THE LIVING WORD TRANSCRIPT<br> <br>

PROGRAM AIR DATE- 7-2-17<br> <br>

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LESSON TITLE: “JESUS THE SAVIOR”

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WELCOME<br> <br>

      TODAY WE ARE BLESSED WITH A WONDERFUL GIFT FROM GOD, THE BIBLE. THIS BOOK IS GOD'S LIVING WORD. IN ITS PAGES, WE ARE TOLD “FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS LIVING AND POWERFUL AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD.” IT IS IN THIS BOOK OF BOOKS THAT WE FIND THE ANSWERS TO ALL OF MAN'S QUESTIONS AND NEEDS. THIS MORNING YOUR AREA CHURCHES OF CHRIST WELCOME YOU TO A PROGRAM COMMITTED TO THAT PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY. AS WE PRESENT THE LIVING WORD. NOW HERE IS YOUR HOST RAY SULLINS.<br> <br>

      WELCOME TO OUR PROGRAM ON THIS WONDROUS LORD’S DAY MORNING.  THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING TO JOIN US FOR THE LIVING WORD PROGRAM. A WORK OF GOD, DEDICATED TO STUDYING HIS WORD AND TO SINGING SONGS OF PRAISE, ACCORDING TO HIS WILL. WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS THAT WE AGAIN HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BE TOGETHER FOR THIS TIME OF OFFERING AND SACRIFICE TO GOD. NOW, WILL YOU

      PRAYER: <br> <br>OUR GOD AND FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS DAY, FOR THE MANY GREAT BLESSINGS OF LIFE AND THE PRIVILEGE THAT WE HAVE TO SERVE YOU AND TO BE CALLED YOUR CHILDREN. HELP US THIS DAY AND EVERY DAY FATHER TO LET OUR LIGHT SHINE IN THIS WORLD THAT OTHERS MIGHT KNOW YOU THAT THEY MIGHT OBEY YOUR TRUTH AND FIND SALVATION AS WELL. AND FATHER, WE KNOW THESE THINGS ARE ONLY POSSIBLE THROUGH THE GREAT GIFT OF YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST AND WE THANK YOU FOR THAT GREAT GIFT. IN JESUS NAME WE PRAY, AMEN.<br> <br> 

      AS CHRISTIAN, THERE IS A LOT OF WORK THAT NEED TO BE DONE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. CERTAINLY ALL SERVANT OF GOD HAVE A TASK TO FULFILL AS COMMANDED BY THEIR CREATOR. SO, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE WORDS OF OUR NEXT SONG AS WE FOCUS ON OUR NEED TO LABOR AS CHRISTIANS. WON’T YOU JOIN IN WITH THE CONGREGATION IN OUR FIRST SONG OF THE MORNING? ITS NAME, “TO THE WORK.” <br> <br>







DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS<br> <br>

      IN THE BIBLE, WE ARE TOLD THAT SOMEDAY WE ALL WILL DIE. WE FURTHER KNOW THAT AFTER WE DIE THAT THERE WILL BE A FINAL JUDGEMENT BY GOD. THESE THOUGHTS ARE CONFIRMED FOR US IN HEBREWS 9:27, THERE THE WRITER SAYS, “IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN TO DIE ONCE, BUT AFTER THIS THE JUDGMENT.”  <br> <br>

      NOW, IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE JUDGEMENT, WE KNOW THAT SOMEDAY WE WILL ALL, “STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST,” ROMANS 14:10.  AT THAT TIME, WE WILL BE JUDGED ACCORDING TO WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN THE FLESH. PAUL SAID, “FOR WE MUST ALL APPEAR BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST, THAT EACH ONE MAY RECEIVE THE THINGS DONE IN THE BODY, ACCORDING TO WHAT HE HAS DONE, WHETHER GOOD OR BAD,” 1 CORINTHIANS 5:10. SO AT THAT TIME WE WILL RECEIVE A REWARD ACCORDING TO THE LIVES WE HAVE LIVED FOR GOD. THE RIGHTEOUS WILL INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE, WHILE THE WICKED SHALL BE CAST INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT, MATTHEW 25:46!<br> <br>

