Once again, I just want to say thank you to the Tavener family for having me here.
Pastor Tavener, thank you so much for having us come over here. It's always
great to be here and the hospitality, like I said, is always top-notch and I
wanted to say thank you to the church family. Thank you for being here tonight.
I know a lot of you probably worked a hard day today and it's not exactly easy
to get around on an island and I just want to say thank you so much for being
here. Thank you so much for just being here to support us and being here to
support your pastor, being here to support the Lord Jesus Christ. We sang
that song, More and More About Jesus, and that's kind of what I want to preach
about tonight. And the title of my sermon is The Whole Gospel, The Whole Gospel, and
I'm really gonna give it to you tonight. So Pastor Tavener said that it's gonna
be more of a Bible study and it is, but let's look down at our Bibles at Romans
5 verse 6. The Bible says, For when we were yet without strength in due
time, Christ died for the ungodly. So I just want to point out there that Christ
died and of course the Lord Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh and he did
die. So did God die? Yes, he did. Scarcely for us righteous men will
one die. Yet paired venture for a good man some would even dare to die. But God
commendeth his love toward us and that while we were yet sinners Christ died
for us. So he did die. Much more than being now justified by his blood. So the
Bible says we're justified by his blood. We shall be saved from wrath through him.
So how are we saved? By wrath through him, but we are justified by his blood. So he
died for us, he shed his blood for us and we're saved by wrath through him.
Justified means, you could just say it like this, just as if I'd never sinned.
Once that blood is applied to us, applied to the sinner, through faith we believe
in him and that blood is applied to us, then we are saved through wrath. It is
just as if we'd never sinned. Verse 10, For if when we were enemies we
were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more being reconciled we
shall be saved by his life. So are we saved just through the blood or are we
saved just through his death? No, it says we're saved by his life also, right? Isn't
that what it says? So and it says not only so, but we also joy in God through
our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement. Now when it
says the atonement, a lot of people will say, well the atonement is just the blood.
But is it just the blood? Is the atonement of Christ just the blood? Well
in these first, verse 6 through verse 11, it seems to be saying a bunch of
different stuff here, right? It's saying that Christ died, it's saying that we're
saved through wrath through him, it's saying that we're justified through his
blood, we're saved by his life. And then it says we've received the atonement. Now
I just want to present to you the fact that the gospel isn't just one thing, it's
not just one aspect of things that Jesus did, it's just not, it's not just the
blood, it's not just the death, it's not just the fact that he raised from the
dead, it's all these things in one package, the gospel or the good news. And
of course people don't have to understand every single little detail
of this teaching that I'm going to teach tonight, but it is, you know, all
this still is true and it is the gospel. But we don't have to obviously present
every single aspect of what I'm going to preach tonight. But the blood atonement
is just one aspect of the gospel, but the atonement that it's talking about is the
whole thing, okay? It's not just one aspect of what it's being talked about
here. If Jesus just bled but didn't die, would his sinless blood be enough to
save all mankind? Would it be? No, it wouldn't. The full gospel also includes
the perfect and sinless life of Christ. If he just shed his blood but was not
sinless, but he was a pretty good guy, would it have been enough? Absolutely not.
If Jesus Christ was just a normal man, it would, you know, it just would not be
enough, you know. And so that's, you know, that's part of the gospel is that he had
to have lived a perfect life. What about the prophecies? If one of the prophecies
in the Old Testament did not come true about Christ, would he have been the
Savior? No, he wouldn't have been the Savior. And Jesus had to die. What if
he did all that other stuff but then he bled for us but then he didn't die? Would
he have been the Savior? Could the blood have saved us? No, it couldn't
have. So, and here's the thing. Jesus had to die and the death of the testator
had to happen for the New Testament to be in effect. That's what the Bible
teaches. The Levitical priesthood had to go away along with all those
cardinal ordinances along with the Sabbath day. Those things had to go away
for Jesus Christ to be our Sabbath, you know. That's what the Sabbath pictured
was that Christ had to do all that work for us and we have to rest from our own
works and trust in Christ alone. That's what we go out and preach to people all
the time. It's not of works, right? But it's the works that Jesus did, the
finished works. So, and if he didn't die the death of a condemned, unsaved man,
that wouldn't be taking our place, would it? So, if Jesus just died and then he
didn't die the death of an unsaved person, would it have been enough? No,
because didn't he take our place? Didn't he take the place of every man, woman,
and child that's ever been born and ever will be born? Yes, he did. So, and then
where did he take his place? You know, when he died, what does death actually mean? We
as Christians, if we're saved, when we die, we're not really dead. We're sleeping.
That's what the Bible actually teaches. That's what Jesus said, Lazarus is asleep
and I'm going to wake him up, right? So, Lazarus wasn't actually dead because
dead people die and go to hell. Dead people die and go to hell and people
that are saved, they die, their body dies, but their spirit and their soul go to
heaven. A saved person will never spend one second in hell. David never
spent one second in hell. No Old Testament saint ever spent one second in
hell. You and I will never spend one second in hell and the reason why is
because Jesus spent three days and three nights in hell for us, taking our place
there, because look, if he didn't die the death of an unsaved person, then how
could he have atoned for everything? So, the whole package is the atonement and
so when people, you know, people like to just mock us and say that, you know, Jesus
didn't go to hell for three days and three nights, which I just don't
understand what the big deal is. Are we still saying he's there? Are we still
saying he's in hell? It's like, it's blasphemy. No, it's not blasphemy. We
think he's alive. We think he's in heaven. We just think that the Bible says what
it says and we believe what the Bible says. So, they just want to just worm out
and weasel out of what the Bible actually says and try to say, oh, it's
Hades. Oh, it's Gehenna and all this other stuff. It's like, yeah, you want to
go back to the Greek, you want to go back to a foreign language to make it say
something that doesn't say because you don't want to, what, admit that Jesus took
your place for you? Like, I don't understand that, but if he didn't take
the place of the unsaved, you know, because that's what we, he took the place
of what we deserve to take. He took the, you know, he died for our sins on the
cross and then when he died, his body was buried in a tomb and his soul went to
hell, okay? That's what the Bible teaches. I'm gonna get into the details of that,
but he just, you know, it wasn't just the death of any run-of-the-mill sinner. He
died for every sinner and every sin that's ever been committed. So, Ted Bundy,
the little old lady that never trusted in Christ, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler,
Jeffrey Dahmer, the Pharaoh of Exodus, Judas Iscariot, every run-of-the-mill
sinner that's ever been on the face of the earth that might not just be as bad
as those people, every homo, every pervert, every pedophile, every chomo,
every sodomite, every drag queen, he died for them. Think about that because, I mean,
do you believe he died for everybody? You have to believe that because that's what
the Bible says, right? Turn to Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9. Hebrews chapter 2
verse 9. And I really do have to hurry in this sermon because there's a lot of
stuff to go through, but, I mean, this is the truth. The truth is the gospel is not
just one aspect and people will try to say it's just this or it's just that.
