Tony Evans - It Is Finished

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
On the cross.

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There are seven famous sayings they call the seven last words,
where Jesus uttered seven statements that really summarizes all of
the glory of this occasion this weekend, I would just

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like to look at the sixth statement that he made.
It's recorded for you in John chapter nineteen, verse thirty.
This is the sixth of his seven statements on the cross.
Verse thirty says when Jesus therefore had received the sorrow wine,

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he said, it is finished, and he bowed his head
and gave up his spirit. The sixth word of Jesus
on the cross, preceding the seventh word, where it's recorded
in another passage, he told his father, I'm giving my

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spirit back to you, which is a sermon in and
of itself. For you see, Jesus's life was not taken away,
he handed it over. But before that he makes the
statement it is finished. In the English, you see three words.
It is finished in the Greek text, and the New

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Testament was written in coin a Greek, that is common
language Greek. It is finished is really one word. We
use three words to summarize it, but it really is
one word in Greek, and that word is to tell
us thy to tell usti i was used as a

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regular part of communication. If you lived in that world.
The word to tell ust i meant the completion of
a transaction. It meant whatever the agreement was has now
been fully and finally fulfilled, completed, or in the realm

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of merchants, paid in full.

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The word to tell us thy.

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Was always a happy word, a victorious word, a word
of achievement. Whenever you saw it, to tellastar, somebody was
happy because something had been completed. In fact, when it

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is time to die, and as you lay there on
your deathbed and you know that heaven is around the corner,
Paul says in two Timothy chapter four, I'm finished was
a word of achievement, a word of victory. So when

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Jesus uses this word it is finished, to tell us that.

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He is speaking values.

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About a task victoriously, successfully and completely finished. There are
four things that come out of this word that I
want to briefly share with you this resurrection day.

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The first question is what was finished?

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Please notice Jesus didn't say I am finished, He was
just getting started. He said that it is finished. What
exactly was paid for completely and fully? The issue of
the Cross involves, at its core, the addressing of the

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problem of sin. The Cross is more than a great
example of sacrifice. It's more than simply a statement to
be made of what a great leader will do for
his cause. By application, we can glean some things from that,
but that's not what this is all about. Good Friday

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goes deeper than that. It has to do with the
debt incurred by sin. The human race incurred a debt
by sin that it was unable to pay. Anybody here
today made it debt. You have been unable to pay.

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You've been paying on it.

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For years, and it won't go away. You have been
paying on it, and ordered and ordered and on ited
you to refinance that baby, It just won't go away.
Sin is a debt incurred by men, a debt that

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they are unable to pay. Why is sin a debt
that we cannot pay? Because of the holiness of God.
The reason why sin is a debt that you and
I cannot pay is because the one who we owe
is perfect. Therefore, since the one that we owe is perfect,

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all the payments that you make to get rid of
the debt called sin can never get rid of the
debt because you cannot pay your way back into perfection.
The issue that needed to be addressed was mankind, based
on sin, has a debt that they are unable to pay.

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Please don't miss that, because most people don't believe that.
They believe that the debt of sin. Given enough time,
enough religion, enough going to church, enough being good enough,
being philanthropist, enough of this and that and the other,
if I do enough of it, I can pay off

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this debt that I owe to a holy God. You see,
people do not understand a fundamental principle, and that is
God does not grade on the curve. You remember going
to school and doing the best you could, but dying
for the teacher to curve the grades. That meant pulling

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all the scores of all the students, finding out what
the average is, using the average as the high score,
which automatically elevated you. But you will also remember that
there was always this nerd in the classroom, usually named Billy,

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some nerd in the classroom that would go out there
and make a hundred. Nobody liked Billy. And the reason
nobody liked Billy is because he kept messing.

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Up the curve.

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God does not grade on the curve. He does not
reduce the debt because of his nature, and his nature
is perfect. Something had to address the debt of sin

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incurred by mankind in general and every individual in specific.
Why did Jesus have to say it is finished, because
up until he died on the cross, it was not finished.