      BUT ONE MIGHT ASK, “WHAT HAPPENS TO US AND OUR BODIES WHEN WE DIE?” THE BIBLE CLEARLY STATES THAT OUR PHYSICAL BODIES WILL RETURN TO THE DUST OF THE GROUND. SOLOMON SAID, “ALL ARE FROM THE DUST, AND ALL RETURN TO DUST,” ECCLESIASTES 3:20. THE FLESH IS MADE OF EARTHLY COMPONENTS, THEREFORE IT IS NOT FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.  <br> <br>

      FURTHERMORE, PAUL UNDERSTOOD THIS POINT VERY WELL, AS HE TRIED TO EXPLAIN THIS CONCEPT TO THE CORINTHIAN BRETHREN IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15. IN VERSES 52 AND 53 HE SAID, “IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMPET. FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND, AND THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED. FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT ON INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY.” WHY THEN IS IT NECESSARY FOR US TO BE CHANGED FROM THE PHYSICAL TO SOMETHING ELSE?  WELL, LOOK BACK UP IN VERSE 50, THERE PAUL ADDS, “FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.”<br> <br>

      SO WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT SOMEDAY WE WILL DIE, IF THE JUDGEMENT DOESN’T COME FIRST. AFTER DEATH THE FLESHLY MAN WILL RETURN TO THE DUST. BUT THE SPIRITUAL MAN, THE SOUL WILL LIVE FOREVER.  GOD’S SAYS WE WILL BE CHANGED INTO AN INCORRUPTIBLE FORM TO BE MORE LIKE GOD. A MORE ACCEPTABLE FORM TO BE ABLE TO DWELL IN THAT ETERNAL CITY - HEAVEN. ARE YOU READY TO MEET YOUR GOD?<br> <br>

      AS FAR AS OUR LESSONS THOUGHTS THIS DAY, WE CONTINUE LEARNING WHAT IT MEANS TO “PREACH JESUS.” SO, AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, I WILL BE LEADING OUR THOUGHTS TODAY AS WE CONSIDER THE SPECIFIC TOPIC “JESUS THE SAVIOR.” AFTER OUR NEXT SONG TOGETHER, WE WILL RETURN WITH THIS STUDY FROM GOD’S WORD.  NOW IT’S TIME TO JOIN IN OUR SECOND HYMN OF THE DAY, THE NAME OF THE SONG, “WALKING IN SUNLIGHT.” 

