2 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:11,640 Death 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,800 Be not proud 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,400 Death 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:19,760 Be not 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,000 proud 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,120 The phrase 8 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:26,760 Death be not proud 9 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,760 is 10 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,220 from the first line of a 11 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:34,120 sonnet 12 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:36,960 Written by 16th century poet and 13 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,320 English cleric 14 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,500 Who was made Dean of st. Paul's Cathedral in London? 15 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:48,360 Sir John done 16 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,480 He employs the poetic device of 17 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,480 irony and 18 00:00:57,960 --> 00:00:59,960 personification 19 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,240 To illustrate to people 20 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,040 that are afraid of death of 21 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,040 The truism that death is 22 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,520 merely a journey 23 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:18,280 It is a short rest 24 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:22,940 Before reaching the afterlife 25 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:30,880 So John done talks to death as if it were a person 26 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:37,720 Shaming death for being proud of itself 27 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:46,680 Done refers to death brothers and sisters as an apostrophe 28 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,840 Not the mark of punctuation. That's an apostrophe 29 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,000 but apostrophe as a figure of speech 30 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,560 The word apostrophe 31 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:06,480 Comes from the ancient Greek and literally means turning away 32 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:11,060 It involves the speaker or the writer 33 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,200 addressing an inanimate 34 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,400 abject or an abstract idea 35 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:26,600 By turning its but his or her back on what they are talking about as if what they are speaking of is an 36 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,680 Abstraction or does not really exist a 37 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,600 Modern-day preacher poet 38 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:36,760 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 39 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,720 Put death in bolder relief 40 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:46,080 When he said death is not a period which ends this great sentence of life 41 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:52,720 But rather a comma which punctuates it for more lofty significance 42 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:57,800 Dr. King said death is not a blind alley 43 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,400 Which leads into a state of nothingness? 44 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,120 But rather an open door 45 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,840 Which leads to life eternal? 46 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,040 Robert Ingersoll 47 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,400 Who was not a believer said life is a narrow veil 48 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:21,960 between the barren peaks of two eternities 49 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:24,960 birth and 50 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:26,960 death 51 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:32,880 Dr. Gardner see Taylor who went to be with the Lord at the age of 96 52 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:38,240 Close the chasm that Ingersoll could not span 53 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:44,040 Dr. W. Franklin Richardson made mention to me that when dr. Taylor 54 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:50,560 learned of the death of dr. TJ Jimison and other great pulpit luminaries 55 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:52,840 Dr. Taylor's response was always 56 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,560 good for him 57 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:58,680 Good for him 58 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:07,400 Apparently we Christians many of us have a problem with death 59 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,040 We use many 60 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:13,760 euphemisms 61 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:15,760 to sanitize and 62 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:18,280 disinfect 63 00:04:18,280 --> 00:04:20,400 This matter called death 64 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,280 We say so and so has expired 65 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,200 Or she or she has passed away 66 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:38,160 If you from Louisiana they kicked the bucket 67 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:46,400 Or you from Texas or Oklahoma they've gone to the Ponderosa 68 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,120 Or if you're from California, they move to the great beyond 69 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:59,760 And if you're in my family, you never talk about death you say if something happens to me 70 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,280 My sister says that all the time if something happened to me 71 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:09,680 I say you mean if you're getting a car wreck or if you break your leg that's something happening to you 72 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:14,240 What do you what are you really talking about? She said well if something happened to me 73 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:18,400 This is what I want to happen. I said no no no let's talk about this something happening to you 74 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:26,680 And I want to say to do those of us here this morning who call it kicking the bucket or passing on or expired or 75 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,480 Going to the Ponderosa or going to the great beyond or something happened to you 76 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,160 Let me give you an arresting statistic 77 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,280 If the Lord Jesus delays his coming 78 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:46,960 One out of every one of us in here this morning is going to die 79 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,360 Put it in your phone 80 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:55,680 Put it on your day planner 81 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,520 Put it on your schedule. You might you might cancel your beauty shop appointment 82 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:06,880 You might cancel your nail appointment. You might cancel your massage. You might cancel your eye doctor 83 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:11,160 You might cancel your appointment with your which your which your gardenic colleges 84 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:16,880 But put this on your schedule if Jesus does not come soon 85 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,000 You and I are going to die 86 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,000 I don't care how pretty you are 87 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:34,360 I don't care how fine you are okay. How young you are how old you are all of us have an appointment 88 