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  A REVIVAL OF THE CROSS
  by Randy Jones
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Summary: This sermon passionately delves into the significance of Jesus
as the Lamb of God, emphasizing His sacrificial death on the cross, the
immense suffering and agony He endured, and the victorious triumph over
sin and death. It calls for a revival centered on the cross,
highlighting the power of Jesus' blood, the humility and exaltation of
Christ, and the eternal impact of His sacrifice on the world.

Duration: 55:52

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This sermon passionately delves into the significance of Jesus as the
Lamb of God, emphasizing His sacrificial death on the cross, the immense
suffering and agony He endured, and the victorious triumph over sin and
death. It calls for a revival centered on the cross, highlighting the
power of Jesus' blood, the humility and exaltation of Christ, and the
eternal impact of His sacrifice on the world.

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Thank you very much. Felt that prayer. I appreciate it.

Uh, we're glad to be here. What a great ministry here. Gospel for Asia.

Our church leases a building at another great missions or organization
with cliff Bible translators and a way on the other side of Dallas. So
what a privilege to be here. I want to thank Greg for asking me again,
and I appreciate Greg very, very much as a great ministry.

And, uh, I do have something to tell you though, Greg. If you're not
born Texan, you need to be born again. So, uh, that's kind of a joke.

Uh, but we're glad you're here and, uh, it's just beautiful. Welcome to
the new Jerusalem, Dallas, Texas. And, uh, we're just excited.

Last time in Bardstall, uh, Greg had told me what time, I think it was
nine in the morning and I was, I think it was a Wednesday or Thursday
morning and I was going to get up early Thursday morning and drive up to
Oklahoma, which is two or three hours. And I decided I'd look it up on
the map. It was as far North and as in Oklahoma as you can go.

And it was like a five and a half or six hour drive. So I took off late
Thursday night and got, uh, up there two or three in the morning. And
Greg said they had saved me a room in the gym, uh, to sleep.

But at that time I didn't want to wake anybody up 3 a.m. So I went to
the gym and opened every door, woke everybody up. There were like dozens
of people in different rooms sleeping. I would open the door, wake
everybody up, went through the whole building, started at the top down
to the bottom by the door.

I found a room with some clothes in it that had a bed in it. And I slept
there that night. And I don't know if that was mine or not, but, uh, I
slept good for about two hours.

So it's exciting to be here. And if you would, let's stand and pray. I
appreciate all of you that have come maybe from other countries or other
states or other parts of Texas.

And I just pray that through this conference and, uh, the message of
revival that God will speak to your heart, send you a personal revival.
The most important person to be revived is you. You get revived and
you'll revive other people.

I taught revivalism five summers at Christ for the nations. I've been a
pastor. I was an evangelism director there.

And I found, I think the other brother said this towards the end of his
message earlier. Jesus is the only message that brings revival. The
cross God rules and reigns from a cross.

He still rules and reigns from an old rugged cross. The lamb was slain
before the foundation of the world. And it's that message.

I believe with all my heart, the last move of God is a Christ Jesus
movement, getting the church back to Jesus, getting our eyes on Jesus,
getting focused on Jesus. Jesus is why we're here. It's not about us.

It's about him. And he is the one that produces life and joy and peace.
And today I want to talk about the lamb of God.

John the Baptist said, behold, the lamb of God. I want to talk about
that precious lamb. We're not following someone who wanted to be waited
on hand and foot.

We're following the lamb who laid down his life on Calvary's cross
willingly. And I just pray you pray for me, the Lord to help me just get
a little glimpse of that. Let's pray.

Father, I just thank you, Lord, for all the people here. Lord, I just
pray you would set aside our agendas, our emails, our texting, our
Internet thoughts, anything, distraction, books, tapes, CDs, problems,
money problems, whatever it is. We set it all aside right now and Lord,
open up our eyes that we may behold wonders things out of your law.

Father, I humbled myself before you. Without you, we're totally
helpless. We cannot Jesus.

You said without you, we can do nothing. And that's so true. I pray you
would just guide us through the word today.

Give everyone ears to hear, anoint my lips. Lord, I pray the word would
find good and honest hearts, good ground and take root downward and bear
fruit upward and change our lives in Jesus name. Before you sit down,
turn to someone, shake their hand and tell them, I've never seen anybody
look like you in my whole life.

Then you can sit down. Praise the Lord. I moved down here because it's
cooler and it's closer.

