Hallelujah. Amen. That's wonderful. You know, there's nothing wrong with saying hallelujah. Oh, here, let's test this. Hallelujah. Got it? You can hear it? All right. The Lord is good. And somebody agree with me. He is good. He's gracious, He's kind, He's wonderful.

And I would like, oh, I'll tell you, listen, we'll get on with the Word and we'll preach it, God willing, after I give you a little personal update, okay? Brother, you did so well, I feel that I don't have to say anything. Except, see this man here? We want to pray about getting him to visit India, maybe in a year's time. We'll see, we don't know. That's not written in stone, but we have a ministry which our main focus, yes, we have children, We've built an orphanage, and that orphanage has spread into a big children's ministry, and it's been tremendous.

And we're working with children, yes, but our main purpose is to work with pastors, Indian pastors, African pastors. And the Indian pastors go to the tribal areas, the hill country. And if you were to go there, you'd be killed. Why? Because of the color of your skin. And we're up against a lot of radical Hindus. Nothing wrong with Hindus if he's peaceable. A lot of Hindus are quiet and peaceable, but there's a section of them, radical, and they think that you deserve to die because you're a Christian.

So we have, life is very challenging. About six months ago, we had one of our pastors burnt out. They attacked his home. The family was spared, blessed be the Lord, but they lost everything. Anyway, our goal, maybe you'll pray with us. that we'll have the resources, that we'll have the wisdom, that we'll have the energy to keep on working with these dear people.

And some people like to know exactly what our needs are. Well, right now there's Pastor Raj, He's almost as radical as Parsha. But he needs a bike, a motorbike, so that he can go to the villages. If anybody here has got a spare motorbike, let me know. contribute to buying one for him. Again, Shadrach, Pastor Shadrach in Africa. He's got a building, but the roof is full of holes. And every time the wind blows, their church building fills up, not with water, but with dust. It's quite alarming. So we need to at least start the repairs to a new roof, which cost about $500, $550. But anyway, be praying, please. And if you don't feel led to pray, that's all right. The Lord hasn't led you to pray about these needs.

And so I would like you this morning Turn in your word. And as has been mentioned, we send out a Wednesday Word each week. The Wednesday Word, it's all about Jesus. And it also gives a little report oftentimes. The Wednesday Word, just by the way, it's translated into Telugu, which several million people speak in India and throughout the world. And also it's translated into Mandarin Chinese. We've got a person over there, we don't talk too much about her name because the communists have worked at shutting her down and confiscating her good work. So there's a lot to pray about, and if you want that Wednesday Word, by the way, if you want to deliver it to your email, there's a, what you call it, a notepad out there on the foyer, and you can put your email address on there, and you'll get it. Does anybody, by the way, anybody here already get the Wednesday Word? Ah, well, that's great. So sign-up sheet is out there, and a few books, The books are there, written by myself, and the Lord has been pleased to use them, and they're out there for your consideration.

Okay, I want this morning to speak about three tremendous, thundering truths. Are you ready for it? Three tremendous thundering truths. John 19.30, one of my favorite scriptures, probably my most favorite scripture. It simply says, it is finished. The Lord said that. Then in Matthew four, we see it is written. You can check that out. Verse seven. It is written. And then in Revelation 21, verse 6, we see it is done. Three tremendous thundering truths. It is finished. It is written. It is done. And all three are spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Well, who is He to be speaking like this? Oh, I'm glad you asked. I'll tell you who Jesus is. He is the eternal Word made flesh. He is God manifest in the flesh. He is the creator of all things. He's the brightness of the Father's glory. That's who He is. And He spoke these three things and these three truths. give us assurance of our acquittal before God, and give us authority for the present, and give us prospect for the future.

