1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:07,880 It's wonderful today, Hallelujah, praise the name of 2 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,560 Jesus, Amen. You can stand with me today. 3 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:16,160 If you're still in here, turn to Matthew chapter #12 and a lot of 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:20,040 really a lot of thanks could be given also today, Amen, with the 5 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:22,720 events of thing. I give thanks to brother Alex 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,920 Mason traveling with myself Amen on Friday for our turn around 7 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,720 less than 24 hour trip Amen of getting these seats back home 8 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,680 and so appreciate him going with me making the sacrifice to do 9 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:36,400 so. And then we had a few different 10 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:38,800 people here that yesterday, Brother Fred was here, Bishop, I 11 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:43,160 know help, Brother Reese was here, and then my daughter and 12 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:45,640 then Alex and Grace was here. And I'm not saying that 13 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,600 disrespectfully, but a few different ones for carrying in, 14 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,480 cleaning off the bottoms and putting an order and so on and 15 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:54,720 so forth. And just this week we're talking 16 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:57,120 about some of the things need done leading up to Easter and of 17 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:01,520 course, getting the lot done. Sister Sheila took care of 18 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,800 making sure that would be done. And and I, I knew we need to get 19 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:07,360 the weeds out of our landscaping. 20 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,240 Always happens to the winter and spring come we get more grass in 21 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:12,120 our landscaping. Do we do in the lawn? 22 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:17,120 And so he was here cleaning that out when we left with a calendar 23 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,000 like meeting with some of our leaders on Thursday. 24 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:21,680 We just talked about it in meeting. 25 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,720 He was, he was just in tune. I mean, he, he was out there in 26 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:29,520 the rain getting weeds and such. And so we appreciate him for 27 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,200 doing so. Amen. 28 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,400 Matthew chapter #12 And I'm going to read verse 38 and 29 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:39,480 several several weeks ago I started on this Revelation bit 30 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,240 and I didn't really plan on going like 5 weeks or anything 31 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,840 like that or his things, but this will be the end of it. 32 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,200 OK, this is this. I'm convinced it's the end. 33 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,280 And you might think I'm a week off because I want to talk about 34 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,680 the revelation of Christ's resurrection and I understand 35 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,600 today's Palm Sunday. I'd get that I'm not a week off. 36 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:00,160 This is just how it goes, all right? 37 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,520 I sometimes preach thematically, meaning that the special times 38 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,720 three years, like when Independence Day, I'll preach 39 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,560 your long independence Oregon, blah blah, blah. 40 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,360 And there's other times I don't all right. 41 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,880 And if the if the spirit leads, the Lord directs, then so forth. 42 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,120 But here we are today. Matthew chapter #12 So if you've 43 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,600 been here for any of the revelation lessons, messages, 44 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,840 whatever you wish to call them, this this is connected to to 45 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,400 that Matthew rather Matthew 12 verse 38. 46 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,560 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, 47 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:37,000 saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 48 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,920 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous 49 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:46,280 generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given 50 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:51,480 to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas or Jonah in the 51 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,080 Old Testament. For as Jonas was 3 days and 52 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,400 three nights in the Wells belly, so shall the Son of Man be 3 53 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,800 days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 54 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,800 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation 55 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,840 and shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching 56 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:14,720 of Jonas. And behold, a greater than Jonas 57 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,200 is here again. I want to talk to us today about 58 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,880 the revelation of Christ's resurrection of Christ's 59 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,120 resurrection today. Can we lift our voices one more 60 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,280 time in prayer and ask the Lord to help us here today? 61 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,080 Father, I thank you, Lord, for your goodness. 62 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,440 I pray, O Lord Jesus, bring revelation, Lord, in our lives 63 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,920 today. God, we are on the cusp Lord of 64 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,920 entering that time of celebrating your resurrection. 65 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,800 I pray, O Lord, open our minds and understanding to your word. 66 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,120 I pray Jesus today you're able to touch us afresh and a new 67 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,960 God, those here God, those that may be watching online, God that 68 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,160 you're able to bring the Lord God is spirit of enlightenment. 69 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,120 Lord God, our minds and our hearts. 70 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:58,880 God today concerning this in the lovely name of Jesus Christ that 71 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:03,520 I pray Hallelujah and Amen of the church say Amen, Amen. 72 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,360 You may be seated this morning. Someone says thank you, thank 73 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:13,400 you, God bless you, Amen. The resurrection of Jesus 74 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:18,000 Christ, the resurrection and we are we're right here on the the 75 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,160 cusp of celebrating that of course, next week, Amen. 76 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,240 According to our calendar and such. 77 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:27,680 But the resurrection of Jesus Christ him coming back to life 78 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:33,000 differs from some of the others prior to him that came back to 79 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,560 life. All right there's a difference 80 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:40,000 really we we read through the Gospels of for instance, the 81 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,800 widow son that had came back from from life the widow of name 82 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,840 her son Jesus touched the coffin and he comes back to life. 83 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:55,160 We read in scripture also of Jerrys daughter who came back to 84 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,360 life after he being dead. We even, we even read of 85 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,040 Lazarus, Jesus standing in that tomb speaking those words, 86 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,640 Lazarus come forth and him coming back to life as well. 87 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:08,800 And all those individuals, the widow son of all those that I've 88 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,600 mentioned, they all, they all were revived in their bodies, 89 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,520 revived with life, but their bodies by and large wasn't 90 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:18,960 materially different than what they were before. 