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And but there is no, there can 
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recognition of sin. 
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according to the scriptures. 
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different prophecies last week 
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going to come, that prophesied 
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prophesied how he was going to 
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Many of those things that were 
that were given to us in Psalms,

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in Isaiah, we're all proven to 
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And not just in Matthew, you 
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but Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, 
all of them mention it. 

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Of course, then even Paul and 
Peter and others mentioned them 

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as well. 
Different things that came true 

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as a result of a fulfillment of 
prophecy. 

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Every single thing that was 
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came true. 
Not one of them failed. 

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Which is an amazing, amazing 
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years, the period of time over 
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There's no way that there could 
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collaboration. 
And you write this and then 

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we'll write this. 
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possible they were separated by 
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years. 
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find out that the Bible is true.
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that Christ died for our sins. 
But then #2 and this is on page 

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22, Christ was buried. 
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a few people to read tonight. 
We do have some verses, but most

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of them are all kind of in the 
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So maybe a little bit easier for
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as many of these as we can. 
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15, verse 4 says that and that 
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Now his burial, let's turn over 
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Keep a, keep a bookmark or 
ribbon or something there in 

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First Corinthians 15, because we
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a few different spots there in 
First Corinthians 15. 

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But John, chapter 19, his burial
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And that sounds silly to say 
that of what? 

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Why wouldn't you bury somebody 
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But there's there are people out
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swoon theory. 
In other words, that Jesus kind 

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of just went into a coma for a 
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that coma and that's what 
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the ground. 
He swooned. 

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He wasn't really dead, but the 
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didn't merely faint. 
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appear to die, as some false 
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The reason the soldiers didn't 
break Jesus's legs is because he

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was already dead. 
And by the way, that was one of 

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the prophecies that was 
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Not a bone of his would be 
broken. 

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They pierced his side and the 
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water came out. 
They broke the legs of the other

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thieves. 
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was necessary for them to break 
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essentially the way that you 
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from asphyxiation. 
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of blood loss and everything 
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Jesus was whipped more than than
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been whipped. 
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and and that may be one of the 
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the than the thieves that were 
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cross, you get to the point 
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that you, you, you really can't.
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just to get a breath that many 
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and more shallow until 
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to die if they didn't push 
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would break their legs. 
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come up with as far as the 
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cause somebody extreme suffering
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ground. 
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eating the body. 
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was a criminal that didn't 
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anything, somebody had to come 
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get thrown into a pauper's grave
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desecrated. 
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that. 
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of both of the thieves that were
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Christ. 
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his legs. 
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would have been breathing. 
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broken his legs and made sure 
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brought him off of the cross. 
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allow this man, the one that 
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blasphemy, blasphemer, and and 
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of that cross without being 
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prove that the Roman soldiers 
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before they put him in that in 
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John chapter 19 and verse #31 
the Jews therefore, because it 

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was the preparation that the 
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cross on the Sabbath day. 
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going to come back to because 
this is important for that 

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Sabbath day was in high day. 
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We saw Pilate that their legs 
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might be taken away. 
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the legs of the 1st and of the 
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him. 
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saw that He was dead already, 
they break not His legs, but one

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of the soldiers with a spear 
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came there out blood and water. 
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really died. 
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got to Him. 
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Matthew chapter 12. 
Let's turn over there, Matthew 

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chapter 12 and verse #40 that He
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and three nights. 
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Now this is also, This is where 
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the word of God and why it's 
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Baptist tradition be not 
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justified is the right word, 
corroborated if you will, with 

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the word of God. 
We need to make sure that we're 

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not doing it just because this 
is what everybody has already 

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always done. 
We're not just saying it this 

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just because this is what 
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Now, you know that we celebrate 
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Jesus Christ was crucified on 
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He came up out of the grave on 
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And so we celebrate Good Friday.
No possible way, no possible way

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that Jesus could have been 
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follow what the Bible says. 
Now here's what the Bible says 

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in Matthew chapter 12 and verse 
#40 For as Jonas Jonah was 3 

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days and three nights in the 
whale's belly, so shall the Son 

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of Man be 3 days and three 
nights in the heart of the 

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earth. 
Now we know that Jesus rose from

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the dead early on Sunday 
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The Bible says that in Luke 24, 
if he was in the grave for three

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days and three nights, he died 
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Now it's a false idea then that 
the Catholic Church has come up 

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with. 
I have no idea what they have to

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gain by having Jesus Christ 
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But if you, if he, if he died on
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on Friday afternoon, he would 
have been there Friday night and

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he would have been there 
Saturday night. 

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And that's it. 
No possible way that he could 

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have been in the grave for three
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Now you could say, well, Friday,
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3 parts of days there and say 
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three days. 
But you cannot get 3 nights by 

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having somebody crucified on 
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Now let me give you a few things
here that might be interesting 

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to you. 
I think Jesus was was crucified 

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on a Wednesday. 
I'm not going to argue with 

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somebody that thinks it's 
Thursday, but let's turn over to

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Matthew chapter 27. 
Does it really matter? 

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Probably not. 
The thing that matters is that 

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Jesus Christ did die and he was 
put in the grave and he rose 

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from the dead. 
But I think it's interesting to 

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to go through this anyway. 
We just read in Matthew chapter 

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12 and verse #40 that the Bible 
says for as Jonas was 3 days and

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three nights in the wills belly,
so shall the Son of Man be 3 

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days and three nights in the 
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Had the scriptures just said 
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where somebody would say Friday.
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three nights, that seems to 
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hour periods, right? 
Why do you say day and night if 

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you didn't mean a full day 
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24 hour periods that Jesus was 
in the ground. 

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Now there's three different 
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when it comes to the, the, the, 
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calculated. 
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AM OK, so for us, our day begins
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12:00 AM the next day, right? 
That's how our day goes. 

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The Roman day actually began at 
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next morning. 
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and went through sunset of the 
next day. 

