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I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of Matthew and chapter 27, verse 35, and they crucified him, part of his garments casting lots that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet. They parted my garments among them and upon my vestibed that they cast lots, and setting down they watched him there. And set up over his head this accusation written, this is Jesus the King of the Jews. were there, two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand and another on the left.

And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads and saying, Thou, that destroyed the temple and buildeth it in three days saved thyself, if thou be the son of God, come down from the cross. Likewise also the chief priest mocking him with the scribes and the elders he said, He saved others himself he cannot save. If he be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross and we will believe him. He trusted in God, let him deliver him now, if he will have him, for he said, I am the Son of God, the thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same into his teeth.

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land from the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, Lemasov, that’s the night, that is to say, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stood there when they heard that said this man called for Elijah’s and straight way one of them that ran and took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a read and gave him the drink.

The rest said let be. Let us see whether Elijah’s will come to save him. Jesus when he had tried again with a loud voice yielded up the ghost. Now Now look there in chapter 28, chapter 28 verses 1 through 6. In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the Separach. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon him.

His countenance was like lightning and his raiment white snow, and for fear of him the The keepers did shake and became as dead men. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye, for I know whom ye seek, which was crucified. He is not here, for he is risen, as he said. Come see the place where the Lord laid. So Christ was crucified. He was buried. He came back again from the dead. I talked to a man the other day right here in the office.

And he said he believed the Bible. I said, you believe Christ died on the cross and paid for all the sins of the Lord? Yes, I do. Do you believe he paid for all of your sins? Yes, I do. I says, where are you going to die? He says, I hope I’m going to heaven. I says, you’re not sure. He says, no, I’m not real sure. He said, nobody can really be sure. I says, is there anything you can do between now and the time that you died that can keep you from going to heaven?

He said, oh, yeah, a lot of things. I said, sir, you don’t believe the Bible. He said, yes, it does. I said, no, you don’t. I says, you don’t believe that Jesus Christ paid for all of your sins either. He says, yes, it does. says, no, you don’t. I said, if you believe he paid for all of your sins, then why do you think that sin that you’ll commit tomorrow or the next day will send you to hell? How many times must you pay for a sin?

You don’t believe he paid for that sin. You believe he paid for all the sins up to the day, but you don’t believe he paid for those that you haven’t done yet. Because when Christ died on the cross, all of your sins were in the future. You know what? He got mad at me. He literally got upset because he didn’t like what I said. But I don’t like somebody saying, I believe the Bible, I believe the Bible, I believe Christ I didn’t pay for my sins.

Sir, you do not believe that. You don’t believe it. You believe you’ve got to pay for your sins and that’s why you think you can still go to hell to pay for it. Because you don’t believe he paid for it. Now, either Christ paid for my sins or he did not pay for my sins. He came into the world to save the world, not to condemn the world. John 14, 6 says, Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life.

No man cometh unto the Father. by by name. Now that’s exclusive. That’s exclusive. It means it excludes everybody else. This means that you can’t get to heaven no other way except through Jesus Christ. No man comes unto the Father except through Him and He is the only way. There’s not two ways. There is no other God. You can’t go through Buddha, Muhammad, or Confucius, or anybody else. You do not go to heaven because you trust in a church. You don’t go to heaven because you trust in a preacher.

You don’t go to heaven because you trust in your good deeds You can’t save yourself understand you can’t save yourself That’s why you needed to save your Christ came into the world to save individuals Look at number two. He entered the city Victoriously receiving the praise of his people and John 12 through 13 He says with joy they took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried Hosanna God. Blessed is the king of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.

So Christ is making a joyful entry into the city of Jerusalem. And lo and behold, everybody is all excited and hollering and cheering and praising the Lord. See, they were looking for a king to deliver them from the iron heel of Rome. They weren’t looking for a Savior that watched him raise some people from the dead. They’d watched him walk on water. They watched him feed to 5,000. We could use somebody like that. You know the Bible says that in the last days in the tribulation period which is right ahead of us, the world is also still looking for a superman, a most brilliant individual that has the answers to everything because the world is in a mess.