It's just the blood. It's not just the blood, but people will say it is. It's
just the cross. No, it's not just the cross. It's, you know, the cross is very
important and preaching the cross is very important, but it's not just the
cross. The gospel is not just the cross. Now, Hebrews 2 9 says, but we see Jesus
who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death,
crowned with glory and honor, that he, by the grace of God, should taste death for,
how many people? Every man, right? It's not just talking about men. He died for
women too, so don't get all upset, but he tasted death for every man. So that's
everybody, right? For it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all
things and bringing many sons unto glory to make the captain of their
salvation perfect through sufferings. So did he suffer on earth? Yes, he suffered
on earth, but he also did suffer in hell. And that's the other thing that upsets
people, that we say he suffered in hell, okay? But I'll get to that later, but
death is hell. If you die, that is going to hell. When the Bible says that he
died, he went to hell. That's what it means and I'll prove that beyond the
shadow of a doubt, but that's not all he did. Then he rose from the dead.
He rose from hell, so we don't believe he stayed there, but he rose from the dead
and after that he had to place his blood upon the mercy seat. So how was the Old
Testament sacrifice done? Well, there had to be a perfect lamb or whatever animal
it was. They had to be those clean beasts, right? But I'm just gonna give a for
instance here. The perfect lamb without blemish had to have no blemishes on it.
Why? Because it's picturing the Lord Jesus Christ, an innocent animal that's
never done anything wrong. It has no outside blemish, you know, no looks of
blemish to picture something that's never sinned, right? It's killed. The blood is
all drained from its body. It's put on the wood. That wood is caught on fire on
an altar. It's salted with salt. It's cooked. It's burnt with fire and then
depending on what type of offering it is, it's eaten. And then that blood that was
drained out of that animal is placed, you know, depending on what sacrifice or
whatever it was, is placed on the mercy seat every year by the high priest alone.
And that, you know, there's a lot of different offerings, okay? But I'm just
saying, but what happened to that animal? Every sacrifice was burnt with
fire, right? Okay? And every sacrifice was salted with salt. Every sacrifice was
drained of all of its blood. Every sacrifice had to be perfect. There was a
picture type of those atonement style animals and so people say, well, the
burning was just a picture of that animal going through the torment of the
cross, okay? Well, I mean, so Jesus was put on a cross. That's pretty torturous
itself, but what does that have to do with fire? At the end, you know, if you're
put, he's put in the tomb, but the Bible does teach that his soul went to hell. And
that's not the main focus of my sermon, but I am gonna get into that pretty
heavily. So, so the first thing I want to talk about here, I kind of just gave you
a summary of everything and now I'm gonna try to get into the main doctrines
here. So, the first thing is that to even be the one to pay the atonement for our
sins, it had to be the right person. The only person that was able to do this was
Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He had to be perfect, he had to be sinless, a man and
God at the same time. Turn to John chapter 9, John chapter 9. While you're
turning there, I'm going to read 1st Timothy chapter 3 verse 16. 1st Timothy
3 16 says, and without controversy great is the mystery of godliness, God was
manifest in the flesh. The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ was God manifest in
the flesh. Now, a lot of people say, you know, well when did Jesus ever claim to
be the Son of God? Well, let's look at John chapter 9 verse 35. It says, Jesus
heard that they cast him out and when he had found him, he said unto him, dost thou
believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might
believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him and it is he that
talketh with thee. Is he calling himself the Son of God right there? I think he is.
And he said, Lord, I believe and he worshipped him. Jesus Christ was the Son
of God. He claimed to be the Son of God and this man here that he healed, that
was blind from birth, he believed on him and Jesus said, I am, you know, he said,
I'm the one, I am him, you know, he basically said he was. So, in 1st John,
let's see, John chapter 1, turn to John chapter 1, you're already in John chapter
9, John chapter 1 verse 41, he also had to be what the Bible talks about as the
Messiah. It says, He first findeth his own brother Simon and saith unto him, We
have found the Messiah's which is being interpreted the Christ. So, every time you
say, they say Jesus Christ, it's talking about Jesus the Messiah. It's not his
last name. Christ is on his last name, it's just the title, the title given
to him, he's Jesus the Messiah. So, Christ means Messiah. The only person that could
could atone for our sins is Jesus the Messiah and Jesus the Messiah is not
just a man, he is the God-man Christ Jesus. And I won't have you turn here but
Hebrews chapter 4 verse 15, go ahead and turn to 2nd Corinthians 5 21, I'm gonna
read Hebrews 4 15 while you're turning there. Hebrews 4 15 says, For we have not
an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but
was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin. So, he had to be without
sin. This is part of the gospel. Jesus had to be sinless, he could not have sinned
ever and that's what the Bible teaches. 2nd Corinthians 5 21 says, For he hath
made him to be sin for us, but what's it say there? Who knew no sin. So, he became
sin, he wasn't a sinner but he was made to be sin for us when he was put on the
cross there, who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God
in him. So, this is the question, if Jesus didn't live a sinful, excuse me, a
sinless life, would his blood been acceptable? And I already asked that
question but what's the answer? It's no. It wouldn't have been
acceptable. He had to live a sinless life and it's so, again, it's not just the
blood that atones for sin, is it? It's the precious, you know, it's the life that he
lived is part of it. So, but he did have to become sin for us who knew no sin
because that's really the only thing that would cancel, that's the only
thing that cancels it out, right? Because Adam sinned. So, someone that had known no
sin had to be killed in his place to redeem us. Number two, his blood had to be
shed. That's also a fact. So, he had to be sinless, he had to be God, he had to be
the Messiah, he had to be a man but he also had to shed his blood for us. Now,
turn to Leviticus chapter 17 verse number 11. And the Bible does teach that
without the shedding of blood is no remission of sins. So, there's no taking
it away, basically. There's no way to take away sins without blood being shed
for it. So, you've heard of like cancer remission where cancer will go away or
be in remission. So, when it's talking about no shedding, without the
shedding of blood is no remission of sin, there's no taking it away without that
shed blood. Leviticus 17 11 says, for the life of the flesh is in the blood and I
have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls for it
is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. So, but if you just took
that passage right there and just said, okay, well that's all it is, it's
just the blood. But is that true? It's not true that it's only the blood. So, now 1st
Peter chapter 2 verse 24. Turn to 1st Peter chapter 2 verse 24.
1st Peter chapter 2 verse 24. The Bible says, who his own self bear are sins in
his own body on the tree that we being dead to sin sins should live unto
righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed. When it's talking about stripes,
it's talking about bloody stripes that are left by a whip, right? And it's
referring back to Isaiah 53, but it says that he bear our sins in his own body on
the tree, but we are healed by those stripes. That is part of the atonement.
