THREE - Moment of Truth Bible Baptist Church 4/12/26

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, turn to, uh, how about you, size A?

[SPEAKER_00]: I am.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's right.

[SPEAKER_00]: I say I should know.

[SPEAKER_00]: Has you no better name?

[SPEAKER_00]: I say six versus three.

[SPEAKER_00]: I say six versus three.

[SPEAKER_00]: And once you receive our, our, our excuse me, once you turn to the book of Isaiah, full I love Isaiah.

[SPEAKER_00]: What a great.

[SPEAKER_00]: What a great book.

[SPEAKER_00]: Once you turn the Isaiah chapter six verse three, please stand on the reading dots where now if you cannot stand for whatever reason, it's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: I understand that too.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says in Isaiah six verse three,

[SPEAKER_00]: One cry to another and said, holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory.

[SPEAKER_00]: God bless and honor the reading of his word, and you may be seated, Lord God, we come to you today.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we pray, we pray for all the people who are here, and we pray you bless them.

[SPEAKER_00]: We pray that they receive your word.

[SPEAKER_00]: We pray most importantly that it is not I who speak today, but you who speak through me.

[SPEAKER_00]: We pray that Lord I simply be the speaker and you Lord God be the one speaking through the microphone.

[SPEAKER_00]: We pray for your will for your words.

[SPEAKER_00]: We pray, Lord, for the ears of the people to receive it, for the heart Lord, to accept it, for the mind Lord God, to understand it, and for our lives, Lord God, to show it to those around us that they also receive it.

[SPEAKER_00]: We pray this when you're holy and precious, damn Lord Jesus, amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three, three.

[SPEAKER_00]: In case you didn't know, it's the third to the smallest number.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're to the smallest number in our list of numbers.

[SPEAKER_00]: My free sons.

[SPEAKER_00]: You remember, all right now, already, I know what you're seeing.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're seeing those legs aren't you?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, in a funny way it does.

[SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly what our memory does.

[SPEAKER_00]: My free sons, the three Caballeros, Jeremy, you know, that's a little carton from Disney that I like.

[SPEAKER_00]: You had Donald Duck in a parrot and that crazier rooster.

[SPEAKER_00]: The three studs is what's I forgot to write down, but that's why I wore this tie today because the three studs, I love them, you know?

[SPEAKER_00]: I love them all.

[SPEAKER_00]: The three amigos, stupid movie that I love, I really do love it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love that movie.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three minutes of baby.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three Kings was a film, and we know the three Kings a lot of think of three Kings.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think of we, three Kings, you know, I think about the three Kings of the Bible, which we'll talk a little bit about, say, three ninjas, stupid movie of the nineties, which I like.

[SPEAKER_00]: If that co-cog in a period, and I think the third one.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's ironic, and then three little pigs.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know where the three bears is another one.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a whole bunch of three so we could go through.

[SPEAKER_00]: There was a film, believe it or not, I only mentioned this because I thought it was interesting.

[SPEAKER_00]: I thought there were different things about three.

[SPEAKER_00]: In case I didn't remember, there was a couple I didn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it was called three billboards outside of Ebbing, Missouri.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, really?

[SPEAKER_00]: I never heard it 2017 film.

[SPEAKER_00]: I must have really made a big impression because I didn't even hear it.

[SPEAKER_00]: three is company to remember three's company.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, kind of an ordinary film show, but I like to win Donald Austin's on.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, then there's the three musketeers.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love the three musketeers at those Portos and RMS and Dartanian, he was the fourth, but you know, he was the main part of the show.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then, if the three musketeers, you almost can't help with thinking about the candy bar.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you know, it came real close to buying a whole bunch of three musketeers and

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it would have survived, they're right here.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I didn't, but I'm going to tell you a little bit about the history of three of my skaters.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's really has nothing to do with what we're going to talk about, but I've to find it interesting.

[SPEAKER_00]: The three of my skaters was created in 1932.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this is, of course, by the Mars candy bar, a company.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it was created by that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And originally it was one bar.

[SPEAKER_00]: They had three sections, three flavors.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they were all to give you a three flavors in it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the flavors were like new politics.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it had chocolate.

[SPEAKER_00]: Strawberry and vanilla.

[SPEAKER_00]: This was in 1932 till 1945.

[SPEAKER_00]: You might say, well, why did you change?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, there was such a thing called World War II that you might have heard about, and they had a thing at the time called Rationings, and the company was short on sugar.

[SPEAKER_00]: So because of that, they had to shorten sugar and other things out.

[SPEAKER_00]: What they would do is to put bits of chocolate bits of

[SPEAKER_00]: the little bits of strawberry.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they ran out of all those things, so they ended up just, they still have it, but not even 45, they started making it, nugget with this a smidge of talk of flavor, and that's what we have now.

[SPEAKER_00]: So for more than 80 years, our little over 80 years, we've now had what we have now, that's what we know is three musketeers, but it used to be some different, and used to originally be the three flavors of what is, and you remember how

[SPEAKER_00]: It had a white rapper, white rapper with the blue and the red and look more patriotic back then, you know, now it's all silver, but that's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Either way, the Bible has a lot of threes in it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right away, and this is a kindly mentioned to a couple of threes that we're not going to focus on today.

[SPEAKER_00]: It had a Shadrack.

[SPEAKER_00]: Mechat and a bed and a go and I love those, as I said, kindly mention, because they're important three.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's another three, three Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I call it, three Patriarchs.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's important because they're the ones who spread the sea, the promise that God gave the Abraham to Abraham.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three is a divine number.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Bible has numbers and it delivers, it has meanings for numbers.

[SPEAKER_00]: What does three mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let me just tell you, it is a divine perfection.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it means.

[SPEAKER_00]: Divine perfection, you can write it down if you want.

[SPEAKER_00]: It means divine perfection, completeness.

[SPEAKER_00]: It means holdness, but it means more to.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that's what it means.

