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All right, good morning everyone you can please find your seats happy
Welcome to steadfast baptist church
Everyone can please find your seats help your neighbor here
Here we go welcome to steadfast baptist church
Everyone can find their seats
We're gonna ask if anyone has an older child that you think could behave themselves to come sit in the front up here on
This side of the room just to save space for people
And we're gonna turn in our song books to song
162 to God be the glory
Again if everyone if anyone has an older child that can behave themselves, please send them forth to sit right here
And we'll turn in our hymnals to song
162
To God be the glory
Song 162 sing it out to our Savior this morning 162 to God be the glory
To
God be the glory great things he hath done
So loved he the world that he gave us his son
Who yield in his life and
Atonement for sin and open the life
Praise the Lord praise the Lord
Rejoice
To the father through Jesus the son and give him the
glory great things he hath done Oh
Perfect redemption the purchase of blood to every believer
the promise of God the
Vialist offender who truly believes that moment from Jesus
Pardon me
Praise the Lord praise the Lord
Let the earth hear his voice
Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord
Let the people rejoice
Oh
Come to the father through Jesus
And give him the glory great things he have done
great things
He have taught us great things he have done and great are
rejoicing through
Jesus the son
but purer and higher and greater
will be
Our wonder our transport when Jesus we see
Praise the Lord let the earth hear his voice
praise the Lord praise the Lord
let the people
Rejoice Oh
come to the father through Jesus the son and
Give him the glory
Great things
Great singing let's open up in a word of prayer
Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this day. Thank you for this Easter holiday where we celebrate the resurrection of your son
thank you so much for the unspeakable gift of eternal life and for the blood that your son shed for us and
For going to hell and rising again from the dead for us. We love you so much and in Jesus name we pray. Amen
All right. Let's go to song number 33
Christ the Lord is risen today song number 33
Christ the Lord is risen today song 33 33 Christ the Lord is risen today
Christ the Lord is risen today. Ah
Hallelujah sons of men and angels say ah
Raise your joys and triumphs high
Yeah singing heavens and earth
Oh
Lives again our glorious King
Yeah, where oh death is now thy sting ah
Yeah dying once he old of safe
Hallelujah
Where thy victory oh great
Loves redeeming work is done
Well fight the battle one
Death in vain forbids him rise
Christ has opened paradise
So are we now where Christ has led
Hallelujah following our exalted head
Yeah made like him like him we rise
Ours the cross the grave the skies
Hallelujah
Morning thank you for coming. Happy Easter
If you don't already have a bulletin slip up your hand nice and high and one of our ushers
Can come by get you a bulletin. We have our Bible memory passage, John 1 22 on the inside
We have our service and so many times we have Spanish service at 4 30 and then our evening service at 5 30
Following this
evening's
Service we're gonna be doing the Lord's Supper as a church family
and so I would encourage you highly encourage you to come even if you don't come normally on Sunday nights and
I'll only be preaching for two or three hours. Okay, so that way you'll you'll get a good sermon and I'm just kidding and
It's a great way to not be an Easter
Morning service only Christian. So there you go helping you start with the second service
All right, and then we have our so many times they're churchwide so many meets here at two and then we have our stats
make sure to turn those into
Your soul winning captain or your soul winning
Lieutenant if you don't know who that is
You could always see me or brother Dylan or one of our ushers and they could probably help you
Figure out who that is
But we try to make sure everybody is that a part of our church is a part of one of our soul winning tribes
And so that's a great way to get plugged in with soul winning and to
Make sure you're turning in your maps to brother Dylan
Also with our on the right hand side. We have the list of expecting ladies continue to pray for all of them
We also have our prayer list. If you have prayer requests, please email those in
We have the homeschool field trip and the Mother's Day tea
Those have already been
Scheduled but for those that have signed up make sure to check your email just for any further details or
information
They'll probably even be just a reminder
Friendly reminder about who out when where why and everything like that because nobody ever reads the bulletin anyways, so there you go
And then we also have the Austin, Texas soul winning marathon
And so hopefully you can sign up for that as well
That's pretty much all I have for announcements this morning
There is a lot of doughnuts the stuff up here. And so make sure to grab one before you leave. All right
We're gonna go to our third song song 37. There'll be no dark valley song 37
Again that song number 37. There'll be no dark valley
They'll
Be No dark valley when Jesus comes there'll be no dark valley
Jesus comes there'll be no dark valley
when Jesus comes
together his loved ones home
to
Ones Oh
Together
love one's home there'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes to gather his
loved ones home there'll be no more sorrow when Jesus comes there'll be no
more sorrow when Jesus comes but a glorious tomorrow when Jesus comes to
gather his loved ones home together his loved ones home together there'll be no
dark valley when Jesus comes to gather his loved ones home there'll be no more
weeping when Jesus comes there'll be no more weeping when Jesus comes but a
blessed reaping to gather his loved ones home to gather his loved ones home to
gather his loved ones home there'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes to
gather his loved ones home they'll be songs of greeting when Jesus comes
there'll be songs of greeting when Jesus comes and a joyful meeting when
Jesus comes to gather his loved ones home to gather his loved ones home to
gather his loved ones home there'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes to
gather his loved ones home as the offering plates are passed around please
turn in your Bibles to 1st John chapter 5 1st John chapter 5 and follow along
silently starting at verse 1 as we read the whole chapter before the sermon 1st
John chapter 5 the Bible reads in 1st John chapter 5 whosoever believeth that
Jesus is the Christ is born of God and everyone that loveth him that begat
loveth him also that is begotten of him by this we know that we love the
children of God when we love God and keep his commandments for this is the
love of God that we keep his commandments and his commandments are
not grievous for whatsoever is born of God overcome at the world and this is
the victory that overcometh the world even our faith who is he that overcome
at the world but he that believeth it that Jesus is the Son of God this is he
that came by water and blood even Jesus Christ not by water only but by water
and blood and it is the spirit that beareth witness because the spirit is
truth for there are three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and
the Holy Ghost and these three are one and there are three that bear witness in
earth the spirit and the water and the blood and these three agree in one if we
receive the witness of men the witness of God is greater for this is the
witness of God which he hath testified of his son he that believeth on the Son
of God hath the witness in himself he that believeth not God hath made him a
liar because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son and this is the
record that God hath given to us eternal life and this life is in his Son he that
hath the Son hath life and he that hath and he that hath not the Son of God hath
not life these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the
Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may
believe on the name of the Son of God and this is the confidence that we have
in him that if we ask anything according to his will he heareth us and if we know
that he hear us whatsoever we ask we know that we have the petitions that we
desired of him if any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto
death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death
there is a sin unto death I do not say that he shall pray for it all
unrighteousness is sin and there is a sin not unto death we know that
whosoever is born of God sinneth not but he that has begotten of God keepeth
himself and that wicked one touches them not and we know that we are of God and
the whole world lieth in wickedness and we know that the Son of God is come and
hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and we are in
him that is true even in his son Jesus Christ this is the true God and eternal
life little children keep yourselves from idols amen
let's fire heads for a word of prayer
Heavenly Father we thank you for Easter Sunday and for the opportunity to celebrate the resurrection
I pray that you would fill Pastor Shelley with your spirit and help him preach boldly
help us to pay attention to the message and think about the things of God today
in Jesus name I pray, Amen
so we're in first John chapter 5 look back at verse 6 the Bible says this is
he that came by water and blood even Jesus Christ not by water only but by
water and blood and it is the spirit that beareth witness because the spirit
is truth and the title of my sermon this morning is the bodily resurrection the
