Gospel—Dean Rule
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Many years ago, my father-in-law told me about a meeting just like this.
He told about a man who was standing up and he asked a question. He said, and I'm not going to ask you to raise your hands, but he said, I would like to know how many here would like to go to heaven. He looked around the room.
Every hand was raised except one. There was a boy in the room, Johnny.
He said, Johnny, why, why didn't you raise your hand? Don't you want to go to heaven? And Johnny said no. Well, I I thought you were getting a group to go right now.
Just one bit of advice before we pray, heard many years ago when it comes time to die.
Make sure the only thing you have to do is die.
The only time I've had an experience to be so close to death was in Madrid, Spain, arriving late at night on a rainy night to the airport. Picked up by a couple that were in the car and the car was the sister. Wasn't real experience driving. I was sitting in the back seat. We hit a curve on the freeway. M30IN Madrid.
The car started to spin and then the car started to roll over. It went up on a wall.
I can't figure out anything except an Angel kept us from going upside down into a ditch.
And if that would have happened, I believe all three of us would have drowned.
And my feeling coming out of that, heading off to the hospital, the car was taken off to be totaled at a junkyard and the two of us that were taken to the hospital.
My thought was simply this. In that time period, in that very brief time period of spinning around and then rolling over, there was absolutely no time to think about a decision for eternity. And the other thing is this. Very simply, this room could be emptied at any moment. The Lord Jesus has promised to come back. The stage is set, the world is ready. There's nothing holding back.
Him coming?
Can you imagine what it would be like to be in a room like this tonight? close your eyes, blink your eyes and look around and see the room basically empty and be sitting there.
Just a warning, if that's true for anyone here tonight, it will be too late forever. So let's pray. Like to sing.
#8 If someone could start it, please, Shall we gather it is coming from the dead in Christ. Arise shall we hear the Savior call us to His home beyond the skies? Yes, we'll gather His coming as glorious as glorious coming. Gather with His Saints that is coming if cleansed by the Savior's blood #8 If someone could start it, please.
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Bosworth really answers for greyhounds. They're waiting for the same time it's gone.
It went by the same development.
Many years ago, when the university and the laboratory where we were doing work.
One of the fellow students that I was studying with worked with the same professor, Barry Eisenberg.
When we talked, when I said talk to him about the importance of being ready for eternity.
Barry's response was I've made every decision in life. When it came time to make the decision. When I die, I'll make the decision then.
Barry went on, got his PhD, became a college professor, and everything else. But Barry's decision was an absolutely foolish one, because the decisions for eternity are made not in eternity. They're made in time.
And God has given witness to his eternal power, his Godhead, his love. And so I'd like to start out with the easiest verse to find in the Bible, Genesis chapter one, verse one.
No verse easier to find in the Bible.
So as in the beginning, God created.
The heaven and the earth.
If that's not true.
Then you can close this book. You can walk out of here because if it starts out with a lie.
Then there's no reason to go on.
We live in a world where a lot of people are debating what happened. How did it get started?
Let's remember one thing very clearly. What is eternal does not have a.
Everything after that has a cause.
God is eternal.
The deity, God the Father, God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, our eternal. Can I understand that? Can I grasp that with my mind? No, I can think to A to a degree about eternity in the future, but to go back and realize that our that God is eternal.
Goes beyond my mind understanding.
Carl Sagan, a very famous cosmologist, someone who studied the origin of the universe. Carl Sagan is now an eternity. But Carl Sagan says the universe is all that there ever was, is, or ever will be.
Carl was wrong.
Because this universe in which we live.
If it, if we understand clearly and all the science teaches that it's expanding.
It doesn't matter if it's expanding 1 inch per year.
If it's eternal and it really was started with no beginning, it would now be so completely separated out. It would be so completely burned out.
And so Carl was wrong.
