Good morning. Let's all stand
together and sing hymn number one. Number one in our hymnals. O worship the King, all glorious
above, and gratefully sing His power and His love, Our shield
and defender, The Ancient of Days, Pavilion in splendor, Anchored
it with praise. O tell of His might, O sing of
His grace, whose robe is a vine, whose canopy's face is chariots
of breath, the deep thunderclouds form, and dark is His path on
the wings of the storm. By bountiful care, what tongue
can recite it breathes in the air? It shines in the light. It streams from the hills. It descends to the plain. And sweetly distills in the dew
and the rain. Frail children of dust, and feeble
as frail, in thee do we trust. Be seated. We'll sing hymn number
511. 511. Face to face with Christ my Savior, Face to face, what will it be? When with rapture I behold Him,
Jesus Christ who died for me. Face to face I shall behold Him
Far beyond the starry sky Face to face in all His glory I shall
see Him by day Only faintly now I see Him With
the darkling found between But a blessed day is coming When
His glory shall be seen Face to face I shall behold Him
Far beyond the starry sky Face to face in all His glory I shall
see Him by and by But rejoicing in His presence When our bitter
strife and pain, When the crooked ways are straightened, And the
dark things shall be plain, ? Face to face I shall behold him ?
? Far beyond the starry sky ? ? Face to face in all his glory ? ?
I shall see him by my side ? Face to face, oh blissful moment. Face to face to see and know. Face to face with my Redeemer,
Jesus Christ who loves me so. ? Face to face I shall behold him
? ? Far beyond the starry sky ? ? Face to face in all his glory
? ? I shall see him by my side ? Mark chapter 16. I'm done with this, this book. These first eight verses. And when the Sabbath was passed.
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Solomay had bought
sweet spices that they might come and anoint him. Very early
in the morning, the first day of the week, they came under
the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said among
themselves, who shall roll us away the stone from the door
of the sepulchre? And when they looked, they saw
that the stone was rolled away. For it was very great, and entering
into the sepulcher, they saw a young man sitting on the right
side, clothed in a long white garment, and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them, Be not
affrighted, ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified,
he is risen, he is not here. Behold the place where they laid
him. But go your way, tell his disciples
and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee. There shall
you see him, as he said unto you. And they went out quickly
and fled from the sepulcher, for they trembled and were amazed.
Neither said they anything to any, for they were afraid." Our blessed Lord, great, glorious
God in heaven, your holy, infinite, eternal, inhabited eternity. The earth is your footstool.
The heavens are your throne. Lord, we approach you. In the name of your blessed Son,
our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank you that you've allowed
us again to come here and gather again. So we ask you to meet our needs
here today. Lord, come among us. Come and
meet with us. Come enable me to speak. Come
enable people to hear. Come enable people to be believers.
Come and give grace in abundance. Lord, you said you're full of
grace and truth. So Lord, we know that you're
full of grace and truth. So would you come and fill us
with grace today? Make your truth known to us today.
Because that's what we need, grace and truth. And Lord, they
both come from you. So we look to you for those two
things. Please bring glory to yourself.
