Lie #5: Jesus Escaped The Crucifixion Part 2

Reason for us. Jesus longer conspiracy theories. People talking all kinds of wild schemes on the Internet with their blogs and readers by one theory is that Jesus did not die on the cross, he merely swoon waking up in the tomb. This is another blog about Jesus alive the handles on today's program stay with us from the Moody Church in Chicago this is running to win with Dr. Erwin looser whose clear teaching helps us make it across the finish line. Master looser in this lie about Jesus be safely put to rest day that absolutely it can be safely put to rest, but I need to emphasize that it is okay for people to have doubts so matter-of-fact, John the Baptist sitting in prison wondered whether or not Jesus was indeed the real Messiah.

The question is whether or not our doubts or honest doubts or dishonest doubts I've written a book to help people to overcome their doubts by showing that the historical and the rational evidence for Jesus being the Christ is really compelling. The name of the book is slandering Jesus six lies. People tell about the man who claimed to be God. I wrote it for Christians to strengthen their faith to give them insight into today's culture. I also wrote it for seekers that they might know that Jesus is someone who cannot be ignored slandering Jesus for a gift of any amount. This book can be yours. Here's what you do you go to RTW offer.com that's RTW offer.com or you can call us at 1-888-218-9337 it's 1-888-218-9337 and that we go to the pulpit of Moody church to find out why the idea that Jesus was not crucified that that lie can indeed be laid to rest. The cross reveals a number of attributes of God that could not be shown in any other way. The cross in fact is the center of God's program.

The Bible says in the book of Revelation. He is the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world God created in order that he might redeem. This is the apex of God's plan of redemption and the glory and the beauty of all that is going to do for us and what he will also do for himself. That's why Paul will eventually say God forbid that I should glory except except in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ well what are the attributes.

First of all, at the cross we see the love of God.

I don't see the love of God when I look at nature, although sometimes I do when it's calm and it's beautiful but when I look at a tsunami. When I look at the devastation of tornadoes.

When I see famines and African people starving. I do not see the love of God in nature. Sorry. And if somebody asks me how do you know that God loves the world, I don't point to world events, but I do point to the cross for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. God says what I'm going to do is I'm going to redeem for myself a group of people and that group of people is going to be redeemed by a sacrifice that I myself will make and the son of God is going to make a sacrifice that will be gladly received by the father so that redemption is holy of God, and there we see love the Son of Man did not come to be ministered unto the Bible says, but to minister to give his life a ransom for many. Here is love, not that we loved God but that God loved us and gave his son as a sacrifice for our sin here uncontested is the love of God, I might say in parenthesis that there's also a difference in Islam and Christianity regarding an understanding of sin. For example, Muslim teaching you do commit sins but is not because you're a sinner.

There is a denial thereof of Original Sin and you have to pay for your own sentence. In fact, some commentators say that God forgives only the little sins. And you have to pay for the big ones that you commit Christianity comes along and says that God so loved us that he send Jesus the perfect sacrifice to pay for all of our sins so that eternally we need to bear.

None of them herein is love, but God loved us now follow carefully at the cross.

There was a clash. There was a clash between two of God's attributes, the love of God wanted to save people. But the in flexible holiness of God, and justice of God prevented God from saving anyone until the justice of God and the righteousness of God until all of those demands were met the love of God could not be exercised to the people that God intended to redeem and so there was this there was this dissidence love of God says I want to save them the justice of God and that attribute said I cannot save them until justices met love cannot be extended and it is there with a great and wonderful resolution took place. Take your Bibles and turn to Romans chapter 3 for a moment.

Another passage that deserves an entire message I was reading it yesterday and thinking to myself how can I ask people to turn to Romans three and deal with this passage so hurriedly, but we shall and there have been times when I preached on it alone it says in Romans chapter 3 verse 23 for all sinned and fall short of the glory of God was riding on a plane yesterday, sitting next to the woman who I asked her if God were to say to you, why should I let you into heaven, what would you say and she gave me the stock answer that.

Indeed she's a good woman and is trying to change the world for the better. I believe that she is. The Bible says that all of sin. I drew a little diagram like always to hear humanity here the criminals and we get better and better and better and then I put you up there highest of human beings. The best of human beings and we all come short of the glory of God. But then it says and are justified by his grace as a gift. There is the love and the grace of God through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith and why did God do it. This was to show God's righteousness, the cross was for us to redeem us. The cross was for God to absolve him of the charge of injustice, namely forgiving people without their sins being paid for whom God put forward as a propitiation.

This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Give me a moment of your time. As I explain the passage, the Old Testament, here's David. He's having fellowship with God. Just read the song he's being forgiven by God.

Abraham is being forgiven by God, walking with God. There is no atonement for their sins made the blood of bulls and of goats and animals wouldn't do it.

That was only symbolic, and so the charge might be made. You know what God does. God fellowships with sinners, even though there's no payment made for their sin. So the Old Testament God's is all right what I'm going to do is I will put their sin on credit, so to speak.

I'm going to set it aside until Jesus comes.

