It's the Lord's death, and we're commencing the
Bible reading at 1 Corinthians chapter 11.
1 Corinthians chapter 11.
Paul writing to the church of Canaan said
this to them, verse 23.
For I have received of the Lord that
which also I delivered unto you, that the
Lord Jesus, the same night in which he
was betrayed, took bread, and when he had
given thanks he broke it, and said, Take
it.
This is my body, which is broken for
you, this do in remembrance of me.
After the same manner also he took the
cup, when he had stopped saying, This cup
is a new testament in my blood, this
do ye as oft as ye drink it
in remembrance of me.
For as often as ye eat this bread
and drink this cup, ye do so the
Lord doth.
That's the phrase that we're after this evening.
And it always makes me feel cool.
You know, I can look away up into
heaven by force this evening, and I know
that Christ's name is above every name, not
only in this world but in the world
to come, and that one day every knee
shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord.
And I know that when Paul was writing
in first Corinthians, he said this, If the
princes of this world had known, they would
not have crucified the lords of glory.
I wish we could get this into proper
perspective this evening.
That the one who hung on yon Roman
jabbit outside Jerusalem's wall, yon wounded, battered, bleeding,
thorn crowned, yon one with the spittle on
his face, yon one whose hair was knotted
with sweat and blood, he was none other
than the Lord of glory.
Let's get it settled now.
But somehow when we say the Lord's death,
He died!
The Lord died!
That's the bit we must get the hold
of.
Wasn't the people's boy who died for me?
That would be a big thing if he
did, but it would be no use.
Mrs. Alexander was right when she penned, There
was none other good enough to pay the
price of sin.
He only could unlock the gate of heaven
and let us in.
And these words stagger me.
The Lord's death.
You see when we gather round this table
on Sunday morning, and take the bread and
drink the wine, this acts.
It's an act of identification first of all.
Everyone who works and everyone who participates, they're
all identifying themselves with the work of the
Lord at the cross.
They're saying that his body was given for
them and that his blood was shed for
them.
And if you don't love him and you
don't want him for anything, don't be sitting
at this table.
It's no place for you.
You're only a hypocrite that's pretending and professing
to love him while all the time in
works you deny him and you're an abomination
in the sight of God when you go
further than that.
But those of us who love him, we
come here at his command for it doesn't
say a vouchsain as ye eat this bread.
And remember it doesn't say a servant.
It says adoption.
And the principle was laid down in the
early church that the disciples gathered together on
the first day of the week to break
bread.
And it's an act of identification.
Of course it's an act of commemoration.
This do in remembrance of me.
But it's more than that.
It's an act of proclamation.
For as often as we eat this bread
and drink this cup we do so the
Lord's death.
It's being proclaimed all the time.
The word soul is the old word for
peach, you know.
It's proclaimed.
So that this act is an act of
identification and it's an act of commemoration and
it's an act of proclamation.
And of course it's an act of anticipation
because we're only doing it until he comes.
Remember there'll be a table down here on
this planet when Jesus comes in spite of
communism and rebels and wars and everything else
that hell has to offer there'll be a
table here until he comes.
Make no mistakes about it.
So you can see this is what we're
asked for this evening.
We're asked for the Lord's death.
I want to show you some things about
the Lord's death.
First of all our Lord's decision about his
own death.
Let's go over to 1 Peter and at
the first chapter please.
First epistle of Peter and at the first
chapter.
And Peter's writing to these believers.
They were Jews scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia and
so on.
They were elect according to the foreknowledge of
God the Father and all the rest of
it.
But he says to them in verse 18
first chapter verse 18 forasmuch as ye know
that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things
of silver and gold from your vain confiscation,
retrieved by perdition from your fathers but with
the precious blood of Christ as of a
lamb without flemish and without spot who verily
was full ordained before the foundation of the
world.
I want you to get the full ordained
bit into your mind.
You know that's a tremendous word you know.
That the lamb whose precious shed blood is
the price of our redemption that of the
lamb he was full ordained before the foundation
of the world.
