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Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, teach the Word of God cover to cover, chapter by chapter, and verse by verse. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes on Mondays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
1st Corinthians, chapter 15, beginning with verse 12. Verses 12 through 19. Now, this kind of a message today is what I would term ice cream. Anybody like ice cream? Sometimes it's hard to eat your veggies, you know.
Sometimes there's too much meat on the plate for some of you. Not for me. But, but this is ice cream. This this is the very heart of the gospel. This is real easy to digest.
This should be a means of apologetic for you. Apologetic means that if anybody you meet would refute or question, why Jesus? Why, you know, only him? And you're able to say, because of the resurrection. He's the only way, because of the resurrection.
The resurrection is the heart of the gospel which we preach. And you and I need to be equipped, to be able to provide an answer to each and every person who's inquisitive, who's curious, of the hope that lies within us. And what's that hope? The hope of the resurrection. The hope of the soon return of Jesus.
Right? Alright. So first Corinthians chapter 15 verses 12 through 19. Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen?
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God, that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised? And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain. You are yet in your sins.
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. And in this life only, we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. So, father, we thank you for your holy word. Lord, we need your word. We need you more than ever, lord.
We need your word to lead and guide us. We need your word to fill us to overflowing. We need to be strengthened in our inner man, Lord. And, we need in these times, Lord, the full armor of God on. So Lord equip us, strengthen us, help us, Lord, to be ready, no matter what happens.
That, if they come to the point of threatening our lives, Lord, we we don't fear death. To be asked when the body's be present with the Lord. We know that we know that we know that death is just moving out of this body. And Lord, help us to to settle it within our hearts that we're already crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, we live it.
It's you living through us, Lord. So, Lord, bless now we pray. Fill us to overflowing. Encourage us. Give us that dominant, more than conquer attitude, triumphant as we leave here today.
And knowing no matter what the devil's strategy may be, Lord, you've already won. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Would you please be seated? A living stone.
The resurrection is the foundation of Christianity. Everything we believe as Christian hinges on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Paul, in addressing the church at Corinth, apparently, some of them were, being, you know, lied to. They were listening to Fox News or whatever, and people are saying that, hey. Jesus really isn't resurrected from the dead, man.
And, we've got a chip that we're gonna put in everybody's head, and we're gonna be transhuman, and we're gonna live forever. And, you know, you can't rely upon Jesus. That's so antiquated. That's so out of scope. You know?
Well, verse 12. Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? So believers, they start out believing in the very heart of the gospel, Jesus risen from the dead. Well, how is it now you don't believe in the resurrection? Who who bewitched you as he's speaking to the church of Galatia?
You know, he speaks like that. Who who who who seduced you? You know, who came along and changed your mind? Didn't we go over this? Don't you understand this?
Isn't this the bedrock of everything you believe? So these believers are confused and and, they don't know what to do. And so Paul's trying to address that that confusion. There's 7 consequences, I want you to notice, of no resurrection. Seven consequences of no resurrection.
Number 1, Christ has not risen. Just another dead messiah. Just another dead, you know, religious leader, if you will. A false prophet, he would have to be. Verse 13.
But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen? And yet we see a demonstration of this power in John chapter 11, where Jesus said, I am, the great I am, the ego eimi. I am the resurrection and the life. He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever lives and believes me shall never die.
And he doesn't just walk away from there, leaving Lazarus in the grave. He goes over there and he says, Lazarus, come forth. He's been dead for 4 days. Nobody's ever raised the dead before. The widow of Nain's son, Jairus's daughter.
Eutychus, who fell, Paul preaching long. Dorcas as Peter's able to raise her from the dead. We see Old Testament examples of of the resurrection. New Testament examples. And Jesus, I am the resurrection life.
There's the heart of the gospel. And he demonstrates it. And the the audacity of the religious leaders to treat that as a negative, to treat that as an abomination, imploding in chapter 11 and 12 to assassinate Jesus. I wanna use a different word. They're conspiring.
They're not just conspiracy theorists like the CIA would level you if you questioned the JFK assassination, to marginalize you and to not, you know, use your thinking. These guys are plotting. They're scheming. They're like the devil who's strategizing how to destroy you. Jesus Jesus is able to say in John 2, destroy this temple, not that big temple there, this temple, and in 3 days, I'll raise it up.
A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but there's no sign gonna be given it. But what? The Sunday school sign of the prophet Jonah. As Jonah was 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the son of man be 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth. It's the very foundation of everything we believe.
Everything. So when you're reading the book of Jonah before, you know, if you're an Old Testament person, you're able to read that, read the account, do you get it there? Do you connect the typology that, hey, that one day God's going to raise himself from the dead. He's going to be crucified, buried, and raise himself from the dead. Wouldn't that be amazing?
If you're an Old Testament believer and Jesus hadn't said that yet, but you connected the type, he's sending you back to the old as a type, according to Hosea 12 verse 10. He spoke through the prophets and he spoke through similitudes. And you see that similitude before it happens. We're looking back at it, connecting the dot. Oh, this is what that means.
Oh, Genesis 22. Oh, this is what that means. A father given up his only begotten son. Oh, this is this is John 3 16. Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and he was glad.
The gospel was before preached on Abraham. Oh, the Old Testament saints, they're saved because they believe God will be crucified. That he will become a man, be crucified, buried, and raise him from the dead. So salvation is imputed to them because they're looking future to the cross. And you and I receive salvation, justification, because we're looking back to the cross, his death, his burial, his resurrection, his second coming.
You take the resurrection out of there, what do we got? We got nothing. We gotta we we gotta he he's not risen. It's over. We're of all men most miserable, like verse 19 says.
We're with no hope. Who are you gonna hope in? You're gonna have all the charlatans and all the false prophets and all the whispers coming along telling you, I've got a way. I've got a an idea, ideological way, a philosophy, a creed for you to follow. Follow me.
Follow this way. And yet Jesus claims that I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. No man comes to the father but by me.
No man can come down to me, Jesus said in John chapter 6, except the father which has sent me, draw him, and I'll raise him up in the last day. So it transfers. It goes from him raising himself from the dead, and that you hope in him that he's gonna raise you from the dead. So what's the what's the result of that? You don't fear death anymore.
Death, for you, is just moving out of this body, in your new glorified body. When Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are in the fiery furnace, they don't fear the king. You do your best. You give me your worst, king. Our God is able.
