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for just a few moments I want to talk to

you about the power of his of his death

and resurrection what it means to us

Calvary is God’s divine reach Calvary is

God saying I still want you Calvary is

God’s divine reach that says to Satan

hell cannot have you and because of the

cross and what he did on the cross death

is just an incident now it’s not a final

state before the cross and the

resurrection death was the final state

when people died they went to a

compartment of Hell called Hades it was

not burning fire it was a holding place

and you could not get out but the Bible

teaches that when Jesus Christ died and

went to the grave and into hell that no

longer is is death a final statement but

it is an incident it is but for a moment

there’s no fear of the hold of death on

our life if you don’t believe in the

resurrection you will not believe in the

rapture because the same Bible that

teaches that God raised Jesus up from

the dead teaches that the church will be

raptured the Bible said in 1st

Thessalonians 4 that the same power that

raised Christ from the dead will quicken

our mortal body and one day when the

trumpet sounds if you have anyone in the

grave today when that trumpet sounds if

they’re in Christ the grave will give up

her dead and the Bible said those who

are alive and remain those of us who are

living we will be caught up together

with our lost loved ones to meet the

Lord in the air and if you can’t believe

in the resurrection you can’t believe in

the rapture but it’s going to happen now

please listen to me death is separation

of the soul from the body

and the Bible teaches in the book of

Revelation 20 that there are two deaths

there is a second death for people who

are lost to go into eternity what does

that mean you die the first time and

that is when your soul leaves your body

but there is a second death and it’s

when you are separated not just from

your body but your soul is separated

from God for eternity it’s when he says

to people who do not know him as their

as their Savior depart from me I never

knew you and in that moment the Bible

said this is the second death now here’s

the here’s the key if you are if you

have only been born one time you have to

die twice but if you get born a second

time or two verse meaning your natural

birth and being born again you only die

one time so if you’re born one time you

die to death in the natural and then the

separation from God but if you’ve been

born again you only die one time your

soul leaves your body and you go to be

with the Lord because of what Jesus did

on the cross and in the grave

I’m thankful today for that aren’t you

Jesus got up Jesus got out and Jesus

wants to come in to your life

and if he got up and he got out and he

comes in you can’t stay down now

everybody has down days even Jesus he

was down three days but you’re not

supposed to stay down and when Jesus

comes in you won’t stay down you’ll get

up and you’ll get out because that’s

where he’s taking you I believe that we

need to understand that when he gets up

he exhausted sins power to dominate us

he defeated death terror to hold us and

we don’t have to be afraid of anything

anymore not of dying not of anything in

this life nothing can separate us from

the love of God

the greater one got up got out and when

the Holy Spirit speaks to you and you

say yes Lord he gets in you and the one

who said I’ll never leave you I’ll never

forsake you he’ll walk you through and

even into the next life he will be there

for you that’s the message of the cross

and the resurrection I want to tell you

what Jesus did he did three things when

he died and rose again number one he

removed your transgressions number two

and they all start with an are real

quick he said that he will remember your

sins no more

he removed your transgressions will

remember your sins own no more and

number three he releases you from your

iniquities when he when I say he removes

your transgressions from your account

what does that mean there are two words

for sin in the Old Testament

transgressions and iniquities and

there’s a big difference between the two

and you need to understand it an

iniquity is an inward motivation that

drives you towards sin if something that

happens on the inside iniquity happens

inside a transgression is the outward

action that is the actual the word

transgression comes from the word

trespass which means to step over a

known boundary it’s when it goes from

something you think about are you being

tempted to actually doing it so another

way of saying it is iniquity or sin

starts inside in your heart but a

transgression is in your hand is what

you do an iniquity is an attitude the

transgression is the action that’s what

the Pharisees they would brag about how

they didn’t do this and they didn’t do

that they were saying we didn’t commit

the transgression but Jesus wouldn’t let

him off the hook because he knew inside

they were rotten they were mean they

were ugly they were bitter they were

hateful and he

said.you window-shop adultery you have

said watch him because they said we’ve

never committed adultery here stone this

woman but Jesus says I see you haven’t

done the transgression of adultery but

