1 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:06,240 Amen. That was good singing. 2 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,400 Turn with me tonight in your Bible to Matthew chapter 12 3 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:21,720 Short Bible reading 5 verses. Matthew chapter 12 will commence 4 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:29,160 reading at verse 38. Let's hear the word of God for 5 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,200 those online the words will come up and scream. 6 00:00:42,930 --> 00:00:47,290 Matthew chapter 12 will read from verse 38. 7 00:00:49,690 --> 00:00:55,970 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, 8 00:00:55,970 --> 00:01:00,930 saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 9 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:08,040 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous 10 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:14,560 generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given 11 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:19,200 to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. 12 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,080 For as Jonas was 3 days and three nights in the wheels 13 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:32,200 belly, so shall the Son of Man be 3 days and three nights in 14 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:37,120 the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh shall rise in 15 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:43,040 judgement with this generation, and shall condemn it because 16 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,080 they repented at the preaching of Jonas. 17 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:53,040 And behold, a greater than Jonas is here. 18 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:55,360 Amen. We know God will stamp with His 19 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,400 own approval and blessing this short reading of His own 20 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:04,960 precious and infallible. Now my text tonight is taken 21 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:11,640 from Matthew chapter 12, and it's really from verse 38 right 22 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:16,760 through to verse 41. And my theme this evening I've 23 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:22,320 simply entitled The Sign of the Prophet Jonas. 24 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,320 It's not what the Lord Jesus said, but he answered and said 25 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,880 unto them, verse 39 look at the book. 26 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,960 An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, 27 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,880 but there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of the 28 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:41,120 prophet Jonas. Now according to the context of 29 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,600 this passage of holy inspired scripture, the fight, the 30 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:51,840 scribes and Pharisees came to the Lord Jesus and said, Master, 31 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,840 we would see a sign from thee. Now young people understand 32 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,960 this, the scribes were the doctors of the law. 33 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,840 They were well versed in the Holy Scriptures and certain 34 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,640 members with them were called Pharisees. 35 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:11,800 They belong to a very strict religious sect who tried to 36 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,320 fulfil or live out the law according to the dictate of the 37 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,000 scribes. And here they are. 38 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,920 They come to the Lord Jesus. Notice they dress Him as Master 39 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:27,720 and they demand a sign from Him. This demand for a sign didn't 40 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:32,600 arise from faith on their part, Rather it rose, I believe, from 41 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,600 a spirit of unbelief. They had already seen his 42 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:40,440 miracles. The blind were healed, the lame 43 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:46,080 were walking again, devils had been cast out, even the dead had 44 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,440 been raised. And still they refused to 45 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,520 believe. This fact, of course, reveals 46 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:54,520 the true state and condition of their heart. 47 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,320 See, no amount of evidence, no matter who presented it, no 48 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,640 matter the way in which that evidence was proclaimed, will 49 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:07,400 convince a natural heart that's unwilling to accept and believe 50 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:12,000 the evidence that needs a special work of the Holy Spirit. 51 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:16,560 It's called in theological terms, regeneration, or more 52 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,279 colloquially, we know it as the new birth. 53 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,160 Jesus said to Nicodemus, Marvel not that I say unto thee, you 54 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:27,760 must be born again. Now notice this, the Lord Jesus 55 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,640 refused to perform signs and demand. 56 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:37,000 Instead he points them to one supreme Old Testament saying, 57 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,880 namely the sign of the prophet Jonah. 58 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:48,760 Now the prophet Jonah is not a a fictional character as some 59 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:54,360 allege, but a factual one. We would have to believe in the 60 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,160 historicity of the prophet Jonas. 61 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:02,040 We would have to believe in the literal Life and Times of such a 62 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,400 one called Jonas or Jonah. Why? 63 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:10,280 Because that individual is fully endorsed and proclaimed and 64 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:13,840 believed in by the Lord Jesus Christ himself. 