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On this 20th day of April. Resurrection Sunday, Resurrection Sunday. And tonight we have, of course with me, my highly, highly esteemed co-host and producer. None other than Kenny. Good evening, Pastor.

Good evening, my highly esteemed co-host. Hey Kenny, did you know that today is commemorating the most important day in the history of all mankind. Did you know that?

I did know that. Yeah, it's more important than creation. It's more important than the birth of Christ. Because here, this is where we get final victory over death and hell. And God gives us eternal life.

Boy, you can't beat them. You know, I wanted to say, I forgot to mention my dear friend Terry Crockett, the fellow that had the brain bleed. We were all praying for him. It didn't look good.

It didn't look good at all for Terry. That he was going to come home, or come out of there. But after five operations, he's back home now. Wow.

And so, it was very tough on him. But anyhow, let's start. The title of the message is, Because Our Awesome God Lives. And we start tonight in Matthew, chapter 27, and verse 45. Now, from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, That is to say, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Now, the interesting thing there, Kenny, is that Jesus was the light of the world. But this was a time of supernatural darkness because the world's light was distinguished while he was being made sin for us.

This is called the dark of hell. In fact, for just a minute, I want to jump over to Psalm 22. And in Psalm 22, verses 1 and 2, we read, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Those are the seven words the Lord Jesus said there.

Why art thou so far from me, helping me? From the words of my roaring, O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not, and in the night season am not silent. Now, the roaring is not, you know, it's something like what King David had said. The roaring was not something loud vocally where you could hear the roaring was coming from within, when the Lord Jesus had the sins of the world laid upon him. And this Psalm, right, you know, that we just read here, okay, is an amazing prophetic description of the, at that time, the future crucifixion of God's Son. The Psalm was written, Kenny, a thousand years before his fulfillment.

Wow. And it was described, as we just see, graphic detail, the sufferings of Christ on the cross. Long before the, and that, you know what, this happened long before the method of crucifixion was even known or practiced among the Jews and the Romans. So, again, it opens here, and just like it did there, in Matthew 27, the other seven words of the seven words of the suffering.

Why? The other seven words are located, and we see those, we can find those back in, let me see, I think Luke 23. And both of them, verse 34 and 43, how about that?

And then John 19, 26, 27, we're going to probably read that tonight, also in John 19, 28, and verse 30. And he says here, again, at the ninth hour, the ninth hour, Jesus cried. Now, the ninth hour was the time of the evening oblation, the time of sacrifice and prayer. And we go back and we take a look at, remember the prophet Elijah, at the ninth hour he went to prayer against Balaam and Balak.

And, of course, you know, Daniel had his situation, he didn't really want to go into that lion's den, right? They told him no prayer at the ninth hour, David, and Daniel was in prayer in front of the window. He didn't, he obeyed God, not man. And, of course, you had Ezra and the apostles Peter and John and Cornelius, all their prayers, they all prayed there at the ninth hour. And all their prayers were heard and answered, all but the Lord Jesus, all except the prayer of Jesus. Remember what his prayer was to the Father before that night when he was in the garden? That wouldn't be our Father, would it?

Yeah, no, his prayer was, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, let this cup pass from me. See, only he could realize, you and I could never grasp, we could never wrap this around our brain, what it would feel like to have the sins of billions of people, past, present, future, upon you. You might be talking trillions, actually. Yeah, so here, you know, this was something that, again, like it was far beyond our comprehension, we could never even begin to fathom that. But, I mean, compared to that, even all the suffering, the physical suffering, compared to that, would not even compare to knowing what was going to be placed upon him.

I mean, just, I mean, think about it, just a small lie, the shame that you feel for that. That's just, and then multiply that by billions, you know, I mean, that had to be pretty much almost unbearable, like no one else would have been able to handle that. Yeah, well, he was the only one that could have handled that, okay. Now, here's, well, you know, we talk about, we're going to get into this about how the interesting thing was, the Pharisees and Sadducees, they believed more in Jesus' resurrection, in a sense, than the apostles did.

