The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the central truth of the Christian faith, serving as the foundation for salvation and future hope. The sermon emphasizes that this truth was not only declared and delivered by the apostles but also defended against disbelief, as seen in 1 Corinthians 15. The core lesson is that Christ's resurrection is a historical fact with profound implications: it validates our faith, assures our future resurrection, and empowers our Christian walk. The message concludes by urging believers to live in light of this reality, practicing the presence of the risen Christ in all aspects of life.
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Then would you turn with me, please, into the fifteenth chapter of one Corinthians. One Corinthians chapter fifteen. Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel, which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand, by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory, what I have preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. Christ delivered unto you, first of all, that which I also received. How that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures, and that he was seen of Cephas and then of the twelve, and after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once.
The Lord will add his blessing, I'm sure, to the reading of his own word. During the past days, as we have been looking together at the opening verses of the Acts of the Apostles, and reminding ourselves that the church ere it was built, had brought before it the great doctrines of the Christian faith, and reminding ourselves that the Spirit of God used this man, Dr. Luke, to lay down the history of that church and start it off again in the words that we have read. As we've been thinking of these things, I'm certain that each one of us have realized that if ever we are going to build more God, we also need to have very clear in our mind the great truth of the Christian faith.
And if it is because of this, I have asked your permission to share with you just one or two thoughts of these things that are surely believed amongst us. We thought a little of the one who began both to do and to teach. I'm not going to go through that which I reminded you of concerning his person. We saw that he was another person. the Son of God, that's God the Son. And then we thought of his passion, for we realized the light that was a holy light came to its conclusion if we can use the phrase and the sense of men, came to its conclusion its elders. We reminded ourselves of the wonders of the cross. And then yesterday we saw that although they rolled the stone and stood the soldier and set the field, they couldn't keep him in that place.
And we thought of the Pact of the Resurrection. I said then that I would be unable in the short time that was mine to deal in any adequate way with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And so I'm going again to look at it today. As we looked at the Pact of the Resurrection today, we are going to look at the fruit of the Resurrection. We're going to see not only that Christ rose from the dead, but hallelujah, because he rose, we shall rival her. We're going to remind our hearts of the wonderful fact. The great statements concerning the resurrection are not just historic statements. They are statements that have attained to us today and will have attained to the whole world in the days that lie ahead.
We're going to see, as we look together at the fifteenth chapter of the wonderful epistle to the Corinthians, we're going to see that this great truth of the resurrection was first of all declared. For in verses one and two we read the tremendous words, moreover brethren I declare unto you. We're going to remind our hearts that these are not just the declaration of men, for we're going to see that the resurrection was not only declared, but all hallelujah it was delivered. The first three says, I delivered unto you. Isn't it wonderful to be God's person? Is it glorious to take a message that comes from him? It's not ours. It is. I delivered unto you.
First of all, that which I also received. And we're going to see not only that the gospel or the message of the resurrection was declared and delivered, but we're going to see how indeed it was defended. And there arose those that disputed it. So we're going to look together and these glorious words, and we're going to see in verses twelve to nineteen how indeed it was defended. And then I want us to spend some little time, as we will see how the resurrection and all the things that pertain to it are detailed. But step by step by step, and the whole plan, the whole program of God's purposes has brought forth.
First, I ought to say a word or two concerning the epistle to the Corinthians. You will forgive me if I am saying what you all know and what some of you may have heard before. But you were told, were you not, when first you were converted and began to read the word of God, that we can never understand the epistles of the Corinthians unless we remember its key verse, that thirtieth verse of the first chapter. I remember when first converted and sitting into our Bible class at home and being instructed in these things, how these things were ever born before. Remember that Christ is made unto us, righteousness, made unto us, wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, and have a whole epistle in circles around Christ.
The answer to all this, you will remember how in the first three chapters, We have brought before us, or the first four chapters, we have brought before us that which brought disunity to the church. I have Paul and I have Apollos and I have demons. And you remember how in chapters five and six, there is not disunity but disorder. There's moral sin in chapter five and material sin in chapter six. You remember how from chapter seven right through chapter fourteen, the major portion of the epistle, if you've got now disunity or disorder, it is disagreement. How every chapter brings before us a disagreement that has hit the testimony of God's people there in the church in Corinth.
