WEBVTT 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:02.799 Yeah, the nuclear. 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:16.000 He asked me if I was staying for this afternoon, and I said, Yes, sir, I planned to, and then he said, We're gonna use you. 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:18.160 I said, Well, I said I was actually just leaving. 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.839 I do ask that you uh pray for us for the time we stand before you. 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:34.079 It's funny, um, I was picking to somebody one time and said, I don't have anything, and I said, Well, you don't need anything right now. 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:41.439 Uh, but sometimes when the Lord gives you stuff, it just overflows and it's just uh more than you can handle at the time you get it. 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:43.920 But I do ask you to pray for us. 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:54.320 This morning, uh, I don't know, our thoughts got stirred along this line, but it's interesting how when we look at things, we look at things from our perspective. 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:57.280 I'll just give you a couple of illustrations just to make the point. 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:06.640 One of the things that I consider is when we lose a loved one, the way we view that is from our perspective. 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:10.239 And it's a very painful thing to endure. 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:22.159 And we always many times think about that from our perspective, but from the Lord's perspective, it says this it says precious in the sight of the Lord's death of saints. 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.640 From our perspective, this is a very sad occurrence. 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:29.519 But from the Lord's perspective, it's precious. 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:30.480 You know why? 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:33.200 Purchased possessions coming home. 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:41.519 Now, I can also tell you this that Jesus Christ is many things and works that was accomplished in Christ. 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:44.879 One is that of the atonement. 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:51.120 The atonement is the payment for the transgression that you and I have made. 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:57.040 And in that, Christ offered himself once to atone for our transgressions. 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:01.439 And the Bible says that he hath forever perfected. 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:06.560 Now, if you didn't understand anything other than that, that means it's forever perfect. 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:06.799 Right. 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:08.639 It'll never not be perfect. 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:09.199 Okay? 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:15.439 Now, the I will use this illustration because this this is this just makes good walking around sense. 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:22.719 This is this is how I always try to make sure people understand just what this means by his work is a perfect work. 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:28.080 One time I was cooking, and if you've eaten any of my foods, you know that I like stuff that's hot. 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:31.199 If it don't make you sweat, probably ain't hot enough. 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:33.280 I I use seasoning. 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:35.759 Uh Emmer Lagossi ain't got nothing on me. 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:38.719 He puts a bam and I'll put a bayow in there. 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:46.960 But the one time I was cooking and Sister Jessica came into the kitchen and she tasted the gumbo and she said, Oh, that's perfect. 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:52.159 Now I was of a different persuasion than Sister Jessica was regarding the gumbo. 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:57.439 So when she left the kitchen, I got the cayenne and did a little byao to there. 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:01.280 And when people came over to the house, she's like, Oh, this is the best gumbo is ever made, you're gonna love it. 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:05.759 And the minute she tasted it, she looked right at me and she said, What did you do? 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:08.400 You see, in her mind it was perfect. 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:15.199 And what I want you to understand about something that is perfect, if it is perfect without the addition or subtraction of anything. 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:23.599 So if it's perfect and you add something to it, then by your work you have made that which was perfect imperfect because you added something to it. 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:29.199 I want you to understand that the work of Christ has forever perfected us and it needs nothing added to it. 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:33.759 And if you try to add something to it, you're gonna make it imperfect and you'll never find any rest for your soul. 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:34.639 Never. 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:39.280 There'll be a labor you'll continue to try to make that you can never accomplish. 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:44.560 There'll be a burden placed upon you that neither you nor your forefathers nor the forefathers before them could bear up under. 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:56.159 But when you understand that there's a rest for the people of God, resting in the completed, finished, perfect work of Jesus Christ, then I'll tell you, brethren, that is a rest that is sweet. 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:03.039 And that rest goes beyond just this work of atonement, because that rest goes beyond to the point that Brother Danny was speaking of this morning. 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:08.400 Jesus Christ gives us this testimony when he says, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:10.960 That's John 6.44, I believe, if I'm not mistaken. 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:13.599 But all that the Father giveth me shall come to me. 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:16.480 I'm going to tell you that every single one. 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:18.560 Now notice what he says here. 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:25.120 All that the Father giveth me, that is possession. 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:27.040 That is possession. 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:29.040 He has a possession of a people. 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:32.480 God the Father gave a people to God the Son. 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:37.040 He says, and all of them that God the Father gave to me shall come to me. 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:42.879 Now I would propose to you, he was speaking of this in 6 and 44, referencing back to John 5. 