Crusade For Christ, Atlanta, GA - "The Rest Of The Story"

our national crusade for christ speaker is dr jack evans you do not want to miss this great man of god the subject tonight is a phrase that has been made popular by the noted news commentator paul harvey the rest of the story the rest of the story usually he comes on and every once in a while i'll pick him up on radio a.m he'll come on telling part of it then he'll pause for a commercial and he tells you stay tuned for the rest of the story in other words you don't have it all you don't have it all there is a meaning even a deeper meaning at the end than that at the beginning so stay tuned for the rest of the story he wants to emphasize the facts so that any listener will be able to tell it all when he's rehearsing it well in the bible we find something in the old testament that was begun but the rest of the story is in the new testament and if you don't stay tuned you are going to miss the facts i know that there are many many stories in the old testament and many times we rear our children on what we call bible stories and some people take what we call stories as fallacies some things that are entertaining but not necessarily true that may be true in the walt disney world but in the bible every story in the bible has a significance and that significance will eventually end in jesus christ listen to the text romans 15 and verse 4 for whatsoever things were written a full time were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have listen to the key word hope all of mankind today needs hope not dope hope someone says preacher when you say not dope you mean marijuana and crack cocaine that's part of it but there is some religious dope we know about the kind on the streets but some people don't know about the kind in the church houses religious and that religious dope is more dangerous than any crack cocaine you can buy on the street because because it does not only mess up your mind it'll condemn your soul you'll have to you see a drug addict may abuse drugs so that he will kill himself and his body will die as a result but this religious dope addict may be physically well mentally well off but the soul will be marred by sin so paul said we need hope well if we need hope paul where can we find hope he said well now you need to start with what is written something had been even written when paul was talking paul wrote some of the bible but at this point paul was talking about the writing of the old testament for whatsoever things were written a fourth time were written for our learning now you know learning is an individual thing no i know we misuse that word many times grammatically when we say he learned me something no one can learn you anything someone can teach you but if learning takes place it has to be within you learning that's why in this preaching here the bible says i have to teach so that men will hear and learn john 6 45 every man who has heard and learned of the father cometh unto me so you will have to do the learning i will have to do the teaching now that has and this is what we call communication teaching and learning i used to tell our teachers at the college and i even tell them now sometimes that every time a student fails a class that is not always indicative of student failure sometimes it's teacher failure you have to communicate one student was in a world history class and he wasn't listening but he just wanted to have some fun with the teacher he said teacher in this world history class you ought to know do you think that history repeats itself the teacher said yes particularly if you flunk it in other words if you don't learn it surely will repeat itself we've had several repeats at southwestern but but you have to you have to learn which means that we you have to communicate you have to one lady went to her her lawyer and said i want to i want a divorce the lawyer said do you have grounds she said yes we have about three acres well he saw that he had a problem of communication he he said uh does your husband have a grudge she said no we just have all broke down carpool he saw that he had a problem and then he wanted to ask her if her husband abused her but he didn't want to use the word abuse because he knew she wouldn't have understood it he said uh and tried to use elementary terms he said does your husband beat you she said no i get up an hour every morning before that rascal he said well why do you want a divorce she said you won't believe this you really won't believe this but you know that rascal and i cannot have an intelligent conversation you see where the problem is you see where the problem is so we need we need to learn to communicate a little english teacher told a little boy a little boy was using some very bad grandma he came in he said you know i ate six eggs this morning the teacher said eight he said no i ate six eggs this morning she said son eight ate he said well may have been eight but i counted six you have to communicate you have to communicate and so paul says these things were written for our learning that we through patience this meant that the people in the olden days of the old testament had to have patience they the things were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the scripture might have hope now what does this have to do with the rest of the story i'm just going to select some stories from the old testament and then in the new testament i'm going to give you the rest of the story you see you have the type in the old testament and the antitype in the new testament the answer type applies to you the tight delt with the situation at hand and it was recorded in the old testament so we have type being a figure uh representation or