Participants: John Lomacang
Series Code: 16SCM
Program Code: 16SCM000021S
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00:51 Welcome to 3ABN's Spring Camp Meeting:
00:57 Live from the 3ABN Worship Center. 01:02 Hello and welcome again 01:05 to Spring Camp Meet... No, yeah: Spring. 01:08 Spring Camp Meeting 2016. 01:13 Oh my goodness! It is such a blessing. 01:15 Have you... have you been blessed? Amen! 01:18 I'll tell you what: these meetings for me have been 01:21 life changing... life changing. So I'm so glad that you're here. 01:25 For those of you that are watch- ing at home, we welcome you. 01:29 We are so blessed to be here, and tonight 01:32 we are going to have a wonderful speaker. 01:35 It's Pastor John Lomacang. Amen... amen. 01:39 He is no stranger to us here at 3ABN and to you 01:43 I'm sure. He is the pastor - he's MY pastor - 01:46 here at the Thompsonville Seventh-day Adventist church 01:49 and he's also the director of world evangelism for 01:52 Three Angels Broadcasting Network. 01:54 So we are thrilled to have him this evening. 01:57 He is going to be preaching on A Risen Savior. 02:01 Pastor Lomacang is my family here. 02:04 He and his wife Angie are family to me. 02:07 So he has a special place in my heart. My dad was his principal, 02:11 and my dad gave him "the wire. " So I just want you to know 02:15 he got "the wire." But anyway... 02:17 anyway, we're going to be blessed this evening. 02:20 But before Pastor Lomacang comes to us 02:23 we have Bro. Tim Parton who is going to be playing 02:27 and I hope singing as well People Like Me. 02:31 Pastor Lomacang is going to do the opening prayer 02:34 after Tim Parton. God bless. 02:55 Peter had a temper; 02:59 Thomas had his doubts; 03:03 Jacob was a liar; 03:06 and Jonah headed south. 03:10 Martha had her worries 03:14 and Sarah was too old. 03:18 David wasn't faithful 03:22 and Moses wasn't bold. 03:26 But I used to see them as stained-glass saints... 03:30 they seemed almost divine. 03:34 But now I see them as flesh and blood 03:38 with a heart a lot like mine. 03:41 People like me 03:45 in the hand of a gracious God. 03:49 And though He sees 03:53 where I've been and what I'm not 03:57 oh what a wonder, 04:01 what a beautiful mystery, 04:05 that He chooses and uses 04:08 people like me. 04:13 None of us are perfect; 04:16 we're all broken... we are weak. 04:20 But I see a cloud of witnesses 04:24 and we're in great company. 04:28 With all of our failures and all of our faults 04:33 and all our fears 04:36 the Father still has a plan 04:40 for everybody here... 04:43 just people like me 04:47 in the hands of a gracious God. 04:51 And though He sees 04:55 where I've been and what I'm not 04:59 oh what a wonder, 05:03 what a beautiful mystery, 05:07 that He chooses and uses 05:10 people like me 05:13 to be His hands and feet. 05:16 Oh I believe it's true: 05:20 He's changing this world through people like you 05:25 and people like me. 05:33 God uses people like me. 05:41 Oh what a wonder, 05:45 what a beautiful mystery, 05:49 that He chooses and uses 05:53 people like me. 05:59 God uses people like me. 06:08 Just people like me. 06:17 Amen. Amen. 06:24 Can we say amen again? Amen! 06:27 Bro. Tim Parton. What a privilege to have him a part 06:30 of our team. And I was privileged to work with him 06:33 on my CD entitled The Call. 06:35 Also Reggie and Ladye Love Smith were on there. 06:38 And I had entitled it The Call because there's a call 06:41 on every one of our lives. 06:44 Bow your heads with me 06:47 as I ask for God to give me wisdom for this message. 06:53 Loving Father in heaven, 06:55 this is no ordinary topic 06:58 but I'm just an ordinary man. 07:01 Send now Your Holy Spirit's understanding 07:06 and may my lips be under the divine command of the holy 07:11 instrument that Jesus and the beauty of His risen... 07:18 the beauty of His resurrection 07:21 may be understood and seen by us all. 07:24 I pray in Jesus' holy and precious name, 07:28 Amen. Amen. 07:31 The Risen Savior. It's a simple text 07:36 but I would need years to give you the profound understanding 07:39 behind it. Luke chapter 24 verses 5-6 07:43 is our springboard text for this evening. 07:48 Very simple, but we will only understand the complexity of it 07:54 when we make it to the kingdom. 07:57 "Why do you seek the living among the dead? 08:02 He is not here but is risen. " Can you say amen? 08:07 Amen! Come with me to the scene of the crime. 08:13 Stand with me at the intersection of what was 08:16 and what will be. 08:20 Pause for a moment and inhale the scene. 08:26 Like blackened soot escaping the mouth of an angry furnace 08:30 the finality of death paints the night air. 08:35 If you listen carefully, you will hear the cacophony 08:37 of demons rejoicing. 08:39 The restless clamor of Satanic praise 08:43 collides with the discordant racket of hellborn dissonance 08:48 as the orchestrator of this symphony of death stands erect 08:52 proudly leading his rebellious minions 08:56 in the chorus of temporary victory. 09:01 When Jesus proclaimed "It is finished! " 09:04 what He actually was saying is "Satan is finished! " 09:07 Come on somebody. Amen! 09:09 In The Desire of Ages page 758 Ellen White says: 09:11 "Christ did not yield up His life until He had accomplished 09:16 the work which He came to do. 09:20 And with His parting breath He exclaimed: 09:23 "It is finished! " The battle had been won. 09:27 His right hand and His holy arm had gotten Him the victory. 09:33 As a conqueror He planted His banner on the eternal heights. " 09:38 As the United States did when they landed on the moon, 09:41 they planted their banner. When Jesus died on Mount Calvary, 09:45 when Jesus died on that hill called Golgotha, 09:49 heaven did not just see a defeated Savior 09:53 they saw a Savior that planted the cross 09:57 of victory over sin. What do you say today? Amen! 10:00 The question was asked: was there not joy among the angels? 10:04 Ellen White says: "All heaven triumphed in the Savior's 10:08 victory and Satan was defeated and he knew that his kingdom 10:13 was lost. " But that was not half the story. 10:17 The chief priests and Pharisees, they accomplished their evil 10:21 desires and yet in the recesses of their minds 10:24 there was something about the name Jesus 10:27 that kept their wicked hearts troubled. 10:30 Matthew records their attitude. Matthew chapter 27. 10:34 You've gotta be quick with me... 10:35 verses 62-64. Unable to dismiss the possibility of 10:40 His divinity... Hear me carefully... 