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OK, now Matthew chapter 2027 now
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Mark 15, and Luke 23 all say the
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I would say that Jesus Christ 
was placed on the cross at about

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9:00 in the morning somewhere 
around there. 

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And we and we can see that from 
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Now from the 6th hour there was 
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the 9th hour. 
The 6th hour was noon. 

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The 9th hour was 3:00. 
And so the because if you if you

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start your day at 6:00 in the 
morning the way the Jews did the

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the first hour would it be 6:00.
The third hour would be 9:00, 

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the 6th hour would be noon, 
right? 

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The 9th hour would be 3, and so 
on. 

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It would just keep going on that
way. 

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So when the Bible says that the 
darkness came over all the land,

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that was Jesus was already Cruz.
He had already died by that 

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point, right? 
So if you consider that he was 

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put on the cross maybe somewhere
around 9:00 in the morning. 

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He hung there until he died 
around noon. 

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The darkness came over the face 
of the earth. 

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The dead came up out of the 
graves. 

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The veil in the temple was rent.
All of those things happen. 

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The Bible says that there was 
darkness for the space of those 

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three hours. 
The 6th hour to the 9th hour, 

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noon to 3:00. 
That's when Jesus, about the 9th

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hour. 
I'm sorry. 

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Yeah, I said that the 6th hour, 
darkness came over. 

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He died at the 9th hour. 
My God. 

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My God, why has thou forsaken 
me? 

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Some of them heard that, thought
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They came and brought water. 
I mean vinegar and put it up to 

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his mouth and everything else. 
Verse #50 The Bible says Jesus, 

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when he had cried again with a 
loud voice, yielded up the 

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ghost. 
He died. 

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And so then verse 57 the Bible 
says this is Matthew 27. 

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When the even was come, there 
came a rich man of Arimathea 

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named Joseph, who also himself 
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He went to Pilate and begged the
body of Jesus. 

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Then Pilate commanded the then 
then Pilate commanded the body 

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to be delivered. 
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body, he wrapped it in a clean 
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own new tomb, which he had hewn 
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He wrote a great stone and so 
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All of those things that are 
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evening by that point, right? 
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started at sunset. 
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somewhere around 4:00, five 
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Jesus was actually put into the 
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He was still hanging on the 
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They had to go request the body.
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They had to prepare the body for
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the grave and, and maybe they 
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get that done within three 
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pictures in the diagrams that I 
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going through all this stuff 
about Israel, the place where 

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Jesus was crucified and the 
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would have been very close to 
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know, transport his body and all
of those things. 

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the garden, and put him in the 
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probably somewhere around 4-5, 
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whatever day that happened to 
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was put in the ground. 
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it was Wednesday. 
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was put into the ground or put 
into that grave at about 5:00 on

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Wednesday night. 
The Bible says this in Leviticus

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chapter 23 and verse #5 through 
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Feast of Unleavened Bread was a 
Sabbath day, and it was actually

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a high day. 
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19. 
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right? 
John chapter 19. 

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John chapter 19. 
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begun at sunset on Friday, but 
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the Passover Sabbath came on 
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And that's what the Bible says 
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I'm in verse chapter 20, John 
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The Jews, therefore, because it 
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body should not remain upon the 
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that Sabbath day was in high 
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It was not a normal Sabbath. 
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started the day before that. 
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he had been in the grave for one
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Because by sunset you would, you
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Wednesday night to Thursday 
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and one day. 
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three days. 
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rose from the dead. 
Right when the ladies got there,

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when the women got there to and 
the Bible says they they rose up

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early that Sunday morning and 
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He was already gone, right? 
He was already gone, so the only

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way that you can make Thursday 
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You counted a part of a day for 
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night, Saturday night, right? 
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Thursday night, you have, you 
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Friday night, Saturday night. 
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enough time for that to happen. 
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Sunday if you're talking. 
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I'm not going to argue with 
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Jesus was, was, was died on a 
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not say that it was 24. 
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periods that Jesus was was in 
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three nights. 
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wanted to count a part of a day 
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that's fine. 
I'm not going to argue with you 

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against that, argue against you 
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But the woman came early on 
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already gone. 
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day in the Gospels referring to 
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our in our terminology would 
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We would we would say after the 
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And so Christ was, I believe, 
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Maybe you could say that he was 
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There's one thing that I do know
he was not crucified on Friday. 

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No way that he could have been 
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was that there's, there's the 
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would be Friday night and 
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And that doesn't leave us enough
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He didn't raise on Monday 
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He rose on Sunday morning. 
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the week. 
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there. 
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And that's where brother Cloud 
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died either on Wednesday or 
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I think there's compelling, 
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There's there's compelling 
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Thursday, but I don't there's 
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us to say that Christ was 
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But then the Bible says that his
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It was according to the 
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If you go, you don't have to go 
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In fact, let's go to Isaiah 53. 
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buried and that he rose again 
the third day according to the 

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Scriptures. 
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fulfillment of prophecy. 
Isaiah chapter 53, one of the 

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one of the greatest passages of 
now talking about Christ in the 

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Old Testament, I believe Isaiah 
chapter 53 talking all about the

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what he was going to suffer for 
us. 

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But Isaiah chapter 53 and verse 
#9 the Bible says and he made 

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his grave with the wicked and 
with the rich in his death 

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because he had done no violence,
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mouth. 
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written, he says here about 710 
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was fulfilled when Jesus was 
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Joseph of Arimathea, who the 
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Put Joe's put Jesus's body into 
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also said wherein never man was 
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Now I will say this. 
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significance of that? 
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somebody and put another body in
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They would dig a cave into the, 
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a cave or just hew hew something
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rock there. 
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would put that body in there for
about a year and after a year 

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the decomposition had all pretty
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that person who had died and 
they would put it in what was 

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called an ossuary or a bone box.
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wherever they wanted it to be. 
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in the in the grave. 
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it in different places, which is
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carried Joseph's body out of 
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It was probably just a bone box.
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size, probably about the size of
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depth. 
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or so really not all that big. 
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wealthy you were, that that 
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know, what kind of ossuary you 
had and what it was decorated 

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like and all of those things. 
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when you say wherein never man 
was laid, nobody who had ever 

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been laid in the grave that 
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Arimathea as a wealthy man would
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for his family, and nobody had 
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But that was prophesied 710 
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was buried in that grave by 
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Now the other thing then #3 the 
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we read in First Corinthians 
chapter 15, verse 4, and that he

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rose again the third day 
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His resurrection was prophesied 
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go and look at that. 
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years before Jesus came. 
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wilt not leave my soul in hell, 
neither wilt thou suffer thine 

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Holy One to see corruption. 
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grave for longer than three 
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see corruption. 
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decompose. 
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after death would have easily 
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It didn't. 
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fulfilled. 
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that He is the Son of God. 
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1. 
Romans, chapter 1. 

