The Resurrection: The Real Timeline!

Chartridge Mission Church

#Easter #Resurrection #Timeline #Passover #Jesus #GoodFriday #LearningTheBibleTogether #MikeGomm #Jewish #Feasts #SlideShow #ChartridgeMissionChurch #Chesham  The controversy over the '3 days & 3 nights' not fitting into our traditional Easter timeline is a major obstacle for many who question the Christian Faith. Mike Gomm clears up this confusion and tells us who is to blame. Here, Mike uses a clear slideshow presentation of the real death, burial, and resurrection timeline that fits exactly how Jesus prophesied it would happen.   Mike Gomm YouTube Playlist:   Mike Gomm's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@mikegomm3625  Chartridge Mission Church, a beacon of faith, was founded in 1844 and remains in the village of Chartridge, just outside Chesham, in the picturesque Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, England, UK.  We are a warm and welcoming fellowship and would be delighted to have you visit us in person. Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm, followed by refreshments.   Our Church is fully accessible, with wheelchair ramps and an accessible toilet, ensuring everyone can participate in our services.     Chartridge Mission Church, Chapel Lane, Chartridge, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, HP5 2TH  The village Church with an international audience.  Support our work at Chartridge Mission Church:  Donations via Stewardship.org.uk:    https://www.stewardship.org.uk/partners/20005300    Cheques can be made payable to Chartridge Mission Church and sent to the above address for the attention of Pastor Barry Kempson.   Recorded on Sunday, 5th April 2026.     Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm.  www.Chartridge.UK   The Friendliest Fellowship.

Transcript

00:00Angels, help us to adore Him. Ye behold Him face to face. Sun and moon bow down before Him. Dwell

00:18us all in time and space.

00:24Praise Him, praise Him, praise Him, praise Him. Praise in us, the God of grace.

00:37So as I said, it's great to be here this evening and to just be able to share with you.

00:42And I always do this these days because I was in a church last Sunday and somebody said,

00:48Who's he? So just to give you a little bit of background too, because I was talking about

00:55something and somebody said to me afterwards, they said, oh, what's your qualification to talk about

01:02these things? I'm thinking, really? But there we go. So just to sort of give you a little rundown,

01:09sort of, you may have actually worked out that I'm one of the younger members of the community.

01:18Having just celebrated a fairly big birthday this weekend, and I've got free travel on the buses,

01:25which I plan to make the most of. But there we go. I got an engineering degree back in the

01:31early 80s.

01:32I then qualified to teach physics and maths at secondary school. I'm still a member of the

01:39Institute of Engineering and Technology. So I still get all the tech stuff and read up lots of stuff

01:44about that. I spent 43 years in the classroom teaching, 40 years in my last school. So I became

01:52a bit like the furniture, really. And I got saved in 1980 on a Youth for Christ holiday at a

01:57place

01:57called New Milton and a school called Fernhill Manor School in the days when you slept in a classroom

02:02and didn't care that there was, you know, there were sort of curtains hung across the windows or blinds

02:07and stuff like that. But I had a great time. I've done various things in the church, as I said,

02:12deacon, elder, been a trustee. I'm actually a trustee of a schools work project in Reading.

02:18And we have just taken something called Easter Cracks to 1000 primary school children in year six

02:26across the whole of the town. Virtually every primary school, I say we, the workers who we employ,

02:31I'm a draw on the trustees. I've been into a couple of them. But you know, if you think there's

02:36just under 1000, 11 year olds, 10 and 11 year olds have heard the gospel this Easter in Reading,

02:42which is really exciting stuff. I've been married for 40 years this summer. I've got two sons,

02:50one of whom is a doctor, who will be probably finishing about midnight tonight. He's had an

02:56interesting day in A&E at St George's in Tooting. He really dislikes bank holiday weekends. He said,

03:03you know, he said, I wish they would ban DIY. They see it all, as you can imagine. And the

03:12other one

03:12is a mechanical engineer, and he's involved in making various bits for very, very fast and very,

03:17very expensive cars. And he's married. So, and just to sort of brief this out, I have to have

03:26include a photograph of my dearly beloved wife. The reason for that, and one or two of you asked how

03:32Helen was, some of you may remember back in 2012, she had a massive bleed on the brain.

03:39She had a brain hemorrhage where the bleed itself occupied a fifth of her brain with a cavity and

03:46spent eight hours on the floor. And my boys found her when they came home from school. That was miracle

03:52number one. She was still alive when they came home from school. She then went to A&E, where if

03:59you

04:00know, if you've ever been to A&E, you get allocated a doctor, who was the follow-up. The doctor

04:04had only

04:05been at the Royal Barks for a fortnight. You say, hang on, you want somebody? Yes, but he had spent

04:10the

04:10previous two years as an A-neuro A&E doctor at the JR in Oxford. He knew all the people

04:20to ring. He knew

04:20all the people. And by the time we got there following the ambulance in, he'd already arranged

04:26for her surgery that evening at the John Radcliffe. And you have to have an A&E team. You have

04:34to have a

04:34free theatre and all of those things. You couldn't believe how many things lined up.