And even if he doesn't, we still won't bow down to you. That's how I want to be. I want to be like VeggieTales. I want to be in my faith, so solid in what I believe, that no matter who comes along to try and snatch or steal the hope that I have, I said, no. I've been to Sunday school.
This is a Sunday school truth during COVID. This isn't complicated. It's all about a childlike faith in the true and living God. Keep it simple. Our God is risen.
He's risen indeed. Just empty promises if he's dead. Christ is not risen is one of the consequences. The second is our preaching is vain. Verse 14.
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain. So we've got not only empty promises, but now we got an empty message. The resurrection provides credibility. In Acts chapter 7, the Apostle Paul was drawn to Athens. And he went up on to Mars Hill.
And this is where all the thinkers, the philosophers, the Greeks were lovers of philosophy, lovers of knowledge, lovers of wisdom. And Paul went up there and he was grieved because he saw the city wholly given over to idolatry. And so Paul began to try and connect and quoting with his intellectual prowess, being a Roman citizen, being a Pharisee of Pharisees, raised at the feet of Gamaliel. So he understood Jewish culture. He understood Roman culture.
He understood Greek culture. So he begins to quote the Epicurean philosophers under these guys. No problem being a reader. Are you a reader? You wanna read concerning some of the great writings of all of history?
Great. God can use it. You love science? You're great with science? God can use you.
You're Wilbur Smith. You know? God can use you in great ways. Paul's a great intellect. So he tries to connect with men who are seeing themselves as intellectuals, the philosophers of the age.
But they're really kind of strange. The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God because they've taken and they've created God into these gold and silver and wood idols. And Paul says, as he's preaching the gospel to these guys there, you know, God winked at you guys before. He winked. He looked the other way because you're ignorant, because Christ wasn't crucified, buried, and raised from the dead yet.
But now, you're responsible. You're responsible because as he told king Ngerba, this wasn't done in a corner. This was done publicly and you all know about it. You all know that he was crucified, buried, and raised from the dead. You can't ignore this truth.
It wasn't done in a corner. Openly. The whole world knows. At the time of this reading. They certainly know.
And so Paul says in acts 17 verse 30, the times of this ignorance, God winked at the ignorance of your idolatry. But now commanded all men everywhere to repent. It's interesting as you look at the this message today, and as you think in terms of the book of acts, how many times the resurrection is used by all of the, the disciples. Over and over and over again, the emphasis upon the resurrection. But also over and over and over again, the emphasis upon repentance.
Because of the resurrection, you have a greater responsibility now to repent of your sins. It's not slippery, agape or sloppy, agape or the grace card and a license to sin. No. You have a greater responsibility to live a life of holiness because of the resurrection from the dead. Not less holy, more holy.
Not legalism. Love. Your responses is a response of love because he he was willing to die for you and he raised himself from the dead. He says, verse 31 of acts 17, because he has appointed a day. There's a day, an appointment.
It's appointed at an all men wants to die and then the judgment. Because he's appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained, whereof he has given assurance. How can I know? How can I know this is the man? Wherefore, he's given assurance unto all men in that he raised him from the dead.
Hey, Bill. You got a lot of ideas about my food. You got a lot of ideas about reducing the population and messing with the mosquitoes and messing with everything. Do you think you're a god? Well, prove it.
Be crucified, bury yourself, and raise yourself from the dead, Elon, whoever you are. Noah Yuval Harari? Proud boasters? You wanna start your own religion? You wanna start the religion of the antichrist?
Then you go be crucified. You be buried for 3 days, and you raise yourself from the dead. Let us authenticate. Let us confirm your death by taking a spear and piercing you at the pericardium and blood and water pop out. And then, maybe, if we can see over 300 prophecies, the more sure word of prophecy confirm this event, unprecedented event, never before, all throughout history, counterfeited in the tribulation period with the antichrist, certainly, to deceive, then maybe we'll listen to something you have to say, Bill.
But meanwhile, you're just a demon. You open your mouth and it's demons speaking through you. And everybody knows. But nobody stops you. That's the mind boggling.
Nobody stops them. What did Jesus do that would warrant his execution? Pilate said, I find no fault in them. I can find lots of faults in these globalists today. Unprecedented.
But our Jesus, Innocent. Perfect. The power to raise the dead is the authority to judge. A message with a dead god is a dead empty message. A dead God has no power to create.
You remember Romans 1. In Romans 1, Paul expresses that the whole world is without excuse simply because of the revelation that God brings through creation. Well, we've got an even greater revelation than that of creation. The creator is also the redeemer, the one who is crucified, buried, and raised himself from the dead. We go a step further.
He's coming again. Do you believe he's coming again? If you can believe in the resurrection, if you can believe in the ascension, why can't you believe he's coming again? Does Paul need to write a letter to us? Hey, church.
At the end of the age, you know, you did okay. But why is it you're listening to these people that talk about he's not coming again? You lost your hope. Why are you listening to these people to say there's no rapture of the church? Why?
When it was commanded of God, to raise the dead. In Revelation 2012 through 13, the dead are gonna be raised before the great white throne judgment, the wicked dead. They're gonna stand before God. They're give give an account of what they did while they're in their body, whether good or bad. God's gonna play the film.
And their punishment is gonna be based upon the rejection of Jesus Christ. The only way people get into hell is not because they're sinners, but because they've rejected the provision for their sin. They rejected Jesus Christ. He died for the sins of the whole world, but especially for those who believe. You and I, our sins are obliterated.
They're east to the west, remembered no more because of the blood of Jesus Christ. No record of wrong, blotted out. No debits, only credits. It is finished to tell us that I paid in full. Your account's paid in full for all eternity.
You'll never face condemnation. You'll never face the wrath of God, because the wrath was poured out upon his only begotten son in your place. There's such liberty, such freedom as the devil seeks to destroy your mind and your heart through condemnation. That's not God speaking. The Holy Spirit reminds us of the cross.
Of Jesus took that punishment. It's not a works relationship, it's a love relationship. And the work is complete. He completed it. He doesn't leave it up to you and I.
And so they stand before God and they give account of what they did while they're in their body, whether good or bad. And knowledge brings responsibility to much is given, much is required. In Luke 12, it's a graduated punishment. Some are beaten with few stripes and some many stripes. Seven consequences of no resurrection.