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People were paying on this debt ever since Adam blew
it in the Garden of Eden. Whole systems had been
set up to pay on this debt. Lambs would be
brought to the altar to put something on this debt,

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but all the lambs did was delayed foreclosure. Anybody ever
pay your bill just in the nicked time, just before
the lights go out, the gas is cut off, or
the furniture is put on the street, just in the

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nicked time every year that would be the day of atonement.
That's because Untell Jesus died. They function on the layerway plan.
The problem is when are we gonna pay this debt off?
Animal slang sacrifice is given, installments made. Men and women

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do not seem to understand. Sin is a debt you
cannot pay because once you've committed your first sin, you
are no longer perfect.

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So everything you.

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Do good after that doesn't cancel out.

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See.

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Some folks think God graves on the curve. If I
just get close, I don't have to have it all right,
But but if I get close, it'll be okay. Picture it.
It's a basketball game. The score is tied one hundred

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to one hundred. The whole team has the ball, and
they're coming down the court for the last shot with
a couple of seconds left. The star player receives the pass, looks, jumps,
goes up stairs. It looks like it's yes, right. It

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hits the top of the rim, rolls around a couple
of times, and after last second pops out.

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The player runs over to the raft.

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You ata count that ref it was close. The ref
would have to explain you don't get two points for close.
It's gotta go in, gotta it's gotta be within the
sphere of the rim.

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It has gotta go in. Just because you're a nice
person and.

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Close doesn't make you acceptable to a God who demands
it go in. A lot of folks think God's gonna
change the rules when he sees you show up. He's
gonna make a little tweak and an adjustment here and there.

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When he sees you show up and say you're swimming
all of us.

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We go to a beach in California, and all of
us agree we're gonna swim to a so common consensus.
We all just gonna jump in and we're gonna free
stroke to Hawaii. We all get in the water well
intentioned to swim to Hawaii. Along the way, folks are

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dropping out like flies. After I look back at all
the rest of you, we discover that nobody makes it. Now,
don't get me wrong. Compare to everybody else, you may

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be further along compared to the destination, you haven't gone anywhere.
And the result is the same for everybody drowning, because
no matter how good you swim, you not gonna make
that trip on your own. It's too far.

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And I don't care how good you are.

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You cannot get from Earth to Heaven on your own
is too far. So sin is a penalty you can't pay.

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Jesus said on the cross to tell us that.

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It is finished. The Cross at its core.

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Is that the issue of sin was addressed by the
death of Christ.

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What was the issue issue of sin?

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The second principle is what was the payment the death
of Christ? Because it was after he said it is finished,
that he gave up his spirit and died. The Bible
makes it clear that the soul that sinneth shall die.

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The wages of sin.

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Is death, physical death, separation of the spirit, soul from
the body, spiritual death, separation of the soul from God.
Sin produced a debt so great that while man alone

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owns the debt, only God.

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Can pay it. Don't miss that.

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While we own the debt, only God has enough to
pick up the charge. It's our bill. Sin is not
God bills. God is perfect. Sin is our bill. The
only problem with this bill is you and I don't
have what it takes to pick up the tab. Sin

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is our problem alone, but only God can pay it.
But we have a problem. If the penalty for sin
is death, and all of us have sinned, but none
of us can pay the tab, how in the world
can the tab be paid by God, who cannot die?

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Since God is a spirit. Did you understand the question.
If the penalty of sin is death, and you and
I of all sin, therefore you and I all die.
And the proof that you're a sinner is that one
day you are going to die. If the penalty of
sin is death, you and I can't pick up that payment,

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and the only one who can afford to pick up
the tab as God. But God is a spirit and
can't die. How in the world will this bill ever
be paid? Simple God must become a man. Let's call
the incarnation. The incarnation is where on Christmas morning.

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God the Father fertilizes.

