Jim Elliot Speaks: The Resurrection

[Music] great to be back again look into your faces and see some old friends good to be here to be able to proclaim the message of god from this platform once again it's going on hundreds of times and i hope that we haven't gotten over the thrill of it's going out because after all we're fulfilling a prophecy of jesus christ every time we preach the gospel more than that we ourselves become directly responsible to god every time it's heard and i hope that we're like children still rejoicing in the awe and wonder of the love of god and his power i hope we haven't gotten over it like so many christians seem to for my own part since i've been away from you the lord has been stirring me up as to just what the gospel is that should be preached just exactly what twist the man should take when he stands in front of a 20th century audience and speaks to them how much should he tell what should he say how far should he go what should be his approach and that exercise has driven me to the book of acts for a fresh study of what the gospel was as it was preached by the apostles in the days of the acts and i have found that the gospel that they preached was indeed a simple one i've found some strange and interesting variations in the gospel that we preach for we call our gospel simple but oftentimes i question whether that's so we say that the doctrine of substitutionary atonement taught to us through paul in the book of romans is a simple gospel but i'm not so sure that that's true at any rate it's not the initial trust it's not the first few messages that was given that were given by the apostles in the early days they preached a message not of theory or theology such as blood atonement which required a great deal of understanding in the jewish scripture and also a great deal of theoretical knowledge as to the nature of god and his holiness they preached a gospel that was simple because it was based on recently occurring facts they preached the facts primarily of the resurrection they mentioned the death of christ and then they enlarged upon the resurrection and the proofs which they abused to the resurrection were those that seemed to impel the audience they were right there around them they could say we are witnesses of the fact that jesus christ rose and walked among us for forty days and they say that over and over again peter says it stephen says it paul says it of the rest of the apostles he says that these are alive and can bear witness to the fact that they saw a man who was raised from the dead whom we call the christ and whom you owe a legion in his preaching of the gospel he pressed upon them the claims of a resurrected christ they induced not only proof of the fact that they were living witnesses but they also brought to bear upon people's consciences the marvelous works that were taking place at that time the spirit of god also says one of the apostles is a witness to this proof of to the truth of what we say and then besides the miracles and the message of the apostles they brought to bear upon the men of those days the very interesting proof of the old testament scriptures now we agree to this and most of us are fairly well acquainted with the sufferings of christ as per prophesied in the psalms hardly a believer among us but what knows something about the 22nd psalm and its prophetic application to the death of christ hardly a believer among us who could not give us some interpretation of isaiah chapter 53 and the man of sorrows as per prophesied in the scriptures but i want to ask you if you are going to preach the gospel the way the apostles preached it from whence are you to induce the proofs of the resurrection in the old testament because i find them constantly drawing their illusions from the old testament prophecies to the resurrection the resurrection they proved from the old testament and interestingly enough they didn't prove it from the strange and uh rather difficult passages in leviticus in the typology and the offering they drew it from the psalms mainly and then in other instances from isaiah but they proved the resurrection not from the story of abraham killing isaac or being called upon to sacrifice his son isaac but rather from rather commonplace and familiar psalms they proved the resurrection as the thing prophesied years before it happened to that end i want you to turn to the book of the acts where paul is standing before king agrippa in the 26th chapter and read a word that he has to say in his defense of preaching the gospel the way he did it acts chapter 26 and we'll break in in the middle of this defense right after he's given his testimony and verse 19 acts 26 verse 19 will read through verse 23 therefore o king agrippa i was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision but declared both to them of damascus first and at jerusalem and throughout all the country of judea and also to the gentiles that they should repent and turn to god doing works worthy of repentance for this cause the jews seized me in the temple and assad to kill me having therefore obtained the help that is from god i stand unto this day testifying both to small and great saying nothing but what the prophets and moses did say should come how that the christ must suffer and how that he first by the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people and to the gentiles particularly verse 22 and 23 having therefore obtained the help that is from god i stand unto this day