If you have your Bibles tonight, we're turning to the book of Mark, chapter 15. The book of Mark, chapter 15. We want to look tonight in the 22nd verse as we continue our study of treasures in the book of Mark. Mark 15, verse 22. And they bring him unto the place Golgotha. which is being interpreted the place of a skull. And from this verse and verses following, I wanna preach on this thought, Golgotha. When we think about Jesus, we think about two prominent places that come to my mind very quickly. The first of which is Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. Bethlehem simply means the house of bread, and it is a symbol of life. And then what comes to mind is Calvary, or as the Bible has here in the book of Mark and Matthew and also in John, Golgotha. And Golgotha is the place of the skull. It is a symbol of death. As I said, Golgotha is mentioned three times in scripture, and the fourth place, Luke mentions it as Calvary. It's the Latin term for the Greek word Golgotha, and it's the word Calvaria. and it absolutely means the same thing as the skull. Number one tonight when we look at our text, these will all start with the letter R, I want us to recognize the crucifixion site. Our Savior has been arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane. He was brought to stand before the Jewish leaders in three illegal trials. They finally condemned him and for blasphemy, and they tried to send him over to Pilate. And when he got to Pilate, Pilate tried to release him and said, I find no fault with him. You have a law. Try him according to your law. Said, we've already done that. We can't sentence him to death, so we brought him to you to sentence him to death. He said he's the son of God and all these things. And so Pilate tried to send him to Herod. Pilate tried to withhold judgment. a prisoner, a robber, a seditionist by the name of Barabbas. And he said, you have a custom. He said, I'll release to you Barabbas, a man guilty of murder and sedition, or I could release to you this man, Jesus. Whom will ye? And the crowd chanted and said, give us Barabbas. And when they did that, they chose a criminal rather than Christ. They chose a seditionist rather than the savior. They chose a murderer rather than the master. Isn't that just the way of the world? Pilate said, what shall I do then with he that is called Christ? And they said, him, let him be crucified. Pilate sentenced Jesus to scourging. They beat him and they beat him and they beat him. And so much blood was shed and so many beatings that his flesh hung like ribbons. and you could see his internal organs, backbone, and other bones in his body, but still that did not satisfy the people. He must be crucified. According to this very chapter, the Bible says that they, after the meeting, took Jesus and clothed him with a purple robe, and they plaited a crowd of thorns, three to five inch long thorns, and put it around his head, and they began to get down and worship him and say, He was the king of the Jews, and they took a reed, which is for a scepter, and they smote him on the head, probably many more times than just once, and they continued to mock him, and finally they stripped him again of his purple robe, and they put his own clothes back upon him, laid upon him the cross, headed him out of Gethsemane into Gabbatha, and now he's headed down the road out of the city of Jerusalem to a hillside called Golgotha, where they would crucify criminals. As they were on their way, they saw Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. He's not a Jew. They said, hey you, they laid hold upon him. Help carry his cross. It wasn't that Jesus came out from underneath the cross, we looked at this last week, but that Simon joined up beside him carrying the cross. May I say I'm glad I've got a savior that helps me carry my cross even tonight, amen? And Simon the Cyrenian helped carry that cross all the way up to Golgotha. And when they got there, the Bible says very closely, the Bible says in verse 22, and they bring him unto the place called, the place Golgotha, which being interpreted, the place of the skull. Real quick, let's run a reference here. The book of Isaiah chapter 53. The book of Isaiah chapter 53, what a great prophetical chapter about our Lord. Isaiah 53, verse number seven, we just said that the soldiers, they bring him to Golgotha. Isaiah 53, seven, he was oppressed and he was afflicted Yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought, did you see that? He is brought, they brought him. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. They brought him, that was prophesied. They would bring him to Golgotha. And certainly here they are bringing him to Golgotha. The place, the Bible says the place Golgotha. Everybody knew about this place. It was a place well known just outside the city. It was outside the gate of the city. The Bible talks about that in the book of Hebrews, chapter 13, about how he would be without the city, without the gates, without the camp. And there he was. To be without, to be outside means to be cut off, it is to be separated. Jerusalem is the city of God and they took Jesus outside the city of God to crucify Him. Yet Golgotha and its hillside is in full view of Jerusalem. It is a place reserved by the Romans to execute criminals. According to verse 29 of our chapter, let's just jump ahead. The Bible says, and they that passed by, what does that mean? Golgotha is right beside a major travel route where the criminals are being executed Rome wanted everybody