[SPEAKER_00]: It means to be whole, complete, divine perfection.

[SPEAKER_00]: divine perfection?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Godly perfection.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, that means.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, the title today's sermon once again is three.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, we're going to mention several three today.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, two sets of threes.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to do our best to go through it all and we're trying not to go too late because I happen sometimes and I don't know who to blame but we'll blame me and seeing how to once speak.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so, here we go.

[SPEAKER_00]: What was very difficult today was to try to find which ones to put in place.

[SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, they can root down on my little notebook that I do.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says Philip, it always does a, don't forget Philip I put to myself.

[SPEAKER_00]: Make sure you find the appropriate places to place these three, so I say.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it says the first and most important three is the Holy Trinity.

[SPEAKER_00]: God.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says this in support.

[SPEAKER_00]: God is one, but in three beings, still one God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I want you to know this.

[SPEAKER_00]: I look some of the stuff up, but it says only one God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm going to tell you where you can find these things.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're only going to put one because sometimes I have too many scriptures.

[SPEAKER_00]: We know it's true.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can say that in this truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to tell you where to find these.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to slowly tell you and then we're going

[SPEAKER_00]: Only one God is found in Deuteronomy 64.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it just says, only one God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Deuteronomy 64, first Corinthians, eight four, Galatians, 320.

[SPEAKER_00]: And first Timothy, 25.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's Deuteronomy 64, first Corinthians, eight four.

[SPEAKER_00]: Galatians, 320.

[SPEAKER_00]: And first Timothy 2-5, and I'll only read you of first Timothy 2-5.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says in first Timothy 2-5, there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man, Christ, Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the mediator.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the mediator.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the one that came.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now that was in first Timothy 2-5.

[SPEAKER_00]: So one God, three persons.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is the Trinity.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now let me just tell you, there's going to be people who will

[SPEAKER_00]: They'll interrupt.

[SPEAKER_00]: They'll interrupt their very attractive pastor.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm kidding, but they will interrupt your pastor.

[SPEAKER_00]: They will interrupt other pastors of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: They will interrupt other ministers.

[SPEAKER_00]: They will interrupt Billy Graham.

[SPEAKER_00]: They will interrupt whoever that you're listening to.

[SPEAKER_00]: They'll interrupt them.

[SPEAKER_00]: They'll say, Oh, the Bible never used the opportunity.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's true.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't use the word training.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't use the word Bible and the Bible either.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean the Bible isn't used of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't mean that we're trendy isn't true.

[SPEAKER_00]: But we're dinosaurs, not the Bible either.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean dinosaurs aren't the Bible.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of things, words that didn't exist yet, like dinosaur, whatever they first brought out the King James.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there's all sorts of things that could be said that aren't in the Bible, that doesn't mean that they're not in the Bible, meaning the words itself.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just because that heart is factual, doesn't mean that it's a fact that that's not true or that it's not in the Bible, meaning the actual thing, not the word.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now listen to this.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says, one God, three persons, God, the Father.

[SPEAKER_00]: See sometimes we say, whether there's God, there's a son, but here's the thing, it's all God.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's all God.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's Francis.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's one Philip.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about me, one Philip Andrew Kins.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's Philip the son of Fred and Shirley.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's Philip the brother of Matthew David sharing and Debbie.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's Philip the pastor of Sister Susan of Sister Connie.

[SPEAKER_00]: a brother Jeremy, a brother Keith of all of you.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's one guy.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's Philip, the Superman of YMCA, because they call me that.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what they call me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Philip, the Kuku, because I believe we're not going to call Kuku from a couple of little girls who come here.

[SPEAKER_00]: They call me Kuku.

[SPEAKER_00]: These are things I'm called.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm called Pack in some places because that's my name.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is Ph.C.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pack, man.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm called Pack.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's why my car is his Pack, stir, Pack stir, you know.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm all these things, but I'm still just me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm still just me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, does that mean that I'm safer people?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm the same me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm the same me, but I'm, he's split.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm just me, but depends on where I'm at and why I'm doing it.

[SPEAKER_00]: God's one God, but he's God of the Father.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the God of the Son, Jesus, and he's God of the Holy Spirit.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the communicator, the Holy Spirit.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the connector, he's the connector.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, let me go to Genesis chapter 126.

[SPEAKER_00]: So go with me, if you will, I'll give you a half a second.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, no, okay, so Genesis chapter one and stay in Genesis for just a second because we're going to go to two different places.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, Genesis 1 26, now you could write all these things down and believe in there are other places and we are eventually going to go back to some of these.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's several, we're going to mention, but there's several places that talk about the Lord God and the three persons and we'll mention them, but there's only a couple that we're going to quote.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to slow down and having so many scriptures.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mean to do that a few weeks ago, we were here a very long time because I had too much scripture.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't mean to do that, I really didn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it's because sometimes all the scriptures important, it's all pre-doubt by God.

[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes I have a hard time

[SPEAKER_00]: editing it because I don't like taking it out.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is hard for me to know what's the most important moment in what anyway, but I'm trying hard.

[SPEAKER_00]: So here we go.

[SPEAKER_00]: Genesis 126 then God said, and now listen who's talking.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's called to himself.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go talk to himself, kind of, yeah, you talk to the parts of him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's only say this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion, oh, be man, have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

[SPEAKER_00]: Two things can be said there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Our God has separate beings of Himself, separate parts of Himself, God has one with, and yet three.

[SPEAKER_00]: And two, we can know this, God has put man over animals, and God has not an animal.

[SPEAKER_00]: Guy's on animal, is he?

[SPEAKER_00]: What he's saying, he said, over the birds there, over the livestock, over all the earth.

[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, to all those green piece folk, and I love you, you don't mean to be ignorant but you are.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because you're trying to say that we shouldn't have oil, they're trying to say, which came from the animals, dinosaurs and such.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're trying to say that we shouldn't,

[SPEAKER_00]: quote unquote hurt your with the trees and all that stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: Look, you're right.

