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  THE LAMB OF GOD (VIDEO)
  by Randy Jones
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Summary: This sermon passionately delves into the profound significance
of the cross and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, emphasizing the intense
suffering and surrender that Jesus endured for humanity. It highlights
the victory and triumph of the cross, the power of the blood of Jesus,
and the eternal impact of his sacrifice on the universe. The sermon
calls for a deep appreciation of the price paid on the cross, a
commitment to live in victory over sin, and a focus on the life-
transforming power of the gospel.

Duration: 1:37:26

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This sermon passionately delves into the profound significance of the
cross and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, emphasizing the intense
suffering and surrender that Jesus endured for humanity. It highlights
the victory and triumph of the cross, the power of the blood of Jesus,
and the eternal impact of his sacrifice on the universe. The sermon
calls for a deep appreciation of the price paid on the cross, a
commitment to live in victory over sin, and a focus on the life-
transforming power of the gospel.

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When we've been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun,
we've no less days to sing God's praise than when we first begun. Praise
God, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise
God, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise
God, praise God. There's a little chorus several years ago, one night,
sitting at my piano at home.

Do you have a favorite spot in your home? You probably do. One of my
favorite spots is not only sitting on the bench, but just kneeling at
the piano bench. And I was sitting there one night, and it was probably
two in the morning or so, and all of a sudden, God just began to give
me, just sitting there, some words.

And it's a little chorus, and Greg and I, we did it here Sunday night,
and he had mentioned about maybe us singing it here, and we've done it a
couple of times. But the words go like this, descend holy fire on me,
descend holy fire on me. Cleanse me, yes, purge me, inflame my soul,
descend holy fire on me.

Ascend, now to believe where the spirit lives within us, obviously. And
so, you know, it's kind of like sometimes when someone's giving the
details of a picture, and it's a picture of a farm, and there's a barn,
and there's a house, and there's horses and cows. And some people have a
way, if you say, wow, look at that wraparound porch.

They come back with, oh, but there's a barn, but there's a truck, but
there's cows. So please, you know, descend, and then ascend holy fire
from me. A fragrance so pure for thy glory, ascend holy fire from me.

Please send holy fire through me. Please send holy fire through me. To a
world that's lost in the darkness of sin, please send holy fire through
me.

Amen. Here's how it goes, and follow along with me a little bit if you
can. Descend holy fire on me.

Descend holy fire on me. Oh, cleanse me, yes, purge me, inflame my soul.
Descend holy fire on me.

Ascend holy fire from me. Ascend holy fire from me. A fragrance so pure
for thy glory.

Ascend holy fire from me. Please send holy fire through me. Please send
holy fire through me.

To a world that's lost in the darkness of sin, please send holy fire
through me. Will you sing it with me? Descend holy fire on me. Descend
holy fire on me.

Oh, cleanse me, yes, purge me, inflame my soul. Descend holy fire on me.
You know, fire falls on sacrifice.

And ascend holy fire from me. Ascend holy fire from me. A fragrance so
pure for thy glory.

Ascend holy fire from me. Please send holy fire through me. Please send
holy fire through me.

To a world that's lost in the darkness of sin, Oh, please send. Oh,
please send. Oh, God, please send through us your holy fire through me.

Like a wind, Lord, blow upon me. Like a fire, Lord, burn within me. Like
a river, Lord, flow through me, I pray.

And by your spirit, Lord, come glorify thy name. Like a wind, Lord, blow
upon me. Like a fire, Lord, burn within me.

Like a river, Lord, flow through me, I pray. And by your spirit, Lord,
come glorify thy name. Like a wind, Lord, blow upon me.

Like a fire, Lord, burn within me. Like a river, Lord, flow through me,
I pray. And by your spirit, Lord, come glorify thy name.

By your spirit, Lord. By your spirit, Lord. Oh, by your spirit, Lord,
come glorify your name.

Hallelujah, hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Yes, we're glad to have with us
today Randy Jones from Texas.

what are you Texas Randy? Dallas, Texas. I'm from the New Jerusalem,
Dallas, Texas. And we are looking forward to hear what God wants to
share with him with us through him and I think we'll just take a moment
to pray for you and then give you the time however the Lord leads.

Father God in heaven we thank you for one more meeting Lord this side of
eternity. Thank you for everyone gathered in here this morning and we
commit this time to you in the name of Jesus. Commit this dear brother
and friend in the name of Jesus to you and we ask you to fill him to
flow through him and to use him.

Speak what you want to to us through him and we pray Lord that he would
say all that you've given him to say and nothing that you haven't just
use him for your glory. We commit this time to you in Jesus name. Again
father we praise your name from the rising of the Sun to the setting
down the same the name of the Lord is to be praised and father we are
very grateful that you have been meeting with us these last two days and
we have no reason to believe that it would be different today to come in
in simplicity no formality just to come and meet together as brothers
and sisters in Christ to hear what God would say to us if we would take
time to pray and to seek your face and to listen to what you have to say
to us from your servants and from the word.

Now father I just met Randy and our acquaintance has been very short but
being in Christ we are brothers in the Lord and I ask you agreeing also
with brother Murrell that the spirit of God would just come upon our
brother here and you would anoint him afresh and that he would bring to
us a message from the presence of God. Thank you now father in Jesus
name. Amen.

Thank you brothers. It's good to be here in this beautiful church. We
appreciate the pastor in this church letting the revival conference use
the facilities.

Good to see Greg Gordon again and enjoy fellowshipping with him. I am
not a Christian missionary. I'm a missionary from Texas.

Going around telling everybody about the promised land. My daughter-in-
law is from Oklahoma so I always give her a hard time and it's good to
be back in Texas parking lot. It's really sweet.

I'm just kidding. Start a fight. It is good to be here.

Beautiful country. Beautiful place. It's in the middle of nowhere.

I thought I was never going to get here. I came in late. I had a meeting
last night and couldn't get away.

It was something important and I was on my way here and Greg told me
where to go and I thought about stopping on the way but I wasn't too
tired so I just kept coming and he gave me a phone number of a brother
to call who could show me my room. Well I didn't get here too late so I
didn't want to wake him up so instead I went through the building out
back and woke everybody up. And if I opened the door and woke you up
that might have been the Lord it might have been me.

I don't know which one but anyway sorry about that. I am privileged to
be here. It's always a privilege to talk about Jesus.

I just want to talk a little bit. I want to talk about the cross today.
The Bible doesn't say the preaching of the Bible is the power of God
unto salvation.

It doesn't say the preaching of the law is the power of God unto
salvation. It says the preaching of the cross is the power of God unto
salvation. I believe in using the law.