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The egg of marry a human mother, so that what
you had born in Bethlehem was the God man fully God,
for God was his father, fully human because Mary was
his mother. Able to die as a man, but have

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the perfection of God. What you have in Jesus Christ
is the want of a kind son of God. For
God so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten that means of a kind never seen before, it
will never be seen again outside of Jesus Christ. Where

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God looked at your bill and said, you can't pay this.
Therefore I'm gonna pay it. And the way I'm gonna
pull this off is I'm gonna become like you, only
I'm gonna still be me. I'm gonna be God Man.
And on the cross, the death of Jesus Christ fully

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paid God for the sins of men which required death.
Since the soul, that sinneth shall surely die. Therefore death
had to occur, because the payment is death. On the cross,
God took the penalty so he could love the sinner,

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pay for the sin, satisfy his reath, express his love
without compromising his nature.

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They said that again I was too fast. On the cross.

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God took the penalty so he could still love the
sinner while paying for the sin in order to satisfy
his wrath, so he could express his love without.

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Compromising his perfection.

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On the cross, God become man in the person of Jesus.
Christ died because he had no debt to pay himself.
That's why it was so important for Christ to prove

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his sinlessness. Well, if he were to sin, he would
have incurred your debt in hours. But since he was perfect,
he could incur your debt for you, for he had
no debt of his own. It's hard to get other
folk out of debt when you owe everybody. And so

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the Bible says, on the cross tewiod Christ against five
twenty one.

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He who knew no sin.

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Became sin for us that we might become the righteousness
of God in him. He who knew no sin, Jesus
became on the cross sin for us, that we might,
in exchange, become the righteousness of God in him. Only

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eternity will fully explain this, But let me try. In
order to satisfy a holy God, you've got to be
as good as a holy God is, and a holy
God is perfect. In order to pay that bill, you've
got to be as good as God, and God demands perfection.

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Jesus Christ lived thirty three years perfectly. Not one second
of one day did he ever act, or think or
do anything that was unacceptable to the Father. He says,
I have come and value the books to do thy
will o God. He says, I always do that which

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pleases the Father. He did that for thirty three years.

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On Easter Week Good Friday, he who knew no sin.

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Became sin for us, that is, became the substitute for
the sins of every man, woman, and boy and girl,
whoever has been or whoever will be born. That's what
happened on the cross. He who knew no sin became

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sin for us, that he might become the righteousness of God.
Now let me explain how this works. It's like you
having one hundred thousand dollars worth of debt bills you
cannot pay. Somebody calling you up and telling you that

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another person has credited to your bank account one hundred
thousand dollars. It's a credit that was removed from there
over abundance to your lack of abundance.

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And it's a credit.

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They take from them and give to you because you
can't pay it.

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To watch this thing on the cross, two things happen,
not one on the cross.

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Jesus Christ paid the price for your sin, which is
death physical and spiritual.

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But that's only one half to happen.

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Here is what God does to a person who accepts Christ.
He takes the thirty three years of Jesus's perfected life
and he credits that to your account. Well, see you
didn't get that. He looks at your sin and takes that.

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From your account.

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He looks at Jesus's perfection and credits that to your account.
That means you are not only not in debt, but
you got a perfect surplus because he removes your sin
and he credit the righteousness of Christ to your account.

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My son Anthony was here for the wedding. He had
to go right back out of town and sing tomorrow morning.
But he came in for the wedding. Of course, his
name is the same as mine. He's junior Anthony Tyrone Evans.
I went to the airport to get him yesterday morning.
And when I was at the airport, they came out
of the plane and it was the third person off.

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I said, boy, I was quick. You were sitting near
the front of the plane.

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He said yes.

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We started walking down the hall and I started thinking
about that. Somebody know where I'm going. I said, wait, manute,
if you're the third person off of the plane, that
means you were either in first class or sitting so
close to first class that you beat some of the

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first class people out. And then I said, just one.

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Cotton picking minute.

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You see, I'm a platinum American flyer. I got all
of these stickers that are there.

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Because of my relationship. Yes, what my boy did? He
would after that count on and said, my name is
Anthony Tyrone Evans.

