Please turn to Matthew chapter 27 verses 62
through 66.
Some students challenged Dr. Simon Greenleaf, who was
the founder and head of the Harvard Law
School for 30 years.
They challenged him to take his laws of
legal evidence and to apply them to the
resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Now Dr. Greenleaf wrote three volumes called The
Laws of Legal Evidence, and they are the
standard for evaluating evidence in the courtroom around
the world.
And Dr. Greenleaf was challenged to take those
laws of legal evidence and to apply them
to the Gospels, and particularly to apply them
to the Resurrection.
He studied for some time, as a matter
of fact, he wrote a book after his
studies.
It was called The Testimony of the Four
Evangelists.
When he finished his investigation, he made a
very startling statement.
He said the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is
substantiated by more and better evidence than any
fact of ancient times.
And he laid out in his book why.
But I'd like to go over some of
the sorts of evidence that Dr. Greenleaf found
as he studied about the life of Jesus,
and particularly about the Resurrection.
Because the Christian faith stands or falls with
the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.
If he did not come out of the
tomb alive bodily, three days after he was
crucified, then we're here in vain.
And the Christian faith is a fraud.
In fact, it's not just a fraud, it's
a vicious fraud.
So let us read some of those circumstantial
evidences.
You know the Bible tells those who believe
in Jesus that they should always be ready
to give a reason for the hope that
is within them.
And this is part of knowing how to
give a reason for that hope.
Let's look at Matthew chapter 27 verse 62.
Now on the next day, which is the
one after the preparation, the chief priests and
Pharisees gathered together with Pilate and said, Sir,
we remember that when he was still alive
that deceiver said, after three days I am
to rise again.
Now here we have a strange scene.
Jesus has been crucified.
His execution had been engineered by the religious
leaders of Israel.
They had forced the Roman governor, Pilate, to
execute him by crucifixion.
And now they are concerned because Jesus had
made a prophecy on several occasions.
He had said that he predicted that he
was going to be taken, imprisoned, beaten, and
then crucified.
But he also predicted he was going to
rise again from the dead on the third
day.
As a matter of fact, he predicted that
everything that he taught, lived for, and would
die for, would only be true if he
came out of the grave alive on the
third day.
In other words, he hazarded everything that he
lived and died for on the premise that
he would come back alive on the third
day.
And he didn't just say he would come
back in spirit to them.
He said he would come back bodily and
physically alive as well.
Now that's important because there have been other
religious leaders who have said they would come
back to their followers in spirit.
Lord Krishna of the Hindus said that he
would do that.
Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy said that there
is no death.
Her tomb is still with us and her
body is still in it.
There have been many who have said that
they would come back to their followers in
spirit, but Jesus predicted that he would come
back bodily alive so that there couldn't be
some illusion or some imagination involved.
He would come back in real flesh and
blood.
And so when you stop and think about
this, and this is one of the things
that startled Dr. Greenleaf, because it would have
been enough to have lived and taught the
things that Jesus did.
He was still been one of the greatest
religious leaders of all times.
No one ever taught like he did.
No one ever taught a system of ethics
as he did.
No one ever taught it before or ever
improved on it since.
So why did he hazard everything that he
lived for and died for on the proposition
that it would only be true if he
came out of the grave alive on the
third day?
The obvious reason is that he absolutely knew
that he would.
And so these religious leaders who did not
accept his claims, they were concerned because as
they go on to say here, verse 64,
they say, therefore, give orders for the grave
to be made secure until the third day,
lest the disciples come and steal him away
and say to the people, he has risen
from the dead and the last deception will
be worse than the first.
Well, this got Pilate's attention.
No one had to draw him a picture
to see that if he almost had a
complete insurrection in his domain while Jesus was
alive, that he would be in sure trouble
with Caesar, with the great uproar that would
happen if the disciples could come and steal
the body and make it appear that Jesus
prophecy actually had been fulfilled.
So as Dr. Greenleaf said, in evaluating the
evidence, he had every reason to make sure
that body was not stolen and that it
remained in that tomb.
And also the religious leaders had every reason
to make sure because their very animosity, their
very hatred of Jesus, guarantees they would have
done everything to have made sure that body
was not stolen and made it appear that
he had been raised from the dead.
As a matter of fact, it would have
caused much more trouble than Jesus ever did
when he was alive.