Have mercy upon our lost loved ones, our sons and daughters,
Children, grandchildren, have mercy on the lost in this congregation. Lord, we know that you can create
a need. And Lord, needs are different
than wants. If they ever have a need of Christ, Lord, they'll have him. Please
meet with us. Bring glory to yourself for Christ's
sake. Amen. Let's stand together and sing
the hymn of the day in the bulletin. Self-righteous souls on work's
free light and boast their moral dignity. But if I list by song of praise,
each note shall echo praise. free grace. T'was grace that quickened me
when did. T'was grace my soul Jesus lived. Grace brings our sins apart. And sin and grace subdues my
lust within. Grace reconciles to every loss. as sweet as every painful cross,
defends my soul when dangers near, by grace alone I pray. serving you. In from this world my soul removes
dimensions of delight and love. I'll cast my crown before His
throne and shout, free grace, free grace, alone. Be seated. Won't you look with me down in
verse 6, Mark 16. Look what it says. He saith unto them, be not affrighted
or be not afraid. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, which
was crucified, is risen. He is not here. He is not here. Can't find him in a grave. You
can't find him in a grave. Can't find him in a tomb. Can't
find him in a, he is not here. He is not here. Now, there's
three ladies, and we mentioned them, and they was in the women
that ministered to him, the same three women. And here, these
three women came in the morning, very early, early in the morning. It says there, when the Sabbath
was passed. Now, the Sabbath, as far as I
understand, for the Jews, was from six o'clock on Friday to
six o'clock on Saturday. So this is Sunday, the first
day of the week. And when the Sabbath was come
and they had bought spices, they came, they'd bought spices and
they come to anoint him. And so they come seeking him
very, very early in the morning. And I tell you what, when they
got there, They, look what it says. They bought, had bought
sweet spices that they might come and anoint him. They'd already
put a hundred pounds of spices on him. All kinds of special
spices to anoint his body and prepare him and bury him and
bury him. But they want to come and they
want to anoint him again. And they figure he would be there. And they sought him that amounted
on him. That's a, that's a strange thing to me. Uh, he's already
in grave clothes as far as they understand. So how are they going
to anoint him in grave clothes? They're just going to take the
spices and put it on his grave clothes, put it on those linens
that they wrapped him in. Is that what they're going to
do? But I tell you something, you'll never ever find the living
Christ among the dead. You'll never find him among the
dead. You'll not find him among dead sinners. You won't find
him there. You won't find him trying to
find him by your works, by your merit, by your worth. You won't
find him by your false profession. You won't find him in an unregenerate
heart. And everybody wants to understand
that they, you know, people make professions. They make professions
when they're very young. And they hold on to that profession.
And the preachers want them to hold on to that profession. But
I tell you what, wherever Christ is alive, he's among people that's
alive. He's not among the dead. I don't
care. You can have all the works you
want, but if they're dead, you're not going to find him. No, no,
no. He's not going to be among, and
he's not going to be among your dead works. Not going to be in,
you know, people said, well, You know, I can see Jesus in
my heart. Let me tell you something. These
folks, after Christ rose from the dead, instead of seeing him
after the flesh, they had to see him by faith. And everybody
that's ever saw him has to see him by faith. And these ladies
come to anoint him. And I said, and they got there
and found out, he's not here. Where in the world is he? Where's he gone? Where's he gone? And all it says here, they come
early in the morning, the first day of the week. Oh my, and they
brought those sweet spices that might anoint him. They had no
idea. They did not have any idea that
Christ had arisen from the dead. He told them and told them and
told them and told them and told them, I'm going to rise again
on the third day. He told them that. And then the
scripture said later that they remembered what the Lord said. He had told them over and over
again that he's going to rise again from the dead. And they
came very early in the morning. The sun was just coming up. They
came to the grave at the rising of the sun. You know what that
tells me? That tells me that Like Ecclesiastes,
the writer, said this, he said, remember thy creator in the days
of thy youth, before evil days come, before all mothers, there's
no singing in the streets. Remember the creator very early
in the morning. And our Lord himself, and you
know, in the scriptures tells us, if you seek him with all
your heart, you shall find him. But that's where the seeking's
done. It's done from the heart. It's not done with the body.
It's not done with the flesh. It's not done with even your
own understanding or reason. It's done by faith. And we seek
Him early. Oh, David said, I'll seek you
in the morning, I'll seek you at noon, and I'll seek you at
night. And I tell you, once you start
seeking the Lord Jesus Christ, you never stop seeking him. Once
you ever understand what it is to live by faith, you'll live
by faith the rest of the days of your life. And I, you know, that's the one thing that I do
know, the difference between unregenerate men and men that
know Christ. They're always seeking Him. They seek Him first and foremost
for their self. We sung that song, you know,
I'll persevere by grace. If I was to give my testimony,
and I'm going to give it here one of these days, but you know
what it is? I once was lost, but now I'm
found. Was blind, but now I see. Was
grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved. How precious did that grace appear
the hour I first believed. That's my testimony. And once
you start seeking the Lord Jesus Christ, you'll seek Him and seek
Him, and you're not only seeking for yourself, but you're seeking
for your family. You're seeking for your sons.
