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00:01So the title of the sermon today is Memorialize This, Memorialize This, so it's just like the word memorial with an I-Z-E on the end of it.
00:12And what that means is, you know, tomorrow's Memorial Day, memorialize is to commemorate or preserve the memory of a person, event, as a monument or a holiday.
00:33And there's a lot of people, they're going to talk about people dying for this country, and I don't want to take anything away from that.
00:40You know, those people should be honored.
00:43But the one thing we need to understand is, there's somebody who's died for this country and the whole world, and we need to memorialize that constantly.
00:52So I've got three points, and then just a whole bunch of verses to describe that.
00:58For the first point is, God the Father gave Jesus.
01:01Go to John 3, and we've got a lot of verses to go to.
01:05I just want to, I tried to find all the verses I could find that clearly talked about Jesus giving his life.
01:12Because the Jews will tell you, they killed Jesus, and that's partly true.
01:16But they take it as a point as he couldn't get away from them, and that he took them.
01:21So John 3, we just went through the book of John, so this should be familiarized to us.
01:27But this is what, right after, he's still talking to Nicodemus, who's a ruler of the Jews.
01:34And we understand 3.16, and we're going to get to that in a minute.
01:37But 3.13, sometimes we just glaze over that.
01:43But I want you to look at chapter 3, verse 13.
01:45And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man which is in heaven.
01:53So Jesus is clearly telling us there's nobody who's going up and down into heaven except him.
01:58He's the only person.
01:59And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.
02:07So what does that mean?
02:07Keep your finger there and go to Numbers 21.
02:11This is in the Old Testament in Numbers chapter 21.
02:15Every time I go to the Old Testament, I think about this guy.
02:22He was asking about our church.
02:23He lives in Tallahassee, so it's not that he would come here.
02:27He said, do you all use the Old Testament or the New Testament?
02:29I said, yeah, but it's the whole Bible.
02:32I thought that's kind of strange, but never had anybody ask that.
02:36So we do use the New Testament and the Old Testament because it's all of God's Word, 66 books.
02:41Numbers 21.
02:44We'll start in verse 1.
02:45And when King Arad, the Canaanite, which dwell in the south, tell them that Israel came by the way of the spies,
02:54then he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoners.
02:57So if you remember, Moses sent 12 spies.
03:02Two of them came back, which is Caleb and Joshua.
03:07And they said, hey, we can take these Canaanites.
03:10No big deal.
03:11The other one said they couldn't.
03:12That's what it's talking about.
03:13And Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord and said, if thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
03:21And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites.
03:25And then they utterly destroyed them and their cities.
03:29And he called the name of the place Hormah.
03:31And they journeyed from the Mount Hor to the way of the Red Sea to compass the land of Edom.
03:38And the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
03:42So right there, they said, hey, if you deliver these people, we know you're with us.
03:49But look at the next verse.
03:50Look how quickly people just turned.
03:53And the people spake against God and against Moses.
03:56Wherefore have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?
04:00For there's no bread, neither is there any water.
04:03And our soul loathes this light bread.
04:06And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people.
04:10And they bit the people.
04:11And much people of Israel died.
04:13So they're murmuring against Moses and God.
04:16Not just Moses, but God.
04:18They think they're going against Moses.
04:20But God's the one that put them out there.
04:22And they're getting to the point where they don't like the bread out of heaven.
04:26Called manna.
04:27And that's what that means, loathes this light bread.
04:30So he sends fiery serpents.
04:32Now to me, this is pretty interesting because the Bible says they're fiery serpents.
04:39So I don't know if the serpents were actually on fire.
04:42Or if when they bit, they felt like fire.
04:45I don't know.
04:46The Bible didn't tell us.
04:48But it says that many people died.
04:49So there's snakes that are poisonous out there.
04:52And look, when you go out to the desert, I don't know what the desert is here.
04:56There's not a lot of things living out there.
04:58So I don't know how many snakes are out there.
05:01So God literally sent these snakes to them.
05:04And therefore the people came to Moses and said, we have sinned.
05:07So now they're turning and saying, ah, we messed up.
05:09And that's what God has to do sometimes.
05:11He has to send some kind of problem in our life to make us get down on our knees before we can look up.
05:18And that's what happened here.
05:19We have spoken against the Lord and against thee, praying to the Lord that he take the serpents away from us.
05:25And Moses prayed for the people.
05:27And the Lord said unto Moses, make thee a fiery serpent and set it upon a pole and it shall come to pass.
05:33That every one that is bitten when he looketh upon it shall live.
05:38And Moses made a serpent of brass and put it upon a pole and it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
05:48So this is a good example of salvation.
05:50I've brought this to you before that, you know, that look and live, that you believe that this pole, this serpent on a pole made of brass.
06:01If you believe that most people tell you that's not going to help, you know, that's not going to help.
06:07But the same thing they'll say, really believing on Jesus, putting your trust on something else and not trying to work it out yourself.