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They said, yes, sir, we see your name in the record.
Wouldn't you like to be upgraded?

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Yes? I would.

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Yes, what they did they dipped into mind count and
they credited him with that which does not blind to him.

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We'll never blind to him. And I don't like the
boy no more.

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They credited my account, so he got to fly first class,
and wasn't gonna tell nobody if I didn't see him
be the third person off. He was gonna tell anybody.
But they credited to his account that which belongs to me.

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On the cross, God saw you could not fly first class.
But he says, I am willing to dip into my
account and credit it to you based on my payment
and who I am. The death of Christ is the

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only form of payment God accepts. Neither is there salvation
in any other For there is no other name under
Heaven given among men, whereby you must be said.

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The third point the proof of payment.

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When you go pay something, you want proof that payment
was made.

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And payment was accepted. You want proof.

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When you go to a restaurant, they say, the yellow
copy is yours, the white copy is ours. The white
copy says payment was made. The yellow copy says, you
can prove it. You can prove that the white copy
was given because you possess the yellow copy.

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And they both say the same thing. It's a receipt.
How do we know that we haven't made a mistake
banking it all on Christ? How do we know.

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That it ought to not being Mohammed or or Buddha,
or our own religion or even our How do we
know the receipt that payment was made in full? Is
predicated on the resurrection. It is the resurrection early Sunday

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morning that places Jesus Christ in a class by himself.
You cannot place living faith in a dead savior.

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Paul says.

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If the resurrection is not true, we are still in
our sins, which means the cross without the resurrection is
a waste of time to celebrate Jesus dying and not
believing that Jesus and rose means we can all go home,
He says, for we are still in our sins, and

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we are of all men most miserable because we have
declared that Jesus has arisen when he is still dead,
and a dead savior.

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Can't help nobody. It is the resurrection.

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A lot of ways we could go here, but for
time's sake, I just want to show you one. In
chapter twenty, verse six, Simon Peter came. They come to
the tomb on Sunday morning well verse four, and the
two were running together, and the other disciple ran ahead.

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This is Peter and John faster than Peter, and came
to the tone first. So John gets to the tomne first,
and stooping and looking in, he saw the linen rappings
lying there, but he did not go in. So he
saw Jesus' lawing cloth for cloth around his waist.

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He said, he saw it lying there. Simon.

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Peter therefore came following him and entered the tomb, and
he beheld the linen rappings lying there. But look at
verse seven, and the face cloth, the turban that would
go around the head, which had been on his head,
not lying with the linen wrappings. Button rolled up in

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a place by itself. So the other disciple, John, who
had first come to the tomb, entered then also and
saw and believed. Now see that's one of those passages
that you just read over and say that's cute.

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Wasn't cute for John?

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John came in and saw the linen wrappings, saw the headband,
and saw that the headband was not with the linen wrappings.

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And when he saw that, all he's looking at his cloth.

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He's not seeing Jesus. He's sitting cloth. But he says,
when I saw the cloth, I knew Jesus had arisen. Now,
what was it about this cloth that was so potent
in John's mind that he knew the resurrection was true.
When Jesus died on the cross, he had a linen

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cloth around his loins and a craw rolled around his head.

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Now, if thieves came.

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In and took him first, of all, it's unlikely that
they would have undressed him first. But even if they
undressed him and stole his body so he came out nude,
you would not see, John says, the linen.

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Cloth still in the tide roll.

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That it was when it was around his head, and
you would not have seen the living claw separated the
turbine separated from the linen cloth, because his head is
up here, his body is down here.

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John said, when I saw.

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The living here and the body here, and that the
turbine was still attached in a ball, I knew that
the only way that could have happened is if Jesus
kind Christ rose right through his own clothes and is
now alive.

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And when he saw the claw, he believed.

