May 11, 2025 • 56 mins
Standing On The Word - Pastor DP Dawkins
Macedonia MB Church - Fate, Texas
To Catch a Thief (Luke 23:38-43)
www.macedoniafate.org
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Macedonia MB Church - Fate, Texas
To Catch a Thief (Luke 23:38-43)
www.macedoniafate.org
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/standing-on-the-word--5332528/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Father the name of Jesus.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We thank you for this privilege and honor to worship
you on this resurrection Sunday. We thank you, Lord that
there is an empty to there to prove that Jesus lives.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And if you want to.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Know where he lives, we thank you that he lives
in the depths.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Of our soul last beliefs.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And Lord, we give your praise glory it on as
I stand to share and to clear.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Your word strengthen me for the task at hand.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Let no self glorify or gratified the Lord. You get
the praise, glory and the honor crucified Dawkins. As long
as you get the glory, work in me, work on me,
but most of all, work grew me.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Let your word find its.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Desired destination and the depths of someone's heart and soul,
that it may spring up the well of everlasting life,
spirit un the Living God, have thine own way, have
thine own way moved between these consecrated walls. And let
the words of my mind, the meditation of my heart
beat symptable in thy sight.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Oh Lord, you are my strength, and you are my redeemer.
And I know that my Redeemer lives in Jesus. Match
this marvelous, magnificent name be.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Praid and that all God's people say Amen, Amen, Come
on then together you want to know you can do
anything that.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You want to. Man.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
I to you in the name above all names, and
that is the name of Jesus, to each of you,
my brothers and my sisters in Christ Jesus, on this
resurrection Sunday, it is truly good to be in the
House of the Lord once more and again to these.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
My preach brother a Man, Reverend Franklin, Reverend Colta.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Reverend white Man.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
If we have any other preachers in the house, God
bless you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Man.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
To those that are watching by way of social media Facebook, YouTube,
x and those that are watching by way of standing
on the Word broadcast scene live every Sunday at eleven
am on the BS three network.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Good morning, BS three. Time has been far spent, but
y'all know what time is Right now, It's time for
me to go to work. You have your Bible.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Why don't you journey with me to the gospel according
to Loop chapter number twenty three.
Speaker 8 (02:50):
And for your consideration, I'm gonna read Versus number thirty
eight and I'm gonna go down to verse all the
way to verse number forty three.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Luke, Chapter twenty three, verse thirty eight through forty three.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Anybody glad that today is today.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That we celebrate. That there is a symbol that he's
not there. He's risen, just as he.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Said, Yes, yes, come and see the police.
Speaker 9 (03:30):
Where the Lord late, I mean he layd there no more,
he man, Luke twenty three and thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Amen, there you hear these words.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Have these words written for our learning and in your hearing.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And a superscription also was written over him in the
letters of Greek and Latin and Hebrew. Listen, this is
the king of the Jews, and one of the malefactors
which were hang rowned on him, saying, if you be Christ,
save yourself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying,
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doest not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the
same condemnation. And we, indeed, just before we receive the
newe reward of our deeds.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
But this man have done nothing amiss.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And he said, unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou
comest into thy kingdom.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Jesus said, unto him, barely, I say unto THEE today,
shalt thou be with me in paradise. Thank God, bless
the readers, the hearers, and the doers of this holy word.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I want to serve you from these words to catch
a thief, to catch.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
A thief.
Speaker 10 (05:02):
In a way of introducing this text, I want you
to know that my introduction changed after this morning. When
I call a thief, he already testifying on himself, and
y'all heard him over there saying hold up.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
As I was sitting in my office, I received a
text message from my.
Speaker 11 (05:30):
Dear friend and brother, Adrian Clayton, and he said, Pastor,
how you getting your office? Because I have your keys.
I said, you don't have my keys. I have my keys.
I don't know what you're talking about. He said, I'll
be in there.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
In comes brother Clayton with a set of keys that
I've been missing for quite some time. And I said,
you a thief. He said, I'm not a thief, Pastor.
He said, a thief doesn't bring anything back. A thief
takes something and he keeps it and he keep going.
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A thief don't bring anything back. I said, yeah, you're
a thief. I said, because the definition of a thief
is somebody that takes something that doesn't.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Belong to them, and those keys that belong to you.
So you a thief. Yes, he didn't know that he.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
Was setting up the introduction for today's certain I thought
it was funny that God just dropped that right in
my lamp this morning and gave me an opportunity to
share it with you. But my brothers and sisters, it's
very obvious to me today that he's not the only
thief in the house.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You ain't gonna like it, but I gotta say it anyway,
and let me just let me be just real and
honest with you.
Speaker 9 (06:48):
I don't need you to click your persons or your wallets.
I don't need you to hold on to your valuables.
But can I share it on you today you're sitting
next to somebody that could have been in their past.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Like that Bunny and Clym. As a matter of fact.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
As a matter of fact, I want you to know
that you're sitting by someone potentially and possibly that didn't
have a problem cutting You didn't have a problem cutting
you didn't have a problem laying hands on you. I
don't know who I'm talking to because the Bible says
sons were some of you.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
Not only does Parthians say sons were some of you.
I'm gonna suggest to us that suns were all of us,
because the truth really be told, all of us are
in something.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
How do you know a pastor? Because the Bible says that.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
All have sin and comes sort of the glory of
God that make us all huge, that make us all criplals.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You might not have been a thief, but you might
have been a liar. You might not have been a lion,
but you may have been a horner king.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
May might have been a forder cater, but you may
have cantled. Maybe you ain't camel, but I can see
you in the club, something like it's hot.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I can see you in the club. Thence into the
two fox. But is there anybody in this place? I
can just upot today and saying that I thank God.
That's what I used to be, but now I've been
washed in the blood of Jesus, and that makes the
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difference in my life to catch a thief as a
matter of fact. That a matter of fact. Let me
just put it to you this way.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
If you're here today and you know Jesus in a
part of your seeing, there is anybody here.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That know who Jesus says? You know that he died
on the fall.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
Or stupid got him with all my if I believe that,
If you believe that, and you are saying today, can
I tell you that these thieves that will hold the
crows what only thieves that got caught that day, the
day that Jesus.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Died, the day that he was buried, and the day
that he got up. He called all of us thieves
that was sitting in the place today.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
Watched the text the text, and take to teach us
something about Jesus' death on an old rugged craws can
aligne this text us, I bore your patience and keep
me too long here?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
What's this, y'all?
Speaker 9 (09:22):
That Jesus now has been examined by Pilot culture and
Pilot tried three times to get the crowd to release Jesus.
Pilot said, I can't find any fault in this faith.
As a matter of fact, since I can't find any
fault in him, I'm going to testize him.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And let him go. But y'all know what.
Speaker 9 (09:45):
The crowd began to cry out and say release unto
us for raps and crucify Jesus and Pilot listen. After
three attempts to release Jesus to the crowd, y'all still
with me?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Just walk through the crowd, can we? There are people
in the crowd. They're soldiers in the crowd, they're rulers
in the crowd. And these three men are on their
way to a hill called Calvil. Can I talk about
these three men? Three men carrying three crosses. Everybody carrying
their own particular cross.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
They just stop right there and preach. That's why the
song was written. With Jesus ben this cross alone.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
He's crossing hoon in all the world go free. No,
there's a cross for everyone, and there's a cross for me.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
These three men bury three crosses. But these three men
go to a hill call County. Can I tell you
what's happening? Mark says it was the third hour and
they crucified him. Three men hanging on across.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
And what's this culture?
Speaker 9 (10:47):
One man died to sin, one man died in sin,
but they speed of God. There was a man in
the middle that died for sin. One man want itself
on his own memories. He said, Lord, if you're who
you say, y'all are, save yourself and save us. One
man receives salvasing on the strength of the man in
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the middle, whose name was Jesus. And one man was
the giver of salvation, and that was the man in
the middle of y'all for everything.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
And as we examine the scene of the text, they
are now on the cross, and as they are there.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
The Bible says that the crowd is jeering and mocking Jesus.
Soldiers are gathering for his crowd for his clothes, and
people are mocking Jesus, and the crowd there are teasing
Jesus and looking at.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
The sign that says this is the king of the Jews.
Are y'all still here with me?
Speaker 9 (11:48):
I knew y'all were gonna be quiet, And that's a
perfect place for me to go right there, because.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Can I say something with you?
Speaker 9 (11:54):
The crowd was seeing crucive by him. But I want
the were the people weren't the people that that Jesus
were bought? Y'all ain't really heard the folks said that
were there when he took two misses, five bunny nose
and fed fire house.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Where was the blind man when he split on the
ground and.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Put his clay on his eyes. And the blind man
came saying, where was Lazarus. Perry in market Pleasus was
dead four days and Jesus goes depended me and said, Lazarus,
come forth, Oh y'all gonna river me?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Where was the crowd? From the window at Nane and
he was going out the gate, and with Perry and
her son, she met Jesus. He touched the boys, coughing,
and he raised him back to light. Where was the
crowd at? Wherever? The cycles that saw Jesus.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
Walk home warder the cycles at that saw Jesus speak
and say.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Win be still. Are y'all still here?
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Just thanks of the cycles, because there was some in
the crowd that should have said something that wasn't open
their mouth and saying anything. Are you here today? I
want you to know that if God has ever done
something for you, if Jesus has ever made a difference
in your life, you ought to be winning to feel
like those in the crowd and your mother and saying yes,
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I know, and I can't find no faulty. And this
man named Jesus, I was killed here, but thanks pet
of God that by his grace.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I've been sent for you. These three men all treated
like common criminals on their way to a calvary's cross,
and they hang them on the cross. Why else? And
the first thing that Jesus says is Father, to give them,
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for they know not.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
What they do.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Y'alln't understand the power and the irony out of those
words that Jesus is saying.