to see them. They wanted the people in Jerusalem to look out of the walls and see them. Passerbys on the major travel route, they wanted them to see them. It's called the Place of the Skull because of what it looks like from a distance. It's just a rocky, barren outcrop that when you look at it, it looks like a skull. And people say that's why it got its name in Golgotha because it looks like a place of a skull. Others have said that they believe it's called the place of the skull because criminals were executed there, and there would be bodies, dead bodies and skulls laying around. That's why they believe they've called it that, but yet it's outside the city. Jesus was being cut off. It was outside the city that Jesus bore our sins, that Jesus was made our sins, and phew, took upon himself my sin, your sin, took my cross. That cross really belonged to Barabbas, but it also belonged to you and to me. Jesus outside the city was made sin, amen. You know, if you're made sin, you're considered unclean. That's where the lepers were. That's where the trash dump was. That's where pollution is. That's where corruption was. That's where vile men are. Listen, if you're gonna worship Jesus, you're gonna have to get outside the realm of acceptance by man. It's not gonna be popular by man. You're not gonna flow with the ebb and flow of this life, amen. You're gonna have to suffer reproach. You're gonna have to get outside the city, amen, to worship Jesus Christ. I wanna look at that very text in Hebrews 13. That being said, Hebrews 13. Hebrews 13 and verse number 12. Hebrews 13 and verse number 12. Yes, our Savior died on a cruel Roman cross, mounted atop of a rocky windswept barren place called Golgotha. Hebrews 13, 12. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. What about that? Let us go forth therefore unto him, without the camp, bearing his reproach. I tell you, if you're gonna worship him, you're gonna have to be able to go outside the camp, outside of social acceptance, if you're gonna be able to worship our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. So number one, we have recognized the crucifixion site. It is that place known as Golgotha, or Calvary, which means the place of the skull. When I look at verse 23, the scripture says, they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh, but he received it not. That's very important, that but that's there, amen. I underlined it, I went back and highlighted it. Number two, he was refusing the calm sedative. Now we cannot possibly imagine the degree of pain and suffering of crucifixion. It is no doubt the cruelest of all types of execution. Jesus has already been beaten beyond recognition. He's already been scourged halfway to death. He's lost a lot of blood. And now the soldiers, according to verse 23, they attempt to give Jesus a drink of wine This is a calming sedative. It won't take away all the pain, but it will dull the senses. Well, why'd they do that, preacher? Well, I believe they were fulfilling prophecy. The book of Psalms 69, Psalm 69, and verse number 21. I just love it when the word of God comes together. Psalm 69, verse 21 says, they gave me also gall for my meat, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. We know that they tried to give him this wine mingled with myrrh. Another time they're gonna try to reach him up vinegar, and none of those things would he take. Jesus, the Bible says, when they tried to dull his senses, but he received it not. Jesus refused it. He wanted his mind to be clear. He didn't want anything to dull his senses. He wanted to bear the full suffering and the full pain of our sin as he's dying upon that cross. He had nothing to deaden his pain, amen. He was bold and courageous. I had a little surgery on my foot. Man, they had to put me to sleep. It was awful, amen. Nothing compared to what our Savior would have bore for you and me, and he had nothing to deaden his pain. He's refusing the calming sedative. Hey, may I say this? Are you refusing the world's ways and the remedies of the world? Hey, we ought to be refusing to accept the things that would dull out the preacher. You tell me it's wrong to take medication? That's not what I'm saying whatsoever. I believe in good doctors. I believe in good medication. I'm telling you spiritually, amen, you don't need the waves of the world to help you coast through life, amen. You just need to walk with Jesus as you serve the Lord. You and him can make it together, amen? Number three, when I look in verse 24, I want you to see our Savior. He is receiving the capital sentence. The Bible says in verse 24, and when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take. and it was the third hour and they crucified him. Twice in these two verses they say they crucified him. Jesus has made the trip from the courtroom to the place of chastisement and now to the place of the cross. His hands and his feet are going to be cruelly and painfully nailed to the tree. He's going to be crucified between two thieves. Certainly, you know that when they drove those nails, they drove them into the wrist area, not into the hand. If it was into the hand, it would have pulled apart. But in the wrist area there, on both of his hands and on his feet, one on top of the other, so he could push down and push back up and get air into his diaphragm. That's why when he spoke those seven sayings from the cross, they were all short sentences. go down and back up. His back was against that splinter field across where his back was open to the beating