Easter 2024 | The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

The Resurrection as the Christian High Holy Day

You don't hear me just fine. Again that man needs a raise. Hallelujah. He has risen Man. I Tell you what. In preparation this week just just contemplating everything that that's taking place right now right in our world and and what we know from Scripture and history and how how Important this day is for Christians, right should be important for the whole world.

And this is the high holy day for Christians. Now as a reformed church, we celebrate the risen Christ every Lord's Day but this this is a day where most people who are not attending churches attend a church and.

And then most churches think that had to put on this great performance to get people to come back. We don't worship God in performance we worship God in spirit and in truth. Hallelujah. That's my people Blessed be the name of the Lord all right, so.

Acts 2:22–36 and the Prayer for the Message

Our text that we're going to be coming from today is Acts chapter 2 verses 22 to 36. And if you're a member of this church, you're probably thinking Jeff. How many sermons can you preach from this one text and we will see?

We're going to see Acts chapter 2 verses 22 through 36, let me pray Our God and Father Lord we Love you, we thank you for Jesus Christ. We thank you for your spirit Lord we thank you for the gospel we thank you that you sent your son to live the life that we could not live and to Receive in himself the punishment that we deserve.

But he was buried and on the third day He rose again, and he ascended into heaven and he is at your right hand putting all of his enemies under his feet. We thank you Lord, please In the name of Jesus Christ.

Use me this day to speak forth your truth from your word. I Pray in his name. Amen. Let's begin with the text Matt. Excuse me Acts chapter 2 Beginning in verse 22 and we will read to verse 36. This is Peter speaking men of Israel here these words Jesus of Nazareth a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs.

That God did through him in your midst. As you yourselves know this Jesus delivered of according to the definite plan and for knowledge of God you Crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up loosening the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be held by it for David says concerning him concerning Jesus.

I saw the Lord always before me. For he is at my right hand. But I may not be shaken therefore. My heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced my flesh also will dwell in hope. For you will not abandon my soul to Hades nor let your Holy One see corruption.

You have made known to me the path of life you will make me full of gladness gladness with your presence brothers, I May say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried and his tomb is with us to this day being therefore a prophet and Knowing that God has sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne.

He foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of Christ. That he would not abandon. He will not Excuse me that he was not abandoned to Hades nor did his flesh see corruption this Jesus God raised up and Of that we are witnesses being therefore exalted at the right hand of God and having received From the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit.

He is now pouring out this that you Yourselves are seeing and hearing for David did not ascend into heaven the heavens. But he himself says the Lord said to my Lord sit at my right hand. Until I make your enemies a footstool.

But all the house of Israel Therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ this Jesus whom you Crucify. Our theme for this Lord's Day is Jesus Christ is King. Jesus Christ is King.

Jesus Christ Is King

Let us rejoice in the resurrection. Because Jesus Christ is King if you need reason to rejoice today rejoicing this Jesus Christ is King. He might look out into our world and think that this is Terrible.

We're going down America's falling and let me tell you if your hope is in America. Yes, your America is falling. But Jesus Christ is King. He is ruling he is reigning and he is putting all of his enemies under his feet.

You say well, how do you know that because I was an enemy of Jesus Christ and I was footstool. If you're here today and you're a Christian you began as an enemy of Jesus Christ and you have been footstooled.

He has put you under his feet through his life death burial and Resurrection. Resurrection. My proposition for this Lord's Day that which I aim to prove is since Jesus Christ is King that means Jesus can tell you what to do.

And I've been focusing on that Proposition and that proposition could turn into a theme in the future. Jesus Christ can tell us what to do. Most people are not comfortable With the fact that they are to be told what to do or most people are not comfortable with being told what to do.

And this is something that I learned about myself as a kid. As a kid, I was always troubled by the fact that I had to listen to my parents my aunts and uncles my grandmother Grandfather and my teachers at school.

I didn't like that at all. I didn't like the fact that I had to be taught that someone was had the authority over me to tell me what to do. And as kids there's this. There's this forward looking and I know every one of y 'all can understand if you're a kid today.

