Address—R. Reeves
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Good song we sang this morning, the last song in the book.
Number 85 in the appendix.
I'm subject to Sacramento's is the cost.
Number 85 in the appendix, the cross across. So that's our game.
First, I'd like to ask you to turn to Mark's Gospel.
The end of March Gospel.
Well, we have a mysterious thing that happens.
Mark's Gospel, chapter 14.
And here are two verses that you don't find in any other.
Of the gospel.
We find certain things in all of the Gospels, like the feeding of the multitudes.
But we don't find this passage in any gospel except this one.
So mark 14 and verse 51.
Mark 1451 And there followed him a certain young man.
Having a linen cloth cast about his naked body.
And the young man laid hold on him.
And he left the linen clock.
And learn from them naked.
Those two verses are.
Interesting.
And they're mysterious.
We don't know who this young man was.
Someone said to me once that they thought it might be marked the writer this gospel, and I don't believe that.
I don't believe anymore.
If God want us to know who this was, he would have told us.
We don't know.
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So we we start and we say why is it here?
What's this all about?
What does God want us to learn from these two verses that are only found in this gospel?
Well, I'm going to share with you what.
I think.
And I cannot prove.
That what I'm telling you is right. But I'm going to just share with you what I believe about these verses.
First of all, we don't know his name.
And so that shows us that God does not want us to know who it was.
So rather than find out who it was, God wants us to find out.
And learn the.
The lesson?
That is taught here.
Well, one thing we know about this young man was that he was not one of the 12 disciples.
Because it says in the 50th verse that we did not read that all his disciples had forsaken him and fled.
So the first thing we know about this man was that he was not one of the disciples.
Or the Apostles.
The next thing we find out about it was that he was following Jesus.
At a distance.
Another thing we find out about him that he had a strange type of clothing on.
It says he had a linen cloth cast about his naked body.
Well, that was an unusual way to be dressed.
She wasn't dressed like the rest of folks.
Not only that.
Didn't have much on.
That what he did have on, though it was unusual, was very.
Gentle.
And that's all they had.
Next thing we find out about this man is that.
Since he was a follower of Jesus.
That.
When Jesus became rejected.
That since he was one of the followers, he was also suspected as being one of his admirers, which he was.
And so consequently he was.
Right to be seized also.
As one of those associated with Christ.
Next thing we find out about it is that.
When the people came to grab a hold of him and identify him with a rejected Christ.
He didn't like it.
And so he before he left.
And it runs away naked.
You say nothing. Mysterious story.
Why do we have it in the Bible?
Well, here's why I think we have it in the back.
As I say, we don't know who it is, so God is not trying to tell us about any particular person, but he's giving us a picture of a class of people.
Now this class of people are those who.
Like to connect themselves with Jesus Christ?
But at a distance.
And they're just kind of on the fringe of associated association with him. They're they're not close enough.
Really to be counted?
And this is a class of people who have a shallow pretense.
Of moral purity in the LED environment.
But it's very shallow.
It's just about that deep.
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And.
When the growing gets tough.
And they're forced to take a stand with Jesus Christ in rejection and can't do it.
They refused to be identified with a rejected Christ.
This is a class of people who are able to identify themselves with Jesus.
At a distance as long as the going is smooth.
But when they are associated with him in rejection, they can't stand it.
They have to be.
And they leave their garment or their religion behind them because there was nothing underneath it.
And I want to say today, dear brethren, that there is a class of people like that today who associate themselves with the glamour part of Christianity.
And they want the good things about Christianity that make them look good.
In the eyes of others.
But when you confront them with the identification with Jesus in rejection.
The religion control.
A religion comes off and they are not able to identify themselves with a rejected trust.
And off they go running because their religion was very shallow.
Well, it's an interesting thing, isn't it? And I think that's what God is teaching us here.
That.
The rejected Christ is the test of how deep your religion is. Can you stand? Can I stand for Jesus even when he is rejected?
Or will the rejection of Christ take off our shallow religion and we'll have to run away in Spain?
In other words, the cross exposes people.
Exposes people as to whether they really are connected with Jesus at all in depth, or whether they have just used Christianity as a game for themselves but they can't stand the cross. That's a real test.
And you and I will be tested like that in our lives. Are we going to be willing to stand with Jesus?
In his rejection the cross are we willing to stand?
With Jesus at the cross.
Well, I believe I'm speaking to people today who say yes.
Yes, I am willing to be identified with Jesus even if he is rejected in this world.
