Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.
You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.
We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the
cross. Now let's join the service.
You know, it's funny how people in different professions or
careers, I guess you would call it, they look at things
differently. And a scene where Bob Tallman,
he was much a part of our life for a lot of years.
He retired. And if you ever heard watch the
Fort Worth Stock Show or been there, he's the voice of it for
five decades. And me and Bob Rodney, a lot of
us, we've heard him day after day for years.
And they were interviewing some people up there that had worked
with him for a number of years. He said, I'll never forget what
Bob told me one time. This sounds just like him.
He said never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
I said, boy, that's good. That's good for Bob because it's
not really life or death. I guess it could be some of the
stuff he's seen but has been, But I can't, I can't do that.
Amen. I, I got to let the the truth
get in the way of a good story. I would be much more popular if
I did that. But I can't let the I can't not
let the truth get in the way. Amen.
Because he's the way, the truth and the life.
But God's in control titled this message today.
He already knows what he's going to do.
Pretty simple, isn't it? But I think sometimes we think
that God doesn't know what he's doing, but he always already
knows what he's going to do Amen.
Let that sink in a minute. He always knows what he's going
to do. I want to prove you that to you
in Scripture this morning and John chapter 6, the setting of
the Scripture finds Jesus feeding 5000.
Some translation say that it was 5000 plus women and children.
So they're very easily could have been 15,000 that day
rounded off number. But Jesus, he went over the Sea
of Galilee in John six and one and verse 2 says a great
multitude followed him because not because they really knew who
he was yet because they had not been to the cross, but they
followed him because the signs which he performed on those who
were diseased, He was healing the sick, He was raising the
dead. So the signs that Jesus was
producing in his ministry, hello, 'cause people to follow
him today. I'm weary about many ministries.
The only thing that makes a lot of people follow any ministry or
any church is if they're prospering or if that church is
prospering. And Jesus went up on the
mountain and there he sat with his disciples.
Can you picture this? Maybe fifth, men, women,
children coming up the mountain to hear what Jesus had to say in
the past? That was the Passover of the
Feast of the Jews was near, and Jesus lifted up his eyes, seeing
a great multitude coming toward him.
Think about that. Jesus seen this great multitude.
I begin to think of women there that had to feed more than they
thought they were. Go.
You want to see a woman get real real, real anxious, real antsy,
have more at the supper table than there's food for.
They don't like that. I learned that early on, 35
years ago, that you don't just invite all your buddies into the
dinner table that are out there waiting to eat, right?
When there's nothing to eat, it does not make a woman happy, Am
I right, women? But Jesus was seeing this coming
up the mountain, you know, but he already knew what he was
going to do. But yet he still, I mean, I've
read this a lot of times, never got this.
So he looks at Philip and think about this question that Jesus
asked. He said, where shall we buy
bread that these may eat? Jesus was kind of humorous at
times. They had no Walmart delivery.
They had no DoorDash. They had, you know, I was
working the other day and my son's moves way out and he was
going to order it, so I'll get DoorDash.
I said, ain't no door here. We're out in the middle of a
field. I really did not know what he
was talking about. In the middle of nowhere.
And I said they ain't going to do it.
I'll just order DoorDash. We don't have to stop, Let's go
for it. But so there was some
miscommunication there. We didn't get the food.
We were too far. I guess you got to have a closed
door. I don't know, but they did not
have that, but yet Jesus asked Philip, he said where shall we
buy bread that these may eat? No Amazon get this verse 6 but
he said this to test him. Jesus knew he wasn't going to be
able to buy enough. They didn't have enough.
He said this to test him. That makes me wonder how many
times in my life have I failed the test that I wasn't really
even going to receive anyway. It was just a question that God
was asking me and Oh my God, I panicked.
I took it into my own hands and I think I got to fix it.
I got to do this, but God was just had.
Jesus was just asking the question.
Y'all preach with me this morning.
He asked him this to test him come for he himself talking
about Jesus for he himself knew what he would do.
