So, I know that's for sure.
Now, here with Jesus, obviously, even with his wife...
talking to Pilate, he's just still going down
through this ugly, ugly journey.
It says in verse 20,
but the chief priests and elders
persuaded the multitude
that they should ask Barabbas and destroy Jesus.
Notice again that the chief priests and the elders
are really the ring leaders
and that these people just kind of go along with anything.
People just kind of go along with stuff.
You just say something, get a COVID shot.
It's like, sign me up, I'll get it.
I get a free burger, right?
or I'm entered into the lottery, or whatever.
I mean, you kind of have to ask yourself,
like, why in the world are they giving you a burger
and, like, this lottery stuff?
Like, you know, that was weird.
It was not weird.
But then, I mean, I remember going through the grocery store
and hearing someone talking on the phone to somebody.
Like, they were talking loud
so I could hear their conversation.
And they're basically saying like, yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm just going to get the COVID shot because I heard you get like a hundred dollar gift card or something.
I just, you know, I want to get the gift card. It was like, I mean, the person didn't want it.
They were just looking for the handout or whatever. So obviously things work.
But, you know, people are just kind of easily led astray.
You know, the Bible says the simple believe with every word and the chief priests just kind of rile them up, get them on their side.
So you know what? You don't always just follow a multitude to do evil.
You don't want to just believe everything you hear.
We should be somewhat critical.
We should be really thinking about the motivations
and why they're asking, you know, these type of things.
You know, to me, it would be like, hey,
if we get to have a prisoner come out,
let's evaluate who's going to benefit society more.
The guy that threw an insurrection and killed somebody,
or the guy that's giving us free bread and miracles
and has done nothing wrong.
It's like, it's pretty much no brainer who you should really select, but again, this
also goes to show you that democracy never votes for the right candidate, do they?
It's like, man, you get two options here, and it's like, one seems real obvious, but
then people just vote Democrat, don't they?
They just say, thinking like, what, why are you voting Democrat?
But there's a lot of people in our society that vote Democrat.
And it's kind of crazy. You kind of think like if they could just explain to you what they believe,
they would never vote for that candidate, but then they just vote for the candidate.
It's like, hey, this guy is a murderer and insurrectionist.
This other guy loves you and is giving you free food and miracles and is godly.
And it's like, well, then they pick the godly person.
But somehow the campaign, it's really working.
You got these campaign strategists, the chief priests and the elders, and they're,
Give me Barabbas.
They don't even know what they're asking for, do they?
And they get riled up and they want to slay him.
And look, some of them are wicked, but not all of them.
And even Jesus Christ, when he looks at the cross,
he looks at the crowd.
He says, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
That should tell us that these people don't really know
exactly what they're doing.
They don't understand it all.
Obviously, the chief priests do.
They understand Pilate's knowing what's going on.
He's kind of aware and can kind of see through what's happening,
yet they're still going through it, aren't they?
Still going through the motions.
It says in verse number 21,
the governor answered and said unto them,
whither of the twain ye that I release unto you?
And they said,
Barabbas, Pilate saith unto them,
what shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?
And they all say unto him,
let him be crucified!
And the governor said, why?
What evil have he done?
But they cried out the more saying, let him be crucified.
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing,
but that rather a tumult was made,
he took water and washed his hands before the multitude,
saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person.
See ye to it.
Then answered all the people and said,
his blood be on us and on our children.
That's a pretty strong statement, you know?
It wasn't made by the Romans, it was made by the Jews.
Now, look, Pilate is not innocent here,
even though he wants to put on this show
of acting like he's innocent here.
You know, the Bible's still clear that he has sin
because Jesus says unto them that the people
that delivered him have the greater sin.
But yeah, obviously Pilate should have let him go.
Pilate's still the one in authority.
Pilate, the one who's gonna give him his soldiers the orders
to go and to crucify Jesus Christ.
So he can do this little song and dance
about how he's innocent, but you know what?
This is like how Catholics go down
to their little confessional booth
and confess their sins before their priests
and they come back and they think they're quote, innocent.
But you know what?
Nothing happened.
Just like they're little sprinkling.
They think they're little sprinkling does something.
Just like this little hand washing does something.
It does nothing.
It's not spiritual.
It's not legitimate.
Now, of course, Barabbas should not be delivered,
but this is kind of a picture of just the gospel, isn't it?
how we are that Barabbas who stand guilty and condemned and deserve
punishment yet that substitution that happens for Barabbas
literally is what happens for us spiritually when we believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ and we get to go for free and Jesus Christ ends up taking
our place and taking our punishment and taking what he deserves because
He is worthy of death, and yet Jesus ends up taking on that punishment and taking on that penalty.
Of course, treason and insurrection, of course, they would have crucified Barabbas for sure,
yet Jesus ends up taking on that punishment.
You know, when Pilate here is kind of washing his hands,
You kind of see like him saying something though that I'm not going to be responsible for.
Notice this, the innocent of the blood, right?
I am innocent of the blood of this just person.
So he wants to be innocent, he's not.
But notice he can even recognize that Jesus is something, just.
Isn't it funny, in this chapter, that Judas recognizes that he's innocent, that the chief
priests don't even want to take the money because they recognize that it's not legitimate,
and that even Pilate and his wife both say, hey, don't have anything to do with this guy,
he's a just person, yet we're still going to crucify him, aren't we?
And it's a picture of what the Bible says in Exodus.
You can keep your finger, if you want, to Exodus chapter 12, one of the verses here about the
And again, I'm just hitting some of the bigger pictures.
There's honestly so much scripture
that's being fulfilled here.
But there was a specific thing about the Passover lamb.
