Good morning. Let's all stand
together as we sing hymn number 46. Hymn number 46. Oh, for a thousand tongues to
sing my great Redeemer's praise, The glories of my God and King,
the triumphs of His grace. My gracious Master and my God,
assist me to proclaim to spread through all the earth abroad
the honors of thy name. Jesus, the name that charms our
fears, that bids our sorrows cease. "'Tis music in the sinner's
ears, "'Tis life and health and peace. "'He breaks the power
of cancelled sin, "'He sets the prisoner free. His blood can
make the foulest clean, His blood availed for me. Hear him, ye deaf, his praise
ye dumb, Your loosened tongues employ. Ye blind, behold your
Savior come, and leap, ye lame, for joy. Glory to God, and praise and
love be ever, ever given. By saints below and saints above,
the church in earth and heaven. Be seated. We'll sing hymn number
37. Hymn number 37. O Lord my God, when I in awesome
wonder consider all the worlds Thy hands have made, I see the stars. I hear the rolling thunder. By power throughout, the universe
displays. my soul, my Savior God, to Thee. How great Thou art! How great Thou art! Savior God to Thee How great
Thou art How great Thou art Went through the woods and forest
glades I wandered And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees
When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur, and hear the brook,
and feel the gentle breeze, it sings How great Thou art! How great Thou art! ? To thee ? How great thou art ? How great thou art This
really makes you like how great he is. ? And when I think That
God, His Son not sparing, Sent Him to die, I scarce could take
it in. that on the cross my burden flatly
bears, he pled and died to take my soul. ? Then sings my soul ? My saving
God to thee ? How great thou art ? How great thou art ? Then
sings my soul ? My Savior God to thee ? How great thou art ? How great thou art ? When
Christ shall come ? With shout of acclamation ? ? And take me
home ? ? What joy shall fill my heart
? ? Then I shall bow ? ? In humble adoration ? And there proclaim ? My God,
how great Thou art ? It sings, my soul, my Savior How great Thou art! How great Thou art! Then sings my soul, my Savior
God, How great Thou art! How great Thou art! Mark chapter 12. You know when we get to glory,
God is so glorious just in His being that we'll never ever know
how great He really is. Even when we're in eternity,
He'll still be so far above us. Still be. The universe will still
be in Him. The new heaven, new earth will
still be in Him. We'll never ever be able to plumb
the depths of God Almighty. Just won't be able to do it.
All right, let me start reading here in verse 13 down to verse 27. And they send unto him certain
of the Pharisees and of the Rhodians to catch him in his words. And
when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that
thou art true and carest for no man. For thou regardest not
the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it
lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not? Shall we give or shall
we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy,
said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I
may see. And they brought it, and he saith
unto them, Whose is this image, and who is this superscription?
And they say unto him, Caesars. Our Lord answering said unto
them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God
the things that are God's. And they marveled at him. Then
came unto him the Sadducees, which say, There is no resurrection. And they asked him, saying, Master,
Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife
behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take
his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. Now there were seven
brothers, seven brethren, and the first took a wife, and dying,
left no seed. Second took her, and died, neither
left he any seed. And the third likewise, and the
seventh had her, and the seven had her, and left no seed. Last
of all, the woman died also. In the resurrection, therefore,
when they shall rise, whose wife shall be of them. For the seven
had heard a wife, And our Lord answering said unto them, Do
you not therefore err? Because you know not the scriptures,
neither the power of God. For when they shall rise from
the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but
are as the angels which are in heaven. and as touching the dead
that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses how
in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham,
and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God
of the dead, but the God of the living. You therefore do greatly
err." All right, we'll stop there. Our blessed, blessed Savior,
great, glorious God of heaven and earth. Lord, we're so thankful
to be able to come into your presence, be able to acknowledge
you as God, that you're past finding out. You said that you
declared the end from the beginning, from ancient times, the things
that are not yet done, saying all your counsel shall stand
and you'll do according to your good pleasure. And Lord, all
the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and you
do according to your will in the armies of heaven and among
the inhabitants of the earth, and no man can stay your hand
or say unto you what thou doest. Lord, there's a God, no God in
this world, no God in this universe like unto you. You're a God of
the living. You give life, you give life. And Lord, you give life, the
only place you can, is through your blessed son, the Lord Jesus
Christ. You give life to the promised
seed. You give life to those you gave
to your son in an eternal covenant of grace. And oh, how we're thankful
that you on purpose came into this world to save poor, wretched
worms of the earth, grasshoppers, wretches, sinners, blind, deaf,
and dumb, dead in trespasses and sins, and you came and gave
us life. Oh, blessed be your name. Oh,
I thank you and bless you for that. And Lord, I thank you for
this time that we've gathered here to hear your word, to worship
you, to look into your word and I ask for your presence and power
and wisdom and understanding to deal with the words that I
read today. Lord, I thank you for the wonderful
day you gave us. Thank you for your blessed people.