I think some of you that come here to fellow to this meeting house.
Have learned a little bit about that.
You are associated with a very small group of believers in a very religious community of people.
And this community doesn't take much account of you at all.
And they say, well, that that little bunch that meets over on Plankton St. that they're just a little bunch of sincere Christians.
And they don't have much to offer. They don't even have a preacher.
And they don't even have an organ.
And as yet, I really wonder if they got anything at all over there.
And so there isn't anything really attractive about this meetinghouse, and there isn't anything attractive about this group of people either.
And there are just a few that are willing to identify themselves with this bunch.
Who are seeking to go on with a rejected Christ.
If you.
To this meeting and you are a business person. It wouldn't make your business any better.
If you were a Barber and came to this meeting, it wouldn't get you more haircuts.
If you're a doctor and came to this meeting, you wouldn't have more people to treat.
This meeting wouldn't do that for you.
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And that the only reason that I know any of you coming here is that you're willing to be identified with the Lord Jesus Christ, even in his rejection.
And I don't think I'm talking to anybody in this room that's like this fellow whose religion was so shallow.
Than when it came to the test of the cross, his religion came off and he runs away. You're not like that, no.
The cross is the big test.
It's a big test. Are we willing to identify with Jesus?
At the cross.
If some of you have a better.
Explanation for these two verses. I wish you would tell me what they are after this meeting because that's the best I can do.
The best I can do?
Now in the little time that we have together.
I thought it would be worthwhile for us to talk about the cross of the Lord Jesus.
And let's talk about it in several different ways.
Let's talk about the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
As to what it means to God.
What does the cost mean for God the Father?
Then we'll talk about the cross.
And let's talk about it just a little bit as to what did it mean to Jesus.
And then we'll talk about the cross.
As to what it means.
To me and to you.
And then we'll talk about the process.
And mentioned what it means to save it.
The enemy of our souls and the opposer of everything that God wants to get done.
So those four things will occupy us in the next few minutes.
And we're going to say as we get moving on these things that, hey, this is deception.
We found that out yesterday.
Some of us were enjoying the word of God yesterday and we said that's what one lady told me yesterday as we were enjoying the things of Christ, she says.
Wow.
Wow, I didn't know it was so big.
Oh, the truth of God is.
And we feel ourselves so small as we encounter these precious foods. And we'll have that feeling today, I believe, as we talk about the frost.
Well, what did the cross mean to to God? What's our first subject?
Well, let me put it this way, beloved brethren.
Did you know that God was in debt?
Before the cross.
Did you know God had an unsettled bill to pay?
And the only way that that could be paid was Calvary's process.
So at Calvary's Cross Gods Bill was paid.
I remember when I was growing up.
My dad was.
Not always able to find work.
And we didn't have a lot.
I remember I used to chew gum for a week.
And I can see in my mind right now that that bit I used to sleep on.
At 1502 E 13th Street, right by the railway track.
And there was a bed that had was made out of iron. I think it was brown.
And had a right behind me was a thin rod and then the the the bed. The bed instead came up like that and around but then there was a a rod and then had some rods going down.
That I would put my gun.
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On that ride at night.
And chew it the next day.
And I could just pick up there, I said, well, let's see. I like the charcoal gum, and I take that off the rod and chew it again.
Until the next night and I could select those gums. There was charcoal and there were bubble gums. It had so much bubble gum in those days.
Our teeth were better too, but we didn't have so much bubble gum. Spearmint Juicy Fruit.
Slow and you'd be surprised that on the second and third day you can still taste the thing.
Like someone wrote a song said, Will the spearmint lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight? If you chew it in the morning, will it be too hard to bite a big song about that? I always liked that song.
But you see, we didn't have a lot of money.
And.
So.
We had to make things to.
You know, I I really forgot why I mentioned that.
But.
Our subject right now is.
Had a bill for you. Now I remember. You know, sometimes my mind slips. I go to write everything down. But here's the reason I mentioned that when I was a kid, my dad used to buy his groceries at at the Levitt store on the corner of E 13th of E 14th and Guthrie.
And in those days, Mr. Levitt would let my dad run up a bill, and he would pay it each week when he got paid.
And I used to love to go into that store.
On Saturday morning, my dad paid the bill.
Because Mr. Levitt would. When Dad would pay him the bill for the weak groceries, Mr. Levitt would go to the candy counter and he'd throw in bars of candy and made a big sack about that high, about that big around. Just put candy bars as a little thank you gift to my dad for paying the bill. So every Saturday morning, my dad had to go pay the bill. He owed it. We'd eaten it up, and Dad owed the bill. And do you know that God owed a bill?
