Let's go to the book of Luke
and the last chapter of Luke, Luke chapter 24. Our God had ordained that the Lord
Jesus come into the world, the Son of God, enter into this world,
be born of a virgin, live a life of obedience to God's
law, and then die for the sins of His people. This was a way
that God could be just and justify ungodly folks like us. Justice The justice of God is
strict and inflexible, unbending. Every transgression must receive
a just recompense of reward. And according to God's everlasting
purpose of grace, all of the guilt, all of the sins, All of
the iniquities, all of the transgressions of God's people were made to
meet on our substitute. Isaiah 53 verse 6 says, all we
like sheep have gone astray. We've all, everybody, we've turned
to our own way. The Lord hath laid on him made
to meet on Him. That's what that means. Made
to meet on Him the iniquities of us all. And God's own beloved
Son, our Savior, our representative, our substitute, our everlasting
surety. He died. He died. He suffered
the that ultimate penalty of God's law. Because he died in
the stead of his people, because he died for our sins according
to the scriptures, those in whose stead he died will never die. We must live forever. Our God
in his strict justice has already received what he demanded. He
received a full and final payment for all the debts of his people.
I'll tell you, that which just constantly overwhelms me, that
which brings me great joy and leaves me bewildered. and amazed, just there's not
enough words, is that he would die for me, is that he would
take my place. You feel the same way, don't
you? That one who's innocent of any
transgressions, innocent of any guilt, one who's equal with God,
he wasn't ashamed to say he was equal with God, that such a A
one in His magnificence, in His infinite purity, that He would
step out of heaven itself, come down here to this earth, and
live in obedience to God's law for us. Then under the judgment
of God, die for our sins. Doesn't that just It leaves me
practically speechless. Because that's our salvation
right there. There's our redemption. That's
everything God demanded. I know God requires faith. Without faith, it's impossible
to please God. But you see, that flows out of
the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's a result of the work of
the Spirit of God. You can't isolate And you must
not isolate the work of the Spirit of God or separate it from the
work of the Son of God. Because the reason the Spirit
of God deals with us in this infinite effectual grace is because
our debt's already been paid. That's already been fully taken
care of. God's justice has got no quarrel
with His people whatsoever. Because we don't have any indebtedness. But we don't know that. We don't
know that. And as far as we're concerned,
as we read the scriptures and as the Spirit of God gives us
understanding why we're children of wrath, children deserving
of wrath, just like everybody else. But on the basis of our
Lord Jesus, His life laid down. God the Spirit, He's sent to
us by the Son of God. He's the Spirit of God, the promise
of the Father. On the basis of our Lord's life
laid down, the Spirit of God isolates one of God's elect,
pulls him over to the side, as it were, and deals individually
with that poor old sinner. He convicts him of all kinds
of sin, of the guilt of sin. transgressing God's law, exposes
wrong things that He's done. And then the Spirit of God operates
on the heart and makes us understand the reason we've done wrong is
because we are wrong. Because that's what we are, we're
sin. And the Spirit of God, in a very mysterious way, He makes
us alive. And He brings us to believe this
Savior who died in our stead. And then we're just amazed as
we think about God's everlasting love for His covenant people.
We think about the fact that, you know, the reason I'm believing
the Gospel is because God in old, old eternity, back before
He made anything, the reason I believe the Gospel is because
God ordained that I would. Who am I that God Almighty would
ordain that I'd believe the Gospel? Well, I'm nobody. I'm nothing. I'm just a speck of dust. I mean,
if all the nations of the earth, Isaiah 40 says, all the nations
of the earth weighed in the balances are nothing, what does that make
me? What does that make you? We're
less than nothing. We're less than nothing. And
yet the Lord ordained to save us, to give us grace. He gave
us to His Son for safekeeping. I entrust these sheep to you.
I choose them in love. In love. Election is not a heartless
thing. In love, God chose a people.
He's always been gracious to His people. He's always had a
tenderness toward His people. He's always been compassionate
toward His people. Therefore, He sent His Son into
the world to redeem us. The law of God held us ransom.