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:37,800 With death 89 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:43,480 But for the Christian death is not the grim Reaper 90 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:49,880 For the child of God death is transportation 91 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:57,080 Death carries us from one side to the other side. Listen, I 92 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:03,400 Could fall asleep tonight and not wake up in the morning on this side 93 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:09,520 I'm going to wake up in the morning either on this side 94 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:15,160 Or on the other side because to be absent from the body. I 95 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,800 Wish I had a vibrator 96 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:22,080 Is to be present with the Lord 97 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,120 we know 98 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,400 That if this earthly house I 99 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:33,400 Wish I had two or three more witnesses of this tabernacle is 100 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:35,760 dissolved 101 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:37,760 We have another building a 102 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:40,960 House 103 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:42,960 Not made with hands 104 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:50,920 But eternal in the heaven we used to sing it when I was a boy there's a leak in this old building 105 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:53,640 and 106 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,640 My soul 107 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,360 Has got to move 108 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:01,760 Let me see if I can help somebody this morning 109 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,560 All you have 110 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,360 All I have 111 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,240 is a lease agreement 112 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 This this house 113 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,640 this body 114 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:29,160 That I'm living in that you are living in all you have is a lease agreement 115 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:31,400 and 116 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,400 One day the landlord 117 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:40,360 Is going to come and say to you that your lease is up 118 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:48,040 And it would be tragic to have to move with no forwarding address 119 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,800 When this life is over I 120 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:01,320 Wish I had a believer here when I'm through struggling down here 121 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:08,560 I have another place to go I have a house not made with hands 122 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,200 Because I am a child of God 123 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,880 Apparently 124 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,360 Some of the Corinthians had come to doubt the resurrection 125 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,760 and the apostle devotes an entire chapter 126 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:30,760 58 verses 127 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:41,880 To reassure them and us that the resurrection of Jesus is a real event and 128 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:49,720 His resurrection from the dead can give us victory in our day-to-day life 129 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,640 Victory over what brother pastor 130 00:09:54,640 --> 00:10:00,880 We Christians have victory over death 131 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,440 Let me let me say something to us that hopefully you're gonna go on talking about 132 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:13,000 Fear of death is heathenism 133 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:22,480 Fear of death is heathenism 134 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,160 not Christianity 135 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:36,080 Because in the Old Testament death was called the king of terror 136 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:42,560 But in the New Testament death is called sleep 137 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:50,200 That's why when I'm gone 138 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:57,520 They're not bringing me to a graveyard because that's for dead people 139 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,360 I'm going to a cemetery 140 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:09,080 Because the very word cemetery means sleeping place 141 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,320 When I die I'm just falling asleep. I 142 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,720 Wish I had some help to preach it 143 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,800 I'm not dead. I'm sleeping 144 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:30,320 I'm sleeping in that UK wake me up 145 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,280 But when the trumpet sound 146 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,040 The dead in Christ 147 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:48,400 Shall be raised first. I wish I had some help to preach it and those of us who are alive and remain 148 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:56,120 Shall be caught up together to meet them in the air. We shall be raptured caught up 149 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:58,760 change in 150 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:00,760 the twinkling of an eye 151 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:02,760 I 152 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,360 The scripture says two will be sleeping in a bed 153 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:15,760 One will disappear and one will remain 154 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,160 Two will be working in a field 155 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,520 One will disappear and 156 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,320 One will remain 157 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:30,840 I like talking about the two people in scripture who did not taste death 158 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,200 One was Elijah 159 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,200 caught up in a chariot of fire 160 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,360 But the one I really like talking about is Enoch. I 161 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:46,680 Need two or three more Bible reading 162 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:49,640 The Bible says Enoch 163 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:52,880 Walk with God 164 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,200 And he was not 165 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,480 Because God took it 166 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:06,000 One day Enoch and God was just walking and talking and and having a good time like they did every day and 167 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,800 Then God said since you're closer to where I lived into where you live 168 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Won't you just come on and go with me 169 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,480 And God took it 170 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,680 One day I just want to be 171 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:25,680 took it I 172 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:29,360 Know that ain't good English, but that's good Baptist talk. I 173 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:36,000 Want to just be took it one day? I want to just be doing what I'm doing and the law just took me 174 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:40,680 I'm going home because I want