WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:11.500 truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. Hey, where was Jesus when he 3 00:00:11.500 --> 00:00:15.400 died on the cross? What happened to him? What was going on? When if he's dead? 4 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:20.120 Well, how did the world stay together? If he's God, let's find out. 5 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:29.800 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 6 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:35.160 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 7 00:00:35.160 --> 00:00:40.040 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 8 00:00:40.040 --> 00:00:45.600 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 9 00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:51.040 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 10 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:56.960 Hey, everybody. Welcome to this podcast. And I'm prone to most often say welcome to 11 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:01.280 this special podcast. To us, they're all special. I hope they're special to you. I hope 12 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:05.760 that they are making a difference in your life because we're bringing you truth and we're 13 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:11.840 bringing you what to live by thus we are called real life. And this being the Jack Hibbs podcast 14 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:19.040 and the ministry that I'm involved in and the in the para para ministries I'm involved in. 15 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:25.120 Most of them carry the real life brand name tag to it. The reason why is because we believe 16 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:30.080 that Christianity is not that we believe it. How about that? That's even the wrong way to say it. 17 00:01:30.080 --> 00:01:38.000 We know that Christianity, Biblically based Christianity, not modern day man defined Christianity. 18 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:46.240 We're talking about Bible based Christianity is a fact. It is the reality. And so thus it is 19 00:01:46.240 --> 00:01:54.960 real life. To live real life is to live out the Word of God. We take this both from now in our 20 00:01:54.960 --> 00:02:00.640 lives to the grave and into eternity. And let's talk about that for a moment. Let's just jump in 21 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:10.320 to this. And I'm going to cover too many areas of scripture to be turning pages back and forward. 22 00:02:10.320 --> 00:02:15.360 So I'm going to ask you to pay attention. And then I'm going to ask you maybe look that up. 23 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:21.360 I'll say something like that. You can look that up here or look that up there. But let's talk about 24 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:32.320 this. Let's talk about the fact that no other faith organization, no other faith group can claim. 25 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:40.560 And that is for we as believers, followers of Christ, we're the only ones who can claim 26 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:49.760 based on fact that our founder of our faith is none other than God himself. Meaning this that we 27 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:57.920 start in Genesis 1-1 in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And that's where we begin. 28 00:02:57.920 --> 00:03:04.480 And we end in Revelation chapter 22 where the Lord says behold, I come quickly, even so come quickly 29 00:03:04.480 --> 00:03:13.360 Lord Jesus. And what makes up the entire Bible is the truth of God. This book does not contain 30 00:03:14.160 --> 00:03:22.000 the word of God. This book is the word of God. And when I say that, I mean that there are 31 00:03:23.040 --> 00:03:29.200 not parts of this scripture that you can apply to today's life. That would make you honestly 32 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:37.120 somewhat of a heretic to say, well, we believe the New Testament applies today, but not the old, 33 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:42.800 or we believe that some of the New Testament applies, but not the rest of it and certainly not 34 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:48.640 the old. Look, it's equally wrong for someone to say, and I have friends who say this, only the 35 00:03:48.640 --> 00:03:54.640 first five books of the Bible apply. The rest of it doesn't. That's equally wrong. God has 36 00:03:54.640 --> 00:04:02.320 preserved for us his entire word. And the scripture backs itself up from Deuteronomy, for example, 37 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:12.720 from Revelation, from Matthew, from Isaiah, where Jeremiah, where the scriptures warn proverbs, 38 00:04:12.720 --> 00:04:19.040 the scriptures warn that you are not to add to the scriptures or take away from the scriptures. 