The law brings conviction of sin. It brings a knowledge of Christ but if
you just use the law to witness and try to win the lost all you do is
get them convicted but the cross gets them saved. And what Jesus did on
the cross you know it's a cliche today just to say Jesus died for you.

Everybody knows that they'll tell you that but they don't really know
it. Christians don't know it like they should. I believe with all my
heart that the last move of God, first of all I believe the Lord's
coming soon and second of all I believe that we're running out of time.

The last move of God I believe with all my heart is going to be a Jesus
movement not a people movement not a denominational movement not a
church movement not an American movement a Jesus movement. If you've
been reading the news and seeing what's going on in the world right now
and if that doesn't wake you up a little bit you know how God gets your
attention? He smites your 401k and then he's got your attention. I just
I'm a I do live in Dallas Texas now I'm originally from Tyler Texas the
Rose Capital of the world and it's a beautiful place and I have been a
pastor.

I preached my first sermon when I was almost 13. When I was 12 my
parents lost their minds and left Texas and I moved up north and moved
to Louisville Kentucky area and when we crossed the Ohio River I was
terrified that's a mile wide. The biggest river I've ever seen was the
Trinity River it's about 30 feet wide.

In Texas what they call rivers every other state calls a creek and I
crossed the Ohio River Bridge holding on for dear life terrified and we
lived in that area for many years and we went to a church there in
southern Indiana and I had been called to preach when I got saved at
home at eight years old and I made the mistake of telling this they had
an old man there was six foot four his name was Leroy Beatty and the
first time I met him he looked at me said Randy I've got a Baptist brain
a Pentecostal heart Jehovah's Witness feet. Now that's a Christian and I
made the mistake of telling them at 12 that I was called to preach. From
that day on he was relentless and you're going to have to overlook me
and forgive me because I started out preaching on the street corners of
Louisville Kentucky and being harassed slapped chased had a razor put to
my throat one time and just that was how it was normal for me is just
being heckled being yelled at and you learn to really preach then.

In church everybody just goes to sleep that's even worse I'd rather you
heckle me and I'll tell you this if you don't say amen or once while I
may preach till 6 p.m. because if I think you're asleep I'll never give
up I'll never quit and you know preaching is the art of talking in other
people's sleep so I'll keep preaching and you keep sleeping. One time I
was preaching in Tyler Texas my hometown and I got up to preach on
Sunday morning they just give me the service and there was a man on the
front row right here sound asleep the head deacon already asleep during
the worship. You heard about the church that somebody died during the
worship and they called the paramedics they had to examine 21 people
before they found the right one.