to be closer to where he lives 175 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,040 in my father's house a 176 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,040 Many 177 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,040 Many mansion 178 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:55,480 If it were not so I 179 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:58,880 Would have told you 180 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:00,760 I go 181 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:02,760 That's Jesus talking now 182 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:08,520 To prepare a place for you and if I go to prepare a place for you 183 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,040 I'm gonna come again 184 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:15,440 And receive you under myself that where I am 185 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,600 There you will be also 186 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,080 Christ 187 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:30,560 Overcame death and 188 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,240 Has conquered the grave by his resurrection and 189 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:38,440 brought life and 190 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,880 mentality to light by the gospel 191 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,040 Paul said I delivered under you 192 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:49,440 First that which I have also received 193 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,480 How he was crucified and died one Friday 194 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:57,720 According to the scriptures 195 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 How he was buried 196 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:05,360 According to the scriptures how he rose on the third day 197 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:13,520 According to the scriptures and Paul said he called me an apostle born 198 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,280 out of due time 199 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:18,760 To preach to you 200 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,320 the resurrection I 201 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:27,160 Am not even qualified. He says to be called an apostle 202 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:31,440 Because I persecuted the church of God 203 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,200 Here it is, but by the grace of God I 204 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,360 Am 205 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:45,320 What I am and everybody here who's been saved this morning don't brag on how moral you are 206 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:51,440 Don't brag on how pious and righteous and scripture and illiterate you are 207 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:59,080 Because all it takes is a moment and any one of us can fall in the sin, but by the grace of God 208 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:01,080 I 209 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,080 am 210 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:05,880 What I 211 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:16,320 Don't don't you just don't you just want to scream 212 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:23,400 When you talk to these people who who answer their phone praise the Lord 213 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,400 I 214 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:32,360 I'm blessed and highly favored 215 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:41,360 I'm too blessed to be stressed and they got a fish on their bumper 216 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:50,280 And they're always listening to his gospel music and and you can't raise your voice around them because 217 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,280 They're halo might fall off 218 00:16:55,200 --> 00:17:01,280 And and and that's why they cover themselves up so tight because their wings might be exposed 219 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,400 That that's got to be a miserable confining 220 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,040 Cold lifeless dead kind of life 221 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,160 Because you can't appreciate grace 222 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,800 until you've been a liar 223 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:28,840 You can't appreciate grace until you've seen so wickedly 224 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,160 That the Lord had to cover you with his blood and 225 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:39,920 When you come here on Sunday morning, you ain't shouting because you got it right all the week long last week 226 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:44,920 You come here shouting cuz you messed up, but by the grace of God I 227 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,200 Am 228 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:55,480 What I am I 229 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:01,440 Should have been dead I 230 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:04,960 Deserve to be dead 231 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:10,920 But mercy grace 232 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:15,360 Surely 233 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:17,840 Goodness 234 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,920 And mercy 235 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,200 Shall follow me 236 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:27,600 All the days of my life. I wish I had some noise right here 237 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:30,200 Yeah 238 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:32,200 Though I walk 239 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,440 Through the valley of the shadow of death 240 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,400 I fear no evil cuz I got somebody with 241 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,840 Your rod and your staff 242 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,240 They comfort me 243 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:57,040 He prepared the table before 244 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,240 In the presence of my enemies 245 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:05,600 He anoints my head because listen, I don't know who my enemies are 246 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,720 They look like my friends 247 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,600 They talk like my friends 248 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:19,040 They laugh and grin in my face like my friends, but I don't know who my head. That's why I need a shepherd 249 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,480 Who can prepare a table before me 250 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:29,480 in 251 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:31,480 The presence of my enemies 252 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,680 And then he anoints my head with oil 253 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:39,360 So that my cup is 254 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,160 Running over I 255 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,040 Need a I need a witness here 256 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:54,720 Who get happy when it ain't Sunday? You 257 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Don't even have to be in church 258 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,880 You you you you you you just start thinking about 259 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,680 How many doors he's open 260 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,520 How many tears he's dry 261 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:17,120 How many ways he's made 262 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:24,520 How much he led you around that you could have fallen into but he kept you 263 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 He never left you 264 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:46,200 