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Going to give you good news today. I want you to open it with me and I will be reading from the book of First Peter for just a moment. I think about all that God is doing in this day around the world. It is the best time of the year because everybody, at least one day like today, is thinking, he rose Jesus. Everybody's talking Jesus. Everybody's thinking about his death and his resurrection. And somebody's mother is calling, I hear it. Amen. So pick it up. Are you ready? I'm going to go to First Peter, chapter one, in verse, verses 19 through 21. But with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, he indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world. I want you to understand he's talking about Jesus Christ, the Lamb without spot or blemish. Remember that phrase, without spot or blemish. He indeed was foreordained. That means predetermined before the world, the foundation. God ever spoke and said, let there be. He was preordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who, through him, who believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory. So that your faith and hope are in God. My faith, my hope is not in a church. It is not in a priest, it is not in a preacher. My faith and my hope is 100% Jesus Christ, who was God on that cross dying for you and for me. And he rose, the text said, from the dead. I want to take just a few moments this morning, and I want to talk about the Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the earth. This is important. In other words, there was a redemption plan already in place when God stepped into the Garden of Eden and he realized Adam and Eve had been tempted by Satan, who used the body of a serpent because God gave dominion to humans. And a human is someone that has a physical body, but they have a eternal spirit. God breathed into Adam the breath of life. And he was a spirit that was contained in a body. And therefore, Satan, who is a spirit, an angel, he could not come into the Garden of Eden legally without a body. So Satan borrowed the body of a serpent, and he used an earth thing to get into the garden to tempt Adam and Eve. And they fell and ate the forbidden fruit. You know the story. But it's important that the serpent was. And by the way, he walked. Apparently, before the curse, serpents could walk. I'm glad they can't do that anymore. But they walked. But when Jesus on the cross died, he defeated him. And the serpent now crawl. He went in walking. He walked out crawling or crawled out. And so I want you to understand something about everybody, say the serpent. The serpent was a type of sin. And the curse. The curse came on mankind in that moment. The prophecy was in the garden. That serpent will bruise your heel, Adam and Eve. But the seed of the woman is coming. Eve is going to produce a seed. And from that seed will come the crushing of the serpent's head. There will come a Messiah in a physical body, housed in a body. It'll be God. God is a spirit. God wouldn't break his own law. He said, I can't go into the earth and redeem because I have that law established. But I'll find me a body. I'll get me a body, and I'll come legally into the Earth, and I'll pay the price. All right, so what I want to preach about this morning is the prophecies and the types and shadows in miraculous ways that this happened. Specifically, I'm going to show you how this redemption would come. Secondly, when it would happen. And then thirdly, I'm going to show you through whom it would happen and what was the end result for you. Listen to me carefully. This won't take long. I preached it, believe it or not, in less than 30 minutes in the first service. So here we go. Set your clocks. Are you ready? How would redemption come? Lord, I thank you for the anointing today. How would redemption come? You see, it's important. It was a prophecy. Calvary was not an accident. It was a prophecy. And let me show it to you quickly. Nicodemus in John, chapter three, came to Jesus and he said, what must I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus turned to him and he said, you must be born again. And he said, how can I be born again? I'm of the seed of Abraham. I have the greatest bloodline that a human can have. I am in the bloodline that made a Covenant with God himself. And in that moment, God then said, you must be born again. And he said, of water and of spirit, and listen carefully to me, he said, how can that be possible? And then Jesus gave this answer. It was a reference to the Book of numbers, chapter 21, when he said, as Moses lifted up the serpent, the brass serpent, in the wilderness on a pole, so the Son of man shall be lifted up. And if I be lifted up on a pole, I will draw all men unto me. That was a picture, Calvary. That was a picture of the cross. You see, the serpent