Thank you for your blessed gospel. And Lord, we ask that you would
please, please for Christ's sake, save your people in this place.
For Christ's sake, save your sheep, save sinners, bring glory
to yourself. Bless this congregation. And
Lord, we ask you, please, to be merciful and gracious to our
children and grandchildren and do it for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. Let's stand together again as
we sing the hymn of the day on the back of the bulletin. ? The rock that stands forever
? Is Christ my righteousness ? In Him I stand unfearing ?
In everlasting bliss ? Christ is my boast and glory ? All wrath
for me is o'er ? The judgment of the sinner ? It frightens
me no more ? There is no condemnation ? There is no hell for me The
torment of my fire, my eyes shall never see. For me, there is no sentence. For me, there is no sting. For Christ my Lord who saved
me will shield me with his wing. No angel nor a devil, no danger,
fear, nor fight, No foe, no tribulation, no throne, no power, nor mind. No height, no depth, no creature
that has been or can be. Be from thy bosom, can sever
me from thee. My heart leaps up with gladness,
grief cannot linger there. Her voice sings high in glory,
bathed in the sunshine fair. The fountain of my singing is
Jesus there above. The sun that shines upon me is
Jesus and his love. Be seated. this particular situation where
they sent Pharisees and Herodians and lawyers to ask the Lord Jesus
questions. They asked him three questions,
I'm only going to deal with two today. But it's in Matthew, it's
in Luke, and it's here in Mark. And In one place they called
him the chief priest and scribes and these Herodians and Pharisees
and Sadducees were so arrogant, so proud, so full of themselves
that they honestly, honestly thought they could trap the Lord
Jesus Christ in his words. They thought they could fool,
he's the wisdom of God. HE IS THE ONE BY WHOM GOD CREATED
THE WORLDS AND UPHOLDS THEM WITH THE WORD OF HIS POWER. HE WAS
THE ONE THAT GOD IN HIS WISDOM SENT INTO THIS WORLD IN A JUST
WAY TO SAVE SINNERS AND DO IT JUSTLY. AND YET THESE MEN ARE
SO FULL OF THEIR OWN WISDOM AND OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND OWN POWER
AND OWN ABILITIES THAT THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD TAKE THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST TO TASK. Him to be some way that they
could destroy Him. Now you remember that He had
spoke that parable about the vineyard and they understood
that He spake of them and it says right there in verse 12
it said, And they sought to lay hold on Him, but feared the people. For they knew that He had spoken
the parable against them, and they left Him and went their
way. And so they sought to lay hands
on Him. They understood that the parable,
and over in Matthew He called them hypocrites, and over in
Luke it's called spies. Spies came to spy Him out. But
anyway, here they come, they're going to try their dead level
best to deceive and tempt our Lord Jesus Christ and lay wait
for Him. In fact, they sought to tempt
Him. But I want you to, first of all, I want you to look in
Luke 20, chapter 20. I'm going to show you something
over here, one thing that was said that's not in any of the
rest of them. In Luke chapter 20, I want just
to see how they come and how they sought to deceive our Lord
Jesus Christ. Now you keep Mark in your left
hand while you turn to your right. And it says in verse 20, Luke
20, 20, and they watched him. They were watching our Savior.