06:13This is a good example of salvation that when he's telling them this, that if you believe this, look, they had nothing else to believe.
06:24That, you know, they don't have any doctors out there.
06:27They don't have anybody to heal them.
06:29They don't have any antidotes or anything like that.
06:31So the only thing they had is the only thing was, was belief.
06:35And when they did, they lived.
06:38That's just like us.
06:39If we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and put our trust in him, we will live eternally, eternal life.
06:46This is a good example of that.
06:48This is why they don't, I don't know if they do it anymore, but sometimes you see the EMTs or paramedics, they have a pole with serpents around it.
06:57I know my dad, he was in the medical corps in the army.
07:00He served in Vietnam as a dentist.
07:02And that's one of the, you know, the different groups of people, the military police have two-crossed pistols.
07:11Infantry have two-crossed rifles.
07:13The military medical staff, doctors and whatever, they have that cross-looking pole with the serpents around it.
07:22This is where this comes from.
07:23People don't realize that.
07:24A lot of stuff comes from the Bible.
07:26This is one of them.
07:27But it's also an example of God telling people how Jesus, he's going to be lifted up.
07:34And, you know, by him being lifted up on the cross, that's what it's talking about.
07:41This is a foreshadowing that this is what, that when they lifted Jesus up on the cross, when they looked and lived and they believed on that, they were saved.
07:50Go back to John 3.
07:51He's saying also, the Son of Man is going to be lifted up on the cross, that's what he's talking about.
08:01He's telling them all the way back here in John 3.
08:05That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
08:10Now, folks, when I read this, it's pretty clear to me.
08:13But you have all these people that call themselves Christians and they say, well, you can lose your life.
08:19Well, the word eternal means it never ends.
08:23So, I ask people all the time, I asked a guy yesterday, I said, if it's everlasting life or eternal life, then why would God call that if it doesn't last forever?
08:34And they just don't get that.
08:36Verse 3.16, one of the greatest known verses out there.
08:41People can quote it to you word for word.
08:43And you ask them, what does that mean?
08:45Oh, you got to be a good person.
08:46They don't get it.
08:47For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten.
08:52Some of the new Bible versions, they change it to one and only son.
08:56Wrong.
08:57He's the only begotten because he's the only one that ever came from a virgin.
09:01That's why he's begotten.
09:02Preached sermons on that before.
09:04What Jesus called the only begotten and the first begotten.
09:08The first begotten, he's the first one to rise from the grave.
09:11And we'll be the second and the third and so on.
09:13The only begotten because there's nobody else out there that will ever be born of a virgin ever.
09:21That's why he's the only begotten.
09:22He's not the one and only son because, keep your finger there, go to John 1.12.
09:27Because many have received him, to them give he power to become the sons of God.
09:33So it doesn't make sense for him to be the only son.
09:36Because if you have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, even to them that believe on his name, you are his son.
09:44Go back to John 3.
09:46So that doesn't make sense.
09:48So that's why these new Bible versions, they say, well, he's the only son.
09:52No, he's not.
09:54He's the only son that died for our sins, but he's not the only one and only son.
10:01That's why these versions are goofy.
10:03They take the begotten because they think the word begotten means that God created Jesus.
10:08And that's not what it means.
10:09The begotten means that he was begotten physically from the Holy Spirit.
10:14That's what it says in Luke 2, that the reason he's called the Son of God is because he came from the Holy Spirit.
10:21The Holy Spirit put Jesus' physical body in Mary.
10:26Now, whosoever believeth in him should not perish.
10:29It means that they won't have to go to hell, just like in verse 15, but have everlasting life.
10:35So there's two verses in 15 and 16 that says eternal or everlasting.
10:39They mean the same thing.
10:40Eternal means it never ends.
10:41Everlasting is a lot easier to understand.
10:44It lasts forever.
10:44For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
10:50He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already.
10:55Because what?
10:57He hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
11:03So it's pretty clear.
11:05God the Father gave Jesus in John 3, 16.
11:08That's what it says.
11:09Number two, Jesus gave his life.
11:13Go to John 15.
11:17John chapter 15.
11:21God the Father gave Jesus, but not only that, Jesus gave his life.
11:24John 15, verse 12.
11:32This is my commandment.
11:33This is right after he's talking about him being the true branch, the true vine.
11:38This is my commandment that ye love one another as I have loved you.
11:43And this is the verse that people use in the military a lot of times.
11:49Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
11:54They'll change it to brethren or brothers or whatever.
11:58And look, I'm not taking away from that.
12:00That's a great thing.
12:02But Jesus is given an example because the next verse he says,
12:05You are my friends if you do whatsoever I command you.
12:09Hereforth I call you not servants.
12:12For the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth.
12:15But I have called you friends.
12:17For all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
12:23You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye should go out and bring forth fruit.
12:32So why did he choose them?