And also I'm trying to cross that great gulf between the podium and the
pew that no man can cross. I'm trying to do that right now. When I
evangelize and traveled, I was a full time evangelist for many years.

I used to tell them I came to inspect the front row because for some
reason the saints or anyone never sat on the front row and they must be
really dirty or something wrong with them. And I would go through every
church and expect the front row inspect the front row. We have the same
problem here.

Something is wrong with the front row. We need to ask the bus drivers
how they get everybody sit up front. I'm just kidding.

Maybe. OK. I want you to turn in the word of God to John chapter one.

John chapter one. The reason I use a handheld and I move around a little
bit. I learned early preaching that preaching is the talk of the art.

Preaching is the art of talking and other people sleep. So I'm going to
try to wake up four or five here today. And if you're not awake I'll
come out there right where you are and talk right to you.

So you'll have to wake up. One time I had a guy sleeping on the front
row and I threw the hymnal hit him hit the pew right next to his head.
He woke up.

He thought the rapture had taken place. So you never know what's going
to happen. John 1 verse 29 the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him
and said Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

Turn to verse 36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked and he said Behold
the Lamb of God. There's a lot of themes messages doctrines words that
people argue about talk about fuss about get mad about fight over. And
the only thing that's really important is the Lamb of God.

One preacher said preaching that leaves out the cross is the
laughingstock of hell. That's a great quote. And when you talk about the
modern gospel and the modern message of churches many churches not all
churches thank God it's about us getting favor with God getting a good
parking spot at the mall how to get a lot of money how to be successful
how to be happy.

But there's only one person see this is not a religion this is not an
organization this is not a denomination it's about a person and we have
a relationship with a person not a religion and the Bible says the
preaching of the cross is the power of God and the salvation. There's a
lot of movements today where all they preach is the law. We preach at
Union Gospel Mission here in Dallas we go to the street corners on
Saturdays I live outreaches the deep elem and Cedar Springs all over
Dallas for many years went to Mardi Gras five times took hundreds of
students to witness and there's a movement now where they go out on the
street corners and blast people with the law and high five each other
say hey we gave the devil a black eye.

You sinners repent and there's no fruit there's no salvations there's
even a movement to not even pray with them to get saved which is the
dumbest thing I've ever seen. Excuse me the Greeks had a word for that
baloney Jesus pressed everyone for a decision. He had 34 personal
encounters and Zacchaeus got saved either in the tree or in the air
before he hit the ground because when he hit the ground Jesus said
salvation has come to your house today he didn't put it off.