First, you're already in 1st Peter chapter 2. Look at verse or chapter 1. 1st
Peter chapter 1 verse 18. It says, for as much as you know that you were not
redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood
of Christ as a lamb without blemish and without spot. So, it's referring back to
the fact that he had to have a sinless life as a lamb without blemish or spot,
but with the precious blood of Christ, there's no blood that cleans like his
blood. The blood of bulls and goats and animals, that was
just a temporary thing. It was a picture and it could never take away sins. The
book of Hebrews makes that very clear. Turn to Revelation chapter 5. Revelation
chapter 5. Actually, turn to 1st John chapter 2 verse 2. I'm gonna read
Revelation chapter 5. Revelation chapter 5 verse 9 says, 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 has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and
tongue and people and nation and has made us unto our God kings and priests
and we shall reign on the earth. So, Jesus Christ has redeemed us to God by his
blood. 1st John 2 2 says, and he, who's it talking about? Who's the he? It's Jesus
Christ is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the
sins of the whole world. So, that word propitiation there is kind of a big word
that's used in the Bible. A lot of times God, you know, most of the time God just
uses really simple words and simple phrasing, but this word is one that's
kind of a little, it's a word that we don't use very often, but it means it
literally, it means the atonement, it means the appeasing of God, the
satisfaction of his wrath. So, basically when Christ died for us, he shed his
blood for us, that blood satisfies the wrath of God against us. So, it's
not just the propitiation for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world. So,
everybody can be saved, but they just don't choose to be saved. So, he did die
for the sins of the whole world, but the whole world doesn't get saved and so
they have the opportunity, he gave everybody the opportunity, but not
everybody chooses to take that opportunity. So, I'm gonna kind of rifle
through some of this other stuff here. Number three, he had to die in the
right place. Where did Jesus, what place did Jesus die in? He died in Jerusalem on
Mount Moriah. I mean, his base is so, and I'll come back to that later,
but specifically, number four, in the right location. You know, he was at that
place, but he was outside the camp, right? The Bible talks about him going outside
the camp, so he was outside the city gates at Mount Calvary. Number five, at the
right time and day, he had to die. He died when? What day was it? Anybody know? The
Passover, right? He died at the Passover, at even, he died at the time of the
Passover. So, he fulfilled that timing that was in Exodus chapter 12, where they
were supposed to keep the Passover, you know, strike the doorpost with
the blood, and, you know, God would pass over them and not kill the firstborn of
all those people who were born of the children of Israel. And so, if they put
that blood and struck it above the door, struck it on the doorpost, that's that
picture of Christ, and Christ was the Passover Lamb. When John the Baptist
saw him, he said, Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
So, when he died, he had to die that specific day, that specific time. Now, a
lot of people say, like John MacArthur, you know, the devil that's gonna go to
hell here pretty soon, hopefully, he said the blood, you know, Jesus' blood, when he
died, it just went down into the ground. There's nothing magical
about his blood, and I don't like to use that word magical because Jesus
isn't like some magician or sorcerer or something. So, but there is something
special about his blood. So, to just say that his blood just trickled into the
ground and it was gone and there's nothing special about it, that's not true.
That's not true, and, you know, just because someone, you know, he picked, you
know, when he died, he did pay for the sins of the world with that blood, but
that has to go to the right place. When you pay for something, don't
you have to pay the right people and go to the right place to pay for it?
Like, when you have a bill due at your house, like, you know, say you guys have
electric bills here that's combined into other stuff, right? I don't know how
that works. It's electric, and what else is it? Gas? Gas. It's probably, like, super
expensive, right? So, do they just accept if you just, like, write a check for it
and just leave it on your coffee table? They don't, do they? So, I mean, but you
wrote the check, right? You wrote the check and you just left it on the table,
is that good enough? No, you have to take it to the right place, don't you? So, and
I'll get into that more later, but you don't, you have to put, you have to take
the payment to the correct location. So, I'll get back to that later, but number
six, it had to be, he had to die in the right manner.
Look at Galatians chapter 3 verse 13. While you're turning there, I'm going to
read 2 Corinthians 5 verse 21 again. I already went to that verse, but I'm
going to read it again. It says, For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew
no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. So, when he
died on the cross, he became sin for us. Just like, you know, when Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, they had to look at that, and that
snake on that brazen serpent on the pole became a curse. You know, they
were cursed by the snakes biting them, but if they looked at that, they lived,
right? So, when they looked, Christ became a curse, and when they, when we believe on
him, then we live also. So, but Galatians 3 verse 13 says, Christ hath redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is
everyone that hangeth on a tree. So, when he was crucified, in the Old Testament,
there's a law that says, if you're hung upon a tree, you have to be taken down at
even. That was a law in Israel, and in the book of Judges, you'll see, or in the book
of Joshua, they would take, they would conquer those kings in the Promised Land,
and they would hang them on trees, but they always took them down like they were
supposed to, according to the law of Moses, and the same thing happened with
Christ, he was hung on a tree, and killed, and he became a curse, you know,
God probably just wrote that in there, you know, because when Christ was
crucified, he became a curse for us, and because it's written, curses everyone
that hangeth on a tree. So, he had to die in the right way, and when he died there,
he became that curse for us. So, number seven, the prophecies had to come true, so
not a bone could be broken, they cast lots for his raiment, he was buried in a
rich man's tomb, he was given gall to drink on the cross, or vinegar, they spit
in his face, they smashed him in the face, they hit him in the face with their palms,
they punched him in the face, they, you know, the prophecy of they shall look on
him who they pierced, he gave his back to the smiters, they pierced his
hands and his feet, according to the book of Psalms, you know, his soul would not be
left in hell, according to Psalm chapter 16, in Leviticus chapter 23, you know, all
those those feasts represent something, and they lead to us, you know, they lead
you to Christ, they need to be fulfilled by Christ. So, in Leviticus
23, after the Sabbath, the wave offering had to be done by the high priest, I'll
get into that later, but also the mercy seat, you know, why did the
tabernacle had to be set up exactly the way it had to? Because it was patterned
after what was already in heaven. So, and what, but why? Because that stuff had to,
has something to do with the atonement later on. Now, so, and now turn to 1st
Corinthians chapter 15, I know I'm going through stuff really fast, and we're
turning to a lot of stuff, but all this stuff is important. Now, the nutshell of
the gospel, though, is what? The death, the burial, and the resurrection of Christ,
right? If you just had to sum it up really quickly, you would say it's the
death, burial, and resurrection, wouldn't you? Now, look at 1st Corinthians 15,
verse 3, Paul sums it up for us right here, he says, for I delivered unto you
first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins,
according to the scriptures, so there you have the death, and it's according to the
scriptures, right? And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures, so you have the death, you have the burial, and you
have the resurrection. And it says, and he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve, so
people saw him, people witnessed this, the apostles saw him risen from the dead.
After that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the
greater part remain unto this present, but some are falling asleep. After that
he was seen of James, then of all the apostles, and last of all he was seen of
me also as one born out of due time. So Paul is the last apostle, so all these
charlatans out there, they're saying they're apostles so-and-so, they're
stinking liars, there's no apostles after the apostle Paul. He's the last apostle,
it says it right there, and last of all he was seen of me also as one born out of
due time. So now again, so I just want to caveat this also as it being a nutshell.
