I want you to first find Psalm 11 and tuck your finger in there, and then go to 1 Corinthians chapter 15. Beginning in verse 1, Moreover, brethren and sisters alike, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand. 1 Corinthians chapter 15, verse number 1. The gospel that has been preached unto you, and let me add this in here, if you are saved today, IF you are saved today, you have received it and you are standing in it, living by it, and even in your conversations referring to it often. Paul says, "...by which also you are saved this gospel." if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain." I hope you haven't believed in vain. I'll tell you this, your fruits will sure tell on you whether or not you have believed in vain. How you treat God and His Son Jesus, how you treat His church, how you treat the things of God, how lax you are, Bible says it, Jesus said it, "...by their fruits ye shall know them." And certainly the Lord knows you. He says also, for I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that we celebrated last Sunday, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and we're honoring that and proclaiming this Resurrection Sunday and giving Him honor and glory for it. And that he was seen in Cephas, the dinner of the twelve, and our good friend Steve covered that in his devotion this morning in breakfast. After that he was seen of about five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remained unto this present, that is, the day of Paul, not now, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James and of all the apostles. And last of all, Paul says, He was seen of me also as of one born out of due time. Paul says, For I am the least of the apostles, that I am now meet and am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. And sometimes I feel like I shouldn't be called a Christian. because of how I persecuted the church of God, but my attitude, my lack of care of the house of God, etc., etc. If your pastor thinks that, where does that leave you? But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, Paul says, I didn't do it, but the grace of God which was with me. Therefore whether it were I or they so we preach and so ye believed that's what we're doing Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead How say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen? What are we doing here? If Christ is not risen, how in the world could we sing those songs this morning that He was not risen? We're a bunch of fools if we came over here and sang those songs and He's not risen. And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain? Your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God, that He raised up Christ, whom He raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised. And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, and ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ, all the Christians before now, your loved ones that you assume were believers, all of them are perished, they're gone. They're in the dust or they're in hell. If in this life then If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. And let me add this, if Christ be not raised, if He is not risen, we are miserable. We ought to feel miserable because there's no hope beyond the grave. But now is Christ risen from the dead. Can you say hallelujah? How can you say hallelujah? And He has become the firstfruits of them that slept. He is the first and because He rose, we will rise also. For since by man came death, by man, this man Christ Jesus, came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. Let me just, don't get in this universal thing where you think everybody's gonna be saved, they're not. Paul is talking about a distinct group, and that distinct group is those that have believed in Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior. No one else gets in. You understand, right? If you're not saved, you do not get in. But every man in his own order, Christ the firstfruits, afterward they that are Christ's at His coming. Then come at the end when He shall have delivered up the kingdom of God, even the Father, when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power, for He must reign Till he hath put all enemies under his feet. And look at the last enemy, verse 26, and we stop right there in this chapter. The last enemy that shall be destroyed, everybody together, is death. Hallelujah! No dying for us. You might put my carcass out there in the ground, but me personally, I'll be in heaven. waiting for you. The title of today's message is, Everybody Gets Eternal Life. That's today's message. There's a resurrection for everybody. There is. Everybody gets eternal life. The question is, where are you going to spend it? See, that's the most important thing we must remember. Look it over back in Psalm chapter 11 verse 4. The psalmist says the Lord is in His holy temple. The Lord's throne is in heaven. His eyes behold, His eyelids try the children of men. That means God sees everything. God knows everything. God rules and reigns over everything, and He has done so for all eternity. Might I say it might be 15,000 eternities, for all we know, God don't have a clock. We don't know where eternity began, and certainly we don't know where it will end, and if it's eternity, it don't have either beginning or end. The psalmist has been given the eyes of faith here, and has come to the realization of veracity, and might I add, the vicinity of God. It was a true statement for David, that He says here. The facts of the text are without denial even if you believe in the sovereignty of God at all. But that that was given to David is also just as true today. Our Lord is still in His holy temple. Don't you ever think He's on vacation? Don't ever think that He's given up, moved off somewhere else. He hasn't. He's still in His holy temple. wherever that is. And wherever that is, He sees everything and everybody all the time, including you. Our Lord's throne is in the heaven, says David. His eyes behold, His eyelids try the children of men. And if that be so, and as believers, we have no doubt that it is true. Then for a truth, hallelujah, Christ arose. We can believe it. We can trust it. We can live by it. We can have hope in it. Believing for a fact what Paul says to be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord or when He comes back He will get us either way. When he cried it is finished. The salvation of the elect was