Don't tell people to go home and I'm sorry if I'm getting on your
favorite thing. I just don't know it's ignorance forgive me but it's
true don't tell people to go home and meditate on it and think about it
pray with them right there lead them to the cross the devil will talk
them out of it as soon as they walk off and it's the cross and I believe
in using the law don't get me wrong if they're hard hearted and they say
they're OK and they're obviously drunkards or fallen down drunk or half
naked or whatever lay the law on them they say they're OK they're not
convicted one preacher said law to the proud grace to the humble but the
gospel is the message the law brings the conviction of sin it softens
hard hearts but then you just leave them all messed up the preaching of
the cross is the power of God and the salvation does your Bible say that
mine does I've got the one Paul used the New King James Bible that's a
joke and here we are in the modern day it's if there's any price to pay
any sacrifice no one wants to be a Christian if we tell them they have
preached in certain cultures where they would tell me don't ask him to
come to a prayer meeting they'll all get mad what have we come to when
we're following a man who died in agony on an old rugged cross gave
everything he had for us and we barely make it to church on Sunday
morning tithing is a sacrifice because we don't know who Jesus really is
if you knew who Jesus was right now daily we'd be at his feet like Mary
pouring out our love on him and we've gotten away from the cross and the
cross is what changes people's lives John the Baptist if he worked a
miracle the Bible doesn't record it and I love miracles I believe in
miracles God healed both of my sons on a deathbed in the hospital when
God said the doctor came and said they weren't going to live and God
said they were and they did God still heals the sick I know some people
don't like that but till you get sick you don't believe that you get
sick you really believe it but John the Baptist if he worked a miracle
doesn't say he did but Jesus said there's never been a prophet born
among women greater than John the Baptist he wasn't like Elijah and
Elisha that worked all these miracles and Moses whose face glowed in the
dark after seeing God's glory God's back but John the Baptist came
wearing a leather girdle eating bugs I know there's some theologians
trying to prove that's a leaf of a tree it's a bug people still eat them
you get hungry enough you would do and he was eating wild honey and he
just came out of the wilderness and he turned Israel upside down and
called the people to repentance he was preparing the way for Jesus
Christ he was not the way he said he was and he wasn't worthy to bend
down and unlatch Jesus' sandals but he was preparing the way for the Son
of God and his message was behold he got everybody ready Jesus comes to
be baptized he turns around many of us today would go I don't want to
pass this on to Jesus I'm doing good look at everybody coming to be
baptized God's really blessed my ministry look even the Pharisees are
coming they probably pay some good tithes John the Baptist looked at him
and he had never read how to win friends and influence people John the
Baptist looked at him and said you generation of snakes we would go
here's the seat on the front row for the Pharisee who warned you to flee
from the wrath to come you know what that means in the Greek your mama
was a snake your daddy was a snake your grandpa was a snake your kids
are snakes your wife's a snake and you're a snake progeny of serpents
because it was the truth and when the time was ready and he'd prepared
the way preacher repentance and baptizing unto repentance one day his
cousin walked up and when the Holy Spirit came down on a remain John the
Baptist proclaimed to the whole world behold the Lamb of God who takes
away the sins of the world not just for the Methodist or the assemblies
of God for the whole world that's the Word of God hello it's probably
the president I'm just kidding I have no idea what that meant and then
the next day he turned around again he said behold the Lamb of God
listen to me close we get to do the same thing we have the same honor
the same privilege the same ministry that John the Baptist had we get to
turn to the whole world and say look it's the Lamb of God who takes away
the sin of the world that's what witnessing is about that's what
preaching is about that's what church is about church is it so that we
can be possessed and have some meetings and fuss and fight church is
about behold the Lamb of God that's a preacher's job that's a
Christian's job to show the whole world there he is right there Jesus
the Son of the Living God what a privilege John the Baptist had and his
message later was I must decrease and he must increase he died about
thirty two years old as it was beheaded had a six month ministry he
turned the nation upside down he was on fire for God but he got to say
there he is the Lamb of God and John the Baptist said I've heard the
bridegroom's voice this my joy is now complete and as great as that was
his greater ministry we're going to skip ahead of Jesus wonderful life
I've heard people say don't study the Gospels man I hope you don't
listen to that devil we got four wonderful keys of the revelation of
Jesus Christ Matthew Mark and Luke and John and when you go to the ox
the eagle the man and the four faces the lion that's the four faces of
Jesus Christ the suffering servant of Jehovah the glorious king all
those are pictures of Jesus you should get the life of Christ in stereo
which is all four Gospels put together and live in that book because you
will be learning the Lord Jesus Christ when the Holy Spirit makes that
real to you quickens it to you and reveals it to you just reading the
Bible will make you could be a devil and do that but the Holy Spirit
makes it alive and that book leaps up out of the pages and comes in your
heart and you get the revealed quick and revelation of Jesus Christ by
the Holy Spirit that's what the Word of God is and when all the
