Two Men Who Lost Great Wealth Adam and Cain — Svend Christensen

But the congregation tonight, I'm so happy to see so many here tonight, so many visitors from different places. You'll get a real warm welcome from my brother Bob later on. But I just have to say this in the beginning, that we're so happy to have you with us here tonight for the beginning of our evangelistic service.

So may the Lord bless you and really sing tonight because the bark of palms is noted for its singing. And let us hear what the Lord can do through you in singing these hymns. We're going to sing a chorus I think most of you know.

His name is wonderful and we're going to sing it twice through. Let us stand as we sing this chorus. His name is wonderful. And now our brother Mr. John Meier will lead us in prayer. Mr. Meier. Shall we look to the Lord?

O God, our Father, we bow our heads and our hearts in thy presence this evening and thank thee for the theme of our song tonight. We thank thee, our Father, for these words above us. Jesus Christ is Lord.

We thank thee for each one here who can indeed say that they have made Jesus Christ the Lord of their life. The Father, we have been singing about the way in the last hymn, Look to the Lamb of God. We remember the words of John the Baptist standing by the River Jordan.

He saw the Lord Jesus coming and he said, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. O God, we thank thee that that is still true tonight. We thank thee that the Lord Jesus Christ is standing with arms outstretched, beckoning to all who are without him to come unto him and find rest, find peace, find eternal life through faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished at Calvary.

We thank thee for this, the beginning of the gospel crusade tonight. We thank thee for bringing our other Sven Christians with us. Our Father, we have had much prayer for this campaign, and we believe and are expecting to see blessing in the salvation of precious souls, in the edification and building up of the church which is his body in this local testimony.

Heavenly Father, we commit him and each one of us to thee. We pray that the Holy Spirit of God may have free course in our meeting tonight. May the wiles of the wicked one be defeated. Grant our Father that Satan will not have his way in snatching away the good seed of the word of God, but grant that it may bear forth and bring forth fruit for thine eternal honor and glory.

For we ask it in the worthy name of he who indeed is worthy, the Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ thy Son. Amen. Thank you, Mr. Mark. Just a very few brief announcements. We are very, very happy to have friends with us.

We give you a great welcome. We'd like you to get to know more about Park of the Palms and our very wonderful Christian fellowship here. We'd like you to sign our guestbook, please, at the back. On the way out, on the right, there's a guestbook.

Sign that. That'll give us your address so that we can send you sometime and tell you about our special meetings here. We've been planning for a long time and praying for a long time about this week's special meetings.

When I contacted our brother, Mr. Sven Christensen, he was way up in Canada, and he was a very busy man, but he just had this week anyhow, and he said he'd give it to us. He couldn't come this morning because he was preaching in Orlando this morning, and he'd have to do that again next Sunday morning, but he said, So then, every night this week, not Saturday, but every other night this week, including next Sunday night, our brother, Mr. Sven Christensen, will be preaching the gospel to you.

We want you to let people know. We have a lot of these little invitation cards. They're out there on the desk as you go out. Take them with you and give them to your friends so that we can get people to know.

Listen to the radio each day, Way Radio and Stark Radio. You'll find announcements about these special meetings. We want everybody around to know. We've had a telephone calling service going most of the week, and I believe practically everybody in Keystone Heights who has a telephone has been called.

And I must tell you, practically everybody, well, about 80 of those who were called said, Yes, I'll come. So pray that they'll just do just that, you know. Anyhow, pray that those who said, there were one or two who said, I can't, no, I'm not coming.

Pray that God will make them come. That's all they want. We want to see God's saved souls here this week. Park of the Palms is a wonderful fellowship. We have tremendous Bible ministry here during our winter months, well, all the year, but during our winter months conference, but we do feel that we lack one thing.

That's our gospel outreach, and that's why we organized these meetings this week to make contact with our friends around us to preach the gospel. So the meetings are every night then this week. Now we're baptizing all this work with prayer.

