We sing those same old hymns
over and over don't we? I'm not sure whether Gabe picked
the first one in light of our Bible study, but it sure did
go well with it, didn't it? How Firm a Foundation, that's
what we looked at. And then we just sang Come Thou
Fount. Which verse, the verse that I
love so much and you do too, all of them, but where it says
prone to wander. Lord, I feel it, prone to leave
the God I love. Here's my heart. Take and see
them. Bind my wandering heart. Not only do we need made free.
This is our text, our subject this morning. The sun shall make
you free. Not only do we need to be made
free, but we need made the Lord's bond slave, bound to him by love's
strong cords, the cords of a man. Bound, our life wrapped up, our
soul wrapped up in him. Here's our text, John 8, and
never felt so intimidated. Any more so. Than this. Text. About the game that I tore
up at least seven or eight pages of no. Verse thirty six if the
sun. Therefore shall make you free. You shall be free. Indeed. Our Lord is saying in. few words. Salvation is of the Lord. The Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord
who said, in another place, all things are delivered unto me
of my Father. All power, as God hath given
him the Son, power over all flesh that he should give. He should give eternal life to
as many As thou has given him and Christ then said. We saw
a couple of weeks ago come under me. Under me and here he says
if the sun. Shall make you free. You shall
be free indeed. I want to be free. And what this
means will see in a moment, I hope. By him saying The sun must make
you free. That must mean we're not born
free. Right? When Christ said, I am
come that they might have life, that must mean that we're not
born with spiritual life, but we're dead. And here it says
we must be made free. That means we must be bound by
something, born in bondage. Now, they argued with the Lord,
they. Who are they? Verse thirty-three, they answered
or argued, back talk, game sayers answered, we be Abraham's seed. We're good Jews, we're religious
Jews. We've been religious, our mom
and daddies were good Jews and so on and so forth. We were raised
in Judaism and We were never in bondage to any man. How do
you say? Why do you say you should be
made for it? Day. You know who they are, don't
you? You were one of them arguing,
back talking. Verse 30, look at this. As he
spake these words, many believed on him. That is, they said they
did, they seemed to, did they? They wouldn't have said. What
do you mean. My what do you mean we're we've
never been. Our Lord answered them in verse
thirty one said to the Jews which believed on him you know that's
said many times it. Says in many believed on him
but it says he didn't commit them himself to him it wasn't.
They seem to. One time they all. All of Israel
wanted, except the religious leader, wanted to make him king. He came riding in on a donkey,
remember, and they wanted Hosanna to be God in the highest. They all acknowledged him. Well,
Brother Henry, it wasn't too long after that till every one
of them was saying, kill him. They didn't believe on it. They
seemed to. What does that say about man? Not everyone to say, Lord, Lord.
Not everyone that calls the name Jesus, not everyone that says
they believe the Bible, no, no, no. Our Lord said in verse thirty
one, if you continue in my word. Then you're my disciples, and
if you really believe. If you really hold to what I
say. You bow to and believe what I
say about who I am, about who you are, and about how you're
going to get to God. Then you're my disciple. Then you're my disciple. Well, he said, and they argued,
we've never been in bondage. What do you mean made free? And
our Lord said in verse thirty-four, Truly, I say unto you, whosoever
committed sin is a servant of sin, bound to it, prisoner to
it, captive to it. Now, this is so revealing. It really did reveal
something to me. I've known it. Never thought
of it in this way. Man people really believe that
they're free free will. People like to boast that they
do free will means you do as you please. You choose what you
will. That's what they say. That's
what they believe. That we're free to choose good
or evil and you must make the choice. They really believe that
they're free. to do that all right. Quit sending. Your thought of it that way brother
Henry. In that free will. I have total freedom of the will
to choose what you will. And so I will not do this or
that. I will do this or that. Isn't
that free will? Our Lord said, you're not free. I'm free. Martin Luther wrote a whole book
on the bondage of the will. Horses eat grain and grass. That's what their nature does.
Right? Lions eat meat. You can't force
them to eat grass. You can't force a horse to eat
meat. It's their nature. Our Lord said
of mankind, by nature, he said he drinks iniquity like the water. He will do what his will will
do. And he can't do anything else.
He said, can the Ethiopian change his skin? Can the leopard his
spots? Neither can you do good who are
accustomed to doing evil. You're bound by it. But. If the sun, this is the only
hope. I am the only hope, he said.