was made of brass. And the story goes like this. Moses and the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and serpents started coming out of the rocks and biting hundreds and thousands of the people. And they were dying. Notice a serpent. Oh, okay. We just heard about a serpent in the Garden of Eden. Now, in type and shadow, we see Moses being attacked by serpents. And the people and the. The children in the cribs dying. The people are dying. The people are. They're swelling up and dying. And what do we do? God. And God says, take a brass serpent and put it on a wood pole and hold it up. And when you hold it up and they look up, if they'll look, no matter how bad the poison is, it's the curse. The serpent on that pole represented the serpent that crawled into the Garden of Eden and brought the curse on mankind. You have to see the types. Now, Jesus fulfilled these things in the Old Testament perfectly. And so as he's holding that up, all who look will live. And as they look, they live. And it's a beautiful picture of Jesus, Jesus on the cross where you say, well, wait a minute, if Satan was the serpent, why did they put serpent on the pole? Because in that moment when Jesus hung on the cross before the Father, he said, father, why have you forsaken me? God couldn't look on him because the Bible said in Corinthians, he who knew no sin became sin in that moment. Jesus. It should have been a lamb. If you're going to go by the types, it should have been a lamb on the cross that Moses held up. But really, it's a more beautiful picture of. He's saying Jesus is represented by a serpent because he took the curse that the serpent, who is the symbol of the curse, he took it on himself. He took our sins. He took. For the Bible said, cursed is everything. Every man that hangs on a tree. So he took the curse to. So how would redemption come? It would come on a cross, a wooden Being it would come by Jesus being our substitute. And then the next question that I want to answer is it would come on a cross. Jesus said, if I be lifted up, I'll do the work. And then he said, I want to answer the question, when will it happen? It will happen. Specifically, if this is the Messiah, he has to be offered on a cross at Passover. Exodus chapter 12 is the Passover chapter in the Bible. It tells us that everything that would occur at Passover and it would start with a lamb. Every house had to have a lamb. Listen to this. The lamb would enter into their home the first day. It would live in their home like a pet. This is all in your Bible. They would let it eat from their table. They would sleep with it. The children would play with it. They did not want it to be something that they weren't. Their family was not closely identified. Like a pet, like one of your pets. That lamb was kept 24 hours a day in the home for four days. Isn't it interesting that when Jesus rode in on Palm Sunday, he rode in and for four days all they did was observe Jesus. All they did was watch him, because they were identifying and they followed him. They followed him and they observed him for four days in Jerusalem. And then on the fifth day, that Passover lamb had to be taken by the father of that house. They would make a little tag and put the family name on that lamb. And. And the father and the family would go to the place of sacrifice to the high priest and he would offer that lamb for their house. They would offer it as a lamb for their house. Now I want you to listen to this. It had to happen just like the scripture said. So the Passover lamb for four days was observed Jesus Christ according to the scriptures, in John 19:20, when he died on the cross, he died on Passover. The Crucifixion started at 12 o' clock in the afternoon on Friday. And it would have went to three o', clock, the Bible said. And at the ninth hour, which would be 3pm he gave up the ghost and he died. 3pm Specifically, three in the afternoon is when the Passover lamb was slain for hundreds of years in the Old Testament. And Jesus Christ, how would it come on a cross? Like Moses lifted up the serpent. Jesus was lifted up. They threw that cross in that hole on Golgotha's hill, on Calvary. And when the cross dropped, the blood is flowing. And in exactly three in the afternoon, the Passover lamb was being slain in the temple. And at the same time, Jesus Gave up the ghost. And he said, it is finished. And he died. It is not an accident. It's not even. This is even historically proven, what I'm preaching to you. It's historical documents. The Passover offering had been offered. Then where, where will this happen? In Genesis 22, it's the story of Abraham. Another beautiful type of calvary. God says, abraham, take your son. The son that you waited 25 years for. God promised he and Sarah, his wife. She was 99, he was a hundred. And God promised them, I'll give you a child. They waited for