Well the worship had killed this guy and I got up and he was asleep so I
picked up a hymnal and threw it real hard and hit the pew boom right
next to him. He woke up he thought the rapture was taking place and he'd
been left behind but he knew what I was doing and he watched me like a
hawk the rest of the service. One brother one man got introduced and he
said I'm not the best speaker in the world but I'm like the cross-eyed
discus thrower I keep the crowd alert so I'm gonna try to do that so
anyway we went to this church I told this old man I was called to preach
I heard he was a street preacher later on I found out he had the whole
Bible memorized by heart King James Version that's the only man I've
ever met in my life that had the whole Bible memorized even the begats
and he was to this day he went to be with the Lord in the 90s but to
this day he's the most Christlike man I've ever known in my life and he
made an impact on my life his boldness his courage his joy most
Christians look like they've just been sucking on lemons in the parking
lot right before they come into the church one side singing will there
be any stars in my crown and the other side is singing no not one in the
middle section singing and that'll be heaven for me and as Christians
I'm not shocked that sinners don't want what we've got because they
already have depression and discouragement and fear the joy of the Lord
is our strength the joy of the Lord is our strength he meant for us to
enjoy him it's serious but it's fun there's nothing greater than walking
with Jesus Christ there's nothing greater than the power of the cross
that keeps working in your life so I told this old man I was called to
preach he kept bugging me and bugging me and bugging me every Sunday
morning it's a Randy he called me shouting Randy which was sarcasm and
he'd say shout Randy how you doing I've got a pulpit saved for you an
empty pulpit I said really because I had in mind as a preacher you would
have a brick church with a Cadillac and no people in the church just a
brick church that'd be the perfect church wouldn't it and just a good
salary and a big parsonage and life insurance that's what's my idea of
preaching not on the street corner but he kept on I got an empty pulpit
at 4th and Chestnut downtown Louisville Kentucky fine I finally you know
on Sunday afternoon I either wanted to watch the Cowboys if they were on
take a nap or play football myself I'm 12 almost 13 and he kept bugging
me and but every Sunday I'd hide I tried to go out different exits he
supernaturally knew where I was and he would say I've got an empty
pulpit for you downtown 4th and Chestnut and I finally said brother baby
leave me alone he said I can't brother the Bible says whom the Lord
loveth he buggeth that was his paraphrase of provoke one another to love
and good works so finally he wore me down I said I can't go down there
my friends in junior high will see me so but finally I went when I got
there at 4th and Chestnut I got a ride with someone it was worse than I
thought there was a big group of prostitutes obviously dressed up as
prostitutes that was close to Fort Knox and all the soldiers would come
into Louisville on the 4th 1st and 15th weekends and there was a big
group of prostitutes and this weird crazy guy there's always somebody
like that he actually was crazy and he was pointing at those women that
when I walked up on the street corner pointing at them going prostitutes
will not inherit the kingdom of God well they obviously got mad cuz he
was right in their face pointing at him and screaming at him and so they
started beating him with their purse just as I walked up this little
guy's running around screaming at them and they're beating him with a
purse about five women that's as bad as it gets but brother I started to
turn around and go back brother Beatty spotted me and he said hey
brother Randy come on over here so I couldn't get away I hid behind a
post at JC Penney's and stuck a track out hoping it would stick on
someone cuz I was terrified that somebody was from school would see me
with these crazy people well brother Beatty sang and played the guitar
and if anybody ever stayed after that it was a miracle cuz he was
terrible I loaned him my guitar one time and he just ripped it to pieces
with a pick it was a really sweet nice acoustic guitar and he ruined it
but it was anointed ruin as we he was singing I saw an older man
squatting down leaning against the wall a few feet over up the street
and brother Beatty said go talk to that man now you got to remember I've
been in church since I was eight I'm almost 13 now I had no idea no one
had ever taught me in church how to talk to anyone about Jesus so I went
over and squatted down next to the man and I just said and he had tears
running down his face brother Beatty was singing something like in the
sweet by and by or something like that I said how you doing he said fine
my mom used to sing that song I said would you like to get saved and he
said yeah so I patted him on the back said God bless you walked off I
had no idea how to lead him to the Lord no one had ever taught me in
church so I walked back to brother Beatty and I he said well what'd he
say and I said he wants to get saved he said you pray with him I said I
don't know how to do that so he said come here and I'll show you the
first thing I learned from him is this thing is better caught than
taught and he took me over there and and led that man to the Lord I've
seen and lead whole groups of soldiers to the Lord groups of children
because he was always smiling always happy see when he was 19 he went
downtown Louisville Kentucky to see a movie that was back way back when
they had streetcars and an old plumber wasn't a pastor just a plumber
was preaching on the street corner and he said young man come here he
said where you going he said I'm going to see a movie he said I got
something better than that and he led into the Lord right there on the
street corner you don't have to be in church to get saved Zacchaeus got
saved either in the air or in the tree or before he hit the ground he
was saved when he hit the ground and brother Beatty this plumber led him
to the Lord and he said now I want you to come with me I want you to
meet some Christian young people and they got on the streetcar as soon
as they got on the streetcar had about 80 people on it the plumbing the
plumber preacher stood up and said can I have your attention everyone's
attention this man here just got saved he wants to tell you about it he
had been saved 10 minutes and he had to get up and testify about his
salvation to about 80 people he didn't know he almost had a heart attack
well they got off the streetcar and walked into a gas station and there
was a group of boys had cigarettes rolled up in their t-shirt drinking
beer cussing I don't know what just acting bad and this plumber walked
in there said anybody ever tell you boys about Jesus they said no sir
and he said this man here just got saved he wants to tell you about
Jesus now he'd been saved 20 minutes by then and he became to this day I
one of my good friends is Ray Comfort Ray in Living Waters and Way of
the Master and he's a great soul winner he got us almost kicked out of
Luby's I've preached with him in California but brother Leroy Beatty
I've never seen anyone like him so much like Jesus I went back the next
Sunday I thought well this isn't too bad and as brother Beatty was
preaching he had a powerful voice he's preaching on the street corner
there two boys in a 65 blue convertible Mustang stopped at the red light
right there fourth and chestnut and they were revving their engine
honking their horn trying to drown him out and one of them yelled hey
old man are you Moses he said no son I'm Saul my father sent me out to
look for two asses and I just found him I thought this isn't too bad I
might could be a street preacher I like insulting people he was doing it
with joy and you know what they got out and talked to him and from that
point on I was a co-youth pastor at 16 I've been a full-time evangelist
revivalist twice in my life I've preached in hundreds of churches I've
preached so many revivals camp meetings retreats services youth retreats
youth rallies banquets luncheons pastors conferences pastors luncheons
that I couldn't keep track of them all but along the way I started
realizing I don't see the fruit and Christians my life and everyone
else's life that I want to see and I went to Christ for the nation's
it's an internet on a non-denominational Bible school in Dallas Texas
they've taught thousands of students and sent them out all over the
world number one worship school in the world a lot of songs you sing
were written there by students and I was a full-time core professor and
a dean and over all their outreach and evangelism in that area for six
years it was my privilege to preach and teach revivalism for five
summers to students from India Japan China literally Timbuktu Papua New
Guinea from all over even Canada all over the world I got to preach and
teach thousands of students about the cross and that was the core I
taught evangelism I was the evangelism professor and evangelism director
and I taught revivalism it was my privilege to teach them about the
