WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:08.720 Please continue to pray for us as we now turn to the time of our preaching and and hearing. 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:15.439 Preaching doesn't serve any benefit if there's not the hearing. 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:26.160 So you pray that the Lord will give you the hearing and that it'll give me something to give to you worth hearing. 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:37.280 Um the subject of the fear of the Lord has continued to be on my mind this week as I try to talk about it over at DOS. 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:52.640 The fear of the Lord is uh I think in many circles of this world misunderstood. 00:00:53.759 --> 00:01:26.400 Um some would try to use it as a means of manipulating people to threaten them with God, to be scared of him, to be fearful as you would a catastrophe or tragedy that will come upon you if you don't fit some category, fit some criteria or condition. 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:30.719 Uh people use it that way. 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:40.079 Uh and that could that cannot be further from the truth for the child of God. 00:01:41.280 --> 00:02:09.120 Where it it doesn't even make sense as we think about the fear of the Lord, uh knowing that God is our Father, as a child of God, knowing that He is our Father because He loved us before the world began. 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:36.879 Not only did He love you before the world began, he determined that though you would become an outright complete rebel, and we all did, every one of us have the same nature that is dead in trespasses and sin at our conception. 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:43.840 We're not eternal children, we didn't start in heaven and then he sent us to earth. 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:50.000 That is a complete fallacy and a heretical teaching. 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:52.479 Uh there's even the name for it. 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:59.360 It's called the eternal uh eternal union with Christ before the world began. 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:01.520 That's that's just not true. 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:07.439 You did not have an existence prior to your natural conception. 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:13.759 That which is first is natural, that which is second is spiritual. 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:27.039 Jesus said, You must be born again, not uh not of the flesh nor the will of man, but of the spirit. 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:40.479 That's how we become in relationship to God is through his first loving you before the world began. 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:48.479 Think about what that's saying, that God knew you and loved you even though you didn't exist. 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:52.319 That is beyond the natural thinking. 00:03:52.879 --> 00:04:06.560 The natural man, and Paul said it like this, the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit, neither indeed can he know them, for their foolishness unto him. 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:25.519 But to the spiritual man we understand that God first loved his people before we ever were, before we ever even had light. 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:35.759 Even before the first man Adam was created, God already knew his children and loved them with an everlasting love. 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:40.959 So why should we be scared of our heavenly father? 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:55.439 Our heavenly father loved you and sent his son to redeem you from out from under the curse of the law, and the law condemned us as sinners. 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:04.639 And there is nothing that we could do or ever could have done to ever undo that curse. 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:09.759 It took the God man to come into this world. 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:16.399 God so loved the world, he sent his only begotten son. 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:22.000 Some most a lot of people run right over that. 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:26.079 It's his only begotten son. 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:40.240 All his other sons, and I'm not saying sons mankind, man and woman, every one of his children are his adopted children. 00:05:41.040 --> 00:06:04.399 We're adopted into his family, meaning we were in one family, now we have been taken out of that family, out from under the control and the curse of that family, Adamic family, and we have been brought over and placed in the family of God. 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:20.240 We got the mankind traits, we got his natural DNA, but my friend, God adopted us into his family and gave us his DNA. 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:28.319 We call it regeneration, we call it born again, we call it quickening. 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:44.319 Quickening is the biblical word Paul used, and you hath he quickened, Ephesians chapter 2, verse 1, and you hath he quickened, who were dead and trespasses and sin. 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:58.160 So why should we be scared of a God, a father that would send his only begotten son to bleed and to die and to pay a price that we could never pay? 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.199 Why should we be afraid of him? 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:08.000 God hath given us his DNA. 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:15.040 We'll call that from the Galatian letter, we'll call that the fruit of the Spirit. 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:16.879 The fruit of the Spirit. 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:19.279 Let me just read them to you. 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:35.920 Fruit of the Spirit in Galatians chapter five is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:44.639 Ninefold fruit of the Spirit is given to every one of his children that he did foreknow. 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:49.120 That he foreknew them as his children. 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:55.279 And that word foreknow just it doesn't just mean, Brother Jimmy, that he knew about us. 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:00.800 He knew us in a relationship connection. 