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Romans chapter 1 and verse #4 
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be the Son of God with power 
according to the spirit of 

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holiness, by the resurrection 
from the dead, Jesus prophesied 

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that he would rise again on the 
third day. 

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Matthew 16 verse 21 says from 
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show unto his disciples how that
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suffer many things of the elders
and chief priests and scribes 

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and be killed and be raised 
again the third day. 

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If he had not done that, then he
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false prophet and not the Son of
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That's the difference between 
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ever claimed to be something 
special, claimed to be a 

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prophet, claimed to be 
important. 

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A Jesus is the only one that 
raised from the dead. 

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Everybody else, you can go see 
their grave, you can see their 

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bones. 
Jesus is gone. 

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And that's, that's the amazing 
thing about the gospel. 

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So is there evidence then that 
the gospel is true? 

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Well, Paul gave 2 great 
evidences of the truth of the 

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gospel. 
And first of all, we have the 

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Old Testament prophecies that 
prove that he was, that the 

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gospel is true. 
And we've looked at a lot of 

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verses. 
So we're not going to do that. 

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But he died and rose again 
according to the Scriptures, the

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Bible, they, we've already 
looked at these things, but the 

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Bible prophecy is a great, great
miracle. 

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We don't even know how what will
happen tomorrow yet. 

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The Bible's prophecies describe 
events thousands of years in the

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future with detailed exactness. 
And as I mentioned a little bit 

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ago, every single one of those 
prophecies about Jesus in the 

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Old Testament came true in the 
New Testament. 

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The second thing is the 
eyewitness testimonies that 

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prove that the gospel is true 
and you should be there. 

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In First Corinthians chapter 15,
we'll read verse #5 and that he 

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was seen of Cephas. 
Then of the 12 after that he was

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seen of above 500 brethren at 
once, of whom the greater part 

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remain under this present, but 
some are falling asleep. 

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In other words, what Paul is 
saying is, hey, some of these 

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have died, but there's a huge 
number of these that are still 

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alive. 
Go ask him if they saw Jesus 

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alive after he rose from the 
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once. 
Go ask them. 

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They're still alive. 
You can still ask him today 

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after that verse 7, he was seen 
of James, then of all the 

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apostles and last of all, he was
seen of me also as of one born 

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out of due time. 
Paul said even I saw Jesus after

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he raised from the dead. 
By the way, that was one of the 

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things that allowed him to be an
apostle. 

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You had to see the risen Christ 
and, and, and Paul did verse #9 

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for I am the least of the 
apostles, that I'm not meant to 

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be called an apostle because I 
persecuted the Church of God. 

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But the Bible is not a blind 
religious faith. 

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It's based on many infallible 
proofs. 

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And that's what the Bible says 
in Acts chapter 1 and verse #3 

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In fact, if you want to turn 
over there, it's a great verse. 

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Acts chapter 1 and verse #3 
Jesus the Bible says, to whom 

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also he showed himself alive 
after his passion by many 

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infallible proofs, being seen of
them 40 days, and Speaking of 

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the things pertaining to the 
Kingdom of God. 

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This is not just that, Oh, I saw
him at a distance and it sure 

449
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,520
looked like it could have been 
Jesus. 

450
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:31,760
No, Thomas saw him in the upper 
room, and he put his fingers in 

451
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,280
his hands. 
He put his first in his side, 

452
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:39,080
proving that it was Jesus. 
Jesus was there with him for 40 

453
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,480
days, having conversations, 
talking with them. 

454
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:47,160
It was not just a spirit, It was
not just an apparition. 

455
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,720
It was not just somebody who 
looked like Jesus, it was Jesus 

456
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,160
and they knew it. 
Hebrews Chapter 11 verse one 

457
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,080
tells us that that biblical 
faith has substance and 

458
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,760
evidence. 
Faith is the substance of things

459
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,400
hoped for, the evidence of 
things not seen. 

460
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,680
So the resurrected Christ, as we
just read in First Corinthians 

461
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,760
15, was seen by more than 500 
people on one occasion. 

462
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,240
When Paul wrote this epistle, 
many of the eyewitnesses were 

463
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,240
still alive. 
He was not writing about things 

464
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,640
that had happened long ago and 
passed down from generation to 

465
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,040
generation by word of mouth and 
dependence on man's valuable 

466
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,080
memory. 
And by the way, I would add to 

467
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:27,160
that, that if what he wrote was 
false, it would have been easily

468
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,320
disproven. 
There would have been many, many

469
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,040
people who said, you're making 
stuff up. 

470
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,600
We were there. 
We never saw him. 

471
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,880
We were there. 
The tomb was still sealed 2 

472
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,240
weeks later. 
You know, it was right outside 

473
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:43,000
the city. 
It was. 

474
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,120
I mean, they would have gone in 
and out of that gate all the 

475
00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,080
time as they went in and out of 
the city. 

476
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,400
It's not like it was in some 
remote corner of the world 

477
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,160
somewhere. 
And this just happened in a in a

478
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,320
vacuum or in a bubble where 
nobody can see it. 

479
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:56,600
Everybody was there. 
Everybody saw it. 

