The resurrection of Jesus Christ is not just a story; it’s the cornerstone of Christian faith. Join us on this journey as Dr. J. Vernon McGee delves into scripture to reveal the compelling proof of the resurrection through the eyes of Simon Peter. Experience the hope and new beginnings that believers worldwide have found, culminating in a message that speaks to both hearts and minds. No matter where you are in your faith journey, this episode offers encouragement and a fresh perspective on the power of the cross.
The foundation, ye saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith.
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Welcome to Through the Bible on the most glorious day of the year. It’s Resurrection Sunday, the day we remember the most pivotal event in history and on which the entire weight of our faith rests. I’m Steve Schwetz and I’m so glad that you’re here as we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord. It’s a day to rejoice because He’s risen and because He lives, we have a living hope. Our message, He Was There, draws from the powerful testimony of Simon Peter, a witness to the majesty and resurrection of Jesus. We’ll hear his words through the inspired writings in 1 and 2 Peter, where he proclaims the foundation of our faith. “‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,’ says 1 Peter 1.3.” This is no fable or fabrication. 2 Peter 1.16 says, For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. Well, today we’re going to reflect on the undeniable evidence of the resurrection, the transformation it brings to our lives, and the hope that it guarantees for our future. So stay with us as we step into the shoes of Simon Peter, calling him to the witness stand to testify about the greatest event in history. because after all, He was there. But before we begin, let’s celebrate a few stories of lives forever changed by the cross of Jesus Christ. First, we hear from a listener in Jordan who listens to Through the Bible in Arabic. I have followed your lessons regularly, and now I am a Christian. I really love Jesus, and I have grown in my faith because of your program. Sadly, my husband and children don’t accept this decision and won’t listen to me, about my new life in Jesus and how, because of His work on the cross, I’ll live in eternity with Him. Please pray to the Lord for a change of heart for my family. I believe the God who could change a sinner like me is able to change the most stubborn in my family.” Wow, isn’t that a great testimony? One that’s so hopeful as well. And I sure hope that you’ll be praying for this listener and her family. I certainly know I will. Next, we have a listener. This one’s in Burundi who shared this. These teachings in my language of Karundi have brought transformation. I was always praised for my cleverness. I learned early on that I could manipulate situations to my advantage by bending the truth. I told small lies to avoid trouble, which escalated over time into bigger deceitful acts. I often deceived friends, family, and even myself about who I really was. After listening to the program, I understood that my identity did not have to be tied to my past mistakes. Through receiving Jesus Christ as my Savior, I found not only forgiveness, but also a sense of purpose. As I grew in my faith, I learned the importance of truthfulness, both to myself and to others. My relationships began to mend as I sought a life of transparency. Jesus saved me from the cycle of deceit and gave me a new beginning. Please pray that I continue to follow him and my life shows others the change that is possible when we accept him as our Lord. Now here’s more good news. This is from Salamat in Pakistan. Greetings, I have learned so much from the Urdu programs. The book of Hebrews in particular has profoundly impacted me, teaching me about Jesus’ sacrifice, an unparalleled gift of love. His sacrifice grants us not only life, but abundant life, something no idol can provide. I’m grateful to the Lord for these teachings, which have deepened my faith. I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior. May God bless you all abundantly, and thank you for equipping us with this life-changing resource. And then our final notes from a listener in Kenya, and he shares, Warm greetings to all. Thank you for the teachings. Before listening to this program, I carried invisible pain and brokenness. It felt like a burden I would always have to bear, too heavy to carry, yet unable to be set down. After listening to the program, I asked Jesus to take my pain, and I felt warmth and love fill my heart. I now have peace, hope, and joy, feeling lighter and experiencing true freedom. I am a living example of Jesus’ healing power, no longer defined by trauma, but by his love and the new life he has given me. I praise God for this gift. Aren’t these great stories? Well, let’s all thank God for the incredible gift of His Son. Heavenly Father, thank You for this glorious day, the day that Your Son, Jesus Christ, conquered death and rose from the grave. Through His resurrection, Lord, You have given us a living hope, a sure foundation, and the promise of eternal life. Open our hearts to Your Word today and let the truth of the resurrection transform us, let it renew us, let it fill us with unmistakable joy and peace. In the precious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Now here’s the Sunday sermon on Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.
