September 9, 2025 • 65 mins
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Something extraordinary happened in the first century that transformed a small band of frightened followers into world-changers. Before there was a New Testament, before there were church buildings, before theological systems were developed - there was a simple message that turned the Roman world upside down.
Dr Tim Hudson takes us back to that foundational truth found in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4: "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day." This earliest Christian creed, dating to within weeks of the resurrection, became the catalyst for a movement that would change history forever.
What makes this remarkable is that for seventeen years after Christ's resurrection, not a single New Testament document had been written. Yet Acts 17:6 describes these early believers as "those who have turned the world upside down." They accomplished this with nothing but eyewitness testimony and an unshakable conviction about what they had experienced.
The sermon highlights two realities that transformed the early church: the suffering of the Savior and His resurrection. These weren't theoretical concepts - they were witnessed events that changed everything. When the disciples faced persecution and hardship, they could endure because they had seen their Lord suffer. When they encountered death and uncertainty, they stood firm because they knew Jesus was alive.
Dr Hudson contrasts impressive religious buildings like Westminster Abbey with the simple power of Christ's presence, reminding us that magnificent architecture means nothing without the Holy Spirit. The message builds to a powerful conclusion: whatever confusion, fear, or uncertainty we face today, the resurrection declares that Jesus is alive forevermore.
Has your faith become complicated with non-essentials? Have you lost sight of the simple, powerful truth that changed the world? Listen and rediscover the foundation that can transform everything - Jesus is alive!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Foundations of Truth podcast,
where we are laying strongfoundations for a holy life.
Here we return to timelesstruth, building our lives on the
solid rock of Scripture withpreaching.
Join us as we grow in wisdom,faith and understanding rooted
in Christ, the cornerstone.
Now on to the next sermon.
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Enjoy.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You took my place.
You bore what I deserved.
You poured out grace with thosethree words You've brought me
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near.
You've called my past redeemed.
You've brought me life.
With those three words, it isdone.
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It is finished.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Love has won Far East Coast.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Praise the Lord.
Thank you, brother Fred.
What a wonderful, amazing andsurprising opportunity to be
here today.
Life takes some strange twistsand turns, doesn't it?
It sure does.
It was May of this year.
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Brother Fred's, brother Denver,rick's brother Raymond Everybody
knows Raymond.
Sadly, he left us for a betterland and met several of the
family there at the funeral.
Raymond was married to SisterHudson's cousin Janet and please
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don't hold that against me andplease tell her.
I said that and please tell her.
I said that.
And the following week ourbeautiful, beautiful daughter,
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beautiful daughter, met this guyfrom California.
And, as Paul Harvey used to say, you know the rest of the story
.
So it looks like our familyjust can't get out of the woods.
Can't get out of the woods.
So here we are today.
Isn't it wonderful to feel thepresence of the Lord.
I've been privileged in my shortlifespan of 54 years to travel
completely around the world inthe northern hemisphere, never
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got across the equator Close tothis.
I to Venice, singapore, and Ifound our brother's message so
encouraging this morning.
He expected me to begin to talkabout the pilots crashing those
planes and we were fixing tofly literally around the world
again.
So I enjoyed your message.
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Most of it anyway, all right.
Literally around the worldagain.
So I enjoyed your message.
Most of it anyway, all right.
But I've been privileged to bein some of the nicer churches of
renown in the world.
Has anybody ever been to London,england?
All right.
Did you go to Westminster Abbey?
All right, if you go to London,you need to go to Westminster
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Abbey, and that church isprobably 1,000 years old.
It sits right outside the Houseof Parliament and that's where
all the kings and queens arecoronated.
The coronation chair is thereand when you walk in, literally
there are people buriedeverywhere.
You're literally walking ongraves.
You are, and you talk about adead church.
I mean, it's a dead church.
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It really is.
It's a dead church and, as amatter of fact, you might not
believe this, but Charles Darwin, the founder of Darwinian
evolution, is buried there.
I found his grave and went andwalked all over the top of
Charles Darwin.
I did, I walked all over thetop of Charles Darwin.
You know it's amazing.
And then I've been across.
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Anybody been to Paris, france,france, anybody been to France?
Okay, yeah.
Did you go to the former NotreDame?
Okay, yeah, yeah, and I wasactually there on service one
Sunday morning and of course youmight remember that church
caught on fire back in aprilmost far that church has ever
had.
But anyway it, uh, it was abeautiful building.
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I mean over a thousand yearsold, thousand years to build
this place, and I mean by theworld standards.
I mean by the world standard,this little building just kind
of, you know, pales incomparison.
But in both those places, notone time and I've been to them
several times not one time did Ifeel there what I felt in this
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little place this morning.
And sometimes we fail torealize just how blessed we are.
I ask this question oftentimesand I must hurry.
I must hurry, I know I mustkeep it short, keep it sweet.
I get through preaching, youget to eat.
So I've got to be very carefulhere.
But, and probably, probably, itmight not even be welcome.
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I don't know, but has thegovernor of California ever been
here?
No, yeah, you'd like for himright there, all right, yeah,
come on in, sir, we got a placefor you right there.
Bring Kamala and Diane, y'all,come on right down here.
Yeah, I don't, I'm just severedin places.
I'm not going to ask who yourrepresentatives are in the
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Congress, but we can make a spotfor them right over here.
Are in the Congress, but we canmake a spot for them right over
here.
And I've been around hereenough to know that there might
be some of you that would beglad to see President Trump and
Vice President Pence.
I really would.
Yeah, I sure would, but havethey been here?
No, why, you don't rank highenough.
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You don't have enough money formost of them.
Has the God of heaven ever beenin this place?
Sometimes we just sit here andact like, oh, what's the big
deal?
I tell you, it's a mighty bigdeal that the God, who made this
massive universe by His veryspoken word, is in this place
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today and we're just kind oflike, well, isn't that nice?
It really is nice, and you'vealready heard enough preaching
this morning and last nightsince I've been here, and I just
don't tell them what couldhappen right now.
Somebody would believe the Lordand just tell the devil to shut
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up.
Okay, I have to be careful,brother, when you say things
like that.
Sometimes husbands look at wivesand vice versa and kind of get
in trouble there.
But no telling what couldhappen right now to you and for
you, because when Jesus passesby and I thought sure did enjoy
that young man's message, butreally I don't think he's
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passing by, he was here for you.
You got here this morning.
Can we stand on our feet onemore time and let's just worship
the Lord?
Maybe, if you've got that needright now, you could just say
Lord, I believe you, lord, Iknow that You're here, I believe
you, lord, I know that You'rehere, I believe you, lord.
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So, lord, please help us rightnow, give us wisdom, give us
favor, lord.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Give us your blessing , lord.
Bless our fellowship, blessevery church here, god.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Thank you for this church and congregation.
Lord, give me wisdom right now.
Accomplish your will in Jesus'name.
And the church said amen, youmight be seated Again.
We do.
Thank you so much.
I do want to say what an honorit is to be with Brother and
Sister Birdsong again, and thatlittle black sister in the
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Savannah area years ago got alittle confused but she loved
them bird singers.
She's so glad when them birdsingers was there, she really
was.
Yeah and so good.
And I certainly appreciate themessage last night and the
burden and then the preachingtoday.
I certainly do appreciate it.
I'm going to try to use wisdomhere, but this is the burden of
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my heart.
I've preached this numeroustimes and I asked the lord about
it during the night thismorning.
So if you'll turn with me veryquickly to first corinthians,
chapter 15 my wife knows whereI'm going and, uh, I've preached
this a lot of different placesand any opportunity that I feel
the lord would allow me, firstcorinthians chapter 15.
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Normally I would ask you tostand, but you've kind of been
up and down so I'll just let yousit there for a moment.
1 Corinthians, chapter 15, verse3.
For I delivered unto you firstof all that which I also
received, how that Christ diedfor our sins according to the
Scriptures, and that he wasburied and that he rose again
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the third day according to thescriptures.
Now, in the book of acts,chapter number, chapter number
17, just one more little verseof scripture and then we will be
on the way here if you go tothe latter part of verse number
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6, acts, chapter 17,.
These that have turned theworld upside down are come
hither also.
If the Lord will help me forjust a few moments, I want to
preach on the message thatturned the world upside down.
Please bear with me for just afew moments, but last night you
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might recall that I made a fewstatements in testifying and I
made note of the fact of thetiming of the New Testament
documents.
Now it's important to realizeif our Lord and I think current
scholarship suggests that Jesusthe more common scholastic
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dating now would probably be 30AD, but the more commonly known
date would be 30, 33 AD 33 AD isthe more common.
Be that as it may, three yearsJesus died by crucifixion, was
buried and rose again, and so ifwe place that about 33 ad, uh,
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it's also recognized by scholarsthat the first written down
book of the new testament wasnot the book of matthew.
Your bible is not in achronological order, it's in a
topical order, and so I thinkthe consensus now is that
matthew I'm sorry, mark was thefirst to write down, uh, a new
testament document.
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So that's going to occur around, if you will, 50 ad and uh.
Then of course, if we get downto the book of Revelation, and
that's going to be probably 90to 95 AD, that means that for
the first century there is noNew Testament as we know it now.
For the first 17 years there'snot one New Testament document.
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And yet, and yet in Acts,chapter 17, verse number 6,
those apostles and disciples arereferred to as these that have
turned the world upside down,and so it was without one new
testament document.
They literally turned the worldupside down.
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This becomes more and moreprofound when you consider that
as the church becomes moregentile, gentiles are not
welcome in the synagogues or thetemples, and the gentiles don't
have access to the oldtestament, and uh, and in many
ways at that point it didn'tquite make the sense to them.