that he had suffered. And I'm telling you, y'all, there's nothing, no man has ever suffered anything like our Savior suffered for you and for me. Amen. And I'm telling you, of all the things in the Bible, this is by far the most horrible picture. Had students ask me one time, said, Preacher Darren, what's the most horrible picture in the Bible? Is it the first murder where one brother murdered the other brother? That's a terrible picture, but it's not the worst. Is it that time, Preacher Darren, whenever God had to flood the world with Noah's day? Oh, that's a terrible time. And everybody died but Noah and his family. That's a horrible picture, but it's not the most horrible picture in the word of God. What about that time we had the feast of Samaria there, where one woman said that she would boil her son, and the next day they'd boil the other lady's son, and they would eat them, amen. As horrible as that was, that's not the most horrible picture. I could go all through the word of God. What about the fate of the innocents there, when Herod came down there and killed all the babies, two years old and under? What a horrible picture. I mean, even look today, what a horrible picture. What abortion has done, it's horrible. But I'm telling you, all of that pales in comparison to the horrible picture of what they did to our Savior, what He suffered because of my sin and your sin. It is the most horrible picture in all the Word of God. Yet, it is also the most beautiful picture. And that my Savior loved me so much, He loved me so much, He was willing to lay down His life that I might be redeemed. My Bible says in the book of Galatians, quoting from the Old Testament, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. Our Savior had been shamed. He had been humiliated. He had been spat upon. He had been scourged. He had been beaten. And the Bible says cursed is everyone. He's cursed. Even his own father had to turn his back upon him and forsake him as he became sin for you and me. Those who die by crucifixion are said to be criminals. They're said to be sinners. They die a horrific and a shameful death. I would remind you of this. According to sin, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And the wages of sin is death. Death, and when Jesus died that horrible death. Preacher, it's Wednesday, don't talk about it. Honey, I couldn't talk about it enough to make us appreciate what our Savior has suffered for you and me. We were sinners living under a death sentence. We oughta been carrying the cross on our way to hell, but Jesus came and lifted that load and laid down his life that I might be set free. And tonight, youngins, I get right happy and I appreciate so much what my Savior has done for me, amen. Verse 25 again, they've stripped our Savior of his clothes. It's the third hour, their day starts at 6 a.m., so the third hour would be at 9 a.m. They crucified our Savior. Can you see Him there at 9 a.m.? The Son of God lifted up from the earth. Hanging there He is. Hanging between heaven and earth. Suspended there. He's suffering. He's humiliated. He's scorned that you and I might be set free. You know what he's gonna do? As he's suspended between heaven and earth, he's gonna take any repentant sinner's hand, amen, and he's gonna take the Father's hand and bring the two together and bridge the gap of separation between me and the Father. The sin that separated me, Jesus became my sin. Woo, he paid my penalty that I might be set free, that I might get to go to heaven. Oh, what a Savior. Well, look again at verse 24 and 25. It says in verse 24, they crucified him. Verse 25, they crucified him. We are spared the graphic details, but I promise you it was the most painful, shameful, horrific, humiliating death anyone has ever lived or died with. He publicly was just gruesomely treated so that everyone in all of the Roman kingdom could say, this is what happens to anyone who opposes Rome. Well, Preacher Darin, he didn't oppose Rome, oh no, but that was what they changed the charges to, amen. They changed the charges, amen, and I showed you that a few weeks ago. Look with me here in verse number 20, back in verse 24 again. I want to see fourthly, let's realize or be realizing the calloused souls. We don't want to skip it. The Bible says they parted his garments, plural, casting lots upon them. what every man should take. Our Savior would have had an outer garment. He would have had a girdle and a belt. He would have had some type of tunic headgear. He would have had maybe some sandals, or he had an inner seamless robe. I think about Psalm 22. Psalm 22, let's go look at that Psalm 22. I'll preach it here, and I know that they didn't rip that inner robe, but the Bible's very clear. They parted, how does it say it again? They parted his garments, plural. We're looking at Psalm 22 and verse 18. I believe the psalmist prophetically has got it right. They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture. While Jesus is dying on that cross, suspended between heaven and earth, Those soldiers, indifferent, uncaring, unconcerned, calloused, unmoved, heartless, hard-hearted, without feeling at all, at the foot of the cross, they are gambling for who can win and take away the different parts of His garments as a trophy. Can you imagine a soldier, that last one, that one, that inner robe that was seamless, they didn't tear it or rip it and give it one piece here, one piece there, that was prophetic too, but a soldier won those garments of Jesus. Can you imagine, they put them