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Now this morning, our message bears this subject, He was there. I’d like to read two verses for you today. One is 1 Peter 1, verse 3. It is a beatitude, begins with blessed. Some have called it a doxology. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope. And the better word, of course, is living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you. And then over in 2 Peter, will you notice this language here? I want to read verse 16. For we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we make known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. May I say to you that Scripture puts down the axiom, at the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall the matter be established.” That when creditable witnesses come forth, and you have two, and Scripture would never permit the nation of Israel to accept just one. There had to be two witnesses to establish any fact whatsoever. The bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead is not a misty myth or a flimsy fable resting upon the insecure foundation of fancy. It’s not an air castle built upon unreal dreams of wishful thinking. It’s not a pagan superstition resting upon the hot liquid underpinning of frantic fanaticism. It’s not built on the sands of speculation. It rather rests upon the cold, hard rock of reality. It is built upon a fact, if you please, established upon creditable evidence, attested to by reputable and reliable witnesses, and preserved for us in the inspired record of God’s Word. it still contains enough power to transform the rebellious and sinful heart of a man today. There was not just one witness to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. There were many witnesses, if you please. Paul says that there were 500 that saw him at one time, and when Paul wrote that, he says most of these are alive today and could be called to the witness stand. There were others. This is prima facie evidence which any court of law today would accept It is something that has caused outstanding jurists down through the history of the world to say that this is evidence that is acceptable. It was Lord Lynhurst. He was High Chancellor of Great Britain in 1846. He had one of the greatest honors that could come to a man. And at that time, that man wrote this, I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection of Jesus Christ has never broken down yet. May I say to you that the resurrection of Jesus Christ rests upon facts. Now among the witnesses, there were several that are outstanding witnesses. One especially stands out. His name was Simon Peter. And I do not think it’s by accident that we have come to that his book, his two books in the New Testament and through the Bible program. I think the Lord has led us to this particular book. Because on the day of Pentecost, this man faced a hostile mob. And to explain the events of that day, he said that everything that had taken place rested upon one simple and single fact, and that was the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And as he looked that crowd in the face of several thousand, this is what he said, This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. and back of him stood several hundred men and women that said, we’ve seen him, and we know that he came back from the dead. This morning, on this Easter Sunday, I’d like to call from the first century into the 20th century, Simon Peter, that he might give his testimony before this splendid congregation here today and those listening in. and since he cannot be here in person, of course, I’ll have to be his mouthpiece, but I’m going to give as close to his words as he gave when he was here. I want this morning to ask Simon Peter to take the witness stand. I want to ask him some questions this morning, and I’ll have to ask him to stand here in the pulpit, because you know the pulpit of the first century is was a witness stand. You read the sermons that came out of the first century. We are witnesses. Paul says, I’m a witness. And you never read a sermon in the Word of God but what the resurrection was not, the text and the theme of it. And every epistle deals with it. And all of these men say, we are witnesses. And the pulpit was a witness. Today it’s not that. This morning I’ve asked Simon Peter to stand here and we’ll ask him some questions. First question I’d like to ask, Simon Peter, did you know the one called Jesus, the prophet of Galilee, friends at the Church of the Open Door? I did, but I didn’t call him Jesus. I called him the Lord Jesus Christ. How long did you know him, Simon Peter, before he died? Approximately three years I knew him. When and how did you first meet him? And what was your experience with him? Well, my brother Andrew, he and I were fishermen together. We were in partners. Andrew had followed John the Baptist. And Andrew had met him through John the Baptist. And then Andrew came to me and told me that he’d found the Messiah. I was skeptical, but I went along with him and he introduced me to Jesus, the Lord Jesus Christ. And At that time, he told me that he’s going to change my name. He said he was going to make me a rock man, and when he said that, everybody laughed because everybody knew me. I was not what you’d call a rock man. I was very unstable. I was as unstable as the