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  • He died!

  • The Father gave His Son.

  • When you say things like,

  • "Jesus died," shouldn't you stop for a moment or...something?

  • I mean, He died. He really died.

  • And it was His blood shed on that tree,

  • that's the only reason the black filth of your sin can be washed away.

  • That blood on that tree.

  • The slaughter of the Son of God.

  • And that Man, that God, that Man, Christ Jesus rose again from the dead.

  • And on the 40th day He ascended up to the right hand of His Father,

  • and for the first time in all the history of history,

  • a man walked up to the doors of heaven and cried out what we find here in verse 7,

  • "Lift up your heads O gates and be lifted up O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in"

  • And all of heaven behind those doors are in utter shock and silence and wonder.

  • Finally a brave one lifts his head and begins to speak, "Who is this King of glory?

  • Who DARES speak to these doors?

  • No man has ever dared come this far or lay his hand to the latch of this wall.

  • Who is this King of glory?"

  • And then all of a sudden the Lord, the Messiah, the Christ,

  • the Son of God, the Man for us, cries out,

  • "The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

  • Lift up your heads O gates, lift up your heads, lift them up O ancient doors,

  • that the King of glory may come in"

  • And in the first time of all time, those doors opened for a man.

  • He walked through those doors and every thing that has ever been made fell on its face.

  • "All hail the power of Jesus' Name;

  • l et angels prostrate fall, bring forth a royal diadem and crown Him Lord of all."

  • "Crown Him with many crowns."

  • This Lamb upon the throne.

  • And I can just see Him now walking up to His Father BOLD,

  • it was His right, climbing the steps of this throne that would make Solomon's throne look like paper mache,

  • and sits down without even asking permission.

  • And looks at His Father, not as a question, but as an affirmation, and says, "Father, it is finished!"

  • And the Father says, "Son, it is finished indeed."

  • This Jesus whom you crucified, God has made Him both Lord and Christ of all.

  • Don't think I will even ask you even ask you to make Jesus Lord of your life,

  • that's the most preposterous thing I could ever tell you to do.

  • Jesus Christ IS Lord of your life.

  • Whether you serve Him or not, whether you bless Him, curse Him, hate Him, or love Him,

  • He is the Lord of your life because God has given Him a Name that is above every name

  • so that at the name of Jesus Christ every knee shall bow and tongue confess that He is Lord.

  • Some of you will bow out of the grace that has been given to you,

  • and others will bow because your knee caps will be broken by the One who rules the nations with a rod of iron.

  • But I'll not apologize for THIS God of the Bible.

  • I come from a long line of men, most of them buried,

  • but all of them well received in glory,

  • who thinks not about the opinions of men or the way the rest of the evangelical community is going to walk.

  • I want you to know there is a God in heaven,

  • and He is worthy of all praise and glory and honor and He DEMANDS such from you.

  • And He has made it possible in His glory, in His love,

  • for you to come to Him, and He cries out, "All who are thirsty come and drink,

  • all who are hungry come and eat.

  • Why do you spend your money on that which will not satisfy?

  • Come and drink from me," He says.

  • Wine and milk.

  • Based upon the sure mercies of David I will treat you good.

  • For my ways are not your ways, they're higher than your ways.

  • As the seed grows because water is poured upon it,

  • My word, My promise will not fail" [Isaiah 55:1-3, 8, 10-11].

  • He commands everyone in this room to repent of their sins and believe the gospel [Mark 1:15],

  • to seek Him while He may be found.

  • "Brother Paul, can I be saved?"

  • I don't know.

  • Let me ask you a question.

  • Maybe you came here tonight,

  • you came, someone invited you, the only thing you've been doing is looking at your watch wondering,

  • "When is this going to be over?"

  • your mind has been wandering,

  • you could care less, Christ means nothing to you, no more than when you entered into these doors,

  • then my answer to you is, "No you cannot be saved."

  • At least not now.

  • Because you have no repentance in your heart,

  • no brokenness over sin, no brokenness over the price that was paid for you that you might live.

  • But maybe you're saying, "Brother Paul, I came in here tonight,

  • I had no intention of listening to anything."

  • But maybe during the worship God caught your heart and you began to think on eternal things,

  • and maybe as you heard the gospel preached

  • you became aware of your sin and your vileness before a holy God,

  • and then you heard about Christ and your heart leaped with joy,

  • and you said to yourself, "I'm the vilest of creatures, is there hope for me?"

  • YES there's hope for you.

  • You have repentance, at least the seeds of it in your heart,

  • now you lack one thing: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved! [Acts 16:31]

  • You shall be saved!

  • You shall be saved.

  • For all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved [Acts 2:21, Romans 10:13].

  • And of all those who have believed in Him,

  • none of them are disappointed [1 Peter 2:6, Romans 9:33, 10:11].

  • But know this, the clock is ticking and time is fleeing and death and hell are moving.

  • Christ will return. People tell me, "I don't care, He's not going to return for 1,000 years."

  • Maybe so, but you're going to, inside of 25, 50, 60 years

  • everyone in this room is going to see Him.

  • Either you're going there or He's coming here, it really makes no difference.

  • You will see Him, you will stand before Him.

  • He's coming and when He comes it will be both wonderful and absolutely terrifying.

  • As one preacher said, "I have good news and bad news.

  • The good news is God is here.

  • The bad news is God is here."

  • It depends which side of the line you're standing on.

  • He will come, He will burst forth from this sky,

  • and the greatest and mightiest of men and all their armies,

  • one glimpse of the One who rides that horse,

  • they will cry out for mountains to bury them.

  • You see you need to understand His sovereignty and power is such

  • that He sits over everything with absolute sovereignty.

  • And if all the created universe,

  • angels and men, demons and devils, all turned against Him to fight

  • they would have no more strength than if one of them, the weakest of them stood alone against Him.

  • They'd have no more strength than a mite beating its head against a piece of granite.

  • You will be judged,

  • and if your name is not written in the Lamb's book of life you will be found

  • lacking, and you will be cast into hell.

  • And don't buy into this mess that says heaven's heaven because God is there

  • and hell is hell because God's not there.

  • No my friend, hell is hell because God IS there.

  • Hell is the pure flaming wrath and justice of God.

  • Have you not read,

  • "And the smoke of their torment ascended up in the presence of the Lamb" [Revelation 14:10-11].

  • It isn't the devil who rules over hell, it's God who rules over hell.

  • You say, "Well I've never of such a thing."

  • I know, that's your problem.

  • That's your problem.

  • Repent, believe the gospel.

  • The best thing I can do for you now

  • is turn you away from men and turn you to God.

  • Seek the Lord till He has saved you.

  • Seek the Lord.

  • Call upon Him.

  • Believe in Him.

  • But know this,

  • if tonight something happens in your life and you believe that God has saved you,

  • I want you to know something,

  • it is not just tonight that is necessary to give you assurance that God has saved you.

  • Because if you think God saved you tonight

  • but you walk out of this church building and you do not begin to change,

  • and you do not begin to grow in grace, and you do not begin to grow in the things of God and desire,

  • and you do not continue walking with Him,

  • but you fall away like so many others, know this, you got nothing here tonight.

  • The evidence of your salvation is not that one time in your life you prayed a prayer,

  • the evidence of your salvation is that

  • you continue walking with Him,

  • and that He who began a good work in you finishes it.

He died!

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