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That it maybe does to us now,until some of the other New
Testament writings come along.
So really you could almost say,without a New Testament and very
little of the old, they hadsomething that turned the world
upside down and that was theyhad a message.
They had a message.
They had a message.
It seemed like in many waystoday we've almost forgotten.
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It seemed like in many waystoday we've almost forgotten and
I'm so thrilled to hear theemphasis even last night, as
Brother Birdsong mentioned howmany of us are here in our midst
and we say that generally nowthat are among us, that to look
at them, you would think, butthey don't even have a clue to
what it is to be really savedand it is affecting us.
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It really really is.
And so if we look at the earlychurch, if we look at the
earliest days of the church,coming out of Acts, chapter 2,
it doesn't take long to find outwhat that message was.
It doesn't take long to findout what that message was.
And 1 Corinthians, chapter 15,verse 3 and 4, is recognized by
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biblical scholars as being thefirst doctrinal creed of the
early church.
Now, what is a creed?
It's a statement of belief, andI dare say that if we were new
in the area and came here tothis church and said, brother
Fred.
Now, brother Fred, we wouldlike to come here, we're
interested in the church.
What do you believe he wouldcome out with this long list of
creeds?
We believe that's fine.
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Nothing wrong with that.
We have to have it today?
Certainly we do.
But if you would have found aNew Testament believer in 33 AD
In fact, scholars have actuallydated this creed back to within
just a few weeks of uh, the uhof the birth of the church and
the day of pentecost.
But the reality of it is itstems from the day of pentecost.
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And so if you'd have found anew testament believer in 33 ad,
amen or 34 ad and said you're achristian, what is it that you
believe?
This is what you'd have heard.
I believe that Christ died formy sins, according to the
Scripture, and that he wasburied, but on the third day he
arose again, according to theScripture.
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Now somebody say amen.
I said somebody say amen, amen.
Now there are a lot of thingsthat are going to come on later
on.
There are going to be issues ofchurch government.
There will be issues believe itor not of dress.
There will be all kind ofissues that will have to be
dealt with in the early church,and Paul and the other apostles
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will deal with those.
But I want to remind you todaythe reason you are saved, and
the reason that I am saved, isbecause Jesus died for our sin.
According to the scripture, hewas buried and on the third day
he arose again.
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Now, if you cannot shout overthat, you have not been saved.
But if you have been saved, youcan shout over that.
You have not been saved, but ifyou have been saved, you can
shout over that Amen.
I'm glad that he died for mysins.
He was buried, but on the thirdday God raised him from the
dead.
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Oh, somebody say amen,hallelujah, hallelujah.
Oh, somebody say amen,hallelujah, hallelujah.
Now I don't know if some of youpreachers have ever had this
problem, but traveling like wedo in particular, sometimes
Sister Hudson gets a littlenervous.
Brother Birdsinger, sisterHudson will oh no, he's already
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preached that message here.
And the will oh no, he'salready preached that message
here.
Oh, and Brother Lindsay Savagesaid with this mix for stuff,
problem with that is yourmessage gets there for you do
now Amen.
But she gets a little nervousand it used to kind of bother me
sometime until I got to readingin the book of Acts.
Have you ever read the firstfew chapters of the book of Acts
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?
Amen.
Peter had one message.
It didn't make any differencewhere Peter started at, he
always got back to the samemessage you crucified the Lord
of glory, you put him in a tomb,but on the third day God raised
him from the dead.
Amen.
I know it's an old message, butit is the foundation of
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everything that we believe.
Amen, thank God.
They crucified him, they puthim in a tomb, but the tomb
couldn't hold him because therenever was a man like Jesus.
Let me very carefully hurry onhere.
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It's very easy to getsidetracked.
Amen.
There are two things that aregoing to make an impression on
the early church.
Please remember when you'rereading the New Testament
accounts, you are readingeyewitness accounts.
Luke is very careful to notethat he was not an eyewitness,
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but that he had interviewedeyewitnesses.
Now Luke is considered to beone of the greatest historians
of the ancient world.
The book of Acts, chapter 13 tothe end over 80 plus
archaeological discoveries haveproven that Luke knew exactly
what he was talking about.
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Actually have found the anchorsfrom the shipwreck that he and
Paul were in Found the anchorsat the exact depth and location
they would have been had theybeen cut loose.
And so Luke says I was not aneyewitnessitness, but I have
interviewed eyewitnesses.
But when it comes to the restof them, go through the book of
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Acts and read how many timesthey say and we are witnesses of
these things, and we areeyewitnesses of these things.
Peter said we've not followedcomingly devised fables when we
made known unto you the comingof our Lord Jesus, but were
eyewitnesses of His majesty.
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If there's one thing that isdisturbing me in our church
today, it is the loss ofeyewitness, testimony of men and
women that can stand and say Iwas, but no longer am I what I
used to be.
I do not believe in glamorizingsin, but our young people need
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to know that among us were menthat were alcoholics, and such
were some of you who can standand testify to the grace of God.
Somebody say amen and help mewhile I preach now.
So there are eyewitnesses ofthese things.
There are two things and I musthurry that's going to make an
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indelible impact on that groupof early believers.
Number one the suffering of theSavior.
Do you know that one of the mostestablished facts of ancient
history is not only that Jesuslived, but that he died by means
of crucifixion during the reignof Pontius Pilate.
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Gerd Ludemann, who is arenowned ancient historian, who
happens to be an atheist, saysthe facts of Jesus' death by
crucifixion are indisputable.
Paula Friedrichson, who is askeptic, doesn't even believe
the New Testament accounts.
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She says the most certain thingabout Jesus' life is his death
by means of crucifixion duringthe reign of pontius pilate.
It is, again, one of the mostestablished fact of ancient
history, in fact, about the onlyones you would find to this day
that really would claim it tobe that jesus didn't die would
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be the muslims.
For you see, in the the Quran,chapter 4, verse 157, it clearly
says let them not say that theycrucified him, for they
crucified him, not Only alikeness of him, and so that's
why your Muslims do not believethat Jesus died.
Amen.
But there's a problem with that.
You see, mohammed was born in570 AD, he never, ever, went to
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Jerusalem, lived in Saudi Arabia, and he's one man.
Oh, you follow me here now.
But these disciples andapostles, they knew the Lord,
they lived with Him Ah, come onnow.
And they knew, without a doubtthat Jesus, amen, died.
They have watched his suffering.
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Amen John will stand there atthe side of the cross when the
others have fled.
I dare say that some of theothers, however, they will be
hiding in the shadows.
But every one of them knew,without a doubt, what a Roman
crucifixion entailed and theyknew that Jesus was dead.
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But they knew that he sufferedhorribly.
Oh, come on now.
This is where it's going tocome.
A little hard to swallow, amen,but because they saw him suffer
, in days to come when they aresuffering horribly, then not one
time will they drop their headand moan and groan, but they
will rejoice in their suffering.
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When is the last time yourejoiced in your suffering?
If you ever get your eye backon the suffering of the Savior
and the suffering of the cross,anything that you are going
through will be mild compared tothe suffering of the Savior.
Be mild compared to thesuffering of the Savior.
They're going to lose many oftheir homes, their lives, their
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health.
You see, jesus said whosoeverwill come after me, let him deny
himself, take up his cross.
For the early church, it was adeath sentence, a death sentence
for them that they'd see suffer.
And if he suffered, let merejoice.
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I do not pray for adversity, no, brother, I don't want God to
stir me, amen.
But when is the last time youlifted your hand and said Lord,
I don't understand.
But if it brings honor andglory to your name, knowing what
you suffered for me, you knowthe reason we're having such
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problems with worldliness.
Among some of our churches wehave forgotten the suffering of
the Savior.
If you ever see Him and Hissuffering, you'll understand the
songwriter who said Thus mightI hide my blushing face while
His dear cross appears, dissolvemy heart in thankfulness and
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melt mine eyes to tears.
It will make such an impressionupon them that they will look
adversity in the face and againrejoice in their sufferings,
because they were eyewitnessesto the suffering of the Savior.
He will suffer a horrible death, horrible death.
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How many of you have ever saiduse the word excruciating?
Has anybody ever had anexcruciating headache?
Do you know where the wordexcruciating comes from?
It means literally out of thecross.
It was a word that was inventedto describe the suffering
associated with crucifixion.
It was so brutal, and so when Ihave said I've got an
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excruciating headache, what I'mliterally saying?
It hurts so bad that I feellike I'm being crucified, oh,
but here.
He was.
I know, I know I hear you say itas others.
Well, many others werecrucified too.
I know that, amen.
But this is God incarnate, thisis the creator of the universe.
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It ought to have been you andit ought to have been me and not
him.
Oh, and sometime we fail toremember the suffering that he
did on our behalf, that we couldbe here today and rejoice.
Could somebody just put yourhand up and say thank you, lord,
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for suffering.
I must hurry.
I must hurry.
Haven't we all been there whenwe question and say, oh God, why
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?
Somebody said you shouldn't askGod, why Jesus did?
He said my God, my God, why?
Why?
It's not a cry that you've doneme wrong, it's just where are
you God?
Where are you God?
Oh, but here's a little caveaton that Even though Jesus didn't
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understand, he still had enoughconfidence in God that his
final words were Father into thyhands, come in my spirit.
I may not understand why, but Itrust you enough, god, that I
believe you know what you'redoing.
Can you really trust God?
I said can you really trust God?
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Lord, I don't know, but Ireally believe God.
You know what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
For me it's not a cop-out.
I really have that confidencein God.
Has anyone ever been to Hollandbefore?
Sister Hudson and I weretransiting through Holland some
years ago we went to the HidingPlace.
You remember Corrie Ten Boom'sbook the Hiding Place.