Number 1, Christ has not risen. Number 2, your preaching is vain. Number 3, your faith in Christ is vain. And your faith is also vain. James tells us in James 2 20, faith without works is is dead.
It's a dead faith. What are you believing? You believing in the Sermon on the Mount? Are you believing in the golden rule? Is your belief in the intellectual consent that Christianity is moral, ethical, virtuous?
Is it a creed, a code, a way to live by? Is it better than Sharia law? Existentialism, humanism, whatever other ism that's out there that you're being drawn there unto. Christianity is belief in a person, not a creed, not a philosophy. It's not an ideology.
Christianity is belief in Jesus, belief in a person. Why am I a political atheist? Oh, boy. Here we go. I thought he was gonna leave it out.
I thought he wouldn't go there today. The reason I'm a political atheist is because every time their lips are moving, they're lying. I'm tired of being lied to. They do not deliver. In contrast, Jesus keeps his promises.
He keeps every promise. I've got a promise jar, and he's keeping them all. The one that wasn't in that jar that I bought is all they that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. That doesn't sell. If they've hated me, they're gonna hate you.
That one wasn't in there either. Your enemies be those of your own household. That wasn't in that promise jar that I bought. I brought it from Joel Osteen. He said I'd have my best life now.
I like watching Pollyanna, you know. I want the grace the grace verses, you know. I want those big cakes at that picnic, man. That's what I want. I want life to be like that.
What is your ism? What is your belief system? Maybe it's capitalism. Maybe at this point in the election cycle, it's all about the economy. It's all about the greatness of America, the dollar, the stock market, amassing money.
Just make money. Free trade, stock market, Federal Reserve Bank. That's what it's about, man. That's what's made us great. Free trade.
Work hard, build something, invent something, sell it, enjoy the abundance, and have the de facto global currency, the dollar from the Bretton Woods agreement after World War 2. What's happening to that dollar? It's imploding. It's a controlled demolition. What's gonna happen when it finally crashes?
Your belief system is gonna be destroyed. Your capitalism is gonna be in ashes. Well, that's why I don't believe in capitalism. It's it's selfish. I believe in socialism.
I believe that it's a vote for us. We'll take care of you. Womb to the tomb. Health care. These guys love me.
They're gonna take care of me from the womb to the tomb. All I gotta do is give them a a copy of my DNA and they'll, they'll take care of me. They'll make super drugs to no matter what ailment I have, they're gonna take care of me. Well, these very people you put in trust in consider you useless eaters. They consider you, when you do get in the health care system, as you're older, taking up too much money.
During COVID, they they executed. They killed the elderly during COVID. Irrefutable proof. Vice president Kamala's vice president, he he's he's responsible, as they're pointing out, for many deaths of the elderly as he locked up the, you know, the elderly homes and such. Womb to the tomb.
Yeah. That's what I want. Globalism. I want globalism. The present system doesn't work.
I want a globalism. My ism is globalism. No more nation states. No more borders. No more constitutional republic.
It's unfair for the rest of the world. We want a rebirth of the Roman Empire. We want empirical society. We want 10 technocrats to rule over, to divide the world, the Club of Rome's map, and divide the world of Daniel's toes and Daniel's horns of Daniel 7. And we want Revelation 13 and 17.
We want these kings, these crowns upon their head, to rule and reign, and make decisions for us. I want a universal basic income. I don't wanna have to work anymore. I want more time to game. I want them to determine what bugs I should eat.
The Tower of Babel, the League of Nations, the United Nations, the goal is genocide. The goal is genocide. The new world order. A counterfeit messianic age with Jesus in ruling and reigning. It's setting the stage for the Antichrist in place of Jesus Christ.
I want to go on record. I went on record before telling you I wasn't gonna vote for Trump. I changed my mind. I wanna go on record, you knowing that in my van out there, and there's stickers on the van proved that I voted. When I was walking in today, Kathy says, Rick, somebody put I voted stickers on our van.
Are they mocking us? No. I put them there. We voted, honey. You signed it.
Okay. But I want to go on record and let you know that I voted for Donald j Trump. Now you can put your MAGA hats on. Cheers. Let's have a party.
It's over. The suffering's over. We're gonna make America great. How many people do you think this week are going to be celebrating on Tuesday, and they find out Donald Trump's been appointed? I use the word appointed president.
Oh, there's going to be euphoria. The stock market's going to go up. Everyone will be so excited. The focus is America. And then those 30,000,000 people that came in, who are in the hotels right now just waiting, are gonna be unleashed against this country.
Chaos is gonna ensue. The dollar's gonna continue to crash. The stock market's gonna crash. Bedlam. We could even be hit by some foreign nukes, because our government refuses to back down from Russia, continues to poke the bear.
Insanity in Ukraine. Insane. And guess what? Kathy, remind me on the way here, if you go to the grocery store right now, there's this huge list at Fred Meyer of things that have been recalled. Things like sandwich meat.
Things like, today she said, bottled water. Why would they wanna recall bottled water? Because your government's prepared to go underground. They're stocking up underground. And in case you don't know it, there's called DUMs, Deep Underground Military Bases all over America.
Elon Musk improved the ability to make tunnels. P Diddy had tunnels going over to the Playboy Mansion and all over LA with their pedophilia. And he documented and took pictures and videos. And everybody needs it to all go away. They need all their crimes to go away.
So they're going underground. Why? Because above ground what's gonna happen above ground? Chaos, crisis, reaction, solution. What's the solution?
I voted for the solution. Donald Trump's the solution. The great reset. I believe voting for Donald Trump means Jesus can come back sooner. Because Donald Trump's gonna sell the world artificial intelligence.
He's gonna sell the world the central bank digital currency. He's gonna sell the world the digital ID, the digital vax ID. It's coming. Nothing's gonna stop it. He's not gonna make America great.
He's the salesman for the globalists. And he's surrounded with tech giants. 1 Republican person around here, supposed to be a big Republican, says, we haven't vetted JD Vance. We don't know who he is. Well, isn't that interesting?
Who is JD Vance? JD Vance has been promoted by Peter Thiel. Who's Peter Thiel? Peter Thiel is the maker of PayPal, which Elon Musk just bought. These are tech giants.
Why Zuckerberg? Why is JD Vance? Why is, you know, all of the tech giants surrounding Donald J. Trump now? Because they know AI is exploding.