[SPEAKER_00]: We shouldn't destroy things.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're right.

[SPEAKER_00]: But we do have dominion over these things.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're not smarter than God.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just not.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also, Genesis 3, this is 32 because that's the point.

[SPEAKER_00]: God is an hour hour.

[SPEAKER_00]: Them.

[SPEAKER_00]: not just to him, not just to one, not just singular, plural.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen what God says.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Genesis 3, 22, the Lord said, and this is when they sin, okay, they sin, and that's why we are sinners, that's why we're born.

[SPEAKER_00]: So because of the sin that Adam and Eve did, plural.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord said, the man has become like one of us.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, not become a God.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, not living forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, when he says, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, and now he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is something we'll talk about later on, okay?

[SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about then at the time we'll talk more about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But think of that, then Genesis 117, and we're not gonna quote that and go to it, but God also says us there in Genesis 117.

[SPEAKER_00]: He also says us in Isaiah 68.

[SPEAKER_00]: God says us quite a few times.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also, it speaks about the separation of the Messiah, the Lord and the Spirit, and I speak about that in Isaiah again in two places.

[SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 48, 16.

[SPEAKER_00]: and an Isaiah 61, one, Isaiah 61, one, and Isaiah 48, 16 speaks to the separation of those three.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it also matches it one other time, which we're not going to read from.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to try, but it's too much.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that is second Corinthians, second Corinthians, 13, 14, and speaks about them and separate yet they're one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Separate but one, separate but one.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, many of you, and I'm talking about you, women.

[SPEAKER_00]: Many of you were daughters, mothers, and grandmothers.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three separate relationships, and yet you're one person.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's it?

[SPEAKER_00]: Three but one.

[SPEAKER_00]: And some of you have been, or I'm not women again.

[SPEAKER_00]: Some of you have been employee's, wives,

[SPEAKER_00]: And yet daughters, these are three separate positions, and yet one person.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, let's remember it, anyway.

[SPEAKER_00]: What did Jesus say in this?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's look at Matthew 3, 16 and 17.

[SPEAKER_00]: This, and it's not so much that Jesus said this, this is probably the best representation because we can see physically what happens.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is a reputation of the Trinity.

[SPEAKER_00]: Look what happens here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 3 16 and 17 and when Jesus was baptized, he came up immediately out of the water and suddenly the heavens were open to him and he saw the Spirit, Jesus saw the Spirit of God, descending on him like a dove and the voice came from heaven saying,

[SPEAKER_00]: This is my beloved son, and whom I am, well, please, now wait a minute.

[SPEAKER_00]: It said that, does that mean that only Jesus heard it?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, the people heard it.

[SPEAKER_00]: John heard it.

[SPEAKER_00]: John the Baptist said is, one more, one more, Matthew 28, verse 19.

Matthew 28:19

[SPEAKER_00]: Now what's going on here?

[SPEAKER_00]: What's going on here?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to speak one more time in a sense of eternity.

[SPEAKER_00]: One more time.

[SPEAKER_00]: One more time.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is when Jesus was about to ascend into heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's about to ascend into heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's going up to heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see what it says in Matthew 28, 19.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this is one of the very last verses, Matthew.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says, and Matthew 28, 19, go there for.

[SPEAKER_00]: Make this a Jesus speaking.

[SPEAKER_00]: Go there for, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I ask you.

[SPEAKER_00]: If these three aren't real, if these three aren't separate, yet one, why does Jesus himself say this?

[SPEAKER_00]: I say this to you because you won't believe this, what about to say to you?

[SPEAKER_00]: There are some people who believe in God and they believe in Jesus, but they don't believe in Holy Spirit.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are some people who believe that God is real and Jesus is real, but they're not to say it.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are some people who believe there is a God that they don't believe that Jesus was God's son or a door of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are some people, you know why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Cause they're leaning to their own understanding and not to the Lord God himself.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is why it's so important to know this, to accept this, I can't comprehend it because you're an ignorant human being.

[SPEAKER_00]: But when you go to the Lord God and go through the Holy Spirit, then you will understand because it's a face that we understand.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not because of human knowledge.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now because of human knowledge, this is why we use comparisons.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was using daughters.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was using mothers.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was using grandmothers.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was using employees.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was using employers.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was using whatever.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is why in the fall, when we have the apple fest, I take an apple.

[SPEAKER_00]: I say that an apple has the flesh.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we eat.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have the flesh.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have the skin.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the peeling.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we have the core, the cores where the seed is, that's what we have got, the father is the core.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have the son, which is the flesh, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: We have the peeling, which is the Holy Spirit on the outside, going around.

[SPEAKER_00]: These are the things.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's one apple with three parts.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's one God with three parts.

[SPEAKER_00]: Surely we understand this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also, we have another three in the Bible.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three gifts.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three gifts.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three gifts for Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: from who, three wise men, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't know, the Bible doesn't say, the Bible's not specific.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had children that used to teach here to church years ago, and they'd say, yeah, the Bible's not specific.

[SPEAKER_00]: Said, you're right, it's also not Atlantic.

[SPEAKER_00]: But here, you know, the Bible's not specific, not Atlantic, and it's also not specific.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Bible doesn't say necessarily.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Bible doesn't tell us how many wise men.

[SPEAKER_00]: The why do we say why three wise men?

[SPEAKER_00]: The reason is because it became a tradition, the Catholic Church of Roman Catholics, even gave names which we're not gonna go through right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: We'll do that at Christmas time.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the reason why they went through names, we don't know their names.

[SPEAKER_00]: What have votes?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, we don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: The reason why they added all that as tradition because three represents the gifts.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's all.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mind that they say three teams.

[SPEAKER_00]: People get weird about that, too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, we can't say three.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now you say three teams.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's the three gifts that's important.