one year, three years. You have to wait through the nothings of God. When God tells you something, he'll do it if you won't give up. But they waited 25 years for that son Isaac. That was their only son they had ever had. And they waited 25 years for that child. And Sarah had no idea what Abraham had been told by God to do. But Abraham says, I'm going to pack the son up and pack some things up. Sarah, God has spoken to me. And I could almost hear her say, oh, I love it when God speaks to you. Abraham, take him. Take. You mean y' all are going on a father son trip? We're going on a father son camping trip. It's going to take us three days to get to the top. Where is it going to happen? Mount Moriah. Mount Moriah is the same region of Calvary. Do you understand? It probably was the exact same mountain. And he says, I want to get the wood. And I've got the knife. And as they're pulling off in the cart, I could see in my mind the little boy up there, the little lad, and he gets to drive the mule and he's got the reins. Daddy, can I drive? This is going to be so fun. We're going to camp out for three days. Yes, son, it'll take us. Notice the words, three days to complete this assignment from God. It's going to be a three day deal. And by the way, son, I want you to carry the wood. I'll take all the other stuff. I'll get the food. But son, I want you to put in quote, I'm going to put the wood on your back. Isaac is carrying the wood up Mount Moriah, which is where Calvary is. Do you understand that? In the city of Jerusalem. It wasn't a city yet, but he was taking that ground for God. And as he's climbing the hill, I could almost see Sarah as she watches the wagon go away. And she sees the wood and she Sees the knife and the question comes in her mind, oh my God, where's this? Where's the lamb? She didn't know that that boy was the lamb and that that father was taking his only son. And he built an altar at the top and he raised the knife and. And the boy's laying there saying, father, what are you going to do? He says, son, just. Just trust me. I've heard from God. And all of a sudden an angel says, don't do it. Watch, watch. There's a ram whose head and horn is caught in a thicket. The word thicket in Hebrew is thorns. His head is caught in a thorn bush. He's wrapped up crown of thorns, the substitute. So hey, Abraham, don't kill your son. Let him go and go get. You'll know the sacrifice God wants if it has a crown of thorns around its head. And when Jesus was being beaten cruelly by the Roman soldiers, they mocked him. They didn't know what they were doing. But it was not incidental that they used for a crown, a crown of thorns. When they put it on him, it was the symbol of the curse. And they shoved on the crown of thorns, signifying going back to the book of Genesis 22. He is the Lamb of God. God said, I will provide my own lamb. Where will it happen? On the mount of the Lord. It shall be seen. Genesis 22 said quickly, Let me tell you another beautiful type. Your Bible is amazing. Your Bible is not. It's a living thing. It's alive. There is the story, one of the most phenomenal stories. And this is where I'm trying to hurry get to. Because the crucifixion is amazing, but the resurrection is amazing. Let me show you a type and shadow. Now In Numbers, Chapter 19, there was the sacrifice of the red heifer that was to take place. It was only on a special occasions during Passover. And God commanded that if there be a red heifer, it had to be a young calf and it had to be perfectly red. Its hair had to be perfectly red. It could have no gray, it. It could have no white hair, it could not have brown hair. It could not have black hair. It had to have perfectly red. And they were to take was a female calf. They were to take it and tie. After it was slaughtered, they would take its body and they would tie. And by the way, its blood was not used for anything in it. There's a type in it. I want to show you. The blood of the lamb is what covered. But this is a type of Christ also. They Tied its. Its front legs to a wood pole. They tied its back legs to a wood pole and they put it over a fire and they would burn it. And this is so interesting, the details of God's word. So I want you to see it. It's a red heifer. It's very special. They've only had like every. Every 60, 70 years, something like that shows up. Just let me preach, guys. You're putting a lot of scriptures up. I won't preach. Trust me, it's in there. Go do your research on your own. Amen. But watch this, watch this. So this red heifer would be burned. And while the fire was burning it. This speaks of. This speaks of something powerful. They were commanded by the priest to take cedar wood and put it in to the fire while the heifer was being burned. And scarlet, the cloth that was the color of red blood. Scarlet. Throw it in. And hyssop. You can show that