<TITLE>02. Par 12-21</TITLE>L-12 Now, as it was written in the paper... Now, usually, on our Easter sunrise service, we usually have a--a song, or two, and place the most the time here in the Tabernacle... If there should be some visitors with us, well, most of our time here is on the Word. We're great people to believe the Word of God. And fundamentally, I think, that's the track and that's the place that's right. And today I have some--some very vital things I want to speak of, of the resurrection, some fundamentally things. And I want to jot some things down, myself, as I go along.

L-13 First, let's turn over here in the Scripture, in Matthew the 24th chapter, or the 22nd chapter, rather, and begin with the 41st verse. I want to read a text of Scripture, then over into the resurrection. My theme of the service this morning, it lays here. "While the Pharisees were gathered together..." I beg your pardon. I--I turned to the wrong place, in my reading of the text. It was--it was Matthew the--the 23rd chapter, I believe... Just a minute. I'm sorry, that I got in late last night and never got my text fixed up just right this morning, to where to find my Scripture reading. Oh, yes.
Go tell my disciples that I'll meet them over in Galilee...
All right, sir. Now, Jesus Christ, the Son of God made a commission here to these poor women after His resurrection, that He was to... what He was to do. He was to tell them that He was going to meet them in Galilee, where He promised them that--that He would--He would appear to them, and that He would forever be with them.

L-15 Now, in the 28th chapter of Matthew, rather, and beginning with the 7th verse, we read.
 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall you see him: lo, I have told you.
It was the Angel's message to the women, to Mary and--the two Mary's. It was on a--the first Easter morning; the glorious tidings had been rung out.

L-17 When He lived here on earth, He walked as a man; He looked like a man. He had all of His--His outward being as a man; yet, inwardly He was more than mankind. He was the Emmanuel. Today is the memorial of the greatest event that ever taken place in all the world. There never was a man, outside of this Man, Christ Jesus, Who said, "I have power to lay my life down, and have power to take it up again."
Confucius, yes, and Mohammed, and Buddha, many of the others, were great philosophers; but when they died, that settled it. They were finished forever. They buried them, and that's--that ended it.
But this Man had power to lay His life down and to raise it up again. The only Person that could do it; the only One that had, has ever proved that He could do it.

L-20 And now, in there's been the fear of man, down through the ages, was death. Every man that come into the world always feared death. Great... We've had Napoleons; we've had Hitlers, and everything; but when it comes to the hour of death, every one of them shrink. I've heard man speak and boast of great blasphemy things; but when it comes to death, they every one, shrink back.

L-21 Like Bob Ingersoll, the great noted infidel, when he took his watch out and held it out to his folks, and said, "If there is a God, I'll die in a minute, from the tick of this clock." Then, after the minute passed, he never died. He made a great big "ha-ha," and word, and said, "You see, there is no such a thing as God." But when...
'Course, that was only to fulfill Scripture. The Scripture said that, that, "Scoffers come in the last days," and we have them.
So he said, "Now, see, there is no such a thing as God." But in the hospital room when he was dying, where many had gathered to see what would take place, he screamed, "O God, have mercy on my soul."


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