Well, good morning, everyone.
If you would open your Bibles with me to Philippians chapter
3. I know we say this every year at every conference. I cannot
believe it's the last day. But it's been good, hasn't it?
I look forward to another blessing this morning. Philippians chapter
3, we'll read the first 15 verses. Finally, my brethren, rejoice
in the Lord. To write the same things to you,
to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it's safe. Beware
of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. For
we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit and
rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. Though
I might also have confidence in the flesh, if any other man
thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh,
I more. circumcised the eighth day of
the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, and Hebrew of the
Hebrews, as touching the law of Pharisee, concerning zeal,
persecuting the church, touching the righteousness, which is in
the law, blameless. But what things were gained to
me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I
count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge
of Christ Jesus, my Lord. for whom I've suffered the loss
of all things and do count them but done, that I may win Christ
and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which
is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ,
the righteousness, which is of God by faith, that I may know
him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings
being made conformable unto his death. if by any means I might
attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I
had already attained, either were already perfect, but I follow
after, if that I may apprehend, that for which also I am apprehended
of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself
to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those
things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things
which are before, I press, toward the mark for the prize of the
high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many
as be perfect, be thus minded. And if in anything ye be otherwise
minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. All right, Sean,
come lead us in our singing, if you would. Okay, if you would, turn in your
hymnals to song number 126, song number 126. Rock of Ages. Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let
me hide myself in thee. Let the water and the blood from
thy womb the double cure, save from wrath and make me pure? Could my tears forever flow? These for sin could not atone,
Thou must save and Thou alone. In my hand no price I bring,
Simply to Thy cross I cling. While I draw this fleeting breath, When I rise to worlds unknown,
And behold Thee on Thy throne, Rock of Ages, clap for me, Let
me hide myself in Thee. If you would now turn to song
number 474, 474, Only a Center. Not have I gotten, but what I
received. Grace hath bestowed it, since
I have believed. Roasting excluded, pride I abase. I'm only a sinner. Saved by grace Only a sinner
Saved by grace Only a sinner Saved by grace This is my story
To God be the glory I'm only a sinner Saved by grace Once
I was foolish, and sin ruled my heart, causing my footsteps
from God to depart. Jesus hath found me happy, my
case. I now am a sinner, saved by grace. Only a sinner saved by grace. Only a sinner saved by grace. This is my story, to God be the
glory. I'm only a sinner saved by grace. Tears unavailing, no merit had
I. Mercy hath saved me, or else
I must die. Sin had alarmed me, fearing God's
face, but now I must sing. Saved by grace. Only a sinner. Saved by grace. Only a sinner. Saved by grace. This is my story. To God be the glory. I'm only a sinner. Saved by grace. Suffer a sinner whose heart overflows,
loving his Savior to tell what he knows. Once more to tell it
would I embrace. I'm only a sinner. Saved by grace Only a sinner
Saved by grace Only a sinner Saved by grace This is my story
To God be the glory I'm only a sinner Saved by grace Our first speaker this morning,
Pastor Don Bell of the Lantana Grace Church. If you were here
Friday night, your prayer is the same as mine right now, that
the Lord bless you this morning like he did Friday night. I pray
the Lord be with you. You come and as Brother Rex Bartley
says, you come bragging our Savior. Mark chapter 15. I am I enjoyed yesterday and this
meeting as much as I've enjoyed one a long time, but yesterday
was just special. We had such a wonderful service,
and then ate, and then went and visited with a bunch again yesterday
evening, and then last night. It's just a wonderful day. Absolutely
wonderful day. And I am very thankful for it,
and I hope that I didn't offend anybody by talking about the
weather in here. They do that down home, you know,
and I say, listen, I know what the weather is in here. But I don't want to be offensive. All right. I want to look with
me here and I want you to start with me looking in verse 37.
