1 00:00:07,650 --> 00:00:10,970 Hey man, look at your neighbor and tell them they look good. 2 00:00:13,170 --> 00:00:19,250 Look good. Only one additional thing that I 3 00:00:19,250 --> 00:00:22,610 want to tag in on with everything that Sister McGee 4 00:00:22,610 --> 00:00:25,450 mentioned because this is an important day. 5 00:00:25,450 --> 00:00:29,130 If you plan on going to the Indiana District camp meeting 6 00:00:29,410 --> 00:00:32,490 that the registration will be April the 28th, that is a 7 00:00:32,490 --> 00:00:34,800 Monday. And so if you have plans of 8 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,120 going, listen, you can't be him hauling around, you can't be 9 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:39,560 thinking about whether you're going to be going. 10 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,760 You have to know by that date because registration last year 11 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:48,120 within was it minutes within 8 minutes was full, all right. 12 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,560 And so it's it's a it's a fast going deal. 13 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,160 Yes, we have for years been even looking into other places 14 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,440 because it does fill up and I think even the facilities there 15 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,320 they've tried to look even for areas that could they could 16 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:05,360 expand and such. So it's not something to be 17 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,080 scratching your head on. You got to be there when it 18 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,080 opens and be very diligent, be very diligent. 19 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,920 Amen. So otherwise, you might find 20 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:16,800 yourself in a hotel or, you know, a tent, a TP, you know, 21 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,160 something like that. But nonetheless, all right, if 22 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:21,920 you'll stand with me this morning, we're going to turn to 23 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:28,400 1st Corinthians chapter #1. First Corinthians chapter #1 And 24 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,840 I'm going to read verses 22 through 24, and a couple weeks 25 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,400 ago I just kind of got on this Revelation business, and I'm 26 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:39,280 just still in it, OK? And so this is kind of really 27 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,560 tying in still yet, in my estimation, with the past couple 28 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,400 of Sunday mornings. So First Corinthians chapter #1 29 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:52,160 and verses 22 and 24, Sister McGee mentioned said this next 30 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:55,720 Sunday that one service, what I'm trying to do is I learned 31 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,960 that Doctor Graham was going to come and be in service with us 32 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:00,720 too. So I'm trying to squeeze two 33 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,600 people on a Sunday morning. Doctor Graham's a licensed 34 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:05,600 therapist and such. And so he's a great person. 35 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,160 He's a little younger than me and so he's got his doctorate in 36 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,880 that. So he's, he's a great person and 37 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,160 he has quite a story himself. But anyway, we'll see what 38 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:17,360 happens. I'm trying to twist his arm and 39 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,760 such. So we'll see if I'm I'm, you 40 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,880 know, successful chapter one, verse 22, the first Corinthians, 41 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:29,520 the Bible says for the Jews require a sign and the Greek 42 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,440 seek after wisdom. But we preach Christ crucified 43 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,960 to the Jews, a stumbling block into the Greeks foolishness. 44 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:44,960 But to them, which are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ, 45 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:50,720 the power of God and the wisdom of God, they said we preach 46 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:55,520 Christ, which would have been the Old Testament Testament word 47 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,720 for the Old Testament Messiah. We've been talking about, you 48 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:03,640 know, the revelation of Jesus the Messiah and such that they 49 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:07,640 would crucify, they preach their Messiah crucified. 50 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,240 All right. And so I'm going to talk to us 51 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,080 today then this, the revelation of Christ crucified. 52 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,960 The revelation of Christ crucified. 53 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,600 Let's pray together. Lord, we're thankful again 54 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:24,120 today, Lord, that we can come together, we can worship. 55 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:25,760 We're thankful, Lord, for your spirit. 56 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,120 We're thankful, Lord, for what you've already done individually 57 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,640 for some God setting in the service today. 58 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,200 I pray, O Lord, you would anoint our hearts and our minds, God, 59 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,920 that we would, Lord lend them to you Jesus, and that your perfect 60 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,680 will would be done through and by your word. 61 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,880 It's a living word. And I pray God, let Jesus be 62 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,720 carried about in our lives. In the name of Jesus I pray 63 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,200 Amen, Amen. The church say Amen, Amen. 64 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,000 You may be seated this morning the revelation of Christ 65 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,960 crucified and again so I deeply to believe that this ties in 66 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:03,080 into the past couple of Sunday of mornings of the revelation of 67 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,760 God in in Christ Jesus and the revelation of Jesus the Messiah. 68 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,280 But now the the Jews and the Greeks for that matter, the 69 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,000 people of the 1st century with all these things that they are 70 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,640 learning. If they if they did indeed see 71 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:22,079 Christ as their Messiah, which there were plenty indicators to 72 00:04:22,079 --> 00:04:25,520 indicate that and to force cast that for them. 73 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:30,280 Now they're having to rectify or reconcile this concept that 74 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:35,280 Christ, their Messiah, the Anointed 1 was crucified or even 75 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:38,480 prior to would be crucified as a matter of fact. 76 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:40,600 And we looked at this in some of the previous weeks. 77 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,920 So this is where it kind of tongues and grooves a little 78 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,000 bit. But many occasions in the Old 79 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,400 Testament, God's calling card to his people with signs and 80 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:55,360 miracles and wonders. He even told them, as we saw in 81 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,680 Isaiah in previous weeks, he had told them that you'll know. 82 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:02,760 You'll know that your God had come by the lame week, the 83 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,360 leaping and the the those that were mute being able to speak 84 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:11,320 and the the blind being able to see and the deaf ears being 85 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,000 unstopped. All of those signs that we 86 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:18,560 looked at in previous weeks were evidences that the life and the 87 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,160 ministry of Christ Jesus, those were in his life and ministry 88 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:26,080 that was indicating that that either God was with him or he 89 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,160 was God. He was God. 90 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:33,040 And so even Jesus attested to the fact that their belief that 91 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:38,320 God was in him could be substantiated by the very works 92 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,560 such like some of those wonders and signs and miracles that he 93 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,200 did. Look, if you will, and I got a 94 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,880 lot, I have many verses and passages here today, but in John 95 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:52,200 chapter #14 and verse 10, Jesus is speaking and says he says 96 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,520 believe it's not, but I am. I am in the Father. 