You're seeking for your daughters. You're seeking for your children.
You're seeking for your husband. You're seeking for your wife.
You're seeking for strength. You're seeking for grace. You're
seeking for understanding. You're seeking for everything
you need in this world. Once you start seeking Him, you
seek Him. And you know, not only do you
seek Him early, sometimes you'll seek Him in the middle of the
night. But you seek him, you seek him. And then look what
it says. And they said among themselves,
they started talking. Mary said to the other Mary,
and Solomon said, Moses, Mary, who in the world's gonna roll
that stone away for us? That's a big, big stone they
put there in front of that grave. Who's gonna roll it away? You remember that there's two
graves in the scripture that had stones on them. You know
that? The first one was Lazarus. He
had a stone in front of his grave. Had a stone in front of his grave.
And the Lord Jesus said, roll ye the stone away. They was the
one who rolled the stone away. And he spoke to Lazarus, and
Lazarus come out of the grave. And he said, Lazarus come forth,
and he that was dead came forth. Now this is a second grave that
we know of, and separate, that had a stone in front of it. Now
how in the world did this stone, when they said, heaven's gonna
roll us away this stone. I'm telling you, they still not,
not understand that Christ was not there. They was expecting
to go find a dead body. That's why so many people, I'm
telling you what, they're still seeking Christ
among the dead. Preachers are still dead preachers
preaching to dead people, and dead people do not understand
that Christ is risen. Now, Easter's coming around here,
what they call Easter. In the scriptures, Easter really
means the Passover. But they're going to have a big
shindig, everybody's going to have a big shindig about Christ
being risen from the dead. It started in what they call
Lent, and it goes for 40 days. And then on there's going to
be a Good Friday. Everybody gets off of work on
Good Friday. And then on Sunday, everybody's
supposed to, everybody's gonna buy new outfits, and they're
all gonna go to services, and they're all gonna leave, and
they're gonna give their kids Easter bunnies, and gonna give
them Easter eggs, they're gonna do all kinds of things, and they're
gonna say, Jesus is risen from the dead! He's not here. Playin', playin', playin'. But
these ladies ain't playin'. They said, there's a big stone
here. A great big stone. And I'll tell
you what, there's stones that men cannot move. There's stones
that nobody in this world can move. So who's going to move this rock?
Who's going to move this stone? Who's going to move it? That's
the first thing they want to know. Well, it's women can't
move it. They said, all three of us, we
pushed on that thing. It's not leaving. Who's going
to do it for us? We'll have to go back to town
and find somebody. Oh, my. Oh, my. Look what happens now. And when they look, they saw
that the stone was rolled away. Who rolled that stone away? You know the scriptures, just
using a word, just a word sometimes, just, well, they said, who gonna
roll away the stone? They looked, and when they got
there, the stone was rolled away. It was very, very great, very
great. Oh my, you know. Oh, look what
happens now, look what happens now. And entering into the sepulcher,
they got down in that grave. Now, I'm telling you, over in
John, it says they stooped down. They had to stoop down, stoop
down to get into it. And they entered into that grave. And the stone was rolled away,
and they entered into that grave. And they saw a young man sitting
on the right side, clothed in a white garment. And they were
frightened. They were frightened. You know,
they come to a place where there was death, and what a revelation
they had. Look over in Matthew 27 with
me. Matthew 27. Look down in verse 62. You know, They was looking in a place where
a dead body was supposed to be. Matthew 27, verse 62. Now the next day that followed
the day of the preparation, the chief priest and Pharisees came
together under Pilate saying, sir, we remember that that deceiver
said, After he was yet alive, after three days, I will rise
again. Command, therefore, that the
grave or the sepulcher be made sure until the third day, lest
his disciples come by night and say unto the people, he is risen
from the dead, so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Pilate saith unto them, you have a watch. You go your way and
make it as sure as you can. So they went and made the sepulcher,
sealing the stone, setting a watch. Now, you imagine here, there's
fellas watching that grave, guarding that too, to make sure that nobody
comes in there and steals that body away. They said, well, those
disciples are stealing away and said he rose from the dead. They
got a watch there. What happened to this watch?