And the Bible says, men’s hearts failing them for fear, seeing those things which are coming upon the earth. And so an individual is going to show up and evidently be able to deceive even God’s elect if God doesn’t intervene. And he’s going to fool the people, lie to the people. They seed the people and talk about peace and world peace. Everything is global now. It’s global world peace. They ain’t gonna be no peace until the Prince of Peace comes.

And Christ doesn’t hear yet. And we have seven years of tribulation here so you can forget all this here about peace in the world. It ain’t gonna happen. Christ says, I did not come to bring peace but a sword to divide the mothers and the fathers and the sisters and the brothers and everybody away from each other. And what does that, the gospel, cause one man to believe and another man doesn’t believe. It divides. Whenever the rapture takes place, what’s going to happen is going to be a great divide.

All those who know the Lord are going to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, and those that don’t know the Lord are going to be still right here. You’re talking about a division? There’s a division. It’s all the way through the scriptures. And what happened to this peace-honored good will toward man? Well, there would be peace-honored if people accepted the Prince of Peace, but they rejected the Prince of Peace, and there will be no peace without him.

In the next statement, he is later betrayed. Matthew 20 verse 18, behold, we go up to Jerusalem and the Son of Man shall be betrayed onto the chief priest and unto the scribes and they shall condemn him to death. Now this was prophesied in the Old Testament, it was prophesied. This prophesied again, when Christ was here, He told him over and over again, I am going to be killed. Three days later, I’m coming back from the dead, but He told him what was going to take place.

Jesus Christ did not come to see how rich He could be. His gold in life was not I’m gonna be a millionaire by the time I’m 30. His gold was he was gonna become the minister when he was 30 and he knew that in three and a half years he was gonna be dead. His gold wasn’t to see how many houses he could have how much land he could own or how much money could have in the bank how many cars he could drive that wasn’t his gold.

It wasn’t to see how rich can he be. Remember he left glory came into this world stripped himself of everything that he had came in here born in a manger, poor. He was the son of God. He had all the power in the world. He could perform miracles. He could read minds. Think of much money he could have made reading people’s minds. He was awesome. He was a man’s man. He was a carpenter. He worked with wood. He has tried, condemned, and scurged.

Then released he barabbas, the robber unto them and when he had scourged Jesus he delivered him to be crucified. You know what scourged means? It means that they took and laid him over a bench like, and they took a cat of nine pills with broken pieces of glass and pottery and nails and pieces of metal in it and nine of those things on long lo- I got one in the office and they would take and hit him on the back and then sink it in and rip it across his back and then do that to him in 39 times.

Just rip his back open. And then they crucified him. Christ did a lot of suffering before he ever got to the cross. But you know all that suffering that he did, that wasn’t paying for our sins yet. That was just what men were doing to him. You see, they poured out our sins upon him. And so yes, he had the evil of man, the wickedness of man crucifying him. And people did all these wicked things to the Son of God.

But when he’s on the cross and he cried out, my God, my God, why has stopped forsaken me? That’s when the payment for our sins, I believe, were paid because he paid for our sins on the cross. He is mocked as he hung on a cruel Roman cross, where they said, save thyself, if thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. He says, if you are who you claim to be, you come down from that cross and we’ll believe you.

Let’s just wait and see if he He can save himself. They mocked him. They made fun of everything that he said. If it was me, I’d have came down from the cross. I’d have zapped every one of them and then went back up. But I’d have hit him first. If he’d have come down from the cross, he couldn’t have saved anybody. He couldn’t come down and save himself. He didn’t come into the world to deliver himself. He had to die on the cross and pay for his.

And he allowed the wickedness of people to do what they did to him as a lamb. That means without lifting any resistance, he never resisted. Whatever they wanted to do, they want to spit on, they could do so. They pull his beard, they could do so. They put a crown of thorns on his head, they could do so. And then they would hit the thorns on the top of the head and push it down to the skin and blood.

They can do that. Whatever they wanted to do, they could say anything they want. He wouldn’t say anything back. He’d let them do whatever they want to do. He was led as they lamb to be slaughtered. He was being slaughtered. When somebody says something about us, we want to get even with them. It’s the last thing I do. He was the son of God, came into the world to die willingly for the sins of the world and to die upon a cruel cross.

