[0:00] 1 Corinthians chapter number 15.
[0:18] 1 Corinthians chapter number 15. It is just, it's amazing to be back. We have missed you guys. We have missed this church. God has done amazing things.
[0:29] God is doing amazing things in spite of us and through us. And we're just grateful for it. Grateful for the privilege. And thank you to all of you. I know that there are a lot more people probably that deserve recognition and deserve gifts.
[0:42] But I'm cheap. So that's not going to happen. But 1 Corinthians chapter number 15. We're going to be looking at verses 12 through 19. Let's go ahead and look at those together. 1 Corinthians 15 verse 12.
[0:54] Talking about the resurrection of Christ. It says, Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen.
[1:08] And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain. And your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God. Because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up.
[1:21] If so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised. And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain. You are yet in your sins.
[1:32] Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. And we are right before a holiday of thanksgiving where we stop and we focus on the fact that we are not miserable.
[1:49] That we are not miserable as believers and as children of God. That we have so much to give thanks to God for. And this passage really stood out to me this week as I was studying it.
[2:00] Talking about that if Christ is not risen, then we are actually miserable. So our title this evening is A Living Christ, Our Ultimate Thanksgiving.
[2:11] Let's pray and we'll look at the word tonight. Father, we love you. And we love you because you first loved us. We love you because you are so good. And Lord, we know that you are the sum of all of our joy.
[2:24] The sum of all of our thanksgiving. You are our life and our hope. And as we take time, Lord, in this holiday to stop and to reflect on all of your goodness, on all of your gifts.
[2:37] Lord, we don't want to focus on your things so much as your person and who you are. We know that you are the greatest gift.
[2:48] Your word says that every good gift and every perfect gift comes from above, down from the Father of lights, in whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. And Lord, you are the focus and not the gifts.
[2:58] And we want that to be the truth tonight. We want that to be the truth as we worship you in spirit and in truth. And we give you thanks, God, for who you are and for all those benefits that you daily load us with.
[3:11] God, we thank you. And we ask that you would open up your word in a way that I could not, that no man could, that only your spirit can do. We ask that you would remind us that Jesus is here among us.
[3:24] Jesus is here in us. You are the glorious hope. The living hope that Peter talked about. Lord, remind us of the gospel tonight. And we'll give you all the thanks and all the praise in Jesus' glorious name.
[3:37] Amen. So what's going on here in this passage? Paul's writing to a group of believers that he had spent a lot of time with, to a church family that he had spent time with.
[3:51] And he's writing to them. If we look at the context beginning in chapter 1 of, or verse 1 of chapter 15, I love how he says it. He says, Brethren, I declare unto you the gospel.
[4:02] The very first thing that we see right in the context is he's saying, look, there's a whole lot that I'm going to give you. There are a lot of practical applications. But all of it comes from one message.
[4:13] It's not a bunch of different messages that you have to try to cram into your life. And we know that the Corinthian church has many problems of sexual immorality, of divisions, of all of these different issues going on in the church.
[4:24] And he writes to them to fix this problem by saying, I declare unto you, I remind you of the one message that we have. And that is a risen Jesus. That is what we have.
[4:35] That's our only message. And that's what's going to drive us getting these things right. Have you ever noticed that some doctrines change things more than others? I'm not saying for a second that doctrine is unimportant or some are important and some are not.
[4:51] But there are certain doctrines. There are certain teachings in the Bible that if we get them wrong, there are a lot more ramifications to that, right? You know, when we first began the church about a year ago, a little under a year ago, one of the first people that God brought, who's no longer there, was a young man from Ecuador.
[5:13] His name was Joel. And Joel, God bless him. He's no longer with us. That sounds like he's dead. No. Okay, he's in a different church, in a different country. He's no longer with us in that sense.
[5:25] But, you know, I think it's great that God has a sense of humor. And God does let us reap some things that we sow. Thankfully not everything that we sow. But I know that I have been a, what's the right word?
[5:40] With all my questions and annoyingness, I don't know, pain is probably the good word. But God gave me one of those. And everything that I said, he had a doubt about. Everything I said, he had to question.