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:50.079 And in John 5, he says this the hour is coming, and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear have the capacity to live? 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:51.600 No, it doesn't say that. 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:53.120 Can live? 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:54.959 No, it doesn't say that. 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:56.720 It says they shall live. 00:04:57.360 --> 00:04:58.319 They shall live. 00:04:58.639 --> 00:04:59.279 Why? 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:10.399 Because, brethren, I'm going to tell you that the voice that moves one from dead in trespass sin to alive in Christ is the same voice Brother Danny talked about in creation that says, Let there be. 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:14.160 And when God said, Let there be, there was no questions regarding. 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:21.199 And Jesus never chose you, tells you he can do something without giving you proof positive and giving you a fact and displaying that he can do it. 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:26.560 Because after all, in the Old Testament, the test of a prophet is what a prophesied, prophesied, come to pass. 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:28.319 Because if it didn't come to pass, guess what? 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:30.079 They were disqualified as a prophet. 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:33.279 Now, many prophecies had an immediate fulfillment. 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:37.279 For instance, over in Isaiah 46, the immediate fulfillment would have been Osiris. 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:37.680 Right? 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:45.279 But I'm going to tell you that the true fulfillment of that man that comes from the east that executes the counsel of the king, I'm going to tell you that was looking to Jesus Christ. 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:49.040 He is the man that was going to come to execute the purpose, pleasure, and will of God. 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:52.959 And praise God that you'll find the purpose, pleasure, and will of God in Ephesians. 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:54.160 Go read that for yourself. 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:56.720 Laid out and accomplished in Jesus Christ. 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:57.199 Alright? 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:00.160 So he is the one that comes to execute the purpose, pleasure, and will. 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:05.920 The reason I say that is because in John 5 and 25 it says the hour is coming, and now he is and did share the voice of the Son of God, and they that here shall live. 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:09.120 And then you skip on, it says, Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming. 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:10.800 That's in the future at some point in time. 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:14.800 When they that are in the grave shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live. 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:16.160 That's the resurrection. 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:23.439 I will tell you that every child of promise is going to come to him in regeneration and the resurrection without a doubt. 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:24.639 Without a doubt. 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:26.959 Well, what if some didn't believe? 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.160 That doesn't mean all of us are going to come to them in a gospel knowledge, okay? 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:31.439 That's not what he's talking about. 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:33.360 That's not what's under consideration there. 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:34.959 What if some did not believe? 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:41.600 Shall their unbelief, this question is posed in Romans, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect? 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:43.199 For by grace you saved through faith. 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:44.480 That not every says is again. 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.279 Shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect? 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:48.480 God forbid. 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:49.680 God forbid. 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:50.720 You know what? 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:53.680 If we believe not, this is 2 Timothy 3. 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:57.279 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful. 00:06:57.600 --> 00:06:58.720 You know why? 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:01.680 He cannot deny himself. 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:03.439 Wait a minute. 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:05.040 You mean he can't deny himself? 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:06.319 What are you talking about? 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:08.399 Well, I want you to know something, brethren. 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:16.639 Not only were all that the Father gave me, there were a people given to the Son, I'm gonna tell you the Son was given to us. 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:18.399 Isn't that a glorious thing? 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:24.720 You know when you have hope this morning, this afternoon, whatever time it is, Christ in us, the hope of glory. 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:28.959 I'm gonna tell you the reason you have hope, brethren, and hope is not a wistful thought. 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:30.959 It's an earnest expectation. 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:32.720 Hope. 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:35.199 Look at take a scriptural example. 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:41.839 Faith, this is 11.1, Hebrews 11.1, faith is a substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things. 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.600 The reason you have hope is because of faith. 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:46.319 That's right. 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:48.639 Hope is an earnest expectation. 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:54.639 And I'm gonna tell you, the Bible said, I think it's in the fourth Romans, it says, For what a man seeth, what does he yet hope for? 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:56.800 You don't have to hope for that which you see. 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:04.240 That's why in the Corinthian letter, they're at the end of the 13th chapter, I think it is, of the Corinthian letter. 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:07.279 They call that the love chapter, charity chapter. 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:12.879 It says, now abide at these three faith, hope, and charity. 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:15.600 But the greatest of these is charity. 