water in the Sea of Galilee where I fish. And so he said he was going to change my name. That’s when I first met him. We all went back to fishing. He didn’t ask us at that time to follow him. Simon Peter, I’d like to ask this question then. Were you convinced at that time that he was the Messiah, your Messiah? No, not at that time. I went back to fishing, as I’ve said, and one day while we were cleaning our nets, getting ready to go out to fish again, he came by again. And he called us, and I followed him. Well, why did you follow him? Well, I can’t exactly tell you this morning what was in my mind at the time other than this. I knew at the beginning he was different, but I didn’t know how different. And I didn’t know in what respect he was different, but I followed him. Well, you followed him then all the way through Oh, no. I was not very faithful. In fact, the matter is, I went back to fishing again. And he came by the Sea of Galilee again. And I was out fishing with the others and we had fished all night and we hadn’t caught a thing. And he said to us, put your net down on the other side. We put the net down on the other side and you’ve never seen a fish that were in that net. Now, I want you to know that I was sure that he was different now, but I knew that I was not different, that I was still unstable. I got to the shore and I said to him, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man. If you want to know exactly what I said, I said this to him, Why don’t you go and let me alone? Don’t you see I’m not the rock man you thought I was? I can’t be depended on. I’m a sinful man. Go get somebody you can depend on. And you know he wouldn’t do it. He told me to follow him. And I left my net. He said he’d make me a fisherman of men. I left my nets. And at that time, he made me an apostle. He took 12 of us and made us apostles. And we began to follow him. We were with him for three years. I heard him teach. I saw him perform miracles. I lived with him. And I want to say there was no sin in his life. You have a saying that a man’s never a hero to his butler because his butler knows him. But he was my hero because there was no sin within him. We would have found it out had there been. Then I was convinced he was the Messiah, the Son of God. And after two and a half years, we had gone up into Caesarea Philippi. He asked us what other men thought of him. And we told him there was divided opinion about him. Some thought he was Jeremiah. Some thought he was John the Baptist. Some thought he was Elijah. Some thought he was the Messiah that would come. Well, he asked us then, specifically and personally, he said to us, but whom do you say that I am? And I spoke for the others, and I said, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And I was convinced he was our Messiah. And then on that occasion, he announced he was going to Jerusalem to die. He said that he would be delivered into the hands of Gentiles, they would kill him, and that on the third day he would be raised from the dead. And I must confess I didn’t believe that. In fact, I rebuked him for it, and he said a strange thing to me. He said, get thee behind me, Satan. And I didn’t quite understand that. But we started to Jerusalem, and for six months, slowly, deliberately, He set his face to go to Jerusalem. We arrived there right before Passover. The city was filled. And then he did something he’d never done before. He always came into that city unobtrusively. He went in then in a great display, public display, riding upon a little donkey. And, you know, I thought, surely… that he’d be putting Pilate down and these chief priests down and even Caesar down, and he’d mount the throne and establish his kingdom on this earth. As the Old Testament said, I fully look for that. But he still had said, and he kept repeating it when we came to Jerusalem, he said it five times, I go to Jerusalem to die. Well, When the Passover came we went into an upper room where a friend had provided it for us. We celebrated the Lord’s Supper and for some strange reason Judas got up and left. Then he took the rest of us after he took that Passover and on the fading and dying embers of that feast out of the ashes he raised something new and he said, this you’re going to do? And again he said. that he was going to die and shed his blood for our sins, that he’d fulfill all the Old Testament prophecies of the shedding of blood, but that he’d be raised the third day. And candidly, I couldn’t see that. But that night we went out to the Garden of Gethsemane, and the next thing I knew, after we got there and there was prayer, he prayed, I went to sleep. I never could be depended on, really. But I went to sleep, and afterward, why, we heard a shouting and noise, and there came Judas into the firelight. And then there came soldiers. First thing you know, they arrested him. But you know, that night he cut me to the quick. I told him that I was willing to die for him, and he said I’d deny him. Imagine that. Simon Peter denying him. That’s what he said to me. And that night when they arrested him, I wanted him to know that I loved him, and I’d defend him, and I was willing to die. I got a sword, and I’m ashamed to tell you, I cut off the soldier’s ear. I’m really not very good with a sword. I’m very good with a fishing pole, but not good with a sword. I only got his ear. I meant to get his neck. I only got his ear, but I’d