on him, then they take them off, they put it back on, so it had blood on it. A soldier won that garment that day. He throwed it over his back or over his shoulder, And he come walking in to his little family, preaching, and who won it? I don't know who it was, but somebody won it. And there he comes into his house. He says, look, son, look, daughter. Daddy, what have you got? Oh, it's a trophy. It's one of these criminals that we spitefully treated today. Can you imagine those kids saying, oh, daddy, I don't want that. That's gross. It's Jesus. I love Jesus. Daddy, why would you do such a thing to Jesus? I'm just telling you, there are people tonight, and I think I've Seen it just a few days after our president was inaugurated where people wear, yes I said it, the people wear the robes of religion, but they do not know the Redeemer. They have religion on their back and sin in their heart. And they'll tell you, I'm a preacher, I'm a this. No, bless God, you're not. I don't even know how you walked in to get in such a place. Preacher, you're going to make me mad. Good. Amen. If somebody is allowed to walk right in and say that, I'm allowed to get in this pulpit and tell you that that is ungodly and uncalled for. Amen. And I'm just going to call it out publicly here at our church. Amen. We see a lot of people claiming Christ, wearing the outer garments of Christ, but inwardly, they're ravening wolves. They are lost. They are wolves in sheep clothing. They are inwardly wolves. They have church. They go to church. Probably, hopefully not one of you tonight, but if it is, here we go. They have church, but they don't have Christ. They got baptized, but they don't have the blood. of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. They have religion, but no Redeemer. These things must needs be that the approved may manifest themselves in the days to come. You'll know what's right and you'll know what's wrong. Watch what they think about Jesus and watch how they line up with the word of God that you have in your hand right now. And if they don't line up with this word that's in your hand, they're wrong. Oh, but preacher, Darren, it's 2025. Honey, I don't care what blessed God year it is. If it don't line up with the word of God, it is wrong. My Lord said, I change not. His words not change, His promises not change. He's still on the throne forever. Hallelujah to God. Oh, preacher, don't you get in our pulpit and get a little bit political. I'm not, I'm just telling you what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong. Amen? Fifthly, when I look in the text, I see my last point. They're reproaching the condemned Savior. Reproaching the condemned Savior. Verse 26, I have some subheadings. As Seth puts it, I have some subheadings. I have one called the superscription. I'll start with the letter S. And the superscription of his accusation was written over. The king of the Jews. As Jesus was crucified, Pilate ordered a superscription be placed above Jesus' body where it was crucified on that cross. It was to be written in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. Now, wait a minute, Preacher Darren. Pilate said three times, I find no fault in him. Yes, he did. but he also ordered that title be put up there. He did it, I don't think he was necessarily doing it to really be in condemnation of Jesus, but he's trying to clap back at those religious leaders. He said, you brought him to me and you say he's your king, I'm gonna put that title up here. Here's your king of the Jews. I mean, that infuriated him. Preacher Aaron, I don't think you got that right. It doesn't say right here that Pilate, I'm glad you thought that. Turn to the book of John chapter 19. Let's just see what the Bible... I'm just telling you, if it don't line up with the Bible, then it's wrong. Amen? Amen? John 19 verse 19. We'll pull the book. John 19 verse 19. And Pilate... Who was that again? And Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross and the writing was Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. That placard, that superscription written in three different languages by Pilate He's not acknowledging what's, it's not an acknowledgement by Pilate that he even thinks he's king of the Jews. It's not even acknowledgement by the Sanhedrin court, but they're angry and Pilate wanted to declare that Jesus, there's your king being crucified by Rome. This was done as a reason to declare that Jesus has been convicted and Jesus has been condemned. Had he was accused, they changed the charges to insurrection against Rome. And insurrection against Rome means it was a challenge to Pilate's authority. So he ordered that to make himself look strong. But when you and I know what he really did, he tried to wash his hands. What do you think of Jesus? And honey, I'm telling you, every one of us will be faced with that pressing, present question, what do you think of Jesus? And it will determine heaven or hell for you, I promise you. We see the superscription in verse 26 of Matthew 15. Look with me now in verse 27. Let's examine the scripture's fulfillment subheading, scripture's fulfillment. And with him they crucified two thieves, the one on his right hand and the other on his left. And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, and he was numbered with the transgressors. Well, where have we read that, Isaiah 53? Isaiah 53, Jesus was crucified between two thieves, criminals who had committed crimes that were worthy of death. He was crucified on the cross that Pilate had intended for Barabbas, the innocent, holy, harmless, compassionate son of God hangs condemned between two lawless thieves. He came, ha ha, he came, glory to God, died between those he came to save. He died between those he came to redeem. He died between those who have lives that are wrecked and marred by sin. He was numbered with the transgressors, Isaiah 53 verse 12. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he hath poured out his soul unto death, and he was numbered with the transgressors, and bare the sin of many, and made intercession, amen, for the transgressions. A man inserted by me. Hallelujah to God. He made intercession for the transgressors. This is even alluding that he's dying for all the sins of the world, but that on that cross, the thief is gonna get saved. Jesus is gonna make intercession for him as he's dying there. Hallelujah. Back to our text. We see, we see the superscription. We see the scripture. They're reproaching our, the condemned savior, but the word of God's being fulfilled. Look with me at the scoffers or the skeptics, if you will, back to our text. Verse 29, they that pass by that major travel route that goes right there beside the hill called Golgotha, they that pass by railed on him. wagging their heads and saying, ah, thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save thyself and come down from the cross. You see, those who denied Jesus is the Christ, they said, if he's who he claimed to be, that this body would be destroyed in three days, he'd raise it again. They thought it was a temple, but he's speaking about his body. They said, if you're really who you claim to be, Jesus, come down off that cross. and save yourself. But you can't, they mocked him. You can't because Rome's nails are holding you there. Honey, I'm telling you, what's holding him there is the love he has for you and for me, amen. That's what's holding him on that cross, amen. and they're mocking him and they're rejecting him and they're refusing to believe his words. They're sneering at him, if you will, as he hangs on the cross between those two thieves. They are blaspheming and saying evil things about our Lord. I'm sure they're saying stuff even now. They're deriding Him and railing on Him and wagging their heads, showing their displeasure, showing their unbelief. I saw earlier today a lady, she had a sign carrying, she says, if Jesus comes back, we'll crucify Him again. Oh no. It ain't gonna happen, I'm just telling you, amen. When he comes back, amen, he's gonna rapture home the church. The tribulation will be on earth. Then when he comes back, amen, every knee and every tongue's gonna confess as the knees bow and the tongues confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. They taunted Jesus, but there he is. They mocked and made sport. Jesus, king of the Jews. No, honey, king of kings. Jesus, King of kings, I gotta calm down. I get excited about what my savior has done for me, amen. Look at the scoffers, they're still scoffing this very day. Look with me in verse 31, here's another subheading. The self-righteous, oh yes. The religious, the crowd is, oh, I've got Jesus. And listen, they don't know him. Look what he says, verse 31, likewise also. The chief priests, mocking, said among themselves with the scribes, he saved others, himself he cannot save. What a statement that was. Think about what they just admitted. He saved others. They just admitted he saved others. What about that? That blows the mind. They just admitted that he raised Lazarus from the grave. Ain't no denying that, amen. It's probably some of them went to his funeral, amen, and saw him get up four days later, amen. Ain't no denying that one. He saved others. Himself he cannot save. You know there's some things that God cannot do? He cannot lie. He cannot change, amen. And let me tell you something, he could not come down off that cross because he's doing the will of the Father, give his life for you and for me, that we might be saved, amen. He cannot send a saved man to hell, amen. I'm just telling you some things Jesus cannot do. Look what they went on to say, let Christ be saved. The king of Israel, and see they're mad. They call him the king of Israel because Pilate put up there, he's king of the Jews. They're a little bit upset about it. They're angry about this superscripture, this inscription about him being named their king, their king. And they're challenged, look, they said, let Christ, the king of Israel, descend now from the cross that we may see to kill an innocent man is going as planned, but they don't realize that Jesus is not a victim. He's a victor. They haven't realized it yet, amen. End of verse 32, and we'll quit. Here's another one. Jesus is not a victim. He's not a victim. He's not a victim. He's not a victim. He's not a victim. He's not a victim. He's not a victim. He's not a victim. He's not a victim. the sinister, and they that were crucified with him. Who was crucified with him? Two thieves. Both thieves, they reviled him. They that were crucified with him reviled him. Even those that hung on both sides of his cross taunted the Lord and scoffed. Here are two thieves condemned to death, and yet they felt the need to belittle and taunt Jesus. Now, as I pinned this down, I thought, I can't imagine. And I thought, ah, yes. But we see people every day that are taunting and mocking Jesus, who we may not see them on that cross, but they have a death sentence and they're hanging on it right now. Right now, the soul that sinneth, it shall die. The wage