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:04.240 He knew us as his children. 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:08.240 He knew you in that relationship before you ever were. 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:14.399 But he didn't just foreknow you, he predestinated you. 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:20.560 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate. 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:26.399 Same whom, whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate. 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:32.159 And he predestinated you to heaven home. 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:40.480 He predestinated you not only where you would be, but what you would be like when you got there. 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:50.720 He predestinated us to be biblical word, predestinated us to be conformed to the image of his son. 00:08:51.120 --> 00:09:00.320 That is, we'll be made like unto Christ, as he is, which is holy, righteous, eternal. 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:13.519 Christ is the relationship with God and will be conformed to that same relationship in that same heirship. 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:16.000 Do you know you're an heir? 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:22.639 Paul says you're an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ. 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:24.080 Joint heir. 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:25.919 That means equal. 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:31.840 Legally, you are equal heir with Christ. 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:33.279 With him. 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:36.320 Not instead of him, but with him. 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:40.799 And you're heir of God and joint heir with Christ. 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:42.879 How do we get that way? 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:44.559 He predestinated us. 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:48.799 That's this is all up before he ever said left or be light. 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:51.279 Before he said, He already knew you. 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:54.879 He already knew you intimately as his child. 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:56.559 I've said it many times. 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:04.320 I didn't know I would have children until finally one day we got word that we had conceived a son. 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:06.720 We had conceived a child. 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:10.639 I still didn't know him yet because he hadn't been born yet. 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:16.480 But I finally learned that we had a son and we named him Michael. 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:22.559 God did not have to wait until we existed. 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:30.000 God already knew you as his child, though you didn't even exist. 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:35.759 But he knew you would exist, and he knew he loved you. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:37.679 Why did he love you? 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:40.240 Unconditional. 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:42.320 No reason. 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:47.600 He had no reason except it was his good pleasure. 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:52.080 It was his good pleasure to love you unconditionally. 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:54.159 You know why you love God? 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.240 John said it was because God first loved us. 00:10:58.799 --> 00:10:59.840 That's what he said. 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:06.799 We love him because he first loved us before the world ever began. 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:19.919 He already loved you, already determined in his predestinating power as a sovereign God, that whatever he does is done forever. 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:28.639 He determined you would be with him to the praise of the glory of his grace. 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.120 That would be why he would do it. 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:36.399 Because you would be to the praise of the glory of his grace. 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:39.679 You would be the adorning of God. 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:45.840 You would be his very choice that he chose you. 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:53.440 Out from all of mankind, he chose you to be his child. 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:57.120 You didn't choose him, he chose you. 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:06.480 Paul says it like this uh according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world. 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:08.080 That's biblical language. 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:18.960 I'm not making it up that it all happened before the world began, because he said that he had chosen us in Christ before the world began. 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:24.399 That's all up ahead of let there be light. 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:33.679 But that would have to be brought to pass in a righteous way. 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:38.639 It would have to be brought about in a just way. 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:39.519 Why? 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:51.279 Because God is just and God is holy, and God is not one that can be offended and just say, I'll just let that slide. 00:12:52.000 --> 00:13:02.879 God's righteousness determined that there would be a righteous remedy, a holy remedy. 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:14.559 So he had determined before the world began, though he loved you with an everlasting love, he already knew that you would be a rebel against God. 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:16.559 You don't think you're right? 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:18.720 Listen to what Paul says. 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:21.039 There's none righteous. 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:22.720 No, not one. 