The present system is imploding and artificial intelligence is exploding. That's the future. That's the beast system. So by me voting for the beast system, I'm voting for the soon return of Jesus Christ. Because I know that beast system, in its development stage, I don't know how long it's going to take develop.
But Jesus said, when you see these things begin to come to pass, the birth pangs of globalism, a one world religion, a one world you hear Bill Gates talking about we need a one world religion? What's he know about religion? He wants an AI religion. One world religion, one world monetary system, and a one world governmental system. You gotta implode America.
You gotta take America out of the way. There's no going back to normal. There's no putting our hope in this politician that he's gonna be able to deliver. Now, if he was crucified, if that bullet went a little further and went through his head, and we could document he's dead, and then he brought himself back 3 days later, boy, he'd get my attention. But that little movie stunt with and then that theatrical blood on the cheek that, oh, he's healed a day later, that stuff, that's a con.
Those are those are crisis actors involved. Those are means of deception and don't think they haven't done it all throughout our lifetime. The official narrative of 911 is a fallacy. It's a fable. And once you know the reality of building 7 falling at 5:20 in the evening, and no planes hit it, your head explodes.
How could my own government do that? But then your eyes are open. You know their playbook. It's all about deception, deceiving us. You're one wackadoodle, Pastor Rick.
I know. All I want you to do is, 6 months from now, think about what I'm telling you and think about who is the wackadoodle. Christianity is simply, believe in Jesus, his death, his burial, his resurrection, his second coming. It's so simple. Seven consequences of no resurrection.
Number 1, Christ is not risen. Number 2, your preaching is vain. Number 3, faith in Christ is vain. Number 4, all witnesses and preachers are liars. Yay.
And we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised? So we're liars. We stole the body. But if you stole the body, why would you be willing to die for a lie?
Because you know where the body is hidden. But because you know he really is risen, it's the opposite. You don't fear death. You know there's no swoon theory. You know that he didn't swoon and then the cool of the tomb caused him to resuscitate.
It's not a resuscitating. This is a resurrection. He's dead. He's dead. He's dead.
He's dead. And we lost all hope when the shepherd was smitten. We scattered. And it wasn't until after the resurrection that even his own brothers, who thought he was mad, as we covered last week, believed in him. So we're not false witnesses.
We're eyewitnesses. We handled him. And in Acts, chapter 1, as Luke is describing to Theophilus, these many infallible proofs, as Jesus is resurrected, and he's seen of many for 40 days. We handled them. We're there with them.
For 40 days 40 nights after his resurrection, he's there with the early church, a 120 assembled in the upper room. And he says, You're gonna be my witnesses, my martyrs in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the uttermost parts of the world. And all through the book of Acts and all through church history, people have been testifying, witnessing of their relationship with Jesus. All I know is I was a drunk and now I'm sober. I was a womanizer and God God delivered me.
As an alcoholic, as a as an anger raging maniac, and God delivered me. He changed me. I was blind, and now I can see. I was deaf. I couldn't hear anything, but now I can hear.
Irrefutable evidence of the power of God to transform and change a person's life. The devil wants to try and counterfeit it with technology, but we have witness, after witness, after witness of people over and over. All throughout history, we were transformed and changed. If any man be in Christ, he's a new creation. The old things are passed away.
All things are become new. Some of us have a BC, before Christ. And some of us, we can't remember when we got saved. It was so early on. But for those of us that have a BC, there's a stark contrast of who we were before, and who he's making us presently, and who he's making us into.
Our appetites have changed. Our desires have changed. He's changing me from the inside. It's not a religious effort. It's a work of the Holy Spirit of transforming and changing me from glory to glory in the image of Christ.
It's all him. It's all his powers. It's all for his glory. No man can pluck me out of his hand. He's gonna complete that work he's begun in me.
It's his idea to save me, not mine. I wasn't looking for him. He found me. I was lost and now I'm found. God chose me.
Why me? To be a witness. To be one of his witnesses. In Acts 232, this Jesus has God raised up. So Pentecost happens, crowds are gathering, and Peter stands up to preach.
This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we are all witnesses. In Acts 4:33, with great power, gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace. I want that great grace upon them all. I want that great grace. Not a little bit of grace.
I want great grace in these last days. I need that great grace on this congregation of people, God's unmerited favor. We need it. We need all that we can get. They're walking by the guy that had been impotent, couldn't walk for laying on his feet for 40 years at the Pool of Siloam.
And nobody can pick him up and take him in there when the water begins to move and all. Silver and gold, have we none? And he's begging for alms. That's his existence. Peter and John walking by, Silver and gold, have we none?
It's not Church Inc. Not yet. Church Incorporated, driven by money. They got the witness. They got the power, the power that Jesus promised.
You're gonna receive power when the Holy Ghost comes upon you. The appeal experience of the Holy Spirit, acts 18, Silver and gold have we none, but in the name of Jesus Christ, stand up and walk. He's standing up and walking. It causes a huge commotion with the religious leaders and everybody in the Jerusalem area. They can't refute that Jesus has risen from the dead.
They can't refute that miracles are happening. There's so much proof. And these guys are just fishermen. They aren't the professionals. Who gave them the privilege and the go to to be doing this and preaching his name here?
Then they beat these guys, incarcerate them, tell them, don't speak anymore in his name in this city. And they said, we're gonna obey God rather than men. You can't silence us, Hillary. We're gonna shout louder. You tell us, Jay, that we can't sing, we're gonna sing louder.
You tell us we can't have communion, we're gonna have it every week now. I used to joke back then, how do you know what the truth is in this time of great lies? Just do the opposite of what they're telling you. Were they just liars? Were they just politicians?
Were they magicians? Were they sorcerers? How did they move the people? How did they get the people to believe and follow Jesus? Did they all die for a lie?
Did they give up everything to spread a lie? No. He's risen. He's risen indeed. Seven consequences of no resurrection.
Christ is not risen, number 1. Your preaching is vain, number 2. Your faith in Christ is vain, number 3. 4, all witnesses and preachers are liars. And number 5, the 5th consequences, consequence of no resurrection.
We're yet in our sins. We're still the filthy, wretched sinners. We know we are. Paul says in me that is my flesh dwells no good thing. I'm still incomplete.
I'm still not good enough to approach a just and a holy God. It's an imputed righteousness at this point. One day, he's gonna complete that work he's begun. One day, I'll be perfected and have that new glorified body and get rid of this old corpse, this old nature, this old fallen, endemic nature that keeps tormenting me. If I'm in Romans 7, the things I want to do, I don't do.