And mind you when God the Father is
speaking to God the Son in Hebrews chapter
1 the Father said to him thy throne
O God, he calls him God thy throne
O God is forever and ever and then
he said to him and thy Lord in
the beginning made the foundations of the earth.
Now before he made the foundations of the
earth he was full ordained to be a
lamb.
Don't think that this came upon him all
of a sudden and that he didn't know.
I hear them on the wireless in the
morning saying that when he's in Gethsemane he
doesn't know where he is he doesn't know
where he's gone he doesn't know what's happening.
My dear friend from before the foundation of
the world in you.
And if that's not clear enough let's go
back to the Acts of the Apostles and
we're at the second chapter please.
The Acts of the Apostles second chapter it's
the day of Pentecost and it's part of
the sermon that Peter preached.
He preached in the power of the Holy
Ghost that day and it is what he
said to the people at least it's part
of it.
Verse 22 Verse 22 Ye men of Israel
hear these words Jingle of Nazareth a man
approved of God among you by miracles and
wonders and signs and remember miracles and wonders
and signs are all different.
In case you didn't know that just make
sure you know what we're about.
Because I hear them getting mixed up in
miracles and signs and wonders and they don't
know where they are.
Well he was approved by miracles and wonders
and signs which God did by him in
the midst of you as he is as
I should know him being delivered by the
determinate council and foreknowledge of God ye have
taken him by wicked hands of crucified and
flayed.
You know it's great to think about the
determinate council you know the council of the
prime in God Father, Son and Holy Ghost
they sat in council before the foundation of
the world and they determined certain things you
see God is bound to foreknow everything that's
to take place you wouldn't like to take
me back to a place where God didn't
know, would you?
He wouldn't be God.
Yes God knew everything he knew the end
from the beginning and he knew that if
he would create Lucifer of the anointed seven
over the throne and the highest of all
his created beings his plan he knew that
he would evolve don't you think he didn't
because he knew all about it and he
also knew that if he would make man
and woman that this fallen cherub would come
as a serpent and would beguile him and
thus tempt Adam to follow the one he
loved he knew that sin would enter into
the world and he knew that he'd have
to do something about it and the council
is sitting and they're determining things and it
seems they come to a voice from the
council who will go for us and the
Lord Jesus the second person of the Trinity
said here am I send me and at
that moment he was taught all day before
the foundation of the world to be the
Lamb to deal with both Satan and sin
you know if you look at the verse
carefully that we're looking at you'll find this
verse 23 10 being delivered by the determinant
council in her knowledge of God you can
see the directive will of God here yes
the directive will of God was not Christ
would be the Lamb you can see the
permissive will of God here because God is
permitting him to be taken by wicked hands
and he's permitting him to be taken by
these wicked hands you know it wasn't nails
spiking him through the tree or spitting in
his face or crushing the crown on his
throne on his brow that need redemption oh
don't ever get off on the foot that
man doctoring Christ could make atonement for the
sin he was committing you know God just
allowed them to fall into the hands of
these sinful men and they placed them on
the cross and he suffered at their hands
but there came a time when he became
the substitutionary sacrifice for every believer there came
a time when his blood was shed sacrificially
to be the price of our redemption remember
Christ saw all this before the foundation of
the world you see that's the vision that
Christ had of his own death that was
the decision he made let's go to Hebrews
just for a moment we're at Hebrews chapter
10 I think it's one of the great
chapters of the Bible and we would need
to take time with it but time won't
work for us this evening but we'll do
our best quickly I believe the prayer is
vital to the the letter to the Hebrews
and I think if we had time we
could prove that but we don't need to
do that this evening it says of these
Hebrews to these Jews for the law having
a shadow of good things to come and
when he talks about the law here he's
not talking about the 10 commandments he's talking
about the ceremonial law he's talking about sacrifices
not talking about the moral law, the ceremonial
law he says for the law of ceremonies
having a shadow all the tribes were shadows
all the sacrifices of the ceremonial law were
shadows of good things to come so the
law having a shadow of good things to
come are not the very image of the
good they were only shadows, not the image
and because they were shadows, can never we