10:42 they devised a plan. They thought... The Bible says: 10:45 "On the next day which followed the day of Preparation 10:49 the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together 10:53 to Pilate. And they said: 'Sir, we remember 10:57 while He was still alive how that deceiver said 11:02 'After three days I will rise. ' " 11:04 Well let me ask the question: if He was a deceiver 11:07 why are you so concerned? Amen! 11:09 They continued: "Therefore command that the tomb was made 11:13 secure until the third day. " In other words, help us out. 11:16 "Lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away 11:19 and say to the people 11:21 'He has risen from the dead' so that the last deception 11:25 will be worse than the first. ' " 11:28 The fact of the matter is, the purity of the life of Jesus 11:31 led them to question the permanence of His death. 11:34 And I can almost hear the Jewish contingency say to Pilate 11:37 "In the event that He is the Christ 11:41 we need to make sure that He does not come out! " 11:45 You see, Satan said: "Shut Him up. " But what he did not know 11:48 in less than 72 hours the Father would say: "Get Him up! " 11:51 Come on somebody. Amen! "Shut him up" is quite different 11:54 than "Get Him up! " 11:55 Pilate's hands were washed but his heart was troubled 11:59 and he said in Matthew 27 verse 65: 12:01 "Pilate said to them: 'you have a guard; go your way. 12:06 Make it as secure as you know. ' 12:10 And so they went and made the tomb secure: 12:12 sealing the tomb and setting the guard. " 12:16 The tomb was sealed. The Roman guards stood proudly 12:20 manning their post. 12:22 But the problem was: deceived by the darkness of understanding 12:28 the betrayers of Christ - willingly ignorant of the fact 12:31 that by the death of Jesus the plan of salvation would be 12:34 accomplished. I'll say that again. 12:36 By the death of Jesus the plan of salvation 12:40 would be accomplished. But they didn't know that. 12:42 They thought that by His death the plan of salvation 12:45 would be defeated. They did not see things the way that heaven 12:48 saw it. "Where there is no shedding of blood there is no 12:51 remission of sin. " SOMEBODY had to die. 12:53 "The wages of sin is death. " Jesus chose to take what 12:56 belonged to us that we might have what belongs to Him. 12:59 Somebody say amen. Amen! 13:01 You see, Satan planned an assassination 13:03 but heaven planned a vindication. Amen! 13:06 The redemptive promise - though 4,000 years delayed - 13:09 could not be denied. 13:11 Outside the gate of man's perfection Jesus declared 13:14 4,000 years earlier that "I will but enmity between you 13:18 and the woman and between your seed and her Seed. 13:22 He shall bruise your head 13:25 but you're only going to bruise His heel. " 13:28 His death was not orchestrated by hell. 13:31 Listen carefully: the death of Jesus was not orchestrated 13:34 by hell... it was ordained by heaven. 13:37 Somebody had to die. 13:40 "The Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of the world " 13:43 is the way that John the Revelator says 13:44 in Revelation 13 verse 8. 13:46 This plan was put in place be- fore sin even entered the world. 13:50 "In the event that Your creation dies, are You willing? " 13:54 And the Father and the Son were in chorus about what to do 13:57 in the event that man - His loving creation: man - 14:01 in the event that they fell under the ignominious nature 14:05 of sin and death, Jesus was willing. 14:08 His heart was so moved with compassion and love for us 14:11 He could not settle with the thought 14:14 that eternity would roll without His children there. 14:16 Praise God for that! 14:18 They couldn't take Him down. John 10:18 said: 14:21 "Jesus proclaimed: 'No one takes My life from Me 14:24 but I lay it down of Myself. 14:26 I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. 14:30 This command I have received from My Father. ' " 14:33 The devils of hell could not put Jesus to death until the time. 14:37 Amen! There was no rush. 14:40 They didn't sneak up on Jesus. 14:42 Many occasions had come and gone. 14:45 They made several attempts to shut Him up, 14:47 but the Lord had a plan. He said: "My will is... 14:51 my meet is to do the will of the Father that sent Me. " 14:54 And no power in hell, NO POWER IN HELL, 15:00 could prevent Jesus from accomplishing heaven's design. 15:05 How could they take life from the One who IS life? 15:08 "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. " 15:11 John 1 and verse 4. Desire of Ages Ellen White says: 15:14 "In Christ is life: original unborrowed, underived. " 15:18 He is not a second God; He is not a lesser God... 15:22 He is God Almighty! 15:24 Jesus became what He was not... 15:27 this is the good news... He became what He was not 15:29 so that we could become what we ARE not. 15:33 The apostle Paul said it this way: 15:35 "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us... 15:39 that we might become... " How amazing is the transaction! 15:43 "that we might become... " How lovely! 15:46 Can God do it? "that we might become... " you and me... 15:50 "that we might become the righteousness of God 15:54 in Jesus. " You see, Satan planned to bring Jesus down 15:58 but heaven planned to lift Jesus up! 16:01 He said: "If I be lifted up from the earth I will draw 16:06 all men unto Me. " 16:08 Sometimes when we look at what happened to Jesus 16:10 we look at the nationality of His persecutors. 16:13 We look at the nation of origin of those who carried out His 16:16 assassination. And it's easy to say that the Jews and the Romans 16:19 were really to blame. But Isaiah said 16:22 in Isaiah 53 and verse 5: 16:25 "He was wounded for OUR transgressions; 16:29 He was bruised for OUR iniquities; 16:33 the chastisement of OUR peace is upon Him 16:38 and by His stripes... " Who's healed, somebody? 16:41 "WE are healed. " Glory to God! 16:44 However - I want to say this - even though we can't pin it 16:49 on Rome and say that they were the reasons why He died 16:55 the Bible also says the betrayers of Jesus 16:59 would have been better not to have been born. 17:02 The Son of Man indeed goes, just as it is written of Him. 17:06 Mark 14:21. 17:08 "But woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. 17:12 It would have been good for that man 17:15 had he never been born. " 17:20 I had a chance to read three chapters in Desire of Ages. 17:24 I want to assure you I don't have five hours but I wish I did 17:28 because when you open the book Desire of Ages 17:30 you've got to be ready to step into a divine theatre. 17:35 Amen! You've got to be ready to step into an ultra HD 17:40 three-dimensional revelation of a divine panoply 17:44 that you cannot even imagine. 