04:40Let me put it this way. Only 5% of the people who have a bleed on the brain of

04:47that side survive

04:48to surgery. Of those who survive to surgery, only 5% survive the next 48 hours. So she is the

04:585%

04:59of the 5%. And what I would say is, if you like a good testimony, I've written a book about

05:05it. And I have to give my book a plug. I brought some with me. Amazon wanted me to charge

05:11stupid

05:11money for them, as Amazon do. However, it is on Amazon. I have some copies. The copies are

05:16a fiver. However, if you haven't got the money, you can take the bank details and pay me later.

05:21We're going to look at this evening, The Resurrection. Maybe from a slightly different

05:26angle, because that's me. But you see, one of the things about the resurrection is it

05:33is unique to our belief, our faith. When I was involved, my office was right next door

05:46to the RE Sociology staff room. So I learnt a lot about alternative religions. And they

05:51always used to come back to me and ask about Christianity. So I thought this evening we'd

05:55have a look at what Paul has to say to the church in Corinth at 1 Corinthians 15. Now

06:02all scriptures are going to appear up here. You may wish to check out to make sure I'm

06:06correct. If you get bored, there are plenty of good, exciting stories in the Old Testament,

06:10as I always say to people. Let's go to 1 Corinthians 15. So you see, one of the things is

06:16about the

06:17church at Corinth was Paul was writing to a church with problems. I don't know if you've

06:23ever looked at it and ever had a look at the church at Corinth. But you see, Paul was writing

06:29to them from Ephesus. And he'd only been away from them about three and a half, four years.

06:34And if you go through the book, you see they'll be getting so much wrong. And right at the very

06:39end

06:39of his first letter to them, and there's some discussion about whether or not it was actually

06:44the second letter, but we don't know. But Paul was writing to this church to remind them of the

06:51absolute fundamentals. You know, the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus. I don't know about you,

06:58but if you ever want somebody to remember something, you will say it last. Have you ever been that sort

07:03of thing? I used to run assemblies in the school I was in, and the very, very important thing that

07:10you wanted them to remember, you made sure that's what you finished with. And I always used to make

07:17and make sure that in my lessons, it was the last thing, even if it came in the wrong order,

07:22the last thing is you want them not to remember. And this is what Paul says. After this in 1

07:26Corinthians 16, it's all about Greek this, Greek that, Greek the other. It's all the sort of wrap-ups.

07:31So in 1 Corinthians 15, Paul is saying something that he wants them to remember.

07:37So let's have a look at this and let's, no, let's, let's, let's pitch in and let's have a read.

07:41And it

07:41says 1 Corinthians 15, it says the following. Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel

07:47which I preached to you, which you also received in which you stand, by which you are saved, if you

07:55hold fast to that word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. You see, Paul, he was

08:02exhorting them to stand on what they had already believed. And he was doing this because some were

08:08starting to waver. Can I say the second half of Paul's letter is a bit like reading the answers

08:15to the questions, but you don't know what the questions are. Because he's addressing a number

08:20of issues. If you go back and have a look at it, it's, it's very clear that they've asked him

08:25some

08:26questions and he's actually sort of answering them. And you see, it says here, it says, if you

08:32hold fast to the word which I preach to you, you see, one of the things is, is we have

08:40to hold

08:40fast to what God has, well, you know, what we believe. We have to hold fast to the gospel.

08:46And you see, in verses three and four, it says the following, for I delivered to you, first of all,

08:51that which I received, this was his personal testimony, that Christ died for our sins according

08:57to the scriptures, and that he was buried and he rose again. And there's this phrase I've put in

09:03here, I've highlighted, on the third day, according to the scriptures. You see, can I say that I've had

09:13some interesting discussions with people, we're involved in some evangelism in the village in which

09:17we live. And can I tell you the one question that people are now saying, they're saying, well,

09:22we talk about Good Friday and Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday, but the Bible says three days.

09:30So the Bible must be wrong. Isn't that interesting?

09:36So what I thought I would do this evening is I'm going to have a look and just have a

09:42look at that

09:42and counter that so we can think about it and take it away. So here we have what I call

09:48the

09:48traditional view. I couldn't get the whole week in one go, so it's two slides, you'll just have to

09:53imagine one after the other. So we had Palm Sunday, didn't we, last Sunday, which is Jesus'

09:58triumphal entry into Jerusalem, which was the first day of the week, and there's no question about that.