My father-in-law had an expression that I that struck me and I've repeated it many times. He talked about a person waking up dead. Maybe that sounds a little bit funny, but what he was talking about is he said a person when they die, they don't go like a dog. It's sad to see a dog die. Those of us who love dogs, we realize that when they die, they die, but that's not true for a human being.
When a human being dies and they pass into eternity, they go into one of two locations.
Either paradise now to be with the Lord Jesus, or they go into the lake and into hell to eventually be reunited with their body in the Lake of Fire forever. Have an unusual schedule this coming week?
Unplanned as this is, I've got two funerals. I'm going to a funeral of a sister-in-law on Monday and then to a funeral of a brother that many of us will be out on Tuesday. And the wonderful thing about that is those people, when they, when they left that body, it was like leaving a house and shutting the door when you left your house.
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When you came here, I'm sure you locked the door, and so a body will be put down into the casket, and that body will put me down into a grave. When that body goes down into the grave, we know that they're not there. They're already with the Lord Jesus and rejoicing. Well, how about the person who does not know the Lord Jesus as their savior? The person who passes into eternity is rejected. The Lord Jesus is our savior. So I'd like to talk tonight.
In the time we have about four how to's.
If we go to YouTube or many things today, it's very easy to find how to's and so the first how to I'd like to talk about is how to be a fool. There's no book that tells you better how to be a fool than the Bible.
Because it gives a warning about being a fool. The second thing I'd like to talk about very briefly is how to be.
Religious and how far will it get you The third thing I'd like to talk about is how to know you're on your way to heaven and the fourth thing is just a warning how to pick up three enemies instantly because a lot of people stand up and I know preach a gospel meeting and say this is going to solve all your problems. You're not going to have any more problems of money or health or anything like that but the warning I'd like to give you right now is you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior you'll have.
Never had before.
Does that sound like a very good sales pitch? No, it's not a sales pitch. It's a warning. Is it worth it? Absolutely. Is it worth it Because the alternative to spend an eternity without the Lord Jesus Christ in the lake of fire goes beyond what I can begin to understand or imagine. Let's imagine that we could build a box right here and this box would be absolutely soundproof.
This box would be an absolute darkness.
This box would be heated with a fire and you'd be put in that box and if you've ever been in a place for.
Solitary confinement. The only thing I've been in like that was one time taking the boat out to Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. And you could take a tour out in the boat and walk in. And there was this room that was closed in and they said if you want to go in there, well, you can go in there. We'll close it up. And he said, this is where we put the, we put the most incorrigible, the most the prisoners and we couldn't control them.
And so you go into that room and you shut the door and it was sound proof, it was light proof and everything else, and I didn't want to spend very many minutes in there. Can you imagine what it would be to spend in a room like that for all eternity?
No escape. One of the false teachings that's happening in this world today is called nihilism. It says, oh, you may spend 50,000 years and then you can get out. No eternity. Eternity. Can you imagine what it would be like to be an eternity?
With absolutely no possibility of getting out. Absolutely being in one place. And let's look at a verse that wasn't the order I was thinking about in Romans chapter 2.
Romans, chapter 2.
Romans chapter 2 and verse.
1St.
Verse 3.
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judges them, which do such things and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God, or despiseth thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? There is one place in the universe where the goodness of God does not reach.
Now or forever?
Hell and the and the Lake of Fire.
There will be no one who will change their mind in the lake of fire in spite of the sufferings. There will be no one who will repent. There will be no one who will escape that. And so praying tonight, I hope that's not what your destiny is. God's the incredible planner. No one can begin to plan like God.
He didn't plan one thing.
It was one thing he never planned. If we could go to the book of Matthew.
Matthew, Chapter 25.
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God says I sat an incredible planner, planner of the universe, planner the way of salvation and everything else. But there's one thing he never planned.
Matthew chapter 25 and verse 41. Then shall he say to them, on the left hand, depart from me, accursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. There's only two destinies, one heaven. That's where I'm looking forward to going, perhaps this very evening, and one, the lake of fire. There's not a verse in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation that says God prepared a place for those who.
The Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior.
How many times we say God beseeching man, refusing to be made forever glad tonight? Don't refuse it. And so let's talk about being a fool.
In Psalm chapter 53.
Psalm chapter 53.
The fool verse one has said in his heart, there is no God. Corrupt are they? And they've done abominable iniquity. There's none that doeth good. God looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any. They did understand. They did seek God. Every one of them has gone back. They're all together, become filthy. There's none that doeth good, not one.
Sometimes on a long flight I have these things to cover the eyes and it it makes darkness.
I sometimes wonder how many people who, when they look around and I would be in exactly the same position I recognize if it weren't for the Spirit of God. It's like they've got eye covers on.
Let's take a look at this universe in which you and I live, the one God made.
The Milky Way Galaxy in which we're located.
Has an estimate of at least 100 billion stars.
It's big number. That's one followed by 11 zeros. That's that's a big number the universe.
It's calculated that there are 125 billion galaxies.
Another big number.
And the number that's calculated, that's estimated for the number of stars is 200.
Billion trillion, that's two followed by 23 zeros. Let's put that in perspective. If we were to go to the beaches of this world to see the grains of sand on the beaches of this world, and we were to compare those grains of sand with a number of stars that are in the sky, it's 10,000 times more stars than the grains of sand and all the beaches.
And you want to try to tell me that that just appeared out of nothing?
Big Bang got one thing right. The Big Bang said there was a point in which all of these things appeared. The creation appeared and it said it expanded at such a rate that that it started to place things. That said, I think the number they say is 10 to the 70th power. It's just like these things roared out and someone says, oh, you can't believe in the supernatural. And then they have these things moving it faster than the speed of light.
Why? Because of blindness. But when we start, when we step outside and we look at the stars.
And realize that there's 10,000 times at least as many stars as our grains of sand. How great is our God? How wonderful, how marvelous. And you say, oh, that just appeared. They try to say that it was a point of infinite, of infinite density and infinite.
Billions of degrees? Well, let's let's look at that for a minute. Does that even make sense?
How many times have you seen an explosion that produced round spheres? How many times in the Milky Way Galaxy is a spiral with two long arms and two short arms? So you expect that this explosion is going to just put a spiral out like that? I'd look at from home at the farthest point from the center of the Earth, you say? Well, no. Do you live near Everest? No, I don't live near Everest, but I live near a mountain that because of the Med Equatorial bulges just enough higher and it's only a difference of a couple.
Skills. It's over 20,000 feet and Everest is 29,000. And so it's just that much. But here's a this round sphere in which we live and when those of us who are old enough maybe remember when Mount Saint Helens blew its top, blew out the side. And so when you think about this fear in which we live, if we were, let's just look for a minute at Psalm 104 and something that's quite interesting there.
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Psalm 104, it says.
Verse 31 The glory of the Lord shall endure forever. The Lord shall rejoice in his works. He looketh on the earth and it trembles. He touches the hills and they smoke. What?
Is the volcano explode? The volcano explodes because underneath the earth there's a radioactive layer. And that radioactive layer heats up the the, the solids that are there. And when you heat it up, something expands and so it comes out on the top. So it's God's way of replacing what happens by erosion. What would happen if that radioactive layer was on the surface?
If it was an explosion you wouldn't have any difference but that radioactive layers underneath. Some of the poor soldiers of Russia were stationed to be near Chernobyl and had to make dugouts. Found out that this wasn't so good an idea because they were exposed to radiation. So when God made the things, he made these spheres, and explosions don't produce spheres.
But why did he make the one in which you and I live? Let's go to Proverbs chapter 8 for a minute.
Proverbs, chapter 8.
And and it says.
Verse 22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of His way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning or ever. The earth was the eternal Son of God, was with the Father, with the Holy Spirit.
Perfect harmony.