wonderful works that Jesus did all the revelations John said I suppose
that the world couldn't contain the books everything was written down
that Jesus did in every realm but let's go to his last night he was in
the upper room of his disciples and he said you will all forsake me and
flee Peter bless his heart he said not me Lord I will never forsake you
and a few hours later he cursed and swore that he didn't know Jesus
Jesus began to be troubled in the spirit began to be very heavy and the
Bible says as his custom was Jesus had a habit it was going to pray
people if you don't saints if you don't think you need to pray you need
to look at Jesus he was a man up for the book of Luke is going from one
prayer meeting to the next prayer meeting and he told his disciples come
apart with me and pray they went to garden of Gethsemane and when he was
in Gethsemane when he was entering Gethsemane he turned to his disciples
and he said my soul is exceedingly sorrowful even unto death Jesus
realized I know this is going to go against the doctrine but listen to
me and I think you'll agree with me Jesus was not trying to get out of
the going to the cross and Gethsemane he didn't have second thoughts he
wasn't trying to go another way when he said father not my will but
dying be done it's because he knew he was dying and as far as he knew he
knew the will of his father was that he die on a no rugged cross for the
sins of the universe sins of mankind he knew that was the will of God
and yet he realized he was not going to make it the Bible says he turned
his disciples and said my soul is exceedingly sorrowful even unto death
he realized that he was dying right there as the weight of sin you know
one little new demon that just got started it is demonizing could he
knocked most of us out one little demon just nobody loves you we just
quit can you imagine the son of God as he entered Gethsemane every demon
and devil and hell Satan himself the dragon the serpent they all began
to come against the mind of the son of God and the weight of sin began
to bear down on him when he died on the cross they thrust the spear in
blood and water came out medical doctor says that's a condition where
the sack around your heart ruptures Dallas home wrote a song he died of
a broken heart and I want you to know that he was in such agony that his
heart began to be overloaded his body was overloaded overloaded he told
his disciples I'm dying please pray with me he realized he was not going
to make it to Calvary's cross and he went down he called Peter James and
John apart and he fell on his face and he began to pray being in an
agony the Bible says and he cried out oh my father if it be possible let
this cup pass for me not the cup tomorrow not the cross the cup of death
that he was drinking right then let this cup pass from me nevertheless
not my will but thine be done and he went back and he was the Bible says
and Mark as he prayed he began to hemorrhage through his sweat glands
blood began to come through his sweat glands and he began to bleed
through the skin that's a condition that doctors say you cannot live
through being in such distress and agony Mark says as he knelt there
great clots of blood fell to the ground Jesus was dying and folks what a
beautiful picture he wasn't having second thoughts he wasn't trying to
get out of it he was battling with everything the Bible says in Hebrews
5 7 and 8 who in the days of his flesh offered up prayers with strong
crying and but him and the imminent tears and was heard by who in him he
whom he feared and was delivered from death he didn't get delivered from
death on the cross he got delivered from death in Gethsemane now he
learned obedience to the things that he suffered this is a much more
accurate biblical beautiful picture that Jesus was not having second
thoughts not pulling back he was fighting with everything he had he
knelt there and he was battling with every fiber his being to get to the
cross for you and I because if it wasn't for the old cross right now
we'd all be in the lake of fire we'd all be in hell there would be no
hope for us you would be given an account for your sins your sins would
accuse you you would be in hell right now but Jesus fought and battled
as he knelt there he asked he went again to his disciples that please
help me please pray and he went back being even greater agony and angels
came and strengthened him what a beautiful picture man usually gets
things wrong how wonderful he battled him and but he said Lord our
father I think I know your will but if you've changed your mind I
surrender to that not my will but thine be done and if we think
something's the will of God and doesn't happen we we pout for six months
but he said nevertheless not my will but thine be done then they came
and arrested him and they took him and took him before Pilate and then
they took him out and scourged him that seems simple I like the word of
promise the new King James Version the word of promise because when they
scourge Jesus you can hear it since the modern church wouldn't preach
the cross anymore God had to get an actor in Hollywood a Catholic to
make a movie that for the first time in history I studied the cross for
many decades doctor looks at Calvary medical books all this doctor
nailed a corpse to a cross to get to show exactly what it was like but
we've never really preached it like it really was I preached on the
cross one time in Warner Robins Georgia the lady came up to me after
churches said that was gross you shouldn't be preaching that that was
too gross and too bloody but most people have said thank you we haven't
heard about the cross in many years and the church got away from the
cross and started preaching money and success in numbers and fancy
buildings they're so busy borrowing money to build another building
they're not willing to lost anymore and in that movie there were so many
details that were accurate I was amazed I know he's probably not a
Christian but I was amazed I'd studied for decades and all the details
