The Revelation of Christ Crucified | Pastor Paul McGee

Hey man, look at your neighbor and tell them they look good.

Look good. Only one additional thing that I

want to tag in on with everything that Sister McGee

mentioned because this is an important day.

If you plan on going to the Indiana District camp meeting

that the registration will be April the 28th, that is a

Monday. And so if you have plans of

going, listen, you can't be him hauling around, you can't be

thinking about whether you're going to be going.

You have to know by that date because registration last year

within was it minutes within 8 minutes was full, all right.

And so it's it's a it's a fast going deal.

Yes, we have for years been even looking into other places

because it does fill up and I think even the facilities there

they've tried to look even for areas that could they could

expand and such. So it's not something to be

scratching your head on. You got to be there when it

opens and be very diligent, be very diligent.

Amen. So otherwise, you might find

yourself in a hotel or, you know, a tent, a TP, you know,

something like that. But nonetheless, all right, if

you'll stand with me this morning, we're going to turn to

1st Corinthians chapter #1. First Corinthians chapter #1 And

I'm going to read verses 22 through 24, and a couple weeks

ago I just kind of got on this Revelation business, and I'm

just still in it, OK? And so this is kind of really

tying in still yet, in my estimation, with the past couple

of Sunday mornings. So First Corinthians chapter #1

and verses 22 and 24, Sister McGee mentioned said this next

Sunday that one service, what I'm trying to do is I learned

that Doctor Graham was going to come and be in service with us

too. So I'm trying to squeeze two

people on a Sunday morning. Doctor Graham's a licensed

therapist and such. And so he's a great person.

He's a little younger than me and so he's got his doctorate in

that. So he's, he's a great person and

he has quite a story himself. But anyway, we'll see what

happens. I'm trying to twist his arm and

such. So we'll see if I'm I'm, you

know, successful chapter one, verse 22, the first Corinthians,

the Bible says for the Jews require a sign and the Greek

seek after wisdom. But we preach Christ crucified

to the Jews, a stumbling block into the Greeks foolishness.

But to them, which are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ,

the power of God and the wisdom of God, they said we preach

Christ, which would have been the Old Testament Testament word

for the Old Testament Messiah. We've been talking about, you

know, the revelation of Jesus the Messiah and such that they

would crucify, they preach their Messiah crucified.

All right. And so I'm going to talk to us

today then this, the revelation of Christ crucified.

The revelation of Christ crucified.

Let's pray together. Lord, we're thankful again

today, Lord, that we can come together, we can worship.

We're thankful, Lord, for your spirit.

We're thankful, Lord, for what you've already done individually

for some God setting in the service today.

I pray, O Lord, you would anoint our hearts and our minds, God,

that we would, Lord lend them to you Jesus, and that your perfect

will would be done through and by your word.

It's a living word. And I pray God, let Jesus be

carried about in our lives. In the name of Jesus I pray

Amen, Amen. The church say Amen, Amen.

You may be seated this morning the revelation of Christ

crucified and again so I deeply to believe that this ties in

into the past couple of Sunday of mornings of the revelation of

God in in Christ Jesus and the revelation of Jesus the Messiah.

But now the the Jews and the Greeks for that matter, the

people of the 1st century with all these things that they are

learning. If they if they did indeed see

Christ as their Messiah, which there were plenty indicators to

indicate that and to force cast that for them.

Now they're having to rectify or reconcile this concept that

Christ, their Messiah, the Anointed 1 was crucified or even

prior to would be crucified as a matter of fact.

And we looked at this in some of the previous weeks.

So this is where it kind of tongues and grooves a little

bit. But many occasions in the Old

Testament, God's calling card to his people with signs and

miracles and wonders. He even told them, as we saw in

Isaiah in previous weeks, he had told them that you'll know.

You'll know that your God had come by the lame week, the

leaping and the the those that were mute being able to speak

and the the blind being able to see and the deaf ears being

unstopped. All of those signs that we

looked at in previous weeks were evidences that the life and the

ministry of Christ Jesus, those were in his life and ministry

that was indicating that that either God was with him or he

was God. He was God.

And so even Jesus attested to the fact that their belief that

God was in him could be substantiated by the very works

such like some of those wonders and signs and miracles that he

did. Look, if you will, and I got a

lot, I have many verses and passages here today, but in John

chapter #14 and verse 10, Jesus is speaking and says he says

believe it's not, but I am. I am in the Father.