And it's just Wednesday and you start shouting about his goodness. Let me let me let me let me testify before I move on 265 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:54,360 Sometime when I when I when I turn the ignition in my car 266 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:56,360 I 267 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,560 Think about the little the little Buick century I used to have 268 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:08,300 That that they knew it was me coming down the street 269 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,800 Because it smoked so much 270 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:18,400 They thought I was the mosquito man spraying for mosquito 271 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:25,720 And then I had to park it where I didn't have to back up 272 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,640 Because my transmission was gone 273 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:32,520 And 274 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:38,000 Then look like it had a mind of its own if I left it idling it just take off by itself 275 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,840 And I had to dive in the drivers of winter 276 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:46,840 To stop it but look where I 277 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,880 Had a little black and white 13 inch television 278 00:21:54,840 --> 00:22:00,520 With some foreign paper on the on the antenna. I wish I had somebody to help me 279 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:05,320 And my knob was broke so I had to get a pair of pliers I 280 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:14,600 Couldn't afford cable so I just had three channels, but look where the Lord I 281 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:22,000 Need one or two more witnesses here who can remember all you had was one pass shoes 282 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,600 All you had was one good suit of clothes 283 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:30,120 But now you open your closet and got to make up your mind what you're gonna put 284 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:34,520 down through the years 285 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,200 The last bit good to me 286 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:55,840 I've got the victory over death 287 00:22:55,840 --> 00:23:02,920 I've got the victory in verse 56 over deception 288 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:10,680 The sting of death is sin and 289 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:17,760 The strength or the power of sin is the law 290 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:22,360 And and when you look at it 291 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:28,440 And and when you look at sin and the law 292 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:31,840 It terrifies you 293 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:36,320 Because you know that because of your sin and 294 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,600 Because you can't keep the law 295 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:43,120 You're hopeless 296 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,920 But if in this life only 297 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:56,240 We have hope we are among all men 298 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,880 Most miserable 299 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:05,280 Sin is the reason Jesus came into work 300 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:12,040 He lived and he died on the cross and 301 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:21,360 It is his death that delivers us from our sins because he paid the price for sin 302 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:24,360 With his own blood 303 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:30,800 And if the power of death arises from sin 304 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,600 Then the only way it can be done away is 305 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,480 by the expiation and 306 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:47,840 Forgiveness of sin and sin must be atoned for if death is to be destroyed 307 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:55,040 Sin gave death a sting and 308 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,480 The sting of death 309 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,520 pierces 310 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,520 pains and 311 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,640 Poisons 312 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:11,000 The power of sin pierces 313 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,400 The guilt of sin is painful and 314 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:22,920 The pollution and defilement of sin is poison 315 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:28,080 But Jesus took the sting 316 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:35,320 I was trying to save this till I got to the end of the sermon 317 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,120 I shared it with the brothers in the back in our consecration 318 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,200 my daughter 319 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:49,440 Victoria is afraid of anything that moves or crawls. That's not a person 320 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,160 She's scared of spiders she's scared of roaches 321 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,160 Was bees 322 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:06,120 Worms anything that squirms moves crawls does not a human 323 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:09,120 She's afraid of it 324 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,040 As bad as she try to think she is 325 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:20,560 She'll call me at 10 30 at night to come get a dead roach out of her house. I 326 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,600 Said Victoria is dead. Oh dad. I 327 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,280 Got to get up out of my house and go get a dead roach 328 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:41,560 She's been that way all of her life when she was a small child about four maybe five years old 329 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:47,280 We were sitting outside and a wasp came around and 330 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:53,320 She jumped in my neck and almost squeezed my eyes out of the socket 331 00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:58,560 And I said what's what's the matter? She said dad is a wasp. It's a wasp 332 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,600 And I saw the was flying around and I grabbed it 333 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,080 And it stung me in my hand 334 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,320 And when I opened my hand I 335 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,320 showed her the stinger and 336 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,320 I said it can't bother you now 337 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,720 Because the stinger is 338 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:25,360 In my hand 339 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:33,360 One Friday 340 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,360 On a hill called Calvary 341 00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:44,080 Jesus took the sting out of death and 342 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,800 Said oh death 343 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,400 Where is your sting? 