Christ and Him Crucified - Pastor Brad DeLong

In Acts chapter 3, the apostles are on their way to church. Peter's on his way to pray. And there was a man at the gate, beautiful, who had sat there and had begged every day for 40 years. When I read that statement a moment ago, it hit square in my heart because there's some in the room that we say you don't have to beg God, but you have.

And you've probably begged him every day. I don't know if it's been for 40 years or not, but you've been asking God and sometimes begging him, Lord, please, please, please. I believe that the God of heaven heard that man beg every day. But then there was a day when he no longer had to beg. Even before the sermon was preached and the service started, God touched his life and did a miracle in his life.

There will be a day when you no longer have to ask God for what you've been asking him for. I'm hoping and believing it's today. But even if it's not, there is one coming when you'll get to stand with some believers and say, "Oh yeah, I prayed a lot and it was tough and difficult, but I'm standing today only by the grace of God and because a miracle happened and because of Jesus."

There will be a day when that will be your testimony. I'm believing that today is going to be one of those days that the Lord is moving and working. It's all possible because of what we're going to talk about today. If you're a guest with us this morning, we're so honored and thankful that you would come and that you would join us at Apostolic Pentecostal Church. We are endeavoring to live up to our name around here.

Apostolic means that we follow the beliefs and practice of the apostles. You can read about that especially in the book of Acts. They did some wild stuff. They were a lively bunch. One of our unstated goals is that we don't like want anyone to to fall asleep during our worship set. You all passed. You did good. We just are so thankful for what God has done that we can't contain it.

So we jump and we shout and we run and and we worship and and our service schedule gets all thrown off and we love it because we're worshiping the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords who can do anything at any time in any moment. And the reason we believe that is because it's happened. Anyone ever experienced a miracle? Anybody? Oh yeah. It's happening even now.

We're so thankful that you've joined us, helping us fulfill our mission to connect with God and others. I need to say to our grandparents how much we love and we honor you here at APC church family. Let's let them know how much we love them. This is more than a day on the calendar. We want you to know that the only reason that my generation and the ones that follow get to be here and to experience the glory and power of God is because some faithful generations went ahead of us.

There were some faithful generations who taught us and instilled in us the values of the kingdom. And we are so honored and I love to serve you and I'm so thankful I get to preach the word of the Lord today. Paul talks about the message we're going to talk about today in his letter to the Corinthians. If you don't know it, the Corinthians were a people who were prone to criticize him for his apparent lack of eloquence and oratory, which I think is debatable.

I kind of think Paul talks pretty nice. There's some oratory for you. Talks kind of nice. You know, he has a way with words. But the Corinthians were caught up in a culture of lofty wisdom and debates and speeches. They heard a lot in their day and age. And they're always on the lookout for something new. It's their version of tick- tock. I guess it's to this culture and crowd that he writes in 1 Corinthians chapter 1.

And this is the reason we get to celebrate today. And this is the reason we get to experience everything we just experienced and more. says, "For the message of the cross, it's foolishness to those who are perishing, but but to us who are being saved. It's the power of God." The only reason we get to feel the power of God is because I I believe it's because it was unleashed at Calvary.

He says, "For it's written, I'll destroy the wisdom of the wise. I'll bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent all the wisdom of the tick-tockers and all the wisdom of the people on Mars Hill." He says, "Where is the wise? Where's the scribe? Where's the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the messaged preached, save those who believe.

For Jews request a sign. They don't have a miracle on a Sunday morning. They're not happy. And the Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified. To the Jews, a stumbling block. To the Greeks, it's just foolishness. But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men. The weakness of God is stronger than men.

Your weakness is an opportunity for God. And God's weakness is far greater than our power. He continues in chapter two where he conveys our title for today. He says, "And I, brethren, when I came to you, I didn't come with excellence of speech, of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I was with you in weakness and fear and much trembling, and my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but they resulted in demonstration of the spirit and of power."

power. I just felt the Lord encourage me that this message is going to be bookended by demonstration and power. We're already feeling it today. But a hallmark of the message of the cross is that it usually results in demonstration of power. This morning, I plan to stand with Paul and preach a straightforward but powerful and generational message. one that if we could just get it deep in our hearts, it can and will change us like it's changed the world ever since it was first preached.

