What we had been studying last week, we didn't get through this by no means, and we probably won't get through it today, but we were studying the sayings from the cross. And we studied, you know, the word of affection, which we've already mentioned, and we mentioned the word of forgiveness. And last week, we was in the scripture in Luke on the word of salvation. Now we want to at least get that done this morning. So go back to Luke chapter 23 and let's try to get this together and finish it up this morning. You remember on Luke 23 there was two thieves that was crucified with Jesus and the dying thief the one that was probably on the right hand. He is one of the clearest types of salvation by faith you'll find in the Bible. So, like I said, you know, many times that when these new Bibles come out, their main purpose was threefold, was to destroy salvation, the Word of God, and the deity of Jesus Christ. And so they made a great attack on this scripture here, dealing with this thief that got saved by fate. You see? And what they've done, they've changed this so you wouldn't think or believe this man actually got saved. You see that? I mean if, illustration, let me say this. If a religious, Church of Christ or some of these other denominations that profess salvation is apart from Jesus Christ, nothing but Jesus Christ. In order to teach, if I were to stand this morning and tell you the only way you can be saved is to be baptized in this church by me, I couldn't teach you this man got saved. You see what I'm trying to show you? So that's why these, you see all these other perversions of the Bible is a man's trying to promote his way of salvation apart from God's way. So they got to change what God said and insert what they want you to hear. See? Now you don't learn that in college, but you learn that following the Bible and letting the Holy Spirit direction these things, you see that? All right, now notice in Luke 23, And verse 41, we'll review this just for a minute. And we indeed, justly, for we received the due reward of our deeds, but this man hath done nothing amiss. And I told you that that's the first step towards heaven, a man confessing that his condition and what he is. And then in verse 42, the Bible says, and he said unto him, Jesus. Lord remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And remember I told you that the way they do it, these new Bibles, they pervert that thing. They omit, they leave out Lord, and they say this, he said unto Jesus, he said, Jesus, remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom. But the thief didn't say Jesus, he said unto Jesus like the Bible says. And when he spoke to Jesus, he called him Lord. See? Because that's one of the requirements of salvation, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord. In Romans 10, 9. Remember here the other night. Alright? So just to say that you believe in Jesus don't get you saved. That's making the charismatic are in a mess, aren't they? Huh? Now notice something else about this thing. Some of these versions of the Bible, I didn't check them all out, but they'll read like this. And he said unto Jesus, or he said, Jesus, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom power. You see what? That means that they're spiritualizing the verse because they don't believe there's going to be no kingdom ever set up here. They're all millennial. See? Like I've told you a thousand times, if you're a Bible believer, you're premillennial. A Bible that said thy kingdom power is not premillennial. You couldn't follow that Bible and be right. You see? Alright, now notice something else in verse 43. Now here's something else that's significant. I want you to see this. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today thou shalt be with me in paradise. Notice that's instantaneous. That's instant salvation. You see? And the way they fight that verse is they change the comma like I showed you last week like this. I say unto thee today. You know. The Bible says I say unto thee. Today you'll be with me. But they change it like he said it today. You see? Attacking the fact that a man can be saved by faith in Jesus Christ instant, without any delay of time, or waiting period, or praying through, or getting through, or waiting till it comes, nothing like this. See, that's what they teach. It's instantaneous that when a man puts faith in Jesus Christ, he's saved instantaneously by the work of God. All right, now notice that thing. That's today, you see? All right, notice in verse 44, Luke 23, 44, and it was about the sixth hour. And the sixth hour there would be 12 noon. And it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. Now, there was three hours of total darkness, and that was from 12 to 3. You see that? You say, why did it get dark? Because Jesus said, I'm the light of the world, and the light went out. Now, look at verse 45, and I'll show you another attack they make on this. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the mist. Alright? What they say in that, they say it was an eclipse of the sun. See? No, they're trying to make it look natural, but there's only one thing wrong with that, there wasn't no eclipse of the sun that day. Wouldn't that be really coincidental that just about the time Jesus on the cross, the moon, there was an eclipse of the sun? You see? You see what they're doing, They don't want you or they want to take away the supernatural from the crucifixion. You see that? And they want to take away the supernatural of salvation, you know, from the thief. You see? Now I'll tell you something else. Let me tell, let me say something to you. Listen. I'll just bet you anything I could get my hands on more than that thief when Jesus said today, thou shalt be my paradise. I bet you he didn't doubt he was saved. Amen. Huh? I bet he didn't say, well, Lord, I sure hope I can live it. Lord, I sure hope I can make it. Huh? Amen. I bet when Jesus told him that, he lit up like a neon sign on Saturday night. Amen? Amen. He had more than some of his bunch has today, you know I think you got to live it and you got to hang on and do it and hold out and all this junk, you know You see that? All right now let's uh, let's look at another place on the same thing let's go back to Mark Mark chapter 15 Mark 15 Mark 15 will begin at verse 28 same thing Mark 15 28 and the scripture was fulfilled Would say yes, and he was numbered with the transgressors Now how many remember what I told you about mark 15 28? I didn't go into great details on the verse But I didn't say something about it last week. How many remember? Well two of you do The other two don't. All right. I told you it was left out. You see, it was left out of these new Bible because these men that wrote the new Bibles, they don't want to admit they're transgressors, so they don't want their savior identified with transgressors. You see that? All right. Now that Living Bible, the one that a lot of the Southern Baptist use and recommend and a lot of these other apostate religions, it says he was counted as a sinner. Which is a lie. He wasn't counted as no sinner. He was numbered. See? A lot of difference in being numbered than being counted. See? I mean, saying he's counted a sinner means he was like a sinner. He was a sinner and he wasn't. He was just numbered with them. There was three and he was there. See? But he sure wasn't no sinner. You see what they're trying to do to you? Can't you see that? You know folks, if a person could understand how subtle the devil was, all these religions go out of business. You see? But they can't see, they can't see through the subtlety of the devil because God has put the light out and they're deceived, they got a deceived mind. See? And the only thing that makes anybody different today, you see, The only reason I'm not as deceived as that Pope is because I believe the Bible. You see that? And like I've told you, according to the Bible in 2 Corinthians 4-4, the Bible said that whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them was believe not. You see? And that's why I've told you so many times, the most dangerous thing you could do is disbelieve the Bible, because if you disbelieve it, the devil can blind you. Amen? And blind people don't see nothing. You know, they might think, but they don't see. And that's, like I said, it's dangerous to disbelieve the Bible. Alright? So verse 28 is left out. It's left out of the NIV, the ASV, the RSV, the Modern Language, and the Living Bible. You see that? Now, how many know where that verse is? You know that verse in Mark, I'll show you how inconsistent and how crooked these translators of these new Bibles are. Let me show it to you. They normally place it like this, all right? It says in Mark 15, 28, and the scripture was fulfilled. Now notice what it says, and the scripture was fulfilled. Well, now if they leave it out, they don't believe the scripture, do they? Huh? You know what scripture said that? Huh? How many know? All right, let's read it. Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53. Now I checked them out. I checked out some of these scriptures, and it's a quotation from Isaiah 53. Don't even remember the verse off, but it's easy to find because I've I've read as many times Isaiah 53 look at verse 12 Isaiah 53 verse 12 Okay Therefore Well, I divide him a portion with the great And he shall divide the spoil with the strong because he has poured out his soul upon unto death and listen this He was numbered with the transgressors There's a quotation Now folks listen if it's if it should be left out of mark Then ought to be left out of Isaiah 2 don't it? But it's not left out of Isaiah It's the same way in John 9.44. They'll omit that in these new Bibles. The NIB and the RSV and all these new Bibles. They'll omit John Mark 9.44. Mark 9.44 is a quotation from Isaiah 66. They don't leave it out of Isaiah 66. Huh? Isaiah 66 24 is what Jesus quoted in Mark 9 44 they omit it in Mark 9 44 and Mark 9 46 but it's found in Isaiah 66 24 so they're inconsistent they're crooked and they're dirty and they're trying to deceive you by believing these modern Bibles you see that all right