He could not come down. If he became down, he could not have saved anybody. The next statement, he is declared dead, removed from the cross buried in a tomb. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said it is finished and he bowed his head and gave up to go. That meant that what he had done on the cross when he says It is finished. It means the payment for the sins of the world were done It means there’s nothing that anybody else has to do the payment for sin was complete You know you go to buy something you get a receipt Well Christ coming back from the dead is a living receipt that the payment was made in full and the scars in his hands in his feet That’s the mark that it’s paid in full.

It is finished There’s nothing for anybody to add to it. There’s no more work to do We are saved we go to heaven because of the work Christ did you don’t earn it. You don’t work for it He said me if I go I cannot kill somebody I’ll still go to heaven when I die what you say is true I said that’s a true way to put it. But yes, he said I’d never believe that I never believe that He says you trying to tell me that a man go I hear and kill people and still go to heaven when they die I I said, yeah, and I said, I got worse news than that.

I said, what’s that? I said, you can go to church all your life and live to be a little saint as close as the God you can live. I said, if you don’t trust Christ, you still burn the hell just like that man that killed all those people. God says, there’s no difference between them. I said, you mean I like the one? I said, but the other one is just as bad. I said, the greatest sin you can ever do, the greatest sin is to reject Christ as your savior.

You can’t get any worse than that. The sin of unbelief, all sin can be forgiven, but the sin of unbelief. See if you die without believing on Christ, there is no forgiveness in this life or the life to come. There is no hope because the worst thing you’ll ever do is not because you and I here murdered somebody or raped somebody or robbed the bank. No, the worst thing you can ever do, ever do. The worst is to reject the payment Christ made on the cross for you.

John 19, 34 said, but one of the soldiers where they spear pierced his side and forth with tamed, there out blood and water. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth. Later in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the Separach and departed. Three days later, he is absent from the tomb, having risen under his own power. Look at this verse, John chapter 20 verse 1.

The first day of the week come at Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark under the Separachum and see if the stone taken away from the Separata. And he an angel said unto them, be not afraid and ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified. He is risen. He is not here. Behold the place where they laid him. Christ came back from the dead. Christ is alive. He is in heaven and he has eternal life as a gift to give to every person that believes that he died for them.

Next statement, he is seen, they lead on by hundreds and a sins in the heaven. 1 Corinthians 15, 6 says, after that he was seen of above 500 brethren at once. This is after he came back from the dead. So this wasn’t something done in the corner. 500 people saw him after he came back from the dead. This is on one occasion. And then it says, without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifested in the place.

He Jesus Christ was God. He was God manifested in the flesh. And get what he says about this. This is a tremendous verse 1 Timothy 3 16. God was manifested in the flesh justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in the glory. He came into the world, did what he came to do, and left this world. Now he’s in heaven. And he has given eternal life to every individual that believes that he did all of that to them.

If you don’t earn eternal life, you don’t work your way to heaven, and yet there’s a lot of people that go to good, independent, fundamental Bible-even missionary minded, Baptist churches that do not know Christ as their Savior. A lot of preachers do not understand that eternal security is the gospel, and the gospel is eternal security. And if you’re not saved forever, you’re not saved at all. The best news in all the world is to know that you have eternal life.

You cannot know that you’re going to heaven when you die. If you don’t believe that once you’re saved, you’re always saved. If you don’t believe you’re always saved, you don’t know where you’re going when you die. And you don’t understand the gospel. This is the Bible and the issue is heaven and hell. And that is critical. It’s not a game. This is serious stuff. It would be a shame for you to come and you hear and you say, I heard that a thousand times, but did you ever trust Christ as your savior?

If you haven’t, you’re lost. You’re still lost. It means that when you die, you go to hell. And wouldn’t it be a shame for tomorrow you’d wake up in the flames of hell knowing that you could have gone to heaven knowing you sit there and you heard it over and over and over again and you never trust the Lord because you thought you had time or it really wasn’t that critical. Not that important and now you’re in hell and knowing you can’t get out.

You’ll never get out. It’ll never be changed. They’ll never get any better. Have you ever burnt yourself on a flame? Touch something so hot it burnt you? I’ve done it a many a time and I’ll thankful I am. I can not go to hell. If that doesn’t make a man thankful, nothing will. Look at the next segment. This is Jesus the Christ, God in the flesh, who died in your place that you may have heaven forever. 1 Corinthians 15, three and four says, for I delivered unto you first of all, that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scripture.

