The Message Wherein Ye Stand — Rolfe Barnard

The Great Falling Away and the Loss of New Testament Christianity

15th chapter of 1st Corinthians. I believe in your hearing as you follow me. The first 11 verses. I want you, as soon as you've gotten to it, I've said this word. Pay very, very earnest attention to this tremendously vital passage from God's Word.

It has not fallen to my lot or yours. In the day since the beginning times in the early church, and it lasted only some teachers think three years and some think it lasted seven years, I don't know why, since that time we've been living in what the scriptures call the great falling away.

There are some bible teachers who say that the falling away is future. My own conviction is that we've been in the falling away ever since a few years at the Pentecost and it gets worse and worse. I believe that I'm saying the truth now that all of the visitations of the Spirit of God by which he seized upon men to bring blessing to his parched church, all of them have fallen short of getting us back to New Testament Christianity.

In other words, I believe that you and I have to be living in an earth that for nearly 2 ,000 years professing Christianity as such has been anti-christian and anti-biblical. That's pretty desperate state.

We've not yet gotten back to New Testament Christianity. We thank God for every moment of the Spirit. It just so happens that you and I have been, and then the providence of God to live a single moment in our lives when it hadn't been going down instead of being vital.

Let all the causes examine ourselves and to look afresh to the word of God. I urge you again, the type of messages I've been bringing and then crossing the green. I do it deliberately. I do it not to be smart.

I do it out of conviction. You see, I'd love to be in, I'd love to live a month when the Spirit of God unhindered was blessing his people all in that they wanted. Let's see it now. Meantime, all we find our hands to do, thank God for every raindrop of blessing that falls.

But there might be few and far between have been in all of our days. I think it's within the providence of the visiting preacher. I'm as much a member of this congregation as I am any other. Maybe you don't believe it, but I am.

I got much right to talk here because I hope I belong to the Lord. I hope you do. And we belong to the Lord. We're not strangers and we're not visitors. We're in it together. I have to go pay him some attention to the book.

Hunger for the Word of God

I believe we take it for granted. I believe that we use language that is terribly far from the scripture. I believe a great need of the hour is for us to find out what the Bible says instead of what we heard somebody say it did.

I believe that the greatest thing that looks like getting in a place where we might put in the blessing of God would be a church full of people, not a building, but I mean people who make up the church, hungry from God's word.

That's one of the most terrible signs of the terrible plight our churches are in, the lack of hunger for the word of God. When I read that Christian is meek, that means he has a holy preference for the will of God and he knows he can find it nowhere except in the word.

I'm made to tremble in myself, but we're limping along with nothing. I said all that to say this, I've been arguing with your blessed pastor and I thank God for him. Putting him on the spot and getting him where cleavage is manifest and evident.

And I thank God for his renewed emphasis on the word. And I've been telling him, I take these Sunday morning services when you have the Sunday morning crowd, you know, just open this word and I take up some of the great truths that Baptists used to believe and don't now.

Baptists used to make an effort to practice and don't now. And he said, well, that's when I had my big crowd and I preached to them. I said, I know, but as long as our churches are in rebellion, you can preach till you're blue in the face.

And it just goes down the rabbit hole. I don't know what he's going to do, but if he does that, you lay it on me. You see, he tells me that there's great resistance to my insistence on being under subjection to Christ in the local church.

But your daddy believed that. And whether he believed it or not, the Bible teaches it. You see, the pastor's taken around today a little bit and he'd point out that I, as a member of the church, hadn't been in the church since I've been here in this building.

Now, your daddy wouldn't have put up with no such foolishness as that, nor would your daddy's have put up with rebellion against the actions of the church. If they say on Wednesday night, we're going to beat and sell the Bible, I'd better make the church be there if they're not working the sick.

Amen. There's an obligation to be there. If they're not in rebellion, they're going to turn that church fully on you. You will not be in subjection. Now, that's central, but the Bible's full of it. And yet, I'm conscious of the fact that many dead people would say, well, that preacher, he's bringing something strange.

No, no, that's not strange. It's Bible. So I'm saying that instead of bucking, we ought to get us a Bible and come and get this godly preacher. He's one the Lord sent here. If he isn't, you ought to get rid of him to teach your people the word of God.

Is that right? Do you believe that God sent some in the church for the purpose of making good ministers out of the people? That's what the Lord said. And we can't know the will of God. We'll just hop off about something we know nothing about, you see.

