April 13, 2025 • 24 mins
Have you ever been anxious to tell someone about a juicy piece of gossip? We’ve probably all been tempted to do that at some point. And on the next Treasured Truth, Pastor Ford will explain that we should be even more ready to tell people about the gospel than we are to tell them about the latest gossip. We should be anxious to spread the good news about our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! So, join us as we begin a new message called, “Run Tell Dat,” on the next Treasured Truth.
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The world is not divided like people like to divide it.
It is not divided geographically. It is not divided racially.
It's not divided economically. It's divided by the cross that
everybody in here is on one side of the cross
or the other.
S2 (00:24):
You're listening to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James
Ford Jr. Senior pastor of Christ Bible Church in Chicago.
I'm Steve Hiller, and I'm glad that you're with us.
You know, pastor, if we do try and divide the
world geographically, racially, so many different ways you can divide
that world down into so many minuscule little segments. But
very simple. When we're going to divide it by the cross.
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You're on one side or the other. It's 1 or 2.
You want a 7 or 8.
S1 (00:50):
You are a saint or you ain't.
S2 (00:53):
Yeah, that is it right there.
S1 (00:54):
No middle.
S2 (00:55):
Ground. And so I know that as we get into
today's message, we're going to spend some time talking about
making sure that we are telling those on the other side,
on the eight side of the cross, how they can
get to the saint side of the cross.
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Amen. That's what the Bible is really all about. I mean,
it's about the redemption. There's a scarlet thread that runs throughout. Uh,
but it's Luke 1910. The Son of Man has come
to seek and to save that which was lost. And
so the Lord Jesus Christ, I mean, he left the
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suburbs of heaven, came to the inner city called Earth
to redeem lost humanity, of which you and I are
a full part of. And we're grateful for it. We
thank God, uh, that he did come. So now that
he came down, we can go up. And I trust
that someone who's listening will understand what the Bible has
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to say. Here it is in a nutshell. I love
Romans ten nine and ten. It says that if thou
shalt confess with thy mouth that Jesus is Lord, and
believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved. Then verse ten says this for
with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation. That word Lord is curious.
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It's the Old Testament equivalent of Yahweh. Do you believe
that Jesus Christ of the New Testament is Yahweh of
the Old Testament? Well, whether you believe it or not,
he is. And the text that we're going to look
at today gives us what is the gospel? People say,
what's the good news? He says, for I delivered unto
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you that which I also received, how that Christ died
for our sins. That's according to the scriptures, and that
he was buried, and that he rose again the third
day according to the scriptures. That's the good news. And
all you have to do is believe it. Thank God
he put the cookies on the lower table. It doesn't
matter how old you are or how young you are,
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we all can come to Jesus Christ through the cross
of Calvary.
S2 (03:05):
Well, that is good news indeed. And we're going to
look a little bit more deeply at that today in
the book of First Corinthians. If you can join us
in chapter 15 as we begin the message. Run. Tell
that here's Pastor Ford.
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Now, someone once said that if you tell a man something,
it goes in one ear and out the other side.
But if you tell a woman something, it goes in
both her ears and out her mouth. Now I don't know.
I don't know if that's true. I, I don't know.
I'd give you the preacher's name, as I told you before. Uh,
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but come on, we know that's not entirely true. Uh,
because there are some men who gossip more. There are
some amens there. Yeah. So? So don't look around, because
everybody know who they are. Don't look around. Don't look around. Uh,
but we all know, uh, That most of the time
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we like to hear things about people and we like
sharing the truth. Or sometimes it's not the truth, but
we don't care because we love sharing the latest news.
I mean, if you think about it, uh, now they
do it and it's on the internet or on Instagram
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or on Facebook or on Twitter, just like that. So
it's told on you before you even get home. I
know it to be true because I said something about
my wife when she wasn't here, and then when I
got home, she slapped me upside the head. I said,
what's that for? She said, what you said in church.
How you find out so fast? Lift up her cellphone,
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show me a text message. Mhm. Yeah. And so the
bigger the people the greater we like to spread the news.
And so if it's big news about big people we
run tell that now Paul says we ought to be
ready to tell the gospel as readily as we tell
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the gossip. Uh, yeah. That's what he's talking about in
first Corinthians chapter 15. It's called the resurrection chapter, and
he's going to tell us about the resurrection of our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And basically, if you want
to boil it down to what he's going to tell us,
he's going to tell us that death proved that Jesus
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was a man, but the resurrection proved that Jesus was God.