12:33Not to be saved.
12:34He knew they were going to believe on him.
12:36But he chose them, why?
12:38To bring forth fruit.
12:41Because guess what?
12:43I think it's chapter 8.
12:46James, his half-brother and some of his other half-brothers, it says his brethren did not believe on him at first.
12:53But guess what?
12:53There's a book called James, a book called Jude.
12:56Both of them are his half-brothers.
12:58And what we need to understand is that God didn't choose them because to be saved.
13:05That's Calvinism.
13:06What did he choose them to do?
13:07To bring forth fruit.
13:09And those men did.
13:11That your fruit should remain that whosoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it.
13:17These things that command you that if ye love one another.
13:21So, again, I'm not taking away from what people do.
13:25But I do want you to understand that there's no greater love.
13:28There is no greater love than a man give his life for another.
13:32And in law enforcement, I understand that.
13:34That, you know, people have done this in the past.
13:41And, you know, it's not because they don't believe in what's going on.
13:45It's not because they don't believe.
13:47You know, the United States, just to be honest, they have fought many wars that were pointless.
13:52The ideology of it, of Vietnam and some of these other things, were about stealing property, stealing things.
14:00Some of the wars today are about stealing gold and money and stuff like that.
14:06So it's not that idea.
14:07Just like when I was in law enforcement, you know, I knew several law enforcement officers who were killed in the line of duty because of making a traffic stop.
14:16It wasn't because of what they were doing was anything we should judge.
14:22Just like the wars or whatever, it's because they had the right or they had the idea and the love to put their life in somebody else's hand.
14:31And I've had to do that.
14:32You know, every day that I went out to work, I realized that that person next to me that was working with me, that they may have to put their life on the line for me.
14:43And that's what we need to understand.
14:45That's what the Memorial Day is about, is to memorialize the people who have died, not because we believe or don't believe in what the country was fighting for,
14:55but because they loved the other man enough to put their life on the line.
15:00And we need to understand that about Jesus.
15:02That's what we need to understand.
15:04So again, it's not for us to say, well, the U.S. shouldn't have been in this war.
15:09They shouldn't have been in that.
15:10Look, I agree with that.
15:12There's several things that I don't believe the United States should have been involved in.
15:15In fact, if you get Old Testament, I was just reading this and I believe it was in Deuteronomy.
15:19We're not going to go to it now because that's not the point of the sermon.
15:23What they're supposed to do is when they came into a country that they're going to fight,
15:27if they said, hey, let's be peaceful, that was the first thing they're supposed to do.
15:33Not carpet bond the place.
15:35They're supposed to come into the nation and say, hey, do you want to have peace with us?
15:40Let's live together.
15:41And if they said, no, we don't want to be peaceful with you.
15:44We don't like you.
15:44Then they were to do something else.
15:46Then God has an answer to everything.
15:49And when you're not doing it, then God's going to judge you.
15:52But I want you to understand, it's not the ideology or the idea of why people were going to war.
15:58It's the fact that they put their life on the line for each other.
16:03Go to Matthew 26.
16:08But Jesus gave his life.
16:10Don't let anybody tell you that the Jews came and got him.
16:14They did, but it's because we need to understand that Jesus allowed it.
16:19And I think in Matthew 26, when they're at the Garden of Gethsemane, explains it the best.
16:26Look at Matthew 26, starting in verse 51.
16:30This is when they're in the Garden of Gethsemane and they're praying,
16:34and then all of a sudden these soldiers and chief priests and elders and Judas come up.
16:39Look at verse 51.
16:41And behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck a servant on the high priest and smote off his right ear.
16:56And Jesus said to him, Put up again thy sword in this place.
17:00For all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
17:04Look at verse 53.
17:06Thinketh thou that I cannot now pray to my father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
17:13But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be?
17:18So he's saying, Don't you have any idea that I could ask God the Father right now,
17:24and he would send twelve legions, which a legion is a thousand, twelve thousand angels to protect me?
17:30He's saying, But if I did that, you're going to go to hell.
17:34Pretty simple.
17:36Go to John 19.
17:40John chapter 19.
17:43So we need to understand, Jesus gave his life.
17:47So why?
17:47So that we might have eternal life.
17:50If he didn't do it, we'd all be going to hell.
17:53And that's what he's telling him.
17:54Look, you're protected.
17:57I'm doing this for your own good.
17:59And we should understand that too.
18:01Look at John 19.7.
18:06This is when he's talking to Pilate.
18:09This is the only one, by the way.
18:11I told you John has more revealing things about the crucifixion than other.
18:17This is the only one that talks about this is in the book of John.
18:22Look at verse 7.
18:23The Jews answered him, We have a law, by our law that he ought to die because he made himself the son of God.
18:30Well, when Pilate heard it, therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid.
18:35So when he said that, hey, you should die because he's making himself the son of God, Pilate's scared.
