The Gospel Is Concerning Jesus Christ God's Son

Q: What does the Bible say about the gospel of Jesus Christ?

The Bible states that the gospel is concerning Jesus Christ, God's Son, focusing on His life, death, and resurrection. The gospel, as articulated in Romans 1:3, is fundamentally about Jesus Christ. This gospel is not merely a message about happiness, success, or temporal blessings; it focuses on the person and work of Jesus Christ. It encompasses His conception, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, ascension, and promised return. The good news is centered on what God has done for us in Christ, ultimately highlighting our need for a Savior and how Christ fulfills that need through His life and sacrificial death.

Q: How do we know the resurrection of Jesus is true?

The resurrection of Jesus is affirmed by scripture and the historical testimony of those who witnessed His post-resurrection appearances. The truth of the resurrection is foundational to Christian faith, as without it our faith would be futile (1 Corinthians 15:14). Numerous scriptures, such as Acts 2:23-24, testify that Jesus was raised by God after being crucified. The apostolic witness and the transformation of the disciples, who boldly proclaimed the resurrection despite persecution, provide strong evidence. Additionally, the empty tomb and post-resurrection appearances to hundreds of witnesses confirm this miraculous event. The resurrection demonstrates Jesus’ victory over sin and death and assures believers of their own future resurrection.

Q: Why is the death of Jesus important for Christians?

The death of Jesus is crucial because it represents the substitutionary atonement for sin, offering forgiveness and reconciliation with God. The death of Jesus is not just an event but the core of the gospel. As stated in Isaiah 53:5, He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him. Jesus' death satisfied God's justice and wrath against sin, providing a means for believers to be reconciled to God (2 Corinthians 5:21). The concept of substitutionary atonement is essential as it emphasizes that Christ took upon Himself the sins of His people, offering them forgiveness and the righteousness necessary for a relationship with a holy God. His death is the foundation upon which our salvation rests.

Q: What is the role of Jesus Christ in the sovereign grace of God?

Jesus Christ plays a central role in God's sovereign grace as the chosen Redeemer who secures salvation for His elect. In the context of sovereign grace theology, Jesus Christ is the appointed Mediator and Redeemer of God's elect. His incarnation, death, and resurrection were orchestrated by God's sovereign will as foretold by the prophets (Romans 1:2). This grace is not extended to all indiscriminately but is particular to those whom God has chosen before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4-5). The entire process of salvation reflects God's sovereign initiative and design, wherein Christ, as the eternal Son of God, fulfills every aspect necessary for, and guarantees, the salvation of those who believe.

Q: Why should Christians seek eternal joy in Christ?

Christ offers authentic joy that endures beyond life’s trials, contrasting the temporary happiness of the world. The call to seek eternal joy in Christ stems from understanding that worldly happiness is fleeting and often deceptive. As noted in Colossians 3:2, believers are instructed to set their affections on things above, not on earth. True joy, borne of a relationship with Christ, provides a solid foundation during life’s storms. This joy is rooted in knowing our salvation and acceptance before God, which cannot be taken away. Christ is the wellspring of this joy, transforming our lives to reflect His grace and love. When we pursue Him above all else, we find a joy that sustains and empowers us through all circumstances.