91 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:22,040 And as a matter of fact, each one of them would eventually 92 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,360 meet death again. They they would go by way of the 93 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,080 grave again. However, whenever Jesus 94 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,440 resurrected from the dead, we understand and we read in the 95 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,240 Gospel some of the, the great feats and great acts of Jesus, 96 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,360 even after his resurrection. And we read such things like 97 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,800 this that, that there's times that he is what appears as you 98 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:47,240 read in Scripture. He's walking through walls all 99 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,040 right, there's closed doors and he's I don't know about you, but 100 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,880 in this physical body I have right now, if I walk toward that 101 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,000 wall, you're going to hire a thud that's that's as good as 102 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,760 it's going to get all right, but but Jesus is walking through 103 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:00,400 walls where there's closed doors. 104 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,720 As a matter of fact, his bodily appearance seems to be very 105 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,280 seems to be like it was before at least the appearance of it. 106 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,040 But the essence is that it was different. 107 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,360 It wasn't the same body, so to speak, that He was put in the 108 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:17,000 ground with the Angel had met Mary there at the tomb whenever 109 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,640 Mary went to the tomb to see concerning her Lord and Savior 110 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:25,440 and the Angel indeed told her that He is risen and with the 111 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:29,440 Lord, unlike these others that had been revived, death never 112 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:34,360 revisited him. Death never revisited his body. 113 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:38,600 We read in first Corinthians 15 in first Corinthians 15 is a 114 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,640 whole chapter really about the resurrection. 115 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,640 If you've never read it before, I suggest that you do so. 116 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,600 But there are some verses in first Corinthians 15 verse #42 117 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:53,960 starting it says these words. So also is the resurrection of 118 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,920 the dead. It is sown in corruption, but 119 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:03,800 it's raised in incorruption. It's sown in dishonor, but it is 120 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,760 raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is 121 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,840 raised in power. It is sown a natural body, but 122 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,960 it is raised a spiritual body. There's a natural body and 123 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,800 there's a spiritual body. The Apostle Paul speaking to the 124 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,840 church at Corinth and he is telling them and he uses as an 125 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:26,200 analogy, and I've spoke of this to this extent before here, but 126 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:31,320 he uses an analogy of like seeds that are put or planted are sown 127 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:34,000 in the ground. That the seed that you put in 128 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,200 the ground, that's not necessarily the same form that 129 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,520 it comes out of the ground. You, you put a acorn in the 130 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,080 ground and it's not as though it comes up looking like what was 131 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:48,040 put into the ground, right? It it has a different body, if 132 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:49,920 you will. It's not what is sown. 133 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,080 It's not the same thing that comes up. 134 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,800 And So what that's what the apostle Paul is alluding to 135 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,280 here. He says whenever there's a 136 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,480 resurrected body, that which goes into the ground is not 137 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:04,680 identical or the same. It's not 100% the same. 138 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,680 The Jesus resurrection, though, on that matter, whenever he came 139 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,720 for from the tomb, it was more than just spirit that came from 140 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:15,760 the tomb. It's more than just spirit that 141 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,320 came from the tomb. He did have a body of some 142 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,040 magnitude. He did have a body of some 143 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,360 degree. As a matter of fact, we read in 144 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:27,920 Scripture in Luke 24 that Jesus did come among his disciples 145 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,600 after the resurrection, and he come before them and they were 146 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,799 startled. The Bible says they were 147 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:38,600 startled supposing they had seen a spirit is what the Scripture 148 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,840 says. They're startled seeing him #1 149 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:43,840 he's supposed to be dead, right? And so they're startled 150 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:48,200 supposing that they had seen a spirit and Jesus is then replied 151 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,520 to them from that, knowing what was in their minds and their 152 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,120 hearts. He told them, he said it is I 153 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,200 myself. What did he tell them? 154 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,400 He said handle me, handle me and see. 155 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:06,360 He said, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me 156 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,520 have. This is the resurrected Christ 157 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:10,480 saying that. This is the resurrected Christ 158 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,760 saying that a spirit don't have flesh and bones as I have right 159 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,560 now. So he still had some magnitude 160 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,640 of a body after his resurrection, but it just wasn't 161 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:24,000 exactly the same body that he had prior to the resurrection 162 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,760 because he's refuting all their thinking that this is just a 163 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:28,480 spirit. No, handle me, I can be that you 164 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,600 can feel me. I have flesh and I have bones. 165 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:34,680 As a matter of fact they went to the degree and Thomas for sure 166 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:36,200 wanted this when he seen the Lord. 167 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:40,080 He wanted to feel, you know, the nail prints in his hands and 168 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,120 where the spear went through his side. 169 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:46,640 And all of those things are, are bodily wounds that the Lord had 170 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,040 from his previous time of being alive. 171 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:51,520 And they wanted to fill all those things. 172 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,760 And so Paul said it right, Absolutely. 