Remember how in chapter seven there's disagreement concerning marriage. Chapter eight there's disagreement concerning meat. Chapter nine, there's disagreement concerning maintenance. Chapter ten, there's disagreement that causes murdering. And in chapter eleven, there's disagreement even concerning the memorial. And in chapter twelve, there's disagreement concerning membership. Oh, how about hitting the church of God today? Where was a person baptized into Jesus Christ? How in chapter thirteen there's disagreement even concerning motives, and though you speak with the tongues of men and angels, and you have not laughed, you have become an astounding rather than an evil devil.
Remember how in chapter fourteen there's disagreement concerning ministry? And then you come to this fifteen chapter, which is the last chapter of the great theological treatise of the Epistle. Chapter fifteen, dealing somewhat with the collection of the faith, somewhat indeed with our movement, but mainly dealing with validation. Chapter fifteen brings the close. And here, the most remarkable thing of all, as you know. For if in the first four chapters there is disunity, and the next two chapters there is disorder, and the next chapter, at all, seven through fourteen, there is disunity. Marvel of it all, in chapter fifteen, there is disbelief.
The Apostle writes and says, how say some among you? That there's no resurrection from the dead. Fancy Christians saying there's no resurrection. And by the way, brethren, just by the way, if you stood up in your meeting and said there was no resurrection, they'd have a hundred oversight meetings and put you out of fellowship. But here we're put in the church and they disbelieve the resurrection. And the mayor, how say some among you? You said there was no resurrection. I think it's important for us, and I must say this, I think it's important for us to remember that light is not light.
And there's many a young person that has questions in their minds concerning the doctrines of the faith. Never be afraid of questions in your mind, youngster. You get frightened when you keep them to yourself. You don't go to the elders of your fellowship for help and service. This was the tragedy here. And there was always the disbelief, the resurrection. I who say some among you, there's no resurrection. But praise God, the Spirit of God, had an answer. This glorious chapter is what before. You will notice, of course, as we have said, the first of all, we see this great doctrine declare. Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you they got better.
We've seen something of the gospel that he began what to do and to teach. His passion, his glorious resurrection. Here the apostle goes further and he speaks of his burial. And he dares to tell us the wonder of it all, that this is that which we will declare unto men and women. I think this is important as well. You see, I found out long ago that the work of those that seek to witness for Jesus Christ is not to depend on the gospel. I wouldn't take one minute of my time trying to defend the gospel. Not one minute. I work it not to defend the gospel. I work it to declare it.
And if people come to me and argue about it, I still preach it. I still tell them the great truths of holy writ that Christ died for our sins. Never let us be ashamed of repeating it and repeating it and repeating it. Let's declare the gospel. Then you will notice that the apostle not only says he will declare it, but he will deliver it. He will act as I have planned as the postman of God. For I have received this of the Lord his hand. This is not my message. And therefore I have no right to dabble with it. I have no right to try and water it down. I have no right to do things with it. I have the only right to pass it on to others as a message that comes from God himself.
And oh, what a message. that Christ died for our sins according to the scripture. That he was buried. Then blessed be his name. The third day he rose again. He rose again. You know, the more you think of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the more you begin to realize how it does become one of the great central truths of how it is. You remember how it was predicted by the servants of God. I haven't time to take you through the Old Testament and remind you of the countless mentions in holy writ of this tremendous fact. Sufficient to remind you again of the verse that I quoted yesterday and associated indeed with the hope of the Christ, the words of the tenth verse of the sixteenth chapter of Acts, Thou wilt not leave thy soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ was predicted. One should go, of course, into the fifty-third of Isaiah, into the twenty-second psalm. One should go into many portions of the word, and read definite statements concerning this man. This will remind us of the most. But if the resurrection was predicted by the servants of God, never let us forget this. Let's hold this part, that it was promised by the Son of God. All predicted by the servants of God, but promised by the Son of God. All forces of heaven unite to emphasize this fact. But the women came down to that tomb and they looked in. And they saw those angelic creatures there.
And they heard the tremendous message as they looked and said, He is not here. He is risen. But then they go further and they say, But don't you remember? This is that which he spoke unto you when he was yet in Galilee. Don't you remember how he told you that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified? Hallelujah! The Spirit came where he became. Now Jesus said it when he was in Galilee. Jesus said it at the beginning of his ministry. The angels heard. Those women heard. Now the angels remind those women, don't you?