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The resurrection is one of the most attested events in
human history. If you believe history written by reasonable people,
you know Abraham Lincoln lived not because you were there,
but because a historian with with within his right mind
told you that the sixteenth president was Abraham Lincoln. John

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Wilkes Booth shot him in the theater, and you and
telling that to your kids, and that their kids because
a historian wrote it. Well, I'm here to tell you
that the Bible is the most accurate history book in
all of creation. And the resurrection is a testable. He says,

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it's a receipt.

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On Friday, Jesus died, Oh this is sweet. On Sunday,
Jesus arose. One day.

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I got to preach a sermon on good Saturday. See,
we know what happened on a Friday, Good Friday, Jesus died.
We know what happened on East the Sunday morning Jesus rose.
But between Friday night and Sunday morning, all kind of
action was taking place.

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Ephesians four says that it.

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Was between this time that he led captive a host
of captives, that is, he reached back to all the
Old Testament saves operating on the layaway plane. He went
down to Abraham and said, Abraham, let me see your hand.
Boot paid in full, Moses, let me see your hand
Wow paid in full, he went back to all the

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Old Testament saves who still had not gone to heaven
because final payment hasn't been made. And you know, when
stuff's on railway, you can't take it out until final
payment is made. But when final payment was made, he
went back to all the Old Testament saves, and he
left captain of the host of captains. He said, how do
I know he did that between Friday night and Sunday morning,

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because Jesus Christ on the cross looked at the thief
on his right and said, today you shall be with
me in Paradise, not Senday. When I got up, we
go it right now. The resurrection is your receipt. So

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that leads to one point, doesn't it. What do you
do with this? Jesus said, it is finished? John said,
when I saw it, I believed sin is a debt
you cannot pay. Listen to me, God will not credit

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your account until you declare bankruptcy. You know when folks
declared bankruptcy when they have determined they have a debt
that they cannot pay. You declare bankruptcy when all hope

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is lost forever being able to liquidate yourself.

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Out of this dilemma, and you throw.

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In the towel and you say, that is absolute, no
way I can pay this debt.

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I'm gonna declare.

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Chapter seven, chapter eleven, depending on what kind of bat
I'm gonna declare bankruptcy.

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I can't pay it.

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As long as you think you can. He will not
credit your account because you can do it without him.
Bankruptcy is throwing in the financial power Most people, even
people here this morning, are hoping that their good life,

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good works, being nice, keeping the tank, commandments, going to church,
and a million other things, God will use to credit
their account. But God only accepts the death of Christ
as payment for sin. That's all he will accept. Why

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your good works, as good as they are, mess up
a good thing. Jesus died because he could take care
of it all by himself.

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He doesn't need you messing up a good thing.

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The death of Jesus is so complete he could say
paid in full.

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Now, aren't you looking like a fool?

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Somebody else pays your bill and you're still.

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Trying to make payments.

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The death of Jesus Christ is totally complete.

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And therefore your good works.

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While it's nice to be a good neighbor and it's
nice to be a good citizen. That may be great
for society, but it doesn't help you one ioda with.

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A holy God.

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It's like having monopoly money and taking it to the mall.
Monopoly money is good for monopoly, but it won't work
in this economy.

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Good works is good for your.

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Neighbor, but it doesn't work in the economy of God.

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It's not transferable funds.

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You cannot make yourself acceptable to a holy God. Have
you ever seen a policeman get stopped policemen speeding down
the highway? You know, policeman's feeding down the highway. Of course,
the other cop he's looking like a regular citizen, so
they don't know his cop So.

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They pull a policeman over.

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Pull a policeman over and say, sir, let me see
your license.

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I saw this work.

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Policemen pulled out his license, but above his license was
his badge. The policeman's who stopped him said, have a
nice day office. Make you want to go out and.

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Buy a badge. Above the license was a badge.