173 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,600 In First Corinthians 15, Paul said that the resurrected body, 174 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,360 it's different. It's a glorified body. 175 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,880 It's a powerful body. It's a spiritual body. 176 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,880 And so Jesus came back resurrected in the in a bodily 177 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,720 life type of form, but it wasn't exactly like that which hung on 178 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:14,800 the cross because now he's going through walls right there in 179 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,000 their presence, right? And he's going to shoot himself 180 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,400 alive by many infallible proofs the Bible says. 181 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:24,160 And so here's the thing. If if this death defying feat of 182 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:33,720 him this death defying feat of him alive on whenever Jesus 183 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:41,640 spoke to Mary after his resurrection, he to meet me at 184 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,000 Galilee, just like I aforementioned before I was ever 185 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,200 crucified that they meet me there at Galilee. 186 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,040 Go tell them to do that. And so she went and told them 187 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,880 that the Lord and if you'll remember she she spelled out 188 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:57,240 specifically and Peter, you know I want you all to meet the Lord 189 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,040 allely disciples of the Lord like Peter, James and John. 190 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,320 We're talking about household disciple names that whenever 191 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,800 they got there. The Bible tells us that there 192 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,360 were some that worshipped, but there were others that doubted. 193 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,640 That's right. Yeah. 194 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,720 Among those that ate with him, you know, climbed hills with 195 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,840 him, seeing the miraculous done by him, there were some that 196 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,200 were worshipping as a result of seeing him pass the resurrection 197 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,200 there others that still had some doubts in their mind. 198 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,920 As a matter of fact, whatever Jesus appeared to Mary 199 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,400 Magdalene, Amen. She she told those that had been 200 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,480 with him during his earthly ministry. 201 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,480 Again she told them, hey, I've been there, I've seen it. 202 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,120 The tomb is empty, but he is alive. 203 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:43,440 From her own her own first account witness of what she had 204 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:48,080 been exposed to the Bible says many of them did not believe her 205 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,440 and it was typical. And I don't I don't get out in 206 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,520 the waters of this. And and this is not a male 207 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:56,680 chauvinist statement here. This is just a cultural thing. 208 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:00,320 In those days, they they just had a problem believing they 209 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,960 thought women were unreliable. Right or wrong, right or wrong, 210 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,600 they thought they were unreliable, which is simply the 211 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:08,440 case. So whenever they spoke those 212 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,840 words to her, Scripture even tells us in one of the Gospels, 213 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,560 they received her words as though it was just some idle 214 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:16,680 tale. They couldn't put no credence. 215 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:20,120 They couldn't put no, no, no, no weight in that because it came 216 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,360 from Mary. But then the Bible tells us 217 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,800 there were two other disciples. This is spoken in one of the in 218 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:29,080 one of the Gospels, presumably the two that were on their way 219 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:32,400 to Emmaus in scriptures that whenever they had their 220 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:36,320 interactive action with the resurrection Jesus, the Bible 221 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,920 says they they left Emmaus and they went back to where the 222 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,360 other disciples were and they begin to share with them every 223 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,600 thing that they had experienced. And once again, the Scripture 224 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:49,080 says this, that those two who told their story to the others, 225 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:55,160 the others did not believe, Amen, did not believe. 226 00:12:55,680 --> 00:12:59,720 Then much later in Acts 17, and, and I can almost even accept 227 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,040 this more than the disciples saying they didn't believe. 228 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:06,280 Much later in Acts 17, the apostle is there at Athens and 229 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,920 he's talking to people that are not in covenant with the Lord 230 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,240 and just at him mentioning the resurrection from the dead. 231 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:15,440 The Bible says that they even mocked. 232 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:19,080 Well, I can see that maybe someone that has no, no, if you 233 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:23,520 will, relationship with Jesus Christ saying, well, that's just 234 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:24,840 a bunch of whatever I'm talking about. 235 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,600 There were many instances of the disciples where there were 236 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,680 certain disbelief among them. But something had to happen, 237 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:34,000 right? Because we read in scripture 238 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,560 these disciples, many of them unbelieving in disbelief, so on 239 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:41,200 and so forth. And somewhere along the way, 240 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:45,240 these very same ones then started to embrace the fact that 241 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:49,920 the one that said he died and rise the Thursday he is indeed 242 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:51,680 like. They started believing that 243 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:55,320 doubters became believers. The ones that were questionable 244 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:58,520 became believers. So something had to happen. 245 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:02,680 Something had to change in order for them to say no, it didn't 246 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:04,680 happen. To announce that being, if you 247 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:08,840 will, the voice that says it did happen, something had to change. 248 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:10,720 The Bible tells us, and we see it. 249 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,920 For one thing, we remember that whenever Mary come and told the 250 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,280 disciples, the Bible says that Peter and John gets in this foot 251 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:21,080 race as though it seems on the way to the tomb for them to 252 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,760 witness for themselves these very things. 253 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,760 And the Bible says when they get there, they witness that the 254 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:30,760 tomb is empty. They know emphatically that that 255 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,640 had to be in a filled tomb. It was a borrowed tomb, but they 256 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,480 had been a filled tomb with Christ's body, but now it is 257 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,920 empty. So for one thing, they had their 258 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,320 own witness, sister, she lives seeing with their own eyes of 259 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,560 what should have been there was not there. 260 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,200 The Bible tells us, Mary Magdalene, she thought when she 261 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,960 got the tomb and seen the condition, that hey, there's not 262 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,560 a body here, She evens going around like where? 263 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:59,360 Where have they taken my Lord? Somebody's taking him. 264 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,160 Where? Where his body, somebody's 265 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:02,320 taking him. She's speaking. 