cross and I'm an experienced seasoned minister I've pastored youth
pastor singles pastor janitor you know you're a real pastor when you go
around after church flushing the toilets but only the last few years
have I seen what it's really about it's about Jesus Christ and him
crucified it's not about denominations there won't be any in heaven
there's people would kill you over their denomination they're faithful
to a building they're faithful to a TV preacher but God's gonna get our
attention and right now he's judging the church it's not America it's
not the world judgment begins at the house of God and we better pay
attention and start praying and pray for revival but not just any
revival Francis Schaeffer said reformation is a return to sound doctrine
Charles Finney said revival is practicing sound doctrine it doesn't
matter what you know it's what you live if I could live what I know I'd
be greater than Paul but I I can't live what I know that's the breakdown
and it takes the power of God the Word of God the Holy Spirit but more
than anything else I think it takes a single heart a single heart utter
an utterness if I could put it that way totally consecrated totally
dedicated I believe right now if the church really made Jesus their Lord
we would turn the world upside down Jesus is our part-time Lord on the
weekends on Sunday morning but the Bible says he's Lord of Lords and
King of Kings and he owns you lock stock and barrel all your money all
your kids your house Jesus Christ died for you on the cross and bought
you and if the church would start preaching the cross again instead of
money and success and miracle I believe in miracles I believe God
blesses his people the righteous have never been forsaken or their seed
begging for bread but that's not the gospel the gospel is it's not even
a doctrine it's a person the Lord Jesus Christ and when the church quit
preaching the gospel and started preaching money and prosperity and
success then we see what the result is God said okay I'll take away your
money and your success and I'll take away your place among the nations I
just went to a Memorial Day right we spent Memorial Day in Austin Texas
you'd have to be a Texan to understand the Alamo stand in front of it
and cry and there was a big rally there for Texas independence to
succeed from the Union quit paying federal taxes sounded good to me too
bad we don't have enough we had enough army I think we could do it and
they had a big sign it said once again the Republic of Texas will raise
its proud head among the nations of the world well guess what God is
humbling our proud head and he has shut up the heavens and there's no
rain that rains the Holy Spirit but he said if my people God said when I
shut up the heavens and there's no rain when the power and the the
authenticity of the gospel isn't there and God has shut the heavens up
then he said if my people which are called by my name and by the way all
the cultural Christians are getting off the ark all the ones who just
said they were Christians and thank God for it all the ones who said
they were Christians for some kind of networking sales looking good
position now there's a stigma attached to it and they're fleeing the ark
thank God the Bible says only remnants gonna be saved God's never said
he was gonna his will is that everyone would be saved but he never said
they were all going to be saved because God's will is done through our
prayers we pray it to pass and just a minute I want to focus on the
cross but I love quotations Charles Spurgeon said he who seldom quotes
is seldom quoted and Charles Spurgeon has some of my all-time favorite
quotations what a preacher and my number one all-time favorite quotation
is Charles Spurgeon you know what he said preaching that leaves out the
cross is the laughingstock of hell that's good another thing he said is
some of you have enough dust on your Bibles to write damnation in it
that's a good quote and another one he said was whenever I preach I read
my text and then make a beeline for the cross no wonder he was a great
preacher and he preached on Jesus like few people that have ever lived I
want to stand with me for a minute for just a little while I want to
talk about the cross and the cross I'm not talking about a piece of wood
I'm talking about Jesus the power of his death his suffering and his
sacrifice the piece of wood was where it happened but it's Jesus that
made the cross important you could put up a million wooden crosses but
Jesus the son of the living God hanging on that cross Jesus was fully
human and fully God in the early days the church battle with the
teaching everyone that Jesus was really God now we battle with everyone
believing he was a real man but he was a real man just like you and I he
felt pain like we do he got tired he got hungry and the greatest act in
time and space and eternity is when the son of God hung outside of
Jerusalem on an old rugged cross a fountain of blood from head to toe
and by the way I'm one preacher that's still preaching the blood of
Jesus that's the one thing the devil fears is the power they overcame
him by the blood of the lamb modern churches are taking those hymnals
those hymns out of their hymnals about the blood and I preached on the
cross all over the world literally different countries not every country
but different countries America although I preached all over Oklahoma
Texas every everywhere I could go and I preach on the blood and the
cross one lady came up after church said you you made it too gory too
bloody and I said sister the half hasn't been told that's the worst
suffering that's ever happened in time and eternity was on that hill
outside of Jerusalem and Jesus physical suffering was the least of his
suffering he suffered in his soul God saw the travail of his soul and
was satisfied and I hope that when you leave today just at least one
thing I say will get you more excited about what Jesus did for you and
the whole world on the cross and he died for everyone not everyone's
gonna receive it but he whosoever will may come brother Beatty had a
Baptist background I said brother Beatty do you believe in once saved
always saved he said I believe in it for me I believe in it for me the
Bible says only those who endure to the end will be saved and I'm not
trying to start a controversy I'm just saying if you ain't living it you
ain't real it ain't as a Texas word I think you got to live it to be
saved saving faith it'll change your lifestyle you'll lose part of your
vocabulary when you get saved you lose part of your mind when you get
saved and we had more people really say great comfort told me one time
Randy it's not the Christians that wear the pastor out it's the false
converts that wear the pastor out and that's the truth so I want you to
pray with me that the Lord will show you something about the cross
because the cross isn't just in time and space it was born in eternity
past in the heart of God when Jesus the lamb was slain before the
foundation of the world when Jesus laid his will down and the father's
will stood up an eternal cross was born in the very being of God and
it's that cross that I'm talking about Jesus was born crucified father
in the name of Jesus I pray for everyone here open up their hearts Lord
Lord plow up the fallow grounds of our heart Lord I just pray that the
word would find good ground the word of the cross find good ground Lord
find a soil that's good and honest and take root downward and bear fruit
upward I cover us all and put us under the protection and cleansing of
the blood of the lamb push back the powers of darkness Lord cleanse the
atmosphere cleanse the heavenlies Lord cut through our flesh cut through
the enemy and give us a new revelation of the mighty awful suffering
lamb of God hanging on Calvary's cross in Jesus name everyone said
before you sit down turn to someone and tell them I've never seen
anybody look like you in my whole life then you may be seated if you'll
open your Bibles quickly to John chapter 1 I love being a Christian I
have more fun by accident than sinners do on purpose when I lead
outreaches I led five outreaches to Mardi Gras took thousands of
students hundreds maybe thousands and the main principle well first be
normal number two be happy and excited and number three come in the
spirit of the Lamb of God we're not there to scream at people we're
there to tell them about Jesus and not compromise but come in the spirit
of the Lamb of God you'd be amazing you'd be amazed how well that worked
everybody else was walking down the streets with signs that God hates
sinners and no one listened to him we were telling them there were
sinners and they were going to go to hell but we did it with love we did
it in the spirit the opposite spirit of the world the spirit of the Lamb
of God and the Lamb of God is the greatest type in the Bible and I don't
know why we don't preach on it more the the type of the Word of God is
the Lamb of God from Genesis to Revelation all the way through the Bible
this is the type and this is the biggest type in the Word of God this is
the biggest principle it's Jesus nature is a lamb the little animal that
you see out in the pasture that's fuzzy and wooly and and eating the