39 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:25.280 For if you do, the very curses of this word will come upon you. You don't mess with God's word. 40 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:33.600 So coming from that, we want to ask this question. Regarding the resurrection of Jesus Christ 41 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:39.520 from the dead, no other faith group can claim this. Mohammed did not rise from the dead. 42 00:04:39.520 --> 00:04:44.800 There's no evidence of Mohammed rising from the dead, and there's no message in Islam that 43 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:51.920 Mohammed did rise from the dead. What about Buddhism? What about Hinduism? What about Taoism? 44 00:04:52.560 --> 00:05:03.120 What about Hinduism? All of these things that are faith positions have no form of salvation 45 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:11.680 provided to the adherent by the very one in whom they worship. I want you to hear that again. 46 00:05:13.200 --> 00:05:18.960 Each of those organizations have a worship system, but none of their worship system 47 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:29.360 has its founder being the one who pays the price for their sins, establishes righteousness, 48 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:37.920 is resurrected from the dead, promising you that you too can now live forever, but Jesus Christ 49 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:44.640 alone. Why is that true? Because there's only one book in the entire universe that said that's 50 00:05:44.640 --> 00:05:50.000 exactly what he would do. And so somebody might say, well, where does the Bible say this? 51 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:55.920 Where does the Bible say that? We get that all the time. Where does the Bible say about homosexuality 52 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:59.920 throughout the Bible? Why don't you read it? You want the answer? Read it. Well, where does the 53 00:05:59.920 --> 00:06:07.360 Bible say stuff about the rapture in the Bible? You should read it. Where does the Bible say about 54 00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:14.800 capital or corporal, corporal punishment? Somebody should be put the death for a particular crime. 55 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:22.400 The Bible says this throughout. There's the consistency or the harmony of the scriptures, 56 00:06:22.400 --> 00:06:28.560 the expositional constancy of scriptures. There is the hermeneutics and the homiletics of the 57 00:06:28.640 --> 00:06:37.760 Bible. There are laws to the interpretation of the Bible that keep it intact for us, the reader, 58 00:06:37.760 --> 00:06:43.200 for us, the student. Now, let's talk about this. Jesus Christ resurrected from the dead. Let's 59 00:06:43.200 --> 00:06:49.360 first of all back up. Jesus Christ before the resurrection, the Bible tells us that he was God 60 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:54.880 come to earth in human flesh. That's Old Testament doctrine and New Testament doctrine. 61 00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:02.960 That Jesus Christ, by being the Messiah, when the apostles and disciples, for example, heard 62 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:11.200 the voice from heaven in the excellent glory say, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. 63 00:07:11.200 --> 00:07:18.320 We often think that that's a very sweet thing to say about Jesus. Isn't that a nicety? No, 64 00:07:18.320 --> 00:07:23.920 it's not a nicety. It's beyond all that. When God the Father spoke from heaven above 65 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:34.880 to the disciples, when he said, this is my only son in whom I'm well pleased, it means this is my 66 00:07:34.880 --> 00:07:46.400 one and only manifestation of who I am in person to you, mankind. And it is him alone that is 67 00:07:46.400 --> 00:07:54.320 acceptable to me. There's no other. There's no other that has ever been. There is no other that 68 00:07:54.320 --> 00:08:02.000 is and there is no other that shall be. It is Christ alone who's acceptable to the Father. 69 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:09.200 This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. By the way, that's all buttoned up in this term. 70 00:08:09.760 --> 00:08:15.600 This is my begotten son. There's only one begotten son. There will not be a second. 