how that they delivered him up
to be crucified. They wrote over it, King of the
Jews, and how that they came to break
his leg, and he was already dead, so he would
die sooner. And I read there where we vowed
his head, received the vinegary, vowed his head, gave up the ghost. after he cried, It is finished.
You know, the death of the Lord Jesus Christ is a subject of
never failing interest to a believer. We just sang about his death. We're always interested in the
death of our Lord Jesus Christ and what it accomplished. Who
it was for. Who it was that died. Why did
he die? We're interested in these things.
That's why we talk about Christ and him crucified. And that's
why, you know, this is the believer's hope. The death of our Lord Jesus
Christ is the believer's hope for time and eternity. My only
hope, my only plea is that when Christ died, He died for me. This hymn writer wrote, Alas,
and did my Savior bleed and did my Sovereign die? Would He devote
that sacred head for such a worm as I? Was it for crimes that
I had done He groaned upon the tree? When Christ the mighty Maker
died for man, the creature sinned? Oh, thus might I hide my blushing
face when His dear cross appears, dissolve my heart to thankfulness,
and melt my eyes to tears? Oh, the death of the Lord Jesus
Christ, what interest we have in it! I want an interest in
His death. I want an interest. When we talk
of His death, we're talking of His blood. We're talking of what
it did and what it accomplished. How it's the only hope for a
poor sinner. We sing of His death. There is
a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins.
And sinners, plus beneath that flood, lose all their guilty
sins. Jesus, keep me near the cross.
There, a precious fountain. Oh Lord, let it be my glory,
both now and forever and ever. And the scriptures, the first
mention of our Lord Jesus Christ in the scriptures, speaks of
his death, that he shall be bruised, bruised by the serpent. The sea of the woman shall be
bruised by the sea of the serpent. Moses and Elijah, I want you
to look at this with me in Luke chapter 9. Look at this with
me in Luke chapter 9. Moses and Elijah came back to
show you that men live after death. And they came back representing
the law and the prophets. And what did they come back for
in Luke 9.28? Look what it says here. And it came to pass, about an
eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James
and went up into a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion
of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and
glistening. And behold, there talked with him two men, which
were Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory," now this is what they
appeared with him for. This is what they came back with.
"...who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease, which he
should accomplish at Jerusalem, they came to talk about his death
and what it would accomplish. Because that's the mud, the mold,
that's what the law talked about. And that's what the prophets
talked about. And they decided to look into these things, and
here they are, now they understand clearly who it is and what his
death would accomplish. Now, I want to send out four
things to say about our Lord's death today. Four things to say
about it. First of all, the death of our
Lord Jesus Christ was a natural death. It was a real death. It
was a real death. Our Lord wasn't playing games.
When Christ died on the cross, He was a real death. He was really,
really dead. He just didn't go into a stupor,
didn't go into a coma, He didn't go into... And it was a real
death. I mean, they took Him down and
buried Him. And put Him in a tomb. And here's
the thing about it, it's a wonder to us who it was that died this
real death. You see, it was Immanuel who
died. It was God manifesting the flesh.
It was Immanuel, God with us, that died. And it tells us, you
know, that he with, you know, Simon Peter on the day of Pentecost
says, you with wicked hands have taken him whom God approved of. who went about performing wonders
and miracles, you took him by your wicked hands, crucified
him, and slain him, slew him. And beloved, this was Jehovah's
felon. He was Jehovah's righteous servant.
He was the one that Jehovah said to arise, O my sword, and smite
my felon. Smite him. He was the one who
was daily the delight of his father. And this life, this death
that he died, it was so real, and it was a divine life. He
purchased the church of God with his own blood. God was in Christ,
so how in the world is this going to be? This was a real death,
divine life that laid down. And so how in the world could
the Eternal One, who was divine, who was Immanuel with us, how
could He really die? How could His death be a real
death? When you touched Him, He'd be
cold to the touch. When you spoke to Him, He couldn't
hear you. He couldn't open His eyes and
He couldn't see. His heart ceased to beat. His
body ceased to move. They took him down and went through
a burial ritual to bury him. But how in the world could he,
who was God, Emmanuel, how could he bear a real death? I tell
you how the Eternal One could die, by becoming a man, by being
made flesh and dwelling among us. In the beginning was the
Word. The Word was with God. The Word
was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. And the Word, this Word by which God does everything,
dwelt among us, was made flesh and lived here and dwelt among
us, and we beheld His glory as the glory of the Only Begotten
of the Father. And our Lord Jesus Christ being
found in fashion as a man, humbled himself and became unbeaten unto
death, even the death of the cross. And it was so real, this
death was, look over in John chapter 19 with me for a moment,
it was so real, his death was so real, he was buried for three
days and three nights. You only bury people who are
dead. Who are dead. John 19.38 says,
After this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, being
but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he
might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate said, Go ahead. He
came therefore and took the body of Jesus. You see what I said?