I want to preach to you today Christ and him crucified. You feel the weight of that settling in right now. It's a different day, a different generation and time, but that message is no less effectual and powerful. I know that we're moving into a different part of this service, but I encourage you, do not lay aside your faith and do not lay aside your expectation because I believe the Lord is already visiting us and will continue to do so.

Would you pray with me right now that this message would get deep in your heart and in your spirit? that it would change something. And you lift your hands and voices right now. Oh God, we stand with those apostles of old, those people in that day and age, those people that stood at the gate beautiful and in Solomon's colonade and and who experience the glory of God and the miracle working power.

We stand with them today and and we hear and proclaim the same message, the one that's changed lives all across this room, all across this city and state and country and globe. And we thank you, Lord, for the opportunity we have to hear it again today. We love you and praise you. Jesus name. Amen. You can be seated. Told the church recently that every night at bedtime, the two oldest kids in our house get to ask one question, as off-the-wall and random as that question might be.

That question usually results in about 10 more questions, but we got to aim for something. So, I tell them they get one knowing it's probably going to be five or six. And Mila is our our deep thinker. And without hesitation the other night, she asked me the most loaded of all questions when she asked Daddy, "What is Jesus? What is he?" It was one of those questions you just take a deep breath before answering.

You step back and you shake yourself away. Man, okay. Here we go. All right. And I could have stood there all night giving her the many, many answers to that question. And I thought about singing her the words to an old song. It goes like this. Let me tell you who Jesus is. He's the rock of all ages. He's the alpha and the omega. I'm out of key.

It's all right. Yeah. I need sister Christy. She keeps me. Yeah. He's the heavenly father. He's the beginning and the end. Much more than Some of you help me with my timing. Thank you so much. Yeah. He's the son of man and we know he's coming back again is what the song said. The truth is the entire world has been attempting to answer this question in one form or another and it can get as deep and intellectual as any other subject and even more so.

But considering the time that I had that night and considering who my audience was, a six-year-old and a four-year-old, I I just started with the basics. I told them Jesus is God Almighty. Jesus is God himself who came and was manifested in the flesh. 1 Timothy 3. And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

This is indisputable. We believe that Jesus exists. Hallelujah. We believe that Jesus is God. We still believe today that he's the one and only God who was born of a woman and walked the earth as a fullyfledged human being. A human being who was tempted and tried in every way that we are. And yet without a single sin. He's the very alpha and the omega. He's the beginning and the end.

Who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. He's the one John spoke of when he said, "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God." In verse 14, "And we beheld his glory." The glory is of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth. We believe what the Bible says that Jesus was fully man and fully God.

He was a man who himself had to grow and develop like every other man. And the Bible tells us he grew in wisdom and stature and favor with God and with men. He likely experienced all the same growing pains and voice changes and coming of age moments that all men and young men face. He fought through all the ails of humanity that persons of his day faced.

He had a frame and a flesh like ours. And yet he accomplished the work of the kingdom like no one else did or could. Just a couple years ago, I preached that Jesus knows about stubbed toes. The man wore sandals most likely. He knew about stubs. He had experienced all the things we He was tried and tempted like we were. Hebrews chapter 2 says, "Therefore, in all things, he had to be made like his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

For in that he himself has suffered. Being tempted, he's able to aid those who are being tempted and tried. So Jesus, maybe he didn't go through exactly what you've been through, but he suffered. And he knows how to walk with you. It means that Jesus was fully man like the rest of us. He knew the pain and the heartache and the grief of humanity. He he knew the plight of of humanity and faced the same hunger pains and headaches and beastings that we all face.

He subjected himself to all of these things and more and even subordinated himself to the very people he created. People like his earthly mother and father, people like the Roman centurions and the local government. Even people like the ones who eventually took his life when he willingly laid it down before them. Even Jesus was obedient to his mama and to his dad and to those to whom he subjected himself.