symbol of something to come an old testament event that foreshadows a new testament truth the antitype is a new testament figure which has a counterpart in the old testament and the bible says when we get the rest of the story then we have hope hope from the old go over to colossians chapter one and i'll show you that hope was what the world needed and what the world needs even now and it came down through the ages that hope would be brought to man in colossians 1 25 the bible says what whereof whereas i am a minister i may made a minister according to the dispensation of the dispensation of the grace of god which is given to me before you me to you what read to confess to from the old testament days they were looking for hope they talked about jesus is coming they didn't fully understand it they had to have patience to wait until god got ready to tell them what all of it meant even back there with old jacob was blessing his sons he said something that he didn't understand himself and i said i'd rather in genesis 49 and 10. he said a satya shall not depart from judah nor lord ever from between his feet until shallow come and unto him shall the gathering of the people be he said it but he didn't fully understand it they had to wait to see what would take place many of them knew that they would not live to see it but they were doing this type of thing that god wanted recorded in the old testament and then he said they'll get the rest of the story when hope comes so i know that there are people who claim that the bible stories were just what they call myths man by the name of rudolph baltman wrote a book entitled demythologizing the bible and he was trying to show that these stories were false so-called theologian these stories were false but my friends it has always really uh caused me to to be quite uh concerned to hear the so-called theologians you see fails god the theologians as they call themselves it has been of concern to me that the so-called theologians many of them are the ones who are trying to disprove god many of them are teaching in the theological cemeteries or seminaries and they use some of their so-called knowledge to make light of the bible now all of them don't do that there are some very good theologians there are some good men students of the bible but there are some who like to use their little learning to try to blot out the teachings of god and they say if you believe these old stories in the old testament you're just archaic you are one dimensional you you don't know any better jacques cousteau the marine biologist said one day i was watching television and he had been giving a lesson on uh whales and he brought up the story of jonah and the whale in the bible jacques cousteau said i want to tell you now that that bible story cannot be true it says the whale swallowed jonah but a whale's throat is not large enough to swallow a man that tells you that that could not be a true story i said the man this man jacques cousteau may know marine biology but he doesn't know the bible the bible says god prepared a great fish and if god prepared him he could have had a holiday inn in it god did it and so we believe we believe what god says thus we come now to these old testament stories and get the real meaning the old testament had a veil let me read just a little about that in 2nd corinthians 3 14 before we get into the stories and i just want to mention them and show you the new testament application you need to get the rest of the story so we have the old testament concealing we have the new testament it and so we find that this contrast between the old testament and the new testament is quite interesting because you want to know the rest of the story in second corinthians chapter 3 verse 14 the bible says what but their minds were blind but their mans were blinded until this day remained until this day remaining remaining the same veils the same untaken away or veil or covering untaken away in the reading of the old testament of the old testament so there was a veil there in the reading of the old testament and just reading the old testament and stopping means you wouldn't get the rest of the story paul says those things that were written a fourth time were written for our learning that we through patience and conflict of the scripture we do know that the old testament was the scripture peter said the prophecy came not in the old days by the will of man but holy men of god spake as they were moved by the holy ghost now the veil is there there is something behind the veil you don't understand fully its significance until the rest of the story is told in the new testament are you following me you read these stories in the old testament and you want to know what do they mean are they just something to keep children interested or do they have a deeper significance well we're going to see because i believe that the types in the old testament foreshadowed the antitypes in the new testament and this was done the bible says until the time of reformation that's hebrews 9 8-10 well let's go to the first bible story and get it in the old testament and then i'll tell you the rest of the story in the new testament let's go to adam and eve adam and eve the first bible story adam and eve were never babies they were grown they were addles god breathed into their nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul adam and eve represented something in the new testament let's go to genesis chapter 2. i want you to begin reading with verse 21 i want you to get the rest of the story in romans 5 13 and ephesians 5 23 but right now let's look at genesis 2 21-24 the bible says what and the lord god and the lord god caused a deep sleep caused the deep sleep to