71 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:23.680 That's why when you study the deity of Christ, now some of you who are of cults, maybe Mormonism 72 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:29.760 or Jehovah witnesses or maybe Islam or maybe Judaism, you're saying, we don't believe that he's 73 00:08:29.760 --> 00:08:35.520 the only begotten son. We have a problem with the word of God because the word of God tells you 74 00:08:35.520 --> 00:08:41.840 an old and new testament that there's only going to be one son of God that is going to be given, 75 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:49.520 one son of God provided, one son of God acknowledges the atonement, one son of God resurrected from 76 00:08:49.520 --> 00:09:01.840 the dead. That's Old Testament theology. That is Psalms 2, Psalm 22. That is Isaiah 7, Isaiah 9. That is 77 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:11.360 Proverbs 30. We can go on and on. Just Old Testament alone on this. But let's talk about Christ being 78 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:19.840 on the cross. This is God in human flesh. For those 33 and a quarter years that he lived at being 79 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:26.560 born from the Virgin Mary, Isaiah 7, Christ is born into this world. God in human skin, 80 00:09:27.520 --> 00:09:37.920 he felt everything that you and I feel. He felt cold, he felt hungry, he felt pain, he felt sorrow. 81 00:09:38.640 --> 00:09:44.480 In fact, I personally believe that he felt it more perfectly than any of us could ever feel 82 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:52.160 anything. But what he didn't have was a sin nature, which is a remarkable thing. Jesus did not 83 00:09:52.400 --> 00:10:02.480 have a sin nature, meaning that he didn't have to fight with what you and I fight with. His fight 84 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:08.800 was actually greater. See, what do you mean, Jack? Jesus didn't have a sin nature because he was 85 00:10:08.800 --> 00:10:16.960 God, yet 100% man. But watch this. Jesus Christ and all points was tempted just like us, yet without 86 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:24.000 sin. The Bible tells us in the book of Hebrews as an example. So when Christ was tempted, 87 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:33.040 was he really tempted? Yes, it was intensity, yet he didn't sin. We were born with the nature of 88 00:10:33.040 --> 00:10:40.400 sin. You and I have that. Christ was born without that nature. But when Satan tempted him, for example, 89 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:48.880 in the wilderness of Judea for 40 days, those were real legit temptations. Those temptations were 90 00:10:48.880 --> 00:10:56.000 so great that you and I are only tempted in those areas by fraction. For example, when Satan said 91 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:01.760 to Jesus, why don't you just bow down and worship me? And I will give you all the kingdoms of this 92 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:12.240 world. That was real. Satan may be dangerous, but he's not stupid. What Satan said to Jesus was 93 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:18.480 100% truth. Jesus just bowed down and worshiped me, and I'll give it all to you. 94 00:11:20.560 --> 00:11:27.520 What made that a real temptation was that Satan was offering something to Jesus that Satan could give 95 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:37.280 him. This world right now is under Satan's domain. Think of that. Right now, the realm, the authorities 96 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:45.280 of this world are under the principality and the power of the air, the ruler of this world, 97 00:11:45.280 --> 00:11:52.640 the Bible says, Satan. Jesus Christ in coming, look at it this way, he invaded what C.S. 98 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:59.520 Lewis says, he invaded enemy occupied territory. When Christ came into this world, 99 00:12:00.160 --> 00:12:07.360 Jesus invaded enemy occupied territory. The enemy is occupying this territory, the world. 100 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:16.800 Christ invaded by being born into this world. And so when Satan said, just bow down and worship me, 101 00:12:16.800 --> 00:12:22.240 and I'll give you everything, that was a real legitimate temptation. Why did you turn these 102 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:26.720 stones? You're starving to death. Why didn't you turn these stones into bread? You can do that. 103 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:35.520 Satan did not deny the power of Jesus. Satan came at an opportune moment when Christ was about 104 00:12:35.520 --> 00:12:42.720 to die in the physical body. Satan came and said, when you like to eat right now, I know you would. 105 00:12:43.680 --> 00:12:48.560 Remember how good bread taste? I'm getting an unknown caller. 