You're probably doing this forward looking to a time where you're grown up and no one will tell you what to do. But you are sadly mistaken. You see everyone wants to grow up, but no one wants to pay bills.

Hallelujah. No one wants to pay bills, right? We won't make the money and keep it for ourselves, but that's just not how life is. And when we grow up. Just to be told what to do. We got this forward look and I cannot wait to grow up.

So no one will have to tell me what to do. We grow up to people telling us what to do. Let's consider driving. On your way here. You were told how fast to go and when to stop. Right, you're told what to do.

Not only are we told when to stop at red light stop signs. But we have blue lights that come behind us to tell us to pull over when we're not paying attention to the speed limit signs the traffic signs and so on and so forth we are Told what to do.

When we are on the roads. We are forced to go to work. Well, unless you don't want to be homeless. But we are forced to go to work and when we go to work we are told what to do on our jobs. I Work for myself and I'm told what to do.

I have this paperwork that tells me how to structure my day. My day is not going well and I kind of forget sometimes as I'm human and. And especially because I got a lot going on I'm over here trying to buy Buying Bibles and at the same time I got my mind's focus on a sermon somewhere or something.

And there's times where I have to go to that piece of paper to see my next step. And I didn't write that thing my wife is she's kind of telling me what to do, right? I Say these things just to say that there's no escaping authority.

There's no escaping authority. I don't care who you are. There is no escaping authority. And my dear friends listen to me. If there's any one deserving of our allegiance, it is Jesus Christ. And in our outline I want us to consider the road to the resurrection and how the resurrection points to Jesus Christ being the King.

So I'm going to look at three headings. The first is the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the gospel. The second the resurrection of Jesus Christ is non-negotiable to the Christian faith. It's non-negotiable.

Third the resurrection of Jesus Christ is his coronation. You know being crowned the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the gospel. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is Non-negotiable to the Christian faith and the resurrection of Jesus Christ is his coronation.

And as we transition Jesus Christ being King means he is King whether you believe in him. He's King whether you like it or not. It means Jesus can tell you what to do whether you like it or not. And it means if you do not listen to Jesus, my dear friends, you are committed treason against the King.

That's what it means for him being King. So point number one the resurrection of Jesus Christ is The gospel. The word gospel means good news. That's all it means. It means good news. And if we lived in the world and where all we had was good news, then it would just be news.

It's good news because there is bad news. And it's good news because all of us have already committed treason Against this King. So let's begin with Jesus, right? We want to know who is Jesus and Jesus is.

We kind of we looked over that as I read the Affirmation Creed this morning that Jesus is God. He is the second person of the Trinity who became flesh. Ladies and gentlemen, the reason why he came was because we could not keep God's law.

We committed treason against the King. Because we have committed this treason against the King. God himself condescends in the person of Jesus Christ by taking on flesh be coming flesh and Living the life that you and I could not live.

Sin, Substitution, and the Gospel of 1 Corinthians 15

First John chapter 3 verses 4 through 5 says this everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness. Sin is Lawlessness. Sin is when you break God's law. So if you've ever told a lie, you're a liar.

You've broken God's law so on and so forth and it continues to say in verse 5. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins and in him Jesus there is no sin. Romans chapter 3 verse 23 says for all.

Have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Every one of us have told lies and stolen and have looked with lust. We haven't been obedient to our parents. They have not worshiped God the way scripture commands.

We see someone having some goods and we want it so bad that we wish that they didn't have it and we had it. That's the tenth commandment. Every one of us are guilty of breaking God's law of sinning of committing treason Against the king and Romans chapter 6 verse 23 a says for the wages.

That which you deserve for the wages of sin is death. The Bible says that the soul that sins will die. You want to know how serious God is about sin. You're going to die. Every one of us 10 out of 10 people.

It's not an oopsie-daisy. It's serious. And even as Christians We do it we commit these things we live in this Satan Satan sinner reality. I am a Saint because I am positionally righteous before God having been saved by his grace through faith.

And yet I wear this this this garment of flesh and and daily I'm having to to fight against the the old me right? That's that's being conformed into his image. Because I wear this flesh and I still sin and as Christians.