Perfect communion.
Perfect enjoyment.
But they were missing something.
The father wanted a bride for his son.
The father wanted someone his son could show his love to.
And So what does it say in verse?
30 I was by him as one brought up with him. I was daily as delight, rejoicing always before him. And then it comes to this rejoicing in the habitable part of the earth. My delights are with the sons of men.
It's a marvelous thing to think about the Lord Jesus Christ in this immense universe in which we're really just a little speck in comparison. And then we are planet and planet earth. And then when we compare ourselves on this planet, we're even smaller. And yet He knows us. He loves us so much that he.
Knowing what we would be.
He went ahead and created man.
Father wanted a bride for his son.
Are you going to be part of that bride? Are you going to spend eternity separated forever? Let's look for a minute in the book of of Job.
Before we go on to the next topic on my mind.
Jog.
Chapter 34.
In verse 14.
He set his heart upon man. If he gather unto himself, his spirit and his breath, all flesh shall perish together.
And men shall turn again unto dust.
If I'm talking to the ones your children are young, one of the first things you do in a science experiment in class is they give you a magnet and they push it. You push it together and you find out that the positive charges repel.
Every atom beyond hydrogen has at least two protons in the nucleus.
Why don't why don't they fly apart? You can talk about the nuclear charge in in classes and everything else.
Colossians chapter one, the one before we're having says by him, all things consist when you want to think about the immensity of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Think about this. He's holding all those atoms together.
And if you want to think about the three hours, which we'll talk about in a few minutes, if we have time on Calvary's cross, if during those three hours suffering what I deserve to suffer and what you deserve to suffer, if if for one instant he had forgotten to sustain the universe, the whole universe would have exploded apart.
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Can you imagine there's a verse that says standing on sin, not that's that's our God. Is that your God?
There have been debates, people like John Lennox talking to Richard Dawkins and Richard Dawkins says to John Lennox, who made your God? And John Lennox reply was if my God was made, he wouldn't. Your God made me is one that's made mine's not, mine's eternal.
The evidence is so clear about the existence of God. He's without cause, but he the intelligent design, if we look around the universe, if we look around things. Let's just look for a minute at a verse in Psalm 139, if I remember correctly.
It says Psalm 139. Fourteen in the previous verses show these omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, omnipowerful. I will praise the frying fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are thy works. You're sitting here in the chair. I'm standing up here.
You're we are part of the most incredible plumbing job that there's ever been.
The blood vessels in your body and my body are approximately 60,000 miles long. That's enough to wrap around the equator almost 2 1/2 Times. The nerves in your body, the nervous system is estimated to be about 100,000 miles long, enough to go around the equator four times.
Who else could do that?
Beside the creator.
Number of cells in your body.
Somewhere between 35 and 60 trillion.
The nerves in your brain and my brain estimated the nerve fibers something like 500,000 kilometers, 300,000 miles long.
And you say that just happened by accident?
If you're a student and sitting in class and they're saying this, this happened and that happened and everything else, do you know that there's never been one cell, even close to 1 cell that any laboratory, the most sophisticated laboratories in the world have ever been put together, let alone an Organism?
The DNA in your body and my body is considered to be estimated. Well, they now have it's all mapped about 6.4 billion.
Nucleotide base pairs long. That's approximately 10,000 times longer than the longest single volume novel that's ever been written. And then someone tries to say that just all happened by accident. Time will do it. Time is nothing. No, time doesn't do anything. Time is just a measuring stick.
You've been fearfully and wonderfully made, but what are you going to do about it? Well, the response of many, and we have to keep moving in time. Let's go to the book of James.
James chapter one.
In verse 27.
Pure religion. So we've talked about how to be a fool. You be a fool, you just ignore you say there's no God, but you're you're going in in the face totally contrary to all the evidence, because no other thing can explain the existence of what we've talked about apart from God. But James chapter one, verse 27 says pure religion and undefiled before God and the father is this to visit the fatherless and widows and their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
They've done multiple surveys here in the United States and the last one I read about.