106 00:12:52.320 --> 00:13:00.800 Satan knew exactly what he was doing. He knew exactly how to dangle that temptation in front of him. 107 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:08.320 So the sceptations that Christ experienced in the wilderness, they were more than real to us. 108 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:15.200 They were exceedingly difficult. When Satan said, as he placed Jesus at the pinnacle of the temple, 109 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:21.040 throw yourself down. Doesn't the scripture say that you will not dash your foot against the stone, 110 00:13:21.040 --> 00:13:29.840 but the angels of heaven will bear you up? Satan misquoted that psalm, trying to trick Jesus up. 111 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:36.480 And what did Jesus respond by saying, they'll shall not tempt the Lord thy God. 112 00:13:37.920 --> 00:13:44.320 But listen, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. 113 00:13:45.680 --> 00:13:52.960 So when Jesus died on the cross for our sins, it was God there dying for us because only God 114 00:13:53.760 --> 00:14:00.960 and his death could atone for our sins. Not any good man. It had to be more than a good man. 115 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:07.680 It had to be Christ himself. When he died, how did he die? Watch, this sounds like a trick question. 116 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:14.800 A pause for a moment. How did Jesus Christ die? Your normal answer is going to be crucifixion, right? 117 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:28.160 Somebody could say exposure, blood loss, exhaustion. How did Jesus Christ die? The Bible tells us. 118 00:14:30.640 --> 00:14:39.920 After the atmosphere had turned completely dark, for the space of three hours, God laid on Jesus, 119 00:14:39.920 --> 00:14:49.280 the iniquity of us all, Isaiah 53. Jesus then says, to tell us, die, it is finished. 120 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:57.280 When his atoning work on the cross was finished for the sins of mankind, how did Jesus die? 121 00:14:57.280 --> 00:15:03.680 The Bible says Jesus dismissed his spirit. You cannot do that. I cannot do that. 122 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:11.680 Only God can do that. When Jesus had paid the price for sin's debt, a price that you and I 123 00:15:11.680 --> 00:15:18.640 could never pay, he paid it for us. When he finished the job, he dismissed himself from his physical 124 00:15:18.640 --> 00:15:26.880 body. This is where it gets fun. His body died. The moment Jesus dismissed his spirit, his body died. 125 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:33.680 Look, the moment your spirit leaves your body, your body dies. When someone is pronounced dead 126 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:38.800 at the scene of the accident, it's because your spirit has left your body. 127 00:15:40.640 --> 00:15:47.760 You're gone. We only have your body. Listen, in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 23, 128 00:15:47.760 --> 00:15:52.080 it says, may the Lord, may the Lord Jesus Christ sanctify you fully, 129 00:15:52.880 --> 00:16:00.080 completely, body, soul, and spirit. So friends, listen, when Jesus died on the cross, 130 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:05.360 and his body was hanging on the cross, where did Jesus go? What became of Jesus? 131 00:16:06.560 --> 00:16:10.400 What? Be careful. You want to think this through. Because some of your friends will tell you, 132 00:16:10.400 --> 00:16:15.200 how could Jesus be God? If he died, the whole universe would have fallen apart, right? Because 133 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:21.520 isn't he God? Yes, he's God. See, your mistake is thinking that his physical body is what's 134 00:16:21.520 --> 00:16:27.600 holding the universe together. You need to think bigger, friend. When Jesus dismissed his spirit, 135 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:34.960 the body dies on the cross. Christ, his soul and his spirit never died. Only his body died. 136 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:42.800 So what do we know? We know that for three days, the body of Christ lay in the tomb. We know 137 00:16:43.520 --> 00:16:53.760 that during the time that Christ was laying in the tomb in his body, we know that the book of Hebrews 138 00:16:53.760 --> 00:17:01.440 and the book of Leviticus requires that for our atonement to be secured forever, our treasure 139 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:07.840 to be laid up in heaven forever had to be offered up by Jesus Christ. It means that Christ would 140 00:17:07.840 --> 00:17:14.160 have been conducting his priestly ministry before the Father who's in heaven. 