18:42And he went against him to judgment hall and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou?
18:47He's saying, Where did you come from?
18:49But Jesus gave him no answer.
18:51But then saith Pilate and him, Speaketh thou not unto me?
18:55Knowest thou not that I have the power to crucify thee and have the power to release thee?
18:59He's saying, Why?
19:00You need to speak to me because I've got the power to release you or to kill you.
19:03Look at what Jesus answered.
19:06Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except that were given thee from above.
19:10Therefore, he that delivereth me unto thee hath the greater sin.
19:14So two things.
19:15One, just like he said in the Garden of Gethsemane, he's saying, Look, God the Father's allowing this.
19:24If he did not, he would destroy you right now.
19:27But he's also telling them, Whoever delivered me has the greater sin, which is a good example.
19:32That sin, there's no, there's no, sin's not equal.
19:38And I've preached sermons on that before.
19:40So I've got, let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen.
19:49About fourteen or fifteen verses that describe exactly what that Jesus gave his life.
19:57And guess what?
19:58I was nice today and I put them in order.
20:01So go to Matthew 20.
20:05Verses that clearly say, now there's some that say other.
20:09And you can make the conclusion.
20:11But these are the clearest verses that says that Jesus gave his life.
20:16And that's what we're talking about on Memorial Day.
20:19Matthew 20, verse 25.
20:22But Jesus called unto him and said,
20:28You know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and that they are great exercise, authority upon them.
20:37But it shall not be so among you.
20:39But whoso will be great among you, let him be your minister.
20:44And whoso will be chief among you, let him be your servant.
20:46Even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
20:58Let's reiterate, get a loop in Mark 10.
21:01A ransom.
21:08Look at Mark 10.
21:13Verse 42.
21:15Well, Jesus called unto him and said unto him,
21:18You know that they which are counted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them,
21:26and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
21:29So it shall be not among you, but whosoever will be great among you shall be your minister,
21:35and whosoever of you will be the chiefest shall be servant of all.
21:40For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
21:48So Jesus is telling them, the Gentiles, they're over you, which is the Romans at this time.
21:54He said, they have lordship over you.
21:56And then the ones below them, he's really talking about the chief priests and them.
22:02They have authority over you.
22:04He's saying, but that's not the way it's going to be with us, because the greatest among you is going to serve.
22:10And that's why he gave the example of washing their feet.
22:12And he's telling them, not only that, but a ransom.
22:17If you've ever watched a movie or something where, you know, you see these people and somebody gets kidnapped,
22:22and they give them a ransom note and says, hey, pay us a million dollars and you can get this person back.
22:27That's what it's talking about.
22:29The ransom that Jesus gave was his blood, and the receive is what we receive is eternal life.
22:35That was a ransom that had to happen.
22:38Go to John 6.
22:40John 6.
22:42But it's clear that he gave his life.
22:45Nobody took it from him.
22:47He gave it.
22:52The Jews, they like to say, no, no, no.
22:55He gave his life that we may have eternal life.
22:58Look at John 6, starting in verse 48.
23:01This is where Jesus is telling them that he is the bread of life,
23:05all the way back to the Old Testament and the wilderness.
23:09I'm that bread of life.
23:11Your fathers did eat man in the wilderness and are dead.
23:15This is the bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die.
23:21I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
23:25If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever.
23:28And the bread that I will give is my flesh, and I will give for the life of the world.
23:35So, he's telling them that I am that bread.
23:42Of course, the Jews, they don't understand.
23:44They say, how can we eat his flesh?
23:46And, you know, the Catholics, I've told you about this, they take this to another level.
23:52Excuse me.
23:52They believe eating that cracker is Jesus' body, his flesh, and drinking the wine is his blood.
24:00It's really disgusting.
24:03But he's telling them, he's giving an example that he is that bread that came down from heaven.
24:10He's saying, look, your fathers, they ate of that manna, and they're dead.
24:14But he's giving an example of he is eternal life, not of eating his body, like they think, but that he is that living bread.
24:24Go to Romans 5.
24:37Romans chapter 5, starting at verse 6.
24:40Verse 6.
25:10And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
25:35So, the Bible's telling us that Jesus Christ, because he gave his life, he died for us.
25:42You know, people might die for a righteous man.
25:45You know, you may die for your wife.
25:47If a gunman came up, you may step in front of the bullet for somebody you care about.
25:52If, you know, soldiers, they realize this other soldier beside them is a good person and worthy to be, you know, jumped on a grenade for them or something to save their life.
26:05That's what he's saying.
26:06He's saying, but would you die for them godly?
26:10Would you die for a wicked person?
26:13Well, that's what Jesus did.
26:14He died for us.
26:15While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
26:19He commendeth his love.
26:20The New Bible versions say he demonstrated.
26:23I told you when Jesus said, I commend my spirit, means that he put his spirit in the hands of God the Father and the Holy Spirit.
