036 The Corinthian Creed

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Draweth nigh. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the program. We're

your host Jose and Matthew. Tonight we are going to talk about the Corinthian

Creed, or as the Greek puts it, karuga karuga, very interesting Greek

word that comes up in the strangest of places. So, Hose, I

take of the You took a look at First Corinthians chapter fifteen, verses there

three through eight. Yes, what what's your first impressions of it and what

did you later find out about it? Because I'm sure you looked into what

this thing is and where it came from. So give us your your opening

comments on it, right, Matthew. So, my first impressions is it's

a rediteration of the Gospel of what our faith is supposed to be founded on.

It's telling us about the resurrection of Jesus and what happened after his resurrection.

And the thing that I think that I remember the most from this chapter

before, Matthew is the verses that say that if Christ has not been raised

from the dead, then our faith is in vain. That's where I remember

this chapter the most from. But as I began to look into it a

little bit more about what the previous verses are actually saying, there's a lot

of evidence, Matthew that this is one of the first Christian creeds that were

developed among the early Christians. And essentially it's showing that this resurrection was preached

from the very beginning, Matthew. It did not develop at a later time

to deify Jesus. It was not, you know, created by the Catholic

Church so that you know, it would would convert other Pagans to the new

religion. This has been from the very beginning, what the apostles preached,

what all the disciples preached, and what those five hundred that witnessed his resurrection,

Priest matt preached, Matthew, and it is the foundation of our faith.

Without it, again, we our faith is in vain. You know,

usually when when you say that in an open forum, whether it be

you know, from the pulpit or in a classroom, in any situation,

we got more than a few people in it. It surprises me how many

of them are like, well, what are you talking about? What,

what do you mean? You know, it amazes me that people that call

themselves Christians really don't get it that this is the most important thing. This

is what was testified about. This is why the martyrs were martyred. This,

this is why they held to their guns. That Jesus Christ was the

son of God. He was crucified, and on the third day he did

rise again. And if that's the case, then that is the case.

That is the case, and this sweeps everything else aside. Everything else is

null and void compared to this Corinthian creed. Now, lots of people just

well, they completely ignore this altogether. Mostly what is talked about in this

chapter is all the way down in verses fifty and fifty one, as they

twist it into a false teaching. Now, that's too bad that they put

this event way out of context and do that. But this year is all

the way to begin to give this chapter, and this is why that's being

written all the way down there in verse fifty and fifty one. And it's

amazing to me how people don't get that this is why the Lord Jesus Christ

in his role as prototic coast Necros, the firstborn from the dead. This

is the basis, This is the foundation, this teaching that he is the

firstborn from the dead of the Book of Revelation. This comes out in the

very first chapter. You're absolutely supposed to know this, that this has everything

to do with somebody being resurrected from the dead. And of course we find

at the end of the book that's exactly what happens, because that's who takes

over and rules and reigns with Christ. It's not the bride of Christ.

Jose Right. Christians don't have a job during the millennial reign of Christ.

They're on their honeymoon, so to speak. The bride of Christ has no

job in the millennial kingdom. None. Those who rule and reign with Christ

do so because they have followed suit and they have been resurrected Anastasius from the

Necros from the dead. They've been resurrected from the dead. That's exactly what

Revelation chapter twenty tell us. When you realize that that's the basis for the

Book of Revelation, and you realize that's the basis for the entire fifteenth chapter

of First Corinthians. It puts everything to a different life. It gets you

on God's page, so to speak. You're on God's page because his very

first page is this very first Creed, this Corinthian Creed. Now, let's

read it. I'm going to read it tonight out of the revised Geneva translation.

Why am I doing that? This is a brand new update to the

Geneva translation. Only the New Testament is complete. And that's what's important,

because since I was a teenager, I've been shouting this from the rooftops.

The New Testament is the Adido Regia manuscript. That's where you get your chapters

and verses from, not any other manuscript. This is the manuscript that was

compiled by Stephanis with the two manuscripts he refused to hand over to the government

or to the church. Those two fragments were Iota Alpha and Iota Final Sigma.