And I'll get to that and show you why. Now, some of them that stood there, when they heard, that said, the man calleth for Eliza. Straightaway, one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it in the reed and gave him the drink. The rest said, let it be, let us see whether Eliza will come and save him. Then Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, yielding up the ghost, and here, that loud voice was actually, was probably a victory cry, because what did he say?

It is finished, right? And he had only, again, not just the terrible physical pain, but the essence of hell itself, okay. Remember, the Father could not look upon sin without punishing it. And for a time, that's when Jesus said, why have thou forsaken me?

The Father had to turn away. And so, and then when he talked about, and yielded up the ghost, okay, that's an interesting thing, because, you know, have you ever had times in your life where you were in such pain that you just were saying, Lord, just take me, take me, take me out of here, okay. You wanted to, you just wanted to die, okay. And I remember my mother in the last days that she had, when we wanted to, I wanted her there and I tried to make her eat and this and that. And she said, Son, please just leave me alone and let me die.

She said, I'm tired of living, all my friends are gone, and I want to go home to be with the Lord and be with my mom or her. You know, she talked about her mother, and so just let me turn loose, okay. And the nurse over there, an older woman, said, let her go. You know, and, you know, at that time, of course now I know, but, you know, back then she was my mother, you know. Yeah. And her friend, Violet, who they'd been friends for years and years with, also was in the same nursing home. And she called me over and says, let her go, it's our time, you know, did they, she was referring to both of them. And, you know, we want to go home. Remind me of that movie, did you ever see that movie, The Last Leaf on the Tree?

No. It's a really interesting movie. It starts off this old time and this old man, he's sitting in a rocking chair with a blanket over him, and he's looking out the window. And there's this tree out there in the yard, and it's in the late fall, early winter, and the leaves are gone. And you see leaves falling, leaves falling, okay, and then it swifts over back to when he was a young man, him and his wife. And the life they lived, it was like a love story, it was like a love story, it was very interesting.

But at the end of the movie, it shifts back to him, he's sitting there in the chair with a blanket over him, and then he's looking out, and then the last leaf on the tree falls, and he's dead. And it kind of reminded me somewhat of that, it was interesting. Anyhow, he says, and behold, the veil of the temple was rent and twain from top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks did rent.

Boy, there's a lot going on here now, okay. Now, when you see this, here, when the veil of the temple, the veil of the temple was about 11 to 14 feet high, and it was anywhere from 4 to 6 inches thick. And they used to test it for strength, and from what history says was tested with teams of oxen, it was a very, very, you know, they took it very seriously when God wanted that veil, they had to make it to specifications exactly the way he told them. And here, for it to be rent from top to bottom tells you that it was done by God. And so, here, when the veil of the temple was rent, what do you think the significance of that was?

That it was the dawning of a new era? Well, in a sense, yeah, because what happens when here, you know, we had to go and take an offering, and a priest had to go into the offering and offer up the offering. But when that, when the veil of the temple was rent, the office of the priesthood ended. The office of the priesthood ended, and from that point you had one high priest, and that was Jesus Christ, was the high priest. He was the only intercessor between God and man, the only intercessor. And so, from that point on, you and I, born-again Christians, we became a nation, a holy nation of priests, okay?

Everyone who was born again, all of those that were saved, okay? So there was no office anymore, it was a nation, we become a nation, living stones, a holy people there. And so, we don't have to go and have a priest offer up, we have a high priest, and we go directly to the Lord ourselves.

We go directly to the Father, we can pray directly through the Lord Jesus, okay? And so, now he says, And the earth did quake, and the rocks were rent. You know, that's very interesting, because I wanted to jump back, though, first here for a couple. When I go back to verse 46 for a minute, I see here, In the ninth hour he cried, saying, My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Here, I want to go to Habakkuk chapter 1. Habakkuk chapter 1, verse 13.

Now, listen to this, and this was written around, I believe, around 600 years prior to this. Thou art, verse 13, Habakkuk 1, verse 13, Thou art of pure eyes than to behold evil, and cast not look on iniquity. Wherefore, lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue, when the wicked devoureth a man that is more righteous than he.