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.000 You know why I think the greatest of them is charity? 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:21.279 Because folks, there's coming a day your faith is going to end. 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:27.600 Jesus Christ is the author and finisher of our faith. 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:28.319 Guess what? 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.519 He is the originator and the completer. 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.320 Your faith is going to end one day, folks. 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:38.399 I'm gonna tell you the day it's gonna end. 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.440 The day it's gonna end when you see him with your eyes. 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:43.519 And old brother Job spoke of this. 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:48.799 One of the older books of the Bible that we have recorded, Job said this, isn't this a sad state of affairs? 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:50.080 Let me think about this. 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.639 I mean, he had some light, which is a good thing, but he didn't have a lot of light, but but what light he had. 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:55.679 He was rejoicing in it. 00:08:55.840 --> 00:09:02.639 He said, I know, when you read throughout Job's, he said, I know it's of a truth that man will be made just for God, but I don't know how. 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.960 He said, I know this is gonna happen, but I don't really know how it's gonna happen. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:11.360 And then later on in Job's life, Job makes this great proclamation of faith. 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:16.720 Job says, I know that my Redeemer liveth. 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:20.559 And he shall stand upon the earth in the latter day. 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:22.480 Now I'm gonna tell you what he was referencing. 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:24.399 He ain't talking about the second coming, folks. 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:26.000 He was talking about the first coming. 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:26.960 Because I got news for you. 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:32.320 The second time the Lord comes back, it don't say nothing about him walking on this old low ground of terrestrial sorrow. 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:36.240 It says we're gonna meet him in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:37.679 That he coming back. 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:40.320 Look, folks, I'm telling you, he done set up a kingdom here. 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:44.480 You know, in the Corinthians letter 15, it says, Then come at the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom. 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:46.080 I'm looking for the kingdom to go up. 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:47.519 It's already come down. 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:50.879 If he ain't reigning and ruining right now, folks, shut the book and go fishing. 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:52.240 Might as well do something else. 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:53.919 He's reigning and ruined right now. 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:55.840 This earth is his cookstool, brethren. 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:59.360 And I'm gonna tell you, he blesses us in spite of ourselves. 00:09:59.519 --> 00:09:59.759 That's right. 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:03.679 I'm thankful for that blessed truth to know that. 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:07.600 But when he comes back that second time it says, we're gonna meet him in the air. 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:08.639 They threw a lot. 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:09.679 You know what? 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:12.720 I'm not worried about people being wiped off the face of the planet. 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:15.120 Oh, man, I ain't worried about it. 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.279 I was coaching baseball one time. 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:20.720 And I had what I called EDDs. 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:23.919 EDDs are everyday drills. 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:31.360 And what this is, is things to make kids do something that is productive as opposed to non-productive. 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:39.919 And I had repped it and repped it and repped it, and I never realized what I was doing when I was doing it, but I saw it come to fruition one time. 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:45.600 We had a rain delay, and I told the kids, I said, Y'all go over and sit down in that dugout. 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:48.559 And the rain delay was happening, and I didn't think nothing about it. 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:49.200 You know what they did? 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:51.519 They sat down in the dugout just like I asked them to do. 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:55.840 And we walked out there to the home plate to talk to the umpire that's telling us how long it's gonna be delayed. 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.879 And I was standing there, the other head coach was standing there, and he said, How do you do that, coach? 00:10:58.960 --> 00:10:59.759 And I said, What are you talking about? 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:01.200 He said, Look at them kids over there. 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:03.120 He's like, What? 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:06.240 He said, They're sitting down in the dugout, I said that's what I told them to do. 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:10.799 He said, Look at mine, they're hanging from the rafters, climbing up the fences, hollering. 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:20.240 But but one of the things I think is when you give them drills to do and you keep them busy, you know, the Bible says an idle mind is the devil's workshop. 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:28.240 But when you keep them hands busy and them minds busy and they're moving and doing something productive, you know, that's a lesson for us too, folks. 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:32.080 You got idle time? 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:33.279 Spend in God's word. 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:40.320 That'll be a far greater spend of your time than scrolling through the whatever. 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:44.080 Fill in the blank. 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:45.519 It's on that device. 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:46.879 Oh, whatever. 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:54.559 But two kids, I looked down there at the baton cage, and they were not doing what I told them. 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:56.159 They weren't doing their EDDs. 