Father, we thank you for your word this morning.
We thank you that your word's life, it's truth.
We pray that it would Pierce into our hearts this morning in
our minds and help us to realize that you're in control.
God, that you already know what you're going to do in the
situation that we're not answering the question and can't
even answer the question. We know that you're in total
control because you already know what you're going to do.
It's in your son's name. I asked to preach this the way
you showed it unto me in Jesus name, Amen.
He asked him this only to test him.
I told you all a while back, what you was going through is
only a test, it will not stay. But Can you imagine Philip
trying to answer this question? He could not answer it.
But Jesus said this to test him. See, while you're in the test,
he already knows what he's going to do We don't.
I don't know why he chooses not to reveal it to us many times,
but he does and he's God. And he can't look at your
neighbor and say God already knows because God's in control.
Makes me wonder how many times we we fail with a question that
was just sent to test us. Right.
He was just sent to test us, but Jesus was fixing to show him how
to pass the test, which seems impossible.
But with God all things are possible.
It seems like there's no way out.
You know? Jesus, I I found this amazing
here. He really didn't need an answer
from Phillip. Why?
Why didn't he need an answer from Phillip?
I just read it to you. He already knew, knew what he
was going to do. Hey, man, he just wanted to see
maybe test Phillips, See. Hey, Willie, is he going to
doubt me right here? I'm fixing to open his eyes,
'cause I'm fixing to feed all these folks.
He already knows what he's going to do.
Well, that excited me. Stop trying to answer the
question of your mind. Many times that are only formed
out of doubt, fear, and weary. We think if we can answer the
doubt, fear and weary in our mind.
Man, I'm dealing with this right now in my own life.
If I can answer the doubt and the fear and the weary, then is
that going to help the situation?
No, it'll help my mind, but it's not going to help the situation.
Many times the only thing that's going to help the situation is
to have a God kind of faith and know that your God already knows
what He's going to do. In Galatians chapter 5, it says
what we we try to we got to grasp this this morning in
Galatians 5 and 16. I want to read the rest of that,
but I won't finish the this if I do, but it says walk in the
spirit that you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
That does not just mean sexual immorality and the the the toys
in the world. It also means that things that's
popping up in your mind that's causing doubt, fear and weary
from you receiving that which God has trying to get to you.
See in the Greek to walk means this walk when it when somebody
said walk in the Greek, it there's there's four things that
means walk on, walk at, walk by or walk with.
But like that right there. I can preach right there.
Sometimes I need to walk on what the enemy has placed in the
question that has come my way. I need to put him under the
soles of my feet where God has promised that he is, Amen.
And take my authority as a child of God and walk on the doubt and
walk on the fear. But sometimes the Holy Spirit
will allow to see me, to see it before it gets to me, and I'm to
walk at it, Amen. I'm to attack it.
I'm just jump on it and I'm to get it out of my life and pray
about it and seek God's guidance and walk right at it, Amen.
Not walk around it. Christians are very good at
walking around it, Amen. But sometimes when I know that
God already has it in control and he already knows what he's
going to do, I can just walk on by it.
Hey, man, I can say you're not going to come now.
My, my dwelling 1000 may fall at one side, 10 and 1000 at
another. Just get away.
I'm going to walk by it. But there's sometimes you can't
walk on it. There's sometimes you can't walk
at it. And there's sometimes as a child
of God, we refuse to walk by it. So when we when we with that
happens in your life, sometimes we got to walk with it, but
always know when you're walking with it.
He's with you. He said I'll never leave you.
I'll never forsake you. What are you walking with this
morning? What are you walking in doubt
and fear or do you or do you have a steadfast in your spirit
that knows that God already knows.
It doesn't matter if you know today.
God already knows. 2nd Corinthians 5 and 17 says if
anyone is in Christ, there that word is again in walking in the
Spirit. If anyone is in Christ, he's a
new creation. Man, I'll never forget the one
of the first times I read that if I'd read the Gospels over and
over as a child. But but as I got older, I
ventured on in the rest of the New Testament and in my 17 or 18
years old. And I read that and I thought if
anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation.
