Make It As Sure As Ye Can

Q: What does the Bible say about the resurrection of Jesus?

The Bible affirms the resurrection of Jesus as a historical and theological certainty, particularly in Matthew 27:62-66. The resurrection of Jesus is central to the Christian faith, as it confirms His divine identity and the victory over sin and death. In Matthew 27:62-66, we see the actions of the chief priests and Pharisees who, aware of Jesus' prophecy of rising after three days, took measures to secure His tomb. They sought to prevent any claims of resurrection from gaining traction among His followers, fearing it would solidify Jesus' influence over the people. This narrative sets the stage for the ultimate reality of His resurrection, which cannot be contained by human efforts to suppress the truth. The resurrection proves that Christ fulfilled His promises and stands as the foundation of our hope in eternal life.

Q: How do we know Jesus' resurrection is true?

Jesus' resurrection is validated through fulfilled prophecy and the testimony of witnesses as recorded in Scripture. The truth of Jesus' resurrection is supported by several key elements in Scripture. First, it fulfills the prophecies made by Jesus Himself, as seen when the chief priests recall His claim that He would rise after three days. This foresight adds credibility to His claims and underscores His authority. Additionally, the resurrection is further substantiated by the testimony of those who encountered the risen Christ, who boldly proclaimed the good news despite facing persecution. The unwavering commitment of the apostles, their willingness to face death for their beliefs, and the transformative impact of the resurrection on the early church serve as powerful evidence of its truth. Thus, the resurrection is not just a mere event in history but a foundational truth that believers hold dearly.

Q: Why is the resurrection important for Christians?

The resurrection of Christ is vital for Christians as it assures our justification, victory over sin and death, and eternal life. The resurrection holds immense significance in the Christian faith. It is the cornerstone of our hope and assurance as it affirms that Jesus conquered sin and death, paving the way for our justification. Romans 4:25 states, 'He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.' This means that through His resurrection, believers are declared righteous before God. Additionally, the resurrection is a promise of our future resurrection; as Christ was raised, so too shall we be raised to dwell eternally with Him. The resurrection transforms our understanding of suffering and death, giving Christians confidence in the face of trials, knowing that just as Jesus triumphed over the grave, we too will share in His victory. Therefore, the resurrection is not merely an event but a transformative reality that impacts every aspect of a believer's life.

Q: What does it mean to be dead to the law?

Being dead to the law means that through Christ's body, believers are released from its condemnation and penalties. To be dead to the law, as expressed in Romans 7:4, signifies that believers are free from the law's requirement to attain righteousness through their works. In Christ, the heavy burden of the law, which served as a schoolmaster to guide us to grace, is fulfilled and rendered powerless over those who belong to Him. The law, which once exposed sin and brought condemnation, no longer holds sway because Christ has taken that condemnation upon Himself. By His death, we are freed from the law's grasp, enabling us to live according to the Spirit. This profound truth reassures believers of their standing before God, as they are no longer defined by their failures to keep the law but by their relationship with Christ, who is their righteousness. Thus, being dead to the law not only offers liberation from guilt but also invites believers into a life of faithful obedience that flows from grace rather than obligation.

Turn with me in your Bibles to
Matthew 27. Matthew 27. Let's read the text
this morning. Matthew 27, verses 62 through
66. Now, the next day, that is the on Saturday, the day after our
Lord was crucified, the day that followed the day of the preparation,
chief priests and Pharisees came together on the Pilate saying,
Sir, Lord is what they used, Lord, we remember that that deceiver,
speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ, That deceiver said while he was
yet alive, after three days I will rise again. Command therefore,
said the pilot, command, give the order that the sepulcher,
the grave, be made sure until the third day. Lest his disciples
come by night and steal him away and say unto the people, he is
risen from the dead. So the last error shall be worse
than the first. So Pilate gave the order. Pilate
sent someone, gave the order and rounded up some men. He said
unto them, you have a watch. There, go your way, make it as
sure as you can. So they went and made the sepulchre
sure. sealing the stone and setting
a watch. There. Well, in verse 62, it said the
next day, Saturday. Now, this was the Sabbath day,
and the Lord Jesus Christ had died the previous day, gave up
the ghost. So as far as they knew, his body
was lying He was lying dead in the tomb on Saturday. Saturday. Now, for those of you
who are good listeners and know a little bit about the Scripture,
the Lord God ordered this, that he lay in that grave on the Sabbath
day because Romans 7 verse 4 says, we are dead to the law. by the
body of Christ. And this is not my subject. However,
that's something worth noting, isn't it? The Lord lay there,
apparently dead, on the Sabbath day. He arose on the first day
of the week. Why do we meet together on the
first day? And why do we call it the Lord's Day? This is why. We don't make a law out of it,
mind you. This is not a new Sabbath, a Christian Sabbath. No, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no. Christ is our Sabbath. We rest in Him. We're not a day.