fall upon adam to fall upon adam and he slept and he slipped and he took one of his ribs he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh closed and adam said and adam said this is now this is now bone of my bone bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh of my flesh she shall be called a woman shall be called woman because she was taken out of me taken out of man read therefore therefore shall a man leave his father remember this phrase therefore shall a man leave amen as far as remember this in the old testament this is the fast path that we're running into it someone will say well where will it come up again it'll come up again in the rest of the story but this is the first that we hear it therefore shall a man believe his father leave his father and mother and shall clean and shall clean unto his wife to his wife and they shall be shall be flesh one flesh someone says what does that mean well i'm going to show you that adam and eve represented the church of christ the christ and the church that's the rest of the story adam and eve yes that's a good story to talk about adam and eve but i'm going to go into the new testament and show you that they prefigured christ and the church i don't have to get into all these arguments about the fruit on the tree and so on because that's not my point right now i don't know what the fruit was and no one else knows someone says the problem was not with the fruit on the tree anyway it was with the pear on the ground now don't go out telling somebody it's a pair p-e-a-r it's p-a-i-r the traveler was in adam and eve but when i get into the new testament i find in romans 5 13 that first of all adam prefigured christ read it from until the love says sin was in the world but sin is not sin is not impunity there is no law where there is no love nevertheless nevertheless that range from adam from moses to moses even over them even over there that are not sin that did not say in reality after the what similar two of adam's prosperity adam's transgression is the figure isn't that right that's the first part of the story but you it won't help you until you hear the rest of the story because adam have a wife taken out of his sight isn't it right how do i know that god likens the church of christ to adam and eve in the garden of eden ephesians chapter 5 and the book tells us and if someone says he's talking about marriage or is he talking about the church let's read it and see this is the rest of the story this is the rest of the story you say adam and eve our parents yes the parents of humanity but they represent god's church and you know we need to understand this we need to understand that adam and eve were originally god's church they were god's church so when we read in matthew 19 9 19 1 through 9 where jesus said from the beginning it was not so certainly is right but when you talk about the beginning you're talking about god's church god meant for it to be just like he fixed it up in the beginning that was dealing with marriage divorce marriage and divorce he said but from the be they asked why did moses let us put away with the writing of divorcement he said moses because of the hardening or hardness of your heart let you do that but from the beginning it was not so i have a sermon on that just by itself but the whole point is this god set it up in the beginning just like he wanted it and since his original church fell away he had to get another adam first corinthians 15 45-49 another adam came into the well oh yes he came into the world this other adam i better get him before i read about his wife in first corinthians 15 45 the book says what and so it is written so it is written first man and the first man adam was made a living made a living soul the last and the last adam was made by his spiritual spirit how be it probably that was not first that was not free spirit which was spiritual that which is natural which was all right we got adam adam being uh a pre-figure of the second the last adam now we get to see if adam has a wife in ephesians chapter five beginning with verse 23 the book says what for husband and wife and the church and christ and he's going to explain it down here in verse 32 he's going to tell you exactly what he's talking about and he's also going to bring in what we read in genesis for this cause but here it is the husband is the head of the wife even it's christ jesus christ i have to stop here because many people will say well that means you know that jesus is the head of all churches well if if if jesus is the head of all churches then i'm going to ask you is one husband the head of all wives any husband in here will tell you that it is enough work i mean double duty to hit one to head one but the point is god set it up like that the husband is the head of his wife even as christ is the head of the child and he is the savior tell me don't tell me that jesus has all these churches in this country and in the world he doesn't and we wanted to go out on the airways that jesus is the head of the one church just like a husband is ahead of one wife when you get ready to leave when you get ready to leave here tonight you will not say any wife will do somebody will teach you better and it might be your wife he's not only the head of the one church but he is what the saints of the body of the body yes if you can save the body not for them but for it that he might say cleansing and cleansing it with the wash of water by the way that he might present it to himself to himself his own flesh that nourishes but nourishing and cherishing even as the lord as the lord the chapter of his body of his flesh obviously i have his bones and all this body what is called this curve shall a man leave shell have