Remember that this is not what Jesus said. So when we deal with the resurrection, we are dealing with something that not only was predicted by the servants of God, but promised by the Son of God, and has become the power of the Church of God. May I repeat that, has become the power of the Church of God. Oh, we will be thinking before the week out of something of the power of the Holy Spirit himself. But you will remember in the fourth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, when Peter and John had brought such blessing to a poor blind, or a lame man, pardon me, lame man. And how they were asked on what authority they had done this very thing, by whose power?
Do you remember they looked into the face of those that inquired and they dared to say, By the name of Jesus of Nazareth, whom you crucified, but God raised from the dead. That was the power we did it by. Very power of the church of God. All the ones, you know that's a tremendous story, isn't it? It seems to me to be the very key story to Christian witness. You remember how the man is so near, who it seems that he's not sitting at the very beautiful gate of the temple? So near he can gaze upon it. He does not enter. Suddenly going up to worship these two men of God, a man of everything they had, they used for God.
All they could preach silver and gold of thy none, but what they did have, they used it in them. They had two legs, and they used them. They walked towards him. They had two eyes. They used them. They looked at him. They had two ears. They listened to him. They had two lips. They spoke to him. They had two hands, and they stretched one towards him, and lifted him up. Oh, brethren, sisters, I wonder if you and I have used our hands and our feet and our eyes and our ears and our hearts and our voice. All that they had, everything they physically, they had, they used for the blessing of that man. Yet they gave glory to God. They said it was by the name. It was through the power of Christ you, through the eyes of God, raised one to death.
Now I know I'm taking a long time to get there. I want us to realize that when dealing with the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we are dealing with the most relief. the most blessed of truth. Truth that you and I need every day to remind our children. And they wake up and look out of the window and say, he's alive. He's living. This is his day. I want to be his man, his woman for this day. But then you notice how we suggested that first it was declared and then it was delivered. But then when we go down to verse twelve, we find something more, do we not?
We find here it is dependent. Now if Christ be preached and he rose from the dead, I have little doubt that none of us will be in a moment's disagreement when I suggest to you that this preaching was the preaching of a fact. The apostle is daring to say to those Christians in common, remember the resurrection of Jesus Christ is a fact, is a fact, or, or it's a falter. Verse fifteen, yea, and we are found false witnesses of God. And if it's not a fact, then it's a falter.
And if it's a falter, then if it's a falter, listen, it's a failure. It's a terrible failure. Verse seventeen. And if Christ may not raise, your faith is in vain, your faith is in vain, and ye are yet in your sin. It's all the tremendous importance of not only believing, but practicing the fact that Jesus Christ is alone. Practicing the fact that Jesus Christ is alone. Oh, brethren, sisters, I think that this is most important, don't you? Someone once said to practice the presence of the Lord, and I could not borrow words better than those.
You realize moment by moment that I move in this scene that by my side is hands-on. They don't ask it, it seems to me, as much as they used to, but you know when I was first converted, and questions arose as to places you could go as a Christian, things you could do as a Christian. We were always reminded that the question was this. Would Jesus go there? The name of Lacks of Poplar will mean nothing to you, I've said, here in America. The Lacks of Poplar was one of the great men of the great slum area of Poplar in the city of London during those hungry years before the war. I once heard him tell a story of his mum and dad, who were old, passionate men of it, who never had a holiday in their life.
In their retirement years, when Lacks and, as far as this world was concerned, some of its goods He wrote to his mother and dad and sent them the money to have a holiday in the town of Blackwood, one of our so-called holiday resorts, miserable place, but nevertheless. Mom and dad went off to a Christian Endeavour home in Blackwood. And just as you today had an announcement that, well, you're going off to these caves for whatever it is, so they had things arranged. But it was a Christian Endeavour home. that they decided that one day they'd take the love of them to the theatre. And old Mr. Lacks had never been to the theatre in his life, neither his wife.
But it was a Christian in there for a whole time. They must be all right, must it. So off they went, and they entered this great theatre. And as they walked down, would you call it the Isle? And they sat on their plush seats. So Mrs. Lacks bowed her head and put her hands together. Dad gave her a dig in the ribs and said, they don't come back here. And in a voice that everyone in the theater would hear, she said, don't pray here, then this is not wait for me. You know, brothers and sisters, it's good to practice a living Christ, isn't it? Realize that he promised to be with us. There are some places I wouldn't take my wife.