And I'll read down to the end of the chapter. And Jesus cried with a loud voice
and gave up the ghost. And the veil of the temple was
rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And when the centurion
stood over against him, the one beside him saw that he so cried
out and gave up the ghost, he said, truly, this man was the
Son of God. There was also women looking
on afar off among who was Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of
James the less, to James and Salome. She is the mother of
James and John, the sons of thunder, who also, when he was in Galilee,
followed him and ministered unto him and many other women, which
came up with him unto Jerusalem. Now, when the evening was come,
because it was the preparation, that is the day before the Sabbath,
Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable counselor, which also waited
for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly unto Pilate,
and craved the body of Jesus. And Pilate marveled if he were
already dead, and called unto him the centurion, and asked
him whether he had been any while dead. And while he knew of the
centurion that he was, he gave the body to Joseph. And he brought
fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen,
and laid him in a sepulcher, which was hewn out of the stone,
and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulcher. And Mary Magdalene,
and Mary the mother of Joseph, beheld where he was laid." I want to start there about that
centurion in verse 39. We said, truly, truly, this is
the Son of God. Truly, this was the Son of God.
Now there's three centurions in the scriptures that's mentioned.
There's the centurion that our Lord Jesus Christ, he sent to
the Lord and said, my servants sick unto death. And they come
to him, told him how worthy this man was, how, oh, he was a worthy
man. He'd done so many things for
our nation. So our Lord started toward his house. Man, I said,
you go out and tell him not to come. I said, I'm not worthy. They said I'm worthy, but what
I think about myself is altogether different. I'm not worthy that
he should come under my house. I know what authority is. I tell
a man to go, he goes. I tell him to come, and he comes.
And Lord, all you got to do is send your word, and it'll be
done. And our Lord said, I've never
found so great a faith in all of Israel. And then that centurion
you talked about yesterday, Cornelius the centurion that God taught
the gospel and saved him and his whole household. But this
man here, this centurion here, he was like all the rest of those
Roman soldiers at the mistreatment of our Lord Jesus Christ. All those Roman soldiers, they
mistreated our Lord in an awful, awful way. They was hardened
soldiers. They didn't care about what they
inflicted on anybody else. But they took our Lord Jesus
and they got on either side of Him with whips and whipped His
back till you could see His bones. And the blood was all over Him.
It was all over His face from the crown of thorns. He was hanging
there. in an awful, awful humiliating
state. And then when he cried with a
loud voice, this centurion said, truly, truly, this was the Son
of God, the Son of God. And over in Matthew said all
the soldiers said the same thing, truly this was the Son of God.
And you know, was he a believer? I don't know, I don't know. But I do know that men who really
believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that's revealed
to them by the Spirit of God, they're saved people. I do know
that. I don't know, but he observed
the way our Lord Jesus was treated. When no matter how they treated
him, he was so calm. He was so quiet. He never murmured,
he never complained, he never resisted. They slap him, never
said a word. Spit in his face, never said
a word. Pilate said, I find no fault in this man, never said
a word. They beat his back, he never said a word. He never groaned,
he never crumbled, he never cried, he never done anything. He took
it so calmly, so quietly, with such intense suffering. And I
believe that these centurions, when they finally seen how our
Lord Jesus reacted to his mistreatment and the way he was done, that
they said, this truly is the Son of God. How could anybody
stand this kind of treatment and not open his mouth? Not say
a word, not say a word. You know, So many times the scriptures
talks about the Son of God. Simon Peter, they are Lord Jesus
came to him said, what do men say of me? What is the talk around
town about me? What are they saying about me
around here in Jerusalem? What do they say about me wherever
I go? What are they saying about me? Well, some say you're Elijah. Some say you're Jeremiah because
you're so Weep so much, and you're so sorrowful. And he said, but
who do you say that I am? Simon Peter said, thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God. He said, oh Simon, you're
so blessed. You're so blessed, because flesh
and blood didn't reveal that unto you, but my Father, which
is in heaven. And I'll tell you what, you go,
when our Lord Jesus, when they told about him being born in
Isaiah 7, 15, said, that 14, where he said, a virgin shall
conceive and bear a son, and thou shalt call him Immanuel.