You read that book.
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We visited that home and therein that little room was a
tapestry that Corrie Ten Boom,the tramp for the Lord, as she
called herself, used to take,and on one side is a tangleweed
mess, ugly, just threads.
That made no sense whatsoever.
And she said that's often howwe see it.
Flip that thing around.
It was a tapestry of abeautiful crown.
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She said often we see the uglybut we don't see what God's are
working on the other side.
Oh, this line of affliction,that's just.
Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost.
If you're going through itright now, throw your hand up
and say I don't understand God,but I trust you anyway.
I don't know why, but God, Itrust you anyway.
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I feel the Holy Ghost righthere.
I said throw your hand up, Itrust you anyway.
I don't know why, but God, Itrust you anyway.
I feel the Holy Ghost righthere.
I said pull your hand up andsay Lord, I trust you anyway, I
feel the Holy Ghost right now.
I believe if somebody would dothat, you might find what you've
been looking for for a mightylong time.
Amen, hallelujah, glory to God.
I feel the Holy.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Ghost in this building.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Amen, whoo, amen, hallelujah, glory to God.
I feel the Holy Ghost in thisbuilding.
I'm feeling religious up here.
Oh Lord, I don't understand.
Job said yea though he trust me.
He said yea though he slay me.
Yet will I trust in him.
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Amen.
We've been actively involved inmission work for many years.
We're hoping the Lord helpingus in a few years to be living
more full time in Myanmar, whichis right next to China.
Some of you remember AdoniramJetson suffered horribly in that
country in the 1800s to takethe gospel to them.
Now we're trying to strengthenthings which remain.
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Kind of help them get back ontrack, amen.
I don't believe inpredestination, as taught by
many today, and even as JohnCalvin did.
But there's one thing aboutthose old people Let me say this
out of all fairness those oldmen that taught preservation of
the saint or eternal security,calvin and Whitfield and men
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like Jonathan Edwards they didnot believe, you hear me, they
did not believe in a live likethe devil, die like a saint.
Amen.
They would say if you backslid,you were never saved.
Now I believe that you can besaved and backslide, but they
believed, just like us, thatsin's not going to heaven.
And so they would say are youwith me now?
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But there was one thing that itdid enable them, amen.
They believed that whatevercame their way, that God had
predetermined, that was tohappen, their way, that God had
predetermined that was to happen.
And they had such trust andconfidence in God that he would
do them nothing but good, andthat everything that's happening
to me God's working.
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It for my good.
Oh, come on, child of God, Isaid.
Look up and remember.
God is not trying to trick you.
He said it for your good.
I must hurry, I must hurry.
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No matter how close I live toGod and you live to God, we're
all going to suffer and die.
Curse thou art.
And it's only in that otherland that this curse will be
removed.
And I pray.
I never do.
But if I come down with cancertomorrow, I'll call and say pray
and if God in His mercy seesfit.
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But if not, you can go toheaven with cancer, but you'll
never go with sin in your life.
Amen.
And that's why, for an earlychurch, they knew he died.
It was not just some catechism,amen.
I believe that Christ died formy sin.
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In that early day, brother,they couldn't give you some
exposition on the vicarioussuffering of the Savior Paul
would do that later but theyknew he was the sacrifice for
the redemption of mankind and hedied that I might live.
And I know he was dead, he wasdead, he was dead, he was dead,
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he was dead, he was dead.
John in his gospel makes a veryinteresting observation that is
further proof that it'seyewitness testimony.
He notes that when the spearpierces the side, that there is
water and blood that come out,and of course at the time this
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was not recognized as anything,but now it is clear evidence
that the spear perforated thelung and the pericardium, which
is a fluid sac, and the blooddenotes that the spear went all
the way to his heart.
In an article in the AmericanJournal of Medicine in 1986, a
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group of physicians took the NewTestament accounts and the
wording such as that, to declareaccording to medical knowledge,
jesus was dead.
He was.
You've had it bad.
What are these disciples goingto do?
Everything they have lived foris gone in a heartbeat.
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Matthew, who worked for the IRS,gave up a good government job.
Peter, james and John John.
They've forsaken everything.
When Peter says to the lame manat the gate silver and gold
have a none.
A few chapters before, he saidLord, we have given up
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everything to follow you,everything.
Now here they are and theirhope is dead and they don't
understand what's going on.
You see, we all shout andrejoice, don't we?
We know the story, but it wasabsolute chaos.
Can you imagine they're hiding?
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They're hiding in fear ofwhat's going to happen to them.
Amen, oh, I can hear in theback of matthew's mind I don't
want to go home.
My mama's gonna tell me, boy, Itold you you should have left
that job.
I told you were stupid tofollow that guy.
Oh, come on, are you gonna?
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help me right now amen, and Isee matthew as he's dropping his
head, and peter james and johnpeter.
Well, I got in the boat.
I guess I'll go back to fishing.
Amen.
The rest of them.
What are they going to do?
Their hope has come to an end.
They didn't understand it.
It made no sense to them.
In fact, on the resurrectionmorning and the resurrection day
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, it is nothing but confusionand chaos.
Are you hearing me?
We come church out and run, andthe resurrection day, it is
nothing but confusion and chaos.
Are you hearing me?
We come church out and run,jump and we go back home have
that big Easter meal.
If you believe in Easter eggs,if you don't, that's fine.
I don't care for them myself,but I do like the chocolate
bunnies.
Pass them on my way, amen.
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But that Sunday night, afterwe're already back at church,
back in our normal routine, youknow where they were Locked in
fear in an upper room.
Amen.
They're confused aboutyesterday.
Nothing made sense.
They are fearful of today, thatat any moment the doors are
going to be kicked open and herecome the guards after them.
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They are uncertain of tomorrow.
What are they going to do when,all of a sudden, something
happened that totally changedthe dynamic of that upper room
experience.
But it really got a start earlythat morning as several ladies
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got up in the still darkness ofthe night and made their way to
that tomb.
It's still dark outside, thedawn is just beginning to break.
Among themselves, they'retalking, they're still weeping
and lamenting about what hashappened.
And one says to another but howare we going to move the stone?
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Number one there's a seal on itwhich is a white emblem
stretched across with ropes.
Anybody that breaks thatwithout permission will be put
to death.
So that we've got these Romansoldiers who are not known for
their gentlemanly ways.
They are brutal, they are meanand they delight in belittling
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Jewish women.
So they don't know what's goingto happen.
But as they're making their waythrough the darkness of a new
day, one of them looks ahead andsays I must be seeing things,
something's not right, my visionis not good.
And she looks and says I don'tknow.
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It looks like that tomb is open.
And another one said oh, comeon now, wipe those tears from
your eyes.
Well, my, my, my, it looks likeit is.
And so they began to make theirway.
Can you imagine?
As they come up, I feel theHoly Ghost.
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As they come up on that tomb andas they make their way, they
suddenly are startled bysoldiers lying around like dead
men.
These men are not asleep, butthey're spellbound, laid back,
amen.
But there was something pullingthem to that empty tomb, oh
hallelujah.
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And they thought well, god'sworked a miracle.
Now we'll be able to do what wecame to do.
God's worked a miracle.
Now we'll be able to do what wecame to do.
God's worked it out.
Now we can go in and anoint thebody.
No, no, no.
God's changed your plans andeverybody else's.
I'm telling you here today theLord can change your plan in a
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moment of minutes, in a momentof seconds.
The Lord can change your planin a moment of seconds.
The Lord can change our plan,amen.
I must hurry Now, ladies,please.
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I digress.
I hate to tell you this, but inthis day you could not testify
in a court of law except for twooccasions If the estate of your
deceased husband are youmarried Okay, check that one off
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.
Or if your virtue had beencalled into question.
Other than that, women were notallowed to testify because even
then, they had a reputation forgossip.
That's right and that's why,amen.
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When we read these accounts,it's further credence that it
happened just like the Biblesaid.
And they walked in there andthey saw something they'd never
seen before, but they heardwords that have forever turned
the world upside down.
Why seek you the living amongthe dead?
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He is not here.
He is risen, just like he said.
It is still the words that,still to this day, turn the
world upside down.
He is not here, but he is risen.
Come see the place where he lay.
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Somebody shout hallelujah, Isaid.
Somebody say thank you, jesus,amen.
And they go running back,running back.
He's alive, he's alive, he isalive.
Hey, the message of the churchfor this hour still ought to be
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Jesus is alive, he is alive.
Oh, somebody say amen now.
I said Jesus is alive,hallelujah, hallelujah, he is
alive.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
He is alive.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
I must address I'll get sidetracked here John on the
Isle of Patmos.
Have you ever givenconsideration of how old John
must have been if he receivesthe revelation?
At 90 to 95 AD and contemporaryof our Lord?
That means the Apostle John wasprobably 80 to 90 years old on
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the Isle of Patmos.
According to the historicalaccounts it are probably true he
was boiled in Nevada.
Boiling oil Didn't kill him, sohe's banished to Patmos.
So here he is, third degreeburns.
He does not have Obamacare.
He does not have SocialSecurity or Medicare.
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He may not even have had histeeth.
He might have had to pay hisreward because he didn't have no
teeth.
I want you to hear me.
Elderly people we're living ina society that will tell you and
I've been where the preachersalmost did said if you old folks
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would get out of the way, we'lldo what we want to do.
And I wanted to go to everyelder in that building and shake
their hand and say if it hadn'tbeen for you, I wouldn't have a
place to preach.
Thank you for what you've done.
And If it hadn't been for you,I wouldn't have a place to
preach.
Thank you for what you've done.
And the devil will tell you youcan't do like you used to do.
You'll understand that, boys,one day.
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Amen, you can't do Amen.