He was buried that he rose again the third day according to the scripture. See, this is a clear definition on how salvation is offered to you and I. But you can believe this intellectually and not really trust Christ as you’re saved. You can say, well, I believe Christ died. That’s, that’s, that’s history. But Christ died for me. That’s salvation. You must believe that when he died on that cross, he died and paid for my sin, mine, mine. That means if I really believe that, then I don’t have to pay for mine.

But if you think he’s still going to help, you don’t really believe he paid for yours. Oh, yeah, I heard Christ out on the cross and paid for the sin of the world. I heard it all the way. Where are you going when you die? Well, the hell, if I don’t change, you don’t get it. You don’t understand. He died to pay for your sins. Forget everybody else’s. Let’s forget the world.phia. He did it for you. Think about it as an individual thing.

He did this for me, my sins, so that I could have eternal life. Now, what should be our decision? John 3 16 says, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believe it in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Now, it’s done. It’s finished. Take your Bible very quickly and turn over there to the book of 1 Corinthians in chapter 1 Corinthians 15 is what we call the resurrection chapter. But in this resurrection chapter, notice what he says there in verse 51.

Christ can’t come back if he never left. If Christ is still in the grave, you have no hope and neither do I. And everything is in vain. What we have really messed up. See, look in verse 16. Verse 16 says, For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised. And if Christ is not raised, your faith is in vain, you’re yet in your sins. It means you’re still lost. Your sins are not been paid for. How can you believe in vain?

You can believe in vain if Christ died in vain. If Christ did not come back from the dead. If he didn’t come back from the dead, how can you trust somebody to save you who can’t even get out of the grave himself? What value was that? Or it’s true when he did come back from the dead and my preaching is not in vain and my faith is not in vain and your belief is not in vain and we don’t live in vain because it’s all true.

Now, looking verse 51, behold I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep. That means we won’t all die. If we won’t all die, we won’t all be buried. I really don’t care. die. No, not that I’m afraid to die. I said I’ve never done it before. I want the Lord just to change me in a moment. The twinkle of an eye and caught up to meet the Lord in the earth. Now think about it. Wouldn’t you rather go that away?

I do. But he says, we shall not all sleep die, that we shall all be changed. Verse 52, in a moment, the twinkle of an eye, the last trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead in Christ shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. This corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality. Look at me. I am mortal. It means I am subject to death, but I am going to put on immortality means that I won’t die.

Those that have already died, their bodies in the grave, that is corruptible. So they are going to put on incorruption. So the resurrection is going to take place. Christ is coming in the air. And then all of a sudden those dead bodies are going to be made incorruptible. And we that are alive when this moment comes will be changed in a moment. The twinkle of an eye caught up to meet the Lord in the air. And this mortal will put on immortality.

That is what I am looking forward to. See if there is no such thing as a resurrection then they can’t be this happening either because the one that did the other’s gonna do this one We’re looking for Christ to return Therefore he says in verse 58 looking verse 58 good on the line this verse in your Bible if it’s not on the line Therefore might be love it brethren Be a steadfast see once you trust Christ is your Savior you have eternal life You’re going to heaven when you die you just not there yet, but until then Be steadfast be faithful do right because he says my beloved brother be a steadfast unmovable, solo like a rock, always a bounding in the work of the Lord for as much as you know that your labor and get this is not in vain.

It’s not in vain. So I read all of this and I see all of this and I know Christ came back from the dead so it’s not in vain. My faith is not in vain. My preaching is not in vain. My living for God is not in vain. My witnessing is not in vain. My reading the word of God is not in vain. My plan is not in vain. My given the Lord’s work is not in vain. It will pay off in the long run.

I believe it because Christ came back from the dead. He’s coming back again someday. Now look at verse 58 one more time. Therefore, my beloved brethren, that’s the reference to those who know Christ is Savior. You’re going to heaven when you die. Be steadfast, be unmovable. I have tried to stay the same way since I’ve trusted Christ as my Savior and got the clarity of the the gospel down. I want to stay rock solid the rest of my life.

