22-0610A_THE ENTOMBMENT (SOLEMNLY REST UPON GOD'S ETERNAL WORD)
Num 20:7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 20:8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
Act 2:26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
Act 2:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Act 2:25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
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Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecc 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
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5 Now,
we do realize that there is no one in the earth that is able sufficiently to
take the Word of God and reveal It, because the Word is written by inspiration.
The Holy Spirit is the Author of the Word.
And when one was
sought for in heaven to take the Book and to loose the Seals, there--was found
no one in heaven, nor in earth, nor beneath the earth, that was worthy to loose
the Seals, or even to look upon the Book. And there was a Lamb there that had
been slain since the foundation of the world, and He come and took the Book out
of the hand of Him that set upon the throne, and loosed the Seals, and opened
up the Word.
And we are tonight believing and trusting in Him, that He
will open the Word for us. And now as I read in 2nd chapter of Acts...
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8 As I give out, the first night was The
second coming, and--of the Lord Jesus, being Wednesday. And Thursday night was
on the All-Sufficient Sacrifice. And Friday night was on The All- Sufficient
Atonement: The Perfect. Did you get it last night? Perfect, how we can be
absolutely blameless and perfect in the sight of God. And tonight is on
"The Entombment." And tomorrow, "The Resurrection," just as
the days follow.
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9 Now I have chosen tonight for my Scripture
reading out of the Book of Acts the
2nd chapter and the 25th, 26th, and 27th verses, inclusive. And It
reads as this, Peter speaking.
David... for David spake concerning him, I foresaw the Lord
always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad;
moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
Because thou will not leave my soul in hell, neither will
thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.
What a beautiful text for this night, for to get the context
of Him being in the tomb.
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11 The first thing we wish to loo... draw your
attention to, is the infallibility of
God's Word. God keeps His Word to the letter. And tonight we want to
fasten our thoughts on that, that God keeps His Word. We can rest
assure of anything that God has said in His Word to be the Truth. And faith does not rest upon
the shifting sands of man's ideas or man's theology, but it has its final resting place on the
unmovable Rock of God's eternal Word, the Word.
If God has said it,
that is forever the Truth. He can never take it back and say, "I did not mean
it." I can say things and you can say things, then we are prone to have to
take it back, because we said it with the best of our knowledge and with the
best of our ability.
But then God is so much different from us. He is
infinite; therefore, He does not say one thing unless
it is absolutely perfect. He never has to take it back, never has to
apologize for what He said. It's always stands the Truth.
*AND WE CAN REST ASSURE THAT EVERY WORD WILL BE FULFILLED; JUST ANCHOR OUR SOUL ON IT.
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13 Even for Jesus in this great days that we're in
celebration, when God really slayed His Son for the sins of the world, was
perhaps thousands of years before even the foundation was ever laid. God spoke the Word, and It's a finished
product in heaven when God speaks It; it's already finished. Oh, if we could only
grasp what that means, what different people we would be. To see in His Books the
judgments that is placed in here for the disobedient, it would make a man
examine himself hour by hour; and it would make the righteous rejoice hour by
hour to read the blessings that God has promised to the faithful.
And we can rest assure that every Word will be fulfilled;
just anchor our soul on it. It's always been that way.
*AND WITHOUT ONE SPECK OF EVIDENCE THAT IT WOULD HAPPEN, EVERYTHING VERY
CONTRARY, NOAH MOVED WITH FEAR, AND BUILT THE ARK, PREPARED IT.
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14 When God spoke to Noah way back in the
antediluvian world, maybe perhaps before a Bible was ever written (or this
Bible, anyhow, was ever written), God told Noah there was coming a storm, and
the waters were going to cover the earth. And without one speck
of evidence that it would happen, everything very contrary, Noah moved with
fear, and built the ark, prepared it. It was for the saving of his household and himself. God never let him down, because
it was His Word. It had to happen when God said it would happen.
*JOB STOOD FIRM BECAUSE GOD'S PROMISE WAS FIRM.
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15 Now, when Job the oldest Book in the Bible,
that's written perhaps before Genesis was written, and it was included in the
Bible... And Moses wrote the Genesis. Job, in his Book, he rested
solemnly upon the promise God made him. And he stood by his burnt offering, without a fear
in his heart, knowing that, what God had said, God was able to perform. And when everything seemed to go contrary,
Job stood firm because God's promise was firm. God promised Job, and Job
rested on that promise.
