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Revelation 1:17,18 -Giver Of Life- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2024-03-31
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Chapter one verse seventeen and eighteen. You ain't seen nothing yet. It's it's gonna get far worse. You're standing with me as we read God's holy word together. I I know you all heard, Sunday, resurrection Sunday, Easter messages out of the book of revelation. It happens in all the churches. So verse 17, and when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead and he laid his right hand upon me saying unto me, fear not. I am the first and the last. I'm he that liveth and was dead and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And have the keys of hell and of death. Father, we thank you for your holy word. And Lord, we're not afraid. We're not afraid what these freaks are trying to do. Lord, we know ahead of time what you've described, what what's happening. We know Lord that you are on the throne in control. That there's nothing that happens that doesn't first go through your providential filter. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And Lord, know that in Revelation seventeen seventeen that you're putting in the hearts of these globalists, these men to do these things to set the stage that will culminate with your return. And you will destroy the beast and all of his system with the brightness of his coming and with your coming Lord and with the sword of your mouth, the antichrist, their champion, the world's champion, their Goliath falls to the ground. They're a Basra and the false prophet. They lay in the road, they lay in the street as you trample out the vintage Lord. The grapes of wrath being trampled out. The blood coming up onto your garment Lord. Four and a half feet high. Lord, all over the Valley Of Megiddo of Armageddon, you make your victory ascent into the city of Jerusalem. And Lord, you're the victor. You're the conquering king. You spoiled all principalities and powers. You triumphed over them at the cross. You were crucified, buried, raised from the dead, ascended to the right hand of your father and you're coming again. Lord, it's a story, it's a truth that we hold to. We're looking up knowing knowing Lord, you're coming for that purchased possession. You're coming for us your bride. So bless now Lord, speak to our hearts in Jesus name, Amen. Would you please be seated? People and especially politicians promise many many things that they can never deliver. Promises like today is transgender visibility day and because we say it, you will not be freaks anymore. Promises from a freak for freaks is just that freaky. It's become the demonic freak show here in America. If you're born a man and you want a promotion, all you need to do to get on the world stage is to take some estrogen, have a couple surgeries that of castration and maybe, you know, enhancement, plastics or whatever, breast enlargement. And then you put some lipstick on and you wear a dress and all of a sudden you're a part of his cabinet. You're a cabinet member. In the real world, being ugly is no excuse to become but uglier while denigrating God's creation of beautiful women. Have you ever seen such ugly representation of women as these transgenders? It's just it's frightening. Oh. Oh, man. That guy's on the world stage. Oh, they're on the world stage. What are they thinking, you know? It's, oh. God made them beautiful. Adam woke up and he saw Eve and he said, wow. Man, she's naked, you know? He he couldn't believe it. And, why are you so stupid, Adam? You know, Lord, why'd you make her so stupid so she'd love you? Why'd you make her so beautiful so you'd love her? You know? It's easy. That's the way it works. Promises, promises, promises. Jesus promised in John two nineteen, destroy this temple in three days I'll raise it up. Now that's a big promise. A huge promise. If you can't deliver, then there's no reason for us to be here this morning. And he's he's challenging them. Which which of them, the guys today talking so big, can can say something similar? You know, they can prognosticate the Noah Yuval Harari's and stuff that we're gonna live forever, you know. Jesus is dead. God's dead. We just haven't buried the body. They they can say all sorts of land outlandish things like Voltaire and others, madam Murray O'Hare and Danton Levee or whatever it is, you know, and then they die in torment, you know, wishing wishing they had not, you know, given their hearts and lives over to Satan, and, they die miserably. But, Jesus, he's challenging his enemies. He's looking at him, you know, in the face, destroy this temple and three days I'll raise it up. And then he goes on to say, a wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah. As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. He's laying it out. He's letting them know. So much so that his enemies when they crucified him, they said, this deceiver said, you know, in three days destroy this temple. In three days, I'll raise it up. We need to put a criterion of soldiers, guards around the tomb, lest his disciples steal his body and it become even worse than it is. They did us a favor because the disciples, when the shepherd was smitten, the sheep scattered. So part of the many infallible proves as we study human nature, the disciples were wimping out. Peter denied that even knew the lord through on three occasions before the cock crowed, before the night was over. But after the resurrection, you couldn't deter these guys. We obey God rather than men. They went away rejoicing that kind of worthy to suffer for the Lord's sake. Those soldiers, there's no way this ragtag group of disciples could overthrow these Roman soldiers. They put a seal upon the tomb and a 2,000 pound stone in front of it, punishable by death if anybody were to overpower the soldiers and break the seal and roll away the stone. So they were paid a bunch of money to soldiers just like we see today, unlimited amounts of money for corruption. And we'll talk to the grovener because punishable by death. So a cotillion of soldiers round the clock watching that did us a favor because human nature is such that these guys would not die for a lie. They're not gonna go in there and overthrow and grab a dead body. Goes against human nature. But once they discovered he's alive, they'd do anything. They'd walk through walls. They cared not to be asked when the bodies be present with the Lord. They didn't fear anymore. They weren't afraid of anything because of the resurrection. They knew that if they die, for me to live is Christ, to die is gain. Go ahead, kill me. I'll be with Jesus. Death for me as a Christian is just moving. It's moving day. I'm just gonna move out of this body in my new glorified body. So what do I have to fear? You're gonna let me not have to go through this cancer and go through all the suffering and pain? You mean I'll have a new glorified body with no more sorrow, no more pain, and all my tears washed away? When do we sign up? No. We don't do that. Right? We don't willingly, you know, give in to that sort of a temptation. We continue to live and fight and breathe for the lord Jesus. But if it's our time, if I'm the apostle Paul and I say, hey. I fought a good fight. I finished my course. My time's up. Nero's Nero's planning my execution, then I get ready for it. I get my mind around and get ready. If I'm Peter and James has already been executed and the lord says, you're not gonna die till you're old. When you're young, you go where you will. But when you're old, another will take you where you would not. Then I know in acts chapter 12 that I can get a good night's sleep because I'm not gonna die. How am I gonna escape? How am I gonna elude Herod who wants to kill me after the Passover, after Easter is over? I don't know. But I'm gonna walk by faith now. Know what it is to lean on my own understanding. I blew it, but I'm gonna trust in the Lord. I'm gonna get a good night's sleep. I'm not gonna pace the floor. I'm not gonna try and figure God out. Then an angel comes in. It's a jailbreak. Peter, get your shoes on. We're out of here. They're praying for you, Peter. Rhoda said, Peter's at the oh, I think she's crazy. He's out. He didn't fear death anymore. And then when they finally did catch up with him, tradition