Uh huh. Yeah, he's the God man. He's God and
man at the same time. Yeah. He's undiminished deity and
undeniable humanity at the same time. He's 100% God, 100%
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man at the same time. What that means is this.
He was born as a baby. Uh, but is the
eternal God at the same time that he got thirsty?
But he's the living water at the same. Y'all ain't
going to help me in here. At the same time,
he got hungry, but he was the bread of life.
At the same time, he grew in wisdom and stature
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in favor with God and man, but he knows everything
at the same time. He's in one place at one time,
but in every place, at every time, at the same time,
he's here and he's there at the same time. He's
in my today and he's in my tomorrow at the
same time, he's at the right hand of the father,
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and he's living in my heart at the same time.
And he's coming for me, though he never left me
at the same time. Yeah, he's the God man. Colossians
two nine and ten. For in him dwells all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete in him.
And Paul says, run, tell that. Yeah, it run! Tell
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that he is risen. No, no, no, he is risen!
I said he is risen! Yeah. And he gave us
evidences that Christ has risen from the dead. Let's walk
through him. I'm going to drop him. I'm not going
to push him. Notice, first of all, the first evidence
about Christ's resurrection from the dead is found in verses
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one and two. Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the
gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received,
and wherein you stand, by which also you are saved.
If you keep in memory what I have preached unto you,
unless I have preached unto you in vain. Now notice
what Paul was saying. He's talking about the transformation of
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the saints. He's saying the first proof that the resurrection
of Jesus Christ is real is the transformation of the saints.
He uses the word saved sozo. In other words, when
you look at what Paul was trying to focus on,
everybody has two births or everybody should have two births.
The first birth, your mother tells you about the second
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birth you ought to tell your mother about. And that's
what Paul was talking about. This second birth. Why? Born once.
Died twice. Born twice. Die once. Maybe. And so he's saying, listen.
In verse one, he talks about the proclamation that led
to your transformation in verse two. He's talking about the
product of your transformation. He says, you receive the message
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and that message saves you. And it was not in vain.
It means empty. That is, you heard the message and
you responded to it. And the problem today in many
churches is that a whole lot of people have been
starched and ironed, but they ain't never been washed. Aha. Yeah. See?
Not in vain. What he means is this it wasn't
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because of the Eightfold path of Buddhism that you got saved.
It wasn't because of the five pillars of Islam that
you got saved. It wasn't because of the Ten Commandments
of the Jews that you got saved. It wasn't because
of a 12 step program of AA or Na that
you got saved. But he said it was one step
that you believed in the finished work of our Lord
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and Savior Jesus Christ. And because of that, you got
saved because the Son of God became the Son of man,
that the sons of men may become the sons of God.
And somebody ought to be grateful that God has saved.
I wish I had some saved folk in the house. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember before my son became a barber, I went
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to a barber shop. I like the sign that was
at the barber shop. I walked in and it said,
In God We Trust. And then another sign was over
here and it said, all others pay cash. Oh, I
like that sign. I thought about it, Richie. I said,
you know what? That's a good sign. You know what
he's saying? No checks, no credit cards, no money orders,
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no debit cards, no gift cards, no link cards. Only
one form of payment. Cash is king. That's what he's saying.
And when I thought about our salvation, as Paul talks
about it in verses one and verse two, he says, listen,
there's only one form of payment for sin, and that's
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the blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The
songwriter said, what can wash away my sin? Nothing but
the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh precious is the
flow that makes me white as snow. No other fount
I know. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Leviticus 1711
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I've given the blood upon the altar as an atonement
for sin. Hebrews 922. Without the shedding of blood, there
is no remission. First Peter chapter one, verses 18 and 19.
For as much as you know that you've not been
redeemed from corruptible things, such as silver and gold, from
your vain conversation received by tradition of your fathers. But
but thank God for the. But. Yeah, but with the
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precious blood of Jesus Christ. As of a lamb without
spot and without blemish. Oh, thank you Jesus. Amen. I'm
praising him all by myself. Sure. Hey, there's a word
here that I gotta point out to you. Just one word.
I ain't got time for all of it, you know that.
But the word received. Oh, that's a powerful word. Because
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the word received is not the regular word to get something.
You receive salvation? No, the object of salvation. But it's my.