And really Matthew 27 is following the Passover perfectly.
You know, when we have Jesus Christ entering into the city
and you have that Palm Sunday, that's on the 10th day.
That would be what we would consider when you'd pick the lamb.
So you had to like pick a lamb.
And then later you had to make sure that the lamb was an innocent, spotless lamb with no blemish that you're going to slaughter.
And so there's this examination. And this is kind of like what's happening. This is examination phase.
And notice this is happening on what? The day of preparation.
They're preparing the slaughter of the lamb to eat the feast of the lamb on the next day.
And this is what's happening exactly with Jesus Christ.
In Exodus 12, this is the Passover instructions.
It says in verse 5,
a male of the first year you shall take it out of the sheep or from the goats.
So Jesus is that lamb that's been taken out.
He's that first fruit.
He's the firstborn and he's also without blemish.
He's that just person.
There's nothing wrong with him.
Go back if you would.
And of course, this is a huge implication for religion.
When it comes to understanding God of the Bible, the God of the Bible is just and merciful.
He's not just merciful and without justice there is really no mercy.
And we have to understand that other religions like the religion of Islam, Allah is not a just God.
Because Allah just waves his hand and allows all the transgressions against him to just be completely wiped or, you know, clean with no payment.
So there's actually no justice in the system of Islam and for the God of Islam.
Plus, you know, Islam tries to claim that it's on the back of the Bible.
It's on the back of the Old Testament prophets, like they have Abraham and they have Isaac.
And they'll say, prophet Abraham, peace be upon him.
And Prophic Isaac, you know, peace be upon them.
And they just say that about all of them.
They just, you know, they just say peace be upon them
and all this stuff as if it matters, you know.
But they just, they have this over the top facade.
It's flattery.
Because they don't actually believe in Abraham, they don't believe in Isaac, they don't have father Abraham, they believe in work salvation.
You know, they're more of the kin of Ishmael, and yeah, maybe they're physical descendants of Abraham, but that's probably all of us, let's just be honest, okay?
If you've got to understand how genetics works, we're probably all somehow a descendant of Abraham physically.
But you know, spiritually speaking, only those who believe in Jesus Christ are descendants of Abraham.
But when it comes to specifically the religion of Islam they're trying to claim that they're coming on the back of these prophets
And you're gonna have to ask yourself this question like what were all those animal sacrifices for?
And you know today even in Islam you have halal meat
Which halal is where they take an animal and they face its head towards Mecca and they slaughter it and reciting some
You know nonsense about Allah or something like that
And again, Allah is just their generic word for God, but you know, that's how He's named.
That's how we think of their false God as Allah, even though it just means literally
God.
But at the end of the day, they're chanting some prayer and reciting some nonsense to
their God.
I'm like, what's the point of your animal sacrifice?
What's the point of all the lambs and all the goats and all the heifers, and what's
the point of all these animal sacrifices when they claim that God has no son?
And when they say that God can just wave his hand and just
transgression is forgiven.
Whereas our God says, you know what?
Blood has to be shed for the remission of sins.
Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission.
For the wages of sin is death.
Death has to occur as a result of sin.
And it doesn't have to be our death, praise God,
but it has to be the death of someone.
And so we see throughout the entire Old Testament
the sacrifice of all these animals
the ultimate sacrifice, which is the Lamb of God, which is Jesus Christ,
who bear our sins and his own body on the tree,
who was the one who was going to bear the iniquities of all mankind,
and that he was that just person who has to substitute for us,
so that God can both be just and God can be merciful,
that all of his wrath and all the sin was punished through Jesus Christ,
We have that forgiveness and we ourselves don't have to pay for it
because we are weak and we can't pay for it.
And so God gives us that mercy and gives us that glorious picture.
This is the whole message of the entire universe of all time
is the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
and why it's so important that he's sinless.
In fact, I often explain this when I'm giving the gospel to someone at the door.
They say, look, Jesus had to be sinless
because he was paying for our sins.
You know, he can't pay for his sins
No one none of us are saved
We can only be saved as someone paid for our sins and the only way for someone to pay for our sins
Is that he was just that he was innocent that he had no sin
The Bible says he was tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin
The Bible says in 2nd Corinthians chapter number five that he became sin for us who knew no sin
He who knew no sin became sin for us that we may be made the righteousness of God and Him.
We're made the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ and it's by the blood of Jesus Christ
that our sins are forgiven. It's by the blood of Jesus Christ that all sins are paid for
and it's through the shed blood of our Savior that we have our redemption.
It's not through our works, it's not through what we've done,
it's not through our blood or our heritage or any of that,
it's only through the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.
And of course, that's such an important point,
is understanding that Jesus was just.
The Bible says, or Jesus said,
Why call us thou me good?
There's none good but one.
That's God.
And of course, Muslims love to bring that up.
And so I say, okay, so is then Jesus good?
Because if Jesus is good then he's God and if he's good then he's never sinned because the Bible says for there's none good
No, not one in the context of humanity in the context of Gentiles
Hey, no one's without sin except for Jesus Christ and that's why he's good to be good means that you're perfect
And the only one that's good the only one that's perfect is the Lord Jesus Christ
He is the good shepherd that laid down his life for the sheep and he gave his life a ransom
Notice the word ransom as being that payment, he had to pay the ultimate price.
He was given a body so that he could taste death for every man as the Bible says.
Of course, this is the whole pinnacle of our faith.
I mean, this is what we really emphasize because it's important to understand that Jesus had to be sinless or we could not be saved.
That's why throughout the whole Bible we're getting, you know, the gospel of Matthew is not just starting here and Matthew 27
There's 26 preceding chapters because all of it's important
the fact that he was born of a virgin,
the fact that he lived a sinless and perfect life,
the fact that he did many miracles,
the fact that he preached the gospel,
the fact that he was betrayed.