bodily resurrection and really we have several reasons why we believe in the
bodily resurrection the the number one reason is because of the spirit the
spirit gives testimony the spirit gives witness to the bodily resurrection of
Jesus Christ now here in verse number six it makes it clear that Jesus didn't
come by water only but by water and blood okay and it says even which means
specifically Jesus Christ and notice it says it's the spirit that's bearing
witness and the spirit is truth now when we talk about the Spirit of God how do
we hear his witness it's through the scriptures it's the Bible the Bible is
written by the Holy Ghost the Bible makes it clear that holy men of God
spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and so according to the Bible the
Bible itself is under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and so therefore the
Spirit is bearing witness to us through the King James Bible that we have in our
hands okay so that's our primary source of understanding that the Lord Jesus
Christ literally physically rose from the dead if we keep reading it says in
verse 8 and there are three that bear witness notice this in earth the spirit
and the water and the blood and these three agree in one so notice he's saying
there's three ways that we can tell that Jesus Christ literally came to this
earth literally died and we also have the resurrection it's number one is the
spirit now of course you say how do we have the spirit it's this book this is
our primary source doctrine you know people say I'll prove to you the things
of God without the Bible that's a foolish way to try to prove things
because that's our number one witness you know if you're in an important trial
and you had a really important witness one eyewitness you'd be like let's put
them on the stand okay but we don't have one eyewitness we have three that bear
witness in the earth we have the spirit and then we have the water and then we
have the blood okay so point one is this the Bible and and we're gonna use a lot
of Bible so I don't need to dwell on this point because we're gonna prove it
over and over and over again in this sermon this morning but I'm not gonna
try and prove to you that Jesus rose again from the dead outside this book
okay this is where we're gonna try and figure out if Jesus truly died was
buried and rose again and we want to use the Bible as our source for everything
but go to the John chapter 19 because we had mentioned two other witnesses in
that same verse that are in the earth specifically okay John chapter 19 is
gonna have all three of these right here wrapped up and basically one or two
verses here John chapter number 19 look at verse number 33 the Bible says but
when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already they break not his legs
one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side and forthwith came out blood
and water and he that saw it bear record and his record is true and he
knoweth that he saith true that he might believe so right here in the Bible in
John chapter number 19 we have all three elements because we have the blood and
we have the water and it's being told us through the Word of God which is the
Spirit of God and John who's the one recording this says hey I know my
records true now you say how do you know that his records true because the Spirit
is truth so he's saying hey I didn't just say this of myself the Holy Spirit
came upon me and he told me to write these words and these words are about
the blood and the water and so literally on earth there are three witnesses of
Jesus Christ's death that he literally came and then ultimately we have his
resurrection number one is the Spirit of God which is the Bible number two is the
blood that was shed and number three was the water that was spilt out at the
cross now what's very interesting about this is there's literally no physical
evidence that Jesus is on this earth from his body except for the water and
the blood he's the most influential person to ever live in all of human
history yet we don't have his bones we don't have his body we don't have his
grave we don't have any of those things so you have to ask this question like
okay so what evidence what proof do we have that Jesus Christ was here well you
have the water and the blood that was spilt at Mount Calvary and then you have
the Spirit which is the Bible which is the Word of God now that's fascinating
because we know we have the tomb of Muhammad we have the tomb of Buddha we
have the tomb of all these you know cult leading followers going in these
cult religions okay we have all of those people you know we don't have Jesus in
fact there's only a handful of people that we could even say that about you
know we have a couple like Enoch Enoch is just translated it's like where did
he go I don't know right Elijah carried up in a whirlwind Moses you know there
was a there's kind of this dispute with the devil wants to know where his body
is okay so we kind of have a handful of people that are like this and I believe
that's reminiscent or a foreshadowing of what Jesus Christ is gonna be like that
he's gonna come to earth he's gonna radically transform the entire earth but
then it's like well where does body go where is this guy what happened you know
as a picture about Jesus Christ is gonna rise from the dead and ascend back up
into heaven yet we have the most influential person still despite we
don't have his body or as you know bones we still have the major impact that he
set in this world and you know it's probably good for a lot of reasons
obviously but it's probably good that we don't have his body or we don't have his
bones or we don't have some grave site because can't you imagine just hordes of
people to go there and basically worship some dead body or go worship
some kind of a flash or go worship some kind of a grave or something like that
but we get to worship the true and living God which is in heaven now go to
1st Corinthians chapter 15 go to 1st Corinthians chapter 15 so of the bodily
resurrection why do you believe it well number one the Bible number two the
water and the blood now as we go through the scriptures we have more information
about this look at 1st Corinthians chapter 15 and look at verse number 12
now Christ be preached that he rose from the dead how say some of you that there
is no resurrection of the dead he's saying look if our entire religion is
predicated on the resurrection of Jesus Christ how can you just literally even
deny the resurrection at all he's like that's the most foundational aspect of
what we're going around and preaching is not that some guy died but that some guy
came back to life because you know what a lot of people are crucified in the
Bible I mean it talks about it being a common thing we have multiple people at
the time of Christ being crucified let alone all the other people that were
crucified before Christ people that are crucified after Christ what makes Jesus
different than all the rest well number one he didn't deserve it and then number
two is the fact that he rose again from the dead now you say how does that
happen it's a miracle of course it's not something that's naturally occurring
it's the most unnatural thing because everybody else that dies stays dead okay
so this was a major miracle and it's a proof of the deity of Jesus Christ it's
a proof of him being God in the flesh it's a proof of him being the Son of God
it's a proof also that we have hope that we too will be resurrected that we too
will conquer death look what it says in verse 13 but if there be no resurrection
of the dead then Christ is not risen and if Christ be not risen then our
preaching is vain and your faith is also vain yay and we are found false
witnesses of God because we have testified of God that he raised up
Christ whom he raised not up if so be that the dead rise not so he's trying to
say look if you don't believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ literally
our faith is meaningless and what is faith faith cometh by hearing and
hearing by the Word of God so we have that spirit when we have that water in
that blood okay when we hear about that we choose to believe that that's our
faith you know faith is not an abstract idea faith is believing something that
you've heard when a preacher comes and tells you Jesus Christ died was risen
three days later that's not something you can physically witness there is no
movie there is no comic strip there is no picture how do you how do you
understand that you believe it by faith by putting your trust and what the words
of Scripture said now of course he's saying if if that's not even true then
pretty much everything we've said is just false then we're false witnesses of
God okay why would you believe in Christianity if you don't accept the
physical resurrection of Jesus Christ is basically what he's saying yet there are
groups out there there are cults out there that literally deny the bodily
resurrection of Jesus Christ meaning like there's no point to your faith
there's no point to your religion you're still in your sins and think about this
if Christ did not die and was buried and risen again everyone would go to hell
because the law doesn't save anyone oh I have to repent of my sins well here's
the problem with that because you already sinned and there's already a
punishment from that that breaking of the law and that sin that punishment is
death so it doesn't matter if you follow all commandments if you just break one
you're worthy of death you're worthy of going to hell and the law didn't save a
single person that's why you can understand that the gospel existed in
the Old Testament why because people went to heaven and they couldn't get to
heaven through the law they couldn't get to heaven by following God's commandments