If the sun, see all power over all flesh is given unto me. If the sun shall make you free,
you're free indeed. Boy, I want to know what he means,
don't you? Anybody else? There's several things we're
going to look at here. Several things that we need freedom from.
Sin. That is, it's controlling power.
It's penalty. The law. We're under a curse. Bound to keep it. Satan. Scripture says this. captive
God of this world. The world, the world of it, like it, overcome
by it, perish with it unless somebody saves it. Ignorance. We're not born knowing God. Ignorant. Blind, deaf, dumb. Flesh, bound to it. self fear of man fear of death. The crisis. Are you interested
the sun shall make you free all right only if the sun shall make
you free shall you be free indeed from the reigning ruling controlling
power of sin. Would you look with me at Romans
six Romans chapter six free indeed we are born in sin. David Scripture says that God
says this through David. In sin did my mother conceive
me, meaning my daddy and my mother were sinners, and so I was born
just like them. David said, I came forth from
the womb speaking lies. We don't have to tell our children
how to lie. It comes naturally. We have to
practically force them to tell the truth. No, we don't have
to tell them how to hate, how to cheat, how to be selfish.
That's their nature. We do everything within our power,
calling on God to restrain them from this sin that's in them. And ask them and plead with God
and God alone who can save them from this sin. Sin. Dead to God, we're born dead. We're all stillborn. Dead to
God, very much alive to sin. Very much alive to sin, meaning
live for it. We're dead while we live. Love
it. Pursue it. Take no thought for God who is
life. No thought of God. No conscience
of our sin. No pricking of the conscience.
Live in it, for it. Love it, pursue it, want nothing
more than sin. Isn't that right? But God. You see, you can't change. But Romans 6, God and you, he
said in Ephesians 2, hath he quickened. Romans 6, verse 14,
sin shall not have dominion over you. You're not under the law,
but under grace. What is grace? Christ. The grace the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus. If you like Christ is what the
verse fifteen shall we sin because we're not on the law but under
God forbid we don't with me. No you yield yourself servants
to obey his servants are you to whom you obey whether of sin
to death or of obedience on the under righteousness God be thanked. Thank God that you were servants
of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart. What? What? Faith is a gift of God. That's why you didn't just decide
to, you were dead. From the hearts. It gives you
a new heart. That form of doctrine. What's
that? The doctrine of Christ, which
was delivered unto you. The gospel being being made free
so you're made free you didn't decide you didn't get born again
you didn't stop you were made free by the blood by the work
the person of Jesus Christ and you became servants of righteous
who. Yeah Christ our righteous I speak
now he says after the matter of me. Because of the infirmity,
the weakness of the flesh, as you have yielded your members,
servants to uncleanness and to iniquity and to iniquity, even
so now yield your members, servants to righteousness, who is Christ,
unto holiness. When you were servants of sin,
you were free from righteousness. You didn't have any fruit in
those things. You're now ashamed of those things. At the end of those things is
death, but being now made You see another, a master, a new
master came. We'll see in a moment. He came
and made us free, made us his bond slaves, servant. And what
he's saying in so many words there is what you once lived
for, loved and had your pleasure in and nothing, loved and lived
for nothing more. You're now ashamed of it. You
hate it. It repulses you. It doesn't say you quit doing
it. You're not free from sinning.
First John tells us God's word is not. If there's any contradiction,
it's in our own finite understanding, you know that, don't you? First
John one says very plainly, if we say we have no sin. We deceive
ourselves. Truth is not in us. If we say we have not sinned,
we're calling God a liar. And he goes on to say, my little
children, these things I write unto you that you sin not. Can
you quote the rest of that? And if any man sin, we have an
advocate. If you can quit your sinning,
you don't need Christ anymore, do you? All right, the Lord is telling
us here that he frees us from this damning, ruling power of
sin. Reigning and ruling what he lived
for once. Now it just kills you. It slays
you. God's people don't quit sinning.
Proverbs 24 says, Though a righteous man falleth seven times, I'm
so glad that's written, aren't you? Aren't you glad 1 John 1
is written? Though a just man falleth seven
times. How many times? Yet he rises up. Why? Because
somebody raises him up. He's not going to be held captive
by that. He's not under the law, but under
grace. You know, when Lazarus was brought
forth, he was alive, wasn't he? He wouldn't have come out unless
Christ said, Lazarus, come forth. He was dead. He quickened me. But he still had those grapevines
on him. He's still bound. And the Lord
said, Loose him. And that's a good picture, how
that we're being loosed. Loosed. Loosed. And so only if
Christ If the sun makes. So you can sweep out the house
the Lord gave this. Illustration parable of the man
goes and sweeps out the house and. And you know the unclean
spirit goes out for whatever reason and the man sweeps it
out and he gets morality and he turns over a new leaf and
he gets religion and he starts trying and striving and so forth.