266 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,760 If you'll just tell me where he's at, I'll take care of the 267 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,040 body. I'll make sure he's tended to. 268 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:09,680 If you can just tell me where it's at. 269 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,800 As a matter of fact, we understand then that that opened 270 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,960 up a whole, if you will, nest of rumors and lies. 271 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:19,600 Amen. In the 1st century, the Romans 272 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,400 started rumoring around that the disciples came during the night 273 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,240 and they stole the body of the Lord Jesus Christ away. 274 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,720 As a matter of fact, the tells us that they even paid some 275 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,840 money to a few folks. If you can start the rumor, if 276 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,160 you can get word around. But this is indeed what's 277 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,400 happened. While the soldiers slept, they 278 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,360 came in and they stole away the body. 279 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:43,280 Amen. But you got to understand, in 280 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:46,600 order for that to happen, in order for that rumor to be true, 281 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,800 that the disciples stole away the body of the Lord Jesus 282 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:51,760 Christ, here's what had to happen. 283 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:57,520 You had to have these disciples who were very fearful during all 284 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:02,000 of this time of the Lord being apprehended, arrested, 285 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:04,840 crucified. They're very fearful at this 286 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,240 time. They're on egg shells. 287 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:13,080 Point in case at Gethsemane when they all should have been 288 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,600 praying and the band of soldiers show up with their swords and 289 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:22,280 with their stage at Gethsemane. The Bible tells us all of them 290 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:25,600 fled. As a matter of fact, we only 291 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:29,680 have really in the Bible we know of just a couple that's even 292 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:33,440 showing up at the crucifix that we know John was there. 293 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:35,520 And it seems like maybe Peter may have been there. 294 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:39,200 But we really don't have record of anybody else's per SE. 295 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,280 And so if, if, if the rumor is true that they stole, if they 296 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,360 stole the body away, you're going to have to have a bunch of 297 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:50,880 fearful disciples come to a tomb that was sealed with a Roman 298 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:56,440 tomb and guarded by soldiers. Remove a stone while soldiers 299 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:58,600 slept. I'm sure that's not the quietest 300 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:03,600 thing to do, Remove a stone while the soldiers slept and not 301 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:05,960 disturb them. And that they would be able to 302 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,839 get beyond their fear that if someone woke up, they're going 303 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:12,680 to be OK. I'm going to say Amen. 304 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,520 Not only that, there's other, we have other evidence here. 305 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:21,359 These soldiers, if they fell asleep, Roman law had it, if 306 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:25,040 those soldiers fell asleep and they lost the body that they 307 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:28,319 were supposed to be guarding. Scripture tells us in other 308 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:31,400 places when soldiers have been given the responsibility over a 309 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,640 prisoner or someone like that, it was his life for their life. 310 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,440 If they lost the one, then they're going to their life is 311 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,520 going to be done with. And so here are these men that 312 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:43,120 are falling asleep. If they lost a body, they may 313 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:47,400 have just easily been killed. So we have disciples the 314 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:52,120 impossibly showing up at a very potentially dangerous time at 315 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:54,080 the garden tomb. Amen. 316 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:57,120 And they're going to still await the body when they couldn't even 317 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:01,440 appear at the cross. Someone say Amen. 318 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:08,880 But another proof is that Jesus's resurrection he appeared 319 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:15,560 to many that knew him before his death, after his death, and they 320 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:21,280 could confirm that's him. The Bible says in your Bible in 321 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:26,760 Acts chapter #1 that after his passion, which is his death, 322 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:31,960 burial and resurrection, after his passion he shooed himself 323 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:34,320 alive. He showed himself to them by 324 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:38,600 many infallible proofs, being seen of them, His disciples for 325 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:43,840 40 days after his resurrection. Jesus is making house calls left 326 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:45,920 and right after his resurrection. 327 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,600 He's showing up to people that knew him before he was ever 328 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,600 crucified. After his resurrection, he 329 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,920 appeared to Mary Magdalene. He appeared to many of his 330 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,720 female followers as well. According to the scripture. 331 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,320 He appeared to Simon Peter, James and John, and Thomas and 332 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:05,600 Nathaniel. He appeared to two other 333 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,480 disciples. He appeared to the whole 11 as a 334 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,680 group. There was a unnamed disciple. 335 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,680 The Bible speaks of that. He appeared to. 336 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,680 The book of Corinthians says there were more than 500 337 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:20,040 brethren at once that he had shown himself to. 338 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:22,760 Amen. On one hand, we could even point 339 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,120 to the fact, listen, we have people after Jesus resurrected 340 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,720 that they went on preaching the gospel in the ministry of the 341 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:30,880 Lord Jesus Christ. You know what they were doing, 342 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,320 Brother Reese. They didn't care how dangerous 343 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,520 it was. They were to the point of 344 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:39,960 surrendering their very lives as martyrs for the truth of the 345 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:41,960 death and the burial of resurrection. 346 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,400 If it was a farce, if it was untrue, why in the world would 347 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,560 you give yourself to something that has no no meaning to it, no 348 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,680 truth to it? But they said I'm willing to 349 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,120 die. Peter says you can crucify me 350 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:57,440 upside down because I'm not even worthy to be crucified right 351 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,040 side up as he is. If anything else, they were 352 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:05,840 willing to give their all for what had taken place and what 353 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,200 had happened. Someone say Amen. 354 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,760 But just equally important as all of that. 355 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:21,320 Is that the resurrection fulfills scripture as much as 356 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,880 His crucifixion fulfills Scripture. 