says that Peter was walking out of the city of Rome, and he saw Jesus walking back in. He got a vision. And so in some cases, the locals would help, you know, the apostles, escape. And, the apostle Paul one time left, I think it's in in Damascus, he left by a basket. The locals put him in a basket, let him over the wall, and he escaped. He always felt like that was wimping out, but he lived to find another day. Peter saw the Lord and he knew the Lord saying, hey, Peter, it's your time. Peter thought of himself as unworthy to die in the same manner as his Lord did so he requested that he would die upside down upon a cross. And that's how tradition says that Peter eventually died when his time's up. And so you're invincible. Nothing can happen to you and I and nothing to fear until that point in time and Jesus demonstrated that. And, so Jesus kept his promises. He rose the third day. Had he not, our gathering together would only be another freak show. The following of the empty promises of men who never deliver. Don't you get tired of empty promises of men who never deliver whether they be priests or prophets or politicians or dads or moms or whatever, people in authority, men who never deliver. A dead good man, a dead prophet, a priest, a parrot, a pope, a politician, a poser is not a savior. Dead men don't say, but Jesus is risen, risen indeed and we are witnesses of his power over death, Satan, sin, and hell. Witnesses of his power to transform freaks. Anybody here that's not a freak, that wasn't a freak? Make fun of the transgenders, but we're no better, are we? We're no better. Where would you be if Jesus didn't save you? I was wearing spandex when I was 20 at a nightclub. I cringe to think what was next had the Lord not saved me. Oh, bad vision, bad visual. Oh, it could never happen to me. Oh, it could. It could. You give over to demonic influences and such, you don't know what you're capable of as a heathen, you know? Oh, shudder. I don't think I'd ever wear a dress, but who knows, you know? Thank God you saved me, Lord. I didn't go further into that, whatever that was, that freak show that we were living. Witnesses of those power to transform freaks into saints. Ain't that glorious? Where would you be without Jesus? God, where would I be without Jesus? I wouldn't have Kathy. Wouldn't have a family. I wouldn't have children and grandchildren. I wouldn't have a future and a hope. I'd be destitute, poor in spirit, suicidal maybe. No peace, no real peace. You look at these globalists, they have no peace. There's no peace saith Lord of the wicked. They've sold their souls to the devil. You know it, I know it, they know it. They're living for the temporary. And Jesus said, what's a profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or a demand given exchange for his life? They're sold out to the devil, and they're living miserable miserable lives in body and soul. They have no spirit. They're not born again. They don't have the holy spirit. When you and I sin and we sense that separation of fellowship from God, we're miserable. We wanna get right with God. We wanna confess our sin. We wanna keep the account short. And if we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. A lot of these freaks don't know where to go. They don't know how to go. They don't know who to trust, who they can trust. Many of them have been molested as children by pedophiles. Many of them, their brain circuitry doesn't connect, doesn't operate, doesn't work quite right. And you and I have the greatest message of all of history, the message of the gospel. The good news of Jesus Christ that can reach the the most broken of all society who are exhibiting their brokenness out in front of everybody, parading their brokenness out in front of everybody. And we might get angry that the Obama's and the Biden's and these, you know, poke their finger in the eye of God, but we got a greater message. We got a greater savior. We got a greater things to celebrate today. We don't need to be mired in their psychological warfare to break our spirits, to help us think it's over. You guys are helpless. There's nothing you can do. Well, what? Destroy this temple. In three days, I'll raise it up. What are you gonna do with that, you guys? Until you can go be crucified, buried, and raise yourself from the dead, we're not listening to you. We're not careful how we answer you, o king. Our god is able to deliver us, and he will deliver us. And even if he doesn't deliver us, we're not gonna bow down and worship you and put the mask on, buddy. We're gonna sing louder. Amen. Put your mask on. No. Just kidding. How many times they did that to us? Conditioning us. John saw him. Revelation one seventeen. John saw him. Revelation chapter one in verse 19, John was instructed, write the things which you have seen, the things which are and write the things which shall be hereafter, met it out to after these things. So John is getting in chapter one, a vision of the resurrected Christ. Chapter two and three, he's getting a picture of the over time, the church age. Chapter four, meta touta up here. He's up in heaven and the church, the four and twenty elders are there. The churches in heaven chapter four and five. Chapter six to 19 is the great tribulation period. Chapter 19, the return of Jesus Christ. Chapter 20, the great millennium, one thousand year rule and reign of Jesus. In chapter twenty one and twenty two, the eternal state. And Jesus is at the very end of the age, he's crying out, he's still saying, the spirit and the bride say come and whosoever will let him come. Right? Anybody, any freak out there, any sinner, anybody that's overwhelmed with their sin, and they wanna know how they can be washed and cleansed and transformed and changed and get a new beginning, a new start, the call goes out, whosoever will, let them come. Come as you are. And John saw the resurrected Jesus. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead and he laid his right hand upon me saying unto me, fear not. 63 times in the bible, we see the phrase fear not. Be not afraid 28 times. Are you afraid? Are you thinking the freaks are in charge? The freaks are in control? Joseph Goebel said, get them afraid. Freak them out. Get them fearful and you can get them to do anything. They're frustrated with people like you and I because we see through their lives. We have discernment. We're not afraid. We're unafraid. We know our God is in control. How do we know he's in control? Because he is crucified, buried, raised himself from the dead. He ascended at right hand of the father. He's coming again. And we have prophetically one third of the bible that describes his promises. His promises, prophetic promises that are yay and amen. They all come true. Yes. Why should we be afraid? Fear not. Why not? Number one, Jesus is God. He says, am the first and the last. He's eternal God. He's the great I am, the great ego eimi. Before Abraham was, I am. Jesus told the religious leaders in John chapter eight and they picked up stones to stone him because he knew what he's saying. He's declaring his deity. It's the declaration of his deity to Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin that they brought charges against him that he could declares himself to be God. The Roman charges are that of is that of he claimed to be a king, treason. The Hebrew execution is that of stoning the Jewish. The Roman form of execution is crucifixion. The Pharisees, the religious leaders, the Sanhedrin, Caiaphas and all wanted Jesus to be tormented. Slow, painful death. Was it any surprise to Jesus? Was it any surprise to God the father how they were gonna crucify their son? No. Crucifixion. A thousand years before crucifixion in Psalm 22, we see the Lord. We hear the Lord saying, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from my roaring? I'm a worm and no man. It's no surprise. For the joy that was set before him, he endured the cross despising the shame and is seated down at the right hand of the father. We got nothing to fear. God's completely in control. Jesus said, no man takes my life from me. I willingly lay it down. I have power to lay it down. I have power to take it again. Why? Because he's God. God came down that we might know him, that he might reveal himself unto us. I'm the alpha, the omega, the Greek language, the beginning and the end. Say it the Lord, which is, which was, which is to come, the almighty, all powerful, omnipotent. He's omniscient, the alpha, the omega. He knows everything. Satan doesn't know everything. Satan's not omnipresent. He can't be everywhere. And as good as his grid system and facial recognition and all the technology is, there's gonna be a whole group of people that make it into the tribulation period without the mark of the beast. How's that happen? Because you're not omniscient. You're you're not omnipresent. You're not omnipotent. You're created being. You're a fallen angel devil, Lucifer. And your seed, your seed, the antichrist, the place of Jesus Christ is a poser. He's a propagandist. He uses lies and propaganda intimidation to try and rule over people upon the planet. He's the greatest loser going up against Jesus. Anybody that goes up against Jesus is gonna lose. We're living at a time of demarcation, a line of separation, a line of sifting of what side you're on. What side are you on? Are you on the side of Jesus? 