Prophesy

Lord, guide my words. May they be from the Bible for the good

of all of us, in Jesus' name. Amen. The title of the

message today is prophesy. When Jesus was arrested in the garden of Casimone,

Judas betrayed him, Peter denied him, and the whole world we assaulted him,

and we crucified him. That's the truth. And one night the whole

world turned on Jesus. The light of the world, it turned on Jesus.

The darkness flooded in. It was the hour of darkness, and evil

was afoot This popular preacher and healer from Galilee. Jesus was now the object

of universal scorn and disdain, ridicule, mocking violence. What happened to Jesus

in the night, the night of his betrayal is prophetic of what will happen

to God's people at the time of the end. Christ's life is prophetic of

end time events. The persecutions he experienced, the reasons for those persecutions will

be meted out for God's people in the end. So we need to study

the life of Jesus to be ready for his coming. They rejected the light

of the world. They will reject prophetic light life that points to Jesus at

the time of the end too. Now take note of this fact. Religious

leaders joined with political leaders to frame Jesus with falsehoods. Is that right.

They attacked Jesus for how he kept the Sabbath am I correct. It's one

of the reasons for his execution. They manipulated his words, they engineered his

ruin. They took his messages and twisted them so that they could get an

outcome to bring him down. That's how evil people work today. No different.

As Jesus suffered for the sins of the world in the garden of Gyseimite,

his world came crashing down on him. Christ told the mob led by

Judas as they arrested him, who met him in the night with swords and

clubs. He told them that night that they're kind of sneaking around, they're

of getting him. Was of the power of darkness, and he says,

you are of the evil one. Look at Luke twenty two, fifty two

and fifty three. Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the

temple and elders who'd come out against him, have you come out against a

robber with swords and clubs. When I was with you day after day in

the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your

hour, the power of darkness that will happen to God's people at the time

of the end, what happened to Jesus. Don't be surprised, friends,

in your life right now, if the devil tries to sneak up on you

in your life when it's dark, when you're praying, when you're trying to

do the right thing, he hits you with clubs and swords that discourage you,

just like he attacked Jesus. That's exactly what he did to Jesus with

the mob. His methods are the same. So Jesus taught the truth of

the Word of God in the open daylight in the temple. Christ was of

the sunlight. He was of the word of God. He was proclaiming and

teaching and healing and changing lives. Jesus at night prayed on the mount of

Olives in the garden. And if I had a chance, and I don't,

in this sermon, I could demonstrate to you that the garden of Eden

is where this spot was, this spot, the garden of the amount of

Olives is where ancient Eden was. That can be demonstrated through evidence in the

Bible. And the Holy city will descend, and the Lord's feet will touch

the Mount of Olives. It will be the sinner of the universe. And

there where Christ died, because the evidence of Hebrews thirteen points to the southern

ridge line of the Mount of Olives. This a certain side to the altar

the Red Heifer as the place of Galgatha. It was called the hill of

the Skull because it was believed in ancient Judaism that Adam's skull was buried there.

And that, by the way, as I've said before, as in

the seventh d Avdents' Bible commentary, the one that's being revised the older one.

And so there where Jesus died, where he prayed, will become the

most important real estate in the universe. The throne of God will be there.

The city will shift from the old mountain to the new. And that

was understood by the Christians of the first three hundred years. So Christ was

there on the Mount of Olives, praying for the sins of the world.

And there they came and they busted up his prayer routine. They arrested him

at night with swords and clubs. They wouldn't even lead Jesus alone so he

could pray for their salvation for a new heaven's a new earth. If you

pray and you obey God's word, friend, don't be surprised that the devil

comes after you with a mob with swords and clubs. That's what they did

in Jesus in the night. That's what happened to his church at the time

of the end. True religion is not a mob religion. It's a flock

of the faithful Jesus. Jesus met the mob and Judas had led the mob.

And Judas betrayed Jesus to the mob. And how did he do it?

You've read your bibles. What did you do to Jesus? Kissed him?

Imagine how that felt? And what did Jesus say when that happened.

Jesus called Judas his friend that night. He said, this friend, what

are you doing here? That's recorded Jesus fake friend Judas was a pattern of

all fake friends at the time of the end, who do the same thing

to betray God's people, who will preach the prophetic truth of the third Angel's

message. Now, why do I say third Angel's message. Most Christians today

don't realize that God's prophetic word has given us the three last messages for this

planet that will bring Jesus back to the earth. It is the first,

the second, and the third Angel's messages of Revelation fourteen. The First Angel's

message is the Everlasting Gospel. It's what the reformers discovered. It is what

they reaffirmed, It's what they died in. The flames for Christ are righteousness

by faith alone, by grace alone. But right there in the First Angel's

message, we don't just have the Everlasting Gospel. We have a direct quote

of the Sabbath commandment. The one who made it happens in the earth and

seeing the fountains of water. Because law and gospel are not at odds.