Okay? So, here, now think about this. This is, God the Father, of pure eyes than to behold evil, cannot look upon sin, and cast not look upon iniquity. Wherefore, lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously. Do you think that Pilate, he might not want it to, he knew he was doing the wrong thing, but he, you know, he sold his soul on that. But especially the Sanhedrin, the Jews, they dealt treacherously with Jesus, having an unlawful hearing, a court trial at night, and they were treacherous. Everything they did, he was betrayed. And the wicked devoureth this man that is more righteous.

That describes perfectly, okay, what happened. This was, Habakkuk was prophesying about what was going to come. And so, as we go back to where we were over there in Matthew, and then I go back, jump ahead back to verse 51, with verse 51. And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain. We talked about that, but you know what, if we go over to Hebrews chapter, I believe it was chapter 10, let's jump over there real fast. Hebrews 10, yeah it is, verse 19 and 20. Having therefore, brethren, boldness, to enter into the holiest of holiest, by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. In other words, the veil of the temple was symbolic of the flesh of Jesus Christ.

It was torn for us. So here, now, having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter. Now, that word boldness is to enter in, it's not talking about, you know, you know, arrogantly.

You know, going in here, we, I can do this. No, he's talking, the boldness we have is because now we are a nation of priests, and so the boldness comes from our absolute, complete faith in what he did. And then it goes on, going back to where we were, and the graves were opened. Well, you know, it says to the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent, and the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints were slept, arose, and here, and came out of the graves after this, and the resurrection went into the holy city and appeared into many. Now, the interesting thing here is the rock who is Christ had been smitten. And if we go to Exodus chapter 16, Kenny, in Exodus chapter 16 and verse 6, Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock of Horeb, and now shall smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it that people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. Now, here at this time, what was happening to people, they had no water, and they were starting to complain again, and murmuring against Moses, and then finally they were saying, Is God with us or not? You see, is God on our side? Boy, you know, if you're going to rile anybody or distrust, then it wouldn't be anybody but God, right?

Yeah, no kidding. And so here, God told Moses to strike, to take that very same staff that he had, that rod that he had, and smite the rock. Now, the rock was a symbol of the Lord Jesus Christ. He brought them water, living water, and today his word is living water, okay? Jesus, remember what he told the woman at the well?

He says, The water that I have, thou, you'll never thirst again. And so here, so what happened with Moses, he smit the rock, he hit the rock twice. That was a major mistake. Do you know why?

Because once should have been enough. Well, see, the smiting of the rock represented the crucifixion of Christ. And so, you know, you've heard people, there are people out there to believe that you can lose your salvation.

Yeah. The problem with that is the Bible is very, very clear, you can't lose your salvation. See, you cannot lose my wallet.

Yeah, I don't have it. How would I lose it? And so, our salvation is kept in heaven. Christ himself is the Sealer and the Holy Ghost is the Seal. And God the Father would never trust us with anything so sacred as to what the blood of his son paid for, that salvation, that gift of salvation. Yeah, if it was possible for us to lose it, we would. Yeah, if you could lose it, you would lose it. All it would take is one sin, huh?

Yeah, be guaranteed. But here's where the rock comes in. In order to get it back, I've heard people say that they lost their salvation, but then they repented and they got their salvation back. The problem of that, in order for them to get that salvation back, Christ would have to hang up on the cross again.

And that ain't gonna happen. That was the whole point there, okay? And because Moses hit the rock twice, he could not enter into the Promised Land. And so here, and the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints were slept arose. And so here now, this here is the only specific reference to the resurrection of the pre-Christians era saints, the Old Testament saints. The only one that I can find where here we see this was the first resurrection, okay? Jesus was the firstfruits. They couldn't be resurrected until the Lord Jesus was resurrected first. He was the firstfruits. And so here we read, it came out of the graves after this and the resurrection went to the holy city and appeared unto many.

This was really something. I mean, here, Christ had ascended into hell. He set their souls free that had been rested in Hades in the place that they called Abraham's bosom.

You know, it was divided into two sections. One, you know, was for the lost and the other were for those that were in Abraham's bosom. And, however, when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive. And then after he descended first into, again, the lower parts of the earth, Ephesians 4, 8 and 9. So he defeated death and hell.