This is his reply to Philip. As a matter of fact, Philip has

said Jesus show us the Father and it suffices this and this is

his response back. He said believe it's thou not

that I am in the Father and the Father in me the words that I

speak into you. I speak not of myself, but the

father that dwelleth in me. He doeth the works.

Verse 11 Believe me that I am in the father and the father in me

or else believe me for the very work's sake.

Again, he's underscored with the Fred these miracles and he signs

and these wonders, these things that were happened during his

earthly ministry through and by his hand and he was basically

letting them know these these are the means by which God.

If you'll remember what Peter preached on that day of

Pentecost. He said that he had approved or

authenticated a man Jesus Christ by these signs and these works

and these wonders and Jesus is just under score that if you

believe me for no other reason than just believe that the

Father is in me and I am him just for the very works sake

that's taking place right now in my ministry.

And so they they should have, they should have seen God in

Christ through what Jesus was doing in his earthly ministry.

I mean, this is what the Jews were looking for.

That's what our text even says. The Jews require a sign, the

Jews require a sign. And so this is what they are

looking for. And many of them in the New

Testament Scripture did, many of them grasped the hold of that

idea that this was indeed him. But there were also Lord others

that that were unsure because they they seen in the Scripture

that this Christ is leading to a Golgotha's hill, a Calvary.

And so whenever they begin to think that this could be, this

is our Messiah, but then they see the same man then going to a

tree and hanging on something that was just considered a, a

curse and it was dishonorable and all these type of things,

they're worn within themselves because the crucifix seemed to

fail them in the respect that how can this be our Messiah?

How can this be a person of authoritative rule and can set

off things right whenever he's going to be hanging on a tree.

So they were bewildered by all of this.

And as a result of that, the Bible says that many of them

mocked him, right? Because mark it down folks, many

people mock stuff they don't understand, mock stuff they do

not understand. And so because they did not

understand, as we seen last week in the book of Daniel, they

didn't understand this 5th king and this 5th Kingdom that Daniel

spoke about that would come and destroy all the previous

kingdoms and be that stone that's that's taken without

hands and hit the bottom of that image, destroy every other

Kingdom and increase into this grand mountain.

And they could not understand Christ being that stone and then

also happen to be the one that's hanging on a Roman cross.

It didn't make sense to them. How in the world could their

quote UN quote stone or king be strong between heaven and earth?

This can't be our expected king. This can't be our expected

Savior, our expected Savior, because despite all the other

indicators we have of what happened through his hand and

through his life and his ministry, we can't get past the

fact that we would have a crucified Savior.

Jesus said in John 12. These words he said, and I, if I

be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

This he said, John tells us signifying what death he should

die. Verse 34 The people answered

him, We have heard out of the law that Christ or Messiah

abideth forever. How sayest thou?

The Son of Man must be lifted up.

Who is this Son of man? So John informs us what Jesus is

talking about right here. His speech about being lifted up

was terminology for that day that was common, that indicated

a death by crucifix that was common for them that day.

And so John just lets us know when Jesus is saying this, he's

really signifying by what death that he should die.

But the people are having a hard time reasoning out Jesus's words

if he indeed was the Messiah. They said we thought for the way

that we understood the law that Christ or the Messiah, he would

live or he would be a forever Messiah, a forever Christ.

As a matter of fact, there's things in the Old Testament, in

the book of Psalms that the Bible speaks of him being a

priest forever, a priest forever.

Even in Daniel two we saw last week, it described His Kingdom

and kingship, that it would be a Kingdom that would never be

destroyed. It spoke of his dominion as an

everlasting dominion that shall not pass away.

And so they look at all of this and please know as they're

talking about Christ in verse 34 of John on 12, they're equating

him now with the Son of man. How sayest thou the son of man

must be lifted up. They're equating Christ Jesus

with this son of man. They said if these things be and

the son of man be lifted up crucified, then who in the world

really is he? I know we along the way started

identify you as that, but but who is he really if this is

going to happen? Remember, Remember from last

week, Jesus all the times referring to himself as the Son

of Man. He's speaking and the third

person, he says the Son of Man does this, the Son of Man does

that, Amen. He speaks to himself though,

about himself as being the Son of man.