All these things are fulfilling all the scriptures
and pointing us to that Lord Jesus Christ
and him bearing the sins and the iniquities of us,
yet he was just, yet he was perfect.
And of course the Jews answer,
hey, his blood's gonna be on us and our children.
What an extreme statement.
And, you know, here's the thing, you can't say this according to our government without
violating some like anti-Semitic laws or something like that.
I think that there's like some recent legislation that had gone through where certain schools
or public education institutions that derive government funds, they are technically in
And of course, that's because Jews run our government.
And when I say Jews, I don't really talk about ethnicity
because we can have someone that's ethnically Jew
in our group and they're saved
and we're not talking about them.
We're talking about people that believe in the religion
of Judaism and claim to be of this special lineage,
which is really a bad argument that's not legitimate.
The modern state of Israel today has infiltrated
our government and many governments around the world
and these people are evil
and they have a special curse on them.
and the special curse is mentioned right here.
They said they want the blood of Jesus Christ, they want the guilt
of having killed the Lord Jesus Christ on them
and on their children and I believe anybody in the religion of Judaism today
has a curse, a special curse on them.
Okay? And we see this mentioned in the Bible.
Go to 1 Thessalonians chapter number two, 1 Thessalonians chapter number two.
Now, here's the thing, you can break generational curses
through the blood of Jesus Christ and getting saved.
So anybody who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ
is not going to have the wrath of God on them.
And the Bible teaches that anybody that's not saved has the wrath of God on them.
I mean, it says in John 3.36 that if you don't believe on the sun, the wrath of God abideth
on him.
Okay?
He that believe it on the sun hath everlasting life, but he that believe it not shall not
see life but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Okay?
But then there's this like special wrath, this like extra buildup generational curse
wrath that's on the Jews specifically and it's mentioned in the New Testament in 1 Thessalonians
What does it say? Let's get a couple verses for context. I guess verse 14
For ye brethren became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus
For ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen
Even as they have of the Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and
Persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary to all men. That's different than a normal person
It's not saying like you not everybody can be contrary to everybody because then it's a meaningless statement if everybody's equally
Contrary to everybody then that would be a meaningless statement
But if there's one group of people that are contrary to everybody well, then that actually has meaning
And it's true that the Jews are contrary to all men.
Why? Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved
to fill up their sins all the way.
Notice this, for the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
So while the wrath of God exists on every person,
it's saying they get the maximum amount of wrath on them.
God has poured out the maximum amount of wrath on them.
Why? Because they're of the worst religion.
Those of the religion of Judaism, it's the worst.
Hinduism is a dumb, stupid religion that worships cows.
Islam is an evil, wicked religion that blasphemes who Jesus really is.
But let me tell you something, Judaism is the worst religion in the world.
Judaism is the most anti-Christ evil satanic religion in the world and those in Judaism the wrath has come upon them to the
Uttermost and they witness and testify that they are the children of these people that said let his blood be on us and on our
Children just like Sarah Silverman got up in a joke joking. It wasn't really a joke
She said hey if Jesus were here again, I would crucify him again
Sarah Silverman, your precious little Hollywood Jew,
said, if Jesus were here, I would crucify him again.
And look, it is no joke that if Jesus showed up today,
there would be a whole bunch of Jews
trying to crucify him all over again.
That is what the true religion of Judaism is.
They think like, oh, if Jesus showed up,
they'd all believe in him.
Well, they might recognize he's the son of God,
but they would say, hey, this is the heir,
let us kill him and seize on his inheritance.
That's what they would say.
They wouldn't say like hey, let's believe in him now because plenty of people saw Jesus and
Recognized who he was and they didn't get saved even the devils believe in tremble yet. They're not believers. They're not saved
They're not redeemed
Obviously, it might be a little bit different situation for them, but yet the devils can
believe in Jesus as far as recognizing his existence, but they don't trust in the gospel
and they're not saved.
And of course, many people today can recognize that Jesus exists and not believe in him because
it's not intellectual ascent that saves us.
Sorry, Zane Hodges.
Mental ascent is not salvation.
It's calling on the name of the Lord in faith that saves you.
you know, confession is made unto salvation.
That's what the Bible says.
You can recognize the truth of the Gospel and not be saved.
They hold the truth in unrighteousness
is what the Bible says in Romans 1 as a reprobate.
I've met plenty of people that can tell me the facts of the Gospel
and even say they thought that that was true
in an intellectual way in the past,
but you know what, they don't believe in it,
they haven't trusted in it, and they're not saved.
There's this weird movement of, quote, free grace out there
that'll tell you, like, you can,
as long as you just mentally assent to this,
you can become a Muslim, a Jew, a Sodomite,
a Satanist, whatever, and you're still saved.
That is not true.
This is not what the Bible teaches.
Otherwise, what would the Bible even mean
when it says they went out from us,
but they were not of us?
For if they were of us, they would no doubt
have continued with us.
But they went out, they might be made manifest,
they were not all of us.
I, like, show this to this guy, and he's just like,
That's just talking about, like, how, you know, some people in the church are, you know, not going to be part of the church later.
You don't even make sense, bro. Like, no, it's clear. It's saying, hey, there are people, when they leave the Christian faith,
that are testifying and witnessing the fact they never believed in Jesus Christ.
as far as keeping commandments to be saved.
But I do not believe for one second
that someone can believe in Jesus Christ
and then they stop believing later in the future.
Just like I could never convince
anybody in this room that 2 plus 2 equals 5.
Yeah, maybe if you were being tortured,
you might say that,
but in your heart you didn't really believe it.