you heard that before this is the rest of the story for this cow shall a man leisure father a man leave his wife his father his father and mother and mother and shall be joined john unto his wife to his wife they too shall they shall be one flesh this is a great mystery he said i'm gonna unravel it he said i'm going to show now you say well he is is he talking about adam and eve or is he talking about the husband and wife is he talking about christ in the church paul said wait a minute just just calm down this is a great mystery but i speak concerning christ speak concerning christ christ and the church and the church that's the rest of the story and i'll tell you another thing when god when god gave adam his wife adam didn't ask him which one it was miss eve or nobody she was not a woman she was the woman the church of christ today which is the bride of jesus christ paid for by blood that came out of his sound god used the rib with the first adam to get his wife he used blood with the second adam to get his wife so the church has been paid for by the blood of christ someone says how do you know it's called church of christ acts 20 verse 28 acts 20 28 says what i could quote it but i want it read take heed therefore unto yourself unto yourselves over the world of god god which he has purchased with his own blood now adam was first then came his wife eve then of course in the new testament age jesus came first died for the church shed his blood went on back to heaven then came his wife which had been paid for by the blood of jesus and if this is the case who are you preacher deacon bishop church leader who are you to say any church will do the bible does not teach that there is no choice when it comes to the church because there is but one church and you need to know that that's the rest of the story you you may have said oh i've always thought that adam and eve story just so cute to tell children no it's a great significance to that story and it happened and i i don't have to go back and check with the theologians if jesus said it happened it happened he said even in the story of jonah and the well that they want to discount jesus said as jonah was in the whale's belly jesus said it and he's not a man that he should lie are you in the church of christ that's the only one prefigured in the book of genesis denominationalism was not prefigured in the book of genesis or in any book in the old testament because god did not mean for the denominations to exist paul knew that some of them would eventually crop cropper first timothy 4 1 paul said the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith that's the one church read it if you have it give it to seducing spirits of devils paul said that would happen but jesus meant to have only one body and he still has one body and that body is the church colossians 1 24 who now rejoice in my suffering for you and fill up that which is behind of the affliction of christ in my flesh for his body's sake which is the church the church is the body the body is the church how do we get into that one body first corinthians 12 13 for by one spirit are we all baptized into one body one body well let's move on remember the rest of the story let's go to another bible story noah and the ark some people say oh they just love that new they just love that new one building that big boat and putting all those animals in there and oh it's so beautiful well let's just go to genesis 6 quickly just very quickly and look at uh well we don't need to read all of that just read genesis 7 23 and then i want to come over to first peter 3 20 1 2 2 3 20 rather through 21 and 22 to give you the rest of the story because you know they're looking right now as they claim digging for noah's ark the emphasis now is whether they find it or not that's not important that's not important they can find anything they want to find that wouldn't mean one thing archaeologists and so on like that and that's all right if that's what they want to do but i don't need to find noah's ark to to believe that an ark was built god said it i believe it that sells it and even if i don't believe it it's settled most people know that that's why i'm not going to read a lot about it but god found that the world was evil every thought and imagination of man's heart was evil continually god said i'm going to destroy man from the face of the earth but noah found grace in the eyes of the lord thank god god knows the righteous from the unrighteous i don't care how bad you are or how good you are god knows you remember the book of job or satan god called job's name have you considered my servant job i'm glad that god knows my name he knows your name he knows you in the daylight and he knows you in the dark and so it is that the evil world was about to be destroyed and god being god had some grace to give to the man who was trying to live for him he found noah and he told him to build an ark and you know that story and then we go over to chapter 7 of genesis and verse 23 and the bible says what and every living substance was destroyed upon the face of the ground everywhere living substance living substance was destroyed which was upon the face which was upon the face of the ground both men both man cattle and cattle and the creeping thing and the creeping thing and the vowel and the powers of the air and they will start and they were destroyed all right from the earth and noah only and no one remained alive remained alive and they that were with him and they that were with him where in the ark in the ark all right salvation in the ark someone says that's such a pretty little story but let me tell you something there is more to it isn't that right you need to hear the rest of the story