should mark those words, can never at any
time, can never with those sacrifices which we
offer year by year continually, look the comers,
they're on to perfect that's why we sign
tonight not all but other beasts on Jewish
altars slain can give the guilty conscience peace
or take away the stake they can never
do that they couldn't make the comers with
brought the sacrifices they couldn't do that he
says, because he's a great old arguer Paul,
verse 2 he says for then would they
not have ceased to be offered it's a
simple question, isn't it if you could bring
a lamb and it made you perfect you
wouldn't need to bring another one, would you
well it's just logic to say, for then
would they not have ceased to be offered
of course they would have ceased he says,
for then would they not have ceased to
be offered because that the worshippers once purged
should have had no more conscience of sins
my, if you were really purged and made
perfect well, there would be no more sacrifices
he says, but in those sacrifices there is
a remembrance again made of sins every year
for it is not possible he's back to
the carnival it is not possible that the
god of bulls and of goats should take
away sins so he's levelled that up pretty
fairly and he says, because the ceremonial law
can never because it is not possible that
the god of bulls and goats he says,
wherefore, verse 5 wherefore, when we come up
into the world he's talking about the Lord
Jesus now if he's coming up into the
world it's a sacrifice and offering our wills
not that our body has now prepared me
now this is our Lord's preparation for his
own death I want you to take the
word body out and just put it there
as it were body have a look at
the body I want you to know who
speaks it it's the one who's in the
form of God it's not that not everybody
should be equal with God it's the one
that's allowed to take upon themselves the form
of a cousin he's speaking to somebody else
he says our body has now put the
word now there and look away up into
the sky now prepared me did you get
the difference between body and thou and me
I hope you did because this body is
being prepared and he's coming and he's entering
into the womb of the virgin and he's
about to become God incarnate he is going
to be God man of flesh in flesh
he's going to become what he has never
been before a man but he doesn't choose
to be what he has always been he's
God manifest in flesh you've got them all
now I think there's something here that you
need to notice isn't the sacrifice and the
blood of gods and virgins couldn't do the
job so because they couldn't do the job
our body has got prepared me now was
he going to do the job in his
body that's the thing I hope you've got
that that's been wonderful you know it's written
in verse 8 about when he said sacrifice
and uttering and don't uttering and uttering for
saying no good is not may thou have
pleasure therein which are offered by the ceremonial
lair then said he lo, I come to
do thy will now he was stepping out
of the land that was felled in fact
he was stepping out of the bosom of
the trough when he prayed to John 17
he says father give me the glory which
I had with thee before the day was
I hope you can see him as the
eternal son if he says father and he
says I had glory with thee with the
father well there must be the eternal son
with the eternal father before the day was
he stepped out of all that and much
more he who was rich Unitarians think that
he only began at Bethlehem said to an
old Unitarian minister once do you really think
that Jesus just began at Bethlehem I do
I think it says in that book he
who was rich for your sex became poor
tell me when he was rich was he
rich at Bethlehem oh I'm mistaken was he
rich in life he was the carpenter's son
and he lived in a miserable place called
Nazareth he was rich in death died on
a cross he was buried in another man's
grave so I gave the old fellow a
bit of a kick I said come on
tell me when he was rich he was
never rich down here it was before he
came the word was he who was rich
became poor so he stepped out of the
glory and we're going to take upon him
he's not just entering into this body this
is to be a unique personality God manifests
in flesh that he has taken the body
to do something I'm going to tell you
taken the body to die it was all
planned before but wait a minute don't let's
rush it verse 9 then said we know
I come to do thy will O God
now this was part of the will by
which will God will verse 10 by which
will we we the English are sanctified through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
once more I want to ask the cross
are we or are we not you second
-graders I'm just talking to you now are
we sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus or are we not then I
put you in your corner just now I
want to tell you that I was sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus
I don't need to get out of that
room some day am I or am I
not would you like to say to me