357 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:27,680 We have stuff from the Old Testament. 358 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:29,800 We talk about no bone of his body being broke. 359 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,440 We talk about Him being pierced with all these things of Old 360 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,760 Testament prophecies that are fulfilled in his crucifixion. 361 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:41,040 But there is Scripture that's fulfilled in his resurrection as 362 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,440 well. The Bible says, and you can look 363 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:47,520 at it, Jesus references a passage from the Old Testament 364 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,720 that supports Paul's statement. Paul said that he was raised on 365 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:57,880 the third day in accordance with Scripture, was raised on the 366 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,000 third day in accordance with Scripture. 367 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,840 And so in our text, Jesus is really using an Old Testament 368 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:08,320 passage that supports this, this statement, if you will, 369 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:11,280 Scripture being fulfilled. He said they're asking for a 370 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:12,800 sign. Remember we talked about that a 371 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:14,880 few weeks ago, but they're asking for a sign. 372 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:20,680 And he says there shall no sign be given you but the sign of the 373 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:25,480 prophet Jonas. Jonas spent three days and three 374 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:31,040 nights in the wells belly and said like like means or likewise 375 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,840 shall the Son of Man spend 3 days and three nights in the 376 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:39,000 heart of the earth from our previous studies and you may go 377 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,200 back to listen them. In our previous studies we made 378 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,560 it clear that the messages we have established that the Son of 379 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,080 man was the Messiah was Jesus Christ. 380 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:52,200 Doctor Brandt says this, it's interesting and you could go 381 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,800 really either way as you read the scripture of Jonah, he says. 382 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,760 But if you read the book of Jonah carefully, you will 383 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,360 discover something interesting. The author of the book never 384 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:08,520 claims that Jonah remained alive for three days and three nights 385 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:12,120 in the fish. In fact, it pretty explicitly 386 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:15,280 says that Jonah died and went to the realm of the dead. 387 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,560 Jonah chapter one, verse 17. Now the Lord had prepared a 388 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,840 great fish to swallow you ready to go back to Sunday school? 389 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:29,960 So we have got the little fish out today, a great fish out to 390 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,160 swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of 391 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,200 the fish 3 days and three nights. 392 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:42,480 If you go to verse 2, I believe it is of chapter #2 and we begin 393 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:49,600 to look at the prayer of Jonah. He says out of the belly of 394 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:56,520 hell, which is show pride eye show is a Old Testament 395 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,440 designation for the abode of the dead. 396 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:04,280 So he's saying out of the belly of the abode of the dead. 397 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:09,080 I cried, Jonah says in verse 5 of that same chapter. 398 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:13,360 He said the waters come passing me about even to the soul. 399 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:19,720 He said the earth with her bars was about me forever. 400 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:26,000 Yet thou has brought up my life from corruption many times to 401 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,560 the Old Testament. When you read corruption Amen. 402 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,880 It is talking about the grave or destruction. 403 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:36,480 You remember Paul said in first Corinthians 1542 that even the 404 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,000 resurrection from the dead, they're sown in what they're 405 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:44,000 sown in corruption, but they're raised in in corruption. 406 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,920 The psalmist David said it like this or Psalms rather Psalm 16 407 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,360 and verse 10 and we read this in New Testament Scripture as well. 408 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:57,440 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, which is show the 409 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:02,160 grave, neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption 410 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,320 again speaking concerning the the the the decomposition, the 411 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:10,240 destruction that one would find being in the grave. 412 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,440 Then in Jonah 2 and verse 10 back to Jonah 2 and 10. 413 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,800 The Bible says, tells us that the fish vomited out Jonah. 414 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:20,600 That's always a nice verse to read. 415 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:25,640 And it gives you just, yeah, it vomited out Jonah. 416 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,920 If he was in fact, and you listen, I'm not saying, listen, 417 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:31,040 maybe he was alive. Maybe he was dead. 418 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,800 Maybe what he's saying in chapter #2 maybe it's all 419 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,960 poetic, Amen. Referencing death. 420 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,280 Or maybe he was dead. Maybe it's a reference that he 421 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,080 died. But if so, if Jonas vomited out 422 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,720 this body or this corpse is vomited out here on the dry 423 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:49,880 ground, the Bible says here are the first words so that God 424 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:56,200 spoke to a vomited out Jonah and Jonah, I know, I'm sorry. 425 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:01,080 It should I say he like, yeah, regurgitated. 426 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,320 Would that be better? Jonah chapter 3 and verse #2 the 427 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,000 first words of God to him, right. 428 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,520 So you can go two ways. You can assume he's vomited out 429 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,120 and he's there alive, or he's vomited out, he's there dead. 430 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,200 The first word that God speaks to him is arise. 431 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,280 Now what's interesting about this word arise in the Hebrew, 432 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,920 it's kum says arising, going to Nineveh, that great city, and 433 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,000 preach and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 434 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:35,680 But that group, that Hebrew word arise kum, has its Aramaic 435 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:44,760 equivalent in the New Testament areas eating this is Jesus now 436 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:50,440 and speaking Jairus's daughter. And he took the damsel by the 437 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:56,760 hand and said unto her, Kalitha Kumi, which is being 438 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:02,720 interpreted, damsel. I say unto thee, arise that Old 439 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:08,680 Testament word here in Mark 5 that's it's Aramaic equivalent 440 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:15,200 and it's used for someone that was dead that's being called 441 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,840 back to life. And it's the first word we have 442 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:22,000 in the book of Jonah that God speaks to Jonah after his body 443 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,280 is expelled. How about that? 444 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:29,040 Expelled on the dry ground. It was a rise. 445 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,600 Jesus says in the New Testament, he said there's no sign going to 446 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:40,040 be given you, but the sign of Jonah 3 days and three nights in 447 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,960 the wells, barely. And I can accept that. 448 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,200 I can see the Lord was 3 days and three nights in the heart of 449 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,800 the earth. I have no problem with that. 450 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,320 But I'm just saying this morning, consider we're dealing 451 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,000 more than just some poetic reference for death in the book 452 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,920 of Jonah. Consider we're dealing with 453 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,240 something more with just, you know, imagery and things of that 454 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,400 nature. Consider if we're talking about 455 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,200 a Jonah that was dead in the belly. 