let’s look inside of you and when he

does he says if you look on a woman to

lust after her you have committed

adultery and then he said if you are a

murderer if you are a if you hate your

brother you are a murderer I know you

haven’t done the actual action and

transgression of murder but if inside

you’re so bitter at somebody you hate

them then you are a murderer and they

thought they would get off that way but

watch this Jesus Jesus Jesus was so

powerful and so exact in his death that

Isaiah 53 said he was wounded watch the

wording for our transgressions what is a

transgression what is a wound a wound is

outward bleeding if you’re wounded

you’re you have outward bleeding and

what is the transgression it’s an

outward act of sin it’s the action the

scene outside he was wounded he took

blood on his body for our outward

transgressions he was bruised what is

bruising bruising his internal bleeding

if you ever get a bruise what that means

is you were bleeding on the inside he

was bruised for our iniquities what is

an iniquity it’s an inside motivation

and inside the hidden thing but you can

have it and here’s the beauty of what he

did on the cross he completely cleanse

you inside and outside not only of

things that you actually did but of

things that you would think about and

would do he cleansed you inside and out

not only that but the Bible said he

removed your transgressions I don’t know

if you just got what I said I’m not

talking about one day right now when God

looks at you he sees all of your

transgressions inside and out through

the blood of his son and he says I have

removed your transgressions secondly

this is even more remarkable because of

what he did he said I

after 43 says I even I am he that blots

out your transgressions to remember your

sins no more Isaiah 43 and 25 Hebrews 8

and 12 their sins I will not remember

this is phenomenal the word remember

means to recall or bring up for use now

sometimes we say God forgot all of our

sins it does it never does it say he

forgets because if God forgot all the

sins that you committed that would be

about half your life so he doesn’t

forget but listen what he does I will

remember what is remembering to recall

to bring up for use against you Wow

I know you did it but I will never

remember it to recall it to use it

against you or to let it be brought up

against you because I will remember your

sins no more it will never be used

against you again because of what my son

did on the cross when he rose again from

the grave you know I don’t know I can’t

prove it but I think men lose their

memory when they go to sleep because my

wife sometimes will ask me Charisse will

say to you what did you do yesterday but

if I asked her that she can tell me she

can tell women can remember everything

they remember what clothes they had on

they remember who they saw actual she

can remember things that I talked to her

about and she can say I remember even

how you did your hands I remember and

how do you remember that you know the

Bible said that God made male and female

from him so there must be male/female

kind of attributes to God and I believe

the the female part of God

it knows what we did but the male part

of God says just forget it

and I won’t remember it anymore that’s

not theology that’s just my opinion turn

to somebody and say God as removed your

transgressions and he remembers them no

more that ought to make you a worshipper

that ought to make come on that ought to

make somebody thanks worthy is the lamb

that was slain and if that weren’t

enough he does one more thing he he

releases us from our iniquities it has

to do with being set free it has to do

with with he can so sever you from that

that bend that that tendency that

weakness he knows our weaknesses and he

says I have the power through my shed

blood to release you from the addiction

to release you from the pain to release

you from the past it’s what Jesus does

when he hung on the cross I want to give

you in closing four quick things that

the resurrection shows us in the Old

Testament whether you know it or not

this book is the most amazing book the

Bible that you will ever read and the

prophecies were there in ClearType like

you wouldn’t believe of the resurrection

of Jesus Christ for example in the story

of Noah we see the resurrection well

what do you mean in Genesis chapter 8

the Bible said in verse 4 the waters

after 150 days begin to receive and

subside and it says and in the seventh

month of the seventeenth day the ark

rested on Mount Arak

in other words in the seventh month the

seventeenth day everybody say the

seventh month the seventeenth day the

Ark of the Covenant is raised up it gets

on a mountain watch this

and the waters of death received the

waters of judgement received and it is

raised up notice the timing in the

seventh month on the 17th day why does

that matter because Passover which is

when the lamb was slain which is when

Jesus was crucified at the very same

time the lamb was being slain Jesus was

being crucified from 12 o’clock to 3

o’clock he hung on the cross for you and

me and here’s what’s significant when

did Passover happen according your Bible

in the 7th months listen the 14th day

let’s do math Jesus dies and here’s a