Before we get into this, let's
ask the Lord to bless this message. Our Heavenly Father, we pray this morning that You
would send forth Your Word in power. that you would instruct
our hearts. Our Father, we pray that you
would enable us this morning to grow in grace and in the knowledge
of the Lord Jesus Christ, that you would enable us to grow in
love to Thee and to one another. Our Father, we do pray for Kathy
Pruitt and the family. as they go through this difficult
trial, that they will find all they need in thee. And thy will
be done, Father. We do pray you give the doctors
wisdom, but we realize and understand
that all healing comes from God. We recognize this. and we look
to Thee. But our great desire, our greatest
desire this morning, is to render unto Thee true worship that lifts
up Thy name. And Lord, if it be pleasing in
Thy sight to draw sinners to Thee, that a sinner may find the shepherd. Thank you for your many blessings,
Father. Thank you for all the spiritual blessings that you
gave us in Christ before the foundation of the world. And
thank you for all the temporal blessings that you've given us.
Our Father, we thank thee. In Christ Jesus' name we pray,
and amen. Let's turn back to Romans chapter
1. I titled this message, The Gospel is Concerning Jesus
Christ, God's Son. You cannot stand in a pulpit,
no man can stand in a pulpit, no one, and just say what they
want to say. using the Bible and then say
it's the gospel. The gospel is concerning God's Son. That's what Paul tells us there
in verse 3. I was watching an interview this
past week and this prompted this message of a popular television preacher. And in the questioning, the interviewer
wanted to know how his ministry had become so successful. And I'm not going to give you
all the replies. But he said this, he replied
this, that he told people, the people who came there, and there's
a lot of them, those who watch him on television, how that God
wanted to bless them. And I listened to the interview
carefully. That God wanted them to be successful. That God wanted them to be happy
and healthy. And it just went on and on. He
spoke nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now listen to me, I'm
not against you being happy. Because there was a spin put
on it during that conversation, during that interview, that the
old preaching was hellfire and brimstone and there was a lot
of that. It went the other direction. But I'm not against, and the
gospel is not against you being happy. The gospel is not against you
having real joy and peace. I tell you, the gospel is not
against you being healthy. It's not against you being wealthy. It is against false happiness.
It is against false peace. It is against false riches. The
psalmist said riches have wings and they fly away. But the riches,
the eternal riches that we have in Christ do not fly away. They
will not leave. You'll not lose them. At all. And when I listen to this. I thought of Eve. Over in Genesis
three, look over here. And I could hear. This this event
all over again 6,000 years later. Genesis 3, Now the serpent was
more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God
had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, if God said, Ye shall
not eat of every tree of the garden. And the woman said unto
the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden.
We can do that. But of the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall
not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. And
the serpent said unto the woman, You're not going to die. You
shall not surely die. God didn't create you to just
kill you and destroy you and wipe you out. You're not going
to die. For God doth know that in the day you eat thereof, then
your eyes will be opened, and you shall be as God's, knowing
good and evil. And then, listen, and when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food, In comes the temporal things. In comes the things, and I thank
God for the temporal blessings we have, but that's what they
are. They are temporal. The blessings
that I want, and I know you want, and I want us to have, are eternal.
The happiness I want, I want to have when the hard times come.
I want to have it to carry me through there. Joy in the Lord,
not this giddy laugh and goofiness. I'm talking about a solid joy
that carries you right on through the storm. Right on through. And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
appealing to the flesh, everything he had to say had to do with
these temporal things in the flesh. And he says, I'm trying
to get people to not feel bad for having them. I want them
to be joyful and happy. I want them to go after these
things. I want you to go after Christ
and all these things will be, what did he say, added. Seek
ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these
things will be added. God will wisely give you, me,
what we can handle. What we need for our spiritual
welfare not only for just now, and it is for now, but also for
eternity. It was pleasant to the eyes and
a treat to be desired to make one wise. My soul, they were perfect. They knew God. So she took of the fruit thereof
and did eat. And I could hear that all over again in that interview.