Please, God, I might ever realize there are some places I shouldn't ask the Savior to come with me. I think it puts things in its right perspective, then. Really, it does. But that, by the way, sufficient to remind you that he dares to say that this message of the Christian faith is a prayer. And if you have doubts concerning it, then remember what it is, it's a falsehood and a failure. And the whole blessed truth that has come to the world The greatest truth concerning holiness and righteousness is built upon a lie and a fortress. Oh, no man or woman could consider it and believe that to be the case.
Having depended the matter of the resurrection and depended simply by praying, never you forget what happens if you deny that Jesus rose from the dead. Then he goes on to detail. This great act of the resurrection, and in the light of it the things that will yet come. In verse twenty he starts, and he says, But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruit for them that sleep. That was him. Christ is the first fruit. Now never let us forget it. There are countless men who, when speaking of the resurrection, have thrown at us the names of others who rose from the dead.
They remind us of an occasional friend, one of the puppets. Reports of the death of a puppet, and then later in a battle, how some were thrown into the very grave, where the bones of the puppets were found. And those books came back to life again. There were those that speak of the resurrection, and they tell the wondrous story of Lazarus, when Christ's final hour has come forth and he came forth. But it's needless for me to say that not one of these, not one of these, could be compared to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For every one of those, though they were raised from the dead, they died again. They died again.
Isn't this what Jesus means? When speaking, he dares to say greater things than these, shall ye do? Greater things than these, shall ye do? No. What, greater than raising the dead? Greater than healing the sick? Greater than making the blind to see. Greater than making the deaf to hear. Greater of him than me, shall he do. But never you forget, though Christ raised Lazarus from the dead he died again. Never you forget, though Christ made blind far from him to see, there came a time when he couldn't see again, and they put him in it too. Although Christ made a deaf man to hear, there came a time when those physical ears couldn't hear a word, and they buried it. that if you and I are used to the salvation of a soul, that person will get life but death will never touch.
If that hearing will last forever, you'll get twice submitted with thrilled inquiry. Greater things than these. Oh, let's get up. You find with the real things. The love. The love. Here, blessed be God, we see it detailed. The Christ is a person. He rose never to die again. Tertiary. Well, if words mean anything, then there must be other fruits, if he's the first fruit. Without making reference to Old Testament, without speaking of the great offerings, in the use of words, first fruits, then there must be other fruits.
And praise God that Christ is the first fruit, and then, and become the first fruit of then that fruit, I'm glad of that. I never stand by the side of an open grave. So often I have to. I never say earth to earth and ashes to ashes. Without realizing that Jesus Christ has conquered sin, death has happened. Well, sometimes I have to stand by the side of the grave of a person that I didn't know was paid. And I have to put my itch and my butts in what I say.
And I have to be faithful to present the bones that are around the truth of the gospel. Yet when one stands by the side of the grave of a believer, what a thrill there is. You know some of the best meetings I ever had for funerals. I'm in the lame duress. Here's George Hale, who was the superintendent of parks in the city of Liverpool. There were six hundred men around the grave. We lowered the coffin under the... into the ground. I don't know who it was, but someone's got out. My kids, through the streets of the new Jerusalem, washed in the blood of the land. Ye, I'm glad of this, that I'd had a word with the undertaker before and told him I wasn't going to put that man down in two minutes.
But we had a real conference around that grave. But what a thrill! What a thrill! Realize that Christ is the first fruit! Did you know something? We've been hearing about marriage, haven't we? There's something more certain about a believer's death than about a marriage. Never quite certain even about marriage. Hallelujah! You've been certain about the death of a believer. Ask them on the body of the Lord to wait that day. But they all know. Christ, the person. And then would you notice that there is then brought to us a period of time. Having spoken of Christ as the first root, then he goes on, verse twenty three.
But every man in his own order, Christ the first root. After, they that are Christ that is coming. All associated with the resurrection. Because Christ is the first root. Hallelujah. He lives and we shall live. And when he comes, they that are Christ that is coming. I suggest to you that this includes both the rapture and the coming in great power and glory. I suggest to you that here the fourth chapter of one, Thessalonians, is brought before us, when the dead in Christ shall rise first, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air.
For the wonder of it. For the wonder. Brothers and sisters, because of the resurrection, because Jesus lived. They may place you and I in a tomb. And that's not the age. One day there will be the resurrection of the body. Though we be in spirit and soul, as is for the Lord, there will be a day when we will be reunited, the body and the dead in Christ alone. We which are alive and remain. Isn't that wonderful? When Christ comes, you see, there will be a resurrection. There will be a reunion together, both the dead and the living.