That could only pay to be paid by the cross.
Now tell me what that bill was. I'll tell you what it was.
When the first man sinned.
And his wife, God forgave their sins on credit.
Because you see, during the life of Adam, Jesus had not lived and Jesus had not died, and so when God forgave Adam's sins.
He could only do it on credit.
In view of that great payment that would be made later on at Christ.
So God owed a bill. He not only forgave Adam, but he forgave Eve. He forgave Norah. He forgave Isaiah. He forgave Moses. He forgave Aaron. He forgave Habakkuk. He forgave Daniel and millions of precious souls who had believed in God through all those years.
Prior to the coming of the Lord Jesus, God had forgiven them.
On the basis of that great payment that would be later on made at the Cross. So you see God owed a big bills. He had forgiven so many millions of people on credit.
And so when Jesus came, one of his missions was to pay that bill.
That God owes that could only be paid by the cross.
Oh, what a beautiful and what another blessed view of the devotion of the Lord Jesus, who would go to the cross and seven at accounts that God had built up through the long years of.
You see, the blood of animals could not forgive sins. They could only be a picture of that which would.
But the blood of lambs and goats and bulls?
Could not urge who died and were offering sacrifice. That blood was only typical. It was only a picture of the mighty work of Kelly.
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But all what a bill. God has to be said.
At the cross.
And so in that sense, beloved brethren, in that sense.
And it's such a wonderful thing to think about. In that sense, Jesus died for God.
That he might stay there.
I'd like to ask you to turn to Matthew's Gospel, chapter 16 for a very interesting.
Little verse that shows us that Satan knew that that was coming.
And Satan tried to keep Jesus from dying.
People say about that. Strange, I thought. Yes, Satan won't want of Jesus to die. Well, he did.
But we're going to see we're Satan here, try to keep him from it.
Some might say, boy.
Satan is not consistent. No he's not. You never find consistency with the devil. He just does what he wants to do to ruin the purposes of God at any particular moment and he would not consistent.
Matthew 16 verse 21 From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciple how he must go unto Jerusalem and suffer. See, he must go.
In muscle.
Unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things that the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
I noticed what happened then, Peter.
Took him and began to rebuke him, saying He and Mark and be Lord. This will not be the can that sound nice.
Sound like Peters, his friend, doesn't. He said. No, no, don't do that.
Don't let that happen.
That's dear.
But not ocean verse 23 that Jesus turned and said unto Peter, Get the behind you, Satan.
Jesus recognized in Peter's comment the hiss of the serpent.
The gist of the serpent here was Satan using Peter to try to stop Jesus from going to the cross.
Asia and the Lord Jesus recognized that, and he put his finger right on it, he says. Get behind me, Stay talking my computer.
You know, sometimes Satan could use a real Christian.
The fourth things about.
It's a serious thing to think about, but Jesus said to Peter, Get behind these state.
Bowed in the fence under me, for thou savers not the things that give God, but those to be of men.
Here we have Satan trying to stop Jesus from going to the cross by this sweet talk of fear.
And the Lord Jesus recognized it right away as a movement of Satan to keep him from going there and paying the bill that his father knows.
Or how practice Satan is. You've got all kinds of tools, and if this one won't work, you try another.
And in this case, he tries to keep the Lord Jesus from going to the cross and in just a few chapters on down the road and Matthew then he stirs everybody up to pudding today.
Consistent. No. They've looked for anything consistent with the devil.
Except that he opposes God at every turn.
So when you and I look at Calvary's cross in that light.
The Lord Jesus said the Son of Man must be lifted up.
She said I must go.
He must go on Wisdom. Well, one of the reasons for it was the Lord Jesus Christ must go.
The calibers cross and he must pay the bill that got over for all sins through the years that have been forgiven on credit.
The Old Testament Saints now turn to Romans chapter three. Well, we'll see another view of that.
We're going to notice the verse that's often misunderstood by many real Christians.
But when we understand it correctly it just it just.
Bursts into brilliant light in our souls.
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Well, was chapter 3.
Verse 23 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Being justified freely by his grace.
Redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood. Now beloved brethren, please notice carefully that next statement.
A proficient or a full satisfaction through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of forbearance of God. That's the point.
But it's the precious blood of Christ.
That declares God righteous.
For forgiving the sins of the past believers.
This has nothing to do with your past sins at all.