And I looked at my life. I said, you know what?
There's a lot of me that ain't new.
There's a lot of me that's the same as it was.
I'm not a new creation. Those old things have not passed
away and behold, all things have not become new to me, right?
So I had to do some work and then I flipped over to Romans
81. It says, therefore there is no
condemnation for those who are in.
There's that word again, walking in the Spirit for those who are
in Christ who do not walk according to the flesh.
But there it is again. But walk according to the Spirit
who but so many times our actions as Christian, just like
Phillip, he's I don't know what we're going to do.
There's nowhere to buy and he just bump fuzzling that he asked
that right. I'm like Phillip Sometimes God
will ask me something and I get hung up on the question because
it's too big for my mind to conceive.
But so many times the way that I want to ask you all this, the
Holy Spirit I had this wrote down to say these things the way
they it's like I'm preaching at y'all or somebody else.
So I changed it to the way we you can answer it.
You can look at somebody say I'm not walking that way.
So they are walking that way. But I think it's better to say
we the way we talk sometimes, the way we act, the way we look,
the way we treat others, the way we think, the way we dress, the
way we love, the way we react, the way we worry, come on
somebody, the way we doubt, the way we, the way that we don't
keep our word, the way we answer the question of the test.
All of these things reflect what on our faith.
Sometimes the question is just a test to make us wonder what is
God up to? He was fixing the show, Philip.
What he was up to, he already knows.
Say it with me. He already knows what he's going
to do. God's still in control.
He already knows. I think of Peter.
He had been warned. He had been, He had denied
Christ when he was asked the question.
Standing by the fire, they said, are you with that Nazarene?
Are you with the Jesus of Nazareth?
You talk like him. I've seen you on the streets
with him when he was preaching that Gospel.
Say Peter, it was just a test he had to answer that question and
he answered it the wrong way. He did what he did exactly what
Jesus say it with me already knew that he was going to do.
He said, Peter, you will deny me before the rooster crows three
times. You will deny me and and and and
and the the measurements of that thing.
When you look it back where Peter was standing in the
courtyard. Jesus was at the counsel table
and they say that scholars believe that Jesus could see
Peter as he denied. Can you imagine looking at the
Master? God already knew that he was
going to do it, had already warned him what was going to
happen, and yet Peter did it. And we're like that so many
times. But thank God, even when Peter
denied, even when we fall short, say it with me.
He already knows what he's going to do.
What did he do? He reinstated Peter, he forgive
Peter. And he asked Peter the another
question. Do you love me?
Feed my sheep. Peter knew not to question this
time. He just got busy feeding right
as I preached last week about Steven as he was passing the
test and and God already knew what he was going to do.
He was going to let the stones hit him, but he injected him
with some grace. He injected him with the power
of God from on high. And I don't believe he felt the
stone. He just said go ahead and throw
him because I see Jesus standing and the heavens are opened up at
the right hand of the Father. God already knew what he was
going to do. I think of Jonah and I'm going
to preach to you a little bit right here out of the book of
Jonah because I've preached it many times.
It's only four chapters. I've preached the whole book of
Jonah probably 15 or 20 times in the last 10 years.
But I got something I never got out of it.
You know, I hear Christian say, well, I've already read the
Gospels that you know, ain't no need to reading them again.
Hello, hello. I loved, I didn't even watch the
Super Bowl. I refused to watch it, but
somebody sent me a clip of another guy, you know, and, and
he was out there and I hope his heart's right, but you know it.
What gets me is, is when you sell out to Jesus Christ.
I guess some people's different. I had to get rid of everything
of my old identity. I couldn't go be this other
person with this other name that they knew me under and then step
out and talk about Jesus and be different.
But thank God he's moving. Hey man, they'll get to that
level. But I love what what?
What's his real name? Not he ain't calling him the
Rock no more. What's his real name?