141 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:22.800 It means that during those hours, those days of Christ's body lying in the tomb, 142 00:17:22.800 --> 00:17:28.960 it means that he would have fulfilled the Old Testament promise recorded in the book of Ephesians, 143 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:35.360 where it says that he would have gone down and preached to those who were what we refer to in 144 00:17:35.360 --> 00:17:43.440 Abraham's bosom, sheol or Hades. Did you know that before Christ rose again from the dead bodily? 145 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:49.360 Did you know that when David died, for example, or Noah died, for example? Did you know that none of 146 00:17:49.360 --> 00:17:56.320 them went to heaven? Nobody had gone to heaven. Nobody. Nobody. Listen, even the thief on the cross, 147 00:17:56.320 --> 00:18:01.120 what did Jesus say to the thief on the cross? He said, today you'll be with me in paradise. He 148 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:07.600 didn't say heaven, big difference. Today you'll be with me in paradise. When Jesus died, 149 00:18:07.600 --> 00:18:15.040 his body died first and then later the thief on the cross died, what happened? Jesus said, today 150 00:18:15.040 --> 00:18:21.120 you'll be with me in paradise. When that thief on the cross died, his body remained on the tomb, 151 00:18:21.120 --> 00:18:28.720 but his spirit and his soul went straight to Abraham's bosom, straight to sheol or to Hades. 152 00:18:29.120 --> 00:18:37.680 It's referred to in Scripture as I'll draw it because it's easier for me to explain. 153 00:18:41.760 --> 00:18:51.040 There's these, we'll call them two compartments. In Hades or sheol, we know from Luke 15 and Luke 154 00:18:51.040 --> 00:18:57.920 chapter 16, there is the place that is called referred to affectionately as Abraham's bosom, 155 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:08.400 where Abraham, Daniel, Noah, Adam, Isaiah, the thief on the cross, Ezekiel. Remember when the 156 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:15.840 Old Testament says, for example, to Daniel, Daniel, it's time for you to die. You're going to be 157 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:23.360 gathered to your fathers. It's this spot, it's this spot right here. From so to speak, 158 00:19:25.040 --> 00:19:32.960 I say so to speak, accurately, I assume Adam repented of his sin and I assume that Adam was the 159 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:41.360 first guy when he died to enter here. In the last guy, we don't know if the thief on the cross was, 160 00:19:41.360 --> 00:19:46.560 in fact, the last guy doesn't matter. Let's just say that he is for now. Everyone from Adam 161 00:19:46.560 --> 00:19:50.960 to the thief on the cross, as an example, saying he was, it could have been somebody else, 162 00:19:51.600 --> 00:19:58.160 but they went to what's called Abraham's bosom or paradise. Luke gives you some description 163 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:05.120 that in between this place is a huge gulf, a great canyon. The verbiage is actually a gulf, 164 00:20:06.080 --> 00:20:16.320 g-u-l-f, a chasm. And then over here is torment. This is not exactly hell. This is also 165 00:20:16.320 --> 00:20:24.880 referred to as Hades. But listen, when Jesus Christ died on the cross, it says that He came and He 166 00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:34.400 preached the gospel to those who were captive. That's a great, broad statement because it would 167 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:42.480 have also meant that He would have preached the gospel to those that are in, we'll call hell, 168 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:48.000 though it's not technically hell. It gets complicated and it's a podcast for some other time, 169 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:56.880 but Abraham's bosom, paradise, sheol or Hades, Hades or sheol divided in half, 170 00:20:57.120 --> 00:21:09.920 pleasant, torturous, believer, pre-resurrection, believers, unbelievers, the wicked. 171 00:21:11.760 --> 00:21:19.920 When Jesus Christ announced that He was the promised Messiah, He announced that to both camps. 