20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly:
22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?
23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?
24 Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's.
25 And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.
26 And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.
27 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,
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just want to say thank you for
being here this morning. And the process of getting everything
set up in order to live stream the services is a lot more complicated
than I than I had any idea. A lot of the churches we fellowship
with have been set up for a long time and it's, you know, they're
just still doing it. But we've never been set up because
we've never really My understanding is the Wi-Fi here is not sufficient
to do that, but I'm looking into that myself, and I think we might
be able to do it. I don't know for sure. But in
the meantime, I'm recording messages. We came up yesterday and recorded
one, and that'll be hopefully online about now for anybody
that can't be here this morning. Let me say this, if we do get
set up to live stream here, The auditorium is officially closed,
but I'm not going to lock the door. If anybody wants to come,
the pulpit's more than six feet away from that pew right there,
so I'm fine. Because we'll be doing it here
then. Until we find out about that, though, and that also involves
some expense that y'all need to know about. We've got to subscribe
to the internet service up here. When we lived here, it was 69
bucks a month or something, but it's probably closer to 100 now.
I don't know. That was a long time ago. But
we'll look into that. I'll keep everybody posted about
that. Before we're able to do that,
I'll have to live stream, when I'm able to, from home. We have
good Wi-Fi at the house. We have fiber optic at our house,
and it works real good. So I'll be live streaming from
there, which, obviously, I don't want you coming to my house right
now for services. You'll understand that. But hopefully we'll be able to
live stream from here soon, and then if you wanna come, come
on. But I didn't say that if any
government official asks. But Luke chapter 20 this morning, verse 27. Luke 20 and verse 27 and I'll
have this message for anybody that that Wants to hear it again
Because you're the only ones hearing me right now until I
post this message tonight But I'll hopefully have this one
on available by 630 this evening our usual worship time so it's
gonna be kind of backwards, but it's just working out that way
for now and Verse 27, then came to him, of course that's Christ
our Lord, certain of the Sadducees which deny that there is any
resurrection. And they asked him. Now the chief
priests and the scribes had already had their run at the master in
this same context in the previous messages we've seen. Trying to
trick him into saying something that they could hurt him with.
And now here come the Sadducees. They're going to make their run
now. And we could talk about the difference in these different
sects of Jewish religious leaders, but we found out all we need
to know about them in this verse. That's all you need to know right
there. They didn't believe God. That's what we need to know.
It doesn't matter what brand of not believing God they subscribe
to. They don't believe God. Right?
They deny the resurrection so they don't believe God. That's
what you need to know about any and all religions and denominations. There are hundreds and thousands
of them, different religious groups and denominations today,
but only one thing matters. Do you believe God? Do you teach
the doctrine of Christ, the truth of Christ, the scriptures? They
speak not according to the word of this prophecy. There's no
light in them and it doesn't matter what they call their darkness
It's darkness as we've said so many times there's Christ in
the scriptures and there's Antichrist And that's it Do you believe
God if you believe that God loves everybody you don't believe God
it's just that simple, isn't it? We could get specific about
all of that, but that's just the truth. You believe contrary
to the scripture, you don't believe God. And the question really
is not even settled as to whether you believe God exists or not.
Everybody says, Oh, I believe, I believe in God. And then what
they mean by that is they believe God exists. But if the God that
you believe exists is not God, then do you even believe God
exists? You don't believe this God exists.
So it's just, it's terrible darkness, isn't it? Terrible, terrible
darkness. If you believe that the Lord
Jesus Christ died in an attempt to save every sinner that ever
lived, you just don't believe God. That's the problem. It's not that you have bad doctrine,
that's true too, but you don't believe God, that's the problem.
That's why your doctrine's bad, you don't believe what God said.
The God you believe in doesn't exist. What distinguishes this
church and the churches that we fellowship with from false
churches and anti-Christ religious organizations is not our articles
of faith. That's not it. By God's grace,
we just believe God. That's the difference. We preach
the doctrine of Christ. You can call it the doctrines
of grace if you want to, that's fine. But it's simply what Christ
said. It's not your articles of faith
or your theological treatises. It's what Christ preached himself,
didn't he? And so what are we going to preach?