testifying both to small and great saying nothing but what the prophets and moses did say should come how that the christ must suffer and that how he first by the resurrection from the dead should proclaim light both to the people and to the gentiles paul boasted that his gospel had its roots in ancient writings he said that this wasn't the thing that was connected only with experience as we hear preached so often today not perhaps in the circles in which we move but generally among christendoms they say that the reason the gospel is true is because it works in a man's experience the reason the gospel is true is because you feel it because you enjoy it you get up and shout and sing loud and throw away your cigarettes and all the rest that sort of thing well that may be a very interesting phase of what the gospel does in a man's life but it isn't necessarily a proof because a moral man can throw away a cigarette jump hoot and holler and roll in the aisles and sing sound songs loudly without ever having been convicted by the spirit of god the gospel that we preach is not primarily a gospel of feelings it's a gospel of facts it's a gospel based upon the fact of the resurrection the death and the resurrection of jesus christ and the implications of those facts i say more than just the facts because it's possible for one to believe the facts and not to obey the truth implied by those facts to really receive the gospel is to receive the truth implied by the death and resurrection of christ i.e that since christ died then we're all dead if he died for all then we're all dead and that they which live should henceforth not live anymore unto themselves but unto him that died for them and rose again that's an implication of the death of christ an implication of the resurrection is that one which is given to us in the 17th chapter of this very book where paul says the times of god the ignorance god overlooked but now he commands all men everywhere to repent in that he have appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained whereas he offers proof to all men in that he raised him from the dead the faith and the truth which we offer for the faith of men today is based founded and firmly fixed in a fact and nowhere else if your salvation rests anywhere else but in the fact of the resurrection and the implications of that resurrection that is like the lord jesus said if i live you shall live also or because i live you shall live also the implications of the resurrection are what make the gospel real now these men said very plainly paul says in this defense to agrippa that he preached absolutely nothing but what was in moses and the prophet he stood until that day speaking the things of the old testament it's fascinating to me how these men use the old testament in a way i should never dream of using it in a way that seems often in many cases to stretch the original and since they use the greek version of the old testament even to change word and sometimes it seems like they changed tenses of verbs we'll get into that maybe a little bit later when we get to the way peter uses it but paul says here that he preached nothing except what moses and the prophets preached how that christ should suffer and that he by the resurrection of the dead notice he preached the resurrection from the old testament scriptures should first show forth light unto the gentiles we know the sufferings of christ as i've said before in the old testament what do we know about the glory that's to follow from the old testament that is about the resurrection let's take then just briefly a summary of how the new testament teach treats the old testament scriptures as regards this subject in the first place christ generally spoke about his being a fulfiller of prophecy it's very significant that jesus christ was conscious constantly of fulfilling writings that were written of him he could say all these things must come to pass that the scripture should be fulfilled or in another case search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life and these are they which testify of me or again in the son of man grow up even as it is written of him jesus christ was confidently sensible of the fact that he was fulfilling prophecy he walked in the light of the old testament as clearly as though it were sunshine to him he took every step as confidently and as certainly as though he knew just exactly where he were going in fact he says that much he says i know from whence i came and i know where i go jesus christ always was aware of the fact that the things that were written in the old testament scriptures were being fulfilled in him and not only christ if you'll turn to the 13th chapter of acts you'll find the apostle paul also quote scriptures and says the lord has commanded us in the words of isaiah that i have set thee for a light to the gentiles paul found himself in the old testament scriptures interesting isn't it how seldom we find ourselves there how often we dispensationalize it so that we lose the power and the impact of many old testament prophecies now i'm not implying that the church is at all found in the old testament that isn't the question the question is that the gospel as it comes in its impact to any generation is a thing that was prophesied in the scriptures and that's why it's so tremendously significant because the thing that i do tonight is the thing that was written before that i should do that the gospel should be preached to the gentiles is the prophecy