Speaker 9 (13:56):
The first thing that he says, as he's hanging on
across is Father, forgive them. In other words, don't hold
it against them, release them from what they're getting ready
to do and what they are doing right now, because
they really don't understand the depth of what they are doing.
But can I tell you what, I'm glad that they
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put Jesus on the prophets because Jesus was hanging in
your place, at my place, a substitutionary death, because instelement.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Every one of us getting here hanging on that problem.
This WA's this? The malefactors, the malefactors. Wats this? The
Gospel of.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
Matthew calls them thieves. Mark calls them thieves. But Luke
uses this term malefactor.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
What's this? And a term matterfactor certainly refers to.
Speaker 9 (14:45):
As an evil doer, which means that it is a
little bit more significant than just a thief.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
An evil doer can be anyone.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
But watching what the textis telling the teachers, it says
that while Jesus is hanging.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
On the cross, that the thieves now are hanging with him.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
Loop says the matter factors they've witness, seen, heard and
felt what was going on.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
But something called this one particular.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
Thief that was hanging on across this one particular matter
of factor decided that he needed to say something.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
All right, y'all still with me? See the law had
told him to keep his mouth clue, y'all know what
come back.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
So y'all might get uncomfortable what I'm getting ready to do.
But if you ever get pulled over a boy the police,
y'all know what they say to you, right?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Can I help you understand what they say? They say
you have the right to remain silent.
Speaker 9 (15:38):
Right, anything you say can and we'll be used against
you in the corner log. Don't get nervous in here.
That you have the right to an attorney, and.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed to you.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
And sometimes people will give up their right and speak
and cause themselves to be self incriminated, meaning they test
against their own self.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But my brothers and sisters, I want you to know
that we're not living under law anymore. We're living under grace.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Grace, and we're the law says that I shouldn't say
anything because what I say might need might incrimidate me.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Grace says that you have a reason and a responsibility
to say something. I knew I wouldn't gonna get anybody
to say anything that I said that the law said
that you are not to say anything. But Gray says,
I to say something.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
Grace says, I got a reason to tell and thank you.
Grace said, I've got a responsibility to lift.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
My head pack put my hands. Huh said tell the Lord,
thank you. I don't know.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
We weren't talking to in this place today, But is
there anybody here today that has a reason to give
him some things? Anybody here today it has a reason?
Put help your mouth and.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Tell them the hard thing. Can I say something to
you every that's one of us type of reasons. I
opened my mouth because if you're looking at me, that
means he woke you up this morning. That's reason enough.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
The same thing. If you ain't gonna weigh in your hands,
you ought to have a sense enough to tell God
thank you.
Speaker 12 (17:23):
If you're clothed in your rain, minds you know where
you are, You know who you are, and walk in
here with a wheel tells you walked in here on
your own.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Two people, you got a reason to tell them hard thing. Okay,
if you don't have a reason.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
I'm out of responsibility. I have a responsibility to give
God some braves.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
What's this?
Speaker 9 (17:47):
You don't crazing your part on some watch and the
wats were praising, But I don't need.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Anything rock crying out in my firstday Fursday, first day.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
The first thing that you need is you need a
credible eyewitness. You need a critical eye witness. This is
the scene of the text.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Here in the text.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
We see this man opening his mouth this one matter
of factor as they both are hang, you're going to
cross watch what this one matter of factor?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Does? You need a credible eyewitness? Watch what he does.
He begins to testify.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
Look at the name and say testify, But he begins
to testify on himself and the.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Other matter of fact, y'all still with me? He mean
what he says he looks, look at what he says.
He says, he says. As one begins to say, if
you're who you say, y'are.
Speaker 9 (18:47):
Jesus, why won't you come down off that cross, save
yourself and save us? The other one cried out and said, man,
what is wrong with you? Do you not fear God?
Seeing that be us in this same condemnation. I stopped
by to say with you, that's why Jesus died, That's
why he was buried, and that's why Jesus got it
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with all power, is that we could escape condemnation and
receive south pass.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Understand for God, for.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
He the work that the game has only begotten son,
So haven believed in him, said our coverage, but have
everlasting language for Constant, not his son. Here it is
to confil the world, but that the world through him
might be saved. He said, don't you fear God? That
you see that we're in the same predicament. And I
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want you to see see something, my brothers and sisters,
that every last one of us.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
We were in the same predicament.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
When your neighbors say same, we may not have done
the same thing, but we are guilty of the same thing.
We may not have committed the same by a lesson,
but we're guilty of the same thing.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Can I tell you what we're guilty other? We are
guilty of sin. Not only are we guilty of sin,
we may not have done.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
The same thing, we're guilty of the same thing, and
our punishment was the same.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
The razess of sin is death, but.
Speaker 9 (20:15):
The guilt of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ.
Oh Lord, this matter fact is saying, we are getting
just what we deserve. We're getting out due rewards. We're
getting what we deserve. But this man is hanging on
the cross. He hasn't done anything wrong. We are getting
what we deserve.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Wats this, y'all? Justice is being served.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
I want to speak to you today from the standpoint
that justice was being served.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
But thank God that grace and mercy was present to
hold that justice. Y'all don't know the south because I
thank God. There have been times in my life we're justinge.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
If justice was served, I would have been somewhere sleeping
in my earthly grave.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
If justice would have been served, I would have been
locked behind with the walls. If justice would have been served,
I would have been laying on some hospital bed right now,
if Thanks being a God, then he heard that justice
and gave me some brace in mercy. Okay, maybe you
didn't feel that one, but to feel this, I thank
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God that early this pointing, if justice was not served,
because if justice.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Would have been servered, this church would have been empty
today because we all deserved to die. But Thanks being
a God that right early at this point, Justice might
have been hanging around but talking about what.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Grace and mercy said.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
Give that leave him alone because the blood of Jesus
just still worse. He said, this man has done coming it,
amiss ons, can't talk to you.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
The first thing I see, first thing I.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
See is is he says that he's done nothing amidss
he he admits and acknowledges, all right, that he's a smpot.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Right well, let me stay again.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
He admits and acknowledges that he's a sinner. And that's
the first thing that we must unwrap and understand that
in order for God to save us, we gotta.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Come clean and be honest with God about him. Y'all.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
I don't care if I saw what you Easter block.
I don't care about your suit. I don't care about
your shoes. I don't care about your dress, your purse
or curfew.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I don't care what you.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
Okay, how you came in here. Can I help you
to understand God's not concerned about what you look like
on the outside. God is concerned about what you look
like on the inside. You can be dressing something on
your way, you can be torn up the floor. Yades
the moment that if God can say, he can't save anybody.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So I have somebody in this place. They cod that
you don't look like what you mean through. Don't let
these clothes fool you. I wasn't a wrench, but I
thank God that I came.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
To teesus since as I was at Red moved and said,
can I tell y'all what I found? I found that
him arrested me. I found joy in the Lord. I
found peace in the Lord, and he has made me playing.
So don't let anybody tell you that it's about your clothing.
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It's about your soul. Got back my backroom, coming home
and put this out, said you come and turn dressed up.
Don't make you a Christian anymore than he couldn't have
stepped the store around my men.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Made me a doctor.
Speaker 9 (23:52):
Because just because you look like a docker. It doesn't
make you a doctor. Just because you look like a chrystian.
Just because you talk like a crystal, just because you
smell like a crystal.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You know, means that you live like a chrystal.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
And his heart is not concerned about what you say.
He's concerned about how you live. Look at your neighbors
and say how you live itess he heard he felt something,
this thing going across, saw something incredible.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Look at your name and say incredible. He saw something incredible.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
And so because he saw something incredible, he became incredible.
Eye witness was text washing text eye witness. And when
he became an eyewitness, he began.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
To talk about his own life. He says, we are guilty.
I'm guilty of everything that I'm hanging on this cross
for I should be here.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
There's no reason that I should be anywhere else because
everything that was said about me, I did it.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That's a strong indication that he was now a repentant sinner.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
Is that when you're willing to say that everything that
has been roused against me, I'm guilty of doing it.
Can I start this with you and I hope you
don't mind me saying that a true confession may be
bad for the reputation for good for the soul.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
That's what round West says, that a true confession is bad.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
For the reputation for good for the soul, because if
thyself confessed with thy mind the Lord Jesus.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
And believe in thy heart that God raised.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Him from the day, is telling somebody thy sound, I'll
be saved with the heart, man.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Believe it. I'm the righteousness.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
With the mild confessing is made unto sound facing if
there anybody in this place that understands that you cannot
be saved unless you open your mind, that you cannot
be saved, or tell you first and meant that I
am a sinner that I'm gonna returned up. Man, I'm
good for nothing. But in this place bres no good thing.
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I know that's hard for some of us to believe
because we think we all of that and the baggagims.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
But can I say something with you. We are all
sinners and we are saved by grace.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
But here's something else that I want to send it
to this morning, is that thank God that he don't see.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Us for what people wants for me. Because the blood
gives him a different view of who we are now.
He became incredible.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Look at your neighbor and say, in credible, I witness
he witness God doing something incredible, and he became incredible.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Eye witness my brothers and sisters. Can I ask you
a question, is it anybody here that's ever seen God
do something incredible? All right? I thank God for the
two of you that is seeing God do something credible.
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Anybody else God do something incredible? Let me let me
show you just how incredible God really is. Can you give?