26:30Why? Because he was putting his soul in the hands of God the Father.
26:36That's why commendeth makes more sense than demonstrated.
26:40Because his soul went to hell for three days and the only way he came out was because of God the Father and the Holy Spirit.
26:48But while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
26:52We were dirty, rotten, filthy sinners and he still died for us.
26:55That's the reason for that.
26:57Go to 2 Corinthians 5.
27:002 Corinthians 5 verse 14.
27:20For the love of Christ constraineth us.
27:22What does constrain mean?
27:23It means that we shouldn't, because Jesus died on the cross and we understand that his soul went to hell for three days.
27:33It makes us understand that he loves us that much.
27:38That he did this for us, not for himself.
27:41He came down from heaven.
27:43Heaven came down on this earth to do that.
27:46That was his only reason for doing this.
27:49That's the only reason for him coming as a baby in Bethlehem's manger was to save us.
27:55And that constrains us for us to tell people, hey, you're going to go to hell if you don't believe on this.
28:02That's what encourages us.
28:05That's what it's meaning.
28:07That if one died, I'm sorry, because we thus judge.
28:10What are we judging?
28:12We're judging if people are saved or not.
28:13You know, people say, oh, don't judge me.
28:16Well, you need to.
28:17You need to understand by asking people questions.
28:20If they died today, would it go to heaven?
28:22And they say, no, I don't understand how to do that.
28:25I'm trying to live a right life.
28:27Well, what constrains us is that the fires of hell are burning still.
28:32And they'll never stop burning.
28:34And that's what encourages us to say, look, let me show you in the Bible what it says so you can understand.
28:39So, for all, then we're all dead, that he died for all.
28:46This is a good example of just destroying the heck out of Calvinism.
28:51Because they'll tell you that Jesus just died for the ones who were saved.
28:55No, he died for all.
28:57That they which should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose again.
29:04So, the Bible is clear that Jesus died for all and then rose again.
29:09The death, burial, and resurrection.
29:10What we must know to be saved.
29:13Go to Galatians 1.
29:16Galatians chapter 1.
29:20Starting in verse 1.
29:22Paul, an apostle, not a man, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ.
29:28Why is he an apostle?
29:29Not because of man, but because of Jesus Christ.
29:31And God the Father, who raised from the dead.
29:36Right there, there's a good verse.
29:37Underline it, that God the Father raised Jesus from the dead.
29:41There's one of them.
29:43And all the brethren which are with me unto the churches of Galatia.
29:48Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
29:52who gave himself for our sins.
29:57That he might deliver us from the present evil world, according to the will of God our Father.
30:01To whom be glory forever and ever.
30:03Amen.
30:04So, the Bible is clear here in Galatians 1.
30:06That Jesus gave himself for our sins.
30:10He was sinless, but he gave himself for our sins.
30:14Go down to Galatians 2.
30:18Galatians 2 verse 16.
30:20Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law.
30:25Now, the word justified, I want you to understand this word.
30:28The best way to understand this word is just as if I never sinned.
30:33So, we can say saved, justified, these words are synonymous.
30:40But the word means just as if I never sinned.
30:43It means that if you never sin, there's no reason for you to go to hell, is there?
30:49People think they go to hell because they don't believe on Jesus.
30:52That's not exactly true.
30:53The punishment of sin is hell.
30:56That's what it is.
30:57So, if you never commit a sin, guess what?
30:59There's no reason for you to go to hell.
31:02But, guess what?
31:03You're not justified by the works of the law.
31:06You can't be good enough to get to heaven.
31:07The one time you sin, the one time you will, your punishment is hell.
31:12So, we're not justified by the works of the law, repenting of our sins and all that garbage, but by the faith of Jesus Christ.
31:21It's saying you're not justified by the works of the law, but by believing on Jesus Christ.
31:27Even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ.
31:34It means that when you put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, you are justified as if you never sinned before.
31:42And not by the works of the law.
31:43So, it's not repenting of your sins or saying, I'm trying to keep the Ten Commandments and all that.
31:48For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
31:53Nobody's going to stand before Jesus and say, well, I was good enough to get into heaven because no flesh, your body, no body will be justified by repenting of their sins, trying to do right, none.
32:07But, if, while we seem to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are found sinners, is there for Christ a minister of sin?
32:15Then, God forbid, for if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
32:21For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I might live unto God, and I am crucified with Christ.
32:28Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
32:42I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
32:48Folks, just ask people.
32:49When people tell you, hey, you've got to repent of your sins, then Christ died in vain.
32:55Why didn't he die on the cross?
32:57You might as well just roll the dice and say, let's see if I can be as good as I can throughout life and see how it works out.
33:03He died in vain.
33:04It means there's no reason for him to die.
33:06If you're doing that.
33:08If you think the righteousness comes by keeping the Ten Commandments, whatever law, that's what it says.
33:13And that's why I don't understand people just aren't saved when they don't get this.