10:05And then if we actually move through into the more traditional view, we find the following,

10:10don't we? We said it says that on Thursday evening, Jesus ate the Passover, and we'll see why that

10:16couldn't have happened then. And of course, therefore, overnight on the Friday, when we have

10:21Good Friday, well, I don't know why they don't call it Bad Friday, but I mean, you know, there's

10:26another question. And then we have the thing about Jesus was buried, wasn't he? He was buried before

10:33the sun set, but scriptures very clearly say that. And then we have the fact that we have this first

10:40day of the week, and the Bible very clearly says on the first day of the week, the women go

10:44to the

10:44tomb, and Jesus has risen from the dead. Well, then there's the first question that he sees, if

10:49nothing else, it talks about them preparing spices. Well, when did they do it? Because in between

10:54Jesus' burial, and Jesus rising from the dead, we had a Sabbath. And therefore, they weren't allowed

11:02to do anything, so they couldn't have gone shopping for, because they weren't expecting Jesus to be

11:06buried, were they? So therefore, logic, sorry, I have a bit of a logical brain, it doesn't add up.

11:13And also, you see, Jesus said the following, and if we look in Matthew 12, I've got 38 to 40,

11:19but for

11:19the sake of time, we'll just look in at verse 40. He said, Jesus himself says the following,

11:26as it was, three days and three days, Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a

11:31huge

11:31fish, so the Son of Man, Jesus talking to himself, will be three days and three nights in the earth.

11:39And so Jesus is talking about this, and Paul has repeated this, and in this verse, he said,

11:46you see, Jesus repeats it twice, doesn't he? He doesn't just say it once, he says it twice.

11:52So therefore, it's something that we need to listen to. So let's have a look and see,

11:59anybody like a bit of maths Sunday night? Good bit of maths on a Sunday night? So let's do some

12:03maths,

12:03maths, okay? Because the maths doesn't work. So if you imagine Jesus was crucified and was buried

12:11Friday night, bear with me, okay? Because it, okay, from sunset to midnight, how much of a day is that?

12:18I'll tell you, it's a quarter of a day. If you're in the Middle East, it's about quarter of a

12:23day.

12:24And therefore, that was the Sabbath. So we've got to sort of think about that as well. And then we

12:30have Saturday. Well, if you count Saturday being from midnight, right the way through to midnight

12:36on Sunday, how much is that? That's a day. And then, of course, we have from midnight on Saturday

12:42to sunrise on Sunday, even though it said the women went early, so it's pretty well close to sunrise.

12:47I reckon that's another quarter of a day. So I reckon two quarters and a whole comes to one and

12:54a

12:55half days. So the traditional view doesn't add up, does it? And the people who challenge us over it,

12:59they're quite right, because the numbers don't work. But then, of course, there's the alternative

13:04where people do this rather interesting counting. I call it political counting. You know, if you've ever

13:11worked it out, that the politicians say they'll put one million into something, and then on the second

13:16time they put another million in, so they've put two million in, plus the first million, so that

13:20makes three. So they put two million in. Have you ever watched politicians counting? So it's sort of

13:26this sort of thing here. So we have some say Friday was day one, Saturday was day two, and then

13:31Sunday

13:31was day three. But Jesus doesn't say that, does he? He said three days and three nights. Just have a

13:39look

13:40the definition of a day. I taught science for years. And of course, much of that is Greek thinking.

13:48And scientists have always defined the day by something measurable. Well, that was until they

13:53came up with something about that doesn't contradict Genesis chapter one and two. But then they forget

13:59science, don't they? And the thing is that about time is originally, it was midday to midday,

14:05because it's repeatable. You stick a stick in the ground, and the time of the shortest shadow

14:11is middle of the day. And it doesn't matter where you are on the earth, it's always the

14:16same. And then what happened is you then have something that is really quite amazing, which

14:21is the one over here, that if you were on one of the equinoxes and you put a stick in

14:25the

14:25ground, the shadow traces an east-west line due to the shadow, just due to bizarre things

14:30about equinoxes and that wonderful way God put everything together. However, let's have

14:38a look at what the Bible says, because I like to look at the biblical view. Biblical timing

14:42is so much more important for us. And as soon as we get that in our heads, it just makes

14:48everything add up so much easier. So let's start at the very beginning. In Genesis chapter

14:53one, it says the following, and in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the

14:58earth was out form and void, and the darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit

15:03of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light, and there

15:07was light. And God saw that the light was of good, and God divided the light from the

15:12darkness. And it then says, and God called the light day, and the darkness he called night.