grass and really nice and gentle that's not a lamb that's a picture God
painted of the lamb that seated at his right hand in heaven and my dad
got tired of mowing his back pasture one time so he bought some sheep
and they were behind my house too in the country in New Albany Indiana
and one of the sheep had a sheep and by the way shepherds don't have
sheep sheep have sheep and I walked out in this tiny and the Greek word
in Revelation is a lamb kitten a tiny baby newborn lamb I think it's 17
or 21 times I get confused somebody said 21 and it confused me all the
way through it's always a lamb kitten a tiny baby newborn lamb that's
Jesus and this little tiny baby lamb was so cute it was fresh just came
out and I walked up to pet it I was gonna touch it and pet it the mother
was just looking at me she didn't care she knew me when I reached out to
pet it it went AHH! it bit my hand almost off no it didn't it was a lamb
not a Christian I mean Martin Luther said Christians don't tell lies
they sing them no it didn't do anything it didn't have any fangs doesn't
have any claws it was just born he couldn't even stand up that's the
picture of God's son in the book of Revelation and that lamb went back
to Abel my personal opinion I'm personally convinced that God killed
lambs and covered them with those bloody skins because we know he
covered them with skins we know that Abel offered the firstling of the
flock and something happened when he put it on the altar my opinion is
that fire came down and consumed it because Cain saw it and made him mad
that lamb and his blood is the message of the word of God it's the only
hope of the universe and John the Baptist who was a great prophet Jesus
said he was the greatest prophet do you know why if he ever worked a
miracle it's not recorded but you know why he was the greatest prophet
because his privilege his ministry his calling by the way he destroys
every theological camp in the world he was filled with a Holy Ghost
before he was born that destroys every theological camp I've ever heard
of he was God the Bible says God doesn't give his spirit to the wicked
and he was filled with the Holy Spirit in his mother's womb and was more
on fire than most of us he leaped for joy because he heard the lamb's
voice before he was born and he came from the womb the Bible said filled
with the Holy Ghost and that I don't understand that but I believe it
with all my heart God can do anything he wants to do I'm sorry to inform
you and that's what he did and he went out in the wilderness wearing a
leather garment and eating bugs modern commentators try to say there
were leaves off the locust tree that's such baloney the Greeks had a
word for it baloney bugs and wild honey and he was rough around the
edges he never read how to win friends and influence people and he came
out of the wilderness baptizing preaching repentance the first word of
the gospel is repent reform turn around start thinking about sin like
God thinks of it that's repentance boy he was preaching repentance and
even the Pharisees even the Pharisees were coming down folks that's a
miracle and they wanted to be baptized and if it had been us we'd go
sweet the Pharisees are coming the ones with money the ones with the big
robes I have a book called the Pharisees guide to total holiness John
the badness wasn't like us he looked at them and said you brutal vipers
what a man of God you didn't care about the offering I saw this cartoon
of this huge church and the pastor was preaching on Sunday morning only
one couple on the back row and he said as you may recall I said some
things last Sunday that needed to be said John the Baptist preach the
truth what could God do with a whole generation of John the Baptist that
would stand up and preach the cross again and introduce the world again
to the Lamb of God what could God do with that he could turn the world
upside down and John the Baptist was martyred at about 32 years old one
thing we forget reading the Bible these were young men in their 20s and
30s Paul was only saved about 30 years before he's beheaded these young
men were following a young man named Jesus Christ and John the Baptist
privilege was to introduce the world for the first time in time and
space to the Lamb of God you know it's exciting to me we can have that
same ministry we're all called to that same ministry Jesus said there's
never been a prophet born greater born of woman greater than John the
Baptist but the least in the kingdom of God is greater than him we can
do the same thing back that is our calling Jesus said behold I send the
Holy Spirit upon you and you shall receive power from on high and you
shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem Judea and Samaria to the
uttermost part of the earth it's called the great hint right the great
suggestion that's the great commandment and when we start thinking about
trying to win souls a witness we think oh I don't know all the long just
tell him about Jesus tell him how you met him how he delivered you from
whatever from yourself from sin from alcohol whatever it is and tell him
about the power of the cross people are interested in that they're not
interested in religion religion has sent more people to hell than Hugh
Hefner and Jack Daniels hell's so full of church members right now it's
packed out there's most right reverends in hell you can walk down every
aisle sign every card shake every preacher's hand walk down the aisle on
Sunday morning and go straight to hell only a vital living relationship
with the Lord Jesus Christ and your sins under the blood will get you
into heaven and that's daily by the way you can be baptized in every
stream every creek every river every pond till every catfish knows you
by your first name and go straight to hell there's most there's there's
doctors of divinity in hell have so many degrees behind their name you
can call them Fahrenheit because only the blood of Jesus can keep you
out of hell and John the Baptist shook up Israel turned them upside down
one man so what can one man what can one pass if you're a pastor we have
any pastors here a couple few if you're a pastor the one thing the
devil's afraid of it you'll start preaching Jesus in the cross and at
first people are going to want something else give us some gravy some
frosting we don't want that meat we think churches like Luby's we just
go through and pick out what we don't know if you have Luby's here it's
cafeteria you go through and pick out what you like pecan pie chicken
fried steak with white cream gravy gravy Texas toast fried okra somebody
getting hungry rebuke that where the baby used to say some of some of us
believe the Bible's inspired in spots and we're the ones inspired to
spot the spots that are inspired it's all the Word of God it's all the
Word of God and John the Baptist Jesus said he's the greatest ministry
and and and here's here's the crux of who Jesus is here is the
introduction and verse 29 the next day when the next day John saw Jesus
coming toward him and said behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin
of the world this is he of whom I said after me comes a man his I'm in
John 120 and 130 now who's preferred before me for he was before me I
did not know him this is his cousin but he didn't know him that he
should be revealed to Israel therefore I came baptizing with water and
John bore witness saying I saw the spirit descending from heaven like a
dove and he remained upon him and I did not know him but he who sent me
to baptize with water said to me upon whom you see the spirit descending
and remaining on him this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit and I
have seen and testified this is the Son of God again the next day John
stood with two of his disciples that was Andrew and John and looking at
Jesus as he walked he said behold the Lamb of God when his ministry was
over he moved aside he said I must decrease and he must increase and
Jesus had a powerful itinerant ministry went all through Galilee and
Judea and Israel and turned the nation on its ear but he was headed for
the cross the whole time Jesus was born crucified if Mary could have
seen the back of his neck it was spiritualized she would have seen
written there born crucified because the lamb was slain before the
foundation of the world he said for this cause I came into the world and
when Jesus got to the cross the night before first of all right before
he dies he has the triumphal entry and the Holy Spirit gets on the crowd
and they start screaming Hosanna to the Son of David throwing their
robes and coats in the way and palm branches the children running
through the temple singing Hosanna to the Son of David as your King
comes to you meek and lowly riding on a donkey on the fall of a donkey
but he was coming to Jerusalem to die for the universe have you ever
thought about every decision Jesus made every word he said everything he
did had universal impact it affected the whole universe and I've heard
if I make you mad forgive me if I disagree with another preacher forgive
me but there's a teaching where it wasn't really a test he didn't really
suffer he couldn't have really done anything he was a robot folks that's