You're never going to be convinced of that.
And anybody in here that knows that Santa Claus is fake,
sorry if I ruined that for somebody,
you're never going to change your mind on that later.
Not gonna be like, you know, now I think Tim Allen really is Santa Claus, you know, I mean the evidence is right there
I mean, it must be real right now
You know once you kind of know the truth on certain things you're never going back and once you realize the gospel
You're never gonna someone that's saved is never gonna become a Hindu and start worshiping cows and putting dung all over their house
Someone that's saved is not going to start reading the Quran and become a Muslim.
Yeah.
Someone that's saved isn't going to join the Mormon cult group and become a Mormon.
It's just not going to happen.
Yeah, obviously sometimes saved people because they were already part of the Catholic Church or their whole family's Catholic.
They might hold their nose and visit the Catholic Church every once in a while,
but they're not going to become Catholic in their heart and in their mind,
and they know it's all junk and garbage.
Look, I've met that person.
I went sewing this guy's like, yeah, I go to the Catholic Church and it's like, what do you have to be say?
Believe him or Jesus Christ?
It's like, can you lose that vision? No.
It was like, well, do you believe it works at all? No, it works at all.
I was like, well, like the Catholic Church doesn't teach them.
They're like, yeah, I know.
You're like, so why do you go?
And he's like, well, my wife goes and I just
want to go with her or whatever.
He's just like, bro, you need to not go to the Catholic Church,
man.
He's like, yeah, I know it's all fake, and it's bad.
It's garbage.
But he's like, I got saved in a Baptist Church.
or whatever, and then it's like, we just go to some Catholic church.
It's like, well, obviously, even God's people sometimes go to false religion.
I get that.
But there's no point in time where Solomon just doesn't believe God exists or something,
or is now not believing in Jesus Christ.
Yeah, he allowed his wives to sacrifice under false religion,
but at the end of the day, Solomon never stopped believing in the Lord.
He obviously knew who the Lord was.
Even Saul, when he inquired of the witch at indoor, he knew who the Lord was.
He was there because the Lord wasn't talking to him.
That was the whole point you don't see anybody in the Bible converting religions
Okay, that it's saved someone that's saved will never stop believing in the Lord Jesus Christ and when it comes to the Jews
Let me tell you something. They're not saved
The rat that's come upon them to the uttermost, they are the ones guilty of the blood of Jesus Christ.
And of course, God is going to pour out a lot of vengeance on that area in the end times.
The Bible makes it abundantly clear that Jerusalem is going to be one of the worst places to live on the planet when that antichrist comes.
They think their Messiah is coming. No, it's a butcher.
No, it's a massacre. No, it's just it's evil. It's just evil coming to destroy all of them and to destroy their soul
It's Hollywood sometimes gets this right
It's like people that make this deal with the devil and then the devil turns on them and destroys them
That's what it's really like you make this deal with the antichrist and he turns on you and he destroys you because the antichrist
Just wants to destroy anything and everything in its path
That's why you want nothing to do with these people or with this particular religion
And if you go back to Matthew 27, we'll keep reading.
I'm kind of highlighting some of these verses because they're just really,
I mean, they're really impactful, but it says in verse number 26,
then released he brab his son of them,
and when he had scurred Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Isn't that funny?
Hey, I want to be innocent of the blood of this just person.
Go ahead and scurge him, though.
What?
Like, why would you do that?
But of course by his stripes we are healed is what the Bible says and so of course even this is the first shedding of blood in
The sense him being scourged and the and the crown of thorns being shoved on his head
It says, then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall and gathered
unto him the whole band of soldiers, and they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe.
And when they had plated a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head in a reed in his
right hand.
They bowed the knee before him and mocked him, saying, hell, king of the Jews!
Notice, these people are just mocking.
He's going through all kinds of ridicule.
He gets scourged.
and they strip him and they're putting a crown of thorns and so there's it's a bloody mess
that's why you see on the priest you got blood coming on his ear
and his hands and his feet obviously a lot of that blood's coming from his head
they also smote him on the top of his head with a reed is what the bible says
so they're just they're just beating him up as much as possible look at verse 30
and they spit upon him and took the reed and smote him on the head
And after that, they had mocked him,
they took the robe off from him
and put his own raiment on him
and led him away to crucify him.
So he's been beaten and mocked and spit upon and ridiculed.
And they put this crown of thorns on his head.
Keep your finger here, go to Genesis 22.
I know I'm taking a couple of breaks here from the text,
but it's kind of incredible
all the different things that are being fulfilled here.
Notice that a crown of thorns
is also put upon his head.
Well, the Bible says that they had gathered him into the common hall, okay, so I think
that, you know, it's reasonable to still believe that we're on the, quote, Temple Mount.
Now the Temple Mount is on Mount Mariah, according, as far as just...
If you look on a map today, you go to visit Jerusalem,
they'll say that the Temple Mount is on what's called Mount Moriah.
Now in the Bible, Mount Moriah is where the Bible says the temple was built.
But also, it's where Abraham offered Isaac in sacrifice.
Look at verse two.
And he said, talking about God talking to Abraham,
and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell the of.
So somewhere on Mount Moriah, or one of the mountains of Moriah,
we have this sacrifice of Abraham sacrificing his son, Isaac, on an altar.
But we all know the story that the angel comes and before Abraham can slay his own son,
the angel of the Lord stops him.