That means God has come to be with us. And over here in Mark
chapter one, look in Mark chapter one with me. Now you keep Mark
15. Look what it says here in the first of this book. Look what it says, the beginning
of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The beginning. When did the beginning
of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God begin? And you
know, our Lord Jesus, even Satan when he was tried, and he was
up on that mountain, he said, if thou be the Son of God, You
command these stones to be made bread, because I know you're
hungry. You command them. So, you know, he questioned whether
he was the son of God. And you know, Paul's first message,
when he came down, let's look at that. Look in Acts chapter
nine. I want you to, you know, follow
along with me this morning to set this message up. But in Acts
chapter nine, you was talking about Paul's conversion yesterday. and was our, is a pattern. Well, look what he said here
after he was in, with the disciples there in verse 19, disciples
certain days, which were Damascus. And listen to this. I mean, he'd
been in Damascus, that's where they took him, where he's blind,
and straightway, immediately, straightway, he preached Christ
in the synagogues that he is the Son of God. Before, the day
before, he hated him. Now he says he started preaching
the one he once persecuted and said Jesus is the Son of God. He preached that. Look over in
Acts chapter eight here. I'm trying to tell you the Son
of God, how important it is to believe that he's the Son of
God and what this man truly said when he confessed that Jesus
Christ is truly the Son of God. You know, when Philip met this
Ethiopian eunuch, everybody knows the story of that. And it says
in verse 36, as they went on their way, they came under a
certain water, and the eunuch said, see here is water, what
doth hinder me to be baptized? Everybody's not been baptized
and has got a confession of Christ, needs to consider that. And Philip
said, if thou believest with all mine heart, thou mayest.
And he answered, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He is the Son of God. So, I'm going to give you four
reasons why our Lord Jesus is the Son of God. Four reasons
why He must be the Son of God. The first is because the way
He was born. He was born of a virgin. God
Almighty overwhelmed that Mary, and the seed that was inside
her was the seed of God himself, planted by the Holy Ghost. And
that child that she had, and it had to be born, he was called
the seed of the woman. Then the reason why he had to
be born that way is because he could not be related to the sons
of Adam in any way. If he would have been a son of
Adam like us, If he'd have been born like you and I'd been born,
he could not be a savior. So he had to be separate from
sinners. And the only way he can be separate
from sinners is to be born by God himself coming down in the
womb of a virgin and implanting himself there. And that baby
that was born and laid in that manger, that baby, Simon, he
was eight days old, and Simon, In Luke chapter 2, he walked
in that tabernacle, walked in that temple. Babies everywhere
in there getting circumcised. Eight days to get them circumcised.
So he's in there, babies everywhere. He walks up and picks up a little
baby, eight days old. Looks at that child and said,
Lord, mine eyes have seen your salvation. Where at? In a baby. Why? Because he's the son of
God. Now, since I've seen your salvation, let me go and die
in peace. Let me die in peace. And the
second reason why he is the son of God, because he alone had
the power of God as a man. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ,
no one, no one had the power. You know, God had the, he created
everything by word. Christ was that word by which
he created everything. And our Lord had power. He had
power over creation. When he comes walking on water,
what kind of power does it take to walk on water? What kind of
power does it take when they're under a storm, and the winds
and waves is beating on that ship, and it's about to drown,
they're all about to drown, and our Lord Jesus Christ is asleep,
because he is a man, he's tired. But when he woke up and got up
there, he's walked up there and said, peace, be still. The wind
quit, the waves stopped. That's God. That was the Son
of God. That was the power of God. Stood
outside Lazarus' tomb, a man had been dead four days, stinking,
corrupt. Our Lord said, Lazarus, come
forth. And you know what it says next?
He that was dead, Came forth. And God still does the same thing.
He just calls you by name, come forth. And I tell you, he has
the power of God. And you all remember the story.
I don't want to take too long, but you remember the story when
they had a paralyzed man. And they just carried him in
his bed. And they couldn't get into this house because there
were so many people crammed in that house. And Christ was sitting
in there preaching and teaching. Well, they climbed, went up the
steps and got on top of the house and started tearing the roof
off. You imagine that. I mean, start tearing the roof
off. Our Lord just sat there and next
thing you know, they got ropes and they led him down right in
the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you know what the
first thing Christ said to him? He said, Son, be happy. What have I got to be happy about?