456 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,960 Amen of well and as we expelled on the ground and the first 457 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,480 words that God spoke to him from, there was a rise which has 458 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,640 its Aramaic equivalent of getting up from death. 459 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,760 Amen and go do the job folks. Whenever I start processing all 460 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:23,280 that, I'm along with the apostle Paul saying in accordance to 461 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:27,760 Scripture, he has resurrection. In accordance with Scripture, 462 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:32,480 he's come back to life dead 3 days, but now life is now 463 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:39,280 through his veins again, Amen. And so that's wonderful that the 464 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,840 resurrection of Jesus Christ in part is the Son of man, or 465 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:48,360 Christ Jesus fulfilling the words or the prophecy of Jonah 466 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:51,960 being three days, three nights in the belly, Amen, of the well. 467 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,080 But there's something else that I think we need to take in 468 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,000 consideration this morning as well. 469 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:03,320 I think there's another aspect to the sign of Jonah in, in the 470 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:09,040 book of Jonah chapter #3 because Jonah does arise and he does go 471 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:14,680 to the city of Nineveh, which was the, the, the, the main city 472 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:19,040 of the Assyrian Empire. If I say it like this, it was 473 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:23,840 sister Amaya, A Gentile city, Gentile city. 474 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,480 And he's going there and he's preaching his message. 475 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,960 He's delivering what God told him to deliver. 476 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:36,360 And as a result of that, we're seeing a Gentile king with 477 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:41,760 Gentile people and they're putting on sackcloth and they're 478 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:46,360 rubbing their heads with ashes, which was a sign of repentance. 479 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,960 They were humiliating themselves, so to speak, in the 480 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,280 dust. As a matter of fact, the Gentile 481 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,600 king gives a decree to his people, but they were even going 482 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,400 to fast and that they were going to cry out to God. 483 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,640 That's Jonah 37. They were a Gentile nation, a 484 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,000 Gentile city going to cry out to God because of the message that 485 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,360 they had heard by Jonah. The king even urges every one of 486 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,480 them. He says turn from your evil way. 487 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,240 When you, you, you hear that language of turn in the Old 488 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,400 Testament, that's repentance because, because that's what 489 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,160 repentance is. It's a turn. 490 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,720 It's an about face. It's 180° turn around. 491 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,080 He's telling these Gentile people, Amen, to repent, to turn 492 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,280 from your evil way. And so we have a Gentile city 493 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:33,400 that is repenting based upon the message that they have heard by 494 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,800 Jonah. What are you saying? 495 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,760 I'm saying this is another aspect of the sign of Jonah 496 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:46,040 because Jonah, if we can, rose from the dead and he goes with 497 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:51,560 the message and based upon his message, there's Gentile people 498 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,440 that are starting to repent. Do you know that after the 499 00:29:55,440 --> 00:30:00,040 resurrection of Jesus Christ we see a move into the Gentile 500 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,360 cities and nations of that day greater than before his 501 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,880 resurrection? Whenever he resurrection, 502 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,440 there's Gentile people on the left hand and right hand 503 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,160 throughout Scripture begin to read up that they start to 504 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,400 repent, they start to come to God. 505 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,040 They're a group, even nations, that start to become Christians 506 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,480 and lovers of God based upon the message of a resurrected man. 507 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:28,600 Hey man, glory. So there's really, he says you, 508 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,400 you, you want, you want a revelation of Christ's 509 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,160 resurrection. I tell you what it is. 510 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,000 It's not just that he was three days and three nights and he was 511 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,920 dead and came back to life, but it's that there is this great 512 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:43,040 revival among the Gentiles happening after he resurrected 513 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,760 concerning Jonah, likewise concerning the Lord Jesus Christ 514 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:52,840 after his resurrection. What's he do? 515 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,200 He gathers his disciples together and he gives them what 516 00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:00,240 is popularly called the Great Commission, right? 517 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:06,240 Go into all the world, not just the Jewish sectors of the world, 518 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:12,600 but go into all the world, teach them, make disciples, if you 519 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:17,960 will, of all nations, if I say all nations. 520 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,640 So now the, the primary focus here, the Commission, it's not 521 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:28,080 just Jewish focused. Christ first came to the earth. 522 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,920 There was still yet a much a bigger Jewish focus than world 523 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,120 focus, right. Later talks about, well, you 524 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,000 know, even the dogs receive the crumbs that come from the 525 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,040 master's table. He's talked to her about my meat 526 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,360 is not for the gentile, but for the Jews, you know, you 527 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,160 understand. And so there is this, this 528 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,200 switch that is coming place here because now the ministry in the 529 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,080 mission is for sure as it was supposed to be, it was a global 530 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,840 mission that included Jews, Samaritan, Gentile, it did not 531 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,800 matter. But all that predominantly 532 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,360 happens after Jesus is resurrected. 