97 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,520 This is his reply to Philip. As a matter of fact, Philip has 98 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,400 said Jesus show us the Father and it suffices this and this is 99 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,960 his response back. He said believe it's thou not 100 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:09,520 that I am in the Father and the Father in me the words that I 101 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,880 speak into you. I speak not of myself, but the 102 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:17,280 father that dwelleth in me. He doeth the works. 103 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:22,080 Verse 11 Believe me that I am in the father and the father in me 104 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,800 or else believe me for the very work's sake. 105 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,200 Again, he's underscored with the Fred these miracles and he signs 106 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,160 and these wonders, these things that were happened during his 107 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,560 earthly ministry through and by his hand and he was basically 108 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,480 letting them know these these are the means by which God. 109 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,680 If you'll remember what Peter preached on that day of 110 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,560 Pentecost. He said that he had approved or 111 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:50,640 authenticated a man Jesus Christ by these signs and these works 112 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,880 and these wonders and Jesus is just under score that if you 113 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,520 believe me for no other reason than just believe that the 114 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,600 Father is in me and I am him just for the very works sake 115 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,000 that's taking place right now in my ministry. 116 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:09,320 And so they they should have, they should have seen God in 117 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:14,680 Christ through what Jesus was doing in his earthly ministry. 118 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,160 I mean, this is what the Jews were looking for. 119 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:22,120 That's what our text even says. The Jews require a sign, the 120 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:25,200 Jews require a sign. And so this is what they are 121 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,840 looking for. And many of them in the New 122 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,160 Testament Scripture did, many of them grasped the hold of that 123 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:36,040 idea that this was indeed him. But there were also Lord others 124 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:40,480 that that were unsure because they they seen in the Scripture 125 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:46,000 that this Christ is leading to a Golgotha's hill, a Calvary. 126 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,560 And so whenever they begin to think that this could be, this 127 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,480 is our Messiah, but then they see the same man then going to a 128 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:57,920 tree and hanging on something that was just considered a, a 129 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:01,200 curse and it was dishonorable and all these type of things, 130 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:05,200 they're worn within themselves because the crucifix seemed to 131 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,760 fail them in the respect that how can this be our Messiah? 132 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,760 How can this be a person of authoritative rule and can set 133 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,240 off things right whenever he's going to be hanging on a tree. 134 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,520 So they were bewildered by all of this. 135 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:20,920 And as a result of that, the Bible says that many of them 136 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:25,040 mocked him, right? Because mark it down folks, many 137 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:30,920 people mock stuff they don't understand, mock stuff they do 138 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,799 not understand. And so because they did not 139 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:37,120 understand, as we seen last week in the book of Daniel, they 140 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,120 didn't understand this 5th king and this 5th Kingdom that Daniel 141 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,880 spoke about that would come and destroy all the previous 142 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:49,200 kingdoms and be that stone that's that's taken without 143 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,840 hands and hit the bottom of that image, destroy every other 144 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,440 Kingdom and increase into this grand mountain. 145 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,600 And they could not understand Christ being that stone and then 146 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,800 also happen to be the one that's hanging on a Roman cross. 147 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,080 It didn't make sense to them. How in the world could their 148 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:11,360 quote UN quote stone or king be strong between heaven and earth? 149 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:15,120 This can't be our expected king. This can't be our expected 150 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:19,880 Savior, our expected Savior, because despite all the other 151 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,200 indicators we have of what happened through his hand and 152 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,440 through his life and his ministry, we can't get past the 153 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,800 fact that we would have a crucified Savior. 154 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:37,440 Jesus said in John 12. These words he said, and I, if I 155 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:42,720 be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. 156 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:47,720 This he said, John tells us signifying what death he should 157 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,920 die. Verse 34 The people answered 158 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:56,160 him, We have heard out of the law that Christ or Messiah 159 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,680 abideth forever. How sayest thou? 160 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,760 The Son of Man must be lifted up. 161 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:09,840 Who is this Son of man? So John informs us what Jesus is 162 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,600 talking about right here. His speech about being lifted up 163 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,880 was terminology for that day that was common, that indicated 164 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:21,600 a death by crucifix that was common for them that day. 165 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,840 And so John just lets us know when Jesus is saying this, he's 166 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,560 really signifying by what death that he should die. 167 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:33,200 But the people are having a hard time reasoning out Jesus's words 168 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:37,680 if he indeed was the Messiah. They said we thought for the way 169 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:41,680 that we understood the law that Christ or the Messiah, he would 170 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:46,200 live or he would be a forever Messiah, a forever Christ. 