Unless we become students and somebody has to teach us. You say, well, you mean to tell me I need somebody to teach me? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Amen. That's right. Oh, I laid on your heart that instead of having, he says, this guy takes about four on Wednesday night, and he teaches.

I teach Sunday morning, but he's still the pastor. I teach that Sunday morning crowd to come out to honor God with that praise. They ain't there on Sunday night. Boy, I get a good licking. Well, it wouldn't be just for me, but it is so pitiful to hear people bucking and raising and talking about something they know nothing about.

A little girl up in Maryland not long ago, she came up to straighten me out, and she said she wanted to ask me a question. I said, would I be permitted just to word for you, ask questions? She said, sure.

I said, have you studied your lesson? Now, I have. I don't know much, but I have been a student from six to one years old, and I don't like to argue with somebody. I won't do it. And I don't like somebody who hasn't studied the lesson come tell me how to teach it.

Bringing the Bible and Testing Every Claim

You want to drive in? My little girl, when she's eight, nine years old, when I'd come home and be home for a week in school time, she'd come cuddle up to my lap and want me to hear her spelling, see if she could spell the words.

And I'd always ask her, have you studied them? And never had. She won't try to spell them, but I studied them. I'm talking sense. This book is what we need to cling to. That's the book that tells us about the Lord.

Not what the verse, but what the book says. And that's the reason I beg people, sometimes I fuss at people. Bring your Bible. Don't you dare believe in things until you find it in the book. And if you find it in the book, well, believe it if hell freezes over, and act on it.

Is that all right? Let's become, you know, Baptists are known everywhere now, as people who've long since got so smart, they don't need to study the book. I know that's so, but when it's teaching time, they don't show up.

It's not a good sign. Well, don't charge me for that, but God bless you. Let's become acquainted with the book. Now, tomorrow night, I want to preach on a thing that causes so much confusion, and it's unscriptural, and I dare to attack it.

Tomorrow night, I'm going to speak on the subject, do men have a choice of accepting or rejecting Christ? Of course, I'll be saying certainly not. Certainly not. Since I've been here, people have fallen out with the preaching.

They say, I think, well, that weighs just as much as I think weighs. I think that a person ought to have a choice of whether he'll accept Christ or turn him down. Well, that's what somebody thinks, but the Bible says no.

Men do not have a choice of accepting or rejecting Christ. You say, well, Don, you've prayed, I've heard that all my life. I know, that's when I wish you'd get your Bible and get under a Bible teacher that's a pastor.

And just take the word, and then what the book says, what the book says. Well, I'll tell you what, in fact, it is terrible. It is terrible. For a personal effort to go out from a Baptist church and ring a doorbell, and get in a hall, and go through some motions, and stick out his hand, and ask a man, and say, Brother, will you accept Christ?

And yet, we've been taught that's the way to do so, and ever since I've been here, I have turned down. And that's blasphemy. It's anti-scriptural. And I'm going to show it to you. I believe with all my heart, we're going to have to get back to sticking to what the Bible teaches.

I believe that if we could get some of the Bible truth over to this generation of church people, they wouldn't go out and butcher souls like we've been butchering them ever since you've been around. So tomorrow night, I'm warning you, I want to handle from the Word of God the best I'm able to get at truth.

The Gospel Message in Which Believers Stand

Oh, what faces men is 10 ,000 times more solemn than facing them with a choice. The Bible faces men with a duty, not a choice. No man has been given the privilege of deciding what he'll do with Jesus Christ.

That's fundamental. And you'll know what the bill of fare is tomorrow night. Now hear me as we read these verses. I warn you, ever since I've been here, I haven't brought messages that I usually bring in meetings, but I've been heavy hearted and I've been going down pretty heavy.

I want to do right. I will know when I get to the judgment, how it's turned out, but I'm preaching with that day in mind. And I want tonight to speak to you on the message, the message that if we stand in it and keep it in our memory, we'll save our souls.

Let me repeat the subject. There is a message, says the Apostle Paul in the verses we're going to read in a moment. And I want you to be looking for it as we read it. The message he's going to be presenting here, he says will save us if we stand in it and if we keep it in memory.

Now those two qualifications make me prick up my ears, especially in the day when that is going to fill hell. Trusting something they said happened a long time ago. Well, the promise is that this message is saving, not if you say you believed it a long time ago, but if you stand in it and if you keep it in memory.