172 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:28.080 Can I put it this way? To these guys, He said, hey, I'm the one you guys knew about. I'm the one 173 00:21:28.080 --> 00:21:34.960 that you guys trusted in. I'm the one that you guys were looking forward to. I'm the one. I say, 174 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:43.200 I'm the one you talked about. Hang on a minute. Hey, you know all you guys that rejected everything 175 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:49.440 that Abraham had told you, everything that had been preached to you, that nature itself had 176 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:54.800 preached to you, everything that you had heard and you had rejected. I'm the one. I'm the one 177 00:21:54.800 --> 00:22:02.640 that you rejected. You should have listened. I'm the Messiah. Those guys over here, they were 178 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:12.720 correct. You should have listened to them. Read Luke 15 and Luke 16, okay? The Bible says in Ephesians 179 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:23.680 that he took these captive. It's a term by the way, beautiful term used regarding a conquering Roman 180 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:31.200 general. He took them captive. This is the spoils of his victory. He took them captive. Don't you 181 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:38.240 want to be captive by Jesus? I want to be captured by Jesus. He took them captive. So technically, 182 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:45.120 the thief on the cross spent the shortest amount of time in paradise as possible. He was just 183 00:22:45.120 --> 00:22:53.760 visiting. Can you imagine? Man, I wonder what happened. Oh, wow. Anyway, we could have fun with that. 184 00:22:53.760 --> 00:23:02.320 But the Bible says that Jesus took all of these who had trusted in him from Adam to the thief on 185 00:23:02.320 --> 00:23:11.280 the cross and he led them in a grand and glorious entrance into heaven. He led captivity captive 186 00:23:11.280 --> 00:23:16.800 and the Bible says he gave gifts unto men. That is a beautiful statement referring to the gift of 187 00:23:16.800 --> 00:23:23.360 salvation was given to them and they were delivered into heaven above and also the outpouring of the 188 00:23:23.360 --> 00:23:28.800 Holy Spirit gifts given to the church on the day of Pentecost. He purchased those gifts with his 189 00:23:28.800 --> 00:23:37.360 own blood. As of this hour, this paradise is now empty. No one's there. When someone dies, you 190 00:23:37.360 --> 00:23:42.400 actually know the answer to this. When someone dies, the Bible says that to be absent from the body 191 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:50.560 is to be present with the Lord. If you die today as a believer, your spirit, your soul immediately 192 00:23:50.560 --> 00:23:56.320 goes to be with Jesus. Immediately. It doesn't go here. It doesn't go here. It goes to be with the Lord. 193 00:23:56.800 --> 00:24:03.040 If somebody dies today, not believing in Christ, the non-believer dies today. Where do they go? They 194 00:24:03.040 --> 00:24:11.200 go right here. They go right here. Sheol, Hades. They're not officially in hell, not yet. 195 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:19.200 This area will be taken at the end of the book of Revelation. It will be taken and it will be cast 196 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:25.040 into the lake of fire. Death in hell shall be cast into the lake of fire that burns forever. 197 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:35.920 Yeesh. Think of that. So, departing from this now, we move on that during those three days, 198 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:45.120 where is Jesus? There are various ministries that Jesus is fulfilling during that period prior to 199 00:24:45.120 --> 00:24:53.840 his resurrection. Remarkable. He's not somewhere in limbo. He's not somewhere floating in a some 200 00:24:55.040 --> 00:25:02.560 solution of water, spirit, world. It's not purgatory. That doesn't exist. The Bible tells us 201 00:25:02.560 --> 00:25:08.320 that it's not some limbo land that doesn't exist. Jesus Christ was in some way, shape, and form 202 00:25:08.320 --> 00:25:14.800 very active from the moment of his bodily death. And then when he rose again from the dead on that 203 00:25:14.800 --> 00:25:21.200 Sunday morning, his tomb was found empty. And listen, you read all four gospels and there's 204 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:26.400 various accounts of what has gone on or what is going on with resurrected Christ. Remember, 205 00:25:27.520 --> 00:25:36.720 the women saw him. The angels are announcing he's not Harry's risen from the dead. Mary is crying. 206 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:43.280 She sees the guard. Look at my finger. Watch my fingers. She sees the gardener and says, 207 00:25:43.280 --> 00:25:47.680 where have you taken the body of my Lord? Just tell me where you've taken them. And I'll take it 208 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:57.600 from there. And Jesus said, Mary, Mary. And she realizes, Roboni, Roboni, teacher, teacher, rabbi, 209 00:25:57.600 --> 00:26:04.000 rabbi. And remember, the clinging onto Jesus at one point Jesus says, don't cling to me before I 210 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:13.440 have not yet ascended. Isn't that interesting? I personally believe that after the resurrection, 211 00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:23.440 when Jesus says to her, don't hold me down. Don't cling to me. I've not yet ascended that at some 212 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:34.080 point in time after that moment, Jesus appears in heaven in his glorified body as our high priest 213 00:26:34.080 --> 00:26:43.840 representative. And sees to it that his blood is offered up on the ark of the covenant, which is 214 00:26:43.840 --> 00:26:51.760 the actual ark, not Indiana Jones's ark, not Stephen Spielberg's ark, not the ark that was 215 00:26:51.760 --> 00:26:57.040 in the earthly temple. That was a model. Those were those were images of that, which is in heaven. 