I can't walk. Son, be happy. Thy sins are forgiven
thee. Now he may, he gonna die anyway. And he may have stayed a paralytic,
but the blessed, most blessed thing that God ever does for
a man is forgive him of his sins and cleanse him from his sins.
That's the most blessed thing. And when God does it, he does
it from the top of your head to the sole of your feet, from
the inside of your heart to the outside of your body. I mean,
he cleanses you. I mean, he cleanses you. And
he said, but they said, well, who can forgive sins but God
only? He said, well, that you may know that
I've got the power. to do anything I want to do.
Is it easier to me to say, son, thy sins be forgiven, or say,
rise up and walk? He said, just to show you that
I got the power to do what I will with what I want to do. He said,
get up and walk. That fella got up and walked
out of the carriage on me. Oh, he was the son of God. He
alone had the power. And I'll tell you another reason
why he was the Son of God, called the Son of God, and was the Son
of God. God is invisible. God is a spirit. No man has ever seen God at any
time. You said that yesterday at First
Timothy. He said, God, the eternal, king,
immortal, invisible, the only wise God. Well, God is invisible. Moses endured to see Him. God
cannot be seen. Moses couldn't even see. Well,
how in the world are we going to see God? How are we going
to know God? How are we going to have fellowship with God?
How are we going to have a relationship with God? Through the Son of
God. Everything that God is, Christ
is. Every attribute that God had,
Christ has. You know, Philip says, show us
the Father and we'll be satisfied. He said, Philip, have I been
with you such a long time, and you ain't never seen me? He that
has seen me has seen the Father. And he was in the bosom of the
Father, and he come to tell out God. Listen, when we get to glory,
the only God we'll see is the one that saved us by his grace,
the Lord Jesus Christ. We'll never see nobody else.
Never see nobody else. And the fourth reason why He's
the Son of God is He's the only one, only one, that has the power
to forgive us of our sins, wash us from our sins, and the only
one that can make us acceptable to God Almighty. Nobody else
can make us acceptable to God. Nobody else. There's never been
a man on the topside of God's earth like our Lord Jesus Christ. And I'll tell you, there's only
one person that can make us acceptable, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, go back, look back in our text again. And then look what
it says, talking about down in verse 40. Down in verse
40, there were also women looking on afar off among whom was Mary
Magdalene, the mother of James, the less, and Joseph, and Solomon,
who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him and ministered unto
him many other women which came up from Jerusalem. Now these women, it talks about
how they ministered unto our Lord Jesus Christ. Mary and Martha,
after Lazarus was raised from the dead, Mary and Martha made
him a supper, made him a dinner. Would you, what would you, what
would you think that our Lord Jesus Christ, Mary and Martha said, Master,
we want to invite you to supper. And the Lord Jesus come over
and sat down with them. And he sat there and ate with
them. Would you imagine having a dinner with the Lord Jesus
Christ? I don't know, I don't know, have a clue what they made
for him to eat, but I believe he enjoyed the meal. I believe
he enjoyed more than anything the fellowship with Mary and
Martha, whom he loved, and he said he loved Mary, Martha, and
Lazarus. And oh, they made a supper for
him. And then there's the woman, you talk about minister to him,
the woman that washed his feet with her tears. She wept so profusely,
so much tears come out of her eyes that she took the feet of
our Lord Jesus Christ and soaked them with her tears. And she
had such beautiful hair, long, long hair. She pulled that hair
around and started drying them off. Oh, how they ministered
to Christ. And then there's the woman that
brought that $300,000 dollar box of ointment and broke it
over his head. And he said, you'll remember
her from now on, I want her to be memorial. And he said, she's
prepared my body for the burial. And then Mary, Mary sat at his
feet. Oh, these women ministered unto
him. And there's a woman over in Luke, it says that she was
the wife of a steward of Herod. And she ministered unto him of
her substance, of her substance. But this is what I want to get
to right here. And now when evening was come,
because it was the preparation, that is the day before the Sabbath,
Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable counselor, which also waited
for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly unto Pilate
and craved the body of Jesus. Pilate was as shocked that he
was already dead. It took about three days for
men to die. Our Lord died. You know, he died when he willed
to die. And he called the centurion, is he dead? Yes, he is. And he
gave the body to Joseph. Now look what it says here at
verse 46. In verse 46. And he bought fine
linen, and listen to this, and took him down. took him down. There's the Lord Jesus. I won't
quit preaching to tell you what I think. I think our Lord's feet