of jesus christ and i stand tonight a glad living witness to the truth of that prophecy and so should we all because if jesus christ could say to those disciples after he had risen from the dead even as my father has sent me into the world so send i you if the way christ came into the world fulfilling prophecy is the way that i need to come into the world then i should exhaust and walk in the clear life of my past because i as a christian i don't think of myself as jim elliot but i as a christian and you as a christian are stepping in the fullness of the blaze of god's truth in order that we might know what it is to walk confidently having ours our minds and our hearts settled in fulfilling the scriptures of god the lord jesus then having spoken generally that he was one who fulfilled scriptures spoke specifically about the resurrection of himself you know the jews believed in a resurrection when the lord jesus came to the town of bethany after lazarus had been dead for four days he said to me martha martha your brother will rise again and martha said yes lord i know he'll rise again in the last day it was a general belief of the jews that there would be a resurrection of the dead but jesus christ put it a little differently rather than a general resurrection of the dead which the which the pharisees believed in if you'll turn over to the acts you'll find that lots of times or once at least very significant passage it distinguishes between the pharisees and the sadducees the pharisees believed in the resurrection in the resurrection of the dead as a general body they believed in a universal resurrection and it was the sadducees who put that question to christ about the man who about the woman who had seven husbands and thereby hope to defy the fact of resurrection in the old testament by asking the question whose wife should she be in the resurrection the sadducees didn't believe in the resurrection nor the spirit nor the angels the pharisees confessed all three so did martha but whereas they spoke of the resurrection of the dead jesus christ spoke of the resurrection from the dead which is a different thing he spoke not generally of a great resurrection wherein everybody was going to be raised again that's plain enough of the old testament scripture he spoke of the specific resurrection both of himself for he prophesied during his lifetime that he would rise from the dead and of all those who believed on him the hour cometh and now it says he when they that are in the grave shall hear the voice of the son of god and they that here shall live i think he's referring definitely to the resurrection from the dead that is those who are brought up out of death while there yet remain some who are dead he's prophesying christians resurrection then in his own case you'll remember one time they came to him the scribes and the pharisees and they said we want to see a sign and he remarks an evil and ultra generation seeketh a sign but no signs shall be given to them save the sight of the prophet jonah for as jonas was assigned to the men of nineveh even so shall the son of man be assigned to this generation for as jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth notice that he spoke of his resurrection also in that passage where he was called upon to clarify his position when he cleansed the temple you'll remember that the people said to him what right have you got to do this and the lord jesus said this about it he says here's the right i have you destroy this temple and in three days i'll raise it up again he prophesied his own resurrection having prophesied it and having sent that it was in the old testament in that reference to jonah he found himself right in the middle of fulfilling prophecy and that i think gave power it lent significance it lent meaning sense to every minute of his life and it should be the same with us how unfortunate christians are so dull we are so unattached to the scriptures that we fail to see ourselves presented in them but we operate as the body of christ a thing foretold by christ and how we are to act is a thing which was not only commanded but in a sense since it was commanded prophesied by christ and his apostles the lord jesus then teaches us that the great lesson of the prophet jonah which we have generally understood to be the lesson of a disobedient prophet getting next to his god is actually the lesson of the resurrection the lord jesus saw in the uh story of jonah the sign that he himself was to be to that generation in which he lived when jonah came up to nineveh although we don't read this in the book of jonah we assume it from what christ said himself he was assigned to the people of nineveh and what kind of a sign was he he was the kind of a resurrected sign that christ was that is jonas came into minivan he began preaching yes 40 days in this city god will destroy and the people of nineveh repented and they began to ask questions who is this man and i suppose they told jonah this question and it came became known that this man was a man who just come from a seashore where he'd been spewed up after three days and three nights in the belly of a great fish and as he was the sign of resurrection and he came to those people and they repented so he teaches us the lesson of christ it's interesting that jonah was unlike christ in that when the people repented he was sorry the people of his generation were unlike the people of christ's generation in that they did not repent when christ ruled