a lie hatched in the incubators of hell he was a real man he really died
and he really suffered and it wasn't a robot or something that he had no
option in he could have messed up I believe that with all my heart I
know that's gonna make I hope it doesn't but people think well he
couldn't have messed up he couldn't have sinned if he couldn't have it
wouldn't have been a test wouldn't have made any sense the devil would
have been in on it playing a charade in front of everybody when the
devil tempted him in the wilderness people teach that wasn't really a
temptation was just a show folks Jesus was a man he came and lived in
this world he laid aside his omnipresence his omniscience his all of his
attributes of power and glory and he came down as a man and lived as one
of us but his nature was divine and I don't believe he had a split
personality like everyone preaches he was Jesus the son of the living
God and he was holy God and holy man in his nature there's one glory he
couldn't hide that was his moral glory his holiness couldn't hide that
that's what made everybody so mad as he got to the cross he went to
Gethsemane and I'm gonna hurry along here I could preach all day on this
literally but he got to Gethsemane listen to me close please we all
preach it wrong most of us not all but most of us poor Jesus when he
sees how much he's gonna suffer he tries to get out of it that's the
opposite of what the word teaches the opposite the opposite the Bible
says that he turned he went to Gethsemane as his custom was the book of
Luke is one prayer meeting to the next prayer meeting as his habit was
it's a good habit they went to Gethsemane to pray with his disciples and
as they were entering Gethsemane he turned to them and said my soul is
exceedingly sorrowful even unto death he was starting to die right then
I believe my opinion is Satan was killing him as the weight of the sins
of the universe began to descend on him the Bible says for the only time
in his life he was amazed he was amazed and troubled and he started
dying I believe and this is not just me medical doctors teach this when
they thrust the spear in blood and water came out a medical doctor some
a Christian once said that that means the sack around his heart had
ruptured John said I twice I saw it my own eyes blood and water came out
of his side the agony of Gethsemane was so great and folks the devil has
ruined the picture of it it's not a man running from the cross it's the
son of God afraid he's not gonna make it to the cross he knew he was
born to redeem mankind he came to do the will of the father he was slain
before the foundation the world he realized he was dying right then he
wasn't gonna make it to the cross and he knew the will of his father but
all of a sudden here's something happening that amazed even the Son of
God and he was troubled and he was very very upset the Greek says and he
said plea for the first time in his life he asked someone to help him in
prayer he asked he went with the 1211 and then he went a little further
on with the three and he said please pray with me one hour Peter James
and John please pray with me and they went to sleep and Jesus went a
little further the stones throw further and knelt down and began to be
in agony the Bible says he when he prayed for the cup to pass from it
wasn't the cross tomorrow it was the cup of death he was drinking right
then Hebrew five seven and eight says who in the days of its flesh
offered up prayers with strong crying and tears and was heard when he
prayed in what he feared and was delivered from death the only place
Jesus would deliver from death was in Gethsemane the one of the olive
press and he was there and he was praying in the Bible says that he
began to be in agony and he knelt down and he began to pray in agony and
the Bible says in Mark it says that as he prayed he began to hemorrhage
blood through the sweat glands of his body sweat pores of his body and
doctors say you can't do that and live the pressure and the agony was so
great that he began to literally ooze blood out of his sweat pores and
Mark says that great clots of blood began to fall to the ground folks
that's a prayer meeting and I'm so excited that Jesus Christ he wasn't
just what he did on the cross in Gethsemane alone alone when he asked
people to pray he he had a prayer meeting on a battle in some spiritual
warfare that we don't really preach or teach about but he battled for
you and I folks you talk about surrender the greatest surrender that's
ever been made because he surrendered in eternity past he thought he
knew the will of God but now it looks like God has changed his mind and
he said father not my will but thine be done but just in case just in
case it was still God's will he said father if it be possible if there's
anyway let this cup pass for me and as he was in agony and bleeding from
head to toe he went back to to beg them to pray some more and they they
didn't know what to say here's the Son of God covered in blood praying
and as he prayed three times in agony the Bible says angels came and
strengthen him and I want you to know he made a surrender there that no
one has ever had to have to had to make he surrendered you and I up he
surrendered the world up he surrendered his bride up most of all he
surrendered his bride the Bible said he went to the cross and endured
the shame because of the joy that was set before him his father had
shown him what was going to happen and I I believe that the purpose of
all creation is to train and prepare a bride for the Son of God who has
no companion no like until we get there and he surrendered the bride up
the reason he came the church he surrendered the church up and he had to
let it all go and just trust God and trust his father but just in case
let this cup pass for me I won't dwell anymore on that but that's so
deep and profound the suffering of Gethsemane as he began to drink the
wrath of God the cup of the wrath of God and angels strengthen him just
enough to get to the cross Dallas home wrote a beautiful song called he
died of a broken heart and I believe that's true because they didn't
have to break his legs so he couldn't breathe he was dead and I tell you
something I always get excited about the Romans didn't kill Jesus the
Jews didn't kill Jesus he laid his life down no one took it from him he
he held it cheap Saints the thing we have that's most precious to us our
very life he held it cheap and let it go for us he laid his life down
and when he did when it was over and I'll get to that in a minute
quickly but what he did it himself no one took his life from him he gave
it willingly any and you know something the church wouldn't preach the
cross in the blood anymore so God raised up an actor in Hollywood a
Catholic actor in Hollywood to preach the cross is called the passion of
the Christ and in Muslim countries I mean I went to the first showing
with Jim Caviezel pre a preview with Jim Caviezel the actor played Jesus
and they got done it wasn't finished editing yet they didn't have music
and sound but when they got done there was not a heap it was deathly
silent and the young it was packed there must have been 5,000 people
there and in the back a young man said oh Jesus we did that to you then
the altars flooded a thousand people a week are getting saved in Iran in
Iraq excuse me right now it's some of them are watching the passion of
the Christ on the Internet that's one thing they can't stop his
satellites in the Internet and they're getting saved by seeing the
gospel and there's a group from France putting the gospel on computers
in the Arabic and a thousand people are weak they just had a pastors
conference in Jordan and a thousand pastors from the Middle East
indigenous pastors were there because if you start preaching the cross
in the blood God will make a way if you're preaching junk he won't make
a way and that movie I've studied the cross for decades and it's
physical suffering and that movie amazingly had the details right the
scourging the Bible says their back looked like raw hamburger meat you
can see their lungs through their back when those professional Roman
soldiers scourged them and when they nailed into the cross with those
big spikes and they dug a three-foot deep hole and dropped the cross
just as a another way of suffering dropped it and it when it hit the
bottom they would lunge against the spikes and tear their flesh his
physical suffering was awful and I could go into all the things he said
and they are wonderful beautiful but I want to move ahead a little bit
as horrible as his physical suffering was that was the least of his
suffering people have suffered physically tortured in China right now
maybe more than Jesus did physically but no one suffered in their soul
ever or ever will like he did in that weekend if I get a hangnail I have
a bad day if I mash my finger if I got a bad week can you imagine in
that pain he was on fire his hands his feet were pierced he had a crown
of thorns he was literally on fire with pain in the midst of that
horrible suffering something even worse happened the Bible says he
became sin all the sins that mankind had ever committed was committing
right then it would ever commit or gathered up supernaturally by God