And our Lord Jesus, He paid the ransom. And God said, I have
found a ransom. Release Him from going down to
the pit. He's not going to the pit. Why
not? God said, I found a ransom. I found somebody to stand in
His stead. I found somebody who'd die the
death that He deserves. I found someone worthy. worthy
to represent all of the elect, the Son of God. What is His worthiness? His deity and His absolute perfect
humanity. He had to be without spot and
without blemish. He could have no guilt whatsoever. his life, his reputation must
be, had to be absolutely perfect. Because he was the just dying
for the unjust. And as the just one died for
the unjust, he never became unjust himself. He never became filthy
through our sin. That would have disqualified
him from being the sacrifice. We study through the Old Testament.
We know that every sacrifice offered to God, it had to be
as best as the one who presented the sacrifice, as best as they
could come up with, as best as they could determine. It had
to be without spot and without blemish. The unspotted Lamb of
God. The unblemished Lamb of God.
Why is He suffering? He is suffering for sins. Whose
sins? His own. know the sins of others,
but they've been made His by imputation. God charged them
to His account. Who am I? What are you? What
are you? What are you? Who are you? that your debt to God, an infinite
debt that you owed, that you could never pay, who are you
that God Almighty would say to His Son, all of the debt of this
sinner, it's your debt now. And the Son of God say, I bear
full responsibility. I'll pay the debt. I don't owe
the debt. I don't owe a debt to the law
of God, He said. But I'll pay a debt I don't owe,
because I love my people. And I only pay it. I only pay
it because I do love them, and I'm gracious to these people.
And in that sense, the debt became his. He became charged with our
indebtedness. And the scripture says he died.
He died. He didn't go into a coma. He
actually died. He gave up the ghost. But He didn't stay dead. He didn't
stay dead. He arose. And the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, that's the
hinge, that salvation, the great salvation is what it turns on.
Did He arise? Did He arise from the dead? You
see, without the resurrection of our Lord Jesus, then the Savior's
virgin birth, His life of obedience, the sacrificial death as our
substitute and surety, without the resurrection it would all
be meaningless. Meaningless. The literal, actual
resurrection of our Lord Jesus is such a vital doctrine that
those who deny it deny Christianity. They deny the gospel altogether. Without the resurrection, there
wouldn't be any salvation. Without the resurrection of our
Lord Jesus, we're yet in our sins. Our faith is vain. Our hope is a delusion, and our
religion is a mere mockery of our souls. If our Lord Jesus
was not raised from the dead, redemption wasn't accomplished.
Justice wasn't satisfied. He's not God, and we're yet under
the wrath of God. If the resurrection was just
a hoax, But it isn't a hoax. He who really
died really arose. And he ascended back to heaven
where he makes intercession for his people. There were multitudes
who witnessed the risen Savior. In 1 Corinthians chapter 15,
the apostle tells us that he was seen of above 500 people
At one time, 500 people, they were eyewitnesses to Him, but
He arose. Right here in Luke chapter 24,
the messengers, they said to the women who came to the tomb,
in Luke 24 and verse 6, they said, He's not here. They came
looking for the Savior. They had some expensive ointments
and that sort of thing come to anoint his body, which shows
that they loved him, because that kind of stuff cost lots
of money. It showed that they loved him,
but it also showed that they didn't believe what he said when
he said he was going to come back from the dead. Well, you
coming to anoint a dead body? It was said, why seek ye the
living among the dead? You come to anoint a dead body?
His body is not dead anymore. He was dead, but he is not dead
anymore. That is what the messengers told
them. The resurrection. The resurrection. And I tell
you, go through the book of Acts. This is what those preachers
were preaching. They were preaching the resurrected,
exalted Savior. Go to the book of Acts chapter
2. Let me just show you a few verses here. Look at Acts chapter
2 to begin with. Acts chapter 2. And let's look
at 23 and 24. In fact, I'll go back to the
22nd verse. Acts chapter 2, 22 through 24. Ye men of Israel, Simon Peter's
preaching. The Spirit of God has been given
in the fullness of His power. This is the promise of the Father.
And the Spirit of God has taken hold of these men, given them
unusual gifts, given to the apostles, given to the evangelists the
ability to preach the gospel in languages that they never
studied before. How absolutely amazing! And people
were shocked. Because people came from everywhere.