Took the body. Took the body. People come to
get a body when it's dead. You know, this is plain language.
And they came to take the body. What are they going to do with
the body? What do you do with the body
when it's dead? They came to get it. To prepare it. And Nicodemus came with him,
and he brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound
weight, so that they could take this body and prepare this body
for burying. And then they took the body.
How they keep saying they didn't take Jesus, they took His body. and rounded in linen clothes
with the spices as the manner of Jews is to bury. He buried
people that he did. And Christ died. And it was a
natural death. His death was real. There lay
Jesus, therefore, in that grave. In that grave. Let me tell you
something else. Not only was his death natural,
I mean, it was a real death. He had to die just like a man
would die. But it was also Unnatural. His death was also unnatural.
It was abnormal. And I'll tell you why that is.
Because death had no claim upon Him. The wages of sin is death. And Christ had no sin. He had
no sin. So death had no claim upon Him. The Scripture said in Luke 1.35
that Gabriel said, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and thou
shalt bear a child. And this child is the son of
God himself. He'll be Emmanuel and he will
be begotten of God. And the scripture tells us in
1 Peter 1, 22, 22 that he did no sin, neither was guile found
in his mouth. So why would he die? I'm going
to die because I have sinned. I'm under the curse. The Christ,
his death did not have to occur because he had no sin. He did
no sin, and He had no sin. We know that He, beloved, had
no sin. And 2 Corinthians 5, that's why
our Lord says this, which of you convinces me of sin? Which of you can convince me
of sin? Huh? I have no problem being
convinced of sin. You don't have to convince me.
I know. Me. But Christ said, which of you?
Which law have you ever seen me break? Which commandment have
you ever seen me break? When have you ever seen me not
love God with all my heart, with all my soul? When did you ever
see me not love my neighbor as myself? When did you ever see
me not doing good? He who knew no sin, God made
him to be sin. Who knew no sin? He didn't have
it in his mind. He didn't have it in his heart.
He never had it in his faith. He never had it in a thought.
Never had it in a word. Never took a sinful step all
the days of his life. God the Father could look at
him and look in his heart and say, he's as holy as I am because
he's God. God can look at him and say,
I'm pleased with him, of all the people that's been on the
face of this earth, from Adam to the last man of the earth,
there's not a man that's ever drawn a bear that God can say,
I'm pleased with that man. That man loves me, and obeyed
me, and fulfilled my law, and loved his neighbor as himself.
There's not a man that God can say that about. But he said it
about his son. He looked at him, looked at him
from top to bottom, looked at him from inside and out, and
there his son was, this is my beloved son in whom I am well
pleased. He was a lamb without spot, he
was a lamb without blemish. Pilate said four times when they
cried out for his death, he says, why do you want him to die? I find no fault in this man. I've examined him. I've questioned
him. I've tried him. And I find no
fault in him. I find no fault in him. His wife
came to him. Pilate's wife said, that had
nothing to do with this just man. And oh, he was made in the likeness. The likeness. He was a man. And he was made in the likeness
of sinful flesh. He had a body like ours, but
he had no sinful flesh. So because he had no sin, it
was unnatural for our Lord to die. Methuselah lived 979 years
old. Our Lord Jesus Christ as a man
would have lived eternally as a man had he not come to die
for somebody else. Do you know that? And as a man, he will live now
eternally, sitting at God's right hand. But he had to die. So he
had a real death. And yet his death was unnatural
because he had no sin. Our Lord spoke of his own death.
He said, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die,
it abideth alone. But if it dies, what will happen?