part. Hyssop. What is that about? The wood represented Calvary, the cross, the cedar wood, the scarlet cloth represented the Bible said the Roman soldiers put mockingly on him a scarlet robe. God is saying, you'll know it's the final sacrifice. If you see wood in that offering being burned up on that cross. If you see. If you see the scarlet cloth in there. And then hyssop. Hyssop is what they used to press to his lips when he said, I thirst, and he refused to drink it. Those. What's the chances of those three things written hundreds and thousands of years before Christ showed up on the cross? All of them are included in the story of the red heifer. Then the story really gets interesting. Once they had laid him on his back, once they had burned him, once his hands and his feet were connected to that and they had burned it, they would take his ashes. They would take the ashes of the red heifer, put them in a copper container and seal it. They would be commanded to, quote, go outside the walls of the city of Jerusalem and bury it in the ground in a sealed container. The ashes of the sacrifice would be buried outside, not inside, and it had to be sealed. Well, do you know that Jesus, when he died, was charged with blasphemy? Blasphemers had to face the temple when they were being crucified. That was. It was a criminal offense of death if you blasphemed. And that's what they claimed. He was a blasphemer. And so therefore on the cross, he was facing the temple. But here's the thing. They would take those criminals Bodies. And because if the Jews. Oh, I love this. Thank you, Holy Spirit. If the Jews had gotten possession of the body and remains of Jesus, they would have burned him because he was a blasphemer. But there was a rich man, quote Matthew 27, a rich man. He was not a preacher. He was a businessman. But he said, I'm rich for a reason. I have prestige with Pilate. I have money and influence, and I don't have it just for myself. I'm going to use all my influence and I'm going to go to Pilate and I'm going to beg for the body of Jesus. They took every. You read it, read it, read it. They took every other criminal's bodies in, including the two thieves that died beside Christ. And they would take them because the Roman soldiers had possession. It was a part of. They owned their body as the stake. And so they would take them to the valley of Gehenna and burn them. If you've ever been to Jerusalem, you have to go through the valley of Gehinnom to get in to go up to Mount Zion. And so they would burn them. And they should have got the body of Jesus as the miracle, but God didn't use them. Think about that. If you're a business person or you're not in the ministry, so to speak, but don't know, God can use you in ways The. The whole resurrection story would not have happened if there hadn't been a businessman who used his influence and went to Pilate, who had control over the body and begged him. He probably had paid him a big donation for his campaign. And. And he probably said, okay, payback time. All right, take the body. And Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, the rich man, he said, I've got a place. And I know the Jews would get upset, but I've got a place outside the walls of Jerusalem that. I've got a tomb. It's my personal tomb. I'm a wealthy man and I've got a tomb, but I want to donate it to Jesus, to his body. And they said, okay, we'll take him. They take him outside the tomb. Are you listening? Remember the little copper deal that. Remember the seal? They. They put him in Joseph of Arimathea's tomb. They roll the stone. The Roman soldiers are given guard. They seal it with the Roman seal. And he's got a platoon of soldiers making sure that Jesus stays inside. I gotta tell you that only the priests could break the seal. See, the reason that that was buried outside was because if in the future, any kind of plague or anything broke out. The high priest was to run to that very special sacrifice. And only the high priest could break the seal. Anyone else? It was a death, death punishment if you touched and broke that seal. Jesus Christ, when he rose from the dead, he broke the seal. He stepped out. And when he did. Please hear me. He was saying, I am both the sacrifice and I'm my own high priest. I am your high priest. Of your confession. You don't have to go to a man. All due respect, but I tell you, this day should not be about a popemobile or anything else. It ought to be about Jesus. He is our high priest. He's it. He is the resurrection and the life. He is the way, the truth and the life. See, I always gotta go there, haven't I? I don't know why I can't always preach good sermons. But I just want to say I don't want anybody or anything to take this day away from Jesus. It belongs to Jesus. Now watch. I'm almost done. I'm almost done. Can I keep preaching? I have 10 more minutes. Give me 10 