But then in the distance they see something look at verse 13 and Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold behind them a ram
Caught in a thicket by his horns and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of
His son so we see a ram caught in the thicket by his horns
And this is a foreshadowing of what's gonna happen how the Lord Jesus Christ in this same place
This is like the exact same geography is going to have a crown of thorns plated upon his head
and he's going to be the one taken in for the sacrifice just like this ram was taken as the
substitute for Isaac. So it's really incredible when you think about this not only do we have the
foreshadowing in the picture we have the exact same location like God already knew like God
just exists out of time and he can see like hey this is this ram caught in the thicket is the same
Basically, where Jesus is going to have that crown of thorns
shoved upon his brow and on his head.
And he's going to be that sacrifice, that ultimate picture there.
Go back second Chronicles 3 tells us that the temple was built on Mount Mariah
You can just take my word for it. You can read it later, but it's pretty cool that almost literally in the exact same place
We have this foreshadowing from the book of Genesis about the Lord Jesus Christ. How would Islam interpret this?
They wouldn't of course right how would other religions interpret this?
They don't understand the pictures and the foreshadowings of the Lord Jesus Christ now
It says in verse number 31 and after they had mocked him
They took the robe off of him and put him put his own raiment on him and led him away to be crucified him
And as they came out they found a man of Cyrene
Simon by name him they compelled to bear his cross now
I want to go to another place keep it here. Go to act 7 or 2 go to act 7 or 2
Cyrene where is that at? I I didn't know but it's apparently it's in Libya, which is in northern Africa now
I'm going to prove that from the Bible, not just from geography.
Like if you just look it up today, you just say, where is Cyrene?
It'll tell you that.
But look what it says in Acts chapter 2, verse 10.
Phrygian, Pamphylian, Egypt, and in the parts of Libya, notice this about Cyrene.
So the Bible is telling us that in Northern Africa, in Libya, is Cyrene.
It's interesting that we have a Cyrenian.
is the one that bears the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ,
showing how the Gentiles are going to be the ones
who end up bearing the cross of Christianity and how the Gentiles are the one
carrying the gospel message throughout the world. And we sang a song this
evening,
what was the second song we sang, must Jesus bear the cross alone?
And how we have a cross to bear, and how literally Simon bear the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ,
this Gentile is the one who does this signifying that really the Gentiles are the ones that are going to take over.
Replacement theology, sorry if you don't like that or whatever, but that's just the Bible.
Look at verse 33.
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a school,
they gave him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall, and when he had tasted thereof, he would
not drink, because Jesus doesn't drink poison.
And let me explain something. Alcohol is poison.
This is another proof of why Jesus would have never drank alcohol.
Yet Jesus drank of the fruit of the vine, but if it was something intoxicating
or something damaging, he would have spit it out, he wouldn't have drank it.
And of course, he didn't even soften the blow of the pain.
There was no softening of the blow. He didn't even take some kind of a
medicine to cause them to die early or something because maybe that would have screwed up all of the prophecies
He could have died earlier not died the way he was supposed to and Jesus Christ endured all the pain all the suffering
Everything that we needed even in a low moment even in a weak moment
You know what he's still spit it out and you know that just tells me that even when we go through low moments
We need to just make sure that we just stay true
to our principles, stay true to what is right,
and we don't allow the devil to win in a weak moment.
We don't give up.
You know, there's lots of times when we're in a battle
and it's easy from afar or when you're not going through it
to have the right decision, but what about
when you're in the heat of the battle?
What about when the pressure is on and the heat is on?
Will you take that escape route?
Will you compromise?
You know, we need to be strong
in the difficult moments too.
verse 35, and they crucified him and parted his garments, casting lots,
that it might be fulfilled, which is spoken by the prophet, they parted my garments among them,
and upon my vesture did they cast lots. So here it's just literally telling us the scripture is fulfilled,
and sitting down they watched him there, and set up over his head his accusation written,
This is Jesus, the king of the Jews. Notice, this is his accusation.
This is why he's being crucified.
Why is he being crucified?
Because he said he was the king of the Jews.
And not only did he say it, he is the king of the Jews.
That's why he was killed.
It's because he is the king of the Jews.
That's why he was killed.
Then were there two thieves crucified with him,
one on the right hand and another on the left.
The Bible tells us in other scriptures
that he was numbered among the transgressors.
That's what this is fulfilling,
were next to him and so he's numbered in the sense that he's the third, right?
There's one, two, three, he's numbered with transgressors
and he has to bear the punishment and the sin of a quote transgressor
even though he himself is not a transgressor.
The Bible says,
And they that pass by reviled him, wagging their heads and saying,
Thou that destroys the temple and builds it in three days, save thyself.
If thou be the son of God, come down from the cross.
Now why would they bring that up if he never said it?
Obviously the implications, they all know he believes he's the Son of God,
he said he was the Son of God, he told him he was the Son of God,
and they're saying, hey, if that's really true, then why don't you come down and we'll actually believe in you.
Hey, you said that. Look at verse 41,
likewise also the chief priest mocking him with the scribes and elders said,
he saved others, himself he cannot save.
If he be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him.
But here's the thing, he could have walked off that cross, and they still wouldn't have believed in him.
You know, salvation is by faith, not by sight.
One day, they'll bow the knee, though, and they'll confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord of the glory of God the Father.
But not right now.
Verse 43 he trusted in God let him deliver him now if he will have him for he said I am the son of God
There you go, Muslim. When did Jesus ever serve the Son of God? Everybody's saying it
He said it in Mark chapter number 14 verse 62 he said I am and of course when they asked him the question
Art thou the son of the blessed he said I am
Not only that when they came for Jesus and they were asking for him
He said that and they fell down not only that we have right here them testifying
Hey, he said I'm the son of God not only that I'm going to a few other verses
Go to John chapter number nine for a second go to John chapter number nine
In Luke chapter 22, when Jesus is also being confronted,
they're asking him these same questions.