[SPEAKER_00]: The three gifts is found.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's found in Matthew chapter two, nine, three, 12, which we're not going to read.

[SPEAKER_00]: But they follow the star to the Christ child and went to the house, not the manager, not the not the nativity scene, not the barn, the house.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's why we believe he's probably

[SPEAKER_00]: probably too, or maybe a little under.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the house where he was and they bowed him and gave him gifts and what gifts did they give him?

[SPEAKER_00]: And this was found in Matthew 211 where you find the actual gifts.

[SPEAKER_00]: Gold, that means royalty means kingship that even gold represents what he was.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was the king, even though they not how most Hebrews understood it, but he was the king and is the king.

[SPEAKER_00]: Frank in sense, this is a symbol of deity, that means divinity, that means holiness, it's holiness.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, where does the word Frank in sense come from?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the Frank, which is F R A N C, is old French, and it means superior of high quality and plus in sense, it's in sense.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I have something in the room.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to bring it out, but I didn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then there's murder, murder, boy, spell we didn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: M. Y. R. R. H. It's embodying oil.

[SPEAKER_00]: Some bombing oil.

[SPEAKER_00]: They embom people's dead bodies with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not always an oil.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes now, you know, through time, it's kind of like a

[SPEAKER_00]: kind of a wood type thing, but they would smash it, making it oil on such, make oil from it.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a symbol of death.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now people say, why would they, well, it shows his mortality, he came as a human being.

[SPEAKER_00]: He came and died.

[SPEAKER_00]: for you, for me, so that we may live forever in eternity.

[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't mean you're not going to physically die.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to die like he died.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we will live forever like he rose, but not in a physical sense.

[SPEAKER_00]: We will have new bodies.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's the whole other thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: We'll get into that another time.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that's another three.

[SPEAKER_00]: So so far we've had the Holy Trinity.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's three here, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Three and one.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have the three gifts of Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: And now we have another three, three chosen apostles.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three chosen apostles, wait a minute, pastor.

[SPEAKER_00]: I thought there were 12 apostles, there were, there were 12 apostles, you're right, you're 100% right.

[SPEAKER_00]: But did you know that in those apostles, there was three that God Jesus used a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: three times in fact three times he says so there's another three three times it uses his chosen three the inner circle they often times call them and I call I personally like to call them the three disciple trio the three disciple trio now that's his mind thing and that you're not going to find that in the Bible it's not in the Bible it must not be real no it's real it's just that I came up with a three disciple trio and who is it well it's Peter Simon Peter

[SPEAKER_00]: And John, son is evity, by the way, son is evity, that's the father's name of John and James, James and John.

[SPEAKER_00]: And son of thunder, they called James and John the sons of thunder, why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because they were bold.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes they would yell at Chris and all that, they were fishermen.

[SPEAKER_00]: But mostly, and that was when they were before Christ came, and they were just bold.

[SPEAKER_00]: But God could use boldness.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, God can use boldness.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that includes you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's first read what says a first Corinthians 13.

[SPEAKER_00]: What does say in first Corinthians 13?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it says this.

[SPEAKER_00]: First Corinthians 13 is about love.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, you know, but let's see what it says here.

[SPEAKER_00]: So now abide faith, hope, and love.

[SPEAKER_00]: These three, but the greatest of these is love.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, people a lot of times use this to represent the three.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well,

[SPEAKER_00]: From tradition, people say Peter represents faith, and he did have great faith.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the one who got out and walked on the water, didn't he?

[SPEAKER_00]: They say that James represents hope, and he had great hope.

[SPEAKER_00]: He did.

[SPEAKER_00]: He put his hope in Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was the first to die a martyr's death of their apostles.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he did.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then you have John, oh, he's full of love.

[SPEAKER_00]: Some say that some say that he had nothing but love and he was all loving.

[SPEAKER_00]: that he loved God the most, and he did love God very much so.

[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, so I'm saying these things what they mean and who knows, but that being said, that's what they call them, different people do.

[SPEAKER_00]: But let's take a look at the three times that Jesus Christ chose these three, okay?

[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, Jesus went to the Mount of Transfiguration.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's found in Mark 9233, Mark 9233.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I will read that quickly to you quickly, so we can get through the rest.

[SPEAKER_00]: Mark 9 23 says, after six days, Jesus took with him, Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain alone by themselves, and he was transfigured that means transform,

[SPEAKER_00]: Before them, his grants became listed as I like this.

[SPEAKER_00]: His garments became shiny, extremely white as snow, such as, and I love this part, such as no longer on earth could whiten them.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, Tide.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, Tier.

[SPEAKER_00]: You remember, Tier?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, whatever other you can probably think about.

[SPEAKER_00]: Two people say about, you should have said no, listen, but here's the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter.

[SPEAKER_00]: No longer, we can make it wider than that.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's wider than white.

[SPEAKER_00]: They actually have an action figure of this, and I think it's interesting looking.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's partially clear looking.

[SPEAKER_00]: partially bright and white and it's beautiful looking, but I did it by too much money either way.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, it's nice to think about what he looked like.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was suddenly up and not only was he brighter than snow, they said that he was seen and who was he seen with, he was seen with Moses and with the light of John, I'm excited to stand again.

[SPEAKER_00]: Boy, your passion looks like it's up and down, like I don't know what at the top.

[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus was bright and shining and they saw it.

[SPEAKER_00]: God chose these three.

[SPEAKER_00]: That says 2nd three, the 3rd three, the three chosen apostles in that inner circle.

[SPEAKER_00]: That three disciple trio, Simon Peter, James and John.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they were there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now the second three and I'm not going to turn it just like I was going to, because it's just too long.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that is James or Jesus took them as he raised a gerius's daughter from the dead.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that is found in Luke.

[SPEAKER_00]: Chapter 8, 49 through 56, and you know what happens.

