052 Descension: The Son of God

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Nigh. Welcome, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the program. I am

your host, Matthew. Tonight, we're going to be starting at least a

two part series. Tonight is dissension the Son of God. Now, this

is a very important topic for you to study in the Bible for yourself.

You need to understand why the Bible says a certain number of things that it

does say. And I must prepare you for what is to come. And

there is coming a time that the Body of Christ is going to go through

the birth pains. You need to know that, you need to be aware

of it, and you need to most wholeheartedly prepare yourself for it. So

in lieu of that, we're going to be covering a whole lot of scripture

passages. But this is all about the dissension and ascension of Jesus. So

this part one is the dissension of the Son of God because it is most

emphatical in the New Testament in the Bible as a whole, that the Lord

Jesus Christ did not have his origins on this earth. You have to realize

that in this aspect when he comes down, this is why he repeatedly calls

himself the son of Man. You need to know why he does that.

He is taking on the mantra of Adam. Which this is the real purpose

that the Book of Hebrews facilitates. It translates the message to you that the

Lord Jesus Christ is the second atom. He is the son of Adam.

And you need to realize that in Hebrew that's the same word. The name

Adam also means man. So when Jesus was saying I am the son of

Man, he was saying, I'm the son of Adam. So let's take

a look at the most simple way to relay this, just with for simple

verses. If isn'ts Chapter four, verses seven through ten, very very short

passage, but yet it drives home the point as to what happened before is

the conception of the son of Man. It reads from the New American Standard

Bible nineteen ninety five. But to each one of us grace was given according

to the measure of Christ's gifts. Therefore, it says, when he ascended

on high, he led captive a host of captives, and he gave gifts

to men. Now this expression he ascended, what does it mean except that

he also descended into the lower parts of the earth. He who descended is

himself also he who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might

fill all things. This is the Greek word from your Strongest Concordance v.

Five ninety seven, tada bino, tada bino, to descend. It's a

very important that you wrap your mind around this passage that only the Lord Jesus

Christ should do this very thing, come down from heaven all the way to

the lower parts, and then descend back up on his journey down. He

was the son of God, and we need to get this emphatically through our

heads. We must slatch upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ above all

and any other names. You need to know this now, just so you

know. This quote here in verse eight is from Psalms sixty eight to eighteen

from the New American Standard Bible. It reads us, such, you have

ascended on high, you have led captives, you're captives you have received gifts

among men, even among the rebellious. Also, that the Lord may dwell

there. Now you see that this is reading a little bit differently from Greek

to Hebrew, because the New Testament is quoting the Old Testament. In this

context. Here you need to understand that there's a big difference between the Hebrew

Testament and the Greek New Testament. I'm not going to get too far into

that, but as you can see, if you were to go to Psalm

sixty eight, verse eighteen and finish the verse, it gives you a rhyme

and reason to the mechination even among the rebellious. Also, that the Lord

God may dwell there. This verse is coming right out and saying that the

Lord Jesus Christ is God. That's what it's saying. It's saying that the

Lord God here in the Hebrew would be the Hebrew word. I don'ty keep

that in your back pocket, because later in this study, if not in

this pationicular study, later on in the series, we're going to come back

to that extremely hard. Because this part of Adam and I being incorporated into

the Lord Jesus Christ is of pair mount importance. It's of Pear Mountain importance

because the New Testament is coming out and telling you something. But if you

don't know your Hebraica and the Hebrew side of the equation of God's word,

it's not going to stick out to you. But believe me, put that

in your back pocket because it's very important. Now we need to realize that

this word kind of bino. It comes up repeatedly in John the sixth chapter.

And when I mean repeatedly, it comes up repeated this very phrase,

and it's of such extreme importance. We're going to have to read it now.