171 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:49,120 As a matter of fact, there's things in the Old Testament, in 172 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:53,040 the book of Psalms that the Bible speaks of him being a 173 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:55,960 priest forever, a priest forever. 174 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:00,240 Even in Daniel two we saw last week, it described His Kingdom 175 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:04,200 and kingship, that it would be a Kingdom that would never be 176 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,840 destroyed. It spoke of his dominion as an 177 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:14,080 everlasting dominion that shall not pass away. 178 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,640 And so they look at all of this and please know as they're 179 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,520 talking about Christ in verse 34 of John on 12, they're equating 180 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,640 him now with the Son of man. How sayest thou the son of man 181 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:28,440 must be lifted up. They're equating Christ Jesus 182 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:32,680 with this son of man. They said if these things be and 183 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:36,440 the son of man be lifted up crucified, then who in the world 184 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,440 really is he? I know we along the way started 185 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:43,440 identify you as that, but but who is he really if this is 186 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,720 going to happen? Remember, Remember from last 187 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,640 week, Jesus all the times referring to himself as the Son 188 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:50,440 of Man. He's speaking and the third 189 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,040 person, he says the Son of Man does this, the Son of Man does 190 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,320 that, Amen. He speaks to himself though, 191 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,960 about himself as being the Son of man. 192 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:02,040 But they're questioning if Messiah is going to last 193 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:07,160 forever, have a forever Kingdom, never be destroyed, how can he 194 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:12,800 be crucified? How can, as Daniel said, he be 195 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,440 cut off from the earth and not for himself? 196 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,880 How he can be forever and be terminated at the same time? 197 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:26,360 Someone say, man, can I remind you this morning, just real 198 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:34,000 quickly that not only is Jesus the Messiah, but he is also the 199 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,040 divine. He's God. 200 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:44,080 And so when Jesus died out Calvary, none of God died. 201 00:12:46,680 --> 00:12:54,040 What came from the womb was laid in the tomb, but God was still 202 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:58,640 ruling supreme. Hey man, that which moved up on 203 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,480 the face of the waters in the beginning, the book of Genesis, 204 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,800 the Spirit of God that moved up on the face of the waters at the 205 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:09,360 very beginning had no beginning and it has no ending. 206 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:14,440 Jesus Christ in his flesh as a man had a Bethlehem's Manger, a 207 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:19,080 start, and he had a Calvary, a finish in his earthly life. 208 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,520 But God knows no beginning of days, no ending of days. 209 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,760 He is a spirit. He's as we looked at the I am 210 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:32,400 the self resistant one always present hangman of all times and 211 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,480 tenses. The Bible says in Matthew 27 and 212 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:40,000 verse 39 and they that passed by this is Jesus hanging on the 213 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,160 cross here it's describing the scene and they that pass by 214 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:49,920 reviled him wagging their heads verse 40 and saying thou that 215 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:54,160 destroy us the temple and build us it in three days. 216 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:59,080 Save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come 217 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:03,840 down from the cross. Likewise also the chief priest 218 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:09,080 mocking him with the scribes and elders said he saved others 219 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,680 himself. He cannot save if he be the King 220 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:16,440 of Israel. Let him now come down from the 221 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:21,640 cross and we will believe him. So we have people passing by the 222 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,400 Lord as he's hanging there up on the cross. 223 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,040 Many of them and probably most of them are probably Jewish. 224 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,000 Calvary golf is just outside of Jerusalem. 225 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,600 As a matter of fact, the fact that they bring up the whole 226 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:37,120 temple, three days, you'll raise it up thing even indicates more 227 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,120 that they're probably Jewish people. 228 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,880 For that matter, we know with the surety that in verse 41, the 229 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,560 chief priests, the scribes, and the elders, all these are Jewish 230 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:50,480 people, and yet here they are in essence, while he's hanging on 231 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:54,960 the tree, just as our text said, the Jews are requiring a sign. 232 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,200 If you are the Son of God, if you are this great one that you 233 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,400 say you are, come down from the cross. 234 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,440 Let that be our sign. Come down from the cross. 235 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,920 Get off of there. You saved a bunch of other 236 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:08,120 people. You prove that through your 237 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,600 earthly ministry. But if you are who you say you 238 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:14,440 are, then give us this sign. Come down off the cross. 239 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,880 Save yourself. Let that be your proof of your 240 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:21,720 identity. 10 They cannot rationalize everything that's 241 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:26,760 taking place right now with the supposed Messiah hanging on a 242 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:28,280 tree. They believed him to be the 243 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,160 Messiah, but now he's hanging on Calvary. 244 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:35,640 And so that is casting a very, very big shadow over everything 245 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,880 that they have believed in, causing doubt to enter their 246 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,800 hearts and minds. Even arguably look at the chief 247 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,600 priests. You look at it in Scripture, 248 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,520 we'll look at it in John 19. The chief priests were even 249 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:51,240 somewhat embarrassed to have the title that was upon the cross, 250 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,400 Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews. 251 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,440 They're they're they're embarrassed over this because 252 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,600 they pictured something different concerning their king. 253 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,560 They pictured something different concerning someone 254 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,000 that would have authority to rule and bring all things into 255 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,280 being that would sing John 19 verse 21 then said the chief 256 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,600 priests of the Jews to Pilate. They said, right, not the king 257 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,720 of the Jews, but that he said I am the king of the Jews. 258 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:20,840 Pilate answered what's been written been written. 