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:26.320 There's none that seeketh after God. 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:29.519 There's none that seeketh after God. 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:32.399 Some people say you've just got to seek the Lord. 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:35.360 There's none that would seek after the Lord. 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:37.919 Nobody fits that category. 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:48.879 So what it would deter, what it would make have to happen is that there would be a righteous, holy remedy. 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:54.639 And the only remedy is God so loved the world. 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:58.240 And that world, friends, is a particular world. 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:01.039 The word world means cosmos. 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:05.120 In that particular phrase, it means cosmos. 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:09.840 So it means an orderly arrangement of something. 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:13.759 And my friends, he did not love all mankind. 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:15.200 He didn't do it. 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:23.759 I can show you a scripture where there is at least one, at least one I know of that God hated. 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:28.879 And it was in the boys of Jacob and Esau. 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:33.919 He said unto her that the elder shall serve the younger. 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:40.399 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:48.960 That word, but is very important because it is an indication of an opposite extreme. 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:56.559 God loved Jacob, but he hated Esau. 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:03.200 And he loved with a righteous love, and he hated with a righteous hate. 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:05.279 God has a right. 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:13.519 God is righteous in his own love and whom he hated. 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:18.879 And that hate just means he hated without any love. 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.200 There was no love at all. 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:29.600 He just simply left Esau where he was at in that dead and trespass condition. 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:34.080 That, my friends, is why there will be people in hell. 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:38.320 It's because God did not love them before the world began. 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:45.919 If that's a little too hard, let me tell you, there was Pete, there were disciples that followed after the Lord. 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:52.080 That he said, He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life. 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.879 They said, This is a hard saying who can hear it. 00:15:57.200 --> 00:16:01.919 And many of his disciples went away and walked with him no more. 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:03.600 The Lord of glory. 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:06.480 They walked no more with the Lord of glory. 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:07.279 Why? 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:10.720 Because they could not hear what he just said. 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:16.399 There are a lot of people that cannot hear what I just said. 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:22.000 Because they have been fed this idea that God loves everybody. 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:23.519 No, he did not. 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:24.879 He did not. 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:30.159 If God loved everybody, then everybody would be in heaven. 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:39.679 Because God would not send his son to die for those that won't be with him to the praise of the glory of his grace. 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:50.000 He would not die in vain, leaving more power to them to accept it than him and what he did. 00:16:50.879 --> 00:17:04.799 My friends, God loved the people and God will see to it that they all get home in righteousness and in justification in being declared you're just. 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:09.440 But they're not going to be just by their own works. 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:16.160 They're not going to be just because they did something that pleased God. 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:18.160 Not at all. 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:25.200 There's nothing that we could do that would ever earn God's esteem. 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:32.480 Nor anything that we could ever do to fulfill what God was offended at. 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:36.400 Because God was offended by the act of man. 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:42.000 The act of the original sin plunged all of mankind. 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:43.920 Without exception. 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:52.880 Well, I will say, with the exception of one, and it was because he was not born after the seed of man. 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:56.400 He was born after the seed of the Holy Ghost. 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:58.319 He was made of woman. 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:00.000 He was flesh. 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:04.480 The word was made flesh and dwelt among us. 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:09.200 But he was not born of Adam's seed. 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:12.160 He was born of the Holy Ghost. 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:16.000 That holy thing that Mary conceived. 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:24.559 That holy thing, which his name would be called Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sin. 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:29.680 You get the the the uh possessive word there, his people. 