[SPEAKER_00]: He goes there as she was dead.

[SPEAKER_00]: The person said, she's dead, master, talking to you, to Jerias, and our Jerias and some people say, but either way, she was dead.

[SPEAKER_00]: And she said, no, she's sleeping.

[SPEAKER_00]: She really was physically dead, but he meant she was alive in the spirit and he went prayed over and brought him back and who do you take with him?

[SPEAKER_00]: He told all the other disciples to stay where you're at, but he took Peter and her James.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, he didn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, he didn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't take put him all.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, no, no.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just you three, Peter, James and John.

[SPEAKER_00]: Peter, James and John, not all of them, just them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, they're more special.

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: He for whatever reason chose them, and he did, and they went in.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then, one other one, Jesus went praying in the Garden of Guest Simony.

[SPEAKER_00]: This was right before He was captured, right before His captured.

[SPEAKER_00]: And what happens?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let me quickly say to you, in Matthew 26, 36 to 38, Jesus came with them.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's Matthew 26.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus came with him to the place called guest 70 and said to the disciples, say here, well, I go and pray close by and he took the took with him who Peter, James and John.

[SPEAKER_00]: Peter, James and John.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he did.

[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, don't say that, though.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not Matthew.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zabdi.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we know who that is and began to be sorrowful and troubled.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then he said to them, my soul is very sorrowful, even to death.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's only say this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wait here and keep watch with me.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what happened?

[SPEAKER_00]: They're a fit, they fell asleep.

[SPEAKER_00]: He came back out and said, what can you say, wait, pray, pray, we're pity, say, pray.

[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't say, pity, say, let's, you know, these are the, the means are.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing, there's a lot more that can be said.

[SPEAKER_00]: We won't go into all that, except to say this.

[SPEAKER_00]: God knew, do you know who they were?

[SPEAKER_00]: He was just like you're him.

[SPEAKER_00]: But he's still he chose these three because he knew they're hard.

[SPEAKER_00]: He knew he used all of them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Peter and John went out together.

[SPEAKER_00]: We know that he used them a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: He used James.

[SPEAKER_00]: James the first to die as a martyr.

[SPEAKER_00]: He used John in his heart, and John speaks to us to this day.

[SPEAKER_00]: The book of Revelation, the book of John, the book of 1st, 2nd, 3rd John.

[SPEAKER_00]: He uses them to this day.

[SPEAKER_00]: He uses Peter.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not just Peter's books, but Peter's speaking through Mark.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's also helped Luke, which also helped Matthew, Matthew spoke.

[SPEAKER_00]: Peter was used tremendously.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was the one that was used in the book of Acts, one that Luke wrote.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was the one that the whole spirit came through and they all spoke in tongues.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was the one that had rock.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was the rock right, why, why, why, what does that mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: It was the rock that the church was built on.

[SPEAKER_00]: God used these three.

[SPEAKER_00]: Another trio is a trio of gospels which we'll talk about.

[SPEAKER_00]: They said, not to gospels they're called.

[SPEAKER_00]: What does that mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you just mentioned it.

[SPEAKER_00]: the three of them together, my Matthew Mark Luke and John now they believe that Mark was written first and then Matthew, then Luke, and later on John will talk about it at the last time.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it says that these are trio gossles for a reason.

[SPEAKER_00]: They go together.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what synoptic means.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sees together.

[SPEAKER_00]: They see the gossles together.

[SPEAKER_00]: They connect.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a trio.

[SPEAKER_00]: That'll say it, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I didn't read through Luke, I mentioned it, but I read you a little bit of Matthew and I read you a little bit of Mark.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we went through all three of those at Trio, so we're putting a lot of three together, aren't we?

[SPEAKER_00]: And one other thing, Peter denied Jesus three times.

[SPEAKER_00]: And all gospels, Matthew Mark, Luke and John we talked about that, he mentioned it in all three of those.

[SPEAKER_00]: He denies of three times.

[SPEAKER_00]: But there's something else in John and that's something you need to know.

[SPEAKER_00]: John 21 was not going to read.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was restored in John chapter 21 when Jesus asked him three times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He asked him, do you love me?

[SPEAKER_00]: And three times he says, yes Lord, I love you.

[SPEAKER_00]: And three times he said, and what he says, if feed my sheep, feed my land, feed my sheep, this was being restored three times.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm saying this to you, because there's gonna be times you're gonna feel like, I'm not good enough.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you are correct, but Jesus is.

[SPEAKER_00]: So remember that.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's another thing that we'll mention, as we go through the last three, three's.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are three nails.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three nails.

[SPEAKER_00]: The three nails, if seven inches long, some of these are about sits and a half, these are about clothes that I can get.

[SPEAKER_00]: These are railroad ties that I order, they sit in six, but I'm fine with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But luckily, they're not sharp on the end, cause they're railroad ties that they're just blunt.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm okay with that because I have a feeling by now I'd have holes all over me, but oh, you're my clothes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I bought these because I wanted them for Easter and I had them here, but I couldn't fit them in which is kind of what brought this whole sermon about about three's, all because of forgetting and not having enough time last week to mention these.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what brought this sermon about three's.

[SPEAKER_00]: What's these here?

[SPEAKER_00]: These, and let me just tell you this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Another reason why it's good, they're not sharp because several times now, I placed these nails like this right here and here.

[SPEAKER_00]: trying to imagine what it must have felt like to have the nails go through.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three nails, about seven inches long.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now some say there are four nails, because different ones will think of that.

[SPEAKER_00]: They'll say, no, no, no, no.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's two nails.

[SPEAKER_00]: to the way to the, like maybe maybe not, but here's the tradition and they have a reason and a meaning and we'll go with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: We'll go with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter the longer.

[SPEAKER_00]: The point is the same.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's died on the cross, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: We'll go to that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But let's look at the three nails.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three nails, about seven inches long, they put them on the cross, three nails is the tradition.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three nails with a symbol, a metaphor of redemption.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three nails, the symbol of redemption.