I’m thankful the Lord for saving me when I was 18 years old. It would have been nice that if I had been raising a Christian home and I’d have known the Lord at an early age and all that. But that wasn’t my life. That wasn’t what I had. I didn’t want God to save me in vain. To give me eternal life and then leave me here in this life and it be for a waste. Oh, I’d go to heaven when I die.

But I want others to be in heaven when I get there. I want people to be in heaven because I passed through this life. God left me here. That was by the grace of God. He didn’t owe that to me, but He did that. And I don’t want His grace of a leaving me here that I didn’t deserve to be totally in vain. I want to accomplish something with my life. And that should be the goal of every Christian to be steadfast, unlovable, always abounded in the work of the Lord for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

It’s not in vain. Because remember, if you have not trusted Christ as your Savior, you are lost. And if you’re lost and you die, where do you go? Where do you go? Hell. Now that’s not a pretty subject to talk about, but you can’t talk about the love of God if you don’t talk about the wrath of God because you’ve got to see until you know that you’re going to heaven when you die, you’ll never appreciate God really loving me.

How do I know God really loves He saved me from hell. Now look up here, this is you and me. This is sin. We all have sin on us. God loves us. He hates our sin. He loves us. And the Bible says since we committed the sin, we have to pay for it. Since we committed that sin, we’re all guilty. We all have to pay. And the wages is eternal separation from God. Inhale. Now God says that He loves us and He wants us to go to heaven.

God does not want anybody to go to hell. He wants us to go to heaven. To go to heaven we have to be perfect as righteous as God. Nobody’s perfect. Nobody’s righteous like God is. You see, God can’t let us in because of sin. So we have to pay for this. And he says that the wages of sin is death. It’s not going to church. It’s not giving money. It’s not praying through and hanging on and let go and let God.

You need a Savior. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord. He’s God in the flesh. Came into the world because He loves the world. He hates our sin because it separates us from Him. I can’t get to God. He can’t get to me. We can’t have any fellowship. I can’t spend eternity with Him because of sin. So what Christ did for one person He did for the entire world, He died in paper, all of the sins of all the world paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead.

And He says, all that we have to do is the only thing we can do, is to believe that He did this for us. He paid for our sins. God says, if I believe He did this for me, He would put that payment to my account. When I was 18 years old and I believed that he did this for me, he put that payment to my account. When you believe it, he put that payment to your account. If you haven’t believed it, that payment is not put to your account until you believe he did it for you.

That’s why your sins could have been paid for and you still go to hell because you rejected the payment that was made for you. Just because you know about it and because you want to go to heaven, don’t make you get there. You won’t get there just because, well, I want to go, you can’t will yourself there. You have to admit to God, I’m a sinner. There can be no pride in you that I’m going to have him because I deserve to go.

You don’t deserve to go. Nobody deserves to go. Nobody’s good enough to get to heaven. We’re all bad enough to go to hell. Only took one sin. But that one sin is enough to keep us all out of heaven. So Christ took the sins, paid for them to cross now. The only way you’ll ever get to heaven is do you or do you not? Will you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior? Will you accept this payment He made for you?

Now, if I was to offer you my glass of water and you accepted you’d have a glass of water and if I offered you my wallet and you accepted you’d have an empty wallet, if I offered you my microphone and you accepted you’d have a microphone. Well, if Jesus Christ walked in here right now, offered you eternal life and you accepted it, what would you have? Eternal life. eternal life, how long would it last? Forever, if it lasts forever and all your sins are paid, where would you go when you die?

Go to heaven. Can you know that you’re going to heaven before you die? Yes, that’s what it’s all about. Knowing that you have eternal life, these things have I written unto you that they leave on the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. You have to know it and you have to have it. Have it now. Do you have right now? No, you have right now. everlasting life and you’ll never lose it.

God will never cast you out. If you don’t understand that and you don’t believe that you’re lost. Every head bowed and every I closed. No one looking around. If you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior. I don’t care how many times you’ve heard it. Have you honestly be honest with yourself. It’s a heaven and hell issue. If you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, would you trust Him right now? Say yes, I will trust Jesus Christ as my Savior.

I want to be certain I’m going to heaven when I die and preach I like you to pray for me. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771.

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