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:54.720 He would save his people, and God foreknew, predestinated people, and for whom he did predestinate, the same whom whom it all ties back to before the world began, whom he did predestinate, he also called. 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:58.400 That happens with every child of God. 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:07.920 Every child of God foreknown before the world began, predestined, they are called by a particular voice. 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:12.079 Verily, verilith, the hour is coming, and now is. 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:21.200 How do they hear? 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:29.119 They hear in the heart, and it's the voice of a life-giving command. 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:35.279 He says, live, and they respond by living. 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.000 Here's a picture of it. 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:44.079 Jesus is at the grave of a fear of a friend called Lazarus. 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:48.559 And Lazarus is dead in the flesh. 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:54.880 He is a dead man wound and put in a grave and it's sealed up. 00:19:55.200 --> 00:20:03.680 And he says, roll away the stone, and he says, I am the resurrection. 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:06.000 I am the resurrection. 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:10.319 And he calls out his friend's name. 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:21.039 It is a command from his voice to that man, and he says, Lazarus come forth. 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:41.759 That is an outward picture of what happens with every child of God that is dead, buried in the grave of flesh, and he says, Live, and it's not an invitation to Lazarus. 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:54.720 He's not inviting him out of the grave, he is commanding him to live, and that which was dead responds obediently to living. 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:58.480 Now, who had the action? 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:00.079 Not Lazarus. 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:13.599 Lazarus is simply fulfilling the commandment because Jesus is the one giving the command with a voice that draws him out of that grave. 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:21.519 Just like the water doesn't help the bucket bring it up, the water just simply comes with the bucket. 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:24.000 He draws him. 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:31.599 No man cometh unto me except my father draw him, commands him. 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:36.720 And that happens with everyone that he did predestinate. 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:38.400 He calls them. 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:40.640 Feareth, vereth, I've coming in the way. 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:44.480 And now as with the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God. 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:47.119 And they that hear shall live. 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:49.119 We hard shadows. 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:50.799 Not a hard shell. 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:59.519 Sometimes I am a little hard shell, but I'm a hard shell because there's not a failure possibility. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:01.359 This commandment. 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:04.880 They that hear shall live. 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:13.200 And they hear because that voice speaks to that heart, and that heart has to respond. 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:16.640 It has to act. 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:18.640 And it does act. 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:26.799 And that, my friends, is the at least one obedient act that every child of God does. 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:30.559 There's at least one obedient act. 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:38.000 I don't care if it's a child in the womb, like John the Baptist. 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:42.480 John the Baptist did not hear with natural ears. 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:46.240 He heard with a with an embryo ear, if you will. 00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:49.680 But he heard with an embryo heart. 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:55.920 John the Baptist was born again in the womb of Elizabeth. 00:22:57.119 --> 00:22:58.319 How do I know that? 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:05.200 Because when Mary walked in the room and just gave the salutation, she just said hi. 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:11.119 But what was also there is Christ was in her womb. 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:23.599 And when John the Baptist, the forerunner, the announcer, the one prophesied of by Isaiah, that there is a voice coming from the wilderness, and he'll announce. 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:50.720 The mama here she feels the kick of the baby many, many times. 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:54.559 But this one, under inspiration of God. 00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:58.319 All scripture given by inspiration of God are profitable for doctrine. 00:23:58.480 --> 00:24:12.160 Well, here's a doctrine that it's proof of is that that little baby John and Elizabeth heard that salutation and he leapt for joy. 00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:18.000 Joy is one of the ninefold fruit of the spirit. 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:20.319 Love, joy. 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:22.799 He leapt for joy. 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:28.160 That tells us, Sister Karen, he was already spiritually alive. 00:24:28.400 --> 00:24:32.640 That little embryo heard that voice and he leapt for joy. 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:34.799 That's for me and you to know. 00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:37.279 That's a little treasure. 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:48.480 That's a little piece of treasure that we can run to and say, yes, God is not short, his hand is not shortened that cannot save. 