Jews, they came from everywhere. People who had been, Jews who
had been raised in other nations, in other lands. who didn't even
speak the Hebrew language anymore. They had grown up on the other
languages. They came and these men began
to preach the gospel. And the folks that were listening
to them, they were amazed. They said, we hear these men
preach the mighty works of God in a language we can understand.
That's the gift of tongues. What is tongues? It's not gibberish. It's not some kind of heavenly
language that nobody understands. It's the ability to set forth
the gospel in a foreign language by the gift of God. By the gift
of God. These men didn't go to school.
Well, okay, we'll go to school to learn this language and go
to school to learn this language. No, no, they didn't do that.
Here are just these simple preachers of the gospel, most of them fishermen. And the Spirit of God came upon
them, and they go out preaching the gospel. They hear somebody
speak in this particular language that God has gifted them to preach. And they went over and just start
preaching to them the resurrected Christ. And people said, wow,
how do these men know how to speak in the language that we've
got? Did you go to a university? Did you go to the school to learn
our language? No. God gave me the ability to
preach the gospel. And Simon Peter, he gets up and
he preaches. And as he sets forth the Word,
he says in verse 22, Ye men of Israel, Acts 2.22, hear these
words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by
miracles and wonders and signs which God did by Him in the midst
of you, as ye yourselves also know. Now remember, many of these
very people right here in Jerusalem, 50 days before this, they were there
at the crucifixion. Less than two months prior to
this event. Because this is Pentecost, 50
days after Passover. Less than two months before this,
they were eyewitnesses of the death of Jesus of Nazareth. They
knew He died. They saw Him. They saw the blood.
They saw the gore. They heard what He said. They
heard Him cry out, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And He gave
up the ghost willingly. They were eyewitnesses of that.
And now they're in Jerusalem and now they're here in Peter
Preach. So he said, Peter says to them, as ye yourselves also
know, you were eyewitnesses to his miracles. You were eyewitness
to these wonders and all these signs that he did. You know God
was with him. And he says, concerning this
one, he says, this man being delivered by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked
hands have crucified and slain. You killed him. We talked about
that this morning. But he says in verse 24, whom
God hath raised up. He loosed the pains. He loosed the travail of death. The agonies of death. Over in
Isaiah chapter 53 verse 11, he shall see the travail of his
soul and be satisfied. Satisfied. Because it wasn't
possible that he should be whole enough. It wasn't possible for
death to hold him. Over in the Psalms, the Psalm
is speaking prophetically as the Lord Jesus said, God won't
leave my soul in hell. He won't leave my soul in the
regions of those who are dead. And He did. He's preaching the resurrection
of our Lord Jesus. Look over Acts chapter 4 and
verse number 10. Be it known unto you all, to
all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God hath raised from the
dead, even by him, doth this man stand before you a whole." Peter and John had gone to the
temple, and as they went there, There was a man begging and he
said, I need some money. And Peter said, silver and gold
have we none. But such as I have, give I unto
thee in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Rise up and walk. And
he did. And that roused up all the Jewish
leaders against him. And Simon Peter now has given
his response to them. And he gives a kind of a summarization
of what happened. He says, Jesus of Nazareth, whom
you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, He's the one that
made this man whole. This is the stone which was set
at naught, set at naught of you builders. He's become the head
of the corner. Neither is there any, neither
is there salvation in any other. For there's none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. He's preaching
the resurrection of Christ Jesus. Go over to Acts a little further,
Acts chapter number 10, Acts 10. Acts 10, look at verse number
34. He's preaching in Caesarea. Preaching
to a man by the name of Cornelius and his household and his servants. Verse 34 Acts chapter 10, Peter
opened his mouth and said, I have a truth, I perceive that God
is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth
him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him. The word
which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by
Jesus Christ, he is Lord of all. That word, I say ye know, which
was published throughout all Judea and began from Galilee
after the baptism which John preached, how God anointed Jesus
of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about
doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil,
for God was with him. And we're witnesses of all things
which He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem,
whom they killed Him. They slew Him and hanged Him
on a tree. Him, God raised up the third
day and showed Him openly. God manifested Him openly, not
to all the people, but unto witnesses selected or chosen before God,
even to us who did eat and drink with him after he arose from
the dead. He commanded us to preach unto the people and to
testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the judge
of the quick and the dead. To him give all the prophets
witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him should
receive the remission of sins." These disciples, they spoke of
our Lord's resurrection, Our Lord even said to Martha, before
He raised Lazarus in John chapter 11, the Savior said to Martha,
I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live. And the resurrection
of our Savior, it's the very basis for our spiritual resurrection,
our spiritual regeneration. Go over to 1 Peter. Look at 1
Peter chapter 1. 1 Peter chapter 1. 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 3. Let
me read 3 through 5. 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 3 through
5. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ. which according to his abundant
mercy hath begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible,
it means it will never perish, it's undefiled, it means it's
without defect, and that fadeth not away, reserved, reserved,
fully taken care of in heaven for you who are kept That is,
who are guarded. That word kept is a military
word. You're guarded. You're under
guard. Who's guarding you? I have a
dear friend over in Hawaii. He's in security and sometimes
well-named people, well-known people, I should say, celebrities,
they go over there and he's their bodyguard. He's their bodyguard. And he's armed. And buddy, he
takes care of whoever he's guarding. This is what this is saying.