The things I don't want to do, I do. And when I live in the spirit, in Romans 8, I overcome sin. In Romans 6, sin shall not have dominion over me. I'm not a slave to sin anymore, but there's sure a battle in Galatians 5, between the flesh and the spirit. But I'm discovering that God's work in my heart and life is even greater than the desire of the flesh to sin.
There's a greater working within me of the Holy Spirit to draw me into conformity, to draw me into relationship of love. I've tasted. I've seen that the Lord is good. There's nothing else that satisfies. This world has nothing to offer anymore.
It's Jesus. It's fellowship with him that I might know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, be made conformable unto his death, Paul would say. That's the gist of my life. Not to be the Pharisee of Pharisees. Not to be the next high priest.
Not those ambitious things I once, you know, held to. I just wanna know him. I still can't understand why he arrested me on the road to Damascus. I'm the chiefest of sinners. I'm a blasphemer.
I wasted his church. Why me? Why would you choose me to be a chosen vessel to show him what things he must suffer for my namesake? It doesn't add up. And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain.
You're getting your sins. So death wins. Sin buries us. Sin condemns us. In Romans 425, he says, who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification.
A dead savior can't save me. He can't save me from myself. My greatest enemy is myself. My excuses, my lame excuses, the blame game. Everyone else is at fault.
Not me. It's all about me. Give me a self help message. I'm a good guy and was raised again for our justification. A dead savior can't save me.
He can't save me from my sins. The proof that his sacrifice was sufficient to pay for all of our sins is the resurrection. He could say it's finished. He could promise, hey, when I go to heaven, I'm gonna come back and get you. But will he deliver?
How do we know he'll deliver? Because of the resurrection. Because he did as he promised. Destroy this temple in 3 days. I'll raise it up.
And he did. Everything he promised us, he's fulfilled. There's more promises, more to come. That's the study of prophecy. One third of the Bible's prophecy.
Why wouldn't we be excited about the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and savior? Why would we diminish or minimize the second coming of Christ for his church, for his bride? Only one reason, you're more in love with the world. If you don't love this world, if you're disgusted with your own sinfulness, if you're disgusted with the pedophilia and the sinfulness of this culture in this world, There's only one answer. Lord, come quick.
Lord, we can't stop it. It's only getting worse. Lord, we're human beings. We we we it's it's in our nature to sin. And Jesus took on the form of a man, the son of man, a human being, not an angel.
And he was perfect. And he lived a perfect life. And he went to the cross as the last Adam, as our representative, because the little g God of this world, the devil, the prince of power of the air, is leading and guiding these unbelievers into suicide. A suicidal attempt to force Jesus not to return, to not come back, to annihilate the nation of Israel, that he has no Israel to come back to and restore, trying to destroy the DNA of human beings. My faith in his death, his burial, his resurrection is imputed.
It's an accounting term in the ledger. Imputed rather than debits, sins, missing the mark. It's imputed as righteousness, as justification, as just as if I've never sinned. The just shall live by faith. Justification, Romans 1, by faith.
I'm justified just as if I've never sinned. Faith in a dead savior? No. Is a dead savior is one rejected of God. There's no atonement, no one man, no day of Yom Kippur, no day of reconciliation, being reconciled on to God.
When we were dead in our sins and trespasses, when we were enemies of God, Christ died for us. No communion. No answer to the prayer of Jesus in John 17 that we'd be one with the father, even as he and the father are 1. Adam. Adam.
Where are you, Adam? What happened to the walking in the cool of the garden cool of the day in the garden together? What happened to the sweet fellowship we were enjoying, Adam? What happened? Think about it, Adam.
Think for a minute. Think of what you just gave up. For a little Washington apple? No. Beautiful Washington apple.
I wrote a book on it. It was an apple. It was I have to find my book. Cain Cain's offering was rejected. Abel's was received.
Esau was rejected. Jacob was received. King Saul was rejected, apostate, resisting God. David was received a broken man before God. Are you yet in your sins?
Is your savior dead? Maybe a dead politician. Impotent, powerless, dead promises. How many times in these election cycles do you hear the promises, the dead promises of these politicians? How many times do you hear the lame excuses of why they can't drain the swamp, deep state, and all these new terms you never heard before that are brought out into the public square to lie.
Jesus never lies. The immutability of God is impossible for him to lie because he's God. Oh, we don't expect these politicians to be gods. We just expect them to keep one promise. Just one.
Just arrest one of them. Start with Hillary. Just one. 1. It's never gonna happen.
Because if you arrest her, then she talks about all the Republicans and all the pedophile and all the stuff they've been doing. The left, the Dems, aren't the only evil people on the planet. Get a clue. They're all involved. When one head rolls, they're all gonna roll.
That's why they're going underground. It's the people that are the threat. It's the truth that's a threat. It's exposure that's a threat. And you and I have the truth.
We expose the lies. We expose the false belief systems. We point people to Jesus. He opens their hearts and lives. And we get him ready for his soon return.
We can't fix what's broken in our society. We can't fix it. We can fight the good fight locally. We can continue to occupy till he comes and do what we can. But we gotta vet every person.
We gotta take every promise they make. We gotta hold them accountable. You said this In the city of Huntington Beach, and I know in Kitsap County, there's a lot of people doing a great job here with sheriffs and county commissioners and such. Just because at the federal level, it's it's a conquered kind of a ugliness. In Huntington Beach, they have 3 city council persons that, work for Gavin Newsom, their governor, and trying to do the stack and pack and destroy the city of Huntington Beach.
So what Huntington Beach does is they recognize those 3 guys. They expose them and they raise up 3 new candidates that are gonna replace them. Pastor Jack Hibbs does a great job in that if there's any school boards or any legislation in Sacramento that's about to come and and hit the people, he and his people expose that legislation, bring it out into the forefront so everyone knows. Because they like to slide this legislation through with nobody knowing it. And they expose the lies.
They expose what's going on. And guess what? They pull that legislation for one more cycle. They wait for people to go back to sleep. So exposure is the key.
Getting the truth out there is the key, because they love the darkness. They love, like, cockroaches to do their stuff behind the scenes. It's amazing how in the forefront they are presently with their evil. Like, you can't stop us. It's over.