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:59.600 I walked down there, I said, What are you boys doing? 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:01.120 Coach, you ain't heard. 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:02.320 I said, What are you talking about? 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:03.759 He said, We play at 8. 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:07.600 And they said the world's coming to an end at 7.30, so we figured this out. 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:09.600 And I was like, What? 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:11.200 The world's coming to an end. 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:12.799 They said, Where you been, Coach? 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:14.159 I said, I've been in the stands. 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:15.279 I don't know what y'all are talking about. 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.440 I ain't heard about that world coming to an end. 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:19.600 Well, yeah, they said I just heard about it. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:20.960 The world's coming to an end tonight. 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:23.279 I said, Well, I'll tell you one thing ain't happening. 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:26.000 At 7:30 tonight, the world is not coming to an end. 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:27.120 I promise you that. 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:30.320 Because no man knows the hour, the time in which it's going to happen. 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:31.200 So don't worry about that. 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:33.840 Get your bats, get in there and get ready because we're playing ball tonight. 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:37.840 They said, Coach, you reckon we'll get a text message or something if the world comes to an end? 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:41.360 I said, I said, yeah, you'll get an alert. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:42.480 He said, alert. 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:45.279 I said, I said, yeah. 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:48.240 I said, you ever heard a tornado siren go off in town? 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:48.799 He said, yeah. 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:51.200 I said, it's gonna be way louder than anything like that. 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:55.919 It's gonna be the trump of God's gonna ring out, and it's gonna be a tone that everybody's gonna hear. 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:58.320 Ain't nobody gonna be left out, buddy. 00:12:58.559 --> 00:12:59.919 I promise you, we're all gonna know. 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.440 But the fact of the matter is, they, you know, they say, oh, it's gonna end. 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:05.440 It's gonna, no, it's not gonna end. 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:11.279 Oh, people are gonna be wiped out, and there's gonna be animals living on the planet, and it's gonna be no, that ain't what it says. 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:15.440 See, when the Lord comes back to gather his people, there's gonna be people here. 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:18.720 I don't mean we don't need to be good stewards of what God's given us. 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:21.440 We need to be good stewards, but I got news for you. 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:35.360 There's gonna be folks on this planet, and brethren, there's gonna be folks in the old church that's still gonna be breaking bread and drinking wine and washing the saints' feet, showing the Lord's death till he comes. 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:36.000 You know why? 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:38.960 Because that's what he set up and established and he told them to do. 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:44.720 He said, as oft as you do it, you do it in remembrance of him, you do it till when. 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:45.679 Just as long as you feel. 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:47.759 No, he said, you do it till I come again. 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:55.919 When Jesus Christ established his kingdom, and he said, the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, I'm gonna tell you, his kingdom's gonna be on this planet when he comes back, brethren. 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:57.600 And I'm thankful for that blessed truth. 00:13:57.759 --> 00:13:58.399 You understand? 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:01.919 But when he comes back, he's gonna take this kingdom up. 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:10.320 And this kingdom is gonna be all-encompassing all the way back to Adam and all the way forward to the last child of promise, because this kingdom is made up of all. 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:16.159 Now, look, folks, if that was just a church kingdom, then you got to put John out. 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:18.399 He never got baptized. 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:20.559 John the Baptist? 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:26.000 This is a man whom whom Jesus Christ said of men born among women is none greater than John the Baptist. 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:27.279 He's gone. 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:33.919 Moses, who spoke to God as a man speaks to his friend face to face, poop, he ain't making it. 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:36.000 He didn't even get into Canaan's land, folks. 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:38.480 He would have buried on a mountain, just got to see it from afar. 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:40.000 Man, he just got that close. 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:40.960 Just got that close. 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:42.559 He could have almost made it. 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:44.639 Oh, but I'm gonna tell you he's gonna be in glory. 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:45.600 You know why? 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:48.480 Because Jesus Christ done the work of atonement. 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:51.759 He done the work of atonement and he done it perfect. 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:56.559 And it says that he'd offered himself once unto God. 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:59.039 He had forever perfected those that he loved. 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:00.480 And he's ascended what? 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:02.159 He ascended the right hand of the throne on. 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:04.080 He is seated at the right. 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:05.679 You know why he's seated? 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:07.759 Because he didn't have to atone again. 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:14.960 You see, our high priest is so much better than any high priest you've ever known, because he only had to make one sacrifice, and this sacrifice was perfect and complete. 