We don't worship a day. We don't observe a day for the
sake of a day. We observe a day for the sake
of Christ. See? He lay apparently dead on
the Sabbath because Scripture said everything is to fulfill
Scripture. that we are dead. You see, we
were crucified with him, buried, and we're dead to the law by
the body of Christ. There are no more ordinances
against us. The law is that this is not my
subject. But it's a good one, isn't it? Christ took those ordinances,
fulfilled them all, and nailed them on the cross. John says,
paid in full. Kept. Thou shalt kept. Thou shalt not kept. Do this. Kept. Do that. Kept. Do this
and live. Kept. Do for himself? No. For me. In Christ I've kept the law. That's why. And then he laid
in the grave on the Sabbath day showing us it doesn't apply to
you. Doesn't apply to you. You're
dead to the law. That old schoolmaster, that old husband you have? Nuh-uh. You're married to another. Alright. So, that's a good little
footnote, isn't it? Wonderful. And, you know, this
religious nation we live in, like these Pharisees, this religious
nation is full of those who fancy that they keep the law. They
really do think they do, how ignorant they are. I wish I had
more compassion on them. I really do. They're just plumb
ignorant, aren't they? They don't keep the law. There
are so many who fancy themselves to be priests and holy people,
the way they wear Oh, my. You know, in Rome or
even Roman Catholicism, they wear long robes. Well, in some
Baptist place, they wear long beards. You know, a sign of our
holiness. No, it's not. It's a sign of
your ignorance. There's one robe you need to
be wearing. They plucked out his beard, John. What's that
all about? He's not a Levitical priest.
Well, let's go on. Verse 62 says that the next day the chief priests,
the Pharisees, came together at the Pilate. They had a meeting.
They like to do this, religious leaders, all the ecclesiastical
heads and all that. They love to have these meetings,
synods. It was called years ago, Martin
Luther Day, Synods of Dort. Places, things like that. Gatherings,
meetings, councils. They love to hold councils. And
they got together, and they feel like if they all get together,
that Barnard used to say, gang up on God. That God will surely
hear them. Strength in numbers, you know.
No he won't. God hears one. And all those
who come through him only. Right? One mediator. between
God and man, the man, the great potentate. We have a potentate,
all right, one who forgives our sin, one we confess all things
to, don't have to go in a little booth to do it. And he's not sitting in Rome,
he's sitting in heaven. And he absolves us of all our
sin. Our Father, which art in heaven,
Reverend, holy and reverend is his name. Well, these chief priests
and Pharisees got together, and they had planned a great conspiracy. The title of this message is,
Make It As Sure As You Can, or subtitle, and Sam, if you want
to try to get all this on the tape, fine. Subtitle is, The
Great Conspiracy and Attempted Cover-Up. The Great Conspiracy and Attempted
Cover-Up. They got together, And they had
this meeting. Well, we read, didn't we just
read in Psalm 2, the Lord said they're going to do this. Kings
of the earth, rulers gather together. They meet together. Why? What
are they doing? They say they're doing what they're doing in the
name of God. These men did. They called themselves men of
God, didn't they? Oh, we're doing this for the
glory of God. They were against the Lord and
against His Christ, His Anointed. That's what we read, didn't we,
in Psalm 2? He said, Why are the heathen
raved, the people imagined in vain? What's all this rage, all
this tumultuously assembled? What's all this going on today
in religion? What's everybody doing? They're
gathering together in the name of the Lord, but they're against
Him. That shocked the religious world,
wasn't it, to hear that. It did then. It did then. John, they all came out, all
these Pharisees, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, they all
came out to hear John preach. And John stood up and they all
came to hear John the Baptist preach. They knew he was a prophet. And Roy John stood up and pointed
his finger at him and said, We're men of God. You're a viper. Shocked them, isn't it? That's what the Lord did. Every
time the scribes and Pharisees had come to hear him, he'd say,
beware of those scribes and Pharisees. They're a bunch of hypocrites.