I'm going to tell you what Ilike what Scripture said about
John.
He probably couldn't run andjump like he did before.
There's one thing he could do,he said I was in the Spirit on
the Lord's day.
You may not be able to run andjump, grandma, you may not be
able to swing from the lightfixture, grandpa, but you can
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still get in the Spirit and geta word from the Lord, amen.
So that's why I said this lastnight, when I saw you shouting
around the front here, I justloved every bit of it.
Yeah, this last night, when Isaw you shouting around the
front here, I just loved everybit of it.
Ah, yeah, shout on Hallelujah,amen.
But on that island John saw himagain and he looks at him and
says Behold, I am he which wasdead, but I am alive forevermore
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, hallelujah.
I want you to know he is stillalive.
Are you hearing me, jesus, knowhe is still alive.
Are you hearing me, jesus?
Speaker 5 (42:18):
He is still alive.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
And in that upper room that night, when those
disciples were confused, fearfuland uncertain, jesus appeared
Over in the corner.
Fearful and uncertain, jesusappeared over in the corner.
That's what it said.
Shaking your head, am I quotingthat wrong?
You believe I am Alright.
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Does anybody know where it saidhe appeared?
He appeared right there in themiddle of them and that denotes
where every one of them hadequal access.
And he appears he walked up tothem.
He does not address theconfusion of yesterday.
He never mentions their fears,he never says anything about the
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uncertainty of tomorrow.
In my vernacular he just saysI'm here now, everything's going
to be alright, I'm here, I'mhere Everything's going to be
alright.
And the Bible said then were thedisciples glad.
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Do you understand where theLord is at right now?
He's right here, in the middleof this sanctuary, saying to you
everything's going to be allright, I'm here.
I'm here, everything's going tobe all right.
Oh, somebody could get a holdof this.
Oh, I hear you right now,brother Tim, you don't
understand my circumstance,really, I probably don't, but
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I'll tell you this much Jesus isalive.
Oh, brother Tim, I'm sick,maybe you are, but Jesus is
alive.
Oh, brother Tim, I don't knowabout tomorrow, neither do I,
but Jesus is alive.
Run, son, run, amen.
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Come on church, jesus is alive,come on.
Come on, somebody scream itJesus is alive.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Jesus is alive.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
If the devil can get your eyes off of Jesus, you will
sink.
But Jesus said I am he whichwas dead and I am alive
forevermore.
And because I live, ye shalllive also.
Amen.
Death will lose its fear andits hold on these early
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disciples.
Speaker 5 (45:15):
They saw him dead, but they knew he was alive.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
I must hurry and I will close my Bible.
The message of the early church, things that will have to be
addressed.
They need to be even now.
But the reason we're here todayis because they crucify Him for
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our sins.
He was dead, buried, but on thethird day.
Brother, I heard you last night.
Can you grab a Bible real quick?
Yeah, I understand.
Sometimes, if I don't use thesethings, people think I'm reading
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from a different version,because I'll put out a word and
put in a word and it wasn'tthere.
Okay, now I hear some of yousaying this Now, preacher, you
condemn Mohammed because hewasn't there, but neither were
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you.
Well, now I know you kind oflook maybe a little elder, don't
have to worry about a bad hairday, but anyway, anyway, anyway,
were you there?
Were you there when Jesus died?
How about you?
No, when I'm in Myanmar, I havethis question how can we know?
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Not that we doubt, but we'redealing with a country that's
85% Buddhist Strange religion,just weird.
How can we know, dealing withMuslims?
We're working with some Muslimsand Buddhists visiting their
home.
How do you know?
I wasn't there and neither wereyou.
Go to the fifth chapter of thebook of Acts.
I wasn't there and neither wereyou.
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Go to the fifth chapter of thebook of Acts and you've got a
microphone, because I don't wantthem to hear this.
Okay, because some of them arealready saying wait a minute,
preacher, all you doing, you uphere jumping around and shouting
, and you wasn't there either.
I wasn't.
I know I may look like I was,but I wasn't.
I mean, I have been to Israel,but I wasn't there when Jesus
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died.
I wasn't there on theresurrection morning.
All right, he didn't have PAsystems back then either.
Sometimes I'm not sure thatmight have been a blessing.
You know, you ever had aproblem getting your PA to work.
George Whitfield could preach.
Ben Franklin said he measuredit off.
George Whitfield could preach.
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Ben Franklin said he measuredit off.
George Whitefield could preachto 25,000, 30,000 people without
the aid of a microphoneEverybody heard it.
Ben Franklin went to his meetingand measured it off and said,
without a doubt, wow, Littleshort guy yeah.
All right, go to chapter 5.
I'm there and let's pick upabout verse number 29.
Now you hear this.
It's Peter.
Now you know where this isgoing to end up.
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Read if we say church in SouthCarolina.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said
we ought to obey God ratherthan men.
That's pretty strong, isn't itit?
Speaker 4 (48:46):
is.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
Read on the God of our fathers raised up Jesus,
Uh-oh here we go.
Speaker 4 (48:51):
Same message he preaches every time he turns
around.
Can't the guy get anything new?
That's right.
Why does he have to keeppreaching?
Speaker 3 (48:57):
Read on Whom you slew and hanged on a tree.
Him hath God exalted with hisright hand to be a prince and a
savior for to give repentance toIsrael and forgiveness of sin.
Now read on, and we are hiswitnesses of these things.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
All right, yeah, yeah , they were there.
All right, they were there Okay.
Speaker 3 (49:24):
Read on, and so is also the Holy Ghost.
Wow, wait, wait, wait, readthat again.
So is also the Holy Ghost.
Ah, wow, wait, wait, wait, readthat again.
And also is the Holy Ghost.
Now read the next phrase Allright, whom God hath given to
them that obey him.
You ain't got it.
Speaker 4 (49:42):
I wasn't there, but neither were you.
No, but the Holy Ghost was.
The Holy Ghost was there and wegot him.
Hey, has anybody in thisbuilding felt the Holy Ghost
since you've been here?
Do you know what that is?
Speaker 5 (50:01):
That's the Holy.
Speaker 4 (50:02):
Ghost screaming in your ear Jesus is alive.
That's it, buddies.
Speaker 5 (50:11):
The Holy Ghost screaming Jesus is alive.
Holy Ghost, if you've evermoved, move on us.
Jesus is alive, Holy Ghost.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
Lord, send the Holy Ghost among us right now.
Come on, somebody scream Lord,send the Holy Ghost, send the
Holy.
Speaker 5 (50:43):
Ghost come on send it on down, lord, send it on down.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
Lord, let the Holy Ghost come on down Hallelujah.
We got another witness.
The Holy Ghost is our witness.
It's real, it's genuine,because the Holy Ghost was there
and he said it was and I've gothim here and he's my witness.
Speaker 4 (51:14):
Glory, hallelujah, I'm going to tell you somebody
else who was there.
He don't want to know it, but Ibelieve with all of my heart
that the devil himself, amen,was there that morning when
Jesus come up, and the lastthing he wants you to do is
realize that Jesus is alive.
If you're here today and you'redown from, if you're sick in
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your body, amen.
If you've got a burden, look upand scream it out Jesus is
alive.
Come on, holy Ghost, jesus isalive.
Come on, somebody's screamingout.
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Won't you scream it in the faceof hell?
Devil, you're alive, jesus isalive.
Jesus is alive, amen.
And if you're lost in thisbuilding today, jesus is alive.
Speaker 5 (52:31):
Amen.
If you're lost in this buildingtoday, Jesus is alive.
Speaker 4 (52:53):
I'm getting ready to close.
I worried your patience, but Iimagine that afternoon, when
Jesus appeared in their midstand said I'm here, everything's
going to be alright, that Johnlooked at Peter and said well,
I'm here, everything's going tobe all right.
John looked at Peter and saidwell, I just declared I thought
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he would come through after all,hallelujah.
Matthew said I never wanted togo back to the IRS.
I can see the doors kickingopen, those disciples running
down those stairs screaming he'salive, passing that Roman guard
as he looks, and the disciplescome running back and say, oh, I
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forgot to tell you Jesus isalive, amen.
Turn to your neighbor and sayneighbor, jesus is alive, amen,
amen, amen.
Preacher.
Speaker 5 (53:47):
Jesus is alive, amen.
Preach higher Jesus is alive,amen, amen.
Speaker 4 (53:55):
Scream it out, shout it in the face of God.
Speaker 5 (54:00):
Jesus is alive, amen.
Speaker 4 (54:13):
He said we're in an altar service, we're having one.
Jesus is alive.
I want you to put them hands upand scream as you come around
here.
Jesus is alive.
Jesus is alive.
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Jesus is alive, come on.
Speaker 5 (54:44):
Jesus is alive.
Speaker 4 (54:45):
Call him in brother, jesus is alive.
Behold, I am he which was deadand I am alive forevermore.
Hallelujah.
Whatever your circumstancetoday, if somebody raised their
hand right now and said Preacher, I am really going through a
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difficult trial.
Is there one Right there?
You, okay.
I want you to go tell her.
Look at her and say Jesus isalive.
Is there another hand, somebodyelse?
Turn to that one and just tellhim who in here right now?
You got sickness in your body.
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You can raise your hand and saypreacher, I forgot my medicine,
but Jesus is alive, jesus isalive.
I want you to put them hands upagain and scream it as loud as
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you can Jesus is alive.
Speaker 5 (56:08):
Lord Go ahead and worship God.
Speaker 3 (56:16):
I believe someone can give the Holy Ghost today.
Speaker 5 (56:20):
Oh, hallelujah, he's alive.
He's alive, forevermore.
Hallelujah, oh, let's just letthe Lord fall upon us.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
No-transcript.
Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
Get them hands back up in the air.
Jesus is alive and he's righthere today.
Come on, brother.
Jesus is alive and he's righthere today.
Speaker 5 (01:01:09):
I feel the Holy Ghost , hallelujah, hallelujah, thank
you, but I'm one simple onesimple, one, simple, one, simple
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, and I'm one simple, one,simple, one, simple, and I'm one
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simple, one, simple, one,simple.
Oh, yes, I go ahead.
Lord, give them the good oldago, I don't know how.
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Thank you, oh, my God.
Speaker 6 (01:04:06):
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You took my place.
You bore what I deserved.
You poured out grace with thosethree words.
You've brought me near.
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
You took my place.
You bore what I deserved.
You poured out grace with thosethree words You've brought me
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near.
You've called my past redeemed.
You've brought me life.
With those three words, it isdone.
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It is finished.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Love has won Far East Coast.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Praise the Lord.
Thank you, brother Fred.
What a wonderful, amazing andsurprising opportunity to be
here today.
Life takes some strange twistsand turns, doesn't it?
It sure does.
It was May of this year.
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Brother Fred's, brother Denver,rick's brother Raymond Everybody
knows Raymond.
Sadly, he left us for a betterland and met several of the
family there at the funeral.
Raymond was married to SisterHudson's cousin Janet and please
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don't hold that against me andplease tell her.
I said that and please tell her.
I said that.
And the following week ourbeautiful, beautiful daughter,
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beautiful daughter, met this guyfrom California.
And, as Paul Harvey used to say, you know the rest of the story
.
So it looks like our familyjust can't get out of the woods.
Can't get out of the woods.
So here we are today.
Isn't it wonderful to feel thepresence of the Lord.
I've been privileged in my shortlifespan of 54 years to travel
completely around the world inthe northern hemisphere, never
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got across the equator Close tothis.
I to Venice, singapore, and Ifound our brother's message so
encouraging this morning.
He expected me to begin to talkabout the pilots crashing those
planes and we were fixing tofly literally around the world
again.
So I enjoyed your message.
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Most of it anyway, all right.
Literally around the worldagain.
So I enjoyed your message.
Most of it anyway, all right.
But I've been privileged to bein some of the nicer churches of
renown in the world.
Has anybody ever been to London,england?
All right.
Did you go to Westminster Abbey?
All right, if you go to London,you need to go to Westminster
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Abbey, and that church isprobably 1,000 years old.
It sits right outside the Houseof Parliament and that's where
all the kings and queens arecoronated.
The coronation chair is thereand when you walk in, literally
there are people buriedeverywhere.
You're literally walking ongraves.
You are, and you talk about adead church.
I mean, it's a dead church.
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It really is.
It's a dead church and, as amatter of fact, you might not
believe this, but Charles Darwin, the founder of Darwinian
evolution, is buried there.
I found his grave and went andwalked all over the top of
Charles Darwin.
I did, I walked all over thetop of Charles Darwin.
You know it's amazing.
And then I've been across.
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Anybody been to Paris, france,france, anybody been to France?
Okay, yeah.
Did you go to the former NotreDame?
Okay, yeah, yeah, and I wasactually there on service one
Sunday morning and of course youmight remember that church
caught on fire back in aprilmost far that church has ever
had.
But anyway it, uh, it was abeautiful building.
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I mean over a thousand yearsold, thousand years to build
this place, and I mean by theworld standards.
I mean by the world standard,this little building just kind
of, you know, pales incomparison.
But in both those places, notone time and I've been to them
several times not one time did Ifeel there what I felt in this
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little place this morning.
And sometimes we fail torealize just how blessed we are.
I ask this question oftentimesand I must hurry.
I must hurry, I know I mustkeep it short, keep it sweet.
I get through preaching, youget to eat.
So I've got to be very carefulhere.
But, and probably, probably, itmight not even be welcome.
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I don't know, but has thegovernor of California ever been
here?
No, yeah, you'd like for himright there, all right, yeah,
come on in, sir, we got a placefor you right there.
Bring Kamala and Diane, y'all,come on right down here.
Yeah, I don't, I'm just severedin places.
I'm not going to ask who yourrepresentatives are in the
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Congress, but we can make a spotfor them right over here.
Are in the Congress, but we canmake a spot for them right over
here.
And I've been around hereenough to know that there might
be some of you that would beglad to see President Trump and
Vice President Pence.
I really would.
Yeah, I sure would, but havethey been here?
No, why, you don't rank highenough.
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You don't have enough money formost of them.
Has the God of heaven ever beenin this place?
Sometimes we just sit here andact like, oh, what's the big
deal?
I tell you, it's a mighty bigdeal that the God, who made this
massive universe by His veryspoken word, is in this place
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today and we're just kind oflike, well, isn't that nice?
It really is nice, and you'vealready heard enough preaching
this morning and last nightsince I've been here, and I just
don't tell them what couldhappen right now.
Somebody would believe the Lordand just tell the devil to shut
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up.
Okay, I have to be careful,brother, when you say things
like that.
Sometimes husbands look at wivesand vice versa and kind of get
in trouble there.
But no telling what couldhappen right now to you and for
you, because when Jesus passesby and I thought sure did enjoy
that young man's message, butreally I don't think he's
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passing by, he was here for you.
You got here this morning.
Can we stand on our feet onemore time and let's just worship
the Lord?
Maybe, if you've got that needright now, you could just say
Lord, I believe you, lord, Iknow that You're here, I believe
you, lord, I know that You'rehere, I believe you, lord.
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So, lord, please help us rightnow, give us wisdom, give us
favor, lord.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Give us your blessing , lord.
Bless our fellowship, blessevery church here, god.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Thank you for this church and congregation.
Lord, give me wisdom right now.
Accomplish your will in Jesus'name.
And the church said amen, youmight be seated Again.
We do.
Thank you so much.
I do want to say what an honorit is to be with Brother and
Sister Birdsong again, and thatlittle black sister in the
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Savannah area years ago got alittle confused but she loved
them bird singers.
She's so glad when them birdsingers was there, she really
was.
Yeah and so good.
And I certainly appreciate themessage last night and the
burden and then the preachingtoday.
I certainly do appreciate it.
I'm going to try to use wisdomhere, but this is the burden of
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my heart.
I've preached this numeroustimes and I asked the lord about
it during the night thismorning.
So if you'll turn with me veryquickly to first corinthians,
chapter 15 my wife knows whereI'm going and, uh, I've preached
this a lot of different placesand any opportunity that I feel
the lord would allow me, firstcorinthians chapter 15.
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Normally I would ask you tostand, but you've kind of been
up and down so I'll just let yousit there for a moment.
1 Corinthians, chapter 15, verse3.
For I delivered unto you firstof all that which I also
received, how that Christ diedfor our sins according to the
Scriptures, and that he wasburied and that he rose again
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the third day according to thescriptures.
Now, in the book of acts,chapter number, chapter number
17, just one more little verseof scripture and then we will be
on the way here if you go tothe latter part of verse number
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6, acts, chapter 17,.
These that have turned theworld upside down are come
hither also.
If the Lord will help me forjust a few moments, I want to
preach on the message thatturned the world upside down.
Please bear with me for just afew moments, but last night you
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might recall that I made a fewstatements in testifying and I
made note of the fact of thetiming of the New Testament
documents.
Now it's important to realizeif our Lord and I think current
scholarship suggests that Jesusthe more common scholastic
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dating now would probably be 30AD, but the more commonly known
date would be 30, 33 AD 33 AD isthe more common.
Be that as it may, three yearsJesus died by crucifixion, was
buried and rose again, and so ifwe place that about 33 ad, uh,
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it's also recognized by scholarsthat the first written down
book of the new testament wasnot the book of matthew.
Your bible is not in achronological order, it's in a
topical order, and so I thinkthe consensus now is that
matthew I'm sorry, mark was thefirst to write down, uh, a new
testament document.
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So that's going to occur around, if you will, 50 ad and uh.
Then of course, if we get downto the book of Revelation, and
that's going to be probably 90to 95 AD, that means that for
the first century there is noNew Testament as we know it now.
For the first 17 years there'snot one New Testament document.
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And yet, and yet in Acts,chapter 17, verse number 6,
those apostles and disciples arereferred to as these that have
turned the world upside down,and so it was without one new
testament document.
They literally turned the worldupside down.
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This becomes more and moreprofound when you consider that
as the church becomes moregentile, gentiles are not
welcome in the synagogues or thetemples, and the gentiles don't
have access to the oldtestament, and uh, and in many
ways at that point it didn'tquite make the sense to them.
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That it maybe does to us now,until some of the other New
Testament writings come along.
So really you could almost say,without a New Testament and very
little of the old, they hadsomething that turned the world
upside down and that was theyhad a message.
They had a message.
They had a message.
It seemed like in many waystoday we've almost forgotten.
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It seemed like in many waystoday we've almost forgotten and
I'm so thrilled to hear theemphasis even last night, as
Brother Birdsong mentioned howmany of us are here in our midst
and we say that generally nowthat are among us, that to look
at them, you would think, butthey don't even have a clue to
what it is to be really savedand it is affecting us.
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It really really is.
And so if we look at the earlychurch, if we look at the
earliest days of the church,coming out of Acts, chapter 2,
it doesn't take long to find outwhat that message was.
It doesn't take long to findout what that message was.
And 1 Corinthians, chapter 15,verse 3 and 4, is recognized by
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biblical scholars as being thefirst doctrinal creed of the
early church.
Now, what is a creed?
It's a statement of belief, andI dare say that if we were new
in the area and came here tothis church and said, brother
Fred.