Everybody that was a Christian at the time knew this was the Bible,

God's holy work. They knew that everybody. That's why the government translation,

that is to say, the KJV, doesn't hold to the Iddo Regia manuscript.

This is why Delich, of course, when he formulated the Hybraica and

submitted it for review to not only on Old Ulrich, but to also to

Gustav Dohman. What did he make the Hebraic office. That's right, he

translated the Adido Regia. So this is a brand new new Testama's called the

revised Geneva translation. I'm going to read the Corinthian Creed out of it.

For first of all, I delivered to you that which I received, how

that Christ died four hours sins according to the scriptures, and that he was

buried, and that he rose on the third day according to the scriptures,

and that he was seen by Caiaphas, then by the twelve. After that

he was seen by more than five hundred brothers at once, of whom many

remain to this time, and some also are asleep. After that he was

seen by James, then all the Apostles, and last of all he was

seen also by me, as by one born at the wrong time. This

is it. This is the creed, This is the creed of Christ.

This is it. If your event horizon is not this creed, you're something

else. You know, Today's Christian Church has largely been ripped apart by free

grace Antinomianism. I mean this thing that has run rampant through all the denominations,

that you you just become a Christian and it doesn't affect you at all.

You keep on living as if you're dead. You continue on in your

sins. You need to know this. If you're found in your sins,

that is to say, you call yourself a Christian, but you're not.

That's because you're a child of disobedience. And the children of disobedience will not

be resurrected. That's a fact. Only the children of the Promise will be

resurrected. Everybody else. The final chapters of Revelation is quite plain what God

intends to do, and he makes it no secret, does he. Jose

No, Matthew, here peace himself over and over again. What is to

come? What's your thoughts on this creed? What's your thoughts on why this

isn't talked about more often? Hose Well, I have a couple thoughts,

Matthew. The first is I've been hearing a lot of bad shepherds lately say

that Jesus isn't the only way into the Kingdom of Heaven, that if you're

born of a different religion, or you're born worshiping a different faith, that

as long as you're good you can still enter heaven. Man, these are

Christian shepherds that are saying this, Matthew, and I don't know how they

think they can get away with it when we clearly see from first Koreanthans fifteen,

what we clearly see from other scriptures that you must believe that Jesus was

the son of God. You must us believe that he died, was buried,

and was resurrected on the third day. Jesus himself addresses this Matthew in

Matthew chapter sixteen, where he tells the disciples that he's going to have to

die, and he's going to be buried, and he will be raised up

on the third day. And Peter himself is the one that says God forbid,

and of course Jesus rebukes him. He says, get behind me,

Satan. So that's showing you who is behind those lives, Matthew, that

there are other ways, other doors into heaven besides Jesus, other ways to

the Father. It totally contradicts what Jesus himself said in the scriptures. So

those are those are my first initial thoughts, Matthew. And it's bothering me

that I'm hearing more and more shepherds say this there, that Jesus is not

the only way to the Father. You know, for one, we need

to clarify our terminology. Okay, this is how it is, this is

how it was, and this is how it will be. I don't care

what your position is. I don't care if you're the president. I don't

care if you're the Pope. I don't care if you're a preacher. I

don't care if you're a Sunday school teacher. If you say that what you

are is a heretic, I mean, I don't care if you're the bishop

in some denomination. I don't care if you're an elder. I don't care

if you're the head of a theological seminary. Your station is irregardless of the

simple fact. If you say that, if you believe that you are a

heretic, you are not a Christian. So you need to know that,

ladies and gentlemen, that the only spirit that would say this is the spirit

of Antichrist. Just so you know what you're dealing with. I'm just telling

you that to your face or in this case, I guess to your ear

as you're listening to this audio, you need to know that it has become

rampant on this planet. That Jesus Christ is not the only way it's become

rampant. It seems like to me almost all of the Big Game people say

that, all of them, and you all need to know that is the

spirit of Antichrist. It is, and you need to know this. No

matter what you do, you be damned. Let me make sure my dear

brother Jose understands this. Jose, I don't care if you say four hundred

and fifty thousand hell Mary's. I don't care if you pray the Lord's prayer

umpteen times. You be damned, Ose, Amen, I'm going to tell

you this the truth. Outside of the Lord Jesus Christ sacrificing himself for you,