They're not oopsie-daisies. Second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 says this for our sake he Speaking of God the Father made him Jesus to be Sin who knew no sin so that in him in Christ We might become the righteousness of God.

So that he could take our place so he could stand in our stead so he can be our substitute. Now if you will turn with me to first Corinthians Chapter 15 I'm gonna read verses 1 through 4, but I want you to see that the resurrection is the gospel verse 1.

This is Paul speaking as he's writing to the Church of Corinth. He says I would remind you brothers of the gospel I preach to you with Which you received. In which you stand and by which you are being saved.

So this gospel that he's about to lay out for them. They receive they stand and they're being saved. If you have not received this gospel you have not. If you're not in Christ, let me say it this way.

You're not in Christ. You have not received. You do not stand and you're not being saved. Just by which you are being saved if see that conditional clause. You hold fast to the word I preach to you. Unless you believe in vain those that believe in vain do not receive stand nor are they saved first three for I Delivered to you as a first importance When I also Received and here it is that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures that he was buried and That he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures.

If there's ever a verse in the Bible where you can say book chapter and verse that's the gospel. This is that verse. These are verses three and four. That Christ Jesus died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures that he was buried and on the third day He rose again.

The resurrection is just as much a part of the gospel as the Crucifixion is a part of the gospel. It's Non-negotiable the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the gospel message. You cannot preach the gospel message without preaching the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Not only did Jesus live for us. But he died for us and not only did Jesus die for us. He lives present tense for us. But Hebrews says he always lives to make intercession for those that draw near to point number two the resurrection of Jesus Christ is.

Non-Negotiable Doctrines of the Christian Faith

Is non-negotiable to the Christian faith? The resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of many non-negotiable doctrines such as the doctrine of God. As Christians, we are monotheists. We believe that there's only one God.

Not many just one. There is only one God. We also believe in the doctrine of the Trinity that this one God is yet three Persons and we'd like to break it down into the one what. And the three who's the one?

What is the one being and the three who's is the three persons the father the son and the Holy Spirit. And the father? Is God By himself the son is God by himself and the Holy Spirit is God by Himself, they are not reliant upon the other be another person to be God.

They are God in and of himself and yet the father is not the son vice versa. You said that doesn't make sense. Hey, I get it, but you must believe it by faith and it's non-negotiable. To deny it would make you a heretic outside of the faith.

You have no part in Christ the doctrine of credit and we also hope to the doctrine of Christ right Christology that this second person of the Trinity which I Talked about earlier came into time condescended took on flesh.

Which leads us to the doctrine of the incarnation? We talked about the virgin birth and what took place in the incarnation. There's this theological term called a hypostatic union and what it means is it means that Jesus is truly God and He is truly man.

That Jesus has two natures. Truly God truly man. He's not half God half man. He's not a demigod. He's truly God. Holy God everything that is God. He is everything that God possesses. Jesus possesses even while he was on earth.

And yet he is truly man meaning that he there was times in his body when he was weak. Right. Jesus sweated. Jesus had to go to the restaurant. Jesus was thirsty. Jesus feet hurt when he walked for a long for a long day.

Everything about you that makes you a human being. Jesus was. But yet he was God and that is not. To deny that would put you outside of the faith. We also hold to the the doctrine of justification by faith alone.

Which says that we are not saved by works of the law. But by faith in Jesus Christ faith in him and his finished work. That the work that it took to be for us to be saved was accomplished by him. The Bible says that we must keep God's law perfectly.

Anyone Christ did and he did so in our place and that is non-negotiable. We also talked about the doctrine of Imputed Righteousness. I mentioned earlier that I stand before you today as someone who has been justified by faith and I am a saint.

And I'm a sinner. I am a saint because of what Christ has done for me and I'm a sinner. Because I still carry this flesh. Like I can't get it off of me right. I can't Wash it off of me. This is something that I wear because I wear it.

I still battle. There's this battle between my spirit man and the flesh that that my spirit man is wrapped in. And so in the doctrine of the imputation we talked about Christ living the life that we could not live in our place in the in the Bible Spits it out as the righteous for the unrighteous and the word righteous just means law keeper and unrighteous.