I could hear it all over again. We are told in Colossians 3, I read this I believe
a week ago, set your mind, your affection, and it doesn't say
affection, set your affection, your desire, that one desire.
That one thing that you desire more than anything, set it on
things above, where our Lord sits at God's right hand. Do
that. Do that. I believe that this
is one way to detect worldliness. You know, worldliness is not
in what you own. You can live in a castle and
not be worldly. and live in a shack and be the most worldly person
on this earth. You can be rich, Bill Gates rich, and not be worldly. And you can be very poor and
be very worldly, wishing you had everything you looked at.
Scripture says the poor man's desire kills him. That's because
he can't afford it. And he wants it. And it just
drives him nuts. And he ends up in debt. And it's got him. Worldliness is what your
mind is constantly set on. That's what it is. It's not that
I own a nice car. It's what your mind is set on.
It's what your heart is set on. That's worldliness. It's the
world in your heart. What do you love? He that loves
the world hath not the love of God in him. You can love the world as broke
as broke can be, but you love the things of the world. And
this is one way to detect Satan. What is your mind and your heart
being directed to look upon, to seek after. Are you going
to seek after happiness? I'm telling you, if you seek
after Him, you'll be happy. It'll happen. I'll tell you why
it'll happen. Because the vine or the branch
will be getting from what's in the vine. If I'm joined to Christ,
Then the real happiness, the real joy that I have is coming
through him and from him. And not these little transient
things that we deal with every day. So Paul says here, and this is
just, it just clicked when I heard that, when I heard that interview.
The gospel, Paul said, he's a servant of God, he's a bondslave of Jesus
Christ, a willing bondslave of Christ, and he's called to be
an apostle, God called him, and God separated him into the gospel
of God. You know, God's people are a
separated people. And then he separates those whom he puts
in certain, you know, the ministry and wherever it is God has put
you, whatever it is God, where he has put you. What you are
doing is exactly what he has separated you to right now. So be content with it. Be content
with it. And he was separated unto the
gospel of God, which God had promised before by his prophets
in the Holy Scriptures. This gospel is not a new gospel. I'm not, you know, the gospel
didn't just start. 2000 years ago. It started in
the garden when God gave the promise of the seed of the woman.
And that seed of the woman is the Lord Jesus Christ. That was
good news. He didn't run out of the garden
without good news. You know, glad tidings has to do with Christ. What you have in Christ, what
God has done for us in Christ. It's concerning his son. Now
we go back and read verse one. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,
called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God, look at
verse three. Concerning his son Jesus Christ
our Lord, which was made, that human nature, that body
was made of the seed of David. You know, God said, and I'm trying
to find it over here. A little bit while Frank was
teaching, I said, you've got to stop and listen. You know, it's hard sometimes
when someone's teaching or preaching. It's like getting on a hot trail,
something gets you in mind and you have to keep trying to listen. But I thought that scripture,
and I couldn't remember where it was at, but God said, of the
fruit of thy body, I will sit on thy throne. God gave him a
promise. that out of his seed, through
the fruit of his body, and the language reads like this, I'm
pretty sure I'm quoting it right, I will sit on the throne. Of
the fruit of your body, I will sit on the throne. That's why he's saying he's of
the seed of David according to the flesh and declared to be
the son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by
the resurrection from the dead. The gospel, as I said, is concerning
Jesus Christ, God's Son. And He did not start, the Son
of God did not start 2,000 years ago. Look over in Proverbs chapter
8. You know this. I know you know
this. It's been read to you many times. Proverbs chapter 8. Look in verse 22. The Lord possessed me in the
beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up
from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there
were no depths, I was brought forth. When there were no fountains
abounding with water, before the mountains were saddled, before
the hills was I brought forth. While as yet he had not made
the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust
of the world, when he prepared the heavens, I was there." You
know, God said to Job, Job, where were you when I laid the foundations
of the earth? Speak, if you know. Job, you
didn't even exist, except in the mind and heart of God. But now that can't be said of
the Lord Jesus Christ. That can't be said of Him. This
is about Him. This is speaking of Jesus Christ,
our Lord. When He prepared the heavens,
I was there. When He set a compass upon the