accomplished. Christ now is back on the throne in heaven. This morning Steve did a really wonderful job out of Acts 1 about the fact of Christ being seen by His disciples arising up into a cloud where two angels, two men, dressed in white apparel, holy, and they must have been angels, said, Why stand you gazing afar off? This same Jesus that you see taken away from you will likewise return again. That's our hope. The resurrection started it all. If ever a time there, if ever there was a time that calls for worship, it ought to be at the sounding out of these facts. If ever there was a time that we should worship, it's when we believe, understand, and take these facts to heart, and they become top of the mind to us. In other words, not a day goes by, not a week goes by that we ever, ever forget, but, excuse me, constantly remember that our Lord has done this wondrous thing for us in rising again. If ever there was a time that we should prostrate ourselves upon the ground with our arms outstretched and our palms turned upward, it is today, but not just today, but every day. Of all the days that men would dare single out and make holy this particular day, and at least allude to it somewhat across the world, us that know the truth about it should sound out in every way the facts of it so those that are trying to do it might see how it's done. When I wrote that down I said to myself, is anybody going to understand that? There is a semblance across the world, even our president the other day mentioned it at the prayer breakfast, the Easter breakfast there at the White House and said Jesus Christ rose from the dead. That we might have life. I'm sitting there scratching my head, I thought Donald Trump was president. But he said it. But all across the world, in church after church after church, no matter the denomination, no matter the religion, many will today be having Easter services, and yet many of them won't know what they're doing it for. Or why are they doing it? As a matter of fact, a lot of them will go outside just as soon as church is over and find their Easter eggs under their cars, on top of their cars, and places like that. but dare they know the facts of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Though we might struggle as to deciding what day indeed is the date of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, still, nonetheless, we can worship our King's victory over death, the grave, and hell, anytime, anywhere, on any day, if you know what it means. I wonder in my heart today how many people sang up from the grave He arose with mighty triumph over His foes and knew what that meant. I'm not trying to be mean. No. I wonder if they understood that He arose a victor over the dark domain and He lives forever as the only King. And those are my words. There is no other King. There is no other God. It's Him. It's Him. And we cannot and dare not quibble about the date at all or anything else regarding the resurrection. And if you want to call it Easter, go ahead. But we cannot quibble at all over the fact that He rose. If you do, then you deny everything that He is, what He is, what He's done, and what He's going to do, and what He's already planning to do, and do very soon. We're not locked into some heathen-generated and perpetuated system of worship and celebration as the idea of Easter has festered. No, we worship to celebrate this fantastic event over and over again. Might I say we're going to celebrate it here again in just a few minutes. Our Lord's resurrection has sealed us and our redemption, and is sealed with this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are His. He who was despised and rejected by all of mankind, including you, He who was a man of sorrows and acquainted with much grief, He from whom we once all hid our faces, He whom we did not esteem hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. He whom was stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted did so for us. He was wounded for your transgressions, your sins, all of them. He that was bruised for our iniquities, chastised for our peace, It's providing healing for us by His stripes. And brothers and sisters, there were so many of them, that it laid His meat, some say, down over His waistline, where they hit Him with that cat of nine tails, or whatever that whip was, loaded up with metal, chards of glass, maybe stone, and it would literally jerk His flesh off. And the Lord, the Father, laid all this on Him instead of us. He who was oppressed and afflicted, yet did not open His mouth, even as He was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, He who was taken from prison and from judgment and cut off out of the land of the living, stricken, stricken from head to foot for the transgressions of his people, has made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death. And yet you look back over it and you find that he had done no violence, no deceit was in his mouth, He was pure in every way, but the Father killed Him instead of you, and they buried His body in the ground. God put His own darling Son to grief. He has made His precious soul an offering for our sin. But praise God, the Lord has seen His intended bride, that's you and I. and has prolonged his days. Flip it back to Acts chapter 2 with me. Acts chapter 2. I had to catch myself. I almost said Romans 828. Steve. Here's Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost. We've read this so many times. What a tremendous sermon was preached that day by Peter on the day of Pentecost, and I'm not going to read the whole thing. Look at me at verse 22. You men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know. Him, that is Christ Jesus, being delivered by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. Hallelujah. Verse 24, whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that it, or he should be holding of it, not possible for him to stand to ground. He was going to come forth. And the reason he was coming forth, he conquered the keys of hell and death from Satan himself. And I believe turn it around and lock the door so we'll never have to go in there. Hallelujah. For David, speaking concerning him, said back in David's time I foresaw the Lord always before my face for he is on my right hand that I should not be moved therefore did my heart rejoice my tongue was glad moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption and friends if that's the case of the first fruit to the resurrection it's true