They said how do you get to heaven? And I think the number was 48% of the people who responded said by being good.
Nothing wrong with visiting the fatherless and the widows. There's tremendous need. If you don't know where to look, let's talk after. But it never says there that that will get you anywhere. That's not going to get you to heaven because there's a problem. The problem is simply this.
Religion doesn't get you to heaven. Those are good things to do. I'm not saying they're not good things to do, but I'd like to go to a verse. Now that's been very, very common. Most of us have heard it for from the beginning of our lives in Romans chapter 3 and verse.
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23 starting with 22.
Romans, chapter 3.
I'd like to read from the end of verse 22 because I think it's important to see that for there is no difference for all of sinned and come short of the glory of God.
The farthest point West in the lower 48 states.
Is.
Cape A Lava in the Olympic Peninsula of the state of Washington. If we were to go out the door and get in the vehicles and drive, we could be there in somewhere between 8:00 and 9:00 hours.
Let's try to understand a little bit this concept of coming short.
There was a swimmer in 2013, 62 or 63 years old, Diane Nyad, who swam the 110 miles from Key West in Florida to Cuba. She did it in 53 hours.
Incredible swimmer.
I think those of us who are past sixty say that's even more incredible to do what she did. You imagine no help. She couldn't be around in a cage. She couldn't jump in the boat for a rest or anything else. She swam 110 miles. So let's, let's line some people up on the shore of Cape Alava in the Olympic Peninsula here in the state of Washington, and we're going to have a competition. Diane's going to be there.
There's going to be some people here that are very good swimmers, there's going to be some people that are prolonged exposure above the level of their nose.
And they're going to drown.
Who do you think is going to make for Tokyo, if that's what the race is?
She'll make it farther than almost anyone else, which is not going to make it.
And So what God says is you're going to come short. There's no difference. We say, well, I'm not a mass murderer. I'm not this, I'm not that. Well, it's true. Although I, as Bill reminded us today, if I wouldn't want you to see a recording of my thoughts, even actions, but thoughts worse than that.
Come short.
Far short. And so yeah, Diane may be able to swim in a tremendous distance, 110 miles in open ocean water. She'll never make it to Tokyo, and neither will anyone else. And you'll never make it to heaven on your own.
And so some people also have this statement. They say if God's a God of love and no one is going to go to the lake of fire, let's imagine that this weekend for this meeting tonight that the those here in Walla Walla said, we're going to go, we're going to grab some people. We're going to put them in handcuffs and we're going to have them in here. And they're going to spend this meeting listening. The police will be right after you.
Howard's no place for those who don't know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior.
Held the lake of fire, was prepared for the devil and his angels, but that's the only destiny for those who say I don't want the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior, he says you're going to come short.
But we said, the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance. What's repentance? Let's go now to the book of Luke.
Chapter 22.
Verse 39.
And he went out and and went as he was one to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples also followed him. And when he was at the place, he said to them, Pray that she entered not into temptation. He was withdrawn from them about a stones cast, and kneeled down and prayed, saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless not my will but time be done.
There appeared an Angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him, and being in agony, prayed more earnestly. And a sweat was, as it were, great drops of blood falling down to the ground. And when he rose up from prayer which come to His disciples, he found them sleeping.
Repentance.
If you and I had been there and been awake at that moment.
Watching the Lord Jesus in a place that he was accustomed to go to.
And seeing the agony that he was going through, why was he going through such agony? We don't have time to look at it. In Second Corinthians chapter 5 at the end of the chapter says he who knew no sin was made sin for us. Can you imagine what it was for that holy?
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Perfect.
Impossible to send man.
To take upon the burden of my sins, that would be tremendous in itself, but to take on the burdens of the sins of everyone who will believe in Him and suffer so great that He could offer salvation to everyone.