He'll bring forth much fruit. And he steadfastly set his face
to go to Jerusalem. He told His disciples, He said,
I must go up to Jerusalem, I must be delivered into the hands of
sinful men, and I must suffer, and I must die. And the Old Testament
saints looked forward to Him being the Lamb slain that would
put an end to sin once and for all. Even the angels tells us,
I mean the Scriptures tells us, even the angels desired to look
in to the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. They stood in utter astonishment
that here is God. They knew Him from all eternity.
They beheld His glory. They moved in His beck and call.
He told Pilate, I can have twelve legions of angels right here. With a thought. But they looked forward to that
Lamb that would finally come and put away sin once and for
all. And mortal angels bright and fair, John Newton said, and
countless armies shine at His right hand with golden harps
they offer, songs divine. In all His toils and dangerous
past, They did his steps attend, all paused and wondered how at
last this scene of love would end. And when the powers of hell
combined to fill his cup of woe, their pitying eyes beheld his
tears and bloody anguish flow. As on the tottering tree hung
in darkness veiled the sky, they saw against that awful sight
the Lord of glory die. His death was natural, it was
real. It is unnatural because he had no sin. He didn't have
to die. But let me tell you something
else about his death. It was a predetermined death. Predetermined
death. Determined beforehand. His death
was determined beforehand. That's why he took a body. Revelation
13, and they said He was the Lamb slain before or from the
foundation of the world. As far as God was concerned,
He is always the Lamb slain. That's the only way God could
view any member of the human race, and not an absolute destroyer,
because God had a Lamb already. 1 Peter 1.18 says that We were not redeemed with such
corruptible things as silver and gold, but with the precious
blood of Christ, a Lamb without spot and without blemish. Now
listen, who verily was foreordained, foreordained, but was manifest. He is foreordained, predetermined,
but was manifest came into this world in these last times. For
who? For you, who by Him believe in
God. He was delivered, delivered by
the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Our Lord Jesus Christ
was not a martyr. He wasn't just awfully mistreated
by the hands of men. God determined all this to be
done beforehand. Known unto God are all His works
from the creation of the world. Here's what's so blessed is when
you learn this. When you learn this, and God
blesses this to your heart, God provided us a Savior before there
was ever a sin, or before there was ever a sin. That's why I say that when Christ
died 2,000 years ago, my sin was taken care of. My sin was
put away back yonder. And as far as God was concerned,
the only way He could view me And without destroying me was
viewing us in Christ, because Christ stood as the Lamb slain
before the foundation of the world. Why in the world did we
not perish before we was ever brought to faith in Christ? How
many times when we destroyed ourselves had not Christ stood
as the Lamb slain? How long did we live without
God? But because Christ stood as our Lamb, God viewed us in
Him. Oh my, God had the just for the
unjust before there was ever any unjust. God found a ransom. Look with
me in Acts. Keep John 19. Look with me in
Acts chapter 4, just a minute. Acts chapter 4. I turned the
wrong way myself. Acts chapter 4. Oh, it was God. It was as God
viewed the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lamb slain that He could
pass over justly the sins of the Old Testament saints. You
know that nobody's sin has ever been put away except by the Lord
Jesus Christ. You know, when Adam stood and
Abel stood, and Abel offered that Lamb, that Lamb He offered
never put away his sin. And all the lambs that they flew
in the tabernacle and at the temple never put away one sin. But because God had predetermined
Christ to die as the lamb slain from the foundation of the world,
God, all those just kept pointing to Him. Everybody who was able
offered that lamb knowing that God would provide a lamb that
would put his sin away back then. So God justly passed over his
sin. God justly passed over Moses' sin. God justly passed over Abraham's
sin. Why? Because Christ was going
to put them all away. He died for the Old Testament
saints' sins just as much as he died for our sins. And that's
why Abraham and Moses and Elijah could go on to glory. Why? Because his death was as good
as accomplished because he was the Lamb's slave before he was
ever slain. How do you think Moses and Elijah
appeared there in glory? There was none of the blood that
they offered back there would put away their sins. But God
already had a lamb slain for them, so they can go to glory! Oh, what a gospel! What a gospel! Oh, my! And look here in Acts
4, verse 26. Here's Peter and them praying
after they'd been mistreated now by the priest and that. It says here, the kings of the earth stood
up And the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and
against his Christ. For of a truth against thy holy
child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate,
with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
O everybody, that was anybody, gathered together against the
Lord Jesus Christ. Now watch this. Why did they
gather together against you? Why did the rulers of the earth
and the kings stand against him? Why did they all gather against
him? For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined
before to be done. And you know what else? God determined
also who he would die for Chosen in Christ, predestinated in Christ,
for ordained, as many as were ordained to eternal life believe,
not only did he ordain his death and predetermine his death, but
he predetermined who was going to believe on him. I love that, don't you? Let free
willers talk all they want to about, God cannot, God cannot,
He's got to give me my choice, He's got to give me my right.