70% of the people in America believe in the resurrection. So no matter what this little minority forcing their agenda upon the other 70%, it doesn't matter. The 70 still celebrate and believe and trust in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. If there is no resurrection, we're of all men most miserable. We ought to eat and drink today for tomorrow we die. I'd just be a partier if if Jesus wasn't resurrect from the dead. I'd live for all the gust though I can today because tomorrow I'm gonna be dead. But if he is resurrected, then it provides meaning and purpose for my life cause I know that he's a God that stands outside of time, a God that wrote my name in the lamb's book of life before the foundation of the earth, a lamb slain before the foundation of the earth. There's meaning and purpose for me to get to know this God and to figure out and receive from him the purpose of my being that I was made to worship him. He says in verse 11, I'm the alpha, the omega, the first and the last. We read in Revelation twenty one six, It is done. I am the alpha, the omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is a thirst, the fountain of water of life freely. Still calling out. Still calling out to who whoever whosoever wills, let him come. Anybody a freak here today? Jesus has water that could fill your heart and life and take away that emptiness. The woman at the well in John four, he had living water. She'd never thirst again. God has made all of us with a God shaped hole in our heart, and nothing this world has to offer can fill that God shaped hole, only Jesus. Amen. And we thirst, and we thirst, and we thirst, and we exclaim with Mick Jagger, I get no. I can't get no. I can't get no satisfaction. I try I try I try. I just can't get no. Right? Only through Jesus. Jesus is the only way. If any man thirst, let him come into me and drink. As the scripture said, he that believes in me out of his belly shall flow torrents of living water. Aren't you glad that you came off that desert of life? The emptiness of living your life as body and soul and trying to make sense of life apart from Christ, apart from God? Aren't you just so thankful that the Lord arrested you? He stopped you. He apprehended you. He gave you faith. And he poured out his grace and his mercy. And as you respond to his love, your heart is filled. Your heart is flooded with God. You're the temple of the Holy Spirit. He dwells within you. Isn't that amazing? Amen. No longer empty, but this jar of clay, this this body that was fashioned from the dust of the ground that had no intrinsic value is now filled with the unsearchable riches of Christ. What do we have to be afraid of? What do we have to be sad about? Why are you so sad? He's risen. He's risen indeed. Didn't he can't you hear what he told you? Didn't he tell you he'd be handed over to these guys crucified, buried, that he'd raise himself the third day? Why are you two walking here on the road to Emmaus so sad? Well, we had believed, had in the past tense. All of our hopes are dashed because we thought we thought he would overthrow the Romans. Our savior's dead. Don't you hear that he's risen? Didn't our hearts burn within us when he went through the scriptures through all of what Moses had said, the Psalms and the prophets pertaining to himself, the volume of the book written of him? Oh, Cleopus and his buddy. Oh, their hearts burned. Was no accident. Revelation twenty two thirteen, I'm the alpha, the omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. God keeps his promises. Psalm forty three five, why art thou cast down all my soul? Why art thou disquieted within me? Your problem is you get your eyes off of God. Hope thou in God. Don't put your hope in a politician, a priest, a pope, a parrot. Keep your hope in Jesus. Men are fallible. Men are gonna fail you. They're always going to fail you. Don't be duped. Don't be seduced in thinking that they're gonna be able to fulfill their promises, especially during an election cycle. Haven't you learned? They're just men. Keep your hope in Jesus. Keep hoping in him and hold him accountable. Remind them of their unfulfilled promises. Remind others of their unfulfilled promises. He promised he would drain the swamp. That's why we elected you and gave you the house and the senate, and you didn't arrest one of them. You said Hillary would look better in prison, and we were rejoicing. We bought into it. And how many people believed him for the speed jab? He's the father of the warp speed jab, the the jab that's killing millions of people. Has he ever come back and admitted wrong? How could you possibly in this election cycle put your faith, hope, and trust in a man like that? I stand in protest against the lies, against the the people that are dying. There's no way I can usher that aside to say, I'm gonna vote for the lesser of the two evils. No. No way in hell. Somebody's gotta be held accountable for this evil. The the the the freak show's gotta stop. We need truth. We need to expose them with the truth. I'm not gonna be passively going there to election thing and, just make me insane to watch people dying like this. That's like voting for Hitler. Don't you get it? The church doesn't seem to get it. They think there's seven hills they're gonna take over. They're gonna bring dominion to the planet and develop a theocracy that Jesus would come back once they once they take hold of these seven hills of society. It's false doctrine. It's a false hope. Never gonna happen. Mind boggling. It's hard being a pastor today. It's hard watching all the YouTube prophets and the idiocy taking place. It's just it's just mind boggling. But Jesus promised us there'd be so many false prophets and false Christ. Take he that no man deceive you. Don't be afraid of these guys. Don't be afraid of what they're saying. Don't buy into their lies. Jesus keeps his promises. You can take his promises to the bank. You can bank, you can depend upon him your whole life long. Psalm Hebrews six six seventeen and eighteen speaks of the immutability of God. What's that mean? He's unchanging. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And so it means that it's impossible for him to lie. Jesus keeps his promises. He's never gonna lie to us. He's never gonna say, oops, I made a mistake. I'm gonna I've got a new procedure, a new agenda, a new thing. I'm tired of you guys. I'm gonna go start over with another planet. Not gonna happen. I could have done a much better job than I did. I'm gonna try it again somewhere else. No. That's not in his character. That's not who he is. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words will not pass away. His promises are all yay and amen. Jesus keeps his promises. Fear not. Why not? Are you afraid thinking the freaks are in charge? Fear not. Why not? Jesus is God. Secondly, Jesus is the God man. He's God and he's the God man. He's eternal. He's the great I am. And then he became the babe of Bethlehem, fully God, fully man. He's the last Adam. Our first federal head, Adam, blew it. Adam was not deceived. Eve was deceived. And she took of the fruit that she wasn't to take, and she offered it to Adam. And Adam says, I'm with you, babe. And he stepped over the line, and he partook of the forbidden fruit along with Eve, and that was the fall of man. And God declared, Adam, Adam, where are you? Where art thou? Adam, what happened to our fellowship? What happened to walking together in the garden in the cool of the day, enjoying time together? I gave you the power of choice, free moral agency that you would choose whether or not you would love me or not based upon your obedience unto me or your disobedience. I have the tree of life in the garden, I have the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the serpent Lucifer comes along and he deceives Eve, beguiles her, seduces her, and she gives in to the lust of the flesh, lust the eye, the pride of life, and you transgress, you step over. So Adam, you're cursed. By the sweat of your brow, you're gonna work the rest of your days. The day you eat of it, you shall surely die. Death is separation, Adam. Death is separation for me. Your body's gonna start to die, but spiritually, you're dead already. You have no access, no fellowship with me unless you come through the cross. So God didn't let him stew in that forever, but he said that the seed of the woman, the virgin born son of God, his heel would be bruised, but he would crest the serpent's head. So he gave hope, he gave prophecy, he gave a promise that one day, Adam, through the woman, will come a son, and she's gonna have pain in childbearing, part of the curse upon the woman, Pain in childbearing, and she's gonna bring forth a virgin born son of God, the seed of the woman. He's gonna be the last Adam. He's gonna be God incarnate. God taking on the form of a man. You wanna know what God's like? Jesus said, he that has seen me has seen the father. God want you and I to know him. God want to reveal to you and I who he is. He sent his son so that we could see Jesus and know who God is like, who God is. The characteristics of Jesus, the attributes of God as seen in his only begotten son. Fully God, fully man, and he's the last Adam, and he's got a mission. He's got an objective. He's got a job to do. He didn't come in the form of angels. He came in the form of man, Hebrews one. Made a little lower than the angels. And so Jesus is the God man. He says, I'm he that liveth and was dead. His death upon the cross proved he's a man. His resurrection proves he's almighty God. In John chapter one verse one, the same person writing this vision, John the beloved is on the Island Of Patmos. They tried to boil him in oil, he wouldn't boil, so he goes to a work camp on Patmos. And as he's there on the island Of Patmos, is in present day Turkey, the Lord gives him this vision. And so he says in John one one as he's writing this gospel, in the beginning, the alpha, the omega, the beginning and the end, in the beginning was the word, the logos, and the word was with God and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. Jesus is the creator of the universe. Jesus is God. He's the pre incarnate word, the living word. In verse 14 of John one, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us, tabernacled among us. And we beheld his glory as the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth. And John began to observe as Jesus apprehended him and the other boys, three and a half years as disciples observing the character of Jesus, observing who he is, watching who he is, being disciple, being taught by him, taking on the form of a man, the seed of the woman, the babe of Bethlehem, the virgin born son of God, Emmanuel, God with us. The last Adam, Jesus, way that he the favorite phrase that he liked was son of man that he could identify with all of us. Found in Daniel chapter seven verse 13. So Jesus liked to be described as the son of man. In Job fourteen fourteen, the writer asked a question, if a man die, will he live again? Job declares in Job nineteen twenty five and twenty six, I know that my redeemer lives and that he shall stand in the latter day upon the earth. That's fate. Amen. That's victorious fate. Whole lot of things going wrong for Job. All of his stuff's gone, his health is gone, his wife's saying, why don't you curse God and die? You speak as one of the foolish women speak. Shall we not receive good at the hand of the Lord, not evil? And Job refused to sin with his lips. Blessed, you know, naked came I into the world, naked I'll go. The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. He knows the way that I take when he's tried me, I'm gonna come forth as gold. Job knows these fiery trials are working for me, not against me, to burn off the dross, burn off the corruption, the impurity of my humanity that Christ may shine, that Christ may be glorified shining through me. I know. I know. I know. What do you know? Do you know? Do you know that you know that you know? I know that my redeemer lives. And that he shall stand on the latter day upon the earth. And though worms destroy this skin around this body, I'm gonna go back to the dust, yet in my flesh shall I see God, a new glorified body. Brand new glorified body. He's the first begotten of the dead. He's the first one to raise himself from the dead, and there's a body awaiting you. He says, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also me. I go to my father. In my father's house are many mansions or dwelling places. So we think in terms of this big mansion, my crib, but it could very well be, I believe, it's your new body. In my father's house are many mansions. If it weren't so, I'd tell you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you onto myself that where I am, there you may be also. Location, location, location. We're going to heaven. He's gonna come for us, the bride, and we're gonna have our new glorified body as soon as we are raptured or we die, we have this new glorified body. We ask when the bodies be present with the Lord. This new glorified body is able to walk through walls, able to ascend up into the up into space, up in the third heaven where God's throne dwells. I don't know how fast this body's gonna be able to move, but I do know this. This body's a carnivore. This body likes broiled fish to eat and hang out with Jesus. He's a good cook, top chef. Children, you caught any fish? The Sea Of Galilee, the seven are there going back to fishing. Come and dine, he says. And he's got some bread and some fish. My kind of God. My kind of guy. There's no worms or crickets there. Come have some crickets, guys. You don't know that's the devil's food. That's the devil. That's not what he made. Glorious, carnivorous, feasting with Jesus. Right? That's what I'm a do today. How about you? Oh, I'm a go home and have a salad. Yeah. Right. Alright. Salads are alright. We were up we were up in Victoria for Kathy's birthday, and I was ordering. Oh, boy, it's a it's a show when I'm ordering food. And show me all your menus. And anyway, I got to order my food, and the waiter says to me, I'm bringing you a salad. And I laughed, and I said, alright, alright. So I'm like, okay. Alright. You're right. So I had a salad. Oh, well. I guess the the cows eat salad. In Matthew six twenty eight, Jesus said that he didn't come to be ministered unto, but to minister and give his life a ransom for many. He's the goel, he's the price that's paid as our kinsman redeemer. As the god man, it's his life for ours to pay, to redeem us, to purchase us, to pay for our sins. In Matthew seventeen twenty two, he says, son of man shall be betrayed. So he's preempting. He's letting his disciples know what's gonna happen. The amount of transfiguration, Peter, James, and John, they see him in his glory. Moses and Elijah are there and Peter wants to stay. Hey, let's just stay here. Well, Jesus says the son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Betrayed by Judas for 30 of silver. The price of a gourd slave is the value that they placed upon him. But prophesied ahead of time in Zechariah, And so he says, son of man shall be betrayed in the hands of men and they shall kill him. In the third day, he shall be raised again. Men. Men that he created. He knows each one. He knows each one that's involved in this this coming to the Garden Of Gethsemane as he's praying, father, remove this cup from me, but nevertheless, not as I will, but thy will be done. He's sweating as it were great drops of blood. He's agonizing there. There's no other way to redeem mankind. No other way. The cup of God's wrath has gotta be poured out. He's gotta pour out his