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LESSON<br> <br>

BY RAY SULLINS<br> <br>

      THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING WITH US NOW AS WE GO TO GOD'S WORD AND LOOK AT ANOTHER LESSON THAT WE'VE BEEN CONSIDERING TOGETHER IN OUR THEME ABOUT PREACHING JESUS. WE CERTAINLY SEE THROUGHOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT, SPECIFICALLY IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, THIS IDEA OF PREACHING JESUS AND THOSE THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO THAT. AND REALLY WHAT OUR SERIES HAS BEEN ALL ABOUT WAS TRYING TO SHOW HOW THAT REALLY WE NEED TO PREACH MORE THAN JUST JESUS THE CHRIST, JESUS THE MAN, JESUS GOD, JESUS THE KING, JESUS, AS TODAY, THE SAVIOR. REALLY BECAUSE WHEN WE FIND THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE THINGS THAT THEY WERE TEACHING, IT ENCOMPASSED MORE THAN JUST THE KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS OR JESUS AS THE SON OF GOD. THEY WERE PREACHING OTHER ASPECTS OF JESUS WHEN PEOPLE WERE RESPONDING TO THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS. AND IT IS INCLUSIVE OF HIS CHURCH, HIS KINGDOM, REALLY THE IDEA THAT HE WAS THE SAVIOR, WHAT HE DID TO SAVE US. HE SHED HIS BLOOD FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS. THERE'S QUITE A BIT. THE BIBLE CHALLENGES US NOT ONLY TO KNOW BUT TO TEACH ABOUT JESUS. AND REALLY WHAT WE'VE TRIED TO DO THEN IS TO SHOW HOW THIS WOULD CERTAINLY GO IN THE FACE OF MANY RELIGIONS OR DENOMINATIONS, EVEN WHO REALLY JUST BELIEVE, “WELL YOU KNOW, AS LONG AS SOMEBODY KINDA KNOWS GOD OR KINDA KNOWS JESUS OR AS LONG AS THEY JUST KNOW A LITTLE BIT AND THEY'VE ACCEPTED JESUS OR ACCEPTED CHRIST, IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER WHAT ELSE THEY DO.” WELL, LET'S LOOK AGAIN TO WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT JESUS. JESUS IS NOT SPECIFICALLY SAID TO BE PREACHED AS THE SAVIOR BUT, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, WHAT WAS JESUS PREACHED AS? THE SAVIOR. HOW CAN YOU PREACH JESUS WITHOUT PREACHING THE IDEA THAT HE WAS THE SAVIOR? FOR EVEN PAUL SAID TO THE EPHESIAN CHURCH THAT CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH AND THE SAVIOR OF THE BODY, VERSE 23. NOW, IF HE IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH, ACTS CHAPTER 2, THAT THOSE WHO ARE SAVED THE SAVIOR HAS SAVED. THOSE WHO ARE SAVED HAS PUT THEM INTO THE WHAT? THE CHURCH, ACTS 2:47. THEN I CERTAINLY WANT TO KNOW THAT SAVIOUR. HOW COULD I BE IN A CHURCH AND NOT KNOW THE HEAD OF THAT CHURCH? OR KNOW THE FACT THAT THAT HEAD IS THE VERY REASON THAT I WAS ABLE TO BE SAVED AND THEN PUT INTO THE CHURCH OF WHICH HE IS THE HEAD OF? <br> <br>

      SO WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN TO LOOK AT NOW IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE BIBLE ARE THOSE CONCEPTS CONCERNING JESUS AS SAVIOR. AND WE COULD GO BACK TO THE OLD TESTAMENT AND LOOK AT SOME OF THE PROPHECIES ABOUT THE MESSIAH TO COME, THE ONE THAT WOULD SAVE THE WORLD, THE ONE THAT WOULD BRING SALVATION TO JEW AND GENTILE ALIKE. BUT WE'RE REALLY GOING TO, BECAUSE OF TIME, FOCUS ON THE NEW TESTAMENT TODAY. AND WITHIN THE NEW TESTAMENT, WE'LL ACTUALLY SEE SOME OF THOSE PROPHECIES CONFIRMED OR FULFILLED AS WELL. <br> <br>