And now think about this. And now when the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus saw the earthquake and those things that were done, they feared greatly saying, truly, this was the Son of God. And when I was in the service, when we knew something was coming down something big, the word spread. I mean, somebody would drop something or, you know, and, you know, once you got it, you spread the word, spread the word, spread the word, okay?

So everybody would be prepared. Can you imagine now, these Roman soldiers, they're there, they're seeing what happened, okay? And the word is out, oh boy, we did it. This was the Son of God. And so now here, and remember what happens in these times, all of a sudden, the Gentiles, a lot of these Roman soldiers started getting saved. And so here now, it goes on to say, And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him. This is an amazing thing because there were three Marys, three Marys there on that night. There were three Marys found at the cross, among which was Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of Zebedee's children. So you had three Marys there. In those days, you could actually have two sisters in the same household, both with the name Mary. And so, well today, I guess it's not, remember George Foreman?

Yeah. Didn't he name almost all his kids George? He had eight boys. I didn't know it was eight. One of the men in the church today told me that he had eight sons, and he named them all George. And can you imagine being called for dinner? Oh, you only have to yell one name. Hey George! That's unusual.

Very unusual. Now, of course, after the Old Testament, saints could only receive their glorified bodies after Christ had been raised, for Christ must become the firstfruits of them that slept. We find out where in Colossians 1, where is it? Now, it's over in 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 20. Yep.

Now I remember. Now, again, this is the only specific reference to the resurrection of the pre-Christian era believers here. Yet no other interpretation seems even plausible here. Can you imagine these people walking around out there for forty days before they were taken up?

Okay. And so, verse 57, And when the evening was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple. Remember, most all of the early disciples, the first ones, were all Jews. Why do you think that he would have a tomb hewn out a rock, which is expensive, and in Jerusalem, when he lived in Arimathea, which was a good distance away? I don't know.

I saw one time they had a cartoon in the letting papers, and it was Joseph of Arimathea, and his wife was yelling at him, and she was saying, This was our tomb for our family. Why are you giving this to this stranger? And he says, Take it easy. Don't worry.

He only needs it for the weekend. And so, anyhow, here in Israel, I was at that tomb, and they usually have this in three sections, where they claim this is the tomb, that we're 95% positive, 95% sure that this was the actual tomb, and they give you all the reasons, all the research, everything, how it points to this actual tomb. And I kind of, when I was in there, I just felt that, you know, I just had a feeling, you know, it was hard to explain, but you know how you have that peace that passes all understanding? And you don't know how you know, but you just know, okay? And that's the way I felt.

I felt I just knew this was the tomb. And so here, why did he have that? Well, obviously, God's hand was in this thing.

And not only that, but that fulfilled another prophecy. So he went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. Don't you think that Pilate just wanted to be done with this whole matter? He just wished it would all go away?

Absolutely. And Pilate's wife had told him, have nothing to do with this righteous man. I had a dream about that. Oh, he'd have nothing to do with it. He didn't want to have. But the Jews had threatened him that if they didn't, that Caesar was going to find out that Pilate recognized another king, that Jesus was king of the Jews. And so Pilate gave in, instead of standing his ground, of course, we knew that that was going to happen. And when Joseph had taken the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, he laid in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out of the rock.

And he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher and he departed. And there was Mary Magdalene and another Mary sitting over against the sepulcher. What is significant about Mary Magdalene? What significant thing happened with her that separated her from all the other Marys? Wasn't she a prostitute?

Yeah, she has. Christ delivered her from seven demons that she had in her. And so, then you had, of course, you've got all of these false stories out there that people have woven about the Lord Jesus. The Muslims say that Christ never really died, that he swooned. And then when he was laid on that cold stone slab inside the tomb, he revived. And the story has it by some out there that he left there and kind of faded out of the attention of the people. And they say he married Mary Magdalene and had a son, this fellow that they called his rich name.

I'm trying to remember. So you've got all these stories out there today, so many of them. And of course, it started with the Muslims. Of course, we know that the Jews say that they had, that his disciples came and stole his body away. So he goes on and he says, Now the next day that followed in the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together in the pilot, saying, Sir, we remember that this deceiver said while he was yet alive, after three days I will rise again. They believed more than the disciples. Jesus told them three different times that he was going to die and he would rise in the third day.