Wonder what repentance is?
Got it with him into that garden. Go watch him go. Be there at those three hours of darkness on Calvary's cross and realize that if there was any other alternative, there was any other way that God could have made for you and I to go to heaven, He would have. But the Lord Jesus was going through something that we cannot begin now or all eternity to understand.
Being made sin for us. Why did He do it? Because He loves you and He loves me. He doesn't want us to spend eternity in a place that He didn't prepare for us.
What's your choice? What's your choice tonight?
Repentance. Think again. Turning back.
If you go to the cross and you think of what he had to go through so that you and I could be saved.
And let's go on in that chapter. And it says and and from there.
By the time it reached 9:00 in the morning that Friday.
He probably had been up at least 27 hours.
When the the fake, and I hope there's no fakes here tonight like Judas when that fake said this is the man, he ended up hanging himself when that fake did that, he went through six trials. By the time day broke, he was taken to the House of Anise.
Taken to the House of Caiaphas and then early in the morning before the Sanhedrin, the group of religious leaders of the Jews met.
Before that happened.
He was condemned.
I was sitting in the dentist chair about six weeks ago and and the dentist is, you know what it's like to be sitting in the dentist chair and they're talking and expecting you to answer with their hands in your mouth. Doesn't work very well. But the dentist was saying, well, if we could just get a hold of the religious leaders, we could stop this war in the Ukraine and Russia.
Religion hasn't solved worse.
The first condemnation, those first three trials, came at the hands of the religious leaders, and then they turned them over to.
The political leaders.
Those in Israel would have been very happy at that moment if he'd said, I'm going to be king, I'm going to get rid of the Roman rule, I'm going to free us of this. But their hearts were not ready. And so then he was face, face to face with pilots of the one who was.
Responsible for that area. Pilot really didn't like to have to spend his time in Jerusalem. Pilot like to spend his time down on the coast and the Caesarea town of on the coast north of Tel Aviv and Israel. You can still go there and see the ruins. It was a little Rome. We could go have fun. We could go have pleasure, we could go have a good time. And now you want me to come up to Jerusalem?
Pass the baton over to.
Herod.
Had sent him back after he had his curiosity satisfied, Pilot asked a last question. Brooke, John chapter 18. John, chapter 18.
Verse 38.
Pilots saith unto him.
But it's truth. Three of the most important questions someone can ask, and I hope tonight you understand that the one who is the truth is the Lord Jesus Christ, the way, the truth and the life.
Pilate asked a series of questions. I think have counted them. There's at least seven. What did Pilate do when he asked the most important of all the questions he asked? It says. And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews. He didn't even wait around for an answer. He didn't even wait around for an answer. And he was in front of the one who is the truth.
Man ignored the warnings of his wife. Typical foolish thing that men we often do.
And then he was going to face the 7th trial. He was 9:00.
Now after this, put on a cross up on Calvary's hill. Let's try to visualize this for a minute. The Mount of Olives is not a peak, it's a Ridge. He came down to the Garden of Gethsemane, that garden where we read about him praying. And the trees in that garden, they estimate now what's growing there is a between 900 and 1000 years old. But an olive tree, when it's cut, will come again from the roots. And so maybe those same roots were the ones that were there when the Lord Jesus was in that garden.
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And then he would had to descend on down to the valley of Kidron, the brook, and start up. And there was someone who helped him, Simon with the weight of the cross.
You can imagine how tired he was after at least 27 hours after being beat on the back with a whip with metal piercing into his back. Why? Because he loves you and he loves me. You can imagine what it would have been like to carry a heavy cross up the hill with your back like that. So they had someone carry it for him. And I don't, and it's amazing. And here's someone who is God was sustaining the whole universe, but his man. Someone helped carry that up at noon.
That day.
If it wasn't a wake up call, I don't know what could be because at noon that day everything went black dark for three hours because God was not going to allow His Son to be seen in that suffering in those three hours when in that darkness.