And it's a color? He continue your black soul, dip
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it in his red blood and watch your white man stuff.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
I wish I had somebody and if you were having
a blue Friday, just hang in there because Sunday is
around the corner. But what's this, the text say, is
that he becomes incredibleness.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Look at the neck and say, I witness, he says
to Jesus. He says, listen, listen. He says, we are
guilty of the crimes that are set before us. But
we know that you haven't done anything or.
Speaker 9 (27:59):
Miss I'm a credible witness. I'm I'm testifying against myself.
I'm I'm admitting I'm acknowledging that I can't make it
without you. I'm acknowledging that I'm guilty. Everything that the
devil said about you raint a lot. I knew I
was gonna get married many everything that was devil.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Said about your rental.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
Lot Because some of the things that the devil bring
against us, guess what we have to say, Amen, yep
I did idea that, yep I did that too. But
when the devil comes against us and brings accusations, guess
what you can tell him?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
But they speak to the blood of teams that everything.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
That you said, everything that you said, I did, Yeah,
I did it. Greg says, even though I did it,
that God still has part.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Here's a good point. He becomes first of all, incredible
I witness that I can't tell what happens next you
next thing that happened.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
If he becomes incredible eye witness, and we're looking at
this man, watch this, watch this, watch this matter factor.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
He not only becomes a credible out of witness.
Speaker 13 (29:08):
But he has now to catch. To catch a thief,
you have to have clear identity. Police and neighbors say
clear identity. Now, can I tell you the kencher thief
is not as easy as you think.
Speaker 14 (29:20):
Well, because a thief is not going to send you
a letter and tell you that I'm getting ready to
take your cause.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
They're not gonna send you a note and tell you
at a p m. I'm gonna break into your house
and take your maloney. A thief is going to.
Speaker 9 (29:35):
Come unexpected and when you least expect them to come.
And most thiefs operate in the dark.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
That's where I'm going with this.
Speaker 9 (29:44):
And because the thief operates in the dark, in order
for you to convict a thief, you have to have
a clear identity. Have you ever heard of viewing someone
in a line up? When you view someone in a
line up, it's designed enough to happ to the identity
of the culprit or the person that is committing the crime.
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Committing the crime I sport, But in order to catch
the thief, we have to have clear identity of who
Jesus is, which I have some about it. In order
for us to be saved and and sacify and rect
it in His love, we have to have a clear
identity of.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Who he is.
Speaker 9 (30:25):
I know it's early in this message, but I just
feel like asking the question last morning.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
If you don't mind, is there anybody here that know
who he is? I ain't what you know about it?
I'm not asking half you heard about it? And I
want to know it. Anybody hear that really know Jesus?
Do you know Jesus? Do you know him?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
What?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Do you just talk about it? Do you know him?
What have you heard about it? Because if you know him,
you're gonna be some signs and you know you won't.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Go you the King.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
That's annoybody indicate that knowing you didn't not indication. That's
a knowing your wings got to indicate that's annoying. Let
me try this again. Get there, anybody here, don't tell
for yourself. No that he don't make the wing. Don't
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that he'll pick you up. Know that he'll heal your mindy,
Know that he'll give you chows, that he's the one
to keep you in his arm, tect you from the enemy.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Look at your naghbor, say neighbor, I know it from myself.
I know too much about it. You can't make me out.
Watch what he says. Watch watch what he says. Clear identity?
Can I can I help with this?
Speaker 14 (31:52):
Clear identity is clear? Clear identity there. There's something called
Clear when you go to the airport. Many people know
about TSA and what te I like TESA because what
it allows you to do is that you can go
through the line and you don't have.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
To take your shoes off, you don't have to take
a belt off, and it gives you access to getting
put to the front of the line. But the only
way that you can be put to the front of
the line is if you have TSA or if you
have something called Clear. And what Clear does is Clear
is a program that you pay for and Clear is
designed to identify who you are using something called biometrics.
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And what Clear does is it examines who you are
by using your fingerprints, It uses your iris, and can
scan your pupil. But one way in which it identifies
who you are is the biometrics.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
And the uniqueness of the individual commers. Somebody I just
said something that.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
Every individual is unique in her own way. I've got
twin sons. They're both sitting back there today, But I
promise you right now, if they both touch a color,
even oh, they look alife.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Sometimes they talk to light. Sometimes even the old man
in confused as the which ones to Kobe and which
ones to Cory. But I promise you that their fingerprints
aren't the same.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
The bilo metrics will identify to Kobe Dawkins from to
Corey Dawkins. There's one digit that separates their social Security number,
there's one letter that separates their first name, and their
last thing is the same. If it's anybody that's identical,
it's them, right. But there is the uniqueness of the
finger prints that puts them in a uniqueness and single position.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
So that you can know who they are. Where are
you from? With this Passadonis, I'm so glad that I
know Jesus for myself.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
Because I became a caulfief when I realized who he was.
Like watch the texts on what he says. What the
thief says the steep its steep now is talking to Jesus.
And as he's talking to Jesus, he says to him,
he says, Lord, alright, first thing I want to do
is deal with the fact that we must make Jesus
blowing over our life. He has to be the one
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that gods your actions and governs your thoughts. He has
to be the one that you know to submit to,
to admit to he has to be the one that
you play in complete control of your life. This matter factor,
says Lord, meaning that I can't do it by myself. Come,
there's somebody. The fact that you're here today. You didn't
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make it by yourself.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Let me tell you that.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
Ain't Ali Taylor, the author of Roots. He has a turtle,
a photo of a turtle on the fist post. And
every time you see the turtle on the fish post,
he said, it serves as a reminder that the turtle.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Didn't get there by itself.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
So you thought that you got here by yourself, but
you didn't make it by yourself. You're just a turtle
on the fist post. If somebody had to put the
turtle on the fist post.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
And somebody had to be yond in your life for
you to.
Speaker 9 (34:59):
Be here today, somebody has to be watching over you
that has him some time. Somebody has to be providing
and making away from you out to him fight. And
that's somebody is the Lord Almighty. Watch what he says.
He said, Lord, Lord, let me lay all that meaning
that you are the person that everybody is saying that
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you're not. You are the one Lord that that has.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Power and authority and watch what es he says. He
not only says that you are a lord, but he
says that you are a king. He doesn't come out
and say you are a king because there's a sign
of superscription above the head of Jesus saying you are
the king not to choose.
Speaker 9 (35:44):
But he's now being accused of blasphemy and treason for
saying that he is king.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yes, Lord, but this a matter of fact says you're
a king. Can't tell you how he says.
Speaker 9 (35:58):
He says it this way, rever frankly, when you come
into your key, let me pause.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Rewind and play it for your gain when you come
into your key.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
The last time I said, the only somebody that has
a kingdom is somebody that's key.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Keep remember to him both as lord and Keith. But
can I mase and rewind and pace and play something
for you.
Speaker 9 (36:24):
The other thief said, if you are who you say
you are, come off the cross and save yourself and
save up.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
This matter of factor didn't say that. He says, when
you come into the king okay, okay, let me pause,
rewind and share it with you again.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
The one matter of factor said, if you are who
you say you are, come off the cross and save
yourself and save us. To the other matter of factor said,
when you're come into your kingdom, remember me.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Can I tell you that the difference between your sound
bason is if and when? All right?
Speaker 9 (37:00):
Because if there's any doubt in your mind, and say,
if Jesus is Lord and King when you die, you
will not see him for yourself because there can be
no doubt who he is.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
And you got to establish some clear identity of who
Jesus is. He said, I know you as Lord and King. Okay, okay.
Can I tell y'all something that troubled me in the text?
What troubled me at the text is the fact that
this man is not in church. Well, this man did
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not get off the cross be baptized in the name
of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit before
Jesus promise him paradise. All right. This man is hanging
on the.
Speaker 9 (37:54):
Cross next to Jesus and he identifies who Jesus is.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
My question is how did he know? How did he
know it? What to believe that Jesus was both Lord
and kid.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
Can I ask you a question if a thief that
is hanging on across with Jesus just a few hours
of his life can testify that he's.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Lord and king? How about some of us that's been
here a long time that happen around him hanging around?
How about us?
Speaker 9 (38:31):
Why is it that thing know he knows and he's
only been hanging around. But you've been hanging around with
Jesus all your life and still don't know that he's
going than me?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I wish I had somebody. How do you know that
he's lord? Lord? Simply be that he had the authority
to do it?
Speaker 9 (38:48):
Can I prove to you that he's lord? He proved
that he was lord when he can't walking on UK?
Can I get y'all Jesus biometrics? I said that clear identity,
establish your identity using biometrics like your finger prints, y'all?
Can I use this finger prints to determine his identity? Franklin,
come walk with me.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Watched this rightly? Watched this.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
I remember that when Jesus hit on the sea, it
was his heads watched his coming recul But I remember
that Jesus had a situation to where we can trace
his finger prints your mind?
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Me?
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Right?
Speaker 9 (39:20):
Do you you say right here?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
He was an accuser?
Speaker 9 (39:24):
He was a credible eye witness. I remember the indictions
that Jesus used his fingerprints. When there was a woman
that was caught in the very act of the dose.
She was guilty of the crime. And Franklin is one
of them that said.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
I saw her, I thought her in the act.
Speaker 9 (39:42):
Can I tell you what Jesus did with clear identity
and biometrics. I heard that Jesus got damned use his
finger Prince roll in the sin.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
And when Jesus rode in the sin, all of the
ones that were accusing of them threw down the stones
and began to walk away.
Speaker 9 (40:00):
The reason that they walked away because they realized that
they were just as guilty.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
As the woman that had to take the right. The
fact that there are nine writess no woman. And while
you trying to hurl a.
Speaker 9 (40:14):
Stone at somebody else, you're living in a glasshouse.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
His fingerprints, so that he had power to forgive seeing
and to parton.