344 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,160 grave 345 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:59,640 Where's your victory? You want to know where the sting of death is Jesus just got to open his hand 346 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,200 He died 347 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:12,600 Didn't he die and when he died he took the sting out of death and 348 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,480 Robbed the grave of its victory 349 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:26,200 And so I've got the victory over death I've got the victory 350 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,840 Over deception 351 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:37,080 Never the next time you go to the funeral of a Christian that's deception you look in there 352 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,880 They fooling you they ain't dead 353 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 They just sleep 354 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,120 And one of these days 355 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:58,280 You're gonna read in the Houston Chronicle in the obituary column 356 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,720 Yeah, the Terry Anderson is dead 357 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,480 That's a misprint 358 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,960 That's deception I'll be more live then 359 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,600 Than I've ever been before I 360 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,160 Will drop this metal of flesh 361 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,200 step out of the narrow 362 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,960 Circumstitions of time and into the 363 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:32,080 Elimitable experiences of eternity when life's fitful fever is ended I will not be dead 364 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,800 I'm going to sleep 365 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:43,440 You can't get mad with a man who's worked all day who wants some sleep 366 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,320 Somebody help me talk here 367 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:57,240 When I've borne my burdens in the heat of the day when my life is ended I want to go to sleep 368 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,600 If you miss me 369 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,840 From singing down here and you can't find me nowhere 370 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,440 Come up to bright glory 371 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,680 I'll be singing up there 372 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,520 I have victory over death. I 373 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,440 Have victory over deception 374 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:26,280 But I have victory also finally over damnation 375 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,800 It's right here in the text but 376 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,960 Thanks be to God 377 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,280 Who just gives us 378 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,040 Victory 379 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,760 Through our Lord Jesus Christ we don't we don't deserve it 380 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,320 We didn't do anything to earn it 381 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,640 We will never be good enough to merit it 382 00:30:55,160 --> 00:31:01,600 Because of the death of Christ and I believe in his finished work on the cross he just gives us 383 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,040 the victory 384 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:13,520 And when somebody gives you something that you don't deserve you ought to have sense enough 385 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,720 To just say thank you I 386 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,040 Know what I deserve 387 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,720 But thank you for your grace I 388 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,080 Know what I got coming to me 389 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,000 But thank you for your grace I 390 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,400 Know what should have happened to me 391 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,400 But thank you for your grace 392 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,480 Do you know what could have happened to you between last Sunday and this one? 393 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,600 Somebody ought to help me preach 394 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,920 You don't know how many cars God slowed down to keep from running into you 395 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,360 You don't know what was going on while you were sleeping outside your house 396 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,680 I know you had your alarm system on and I know you got burglar balls 397 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,000 But but but God kept you 398 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,240 You slept soundly last night 399 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,000 Because the death angel was flying over the city of Houston 400 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:16,800 But your house was covered 401 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,000 Not not not by a burglar system 402 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,120 But covered by the blood of Christ I 403 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,640 Wish I had a believer here 404 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,200 Because some people better by nature than we are 405 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,680 I did not wake up this morning 406 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,680 but God woke us up and 407 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,640 Then God got us to his house 408 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,200 safely on the interstate and 409 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,520 Then brought us to our particular seat in the sanctuary 410 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,760 You could have dropped dead as soon as you got out of your car 411 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:56,760 Or you could have walked in this church and died in the vestibule 412 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,880 Or you could have sit down in your pew 413 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:02,360 spoke to somebody 414 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,760 Close your eyes and never wake up again 415 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,760 God's just been good to us 416 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:10,960 Every move I make 417 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,200 Every step I take 418 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:19,440 Is by the goodness and the mercy of God Almighty 419 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,280 You need to tell some super saint next to you 420 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:29,040 Who's trying to act all holy and they they haven't opened their mouth since they've been in the sanctuary 421 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,120 They've never sung any of the songs that we sang this morning 422 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,880 They didn't clap they didn't move from side to side 423 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,640 They didn't give God glory. They didn't put their head down during devotion 424 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,600 You need to let them know that it was not for God's goodness 425 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,400 If it were not for God's 426 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:50,240 mercy 427 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:54,640 If it were not for the fact that he looked beyond my faults and 428 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,720 saw my needs 429 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,760 God's been good to me. I 430 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:08,280 Need one or two more believers to help me close here. I know you were waiting for me to get to verse number 58 431 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:15,640 You probably thought I forgot about verse number 58, but I didn't forget about verse number 58 432 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,120 There's a whole lot of shouting in verse 58 