Doesn't give the same answer,
but we see from Mark, he gives the same answer.
They're asking, are you the son of God in Luke 22?
In Mark 14, we have an art of the son of the blessed
and he answers, I am.
And they're saying, hey, we've heard the blasphemy of them.
We have here recorded them saying,
hey, he said he was the son of God.
Well,
John also testifies that. Look at John chapter 9 verse 35.
Jesus heard that they had cast him out and when he had found him, he said on him,
Does thou believe on the Son of God?
And he answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?
And Jesus said on him, Thou hast both seen him and it is he that talketh with thee.
So here's another reference of Jesus Christ saying that he's the Son of God.
Look at chapter 10 verse 36.
This is in red letters, right?
Say ye of him whom the father has sanctified and sinned of the world thou blasphemous because I said I am the son of God
When Jesus ever say the son of God right here now you think Muslims do not believe Jesus is God
But you know what they also don't believe Jesus is the son of God
In fact, that's the main pillar of the religion is that Allah has no son
They say it over and over in fact, I'm pretty sure
Over the in the dome of the rock you can look this up someone fact-check me
But I'm pretty sure in the dome of the rock there's an engraving or an inscription of like the top of this that says like
Allah is God and
God has no son
Or something like that, you know, I'm paraphrasing or something like that
But it's like literally over that holy place right now
We have those Muslims with that anti Christ spirit trying to deny that Jesus Christ is the son of God
When we know he is the son of God and so funny that the Jews want to take it over
Because they won't believe he's the son of God either, you know
It's like everybody that wants that piece of ground doesn't even believe it
But you know what even when Jesus said it they didn't believe it and we have it proof after proof after proof
Not only that, in John chapter 9, when he said,
you know, does thou believe in the Son of God,
is he that talketh thee?
The Bible says then he fell down and worshipped him.
But in Luke chapter number four,
when Jesus is tempted of the devil,
he makes it very clear that you're not supposed
to worship anybody but God.
So that's another proof that Jesus knew he was God and accepted worship as God on this earth.
There's nothing wrong with him accepting worship because he is God. Even when he's veiled in flesh, he's still God.
He didn't stop being God. He's God manifest in the flesh is what the Bible says.
Matthew 27, let's look at verse number
44, the thieves also, which were crucified to them, cast the same
anisees. So they're mocking him, making fun of him as well.
Verse 45, from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the
ninth hour. That's
12 p.m. to 3 p.m. And about the ninth hour, about 3 p.m.
Jesus cried with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, Lamas, Abakthani,
that is to say, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Eli, Eli, Lamas, Abakthani is Aramaic.
Here it's just untranslated we just know this is exactly what Jesus said. This is Jesus said this
So we know that Jesus spoke Aramaic. Aramaic is one of the languages in which he would have spoke
I don't think that's limited. I don't think he only spoke Aramaic
But we know for sure that he spoke Aramaic now
What's interesting about this is it's Aramaic, but then the Bible interprets it for us, doesn't it?
It's saying like hey, here's what he said, but then this is what he he this is what he said
Proving what the New Testament is not written in the Aramaic
Because it was written in Aramaic, it wouldn't make any sense because it would just be redundant.
So it's obviously not written in Aramaic.
Not only that, go over to John 19.
I know we're hopping all over.
But this is important because some people would even say like the New Testament was written in another language,
not in Greek.
I've heard some people say it was written in Latin.
Some people have said that it was written in Hebrew.
But it's like, well, we can kind of tell from the text that it's not written in those things.
And in John chapter 19, let's look at verse 13.
And for a second time, I'm not going to all the places, but in Mark 5, 41, Jesus is recorded as also saying,
Talitha kumai, which is also Aramaic.
So it's another reference of Jesus speaking in Aramaic in the Bible.
In John 19, look at verse 13.
When Pilate therefore heard that saying he brought forth Jesus and sat down on the judgment seat and the place that is called the pavement
But in the Hebrew
Gabbatha, why would you say that if this is written in Hebrew?
You wouldn't say that if it was written in Hebrew.
And again, we understand that Luke is written to a Greek guy.
There's no reason you would write that in some other random language or something like that.
It's going to be written in Greek.
Of course, you have the mention of the Greek tongue and Revelation is the only mention,
but it makes sense because it was giving the contrast between Hebrew and Greek.
But in the New Testament, it gives a lot of references of the Hebrew, verse 17 even.
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha.
So again, another reference of how this is internal evidence that this is not written in Hebrew, this was written in Greek.
Again, replacement theology. There you go.
Hey, it's given to the Greeks, isn't it?
It wasn't. The New Testament was written to the Greeks and for the Greeks and used by the Greeks.
And of course, you know, in modern days we have the King James Bible which is coming from the Greek.
Look at verse 47 some of them that stood there when they heard that said this man called for Elias and
Straightway one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a read and gave him drink
The rest said let let be let us see whether Elias will come and save him now
Elias is you know reference to
Eli and
Here's here's just my speculation
He's quoting a verse in the Bible when he says, you know, this specific phrase here and they're giving him the vinegar
And it says it in Psalm 69 if you want to go there you can but you don't have to I'm coming right back
But I kind of wondered like why are they saying he's calling for Elias?
You know because it's reference here in Psalm 69. I'll just read you the verse verse 21
They gave me also gall from my meat and in my thirst. They gave me vinegar to drink
It doesn't mention Elijah, it's not in a section of scripture that's about Elijah.
But this is what I was thinking.
It says, Eli, Eli, Lemus, and Bacthani, they're probably misunderstanding that the Eli, Eli
is not about Elias, it's my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
So they have a carnal understanding of what he's saying.