And so they had every reason, every motive
to make sure that body was not stolen.
So we read in verse 65, Pilate said
to them, you have a guard, literally take
a guard, go make it as secure as
you know how.
Pilate knew that he could trust them to
take a guard and make it as secure
as was necessary.
You see the very political ambition of Pilate,
which had been that part of him that
had been twisted by the religious leaders in
the first place to make him condemn a
man that he openly said was innocent.
That very political ambition caused him to want
that grave to be made secure.
So he told these men, go make it
as secure as you can.
In verse 66, they begin to tell us
some of the things that they did to
make sure that Jesus would not be raised
from the dead.
And they went and made the grave secure
along with the guard and they set a
seal on the stone.
All right, there are four things here that
we want to note that make up very
strong evidence about the tomb.
First he said, go make the grave secure.
What this means is that they would send
carefully trained Roman soldiers to the tomb and
they would check out the tomb completely.
First thing they would do, since every Roman
soldier knew that failure on guard duty meant
execution, so the first thing they would do
would be to make sure the body was
there.
Then they would check out all of the
surroundings and they would secure that so that
it could be kept and so that their
watch would be effective.
So when they made it secure, it means
that they checked every detail of what they
were being entrusted with because their lives depended
upon it.
Secondly, it says they set a guard.
These were not just ordinary guards, these were
Roman legionnaires.
A legionnaire was trained for five years before
he was considered ready for real battle.
These were part of the Roman Tenth Legion,
the garrison that guarded Jerusalem.
They had been decorated in many battles.
They were excellent soldiers.
In a maximum security case of this type,
according to the Institutes of the Roman Legions
by Vegetius, which goes, this is a manuscript
that goes back to the second century A
.D., according to those Institutes of the Roman
Legions, in a maximum security case, they would
station 16 Roman soldiers at a watch.
They did this because they were trained to
fight in battle squares and they considered 16
men sufficient to stand off an army until
reinforcements could get there.
What they would do is, if they were
threatened, they would form a square, four men
on a side, and those soldiers knew how
to fight within a six-square-foot area,
each soldier six square feet, in an overall
square so they could stand off an army.
So they posted these members of the Tenth
Legion to guard the tomb of Jesus.
And after all, they were guarding it against
whom?
They were guarding it against the followers of
Jesus.
Well, they weren't very impressive at this point.
In fact, one had betrayed him and there
were 11 that were chosen as his leaders,
called apostles, and when Jesus was taken prisoner,
all of them fled in terror.
And at this time they were behind hidden
doors, but they had sufficient power there to
stand off an army.
Now, another factor here, a third part of
the evidence, is they set a seal on
the stone.
Now, this was something that was done in
a case that was considered a matter of
great consequence to the state.
When they set a seal, sealing something, they
would take a dab of wax, and in
this case they put a dab of wax
on the solid rock face of this cliff
out of which the tomb was cut, and
a dab of wax on the great stone
that was rolled over the door of this
tomb, and then they stretched a thong across
it and pressed it into the wax.
And then the seal of Tiberius Caesar would
be impressed into the wax.
Now, everyone in the Roman Empire knew the
penalty for breaking a seal of Caesar.
The penalty was execution, and all the power
of Rome would go after you if you
broke the seal of Caesar.
And that was what was placed on the
tomb of Jesus.
The power of Rome backed the holding of
that tomb closed.
All the power of Rome.
The fourth evidence that we have about the
tomb of Jesus is that they rolled a
stone there.
In Mark chapter 16, verse 4, when the
ladies, followers of Jesus, came and they were
hoping to anoint the body of Jesus, it
says this, and looking up they saw that
the stone had been rolled away.
Although it was extremely large.
Now that's the point.
There was an extremely large stone that was
rolled into place over this tomb.
Many of you probably have seen my book,
The Prophetical Walk Through the Holy Land.
In that book, I do a lot of
photographs, took a lot of pictures of the
tomb of Jesus.
And if that's not the tomb of Jesus,
it's exactly like the one that he was
in, I'll guarantee you that.
But as was the custom in that day,
a rich man who wanted a very elaborate
tomb would cut a tomb out of a
solid face of rock, leaving an opening of
about five feet high and about three feet
wide.
And then they would carve out a kind
of a trench in the rock, the rock
face in front of the tomb.