because it has something for you that you have to do and if you don't do it you're going to be worse off than those people who didn't get into the ark they died physically but if you don't obey god and and and really imbibe the significance of that story knowing the ark you're going to lose your soul now notice and i don't need to read any more about that it's a lot about it but i don't have time to read it i do know that it has a new testament counterpart first peter chapter 3 beginning with verse 20 the rest of the story which sometimes we're now brother maxwell read from genesis where's what is this 723 uh what he said some things were lost men women fowl of the air beast and so on and then on the other hand there was some salvation there but the salvation there was in the ark isn't that right the salvation was in the ark uh god didn't uh uh have to argue with noah about that ark nor surely could have been like some people in atlanta tonight he could have argued and said lord now why do you have to why are you so narrow-minded why why would you want all the people to be in the same place well the first question i would want to ask him is who are you to question god god said if you want salvation you'll have to be in that now the rest of the story is if you want salvation you have to be baptized into christ and i'm going to read it but peter even confirms it now don't tell me it didn't happen because peter confirms it start with verse 20 again so people can understand it which sometimes but sometimes we disappear talking about the people in the days of noah when once the long suffering god waited souls were saved by water eight souls that tells me that god doesn't have to depend on big numbers some people ask you that how can you people be so right and you're so few well of all the people in the world in the days of noah only eight were saved and those eight were saved in the ah hebrews 11 by faith noah built and up to the saving of his house salvation in the ark but now did that represent the heart represent the church or baptism it represented baptism but i'm saying that you can't be saved unless you're baptized into the church now let's see what does it say again it says wearing few but his eight souls were saved by water water the light figure figure where unto where i run to even baptism also also now save us save us not hold it it saves us and it saves us now he's making the parallel there he's showing that noah and the ark were the type back baptism and salvation the antitype yes no and they are prefigured man today the sinner going into the church being saved but he had to do it by water now he says wearing few that his eight souls were saved by water the like figure weren't even baptism death oh now also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer is conscience toward god jesus christ jesus christ baptism that's the rest of the story someone said preacher i heard you say baptism but did you mean did you mean holy ghost no i didn't mean that i meant water the life what what what what is the like figure in uh first peter 3 water they were saved by water water lifted up back up kept them safe someone said well you tell me to look like me they would say about ark well peter had the holy ghost what do you have peter said they were saved by water and they would not have been saved by water had that ark sat on the ground had it just i filmed they wouldn't have been saved in that ark because they would have drowned the point is god told him what kind of wood to use and told him the dimensions of the ark everything that he did was actually prescribed by god now the salvation there was really not so much the ark or even the water it was obedience that's what baptism is all about it's not the literal water someone says well why did he say water because he's god and he says the term he sets the turn someone said why must we just use water because god said it if he had said you some other element we would have to use if he had said gasoline you see we'll tell all the smokers to get back and go on and get the gasoline but he didn't say use gasoline he said what acts chapter 8 let me tell you something while i'm coming this way because many people do not understand that god does not and this is going to shake somebody god does not baptize anybody in the holy spirit today when the baptism of the holy spirit was administered it was administered by god one baptism is administered by men holy ghost baptism was a promise why the baptism is a command you can't obey a promise you must obey the command so don't tell me you've been baptized in the holy ghost because you haven't it's not a man living today who has been baptized in the holy spirit why because god promised it to certain ones and he fulfilled the promise before we get to the water we better look at that right quick because some people think that uh you know we want to just skim over this oh no no we're not ashamed we're not afraid of it i want to tell you tonight and i'm saying it openly and anybody who wants to challenge it man i'm talking about preachers with churches you have not been baptized with the holy spirit your people have not been baptized with the holy spirit god did not god did not promise you the baptism of the holy ghost he didn't do it you know what i want i want to get one point here because i want you to get colossians 2 12 but go back go back to uh exodus 14 jack you were reading that i think and and read verse 31 god saved israel that day and then read 31 says what and israel and israel saw that great work saw that great work which the lord which the lord did upon the egypt upon the egyptian the point is what happened in their baptism was the work of god now i want to go to colossians 