And let's just go to show the unsaved mind oftentimes misinterprets what the Bible is
It's like, hey, this was a reference to the Old Testament scripture, and they're like,
they're like, confusing this with Plias.
Maybe there's another explanation.
Obviously, his name could have some meaning there, but at the same time, it's,
I don't think it's really actually in relation to something Elijah said or did or Elias himself.
It's probably them getting confused about Eli, Eli, Lama said back that I,
that would be my understanding of why that's there.
If you have a better interpretation, you can tell me later.
it says in verse 50, Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost,
and behold, the veil of the temple was wren and twain, from the top to the bottom,
and the earth did quake, and the rocks ran, and the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints,
which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy
city, and appeared unto many. Now, when the Centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus,
saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying,
You know, it's kind of funny, it's talking about a lot of different things happening.
It says they were actually looking at Jesus, yet some people would say, oh, this proves
that Jesus could see the veil that, or sorry, the Roman's attorney could see the veil of
the temple rent.
And I'm like, that's just kind of an insane idea, because did you notice what it said
And the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose and came out of the graves.
It's not possible for this Interian to be looking at Jesus and an earthquake and all these graves erupting
and all these people running out and the veil of the temple all at the same time.
because he only has two eyes and he's not anywhere spatially located to see this.
It's obviously just saying when they were looking at Jesus and noticing the earthquake,
that's when they realized this is the Son of God.
It's not humanly possible to see all of these things happening simultaneously.
Okay, so that would be weird to get an interpretation like that.
You know, that's not the focus.
Verse 55,
Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee's children.
One thought that I had is it says that the women which ministered unto him.
Notice that...
These women that follow Jesus
They were just serving Jesus and ministering unto him and doing good on him. Hey, you know what?
These are great women. These are women that he ends up showing himself unto and you know what when you minister unto God's people
It's kind of like drawing nigh unto God and he'll draw nigh unto you
You know, they're not out there being career women, or boss babes, or needing to be super
important.
They don't even need to be the apostles, they don't need to be these disciples.
They just minister to Jesus.
And you know what, the lowly servant in many cases is going to be greatly honored by Jesus
Christ.
I mean, even the woman that came in anointed with the alabaster...
box, she gets recognized in the gospel for all of eternity
for what she did. You know, don't think like, oh, I'm just
someone that just does a, you know, ministering or I do little things or
I don't have any limelight. Well, God notices.
God notices these women that were there. God knows what they did
and they just simply ministered unto him. And you know what, it was still really
important.
Verse 57, when the even was come,
There came a rich man of Arimathea named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple.
He went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus, then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his
own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door
of the sepulchre and departed.
The Bible talks about how he had his grave with the rich, and this is talking about how
And as we keep reading, it says, in verse 60,
and laid it in his own new tomb,
which he had hewn out of the rock
and he rolled a great stone to the door
of the sepulchre and departed.
And there was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
sitting over against the sepulcher.
Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation,
the chief priests and Pharisees came together in a pile.
Again, notice that this wasn't the Passover day,
this was the day of preparation.
The day they're talking about now is the Passover.
So they're saying the day following the day of the preparation
would be that Passover feast day, the 14th day of the month Abib,
when they ate the Passover, but the day preceding
was the day of preparation. Jesus Christ died on the day of preparation.
Okay, and he was that Passover lamb
that was slaughtered just like that lamb was slaughtered before the 14th day
and then was enjoyed the following evening.
in verse 63, the cheap reason Pharisees, this is what they're saying.
Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive,
after three days, that will rise again.
Isn't it funny that they heard the gospel?
I mean, they said he said he was the Son of God,
and he said he was going to die, and he said he was going to rise again.
What more do you need?
They heard the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ obviously that's another proof that Jesus preached the gospel to everyone because even they knew
Everybody heard the gospel from the Lord Jesus Christ yet. Many didn't believe it
It's those who believe that got saved not even the ones that can even
Articulate hey Jesus said he was the son of God and he said that he rose again three days. Yeah, but do you believe it?
Yeah, but you trust in it.
Have you put your faith in it?
These people said, hey, this guy's a deceiver.
He said this, verse 64, command therefore
that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day
lest his disciples come by night and steal them away
and say unto the people, he has risen from the dead
so the last error shall be worse than the first.
So of course, in their mind, it's not possible
because they don't believe in the resurrection.
Even they think like, oh, maybe they'll trick everybody
into believing in the resurrection.
So, we got to make sure that this doesn't happen. Why?
So, the last error shall be worse than the first.
Now, of course, Pilot Grants it, verse 65, Pilot said unto them,
you have a watch, go your way, make it as sure as you can.
So, they went and made this up and go,
sure, sealing the stone and setting a watch.
Extra evidence that the resurrection's confirmed
because they made it.
Sure, they're not going to, no one's going to get out of here.
Plus, he's dead.
Dead men aren't going to walk out of the tomb.
But you know they're kind of nervous. Why? Because this has already happened, didn't it? Go to John chapter 11. We'll finish in John chapter 11
Say this is a long chapter. Well, you know it is a long chapter. I
Tried to go through it quickly, but still give
You know a lot of a lot of references here
What's the point of this chapter?
the point of this chapter is that
Jesus is fulfilling all of the Scripture about the gospel message.
I think that's what's really being emphasized here.
It's the fulfillment of all the Scriptures.
It's the culmination of what the whole Bible has been leading up to.
This is the climax of the Bible.
This is the climax of humanity.
This is the climax of the entire universe and its entire timeline.
It's the everlasting gospel, this is the most important moment in all of history,
is the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ's death burial and resurrection.
