September 9, 2025 • 62 mins
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What made the early church so powerful? Before a single New Testament document existed, a small band of disciples had already "turned the world upside down." Their secret wasn't elaborate theology or complex structures, but a simple, life-changing message: Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again.
This message carried such power because it came from eyewitnesses. They had watched Jesus suffer through crucifixion—a historical fact so established that even skeptical scholars acknowledge it as "indisputable." Having witnessed Christ's suffering firsthand enabled these disciples to later face their own persecution with remarkable joy, keeping their eyes fixed on what He had endured for them.
But witnessing Christ's death wasn't what transformed these frightened followers. Everything changed when the resurrected Jesus appeared in their midst, saying essentially, "I'm here now. Everything's going to be alright." From that moment, confusion turned to clarity, fear to boldness, and uncertainty to purpose. As Peter later testified, "We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him."
This testimony resonates across centuries because while we weren't physically present at Calvary or the empty tomb, the Holy Spirit—who was there—bears witness to these truths in our hearts today. This divine confirmation transforms intellectual belief into living faith.
The message that revolutionized the ancient world remains just as powerful today. When life takes unexpected turns, when sickness, financial struggle, or relationship problems overwhelm us, Jesus still appears in our midst with the same reassurance: "I'm here. Everything's going to be alright." Our circumstances may not immediately change, but recognizing His presence changes everything about how we face them.
Whatever you're going through right now, remember this transformative truth: Jesus is alive forevermore. Let this reality penetrate your heart, and experience the same power that turned the world upside down two thousand years ago.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Far East Coast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Praise the Lord.
Thank you, brother Fred.
What a wonderful, amazing andsurprising opportunity to be
here today.
Life takes some strange twistsand turns, doesn't it?
It sure does.
It was May of this year.
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Brother Fred's, brother Denver,rick's brother Raymond Everybody
knows.
Raymond Sadly left us for abetter land and met several of
the family there at the funeral.
Raymond was married to SisterHudson's cousin Janet and please
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don't hold that against me andplease tell her.
I said that.
And the following week ourbeautiful, beautiful daughter,
beautiful daughter, met this guyfrom California.
And, as Paul Harvey used to say, you know the rest of the story
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.
So it looks like our familyjust can't get out of the woods.
Can't get out of the woods.
So here we are today.
Isn't it wonderful to feel thepresence of the Lord?
So here we are today.
Isn't it wonderful to feel thepresence of the Lord?
I've been privileged in my shortlifespan of 54 years to travel
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completely around the world inthe northern hemisphere.
I never got across the equatoras close as I've been to
Singapore, and I found ourbrother's message so encouraging
.
This morning he's expecting tobegin to talk about the pilots
crashing those planes and we arefixing to fly literally around
the world again.
So I enjoyed your message mostof it anyway.
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All right, but I've beenprivileged to be in some of the
nicer churches of renown in theworld.
Has anybody ever been to London,england?
All right, did you go toWestminster Abbey?
All right, go to London.
You need to go to WestminsterAbbey, and that church is
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probably 1,000 years old.
It sits right outside the Houseof Parliament and that's where
all the kings and queens arecoronated.
The coronation chair is thereand when you walk in, literally
there are people buriedeverywhere.
You're literally walking ongraves.
You are, and you talk about adead church.
I mean, it's a dead church.
It really is.
It's a dead church as a matterof fact.
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You might not believe this, butCharles Darwin, the founder of
Darwinian evolution, is buriedthere.
I found his grave and went andwalked all over the top of
Charles Darwin.
I did, I walked all over thetop of Charles Darwin.
You know it's amazing.
And then I've been across.
Anybody been to Paris, france,france, anybody been to France?
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Nobody been to?
Okay, yeah.
Did you go to the former NotreDame?
Okay, yeah, yeah.
And I was actually there onservice one Sunday morning and
of course you might rememberthat church caught on fire back
in April, the most fire thatchurch has ever had, but anyway
it was a beautiful building.
I mean over 1,000 years old,1,000 years to build this place,
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and I mean by the world'sstandards.
I mean by the world standards,I mean by the world standard.
This little building just kindof, you know, pales in
comparison.
But in both those places, notone time and I've been to them
several times not one time did Ifeel there what I felt in this
little place this morning.
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And sometimes we fail torealize just how blessed we are.
I ask this question oftentimesand I must hurry.
I must hurry.
I know I must keep it short,keep it sweet.
I get through preaching, youget to eat.
So I've got to be very carefulhere and probably it might not
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even be welcome.
I don't know, but has thegovernor of California ever been
here?
No, yeah, you'd like for himright there, all right.
Yeah, come on in, sir, we got aplace for you right there.
Bring Kamala and Diane.
Y'all.
Come on right down here.
Yeah, I don't, I'm just severon right down here, I'm just
severed in places.
So I'm not going to ask whoyour representatives are in the
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Congress, but we can make a spotfor them right over here.
I've been around here enough toknow that there might be some
of you that would be glad to seePresident Trump and Vice
President Pence.
I really would.
Yeah, I sure would, but havethey been here?
No, why, you don't rank highenough.
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You don't have enough money,most of them.
Has the God of heaven ever beenin this place?
Sometimes we just sit here andact like, oh, what's the big
deal?
I tell you, it's a mighty bigdeal that the God who made this
massive universe by his veryspoken word is in this place
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today and we're just kind oflike, well, oh, isn't that nice.
It really is nice.
And you've already heard enoughpreaching this morning and last
night, since I've been here,and I just, you know, just you
know, no telling what couldhappen right now.
Somebody would believe the Lordand just tell the devil to shut
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up.
Okay, I'd be careful, brother,when you say things like that.
Sometimes husbands look at wivesand vice versa and kind of get
in trouble there.
But no telling what couldhappen right now, right to you
and for you.
Because when jesus passes byand I thought sure did enjoy
that young man's message, butreally I don't think he's
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passing by, he was here for you,got here this morning can we
stand our feet one more time andlet's just worship the Lord?
Maybe if you've got that needright now, you could just say
Lord, I believe you, Lord, Iknow that you're here.
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I believe you, lord.
So, lord, please help us rightnow, give us wisdom.
Give us right now, give uswisdom.
Give us favor, lord.
Give us your blessing, lord.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Bless our fellowship, bless every church here.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Thank you for this church and congregation.
Lord, give me wisdom right now.
Accomplish your will in Jesus'name.
And the church said amen, youmight be seated Again.
We do.
Thank you so much.
I do want to say what an honorit is to be with Brother and
Sister Birdsong again, and thatlittle black sister in the
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Savannah area years ago got alittle confused but she loved
them bird singers.
She's so glad when them birdsingers was there, she really
was.
Yeah and so good.
And I certainly appreciate themessage last night and the
burden and then the preachingtoday.
I certainly do appreciate it.
I'm going to try to use wisdomhere, but this is the burden of
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my heart.
I've preached this numeroustimes and I asked the Lord about
it during the night and thismorning.
So if you'll turn with me veryquickly to 1 Corinthians 15.
My wife knows where I'm goingand I've preached this a lot of
different places and anyopportunity that I feel the Lord
would allow me.
1 Corinthians, chapter 15,.
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Normally I would ask you tostand, but you've kind of been
up and down so I'll just let yousit there for a moment.
1 Corinthians, chapter 15,verse 3, for I delivered unto
you first of all that which Ialso received, how that Christ
died for our sins according tothe scriptures, and that he was
buried and that he rose againthe third day according to the
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scriptures now in the book ofActs, chapter number 17.
Just one more little verse ofscripture and then we will be on
the way here If you go to thelatter part of verse number 6,
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acts, chapter 17,.
These that have turned theworld upside down are come
hither also.
If the Lord would help me forjust a few moments, I want to
preach on the message thatturned the world upside down.
Please bear with me for just afew moments, but last night you
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might recall that I made a fewstatements in testifying and I
made note of the fact of thetiming of the New Testament
documents.
Now it's important to realizeif our Lord, and I think current
scholarship suggests that Jesusthe more common scholastic
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dating now probably be 30 AD,but the more commonly known date
would be 30, 33 AD 33 AD is themore common.
Be that as it may, three years,jesus died by crucifixion, was
buried and rose again, and so ifwe place that about 33 AD, it's
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also recognized by scholarsthat the first written down book
of the New Testament was notthe book of Matthew.
Your Bible is not in achronological order, it's in a
topical order, and so I thinkthe consensus now is that Mark
was the first to write down aNew Testament document.
So that's going to occur around, if you will, 50 AD, and then,
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of course, if we get down to thebook of Revelation, and that's
going to be probably 90 to 95 AD.
That means that for the firstcentury there is no New
Testament as we know it now.
For the first 17 years there'snot one new testament document.
And yet, and yet in acts,chapter 17, verse number six,
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those apostles and disciples arereferred to as these that have
turned the world upside down,and so it was without one
Testament document.
They literally turned the worldupside down.
This becomes more and moreprofound when you consider that
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as the church becomes moreGentile, gentiles are not
welcome in the synagogues or thetemples, and the Gentiles don't
have access to the OldTestament temples, and the
gentiles don't have access tothe old testament, and, uh, and
in many ways at that point itdidn't quite make the sense to
them, but it maybe does to usnow, until some of the other new
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testament writings come along,so, really, you could almost say
, without a new testament andvery little of the old, they had
something that turned the worldupside down, and that was they
had a message.
