<TITLE>03. Par 7-9</TITLE>L-7 And when they got over to Kadesh-barnea... Now, the... Kadesh-barnea is the judgment seat. It was at that day to the world. Kadesh-barnea; it was a place where there was a great big spring and many little springs, little tributaries to this spring.
Well, there they had a man among them, a great warrior named Joshua ("Joshua" is "Jehovah-Saviour."), and Joshua went over into the promised land. Now, remember, none of them had never been there. They didn't know whether the land was actually there or not. They just, by faith, went by what was told them, that God had a place for them, and they was going to that place just by faith. Now, think of that. Left Egypt and God brought them out, and now they're nearing that land.
And when they get near the land, Joshua goes over into the land and brings back the evidence: crosses Jordan, goes over into Palestine, brings back the evidence, great bunch of grapes, that taken two men to pack, and they could eat those grapes. And he said, "The land is just exactly what God said it was." Oh, what a freedom that was, where they could go now and they could have their own farms, and raise their children, and have... And God's blessings upon them, and live in peace. They was nobody's slaves.
How... But finally, after they lived a good long life, they finally had to die, yet being God's children. It went on for year after year: raising their crops, and having their families, and good peaceful life, and then die.

L-8 And then one day down come the greatest Warrior of all, the Lord Jesus, the Son of God. And He said, "There is a land where a man don't die. In My Father's house is many mansions. If it wasn't so, I would've told you. I go and prepare a place and return to receive you." Now, He's the Prophet that come speaking of a land just beyond the river Jordan, death, where that... Even though you got your farms, you got your families, you're blessed of God, but yet you have to die. But yet, there's a land beyond that where you don't die. Oh, my.
Then He came to Kadesh-barnea, Calvary, the judgment seat again. Where the penalty of sin that caused men to die, it was met at judgment at His Kadesh-barnea. He paid the penalty of sin, died, crossed Jordan, the Jordan of death, and rose up on the third day.
Coming back, and said, "Feel Me. A spirit don't have flesh and bones like Me. Got something to eat?" He eat fish and bread. And He was with them for forty days, proving, like Joshua, that the land was there. He's the evidence of the land there. Now, He said, "All that will believe this, go ye into all the world, preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned."

L-9 Then on the day of Pentecost He sent back the earnest of this place, the assurance, the evidence that this land is real. Just like Joshua brought back the evidence, Jesus brought the evidence of the Holy Ghost.
Now, we reckon ourselves dead. We're buried with Him in baptism unto His death, and we raised with Him in the resurrection. And now we are in already, not we're going to; we're already raised. Oh, my. We are now, not will be; we are now, tonight, setting in heavenly places. How? In Christ Jesus. Not we will be some other time; we are now. The church don't realize who they are. See? We are now, right this minute. How? In Christ Jesus, assembled together in Him, already raised from the dead. Our souls is immortal.


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