Some Christians misunderstand that. They say, well, God forgave the sins that are past and they're worried about tomorrow.
That's not the teaching here. The teaching of this verse, when it talks about the remission of sins that are past the teaching here is.
That the blood of Jesus Christ declares God to be right and forgiving Adam's sin and all the Old Testament sins. These are the sins of past believers up until the past.
And the redemption work of Christ declares God to have done right.
And forgiving them on their patience of that summer. Oh, this is a precious for you to make.
God has been declared righteously. For God has been declared right for having forgiven the sins of past believers who died before Jesus came.
They were forgiven on credit in view of the mighty Calvary work, and when the blood of Christ was shed, it declared God had done right and forgiven David's sin.
Isn't that precious? And so brother? And I say again.
And I love to think about it.
That at the cross.
God's death was paid.
By the precious Blood of Christ.
And God is declared to have done right.
In delivering poor, wretched, hell deserving sinners such as David and Rahab. And when that's look you want to read about our real creed.
And the Old Testament? Read about Manasseh. It was a Greek, one of the worst.
Wretched character. You ever can imagine Manasseh, and it says he sinned more than all the other people put together. But then he repented. Turn to God. God forgave him. How could he do it?
On the value of the precious brother of Christ.
But on credit. And so Jesus must die. He must die to settle God's account.
Isn't that wonderful?
Precious Blood of Christ. It does so much, and we have considered what it did.
Now let's talk about what the cross means to Jesus.
And this is an immense subject.
But in order to approach it just a little, let's turn to.
Luke's Gospel. I think it's the 22nd chapter. What did the cross mean to Jesus?
Was it something that was easy for him?
You know, dying is not always hard.
They tell me that.
They tell me that an easy way to die is to drown.
In fact, I don't want to die. I'd like to just keep living for Jesus. That's what I want to do. They say the ground is an easy way to die. Those are almost ground lost consciousness. And yet I've been divided, so it really wasn't bad.
And they say another easy way to die is just just go out in the cold.
Just bad person. You just get so sleepy and synonymous.
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So don't pick an easy way. Dying is not always hard.
I'm not recommending what, I'm recommending anybody who either one of those things.
But I'm just telling you that dying is not always fired.
But the death of Christ was not an easy death.
And when we talk about the cross.
Of the Lord Jesus and what it means to him.
We're not talking about something easy.
And we're going to get a little view of that.
In Luke 22.
Verse 39. Let's read it together.
Luke 2239 And he came out and went, as he was accustomed to the mount of olives, And his disciples also followed him. And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that you ever not into temptation.
And he was withdrawn from them about a stone. Which guys?
And sat down and prayed.
Kneel down here if I can talk to your brethren about the stones cast.
And when I read that the storms happened, he was just a Stones castaway.
How far could you throw a stone?
Well.
Not very far, but he was reviewed. He was removed from his disciples about a stones cast. But when I read that I think about David and Goliath.
And how far was David from the mighty Goliath? Just a stone cats.
How far was Jesus from the mighty ordeals? Calgary? Just a stone was cast. Here's the true David. Here's the true David getting ready in just a few moments.
Cash the storm of the mighty God. A stone is kept well. He kneeled out and prayed, saying Father.
If I'll be willing.
Remove this cup for me. What cup is that? It's the cup that was going to happen in just about a day or a little more. The cup of something or sin.
She said if I'll be willing to remove this cup from the nevertheless, not my way, but.
Thank you, their bearded Angel, unto him from heaven, strengthening him and being in an agony parade more illness, And his sweat was as it were, great drops of blood running down to the ground.
Beloved brethren, what's this about?
This is the Lord Jesus.
Kneeling down in his father's presence and thinking about what it would be.
To be nailed to a cross, and have to bear the wheat of sin of all believers of all anxious.
You think this was easy for him?
Now God can only communicate with us by means of human language. It's the only way we have of understanding such a thing as this. And it's just as though God says, I want to tell you the intensity of this.
The intensity of the Lord Jesus anticipating the cross was so great that the sweat that came out of his precious body were was like balloon that had undoubtedly.
Nothing could more vividly describe the intensity of the agony that he considered as she thought about the cross.
Well, I would rather you and I will never know.
The intensity of yourself.
Some of you have suffered a little in your life.
I have suffered a little. I remember several years ago when I had a pinched nerve in my back and I felt my right leg was on fire for three weeks.
There was no fun.
I suffered.