*IF THE CHURCH COULD
EVER GET TO THAT PLACE TO WHERE IT COULD SOLEMNLY REST UPON GOD'S ETERNAL WORD
TO BE THE TRUTH…
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16 Oh, if the church could ever get
to that place to where it could solemnly rest upon
God's eternal Word to be the Truth, what a difference there would be,
what a correcting there would be, what a cutting away there would be, what a
joy there would be, what a power there would be, when men and women would take
God at face value, what He said is the Truth. No matter what the circumstances look like, that has
nothing to do with it. God said so; that settles it.
*NO MATTER HOW DARK IT SEEMED, AND HOW UNREAL IT SEEMED, THERE WAS
SOMETHING THAT JOB ANCHORED HIS SOUL ON: GOD'S ETERNAL PROMISE
And Job, when he was in the most trying time of all his
experience; when he had been found in the Presence of God a just man. Even God
said he was perfect.
There was none like him in the earth. And Satan was given the privilege to
tempt him, saying, "I'll make him curse You to Your face."
And he almost took Job's life, and would've done it, but
God drawed a boundary line, said, "You can do anything to him, but don't
take his life."
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19 Then
when Job stood at the very tempting of the crucial moment, he said, "I know my
Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He'll stand on the earth. Though the skin
worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." No matter how dark it seemed,
and how unreal it seemed, there was something that Job anchored his soul on:
God's Eternal promise. Oh, if we could only do that. Notice, he rested on the promise, "I know my
Redeemer liveth."
And I want you to notice, for future words I wish to say,
Job specified his burying place. And when Job died, he was buried thus.
*WE OUGHT TO STAND THE
MORE FIRM THAN WE EVER STOOD ON THUS SAITH THE LORD.
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21 There was another man by the name of Abraham who took God at His Word. And he believed God, and he called those
things which were contrary to the promise God give him, as though they were
not. He took God at His Word. And when the days passed, and the weeks
and the months, and even the years passed, that never fazed Abraham one bit.
The Bible said, "He staggered not, through unbelief, at the promise of
God, but was faithful, giving praise unto God."
When everything
seemed to, every day, it simply did grow more difficult every day; but instead
of getting weaker, Job got stronger every day. Oh, what a blessed
assurance we have. When
difficult seems to rise to make the thing, that God has promised, an
impossibility; instead of cowing off back into the world, we ought to stand the more firm than we ever stood on THUS
SAITH THE LORD. It ought to settle it when God says
something.
*WHAT A BEAUTIFUL TYPE OF BAPTISM. HE BOUGHT IT BEFORE WITNESSES, THAT
IT WAS HIS POSSESSION.
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23 And Abraham called those things which
were, as though they were not, because they were contrary to the Word. And
when Abraham lost his sweetheart and wife, Sarah, after many years living
together, he bought a portion of ground near the place where Job was buried,
and buried Sarah. Wonder why? They were prophets. They seen. They
contacted God. And now, when Abraham died, he was buried with Sarah.
Now, he did not want
these fellows to give him that portion of ground. He bought it before
witnesses. What a beautiful type of baptism. He bought it before
witnesses, that it was his possession. Oh, that's the
way a real believer ought to come, not slip off in the corner, but stand before
the witnesses, "I am a witness of the Lord Jesus, and of the Holy Spirit,
and of His great works," and so much more as we see this evil day approaching.
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25 And then when Abraham's son, which was
Isaac, the promise was to be given him... And when Isaac died, he was buried
with Abraham. And Isaac begot Jacob. And when Jacob was died way down in
Egypt... But notice, before he died, he said to his prophet son Joseph,
"Come here, son, and put your hand upon my crippled hip." For remember how he was crippled, is
because the Angel of the Lord touched his hip, and he limped from that day on. He
said, "Lay your hand on my hip and swear to me by the God of our fathers,
that you'll not bury me down here in Egypt." Why? Oh, they had the Word;
they had the revelation.
*YOU SEE, IT DOESN'T
REST UPON WHAT SOMEBODY ELSE THINKS; IT'S WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE THE TRUTH.
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27 And may I stop here to say that the
church of the living God is built upon Divine revelation, not upon
denomination, organizations, not upon creeds or doctrines, but on spiritual revealed truth of the
living God.