That's why this is even called the gospel of Matthew because it contains the death burial
and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and all the scriptures, everything in all of humanity,
all creation, all scripture was been pointing to and leading up to this moment.
If this guy rises from the dead,
this is going to be worse than the last error.
This is going to be worse than what was happened prior to.
What happened prior to it?
Jesus Christ rose his friend Lazarus from the dead.
And when he rose his friend Lazarus from the dead,
it terrified all the chief priests and the rulers
and they thought, oh no, if we don't do something about this,
we're going to lose our land.
Everyone's going to believe in this guy.
And that's what they say.
Look at verse 47.
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees counsel and said what do we for this man do with many miracles if we let him thus alone
All men will believe on him and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and
nation, so that's the last error
They concocted this plan to kill him because of this because it says in verse 49
And one of them named Kyiv is being the high priest that same year said to them
You know nothing at all nor consider that it's expedient for us that one man should die for the people and that the whole nation
Parish not and so he's speaking about how Jesus Christ is gonna die for the entire nation
and of course
They're worried because Lazarus rose again from the dead everybody's gonna believe in that and why because the resurrection is powerful
because the gospel message is powerful.
And when people truly understand the gospel message,
when people truly see the fulfillment of Scripture,
and when people truly understand the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ,
they will believe on Him and they will be saved.
and it will change their mind, it will change their life,
they will be born again, the Bible says that all things become new,
their spirit will be quickened, and of course it will destroy all false religion,
it destroys all the lies of the devil, and so it's the most important thing, and so
them being
under the spirit of Antichrist, of the devil, the last thing they want is for
people to believe in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ
because that's what saves, it's the resurrection that saves. First Corinthians 15
clear that if Jesus Christ didn't rise from the dead, then we're still yet in our sins
and we'll die in our sins.
It's the resurrection that is key to giving us salvation.
We must have the resurrection and so they must seal this, they must prevent this from
happening as much as they can and yet they can't.
And look, we have to realize that when we go out into this world, it's not us that get
people saved, it's the resurrection that gets people saved.
I mean, think about Romans Chap. 10, what does it say that if thou shalt confess with
thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from
the dead, thou shalt be saved?
It's the resurrection, the power of the resurrection that gets us that salvation.
We have to understand that all the scripture is fulfilled and it's powerful, but nothing
is as powerful as the resurrection.
When Paul would go into towns it was the resurrection that they mocked. It was the resurrection that they didn't believe.
Islam does not believe in the resurrection.
Judaism does not believe in the resurrection.
Hinduism has weird beliefs and doesn't believe in the resurrection of the word Jesus Christ.
And all of the religious leaders and all the religious people throughout history are dead and in hell
Jesus Christ has risen from the dead and is in heaven and it's through his death
burial and resurrection that gives us the forgiveness of sins and gives us
that salvation and that is the real power in this world. That is the only
thing that's truly powerful in this world is the gospel message of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ and when we go out and we talk to people we must we
must emphasize the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
not just the mechanics of the gospel,
not just sinners deserving of hell,
not just that, hey, it's believed,
we need to make sure that we have the gospel in there
because it's the gospel that's the power.
It's the gospel that saves.
And when we emphasize what Jesus did for us,
that's why we don't need works
because of what Jesus did for us.
It's the works of Jesus that it gives us that salvation,
not our works, and we have to emphasize what he did,
that he was that just person that bear all of our sins.
and took our place and was that scapegoat and was that lamb that was slain and just like
Brabis got released and that scapegoat gets released and then Jesus took that place he took
that place not only for Brabis but for us and if Jesus did that for us then we need to be like
We need to go out there and bear the cross of Jesus Christ and you know what preaching the gospel is fun
I like it missions trips can be fun, but you know what there's gonna be persecutions with it, too
Don't ever think that serving Jesus Christ and preaching the gospel won't come with persecutions
It will just like our Lord and Savior suffered we too are sheep and and we're for the slaughter
So take Christianity real.
This is the Wednesday night crowd.
Y'all a little bit more serious, you know,
than the Sunday morning onies.
And you know what, if we're the serious crowd,
then we need to take this real serious.
Because if our gospel we hid,
it's hid to them that are lost.
We need to be the ones that go out there
and bear the cross.
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much
for giving us this unspeakable gift
of your son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you for being not just just but also merciful that you're willing to allow your son to be the ransom for us
That you are willing to allow your son to take the full punishment and payment for our sins
The poor out of your wrath and anger for our sin upon your son the Lord Jesus Christ
Thank you for this this wonderful gift
Thank you for the cross that Jesus Christ was born on for us
I pray that we would be motivated by the gift that you've given us and the love that you showed toward us that
We too would be willing to bear our cross and that we'd be willing to go out and preach the gospel
I pray that you would just give us great power and great might as a church that when we go out and we preach the gospel
That we can see many people saved that you give us wisdom that cannot be
Withstood that you would help open our mouths boldly
that you would allow us to declare the gospel to many different people
that our message would be spread and it's not our message but it's the message of the cross
and the death and the burial and the resurrection and I pray that you would help us to see many
people saved in Jesus' name we pray amen. Okay in closing let's go to song number 37
song number 37 there'll be no dark valley song number 37 let's all sing it out
Together is loved one's home, together is loved one's home, together is loved one's home.
There we go dark valley when Jesus comes, together is loved one's home.
There'll be no more sorrow when Jesus has come.
But a glorious tomorrow when Jesus has come.
Together is love one's home.
Together is love.
There'll be no more weeping when Jesus comes.
But a blessing weeping when Jesus comes.
Together.
When he songs of greeting, when Jesus comes, and a joyful meeting, when Jesus comes together.
Great singing everybody, you were all dismissed.