Speaker 9 (40:24):
Don't that would consider guilty? I said, what else's fingers?
So I see his fingers.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Goat when he took two loofists and five part of
those man five thousand, not include women and children. Can
I tell you you know you got DNA even in
your feet.
Speaker 9 (40:42):
If we want to trace the water, then the water
could testify. I remember it was the third watch of
the night and Jesus came walking on water. And if
water could testify, water would tell you that he's got power.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
He's an hold the wash.
Speaker 9 (40:59):
I haven't seen anybody else walk on the water. Can
I tell you that even the wind of pay him?
Because none of the storm at sea, Cajesus said, be still.
The wind stopped flowing as the water stop moving. And
if he can't control the wind, if he can't walk
on water, you want to make him lord up your
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knife because he's got control the wind and he can't
control the water.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
He got control whatever wrong. He can fix this, Yes,
so that he can fix it all in his head.
Jesus to her, identity has to be a stablished and
his clear identity is being a stablished He says. First
of all, Jesus, I know that you are over all right. Secondly, Jesus,
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I know that you are a king. Well can I can't?
Speaker 9 (41:53):
Can I hurry on unless I bore your face to
keep it to off. The last thing that I want
you to see is not clear identity. The last thing
that I want you to see that in order to
catch a thief, can't tell you what's you need. You
need a creative bout you need a creative by a
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thief just won't fall for anything. Matter of fact, there's
an idiom that says.
Speaker 15 (42:23):
To catch a thief, you need a thief because only
another thief can understand the mind other thief.
Speaker 9 (42:34):
And if you are going to catch thief, you have
to have some sort of creative method to catch me yourself.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Okay, okay, y'all, y'all, y'all not going with me, Let
me ask this question. Anybody ever experienced a rodent? Yes, okay, okay,
a rat? Let me just let me just do it
out there like that. Let me experience.
Speaker 9 (43:00):
I'm not talking about one of them little bitty creatures.
I'm talking about those of us that's ever been in
the country. And you know what a wood rat is,
not a hood rat, but a wood rat. Not for
a little bitty furry ones, but the big ones that
take the bread and the teese off the trap. And
you go to the trap and you look and the
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bread or the cheese is gone, and your trap is
still there.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
And you know that mouse, that wood rat wait more
than that trap.
Speaker 9 (43:27):
And you wonder how in the world did that rat
take that teese or that bread without that trap chanting
the rat. Somebody came up with a creative idea and
invented the mouse trap.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
And what the mouse trap suggested us is that in
order to catch the roller, the rap, the wood rat,
or whatever it is, you gotta lure it in with
something that entices it. And so you do.
Speaker 9 (43:55):
Y'all know what I discovered. I discovered that cheese and
bread wasn't the right thing. Rat dress nah nah nah
nah nah. See, I'm old school, y'all. You can act
like you ain't never you don't know what a round
who knows what a rat is?
Speaker 1 (44:07):
You can act like you don't know about the good
dress or that. But can I tell you the one.
Speaker 9 (44:11):
Thing that I discovered that you can use to catch
them with is not cheese and not bread.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
It's peanut butter. You put a little peanut butter on
the trip. Put a little stream on the peanut butter. Y'all,
y'all ain't old school.
Speaker 9 (44:32):
Put a little spring, a little stream on a peanut butter,
and the smell of the peanut butter ignores the thief,
and the thief just can't help it because it's attracted
to the space. The thief is attracted the thief being
the rat is attracted to something that it wants, and
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it wants.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
It's so bad that's willing to die for. I'm going
somewhere in this wasn't so bad.
Speaker 9 (45:05):
That is willing to die for a creative idea. Oh
but can I tell you something today, God puts something in.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Front of us that you ought to be willing to
die for.
Speaker 9 (45:18):
You ain't gonna pray with me, But I gotta tell
you that a creative idea was used to capture a thief.
I'm not talking about Judas's gabbed because Judah's was a thief.
He was the disciple that had the money bag. But
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I'm glad that God came up with a creative idea.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
A y'all gonna pray with me.
Speaker 9 (45:48):
And I'm so thankful that when God was coming up
with this place, he said, wait a minute, I need
somebody that's willing to die to give it to somebody else.
I need somebody that's willing to be the seller man,
like y'all gonna pray with me. I heard that they
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looked around him to try and find somebody worthy of
going down. God had a creative idea. He said, I'm
gonna give my soul, and if my son go down,
he's supper all across a calvary. He can die in
Dunkin's places, he can die in Franklin's place, and if he.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
Died, and that ought to be enough for somebody to say,
if he died, if he was buried him and if
you're old, then I want to be with him? Am
I right about it?
Speaker 8 (46:49):
Can I tell you?
Speaker 1 (46:50):
The plan to plan was that he would die.
Speaker 9 (46:54):
In our place, a substitution every death, because it's so
many you you instiuld have been me hanging old crows.
The trap was said so that he could catch a thief.
But I'm so glad.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
I'm so glad. And the thief that was caught in
the end of the account was not a fagin ol
rodan me, but it was me. And it are you up?
Because at the crawls and the brawls, and I furt
saw the light and the burners of my mind of
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the way it was there my favor, I received my sailor,
and now and now I'm happy. All the dail want
to touch somebody and tell them about.
Speaker 9 (47:53):
I thank God, even when when I was sinking the
defense of the people saw seeking to rise no more.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
I'm so glad that his gray and save me his
grades and called meum the hog deer was that Tina's
were die for sins. Look at it now with a
cross on his.
Speaker 9 (48:21):
Shoulder, going up here, called Cabrick. I'm so glad that
while he was hanging there he caught a thief. The said,
come and go with meals to my father's house today. Up,
you'll be with me, Up and panadi, he said, Can
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I tell the story?
Speaker 1 (48:43):
I'm so glad. They marched him of Cabrige mountain. Up
they hung and hide. They stretched him wide. Matthew said
he died, Not said he died.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
Said he died.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
John said, anybody.
Speaker 9 (49:01):
Very him in the modern Twober watch this up to
keep thieves from stealing his body and saying that he rolls.
We're gonna roll the stone in one of the supoker.
I heard the record sayer.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Then he rolled the rocker in front of the rock,
the rock that was rocker basis.
Speaker 9 (49:24):
Then he rolled up nothing rock up in front of
my rocker. Because the Bible says, there is no rock
up like our rocker, either rocking.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Or marry name.
Speaker 9 (49:37):
I heard the reconciler he stayed down for three whole days?
Speaker 1 (49:44):
Did he stayed in the game? He up his head
Sunday morning. Kill them.
Speaker 9 (49:52):
What he did he got up were all power in
his head. He talks of deep when he got upper coat.
So when he got up, can I tell you some
deja that he compasied human be my heard he caught
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that deeper by the name of death of When he
got up, I heard him saying old Death where Joe
he called a deeper by the name of Brave, Old brave,
where he.
Speaker 1 (50:30):
Is a victory of.
Speaker 9 (50:32):
And I'm so glad when they went to the tuber
they couldn't find him.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Then, can I tell you something? If you missed me
from fining down.
Speaker 9 (50:44):
Here, I'm going up to glory Sesus, you told the
deeper on the cross you will be with me in paradise.
So can I call him this favor a dice the
paradise of God. There's no more crying, what suffering every
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day will be Sunday.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
Heaven for having no he Do you want to go on.
Speaker 9 (51:14):
To a place called Papada? We can want see from
troubling the very will be at her answer. And it
all happened because they caught a diver when he died,
and blood was said of mother remissing us.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
And can I ask on something unch of glad he
died for you?
Speaker 9 (51:36):
And should I ask you another question of aren't too
glad that the tomb was empty? Heard that Sunday morning?
Aren't too glad that here in the hills look at
somebody and say here the is I don't need an
empty too to prove that in the hills.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
Even inside of me. He off with me, He talks
with me. He tells me that I am his own.
I can feeling right now even in this place.
Speaker 9 (52:10):
If they hit anybody here, that's glad about the factor
that I was a sinner. But thank God that is
Grace called me, and he all right, aie, all right,
I'm tying him for my sister.
Speaker 1 (52:28):
He's all right to me. I'm I don't want anybody.
I'm so glad.
Speaker 9 (52:34):
I'm so glad that he got up to us today.
Is a good thing to know the Lord he is
still in the blessing business.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
He's the same time, just the thing today that's forever bore.
So then I say something to you. I know he's alright,
I know he's alright. Yes, Yes, he's all right.
Speaker 9 (53:00):
I know he's all right. And one of these days
and he's coming back up. Said, when he come back,
I'm going with him till paradise.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
Now can I go mony?
Speaker 9 (53:12):
And when I'm getting the news is I'm gonna take
off these old clothes, try oh my long white robe,
and I get be with this, and I get that
I'm gonna sit down at the table he's so he'll
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get honey.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
I'm like to worry about welcome.
Speaker 9 (53:37):
But there'll be no more Monday, no more Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday, Friday and Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (53:45):
Every day we'll be Sunday seven or half go.
Speaker 9 (53:51):
He wanted me a good time, wanted me a good
time when oh God's children get together.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
But can I ask you a question? I don't either
be knows him. But will I see you there? Will
I see you there? If there's anybody that want to
be there.
Speaker 9 (54:13):
I'm just a goote to the city. To be answer
from the body is to be brothers with the Lord.
If you're miss me here, it's all right because I know.
Speaker 1 (54:26):
Him my sister that he called, Would you with me?
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Today's mighty good day. Today is thank you, a mighty
good day for you to come to Jesus.
Speaker 3 (55:26):
Today's a mighty good day for you to know the
Lord as your personal saving.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
And don't worry about anything else, because God's got some
room for you in the Kingdom of heaven.