It's not the all-inclusive gospel, it doesn't have everything I've been
talking about, it's not gonna have everything I'm going to continue to talk
about, and you know I got saved without being explained everything I'm about to
talk about. Did everything that I'm talking about get explained to you when
you got saved? Probably not, but it doesn't mean that it's all a lot of
important things to know. So you want to learn more and more about Jesus, he's
saying about it tonight, so we're learning more and more about Jesus, but
you know these things are important to know. You know, to know everything
concerning Christ, you know, he expounded things on the road to Emmaus to
them that they had no idea about. You know, he talked about how he was written
into the Psalms and all these different things on the road to Emmaus. He opened
up the eyes of their understanding. So I got saved without someone
explaining to me that Jesus died and went to hell. Who else did? Raise your
hand. A lot of people. So what I'm about to say is that you don't have to
explain that to people for them to get saved. So, and I'm not saying don't
explain it to them, but I think that sometimes, you know, people tend to
overemphasize this, especially in churches like ours, you know, but don't
don't, our knee-jerk reaction sometimes is to hit people with stuff
that, because nobody's explaining things right, and then we'll over explain things,
and when we're trying to get people saved, we don't have to just bash them
over the head with Jesus went to hell for three days and three nights, okay? So
I'm not saying don't don't say it, but I've gotten plenty of people saved
without explaining that. So I'm not saying don't put it in your Gospels
presentation, do, but that shouldn't overtake Jesus' ministry, dying on the
cross, raising from the dead. I think that, you know, raising, that's part of him
raising from the dead. Peter preached about that in Acts chapter 2. He
mentions it twice in his sermon on the day of Pentecost. He mentions
it twice, but I'm just saying that Paul doesn't mention it here, does he? But
death is hell, isn't it? So I'm not saying don't mention it. I'm not saying, you
know, you shouldn't have in your presentation. I'm just saying, you know, if
the pendulum's over here, we shouldn't swing it all the way over to here. Does
that make sense? And, you know, so I'm just saying I've seen people overdo that
part, and we're trying to get people saved. We don't have to, like, if someone
doesn't already believe, if someone doesn't believe that, or like, you know,
they're fighting with you about that, that's not a point of contention that we
need to fight about. So, anyway, hopefully that helps you out, but we
just need to be balanced, that's all. You know, we're trying to get people saved,
let's get people saved, not try to teach them our new IFB doctrine. Anyway, it's
not new IFB doctrine, it's Bible doctrine. But, you know, you know what I'm
saying. Number eight, he had to die the death of an unsaved man. I already kind
of covered that, but this includes hell, and again, a saved man never spends one
second in hell. Number nine, I want to, you know, this isn't necessarily part of
the gospel, but I do want to explain this. So, I mean, it kind of is. I mean, the
Trinity is important for people to understand, and when you're given the
gospel, I think it's important to bring up, you know, because people will say,
well, if you ask people if they believe that Jesus is God, sometimes they'll say,
no, I believe he's the Son of God, which he is, but that's an opportunity to, you
know, if someone doesn't believe that Jesus is God, then they're not believing
the truth. So, you do have to explain that to people. You do have to take some time
and help them understand that, but I want to talk about the Trinity of Jesus being
in multiple locations at the same time. Trinity. When he died, he was in multiple
locations at the same time, you know, because he is God, right? And God is a
Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but when Jesus died, he was in
different locations also. Guess what? When you die, you're going to be in different
locations. Your body's going to be wherever it's at, and then your soul and
spirit are going to be in different locations, but your soul and spirit, if
you're saved, are going to be in heaven, right? So, let's turn to Galatians
chapter 1, verse 1.
So, I was talking to this Jehovah's Witness, and I was thinking, why am I
fighting with this Jehovah's Witness? Like, it was the last door. I know we're
not supposed to just fight with heretics or whatever, but it did kind of help me
prepare for this a little bit, because he, you know, he helped me to kind of brush
up on something that I'm about to teach to you right now. So, first I want to show
you that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost all raised Jesus from
the dead, okay? And then I'm going to show you that he was in different locations
at the same time, but God the Father raised Jesus from the dead, the Spirit
raised him from the dead, and Jesus raised himself from the dead, but this
Jehovah's Witness is like, oh, well, if Jesus died and he was God, that means
God died. I was like, yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah, isn't that what I said? And then he's
like, well, I was like, yeah, he's, you know, his soul was in hell, you know, his
spirit was in heaven, and his body was in the tomb. But, you know, he was just acting
like, that's not, and then when I, I didn't, my phone doesn't have service
unless I have, like, a hotspot right now, so I couldn't really look at the verses
when I was there, and really, you know, Clifford just saved me from just
battling with this guy, but Brother, Brother Clifford looked up a verse, and
he just didn't want to accept it, but it did help me to spark this interest. So
look at, you're in Galatians 1-1, look at this, so the Father raised Jesus from
the dead. Look what it says, Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but
by Jesus Christ the, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead. So who
raised Jesus Christ from the dead? What's it say right there? The Father, God the
Father, who raised him from the dead. So, did God the Father raise Jesus from the
dead? Now, the Bible also says the Spirit raised Jesus from the dead. Look at
Romans chapter number 8, Romans chapter number 8.
Romans 8-11 says, but if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead,
oh, the Spirit, dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall
also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. What Spirit
dwells in you when you get saved? The Holy Spirit, right? You're like, well, I
don't know, that doesn't sound too convincing. Well, okay, let's look at
1st Peter chapter 3.18. 1st Peter chapter 3.18, the Bible
says, Jesus answered and said unto them, oh, I'm sorry, 1st Peter 3.18, for Christ
also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust, that he might bring
us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but, what's it say there, quickened
by, what's it say there, the Spirit. Is that in capital letters? That's because
it's talking about the Holy Spirit, so that word quickened means made alive. So
who brought Jesus back from the dead? Well, it says God the Father did,
right, in Galatians chapter 1, and then here in two different verses I showed
you the Spirit brought Jesus back to life, and then now turn to John chapter
2. John chapter 2, verse 19, the Bible says, Jesus answered and said unto them,
destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. So do you think he did?
Well, as he said he will. Do you think he was lying? He can't lie, so he said, I'll
raise it up. Then said the Jews, forty in six years was this temple and building,
and wilt thou reared up in three days, but he spake of the temple of his body.
So when he died, he's talking about his body, he was gonna raise his own body
from the dead. John chapter 10, you're already in the book of John, look at John
chapter 10, verse 17. John chapter 10, verse 17. John chapter 10, verse 17, the
Bible says, therefore doth my father love me, because I lay down my life that I
might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I
have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment
have I received of my father. So Jesus Christ raised himself up, the Holy Spirit
raised him up, God the Father raised him up, so there you have the Trinity raising
Jesus from the dead, and Jesus Christ having his own power to raise himself
from the dead. And so, for those people that like to explain away Jesus' soul
going to hell, and then it's, you know, you know when the thief on the cross says,
today thou shall be with me in paradise. Well, I mean, Jesus' spirit
went back to God in heaven, Jesus' soul was in hell, and his body was in the tomb.
That's pretty simple. I'll cover that a little bit more as we get along here, but
let's move on. Jesus had to go to hell. Jesus had to go to hell. So, and look,
Jesus wasn't an avatar, okay? He wasn't just some avatar that God sent down as a
mockery of, you know, this isn't some James Cameron movie or
something. Jesus was really the Son of God, he was really a man, he, you know, felt
all the pain, he went through all the things that, and felt every single thing,
he felt our pain, he felt our frailness, he understands us because he was one
of us. He feels the infirmities that we feel because he understands us, he
understands our frame, he understands that we're weak. But Jesus going to hell
is not a literal hell according to Manly Perry. You know, Manly Perry, Manly not so
Manly Perry? He said a long time ago, it was a long time ago, he
said, nobody burns in hell. We like to say, you know, people are roasting like a
hot dog, but that makes for good preaching, but it's just not really true.