I don't have time to read the whole chapter, so we're going to

pick it up in verse twenty six. But take note, this is a

pair mount importance, this idea that Jesus's relating to us, and not only

that, the timing of the event. So taking a look at John the

sixth chapter, starting in verse twenty six through verse sixty five, Jesus answered

and said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, you

seek me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves

and were filled. Do not work for the food which perishes, but for

the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give

you, for on him the Father God has set his seal. Therefore they

said to him, what God we do so that we may work the works

of God. Jesus said to them, this is the work of God that

you believe in him who he has sent. So they said to him,

what then do you do for a sign so that we may see and believe

you? What work do you perform? Our fathers ate the manner and the

wilderness. As it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to

eat. Jesus said to them, truly, truly, I say to you,

it is not Moses who has given you bread out of heaven, but

it is my Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven. For

the bread of God is that which comes down. Here you go had a

bino right there out of heaven and gives life to the world. Then they

said to him, Lord, always give us this bread. Jesus said to

them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to me when

I'm hungry, and he who believes in me will never thirst. But I

say to you that you have seen me, and yet you do not believe

all that the Father gives me will come to me. And the one who

comes to me, I will certainly not cast out, for I have come

down from heaven. Here had a bino. Jesus directly says, I have

come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of

him who sent me. This is the will of him who sent me.

I lose nothing but raise it up on the last day. For this is

the will of my father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in

him will have eternal life, and I myself will raise him up on the

last day. Breaking right here, this is Jesus Christ emphatically saying that you

are going to be raised up. If you wish to call that rapture,

you can call that rapture. This is going to happen on the last day.

This tells you for certain that there is no partial imaginary return of Christ.

There's only the second coming of Christ. That's all you're looking at.

Here and here he emphatically lays that information to you, continuing on with verse

forty one. Therefore, the Jews were grumbling about him because he said I

am the bread that came down out of heaven. They were saying, is

not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know.

How does he now say I have come down out of head. Jesus

answered and said to them, do not grumble among yourselves. No one can

come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will

raise him up on the last day. It is written in the prophet and

they shall be talked of God. Anyone who has heard and learned from the

Father comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the

one who is from God. He has seen the Father truly. Truly,

I say to you, he who believes has eternal life. I am the

bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they

died. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that

one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that

came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will

live forever. And the bread also, which I will give for the life

of the world, is my flesh. Then the Jews began to argue with

one another, saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat.

So Jesus said to them, truly, truly, I say to you.

Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,

you will have no life in yourselves. He who eats my flesh and

drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the

last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true

drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and

die in him. As the Living Father sent me, and I live because

of the Father. So he who eats me, he also will live because

of me. This is the bread which come down out of heaven. Not

as the fathers ate and died. He eats this bread will live forever.

These things he said in the Synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Therefore,

many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, this is

a difficult statement. Who can listen to it? But Jesus, conscious that

his disciples grumbled at this, said to them, does this cause you to

stumble? What? Then, if you see the Son of Man ascending to

where he was before. It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh

prophets nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and our

life. But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus

knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it

was that would betray him. And he was saying, for this reason,

I have said to you that no one can come to me unless it has

been granted to him from the Father. There can mean no doubt what is

being referenced here. And of course this is why Jesus incorporates into this discussion

with his disciples, the simple fact that well, what if you see me

ascend into heaven? What then? And of course they would do this very

thing. He was trying to tell them that he is the one that comes

down out of heaven, and these very difficult sayings that he did. And

of course this would have challenged anybody. This would have challenged anybody, because

they quite simply didn't understand what he was saying. That literally, Jesus Christ

came to sacrifice his own body for our sins, and if you do not

partake in that, you have no life in you. This exact diatribe is

exactly what happened in Matthew chapter twenty six, Verses twenty six through twenty nine,

when this happens you need to understand that boy, this must have really

sunk in to his disciples. They would have immediately remembered these events and this

schism that occurred in his believers, because the Gospel was very clear this teaching

that Jesus gave created a schism. But in Matthew chapter twenty six he explains

it to its fullest. While they were eating, Jesus took some bread,

and after a blessing, he broke it and gave it to the disciples and

said, tke eat, this is my body. And when he had taken

a cup and give thanks, he gave it to them, saying, drink

from it, all of you, for this is my blood of the Covenant,

which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins. But I say

to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now

until the day when I drink it new with you in my father's kingdom.

The Lord Jesus Christ makes it known at this time what he's talking about.