What do you reckon happened to him? You know, it says, and I think
it's over in John, where it says, you know, that those men, they
just, they just, God just struck them dumb, struck them blind.
Struck them dumb and blind. They didn't even know that the
rock was gone. And oh my. And so they stooped down here
and they looked into this grave. And what did they find in that
grave? They saw someone that was living. And it wasn't Christ. And over it, and I think it's
in John, look with me, I think it's in John. Look over here
in John chapter 20, John chapter 20 with me. Look what happens here. And oh my, They came and there's two disciples,
I think it's down in verse, but there's two people laying
there. They come and then down in, well, well, I'm sorry, but
they supposed to be two, yeah, down in verse 12, I'm sorry.
Mary stood, verse 11, Mary stood without at the sepulcher, weeping,
and as she wept, she stooped down, looking to the sepulcher,
and seeth two angels sitting, the one at the head and the other
at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. So there they
had two. Here she's just, they talk about
one. But anyway, they stooped down.
They stooped down. That tells me that we, We got
to stoop down. God's, you know, a proud heart
deceives. Oh my, God humble us. God calls us to stoop down. God
calls us to humble ourselves before him. God calls us to be
down before him. And you know, it's not the position
that we're in. It's the position of the heart.
It's the condition of the heart. Does the heart stoop down before
Christ? Does the heart bow before Christ? Does the heart submit
to Christ? And that's what we do. You stoop
down. And oh my, when you stoop down,
you'll understand that you're being made confirmable to the
death of Christ. And look what they got when they
stooped down, seen in that You know, and here's what happened.
You can enter into this grave, and death can't enter there now. Wherever a believer's at, you
go to any grave, go any grave, and they looked in this grave,
but instead of finding death, they had life, a resurrected
life, the resurrected Christ. And oh my, They no longer have
a natural life, a spiritual life, and it's a life of faith. And
I tell you that once you, Christ, is risen from the dead, everybody,
like I said already, everybody, every soul has to live by faith. We walk not by sight, but by
faith, but by faith. And oh, look what else happens
now. They saw someone that came from heaven itself, heaven itself,
They saw a young man sitting in the clothes in a white, white
garment. Over, I just showed you in John,
it says two young men. And I tell you this, in this
new tomb, where the Lord Jesus Christ laid, where no man had
ever laid before, they come there to have fellowship with a dead
savior. But instead of found that out,
they found an empty grave. And they ended up having fellowship,
not only with an empty, uh, with, uh, with the angels that came
down from heaven. And let me say this about angels.
There's never a female angel in the Bible. All the angels
are male. So if you ever see these angels,
it looks like a woman. It's not right. It's not real.
Every angel in the Bible was a male. These are young men.
There was Gabriel, there was Michael, and here's young men.
And I tell you, they were sitting there at the foot of Christ. And one of them said they were
sitting at the head of where Christ sat, laid, and at the
foot of where Christ lay. Why would they be at the head
and why would they be at the feet? To show you there wasn't
nothing in between. To show you there's nothing. You know, his head's not here,
his feet's not here, he's not here. He's not here. And oh my. And they brought in the fellowship
with one cent from heaven itself. And I, Lord Jesus, these young
men came, and I'll tell you something. They had something to say. These
fellas had something to say. They had a message. They had
a message. And here's what the first message
is. You seek Jesus, he said there in verse six. You seek Jesus. Yes, we do. We seek the Lord
Jesus Christ. Who else are we going to seek?