480
00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:00,320
And when Paul is saying it, Paul
is using that to back up his own

481
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,160
evidence. 
Hey, every 500 people saw it at 

482
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,640
one time. 
And not just that 500 people saw

483
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,160
it, but most of them are still 
alive. 

484
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,080
Go talk to him. 
Go ask him they saw him. 

485
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,760
Even even historical records 
from men like Josephus, a Jewish

486
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,840
historian, and you can still 
read Josephus today. 

487
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,160
I have I have all of the works 
of Josephus. 

488
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,640
The words are about this big on 
the page. 

489
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,080
It's a thick book with a lot of 
writing. 

490
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,400
And he wrote a lot of stuff 
about things that the Bible 

491
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,400
doesn't even really mention, 
just historical things that were

492
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,520
happening during that time. 
But all of the things that 

493
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:36,200
Josephus wrote corroborate the 
Bible, including everything that

494
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,760
he wrote about Jesus. 
And he was Jewish. 

495
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:43,120
Don't forget, he was not writing
it from a perspective that 

496
00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:45,080
really looked on Jesus 
favorably. 

497
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,400
But when you have somebody who 
is objective and will just write

498
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,520
what he sees, it backs up 
everything that the Bible says. 

499
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,400
So there's not, it's not just 
that Paul is writing. 

500
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,080
It's not just that 500 people 
saw him. 

501
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:58,840
It's that many other people saw 
him too. 

502
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,800
This resurrection dramatically 
changed the lives of those who 

503
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,120
saw Christ. 
Let's go over to John, chapter 

504
00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:08,160
20. 
Before he rose, the disciples 

505
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,480
were fearful. 
They were in hiding from the 

506
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,040
authorities. 
What what changed about it? 

507
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,600
Well, Jesus was back. 
And it's not just that they hid 

508
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,360
the body. 
And now they got this, you know,

509
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,720
this strong determination that 
they're going to go stand up 

510
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,680
against the Roman Empire and 
doesn't matter if you try to 

511
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,800
kill us, kill us, we're just 
going to keep preaching the 

512
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,400
gospel. 
If they knew. 

513
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,560
So here's the thing. 
Many of these, many of the 

514
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,080
disciples of Christ and 
especially the apostles and 

515
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,400
those who were alive at that 
time died horrible martyr 

516
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,920
deaths. 
Every single one of them, with 

517
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,000
the exception of John, who was 
actually exiled on the Isle of 

518
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:50,120
Patmos, died an unnatural death.
They were beheaded. 

519
00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:54,000
They were they had they were 
drawn, they had all kinds of 

520
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,640
things that were hap that 
happened to them. 

521
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,080
And even Peter, the Bible says, 
again, this is according to 

522
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,280
tradition, the Bible doesn't say
this, but Peter was crucified 

523
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,800
and he did not deem himself 
worthy to be crucified in the 

524
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,480
same manner that Christ was 
crucified. 

525
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,360
So he asked to be crucified 
upside down and about. 

526
00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:14,320
And history says, not the Bible,
history says that Peter was 

527
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:21,680
crucified upside down. 
You don't go to the cross and 

528
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,080
get crucified upside down for 
something you know to be a lie. 

529
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,280
When it finally gets to the 
point where they're ready to 

530
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:32,160
take your life, you say OK, OK, 
OK, it's not worth that, right? 

531
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,280
What? 
What motivation did they have to

532
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:39,400
perpetuate a lie about Jesus? 
There was 0 motivation for them 

533
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:40,600
to do it. 
In fact, there would have been a

534
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,440
lot of motivation for them to 
say the exact opposite of that, 

535
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:45,520
right? 
And to go along with everything 

536
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,040
that the Roman government said 
and everything else right have 

537
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,040
been a whole lot of motivation 
for them to do that. 

538
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,160
And yet every single one of them
was willing. 

539
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,640
And many of them did give their 
lives for the cause of Christ 

540
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:01,120
because they believed so 
strongly, because they were 

541
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,520
eyewitnesses of the fact that 
Jesus had risen from the dead. 

542
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,960
But they were, they were 
fearful, they were in hiding. 

543
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,520
Verse #19 Then the same day at 
evening being the first day of 

544
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,600
the week, when the doors were 
shut, where the disciples were 

545
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:17,360
assembled for fear of the Jews, 
came Jesus and stood in the 

546
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,880
midst and said unto them, peace 
be unto you. 

547
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,280
After they saw the risen Christ,
they were bold. 

548
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,560
They were willing to lay down 
their lives for the faith. 

549
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,440
And not just willing. 
Many of them did. 

550
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,480
Paul did. 
Paul was beheaded at Rome. 

551
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,040
So many of them, so many of them
were persecuted. 

552
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,880
But the resurrection, in fact, 
this is this is great. 

553
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,440
Let's let's turn over to John 
Chapter 7. 

554
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,480
You're not too far from there. 
We talked about this actually 

555
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,240
when we went through the book of
James a few months ago. 

556
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,320
But the resurrection actually 
even convinced Jesus his own 

557
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:53,480
half brother James. 
And we say half brother because 

558
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,800
Joseph was James his father, but
not Jesus his father. 

559
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,120
John Chapter 7 and verse #5 the 
Bible says. 

560
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,560
For neither did his brethren 
believe in him. 

561
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:10,400
James did not believe that Jesus
Christ was the Messiah until he 

562
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,760
rose from the dead. 
First Corinthians chapter 15. 

563
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,480
If you had a bookmark there, you
can just flip right back over to

564
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:21,320
it. 
The Bible singles out James 

565
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:26,280
verse #7 after that he was seen 
of James, then of all the 

566
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,680
apostles. 
And the Bible says in the book 

567
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:33,280
of James that he believed on 
Jesus after he saw him and his 

568
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,880
resurrection. 
His brothers didn't believe him 

569
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,400
until he resurrected from the 
dead. 

570
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,640
If that's not a proof, I don't 
know what is. 