punishment, his wrath upon sin. Looking over the whole horizon of the ages from the very time that Adam sinned to the very last person that's gonna sin. Jesus is dying for the sins of the whole world and especially for those who believe. Those who appropriate that free gift and receive forgiveness of their sins washed in his blood. And he shall be raised again the third day. He is risen. Risen indeed. Jesus is the resurrected God man, the promised redeemer. In the old testament, as we said, he's the virgin born son of God, the seed of the woman. In Psalm 16 verse 10, thou will not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption. So David knew and hoped in the resurrection. The old testament saints, even Adam and Eve in the garden, when they left the garden, they left in fig leaves. Right? No. No. No. No. Fig leaves represent a religious act, a religious act of trying to cover your nakedness. No. No. No. No. Without the shedding of blood, there's no remission or forgiveness of sin. Something had to die. So the Lord, the father began to show Adam and Eve from the inception, the way to fellowship with me is through my son, my only begotten son, the seed of the woman. His heel's gonna be bruised, he's gonna be crucified, but he's gonna crush the servant's head and that he's gonna destroy the devil. He's gonna destroy sin and death and hell to set the captives free. And that's the hope they have that Jesus would one day, the son of God would one day come to the earth as the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. They leave the garden in coats of skins. They've got some woolly lamb coats they're leaving the garden in. Right? A reminder, without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. It's impossible that blood of bulls and of bullocks and of lambs and goats can take away sin, a covering pointing future, so they're all looking future. And John the Baptist gets it, behold the lamb of God, the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. And John in Revelation five, he sees Jesus as a lamb that had been slain, Revelation five opening the seals. Still bearing the scars, still bearing the marks for our punishment, for the debt that we owe. A constant reminder, you ever faced with a a lie from the wicked one that God doesn't love you? If God loved you, then why? And the Lord doesn't allow us to stay there very long. We see in verse five here, the proof of his love in Revelation Revelation one. And from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead, more to come. He's the first fruits, more to come. And the prince of the kings of the earth, unto him that love, notice it in the past tense. Under him that loved us. Pointing back to the cross. The old testament saints look future to the cross. Look future to Jesus being crucified. And their faith that one day he would be is imputed to them for righteousness, credited to them. You and I looking back, it's credited to our account. It is finished to talus died paid in full, your sins are paid for. And washed us from our sins in his own blood. There's the proof of God's love. He that knew no sin became sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from my roaring? God pouring out his wrath upon his son, separating himself from his son for the first time of all eternity, Jesus is left without the fellowship of his father because he's becoming a worm. He's no man. He's becoming the propitiation, the substitute that would die in our place, that God is fully just and holy in punishing sin and pouring out his wrath upon his son so that you and I could receive salvation as a free gift and have our sins forgiven because of the God man, because of Jesus. And David didn't fear death neither will thy suffer thy holy one to see corruption. David knew thou will not leave my soul in hell. Not gonna happen. You're not gonna leave me there, Lord. A prelude in Luke seven fourteen, Jesus, the widow of Nain's son had died and he raised this little guy from the this young guy from the dead. And then we see Jairus as the ruler of the synagogue coming to Jesus with his boys and hey, my daughter, she's 12 years old. She's lying sick, and the guys come say, don't bother the master any longer, she's dead. No, she's not dead, she just sleepeth. And the mourners are there, the professional mourners are all there, and and, Jesus removes them from the house before he's gonna do what he's gonna do, And he said, little maid, arise. Peter hears about it. Peter Watts studies in Acts chapter nine, Dorcas, Tabitha, she's sick. Everybody's sad because she makes really good quilts of valor and coats and everything for everybody. And she dies, they're all really sad because it's cold out. And so Peter comes, and he says, Talitha Kumai and maid arise, and she rises. The apostle Paul in Acts 20, he's preaching long, and I'm gonna get done in time. Alright? You see that, Clive? He's preaching long, and, there's a guy named Eutychus up in the upper balcony, and he falls down and dies. Paul goes over there and lays upon him and raises him from the dead. Just as in in first Kings chapter 17, Elijah, he's at the widow of Zarephath's home and he's taken up a barrel, a food barrel that's on the empty side and get a little oil and causing that food barrel, this this great prophet humbled him that he's relying upon the food from a a widow. And she's got a son and the son dies and he takes him up to the bed up in the upper room and lays upon him and raises this little this young man from the dead in the old testament. And then in second Kings chapter four, Elijah, his replacement, he's at the home of the Shunammite, and the the little boy goes out to work with his dad in the field, and he gets a headache. I got a headache, and the dad tells the servant, take him to his mom, and he dies in her arms. And Elisha takes him, brings him to his room, and lays upon him, breathes upon him, and life comes back into him. And then later, when Elisha's buried and he's put in his tomb, there's an Israelite. There's a war going on. There's an Israelite that dies, and they take him and they they take his body and they throw it in to the tomb. They didn't know, it was the tomb of Elisha. When it hit the bones of Elisha, the guy bounced back up alive. Imagine that. Remember, one thing about all these guys, they all died again. You and I will never die. Once we're resurrected, once we're in our new resurrected bodies, there's no more death, no more sorrow, no more pain, no more dying again, not gonna happen. He's the resurrection and the life. He says, fear not, believe only and she shall be made whole, he told Jairus. And then he raised Lazarus, didn't he? In John eleven twenty five, John 11, Jesus is a little away from Bethany, Mary and Martha and Lazarus, a place that they love to go to and hang out with and have food and just great times of fellowship, and Mary'd sit at his feet and worship him. Mary'd anoint him for his burial knowing what was coming. And Martha, she's all busy, covered with a lot of things, and she's a little mad because Mary won't come help, and Mary chose that one thing that won't be taken over to sit at the Lord's feet and hear his word, you know, all that. And then there's Lazarus there, their brother, and Lazarus is sick. Go get Jesus. Bring bring Jesus to Lazarus. And Jesus waits two days longer. He says, Lazarus is sick. Lazarus is asleep. And the disciples say, you know, well, if he's asleep, that'll do good because he's sick. Sleep will help him. No. Lazarus is dead. He's dead. And I'm saying to you so so that you'll know. So they put old Lazarus into the tomb. They wrap them all up like a mummy and put them in there and put a stone over it. Four days later, Jesus come along to Martha and say, no Lazarus. He's gonna rise again. He's he's gonna rise again. Do you believe in the resurrection? Yeah. Believe in the general resurrection, but if he had been here sooner, Jesus, he wouldn't have died. And then he says, get get Mary. Mary comes out, same thing. He'd have been here. He wouldn't have died. And Jesus says, I am I am. I'm the alpha, the omega. I'm the bread of life. I'm the good shepherd. I'm the door. And I am the resurrection life. He that believes in me, though you're dead yet shall he live. And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this? Do you believe at church? Yeah. We believe