They had a message, they had amessage, and it seemed like, in
many ways, today we've almostforgotten and I'm so thrilled to
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hear the emphasis even lastnight, as Brother Birdsong
mentioned how many of us arehere in our midst and we say
that generally now that areamong us To look at them, you
would think, but they don't evenhave a clue to what it is to be
really saved, and it isaffecting us.
It really really is.
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And so if we look, though, atthe early church, if we look at
the earliest days of the church,coming out of Acts, chapter 2,
it doesn't take long to find outwhat that message was.
And 1 Corinthians, chapter 15,verse 3 and 4, is recognized by
biblical scholars as being thefirst doctrinal creed of the
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early church.
Now, what is a creed?
It's a statement of belief, andI dare say that if we were new
in the area and came here tothis church and said, brother
Fred, we would like to come here, we're interested in the church
, what do you believe he wouldcome out with this long list of
creeds?
We believe that's fine, nothingwrong with that.
We have to have it today.
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Certainly we do.
But if you would have found aNew Testament believer in 33 AD?
In fact, scholars have actuallydated this creed back to within
just a few weeks of the birthof the church and the day of
Pentecost.
But the reality of it is itstems from the day of Pentecost
and so if you would have found aNew Testament believer in 33 AD
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amen, or 34 AD and said you'rea Christian, what is it that you
believe?
This is what you'd have heard.
I believe that Christ died formy sins, according to the
Scripture, and that he wasburied but on the third day he
arose again, according to theScripture.
Now somebody say amen.
Now somebody say amen.
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I said somebody say amen, amen.
Now there are a lot of thingsthat are going to come on later
on.
There are going to be issues ofchurch government.
There will be issues believe itor not of dress.
There will be all kind ofissues that will have to be
dealt with in the early churchand Paul and the other apostles
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will deal with those.
But I want to remind you todaythe reason you were saved and
the reason that I am saved isbecause, as jesus died for our
sin, according to the scripture,he was buried and on the third
day he arose again.
Now, if you cannot shout overthat, you have not been saved,
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but if you have been saved, youcan shout over that Amen.
I'm glad that he died for mysins.
He was buried, but on the thirdday God raised him from the
dead.
Oh, somebody say amen,hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Now, I don't know if some of youpreachers have ever had this
problem, but traveling like wedo, in particular, sometimes
Sister Hudson gets a littlenervous.
Brother bird singer, uh, sisterhudson will.
Oh no, he's already preachedthat message here.
Oh, and brother lindsey savagesaid with this mix for stuff,
problem with that is yourmessage gets there for you do
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now amen.
But uh, she gets a little andit used to kind of bother me
sometime until I got to readingin the book of Acts.
Have you ever read the firstfew chapters of the book of Acts
?
Amen, peter had one message.
It didn't make any differencewhere Peter started at, he
always got back to the samemessage you crucified the Lord
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of glory, you put him in a tomb,but on the third day God raised
him from the dead.
Amen.
I know it's an old message, butit is the foundation of
everything that we believe.
Amen, thank God.
They crucified him.
They put him in a tomb, but thetomb couldn't hold him.
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Because put him in a tomb, butthe tomb couldn't hold him.
Because there never was a manlike Jesus.
Let me very carefully hurry onhere.
It's very easy to getsidetracked Amen.
There are two things that aregoing to make an impression on
the early church.
Please remember, when you'rereading the New Testament
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accounts, you are readingeyewitness accounts.
Luke is very careful to notethat he was not an eyewitness,
but that he had interviewedeyewitnesses.
Now Luke is considered to beone of the greatest historians
of the ancient world.
The book of Acts, chapter 13 tothe end.
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Over 80 plus archaeologicaldiscoveries have proven that
Luke knew exactly what he wastalking about.
Actually have found the anchorsfrom the shipwreck that he and
Paul were in.
Found the anchors at the exactdepth and location they would
have been had they been cutloose.
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And so Luke says I was not aneyewitness, but I have
interviewed eyewitnesses.
But when it comes to the rest ofthem.
Go through the book of Acts andread how many times they say
and we are witnesses of thesethings, and we are eyewitnesses
of these things.
Peter said we've not followedcomingly devised fables when we
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made known unto you the comingof our Lord Jesus, but we're
eyewitnesses of his majesty.
If there's one thing that isdisturbing me in our church
today, it is the loss ofeyewitness testimony of men and
women that can stand and say Iwas, but no longer am I what I
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used to be.
I do not believe in glamorizingsin, but our young people need
to know that among us were menthat were alcoholics, and such
were some of you who can standand testify to the grace of God.
Somebody say amen and help mewhile I preach now.
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So they are eyewitnesses ofthese things.
There are two things and I musthurry.
It's going to make an indelibleimpact on that group of early
believers.
Number one the suffering of theSavior.
Do you know that one of the mostestablished facts of ancient
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history is not only that Jesuslived, but that he died by means
of crucifixion during the reignof Pontius Pilate?
Gerd Ludeman, who is a renownedancient historian who happens
to be an atheist, says the factsof Jesus death by crucifixion
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are indisputable.
Paulaerickson, who is a skeptic, doesn't even believe the new
testament account.
She says the most certain thingabout jesus life is his death
by means of crucifixion duringthe reign of pontius pilate.
It is, again, one of the mostestablished fact of ancient
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history.
In fact, about the only onesyou would find to this day that
really would claim it to be thatJesus didn't die would be the
Muslims.
For you see, in the Quran,chapter 4, verse 157, it clearly
says let them not say that theycrucified him, for they
crucified him, not Only alikeness of him.
And so that's why your Muslimsdo not believe that Jesus died.
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Amen.
But there's a problem with that.
You see, mohammed was born in570 AD.
He never, ever, went toJerusalem, lived in Saudi Arabia
, and he's one man oh, youfollow me here now.
But these disciples andapostles, they knew the Lord,
they lived with him Ah, come onnow.
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And they knew, without a doubt,that Jesus amen, died.
They have watched his suffering.
Amen, john will stand there atthe sight of the cross when the
others have fled.
I dare say that some of theothers, however, they will be
hiding in the shadows, but everyone of them knew, without a
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doubt, what a Roman crucifixionentailed and they knew that
Jesus was dead.
But they knew that he sufferedhorribly.
Oh, come on now.
This is where it's going tocome.
A little hard to swallow, amen.
But because they saw him sufferin days to come.
A little hard to swallow, amen.
But because they saw him sufferin days to come.
When they are sufferinghorribly, not one time will they
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drop their head and moan andgroan, but they will rejoice in
their suffering.
When is the last time yourejoiced in your suffering?
If you ever get your eye backon the suffering of the Savior
and the suffering of the cross,anything that you are going
through will be mild compared tothe suffering of the Savior.
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They're going to lose many oftheir homes, their lives, their
health.
You see, jesus said whosoeverwill come after me, let him deny
himself, take up his cross.
For the early church, it was adeath sentence, a death sentence
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for them that they suffered.
And if he suffered, let merejoice.
I do not pray for adversity andno adversity.
No, brother, I don't want Godto disturb me, amen.
But when is the last time youlifted your hand and said Lord,
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I don't understand, but if itbrings honor and glory to your
name, knowing what you sufferedfor me, you know the reason
we're having such problems withworldliness.
Among some of our churches.
We have forgotten the sufferingof the Savior.
If you ever see him and hissuffering, you'll understand the
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songwriter who said Thus mightI hide my blushing face while
his dear cross appears, dissolvemy heart in thankfulness and
melt mine eyes to tears?
It will make such an impressionupon them that they will look
adversity in the face and againrejoice in their sufferings
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because they were eyewitnessesto the suffering of the Savior.
He will suffer a horrible death.
How many of you have ever saiduse the word excruciating.
Has anybody ever had anexcruciating headache?
Do you know where the wordexcruciating comes from?
It means literally out of thecross.
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It was a word that was inventedto describe the suffering
associated with crucifixion.
It was so brutal, and so when Ihave said I've got an
excruciating headache, what I'mliterally saying?
It hurts so bad that I feellike I'm being crucified.
Oh, but here he was.
I know, I know I hear you sayit as others.
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Well, many others werecrucified too.
I know that.
Amen.
But this is God incarnate.
This is the creator of theuniverse.
It ought to have been you, andit ought to have been me and not
him, you, and it ought to havebeen me and not him.
Oh, and sometime we fail toremember the suffering that he
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did on our behalf, that we couldbe here today and rejoice.
Could somebody just put yourhand up and say, thank you, lord
, for suffering?
I must hurry, I must hurry.
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Haven't we all been there whenwe questioned and said oh God,
why?
Somebody said you shouldn't askGod why Jesus did.
He said my God, my God, why why?
It's not a cry that you've doneme wrong, it's just where are
you God?
Where are you God?
Oh, but here's a little caveaton that Even though Jesus didn't
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understand, he still had enoughconfidence in God that his
final words were Father into thyhands, come in my spirit.