216 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:05.600 Jesus presents his blood on the seat of atonement, on the seat of sacrifice in heaven above, 217 00:27:05.600 --> 00:27:11.200 where moth and rust and thief cannot break in and steal nor rust corrupt. Isn't that great? Your 218 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:17.920 salvation is safe in heaven, not in some structure, some building on earth, some where thank God. 219 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:29.680 So you see, friend, listen, Jesus' body died. Jesus didn't cease to exist and to meditate on the 220 00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:43.200 ministry that took place on the cross, after the cross, during the body line in the tomb to 221 00:27:43.280 --> 00:27:50.320 resurrection Sunday morning when his body was resurrected from the dead in his glorified state. 222 00:27:50.320 --> 00:27:58.640 I find it fascinating that Jesus, when he rose again from the dead, still bore the scars of his 223 00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:05.680 beatings and of his crucifixion. The book of Zechariah tells us that when Christ returns in the 224 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:13.600 second coming to the nation of Israel, to the city of Jerusalem, the Bible tells us what Israel 225 00:28:13.600 --> 00:28:19.600 will say just always upsets the replacement theology goofs, but that's their problem. 226 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:28.960 In the second coming Israel will have petitioned God three times. Come, come, and it says on the 227 00:28:29.040 --> 00:28:37.360 third time that they petition, he will appear. And they will say, what are these wounds that you 228 00:28:37.360 --> 00:28:43.920 have received in your hands and in your side? And Jesus says to them, these are the wounds that I 229 00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:51.520 received in the house of my friends. He's speaking of his own brethren. He returns to the mount of 230 00:28:51.520 --> 00:28:57.200 olives. He returns to Zion. He returns to the temple mount. And the Bible tells us that 231 00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:02.160 in the second coming events, the mount of olives will cleave and half. 232 00:29:03.520 --> 00:29:09.040 And the water will gush up and out of the mountain and part of the water will flow down 233 00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:14.320 into the Mediterranean Sea and part of the water will flow down into the Dead Sea. 234 00:29:15.600 --> 00:29:18.960 And then as that's going on, the Bible says Zion will be elevated. 235 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:23.040 The second coming of Christ will have taken place. 236 00:29:25.760 --> 00:29:34.080 Amazing things. It's fun to imagine. It's fun to think. It's fun to scour scripture and do us 237 00:29:34.080 --> 00:29:42.640 a word study and search. What was Jesus doing after his physical death on the cross 238 00:29:43.360 --> 00:29:53.440 before his miraculous, glorious physical resurrection on that Sunday morning? This we know for sure. 239 00:29:55.040 --> 00:30:01.120 Eternal ministry was taking place for you. Friends, your salvation is secure in Jesus Christ 240 00:30:01.120 --> 00:30:07.600 if you have salvation. People will say, well, what camp are you of? Are you of one saved, always saved? 241 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:13.280 Or do you believe you can lose your salvation? I believe that kind of questioning comes from 242 00:30:13.280 --> 00:30:18.320 sloppy logic, sloppy thinking, lazy thinking for this reason. 243 00:30:20.800 --> 00:30:25.440 If Jesus says in John chapter 10, if you're in my hand, you're in my father's hand, 244 00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:29.520 and nobody can snatch you out of our hands, sounds pretty secure to me. 245 00:30:30.320 --> 00:30:34.320 The Bible says in first John, these things have been written that you might know that you have 246 00:30:34.320 --> 00:30:39.760 eternal life. Sounds pretty secure to me. You see, we're asking the wrong questions. We've come 247 00:30:39.760 --> 00:30:47.840 to the wrong assumptions. It's not, do you believe that someone can lose their salvation? I'm not 248 00:30:47.840 --> 00:30:53.120 interested in that question. I'm interested in this question. Do you have salvation? 