for all who believe in him by his knowledge His righteous servant will justify many. For Christ has borne our iniquities. He has poured out His soul unto death. He has been numbered with the transgressors. And as a result, the handwriting of ordinances that were once against us have been taken away, soaked in His blood, and nailed to the cross. They and Him executed by the Father, and the death pangs that wrecked His precious body, will never do so again, because all is finished, crushing our adversary's head for us, and in giving up the ghosts, He went into paradise, I believe, and then three days later come out. He walked out of the grave very much alive in his own body, went to heaven, poured out his own blood upon the mercy of heaven for the sins of his people, appeasing the Father in every detail of it for his elect people, securing their resurrection, their eternity. He then appeared to his disciples and a host of others, lived here in his post-resurrection glorified body for 40 days. and then ascended back into heaven to take a seat upon the throne of God. So indeed the Lord is in His holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven, and there He forever maketh intercession for us. Thus we have cause and reason to worship and celebrate His life, His death, His resurrection, 24-7-365. To which we cry, 1 Corinthians 15, 55, O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Christ has taken your sting. Christ has slammed the grave shut. Hell has no hold on the redeemed Rejoice and be glad, saints of the Most High. Sin has been defeated. The calculations of hell have been voided. Your debt has been paid. Even the stain of your sin has been washed whiter than snow. Death leaves no smell on you. As a matter of fact, if you're saved today, you smell like the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley. And thank you, Michael and Janice, for the lilies are beautiful. Does this every year. I'm so thankful to see them. I was over here Friday and I thought, when's the lilies coming? Your cleanliness is like the bright morning star. You have become one with the fairest of 10,000. The white linen of the impeccability of Christ now clothes you if you're saved today. He who is the crown of life, daunted upon your head through Him. For Paul says, I am crucified with Christ, not yet I, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. We have been shod with the gospel of peace. Truth now girds up our loins, and we have been made to sit in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Why, we could even sing, up from the grave I arose, because He raised me. We were all dead in trespasses of sin, we were covered up in sin, but He came and quickened us. What does quicken mean? Made us alive. Now for you rebels out there, you get a resurrection too. I want you to see your resurrection. You that are lost and undone without Jesus. You who keep saying no. You who keep rebelling against Him. Go to Revelation. Go to chapter 20. Let's take a look at your resurrection. If you continue to refuse Christ. Wake up and smell the coffee. Pay close attention if you're not saved today. Here is a picture of your resurrection. Now I want to tell you something. I don't care if you died in 1865 on a battlefield and they weren't able to bury you and all the vultures landed on your body and ate your body and the bones leached out in the sun and then degenerated down into the dust and into the ground. I don't care. Our God has the ability to pull all that up and make it walk and talk and feel again. And look here, verse 11, chapter 20, And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it. Remember the Lord is in His temple. From whose face the earth and the heavens fled away, And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead." Let me just stop right there real quick. And I saw the dead, says John. The dead is everyone who trusted not in Christ. Everyone that trusted not in Christ. They stayed in their trespasses and sin, died in it, stayed dead to God, stayed dead to salvation, dead to life. And there was the dead, all of them, no matter where they died, small and great, rich or poor, whatever didn't make any difference. Popper, or the poorest guy on Skid Row, stood before God, will stand before God. And the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. Notice it doesn't say anything about the living. None of the living are in this resurrection. Zero, not a none. It's the dead. Dead without Christ. And look here, "...and the sea gave the dead which didn't have all those people dead in the sea." All those folks that went down to the Titanic that knew not God, they come out of there, their bodies do, their souls are in hell already. And they are all joined back together, "...and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man according to their works." And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Now I want you to look at verse 15. And whosoever was not found, written the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire. And there's only one way to know if you're in the book of life. And that is that you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ with all your heart, soul, mind, and body, begging Him to save you. And you'll know when He does. You will. You'll feel heavy conviction for all your foul, nasty sins, and you'll cry out for Him to save you. And to those who have sought Him, He has never said no. Not a one. One of my favorite songs is by Squire Parsons. The song is, He Came to Me. You ever heard it? What a song. He came to me. He came to me. When I could not come to where He was, He came to me. So, tell me, which resurrection are you going to be in? Do you know? I'll tell you this, if you're faking Christianity, you're gonna be in that last one I read. Are you a faker? Or is it true that you're saved? Think real hard. You can't play at this. Or you'll try. and then wake up one day wishing you hadn't. Oh, friends, this week, I don't know why it's been, but it seems like that every day, every morning, in our prayer time at the house, we just, we couldn't stop praying about the fact of how many of our own family may be dead or trespassing sin and going to hell. I don't get it, I swear I don't get it, how it is that folks who claim that they are believers would allow their loved ones to slip off into hell. If the building's on fire, would you not rush in and try to help them people if you could? Well, the house is on fire and it's burning quick.