      LET'S FIRST SEE THAT IN THE BOOK OF ACTS 13. AS WE SEE HERE IN THE BOOK OF ACTS CHAPTER 13, WE KNOW THAT PAUL IS ON ONE OF HIS MISSIONARY JOURNEYS. IN FACT, HE IS AROUND THE REGION THERE OF ANTIOCH IN PISIDIA. AND AS HE IS TRAVELING WE FIND THAT HE CONTINUES TO PROCLAIM THE WORD OF GOD IN JEWISH SYNAGOGUES AND AS WELL TO OTHERS WHOM HE COMES IN CONTACT WITH. THERE IN VERSE 23, AS HE IS DECLARING TO THOSE JEWS A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY CONCERNING ISRAEL, CONCERNING OTHERS IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE WILL OF GOD BEFORE CHRISTIANITY, HE THEN CLARIFIES THE PLACE WHERE JESUS COMES IN. AND WE'LL BEGIN READING VERSE 22, “’AND WHEN HE HAD REMOVED HIM, HE RAISED UP FOR THEM DAVID AS KING, TO WHOM ALSO HE GAVE TESTIMONY AND SAID, ‘I HAVE FOUND DAVID, THE SON OF JESSE, A MAN AFTER MY OWN HEART, WHO WILL DO MY WILL.’’” BUT WE KNOW IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD BACK IN THE DAYS OF ISRAEL AND HOW THAT HE SET UP DAVID, A MAN AFTER HIS OWN HEART, TO DO WHAT? TO RULE THE PEOPLE, TO CARE FOR, AND TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE. IN SOME RESPECTS, DOESN'T A KING ALSO SAVE OR IS CONSIDERED AS THE SAVIOR IN THE PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE? NOW LOOK WITH ME AT VERSE 23, AFTER CONFIRMING DAVID AND THE SPIRIT, THE MAN OF GOD DAVID, IT SAYS, “FROM THIS MAN’S SEED,” THE SEED OF DAVID, “ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE, GOD RAISED UP FOR ISRAEL A SAVIOR.” AND THEN IT CLARIFIES IN VERSE 23 BY SAYING, “JESUS.” SO AS DAVID WAS THE KING AND LED THE PEOPLE AND CARED FOR THE PEOPLE, PROTECTED THE PEOPLE, SAVIOR….JESUS HAD BEEN RAISED UP AS WHAT? THE SAVIOR. THE ONE WHO CAN AND WILL SAVE THE PEOPLE. JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD. AND WHY IS HE QUALIFIED? HE'S QUALIFIED, NUMBER ONE, THE VERSE SAYS BECAUSE HE IS THE SEED OF DAVID. IF WE GO BACK TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 1 WE LEARN THAT, NOT ONLY IS JESUS THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, BUT HE IS THE SSEED OF DAVID. HE IS THE ONE WHO WHAT? HAD BEEN GIVEN THE THRONE OF DAVID, THE THRONE OF GOD, HEAD OF THE CHURCH, HEAD OF THE KINGDOM. HE IS THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN GIVEN THE SCEPTER, AS THE SCRIPTURES SAY, TO LEAD GOD'S KINGDOM ON THIS EARTH, THE PEOPLE OF GOD. AND THEREFORE WHAT SHOULD WE DO? LOOK TO THE SAVIOR, KNOW THE SAVIOR, OBEY THE SAVIOR, RESPOND TO HIS PRECEPTS, AND BE FOUND FAITHFUL IN HIS SIGHT. <br> <br>