We're going to preach him. Well, but our text this morning,
Chris, it's not a question of preaching Christ or not. This
has to do with the resurrection. Do you believe in the resurrection?
Remember what the Lord said to Martha in John 11, 20? Let me
read you that passage. Then Martha, as soon as she heard
that Jesus was coming, went and met him. But Mary sat still in
the house, and then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst
been here, my brother had not died. Lazarus had died, Mary
and Martha's brother, and they were sad, and she's kind of accusing
him, because they had sent word, and he had tarried deliberately
and came later than they thought he should have, and she's basically
rebuking him. Isn't that amazing? That we're
that bad, not her, we. We're that messed up that we
would question God. She said, if you'd have been
here, he wouldn't have died. Think about that statement. Does he have to be physically
in this room to bless us this morning, to save somebody this
morning? He controls the universe from his throne, and he's everywhere
at any given moment. And she probably believed the
doctrine of that, but she got caught up in the moment, and
she said, if you'd have been here, my brother wouldn't have
died. But she said this, I know that even now, whatsoever you
will ask of God, God will give it to you. You can make him rise
again. I'm sure she's seen him do that. And Jesus said unto
her, your brother will rise again. And Martha said unto him, I know
that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
And Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection. So Chris, this
is about the resurrection, not Christ. There's no difference,
is there? There's no difference. Christ
is all. And he and I am the life. I am
the resurrection and the life. And he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth
and believeth in me. He said to the Pharisees, you
search the scriptures because you think you have life because
you know the scriptures. but they are they which testify
me. And you won't come to me that you might have life. I am
the life. He that liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. Martha, do you believe that?
He said, do you believe this? Do you believe me? You believe
in a doctrine. You believe in an event. Do you
believe me? That's the difference. Believing
in the resurrection, believing in any sound scriptural doctrine
is good, but it won't save you. It won't save you, the Pharisees
did believe in the resurrection. The Sadducees didn't, but the
Pharisees did. Pharisees are not good guys in
the scripture. Just because they believe correct doctrine, they
were just as lost as the Sadducees were. And all doctrine is that
way. Salvation is not an intellectual
understanding of who God is. Satan has that. Listen to our Lord's answer to
these Sadducees in Matthew 2299. This is Matthew's account of
this. Jesus answered them when they
gave him this scenario that we're going to read in a minute. I
want to see this first though because this is key. He answered
and said unto them, you do err, not knowing the scriptures. That's your problem. You don't
know what God said, nor the power of God. You don't know who God
is. Simple, isn't it? You don't know
what God said, and you don't know who he is. You deny the
authority of God, the power, the ability of God. They have a zeal of God, the
Lord said concerning the Jews, but deny the power thereof. You
don't know who God is. The Sadducees knew the scriptures.
They knew the text. They knew the wording of the
scripture better than all of us. But what Christ is saying
unto them clearly, as he said so many times, is if you don't
know me, you don't know the scriptures. It's that simple. It doesn't
matter if you can recite the whole thing. They are they which
testify of me. He is the resurrection and the
life. Now look at the ridiculous question that the Sadducees asked
that prompted our Lord to answer that way. And we have some language
in our text that is in addition to that. But look at verse 28
saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die
having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should
take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. There were,
therefore, seven brethren. No, there weren't. They're saying
this like it was true. People love to do that. They
like to set up an imaginary premise. What if this? Well, that's never
happened before, though. That's the thing about it. There
were seven brethren. No, there weren't. And they left
no children. Let's see, I've skipped ahead.
And the first took a wife, verse 29 in the middle. And the first
took a wife and died without children. And the second took
her to wife and he died childless. And the third took her and in
like manner the seven also, and they left no children and died.
Last of all, the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection,
whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife. Now
notice first that they called him master, just like the other
idiots that made a run at him in verse 21. Remember they said,
Oh, we know that everything you say is true. You teach rightly.
Verse 21 in our text there from last time, you teach the way
of God truly. They didn't believe that they
were flattering him and hypocritically Religion is snaky and dishonest
full of hatred disguised as love They'll hug you in the parking
lot and make you You know an honorary charter member until
they find out what God you worship, and then you're gone Religion
loves everybody until they don't This question shows to what lengths
religious sinners will go to complicate the simple truth of
scripture. Let's come up with this weird
cockamamie imaginary scenario and base our beliefs on that.