He was fully man. Brother Merl Ewing used to sing it like this that he became just like me so I could become like him. He faced all the same things humanity faced and even more so while being fully God at the same time. This is what Paul calls the the mystery of godliness in Colossians 2. For in him, in this human being, this man born in Bethlehem of all places, in this Nazarene, dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

And you are complete in him who is the head of all principality and power. What is Jesus, Dad? Jesus is fully man and fully God. He's the one and only God, the only almighty God, the only wise God, the author and the finisher of our faith, the creator of the cosmos and of life itself. He is fully God, but also the one who came and died and bled on our behalf.

He's the one of whom Isaiah prophesied when he said, "For unto us a child is born. Unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulders, and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting father, the prince of peace." This is what Jesus is. Mila quotes that scripture, Isaiah 9 and6 most days on her way to school. It's one of the scriptures that children's ministry has given them to memorize.

And she helps answer her own question. What is Jesus? He is God who at various times and in various ways spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets. Hebrews says, "But he's in these last days spoken to us by his son, whom he's appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds, who being the brightness of God's glory, the expect the express image of his person or his being, and upholding all things by the word of his power.

When he had himself purged our sins, he sat down at the right hand of majesty on on high, having become so much better than the angels and and has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. He is God Almighty. He's the express image of the being and the greatness and the brilliance of God, the firstborn of all creation, and yet at the same time also our savior and the one who purged us of our sins.

Me and I talked about this the other night. We didn't go as deep as we are today. We didn't have the time. She needed to go to bed. I need to go to bed. But once we talked about the Lord being fully man and fully God, Mila said, "And and he's our savior. Yes. Yes, he is. He's our redeemer. He's the one who paid our debt. He's the one who paid our ransom."

First John 2, "My little children, these things I write to you so you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And he himself is the propitiation. He's the sacrifice for our sins and not only for ours but also for the whole world. Later John said, "And we have seen and testify that the father has sent the son as savior of the world.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever would believe in him would not perish but would have everlasting life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but that the entire world through him might be saved. Jesus Christ is our savior. He's our savior and our redeemer. And he's here today. Later we're told and we'll discuss in scripture that the Lord came himself.

So we understand that John is not talking about two different beings or or persons or divinities, but he's talking about the son who was begotten of God and born of a woman who came himself. The son of God who would call himself the I am meaning that he's the same one who visited and appeared to Moses in the Old Testament. He would also say I am the way, the truth, and the life.

No one comes to the father except through me. He would later say I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live. At least seven times he would use the I am language. In addition to saying that if you've seen me, you've seen the father. I and my father are one. This one God was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

The book of Acts tells us in Acts 4, "This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone. Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Jesus Christ is the savior and the redeemer of the world and of humanity. There's no other savior. There's no other redeemer.

There's no other name that can parallel his name. But if you call on that name, you'll find that there is no other name under heaven given among men that can do what the name of Jesus can and will do in your life. Second Corinthians 5, now all things are of God. He's reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ. He's given to us the ministry of reconciliation. That is that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself.

He wasn't putting our trespasses on us, but he's committed to us the word of reconciliation this morning. Hear me. It does not get old to us that Jesus has saved us and he's reconciled us to himself. It should not become mundane to us ever that he who knew no sin became sin that we might become the righteousness of God through him. It does not, it should not become lost on us and old to us that through one man, Adam, sin entered into the world.

But even so, through one man's righteous act, one man's righteous act, there was a free gift that came to all men, resulting in justification of life. This is the Christ we're talking about today. This is the Jesus that we're celebrating today. This is the Messiah I proclaim to you today. And we ought to get excited and overjoyed just talking about Jesus, just preaching Christ alone, just hearing the good news that Jesus is real, that Jesus exists, that Jesus came and he died for us.

This is the foundation and the message for everything. Everything else is built on this. We ought to get a little enthusiastic when we sing about him. When we hear about the nature and the goodness and the power and the glory and the sacrifice of our God who came as a man and died for our sins, this is the power of God under salvation to all who believe in him.