because no one could follow God's commandments perfectly so they believed
in the future coming gospel and of course we believe in the gospel after
the fact but we're all pointed back to the death burial and resurrection of
Jesus Christ let me remind you that Jesus before he ever died he told
everybody about the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ you know
they were in the Old Testament how can you say I mean there's no way to preach
that the Old Testament didn't have the gospel because Jesus preached the gospel
in the Old Testament now you say I thought that was in Matthew Mark and
Luke it is but here's we have to understand is the Old Testament law was
still in effect in Matthew Mark and Luke and John not until after the Passion of
Christ not until after the resurrection did we actually enter into the New
Testament look it's stupid to say that there's no gospel in the Old Testament
that person basically just doesn't believe the Bible and if you don't
believe the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ you don't believe the
Bible because the Bible proves this over and over and over again so we have
three witnesses in earth we had what the spirit the water and the blood but if you
go back to 1st John chapter number five there's another three witnesses okay
because we don't have to just base it on a handful of witnesses we have a lot of
witnesses this morning that we can base our faith on but we start with the most
important which is the Bible secondary witnesses are the water and the blood
now you and I have never seen the water and the blood okay John saw it he was
there at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ he saw all the water and the blood come
out of Jesus and he saw the resurrected Jesus so he saw all of it you and I have
never seen that but there's three more witnesses on top of the Bible on top of
the water and the blood what is 1st John chapter number five say there's three
that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these
three are one now of course a lot of people like to take this verse out of
the context that it's in but what is the context of 1st John chapter number five
verses six through eight it's we're talking about the witnesses confirming
Jesus Christ coming to this earth so if it's important to decide hey Jesus came
here Jesus came to the earth Jesus died Jesus rose again he's saying hey there's
three that bear record in heaven meaning if I go up to heaven there's
three different persons let me use that word persons that are gonna tell me what
the same thing meaning they're not gonna have a different testimony of Jesus
they're not gonna say well he came with water but only water or no he came with
blood but no water no no they're all gonna say he came with by water and blood
they're all gonna say he came with a Virgin Mary they're all gonna say every
single fact that's found in your Bible what does that mean these three are one
meaning they have the same testimony they are unified they are in perfect
agreement just like the Spirit the water and the blood agree and one meaning they
all have the exact same testimony of Jesus God the Father the Son of God and
the Holy Ghost all have the exact same testimony of Jesus Christ if you ask
God the Father about Jesus he'll give you the exact same story as Jesus would
himself and as the Holy Ghost would give himself and when Jesus on this earth he
said hey the testimony of two men is basically according to your law gonna
tell you what's true or not he's like the Father's one that bear witness of me
and I also bear witness of myself meaning what that we have those three
witnesses now while Jesus is on the earth we had him here but he's not on
earth anymore he's in heaven meaning I could go to heaven and I could have
three different persons all give me the exact same testimony God the Father the
Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost okay this is a great verse on the
Trinity because you have to have to believe that there's three you have to
believe that there's three and the one the oneness aspect of what we're talking
about in this passage is not that they're one person it's that they have
one testimony it's that they have one record okay and it's the same record
that they're all gonna deliver in fact think about the next few verses here
when we get to verse number nine and it says in verse number nine if we receive
the witness of men the witness of God is greater for this is the witness of God
which yet testified of his son so then notice it's going down and is explaining
hey this is what this is what God the Father would say this is what God the
Father would tell us this is the record that God gave of his son and you say well
how do we have that record it's right here in the Bible and you also has that
same record is the Holy Spirit which spake through the mouth of men and
delivered us the gospel of Jesus Christ so we have the spirit that's in the
earth through the Bible we have the water and the blood we have the Holy
Spirit in heaven we have Jesus Christ in heaven and we have God the Father all
testifying of one thing Jesus died was buried and rose again this is very
important go if you would to Revelation chapter number 13 Revelation chapter
number 13 so you're telling me pastor Shelley I can go to heaven and have
someone other than God the Father tell me about the resurrected Jesus yes you
know us will tell you Jesus the Lord Jesus Christ will tell you okay and and
not just that he rose again from the dead the physical resurrection of Jesus
Christ the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ look at Revelation 13 now of
course in verse number eight we're talking about the Antichrist but it
gives a very interesting description here about people that are saved says
in verse 8 and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are
not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the
world so this kind of the inverse of that but essentially there's a book in
heaven it's a book of life of the Lamb and people whose names are written in it
are saved those are the saved people and he's saying people that don't have their
name written they're not on the list they're not getting in through the door
they don't get to go into heaven but notice how it describes it of the Lamb
notice this slain from the foundation of the world so if I were to look at Jesus
what would he look like well good revelation chapter number five good
revelation chapter five notice it describes him as the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world meaning that he's always been the Lamb slain now what
sense would it make if I said hey here's the Lamb slain but he doesn't look slain
at all he doesn't look like he's been killed at all he doesn't look like he
has any physical wounds in his body that wouldn't really make any sense why would
I call it the Lamb slain why would you call it the Lamb slain because it looks
like it's been slain because it looks like it's been killed because it looks
like it's died okay now look at Revelation chapter number five verse two
and I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice who is worthy to open
the book and eluse the seals thereof and no man in heaven nor in earth neither
under the earth was able to open the book neither to look there on and I
wept much man wouldn't it be nice if people actually were sad they couldn't
read books today you know it should be if you didn't have the Bible you should
weep that you don't have the Bible to read and I wept much because no man was
found worthy to open and read the book neither look there on and one of the
elders saith unto me weep not behold the lion of the tribe of Judah the root of
David hath prevailed open the book and to lose the seven seals thereof and I
beheld and lo in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts and in the midst
of the others stood a lamb as it had been slain so notice when someone goes
into heaven then we already read in first John chapter five there was three
that bear record in heaven okay now notice if you go to heaven you're gonna
see a lamb slain what is that representative of someone
that's been killed okay but here's the thing the lamb is not laying there dead
no no this lamb is look slain but is alive now what does that make you think
of how about someone that died on the cross and rose again and still has the
marks in his body from the cross wouldn't that look like someone who's
been slain but yet they're alive it says having seven ends and seven horns and
seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent forth in all the earth and
he came and took the book out of the right hand of men that sat on the throne
and when he had taken the book the four beasts and the four and twenty elders
fell down before the lamb having every one of them harps and golden vials full
of olders which are the prayers of saints and they sung a new song saying
thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof for thou was
slain and as redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue
and people a nation so notice when they see this vision when these people at
least when John is seeing his vision he's seeing other people looking at the
lamb slain notice that they're saying you are the one that was killed you're
the one that was slain and you redeemed us to God by thy blood now I've heard
some wicked false prophet say this is like a literal animal no no no no no
okay look when when Jesus Christ showed up at John the Baptist baptizing what
did he say behold the Lamb of God was he looking at a literal lamb no okay look at
verse number five again and one of the other say let me weep not behold the
lion the of the tribe of Judah is that a literal lion okay now here's the thing
in this vision we don't know exactly what John saw obviously it's using some