65 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,840 And on top of Christ's endorsement of the prophet Jonah 66 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,440 and the story of him being 3 days and three nights in the 67 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:28,920 wheels belly, the Lord Jesus points that the sign of the 68 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,840 prophet Jonah being 3 days and three nights in the wheel's 69 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:39,960 belly is a prophetic picture of the death and the burial and the 70 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:45,240 resurrection of himself. You see, that day he declared 71 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,600 something striking. Notice what he said. 72 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,160 Behold, a greater than Jonas is here. 73 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,640 The Old Testament prophet Jonah pointed forward. 74 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:02,400 But Christ, of course, in his person and work is the 75 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,480 fulfilment of Jonah's foreshadowing. 76 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,040 Now as I looked at this text of scripture and wrestled with it, 77 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:12,680 there's three things come to mind. 78 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:19,360 First of all, the sinful seekers seeking signs. 79 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:24,480 You know, I like a letter reason the sinful seekers seeking 80 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:31,600 signs, the Lord Jesus called them verse 39, an evil, an 81 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:37,160 adulterous generation. Why such strong language? 82 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:43,360 You see, they were seeking a sign and it wasn't because of 83 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:48,760 the lack of factual evidence. Factual evidence abounded in the 84 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,560 Old Testament. Think of the character of Jonas, 85 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:56,040 his Life and Times, what he foreshadowed and pictured. 86 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,440 Factual evidence abounded in the New Testament. 87 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:03,960 See I believe tonight in two Testaments and one Bible and in 88 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:08,400 the Old Testament, Christ is foretold and foreshadowed often 89 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:13,880 times and types and characters. And in the New Testament, Christ 90 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:18,240 is fully revealed as the Son of man, Son of God. 91 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,600 In the New Testament, Christ is no longer foretold. 92 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,680 Christ is fulfilling the words of prophecy. 93 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:30,600 Here's for all true revelation begins. 94 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:36,080 Revelation begins with the acceptance of the Bible as the 95 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:38,760 infallible, inerrant word of God. 96 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,920 I can ask tonight, what saith the Scriptures in any subject? 97 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:49,000 And I believe that what the Scriptures says, God says, and 98 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:56,280 what God says in the Tri unity of his person is fully revealed 99 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,840 for us in the fully in the Holy Scriptures. 100 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:04,240 Remember Paul says all scripture is given by inspiration of God 101 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:09,920 and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for instruction in 102 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,080 righteousness. Second Timothy 316, the word 103 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:18,800 translated inspiration means God briefed and you see every word 104 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:25,920 of the Bible including its grammar, including the context, 105 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:31,440 the letters as a direct result of the very breath of God. 106 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,360 I believe tonight that every word is pure, every word is 107 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:39,679 precious, every word is powerful, and every word is 108 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,799 plain, and of all Scripture is God breathed. 109 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,560 Then the Scripture cannot be broken, the Scripture cannot 110 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:51,400 contradict itself. And every apparent and seeming 111 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:56,000 difficulty and every apparent seeming discrepancy that 112 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:02,320 so-called scholars flag up must be resolved not by the opinions 113 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:09,120 of men, not by church councils, not even by preachers, but by a 114 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:14,280 careful understanding of the text and its context. 115 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:20,240 You see, remember on the resurrection day, when the two 116 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:24,560 were going back to Emmaus from Jerusalem, He said unto them on 117 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:29,600 the road, O fools and slow of heart, to believe all that the 118 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,800 prophets have spoken. Luke 24, verse 25. 119 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,040 Listen to verse 26. Ought not Christ you have 120 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,240 suffered these things, and to enter into His glory? 121 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:44,520 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto 122 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:49,080 them, and all the Scriptures, the things concerning himself. 123 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,160 And later in the upper room with His disciples, he said unto 124 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:58,040 them, These are the words which I speak unto you, while I was 125 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,320 yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which are 126 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,640 written in the law of Moses. That's the first five books of 127 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:09,880 the Old Testament and then the prophets, major and minor, and 128 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:11,720 then the Psalms. That's the writing. 