But they're questioning if Messiah is going to last

forever, have a forever Kingdom, never be destroyed, how can he

be crucified? How can, as Daniel said, he be

cut off from the earth and not for himself?

How he can be forever and be terminated at the same time?

Someone say, man, can I remind you this morning, just real

quickly that not only is Jesus the Messiah, but he is also the

divine. He's God.

And so when Jesus died out Calvary, none of God died.

What came from the womb was laid in the tomb, but God was still

ruling supreme. Hey man, that which moved up on

the face of the waters in the beginning, the book of Genesis,

the Spirit of God that moved up on the face of the waters at the

very beginning had no beginning and it has no ending.

Jesus Christ in his flesh as a man had a Bethlehem's Manger, a

start, and he had a Calvary, a finish in his earthly life.

But God knows no beginning of days, no ending of days.

He is a spirit. He's as we looked at the I am

the self resistant one always present hangman of all times and

tenses. The Bible says in Matthew 27 and

verse 39 and they that passed by this is Jesus hanging on the

cross here it's describing the scene and they that pass by

reviled him wagging their heads verse 40 and saying thou that

destroy us the temple and build us it in three days.

Save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come

down from the cross. Likewise also the chief priest

mocking him with the scribes and elders said he saved others

himself. He cannot save if he be the King

of Israel. Let him now come down from the

cross and we will believe him. So we have people passing by the

Lord as he's hanging there up on the cross.

Many of them and probably most of them are probably Jewish.

Calvary golf is just outside of Jerusalem.

As a matter of fact, the fact that they bring up the whole

temple, three days, you'll raise it up thing even indicates more

that they're probably Jewish people.

For that matter, we know with the surety that in verse 41, the

chief priests, the scribes, and the elders, all these are Jewish

people, and yet here they are in essence, while he's hanging on

the tree, just as our text said, the Jews are requiring a sign.

If you are the Son of God, if you are this great one that you

say you are, come down from the cross.

Let that be our sign. Come down from the cross.

Get off of there. You saved a bunch of other

people. You prove that through your

earthly ministry. But if you are who you say you

are, then give us this sign. Come down off the cross.

Save yourself. Let that be your proof of your

identity. 10 They cannot rationalize everything that's

taking place right now with the supposed Messiah hanging on a

tree. They believed him to be the

Messiah, but now he's hanging on Calvary.

And so that is casting a very, very big shadow over everything

that they have believed in, causing doubt to enter their

hearts and minds. Even arguably look at the chief

priests. You look at it in Scripture,

we'll look at it in John 19. The chief priests were even

somewhat embarrassed to have the title that was upon the cross,

Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews.

They're they're they're embarrassed over this because

they pictured something different concerning their king.

They pictured something different concerning someone

that would have authority to rule and bring all things into

being that would sing John 19 verse 21 then said the chief

John 19:21

priests of the Jews to Pilate. They said, right, not the king

of the Jews, but that he said I am the king of the Jews.

Pilate answered what's been written been written.

He he already had it attached to the tree it was written in in

Greek and Hebrew and Latin for all to see.

They said don't, don't say that he was say that he said that he

was because they're a little embarrassed.

How can we have a Messiah affixed to a tree?

How can our King be affixed to a tree?

Again, the Jews are requiring a sign and they had been given 1

and it would soon be carried out in the life of the Lord Jesus

Christ in his death. If you remember, if you'll

listen to Jesus words, Amen to the scribes and the Pharisees.

He said this in Matthew 1238 and we'll read verse 39.

But the Pharisees and scribes come questioning Jesus and they

even say, master, we would see a sign from thee.

And he says in verse 39, But he answered and send to them an

evil and an adulterous generation seeketh after a sign,

he said, but there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of

the prophet Jonas or Jonah. For as Jonas was 3 days and

three nights in the well's belly, so shall the son of man,

a man that be 3 days and three nights in the heart of the

earth. We might be able to talk about

that maybe more in some other week or week to come.

But The thing is this, that if this this sign of three days and

three nights in the earth was the sign, then the crucifix of

Jesus was just preparation for the unveiling of the true sign

for the Jews about who he was. So they want something powerful.

They want a sign. And yet Paul says in our text

that the preaching of Christ crucified was powerful.