571
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,560
The resurrection also convinced 
Paul converted him from being a 

572
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,960
bitter enemy of Christ. 
From an earthly perspective, and

573
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:53,840
this is a great point, Paul had 
nothing to gain by switching his

574
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,440
allegiance from the Jewish 
leaders of that day. 

575
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:01,480
The the the Sanhedrin and of 
course the he was a Pharisee of 

576
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,120
the Pharisees. 
He said to become a Christian. 

577
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,960
He had every motivation not to 
do that. 

578
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,240
He was he was the big man, 
right? 

579
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,960
He had he had the authority to 
go and just do anything that he 

580
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,520
wanted to do to these 
Christians. 

581
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:20,000
And yet he saw Jesus Christ 
alive after his resurrection, 

582
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,360
and it changed his life to the 
point where not only was he 

583
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,680
willing to give up all that 
status, now not only was he 

584
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,840
willing to give up all the power
that he had, he became the 

585
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,480
haunted. 
The hunter became the haunted to

586
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:39,320
the point where Paul actually 
lost his life by having his head

587
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:43,760
taken off of his shoulders. 
So back in First Corinthians 

588
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,960
chapter 15, verse #2 says this. 
Actually, let's just go to verse

589
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,960
one for context. 
Moreover, brethren, I declare 

590
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,040
unto you the gospel which I 
preached unto you, which also 

591
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,480
you have received, and wherein 
ye stand, but by which also you 

592
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,880
are saved, if you keep in memory
what I preached unto you, unless

593
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,600
ye have believed in vain. 
So what then does it mean to 

594
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,160
believe in vain? 
Paul probably means that there 

595
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,280
are ways to believe that don't 
result in salvation. 

596
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,160
And so here's a couple things 
that we'll talk about as we 

597
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,560
close out this section tonight. 
Number 11 can believe in vain by

598
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,040
believing the wrong things. 
Let's turn over to John chapter 

599
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:20,960
20. 
Sorry, John chapter 2 for a 

600
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,240
little bit of a little bit of 
context here to see what what 

601
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,800
he's talking about when he says 
that you can believe in vain by 

602
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,160
believing the wrong things. 
Verse #23. 

603
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,760
Now when He was in Jerusalem at 
the Passover, in the feast day, 

604
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:43,080
many believed in His name when 
they saw the miracles which he 

605
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,480
did. 
But Jesus did not commit Himself

606
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,400
unto them, because He knew all 
men, and needed not that any 

607
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,600
should testify of man, for He 
knew what was in man. 

608
00:32:54,040 --> 00:33:00,280
These Jews believed on Jesus as 
a as a worldly provider, as 

609
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,120
somebody who would feed and 
protect them, instead of 

610
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,000
believing on Jesus as their Lord
and Savior. 

611
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,200
And there's a big difference, 
right? 

612
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:11,000
There's a lot of people who 
believe, right, who have faith, 

613
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,200
and this is what he says. 
Likewise, many today believe on 

614
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,080
Jesus in wrong ways. 
They come to Jesus, they pray to

615
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,080
him so that it'll help them with
their problems or build up their

616
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,560
self esteem or make them wealthy
or heal them or some other 

617
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,720
thing, rather than humbling 
themselves as sinners and 

618
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,000
trusting him solely as their 
savior. 

619
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,520
So there's a lot of people who 
will believe in God, right? 

620
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,920
I believe God. 
I'm a Christian, they, they 

621
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,920
associate themselves with 
Christianity because they 

622
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,200
believe God or, or many times 
they'll make a deal with God. 

623
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:45,000
If you Get Me Out of this 
situation, then I will do this 

624
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,520
for you, right? 
Many, many, many people have 

625
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,800
made that that decision in their
life. 

626
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,760
I'm drowning. 
If you, if you save my life, 

627
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:57,000
I'll give my life to you. 
And so God saves them and they 

628
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,000
give their life to God. 
That's their salvation 

629
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,880
experience. 
They believe on Jesus. 

630
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,080
Well, they're believing in the 
wrong things, right? 

631
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,280
It's not believing on Jesus 
Christ for salvation. 

632
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,280
It's believing on him as a 
protector. 

633
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,679
It's believing on him as, as a 
provider. 

634
00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:15,040
It's believing on him as, as all
kinds of other things, but not 

635
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,600
as a savior. 
And we, we need a provider. 

636
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,320
We need a protector. 
If without God's protection, 

637
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,040
without God's provision, without
God's everything, we have 

638
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,400
nothing. 
But what we need more than 

639
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:31,000
anything else is not food, It's 
not protection. 

640
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,639
What we need more than anything 
else is somebody to save us from

641
00:34:33,639 --> 00:34:35,800
our sins. 
And when you start getting 

642
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,159
specific and start talking about
Jesus as the savior from your 

643
00:34:39,159 --> 00:34:41,520
sins, all the sudden people 
don't want to talk about that 

644
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,320
anymore. 
They'll believe in Jesus, right?

645
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,880
Jesus loves you. 
Jesus is my copilot. 

646
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:50,960
You know, all the bumper 
stickers and everything else. 

647
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:56,239
But then when it comes to Jesus 
being the savior from your sin, 

648
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,000
that's not the Jesus that I want
to believe in, right? 

649
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,120
And, and, and having faith or 
talking about your faith, but 

650
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,400
you can still have faith in the 
wrong thing, right? 

651
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,120
You can say that you have faith 
in that chair that it's going to

652
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,320
hold you up. 
And you can even go over there 

653
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,720
and sit down in that chair. 
But I'm not talking about that 

654
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:15,880
chair. 
I'm talking about this one, 

655
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,840
right? 
And, and honestly that I mean, 

656
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,960
you, you have that with a lot of
different religions in the 

657
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,320
world, right? 
This is what the Catholic Church

658
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:27,560
says you have to do, believe in 
Jesus and do all the sacraments 

659
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,400
and be a good person and make 
sure you go to the priest and 

660
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,360
have your sins forgiven and make
sure that before you die you get

661
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,000
your last rites and all of those
things, and then you have a 

662
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,360
possibility of going into 
heaven. 