So let's look at this first truth. It is finished. This gives us assurance of our acquittal. Did you know that when you're saved, you're not just pardoned, I know our hymns, you purchased my pardon when nailed to the tree. We sing about purchasing the pardon. Jesus did more than that. Do you know what he did? You see, listen, if you're pardoned, okay, listen, let's say you rob a bank, all right, and they catch you, and they put you in trial, And you go to jail, and you go there for 20 years. But you're there for 10 years, and you're very good. And the governor of the state says, what about this fellow? How's he doing? Oh, he's very good. He's a model prisoner, has been for years. Helps the other prisoners. He's a good man. He says, well, I think we should let him go. We'll pardon him. Well, that's great. They pardon him. But he is still a bank robber. He did it. He performed the act of robbery. And the state has said, we pardon you for that, but he's still the robber.

Well, what's the difference between that and acquittal? Acquittal, we are justified by faith and we are acquitted. Why? How? We're acquitted. That means we didn't rob the bank. That's right, when you're acquitted, you're set free, you're not guilty, not guilty. It is finished. You're not guilty. Christ has died for his people. Oh yes, it is finished.

Who spoke that? It was spoken by Christ, the sinner's substitute. A substitute, yes. All of us have sinned and all of us need a substitute. All of us through, we've sinned through words, through deed, through thought, through, listen, here's a question. I love to ask this question. How can a sinful person obtain right standing before the all-holy God?" That's a good question. Don't ever be afraid to ask people that. How can a sinful person obtain right standing before an all-holy God?

Well, religion has an answer for that. Religion says, join us, become one of us, we're the true church, or come, we're the true church, and we'll perform sacraments, and those sacraments will get you into heaven. Did you ever hear such as a load of nonsense in all your life? How can a bachelor priest, listen, he says he can take this wafer and say mumble, mumble, jumble, jumble, jumble, jumble, jumble, Or words to that effect. And suddenly it turns into this wafer, turns into the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. My goodness, if he can do that, he needs to be in America's Got Talent. I mean, good grief. Join us and take the sacraments. This will not work.

Sin must be punished. Do you hear me? It must be punished, punished, punished. And either you are going to be punished for your sins, or you'll find a substitute, or rather the substitute will find you. Who is he? Yeah. His name is Jesus. a substitute for his person. Have you embraced him as your substitute yet? Have you been to the cross, to where Jesus died, and put your trust in him and said, look, I'm a sinner. But Jesus, you've died on the cross, and you are the sinner's substitute. Be my substitute.

Yeah. See, there he is. Look at him on the cross, writhing in tortured agony. There he is, intercepting the wrath of God. We talk very glibly at times about being saved. Oh yeah, he's saved. What does that mean, being saved? What are you saved from? You've got to be saved from something. What are you saved from? Do you know? I'll tell you what you're saved from. You're saved from the wrath of God. God is holy, God is just, and God has wrath, and wrath will come upon sin. This person here, this preacher here is a sinner, and I need a substitute, and I need a glorious one who has conquered death, and I've got one, and his name is Jesus, Jesus the Lord.

But what about you? Have you put your trust and confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ? There he was at the cross, intercepting the wrath of the all-holy God. There he is paying for our sins. Has he paid for yours? Well, he cries out, it is finished. It is finished. That's a shout of victory. That's not a cry of despair. That's not a cry of defeat. That's a victory from the cross. Mission accomplished. That's what's being said.

So, excuse me while I take a divine healing tablet. Lacoste, a wonderful thing, isn't it? Let me stir up your purer minds by way of remembrance. Okay, shortly before his death, Jesus appeared in the mind of transfiguration. And there was a summit meeting taking place with Elijah and Moses. And so they talked, what did they talk about? They talked about his decease, his exodus. They talked about Calvary, in other words. Elijah was there because he represented the prophets. Moses was there because he represented the law. And Jesus, in order to be qualified to die, had to fulfill these demands, the demands of the law and the prophets.