They was watching him. Every step he took, everything
they'd done, they was watching him. And they sent forth spies. Spies. Why would anybody need
to spy on the Lord Jesus Christ? That's like spying on God. Why
would anybody, how can you spy on someone that everywhere he's
gone, he had great crowds and peoples around him all the time,
done great miracles. Why? And they watched him and
said, spies. How you spy on Christ? How you
spy on God? But here they go, and look what
it says here, they feigned themselves. That word feigned means to pretend,
to act, to act like you're something you're not. They feigned themselves,
just men. They were phonies, that word
feign means phonies, phony. They phonied themselves, feigned
themselves that we're just men. They was pretending to be just
men, pretending that, feigning themselves to just men that they
might take hold of his words. Oh, we're gonna watch him, we're
gonna spy, and every time he says something that ought not
be said, we're gonna get a hold of him. And here's the thing,
that they might, Deliver him under the power and authority
of the governor That's their motive. That's their motive. They got an evil motive right
from the very start And this is one thing that God does and
I'm thankful that he does By him men actions are weighed and
he knows what we're going to do before we do it He knows our
motives He knows our motive, and you think these fellas, our
Lord didn t know what was going on, and so they come and they
ask Him a question. Back over in Mark now, verse
13, They sent certain of the Pharisees, now when it says certain
of the Pharisees, I m sure they sent the best that they had,
the smartest the ones that had the best arguments, the one that
could present the best arguments, and the Herodians. Now, the Herodians
were a political party. They supported King Herod. They
were more in the political realm than they were anyplace else.
But here s one time the Pharisees and those that supported Herod
and backed up Herod even though he was just a puppet of the Roman
government, so they come and they got together and they come
to CATCH him. Catch him at his words. Catch
him at his words. And look what it says now. And
the first thing they do to him is they flatter him. The scripture says, the flatterer
spreadeth a net for your feet. And that's the first thing they
do, they start flattering him. They said, when they were come,
they said to him, Master, we know you're true. you're true,
everything you say is true, you're a true person, you're a true
man, you're a true person, and everything you say is true, and
you don't care for man, you're not a respecter of persons, people
don't impress you, no matter who they are, they don't impress
you. Whether it s a Pharisee or a Rhodian, whether they sat
in the seat of the synagogue, you re not impressed by men.
Nobody in this world impresses you. You don t care for man.
You know, you re not interested in impressing people and making
you know, they write them books how to impress men and be successful
and how to impress men and be successful in this world and
win friends. Well, our Lord wasn't out in
this world to make friends with people. And look what he said,
for you regard us not the person of men. You don't care about
men. You're not interested in people.
And then look what he said, and then they said, they just kept
bragging on him and said, for you teach us the way of God in
truth. Now remember this over here,
they said they were feigning themselves to be just men. Now
they're acting like they're just, acting like they come here and
they're talking, oh, how just you are, and we're good men,
and we're right men, and we know everything about you. You teach
the way of God in truth. Oh, they pumped him up. They
thought, boy, we're good. We have really bragged on him,
got him feeling good about himself. That's what they think, because
that's the way they'd feel if somebody bragged on them. Oh,
yeah, you was acting right. but they was bragging on him,
and look what they said, and then they said, they did this
to catch him at his word, is it lawful? That's what they're
always interested in, law, law, rules, dotted I's and crossed
T's, getting all their ducks in the row. They said, is it
lawful? That's what they're interested
more than anything, law. Law, strict things. To give tribute,
and that word tribute means taxes, taxes, same thing as a tax. To
Caesar or not. You see, Caesar was the one who
ruled the world at this time from Rome, and he was worshiped
as a god. And then he said, Shall we give
or shall we not? They didn't even give him an
opportunity to answer, Shall we give or shall we not? And
oh, my, the motive take hold of his words to tempt him. And
oh, they set a trap. And oh, they're questioned. Oh, my. And here's where they
think they got him. If they answer no, then they'll
go and say, He's against Caesar. He don't think Caesar deserves
anything. He thinks we're not ought to
pay any tribute to Caesar, and so we'll be able to take him
to the governor. And then they said, if he says
no, then all the Jews will be against him. He'll alienate the
Jews. Oh my. And he knowing, look what
he said, he knowing the hypocrisy. That Lord knows everything about
us. You know, just forget pretending,
just forget shaming, just forget trying to pretend to be something
you're not, just forget trying to be something you're not, because
God knowing their hypocrisy, knowing it. And He said unto
them, and He asked them, why in the world you want to tempt
me? You know, I stood toe-to-toe
with the devil. I stood toe-to-toe with the devil
for 40 days and 40 nights. I stood toe-to-toe with Satan.