259 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,000 He he already had it attached to the tree it was written in in 260 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,280 Greek and Hebrew and Latin for all to see. 261 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:29,280 They said don't, don't say that he was say that he said that he 262 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:31,160 was because they're a little embarrassed. 263 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,440 How can we have a Messiah affixed to a tree? 264 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,360 How can our King be affixed to a tree? 265 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:42,840 Again, the Jews are requiring a sign and they had been given 1 266 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,320 and it would soon be carried out in the life of the Lord Jesus 267 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,520 Christ in his death. If you remember, if you'll 268 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:52,840 listen to Jesus words, Amen to the scribes and the Pharisees. 269 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,320 He said this in Matthew 1238 and we'll read verse 39. 270 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:00,120 But the Pharisees and scribes come questioning Jesus and they 271 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:04,319 even say, master, we would see a sign from thee. 272 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:08,520 And he says in verse 39, But he answered and send to them an 273 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:12,240 evil and an adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, 274 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:16,640 he said, but there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of 275 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:20,920 the prophet Jonas or Jonah. For as Jonas was 3 days and 276 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:24,920 three nights in the well's belly, so shall the son of man, 277 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,960 a man that be 3 days and three nights in the heart of the 278 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:30,400 earth. We might be able to talk about 279 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,080 that maybe more in some other week or week to come. 280 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:38,080 But The thing is this, that if this this sign of three days and 281 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:42,600 three nights in the earth was the sign, then the crucifix of 282 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:47,880 Jesus was just preparation for the unveiling of the true sign 283 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:54,320 for the Jews about who he was. So they want something powerful. 284 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:59,160 They want a sign. And yet Paul says in our text 285 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:03,880 that the preaching of Christ crucified was powerful. 286 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,200 He says it seems like foolishness to them that believe 287 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:13,040 not it seems like foolishness to those that have no sort of 288 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:16,960 relationship with the Lord, He said but to the called, whether 289 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:20,720 they're a Jew person that's been called or a Greek individual 290 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:24,360 that's been called, He says it is powerful. 291 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:28,600 He spoke even in Romans that the gospel of Christ which includes 292 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:34,560 his crucifix, that that's the power of God unto salvation to 293 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:38,040 the Jew 1st and also to the Greek. 294 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:42,880 And so in the modern 1st century world and all the population of 295 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:46,920 that world, they knew Galatians that said cursed is everyone 296 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:51,760 that hangeth on a tree and Christ to the Jew. 297 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:56,280 Paul even said it's a stumbling Christ crucified is a stumbling 298 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:01,680 block to the Jew. It's foolishness to the Greeks. 299 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,560 As a matter of fact, the 2 words that's used for stumbling block 300 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,680 and foolishness is where we get our English words today. 301 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:11,200 Scandal and moron. He's saying it's scandalous. 302 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,280 The fact that Christ being crucified, that's scandalous to 303 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,520 the Jews. It's moronic, if you will. 304 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,200 Amen to the Greek. It just does not make sense. 305 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:23,000 As a matter of fact, when we see the Christ went to the cross, we 306 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,240 talked about this a little bit some previous weeks. 307 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,240 It wasn't like some accusation necessarily that they pinned on 308 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,240 him or even what they were trying to bear false witness 309 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,240 against him that put him on the tree. 310 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:38,760 Ultimately in Scripture, Christ was crucified for his identity. 311 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,120 He was crucified. They charged him with blasphemy, 312 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,440 claiming something that he was not when it was really who he 313 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,000 really was. He meant it wasn't that he 314 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,280 claimed to be the Messiah or that he claimed to be divine. 315 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,200 He was the Messiah and he was divine. 316 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:59,480 The Bible says in Mark chapter 14 and verse 61, but he held his 317 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,440 peace. This is speaking about Jesus. 318 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,800 He's on trial. He held his peace and answered 319 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,960 nothing. They're they're bringing false 320 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,640 accusations against him about this and that what he has said 321 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,760 he says nothing but again the high priest asked him and said 322 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:20,080 just quite point blank, art thou the Christ art thou the Christ 323 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:23,760 are are you the Messiah, the son of the blessed and verse 62 324 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:27,680 tells us Jesus response, I am but Jesus. 325 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:32,640 He has to just go on, don't he? He doesn't just admit, yeah, I 326 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:34,440 am the Christ. But he goes on and says, and ye 327 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:38,320 shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power and 328 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,680 coming in the clouds of heavens. Are you the Christ? 329 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,120 He's like I am. But also let me tell you 330 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:48,200 something else. I'm the Son of man sitting on 331 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:52,800 the right hand that that might not mean much to you, but most 332 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:57,480 scholars of that day for sure tell us this, that being seated 333 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,680 spoken of as being seated on the right hand of God implies being 334 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,520 equal with God. So Jesus wasn't just saying, 335 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:10,600 yes, I'm the Messiah. He was saying I'm God, I'm God. 336 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,760 And then he has to throw in there this this symbolism about 337 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,680 coming with the clouds. Well, folks, whenever you read 338 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,560 all throughout the Old Testament, it seems as though 339 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:24,080 most of the time only God is the one that's described about 340 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:27,600 clouds about him or coming with the clouds. 