<TITLE>09. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 Finally they crossed the Jordan. They inherited the land. They didn't have to be slaves, their daughters ravished, their sons killed at the... and the bake ovens, or in the slime pits, and so forth, under the rulers of cruel, dark Egypt. They didn't have to do it no more. They could have their own trees. They could grow their own vineyard. They could raise their children in peace. Other nations respected them. How I'd like to go in on that--a pattern of this nation.
Then the first thing you know what happened. After while they got old, begin to die. Graveyards become on the hillside of that glorious land. And no matter how God had blessed them, they still had to die.

L-39 Then there came another great Warrior, come down from glory. His Name was Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God. He told them that there's a land where a man don't die, that there's Life after death. Nobody had been over there yet and come back. And He came to His Kadesh-barnea, Calvary, where He not only stood judgment (the judgment seat of the world), but the world was judged there, and He paid the penalty of our sins at Calvary.
After Calvary He crossed what we call the Jordan of death. On the third day He rose up again, coming back from that land, bringing the evidence that a man, when he dies, he lives again. We are alive. Amen. We--we don't have to take... Now, He said, "I'm going to give you the earnest of this, give you the evidence of it. But wait up there at the city of Jerusalem until I send you the evidence that that land is good. That land frees you from sin."

L-40 And now today after two thousand years, we still stand with the earnest of our salvation, the evidence, to look down and see where we were once unbelievers, where we were once dead in sin and trespasses, and now we've raised with Him in the resurrection. We died with Him; we raised with Him; and we are setting tonight in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, already raised with Him in the resurrection (Amen.), with everything under our feet (Amen.): sickness, death, hell, all done destroyed by our great Warrior, at Whose right hand we stand by. Amen.
What's the scare? No wonder one of them come and said, "Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? Thanks be to God Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. I've fought a good fight. I've finished the course. I've kept the faith. And there's a crown laid up for me that the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me at that day: not only me, but all those who love His appearing." Amen. What if He'd have lived in this day? I can't stay with my text tonight somehow.

L-41 Now, they was condemning Him. He'd showed them that He was the Messiah. That little prostitute woman, she said, "Sir (in so many words that we'd understand) that's the sign that the Messiah's going to do. And they disbelieved it. See?
Now, He said there'd be an adulterous generation that'll seek after a sign, and they'll get it. And it'll be the sign of Jonas. As he was in the belly of the whale, and rose again on the--out of the belly of the whale after three days, the Son of man will rise again.
'Course, any Scripture reader knows that all Scripture has a compound answer, all prophecies. Take your marginal reading, like "Out of Egypt I've called My son," Matthew 2, and find out if that don't refer back to out of Egypt He called Joseph. See? Joseph was His son, and so was Jesus His Son. It always has a compound meaning. So then, that also that generation did not believe the resurrection sign to both Samaritan and Jew.
And now, here it is again, after two thousand years of ecclesiastical scruples, and ball-ups, and everything else. And again that Messiahic sign appears among us, and they still turn their heads from it, say, "I guess it's all right." See? A wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, and they'll get it.


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