I may not understand why, but Itrust you enough, god, that I
believe you know what you'redoing.
Can you really trust God?
I said can you really trust God?
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I said can you really trust God, lord?
I don't know, but I reallybelieve God.
You know what you're doing yeah, yeah for me it's not a cop out
.
I really have that confidence inGod.
Has anyone ever been to Hollandbefore?
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Sister Hudson and I weretransiting through Holland some
years ago, we went to the hidingplace.
You remember Corrie Ten Boom'sbook the Hiding Place.
You read that book.
We visited that home and therein that little room was a
tapestry that Corrie Ten Boom,the tramp for the Lord, as she
called herself, used to take,and on one side is a tangle,
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weave, mess, ugly, just threads.
That made no sense whatsoever.
And she said that's often howwe see it.
Flip that thing around.
It was a tapestry of abeautiful crown.
She said often we see the uglybut we don't see what God's
working on the other side.
Oh, this light affliction,that's just.
Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost.
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If you're going through itright now, throw your hand up
and say I don't understand God,but I trust you anyway.
I don't know why, but God, Itrust you anyway, I feel the
Holy Ghost right here.
I said pull your hand up andsay, lord, I trust you anyway, I
feel the Holy Ghost right now.
I believe if somebody would dothat, you might find what you've
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been looking for for a mightylong time.
Amen, hallelujah, glory to God.
I feel the Holy Ghost in thisbuilding.
Amen, hallelujah, glory to God.
I feel the Holy Ghost in thisbuilding.
I'm feeling religious up here.
Oh Lord, I don't understand.
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Job said yea though he trust me.
He said yea though he slay me.
Yet will I trust in him?
Amen.
We've been actively involved inmission work for many years.
We're hoping the Lord helpingus in a few years to be living
more part full time in Myanmar,which is right next to China.
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Some of you remember Adam, andAdam Jetson suffered horribly in
that country in the 1800's totake the gospel to them.
Now we're trying to strengthenthings which remain, kind of
help them get back on track.
Amen.
I don't believe inpredestination, as taught by
many today, and even as JohnCalvin did.
But there's one thing aboutthose old people.
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Let me say this out of allfairness those old men that
taught preservation of the saintor eternal security, calvin and
Whitfield and men like JonathanEdwards they did not believe,
you hear me, they did notbelieve in a live like the devil
, die like a saint.
Amen.
They would say.
If you backslid, you were neversaved.
Now I believe that you can besaved and backslide, but they
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believed, just like us, thatsin's not going to heaven.
And so they would say you know,are you with me now?
But there was one thing that itdid enable them Amen.
They believed that, whatevercame their way, that God had
predetermined that was to happen, and they had such trust and
confidence in God that he woulddo them nothing but good.
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And that everything that'shappening to me, god's working
it for my good.
Oh, come on, child of God.
I said look up and remember Godis not trying to trick you,
he's in it for your good.
Remember, god is not trying totrick you, he's headed for your
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good.
I must hurry.
I must hurry.
No matter how close I live toGod and you live to God, we're
all going to suffer and die.
Curse thou art.
And it's only in that otherland that this curse will be
removed.
And I pray.
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I never do.
But if I come down with cancertomorrow, I'll call and say pray
, and if God in his mercy seesfit.
But if not, you can go toheaven with cancer, but you'll
never go with sin in your life.
Amen.
And that's why, for an earlychurch, they knew he died.
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It was not just some catechism.
Amen.
I believe that Christ died formy sin.
In that early day, brother,they couldn't give you some
exposition on the vicarioussuffering of the Savior Paul
would do that later but theyknew he was the sacrifice for
the redemption of mankind and hedied that I might live.
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And I know he was dead, he wasdead, he was dead, he was dead.
John in his gospel makes a veryinteresting observation that is
further proof that it'seyewitness testimony.
He notes that when the spearpierces the side, that there is
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water and blood that come out,and of course, at the time this
was not recognized as anything,but now it is clear evidence
that the spear perforated thelung and the pericardium, which
is a fluid sac, and the blooddenotes that the spear went all
the way to his heart.
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In an article in the AmericanJournal of Medicine in 1986, a
group of physicians took the NewTestament accounts and the
wording such as that to declareaccording to medical knowledge,
jesus was dead.
He was.
You've had it bad.
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What are these disciples goingto do?
Everything they have lived foris gone in a heartbeat.
Matthew, who worked for the IRS,gave up a good government job.
Peter, james and John they'veforsaken everything.
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When Peter says to the lame manat the gate silver and gold
have anon.
A few chapters before he saidLord, we have given up
everything to follow youEverything.
Now, here they are and theirhope is dead and they don't
understand what's going on.
You see, we all shout andrejoice, don't we?
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We know the story, but it wasabsolute chaos.
Can you imagine they're hiding.
They're hiding in fear ofwhat's going to happen to them.
Amen, oh, I can hear in theback of Matthew's mind I don't
want to go home.
My mama's going to tell me boy,I told you you should have left
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that job.
I told you you were stupid tofollow that guy.
Oh, come on, are you going tohelp?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
me right now, amen.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And I see Matthew as he's dropping his head, and
Peter James and John Peter saidwell, I got in the boat, I guess
I'll go back to fishing.
Amen.
The rest of them?
What are they going to do?
Their hope has come to an end.
They didn't understand it.
It made no sense to them.
In fact, on the resurrectionmorning and the resurrection day
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, it is nothing but confusionand chaos.
Are you hearing me?
We come church out and run jumpand we go back home have that
big Easter meal.
If you believe in Easter eggs,if you don't, that's fine.
I don't care for them myself,but I do like the chocolate
bunnies.
Pass them on my way.
Amen.
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But that Sunday night, afterwe're already back at church,
back in our normal routine, youknow where they were Locked in
fear In an upper room, amen.
They're confused aboutyesterday.
Nothing made sense.
They are fearful of today, thatat any moment the doors are
going to be kicked open and herecome the guards after them.
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They are uncertain of tomorrow.
What are they going to do when,all of a sudden, something
happened that totally changedthe dynamic of that upper room
experience?
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But it really got to start earlythat morning as several ladies
got up in the still darkness ofthe night and made their way to
that tomb.
It's still dark outside, thedawn is just beginning to break.
Among themselves they'retalking, they're still weeping
and lamenting about what hashappened.
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And one says to another but howare we going to move the stone?
Number one there's a seal on itwhich is a white emblem
stretched across with ropes.
Anybody that breaks thatwithout permission will be put
to death.
So beside that we've got theseRoman soldiers who are not known
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for their gentlemanly ways.
They are brutal, they are meanand they delight in belittling
Jewish women.
So they don't know what's goingto happen.
But as they're making their waythrough the darkness of a new
day, one of them looks ahead andsays I must be seeing things,
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something's not right, my visionis not good.
And she looks and says I don'tknow.
It looks like that tomb is open.
And another one said oh, comeon now Wipe those tears from
your eyes.
Well, my, my, my, it looks likeit is.
And so they began to make theirway.
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Can you imagine?
As they come up, I feel theHoly Ghost as they come up on
that tomb.
And as they make their way,they suddenly are startled by
soldiers lying around like deadmen.
These men are not asleep, butthey're spellbound, laid back,
amen.
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But there was something pullingthem to that empty tomb,
hallelujah.
And they thought well, god'sworked a miracle, now we'll be
able to do what we came to do.
God's worked it out.
Now we can go in and anoint thebody.
No, no, no.
God's changed your plans andeverybody else's.
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I'm telling you here today theLord can change your plan in a
moment of minutes, in a momentof seconds.
The Lord can change your plan.
I must hurry.
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Now, ladies, please, I digress.
I hate to tell you this, but inthis day you could not testify
in a court of law except for twooccasions If the estate of your
deceased husband are youmarried Okay, check that one off
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or if your virtue had beencalled into question.
Other than that, women were notallowed to testify because even
then, they had a reputation forgossip.
That's right and that's whyamen.
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When we read these accounts,it's further credence that it
happened just like the biblesaid.
And they walked in there andthey saw something they'd never
seen before.
But they heard words that haveforever turned the world upside
down.
Why seek you the living amongthe dead?
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He is not here.
He is risen, just like he said.
It is still the words thatstill to this day, turn the
world upside down.
He is not here, but he is risen.
Come see the place where he lay.
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Oh, somebody shout hallelujah.
I said.
Somebody say thank you, jesus,amen.
And they go running back,running back.
He's alive, he's alive, he isalive.
Hey, the message of the churchfor this hour still ought to be
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Jesus is alive, he is alive.
Oh, somebody say amen now.
I said Jesus is alive.
Oh, somebody say amen now Isaid Jesus is alive.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, he isalive.
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I must address I'll getsidetracked here John on the
Isle of Patmos.
Have you ever givenconsideration to how old John
must have been If he receivesthe revelation?
At 90 to 95 AD and contemporaryof our Lord?
That means the Apostle John wasprobably 80 to 90 years old.
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On the Isle of our Lord, thatmeans the Apostle John was
probably 80 to 90 years old onthe Isle of Patmos.
According to historicalaccounts that are probably true,
he was boiled in Nevada.
Boiling oil Didn't kill him, sohe's banished to Patmos.