The Sabbath was the sign of the Son of Man and the Gospel of John

with his seven miracles, his seven signs, so that he could demonstrate that

the one who made us saves us, that the one who worked for us

in the beginning worked out our salvation. So as he rested in the tomb,

as he repeated the words of the Sabbath. It is finished. God

finished his work on the seventh. There By it Christ brought us back to

God. He brought us back to Eden. That's why the Sabbath is the

sign of the son of Man. Jesus speaks of it as such because it

points to who he is. And when you read this to the Fourth Commandment,

it wasn't say the Sabbath day of the Sabbath of the Lord your God.

But Jesus says, I am the Lord of the Sabbath. That's why

you know. If you have nothing but those two passages where Jesus speaks that

way, and you have the Fourth Commandment, you know that Jesus is Jehovah

Elahem. He is the Lord your God. He's the Lord of the Sabbath.

And so Jesus fake friend showed up and attacked him. The same will

happened in the end. Mark Finley wrote our Sabath School class lessons some many

of you been enjoying those on Bible prophecy. He shared a quote that was

shared in the Saba School recently, and I want to read it to you.

It's found in the book Great Controversy, paged six to oh eight.

As the storm approaches a large class who professed faith in the third Angel's message

but have not been sanctified through obedience to the truth. You see the first

Angel's message, which is the Everlasting Gospel, which is a call to remember

God's law. His creator sign is the Sabbath. Sabbath is the sign of

the everlasting Covenant, the Second Commandment and not saying. The second Angel's message

is a call to come out of Babylon. Have you ever had confused in

your life where things didn't make sense? How do we resolve confusion with the

Bible. And so there's a call to get out of things which mess up

your walk with God that are not true to the Bible. That's the second

Angel's message, get out of Babylon. The third Angel's message is the most

severe warning ever given to the world. It is the warning against the mark

of the Beast. According to Revelation thirteen, that mark of the Beast issue

will begin right here in North America, in the United States of America,

a land like Christian Kingdom will institute it. And so don't think that freedom

is forever. It isn't. There is coming a day when freedom will be

on trial, when the lady in New York Harbor that welcomes folks will have

it. Will there be blood on the stars and stripes, because no kingdom

will be righteous. When Jesus returns, all the kings of the earth will

turn against him, including ours. I'm a patriotic United States citizen, but

i know the heart of man, and I know that here in a nation

raised up with the principles of Protestantism and the notion of a representative republic,

the two elements of the signs of our greatness embodied in our Christian Constitution,

there will come a time when this nation, according to Bible prophecy, will

repudiate every principle of a liberty, because it will follow the dragon eventually.

And so we must realize that we are citizens of a better homeland. I

love my country. I'm a patriotic American. My son is in the military.

I'm not going to talk much about that. But what an amazing boy

is He puts his life on the line for the good of others. I

hope one day he's an evangelist. Now here's the quote is that Mark Finley

shared with us as the storm approaches. A large class who profess faith in

the third angels message that have not and sanctified through obedience the truth abandon their

position. They reject prophetic truth. They join the ranks of the opposition,

those who are fighting against prophetic truth. By uniting with the world and partaking

a spirit, they have come to view matters in nearly the same light.

And when the test is brought, that's the mark of the beast as she's

talking about, they are prepared to choose the easy, popular side. Now

she's not talking here about people outside of our movements. She's talking about people

inside our movement. She says, men of talent and pleasing address, who

once rejoiced in the truth, employ their powers to deceive and mislead souls.

They become the most bitter enemies of their former brethren. When sabbath keepers are

brought before the courts to answer for their faith, these apostates are the most

efficient agents of Satan to misrepresent and accuse them for by false reports and insinuations,

to stir up the rulers against them. Now it is no accident you

read the New Testament. They went after Jesus because he healed a man on

Sabbath. Okay, to heal on the Sabbath. Christ was reconstructing the theology

of Judaism so that they would know that the Sabbath is the sign of the

love of God, embedding the love of God, so that he could demonstrate

in his life of love and ministry that Jesus came to heal and save and

give us rest. They crucified him for that. Prince Jesus did not prophesy

to Jesus. Why, because Jesus knew that Judas would never benefit from his

word. Prophecy isn't for everybody. Judas was too smart, too proud to

let Jesus prophesy to him directly to show him the way. However, Jesus

did prophesy to what disciple he made a prediction? Who was it? Peter

by name? He told him that why, so he could find his way.