This is the message about what Jesus is. Me and I continued that night as I hurry. We talked about Christ being the Messiah, the anointed one. Talked about his other attributes. He's a provider. He's a protector. He's a healer. It occurs to me now that if she was trying to stall and not have to go to sleep, she picked the perfect question. She knows I'm going to get dad talking and this is the way to do it.

I'm just ask him what Jesus is. You know, not who, but what you just can't exhaust the subject. I wonder if Paul settled. I I want to know only Christ and him crucified. This was an 18mon sermon series. Just that alone. We got through a couple of his character traits and his exploits. Provider and protector, savior, healer. And Mila capped it off by saying, "And and daddy, he's a he's a miracleer.

I didn't skip a beat. Yes, he is. He's a miracle." If you don't know what that is, you can look it up in the D Long Family dictionary. It's got a simple definition. One who actively performs miracle. Not just in Acts three, not just a generation ago, not a thousand. One who actively right here and now performs. He is a miracle worker in 2025. One who performs miracles now, who did it then, and who will perform miracles until the end of the age.

Still another definition has just a name written next to it. It's a name that's high and loftly. It's a It's a name that's above every other name. It's a name that when it's mentioned, it will cause every knee to bow and every tongue to confess that he is Lord. That name is Jesus the miracle. And I wonder right now, you were just doing that. If you've ever experienced a miracle by the power of God, would you just begin to worship that name and exalt that name right now?

If you've ever had the Lord visit you or if you've ever felt his presence a single time, you ought to express your praise to him as a testimony of the goodness and the miracle working power of God. Oh, we praise the miracle. We praise the miracle worker. We praise the God of all mira who can do anything. We worship you Jesus. We worship you. Mila settled on that definition of miraculer because she's seen it in action.

She's come to me multiple times. She said, "Daddy, Jesus gave me a miracle." Most times she's talking about her little sister. She prayed that she'd have a little sister and here came Miss Selena and she calls that her miracle, but she also has heard about the miracles that have happened around APC of late. And in the last several years, we've told her about the miracles that have happened here.

We've got three or 4 hundred recorded miracles and answers to prayer. And I I got to convey to her and tell her about times like here recently. I'd experienced pain in my body for a week and a half straight. I didn't know what was going on. I just had abdominal pain. I started doing all the things I knew to do. I I was uh eating clean. I was taking medicines.

I was trying things that I I thought, man, I'm going to have to go and get this checked out. I don't know what's happening. And and I I I'm doing everything I know to do. And it was a Friday morning. I sat with the Lord and I was heading off to to preach that weekend. And I just said, "Lord, I don't know what else to do. I'm just asking that you would touch me, that you would help me."

And I felt the Lord speak to me that moment and said, "Don't worry. I'll take care of it." That was about three weeks ago. I haven't felt that pain ever since. I'm tell you cannot convince me that Jesus doesn't do miracles, that he's not the miracle. I'm just preaching Christ and him crucified today. This God can step into your life at any moment, at any time, and perform a work and a miracle.

We're going to test that right now. Would you stand right now on across this place, we're just going to see what happens. All right? Because we're taking the word of God at face value. Paul said there would be demonstration and power that follows the preaching and proclaiming of Christ. If you need a miracle in your life or body, would you just be honest right now and lift your hand?

You need a miracle and you've prayed and maybe you've been at like that that gate. Beautiful. You've been begging God. You've been asking God if you need a miracle. I'm going to ask the church right now to go and pray. This isn't a commercial break. This is us just following the word of God. Someone nearby you has their hand up. Would you just step out? And it doesn't have to be some ornate prayer.

It doesn't have to be lofty. You can just lay your hand on them and speak the name of Jesus. We're just following what the Lord says to do. Lord, your word tells us that we should lay hands on the sick and we can see them recover. That we should call for believers and elders to lay hands and we're going to pray and we're going to believe that you are able.