In institutes, of course, communion. Most churches in the West take communion

at least once a month. They usually do it at the first Sunday of

the month. They'll all take communion. So it's very important that you understand

that Jesus was telling them They should have known immediately. They should have known

me that whatever was going to follow, Jesus had already referenced that. Look,

what are you going to do if you see the Son of Man ascending

back to where he was? Now? You can just imagine the disciples here

really had no idea that they were literally going to see John chapter six,

verse sixty two come to pass. What if then you see the Son of

Man ascending to where he was before, and literally this very thing happened,

And now you know the importance of getting this through your head. That Jesus

Christ alone would come down from heaven and did so, and only he could

go back up. This, of course, also ties into the simple fact

not the Lord Jesus Christ in the New Testament is loudly depicted as being Jacob's

latter that that can do it through which angels descend and uscend to heaven.

The Lord Jesus Christ alone can facilitate this mechanism. But we need to take

a look at something really important here that you need to know what Jesus is

referencing here and when he says this. He says something very strange about this

covenant. He says this covenant verse twenty eight of Matthew chapter twenty six.

For this is is my blood of the covenant, which has poured out for

many for the forgiveness of sins. You need to know what prophecy the Lord

Jesus Christ is referring to. That is, of course, in Zachariah chapter

nine, the second half of the chapter. It comes up in the prophecy

of deliverance for Judah and Ephrium. Now let's take a minute to discuss why

it's saying Judah and Ephrium. You must realize you need to go back to

the prophecy of the two sticks. Please take note, one stick is Judah

and one stick is Joseph. What were Joseph's two sons, Ephriam and Manassa.

Prophetically, here you need to understand that using this phraseology, God is

saying that the twelve tribes will come back together when all of the tribes are

president accounted for. It does not represent Judah. That's only half of it.

That's only half of the promises. When it says Judah and Joseph or

either of his sons, it usually says ephriumast say Joseph, or Ephrium.

It's talking about the entire children of Israel, not the children of Judah.

And today in the West people seem to have uh breen Well, they've been

judaized. These Judaizers have entered christ Church and has bewitched the Church of the

Lord Jesus Christ into believing that for some horizon reason, that all of us

Christian that you're going to become Jews. We're going to enter the single tribe

of Judah. Nowhere not Romans chapters ninth through eleven, is very clear.

The other tribes don't join the tribe of Judah. No, no, No,

Judah is joined to the rest of those who have taken covenant in the

blood of Christ, and we all become the children of Israel. We all

become Israel. That's what is undeniable and undebatable in the New Testament. There's

no separating that fact. So you need to understand why this is using this

phraseology. So starting here in verse eleven, as for you, also,

because of the blood of My covenant with you, I have set your prisoners

free from the waterless pit. Return to the strongholds, Oh prisoners who have

the hope. This very day, I'm declaring that I will restore double to

you. For I will bend Judah as my bow, and I will fill

the bow with Ephriam. And I will stir up your son's o Zion against

your son's, Oh Greece, and I will make you like a warrior sword.

Then the Lord will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth

like lightning, And the Lord God will blow thee trumpet and will march in

the storm winds of the south. The Lord of Host will defend them.

They will devour and trample on the slingstones, and they will drink and be

boisterous as with wine, and they will be filled like a sacrificial basin,

drinks like the corner of the altar. And the Lord there God will save

in that day as the flock of his people, For they are the stones

of a crown sparkling in his hand. For what comeliness and beauty will be

theirs. Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

This is the promise. This is the covenant of blood which Jesus Christ

is referred to. He is quoting from here, and I'm sure that as

I read that, you could tie that in with many scriptures that I've talked

about before, many of these same prophecies, many of these same prophecies.

You'll take note that in other prophetic chapter God says that he's going to inscribe

you on his hand. That's exactly what he said. Here he repeated it

a difference way. But amazingly enough, this was literally talking about the same

thing, the same thing, the same promises. And here you need to

understand, this is why he said Judah and Ephraim. Ephraim is the crown

of Joseph. But yes, here prophetically he could have said either one,

either Joseph or Ephraim. And take note this ties once again into the Lord

Jesus Christ. That is to say, in Hebrew, not oh Ni.