Jesus warned Peter that he would deny him three times. But Jesus also

predicted that Peter would be converted and turn to him and repent from his sins.

That's why God gives us prophecy, because he loves us like you love

Peter. He knows that it will make a difference if we listen. So

Peter teaches us that it takes real tears to turn and repent. We don't

come to God because we're good, because we're superstar Christians. We got to

have some tears and brokenness to be converted. Peter was broken. He wept

he had denied Jesus. But Judas didn't weep for his sins. He hung

himself instead. There are lots of fake prophets out there who would like you

to believe that Jesus speaks through them because they're special. But if you listen

to the Word of God in the Bible, you would discover that the Bible

is the testimony of Jesus, and you will hear his voice speaking to you

in the Bible. You know you have your Bible in your hand. Why

don't you take it out and just put it close to your heart. You

know you hold in your hands the living Word of God Christ is in this

book. Precious, don't think any other thing than that. The lion roars.

The Bible says, when Jesus speaks in the Word of God, he

is the lion of what tribe help me, the tribe of Judah. Look

at Amos three, seven and eight. Now here's an amazing verse Surely the

Lord God does nothing without revealing his secrets to his servants, the prophets.

Now what that means is there is no major prophetic event in world history that

God does not move with the spirit of prophecy to move upon a person at

a timely setting, like John the Baptist, to have the prophetic word to

confirm the Bible, the word of God. God does nothing without prophetic activity.

And look at verse eight. When he does this, the lion has

roared. Who will not fear the Lord God has spoken? Who can but

prophesy? So when the lion roars, it's God speaking. It's the testimony

of Jesus, the lion of the tribe of Jews, Jesus Christ. Jesus

speaks to us through the prophets as the ultimate prophet of God. Moses calls

him the prophet. The lion roars. We listen to God's word because Jesus

is in the word of God. Well worth listening to God's word is the

color of the lion, that is golden. God's word is bright like the

sun in Psalms nineteen. That is joyful. God's word is a golden lamp.

Stand in the book revelation. God's word is bright and sweetest honey.

At the same time, what color is honey? Psalm's nineteen talks about the

sun is the word of God. Honey is the word of God. Sweetest

thing is Jesus. You can keep those philosopher kings for yourself, who will

act like the Bible's a jumping board so they can look smart. People do

that. Sometimes they use the Bible so they can spew out a bunch of

philosophy. Give me Jesus in the Bible, Give me Jesus his prophetic word

sweet as honey. Judas had no heart to repent. But after his denial,

Peter found Jesus on his knees and his tear. Look at verse sixty

two. Look twenty two. And Peter went out, And what does the

Bible say? He wept, how bitterly he denied him. He let him

down, and he felt so bad. And from the ashes of those tears

came the great evangelist who would win three thousand to Christ. When the Holy

Spirit was poured out. Now, the men who were holding Jesus mocked him

and beat him. That's what they did. Peter wept and they beat him.

Verse sixty four, and also blindfolded him and asked him, prophesy,

who is it that struck you? And they spoke many other words against him,

reviling him. When I read these words, I'll be frank with you.

I feel awful for what Jesus went through. It bothers me. It

didn't take long for the mob to abuse Jesus because Jesus spoke the word and

he prophesied. That's why a prophetic people will be the direct target of the

mark of the beast. Test At the end of time, it'll happen to

God's people as it happen into Jesus. Revelation twelve seventeen. Take your bibles

out. I don't have it here. May not be on the screen.

I'm just going to quote it. The dragon was anger with the woman,

meaning the church went off to make war and the remnant of her seed on

those who keep the commandments of God, and they have the testimony of Jesus.

Friends, if you are obedient and you obey God's word, and at

the same time you love Jesus and you have the testimony of Jesus, which,

by the way, he says in relation to nineteen ten is prophecy.

The testament of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. If you love Jesus and

you recognize his warnings in your life through the prophetic word, then you're right

where you need to be at the time of the end, because the whole

mark of the beast test is thrown at God's people who have those two characteristics.