129 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:17,000 Five books are involved in that concerning me. 130 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:23,480 You see these people that were looking a sign, demanding a sign 131 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,880 for Christ. He called them an evil and 132 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:29,360 daughter's generation. It was not that they were 133 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:34,360 lacking evidence because the factual evidence was abounding 134 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:38,440 in the Holy Scriptures. Why then come seeking a sign? 135 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:40,440 Why demand a sign from the master? 136 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,160 Because they were lacking faiths experience. 137 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,280 Imagine this. Imagine a man out for a walk and 138 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:51,000 I'm not picking any man. It's a great day, it's not 139 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,280 raining. Hallelujah. 140 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:53,800 That's what we'd be shooting, wouldn't we? 141 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:59,520 And you're walking in the power of the sunlight of heaven. 142 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,200 We'll see. It's noontime. 143 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,680 This man has a friend with him. And this man says to his 144 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:08,800 friends, can you prove to me the sun exists? 145 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:11,760 Well, well, you would laugh, wouldn't you? 146 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:13,080 You'd, you'd have him in derision. 147 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:20,240 You see, the issue is not the absence of light, but it's the 148 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:24,640 absolute refusal to see and rejoice in that light. 149 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:31,040 And you see many today refused to see and believe the evidence. 150 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,520 For example, they refused to believe that the Bible is the 151 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:39,160 word of God. They they exclaimed, that's a 152 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:41,920 book full of errors and contradiction. 153 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,200 That's a lie that they're believing a lie. 154 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,040 They're convincing themselves that that's true. 155 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:56,520 And yet the Lord Jesus said in John 12 and 37, But though he 156 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:01,760 had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not in 157 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,000 him. And remember the story of the 158 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:10,320 rich man in Lazareth. Abraham told, if we are to 159 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,880 believe that the rich man was called Davies, if that was his 160 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,840 name, he said this. They have Moses and the 161 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,160 prophets. Let them hear them. 162 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:23,440 In other words, let your five brothers listen to the word of 163 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,680 God. Let them learn from the Old 164 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:28,680 Testament Scriptures. Davies argued, this is what he 165 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:31,000 said. Nay, father Abraham, but if one 166 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,640 went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 167 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,200 In other words, they'll recognise their sin, they'll 168 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,760 repudiate it, they'll repent of it. 169 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,120 They they'll receive Christ as Lord and Saviour. 170 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:47,160 Listen to Abraham's reply. If they hear not Moses and the 171 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:52,200 prophets, that's a reference to the Old Testament scriptures. 172 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:56,800 Neither will they be persuaded. The one rise from the dead. 173 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:02,080 Thomas Watson said unbelief was not a defect of reason, it's the 174 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:06,120 depravity of the will. See, the scribes and Pharisees, 175 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,960 they didn't need more signs. They had got an abundance of 176 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:16,960 signs, the messages, the miracles, the mercy of Christ. 177 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:21,760 They needed new hearts, they needed to be born again. 178 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,680 They needed to be savingly joined to Jesus Christ through 179 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:28,520 faith. See, let me ask you this 180 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,760 question. Is that your experience tonight? 181 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:39,960 Many today say to us in the Church, if only I saw a miracle, 182 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:47,080 I would believe the blind be given sight, the lame walking 183 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:52,880 again, the dead raised, the devils cast out. 184 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:59,520 Let me tell you, you wouldn't. Why do I know that? 185 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:04,920 Because God has already given the greatest of all miracles and 186 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,440 the person of Christ, the miracle of his incarnation, the 187 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:13,040 miracle of his crucifixion on Yonder tree, and the miracle of 188 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:17,200 the resurrection, the proof of the anti tomb. 189 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:23,280 And yet despite the factual evidence of these great miracles 190 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:29,480 that God has revealed, all found in the Holy Scriptures, the vast 191 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:33,080 majority of people still refuse to believe. 192 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:39,560 You see, it's not a new sight, it's a new sight. 