Jose, and on the third day raising up outside of that and what

he done, you be damned. Just so everybody knows. I don't care

if you think if giving a whole lot of money to charity will do something

for you. I don't care if you think of selling everything you have in

making a vow of poverty. I don't care what you think you can do

outside of what the Lord Jesus Christ done, You're damned. That's it.

If it wasn't for his raising three days after him sacrificing himself for you,

you're damned. You're dead. You're dead already. You have no hope.

This coript in creed is what shall remain. There is nothing you can do.

There's nowhere you can go, there's nothing you can give to atone for

your sins. The only thing that can do it is the blood of the

Son of God. And now you need to understand that before the resurrection,

he was the Son of God. But now that he was resurrected and ascended

into the right hand of the Father, he's something else now, and you

need to do something to convince yourself of this. He is God the Son,

and without God the Son, you be damned. And that's a fuck.

I don't care if you call yourself a Presbyterian or a Pentecostal, if

you call yourself a Catholic or Baptist or a Lutheran, you be damned.

Without that fact, you better sear this into your psyche. Before he resurrected

himself, he was the son of God, and on this side of that

resurrection. He is God the Son. Besides him, there is no future.

I think it's key Matthew. The way this chapter starts off. God

says that this is the gospel. He declares this creed the gospel. And

I think in modern Christianity we tend to just lump the gospels together as the

whole gospel, as we kind of mix all the stories together and say that's

the gospel of Jesus. But God himself here is saying that this is the

gospel. This is the good news that we are waiting for. This is

what we've been promised. It's not you know. Yeah, those the miracles

that Jesus performed were to show that he was of the Father. He was

there to preach to the Jews. But this is the gospel. This is

why, the whole reason he had to come down, like you said,

to cleanse us of our sins, to be that blood to clean us and

to make us ready for him. And you know, everybody knew this at

the time. Let me say that again, everybody knew this at the time.

Everybody knows that all the martyrs weren't martyred because they were lying, because

nobody would do that for a lie. That's just common knowledge. Yeah.

This gospel, Matthew, is what enables you to be a Christian. It's

what enables you to walk out there in faith and preach, knowing that even

if you are persecuted for that preaching, we will be resurrected. Right.

It lets you, It lets you go out there and be a Christian and

give the last morsel out of your pantry, knowing that even if you die

because of that, we will be resurrected. Matthew. It's it's it's it's

the power that allows you to be a Christian. This gospel. I mean

literally you're saying in not so many words. I mean you're basically quoting from

Revelation twelve, verse eleven. People are probably shocked. They're like, man,

how does Matthew do that? I know what you meant. Look,

I'm gonna live forever. Do you understand that, Jose? Amen? Amen?

If you kill me now, you're just gonna tickle me pink. Just

so we're clear, Jose, You're just gonna make me enter my rest beforehand,

so I get a greater rest before our into my reward. Do you

understand that? Yes? May ye Amen? Matthew, you can't kill me,

do you want to? Because the Lord Jesus Christ my savior, because

here resurrected and ascended to the right hand of the Father. You can't put

me down. I will live forever. Now. This is why. Inside

of the Book of Revelation, this is why, inside the Narrative of Revelation,

chapter twelve, it says this, and they have conquered him by the

blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. For they love

not their lives even unto death. Waities and gentlemen, what do you think

that meant. Let's try the new American Standard version that was the English Standard

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

It's one of my favorite sayings in the Bible. And you ask people,

They're like, I don't understand what that means. I got a feeling that

only God fearing, Bible believing, Gospel preaching Christians understands what that means.