[SPEAKER_00]: One now for both feet together.

[SPEAKER_00]: The first nail, the first nail, represents submission.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus submitted not because he had to, because he chose to, for you ever made.

[SPEAKER_00]: The second nail was the scripture and the prophecy fulfillment and then there's a third nail.

[SPEAKER_00]: The third nail was for the atonement of our sins, the atonement of our sins.

[SPEAKER_00]: And there's also another three, three wooden crosses.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of my favorite things that we had, in fact, we had it and we had to move it because some of the land was kind of caving in, they had to move it.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have three wooden crosses, three wooden crosses right there by the highway.

[SPEAKER_00]: and we have those three wooden crosses out there by the highway.

[SPEAKER_00]: People see that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I saw some wooden crosses on the way here.

[SPEAKER_00]: You may or may not know of the on your pew right out here by the aisle.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are three wooden crosses.

[SPEAKER_00]: They are in cave there.

[SPEAKER_00]: People have put them in there.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are three sets of wooden crosses up front.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now now I will

[SPEAKER_00]: We have the clear ones, transparent ones.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have one that's made by the beautiful lady back here in the sound thing right here by the cave, the grave that she made.

[SPEAKER_00]: By it, I put one out the butt at Copernum, which is Peter's place, his home.

[SPEAKER_00]: I bought that, that's the one that made our stone there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is gravebed on it.

[SPEAKER_00]: The other one next to it is a wooden cross that was give to me from one of my,

[SPEAKER_00]: Tows the teachers.

[SPEAKER_00]: She gives me what I went into the hospital when I was 14 and I keep that with me all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Her name is is Lewis Hutchins and I was the did the wedding for her daughter who I was a teacher of but we also have another setting right here three crosses that maybe you haven't recognized and I wanted to be permanent three permitting crosses one is setting right there cousin of mine made for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Another one is right here on this pulpit and another one is right there made by the late great righty brown and it's put up there.

[SPEAKER_00]: We used to have another darker one back here but it was actually made out of foam and we wanted a real one, not a styrofoam one.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we have that one's made out wood.

[SPEAKER_00]: Good wood and he could make a lot of wooden things.

[SPEAKER_00]: That being said, three wooden crosses are very important and those three wooden crosses are found.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of scripts to talk about three-wing crosses.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's more than that symbol.

[SPEAKER_00]: Those three-wing crosses are important because of what they truly represent.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's take a look at Luke.

[SPEAKER_00]: Luke 23, Luke 23, 32, 343.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it says this, and Luke 23, 32, 343.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says, four, three to me, two different men who were criminals also were led with him him being Jesus, to be killed.

[SPEAKER_00]: When they came to the place, which is called Galgotha, actually it doesn't say it says, the place called the skull, that's called Galgotha, it says that another place is.

[SPEAKER_00]: They were crucified, excuse me.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're they crucified him and the criminals, one on the right, one on the left.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said, Father forgive them, they know not what they do and they divided his clothes by casting lots.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a fulfillment.

[SPEAKER_00]: The people stood by watching, but the rulers with him scoff, saying, he said, others, let him save himself.

[SPEAKER_00]: If he is the Christ of chosen one of God, and the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him some wine, saying, if you were the king of the Jews, save yourself.

[SPEAKER_00]: and inscription was written over him in the letters of Greek and Latin and Hebrew.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is the King of the Jews, one of the criminals who were hanging, who were hanged, or has fiend him saying, if you are the Christ,

[SPEAKER_00]: Save yourself and us, but the other rebuked him saying, Do you not fear God?

[SPEAKER_00]: See you are under the same sentence, and we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing of this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom,

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said to him, truly, I tell you today, you will be with me in paradise.

[SPEAKER_00]: these three crosses on there.

[SPEAKER_00]: These three crosses were there.

[SPEAKER_00]: These three crosses are true.

[SPEAKER_00]: One in the middle, the one on the left, and the one on the right, and the one on the right asked him to save him, and he went to paradise that day, the other side of Haiti's, though, not hell, the grave, and he was saved.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it says in 1 Peter 1, 18 through 19, it says,

[SPEAKER_00]: For you know that you were not redeemed from your vain way of life inherited from your fathers, with perishable things like silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb, without blemish or without spark.

[SPEAKER_00]: We are saved by the prodigiesus, with those three nails in him,

[SPEAKER_00]: or that middle cross of the three crosses.

[SPEAKER_00]: He died for you and he died for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you know what, folks?

[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't just that.

[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't just that.

[SPEAKER_00]: He died on the cross on one of those three crosses with those three nails.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was the fact that he rose on that third day or some people might try to argue and say, wait a minute.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wait a minute, I don't understand.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was an exactly three days.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was an exactly 24 hour street times.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was an exit with a hang on, we'll get to that.

[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, know this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus had a three-year ministry.

[SPEAKER_00]: He went through three temptations.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, we got a lot of three today.

[SPEAKER_00]: Went through three temptations.

[SPEAKER_00]: And, and, and three days in the tomb.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now hang on, let's take a look at this.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had a hard time with that grown-up, a hard time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I don't mean my whole childhood, but sometimes I got a little too specific, just like Philip, the disciple sometimes did, the apostle.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the second one with the original, why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it said, well, technically, it was two days.

[SPEAKER_00]: Technically, it's two and a half.

[SPEAKER_00]: According to the American way, well, folks in America, wait, it's not the biblical way always.

[SPEAKER_00]: We know that.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can say, amen, it's all right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you look at it, the Jewish way,

[SPEAKER_00]: is different than the way we understand things.

[SPEAKER_00]: the way they have it, when the sun goes down, it's now night, it's a whole another day.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a whole another day.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's why it says one day and one night, except for it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So let's take a look what it says.