was only about a foot off the ground. He was real close to
the ground. And he was on that cross. He
was dead. And he come to get the body,
the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I'll tell you what, he said,
and he took him down. How do you reckon he got him
off that cross? What did it take to get the Lord
Jesus Christ off that cross? Did he pull him off the cross
and just leave the let the nails pull through his hands? Did somebody reach up there and
start pulling the nails out? But this man named Joseph had
never ever been mentioned before. Never, never. And he's never
mentioned again after this. He was a counselor. He was one
of the Sanhedrin, an elder in Israel. And Mark counted him
honorable. I want you to look in Luke 22,
23 with me. Look what it says about him over
here, Luke 23. This makes me tremble. I'm standing here trembling over
these things. Down in verse 50. In verse 51, excuse
me. The same named Joseph of Arimathea
is a good man, a just man, said in verse 50. And the same had
not consented, listen to this, had not consented unto the deed of them He did not agree with
them. Two men stood against everybody
that Sanhedrin had condemned Christ, found him guilty. Nicodemus
and Joseph of Arimathea. And he waited for the kingdom
of God. It said he was a good man, a just man. He had a great,
unspotted reputation. He was an upright man. And you
know they said about Simon, he was a just and devout man. And
I'm going to tell you something. His family didn't say that about
him. The Sanhedrin didn't say that
about him. God said that about him. God said he was a good man. God said he was a just man. God
said he was an honorable man. God said he was a just man and
a devout man. And he hadn't consented under
that deed that they had done. No, no. And then it says, that
he waited for the kingdom of God. What are you talking about
waiting for the kingdom of God? He's come to beg the body of
a man that's dead. He's dead. What does he mean he's looking
at a dead body? He took down a dead body and
when they took our Lord Jesus down, I personally believe that
he was so small. I believe he was so small and
with the way they had done him that one man could have probably
carried him. But he didn't take that man down
from the cross by himself. Somebody had to help him. And
they got our Lord's body, got it down from the grave, got it
down off that cross. And they're holding a body. It's a mutilated body. It's actually
mutilated. It's mutilated. And he's waiting
for the kingdom of God. He knew it was a spiritual kingdom.
He waited and he was bearing a Christ that was dead. And he
begged the body of Jesus. He said, let me show you in John
chapter 19. I'm sorry that I haven't y'all
looked so many places, but these things are so, to me, they're
so important. They're so precious, I believe. Look what it said. He took that
body down. And it says in verse 38, John
19, 38. And after this, Joseph of Arimathea,
being a disciple of Jesus, look at this now, but secretly for
fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body
of Jesus. Pilate gave him leave. He came
therefore and took the body. And there came also Nicodemus,
which at the night came to Jesus by night. And he bought a mixture
of myrrh and aloes, a hundred pounds of it, a hundred pounds
of it. And oh my, they took it down. And you know what they had to
do, prepare him for burying? When they took our Lord's body
down, You know, when he was in the garden of Gethsemane, he
prayed till his sweat became as great drops of blood. So he
has sweat all over him. Great drops of blood, of sweat
on him. Cause they come and got him out of Gethsemane. That crown of thorns, there's
blood all over his face and down his neck and down his chin. And his back is beaten where
you can see his ribs. There's blood in his hands. You
know, when we think about our Lord Jesus Christ, like the high
priest, when the priest went in to offer sacrifices, they
put on a white robe every day. And when they got through, that
robe was so bloody. You know, talk about sacrifice,
so bloody. But our Lord Jesus Christ's body was so emaciated,
there was a big rip in his side from a spear. And they took his
body down, And you know what? To prepare it, they had to wash
him. They had to wash him. Wash his
body. Wipe all that blood off. And I believe they dealt with
him. They took that crown of thorns off. I believe they washed
him so tenderly and so gently and so lovingly. This is a person
they loved so dearly. And they took his body and they
started washing his body all over him. Washed the blood off
his feet, off his face, off his neck, off his back. They began
to wipe the blood off, cleaned his hands, cleaned his feet. And I'm not trying to, I'm just
telling you what, have you ever seen anybody prepare a body for
burying? When somebody dies, especially
if they're at home, the first thing people do is they come
in and they wash their bodies. And then they put clothes on
them. Clothes on them. But they wash
it. And here they washed our Lord's
body. Then look what it said here at
John 19. It says there at verse 39 that Nicodemus,
and every time they mention him, it's better if he came by Jesus,
but not. And he bought a mixture, a mixture
of myrrh and different aloes, and it was 100 pounds of it.