Who else are we going to seek? Who else are we going to look
for? We're looking for the Lord Jesus
Christ. That's what he said. You're looking
for Christ. You're looking for Jesus the Nazareth. And then
look what else he said, which was crucified. They understood
That's what this man's saying here. This young man is saying
that you're looking for Jesus that was crucified. He was dead. You saw him dead. You saw him
be taken off of that cross. You saw him wrapped in clothes.
You saw where he was laid. You know he was dead. You know
what a shape his body was in. You know about the nails. You
know about the cut in his sides. You know that he was dead. He was crucified. He was dead.
But oh, my. And then look what he said. He is risen. He was crucified. He was dead,
but he's risen. And I love this. He is not here. He's not here. He's not here. And oh my, you're
talking about words of comfort. Yeah, he was dead, but he's risen. He's not here. He's not here. He's not here. And then look
what else he said to them. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. We've not come here to do anything
to you. We're not here. We just told
you the best news you'll ever hear in your life. He's risen. He's not here. You know, I sang it on the way to
church, you know. You seek a risen savior. How you know he lives, he lives,
lives within my heart. So you know, that's the best
I can do right now. That's the best I can ever do
most of the time. But oh my, and you're talking
about good news. Good news. The first two things
that was the best news to me was when God made me to be an
actual sinner. He convinced me of I was a sinner. Before that, I was a self-righteous,
legalist, fundamentalist, preached against everything and
anything that I thought wasn't right. I preached myself, I did
not preach the Lord Jesus Christ. And then God come along and he
showed me how miserable, wretched I was. That I did not know God,
I did not know the gospel, I did not know Christ. I knew legalism,
I knew fundamentalism, I knew works, I knew self-righteousness,
but I didn't know God and I didn't know Christ. Boy, that's a big statement.
I'm telling you exactly how it happened. One day, God in his
sovereign mercy got me lost, and I could not find my way out.
I could not find my way out. I was so lost, I was so far away,
I didn't know how to get there. I didn't know how to get where
I needed to be. I didn't know. Somebody come
along. And I heard the gospel. I heard
the gospel of how God can be a just and justifier of him that
believes in the Lord Jesus Christ. And when I heard that, I heard
how that Christ came to save sinners. And I seen Christ, now
listen to me now, and I seen this by faith, this is not, this
is not, I saw by faith Christ dying for me, just me. I was not worried and concerned
about anybody else. I wasn't concerned about my wife.
I was concerned about me. I had this, I saw Christ crucified
for my sin. I saw him dying for me. And when I saw him dying for
me, and I understood that all my sins were taken away by that
death of Christ, my soul went to rest right then and there.
Now I've seen him, the only people that's ever seen a risen Christ,
and we'll get that in a minute, only people that's ever seen
a risen Christ is people that he has saved by his grace. Nobody
else has ever seen a risen Christ, but his people and his people
alone. Did you know that? Only people that's ever seen
Christ risen from the dead, only people that's ever seen Christ
as people that he died for and saved by his grace. Nobody else
ever seen him. Nobody else ever seen him. I'm
telling you, how can a person that's dead see Christ? How can
a person that don't have faith see Christ? How can a person
who has not their sin taken away see Christ? How can somebody
that's never been dead and been made alive see Christ? Dead men
can't see. Unregenerate hearts can't see. False professors can't see. And oh my, I said, He's not here.