And then when Jesus comes and dies on the cross, Jesus will make a payment for the sins of the Old Testament and for those who will believe in the New Testament and my righteous demands will be fully and come lately mapped and as a result, I can be totally inflexibly just, and yet the justifier of those who believe in Jesus crosses for us, for God loved the world, and Jesus comes to die for us. The cross is for us, but the cross is also to absolve God of the charge of injustice and God's holiness and his love will resolve there at the cross God's is now the justice is taken care of. Love can be extended and we can say to people today. Whosoever will make, let them freely take of the water of life, and that is the beauty of the gospel. The cross we see the love of God we see the justice of God. We also see the power of God he raised Jesus from the dead. He raised Jesus from the dead and the Bible says that the same power works now in us who believe if you've trusted Christ as your Savior. You had a resurrection in your heart, whether you realize it or not, because we are dead in trespasses and sins as we are dead in trespasses and sins and God comes along to the spiritual graveyard and causes a resurrection.

It says in Ephesians 2 that while we were still dead. God raised us up. You're a believer here today you are a walking miracle because the same okay the same creative power of God that took a dead body and made all those disintegrating molecules brought them back to life, and gave Jesus a glorious and wonderful body those very same powers that God used resurrects us spiritually so that when you believe in Jesus you have a new nature that was created within you by God. There is something within you that was not there before you were converted, God creates a new nature, new desires, new aptitudes, a love for God. All of that is created within us and when we die, and these bodies disintegrate, we will eventually be raised and we shall be like him, like Jesus, for we shall see him as he is the reason that the cross was horrible. My friends is because God says your sin is horrible but out of that crucible of suffering. I bring glory and I bring redemption in my justice is displayed for all the world to see in Muslim teaching, Jesus will return back to earth. He will fight against antichrist and he will win. Everyone will be converted to the Muslim faith in Muslim law will be fulfilled and imposed, he will destroy all crosses and after a period of time after a period of time. Jesus will die a natural death and be buried beside Mohammed. I mention that because I want to contrast that with the vision of Jesus Christ given in the New Testament it says in Ephesians 2 that he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore, God hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Lord to the glory of God the father, every created tongue and every knee will bow every one all the religious leaders of the world will all have to bow before the risen triumphant glorious Lord Christ Christian no will bow and admit that Jesus is Lord and he will do it to the glory of God the father, Mohammed will bow and admit that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the father.

Buddha will bow and give thanks and acknowledge that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the father. The hollow law of the Baha'i faith will bow and admit that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the father and that Jesus shall reign throughout all eternity as King of Kings, Lord of lords. God of all God's, and beside him there is none other. If Peter had convinced Christ to cancel Good Friday and to do away with resurrection Sunday.

Peter didn't understand that entailed in that decision would've been his own eternal lostness because he himself would then not have been redeemed, it was necessary that Christ died, it was necessary that he be buried. It was necessary that he be raised again as a triumph over death and it is there that we see in blazing beauty, but wonder of God's love the wonder of God's justice and the power of Almighty God. That's why Paul says in first Corinthians. He says the preaching of the cross to those who are perishing is foolishness and isn't it that God's redemptive purpose should be all coming down to a Jew being crucified on a Roman cross and being raised again that that should be the means of redemption. What an insult to our pride and so the preaching of the cross to those who are perishing is foolishness, but to us which are saved it is the power of God, and it is the wisdom of God. All that wrapped up in the cross of Jesus. God forbid that I should glory except in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is crucified on to me and I to the world the cross we see God at his best, the God of triumph and the death of Jesus is going to be such a wonder as we understand it better throughout all of eternity and we will be reminded of it because of the nail prints in his hands and John says in Revelation, I saw a Lamb as though it had been slain, standing before the throne. Jesus will always have the marks of his death, even as we celebrate and worship in on interrupted triumph many years ago in Africa, there was a fire in a hut and there was everyone in the family died except a boy, a stranger actually ran into the burning house and snatch this little boy in God amount but everybody else died. So the next day there was a discussion among the tribe as to who should get the child and it's not because they found it difficult to find someone. Everybody wanted him because they believe that he was a special child, having been rescued from the fire. One man said well I think he should come with me because I'm a wise man. Another man said, I think you should come with me because I'm a prosperous man and so the discussion was happening there and into the circle came someone who said that he had prior claim to the child because he showed them the freshly burned hands that he experienced when he rescued that child and they all agreed that despite who else might want the child.

This man had prior claim. The other gods were strong, but that was too weak. They rode but thou didst stumble to thy throne, but to our wounds. Only God's wounds can speak and not have God has wounds, but thou alone.

Let us glory in the cross let us take the cross to the city of Chicago.

Let us explain to men and women that there is every Diemer there is someone who is able to reach down and forgive us and bring us into God's presence. Are you happy today and do you rejoice in the cross of Jesus.

Let us pray father.

Today we pray that by the blessed Holy Spirit who is able to show us the truth that you might help us to see in a new way. The cross, I pray, particularly for those who did not clap at the end of the service because maybe they still do not understand the cross.

Maybe they disdain the cross. Maybe the they still don't see its significance would you overcome that father and even as you overcame Peter's blindness show them the wonder and the glory and the beauty that Jesus actually died for sinners and now before I close this prayer you talk to God you talk to God. Would you and if you are talking to God for yourself, talk to God on behalf of someone else who needs to know the beauty of God's forgiveness and reconciling power father, thank you that in the weakness of Jesus on the cross we see your power, your glory and we worship you and we love you. May those who have never trusted Christ as Savior, do so right now even during this prayer, whether listening on the Internet radio CD or write here today. Save those who need to be saved.

Pray in Jesus name Amen amen what my friend, you don't have to listen to running to win the very long before you realize that it is all about Jesus. We talk about many other subjects.

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