341 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,240 The Bible tells us that whenever God came down on the mount to 342 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,640 speak minister, even with the nation of Israel, he was 343 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:40,240 encircled by clouds. In the book of Job, Elias made 344 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:45,200 mention and said thick clouds are a covering unto God. 345 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:50,000 The psalmist said that clouds and darkness are round about 346 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,400 him. It even said that he maketh the 347 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,080 clouds his Chariots. He maketh the clouds his 348 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,440 Chariots. Nahum said it like this. 349 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,680 The clouds are the dust of his feet. 350 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,480 All of the symbolism always has the Lord coming with the clouds, 351 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,960 clouds around him, about him, the dust of his feet, his 352 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,920 Chariots. Lucifer even understood this 353 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,040 when we read of his fall in the book of Isaiah. 354 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,960 He said one of the things that Lucifer Lucifer said was this I 355 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:23,960 will send above the heights of the clouds, Amen. 356 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,360 He he was endeavoring to rise above God. 357 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:31,240 So whenever the 1st century Jew is hearing Jesus Christ say 358 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,160 Amen, that he's the Son of man that's sitting on the right 359 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,320 hand, what's indicating he's God, but also saying that he's 360 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,520 coming with the clouds. All of their Old Testament 361 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,640 scriptures come into their mind. The only person we ever remember 362 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,760 coming with the clouds is God. And clouds were under under his 363 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,800 feet, clouds his Chariots. But this man is talking about 364 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:54,040 coming with the clouds. He is making a claim to be God 365 00:22:54,040 --> 00:23:01,160 all by himself. He has become Emmanuel, God with 366 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:07,040 us. They saw this as such so much so 367 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:11,960 that in Mark 14 and verse 63 then the high priest rent his 368 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,360 clothes and say of what need we any further witness? 369 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:21,240 This is the Bible. You have heard the blasphemy see 370 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,360 this is what he says. You've heard the blasphemy. 371 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,920 He's claiming to be God. What think he and they all 372 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,560 condemned him to be guilty of death. 373 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:39,880 Now, some of those that are here are familiar with the Lord 374 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:45,640 having said previously destroy this temple in three days, I'll 375 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,200 raise it up. There were some even bare false 376 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,680 witnessing against the Lord using those words, kind of 377 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:56,440 twisting them some in the scripture about really what he 378 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,200 said, misconstruing them. And it was brought up. 379 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,400 Then even again, not just at his trial, but whenever he was 380 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,600 hanging on the cross. Those that went by and we're 381 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,680 reviling, we're talking about you said three days destroy, and 382 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,000 then you'll raise this up. But let's look at the 383 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,560 accountant, John. John chapter #2 and verse 18 384 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:22,600 then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign showest 385 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,000 thou? Here we go again looking for 386 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,360 that sign. What sign showest thou unto us? 387 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,840 Seeing that thou doest these things, let me explain what has 388 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,560 just happened. Jesus went to the temple, He's 389 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,320 cleansed it because of the money changers in the temple. 390 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,080 Remember the flipping of the tables and the driving out all 391 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,400 of the sacrifices that were there. 392 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,360 So he's just done all this and they're saying, what sign shows 393 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:48,680 down to us seeing that you've just done these things? 394 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,640 Jesus answered and said unto them, there he goes to destroy 395 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,800 this temple and then three days I will raise it up. 396 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:04,160 Then said the Jews 40 and six years was this temple in 397 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:09,040 building, Wilt thou rear it up in three days? 398 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:14,160 And John gives us important information, but he spake 399 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaking of Jesus, Jesus spake of the temple of his body. 400 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:22,680 He's saying whatever he was saying destroyed the temple. 401 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:27,000 He wasn't talking to them about their literal temple, but he was 402 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,920 identifying as though he was the temple. 403 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,960 He was the temple. I want to slow down just here 404 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:39,200 for a moment, because all of this that takes place concerning 405 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:43,080 the crucifix of our Lord, it happens in tandem with the feast 406 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:47,240 of Passover when there's all these lambs that are going to be 407 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,560 slain and blood's going to be shed, just as was prescribed in 408 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,680 the book of Exodus for the Passover feast. 409 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,880 There's going to be all kinds of people visiting the temple, 410 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,920 right? And so Jesus, he's turning over 411 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,880 these money changer tables during this time that's leading 412 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,840 up to and close to Passover. People are trying to take 413 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,840 advantage of others that are trying to purchase lambs, and 414 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,240 the prices are higher than what they should be. 415 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,040 And all these things are taking place. 416 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,760 And so he drove them all out. And so the Jews are wondering 417 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,920 what, what credentials do you have? 418 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,040 What authority do you have to do what you just did? 419 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:30,080 What sign can you show us? And the only thing Jesus can say 420 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:34,160 is destroy the temple. And in three days I'll raise it 421 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,680 up, which is very similar to the sign he told them about. 