No, let's just find out what God said. People ask stupid things
about the scriptures, particularly. Somebody said, well, it's been
often said, there's no such thing as a stupid question. Yeah, there
is, too. This is one of them right here. It's not that there's anything
wrong either with being curious about stuff like this. But they
ask this question to disprove the truth of the resurrection.
Motive is everything. They asked this because they
believed that this scenario proved that what they thought was right,
and that it would trip the Lord up either way He answered. And
that's why the Lord answered the way He did there in Matthew
22 verse 29. He said, you do err not knowing
the scriptures nor the power of God. The fact that you don't believe
that there is a resurrection, which the Sadducees didn't, proves
you don't know the scriptures. Whenever your thinking does not
line up with the word of God, you do err. The fact that you
think this disproves the doctrine of the resurrection shows that
you don't know anything about the authority of God. One of
the most important aspects of believing God And we could talk
about different aspects of that, but it's simple. If you just
believe God, you believe everything he said, man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth
of God, every word. And that makes it simple, doesn't
it? But think about this, believing God regarding what Job learned
in Job 42.2. He said this, after spending
all those days on the ash heap and losing everything, he had
to lose everything he had. That was God's will, so it had
to be. But what did he learn through
all of that? After talking with God himself, he said, I know
that you can do everything. Everybody knows that. No, they
don't either. Everybody knows God can do what he wants. Really?
Can he save whoever he wants? Ask somebody that. Let's get
to the bottom of that. I know that you can do everything
and that no thought can be withholden from thee. And if you look in
your margin, it'll probably say, this is the original language
there, no thought of thine can be hindered. can do everything." Think about that for a second.
He didn't say you can do anything. You can do everything. That's
what God does. He doesn't do anything He does
everything. It's all. He's the first cause of everything.
You can do everything. And all it takes is a thought. And nobody can stop you when
you do. That's what Job learned on the
ash heap after seeing God face to face. It's what the Lord taught
that centurion in Matthew 8.8. The centurion answered and said,
Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof,
but speak the word only and my servant shall be healed. You
don't know the power of God. You deny the authority. of God
and his son, the way Christ answered is important. Just his answer,
we're going to talk about, but the way he answered, he didn't
begin by explaining how things truly are. Here's where you're wrong. This
is the way, what you're saying, here's how it really is, and
you're wrong. He didn't start that way. He began by telling
them their real problem. You don't know God or his word. You don't believe God. Now, here's
how it really is. You see, he did answer that.
But first he said, here's your real problem. Your problem is
not that you're confused about something. Your problem is you
don't know God. Once you know God, you won't be confused. It's the same thing he did to
these scribes in verse 23. Look at verse 23. that he perceived their craftiness
and said unto them, why tempt ye me? The question was, should
we pay tribute to Caesar or not? He didn't answer their question
right away. First he asked them one. Why tempt ye me? He pointed out what their real
problem is. They hate the son of God. Before he even addressed their
question, He dealt with the real problem. It's me you have a problem
with. You don't have a doctoral problem.
You have a me problem. And that's what this wretched,
sinful, religious world has. They have a Christ problem. Once you honestly, by God's grace,
believe on the Son of God, you'll believe Him. You'll believe the
truth. You'll believe the doctrine. And all these questions will
be resolved. For one thing, once you know
Him, it doesn't matter to you how it will be between you and
your wife in eternity. This question would be a moot
point. Once you know Him, you just trust Him, it'll be fine. I said a while ago, it's not
necessarily wrong to be curious about things like that. I wonder
sometimes, what's my relationship with my wife gonna be in glory?