really interesting language talking about the horns talking about the heads
but here's the facts that we know this is Jesus and he looks slain now let me
explain to you what that means it's the bottle it's the body of Jesus that was
slain for us and the bottom look when Jesus came back from the dead he showed
the disciples the holes in his hand okay now of course we understand that Jesus
Christ is transfigured and glorious and bright but I believe he's still the Lamb
slain and what a great picture when you get to heaven that you still get to see
what the Lamb slain you know none of us get to see the cross per se but we get
to see the repercussions of the cross by seeing what the Lamb slain look what it
says in verse number 10 and has made us unto our God kings and priests and we
shall reign on earth and I beheld and I heard the voice of many angels round
about the throne and the beasts and the elders and the number of them was
10,000 times 10,000 and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice
worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and
strength and honor and glory and blessing and every creature which is in
heaven and on earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea and all that
are in them heard I saying blessing and honor and glory and power be unto him
that sit upon the throne and under the lamp forever and ever notice that we're
praising God the Father on the throne and the Lamb of God which is none other
than the Lord Jesus Christ now you say well why why bring this up well here's
a question why did Jesus come back in the same body why would you come back in
the exact I mean the that body got kind of trashed on the cross didn't it I mean
didn't that body get some nails struck through it then you get some some nails
struck through his feet I mean didn't his side get pierced why why come back
in that body well here's the thing if that body died and just rotted and just
completely you know turned back into dust that we are because that's what
happens to a body you bury it you know in the ground after a while turn back
the dust eventually well here's the thing what would be the proof that Jesus
Christ rose from the dead number one number two how did he even rise from the
dead if his body perished because think about this okay everybody that dies
according in the Bible their spirit is caught up into heaven right so what's
the difference between them and Jesus Jesus still has that same body but has
obviously been transformed it's obviously been glorified but also how is
Jesus gonna prove to his disciples that he came back to death came back from the
dead if he doesn't have the same body that was put on the cross but the
bodily resurrection is so important because it proves the miracles of God
and it proves that we to our body will come back out of the grave now obviously
it's gonna be a glorified state don't hear me wrong some of us need to look a
little better anyways but you're like man I don't know if I want this to come
back out a little better okay go if you would to Luke chapter 23 go to Luke
chapter 23 but Jesus when he showed up and he talked to his disciples after the
fact so you know some people say oh they didn't recognize him that's because they
thought he died my friend you know people that have already died you don't
anticipate to knock on your door like if my my mom's already passed away but if
some lady came and knocked on my door I wouldn't think like mom you know because
I think she's already dead so I'm not anticipating her and in fact I guarantee
my mom could probably show up maybe wearing sunglasses especially or
something and she could start talking to me and I would just think of some woman
that just looks like my mom or favors my mom a little bit or whatever because I
would never think that it's literally my mom because she died okay so the same
has got to be with Jesus Christ in the sense that yeah I'm sure he probably
looks like Jesus to them still because it's Jesus we get that but they're just
not anticipating him being Jesus in any way shape or form therefore it's not
confusing to think like right when they run into this guy they're not instantly
thinking it's Jesus because every person you run into you don't just instantly
think is Jesus Christ okay and there's been people that you and I both know
like you're out shopping you're out somewhere and you look at someone and at
first you kind of think like oh they look like somebody I know but then like
over then you kind of like realize oh no I don't think that's them even if they
really look like them you're still kind of incredulous you're not really sure
it's gonna be similar for the disciples that whenever they look at Jesus even
though he's risen from the dead they're not instantly like oh it's Jesus they're
thinking like who are you you look a lot like Jesus but I don't know who you are
right but what sense would it make if I died and then all of a sudden Ben showed
up your door and said I'm Jonathan you'd be like no you're not you don't look
anything like him okay like it wouldn't make any sense for some random dude to
just show up and then claim to be you in fact why would you ever believe that I
would never believe that right I mean would you ever believe that I was
brother Carlos I mean if I died and brother Carlos is like I'm really pastor
Shelley like I don't think there's anything he could say I mean even if he
had some interesting fact you would just be thinking like I don't know how he got
that information but he's definitely not pastor Shelley okay like you would never
believe that right you have to have the literal person that literally died come
back now look at Luke chapter 23 look at verse 55 and the women also it's came
with them from Galilee followed after and beheld the sepulcher and now his
body was laid they return and prepared spices and ointments and rest of the
Sabbath day according to the commandment now the reason why I read that verse is
because it gives us the subject of what we're talking about women there is women
that went that checked out where Jesus was laid and they're gonna come back
later to basically anoint his body says in verse number one of chapter 24 now a
upon the first day of the week very early in the morning they notice it as
they that's why I went back there's you know who the day of the day is the women
right they came under the sepulcher bringing the spices which they had
prepared and certain others with them and they found the stone rolled away
from the sepulcher and they entered in and found not the body of the Lord Jesus
and it came to pass as they were much perplexed there about the old two men
stood by them in shining garments and as they were afraid and bowed down their
faces to the earth they said unto them why seek ye the living among the dead
he is not here but it's risen remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in
Galilee saying the Son of Man must be livid into the hands of simple men and
be crucified and the third day rise again there was your gospel in the Old
Testament FYI and they notice this remembered his words hey it's gonna be
hard to confuse them and say hey you remember there was no gospel testament
like no we remember he breezes the gospel in the Old Testament verse 9 and
they returned from the sepulcher and told all these things under the 11 and
all the rest it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and
other women that were with them which told these things and the Apostles so we
have Mary Joanna and Mary apparently they're from Mexico or something I'm
just gonna go to Matthew 28 they all went to the sepulcher and there was no
body now think about it this way if Jesus did not rise again from the dead
wouldn't his body still be in the tomb and wouldn't it be even more difficult
to believe you know if I die you put my body in a coffin and then Carlos comes
up and says I'm pastor Shelley and then you're looking at my body in the coffin
wouldn't that be really confusing you'd be like here's the body here's pastor
Shelley okay it's right here it doesn't make any sense to try and suppose that
it didn't really happen what would happen if you raise from the dead your
body wouldn't be in the tomb exactly like the Bible describes it and they
have this giant stone you really think Mary and Joanna are over here like in
the WNBA pulling that stone away in fact the entire WNBA team wouldn't have
been able to move that stone sorry they need a real man okay not you want a man
or whatever some of you know what I'm talking about all right but it really
important facts here that we have that the Bible is establishing there is no
body think about this the most influential person ever we don't have
his body we don't know where it is and in fact not even the Jews know where it
is now of course they make a lot a little lie about it who is a liar but
who is a Jew right okay Matthew 28 look at verse 9 and as they went to tell his
disciples behold Jesus met them saying all hail and they came and held him by
the feet and worshiped him then said Jesus unto them be not afraid go tell my
brethren that they go into Galilee and there shall they see me so I'm fast
forward to this is a parallel passage they went to the tomb they saw the
angels the angels are saying go back but on their way back Jesus himself met them
and notice he said behold Jesus met them saying all hail and they came and held
him by the feet notice this and worshiped him so were they convinced
that this is Jesus absolutely they knew is Jesus they held him they literally
worship him now the word worship in your Bible typically means bow down that's
what that means so they literally bow down before Jesus they worshiped him and
then they're going back so the first eyewitnesses according to scripture are