Speaker 1 (55:47):
You can come by letter, you can come by statement.
There is rue right across for you, all right, there
is rue after crawl.
Speaker 5 (56:16):
For you.
Speaker 16 (56:21):
Millions had come, but still that's rue forever reward.
Speaker 1 (56:37):
It's true. M
The Father the name of Jesus.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We thank you for this privilege and honor to worship
you on this resurrection Sunday. We thank you, Lord that
there is an empty to there to prove that Jesus lives.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And if you want to.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Know where he lives, we thank you that he lives
in the depths.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Of our soul last beliefs.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And Lord, we give your praise glory it on as
I stand to share and to clear.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Your word strengthen me for the task at hand.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Let no self glorify or gratified the Lord. You get
the praise, glory and the honor crucified Dawkins. As long
as you get the glory, work in me, work on me,
but most of all, work grew me.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Let your word find its.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Desired destination and the depths of someone's heart and soul,
that it may spring up the well of everlasting life,
spirit un the Living God, have thine own way, have
thine own way moved between these consecrated walls. And let
the words of my mind, the meditation of my heart
beat symptable in thy sight.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Oh Lord, you are my strength, and you are my redeemer.
And I know that my Redeemer lives in Jesus. Match
this marvelous, magnificent name be.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Praid and that all God's people say Amen, Amen, Come
on then together you want to know you can do
anything that.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You want to. Man.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
I to you in the name above all names, and
that is the name of Jesus, to each of you,
my brothers and my sisters in Christ Jesus, on this
resurrection Sunday, it is truly good to be in the
House of the Lord once more and again to these.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
My preach brother a Man, Reverend Franklin, Reverend Colta.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Reverend white Man.
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If we have any other preachers in the house, God
bless you.
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Man.
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To those that are watching by way of social media Facebook, YouTube,
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on the Word broadcast scene live every Sunday at eleven
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Good morning, BS three. Time has been far spent, but
y'all know what time is Right now, It's time for
me to go to work. You have your Bible.
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Why don't you journey with me to the gospel according
to Loop chapter number twenty three.
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And for your consideration, I'm gonna read Versus number thirty
eight and I'm gonna go down to verse all the
way to verse number forty three.
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Luke, Chapter twenty three, verse thirty eight through forty three.
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Anybody glad that today is today.
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That we celebrate. That there is a symbol that he's
not there. He's risen, just as he.
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Said, Yes, yes, come and see the police.
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Where the Lord late, I mean he layd there no more,
he man, Luke twenty three and thirty eight.
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Amen, there you hear these words.
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Have these words written for our learning and in your hearing.
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And a superscription also was written over him in the
letters of Greek and Latin and Hebrew. Listen, this is
the king of the Jews, and one of the malefactors
which were hang rowned on him, saying, if you be Christ,
save yourself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying,
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doest not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the
same condemnation. And we, indeed, just before we receive the
newe reward of our deeds.
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But this man have done nothing amiss.
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And he said, unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou
comest into thy kingdom.
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Jesus said, unto him, barely, I say unto THEE today,
shalt thou be with me in paradise. Thank God, bless
the readers, the hearers, and the doers of this holy word.
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I want to serve you from these words to catch
a thief, to catch.
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A thief.
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In a way of introducing this text, I want you
to know that my introduction changed after this morning. When
I call a thief, he already testifying on himself, and
y'all heard him over there saying hold up.
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As I was sitting in my office, I received a
text message from my.
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Dear friend and brother, Adrian Clayton, and he said, Pastor,
how you getting your office? Because I have your keys.
I said, you don't have my keys. I have my keys.
I don't know what you're talking about. He said, I'll
be in there.
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In comes brother Clayton with a set of keys that
I've been missing for quite some time. And I said,
you a thief. He said, I'm not a thief, Pastor.
He said, a thief doesn't bring anything back. A thief
takes something and he keeps it and he keep going.
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A thief don't bring anything back. I said, yeah, you're
a thief. I said, because the definition of a thief
is somebody that takes something that doesn't.
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Belong to them, and those keys that belong to you.
So you a thief. Yes, he didn't know that he.
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Was setting up the introduction for today's certain I thought
it was funny that God just dropped that right in
my lamp this morning and gave me an opportunity to
share it with you. But my brothers and sisters, it's
very obvious to me today that he's not the only
thief in the house.
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You ain't gonna like it, but I gotta say it anyway,
and let me just let me be just real and
honest with you.
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I don't need you to click your persons or your wallets.
I don't need you to hold on to your valuables.
But can I share it on you today you're sitting
next to somebody that could have been in their past.
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Like that Bunny and Clym. As a matter of fact.
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As a matter of fact, I want you to know
that you're sitting by someone potentially and possibly that didn't
have a problem cutting You didn't have a problem cutting
you didn't have a problem laying hands on you. I
don't know who I'm talking to because the Bible says
sons were some of you.
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As a matter of fact.
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Not only does Parthians say sons were some of you.
I'm gonna suggest to us that suns were all of us,
because the truth really be told, all of us are
in something.
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How do you know a pastor? Because the Bible says that.
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All have sin and comes sort of the glory of
God that make us all huge, that make us all criplals.
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You might not have been a thief, but you might
have been a liar. You might not have been a lion,
but you may have been a horner king.
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May might have been a forder cater, but you may
have cantled. Maybe you ain't camel, but I can see
you in the club, something like it's hot.
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I can see you in the club. Thence into the
two fox. But is there anybody in this place? I
can just upot today and saying that I thank God.
That's what I used to be, but now I've been
washed in the blood of Jesus, and that makes the
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difference in my life to catch a thief as a
matter of fact. That a matter of fact. Let me
just put it to you this way.
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If you're here today and you know Jesus in a
part of your seeing, there is anybody here.
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That know who Jesus says? You know that he died
on the fall.
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Or stupid got him with all my if I believe that,
If you believe that, and you are saying today, can
I tell you that these thieves that will hold the
crows what only thieves that got caught that day, the
day that Jesus.
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Died, the day that he was buried, and the day
that he got up. He called all of us thieves
that was sitting in the place today.
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Watched the text the text, and take to teach us
something about Jesus' death on an old rugged craws can
aligne this text us, I bore your patience and keep
me too long here?
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What's this, y'all?
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That Jesus now has been examined by Pilot culture and
Pilot tried three times to get the crowd to release Jesus.
Pilot said, I can't find any fault in this faith.
As a matter of fact, since I can't find any
fault in him, I'm going to testize him.
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And let him go. But y'all know what.
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The crowd began to cry out and say release unto
us for raps and crucify Jesus and Pilot listen. After
three attempts to release Jesus to the crowd, y'all still
with me?
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Just walk through the crowd, can we? There are people
in the crowd. They're soldiers in the crowd, they're rulers
in the crowd. And these three men are on their
way to a hill called Calvil. Can I talk about
these three men? Three men carrying three crosses. Everybody carrying
their own particular cross.
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They just stop right there and preach. That's why the
song was written. With Jesus ben this cross alone.
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He's crossing hoon in all the world go free. No,
there's a cross for everyone, and there's a cross for me.
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These three men bury three crosses. But these three men
go to a hill call County. Can I tell you
what's happening? Mark says it was the third hour and
they crucified him. Three men hanging on across.
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And what's this culture?
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One man died to sin, one man died in sin,
but they speed of God. There was a man in
the middle that died for sin. One man want itself
on his own memories. He said, Lord, if you're who
you say, y'all are, save yourself and save us. One
man receives salvasing on the strength of the man in
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the middle, whose name was Jesus. And one man was
the giver of salvation, and that was the man in
the middle of y'all for everything.
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And as we examine the scene of the text, they
are now on the cross, and as they are there.
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The Bible says that the crowd is jeering and mocking Jesus.
Soldiers are gathering for his crowd for his clothes, and
people are mocking Jesus, and the crowd there are teasing
Jesus and looking at.
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The sign that says this is the king of the Jews.
Are y'all still here with me?
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I knew y'all were gonna be quiet, And that's a
perfect place for me to go right there, because.
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Can I say something with you?
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The crowd was seeing crucive by him. But I want
the were the people weren't the people that that Jesus
were bought? Y'all ain't really heard the folks said that
were there when he took two misses, five bunny nose
and fed fire house.
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Where was the blind man when he split on the
ground and.
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Put his clay on his eyes. And the blind man
came saying, where was Lazarus. Perry in market Pleasus was
dead four days and Jesus goes depended me and said, Lazarus,
come forth, Oh y'all gonna river me?
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Where was the crowd? From the window at Nane and
he was going out the gate, and with Perry and
her son, she met Jesus. He touched the boys, coughing,
and he raised him back to light. Where was the
crowd at? Wherever? The cycles that saw Jesus.
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Walk home warder the cycles at that saw Jesus speak
and say.
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Win be still. Are y'all still here?
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Just thanks of the cycles, because there was some in
the crowd that should have said something that wasn't open
their mouth and saying anything. Are you here today? I
want you to know that if God has ever done
something for you, if Jesus has ever made a difference
in your life, you ought to be winning to feel
like those in the crowd and your mother and saying yes,
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I know, and I can't find no faulty. And this
man named Jesus, I was killed here, but thanks pet
of God that by his grace.
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I've been sent for you. These three men all treated
like common criminals on their way to a calvary's cross,
and they hang them on the cross. Why else? And
the first thing that Jesus says is Father, to give them,
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for they know not.
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What they do.
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Y'alln't understand the power and the irony out of those
words that Jesus is saying.
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The first thing that he says, as he's hanging on
across is Father, forgive them. In other words, don't hold
it against them, release them from what they're getting ready
to do and what they are doing right now, because
they really don't understand the depth of what they are doing.