So every afternoon at 2 .30 there'll be a men's prayer meeting here in the chapel. Perhaps there'll be only two of us here. Oh, during the week there'll be lots more than that. But anyhow, every afternoon at 2 .30 a men's prayer meeting for a few minutes to ask God's blessing on these meetings.

I think there'll be a women's prayer meeting, but we haven't got the details yet on that. However, every Tuesday morning at 9 .30 in the chapel is a men's prayer meeting, and every Tuesday morning at 10 .30 in the lounge a women's prayer meeting.

This is regular every week all the year round, and we want you to join us. Men here at 9 .30, and the women in the lounge at 10 .30 for prayer. Now Tuesday, this Tuesday, is the second Tuesday in the month, and this is always a special day at Park of the Palms because on the second Tuesday in the month we celebrate all the birthdays of those who have a birthday in that month.

So our birthday dinner will be at noon, 12 o 'clock noon, on Tuesday in the dining room. We want you to come and join us. We have many reservations already, but we'll have enough food for you even if you don't make reservations, so please come along and join us.

This is always a very happy occasion when we celebrate our birthdays and our winning anniversaries in the dining room on the second Tuesday of the month. We'll talk more about that tomorrow night, brothers.

We have plenty of these bills, I told you, and plenty of the posters. Now, if you haven't got one on the backside windows of your car, or you want two for that, get all of them on the way out and get them on so that as you travel around people will know about these meetings.

And if you know of anyone who can put them in their window, or in a shop front window, they're out there for you to take and use. I think these are all our announcements. It's a joy to have everyone here.

We're going to sing again. Mr. Anderson here has other special parts, and then after that our brother Zane Christensen. Mr. Christensen, I think you know what country he comes from. Do you know how I remember what country he comes from?

His wife calls him her great Dane. So he comes from Denmark, came over as a boy to Canada, and while serving in the Canadian Royal Air Force, lying on his back one night in his bunk, I think in Egypt, God saved him.

And he dedicated his life to the Lord, and came back home, went to Emmaus Bible School where he met his very lovely wife, Rhoda, and they were married, and they have served the Lord full time ever since.

Did a great work up in the Maritime Provinces of Canada, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia, and so on. I was at Orlando when we invited Zane to come to Orlando, and he's been working there now for some 10, 12 years, and God has greatly blessed their ministry down there.

It's a joyous thing to have you with us, and we're looking forward to a wonderful week. Thank you. Turning our hymn book to number 29, To God be the Glory, Great Things He Hath Done, and after we sing the song, we're going to be favored with a special song from Mrs. Rhoda.

The Gospel Invitation and the Series on Biblical Characters

Greetings. Hope you're all happy here tonight. Of course, if you're not saved, you couldn't be happy. If you're really saved, then it's a wonderful, wonderful life. These next seven nights speak on various subjects, and I want you to help me if you can guess the different Bible characters I'm going to speak on.

I think if we get someone that gets all the answers right, we'll have to give them some token of reward, or something like that, for the bookstore. Now, tonight, it's going to be very easy. We'll speak about, and I think I'll only speak on one of them, but we'll mention two of them.

I'll make it easy for you. They're both found in the book of Genesis. Men that love great possessions. Two men. Tomorrow night, Lord willing, I'm going to speak on two markers from comparison and lesson from them.

Two markers. Two men that died. One in the old and one in the new. Tuesday night, and this is something you nearly all know, two men who went to heaven without dying. That's easy, isn't it? Wednesday night, the two chief of sinners.

One in the old and one in the new. Two chief of sinners. You may not agree with me, but I'm going to be right this time. As sinners they are. Then Thursday night, three fools of the Bible. And these men have names.

Not just the man in Psalm 14, the fool that said in half there's no God. That's not the one. Three men. I want to speak about two shifts. We're leaving the characters in this particular case, but two shifts in the Latin.

One in the old and one in the new. And then next Sunday night, Lord willing, two Jewish kings on whom God pronounced and executed judgment. Two Jewish kings on whom God pronounced and executed judgment.