And look what it says next, and they took the body. They took
the body of Jesus. and wound it in linen clothes
with the spices as the manner of the Jews were. What they did,
they took that linen, they bought the linen, and what our Lord,
they laid him out, and they put all that ointment all over his
body. Now I think the reason they done that was to keep him
from smelling after they were dead, keep him from stinking
like Lazarus did. And then they wrapped that linen
clothes around him, and then they put some more on him. And
they wrapped it again, and they put some more on him. And they
kept wrapping our Lord Jesus Christ. They wrapped his arms,
they wrapped his feet, they wrapped him all up. And they had him,
100 pounds of ointment and things was put on him. So every time
they had to wrap him, they'd put some more ointment on him.
They had to wrap him some more and put some more ointment on
him. And they put this ointment on our Lord Jesus Christ. And
then look what it says. And then they wound it in linen
clothes. They took the body of Jesus in
verse 40 and wound it with linen clothes as the banner of Jews
is to bury. Now the place where he was crucified,
the place where he died, and in the garden there was a new
grave And look what it says, never man ever laid in that grave.
There's only gonna be one man ever in that grave. Nobody else
gonna be buried in that grave. You know, there's places where,
down in Mexico, they have the graveyards down there and they'll
bury them, and in about four or five years, they go dig up
their bones and put them in a little old pagoda over here, and then
they put a new body in there. But our Lord Jesus Christ was
put in a tomb that nobody ever laid in before. Never laid in
before. Never laid in. And they laid
him in this grave of hewn stone. And the death of Christ is a
reality for these dear people, is a reality for them. This is
a most mysterious thing, that he was waiting for the kingdom
of God. And he took the body of Christ and washed it and cleansed
it and prepared it, him and Nicodemus prepared it to be put in the
grave. They saw that he was dead. They knew that he was dead. But
without death, without the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, there'd
be no gospel. There'd be no payment for sin.