193 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:45,160 It's a sight of Christ. We should pray, Lord, not only 194 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,160 open the King of England's eyes, pray for King Charles that the 195 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:51,840 Lord opens his eyes and Prince William as well, but open the 196 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,400 people's eyes. People in, carried off and 197 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:58,600 beyond people within our family circles and beyond, people that 198 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,080 we rub shoulders with. We should pray, Lord, open their 199 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:02,760 eyes. Why? 200 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:06,320 Because they're spiritually blind, they're spiritually dead 201 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,800 to their sin, their need of Christ, they're spiritually 202 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,640 diseased. They, they, they don't love the 203 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,960 Lord Jesus Christ and truth by the Lord of mercy. 204 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,040 I want you to think secondly tonight, not only the sinful 205 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:25,960 seekers seeking signs, but think of the sovereign Saviour showing 206 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,240 signs. Now look at our text. 207 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,840 It says in verse 39 an evil an adulterer's generation seeketh 208 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,760 after a sign, but there shall no sign be given to it but the sign 209 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:43,400 of the prophet Jonas. OK, so the Lord Jesus said I'm 210 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:49,360 only going to give you 1 sign, the sign of the prophet Jonas. 211 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,760 So he's pointing them back to the Old Testament scriptures. 212 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:59,320 Notice what He says for us. Jonah Jonas was 3 days and three 213 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,600 nights in the whales belly. So shall the Son of Man be 3 214 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,160 days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 215 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:12,000 And that corresponds exactly to Jonah chapter 1 and verse 17. 216 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,480 Let me read it to you. Now the Lord had prepared a 217 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,840 great fish to swallow up Jonah. The Lord Jesus called the great 218 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:26,680 fish a whale, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish 3 days and 219 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:35,240 three nights. That's not accidental, that's 220 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:43,160 historical, that's literal. That's factual. 221 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,280 You see, the Lord Jesus believed in the prophet Jonah. 222 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,400 There was such an historical character who lived in Old 223 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,120 Testament times. The Lord Jesus believed that the 224 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:01,560 prophet Jonah spent three days and three nights in the whale's 225 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:05,920 belly. The Lord Jesus believed in the 226 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,280 story of Jonah and the whale. Wow. 227 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:14,440 It's not a revelation. Scholars deny that preachers 228 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:21,480 decry against it. But the Lord Jesus, he uttered 229 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,119 these words. He fully believed it. 230 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:30,720 The words are not only truthful words, they're literal, factual, 231 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,760 and historical. But I'll tell you more than 232 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:33,680 that. Listen to me carefully. 233 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,200 They're central to the Gospel. Why? 234 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:38,440 Because Jonah is a type of Christ. 235 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:42,680 Did you know that Jonah is a real, true Old Testament 236 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,120 character. He really lived. 237 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:45,480 You know where he lived? He lived in the north of 238 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:46,680 Galilee. Do you know where he lived? 239 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:50,280 About four miles from Nazareth, in a wee place called Gath 240 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:52,320 Heifer. How do I know that? 241 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,080 Well, it says that in the Bible. Second Kings chapter 14, verse 242 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,240 25, you look it up in the days of Jeroboam, that's when he 243 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:02,000 ministered. I'll tell you something else 244 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,440 about Jonah. He descended into the deep. 245 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,800 Jonah one verse 17, He was in the whale's belly. 246 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:13,200 Jonah was there in the whale's belly as one dead. 247 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,560 And Jonah emerged after three days and three nights in the 248 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:22,160 whale's belly. And Jonah was a type of Christ, 249 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:27,320 and Jonah pointed to Christ, and the Lord Jesus fulfilled the 250 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:31,560 reality because the Lord Jesus, of course, is a real, true 251 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:33,640 historical figure. Do you know there's more 252 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,640 evidence for Jesus Christ than there is for the man called 253 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:43,120 Julius Caesar? And yet these men, atheists and 254 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:47,000 agnostics, they don't come forward and many others and deny 255 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,800 the historicity of Julius Caesar. 256 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,880 And then they had the cheek to say, well, well, I don't believe 257 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,480 in a man called Jesus of Nazareth. 258 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,200 I'll tell you something else. He not when he was a real true 259 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,760 historical figure, but Christ descended into the heart of the 260 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,160 earth. You've got to think about the 261 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,120 time that he spent in the tomb of Joseph of Ourmathea, the 262 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:14,200 Gardenton. And Christ truly died literally, 263 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,800 physically, the horrible death, the crucifixion. 