these women now if you want to tell the whole world tell a couple women I mean
case closed he didn't tell the twelve disciples he's like let's just tell a
Mary and it's over you know and we all know if you tell the right woman
everyone knows everyone knows and and when I say the right woman's just any
of them really so but according to the Bible they got to see him he says don't
be afraid tell them they're gonna see me too verse 11 now when they were going
behold some of the watch came into the city and showed him the chief priests
all the things that were done and when they were assembled with the elders and
had taken counsel they gave large money under the soldiers now who's the they
there it's Jews so those Jews have large money verse 13 saying say is disciples
came by night and stole them away while we slept notice number two the Jews they
blame Christians number 14 and if they come to the governor's ears we will
persuade them and scare you notice they bribe government officials verse 15 so
they took the money and did as they were taught and saying this is commonly
reported among the Jews under this day notice they're behind the biggest
conspiracy ever denying the resurrection of Jesus Christ wicked synagogue of
Satan okay but of course Jesus Christ realizing that there's gonna be this big
lie out there he's gonna give eyewitnesses a chance to go out and
declare the gospel of Jesus Christ he's telling these women they literally saw
his body in the tomb and then they see it not there and then they see it right
there up in front and they get to touch it now I think personally just my
personal opinion for reading the scripture why did why did Jesus show
himself in first of course we talked about that women love to share things
okay but another reason is think about this they were purposely going there to
anoint his body they loved Jesus they cared for him they wanted to take care
of him even after death they wanted to anoint his body so it's not a
coincidence that those are the people that Jesus shows up to first are the
ones that want to see him and let me tell you something you want to see Jesus
look for him because you can find them right here in these scriptures the
reason why people don't find Jesus is because they're not looking because they
don't want to find Jesus hey if you go to the sepulcher if you're going to
anoint Jesus if you seek you shall find according to the scriptures and you know
what you want to know Jesus Christ go look for him he'll find you'll find him
he'll find you he'll show up and he'll say hey here am I you know it's like oh
I want God to talk to me okay well if you seek him he'll talk to you maybe not
in the way you wanted maybe not in the way that you expected right didn't they
expect to find a dead body but then they found someone alive and you know what
you go into this book saying it's just a book but you know what when you start
reading it you'll realize it's alive you realize this book is living you'll
realize that this book will literally describe every event of your life even
right now it doesn't matter how much technology it doesn't matter how what
goes on and not only that when you have the Holy Spirit inside of you who
constantly remind you of Scripture he'll remind you of the words of God he'll
constantly provoke you he'll convict you he'll approve you he'll rebuke you he'll
comfort you he'll guide you and you actually get to be with Jesus every day
of your life when you open up the scriptures and you let the Holy Spirit
guide you now of course we're not eyewitnesses we don't have that
privilege you know what he told Thomas hey blessed are they that have not seen
and yet believe but of course you know the most important event to ever happen
in human history was not without eyewitnesses oh no no the the God of the
Bible doesn't try to leave his religion to the hands of a few pedophiles to tell
the whole world no he gives it into hundreds of eyewitnesses hundreds of
eyewitnesses okay the most influential person of human history acts chapter
number 10 to have you turn there turn to acts chapter number 10
now these women went they told the disciples they were incredulous John and
Peter go run to the sepulcher John's apparently a lot faster than Peter he
likes to tell people about that but of course if you think Jesus is risen again
from the dead what will be a great place to confirm that when the tomb you're
like where is he because either one or two things happen someone moved his body
or he risen he's come back from the dead okay and they're like well let's see if
he's even there and it's not there it's like oh what happened okay now think
about it from a disciples perspective according to the Jewish narrative
according to the 9-11 official story the disciples took the body but if you're a
disciple you know that didn't happen so you're like oh wow the only other option
is that I took the body well I know I didn't take the body so what would what
would be the only left as an option he came back from the dead he's living just
like he told me I mean think about this he told me multiple times I saw the
miracles the only option is that I took the body and I can't remember or it's
exactly like he said and every other thing he's ever said happened exactly
like he said right now of course then Jesus doesn't even leave it there he
then literally showed himself unto his disciples he came in the midst of them
he talked with them he ate with them okay now why did he eat with them
because it was a physical resurrection and you know what I like he ate that
means that I have hope that I'm gonna get to eat again in the future praise
God now I wish he had had a steak but you know he still had fish so there you
go some fish and some honeycomb and I don't think it was the cereal but maybe
you have that in heaven too I don't know but but here's the thing he showed
himself unto those disciples now that's important because they're gonna have to
spend their entire lives dedicated to the Lord Jesus Christ going out and
being witnesses of the of the resurrection and they're gonna suffer a
lot of evil and you know it's gonna help them it's gonna bolster them the fact
that they've literally seen Jesus okay look at Acts chapter number 10 verse 37
that word I say you know which is published throughout all Judea and began
from Galilee after the baptism was John preached how God anointed Jesus of
Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power who went about doing good and
healing all that were oppressed of the devil for God was with him and we are
witnesses of all things which he did both the land of the Jews and in
Jerusalem whom they slew and hanged on a tree him God raised up the third day and
showed him notice this word openly not to all the people but unto witnesses
chosen before of God even to us meaning specifically to us who did eat and drink
with him after he rose from the dead so notice we say not only do we see this
guy not only hang out with this guy we ate and drank in his presence he ate and
drank with us now he was open but he was only open to those that know him this is
really kind of a picture of being saved you know everyone that's saved can see
Jesus in the scriptures but you know what it's open I mean you just let the
Bible fall open and you just see Jesus on every page you see all the pictures
of Jesus through all the prophets you see Jesus and Joseph you see Jesus and
Moses you see Jesus and Jonah but to the unsaved they just can't see him and it's
the same with the Word of God all it takes is getting saved and then you can
see Jesus it's open but you know what you had to believe first and you know
what these disciples they dedicated their lives to Jesus they had faith in
Jesus ever before the passion so of course he's going to show himself
openly after the fact and that's one of the aspects of Christianity is hey you
don't get to see all of the things beforehand you have to first believe
without faith it's impossible to please them but you know what if you believe in
Jesus Christ he'll open up your eyes and you'll be able to see everything so
clearly you'll understand the world so much more clearly you understand the
Bible so much more clearly you'll understand everything about yourself and
your thoughts and humanity so clearly but you know what it takes that initial
faith put in Jesus Christ that saves you put the faith in his death-bearing
resurrection and it will save you okay and he's saying hey we we got to see it
literally now he said in verse 42 and he commanded us to preach unto the people
and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the judge of quick
and dead to give to him give all the prophets witness that through his name
whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins just saying look
obviously we got to see it but you know what the whole Bible testified of Jesus
Christ and every single prophet prophesied that if you believe in Jesus
you have remission of sins notice the gospel is everywhere how people say oh
there is no gospel no Testament no no no it's everywhere all the prophets give
him witness they're all about Jesus the whole Bibles about Jesus you know I love
that when I worked at this one church I didn't like the church but I just loved
this moment in time I'm talking to this youth pastor and I was fortunate to kind
of lead a youth group at the time and I I was just kind of curious I was like
hey you know you don't have a curriculum so I just kind of want to make sure like
you know is it okay if I preach certain parts of the Bible or like what do you
want me to preach he's like as long as it's about Jesus and I was like good
it's always gonna be about Jesus cuz look the whole Bible is about Jesus my
friend it's all about him every single square inch in fact it is him you can't