Say my. Now, that Greek word means this. It talks
about the object plus. What's the plus? It not only
says that you receive something, it says how you received it.
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So here's what he's saying. He's saying, listen, when you
heard this gospel, it made you happy. You received it
with joy. Amen. And that's what he tells us. He
tells us, listen, that. That whenever we accept the Lord
Jesus Christ. Oh, yeah, we will be happy. Yeah. That's it.
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And so he wants us to know that the transformation
of the Saints has done this. Uh, why? Because the
Bible says, therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's
a new creature. Old things have passed away. Behold, all
things have become new. That is, I remember, uh, back
in the old sanctuary, major Matthew was an elder, and, uh, Dino, uh,
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was on the drums. And a lady looked up at
the service and she laughed. And I wanted to know
what was so funny from the pulpit. So I caught
her after the service. I said, I saw you look
at the pulpit and laugh. What was so funny? She said, well,
I looked at our pastor. He's an ex-drug pusher. I
looked at our elder. He's an ex crackhead. I looked
at our drummer. He's an ex gangbanger. And I thought,
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God sure must be desperate these days. And I said
to her, sis, God is not desperate. God is merciful. See,
the operative word is ex. That's the operative word. Now, now,
anybody who saw Malcolm X knows that, Malcolm said when
they asked him in the interview, why do you use
an X Mr. X? And he said, because as a
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slave my name was taken away. I don't know what
it is. So the X in math is the unknown factor.
So I use x. Well, I use x too, but
it's not because of the unknown, it's because of the unknown.
Because I am an ex-drug pusher. I am an ex adulterer.
I am an ex child abandoner I am an ex.
I'm an ex ex ex. And see, that's what the
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gospel has done. It has transformed me and I ain't
the only X in here. There's some X liars and
some ex-chiefs and some X pornography viewers and some X
drug head and some x hoes and some x pimps.
There's some X in here. I ought to have some
noise in here because there's everybody in here is an
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X something. Come on man if you saved he saved
you from something. And so you're x Amen. Amen. Amen.
S2 (14:04):
Amen. Indeed. That is good news, isn't it? That Christ
comes and he saves us from what we once were,
and he puts a new heart in us. We are
a new creation once we come to know him. What
a great way to begin this message. It's entitled run,
Tell Dat, and we're going to continue this teaching in
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All right, let's get back to the message again. Here's
Pastor Ford.
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Notice secondly with me notice the second truth that undergirds
the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He says the transformation of
the saints. Then secondly, he says the truth of the scriptures.
Notice what it says in verses three and four, for
I delivered unto you first of all that which I received,
how that Christ died for our sins, according to the
Scripture that he was buried, and that he rose again
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the third day according second reason. The truth of the scriptures.
In verses three and four. Now here's what Paul does.
I love this because Paul is going to tell us
that it's proven in two ways, by the content of
the scriptures and by the confirmation of the scriptures. Jesus
Christ has rose from the dead. So he gives the content.
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What is the content of the good news? What should
we run and tell? It is the death, burial, and
resurrection of Jesus Christ that God became. A man, came
down here, hung, bled and died on an old rugged cross,
was buried in a borrowed tomb. So he went from
a borrowed womb to a borrowed tomb. But then, as
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everybody has said early Sunday morning he got up. And
so the three men on the cross in John 1918.
And there were three crosses. Everybody know that there's a
thief on the left of Jesus, and Jesus is on
the middle cross, and there's a thief on the right
of Jesus and the thief on the left of Jesus. Uh,
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he represented somebody who died in sin. And the thief
on the right, he represents somebody who died to their sin.
But Jesus in the middle is the one who died
for our sin. And so one died in sin, one
died to sin, one died for sin. And so the
one on my left, uh, he was on the cross
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of rebellion and the one that was on my right,
he was on the cross of repentance, but the one
in the middle, he was on the cross of redemption
or remitting our sins for us, taking all of the
filth of all that we've ever done in word or deed, word,
thought or deed. And he took those sins on himself
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and so on. The one on my left rejection was
taking place. The one on my right a receiving was
taking place, but the one in the middle remission was
taking place. I came to tell somebody that the world
is not divided like people like to divide it. It
is not divided geographically. It is not divided racially. It's
not divided economically. It's not divided nationally. It's divided by
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the cross that everybody in here is on the one
side of the cross or the other, that you're on
the left side of the cross where you're going to
die in your sin, or you're on the right side
of the cross where you're going to die to your sin.
