<TITLE>02. Par 14-22</TITLE>L-14 Now, on the different thoughts now today, of religious worship, in many places they worship the ancestors that's gone on. For instance, if we'd go to China this morning, and speak the Word of God, or Japan, they would wonder what god you were speaking of, because every person that dies is a god as soon as he dies. And if we go to where the Buddha worshippers, or the different, the Mohammedans, they don't believe that Christ rose from the dead. They do not believe that He even died. They say He got on a horse and rode off and went to heaven.
But today, we really have the truth and the light of life. There's no doubt in my mind today, as a--a Gospel preacher of Christianity, I have no doubt at all in my mind, not one shadow of doubt, but what we positive have the sealed truth. That's... Other religions may be all right, but we have the truth.

L-16 If we notice today, that... Watch the seasons. Surely the great God of heaven, Who made all the heavens and earth, made... If you can see the way His mind was running, how He has the fall of the year, the death; then the spring of the year, the resurrection. In order, you have to die in order to have resurrection. It's through death that always brings life. You only live through death. Did you ever stop to think that, that the human race lives through death? Something has to die so you can live. Food--plant life, animal life, all dies, and through that death, we eat the food. And the food that we eat, the dead substance of something else, produces the life cells of blood that comes into our body. So we only live, and grow, and breathe, and eat by a life. And now... and by death... And we have to have death in order to produce life then.

L-18 Now, this message that was read to us this morning, we would call it the great commission, for it was the last commission our Lord gave His disciples, to go into all the world, and to preach this glorious, good tidings of the resurrection to all the world for a witness. And then He would return. And that signs and wonders would accompany this message that was to be preached.
And today in the countries we find even under Christian religion, that we find the people in America, many of them, with all good and due respects to it, we're trying to find great churches, and cathedrals, and great programs, and so forth to... On Easter, today, the great churches and crosses are polished for this great service of Easter. And today, literally tens of thousands and millions of dollars will be spent for Easter flowers and so forth, to go on the altars, to decorate these great churches and cathedrals we have today.
And in Rome the head of the Catholic church, in there they... that great morgue, Saint Peter's, where dead people are buried, they love to say in the Catholic church, that, "We have it, because that we have the body here of Saint Peter, laying here. We have the body of different apostles, and disciples, and great men who died and are... Their bodies are buried here." And they look upon that as if that was some great vindication to their phase of religion, that they have God.
But it's always been my contention, friends, that those things means nothing. It isn't... Any man can die and lay in the ground. But what rose from that is what we worship today, a living, resurrected, ascended Lord Jesus Who lives today. Many people can die.

L-22 Last Friday people crawled on their knees up the steps of the Vatican. And many people went in and celebrated the death which was the--a great and tragidous thing that happened to Christ. But He had to do that in order to prove that He was Christ.
But today is the day, the resurrection. This sealed it forever. Now, He is not dead. He's alive today, living in every heart and every person.
Men of old, as they looked forward to this day, the old patriarchs back in the Bible: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job, many of the old patriarchs looked forward to the time that Christ would raise from the dead.


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