264 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,840 And of course, Christ rose again, literally and bodily and 265 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:25,280 tangibly in power and glory. And I, I preached in that this 266 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:27,440 morning the proof of the empty tomb. 267 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,520 Now here's a question, and I was asked this question of the 268 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:35,920 recent Bible study. How can the Lord Jesus Christ 269 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:41,280 have been dead for three days and three nights if he died on 270 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:46,640 Good Friday and was raised before Sunday morning? 271 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:52,760 And how could he fulfil the type of Jonah literally? 272 00:19:54,480 --> 00:20:00,800 Now let me answer that. I believe the Bible and I 273 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,800 believe that Christ's words are literal and precise. 274 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,040 I'm not just taking the three days and three nights according 275 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,760 to Matthew chapter 12 verse 40 literally. 276 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:20,600 I'm taking them seriously. I think of the plea and literal 277 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,600 statement of Christ here. 3 days and three nights. 278 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,480 That matches Jonah 117. I've already read it literally 279 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,560 and exactly. If Jonah's time was exact and 280 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:36,920 literal, then so must the Lord Jesus time be literal and exact 281 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,480 as it is. If not, then we would have to 282 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,920 say, well, the same breaks down, the same requires you to agree 283 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:50,000 with me the exact fulfilment. Let's think not beyond the plain 284 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,240 literal statement of Christ. Let's think of the period in 285 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,920 view. See, to understand what occurred 286 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:03,200 between the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it 287 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:09,200 is vital that you keep the Jewish time or the Hebrew 288 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,960 reckoning of time in view. You see in Scripture, when does 289 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:18,320 the day begin? The day begins at sunset. 290 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,920 When is sunset? It's at 6:00 PM. 291 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,760 Day doesn't begin at midnight. Do you know when Genesis 1 and 292 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,880 five we read, and the evening and the morning were the first 293 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:34,040 day? Each day contained an evening 294 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,640 followed by a morning. And did you know that during the 295 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:45,280 Passover week there were two Sabbaths that week there was a 296 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:49,520 high Sabbath, the holy Sabbath. And then of course, that was 297 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,520 followed by the weekly Sabbath. How do I know that? 298 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,200 Well, you see, when we compare Scripture with Scripture, listen 299 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,560 again to the Word of God. And we're reading from John 19 300 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,760 and verse 31. The Jews, therefore, because it 301 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:08,080 was the preparation that the body should not remain upon the 302 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:13,160 cross on the Sabbath day. For that Sabbath day was a high 303 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,200 day. So it's not the weekly Sabbath, 304 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,560 besought Pilate, that their legs might be broken and that they 305 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:28,760 might be taken away. OK, underline those words. 306 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:33,280 For that Sabbath day was an high day. 307 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:40,840 It was the Passover Sabbath. Now that is different and 308 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:42,880 distinct from the weekly Sabbath. 309 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,280 Did you know that the Feasts of the Lord each contained an 310 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,360 additional Sabbath? That day was called a holy 311 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:54,960 convocation. The Feast of Unleavened Bread or 312 00:22:54,960 --> 00:23:01,080 the Feast of Passover always began on the 15th day of Nyssa, 313 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:09,240 and on the first day it began. That day was a Sabbath. 314 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:16,120 And John refers to this directly concerning the crucifixion. 315 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:21,080 John 1931. For that Sabbath day was an high 316 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:25,360 day. The high day was the annual 317 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:27,720 festival Sabbath of Unleavened Bread. 318 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,920 And that year. Now listen to me carefully. 319 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:37,000 That year in AD 33, it failed this high day, this holy 320 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,120 convocation. It failed in the day after the 321 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:45,520 crucifixion of the Lord Jesus, which produced 2 Sabbaths in the 322 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:50,320 same week. The High Sabbath was on the 323 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:55,600 Thursday and the normal weekly Sabbath on the Saturday. 