Let's read about this message. Beginning of verse one, moreover brethren, I declare unto you, I don't explain it, but I proclaim it, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you. Oh, it's a little bold isn't it?

For a preacher talking to you now, I guess has a right to believe. But if there's one thing that I'm dogmatic about, I may be wrong. What is the gospel? What the gospel does. Paul just comes right out, he don't get pious for the start, he just says, this gospel I preached it to you.

He might not be straight on anything else, but he said, the gospel, the gospel I'm talking about is the one I preached to you. I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have what?

You've received. And wherein he stands. You're not only submitted to it one time, but you're standing in it now. That's what it takes. By which also you are saved if you keep in memory what I preached unto you.

And he said, what I preached unto you is the gospel, and you're saved if you keep in memory the gospel. And that's kind of a strange word, but in vain. The expression, unless you believe, in vain. Greek scholars who think I have to sit back, the original language, say that that expression means unless you believe in the wrong thing.

Unless you listen to a message and kept it in your memory and stood it. If it wasn't the right message, wasn't talking about the right person. That's a pretty serious, unless you believe the wrong message.

Now, what you deliver to us, this message that we're to stand in having received and that will be to us a saving message, if we keep it in memory. I wish I knew how to count that a little bit, because I think we've come now to a vital, vital sore spot in what we call people being Christians now.

I keep hammering away at men and women that the only evidence a man has had of what we call the new birth, no man can tell you what the new birth is. The only on earth anybody can have the slightest evidence that he's been born from above is by fruit.

And the fruit of the new birth is repentance and faith. If a man knows what it is to daily repent and daily lean on Christ, he's got some evidence. That a work of the Holy Spirit has been performed in him.

Somebody says, I was born again down at Possum Holocaust. What he means is he had a feeling that being born again may be a white horse of different color. The only on earth you've got any evidence you had the new birth is by its fruit.

Well, yeah, and the sure evidence that that tree's an apple tree, there's some apples on it. The evidence that the Spirit of God brought you into God's kingdom is that daily repentance and faith of the practice and experience of your life.

I camp on that because we've handled repentance as if it was something we did one time and thank God we got that over with. No, no, it lasts as long as you live. Faith, believing, oh yes, I took Jesus.

He'd say, I accepted Jesus as my personal Savior 20 years ago. Well, pray on that. How about what you did today? Did you lean on him? Did you trust him? Did you feast on his blessed blood today? Unless you believe the wrong man.

Christ's Death, Burial, and Resurrection According to Scripture

What'd you tell us, Paul? Well, he said, I didn't look this tree unto you first of all, that which I also received. I didn't think it up. How that Christ died for our sins, according to the scripture, and that he was seen of Cephas, and then he was seen of the twelfth, of this verse four, and that he was dead, and that he rose again the third day, according to the scripture.

Now, he said, that's the message, that if you receive it, and if you stand in it, and if you keep it in the middle, it's a saving message. That's the same message that Paul talks about in Romans 1 16.

I am not ashamed of the gospel, for if, not your imitation, not your persuasion, but the gospel is the power and the dynamite of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. Now, he says this message has been witnessed, got competent witnesses of its truth.

Verse five says, this one who died according to the scriptures, was buried, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures, and one the last to him, he is seen of Cephas. Cephas said, I saw the risen Lord, and then he was seen of the twelfth, they said, we saw, and after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once, at one time, five hundred people saw him, of whom the greater part, Paul says, still live in, but some are falling asleep.

He's a pretty good witness, and he said, there's some of them still around, and you can go talk to them, they'll tell you, they've seen the risen Lord. That's pretty good evidence. If you have a wreck on the highway down here, you might ask for somebody that sees it to be a wreck.

If it comes to court, they'll put him up on the stand and say, where were you when these two cars hit each other? And he'll say, I saw them, so did you see the wreck? Yes. They'll accept his testimony.

Now ladies and gentlemen, just between us girls, and the further evidence that's brought in, I'm 61 years old, and I ain't going to be around here for another hundred years, until somebody that was there tells me that Jesus didn't rise from the dead in the body, like they're saying today.

I'm going to believe the testimony of old Peter. He said, I was there, I saw him. Now that's pretty good. These were competent witnesses. And after that, he was seen of James, and then of all the apostles, and last of all, Paul said, I saw him.

I'm a witness. I saw him as one born out of due time, for I'm the least of the apostles, and I'm not meant to be called an apostle, because I persecute the church of God, but for the grace of God, and what I am.