      SO THEN AS THE SAVIOR ONE OF THE PRIMARY THINGS WE'VE CONTINUED TO EMPHASIZE ALREADY IS THAT JESUS CAME TO DIE AND SHED HIS BLOOD THAT WE MIGHT HAVE FORGIVENESS OF SINS. IN FACT, WE KNOW THAT IT'S THE VERY BLOOD OF JESUS THAT WE HAVE BEEN WASHED IN. IN RELATIONSHIP TO WHAT WE LEARN IN REVELATION CHAPTER 1 IN VERSE FIVE, WE'VE BEEN WASHED IN THE BLOOD. THE SAME WAY ANANIAS TOLD PAUL IN ACTS 22:16 ARISE AND BE BAPTIZED AND WASH AWAY YOUR SINS. IN THE WHAT? THE WATERY GRAVE OF BAPTISM. THE FIGURATIVE BLOOD THAT WAS SHED THAT CLEANSES ALL SIN. LET'S LOOK AT HOW OUR SAVIOR HAS CLEANSED US FROM OUR SINS. IN SECOND TIMOTHY THEN, PAUL THERE IN CHAPTER 1, SAID THE FOLLOWING IN VERSE 10 TO THIS EVANGELIST. THERE WE READ, “BUT NOW HAS BEEN REVEALED BY THE APPEARING OF OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, WHO HAS ABOLISHED DEATH AND BROUGHT LIFE AND IMMORTALITY TO LIGHT THROUGH THE GOSPEL.” WITHIN THIS CONTEXT, HE'S TALKING ABOUT THOSE THINGS THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE ASHAMED OF, PRIMARILY GOD AND THE WILL OF GOD, THE ONE WHO HAS, VERSE NINE, “SAVED US AND CALLED US WITH A HOLY CALLING.” BY WHAT? THE GRACE OF JESUS! AND THEN IN VERSE NINE AND 10, WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? THAT IT IS THAT SAME JESUS WHO HAS WHAT? SAVED US, WHO HAS ABOLISHED DEATH. WELL, WHAT DOES SIN BRING ABOUT? SIN BRINGS ABOUT DEATH BECAUSE THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, ROMANS 6:23. SIN, ISAIAH CHAPTER 59 VERSES ONE AND TWO, SEPARATES US FROM GOD. SO WHAT DO WE NEED? WE TO SOMEHOW FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN OVERCOME DEATH: PHYSICAL DEATH, ETERNAL DEATH. AND THE ONLY WAY WE CAN DO THAT IS THROUGH JESUS! FOR JESUS HAS WHAT? ABOLISHED DEATH. HE HAS BEEN ABLE, BECAUSE HE IS OUR SAVIOR, TO SHOW US THAT, ALTHOUGH OUR PHYSICAL BODIES MIGHT RETURN TO THE DUST AND DIE AS WE SAW EARLIER, WE ACTUALLY, WHEN WE CONSIDER THE SPIRITUAL FORM OF MAN AND THE SOUL OF MAN, THE GODLIKE FORM CAN LIVE FOREVER WITH GOD. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT PETER ALSO UNDERSTOOD AND WAS REVEALING TO THOSE CHRISTIANS TO WHOM HE WAS WRITING IN SECOND PETER CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 20. AND YOU MIGHT RECALL WITH ME THERE, AS HE IS WARNING THEM ABOUT FALSE TEACHERS, HE MAKES THIS STATEMENT. HE SAYS IN VERSE 20, “FOR, IF AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, THEY ARE AGAIN ENTANGLED IN THEM AND OVERCOME, THE LATTER END IS WORSE THAN THE BEGINNING.” WHAT DO WE LEARN HERE? SOMETHING HAS BEEN DONE THAT GIVES US THE ABILITY TO DO WHAT? ESCAPE THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE? JESUS DIED. AND THEN WE'VE BEEN GIVEN IN THE BIBLE THE KNOWLEDGE OF THAT ACT. THAT'S WHAT HE SAYS HERE, THAT THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AND THE SAVIOR JESUS THAT HE IS THE MASTER, THE LORD, THE MESSIAH, AND THAT HE CAME AS SAVIOR AND DIED AND SHED HIS BLOOD. WE HAVE NOW THAT OPPORTUNITY TO WHAT? TO ESCAPE SIN, TO ESCAPE THE WORLD, TO OVERCOME THAT WHICH WOULD IN THE END CAUSE US TO HAVE DEATH AND CAUSE US TO END UP LOSING OUR LIVES ETERNALLY. SO AGAIN HOW BLESSED WE ARE! HOW ENCOURAGED WE SHOULD BE TO KNOW THAT JESUS IS THE PROPHESIED ONE; CAME TO SAVE THE WORLD TO ABOLISH OR HELP US OVERCOME SIN, AND TO ABOLISH DEATH ULTIMATELY. WHICH MEANS THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PHYSICAL OR ETERNAL, SPIRITUAL DEATH BECAUSE GOD GIVES US ETERNAL LIFE, THAT LIFE THAT WILL ALWAYS BE WITH HIM. <br> <br>