I stood toe-to-toe with Satan before he ever fell from heaven.
I know what heaven is like. Why in the world are you tempting
me? Why do you come here to tempt me? What's the reason in tempting
me? And oh my, look what he says
now. Bring me a penny. Bring me a
penny. Go get a penny. You got a penny
on you? That I may see it. Oh my, he turns the question
around on them. He perceived their crassness,
their subtlety, and people are always, let me say this, people
are always asking questions to trap believers. They really are. First of all, they wonder who
did Cain marry. Well, no, who did Cain marry?
And why does God allow so much evil in the world? They think,
boy, they really got you when you ask you that way. Why do
you have so much evil in the world? How can God judge men
who've never heard of Christ or read the Bible? And how can
God judge men if he doesn't give them a chance? If he's sovereign
and all his will's always done, how can man be responsible? Well,
every one of those questions is easy to answer. If Kay's wife
suited him, it suits me just fine. Ain't that right? I don't care who he married.
I don't care. I don't give a flip who he married.
It don't mean nothing to me. And the second thing is, why
does God allow so much evil in the world? You imagine this,
had not God sent His Son to save SOME out of this race, how EVIL
would this world be? And I tell you, if God didn t
have the Holy Ghost here to restrain the world and make the wrath
of man depraise Him, we d be nothing but a bunch of devils
running around in this world, devouring one another. It d be
worse than God don't allow sin, God don't allow evil, man was
born evil, live evil, and die evil. The wicked goes forth from
the mother's womb speaking lies. Man, as soon as he's born, sparks
begin to fly up. He drinks iniquity like water.
What if God did not save some out of this fallen race? And then they said, how is he
going to judge men who never read the Bible and didn't give
them a chance? I'll tell you why. God, Paul
said it like this, if we, if I lie, if I lie, if we lie and
that brings more glory to God in his grace, well then how can
he judge us for being a liar? And if we say, let's do good,
do evil, that God will be good to us because so, you know, the
more we do evil, then God will be good and we'll slander it.
And he said, how in the world then can God judge us as sinners
if we lie and we slander God? And I'll tell you something else,
there's not a place on this planet not a place in this planet. You
can go where people still wear loincloths and got bones in their
ears and bones through their nose and paint themselves up. No place you can go on the face
of this earth where they ain't got some kind of a God that they
worship. It may be a chicken. In Egypt, they worship cows. They'll starve to death in a
cow walking down the street. They got temples made to worship
and serve the creature more than the creator. They got temples
made for rats. And if you believe in incarnation,
you don't dare step on a bug because you may come back as
a bug. So don't step on that bug. You don't wanna come back
as a bug. So you're talking about, they
won't find fault with God. And then here's another reason. God don't give men chances. God's
not in Las Vegas. He's not a gambler. He's not
a checker player. Here, I'll make a move, and then
you make a move. I'll give you a chance, and when
I give you your chance, if you don't take opportunity to move
when I give you your chance, then you're gone. You're gone.
You're gone. And then, you know, then we've
got a conscience. Our conscience will accuse us
of when we do wrong, OR ELSE IT EXCUSES US. IT WILL DO ONE
OR THE OTHER. IT WILL JUSTIFY YOU, INCLUDE
YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE, OR IT WILL CONDEMN YOU FOR SOMETHING
YOU'VE DONE. GOD GIVE US A CONSCIENCE. AND THE WORST THING THAT I THINK
THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH TODAY IS WHAT'S CALLED HUMANISM. WHAT'S
HUMANISM? MAN IS HIS OWN GOD. MAN IS THE MOST IMPORTANT. MAN
IS HIS OWN SAVIOR. He's his own master of his own
fate. Man is everything. Humanism teaches
that man's got all the power, all the rights, all the authority,
that everything man does is right. If it feels good to you, do it.