face of the depth, I was there. When He established the clouds
above, when He strengthened the fountains of the deep, when He
gave to the sea His decree that the water should not pass His
commandment, when He appointed the foundations of the earth,
then I was by Him, I was with Him, as one brought up with Him."
That's His eternal sonship. I was by, as one brought up with
Him. No beginning of days. You reckon it would be wise to
delight in the things God delights in? This is my beloved Son in
whom I am well pleased. It would be wise to be pleased
with that which God is pleased with. I was daily His delight, rejoicing
always before Him. Rejoicing in the habitable part
of His earth. Am I delightful with the sons
of men?" Who's that speaking of? He's speaking of wisdom. Who's wisdom? Christ is made
unto us. Wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption. The wisdom of God dwells in him. He is the wisdom of God. This is speaking of our Lord. Don't just think, and I know
you don't, But don't think that he just started a couple thousand
years ago. No, he's eternal. He's the eternal son of God. And everything about the gospel
has to do with Christ right down to the minutest matters. It concerns his conception, his
very conception. Look over in Matthew. Chapter
1, conceived in the womb of a virgin. Matthew chapter 1, look in verse
18. Now the birth of Jesus Christ
was on this wife. when as his mother Mary was a
spouse to Joseph before they came together, she was found
with child of the Holy Ghost, conceived of God. And Joseph,
her husband, being a just man, not willing to make her a public
example, he thought, she's pregnant. And I want you to notice here,
and I'm going to get a little off track here, but I want you
to notice the graciousness of a person whom God has saved.
He's a spouse to this woman, and she shows up pregnant, and
he knows it's not his. Now, in 99, all men would have
flipped. What have you been doing? You've been messing around on
me. But you know what? He didn't want to make a public
example out of her. He wanted to, he loved her so
much that he wanted to protect her reputation. It doesn't say
he didn't want to make, he didn't want to ruin his public image. He didn't want to make a public
example out of her. See, he was minded to put her
away privately. Let's not expose this. But while
he thought on these things, and my, you know his mind, I tell
you, the man's heart and mind had to be tore up. Behold, the
angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph,
thou son of David. Man, that's been a long time
ago. That's been a long time ago.
Thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife,
for that which is conceived in her is of God. Just like that new birth, that
new man in you is of God, conceived of God. Nothing fleshly, earthly
has anything to do with that new nature that's in you. And that's why it cannot sin. And
she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name
Jesus, for he shall save his people He's not going to just
save a people or a bunch of people or whoever will let him. He's going to save his people
from their sins. And all this was done that it
might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet,
saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child. He takes him right
back to that scripture. A virgin shall be with child,
and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name
Immanuel." Dare we call his name Immanuel? Dare we identify him
as God? Well, he said to do that, which
being interpreted is God with us. God with us. Then it concerns his birth, as
I've already mentioned here. He's made of the seed of David,
according to the flesh. He was David's son, according
to the flesh, the lineage, and the line that God put him in.
He's the rightful heir of the throne. Not just because God put him
there, but God put him in the right lineage. When they wrote
This is the King of Israel. They're right. This is the King
of Israel. He was made of the seed of David.
He is, this is the King of Israel, God's Israel. He is. Then the gospel concerns his
ministry. Look over in Isaiah 61. Isaiah 61. Let me get there. Look in verse 1. The Spirit of
the Lord God is upon me. He took over in the Gospel you
can read where He was in the temple. He took the book and
He read this right here. He read this. He said, This day
is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears. The Lord God is upon
me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto
the meek. Who are the meek? Those whom the Lord saves and
make meek. There's no naturally spiritually meek people. I tell you what, let God pull
his hand of constraint back. Take the meekest person you've
ever found, that you've ever met. has nothing to do with the
gospel, and you say, well, I know some people that are meek. Let
God pull his hand back, and that meek person will be the devil.
Let God unmask every man, every woman, and you'll find the devil. He's preached good tidings, the
gospel, good news to the meek. He has sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted. And that's broken hearted over
sin. It's not broken hearted over loss of a job, even though