17:46 Surround sound... it pulls you in. 17:49 It is as though you are standing there in virtual 17:52 divine reality and you can't even breathe. 17:54 You've gotta breathe slowly. 17:56 I tried my best to explain the sermon to my wife last night, 17:59 but I couldn't breathe. I tried to do it this morning 18:01 but I could not prevent myself from crying 18:03 so I said: "Honey, give me the day 18:06 so that I can get past the emotion of it. " 18:08 "I need to get past the emotion so that I can communicate 18:11 the importance. " You see, the Bread of Life was broken. 18:15 The blood of the covenant was poured out. 18:16 All sanctuary language: the Passover Lamb was slain 18:21 and at last - at last - Jesus was at rest. 18:28 His long day of shame and torture had ended. 18:31 The Son of God now lay in tranquility 18:36 in the tomb of Joseph. 18:39 You know, I think about that. Jesus probably said to Himself: 18:44 "That was a big to-do... I just need to take a rest. " 18:48 "Man, if they only knew what they put Me through... 18:52 but if they only know what I'm going to put them through. " 18:55 And He laid in tranquility in the tomb of Joseph, 18:58 His work completed. His hands... Ellen White says when He laid 19:03 "His hands were folded in peace. " 19:06 In the last rays of the setting sun, as Jesus laid 19:11 Friday night swept itself away into eternity. 19:15 Sabbath morning Jesus kept the Sabbath. 19:17 Come on, somebody, say amen. 19:18 Amen! He did what He asked His creation to do: 19:22 He rested on the Sabbath Day. 19:24 You see, the women that followed Jesus, they returned 19:26 and they prepared spices and fragrant oils. 19:29 Ellen White says that a hundred pounds... 19:33 a hundred pounds of embalming oil were prepared 19:36 for the body of Jesus. But they never got a chance to apply it 19:39 because He never began to corrupt. 19:43 So when the last rays of the setting sun 19:45 of Sabbath began to fade into the horizon, 19:49 when the last rays of the setting sun began to fade 19:54 into the horizon... Whoo! 19:57 I've gotta pause and take that in. 20:00 There's so much going on in my mind I've gotta just pause 20:02 and take that in. When the rays of the setting sun of the 20:05 Sabbath began to fade into the horizon 20:08 every molecule in the body of Jesus began to remember 20:12 its divine mission. The pulse of that divine heart 20:17 began to beat in cadence with the rhythm of the voice 20:22 of the angels. The unfallen worlds watched this scene. 20:26 They thought somehow, because the destiny of all... 20:30 the fallen world, the unfallen, the destiny of everybody 20:34 hung on this single event. 20:37 Even though the other worlds had not fallen, 20:40 if Jesus had failed, creation would be forever without 20:44 its Lord. All the planets would cease to be in order 20:48 because the One that kept them in order would be gone 20:51 and the world would have been transformed into one dark prison 20:55 of sin and death throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity. 21:00 I'd like to borrow the lyrics of one of the famous songs: 21:03 "What a difference a day makes! 21:05 Twenty four little hours. " 21:07 It's amazing how the rising sun chase away the darkness. 21:11 All of a sudden, as the Jews begin to see the set of the 21:15 Sabbath, their wicked minds... they're no longer thinking about 21:18 potluck. They're no longer thinking about AY. Come on, 21:21 somebody help me out. They spent their wicked day in 21:24 church on Sabbath after they crucified the Lord. 21:27 They were comfortable to bring Him down before the Sabbath 21:31 thinking that by honoring the Sabbath 21:34 it would remove their guilt of the death of Jesus. 21:38 But all of a sudden the sun began to remind them 21:41 that there's somebody with whom you must given an account. 21:44 All of a sudden the Jewish lead- ers remembered the declaration 21:46 of divinity in John chapter 2 verse 18. 21:49 The Jews once asked Jesus: "What sign would You give us? " 21:54 Since You do all these things: since You raise the dead 21:56 and heal the sick and restore the sight of the blind 22:00 and make the lame walk again, what kind of sign would 22:02 You give them? "And Jesus answered and said to them: 22:05 'Destroy this temple 22:07 and in three days I will raise it up. ' " 22:10 They met the divine architect of creation. Come on, somebody. 22:13 The Man who makes worlds, who creates bodies. 22:16 My good friend who is a pathologist, he said: 22:19 "When the Bible says God 'breathed into man's nostrils 22:22 the breath of life and he became a living soul ' " 22:24 my friend who... who... I'm not medical... 22:30 I've got to get the word... 22:32 who does autopsies at the cellular level 22:36 he says... "we have no idea what God did when He 22:40 knelt down and formed man after His divine similitude. " 22:45 He said: "We have no idea. " 22:47 That these organs working in a cadence and a harmony 22:50 that can only be done not by a Big Bang Theory 22:54 but by a "big God theory. " Amen! 22:57 All of a sudden the heart of Jesus begins to pulse 23:01 with the reality that it's time to wake up. 23:04 They could not comprehend the fact that when they were 23:07 interrogating Jesus they were interrogating 23:10 the life-giving Lord. Come on, somebody, say hallelujah. 23:13 The Desire of Ages... I can't preach this sermon 23:15 without Desire of Ages. Is that all right? 23:18 Page 780, Ellen White says: "The night of the first day 23:22 of the week had worn slowly away. The darkest hour 23:26 just before daybreak had come. 23:29 Christ was still prisoner in His narrow tomb. 23:32 The great stone was in its place. 23:34 The Roman seal was unbroken. 23:37 The Roman guards were keeping their watch. 23:41 But there were unseen watchers. 23:45 There were unseen watchers. 23:47 Hosts of evil angels are gathered about the place 23:52 and had it been possible... had it been possible 23:55 the prince of darkness with his apostate army 23:59 would have kept forever sealed 24:02 the tomb that held the Son of God. " 24:04 But I'm going to say: "It's not possible! " 24:07 "Had it been possible... " What a powerful word! "Had it 24:10 been... " But it's not possible. 24:12 Also among this wonderful display of demonic might 24:18 there were some others that were there. 24:20 Desire of Ages page 779: 24:22 "A heavenly host also surrounded the sepulcher. " 24:28 The heavenly angels could not be seen by the demonic angels. 24:33 They were there. You see, the fact of the matter is 24:35 Jesus - even in death - had Secret Service protection. 24:39 Amen! Even in death! 24:43 When you're a King, your Secret Service 24:46 does not abandon You. 24:48 If the president of the U.S. has it all the days of his life, 24:52 what about Jesus? 