Didn't he? Right in their face. And so all
the while, we're going to silence him. He's going to put us out
of a job. If people start trusting Him
and looking to Him, if people start worshipping Him, they'll
quit worshipping us. We've got to get rid of this
fellow. We know he's of God. He couldn't
do the thing he does unless he's of God, but we still don't like
him. That's what they did. We know what he's saying is true,
but we don't like it. Well, they got together, and
Psalm 62 says, they only consult to cast him down from his excellency. Jeanette, that's what they're
doing. It's subtle. Not to us, it's not. We can clearly
hear all the man glory in it, can't we? We can see the man
up there getting all the glory, can't we? They meet together. Our Lord says they draw near
with their lips. He kept saying this. They draw near with their
lips. Praise Jesus. Praise God. Praise the Lord. Who's getting the praise? Here's this girl singing up there.
She's just singing. Got her tears running down her
face. She's looking toward heaven. Everybody's just, oh, they're
just so moved. Chills running up and down their
spines. You know, she's singing about her love for Jesus. Who's
getting the glory? Oh, I love that old preacher,
John Barnard. John Barnard. Evangelist John Barnard. Ralph
Barnard. He was John to us. He was a John,
the Baptist to us. The Lord used him mightily to
save a bunch of Pharisees. The Lord would use him, Brother
Roy, he'd be preaching in so-called churches, Southern Baptist churches,
and the preacher's wife would be over here playing the organ
and break down, quit playing, and say, I'm lost. Preacher's
wife. You know what that'd do. Happened all the time during
that man's preaching. One time. And he said, Need to
be said, one time a girl did that, got up to sing, you know,
how they loved to sing, and how brother and sister Jones loved
for their little Sally to stand up and sing in front of everybody,
you know. She got such a good voice. Well, she stood up to
sing and sang her little song, and Martin was scheduled to preach. And he got up right after that,
and he said, little girl, He said, honey, that wasn't nothing
but the flesh. And it was. The show. The show. And our Lord exposed
these fellows, and they need to be exposed. They need to be
exposed. And they meet together for the
praise of man. You know they do. Man's will,
man's choice, man's works, man's this, man's that. A man's preaching
church. Our church does this, this, that.
That's what it's all about. And here's the great attempted
cover-up. These fellows got together to
cover up, to try to keep what Christ had said from coming to
pass. To cover up the Word of God.
That's why they got together. Oh well, did Jeremiah the prophet
say, they steal my words from the people to tell their dreams
and so forth. They keep my word back. Our Lord
said, lay aside the commandment of God for the tradition of men.
Lay it aside. Put it over here. This is generally
just a prop that men use. That's right. They stand up and
they open this thing so that people think they're preaching
out of it. They're not preaching out of it. And then they walk off to the
side, and over here, and carry on. Big time. And you end up
impressed with them. You hadn't heard a word God said. Well, this is what happened here. This is what is happening here.