[SPEAKER_00]: The moment that it goes, the sun goes down, the day ends, the sun rises, the day begins.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not by clock, wait a minute, they didn't go by your clock, by your watch.

[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't have a clock, they didn't have a watch.

[SPEAKER_00]: They can only go by sun down a sun up.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's all they had.

[SPEAKER_00]: It could come on, we did, oh, you mean they didn't take out the time act, oh, they didn't take out the time act.

[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't have one.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, so let's take a look at what they did then.

[SPEAKER_00]: We see, first of all, let's take a look at Matthew 12, 40, Matthew 12, 40.

[SPEAKER_00]: What does Jesus say?

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I like this because people compare all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 1240, and I'm just going to explain something to you if you have a King James.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing wrong with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: My version is a King James in modern English, which is important.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm explaining this to you because if you have King James here, you're going to see the word whale, because at the time they thought the word whale meant fish.

[SPEAKER_00]: Great fish.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's all.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a few things that are wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: It means great fish.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see,

[SPEAKER_00]: For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, as it says, so with a son of man, be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Is Jesus wrong?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, three days, three nights in the heart of the earth.

[SPEAKER_00]: So when did Jesus go in?

[SPEAKER_00]: before the sun went down, how do we know that?

[SPEAKER_00]: We know that because the women and the men who put Jesus in their Joseph of Mary Mathea and Nicodemus, they put him in there and had to get home.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because of the Sabbath.

[SPEAKER_00]: So they had to get her done before the sun went down.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there's a day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then there's this Saturday, then you rose on Sunday day three at Casper three days, according to their law, according to their way.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's three days.

[SPEAKER_00]: It may not be three days away.

[SPEAKER_00]: We see it, but it is three days.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's why it is three days.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: So let's take a look now at Luke 24, Luke 24, one through seven.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's right close to the Luke we just read.

[SPEAKER_00]: Luke 24, one through seven.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now on the first day of the week, that's Sunday on the first day of

[SPEAKER_00]: very early in the morning, they and certain other women who they talk about, well, I wrote this down.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just so you know, Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James has changed the list.

[SPEAKER_00]: Salome and I don't remember if the other one was, that's really bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, that's where it is.

[SPEAKER_00]: So,

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, a certain other women with them, came to the tomb, bring the spices they had prepared.

[SPEAKER_00]: They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus, while they were greatly perplexed concerning this, they were concerned that they thought, man, my soul, all son, sent me to them, stood by them,

[SPEAKER_00]: And shining garments, oh, can you imagine these ranges, by the way?

[SPEAKER_00]: They don't seriously taint those.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, suddenly,

[SPEAKER_00]: it's two angels right there.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's two angels right there right there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine two angels you might fall down dead right there out of shock or out of surprise or out of fear.

[SPEAKER_00]: But we need to fear not and that's why I'm trying to say fear not.

[SPEAKER_00]: That means hold up, hold up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't be afraid, but let's what it says.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see what these angels say.

[SPEAKER_00]: It said, they said to them and I love this.

[SPEAKER_00]: As they were afraid and bad other faces to the ground for

[SPEAKER_00]: And he's seek the living among the dead.

[SPEAKER_00]: Verse six, he is not here, but has risen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remember how he spoke to you while he was in, still in Galilee saying, here we go, they call him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Verse seven, saying the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified.

[SPEAKER_00]: And here we go, and on the third day,

[SPEAKER_00]: rise again and he did on the third day.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is the most important thing you know what they're all important aren't they?

[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many threes, so many threes, so many threes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I went through three sections twice.

[SPEAKER_00]: That makes six.

[SPEAKER_00]: Going back to math.

[SPEAKER_00]: I listen to teachers.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are three divine three means divine perfection.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three in the Bible means divine

[SPEAKER_00]: completeness, wholeness, we went through the three, the three trinity, and that three, the trinity is always with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's always with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wait a minute, Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wait a minute, wait a pastor.

[SPEAKER_00]: You mean the Lord?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's with me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, when you've asked Jesus to save you of your sins, and not once in, not two and not three sins.

[SPEAKER_00]: All of your sins always,

[SPEAKER_00]: When you've asked you used to save your sins, he's with you always.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Pastor, I can understand that Jesus is with me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Holy spirits with me to lead me in guide me, but not God the Father.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they're all one in the same.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not saying that God is physically with you, in the sense that we know that God isn't heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: We know that, but we also know that God and Jesus are the same.

[SPEAKER_00]: We know that, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: So if we know that, that means God is with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe in a different.

[SPEAKER_00]: way that your physical spiritual, I mean, way, he's with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why has God left me alone?

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not left you alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're never a little ever.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're always with him, them, depending on how you want to get.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're always with him.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're always with God.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you're following him, have you choose to leave him?

[SPEAKER_00]: What's that?

[SPEAKER_00]: If you choose to leave him, that's up to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: But he never leaves you ever.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to challenge you today.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to challenge you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to challenge you to pray.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to challenge you for three times a day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three times a day to pray.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm not talking about your meals.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a, we lots of people have three and those sometimes people have a lot more.

[SPEAKER_00]: But when you pray, pray to God.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, when you eat, pray to God, but I'm not talking about that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to pray three times a day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pray in the morning and you first wake up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, pastor, I have to get up and do other things for, well, great, great when you're doing it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But, great, take the time to stop, great, put him first, do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: It'll change your mindset, it'll change what you think, the way you act, the way you react, the way you walk.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean by walk?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking physically here, I'm talking spiritually, it'll change.

[SPEAKER_00]: You may start reacting to it, I'm sorry, Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of like, okay, when you go to your mother's house or your grandmother's house, if you ever know, see at differently, or when you go into church, you act differently, you're in the father's house, you act differently, there's a reason for that, it's called respect, your image presence.

[SPEAKER_00]: The same is to be true when your image presence is through prayer.

[SPEAKER_00]: Start off in the morning.