Now, brother Fred, we wouldlike to come here, we're
interested in the church.
What do you believe he wouldcome out with this long list of
creeds?
We believe that's fine.
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Nothing wrong with that.
We have to have it today?
Certainly we do.
But if you would have found aNew Testament believer in 33 AD
In fact, scholars have actuallydated this creed back to within
just a few weeks of uh, the uhof the birth of the church and
the day of pentecost.
But the reality of it is itstems from the day of pentecost.
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And so if you'd have found anew testament believer in 33 ad,
amen or 34 ad and said you're achristian, what is it that you
believe?
This is what you'd have heard.
I believe that Christ died formy sins, according to the
Scripture, and that he wasburied, but on the third day he
arose again, according to theScripture.
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Now somebody say amen.
I said somebody say amen, amen.
Now there are a lot of thingsthat are going to come on later
on.
There are going to be issues ofchurch government.
There will be issues believe itor not of dress.
There will be all kind ofissues that will have to be
dealt with in the early church,and Paul and the other apostles
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will deal with those.
But I want to remind you todaythe reason you are saved, and
the reason that I am saved, isbecause Jesus died for our sin.
According to the scripture, hewas buried and on the third day
he arose again.
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Now, if you cannot shout overthat, you have not been saved.
But if you have been saved, youcan shout over that.
You have not been saved, but ifyou have been saved, you can
shout over that Amen.
I'm glad that he died for mysins.
He was buried, but on the thirdday God raised him from the
dead.
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Oh, somebody say amen,hallelujah, hallelujah.
Oh, somebody say amen,hallelujah, hallelujah.
Now I don't know if some of youpreachers have ever had this
problem, but traveling like wedo in particular, sometimes
Sister Hudson gets a littlenervous.
Brother Birdsinger, sisterHudson will oh no, he's already
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preached that message here.
And the will oh no, he'salready preached that message
here.
Oh, and Brother Lindsay Savagesaid with this mix for stuff,
problem with that is yourmessage gets there for you do
now Amen.
But she gets a little nervousand it used to kind of bother me
sometime until I got to readingin the book of Acts.
Have you ever read the firstfew chapters of the book of Acts
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?
Amen.
Peter had one message.
It didn't make any differencewhere Peter started at, he
always got back to the samemessage you crucified the Lord
of glory, you put him in a tomb,but on the third day God raised
him from the dead.
Amen.
I know it's an old message, butit is the foundation of
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everything that we believe.
Amen, thank God.
They crucified him, they puthim in a tomb, but the tomb
couldn't hold him because therenever was a man like Jesus.
Let me very carefully hurry onhere.
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It's very easy to getsidetracked.
Amen.
There are two things that aregoing to make an impression on
the early church.
Please remember when you'rereading the New Testament
accounts, you are readingeyewitness accounts.
Luke is very careful to notethat he was not an eyewitness,
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but that he had interviewedeyewitnesses.
Now Luke is considered to beone of the greatest historians
of the ancient world.
The book of Acts, chapter 13 tothe end over 80 plus
archaeological discoveries haveproven that Luke knew exactly
what he was talking about.
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Actually have found the anchorsfrom the shipwreck that he and
Paul were in Found the anchorsat the exact depth and location
they would have been had theybeen cut loose.
And so Luke says I was not aneyewitnessitness, but I have
interviewed eyewitnesses.
But when it comes to the restof them, go through the book of
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Acts and read how many timesthey say and we are witnesses of
these things, and we areeyewitnesses of these things.
Peter said we've not followedcomingly devised fables when we
made known unto you the comingof our Lord Jesus, but were
eyewitnesses of His majesty.
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If there's one thing that isdisturbing me in our church
today, it is the loss ofeyewitness, testimony of men and
women that can stand and say Iwas, but no longer am I what I
used to be.
I do not believe in glamorizingsin, but our young people need
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to know that among us were menthat were alcoholics, and such
were some of you who can standand testify to the grace of God.
Somebody say amen and help mewhile I preach now.
So there are eyewitnesses ofthese things.
There are two things and I musthurry that's going to make an
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indelible impact on that groupof early believers.
Number one the suffering of theSavior.
Do you know that one of the mostestablished facts of ancient
history is not only that Jesuslived, but that he died by means
of crucifixion during the reignof Pontius Pilate.
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Gerd Ludemann, who is arenowned ancient historian, who
happens to be an atheist, saysthe facts of Jesus' death by
crucifixion are indisputable.
Paula Friedrichson, who is askeptic, doesn't even believe
the New Testament accounts.
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She says the most certain thingabout Jesus' life is his death
by means of crucifixion duringthe reign of pontius pilate.
It is, again, one of the mostestablished fact of ancient
history, in fact, about the onlyones you would find to this day
that really would claim it tobe that jesus didn't die would
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be the muslims.
For you see, in the the Quran,chapter 4, verse 157, it clearly
says let them not say that theycrucified him, for they
crucified him, not Only alikeness of him, and so that's
why your Muslims do not believethat Jesus died.
Amen.
But there's a problem with that.
You see, mohammed was born in570 AD, he never, ever, went to
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Jerusalem, lived in Saudi Arabia, and he's one man.
Oh, you follow me here now.
But these disciples andapostles, they knew the Lord,
they lived with Him Ah, come onnow.
And they knew, without a doubtthat Jesus, amen, died.
They have watched his suffering.
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Amen John will stand there atthe side of the cross when the
others have fled.
I dare say that some of theothers, however, they will be
hiding in the shadows.
But every one of them knew,without a doubt, what a Roman
crucifixion entailed and theyknew that Jesus was dead.
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But they knew that he sufferedhorribly.
Oh, come on now.
This is where it's going tocome.
A little hard to swallow, amen,but because they saw him suffer
, in days to come when they aresuffering horribly, then not one
time will they drop their headand moan and groan, but they
will rejoice in their suffering.
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When is the last time yourejoiced in your suffering?
If you ever get your eye backon the suffering of the Savior
and the suffering of the cross,anything that you are going
through will be mild compared tothe suffering of the Savior.
Be mild compared to thesuffering of the Savior.
They're going to lose many oftheir homes, their lives, their
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health.
You see, jesus said whosoeverwill come after me, let him deny
himself, take up his cross.
For the early church, it was adeath sentence, a death sentence
for them that they'd see suffer.
And if he suffered, let merejoice.
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I do not pray for adversity, no, brother, I don't want God to
stir me, amen.
But when is the last time youlifted your hand and said Lord,
I don't understand.
But if it brings honor andglory to your name, knowing what
you suffered for me, you knowthe reason we're having such
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problems with worldliness.
Among some of our churches wehave forgotten the suffering of
the Savior.
If you ever see Him and Hissuffering, you'll understand the
songwriter who said Thus mightI hide my blushing face while
His dear cross appears, dissolvemy heart in thankfulness and
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melt mine eyes to tears.
It will make such an impressionupon them that they will look
adversity in the face and againrejoice in their sufferings,
because they were eyewitnessesto the suffering of the Savior.
He will suffer a horrible death, horrible death.
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How many of you have ever saiduse the word excruciating?
Has anybody ever had anexcruciating headache?
Do you know where the wordexcruciating comes from?
It means literally out of thecross.
It was a word that was inventedto describe the suffering
associated with crucifixion.
It was so brutal, and so when Ihave said I've got an
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excruciating headache, what I'mliterally saying?
It hurts so bad that I feellike I'm being crucified, oh,
but here.
He was.
I know, I know I hear you say itas others.
Well, many others werecrucified too.
I know that, amen.
But this is God incarnate, thisis the creator of the universe.
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It ought to have been you andit ought to have been me and not
him.
Oh, and sometime we fail toremember the suffering that he
did on our behalf, that we couldbe here today and rejoice.
Could somebody just put yourhand up and say thank you, lord,
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for suffering.
I must hurry.
I must hurry.
Haven't we all been there whenwe question and say, oh God, why
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?
Somebody said you shouldn't askGod, why Jesus did?
He said my God, my God, why?
Why?
It's not a cry that you've doneme wrong, it's just where are
you God?
Where are you God?
Oh, but here's a little caveaton that Even though Jesus didn't
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understand, he still had enoughconfidence in God that his
final words were Father into thyhands, come in my spirit.
I may not understand why, but Itrust you enough, god, that I
believe you know what you'redoing.
Can you really trust God?
I said can you really trust God?
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Lord, I don't know, but Ireally believe God.
You know what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
For me it's not a cop-out.
I really have that confidencein God.
Has anyone ever been to Hollandbefore?
Sister Hudson and I weretransiting through Holland some
years ago we went to the HidingPlace.
You remember Corrie Ten Boom'sbook the Hiding Place.
You read that book.
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We visited that home and therein that little room was a
tapestry that Corrie Ten Boom,the tramp for the Lord, as she
called herself, used to take,and on one side is a tangleweed
mess, ugly, just threads.
That made no sense whatsoever.
And she said that's often howwe see it.
Flip that thing around.
It was a tapestry of abeautiful crown.
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She said often we see the uglybut we don't see what God's are
working on the other side.
Oh, this line of affliction,that's just.
Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost.
If you're going through itright now, throw your hand up
and say I don't understand God,but I trust you anyway.
I don't know why, but God, Itrust you anyway.
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I feel the Holy Ghost righthere.
I said throw your hand up, Itrust you anyway.
I don't know why, but God, Itrust you anyway.
I feel the Holy Ghost righthere.
I said pull your hand up andsay Lord, I trust you anyway, I
feel the Holy Ghost right now.
I believe if somebody would dothat, you might find what you've
been looking for for a mightylong time.
Amen, hallelujah, glory to God.
I feel the Holy.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Ghost in this building.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Amen, whoo, amen, hallelujah, glory to God.