I'm in contact. I'm staying in contact. And they
were trying to keep quiet what Christ said. So they went to
their king. They went to Pilate, who was
their king. They said, we have no king but Caesar. This Jesus
is not our king. We have no king but Caesar, and
Pilate, his underling, is our Lord. Verse 63, it says, they
said to Pilate, Sir, we remember But that deceiver said, while
he was yet alive, after three days I will rise again. We heard
him say this. We were there. We heard him preach
quite often. We heard him say this. We didn't believe it. In
fact, we didn't believe anything he said. We didn't fall for any
of it. A lot of people did. Not us. Right, Sam? A lot of these poor ignorant
people, these sinners out there, All these bunch of working class,
no good, ignorant, poor, helpless, hopeless, know-nothing sinners
now, he's a friend of theirs. They go to his house, he goes
to their house, and they all receive him, and he receives
them, not us. We didn't fall for this. We heard him alright, but we
didn't believe him. He said a lot of things we heard,
but we rejected it. We believe he's just a man. He's
no different than any other man. And what he said, we could take
it or leave it. And he said this preposterous thing. He said that
in three days later, he would rise out of that grave. So they
said, Mr. Pilate, sir, Lord, Verse 64,
command, give the order, therefore, that the sepulcher be made sure
until the third day. Send somebody to guard or watch
the grave, lest his disciples come by night, and steal his
body, steal him away, and say unto the people, they're going
to start a rumor, a great conspiracy that they will have, they'll
say he's risen from the dead. And so the last error will be
worse than the first. This thing will just blow up
and explode all over the place. And they will never get rid of
this. So send your best man. Would
you send your best men? We've got to keep this thing
quiet. We've got to keep this lie from spreading. Lest the
last error be worse than the first. Now listen carefully.
All that men say and do will be used against them. What is that we use? Miranda
writes. What you say can and will be
used against you. The Lord said, by a man's words
he'll be justified, or by a man's words he'll be condemned. I love
how that God Almighty already wrote down all that they would
say and do. The wrath of man praises Him.
When they said things like this, when they said, Juanita, when
they say things like this, well, who can forgive sins but God? You're right. When they said,
This man receiveth sinners. Oh, no sweeter words have ever
been heard by a sinner. He saved others, himself he can't
save. That's right. He did save others. All that
he came to save. How'd he do it? By not saving
himself. Well, things like that. Well,
they said the last error would be worse than the first. It is.
The first error. All conspirators, and mankind,
all mankind is a conspirator. Mankind is out to, starting with
Adam, bring God down from His throne. That's right. That's
in man. Man wants to reign and be his
own little God, doesn't he? Started with Adam and all his
posterity, all conspirators. Satan, that's who it really started
with, wasn't it? Satan said, Satan said, I have
a free will and I'm going to exercise it. Didn't he? Isaiah
14, you've read it yourself. I will. God said, no, you won't. I will. Didn't it, Kelly? God said, I will do all my good
pleasure. And you will do all my good pleasure. No, I won't. Watch. The first error that all mankind
and conspirators do is not to believe the Son of God, not to
believe the Word of God. Whatever He said, you better
believe it. Everything He said, you better
believe it. He said it. And now listen, and this is important. We can't believe some of the
things our Lord said and not all of what He said, can we? You can't believe John 3.16.
Oh, I love that. That's my favorite verse. I love
that. Oh, how I love that. And not believe John 3.36. Can you? You can't believe our
Lord said, Him that cometh to me, I'll know why is cast out.
That's just part of a verse, isn't it? You've got to quote it all. You've
got to love it all. All that the Father giveth me shall come
unto me. and him that cometh to me. How to know why it's cast out.
Right? Can't just believe part of what
he said. Oh, I love Jesus as my helper, my healer, my friend. He gives me what I need. He healed
me. He does this. He does that. But he has the
power to save you or damn you. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's
not my Jesus. Yes, it is. Oh, the love of God. I love the
love of God. The love of God. God is love.
God is love. God is love. Yes, He is. But you can't believe
part of His character and not believe all of it. Right? You can't have God the way you
want Him. You have Him as He is. You bow to Him as He is. First error is to reject the
Word of God and the sovereign claims of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Son of God. The last error is to try to cover
it up. Are you with me? I'm trying to ring a bell here. The
last error is to cover it up. See, men, hear and see and read
the Word of God, and it's as plain as the nose on your face.
It really is now. It's plain. God said, I'm God,
beside me there's none else. You're not God. What do you mean
God is God? That's exactly what it means.
He's God, you're not. What does that mean? He will,
you can't. That's what that means. God says, I will, you try. You
can't. I will. Well, what's the difference
between your God, David, and my God? My God's in my heavens.
He's not standing outside your door hoping you'll let Him in.
He's sitting on the circle of the earth. It's his footstool. What does
your God do? Whatever He pleases. Not what
men will let Him. Not what men get together and
decide He can do. He does as He pleases, with whom
He pleases, because He pleases, and nobody can do a thing about
it. That's the God of the Bible. I won't have that God. He is your God. You don't have
Him now. You don't confess that now. You
don't bow, but someday you will be forced. We will. Every knee
will bow. Every tongue confess. He is what?
Capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D. That means absolute
sovereign. For some, it's too late. But
for some, by the mercy and grace of God, He mercifully bows their
knee now. It opens their eyes to see, well,
you are God, aren't you? Thou art God, aren't you? And you're my God. And Christ is God. The last error
is try to cover it up. Twist, corrupt, abuse God's Word. Try to cover one's self. Cover
one's unbelief. Try to cover one's sin. Oh, man. Old brother William used to love
that illustration about the hospital gown, didn't he? I loved it more than him, because
I loved to tell it. Most of you have worn a hospital
gown before, haven't you? It seems to cover, doesn't it?
You put up a good front. But be careful, you're going
to reveal yourself. the slightest movement, and you're
going to show what you really are. Right? I look good, don't I? How are you feeling? I feel fine. I look good. Well, you're looking
good. Well, thank you. Get over here. Oh, you look like
everybody else. You strip everything off of people.
Well, you all look the same, though. Naked center. Drip away
all the makeup, and all the garb, and all this, and ain't nobody.
It's not a person without spot or blemish. Undone. That's the reason I say
I believe the Lord didn't have a spot or blemish physically.
Well, to try to cover oneself by whatever, religion or whatever
it may be, that last error is worse than the first. And not believe God's bad. And
then try to cover up and try to go to God all covered up.
And twist and corrupt and make God's Word say what it doesn't
say. And stand and say, here I am. It's going to be worse
for you. Better to come clean. Come naked.
Just strip yourself. Come naked before God. Here I
am. Well, these fellows, these Pharisees,
scribes, chief priests, by this day I keep hearing that, chief
priests, they killed the great high priest. The great high priest. After the order of Melchizedek.
They killed him. Well, they had names, they had
reputations, they had jobs, they had a lot of money. They'd worked
a lifetime of religious service. They gathered a lot of money
and had a lot of reputation and what they were thinking Honestly
that if this what everything he says is true people don't
need us That's right And we'll be out of a job well,
it'd be better off the world be better off So they came to pilot And they
said, you send some men. So Pilate chose his best men.
Pilate had some great big soldiers, rough, tough, strong fellows
that they were able to conquer countries. He sent them out. Strong armed men. So he sent
his best men, biggest, strongest, meanest, baddest dudes he had
to guard this tomb. Now look at it, verse 65, Pilate
said to them, there, you have a watch, go your way, now make
it as sure as you can. Make it sure. So they did, verse
66, they set the seal. Is it sure? Yep, we're sure. The stone is sealed, right? Right. No one's coming in here. No one's
getting in this town. Somebody's coming out. We got the outside sealed. Got
it covered. Nobody's getting in here, unless
we say so. Somebody's coming out. I bet they thought, nobody's
getting over my dead body. That's exactly what's going to
happen. They got together to try to keep
men from getting in when they should have feared the one inside
that tomb, the one who's coming out. And they will soon be quaking
in His presence. I wanted to get to it. Next Sunday
we want to get to it. Chapter 28. This great stone,
it took several, many men to roll this stone over the door
and they sealed it. Several men watching it, sealing
it. One angel. Boom! He was sitting on it. Can't you hear God laughing? He that sitteth in the heavens,
are you sure? Make it sure. It's sure. Yeah,
we got him in there. They're not coming in. This thing's
not going to happen as he said it was. He that sitteth in the
heavens. That's what that means. That'd
be like me walking through my yard and a bunch of ants. You
can't come through here. A bunch of ants get together. A million. A million. Two million. A billion. Think 3 billion ants
could stop me? 10 billion, huh? They might bite my heel. I'm
going to step on a bunch of them. They are going to stop me. We've
decided, you can't come in here. He that sitteth in the heaven.