And our Lord answers that here to some extent. But once you
know Him, we just kinda trust Him, don't we? I know this, it's
not gonna be worse than it is now. I'm not gonna look back
and say, boy, I wish I, you know, things were the way they used
to be when I'm with Him and she's with Him and y'all are with Him
and we're worshiping Him together. We're not gonna look back and
say, boy, I wish it was like it used to be, you know, back when
we were married. I trust Him, don't you? And Jesus, verse 34, and Jesus
answering, said unto them, The children of this world marry,
and are given in marriage. But they which shall be accounted
worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead,
neither marry nor are given in marriage, neither can they die
any more. For they are equal unto the angels,
This says so much, doesn't it? It says so much. And are the
children of God being the children of the resurrection? Notice the words, and it's just
thoughts about all of that. There's a lot said right there.
Notice the words, this world. The children
of this world. It's one way with them, and it's
another way with the children of God, the children of the resurrection. There's another world, and it's
not like this one. Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad? Those who know the Lord Jesus
Christ by God-given faith and who by his grace know the scriptures
and the power of God, the things that these folks didn't know,
By God's grace, Paul said, we know, we know we have the mind
of Christ and we discern all things. Once we know him, we're
blessed then in both worlds, both worlds. Listen to this Mark
10 29. And Jesus answered and said,
verily, I say unto you. There is no man that hath left
house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife,
or children, or lands for my sake and the gospels. But he
shall receive in hundredfold now in this time houses, and
brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands with
persecutions. And in the world to come, eternal
life. Both worlds. His children are
blessed in both worlds. And notice now, next, the words
accounted worthy. He who is accounted worthy. Nobody's worthy. But there are
going to be some accounted worthy because they're the reckoning
of them for God is in Christ and not according to themselves
or their own works. It's in Christ. No sinner in
himself is worthy of obtaining that world, but we're accounted
worthy in Christ. We're worthy in Him, just as
He bore our sins in His own body on the tree and was accounted
worthy of death. We are made the righteousness
of God in Him and are accounted worthy of eternal life. He said also that they're there,
we will not marry nor be given in marriage. And we know why
this is. All marriages such as they are
in this world, which was ordained by God. And what a beautiful,
beautiful thing. You know why it's beautiful though?
Because it's Christ in his church. It's a picture of Christ in his
church. And all that marriage pictures
is fulfilled the day we sit down at the marriage supper of the
lamb and Christ and his bride are united eternally and perfectly,
perfect union with him forever. There's only one marriage in
glory. There can only be one. Just like now, there were many
sacrifices in the Old Testament. They just won now. They just
won. Christ fulfilled those Old Testament
pictures. The sacrifices of animals was
integral to the worship then. Just like marriage now is integral
to the worship in the sense that it pictures Christ. Doesn't mean
you have to be married in order to worship, but if you're married,
The Lord said if there's a problem in your marriage, your prayers
are hindered. That's a problem. That's a real problem. That's
a spiritual problem. Because that's a sacred thing.
We don't offer animal sacrifices anymore because Christ has come
and has given himself a ransom for my soul. need that picture
anymore. And marriage then between men
and women is a picture now that is no longer necessary once that
is fulfilled. Listen, here is where it talks
about the fulfillment of that in Revelation 19.6, And I heard,
as it were, the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of
many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying,
Alleluia, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and
rejoice. Somebody's going to be glad he's
on the throne. There are not many are there
now, but there are going to be a whole bunch of us then. And give honor to him for the
marriage of the lamb has come. And his wife hath made herself
ready. And to her, how did she make
herself ready? To her was granted that she should be arrayed in
fine linen. It's a white wedding, isn't it?
Fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness
of saints. And he saith unto me, write,
blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the
Lamb. And he saith unto me, these are the true sayings of God. Now, you may be thinking, as
I have at times, that yes, I understand that this is a picture. Marriage now is a picture of
that eternal love and union between Christ and his elect. And that
will be fulfilled someday. And so the picture will be unnecessary. But I also love my wife. I love
my wife. And I don't want to be separated
from her, even in glory. I sure don't. Well, let me say
this about it. I'm not going to speculate about
what I don't know, but let me just put it this way. Nobody
who is present with the Lord in his glory is going to be separated
from anybody else there in any way. Really, right? We're going
to be one. We're going to be his bride.