how did he get that how did he know that there's a guy in Houston Texas
who went to the police station after watching that movie and confessed
to a murder they had gotten away with folks that's how you know someone
has presented the crawls we went to far north Dallas to a huge church
before it was even released and the actor who played Jesus was there and
they just showed a raw cut of it and when it got done not one person
said a word not one person moved and all of a sudden in the back some
young man yelled out we did that to you Jesus and hundreds flooded the
altar weeping and crying if you want see you want to see revival in your
church you want to see the Holy Spirit moving in your church preach
Jesus on the cross again and preach him bloody and everybody will John
Wesley said if you'll preach the real Jesus sinners will climb over the
pews and the hypocrites to get to him and in the movie I mean what what
an awesome display of the agony of Jesus Christ as those professional
Roman soldiers beat him cat in nine tails and history said when the
Romans did that you can see their lungs through their back look like raw
hamburger meat and they scourged him Jesus physical suffering was awful
and then they took him out and crucified him they nailed his hands and
his feet to a cross and in the movie they dig a hole and they take that
cross and drop it and when it hits the bottom the body would lunge
against the nails and tear and rip put on a crown of thorns he was
covered with blood from head to toe and please listen to me we've gotten
away from the power of the blood of Jesus Christ because modern man's
thinking says that's gross that's bloody it's a bloody religion the
Bible says without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin
Jesus blood is precious yes to the carnal mind it's gross it's stupid
they don't understand it they don't understand that we all deserve death
and hell our blood should be shed that's the life of the flesh is in the
blood without the shedding of blood there's no remission of sin but the
Bible says by his stripes we are healed by his stripes we were healed
it's the blood of Jesus Christ that conquered every phase of this
universe spiritually physically I want you to know the blood of Jesus
Christ is the most powerful force in this universe that little red spot
outside of Jerusalem one time I was talking talking to a man and he
looked at me there's a guy I don't remember where his church is that I'm
going to mention him but he has a huge following and he's his mentor and
him teach that the blood of Jesus isn't literal not to be believed in
literal it's a symbol the Bible says when we get to heaven we're going
to get to see we're going to go to the blood of sprinkling that's on the
mercy seat in heaven we're going to get to see it it's still there right
now but wasn't there we'd be in trouble Jesus went in there and
sprinkled in himself and the Holy of Holies in heaven and the blood of
Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin it's time we started
preaching the blood again because the blood the power of the blood when
I was a kid we used to sing there's power power wonder working power in
the blood of the lamb and I want you to know that's still true sure the
devil doesn't want that that's the one thing he fears is the blood of
Jesus Christ because the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin
it protected the children of Israel in Egypt the destroyer and
destruction had to go away you know what the Greek word for Passover or
peace I means it's an old word that means to interpose one's own person
God said when I see the blood when I grew up singing that Oh him when I
see the blood I thought it meant when God saw the blood he would skip
over that home and wouldn't kill them God wasn't killing them the angel
of death came through the angel of destruction came through death came
through the land and he told him to get that little blood put it up on
the lintel when God was saying when I see the blood of that little lamb
on your home I Almighty Yahweh God will stand in front of your little
home I'll turn them away and say you can't come in because the blood of
the lamb is on this home how much more do you think the power of the
literal real blood of Jesus is on the mercy seat in heaven folks there
was enough power in one drop to cleanse the whole universe of all sin
but the one thief saw something that changed his life saved his soul he
looked at Jesus and he saw who he really was the Lamb of God and he
looked at him he said Lord Kyrios master remember me when you come into
your kingdom Jesus looked at him and said I God the Son of God the seal
of truth there's a great series the study ate the amens and amens of
Christ this is one of them truly truly I say unto you today you'll be
with me in paradise that kind of knocks out the teaching got to be
baptized and wanted to be saved I believe in water baptism on my heart
that they've got saved on the cross and died on the cross and Jesus I
want you to know saints as sure as the sun came up this morning a few
hours later that old thief was with Jesus in paradise God can Jesus can
save the worst sinners in the world that's how powerful the cross is
even before he was done he saved someone and while he was in agony on
the cross many of the Old Testament saints got up out of their graves
and started the cross is so powerful we don't have any idea he dealt
with mankind first his family than a single individual but now comes the
real suffering as awful as the physical suffering of Jesus was it was
the least of his suffering he began to suffer in his soul the Bible says
in Isaiah 53 it pleased the Lord to bruise him and he saw the travail of
his soul and was satisfied and as he was hanging on the cross the fire
of hell began to burn against him every demon and devil and hell began
to attack Jesus said there's a fire that cannot be quenched and there's
a worm that won't die don't you fear anyone who can just kill your body
you fear the one that's able to destroy both body and soul and hell and