He says it seems like foolishness to them that believe

not it seems like foolishness to those that have no sort of

relationship with the Lord, He said but to the called, whether

they're a Jew person that's been called or a Greek individual

that's been called, He says it is powerful.

He spoke even in Romans that the gospel of Christ which includes

his crucifix, that that's the power of God unto salvation to

the Jew 1st and also to the Greek.

And so in the modern 1st century world and all the population of

that world, they knew Galatians that said cursed is everyone

that hangeth on a tree and Christ to the Jew.

Paul even said it's a stumbling Christ crucified is a stumbling

block to the Jew. It's foolishness to the Greeks.

As a matter of fact, the 2 words that's used for stumbling block

and foolishness is where we get our English words today.

Scandal and moron. He's saying it's scandalous.

The fact that Christ being crucified, that's scandalous to

the Jews. It's moronic, if you will.

Amen to the Greek. It just does not make sense.

As a matter of fact, when we see the Christ went to the cross, we

talked about this a little bit some previous weeks.

It wasn't like some accusation necessarily that they pinned on

him or even what they were trying to bear false witness

against him that put him on the tree.

Ultimately in Scripture, Christ was crucified for his identity.

He was crucified. They charged him with blasphemy,

claiming something that he was not when it was really who he

really was. He meant it wasn't that he

claimed to be the Messiah or that he claimed to be divine.

He was the Messiah and he was divine.

The Bible says in Mark chapter 14 and verse 61, but he held his

Mark 14 · chapter mention

peace. This is speaking about Jesus.

He's on trial. He held his peace and answered

nothing. They're they're bringing false

accusations against him about this and that what he has said

he says nothing but again the high priest asked him and said

just quite point blank, art thou the Christ art thou the Christ

are are you the Messiah, the son of the blessed and verse 62

tells us Jesus response, I am but Jesus.

He has to just go on, don't he? He doesn't just admit, yeah, I

am the Christ. But he goes on and says, and ye

shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power and

coming in the clouds of heavens. Are you the Christ?

He's like I am. But also let me tell you

something else. I'm the Son of man sitting on

the right hand that that might not mean much to you, but most

scholars of that day for sure tell us this, that being seated

spoken of as being seated on the right hand of God implies being

equal with God. So Jesus wasn't just saying,

yes, I'm the Messiah. He was saying I'm God, I'm God.

And then he has to throw in there this this symbolism about

coming with the clouds. Well, folks, whenever you read

all throughout the Old Testament, it seems as though

most of the time only God is the one that's described about

clouds about him or coming with the clouds.

The Bible tells us that whenever God came down on the mount to

speak minister, even with the nation of Israel, he was

encircled by clouds. In the book of Job, Elias made

mention and said thick clouds are a covering unto God.

The psalmist said that clouds and darkness are round about

him. It even said that he maketh the

clouds his Chariots. He maketh the clouds his

Chariots. Nahum said it like this.

The clouds are the dust of his feet.

All of the symbolism always has the Lord coming with the clouds,

clouds around him, about him, the dust of his feet, his

Chariots. Lucifer even understood this

when we read of his fall in the book of Isaiah.

He said one of the things that Lucifer Lucifer said was this I

will send above the heights of the clouds, Amen.

He he was endeavoring to rise above God.

So whenever the 1st century Jew is hearing Jesus Christ say

Amen, that he's the Son of man that's sitting on the right

hand, what's indicating he's God, but also saying that he's

coming with the clouds. All of their Old Testament

scriptures come into their mind. The only person we ever remember

coming with the clouds is God. And clouds were under under his

feet, clouds his Chariots. But this man is talking about

coming with the clouds. He is making a claim to be God

all by himself. He has become Emmanuel, God with

us. They saw this as such so much so

that in Mark 14 and verse 63 then the high priest rent his

clothes and say of what need we any further witness?

This is the Bible. You have heard the blasphemy see

this is what he says. You've heard the blasphemy.

He's claiming to be God. What think he and they all

condemned him to be guilty of death.

Now, some of those that are here are familiar with the Lord

having said previously destroy this temple in three days, I'll

raise it up. There were some even bare false

witnessing against the Lord using those words, kind of

twisting them some in the scripture about really what he

said, misconstruing them. And it was brought up.