Richie who? Robert Ritchie when he was a
self and not a stage name, he proclaimed something that we
proclaimed for years. The preachers of the God dust
your Bible off because there's a man that's on a cross say man
and he died for you. What a great message.
What a great thing to reach for in the world that we live.
You know, we're seeing some bad things in these times, but but
God's also sending revival and God's also move it in the lives
of some people. And I pray God that they would
realize the magnitude of it. But I think of Jonah many times
he went through a test in the belly of a whale.
Jonah was probably questioning this because see, I've preached
to that Jonah was a young preacher that didn't want to do
go do the will of God. I would have done it.
It's one way to preach it, right?
He didn't go what go do what God wanted him to do.
And then he did what God wanted him to do.
And now life finds Jonas sitting out by a tree and he said, oh,
at least I got a shade. You know about that time God
causes the leaves to fall off the tree and the tree died.
Now he's really down in the Mullah grubs.
God, I went and preached to Nineveh what you told me to that
you was going to destroy him and then you didn't do what you said
you was going to do. You saved them instead of
destroyed them. I preached it every way you can
preach it. But get this.
It's always amazed me how Jonah, when he obeyed God, he went
there and not just the people of the town of Nineveh, but 120,000
people. It says set and sackcloth and
ashes and fast to try to get 120,000 to fast, much less set
in the sackcloth and ashes in the streets and they repented.
It's always amazed me how how but the greatest, probably the
greatest conversion of all time was right there in the book of
Jonah right far as man goes at preaching the gospel.
But God already knew what he was going to do.
See that he was put in the belly of a fish of a whale and he was
swallowed because God already knew what he was going to do.
But the Bible says the book of Jonah that the we've known this
story since we was little. I remember the whale shooting
the water out the top of his head and Jonah up there kick
back on it. Y'all seen the pictures?
I don't know if it happened like that, but I do know that
wherever he got swallowed, it wasn't real close to Nineveh
where he was going. I do know that God turned that
fish and He put him on the beaches of Nineveh with one
day's journey from where he had first told him to go, and he
spits him out upon the beach or upon dry land, and Jonah begin
to walk. But there was people there, I'm
sure, that begin to see him. They thought we got us another
preacher. And see, Nineveh was known for
killing preachers. Wasn't that Jonah didn't want to
just go there and preach because there was a history of preachers
going there, prophets, apostles and preaching to Nineveh.
And they would cut their tongues off, they would skin them alive,
and they would hang their skulls on the wall because they
worshipped a God called Dagon. All right, get this.
This is intro. I never caught this.
I thought that God was getting Jonah's attention with the belly
of the fish. I'm sure Jonah was in there
questioning, right? But now he's been in there three
days and three nights. And this is a scripture when
Jesus is asked about his walk up on this earth that he tells the
scribes and Pharisees that it's much like Jonah.
As Jonah was in the belly of the whale 3 days and three nights in
Matthew, he says, so will the Son of Man be in the center of
the earth 3 days and three nights.
But see, here's where it gets interesting because the whale
turns and he comments Jonah out where?
On the beach and he's one day's journey from going and
preaching. And he goes and tells him a
simple message. You're going to hell, God's
going to destroy you. Not something you go and and and
are welcomed with very many places.
But get this, they I'm sure they said, oh, we got us another
preacher. Let's sharpen the knives.
Let's get ready. Let's get ready to cut his
tongue off. Let's get ready to do this.
But why didn't that happen? It it always is down.
One man went to one big city. 120 thousand were converted and
repented that day. Why didn't it happen?
Because see, you go back to First Samuel, I think it's 5 or
6, when they brought the Ark of the Covenant back to its
rightful place and they had placed it there.
There was also a God there that was called Dagon, which the
Ninevites worshipped. And it was a the God that was,
well, God say it with me. God already knows what he's
going to do. He already knows.