all of hell rose up at Calvary's cross and that fire that cannot be
quenched began to burn against the Son of God that worm that cannot die
that can't be killed began to attack the Son of God and for three hours
from twelve noon to three in the afternoon the most awful unmitigated
suffering in the history of the world began to take place the most awful
horrible agony that a human being has ever gone through and will ever go
through took place in the soul and the bosom of Jesus Christ on
Calvary's cross and from twelve noon to three in the afternoon he
doesn't say another word first it was mankind and his family than an
individual but now it's just him and God him and his father and you're
going to get in that place someday there are times when you're going to
go through something it's just you and God and now it's just him and his
father everyone else is out of the picture and he begins to suffer not
only that fire the Bible doesn't say he paid the penalty for sin it
doesn't say that he paid the price for sin the Bible says he became sin
none of us will our own sins not kill us all the sins of mankind every
sin that had ever been committed every murder every rape every lie every
evil thing a fallen evil mankind had ever done was doing at that moment
of whatever do was gathered up some way by God himself and God put that
in the bosom in the soul of his son and he became sin our sins your sins
my sin he became sins he became sin and you know what else it changed
the way he physically looked when that happened Isaiah 52 says his face
was more marred than any man in the Hebrew that means he didn't look
like a human being anymore as he became sin his suffering was so great
that he turned into some dark and twisted creature Isaiah clearly says
he didn't look like a human being anymore we had to turn away our faces
as he became a curse for us as he became sin for us he did not look like
a man hanging there he was some thing some mute creature hanging there
in agony and then the wrath of God the Bible said he endured the wrath
of God for us the wrath of God was poured through his soul in the book
of Revelation there are seven vials the perfect just complete wrath of a
holy God are stored up going to be poured out during the seven years of
the tribulation period I'm sorry if that was against the doctrine but
anyway during the tribulation period the wrath of God is going to be
poured out that is clear in the word of God and you know something as
Jesus was hanging on the cross all seven vials of a perfect holy wrath
of God those vials were poured into the soul into the bosom of the son
of God all that wrath the Bible says it's going to be so horrible during
the tribulation period that this whole planet is going to rock and reel
like a drunken man as the wrath of God is poured out on the whole earth
the whole earth is going to move and shake and rock and reel and all
that wrath was poured into the bosom of the son of God I'll tell you
something if there's nothing else you should be excited about you'll
never have to experience one drop of God's wrath because Jesus absorbed
it for you Jesus took it for you he took in all the wrath of God the
Bible says we've been delivered from the wrath to come because God's son
took your place and endured it for you then he's getting ready to say
something earlier he had refused to drink the dead in the pain but the
Bible says in Psalms his tongue was cleaving to the roof of his mouth
and on the cross you had to push yourself up on your feet to breathe
because it was such a pressure on your chest but now he wants to say
something he said thirst and they gave him a drink and he pushes himself
up to speak and the Bible said and believe me when I took Bible college
I failed the dignified module because Jesus didn't know anything about
trying to look dignified and pontificating he cried with a loud voice he
cried with a loud voice you know what he said it was a Roman cry of
victory to last time it's over it's finished it's settled it's done and
you know what the Greek means the last period had been put the last T
had been crossed the last I had been dotted knowing that all things had
been accomplished he's now ready to say something he's done his great
atoning work is done his awful suffering is done I can't imagine how
that felt I'm so glad he didn't stop halfway I'm so glad he went to that
point when he said all things have been accomplished and he cried with a
loud voice to last time it's over it's settled it's done and you know
what he was saying I want hell to know I want mankind to know I want
Satan to know I want the fallen angels to know I want the angels of God
to know but most of all father I want you to know it's over it's settled
it's finished it's done and saints two thousand plus years later it's
still over it's still settled it's still done he's not coming back and
getting on the cross again he was completely victorious he totally
finished the work somebody needs to say man yes amen thank you brother
he helped me out it won't kill me if you help me what a work I mean if
the church really knew this we'd never stop witnessing it would bring
revival like you never saw in your life I've seen I've seen a lot and
then he bowed his head first he said father into your hands I deposit my
spirit the Romans didn't kill Jesus the Jews didn't kill Jesus he laid
his life down willingly he bowed his head and died and they put him in a
grave and I hate to tell you this it wasn't on Friday it was on a
Wednesday because he was in the grave three days and three nights not a
day and a half and his cold lifeless body was laid in the grave but it
never decayed it never rotted three days later you know this is one of
my pet peeves I'm not a choir director or the son of a choir director
this is my pet peeve we save the best songs that God has ever inspired
anybody to write Christmas and Easter song to once a year we got to sing
Mary did you know every Sunday we ought to sing low in a manger we ought
to sing silent night every Sunday and especially Easter songs we just do