[5:52] Everything I said, he had to, well, I'm not really sure if that's the way it is. And he would go back and forth and back and forth with me. And one day we went out to eat. Went out to eat at a restaurant with him. And he began to go off on not just biblical differences.
[6:05] He began to go off about his conspiracy theories. And, man, did he have some conspiracy theories. Do we have any self-proclaimed, would you admit it tonight if you're a conspiracy theorist? I don't want to offend you.
[6:15] If you think, we got one? I knew that, Zach. I mean, but your stuff is true. That's not a conspiracy. We know that the Sasquatch killed JFK. You're right.
[6:26] You are right, sir. It's proven. It's on the Internet. But he started going to how Bush blew up the towers on 9-11 and created Katrina and all these crazy different things that he was going into.
[6:40] And I had to stop because it was bothering me. It was frustrating me. And I was angry at him. And the Lord really just had to get a hold of me and drive this home to me.
[6:50] It doesn't matter if he's right or wrong on these issues. He can be wrong and everything that is the core of our belief and that drives us and affects us and makes us who and what we are, all of those things stay the same.
[7:03] He can be wrong on those things. Right? I mean, if those things are true, what ramification does that have to the gospel? It really doesn't have any. And so I had to learn to be gracious with him.
[7:14] I'm still learning all that. But I had to learn to be gracious with him and invest in him even though he was frustrating me with that stuff. But when we look at doctrine and when we look at what's going on here in this chapter, what Paul is doing is he is saying there is a doctrine here that is so tightly tied to the gospel that they're inseparable.
[7:35] You cannot, you cannot, cannot get it wrong that both Christ is risen and that we also physically are going to rise again at the last day and we are going to be with him both spiritually and physically perfectly forevermore.
[7:50] That's our glorious hope. That's what Paul is saying. He's saying you can't get this wrong. You cannot get this wrong. And there are some among you who are starting to get it wrong. Maybe some of them were saying that only the soul goes to heaven.
[8:02] And we know that that's kind of the Hollywood picture, isn't it? That only our soul is going to kind of float around in a cloud someday and play a harp. And that's not what the Bible says. The Bible says that he is going to create a new heaven and a new what?
[8:15] A new earth. That this is a physical world just because it's physical. It's not evil. That he's going to make it right. He's going to make it how it ought to be. And he's saying that he's making a parallel and a connection.
[8:28] And he's saying that Jesus being risen and our resurrection, you can't have one without the other. They're inseparable. They're key. They're fundamental to the gospel. If we don't have this, we do not have the gospel.
[8:42] So what we're going to do just very quickly is we're going to look at this. Here's our big idea. The big idea here in this passage is that the greatest possible tragedy that we could imagine would be for the resurrection to be false.
[8:55] He's drawing a hypothetical here. He's saying if, if, if, if, if. Seven times in the passage. If seven times. If Jesus is dead. What if Jesus is dead? That would be the greatest possible tragedy that there could ever be.
[9:08] And we're going to see why. And then the second greatest I think is here in implication as we look at the life of Paul. And that is the second greatest will be for us as believers. And we are joining together tonight to give thanks.
[9:20] The second greatest tragedy would be for us to live as if Jesus Christ were not alive. So I want to show you quickly in this passage two things.
[9:30] The implications of the resurrection being false. What if Jesus is dead? What does that actually mean? What if we found the body of Jesus? Or if an archaeologist found the body of Jesus tomorrow?
[9:42] And it was indisputable? And it was him? And there was no way to contradict it if that was Jesus. What does that mean? And then we're going to look at the other implications which are awesome.
[9:53] Because the first one is wrong. Amen? I love that. I love that. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to look here at the implications of the resurrection being false. If we look at our text tonight.
[10:04] He says this. And if Christ be not risen. Then is our preaching what? Vain. Our preaching. He repeats this word several times. It's our preaching is vain.
[10:15] Everything that we are staking our message on. Everything that we're staking our hopes and our dreams and our future. And everything that we're telling you to put faith in. It's hollow and it's empty. So the first thing is if Jesus is still in the ground.
[10:27] Then the message that we preach is empty. It's hollow. There's nothing to hold on to. I love looking at the contrast here of the adjectives that are being used in this passage.
[10:38] To describe what our faith is. What our preaching is. If Jesus is dead. Those adjectives are hollow. Vain. We are miserable. And I love looking at the comparison there.