Because you can't kill me, you can martyr me, and the only thing

that is is a graduation. That's just a graduation for me and the people

who are like me, the people who are called by his knee. No

matter what you do, you can only improve my situation. It amazes me

when I talk about this. I ask people, by the way, do

you know what the Greek word for martyr is? Like, what do you

mean smarter? Really, what's Greek word for witness? Everybody gets confused until

they pull up from their strongs and realize, Oh, it's the same word.

I'm here to testify to this. Lord Jesus Christ came and he sacrificed

himself for me. He rose on the third day, and he did as

sind into heaven on that point in time, which we call today ascension tide.

It's ten days before Pentecost. And in doing so, I will live

forever because one thing you can't take for me is the Corinthian creed. You

can't take it for me, no more than you could make me forget Jesus

loves me. I've been singing Jesus loves me since before I could read.

And not you or the devil himself can take it from me. As far

as I'm concerned, the world can learn the world can be dammed outside of

the Lord Jesus Christ, his death and his resurrection. There's that, and

then there's oblivion. And it's amazing that this equation really is that simple.

It really is. But you know, we had a great outpouring of the

spirit of Antichrist. You know, most people would and I do mean most

people would argue that Billy Graham is the greatest evangelist that ever lived. Well,

he's going to be damned because he's on record, He's on video record.

You can get him saying that here after he retired, that Jesus Christ

is not the only way to heaven. Will Billy Graham be damned? I

don't have a problem with it, of course, you know it doesn't like

a rocket scientist to figure out who gave him the money up front to do

the Crusades. But doesn't matter to me because because I don't know if you

realize this or not, But you know that Jesus rose from the dead for

me personally. Did you know that? Amen? Matthew. Absolutely. If

you don't know that, Jose, I mean, I know, I've taught

you a whole lot of things. But if you don't know that, if

you don't know that the Lord Jesus Christ himself, God the Son rose for

you, you don't know nothing. You don't know anything. If you don't

know that. If you don't hold to that, you're holding on could naught

but oblivion. How many times have you heard this talked about? I don't

know in the last last year, Jose, maybe once, Matthew, once

I've come across this being discussed. But no, it's not. It's not

so I guess it's not a common thing. And and and the teachings that

I that I come across are focusing on on other things, but not this,

Matthew. But honestly, this is what we should be reading every every

Resurrection Sunday, right, every every Eastern Mass that that's that's had every Easter

service or Resurrection service, however the different churches call it. This should be

repeated, Matthew. Do you know what blows me away? I mean,

you're asked, how many denominations across the United States, how many hundreds of

thousands of churches have communion the first Sunday of the month. I bet I'm

just getting ready to shock everybody. You know, the whole purpose to take

in communion, ladies and gentlemen, is in remembrance of His sacrifice he made

for you, right, Because if you don't know that, if you didn't

realize that when you take communion, that's why you're doing it. Then everything

you think you know is irrelevant. I mean, I appreciate it. If

you may be a higher mathematician, an astrophysicist, or perhaps a surgeon,

maybe you're a rocket scientist. I'm telling you you didn't know that, you

don't know anything worth knowing, because until you know that, your future's hopeless.

Until you know that, you know, Jose, how many times do

you hear Jesus refer to as the Son of God at the same time,

how many times do you hear him address properly he's God the Son. No,

I hear a Son of God more often than God the Son, Matthew.

That's kind of disturbing, isn't it. Yes, you know, earlier

you and I privately were discussing John chapter five, right. Yes, it's

amazing to me. You referred to them as bad shepherds earlier, and that

is apropos because that is what they are. But it amazes me how many

times they actually they have a career in distraction. Ladies and gentlemen, let

me ask you this. Has anybody you've ever listened to, have you ever

heard of your body ask this question, what is the sin that leads to

death? The only reason why they ask you that is to distract you from

the other verses in that chapter. And none of you remember what chapter that

is? Do you? Some of you have the wherewithal to understand? That's

why Matthew mentioned first John chapter five. If you don't know what that says.