of sin is death. There they are mocking. We know that one of those thieves eventually saw his need. He repented and he said, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. What grace our Lord extended after he had been reviled and he had been taunted and he had been treated that way even on the cross. He didn't put his own. Can you imagine? Surely he wanted something to drink. Surely he wanted relief doing anything. But you know what he did? He put the needs of others. His own mother. He said to John his disciple, he said, Behold thy mother. He said, take her. I mean, here's a man, he's putting the needs of others ahead of his own needs. And here he is dying, needing to get off that cross, needing to try to live another day, and he's saving sinners, amen, as he dies on that cross. He was dying to revive the very atonement for sin that included the sin of those very thieves, amen. that according to scripture, you may disagree with me and I really don't care. You can apologize later. But in the heart of the earth, that was where there was two compartments. There was the paradise section and there was the section that was hell. And we know that people that are saved and trying to serve God, they're in the paradise section. And we know that the people that hate God and against God, they're in that hell section. And we know, my Bible says, that the Lord, when He died, He led captivity captive. So there in the paradise section, it'd been prophesied, even out of the book of Genesis, amen, that the Messiah was gonna come. I'm sure that the very first one was the brother that got killed by his brother. And then later on, finally there was Adam, and finally, you know, there was Noah, and finally there was probably a King David, and different ones, and all this time in that section, they're looking, every time somebody comes in, they're like, are you him? Are you our Messiah? He's gonna come and take us from this, even this paradise section. We're limited. We want to get out of here. Can you just imagine? I mean, there was a man who fared sumptuously every day, and there was a poor man laid by the beggar's gate, and that poor man, he died, laid by the rich man's gate, and that poor beggar, he died, and he went into the paradise section. They said, are you him? He said, no, but I saw him walking on the earth. I seen him, amen. John the Baptist, are you him? Oh no, he chopped my head off there, but I seen him. I baptized him just the other day, but I seen him, amen. Can you imagine that thief off the cross when he got saved? Today you'll be at the end of paradise. Thief on the cross comes in, he says, are you him? He says no, but he just died right beside me on the cross. Y'all better get ready. And all of a sudden in that paradise section, I get excited, as glorious, as wonderful as he is, a great light began to shine. And Jesus came in and said, let's go, my love. We're getting out of here, amen. And he led them into the third heaven, where we now call heaven, amen. And he led them there. And the Bible says, hell hath enlarged herself. Amen. And it's making room for more accommodations in the heart of this earth, amen. Preaching there, what about global warming? My Bible says this earth's gonna burn, amen. She's on fire, just look around Marion, look around Old Fort, look around California, look around Avery County, just right down here. This world's gonna burn one day, amen. But the only fire, if you're a Christian, you'll ever feel, is burning in your heart, amen. You're on your way to heaven, thank God for that, amen. And one of these days, I know that preaching, now wait a minute, paradise and into heaven, we're the third heaven now? Oh, but the Bible says one day there'll be a new earth and a new heaven, amen. Nobody's in the new heaven yet, it's not ready yet. And when we go in, we'll all go in together, amen, into that new heaven. Hallelujah to God. Oh, preaching there, why there's got to be, that'll be from paradise to heaven to the new heaven, amen. Three, Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Preaching there, why is there got to be a new heaven? Where did sin originate? What about the devil who got lifted up in pride in heaven and got kicked out? Things had to be cleansed, things had, and I'm telling you, there's gonna be a new heaven, one that sin can never enter into. Whoo, hallelujah to God for that, amen. You stand on your feet tonight. That's our little thought, God, laid on my heart, about a place called Golgotha, amen. People don't like to talk about it anymore, much less on a Wednesday night, even in a good church. Golgotha, Golgotha. Honey, thank God for Golgotha. Thank God for Calvary, amen. Hey, because of Calvary, I'm not what I used to be, amen. Hallelujah, my life has been changed, woo. Father, thank you tonight for the word of God. Thank you, Father, for allowing us tonight to be in your house. Bless your people, Lord, I pray. Bless these fathers that need to be saved. Convict them before it's ever lasting too late and save them, Father. Lord, I pray for our loved ones. Help them tonight, God. Lord, I pray for these that's in the hospital, had surgeries. These that's going through terrible times and got tough diagnosis. These that are discouraged and despondent, Lord. You know what I'm praying about right now, God. Would you touch them? Would you go to them and help them? Lift them, Lord, I pray. Bless them with healing. Give them restoration, God. And for this, I pray in Jesus' name. 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