      WE ALSO, NOW THEN WITHIN THE CONCEPT OF JESUS AS SAVIOR, LEARN THE IDEA THAT JESUS WILL SOMEDAY JUDGE THE WORLD. AND AS WE THINK ABOUT THE ONE WHO IS THE RULER, THE KING AS WE HAVE STUDIED, THIS SAVIOR, THE ONE WHO IS HEAD OF THE CHURCH IN THE KINGDOM, WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THAT THAT ONE IS RESPONSIBLE ALSO FOR JUDGMENT. WE HAVE THE LAW OF CHRIST AND WE ARE JUDGED BY THE WHAT? THE LAW OF CHRIST. CERTAINLY AN EMPEROR, A KING REQUIRES THE CITIZENS TO DO WHAT? TO OBSERVE AND TO FOLLOW LAW. AND THEREFORE THE JUDGMENT BY THAT RULER IS DETERMINED BY THE LAW. AND SO WE SEE THAT ALSO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE THINGS THAT ARE FOUND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. LET'S BEGIN TO INVESTIGATE THAT BY LOOKING AT THE BOOK OF PHILIPPIANS. AND THERE IN THE BOOK OF PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 3 AND VERSE 20, WE SEE THAT WE ARE TO BE THOSE WHO WAIT FOR JESUS IN ORDER THAT WE MIGHT ACCOMPLISH THIS VERY OPPORTUNITY OF GETTING AWAY FROM THE WORLD AND FINDING THAT PROPER CITIZENSHIP. READ VERSE 20 WITH ME THERE IN PHILIPPIANS 3, “FOR OUR CITIZENSHIP IS IN HEAVEN, FROM WHICH WE ALSO EAGERLY WAIT FOR THE SAVIOR, THE LORD JESUS.” WHO IS COMING AGAIN? WHO ARE WAITING FOR? THE SAVIOR. THE SAVIOR, FIRST CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15 VERSE 22 AND 23, WHO SOMEDAY WILL COME BACK AND RECEIVE THE KINGDOM AND DELIVER THAT KINGDOM TO THE FATHER IN HEAVEN. THAT IS THAT SAME JESUS THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. WE CAN GO OVER SEVERAL BOOKS TO THE BOOK OF TITUS, THERE IN TITUS CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 13. AND WE SEE SOMETHING AS WELL VERY FAMILIAR IN RELATIONSHIP TO THIS WHERE WE ARE CHALLENGED BY PAUL AS HE SPEAKS TO TITUS, NOT ONLY BY THE GRACE OF GOD AND WHAT IT MEANS TO LOOK TO GOD OR LOOK TO THE WORLD. BUT THEN IN VERSE 13 HE SAYS, “LOOKING FOR THE BLESSED HOPE AND GLORIOUS APPEARING OF OUR GREAT GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.” WOW! THAT GOD, JESUS, WHO ALSO IS WHAT? CONJUNCTION AND SAVIOR. HE WILL APPEAR. HOW DO WE KNOW THAT? WELL, IT IS TOLD TO US IN THE BOOK OF THESSALONIANS. IT'S TOLD TO US IN THE BOOK OF CORINTHIANS THAT HE WILL COME IN THE CLOUDS AND HE'LL COME WITH HIS MIGHTY ANGELS AND THE TRUMPET OF THE LORD WILL SOUND AND WE WILL ALL BE CHANGED. WE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THESE THINGS EVEN EARLIER THIS MORNING. AND THEN WHEN HE COMES AGAIN WHAT WILL HE DO? HE WILL RECEIVE THAT KINGDOM, WE'VE SAID, AND DELIVER IT TO THE FATHER. YOU SEE, HE IS THE SAVIOR, TO NOT ONLY SAVE US AND GIVE US OPPORTUNITY OF THE PATHWAY AND THE PLAN THROUGH HIS BLOOD THAT WE CAN GET OUT OF SIN, AND THAT WE MIGHT HAVE WHAT? LIFE. THAT WE MIGHT, IN JUDGMENT, RECEIVE, AS HE SAYS HERE, THAT GREAT REWARD. IS THAT NOT ALSO THE CONCEPT THAT WE FIND IN THE BOOK OF CORINTHIANS WHEN PAUL WAS SPEAKING THERE CONCERNING THE JUDGMENT IN SECOND CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 5? AND THEN SPECIFICALLY WHEN WE LOOK TOGETHER AT VERSE 10 HE SAYS, “FOR WE MUST ALL APPEAR BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST, THAT EACH ONE MAY RECEIVE THE THINGS DONE OF THE BODY, ACCORDING TO WHAT IS DONE, WHETHER GOOD OR BAD. YOU SEE, WE MUST ALL APPEAR BEFORE WHO? THAT JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST. WHY? THE SAVIOR. WHY? HE IS THE HEAD. WHY? HE IS GOD. WHY? HE IS THE ONE WHO IS OVER ALL THINGS WHO HAS BEEN SENT BY GOD AS GOD TO FULFILL HIS WILL THAT WE ULTIMATELY MIGHT KNOW HIM IN ALL THINGS. YOU SEE, JESUS AS SAVIOR CANNOT BE UNDERESTIMATED, CANNOT BE UNDER, REALLY, EMPHASIZED BECAUSE WE MUST KNOW HIM AS SAVIOR TO BE ABLE TO FIND SALVATION. <br> <br>