422 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,320 There's no sign going to be giving you except the sign of 423 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,120 Jonas about 3 days and three nights. 424 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:45,440 He was in the heart of the earth. 425 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:53,000 But the the apostle John gives us more insight because Jesus 426 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:58,920 was telling them again about himself being the temple. 427 00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:02,960 He was identifying as the temple. 428 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:08,800 And that's bold because for someone of that day, the temple 429 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:14,800 was the dwelling place of God. The temple was the dwelling 430 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,040 place of God. Even the Old Testament, the 431 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,240 Tabernacle in the wilderness that the Lord wanted Moses to 432 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,240 construct, he said, make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among 433 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,320 you. That's what he told him in 434 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,360 Exodus. So the temple was the dwelling 435 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:31,160 place of God. And yet here John says the Lord 436 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:37,320 is saying, I'm the temple if I can, I'm the dwelling place of 437 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,520 God. So let's look at it here. 438 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:45,320 The only thing that can be greater than the temple, God's 439 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,880 dwelling place, is God to be manifest in the flesh. 440 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,280 Because there's other places in Scripture like Matthew 12 that 441 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,640 Jesus goes around and he's even speaking. 442 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:02,560 He says that in this place is 1 greater than the temple. 443 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:09,280 Again, speaking about himself, trying to identify as the 444 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,520 temple. Think back with me just for a 445 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,040 moment, to Mount Calvary. Think back to me at that place 446 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,520 in the fulfillment of Scripture. The Bible tells us not one bone 447 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,840 of Jesus's body was broken. We read of that in Psalms. 448 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,760 John recalls it in John 19 as well. 449 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,880 Not one, not one bone of Jesus's body was broken. 450 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,640 He along with a thief on each side hanging on the tree. 451 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,280 Amen. The Sabbath was coming. 452 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:35,960 The body is going to have to be brought down. 453 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:38,800 They send out some soldiers there to check to see who's 454 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,240 still alive and who's dead, because if they're still living, 455 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,160 they're going to break their legs for the purpose that they 456 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,600 could hasten their death. They needed to get them in a 457 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,880 tomb. But when they go out there to 458 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,840 check, Amen, they break the legs, at least from what we can 459 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,200 assume of the two thieves. But whenever they come to the 460 00:28:55,200 --> 00:29:00,280 Lord, he is already dead. He has already expired. 461 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:05,360 But to ensure that he was indeed dead, the Bible tells us that a 462 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,080 Roman soldier pierced his side with a spear. 463 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,400 This is what the Bible says in John 1933. 464 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,240 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already, 465 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:20,360 they break not his legs, but one of the soldiers with a spear 466 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:26,080 pierced his side, and forth with came they're out blood and 467 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,320 water. And he that solid John Speaking 468 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,760 of himself, their record that his record is true. 469 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:37,320 And he knoweth, he say knoweth that he sayeth true that he 470 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,840 might believe. This seems interesting. 471 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:44,000 Why is John kind of go over the top here about, hey, I just want 472 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,120 you to know about this blood and water coming out the side. 473 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,800 I'm telling you it was true. I'm giving record that it was 474 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,360 true. I want you to know it was true. 475 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,680 Why is John trying to validate what's happening this truth so 476 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,560 much? I'm going to tell you this 477 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,760 morning that through that act of blood and water really coming 478 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:04,720 from Jesus's side really did reveal that Jesus was as he had 479 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:10,160 already spoken the truth temple, the dwelling place of God that 480 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:14,440 he really was God in Christ Jesus. 481 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,440 They want to say Amen. Anybody doing all right because 482 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,040 when we talk about all the crucifixes of these Passover 483 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:26,320 lambs, folks, we're talking about hundreds of thousands of 484 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:30,600 lambs being sacrificed Tracy, you know, just being around 485 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,840 farm. Just think about hundreds of 486 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:37,480 thousands of the, the quantity of blood that's in the lamb, 487 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,640 hundreds of thousands of that spilling to the ground and going 488 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,360 right. That's a lot. 489 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,080 I don't know if you've ever smelled blood in excess 490 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:51,120 portions, but sometimes even has a smell that's taking place 491 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,520 according to the ancient Jews and their their traditions, 492 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,760 what's called the mission. And Sister Lane probably knows 493 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:00,760 what I'm talking about because her brother probably talks about 494 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:05,680 it all the time in that day whenever there's the shedding of 495 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,960 the blood of the lambs. And they're having all these 496 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,520 sacrifices that are taking place against hundreds of thousands 497 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,360 during this time because Jerusalem has this influx of 498 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,760 people, right? Everybody, it was, it was one of 499 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,160 the feasts of Passover was mandatory for them to come and 500 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,000 for them to offer their sacrifices. 501 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,040 So we have a great influx of people. 502 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,720 There's so many sacrifices. It tells us that the blood of 503 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,960 the sacrifices was poured out in the drain that flowed out of the 504 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:38,960 temple that mixed with a water channel that eventually flowed 505 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,520 into the brook Kedron. The means Bishop is this. 506 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,360 If one was approaching the temple proper during Passover, 507 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,040 what they would see coming out the temple going down to the 508 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:55,240 brook Kedron would be a mixture of blood, water, and whenever 509 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,800 Christ was crucified, the spear through the side with blood and 510 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:04,280 water coming out. Having already claimed that I'm 511 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,520 that temple, destroy it three days. 512 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:12,960 Every Jew would know in a moment he's claiming to be the temple. 