And this was kind of a trench that
they could roll these great round stones into
place, and then they would have a specially
hollowed out place right in front of the
door, and the stone would drop into that
and seal against the door.
So this was an extremely large stone rolled,
leaning against the solid face of the cliff.
It was rolled into place and it sealed
over that front, and then they had the
seal of Caesar over that.
Now those are some of the circumstantial evidences
involved in the resurrection.
And all of us who are Christians should
know these things.
We should know them well.
Because our faith is not based on just
moral propositions like other religions.
The faith in Jesus Christ is based on
facts of history as well as spiritual matters.
But it will stand the test of time,
and it will stand the scrutiny of the
keenest observer.
So these things were done.
We have the political ambition of Pilate.
We have the ambition and the jealousy of
the religious leaders.
That guarantees they would have done everything to
make sure that Jesus' body was kept in
that tomb, and that the prophecy he made
about being raised from the dead bodily on
the third day would not come true.
They had secured the tomb.
They had carefully checked out the area.
They had put battle-trained Roman legionnaires there
to guard it.
They had put a seal of Caesar over
the opening, and they had put a very
large stone against the rock face.
And yet in spite of this, on the
third day, a startling thing took place.
The stone was rolled away, and this is
by the testimony of the soldiers who were
there.
The stone was rolled away by two angels,
not to let Jesus out, but to show
that he was gone already.
The soldiers were terrified.
They were terrified for two reasons.
Because they confronted supernatural beings, number one, and
number two, because when they checked to see
if the body of Jesus was there, they
saw it was gone.
And they fled in terror.
Why?
Well, every legionnaire knew the penalty for failing
on watch.
It meant execution.
Some just deserted and hoped that they could
melt into the mass of humanity of the
Middle East and not be found.
Others ran to the religious leaders of the
Jews and told them what happened and asked
if they could do something to help them
and keep them from being executed.
And the only explanation that the religious leaders
could come up with is given here in
Matthew chapter 28, verse 11.
It says, Now while they were on their
way, behold, some of the guard came into
the city and reported to the chief priests
all that had happened.
And when they assembled with the elders and
counseled together, they gave a large sum of
money to the soldiers and said, You are
to say, his disciples came by night and
stole him away while we were asleep.
And if this should come to the governor's
ears, we will win him over and keep
you out of trouble.
And they took the money and did as
they had been instructed.
And this story was widely spread among the
Jews and is to this day.
Well, there was the explanation that was given.
I don't want to be marooned there.
That was the explanation that was given about
the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
But let's examine what these men said for
a minute.
First of all, let's just for the sake
of being the skeptic, think about this whole
case.
First of all, the most common thing today
that's said about the resurrection is, well, how
do we know that what's written there is
even true?
How do we know that these gospel accounts
are true?
How do we know they're not just the
fabrications of his disciples who wanted it to
appear that he had been raised from the
dead?
And though, in fact, it didn't happen at
all, they wrote about this later.
From extra biblical sources, we know that less
than 50 days after the resurrection, the disciples
of Jesus, who had been cowering and hiding,
suddenly appeared in the streets of Jerusalem, bold
as lions, and began to proclaim that they
had seen Jesus Christ bodily alive and that
he had conquered death.
And now they were preaching at the peril
of their own lives.
They were preaching that faith in Jesus Christ
would give you forgiveness of sins, instant eternal
relationship with God, and eternal life.
This was done less than 50 days after
it happened.
We know this.
Now, if what they were saying was not
true, then all the followers of the Jewish
religion, all of those religious leaders who had
engineered the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the
first place, why didn't they just produce the
evidence?
And the story would have been absolutely squelched
right then.
It never would have reached beyond the first
century, other than an interesting farce in the
footnotes of history.
But they had no evidence.
As a matter of fact, these things were
preached in the streets within 400 to 500
meters where all of this took place.
And all a person had to do to
see whether it was true or not was
to go over and inspect the tomb and
find out what had happened.
But no one was able to dispute their
message.
No one was able to prove that Jesus
was not raised from the dead.
No one could produce his body.
As a matter of fact, the evidence indicated
that indeed he had been raised from the
dead.
And so the message has to be true
because no one was able to dispute it.
As a matter of fact, you know what
they did?
Instead of refuting the message, they put him
to death.
And you know, that's the last resort when
you can't stop something from being said.
If you can't disprove it, then you attack
the people who say it.