prophecy of Noah in the seventh month

the seventeenth day he’s raised up and

the waters of death go down on the

fourteenth day is seventh month 14th day

the lamb is slain 14 15 16 17 three days

later he is raised up death is defeated

and there is the picture of the

resurrection in the story of Noah let me

give you another one in the Old

Testament Genesis chapter 22 Abraham and

Isaac Abraham is told by God take your

son your only son for God so loved the

world that He gave His only Son take him

up on the mountain and sacrifice him to

me and the Bible said listen to the

graphic detail that Isaac the little boy

actually we say was a little boy he was

17 years old and he put the wood on his

back the little the teenager 17 years

old put the wood on his back and the

Bible said in Genesis 22 that they

climbed the mountain and it was a

three-day journey oh my goodness for

three days in the mind of Abraham his

son Isaac was dead in the mind of the

father the son was dead for three days

that’s exactly what God the Father had

to go through in the God the father’s

mind he saw his boy carry

would heal and for three days he was

dead in the father of the in the mind of

the father when when he gets to the top

somebody said that Abraham forced Isaac

he was 17 years old and Abraham was 100

nobody could have made Isaac lay down on

that altar just like nobody made Jesus

lay down on that altar no man takes my

life if I want to Jesus that I can call

ten thousand of angels I lay down my

life just like Isaac laid down and when

the knife was raised by Abraham suddenly

God sent an angel and said don’t do it

there’s a substitute for him there’s a

ram caught in the thicket shed the Rams

blood and here’s a beautiful picture of

the resurrection watch Isaac who went

the son who went to the mountain to die

after all of that is over walked off the

mountain of death three days later very

much alive one more one day they came to

Jesus and say fed do some tricks do some

miracles we’ve heard you do tricks do

some tricks come on do something he said

a wicked generation looks for a sign but

if you’ve got to have a sign just as a

sign to you as Jonah went into the belly

of the fish for three days and came back

out again so the Son of Man I Jesus

Christ will go into the bowels of the

earth but on the third day I’ll come out

again and then and and and Jonah we can

go preach he was told by God go take a

message of judgment to the to Nineveh

and he didn’t like those people so he

wouldn’t go and he went the opposite

direction of fish woloson and for three

days he’s in hell but watch this a

resurrected man does not bring after he

comes up and that Nevada says I love the

word him the fish spit him out spit him

out

and now he goes to Nineveh like God told

him with seaweed all over he probably

smelled like you wouldn’t believe but

when he gets there he preaches Nineveh

40 days to repent or God will judge you

notice what he changed his message God

didn’t tell him to do that he did it on

his own because resurrected men don’t

preach judgment they preach mercy he’s

saying I’m giving you 40 days basically

six weeks to get your act together now

if I if the old me would have showed up

before I went to hell and came out and

here’s the good news Jesus is a

resurrected man and his message is not a

message of judgment his message is a

message of mercy and I love you and I’ll

forgive you and I’ll restore you and all

I need you to do is repent I got a I got

out and I want to get in your life the

older I get the more I realize that

every time I hold a Bhakra phone and

preach this gospel somebody may be

hearing it for the first time or the

last time what are you going to do with

Jesus

if you’re born twice you’ll only die

once but if you’ve only been born once

in the natural and you’ve never been

born again you’re going to die twice

you’re not only going to be separated

from your body separated from God today

is the day of salvation you know what

Jesus wants to do for you he wants to

remove your transgressions he wants to

never remember them meaning never bring

them up or allow them to be brought up

to you be used against you again he

wants to release you from the addictions

from the tendencies from the weaknesses

he wants you to run to the mercy seat

and Jesus is the mercy seat he wants you

today to know that he was wounded for

your transgressions and bruised for your

iniquities and by His stripes you’re

healed your marriage your family your

future your life but he never comes

where he’s not invited when I gave my

heart to Jesus I did it for three

reasons I needed a friend

I needed forgiveness and I needed a

future and Jesus gave me all three he

became my best friend he gave me total

forgiveness and he gave me a future I

never would have dreamed when I was lost

but one day God would use me to preach

his glorious gospel and he has a plan in

a future for you according to Jeremiah

29 and some of you have been missing it

but today God is calling you home come

home come home come back to the cross

come running to the mercy seat he’s not

here to judge you he’s here to give you

mercy

he’s a resurrected man and he’s got a

message of mercy for you for you

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