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The license identified the guilty speeder, but the badge identified
a bigger authority. And when the policeman saw that above
his name there was a badge. The badge overruled the
sin on the highway. Unless Jesus Christ is above your name,

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unless his death and his resurrection is the badge, then
your name is in trouble before Holy God. So what
must you do? You must believe what is Believe me
three things. One Believe assumes knowledge. You must know that

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you're a sinner and you can't save yourself. Religion can't
save You're reading your Bible can't save You're going to
church can't save you. You could be born in the church.
Your mother and father could raise you in the church.
They could bring all your meals and let you eat
out of the church. Bring your death, Let you work
out of the church. Bring your bed, Let you sleep
in the church, pick up the pulpit.

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Digger hole. Let you die in the church. If you
don't know g Christ, You're gonna die.

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In the church and wake up eternally separated from him.
Keeping the Ten Commandments can't save me because you can't.

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Keep them perfectly.

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Only the death of Christ is an acceptable payment.

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So you must know that.

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Secondly, you must be convinced that that is true. You
must not only know it to recite it. You must
be convinced that that is true. I cannot save myself.
Only the death of Christ can save me, so you
must have a conviction about it. Thirdly, you must make
a commitment to it. I don't mean a commitment to

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start living, changing your life and I promise I'm gonna
do better.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
That's not that's good works. No.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
No, a commitment to trust Christ alone for the forgiveness
of your sins. A lot of you here know the
facts because you've been going to church, and you're not
on your way to heaven.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Now because you don't know the facts.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
You know it. You've been in church all your life
and you know the facts, but you're not on your way.
Some of you are here and you know the facts,
and you are even convinced that the facts are true,
but you're not on your way to heaven. Because simply
believing that the product does work doesn't make it work
for you. You have to sign on the dotted line.
You have to say, Lord Jesus Christ, I not only

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know that you're the savior. I not only believe that
you are the Savior, but I entrust my personal eternal destiny,
and I place all of my eternity in your hands.
If you don't take me to heaven, I won't get
there because I have rested my eternal takes on you.
If you die right now and God said, why should
I let you into heaven, what would you say it

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is to rest your eternal destiny by placing faith alone
in Christ alone?

Speaker 1 (40:48):
For you.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
It's not enough to say Jesus died for the whole world.
That's true, but that doesn't help you. You must personally
come to Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and
for the gift of eternal life, denouncing all human work to.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Help you out. I hear somebody saying, what depends. I'm
not that bad a person. Let me ask you a question.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
You getting up and you want breakfast, You want an ominium,
and you're really hungry, so you want a four egg omelett.
They take three good eggs and one rotten one. I
just have one question. Will the three good ones make
the rotten one better? Or will the rotten one destroy

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the three good ones? On your best day, your good
works don't undo the rottenness in your life. It is
the rottenness that contaminates the good work, not the good
works that makes the rot and lous better.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Let me close.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
The largest bulldozer in the world is called the Samatsu.
It's called the Kamatsu D five seventy five A. That's
how biggest thing is. The Kamatsu is sixteen feet tall,
twenty two feet wide, forty one feet long, weighing two

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hundred and ninety one thousand pounds, holding four hundred.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
And forty gallons of diesel fuel.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
And in a ten hour shift can pull two hundred
and fifty thousand tons.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Massive machine.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
They brought the Comatsu to Cullin County a little bit
of gold, this time, not to build a road or highway,
which is as often used to do, but so much
trash had accumulated in Colin County they had to do
something about it. So they got the Kamatsu to build

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one of the biggest.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Holes in the world, and all.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Of the trash of Colin County was dumped in this
one hole.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
So the Kamatsu dug.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
The hole, picked up the trash, put it in the hole,
then covered all the hole with dirt. When that process
had been completed, it was as if there were no
trash at all in Colin County because the Komatsu and

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all of its strength had buried it all. Jesus Christ
is God's commot sue.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
On the cross of cavalry.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
All the trash, the sins of the whole world were
placed on Christ. By virtue of his resurrection. There was
a covering for sin for every man, woman, boy, and
girl born. Your trash has been covered in that hole.

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But in order for you to experience forgiveness of sins
and the gift of eternal life, you must receive trust,
place your confidence depend on, Throw your eternal destiny into
the hands of Christ alone.