So the God of Dagon was half fish, kind of like a man on the
top and a mermaid tail on the bottom and it was an image that
they worshipped. So as as God put Jonah in the
belly of the fish. Say it with me, y'all ain't
getting this. He already knew what he was
going to do. He said I'm going to bring you
the real God and what you're worshipping as a fake God.
Hello, anybody been there? What you thought was your life,
what you thought God was sending your way, it just come on in and
wrecked your world and saved your soul.
Oh, can you give God praise in the house?
But Jonah, God delivered Jonah spit him out there in the form
of their God. They didn't kill him because
they thought that, hey, the God that we've been worshipping has
spoken. This is our God.
He ain't a God at all, but he has sent us a man.
Hello, he sent us a man out of the belly of the fish.
See, it wasn't about Jonah at all.
God knew that those folks were worshiping Dagon, which was half
God, half man and half fish. So he just sends them in that
wow preach many times. Never caught that like this, but
daggone it. Like I said, it was it was in
there and when they brought the ark of the covenant.
But but God prepared the whale. He already knew the people would
listen because God sent his man and what they thought was their
God. You know, we still try to do
that today. A lot of churches, we still try
to present the gospel and mix it with some of the world.
And I guess if it's reaching people, it's working.
But you got to be very careful. I did that with rodeo.
I, I would present it to kids with learning to ride bulls and
horses. And as I've said many times, if
the bulls and horses were there and we were bucking them and
having a competition, I would have 100 and 5200.
If not, it would drop to single digits.
Sometimes if I announced it the week before, we're not going to
buck buck bulls and horses. We're just going to have bring
the word. It would go from 150 to 8.
It still does unless you feed them.
I thought about wrapping up as a big old cinnamon roll one time a
walking in the chart. If you feed them, if you if you
bring food, they will come. They may leave before the
preaching, so you better preach first.
I figured that out. Christy and Trish told me one
time their dad's church had dwindled down to nobody.
They said he tells them all these guys, Jesus, that's not
enough. And you know what, the older I
get, the more I'm with him because that's enough.
But God had prepared the well. He already say it with me all
ain't getting it. He already knew what he was
going to do. God knew Jonah would run.
He already knows what we're going to do.
How many times do we pray out of the will of God?
Because the question that God asked was sending us to test it,
and we're hung up on the test that we're praying about.
And it really ain't even the direction God's wanting to take
us. He already knows.
He already knows what he would do.
But when Jonah came out of the belly, they thought that their
God had sent it. They listened, they repented.
And as I close today, the test of your faith at many times
could be how you answer the question.
Do you get hung up on it? Do you?
Do you discern which question is just to test you or which one it
is? It is requiring action because
God does ask us things just to see where our faith is.
Most of the time we focus, and I see this so much.
Something has never changed and 30 years of ministry.
It's a simple 3 letter word called why people are missing
the call of God on their life because of why did God, Why
didn't God? Why won't God?
Because we refuse to walk by that.
See, there's some things that you got to walk in.
There's some things that you got to walk at.
There's some things that you got to walk by.
Hey man, walk by the why walk by it because the why will trouble
your soul. The why will keep you from from
receiving the miracles and the blessings of God.
Because I learned a long time ago when the why comes just I
don't know why. I may never know why, but it's
not going to get in the way of what God has called me to do
Amen. Jesus in Matthew chapter 12, in
Matthew chapter 12 and verse 38, he was preaching to Baptist and
Methodist that day. Oh, I'm sorry, scribes and
Pharisees and he said, teacher, we want to see a sign from you.
How many know somebody in their life?
You ever heard that? If God would just show me a
sign, there's a big old cross that's standing in the way, He's
alive. There's your sign, that's only
sign you need to follow Him is the cross.
When you accept the cross and you accept that He already knew.
You know, I thought many times, what if Abraham wasn't offered
up Isaac on the mountain, that God had not have found him a
man, what would he have done? Why does it matter?
He already knew. You hear people reading the
Bible. Well, I thought God should have
done it this way. He already knew.
I realized a long time ago, God does not care what I think.
If Christians would realize that you would grow this tall that
fast, He don't care what I think.