533 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,960 It's in those times after his resurrection that we have the 534 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:14,560 Acts 10 occurrences, right? A Cornelius of the Italian ban, 535 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:22,600 a Roman centurion a Cornelius of the Italian band, a Roman 536 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:29,080 centurion. The vision of a sheet coming 537 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:35,080 down of all these unclean beasts on but it came down 3 as that 538 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,280 which I have cleanse call thou not unclean. 539 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,040 And that's number two. It happened three times and 540 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:45,000 three individuals were going to show up at his door that by all 541 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,280 law would have been considered unclean. 542 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,080 That thing had happened three times with him. 543 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,920 He didn't hesitate. He went with those men and that 544 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,920 carried him to Cornelius. And it was at Cornelius, in all 545 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:56,760 of his household, these Gentile people. 546 00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,480 What does he start to preach? He preaches Jesus, and while he 547 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,800 yet spoke the Word, they begin to speak in other tongues as the 548 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,760 Spirit of God gave them utterance. 549 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,320 You want a revelation of the resurrection? 550 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,000 Look at the Gentile hall, Look at the Gentile household that's 551 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,560 receiving the gift of God's Spirit. 552 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,120 Amen. It was there Peter's envision 553 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,920 impressed this on him. Acts 10, verse 34 and 35. 554 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:25,720 I'll read it to you. The Bible says. 555 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,160 Then Peter opened his mouth and said of a truth. 556 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,840 Look, look what Peter's saying. This is in this mood with 557 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,760 Cornelius and the Gentile people. 558 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:38,600 He says of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of 559 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:43,960 persons, but in every nation, not just the Jewish nation, but 560 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:45,920 in every nation, He feareth them. 561 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:50,680 He that feareth Him worketh. Righteousness is accepted with 562 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,400 Him. You know what that's saying? 563 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,120 He's for that one and that one and that one. 564 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,920 There's no one that's out of bounds. 565 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:07,560 Even the Apostle Paul's ministry was called a light unto the 566 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,679 Gentiles. That's happened after the 567 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:15,199 resurrection, a light to the Gentiles. 568 00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:17,120 And there's churches being planted. 569 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,760 We see in the book of Acts, there's churches being planted 570 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:24,040 all throughout the Roman Empire, all throughout a Gentile 571 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,239 littered empire. There's cities like Corinth 572 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,480 where we have the book of Corinthians, the letter that's 573 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,520 written to the church. Then at Corinth, Ephesus, that 574 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,800 city, Ephesians, right, Philippi, that city, 575 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:40,800 Philippians, Rome, that city, Romans, it's spreading like 576 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:45,000 wildfire after Jesus's resurrection. 577 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:47,440 So it goes beyond all these Jewish roots. 578 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,000 It meets the Gentiles as well, and they're embracing that, the 579 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,880 gospel, the death and resurrection, that it occurred. 580 00:34:54,360 --> 00:35:02,920 It happened so that someday in heaven we'll witness what John 581 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:08,800 witness that there is a number that no man can number prized of 582 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:15,200 every tribe, every tongue, every nation. 583 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,520 That it will be just like we'd already looked at in weeks past 584 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,800 of the prophecy of Daniel, of that one stone being cut without 585 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:29,280 hands that takes out every other Kingdom, but then grows into a 586 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:34,120 such a great mountain that it fuels the whole earth. 587 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:39,120 Samaritan, Gentile, Japanese, Chinese, Asian, African 588 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:46,280 American, someone say glory Thomas in handling the 589 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,280 resurrected Christ. It prompted him those famous 590 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:50,760 words. He handles him. 591 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,360 He's waiting for this moment. He was not there when Jesus 592 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,880 first came. That's Thomas's fault, but he 593 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,800 wasn't there. But whenever he came again, 594 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,360 Thomas handled all those spots and the exclamation from his own 595 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:07,040 mouth, which was a revelation in essence as he handled the 596 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:12,560 resurrected Christ was my Lord and my God. 597 00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:16,840 That statement alone brought proof and vindication to 598 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,200 everything that Jesus has been saying in his earthly ministry. 599 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:22,520 Everything that he done, that was proven. 600 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,040 He was the Messiah and he was more than just a man, He was 601 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,440 divine. You'll stand with me today. 602 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:31,360 So what are you saying then this morning? 603 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:36,440 I'm saying this revelation of Christ's resurrection according 604 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:41,760 to Jesus by his own words in the Gospels, the sign has already 605 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:48,240 been given. There be no sign but Jonah, 3 606 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:51,080 days and three nights in the belly of the earth. 607 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,640 And so just as Jonas came from that situation with a message 608 00:36:55,840 --> 00:37:00,840 that changed a Gentile city, Jesus arose also, and a message 609 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,120 continued as well. And listen, that message is 610 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:13,080 still able to change you today. Some worship, some doubt, but 611 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,120 whether you as a worshipper or a doubter, all were invited. 612 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,000 All were invited. So you don't have to have all 613 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,480 the answers this morning. Hear me well. 614 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,080 I don't have all the answers. You don't have to have all the 615 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,000 answers. You don't even have to feel 616 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,200 qualified. But if you can come in faith 617 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,440 today, faith in the one who conquered death, I guarantee he 618 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,040 can meet us right here this morning. 619 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,240 If you're here today and you're tired of running you, you've 620 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:39,520 been waiting maybe for the sign, so to speak. 621 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,240 Listen, the sign has already been given. 622 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,600 You need the power of His resurrection in your life. 623 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,200 You need the power of His erection, resurrection in your 624 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,560 home, in your mind, because this is it. 625 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,840 This is it. The tomb is empty. 