Is what you and I are lawbreakers? And so Jesus being the law keeper the righteous and you and I being the lawbreaker the unrighteous. What's what's said here is the righteous for? That when we're saved his righteousness Covers us and that's how we are saints.

God sees us as saints because his righteousness is clothing us in The same way that our sins clothed him on that cross. He made him who did no sin to be sin in our place. Ladies and gentlemen, that's Non-negotiable to deny that would put you outside of the faith.

We also hold to the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead meaning as goes the King so goes the kingdom and that's Non-negotiable that because Jesus Christ was dead buried and rose again. There's going to come a time when Jesus returns that those of us who have died are going to come up from the grave resurrected with a body like his.

And that is non-negotiable in the Christian faith. Romans chapter 28 verse 30 says this. 28 330 says this and we know that for those who love God All things work together for good for those who are called according to his purpose for those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be Conformed to the image of his son.

In order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers this speaking of his Resurrection are being conformed to his image is our being sanctified. We're we're saints, but we're sinners. But as we grow in grace we grow in holiness and What I was five years ago, I'm no longer that There's a progressive growth in my spiritual life.

But on that day when I come out that great I will be fully. And it won't be a saint or a sinner reality. It'll be Saint. It says for those whom he predestined he also Called. This is the effectual call.

This is whenever you respond to the gracious gift of God and those whom he called he justified Made right and those whom he justified. He also glorified this glorification right here is our Resurrection or being in the image of Jesus Christ.

God's purpose for the church is to be glorified and that that is to be conformed to the image of the Son which again, like I said is speaking of his resurrection and so the resurrection of the dead is Non-negotiable.

His resurrection is non-negotiable. The reason The resurrection is non-negotiable is if Jesus Did not rise from the dead and everything that we know about God is questionable. If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead.

Everything we know about God is questionable and our faith is in vain. Jesus makes it clear. We only know God through him. Gospel of John chapter 1 says. Let me turn there real quick. You can't if you won't look in verse chapter 1 of the Gospel of John.

I'm going to keep your hand in first Corinthians. If you look at verse 1 talking about in the beginning was the Word the Word here is Jesus and the Word was with God and The Word was God that's telling you his what took place.

Jesus's stance in the beginning he was with the Father. He was with he being. The Word was with God. He was faithful. Face-to-face. This is prostrating they on and the Word was God. The Greek structure Actually says God was the Word.

And if you look in verse 14 the Word who is Jesus became flesh and dwelt among us now look in verse 18. It says no one has ever seen God now right here. You have to say father. No one has ever seen God the Father because the next part says the only God.

He was at the Father's side. This is speaking of Jesus. He has made him know. The only way to know the Father is to know the Son Jesus in his high priestly prayer. John chapter 17 verse 3 says this. Now this is eternal life.

Jesus praying that they may know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. It's the only way to know God is through Jesus Christ. Go back to 1st Corinthians chapter 15. Is it hot in here to anyone else?

I am burning up. I don't usually announce that from the pulpit, but I'm about to take his jacket off and throw it at somebody. They start out in a three-piece suit end up in the tank top. And y 'all don't want that.

Someone can touch my hair on. I'm pretty sure okay chapter 15. 1st Corinthians chapter 15. We're going to see why it is if Jesus's resurrection. Never happened that our faith is in vain. So look at verse 12.

It says now if Christ is proclaimed as risen from the dead. How can some of you say That there is no resurrection of the dead. So if you know anything about the book of Corinthians, it's a book of correction.

Paul wrote this book to correct their theology. They got a little off. As I was trying to live their life, right they carry around this this flesh. They got a little off in their theology. And so at this time they there's some doubting the resurrection of the dead.

And so again verse 12 now if Christ is proclaimed as risen from the dead. How can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead right here. Then not even Christ has been raised from the dead to deny our resurrection.

Future resurrection is to deny the resurrection of Jesus Christ. See why it's not negotiable. And if Christ has not been raised from the dead and our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even bound to be Misrepresenting God, but we testify about God that he raised Christ who?

He did not raise if in fact that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised not even Christ has been raised for 17 and if Christ has not been raised Your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.