If somebody is not occupying that house. If Christ is not
in that house, that one who left is coming back with seven more
spirits. So you see, if the Son makes you
free, our salvation's only, it's in Christ. The Lord saved us.
You know, we sang that song, you know, or last week, Looked
at coming to Christ, Lord, and you never quit coming to Christ.
You come to Christ in the beginning as a hell-deserving sinner. Well,
how do you quit coming to Christ? No, to whom coming, Peter said. How? As a hell-deserving sinner. As a hopeless hell. Lord, save
me. After several years, Peter said,
save me or I perish. Hold me up. I'm going down again. Again. And we say, Lord. Oh, make me free, free me, Lord. And here's the next time. And
let me say this to sin, the consequences of it is guilt. And we all feel
it and it will overcome. Power of it is overcoming. Only one person can get rid of
guilt. It's the one you sinned against.
Who. Against the. And only when he says I frankly
and. Forgive you I don't remember
it anymore. Freedom you. Get the son make
you free and the next thing go with me to Luke 11 Luke 11. You know, this is not my style
of preaching per se. Expository, that is, verse by
verse. It's difficult for me to take
one verse and deal with it by itself. But, oh my, I need to
learn because each verse is such a message in itself. If the Son
makes you free from Satan, And you're free indeed. Free
indeed. He's called, our Lord called
him this, the God of this world, the Prince of the power of the
air. Jesus Christ called him that. Satan is not a figment
of man's imagination. He wasn't made up by religious
zealots. It's not some old fairy tale
that modern man rejects as some kind of allegory, some kind of
force of good and evil, like Star Wars or something. Jesus
Christ said that. And to reject this person is
to call Jesus Christ a liar. Right? He's one that said, he
said, I beheld Satan fall as a as an angel of light over in
Isaiah 14 is. Where he failed the story of
his fall, he said, I was there, Christ said. I cast him out. He's a real person of him. And he's he's called the god
of this world small g. He's not in control of anything
really. He's not the capital G.O.D. But
the little G.O.D. of this world meaning his power
his authority is delegated. You see these ministers of these
preachers. who speak evil of big news you'd
say. Peter said. They have Satan as
powerful as God. OK. Actually they preach you
more power he does exactly what he will with whom he will God
can't do anything less man let's go to brother. I've got Satan
do exactly as he will. And God not want it. to happen,
can't do anything about it. And ultimately, this little fellow
in the middle, man, he's got the real power. Those fellows that preach that
are ministers of Satan. That's not what God's preachers
preach, or who, or how. Listen to Luke 11. Luke 11, our
Lord, he is Lord, Says in verse twenty one when a strong man
armed keep up his palace his goods are in peace. But God of
this world. He has some authority some power
delegated to him read Job one and two. I love that don't you. When I worked on the railroad
years ago a fellow wanted to argue with me these very things
and I brought up Job. I said, Have you ever read Job
one and two, how that Satan had to come and get permission before
he could do anything that everything he did, God Almighty willed it
or allowed it or however you want to say it. He couldn't do
one thing, not one thing, unless God gave him, delegated the authority
or the power to him to do it. And that man got so mad at me.