433 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,320 But you got to read verse 50 on down 434 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,200 Before you can shout about verse number 58 435 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,960 Because in verse number 50 it starts out by behold I 436 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,920 show you a 437 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,360 mystery 438 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,360 We shall not all sleep 439 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,880 But we shall all be changed 440 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:51,360 in a moment in the twinkling of an eye for the trumpet of God shall 441 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,320 sound and when this model has put on 442 00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:01,600 immortality and when this corruptible has put on in corruption 443 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,960 Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written 444 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,960 Death has been swallowed up in 445 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,960 victory 446 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,000 Oh death 447 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,000 Where is your sting? 448 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,320 Oh grave 449 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,640 Where is your victory? 450 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:25,560 The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law 451 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,800 But thanks be to God who gives us the victory 452 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,680 Through our Lord Jesus Christ 453 00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:36,720 Here it comes therefore 454 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:44,720 Whenever you see the word therefore you ought to want to know what it's there for 455 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,680 Here is what it's there for 456 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,640 You got to read on up into chapter 15 457 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,200 If there be no resurrection of the dead 458 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,320 Then we have died in vain 459 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,080 Our faith is in vain 460 00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:05,080 Our preaching is in vain 461 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,080 And we are among all men 462 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,760 most miserable 463 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,800 But thank you Jesus 464 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,400 He died 465 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:20,720 on a hill called Calvary and his death was sufficient 466 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,800 For God getting a ransom for our sins 467 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,560 What can wash away my sin? 468 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000 Nothing but the blood of Jesus 469 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,000 What can make me 470 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,360 Hold again 471 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:40,960 Nothing 472 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:42,960 But the blood of Jesus 473 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,040 I need a believer here this morning 474 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,640 Who know what the word therefore is therefore 475 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,480 Therefore my beloved brethren 476 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,120 Be steadfast 477 00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,280 That word steadfast means just be seated 478 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,280 Unmovable 479 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,960 That word unmovable just means be firm 480 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:12,280 Always abounding in the work of the Lord 481 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:14,960 For as much as you know 482 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,720 That your labor is not in vain 483 00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:21,720 In the Lord 484 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,240 You're gonna help me close this won't you? 485 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,080 Sometime is hard to be Christian 486 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:37,800 Sometime it's difficult when the road is rough and the going gets tough and it looks like everybody's getting ahead of you and 487 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,520 Everybody's doing better than you are doing and 488 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,480 Everybody's life seems to be on a keel that your life is not on 489 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:53,720 You look at them on Facebook and they look so good and look like life is just going their way 490 00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:59,080 And then you look at them on tiktok and it looked like they're just having such a good time 491 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,640 But that's one day out of 492 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,240 365 days 493 00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:07,240 You don't know how much hell they've had those other day 494 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,120 You don't know how mean they've been those other days 495 00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:17,080 You don't know how ugly life has been for them those other days, but you are the thank God 496 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,840 that you have life and 497 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:25,800 And you have life more abundantly you are the thank God you have peace 498 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,640 That surpasses all 499 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,560 understanding you are the thank God that you have joy 500 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,560 That no money can purchase 501 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,520 You might not live where they live 502 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:43,440 You might not drive what they drive, but when it's all over 503 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,160 We've got to stand before the same judgment seat 504 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:52,040 We've got to meet the same God and if you live right 505 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,240 You shall receive your reward 506 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,920 If you trust God 507 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:03,800 You'll make a way out of no way. I need a believer here right now. I 508 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,760 Need a serious Christian right now 509 00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:09,480 Who's had some good days and? 510 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:12,240 Some bad days 511 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,720 You've had some sunshine today 512 00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:17,680 You've had some rainy days 513 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,800 You've had some warm days 514 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,520 You've had some cold days 515 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,440 You've had some happy days 516 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,160 You've had some days of depression 517 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,000 But through it all 518 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,680 God kept you 519 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,480 through it all 520 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,760 God made a way for you 521 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,440 through it all 522 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,440 through it all 523 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000 through it all 524 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,600 God's been good to you if you don't mind testifying 525 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,560 If you don't mind being a witness 526 00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:57,240 Make some signs 527 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,080 That God has made a way for you 528 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:02,920 Why don't you make a sign? 529 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:05,680 That God has shown up 530 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,600 Right when you needed it 531 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:14,040 Why don't you make some sign that God turned it around? 