Without his life, his sinless holy life, without his message
that he preached, Without his parables, without his miracles,
his sinless obedience to the law availed nothing had he not
died. But bless God, our blessed Savior. Our Redeemer's death is a fact. Multitudes deny it, said it's
impossible for one man to die for so many. In fact, the Pharisees
said, they come to him and said, we know that this deceiver said
that he's going to rise again the third day. He said, set a watch because
that deceiver, them women, them people are going to come and
snatch his body away and said he rose from the dead. He said,
you set a watch. You do it. You do it. And oh my, he is laid in a grave
where never man laid again. Oh my, in that tomb was the Son
of God. In that tomb was Jesus of Nazareth. And oh my, there was a stone
placed in front of it. There was a stone placed in front
of it. But oh my, you know back in our text over here, you don't
have to turn back, you can stay there for a minute. It says there that Mary and Magdalene,
and Mary the mother of Joseph, beheld where he is laying. Now
look down here in verse two of chapter 16. In very early, Mark 16, I'm sorry. Mark chapter 16. In very early
in the morning, the first day of the week, they came under
the sepulcher of the rising of the sun. And they said among
themselves, who shall roll away the stone from the door of the
sepulcher. And look what the next verse
says. And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled
away. It's very great. They followed. They want to know
where he's at. They followed him. And oh, look what happens
now back here in John chapter 20. I've got to have him get
him out of that grave. We've got to get him out of that
grave. We're not going to leave him dead. You know, we're not
going to. No, no. You know, he died, by his death
he put away, you know, his blood had to be shed. And oh, look
what it said. And they, verse four, so they
both ran together and the other disciple did outrun Peter and
came first to the sepulcher. And he was stooping down, look
in, listen to this now, he saw the linen clothes lying, yet
he went not in. Then cometh Simon Peter, follow
him, and went into the sepulcher. You know, that's typical Simon
Peter. He gotta just throw his all in,
you know. And he see the linen clothes
lie. The clothes that they had bought
and wrapped our Lord Jesus Christ in. Look what it says. They found
the linen clothes wrapped together in place by itself. They was
over here by itself. And look at the next thing. and also went in and wrapped
together by itself, but another place it says that the napkin,
yeah, the linen clothes wrapped together and the napkin was took
off of his face and laid over here. They went to the tomb. These same people, these ladies,
these women, they come to the tomb. And they brought spices. What for? He's dead. He's already
had all kinds of spices. And they went looking for him.
And they said, I know you seek Jesus in Ashman, but he's not
here. He's not here. He's not here. You know, it's a, what a gospel
we have to preach. What a gospel. on good news,
that our Lord Jesus Christ came into this world to bear our sins
in his own body on the tree. And while he was on that cross,
there was wounded for our transgressions, his bruised for our iniquity.
And though when they laid them stripes on his back, that was
the chastisement of our peace. But when our Lord Jesus Christ
rose again with all of our offenses on Him, He left every one of
them in the grave, and He come out, and because He come out
of that grave, He justified everyone for whom He died for. I mean,
He cleared them of all their guilt, all their sin, all their
shame, everything that was ever held against them. He took care
of it all, once and for all. He put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. But somebody, somebody had to
take care of it. And you know, somebody has to
take care of us. You reckon he's able? Chris was telling me about they
got a nine month old baby. Did he say she's nine months?
And I quit in a minute. But this baby, he said, this
baby, you know, he said, she's utterly and absolutely dependent
on us. To feed her, to clothe her, to
change when she's uncomfortable, to clean her, love her, make
sure she's loved. I'm exactly the same way as that
baby. I really, truly am. 75 years old, still a baby. Still a baby. I need the Lord
Jesus Christ to take care of me. Take care of me until he
comes and gets me again and takes me where he is. I need him to
take care of me. I really, really, I need him
to provide me a home, to provide me a bed, to provide me strength,
to provide me love, to provide me grace, to provide me forgiveness,
to provide me righteousness, to provide me everything I possibly
need. I need Christ to do everything
for me. I'm as dependent as a child.
I really am. And one of these days, he gonna
take me in his arms and carry me to where he is. Hallelujah, hallelujah, what
a savior. I once was lost, but now I'm
found. I was blind, but now I see. How precious did that grace appear,
the hour I first believed. Grace my fears relieved, and
how precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed. Thank
you all, thank you all for having me. Thank you all for listening,
It's been so enjoyable for me. Chris, God bless you, buddy.
Lord bless you. Those of you who attend here
regularly, hear from this pulpit often. God's commandment to us
to trust Christ. The Savior that we just heard
preached is the Son of God. Now, you trust Him. I can't think
of something that gives me more confidence and peace to trust
Christ that He's the Son of God. He has the power to save that
only God has, and He only has the mercy and grace to save.
What a blessing to be able to trust him. Donnie, thank you
for preaching to us one more time. Now y'all remember, Donnie
and Shirley, as they travel, they're going to go to Lexington.
Todd Nybert never lets anybody get close, so he don't have them
come preach Sunday night. You're preaching tonight, aren't
you, in Danvils, or at Lexington, so y'all remember him. We're
going to take about a 10 or 15 minute break. When you hear the
music, come back, and Brother Chris will bring us one more
message, all right?