[SPEAKER_00]: In the midday, I, I, I, okay, so before you go to sleep at night, pray to them,

[SPEAKER_00]: It'll help you with your mindset at the end of the day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for all he brought you through that he never left you, never for so few.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was with you constantly, never left you behind.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do it midday, too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because you might be getting off track.

[SPEAKER_00]: You might be getting off track.

[SPEAKER_00]: You did it in the morning.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to do it at night.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now do it midday, stay on track.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean you can't pray in between talk to them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like he's right there with you, because he is.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pastor, that looks crazy.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm not telling you to walk in Walmart or wherever you're at and thank God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Where did they put the cereal?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's aisle 13.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, I'm not telling you to do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not telling you say, Lord, get this man out of my way on the highway.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, I'm not telling you to do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you to talk to him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Talk to that lad if you want.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you're alone, I wouldn't do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because people say, oh, they're not in the pet tune.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, don't do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're not even in the past or couldn't snow.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not telling you tell you is talk in the heart and the spirit out loud if you need to.

[SPEAKER_00]: But do it, you and him, three times a day at least, three times that three is important.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just like the three nails, like the three crosses, three prayers, it'll change your life.

[SPEAKER_00]: They'll make you closer.

[SPEAKER_00]: You'll be better, you'll grow better, you'll grow, you're gonna find a change in life, the way you think, where you talk.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's times I stop when it goes, I should.

[SPEAKER_00]: And God says, well, up, you're out of order.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's times I think like I should, and guys, it fell up.

[SPEAKER_00]: I said, you're out of order, you're out of order.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, God, help me, Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: Help me not to think, to speak, to walk, to talk.

[SPEAKER_00]: God, I'll help you three times a day, at least.

[SPEAKER_00]: You'll see, you'll see, you'll see.

[SPEAKER_00]: It'll connect your relationship at least three times stronger than before.

[SPEAKER_00]: And to make you three times stronger at least than before, I promise you.

[SPEAKER_00]: And with that, I'm going to close you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to close this sermon with a scripture that's going to help you.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of other scriptures I could have put in here and I did, but there is this scripture here and it's going to help you.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is a scripture that we're going to talk about a little more next week,

[SPEAKER_00]: You have heard before two or more gathered in my day, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: This scripture is because at the time the way that you just believe they many times would look at others and think that they were alone or whatever, but I want you to remember you're in ever alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: And oftentimes we think that well, numbers matter.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to tell you why I started reading the scripture and I'll talk about it more next week.

[SPEAKER_00]: But while I started reading the scripture, I really understanding what it's saying, don't get me wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray all the time for this church to grow.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I want so many people here.

[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, it hurts sometimes when I see people don't come and all that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because sometimes I think I'm doing something wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it's just the way I am.

[SPEAKER_00]: Other times, it's because I don't wanna let God down.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't wanna let this church down.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't wanna let the people down.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes people are sick, sometimes it's other things.

[SPEAKER_00]: That makes me feel bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't take this wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: If we had two people here, or we had 200, I'd be thrilled.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'd be more of a thrills, 200.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm thrilled with two, you know why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because of this scripture.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I know that God is with this.

[SPEAKER_00]: So no matter what, there's always at least three.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know that we love times.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if the people that take the role do this, I always want them to add three.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, because we're lying, I had someone who came here once and said, you're trying to lie.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you're trying to pad the numbers.

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: You dope you.

[SPEAKER_00]: The reason why we want to add those streets because there's three who are always here with us.

[SPEAKER_00]: God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, and we never want to leave that three out.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's two of these church who leave them out all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: That free is always with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But this is a scripture that you need to remember all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter the amount that is with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you are with another Christian and even when you're not, you are not alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now listen to this.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll impose you with this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 18, 19 and 20.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now you can read before that, but we're gonna do that next week.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna have more of this.

[SPEAKER_00]: I promise you, I promise.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lord with it, Matthew 18, 19 and 20.

[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I say to you, this is Jesus speaking.

[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I say to you that if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my father who is in heaven, for where two or three are assembled in my name, there I am in their midst, that makes three.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're never alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're never alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even when the earth tells you are, when the world tells you are and that you've nothing you're never alone, ever, ever.

[SPEAKER_00]: God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit is always with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's always at least three with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that when you're tempted.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that when you feel alone, when you feel scared,

[SPEAKER_00]: And now that the big hand is just hit three.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't play in that.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's now valid for the refreshes Heavenly Father.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray that you be with us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I pray for those who are physically ill right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Who are feeling discouraged and they are.

[SPEAKER_00]: Who feel as if their body's given out on them

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray that they feel encouraged by you Lord and they feel encouraged by the three that are always with them, by you Lord, father, by your love, kindness, compassion, by your song, by your word.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray Lord God that they read the book of Psalms, that they read Proverbs, that they read these things and that they will feel your presence Lord, I feel uplifted.

[SPEAKER_00]: If they remember that even you went through difficulties with your emotions and you, what do you do?

[SPEAKER_00]: You went to the scripture and you were uplifted.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you were tempted, you did the same and I pray those for those who go through temptations continuously.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray Lord God that they will be uplifted and I pray they will not give into those but tell the devil to back away through the name of Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray right now for those who feel discouraged when they look around and don't see many around who are following like them.

[SPEAKER_00]: that has nothing to do with them, that has to do with the fact that others are going through battles.

[SPEAKER_00]: For those who cannot be here because of their loved ones who are going through difficulties, I pray that you will be with them and let them know that they are not forgotten.

[SPEAKER_00]: They are not unloved.

[SPEAKER_00]: They are always loved by you and by their loved ones, which is us, their brothers and sisters and Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray Lord God at least three times a day we

[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray that those who are home right now, those who are here, feel your presence, feel your spears to hand upon their shoulder, to know their and how long.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray this and your holy precious name Lord Jesus Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they