532 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,120 Just in the nick of time 533 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:19,880 Try to dis a 534 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,360 commonplace 535 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,360 all kinds of diseases 536 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,320 People are slipping away 537 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,560 The economy is down 538 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,200 People can't get enough pay 539 00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,760 But ask for me 540 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,680 Ask for me 541 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:42,680 All I can say is thank you Lord 542 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:45,680 for all 543 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,960 You've done for me it could have been me 544 00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,160 I've done 545 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,600 with no food 546 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:04,960 and no clothes 547 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:09,200 All left alone without a friend 548 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,200 Just another number 549 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,560 with a tragic end 550 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,120 But you didn't see fit 551 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,000 To let none of these things be 552 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:24,960 I'm saved by your power and you keep on 553 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,360 You keep on 554 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,840 You keep on 555 00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,080 You keep on 556 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,080 You keep on 557 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,080 You keep on 558 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,080 You keep on 559 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,080 You keep on 560 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,080 Keeping me 561 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,080 Thank you 562 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,080 Thank you 563 00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,080 Thank you 564 00:41:49,080 --> 00:42:05,080 No, he's alright 565 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,080 Excuse me here 566 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,080 There's some folk in here like me 567 00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,080 who've crossed over 50 years old 568 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,080 and the longest end of the rope 569 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,080 is behind you now 570 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,080 and what you're looking forward to 571 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,080 is that great getting up on 572 00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,080 Trials dark 573 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,080 on the ever a hand 574 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,080 and we cannot 575 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,080 understand 576 00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,080 all the ways 577 00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,080 that God will lead us 578 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,080 to that blessed 579 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,080 promised land 580 00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,080 but he'll guide us 581 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,080 with his eye 582 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,080 we'll follow 583 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,080 till we die 584 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,080 we'll understand it 585 00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,080 better 586 00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,080 by 587 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,080 by 588 00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:15,080 by 589 00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,080 by 590 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,080 by 591 00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,080 by 592 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,080 by 593 00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,080 by 594 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,080 by 595 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,080 by 596 00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:46,080 by 597 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,080 by 598 00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,080 by 599 00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,080 by 600 00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,080 by 601 00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,080 by 602 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,080 by 603 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,080 by 604 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,080 by 605 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:11,080 by 606 00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:15,080 by 607 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:19,080 by 608 00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,080 by 609 00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,080 by 610 00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:27,080 by 611 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:30,080 by 612 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,080 by 613 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,080 by 614 00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:39,080 by 615 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:43,080 by 616 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,080 by 617 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:50,080 by 618 00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,080 by 619 00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,080 by 620 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,080 by 621 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,080 by 622 00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,080 by 623 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,080 by 624 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:12,080 by 625 00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:16,080 by 626 00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:20,080 by 627 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,080 by 628 00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,080 by 629 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,080 by 630 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,080 by 631 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,080 by 632 00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:39,080 by 633 00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:43,080 by 634 00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,080 by 635 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,080 by 636 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,080 by 637 00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,080 by 638 00:45:55,080 --> 00:46:24,080 by