Who are kept, who are guarded. You know what guards us? The
power of God. The power of God. No evil shall
defeat you. Can't get a hold of you. We're
kept by the power of God. We're guarded. We're guarded
by the power of God who keeps us believing. It's through faith.
It's through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed, ready to
be made known, ready to be manifested to us, ready to be disclosed
to us in the last time. The Savior told His disciples,
yet a little while and the world seeth me no more. But you'll
see me because I live. I live. You read through the
New Testament, you just cannot help but see this matter of our
Lord's resurrection is vital to the truth. It's vital to the
gospel. It's such a delightful theme. The Spirit of God shows us evidence
upon evidence of Christ's resurrection so that His resurrection is undeniable
and irrefutable. Look at another passage. Go to
Acts chapter 26. Acts chapter 26. Here's the Apostle Paul before
King Agrippa. Here's the Apostle before King
Agrippa. Acts chapter 26. Look at verse
22. Here's his defense. I'll break
into his message here. Acts 26, 22. Having therefore obtained help
of God, continuing to this day, witnessing both the small and
great, and saying none other things than those which the prophets
and Moses did say should come, we better not say anything other
than the things that the prophets said. Right? We got the same
message they got. What do those guys preach? They preach substitution. They
preach the sacrifice of Christ Jesus. They preach satisfaction.
They preach somebody. Oh, the prophet spoke of him,
and here's what the apostle Paul says, what I'm saying is the
same thing the prophet said and Moses said. They said this would
come. Well, that what would come? Verse 23, that Christ should
suffer, that Messiah, that Christ is Messiah, that Messiah should
suffer. that he should be the first that
should rise from the dead. He should show light unto the
people and to the Gentiles. And as he thus spake for himself,
Festus cried out with a loud voice. He's another kingpin here. He said in a loud voice, Paul,
thou art beside thyself. Much learning has made you mad. You're not in your right mind.
But he said, I'm not mad, most noble Festus. I speak forth the
words of truth and soberness. I speak with soundness of mind. That's what he's saying. He says,
for the king knows of these things, before whom also I speak freely,
boldly, with confidence. For I am persuaded that none
of these things are hidden from him. You know what happened. He's looking at this man. He's
looking at Agrippa. He says, you know what happened?
This wasn't hidden from you, for this thing was not done in
a corner. Jesus of Nazareth wasn't crucified
in secret. He was crucified out in the public. Thousands of people saw Him. And His resurrection wasn't done
in a corner either. Because there are many people
who attested to the fact that He was raised from the dead.
And then he says, King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets?
I know that thou believest. And then Agrippa said to Paul,
almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. And the apostle
Paul said, I would to God that not only thou, but also all that
hear me this day were both almost and altogether such as I am,
except I wouldn't want you to have these bonds. You talk about
a gracious man, here he is in bonds, here he is in shackles. He's making his defense before
these great political leaders. He says, I wish y'all were just
like me. I wish everybody, these soldiers
who mistreated me, these Jews who've lied on me, you Festus
and you Agrippa, I wish all of y'all were just like I am. Well,
how are you? I'm forgiven. I'm righteous. I'm saved by the grace of God.