like to have gotten him because I wanted my Lord to know I’d defend him. But he told me to put up my sword. There’d be none of this. and arrested him, led him away. And then John, John and I were very good friends. John said to me, you want to go in with me? And I went in with him, and John got me inside. And you know, I bow my head to say it, but I did betray him that night. A little girl there, and it was right before a crowd of soldiers, and I talked out. I probably should have kept quiet, but when I talked, she said, your speech betrayeth you. And I said, I don’t even know him. I denied him. And that night they tried him and they found him guilty, and he wasn’t guilty of what they charged him of. Next morning they took him to Pilate, and I’m really falling afar off now. And then that morning, nine o’clock, they took him out and put him on a cross. And I hung around, I watched. I saw him die. Oh, the darkness came over that cross. And he cried out of that darkness, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And then light broke again on that cross, and then he dismissed his spirit. Then I saw two men that hadn’t been very much out in the public before, Nicodemus and Joseph Maramathia. They took him down, they took him and put him in a tomb. And I knew where the tomb was. It was a new one. Everybody there knew where it was. And then I want you to know that I went into three days of doubt and despair and discouragement. I had never been through a period like that before. I thought he was our Messiah, and I thought he would come immediately to the throne, but he didn’t. He died. And then on that first day of the week, the third day that he’d been in the tomb, it was Sunday morning, John and I were together. We were planning to return to Galilee and go back to fishing. The women had gone out early that morning. They hadn’t finished the burial, actually. They’d made a mummy out of him, wrapped him in linen clothes, and they had put 100 pounds of myrrh on him, and they had more to put on him. And, you know, they came running back, and it was Mary Magdalena that met us, and she came and says, He’s not there. The body’s gone. The stone is removed. Now you know how emotional women are. It was early in the morning, dark, and they probably went out and went to the wrong tomb. And they saw an empty tomb and they thought he’d been stoned. That’s what I thought. And you want to know why I thought that? Because I went out to the tomb. If I had known he was raised from the dead, I wouldn’t have been looking for him out there. I went out there because I did not believe he was back from the dead. John’s a younger man than I am, and he outran me. He got there before I did. And when he got there, he went into the tomb and looked. And then when I got there, I went all the way in. And I want you to know I saw something that convinced me right there and then that he was back from the dead. You know, I said they wrapped his body like a mummy. And there were the clothes, just like a mummy was in them, just like a body was in those clothes that had been wrapped and wrapped. Because you see, they wrap a finger, then they wrap a hand, then they wrap the body. And they put him in there like that, and they put all that myrrh on it to seal the body in. And he couldn’t have come out of that, that is, normally couldn’t have come out of it without just scattering the stuff all over that tomb. Well, he didn’t. They were lying there just as if the body was in it and the body wasn’t in it. And the headpiece was just like the head was in it, but the head wasn’t in it. He was gone. I knew that what he had said to me was now true, that he would die for the sins of the world. He’d be delivered into the hands of Gentiles, that they would abuse him. They would kill him. He’d be buried, but he would be raised from the dead on the third day. He was not there. I had not seen him then, but I knew he was back. But I was present that night with the others. We got back and told them, fellas, don’t leave Jerusalem. We had gone undercover. We’d gone underground. And we were all prepared to leave. And I said, don’t leave. John and I have seen something. He must be back from the dead. And while we were in that upper room, he appeared. We saw him. That Sunday night. He appeared many times to us. We saw him eat. He wasn’t raised spiritually. A spirit doesn’t eat fish. I happen to know that much. He ate fish and bread. But he had a glorified body. It was different, but it was a body. And then yonder at the Sea of Galilee, he appeared to us again, and he prepared a breakfast for us. We ate with him again. That was our final meal with him. Just a moment, Sam and Peter. Paul says that he appeared to you privately. And Dr. Luke also says that he appeared to you privately. Is that true? Yes, that is true. Would you mind telling the folk here at the Church of the Open Doerwa about that interview that he had with you? This is one thing I will not tell you. And the reason is, you see, I had denied him. And when I knew he was back from the dead, I wanted to get to him to make my confession. And you don’t make your confession publicly, and you don’t make it to another man. You see, I went to him directly, as you can go to him directly. to do your confessing, and that is to be done privately. I will say he restored me. He said that he’d pray my faith wouldn’t fail. It didn’t. He restored me. Now let