I feel the Holy Ghost in thisbuilding.
I'm feeling religious up here.
Oh Lord, I don't understand.
Job said yea though he trust me.
He said yea though he slay me.
Yet will I trust in him.
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Amen.
We've been actively involved inmission work for many years.
We're hoping the Lord helpingus in a few years to be living
more full time in Myanmar, whichis right next to China.
Some of you remember AdoniramJetson suffered horribly in that
country in the 1800s to takethe gospel to them.
Now we're trying to strengthenthings which remain.
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Kind of help them get back ontrack, amen.
I don't believe inpredestination, as taught by
many today, and even as JohnCalvin did.
But there's one thing aboutthose old people Let me say this
out of all fairness those oldmen that taught preservation of
the saint or eternal security,calvin and Whitfield and men
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like Jonathan Edwards they didnot believe, you hear me, they
did not believe in a live likethe devil, die like a saint.
Amen.
They would say if you backslid,you were never saved.
Now I believe that you can besaved and backslide, but they
believed, just like us, thatsin's not going to heaven.
And so they would say are youwith me now?
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But there was one thing that itdid enable them, amen.
They believed that whatevercame their way, that God had
predetermined, that was tohappen, their way, that God had
predetermined that was to happen.
And they had such trust andconfidence in God that he would
do them nothing but good, andthat everything that's happening
to me God's working.
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It for my good.
Oh, come on, child of God, Isaid.
Look up and remember.
God is not trying to trick you.
He said it for your good.
I must hurry, I must hurry.
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No matter how close I live toGod and you live to God, we're
all going to suffer and die.
Curse thou art.
And it's only in that otherland that this curse will be
removed.
And I pray.
I never do.
But if I come down with cancertomorrow, I'll call and say pray
and if God in His mercy seesfit.
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But if not, you can go toheaven with cancer, but you'll
never go with sin in your life.
Amen.
And that's why, for an earlychurch, they knew he died.
It was not just some catechism,amen.
I believe that Christ died formy sin.
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In that early day, brother,they couldn't give you some
exposition on the vicarioussuffering of the Savior Paul
would do that later but theyknew he was the sacrifice for
the redemption of mankind and hedied that I might live.
And I know he was dead, he wasdead, he was dead, he was dead,
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he was dead, he was dead.
John in his gospel makes a veryinteresting observation that is
further proof that it'seyewitness testimony.
He notes that when the spearpierces the side, that there is
water and blood that come out,and of course at the time this
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was not recognized as anything,but now it is clear evidence
that the spear perforated thelung and the pericardium, which
is a fluid sac, and the blooddenotes that the spear went all
the way to his heart.
In an article in the AmericanJournal of Medicine in 1986, a
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group of physicians took the NewTestament accounts and the
wording such as that, to declareaccording to medical knowledge,
jesus was dead.
He was.
You've had it bad.
What are these disciples goingto do?
Everything they have lived foris gone in a heartbeat.
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Matthew, who worked for the IRS,gave up a good government job.
Peter, james and John John.
They've forsaken everything.
When Peter says to the lame manat the gate silver and gold
have a none.
A few chapters before, he saidLord, we have given up
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everything to follow you,everything.
Now here they are and theirhope is dead and they don't
understand what's going on.
You see, we all shout andrejoice, don't we?
We know the story, but it wasabsolute chaos.
Can you imagine they're hiding?
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They're hiding in fear ofwhat's going to happen to them.
Amen, oh, I can hear in theback of matthew's mind I don't
want to go home.
My mama's gonna tell me, boy, Itold you you should have left
that job.
I told you were stupid tofollow that guy.
Oh, come on, are you gonna?
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help me right now amen, and Isee matthew as he's dropping his
head, and peter james and johnpeter.
Well, I got in the boat.
I guess I'll go back to fishing.
Amen.
The rest of them.
What are they going to do?
Their hope has come to an end.
They didn't understand it.
It made no sense to them.
In fact, on the resurrectionmorning and the resurrection day
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, it is nothing but confusionand chaos.
Are you hearing me?
We come church out and run, andthe resurrection day, it is
nothing but confusion and chaos.
Are you hearing me?
We come church out and run,jump and we go back home have
that big Easter meal.
If you believe in Easter eggs,if you don't, that's fine.
I don't care for them myself,but I do like the chocolate
bunnies.
Pass them on my way, amen.
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But that Sunday night, afterwe're already back at church,
back in our normal routine, youknow where they were Locked in
fear in an upper room.
Amen.
They're confused aboutyesterday.
Nothing made sense.
They are fearful of today, thatat any moment the doors are
going to be kicked open and herecome the guards after them.
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They are uncertain of tomorrow.
What are they going to do when,all of a sudden, something
happened that totally changedthe dynamic of that upper room
experience.
But it really got a start earlythat morning as several ladies
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got up in the still darkness ofthe night and made their way to
that tomb.
It's still dark outside, thedawn is just beginning to break.
Among themselves, they'retalking, they're still weeping
and lamenting about what hashappened.
And one says to another but howare we going to move the stone?
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Number one there's a seal on itwhich is a white emblem
stretched across with ropes.
Anybody that breaks thatwithout permission will be put
to death.
So that we've got these Romansoldiers who are not known for
their gentlemanly ways.
They are brutal, they are meanand they delight in belittling
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Jewish women.
So they don't know what's goingto happen.
But as they're making their waythrough the darkness of a new
day, one of them looks ahead andsays I must be seeing things,
something's not right, my visionis not good.
And she looks and says I don'tknow.
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It looks like that tomb is open.
And another one said oh, comeon now, wipe those tears from
your eyes.
Well, my, my, my, it looks likeit is.
And so they began to make theirway.
Can you imagine?
As they come up, I feel theHoly Ghost.
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As they come up on that tomb andas they make their way, they
suddenly are startled bysoldiers lying around like dead
men.
These men are not asleep, butthey're spellbound, laid back,
amen.
But there was something pullingthem to that empty tomb, oh
hallelujah.
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And they thought well, god'sworked a miracle.
Now we'll be able to do what wecame to do.
God's worked a miracle.
Now we'll be able to do what wecame to do.
God's worked it out.
Now we can go in and anoint thebody.
No, no, no.
God's changed your plans andeverybody else's.
I'm telling you here today theLord can change your plan in a
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moment of minutes, in a momentof seconds.
The Lord can change your planin a moment of seconds.
The Lord can change our plan,amen.
I must hurry Now, ladies,please.
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I digress.
I hate to tell you this, but inthis day you could not testify
in a court of law except for twooccasions If the estate of your
deceased husband are youmarried Okay, check that one off
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.
Or if your virtue had beencalled into question.
Other than that, women were notallowed to testify because even
then, they had a reputation forgossip.
That's right and that's why,amen.
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When we read these accounts,it's further credence that it
happened just like the Biblesaid.
And they walked in there andthey saw something they'd never
seen before, but they heardwords that have forever turned
the world upside down.
Why seek you the living amongthe dead?
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He is not here.
He is risen, just like he said.
It is still the words that,still to this day, turn the
world upside down.
He is not here, but he is risen.
Come see the place where he lay.
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Somebody shout hallelujah, Isaid.
Somebody say thank you, jesus,amen.
And they go running back,running back.
He's alive, he's alive, he isalive.
Hey, the message of the churchfor this hour still ought to be
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Jesus is alive, he is alive.
Oh, somebody say amen now.
I said Jesus is alive,hallelujah, hallelujah, he is
alive.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
He is alive.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
I must address I'll get sidetracked here John on the
Isle of Patmos.
Have you ever givenconsideration of how old John
must have been if he receivesthe revelation?
At 90 to 95 AD and contemporaryof our Lord?
That means the Apostle John wasprobably 80 to 90 years old on
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the Isle of Patmos.
According to the historicalaccounts it are probably true he
was boiled in Nevada.
Boiling oil Didn't kill him, sohe's banished to Patmos.
So here he is, third degreeburns.
He does not have Obamacare.
He does not have SocialSecurity or Medicare.
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He may not even have had histeeth.
He might have had to pay hisreward because he didn't have no
teeth.
I want you to hear me.
Elderly people we're living ina society that will tell you and
I've been where the preachersalmost did said if you old folks
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would get out of the way, we'lldo what we want to do.
And I wanted to go to everyelder in that building and shake
their hand and say if it hadn'tbeen for you, I wouldn't have a
place to preach.
Thank you for what you've done.
And If it hadn't been for you,I wouldn't have a place to
preach.
Thank you for what you've done.
And the devil will tell you youcan't do like you used to do.
You'll understand that, boys,one day.
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Amen, you can't do Amen.
I'm going to tell you what Ilike what Scripture said about
John.
He probably couldn't run andjump like he did before.
There's one thing he could do,he said I was in the Spirit on
the Lord's day.
You may not be able to run andjump, grandma, you may not be
able to swing from the lightfixture, grandpa, but you can
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still get in the Spirit and geta word from the Lord, amen.
So that's why I said this lastnight, when I saw you shouting
around the front here, I justloved every bit of it.
Yeah, this last night, when Isaw you shouting around the
front here, I just loved everybit of it.
Ah, yeah, shout on Hallelujah,amen.
But on that island John saw himagain and he looks at him and
says Behold, I am he which wasdead, but I am alive forevermore
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, hallelujah.
I want you to know he is stillalive.
Are you hearing me, jesus, knowhe is still alive.
Are you hearing me, jesus?
Speaker 5 (42:18):
He is still alive.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
And in that upper room that night, when those
disciples were confused, fearfuland uncertain, jesus appeared
Over in the corner.
Fearful and uncertain, jesusappeared over in the corner.