24:54 He had it when He was a baby. That's why Satan couldn't 24:56 touch Him. He had it in the Garden of Eden. 24:58 That's why the devil could not recuse Him. 25:00 He had it wherever He went, and at His death 25:02 they just sat there. Ellen White says 25:04 "Angels that excel in strength were guarding the tomb 25:07 just waiting to welcome the Prince of Life. " Amen! 25:11 They were waiting for God to say: "It's time! " 25:14 "It's time! " You see, all of a sudden in the kingdom 25:17 of perfection Operation Countdown is initiated. 25:20 They tear the envelope and now it's taken to the next level. 25:23 Like an enthusiastic announcer at a Super Bowl 25:26 heaven sounded the alarm: "Two more minutes! " 25:30 "Two more minutes! In just two more minutes 25:33 the King of Glory will be declared victorious. " 25:36 Amen! In just two more minutes the chains of death will forever 25:39 be broken. Come on, somebody. 25:41 Two more minutes... two more minutes. 25:45 The sun was seeping away in ca- dence with the divine calendar. 25:50 "Just two more minutes... one more minute! " 25:52 "In just one more minute the risen Christ will sing again. " 25:57 The hour of darkness will be replaced with the hour of light. 26:01 Bowed heads and sadness will be forever raised in joy. 26:05 Sadness will give way to exaltation 26:08 and dormant graves will be ripped opened, never to be 26:11 occupied again. Jesus said: "I came down 26:14 and when I leave I'm going to take a sample. " 26:16 "I'm going to take a sample. " 26:19 There are some people in heaven that know what it's like to cry. 26:21 There are some people that are called elders... 24. 26:24 They know what it's like to go through nights of want. 26:27 Don't be discouraged. There's somebody that's going to be 26:30 residing in the judgment that understands your weakness. 26:33 That understands our failures. 26:35 That understands what we don't have... 26:36 they didn't have. But when Jesus rose, He took them with Him. 26:40 And there around that throne 24 elders today are waiting for 26:44 that glorious day when we can reunite with them. 26:47 Come on, say hallelujah! 26:48 The angel clothed in the panoply of heaven, 26:52 the splendor of God, this angel... whoo! 26:57 You see, when the two minutes expired 27:00 this polished stealth-bomber named Gabriel 27:05 positioned his majestic frame on the launch pad of the 27:08 Holy City. He leaves like a fully-armored fighter jet 27:13 and he allows gravity to pull him down in the direction 27:17 of earth. He tucks his wings close to his perfect frame 27:20 to minimize turbulence. 27:23 He says: "I'm on my way! " 27:25 He says: "How quickly can you get there? " 27:27 They gave him turbo boosters, and I imagine somehow 27:30 that the stars may have moved out of the way 27:32 so as not to obstruct the resurrection of their Lord 27:36 either! All of creation was clapping. 27:38 "Move Gabriel. " "Go get Him, Gabriel. " 27:41 "It's time to wake up the Prince of Heaven. " 27:44 Amen! The Bible says... the Bible says 27:47 "And behold... and behold there was a great earthquake 27:50 for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven. " 27:53 It was like... it was like Operation Desert Storm. 27:57 They heard the thunder but they didn't see him coming. 28:00 But they knew something was about to break! 28:03 Heaven was about to carpet-bomb all the evil angels of hell! 28:07 And the devils tremble at the very thought that 28:10 "My hour has come. " He knew he was defeated! 28:12 The Lord said: "I'm going to take care of you a little later. 28:14 You just watch... you just watch the destruction 28:18 and think about it for the next 2,000 years 28:20 because when I'm done you will be done. " 28:22 Oh how wonderful it was. 28:24 The angel of the Lord descended from heaven 28:26 and came and rolled back the stone. 28:28 The Bible says: "He rolled back the stone. " 28:31 Ellen White says: "He moved the stone as though 28:33 it was a pebble. " Whoo! 28:37 And it describes what he looked like. 28:39 "His countenance was like lightning 28:41 and his clothes as white as snow. 28:43 And the guards shook for fear of him and became like dead men. " 28:47 Desire of Ages again. Can I go back there? 28:50 "Brave soldiers that have never been afraid of human power 28:53 are now as captives taken without sword or spear. 28:56 The face they look upon is no face of a mortal warrior. 29:00 It is the face of the mightiest of the Lord's host. " 29:04 God didn't send an angel... He sent the best angel. 29:07 "This messenger is the one who fills the position from which 29:11 Satan fell. " This is the one that God sent. 29:14 "It is he who on the hills of Bethlehem proclaimed 29:18 Christ's birth. " That's the same angel that was sent. 29:20 "The earth trembles at his approach. 29:23 The hosts of darkness flee, and as he rolls away the stone 29:26 heaven seems to come down to earth. 29:29 The soldiers see him removing the stone as he would a pebble 29:33 and they hear him cry: 'Son of God: come forth! 29:37 Thy Father calleth Thee. ' " Amen! 29:40 "Enough of this Sabbath rest. 29:43 It's Sunday morning... we've got work to do! " 29:45 And Jesus comes forth and says: "I am the resurrection 29:48 and the life. I am He who lives 29:51 and was dead, and behold I am alive forever more. 29:54 And I've got something else: I've got the keys of death 29:57 and the grave. " I want to tell you today 29:59 if you've got somebody dead, Jesus has got the keys. 30:01 Amen! He's going to open them one day one lock at a time. 30:04 But He's going to do it divinely all at the same time. 30:06 Hallelujah to that! 30:08 She says that: "Christ came forth from the tomb glorified. " 30:11 And the Roman guards beheld Him. "Their eyes, " she says, 30:16 "were riveted upon His face... 30:17 upon the face of Him whom recently mocked 30:22 and derided had no sign of His former estate. 30:26 In this glorious being they beheld the prisoner 30:29 whom they had seen in the judgment hall, 30:32 the One for whom they had plaited a crown of thorns. 30:35 This was the One who had stood unresistant before Pilate, 30:40 and Herod, His form lacerated by the cruel scourge. 30:44 This was He who had been nailed to the cross, 30:47 at whom the priests and rulers full of self-satisfaction 30:51 had wagged their heads saying: "He saved others; 30:55 Himself He cannot save. " "You see, He can't save Himself 30:58 and save us too. " 30:59 He thought of us not of Himself. Praise the Lord somebody? 