And here it looked like the Pharisees believed and the chief priests believed more than the disciples. Command therefore that there be a sepulcher be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night and steal him away, saying to the people, He is risen from the dead, so the last error shall be worse than the first. And Jesus said to them, You have a watch, go your way, make it as sure as you can. So they went and made this sepulcher sure, sealing the stone and setting a watch. So what they did is when they sealed the stone, they had to put this like over it. You know, kind of like what you see in a crime scene when you have a tape, with something they would use, but it had to be sealed with Caesar's seal, his wax seal, and the only one that could break that seal would be Caesar himself.

Anybody else that broke that seal without being authorized had to forfeit their life. And if Caesar couldn't do that, then Caesar ceased to be Caesar. And so what did the Lord Jesus do by rolling away that stone?

He made a message to Caesar who was Lord of lords and kings of kings, huh? And so when he rolled away the stone, he didn't roll away the stone so he could get out. He rolled away the stone to show him that he wasn't in there. He didn't need to move the stone to get out of there.

He needed that move so we can go in and see that he was no longer there. And the end of the Sabbath, it was beginning to dawn towards the first day of the week. Now the Sabbath ended on Saturday night at sundown. And so at sundown, the first day of the week began. And so it was well into the first day of the week by the time these ladies had gotten there to the tomb at sunrise. And at the end of the Sabbath it began to dawn towards the first day of the week and Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. And behold, it was a great earthquake for the angel of the Lord. Now here's what a lot of people miss. They miss this, okay? And a lot of them can't wrap their heads around it.

First of all, they say, Pastor, wait a minute. Look, you got three totally different descriptions of what happened and about the angels and that. They contradict each other.

No, they don't contradict each other. Do you know why prosecuting attorneys love to have eyewitnesses at these certain events? Because eyewitnesses don't catch everything. It's because they all see something from a different perspective.

Yeah, from a certain point of view. Let's say that you and I could be watching a crime scene and there might be someone who's out of your sight. They're out of your sight line. You can't see that person there, but I can. So I can see that person and you, okay? And I can see that this person that you can't see, okay, did the crime, shot the person, right? But now this other person, they saw you, but they didn't see the other person. And so all we know is that you were there and Hillary Clinton got shot.

Was that me? But you were there and somebody got shot, okay? And so the prosecutors can use this in a lot of different ways. They like to take it because what it sounds like is they're contradicting stories.

Somebody's not telling the truth here, right? But it's not. In these situations, they all see it and all the events that they saw from their perspective, what they saw, what they remember. There's certain things that might strike you, be important to you, and not somebody else. So that's what you put down. And so it's not anything contradicting.

It's the three different events from three different perspectives, huh? Now, here's where we get into something that, well, it's really amazing. Now, whenever it refers to the angel of the Lord, that is called a Christophany, a Christophany, anywhere in scripture. So do you know who the person of the angel of the Lord is? Jesus. It's the Lord Jesus. Now listen to this, right? But how do we know that?

Okay. Paul White says that wherever she stands is holy ground, that when she's at the White House and she speaks, God is speaking. Well, I don't believe Paul White, but here the Lord Jesus is omnipresent. He's omnipresent. So, in other words, he's more than one place at the same time. Remember, when he appeared to the shepherds in the field, he was announcing his own birth in Bethlehem. So he was in one form as a baby.

He said, well, how can you do that? Well, the Bible says that God is everywhere and all the time. He's omnipresent. Now, they said that his power is unlimited.

So I believe he can do it. But how do we know? Well, because where God is present, what do you have? There's always Chicana glory.

Chicana glory there. And we see this in a number of different places. In fact, if you go over to Daniel chapter 7 and read verse 9, it talks about the ancient of days, about his raiment being light and like light and light. His continents like lightning.

And what are we reading? His continents was like lightning and his raiment white as snow. And his raiment white as snow.

Okay? And so here, if we go to the shepherds in the field, it says that all around him you had the glory of God shown around about. But how do we know that that was the Lord Jesus there? It's because the angels worshiped him. The angels of heaven worshiped him, saying praise and worship.