from the dead whereas in nineveh the men of nineveh repented when jonas in a figure was lifted from the dead so that jonah found himself in a happy circumstance and turned sour on it and the lord jesus found himself in a very difficult circumstance since the people didn't believe in his resurrection and was sweet about it but that's the lesson of the prophet jonah as interpreted by jesus the christ he teaches us that the lesson of the prophet is a lesson of three days of death and then resurrection you remember the very sad story that is told in the 16th chapter of luke concerning the rich man and lazarus and after it's all over and the man in hell has pleaded out that lazarus should be sent to earth then abraham gives that solomon awfully final answer in which he says no they have moses and the prophets if they will not hear moses and the prophets neither will they believe though one be sent to them from the dead the scriptures in themselves should be sufficient truth to the fact of the resurrection and the truth of christianity that's what that implies they've got moses and the prophets therefore a great sign such as a resurrection like lazarus would be to those men who were the brothers of the rich man in hell a sign like that wouldn't necessarily persuade them the observance of signal phenomenon is not necessarily productive of real faith people today say oh if we could only see like they saw if we could only see miracles as they saw if we could only see it the same thing would happen to us that happened to them we'd be condemned by the things that we saw because poor one grows from the dead even according to abraham's word yet they did not believe but the scriptures in themselves are sufficient arguments are sufficient proof of the fact of the truth of christianity because if we take the words of the apostles and go on we find that they as used from scriptures written a thousand years before their time for what was happening before the eyes of their generation so what we now it's constantly said generally in the scriptures that the resurrection was prophesied like the lord jesus in the 24th chapter of luke you'll remember he spoke to those disciples on the way to emmaus and he said oh who's in full heart believe all that prophets have spoken ought not twice to have suffered and to enter into his glory then on in the 44th verse of that same chapter he remarked that these things have come to pass in order that the scriptures should be fulfilled that christ should suffer and rise again from the dead so that he speaks generally of the resurrection as it is prophesied now turn to the second chapter of acts and we'll find peter with his enlightened conscience after the holy spirit has come upon him remarking on the resurrection as it is proved in the scriptures we read from verse 22 acts 2 22 ye men of israel hear these words jesus of nazareth the man approved of god unto you by mighty works and wonders and signs which god did by him in the midst of you even as ye yourselves know him being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of god ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay notice there's just about a sentence regarding the death of christ and now he starts on the resurrection and spends a couple of paragraphs at it whom god raised up having loosed the pangs of death because it was not possible that he should behold another now notice he begins to bring in the old testament scriptures proving the resurrection of christ for david seth concerning him and this is jesus the messiah speaking now i beheld the lord always before my faith for he is on my right hand therefore i shall not be moved therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced moreover my flesh shall also dwell in hope because i will not leave my soul unto hades neither wilt i will give thy holy one to see corruption thou mayest known unto me the ways of life thou shalt make me full of gladness with thy countenance brethren i may say unto you freely of the patriarch david that he both died and was buried in his tomb is with us to this day being therefore a prophet know this david was a prophet not just a sweet singer he was a prophet being therefore a prophet and knowing that god had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his lines he would set one upon his throne he foreseeing this spake of the resurrection of the christ that neither was he left unto hades nor did his flesh see corruption this jesus did god raise up whereof we all are witnesses now casual reading of the 16th psalm will make you very suspicious of peter's interpretation thereof if you read just quietly the words of the seventeenth psalm you'll find that it starts out with a prayer purpose of preservation preserve your god preserve me o god yay i say to my soul i have no goodness that reaches unto thee and it's quite mystical to me that that actually applies to jesus christ consider these verses right here thou made it known unto me the ways of life that's christ speaking that's the lord jesus speaking who was instructed as a man through the holy spirit of god yay he was caused to rejoice by the spirit even it says the 10th chapter of luke where it says as christ saw his disciples returning from the uh freaking tour that they've been sent on it says of him that he rejoiced in the holy spirit jesus christ as a man felt these tendencies and fears of death but yet the scripture says of him moreover my flesh shall dwell in hope the lord jesus tabernacled