But we don't need to give into that. Our God at the 11th hour is able to bring a reprieve. I know that to be true. I know that God could bring a revival of souls, of people getting saved in a radical way. It may be through pain.
It may be through the breakdown of America. But the real goal is souls. It's people getting saved. In a time of prosperity, people go to sleep. It may take a time of persecution to awaken the church and cause the church to be more militant against evil, standing against evil, hating evil, and loving that which is good, rather than compromising.
How could you possibly compromise with the candidate that says, we're for abortion for 15 weeks? Why would you acquiesce? Why not be like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? Why not say, no negotiation? It's God's way or the highway.
We didn't elect you to act like this. We're gonna replace you. And if things need to get worse before they get better, so be it. But we're gonna raise up some candidates that'll actually keep their promises, because this isn't working. Jesus keeps his promises.
These guys are impotent. They're powerless. They're dead promises. Are you trusting in one man to make America great again? What demonstration of power has he demonstrated?
If he can't raise himself up, how can he raise a nation up? Jesus raised up the nation of Israel on May 14, 1948. He not only raised himself up, but according to Ezekiel 36 and 37, he took a dead nation in a valley of dry bones and raised the nation of Israel up from the dead. Unprecedented in history. In Jeremiah 31, he has an unconditional covenant coming for them where he's gonna cause a remnant to be born again.
They don't know him. They've been regathered, for the most part, in unbelief. But don't be ignorant of this, that blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in. When the rapture when the church is complete and the rapture takes place, a 77 of Daniel springs into action. The final 70th period of time in dealing with the nation of Israel, of the 70 sevens, destroy this temple and in 3 days, I'll raise it up.
And I don't even really need them to raise himself from the dead. I just need them to do something that's humanly possible, which is what? Arrest one of them. Is there no more rule of law? Is there no constitutional republic?
You mean it's impossible to arrest one of them? You arrested all the j 6 people. And you forbid anybody to talk about it. You didn't pardon the j 6 people. Your Republicans just stood on your hands and didn't fix the voting machines or anything of the fraud of the previous election.
And you have the audacity to blame the Christians that they're not voting. You're like Nero lighting the city on fire and blaming the Christians. It's not the Christians' fault. It's the corruption in the representatives. Just the rest won.
Let us have one victory to give us hope, and that you guys are gonna do what you promised to do. It's insanity. But I'm secure because I know that Jesus keeps his promises. And I know prophetically that America has to go by the wayside. I know prophetically that Jesus is coming.
I know the Beast system is on the horizon. It's close. So I'm not gonna be putting my hope in dead men and dead promises, thinking there's gonna be a return to the glory days of America, when the very government I'm trusting is the very government treasonly destroying this country. As they say, wake up and smell the coffee, baby. Wake up.
Been believing too many lies. Seven consequences of no resurrection. 1, Christ has not risen. 2, preaching is vain. 3, faith in Christ is vain.
4, all witnesses and preachers are liars. Number 5, you're yet in your sins. Number 6, dead believers are eternally condemned to hell. Verse 18, then they also, which are fallen asleep in Christ, are perished. Abraham and Sarah are in hell if the dead rise not.
Remember Abraham's bosom in Luke 16? He's in a place, a double compartment called Sheol or Hades in the Greek. He's in the grave. But Jesus told the thief on the cross, this day he'll be with me in paradise. Abraham's bosom is a place of comfort.
They're awaiting the crucifixion. They're awaiting the payment for their sins. The righteousness imputed to them is by faith. They're looking future. But on the other side of the compartments, the rich man in a place of grievous torment.
Jesus, according to Ephesians 4, emptied out Abraham's bosom. He that ascended 1st descended to lower parts of the earth and emptied that compartment out. Abraham and Sarah are not in hell. Noah, Job, Moses, Joshua, Caleb, Ruth, Boaz, David, Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah. They're not in hell.
But they would be if Christ wasn't resurrected from the dead. In 1st Thessalonians 413, the church of Thessalonica, they got a prophecy lesson. 3 weeks time, Paul spending with them. And guess what? They're old enough to learn prophecy.
This baloney that, oh, you know, prophecy is too hard to understand. We can't teach prophecy in the last days. Why? Because the people might get excited about the return of Jesus. But these guys are 3 weeks old and Paul's given them a good prophecy lesson.
I would not have you to be ignorant. So don't be ignorant of prophecy. Don't be ignorant of the rapture. Don't be ignorant of the book of Revelation. Do you know that Rick Warren purposely made an effort to dummy down the church?
In the 20 some years since he removed the teaching of the Bible, it's not creeds, he said, it's deeds, social justice, good things you do in a community, which we should do both, which James would say is the works, the fruit that comes from belief. You say you believe God? Faith without works is dead. The works is the good things we do. But we don't do the good things to become Protestant Catholics and trust in those good deeds to get us into heaven.
There has to be a belief in Jesus. In his death, his burial, his resurrection, and his second coming. And that's why the church can't discern today. It's been 20 some years of dumbing down the church. This lesson here, this is comprehensive enough that it's probably one of the first times you've heard these truths presented in this way.
And yet so simple. Anybody could understand, but you can have to think. Right? But we don't want to think. We we want the pastor to bring it around to where I get warm fuzzies.
This is hard to take. No, it's not. It's easy to take. It's exciting, if you look at it the right way. We're having Easter today.
There's no bunnies. There's no eggs. But it's Easter. He's risen. He's risen indeed.
And that's the heart of the gospel. Dead believers are eternally condemned to hell. Then they also, which are fallen asleep in Christ, have perished. I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren. The church of Thessalonica thought that the believers that were already dead weren't gonna participate in the joy and the blessing of the second coming of Christ.
That they were already asleep, that they died. They missed it. I would not have to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep. And he uses this term in that their body is asleep, but to be absent with the bodies, to be present with the Lord. So the early church began to haul burial places, cemeteries.
Cemeteries are only for believers, not unbelievers. There's no rest for the wicked. Cemetery means a dormitory or a resting place. And many of those who are and we could talk about cremation or bodily burial. But many would be buried so that their hips, their face is facing east, because Jesus is coming from the east.
So I'm gonna wake and I would go this way. The dead in Christ rise first, facing the Lord when he comes with the clouds. So a dormitory, a resting place, but there's no rest for the wicked. So they're asleep in the sense that their body's asleep, but to be asked when the body be present with the Lord, that you sorrow not even as others which have no hope. So the unbeliever has no hope.