[10:50] It's not an adjective. I'm sorry. I'm a grammar nerd. My bad. Kelly. Kelly's going to like this. All right. Yeah. We're going to. It's not really an adjective to adjective comparison.
[11:03] Really when you look at the text. It's an adjective to verb comparison. Because in the beginning he talks about the message being true. And he says that because the message is true. You've received it.
[11:14] And that you are being saved by it. We know we're saved once and for all. Amen. But also there's this practical implication. That the gospel is saving us. Persistently drawing us closer and closer to Jesus.
[11:28] Until that final culmination of when we see him face to face. And he says that it's this gospel that you've received. I've also received it. I've believed it. That you are. That you are holding fast to.
[11:40] He's using all these verbs. And what strikes me about that is. The comparison between hollow and empty. And these verbs. Because it's hollow and empty. Because it doesn't exist.
[11:51] But if the gospel is true. If it's real. Then it does things. Amen. This is not an empty message. This is a message that produces. This is a message that moves.
[12:02] And does things. It's a living message. Because it's Jesus' message. So there's a hollow message. And a false message. He says yea. And we are found false witnesses of God.
[12:12] Because we have testified of God. That he raised up Christ. Who he raised not up. If so be that the dead rise not. I was reading this week in Isaiah 25.8. And this is a passage that Paul is actually referring back to.
[12:25] In 1 Corinthians 15. He says. He will swallow up death. In victory. And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces. And the rebuke of his people shall he take away from all the earth.
[12:36] Why? Why? For the Lord hath spoken it. For the Lord hath spoken it. It's not a false message. But if Christ is still in that grave.
[12:48] If Christ did not rise. Then he is a liar. And it is a false message. And nothing that he said should be even listened to for one second. That all of this is worthless.
[12:59] That's the implication. It's also a powerless message if that's true. And if Christ be not raised. Your faith is vain. You're yet in your sins. And I began to think about that. If you're yet in your sins.
[13:10] Well what if he's just talking to the Gnostics. Who believe that your soul goes on. And God's going to destroy all physical things. But wouldn't they still believe that Jesus paid the price for sin?
[13:22] And why is this doctrine so important to our sins being paid for? And I think that the reason is if we think back to the cross and what happened there 2,000 years ago in Golgotha.
[13:37] What did the Jews do? Do you remember when they walked by and they saw Jesus hanging on the cross? This one who made so many promises. This Jesus who had made so many claims that were just outlandish about himself.
[13:48] What did they do? The Bible says that they shook their heads. They wagged their heads at him. And they said. Remember what they said to him? If you're really the son of God. Do what? Come down off that cross.
[14:00] If you're really the son of God. Come down off that cross. And Jesus had said. That if I. And they threw this promise back in his face.
[14:11] If I tear down this temple. Then I will raise it up again 3 days later. And thus prove who he said that he was. He said. Before Abraham was.
[14:23] What did he say? I am. That's why they were so angry. Because he made himself like unto God. He said that I am the son of God. And he said over and over again. I can forgive sins because I am God.
[14:37] So we are yet in our sins if Christ is not raised. Because. He's a liar. He's not who he said he was. If he said that.
[14:48] If he said that he would raise up. That temple. That body 3 days later. And thus prove that he is God. And thus prove that he has the ability. To take care of your sins.
[14:59] And you follow that and backtrack that. And he didn't do what he said he'd do. That promise is worthless. That promise of. I will forgive your sins. And though your sins be as scarlet. They will be white as snow.
[15:10] That is an empty and vain and worthless promise. It's not worth the paper it's written on. That's the implication. So it's a lifeless message as well. He says. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
[15:22] Have you ever tried to comfort a grieving atheist? There's nothing worse than that. There's nothing worse than that. Than seeing the despair on someone's face. As they come to grips with what they actually believe.
[15:35] Or don't believe. And to think. I'm never going to see that person again. That little piece of heaven. That was my mother.
[15:46] My father. My son. My daughter. My wife. You're never going to get that again. That's horrible. That wonderful thing. Then does not become something wonderful.
[15:56] It turns into a cruel joke. Something that the universe. Or God. Or whatever. Gave to you. And then just yanks it back out from under you. And says. Yep. You're never going to see that again. Good luck living.