That night, the priests, the soldiers, and the scribes torture Jesus,

look says. They mocked him. They beat him, They covered his

eyes. They beat him so bad he couldn't anticipate the blows as they were

going at him and hit him. When they gave this command, they said

prophesy. They didn't want real prophecy, like so many today who mocked the

idea of prophecy PROPHESI. And then they said this, who is it that

struck you? Jesus knew every one of them who struck him. His eyes

were blinded. He knew them. How did he know them? Isaiah tells

us that all our sins met in Jesus. He knew us all on the

nexus, the connection, the joining, that is the meeting place inside of

him, the lamb of God. Every person's consciousness, every person's psycho personality

was placed in Christ supernaturally in the garden of Cassemite, to where his human

nature was sifting through Adam's life, Cain's life, Eve's life, every life

from Adam to the end. It was a The cpu of Jesus' mind was

burning out. That's why he collapsed in the garden, because he was as

a person enduring the suffering of every human being who had ever lived and ever

would live, as the sacrifice for our sins Isaiah fifty three vers five.

He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. Upon

him was the chastisement that made us whole. And with his stripes we are

healed. All we like sheep, have gone astray. We've turned everyone to

his own way. And here's what it says. The Lord has laid on

him the iniquity of us. All the Hebrew indicates God has cause to meet

in him inside all of it. That doesn't make you shudder, it should.

Jesus died for my sins. He died for your sins, our sins.

He knew us all in his heart and head as they beat him.

Prophesy who struck you. The mob beat him on the head, blindfolded,

and they mocked. But let's face it, we all struck him that night,

and he knew it. And Mark fourteen sixty five, the Gospel Mark

says they received him with blows. Imagine receiving Jesus that way with blows.

They knocked Jesus down violently. He struck him so hard that he was injured

severely. And that's how his night of hers begin in the garden with blows.

Friend, don't think for a moment that your salvation was bought with an

easy price. Jesus bled and Jesus was traumatized to redeem you and to save

you. You are important to him. You may be going through trouble in

your life, but he took all that trouble inside of him so that your

blows would become his blows. He doesn't want you groveling in guilt and feeling

awful because you messed up. He died to take that away from you.

He suffered in the night for you so you could live in the light.

He loves you enough to die forever for you, because when there was no

it was darkness of the crosts until the ninth hour the Greek text indicates it

was Scott Toss kind of darkness, not Scotia and Greek. It was mental

darkness. It was the word used in the ancient sub Tuagen for the kind

of darkness that settled over Egypt, and it records it was a darkness that

can be felt, psychological darkness, not just spatial darkness, not just darkness

in the sky. Christ could not see in the darkness of the cross.

Hope did not present it to him, his coming forth a conqueror. In

the darkness of the cross, he could not see beyond the portals of the

tomb. And in the love, the love triangle that is God, he

bound himself to us so much that if he never arose on resurrection morning and

the darkness of the cross, he would go through it so you could live

forever and I could live forever. Don't let anyone tell you that jesus death

was just a human death. It was a supernatural death. It's what the

Bible calls the second death, from which there is no hope of a resurrection.

He was resurrected, but he couldn't see it in the darkness of the

cross, And in love he died, he held his faith to God.

John three point sixteen. For God so love the world. This is the

revised standard. For God so love the world that he gave his only son,

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

The next verse matters too, for God sent the Son of the world not

to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved. How through

him, don't you believe for a moment that God doesn't love you. Friend,

God the Father loves you, God the Son Jesus loves you, and

God the Holy Spirit loves you. They went to hell for you, as

God to prove it to you. Some people say, well, where was

the spirit at the cross? What was the Remember the when they burned a

sacrifice at the altar? What did they use? Did they light a fire

to burn the sacrifice? The answer should be no fire that kept unburning,

that was preserved, that didn't have to be rekindled. It was holy fire.

It represented God's holy spirit. Hebrews nine fourteen. I don't have the

verse here, but says that Jesus was offered up when he died on the

cross in the eternal spirit. The fire was there at Calvary. God at

God, God judging God for our sins, as it was ripping the God

that is Us in Genesis one apart at the cross, so that Christ would

say, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me, my

God, the Father, my God, the Holy Spirit? Why have you

forsaken me? Don't ask me to explain how this is. It's what the

Bible teaches. The fire of the Holy Spirit will be the hell at the

end of the millennium. Accordy to Isaiah, it was hell for Jesus on

the cross. He suffered in the garden becausemite, which means the oil press,

when the Holy Spirit was pressed out of him. The knife at the

cross was the Holy Spirit that administered the penalty in tears as the weeping spirit

when Jesus offered himself up on the cross for you and me. And that's

why God says you better not grieve my Holy Spirit. I'm jealous for my

spirit. Love is a cross hanging in the wind with God on it,

and God Almighty is love. We all need hanging on that cross. Friends,

if you want to know God, you need to come to the cross

to find him there in the darkness of the cross. The God you need

is there the God you could never find on your own is there, and

his tears bleeding out for you. And when you didn't know how to repent,

Christ hangs on that cross. He repented for the whole human race.