663
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,320
OK, well, I believe that. 
I believe it's going to hold me 

664
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,960
up and you sit in it, but you're
sitting in the wrong chair. 

665
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,160
This is the one that's actually 
going to take you to heaven 

666
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,840
because this is what the Bible 
says about how to get there. 

667
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,040
So you're believing in Jesus for
all of these things that you can

668
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,040
get out of him or all of these 
things that he can do for you 

669
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,600
when what you need is a savior 
from your sins. 

670
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,480
That's the Jesus that we need to
believe in. 

671
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,920
And there's a lot of Jesuses in 
the world today that people are 

672
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,360
believing in and believing on, 
but it's the wrong Jesus. 

673
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,600
And you know, the Mormons are, 
are a great example of that, 

674
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,280
right? 
It's a false gospel. 

675
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,640
It's a false Jesus. 
You know, you, you go into 

676
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,280
Mormonism and start reading 
through their religious 

677
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,680
documents, their, their Pearl of
great price, their Bible. 

678
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,880
And what you find out is that, 
you know, Jesus and Satan were 

679
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,440
brothers and, you know, they had
a conflict in heaven and Satan 

680
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,280
chose the wrong side and Jesus 
got the upper seat. 

681
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:40,040
And you know, he's going to be a
God someday with his own worlds.

682
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,960
And so can all of us. 
We can be God someday with our 

683
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,520
own worlds, and we're the 
brothers of Jesus and all of 

684
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,720
these other things. 
It's not the same Jesus that the

685
00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:50,880
Bible is telling us about. 
It's Jesus. 

686
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,280
And so when you talk to a 
Mormon, he's going to tell you 

687
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:58,280
that he believes in Jesus. 
And, and many of them have the 

688
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,400
greatest intentions and they 
think they're talking about the 

689
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,240
same Jesus. 
But if they would actually read 

690
00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:04,440
their own Bible, they would find
out that we're not talking about

691
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:08,560
the same Jesus at all. 
So you can believe on Jesus, but

692
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,120
you're believing on the wrong 
one. 

693
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,080
And you're believing in the 
wrong things to take you to 

694
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,600
heaven, right. 
You can't get to heaven in the 

695
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,720
Mormon church unless you have a 
temple recommend. 

696
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,200
How do you get a temple 
recommend? 

697
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,440
Well, you have to be in good 
standing with the Mormon church 

698
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:26,000
and you can go and you can get 
baptized for the dead people who

699
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,000
have been dead for 100 years. 
You can go in there and if you 

700
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,240
have a list to prove that you 
know who this person is and 

701
00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:34,800
they're in your family and 
everything else, you can go get 

702
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,560
baptized for them so that in the
afterlife, they might hopefully 

703
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:42,120
have a chance of getting to 
heaven at some point, right? 

704
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,440
And and people will go in and 
get baptized in the Mormon 

705
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:48,080
church in the temple 15 times 
for 15 different people who 

706
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,960
didn't believe in the Mormon 
Jesus and who didn't believe in 

707
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,680
the Mormon doctrine and died in 
their sin. 

708
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,760
And now you can get baptized for
them so they can have a chance 

709
00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,840
of getting out of hell and 
getting into heaven in the 

710
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,160
afterlife. 
That's not in the Bible. 

711
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:07,000
It's a different Jesus, right? 
So believe in him all you want, 

712
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,240
but you're believing in the 
wrong things. 

713
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:16,280
Your faith is misplaced, right? 
You can believe all you want to,

714
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,400
but if it's in the wrong thing, 
it doesn't do any good for you. 

715
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:24,800
What does the Bible say Not what
did some man make up not what 

716
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,600
did not? 
What does this church say you 

717
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,640
have to do not what does this 
man say you have to do? 

718
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,160
What does the Bible say? 
And if it doesn't say it in the 

719
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:34,880
Bible, then we should not be 
following it. 

720
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,720
So that's what happens. 
You can believe in vain by 

721
00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:40,920
believing the wrong things. 
Now you can be sincere and be 

722
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,560
sincerely wrong, right? 
I mean, you think, OK, let's, 

723
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,480
let's just take the stock market
for example, right? 

724
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,720
This stock is good is the next 
big thing. 

725
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,840
I'm putting all my money into 
it. 

726
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,360
That's how much I believe in 
this stock, right? 

727
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,800
And you put all your money into 
it and it tanks. 

728
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,720
You believed it sincerely and 
you proved it because you put 

729
00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:06,960
all of your money into that, 
into that stock. 

730
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,840
But just because you believed it
doesn't make it true, right? 

731
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,320
Just because you thought that 
that was going to happen and you

732
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:19,840
put all your faith in that 
stock, it's still tanked, right?

733
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,560
And the same thing is true. 
There's a lot of people out 

734
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:27,560
there in religions in the world 
today who are very sincere and 

735
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,080
who are trying to do everything 
they can to follow what that 

736
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,400
religion says they have to do. 
There are very sincere Catholics

737
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:38,520
out there in the world today who
are very religious people and 

738
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,640
who won't miss a single Mass and
who won't miss a single prayer 

739
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,800
of the rosary at night, and who 
won't miss a single opportunity 

740
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,080
to confess their sins and do 
everything right because they're

741
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,760
very, very, very sincere. 
They're going to find out when 

742
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,680
they get to heaven and stand 
before God that that wasn't 

743
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,160
God's way. 
That was some man's way. 

744
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,960
Something that man made-up, 
they're going to find out when 

745
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,040
they get there that even though 
they were very sincere, they 

746
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:10,120
were sincerely wrong and their 
faith was misplaced because it 

747
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:14,440
wasn't in the Jesus that the 
Bible tells us about. 

748
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,400
So how do you believe in vain? 
You can believe the wrong things

749
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,440
#2 you can believe in vain by 
believing without repentance. 