33:17That it's not your righteousness that saves you, it's the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
33:24Ephesians 5.
33:26Go to Ephesians 5.
33:28Look at verse 1.
33:33Ephesians 5.
33:34Ephesians 5.
33:34Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor.
33:48So Jesus Christ gave his life as an offering unto God, just like they had to in the Old Testament.
33:56They gave an offering unto God which was a sweet-smelling savor unto God, a sacrifice.
34:02Go down to verse 22 in the same chapter, Ephesians 5.22.
34:07This is where Paul is comparing marriages to the church in Christ.
34:13Why submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church.
34:21So just like the husband is over the wife, this is not popular now, I don't care, but Christ is the head of the church and he is the Savior of the body.
34:31Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be unto their own husbands in everything.
34:37Husbands, husbands love your wife, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.
34:50So the Bible is showing us the comparison to Christ giving his life for the church.
34:55Now don't be a Calvinist and say, well, he just died for some.
34:58No, he died for all.
34:59But the people of the church, not just people who go to church, but the people who believe on him, that's what it's talking about.
35:06It's not just talking about, hey, he died for the people in church and the people in church are just going to heaven.
35:11No, he died for everybody.
35:13Doesn't mean that you have to go to church to go to heaven.
35:15Doesn't mean that you have to be going to church if you go to heaven.
35:18What he's talking about, the church, that the congregation, he died for the congregation.
35:24But he died for everybody.
35:25We just saw a bunch of scriptures that says that.
35:27But here he's trying to compare the church to husbands and wives, the relationship between Jesus Christ and the church.
35:38That's why it says that.
35:40It's not, again, don't get it confused and think, oh, he just died for the church.
35:43People go to church.
35:44No, he died for everybody.
35:46The ungodly, the godly, whatever, everybody.
35:50Some people won't partake in it.
35:51Some people will not.
35:52Go to 1 Timothy 2.
35:53There's more scripture saying that he died for everybody than just the church.
36:05But he's making that correlation.
36:091 Timothy 2, verse 3.
36:13For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior.
36:17And this just destroys, I wrote it above it, Calvinism busted.
36:20Who will have all men to be saved.
36:23Not just some.
36:25God wants everybody to be saved.
36:28And to come to the knowledge of the truth.
36:30He wants everybody to understand the gospel, which is called the truth.
36:34Right?
36:35But not everybody will.
36:36Not everybody's going to understand it.
36:38For there's one God, one mediator between God and man.
36:42The man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time.
36:50He gave himself a ransom.
36:52Again, that word used, ransom.
36:54Jesus told him he was going to be a ransom.
36:56Timothy's using the same wording saying, or Paul's using the same wording to Timothy that Jesus Christ gave himself a ransom to all.
37:05Go to Hebrews 7.
37:07Hebrews chapter 7.
37:14When we went through the book of Hebrews, we understand that this is the connection between what Jesus did on the cross, the reason he is, and the Old Testament.
37:24What they did in the Old Testament.
37:27The connection between those two things.
37:29And why we don't have to go out there and sacrifice a goat or a cow or whatever, because Jesus was that one sacrifice.
37:37Look at Hebrews 7.23.
37:39And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death.
37:49He's saying, look, there's a lot of priests that came along, all the way back from Aaron, who was Moses' brother.
37:55All the way back, all these other priests.
37:58Samuel.
37:59He's saying, but they didn't continue on, because they died.
38:02But this man, who's he talking about?
38:06Jesus.
38:07Because he continueth ever, have an unchangeable priesthood, wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost, that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
38:21For such an high priest became us, who was holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.
38:30So he's saying, the high priest, which is Jesus Christ, he's sinless, he's higher, he came down from heaven, who needeth not daily as those high priests to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the peoples.
38:46That's what the priest did.
38:47He first gave up a sacrifice for his own sins, and then once he cleansed himself, then he did it for the rest of the people by sprinkling the blood on them.
38:58That's what the Bible says in the Old Testament.
39:01He's saying, guess what?
39:02Jesus didn't have to do that.
39:04For this, he did once, and when he offered up himself, for the law maketh men high priests, which have infirmity.
39:10It means that the law decided who was a high priest, but they were sinful.
39:16For the word of the oath, which was since the law maketh a son who is consecrated forevermore.
39:21He's saying, look, those priests, daily, they would go in there and do this.
39:25Every year, they would make themselves cleanse and do a sacrifice for themselves.
39:29But there's so many priests that came through there because they kept going through and dying, and their sons would take over, whatever.
39:36Whatever the law said.
39:38But he's saying, Jesus, he's that one high priest.
39:41He did it once, he offered himself once, there's no need to offer of again.
39:45Go to Hebrews 9, verse 11.
39:50Chapter 9 of Hebrews, verse 11.
39:52But Christ, being come and high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building.