15:17Right. So it was, note, evening and morning the first day. And just in case we don't get

15:27that right, God then goes on to say in Genesis 1 verse 8, and God called the firmament heaven

15:33and the evening and the morning were the second day. And then in verse 13, the evening and

15:37the morning of the third day. And then it says in verse 19, evening and morning were the

15:41fourth day. I think we're getting the picture. Jewish timing is evening and morning. And that's

15:47vitally important that we remember that when we think about what God's way of thinking about

15:53things. I had an interesting discussion with a Christian about a fortnight ago, because he

16:00then turned around and said, he's an engineer. But I said to him, we had this rather interesting

16:07discussion. I said, well, how long's a day? He said, it depends whether you're in Genesis

16:12one or two or in the rest of the Bible. I went, what? He said, well, you know, in Genesis

16:19one or two, the days could be about a billion years, couldn't they? And I'm thinking, you're

16:25allowing science to define the Bible, because we should be those who have the Bible defines

16:29our science. And he was, he was, he was, I've, I've gone back to him. I said, can you

16:36give me the biblical definition of a day, please? He hasn't come back to me yet. So

16:40that's been an interesting discussion when we have it. But you see, when we start to

16:44look at things in God's timing, things start to work out. So let's continue to look about

16:51scripture because you see, Jesus talks about three days, doesn't he? The fact that we're

16:57here today is because Jesus talks about three days. And in John chapter two, verses 18 to

17:0419, he says the following, there was a great long discussion. And so it said, so the Jews

17:10answered and said to him, what sign do you show to us since you do these things? And

17:16Jesus answered to them and said, destroy this temple. And in three days, or some versions

17:22have after three days, I will raise it up. And then Jesus in Luke 8 31, which is almost

17:28identical to Luke 9 22, he says, and he began to teach them that the son of man must

17:33suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes

17:39and killed. And after three days would rise again. And that's then repeated at the end

17:45of Luke. And he said to them, as it is written, it will be necessary for the Christ to suffer

17:49and to rise from the dead the third day, or in some versions that seems to say after the

17:55third day. So Jesus was talking about three days, wasn't he? And Jesus' understanding of

18:02three days was evening and morning, a 24-hour period from sunset to sunset.

18:10So let's start to bring things together. So let's have a look at what went on in this

18:14particular week, the week that we have just been thinking about and looking at. So John,

18:21in John's gospel, it picks up the following. In John 19 and verse 31, it says the following.

18:27And it says, it was preparation day that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the

18:33Sabbath, for the Sabbath was a high day. And the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken,

18:38that that might be taken away. This was when Jesus had been crucified, he was on the cross.

18:44And if you like, the clock was ticking towards what was going to be what they called a Sabbath. And

18:53it's not a standard Sabbath in a minute. And you see, one of the things was that if they crucified

18:59somebody, sometimes they would take days to die. I mean, it was the most cruel way to kill anybody,

19:07but quite often, if they didn't quite get it quite right, or they didn't quite stretch the body out

19:13rightly, you could take days to die. But you see, there was this pressure upon those who were

19:22who were killing Jesus and the two on the crosses with him, that actually they needed to get on with

19:28the job. And what they would do is one of the things would be, of course, that you could push

19:34yourself up on your arms a little bit by your ankles, extreme pain, but at least you could get

19:39a couple of breaths in before you slump back down again. And that's why if they broke their legs,

19:44then they would stop that from happening and they would suffocate far more quickly.

19:49But you see, one of the things is, is that when we look at and we jump back to Leviticus

19:5323,

19:55Leviticus 23 gives us some more thoughts. You know, we, one of the things we need to do as

20:00Christians is we need to look and join up the dots. So many Christians don't join up the dots

20:06because it says the following, and this then starts to put even more of the evidence together. It says,

20:11these are the feasts of the Lord, a holy convocation, which you shall proclaim at their

20:17anointed times. And it says the following is on the 14th day of the first month, that is Nisan,

20:24at twilight, it is the Lord's Passover. Now we know all about Passover because Jesus celebrated the

20:29Passover. And it then says, it says on the 15th day of the month, in other words, the next day

20:36is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord. Seven days you must eat unleavened bread. That was the

20:43beginning. And what would happen is, and without going into a great deal of detail, that whenever

20:47you had the first day of the feast, it was counted as being like a Sabbath. Does that start to

20:54go

20:54together? So we have Passover and we have a Sabbath of unleavened bread. So therefore, let's just sort of

21:03start to put these events together and you'll see what's going on. So if we come here, and here we

21:09go,

21:10and I've actually summarised these for us. By the way, there are 70 separate events between Jesus's

21:18entry and Jesus's crucifixion. I haven't tried to put them all in. Somebody's asked me to, somebody's

21:26asked me to do a teaching day on, on the, on the events between, um, the triumphal entry and Jesus's

21:33resurrection. And I'm working on it. It's a bit trying to get them all in and work out where, what

21:39goes where. And, um, I've got this massive sheet of paper and there's nothing like a pen and pencil

21:45is than a rubber when you try and work out this, because actually there's a lot of misconceptions

21:50in there. But as soon as we start to look at them from scripture and sort of forget what anybody

21:56else

21:56has said and say, right, Jesus did that. And how does that fit in? And some people said, oh, there

22:01wasn't time to do this between, but actually some, on some occasions, some of the events are actually

22:07repetition of things that happened previously. So let's, let's have a look. So, so if we go for what I'm

22:13going to, I'm, now I'm going to nail my colors to the master a little bit here, as you can

22:16probably

22:17see. And let's, cause what you have to do is you have to work backwards. My wife and I used