And so, I can just see Elijah with his copybook, tighten it off. He said, I've got a checklist here. It's got to be born in Bethlehem. Check that. The Messiah's got to be born of a virgin. Check that. He's got to be of the tribe of Judah. He's got to be a descendant from King David. He's got to be called out of Egypt. He's got to have a ministry of miraculous healings. By the way, you can see that in Isaiah 29, 18. He's going to be betrayed. He's going to be led like a lamb to the slaughter. He's going to be wounded and bruised for the sins of his people. And then he turns to Moses. What do you say, Moses? Well, I'm here to see that all the demands of the law are accomplished. You see, according to the law, sin had to be paid for, and it was paid for by death. In the Bible, there was no remission from sins but by blood. And what they did was they took a lamb and sacrificed an innocent, harmless lamb. And so that lamb became the substitute for its people. Sin had to be paid for, paid for by death. And they sacrificed the lamb, a perfect lamb. and they were able to approach God through blood.

Are you able to approach God? You can if you approach through the blood of Christ. That's the way to receive salvation, through the Lord, through His blood.

Listen, consider Cain and Abel. This will show us something of the power of the Lamb. Come with me in your imaginations and see a tall bronze figure of the first farmer, and he's going to make an offering to God, and he has a big basket, and the basket is full of vegetables and produce and all the works of his hands. And so he's there to offer up all his hard labor. And I look over to the right of him and we see there's another man. He doesn't have a basket. All he has is a lamb. And he sacrifices his lamb. The other one gives all his produce to men. My goodness, two altars, two offerings. Two men standing before God waiting for a verdict. And Abel was accepted because of the blood of the lamb. Cain was rejected, not because he was a bad man. Cain was a good man. He was a hardworking man. He was a farmer. He was a decent man. You'd have enjoyed him as your neighbor. But he was rejected before God because he brought his works.

So what about you? Is Jesus your lamb? Yeah. You know, at the Passover feast, there were a hundred thousand lambs sacrificed. That's what they reckon. They were slaughtered. And on that night, Jesus would have walked across the brook of Kidron and it would have been like a river flowing red with blood. And so, they were there at the Passover feast, and at the pinnacle of the feast, the high priest took the blood of the lamb. He took it into the Holy of Holies. And at that very moment, when he anointed in the Holy of Holies, at the exact moment it's believed, Jesus cried out, it is finished! Finished! Wow. And the veil of the temple was ripped into from the top to the bottom. Who tore it? God tore it. What was He saying? He was saying this system of blood sacrifice is over. Not one ounce of blood had satisfied Him until we have the Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, the Lord was saying, I'm not impressed with anything other than the blood of the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ. And God is still not impressed by our efforts. Brother, we should make efforts, yeah, but that's not what gets us into acceptance with God. Nothing can for sin atone, nothing but the blood of Jesus. Nothing good that I have done, nothing but the blood of Jesus. It is finished. The law is satisfied. The prophets are satisfied.

And the second thundering truth is, excuse me, I caught a nasty cold coming into this country and haven't been able to shake it. But bear with me, we're gonna make it through. It is written, Matthew chapter four, you can check that out. That gives us authority for the present. Do you see, Jesus and Satan were having a warfare, a temptation. And our Lord Jesus answered every temptation with the word. He would say, it is written, it is written. And that's why we take our stand on the Word. Jesus took His stand on the Word. We take our stand on the Word.

But, Brother McKee, how do you know that the Bible is true? I've got one word for you that will prove the Bible is true. One word. It's resurrection. Resurrection is the one word. All you've got to do to disprove Christianity is to disprove the resurrection. Isn't that a simple job? That's all you have to do.

And so, you've got to disprove the resurrection. Did you know that before Christ there had been seven resurrections? Did you know that? Yeah, there was the widow's son, the Shunammite's son, the unnamed man, Jairus' daughter, the widow of Nain's son, Lazarus, and then there were the many saints. But here's the thing. All these people died a second time. They went back to the grave. Yeah, they'd been resurrected, but they went back to the grave.