More importantly, if you don't know what's been removed from modern Bibles,

if you don't know about the Johannen Comma, they're stuck between verses seven and

eight. If you don't know that's been remove moved, you've had the wolf

who pulled over your eyes because the whole chapter, the whole chapter is about

the sin that leads to death. How many times have you heard that discussed?

You know? How many Christians know that they removed the Johann and Karma

from the Adida Regia. How many people you think know that, Jose,

I've never heard it come up, Matthew, Really, I would say not

very many. You've never heard it come up? No, Well, that's

kind of disturbing, because, well, you have at least recently read John

chapter five, right, yes, yes, And I take it that you

read it out of what the New American Standard d yes, the New American

Standard version. Yes, Matthew, really, so why don't you read me

what your New American Standard Bible says? Wait for me, verse seven,

Well, there are three that testify. What is that a joke? That's

it? That's all that's in this in this NASD Matthew, Oh really,

that's all that's there. Yep. Well I'll tell you what. I will

read it out of the revised Geneva translation, and you're probably gonna be in

for shock. Okay, just so you know this is what it really says.

Now, you do understand that your chapters and verses, that's where it

comes from, is from the Addal Regia manuscript, right, yes, okay,

just so you know that this is what it really says. For there

are three who bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and

the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. And there are three who

bear record on earth, the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood.

And these three agree in one. So you had a whole lot taken out

of there, didn't you. Yep, a whole lot. If you needed

a hint, you ain't got a clue, right, right? Have you

looked at this in the Hebreka. Have you looked at this in the Hebrew

New Testament? No, I haven't, Matthew, Just so you know,

yes, in Hebrew it has what I said, not what you said.

Amen, Just so you know that, just so you know what's a true

witness. Maybe you didn't understand what I said. Somebody who bears false witness

in court, they say that's perjury. Right, Yes, what I've read

is a true witness. Just so you know. Big difference. Now that's

probably unsettling to you, right, Jose, Because this ministry, it's the

main stay that we use for translation, is the New American Standard Bible nineteen

ninety five, right, right? Have I ever said it was the Bible,

God's Holy Word? No, Matthew, you matter of fact, you've

said that it's just like all English translations. It's trash. Amen. Amen,

that I have and that it is that I have, and that it

is. You know, you need to understand, ladies and gentlemen, why

this dynamic plays out. You have to understand that the bad shepherd to do

this for a reason. Why is it that they will not read to you

the contents of this chapter, and yet they'll ask you well, what do

you think the sin that leads to death is? I mean, ladies and

gentlemen, Jose, read for me the first verse of first John chapter five.

Please, I don't care what translation you used. Just read it.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God, and whoever

loves the Father loved the child born of him. Any questions, Nope,

very plain, right there, very plain. This is the whole purpose of

the entire chapter. See it's the whole purpose of the entire chapter. My

goodness, Christian, this is echoing I mean, I'm just reading the first

stanza of the first couple standsas Matthew one John five, and it's echoing Revelation

twelve eleven what you read earlier, great man, saying the same thing as

is proper. Why don't you read it for us, Jose, the first

John five, the first couple of stanzas sure, all right, whoever believes

that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God, and whoever loves the

Father loves the child born of him. By this we know that we love

the children of God when we love God and observe his commandments. For this

is the love of God that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are

not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this

is the victory that has overcome the world our faith. Who is the one

who overcomes the world. But he who believes that Jesus is the Son of

God. This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ.

Not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood.

It is the spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

And I'm gonna change translations for the next verse, Matthew. For there are

three who bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the

Holy Ghost. And these three are one. And there are three who bear

record on the earth, the Spirit, and the Water and the Blood.