And his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Therefore, whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believe.

The Gospel as a Historical Proclamation

Now, follow me as I get a little like a teacher in school for a moment. Let me repeat it. This message, that if you receive it, and you stand in it, and you keep it in memory, in other words, it doesn't make a fleeting impression on you, it stays with you.

This message that Paul says is the gospel. It's something to be declared. He says, I declare it. It's something to be preached, and it never grows old to a child of God. You can hear it three times a day, 365 days a year, and it's still blessed.

It's the children's bread, just the gospel. Now, this declared preached message, Paul said, it's a fact. What this message talked about actually took place. It took place in history, and it's testified to by competent witnesses.

What is this message? What is the gospel? What is this gospel? If I could receive it, and always in the New Testament, the word receive means submit. For after all is said and done, the gospel is Christ, and the Christ is the gospel.

And the gospel comes, in that sense, it's a law, and it demands belief. God don't tell people it'd be awful nice if you believed the gospel. The Lord said, repent ye and believe the gospel. Don't argue about it.

Don't make up your mind what you're going to do about it. The command of Christ is to believe. No man has got the choice of it. He's commanded it to. Now, what is this gospel? Well, it's that Christ died for our sins.

That's the first thing in it. No, that isn't it. It's Christ died for our sins according to the scripture. And that's what we've left out for about 60 years. Every preacher, I don't care what his denomination is, what his little sect is, the Mormons, the whole outfit, the Baptists, the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Catholics, the Episcopalians, everybody now, preaches the death of Christ.

They just leave out one little minor matter. They don't preach according to the scripture. You see, they'd rather give it all a little bit. Please take Jesus instead of the death of Christ according to the scripture.

Man can't preach the death of Christ and let it be a part of the gospel unless he preaches it doing what the scripture said it would do. Preaching it according to what the scripture said would take place.

And this is vital. The death of Christ in its biblical meaning. Well, I'll tell you what I believe he died for. Wait just a minute. No, let's find out what the Bible said about it. And proclaim the death of Christ.

What the Old Testament filed on it. What will be accomplished by his death. This is vital. Mr. D .L. Rudy, when he lay on his deathbed years since, he said none of his part in war. But the preachers who came after him had their work cut out for them.

And I want us to get to it. He said I could go up and down America and England and exhort men and women to believe in Jesus Christ and they understood who he was and what I meant by it. But he said not so now.

He said we must be like teachers and we must take what it means. We'll gain time but taken that time. I call your attention to the fact that this generation has been invited to put their faith in the death of Christ.

Well now. What the scripture says about who it is that died and why he died and what he died to accomplish. No, preaching the gospel is not preaching the death of Christ. It's preaching the death of Christ according to the scripture.

The Meaning of the Atoning Death of Christ

What's the second thing in the gospel? It's the burial. He was buried. He was buried. He actually died. And he was actually raised from the dead. That's the significance of his burial. He didn't just play like he died.

He died. It wasn't just the ghost that was raised. He was raised. He was buried. You don't bury live people. And you don't raise live people. You have to raise dead people. Now suppose we preach the death of Christ is a tragedy.

Oh, isn't it terrible. That awful tragedy. When the best man that ever lived knew no sin. Suppose we preach it as a tragedy and get people to seem awful sorry. That Jesus hung on a cross. Is that preaching the death of Christ according to the scripture?

Oh no. It wasn't a tragedy brother. It was the purpose of almighty God. God almighty hung him on that tree. It wasn't a terrible tragedy. It was the most blessed thing that ever happened when God's loving sinners enough bruised this son.

Men did it, but God did it. And God has explained it. I quit trying to explain the scripture. Just declare it. You say I can't understand it. Who said you could? Him being delivered by the determinative counsel and full knowledge of God.

Somebody had to get on the telephone and tell God your son is hanging on a cross now. That all happened because I marked it out from fool as ever a star. They have with wicked hands taken the flesh. So men with malice before us all hung him on a cross, but deeper than that.

Glory, glory, glory. Tragedy. It's now when Satan was defeated. It's now when sin was paid for. It's now when the holiness of God was satisfied and the law of God was vindicated. It's now when the fountain was opened up for uncleanness.

Glory, glory, glory. It wasn't a tragedy. We preach it as a martyrdom. Christ was ahead of his time. And blind men killed him. Is that preaching the death of Christ according to the scripture? No, no.