Talk about that all you want to. God's going to save His people. Huh? God's going to save His
elect. And that's what Christ did. Bless
His holy name. I'll tell you what, everybody
who He died for in the Old Testament went to glory. Just them, not everybody. Noah
and all his family went, all the rest of them destroyed in
the flood. Enoch went when God destroyed the rest of the world.
Abel went, Cain didn't. Oh my soul. Simon Peter went,
Judas didn't. Paul did, Demas didn't. Oh my, there were three crosses
that day Christ was on. One of them went to glory with the
Lord Jesus Christ, the other went to his own place. One of
them was saved that none of us should despair, but only one,
lest none of us should presume. Huh? Oh, that's what we're telling
you, salvations of the Lord. And when you learn that and God
ordained it and predestinated it and purposed it, the death
of Christ and who He purposed it to accomplish, your soul can
go to rest and you can worship a God like that. You can bless
His holy name. Let me tell you something else
about this death of our Lord. Not only was it predetermined,
not only was it real, not only was it unnatural because He had
no sin, It was a supernatural death, and what I mean by that
is this, it was different from every other death that's ever
happened on the topside of God's earth. Nobody ever died like
our Lord Jesus Christ. His death was different than
any other death that's ever been on this earth. It's different.
As in all things, our Lord Jesus Christ has the preeminence in
all things. He had the preeminence in His
birth. I mean, he was born of a virgin. Nobody else had been born of
a virgin. He was God born in that virgin's
womb. And his life, he lived a life
like nobody else ever lived. He lived a life that honored
God, glorified God. Our Lord Jesus said in John 17,
He once said, Father, Thou has come, Glorify thou me, glorify thou
son, that thy son also may glorify thee. Father, I finished the
work which thou hast given me. Now glorify thou me with the
glory that I had with you before the world was. Nobody else can
say I have glorified you on the earth. No one else can say I
finished the work you gave me to do. Nobody else. And he had
that preeminence in his life. And he had the pre-image in his
death. His death was different than anybody else's death that
ever died. How many multitudes of people
have died on the topside of God's earth? Billions upon billions
upon billions of people. But their death never accomplished
anything. But Christ's death accomplished
something. His death was different than anybody's. Look in John
10 with me just a moment. I'll show you what I mean. Look
in John 10, verse 17. Oh, his death was supernatural. Supernatural in what it accomplished.
Look what it said here in John 10, 17. Here's what I'm talking
about. His death is different than anybody else. He has a preeminence
even in that. Therefore doeth my Father love
me. What's this? Because I lay down my life. I'll
lay it down. You know what, me and you, when
it comes time for us to face this dark shadow that's coming,
when we go through the valley of the shadow of death, we're
going to fight it as far as and hard as we can. We're going to
draw every breath we can draw. We're going to go to every doctor
we can go. We're going to take everything
we can. We do not want to die. It's just not natural for us
to want to die. We talk about it. We say we want
to go be with the Lord. But when it comes right down
to it, we're going to fight it. We're not going to lay it down.
We're not going to lay it down. Death is going to conquer us.
Death is going to come and take us. But look what our Lord Jesus
said, I lay down my life. I lay it down. I'm not going
to fight death. I'm just going to lay it down.
What did He say? He's not going to lay down His
body. I'm going to lay down my life. The life. Whatever Christ is in His life.
The life that was inside that body. That life of God. That
life that was God in Him. That life that was His soul.
That life that was His heart. That life that was His emotion.