And so, believe me, the angels of heaven wouldn't worship anybody other than God, huh? And so here now, we have in this situation, the Lord himself. His continents was like lightning and his raiment white as snow.

And now listen to this. Remember when Gabriel went into the Holy of Holies and Zacharias saw him in there, Gabriel the angel? Well, Zacharias was startled. He was afraid, but he wasn't so afraid that he passed out.

Why? Well, because he was in awesome sight, but not here, not like the sight of the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings, okay? And so now, and the fear of him for the keepers, those were the guards, did shake and become his dead men.

They were paralyzed, okay? And the angel answered and said unto the woman, Fear not ye, for I know that you came to see Jesus, which was crucified. Now we're talking about in the form of the risen Lord, the risen Lord, Jesus in his body. Now this angel of the Lord was a complete different here now.

He was the same Christ, but in a different mode. And he is not here, for he is risen, so as he said, Come and see the place where the Lord lay. And so quickly, and go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead, and behold, he goeth before you into Galilee, there shall you see him, though I have told you. And these two Marys, they head off, and along the way they run into another Mary here, and that was the wife of Cleopas, which knew Jesus very, very well.

And so all three of them ended up, and all three of them were at the cross when he was crucified, and they departed quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy, and did run to reign the disciples. What did the Peter and the disciples think at first when they heard this? I think they doubted it, didn't they? Yeah, they thought this was old wives tales.

These are silly women. They thought they saw what they wanted to see or something, but they didn't believe them. And as they went to tell his disciples, Jesus met them, saying, All hail, and they came and held him by their feet and worshiped him. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid, go tell my brethren, and that they go into Galilee, and that they shall see me. And so now here comes the deep state.

Here comes the deep state, okay? Now when they were gone, behold, some of them, the watch came into the city, and they showed it to the chief priest all the things that were done. And when they were assembled with the elders and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers. You know, I don't know what they're paying, you know, the soldiers. I know they were given quite a bit of incentive to join the military nowadays, the younger people. But I remember, right, it was about when I was in, the monthly pay was, I believe it was $103, monthly pay back then. Today, maybe that much in a day, I don't know.

I know that it's gone way, way up. These soldiers didn't make a lot of money. They didn't make a lot of money. But now, they could be in really big trouble. The penalty, it was for falling asleep in guard duty, especially if you let a prisoner escape. And that was virtually what they were there for. That was a death penalty. And you know what they would do? At times, the custom would be to be wrapped in all the clothes that they owned, which, you know, they didn't have wardrobes in those days. They didn't have a lot of garments. They were soaked in kerosene and set on fire.

That was not a good way to go. So, these soldiers, they had, they knew that they could be in big trouble, so now they go to the chief priests, and the chief priests are saying, here, we're going to give you some big bucks, a lot of money, saying, say ye, his disciples came by night and stole him away while he slept. Now, and if the, if this comes to the governor's ears, we will persuade him and secure you. In other words, just like we're bribing him, we got enough money to bribe the governor, too. And that's kind of how business took place.

Like, what happens in D.C. today, right? And so, and, I mean, what choice did the guards have? They didn't have a lot of choice, and they figured, well, if they do end up dying, at least their families might get the money, huh? So they took the money and did as they were taught. And this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day. Now, listen, what I just read to you was written about 2,000 years ago, and guess what?

It's still commonly, it's still commonly reported today. Yeah. 2,000 years later. And so, I want to jump over now to John, to, not John, to Luke, what was it? Luke 24, and I want to start with verse 13. And behold, two of them went that same day to the village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about three-score furlongs.

You know, furlong is about 200 yards. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. Now, who do you have here? Well, you have Cleopas and his wife Mary. That's where they lived. They lived in Emmaus, and they knew, they knew the Lord Jesus very, very well. But the Lord Jesus, if he didn't want you to recognize him, you would not recognize him, right?

Yeah. And so, here he goes on to say, and they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it came to pass that while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.

But their eyes were holding that they should not know him. And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that you have one to another as you walk and are sad? And so, and one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered and said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and has not known the things which are come to pass here in these days? And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet, mighty indeed, and word before God and all of the people. Now, real quick, I'm going to jump over to John 19 and read just one verse 25. John 19 verse 25, Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, whose name was Mary, and his mother's sister, that was the aunt, Jesus' aunt, and Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Madeline.