himself and deposited in the bosom of his son and he literally became
sin every murder every lie every kidnapping was deposited into the bosom
of the innocence spotless sinless Lamb of God our own sins kill us can
you imagine all the sin and from 12 noon Jesus didn't die on a Friday he
died on a Wednesday from 12 noon to 3 in the afternoon the most awful
unmitigated suffering that's ever taken place in the universe took place
in those three hours on Calvary on a Wednesday afternoon he didn't say
one word he had made some statements but now it's just between him and
God and folks he had his family there's mom friends those are wonderful
but it really comes down to just you and God and his best friend the one
that he leaned on the Father's bosom became his worst enemy because God
cannot fellowship sin and he turned his back Jesus had told his
disciples I all you will all forsake me and leave but I always have my
father with me and on the cross in the agony that he was going through
the father turned his back on him because he could not fellowship sin
and for the first and last time ever it never happened before that will
never happen again but for the first and last time God cut himself off
from part of himself and left part of himself hanging on an old cross
being treated like an animal and and at the same time all this is going
on Jesus you know one thing amazing to me Bible says Samson didn't know
the spirit of the Lord had left him but Jesus immediately knew the
Father's presence had withdrawn in that agony in that pain most of us
don't sense it for years but he knew immediately that the Father's
presence had withdrawn and he said my God you I you lie and folks it's
the only time in the Bible where someone said one sentence in two
languages his suffering was so great he cried out Eloah Eloah in Hebrew
and he switched to his native tongue of Aramaic Lama said back to me why
have you left me and he doesn't say another word for three hours and in
that three hours he endured all the wrath of a holy offended omnipotent
God all seven vials of the wrath of God the perfect wrath of God that
are going to be poured out on this world in the tribulation period it's
so awful that when the wrath of God those vials are poured out the Bible
says the whole world is going to stagger to and fro like a drunken man
that was all deposited in the bosom of the Son of God and it coursed
through his veins in his soul the Bible said he endured the wrath of God
you know what's good about that I'll never know one drop of God's wrath
I'll never experience one iota not one speck of God's wrath because my
Savior Jesus the Son of the Living God absorbed it all for me on the
cross and I only know the love of God and the power of God because Jesus
climbed up on that cross and took my place he took your place and he has
he dealt with our sins and he endured the wrath of God for me and now
the Bible says we've been delivered from the wrath to come by the way
that's the only message that ever brought revival to the church in the
past the wrath of God I could go on there a lot so much happened to the
cross I don't believe we'll know for all eternity Isaiah 52 says his
suffering was so great that he didn't look like a human being anymore
when they looked at the cross there was something hanging there that
didn't even look human his face was more marred than any man some
blackened accursed creature in agony hanging there on the cross and I
said well he had no beauty that we should desire him and I could go on
but I want to hurry up and now the Bible says Jesus knowing that all
things have been accomplished everything that Greek word means the last
I had been dotted the last period had been put knowing that all things
had been accomplished he wants to say something he refused to drink
earlier because it deadened the pain and he said I thirst and there's so
many prophecies and songs I mean you need to look them all up about what
happened hundreds of things were fulfilled there and they gave him a
drink pulls himself up because you had to talk because that was the
point you couldn't breathe in his agony knowing all things have been
accomplished he cried with a loud voice it's over it's settled it's
finished it's done and I'll tell you those are the best words probably
in the Bible and I believe he was saying I want hell to know I want
mankind to know I want all the fallen angels to know I want the good
angels 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 folks 2000 plus years later it's
still over it's still finished it's still done he did it once and for
all the mighty redeeming work of the Son of God took care of every
problem you'll ever have your sins the wrath of God everything you would
ever and I'll tell you another doctrine that was hatched in the
incubators of hell that Jesus went to hell while he was in the tomb he
did not go to hell he put out the fire of hell on the cross he put out
the fire of hell on the cross for you and I and I'm a little excited
about that I don't have to go to hell I'll never see hell I'll never
face that worm that won't die and see that fire that can't be quenched
because Jesus killed that worm on the cross and he put the fire of hell
out for his people and now we only know a loving powerful Almighty
Jehovah Yahweh God who can do anything and from the stars in space that
was a cry of victory and then he said father about his head he said
father into your hands I deposit my spirit and he died he gave up his
spirit and they put him in the tomb he stood with me I almost can't
can't leave him there for three days and three nights not Friday night
and Saturday for three days and three nights he was in the grave a lot
of things happened during then and I tell you I don't understand why the
church keeps the best music for just two days a year Christmas music and
Easter music well let's don't celebrate the resurrection any other time
let's just wait and when I was growing up in church I took piano lessons
from the same lady that taught Marilyn Monroe we were both really good
on the piano I'm just kidding and she used to play every Easter on the
piano she's a wonderful pianist low in the grave he lay Jesus my Savior
waiting the coming day Jesus my Lord and all the pictures are wrong they
show him standing in the door of the tomb that's not scriptural at all
the Bible said when they rolled the stone away it was empty he wasn't
there the angel said why do you seek the living among the dead he's not
here he's risen he's already gone into Galilee before you and then he
came in and appeared to Mary in different ones but the course of the
song goes like this up from the grave he arose with a mighty triumph
over 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 and in heaven that's what they're seeing day and night and I want
to tell you something in Revelation chapter 1 Jesus said I'm he that was
alive I'm he that is alive I was dead but now I'm alive in the Greek it
means I got to be dead that's not like me I don't usually go around
dying I'm never gonna die again folks when you got saved you got life
that's been through death and come up victorious out of death and can't
be killed I am he that got to be dead but now I am alive forevermore
when Elizabeth Tudor I believe was the name was sworn in as Queen of
England coronated the first time on television part of it in black and
white part of in color you can watch some of it on YouTube it's not all
there but some of it's there and she was coronated and there's a big
deal believe me it was a man it was huge she was pronounced Queen and
coronated and at the very end of the ceremony the first night of Great
Britain rides out on a giant white Arabian stallion and turned sideways
in front of the throne in full battle armor he pulls up his visor takes
off his right gauntlet throws it on the ground in front of the throne
and he said anyone who would deny the right of Elizabeth Tudor to sit on
the throne of Great Britain and rule and reign let him come forth right
now and do me battle no one came out but I can see Jesus getting back to
heaven the Bible said he led captivity captive he made a show of them
openly he made a parade of his captives and when he got back to heaven
and when he got up there he said open up the everlasting gates open up
the everlasting doors and they said who let the king of glory come in he
said who is the king of glory and he said the Lord God mighty in battle
the Lord of host is his name the commander-in-chief of heaven's armies
is here right now open up the everlasting gates open up the everlasting
doors and and when he got back I can see the father throwing the
gauntlet down in front of hell in front of Satan and said anyone who
would deny the right of my son to rule and reign over this universe for
all eternity let him step forth right now and do me battle not one peep
out of hell not one peep from the angels not one peep for mankind and
for now from all eternity Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords and King of
Kings and he is victorious and the power of the cross is still alive the
victory of the cross is present and available to all of us in Revelation
this angel showed John a beautiful scroll with seven beautiful seals and