So here he is, third degreeburns.
He does not have Obamacare.
He does not have SocialSecurityacare.
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He does not have SocialSecurity or Medicare.
He may not even have had histeeth.
He might not have had his teeth.
He might have had to pay hisreward because he didn't have no
teeth.
I want you to hear me.
Elderly people we're living ina society that will tell you and
I've been where the preachersalmost did said if you old folks
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would get out of the way, we'lldo what we want to do.
And I wanted to go to everyelder in that building and shake
their hand and say if it hadn'tbeen for you, I wouldn't have a
place to preach.
Thank you for what you've done.
And the devil will tell you youcan't do like you used to do.
You'll understand that, boys,one day.
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Amen, you can't do Amen.
I'm going to tell you what Ilike what Scripture said about
John.
He probably couldn't run andjump like he did before.
There's one thing he could do,he said I was in the Spirit on
the Lord's day.
You may not be able to run andjump, grandma.
You may not be able to run andjump, grandma, you may not be
able to swing from the lightfixture, grandpa, but you can
still get in the Spirit and geta word from the Lord Amen.
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So that's why I said this lastnight when I saw you shouting
around the front here.
I just loved every bit of it.
Yeah, shout on, hallelujah,amen.
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But on that island John saw himagain and he looks at him and
says behold, I am he which wasdead, but I am alive forevermore
Hallelujah.
I want you to know.
He is still alive.
Are you hearing me, jesus?
He is still alive.
Are you hearing me, jesus?
He is still alive.
And in that upper room thatnight, when those disciples were
confused, fearful and uncertain.
Jesus appeared over in thecorner.
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That's what it said.
Shaking your head?
Am I quoting that wrong?
You believe I am All right.
Does anybody know where he saidhe appeared?
Right there in the middle ofthem and that denotes where
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every one of them had equalaccess and he appears he walked
up to them.
He does not address theconfusion of yesterday.
He never mentions their fears,he never says anything about the
uncertainty of tomorrow.
In my vernacular he just saysI'm here now, everything's going
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to be all right.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
I'm here, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Everything's going to be all right.
And the Bible said then werethe disciples glad?
No, do you understand where theLord is at right now?
He's right here, in the middleof this sanctuary, saying to you
everything's going to be allright, I'm here.
I'm here, everything's going tobe all right.
Oh, somebody could get a holdof this.
Oh, I hear you right now,brother Tim.
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You don't understand mycircumstance, really, I probably
don't, but I'll tell you thismuch Jesus is alive.
Oh, brother Tim, I'm sick,maybe you are, but Jesus is
alive.
Oh, brother Tim, I don't knowabout tomorrow, neither do I,
but Jesus is alive.
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Run, son, run, amen.
Come on on church.
Jesus is Allah.
Come on somebody ScreamingJesus.
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Is Allah if the devil can getyour eyes off of Jesus, you will
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sink.
But Jesus said I am he whichwas dead and I'm alive
forevermore.
And because I live, ye shalllive also, amen.
Death will lose its fear andits hold on these early
disciples.
They saw him dead, but theyknew he was alive.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I must hurry.
Now we'll close my Bible.
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I must hurry Now we'll close myBible.
The message of the early church,things that will have to be
addressed.
They need to be even now.
But the reason we're here todayis because they crucify him for
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our sins.
He was dead, buried by him forour sins.
He was dead buried, but on thethird day.
Brother, I heard you last night.
Can you grab a Bible real quick?
Yeah, I understand.
Sometimes, if I don't use thesethings, people think I'm
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reading from a different version, because I'll put out a word
and put in a word and it wasn'tthere.
Okay, now here's something tobe saying.
Is now preacher?
Now you condemn Muhammadbecause he wasn't there, but
neither were you.
Well, now I know you kind of.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Look maybe a little elder, I don't have to worry
about a bad hair day, but anyway, anyway anyway.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Were you there?
Were you there when Jesus died?
How about you?
No, not many Myanmar have thisquestion.
How can we know?
Not that we doubt, but we'redealing with a country that's
85% Buddhist Strange religion,just weird.
How can we know?
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Dealing with Muslims?
We're working with some Muslims, buddhists, visiting their home
.
How do you know?
I wasn't there, neither wereyou.
Go to the fifth chapter of thebook of Acts and you got a
microphone, because I want themto hear this.
Okay, because some of them arealready saying wait a minute,
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preacher, all you doing, you uphere jumping, running, shouting,
and, and you wasn't thereeither.
I wasn't.
I know I may look like I was,but I wasn't.
I mean, I have been to Israel,but I wasn't there when Jesus
died.
I wasn't there on theresurrection morning.
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All right, they didn't have PAsystems back then either.
Sometimes I'm not sure thatmight have been a blessing.
You know, you ever had aproblem getting your PA to work.
George Whitfield could preach.
Ben Franklin said he measuredit off.
George Whitfield could preachto 25,000, 30,000 people without
the aid of a microphone.
Everybody heard it.
Ben Franklin went to hismeeting and measured it off and
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said without a doubt, You're ashort guy.
All right, go to chapter 5.
And let's pick up about versenumber 29.
Now hear this.
It's Peter.
Now you know where this isgoing to end up.
Read up.
We're the church in SouthCarolina.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said
we ought to obey God ratherthan men.
That's pretty strong, isn't it?
That is Read on the, isn't?
Speaker 2 (46:55):
it.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
That is Read on the God of our fathers.
Raised up Jesus, Uh-oh here wego.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Same message he preaches every time he turns
around.
Can't the God get anything new?
That's right.
Why does he have to keeppreaching?
Read on.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
Whom you slew, you slew and hanged on a tree.
Hanged on a tree, him hath Godexalted with his right hand to
be, a prince and a savior for togive repentance to Israel and
forgiveness of sin.
Now read on, and we are hiswitnesses of these things.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
All right, yeah, yeah , they were there.
All right, they were there Okay.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Read on, and so is also the Holy Ghost.
Wait, yeah, yeah, they werethere.
All right, they were there,okay.
Read on, and so is also theHoly Ghost.
Ah, wow, wait, wait, wait.
Read that again.
And also is the Holy Ghost.
Now read the next phrase Allright, Whom God hath given to
them that obey him.
You ain't got it.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
I wasn't there, but neither were you.
But the Holy Ghost was thereand we got him.
Hey, has anybody in thisbuilding felt the Holy Ghost?
Since you've been here, did youknow what that is?
That's the Holy Ghost screamingin your ear.
Jesus is alive.
I said, that is the Holy Ghostscreaming.
Jesus is alive.
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Holy Ghost, if you've evermoved.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
move on us.
Jesus is alive, Holy Ghost.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Lord, send the Holy Ghost among us right now.
Come on, somebody scream.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Lord, send the Holy Ghost.
Send the Holy Ghost, send it ondown.
Send it on down, lord, let theHoly Ghost come on down.
We got another witness.
The Holy Ghost is our witness.
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It's real, it's genuine,because the Holy Ghost was there
and he said it was, and I'vegot him here and he's my witness
.
Glory, hallelujah.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
I'm going to tell you somebody else who was there.
You don't want to know it, butI believe with all of my heart
that the devil himself, amen,was there that morning when
Jesus come up and the last thinghe wants you to do is realize
that Jesus is alive.
If you're here today and you'redowntrodden, if you're sick in
your body, amen.
If you got a burden, look upand scream it out.
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Jesus is alive.
Scream it out.
Speaker 3 (49:59):
Jesus is alive.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
Come on Holy's screaming out.
Won't you scream it in the faceof hell?
Devil, you're a liar.
Jesus is alive.
Jesus is alive, amen.
If you're lost in this buildingtoday, jesus is alive.
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I'm getting ready to close.
I worried your patience, but Iimagine that afternoon when
Jesus appeared in their midstand said I'm here, everything's
going to be all right.
John looked at Peter and saidwell, I just declared I thought
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he would come through after all,hallelujah.
Matthew said I never wanted togo back to the IRS.
I can see the doors kickingopen, those disciples running
down those stairs screaming he'salive, passing that Roman guard
as he looks, and the disciplescome running back and say oh, I
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forgot to tell you Jesus isalive, amen.
Turn to your neighbor and sayneighbor, jesus is alive, amen,
amen.
Hey, preacher, jesus is alive,amen.
Speaker 3 (51:59):
Preacher Jesus is alive.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Amen, amen, scream it out, shout it in the face of
you.
Jesus is alive.
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He said we're in an altarservice, we're having one.
Jesus is alive.
I want you to put them hands upand scream as you come around
here.
Jesus is alive, jesus is alive.
Jesus is alive.
Come on, jesus is alive.
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Jesus is alive.
Behold, I am he which was deadand I am alive forevermore.
Hallelujah, whatever yourcircumstance today, somebody
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raise your hand right now andsay preacher, I am really going
through a difficult trial.
Is there one Right there?
You, okay.
I want you to go tell her.
Look at her and say Jesus, he'salive.
Is there another hand, somebodyelse?
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Turn to that one and just tellhim who in here right now?
You got sickness in your body.
You can raise your hand and saypreacher, I forgot my medicine,
but Jesus is alive, jesus isalive.