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:54.319 There's many a baby never gets past the womb of a mother. 00:24:54.559 --> 00:25:00.240 But I'm gonna tell you, my friend, God's hand is not shortened that cannot save. 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:04.079 John the Baptist born again in the womb of his mother. 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:06.880 The apostle Paul was a man of his prime. 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:11.039 And I'm gonna tell you, he was a very rough man in his prime. 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:14.480 But on that road to Damascus, something happened to him. 00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:16.559 God struck him down. 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:21.519 The voice of God spake, and he came alive. 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:25.200 He was in that death and trespasses and sin. 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:36.880 He had no spiritual, he had a law mind, he had a law heart, but he didn't have a spiritual heart until when the Lord said, Saul, Saul. 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:39.359 Why persecutest thou me? 00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:41.119 That voice spake to him. 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:48.480 He tells others, he said, they heard the voice, but they heard not the voice that spake to me. 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:54.559 There was a voice that spake to Paul in a very particular way of live. 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:00.799 Then he went and began to show him one all how he would live. 00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:06.160 For whom he did for know, he also did predate for who he predated, and he also called. 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:19.599 And whom he called, same whom, same cosmos, the same whom, whom he did call, he also justified. 00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:27.920 My friend, God does not wipe sin under the gr under the rug, he doesn't wipe it away to a hiding place. 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:39.039 Here, my friends, I've been telling you about uh my my mind was on the idea of the fear of the Lord is his treasure, Isaiah 33. 00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:41.759 The fear of the Lord is his treasure. 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:44.720 I've told you about the treasure of his foreknowledge. 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:46.079 That's a treasure. 00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:47.519 I like knowing that. 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:51.519 I like knowing that I love him because he first loved me. 00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:56.400 And whatsoever God doeth, Solomon says he doeth forever. 00:26:56.720 --> 00:27:00.160 So when God did foreknow, he did it forever. 00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:09.200 He didn't know you as his child and then have a forgetful moment at some point and just wipe you away. 00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:12.799 No, God foreknew you and you'll always be foreknown. 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:17.440 He predestinated you, and whatsoever God doeth, he doeth forever. 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:23.039 Predestinated to the end, all the way to heaven. 00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:25.279 That's your destination. 00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:29.039 And it was preordained, it was predetermined. 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:32.160 You didn't do anything to get your way on there. 00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:36.480 There's only one way to heaven, and that's through the man Christ Jesus. 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:40.000 He is the way that the way, the truth, and the life. 00:27:41.279 --> 00:28:11.839 My friend, not only did he call you in time, somewhere uh in the in the point of conception to death, do you know there's even the one place where we can point to there was a man that was a criminal with a death sentence on his head and was actually even crucified right next to Jesus. 00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:25.200 Here's a man that was railing in his heart upon the Lord and speaking uh against Jesus, even making those comments of you saved yourself, save us also. 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:35.680 But there came a point where he says, wait a minute, to the other guy, he said, wait, we're here, we're here under just sentence. 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:37.839 We deserve what we're getting. 00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:43.279 This man, there's there's no iniquity in him, there's no guile felonism. 00:28:43.599 --> 00:28:45.440 This man's done nothing wrong. 00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:49.759 This man right here, Jesus, he's righteous. 00:28:52.319 --> 00:29:05.839 There wasn't a there wasn't a preacher there, there wasn't any baptisms going on, there wasn't any testifying uh before some others, but there was a change that had happened. 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:10.640 I I will say there was a preacher present. 00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:12.559 Actually, I was wrong. 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:27.039 I said there was no preacher, there was the greatest preacher, but he had not said anything to the man except he said it through the Spirit of God, and something happened to that man on the cross. 00:29:27.119 --> 00:29:29.519 I like what Brother Larry Webb said one time. 00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:32.640 He said there was three men on the cross and the wind blew. 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:36.640 The wind blew on that man right beside Jesus. 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:40.319 He had told Nicodemus, This comes as the wind bloweth. 00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:42.799 It blows where it listeth. 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:47.599 That so is everyone born again of the Spirit. 00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:49.599 It's as the wind blows. 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:54.880 That wind blows when it will and where it will and how it will. 00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:59.920 No man controls the wind, the wind goes where it will go. 00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:03.680 And so does the work of the Holy Ghost. 