If you think it's right, do it. And that's what, you know, and
our Lord said that he asked, they asked all these questions,
tried to trap him. And that people try to trap us
like that all the time. But here's the thing about it.
He said, show me a penny. Then one of them fellas got in
his little bag, pulled out a penny, handed our Lord a penny. And
he looked at it and he said, now, he said in verse 16, bring
me a penny that I may see it. And they brought it and he saith
unto them, whose image is on this penny? Whose image is on
this penny? Whose image is on it? Whose superscription
or whose image is on this thing? And they said, Caesar's. Look at the wisdom of our Lord.
And our Lord said unto them, well, render to Caesar the things
that are Caesar's. If He has pictures on it, give
Him what's due Him. You know, give it what's due
Him. Give it to what's due Him. And
oh, to God, the things that are God. Oh my. If you're using Caesar's money,
trading Caesar's money, give the Caesar what Caesar's due. Paul said, Give tribute to whom
tributes do, honor to whom honors do. And then he goes on to say
this, but oh, render unto God the things that are God's. Oh
my, you give to Caesar, said you go on, you're worried about
what Caesar, which we all pay tribute to Caesar, what we all
render to Caesar, what about God? What are we going to render
to God? How are we going to talk about
God? How are we going to deal with God? How are we going to
speak about God? What are we going to render to
God? What's due God? That's what our Lord said. You
heard about Caesar. What about what's due to God
Almighty? What's due to Him? What do you
ought to render to Him? Caesar's nothing compared to
God. Caesar's absolutely a man, God's
eternal. Caesar's an evil man, God's holy
and righteous. Oh my, what are we to render
unto Him? David asked that question, what
shall we render unto Him? He asked that question, what
shall I render unto Him? And oh my, what do we render
unto God? What do we actually render to
God? That's what he's asking them.
Render to God things that are God. What's due God? Reverence,
awe, worship, love, obedience, thankfulness. Oh, oh, God's due
our hearts, our souls. He's due our whole being. He's
due our commitment. Oh, if Caesar wants to honor
us, honor him, what about God? Oh, what's due God? Oh, oh, how whole, all the glory. He's due all the glory we can
give him. All the words we can render unto
him. Our thoughts ought to, when we
think of God, have you ever thought of God and meditating on God
and get to thinking about how glorious He is and how powerful
He is and how He does things in this world, and you just get
LOST in Him, and then the JOY that fills your heart when you
think about Him! Oh, my! Honor, reverence, thankfulness,
Worship? Oh, my. You see, Caesar's kingdom
is a natural kingdom. We're in a spiritual kingdom.
Let them have their worldly kingdom. Let them have it. Let them have
their natural kingdom. Oh, want us to speak? No, we're
not going to have Caesar for our God. Oh, no, we have one
master, one Lord, one Savior, and we worship Him. And then,
oh my, look what happens to him when he says that. Now, down
there in verse 17, after he answered them, they marveled at him. Oh, in one place it says, not
only marveled at him, but they were astonished at him, marveled. They said, oh my goodness, we thought we had him and he
took us. We thought we'd go make a fool
out of him. He made a fool out of us. They marveled We thought
we had him. We thought we had him and then
look at the Sadducees Then come unto him the Sadducees Now I'll
tell you Sadducees. This is this is a I don't even
know why in the world They would even care what he thought because
they didn't believe in a resurrection They didn't believe in spirits
and they didn't believe in angels. I They didn't believe in anything.
They believed that the only world that they was ever going to live
in was that one. And so here they come, and you know, to try
to prove that there could be no resurrection, they ask him
a question. They asked him a question, And here they go to law again,
here they go to Moses, here they go to law. Moses wrote unto us,
if a man's brother die, and leave his wife, and leave no children,
that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto
his brother. Now that's exactly what it says
in Deuteronomy 25, five and six, that's exactly what it says.