And these three agree in one. If we receive the testimony of man,

the testimony of God is greater. For the testimony of God is this that

He has testified concerning his son. The one who believes in the Son of

God has a testimony in himself. The one who does not believe God has

made him a liar because he has not believed in the testimony that God has

given concerning his son. And the testimony is this that God has given us

eternal life, and this life is in his son. He who has the

Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does

not have the life. You know, it amazes me how people don't well,

they don't understand what's being talked about there. I mean, wherein did

God testify that this was his son? I mean, that blows me away.

If you don't know, well, I find that a little hard to

believe that you're a Christian. You don't know what's being talked about here here,

let me read it for you. After being baptized, Jesus come up

immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened, and he

saw the spirit of God descending as a dove and lightning on him. And

behold a voice out of the heaven said, this is my beloved son,

in whom I'm well pleased. You're lies Nowhere is this event contested by the

ancient witnesses. It's never contested because there were too many witnesses. So the

Holy ghost descended on him as a dove, and the Father for witness by

saying, this is my beloved son and whom I'm well pleased. And it

bothers me if you don't it. It is bothersome to do this in a

classroom and have people just turned around. And when I say turned around,

I mean turned around, they'll ask you what is being talked about her?

This is this is a bunch of of of of gibberish. Really, you

know, I guess Jose that upbringing counts for a lot, doesn't it.

Yes, it does, Matthew. But today the clergy have so utterly failed

christ Church. We have this thing. I mean, just in Sunday school

I probably went over the baptism and everything that happened to the baptism. I

don't know from the time I was, let's say, in kindergarten to the

time I graduated high school, I know I'd heard it at least one hundred

times. How many times did you hear it? Now? Numerous times,

Matthew, Over and over it was reiterated. So you and I come from

a certain dynamic. Yes, right, you'd say that we come from the

same place. Amen, I mean we were trained up in the way we

should go. The problem is is that the clergy has put Christianity in crisis.

So most people are not being trained up in the way they should go,

so they don't know the foundation of their faith. What's the foundation of

their faith? I'm going to say this right now. If you don't know

what I'm talking about, you should be worried. What's the promise to Abraham?

Who killed Abel? Who is Boaz's wife, who was Abigail's first husband.

If you don't know how many fish was in the net, you haven't

been trained up in the way you should go. These are all elementary questions.

But here, as of late, I've been offhandedly orchestrating these questions to

come up with different people, and they don't know. It's the clergy,

and the clergy alone that has put Christianity in crisis, because it is in

crisis. I mean, Jose, I don't mean to hurt your feelings,

but I'm going to how many people can you have an intelligent conversation about the

Bible with where you're at? Boy, Matthew, I'm hesitating to come up

with a number here physically around me. Okay, then I can have a

discussion about it, but it's more of me speaking and teaching, not really

a discussion back and forth like we're happening right now. Matthew. No,

when's the last time it happened? Jose? When was the last time you

had an edifying conversation with somebody you was setting down with looking at them face

to face. When's the last time that happened? Not since me and Leonard

gathered together, Matthew. How long ago was that? It's it's been over

it's been over here when me when I met and met Leonard here when he

first moved to Phoenix, and we sat down and we opened our Bible,

that was the last time you're in crisis, Jose yep? Amen, I

mean as to the point it could fairly well be said that if you don't

discuss these things with your children, your children's not going to discuss these things,

correct, correct, Matthew yep. Well, that makes things very difficult,

doesn't it. It makes things very uncomfortable. That means when you get

together with other Christians that call themselves Christians, you don't talk about christ do

you know, Matthew? So you talk about you talk about you know,

I don't know baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet right right. And when I

speak with other Christians about what they're learning, they talk to me about m

saints and what the what the saints said about not even know what they said

about scripture, but just what they say about the Christian walk. And when

I try to bring it back to the Bible, I see confused looks on

people's faces. That's like you said, Matthew in crisis. Wow, what

do you say to that? What? What can I say that? There's

nothing I can say to that. I mean, unfortunately, we got what

at least a thousand miles between us, right right? You know, Jose,

what would you say if I invited you to my house? What would

you what would you be expecting? Would you be expecting from me to bring

up baseball? Nope? Would you let me bring up baseball? And no,

Matthew, I'd I'd open up my notebook and start going down my list

of verses that we need to talk about. You would badger me, right,

yes, Praise God, you badger me. I would have no hope

of ever getting one word in edgewise about hot dogs, about Chevrolet. You

said you'd bring your notepad with you. Yep, you'd have things to do.