Then even again, not just at his trial, but whenever he was

hanging on the cross. Those that went by and we're

reviling, we're talking about you said three days destroy, and

then you'll raise this up. But let's look at the

accountant, John. John chapter #2 and verse 18

then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign showest

thou? Here we go again looking for

that sign. What sign showest thou unto us?

Seeing that thou doest these things, let me explain what has

just happened. Jesus went to the temple, He's

cleansed it because of the money changers in the temple.

Remember the flipping of the tables and the driving out all

of the sacrifices that were there.

So he's just done all this and they're saying, what sign shows

down to us seeing that you've just done these things?

Jesus answered and said unto them, there he goes to destroy

this temple and then three days I will raise it up.

Then said the Jews 40 and six years was this temple in

building, Wilt thou rear it up in three days?

And John gives us important information, but he spake

Speaking of Jesus, Jesus spake of the temple of his body.

He's saying whatever he was saying destroyed the temple.

He wasn't talking to them about their literal temple, but he was

identifying as though he was the temple.

He was the temple. I want to slow down just here

for a moment, because all of this that takes place concerning

the crucifix of our Lord, it happens in tandem with the feast

of Passover when there's all these lambs that are going to be

slain and blood's going to be shed, just as was prescribed in

the book of Exodus for the Passover feast.

There's going to be all kinds of people visiting the temple,

right? And so Jesus, he's turning over

these money changer tables during this time that's leading

up to and close to Passover. People are trying to take

advantage of others that are trying to purchase lambs, and

the prices are higher than what they should be.

And all these things are taking place.

And so he drove them all out. And so the Jews are wondering

what, what credentials do you have?

What authority do you have to do what you just did?

What sign can you show us? And the only thing Jesus can say

is destroy the temple. And in three days I'll raise it

up, which is very similar to the sign he told them about.

There's no sign going to be giving you except the sign of

Jonas about 3 days and three nights.

He was in the heart of the earth.

But the the apostle John gives us more insight because Jesus

was telling them again about himself being the temple.

He was identifying as the temple.

And that's bold because for someone of that day, the temple

was the dwelling place of God. The temple was the dwelling

place of God. Even the Old Testament, the

Tabernacle in the wilderness that the Lord wanted Moses to

construct, he said, make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among

you. That's what he told him in

Exodus. So the temple was the dwelling

place of God. And yet here John says the Lord

is saying, I'm the temple if I can, I'm the dwelling place of

God. So let's look at it here.

The only thing that can be greater than the temple, God's

dwelling place, is God to be manifest in the flesh.

Because there's other places in Scripture like Matthew 12 that

Jesus goes around and he's even speaking.

He says that in this place is 1 greater than the temple.

Again, speaking about himself, trying to identify as the

temple. Think back with me just for a

moment, to Mount Calvary. Think back to me at that place

in the fulfillment of Scripture. The Bible tells us not one bone

of Jesus's body was broken. We read of that in Psalms.

John recalls it in John 19 as well.

Not one, not one bone of Jesus's body was broken.

He along with a thief on each side hanging on the tree.

Amen. The Sabbath was coming.

The body is going to have to be brought down.

They send out some soldiers there to check to see who's

still alive and who's dead, because if they're still living,

they're going to break their legs for the purpose that they

could hasten their death. They needed to get them in a

tomb. But when they go out there to

check, Amen, they break the legs, at least from what we can

assume of the two thieves. But whenever they come to the

Lord, he is already dead. He has already expired.

But to ensure that he was indeed dead, the Bible tells us that a

Roman soldier pierced his side with a spear.

This is what the Bible says in John 1933.

But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already,

they break not his legs, but one of the soldiers with a spear

pierced his side, and forth with came they're out blood and

water. And he that solid John Speaking

of himself, their record that his record is true.

And he knoweth, he say knoweth that he sayeth true that he

might believe. This seems interesting.

Why is John kind of go over the top here about, hey, I just want

you to know about this blood and water coming out the side.

I'm telling you it was true. I'm giving record that it was

true. I want you to know it was true.

Why is John trying to validate what's happening this truth so

much? I'm going to tell you this

morning that through that act of blood and water really coming

from Jesus's side really did reveal that Jesus was as he had

already spoken the truth temple, the dwelling place of God that

he really was God in Christ Jesus.