You need to know that's important. Put it in your back pocket because we

will talk about that later. So we firmly established that the Lord Jesus Christ

has repeatedly stated with his own mouth that he came down from heaven had a

bino. That's what he said he was going to do. That's what he

did do. And now you understand this machination, and it's he alone that

could do that so on his dissension he proved himself all the way to the

cross he was the son of God. Now this is tied in magnificently and

is spoken about, and we can drive this home and Acts chapter two,

verses twenty nine through thirty six. This is the perfect way to relay this

information. It quite simply cannot be done better any other way. So,

starting in Acts chapter two, verse twenty nine, brethren, I may confidently

say to you regarding the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried,

and his tomb is with us to this day. And so, because

he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath

to seat one of his descendants on his throne, he looked ahead and spoke

of the resurrection of the Christ. That he was neither abandoned to hades,

nor did his flesh suffer decay. This Jesus God raised up again, to

which we are all witnesses. Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand

of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit,

he is poured forth this which you both see and hear. For it

was not David who ascended into heaven. But he himself says, the Lord

said to my Lord, said up my right hand, until I make your

enemies a footstool at your feet. Therefore, let all the house of Israel

know for shirking that God has made him both Lord and Christ. This Jesus

whom you crucified. So, ladies and gentlemen, this makes it perfectly clear

beyond any contestation. This right here is eyewitness accounts for one which has never

been debated for two thousand years. Everybody at the event horizon of his ascension

knew this was telling the truth. This is why, of course, the

scripture says that he presented himself to five hundred witnesses. This is why Christianity

is proof unfallible, to be the only way to God the Father. It

is not a religion. It is the truth. Christianity is the truth.

It was proven to be the truth by eyewitness accounts of many people, many

people. That is what this scripture is talking about. And take note that

there's some key things said here that this drives this home. It literally drives

this mechanism home. Now take note, starting with verse twenty nine, he

says, brother, brethren, I confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David,

that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us

to this day. How do we know this? How do we know what

they were talking about was the truth? How do you know that the the

promises were not referencing David himself? First Kings chapter two, verse ten.

Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David Namiah

chapter three, verse sixteen. After him, Niemiah, the son of Aspac,

official of the house of the district of beth Zur, made repairs as

far as the point opposite the tombs of David, and as far as the

artificial pool and the house of the Mighty Men. These scriptures state emphatically that

David did, in fact die, was buried, and everybody knew where his

tomb was verse thirty. And so because he was a prophet, he knew

that God had sworn to him with an oath to set one of his descendants

on his throne. How can we know this? Emphatically? Psalms one thirty

two, verse eleven. Though Lord has sworn to David a truth from which

he will not turn back of the fruit of your body, I will set

upon your throne, no denying it. So they knew at the time Acts

was written, they knew these things to be the fact that all these promises

had not been fulfilled by David. Let's go to tewod Samuel chapter seven,

verses twelve through twenty nine. This is the Lord talking to David. When

your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise

up your descendant after you, who will come forth from you, and I

will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and

I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be a father

to him, and he will be a son to me. When he commits

iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of

the sons of men. But my loving kindness shall not depart from him so

as to take it away from before you. Your house and your kingdom shall

endure before me forever. Your throne shall be established forever, in accordance with

all these words and all this vision. So Nathan spoke to David verse eighteen.

Then David the King went in and sat before the Lord and said,

who am I, O, Lord God? And what is my house that

you have brought me thus far? And yet this was insignificant in your eyes,

O Lord God. For you have spoken also of the house of your

servant concerning the distance future, and this is the custom of man, O

Lord God. Again, what more can David say to you? For you

know your servant, O Lord God. For the sake of your word,

and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness to let

your servant know. For this reason, you are great, O Lord God.

For there is none like you, and there is no god besides you,

according to that we have heard with our ears. And what one nation

on earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for himself

as a people, and to make a great name for himself, and to

do great thing for you, and awesome things for your land before your people,

whom you have redeemed for yourself from Egypt, from the nations and their

gods. For you have established for yourself your people Israel as your own people

forever, and you, O Lord, have become their God. Now.

Therefore, O Lord God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant

and his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken that

your name may be magnified forever by saying, the Lord of Host is God

over Israel. And may the house of your servant, David be established before

you. For you, O Lord of Host, the God of Israel,

have made the revelation to your servant, saying I will build you a house.

Therefore, your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.