That life that was His affection. That life, He said, that's what
I'm going to lay down. Watch this. I have the power. I have the power. That I might
take it again. No man takes it from me. You
see that? Nobody's going... But how many lives have been
taken? Somebody's murdered them? Car wrecks have happened? No
man takes it from me. Ain't nobody going to take my
life from me. Pilate's not going to take it. The Jews are not
going to take it. The Gentiles are not going to
take it. Nobody's going to come and take my life away from me. I have power to lay it down.
I have the authority, is what He means. And I have the power,
not only the authority, but I also have the might, I have the strength
to do it. And this commandment have I received
from my Father. My Father gave me this commandment. Oh my, and I tell you what else
makes it so supernatural, is what it accomplished. This is
the only life that satisfied God. And the only death that
satisfied God. It satisfied God to such a degree
that everyone for whom Christ died, God satisfied with them.
He said, He that believeth on Jesus, God will be just to justify
that man. It actually saved sinners. It
didn't open a door so you could come in if you want to. It didn't
make salvation possible. He actually, actually saved His
people. Now let me give you quickly seven
proofs. Seven proofs of his death being
a supernatural death. Proofs that he laid down his
life. They didn't take it from him. First of all, his arrest. Look over in John 18 with me
just a minute. Look at his arrest. Here's a proof that they didn't
take his life from him, that he laid it down. John 18. And
look down here in verse 3. Our Lord went over to the Book
of Seniors, over in the Garden of Gethsemane. Judas knew where
he'd be. Judas, having received a band
of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees,
come there with lanterns and torches and weapons. Jesus, therefore,
knowing all things that should come of him, and watch this,
he went forth and met this mad mob, and said unto them, Who
are you looking for? They answered and said, Jesus,
and answered. Our Lord said, I am. And Judas also wished betrayed
him, stood with him. As soon then as he had said unto
them, I am, they went backward and fell to the ground. Oh my,
they come to get him, but they didn't get him. He just said,
I am, and it's like Moses been on the mountain. Then he asked them, Who are you
looking for? They said, Jesus of Nazareth. I told you that
I am. I am. If therefore you seek me, let
these go away. And then look what it says down
there in verse 13. And they led him away. Oh, they come to arrest him.
And he had to give himself to them. And then they led him away. Led him away. Led as a lamb to
the slaughter. Huh? He said, you want me? Here I am. And then, beloved,
another reason why we know his death was supernatural because
they came to arrest him. They couldn't arrest him. They
fell backwards. And then he cried with a loud voice. You find two
or three times where it says he cried with a loud voice. How
can a man who is dying Cry with a loud voice. Huh? He cried with
a loud voice. He wasn't weak. He wasn't impotent
there. He was not exhaustive. His strength
had not failed him. He was still master. He was not
conquered by death, but he was giving himself up to it. And
again, he says, he yielded up, he gave up the ghost. When he
cried with a loud voice, he's letting us know that he's still
in control. He said, I'll lay down my life.
He cried. He wanted everybody to hear him.
That old crowd to hear what he had to say. And what he said
after they gave him the vinegar, he cried and said, Oh, it's finished.
History has not failed. That's why the scripture says
the Lord hath laid help upon one who is mighty. Another reason,
not only did he cry with a loud voice, not only that they couldn't
arrest him unless he allowed them, but he said, I thirst. I thirst. He's in such control,
he said, I'm thirsty. Here's the one who said, I thirst,
who measures the water in the hollow of his hand. I thirst. He was in complete control of
his mental faculties. And then it says, Jesus knowing
that all things in the Scriptures were now fulfilled, he said,
I thirst. You know why he said that? Because
the Scriptures were fulfilled. He said, I thirst. That's what
it says. Jesus, now knowing all things
which were written in the Scriptures were fulfilled, concerning him,
he said, I thirst. He didn't say that until then. Oh my. That's why. And then he said, it's finished.
What's finished? Scriptures are fulfilled. Salvation
is accomplished. God is satisfied. And oh, this is proof that He
laid down His life. Proof that He laid it down. The
fourth thing is, when He said, It is finished, over here in
John 19, 30, look at it. When He said, It is finished,
look what it says there, what He did. When Jesus, therefore,
had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished. Now watch
what it says here. And he bowed his head and gave
up the ghost, or gave up the spirit. Now what does it mean
that he bowed his head? His head wasn't weak, you know.
It wasn't lolling around. That means his head was erect.