Oh Christian listen Christ has not been risen. There is no saint reality. It's just sinners or Satanic then those then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished if In Christ we have hope in this life only we Are of all people most pity.

Ladies and gentlemen, you're not a Christian here today. And you think that we're a bunch of idiots. Christ has not been raised from the dead it's worse than that. You should pity us pity us because we Believe that Christ has been raised from the dead.

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead the first fruit of those who have fallen Asleep. For as by one man came death speaking of Adam Adam brought sin and death into the world. Romans chapter 5 verse beginning of verse 12.

By a man has come the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all died so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order. Christ the firstfruits then at his coming those who belong to Christ.

Then comes the end when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every Authority in power for he must reign until he has put all of his enemies under his feet and the last enemy to be destroyed is death.

When he comes back at the resurrection of the dead and the dead in Christ will rise and Will be clothed in him to keep reading the dead and Adam will rise clothed in dirt. Those that are in dirt will be sentenced to hell and those that are in Christ will be free to live in Christ our Resurrection.

The resurrection of the dead is non-negotiable. Non-negotiable because if we are not raised in Christ has not been raised and that's why full federalism is heresy. As Goes the king so goes the kingdom.

Adam was our first federal head. He brought sin and death into the world, which is why you sin and why you die. Christ comes to remove the curse started by Adam through his death-bearing resurrection.

One day it's going to be as if that fruit had never been had a but a bite taken out. One day at the resurrection. The dead. Point number three the resurrection of the dead. I'm assuming the resurrection of Jesus Christ is his coronation.

The Coronation of Christ and the Throne of David

Now here at this church from this full pit. I speak a lot about the Davidic covenant and I do so because We hold the covenant theology. It's very simple as goes the king so goes the kingdom right. When David was doing good.

His kingdom did well when David sinned his kingdom was punished. The kingdom was punished because of David's sin. And so there's that saying that I would say quite often as does the king so goes the kingdom and in a Davidic Covenant in the covenant made with David David was told by God That he was going to sit one of David's sons on the throne of David forever meaning when he was Crowned king and sits on the throne.

He will never be uncrowned king and he will never not sit on the throne. But there was a conditional clause. It says if that son keeps God's law Covenants. Again the word if here is a conditional clause in order to receive this kingship Forever you had to keep the law perfectly.

Not breaking any law not lying not stealing not seeing someone else with possession and wishing that they didn't have it. You couldn't have any of that in your heart. So son after son after son the people were wondering we're always wondering is this the one as Solomon was crowned king.

Is he the one. Is he the one who's going to keep the law and live forever. Sit it upon the throne. Well this one this king keep God's covenant and be crowned Christ and son. After son after son the people were disappointed.

Because no. Because no One could keep the law. The truth Is is that no mere man can keep the law of God because they were born a son of Adam. They're born into sin Adam. David says in sin. I was conceived hard to think about My last son it was recent right he's three years old now.

He was born three months early this this Small baby his arm was no bigger than my thumb. He was born a sinner. Deserving of death. You want to know why infants die? Because they're born in Adam. As goes the king so goes the kingdom.

They're gonna follow after that first federal head. In order for them to live they have to be in Christ. Jesus says those who believe in me even though they die. Eternal life. No mere man. Keep God's law.

And if Jesus had not been born from a virgin if Jesus would have an earthly father He would have not been able to keep. So question this brings up Jesus being truly God and he was able to keep God's law perfectly.

My question is this. What should Christians believe? About the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Answer. That Jesus was crowned king. And that he sits on the throne of David the throne of David. Now go back to our text acts.

Chapter 2. First I'm gonna read it again this time with commentary. So at this time Jesus had been crucified dead buried and he rose again on the third day. He tells his disciples to go and that that he is going to give them power and that this power was the Holy Spirit and that they were in this upper room and all of a sudden the Holy Spirit came upon Them and they began proclaiming the magnificent works of God.

They started preaching Christ from the Old Testament Genesis to the death burial resurrection of Jesus Christ. People heard them speaking in their own languages not gibberish, but in their own Languages, they heard him speaking them speaking the disciples in their own languages the magnificent works of God.