Because in the middle, Jesus died for your sin. And
the job of this preacher and every preacher holler at me.
Preachers wave at me. All the preachers in the house.
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Our job is to get you from the left side
of the cross, over to the right side of the cross.
That's our job. Because there's only two kind of people
in the world. You're either a saint, help me Christ
Bible or an ain't. That's right. A saint or an ain't.
And so he wants us to know. Listen, that this
is the content of the gospel here. That man was dying.
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He only had about an hour and a half left,
and he told his family, I don't want y'all in here,
but I want my lawyer, and I want my broker.
Call him and tell him. Get here as quick as
they can. And sure enough, they got there. And when
they got there, they felt honored. You want your family
and you're letting us in. Why? He said, because I
want to die like my Lord Jesus Christ. I want
to die between two thieves. Yeah, yeah. The content is
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the gospel, and it determines where you will spend eternity.
Somebody asked me, do you preach the full gospel? I said, yes,
I do. I preach the full gospel. I preach that
Jesus was God who became a man who died on
an old rugged cross, buried, and then rose again the
third day, ascended in the right hand of the father,
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and is soon coming. King. That's as full as it gets.
It doesn't get any fuller than that. That's it. And
so it is. And we know it. It is the
content of the gospel that saved us. Okay. Alright, alright. See,
it was the gospel that took that 40 out of
your hand and put a Bible in it. It was
the gospel that turned your cursing tongue into praising lips.
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It was the gospel that took you from the party house,
the jailhouse, the crack house, the frat house, the school house,
the penthouse, the bar house, the outhouse, the white house,
even your house. And brought you to the church house. Yeah,
it was the gospel that took that blunt, that bud
from your lips. And now you get high on the
Holy Ghost. It was the gospel that stopped you from
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sleeping around with every woman that was stupid enough to
sleep with you. And now you're celibate. If you're single
or if you're married, you are homosexual. You get your
sex at home. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah, sister. It was the
gospel that kept you from getting your self esteem, from
the fact that you have a man, and then you
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now get your self esteem from the fact that you
have the man Jesus Christ, that all your girlfriends think
that you are crazy because you left a man you
could see to hook up with a man you can't see.
And now the man that you can't see is taking
better of you than the man you could see. And
so you're grateful that he came with the gospel of
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Jesus Christ. Touched your life. Touch your heart, young people.
I know you're glad that the gospel help you understand
that it's not the label on your clothes that give
you value and worth, but that your name is written
in the Lamb's Book of Life. Hallelujah to the Lamb
of God. Yeah, it was the gospel. Yeah. That content
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that wrote our name in the Lamb's Book of Life.
It was the gospel that put God in our heart
and pep in our step and sense in our head,
and a Bible in our hand and a song on
our lips and a smile on our face. Because I
know some of y'all ain't cracked a smile yet. You
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have to buy better makeup. But not just the content
of the scriptures. Notice the confirmation of the scriptures. Two
times it says according to the scriptures. Now you gotta
understand something. The first extant manuscript that we have of
the scriptures were written approximately A.D. 45 by Mark John Mark.
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The first gospel, of which all the other gospels are,
got some of their information and, well, a lot of
their information. And so when it says here the Scripture
is talking about the Old Testament Scripture. Now Paul says,
let me tell you something. This is not new and improved.
This is not something that you're hearing for the first time,
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he says. Back in the Old Testament, everybody began to
tell you about the fact that Jesus would die, be buried,
and rose again and rise again the third day in
the Old Testament. So you take Isaiah, what we call
the fifth gospel in the Old Testament. What did he say?
He said that he was wounded for our transgressions, bruised
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for our iniquities, and the chastisement of his peace was
upon us, and by his stripes we were healed. 700
years before Jesus ever came to Calvary, Isaiah said in
the scriptures, he's going to die, be buried. And now
his resurrection is confirmation that you can trust the Bible,
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that you can trust it. As a matter of fact,
you know what amazes me in Psalm 22? It talks
about the fact that Jesus would be crucified. Well, wait
a minute. This is at least 400 years before Rome
ever started using crucifixion as a means of execution. So
God said, I done already set this thing up. He
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is delivered up because of the foreordained counsel of God.
And God says he going to die on a cross.
And people back then were saying, what is a cross?