I wish you were just like I am, but I wouldn't want you to be
in shackles. That's a gracious vanity. You
see, the natural man said, boy, I wish you was in shackles, too.
If I was free from here, I'd put you in bondage. I'd put you
in chains, but not the Apostle Paul. No, he's filled with compassion. Yes, sir, the proclamation of
the resurrection is vital. You'll notice, you know, as you
study through the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
only Matthew and Luke speak of our Lord's birth. But the death of our Lord Jesus,
that's spoken of in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And his resurrection is set forth
by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Somebody said the resurrection
of Jesus of Nazareth is the Gibraltar of Christianity and the Waterloo
of infidelity. It is the crowning evidence that
he paid the debt that He set out to pay on our behalf. It is the evidence that He won
the battle at the cross. And He's delivered us from all
the powers of darkness. He's delivered us from sin. And He's accepted as our surety
and our substitute and we're accepted in the Lord Jesus. Go back over to Luke. Let me
just show you a few things here and then we'll go home. Let's just start right here in
Luke 24. Let me just read a verse and
make a comment or two. Luke 24. Look at verse 1. Now upon the first day of the
week, very early in the morning, there came unto the sepulcher
bringing the spices which they had prepared And certain others
with them, these women, they came. They found the stone rolled
away from the sepulcher. You know, in another scripture
it says that, I think it's John, let me just double check here. Just hang on a second. No, that's not the verse that
I want either. Well, you just sit tight just
a minute. I'll find what I'm looking for
eventually. Oh, it's in Mark. Mark. Turn to Mark chapter 16. You
give me enough time, I'll find it. Mark chapter 16. There's
only four different places you can go in the Gospel of Matthew,
Mark, Luke or John. I get it right in a minute. Look in Mark chapter 16. It says in verse 1, Mark 16, when
the Sabbath was passed, and it was passed. That's over. That's over. Christ our Sabbath
has died for us. We rest in Him when the Sabbath
was passed. The Lord of the Sabbath has finished
His work, so the Sabbath is passed. Passed away. It's just buried. We're done with the Sabbath.
Because our Sabbath lives in Heaven. Mary Magdalene, the one
out of whom the Lord cast seven devils, and Mary the mother of
James, and Salome, They brought sweet spices that
they might come and anoint him. Very early in the morning, first
day of the week, they came under the sepulchre at the rising of
the sun. And they said among themselves,
well, who's going to roll away the stone from the door of the
sepulchre? They got to thinking as they
walked along. You know, we got the spices, the sweet spices. We're going to anoint him. And
they had agreed, we'll get up, it'll be dark when we get up
and we start, but when they got there it was dawn, rising in
the sun. And they thought they had all
their bases covered and then they said, you know what we didn't
think about? Who's going to roll the stone
away? We forgot to figure that in. And they worried about that. Who's going to roll the stone
away? And they got there, and you know what? They had worried
for nothing. There's no reason for them to
be anxious about that, because when they looked, they saw the
stone was already rolled away. And when I read this, I was looking
over this this afternoon, I thought, that's just like us. We worry
about stuff before it ever happens. It's already bothering us. Oh,
what if? What if this happens? What if
that happens? Well, you read Matthew 6. There's
enough. You've got enough on your plate
for the day without worrying about what's going to happen
tomorrow. Maybe what you're all upset about and what you're all
tense about and what you're anxious about, that may never come to
pass. Oh, my! What are we going to
do about the stone? How are we going to roll the
stone away? Don't worry, ladies. It's a non-issue. That's something
you won't have to worry about. So don't worry about what's going
to happen tomorrow. Tomorrow may never come. May
I be in glory tomorrow. And that'd be wonderful for all
of us. Who's going to roll the stone
away? So over here in Luke chapter 24, they come. These women. It's Luke's version. They came.
They prepared everything. Verse 2, they found the stone
rolled away, and they entered in and found not the body of
the Lord Jesus. It came to pass as they were
much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining
garments, and as they were afraid, they bowed down their faces to
the earth. They said, why seek ye the living among the dead?