And of course he backed off of saying that, you know, once he got the full, you
know, flame wars of the new IFB, when we came down on him like a ton of bricks, of
course he changed what he was saying about that. So, but he calls what we
believe the hell atonement, even though we never call it that. We don't call it
the hell atonement, I've never called Jesus going to hell the hell atonement.
But recently him and his buddy Adam Fanon, SOB, Sheba the son of Bikrai from
LOL Baptist Church and Michael Johnson from Temple of the Dog Baptist Church,
they did this like rail fest and, you know, called us all unsaved for
preaching this truth, this Bible truth. It was really hard to sit through it, it
actually just made me really angry and then I got COVID because of it. I think
they actually gave me COVID because I listened to that stupid crap. But even,
you know, again, even though we don't believe that Jesus is still in hell, you
know, even though I don't believe that someone has to know that in order to get
saved, I just said that, I don't think any pastor that I know believes that. We
believe what King David believed. We believe what Peter preached on the day of
Pentecost and what Jesus said about the only sign he would show people that are
asking him for a sign. What did he say? The sign of Jonas the prophet. That he
would be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. And in the heart
of the earth is where hell is, okay? That's not paradise, okay? That's where
hell is. So, of course, again, I believe that his spirit was in paradise but not
his soul. So, look, we believe in the risen Savior. How's that heretical? I
don't understand. Turn to Acts chapter 2. Acts chapter 2. Now, you know, we believe
the Bible and so you can try to explain these verses away all you want but it's
just facts. It's just Bible. It's just what it says and to just try to explain
this stuff away. This is the other thing that the Jehovah's Witness said is that
when I said about Jesus going to hell, he's like, you know what hell means, right?
Sheol, Gehenna, Hades, Bozo. So, it's like basically, you know, these guys are in
agreement with the Jehovah's Witnesses, you know, they just believe that it just
means the grave or whatever. But that's not what it means because hell always
means hell, a place of burning fire and torment where people go for all eternity,
okay? So, Acts chapter 2 verse 22 says, you men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of
Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs which
God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know, him being delivered
by the determinant counsel and foreknowledge of God you have taken and
by wicked hands have crucified and slain whom God hath raised up, there's another
one where God raised them up, having loosed the pains of death. So, it says,
loosed the pains of death because it was not possible that he should be holding of
it. Now, if his body was just there and he wasn't experiencing any pain, look, if
your body is just dead on the ground, you're not experiencing any more pain in
that body. So, how is he experiencing pain exactly then? Just explain that to me
real quick. How are you experiencing pain? If he's in paradise and not, you know,
are you experiencing pain in paradise? Oh, it's Abraham's bosom. So, it's just a case
of heartburn? Abraham had some heartburn that day? It's hotel hell? That's where he
went? Because this says that he was loosed from the pains of death. And if you have
the interpretation that death is hell, then you got the right interpretation. So,
was Jesus just in the grave feeling no pain? Well, yes. The body was. His body was
feeling no pain, buried in the tomb. His human body was, you know, the body that
was there is not feeling any pain. So, what part was feeling pain? His soul was in
pain. The pains of death, that sounds like you're hurting, right? Look at verse 27.
Because thou will not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine holy
one to see corruption. So, see how it's making a difference between the
corruption? The corruption is talking about the body. But the soul is, you know,
inside of us. We can't see the soul. But there is a soul in each one of us. And if
that soul leaves the body, you're dead. And that soul goes somewhere. It either
goes to heaven or it goes to hell. And according to this verse, it says God
wouldn't leave his soul in hell. So, that means by deduction, Watson, where does it
have to be? Sherlock Holmes? Where does it have to be? It has to be in hell,
doesn't it? You stinking idiots that say that, you know, Adam fanning these bozos.
Well, hell's just the cross, brother. No, that's not what it says. Does that say
cross? You won't leave my soul on the cross? Is that what it's saying? No, he's
already dead. His body was taken off the cross already, wasn't it?
Now, Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verse 21 says this, who knoweth the spirit of man
that goeth upward and the spirit of the beast goeth downward to the earth? So, in
Ecclesiastes, the Bible teaches that the spirit of man goes upward when it dies.
Where does it go? Well, it goes to be upward, right? And with God.
Excuse me.
Same chapter in Ecclesiastes 12.7. I'm not gonna have you turn there. You can
just write it down. If you want to turn there, you can, but it's gonna be real quick.
Ecclesiastes 12.7, then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the
spirit shall return unto the God who gave it. Where does your spirit go once
you die? Unto the God who gave it. So, when Jesus died, where did the spirit go? Unto
the God who gave it. In Genesis chapter 2 verse 7, it says the Lord God formed man
of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and
man became a living soul. So, when he created man, every person has a living
soul. But, excuse me, Adam and Eve screwed all that up for us. So, now the spirit
does go to be with God who gave that spirit, but the soul either goes to
heaven or hell, right? So, Jesus Christ himself was in that Trinity situation
where his body's in a grave, his soul is in hell, and his spirits in heaven. I
mean, am I wrong about that? I mean, I just, okay. It's not real hard to figure
out, is it? So, Hebrews 12.9 says furthermore we have had fathers of our
flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather
be in subjection to the father of spirits and live? Who's the father of
spirits? It's God. Who gives the spirits out? God does. And where do they
return to? They return to the God that gave it. So, you know, and look, not every
this is one of their arguments, well, the Bible never says that Jesus burned in
hell, but what do we know about hell? Has there ever been a mention of hell where
it's in a good context? It's like Miami Beach, you just get a suntan there or
something? I mean, there's never a verse that hell is talked about in a positive
mention at all. It's always burning, screaming, gnashing of teeth, outer
darkness, you know, lasting forever, worm dying not, fire not being quenched. So, I
mean, if your soul goes to hell, it's going to be going through some agony. So,
I mean, I remember when I first got saved and I was going to a Baptist
church and I read these verses and acts and I was like, wow, it says
that Jesus' soul is in hell. I went to my pastor and I asked him about it and he's
like, yeah, that just, if you go back to the Greek, it says, you know, da-da-da-da. I was just like, okay,
pastor. But like, I remember thinking like that was not a very good answer, but I
just kind of tucked it away and just forgot about it, but it's not like I
never asked that question before, but I just kind of trusted my pastor was going
to tell me and steer me in the right direction. We got a lot of
Baptists, we got a lot of people that just say that that's not true, but what
does the Bible say? I don't care what Baptists in the past say, I don't care
what Christians say, I don't care what theologians say, what does the Bible say?
What sayeth the Scriptures? That's what the most important thing is to know.
Jesus' body was buried, his spirit went to the Father, his soul went to hell.
