8 April 2012

Topic: Resurrection Sunday

1 Peter 1:3
Verse 3: "into a living hope" - Zoe life. We live a life of great hope.
Pastor sings: Jesus is alive so we have a better tomorrow.

Jesus always blesses from the head down to the feet. Just like how Jesus blessed Aaron from the head to the beard. The pastors are the beard and the blessings come down to the body. We are the body of Christ and so be prepared that your blessings are coming. If you are believing Christ for a baby, be ready, even if you are 50 or 60 years old. Walk like you have Abraham's faith. Don't be surprised one day you appear on the papers: This woman conceived at this age.

Pastor has never heard anyone preached when after Jesus died on the cross, dead saints rose. See Matthew 27:50-53. There are those who claimed Jesus was murdered are not scriptural claims. When soldiers came to arrest Jesus, they asked who do they seek, they fell when Jesus said "I am". He said no one can kill him when He walked on earth. Verse 51: The veil was torn. Jesus torn it. The earth quaked and the rocks split.
Verse 53: "After His resurrection". Jesus must be resurrected first then followed by the saints (David). Christ is the first fruit. 

Luke 22:42-43
Verse 43: Today the thief will be with Him in paradise. So where is this paradise? Paradise back then wasn't up, it was down there. Sheol - a place of departed souls. That place where they waited for Jesus to come is paradise. In the past, blood of bulls and goats cannot give you righteousness. Only Jesus blood can. In the past, there were two parts of hell. One is Sheol and the other is the burning lake. Those who passed on went to paradise to wait for Jesus because they were not born again.

Hebrews 9:15
This verse is talking about the old covenant's saints.

Luke 16:22-26
This is a story of Lazarus, a beggar. This is not a parable. In the bible when it is a real story, it always says "There is a certain man..."
Verse 22: When Jesus says there is a place called Hades, the. You better believe it. There are some who says it is just imaginary.
Verse 23: The rich man still able to see Abraham from afar. So in heaven or hell one can still see and recognize.
Verse 24: See, departed souls have fingers, tongues. The man is tormented.
Verse 26: Notice the great gulf mentioned here. Those from hell cannot go to the place of paradise.

Acts 1:9
Verse 9: "Cloud" refers to the cloud of the dead saints.

We are a resurrected spirit in an un-resurrected body. If we act like that and live like that, it will be amazing. Identify who you are in Christ. Today, hell is there, so is paradise. But paradise is now vacant and empty. Jesus emptied it and brought the old testament saints up to heaven. Believers who fall asleep now, they go straight to heaven. They d not descend down then up anymore.

1 Peter 3:18-20
Verse 19: "Preached" is "proclaim, announce". Who are those spirits in prison? They are not the old testament of saints. These are the spirits in the days of Noah.

Satan was a ark angel who could play music. It was said musical instruments were built in him. But he wanted to be god. But when God dismissed him, he was angry and hated man who was made in His image. Satan was jealous. That is why today worldly music can be used to tempt man to drugs, etc.

Before Jesus came, satan tried to stop the seed. He thought it was the seed of Cain, that was why he made Cain and Abel fight. All the stories of humanity shows satan trying to stop the birth.

Genesis 6:4-5
Verse 4: "In those days" - Days of Noah. Mighty men were the fallen angels.
Verse 5: God saw all flesh were corrupted. Fallen angels and men were so widespread. Only 8 people were left. Noah, wife, their 3 sons and the rest were the married. God sent in the flood to remove the giants on earth. These giants were a cohabitation of fallen angels and women in bid of removing the seed of Christ. After the flood, those giants came out again. So God raised Israel and David to kill those giants.

Jude 6
There are demons around who are bounded forever are those in Noah's times. They are chained in everlasting chains.

1 Corinthians 15:17
If God has not risen, then your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
But today God has already risen up.

Romans 4:24-25
Verse 25: What is "raised because of our justification"? Jesus went to the cross on the account we are made righteous.
Pastor shows us the above verses in YLT and AMP versions.

Pastor led the church to say:
Every single one of our sins were laid to Jesus charge. Every single one of our sins was on Jesus. When Jesus was raised from the dead, He cleansed me from all sins.

Hebrews 9:28
"Christ was offered once" - once
"Apart from sin" does not mean God is sinless. God is obviously sinless. It actually means there's nothing to sin.
In NLT version, it says "not to deal with our sins". It's already done once and for all.
In AMP version, "not to deal with our sins and bring to full salvation to all".
God's word shows so clearly that He not going to come to deal with our sins. He said He has end it once and for all.

In closing,
People in the christian walk makes a mockery of the blessed assurance we believers are sitting on. But for me and my house, we say we are forgiven of all our sins and He is never against us. This is only true to believers who are waiting for Him.