324 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:01,880 And that distinction is key to the reconciliation of every 325 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:06,360 Gospel reverence concerning Christ's crucifixion and 326 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:10,120 resurrection. Once the High Sabbath and the 327 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:14,560 weekly Sabbath are both recognised, then the timeline 328 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:19,960 aligns perfectly with Christ's statement of literal fulfilment. 329 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,720 As Jonah was 3 days and three nights in the Wales belly, so 330 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,520 shall the Son of Man be 3 days and three nights in the heart of 331 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,200 the earth. It coincides with what Paul 332 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,240 said. Christ died for our sins 333 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,840 according to the scriptures, and he was buried and he rose again 334 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:40,360 the third day according to the scriptures. 335 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:47,320 Young people, the timeline or the timetable was not random. 336 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,000 It's real. It was written long before the 337 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,200 Lord Jesus entered in to Jerusalem. 338 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,760 And we could link up these references. 339 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:58,960 I haven't time to open up them all. 340 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:05,360 Jonah 117, Hosea 6 and two foretold, After two days will he 341 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:10,200 raise us up, and then the third day he will raise us up. 342 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,240 Psalm 16, verse 10. Exodus 12. 343 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:19,320 Leviticus 23 prescribed that the Passover lambs were slain on 344 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:27,240 Nissan 14 and that the following day Nissan 15 began the Feast of 345 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,800 the Unleavened bread with his own special Sabbath day. 346 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:37,120 And Paul, remember, later identified Jesus as the real 347 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:40,680 saying beside behind the symbol of the Passover when he said 348 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,040 Christ our Passover was sacrifice for us. 349 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,080 First Corinthians 5 and seven. Now let's just think very 350 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,600 quickly of the precise blueprint here. 351 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:59,680 Tuesday was Nissan 13AD33, the Lord Jesus publicly preached for 352 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,800 the last time in the temple. You can read about that Matthew 353 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,080 chapter 23 right through to Matthew chapter 25. 354 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,040 In the middle was the Olivet Discourse, Matthew 24 to his 355 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,280 disciples that evening after sunset. 356 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,080 You've got to think about Tuesday evening. 357 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:22,800 Now we're coming into the 14th because remember, the day began 358 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:29,840 at 6:00 PM. From 6P on PM onwards, the 14th, 359 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,400 the Lord Jesus and his 12th disciples gathered to celebrate 360 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,480 the Passover meal, and there, of course, he instituted the Lord's 361 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:42,320 Supper. Later that night they went to 362 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,920 the Garden of Gethsemane and there he prayed in deep agony. 363 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,000 And then Judas arrived with armed men, sometimes probably in 364 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:56,560 around 12:00, and the Lord Jesus was arrested around midnight. 365 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:04,720 How do we know? John chapter 18, verses 3 366 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:10,160 through to 12. And Christ was taken to Annus 367 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:15,200 and then to Caiaphas to his house, where he endured a night 368 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,280 of false accusation, where he was beaten, where he was put 369 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,320 into prison. You can read all about this in 370 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:28,800 Matthew chapter 26, verses 57 to 68, John 18313 right through to 371 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,200 verse 24. He was held overnight in the 372 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,720 prison cell During that night. Remember Peter denied the Lord 373 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,680 with those in cursings. And remember, as the Lord Jesus 374 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,040 come up out of the prison cell and was coming across the 375 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,040 courtyard, he didn't speak, but he just looked at Peter and 376 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:49,920 Peter wept bitterly as he came up those steps. 377 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,480 It was Wednesday morning, Nissan 14. 378 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,000 The Lord Jesus was officially condemned by the Sanhedrin 379 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,040 Council and sent to Pontius Pilate. 380 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:04,160 Matthew chapter 27, verses 1 and 2, Mark 15 and one after 381 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,520 interrogation, Pilate sent him to Herod. 382 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,720 And then he, he was sent from Herod back to Pilate. 383 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:13,920 Pontius Pilate examined him and said, I find no fault in him. 384 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,480 The mob cried out, crucify him, crucify him. 385 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:24,120 And about 9:00 in the morning of Nissan, the 14th, he was led to 386 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:31,520 Golgotha outside the city. And from Wednesday midday to the 387 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:36,960 afternoon, that's noon to 3:00 PM, the Lord Jesus was crucified 388 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,120 on the cross. Darkness covered the land. 389 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,720 Near the end of 3:00 PM, he cried, My God, my God, why hast 390 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,240 thy forsaken me? Finally at 3:00 PM, he bowed his 391 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:53,120 head and said, it is finished. The Bible tells us he bowed his 392 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:58,200 head and gave up the ghost. It was the 9th hour, 3:00 PM, 393 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:03,040 exactly the same time that the Passover lambs were slain in the 394 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,000 temple. And at that precise moment, the 395 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,000 veal in the temple was torn in two. 396 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,240 And it's Wednesday now. It's late in the afternoon. 