let's go to one more place on the crucifixion that'll be in Matthew 27 Matthew 27 Matthew 27 and verse 44 Matthew 27 44 the thief also which were crucified with him cast the same in his teeth now from the sixth hour there was darkness upon all the land until the ninth hour we just read that And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthan. That is to say, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? You see? Now notice, look at this real close now. Right here, at this point, is where Jesus becomes a sin offering. You see that? Now let's take one more place, hold your place in Matthew and flip back to Psalm 69. Now folks, let me say something to you, and I'm spending a lot of time in this, this crucifixion, but I want you to understand the scripture because listen, there's so much lying today about salvation, about the Bible. If you understand the crucifixion, And you knew what it took to save you, you can understand why the devil promotes many religious lies to deceive people into hell while they profess to be religious. You see that? Now Psalm 69, notice verse 21. Psalm 69 and verse 21. verse 21 psalm 69 they gave me also gall for my meat and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink that is a fulfillment of Matthew 27 verse 37 you see that huh verse 22 Psalm 69 22 let their table become a snare before them and that which should have been for their welfare let it become a trap all right now go back to just a minute in John 19 verse 28 John 19 28 John 19 verse 28 after this Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished That the scriptures might be fulfilled said I thirst Huh Now there's another saying from the cross He says I thirst Now what you're seeing here, this is showing the suffering of Jesus Christ taking a sinner's place in hell. Huh? Because that Passover lamb in Exodus 12 was to be roasted with fire and no water. It was the time for the crucifixion. Amen? You see? And in Luke chapter 16, When that rich man lifted his eyes into hell, you know the first thing he said? He said to Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip his finger in water and touch my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. I don't know what the Jehovah's Witnesses do with a verse like that, but they think hell is a grave. Amen? There's two things that's clear as it can be in the Bible about hell, and I want you to learn these things too. Number one, nobody in hell gets no water. Amen? They'll thirst and scream for water. And the second thing that we read in Matthew 27 a while ago, they'll be eternally forsaken by God. You see? Now, like we said many times, you know, and I don't have time to go into this more and discuss all this, but just to bring out a few things that you need to understand, death is separation. And man dies physically, and that separates him from his worldly contact. You see? A physical death takes everything that you have in this world away from you. Spiritual death is when God drops you off in the lake of fire and forgets you forever. And that's the time when man screams for God. See? And the illustration I've gave you many times is God puts man in a time element. And during this period of time, man has his chance to have God. And if man forsakes God in time, God forsakes him in eternity. You see? And that's the way God has got it set up, and that's the way it's gonna be. So in hell, there's two things that a man will want more than anything in the world. I don't care how rough people are, how mean they are, what they say about God, in hell they're gonna want God. And they're going to scream for God. And they're going to beg for God. But He ain't there. See? They're going to want water. And they're going to want God. And they ain't going to get neither one of them. That's how you know. Because we see Jesus Christ on the cross saying these two things. And He took our place. He became the sin offering that God requires for a man's sin. Now you see that. If anybody that's religiously lost this morning understood that and believed that, they'd have to change their religion. Now you don't hear this on the radio. You'll never hear a healer tell you what I just told you on the radio. Jerry Falwell ain't never told you what I just told you on TV. Jimmy Sager ain't never told you what I just told you on TV. Neither is Oil Rabbits and Rex Humbard and none of the rest of that crowd. They ain't never told you that, see? But that's the simplicity of salvation. If a man don't get that, he'll go to hell. You see? So Christ The cross he got he takes a sinner's place and he goes through what a lost man will go through in hell You see that? All right now this is called a in verse 28 John 19 28 This is called the word of anguish you see this is Jesus Christ becoming sin for us like 2 Corinthians 5.21 this is Jesus Christ being made a curse for us Galatians 3.13 alright this is the fulfillment of that I want you to take your Bible and go back to Isaiah 53. And Isaiah 53 gives some details on the cross that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John don't give. As