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:06.880 It goes when, where, and how it will. 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:10.720 And that day upon that cross, the wind blew upon that man. 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:23.920 The Spirit of God spake to him, and he's turned, and his whole mind and heart changed, changed by the life-giving voice of the Spirit of God. 00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:34.160 He fixed the bill when it says, Verily, very the hour coming, and thou is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. 00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:39.200 And he said, When the Lord, when thou comest into thy kingdom. 00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:43.440 And also he knew there was a kingdom, and he knew Jesus was the king. 00:30:43.599 --> 00:30:47.440 When thou comest into thy kingdom, remember me. 00:30:48.480 --> 00:31:01.200 The Lord tells him this day, this day, not thousands of years later, but this day thou shalt be with me in paradise. 00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:03.519 That's a treasure to know that. 00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:16.720 A knowledge and an understanding through the word of God that tells me, Brother uh uh, there is life after death. 00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:24.160 There is that immediacy of leaving that vessel of clay. 00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:37.599 And the very next thing that we see is we see him in his, he said, Where I am, thou shalt be with me in paradise. 00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:48.720 Oh my friend, justified, justified with him, seeing him as he is, immediacy with him. 00:31:52.319 --> 00:32:09.599 I like knowing what's gonna happen in that last moment when we exit this body and we open our eyes into paradise of God, and we'll be justified. 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:16.400 We're justified by the work of that man upon the cross, Jesus. 00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:24.720 You notice Jesus hadn't even died yet, but Jesus told him, Thou shalt be with me in paradise. 00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:25.359 Why? 00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:27.920 Because what God doeth, he doeth forever. 00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:46.480 And that day, my friends, that day upon that cross of Calvary, that day that he took our sins in his body on the tree of the cross, as he had determined that his hour had come, and now it was time that he would drink the cup of our sins. 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:51.440 He would bear our sins upon his in his body on that tree. 00:32:51.759 --> 00:33:09.039 He would transact the moment there that he would stand before God, the judge, the judge of the quick and the dead, and he would stand there, and all of all men, all of his people's sins. 00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:22.720 Everyone, from the very first one, the first sin of this world to the very last one of this world, of his children, it's all the same whom, whom he did foreknow. 00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:31.200 All the sins from the first to the last would all come flowing on him there that day. 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:33.519 That includes my sin. 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:36.799 And it includes your sin. 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:39.200 It includes your sins. 00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:49.119 If you were in that whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate, your sins was loaded upon him. 00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:59.759 He took the penalty, he took the the punishment, he took the iniquity, he was judged. 00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:04.480 You are equal to the sin. 00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:13.760 He was made to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God. 00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:15.199 You see the switch? 00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:24.159 He was made to be our sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:32.639 That's that is beyond our capability to grasp. 00:34:33.039 --> 00:34:38.239 How he could take every sin of every child of God and pay the sin. 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:46.079 And I'm gonna tell you, it wasn't an antiseptic cleanse cleansing process. 00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:56.079 He paid the price, he paid the price of an eternal banishment from his father. 00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:01.280 At the ninth hour, he makes that comment. 00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:05.519 He's quoting a Psalm 22, verse one. 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:15.519 But it is telling in what had happened, it is telling us just what had transpired. 00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:20.639 My God, my God, not my father. 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:25.840 I'm telling you, that's that's very telling, also, that he didn't say, My father, my father. 00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:31.119 He said, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:31.760 Why? 00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:35.039 Because of the sins of every one of your people. 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:37.280 It's beautiful over in the manger. 00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:42.559 His name shall be called Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:45.920 Over here on the cross, my friend, it's my sin. 00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:51.360 It is my iniquity that put him on that cross. 00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:54.960 That put him there in the first place. 00:35:56.960 --> 00:36:03.679 What is a treasure of that is that he didn't just say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:14.800 He follows up with I thirst and he drank the cup to the full, and then he says, It is finished. 00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:16.880 It is finished. 00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:18.480 Let that sink in. 00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:28.719 Some people want to add more process to what Jesus did, but there is no additional process. 