He said, He said, I want to talk about Job. Well, I do, don't you? Aren't
you glad there's one stronger than him? Aren't you glad? You better be
glad because scripture says we're taken captive by him at his will. In the next line, our Lord says,
but now, when a stronger than he comes. Let's ask Adam and Eve, the greatest
man ever born, the strongest, the mightiest,
the most righteous, if you will, the wisest, most knowledgeable Free will he had free will. Didn't it? How strong is Satan? They would tell you nobody is
any match for him. He deceived the smartest woman
that ever lived. He deceived her. Completely deceived her. How? A subtle little deception, that's
all. But he came to Christ. The second
Adam, John. The second Adam, the Lord from
glory, the God-man came down and he faced this strong man
by himself. For forty days and forty nights,
not in the strength of food, but in the strength of God's
Spirit, in the strength of His holy character, He withstood
him. And Satan said, here's what the Scripture said. And here
he fired back with that sword. Thus saith the Lord. It is written. And Satan slunk off like the
snake that he is. Christ said, I have overcome
him. You're no match. He's my devil. He's not free. He's on a chain. Isn't that what Jude says? The
angels which kept not their first estate reserved, he hath reserved
in the everlasting chains of darkness. He's on a leash. Aren't
you glad? Satan hath desired to sift you,
Peter. Simon, Satan, that desire, he
wants you like he wanted Job. He can't have you unless I let
him. And he let him, didn't he? He didn't let him have dominion
over him. Oh, no. He let him just, you
know, jab him with fiery darts and all. Peter cried, oh, I'm
not as strong as I thought he was. I can't without thee. I
can do nothing. Lord, save me. He said, I didn't let you go. No, no, no. You're not under
the dominion of him. I'm your master. Get behind me,
Satan. Let him loose. Son, make you pray. See, not that we're free from
the assaults and the temptations or even succumbing to those by
Satan himself. No, sir. if any man. If any man thinks he is the job. Job was self-righteous. He was
one of the Lord's own and one of God's people become self-righteous. And that's the worst thing of
all for God's people to become. That's the worst thing of all. He will show you what you are
if you're His. And it's a painful lesson. Satan hath desired you to sift
you like wheat, but when a stronger than he comes, Oh, Martin Luther
said it. Oh, he must win the battle. One little word from him will
tell him I can't. Satan. Well, if the sun shall make you
free from... Now here's a man that we're in
bondage to. Self. Man. Have you overcome him? They said, they said we'd be
in not in bondage to any man. How about you, Dan? Is there
a man named Dan that gives you a lot of trouble that you can't seem to shake
loose from? Huh? An old man? Paul said it. There was an old fellow named
Saul. He said who should deliver me
from this body of death this old man. Can't seem to shake
it. You can't do it. We can't do
it self. We're born loving self self-willed
not die well my way. The ugliest thing of all in our
children. Is what. Selfishness. That's the ugliest. I hate that
you can take the most beautiful little child. And if they exhibit
and they will. That self will that you know. See another child with something
they want and it's not theirs by right. It doesn't belong.
Nothing they have belongs to them. It was given to them. They learn it's given to them.
By grace they are what they have what they are and for them to
say, you know. Well, what does that make you? Take it all away. Till they
realize. You know, only when God Almighty
reveals ourself to us. Like the prodigal son. Says he
came to himself. He came face to face with himself
and he didn't like what he saw. How do you see yourself? How
does the Lord make us see ourselves? A mirror. A mirror. And what you see, if he opens
these blind eyes, if the sun opens your blind eye, we're blind
to self, aren't we? Blind. Blind to our children. We're blind, we're deaf, we won't
hear. Only if Christ, God, the Word
says, through the Word, power of His Word, with the Word, He
opens blind eyes and we see ourselves. And what happens? We begin to
hate ourselves. You're not born hating yourself.
You're born loving yourself. But if the Son, through His Word,
one day comes to you and says, look at yourself, and He says,
you're not very pretty, are you? And you say, no, I'm not. I'm
undone. I'm a man of unclean lips. My
cumulus melted into corruption, Daniel said. And you say, I hate
myself. I loathe myself. Now you're free. From serving
yourself. Oh, it doesn't mean you won't
be. It doesn't mean you're ever totally, but it means you're
not from that day forward. You're not going to think too
highly of yourself. You're not going to love yourself.
You're not going to live for yourself and so on. Don't hang your head too much,
OK? I'm guilty. We're all guilty. Why are you
here? Who do you want to hear about?
What gives you joy and peace? Who? Who do you want to serve? Who do you want to be like? Who
do you want to deny? That's where the rubber meets
the road. Amen. Come after me. It's me
you're after. You have to deny yourself. And this is what the
Son does all of our days. He makes us loathe ourselves. I love that passage over in Ezekiel
where he said, After I've done all this for you, you're going
to come to loathe yourself and be so ashamed of yourself. And
all that's going to do is make you look up. And you're where your redemption
God. And see him and him alone is
all together. See, if you don't hate yourself,
you won't really love Christ. He won't. And you begin that
day forward to say, not my will, Lord, don't let me have my will. See, thy people are made willing
to bow to his will. The next thing here, we're free
and I got to hurry. Free from the law. Oh, happy
condition. We're going to sing that as a
closing hymn. Maybe we will sing it. The law
says one thing to human beings. Guilty. Die. That's right. People that think
they're keeping it are ignorant. And you see them everywhere.