more minutes. And if you leave, may your car have a flat In Jesus name, may you have a thousand fleas in your bed when you go to sleep tonight. Listen, this is important. Listen. Watch this. I want to show you something. I want to show you another type. It's the story of the scapegoats. It's found in the scriptures. And they can. They can show where the scripture is. But I got to take full time here. Watch. There was another sacrifice that was to happen on that day. It was a ritual. It was called the scapegoat. There were two goats. They would take a long strip that was 16 inches long. A red. A red cord. And they would tie it on the horn of one goat. And they would declare, this is the goat of the Lord. And then they would take a second string that was red and they would tie it on another goat. And it was called the scapegoat. That's the. That's the one that they use. It's called the scapegoat. Now watch. Look at me now. So you could read this on your own time, but watch what would happen. What would happen is the high priest, after he heard the confession of the people of their sins, he would take his hands and he would lay his hands on the scapegoat. We would call it the escape goat. And he would confess the sins of the people and transfer the sins through the laying on of hands. That goat and then the other goat, that was for the Lord, who had no sins that were transferred to him, he would be slaughtered. After he was slaughtered, they would take that lamb or that goat that had the transfer of sins on him to the wilderness and turn it loose. What is that about? In the story of the crucifixion, you have the story of Barabbas, who was a murderer. And you have them standing before Pilate. And the crowd is crying out, we want you to crucify Jesus. And Pilate says, I don't find any fault in this man. He doesn't have any sins. I don't see anything that he's done. I wash my hands of this. But you have a tradition that says that if somebody guilty, if two criminals are standing, we can release one and we can kill the other one. Who do you want? And the crowd started saying, give us Barabbas. Barabbas was a murderer. He was full of sin, and he was released. And Jesus was sinless, but he was crucified. There was a third cord. They would take it and nail it to the door of the temple. And at the end of the day, the families would sit around after all the sacrifices, the last thing the priest would say is, it is complete. We've done it all. It's complete. Everything's been killed. All the lambs have been offered. My goodness, it is complete. And now he goes with that Passover blood of the lamb, and he's going to go into the holy of holies. But before he does, there's one of those cords. And supernaturally, when the priest would go in and he would sprinkle, if God accepted that sacrifice, the bells on his robe would continue to ring as he walked. And it let them know the joyful sound meant, oh, he didn't die. They would tie a rope on his ankle, and if it wasn't accepted, he would drop dead in the glory of God. And they'd pull him out. But if he walked back there and they kept hearing the bells, it meant, oh, God, we're going to have a great year. God's favor, God's forgiveness is on us. We rolled the sin over one more year. Watch, watch. But that one scarlet rope that was on the door of the temple at that moment, if this sacrifice was accepted, it would turn from red to white, supernaturally fulfilling. Isaiah 1 and verse 8. Though your sins as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Let me show you. Everybody say three chords. The cross scene. Go with me quickly to the crucifixion. Jesus Christ is on the Middle cross, he's the goat that's being offered for the Lord. There's a thief on the left side and he is full of Satan. I believe he was demon possessed because he said the exact words that Satan himself said when he was hanging on the cross beside of Jesus. The thief that hated Jesus began to curse him with vile cursings. And he said what Satan said in Matthew 4 when he showed up in the wilderness face to face with Jesus. Listen to what the thief says. I know a demon told him what to say. If you are the son of God, do this. Get down. Get us off this cross. He's saying exactly what Satan said. If you are the son of God, bow down and worship me. And he dies. And he's offered to. He goes off dripping blood into hell. The man in the middle, he's dripping blood and his blood goes as an offering to God the Father. But then there's this thief on the right side and he turns to Jesus and he prays a nine word prayer. Lord, when you come into your kingdom, remember me. And instantly, even though he was dripping red blood and he was lost all his life, suddenly, though his sins were as scarlet, he's white as snow. And Jesus said, this day you shall be with me in paradise. Can I throw one more at you? And then I'm going to close. How will you know? Do you know that the Bible said that Pilate commanded that when Jesus was crucified that they put a sign the top of the cross written in three languages, Latin, Hebrew and Greek. This is, this is, this is not even disputable what I'm telling you. Write this. Pilate said, put this on the cross. Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. Do you understand what was happening and notice what happened? Many of the Jews read this title for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city and was written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek. Therefore the chief priests got all upset. Don't write that. Went berserk. You should read it. You should read. They went. They went. They went berserk. They said, you tell him to take that down. You tell him to take that down. Now. Let me look at, look at me. Why were they so upset? Why were they so upset? Because if you look at those languages in the Hebrew language, it spells out the first letter of those different languages spells out Yahweh. Yahweh. It's. It's not even. Check me out, you'll see. I'm telling you in other words, God. Just like those families put their family name on Their lamb, God said, I'm putting my name on my lamb. And. And what disturbed those. Those Jewish leaders was the ancient name of God, Yahweh. You can't put that up there like that. You can't put that on that. You can't put that on that. Even the devil's upset. The lights are flashing. All right, I'm going to close. As long as the sprinklers don't go off. Don't worry about it. Hallelujah. You never know what's going to happen at Free Chapel, do you? It is. Well, now watch this. Now watch this. They took his body. They put it in the grave. They sealed it. And just like that, fire offering Jesus his spirit left the body. And the Bible said in Ephesians, chapter four, he went into the underworld. There was a compartment of hell. It was not the lake of fire, the lake of fire, according to the scriptures, on the other side. But there is a compartment of hell where those who died in faith were held. And Jesus descended. The text said, In Ephesians 4, he descended. And he began to lead captivity out of captive. He began to preach to them. Adam and Eve were there. Adam and Eve. You don't need the fig leaves anymore. I just shed my blood up there. Hey, hey, Moses, you know the serpent on the pole. I just died on the cross and I took the curse. Hey, Abraham. I wore the crown. Look. Look at the wounds. My blood. He's. For three days, he's in the underworld preaching. I'm it. Hey, hey, Isaiah. You said that I'd be wounded for their transgressions. I'd be bruised for their iniquities. The chastisement of their peace was upon me. And by my stripes, they're healed. I have fulfilled the law. I have fulfilled every prophecy. And after he preached a good sermon on his blood, he said, you know it's not a good sermon if you don't give an altar call. And he said, how many of you want to receive my blood as your sacrifice for sin, to wash it away forever? And every hand in the jailhouse. This is the first jailhouse rock. Every. Every hand goes up. I'll receive it. I'll receive it. He says, get in line. We're about to have the first soul train. And every one of them get in line. And he says, here we go. We're gonna get out of this grave. Ain't no grave gonna hold my body down. He walks up to the gates of hell and he says, we'll be exiting now. And the gate refuses to Open. And he says, oh, I quote out of Isaiah, open up you gates and be lifted up you everlasting doors. And the king of glory will come in and back. A demon screams, who is the king of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty. The Lord able to save the gates of hell, will not prevail against the church. And boom, he busts through the gates. I could see the devil in my mind as he gets on the phone call with death. Have you still got him? Yeah, we've got him. Everything's good. We've been having a party, man. The club is popping tonight. Demons are backing it up. We're having a time. He's dead. He's never coming back. It looked like it was over, but early that Sunday morning the scripture said that an earthquake hit. And when the earthquake hit and began to shake, the veil in the temple was torn top to bottom. And suddenly Jesus, who was slain, rose from the dead. And I could see the devil calling up death and saying, have you still got him? I heard there was an earthquake over there. And that demon of death said, you know, I had him, but I heard a voice. And the voice said, where is he? And I said, who are you? And he said, I am Victory. O grave, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? By the way, one of these days the trumpet is going to sound and that's the same song we're going to sing. O grave, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? For the Bible