And that is what took place.
History shows that they started putting these people
to death who were proclaiming it.
So according to all of the laws of
legal evidence, the message would stand up in
any court of law that it has to
be true because those who had every reason
to disprove it could not disprove it.
And the message wasn't given in some far
place like Rome, away from the facts.
It was given right in the place where
the facts had happened, and they couldn't disprove
it.
All right, well, let's just humor the skeptic
and let's go on and say, well, maybe
they did report this, but maybe there's another
explanation.
Maybe what the chief priests and the religious
leaders said was true.
Maybe the disciples did steal the body.
Okay, let's take that up as a possibility.
Here you have nighttime.
Somehow the disciples of Jesus, who have been
terrified and been hiding, suddenly get courage, and
they decide that they're going to risk their
lives in order to set up a fraud.
They're going to go steal the body of
Jesus because they want it to appear that
what their master had said really did occur.
So they risked their lives, and they somehow
get courage, and they go over, and they
go to steal the body of Jesus.
So, okay, they arrive at the scene of
the tomb.
I've been to this place many times.
I believe the place that I have pictured
in the prophetical walk through the Holy Land
is the place where Jesus was raised from
the dead.
If it isn't, it's exactly like the description
in the Bible.
It was in a garden.
So here comes the disciples of Jesus, and
to their amazement, they find 16 soldiers asleep.
That's a little hard to believe, because in
reading the Institutes of the Roman Legions by
Vegetius, and this was a complete work how
they were trained and what their disciplines were.
In reading that, the penalty for sleeping on
watch was, you know what?
Well, the first thing they would do, the
one checking the watch, and they had a
centurion that would check the watch in every
place.
First thing he would do would be to
come and put a torch to the toga
and set them on fire.
That tended to wake them up, and as
soon as they were fully awake to appreciate
what was happening, then they would take a
sword and hit them right here, just above
their breastplate, and drive the sword right down
into their heart.
They were killed on the spot.
That tended to give people insomnia.
But let's humor those who would say this.
So here you have 16 men, and as
incredible as it was, they were all asleep,
in spite of the fact they could be
executed for sleeping on watch.
So they tippy-toe past the 16 sleeping
guards, and they go up to this great
rock.
Now it's down in a little hollowed place,
so it's very hard to begin to move.
It's very large.
It would have weighed at least two tons,
a rock large enough to cover that opening.
But all 11 of the disciples, knowing that
this was such an important task, they began
to push on it, and they began to
push it.
Have you ever heard a two-ton rock
rolling against the face of a rock cliff?
It would have awakened the dead, much less
soldiers who knew that their lives depended on
staying awake.
But let's humor the skeptic a little more.
Let's say that they did somehow manage to
get the rock open, and they didn't wake
anyone up.
They go in, and they take the corpse
of Jesus.
They carry it out, and they dispose of
it somewhere.
And then 47 days later, they suddenly screw
up their courage, and they've gotten their plan
together, and they go out in the streets
of Jerusalem, and they risk their lives by
preaching that Jesus has conquered death, and that
now anyone who believes in this dead Savior
that they've hidden the corpse of will have
eternal life.
And many of them were eventually put to
death because of preaching Jesus.
And they died horrible deaths, by the way.
All they would have had to have done
to save their lives would have been to
have renounced that they had actually seen Jesus,
and to have told the true story.
More than 500 people saw Jesus alive after
his resurrection.
All 500 of them went to their graves
proclaiming that they had seen Jesus bodily alive,
and that he had conquered death, and that
they feared no death.
Now those things just don't happen.
As a matter of fact, you know what
would have happened if the, even if the
disciples could have screwed up the courage to
have gone to that place and tried to
pull that hoax off?
First of all, they would have surely not
found all of the soldiers asleep.
But even if in the inconceivable point that
they were asleep, they would have certainly awakened
them trying to get that stone open.
And you know what would have happened then?
There would have been more corpses than the
corpses of the corpse of Jesus lying around
there.
Those soldiers would have wiped them out.
These were not trained soldiers.
The Romans were.
They would have slaughtered them.
And all they would have had to have
done to prove that Jesus had not been
raised from the dead would be to produce
the bodies of those dead followers of his,
and shown that they had tried and that
they had caught them in the act.
There was absolutely nothing of this sort, in
spite of all the power of Rome.
