<TITLE>05. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 And He was so rejected by the people, He didn't have a place to die. The earth refused Him, and heavens couldn't have Him because He was coming a sinner, not with Own sin, but with our sins upon Him. He was bearing the sins of the world upon Him, so He was rejected in heaven. And the earth didn't want Him, and they had to lift Him up between heavens and earth, and let Him die outside of heaven and outside of the earth. What a Saviour.
How could you turn down such a Person as that for modern theology, or for the persons of people when you know that you've got to stand in His Presence in that day of judgment to give an account for your life? God won't hold you responsible for being a sinner. He will hold you responsible for rejecting the way out. You can't help being a sinner. You were borned... Your nature's a sinner, but you can help it. Jesus made the way for you.

L-19 And there He was, after seeing all of that, "And surely how could a person," thought Mary, "that not knowing a man, I was packing water one day from the well, and the Holy Ghost spoke to me in a big Light, then said, 'That Holy Thing which will be borned of thee shall be called the Son of God,' and how could God ever permit to see His Own Child hanging there, suffering, bleeding, twisting, dying? How could it be?"
They were looking at any time for Him to turn from the cross, pull His hands loose in triumph over the enemy's... But they didn't realize if He did that, then we'd be left sinners this morning. He had to do it.

L-20 They paid Him the greatest compliment, them Pharisees did that--that crucified Him. They paid Him the greatest compliment He was ever paid when they said, "He saved others but Himself He cannot save." They didn't realize that if He saved Himself, He couldn't save others. He had to give Hisself in order to save others, and it was a complimentary to Him, them not knowing it.
They were guilty of putting Him to death, but on Easter morning when God proved above a shadow of doubt that Something more than a philosopher died, Something more than a prophet died. Man today in modern theology tried to make Him preaching a social Gospel as just a philosopher, or a good man, or a fine scholar, a teacher. He was more that. He was God Himself made flesh among us. He was Divine. His Blood did not come from any mortal man, but It come from the created power of Jehovah God, His Father, and He was Divine, and He proved it when He broke the seals of death and rose on the third day.

L-21 Here was many of the disciples all disheartened. Many things had come up in life just like we get ourselves. Along this journey they were on their road home, going over to Emmaus, Cleopas and his companion, walking along the road. And how little did they know on this beautiful first Easter morning that Jesus Christ was alive and among the people. They thought He was dead.
And as they did then so, is it now. Many people who really love Jesus fail to understand that He's right with us, living resurrected here among us. They teach it as a historical affair of something, and it is a history. The Bible's not only a history but It's a Prophet also. He's not only dead, but He raised again. He died, truly, but He rose again from the dead.


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