because I would change it you know that's
very wonderful you know that you came and
took upon in this form of a servant
and going through the offering of that body
we are sanctified we are set apart into
words by the offering of the body of
Jesus once more hope that it doesn't finish
there you see from then on we are
called the sanctified ones look let's get the
hold of this you see bless the truth
for by one offering you know what the
one offering is now the offering of the
body of Jesus for by one offering he
has perfect good forever have you or have
you not perfect good forever are there any
folks here who think you can be lost
again would you like to meet me afterwards
and take me on I would ask you
simply about perfect good forever would you like
to stand up and tell me now because
I don't care what you're going to do
with it you'll find out when you stop
it soon and soon and soon and soon
that it will just be perfect good forever
I asked the minister who preaches this nonsense
once tell me what perfect good forever means
he says I don't know I said you're
a liar I don't know any other way
of tackling a man like that you don't
tell me you go to school and you
pass your exams and you don't know what
perfect good forever means you're a liar if
you say anything else you're a hate-making
yourself you're not honest you're not honest with
the preaching you're not honest with God you
want to bring about your own blot don't
you friend God will never bless you you're
not even honest you know this is the
mighty thing that through Christ's death, the Lord's
death something that was for our day before
the foundation of the world a poor lost
drunken scotch like me who was brought out
of the gutter I stand tonight through the
offering of the body of Jesus perfect good
say it louder that's better you know you're
the only one that's any use without me
bless you you hear him chipping in sometimes
don't you let me say this and not
blush while I say he's got this clamour
in his speech you know he has to
have two or three goons out and put
me to changes to say and some of
you that can talk all night you wouldn't
get a mute over here bless you brother
yes I think you can see this now
let's get this bit we've gone slow tonight
for some reason I hope the clock stops
sometimes I pray the clock stops and sometimes
it does you know I was going to
pray I hope it falls down but it's
really just on the video now let's get
the hold of this our Lord's vision of
his own death I think that this is
something we must do because modernists don't seem
to think that the Lord knew all about
this let's go right back to Luke's gospel
and we're at Luke's gospel chapter twelve the
gospel by Luke and we're at the twelfth
chapter verse
forty-nine the Lord Jesus is speaking Luke
twelve forty-nine I am come to send
fire on the earth and what will I
if it be already kindled but I have
a baptism to be baptized with and how
am I threatened shall it be accomplished you
know when he took this word baptism on
his lips here he was thinking of Calvary
he was thinking of his death and sometimes
when I have an argument with theologians who
try to put over sprinkling for baptism I
take them to Calvary and I've never found
one yet anywhere who is prepared to say
that Calvary was like sprinkling I hope you
would never dare to you see the word
wouldn't do there you see baptism is a
putting in and putting on and the Lord
Jesus went down into the deep depths they're
called where there was no standing where every
wave and billow of God's wrath against sin
went over his holy head that's baptism in
case you didn't know and there's no sprinkling
about it I wonder sometimes at the so
-called intelligence he knew all about this he
says I have a baptism to be baptized
with how am I threatened shall it be
accomplished oh yes he knew do you remember
him in Gethsemane have a look at John's
Gospel and we're at 8 Kings and
remember he left the upper room and came
down the little narrow street and across the
court and out of the beautiful gate of
the temple and down the valley of Jehoshaphat
and across the Kidron oh I can remember
the days when I walked every yard of
this on my own and marched it out
and put it into my mind and he
went into Gethsemane and you remember Judas came
and we're saving Zion now verse 10 then
Simon Peter having the sword drew it and
snipped the high priest's servant and cut off
his right ear Mr. Orr my friend who's
gone to glory often said when he read
this either Peter was a brilliant swordsman or
he was a poor marksman he said if
he only meant to take off his ear
with one blow he was a brilliant swordsman
but if he meant to take off his
head and only got his ear there wasn't
much use of the sword then Simon Peter
having the sword drew it and snipped the
high priest's servant and cut off his right
ear the high priest's servant's name was Malchus
then said Jesus unto Peter put up thy
sword into the sheath a what sheath?
the cup which my father hath given me
shall I not drink it?