He wasn't a martyr. He went there on purpose. He went there on purpose. No man taketh my life from me. I lay it down. I lay it down. He wasn't a martyr ahead of his time. He went there on purpose. So what's it like when these civil rights demonstrators, you know, want to get put in jail, you know, for the cause?

No, no. Jesus Christ wasn't in there. No, no. Listen. Only. Hear me now. Only. As an atonement. What does that mean? Only. Preaching the death of Christ as the action of a whole. In absolute. The science of preaching the death of Christ according to the phone line.

Sacrifice upon sacrifice. The Old Testament. In the goodness of God. Indeed. The songs to go toward the penalty of the broken heart. The generation of Baptists tell me that they believe they're saved because they say they accepted Jesus.

I don't see no power in that. There's power in the blood, but not in your actions. In that little decision you say you made. The only way God Almighty can deal with you is on the basis of this song. Representing you, darling.

No hope anywhere else. Except in death. Now, Father, you know the moment. There's a man preaching the gospel. If he preaches the death of Christ, that will have significance according to the scripture.

As a payment for sin. As a satisfaction of God's holy character. If he preaches the death of Christ and that's all? No, sir. That's not the gospel. But listen, Brother Barnard, now people tell me. And I hope to goodness people are better in their hearts than they are in their language.

Brother Barnard, what I'm doing. I'm trusting in the death of Christ. I'm saved. No, you're not, honey. That isn't the gospel. That's part of it. But that ain't the gospel. That's part of it, but that's not the gospel.

You better listen to me. We give lip service to the gospel today, but we don't preach it. I'm facing you denial to the fact that the gospel, if you hear it, if you could receive it, and you'd stand it and keep it in your memory, it says it'll save you.

But the gospel ain't the death of Christ. The death of Christ is a part of the gospel. You can preach and get people to say, well, I believe Jesus died, honey, but that ain't gonna save nobody. You say, well, I accept that Christ is my person of saving, but that ain't gonna save nobody.

It would mean much more than saving. All this preaching the death of Christ and all this biblical meaning and preaching that alone, is that the message of the Savior? No, sir. That's the first part of it, but that ain't all.

And brother Barnard knows what he's talking about now. God help us. We better start quick booking and come to the moment, bitch. We filled America with men and women who will tell you in all sincerity and earnest, I know I'm saved because I'm trusting in what Jesus did on the cross.

They'll tell you they're trusting in the finished work of Christ, and that sounds awful good, but it won't save you. A dead Christ can't save nobody. A dying Christ can't save nobody. I'm not making fun of the death of Christ, no, brother, no.

Oh, no, but I'm saying that the death of Christ alone never saves anybody. I'm saying the death of Christ alone is not the gospel. What is the gospel? How that Christ died for our sins according to scripture.

How that he was buried and how he rose again the third day. It takes all of that to make up the message that if you receive and stand in it and keep it in your memory, that message saving your late old love will save you, says Paul.

The Resurrection as the Confirmation of the Gospel

But I say it with a bleeding heart. We have given lip service in our days. We've quoted men, and we have all quit even making any mention of the risen Lord. He didn't stay in that grave. If he had, that would have wound up.

No, sir. No, sir. The gospel is the declaration, the proclamation of some facts. Christ died according to scripture. Christ was buried according to scripture. Christ was raised according to the scripture.

He was raised. I've been saying for many, many years. In fact, I said don't make it so, but I've been saying it. But Jesus Christ did not have no death. He not only died as the only payment for sin and was about to prove his death.

It has its place, but if your faith is in entrusting something, you need to do what men cannot do for themselves. Now, he's not on the cross. We normally share the death rattle of vital godliness and holiness.

God knows. I thank God for the confirmation that the risen Christ gives to the truth of Christ. The theologians are all telling us now, to talk about bodily raise from death. There's no way you can bring that teaching into a court or into human history and prove it.

It's after all, they say, historical. And ladies and gentlemen, better listen to me. Except for this book, they got us. All we've done with this book. But he was raised from the dead according to the scriptures.

The scriptures say you would do it, said why he'd do it. We try to give an answer for the hope to send us heaven. We do not go to the virgin birth of Christ. We do not go to the miracles of Christ. We do not go to the sinless life of Christ.