That's what the Bible says. It's not, you know, it's not a real brain buster. Look at
verse 31 back, I probably, I didn't have you turn, you're still in Acts, right? Acts
chapter 2 verse 31. So this is the second time it's being mentioned here. He's
seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, talking about
David, that his soul was not left in hell. So what's it talking about? The
resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell. Neither his flesh did
see corruption. So again, it's separating both of them, isn't it? It's separating
the soul from the body when it's talking about his flesh not seeing corruption
and his soul not being left in hell. So again, if his soul wasn't left there, by
deduction, you have to know that it was there. And how long was it there for?
Three days, three nights. He rose from the dead. So it says, this Jesus hath God
raised up whereof we're all witnesses. Turn to Isaiah chapter 53, Isaiah chapter
53.
Of course, there's a very famous passage about the suffering of the Savior. This is
what the Ethiopian eunuch was reading as he's riding in the chariot. But all
offerings were what? Burnt offerings. Nothing was sacrificed without fire, just
remember that. Isaiah 53 10 says, yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He hath
put him to grief. Well now shalt make his soul an offering for sin. His soul an
offering for sin. I'm not saying his soul didn't agonize in the torture that he
received and the torture he received on the cross. I'm not saying that, but the
whole thing, there's fire at the end of every offering in the Old Testament.
Sorry, but that's just the truth of it. And the Bible says in Acts chapter 2, his
soul was not left in hell. So it says, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his
days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall see the
travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my
righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities. So now turn
to Genesis chapter 22, Genesis chapter 22. So I just want to show a couple spots in
the Old Testament that it's kind of, you know, giving us this picture also.
Genesis chapter 22 is one of my favorite because, look, everybody knows that the
sacrifice of Isaac, where Abraham's about to plunge the knife into his own son, is
a picture of what? The sacrifice of Jesus, right? Everybody knows that. And look at
verse 6 in Genesis 22, verse 6, it says, and Abraham took the wood of the burnt
offering and laid it upon Isaac his son, and he took the fire in his hand and a
knife, and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his
father and said, My father, and he said, Here am I, my son, and he said, Behold the
fire in the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? And, you know, it's
him. But anyway, and Abraham said, My son, this is really important here, God will
provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering. God was the lamb. He's provided
for himself, Jesus Christ, the lamb for the burnt offering. So now, of course, we
know that the lamb, you know, that ram gets caught in the thickets and that
fulfills immediately that picture, you know, God doesn't let him kill
his son, of course, and then, you know, everything is right and well. But this is
a prophetic statement here. God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt
offering. And what happens to burnt offerings? Well, at the end, they get
burnt, don't they? So, this foreshadowing of Jesus, we have the immediate
fulfillment and the one in the future at Calvary. Now, I want you to turn to Psalm
chapter 88, and I'm about to show you something here that is super interesting.
Psalm chapter 88, verse 4. Remember, I was going on about all those
different types of people that Jesus died for, including the pedophiles and
all these different people, right? So, in Psalm chapter 88, look at verse number 4.
The Bible says, so when the Psalms are being, you know, when Jesus said
that all those things in the Psalms and all the different things in the
Old Testament, these are the things that are fulfilled. The Psalms, there's
a lot of Psalms that are fulfilled in Jesus. I believe that this is a Psalm
that's fulfilled in Christ here. And just listen to what it's saying while
you read along. It says, I am counted with them that go down into the pit. Did Jesus
deserve to go down into the pit? The pit is hell, okay? Just so you know. I am as a
man that hath no strength. So, is Jesus just a man? No, he's not. He's also God.
But he's as a man that has no strength. He's counted as then to go
down to the pit, but he doesn't deserve to be counted with them, does he? It says,
free among the dead like the slain that lie in the grave whom thou rememberest no
more. Let me just tell you something, if you die and go to hell, your name is
remembered no more. God doesn't care about you anymore, and people are just
like, how could a loving God just send somebody to hell? Well, because they've
chosen not to believe in him and love him and have faith in him, then he
chooses to remember them no more either. It says, and they are cut off from my
hand. Thou hast laid me, and what's it say there? The highest part of hell where
it's nice and just a toasting? It's just a tan? No, it says thou hast laid me in the
lowest pit. What would that mean? That Jesus, if this is talking about Jesus,
which I think it is, that's my opinion, that he's in the lowest part of hell,
right? In darkness, in the deeps, thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast
afflicted me with some of thy waves? A lot of them? No, what's it say? All thy
waves. Every, you know, when it's talking about waves, it's talking about the wrath
of God, the waves of wrath. It says, thou hast put away my acquaintance far from
me, thou hast made me an abomination unto them, I am shut up, and I cannot come
forth. You know, and again, Jesus, of course, came forth after three days and
three nights, but in the meantime, all the wrath of God has come upon him. The
lowest part of the pit is where he's at. I mean, that's a tough, so like, I mean, I
think most of us believe in here that understand this doctrine. We know
that Jesus, it was as if he was in hell for all eternity. I mean, most people
believe that, right? So then it makes sense that if he's dying for the sins of
every single person that ever lived and ever will live in every single sin that
they ever committed and the worst possible people that you could think
about, that that would make sense that he would be in the lowest pit. Because if he
had to die for the worst person, then he had to take the place of that person's,
you know, because, you know, when he talks to Pilate, he says, the people that
delivered me unto you have the greater sin, have the greater, you know, they have
the greater damnation. You talk about people having a greater damnation. There are
greater damnations, there are greater sins, and some people, you know, the
little old lady that just didn't get saved, but she was a pretty good person in
our view, is not gonna be in the same place as Joseph Stalin, okay? Joseph
Stalin's gonna be in a worse hell than most people are for killing millions and
millions of people, right? Or the worst false prophet that sent the most people
to hell is gonna be in one of the worst places in hell compared to the person
that just didn't get saved, right? Does that make sense? Anyway, it says,
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction. Lord, I have called daily upon thee. I have
stretched out my hand unto thee. Skip down to verse 14, it says, Lord, why casteth
thou off my soul? My soul? So it's not the body, not the spirit, but what? The soul.
Why hidest thou thy face from me? The first time that the Son was ever
separated from the Father for any reason was the day that he died on Calvary, and
the time that he spent in hell for three nights and three days. Jesus had never
been separated from the Father before, so when he said, My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? when he was on the cross? Because God, because Jesus became sin for
us, because Jesus became an abomination, a detestable thing, because everything
that had ever been done in this world, never will be, was put upon him, and God
could not look at him. God did not want to look at him, and he was satisfied with
the punishment that he gave Christ. So when we think about how much of a
sacrifice Jesus really gave for us, he gave a lot. He was punished a lot. All his
waves were laid upon him. He was in the lowest pit, according to this psalm, and
it says, Why hidest thou thy face from me? I am afflicted and ready to die for my
youth up, while I suffer thy terrors. I am distracted. Thy fierce wrath goeth over
me. Thy terrors have cut me off. They came round about me daily like water. They
compassed me about altogether. And, you know, when he talks about the
waters and stuff like that, then think back to Jonah. Think back to the
parallels with Jonah, him being swallowed by the whale. He's inside the whale. He's
going down. The waves are billowing over him. When he gets thrown into the
sea, the waves are crashing. Those waves are just pictures of hell and torment
and persecution and, you know, being, going through the wrath of God. So, I mean, here,
if you believe that Jesus went to hell, you know, what do you believe? What
punishment do you believe that he got? Was he getting a light toasting? Was he
getting a tan? Was he in Abraham's, you know, heartburn? Was he no heat at all? Or
was it the worst it could possibly be because he's taken the place of every
sinner that was ever born and every sin? I mean, that's what I believe because, I
mean, I think that this psalm is kind of laying it out for us, but, you know,
according to a bunch of unsaved idiots like Manly Perry, Adam Fanon, and Michael
Johnson, you know, we're unsaved because we believe this. We're unsaved because we
believe that the Bible is true and they want to just explain all this away and
it's like, you know, those guys are old news. Why are you bringing them up? Well,
because they're bringing up lies. They're bringing up heresy. Like, they were all
aboard on this until they left. It's like, you know, the reason why they, you know,
the first thing they want to change on is this doctrine because their old IFB
buddies won't take them back probably until, you know, they change on this
doctrine. So then they have to like, well, I just never really felt like it was
right when I was preaching it, you know. Well, why'd you preach it then, you idiot?