S2 (23:07):
Well, unfortunately we do have to pause the teaching right there.
Great point from Pastor Ford and we'll continue this message
in title run. Tell that next time right here on
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The world is not divided like people like to divide it.
It is not divided geographically. It is not divided racially.
It's not divided economically. It's divided by the cross that
everybody in here is on one side of the cross
or the other.
S2 (00:24):
You're listening to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James
Ford Jr. Senior pastor of Christ Bible Church in Chicago.
I'm Steve Hiller, and I'm glad that you're with us.
You know, pastor, if we do try and divide the
world geographically, racially, so many different ways you can divide
that world down into so many minuscule little segments. But
very simple. When we're going to divide it by the cross.
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You're on one side or the other. It's 1 or 2.
You want a 7 or 8.
S1 (00:50):
You are a saint or you ain't.
S2 (00:53):
Yeah, that is it right there.
S1 (00:54):
No middle.
S2 (00:55):
Ground. And so I know that as we get into
today's message, we're going to spend some time talking about
making sure that we are telling those on the other side,
on the eight side of the cross, how they can
get to the saint side of the cross.
S1 (01:10):
Amen. That's what the Bible is really all about. I mean,
it's about the redemption. There's a scarlet thread that runs throughout. Uh,
but it's Luke 1910. The Son of Man has come
to seek and to save that which was lost. And
so the Lord Jesus Christ, I mean, he left the
(01:31):
suburbs of heaven, came to the inner city called Earth
to redeem lost humanity, of which you and I are
a full part of. And we're grateful for it. We
thank God, uh, that he did come. So now that
he came down, we can go up. And I trust
that someone who's listening will understand what the Bible has
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to say. Here it is in a nutshell. I love
Romans ten nine and ten. It says that if thou
shalt confess with thy mouth that Jesus is Lord, and
believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved. Then verse ten says this for
with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation. That word Lord is curious.
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It's the Old Testament equivalent of Yahweh. Do you believe
that Jesus Christ of the New Testament is Yahweh of
the Old Testament? Well, whether you believe it or not,
he is. And the text that we're going to look
at today gives us what is the gospel? People say,
what's the good news? He says, for I delivered unto
(02:37):
you that which I also received, how that Christ died
for our sins. That's according to the scriptures, and that
he was buried, and that he rose again the third
day according to the scriptures. That's the good news. And
all you have to do is believe it. Thank God
he put the cookies on the lower table. It doesn't
matter how old you are or how young you are,
(02:59):
we all can come to Jesus Christ through the cross
of Calvary.
S2 (03:05):
Well, that is good news indeed. And we're going to
look a little bit more deeply at that today in
the book of First Corinthians. If you can join us
in chapter 15 as we begin the message. Run. Tell
that here's Pastor Ford.
S1 (03:19):
Now, someone once said that if you tell a man something,
it goes in one ear and out the other side.
But if you tell a woman something, it goes in
both her ears and out her mouth. Now I don't know.
I don't know if that's true. I, I don't know.
I'd give you the preacher's name, as I told you before. Uh,
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but come on, we know that's not entirely true. Uh,
because there are some men who gossip more. There are
some amens there. Yeah. So? So don't look around, because
everybody know who they are. Don't look around. Don't look around. Uh,
but we all know, uh, That most of the time
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we like to hear things about people and we like
sharing the truth. Or sometimes it's not the truth, but
we don't care because we love sharing the latest news.
I mean, if you think about it, uh, now they
do it and it's on the internet or on Instagram
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or on Facebook or on Twitter, just like that. So
it's told on you before you even get home. I
know it to be true because I said something about
my wife when she wasn't here, and then when I
got home, she slapped me upside the head. I said,
what's that for? She said, what you said in church.
How you find out so fast? Lift up her cellphone,
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show me a text message. Mhm. Yeah. And so the
bigger the people the greater we like to spread the news.
And so if it's big news about big people we
run tell that now Paul says we ought to be
ready to tell the gospel as readily as we tell
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the gossip. Uh, yeah. That's what he's talking about in
first Corinthians chapter 15. It's called the resurrection chapter, and
he's going to tell us about the resurrection of our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And basically, if you want
to boil it down to what he's going to tell us,
he's going to tell us that death proved that Jesus
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was a man, but the resurrection proved that Jesus was God.