Now, O Lord God, you are God and your words are truth,

and you have promised this good thing to your servant. Now, therefore,

may it please you to bless the house of your servant. Then it may

continue forever before you. For you, O Lord God, have spoken,

and with your blessing, may the house of your servant be blessed forever.

Take note, ladies and gentlemen, you are that house. You are Israel.

And here God said it specifically to David and laid it out John and

Siddel exactly what was going to happen. And you will take note that not

only was David speaking in past tense, he was also speaking future tints.

If you were listening, he said that in verse twenty three he implemented two

different things. Listen to it again carefully, and what one nation on the

earth is like your people, Israel, whom God went to redeem for himself

as a people, and to make a name for himself, and to do

a great thing for you, and awesome things for your land before your people,

whom you have redeemed for yourself. From Egypt. Then he adds the

future from nations and their gods. Now take note, ladies and gentlemen.

He mentioned Egypt here first as the first event, and then he mentions,

that's right, ladies and gentlemen, this second exodus. He mentions that you

will be gathered together again. David himself knew this. He literally prophesied this

event to happen. It is key that you understand what it is that's being

relayed here. It is of pair amount importance that you understanding at this strake

that it is through the Lord Jesus Christ alone that he has established these things

there there. Look, this is of paramount importance. It's I cannot stress

it enough that this simple fact you must under You must understand this that on

the dissent Christ proved himself to be the son of God. There's there's just

no taking this back. Let's get back to verse thirty six. There's other

reasons why Christ is quoting from this prophecy about Judah, and you need to

understand the mechanician in place. If you do your research and study into the

Hebrew side of the equation, that is to say, the Ibrahics of the

Messiah, you will come to this conclusion. Especially if you ever talk to

a rabbi, they will be quickly able to tell you that there are two

Messiahs. There is the Messiah son of David and the Messiah son of a

son of Joseph. You need to understand once again what was David. Yes,

he was of the tribe of Judah. You need to understand that these

two mechanicis is coming together to the point here in Acts chapter two, verse

thirty six. But you're not getting it in the English. If you're not

familiar with the Hybraics of the matter, please consult the Hebraica, which is

the Delich New Testament combined with the Masoretic Old Testament. Take note, he

says, therefore, let all the house of Israel, now take note.

I just read it for you. This house of Israel, the children of

Israel, is great from the scriptures. I just read to you no first

certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ. This Jesus whom you

crucified. Why is he saying Lord in Christ? What is this in the

Hebraica? This, of course in the Hebraica, is I deny the word

for Lord and mushiak the word for Messiah. Here he's point blank telling the

Jews who crucified the Lord Jesus and then he resurrected. He is both.

He is both I don't and mushiak. He is both Lord and Christ.

This is the dynamic at play here. You need to understand. This is

the dynamic at play the house of Israel. Is is it combining of Judah

or David to Joseph or Ephraim. The language is interchangeable, and these verses

have screened that at the top of their lungs. Now Hey, note that

here acts in the previous verse and verse thirty five. It quotes from Stalm's

ten verse one. It says, the Lord said to my Lord, set

up my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool of for your feet.

Absolutely astonishing. I wish we had the time to read this whole psalm.

But take note this cruise beyond any shadow of a doubt. This was

not talking about David, because the scripture loudly declares, Look, we can

go to the tomb of David right now and prove that God was not making

direct references to David himself. And in this the Lord Jesus Christ alone that

has been made both don't know and machiak that's that's it, just the Lord

Jesus Christ alone. Now, there are so many verses here that we could

we could cross reference. How could we know? How could we know that

he wasn't talking about David because David was not resurrected. Let's go look at

verse thirty one from Acts chapter two. He looked ahead and spoke of the

resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to haites, nor did

his flesh suffer decay. He's quoting from Psalm sixteen to ten. For you

will not abandon my soul to show, nor will you allow your Holy one

to undergo decay. This Jesus God raised up, which we are all witnesses.