me ask you this final question. Do you believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was raised bodily from the dead? I know it. Are you sure? Will you listen to me? And will you listen to him now? Definitely. For we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we make known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. And then I’d like for you to know that I died for him. He told me that. Before he went back to heaven, he said to me, Peter, you wanted to die for me. You said you would. You will. Knowing that shortly I must put off this, my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me. Tradition says that Simon Peter, when he was crucified, asked to die with his head down and asked him why. He said, my Lord died with his head up and I’m not worthy. Let me die with my head down. And they let him. My beloved, men don’t die for what they know is a lie. Now, they may die for a lie. Many died for Hitler, but they believed in him. Men don’t die for what they know is a lie. These men saw him. The resurrection is not an isolated fact in history, unrelated to the rest of the stream of human history. It has a meaning and it has a message for you and me today. And therefore, I want to return back now to our text, and lift out the meaning. The fact of it, if you have an honest mind, can be established. If you, well, open a rebellious and unbelieving mind and look at the evidence, he came back from the dead. But it has meaning, my friend, it has meaning for you today. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Simon Peter, the witness, wrote that. Now, this morning, there are three things, very briefly in closing, I’d like for you to note as the meaning of the resurrection for us today, as indicated by Simon Peter. First of all, It gives a possibility to every man of becoming a son of God. Because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, every man on topside of this earth can become a son of God. He hath begotten us again. Born again. That’s the language our Lord used. Same language. Now, I will grant this morning that men are the sons of God in a twofold sense. By creation, all men are actually children of God, or better still, creatures of God. Malachi in the second chapter, verse 10, says, Have we not all one Father? Hath not one God created us? So that in that sense, we are creatures of God. The children of Israel is a nation. God never called an individual Israelite his son, but the nation was. In Deuteronomy 14, 1, ye are the children of the Lord your God. And then Paul on Mars Hill, in speaking to that philosophical Greek audience there that day, he says, we are the offspring of God, and that’s what one of your poets says. Now that is true. But my beloved, as a creature of God, man sinned. Adam was created and came from the hand of God. I believe that literally. And that man that was the creature of God sinned. And it is said after that that he begat a son in his likeness, no longer in the likeness of God, a creature that is in rebellion, a creature that is sinful. And you have that nature this morning. That’s the reason that you’re in rebellion against God. That’s the reason you have no capacity for Him. That’s the reason you run from Him. That’s the reason today that you do the things you do. It’s because of the nature that you have. And Paul wrote to the Ephesians. They were Gentiles like most of us today. He says, ye were without God. That’s our picture. And even Christ said to a religious man who had this religion that comes out of the Old Testament but had then gone to seed, he said to him, ye must be born again. Now, look, I believe a great many people would become Christians today if they knew how simple it was. A great many folk think that it’s an involved thing, it’s going through a ritual or a ceremony, or it’s promising something, or it’s making a supreme effort, and that sort of thing, and it’s not that at all. God is not asking you to do something complicated at all. Listen, this is what he says, “…to as many as received him who the Lord Jesus Christ.” To them gave he the right to become the sons of God, even to those that won’t do any more nor less than just simply believe in his name. All that God asks you to do is to trust Christ as your Savior, and then you’re born again by the Spirit of God. That’s all that he asks you to do. That’s all that he’s requesting. Listen to Simon Peter as he speaks here in 1 Peter 1.23, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. It means this, that the Lord Jesus Christ, who is own self, took our sins and his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins might live unto righteousness by whose stripes you’re healed. Heal from your sins, if you please. Now he says, if you believe the word of God, this is God’s incorruptible seed. If you will accept his record that he’s given of his Son and trust him as your Savior, God says, I’ll save you. And he does it, Peter says here, abundant mercy. It’s because of his abundant mercy. You see, God is merciful not because he’s just big-hearted. He’s merciful because his Son died and paid the penalty for your sins. And a holy God can still be holy and reach down and through abundant mercy save you. And he has enough mercy to save you. He can save any sinner today. Anyone that’ll trust him, and that’s the way I got saved, these brethren got saved, and anyone here got saved. You have to come to