Poor, ignorant fools. Paul said that you desire to
be under the law. You don't hear it, do you? To
be guilty of one point, you've broken it all. Well, I've never
done this, I've never done that. Oh, haven't you? Christ said,
who wrote the law, he said, have you ever looked on a person with
lust ever? He says, you're guilty. Paul said, I found out, I found
out the law is He requires perfection in thought that God looks on
the heart. Right before this, this woman
was caught in the act of adultery. She's guilty. She knows it, and
everybody knows it. And they brought her. They brought
her to the Lord, not knowing what they were doing. Who brought
her? They, the accuser, drove her
to Christ and cast her, set her right in the middle of all of
them for as an example of one guilty as charged and no doubt
about it. We all know she's guilty, don't
we? Uh-huh. The law says, and they
said, here's what the law said, kill her, stone her. And they asked Christ, they said,
what do you say? And he got him now. And I love that, oh I love it,
it says he stooped down to where she was, this guilty one. Guilty, just flat guilty. All
these self-righteous people, she's guilty, everybody knows.
He got down where she was. and wrote in the sand, or wrote
in the ground, it says, as though he didn't hear them. He wasn't
listening to them. You see, they brought to him,
and if I'm not careful I'll stay right here, but they brought
to him the one he's waiting on. He was there that day because
he had an appointment, a predestined meeting with a sinner. whom he
came to save, and they brought him, brought her, killed his
chariot, and he stooped down. Did our Lord have made sin for
us? Yes. And he roped in the sand,
and when he got through writing, they all had to leave. They all
had to leave. What do you say? The law says
kill her. Kill her. Christ was all over
everybody was gone, but her and that woman, he said to her, woman,
where are thine accusers? Doth no man accuse thee? Why?
Why didn't they? Where were they? Because the
sun drove them off. Get out of here. Get out of here. Neither do I condemn thee. How?
Why? Because she's guilty. Why? How
could he not? She's dead. She's been stoned. She's been killed. Crucified. Those sins paid for in Christ.
Oh, yeah, he's the lamb slain before it ever happened. It just remains to be done that
he's going to the cross with her sins, all of them past, present
and future on his blessed person and put them away. The law says
guilty or a killer, she has been. Now I say, she's praying. Ah, boy, isn't that wonderful?
Huh? Oh, my. I give the law. I'm free from
the world, all that's in the world. Listen to me, young people.
Here's what God says about the world. All that's in the world,
the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life,
is not of God. True life, life with God, that
is life, life with God. And these things are temporal,
are vanity, are toys, are idle, they're perishing, they don't
last. That's not life. This is not life. And Christ has to show us that,
doesn't He? He has to show us that. Perishing
things of clay, born but from one brief day. change and decay
and all around my see everything and everyone dies. Oh value changes
not. I need real life life more abundant. Life that doesn't consist of
things but in him. Life of God the things of this
world of thoughts the opinions and pursuits of this world what
they say. You know, we'll follow the blind
leaders, we'll follow them until we fall off a cliff with them. Who do you believe, the world
or Jesus Christ? You know what they say, don't
you? They've got something to say about everything. Who do
you believe? Whom do you believe? Especially
religion. Say, this is the way, we found a new way. Oh. God says yes let God be true
and every man a liar crisis I am the way. The way the way the
way the truth the life he says my yoke is easy. The way of the transgressors
hard who do you believe. Free from man if the sun makes
you free from man. And only Christ turns us from
the world and says, you're not going to follow them anymore.
You're following me. You're not going to fall off that ditch
with me. There's a way that seems right to man. I'm going to show
you it's wrong. I'm going to show you I'm the
way. You're going to follow me. And
men, evil men and seducers wax worse and worse. Satan's ministers
have transformed themselves into ministers of righteousness, millions
of people better than you and me, smarter than you and me,
are following these evil men to their own destruction, these
blind leaders of the blind. Why aren't you following? Where are you? Who can you trust? Anybody, anybody can stand up
here and say, I, God sent me to preach and here I am. And
somebody will follow me. Who can you trust? Who can you
follow? Paul said that, listen. Lord, help me. But Paul said,
follow me as I follow Christ. Now, here's the litmus test.
Here's how you know, because, you know, Christ, he's unseen. And he does have he's not left
himself without witness, without proof. Who are they? They are
true. How do you know? Am I following one of these evil
men? Here it is. Who is pointing you away from
himself? John, our Lord said, greatest
man born of woman. He had two disciples that followed
him around, loved his preaching, listened to his preaching all
the time. So along came the Lord Jesus Christ himself. And John
said, look, There he is, the Lamb of God that taketh away
the sin of the world. Look, there he is, the Master,
the Lord, the King, the one of whom I'm not worthy to tie a
shoelace. He must increase, I must decrease. I'm not worthy. He's the one.