You would actually come to my house with an agenda? Amen? Right,

yep? I bet that upsets people that I use that phraseology. But

your agenda would be the Kingdom of Heaven. Right, Amen, we'll praise

God. We'll praise God that you wouldn't even give me the opportunity to do

anything else, because that is God's agenda. You know, jose do you

know God don't care how much you make? Did you know that? Amen?

Amen? Did you know when he gets up, the last thing he's

going to do is ask you how much is in your retirement? Amen?

Do you know he don't care? Man? Did you know that when Jesus

gets back, he's not going to ask you for your pen number, He's

not going to ask you for your routing number. Did you know when Jesus

Christ gets back, he's not going to expect you to transfer all funds to

his account? Did you know that? Amen? Matthew, You know,

there's a lot of churches right now that I've had this conversation here several times

over the past month. These different churches are just they just wait till their

yearly financial meeting and they all just vote to roll over the CDs that they

put in last year. So I guess what they're thinking is that the Lord

Jesus Christ is going to show up and they're just going to transfer the funds

to his account. Oh, my goodness, ladies and gentlemen, you have

no idea, you have no idea. Who has been witched you? I

mean, surely you know that He cut the rich young ruler to the quick.

He got him to the quick. The rich young ruler said, oh,

I followed all the commandments my whole life. Jesus never debated with him.

Jesus never count him to know. You didn't. I know, I

know what you have done and what you have. That's not what Jesus said.

Jesus cut him to the quick. He said, sell all that you

have, give it to the poor, and come follow me. And the

rich man be damned. So you all need to be made aware of that

that Jesus don't give flying rip how much of money you make. He don't

care. I know what he cares about. And you all need to get

up to speed with what his agenda is. And when you get together,

the only thing that should you should not even allow the conversation to go left

or right. Who cares about baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet?

You should push the envelope. You should push the matter at hand.

You should be discussing about what God's agenda is, that's what you need to

be doing. And praise God that Jose admitted with his own mouth, he'd

bring his notebook with him. I would never have the chance to waste his

time in the name of the Lord is God. He would make sure that

he come to my table to discuss the agenda. What's God's going to do?

How are we going to deal with that? How are we going to

participate in that? I'm sorry if you've been entertained by the bad shepherds,

but that is what they do. And if you've listened to Jose and I

for any length of time, we've discussed that numerous times. That's actually what

they're professional at. They are professionals at distracting you and getting you to chase

your tell. And that's a fact. I mean, it's funny to me

that when we go to First Corinthians, chapter fifteen. It absolutely amazes me

that when I say that chapter, everybody immediately jumps headlong all the way down

to verse fifties. Yeah. I think that we were our shipherds are too

concerned with their doctrines, and we as Christians, as as the congregation,

also fall into that trap and trying to sort out whether this doctrine or that

doctrine is the right one, and criticizing other Christians if their doctrine is different

than ours. But like Matthew said, you miss you missed the first things.

When you do that, God's told us how we're supposed to act,

what it means to be a Christian, what it means to follow His commandments,

what it means to hold to the testimony of Jesus, what it means

to follow the beatitudes, what it means to care for others. What are

the fruits of the spirit. And by following those, it enables the Holy

Spirit to teach you. It enables him to be able to come into your

heart and show you what is to come, and cement the Gospel in your

heart, cement the scriptures in your heart, so that when you're having these

discussions with other Christians and they're saying things that aren't biblical, you can point