Uh huh. Yeah, he's the God man. He's God and
man at the same time. Yeah. He's undiminished deity and
undeniable humanity at the same time. He's 100% God, 100%
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man at the same time. What that means is this.
He was born as a baby. Uh, but is the
eternal God at the same time that he got thirsty?
But he's the living water at the same. Y'all ain't
going to help me in here. At the same time,
he got hungry, but he was the bread of life.
At the same time, he grew in wisdom and stature
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in favor with God and man, but he knows everything
at the same time. He's in one place at one time,
but in every place, at every time, at the same time,
he's here and he's there at the same time. He's
in my today and he's in my tomorrow at the
same time, he's at the right hand of the father,
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and he's living in my heart at the same time.
And he's coming for me, though he never left me
at the same time. Yeah, he's the God man. Colossians
two nine and ten. For in him dwells all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete in him.
And Paul says, run, tell that. Yeah, it run! Tell
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that he is risen. No, no, no, he is risen!
I said he is risen! Yeah. And he gave us
evidences that Christ has risen from the dead. Let's walk
through him. I'm going to drop him. I'm not going
to push him. Notice, first of all, the first evidence
about Christ's resurrection from the dead is found in verses
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one and two. Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the
gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received,
and wherein you stand, by which also you are saved.
If you keep in memory what I have preached unto you,
unless I have preached unto you in vain. Now notice
what Paul was saying. He's talking about the transformation of
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the saints. He's saying the first proof that the resurrection
of Jesus Christ is real is the transformation of the saints.
He uses the word saved sozo. In other words, when
you look at what Paul was trying to focus on,
everybody has two births or everybody should have two births.
The first birth, your mother tells you about the second
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birth you ought to tell your mother about. And that's
what Paul was talking about. This second birth. Why? Born once.
Died twice. Born twice. Die once. Maybe. And so he's saying, listen.
In verse one, he talks about the proclamation that led
to your transformation in verse two. He's talking about the
product of your transformation. He says, you receive the message
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and that message saves you. And it was not in vain.
It means empty. That is, you heard the message and
you responded to it. And the problem today in many
churches is that a whole lot of people have been
starched and ironed, but they ain't never been washed. Aha. Yeah. See?
Not in vain. What he means is this it wasn't
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because of the Eightfold path of Buddhism that you got saved.
It wasn't because of the five pillars of Islam that
you got saved. It wasn't because of the Ten Commandments
of the Jews that you got saved. It wasn't because
of a 12 step program of AA or Na that
you got saved. But he said it was one step
that you believed in the finished work of our Lord
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and Savior Jesus Christ. And because of that, you got
saved because the Son of God became the Son of man,
that the sons of men may become the sons of God.
And somebody ought to be grateful that God has saved.
I wish I had some saved folk in the house. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember before my son became a barber, I went
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to a barber shop. I like the sign that was
at the barber shop. I walked in and it said,
In God We Trust. And then another sign was over
here and it said, all others pay cash. Oh, I
like that sign. I thought about it, Richie. I said,
you know what? That's a good sign. You know what
he's saying? No checks, no credit cards, no money orders,
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no debit cards, no gift cards, no link cards. Only
one form of payment. Cash is king. That's what he's saying.
And when I thought about our salvation, as Paul talks
about it in verses one and verse two, he says, listen,
there's only one form of payment for sin, and that's
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the blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The
songwriter said, what can wash away my sin? Nothing but
the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh precious is the
flow that makes me white as snow. No other fount
I know. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Leviticus 1711
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I've given the blood upon the altar as an atonement
for sin. Hebrews 922. Without the shedding of blood, there
is no remission. First Peter chapter one, verses 18 and 19.
For as much as you know that you've not been
redeemed from corruptible things, such as silver and gold, from
your vain conversation received by tradition of your fathers. But
but thank God for the. But. Yeah, but with the
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precious blood of Jesus Christ. As of a lamb without
spot and without blemish. Oh, thank you Jesus. Amen. I'm
praising him all by myself. Sure. Hey, there's a word
here that I gotta point out to you. Just one word.
I ain't got time for all of it, you know that.
But the word received. Oh, that's a powerful word. Because
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the word received is not the regular word to get something.
You receive salvation? No, the object of salvation. But it's my.
Say my. Now, that Greek word means this. It talks
about the object plus. What's the plus? It not only
says that you receive something, it says how you received it.