And you have had sufferings too. Some of your dear sisters who have born children, you could not describe the intensity, though temporary it was. You could not tell me the intensity of that suffering that you went through.
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And that child was coming into this room.
The travel that a woman passes through, they say, is intense.
I don't ever know about it, but you know.
But what was the intensity of this man's suffering?
And on Calvary's cross.
They are rejected by this world.
We lift it up with his hands nailed to the cross, his feet nailed down.
Suffering in his body, yes, but that's not the that's not the main issue.
The suffering the Lord Jesus here is anticipating is not related to the nails.
Is not related to the whipping that he got that made his back raw, but it says in the Psalms.
They they they plowed furrows upon my back.
And that was because they they tied little pieces of shell into the whips and the Romans whipped little pieces of shell. So when they came down with a quick one of his precious back, instead of just making a Welch, it would just cut this back.
The cloud furrowed. He's not talking about that here.
Talking about the thirst that came to someone hanging on a cross as he suffocates and loses his breath because his body pulls down and he can't breathe. And I'm talking about that the physical sufferings are not before And here what's before our precious Savior and Garden of Gethsemane is the horrible unspeakable ordeal of having to to take the blame for the disobedience of Ronald Reed.
And Harry Vanderhart and Richer and Christ.
And their way in practice.
That atonement sufferings that he endured, That's what brought the sweat out of.
Understand it.
One of our songwriters has said.
None of the ransomed ever knew.
How deep does the river cross?
Nor how dark was the night which the Shepherd passed through.
There he found the sheep.
Or rather, the intensity of the seconds of Christ. Christ has once suffered for sins.
And just for the unjust.
One sin. We had it today at Sunday school and I told these kids, you were here, some of you, most of you. And you saw this boy take that 19 1/2 LB Satchel and he went around he he loved that thing all around the room.
And I said would you like to carry it around 100 times? Says no to him.
Just one satchel.
And it didn't weigh as much as one sin.
A sick, beloved brethren of the Lord Jesus, with all the sin of all the believers, of all teachers.
Upon his precious soul and body in God's voice.
You and I cannot even touch this.
That's what he had before the intensity of his son, and Calvary's cross meant that to him.
Unspeakable sufferings, atoning sufferings.
You and I just kind of look at it and say.
It's too big for me.
And it is.
One sin was enough to cast the man of woman out of the Garden of Eden forever.
Just one.
What about the sins of all believers in all ages?
And those sins getting their righteous punishment and.
What about it?
It's it's too big to talk about. But let me tell you, beloved brethren, those are the sufferings of Christ that have made it possible for you to be here in this room as a child of God, had it not been for those suffering.
You and I would have been lost and hopeless.
And without any opportunity of ever knowing God, but because he suffered for us.
You and I can enjoy heaven forever. So what did the cross mean for the Lord Jesus?
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Unspeakable.
Now let's say what did it mean to me?
What does the class mean for me?
He died in my place.
And you can say he died for me.
He took my place. He is my substitute.
And since he died for me, I won't have to die and be separate from God.
Some of you were with us on Friday night.
And we were enjoying together.
Some little thoughts about the resurrection of Christ and power and its and its results.
And this comment was made and it.
I remember when I made this comment on Friday night, I noticed that your brother sitting in one of the front rows.
It was just like the light had turned off in his mind.
And you know what turned on the light in his heart?
It's when I told him this and I told the group this, I said all of our sins, all of our sins were laid on Jesus and the cross.
And before we were born.
All of our sins were future on the cross.
And they rallied on Jesus.
And then that I am now.
Where are they? Where are they?
And if there just was 1 little sin?
Left on Jesus.
That wasn't suffered for on Calvary's cross. He could have never gone into heaven because heaven's holy place. And there was just one straggling sin that had not been laid on him at Calvary, and it still stayed on him. He could never have been taken to the right hand.
Next to the very fact, the very fact that Jesus sits at the right hand of God today as a glorified, living, real man, the very fact that he's there is a proof that sends you.
One of them left. Not one of them left.
Are you worried about your sins?
Don't need to, we're gone. Rob is blotted the mouth and you tell me where out is.
I feel wrong.
Oh, and their blood is out.
You turn out the light. It's out. Where is it? I don't know. It's out.
That they don't exist.
And if one of them existed, I just say one of them, or even a half of one of them should take this thing apart.
They just did. Half of one of my sins existed still on Jesus Couldn't be in heaven. It couldn't be there.
Oh, oh.
And.