He said, Father, forgive them. They know not what they do.

He became our substitute at the cross Romans five, p. Six. While

we were still weak at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly.

How many of you are ungodly or have been ungodly in your life? Raise

your hand high. You're in that club. Christ died for me. You

know I'm not a good person without Jesus. Christ died for the ungodly for

you. Verse seven on one will hardly die for a righteous man, though

perhaps for a good man one will dare to even die. In verse eight.

But God shows his love for us that while we were yet sinners,

Christ died for us. And since therefore we are now justified by his blood,

much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

I have meant theological types who want to act like what you're reading is pagan,

dear heart, the blood of Jesus is not pagan. It's love.

Christ died because he can never do away with God's law. You can't wiggle

out of the judgment day it's coming, but you can wiggle into the arms

of Jesus and be saved by his bloods so you'll have a covering for the

day of wrath. This notion that Jesus shedding his blood is a pagan idea,

is a Satanic idea. Jesus died for our sins because there was no

other way. He had to shed his blood. That means you won't wiggle

out of the judgment day without the blood. For the Christian God's judgment on

sin is the cross, and there we see the glory of God's love at

the cross, as God suffers in dynamic ways, father, son and Holy

Spirit for the atonement of our sins. We discern there that justice meets mercy,

and mercy wins in the end in a just kind of way. That

is a kiss of justice and mercy. God has forgiven us in Jesus without

removing one principle of his Holy ten Commandment law. He eternally established it as

the cross as the constitution of the universe. They hit him on the head

and they called on him to prophesy. They hurt him in the night.

We will never know how bad they hurt him. You think of the most

horrible things someone can do to abuse someone, They did it to him.

The day began when the sun rises, and that's when it starts, and

the sun represents God's word when the lion roars blue. Twenty two sixty six.

When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together,

both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away to their council,

and they said, if you are the Christ, tell us. But

he said to them, if I tell you, you will not believe.

And if I ask you, you will not answer. Prophesy tell us.

Jesus said, you will not believe. And then he says, you will

not answer. Take note of this. These are the two great needs in

our life. We must believe to be saved, and we must answer through

Bible baptism, through response, so that we say we believe, we must

believe in answer. And verse sixty nine. Jesus prophesies at last in verse

sixty nine. But from now on he said, the son of Man shall

be seen at the right hand of the power of God. And they all

said, are you the son of God? Then? And he answered them,

you say that I am. And they said, what further testimony do

we need, We have heard it ourselves from his own lips. They condemn

Jesus, and they affirmed him worthy of death. Why because he claimed to

be the son of God. Is Jesus the son of God? He is?

And some people think that that's a diminished term. It's actually the highest

term in ancient Judaism. They knew what that meant. They knew in claiming

to be the son of God, he was claiming to be God. And

that's proven in John five. And in fact, sister White rightly affirms,

because he's in agreement with the good exegetical principles there, that he did not

correct them. He affirmed that they were correct, that he was equal to

God. And that's what Philippians two says. So his crime was his mission,

his purpose, and his identity. They killed him because they could not

accept and would not accept, that Jesus is Lord as the son of God.

And I say, Jehovah yahweh Lord. They knew good and well that

Jesus was referring to two verses in the Old Testament Salms one hundred and ten,

one the most quota verse in the Old Testament. The Lord said to

my lord, said it my right hand, I'll make your enemies a footstool

for your feet. And they knew that that verse represented the Son of God,

because in Jesus Interactions New Testament he refers that God's son has a has

a lord, and how does he call him lorde? So that they knew

what that meant. But in Daniels seven thirteen fourteen, I saw in the

night visions and one like the son of Man at the end of the age.

In Danel seven came to the ancient days and was presented before him.

To him was given a kingdom, Glorian dominion that on nations, kindreds,

tribes, and tongue should serve him worship him. And they knew that when

you claim to be the son of Man and the son of God and Daniel

seven, you're claiming worship. You are claiming to be God. And that's

blasphemy. Blasphemy. Isn't you, being a man, make yourself out to

be a demi God. So when you, being a man, make your

self out to be someone who can be worshiped, because you are God.