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So here's what he's saying. He's saying, listen, when you
heard this gospel, it made you happy. You received it
with joy. Amen. And that's what he tells us. He
tells us, listen, that. That whenever we accept the Lord
Jesus Christ. Oh, yeah, we will be happy. Yeah. That's it.
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And so he wants us to know that the transformation
of the Saints has done this. Uh, why? Because the
Bible says, therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's
a new creature. Old things have passed away. Behold, all
things have become new. That is, I remember, uh, back
in the old sanctuary, major Matthew was an elder, and, uh, Dino, uh,
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was on the drums. And a lady looked up at
the service and she laughed. And I wanted to know
what was so funny from the pulpit. So I caught
her after the service. I said, I saw you look
at the pulpit and laugh. What was so funny? She said, well,
I looked at our pastor. He's an ex-drug pusher. I
looked at our elder. He's an ex crackhead. I looked
at our drummer. He's an ex gangbanger. And I thought,
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God sure must be desperate these days. And I said
to her, sis, God is not desperate. God is merciful. See,
the operative word is ex. That's the operative word. Now, now,
anybody who saw Malcolm X knows that, Malcolm said when
they asked him in the interview, why do you use
an X Mr. X? And he said, because as a
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slave my name was taken away. I don't know what
it is. So the X in math is the unknown factor.
So I use x. Well, I use x too, but
it's not because of the unknown, it's because of the unknown.
Because I am an ex-drug pusher. I am an ex adulterer.
I am an ex child abandoner I am an ex.
I'm an ex ex ex. And see, that's what the
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gospel has done. It has transformed me and I ain't
the only X in here. There's some X liars and
some ex-chiefs and some X pornography viewers and some X
drug head and some x hoes and some x pimps.
There's some X in here. I ought to have some
noise in here because there's everybody in here is an
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X something. Come on man if you saved he saved
you from something. And so you're x Amen. Amen. Amen.
S2 (14:04):
Amen. Indeed. That is good news, isn't it? That Christ
comes and he saves us from what we once were,
and he puts a new heart in us. We are
a new creation once we come to know him. What
a great way to begin this message. It's entitled run,
Tell Dat, and we're going to continue this teaching in
just a moment. If you want to make sure that
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All right, let's get back to the message again. Here's
Pastor Ford.
S1 (14:51):
Notice secondly with me notice the second truth that undergirds
the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He says the transformation of
the saints. Then secondly, he says the truth of the scriptures.
Notice what it says in verses three and four, for
I delivered unto you first of all that which I received,
how that Christ died for our sins, according to the
Scripture that he was buried, and that he rose again
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the third day according second reason. The truth of the scriptures.
In verses three and four. Now here's what Paul does.
I love this because Paul is going to tell us
that it's proven in two ways, by the content of
the scriptures and by the confirmation of the scriptures. Jesus
Christ has rose from the dead. So he gives the content.
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What is the content of the good news? What should
we run and tell? It is the death, burial, and
resurrection of Jesus Christ that God became. A man, came
down here, hung, bled and died on an old rugged cross,
was buried in a borrowed tomb. So he went from
a borrowed womb to a borrowed tomb. But then, as
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everybody has said early Sunday morning he got up. And
so the three men on the cross in John 1918.
And there were three crosses. Everybody know that there's a
thief on the left of Jesus, and Jesus is on
the middle cross, and there's a thief on the right
of Jesus and the thief on the left of Jesus. Uh,
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he represented somebody who died in sin. And the thief
on the right, he represents somebody who died to their sin.
But Jesus in the middle is the one who died
for our sin. And so one died in sin, one
died to sin, one died for sin. And so the
one on my left, uh, he was on the cross
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of rebellion and the one that was on my right,
he was on the cross of repentance, but the one
in the middle, he was on the cross of redemption
or remitting our sins for us, taking all of the
filth of all that we've ever done in word or deed, word,
thought or deed. And he took those sins on himself
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and so on. The one on my left rejection was
taking place. The one on my right a receiving was
taking place, but the one in the middle remission was
taking place. I came to tell somebody that the world
is not divided like people like to divide it. It
is not divided geographically. It is not divided racially. It's
not divided economically. It's not divided nationally. It's divided by
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the cross that everybody in here is on the one
side of the cross or the other, that you're on
the left side of the cross where you're going to
die in your sin, or you're on the right side
of the cross where you're going to die to your sin.
Because in the middle, Jesus died for your sin. And
the job of this preacher and every preacher holler at me.