he can do that. But it's broken hearted over
sin. To proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the
prison to them that are bound. Everyone whom he saves was a
captive to sin, law, Satan, self. the lust of the flesh itself, and we all were in prison. I realize this. This world, this world itself,
now I'm telling you, this world itself, apart from the Lord Jesus
Christ, is a prison. You can't get away from the violence. If God didn't restrain, he said,
the wrath of man will praise him and the rest he'll restrain.
If he did not restrain it, this would be hell. Very akin to it. Very akin to it. Outside of Christ, men and women
are in prison. To proclaim the acceptable year
of the Lord and the day of vengeance? Dare we talk about that? I know
this particular preacher. He had choked to death before
he ever talked about the just vengeance of God. The day of vengeance of our God.
I read somewhere, and I heard Henry say this in a message one
time. Our Lord spoke more of hell and torment than He did
of heaven. The day and the day of vengeance
of our God, to comfort all that mourn, to appoint unto them that
mourning Zion. Here's the mourners He's talking
about, those who mourn in the church, His body. to give unto
them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for morning." That's the
joy you want. That's the joy I want. That's
the joy I want you to have. It's that joy that is real. It's not transient. It's real. It's abiding. Rejoice always,
Paul said in the Lord. The garment of praise for the
spirit of heaviness. The praise that I want to give
comes from a heart that's thankful to God for forgiveness, for mercy,
for redemption, for deliverance from the curse of the law, from
deliverance from the wrath to come. We praise Him for that. We praise Him for all that He's
done for us in His Son, that they might be called trees of
righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified,
not that I might be He might be glorified, glorified. The gospel concerns his conception,
his birth, his ministry, his miracles. He healed the lame,
gave sight to the blind. Scripture says he went about
doing good. And that going about doing good
is our righteousness. That perfect love for God that
he possessed is our righteousness. That perfect faith, he believed
God perfectly. He loved his neighbor as himself. I want to do that, but it will
never be perfect. It will never be perfect. But
I tell you what, I desire to do it, and when I fell at it,
You get back up and you desire to do it again. You don't say,
well, I just can't do it because this is who I am. No. Christ told that adulterous woman,
has anyone condemned you? She said, no. He said, well,
neither do I. Go and sin no more. He didn't say go and try not
to sin or don't sin as much as you have been sinning, but don't
sin. And you know what? He actually
meant that. He meant don't sin again. Now, you and I know, you
and I know that we're going to sin again. If any man sins or
when any man sins, we have an affliction with the Father. But
the desire, the desire and the craving not to is always there. I read an article by Bruce Crabtree. And in that article he said,
I would to God that I could live like I want to. I would like
to live, I would live without sin. If you could right now,
you would live without sin. A believer now, I'm talking about
believers. You would live without sin. You would love your neighbor
as your, Lord help me to do that. I bet she didn't commit adultery
again. I bet she didn't. But if she did, I don't think
she did at all. But we have an advocate with
the Father, don't we? We have an advocate with the
Father. Jesus Christ, the righteous. The righteous one and Jesus Christ,
our righteousness. And then the gospel concerns
His death. His death. How do you leave off
preaching the substitutionary work of Christ in every message
and call it the gospel. You don't have any good news.
There is no glad tidings apart from Christ and Him crucified. Paul did not go to Corinth to
tell them how much God wanted them to be happy. How much he
wanted them to be rich and blessed, he went there and he said, I
am determined not to know anything among you. It's not that he had
no interest in them. He said, this has got to be settled. This has got to be settled. I
don't want to know anything among you. I don't want to talk about
your architects. I don't want to talk about your wise guys. This is one thing I want to know.
Jesus Christ. and him crucified. He is the
foundation of our relationship. He's the foundation of the relationship
that you will have as you pass through this life. How can two
walk together except they agree, except they have a likeness?
There's been a, and I believe it's going to turn into a message.
I usually get a title before I even get a message, but in
the last few weeks, I have been thinking, it's been
on my mind, and it's been a desire of mine. I preached from Genesis
a few weeks ago in the Ark, reading about Noah, and it said, Noah
walked with God. It says, you know, we know Enoch
walked with God. And it's on my mind, and the
title of it is Walking with God. What's that all about? How does
that happen? And how can I do that? Well, that's another message. That's another message. But how