the Bible says that he's the Word of God okay and look the Word of God is walking
around with Adam and Eve in the garden okay maybe they were talking about
Leviticus 20 13 I don't know but you know and Adams thinking like that's so
weird like I don't think we'll need that one oh yes you do okay go to John
chapter 20 go to John chapter 20 look I had that moment when I was little
all I would do is read the Old Testament over and over because I would
like lose track after like Joshua judges or something and that would just start
over so I just read like Genesis Exodus Leviticus numbers just like over and
over and over over and over and over it's like I didn't know the minor
prophets at all but I knew Leviticus I knew Deuteronomy and I remember reading
through the Leviticus 20 and I thought like why do we even have this no one
would ever do these things these are so weird and then it's like this is
America 2022 it's so bizarre and then you start realizing I guess God smarter
than me because you know if you'd asked me I would have said we don't need those
rules we don't need those laws we don't need to bring that up no one would ever
do that but God in his infinite wisdom knew everything that man would do knew
all the evil that would follow us and he gave us the perfect commandments just
like he knew everything about Jesus before it ever happened Jesus is not an
afterthought Jesus is not plan B Jesus is the entire show it's all about him
always was about him it was always about his death bear and resurrection and in
fact that's what's so great when we do the Bible studies and we just sit there
and we see the death burn resurrection in Genesis and Exodus and Leviticus and
Numbers and in judge you know all throughout why because then it helps
remind you the fact that it was always about Jesus and in fact you can also see
that he was always about saving the Gentiles even in the Old Testament it
was always about those who had faith never about works because no one had
works enough to get into heaven and we see the same themes of the Bible carried
forth over and over and over and over and over again these are really
important and he's saying look you guys don't need to see Jesus to believe in
him just believe the scriptures just believe the prophets but you know what
even some of Jesus's does own disciples didn't Thomas right John chapter 20
look at verse 24 but Thomas one of the 12 called Didymus was not with them when
Jesus came so he has not seen Jesus physically yet he hasn't seen it the
other disciples therefore said unto him we have seen the Lord but he said unto
them except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger
into the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side I will not believe
and after eight days again his disciples were within and Thomas with them then
came Jesus the doors being shut and stood in the midst and said peace be
unto you then say thee to Thomas reach into thy finger and behold my hands and
reach into thy hand and thrust thrust through it into my side and be not
faithless but believing and Thomas answered and said unto him my Lord and my
God Jesus saith unto him Thomas because thou has seen me thou has believed
blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed so notice he's saying
hey I'm glad I'm glad you believed in me after you saw me but you know what's
even better the people that didn't have to see it they believed anyways and you
and none of us have ever seen yet we believed why look why would you want to
why would you be a disciple all the other disciples are saying they saw it
Mary and Joanna and the other Mary they all said that they saw it they're just
lying the tombs empty it just didn't happen I mean you literally just have to
ignore so many facts so much reality to be like doubting Thomas no we need to be
believing and if we believe in the death burial and resurrection which arguably I
mean when you think about things that are miracles in the Bible this is
arguably one of the most difficult miracles to believe in because we've
never seen anybody come back from the dead we've never seen Jesus we don't
have you know historical documents outside of the scripture proving any of
these things telling us all these things yet we believe it and if we believe that
in the death burn resurrection of our Lord and Savior why wouldn't we believe
the whole Bible why why can't we let this pass it because you know it's real
easy to sit and be like Thomas of course Thomas didn't believe yet how many other
places can I show in Scripture to Christians today and they won't believe
those they'll condemn Thomas for not believing the death burn resurrection
but then I can show them other places in Scripture and they're like that's Old
Testament it's like yeah the Gospels Old Testament I'm why does it matter if
it's old you know they just don't believe the Bible you know we should
challenge ourselves to believe everything that's written whether we've
seen it or not what would be something like that how about tithing that's not
something that you can see you just have to do by faith right what about going to
church and it changing your life that's not something you can see the effect of
until you go to church you know how about soul winning you don't know how
soul winning will change your life until you go so winning you don't know reading
the Bible change your life until you start reading the Bible you don't know
how having many as many children as you can possibly have will change your life
until you have them and then you're like can I go back I'm just kidding you don't
know what any of these things are like you don't know hey you don't know what
it's like to discipline your child with the rod until you do it until they're
until you've risen you know a child up until you've brought the child up and to
an adult and then you can see the effects of your parenting okay so you
say well how am I gonna live my life we're supposed to live it by faith not
be like Thomas and be doubting and say well until I see my child doing right
I'm not gonna discipline them according the Bible until I see my life change I'm
not gonna go to church until Jesus shows up and tells me to read the Bible I'm
not gonna read the Bible until someone falls down and says sir what must I do
to be saved I'm not gonna go so winning you know that's a bad way to live your
life and of course if that happened get them saved but blessed are they that
haven't seen that yet and then they went out and then they got someone saved and
you had to do it by faith and everybody that first went out they did it by faith
so let's talk about why we believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ
number one the spirit which is the Word of God number two is the blood and the
water number three is the witnesses in heaven God the Father the Son and the
Holy Ghost number four is the eyewitnesses we literally had
eyewitnesses go out into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole world
and then those eyewitnesses religion exists today in Christianity the number
one religion in the world obviously I'm throwing in Catholics just to be nice
okay but if we're gonna say people that are claiming to follow Christ okay we're
just saying they're somewhat following Christ even though we know they're not I
get that okay we're just saying what's the most influential religion it's it's
Christianity okay what's the next biggest influential religion Islam but
see what's interesting about Islam is it's not there's like brand-new
completely different religion it's just a perverted version of Christianity just
like Catholicism I mean we have Christianity then we have a perverted
version of a Christianity is what Catholicism then we have a perverted
view even more perverted Islam and then even more perverted is like the
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons and then we have even more perverted Jews
Judaism and really I mean that's like half the world I mean people that are of
the quote Abrahamic religions I mean this is basically half the world
believes in this stuff and I mean we're talking about a guy that we don't even
have his body why because he lives he lives Christ Jesus lives today right
that's why and we had those eyewitness testimony going out and change the whole
thing about this if I said hey I want you to go ahead and create a brand-new
religion that half the world's gonna believe in some version of it good luck
with that how are you gonna do that so we have a fifth point that I want to
make it's the fruit of the resurrection of Jesus Christ the fruit and and look
Christianity while we understand it's not entirely new it is new it's the New
Testament right it's the better Testament and it was a new religion
because the Old Testament law is now been changed and altered so we now have
a new way to worship God we have a new religion that's that's open to all that
believe in faith and Jesus Christ so basically we have a brand new religion
starting out after the resurrection of Jesus Christ and when did Christianity
explode I mean did Christianity explode in 500 BC no did it explode in 500 AD no
it exploded when right after the resurrection of Jesus Christ why because
that was the catalyst of Christianity you know Islam is several hundred years
later with some pedophile person that goes into caves and sees visions of
demons how is that the same and and think about this we had dozens of
eyewitnesses of the resurrection where are the dozens of witnesses of the
demon that came and talked to Muhammad it's one man isn't it it's one person
you know the Apostles went preaching everywhere they were literally martyrs
for the cause of Christ you know it's hard to convince someone to be a martyr
you can pretty much only do it through severe I'm through sincere devotion or