Who have the men for the night? Two men, both in Genesis. One man lost a great inheritance, and the other one was Esau. Wouldn't you agree with that? Oh, in Genesis chapter three, please. Esau was called a profane person.

Adam’s Disobedience in the Garden of Eden

You remember, he sold his birthright. And when he tried to get it back, though he sought it for two years, it was of no avail. But in Genesis chapter three, this foundation chapter of the Bible, the whole Genesis chapter three has more far-reaching consequences than any other chapter in the Bible.

You feel the effect of it today. One act felt the repercussions of that one act ever since. That's what it is. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the sea which the Lord God had made, and he said unto the woman, Yea, as God said, ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden.

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the tree of the garden. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be gods, knowing good and evil. And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree to be decided to make one wise.

She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed thick leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Then Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. The Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou?

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou was naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee thou shouldest not eat?

And the man said, The woman who now gave it to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. The Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled the United East.

The Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou cursest. Above all cattle, and above every beast of the field, upon thy belly shalt thou go, and thus shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

And I'll put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, and it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I'll greatly multiply thy sorrow, and thy conception in sorrow.

Thou shalt bring forth children, and that if I shall be to thy husband, he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursing it to account for thy sake, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy feet shalt thou eat rest, till thou return unto the ground, for of it was thou taken.

The dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Unto Adam, also, and his wife did the Lord God lay coats of skin, and clothed them. May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His holy words.

This is a tremendous chapter telling us how man became the way he is today. Sinner, left, away from God. Explaining to us where all the thistles, and thorns, and the weeds, and all the pests, and everything else comes from.

All dates back to this chapter. Many years ago, it took place over in England. A doctor asked for a neighbor, a gardener. It was in the month of June, and the gardener was out there working in his garden, and as it was that stuffy evening, he was hauling away, working in the garden, and pestilence was running down his face.

And as the doctor came by, he heard him saying, Born Adam! Born Adam! Born Adam! The gardener said, What's the matter? He said, Neighbor, what did Adam do? What if it wasn't for Adam, we wouldn't have those weeds?

We wouldn't have all this work to do. The gardener said, If you'd been in Adam's place, you'd have done what he did. No sir, I wouldn't have. I'd have been content in all that lovely surroundings that God put him in.

By the way, neighbor, I've been intending to have you over for tea some evening. And that gardener looked up with a smile delightful. He knew what a good cook, you know, the doctor had over there. And what food he put on his table, a tremendous spread.

So they set the date, and on the appointed day, the gardener gave names to the doctor, all dressed up, and the table was spread with every goodie imaginable on that table. A large table, heavily set. And it was a balmy, June evening.

The wind was blowing in through the screen windows. And they sat down there in a delightful setting. And after the doctor had given thanks, the gardener noticed right in front of the doctor was a little silver dish with a cover on it.

And the first thing you wonder was, what's he got in there? So the doctor says to the gardener, after you've given thanks, now help yourself. There's everything here at this table. I want you to just enjoy yourself, with the exception of this little dish here.

This is a little thing for me. And well, it did bother him. He thought, well, what's he keeping for me anyway? After a while, the man came to the door and called the doctor that he was wanted, and he excused himself.

And as he left, now he says to his good friend, the man says, help yourself. Really enjoy yourself. Remember that dish, that's mine. He could hardly contain himself. I wonder what's in there. What could he be keeping from me anyway?

But it wouldn't hurt the most. He reaches over. He picks up the dish. And as he picks up the dish, the wind blows and it sweeps the feathers all over the table. Feathers all over food. He's busy trying to pick them up, and the door opens and the doctor comes in, and he points at him.

He says, hello, Adam. This is the heart of me. I wouldn't do it. My friend, we're not only sinners, because we're sinners to Adam, but we're sinners by nature. Now, I want you to notice a few things here.