those once a year we are really stupid let's just keep that for when all
the sinners are here how about every Sunday morning the Bible says with
great power the Apostles gave witness to the resurrection of Jesus
Christ every Sunday morning it's about time we got up on Sunday morning
you know the whole song starts off in the chorus real slow see I took
piano lessons from the lady that taught Marilyn Monroe that's why
Marilyn Monroe and I were so good on the piano nothing wrong with her
teaching and she played this powerfully she could really play low in the
grave he lay Jesus my Savior this is the verse waiting the coming day
Jesus my Lord and the course goes like this up from the grave he arose
with a mighty trial for his foes he arose a victor from the dark domain
and he lives forever with his saints to reign he arose he arose
Hallelujah Christ arose that's what the church ought to shout every
Sunday morning instead of being PWA members Pew Warmers Association
member now I'm about done but listen close it doesn't stop there thank
God and Revelation chapter one the disciple that leaned on his bosom
said I heard a voice behind me like a trumpet I turned around to see the
voice that spoke with me and I saw one whose hair was white as snow his
face shown like the sun and its strength his feet were like brass burned
in a furnace folks on Calvary's cross his feet were brass burned in a
furnace they've been tried and they've been tested and he had on a white
robe like lightning and had golden band around the chest and I fell at
his feet like a dead man and he said fear not get up I'm the first and
the last and listen to what he says this is how it reads in the Greek I
got to be dead he said I was dead and the Greek was I got to be dead
that's not like me I don't usually go around dying but this one time I
died but I'm never gonna do it again I was dead but now I am alive
forever more and I want you to know it's there's something in Jesus that
the church is desperately need today it's life I came that you might
have life and that you might have it more abundantly yes Sunday morning
life Monday morning life Tuesday morning life life produces joy life is
creative life can't be contained and when the church gets that dose of
life they'll be clapping their hands they'll be lifting their hands I
don't care what your abomination I mean denomination is I don't care
where you went the cemetery I mean seminary I don't care what it is
you'll join with the heavenly chorus right up there singing worthy is
the lamb that was slain to receive honor and glory and power it's time
we got back to Jesus and appreciated the cross again the Bible says the
Philippians believe me when I talked about his suffering and his travail
I just scratch the surface I skipped over about 20 things in my notes
we'll never see the end of it one old saint said when I get to heaven
Jesus is never gonna hear the end of it in Philippians it says he
humbled himself let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus I
hope God didn't get us for our arrogance and pride today especially in
the ministry I preached at a minister's conference in Kansas City for a
whole denomination messages about power and miracles and glory and money
I was the keynote speaker and preached on the cross they were like I was
speaking a language from another planet they were dressed I mean gold
and gold nugget Rolex watches and I mean nothing wrong with that but my
goodness don't wear it to church we're following a man that didn't have
a place to lay his head well I guess there is something wrong with that
if you got one poor person in your church sell the watch and help them
let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus he humbled
himself to the point of death folks no one has ever humbled themselves
like Jesus he become became a hundred and eighty five thousand times
smaller than the seed of a woman to come into this world he left ivory
palaces he left the portals of glory he left the bosom of the father he
laid aside all the attributes of glory and power but his moral glory and
his holiness could not be hidden that's why he was so hated and in
Philippians Paul said even to the point of death the death of a cross
the worst most humiliating as I just preached Sunday morning a couple
weeks ago to my church when Jesus on the cross he didn't have a
loincloth on that was part of the humiliation was to hang you there
naked expose you to ridicule but you know what suit he was wearing Mary
Spikener a few days before she had poured it on his hair and on his head
and it really clings to you I'm told and he wasn't completely exposed
and maybe because he had Mary's love covering his body from head to toe
what a blessing that must have been alone in an agony he could smell
that Spikener and that perfume that's our love and worship and Paul said
therefore or because of this because of this therefore because of the
cross and his humility in the way humble himself God is highly exalted
him and given him a name that's above every name that the name of Jesus
I want you to know I can see this in my mind at the name of Jesus
Genghis Khan Napoleon Bonaparte Chelsea Clinton Hillary Clinton Obama
every leader in the world Lenin they're going to get even Satan himself
they're going to get on their knees and confess at the top of their
voice Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father because of
what he did on the cross every knee is going to bow and every tongue is
going to confess under the earth on the earth above the earth every
created being is going to bow its knee and cry out Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God the Father they won't like it they don't want to do
it but God Almighty is going to make them get out and confess the truth
whether they believed it in this life or not Jesus is Lord in 1959
Elizabeth Tudor was coronated and sworn in as the Queen of England for
the first time in history it was on television it's a great pomp and
circumstance when it was over they were in the throne room she had the