So right now in the name of Jesus, we're believing for a miracle. We pray Lord, you don't have to do it, but that you would just prove your word all over again right now. Oh Jesus, you hear these lifted voices of faith. You hear the army of faith right now. The believers of God who believe in your word and are standing on your word. We trust in you right now, Lord, for your touch.

We trust in you for healing. We trust in you for provision. We trust in you for family situations. We just saying that a miracle can happen without the music, oh God, without the accompaniment. We act on faith. We stand on the word. We trust in your word and in your power. You are able to do a miracle. Oh God. of you just lift your hands right now and just wait on the Lord.

Linger in his presence and God may in this moment call you to do something. Again, we're just trying to be apostolic. Follow the direction, the voice of the Lord. He can do whatever he wants. He can interrupt any sermon he wants. Would you just lift your voices right now and call on the name of the Lord? There are miracles that are needed in this place and in lives.

Oh, there's strength that's needed. Oh God, you hear us, Lord. You see, every ounce of faith that's in this room right now. H we're just trying to follow you and follow your word and your spirit. We know that you can do anything. You can do anything, oh God. We trust in you, Lord, for your power. We trust in you, Lord, for your healing and strength, oh God.

Jesus name. Jesus name. You can remain standing musicians. You can come. If it's difficult to believe that God can do any thing and any miracle, I want you to consider the fact that a fullyfledged man again who had every pain and difficulty we did and he came to this earth for likely 30 plus years endured first century life. No air conditioning, no microwaves, nothing. And he didn't just come, but he was crucified and allowed himself to be crucified.

I know that God can do anything because he willingly subjected himself to the worst. for us. If this ever gets lost on us, this miracle, I encourage you to go and read one of my favorite passages of scripture in Philippians, the hymn of Christ. You've heard me say it before. says, "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but he made himself of no reputation."

What kind of man can do that? It's not really disputed that Jesus was real, that he was a historical figure, that he was alive. It's typically disputed whether or not he was God. And many many believe that he was actually crucified. That miracle doesn't get your attention. Hardly anything would. Who being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God. But he made himself of no reputation.

took on the form of a servant, came in the likeness of men, and being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. That that phrase right there has been working me over all week. We just kind of gloss over it, but Paul put it in there on purpose. He wanted the hearers to know he didn't just subject himself to his own subordinate death.

And he didn't just subject himself to the people that he knit together and he breathed the breath of life into their lungs. The ones that slapped him across the face and the ones who forced crown of thorns on his head and the ones who pierced his side. He didn't just do that. He became obedient to death. Even the death of the cross. He chose that death. You realize God could have come at any time in any place under any occupation and he chose the Romans.

some of the most proficient people in torture and death. Romans considered that only the worst of the worst and even slaves themselves should die a death on the cross. Jesus chose that. Some view this is foolishness to the Greeks who heard it all. Someone dying on a cross should affect me. To the Jews, it was a stumbling block. They you viewed that as the opposite of power.

They viewed that as the lowest. It was a shame to be hung on a tree. Jesus chose that. But to those of us who know Jesus, it's everything. It's everything. It's not some outdated, mundane message. It's not foolishness. Some grandparents in the room that are only here because of Christ and him crucified. Some elders only here because of Christ and him. All of us only here because of Christ and him crucified.

Same message, same power. It's not foolishness to us. It's everything. And it can and will change everything. If you're here for the first time today, if you will allow this message to get into your heart and you'll open your life to the Lord, you'll find yourself stirred to respond like they did in Acts 2. Their response was simple. They repented of their sins. They turned from darkness towards the Lord.

They asked for God's forgiveness. He was faithful and just. He forgave them other sins. They were baptized in Jesus name. If you're considering getting baptized, today's the day you ought to be baptized in the name of Jesus. Old things will pass away. All things become new. Why? Because someone decided to do a miracle one day and die one of the worst forms of death for you. And you can be filled with the gift of the spirit of God with the evidence of speaking with other tongues just like they did in Acts two and Acts three and Acts eight and nine.