But can I tell you what, I'm glad that they
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put Jesus on the prophets because Jesus was hanging in
your place, at my place, a substitutionary death, because instelement.
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Every one of us getting here hanging on that problem.
This WA's this? The malefactors, the malefactors. Wats this? The
Gospel of.
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Matthew calls them thieves. Mark calls them thieves. But Luke
uses this term malefactor.
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What's this? And a term matterfactor certainly refers to.
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As an evil doer, which means that it is a
little bit more significant than just a thief.
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An evil doer can be anyone.
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But watching what the textis telling the teachers, it says
that while Jesus is hanging.
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On the cross, that the thieves now are hanging with him.
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Loop says the matter factors they've witness, seen, heard and
felt what was going on.
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But something called this one particular.
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Thief that was hanging on across this one particular matter
of factor decided that he needed to say something.
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All right, y'all still with me? See the law had
told him to keep his mouth clue, y'all know what
come back.
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So y'all might get uncomfortable what I'm getting ready to do.
But if you ever get pulled over a boy the police,
y'all know what they say to you, right?
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Can I help you understand what they say? They say
you have the right to remain silent.
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Right, anything you say can and we'll be used against
you in the corner log. Don't get nervous in here.
That you have the right to an attorney, and.
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If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed to you.
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And sometimes people will give up their right and speak
and cause themselves to be self incriminated, meaning they test
against their own self.
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But my brothers and sisters, I want you to know
that we're not living under law anymore. We're living under grace.
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Grace, and we're the law says that I shouldn't say
anything because what I say might need might incrimidate me.
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Grace says that you have a reason and a responsibility
to say something. I knew I wouldn't gonna get anybody
to say anything that I said that the law said
that you are not to say anything. But Gray says,
I to say something.
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Grace says, I got a reason to tell and thank you.
Grace said, I've got a responsibility to lift.
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My head pack put my hands. Huh said tell the Lord,
thank you. I don't know.
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We weren't talking to in this place today, But is
there anybody here today that has a reason to give
him some things? Anybody here today it has a reason?
Put help your mouth and.
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Tell them the hard thing. Can I say something to
you every that's one of us type of reasons. I
opened my mouth because if you're looking at me, that
means he woke you up this morning. That's reason enough.
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The same thing. If you ain't gonna weigh in your hands,
you ought to have a sense enough to tell God
thank you.
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If you're clothed in your rain, minds you know where
you are, You know who you are, and walk in
here with a wheel tells you walked in here on
your own.
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Two people, you got a reason to tell them hard thing. Okay,
if you don't have a reason.
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I'm out of responsibility. I have a responsibility to give
God some braves.
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What's this?
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You don't crazing your part on some watch and the
wats were praising, But I don't need.
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Anything rock crying out in my firstday Fursday, first day.
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The first thing that you need is you need a
credible eyewitness. You need a critical eye witness. This is
the scene of the text.
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Here in the text.
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We see this man opening his mouth this one matter
of factor as they both are hang, you're going to
cross watch what this one matter of factor?
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Does? You need a credible eyewitness? Watch what he does.
He begins to testify.
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Look at the name and say testify, But he begins
to testify on himself and the.
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Other matter of fact, y'all still with me? He mean
what he says he looks, look at what he says.
He says, he says. As one begins to say, if
you're who you say, y'are.
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Jesus, why won't you come down off that cross, save
yourself and save us? The other one cried out and said, man,
what is wrong with you? Do you not fear God?
Seeing that be us in this same condemnation. I stopped
by to say with you, that's why Jesus died, That's
why he was buried, and that's why Jesus got it
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with all power, is that we could escape condemnation and
receive south pass.
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Understand for God, for.
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He the work that the game has only begotten son,
So haven believed in him, said our coverage, but have
everlasting language for Constant, not his son. Here it is
to confil the world, but that the world through him
might be saved. He said, don't you fear God? That
you see that we're in the same predicament. And I
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want you to see see something, my brothers and sisters,
that every last one of us.
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We were in the same predicament.
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When your neighbors say same, we may not have done
the same thing, but we are guilty of the same thing.
We may not have committed the same by a lesson,
but we're guilty of the same thing.
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Can I tell you what we're guilty other? We are
guilty of sin. Not only are we guilty of sin,
we may not have done.
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The same thing, we're guilty of the same thing, and
our punishment was the same.
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The razess of sin is death, but.
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The guilt of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ.
Oh Lord, this matter fact is saying, we are getting
just what we deserve. We're getting out due rewards. We're
getting what we deserve. But this man is hanging on
the cross. He hasn't done anything wrong. We are getting
what we deserve.
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Wats this, y'all? Justice is being served.
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I want to speak to you today from the standpoint
that justice was being served.
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But thank God that grace and mercy was present to
hold that justice. Y'all don't know the south because I
thank God. There have been times in my life we're justinge.
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If justice was served, I would have been somewhere sleeping
in my earthly grave.
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If justice would have been served, I would have been
locked behind with the walls. If justice would have been served,
I would have been laying on some hospital bed right now,
if Thanks being a God, then he heard that justice
and gave me some brace in mercy. Okay, maybe you
didn't feel that one, but to feel this, I thank
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God that early this pointing, if justice was not served,
because if justice.
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Would have been servered, this church would have been empty
today because we all deserved to die. But Thanks being
a God that right early at this point, Justice might
have been hanging around but talking about what.
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Grace and mercy said.
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Give that leave him alone because the blood of Jesus
just still worse. He said, this man has done coming it,
amiss ons, can't talk to you.
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The first thing I see, first thing I.
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See is is he says that he's done nothing amidss
he he admits and acknowledges, all right, that he's a smpot.
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Right well, let me stay again.
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He admits and acknowledges that he's a sinner. And that's
the first thing that we must unwrap and understand that
in order for God to save us, we gotta.
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Come clean and be honest with God about him. Y'all.
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I don't care if I saw what you Easter block.
I don't care about your suit. I don't care about
your shoes. I don't care about your dress, your purse
or curfew.
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I don't care what you.
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Okay, how you came in here. Can I help you
to understand God's not concerned about what you look like
on the outside. God is concerned about what you look
like on the inside. You can be dressing something on
your way, you can be torn up the floor. Yades
the moment that if God can say, he can't save anybody.
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So I have somebody in this place. They cod that
you don't look like what you mean through. Don't let
these clothes fool you. I wasn't a wrench, but I
thank God that I came.
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To teesus since as I was at Red moved and said,
can I tell y'all what I found? I found that
him arrested me. I found joy in the Lord. I
found peace in the Lord, and he has made me playing.
So don't let anybody tell you that it's about your clothing.
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It's about your soul. Got back my backroom, coming home
and put this out, said you come and turn dressed up.
Don't make you a Christian anymore than he couldn't have
stepped the store around my men.
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Made me a doctor.
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Because just because you look like a docker. It doesn't
make you a doctor. Just because you look like a chrystian.
Just because you talk like a crystal, just because you
smell like a crystal.
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You know, means that you live like a chrystal.
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And his heart is not concerned about what you say.
He's concerned about how you live. Look at your neighbors
and say how you live itess he heard he felt something,
this thing going across, saw something incredible.
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Look at your name and say incredible. He saw something incredible.
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And so because he saw something incredible, he became incredible.
Eye witness was text washing text eye witness. And when
he became an eyewitness, he began.
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To talk about his own life. He says, we are guilty.
I'm guilty of everything that I'm hanging on this cross
for I should be here.
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There's no reason that I should be anywhere else because
everything that was said about me, I did it.
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That's a strong indication that he was now a repentant sinner.
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Is that when you're willing to say that everything that
has been roused against me, I'm guilty of doing it.
Can I start this with you and I hope you
don't mind me saying that a true confession may be
bad for the reputation for good for the soul.
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That's what round West says, that a true confession is bad.
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For the reputation for good for the soul, because if
thyself confessed with thy mind the Lord Jesus.
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And believe in thy heart that God raised.
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Him from the day, is telling somebody thy sound, I'll
be saved with the heart, man.
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Believe it. I'm the righteousness.
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With the mild confessing is made unto sound facing if
there anybody in this place that understands that you cannot
be saved unless you open your mind, that you cannot
be saved, or tell you first and meant that I
am a sinner that I'm gonna returned up. Man, I'm
good for nothing. But in this place bres no good thing.
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I know that's hard for some of us to believe
because we think we all of that and the baggagims.
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But can I say something with you. We are all
sinners and we are saved by grace.
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But here's something else that I want to send it
to this morning, is that thank God that he don't see.
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Us for what people wants for me. Because the blood
gives him a different view of who we are now.
He became incredible.
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Look at your neighbor and say, in credible, I witness
he witness God doing something incredible, and he became incredible.
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Eye witness my brothers and sisters. Can I ask you
a question, is it anybody here that's ever seen God
do something incredible? All right? I thank God for the
two of you that is seeing God do something credible.
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Anybody else God do something incredible? Let me let me
show you just how incredible God really is. Can you give?
And it's a color? He continue your black soul, dip
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it in his red blood and watch your white man stuff.
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I wish I had somebody and if you were having
a blue Friday, just hang in there because Sunday is
around the corner. But what's this, the text say, is
that he becomes incredibleness.
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Look at the neck and say, I witness, he says
to Jesus. He says, listen, listen. He says, we are
guilty of the crimes that are set before us. But
we know that you haven't done anything or.
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Miss I'm a credible witness. I'm I'm testifying against myself.
I'm I'm admitting I'm acknowledging that I can't make it
without you. I'm acknowledging that I'm guilty. Everything that the
devil said about you raint a lot. I knew I
was gonna get married many everything that was devil.