That's what it said.
Shaking your head, am I quotingthat wrong?
You believe I am Alright.
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Does anybody know where it saidhe appeared?
He appeared right there in themiddle of them and that denotes
where every one of them hadequal access.
And he appears he walked up tothem.
He does not address theconfusion of yesterday.
He never mentions their fears,he never says anything about the
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uncertainty of tomorrow.
In my vernacular he just saysI'm here now, everything's going
to be alright, I'm here, I'mhere Everything's going to be
alright.
And the Bible said then were thedisciples glad.
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Do you understand where theLord is at right now?
He's right here, in the middleof this sanctuary, saying to you
everything's going to be allright, I'm here.
I'm here, everything's going tobe all right.
Oh, somebody could get a holdof this.
Oh, I hear you right now,brother Tim, you don't
understand my circumstance,really, I probably don't, but
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I'll tell you this much Jesus isalive.
Oh, brother Tim, I'm sick,maybe you are, but Jesus is
alive.
Oh, brother Tim, I don't knowabout tomorrow, neither do I,
but Jesus is alive.
Run, son, run, amen.
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Come on church, jesus is alive,come on.
Come on, somebody scream itJesus is alive.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Jesus is alive.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
If the devil can get your eyes off of Jesus, you will
sink.
But Jesus said I am he whichwas dead and I am alive
forevermore.
And because I live, ye shalllive also.
Amen.
Death will lose its fear andits hold on these early
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disciples.
Speaker 5 (45:15):
They saw him dead, but they knew he was alive.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
I must hurry and I will close my Bible.
The message of the early church, things that will have to be
addressed.
They need to be even now.
But the reason we're here todayis because they crucify Him for
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our sins.
He was dead, buried, but on thethird day.
Brother, I heard you last night.
Can you grab a Bible real quick?
Yeah, I understand.
Sometimes, if I don't use thesethings, people think I'm reading
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from a different version,because I'll put out a word and
put in a word and it wasn'tthere.
Okay, now I hear some of yousaying this Now, preacher, you
condemn Mohammed because hewasn't there, but neither were
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you.
Well, now I know you kind oflook maybe a little elder, don't
have to worry about a bad hairday, but anyway, anyway, anyway,
were you there?
Were you there when Jesus died?
How about you?
No, when I'm in Myanmar, I havethis question how can we know?
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Not that we doubt, but we'redealing with a country that's
85% Buddhist Strange religion,just weird.
How can we know, dealing withMuslims?
We're working with some Muslimsand Buddhists visiting their
home.
How do you know?
I wasn't there and neither wereyou.
Go to the fifth chapter of thebook of Acts.
I wasn't there and neither wereyou.
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Go to the fifth chapter of thebook of Acts and you've got a
microphone, because I don't wantthem to hear this.
Okay, because some of them arealready saying wait a minute,
preacher, all you doing, you uphere jumping around and shouting
, and you wasn't there either.
I wasn't.
I know I may look like I was,but I wasn't.
I mean, I have been to Israel,but I wasn't there when Jesus
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died.
I wasn't there on theresurrection morning.
All right, he didn't have PAsystems back then either.
Sometimes I'm not sure thatmight have been a blessing.
You know, you ever had aproblem getting your PA to work.
George Whitfield could preach.
Ben Franklin said he measuredit off.
George Whitfield could preach.
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Ben Franklin said he measuredit off.
George Whitefield could preachto 25,000, 30,000 people without
the aid of a microphoneEverybody heard it.
Ben Franklin went to his meetingand measured it off and said,
without a doubt, wow, Littleshort guy yeah.
All right, go to chapter 5.
I'm there and let's pick upabout verse number 29.
Now you hear this.
It's Peter.
Now you know where this isgoing to end up.
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Read if we say church in SouthCarolina.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said
we ought to obey God ratherthan men.
That's pretty strong, isn't itit?
Speaker 4 (48:46):
is.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
Read on the God of our fathers raised up Jesus,
Uh-oh here we go.
Speaker 4 (48:51):
Same message he preaches every time he turns
around.
Can't the guy get anything new?
That's right.
Why does he have to keeppreaching?
Speaker 3 (48:57):
Read on Whom you slew and hanged on a tree.
Him hath God exalted with hisright hand to be a prince and a
savior for to give repentance toIsrael and forgiveness of sin.
Now read on, and we are hiswitnesses of these things.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
All right, yeah, yeah , they were there.
All right, they were there Okay.
Speaker 3 (49:24):
Read on, and so is also the Holy Ghost.
Wow, wait, wait, wait, readthat again.
So is also the Holy Ghost.
Ah, wow, wait, wait, wait, readthat again.
And also is the Holy Ghost.
Now read the next phrase Allright, whom God hath given to
them that obey him.
You ain't got it.
Speaker 4 (49:42):
I wasn't there, but neither were you.
No, but the Holy Ghost was.
The Holy Ghost was there and wegot him.
Hey, has anybody in thisbuilding felt the Holy Ghost
since you've been here?
Do you know what that is?
Speaker 5 (50:01):
That's the Holy.
Speaker 4 (50:02):
Ghost screaming in your ear Jesus is alive.
That's it, buddies.
Speaker 5 (50:11):
The Holy Ghost screaming Jesus is alive.
Holy Ghost, if you've evermoved, move on us.
Jesus is alive, Holy Ghost.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
Lord, send the Holy Ghost among us right now.
Come on, somebody scream Lord,send the Holy Ghost, send the
Holy.
Speaker 5 (50:43):
Ghost come on send it on down, lord, send it on down.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
Lord, let the Holy Ghost come on down Hallelujah.
We got another witness.
The Holy Ghost is our witness.
It's real, it's genuine,because the Holy Ghost was there
and he said it was and I've gothim here and he's my witness.
Speaker 4 (51:14):
Glory, hallelujah, I'm going to tell you somebody
else who was there.
He don't want to know it, but Ibelieve with all of my heart
that the devil himself, amen,was there that morning when
Jesus come up, and the lastthing he wants you to do is
realize that Jesus is alive.
If you're here today and you'redown from, if you're sick in
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your body, amen.
If you've got a burden, look upand scream it out Jesus is
alive.
Come on, holy Ghost, jesus isalive.
Come on, somebody's screamingout.
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Won't you scream it in the faceof hell?
Devil, you're alive, jesus isalive.
Jesus is alive, amen.
And if you're lost in thisbuilding today, jesus is alive.
Speaker 5 (52:31):
Amen.
If you're lost in this buildingtoday, Jesus is alive.
Speaker 4 (52:53):
I'm getting ready to close.
I worried your patience, but Iimagine that afternoon, when
Jesus appeared in their midstand said I'm here, everything's
going to be alright, that Johnlooked at Peter and said well,
I'm here, everything's going tobe all right.
John looked at Peter and saidwell, I just declared I thought
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he would come through after all,hallelujah.
Matthew said I never wanted togo back to the IRS.
I can see the doors kickingopen, those disciples running
down those stairs screaming he'salive, passing that Roman guard
as he looks, and the disciplescome running back and say, oh, I
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forgot to tell you Jesus isalive, amen.
Turn to your neighbor and sayneighbor, jesus is alive, amen,
amen, amen.
Preacher.
Speaker 5 (53:47):
Jesus is alive, amen.
Preach higher Jesus is alive,amen, amen.
Speaker 4 (53:55):
Scream it out, shout it in the face of God.
Speaker 5 (54:00):
Jesus is alive, amen.
Speaker 4 (54:13):
He said we're in an altar service, we're having one.
Jesus is alive.
I want you to put them hands upand scream as you come around
here.
Jesus is alive.
Jesus is alive.
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Jesus is alive, come on.
Speaker 5 (54:44):
Jesus is alive.
Speaker 4 (54:45):
Call him in brother, jesus is alive.
Behold, I am he which was deadand I am alive forevermore.
Hallelujah.
Whatever your circumstancetoday, if somebody raised their
hand right now and said Preacher, I am really going through a
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difficult trial.
Is there one Right there?
You, okay.
I want you to go tell her.
Look at her and say Jesus isalive.
Is there another hand, somebodyelse?
Turn to that one and just tellhim who in here right now?
You got sickness in your body.
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You can raise your hand and saypreacher, I forgot my medicine,
but Jesus is alive, jesus isalive.
I want you to put them hands upagain and scream it as loud as
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you can Jesus is alive.
Speaker 5 (56:08):
Lord Go ahead and worship God.
Speaker 3 (56:16):
I believe someone can give the Holy Ghost today.
Speaker 5 (56:20):
Oh, hallelujah, he's alive.
He's alive, forevermore.
Hallelujah, oh, let's just letthe Lord fall upon us.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
No-transcript.
Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
Get them hands back up in the air.
Jesus is alive and he's righthere today.
Come on, brother.
Jesus is alive and he's righthere today.
Speaker 5 (01:01:09):
I feel the Holy Ghost , hallelujah, hallelujah, thank
you, but I'm one simple onesimple, one, simple, one, simple
(01:01:57):
, and I'm one simple, one,simple, one, simple, and I'm one
(01:02:42):
simple, one, simple, one,simple.
Oh, yes, I go ahead.
Lord, give them the good oldago, I don't know how.
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Thank you, oh, my God.
Speaker 6 (01:04:06):
Thank you for joining us today on Foundations of
Truth.
We hope today's message hasstrengthened your faith and
helped you grow in understanding.
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Until next time, stay groundedin God's word and walk in his
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light.
God bless you grounded in God'sword and walk in his light.
God bless you.
Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
You took my place.
You bore what I deserved.
You poured out grace with thosethree words.
You've brought me near.
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You've called my past redeemed,my past redeemed.
You've brought me life withthose three words.
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