A Temporary Tomb - Matthew 27:57-28:15 - April 5, 2026

But friends, let me tell you the only way to the father, the only way to heaven, the only way to eternal life, the only way to peace, the only way to hope is through Jesus Christ. Nothing or no one will ever get you there but the person of Jesus Christ. If you wanna see the father, you have to know Jesus Christ. Islam won't get you there. Hinduism won't get you there. Judaism won't get you there. Buddhism won't get you there. Meditating won't get you there. Drugs won't get you there. Alcohol won't get you there. Nothing will get you where you need to be except Jesus Christ. [01:06:59] (38 seconds)  #JesusOnlyWay

The belief of the resurrection of Jesus Christ is integral to you having a relationship with Jesus Christ. Because if you don't believe in the resurrection then you don't believe in Jesus Christ. If you don't believe in the resurrection then you don't believe in Jesus Christ because if he was wrong about the resurrection then you can't believe anything he said. You can't believe anything he said if he was wrong about the resurrection because he's not trustworthy. But he was right about the resurrection. He said he would die and three days later he would be raised again and that is exactly what happened. [01:12:15] (35 seconds)  #BelieveTheResurrection

There is no chance whatsoever that one of those 10 would not have recanted if it had been a lie. You don't die to protect a lie. There's no way that you watch your wife be assaulted and murdered before you knowing that it's coming for you and and not say, hey, time out. We were lying about this. No way. Because that's what happened to Peter. He watched his wife be murdered, and then he was he was crucified himself upside down. There's no way you go through that if you don't believe what you're saying. [00:56:59] (36 seconds)  #MartyrTestimony

And some of you might be sitting here today and you have people fooled all around you, but my friends you cannot fool God. You cannot fool God. He knows your heart because he created you. He's calling you to himself. He's calling you to surrender your life, and let me tell you what that means. That means you get to trade all the junk in your life, your sin, your unrighteousness, all the stuff. You get to give it to Jesus, and because of what he's done on the cross, it says that we become the righteousness of Christ. That is the best trade you will ever make in your life, and it will it will benefit you for eternity. [01:17:03] (49 seconds)  #SurrenderToJesus

So the question comes down to this. Will you come to him? He's calling. He's calling you to himself. He wants you to come to him. Will you come to him? Will you surrender your life? Will you accept the free gift of salvation and forgiveness and eternal life that he wants to give you? The decision, my friends, is yours. No one can make that for you. No one can make that for you, but he's calling. He wants to give you that gift. Will you accept it? Would you stand with me as we pray and as the praise team comes? [01:17:53] (41 seconds)  #ChooseSalvation

And if that was all there is, the wages of sin is death. We're all in trouble. We're all doomed. But praise be to God that is not the end because the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Now you earn and wage, you don't earn a gift. You can't do anything to earn the gift. It is freely given, and it was freely given on the cross two thousand years ago so that you could be reconciled to God, and you could be adopted in to his family. [01:11:21] (34 seconds)  #GraceNotWorks

But there's hope in that because we can repent, we can turn, and he can strengthen us to live the life that he's called us to live. Condemnation does not come from god because condemnation is an end. Condemnation is hopeless, and that is not what we have in Christ because Jesus is the only way to salvation. I don't care what anybody says. I don't care what any other book, any other religious text says. My Bible says that Jesus is the only way. In John fourteen six says, Jesus said, I am the way and the truth and the life, and no one comes to the father except through me. [01:05:34] (38 seconds)  #ConvictionNotCondemnation

He is calling to us to come to him. Like, you don't have to clean yourself up. You don't have to do all this stuff. He just says, come to me, and I will give you rest. That's what he is calling us to. Because friends, let me tell you, there's nothing you can do in this world to make yourself good enough. There's nothing you can do in this world to make yourself good enough because Romans three twenty three tells us, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. [01:09:10] (32 seconds)  #ComeAsYouAre