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:20.720 The high priest in the old law had to do it year after year after year after year, and guess what? 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:22.559 Never perfected those that he offered. 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:23.759 Never perfected them. 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:25.360 It just brought it to remembrance. 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:30.720 But this man offered himself once and forever perfected those he loved. 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:31.600 And he's seated. 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.799 Now, you might say, preacher, why are you doing all that? 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:36.159 Because I want you to understand something. 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:47.840 He was seated in that, but when Stephen was being stoned to death, and while Saul was sitting there holding the coats of the men that was stoned him to death, consenting unto the death of Stephen, when Stephen looked up into glory, what did he see? 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:50.000 He saw Jesus standing. 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:52.879 Well, preacher, I thought you said he was sitting. 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:54.480 Oh, he is sitting. 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:56.000 And he's standing. 00:15:57.759 --> 00:15:59.440 He's sitting and standing all at the same time? 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:00.559 Yeah, he's sitting. 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:01.919 As far as the work of atonement. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:03.360 You know why he's sitting in an atonement? 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:04.240 Because it's complete. 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:05.519 That work is complete. 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:07.679 But I got news for you, folks. 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:11.120 There's still going to be a redemption of the purchased possession. 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:12.159 You know what that is? 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:13.919 A bringing home of the saints of God. 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:15.440 Remember, I talked about perspective. 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:17.120 It's precious in the sight of the Lord. 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:19.919 His purchased possession is coming home. 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:21.759 I'm going to tell you, he bled for. 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:23.120 He died for. 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:26.879 And he paid every sin debt they would ever owe. 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:33.039 And because of that, we have an advocate at the right hand of the throne on high right now. 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:34.720 And he is making intercession. 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:44.000 And I'm going to tell you, in that work, he is standing and laboring this very moment, interceding on our behalf unto a thrice holy God. 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:45.039 That's mine. 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:46.720 That's the one I paid the debt. 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:48.399 That's the one you gave me, Daddy. 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:51.919 And I paid the debt for him, and he didn't have anything left over. 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.000 Isn't that a glorious truth, brethren? 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:55.600 I'm going to tell you from that perspective. 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:58.320 Man, we are blessed beyond measure, okay? 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:01.360 But the reason, now, now, John 5, y'all get back with me. 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:02.000 I know this thing. 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:07.680 I'll pray, pray, pray for us that it all uh gets where it's supposed to be. 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:11.119 So he says, The hour is coming now as the dead hear the voice of the Son of God. 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:12.319 They that here shall live. 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:13.359 Now go to John 11. 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:16.960 In John 11, John 11 is going to come to Lazarus. 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:17.839 And this is what she said. 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:20.079 Lord, if you'd have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:20.640 You know what? 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:22.079 I'm persuaded she was right. 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:27.119 I don't ever find one place in Scripture where anybody died in the presence of Jesus Christ. 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:32.160 I find where they had a hard time staying dead, but I don't find where anybody died. 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:37.519 Matter of fact, a lot of people may have live in the presence of Christ, but ain't nobody died in the presence of Christ. 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:39.119 I'm persuaded she was right. 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:40.720 And she said, Your brother's gonna live. 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:41.759 She said, Oh, I know. 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:42.880 I'm knowing the resurrection. 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:44.559 This ain't even been talking yet harder. 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:46.799 I'm knowing the resurrection, he's gonna live. 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:47.920 You wasn't talking about the resurrection. 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:49.759 You're talking about today, not then. 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:51.200 He was figuring to live. 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:55.119 And when Jesus comes until the Melazarus, there was no border. 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:55.759 What if? 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:56.640 Think about this. 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:02.480 Anybody ever told you said so-and-so died, and he did what did you say, oh how dead are they? 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:04.319 I mean, did you ever ask anybody that question? 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:07.839 If somebody told you somebody died, would you say, Well, how dead are they? 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.920 No, we understand the ramifications of death, do we not? 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:13.680 Dead is dead. 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:21.920 If Jesus had come to the tomb of Lazarus and said, Lazarus, if you'll wiggle your pinky toe, I'll get you out of there. 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:25.920 Lazarus has still been laying in that same tomb, folks. 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:27.359 You know why? 