said, when the trumpet sounds, the dead in Christ shall rise first. Why? Because Jesus rose from the dead. He said, because I live. You shall live also. He that believes in me, I will even come back. And your spirit will be with me instantly when you die. But your body, I'm not going to leave. I borrowed the tomb, but I bought your body. And man, you haven't seen nobody until you see our resurrected bodies we've never seen. Think of the best looking, best built person that you can think of, with the perfect abs, everything. And they're still under the curse. Y' all have never seen what Adam looked like. You have never seen what Eve looked like. You wait till we get our glorified bodies and there will be no more weeping, no more sickness, no more sorrow, no more pain, no more war, no more death. For God shall wipe every tear from their eyes. You have heard the gospel of Jesus Christ this morning. Do you believe it? For if you believe it, it can save your soul. But if you reject it, if you reject it, then all of the curse you literally reach up and take the crown of thorns, which represents the curse. You take it off of his head and you put it back on yours. I'll never stand before the Great White Throne judgment because I settled out of court and all charges have been dismissed because of Jesus and his sacrifice and his resurrection. Now, listen, listen. This is important. The most important part of a service is not the singing or the preaching. It's your response because you've heard enough gospel to be judged by. You know what I think about on days like this? I saw my nephew and his beautiful grandchildren, his wife, yesterday out on the grounds. We had this amazing time outside with four kids. It was just incredible. I couldn't help but think about my brother Richie, Rena, your husband. Every once in a while it just hits you. When 54, 54 years old, 52 years old, went home to be with the Lord. He and I were evangelists that traveled all over the nation and the world preaching Jesus together. I watched him. We watched him. We were there in the bedroom when he went to heaven. 52 years old, beautiful family. I was out walking last night and I thought about that after I saw you chase because you look so much like him. And I thought, praise God. One of these days, because of the resurrection, I'm going to see that boy again. He's just getting everything. I'm going to see my dad who died at 56. The dead in Christ shall rise first. And we who are alive and remain. I hope I'm part of that generation will be caught up together. What a happy moment. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, it'll all be over. And all that will matter is, is he Lord? Is he Savior? When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be. You won't go by accident. Your salvation was not by accident. He was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the earth. Don't reject him. I close with this. When they put the blood of the Passover on the door of the house, they were commanded to put it on the top bar so that there was. God saw them through the blood and forgave them. There was forgiveness through the blood. But then they had to put blood on the two side posts. Because if God gives you forgiveness, you have to forgive your family, your loved ones, your enemies. The same manner that you receive, you have to give. But never were they to put the blood on the threshold of the door because the blood is never to be trampled upon. Don't trample on the blood of Jesus. Receive the Lamb of God as your sacrifice, believe that he rose from the dead and you can have newness of life, a brand new beginning in Jesus name. Please, just two more minutes and I'm going to pray the benediction. But stand to your feet quietly and just bow your head for one moment in sincere reverence before God. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Every head bowed, every eye closed. If you're in this room today and you would say, pastor Jensen, if you're watching me in the prison, if you're watching me on television right now, maybe sitting there in your home and you've got everything, but you have nothing. Maybe going through a divorce, you feel like your world's falling to pieces. You may be watching me at one of our campuses or on the Internet. The blood of Jesus can set you free. The blood of Jesus can cleanse you completely. The blood of Jesus can deliver you from every evil spirit. It can break every curse. It can break every occultic power that tries to hunt you and destroy your life. I just plead the blood of Jesus over every person who's under the sound of my voice, and I take full authority in the name of Jesus that you will not be a slave to sin, a slave to addiction, a slave to anything that says you can't have life and have it more abundantly through Jesus Christ.
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