249 00:30:53.440 --> 00:31:02.480 A lot of people look like they're saved, act like they're saved for a long time. 250 00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:09.760 But over the time of perils and difficulties and trials and pain and the hardship of life 251 00:31:09.760 --> 00:31:16.240 and the trials of this world, they wind up giving up. There's no visible fruit in their lives. 252 00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:25.760 Did they lose their salvation? No. They were tears. They were goats. They were not sheep. 253 00:31:25.760 --> 00:31:29.680 They were not wheat. They were false brethren. 254 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:36.400 Jesus says in Matthew 13, these are they who believe for a while. 255 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:42.480 But when the world comes to them, they go back into the world. They never had salvation. 256 00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:47.680 They only believe. They didn't have faith. A lot of people believe. The challenge for you today 257 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:53.520 is, do you have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ to do what He says He'll do? You don't lose your 258 00:31:53.520 --> 00:32:01.760 salvation if you have it. The question is, do you have it? Or are you almost a Christian? 259 00:32:03.600 --> 00:32:07.040 If you're saved, that means the Holy Spirit dwells within you. 260 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:12.000 And the Holy Spirit bears witness with your spirit that you are a child of God. 261 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:20.320 Do you mess up? Oh, yeah, you do. And you hate it, don't you? I do. Do you fall short? Yes, we do. 262 00:32:20.320 --> 00:32:27.280 But we know it and we hate it. A person who is religious and not saved, that doesn't concern them. 263 00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:35.520 They'll just act a little better tomorrow and work it off. You see, the real Christian doesn't live 264 00:32:35.520 --> 00:32:47.120 like that. The real Christian is 24, 7365 walking in the spirit. And when we fail to walk in the spirit, 265 00:32:47.120 --> 00:32:54.960 our alarms go off and we're immediately convicted. And we come to him and we repent of our sin. 266 00:32:56.880 --> 00:33:01.440 Friends, listen, the hour is late. You know, at the time, and I'm wrapping this up now, at the time 267 00:33:01.520 --> 00:33:08.800 of this podcast, we've just heard on the news that Israel has been given hours 268 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:16.000 before Iran attacks it. Now, at the time of you watching this podcast, because, you know, 269 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:22.000 we got to engineer it and get it out, only God knows what will transpire from this day forward. 270 00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:30.960 I'm all that to say, you better know Jesus. You better be able to explain these things. 271 00:33:32.080 --> 00:33:40.880 How did Jesus Christ die on the cross? What did His dying on the cross do for you? 272 00:33:41.520 --> 00:33:56.240 How does God forgive sin? How is God righteous when some people go to hell and some people go to heaven? 273 00:33:57.760 --> 00:34:05.840 When, why did Jesus rise from the dead? How is he qualified? If you don't know the answer to 274 00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:10.320 these simple questions, how can you be a Christian? How can you say you're a Christian when you don't 275 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:17.200 know what it is that you believe in? Times are serious. We're getting near to the end. 276 00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:24.800 You must, must know where you stand with God. I pray that you give your life to Christ, 277 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:31.120 own up to your own sin, give it to Christ, repent of your sin, turn away from it and turn to him. 278 00:34:31.520 --> 00:34:36.880 Believe in that he died on the cross and rose again from the dead and he promised to save you 279 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:43.680 to the uttermost. God is so good. Friends, listen, if this has ministered to you, if you want others to 280 00:34:43.680 --> 00:34:49.520 hear this and to see this as well, just listen, share this, give us a like, give us a thumbs up, 281 00:34:49.520 --> 00:34:55.280 give us a five star rating, somehow in the algorithm in the social media world that helps us 282 00:34:55.360 --> 00:35:01.760 bump, get bumped up. It makes a difference. 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