626 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:58,080 Jesus is alive, and from that day until now, Amen. 627 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,120 Even though His physical presence isn't here, but His 628 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:07,120 spirit is, He is still shooing Himself alive by many infallible 629 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:14,400 proofs, and one of those proofs is lives still being changed by 630 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:18,760 the message of whosoever will let him come. 631 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:23,480 So as we come this morning, you can come with your doubts, you 632 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,200 can come with your questions, you can come with your 633 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:26,280 brokenness. It don't matter. 634 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:27,800 You don't have to stay in your seat. 635 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,360 You can come with all of those questionable things in your 636 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:34,040 mind, but you can say, Lord here, my God, just let the power 637 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,680 of your resurrection somehow bring revelation into my life, 638 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,880 that there is victory over death, O God, there's victory 639 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,240 over sin. And because this morning I Satan 640 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:50,760 these means, because the tomb is empty, we can have open altars 641 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,800 in our churches. Because it is empty, we can have 642 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,760 open altars in our churches. And I'm just asking you today, 643 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:03,000 can you respond to an old, old sign that is still just as 644 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,640 relevant, still such as powerful as it's ever been? 645 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:12,440 He arose, there's a message and there was transformation. 646 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,240 And that's still happening today. 647 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,720 That's the only revelation. I need a man of his 648 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:21,360 resurrection. Some of you today can stand here 649 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,120 and say, Brother McGee, I can testify. 650 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,080 I thought there was no hope for me. 651 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,640 I thought I was beyond hope, beyond reach. 652 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,920 But he came down, he found you. He gave you a second chance. 653 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,720 And you're like, I can testify today of the power of his 654 00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:42,480 resurrection because I've experienced in my I have no 655 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,480 roots, if you will, that maybe maybe some of you don't have no 656 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,800 roots that are Jewish, so to speak, or you don't have this or 657 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,880 you don't have listen, it's the whosoever will chin. 658 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,200 It doesn't matter. Resurrection just busted open 659 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,760 the doors for a way of ministry reaching every tribe, every 660 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,960 nation around the world, and he's still doing it today. 661 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:11,040 I just sat up on my Facebook. I was sharing the a OJC of the 662 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,520 Philippines not long ago of all the different ones that got 663 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:17,920 baptized in the Holy Ghost in 2024 and it's just astronomical. 664 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:24,000 Filipino people Church is being accepted. 665 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,200 It's all happened all over the world. 666 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,720 If you never follow some of our missionaries, you just need to 667 00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:31,840 do it because it's the scope beyond the United States, right? 668 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,560 The whole world knows. I don't need any other evidence 669 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:40,920 of the power of a resurrected life when I see the resurrected 670 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:45,760 lives of those from an old life to a new life today. 671 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,440 Hallelujah. Can we just be mindful, The 672 00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,120 Lord, right now? I love you, God. 673 00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:55,680 God, I know sometimes we have doubts and I know sometimes we 674 00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,360 have unbelief and there's questions and maybe, God, that 675 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,800 we falter in our walk and we falter. 676 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:08,120 Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus, you gave us the sign, God, it's the 677 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,560 sign that forever changed the world and changed the dynamics 678 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,800 of the life of those that would allow it, Lord Jesus, into the 679 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:19,320 innermost parts of their lives. Hallelujah, Jesus. 680 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,120 Lord, next week we're going to come in here. 681 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,920 We're going to celebrate that resurrection next week. 682 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,640 We're going to come in here, we're going to lift up that 683 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,480 name. We're going to take special time 684 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,040 to do so. But God, there's no reason why 685 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,120 God can't even celebrate it today. 686 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:37,280 And what that power and that glorified Lord Jesus means. 687 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,360 Lord for our personal lives, day by day, hour by hour. 688 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,680 God, what it's done for me. God, I might as well been just 689 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,800 another member, Lord of society and Nineveh. 690 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,920 God that was turning Lord from my evil way. 691 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,960 God that went to a mode of repentance, of crying out for 692 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,840 God for mercy. He's still willing to extend it 693 00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,080 today. The power of the resurrection 694 00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,720 isn't just a power that's known in the 1st century, but it is 695 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:06,040 trans. It is transition from century to 696 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:07,880 century. It's still got power. 697 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,320 The blood still has power. That act that signs still has 698 00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:15,040 power. It's able, Hallelujah, the blood 699 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,960 of the crucifix is still able, still able to heal the power, 700 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:21,240 the resurrection is still able to revive. 701 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,520 Amen. Those from an old life to a new 702 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:25,720 life and give you a hope for it tomorrow. 703 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:30,240 Hallelujah, Jesus, let's worship him right now in song. 704 00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:33,680 This altar is open, Amen. And it's open because there is 705 00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:36,200 empty tomb. It's open because there is a 706 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:39,200 vacancy somewhere in Jerusalem where a body was laid. 707 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:44,440 I beg you, Lord Jesus, today, God, for a resurrected Christ, 708 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,640 the resurrected Savior. Hallelujah, He's my Messiah. 709 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,880 He's the anointed one. He's my Messiah. 710 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,240 Come on, let's go to the Lord and worship right now. 711 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:57,840 I love you Jesus. I love you Jesus. 712 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:03,440 Jesus, thank you for your grace. You came down God. 713 00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:10,520 You reached down and found me. You came down my sin. 714 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,960 Then you watched and clipped.