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:29.119 He was without strength. 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:30.720 You know what that means? 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:32.880 Void of strength. 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:34.880 That's what without strength means. 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:35.759 Dead. 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:36.319 Okay? 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:40.000 You can offer a dead man something to drink all day long you want to. 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:41.279 They ain't gonna drink it. 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:42.240 And he can't drink it. 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:42.559 Why? 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:44.480 Because they have no life in them. 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:45.920 That's the problem. 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:49.440 But when Jesus Christ comes to his tomb, he said, Lazarus come forth. 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:49.920 And guess what? 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:51.279 Now look, I'm gonna tell you. 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:54.640 Lazarus was bound from head to toe. 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:57.039 He wasn't like a Scooby-Doo mummy. 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:05.359 I mean, he wasn't wrapped this leg and that leg and this arm, and he wasn't like No, he was wrapped like a big cocoon from head to toe. 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:10.960 And they put linen, they put this linen wrapped around him, and they'd put this embalming, and it makes it shrink. 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:12.880 It makes that kind of linen shrink. 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:17.200 He would have been like in a very tight, tight, tight body cast. 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:20.720 How you gonna get up all you ever thought about it? 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:25.039 I mean, have you ever tried to stand up in a sleeping bag? 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:37.839 I don't know if y'all ever done that, but me and my brothers, I don't know, we would catch one or another, and then we would take a sleeping bag, just put it down over their head, and then we'd use them as practice dummies and tackle them. 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:41.839 And then they're trying to get up because they're in that thing upside down. 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:45.759 It was always fun, unless you were the one in the bag, and then it got to be rough. 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:51.359 But but the fact of the matter is, I know what it's like to try to get up if you stuck head first into a sleeping bag. 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:54.480 And it's difficult, and there's room to move in that. 00:19:54.720 --> 00:20:00.240 The point I want you to understand is Lazarus couldn't have got himself up off that table and out of that tomb if he'd have wanted to. 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:04.319 He couldn't have made a step to climb out of it. 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:06.799 You see, he couldn't separate one leg from the other. 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:10.079 He surely didn't have a 48-inch vertical leap to leap up out of there. 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:10.640 You understand? 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:13.519 What brought him from that tomb out of there? 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:19.839 I'm gonna tell you the power of a God who has the power to say, live. 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:21.279 And he lives. 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:31.279 And when Jesus said Lazarus come forth, I'm gonna tell you his word, the power of his word brought Lazarus out of the tomb to outside of the tomb. 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:35.920 Now the problem is, Lazarus now is very much alive. 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:36.720 Okay? 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:39.279 He ain't dead no more. 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:46.000 But Lazarus, from his perspective, you think about it from his perspective, can you imagine? 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:48.160 I mean, I know we just ate lunch, I apologize. 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:51.200 Can you imagine what it smelled like for Lazarus? 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:56.000 Because the garments wrapped around him. 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:02.240 They've been on a decaying body for four days, and he can't see. 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:04.480 His face is covered. 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:09.359 I remember one time I wrecked my truck. 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:13.839 My history teacher was sitting on his front porch and I wrecked right in front of his house. 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:14.880 Mr. 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:16.000 Joe Burns. 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:21.920 I run offside of the highway about T-boned Bogachita Road, big old covert. 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:30.799 And I jerked, went sideways, went between two, went spinning out through a hay field, and right by Coach Roe Burns was bailing, hey, how about got him on the tractor? 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:36.880 As a cloud of dust, and when the dust settled, I was, well, I guess I'm alright. 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.359 I had so much adrenaline running through my system, I didn't know if I was hurt or not hurt. 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:44.640 I can only imagine what Lazarus was going through. 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:48.480 He was dead, now he's alive. 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:56.000 But he can't see anything, and all he can smell is death, and he can't really check himself out to see if everything's okay. 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:58.400 Pretty bad situation, Lazarus in. 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:01.440 But you know what the Lord said to Those folks that stood by? 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:05.200 Them folks that standing by said, loose him and let him go. 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:08.799 I'm gonna tell you, brethren, that's the job of gospel minister. 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:10.799 Loose them and let them go. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.319 Gospel minister ain't got nothing to do with bringing them out of the tomb, folks. 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:15.839 That's the work of Jesus. 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:20.000 But I'll tell you, gospel minister's got everything to do with loosing them and letting them go. 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:24.960 Now, whether they get loosed and let go does not change the fact Jesus Christ brought them out of the tomb. 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:26.079