The Source and Nature of the First Sin

First, the theme of this first sin was a beautiful garden, verse eight. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. A beautiful garden, the garden of Eden. Everything imaginable was there for the good of man.

One prohibition, however, from trees you must not eat of it. The earth was there for their good. And I believe, friend, the climate was just perfect. Everything was just perfect for man. He was in an ideal situation.

Couldn't have been better. How different from the place where all Lord Jesus was tempted. Wilderness. He was hungry at the Holy Days. Everything was sort of against him. But this was not so. This was an ideal situation.

Showing that even then, the heart of man is not satisfied with the things that he does after. Then secondly, the source of this first sin. Notice in verse one, Now the serpent was more troubled than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made.

And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said. Personal tempter, personal devil. He came in the form of a serpent and later on, of course, in the book of Leviticus, he called that old, the devil, the old serpent.

The faithfulness of this person. The trickery of him. I want you to know of his tragedy. He came to the woman when the man was not around. He attacked her weak of effort. He at once cast doubt on the word of God.

Yea, hath God said. And the devil is still doing it. And he's casting doubt on the word of God. God doesn't mean what he says. A preacher one time kept on saying that. He said, Now this is not just what it means.

And he's going to say what he thought it meant. A little girl afterwards asked him, Well, preacher, could I ask you a question? Yes, dear. He said, If God didn't mean what he said, then why didn't he say what he meant?

That's not as good, was it? And God says exactly what he means here. This is God's word. This is something you can depend on. By one man, sin came into the world, and death by sin. And so death is offensive on all men, because all men have sin.

God's word is truth. Forevermore, my word is heaven and earth. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word abideth forever. Don't you let anyone put any question in your mind regarding the word of God.

It'll stay. It's dependable. It's reliable. It's something you can believe. And he cast doubt on the word of God. Yea, as God said, Ye shall not eat of the tree of the garden. The woman said unto the servant, We may eat of the fruit of the tree of the garden, but, and you notice here, this woman, she now changes the word a little bit.

Now, Satan, he would question the word of God. He'd get up to question it. He'd get up to question the goodness of God. You know, the next thing he said, and I want to just bring that in too, was, you know, if you would eat of this, you would become like God.

God is holding something back from you. Like that man thought about the silver fish. He thought this man was keeping something back from him. He wasn't satisfied with the well-spread table. Same as what happened to the prodigal son.

Some of his companions, somebody else has convinced him, your father and your home, they're holding things back from you. You want to get up and enjoy life, and live it up, and have a good time, and really see what life is all about.

They're holding you, they're holding you down. They're keeping things away from you. And you know the story of the prodigal son. He found out what a fool he was when he was in that far country, and laying, starving, wishing he was one of his father's hired servants.

My friend, God wants the very best for you. Absolutely good. And then, something else, he questioned God's punishment too. Look at verse four. And the servant said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.

God is such a God of love, you know. He wouldn't punish anybody. He wouldn't send anybody into hell. I haven't got time to go into it tonight, but we will one of these nights, as we're dealing with these two kings, to show that God will keep his word when he says something, he'll perform it.

And the moment my friend Adam and Eve sinned, they died fiercely to make God's death. They laid on their dying physically. The word of God says, The soul that sinneth it shall die. That means separation from God.

Well, Satan tried to deceive the woman, and he did. He cast doubt on the word of God. He cast doubt on the goodness of God. He cast doubt on the judgment of God. And she believed him. Don't you do it.

God's word is going to come to pass. Goodness of God has been made manifest because of man's sin. And God sent his only son into the world to teach and to save the law. And it says, He that believeth not is condemned already.

He said, He that believeth not, the wrath of God abided on him. And that wrath will come to pass. The rich men woke up in hell, vain and poor men come to pass. So we have the source of that sin was Satan, how he seduced them.

Now notice, the first sin was a willful violation of the clear command. The sixth, when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, it was flashing to the eye, and the tree to be desired a big one, why she took of the fruit.