[16:08] That's horrible. That's horrible. So it is a lifeless message. If it's not true. And then lastly. It's a miserable message. If in this life only. We have hope in Christ.
[16:19] We are of all men. Most miserable. We're going to go back and look at that. In just a second. As we look at the other implications. But what are the implications. If he's dead. When it says in this passage.
[16:29] For he must reign. Until he has put all enemies under his feet. That's a false statement. Because at least one enemy would have beaten Jesus. Death. It would be false. It means there's no point to anything.
[16:42] It means that our labors and our sufferings will be in vain. It means that the men that we trust. And we follow. And we listen to. They are liars. Or they're lackwits. That we are truly alone.
[16:52] When we are alone. That things don't work together for good. All we have is self-delusion. And that's going to fail us. Those are the implications. If Jesus is dead. There is nothing.
[17:04] Nothing. Nothing worse. Than the idea of a Jesus. Who did not rise from the dead. And I love this. Because if we look at the contrast. As horrible. And as terrible as that possibility is.
[17:16] When we look at the implications of Jesus being alive. It is that much greater. It is that much greater. It's just like grace. When you look at sin. And how deep it is. And how terrible it is.
[17:26] When you turn around and look at the goodness and riches and grace of God. You go. That is so amazing. And that is. That's how it is with Jesus. What are the implications of Jesus being true?
[17:40] We're going to go through this quickly. I want to park here. But I shouldn't. Number one. It proves. It proves his offices. What does he do? You know we see those bracelets.
[17:51] What would Jesus do? I'd rather talk about what does Jesus do? What does Jesus do? And he does so much. He is prophet. You can finish it with me. He is prophet. He is what? He is priest.
[18:02] And he is king. I love that word. He is prophet. He is priest. And he is king. And his resurrection proves that. If Jesus is alive. He is prophet. All of his words are true.
[18:14] All of his word is true. Amen. Every single promise that we stake our lives on. Every single promise that we cling to. And that gives us hope. It's true. It's true.
[18:24] He is the one and only and true prophet of God. He is the ultimate prophet of God. And every one of his words to us are right and real and trustworthy.
[18:36] He is prophet. He is priest. Hebrews chapter 7. It says of Christ. He ever liveth to make intercession for them. It's comparing Old Testament priests who died and had to be replaced by another priest.
[18:49] And of Jesus it says that he has an eternal priesthood that changeth not and passeth not away. He is priest. That means that when I fail and when I sin, which is at least as much as you do, I can look upward and I can say, I know he's seated forever at the right hand of God.
[19:13] And he is making intercession for me. And he says, Father, look at me and look at my righteousness that will never fade away. Not at what he's done. He is prophet. He is priest.
[19:23] He is king. He is king. He has defeated death. He has shown that he has the power over all of it. He has shown that he has the authority.
[19:34] This is why the resurrected Christ said in Matthew 28, All power is given unto me. All authority is given unto me. I have beaten every single enemy that there could possibly be.
[19:46] I have beaten the devil. I have beaten humankind. I have beaten evil. I have beaten the grave and hell and death. I have authority. I am king. I can tell you what to do with your life.
[19:57] And you can trust it. You can trust it. Just like you can trust the word of God, you can trust the will of God. If Jesus is alive, what are the implications? It means that all the mess that you're going through in your life tonight, God's in control of that.
[20:13] God is over top of that. God is not going to leave you alone in that. Romans 8.28 is a true, true and precious statement that all things work together for good.
[20:24] To them that are the called according to his purpose. That love God and who are the called according to his purpose. Isn't that amazing? That's amazing that he is king and we can trust him. We can obey him.
[20:35] And we know that he's going to work everything out according to his own counsel and his own plan. And it's going to be not just good, it's going to be glorious. It's going to be glorious. It proves his office.
[20:46] It proves his person. It proves his person. The three official names that we use of our Savior. Lord, Jesus, Christ. All those things are substantiated by the fact that he rose from the dead.
[21:00] Number one, Lord. The title of Lord. That's a declaration of deity and authority. He is Lord. That's why the apostle states in Acts chapter, I'm sorry, in the introduction to Romans.