through extreme fear and intimidation now we do have people that will die for
their religion today jihadists but are they really doing it out of sincere love
and appreciation or are they doing out of carnal desire and fear intimidation
I get 72 virgins in heaven that guy's not doing out of a sincere love of God
he's doing that up because he's a pervert or most of the time I believe
it's out of fear and intimidation basically they say hey we'll kill your
family we'll chop you up we'll do this evil stuff to you or you go and blow
yourself up and then let's go do it but they're not doing it willfully they're
doing it under lots of pressure or someone's forcing them no one was
forcing the Apostle Paul to go from town to town to preach the gospel they're
thinking this guy's crazy why is he doing this why is he doing his own
volition why because he truly believed the gospel he truly believed in the Lord
Jesus Christ and we created the largest religion to ever exist and money the
false religions are just cults slanted off of Christianity here's another one
the Jehovah's Witnesses right now again I want to just take a second and debunk
a couple of their claims because if you run into a Jehovah's Witness here's a
really important fact they don't believe in the physical resurrection of Jesus
and let me tell you something they're not saved even if they did believe that
they still believe it works they still have a perverted Bible they
have a perverted religion now here's another thing about them they just deny
so much reality they're pretty much typically not receptive the gospel at
all so I don't really want to waste a lot of time with them but you know maybe
someone that's kind of a jack Jehovah's Witness some of us not really there or
barely went there they came and had a Bible study with them one time you need
to rescue them quick because this false religion is so wicked but they said I
went to their website and it talks about the resurrection being not physical and
says let's look to the Bible good acts chapter 13 go to action for 13 they said
the Bible says that Jesus was put to death in the flesh but made alive and
the spirit so they're saying oh it's just a spiritual thing which in the King
James Bible they're quoting first Peter chapter number three but it says he was
quickened by the spirit okay I mean he was just made alive by the spirit that
doesn't mean that his body didn't come back to life in fact there's no it does
it just really is kind of a straw man because there's nothing to do with what
we're talking about the method by which Jesus rose again from the dead has no
impact on if he did come back from the dead or not or what body that was okay
but they're trying to twist the words of the Bible to say made alive in the
spirit so they're saying oh it wasn't in the flesh it was in the spirit but you
know the King James Bible says by the spirit that's a really important word
by and it's important to get in every word Bible like the King James Bible not
their twisted perversion and look plenty of people say like oh these nuances
don't matter in the modern Bibles but look how an entire cult is literally
hinging on one prepositional phrase in or by just that one little and of course
some of that saved is never to come with these stupid doctrines but notice how
the unsaved twist perverted scriptures to their own benefit now they also go to
Acts chapter 13 verse 34 and this is a proof text that Jesus did not rise again
physically well let's read it acts chapter 13 verse 34 and it's concerning
that he raised him up from the dead now no more to return to corruption he said
on this wise I will give you the sure mercy of David now didn't that just
point-blank prove that he didn't rise from the dead physically I'm thinking
like I don't even know what their point is exactly I guess it says to no more
return to corruption and they think that his physical body was corruption but
that that can't be true because Jesus Christ was not corrupt if Jesus Christ
was corrupt in his physical body when he died on the cross then he couldn't have
died for our sins he was incorruptible okay and the Bible explicitly states
that his flesh did not see corruption and you'd say well well where is that in
the scripture let's just read a couple more verses and we read this 34 let's
keep reading verse 35 wherefore he sayeth also in another psalm thou should
not suffer thy holy one to see corruption for David after had served
his own generation by the will of God fell on a sleep and was laid unto his
father's notices and saw corruption but he whom God raised again saw no
corruption he's saying look you idiots look you morons David died and his body
rotted but Jesus body didn't rot so then how can you literally say that proves
that he didn't rise again physically it's like that's exactly what the whole
point of this passage is it's like how stupid can you be it's saying look David
died and his body rotted we don't have it anymore but Jesus Christ didn't his
body was in the in the tomb for three days but you know it came back to life
and it saw no corruption we still have the same body what kind of a foolish
idiot literally turns here to try and prove the physical resurrection didn't
actually happen someone is blind this is what you have to understand about false
religion in the Colts it's not that they don't have the answer it's that they
don't want to see it they could have the resurrected Jesus standing in front of
them in bodily form saying put your finger in the hole of my hand and they
would say I thought it was a torture stake
they wouldn't believe it you say no no no no if they saw Jesus they would
believe it oh yeah like the Pharisees when they saw Jesus literally casting
out Devils before their eyes and then they said he did it by the power of the
devil
and let me tell you a secret it's not a secret but I'm gonna tell you see all
right if people won't believe the Bible they wouldn't believe anything this is
the greatest proof this is what we put our faith in and you know it's it's it's
like well they won't believe the scripture what what can I do now walk
away there isn't another option it's not like a you know Jesus was I'm sorry
Abraham told the rich man down in hell he said look even though one rose from
the dead they still wouldn't believe it why because it's not about seeing it's
about faith here's another point they may go to John chapter 2 if that wasn't
enough which that was enough okay I mean talk about I was just I was so
incredulous that they have that I mean go to Acts chapter 2 which also says
that he saw no corruption neither does flesh see corruption okay clearly
indicating that it had to come back from the dead but they also say this Jesus
own words show that he would not be resurrected with his flesh and blood
body he said that he would give his flesh on the behalf of the life of the
world as a ransom for mankind if he had taken back his flesh when he was
resurrected he would have canceled that ransom sacrifice this could not have
happened though for the Bible says that he sacrificed his flesh and blood once
for all time if Jesus was raised up with a spirit body how could a disciple see
him so they basically just say like if Jesus died and came back to life that
would have nullified our salvation think about how satanic this doctrine is
they're literally saying like if you actually believe the real gospel then
you're denying that Jesus could even save us it's like no no no no the fact
that he came back from the dead proves our salvation it's the proof of our
salvation it's the hope that we have that we'll be resurrected again one day
Oh Jesus own words said that he wouldn't come back physically oh yeah well let's
see John chapter number two look at verse number 19 and Jesus answered and
said unto them destroy this temple and in three days I'll raise it up again
they said hey destroy this and I'll bring it back what is it what are we
talking about well let's keep reading then the Jews said then said the Jews
forty and six years of the temple and building and wilt thou reared up in
three days but he spake of the temple of what his body hey Joe's false witness
Jesus said he would bring back his body oh yeah how do you argue that again
because they're idiots I don't like Joe's witnesses I'm just gonna tell you
okay they are idiots and they walk around slow and depressed because
they're going to hell they say this after his resurrection Jesus also
assumed human form temporarily just as angels had previously done as a spirit
creature though he was able to appear and disappear suddenly the fleshly
bodies that he materialized were not identical from the one appearance to the
next so he showed up as Carlos and then he showed up at the bin you know then
then he showed up as a black woman that cooks pancakes or something I mean think
about this satanic doctrine they're literally teaching you can show up in
any form that he wants you know who actually does that the devil the devil
will show up all of a sudden in a snake he'll all of a sudden show up and
inhabit someone else's body isn't that what the devil does it's called demon
possession where they show up and they take over someone's body and they start
spouting false wicked doctrine you know what Jesus doesn't do he doesn't ever
impersonate other people why would he do that anyways that would be inferior to
who he is Jesus shows up as himself and every time Jesus shows up they always
fall down because it's so glorifying he's so he's a glorified he's so you
know terrifying as the Bible describes him you couldn't stand in his presence
you just forced an eel just like it's kind of the Sun if you don't have
sunglasses on especially you can't just look at the Sun you're forced to look
away and and as much as that's true it's even more true that if Jesus was in your