There's no debating this. These are eyewitness accounts. This proves there is

the dissension of Jesus Christ. He was from heaven and descended. In the

Greek at a bino, he alone descended, and he alone could ascend,

of which this was eyewitnessed. This was eyewitnessed. Now you have to realize

that the amount of scripture being quoted here, it's impossible for us to go

through in one setting. It's impossible. I mean one of the cross references

for verse thirty, which reads and so because he was a prophet and knew

that God had sworn to him with an oath to see his sence on the

throne. Literally, I could set here and read Psawm eighty nine because this

whole entire psalm is about that very promise made to David. I mean verse

three of that psalm. I have made a covenant with my chosen. I

have sworn to David, my servant. So take note, this is talking

about two different individuals. You want it to be all about David, but

it's not. It says I have made a covenant with my chosen, the

Lord Jesus. Christ is directly quoting this about the blood of my covenant.

Jesus is the chosen. David was his servant. So that's why verse three

of Psawm eighty nine is there. It's clearly DIFFERENTI you, so that you

understand these things could have only been fulfilled by the Lord Jesus Christ and not

David. Now, there are many different scriptures that we could consult right now

about the dissension in particular, but I think that we have covered enough so

that you can get this down concretely, that it's the Lord Jesus Christ alone

that came down from heaven. He descended, and when he did, he

was the Son of God and the only way to the Father is through the

Son. He repeatedly said that, sometimes using very harsh words, that his

own followers could not listen to it. The scripts you plainly said that that

they couldn't hear it. They had trouble hearing it. Well, we can't

eat your flegg Well, if you don't consume my flesh, you cannot live.

Who would have been able to understand this at the time, Who would

have been able to deduct what was to come? But Jesus, sitting right

there with them, prophesied, well, what happens if you see me ascend

back to where I was, of which they did witness him ascending to heaven

into the clouds. You have to reach that point that the disciples were at,

and you need to be at that point where you're literally standing there staring

up into the sky, watching and waiting for his return. Thinking to yourself,

he told us this very thing, that it was through him and him

alone that we would have access to the Father. You're literally going to have

to come to this law moment that the disciples had watching him ascended the heaven,

just like he said he was going to do. You can just imagine

what was going through disciples mind as they were looking up. They had been

there. They heard him say that I am the Bread of lies. You

have to eat my flesh and drink my blood or you cannot live. They

went on to the Last Supper, still didn't understand. They literally watched him

be crucified. Then they watched him not only raise from the dead, they

watched him raise into heaven itself. They watched him ascend. You need to

get to that point before you enter the birth pains, that you're looking into

the heavens, watching and waiting for him to return. That needs to be

more important to you than your life. The Book of Revelation says something very

disturbing. I have talked about it many times, and it really is disturbing

what is stated there in Revelation chapter twelve, verse eleven. And they have

conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.

And they did not love their life even when faced with death. How

does the KJV put it. The KJV says, and they loved not their

lives unto the death. How about the English standard version? Or they loved

not their lives even unto death. What does that mean? Ladies, gentlemen,

do you know what that means. Let me give you a scenario.

Let's you and I say that we're well into the birth pains to the point

where their serious shortage of food, and somebody comes to you and say,

hey, you can come stay with me. You can come out to my

place. I've got six hundred sections, not acres, six hundred sections.

I have six hundred head of cattle. You can come out and stay with

me. I'll feed you. When the Lord Jesus Christ told you over and

over and over again that he alone can save you. But yet when this

time comes, I don't care if this person that's saying, hey, you

can come out and stay with me, I'll feed you. I'll take care

with you. No, you're going to have to respond to them. I

don't care if I starve to death or not, because my afterlife is going

to be better than my life. I would rather enter into my rest.