And there will be a reward. Spare before the judgment seat of Christ. Every man shall receive praise of God. Oh, blessed be then. But then would you notice, please, that he speaks first of Christ as the first fruit, and then say that it is Christ that is coming. And then he goes even further, and he tells us, as it were, of another period of time, and in verse twenty-four, and then come at the end. All that happens, all that happens during that period of the reign of Christ, all that happens during that millennial reign, then come at the end.
Although let's get away from this, brethren and sisters, there is no doubt that Jesus shall reign. And there is no doubt that he shall reign a thousand years upon this scene. I want to pray and pray here and now that I have dismissed as unscriptural. After much prayer, much thought, and very, very much consideration, I have dismissed completely as unscriptural any suggestion of a millennium. You know, I wouldn't like to be an a millennium in the day of which we live. I wouldn't like to think that Christ is reigning today in his church. Because if I fall back and I read the nineteenth of Revelation, I'd be the most bloodthirsty man that ever lived.
He's enjoying that rain. He's going to put all under him. And I ought to be going out saying to men and women who love not Christ, don't you love the Savior? And lifting my hand in judgment against him. I don't really want to decide that. But every morning, my first prayer is for the north of Ireland. Even before I pray, for my own family. Part of the curse of the north of Ireland is because there are those who believe that the kingdom of God can be extended by power and might and force. Those that have followed along the track of a millennialism, that have crossed their way and been among the best people by their lead head.
Be careful. It doesn't matter to say God, but it does matter for it affects our living and our attitudes. But here we see it more and more. Those that are Christ that is coming, and then this period of time is after this the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he shall have put down all rule and authority and power, for he must reign till he has put all enemies under his feet. He must reign until he put all enemies under his feet. this be the millennium what are you and I doing sitting here we ought to be at it putting his enemies under his feet well hallelujah this is the day of grace we'll tell men and women of Jesus ah yes and then something that I don't know anything about I've only ever heard one sermon in my life on the eternal stage I've been converted about nine months And I heard, if not the greatest, one of the greatest creatures that we ever had in our part of the world, the Lord has called him home to glory, must have.
Willie Hagelham came to our attention. He was an old shipwright in Belfast for many years in the shipyards of Belfast, Willie Hagelast, inducted a Bible class among such men as that. came to one of our conferences, and I remember as a young fellow, Justin Burley, going with a notebook from a pencil. I was going to take it all down. He started on the eternal slate, and he preached for an hour and a half on the eternal slate. He hadn't gone ten minutes before I shut my notebook up. I just wanted to sit back and try and enjoy what I could. I was going to take a look at it. Do you know where he preached the eternal slate was? Hour and a half.
Do you know where he preached the eternal slate? Oh, not the revelation. He hardly mentioned it. He preached the eternal sight from the first chapter of the devil. He said, What's your purpose in the beginning? The devil set him in power. The devil was defeated by. One day all that Christ, God of life, will be. He took the great principle, and God will perform the only works of heaven. He showed us the eternal faith. I've never heard anyone come that day to this, try and preach on it. And I come and preach on it. But how long have you been to be there one day? And I tell you what I do.
I look at you and I'll say, well, if I had known, this is what I would have told you. But I don't know. See, there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth. And if I knew anything about it, it wouldn't be new, would it? Is it wonderful to know this? One day he's going to reign because he's conquered sin and death. Then of course as I come to a close he goes on and we see this great truth of his glorious resurrection because of it his coming. We see it not only detailed but we see it from verse thirty five to the end we see it described.
There are two questions that are asked verse thirty five. How are the dead raised? How are the dead rays? And the apostle, of course, goes immediately in verse thirty-six to nature, and he dares to tell us, thou who? That which thou throwest is not quick and except it die, and that which thou throwest, thou throwest not that body that shall be but their grain. It may turn to weed to some other grain, but God giveth it a body, as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. This is a tremendous fact, brethren. I wonder what sort of thing you and I are building for eternity. When the day comes and we're lowered under the cross, what sort of person have been put there?
Remember what's put there is that which will be raised. When I meet Jesus Christ, I don't want to meet a stranger. I want to say, Lord, you owe that I thought you to the See, the reading of the Word of God is not just that which we should do. It's not just that which thrills us as we read it, but the Word of God and its reading, and it's the transforming of our mind, remember, most well and two. Be not conformed to this world, and let the world crash you into its mold. Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
that our mind is transformed and renewed by the reading and the pondering of the word of God. We're making something that will last forever. You know, I often hear, and I often do, but I often hear evangelists preach on the people on the ground. They hold him up with a great example. Well, it's not saying he is a great example, but I wouldn't like to be the people on the ground on me. They're the saved. And at the moment of my salvation to die, stand before the judgment seat of Christ with no soul filled with water.