They could not keep the body of Jesus
in that tomb because God gave him life
and raised him from the dead on the
third day, just as Jesus predicted would happen.
The evidence that is strongest in any case
is always the evidence of the opposition.
The evidence of the opposition is they tried
to secure the tomb, and when they couldn't,
they could do no more than try to
put to death the ones who proclaimed what
had happened.
They had no way to explain it, and
they couldn't stop it.
Our faith is based on facts, not just
on spiritual realities.
But you know something?
There are some extraordinary spiritual realities that show
these things too, and that is one of
the things that is most amazing to me
here this morning.
As I look out on this crowd, I
see the faces of a few people that
I have known before they were Christians and
after they became Christians.
I have seen the marvel of what God
has done in changing their lives.
Not that they changed their lives, God changed
them.
Some of them were so screwed up that
only God could change them, starting with me.
And down through the centuries, Jesus Christ has
been changing the lives of those who believe
in him and empowering them to do things
that are contrary to their very nature.
And this is what exactly happened among the
disciples.
As I have said many times before, the
apostle Peter, chosen to be the leader of
the apostles, all through the Gospels before the
Holy Spirit came upon him, only opened his
mouth to change feet.
And then suddenly, Jesus did what he predicted
he would do.
He said, after he would be raised from
the dead and he would ascend to be
at the right hand of the Father, he
would send the Holy Spirit to dwell in
all of us who believe in him.
And the Holy Spirit first began this new
ministry of taking up permanent residence in each
believer on the day of Pentecost.
That was the initial giving of that new
ministry.
And without preparation, without study, Peter gets up
and gives one of the most extraordinary messages
ever given, and it's recorded in Acts chapter
2.
That showed the power that this risen Christ
now unleashed upon those who believe in him
and follow him.
And he's still doing that today.
You know what the great significance for us
to rejoice over here today of the resurrection
really is?
The great significance is that Jesus is alive
and that because he was raised bodily from
the dead, it is proof positive that what
he did on the cross was accepted by
God the Father.
Because when he died on the cross, he
took the sins of every person who would
ever live upon himself.
He took the guilt for it, and he
was judged in the place of every person
who would ever live.
He was judged for you.
Every time you'll fall short of God's standard
in thought, word, or deed, Jesus was judged
for your sake.
He was judged in your place.
And when he was dying, he cried out,
paid in full.
That meant that he had paid in full
for every sin that you'll ever commit in
this life.
But you know, we didn't know whether God
accepted what he did until three days later.
Because if Jesus had failed to pay for
even one sin of the whole human race,
that one sin would have held his body
in the grave forever, because sin was much
more powerful than the Roman Empire.
The Bible says that sin is what causes
death, and sin is what holds in death.
And so if, you know, Jesus was made
guilty for the whole human race, he accepted
our guilt, and he was judged for us.
If he had failed to completely atone for
every sin, if he had failed even on
one count, that one sin would have held
him in the grave forever.
So when the Father raised him from the
dead, it was God's way of saying, Amen!
To what Jesus had said as he died.
He said, paid in full.
And when God raised him from the dead,
he said, Amen, paid in full.
And because he's alive right now, you can
know that there is nothing in your life
too great to keep you from being received
and forgiven by God.
Because he is alive today, you can know
that you can be forgiven and instantly received
into God's eternal relationship.
Death is a terrible thing.
I've had to face death close by.
Death is never pretty.
Death is never something we long to see.
Death is something we usually want to avoid
at all costs.
We never want to see the death of
a loved one.
But you know, as I have stood by
the dead bodies of people that I loved,
the one thing that's given me such great
hope is, I can truly say, I'll see
you later.
I know I'll see you again.
By God Almighty, I'll see you.
Because Jesus Christ has conquered death.
We can have hope.
Death is not the end for us.
We know that because he came back bodily
alive and he lives forevermore, so he has
the keys of death and hell, he says.
And he says he can raise us and
he will raise us into a new life
over which death has no power.
And once we have that hope secure in
our hearts, we can truly begin to live
here on earth.
Because you know something?
Psychology has found that the original premise of
Freud was wrong.
Freud tried to say that the central neurosis
out of which things that, you know, out
of the which our psychological problems really come
and stem from, you know, bad potty training,
sexual hang-ups, things like that.
Major things.