They have no hope of eternal life. They have no hope of Jesus coming for them. They have no savior. They have no conquering king. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, them also, which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him.
For this, we say unto you now notice, not Rick's opinion. For this we say into you by the word of the Lord. Paul's saying, I have the authority. I receive this directly by word of the Lord. This is the authority I'm standing on here.
So when you hear people say, oh, there's no resurrection or excuse me, no rapture. Paul said, I'm saying this with the authority of the Lord, that there's gonna be a rapture. Well, rapture is not even in the bible. Neither is the Trinity. Neither is the word bible.
So if you're trying to read Latin in an English translation to find rapturus, you're not going to find it. You'll see caught up. If you read the Latin Vulgate, the word rapturus is there, translated into English rapture. If in Greek, it's harpazo. The truth is in the bible.
And what a glorious truth. For this, we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we, which are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them that are asleep. So we're alive and we remain. We're in Christ. Those in Christ, it's a it's a phrase not referring to the Old Testament saints, but for the church age, those in Christ.
We're not gonna perceive them or prevent them. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. Jesus is gonna descend from heaven with a shout. With the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God. This word trump of God again, the false prophets and people that don't study the Bible, they'll say, see, he's coming, but he's not coming till the trumpet judgments, which is halfway through the tribulation.
No. This is the Tecahedea. This is, if anybody who this church at Thessen, I could be familiar with, a Jewish feast of trumpets. The Tecahedea is the last thrust of the trumpet, the long, elongated thrust, the last trump. The trump of God.
And the dead in Christ shall rise first. So all those that died before you guys that are asleep, they're gonna rise up first. Then we, which are alive and remain, shall be caught up. There's your word, harpazo. Latin, rapturus.
We translate rapture a lot of times. Caught up is fine. Together with him in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so should we ever be with the Lord. So our hope is a lively hope. Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you onto myself that where I am, there you may be also. Location, location, location. He's in heaven preparing a place for you. Pray always that you may be accounted worthy to escape these things. What things?
The tribulation period. And then stand before the Son of God. You're gonna be raptured to heaven for the ceremony, for the reward ceremony. The Lord lavishing at the Bemassee judgment, his gifts upon his bride. What's wrong with that hope?
Our hope's a lively hope and a risen savior. The 7th consequence of there being no resurrection is Christians would be the most miserable people on the earth. Are you one of the most miserable people on the earth? Are you filled with joy? The early church was known and marked by the unbelievers recalled how much they loved one another, how much they loved God, and what great joy.
They went away rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer for his name's sake. Paul and Silas at midnight, after having been beaten, what are they doing? Oh, I didn't sign up for this. I don't like this. The formula I was falling said I'd have my best life now.
They were singing, weren't they? They brought the house down and the shackles came off him and the jailer was gonna kill himself. And they said, no. And all the prisoners stayed there. All the gates were open.
They could all fled. Why didn't they flee? Because there's something greater than their own instinct for safety and self preservation happening there. God was manifesting his presence through his 2 witnesses as they're singing on the Lord. They'd never heard guys be beaten and sing like that.
And Richard Wurmbrand, he describes being in a Romanian cell, the same thing. They would take the chains and bring them into rhythm and they'd sing as their captives there. And as the communists were overtaking Romania and the, Romanian government was trying to squash the church, demoralize it, and destroy it. Wernbrand stayed down so that he could survive. And his wife is elbowing him.
You got to stand up for Jesus. You got to stand up for Jesus. And I'm paraphrasing now. But if I do, you may never see me again. And she said, well, I certainly don't want to be married to a coward.
And he stood up, and she stood up. And their family suffered greatly. The joy and the blessing of being persecuted for the truth, being persecuted for righteousness, Total different way of thinking than we think in our Christianity. Our Christianity is for me. Our Christianity is God's gonna raise up a guy and make America great.
That's our Christianity. A selfish Christianity. Even a guy that may not even be a Christian, posturing as a Christian. And, oh, we wanna believe it. Oh, it's gotta be true.
Because after all, God wouldn't want me to suffer. Jesus is an American, don't you know? The audacity. We have all men are most miserable. Living on the fence is miserable.
Get caught in the middle, living for the world and for Jesus is miserable. You don't wanna be lukewarm caught in the middle. You gotta decide. You're either for me or against them. Either gathering with them or you're scattering abroad.
You're the saint or you're an ape. And the pressure that's coming against us is gonna manifest who we are. Those who can take it and those that can't. Those who are dead already and those who are seeking to save their life. And Jesus said, whoever seeks to save his life is gonna lose it.
And whosoever loses life for my sake shall find it. Your life is hidden Christ. You die daily. You're living for life. You're living for self.
If he's not risen, you're of all men most miserable. We're delusional. We're deceptive. We're depressed. What do I hope in?
A better world without Jesus? Am I looking for the antichrist to come in a Utopian age of believe how you want? Believe in the devil? Luciferian belief system? Am I looking for the 3rd Reich?
The AI, artificial intelligence that's coming? The strife, the contention, the wars, the economic collapse, the FEMA camps, the police state, the drones, the famine, pestilence, divorces, destruction of the family, the very fabric of society, the pain of a loveless existence, the demonic Luciferians in power. The best that we can hope in this life is a beautiful godly marriage or a godly singleness being married to Christ. Children, homes, jobs, vacations. And at the very best it's all temporal.
It's all temporal but it's good stuff. We all love it. I love it but it's temporal. The Lord giveth, the Lord take it away. Be ready when he takes it away.
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity and vexation of spirit, Solomon said. Where will I spend eternity? Oh, we're getting to the root of it now. Here's the most important, where will I spend eternity? A very haunting question, if the dead rise not.
Job asked in Job 14:14, if a man die, will he live again? When we do funerals, we love to sugarcoat the funerals. We love to paint the picture that everybody goes to heaven. He's a good guy. There's none righteous.
No, not one. I love preaching a funeral. I love a funeral where it's very difficult people to lie. Sometimes they you think you hate me? Boy, they they really hate me.
It's like, you can't say that here. Sometimes they try and interrupt when you're getting to the cross, when you're getting to the crux of the gospel. They just so hate it. Why would I do a funeral, not preach the gospel, not call people to Christ? Those that are saved, it's joy.
It's blessing. Good to hear. But those who know the inevitability of judgment, they don't want to hear about it. They drink like crazy to calm their senses after somebody they love dies. They can't deal with the eventuality of their death, and their judgment, and their eternity in hell.