397 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,600 There's going to be a burial before sunset. 398 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,680 Luke 2354. The evening approached. 399 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,760 That day was preparation, and the Sabbath drew on. 400 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,400 Remember, that's the high Sabbath. 401 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,920 Joseph of Armathea requested the body of Jesus Christ be taken 402 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,640 down from the cross. He and Nicodemus together 403 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,480 wrapped it in linen, spiced it up a little bit, and placed it 404 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,880 in Joseph of Armathea's new tomb hewn out of rock. 405 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:45,520 And you can read about this Matthew chapter 27, verse 57 to 406 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:50,720 60, John 1938 to 42. And the Lord Jesus was buried 407 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:56,360 before sunset on the Wednesday, and that marked the close of 408 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:04,480 Nissan 14 and when the sunset at 6:00 PM, the High Sabbath of the 409 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,800 Feast of the Unleavened Bread began. 410 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,600 Now that night, listen to me carefully. 411 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:19,720 Wednesday's sundown to Thursday sundown was the first night and 412 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,840 the first day that the Lord Jesus was in His tomb. 413 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,680 And that explains, of course, John 19, verse 31. 414 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,560 The High Sabbath corresponds to the first day of the feast, 415 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,560 fulfilling Leviticus 23 and verse 7. 416 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,520 The people rested. The woman who had followed Jesus 417 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,880 could do no work. It was a special holy Sabbath, 418 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:47,080 not the weekly Sabbath. The Lord Jesus remains sealed in 419 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:52,840 the tomb of Joseph Armathea. This was the second night and 420 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:59,600 the second day of His burial. Thursday sundown to Friday 421 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:05,880 sundown and when the High Sabbath ended at 6:00 PM on the 422 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,840 Thursday evening normal activities began. 423 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,320 Commerce resumed when we were out in the land of Israel after 424 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:19,000 the Sabbath was ended at 6:00 PM on the Saturday normal commerce 425 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,400 took place. The shops were opened. 426 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,840 So that's the picture Mark 16 verse one that says and when the 427 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:31,280 Sabbath was passed, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of 428 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:35,760 James and Shalom had bought. I'd never seen this before. 429 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:41,000 It doesn't say brought. It says bought. 430 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,360 And that purchase took place on the Thursday night between 6:00 431 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:51,480 PM or early Friday morning or the late afternoon up until 432 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,440 Friday at 6:00 PM when another Sabbath was about to kick in. 433 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:59,840 The weekly Sabbath. Luke 2356 says the woman then 434 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,960 prepared the spices. They rested the Sabbath day 435 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:08,440 according to the commandment. So this Thursday, 6:00 PM, 436 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:13,400 Friday to 6:00 PM was the work period between the two Sabbaths. 437 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:21,800 The Lord Jesus remained in the tomb Friday daylight, Then He 438 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:26,400 entered the third night after Friday at sunset. 439 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:33,520 So Friday at sunset. Saturday sunset, 6:00 PM was the 440 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:39,080 weekly Sabbath day. And now we come to Nissan 17 On 441 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,240 the weekly Sabbath, the body of the Lord Jesus lay undisturbed. 442 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,360 Meanwhile, the chief priest went to Pilate, requested guard for 443 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,000 the tomb. Matthew chapter 2763. 444 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:52,160 Sir, we remember that Deceiver said after three days I'll rise 445 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,080 again. So they sealed the tomb. 446 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,200 They said a watch. And the Lord Jesus remained in 447 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:03,240 the tomb through the 3rd day. And after the Sabbath ended at 448 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:09,560 6:00 PM on the Saturday night, the Lord Jesus had completed 3 449 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,120 days and three nights in the tomb. 450 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,960 And I believe that's the moment that the resurrection arrived. 