among men in hope that the body which he had would be his forever moreover he says my flesh shall tabernacle in hope that's the word my flesh shall dwell in hold the lord jesus as he walked through earth was able to say this of himself my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced why because i beheld the lord always before my faith he is at my right hand that's five dollar speaking he is at my right hand it can't be christ in heaven because in heaven god is that christ is at god's right hand on earth god was at christ's right hand and the situation is reversed a few verses further on where we find christ exalted to the right hand of the father and i here we see christ with god at his right hand i beheld the lord always before my faith yay and therefore i shall in hope my flesh shall rejoice why because thou wilt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption now peter says i can plainly speak to you about david that he died and buried he saw it was buried and we saw corruption and his tomb is among us till this day so that he couldn't speak of himself because he did die his flesh did see corruption but he was speaking of the christ and he faked this of the resurrection now i am thankful that peter got this out of the 16th sum for i'm sure i never would it's very interesting that he brought this from a psalm that on the surface of the thing doesn't seem to indicate resurrection at all and this it seems to me should be instruction to us as to how we should use the old testament seeking more and more not to find quaint little ditties and the alliterative outlines there or figures of what we already know to be true mostly most of our old testament study at least i speak this of myself most of our old testament study is only brethren to find out illustrations of what we already know when you read the old testament check yourself and see if you're not really looking for some allegory which will illustrate some new testament truth rather than using the scriptures as they use the scriptures to form new testament truths to base the testament truth upon to realize new testament truths from the old testament we take old new testament truth and force it into the old now i'll grant the things work together but we have within the old testament a wealth of new testament truths which we have never even fathomed we're not even looking for peter's use of this now becomes a tremendous proof and if you're not a saved man tonight i want to challenge you with this proof here is a prophet a man by the name of david who lived the millennium before christ appeared on the face of the earth and he said that the one who was to appear would not see corruption in his flesh yeah his flesh was to go about as though it were tabernacling in hope that he would never see corruption that he would not be left in haiti that spoken a thousand years before christ becomes exactly fulfilled in the new testament and understand it wasn't something that the people of the days of the day of the lord jesus were looking for because we find in the 20th chapter of john that when peter and john had gotten there to the grave of the lord jesus they stooped down looked and believed but they did not yet know the scripture the old testament scripture that he must rise from the dead they didn't know that scripture yet but it was true to them ultimately they weren't looking for it but it came to them from the scripture peter therefore offers to us a great and wonderful truth that the body of jesus christ shall never see corruption and i want to warn you friend of mine if you don't know the jesus of whom i speak tonight you will one day know him in precisely the same body that thomas saw him and cried my lord and my god before him in precisely the same body that issued breath when he breathed upon his disciples that resurrection body of his in precisely the same body of which he said handle me and see for a spirit of my flesh and bone as ye see me heaven you will behold that body for every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him you will look upon jesus christ the resurrected man his party through two thousand years has not seen corruption and never child see corruption his press forever grows in hope that god shall sustain the atoms of his being if so be that spiritual body consists of adam shall sustain that body forever and this to me becomes a tremendous proof of the judgment of unbelievers those who receive not my christ by faith one day shall receive him by sight in awful horror and agony you shall confess before this one whose flesh is uncorrupted through the ages yea as the scripture says of him these things which thou hast made shall whack gold has got the garments and thou shalt hold them up and they shall be changed for thou art to say my friend one day you shall face the same christ that peter said one day you shall see the same christ that paul saw one day you shall see those same hands which were outstretched over the disciples to pronounce that final olivet blessing one day you my friend shall be called upon to place the son of god whose eye is as a plane of fire and before whom there is no stand you shall be called upon to face him how will it stand with you then turn over now if you will in the 13th chapter for an illustration of how paul preaches the resurrection from the old testament [Applause] i'm sorry that i only have five minutes this is a 50-minute discourse just on paul's alone we'll have to cut down the reading of the