Precious blood of the Lord Jesus has wiped the mall away. Everyone of them. And you say, Mr. Reeves, how about the ones of tomorrow? Now you see, you don't have to commit sins tomorrow. Some of you dear brothers live whole days without sinning at all. You don't have to sin. I'm convinced. I'm convinced that most of you people in this room spend days and that you don't sit.
We say, well, I said every day. I have to know you don't.
Sin is the action of an independent will, and I'm talking to believe it, beloved brethren in Christ. And there are days when you have just gone through the whole day and there's never been the movement of an independent will.
Or you may have dumb thoughts come into your dirty thoughts. You may have had bad thoughts, but you didn't acknowledge them as your own.
And so consequently, they just went through and you didn't sin at all. See, it's not wrong to have an old nature.
But it's wrong to let it act.
It's not wrong to have an old nature and we all have got it, but we don't have to let it act.
It's like that.
It's like that relative, you know?
He came to town and you didn't want it.
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He didn't bathe, he didn't wear good clothes and his manners were horrible. He had put him in the basement and they didn't let him up.
Kept the door.
Uncle Ebenezer, you didn't let him upstairs.
He was in the basement. Was it long to have Uncle Ebenezer in the basement? No.
He's there, but you didn't let him on sneakers.
And if you've got an old nature, and I do too, it's not a sin to have an old nature.
But it's a sin to let him upstairs.
You just track up the living room, you'll smash the dishes, you'll abuse the people in the house.
And.
Keeping where it belongs in the place of death. Getting rid of them. But you don't have to let him upstairs to misbehave. And so we'll suppose that you let old Uncle Ebenezer up on Wednesday, and it causes confusion.
Is that forgiven? To yes.
Oh brother, it's the precious truth of God. Not only your past sins relate on Jesus, that's over your future sins. Now, I don't say you should sin and I say and I don't say you have to sin. I don't believe it for one minute.
But supposing it on Wednesday or Thursday, you do get mad.
Now, I don't think it's what you say it.
OK, well.
Is that is Thursday Sin forgiven to Yeah.
Because listen, folks, if Thursday sin wasn't put on Jesus and atone for it, never will be.
Because he's not going to die again. Not only your past sins, beloved brother and sister will come from across what your future wants to because all your sins for the past and future, they were all future at Calvary.
The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from our sin. This is true.
You cannot commit a sin below the brother in Christ, your sister. You can't commit a sin that has not already been atoned. Can I tell?
We say I never saw it that way, Ron, and now is the time.
You haven't seen it that way. See it that way. Now it's true, because is Jesus going to die again?
And if your sins not on the past or future, if they weren't laid on Jesus at the cross, then you got a problem because he's never going to die.
Well, what does the cross means to me mean to me, it means that the whole issue of my relationship to God seven forever to my benefit.
Well.
What about Satan? I said. We talked about what the cross means to Satan.
What does it mean to say?
Utter.
Defeat.
Lost his case.
Lost his case. Brother Jesus is the winner. Jesus is the winner.
Take a look at Genesis chapter 3.
All of these views I've given you, I I know are just we just kind of like we just been speaking in the window at each one of them, and we haven't even explored the house that each one of these doctrines contained. But.
It's good to peek in the weather.
Genesis 315.
Where God is speaking to the devil, in this case in the form of a serpent, he said. I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, and it shall lose thy head.
Bishop Bruce I had.
Mark, do you ever kill a snake?
That's the best way to do it.
Can't get anything done by pounding on the tail, can you?
Right to his head.
I've killed some snakes too, and man, I really give it to him in the head.
And if I can take care of their head, the rest of them is OK, don't worry about it.
Oh, brother, he shall bruise thy head.
Thou shalt lose his feet.
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That calibrated, the head of the circle was fresh.
Your enemy is what? He's lost his case. He's lost his case. And that Calvary crossed the head of the Sergeant.
That's the end of his power.
Our brethren, The cross, the cross.
That's our game.
God's been satisfied.
Jesus has suffered, you have been blessed, and Satan has been defeated.
Is it any wonder that the Apostle Paul says in Galatians chapter six? He says.
God forbid that I should glory.
Except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me by unto me.
In essence, what he says, he says. If you want me to boast about something.
Want me to tell you what I'm? He says. I'm proud of your problems.
I'm proud of the cross and I've been trying to kill you. Why?
Let's sing 283.
I would love this song 283 when we surveyed Wonders Cross.
On which the Lord glory died.
Our richest game and pound foot loss.
For content and all our faith when we certainly.
God.
We're just getting waiting now, that's why.