And Psalms ten and ten. The Son is the Lord, just like the

Lord, and he sits at the right hand of God because he is God.

The son of Man Dael seven is the one who received dominion at the

end of the age in the judgment. Now think about this, who do

you want representing you before God? Someone with divine credentials or someone who is

lacking. See that's the problem. They understood both of those verses well enough

to know that Jesus was claiming to be God as the son of God,

which they had accused him of. In John five, the God who is

with God, as John says, the God who is the son of God.

In the Gospel of John, the God who prophesieses the Word of God,

and John and prophesy he did as the living Word of God. Right

there that night, when they asked him, are you the son of God?

He says, I am. Now he's saying that intentionally. They knew

what he was saying when he said I am. In the Gospel of John,

when they were out to leave him, he says, look, will

you all leave me? But he says, before Abraham was I am?

It was the Angel of the Lord who is the Lord At the burning Bush

that said, I am who I am? It was Christ my name is

I am? I am the God of your father's Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

And Jacob would later say, when he was blessing his children, the

God who has been with me all these years, the Angel who has redeemed

me. See, the Angel of the Lord was the Lord. He was

the messenger of the cove. He was the one who is God that brought

God to us. I am the God of your father's Abraham, Isaac and

Jacob. The Lord said that. The Angel Lord said that take off your

shoes, Moses, you're staying holy grand I am I am, I am

who I am. Do you realize God's law is that I am who I

am? Is what the law is, God's nature, God's flaw are the

same thing. And so when we reverence the law of God, we're recognizing

who God is. I am who I am and the ten Commandments. I

am the Lord, your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

I'm redeeming God than the Ten Commandments. But you see, as good

as the law is declaring who God is, it's not good enough because there's

a mountain that's a little higher than Mount Sinai. It's got a greater glory

than what Moses saw at Mount Sinai. And he says, show me your

glory. John says, the glory is the Cross. Mount Calvary is the

highest mountain. At Sinai. God speaks his law. At the Cross.

There is silence and darkness, and yet the glory is the greatest. We

see God, we understand God. We know what the law is. We

see God dying for us in Jesus, the atonement for our sins, dear

heart. A man cannot change your heart. An angel cannot die for your

sins. A demi God, that is birth in the way that we think

as a human being, rather than as we would read in that wonderful Reviewing

Herald article of nineteen oh five, that he has always been with God,

and that the begottenness of God represents the fact he is the light of God

that comes from God, that's eternal by God is light that is stationary the

Father. But they've always been in this relationship, she says, from Eternity,

affirming Philippians to so many other places in the Bible proverbs, I mean

a demi God, that is Birth at some point in the past is not

good enough and God enough to atone for God's eternal law. It takes God

himself to save us. And that's why Paul says God was in Christ.

Remember that reconciling what the world to himself, not county men's trespasses against them.

And when we forgive, we are to forgive as God in Christ has

what forgiven us. Who was the God of the Cross. Jesus said,

Father, forgive them. Christ was praying that prayer. Paul says, God

was in Christ. It takes God to save like to end with the words

of Peter First Peter two twenty one to twenty five. For to this you

have been called because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that

you should follow in his steps. He committed no sin, No guyle a

was found in his lips. When he is reviled, he did not revile

in return. When he suffered, he did not threaten, but he trusted

to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on

the tree, that we might die to sin and live the righteousness. Peter's

saying, he didn't do away this law. He wants it inside of you,

and by his wounds you have been healed, for you were strained like

sheep, but have now returned to the shepherd and the guardian of your souls.

If you came to church discouraged today, or you have been discouraged this

week and you need encouragement, raise your hand. Are you in that group?

Now? You don't have to raise your hand, but sometimes it helps.

I'm going to pray a prayer for you. But if you know you

need Jesus, really need him a lot, and you want to be ready

for the second coming of Christ by giving your heart to Christ anew this week

today, I'm raising my hand for that. Are you with me? Let's

pray. Let's pray now, Father, you saw all the hands go up.

You know hearts are behind those hands. We need you. We need

to be broken as Peter was broken. We need tears to be converted or

else will always be at law, at war with your law, and we'll

see it as this big burden in our life that we need to get around.

But Lord, thank you for Jesus who died, because he is the

law, who died to give us love what it really is. And Father,

Convert my heart today, convert our hearts, Soften them for the sake

of those that you will bring into our lives, if and only we are

converted people. And may your people leave this place in the covenant of God's

grace and acting that way in Jesus' name. Amen Ka