22:23to,

22:23used to run Bible weeks. We ran them for years and years and years. And you would say, right,

22:30people arrive on the Saturday. What happens to happen on the Friday? What has to happen on the

22:34Thursday? What happens to week before? What happened to month before? What happened? And you'd work your way

22:39backwards. So what I've done is I've worked this back and believe me, and I'll show you how it works

22:44out. So if we look at the days, and I think Tuesday was the day of the Passover, and I'll

22:51show you how,

22:52because I've got a little, I went to the website to do this. Tuesday, Passover, with Tuesday at sunset,

22:58we have Passover. Passover, of course, the Sabbaths always start after sunset. So, so therefore they had

23:07the meal at night, if you remember, if you look at all the events that went before it. Okay. But

23:12one

23:12of the things I want to just say, do you remember Jesus's triumphal entry? And he went in, and he

23:17went

23:17into Jerusalem. And what else was going on on that day? Jesus joined a procession of lambs coming in,

23:26and what were the lambs all coming into Jerusalem for? Being herded in for the Passover.

23:32Passover. But they weren't allowed to keep them more than, once the priests had blessed them,

23:39they weren't allowed to be kept for more than 48 hours. So therefore the Passover couldn't possibly

23:45be Thursday, because the sheep had arrived on the Sunday, and they weren't allowed to keep them more

23:50than 24 hours. So I reckon the Passover would have been on Tuesday. Okay. And Jesus then went out to

23:57the Mount of Olives, where he was betrayed, and he was arrested, and then you've got Peter around the

24:01fire, if you remember all those sort of bits and pieces. And then Wednesday from dawn, about 5am,

24:08and you can go on the web, and you can look at what time sunrise was. I've done it. This

24:14is the great

24:15thing these days. You can go and say, right, AD 31, I think it probably was. If you look on

24:22that

24:22particular day, you can look back and marry it up. And yes, people say the timelines don't work,

24:28but, you know, within sunrise was about 5am at that time of the year. In Jerusalem, you have to put

24:37the Latin long in. You can't actually put Jerusalem, but if you work it all out and you spend some

24:41time,

24:42you can find that 5am dawn, the sun rose about 5am. And then all these things happened. Jesus was

24:48delivered to Pilate. The crucifixion we know was at 9am. There was the darkness from 12 till 3.

24:54We know that Jesus then died. We know that the veil in the temple was torn. And we know that

25:00there

25:00was this race to get Jesus into the, to get him and the two other people crucified at the same

25:07time

25:07off the crosses. So therefore the sunset, my understanding is sunset was at 550 something,

25:19if I remember rightly. So in other words, they, they, they were, because the Sabbath started as

25:24soon as the sun had set. And what they would do is that the high priest would stand in the

25:30temple.

25:31How many of us have been to Jerusalem and seen roughly where the temple mount is? As soon as the

25:35sun disappeared behind the Mount of Olives, then that was counted by the, as being the next day

25:40in Jerusalem. So we find we have the sunset and Jesus was laid in the tomb. Now from that sunset

25:49onwards was going to be this particular special Sabbath, the one of unleavened bread, the one

25:54we've already looked at. We then go into Thursday sunset to Friday sunrise. Jesus was in the tomb. So

26:01that is, that is obviously Thursday, Thursday night. Friday at sunrise was then an ordinary day,

26:07which would have allowed the women to do the preparation, the purchase of the spices,

26:12prepare various bits and pieces because they couldn't do it on the Sabbath because of the

26:18time factor. So therefore on the Friday sunset to Saturday sunset was the weekly Sabbath. And

26:26therefore we find that we've obviously got Saturday sunset was dark and sometime after the sun set

26:34on Saturday night, Jesus rose from the dead. Because we know on Sunday morning, Mary showed

26:40up at the tomb. The women was the whole thing about the tomb and they found that Jesus wasn't there

26:44anymore. Quite amazing. But you see, if you count up the days as I've actually, as you can actually do

26:52here, if you count them up, so you've got unleavened bread one, you've got the sort of Thursday day

26:59two, you've got the Friday, the Sabbath three. Okay. And therefore on the first, on that first day of

27:10the week, the festival of first fruits, we find that Jesus rose from the dead. So let's put that

27:16all together in a timeline. I love timelines. But the interesting thing about the whole thing and what

27:21I actually did was I actually put this together and I took some bits of paper and I slid them

27:26one

27:26over the other until they lined up. So you can take the days and you can take the period of

27:31time

27:31and you can look at the festivals in the various years. And actually in AD 31 and AD 33, they

27:37line

27:37up. So you can have Palm Sunday on a Sunday. You've then got 48 hours to where you would have

27:42had

27:42the Passover. Okay. So you've got nice and 11. Jesus came into Jerusalem. It all lines up. And if we

27:49actually go on to the next slide, you find that Jesus eats the Passover. Okay. He's crucified.