31:02 "This was He, " she says, "who had been laid in Joseph's 31:06 new tomb. The decree of heaven had loosed the captive. " 31:10 And I like this part. She says: "Mountain piled upon mountain 31:13 over the sepulcher could not prevent Him from coming forth! " 31:17 Amen! Even if Mount Everest was there 31:20 they would move Mount Everest just to get Jesus out. 31:23 Mount Vesuvius, Mount Kilimanjaro, 31:25 no matter what the mountain was, it could not prevent 31:28 the King of Heaven from coming forth. 31:30 And I can imagine when that angel came down. 31:33 Ellen White also says: "As He comes forth in majesty. " 31:37 Desire of Ages page 779: "As He comes forth in majesty 31:42 and glory, the angels... the angel host bow low 31:46 in adoration before the Redeemer. " And she says: 31:50 "And they welcome Him with song. " 31:52 Amen! They began to sing: "Christ the Lord 31:57 is risen today! Hallelujah! " 32:03 I imagine every song writer that spoke about the resurrection 32:06 had to find their inspiration in Desire of Ages 32:09 and in the Word of God. Amen somebody. Amen! 32:12 Jesus declared: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, 32:14 the beginning and the end. " And the Lord said: 32:21 "Who is, who was, and who is to come... 32:25 the Almighty. " 32:27 Oh, I tell you brothers and sisters, this is a good message. 32:30 Not because I put it together but because it's about Jesus! 32:33 Amen! You see, when you get discouraged and you think that 32:36 this is all that there is, when you get discouraged 32:40 and you think that this is all there is, you've got to 32:42 remember... you've got to remember what Jesus went through 32:46 to pull us through. Amen! 32:48 You've got to remember what He gave up 32:50 to give us what we could not possess. 32:53 Oh what a day it was when Jesus came forth from that tomb! 32:56 He came forth not with the garments He went in. 32:59 He folded His clothes before He left. 33:02 We serve a neat Lord. 33:05 He said "I don't want anybody to think that I'm a sloppy God. " 33:08 Let all things be done decently and... you know. 33:12 He came... He said: "Let me just... Wait up! I've got to do 33:14 some housecleaning. " He left the place 33:16 better than He found it. 33:19 That's why Paul the apostle says: "When you are discouraged 33:22 remember that we are not preaching a message in vain. " 33:25 "If Christ be not risen, then our preaching is in vain 33:27 and our faith is also in vain. BUT now Christ IS risen 33:31 from the dead and has become the firstfruits 33:34 of them that slept. " 33:37 I've got to take a breath. 33:42 Last night when I was sitting down 33:45 at about 1:30 AM and I was saying: "Lord, talk to me. " 33:51 I had to get up and go to the kitchen to get some water. 33:54 It became too overwhelming 34:00 and I as transcended to the place where the death of Jesus 34:04 will one day be replaced with the coming of Jesus. 34:06 Amen! No longer coming as a slain Lord and a defeated Lord 34:12 but coming forth with ten thousand times ten thousand... 34:15 help me out, somebody... and thousands of thousands. 34:20 White horses. On His thigh the name is written: King of 34:23 Kings and Lord of Lords. The Word of God! 34:26 And those who don't know Him look for places to hide. 34:30 They run to the rocks and the mountains and they say to the 34:33 rocks and the mountains: "Hide us from the face of 34:36 Him that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. " 34:40 You see, if Jesus had not risen... 34:42 Think about this: if Jesus had not risen... 34:47 Are you ready for this? If Jesus had not risen, 34:53 Elijah couldn't stay in heaven. 34:59 Moses would have to go back to the state he was in before. 35:03 Because they were there on... they were there on "credit. " 35:10 Jesus gave them an IOU. 35:15 "You come in early, I'll pay for it later. " 35:19 Is that all right? He said: "You can come in early; 35:23 I'll pay for it at Calvary. " 35:26 Enoch walked with God and was not... for God took him. 35:30 And Enoch said "How is this pos- sible? You haven't died yet. " 35:33 He said: "Enoch, don't worry about it. 35:35 You just leave it in My hands; I don't plan to fail. " 35:40 Enoch... Elijah... Moses 35:45 would have had to be returned to their former estate. 35:48 Think about it. Lazarus, who came forth, would never 35:53 come forth again. 35:54 The blind man whose sight was restored... he would never 35:57 see again. Every grave would forever be sealed. 36:01 There would be no singing; there would be no rejoicing. 36:06 There would be nothing to look forward to. 36:08 If Jesus had failed... If Jesus had failed, 36:13 the very courts of heaven would now be under 36:16 new management - Satanic management - because 36:19 for some reason he would have proven his point: 36:22 that God is not possible, God is not worthy. 36:25 "He's not worthy to be praised 36:26 and I have proved it on Calvary. " 36:28 But I tell you: Jesus was willing to go through ANYTHING 36:31 that we can go through everything. Amen! 36:34 He was willing to take what belonged to us 36:37 that one day we can have by faith and by humble hearts 36:41 what only belongs to Him. 36:46 This divine baby... I'm off script right now, I'm just 36:50 talking to you... This divine baby 36:53 came to this earth 36:58 and He learned through the veil of human flesh. 37:02 He was tempted in all points just as we are 37:05 yet He was without sin. 37:07 Can you imagine? If Jesus sinned as a nine-year-old 37:11 we couldn't preach this sermon. 37:14 We would be prisoners in a camp worse than Auschwitz. 37:19 And the genocide in Africa would have nothing on what Satan 37:22 would have done to this planet. 37:25 Same-sex marriage would have been 5,000 years old... 37:29 and growing. 37:31 It would have been normal by now. 37:33 That's why I don't believe in traditional marriage. 37:40 You can breathe. 37:44 I believe in scriptural marriage. 37:46 Amen! Amen somebody. 37:49 Think about what kind of world we would have had 37:51 had Jesus failed... had He failed. 37:56 There would be no churches. 37:59 There would be no songs to sing 38:02 about the risen Lord, about the forgiveness of sin. 38:05 Every hospital visit would be final; 38:07 every funeral would be it. 38:10 Everyone would enter their graves 38:11 never to come forth again. 38:13 Hate would be the norm. 38:16 Sin and suffering would be an every-day activity. 38:20 "Do as you will" would be the saying of earth 38:25 and nothing would be off limits. 38:28 I saw a commercial once where... 38:31 I forgot the name of the show. I didn't see it, praise God 38:33 for that. There are certain things you should not see. 38:37 And I think the theme of it... You know, sometimes you could be 38:40 watching a good program and at the commercial 38:42 you've got to turn your eyes. 38:43 It was showing in the commercial where... I forgot the name 38:47 of the show... But I didn't see it; I told you I didn't see it. 38:49 But they gave a 24-hour period in which you could do whatever 38:53 you wanted: kill somebody; murder somebody. 