We do not go to the death of Christ. But we're poor. And that answers the whole business. If he isn't risen, his virgin birth's not worth a dime. If he isn't risen, his sinless life's no good. If he isn't risen, his miracles are no good.

If he isn't risen, his death is no good. But if he isn't risen, what your mother and father believed about this book, so brother, is God's truth. It will do to live by and it will do to die by. It's the confirmation of the truth.

He says there in verse 14, if Christ be not risen, then I'll preach in vain. And your faith is all so vain. Yeah, and we're a bunch of liars. We have found false witnesses of God. Everything hangs on this one thing.

The New Testament hangs the whole truth of the Christian revelation on one thing. That's the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He says that's not so. The whole outfit goes down the drain. But bless God if it is so.

All of it so. We have found false witnesses of God because we testify of God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that their death was not good. The second result of the resurrection of Christ is this.

Justification and the Accomplished Work of Christ

The resurrection of Christ is a confirmation of what Christ accomplished, actually got a job done. He didn't try to do it. He did it. He could say at that phase of his ministry, it's finished. All hell can change.

What did he do? Ladies and gentlemen, the resurrection confirms what he did. When sin was placed on the head of my Lord, it pressed him down to get sin in his garden, where he sweat great drops of blood.

It pressed him down, but destined down to the grave. The sin that was laid on him got away almost in eternity. By the resurrection from the dead, one great act of almighty God resulted in the salvation of a sin that had been devised to remain in the grave.

The Apostle Paul tells us in the book of Romans about the Lord Jesus Christ, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered, given on that cross, on account of our offenses, and was raised on account of our justification.

That's what the scriptures say about my liberation from the dead, because God wants to justify some in. You can do it on the basis of Christ's work on the cross, being acceptable, and the proof of that word is that God raised him from the dead.

I left a turn in the Bible lines in, just for my soul's satisfaction, and read one more time. I'm going to read it near here. I'm going to read it near here. He sat down on the right hand of the majesty of man.

He went back to the Father after he hung on the cross. Do you know what that means? The Father said, you've done a good job, son. I accept it. I've saved a vile sinner out of hell who can believe in Christ.

Because of what you've done. Sit down. You've done a good job. Oh, that was the Father's acceptance of what his son did on the cross. He did it. He could put his faith in that which God says is a mighty good job, brother.

Christ's Reign at the Right Hand of God

But the last word, the resurrection of Christ, confirms that Christianity is sold. People fighting it now. Nations trying to wipe it off the face of the earth. Godless materialism in America. Threatening to destroy every church in America where it's sold.

What Christ did on the cross, God said that's a good job. Oh, if a man can be united to that person who did what he did on that cross, he'd be alright. But the last result of the resurrection is this.

The resurrection of Christ placed him on the throne. Now we're at the heart of it. Verse 25 of this same chapter. Verse 24, then come at the end. When he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father.

When he shall have put down all woe and all his heart in power. For he must reign. He must reign. He's reigning now. Till he has put all enemies under his feet. He's reigning now. What's Jesus doing now?

He's reigning. He's reigning. Oh, bless the Lord. The resurrection of Christ. He didn't come out of that grave just to meet his friends in the cemetery. He didn't come out of the grave just to come up and say hello to the folks in the upper room.

Bless the Lord. He came out of that grave to ascend to the right hand of God the Father. There he is clothed in all power in heaven and earth forevermore. Hallelujah. That's what happened. God raised him.

Put him on the throne. In Acts chapter 2, we read afresh. This Jesus whom God hath raised up, whereof we are all witnesses, therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted. And having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, this one hath shed forth this which he's now seeing here.

And if you turn to the book of Ephesians, I like to read this. Which he wrought in Christ. When he raised him from the dead, that's God wrought it. When he raised Christ from the dead. And what God do, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion.

And every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. And hath put all things under his feet. And gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, that filleth him, that filleth all in all.

Standing in the Gospel and Knowing Christ

What is the meaning of Christ was raised according to the scripture. It means Christian to sow folks. It means that God hangs it all on that one act. It means that what he did on the cross is acceptable to God.

And God now can be just and to justify the ungodly. It means that Christ is a living Lord. He's a living Lord. If you do not know Christ on the cross and to pay for sin, you don't know him. If you do not know Christ ruling from the throne for the change, you do not know him.

The gospel is a blessed story of one who went to a bloodied tree to pay for sin of believers. And whom God put on the throne to rule forevermore. And the first time you ever hear the gospel, you will be saved.