And men all over the world are getting together today deciding
what they need to do for Jesus and what they're going to let
God do. Won't you let Him be, Lord? Won't He be? He that sitteth
in the heavens laughs. Ants. Grasshoppers. Grasshoppers. That's what Isaiah 40 verse 22
says. The inhabitants of the earth
are reputed as grasshoppers. All the grasshoppers getting
together. We're going to let God. You know, men would be better
off if they would hold a great big meeting together and try
to keep the sun from coming up tomorrow. Let's go ahead. Let's
get together. We've decided to keep the sun
from shining. You'd be better off than to keep
the S-O-N from raining. The Son of Righteousness, the
King of Kings and Lord of Glory. They said He's coming again.
All these simple disciples, they all say He's coming again, don't
they? That's what they said in Peter 1 and 2 Peter 3. He said,
scoffers and mockers in the last days, you know. They laugh, they
scoff, they laugh. Boy, Kelly, he that laughs last,
laughs best, doesn't he? And they all get together and
mock and say, where's the promise of his coming? I know he said
he's coming again. The year 2000 went by, we think.
And it went by and nothing happened. And all things continue as they
have. They just don't believe he's
coming. Are you sure? Yeah, we're sure. Are you real
sure? Better make sure. So, they get
out their telescopes. I'm making fun. Get out their
billion, trillion dollar telescopes. Hubble, you know. And every now
and then they'll malfunction. It'll cost us several billion
dollars. And what they're doing is looking into outer... These
are our brilliant, wise men, you know. Looking into outer
space into black holes. with these zillion-dollar telescopes. These are our best. They're making
sure, folks. They're making sure. What do
you see? I don't see God. You sure? Nope. No God. We looked into black holes, and
we don't see Him. Are you sure? You better make
sure, because if He is, You're in a world of hurt, buddy. If you had a lick of sense, you'd
just look at your thumb instead of black holes. Just
look at your thumb and you'd see there is a God in there. No God. Yep, that's it. This is not God's Word. We've
convinced all of our experts have got together and we are
sure this is just a bunch of Jewish fables written by a bunch
of con men, a greatest conspiracy ever. perpetrated on mankind
with a bunch of Jewish fishermen, got together and decided to write
this book. And the worst one of all was
this fellow named Jesus. And he came down and said he
came from God. But now we are sure, our experts, our Bible
experts have got together and we are sure that this is not
God's Word. Are you sure? Yes, you better
make sure. Make it sure as you can. Yeah,
we're sure. We all got together and we have
absolutely concluded It is not. Don't you hear laughter? Brother Henry, we are sure, aren't
we? How can you be so sure? The one
who wrote it. You see, he had these things
from then. He's got them looking. Has not
God made foolish, Tammy, the wisdom of this world? God's got
them looking at black holes. Have you stopped and thought
about that? We keep giving them money, Roy,
to do what? Look at holes. Why? To prove no God. That's
what it's all about, great conspiracy. Is anybody seeing the irony of
this other than me, the utter absurdity? I believe Paul laughed
when he wrote that. Paul was the wisest man on earth
at the time. He said, God has made another
fool out of man. His wisdom and all that. The
weakness of God, what they call, is stronger than man. The foolishness
of God is just wiser than man. He said, bring on these fellows.
Where are these scribes? Huh? Where are they? Bring them
on! Hath not God made foolish all
of them? Are you sure? He's not God's
Son. He's just a man. And we found
the tomb. We found a tomb that we believe
is Jesus' tomb, and there's bones in it. You know something? There
were bones in that tomb. They belonged to Joseph of Arimathea. How many bones did you find?
One set. Anybody with me here? One set. Yeah, they're Jesus. No. He was
in there. He left. And then later they put Joseph
of Arimathea in there. That's the bones you found, you
think. Digging up bones. 2,000 years old. This is it. We're certain of it. Well, religious
world is worse. Religious world says to everybody,
they say, God loves you. Are you sure? Yep, we're sure. We can go out and tell anybody
and everybody, no matter who they are, what they are, no matter.
God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Are you sure? You better make sure. You better make sure. Yeah, Jesus died for them. God
paid for their sin. Everybody's sin. He died for
everybody. So He paid it all. Are you sure? Better make it
sure. Yeah. We've got together, got our best
men together, and we're all just sure. Do you know of another
verse of Scripture that talks about Something being sure and
sealed. Would you go in closing with
me to 2 Timothy 2? And what we're doing, and you
know, this is in context. The Lord is mocking these fellows
who thought they were going to keep him quiet. Thought they
were going to keep the Lord of Glory from rising from the grave.