point them back to what God actually says. Point them back to that God

said that his son died, was buried, and was risen on the third

day. Point him back to how how Jesus said, we're supposed to act,

what it means to be a Christian because God repeats himself. God says

the same thing over and over. I mean, how many chapters do we

cover today that all say the same thing. And even as Matthew was speaking,

I was pulling up more verses that just reiterate what Matthew said, reiterate

what God said in One Corinthians fifteen, in First John chapter five, and

he just keeps saying the same thing over and over. But when you're trying

to fit it into your doctrine, you can either look at it and study

it, or you can just ignore it. So that's what's disturbing to me

as a Christian, as someone who is a Bible believer, as someone who

studies the Word of God. So that's what I'm hoping that people will take

the heart today. I hope they do too. I was going to do

it, and I'm going to do it. The most entertaining part my First

Corinthians chapter fifteen is this, go all the way down. Let's read fifty

one and fifty two. Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall

not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in

the twinkling of a night, at the last trumpet for the trumpet shall blow,

and the debt shall be raised up incorruptible, and we all shall be

changed. Ladies and gentlemen. If you don't know the fifty verses before it,

you don't know the agenda. Because the agenda is clean, the agenda

is clear, and the agenda is widely repeated. It's repeated everywhere. Now

I may be wrong, but I'm here to tell you I wouldn't bet against

me when I say this, it's in every book of the Bible. I'll

qualify by what I said by saying this. Does anybody know that there's a

book in the Bible with a chapter for every book in the Bible? Did

you know that? Did you know there's sixty six books in the Bible and

only one book has sixty six chapters? Did you know that? Because if

you don't know that, it tells me you probably need a hint, which

means you ain't got a clue. Because when I say the agenda is highly

repeated, that's what I mean. And I thank the Lord my God that

jose would not give me the opportunity to stumble. He'd bring his notebook with

me with him, and he just badgered me. The whole time, because

by God iron sharp, it's Iron and me and Jose we're gonna live forever.

How about you? You all need to know there's a single thing that

matters when you get to the judgment seat. And I'm gonna read it for

you one more time. This is the Corinthian Creed. All scholars agree that

this was written, probably with at least within five years of the resurrection itself.

The verses five through eightive First Corinthians, Chapter fifteen. For first of

all, I delivered to you that which I received, how that Christ died

for our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, and

that he rose on the third day according to the scriptures, and that he

was seen first by Coyphas, and then by the twelve. After that he

was seen by more than five hundred brothers, all at once, of whom

many remain to this time, and some also are asleep. After that,

it was seen by James, and then by all the apostles. And last

of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born at

the wrong time. I know most of you have your social Security numbers memorized,

most of you have your anniversary memorized. Many of you get in trouble

because you get all your different anniversaries confused because you've got three or four of

them. That's beside the point. Many of you have your spouse's birthdays memorized.

All of that is absolutely worthless information. Hose. I'm here to tell

you your Social Security number is worthless information. Okay, just so you know,

your routing number and your account number is worthless information. You need to

memorize, Jose, have your wife memorize it. You need to get a

dry erase board on refrigerator and write it on there. You need to get

posted notes and write it on it and stick it everywhere. First First Corinthians,

chapter fifteen, verses three through eight. Okay, yep, that's gonna

save your life. Amen, Please take us out of here in prayer,

Jose, dear heavenly Father, whom we love and serve, we give you

thanks continually for allowing us to gather to get while we still can. Lord,

I asked that what we discussed tonight be cemented it into the hearts of

the Ecclesia, that that gospel that you gave us about your son, about

his blood, about his resurrection, and what that afforded to us that after

our arrest, we may earn our reward in him, in You and in

your holy Spirit. Lord, and I asked that you allow us to spread

this gospel as you have commanded us to do, because you have promised that

in doing so, we will increase your kingdom. We will draw more to

your son. And you have promised that as we do this, as we

spread the gospel, that you will be faithful in that gospel, and you

will resurrect us at the time appointed so that we may be with your son

forever. Lord. And we ask all this and the name of your son,

our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen, Amen and Amen.

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

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