I want you to put them hands upagain and scream it as loud as
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you can.
Jesus is loud.
Speaker 3 (54:23):
Lord.
Speaker 1 (54:23):
Go ahead and worship God.
I believe some of you give theHoly Ghost today.
Speaker 3 (54:29):
Oh, hallelujah, he's alive.
He's alive, forevermore.
Hallelujah.
Oh, let's just let the Lordfall upon us.
No-transcript.
Speaker 2 (59:07):
Get them hands back up in the air.
Jesus is alive and he's righthere today.
Come on, brother.
Jesus is alive and he's righthere today.
Come on, brother, Jesus isalive and he's right here today.
I feel the Holy Ghost,Hallelujah no-transcript.
Far East Coast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Praise the Lord.
Thank you, brother Fred.
What a wonderful, amazing andsurprising opportunity to be
here today.
Life takes some strange twistsand turns, doesn't it?
It sure does.
It was May of this year.
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Brother Fred's, brother Denver,rick's brother Raymond Everybody
knows.
Raymond Sadly left us for abetter land and met several of
the family there at the funeral.
Raymond was married to SisterHudson's cousin Janet and please
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don't hold that against me andplease tell her.
I said that.
And the following week ourbeautiful, beautiful daughter,
beautiful daughter, met this guyfrom California.
And, as Paul Harvey used to say, you know the rest of the story
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.
So it looks like our familyjust can't get out of the woods.
Can't get out of the woods.
So here we are today.
Isn't it wonderful to feel thepresence of the Lord?
So here we are today.
Isn't it wonderful to feel thepresence of the Lord?
I've been privileged in my shortlifespan of 54 years to travel
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completely around the world inthe northern hemisphere.
I never got across the equatoras close as I've been to
Singapore, and I found ourbrother's message so encouraging
.
This morning he's expecting tobegin to talk about the pilots
crashing those planes and we arefixing to fly literally around
the world again.
So I enjoyed your message mostof it anyway.
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All right, but I've beenprivileged to be in some of the
nicer churches of renown in theworld.
Has anybody ever been to London,england?
All right, did you go toWestminster Abbey?
All right, go to London.
You need to go to WestminsterAbbey, and that church is
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probably 1,000 years old.
It sits right outside the Houseof Parliament and that's where
all the kings and queens arecoronated.
The coronation chair is thereand when you walk in, literally
there are people buriedeverywhere.
You're literally walking ongraves.
You are, and you talk about adead church.
I mean, it's a dead church.
It really is.
It's a dead church as a matterof fact.
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You might not believe this, butCharles Darwin, the founder of
Darwinian evolution, is buriedthere.
I found his grave and went andwalked all over the top of
Charles Darwin.
I did, I walked all over thetop of Charles Darwin.
You know it's amazing.
And then I've been across.
Anybody been to Paris, france,france, anybody been to France?
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Nobody been to?
Okay, yeah.
Did you go to the former NotreDame?
Okay, yeah, yeah.
And I was actually there onservice one Sunday morning and
of course you might rememberthat church caught on fire back
in April, the most fire thatchurch has ever had, but anyway
it was a beautiful building.
I mean over 1,000 years old,1,000 years to build this place,
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and I mean by the world'sstandards.
I mean by the world standards,I mean by the world standard.
This little building just kindof, you know, pales in
comparison.
But in both those places, notone time and I've been to them
several times not one time did Ifeel there what I felt in this
little place this morning.
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And sometimes we fail torealize just how blessed we are.
I ask this question oftentimesand I must hurry.
I must hurry.
I know I must keep it short,keep it sweet.
I get through preaching, youget to eat.
So I've got to be very carefulhere and probably it might not
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even be welcome.
I don't know, but has thegovernor of California ever been
here?
No, yeah, you'd like for himright there, all right.
Yeah, come on in, sir, we got aplace for you right there.
Bring Kamala and Diane.
Y'all.
Come on right down here.
Yeah, I don't, I'm just severon right down here, I'm just
severed in places.
So I'm not going to ask whoyour representatives are in the
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Congress, but we can make a spotfor them right over here.
I've been around here enough toknow that there might be some
of you that would be glad to seePresident Trump and Vice
President Pence.
I really would.
Yeah, I sure would, but havethey been here?
No, why, you don't rank highenough.
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You don't have enough money,most of them.
Has the God of heaven ever beenin this place?
Sometimes we just sit here andact like, oh, what's the big
deal?
I tell you, it's a mighty bigdeal that the God who made this
massive universe by his veryspoken word is in this place
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today and we're just kind oflike, well, oh, isn't that nice.
It really is nice.
And you've already heard enoughpreaching this morning and last
night, since I've been here,and I just, you know, just you
know, no telling what couldhappen right now.
Somebody would believe the Lordand just tell the devil to shut
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up.
Okay, I'd be careful, brother,when you say things like that.
Sometimes husbands look at wivesand vice versa and kind of get
in trouble there.
But no telling what couldhappen right now, right to you
and for you.
Because when jesus passes byand I thought sure did enjoy
that young man's message, butreally I don't think he's
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passing by, he was here for you,got here this morning can we
stand our feet one more time andlet's just worship the Lord?
Maybe if you've got that needright now, you could just say
Lord, I believe you, Lord, Iknow that you're here.
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I believe you, lord.
So, lord, please help us rightnow, give us wisdom.
Give us right now, give uswisdom.
Give us favor, lord.
Give us your blessing, lord.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Bless our fellowship, bless every church here.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Thank you for this church and congregation.
Lord, give me wisdom right now.
Accomplish your will in Jesus'name.
And the church said amen, youmight be seated Again.
We do.
Thank you so much.
I do want to say what an honorit is to be with Brother and
Sister Birdsong again, and thatlittle black sister in the
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Savannah area years ago got alittle confused but she loved
them bird singers.
She's so glad when them birdsingers was there, she really
was.
Yeah and so good.
And I certainly appreciate themessage last night and the
burden and then the preachingtoday.
I certainly do appreciate it.
I'm going to try to use wisdomhere, but this is the burden of
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my heart.
I've preached this numeroustimes and I asked the Lord about
it during the night and thismorning.
So if you'll turn with me veryquickly to 1 Corinthians 15.
My wife knows where I'm goingand I've preached this a lot of
different places and anyopportunity that I feel the Lord
would allow me.
1 Corinthians, chapter 15,.
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Normally I would ask you tostand, but you've kind of been
up and down so I'll just let yousit there for a moment.
1 Corinthians, chapter 15,verse 3, for I delivered unto
you first of all that which Ialso received, how that Christ
died for our sins according tothe scriptures, and that he was
buried and that he rose againthe third day according to the
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scriptures now in the book ofActs, chapter number 17.
Just one more little verse ofscripture and then we will be on
the way here If you go to thelatter part of verse number 6,
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acts, chapter 17,.
These that have turned theworld upside down are come
hither also.
If the Lord would help me forjust a few moments, I want to
preach on the message thatturned the world upside down.
Please bear with me for just afew moments, but last night you
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might recall that I made a fewstatements in testifying and I
made note of the fact of thetiming of the New Testament
documents.
Now it's important to realizeif our Lord, and I think current
scholarship suggests that Jesusthe more common scholastic
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dating now probably be 30 AD,but the more commonly known date
would be 30, 33 AD 33 AD is themore common.
Be that as it may, three years,jesus died by crucifixion, was
buried and rose again, and so ifwe place that about 33 AD, it's
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also recognized by scholarsthat the first written down book
of the New Testament was notthe book of Matthew.
Your Bible is not in achronological order, it's in a
topical order, and so I thinkthe consensus now is that Mark
was the first to write down aNew Testament document.
So that's going to occur around, if you will, 50 AD, and then,
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of course, if we get down to thebook of Revelation, and that's
going to be probably 90 to 95 AD.
That means that for the firstcentury there is no New
Testament as we know it now.
For the first 17 years there'snot one new testament document.
And yet, and yet in acts,chapter 17, verse number six,
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those apostles and disciples arereferred to as these that have
turned the world upside down,and so it was without one
Testament document.
They literally turned the worldupside down.
This becomes more and moreprofound when you consider that
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as the church becomes moreGentile, gentiles are not
welcome in the synagogues or thetemples, and the Gentiles don't
have access to the OldTestament temples, and the
gentiles don't have access tothe old testament, and, uh, and
in many ways at that point itdidn't quite make the sense to
them, but it maybe does to usnow, until some of the other new
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testament writings come along,so, really, you could almost say
, without a new testament andvery little of the old, they had
something that turned the worldupside down, and that was they
had a message.
They had a message, they had amessage, and it seemed like, in
many ways, today we've almostforgotten and I'm so thrilled to
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hear the emphasis even lastnight, as Brother Birdsong
mentioned how many of us arehere in our midst and we say
that generally now that areamong us To look at them, you
would think, but they don't evenhave a clue to what it is to be
really saved, and it isaffecting us.
It really really is.
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And so if we look, though, atthe early church, if we look at
the earliest days of the church,coming out of Acts, chapter 2,
it doesn't take long to find outwhat that message was.
And 1 Corinthians, chapter 15,verse 3 and 4, is recognized by
biblical scholars as being thefirst doctrinal creed of the
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early church.