And also, as I said before, nobody is going to be wishing it was
like it is now. And then he said this, neither
can they die anymore. Neither can they die. Death hath
no dominion over our savior, and so neither does it have any
over us who are in him. They just don't. First Corinthians
15, 21, for since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection
of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even
so in Christ, shall all be made alive. But every man in his own
order, Christ the firstfruits, afterward they that are Christ's
at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he
shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when
he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power,
for he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. No more enemies. And it doesn't just say neither
shall they die says they can't. Because he died in their place. He that liveth and believeth
in me not ever going to die. It's him. He's the reason we're
not ever going to die. The resurrection is not the reason
he is. And then he said they're going
to be equal with the angels. Now, it doesn't say we're going
to be angels. People say, I'm going to get
my wings someday. No, I doubt it. I don't think
we're going to have. We're not going to be angels.
We're going to earn our halo or whatever. I don't even know
what that is, what in the world. But people think we're going
to become angels or something. No, no, we're going to be equal
with them, though, in this sense, what he was talking about, the
context. You can't die. because you're equal with the
angel. You're an eternal being now. You're incorruptible. Angels are powerful and swift
and all they care about is the will of God and the glory of
God. That's all they care about. We're going to be like them and
that I'm kind of glad. That's one thing that we surely must
envy about the angels, don't you think? I believe, you know,
they desire to look into the things of Christ because he didn't
take He owned himself the nature of angels. He took on my nature. And angels look into that and
they marvel at that and they glorify him for that. They got
something on us right now, but not for long. But they got this
on us. They don't care about anything
else but his will and his glory. I'm ready to be equal with them
in that sense. And we can't die. They do his
bidding and they rejoice in his glory. He gave his angels charge
over us in this world, he does now, and they take care of us. You can't even dash your foot
against a stone, physically, yeah, but spiritually, no, you
cannot be harmed. Not one hair of your head can
fall to the ground without your heavenly father. And when the
Lord Jesus Christ was born, you remember what they said? Glory
to God. Glory to God in the highest.
That's what they do. They do what he says do, and
they glorify and praise him and always will. And we're gonna
be like him in that. We wanna do his will now, don't
we? But come on. Come on. We wanna worship him
now. Then we will. And notice the last of verse
36. And this, of course, confirms what we've already said. We're
not angels. I don't know if there's any better
or worse in glory. I don't know. But I know this.
It's not worse to be a son of God than it is to be an angel. We're sons of God. We're going
to be just like Christ. We're going to be. We are predestinated
to be conformed to the image God's son just like Christ is
the express image of God Hebrews 1 3 We're gonna be the express
image of Christ Romans 8 29 1st John 3 to listen to this beloved
now are we the sons of God? That's true now. So what's he
mean? It does not yet appear what we shall be But we know
that when he shall appear We shall be like him. We're the
sons of God now, but not in this sense. We're not just like him
yet. But we will be, for we shall
see him as he is. David said in Psalm 17, 15, as
for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness. I think he's
talking about when we see him face to face, don't you? I will
behold thy face in righteousness. Now I behold his face, but through
a glass darkly, because I behold his face in sin, in this sinful
flesh. But I will behold his face in
righteousness. I will know then, even as I am
known, and listen to the next part, I shall be satisfied when
I awake with thy likeness. Verse 37. Now that the dead are
raised. Even Moses showed at the bush
when he called. The Lord, the God of Abraham
and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. For he is not a
God of the dead, but of the living. For all live under him. Now it is said that the Sadducees
only believed in the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible
were the only inspired scripture according to them. I believe
that's true. And that being said, what David
said about the resurrection in the Psalm, they didn't believe
that was inspired Word of God. And they didn't see in the first
five books of the Bible, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,
they didn't see resurrection taught there. That's why the
Lord Jesus went all the way back to Moses. All the way back to the book
of Exodus And said Moses showed he revealed that there's a resurrection
right there Now all through the scripture
job job is the oldest apparently and Traditionally understood
to be the oldest book of the Bible written before even the
Pentateuch was written Job spoke clearly of the resurrection didn't
he? I know I'm going to stand at the latter day on this earth,
and I'm going to behold my Redeemer. I know my Redeemer liveth, and
I'm going to stand. In my flesh, I'm going to see
God. I'm going to see him. After my skin, worms destroy
this body, yet in my flesh, after I die, I'm going to rise again.