him as a sinner. Just trust him as your Savior. It’s not complicated. It is that simple. It rests upon the resurrection of Jesus Christ, a living hope, if you please. Now, that is the first meaning of the resurrection. The second is it is a possession for the present. A living hope means a living Christ. The smog of pessimism has settled down over the world today, and there’s not any hope in this world right now. Did you know that? Here is something that I think is quite interesting, and I could, I think, worry you this morning with these statements of those that are outstanding leaders today. who have no hope whatsoever. Will you listen to one that is quoted by the agnostic and atheist? It was George Bernard Shaw. Now, George Bernard Shaw, and they don’t quote this much today, but when he wrote Too True to Be Good, here’s what he said, and this was before he died. The science to which I pin my faith is bankrupt. Its councils, which should have established the millennium, have led directly to the suicide of Europe. I believed them once. In their name I helped to destroy the faith of millions of worshippers in the temples of a thousand creeds. And now they look at me and witness the great tragedy of an atheist who has lost his faith. George Bernard Shaw. There is a brilliant young historian, Mr. Clinton Rosita, who is professor of American institutions at Cornell, and he’s a liberal. Here is what he said in his latest book. Speaking of America, in our youth we had a profound sense of national purpose which we lost over the years of our rise to glory. America will not flourish unless it can develop an inspiring sense of mission and he doesn’t see it. That is pessimism. Leaders in every field today are pessimistic. This is a quotation from Mr. James Reston, the writer out of Washington of the Wall Street Journal. Here’s what he says. The difference between what public men here say in public and what they say in private is greater today than at any time since the war. Now listen to this. But the private conversations of thoughtful men here in Washington are quite different. For the first time since the war, one begins to hear doubts that mortal man are capable of solving or even controlling the political, social, and economic problems life has placed before them. There is pessimism throughout the world today. I’m not sure but what God is permitting this to take place, to set forth the accuracy of his word. For he said, Speaking of us Gentiles, Paul said, having no hope and without God in the world. That’s the picture of our contemporary culture today. My friend, God has put hope in one person and at one place. That person is the Lord Jesus Christ and that place is the tomb he came forth. in power. And that’s the living hope for this world today, and the only hope it has. Let me mention now the third and the last meaning of the resurrection. It gives a prospect for the future. Peter speaks here of an inheritance. He says, “…to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. And it’s by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. You know, it’s a son who inherits. And if we’re to inherit, why, we’re to be a son of God. This inheritance is incorruptible. That means it’s indestructible. This is an inheritance that nothing can touch it at all. It is said that it’s undefiled. That means unstained. The trouble with too many of these great fortunes today, the story of the way they were gotten isn’t a pretty story. Have you read the story of the Vanderbilts and the story of the Rockefellers in history? It’s not a pretty story. But when you inherit from the Son of God an heir and joint heir of Jesus Christ, you have an unstained inheritance for the future. It’s not marred by any shadow, nor is it stained with sin. The third thing said about it, it fadeth not away. It means it’s unwithered. I notice these lovely legs, and they’re so beautiful. They did begin to wither just a little when I exposed them here to the air. But this estate, this inheritance, will not wither. It’ll never lose its luster, nor its beauty. Somebody might say, well, that’s wonderful. But I happen to know about this business of inheriting. I happen to know that, well, sometimes the estate’s used up before the ones that it’s willed to get it. And sometimes they don’t live to get it. May I say to you that he’s made sure that we’ll get this. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last day. Kept. The old man, when he died, was economical even in the epitaph he had put on his tombstone. Just one word. Kept. That’s enough. Kept by the power of God. My friend, this morning, may I say this to you? He died down here to save us. He lives up yonder to keep us saved. We have this morning a living hope because we have a living Savior. He came out of the tomb. He lives on high. And today he can keep that, Paul says, which I’ve committed unto him until that day. These are the things. that come to us. Because 1900 years ago, he intruded, God intruded into human history. He died for our sins. He was buried. He was raised again the third day. He asks you and me today to believe that and to trust him as Savior. This today is the way we become sons of God. This is the way. that you and I can have a hope in this present dark hour in the history of the world. This is the thing that guarantees the future. Is he your savior today?
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