Now, what is a creed?
It's a statement of belief, andI dare say that if we were new
in the area and came here tothis church and said, brother
Fred, we would like to come here, we're interested in the church
, what do you believe he wouldcome out with this long list of
creeds?
We believe that's fine, nothingwrong with that.
We have to have it today.
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Certainly we do.
But if you would have found aNew Testament believer in 33 AD?
In fact, scholars have actuallydated this creed back to within
just a few weeks of the birthof the church and the day of
Pentecost.
But the reality of it is itstems from the day of Pentecost
and so if you would have found aNew Testament believer in 33 AD
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amen, or 34 AD and said you'rea Christian, what is it that you
believe?
This is what you'd have heard.
I believe that Christ died formy sins, according to the
Scripture, and that he wasburied but on the third day he
arose again, according to theScripture.
Now somebody say amen.
Now somebody say amen.
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I said somebody say amen, amen.
Now there are a lot of thingsthat are going to come on later
on.
There are going to be issues ofchurch government.
There will be issues believe itor not of dress.
There will be all kind ofissues that will have to be
dealt with in the early churchand Paul and the other apostles
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will deal with those.
But I want to remind you todaythe reason you were saved and
the reason that I am saved isbecause, as jesus died for our
sin, according to the scripture,he was buried and on the third
day he arose again.
Now, if you cannot shout overthat, you have not been saved,
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but if you have been saved, youcan shout over that Amen.
I'm glad that he died for mysins.
He was buried, but on the thirdday God raised him from the
dead.
Oh, somebody say amen,hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Now, I don't know if some of youpreachers have ever had this
problem, but traveling like wedo, in particular, sometimes
Sister Hudson gets a littlenervous.
Brother bird singer, uh, sisterhudson will.
Oh no, he's already preachedthat message here.
Oh, and brother lindsey savagesaid with this mix for stuff,
problem with that is yourmessage gets there for you do
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now amen.
But uh, she gets a little andit used to kind of bother me
sometime until I got to readingin the book of Acts.
Have you ever read the firstfew chapters of the book of Acts
?
Amen, peter had one message.
It didn't make any differencewhere Peter started at, he
always got back to the samemessage you crucified the Lord
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of glory, you put him in a tomb,but on the third day God raised
him from the dead.
Amen.
I know it's an old message, butit is the foundation of
everything that we believe.
Amen, thank God.
They crucified him.
They put him in a tomb, but thetomb couldn't hold him.
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Because put him in a tomb, butthe tomb couldn't hold him.
Because there never was a manlike Jesus.
Let me very carefully hurry onhere.
It's very easy to getsidetracked Amen.
There are two things that aregoing to make an impression on
the early church.
Please remember, when you'rereading the New Testament
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accounts, you are readingeyewitness accounts.
Luke is very careful to notethat he was not an eyewitness,
but that he had interviewedeyewitnesses.
Now Luke is considered to beone of the greatest historians
of the ancient world.
The book of Acts, chapter 13 tothe end.
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Over 80 plus archaeologicaldiscoveries have proven that
Luke knew exactly what he wastalking about.
Actually have found the anchorsfrom the shipwreck that he and
Paul were in.
Found the anchors at the exactdepth and location they would
have been had they been cutloose.
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And so Luke says I was not aneyewitness, but I have
interviewed eyewitnesses.
But when it comes to the rest ofthem.
Go through the book of Acts andread how many times they say
and we are witnesses of thesethings, and we are eyewitnesses
of these things.
Peter said we've not followedcomingly devised fables when we
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made known unto you the comingof our Lord Jesus, but we're
eyewitnesses of his majesty.
If there's one thing that isdisturbing me in our church
today, it is the loss ofeyewitness testimony of men and
women that can stand and say Iwas, but no longer am I what I
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used to be.
I do not believe in glamorizingsin, but our young people need
to know that among us were menthat were alcoholics, and such
were some of you who can standand testify to the grace of God.
Somebody say amen and help mewhile I preach now.
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So they are eyewitnesses ofthese things.
There are two things and I musthurry.
It's going to make an indelibleimpact on that group of early
believers.
Number one the suffering of theSavior.
Do you know that one of the mostestablished facts of ancient
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history is not only that Jesuslived, but that he died by means
of crucifixion during the reignof Pontius Pilate?
Gerd Ludeman, who is a renownedancient historian who happens
to be an atheist, says the factsof Jesus death by crucifixion
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are indisputable.
Paulaerickson, who is a skeptic, doesn't even believe the new
testament account.
She says the most certain thingabout jesus life is his death
by means of crucifixion duringthe reign of pontius pilate.
It is, again, one of the mostestablished fact of ancient
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history.
In fact, about the only onesyou would find to this day that
really would claim it to be thatJesus didn't die would be the
Muslims.
For you see, in the Quran,chapter 4, verse 157, it clearly
says let them not say that theycrucified him, for they
crucified him, not Only alikeness of him.
And so that's why your Muslimsdo not believe that Jesus died.
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Amen.
But there's a problem with that.
You see, mohammed was born in570 AD.
He never, ever, went toJerusalem, lived in Saudi Arabia
, and he's one man oh, youfollow me here now.
But these disciples andapostles, they knew the Lord,
they lived with him Ah, come onnow.
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And they knew, without a doubt,that Jesus amen, died.
They have watched his suffering.
Amen, john will stand there atthe sight of the cross when the
others have fled.
I dare say that some of theothers, however, they will be
hiding in the shadows, but everyone of them knew, without a
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doubt, what a Roman crucifixionentailed and they knew that
Jesus was dead.
But they knew that he sufferedhorribly.
Oh, come on now.
This is where it's going tocome.
A little hard to swallow, amen.
But because they saw him sufferin days to come.
A little hard to swallow, amen.
But because they saw him sufferin days to come.
When they are sufferinghorribly, not one time will they
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drop their head and moan andgroan, but they will rejoice in
their suffering.
When is the last time yourejoiced in your suffering?
If you ever get your eye backon the suffering of the Savior
and the suffering of the cross,anything that you are going
through will be mild compared tothe suffering of the Savior.
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They're going to lose many oftheir homes, their lives, their
health.
You see, jesus said whosoeverwill come after me, let him deny
himself, take up his cross.
For the early church, it was adeath sentence, a death sentence
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for them that they suffered.
And if he suffered, let merejoice.
I do not pray for adversity andno adversity.
No, brother, I don't want Godto disturb me, amen.
But when is the last time youlifted your hand and said Lord,
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I don't understand, but if itbrings honor and glory to your
name, knowing what you sufferedfor me, you know the reason
we're having such problems withworldliness.
Among some of our churches.
We have forgotten the sufferingof the Savior.
If you ever see him and hissuffering, you'll understand the
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songwriter who said Thus mightI hide my blushing face while
his dear cross appears, dissolvemy heart in thankfulness and
melt mine eyes to tears?
It will make such an impressionupon them that they will look
adversity in the face and againrejoice in their sufferings
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because they were eyewitnessesto the suffering of the Savior.
He will suffer a horrible death.
How many of you have ever saiduse the word excruciating.
Has anybody ever had anexcruciating headache?
Do you know where the wordexcruciating comes from?
It means literally out of thecross.
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It was a word that was inventedto describe the suffering
associated with crucifixion.
It was so brutal, and so when Ihave said I've got an
excruciating headache, what I'mliterally saying?
It hurts so bad that I feellike I'm being crucified.
Oh, but here he was.
I know, I know I hear you sayit as others.
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Well, many others werecrucified too.
I know that.
Amen.
But this is God incarnate.
This is the creator of theuniverse.
It ought to have been you, andit ought to have been me and not
him, you, and it ought to havebeen me and not him.
Oh, and sometime we fail toremember the suffering that he
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did on our behalf, that we couldbe here today and rejoice.
Could somebody just put yourhand up and say, thank you, lord
, for suffering?
I must hurry, I must hurry.
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Haven't we all been there whenwe questioned and said oh God,
why?
Somebody said you shouldn't askGod why Jesus did.
He said my God, my God, why why?
It's not a cry that you've doneme wrong, it's just where are
you God?
Where are you God?
Oh, but here's a little caveaton that Even though Jesus didn't
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understand, he still had enoughconfidence in God that his
final words were Father into thyhands, come in my spirit.
I may not understand why, but Itrust you enough, god, that I
believe you know what you'redoing.
Can you really trust God?
I said can you really trust God?
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I said can you really trust God, lord?
I don't know, but I reallybelieve God.
You know what you're doing yeah, yeah for me it's not a cop out
.
I really have that confidence inGod.
Has anyone ever been to Hollandbefore?
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Sister Hudson and I weretransiting through Holland some
years ago, we went to the hidingplace.
You remember Corrie Ten Boom'sbook the Hiding Place.
You read that book.
We visited that home and therein that little room was a
tapestry that Corrie Ten Boom,the tramp for the Lord, as she
called herself, used to take,and on one side is a tangle,
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weave, mess, ugly, just threads.
That made no sense whatsoever.
And she said that's often howwe see it.
Flip that thing around.
It was a tapestry of abeautiful crown.