27:55He's buried. If you count your days, because of course we're counting Jewish days, we're

27:59not counting Roman days. I put the Roman days on the bottom. But if you count, we've got

28:04Passover. We've then got this special Sabbath, which was the Passover's unleavened bread.

28:10We've then got Nisan, which was an ordinary day. We've then got Nicene 17, which was the

28:15weekly Sabbath. And we've got Nicene 18, which was the first day of the week and first fruits.

28:20So Jesus rose because when the women went to the tomb, Jesus wasn't there. And we can

28:26all go, hallelujah, because Jesus is alive. And for me, how many, how many days and nights

28:32was Jesus in the tomb? Three days and three nights. Jesus was in the tomb. And what get

28:50up? Including putting Passover in, giving you the 48 hours maximum for the lambs upon their

28:55blessing in Jerusalem on the Sunday, which we call Palm Sunday, when Jesus actually rode

29:01into Jerusalem. And if you, did you read that bit in, in, in, in Luke, what it says, and

29:07it says the chief priests and the scribes were upset about Jesus's procession. Why were they

29:13upset? After all, I mean, Jesus was this, why were they thought to be glad for him to come

29:18in and join their procession? You know, more, more people. Well, of course they were upset

29:21because here were all the lambs coming for sacrifice for Passover and the lamb of God

29:27rode in with them. And of course, what were they expecting him to do? And what it was his

29:32first move? He went into the temple and overturned all the tables and the money changers and all

29:36those sort of bits and pieces because they were making a killing out of these lambs.

29:40Slightly ironical, but they were because you couldn't buy the lambs with ordinary shekels.

29:46You had to exchange your shekels for temple shekels and with temple shekels, you bought

29:50your lambs. Somebody was making a markup each way through, weren't they? You know, somebody

29:56would be in for a little bit, you know, quick backhander or, you know, you want a nice lamb,

30:01you know, give me a bit more money for it. But you see, Jesus, the lamb of God came in

30:06and all, as far as I'm concerned, all the numbers light up. You see, so Jesus went into the grave

30:11Wednesday evening before sunset and Jesus rose from the dead after sunset on what we would call

30:19Saturday. And if you work that out, that is three days and three nights. And Jesus fulfilled the

30:26scriptures. And we can turn around and we can say to people, look, the numbers do work.

30:31Just forget the version that was brought in by the Church of Rome because it was convenient.

30:40So therefore, we can see that Jesus goes into the grave on Wednesday evening before sunset.

30:44He rose from the dead and he fulfilled prophecy precisely. Isn't that, you know, we can say,

30:52praise the Lord. Isn't that great that Jesus, you know, we would have expected it, but it just

30:56confirms it for us that Jesus fulfilled those festivals so exactly. And you see, first fruits

31:06is where he is. And we'll have a look at this in a minute from Corinthians. It talks about Jesus

31:10being the first fruits of the resurrection. We are the harvest. Pentecost has happened.

31:20And we sang already, weren't we, about trumpets is yet to happen. We ought to be going,

31:25hallelujah. And I'm, you know, there's a lot of, you know, every year when we get to the feast

31:29of trumpets, I actually go, okay, Lord, is it this year, this year in Jerusalem? Who knows?

31:36It might be, it might be 2026. I must admit, I'm not going to go and hide in a hole

31:42like some

31:43Americans did. Was it two years ago? Cause they thought Jesus was coming back and they were all,

31:47there are loads and loads of American preppers of all there and hiding in there, waiting for Jesus

31:51to come. And then when it didn't happen, they went, hmm. Cause they get half of it. And of course,

31:59what does Jesus say in his word? He says, you will not know the day and the hour. Only the

32:03father

32:03will know. But you see, we are those who can celebrate the resurrection because in Hebrews chapter

32:13nine and verse 22, it says the following, it says, according to the law, almost all things are

32:19purified with blood and without the shedding of blood, there is no remission. And in fact,

32:25if you, that's, that's the new King James version. And I've got a, when I'm repairing something,

32:30sometimes I, I'm, I've got, I've got a big screen and then I've got another screen on my computer so

32:35I can have up to eight versions of the Bible running side by side. And my wife says to me,

32:40you're not at it again, are you? But you see, it gives us a little bit of insight, doesn't it?

32:46And in fact, uh, well, I'm, I'm careful. There are some versions I won't look at,

32:50be assured. I won't name them, but there we go. It says, in fact, under the law, almost everything

32:57this is from the amplified is cleansed with blood and without the shedding of blood, there is no

33:01forgiveness, neither release from sin and guilt or cancellation of the merited punishment.