you see he saw the baptism and he
had a cup don't ever tell me that
he didn't know it seems it was foreordained
quite a determinant council had it all planned
out have a look at John 12 just
while you're there and 32 John 12, 32
and I if I be lifted up from
the earth good Lord then answer me this
he said signifying what death was to die
now he knew all about it didn't he
he knew about the baptism he knew about
the cup he knew about the cup I
if I be lifted up if you go
back to John 3 you'll find it clearer
still you remember this quite well John 3
verse 14 and as Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness even so must the
Son of Man be lifted up friend he
knew all about this he knew about the
baptism he knew about the cup he knew
about the lifting up he knew about the
cesarean you know I think this must have
made the mark on his mind as Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness I
think that even in the days of his
flesh he could look back and see that
serpent on the wall I think it would
bring to his mind the loneliness that would
be his account but then when you look
at the serpent it would bring out the
awfulness that would be his it's a symbol
of sin he was not only to be
alone he was to be made sin for
us he knew all about the suffering I'll
tell you that that serpent on the wall
not only brought before them the loneliness and
the awfulness but the dreadfulness because this was
a serpent of drought and before it could
be in that form it had to be
put into the fire and run into the
mold oh there was a fury at Calvary
that we'll never understand one of the types
is the cake in the oven and the
meal was put in the oven and the
door was shut and he's in the dark
and he's being burned oh remember that our
God is a consuming fire when he's dealing
with sin and the only difference between Christ,
God's land and all other lands is this
that the fire consumes the land in the
old economy on the altar but Christ consumed
the fire consumed the fire for us that's
it, no more fire for me a friend
he knew all about it you remember him
talking about unless the corn of wheat fall
into the ground and die somebody came to
argue with me not so long ago about
this death on Calvary he said you see
we don't understand properly now that this was
just the thought of a swoon that he
went into it was like a coma that
you take with diabetes if you don't take
your injection properly I had a second look
at this character I felt he was away
in the novel but I had to be
very careful with him and I listened impatiently
unusual for me to have so much patience
God must have been very near I said
look friend you've gone just about far enough
with me I want to take you to
the book of Revelation where the Lord Jesus
is talking when you teach this in the
two years and he's saying to John I
am he that liveth and was dead if
you are right he's alive now get out
you know you get tired of it I
can't just listen to the devil all day
you know and if they don't get out
when the get out is given then I'll
have to think about it he fell out
not so long ago you know and I
would do it you know don't think that
I'm here to put up with the devil
not for a moment I'll just give you
so many seconds and if I see you're
daft I'll get rid of you when the
Lord Jesus said I am he that liveth
and was dead what's all the argument about
you know the corn the wheat fell into
the ground and died you know this book
has some of those amazing statements you know
here where we were reading in 1 Corinthians
11 it's called the Lord's death if we
went to Romans 5 we'll do it next
week reconciled to God by the death of
his son what's the difference between the Lord's
death and the death of his son and
there is a difference you know if we
would go to Hebrews chapter 9 let's do
that go to Hebrews chapter 9 at least
I think it's chapter 9 Hebrews chapter 9
yes it is now look at this carefully
and it's a great time verse 15 for
this cause he is the mediator of the
new testament or the new covenant that by
means of death or the redemption of the
transgressions that were under the first covenant they
which are called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance isn't that very wonderful now that's
a promise this eternal inheritance is new to
every belief but you know where a testament
is or where a will is there must
also of necessity be the death of the
testator you see you have the Lord's death
the death of his son the death of
the testator and they're all different you know
then you have the death of the cross
and that's different again now what's the difference
the difference is this when you say we