They want to say Amen. Anybody doing all right because

when we talk about all the crucifixes of these Passover

lambs, folks, we're talking about hundreds of thousands of

lambs being sacrificed Tracy, you know, just being around

farm. Just think about hundreds of

thousands of the, the quantity of blood that's in the lamb,

hundreds of thousands of that spilling to the ground and going

right. That's a lot.

I don't know if you've ever smelled blood in excess

portions, but sometimes even has a smell that's taking place

according to the ancient Jews and their their traditions,

what's called the mission. And Sister Lane probably knows

what I'm talking about because her brother probably talks about

it all the time in that day whenever there's the shedding of

the blood of the lambs. And they're having all these

sacrifices that are taking place against hundreds of thousands

during this time because Jerusalem has this influx of

people, right? Everybody, it was, it was one of

the feasts of Passover was mandatory for them to come and

for them to offer their sacrifices.

So we have a great influx of people.

There's so many sacrifices. It tells us that the blood of

the sacrifices was poured out in the drain that flowed out of the

temple that mixed with a water channel that eventually flowed

into the brook Kedron. The means Bishop is this.

If one was approaching the temple proper during Passover,

what they would see coming out the temple going down to the

brook Kedron would be a mixture of blood, water, and whenever

Christ was crucified, the spear through the side with blood and

water coming out. Having already claimed that I'm

that temple, destroy it three days.

Every Jew would know in a moment he's claiming to be the temple.

He's he's claiming to be the very dwelling place of God, the

very dwelling place of God because there's blood and water

coming out the side. John just makes the note because

he doesn't want anybody to miss it and he doesn't want anybody

to doubt it that Christ was this incomparable dwelling place of

God, and as blood and water flowed from the literal temple,

blood and water would flow from his side.

Truly, a greater than the temple was here.

Amen. This crucifix was more than just

another bloody execution. It was a revelation.

Come on. Oh yes, it was a revelation that

this Christ that they seen do miracles, signs and wonders that

yes, indeed, he could be forever and yet appear to have a, a, a

termination. He, he for sure could open up

blind eyes and seem to have to suffer by the hands of cruel

men. And we're not getting to it this

week, but he'll be known three days later that he can both if

you will be forever and also have a time of death.

Some would say, Amen, folks. This is just good old

Resurrection Sunday stuff. This is just good old Easter

stuff. Amen of the season that we're

coming into. It made them understand that

they didn't have to hang their heads.

They didn't have to weave, but they didn't have to throw up

their hands and say, well, we thought it was it, but it didn't

come. No, no, no, he had come.

He was there. He was powerful enough to

restrain himself to a tree when he could have got off of it if

he wanted to. That's the greatest power in

restraint. He could have called a legion of

angels if he wanted to, to come and get him off the tree.

But if you want to see power, you see someone that says I'm

going to choose to die so somebody else can live.

You want to see? Well, yes, I know some are

wagging their head. Boy, that's weakness.

Look at that. Come down.

If you're really who you say you are, you saved others save

yourself. No, he said, because if I save

myself, you'll go unsaved. I got to stay right where I am

so that you'll be saved. Oh yes, it is the revelation of

Christ crucified. It was more than just him being

the Messiah, but was Him being their God.

Amen. You stay with me this morning.

But the 1st century people have trouble reconciling this, and

some of them did indeed miss it. A Messiah crucified.

Yeah. I hate to tell you, but that was

God's forever plan. We looked at last week's sister

Jessica. That Messiah would be cut off.

That was God's forever plan. They had trouble reconciling

that. Why?

Because in most instances, when a man's put in the grave, he's

there to stay. And that happens.

It's said and done. It's over and out.

But today we know when we hold true that the cross that we have

in our minds, it's not there for a symbol of defeat.

It's there for a symbol of divine power.

It's the preaching of Christ crucified.

That's a powerful message, scandalous to the Jews and

foolishness to the Greeks, but it's eternal victory.

The fact is, many still yet today in our modern world

struggle with the fact of a crucified savior.

But the message of salvation is still the same.

And if you're one of those, you say, Brother McGee, I'm waiting

for the sign. If you're waiting for the sign,

let me point you to Calvary. It's already happened.

The signs already happened. You don't need something new or

something inventive to somehow persuade you now.