crown on she was on the throne with her robe and scepter the first night
of the realm the British realm rode out in front of her throne on the
Arabian stallion white Arabian stallion and turn in full battle armor
and turned around and faced the crowd with the visor down it takes off a
gauntlet and throws it on the ground anyone who would deny the right of
Elizabeth to Tudor to sit on the throne of England and rule and reign
let him come forth right now and do me battle not one peep no one said a
word when Jesus got back to heaven I can see God Almighty his father
throwing the gauntlet down in front of the universe anyone he would deny
the right of my son to rule and reign this universe forever and ever and
ever let him come forth right now and do me battle not one word from
hell not one word from earth because he won it completely and totally on
the cross and one last scripture is my favorite one Revelation chapter
five an angel came out and showed John a beautiful scroll with seven
seals it was really beautiful an angel said would you like I'm
paraphrasing a little bit would you like to see it and John said yes I
want to see it was beautiful he really wanted to see it the angel said
too bad you're not worthy and the Bible said he sat down and cried his
eyes out he wept much he really wanted to see what was in that scroll it
was so beautiful and powerful and the angel said weep not because the
lion out of the tribe of Judah he hath prevailed to open the book and
loose the seals thereof and John turned around to see the lion out of
the tribe of Judah but instead of seeing that he saw next to the
father's throne a tiny baby lamb a lamb can 21 times in the book of
Revelation not just a lamb a newborn lamb a lamb can standing oven it's
on its feet right next to the father's throne it had already been
butchered the Greek is his throat was cut as for slaughter and the blood
was still pumping out of that lamb's throat and John said while I was
watching that lamb got up he walked over and he took the scroll out of
the angels hand and he loosed the seals thereof and he said I don't know
exactly everything that happened next but the four and twenty elders the
four living creatures all the host redeemed the white robe host they all
fell on their faces and began to scream at the top of their voice worthy
is the lamb that was slain to receive honor and glory and power and
dominion and riches and might and strength and health for by thy blood
thou hast redeemed us from every tribe every tongue every nation and all
heaven went crazy as they praise the lamb of God I want you stand your
feet do the same thing right now practice up for heaven come on jump to
your feet and tell Jesus how thankful you are for what he did on the
cross yes Lord thank you for the agony of Calvary thank you for the
cross the complete victory total victory Lord someday we're going to be
singing the national anthem of heaven all hail the power of Jesus name
let angels prostrate fall bring forth the glorious diadem and crown him
Lord of all Lord we crown you Lord of all right now with our mouths with
the fruit of our lips with our hearts with our bodies souls and spirit
Lord you are the message it's you the person of the Lord Jesus Christ
give us that revelation that Peter had you're the Christ the son of the
living God let flesh and blood cannot show us that only you can God only
the Holy Spirit can show us who Jesus really is he's the son of the
living God slain before the foundation of the world hallelujah
hallelujah hallelujah praise the name of Jesus praise the name of Jesus
praise him come on thank you for your precious blood I praise your blood
give us life today you came that we might have life not man's life
resurrection life life that's already been through death hell in the
grave and is now victorious you took away the keys of death hell in the
grave you're victorious you're alive forevermore you're never going to
die again give us that resurrection life make us alive make our churches
alive make our ministers alive let us quit pontificating and trying to
impress people with our intellects let us start preaching the Lamb of
God let us turn to everyone and say behold there's Jesus the Lamb of God
that takes away the sin of the world hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
yes Jesus thank you for these precious souls here today Lord give them a
new vision of the Lamb a new vision of the Lamb of God hallelujah
hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah praise the Lord I'm going to
obey God please be still for a moment the Lord is just speaking to my
heart that some of you here kind of lost track of what it was all about
and you just the Holy Spirit speak in your heart right now this is what
it's about who it's about Jesus loves you he went all through that he
went through hell he put out that fire that can't be killed he killed
that worm that won't die for you that's how much he loves you and he's
going to take care of you some of you are worried about financial
problems a severe financial problem the Lord's going to bring you out
keep calling on it he's going to take care of you we go through trials
and tests but we're going to come out victorious I told the 400 men at a
homeless shelter last night as long as Jesus is on the throne there's
hope there's hope God's on the throne right now Jesus is the Lord of
this universe he loves you and he cares about you also I just am
impressed that someone here is praying about going to Bible school you
don't know if God's called you he has called you go and go to one that's
preaching Jesus don't go to a seminary that's like a cemetery go to one
that's on fire hallelujah the Lord's called you someone here's been
really struggling that he has called you and he's speaking to your heart
right now go get your tools ready got to find work for you to do can you
say amen again behold the lamb and his travail behold the lamb and his
triumph can you thank him one more time

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