33:07The amplified always just gives you that little bit extra, doesn't it? Uh, my oldest son refers to

33:11as the extra Jesus version. We had, um, recently we were doing some early morning Bible readings

33:20and we have one person who, who reads in the amplified Bible and somebody jokingly said one

33:25morning, while the rest of us make our cup of tea, X will continue to read, you know, but

33:32you see, there's this key word, isn't there? That there's a, this thing called remission,

33:36remission, the cancellation of a debt charge or penalty. We know that because of Jesus's death

33:44and his resurrection, you know, the sin that has been canceled. There will be a time when we

33:52be able to stand before the throne of grace before God and, and he will say, you know, you are

33:56forgiven

33:56your books, your name's written down, your books, you know, you're in the, you're in the book.

34:02Um, and it was interesting that, uh, I was at one point, just before I finished actually

34:08in the school I was working at, um, one of my jobs, I say job, it wasn't really a job,

34:14I was the, I happened to be free, that meant I was the one who was allocated to it, that

34:19sixth forms could sign out. And they could only sign out if the computer said yes. In other

34:26words, there wasn't a reason why they couldn't sign out. And I, and I, I was also just think

34:31that was a little bit like, like the Lamb's book of life, you know, I, Fred would turn

34:35up at the, turn up at my office and say, can I, can I leave? And I would look down

34:40the computer

34:41and it would go, you know, if any start, if they were outstanding homework or anything

34:44in the sixth form, then they, they weren't allowed to go to study, go home, they had to

34:48study, you see. And I always thought that was a little bit like the book of life, you

34:53know, if you're, if your name's in the book, you can get, you know, you're in, if you're

34:57not, bye-bye, you know, you've got to, you've got to go somewhere else. Well, in

35:01their case, just study. But you see, we are those who are, who are free, who are, we

35:09know the forgiveness and we need to walk in that forgiveness. Helen and I were recently

35:15involved in ministering to a couple who said to us, we're, we're having a few issues.

35:22And we went, okay, yeah, all right. And they, and as they started to talk to us, as they

35:26started to unwrap their lives, we realised that actually there was a massive amount of

35:35bitterness in their lives. And God, and God said to God, gave me, and I can't remember

35:41the details. It's God, isn't God great when he gives you a revelation and you forget it.

35:48But all I do remember is that I said to them, and God told me the name of somebody, and

35:55I

35:55can't remember what the name is. And it wouldn't, and I just said, you need to forgive this bloke's

36:01name. And the bloke just, he's a really big, burly bloke. And he's into gardening in a big

36:09way. And he can throw logs around that I would have to cut into three, you know, and

36:14he's a massive bloke. He's, he's really fit and he's just crumbled. And it, God put his

36:22finger on him. Can I, can I tell you, we didn't have to pray for them for healing because

36:27they forgave this bloke. Both of them actually needed to, to, to, to forgive somebody. The

36:34person they were never, ever going to see again, the person is the other side of the

36:37world now, but they had to forgive them and it set them free. But you see, we too are

36:44forgiven, aren't we? Jesus has forgiven us all of our sins. And the Bible talks about

36:51us being those who have to forgive others and the forgiveness actually affects us. It

36:55doesn't forget the person who, who you need to forgive. And it's something we need to walk

36:59in.

37:02So let's, let's actually carry on. And we, we, we got back to Corinthians. We only did

37:07three verses, but let's carry on for a minute or two. And I just want to just pitch in in

37:12one or two more verses and then we'll, we'll sort of, we'll leave it for tonight. And you

37:18see, it says in verse five, okay, so we was emphasizing the resurrection and the third

37:24day. And we, we, we, they believed it because they'd seen it and they knew how it all worked.

37:29But Paul was reminding the church of Corinth who all sorts of stuff had started to come

37:34in. And he says in verse five of one Corinthians 15, he says, and that he was seen by Cephas

37:39that was, that was Peter. And then by the 12. And after that, he was seen by over 500 brethren

37:47at once whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. The Bible

37:53term fall asleep means they died. And after that, he was seen by James and then all of

37:58the apostles. And last of all, he was seen by me also, the one born out of due time.

38:04You know, if we put this into a court, you imagine, you know, you sometimes people say

38:08court cases. Um, I was watching one on, one, one on YouTube the other day, which was, he

38:13said, she says, he says, she says, and somebody brought another witness and they brought another

38:18witness, neither of which were very tenable. And the judge threw the whole thing out. And I

38:22think he, I think he was sorely tempted to say, go and take four swimming pool woggles.

38:26You know, those long foam things go outside and just beat the living daylights out of each

38:30other with woggles. And then, then go home and go down the pub and have a drink. Cause

38:34it was so trivial. But you see here we've got 500, over 500 witnesses to Jesus's resurrection.

38:44You know, the fact that Jesus was alive and he appeared to them.

38:49And you see, Paul was preaching to them and saying, look, you know, Jesus is alive.