If a man has a, he dies and he has, a brother left. If that
brother WANTS to, he can have that wife, and when that child
is born, it takes his father's name, not the daddy that has
a baby by him, but the father that died, he takes that name.
But it also says in the same place that if the man don't want
to do that, they go and decide and talk this over, and they
get OUT of that situation. But these fellas are going to
use know, they are going to use this to try to trap our Lord.
And then it says, Now there were seven brothers, seven of them. First took a wife, they left
no children. Second took her, died, neither
left any children. Third likewise, and the seven,
she is married to seven different men, and none of them had a child.
Last of all, the woman died too. So you got seven, eight people
that's dead. You got eight people that's dead.
Eight. And they said, boy, we got him
now. We got it. But oh, I tell you what, this
is where people are. Look what he says now. Jesus
answering them said unto thee, do you not therefore err? You're
full of error. You don't know what you're talking
about. You air, when you opened your mouth, you aired. When you
start talking, you aired. You didn't have a clue what you
was talking about. And then look what else he says
now. You don't know the scriptures. You use one verse of Scripture
to prove your point. And a lot of folks do that. They'll
use one point of Scripture to prove their point. You find anybody
that uses one or two Scriptures to prove their doctrine instead
of the whole Bible, then you found the false prophet. You
found somebody that's teaching just one thing. Camelot Acts
2.38. Huh? Pentecostals, they run over there
to, you know, in Acts chapter two, they all speak in unknown
tongues. They run over there, you know,
to talk about how you speak in tongues. Baptists run over there,
you know, about John the Baptist. You know, we go all the way,
our religion go all the way back to John the Baptist. You didn't
go back far enough. Oh my. and they denied the resurrection. And I, Lord Jesus Christ said,
you do err. You don't know the scriptures,
the scriptures. And when you know the scriptures,
there's nobody, I'm telling you, nobody, listen, you won't answer
a fool according to his follies. If you know the scriptures, I'll
tell you, that's what, God helping us, every time I get into some
conversation with anybody, my first thought is to go to what
God said. My first inclinations go to what God said, what God
said in His Word. Somebody asks a question, my
first inclination is to go to the Bible. If a man don't believe
the Bible, he don't believe nothing. But if you take the Bible, and
you use the scriptures, There's nobody, I tell you what, you
can ask them questions that they can't answer. And I tell you what, and you
don't know the scriptures, search the scriptures our Lord told
them. For they are they which testify of me. You're looking
for Caesar, there's interested in Caesar, they wasn't interested
in Christ. Jehovah Witness interested in
the mark of the beast, they're not interested in Christ. They
don't care if 144,000 goes to heaven and they're not one of
them. They get to live here forever. Who wants to live in their shack
forever? And that's what they are compared
to where we're going, what we're gonna live in. We live in shacks. We live in shacks. You know,
Paul, when he was, they had him before Sanhedrin. And as he stood there, you know,
to be tried, he perceived that there was Pharisees there and
there was Sadducees there. And you know what he said? He
perceived that there was Pharisees and Sadducees. And the Sadducees
didn't believe in the resurrection. And you know what he did? He
pitted them against one another. He said, I'm a Pharisee of Pharisees. I was born a Pharisee and raised
a Pharisee. And I've done nothing against
God, the God of the Bible, the God of our fathers. And not in
Sadducees, all of them had jumped up. The Pharisee said, well,
you can't judge him because he believes in a resurrection. You
all don't. And they started fighting among themselves. And Paul, he
got them fighting among themselves. And they used the law to back
up their belief. Moses wrote, Moses wrote. Oh, my, they thought we've really
tripped him up now. Oh, my, whose wife is she going
to be? Whose wife is she going to be?
And our Lord says, You do err not knowing the scriptures. You
don't know what God says. You never went on down and read
all the things that Moses wrote, and you certainly don't know
the power of God. You don't know God's power. You
know, they believed that He created the world, but He couldn't raise
a person from the dead. Neither the power of God. And
look what our Lord says now. Look what he goes on to say.