It haunts them, because he's a dead savior to them. If a man die, will he live again? And then he prayed, Lord, there's no days man. There's nobody to stand in the gap between me and you and to plead my cause. A mediator.
Job is betwixt, betwixt us that that night lay his hand upon us both. And somebody that can bridge the gap. Somebody that could stand on the gap there between me being wretched and you being holy. Who's gonna bridge that gap? Well, there's one mediator between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus, the God man, the son of man.
He's the one that bridges the gap. Who can save me? Who can intercede for me? Who can plead my cause? Who's my defense attorney?
The devil is the accuser of the brethren. He uses the law, the letter of law, to kill. I'm a sinner. I agree. I make no excuse.
I don't justify or rationalize. You're right. You're correct. I've sinned. Now who's there to defend me?
Who's there to help me? And then the defense attorney, Jesus, comes and he holds his hands out in their scarred hands. And he says to the father, the judge, father, they're one of mine. Rick's one of mine. One that I died for.
There's no record of wrongs. And Job in his fits, in his insanity at times, trying to figure out what's going on. Trying to understand the mind of God. God, why would you do this? He says, I know.
I know that I know that I know. In the midst of all this, I know that I know that I know that my redeemer lives and that he shall stand in the latter day upon the earth. Though after my skin worms come to destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God. That's victorious faith. That's faith in the resurrection.
Paul found the answer. He asked different a different question, a different challenge. Notice how he describes who in Romans 833. Who shall lay anything the charge of God's elect? Is it God that justifies?
It's not God charging you. It's the devil. Who is he that condemns? It's not God. It's the devil.
It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Jesus ever lives to make intercession. He's praying for you and I. Our savior's alive. He's making intercession for us, praying for us.
Peter described Jesus in 1st Peter 2 verse 4 as a living stone, disallowed indeed of men. The religious leaders rejected the chief cornerstone, but it's become the head of the corner. A living stone, a stone that's alive, but chosen of God and precious. Ye also are lively stones built upon that massive rock, that chief cornerstone. Your lively stones are built upon a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifice acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
We're an edifice. We're a building of God, not made with hands. We're the church, the bride of Christ, living stones together upon that massive stone. Upon this rock, I'll build my church and the gates of hell not prevail against it. Jesus is the chief cornerstone of Christianity, the very foundation of all that we believe in.
Why? Because he's alive. He's a living stone. And we're the lively stones built upon him. Jesus is the rock, the rock of ages, The rock of our lives are built upon.
The wise man and the foolish man. The wise man builds his house upon Jesus. The foolish man's a hearer of God's word, but not a doer. Doesn't apply what he hears. Selective hearing, that's for somebody else.
That's not for me. The wise man builds his house upon the rock by being a doer of God's word. If God calls you to repentance, you repent now, not tomorrow. You ask God for help. You admit you can't do it without his help.
He is a living God, the living water, the living bread come down from heaven, who made a living way. The veil was rent in 2, his flesh being torn, his life given, his life raised again. He's risen. He's risen. He's risen indeed.
Risen indeed. Is your life built upon Jesus? Who do you base your life upon? Choose life. Choose the living stone.
Vote for Jesus every day. You being here today is a vote for Jesus. Don't wait for 4 years and get all psychotic about voting. How many of those people who are caught up in all that? I've been to some meetings with them.
And I said, Do you attend church? No. Well, you're not voting for Jesus. What's all this we're trying to do? How are you trying to fix all this without Jesus being the foundation?
Every time you attend church, there's a vote for Jesus. Every time you share the gospel, every time you are a doer of his word, there's a vote for Jesus. So you want voting? I voted. And I'm gonna continue to vote.
Voting for these pretenders is just so low. But we paramount it like it's gonna save the world. How about vote for Jesus? How about keep voting for him? Exalt him above all else because he's risen.
He's risen indeed. Let's pray. Father, we thank you. Lord, we're so excited about you. We're We're excited, Lord, that you haven't left us orphans.
You haven't left us in our sins. You haven't left us in that dead condition, but you quickened us. You raise us from the dead. And, Lord, I thank you so much for my salvation. Lord, there's nothing I cherish more than my relationship with you.
Lord, I thank you that you saved my wife, that you've saved many of my family. I thank you that you're saving my grandchildren. You've saved my daughters, my son-in-law, both son in laws. I thank you for those that we've been able the privilege to see you save in our midst over the years. Such a joy, such a blessing.
Thank you that we could be a part of what you're doing in Kitsap County, Lord. Our Jerusalem. We pray as we minister to our Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost through Rumble, or YouTube, or Telegram, or word-of-mouth, or websites. However, your word gets out. We pray it bear much fruit for your kingdom and glory.
We know that your word doesn't come back void. Lord, we're living in the most exciting of times. Help each of us today to know what time it is. Help us to be looking up knowing our redemption draws nigh. Anyone here this morning, you don't have a relationship with Jesus.
You don't know him. He was crucified, buried, raised from the dead. He's coming again. Do you know this hope? Is he your hope?
A God of all hope. Do you know him? Do you know that you know that you know him? Don't live with a question mark over your life. You can be certain as you leave here today that if you died today to be asked when the body be present with the Lord?
Anyone here this morning? Just lift your hand up. We wanna pray with you. Anyone here? As many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God.
He's done all the work and he says, you're gonna reject me or receive me. The ball's in your court. The human responsibility, the awesome power of choice. Choose life. He's the living stone.
Anyone here this morning? Lord, bless you there. Anybody else? Father, thank you. The a there's rejoicing in heaven among the angels when just one sinner repents.
Please pray along these lines. Please pray in this way. Father, thank you for dying on the cross, for sending your son to die on the cross for me. Thank you that my sins are forgiven because you poured out your wrath upon your son. My sins are paid for.
Thank you for his precious blood that continues to wash and cleanse me of all sin. Lord, as I turn from going my own way and I turn back toward you, Lord, I pray you come into my heart and life as I receive you, that you make me knew that you write my name and the lamb's book of life. That Lord, you give me the assurance of salvation, confirmation, my spirit as your Holy Spirit comes within me, bearing witness with your spirit that I'm a child of God. Lord, help me in my marriage, my relationships. Lord, save all those around me.
Use me for your kingdom and glory. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus name, I pray. Amen.