750
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,440
And we see that. 
In fact, let's just go to Luke 

751
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:34,600
chapter 13, Luke chapter 13, and
verse #3 verse 2. 

752
00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:38,240
Jesus answering, said unto them,
Suppose ye that these Galileans 

753
00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:40,520
were sinners above all the 
Galileans, because they suffered

754
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,720
such things? 
I tell you, nay, no, because, 

755
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:49,360
but except ye repent, ye shall 
all likewise perish. 

756
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,000
Let's go over to Acts chapter 
17. 

757
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:56,040
And again we don't. 
I'm not trying to hammer a point

758
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,080
that we've already talked about 
because these are all the same 

759
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,840
verses that we talked about when
we went to when we went through 

760
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,600
repentance. 
But Acts chapter 17 and verse 

761
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:05,120
#30 is one that we haven't 
looked at. 

762
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,240
And the times of this ignorance 
God winked at. 

763
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,320
In other words, God overlooked 
it, but now commandeth all men 

764
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:16,960
everywhere to repent. 
And this was this was Paul 

765
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,800
standing there and preaching to 
the Athenians, to those in 

766
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,200
Athens, Greece, on Mars Hill. 
And they were very sincere. 

767
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,080
They had they had monuments to 
all these gods. 

768
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:31,280
In fact, that just in case they 
missed one, they had a monument 

769
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,400
to the unknown God. 
And Paul said, who is that 

770
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,440
unknown God? 
He preached to them Jesus. 

771
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,000
And he said, listen, it's 
understandable because you don't

772
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,840
know the truth. 
But now that you know the truth,

773
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:48,000
God commands you to repent. 
The times of this ignorance you 

774
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,920
didn't know. 
God winked that, but now 

775
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,720
commandeth all men everywhere to
repent, because he hath 

776
00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:56,480
appointed a day in the which he 
will judge the world in 

777
00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:01,120
righteousness by that man whom 
he hath ordained, whereof he 

778
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,640
hath given assurance unto all 
men, in that he hath raised him 

779
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,640
from the dead. 
And then they had a choice. 

780
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,280
Are they going to accept it? 
Were they going to reject it? 

781
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,120
Well. 
And when they heard of the 

782
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,440
resurrection of the dead, some 
mocked and others said, we will 

783
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,280
hear thee again of this matter. 
Paul departed from among them. 

784
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,040
They had a choice after that. 
But very, very clearly, Paul 

785
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:28,360
said you need to repent. 
Belief without repentance is not

786
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,920
salvation. 
Repentance means to surrender to

787
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:32,920
God. 
Many want to believe in Jesus 

788
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,280
without surrendering their lives
to Him, but it's impossible to 

789
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,640
be saved without repentance. 
By the way, let's turn over to 

790
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,840
James Shepherd too. 
I think this is one of the one 

791
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:45,120
of the clearest examples that we
have that it's not just belief. 

792
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,080
I think this is a great argument
for those, and there's a lot of 

793
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,480
them out there nowadays that are
saying that that repentance is 

794
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,560
just a change from unbelief to 
belief. 

795
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,200
That's not repentance. 
Repentance is surrendering to 

796
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,600
God. 
Repentance is recognizing that I

797
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:07,000
am a Sinner and without Christ I
am going to spend an eternity in

798
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,600
hell. 
James chapter 2 and verse #19 

799
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,120
Thou believethest that there is 
one God. 

800
00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:17,520
Thou doest well. 
The devils also believe and 

801
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:22,440
tremble. 
But wilt thou know, O vain man, 

802
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,280
that faith without works is 
dead? 

803
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:31,440
The devils know that Jesus 
Christ is the Son of God. 

804
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,520
The devils know all of these 
things, and not just that they 

805
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:39,280
know it, they believe it. 
I believe he said there's one 

806
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,520
God, thou do as well. 
The devils also believe and they

807
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,160
tremble. 
They know that He exists, but 

808
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,760
they don't submit to Him. 
And many sinners are doing the 

809
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,840
exact same thing. 
They they acknowledge the 

810
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,840
existence of Jesus Christ. 
They acknowledge his death, his 

811
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,480
burial, his resurrection. 
They acknowledge those things, 

812
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,920
but they don't acknowledge him 
as the Savior from their sin. 

813
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,360
That's that's a lot of these 
people who are going and getting

814
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,160
baptized as their salvation 
experience. 

815
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:11,080
I went to church today for the 
first time in 10 years and I got

816
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:15,240
baptized. 
You're recognizing Jesus as 

817
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,800
somebody who died, buried, and 
was resurrected, but you are not

818
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,040
making Jesus Christ the Lord. 
You're not surrendering to Him 

819
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,200
if there's no repentance. 
And how The third way that you 

820
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,680
can believe in vain is by 
believing a false gospel or a 

821
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,320
false Christ. 
Second Corinthians. 

822
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:31,960
Let's turn over this one as the 
last one. 

823
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:37,520
Second Corinthians Chapter 11, 
2nd Corinthians Chapter 11 and 

824
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,520
verse #3 and four. 
And I kind of hit on this 

825
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:47,830
already, but I would have you 
know that the head of every man 

826
00:44:47,830 --> 00:44:50,590
is Christ, and the head of the 
woman is the man, and the head 

827
00:44:50,590 --> 00:44:54,070
of the Christ is God. 
Every man praying or prophesying

828
00:44:54,070 --> 00:44:57,960
had having his I'm sorry, that 
was like does not make sense. 

829
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,840
Second Corinthians does not make
sense with what I what we needed

830
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,800
to what we're talking about 
here. 

831
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,800
Second Corinthians Chapter 11 
verse 3 and 4. 

832
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:11,440
But I fear lest by any means as 
the serpent beguiled Eve through

833
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,760
his subtlety, so your mind 
should be corrupted from the 

834
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:19,560
simplicity that is in Christ. 
For if he that cometh preaches 

835
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:24,240
to another Jesus whom we have 
not preached, or if you receive 

836
00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:28,560
another spirit which you have 
not received, or another gospel 

837
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,720
which you have not accepted, ye 
might well bear with him. 