Our Lord answers him. I'll tell you what, that's you
dare not knowing the scriptures, knowing the power of God. What
an indictment. What an indictment against these
men. What an indictment against them. What a horrible thing for
people to try to take the man who wrote the Bible himself to
task. But he said, you don't know the
scriptures nor the power of God, for when they shall rise from
the dead, and he's talking about these eight that they're talking
about, that's who he's talking about, for when they shall rise
from the dead, those seven men and that one woman, for when
they shall rise from the dead, They don't marry. There's neither
marriage. Or given in marriage. You know, I see people all the
time talking about, I want to wish so and so a heavenly birthday. There ain't no such thing as
a heavenly birthday. There ain't no birthdays. That's
the reason we want to go. Ain't no birthdays there. He said time will cease to be
and time will be no more. Marriage is for here. Marriage
tells us about our relationship with Christ, bone of His bone,
flesh of His flesh. I'll show you a mystery. As husband
and wife become one, so we're one in Christ. That's what marriage
represents. And I tell you what, and our
Lord said, oh, when they shall, these seven, eight people rise
from the dead, they not gonna get married. Marriage for this
world. There's not gonna be no marriage
up there. Who gonna marry them? Listen, God in heaven knows every
one of us, every person in this building's got people that we
love that's going on. We can go to their graves. WE
CAN STAND THERE AND PUT FLOWERS ON THEIR GRAVE. BUT I'M TELLING
YOU I'M NOT GOING TO GLORY TO SEE ANYBODY THAT I HAVE EVER
KNOWN ON THIS EARTH. AND OUR LORD SAYS YOU SHALL SIT
DOWN AND EAT WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
AND THAT'S WHO HE'S TALKING ABOUT HERE. HE SAID WE'LL RECOGNIZE
ABRAHAM. THEY RECOGNIZED MOSES WHEN HE
WAS ON THE EARTH. THEY RECOGNIZED ELIJAH. And that's men that never saw
them before, but they recognized them. So when we get to glory,
we'll know, people will know as we're known. We'll know one
another, but I tell you, it'll be a relationship that has nothing
to do with flesh. I won t run up there and hug
my mother-in-law or hug somebody I haven t seen for that long.
Oh, it s so good to see you. Honey, I remember you. If I could
remember anything that happened on this earth, it wouldn t be
Heaven. And birthdays in Heaven? The only people that had birthdays
that was big shot that were meant to anything in this world, listen
to me, it was Herod And heathen kings is the only
people, Christ didn't have a birthday. You know that? They never talked
about his birthday. Everybody's interested in birthdays
and parties and all that. But let me tell you something,
the only people had birthdays was heathen kings. And when Herod
done it, it ended up costing John the Baptist his head. If I never had another birthday
cake or another birthday prize or another birthday gift, it
wouldn't bother me one iota. It wouldn't. I'm not being mean,
I'm just telling you. You know, one of these days you're
not going to have no more. When you get up there, when those
eight people rise from the dead, He said, They're not going to
marry up there anymore. They're neither married nor are
given in marriage. Huh? What's the matter with them? They're like the angels in heaven.
They're like the angels in heaven. You know what? Angels are eternal.
Angels do everything that God tells them to do. They spend
all their time in glory, worshiping God. You know, Gabriel came down
here and done exactly what God told him to. Michael came down
here and told exactly what God told him to say. And I tell you,
the Scriptures tell us that God gave us angels to watch over
us. He gave us angels to heirs of
salvation. Over in Hebrews 1 it says there
that He gave us angels who are heirs of salvation. People talk
about guardian angels, I don't know if they're guardians or
not, but He said they do always behold their angels in the presence
of the Father. God's got every one of us an
angel. I believe that. I believe the Bible teaches that. Yeah. I don't know where mine's at,
and I don't care. I don't see him. But ain't no
telling how many times he saved me from making a mess. I make enough messes for myself. But the scriptures tells us that
he sent angels to be heirs of salvation. But we don't worship
angels. We don't. We don't worship angels.