Abel, in the garden of Eden had it when the church begin.
How'd he know to bring a lamb? Why didn't he bring fruit like Cain did? But it was
revealed to him.
Jesus once speaking, said, "Who does man say I the Son
of man am?"
"Some said You're Moses, and Elijah, so forth."
He said, "But Who do you say I am?"
You see, it doesn't rest upon what somebody else thinks;
it's what you know to be the truth. "What do you
say?" That question would meet every one of us in the face tonight,
"What do you say?"
And Peter quickly speaking up without one hesitation, said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God."
As Jesus Who knowed the
secrets of all hearts, for He was none other than Jehovah manifested in flesh,
and He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, the son of Jonas, for flesh
and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has
did this. And upon this rock I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell cannot
prevail against It."
*IT IS A DIVINE
REVELATION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE PERSON OF HIS BEING MADE MANIFEST IN
THE HEART.
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33 And we people as we come on, we Lutheran
want to walk by faith, we Methodists want to shout to get It, you Pentecostals
want to speak with tongues to get It, but that's ten million miles from It.
It is a Divine revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ, the
Person of His Being made manifest in the heart, "Upon this rock I'll build My Church, and
the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." It works perfect with Matthew
24--5:24--or St. John 5:24, "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that
sent Me, has Everlasting Life; and shall never come into condemnation, but has
passed from death unto Life." Not because you had any move, any
emotion; but because you have been the privilege of having Christ revealed to
you from heaven, "Upon this rock I'll build My Church."
HE RESTED SOLEMNLY UPON THE WORD.
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35 And then, Jacob, when he died, his son had
his body packed up, and he was buried with Abraham, Isaac, Sarah, and Job, in
the holy lands in Palestine.
Then Joseph, being a prophet, he prospered down in Egypt. He
knew God. God had revealed Himself to him. And when he died, said, "Don't
you bury my bones down here, but put... when... Someday God will surely visit
you." Why? He rested solemnly upon the Word of God
to Moses, "Four hundred years they'll serve this nation, but I'll bring
them out." He rested solemnly upon the Word.
And what a beautiful illustration here. if you'll notice,
every Hebrew passing by with his back beat to pulp by slave drivers, and when
he looked upon the bones of his prophet Joseph, he knew someday they were going
out. For those bones were left there for a memorial, that someday they would go
out.
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38 It's been about fifteen or eighteen
years ago when Billy Paul, the little boy about five years old, hardly so
much... We had a little flower we was taking to his mommy's grave at day break
one morning on Easter, just as the sun was coming, peeping up; or just before
daylight, it was, then going to the service. And as we walked down to the
grave, the little fellow took off his hat as we moved to where his little
sister and his mother was buried. And he begin to snub and cry, and he said,
"Daddy, is mommy down there in that hole?"
I said, "No, son.
She is not down there in that hole. She's a million times better off than you
and I." He said, "Will I see mommy again?"
I said, "By the
grace of God, if you desire it, you can see her again." Said, "Will
her body ever come up from this grave?"
I said, "Honey,
close your eyes, and I'll tell you a little story. Many hundred years ago this
morning, there was a tomb left empty." I said, "It's a memorial to
those who sleep in God will Christ bring with Him when He comes." Without
a shadow of doubt, I rest solemnly upon God's eternal promise.
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42 As Job of old, when we hear that
"ashes to ashes, and dust to dust," it reminds me of Longfellow, who
said:
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is just an empty dream!
And the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
He said.
Yea, life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
For dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
They call it a theophany, that when we leave here we go in
somewhere else. Whatever
it may be, I take the apostle's Word, when he said, "If this earthly
tabernacle or dwelling place be dissolved, we have one already waiting to move
from this into that."
*BUT WHEN THE SON OF GOD DIED, THE LIFE THAT WAS IN HIM WAS NONE OTHER
BUT GOD, TO COME BACK AND ADOPT US INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD.
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44 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job, all the prophets, they trusted
and believed that there was coming a resurrection, that the Redeemer was
coming. They prophesied of Him. Enoch prophesied of Him, rested solemnly,
sealed his testimony with it. Isaac, Jacob, Daniel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, they
rested solemnly upon the time that the Messiah would come. And they died and
their souls went into Paradise. They could not go in the Presence of
God, because (We had it last night.) that the blood of bulls and goats could
not forgive sins; it only covered sin, speaking of a day when the perfect
Sacrifice; 'cause the blood in the animal could not come back to the
worshipper, for then he would have not ceased to offer sacrifices of that type.