a matter of fact, there's two places in the Old Testament that give more about the cross than even in the New Testament. Let's get them both. How many know where the other place is? Let's start there first, Psalms 22. Psalms 22, that's on page 608. Let's get this one first. Psalms chapter 22. Alright, listen to this. Psalms chapter 22, verse 1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? You see? Why art thou so far from helping me? and from the words of my Lord." You see? That's the quotation from... It's like somebody speaking of himself in the third person. Amen? Now, I'll tell you the way these scholars get around this. They say that Psalms 22 was wrote after the cross. See? Of course, which is another lie, you know. No lies of the truth first John says amen All right. So he says my god my god. Why is that forsaken me? That's quoted from matthew 27 over there All right. Notice verse 2 psalms 22 2 Oh my god, I cry in the daytime but thou hearest not and in the night season Notice that night season That's when darkness was upon the earth Between the 6th and the 9th hour which we've already discussed You see that? Now look at verse 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel Our fathers, talking about the Jews, trusted in thee they trusted and thou didst deliver them All right, look at verse five. They cried unto thee and were delivered. They trusted in thee and were not confounded. Now he's talking about the Jews, the Israelite Jews, and of course that's what Jesus was. You see that? Then look at verse six, he goes back and talks about himself. Verse six. But I am a worm. You listening? What's that song in the songbook that says, a worm such as I? All the new songbooks take that out. You remember, here a while back they made a movie called The Burning Hell? And I can't believe a man would write, would make a movie like that and be so eager of the scripture. That's not a literal worm. That's not a worm like your finger crawling on you. Like that movie had them worms crawling out his ears, you know? Man, that God... I mean, I hate to be critical, don't mean to be, but I mean, that's unscripted. That ain't what that's talking about. Now, let's see what the Bible said. Let's find out what that worm is. He says, But I am a worm, and no man may reproach a man and despise of the people. You see? Now, in Numbers chapter 21, that serpent had to be lifted up. Amen? And Jesus said in John chapter 3, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. You see? So that worm is connected with the serpent. You see that? So an unsaved man goes to a place where the worm dieth not and the fires not quench. Mark 9.44, Mark 9.46, so his new Bible take that out. They don't like that. They don't like to be called a worm. Amen? Alright. Alright. The worm is the daddy of all the unsaved. You listening? So if you're saved tonight or this morning, you're gonna one day get a glorified body like Jesus Christ. You believe that? Every unsaved person gonna have a body like a worm in hell. Huh? Believe that Don't matter whether you believe it or not where it's gonna be a lot of people don't believe that though, you see But I'm a worm and no man a reproach of men and despise of the people We had to become what would understand people are going to be to take their place, right? Huh? Verse 7 All they that see me laugh to scorn. You see? Now he's saying this hanging from the cross. You see that? They shoot the cup of the lip. They shake their head saying. You see? Saying this. He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him. Let him deliver him seeing he delighteth in him. Isn't that what they said? Isn't that what the crowd is yelling to him while he's on the cross? If you be the son of God, save thyself! Isn't that what he said? We studied this already in the book of Matthew. You see that? alright verse 9 psalm 22 9 But thou or he that took me out of the womb Thou didst make me whole when I was upon the mother's breast you see now This is what he's saying. This is what he's praying while he's hanging on the cross alright verse Verse 10, I was cast upon thee from the womb, my God, from my mother's belly. That verse there mess up the Jehovah's Witness theology because they say Jesus was a created God lesser than Jehovah God. You see that? That ain't what the Bible says. You see that? You see, folks, listen to me. All these religions are built on Bible ignorance. You see? And the way you motivate and promote a religion is keep people ignorant. You see that? So that's why the church today don't teach the Bible. That's why you got so many people that are so ignorant of the truth of the Bible that people don't know what's going on. You see that? Let me tell you something, you got more Bible here this morning than a Catholic will get in 20 years in a Catholic church. We ain't even got started good. Amen? Verse 11, Psalm 22, 11. Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help. Here's an interesting verse in verse 12 Many bulls have compassion me strong bulls of Basham have beset me round Now what's he talking about there? Huh? When Jesus on the cross who was all around him the Pharisees right now, what is a bull a representation of a Genesis 3 the Bible said thou art cursed above all cattle You see the Bible is calling those religious people around the cross The devil's disciples you see that and the Pharisees will match the Catholic Church today Suppose you went down the Catholic Church more and said hey you bulls Huh, you wouldn't be on scripture You might get shot, but you wouldn't be unscriptural. Suppose I was in a Catholic church morning, and I said what I just said. Somebody better go buy a casket, amen? The devil was called, the worship was the golden calf. You see, that was the devil worship. So he mentions here the bulls. Now pay close attention to that because I want to show you something else about that that will match what's going on today. Notice verse 13, they gapped upon me with their mouth as a raving and roaring lion. I don't know where in the New Testament where they did that. But in Acts chapter 7 they went up to Stephen and beat him like a bunch of dogs. Remember that? You see that? Verse 14, I am poured out like water, all of my bones are out of joint not broke. You see that? My heart is like wax, it is melt in the midst of my bowels. And I've noticed the bowels is inside, upper or lower vesture. It had nothing to do with what the modern day medical term for it is. Amen? They're wrong. The Bible's right. Bowels simply means something inside. All right? I don't know, but look at verse 15. Psalm 22, 15. You see, he was so dry, his tongue stuck to his mouth. You see that? It'd be like if you went out here and let a piece of metal lay till it rusted together. Can you imagine being that thirsty? That's the way sinners are going to be in hell. You see that? Alright, thou hast brought me into the dust of death. You see? Verse 16, now here's something else we see. For dogs, uh-oh. For dogs have come past me, The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet. I know there's something else about this religious bunch. They're called dogs. Paul said in Philippians over there, beware of dogs. Remember that? Revelation 22, the Bible says, for without are dogs. You see that? Now, let me show you something, folks. It's amazing when the Holy Spirit wants to describe or give you what an unsaved religious person is like, he calls them dogs. Amen? There's nowhere in the Bible, New Testament or Old Testament, where the Bible says anything good about dogs. Amen? You know why? Why didn't God say a cat or a sheep Or a cow. Or a bird. Wonder why he said a dog. Because a dog is one of the filthiest animals that ever lived. I don't care whether he's Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, or your old hound. I don't care. He is a filthy animal. Amen? Now listen to me real close. I'm gonna show something. I'm gonna give you something now. And a lot of people may not like this, but But what the Bible is saying is that religious people, they're filthy like a dog. Amen? Now, somebody say, well, you mean to tell me you're talking about my religion? Let me say this to you. In the book of Proverbs, the Bible says a dog will eat his own vomit. That is something, I'm not trying to be nasty to him, but you need to see this, if this makes you sick, well just get sick and get right with God. But, vomit is something that is produced inside a person that's rotten, so rotten even he can't stand it, he throws it up. You see? Then the dog comes back and takes it back in. And that's what man does, man builds a religion from his own rotten corruption inside. Then he goes and takes in his own rotten corruption inside. You see that? If that ain't in your Sunday school quarterly, don't look for it. Because the woman that wrote it couldn't handle it. Amen? Any religion that doesn't turn you to Jesus Christ for salvation and teach you that Jesus Christ is your only hope is a puke religion. And people take it in. This ought to be my first radio message. Get off to a good start. Amen. All right. They're called bulls and dogs. All right. Now look at verse 17. I may tell all my bones they look and stare upon me. They not only looked at him, they stared at him. You know what that's indicating? He was there with no clothes on. He was there in the nude. You see that? They stared. He bore our shame. And this modern day stuff where people don't wear no clothes, just showing how ungodly they are. Anybody godly is a shame not to wear clothes and Society and the public of America shows how ungodly they are Which includes the bar crowd and the church crowd All right, let's go on Verse 18 says, they parted, they part my garments among them, and they cast lot upon my vesture. And notice that, it says, my vesture. The soldiers cast lot for his raiment, it's called garment, it's called raiment, it's called vesture, but it's never called robe. Huh? You notice that. Now let me tell you why that is. The Romans put a robe on him in John 19 too, I believe the scripture. And if you got any spiritual understanding at all, you can see here that the Holy Spirit is