He paid the penalty that I could never pay. He covered the debt that I could never pay off. He did it for you if you'll believe in him tonight, if you haven't already. If you don't, the warning is it could be too late.
But then there was something that incredible happened. Let's go back to Luke.
Luke.
If we were in John, I'm sorry, but for time I won't go but it and John talks about how a soldier pierced aside blood came out the blood the only thing that can wash sins away and then.
And then?
He was put in a tomb.
If you go in Jerusalem from the Valley of Kidron up to where the cross is.
Just to show you what human beings are like and what the religious world is like. There's three different groups that control that area and there's things that are written down very carefully as to who can do what. And leading up against the wall, there's a little three or four ring wooden ladder that wasn't included in the agreements. And they say if they tried to move it, that'll start a battle between them. People are still fighting instead of bowing their knee before the creator. But if you go up from that hill.
There's a.
An empty tomb. They don't say for sure that they know it's the one that he was buried in. Sitting in a garden? Empty.
Empty. Why? Because the tomb could not hold him when he got out of his grave clothes, when he was wrapped in the word. And I don't know Greek, but I understand that the word says it was just like someone just came out of them. They were sitting there that all the wrappings were like that. It wasn't like when Lazarus was freed. When Lazarus was freed, they had done wrapping, but the Lord Jesus just walked out of there, moved the door.
They went to sleep.
People are trying to say that didn't really happen. Well, he was seen by over 500. No one's ever been able to find the body. He was seen. And what was the proof of it of those 12 disciples that have been with them? We know what happened to Judas the fake. He went out and hung himself. We know that John was exiled to the island of Patmos. The other 10, history says died as martyrs. You say What's the difference between that and a Muslim who kills himself? Why does a Muslim kill himself?
Because in the false teaching of Islam, it says the only way you can guarantee you're going to go to heaven is to kill an infidel.
What's selfish thinking? That is what false thinking. But the other ten could not be convinced if you lit Yeah, there was a William Wallace, Warren Wallace, who's written some books, a former detective of the Los Angeles Police Department in the in the homicide division.
His dad if you want to keep something secret.
Make sure you only have one person do the crime because one will tell on the other.
But why did those people do what they did? Because they knew. They saw the Lord Jesus risen, and they saw him ascend, and he ascended from the.
On Mount of Olives and he's coming back there. I'm coming back with him.
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Coming back with them. Are you coming back with him begun from this earth for at least seven years. If he came tonight, it'll be seven years and a little bit at least. What will it be like to come back with the Lord Jesus and, and, and land in a sense on that mountain and have him say, look across there and realize what had happened to those three hours of darkness? But to say we spent seven years together in the glory, we're going to spend forever in the glory. Will you be there?
I hope so well.
The last thing is, as I said, how to pick up three enemies. I would be totally false if I said to you tonight that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and everything will be solved. All the troubles are going to go away and it's not true. You're going to pick up three enemies instantly.
Start to battle inside because I've got rotten flesh and hasn't gotten any better, and I'll guarantee it's not getting any better. It's a continual battle.
Satan.
Why did this world plunge into this universe into what the problems that did it says? And we know in Genesis chapter 2, we didn't have time to look at it, but it talks about how it was without form and void. And if you go to Isaiah chapter 45, you know, he doesn't make things that way. We leave things incomplete. But there was a battle before you and I were ever here between Satan and.
God, he said. He wanted to exalt himself. He wanted to pretend he was something, and he's still a created creature.
And so he had things had to be remade. Well, he's done for it. He lost the battle. He lost it in the Garden of Eden. He lost it at the cross. But he's still fighting to take people down with him. And then this world system. Yeah. You're going to pick up all those three enemies. Let me tell you, it's worth it because it's only temporary. And then we're going home. Are you going with us?
Johnny said I want I thought you were getting ready to go right now. Well, I hope you're ready to go right now, because if not, it might be too late, but.