presence you would literally fall face-flat on the floor you would be
hiding and in essence you know and whenever Jesus returns all the unsaved
are going and hiding in rocks with their prophet Muhammad saying fall on us
but think about how this doctrine fits well with the Antichrist since he can
appear in any form some random dude is gonna show up and it's gonna be Jesus
and guess who's gonna believe in that the Jehovah's Witnesses and you know
what that body's not gonna have the crucifixion wounds but look if we saw
Jesus in heaven what did the Bible say we would see the lamb slain that's a
pretty big difference and you know when Thomas was looking at you think about
the logic of this okay Thomas is saying unless I see the print of the nails like
in his hands he didn't say in someone's hands in his hands right and his feet
and then he's like behold my hand you know why would I think like okay brother
Carlos has holes in his hand why would I believe that's me because there's holes
in his hand what about the two thieves that died on the cross next to Jesus if
we saw them and put our finger through their hand why would I then believe in
Jesus because of that this is the dumbest religion on the planet why would
I believe that Jesus showed up in a random body that was trashed and then
that was Jesus that's not even faith that's stupidity that makes no sense we
they obviously saw the body that was on the cross they saw it in the flesh they
touched that body because Jesus wasn't like hey this is just some random body I
just made a you know trash some body just to show you this no no it was his
body to prove what that he rose from the dead go to Romans 6 last place
overturned Matthew 22 says I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the
God of Jacob God is not the God of the dead with a living look when someone
dies they go to heaven and they're in a spiritual body okay in a sense it's just
your spirit right obviously that spirit has a form whatever that is it's your
spiritual body okay if Jesus Christ did not come back from the dead physically
what would separate Abraham Isaac and Jesus what makes Jesus different than
them how would Jesus be the first begotten of the dead he wouldn't you
know it makes him the first begotten of the dead because he has that body while
the rest of us our body is still here except for a few exceptions okay Elijah
or somebody I don't know I don't know how that works okay throw them let's
cast them aside the rest of us our bodies are here and what happens think
about in 1st Corinthians chapter 15 we have to plant a seed into the ground and
then it springs up is the same as our bodies being down on the earth and
what's gonna happen they're gonna come back out how could you even make sense
of Ezekiel when you have the dry bones literally putting flesh back on them
you know obviously our flesh right now is a corrupted flesh we'll put it on a
glorified flesh but you know what we're still gonna have flesh we're still gonna
have a body and not just a spiritual body but one made like unto Christ okay
because we are gonna take on his image now obviously we don't look exactly like
him I'm not Peter Ruckman up here saying that all the women are gonna turn into a
33 year old man that sounds like the doctrine of Caitlyn Jenner or something
but obviously just like we're human as Jesus is a man whatever his glorified
state is we're gonna take on that same state and we're gonna have an
incorruptible flesh and we'll get to be with Jesus now think about think about
this okay well we're kind of trashing the Jehovah's Witnesses what's what's
our church doctrine Baptist and what's a really important thing about
Christianity baptism I mean and think about how many people have been baptized
since the resurrection since John the Baptist till now I'm what we're talking
about millions and millions potentially even billions billions of people have
been physically baptized now whether they were saved or not obviously plenty
of people in baptized are not saved but notice that a lot of people have been
baptized okay what is baptism picture I wonder okay it pictures Jesus Christ's
death burial and let me tell you something physical resurrection we don't
hold you down and squirm until your spirit comes out otherwise not very many
people want to get baptized by me it's usually cold anyways it's not that much
fun but I'm saying hey we bring you back up
Romans 6 look at verse 3 know you not that so many of us were baptized into
Jesus Christ were baptized in his death therefore we are buried with them by
baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory
of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life for if we've
been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the
likeness of his resurrection knowing this that our old man is crucified with
them that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not
serve sin now we talked a lot about the bottle of resurrection we obviously have
proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt let's talk about the application what's
the application of the physical resurrection well number one is we get
baptized baptism is the first step after getting saved if you got baptized
before you got saved all you did was get wet and I don't care how many times you
got wet it doesn't matter to me now after you get saved you only have you
baptized once just like you were born once just like you were saved once okay
but baptism pictures that you want to die to the old man and you want to walk
in newness of life when we put on our new body our glorified flesh we are not
gonna be able to sin of course Jesus never sinned okay but he also coming up
is picturing the what the newness the new man the not sinning so by believing
in the physical resurrection and by getting physically baptized what we're
saying is we don't want to serve sin anymore we want to serve Jesus we want
to walk in the new man so you know what let's go beyond just believing the fact
that Jesus rose again from the dead why don't we live like Jesus rose again from
the dead why don't we walk a life that looks like it came back from the dead
and you know what talk about the fruit that helps me believe in the physical
resurrection how about the change lives of people that start serving God and of
course we don't believe in our church that you have to have a changed life to
go to heaven but you should and we've seen it how many people have been just a
loser a derelict a drunk whatever their problems are and then they get saved
then they get baptized then they start reading the Bible and it's a completely
different person in fact if your old friends ran into you they would say who
are you I don't recognize you anymore you seem completely different and you
know what that's a testimony to the resurrection of Jesus Christ that's a
testimony to him becoming new is that we too should become new we should walk
different we should look different you know I guarantee if you come to our
church and then you visit almost any other church out here you say y'all
Church is different I hope so I hope it's different than Steven Furtick's
Church than TD Jake's Church and you say why because those people aren't even
saved they don't have the real power of the gospel and look the power of the
gospel will change lives it'll make people different they'll act different
they'll speak different they'll think different everything about them can be
different and you know what you need to get baptized to get in that newness of
life but if you've been baptized shame on you if you're not walking that newness
of life you need to get plugged in you need to start living like you believe
and stop being a doubting Thomas believe all the scriptures serve God with our
lives let's go some prayer Thank You Heavenly Father for giving us the gospel
thank you for giving us your son the Lord Jesus Christ thank you so much for
his death burial and physical resurrection I pray that we would
understand the importance of this doctrine I pray that we'd never be
carried away with some some foolish idea some lie some Jewish conspiracy but
rather we would believe the scriptures and not just concerning the gospel but
all the scriptures I pray that those that need to be baptized would get
baptized those of us that have been baptized we be reminded of what we did
the choice that we made so that we would walk in newness of life that we would
not henceforth serve sin but rather we would serve the true and living God that
we go out and be a living testimony of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and
that one day we'll get to see the lamb slain and give him the honor and the
glory that's due to his name in Jesus name we pray amen
right for a final song we'll go to 34 I know that my Redeemer liveth song 34 I
know that my Redeemer liveth song number 34 I know that my Redeemer liveth let's
sing it out together I know that my Redeemer liveth and on the earth again
shall stand I know eternal life he giveth that grace and power are in his hand
I know I know that Jesus liveth and on the earth again shall stand I know I
know that life he giveth that grace and power are in his hand I know his promise
never fail let the word he speaks it cannot die
death my flesh assailed him by and by I know I know that Jesus liveth and on the
earth again shall stand I know I know that life he giveth that
grace and power are in his hand I know my mansion he prepareth that where he is
there I may be Oh wondrous thought for me he careth and he at last will come
for me I know I know that Jesus liveth and on the earth again shall stand I know I
know that life he giveth that grace and power are in his hand
happy Easter God bless you are dismissed
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