There was a willful disobedience. God had told them they were not to eat. And she went in complete disobedience against the word of God. She took, she ate. She first saw it, she took, and she ate. That's how sin works.

The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, the pride of life. The Satan was taken. He first saw that wedge of gold, and the cruelly Babylonian God, when he saw it, he desired it, he took it. What was the result was the outcome, and the sin was found out.

He was taken out and stoned. So God was true to his word. When they disobeyed the word of God, some terrible consequences happened. I want just to go on into that. There's so much here, I'm just skimming over it.

Shame, Self-Covering, and the Inability of Human Righteousness

But notice the sad consequences from verse 7, right down. The eyes of them both were open, and they knew that they were naked. They came to realize that in God's presence now they were naked. And they sowed thick leaves to gather, made themselves able.

Now that's the first test for the man to try to cover himself before God. This is what man has been doing ever since. He's been sowing thick leaves on himself, trying to fit himself for God's presence.

You know, they covered them each, all for each other, the thick leaves. But when they heard God coming walking in the cool of the day in the garden, they hid themselves among the trees, and God called out to the way out of them, and they said, we hid ourselves, and they, why did they hide?

They said they were naked. The covering they had made, they realized that God's sight was not sufficient. And tonight, friend, as you've been sowing your own thick leaves on, it may be your religion, may join in the church, getting baptized, doing good deeds, trying to keep the good and rule, being kind to your neighbors, giving to charity, whatever these thick leaves are, my friend, in God's presence, they'll not be sufficient.

You'll stand before him as though you have nothing on, nothing but filthy rain. So the first thing sin brought was shame, was shame to themselves. And sin always brings shame, brings dishonor, brings disgrace, breaks people's health, breaks their character.

That's why there's no respect even for themselves. And oh, what a day we live in today. We have gone a long way down the scale as we're getting farther and farther into the great apostasy. People can no longer blush.

People no more ashamed of living in open sin. And it's a righteousness of God. For man, fresh from the hand of God, as he sinned, he was first ashamed. And sin will always bring shame and dishonor and heartbreak and sadness.

It always does. And it produces a self-worth, you know. Self-covering. Now people are still doing that. And I talk to many people individually. And I say something like this to them. Now, suppose you died today.

And you came up to heaven's gate and the Lord said, now why should I let you into heaven? What would you say? You know, you'd be surprised how many people would say, well, you know, I think that because I have lived this good life, I've done this or I've done this or the other thing, you know, that I don't have too bad a chance.

I said, now suppose I get up to the heaven's door. And the Lord says, now why should I let you into heaven? I tell them, well, I've been a preacher for 25 years, preaching the Bible and counseling people and trying to help people and so on and on and on.

What do you think the Lord would say to me? Well, you should be all right. No, sir. Why get up there with all this? God just said you have nothing but a big pile of silly legs on. All your righteousness are silly legs according to the Bible.

The longer you live, the bigger the pile. The more good works you do, the bigger the pile. You wouldn't surprise you, my friend, if I told you to get into heaven, you have to be absolutely perfect. You say there's no one perfect.

That's right. But God has a way to make you perfect in His sight. Thank God. There's only one way to be made perfect. And it's not for your self-covering. Well, I'll get to that. How are you going to be made perfect?

I don't want to see how we come back at the end. Something else that came forth in, it was, you know, shifting the blame. Look at verse 11. Who told thee that thou was naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereby commanded thee that thou should not eat?

The man said, the woman whom thou gavest me. Huh? Hospits are still doing that. We get it all if they don't get it. Get it from Adam. What's he doing here? He's blaming God and he's blaming the woman.

It's the woman who still gave me. If it hadn't been for her, I wouldn't have been in this mess. It's so hard to get an honest person to admit they've been to penitentiary and you talk to most of the prisoners and they'll all tell you their sad stories.

Somebody else did something, you know, that got them involved, but it's never their fault. They're not a good person, you know, in an unfortunate circumstance. Have you heard of that? Very, very few will admit their guilt.