And Peter stands up with a loud voice and he says man of Israel hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him In your midst and you yourselves know.

Remember Jesus is born around all Jerusalem performing these miracles. They're seeing these things with their eyes. It says this Jesus delivered up according to the definite plan and for knowledge of God.

You've pointed at the Jews you crucified him remember at the crucifixion they were saying give us Barabbas and Crucify Jesus. How they said who do you want Barabbas or Jesus? They said give us Barabbas.

Well, what do you want me to do with your king? Crucify him. He says you by the definite for knowledge plan of God you crucified and nailed. And killed by the hands of lawless men speaking of the Roman guards.

It says but God raised him up talking about his resurrection. Loosening the pains of death because it was impossible For him to be held by it. The Bible says that God cannot die. He cannot die. Now think about this if God cannot die how?

Jesus stop. Because Jesus was also true man as God Jesus keeps the law because only God could keep God's love and as man Jesus dies for the sins of men. But as God he comes out He cannot be held by it first 25 for David says concerning him concerning Jesus.

I saw the Lord. He's always before me for he is that my right hand that I will not be shaken. Oh, is that the anthem of a Christian? Therefore my heart was God and my tongue rejoiced. My tongue rejoiced my flesh also dwelled in hope hope of the resurrection right here.

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades or let your Holy One see Corruption. You have made known to me the path of life. You will make known to me a Full me full of gladness with your presence right here brothers.

I May say to you with confidence about the patriarch David King David the one who slayed Goliath. That he both died and was buried and his tomb is with us to this day. Now the prophecy that David was speaking of he says you will not abandon my Soul to Hades.

This is Hades is what's called the place of the dead. Or let my flesh see corruption. That means to remain in the grave. So when someone dies their spirit goes to the place of the dead. This is that let's take a place here and their body sees corruption.

Peter Saying we know where David's grave is. We can go to it. He's he's there his body has done decomposed. But he's there so that means his soul is in the place of the dead. Peter in verse 29 tells us that David is still in Hades.

Look at it verse 29. Brothers I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried and his tomb is with us to this day. David is still what was still at that time in Hades and his Place of the dead and that his body saw corruption that his body remained in the grave.

But David was speaking as if he was speaking about himself. Now look at verse 30. Again being there for a prophet. Calling David a prophet and knowing that God has sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of Jesus a resurrection of Christ that he Jesus was not abandoned to Hades nor did his flesh see Corruption.

Jesus was not Abandoned to the place of the dead and the body of Jesus did not see corruption. It did not remain in the grave. Jesus came forth and That is why we as Christians can rejoice. Because our Savior lives.

Peter in verse 32 said that They were all witnesses of this. That they were all witnesses of this. Look at verse 20 says I mean 32 this Jesus God raised up and of that we are. We all are witnesses of this.

The first Corinthians chapter 15 tells us that his disciples Peter Paul Jesus's disciples and over 500 people saw the resurrected Jesus walking around eating fellowshipping for over 40 days. And the one thing you can be sure about that has not changed from then to now is that when someone dies they stay Dead.

When someone dies they stay dead. That's why our beliefs are not logical. The Resurrection is not logical because people don't come back. This is why you just cannot wake up and decide to be a Christian.

I'm telling you you must believe in something and it's non-negotiable and it's not even logical. That a man was crucified Dead and buried for three days and he came out the grave. You just can't wake up and believe.

The Bible tells us that faith is the gift of God. And it's through the preaching of the gospel. If you don't know the gospel, you cannot be given faith to believe now. You can hear I've got a friend who heard the gospel when he was young and he was saved years later while he was tripping on mushrooms.

But the gospel that he heard when he was young he remembered in his trip and was born again. So it doesn't have to be in that very moment. The Word of God is powerful and it's sharper than any two-edged sword piercing through bone and marrow.

You can hear the gospel as a five-year-old and that message can save you at 40. It comes through the message about Jesus Christ because it's not logical. It's belief. It's something you don't know for sure.

Bible says that's the only way to be saved. It's the only way to be saved. Resurrection is not logical we. What we believe is foolishness. First Corinthians chapter 1 verse 18 says this for the word of the cross is fallen that word there is foolishness.