451 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:24,320 Just as sunset marked the beginning of the first day of 452 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,480 the new week, Sunday remembers the first day of the week. 453 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,240 The woman came to the tomb around dawn. 454 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:36,080 The Lord Jesus had already risen, and the Gospel testifies 455 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:40,640 to this literal timeline. And when you account for the two 456 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:46,680 Sabbaths, a High Sabbath, and a weekly Sabbath, then the literal 457 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,680 timeline kicks in. I'm well aware there's a 458 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,960 traditional timeline, and if you believe that the Lord bless you. 459 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:56,880 I'm well aware that many believe that Jesus was crucified on the 460 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,920 Friday and was resurrected on a Sunday morning. 461 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,960 That's fine. I I understand that because of 462 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,880 the Jews reckoning a method of counting time, it's different 463 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,520 from ours. Any part of a day can be counted 464 00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:14,000 as a whole day. That's why many believe he was 465 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,360 crucified in Good Friday and resurrect at an Easter Sunday. 466 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,560 But as I'm saying to you, I believe this The resurrection 467 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:28,880 had occurred at the close of the Sabbath, sometime after, not 468 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:34,000 precisely at sunrise. On the Sunday it was before 469 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,880 sunrise. He'd already risen when the 470 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,199 woman came to the tomb, and once the events are sequenced 471 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:44,880 correctly, that Jesus was buried just before sunset. 472 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:49,040 And Wednesday. The three nights correspond to 473 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,400 Wednesday, Thursday, Thursday, Friday, Friday, Saturday, the 474 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,840 three days, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. 475 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:02,040 And then you've got sunset at 6:00 PM and then you have the 476 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:06,280 beginning of the new day, the Sunday, the 1st day of the week. 477 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,040 And that corresponds precisely to three days and three nights 478 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,840 corresponds to what Paul said the third day since the 479 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,960 crucifixion because he was using the Hebrew or Jewish 480 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:25,120 understanding of time. Christ himself said, after three 481 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:30,520 days I will rise again. One final thing, you've been 482 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,320 very patient. The time has gone, the solemn 483 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,360 sayings of the Scripture sign. Look again at our text. 484 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:39,520 It says the men of Nineveh shall rise up in judgement with this 485 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,880 generation and shall condemn it because they repented at the 486 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,680 preaching of Jonas. Behold a greater than Jonas's 487 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:50,680 Here the men of Nineveh stand as a powerful warning. 488 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:56,040 They had a reluctant prophet with a brief message, yet 40 489 00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,800 days and none of us shall be destroyed. 490 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,040 They repented at the preaching of Jonas. 491 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,280 But there wasn't a reluctant prophet in Christ. 492 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,240 There was a redeeming prophet, the Son of God himself. 493 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,920 He came with a powerful message, a message of grace and mercy. 494 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,920 He came performing many mighty miracles. 495 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:21,000 He came with clear teaching, repent and believe the gospel. 496 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,120 Yet they rejected him. The Bible says He came unto his 497 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,560 own and his own received him not Why? 498 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:32,680 Because they refused to repent. They refused the voice of King 499 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:37,240 Jesus. The men of Nineveh believe God, 500 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:45,360 and yet the people of Christ day and the people in our day, even 501 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:46,760 though they've got greater light. 502 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,760 The Bible asked this question, How shall ye escape if you 503 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:59,160 neglect so great salvation? You see the sign of Jonas is a 504 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:05,240 call to repent and believe because a greater than Jonas has 505 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:10,160 come and the solemn saying of the scripture saying is set to 506 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:15,360 the one side and rejected. So here we have a sinful seeking 507 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,960 after a sign, and here we have a sovereign Saviour providing a 508 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:27,040 sign, a literal sign fulfilled by himself of three days and 509 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:28,720 three nights in the belly of the earth. 510 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,640 And that literal sign points to the saying of the Scripture. 511 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,600 Repent ye and believe the gospel. 512 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:41,880 Have you repented? Have you believed the gospel? 513 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:46,000 Are you trusting in Christ? Do you believe the Bible? 514 00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:51,360 See, once we come to that conviction and we're convinced, 515 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,840 then we'll come. We'll come as he calls. 516 00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,960 We'll leave it there. We pray the Lord will take these 517 00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:02,560 few thoughts and bless them to our heart. 518 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:08,360 We're going to sing in closing a couple of verses of 140.