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Said about your rental.
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Lot Because some of the things that the devil bring
against us, guess what we have to say, Amen, yep
I did idea that, yep I did that too. But
when the devil comes against us and brings accusations, guess
what you can tell him?
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But they speak to the blood of teams that everything.
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That you said, everything that you said, I did, Yeah,
I did it. Greg says, even though I did it,
that God still has part.
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Here's a good point. He becomes first of all, incredible
I witness that I can't tell what happens next you
next thing that happened.
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If he becomes incredible eye witness, and we're looking at
this man, watch this, watch this, watch this matter factor.
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He not only becomes a credible out of witness.
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But he has now to catch. To catch a thief,
you have to have clear identity. Police and neighbors say
clear identity. Now, can I tell you the kencher thief
is not as easy as you think.
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Well, because a thief is not going to send you
a letter and tell you that I'm getting ready to
take your cause.
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They're not gonna send you a note and tell you
at a p m. I'm gonna break into your house
and take your maloney. A thief is going to.
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Come unexpected and when you least expect them to come.
And most thiefs operate in the dark.
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That's where I'm going with this.
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And because the thief operates in the dark, in order
for you to convict a thief, you have to have
a clear identity. Have you ever heard of viewing someone
in a line up? When you view someone in a
line up, it's designed enough to happ to the identity
of the culprit or the person that is committing the crime.
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Committing the crime I sport, But in order to catch
the thief, we have to have clear identity of who
Jesus is, which I have some about it. In order
for us to be saved and and sacify and rect
it in His love, we have to have a clear
identity of.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Who he is.
Speaker 9 (30:25):
I know it's early in this message, but I just
feel like asking the question last morning.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
If you don't mind, is there anybody here that know
who he is? I ain't what you know about it?
I'm not asking half you heard about it? And I
want to know it. Anybody hear that really know Jesus?
Do you know Jesus? Do you know him?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
What?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Do you just talk about it? Do you know him?
What have you heard about it? Because if you know him,
you're gonna be some signs and you know you won't.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Go you the King.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
That's annoybody indicate that knowing you didn't not indication. That's
a knowing your wings got to indicate that's annoying. Let
me try this again. Get there, anybody here, don't tell
for yourself. No that he don't make the wing. Don't
(31:21):
that he'll pick you up. Know that he'll heal your mindy,
Know that he'll give you chows, that he's the one
to keep you in his arm, tect you from the enemy.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Look at your naghbor, say neighbor, I know it from myself.
I know too much about it. You can't make me out.
Watch what he says. Watch watch what he says. Clear identity?
Can I can I help with this?
Speaker 14 (31:52):
Clear identity is clear? Clear identity there. There's something called
Clear when you go to the airport. Many people know
about TSA and what te I like TESA because what
it allows you to do is that you can go
through the line and you don't have.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
To take your shoes off, you don't have to take
a belt off, and it gives you access to getting
put to the front of the line. But the only
way that you can be put to the front of
the line is if you have TSA or if you
have something called Clear. And what Clear does is Clear
is a program that you pay for and Clear is
designed to identify who you are using something called biometrics.
(32:33):
And what Clear does is it examines who you are
by using your fingerprints, It uses your iris, and can
scan your pupil. But one way in which it identifies
who you are is the biometrics.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
And the uniqueness of the individual commers. Somebody I just
said something that.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
Every individual is unique in her own way. I've got
twin sons. They're both sitting back there today, But I
promise you right now, if they both touch a color,
even oh, they look alife.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Sometimes they talk to light. Sometimes even the old man
in confused as the which ones to Kobe and which
ones to Cory. But I promise you that their fingerprints
aren't the same.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
The bilo metrics will identify to Kobe Dawkins from to
Corey Dawkins. There's one digit that separates their social Security number,
there's one letter that separates their first name, and their
last thing is the same. If it's anybody that's identical,
it's them, right. But there is the uniqueness of the
finger prints that puts them in a uniqueness and single position.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
So that you can know who they are. Where are
you from? With this Passadonis, I'm so glad that I
know Jesus for myself.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
Because I became a caulfief when I realized who he was.
Like watch the texts on what he says. What the
thief says the steep its steep now is talking to Jesus.
And as he's talking to Jesus, he says to him,
he says, Lord, alright, first thing I want to do
is deal with the fact that we must make Jesus
blowing over our life. He has to be the one
(34:07):
that gods your actions and governs your thoughts. He has
to be the one that you know to submit to,
to admit to he has to be the one that
you play in complete control of your life. This matter factor,
says Lord, meaning that I can't do it by myself. Come,
there's somebody. The fact that you're here today. You didn't
(34:28):
make it by yourself.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Let me tell you that.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
Ain't Ali Taylor, the author of Roots. He has a turtle,
a photo of a turtle on the fist post. And
every time you see the turtle on the fish post,
he said, it serves as a reminder that the turtle.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Didn't get there by itself.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
So you thought that you got here by yourself, but
you didn't make it by yourself. You're just a turtle
on the fist post. If somebody had to put the
turtle on the fist post.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
And somebody had to be yond in your life for
you to.
Speaker 9 (34:59):
Be here today, somebody has to be watching over you
that has him some time. Somebody has to be providing
and making away from you out to him fight. And
that's somebody is the Lord Almighty. Watch what he says.
He said, Lord, Lord, let me lay all that meaning
that you are the person that everybody is saying that
(35:22):
you're not. You are the one Lord that that has.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Power and authority and watch what es he says. He
not only says that you are a lord, but he
says that you are a king. He doesn't come out
and say you are a king because there's a sign
of superscription above the head of Jesus saying you are
the king not to choose.
Speaker 9 (35:44):
But he's now being accused of blasphemy and treason for
saying that he is king.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yes, Lord, but this a matter of fact says you're
a king. Can't tell you how he says.
Speaker 9 (35:58):
He says it this way, rever frankly, when you come
into your key, let me pause.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Rewind and play it for your gain when you come
into your key.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
The last time I said, the only somebody that has
a kingdom is somebody that's key.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Keep remember to him both as lord and Keith. But
can I mase and rewind and pace and play something
for you.
Speaker 9 (36:24):
The other thief said, if you are who you say
you are, come off the cross and save yourself and
save up.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
This matter of factor didn't say that. He says, when
you come into the king okay, okay, let me pause,
rewind and share it with you again.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
The one matter of factor said, if you are who
you say you are, come off the cross and save
yourself and save us. To the other matter of factor said,
when you're come into your kingdom, remember me.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Can I tell you that the difference between your sound
bason is if and when? All right?
Speaker 9 (37:00):
Because if there's any doubt in your mind, and say,
if Jesus is Lord and King when you die, you
will not see him for yourself because there can be
no doubt who he is.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
And you got to establish some clear identity of who
Jesus is. He said, I know you as Lord and King. Okay, okay.
Can I tell y'all something that troubled me in the text?
What troubled me at the text is the fact that
this man is not in church. Well, this man did
(37:41):
not get off the cross be baptized in the name
of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit before
Jesus promise him paradise. All right. This man is hanging
on the.
Speaker 9 (37:54):
Cross next to Jesus and he identifies who Jesus is.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
My question is how did he know? How did he
know it? What to believe that Jesus was both Lord
and kid.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
Can I ask you a question if a thief that
is hanging on across with Jesus just a few hours
of his life can testify that he's.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Lord and king? How about some of us that's been
here a long time that happen around him hanging around?
How about us?
Speaker 9 (38:31):
Why is it that thing know he knows and he's
only been hanging around. But you've been hanging around with
Jesus all your life and still don't know that he's
going than me?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I wish I had somebody. How do you know that
he's lord? Lord? Simply be that he had the authority
to do it?
Speaker 9 (38:48):
Can I prove to you that he's lord? He proved
that he was lord when he can't walking on UK?
Can I get y'all Jesus biometrics? I said that clear identity,
establish your identity using biometrics like your finger prints, y'all?
Can I use this finger prints to determine his identity? Franklin,
come walk with me.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Watched this rightly? Watched this.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
I remember that when Jesus hit on the sea, it
was his heads watched his coming recul But I remember
that Jesus had a situation to where we can trace
his finger prints your mind?
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Me?
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Right?
Speaker 9 (39:20):
Do you you say right here?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
He was an accuser?
Speaker 9 (39:24):
He was a credible eye witness. I remember the indictions
that Jesus used his fingerprints. When there was a woman
that was caught in the very act of the dose.
She was guilty of the crime. And Franklin is one
of them that said.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
I saw her, I thought her in the act.
Speaker 9 (39:42):
Can I tell you what Jesus did with clear identity
and biometrics. I heard that Jesus got damned use his
finger Prince roll in the sin.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
And when Jesus rode in the sin, all of the
ones that were accusing of them threw down the stones
and began to walk away.
Speaker 9 (40:00):
The reason that they walked away because they realized that
they were just as guilty.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
As the woman that had to take the right. The
fact that there are nine writess no woman. And while
you trying to hurl a.
Speaker 9 (40:14):
Stone at somebody else, you're living in a glasshouse.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
His fingerprints, so that he had power to forgive seeing
and to parton.
Speaker 9 (40:24):
Don't that would consider guilty? I said, what else's fingers?
So I see his fingers.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Goat when he took two loofists and five part of
those man five thousand, not include women and children. Can
I tell you you know you got DNA even in
your feet.
Speaker 9 (40:42):
If we want to trace the water, then the water
could testify. I remember it was the third watch of
the night and Jesus came walking on water. And if
water could testify, water would tell you that he's got power.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
He's an hold the wash.