telling you and telling me or anybody's Bible believer that God don't want Rome connected with nothing that's associated with Jesus Christ. Amen. All right. Psalms 22 verse 19. Verse 20. Deliver my soul from the sword, my darling, from the power of the dog. Now the darling there is the reference to the soul. Amen. Now let me show you something right along here. Notice what we've read so far. Then look at verse 22. All of a sudden you see something different here. I will declare my name upon my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. Look at that switch there. All of a sudden, boy, I'm poured out, you know, I'm thirsty, all this suffering and misery, and all of a sudden, I'll pour out my name in the midst of Christ. I'll praise Him. Notice that switch. And that explains why in the Peter it says that the Old Testament prophets wrote, and Sir Dillons here, what manner they wrote. They couldn't understand what they wrote, you see. Because notice, and I'll tell you what this is, I don't have time getting all this right fully, but if you look at that thing real close, between verse 21 and verse 26, you got the church age after the cross. You see that? And then verse 27, 28, and 29, you got the millennial. You see that? And look at Psalm 23 just for a minute. Let me just show you something. Actually, there's all kind of good preaching in here. In Psalm 23, it said, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. What did Jesus say in John chapter 10? I'm the good shepherd, I give my life for the sheep, doesn't he? So he gave his life in 22, he becomes the good shepherd in 23. You see that? Then look in verse 30, Psalm 22 verse 30. A seed shall serve him, it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. You see that? Now let me show you something here. Look at verse 31. They shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born. that he hath done this. Notice a generation here is not a time period, even though a generation is a time period. But here is not a time period. What is it here? Here, it's a birth, isn't it? You see that? There shall come and shall declare his generation unto a people that shall be born. You see? And so in John chapter 3, Jesus told Nicodemus, you must be born again. Then he said, you a master in Israel and don't know these things? You see, the Old Testament prophets should know the Old Testament like you know your zip code. And Jesus was condemning Nicodemus because he didn't know the scriptures. He said, don't you know what the Bible, and he said, you're a master now and you don't know these things. If you knew the Old Testament like you should, Nicodemus, you'd know that you gotta be born again, because he said so right here, see? All right, let's look at one more place that has to do with the crucifixion, which is one of the best places in the Bible, and that's in Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53. We preached on this here a while back, so we won't have time to probably finish this this morning. But look in Isaiah chapter 53, and notice verse 3. Isaiah 53, 3. He is despised and rejected of men. He's despised. People turn up their nose at him. He's rejected. People turn him down. They don't want nothing to do with him. You see that? And that's the same way today. You see? Now, of course, I realize in the doctrinal text here, Isaiah is talking about Israel, but it's true about anybody, isn't it? Notice verse 4, Isaiah 53, 4. Surely he hath bore our grief, and carried our sorrow, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. You see? He was wounded, he was bruised, and he was beat. Now listen to me folks, listen, give me a taste of a minute. He was wounded, and bruised, and beat, for what? For what? for our iniquities. Now, I want to show you this morning the difference in believing the Bible and being saved and just being religious. Amen? There's only one way that would do you any good this morning. And that is, you'd have to say that's for you. You see? Now, the way they do it today, the way the modern day crowd does it, the way they get around making the Bible personal and apply it to their self so they can live like they want to and believe what they want to, they say we've all sinned. Amen? I know we've all sinned. But to be saved and believe the Bible, I got to believe what I sinned. It's easy for me to look out and say I know what a sinner you are, but it's hard to look and see what I've done, see? And that's where Bible preaching and Bible teaching don't fit today, is because people don't want to apply to them as a person. You see? And it'll never do you no good. I mean, you can have something wrong with you, and the doctor say, here's a bottle of medicine, it'll cure you. And I can take it home and give it to my wife, she can take all, it won't do me one bit of good. See? You got to, it's got to apply to you. And if it don't, And I wish I need 30 more minutes to finish this this morning. I ain't got it. So listen good. If it don't apply to you, and you don't apply it to you, it'll never do you one bit of good. You can die and go to.