I'm paraphrasing a little bit the angel said you want to see this yes he
really wanted to see it as beautiful they just said too bad they
searched heaven they searched earth and they searched under the earth to
find anyone worthy to take the scroll and loose the seals thereof they
couldn't find anyone and John sat down and wept the Bible says he went
much he really started crying because he really wanted to see what was
in that scroll an angel said weep not for the lion out of the tribe of
Judah he had prevailed to open the scroll and loose the seals thereof
and John said while I watched I looked over at the throne and expecting
to see a giant land a lion he said I looked over next to the throne and
I saw a little baby little tiny baby Lampkin with his throat cut and the
blood the Greek word means the blood still spurting out of his throat
the marks of slaughter on him and that little tiny lamb got up and
walked over to the throne of God and loose the seal and loose the seals
on that scroll took it out of God's right hand loose the seals on it and
the Bible said all the host of heaven all the host redeemed thousands of
thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand the four and twenty elders
the four living creatures they all fell on their face and screamed at
the top of their voice so let's tell it like Niagara Falls worthy is the
lamb that was slain to receive honor that's what they're singing right
now worthy as a lamb that was slain to receive honor and power and glory
dominion and riches in mine and strength for by thy blood that has
redeemed us from every tribe every tongue every nation and someday folks
Genghis Khan Napoleon Bonaparte Obama Hillary Clinton Adolf Hitler
Ronald Reagan you and I every demon Satan himself they're gonna bow
their knee they don't want to do it but God's gonna make them do it and
confess the truth not just God but that man Jesus is Lord and they're
gonna scream out in the Greek Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the
Father stand with me come on give him a shout of praise Lord we praise
you thank you for the cross thank you for your precious blood thank you
for your blood Lord thank you for your awful suffering Lord let us go
out of this place with a new revelation of the price that you paid when
you said we've been bought with a price that means something what an alt
where it's free but it's not cheap it costs you everything and let us go
witness to the lost and dying world about the Lamb of God and how he
suffered on the cross don't let us just say he paid the fine or he died
for you but let us say the Lamb of God became sin for you endure the
wrath of God for you I want to turn this back over to whoever but first
I want you to just thank him come on just thank him thank you Jesus
thank you for not quitting halfway thank you for fighting in Gethsemane
for us thank you for battling the hosts and powers of darkness in
Gethsemane and keeping your will laid down there and that awful
suffering that awful surrender and you made it to the cross and you paid
for our sins awful price Lord every day let us remember your suffering
when we take communion let us remember your suffering Lord but now
you're also victorious you're alive and living inside of us a living
Savior you don't die anymore you're alive forevermore with resurrection
life and power and you're the head of the church come and fill us with
that lamb nature we want to be your bride we want to grow up and be like
you Jesus in your mighty name saints behold the Lamb of God in his
travail and behold the Lamb of God in his triumph he defeated all the
powers of hell for you and your family don't leave them behind take your
family with you Moses said I will not leave one hoof behind to Pharaoh
not one hair of their heads let's have that same commitment let's get
them all into heaven God bless you and when I see Oh Oh at the cross at
the cross where I first saw the love and the burning of my heart rolled
away it was there by faith I received my sight and now I am happy all
the day at the cross at the cross where I first saw the light and the
burden of my heart rolled away it was there by faith I received my sight
and now I am happy all the day Alas, then did my Savior bleed, and did
my Sovereign die? Would He deform that sacred head for such a work as I?
at the cross at the cross where I first saw the light and the burden of
my heart rolled away it was there by faith I received my sight and now I
am happy all the day Alas, then did my Savior bleed, and did my
Sovereign die? Would He deform that sacred head for such a work as I? at
the cross at the cross where I first saw the light and the burden of my
heart rolled away it was there by faith I received my sight and now I am
happy all the day But drops of grief can ne'er repay the debt of love I
owe Here, Lord, I give myself away, tis all that I can do at the cross
at the cross where I first saw the light and the burden of my heart
rolled away it was there by faith I received my sight and now I am happy
all the day at the cross at the cross where I first saw the light and
the burden of my heart rolled away it was there by faith I received my
sight and now I am happy all the day it was there by faith I received my
sight and now I am happy all the day tears and deep emotional gratitude
are plows that break the heart and bring brokenness but it better bring
us to this therefore since Christ suffered for us in the flesh arm
yourself with this attitude for he who has suffered in the flesh has
ceased from sin if an appreciation for the cross of Christ does not lead
to the fact that you arm yourself that you will cease from sin you can
cry and weep before the throne of God a million years without
understanding it for we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing
the will of the Gentiles when we walked in lewdness, lust, drunkenness,
revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries in regard to
these they think it strange that you do not run with them into the same
flood of dissipation and they speak evil of you well they will have to
give an account and so will anyone else who goes on sinning willfully
trampling the blood of the Son of God under their feet claiming it's
their right and passageway into heaven we'll have a prayer but I want to
share something quickly years ago I said Lord what's so powerful about
the gospel you died on the cross, you were buried, you rose again from
the dead but what's so powerful about it to me and God began to show
that the gospel of Jesus Christ is not only the only message of
deliverance it is the only method of deliverance if you live after the
flesh you shall die but if you through the spirit put to death the deeds
of the body you shall live and they that are Christ have crucified the
flesh with its passions and desires Amen and so by claiming the Holy
Spirit's effectual moment by moment application of the work of the cross
in our heart and life self dethroned Christ enthroned we live in victory
over sin he doesn't give us life as we overcome he gives us overcoming
life and then we overcome, Amen isn't it wonderful how God has just
brought all this together thank you brother, thank you for bringing us
to the cross in a fresh way Amen, praise the Lord I tell you getting
back to the cross the living Christ let's have prayer, Father we bless
your name who said for crimes that I had done he groaned upon a tree
amazing may he grace us now and love beyond degree at the cross, at the
cross where I first saw the light the burden of my heart rolled away it
was there by faith I received my sight and now I'm joyful Jesus because
you rose again from the dead he that spread not his own son but
delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give
us all things Lord bless my brother's continued ministry bless him with
those students who have a passion for Jesus and not just a passion for
Jesus but a compassion for the world raise up more songs of worship and
adoration and praise out of Christ for the nations God last night my
heart was so burdened for our Christian college campuses Father I've
never seen the old people in history where there's great revival
typically it's with young people you use older people but oh God it's
all for with the young people we ask you tonight in Jesus name today
with a mighty movement of your Holy Spirit upon our Christian college
campuses oh God pour out your spirit on our campuses give them a
boldness raise up preachers worshipers, evangelists preachers, teachers
raise up servants oh God on our Christian campuses set the campuses
ablaze and let that fire spread and we give you all the glory and all
the honor that Lord that obedient life is the description of the true
believer the life of Christ described lived out, fleshed out bless the
food Lord we thank you for it we thank you for meeting with us in Jesus
name we pray Jesus who is alive and on the throne the cross is bare the
tomb is empty and the throne is occupied Lord you haven't waned in your
strength your eyes have not grown dim your almighty God and we worship
and praise your name this day thank you Jesus in Jesus name we pray and
everybody said Amen God bless you, you're dismissed

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