we believe in a general resurrection. No. I'm right here. I'm standing in front of you. I am the resurrection. People began to weep and sorrow and moan. And Jesus wept. Why did Jesus weep? He groaned within his spirit. You guys don't get it. You don't get it. Unbelief is so hard to deal with. Lazarus come forth, and he comes out of the grave. As many pastors have said, if he said, come forth, all the dead people come forth. Had to qualify it. Lazarus, you're the only one. Lazarus, come forward. Lazarus waddles out, take his clothes off, give him something to eat. Tradition says that Lazarus never smiled again. What would you feel if you're in the third heaven with seeing the things, experiencing things, being with God, and you're called back to this freak show? We wanna avoid death at all costs. We're always like, oh, pray that they'll live. In Isaiah fifty seven one, it says that the Lord takes some people that they might not see the evil to come. There's evil coming upon the planet. And many of you here haven't seen the kind of evil that's coming and the Lord's saying, you're done. I'm gonna take you home. It's a reward to go home. Do you think Moses didn't get to go into the promised land? He's on the top of Mountain Eagle looking over. Do you think when he was on the Mount Of Transfiguration, oh, bummer that I died and that I'm here right now. Wish I could have stayed with those heathens, you know, murmuring group of people. It's a reward, Moe. You did good. You're done. It's a reward. I can't stand there whining either. I'm gonna send fiery serpents to bite them, you know. They learned to praise me. He raised them from the dead. Do you believe? Let's turn to Matthew chapter 28. Matthew 28. In the end of the Sabbath as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Sunday morning here, came Mary Magdalene. Mary Magdalene, who's she? Oh, the woman that was demon possessed, seven demons, multiple personalities in that girl's head. Tormented. Those that are forgiven much, they love much. Boy, grabbed hold of Jesus. Wouldn't let him go. Came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, to the sepulcher. So the ladies were coming and behold, there was a great earthquake for the angel of the lord descended from heaven and come out and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it. And as you're heading toward the tomb, you're wondering, who's gonna roll away that 2,000 pound stone? And all those things you're anticipating and worried about what's gonna happen if Biden does this and they do this and they do that. Who's gonna roll away that stone? And you get there and guess what? The stone's rolled away. The Lord Jesus went before him and rolled that stone away. Fear not. And he sat upon it, this angel. And his countenance was like lightning and his raiment white as snow. In the fear of him, the keepers did shake and became as dead men. Those soldiers, those ominous Roman soldiers, they shaked and quake like quakers, like dead men on the ground. Overwhelmed with their fear, paralyzed with fear. And the angel answered and said unto the women, fear not fear not ye for I know that ye seek Jesus which was crucified. He is not here for he is risen. Risen indeed. As he said, come see the place where the Lord lay and go quickly and tell the disciples that he is risen from the dead and behold he goes before you into Galilee and there shall you see him. Low I have told you. And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy and did run and bring the disciples word. And as they went to tell the disciples, behold, Jesus met him met them saying, all hail. He's saying, joy, rejoice. Oh, joy, rejoice. And they came and held him by the feet. And then the account in John's gospel, Mary Magdalene put like a death grip on Jesus. You left me once. You're not leaving again. She went there and asked the gardener, can you give me his body? At least I can you know, the the boys didn't do it right. We gotta do it over. Joseph, Arimathea, and Nicodemus, they didn't know how to do this. I'm here to do it right. And they worshiped him. Then said Jesus unto them, be not afraid. Go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee and there shall you see me. So Mary Magdalene, according to John twenty eleven through 18 and Mark six nine through 11, she saw the Lord first. She's the first one there. And then later, the women with her, around the tomb, return to the tomb, Matthew 28 verse eight and ten. And then Peter, according to first Corinthians 15, was the third one to see Jesus. Then the two on the road to Maesk in Luke's account, Luke 24, the disciples with Thomas being absent, the 11, there, Thomas being absent or 10. Thomas being absent. And, then eight days later, Thomas being present, Thomas said, I'm not gonna believe in you unless I can take my finger and put in the in the side of you where the centurion pierced you because I was watching, and your nail prints and your hands and your feet, and Jesus appears in the room, and Thomas put your finger here. And Jesus said, blessed are those that not just believe because they've seen, but believe who haven't seen. That of faith, Thomas. Have faith. And then the seventh was at the seaside of Galilee when they're fishing, children caught any fish. It's the Lord. And then first Corinthians 15 said he's seen of over 500 people at one time the forty days that he walked the planet in his resurrected body before he ascended. And, then James, the Lord's brother, according to first Corinthians fifteen seven, appeared to James. James and the brothers of Jesus, his half brothers didn't believe in him until after the resurrection. And then James wasn't, you know, part of the 12, but James became a leader within the church, the brother of Jesus. And then at the Mount Of Olives, in Mark sixteen nine twenty and Luke twenty four forty three and Matthew 27, the people saw him at Mount Of Olives. But also when Jesus was crucified after resurrection, Matthew gives an account, Matthew 27, that many of the tombs were opened up, and some of the old testament saints walked around Jerusalem. That's interesting. And then in Acts chapter seven, Peter looked up and saw the Lord, giving him a standing ovation, the martyrdom of Stephen. The apostle Paul in Acts chapter nine, the Lord apprehended Paul. Saul Saul, why are you persecuting me? Who art thou Lord? I'm Jesus, whom you're persecuting? And he saw Jesus, the kind of glory of God and heard him speaking unto him. And John the revelator as we see in Revelation one, two witnesses in Revelation 11, are gonna be resurrected and and you and I are gonna be resurrected. Praise the Lord. Jesus is the first fruits of the resurrection, and then you and I. Are you afraid thinking the freaks are in charge? Fear not, why not? Jesus is God. Fear not, why not? Jesus is the God man. And thirdly, fear not, why not? Jesus is the giver of life. And he says, and behold, I am, a goy me, alive forevermore. Lazarus died again. Little boys in the old testament, they died again. Uticus died again. People that are resuscitated or raised from the dead, they die again. But you and I, we're he's the first fruits of the resurrection. First Corinthians 15, it's a military term of sequential order. He's the first begotten of the dead. And you and I, in a in a orderly military manner, different waves, different times are gonna be resurrected. So in the church age, we're told in first Thessalonians four that the dead in Christ, not the old testament saints, but the dead in Christ shall rise first. And that we that are alive and remain shall be caught up together with him in the air to be with the Lord so shall ever be with him. So the old testament saints are not resurrected until after the tribulation period. The tribulation saints aren't resurrected till after the tribulation period. And so we have a in the church age, the first fruits in that the dead in Christ. In Christ is a a phrase in that you're in the church age. And so, Romans eleven twenty five, blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. Once the fullness of the Gentiles is in, then that's the rapture of the church. And at the end of the tribulation period, before the millennium, John the beloved, John the Baptist is a friend of the bridegroom, we're the bride, the nation of Israel is the wife of Jehovah, we have the marriage supper of