He just carried on a conversation with his mother and John. His head was up, erect. He was
looking at everything going on around him. He saw every soul,
every thought, everything going on around him. His head was erect. This was no impotent sufferer
of his. His head didn't just fall. He consciously, calmly,
reverently bowed his head. and gave up the ghost. He said,
Lord, here it is. It's time for him to die. He
said, now it's time for me to lay down my life. Huh? Oh my. That's what caused the centurion
to say, truly, truly, this was the Son of God. Then it says
here that he, another reason why his death was supernatural
and nobody took it from him, he said, I commend my spirit.
He said in Luke, Ten, twenty-three, forty-six, you don't have to
look. He said, I commend my spirit. I commend my spirit into your
hands. I give up the spirit. I give up the spirit. God's going
to come and take ours. He's going to take that last
breath. He owes the breath of every living soul in His hands.
He'll take that last one. Every one of us has got so many
to take. And then we'll take that last one. We've got so many
heartbeats. Wouldn't it be that last one?
But here, beloved, the Lord Jesus Christ said, Here's my spirit. Here's my spirit. And then here
in John 19 again, it says this, they came to break his legs.
Verse 31. The Jews therefore, because it
was preparation that the body should not remain upon the cross
on the Sabbath day, for that Sabbath day was an high day,
besought Pilate that the legs might be broken, that they might
be taken away. Then came the soldiers and broke
the legs. of the first and of the other which was crucified
with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was
dead already, they break not his legs. Why didn't they break
his legs? Because he was dead already.
But look what it says in verse 36. For these things were done
that the scripture should be fulfilled. A bone of him shall
not be broken. Do you know why he was already
dead? It took three to four or five days sometimes for a man
to die on the cross. Slow, slow, painful death. Lots
of days to die. Suffering death. Our Lord Jesus
Christ died in six hours on the cross. Why? Because He willed
Himself to die. It's time for Him to die. And then I'll tell you the last
reason was this. There was a great earthquake.
I do want you to look at this, Matthew 27, and then I'll be
done. Matthew 27, verse 51. Two things here. A great earthquake
and the veil was rent. Matthew 27 and 51. And when Jesus gave up the ghost,
cried with a loud voice and yelled up the ghost, Behold, the veil
of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom, and
the earth did quake, and the rocks rent, and the graves were
opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and
came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into
the holy city, and appeared unto many." Oh, the great phenomenon
that went on at the death of Christ. First of all, God's hand
went up there and ripped that veil from top to bottom. There
was no reason for that bell to ring, was there? And this was,
you know, everything was secret in that. You know, behind that
bell everything was done. Day of atonement. God ripped
that to show, this ain't no good anymore. You don't need this
religion. Nothing's going to be. There's only one way now
into the presence of God, and that's through the Lord Jesus
Christ. It's open through Him. A new and a living way. And oh,
beloved, now the way is made plain. Then the earth quaked.
The earth quaked, and it says here, the earth did quake and
the rocks busted in two. It was shaken to its very foundation. Why? Because it was ashamed at
this awful, awful deed. When Abel's blood was shed, God
says, Thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. Well,
oh my, if Abel's blood cried out, how much more would the
blood of Christ's blood cry out? The rocks busted. The earth quaked.
And oh, here's something else that happened. And the graves
were opened. God opened the graves. He said,
I want you to know that the death of my Son, the death of the Lord
Jesus Christ has such power to it that even the graves were
opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose. That
means that they actually saw Him in their bodies. And they
came out of the graves. And they done this. This is after
the resurrection. To show He had such power in
His resurrection. To show you what everybody else
is going to do when He dies. Because of His resurrection,
we're going to rise too. And they went in and peered unto
Him. And no wonder, look what happens
in verse 54, Now when the centurion and they that were with Him,
watching Jesus, saw the earthquake and those things that were done,
They feared greatly, saying truly, this was the Son of God. Oh,
my. Not a death like it. Not a death
like it. Can you say in your heart of
hearts right now that I partook of that death, that that death
did something for me? That that death put my sin away?
That that death satisfied God for me? that I find Christ to
be my only hope and plea before God, that when He died, He died
for me? Can you say that in your heart of hearts right now before
God? My conscience is clean. My guilt is gone. My sin has
been put away. I've come into God's presence
because of this man's death, his burial, and his resurrection. Can you do that? Our Father.