If it was so bad, why'd you preach it? Why'd you preach it then? Because you just
are trying to fit in, you know. You probably just, you don't believe anything.
You probably, you're just riding on people's coattails trying to be cool and
you're not still cool. You never were. Anyway, so number 11, he had to resurrect
from the dead. And here's another thing that Michael not-so-manly Perry says, the
resurrection is not part of the atonement, okay. But turn to 1st
Corinthians chapter 15. I know we're getting a little long here, but I'm
gonna try to hurry through the rest of this here. 1st Corinthians chapter 15
verse 12. It says, now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, give
you time to turn there, 1st Corinthians 15 12, if Christ be preached that he rose
from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the
dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then there then is Christ not
risen. And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is
also vain. Yea, and we are found false prophets of God because we have testified
of God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised up not up, if so be that the dead
rise not. He's basically saying, if what we're saying is not true, then you know
Christ isn't really raised from the dead, and we're false prophets. For if the
dead rise not, that is not Christ raised, and if Christ be not raised, your faith
is in vain, and you are yet in your sins. So is it part of the gospel? Is it part
of the atonement or not? Because if you're still in your sins and you just
think, you think all the other stuff's true, but Christ is didn't really rise
from the dead? What's it say? You're yet in your sins. You're not saved. If you
don't believe the resurrection, you're not saved. Then they also, which are
fallen asleep in Christ, are perished. They're gone. They're not coming back. So
it is part of the gospel. It is part of the whole atonement, isn't it? Number 12,
he had to become the high priest. Now this might be a little bit controversial.
Turn to Hebrews chapter 7. I've said a couple of controversial things, but I'm
not trying to be controversial just to be controversial. I just, this is what I
believe. So now a lot of people think, there's people that believe differently
about this, and I talked to Pastor Taverner before I preached this, okay? So I
don't personally believe that Jesus was Melchizedek. Now if he turns, if it turns
out that he was, then I'm okay with that. I'm not like, I'm not like super dogmatic
about it, but I just don't like, after reading through it and stuff, I just, I
don't think that he was, okay? But I think that he's a priest for, a high priest
forever after the order of Melchizedek, after the similitude of Melchizedek. So,
and here's the thing, I don't care, you know, you can believe whatever you want.
I'm not like being like, I'm not saying you're, you know, whatever, you're wrong
and I hate you or whatever if you don't believe what I believe, okay? It doesn't
matter. But what does matter is that Jesus Christ became our high priest.
When he died and he rose again, his endless life made him become the priest
forever after the order of Melchizedek. That's what I believe, okay? Who, what was
the priesthood before Jesus died and rose again? When he died, what happened to
the, to the, to the veil in the temple? The rent in twain, right? And that
symbolizes what? That, you know, God doesn't use that place anymore, really.
And that he has separated the Gentile, you know, to where the Gentiles and the
Jews can, he can get along and be one and Christ Jesus and, you know, that there's,
the Old Testament's gone. That temple is no longer needed to be used, basically.
And then when he rose from the dead, he rose as with an endless life because he
died and he rose again. He's got the scars to prove it, right? So look at Hebrew
chapter 7 verse 15. So it says, and it is yet far more evident for that after the
similitude of Melchizedek, there ariseth another priest. So that's another reason
why I think that, okay? It's after the similitude, it's like it, right? Who is
made not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an
endless life. For he testifieth, thou art a priest forever after the order of
Melchizedek. For there is verily a disannulling from the commandment going
before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. Skip to verse
27, it says, Who needeth not daily as those high priests to offer up sacrifice,
first for his own sins and then for the people's, but for this he did once when
he offered up himself. So he offered up himself for the law maketh men
high priests which have infirmity, but the word of the oath which was since the
law maketh the son who is consecrated forevermore. So I mean it's just to me it
sounds like it's saying that that he once he offered up himself he is he
offered himself because he is the high priest now. And so it says since the law
maketh the son. So when when did he become the high priest? Since the law
maketh the son who's consecrated forevermore. So and then number 13 once
he rose from the dead he had to appear before God after the Sabbath day right
you know when he rose from the dead what day was it? It was Sunday wasn't it? So
turn to Leviticus chapter 23 verse 10. So I'm trying to kind of just get through
now again people don't have to know this stuff to get saved but I believe
that Jesus had to appear before God after he resurrected okay so Jesus
resurrected from hell he's not now the high priest forever after the order of
Melchizedek you know he ever liveth to make intercession for us we take our
prayers to him for you know we can go to God the Father through Christ Jesus and
he will give us what whatever we asked for as long as of course it's in his
will he's not going to give us the Maserati that you're asking for
necessarily because he knows you'll wrap it around a telephone pole or something
but he knows how Pastor Tavener drives. Who else was driving crazy here today?