can two walk together except they agree? How can they? Our fellowship is surrounded,
it is, the center of it is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I'll
be friendly to you. But we're not going to be, I'm
telling you, we're not going to be chummies. We're not going
to be buddies. Not buddy-buddies. That only happens in a relationship,
a union with the Lord Jesus Christ. And it concerns His death. How
that God might be a just God and a Savior. Job said, I know it's so of a
truth, but how can man be just with God? Man by nature doesn't even care,
really. Man by nature does not care how
he can be just with God. Just so he can go to heaven and
not have to work and surely doesn't want to go to a place of torment. But how can God be God? How can
He remain God? And that's what you want. You
don't want a God that changes now. You don't want a this today
and that tomorrow. But how can God be God and have
anything to do with me in my way of salvation? And we know that's through the
life, the person, the death of the Son of God. If I do not die and perish, It's
because of Him. It's not because I cooperated
with Him. It's because of Him. He bore my sins in His body on
the tree. God punished Him in my place. The law dealt with Him in my
stead. That's the gospel. It's concerning His death. He
has made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin. You know, it doesn't just say
that God made him to be sin, who knew no sin, that someone
might be made the righteousness of God in him. The gospel has particular language. He hath made him to be sin for
us. You turn over to Isaiah 53. I'm
still over here. Let me read it real quick. Look in verse 4. Surely he hath borne grief. Is that what it says? He hath
borne grief. No, it says our grief. Our grief. And he has carried sorrows. Our
sorrows. They belong to someone. Yet we
esteem them strict and smitten of God inflicted. But he was
wounded for our transgression. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed." That's particular
language. That's for a particular people. The Bible describes them as sinners,
Christ died for sinners. The Bible describes them as ungodly.
You can go to prison and say, I'm not ungodly. It concerns his death. It concerns
his resurrection. Without his resurrection, we
don't have salvation. Dead Christ, someone said, can't
save anybody. It's a risen Lord. The risen
Lord saves. God hath raised him from the
dead. He is alive forevermore. Look
over in Acts chapter 2. And this is, I mean, the book
of Acts just screams his resurrection. In Acts chapter 2, look in verses
23 and 24. Let me go back to verse 22. You men of Israel, hear these
words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved
of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs which God
did by him. God did them. by him in the midst
of you, as you yourselves also know. He had been delivered by
the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Let's keep things in
their proper order. God delivered him. He delivered
him into this world. He delivered him into the hands
of sinners. He delivered him up to the law. God delivered
him. by the determinate counsel," this is not on the whim, "'and
foreknowledge of God, you have taken him by wicked hands and
crucified and slain, whom God hath raised up, having loosed
the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should
be holden of it. For David speaks concerning him,
I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right
hand, that I should not be moved. Therefore did my heart rejoice,
and my tongue was glad. Moreover also my flesh shall
rest in hope.' Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither
wilt thou suffer as I am holy one to seek corruption." He's alive, people. He's alive. Tell this world, Jesus Christ
is alive. You know what God says? Kiss
the Son, lest he be angry. Lest he be angry, and his wrath
be kindled, but a little, and you perish from the way. And it concerns, listen, the
gospel concerns his ascension. When he rose from the dead, he
appeared to the apostles and some people, Mary Magdalene, Mary, and many
of those others there. But after that, He went back to glory. He went back to glory. He ascended
on high, and the scripture says he led captivity captive and
gave gifts to men. He won the victory. And right
now, seated at God's right hand, is that man that was despised
and rejected. That man who bore our griefs
and our sorrows. That very same man whom the Jews
said, we will not have this man to reign over us, is seated at
God's right hand, reigning over us. I mean, the whole human race. You know, when the people wanted
a king over there in 1 Samuel, God told Samuel, they have rejected
me that I reign not over them. Little did they know, and little
does this world know or comprehend, that that one that was rejected
even back then, his eternality, he's the Son of God. They rejected
him back then. They've rejected me. But that very one right now is
reigning and ruling over all things. I'm not scared by His grace. I'm not afraid what tomorrow's
going to bring or today's going to bring. I mean, there are certain things