scripture a little bit beginning at verse 32 acts chapter 13 i want you to notice the three different scriptures that paul uses to prove the resurrection and we bring unto you good tidings of the promise made unto the fathers that god has fulfilled the same unto our children in that he raised up jesus as also is written in the second psalm this this is a proof of the resurrection thou art my son this day have i begotten thee i ask you how does that prove the resurrection consider it for a while and as concerning that he raised him up from the dead now no more to return to corruption he has spoken on this wise and this from isaiah 53 i will give you the holy and sure blessings of david how in the world does that prove the resurrection or this one which peter used because he said also in another psalm thou will not give thy holy one to seek corruption for david after he had in his own generation served the council of god fell asleep and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption but he whom god raised up saw no corruption as also he says is written in the second psalm thou art my son this day have i begotten this now you all know the second psalm at least i hope you do it the great song of triumph it begins with why do the heathen rage in the people imagine a vain thing the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the lord and against his anointed saying let us break their bounds asunder let us cast off their cords from us he that sitteth in heaven shall laugh the lord shall have that sitter in heaven shall laugh the lord shall have them in derision then will he speak to them in his sword is pleasure and others to them in his wrath saying yet how i set my king upon my holy heal in zion then god having spoken that the messiah answered with this word i will declare the decree the lord had said unto me thou art my son this day have i begotten thee ask of me jehovah said to christ and i will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost part of the earth for thy possession tell me frankly would you have proved the resurrection from that past it would have been one of the last that i have chosen and particularly the phrase that he chose i could have proven it i think from this phrase yet have i set my king upon my holy hearing zion although the heathen rage although they want to cast away the cords of christ yes god says what have i set my king you could imply from that the resurrection but the seventh verse is the one who proves it from thou art myself this day have i begotten thee so then now i know that many of us interpret that as a millennial psalm but that even the way the apostles interpret it unfortunately in the fourth chapter of the act of the apostles you'll find that why did the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing is applied to herod and to pilate into the jewish rulers it was a thing that they saw happening they saw prophecy fulfilled right around them and they picked out the scriptures and prayed it back to god and said lord in this very city the heathen rays that is the nations the kings of the earth herod and pilate set themselves against your son and against your anointing the very the very people of israel were gathered together with them to say catholics cast off their chords for months so that this psalm is actually a psalm concerning the death rather to begin with the trial the death and the resurrection of christ it begins with the anger of the nation or rather with the uh the anxiety of the nations the uh the desire to cast off the court of the lord from them they wanted to get rid of it and then there comes the anger of jehovah saying that with all your anger with all of your uh fire against my son with all of your fury and desire to be freed from his bond yet can i set my king upon my holy heal in zion yea though you slay him yet will i raise him from the dead and establish him upon his throne and then comes the announcement of the son i will declare the decree the lord has said unto me thou art my son paul says this proves the resurrection how does it not prove because jesus christ was the son of god that he could not see corruption he was the son of god and as we often say in common parliament you can't keep a good man down you can't keep god in the grave my friend nietzsche might try and bury him and lead him there and pity us poor folks who go to church and whimper at the grave of our god as he says it but you cannot keep christ in the grave because god has said of christ thou art my son and the son of god cannot be corrupt thou art my son because of this person it's impossible that he should see corruption interesting to me is the first chapter of romans where paul says that he is the one selected to do the service of god in his gospel concerning his son jesus christ who was of the seed of david according to the flesh but declared to be the son of god with power by the resurrection from the dead notice that jesus christ was declared to be the son of god with power when after resurrection from the death that's when he was now most people think that jesus christ proves his resurrection by his miracles that's not so the devil can work miracles and jesus christ might have been a devil had he not been raised from the dead it's his resurrection which proved conclusively that he's the son of god he was declared to be the son of god with power how by the resurrection from the dead it's because he's god's son that he was raised from the dead and it's because he