513 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:21,720 He's he's claiming to be the very dwelling place of God, the 514 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,520 very dwelling place of God because there's blood and water 515 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:31,200 coming out the side. John just makes the note because 516 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:36,760 he doesn't want anybody to miss it and he doesn't want anybody 517 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:43,240 to doubt it that Christ was this incomparable dwelling place of 518 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,680 God, and as blood and water flowed from the literal temple, 519 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,840 blood and water would flow from his side. 520 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:54,760 Truly, a greater than the temple was here. 521 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,240 Amen. This crucifix was more than just 522 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,640 another bloody execution. It was a revelation. 523 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:06,520 Come on. Oh yes, it was a revelation that 524 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,320 this Christ that they seen do miracles, signs and wonders that 525 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:15,320 yes, indeed, he could be forever and yet appear to have a, a, a 526 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,080 termination. He, he for sure could open up 527 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,480 blind eyes and seem to have to suffer by the hands of cruel 528 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,280 men. And we're not getting to it this 529 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:27,360 week, but he'll be known three days later that he can both if 530 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,960 you will be forever and also have a time of death. 531 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,080 Some would say, Amen, folks. This is just good old 532 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,080 Resurrection Sunday stuff. This is just good old Easter 533 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,040 stuff. Amen of the season that we're 534 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,760 coming into. It made them understand that 535 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,480 they didn't have to hang their heads. 536 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,000 They didn't have to weave, but they didn't have to throw up 537 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,320 their hands and say, well, we thought it was it, but it didn't 538 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,560 come. No, no, no, he had come. 539 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,640 He was there. He was powerful enough to 540 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,000 restrain himself to a tree when he could have got off of it if 541 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,800 he wanted to. That's the greatest power in 542 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,920 restraint. He could have called a legion of 543 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,920 angels if he wanted to, to come and get him off the tree. 544 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,840 But if you want to see power, you see someone that says I'm 545 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,920 going to choose to die so somebody else can live. 546 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:19,040 You want to see? Well, yes, I know some are 547 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,800 wagging their head. Boy, that's weakness. 548 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,159 Look at that. Come down. 549 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:25,400 If you're really who you say you are, you saved others save 550 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,800 yourself. No, he said, because if I save 551 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,520 myself, you'll go unsaved. I got to stay right where I am 552 00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:40,080 so that you'll be saved. Oh yes, it is the revelation of 553 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,159 Christ crucified. It was more than just him being 554 00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:46,280 the Messiah, but was Him being their God. 555 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,600 Amen. You stay with me this morning. 556 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,200 But the 1st century people have trouble reconciling this, and 557 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:03,200 some of them did indeed miss it. A Messiah crucified. 558 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,240 Yeah. I hate to tell you, but that was 559 00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:10,440 God's forever plan. We looked at last week's sister 560 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,360 Jessica. That Messiah would be cut off. 561 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,520 That was God's forever plan. They had trouble reconciling 562 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,400 that. Why? 563 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,240 Because in most instances, when a man's put in the grave, he's 564 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:28,400 there to stay. And that happens. 565 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,600 It's said and done. It's over and out. 566 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,800 But today we know when we hold true that the cross that we have 567 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,960 in our minds, it's not there for a symbol of defeat. 568 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,960 It's there for a symbol of divine power. 569 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,560 It's the preaching of Christ crucified. 570 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,720 That's a powerful message, scandalous to the Jews and 571 00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:49,680 foolishness to the Greeks, but it's eternal victory. 572 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,200 The fact is, many still yet today in our modern world 573 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,480 struggle with the fact of a crucified savior. 574 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,520 But the message of salvation is still the same. 575 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,440 And if you're one of those, you say, Brother McGee, I'm waiting 576 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,480 for the sign. If you're waiting for the sign, 577 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,520 let me point you to Calvary. It's already happened. 578 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,480 The signs already happened. You don't need something new or 579 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,120 something inventive to somehow persuade you now. 580 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,120 No, we've already been given all the signs that we need. 581 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,600 Hey, man, I mean him with blood and water just coming out with 582 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,080 that itself a sign. 3 days and three nights in the earth, 583 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,200 that's itself as a sign. The miracle signs and wonders 584 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,200 that he did that itself as a sign. 585 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,120 Never a man spake like this, man. 586 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:39,600 I mean, it's all around you. Use the Christ, use this 587 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,800 Messiah. He is the living God. 588 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:49,640 He has the keys to death. He has keys to the grave so that 589 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,240 we can stand and go to things like we did yesterday with 590 00:36:53,240 --> 00:36:56,240 funerals and such and grave sides and say, oh, death, where 591 00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:02,000 is your sting? Oh grave, where is your victory? 592 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:10,920 Because of the crucified Christ, His resurrection enables every 593 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,760 other resurrection that'll ever take place. 