<TITLE>09. Par 31-35</TITLE>L-31 Now, one day stomping down out of the wilderness come a prophet with a Pillar of Fire over he--over him, guiding him. He performed miracles and so forth, and told them that there was a land that was flowing with milk and honey. Nobody never been there, none of them. They just heard of it. Faith cometh by hearing. So away they went with this prophet through the wilderness.
And they came to a place called Kadesh-barnea, that was once the judgment seat of the world. And there when Israel camped... And there was where it was judged and the sin. And Joshua, a great warrior (and the word "Joshua" means "Jehovah Saviour"), this great warrior crossed over the Jordan. None of them had ever been before. Crossed over the Jordan to this promised land, and came back with the evidence that it was a good land, and it was true.

L-32 What was he doing? Confirming God's Word (See?), showing that what God had promised, God had done. See, the covenant is unconditionally.
God made three covenants: one with Adam; he broke it. Another with Noah; it got broke. But when God made the covenant with Abraham, it was not, "I'll... Not if you will," He said, "I have..." It's God's unconditional covenant that He made with Abraham and his seed. And we become his seed when we are dead in Christ.

L-33 Now, notice. And in this great time when he brought back the evidence, Israel moved over into the land, and there they didn't have to be under slaves. They could have their own gardens, and raise their children, and raise their churches and everything. But finally old age begin to catch up with them. After while on that lovely promised land there were tombstones on the hillsides everywhere.

L-34 Then down from glory came the greatest of all the warriors, another Jehovah Saviour: Jesus, the Son of God. And He said that there is Life after death, where there is no tombstones and graveyards. "For in My Father's house is many mansions. If it wasn't so I would have told you. And I'll go and prepare a place, and then come again to receive you unto Myself."
He come to save the dying human race, and He came to His Kadesh-barnea (Calvary) judgment, where not only the judgment seat of the world, but He was judged for the world. There He bore the iniquity and the sins of us all at Calvary. And He died, until the sun and the moon and the stars wouldn't shine. And He crossed over the Jordan, that we call Jordan, "death."
But on that third day He rose again, bringing back the evidence like Joshua did. "The land is there. I'm He that was dead, and alive forevermore, and have the keys of death and hell." He's not dead, He is risen.

L-35 Then we have an earnest of our inheritance. He's told the church, "Go up there to Pentecost, up to the--to the--ten days up at Jerusalem, and wait up there so long. I'm going to send you the earnest of this great land." And we confess our sins, and we die to ourselves, and we rise with Him, and we got the evidence.
Look where we were. Look where we are. Amen. See, we were once down there. Now, we're up here, already holding the evidence that we are dead and buried in Christ, and raised again in the resurrection, and setting tonight with Him in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Oh, my. Every devil, every sickness, every disease, everything is conquered by Him. He's that mighty conqueror. You don't have to conquer any more. It's already conquered. We're already dead. We're already risen (Amen.), already raised from the dead.
How many in here feels that way tonight? Just look here. Already raised from the dead, you once were dead in doubt, trespasses, doubted the Word of God, doubted It to be true.


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