Life. Thought they were going to keep
this thing from spreading. And God Almighty is laughing
and having them in derision. And the whole religious hasn't
changed. Men haven't changed. The religious leaders haven't
changed. They're all still meeting together to conspire together,
try to cover up the truth. They agree together. They make
a covenant. Scripture says with hell and death. They believe
with all their heart. They all believe the same thing.
What? Lies. And the truth is coming out.
You hear me? The truth is coming out. Who is the truth? This scripture here in 2 Timothy,
look at this, in closing, this is great, you might jump a few,
that would be fine. 2 Timothy, if I can find it,
where is it? There it is, 2 Timothy 2. Alright,
it says in verse 18, that some concerning the truth have erred,
saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow
the faith of some. Nevertheless, The foundation
of God standeth sure having this seal. The Lord knoweth them that are
His. The Lord. See, the foundation
of God, which is what? Christ Himself. The Lord Jesus
Christ, that foundation which no man can lay, but God laid,
that chief cornerstone, Christ Himself, who was with Him from
the beginning, the eternal Son of God, came, sent by God down
to this earth to do a work. Sent by God. God who says, I
have spoken and I will do it. God who sent Him to do a work.
Go! Save my people. He came down to save His people.
Did He do it? Well, not unless we make it. He said, I've finished the work.
Last words he said loud for heaven and earth, I have finished it.
It's finished. Son of God sent by the foundation
laid. And every stone, brother John,
will be laid on that stone. Not one is coming off. This is
the foundation. Christ Himself, the foundation
of God stands sure. Having this seal. God sealed it. See, God wrote
a book, the Lamb's Book of Life, put all the names of God's people,
like those twelve tribes of Israel, on the shoulder and the breastplate
and in the palms of His hand, put those names in that Lamb's
Book of Life, sent Christ down here to save every last one of
them, every first and last one of them, and He did just that. God sealed the book, all the
names were in it, sealed it. In the end, one person is going
to open it up. It has never been opened until the end of time.
Not going to be any additions or subtractions. And who is it? The one who sealed it in his
own blood. The Lord Jesus Christ. He's worthy. He's the only one
worthy. He's going to open that book and read the names. And
every one of them will be there. All the children which thou hast
given me. Stan Anderson. Here, Patrick Holley. Here, don't you hope your name's there,
huh? Here's another one, give diligence to make your call in
an election, what? Sure. Stephen Parks. Here, every one of them. Here, presently accountable. Huh? Yes, sir. Foundation stands sure. What is the foundation? God is
God. His eternal covenant and purpose
ordered in all things and what? Sure. And Christ sent to accomplish
that. The head of the covenants. The
testator of the will. The inheritor, the firstborn,
came down here to fulfill it. Did he do it? Absolutely. Sealed
it. Foundation of God, Christ himself.
All stands or falls on him, doesn't it? Did he do it? Stephen said,
I see. Stephen looked and I read that
this morning. Oh, oh, Stephen said, he looked steadfastly toward
heaven and saw the glory of God. What did he see? He said, I see
the Son of God standing at the right hand of God, the Son of
Man. There is the foundation. Stand sure, he is elected. The
Lord knoweth them that are his. How does he know them? He elected
them. He chose them. Stand sure. All
the elect, all the foreknown have been predestinated. They
will be called by His grace. They will and are, have been,
shall be justified. And they have been, will be,
shall be forever glorified. Sealed. Sends the Holy Spirit. And they believe the gospel in
whom they trusted. And they have this seal. The call of the gospel, and they've
been sealed by it. And they're coming out because
Christ came out. So are they. The Lord is going
to come, not by night, but in broad daylight, and take them
away. He did when the sun rose the
first day of the week. Dawn, we're going to see. Oh,
He didn't do this by night. He did it for all to see. He
came out. We don't believe that. He's coming
again. Yeah. Are you sure? He's coming. And He's going to take us out
of this grave, this body of death. Can't wait. I believe and am
sure. How about you? That He's the
Christ, the Son of the Living God. Okay. Brother Gabe, come
on. Thank you.

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