He's not here. He is crucified, yes. And then look what it says. Behold the place where they laid
him. Look, look in there and see where
they laid him. Now I want you to see something
over in John chapter 20. Oh, I love this over here. John chapter 20, verse six. Then cometh Simon Peter, following
him, and went into the sepulchre, and said, listen to this, the
linen clothes lie, the very clothes that they had wrapped him in,
and listen to this, and the napkin that was about his head, you
know, they had a thing that they put over their eyes, watch this
now, and the napkin That was about his head, not laying with
the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
What does that mean, wrapped together? That means he took
it off and folded it up. He took that thing he had over
his eyes and folded it up and laid it over here, out of the
way. And look what he said. but wrapped
together in a place by itself. So come see a place. Look where they laid him. There
lays his clothes. Lazarus come out with grave clothes
on him. Christ came out without grave
clothes. He left him in the grave. And
now, beloved, when he saves us, the grave clothes go with, he
don't have no grave clothes with him. My I'll tell you he rose
from the dead and what what do you reckon? He was how how he
was dressed when he rose from the dead You ever thought about
what he looked like he didn't come out of the grave naked Whatever he was on the Mount
of Transfiguration When you looked at him you saw God Almighty when
you saw him Glistering white and white as the Sun and bright
as the Sun when he come out of that grave He was exactly as
bright as the Sun Whatever he is in heaven. That's what he
was with his own this when he come out of that grave He come
out of that grave with power Come out of that grave with glory. He come out of that grave with
his righteousness He come out of that grave with the same power
that will raise us from a dead one of these days And he come
out of that grave. He didn't come out naked. I'll
tell you that They put him in it. He was wrapped in grave clothes,
but he didn't come out with great clothes He left them and I tell
you what, all he did for us was when he went into the grave,
he perfumed the grave and made it a wonderful place to go and
wait to his call. And oh my, look what else they
says now. Then they had a message, look
what they said. He said, go your way. Go your way. There was a fellow,
our Lord Jesus said now, But after he opened Bartimaeus' eyes,
the scripture says, Bartimaeus followed him in the way. Here
they said, go your way, go your way, go your way, go away. And this is what he says. And
this is what I meant, that only his disciples is the only ones
that know anything about his resurrection. I'm telling you,
nobody, nobody but his people ever saw him after his resurrection. Look what he said here. Go your
way and tell his disciples. Don't go running down through
there hollering, Jesus is risen, Jesus is risen. Anybody want
him? Will you accept him? Would you
like to have him? Would you let him into your heart?
No, no. He said, go and tell your disciples. Don't tell anybody else. Our Lord said, lay down my life
for the sheep. And look what he said here. Go tell your disciples. And I wonder why he said in Peter.
Because Peter had denied him three times. Three times. And Peter would be scared to
death that Christ would never do anything for him again. After
our Lord looked at him, after he denied the Lord, and the Lord
looked at him, and he went out and wept and cursed and wept
bitterly, after he denied the Lord Jesus three times, He knew,
he said, oh, there's no way Christ can have anything to do with
me. There's no way he'll have anything to do with me. But look
what he says, but you go your way and tell his disciples and
Peter. And this is what I like right
here. He'll go before you. He'll go, he'll go before you,
before you get there, he'll be there. Before you go into Galilee, you
shall see him as he said before, because he'll be there when you
get there. By the time you get there and
tell him, he'll be there. He'll be there. And oh my, and
look what it says, there shall you see him. He said, you'll see me where
I told you to be. You'll see me where I told you
I was going. You'll see me and my disciples
will see me. Peter will see me and all of
them will see me except Thomas. Oh my, they'll see me. They'll
see me. And I tell you what, you know,
Henry Mahan's got a message on the trail of God's sheep. And
that's what we are. Tell his disciples, you know
what? We're on the trail of God's sheep. I'm after God's sheep. You know, because you know why
I'm after God's sheep? Our Lord says, my sheep hear
my voice. If you preach the gospel and
you preach the truth, I'm not trying to get everybody under
the sun saved. I'm not a soul winner. I'm not. I'm not one of these fellas that's
going to talk anybody into anything. Here's the thing, you know, we
preach the gospel, and God's gonna save his sheep, and we're
on the trail of them sheep, and that God'll get every one of
them sheep, because every one of them's gonna hear, and every
one of them's gonna come, and every one of them's gonna believe,
because Christ said, I lay down my life for the sheep. Sheep
don't become goats, and goats don't become sheep. I was a sheep
before my granddaddy was ever born. I was a sheep when Adam
was in the garden. I've always been nothing but
a sheep. You know when I found out I was a sheep? When I heard
his voice. Y'all remember, y'all, you remember
this very well. Herman, my father-in-law sat
right there. His wife had been dead several
years. He'd come to special services and things, but he started coming
regularly, faithfully, more Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday
night. One day I was preached on from John 6, when the hour
is coming and now is 5, excuse me, John 5, 25. The hour is coming
and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of
God and they that hear shall live. I was about right here. Herman stood up and said, Donny, I heard his voice today. Seventy-five
years old. That's one of them sheep that
God got on his trail. Let me ask you this. Is there
any sheep in here that hears his voice now? Any sheep in here that's never
heard it before but are hearing it? Hearing and understanding
what he's saying? Are you hearing his voice at
all? Do you hear his voice in the gospel? Do you hear his voice
in his word? Do you hear his voice in the
preaching? Do you hear his voice calling you? Come unto me! Come unto me! Come unto me! If you heard His voice saying,
listen, I'm the only way you're ever going to get to God. If
you heard His voice say that I and my Father are one. If you
heard His voice say, come unto me, you that are laboring under
your false profession, under your weakness, under your inability,
under your death, under your blindness, under your self-righteousness.