He's the bridegroom. I'm just a friend. And all I'm
saying is he's the one. And those two men, following
John, start following Christ. And John said, I've done my job. Who is glorifying God? Who is really glorifying God, giving
Him all the glory, not sharing His glory? Who is glorifying
Christ, making salvation in our days, declaring salvation to
be in one person? Whose name is being revered?
Who is the reverend? Who's he calling reverend? Whose
name is he insisting must be exalted and must wear titles? Some silly place over here on
Main Street's got a bunch of bishops meeting this week. Bishop
this, bishop that, bishop, bull bishop, is what I want to say.
Huh? Who's the bishop of our souls? Huh? Who? Jesus Christ. He's the only one who deserves
a title. Holy and reverend is his name. Men are a bunch of pinheads. Who's exalting and honoring Jesus
Christ? Huh? Who's serving who? Who's
serving himself or serving the glory of Jesus Christ? Huh? That's how you know. Only if the Son. See, Christ
said, a stranger. My sheep here, my boy. Stranger's voice, they will not
hear it. They'll recognize something now, you know. He said they will
not follow. Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad? Christ said they will not follow
him. I won't let them. Aren't you
glad? Huh? That's all. Station Christ said I'm the light
of the world. He that followeth me shall not
walk in darkness, but have the light of life. That is good discernment. First Corinthians two. He that
is spiritual has a good discernment, understanding of all things.
In light of what? Christ. He can judge religion. He can
judge men. He can judge people in light of what? Christ. All
things are judged by him. And I quit with this death. Free
from death. Fear of it, from actually dying. You know, our lifetime, lifetime
we're subject to this bonded fear of death. Fear of death. We fear man because we fear dying
at his hands. But the Lord said, I kill in the fear of the Lord's beginning
and freedom from fear of man. And nobody who is he that will
harm you? Like old Joe. I kill, he said. There is appointed unto man a
type that wants to die. Who appointed it? He who with
whose days are days are numbered and appointed. Can't pass bounds
to say who said he did. And this death what about death
when this body we do die this body dies. It died it will die. But Christ said. And everybody's
afraid of that. This isn't human nature to be
afraid of it. You don't know what's out there,
do you? Don't we? Yes, we do. How? Somebody told us. Somebody told us. And he said,
he that liveth and believeth in me shall never die. You believe
this? You'd be free from death when your time come. You won't
be afraid. you'll be afraid until then. And if you're just wracked with
fear you must not be dying yet. If you're one of the Lords I
told you my story didn't I one time I thought I had a deadly
disease thought I was dying and oh I wasn't ready to go. Well
it wasn't time I found out thankfully. But how do we know Everybody was arguing recently,
weren't they, around Easter time? Everybody was debating it. Do
you believe that Jesus rose from the grave? Do you believe? Do
you believe? Do you believe? I don't believe. I don't believe. I believe. Peter said, We have a more sure
word of prophecy whereunto you do well to take heed. He said,
We were there on that mountain. We were there with him for three
and a half years. And I tell you, Peter said, We saw him killed. We were there,
eyewitnesses. We saw them take his lifeless
body down from that tree and put it in a grave for three days.
He was dead. All the blood flowed out of his
body. The life of the flesh and the
blood, it all flowed out on the ground. A couple of gallons of
it. He was dead. We saw him dead. We thought he was dead. We knew
he was dead. He was dead. But Peter said, oh, now listen,
three days later, we thought he was dead, and he walked right
into the middle of us. He said, I'm alive forevermore. I am he that was dead, and I'm
alive forevermore. And Peter said he was seen by
over 500 people at one time. Is there life after death? How do you know? Jesus Christ
said so, the Son makes you free. You don't need not fear death.
There is no such thing for God's people. Now, He did not say set
you free. He didn't just turn us loose.
Set you free. There's a door, go on. Make you
free. He has to make us free. He has
to make us follow him. He has to make us lie down. He
has to make us, make us, make us, make you free. I'm glad,
aren't you, that he's salvation completely of the Lord. All right,
Brother Gabe, we're going to sing that hymn, aren't we? What number is it? 205. Yeah, that's him. We quoted 205. We'll sing the first and second
verse. Free from the low happy condition. Jesus hath bled and there is
remission. Cursed by the low and bruised
by the fall. Grace hath redeemed us once for
all. Once for all, O sinner, receive
it once for all. you