Don't you forget that people in the car will be there. Hallelujah. Praise is my fire. He won't have any water. Oh, he's safe, and he did say a word to other. That was before he was saved, so that won't come in, will it? Brethren, sister, come on now. Let's place this up. When you and I see the Savior, what are we going to offer? Wood, hay, stubble. Oh, no. Oh, I told that. You know, I always felt like shouting hallelujah. Now, I know you don't do that very much here, but I almost felt like when last night, dear Mr.
Pell, was reminding us that we serve the Lord in the work that we do. Do you remember the fifth chapter of Luke? This fish ran out and piled all night and caught nothing, and suddenly the Lord looked at him and said, Peter, I want you to do something. Oh, yes, Lord, what do you want you to go? You can't go and preach. No. Do what I want you to do, Peter. I want you to go and let down your neck for a while. I want you to go and do an ordinary task of work. I want you to go out in a boat, and I want you to let down your neck. And I want you to do a fish and... He went out. Why did he go? He went out. You know, Jesus told him to go out. And he was in the service of God. Precious! Isn't it good to me?
I hate that expression. I'm in the work of God. Don't you talk to me like Andy, because I'll soon tell you. In the work of... Certain people in the work! You maddening with us. Every one of us are in the work! And Peter was as much in the work when he went to obey Jesus to catch spiritual fish as he was when he went to obey Jesus later to catch spiritual fish. One day for this, we must all thank you, Mr. Pell, for reminding us that yesterday, sir. Thank you. It is wonderful one day we're going to stand before the Lord. We don't often hear it, but I think it's important to say that Mr.
Pell is going to give him advice for that old painting he once did. Abundance of the Lord. Abundance of the Lord. Amen. Oh, brethren, sister, let's remember this. How are the dead raised? Oh, he says, look at nature and see what's raised. What's raised as that which is known? And then he says, football with what body do they come? Oh, I say I've gone a minute over in the time, then call me off. With what bodies do they have? Well, I'm your lieutenant. And if you don't believe me, you're going to be wrong.
Now, what do you think of that? You've been credit for the last minutes of the address. But sometimes when I get into the fire, folks, you know, they come up after the meeting and they say, Mr. Ford, what do you think about? They don't really want to know what I stand for. They want to tell me what they are. And again and again I get asked this question, so though it was something new, it was our sin, what body will it be? Will it be this one, or will it be another one? Well, let me tell you, sir, is it? But it's the resurrection, not re-creation. The word of God says this, he will change our body of humiliation, not exchange it, change it.
It is just like a diamond, a piece of charcoal. Now you know that, but please go. God told you, that's right there. And he's happy where you're going to throw them up. Just as a diamond was once a piece of charcoal, and it's been changed. Not exchanged. One day it's been lost. Not another one. It's lost. Hallelujah. And I tell you why, I'm so desperate about this and what it is about. You see, if it's not this body, brethren, let's see. The devil's got a victim. And we're finding out, aren't we, in the afternoon readings, that the devil is mighty. Hallelujah, he's not always. He sometimes can be present, but he can't be on the ground.
You know, the devil can never be in new places at once. But whenever anyone says to me, oh, you've got to fill the devil here. I say, praise God. There are a lot of people that have had his power today. Don't let's get away from this fact. evil grill and demons are real, as we are saying. But nevertheless, if it's not this body that's raised, the devil's got a mix. Or Christ can look at him and say, oh, he defeated you concerning the soul of man. Until this cross, I shed my blood. And this man was dead. The devil would look back and say, ah, well, I defeated you and let his body.
You think it's perfect. Our nation is made in difficult areas. Give me my complete view, Molly. I've got a big tree. You have had to describe what you've made in the beginning, perfect. I want to say this, that the jealous and weakly and utterly, and absolutely debunked. And it's got to be this body. Who are we going to be worth looking at then, aren't we? Why are we? Tranquil. Please, God, may you realize that we've been saved hundreds of times. Hallelujah. It was raised again. The proof of the reverence is seen in what will happen to us. But you have been seen that we know for.