38:56 That's the kind of world this would have been 38:58 had Jesus failed at Calvary. 39:03 That's why you have to pause sometimes 39:05 and as Ellen White says "focus on the cross. " 39:07 Spend a thoughtful hour. If you pick up The Desire of Ages 39:10 and read it on a day-by-day basis. 39:12 If you read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John 39:13 and you focus on the theme of the cross 39:16 you ask yourself the question: "Father, Father, please 39:19 do what You may that I may be in that glorious kingdom! " 39:24 "Have Your way with me 39:26 that when that time comes and that trumpet sounds 39:28 I'll hear my name in the chordant notes of that glorious 39:32 glorious choir. " 39:33 I want to be there one day, what about you? 39:35 I want to stand where no man has ever stood before. 39:39 That is, outside of the special group. 39:44 I want to be there to see Jesus re-create the earth again, 39:47 what about you? Amen! I want to be there to see 39:49 sin forever eradicated. 39:52 I remember being down in southern California. 39:54 I'm not done yet. 39:57 This is a rest area... I'm coming back on board. 40:03 I remember being down in LA once when we lived in California. 40:06 My wife and I went and found our way 40:08 next to the Kodak theater. 40:10 We lived in northern California at the time. 40:12 And all of a sudden, before we knew it we were in the midst 40:14 of all these black limousines... long, stretch, 40:18 black limousines. Well, we put 2 and 2 together 40:22 and we discovered: "Hey, this is an Awards weekend. " 40:25 We saw the red carpet. 40:26 Obviously we were not invited. 40:32 But in our humanity we... we strained to see through 40:35 those darkened windows to hopefully catch a glimpse of 40:39 somebody that we thought was famous. 40:46 And I saw a window coming down 40:48 but it only came down that much. 40:49 And I said: "Who was that? " "Oh, I couldn't see. 40:52 I only saw an eyebrow. " 40:54 And I was so disappointed. We tried our best. 40:57 We looked, we stretched... we were trying to see somebody 40:59 who had a status that we probably would never have. 41:03 And we drove back to northern California 41:05 quite disappointed. Why would they have blackened windows 41:09 on these limousines? Why wouldn't they let us see 41:11 them for a change? 41:12 And God tapped me on the back and said: "John, don't you worry 41:15 about it. You don't see what they have, but one day 41:19 they're going to see what you have. " Amen! 41:21 "Because when I make the New Jerusalem the walls are 41:23 going to be transparent. " Come on, somebody. 41:26 So don't worry about what they have because they're walking on 41:28 carpet. One day you're going to walk on gold! 41:31 Amen! They're passing through a... I can't even speak 41:35 right now. They're going to be entering a theater; 41:38 you're going to be entering a glorious city. Amen! 41:41 So don't worry about it. 41:42 I remember one day sitting on the bed in our house 41:44 and I got caught up in an Oprah show where she was 41:46 giving everybody cars. 41:49 And I thought: "Why can't I get a car, Lord? " 41:53 She said: "You get a car and you get a car and you get a... " 41:56 And I thought: "Why am I caught up in something 41:58 that's going to grow old? " 42:00 One day God's going to say: "You get a crown and you 42:02 get a crown... " Come on... "and you get a crown 42:05 and you get a crown. " 42:06 I'm starting to get this thing in perspective. After 30 years 42:09 of pastoring it's starting to become clearer than it was 42:11 before. You see, this was no ordinary moment. 42:14 When Jesus came forth from the tomb - when He broke the seal 42:18 that Satan thought had been forever locked - 42:21 when the demons of hell ran for their lives. 42:24 Ellen White says the soldiers ran with their 42:26 "legs trembling. " These mighty men who feared nothing 42:31 finally found somebody to fear! 42:34 For when you don't worship God you fear Him. 42:36 God has not given us the spirit of fear but of love, 42:40 of power, and what kind of mind? A sound mind. 42:43 What they did not know is when Jesus came forth 42:45 from that tomb the Rose of Sharon would bloom again. 42:49 The Bright and Morning Star would rise again. 42:52 The Light of the World would shine again. Come on, 42:55 somebody... help me out. Amen! 42:56 The Oil of Gladness would flow again. 42:59 The Lion of the tribe of Judah would roar again! 43:02 The Author of salvation would now be given the right 43:05 to become the Finisher of our faith. 43:07 The Mighty God would become the Everlasting Father. 43:10 The Alpha would now become the Omega. 43:13 Because the fact of the matter is: Jesus is not "I was" 43:16 He is the Great I AM! Amen! 43:19 Somehow the devil forgot that. 43:22 But there was something about that moment that reminded him: 43:24 this was the guy that I lost the fight against in heaven. 43:27 He wins again... round two. 43:29 Round two. Amen, somebody. Round... there's one more round 43:33 and it's going to be Jesus wins. 43:36 The Lamb of God would become the Eternal Father. 43:39 He would now take His rightful place. 43:41 And understand what He's doing in reference to the sanctuary. 43:44 We now have a High Priest 43:46 that stands before the Father. When the prayers of the saints 43:49 arise from the altar of our hearts, even when it's not 43:52 clearly understood, the Holy Spirit takes those 43:55 prayers that don't make sense and He fixes it up 44:02 and delivers it to the Father. 44:04 And the Father understands the needs of His children. 44:08 Praise God for that. Amen! 44:10 "Therefore He is also now able to save to the uttermost 44:14 those who come to God through Him since He ever lives 44:18 to make intercession for us. " Say for us. 44:21 For us. 44:22 Jesus was arrested so that we could be set free. 44:26 He was declared guilty so that we could be declared innocent. 44:29 He was condemned so that we could be pardoned. 44:33 He walked on our road so that one day we can walk on His road. 44:37 I'm going to tell you this: I don't need a mansion. 44:39 I just need a sleeping bag. Amen! 44:42 Give me a pillow... as long as I'm there. What about you? Amen! 44:46 Some people come to Camp Meeting in a motor home... 44:48 some come in a tent. I think they're all happy 44:50 no matter what they're in, right? 