are reconciled to God by the death of
his son this brings before us what it
cost God to reconcile enemies like us cost
him his son when you say the death
of the testator you know you're thinking about
the will that was made because this will
was made that everything that would become Christ
would become mine and I mean that if
he is the heir of God and I
can tell you this that God hath made
him the heir of all things well I
can tell you this I'm a joint heir
of everything everything that's left is mine and
I'll tell you before this could come into
creation in all its fullness for eternity the
testator who made the will had to die
and once an old man in this meeting
made a will in the hospital and left
me 700 pounds but before it could get
signed he was dead I haven't a chance
because he didn't rise again but my Lord
who made the will he not only died
he rose again to see our gift there
he is the testator you know when you
say the death of his son that's what
it cost God when you say the death
of the testator that's what it brought me
when you say the death of the cross
that's what it meant for him when you
say the Lord's death that's what it really
was the Lord's death it's an amazing statement
isn't it you know there are types of
this in the Old Testament let's try to
do them let's go back to Joshua and
we're at the third chapter and Joshua's coming
to the Jordan and the old river Jordan
is always looked upon as a sort of
symbol of death now let's get this as
quick as we can we're at verse 11
we're at Joshua chapter 3 verse 11 before
the ark of the covenant of the Lord
of all the earth passeth over before you
into Jordan I think we should get the
ark of the covenant into our minds it
was made firstly of wood and then the
wood was covered with gold and we can
see these two things the wood was something
that came from earth the gold is something
that everlasting and these two were cunningly and
wonderfully brought together it's the type of the
humanity and the deity of the Lord very
wonderful these types and you know inside the
ark of the covenant the tables of stone
were there because the one who was God
and man let's get it quite clear that
he kept the whole law within his heart
he loved God with all his heart he
loved man with all his heart not only
was the tables of stone in there the
pot of manna was in there because the
one who in the wood is humanity and
in the gold deity and in the tables
of stone purity in the manna he's sufficiency
he'll keep us right through the wilderness and
Aaron's rod was there too and that just
shows his ability to give life it's a
perfect picture of our Lord Jesus now this
is the ark coming to Jordan and it
says here verse 14 and it came to
pass when the people removed from their tents
to pass over Jordan and the priests bearing
the ark of the covenant before the people
and as they that bear the ark were
come unto Jordan and the feet of the
priests that bear the ark were dipped in
the brim of the water now here's the
great parenthetical portion for Jordan overfloweth all his
banks all the time of harvest but the
waters which came down from above stood and
rose up from beneath very far from the
city of Adam that is beside Saratan and
those that came down towards the sea of
the plain even the salt sea sailed and
were cut off and the people passed over
right against Jericho you know Calvary it was
like Jordan it had overflowed its banks my
there never was a death just like this
it's in all its fullness and yet for
every believer here he has made a way
clean for you oh yes what a wonderful
thing I will repeat 1st Samuel and we're
at chapter 5 1st Samuel chapter 5 and
we're rushing it a bit but it doesn't
matter here's the ark of the covenant again
this ark that was a picture of Christ
now it's in the hands of the Philistines
now and the Philistines took the ark of
God and brought it from Ebenezer onto Ashdod
when the Philistines took the ark of God
they brought it into the house of Dagon
and set it by Dagon now this must
have been a very wonderful moment when the
ark of the covenant was face to face
with Dagon he was the god of this
world if you like he was the god
of the Philistines now it says and when
they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow
behold Dagon was fallen now what was the
morrow?
the morrow was the second day wasn't it?
they'd put an end one day before Dagon
and on the morrow that's the second day
Dagon was fallen upon his face to the
earth before the ark of the Lord and
they took Dagon and set him in his
place again and when they arose early on
the morrow morning what morning's that now?
that's the third day isn't it?