I'm going to be in my flesh. It's not going to be the same
flesh. And I don't know what all he understood about that,
but he said, I'm gonna see God after I die. After this body decomposes, I'm
gonna yet see God because my Redeemer lives. Well, and David
spoke of the resurrection. We saw that in the book of Acts
where they talk concerning what David said concerning the resurrection.
The Lord Jesus quoted a verse of scripture that these Sadducees
and we would never have thought If you read that scripture there concerning Moses at the burning
bush and how he, the Lord there, is called the God of Abraham
and Isaac and of Jacob, would you immediately thought, well,
there's the resurrection being taught? No. It makes you kind of wonder what
all we've missed in the word of God, doesn't it, a little
bit? We missed that, didn't we? Until he showed it. But by God's grace, we know this,
this book concerns his son. All three, we've already seen
that he is the resurrection, he is the life. And whatever
he says, by his grace, we believe it. As he gives us light, we
believe it. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter
15. I'll close in a moment here.
But let's look at this together. 1 Corinthians 15, 12. This is where Paul taught concerning
the resurrection, one of the places anyway. And I believe
it's pertinent to our study here. 1 Corinthians 15, 12, now if
Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among
you that there is no resurrection of the dead? Now notice something
right here, he didn't say If the resurrection be preached,
then how, why are you denying it? If the resurrection be brief,
the doctrine of the resurrection be preached, then why do you
deny the resurrection? He said, if Christ be preached
that he rose, there's a difference in there. There's a big, big
difference. Our hope is not that there is
a resurrection. Our hope is Christ. Christ rose
because he died. And he died because of sin. He
died for my sins according to the scriptures. He died for my
sins because he loved me. First John 4.10, here in his
love that he sent his son to be the sin offering for my sins. So the truth of Christ being
raised from the dead is integral to all of the doctrine of scripture.
Do you see that? The love of God is defined in
that he died and rose. The doctrine of justification,
he rose again, he died for our sins according to the scriptures
and was raised again for our justification. Every doctrine
in scripture is integral and vice versa to Christ having died
and risen from the grave. Now let's read the rest of it,
back to verse 12 there. 1 Corinthians 15, if Christ be
preached that he rose from the dead, how say some of you that
there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection
of the dead, then is Christ not risen? And if Christ be not risen,
then is our preaching vain and your faith is also in vain. What
do we got to talk about? If he just died as a martyr,
if he just died as what everybody that doesn't know God believed
he was, a fraud, then we have no hope. Yea, and
we are found false witnesses of God because we have testified
of God that he raised up Christ. If so be that the dead rise not.
So the Lord is showing in these verses that you can't even read
about Moses in the burning bush. Nothing in the word of God makes
any sense unless Christ rose from the dead. Nothing, none
of it can be believed. You can't even talk about that
in the book of Exodus. He was raised again for our justification. You can't talk about justification
without talking about Christ being raised. And remember how
he was raised. Remember this. As we think about
Christ being preached, that he rose. And remember that wording. Here's how he was raised. He
said, I have power to lay my life down and I have power to
take it up again. Remember what the Lord said to
those Sadducees? You don't know the power of God.
The resurrection is the power of God. Paul said that I might
know him and the power of his resurrection. And let me just
say one thing more about that. Christ crucified and risen is
salvation. This is, this is integral to
the gospel because the gospel is that what the law could not
do and that we were the, because of the weakness of our flesh,
because we couldn't measure up to God sent his son to do it.
He saved us. He saved us from hell. He saved
us from condemnation and wrath. And he did it by dying and rising
again. He didn't make salvation available.
You remember what Paul said in Romans 8, 31 through 39. This is my justification that
Christ died. It is Christ that died. That's
why I stand uncondemnable before God. Yea rather that he's risen
again. These Sadducees,
About Chris Cunningham
Chris Cunningham is pastor of College Grove Grace Church in College Grove, Tennessee.
Pristine Grace functions as a digital library of preaching and teaching from many different men and ministries. I maintain a broad collection for research, study, and listening, and the presence of any preacher or message here should not be taken as a blanket endorsement of every doctrinal position expressed.
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