the lamb, the celebration for the ceremony that was already taken place in heaven. The 25 virgin Matthew 25 are ready. They're watching. They're waiting for the fetching for the Lord to rapture us to take us up so that we have the marriage ceremony in heaven. The Bema seat judgment of getting our rewards and our gar garments and our gowns that we're gonna be seen in in Revelation 19, clean and spot and unblemished as we come back with the Lord in Revelation 19. Jude says he comes back with 10 thousands and thousands of his saints. So we've been transformed, we've been changed. At the last trump of God, the trumpet shall sound and in a moment, the twinkling of an eye, we're told in first Corinthians 15, the dead shall be raised incorruptible, we shall be changed. You want a transgender? You want a transformation? We shall be changed in a metamorphosis. Going from body and soul to body, soul, and spirit. God's gonna transform your heart and mind. God's gonna transform these vile filthy bodies likened unto his glorious body. No more sin. No more sin nature. Perfected in him. Won't that be glorious? Get rid of this old carcass that we're carrying around. And behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And have the keys of hell and of death. Lazarus, as I said, and those that raised again, they died again. Jesus, the great I am, the eternal God, our resurrected redeemer, the God man and the giver of life. Jesus has the keys of hell and of death. In John chapter five, if you wanna turn there, John chapter five, a description of this, Jesus as the giver of life. He's the victor, he's the conqueror, he's the king, He's the one that determines who's gonna go to heaven and who's gonna go to hell. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father but by me. You go through Jesus. In John five twenty one, for as the father raises up the dead and quickens, brings to life, even so the son quickens whom he will. For the father judges no man but has committed all judgment under the son. Verse 23, that all men should honor the son even as they honor the father. He that honors not the son, honors not the father which has sent me. Verily verily I say unto you, he that hears my word, can you hear his word? Can you hear the Lord's word? That's an indicator you're a child of God. If you're a natural man, body and soul, you can't hear his word. The natural man understands not the things of God neither can he know them because they're spiritually discerned. But eyes not seen nor ear heard neither has an eye entered into the heart of men the things which God has prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them unto us by his spirit. You're children of light. And you're walking in fellowship with him. He's given you ears to hear. Jesus said to the seven churches, he that has ear to hear, let him hear what the spirit say into the to the churches. Sees verily verily I say unto you, he that hears my word and believes on him that sent me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but has passed from death on the line. Verily verily I say unto you, the hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God and they that hear shall live. He's gonna call those in the grave. He's gonna awaken them. He's gonna say, Rick, come up here. Rick, it's your moment. For as the father has life in himself, so has he given the son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to execute judgment also because he is the son of man. Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice and shall come forth. Here's the clincher. They that have done good, good master, what must I do? Believe. Believe on Jesus. That's what's good. They did have done good under the resurrection of life. You can't get to heaven by being good, so the good here is believing in him. And they that have done evil under the resurrection of damnation. And so you're one of two camps. You're either a freak or you're a saint. There's no in between. There's no washing your hands like Pontius Pilate and thinking you washed yourself of this man. You're for him or you're against him. We're seeing that more and more today being visualized, being seen. You can see it clearly. There's a line of demarcation coming where you choose what side you wanna be on. It's not a republican, democrat, a left or right, it's who's for Jesus and who is not. And so you gotta decide. You're either for him or you're against him, you're either gathering with him or you're scattering abroad. You're either saved or you're not saved. You're lost. Either a saint or you're an aint, as J. Vernon McGee would said. You're either pregnant or you're not pregnant. There's no in betweeners. Either have his seed and you're pregnant, you're filled with Christ or you're not. No in between. Revelation chapter 20 verse 10, the devil that deceived them, who's them? The freaks. It's a freak show. The devil's deceiving these people on the world stage. They're acting out the things he's inspiring them with that makes them look so foolish, so freaky. God is a god of order. The devil is the author of confusion. He wants to confuse the minds of children, especially, and people in general. And many, as I said, many of these people have been victimized by the devil's emissaries. They've been they've been raped, They've been tortured. They've been pedophiled, and their brains don't click right anymore. Their brains brains don't function right. They have seen darkness and experienced darkness as the world is lusting after things that are devilish, that are unholy, ungodly, and the restraints are being broken, the restraints of the holy spirit, the restraints of of common sense and and laws are being broken, and men are feasting upon. They're lusting. They're engaging in adrenachrome and and pedophilia and organ harvesting and all other sorts of things. And it's interesting, their appetite is for little ones, for children. And these children try to grow up, they try to seek some sense of normalcy, but their brains aren't quite functioning right. And they grow up to be adults, and they're confused. They know they're supposed to be normal. They know this is the norm. They know this is the way to go. And then they find themselves doing things that are unseemly, things that make them a part of the freak show. And they're looking for meaning, they're looking for purpose, they're looking for love, and they they can't find acceptance. They can't find people accepting the aberrant freaky blasphemous behavior. So now they wanna legislate. Now they want to to legislate that everybody should be tolerant of the freak show, lest they be accused of hate speech. We love our enemies. They're not our enemies. We hate the ideology. We hate the cult. We hate the the demonic activity. We certainly wanna protect the children. But as we see the adults, we we look as Jesus would look with compassion. With compassion knowing that the devil has bound them. The devil has tormented them their whole life. Many are demon possessed. Many in the freak show are inspired by the by the wicked one. They're emissaries of the wicked one, and they prey upon the most innocent of society. They have a gospel. It's not a good news, but it's a demonic gospel of, you know, inspiring and and encouraging others to come their way. We have the good news. We have a better message. The greatest message. They were cast out of the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever. The devil, the beast, the false prophet, their end abode is a lake of fire, that's the second death. In verse 14 of Revelation 20 says, and the death and hell were cast in the lake of fire. This is the second death. You're born once, you're gonna die. You're gonna spend an eternity in the fires of hell. That's the second death. If you're born again, you're born twice, you're only gonna die once. You're gonna die physically but not spiritually. So get right with the Lord. Get right with him now. Jesus determines, and whosoever is not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. The disciples were enamored with their power that they were able to cast out demons. And Jesus said, don't be enamored with that power, but rejoice in that your names are written in the lamb's book of life. That's where you rejoice. Your names are hidden. Your names are there. I wrote your name in before the foundation of the earth because I'm a lamb slain before the foundation of the earth. You didn't choose me but I chose you and ordain that you bring forth fruit and your fruit remain that whatsoever you ask of the father, he may he may give you the privilege of prayer. So Jesus came to set the captives free, those bound and blinded by the devil. Those living the freak show, believing the devil's lies. There's no peace, say it the Lord, for the wicked. These people are the most miserable upon the planet because they don't know God. They're in rebellion against God. And the devil's lied to him over and over and over again. And it's the power of the gospel that transforms and changes lives. It's the power of the gospel, the message that you and I preach. Romans one sixteen, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes, to the Jew first and also the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as is written, the just shall live by faith. Nobody is too far or gone too far into the freak show that God can't save them. Nobody. As great as sinners they may see themselves, as great as the bondage there may be, as blind as they may be, we serve an even greater savior. His blood. It's his blood. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's son, is able to wash away all sin. Only Jesus can transform you. He wants to give you a new life. He wants to give you a new body, a new heart, a new mind, a new spirit. He wants to provide a real transformation. Not this pseudo transgender, whatever they're trying to parade and do. It's it's ludicrous transhumanism. They're buffoons, they're liars, they're frauds. They have a poor message to humanity. A weak message that they can't perform. They can't keep their promise. Which of them are gonna come up and say, hey, start with me. Put that chip in my brain. Well, they're not gonna do that, are they? They're gonna pay somebody to take the risk and get that chip in their brain, aren't they? Hey, I believe in chirogranics. I believe that we've got the technology now that when you die, we can bring you back to life. All we need to do is freeze your head. Well, let's start with your head, not my head, you know. Jesus said destroy this temple. In three days, I'll raise it up. So which of you pretenders, which of you guys making all these promises wants to be crucified, buried, with all your technology, raise yourself from the dead? Let's see it. Show me. They can't do it. But we have a savior. He's not Buddha. He's not Muhammad. He's not Confucius. He's not a a good man or a prophet of the past that said some good things, came up with a religious system of Joseph Smith or whoever. He proved who he is by taking on the form of a man, fully God, fully man, being crucified, buried, going into the grave, and we see that the the there's a compartment in Luke 16 of those who are the wicked, the rich man of Lazarus, and the wicked are there in a place of grievous torment called Sheol or Hades, the grave. But Abraham's bosom, this day will be at the name paradise, the thief on the cross, is a place of comfort. But they're awaiting the crucifixion, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. So he that ascended first descended in Ephesians four to lower parts of the earth to set those captives free. And then you see Abraham and all the old testament patriarchs being set free so to be absent the body be present of the lord, and we believe they're in their spiritual, as spirits present with the lord awaiting their resurrected body after the tribulation period leading into the millennium as old testament saints. But we're thinking in terms of time. So it may be they're already in their new glorified bodies if we don't think in terms of time, if we think in terms of eternity. They're in eternity. It's already it's already happened. You're gonna squeeze your head on that one. That's homework. A real transformation from the giver of life awaits those who believe in him. He promises to take away your pain and to give you a replace and be replacement for your pain joy. He suffered far more than you'll ever suffer. He suffered abandonment. He suffered beatings. He suffered he that knew no sin became sin. Jesus has suffered greater than anybody ever. He knows your suffering. He knows your frame that you're fashioned from the dust. He's acquainted with all of our infirmities, all of our weaknesses, all the trials, the things that we go through. His promises are written to you in his own blood. Jesus is risen. Risen Risen indeed. Amen. Let's pray. Father, we come before you and we thank you, Lord. We thank you for your love. We thank you for the privilege and the blessing of assembling today to celebrate your resurrection. Father, we thank you for the good Fridays, the good Thursdays, the good Saturdays, the good everyday. Every day is a day to celebrate you, Lord. One man esteems one day above another, another man everyday alike. Lord, I love having a bible. I love being able to open it and have fellowship with you and your word. I love the access that I have, the veil of the temple being rented to, and being able to boldly come before your throne of grace, of mercy, to find help in time of need. I love that, Lord, your your son is my great high priest, ever living to make intercession for me, for my family, for my church family. Lord, I thank you for the intimacy that we enjoy, that as you prayed in John 17, that we'd be one with you, even as you and your father are one, Lord. I thank you, Lord, that there's now therefore no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. I thank you for the life of the spirit. You come that we might have life. You're the life giver, and that more abundantly, the abundant life of the spirit, I thank you, Lord. I thank you that you didn't leave me as a freak, Lord. You may have found me as a freak, but you didn't leave me there, Lord. You rescued me from the world, the flesh, and the devil. And Lord, your desire is to conform me into your image, to make me like you. And Lord, that's what I desire. I desire more and more, Lord, to surrender, to die to self, no longer mean living, but Christ living through me. Help us, Lord. Help us to live the life of the spirit in these last days. Help us to be bold with the gospel, the greatest supreme message that, Lord, you're the giver of life. You determine a person's eternal destiny. That you hold the keys of hell and of death. We come through you, And while your heads are bowed and your eyes are closed, if you don't know, if you don't have a relationship with Jesus Christ this morning, we want you to. We want you to know the risen savior. Just as John said, I saw him. God wants you to enter into a relationship with him where you where you sense his presence, where by grace through faith, you enter into a an eternal relationship with him where he writes your name in his lamb's book of life, or better yet, you discover it's already there because you're his elect, chosen before the foundation of the earth, predestined, called, invited. Anyone here this morning? You don't know Christ, but you want to. You turn him from your sins. You're crying out to God. God, be merciful to me a sinner. Be merciful to me a freak. I'm tired of the freak show. Lord, I want wholeness. Lord, I want my mind to be at peace, to be at rest. I want your peace. I want your rest. I want what you purchased for me on Calvary. I'm tired of the freak show, Lord. Lord, save me. Anyone here this morning? The cry of your heart. God hears the cry of your heart. Anyone here this morning, just lift your hand up. We wanna pray with you. Don't try to make sense of this freak show. You'll never be able to. Give your heart to Jesus. It's demonic. God didn't design for you to live this way. Anyone this morning? Father, thank you so much. Lord, give us the faith of a child, Lord, like little Bella. Give us the faith of a child that we follow you, that we trust you completely just as a child. Lord bless this time now as we partake of communion. We're so blessed, Lord. We're so incredibly blessed to be saved. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Sunday Service
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, teach the Word of God cover to cover, chapter by chapter, and verse by verse. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes on Mondays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