38:55How can you turn your back on what you know? How can you turn your back on what I've said

38:59to you? And then he carries on and he says to me verse nine, and he said, he says, for

39:05I, the least of the apostles who am not worthy to be called a castle because I persecuted the

39:11church. If you remember, he said, but by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace

39:18towards me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all yet. Not I, but

39:24the grace of God, which was with me. Therefore, whether it was I or those, so we preach. And

39:31so you believed. We need to be the believers, a gathering of God's believers. And you see in

39:39revelation 1220, it says the following, and this is, this is, you know, a voice that hopefully

39:44we're all going to hear where it says, and I heard a loud voice in heaven saying now salvation

39:49and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ has come for the accuser

39:54of the brethren who accused them before our God and night and day has been cast down and

40:00they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony. Our testimony

40:06is so powerful. If we can just, whenever the enemy has a go at us and throws doubts at

40:11us, we can actually turn around and say, I know that my redeemer liveth. That needs to

40:19be our testimony. I know because I know because I know. And the more times we say it, the more

40:25times God actually will actually firm that up in our lives.

40:32So because of time, I'm going to jump on a few slides and I'm going to jump on right on

40:37to the

40:37bit towards the end of Paul's letter. He then goes on in all sorts of bits and pieces about various

40:43things, about resurrection. And just, just jump on to one Corinthians 15 and verse 20 when it says

40:50the following says, now Christ has risen for the dead and has become the first fruits of those who

40:56have fallen asleep. Do you remember what he said that? Because Jesus rose on the festival of first

41:02fruits. It says, for since a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.

41:10For as in Adam all will die, even so more, more in Christ, more shall be made alive. But each

41:17after

41:17his own order, Christ the first fruits, that was Jesus, rising from the dead. And afterward, those who

41:24were Christ says he's coming, there's a day coming when we're all going to get, you know, we're all

41:28going up, hopefully. That's going to be a great day. For those of us who are beginning to feel the

41:35aches of maturity, you know, I've had, I've had a few issues in the last year and I'm just saying,

41:43Lord, I'm really looking forward to the fact when, when I don't have to line the tablets up for

41:48breakfast, you know, and the ones that you're supposed to have later on in the day.

41:53You know, I'm looking forward to that day when, when, you know, there will be no limit to our

41:57praising of God. But you see, Paul says the following, and I'm just going to nip on to

42:04verses 50. And this is where Paul gets towards the end of his letter to the, to the church. And

42:09he

42:09says, now I say this brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. This bit,

42:16you know, our flesh and our blood will not, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold,

42:23I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep and we shall be changed. The people have tried to

42:29put

42:30little windows in those chrysalises when a, when a caterpillar changes to a butterfly.

42:36And actually they, until recently they used to try and do that. And what happens is the ultraviolet

42:42light that used to go in used to stop the process. It was almost as God said, I don't want

42:48you to see

42:49as something that's been created. If you actually try and do it, you try and put a little plastic

42:54window where they peel away. As we get any ultraviolet in that process, it stops. The

43:00caterpillar no longer turns to a butterfly. Isn't that amazing? Because it's God says, we shall all be

43:08changed. And it says in a twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet for the trumpet will sound and

43:17the

43:17dead will be raised incorruptible. And then we, in some play versions, it says those that are still

43:23alive in Thessalonians, we shall be changed. But this corruptible must put on incorruptible.

43:29The mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible is put on incorruption and the mortal

43:35has put on immortality, then we shall, then shall be brought to pass the same, which is death is

43:41swallowed up in victory. Oh, death, where is your sting? Oh, Hades, where is your victory? Paul was

43:49talking to them and saying, look, there's a day coming when it's all going to change.

43:55And he finishes by saying the following thing. And he says in verse 56, he says, the sting of death

44:00is

44:00sin. And the strength of sin is the Lord. But I've emphasised this final verse in verse 57,

44:08right at the end of his discourse to the church in Corinth, not knowing whether he was going to write

44:14to them again, Paul says the following. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord

44:21Jesus Christ. Therefore, beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the

44:31Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. That's going to be a great thing for

44:36God to say

44:37to us, you know, good and faithful servant, enter into your rest. But we need to be those who give

44:43thanks

44:43to God. Because we have the victory through the risen Jesus Christ. Amen.

44:51Praise my soul, the King of heaven, to his feet thy tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiver,

45:09who like thee his praise should sing. Praise him, praise him, praise him, praise him, praise thee ever.

45:21the everlasting King. Praise him for his grace and favour, to our fathers in distress. Praise him still the same

45:41forever,

45:42so to try and swift to bless. Praise him, praise him, praise him, praise him, praise him. Glorious in his

45:57faithfulness.

46:01Father, like thee, he tends and spares us, well and feeble frame he knows. In his hands he gently bears

46:18us, rescues us from all our foes.

46:24Praise him, praise him, praise him, praise him, praise him, praise him. Brightly as his mercy flows.

46:37Angels, angels, angels help us to adore him. Ye behold him face to face. Sun and moon bow down before

46:54him, dwellers all in time and space.

47:00Praise him, praise him, praise him. Praise him. Praise him, praise him, praise him. Praise with us, the God of

47:12grace.

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