But some of the scouts of Pharisees answered saying,
teacher, There's that word teacher again.
They still thought he was a teacher, not the Messiah.
But he answered and he said to them, they said, we want to see
a sign. He said an evil and adulterous
generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to you
except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Jesus thought this Jonah thing was pretty important, didn't he?
He knew about it. For as Jonah was 3 days and
three nights symbolic right in the belly of a fish, so will the
Son of Man be 3 days and three nights in the heart of the
earth. But yet they still didn't know
what he was talking about. I'm sure these dudes had heard
about Jonah since they was a little kid like we did and they
had a pitcher draw to the will spewing him out but yet they
still didn't really believe it. Then here comes the Messiah
saying hey say thankfully to happen again just in a different
form. Jesus went on in 41.
He said the men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with
this generation and condemn it because they repented.
Wow. Jesus was moved by the repenting
of those 120,000 that God used a fish in the form of their God to
spew out a profit to save them. It doesn't matter what God uses
at the preaching of Jonah, but he said it and indeed a greater
than Jonah is here and you still don't believe 3 days and three
nights. Let's look at that.
I want to look at this a little bit.
I am going to close, but it says that it says those back up to
44. As Jonah was 3 days and three
nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be
3 days and three nights. Where in the heart of the earth.
He wasn't just laying in the tomb, you know it was cool.
He never died. His flesh died, but his spirit
was on the move. What was in the heart?
What was in the core of the earth in those days they
referred to it as paradise. They referred to it as Abraham's
bosom because man did not know where people were going that
were Saints of God. So they reserved, the Bible says
in the core of the earth. They were, you can go back and
look it up. They were reserved there until
the Day of Atonement, right? Why were they reserved there?
Because before the cross, before Jesus, what he prophesied was
going to do. And use Jonah as an
illustration. He said, I went three days and
three nights in the heart of the earth, but he was doing
something. Go to Ephesians chapter 4,
Ephesians chapter 4 verse 8 and 9.
We can read about this. What was going on.
There was something going on and what they thought was the
graveyard, the Saints was about to rise.
Can I tell you there's something fixing to go on in the graveyard
again, when the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall
be no more. There's something great going to
happen. The dead in Christ are going to
rise 1st and then those that are alive and remain will be caught
up to meet Him in the air. And you know what, there's a lot
of Christians that love Jesus but don't believe that.
Hey man, but you better open your eyes, child of God, because
it's already happened and it's about to happen again.
But what was happening right here?
The apostle Paul said, he said, but to each one of us in
Ephesians 4:00 and 7:00, to each one of us, grace has been given
according to the measure of Christ gift, Amen.
And what did he do when he was sending?
We're going to read on. Therefore, he says when he
ascended on high, you can go to Acts chapter 1 and read about
it. When Jesus ascended, they were
standing there watching him, and He appeared, He ascended into
the heavens, Amen. And that's what he's talking
about. When He ascended into heavens on
high, first he descended, He went to the pits, to the core of
the earth, and it says He led captivity.
Those that were in Abraham's bosom or in paradise, he took
them because, see, they were held captive because what the
blood of a goat and a bull and a sheep could never do.
The blood of Christ had just hit planet earth.
And the blood of Christ is what we learned last last week, the
martyrs, the blood of Christ. The blood is the seed for the
Church, right? He led captivity captive and he
gave good gifts to men. We ought to get excited about
that. Now, Apostle Paul really
confuses Now this he ascended. What does it mean?
It means he went up to the Father.
He ascended into heaven, but first he descended into the
lower parts of the earth. Who descended is also the one
who ascended far above the heavens that he might feel all
things. God already knew what he was
going to do, right? But yet we're so worried about
it. But he went there and he took
the keys to death, hell and the grave.
He took those that were captive and he said, because Can you
imagine Moses and all those, Can you imagine Isaiah that had
prophesied this great king coming, this Messiah that would
come from the from the, from the lineage of David?