So you had three Marys right there at the foot of the cross. And so, he goes on to say here, and he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet, mighty indeed, and word before God and all of the people. And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But he trusted that, we trusted that it had been he that should have redeemed Israel, and he, beside all of this today, is the third day since these things were done. And certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulcher. And when they found not his body, they came saying that they had also seen the vision of angels, which said that he was alive.

Now let me ask you a question. What did they think happened to his body? They probably thought that he rose and went to heaven. Well no, they thought that, remember they questioned the angel who they thought was a gardener in one of the things, the keeper, and said they've taken the body of our Lord, they took our, where's our Lord's body?

And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulcher and found it even so, as the women had said, but him they saw not. And then said unto them, he said unto them, O, now here's where this really gets interesting, because he says unto them, O fools, slow of heart to believe all the prophets have sought. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things to enter into his glory? Here, I want to go over real quick to, well, I'll come back to this, okay, and he says in beginning at Moses and all the prophets he expounded on them and all the scriptures the things concerning himself. You had here Messianic scriptures, you had Psalm 22, you had in fact, you know we read that Psalm 22 verses 1 and 2, you had Isaiah 53, you had Psalm 16, you had Psalm 110, on and on and on, you had all of these prophecies about the Lord and these people had that.

And he said, Ought not Christ to have to suffer these things to enter into his glory? O fools, slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. He said, Why didn't you believe them, the prophets? You would have known this.

You should have recognized me, right? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. And here, so he goes on and he says, They drew nigh unto the village, whether they went and made through, and he made as though that he was going to go further, but they constrained him, saying, Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent, and he went to tarry with them.

Now listen to this here, Kenny. And it came to pass, as he said of meat with them, he took bread and blessed it, and break it and gave it to them, and their eyes were opened, and they knew him, then he vanished out of their sight. So why was it, what was it about that, the breaking of the bread, that opened their eyes, do you think?

I'm not sure. On nine different occasions, in the scriptures there, it talks about the Lord Jesus breaking, and so, and they were there, and then when they saw him break the bread, their eyes were opened, and now he allowed them to recognize who he was, and he vanished out of their sight. And they said to one another, did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us, by the way, while he opened to us the scriptures. And so, here, and they rose up in the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, The Lord is risen indeed, thus appeared to Simon, and they told what things they had done in the way, and it was none of them in breaking bread. And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and said unto them, Peace be unto you. And they were terrified and frightened, I suppose, that they had seen a spirit.

Okay. You know, this was amazing. Three times he had told them, he had told the apostles three times about his death, burial, and resurrection. He was going to be crucified.

He would rise in the three days. And they just, you know, that's kind of human nature. Thick-headed. You don't want to, there's certain things you don't want to believe, you just, you can block out, huh? Yeah. And so, I guess we're coming up to the end of the program, aren't we?

Yeah. You know, we're running out of time. But we didn't have much more time. But anyhow, I just wanted to say that this was the most important event in the history of man that happened some 2,000 years ago. Folks, and because it happened, because he lives, and we will live too, because Christ rose from the dead, folks, again, I'm going to tell you, if you have not received Christ as your Lord and Savior, you're running out of time. You better do it quickly.

Just go to the Gospel of John chapter 3 and read it and do it, right? And so, how much time now? Forty seconds.

Okay. Well, we're coming to that point where we come to every night at this time, where we say, thanks for being here. I hope you all have the most blessed Resurrection Sunday. I know some places where we're on the radio, it's still in the middle of the day in some areas, and people are listening, so have the rest of your day, the most blessed Resurrection Sunday, and until tomorrow, I want to say good night, God bless, and always, always, always, ready, keep fighting the fight! Thanks for listening to the Voice of the Christian Resistance, What's Right, What's Left, hosted by Pastor Ernie Sanders. To learn more about our ministry, please visit us online at www.wrwl.org. Please tune in next time for another edition of What's Right, What's Left. The preceding program is sponsored by What's Right, What's Left Ministries, and is responsible for its content.