2 12 and i'll show you that baptism is a work of god colossians 2 12 bear it with him in battle with him in baptism with him through the faith of the operation the god of god operates god works in baptism so don't argue with me about baptism is not essential the bible says it's god's working god is the surgeon he's doing the surgery well that's the rest of the story someone asked me last night i don't know if it was one of the young men baptized or not but some young man asked me last night he said what about some people who've been immersed but they're not in the church of christ do they have to be immersed again let's go to acts 19 acts 19 and i'll show you some people who had been immersed but they had to go back and do it like god said let's do that very quickly and it came to pass that while upon us was that paul heaven came to emphasis i want you to understand that these men had been baptized they had been baptized paul said you don't know anything about the holy ghost unto what then were you baptized what did they say and they said they said under john john's baptism then said paul said paul johnson's repentance that they should believe paul taught them the meaning of baptism then what happened when they heard this they heard this they were baptized they said we've already been baptized they were baptized they said john was a good man they were baptized they said we don't have to know that we're being baptized for their time they said we don't have to know anything about the holy ghost they're about time they were baptized they didn't say all the foolishness i was saying when they heard this what about times they were about in the name of the lord jesus the lord jesus what must you do you may say well preach i'm not in the church i've been immersed but i'm not in that church well if you were not immersed into the church the body of christ you need to come on and do it it's not a it's a misnomer to say you have to be baptized again it's not again you have to be baptized right the first time the rest of the story let me try to close now you remember the story of the brazen serpent we won't read all of it numbers 21 8 and 9. we realize that the people murmured against god that's the story they murmured against god i just want to read verses 8 and 9 numbers 21 god did something back there and someone else go to john 3 and verse 14 and hold it now the bible says in numbers 21 8 and 9 read and the lord and the lord sent fiery serpents and therefore the people came to moses who came to moses and said and said we have sinned we have seen we have spoken against moses prayed for the people the lord said unto moses make thee a father set it up and it shall come to pass it shall come every one that has brought one that is when he look at the body he look upon it shall live and moses made us that's all right that moses made that serpent and the point is this they had been bitten by serpents they wanted salvation they wanted salvation they went to the man of god and asked him about salvation moses said here it is i'm going to make a brazen serpent something that looks just like the thing that bit you and you're going to have to look if you want to live now you could have had some stubborn people there who were saying i don't see anything in that old snake well you still had that snake bite and they were dying all over israel everyone that looked up at that brazen serpent lived isn't that right but you see in order to look up you have to look away from yourself when you start looking at yourself talking about how i feel well i feel that you just do it like this and i feel this and you have to look away from mama and you have to look away from papa and you have to look away from the preacher you have to look at jesus and whatever he says that's what you must do the bible says jesus said it himself in john chapter 3 and verse 14 as moses lifted up the serpent and the wilderness the serpent in the wilderness the son of man the son of man you have to look up now as long as you look down and around you're going to stay sick and die but you look up forget what others have said look up and live let me tell you just a few serpents i won't go into detail serpents that are biting men today the serpent of drugs the serpent of crime the serpent of immorality and then the isms humanism modernism racism atheism denominationalism mohammedanism all of these isms are snakes they are biting and it is so sad that the serpent of drugs is taking a lot of our people the serpent of aids is taking a lot of our people young people dying by the thousands who have been bitten by these serpents poisonous serpents what is the answer the answer is jesus hope is in christ we're ready for the lord's invitation i do not want any walking unless you have an emergency or unless you're coming forward please do not walk and disturb the invitation jesus is waiting for some people in this audience the two that have gone before you have set a good example now it's time for you to say yes lord have faith in jesus have faith in jesus we have two more ready for baptism now but we're going to sing just three three three more three more ready ready for baptism right now and there may be others there may be others if you are here come on right now as together we stand jesus is calling come on to jesus come on to jesus come on to jesus thank you for tuning in to the national crusade for christ for the national crusade for christ has been sponsored by the churches of christ we ask you to join us each evening at the atlanta civic center at 7 30 p.m may god bless you jesus is not capable why don't you answer somebody's knocking somebody's nothing looks like jesus

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