44:52 When we get to heaven we are not going to care what we're in... 44:54 we're just going to be glad we're in! 44:56 As one of my favorite preachers said: "I don't care about going 44:59 first or last as long as the door shuts behind me. " 45:06 I don't know how He's going to call that, but if it's going 45:08 to be alphabetic I'm going to have to wait till He gets 45:09 to the L's. But I begin to believe now... 45:12 I'm beginning to believe that when Jesus calls us 45:16 He's going to be able - Are you ready for this? 45:21 You see, in mass mailing they are able to send out 45:23 50 million e-mails at the same time 45:26 and you all get it at the same time. 45:28 If man can do that, I believe that God can call 45:31 all of our names at the same time. Amen! 45:35 That's why He specified "Lazarus... come forth! " 45:39 If He'd just said: "Come forth" it'd have been something else! 45:43 I think He's going to say just: "Come forth! " 45:45 and we're going to come forth clothed in the beauty of heaven. 45:49 He wore our thorns so that one day we will wear His crown. 45:52 To God be the glory! He suffered the shame of our death 45:55 so that we could share the glory of His life. 45:57 Jesus rose to take His rightful place, and today 46:01 He ever liveth to make intercession for us. 46:04 Amen! Oh! Dr. Luke says in Luke 1:32-33... 46:10 You see, the devil even took these wicked men back to the 46:13 birth of Jesus. They now remember as He comes forth. 46:17 These priests that had understood at one time 46:19 the clarity of God's Word... they now remember 46:21 at the birth of Jesus the declaration: "He will be great 46:25 and will be called the Son of the Highest. 46:27 The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David 46:30 and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. 46:33 And of His kingdom there will be no... " End! 46:37 "there will be no end. " Today there's a kingdom 46:40 reserved for you and for me. 46:42 There's a kingdom for everyone who calls and trusts in the shed 46:46 blood of Jesus. There's a kingdom today that we can be 46:50 citizens of. There's no reason why any of us should be left out 46:53 of that eternal kingdom. What about you? 46:55 When I think about what Jesus has done for me... 46:58 Oh, I tell you: we all have struggles. 47:00 You got any struggles? I want to tell you: Jesus sees us 47:04 not just as we are. He sees us as we are going to be. 47:08 The Bible says: "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard 47:10 neither has it entered into the hearts of man 47:12 the things that God has prepared for those that love Him. " 47:15 Do you love the Lord? Amen! 47:17 We've gotta love Him more than that, though. 47:19 We can't just love Him intellectually. 47:21 We can't just love Him verbally. 47:23 We've got to love Him with our whole heart, our whole life. 47:25 We've got to live that His glory might be revealed. 47:28 We can't just say: "I love the Lord" and now show up in church 47:30 on Sabbath morning. We can't say: "I love the Lord" 47:33 and want to get out of church as 12! Come on now! 47:38 We can't say: "I love the Lord" and don't want to come to 47:40 prayer meeting! We can't say: "I love the Lord" 47:43 and don't want to pay an honest tithe. 47:45 We can't say: "I love Jesus" and don't want to support 47:48 a ministry like this! 47:50 I didn't plan that! 47:52 If you love God, you love Him with your whole heart! 47:55 Somebody was getting baptized once, and he said to the 47:58 pastor: "Wait, let me remove my wallet. " 47:59 He said: "No, I want to baptize that. too! " 48:03 It's all or nothing at all. 48:05 If you love Jesus, there's nothing withheld from God. 48:07 And you know what He says? "No good thing will I withhold 48:11 from those that walk up- rightly. " To God be the glory! 48:14 When we get to heaven we're not going to take 48:16 motor homes with us. It's all right to have one. 48:19 I'd like to have one... 48:22 but it doesn't have enough gas mileage to get me there. 48:25 There ain't enough tanks to get me to heaven. 48:29 They told me about Orion. Scientists say that Orion 48:31 is stretching. I was sitting down one day 48:35 and all of a sudden God gave me a picture. And my wife and I... 48:38 She was listening to it and all of a sudden my mind was 48:41 taken some place that I'd never been before. 48:43 And I said: "I can imagine the day when we ascend 48:45 from earth, when we are now clothed in the beauty of 48:48 immortality. When we come forth from the grave we can hear 48:52 clearly. No more need for glasses...come on. 48:55 No more need for canes; Lorraine will be walking perfectly. 48:59 No more Remicade... somebody say amen. 49:02 No more high blood or low blood pressure medication. 49:05 Amen! No medication at all! 49:07 Doctors: I love you but you won't have a job in the kingdom 49:10 because the Master Physician will be in charge of every case. 49:13 All we need to do is get together around the Tree of Life 49:16 which has fruit for the healing of the nations. Amen! 49:18 I used to think that we're going to be sick and that's why 49:20 the fruit will heal us. No! What I've discovered is 49:22 we are not going to be sick in heaven. The inhabitants 49:24 "shall not say I am sick" so why would the fruit be for 49:27 the healing of the nations? You know why? 49:29 Because there's so much division in this earth: 49:31 racial division, ethnic division, educational division. 49:37 People living in a high area and a low area. 49:40 Financial division. 49:42 But when we get to heaven it's not going to matter 49:44 where you're from. All that's going to matter 49:46 is where you end up. Amen! 49:48 From one blood came all nations. 49:50 To one blood all these nations must go. 49:54 So today, if we're going to be in heaven, we've got to break 49:57 those walls down now. Amen! 49:59 Come on... tell it, tell it. Hallelujah! 50:07 That's right. We're having a sermon. 50:11 Those walls have got to come down when? Now! 50:16 The wall of separation... love between brothers and sisters... 50:20 that wall has to come down now! 50:23 Come to church on Sabbath morning and you walk up that 50:25 aisle; the person you hate walk up that aisle. 50:27 That's gotta come down now. Amen! 50:30 Dedication to the service of God: that's gotta be our heart's 50:33 pulse now. If you really believe that Jesus is coming again, 50:37 you've got to work as though He's coming tomorrow! 50:40 Amen! 50:43 Somebody said: "We have to live as though Jesus died 50:46 yesterday, rose today, and He's coming back tomorrow. " 50:49 What a day of rejoicing that's going to be when we see Jesus. 50:52 What do you say? Amen! I'm going to see my mother. 50:55 I got caught up in that. One day about 7 years ago 50:57 I was preaching a sermon right here in this pulpit 50:59 for Camp Meeting and I got caught. 