00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:31.519 He said, It is finished. 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:36.639 Brother Jimmy, there's nothing left needed in this process. 00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:42.320 You are justified by the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:45.440 You know why I know that you are justified? 00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:50.320 Because scripture tells me he was delivered for our offense. 00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:52.400 For our offenses. 00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:59.840 He was delivered for our offenses, but he was raised for our justification. 00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:08.400 When he came out of that grave, my friends, after laying there for three days and three nights, as the one sign he would give. 00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:15.440 That as Jonah was in the belly of the well three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth. 00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:17.039 Here's a treasure. 00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:20.320 Here's a treasure, my friends, that you hold on to. 00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:22.639 He is risen. 00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:26.800 It is finished, and he is risen. 00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:27.760 He's not here. 00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:30.800 Why seek ye the living among the dead? 00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:31.840 He's not here. 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:32.639 He was risen. 00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:33.920 He is risen. 00:37:34.239 --> 00:37:39.440 And he was seen of many after the day of his passions. 00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:43.920 He was seen and he was held and touched and ate with. 00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:48.480 He was identified with positive ID. 00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:54.400 This is the same man, Jesus, that had died upon that cross. 00:37:54.639 --> 00:37:57.440 They knew who that was and they knew what happened. 00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:04.320 They knew that his side had been riven with a spear and out had come water and blood. 00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:06.480 It had already separated. 00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:08.880 Death had happened. 00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:14.639 That it might be fulfilled, that not a bone of his body would be broke. 00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:22.639 It's a treasure to know, my friends, there's nothing that'll ever break you from being one of his. 00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:24.000 Why? 00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:27.039 Because it all starts with for whom he did foreknow. 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:34.159 Well, here's the conclusion to that, the final treasure to the whole matter. 00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:44.960 The final treasure is not only words you predestinated, call of foreknown, predestinated, called, justified. 00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:52.480 But he said, For whom he was, whom he justified, he also glorified. 00:38:53.119 --> 00:39:05.199 He came out of that grave, my friends, not as the whipped lamb of God, but as the risen lamb of God, as though it had been slain. 00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:17.679 That's the same one John sees in that vision in Revelation, and I saw the lamb that stood as a lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:20.719 He had already determined what would happen. 00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:23.440 He didn't have to wait and see how it turned out. 00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:26.639 But he did have to come and do it. 00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:31.119 He didn't have to be the executor of the will. 00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:36.800 He didn't have to fulfill what the will, the will of God had said. 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:40.719 That there must be that death. 00:39:41.039 --> 00:39:42.960 There must be that blood. 00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:50.480 And as in the Passover, he said, When I see the blood, I'll pass over thee. 00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:58.880 My friends, that is pointing to here when God saw the fulfillment of the work of Christ. 00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:15.199 When he was satisfied, as Isaiah said, when he is satisfied, he was looking for the satisfaction of sin being conquered in a man. 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:19.679 It couldn't be a bull or a goat or some other animal. 00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:25.119 It had to be a man because it was man that had offended God. 00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:33.679 And it would take a man to be a redeemer, to be a buyback, the one that would buy back. 00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:39.760 And you're not your own, but you are bought with a price. 00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:41.519 What price? 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:52.079 Oh, that we might know, that we might get the full picture of the love of God. 00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:54.960 When it said, Jacob have I loved. 00:40:55.199 --> 00:40:57.360 How much do you love Jacob? 00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:05.679 Jacob is just a, he's just a prototype of everyone that God did love before the world began. 00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:10.880 Jacob, there was nothing about Jacob that would ever merit God's esteem. 00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:16.960 There was nothing about Jacob that made him special and made him worthy. 00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:19.840 Jacob was a scoundrel. 00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:24.320 Jacob was a supplanter, as his name even said. 00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:26.079 He was a trickster. 00:41:26.639 --> 00:41:28.960 He got it turned on him a couple of times. 00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:30.800 But nevertheless, he was a trickster. 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:38.079