But you know what psychology has found today,
and this is accepted in most schools today,
that the most basic neurosis of all mankind
is fear of death.
That this is at the bottom of our
neuroses.
Fear of death.
You say, oh come on, I know people
who don't know Jesus Christ and they're fearless.
Do you know the daredevil?
I used to be a daredevil.
When I was young and too stupid to
know better.
Used to be a daredevil.
But do you know something?
You take somebody like Evel Knievel.
Every psychologist knows that there's the man who
fears death most.
It's the daredevil who fears death the most.
It's the one who's always risking his life
that's got a hang-up with death.
It's almost like he wants to push it
and try to get used to it so
that he can not be afraid of it.
But the only way to solve that neurosis
is to know that death is not the
end.
And that for us, the moment we breathe
our last in our soul and our spirits,
we go consciously to be face-to-face
with the Lord.
Second Corinthians 5, 7, and 8 tell us
that.
And there we consciously wait for that day
when God will raise our bodies into a
glorified state.
And in these new bodies, we will live
forever with Him.
Because Jesus Christ not only died for all
of our sins, but He rose from the
dead to prove it.
And that's why as I close here this
morning, I challenge you this way.
No one will ever fail to believe in
Jesus Christ because of intellectual reasons.
There are enough evidences to prove the resurrection
of Jesus Christ, to prove even the toughest
skeptics' skepticism.
The problem is people just won't be intellectually
honest with the facts.
But you take a great scholar like Simon
Greenleaf, an expert on legal evidence.
Once he examined them, using the objectivity that
would be used in the strictest murder case
in courtrooms, he said this was the most
established fact of ancient history.
I'll take his word over any of yours.
But I've studied it myself, and I have
to agree with him.
So no one ever really rejects Jesus Christ
because of intellectual reasons.
It's always because of a moral bias.
We're all hung up with that.
But we have to take a step of
faith and say, hey, it's reasonable to try.
It's reasonable to take a step of faith
and say, Lord Jesus, thank you for dying
for me.
I confess I can never be perfect, and
that's what God requires.
So right now, I receive the pardon that
you purchased in my place by dying for
me.
And I want you to come into my
life and receive.
And I accept the gift of forgiveness.
And then just be willing for him to
come in and change your heart, give you
new desires.
And that's what he promises to do.
For some of you, this could be the
greatest Easter morning that you'll ever know.
Because you can make sure right now, this
morning, that you know Jesus Christ.
You can seal that by praying and closing
with faith in Jesus Christ.
It takes a step of faith, but you
can make that step of faith as I
pray this prayer.
That's step one.
And step two is God says that we
should confess our faith publicly.
God says that if you've received Jesus Christ
either today or at some other time, you've
asked him to come into your life, that
you should confess that publicly.
Jesus said, he who is ashamed of me
before this generation, I'll be ashamed of before
my father.
But he who will confess me before men,
I will confess him before my father who
is in heaven.
That puts a seal on your faith.
So I'm going to ask Reno to come
up if he's handy here, if he'll come
up.
And as I pray, then I'm going to
give a chance for you who either have
received Christ privately or receive him here this
morning, give you a chance to take a
stand on Easter morning and say, I'm not
ashamed of Jesus Christ.
I have received him.
Let us pray.
Our gracious heavenly father, we thank you that
Jesus is alive.
We thank you that he has come and
died for our sins.
Thank you that he has been raised from
the dead and that he's now alive.
Father, I pray for each one here.
Pray especially for that one who doesn't know
where he stands with you.
He or she who is not certain pray
this prayer.
Thank you, Lord Jesus Christ for dying for
me.
I confess I can't be good enough for
you to accept.
So right now, I invite you to come
into my life.
Lord Jesus, forgive my sins.
Lord Jesus, change my life.
Make it pleasing to God.
I can't do it, but I want you
to.
Thank you for coming in as you promised.
Thank you for eternal life because you can't
lie.
And you said, behold, I stand at the
door and knock.
If anyone hears my voice and opens the
door, I will come into him and banquet
with him and he with me.
That door is your will.
And as you prayed that prayer, Jesus Christ
came into your life.
You may not feel him, but he did.
And right now you have forgiveness and eternal
life.
In Jesus' name, amen.
If you would like to write to Hal
Lindsay, address your letters to Hal Lindsay, P
.O. Box 9992, Marina Del Rey, California
90292, USA.