But when the Son of God died, the Life that was in Him
was none other but God, to come back and adopt us into the family of God. And now we are children of God, the Life from His
Blood.
*BURY ME IN CHRIST, FOR THOSE THAT ARE IN CHRIST WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM
AT THAT DAY.
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47 Now notice quickly as we follow. When back in the Old Testament, and those who believed
and worshipped, and died in the faith, waiting for that time... The reason those prophets did that, and wanted to be buried
in Palestine, they knew that the resurrection was not going to be in Egypt.
It was going to be in Palestine alone.
That's what I say
tonight. I've got all kinds of names; I don't care what people call me; that
doesn't mean a thing to me. The only thing that I want to do is know this: that I have been
dead, and my life is hid in Christ, through God, and sealed by the Holy Ghost;
that when He calls from among the dead, I'll answer on that day. Bury me in
Christ, for those that are in Christ will God bring with Him at that day.
*HOW DO WE GET IN
CHRIST? I CORINTHIANS 12:13
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49 How
do we get in Christ? I Corinthians 12:13, "By one Spirit we are all baptized
into one Body, and become fellow citizens of the Kingdom of God." We profess to be pilgrims and
strangers on this earth any more, not seeking these worldly things, but looking
for the coming of the blessed King to take over the domain from sea to
boundless sea, when He comes in His glory. Certainly, we look for His coming.
AND THEN NO DOUBT IN MY MIND, BUT THAT'S WHAT JESUS HAD IN HIS MIND WHEN
HE WAS HERE ON EARTH, WAS THAT INFALLIBILITY OF GOD'S ETERNAL WORD.
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50 And then no doubt in
my mind, but that's what Jesus had in His mind when He was here on earth, was
that infallibility of God's eternal Word. For we know that in Him dwelt the Fullness of the Godhead
Body. The entire Godhead was in Him. He was both
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but dwelt in a human form; the theophany of God,
the great image of God that He made man in, then placed him in the earth... He
had a body. God isn't without a
body. God's got a body, and it looks like a man. Moses saw it; others saw it,
and it looks like a man.
*FOR EVERYTHING IN EARTH IS JUST A PATTERN OF THAT WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.
And it's just an
impression, this is, of what that is. And everything on earth, the beauty, the sweetness, the beauty of
the earth, is nothing else in the world but an answer to a far better than
that, that waits us when we leave this world. For everything in earth is just a pattern of
that which is in heaven. Everything that's good, everything that's
righteous, everything that's beautiful, trees, birds, everything is just a
pattern of what's in heaven.
*WHAT A BEAUTIFUL; NOT
ONLY BEAUTIFUL, BUT IT IS THE REAL SOLEMN TRUTH OF GOD'S ETERNAL WORD, THAT
WE'LL BE LIKE HIM.
Our own life is just a pattern. It's just a
shadow, and not the real thing. It's the negative side. It takes death to develop the picture, to put us back in the
theophany we come from. Then in the resurrection we come in His likeness, a
resurrected body. What a beautiful; not only beautiful, but it is the
real solemn truth of God's eternal Word, that we'll be like Him.
*THE BIBLE IS GOD'S SPIRITUAL DIET FOR HIS CHURCH. AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
IS THE ONE WHO BRINGS IT TO YOU AND PLACES IT IN THE HEART
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53 Notice. Now, Jesus, invested
with all the powers of God, but when He met Satan, He never used any of His
powers. He only referred to the Word. He did. He
said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every
Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'"
Then how can you say you can stay home and be just as
good a Christian as you would be at church? You can't do it. Read the Word. The Holy Spirit feeds on the Word. The Bible is God's spiritual diet for His church.
And the Holy Spirit is the One Who brings It to you
and places It in the heart; and with thanksgiving you water It.
And every Divine promise will produce
just exactly what God said it would do. It's got to. It's His Word, and It's
Life.
Mat 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Mat 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Mat 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Luk 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Luk 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Luk 24:46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
Luk 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Luk 24:48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
Luk 24:49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
Luk 24:50 And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
Luk 24:51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Luk 24:52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:
Luk 24:53 And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
Act 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Act 1:4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
Act 1:5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
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