Who was it? Was it you? You said you're a road-raging. You can't have too fast of a
car brother. Anyway so I'm pointing him out I'm sorry so Leviticus 23 verse 10 so
this is you know this is talking about the Feast of the Lord so it says speak
unto the children of Israel saying to them when you become into the land which
I give unto you and you shall reap the harvest thereof then he shall bring a
sheaf of the first fruits of the harvest on to the priest and he shall wave the
sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for you on the morrow after the Sabbath the
priest shall wave it so this specifically right after the right
after if you read up or if you want to read later it's right after the
Passover okay and so after the Passover then it says the on the morrow after
the Sabbath when was that the day that Jesus rose from the dead when you're
talking about going in order of you know and then of course you have all those
things kind of falling in order like Pentecost is 50 days after the
resurrection or whatever but anyway it says and you shall offer that day a wave
the sheaf of the lamb of an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a
burnt offering unto the Lord so but I wanted to show you that that the first
fruits had to be presented to the Lord that next day right and what do we know
about Jesus that he is Christ the first fruits he's the first begotten of the
dead he's the first born of the dead he's the only one that has a
resurrected body even right now nobody else has a resurrected body except for
Jesus Christ he is the first fruits Paul says it we'll go to it but number 14 he
had to waive the heave offering and present the blood to the Father at the
mercy seat in heaven the actual blood of Christ this is what I believe and you
know because here's the thing why would God put all these things all this all
these symbols to put in and all these things actually happen you know Jesus
actually dies at even on the the Passover then you have him rising the
day after the Sabbath day right on Sunday and then all of a sudden he
doesn't really have to put the blood on the mercy seat though even though every
single year the high priest had to you know they had to do all these special
things and then he had to wipe the blood on his ear his right thumb his right toe
and he could only enter once a year the high priest right and he had to what
sprinkle the blood of that atonement on the mercy seat which was in the veil
right so here's the here's the thing the veil was rent in twain and Jesus rose
from the dead so how's he gonna go in there that that temples no not not of
any good use anymore is it so we're what's which mercy seat does he have to
go to well he has to go to the real one doesn't he so now I do want I'm just
gonna skip through this I know we're I'm way over time here but Jesus does when
he rises from the dead who's the first person he meets Mary Magdalene and you
know he says touch me not for I've not yet ascended to my father why does he
say that to her I'm just gonna read it for you in John 20 verse 17 says Jesus
saith under touch me not for I'm not yet ascended to my father but go to my
brethren and saying to them I ascend to my father and your father and to my God
and your God so is he talking about the ascension 40 days later well no because
in Matthew chapter 28 it says and as they went and to tell the disciples
behold Jesus met them saying all hell and they came and held him by the feet
and worshiped him so why is he telling Mary don't touch me and then like these
the same group so Mary is the first person he sees he tells her to go
tell the rest of them and then so in the in a parallel passage they're
touching his feet well how do you explain that well because Jesus doesn't
have any limitations anymore he can go as fast as he wants he's gonna go to
heaven because look if he doesn't take the blood to the mercy seat he doesn't
appear to God the Father as the firstfruits on that day then he's
breaking Scripture isn't he he doesn't go on the day after the Sabbath as the
firstfruits and then he has to because he says touch me not why would he say
that well because I mean just think about in the Old Testament could a woman
that had seven devils cast out of her walk up and hug the high priest as he's
walking up with the blood to put sprinkle onto the mercy seat on the Day
of Atonement could he do that no what is Jesus now Jesus is now the high priest
forever after the order of Melchizedek I'm not saying that she would have made
him sinful if she touched him or whatever but he's still not gonna let
her touch him until he takes that blood up there that's what I believe and then
eight days later remember Thomas wasn't there when Jesus came in the midst of
them but eight days later he says touch me handle me so what changed well he had
to have already gone up and put that blood on the mercy seat because
otherwise why would he say to her don't touch me but then other people just
moment you know minutes later are grabbing around his feet he's saying go
ahead Thomas put to put your you know fingers in the holes of my in my hands
and in my you know put put your hand into my side so something changed he
ascended up he put the blood on the mercy seat and he came back down so turn
to 1st Corinthians 5 20 1st Corinthians 5 20 I'm really almost done really I'm
trying my hardest so first Corinthians 5 20 it says but now is Christ risen
from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept Paul's not
just putting this here for no reason he is the first fruits of them that slept
which is taught is tying it back to Leviticus chapter 23 the Feast of the
Lord look at verse 21 for since by man came death by man came also the
resurrection of the dead for as an Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be
made alive but every man in his own order Christ the first fruits afterward
they that are Christ at his coming we are waiting right now for Christ's
coming but in the meantime we're trying to get as many people saved as we can
now turn to Hebrew chapter 9 Hebrew chapter 9 it's the last place I'll have
a turn I'll say a few things and we'll be done all right Hebrews chapter 9
verse 11 the Bible says but Christ being come and high priest of good things to
come by a great and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is
to say not of this building neither by the blood of goats and calves but by
what to say there by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place did
Jesus literally take his blood into the holy place which holy place not the one
made with hands not the building made with hands right it says having obtained
eternal redemption for us when does he do this after he's already obtained it
but then remember I said when you know if you pay a bill and you write the
check and you just leave it sitting on the counter when Jesus died as the Lamb
of God and the blood if the blood just trickled down onto the ground and it was
just left there and it wasn't special it didn't mean anything then did the blood
get to the place that it needed to go to because it needed to go to the mercy
seat because the mercy seat is what between the two cherubims and the
earthly tabernacle by the pattern that was showed to Moses and so God would
come down in the in the in the cloudy pillar and the mercy seat was you know
behind the veil that nobody could go to just the high priest the the the things
are the staves are sticking out of it and then the high priest would go in
there and flick that that blood there on the mercy seat where God would meet with
them so then 9 verse chapter 9 verse 23 it says it was therefore necessary that
the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these but the
heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these for Christ has not
entered into the holy places made with hands which are the figures of the true
but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us so did he
appear in the presence of God for us yes he did when did he do that well I
believe that he did it the day that he arose from the dead after he said married
don't touch me because I have not yet ascended to my father he ascends to his
father he comes back down and then he stays with them for 40 days he's seen by
people and then he rises and then he goes back up into heaven and he's
waiting to come back right I mean hopefully you guys all follow that if
you don't just rewind it later on so so basically what I'm saying is the check
had to go to the right place he had to take the blood to the place where it
goes where does the atoning blood have to go what had to go to the mercy seat
he had to appear before God because the propitiation the appeasement of God had
to be paid and it had to go to heaven he had to appear in that he had to go into
heaven itself and appear in the presence of God for us doesn't that what it says
so it says nor yet that he should offer himself often as the high priest enters
into the holy place every year with the blood of others for then must he have
often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of
the world hath appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and as it is
appointed unto men once to die but after this the judgment so Christ was once
offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he
appear the second time without sin unto salvation that's the day that we're all
looking forward to so just in closing you know the most important aspect of
the gospel is that it is simple childlike faith in the finished work so
all this stuff is just you know lots of detail but the most important thing to
get is that being saved is super easy all you have to do is have a childlike
faith to be saved and you'll have to understand all those intricacies that I
just mentioned but you do have to understand that you can't do it by
yourself Jesus had to do it all for us and he's you know you want to talk about
Superman or all these heroes or whatever these fake Marvel comics and DC that
stuff's all make-believe folks it's not it's not real Jesus Christ is the actual
real superhero so and I realize again that's a lot of doctrine it was a lot of
stuff to go through but and again you might not agree with everything I
preached but I'll just say this search the scriptures whether these things are
so you know if you're just if you like had some trouble with some of the things
I said you know and if you don't agree with me on some of the things I said
that's fine but I would just say just look at what the Bible says because the
Bible should be your final authority not me or not some other man but the
Bible itself so and the gospel means glad tidings are good news Christ came
to take away our sins he paid a great price to do it so let's appreciate him
for his unspeakable gift let's pray well we thank you so much for this great
church I pray Lord that you would just continue to bless it for the next years
to come and Lord that this would always be a place for people to come and be
able to hear the truth of your word Lord I pray that the gospel message
would always be preached here pray that you would just bless all these people
bless Pastor Tavener and his family as they minister here and the people here
that would be supportive of him and Lord that more laborers would come to the
harvest and many people will be saved in the years to come here
pray these things in Jesus name amen