No, we've already been given all the signs that we need.

Hey, man, I mean him with blood and water just coming out with

that itself a sign. 3 days and three nights in the earth,

that's itself as a sign. The miracle signs and wonders

that he did that itself as a sign.

Never a man spake like this, man.

I mean, it's all around you. Use the Christ, use this

Messiah. He is the living God.

He has the keys to death. He has keys to the grave so that

we can stand and go to things like we did yesterday with

funerals and such and grave sides and say, oh, death, where

is your sting? Oh grave, where is your victory?

Because of the crucified Christ, His resurrection enables every

other resurrection that'll ever take place.

I think it's First Corinthians 15 that speaks that they have

all. It's a long chapter, all

concerning the crucifixion and mainly though, the resurrection.

Basically that if Christ has not risen, then we're still dead in

our sins. If he's not risen, then we're

preaching A fallacy. There's no hope, but he comes

around to say he has risen. So we do have hope.

We do have hope. We do have opportunity, if you

will, that we don't have to die in our sins because in many

instances he died in our sins. Christ crucified.

Spare our heads across this place today.

The Jews searching for a sign, Oh my Lord, for Bethlehem's

Manger to Calvary. It's filled with indicators

about who he was, what he desired to do, and even when the

the chief priests and stuff asked him, are you the Christ?

Notice all along he he, he skirted that issue a little bit

because the timing of his death was important, but he knew the

time was ripe. It was going to happen.

So he didn't he didn't beat around no Bush.

He said quite plainly, I am, I am.

Let's, let's just make sure that he dies.

Then the very thing that they couldn't reconcile is the very

thing then that Peter used on the Day of Pentecost to bring

them to a place of repentance. He's like, y'all killed you,

king of glory, the Messiah that you was looking for, you laid in

a grave. What are you going to do about

that? They felt horrible.

They felt guilty and they ask men and brethren, what shall we

do? That's when Peter said repent,

be baptized, everyone of you in the name of the Lord Jesus

Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of

the Holy Ghost. The message is still a crucified

Christ. I wonder if we could raise our

hands if you're accepting to it today.

Across this building, you stand where you are today.

You're able to experience what you experienced today because of

a crucified Christ. He is the Messiah, He is the

King, He is the anointed 1 and he's your God.

He's your God. He's the creator of all things,

the orderer of all things. He has put all things into place

and he's devised a plan for humanity.

He's devised a plan for humanity.

Blood and water came from his side.

He's the dwelling place of God in that earthly ministry.

Walking here below, up on the earth, He was the dwelling place

of God. Hallelujah.

Look no further. Your God has come.

Look no further. Your God has come.

If you need him today, if you need him in your life, you need

him in circumstances and situations.

If you still yet need to experience the forgiveness of

sins in your life, your God, your Messiah has come.

Hallelujah. Look no other place but to

Calvary. Look no other place but to go

off this hill. Hallelujah.

The work has been done. We're not going to, we're not

going to crucify Him over. He's the once and for all

sacrifice, as the writer of Hebrews says.

He's the ones for all sacrifice. The blood of bulls and the blood

of Rams no longer, no longer is necessary, no longer is needed,

because the perfect Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the

world. Amen.

He had a plan and He had you in that plan.

You were upon His mind. It was for your sins.

It was for your transgressions, It was for your pitfalls.

Hallelujah. Aren't you glad that you know a

Savior like that? A king like that man?

Keep. Keep the sign on the cross for

me. He's my king.

He's my king. He's my savior.

Keep it up there. I want to identify with that.

I want to accept that. I want to associate with that.

Oh, can we cry out to him today? There's no God like my God.

There's no God like my God. Hallelujah, Jesus.

Hallelujah, Jesus, Oh, we magnify you, Jesus, God, You're

willing, Lord, to reach humanity to the uttermost, to the

uttermost. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

We're redeemed because of you, God.

There's nothing, Lord, to reconcile.

I don't have to mock. I have to mock, Lord.

I understand. You are who you said you are.

You are God who you said you are.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Let's lift our voices for the

Mason has prepared a song here today.

Oh, let's get a picture of that crucified Christ.

Hallelujah. That's not weakness, That's not

foolishness. It's the power of God on

display. It's the power of God on

display. Hallelujah, Jesus, you give a

life.