Speaker 9 (40:59):
I haven't seen anybody else walk on the water. Can
I tell you that even the wind of pay him?
Because none of the storm at sea, Cajesus said, be still.
The wind stopped flowing as the water stop moving. And
if he can't control the wind, if he can't walk
on water, you want to make him lord up your
(41:19):
knife because he's got control the wind and he can't
control the water.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
He got control whatever wrong. He can fix this, Yes,
so that he can fix it all in his head.
Jesus to her, identity has to be a stablished and
his clear identity is being a stablished He says. First
of all, Jesus, I know that you are over all right. Secondly, Jesus,
(41:50):
I know that you are a king. Well can I can't?
Speaker 9 (41:53):
Can I hurry on unless I bore your face to
keep it to off. The last thing that I want
you to see is not clear identity. The last thing
that I want you to see that in order to
catch a thief, can't tell you what's you need. You
need a creative bout you need a creative by a
(42:15):
thief just won't fall for anything. Matter of fact, there's
an idiom that says.
Speaker 15 (42:23):
To catch a thief, you need a thief because only
another thief can understand the mind other thief.
Speaker 9 (42:34):
And if you are going to catch thief, you have
to have some sort of creative method to catch me yourself.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Okay, okay, y'all, y'all, y'all not going with me, Let
me ask this question. Anybody ever experienced a rodent? Yes, okay, okay,
a rat? Let me just let me just do it
out there like that. Let me experience.
Speaker 9 (43:00):
I'm not talking about one of them little bitty creatures.
I'm talking about those of us that's ever been in
the country. And you know what a wood rat is,
not a hood rat, but a wood rat. Not for
a little bitty furry ones, but the big ones that
take the bread and the teese off the trap. And
you go to the trap and you look and the
(43:21):
bread or the cheese is gone, and your trap is
still there.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
And you know that mouse, that wood rat wait more
than that trap.
Speaker 9 (43:27):
And you wonder how in the world did that rat
take that teese or that bread without that trap chanting
the rat. Somebody came up with a creative idea and
invented the mouse trap.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
And what the mouse trap suggested us is that in
order to catch the roller, the rap, the wood rat,
or whatever it is, you gotta lure it in with
something that entices it. And so you do.
Speaker 9 (43:55):
Y'all know what I discovered. I discovered that cheese and
bread wasn't the right thing. Rat dress nah nah nah
nah nah. See, I'm old school, y'all. You can act
like you ain't never you don't know what a round
who knows what a rat is?
Speaker 1 (44:07):
You can act like you don't know about the good
dress or that. But can I tell you the one.
Speaker 9 (44:11):
Thing that I discovered that you can use to catch
them with is not cheese and not bread.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
It's peanut butter. You put a little peanut butter on
the trip. Put a little stream on the peanut butter. Y'all,
y'all ain't old school.
Speaker 9 (44:32):
Put a little spring, a little stream on a peanut butter,
and the smell of the peanut butter ignores the thief,
and the thief just can't help it because it's attracted
to the space. The thief is attracted the thief being
the rat is attracted to something that it wants, and
(44:52):
it wants.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
It's so bad that's willing to die for. I'm going
somewhere in this wasn't so bad.
Speaker 9 (45:05):
That is willing to die for a creative idea. Oh
but can I tell you something today, God puts something in.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Front of us that you ought to be willing to
die for.
Speaker 9 (45:18):
You ain't gonna pray with me, But I gotta tell
you that a creative idea was used to capture a thief.
I'm not talking about Judas's gabbed because Judah's was a thief.
He was the disciple that had the money bag. But
(45:41):
I'm glad that God came up with a creative idea.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
A y'all gonna pray with me.
Speaker 9 (45:48):
And I'm so thankful that when God was coming up
with this place, he said, wait a minute, I need
somebody that's willing to die to give it to somebody else.
I need somebody that's willing to be the seller man,
like y'all gonna pray with me. I heard that they
(46:11):
looked around him to try and find somebody worthy of
going down. God had a creative idea. He said, I'm
gonna give my soul, and if my son go down,
he's supper all across a calvary. He can die in
Dunkin's places, he can die in Franklin's place, and if he.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
Died, and that ought to be enough for somebody to say,
if he died, if he was buried him and if
you're old, then I want to be with him? Am
I right about it?
Speaker 8 (46:49):
Can I tell you?
Speaker 1 (46:50):
The plan to plan was that he would die.
Speaker 9 (46:54):
In our place, a substitution every death, because it's so
many you you instiuld have been me hanging old crows.
The trap was said so that he could catch a thief.
But I'm so glad.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
I'm so glad. And the thief that was caught in
the end of the account was not a fagin ol
rodan me, but it was me. And it are you up?
Because at the crawls and the brawls, and I furt
saw the light and the burners of my mind of
(47:34):
the way it was there my favor, I received my sailor,
and now and now I'm happy. All the dail want
to touch somebody and tell them about.
Speaker 9 (47:53):
I thank God, even when when I was sinking the
defense of the people saw seeking to rise no more.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
I'm so glad that his gray and save me his
grades and called meum the hog deer was that Tina's
were die for sins. Look at it now with a
cross on his.
Speaker 9 (48:21):
Shoulder, going up here, called Cabrick. I'm so glad that
while he was hanging there he caught a thief. The said,
come and go with meals to my father's house today. Up,
you'll be with me, Up and panadi, he said, Can
(48:41):
I tell the story?
Speaker 1 (48:43):
I'm so glad. They marched him of Cabrige mountain. Up
they hung and hide. They stretched him wide. Matthew said
he died, Not said he died.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
Said he died.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
John said, anybody.
Speaker 9 (49:01):
Very him in the modern Twober watch this up to
keep thieves from stealing his body and saying that he rolls.
We're gonna roll the stone in one of the supoker.
I heard the record sayer.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Then he rolled the rocker in front of the rock,
the rock that was rocker basis.
Speaker 9 (49:24):
Then he rolled up nothing rock up in front of
my rocker. Because the Bible says, there is no rock
up like our rocker, either rocking.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Or marry name.
Speaker 9 (49:37):
I heard the reconciler he stayed down for three whole days?
Speaker 1 (49:44):
Did he stayed in the game? He up his head
Sunday morning. Kill them.
Speaker 9 (49:52):
What he did he got up were all power in
his head. He talks of deep when he got upper coat.
So when he got up, can I tell you some
deja that he compasied human be my heard he caught
(50:13):
that deeper by the name of death of When he
got up, I heard him saying old Death where Joe
he called a deeper by the name of Brave, Old brave,
where he.
Speaker 1 (50:30):
Is a victory of.
Speaker 9 (50:32):
And I'm so glad when they went to the tuber
they couldn't find him.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Then, can I tell you something? If you missed me
from fining down.
Speaker 9 (50:44):
Here, I'm going up to glory Sesus, you told the
deeper on the cross you will be with me in paradise.
So can I call him this favor a dice the
paradise of God. There's no more crying, what suffering every
(51:08):
day will be Sunday.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
Heaven for having no he Do you want to go on.
Speaker 9 (51:14):
To a place called Papada? We can want see from
troubling the very will be at her answer. And it
all happened because they caught a diver when he died,
and blood was said of mother remissing us.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
And can I ask on something unch of glad he
died for you?
Speaker 9 (51:36):
And should I ask you another question of aren't too
glad that the tomb was empty? Heard that Sunday morning?
Aren't too glad that here in the hills look at
somebody and say here the is I don't need an
empty too to prove that in the hills.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
Even inside of me. He off with me, He talks
with me. He tells me that I am his own.
I can feeling right now even in this place.
Speaker 9 (52:10):
If they hit anybody here, that's glad about the factor
that I was a sinner. But thank God that is
Grace called me, and he all right, aie, all right,
I'm tying him for my sister.
Speaker 1 (52:28):
He's all right to me. I'm I don't want anybody.
I'm so glad.
Speaker 9 (52:34):
I'm so glad that he got up to us today.
Is a good thing to know the Lord he is
still in the blessing business.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
He's the same time, just the thing today that's forever bore.
So then I say something to you. I know he's alright,
I know he's alright. Yes, Yes, he's all right.
Speaker 9 (53:00):
I know he's all right. And one of these days
and he's coming back up. Said, when he come back,
I'm going with him till paradise.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
Now can I go mony?
Speaker 9 (53:12):
And when I'm getting the news is I'm gonna take
off these old clothes, try oh my long white robe,
and I get be with this, and I get that
I'm gonna sit down at the table he's so he'll
(53:34):
get honey.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
I'm like to worry about welcome.
Speaker 9 (53:37):
But there'll be no more Monday, no more Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday, Friday and Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (53:45):
Every day we'll be Sunday seven or half go.
Speaker 9 (53:51):
He wanted me a good time, wanted me a good
time when oh God's children get together.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
But can I ask you a question? I don't either
be knows him. But will I see you there? Will
I see you there? If there's anybody that want to
be there.
Speaker 9 (54:13):
I'm just a goote to the city. To be answer
from the body is to be brothers with the Lord.
If you're miss me here, it's all right because I know.
Speaker 1 (54:26):
Him my sister that he called, Would you with me?
(55:01):
Today's mighty good day. Today is thank you, a mighty
good day for you to come to Jesus.
Speaker 3 (55:26):
Today's a mighty good day for you to know the
Lord as your personal saving.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
And don't worry about anything else, because God's got some
room for you in the Kingdom of heaven.
Speaker 1 (55:47):
You can come by letter, you can come by statement.
There is rue right across for you, all right, there
is rue after crawl.
Speaker 5 (56:16):
For you.
Speaker 16 (56:21):
Millions had come, but still that's rue forever reward.
Speaker 1 (56:37):
It's true. M
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