[21:12] He says that Christ was declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead. He is Lord. He is Jesus. I love that name.
[21:23] And we sing about that name that is above every name. Jesus, Jehovah saves. Jehovah saves. He is saying that when I came and I became flesh and I took your sin upon me and I told you that I would save you from your sins.
[21:37] I love reading Mary's Magnificat where she says my soul magnifies the Lord. She says that you have saved your people. And it's not something that he's going to do in the future.
[21:49] It's something he's already done and is now working through us and we're going to see it and it's just as solid as if it's already done. Amen. It is finished is what he said on the cross. He is prophet.
[22:01] He is priest. He is king. He is Lord. He is Jesus. He is Christ. He is the Messiah. He's the only one who is capable of fulfilling every promise and every covenant that's ever been made between God and man.
[22:13] He's Messiah. I want to look just very quickly in closing at this last statement of the Apostle Paul where he says that we are of all men most miserable if in this life only we have hope in Christ.
[22:31] The implications here is that we are not because Jesus is alive we are not most miserable. Our preaching is not false but it is wondrously it is wholly true there could be nothing truer our faith is not vain but it's the opposite it's full.
[22:45] I love what he said he said Christ in you the hope of glory in Colossians. But then if we look at the context it really explains this word miserable right after he says this he talks about his life.
[22:58] He says but in fact Christ has been raised he is Lord and King over all. But then he says otherwise why are we in danger every hour. Why are we fighting with beasts. And he goes on and he talks about basically his own personal struggles and his suffering.
[23:13] His suffering. And here's the point. Here's the point. Now I want us to think about this for a moment. The point that Paul is trying to make with this word miserable is he's. Have you ever heard a Christian saying.
[23:27] You know if it all turns out at the end to not have been true. At least I lived a good life. You ever heard that. What is Paul saying here. Paul is saying no.
[23:40] Absolutely not. Paul is saying if at the end of the day this was all a lie. I am miserable. I am. I am giving up everything.
[23:51] I am. I am preaching the gospel. I am divesting myself of myself. I am dying every day. I am in persecutions. I am. I have lost my. My. My family. I have lost my reputation.
[24:02] I have not given. Maybe to my family. The things I could have given them. He's saying I have died to myself. I didn't pursue my glory. I pursued yours. I pursued your glory.
[24:14] And I gave all of it. I didn't hold any of it back. None of it. And he's saying if we're going to look at that life. And Jesus really is not physically literally alive.
[24:25] And thus with me. And lo I am with you. All the way. Even unto the end of the world. If that's not true. And if I'm not going to see him face to face. And if he's not going to say.
[24:36] Well done thou good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy. If all that's not true. This is all I had. And I wasted it on nothing. On nothing.
[24:47] It would be like a jihadist who blew himself up. Waking up in hell. Can you imagine that? But that's what Paul is saying. He's saying I gave it all. I gave it all.
[25:01] A Christian finding this out. Should not make us say. Well at least I lived a good life. And was a good person. It ought to make us furious. Make us tear out our hair. And scream to the heavens. Why did I waste my life?
[25:13] Why did I deny myself? I want to end with this question. Are we living this Thanksgiving. As we're giving thanks to God. Are we living like Jesus is alive?
[25:23] Are we living like the resurrection is true? I think that the irony here. Is that he's saying that. I am not miserable. And that's what he's saying. I am not miserable. Later on. This is the same guy who writes.
[25:34] Philippians 4. And the whole book of Philippians. Where he talks about. The fellowship of his suffering. And the joy. And the peace. That comes with it. He's not complaining.
[25:45] About this life. He's rejoicing in this life. He's saying that God is working through my life. As a Christian. Death. But it's death to things. That don't bring any real joy. It's death to things.
[25:56] That don't really fill. It's death to things. That aren't worth anything. And he is the ultimate worthy one. He is worth all of it. He is worth every sacrifice.
[26:07] And so I'm not miserable. You will look at me and say I'm miserable. You will look at me and say. Why would you live that kind of life? And I say. There's no life outside of this.
[26:19] Amen. It's not miserable. And the irony. Is that in trying to avoid misery. And I want to tell you.