Preachers wave at me. All the preachers in the house.
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Our job is to get you from the left side
of the cross, over to the right side of the cross.
That's our job. Because there's only two kind of people
in the world. You're either a saint, help me Christ
Bible or an ain't. That's right. A saint or an ain't.
And so he wants us to know. Listen, that this
is the content of the gospel here. That man was dying.
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He only had about an hour and a half left,
and he told his family, I don't want y'all in here,
but I want my lawyer, and I want my broker.
Call him and tell him. Get here as quick as
they can. And sure enough, they got there. And when
they got there, they felt honored. You want your family
and you're letting us in. Why? He said, because I
want to die like my Lord Jesus Christ. I want
to die between two thieves. Yeah, yeah. The content is
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the gospel, and it determines where you will spend eternity.
Somebody asked me, do you preach the full gospel? I said, yes,
I do. I preach the full gospel. I preach that
Jesus was God who became a man who died on
an old rugged cross, buried, and then rose again the
third day, ascended in the right hand of the father,
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and is soon coming. King. That's as full as it gets.
It doesn't get any fuller than that. That's it. And
so it is. And we know it. It is the
content of the gospel that saved us. Okay. Alright, alright. See,
it was the gospel that took that 40 out of
your hand and put a Bible in it. It was
the gospel that turned your cursing tongue into praising lips.
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It was the gospel that took you from the party house,
the jailhouse, the crack house, the frat house, the school house,
the penthouse, the bar house, the outhouse, the white house,
even your house. And brought you to the church house. Yeah,
it was the gospel that took that blunt, that bud
from your lips. And now you get high on the
Holy Ghost. It was the gospel that stopped you from
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sleeping around with every woman that was stupid enough to
sleep with you. And now you're celibate. If you're single
or if you're married, you are homosexual. You get your
sex at home. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah, sister. It was the
gospel that kept you from getting your self esteem, from
the fact that you have a man, and then you
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now get your self esteem from the fact that you
have the man Jesus Christ, that all your girlfriends think
that you are crazy because you left a man you
could see to hook up with a man you can't see.
And now the man that you can't see is taking
better of you than the man you could see. And
so you're grateful that he came with the gospel of
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Jesus Christ. Touched your life. Touch your heart, young people.
I know you're glad that the gospel help you understand
that it's not the label on your clothes that give
you value and worth, but that your name is written
in the Lamb's Book of Life. Hallelujah to the Lamb
of God. Yeah, it was the gospel. Yeah. That content
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that wrote our name in the Lamb's Book of Life.
It was the gospel that put God in our heart
and pep in our step and sense in our head,
and a Bible in our hand and a song on
our lips and a smile on our face. Because I
know some of y'all ain't cracked a smile yet. You
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have to buy better makeup. But not just the content
of the scriptures. Notice the confirmation of the scriptures. Two
times it says according to the scriptures. Now you gotta
understand something. The first extant manuscript that we have of
the scriptures were written approximately A.D. 45 by Mark John Mark.
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The first gospel, of which all the other gospels are,
got some of their information and, well, a lot of
their information. And so when it says here the Scripture
is talking about the Old Testament Scripture. Now Paul says,
let me tell you something. This is not new and improved.
This is not something that you're hearing for the first time,
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he says. Back in the Old Testament, everybody began to
tell you about the fact that Jesus would die, be buried,
and rose again and rise again the third day in
the Old Testament. So you take Isaiah, what we call
the fifth gospel in the Old Testament. What did he say?
He said that he was wounded for our transgressions, bruised
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for our iniquities, and the chastisement of his peace was
upon us, and by his stripes we were healed. 700
years before Jesus ever came to Calvary, Isaiah said in
the scriptures, he's going to die, be buried. And now
his resurrection is confirmation that you can trust the Bible,
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that you can trust it. As a matter of fact,
you know what amazes me in Psalm 22? It talks
about the fact that Jesus would be crucified. Well, wait
a minute. This is at least 400 years before Rome
ever started using crucifixion as a means of execution. So
God said, I done already set this thing up. He
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is delivered up because of the foreordained counsel of God.
And God says he going to die on a cross.
And people back then were saying, what is a cross?
S2 (23:07):
Well, unfortunately we do have to pause the teaching right there.
Great point from Pastor Ford and we'll continue this message
in title run. Tell that next time right here on
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