But Christ's resurrection is different. It was the eighth resurrection. And what was different about it? Well, he didn't go back to the grave. And not only that, he was the only one whose resurrection was prophesied a thousand years before In Psalm 1610, we read a prophecy concerning the resurrection. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither will thou allow your Holy One to see corruption.

Christ outlived his pallbearers. And the resurrection gives us proof, gives us credibility to the Lord Jesus. Credibility, what does that word mean? Credibility. It means worthy of being believed. You know, Jesus was worthy of being believed. He announced the means of His death. He said, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must I be lifted up. Talking about the cross. He prophesied His time in the grave. You can see in Matthew 27, verse 63. that his enemies were discussing amongst them, and they said, you know, he said he'd be gone for three days, and so they put guards around the tomb.

Then he told them he'd be resurrected, and he told them where he would meet them. Matthew 26 again, but after he says, I am risen again, I will go before the eon to Galilee. And he did, and they did. And when they saw him, do you know what they did? They worshipped him. Oh, they worshipped him. That's a striking thing.

Has anybody here ever heard of Hari Houdini? No? Yes. Hari Houdini. was he lived in the 1920s or the 1930s, something like that. But he used to be able to escape from all kinds of situations. We would lock him up and chain him to a metal box and put him inside it and throw it in the river and he could get out of anything. But he knew he was playing with death. And so he and his wife said, look, they were big, by the way, into spiritualism. And so he said, if I were to die, said Harry to his wife, I will contact you from beyond the grave. But how will I know it's you? She says, well, here are seven words which I will use from beyond the grave. And if these seven words are spoken in the seance, you'll know it's me. But if they don't get the seven words, it's not me." Well, of course, that didn't happen. He died, and the poor woman, the poor widow went from seance to seance. She traveled the world going to this seance, that seance. She said, did Harry make it? She never knew until she died. Did Harry make it?

How different is that from Jesus? Jesus is the only man who ever made an appointment beyond the grave and he kept it. And Acts 1, verse 3 says, he showed himself alive after his passion by many fallible proofs. Okay, preacher, what's the point? What are you making? My point is this, the resurrection proves his reliability. The same Christ who said, I will rise again, said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. Can you trust that? I am the way, he says. I am the way, the truth, and the life. The same Christ says, come on to Me, all of you that are weary. You can trust Him. You can trust Him. He'll give you rest. Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house there are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. But I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place, I will come again. Can you trust that? You can because of the resurrection. I will come again and receive you unto Myself, and I give unto My sheep eternal life, and they shall never perish. Do you hear that, believer? Never perish. Every word He said is trustworthy.

I'm going to wrap this up and say our third truth is it is done. That's in Revelation 21, verse 6. This era of history is soon coming to an end. I know you believe that. I don't go as far as some of these dear folks on TV, God bless them. And there's people I know who've got chart upon chart, and they can, with each new crisis, they can tell us when Jesus is coming back. Well, I don't go that far, but I'll tell you what I do believe. I believe certain wonderful things are going to happen. There's going to be the sound of a trumpet. A trumpet will be blown. And King Jesus is going to appear with all the holy angels. Oh, what a sight that's going to be. Did you know that heaven is going to be a vacant lot? Why would they stay in heaven when Jesus is going to the earth with all the angels? Oh yeah. And the saved dead will rise first. And there will be resurrection right across the globe. Those who have trusted in Christ Jesus will be raised. And the living Christians, the believers, will be changed to meet the Lord in the air. Three tremendous thundering truths. It is finished. It is written. It is done. It is finished with spoken from the tree by Christ, by Christ who is earth's true Redeemer. And that settles my debt. It is written, not spoken from the temple, by Christ, earth's true religion. That settles my doubt. It is done. Spoken from the throne by Christ, who is earth's true ruler. That settles my destiny. Isn't the Lord Jesus lovely? Dear brother, I'm finished.