Have you heard His voice? And oh, look what He said, go
your way. and tell his disciples, and whatever
you do, you make Peter understand that I'm going to go before you
into Galilee. And oh, look what happens now.
And they went out quickly, went out quickly, and fled from the
grave. And they trembled. Oh, my. That's something to tremble about.
Oh, boy. And they were amazed. They were
amazed. And just look what they said
here now. And I'm going to show you, this is why only Christ's
people ever knew Christ after his resurrection. Neither said
they anything to any. They didn't go tell anybody that
Christ was risen, except to go and go tell his disciples. But
they were afraid. They was afraid of saying the
wrong thing, doing the wrong thing, And all he goeth before
you into Galilee, and there shall you see. There shall you see. I want you to look at one verse
of scripture with me in 1 John chapter 3. And I'll close with
this. 1 John chapter 3. Behold, verse 1, behold what
manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should
be called the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not,
because it knew him not. But, beloved, now are we the
sons of God. And it doeth not yet appear what
we shall be. But we know that when he shall
appear, we shall be like him. Listen to this, for we shall
see him as he is. See him as he is, not as he was,
as he is, as he is. Our Father, in the blessed name
of Christ our Lord, thank you for your precious word. Oh, Lord,
I'm so thankful that Not only did you rise from the dead by
many infallible proofs, but now you've ascended to heaven itself
to sit at the right hand of God and appear in heaven for us.
Lord, bless this word to the hearts of those that's gathered
out here today. Please meet the needs of every
family, every heart, every soul. Bring your people to yourself.
Get people lost. Create a need in them. Because
I know, Lord, that if you create a need, they'll come. They'll
come. Please, oh God, do for them what only you can do. And
do for us what only you can do. For Christ's sake. Amen. Come
and read us He is risen. I serve a risen Savior. That's
the name of it. 132. Let's stand together and sing
this. seated by 6 o'clock, 132. I serve a risen Savior, He's
in the world today. I know that He is living, whatever
men may say. I see His hand of mercy, I hear
His voice of cheer. And just the time I need Him,
He's always near. He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus
lives today. He walks with me and talks with
me along life's narrow way. He lives, He lives, salvation
to impart. You ask me how I know He lives. He lives within my heart. In all the world around me, I
see His loving care. And though my heart grows weary,
I never will despair. I know that He is leading through
all the stormy blast. The day of His appearing will
come at last. He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus
lives today. He walks with me and talks with
me along life's narrow way. He lives, He lives, salvation
to impart. You ask me how I know He lives. He lives within my heart. Rejoice, rejoice, O Christian. Lift up your voice and sing. Eternal hallelujahs to Jesus
Christ the King, the hope of all who seek him, the help of
all who find. None other is so loving, so good
and kind. He lives, he lives, Christ Jesus
lives today. He walks with me and talks with
me along life's narrow way. He lives, He lives with salvation
to impart. You ask me how I know he lives. He lives within my heart. He lives tonight, or tonight,
God willing.