He's not here, he's risen. Look over to John now. I do want
you to go to John's description of this, John chapter number
20, John 20. And here they, of course, these women,
they came to Simon Peter and to John, tell them what's happened. John chapter 20 verse 1, the
first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early when it
was yet dark under the sepulcher and see if the stone taken away
from the sepulcher. She's the only one mentioned
in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. She's the only one mentioned
by name in each of those. Others mention one or two, but
she's mentioned like right here only mentions one. She is. And she runs and she came to
Simon Peter and to the other disciple, we believe that's John,
whom Jesus loved, because that's how John referred to himself.
And saith unto them, they've taken away the Lord out of the
sepulcher. We know not where they've laid
him. Peter therefore went and that other disciple, they came
to the sepulcher. So they ran both together and
the other disciple, he ran faster than Simon Peter. He was a sprinter. apparently. And he came first
to the sepulcher and stooping down, looking inside, he saw
the linen clothes lying all folded up. And when I read this, I thought
about this. You know what he's left for us?
A perfect garment. A perfect garment. His righteousness. His righteousness. Then come
a Simon Peter following him, went into the sepulcher, and
he saw the linen clothes lying there neat and in order. And
he saw the napkin that was about his face. It's not lined with
the linen clothes, but wrapped together, in other words, rolled
up by itself. Back in those days, and it's
still a custom in many places, when you have a meal If you have
to, for some reason, leave the table and you say you have to
go to the restroom, for whatever reason, you have to leave the
room. Maybe somebody wants to say something
to you. In order that the servers and those who wipe the tables,
clean the tables, in order that they know you're coming back,
you rolled up your napkin. That means I'm coming back. But
now if you finished your meal, you know, here, all right, I'm
eating my meal and I'm going to leave. Somebody says, this
fellow wants to see you over here. Okay. And I want you all
to know that I'm coming back because I don't want you to take
my steak away from me. I'm not through. So I just, I
put that napkin like that. And those come around and clean
the table and say, well, that guy's coming back. He's not finished
yet. That's right. I'm not finished yet. However, if I can get this folded. However,
if you fold up your napkin and you put it down like that, they
say, He's done. He's finished. Clean the table. Our Lord Jesus didn't leave that
napkin folded. He rolled it. You know what that
says? I'm coming back. I'm coming back. And I'll tell you, He who died
for us and He who arose for us, He's gone home to glory. But
He's coming back. He didn't fold up the napkin.
He's coming back to receive us unto Himself. And He says that
where I am, there you may be also. I tell you, He lives. He
lives. And He's real to His people.
Isn't He real to you? He's real to us. And who has
it prayed? Our brother prayed, whom having
not seen, we love. We hadn't seen Him. I hadn't
seen Him with these eyes. I'm going to see Him with these
eyes, but I've seen Him by faith. My secretary up in Michigan,
she took that reference there in 1 Peter and she put it on
a piece of paper, blank piece of paper and framed it. and right
down at the bottom said, whom having not seen, we love. And
actually, I need to hang it on the wall out here. I hadn't seen
him, but I love him. And the reason I love him is
because he first loved me. He died and rose again for me.
And he's coming back to fetch me and all of his people home
to himself. And he may come back for me by
way of death. That's OK. His resurrection,
it takes the sting of death away. It takes the fire of death, the
fear of death away. Because He satisfied the law
for me. So the law, sin has no stinger
for me because He satisfied the law in my place. So if He comes
back for me by way of taking my life, that's okay. That's
okay. Absent from the body and present
with the Lord. And this body, Bury this body? I got a dandy grave site. I'll tell you, it's one of the
few flat ones in this community. Nancy and I went over and picked
them out. We wanted to have flat places. We go over and visit
every once in a while just to make sure that it's still there.
It is. But that's okay. I'll be raised
from that grave. I'll be raised when he comes
back. But maybe, maybe. The Lord's going to come back
for his second coming real soon and take us all home together.
And I often think about that and I think wouldn't it be wonderful
if it was while we were worshiping and we just go home. Just go home. Wherever He is,
that's where we'll be and that'll be just fine. He's a resurrected
Savior. 17 is our final song.