I would rather enter into the promises, ither enter into Abraham's bosom. Is

what I'm saying to you, shocking you, ladies and gentlemen. You've been

warned not to go into the inner rooms, not go out into the wilderness,

not go here, not go there. You can't love your death more

than your life. All of you are sitting here thinking that's too hard to

accept. That's exactly what the followers of Jesus said, right. I read

it to you, right from John chapter six. Maybe I should go back

there and reach some of that again, I'm not lying to you. I

read it to you, and you all certainly did hear it. I've read

it, you all listened. So let's simp down to verse sixty of John

chapter six. Therefore, many of his disciples, when they heard this,

said, this is a difficult statement. Who can listen to it? But

Jesus, conscious that his disciples grumbled at this, said to them, did

this cause you to stumble, What then, if you see the Son of

Men ascending to where he was before? Is this too difficult a statement for

you too, so that you can't listen to it. They love not their

lives unto death, Ladies and gentlemen. If you are a Christian, if

you have been born again into the body of Christ, Ladies and gentlemen,

your death is going to be better than your life. You should love your

reward more than your waiting. Because let me remind you again when I just

said a few minutes ago, you need to get to that point where you're

looking up into the heavens just like the disciples were that day. You need

to be watching and waiting for him to keep his promise and return, just

as the disciples saw him leave. You need to be watching and waiting for

him to return. Is that too difficult for you to hear? Let me

read that again. This time we'll read it out of the Thompson translation.

But they have conquered him by the blood of the lamb and by the word

of their testimony, and have not spared to expose their life even to death.

Boy, that says it a whole lot differently, don't it, Ladies

and gentlemen, you can't love your life more than your reward you're going to

receive in the afterlife. Let me ask you something, ladies and gentlemen.

When the Disciples were standing there looking up, if the angels had not crashed

their party, do you think they would have stayed there looking until they would

have started to death? Do you think anything outside an angel straight from heaven

would have stopped them from standing there waiting for Christ to return? And I'm

here to tell you you need to get to that place where the reward you're

going to receive in the afterlife is greater than your desire for the life you're

currently waiting to be over. You cannot love your life to death. You

have to have greater love for the reward you will receive in the afterlife,

because if not, you have no hope of going through the birth pains.

You have no hope. Please look over these chapters. Please try reading the

Bible as if you believe it. Read it as if it is God's word.

Read it and treat it like you do an encyclopedia. When you pick

up an encyclopedia and flip it open to an article and start reading, do

you doubt what you're saying. Do you doubt what you're reading when you quote

from the encyclopedia, when you tell somebody about it, when you quote from

it, are you confident? Why aren't you ten times more confident about what

the Bible, which is God's only word, says. Why is it that

when you pick up a dictionary and look up a word in the dictionary,

you absolutely and without question, wholeheartedly believe every single syllable it says. Ladies

and gentlemen, do you know when the first dictionary was written? Because it

was thousands of years after the Bible, God's holy word. Now you know

that the Bible is the most attested document period. There's no other document that

even comes remotely close. We can reconstruct just a New Testament just from quotes.

We can do the same thing with the Old Testament, utilizing all the

quotes that all the rabbis over the vast thousands of years have quoted from the

Bible. You can reconstruct the Bible God's holy words just from quotes from external

sources. Ladies and gentlemen, the Lord Jesus Christ is more attested with documentation

and archaeology than Caesar himself. There is Scantonough resources that you could almost say

that Caesar was really a myth, just like Romulus and Remus is a myth.

Because Romulus and Remus two twins that were raised by a female wolf.

That's a myth. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you the truth. The

Lord Jesus Christ is the most attested person in history. I'm gonna read this

verse one more time. You need to believe with all your heart that the

Lord Jesus Christ alone was the son of God, and he is the only

one that performed the dissension. He and he alone is the son of God.

I'm going to read it to you one more time in hopes that you

will consider your future actions based off this love your life or the reward the

fruits of your labor is going to produce, Ladies and gentlemen. I I

appreciate the Bible says that most will live to seventy and eighty if by strength

your reward will have no end. How in your right mind could you calculate

that this seventy perhaps eighty years is more important to you than eternity, living

eternally with your Lord and your God. How could you possibly reasonable make it

reasonable in your mind that the life is worth more than the reward Revelation,

Chapter twelve, verse eleven. And they overcame him because of the blood of

the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony. And they did not

love their life even when faced with death. The Lord Jesus Christ alone is

the son of God, and he proved that with his dissension, he alone

descended from heaven. The Bible, God's Holy Word plainly states that please try

to try to convince yourself that your afterlife reward is by far more important than

your live. Do you not know now? Have you not heard that to

be absent from the body is to be with Christ. Try to convince yourself.

Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, God bless God speed. Thank

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Now, if you are a God fearing, Bible believing Gospel riching Christian,

Please repeat after me I pledge a regiance through the Bible, God's holy

Word. I will make it a lamp unto my feet, and a light

and to my path. It's yours, while I hide in my heart that

I might not sin against God