behold Dagon was fallen upon his face to
the ground before the ark of the Lord
and the head of Dagon the head of
Dagon and both the palms of his hands
were cut off upon the threshold you know
friends it was through death oh let me
put it right for you it was through
the Lord's death that the devil who had
the power of death up to that moment
he was paralyzed oh his head was crushed
and he just hasn't the same power now
as he used to have you know I
don't think I need to go into this
oh let me do it properly Matthew 27
just look at it for a moment or
two Matthew 27 I think this is amazing
it amazes me verse 15
Jesus when he had cried again with a
loud voice yielded up the ghost you know
that's a tremendous statement actually in one of
the other translations and I think it's maybe
nearer than this it says that Jesus when
he had cried again with a loud voice
dismissed his spirit yielded up the ghost dismissed
his spirit I'll tell you a wee thing
you can't do it you know when we
take this text Christ died for the ungodly
you know we must get the fact of
Calvary right Christ died you must get the
truth of Calvary right he died for the
ungodly and you must get the power of
Calvary right but it's the fact Christ died
you know we use this physiology all the
time we meet one another we say John
so and so died this morning no really
honestly he didn't John so and so lived
as long as he could and struggled as
hard as he could and death overcame him
and he became dead but when we say
Christ died we mean it but he took
his life from him you know he laid
it down of his own accord you know
he dismissed his spirit he sat in the
dark sat in when it was fully open
and the devil thought that he had it
and you know the old Hebrew saying Christ
arose hallelujah Christ arose there's a line in
it which says death couldn't keep its prey
he tore the bars away he did nothing
of the kind this I object to you
see when you tear the bars away you're
breaking out that's what they do at Long
Cash now and again and in the free
state only they don't break out they let
them out friend let's get this clear tonight
he didn't break out he didn't escape he
opposed death is the word oh I want
to tell you this is amazing you know
he dismissed his spirit he stepped into death
and all the ways of God's wrath went
over him he went the way down into
the depths where there was no standing and
then he stamped a punch and he rose
triumphant with no breaking out above him friend
when Christ died when Christ stepped into death
when Christ dismissed his spirit certain things happened
now watch this verse 50 Jesus when he
had cried again with a loud voice yielded
up the ghost and behold the veil of
the temple was rent in twain from the
top let's get that bit to the bottom
you know this was God's doing you know
how high this curtain was almost as high
as the top of the border and a
bit beyond that so it wasn't any of
the priests that tore it if it was
rent from the top to the bottom it
was heaven handed it you know heaven was
moved when Jesus died because God knew that
the way was made back to him now
there's a way back to God you know
from the dark parcel city it was made
now look at this behold the veil of
the temple was rent in twain from the
top to the bottom and the ash did
quench and the rocks rent you know the
very rocks burst asunder when Jesus died heaven
felt the impact when Jesus died ash felt
the impact I want you to get this
bit and the graves were opened and many
bodies which they were ruthless here I will
tell you a wee thing or two because
we're talking about bodies being raised now have
you got that sir?
because you don't believe that oh yes there
were bodies many bodies of the saints there
were only bodies of the saints make you
no mistakes about that now there were no
bodies of sinners raised on this occasion just
bodies of saints and there's going to be
a moment not very far distant from where
we are now when Jesus comes again and
there will only be the bodies of the
saints you know make you no mistakes about
it just read it right and you'll be
alright many bodies of the saints which swept
the roads and came out of the graves
after his resurrection and went into the holy
city and appeared on the memory oh what
a night that would be if one of
these fellows walked into the room put you
from sleeping wouldn't it I want you to
get the whole of this the whole of
the impact when Jesus died heaven felt the
impact God tore the veil in two and
earth felt the impact for the rocks and
hell felt the impact for these souls and
spirits of these saints that were in the
paradise side of hell had to come and
be born the bodies oh what a wonderful
moment it was you know there's a centurion
standing at the foot of the cross and
when the veil ends and the cross ends
he cries A TRAIT!
THIS IS A RIGHTEOUS MAN!
cause he felt the impact when the serpent's
head was bruised at that moment he felt
the impact he got it now I think
we must next week do reconciliation cause there's
a lot more than that and more sides
to that and then we'll go on to
the burial and work out the days for
you where are you Nora I've lost the
place 134 I have the place 134
Jesus keep me near the cross there a
precious fountain free to all a healing stream
flows from Calvary's mountain and we'll sing the
first and we'll sing the last verses first
and last 134 134
I have the place 134 there a precious
fountain free to all a healing stream flows
from Calvary's
mountain and we'll sing the first and we'll
sing the last verses I have the place
134 Jesus
keep me near the cross there
a precious
fountain free to all a healing
stream flows from Calvary's mountain and we'll sing
the last verses there a precious fountain
free to all a healing stream dear Lord
we bow at thy feet again Lord we
thank thee for dying for us we feel
in our hearts that we're not worthy of
the least of all thy mercies yet we
look forward to the day when we'll stand
on the golden street and we'll be redeemed
in fullness and we'll sing like we've never
sung before thou art worthy for thou art
slain my Jesus I love thee I know
thou art mine plant us in thy field
with thy blessing and take us home in
safety for thy name's sake Amen