838
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,880
For I suppose I was not a whit 
behind the very chief of his 

839
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,920
apostles. 
And he continues on there. 

840
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:40,680
But basically what he's saying 
is, don't accept anybody. 

841
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,800
And he says, if I or an Angel 
from heaven come preach in 

842
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:47,800
another gospel, reject it, 
right. 

843
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:51,120
If that's not, I mean, if that 
is not the majority of religion 

844
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,360
in the world today. 
In fact, Mormonism very clearly 

845
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,120
says this is another testament, 
it's another gospel. 

846
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:01,040
I mean, if you don't need, if 
you need a stronger warning than

847
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:04,760
that against those that are 
coming and preaching another 

848
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,480
gospel, I don't know how you can
get any clearer than this. 

849
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:11,200
I don't know what other 
rejection of Mormonism you need 

850
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:12,760
other than something that says 
this. 

851
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,600
If somebody comes preaching 
another gospel, don't, don't 

852
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,360
accept it. 
It's not the truth. 

853
00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:20,400
And they say, oh, we got another
gospel. 

854
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,800
And everybody says, oh, another 
gospel, let's take that. 

855
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,600
All right, why would you do 
that? 

856
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,760
The Bible very clearly says 
don't, right? 

857
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:30,800
And they're coming and they're 
preaching another Jesus. 

858
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:32,920
And that's how that's how you 
know that there is another 

859
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,360
Jesus, right? 
Because the Bible says it. 

860
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:39,000
For if he that cometh preacheth 
another Jesus whom we have not 

861
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:43,200
preached, that means there are 
other Jesuses out there that are

862
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,680
being preached. 
If it's not the Jesus of the 

863
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:47,440
Bible, then we need to reject 
it. 

864
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,240
Many believe in a different 
gospel or a different Jesus than

865
00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:51,680
that which is revealed in 
Scripture. 

866
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,800
For example, they believe in a 
gospel of faith plus works or 

867
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,320
Jesus plus sacraments or Jesus 
that is not almighty God in the 

868
00:46:58,320 --> 00:46:59,720
flesh. 
And there's, there's a million 

869
00:46:59,720 --> 00:47:03,760
other things that people believe
that's not in the Bible. 

870
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,120
And that's why I say you want to
know the truth. 

871
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,240
Is it in the Bible? 
If it's in the Bible, it's the 

872
00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:12,000
truth. 
If it's not in the Bible, it's 

873
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,920
not the truth. 
I don't care who you are. 

874
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:16,400
I don't care who you claim to 
be. 

875
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,520
I don't care who you claim to 
talk to. 

876
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,720
If it's not in the Bible, we 
have everything we need from 

877
00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:25,600
God's Word. 
There are no new revelations 

878
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:27,680
today. 
Everything we need we've been 

879
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:32,080
given already. 
And he said the things that you 

880
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:33,840
find in this book, you better 
not add to it. 

881
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:38,000
Better not take away from it, or
you going to face the wrath of 

882
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,440
God. 
I think I'll just stick with 

883
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,360
what's here. 
We don't need anything else. 

884
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:49,480
So the gospel important, 
obviously it's the foundational 

885
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:53,200
element, repentance, faith, the 
gospel of Jesus Christ. 

886
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:58,160
Without that, everything else, 
everything else is just building

887
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,560
on a foundation of sand and you 
can know all of it's going to 

888
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:03,560
come crumbling down. 
You could be the best builder 

889
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,400
there is. 
You can build a beautiful, 

890
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,600
beautiful house. 
If it's built on sand, it's 

891
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:11,880
going to collapse, right? 
And that's what we, that's what 

892
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,400
most people are doing. 
They're building on sand because

893
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,600
they've never come to Christ in 
repentance and faith. 

894
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:21,680
They've never made Jesus Christ 
the Savior that they need 

895
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:26,600
because of their sin. 
And they put the sanctification 

896
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,840
in front of the justification. 
And you do all of these things 

897
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,880
that Christians do, but all of 
these things that Christians do 

898
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:37,560
are built on sand because this 
is the foundation, repentance, 

899
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,200
faith, the gospel of Jesus 
Christ. 

900
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:44,680
That's the foundation and 
without that you can build, you 

901
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,280
can put all these things 
together, but it's going to come

902
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,600
crashing down and it's going to 
be hollow. 

903
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,080
It's going to be empty because 
it's not built on the foundation

904
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,000
of Jesus Christ. 
So we're going to continue, 

905
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,080
we're going to continue talking 
about some more of these things 

906
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,000
and, and, and really some of 
these, even the next one, 

907
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:02,560
evidence of salvation, baptism 
after that, a lot of different 

908
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,000
things, eternal security. 
Those are all things that come 

909
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:10,120
after salvation, but until you 
until you know Christ as your 

910
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,800
Savior, until you have that 
foundation, then it doesn't 

911
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:14,120
matter what you build on top of 
it. 

912
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,920
You need that foundation first, 
then you can build and then it 

913
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:20,760
will be strong and then it's 
going to last. 

914
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,680
All right, we'll do some 
questions from that next week. 

915
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:29,720
And I know there's a lot of 
them, a lot of verses in there 

916
00:49:29,720 --> 00:49:32,080
as well, but a good study. 
Let's pray. 

917
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,160
Father, again, we thank you so 
much for your goodness to us. 

918
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,360
Thank you for the opportunity 
that we have to study through 

919
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:37,840
these things. 
I pray that it's a help to us. 

920
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:41,080
God, may you make us strong in 
understanding these things. 

921
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,880
May you make us strong and being
able to explain this to somebody

922
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:47,240
else from God's word. 
And God, if it's in the Bible, 

923
00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:48,800
may you help us to be strong on 
it. 

924
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,080
If it's not in the Bible, may 
you help us to reject it. 

925
00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:54,720
We thank you again for all you 
do for us in Jesus name, Amen.