was raised from the dead that we assume he's god's son jesus christ paul said paul says to timothy remember jesus christ born of the seed of david risen from the dead remember in that way remember him risen from the dead oh i like it there's nothing nothing compares to it to understand that the christ whom we live for and love is a risen christ remember jesus christ raised from the dead born of the seed of david unto us the prophet isaiah said a child is born that's what paul said in romans 1 he said that the one who was who was born of the seat of david that was the child underwater child was born he was born on the seat of david unto us as coming given he was declared to be the son of god with power he's a child of isaiah and he's a son in isaiah in the new testament we find it paul says he is the child of david the king of david praise the son of god with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead so that the decree becomes significant i will declare decree the lord has said unto me thy art my son this day have i begotten thee what day christmas day not at all as some would imply but resurrection day because it's at the resurrection that we hear christ spoken of as the firstborns among the dead it's as though the tomb in which christ was was laid away became the wound from which he strained forth the first member of a new race to bring hope to the gentiles as paul says in the 26th chapter of acts he was to declare by the resurrection of the dead right for the gentiles wonderful wonderful that god forbade his son from the dead and a thousand years before he even brought him into the world say of him thou art my son and this day resurrection day is the day in which i have begotten thee wonderful and then oh my i know that's the next question let me finish this one point and we'll go on all right amen all right we'll finish thank you then he says now then turning to isaiah he says in verse 34 and as concerning that he raised him up from the dead now no more to return to corruption he has spoken on this wise i will give you the holy and sure blessings of baby now if you know the 53rd psalm at all the 53rd of isaiah at all you know that it starts out oh everyone the thirst that comes to the waters come ye buy wine and build without money without trust and to the very same one in the first this word is spoken i will give you if you'll come to me the holy and pure weapons of david that's in that very phrase it's about the third verse of the 53rd chapter of isaiah i mean the 55th chapter excuse me there the lord tells us that the one who will come to christ will receive the blessings that david receive those holy and sure blessings of david this word you here is not spoken to christ i will give you the holy and sure blessing of david it's happy because it's in the plural and since it is in the plural it refers to all those who thirst and this is a promise from the old testament which the apostle had used to offer to men today in his own day that they could have the very same mercy that david viewed that is promise of uncorruption and so he says i will give you the holy and true blessings of david because the next phrase says because he said also in another psalm that was not suffered by holy one to seek eruption because christ did not corrupt even so it is given to the christian to know that his body shall be reframed and uncorrupted eternal and this is the promise which i extend to you yay from the prophet isaiah through the apostle paul now through aliens later i declare to you that it is possible to possess incorruption eternal life in the human body because of the resurrection of jesus christ and is offered to you tonight as freely as a drink of water was ever offered oh everyone the first is do you seek incorruption do you seek immortality do you seek eternal life do you seek glory and honor according to the second chapter of romans then i declare unto you that there is through faith in jesus christ in corruption because he says in another psalm thou wilt not allow thy holy ones to see corruption and that harry say sure promise of david that was given to christ is given to you extended through the apostle paul and the great word of god or will you not receive tonight some of the blessings that come from christ's work in that he raised from the dead and now sits at god's right hand forever incorruptible forever eternal forever glorious the great high mighty majesty that he is majestic sweetness that's enthroned upon his brow and tonight he extends to you the grace of incorruption he extends to you the offer of immortality in that body which he will perfect in which he will make himself known will you but submit to him tonight yea for as not the scripture said that all things work together for good to them that brought god to them that are called according to his purpose for whom he foreign to become conformed to the image of his son and if his son is incorruptable then there is incorruption for you because i live you shall live on sin shall we pray again father we feel like we cannot speak as we should like to speak concerning thy son we only pray that thy word might have its effect thine intended effect upon our hearts and that we shall see in the truth of the old testament scripture that we have our roots in fact and in history and in the tremendous truths of thy word help us o god to walk according to it we ask in the name of jesus you

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Published: Wed Jan 13 2021