She said often we see the uglybut we don't see what God's
working on the other side.
Oh, this light affliction,that's just.
Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost.
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If you're going through itright now, throw your hand up
and say I don't understand God,but I trust you anyway.
I don't know why, but God, Itrust you anyway, I feel the
Holy Ghost right here.
I said pull your hand up andsay, lord, I trust you anyway, I
feel the Holy Ghost right now.
I believe if somebody would dothat, you might find what you've
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been looking for for a mightylong time.
Amen, hallelujah, glory to God.
I feel the Holy Ghost in thisbuilding.
Amen, hallelujah, glory to God.
I feel the Holy Ghost in thisbuilding.
I'm feeling religious up here.
Oh Lord, I don't understand.
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Job said yea though he trust me.
He said yea though he slay me.
Yet will I trust in him?
Amen.
We've been actively involved inmission work for many years.
We're hoping the Lord helpingus in a few years to be living
more part full time in Myanmar,which is right next to China.
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Some of you remember Adam, andAdam Jetson suffered horribly in
that country in the 1800's totake the gospel to them.
Now we're trying to strengthenthings which remain, kind of
help them get back on track.
Amen.
I don't believe inpredestination, as taught by
many today, and even as JohnCalvin did.
But there's one thing aboutthose old people.
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Let me say this out of allfairness those old men that
taught preservation of the saintor eternal security, calvin and
Whitfield and men like JonathanEdwards they did not believe,
you hear me, they did notbelieve in a live like the devil
, die like a saint.
Amen.
They would say.
If you backslid, you were neversaved.
Now I believe that you can besaved and backslide, but they
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believed, just like us, thatsin's not going to heaven.
And so they would say you know,are you with me now?
But there was one thing that itdid enable them Amen.
They believed that, whatevercame their way, that God had
predetermined that was to happen, and they had such trust and
confidence in God that he woulddo them nothing but good.
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And that everything that'shappening to me, god's working
it for my good.
Oh, come on, child of God.
I said look up and remember Godis not trying to trick you,
he's in it for your good.
Remember, god is not trying totrick you, he's headed for your
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good.
I must hurry.
I must hurry.
No matter how close I live toGod and you live to God, we're
all going to suffer and die.
Curse thou art.
And it's only in that otherland that this curse will be
removed.
And I pray.
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I never do.
But if I come down with cancertomorrow, I'll call and say pray
, and if God in his mercy seesfit.
But if not, you can go toheaven with cancer, but you'll
never go with sin in your life.
Amen.
And that's why, for an earlychurch, they knew he died.
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It was not just some catechism.
Amen.
I believe that Christ died formy sin.
In that early day, brother,they couldn't give you some
exposition on the vicarioussuffering of the Savior Paul
would do that later but theyknew he was the sacrifice for
the redemption of mankind and hedied that I might live.
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And I know he was dead, he wasdead, he was dead, he was dead.
John in his gospel makes a veryinteresting observation that is
further proof that it'seyewitness testimony.
He notes that when the spearpierces the side, that there is
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water and blood that come out,and of course, at the time this
was not recognized as anything,but now it is clear evidence
that the spear perforated thelung and the pericardium, which
is a fluid sac, and the blooddenotes that the spear went all
the way to his heart.
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In an article in the AmericanJournal of Medicine in 1986, a
group of physicians took the NewTestament accounts and the
wording such as that to declareaccording to medical knowledge,
jesus was dead.
He was.
You've had it bad.
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What are these disciples goingto do?
Everything they have lived foris gone in a heartbeat.
Matthew, who worked for the IRS,gave up a good government job.
Peter, james and John they'veforsaken everything.
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When Peter says to the lame manat the gate silver and gold
have anon.
A few chapters before he saidLord, we have given up
everything to follow youEverything.
Now, here they are and theirhope is dead and they don't
understand what's going on.
You see, we all shout andrejoice, don't we?
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We know the story, but it wasabsolute chaos.
Can you imagine they're hiding.
They're hiding in fear ofwhat's going to happen to them.
Amen, oh, I can hear in theback of Matthew's mind I don't
want to go home.
My mama's going to tell me boy,I told you you should have left
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that job.
I told you you were stupid tofollow that guy.
Oh, come on, are you going tohelp?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
me right now, amen.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And I see Matthew as he's dropping his head, and
Peter James and John Peter saidwell, I got in the boat, I guess
I'll go back to fishing.
Amen.
The rest of them?
What are they going to do?
Their hope has come to an end.
They didn't understand it.
It made no sense to them.
In fact, on the resurrectionmorning and the resurrection day
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, it is nothing but confusionand chaos.
Are you hearing me?
We come church out and run jumpand we go back home have that
big Easter meal.
If you believe in Easter eggs,if you don't, that's fine.
I don't care for them myself,but I do like the chocolate
bunnies.
Pass them on my way.
Amen.
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But that Sunday night, afterwe're already back at church,
back in our normal routine, youknow where they were Locked in
fear In an upper room, amen.
They're confused aboutyesterday.
Nothing made sense.
They are fearful of today, thatat any moment the doors are
going to be kicked open and herecome the guards after them.
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They are uncertain of tomorrow.
What are they going to do when,all of a sudden, something
happened that totally changedthe dynamic of that upper room
experience?
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But it really got to start earlythat morning as several ladies
got up in the still darkness ofthe night and made their way to
that tomb.
It's still dark outside, thedawn is just beginning to break.
Among themselves they'retalking, they're still weeping
and lamenting about what hashappened.
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And one says to another but howare we going to move the stone?
Number one there's a seal on itwhich is a white emblem
stretched across with ropes.
Anybody that breaks thatwithout permission will be put
to death.
So beside that we've got theseRoman soldiers who are not known
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for their gentlemanly ways.
They are brutal, they are meanand they delight in belittling
Jewish women.
So they don't know what's goingto happen.
But as they're making their waythrough the darkness of a new
day, one of them looks ahead andsays I must be seeing things,
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something's not right, my visionis not good.
And she looks and says I don'tknow.
It looks like that tomb is open.
And another one said oh, comeon now Wipe those tears from
your eyes.
Well, my, my, my, it looks likeit is.
And so they began to make theirway.
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Can you imagine?
As they come up, I feel theHoly Ghost as they come up on
that tomb.
And as they make their way,they suddenly are startled by
soldiers lying around like deadmen.
These men are not asleep, butthey're spellbound, laid back,
amen.
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But there was something pullingthem to that empty tomb,
hallelujah.
And they thought well, god'sworked a miracle, now we'll be
able to do what we came to do.
God's worked it out.
Now we can go in and anoint thebody.
No, no, no.
God's changed your plans andeverybody else's.
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I'm telling you here today theLord can change your plan in a
moment of minutes, in a momentof seconds.
The Lord can change your plan.
I must hurry.
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Now, ladies, please, I digress.
I hate to tell you this, but inthis day you could not testify
in a court of law except for twooccasions If the estate of your
deceased husband are youmarried Okay, check that one off
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or if your virtue had beencalled into question.
Other than that, women were notallowed to testify because even
then, they had a reputation forgossip.
That's right and that's whyamen.
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When we read these accounts,it's further credence that it
happened just like the biblesaid.
And they walked in there andthey saw something they'd never
seen before.
But they heard words that haveforever turned the world upside
down.
Why seek you the living amongthe dead?
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He is not here.
He is risen, just like he said.
It is still the words thatstill to this day, turn the
world upside down.
He is not here, but he is risen.
Come see the place where he lay.
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Oh, somebody shout hallelujah.
I said.
Somebody say thank you, jesus,amen.
And they go running back,running back.
He's alive, he's alive, he isalive.
Hey, the message of the churchfor this hour still ought to be
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Jesus is alive, he is alive.
Oh, somebody say amen now.
I said Jesus is alive.
Oh, somebody say amen now Isaid Jesus is alive.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, he isalive.
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I must address I'll getsidetracked here John on the
Isle of Patmos.
Have you ever givenconsideration to how old John
must have been If he receivesthe revelation?
At 90 to 95 AD and contemporaryof our Lord?
That means the Apostle John wasprobably 80 to 90 years old.
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On the Isle of our Lord, thatmeans the Apostle John was
probably 80 to 90 years old onthe Isle of Patmos.
According to historicalaccounts that are probably true,
he was boiled in Nevada.
Boiling oil Didn't kill him, sohe's banished to Patmos.
So here he is, third degreeburns.
He does not have Obamacare.
He does not have SocialSecurityacare.
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He does not have SocialSecurity or Medicare.
He may not even have had histeeth.
He might not have had his teeth.
He might have had to pay hisreward because he didn't have no
teeth.
I want you to hear me.
Elderly people we're living ina society that will tell you and
I've been where the preachersalmost did said if you old folks
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would get out of the way, we'lldo what we want to do.
And I wanted to go to everyelder in that building and shake
their hand and say if it hadn'tbeen for you, I wouldn't have a
place to preach.
Thank you for what you've done.
And the devil will tell you youcan't do like you used to do.
You'll understand that, boys,one day.
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Amen, you can't do Amen.
I'm going to tell you what Ilike what Scripture said about
John.
He probably couldn't run andjump like he did before.