that I don't want to go through. I have to say that there's things
I don't want to go through. He said to Peter, if someone's
going to take you by the hand and lead you. To the place you don't want to go.
They crucified him upside down. But I know this. I know this. My Lord's on the throne. And this whole shooting match
is in His hands. He's got the whole world in His
hands. A man. The man. The man Christ
Jesus. The God-man. But a man. When we see Him, when we see
Him, we're going to see two things. God and we're going to see a
man. That same man that walked this
earth. That same man that was crucified, that same man that
was buried, that same man that rose from the dead. He said to
his disciples, I'll see you again. Same one. And then the gospel
concerns his return, his coming again in John 14. If I go and
prepare a place for you, I'll come again. I will come again
and get you and receive you unto myself, that where I am. You know, he doesn't say right there
that where I'm going, I'm going to take you. Does he? The way I get this, he's saying
where I am right now. While he was on this earth, the
Scripture says he was in the bosom of the Father. That where
I am, you're going to go also. Not just where I'm going. He's
going to go back to the Father. But he's also with the Father.
That's his deity. Look over at 1 Thessalonians.
Well, this you're not going to make the radio, is it? In 1 Thessalonians, we read
this a lot. In funerals, it's a good portion
of scripture to read. I like to read it. 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verse
13. But I would not have you to be
ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye
sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe
that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep
in Jesus will God bring with him." Will who bring with him? Even so them also which sleep
in Jesus will God bring with him. He's saying here he's God. He is Jesus Christ, the man,
but he's also God, and God will bring these departed saints with
him. For this we say unto you by the
word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the
coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. He's
not going to slip in. Listen, the first time he came
into this world, there was no shouting going on. It was quiet. There was not a lot of people
gathered at an inn waiting for this to happen. He got turned
away. She got turned away from the
inn. And he had to go to a barn. Our Lord was born in a barn. The God of glory, the God of
creation, the God of our salvation was born in a barn. And they
laid Him in a manger. But this same one now, when he
returns, shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of God." That's how he's
coming again. He's coming again. And the dead
in Christ shall rise first. And we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore, comfort one another
with these words. But he's going to descend from heaven with a
shout, with a voice of an archangel. And the dead in Christ are going
to rise. His bodies, all those bodies of the saints that have
been buried are going to come right out of that grave. Try to imagine that next time
you go to a cemetery. Next time you go to a cemetery and visit
a grave of one you love, That's coming out of there. That grave
is going to open and that person, that body is coming out of there
and be united to the soul, be a union to the soul
and spirit again. But the gospel concerns his return. Then it concerns his eternal
reign. And I'm going to close here. The scripture teaches us
that he shall reign forever and ever. He reigns now. He's reigning now. He always
has reigned. He's reigning now, and he always will reign. He'll
reign in a new heaven and a new earth. In Luke 1.33 it says,
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and in his
kingdom there shall be no end. In Revelation 11.15, And the
seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven,
saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms
of our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign Forever and ever. I pray that if we are ever asked about
this ministry here, it will be all about Him. That our story will be all about
the Lord Jesus Christ. That our happiness that our joy
and our wealth and our health is all bound up in Him. I would
ten thousand times rather for me and for you to be spiritually
healthy than physically healthy. I like physical health. It feels
good. But spiritual health is no comparison. To be spiritually whole. To be
one with God in Christ. Now that's happiness. That's
joy. That's joy. That's joy that'll take you all
the way home. It'll take you all the way home. The gospel is concerning God's
Son, who He is, what He did, who He did it for, where He is
now. It's not about what's going to
make me happy in this life. It's about Him. It's about Him, and your real
joy is Him. Not just what He can do for you. I mean, that doesn't make you
happy now, but it's Him. It's Him. He's our real joy.

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What is the role of Jesus Christ in the sovereign grace of God?

Why should Christians seek eternal joy in Christ?

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