Can you imagine him being in Abraham's bosom and seeing Jesus
that he said come on, we're fixing to ascend on into heaven.
The promise that you preach for years and believe for years even
though you had to die for it. It is now here.
Come on up here with me. He already knew what he was
going to do. But see many times we question,
we fail the test. Let's go to Acts chapter 2.
Notice this is my third time to say it.
Third time's a charm of closing Acts chapter 2.
Acts chapter 1. I mean somebody say glory, how
many is excited that this world ain't your home?
In Acts chapter 1 and verse 6, the Holy Spirit was about to
fall upon the disciples and many other people, but he said you
shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,
and you should be able to witness in Jerusalem and in all
Judea and Samaria and other most parts of the earth.
Think about this. The last time that Jesus Christ
would speak up on planet earth in a form of a man.
Think about it verse 8. But you shall receive power.
He didn't say we were to be weak and lowly Christians.
He said you shall receive power. I've already been here, but I'm
going to send the Holy Spirit and He's going to come upon you.
You ain't going to know where He comes from.
You ain't going to be able to control him.
He's just going to fall upon you and something unique is going to
happen to you. You're going to have to go
witness all over. You're going to talk a new
language. There's some things that's going
to come up on you that you're not going to understand, but
that's OK. He thought that was pretty
important if that was the last words he spoke.
Now, when he had spoken these things in Acts 1 and 9, while
they watched, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of
their sight. And while they looked
steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, men stood by,
and white apparel. Who were those men?
They were men in white apparel. That's all we're told.
The rest is speculation. I'm trying to get away from
speculating in the Bible. Amen.
There were men in white apparel who also said men of Galilee.
Can you imagine them as you stand your feet standing there
looking up at Jesus as he just floats on through the sky?
He had already floated through the door of Thomas's doubting
question. Thomas didn't know what he was
about to do, but Jesus, what he already knew what he was going
to do. He already knew what he was
going to do. He said, men of Galilee, why do
you stand gazing into heaven? Say it with me, this same Jesus.
It's not another Jesus. It's the same Jesus that's got
the nail scarred in his hands and probably the crown of
thorns. He's got a few scars up on his
head. He's got big old scars in his
feet. Say it with me, this same Jesus
who was taken up from you into heaven will so come in like
manner as you saw him go. One of these days he's going to
part the open the eastern sky, He's going to open them clouds,
and Gabriel's going to blow the horn, the trumpet, and it says,
when the trumpet of the Lord shall sound.
Say it with me, those who know it.
Time, my God, can you think of a life where time is nothing?
Can you think of a life where time as we know it will be no
more? Because there will be no time
frame. It's going to be forever,
infinite, like a laser. And this keeps going.
Time forever will be changed. In the moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, the graves are going to burst open.
And this same Jesus, what a word from God.
He already knows. You know, there are those that
are still doubting they can fly when the rapture takes like,
boy, I'd like to go, but I just don't know if I can fly.
You ain't going to have to worry about it.
I'd like to go, but boy, I just don't know about that fly.
He already knows. There's a cool thing too.
You're going to be changed. That thought in the moment, in
the twinkling of an eye. Oh, doubt.
I'll worry. I'll fear all pain will be gone.
We're going to be different. Who's going to be in heaven,
Will? I know him?
Doesn't matter. You're going to be different in
the moment, in the twinkling of an eye.
This, this, this. Immortality going to take on
immortality. I'm never going to die again.
See, I fear people believe the cross, but they don't believe in
what God already knows that he's going to do.
The trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no
more. In a moment, in the twinkling of
an eye, we will be changed forever.
Because who ascended? Well, you just don't know what
I've done. It don't matter.
God knew what he was already going to do.
What did he do? Why can't we step into the
press? It doesn't matter what I done or
didn't do, or what I could do, because all that's going to
matter is that debt has been paid.
You see, I owe the debt. Would you lift your hands?
And we closed with this course. I owed a debt that I could not
pay. Thanks for listening to the
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