      OUR LAST VERSE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT IS AGAIN FOUND IN THE BOOK OF PETER, BUT SECOND PETER CHAPTER 3 AND THE VERY LAST VERSE OF THAT BOOK. PETER HERE IS TALKING ABOUT, WITHIN THAT CONTEXT, THE GOOD ENCOURAGEMENT OF THEM DOING WHAT GOD NEEDS THEM TO DO BASED ON THE SCRIPTURES, THE WORD OF GOD, THAT HE AND OTHERS LIKE PAUL AND THE EPISTLES HAD BEEN WRITTEN WHICH ARE EMPHASIZED HERE AS ACTUAL SCRIPTURE, THE SCRIPTURE, THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS. AND AFTER HE MENTIONS THAT I WANT YOU TO NOTICE WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT OUR SAVIOR JESUS. HE SAYS THAT YOU AND I, BECAUSE OF THIS BOOK, BECAUSE OF THAT KNOWLEDGE, HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WHAT? GROW IN THE GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD. SEE, WE HAVE AN ABILITY TO GROW IN THINGS TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS GOD WANTS US TO UNDERSTAND. AND ONE OF THOSE THINGS IS OBVIOUSLY WHAT? THAT HE IS THE SAVIOR. BUT IT ALSO ADDS HERE, “BUT GROW IN THE GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.” IT ACTUALLY DECLARES HIM AGAIN AS SAVIOR, FOR HE IS THE ONE WHO DID WHAT? WHO CAME TO THE EARTH, WHO LIVED A LIFE, WHO HAS, ACCORDING TO THE HEBREW WRITER, SUFFERED ALL POINTS AS WE ARE. WAS SPAT ON, MOCKED, RIDICULED, BEEN CRUCIFIED, PUT IN THE GRAVE, AND YET HE DID IT FOR YOU AND FOR ME. HE DID IT TO BE OUR SAVIOR. IN HIS OWN WORDS, TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THE LOST, IS WHY JESUS CAME. HE IS OUR SAVIOR AND HE ROSE ON THE THIRD DAY THAT HE MIGHT GO ABOUT AND PROCLAIM HIMSELF AS SAVIOR AND PROVE HIS POWER ACCORDING TO PROPHECY OVER EVEN DEATH AND THE ELEMENTS OF IT. YOU SEE, THAT'S WHY JESUS IS ABLE TO DO ALL THAT HE HAS DONE AS GOD. HE IS THE CREATOR HIMSELF. HE IS ALL POWERFUL GOD! AND AS GOD, THE SON OF GOD, AS CHRIST, AS SAVIOR, HE GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY, NOT ONLY TO LIVE EVERY DAY IN THIS LIFE AND HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW WHO HE IS AND TO OBEY THAT TRUTH KNOWING THAT IF WE WILL FOLLOW THE SAVIOR HE WILL AND CAN SAVE US, BUT HE GIVES US THE ABILITY TO SHARE THAT WONDROUS TRUTH WITH OTHERS. <br> <br>

      SO ARE YOU LIVING IT? BUT ARE YOU PREACHING? ARE YOU TEACHING IT? ARE YOU HELPING OTHERS TO KNOW THE SAVIOR JESUS SO THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED AND TRULY KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT THEIR GOD WAS WILLING TO DO FOR THEM THAT THEY MIGHT LIVE ETERNALLY WITH HIM IN HEAVEN SOMEDAY. 

CLOSING COMMENTS<br> <br>

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      ISN’T IT WONDERFUL TO HAVE AND TO KNOW A SAVIOR LIKE JESUS. NO ONE ELSE HAS EVERY CARED FOR US OR MADE THE SACRIFICE FOR US THAT HE HAS. THIS BEGS THE QUESTION, “WHY THEN WOULD WE FOLLOW ANYONE BUT CHRIST?” ARE YOU A SERVANT OF CHRIST THIS DAY? IF NOT, OBEY THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST UNTO SALVATION THAT YOU MAY BE SAVED!

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