51:02 I was preaching about the resurrection. I got caught 51:04 and I got in a quandary. I said: "Father, 51:07 I want to be in Brooklyn to see the lady that raised me 51:09 come forth from the grave, 51:11 but after I met my mother, I want to be in the Virgin Islands 51:14 to see her come forth from the grave. " The Lord said: 51:15 "John, forget about all that. Why don't you just meet them 51:18 in the air? " Amen! 51:23 One of my sound men that's now a member of the church... 51:25 I remember when I was doing the program with Pr. John Stanton 51:28 House Calls. I'm not going to give his name. 51:30 I'll leave it up to him. 51:32 He was not yet converted. 51:34 He was not yet a member of our church, 51:37 and so the message I preached was not something that brought 51:40 settled comfort to his heart. 51:41 And I found out a few years later when he told me himself. 51:44 He said: "Pastor, whenever you and Pr. John Stanton had 51:47 House Calls I would leave work angry. " 51:50 "I would go home and argue with myself. " 51:52 He said "But one day I heard you talk about the resurrection. " 51:56 And he said: "When you preached that message 51:58 you made God sound like He knows what He's doing. " 52:04 And he invited me into his sound room 52:06 and he said to me: "Pastor John... " And I looked at him... 52:08 I thought: "I heard about him before. 52:10 He's always upset. What's he going to tell me today? " 52:12 And he said to me: "I give up! " 52:15 "I give up! What do I have to do to become a member 52:19 in this church? " Whenever I put something on Facebook 52:22 he said: "That's my pastor! " 52:24 I tell you: God can take you from where you are 52:26 to where He wants you to be. Come on, somebody. 52:28 This is a resurrection message. 52:30 We don't preach the cross. The cross is just a part of it. 52:33 If the cross was it, He would still be dead! 52:37 But there's an empty tomb somewhere! 52:39 When you go to the Middle East or when you go to the Holy Land 52:41 I call it the Bible land... 52:43 there ain't nothing holy about it. 52:50 Think about it. 52:53 It used to be holy... 52:55 but when you reject Jesus ain't nothin' holy about it. 53:00 Muslims on one side and Jews on the other. 53:02 They can be saved, but they've gotta accept Jesus 53:04 as the Savior. Amen! When you go to the Bible lands 53:07 they give you a tour to... One person says "Jesus was 53:09 here in this tomb. " The other person says: 53:11 "He was there in that tomb. " And they buy tickets to see 53:14 where He was. Why spend money to see where He was 53:17 when you can see where He is for free? 53:21 I ain't never been to the Bible lands but I plan on being in the 53:24 holy land. Somebody help me out. 53:26 Today I'm making my declaration. 53:29 That's why this is an all of a sudden message. 53:32 You see, when Jesus came forth, all of a sudden 53:35 everything He once proclaimed now made sense. 53:38 The message he had been studying makes sense. 53:41 The truth he had questioned... The truth you had questioned 53:43 suddenly makes sense. The prayers you've been praying 53:46 suddenly get answered. The job you've been searching for 53:48 suddenly comes your way. 53:50 The fear that robbed your sleep suddenly leaves your mind. 53:53 The pain that you've been carrying suddenly is lifted 53:56 by God's grace. The storm that you've been battered by 53:59 suddenly passes over. Hallelujah to that! 54:02 The children that you've been praying for 54:04 suddenly accept Jesus. 54:06 And the Jesus that you thought you knew 54:08 all of a sudden becomes real. 54:11 Do we really believe that Jesus lives? 54:15 Oh, I want to see that. Do we really believe that Jesus lives? 54:18 Amen! If you believe that Jesus lives, you also 54:21 believe that one day everything you have... 54:23 everything you have is going to go up in flames. 54:27 Amen! That's right! Amen! Amen! 54:31 I used to worry about the stock market. 54:34 I don't any more 54:36 'cause Jesus said my bread and water shall be sure. 54:41 Whenever the stock market takes a dive, 54:43 I remember that Jesus' stock market never takes a dive. 54:47 Whenever difficulty comes and I can't make ends meet 54:50 I know that Jesus knows how to stretch those ends 54:52 and put them together. 54:54 This is a resurrection message; we serve a risen Savior. 54:57 He's in the world today. That's why I always sing that song. 54:59 We serve a what kind of Savior? Risen! 55:02 A risen Savior. The Jews found out; 55:04 Satan found out; the evil angels found out 55:07 Gabriel always knew it. The Father sent Jesus 55:10 not to be a defeated Lord but a resurrected and risen Lord. 55:15 And today this church stands on a foundation that 55:17 shall never be destroyed. It may look like it's about to 55:21 fall apart, but it's not going to fall apart. 55:23 Amen! Enfeebled and defective though the church may be 55:26 we stand on the foundation of a risen Lord! 55:29 And Jesus is coming again. 55:34 As I close, I've got to go back to the beginning. 55:39 Those faithful ladies that followed Jesus... 55:42 those faithful women... Sometimes I say in my church: 55:47 "Brethren, forgive me. This is not about my guy. " 55:51 Sometimes I say: "If you want something said, 55:55 tell the men and if you want something done, 55:58 tell the women. " 56:01 Don't say amen to that, please. 56:06 When these women came to the tomb on that Sunday morning 56:11 with all the good intentions of anointing the body of Jesus 56:15 they met two guys that they had never met before. 56:19 The angels said: "Let's hang around just a little longer 56:24 to get the message started. " 56:27 And the women came to the tomb 56:30 early in that morning... that Sunday morning 56:34 as the sun began to peek its head up 56:37 on that morning of welcome. 56:39 And the angels said to them: 56:41 "Why do you seek the living among the dead? 56:45 He is not here but He is risen. " 56:48 Hallelujah, somebody. "He is not here but He is risen. " 56:53 Not only is He risen... He's coming again! 56:55 And when He comes again, do you want to be in that number? 56:58 Amen! Oh, one day we're going to be in that number 57:01 to see not only the risen Lord 57:04 but the reigning Lord. 57:06 And one day Satan will be no more. 57:09 Death will be forever banished. 57:11 There will be one harmonious pulse throughout the limitless 57:15 space of eternity, and that declaration will 57:18 be made: "It is finished! " 57:21 And forever and forever and forever 57:24 sin will never rise again. 57:26 That's why we serve a risen Savior. |
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