40:02So he's giving an example, talking about the ones that's not made by hands is the one in heaven.
40:08That he came down from that tabernacle in heaven, not anything that was made of man's hands, neither by the blood of goats or in calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
40:25And if the blood of bullet goats and the ashes of heifer sprinkled in the unclean, sanctified to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
40:42For this cause, he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death for the redemption of transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of an eternal inheritance.
40:57For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
41:03For a testament is a force after men are dead, otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth, whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
41:17So this is a clear verse that tells us that Jesus was a high priest.
41:23And if the blood of bull and goats and calves, if that was to cleanse the people, because Moses would take it and sprinkle it on the people, that's what the priest would do.
41:31How much more would the blood of Jesus Christ, who created those bulls, those goats, created everything, how much more would it do to purge your sins from the living God?
41:44And it's saying he is the mediator of the new testament, between God and man, that's who Jesus is.
41:50God the Father cannot see sin, he cannot touch sin, he can have nothing to do with sin, that's what Jesus is there, he's the mediator, the go-between, between us and God the Father.
42:01And then it talks about a testament, or will, we'll say the modern word is will.
42:07When you make out a will, you make it out while you're alive, and you say, hey, I'm going to give this to this person.
42:12But the will's no good until the day you die.
42:16You make out the will, you change the will as much as you want, but the day that you die, that's when that will goes in effect.
42:22And that's what it's talking about, the testator is the person that makes that will out, and it's not good until that person dies.
42:31And it's giving the example of physical things that when Jesus died, it's an example of when he died, that is, he was the testator, that it was made in stone, or permanent, so to speak.
42:46So that was the reason that he had to die.
42:49Go to 1 Peter 3.
42:571 Peter 3, verse 12.
42:59Folks, this is a good example that when you try to do right, you try to read the Bible, you try to come to church, you try to pray, you praise the Lord, you try to do what you think is right by the word of God.
43:27Not perfect, that God hears your prayers more than the ones who might be saved, or I'm sorry, are saved, but are living in some kind of sin that they know is wrong, they're drinking, they're fornicating, whatever.
43:43That he hears those prayers, but the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.
43:48The people who are doing wicked, he does not hear those prayers.
43:52So just understand, yes, we have the Holy Spirit, and that's what gets our prayers answered.
43:57But when you're not doing right, according to this verse, he does not listen quite as much.
44:03I'm not saying he's not going to answer, he may not answer it in time.
44:06And again, it may not be his will.
44:08Don't get this idea, this some kind of Joel Osteen thing, that if you do right all the time, that good thing is going to happen.
44:15Stephen would never agree with that, because he was stoned to death.
44:17But I am telling you that this is a good example, when you are doing what's right in God's eyes, he does hear your prayers more.
44:26That's why we come here and have prayer requests, because Jesus is right here with us, and he hears those prayer requests.
44:33I believe that.
44:34I believe one of the good reasons to come to church is to bring your prayer requests, and I'm not saying that he's going to answer it, but he's going to hear it.
44:43And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers of that, which is good.
44:49Again, not saying that, hey, if you do right, and you try to do right all the time, you're never going to be harmed.
44:54Because that's a prosperity preaching, and there's nothing there.
44:59But I will say that if you're doing right, he will protect you.
45:04I do believe that.
45:05I'm not saying that he's going to allow you not to have any bad things, because he is going to test us.
45:10But, and if you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye.
45:15He's saying, look, if you're doing right, and you do have bad things happen, you've got rewards waiting on you in heaven.
45:21So be happy about that.
45:24And be not afraid of the terror, therefore neither be troubled.
45:28But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason for the hope that is within you, with meekness and fear.
45:39What is he saying?
45:40He's saying, when people say, when the world's going to mess, and things are just happening all around people, and they say, man, why are you so happy?
45:51Why aren't you scared of what's happening?
45:52You know, if we go to war, and there's fighting and stuff, you can just say, well, the reason I have peace in my heart is because of Jesus Christ.
46:00And he's saying, this is a good opportunity sometimes of showing people, hey, because I have peace in my heart, here's the reason why.
46:07Do you want to have that same peace?
46:08Let me show you in the Bible.
46:09Having a good conscience means a good lifestyle, living right life, that whereas they speak evil of you, so when you're living right, and they're making fun of you because you're going to church or whatever,
46:23as of evildoers, they might be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
46:29For it is better that the will of God be so that you suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
46:34He's saying, if they're making fun of you, or they're even lying about you, and you're doing right, it's better for you to suffer than to suffer doing wrong.
46:44For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the unjust, for the unjust, because he was just, he was perfect for the unjust.
46:55We saw that in Romans 5, 8, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, and being quickened by the Spirit.
47:04So this verse is telling us that he did that.
47:08You know, if we're going to be like Christ, it's not a problem to suffer.
47:12You know, if you do suffer for righteousness, doing right in the eyes of God, then there's a bunch of rewards waiting for you.