We're not gonna make a big deal out about angels. The only person
we make anything out of is our Lord Jesus Christ. We make everything
out of him, everything out of him. And all he goes on now to
say now, he said, now, you fellas don't believe in a resurrection,
but let me tell you something, as touching the dead that they
rise, I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna teach you fellas something,
he said, as touching the dead that they do rise, He said, have
not you read in the book of Moses? He goes right back to, they said,
you won't trust in Moses. You won't say, but pick out what
you want from Moses. You remember when Moses was standing
in front of that burning bush and God spoke to him out of the
burning bush, God spoke to Christ Moses and Christ spoke to God
Moses out of that burning bush. He said, I'm the God of Abraham. Abraham had been dead almost
400 years. And I'm the God of Isaac. Isaac's
been dead a while. And the God of Jacob. Now how
could he be a God of someone that's dead? You know what he said? He's not
the God of the dead. What he's saying is Abraham,
is in glory right now. You remember when the scriptures
tells us that Enoch walked with God and he was not, for the Lord
took him? Elijah went to heaven in a chariot. And oh, the God of Jacob. These
men ain't dead. These men ain't dead. Do you
know where they're at? They're living. Why are they
living? Because God's the God of the
living. He gives life, all life comes from Him. And oh my, He's
the God of the living, not the God of the dead. And you do therefore
greatly err. And oh, I'll tell you something.
He's called the Lord of Abraham, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob. God, we're called the, We're
called the sons of Abraham. We are, we're the sons of Abraham.
Abraham's our father, they told him. He said, if he was, you'd
do what Abraham do, you'd believe me. And you know, there's so
many scriptures. Let me show you. Let me show
you in Isaiah 26. There's so many scriptures they
could have looked at and found out that the resurrection was
just, the Bible's full of the resurrection. Look in Isaiah
26 and verse 19. It said, you know thou shalt
not leave thy soul in hell, neither shall thy soul's flesh suffer
corruption, talking about Christ, talking about Christ. But look
what it said here in verse 19. Thy dead men shall live, together
with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing ye that
dwell in the dust, For they, as the dew of the herbs in the
earth, shall cast out the dead. Oh, my. You know where it says,
O death, where is thy grave? O death, where is thy victory?
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
That's in Hosea, chapter 13. They could have seen that. And then there's that valley
of dry bones. Lord, can these bones live? Very dry, very dead, very many.
Can these bones live? You know. Well, preach to them. They ain't gonna live unless
they're preached to. They're preached to them. You want me
to preach to a bunch of dead, dry bones? Yep. Preach to them. And as he started preaching,
they started coming together. And he said, now listen, commence
flesh to come upon them. Now, you know, God done all this.
Flesh come upon them. They're still not living. And
he said, command the spirit to come on up. Spirit, come on up.
And that right there shows you a resurrection. That infant that
was cast out, God covered him. No sign of love to him. That
was the time of love. Oh my, I'm telling you. Job said this, I know my Redeemer
lives and I shall see him for myself. And then they didn't
believe in a resurrection. I've already been resurrected.
I'm just waiting to be resurrected out of the ground when I go.
I've been resurrected from the death of sins. I've already been
resurrected once. And when I go to the grave, I'll
be resurrected again. Well, I hope that's a blessing
to you. But I tell you, you do err. You
do err. Not knowing the scriptures. And
you certainly don't know nothing about the power of God. Lord, I thank you and bless you
for your great, great, great mercies given us in Christ before
the world ever began. Thank you for being so patient,
so gracious, so kind, so merciful to us. Thank you for allowing
us to look into your word. Lord, bless it to our minds,
bless it to our understanding. And Lord, don't let us err. Teach
us the scriptures. Teach us, though all power belongs
unto you. We've heard it once, yea, twice,
that all power belongs unto you. We want to know the power of
God and the power of his resurrection. And so, Lord, we look to you.
We look unto you for all things in this world, and especially
all things for the world to come. We bless you and praise you in
Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Did you hear what Jesus
said to me? They're all taken away, away. Your sins are pardoned and you
are free. They're all taken away. They're all taken away, away. They're all taken away, away. You're still all taken away,
away. Our sins are all taken away. Our sins are all taken away. Our sins are all taken away. See you tonight, 6 o'clock.