You can have the same experience today. We believe that you should. Right, church? Anyone ever had that experience and can attest that it'll change your life? Christ and him crucified can and will change everything. Everything. But let me encourage a saint as well. It doesn't just change the ones who are first time hearing it. It ought to continue to transform us because of what he did on that cross.

We still have an answer to every sorrow, every sin, every struggle, every pain, every heartache, every form of grief, every unanswered. But we still have hope today. This is the only reason that we have it. is because of Christ and him crucified. So maybe this is the hundth time you're hearing the message. My prayer is that it gets deep into your spirit and that you hear the words of Paul when he reminds us Jesus subjected him.

No one forced him to do it. This wasn't just a demigod being sent by his father. And I don't say that to diminish any form of belief. This was the one true God who came himself. This is why this one, this message is so powerful and it matters and it's true. He didn't send a subservient son. He came himself and he died so that on a Sunday morning you could be transformed more and more into his image so you could have hope despite your circumstance telling you otherwise.

You could walk out of a doctor's office with a doomed diagnosis and say, "Thank you, Jesus. You're still good and you're still wonderful and you're still the cross, Christ and him crucified is the only reason we get to be here today. It's the only reason we have health. It's the only reason we have hope today. He's the miracleer and he's in the room right now. Brother Ben reminded me, I told him it's a simple message.

It's the one we've heard and he said it before I could. He said yes, but it's the most powerful. It's the most powerful. And what I'm believing is what Paul said in 2 Corinthians 2. I determined only to know Christ and him crucified. I didn't come with persuasive words, but in demonstration and power. And in a moment when I open this altar, if you if this is your first time here and you want to come and pray and seek the Lord because of the cross and you repent, you can come and ask God for forgiveness and he will forgive you when you ask him.

And you can have your sins washed away and you can receive the gift of the spirit of God. We believe that can happen. Your life can be changed today because of the cross. But also, we believe a saint of God can get this faith in them again like you've had and you can experience that demonstration and power again. If you need a change in any way, if you need a miracle again, we're just pressing on and we're going to pray again and we're going to believe God.

If you need a change in your life, that's just the way I'll characterize it. I'm going to open this altar right now for you to come and express your faith. If you need a change in your family situation, if you need a change in your heart, you need a change in your mind, if you need a change in your body, would you just begin to come right now?

If you've got the faith that God can do a miracle, that God can touch you because of the cross. I wonder if there's someone that has faith that something can change in their life, that that a miracle can happen in their life. Would you come right now and remember the cross and remember the shed blood of Christ in the darkness? Anything is possible because of the cross.

Anything is possible, God. Oh Jesus, we call on you Lord and we thank you for your sacrifice and we thank you for what you've done promise keep in the darkness. Oh, if you believe that Jesus died on that cross and you believe that he did that for you, would you seek him right now? And even if your only response is praise and worship, that's appropriate. You didn't come forward needing a change, but you want to come and believe for someone who does or you want to come and worship the Lord.

You're welcome to do that wherever you are right now. Miracle work, promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God, that is who you are. You are here moving in our midst. I worship you. You are here working in this place. I worship you. Way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God, that is who you are. Way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness.

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You never stop. You never stop working. You never stop. You never stop working. Even when I don't see it, you're working. Even when I don't feel it, you're working. You never stop. You never stop working. You never stop. You never stop. Even when I don't see it, you're working. Even when I don't hear it, you're working. You never stop. You never stop working. You never stop. You never stop working.

Way maker, miracle work, promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God, that is who you are. Yesterday, today, forever. Way maker, miracle worker, the promise keeper, and light in the darkness. My God, that is who you are. Yes, you are. Way maker, miracle worker, my promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God, that is who you are. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. I believe this is that demonstration that the Lord that Paul the Lord had promised and that Paul spoke about.

There's no other message that can produce what the message of cross the cross of Christ crucified can do. Some of you, some of us have probably seen a couple dozen YouTube videos about any number of topics. They don't often produce this. There's nothing like the word of truth. There's nothing like the message of the cross. It stands alone. And we see the result of that today as the spirit of God begin to move and work throughout this congregation.

He will prove his word.