47:22But don't suffer, don't get put in prison because you've done something wrong, that's being suffering for evildoing.
47:28But it's saying, if you suffer for well-doing, greatest rewards, don't worry about it.
47:33God's got this, basically.
47:35That, you know, because Jesus, he suffered one time, but he did it for unjust people too.
47:41And being put to death, his flesh being put to death, guess what, his spirit was alive by God the Father.
47:49All right, 1 John 3.
47:54I did a whole sermon one time about the three sixteens in the Bible.
47:58This is one of them.
48:02We'll start in verse 11, 1 John 3, verse 11.
48:07For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
48:11Isn't that what we saw in John, when he was talking about that?
48:14That Jesus said, has no greater love than a man give his life, but we should love one another.
48:20Not as Cain, who is a wicked one, and slew his brother.
48:23And wherefore he slew him, because his own works were evil, and his brother is righteous.
48:28Now, I don't know if Cain's in heaven.
48:30I don't know what happened after Cain, if he got saved, and he believed on the Lord after he killed his brother.
48:35Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hates you.
48:37And he's saying, look, the world's going to hate you, because you're a follower of me.
48:42We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.
48:48The Bible talks about, when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, we pass from death unto life, because of eternal life.
48:55He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
48:58Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
49:05So I did a sermon a while back, and we talked about this Wednesday, about the things that shall not have eternal life, or inherit the kingdom of God.
49:15Folks, it's one of the verses that people talk about.
49:18But didn't we not see that Moses, who God spoke, the Lord Jesus Christ spoke face to face, he was a murderer, was he not?
49:26He killed a man and buried him in the sand.
49:28So you can't say, hey, if you're a murderer, you're not going to have eternal life, because that just don't make any sense.
49:33It's King David, murder.
49:35But what it's saying is, is that when you hate your brother in Christ, it's like you're a murderer.
49:42Okay?
49:43Because whether they do anything wrong with you, and we talked about that last Wednesday, that you should allow yourself to be defrauded,
49:51because that it's better to do that than to go to law with them.
49:57It's saying, you're like a murderer, you're like Cain.
50:01And it's giving a physical example of Cain killing his brother, because he just, he just didn't like what he was doing, because of his righteousness.
50:09And it's giving an example of that, that love your brother in Christ, no matter what they do, because he's saying what's inside of you.
50:19Now you've got to understand that 1 John is talking about the whosoever, the whatsoever, is the Holy Spirit.
50:25That if you don't have that Holy Spirit inside of you, then you are considered a murderer, because Satan was a murderer, and a liar.
50:35And this is hard to understand, and people like to twist this sometimes, as one of these verses, just like the one in 1 Corinthians 6,
50:42that says if you've done anything on this list, you're not going to heaven.
50:45It's not true, folks, because what he's saying is, hating your brother to death, you're like a murderer, because you shouldn't do that.
50:55Hereby perceive we love, I'm sorry, hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us.
51:05And we ought to lay down our life for our brethren.
51:07This is what we talked about in the whole sermon, is that we should lay down our life for our brothers.
51:14That's what it's talking about. Soldiers would do that sometimes.
51:18They would lay down their life.
51:19But Jesus laid down his life for us, and just like that, we should do the same.
51:23Go to Luke 22, last place we go to.
51:27Luke chapter 22.
51:37We need to keep in remembrance.
51:38You know, there's nothing wrong with us remembering that people would die for our country, and people would go out.
51:45You know, they're going to celebrate tomorrow.
51:47You'll see stuff on Facebook.
51:48They may actually put this verse about, no greater love has a man give for his brother, which is taking it out of context.
51:56And, you know, they're going to probably go out and eat some food, maybe cook some hot dogs and hamburgers.
52:02There's nothing wrong with that, folks.
52:03Some of them are going to drink to excess, or something wrong with that, and drink to their buddies that have died, you know, in combat or whatever.
52:12And not even once will they ever think about Jesus Christ, and that him giving his life for this country, like these soldiers do.
52:21But not just this country, the whole world, in a battle, not for money, like the United States does, or for land, or for power, or anything.
52:31But he died in a battle over hell and death, for eternal life.
52:37And we should memorialize this every day.
52:39Look at Luke 22, verse 17.
52:42Luke 22, verse 17.
53:12So, he's saying, do this in remembrance of me, which is the same thing as memorialize and memorial day as we do this.
53:21And we should understand that when we do the Lord's Supper, it's not just to say, hey, we're doing this X number of times.
53:28Because there's churches out there, folks.
53:29They do it every quarter, every three months, or every day, you know, every week, like the Catholics do.
53:35And they think that that's saving them.
53:38But we know that's not true.
53:39It's to be remembering that Jesus' body was broken for us.
53:43He was beaten.
53:44He was stabbed.
53:45And not only that, his blood was shed for us.
53:49And he gave his life.
53:51Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.