[26:30] I'm coming back. From even another first world country. And I say this as an American. I'm not. I'm not judging everybody else. But there are some things that just shock me. And one of those is the pathological fear.
[26:42] In America. Of discomfort. We are afraid. Of discomfort. People are talking about terrorism. We're not so much afraid of jihadists. As we are of being uncomfortable.
[26:54] We're afraid of it. We're terrified of it. And so we try to. The other day. I was trying to preach. Or I'm sorry. Melissa was giving her. She was preaching. And I was holding chubby.
[27:05] And I had some yogurt raisins. I was trying to give him in my hand. To keep him quiet. Man little kids are. They'll hold you ransom. They know. They know that they can embarrass you. So they're like.
[27:15] I will scream until you give me something good. So I'm trying to give him some of these raisins. And I pour a whole bunch out into my hand. And do you think this little kid. You know. Grabs one at a time. And that's just. That's exquisite right there.
[27:27] I think I'll have another one. That's not what he does. He. His little grubby hand. He grabs the whole thing. And just tries to shove it all in his mouth. And man. We're the same way sometimes.
[27:38] Aren't we? We act like this is all there is. If I don't give my family this. If I don't get this for myself. Well who's going to give it to me? And we act like the American dream.
[27:49] And the gospel go together. When in fact they're enemies. It's not wrong to have things. We should give thanks tonight. To the things and the blessings that God has given to us. They're not number one.
[27:59] They better not be number one. And so often even in my heart. They. That idol tries to creep up and take over. And we better be on guard. But the irony is that.
[28:10] In trying to fill ourselves with those things. By avoiding misery. We become miserable. We become miserable. The only other time that this word is used in the New Testament.
[28:22] Is in Revelation. I think you probably know which verse I'm going to go to. Revelation 3.17. Talking to the church of Laodicea. That we know is. Is being characterized as. Lukewarm.
[28:33] And ready to be spewed out of God's mouth. It makes them sick. He says. For you say I am rich. I have prospered. And I need nothing. Not realizing that you are what? Wretched.
[28:44] You are. Where are we? Yeah. You are miserable. You are poor and blind. And naked. You are miserable. You are miserable. What does the gospel mean?
[28:56] What does a living. Risen Jesus mean? It means this. You and I are free as Christians. To live for the time that we know is coming. When we will be like him. And with him.
[29:07] And enjoy him. Forever. And forever. Is that not something to give thanks for tonight? Is that gospel not something to be thankful for tonight? That we are free from that?
[29:18] I want to ask you tonight. Are you living like you are free from it? Are you enjoying that freedom? Or are you making yourself miserable? Miserable by trying to run from misery? You know what?
[29:29] Jesus does want to work in you death. But you know how his economy works? You die to live. You go down to go up. You serve to be exalted.
[29:40] And this life that God has for you. The abundant Christian life. It's not a material thing when he says abundant. It's the abundance of his presence. Of his person.
[29:51] Poured out on your life. To make you into his image. And a light for him in this world that is miserable. With every head bowed and every eye closed. We're just going to close here in just a second.
[30:04] I want to ask you if you're here tonight. And you have never understood who Jesus is. If you've never placed your faith in the fact that he did die on the cross.
[30:17] With your sin on his shoulder. If you've never understood that he offers you his righteousness. That there's nothing that you can do to earn that.
[30:27] You're not a good person. And he knows that. And you know that. But if you've never placed your faith in what he did for you. If you've never said Lord. I am a sinner. And you are everything.
[30:39] And I accept that gift of eternal life. If you've never done that tonight. The Bible says that. There's nothing you can do to receive it but believe.
[30:51] Only believe. For by grace are you saved through faith. And that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. Not of works. Lest any man should boast. The only thing that he calls you tonight is to end your actual misery.
[31:07] He says you can be full. You don't have to be vain and empty. You don't have to be miserable. You don't have to live in fear of what's going to happen to you when you die because of your sin.
[31:17] He offers you life. And he offers you life abundantly. Just believe in his promise. Believe on him and his person. That he is who he said he is. What he said.
[31:28] He did what he said he would do. And he can give you what he said he can give you. Just believe. Christians are we living like Jesus is alive? This message was recorded at Vision Baptist Church in Alfred, Georgia.
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[31:59] Thanks.