There's one thing he could do,he said I was in the Spirit on
the Lord's day.
You may not be able to run andjump, grandma.
You may not be able to run andjump, grandma, you may not be
able to swing from the lightfixture, grandpa, but you can
still get in the Spirit and geta word from the Lord Amen.
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So that's why I said this lastnight when I saw you shouting
around the front here.
I just loved every bit of it.
Yeah, shout on, hallelujah,amen.
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But on that island John saw himagain and he looks at him and
says behold, I am he which wasdead, but I am alive forevermore
Hallelujah.
I want you to know.
He is still alive.
Are you hearing me, jesus?
He is still alive.
Are you hearing me, jesus?
He is still alive.
And in that upper room thatnight, when those disciples were
confused, fearful and uncertain.
Jesus appeared over in thecorner.
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That's what it said.
Shaking your head?
Am I quoting that wrong?
You believe I am All right.
Does anybody know where he saidhe appeared?
Right there in the middle ofthem and that denotes where
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every one of them had equalaccess and he appears he walked
up to them.
He does not address theconfusion of yesterday.
He never mentions their fears,he never says anything about the
uncertainty of tomorrow.
In my vernacular he just saysI'm here now, everything's going
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to be all right.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
I'm here, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Everything's going to be all right.
And the Bible said then werethe disciples glad?
No, do you understand where theLord is at right now?
He's right here, in the middleof this sanctuary, saying to you
everything's going to be allright, I'm here.
I'm here, everything's going tobe all right.
Oh, somebody could get a holdof this.
Oh, I hear you right now,brother Tim.
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You don't understand mycircumstance, really, I probably
don't, but I'll tell you thismuch Jesus is alive.
Oh, brother Tim, I'm sick,maybe you are, but Jesus is
alive.
Oh, brother Tim, I don't knowabout tomorrow, neither do I,
but Jesus is alive.
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Run, son, run, amen.
Come on on church.
Jesus is Allah.
Come on somebody ScreamingJesus.
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Is Allah if the devil can getyour eyes off of Jesus, you will
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sink.
But Jesus said I am he whichwas dead and I'm alive
forevermore.
And because I live, ye shalllive also, amen.
Death will lose its fear andits hold on these early
disciples.
They saw him dead, but theyknew he was alive.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I must hurry.
Now we'll close my Bible.
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I must hurry Now we'll close myBible.
The message of the early church,things that will have to be
addressed.
They need to be even now.
But the reason we're here todayis because they crucify him for
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our sins.
He was dead, buried by him forour sins.
He was dead buried, but on thethird day.
Brother, I heard you last night.
Can you grab a Bible real quick?
Yeah, I understand.
Sometimes, if I don't use thesethings, people think I'm
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reading from a different version, because I'll put out a word
and put in a word and it wasn'tthere.
Okay, now here's something tobe saying.
Is now preacher?
Now you condemn Muhammadbecause he wasn't there, but
neither were you.
Well, now I know you kind of.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Look maybe a little elder, I don't have to worry
about a bad hair day, but anyway, anyway anyway.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Were you there?
Were you there when Jesus died?
How about you?
No, not many Myanmar have thisquestion.
How can we know?
Not that we doubt, but we'redealing with a country that's
85% Buddhist Strange religion,just weird.
How can we know?
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Dealing with Muslims?
We're working with some Muslims, buddhists, visiting their home
.
How do you know?
I wasn't there, neither wereyou.
Go to the fifth chapter of thebook of Acts and you got a
microphone, because I want themto hear this.
Okay, because some of them arealready saying wait a minute,
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preacher, all you doing, you uphere jumping, running, shouting,
and, and you wasn't thereeither.
I wasn't.
I know I may look like I was,but I wasn't.
I mean, I have been to Israel,but I wasn't there when Jesus
died.
I wasn't there on theresurrection morning.
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All right, they didn't have PAsystems back then either.
Sometimes I'm not sure thatmight have been a blessing.
You know, you ever had aproblem getting your PA to work.
George Whitfield could preach.
Ben Franklin said he measuredit off.
George Whitfield could preachto 25,000, 30,000 people without
the aid of a microphone.
Everybody heard it.
Ben Franklin went to hismeeting and measured it off and
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said without a doubt, You're ashort guy.
All right, go to chapter 5.
And let's pick up about versenumber 29.
Now hear this.
It's Peter.
Now you know where this isgoing to end up.
Read up.
We're the church in SouthCarolina.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said
we ought to obey God ratherthan men.
That's pretty strong, isn't it?
That is Read on the, isn't?
Speaker 2 (46:55):
it.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
That is Read on the God of our fathers.
Raised up Jesus, Uh-oh here wego.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Same message he preaches every time he turns
around.
Can't the God get anything new?
That's right.
Why does he have to keeppreaching?
Read on.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
Whom you slew, you slew and hanged on a tree.
Hanged on a tree, him hath Godexalted with his right hand to
be, a prince and a savior for togive repentance to Israel and
forgiveness of sin.
Now read on, and we are hiswitnesses of these things.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
All right, yeah, yeah , they were there.
All right, they were there Okay.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Read on, and so is also the Holy Ghost.
Wait, yeah, yeah, they werethere.
All right, they were there,okay.
Read on, and so is also theHoly Ghost.
Ah, wow, wait, wait, wait.
Read that again.
And also is the Holy Ghost.
Now read the next phrase Allright, Whom God hath given to
them that obey him.
You ain't got it.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
I wasn't there, but neither were you.
But the Holy Ghost was thereand we got him.
Hey, has anybody in thisbuilding felt the Holy Ghost?
Since you've been here, did youknow what that is?
That's the Holy Ghost screamingin your ear.
Jesus is alive.
I said, that is the Holy Ghostscreaming.
Jesus is alive.
(48:15):
Holy Ghost, if you've evermoved.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
move on us.
Jesus is alive, Holy Ghost.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Lord, send the Holy Ghost among us right now.
Come on, somebody scream.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Lord, send the Holy Ghost.
Send the Holy Ghost, send it ondown.
Send it on down, lord, let theHoly Ghost come on down.
We got another witness.
The Holy Ghost is our witness.
(49:12):
It's real, it's genuine,because the Holy Ghost was there
and he said it was, and I'vegot him here and he's my witness
.
Glory, hallelujah.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
I'm going to tell you somebody else who was there.
You don't want to know it, butI believe with all of my heart
that the devil himself, amen,was there that morning when
Jesus come up and the last thinghe wants you to do is realize
that Jesus is alive.
If you're here today and you'redowntrodden, if you're sick in
your body, amen.
If you got a burden, look upand scream it out.
(49:51):
Jesus is alive.
Scream it out.
Speaker 3 (49:59):
Jesus is alive.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
Come on Holy's screaming out.
Won't you scream it in the faceof hell?
Devil, you're a liar.
Jesus is alive.
Jesus is alive, amen.
If you're lost in this buildingtoday, jesus is alive.
(51:01):
I'm getting ready to close.
I worried your patience, but Iimagine that afternoon when
Jesus appeared in their midstand said I'm here, everything's
going to be all right.
John looked at Peter and saidwell, I just declared I thought
(51:23):
he would come through after all,hallelujah.
Matthew said I never wanted togo back to the IRS.
I can see the doors kickingopen, those disciples running
down those stairs screaming he'salive, passing that Roman guard
as he looks, and the disciplescome running back and say oh, I
(51:45):
forgot to tell you Jesus isalive, amen.
Turn to your neighbor and sayneighbor, jesus is alive, amen,
amen.
Hey, preacher, jesus is alive,amen.
Speaker 3 (51:59):
Preacher Jesus is alive.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Amen, amen, scream it out, shout it in the face of
you.
Jesus is alive.
(52:23):
He said we're in an altarservice, we're having one.
Jesus is alive.
I want you to put them hands upand scream as you come around
here.
Jesus is alive, jesus is alive.
Jesus is alive.
Come on, jesus is alive.
(52:47):
Jesus is alive.
Behold, I am he which was deadand I am alive forevermore.
Hallelujah, whatever yourcircumstance today, somebody
(53:13):
raise your hand right now andsay preacher, I am really going
through a difficult trial.
Is there one Right there?
You, okay.
I want you to go tell her.
Look at her and say Jesus, he'salive.
Is there another hand, somebodyelse?
(53:35):
Turn to that one and just tellhim who in here right now?
You got sickness in your body.
You can raise your hand and saypreacher, I forgot my medicine,
but Jesus is alive, jesus isalive.
I want you to put them hands upagain and scream it as loud as
(54:02):
you can.
Jesus is loud.
Speaker 3 (54:23):
Lord.
Speaker 1 (54:23):
Go ahead and worship God.
I believe some of you give theHoly Ghost today.
Speaker 3 (54:29):
Oh, hallelujah, he's alive.
He's alive, forevermore.
Hallelujah.
Oh, let's just let the Lordfall upon us.
No-transcript.
Speaker 2 (59:07):
Get them hands back up in the air.
Jesus is alive and he's righthere today.
Come on, brother.
Jesus is alive and he's righthere today.
Come on, brother, Jesus isalive and he's right here today.
I feel the Holy Ghost,Hallelujah no-transcript.
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