It's the woman who gave me. My friend, if you want to be saved tonight, the first thing you have to own up. That's one thing God loved about David. He said, when he did something wrong, he said, I have sins.

When the prodigal went to the five months and came to the end of his death, he said, I have sins. That's what he did. He's covered up his sins, my old man, with prosper. So he passed the buck. What did the woman do?

The serpent. She's no better. Sinners are sinners. You ever see some people having an accident? They always blame the other fellow nearly and if it wasn't that or it was something else, I live and tell, and I'll take the blame.

I remember one time I had an accident. I don't know whether this was an accident or not, but somebody came along and said, whose fault was it? I said, mine. He looks at me. He says, I've never heard anyone say that before.

I don't mean that I was so good that I admitted my fault, but it just happened to be that way. But man's nature is to pass the buck. But my friend, as far as God's concerned, you cannot pass the buck.

You are guilty. You are sinners. Unless you admit it, you can't be saved. Then is what suffering. Verse 16, down to verse 19. The woman saw pain and contention. Oxygen to rule over her. She saw in pain, toil, will bring to man.

On this curse, the sweat of thy face, thou shalt eat bread. Sin brought terrible things death. For the curse brought to the Lord Jesus in order to pay for their heresy hung on the cross and cursed us as it once stood hanging on the tree.

He was made a curse for us. Married by his sin brought the curse. Jesus bared the curse in his own body on the tree. The crown should bring forth thorns and thistles. When they crucified our blessed Lord, they crowned him in blood with a crown of thorns.

Reduced because the man sinned and brought those thorns to pass from a scourged crown. My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death, saith the Lord Jesus. Sin brought death, and he hath a text of sin and grace and died for you and for me alone and forsaken.

My God, my God, why art thou forsaken me? There was no one to pass it on to. There was only one that could stand and fill the gap. Jesus is the only one that could do it, that could take the curse and the pain and the suffering and all that before the dance was in because of his sin.

Great sweat brought the sweat of the crown in the garden against any so that they rubbed the blood. And as he hung the cross from his head, he danced his feet. That flesh and blood flowed. Your sin, my sin.

What is this? His love made him come, of course. When the Father said, whom shall I send? Whom will I go? Who will go? Jesus answered, here am I, send thee. I delight to do thy will, O God. That body hath thou prepared for me.

Then he came in the volume of the book as it was written of him. And then the cause of that body, he took all that it could be in shame for you and for me. He tasted death for every man. Yes? Sin, loss, separation too.

Exile from Eden and God’s Provision of a Covering

Look at verse 23 and 24. And the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove up the man. The Sunday school children were asked to draw a picture of the seed.

And the Mormon children, some of them didn't get quite the thought that God had in mind. One boy, he drew a picture of a car with God in the front seat and Adam and Eve in the back seat and driving them out.

That's not how he drove them out. Sin, separation. Sin brings death which is separation. And if you're not praised, it brings a second death in separation from God. I am glad that God is a great God of love because he's a searching God.

Look at verse 9. I just want to just mention this. And the Lord God called on Adam and said unto him, Where art thou? God came and said to him, I'm going to just destroy them and start over again. And Eve was loved by God.

God loved them and God said, Where art thou? God is not willing that any should carry but that all should come to repentance. God says, You try to dress up yourself and are not good enough but I'll provide a covering for you.

Look at verse 21. And unto Adam also and his wife did the Lord God make coats of skin and clothed them. Now my friend, in order to get coats of skin, there has to be a sacrifice. There has to be blood shed.

Life has to be given or taken. With animals it's taken. But when it comes to the Lord Jesus, the life was given. No man taketh it from me, I lay it down on myself. The Son of God who loved me, he paid himself for me.

Isn't that the wonderful thing? All the sacrifice in the Old Testament was dragged to the altar resisting. For the Lord Jesus, he was led willingly and the man was led to the floor, not resisting however.