594 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,920 I think it's First Corinthians 15 that speaks that they have 595 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:17,880 all. It's a long chapter, all 596 00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,800 concerning the crucifixion and mainly though, the resurrection. 597 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:26,160 Basically that if Christ has not risen, then we're still dead in 598 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,760 our sins. If he's not risen, then we're 599 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,840 preaching A fallacy. There's no hope, but he comes 600 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,200 around to say he has risen. So we do have hope. 601 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,360 We do have hope. We do have opportunity, if you 602 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:45,120 will, that we don't have to die in our sins because in many 603 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:52,400 instances he died in our sins. Christ crucified. 604 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,320 Spare our heads across this place today. 605 00:37:56,120 --> 00:38:06,120 The Jews searching for a sign, Oh my Lord, for Bethlehem's 606 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:11,000 Manger to Calvary. It's filled with indicators 607 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:16,640 about who he was, what he desired to do, and even when the 608 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,920 the chief priests and stuff asked him, are you the Christ? 609 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,920 Notice all along he he, he skirted that issue a little bit 610 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,920 because the timing of his death was important, but he knew the 611 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,000 time was ripe. It was going to happen. 612 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,280 So he didn't he didn't beat around no Bush. 613 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:35,200 He said quite plainly, I am, I am. 614 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,640 Let's, let's just make sure that he dies. 615 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:45,840 Then the very thing that they couldn't reconcile is the very 616 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:49,320 thing then that Peter used on the Day of Pentecost to bring 617 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:54,800 them to a place of repentance. He's like, y'all killed you, 618 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,080 king of glory, the Messiah that you was looking for, you laid in 619 00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,440 a grave. What are you going to do about 620 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:00,840 that? They felt horrible. 621 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,760 They felt guilty and they ask men and brethren, what shall we 622 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,640 do? That's when Peter said repent, 623 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,920 be baptized, everyone of you in the name of the Lord Jesus 624 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:20,360 Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of 625 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:25,400 the Holy Ghost. The message is still a crucified 626 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,680 Christ. I wonder if we could raise our 627 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,640 hands if you're accepting to it today. 628 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:35,800 Across this building, you stand where you are today. 629 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:40,400 You're able to experience what you experienced today because of 630 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:44,680 a crucified Christ. He is the Messiah, He is the 631 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:50,040 King, He is the anointed 1 and he's your God. 632 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,240 He's your God. He's the creator of all things, 633 00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:57,800 the orderer of all things. He has put all things into place 634 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,920 and he's devised a plan for humanity. 635 00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:04,120 He's devised a plan for humanity. 636 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,720 Blood and water came from his side. 637 00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:12,120 He's the dwelling place of God in that earthly ministry. 638 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,480 Walking here below, up on the earth, He was the dwelling place 639 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,280 of God. Hallelujah. 640 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,760 Look no further. Your God has come. 641 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,080 Look no further. Your God has come. 642 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,440 If you need him today, if you need him in your life, you need 643 00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,560 him in circumstances and situations. 644 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,720 If you still yet need to experience the forgiveness of 645 00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:35,480 sins in your life, your God, your Messiah has come. 646 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,760 Hallelujah. Look no other place but to 647 00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,680 Calvary. Look no other place but to go 648 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,480 off this hill. Hallelujah. 649 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,480 The work has been done. We're not going to, we're not 650 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:48,120 going to crucify Him over. He's the once and for all 651 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,920 sacrifice, as the writer of Hebrews says. 652 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,600 He's the ones for all sacrifice. The blood of bulls and the blood 653 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,960 of Rams no longer, no longer is necessary, no longer is needed, 654 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:03,160 because the perfect Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the 655 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:04,480 world. Amen. 656 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,520 He had a plan and He had you in that plan. 657 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,760 You were upon His mind. It was for your sins. 658 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,400 It was for your transgressions, It was for your pitfalls. 659 00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:14,280 Hallelujah. Aren't you glad that you know a 660 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,920 Savior like that? A king like that man? 661 00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:19,920 Keep. Keep the sign on the cross for 662 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:21,480 me. He's my king. 663 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,840 He's my king. He's my savior. 664 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,760 Keep it up there. I want to identify with that. 665 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,840 I want to accept that. I want to associate with that. 666 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:35,400 Oh, can we cry out to him today? There's no God like my God. 667 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:46,640 There's no God like my God. Hallelujah, Jesus. 668 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:56,680 Hallelujah, Jesus, Oh, we magnify you, Jesus, God, You're 669 00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,920 willing, Lord, to reach humanity to the uttermost, to the 670 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:04,320 uttermost. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 671 00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:08,800 We're redeemed because of you, God. 672 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,480 There's nothing, Lord, to reconcile. 673 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,320 I don't have to mock. I have to mock, Lord. 674 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,080 I understand. You are who you said you are. 675 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,760 You are God who you said you are. 676 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:23,040 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Let's lift our voices for the 677 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,680 Mason has prepared a song here today. 678 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,240 Oh, let's get a picture of that crucified Christ. 679 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,880 Hallelujah. That's not weakness, That's not 680 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,400 foolishness. It's the power of God on 681 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,280 display. It's the power of God on 682 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,640 display. Hallelujah, Jesus, you give a 683 00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:42,280 life.