All right, who has praise to start out this morning? Lisa. Many of them. Praise the Lord that we have an appointment with the neurosurgeon tomorrow to see what he thinks can or should be done about your blockage thing. And I'm excited about that. He'll probably say I'm block-headed. Block-headed. Yeah, probably wrong. Christine, what's your praise? Josh took the air conditioner apart this morning and cleaned it, and got it back together before we left the house. That's my praise, he got it back together. Is it working now? It ran all day yesterday, so Josh was like, maybe we'll just clean it out today. The radiator parts are disintegrating. Disintegrating. When I spray the water, it just kind of starts crumbling. Yeah. I have this great AC guy, if you need one. He's wonderful. Yeah, send me his info, because I want to have two. He's like, we trust him. Like, James don't trust nobody, so. If that says anything. He's a good guy. All right. Well, living in Texas, it's wonderful that God created air conditioning. Yes, it is. Especially in this week. People say, well, man did that. Well, where'd they get their smarts to do it? Lisa? I'm thankful that the Lord made a way for us to go to Gainesville Tuesday and back Wednesday. So you could see your sister. Well, we could see your sister. And she could see you. That was her. Yeah, she's getting old and kind of feeble, so. And she and I are the last two of the 12. What's your praise, Liam? He might start walking soon. We see the ENT on Tuesday. Oh, that's good. Yeah, and when he does, you're going to look back and say, oh, boy. My back is killing me. I'm ready. All right. All right. Who else has praise? Frances. I just want to praise God that I made it through the weekend to be able to go to my doctor's, the hospital, and get my lung, the fluid off my lung. Because the emergency room is not where I want to be to do that particular procedure. So praise God I made it through this weekend. I thought of you when I was visiting my sister. Her son Rick came in, and he's a really nice fella. He's very handy, and he's gone through a lot of things, but he had the top lobe of one of his lungs removed a couple years ago, and he's doing real well. Doesn't seem to slow him down any. So that's, I can't imagine that not slowing you down. We're thankful that that type of work is available, can be done, and we can, you know, get up and go again. I don't know how they're going to fix an artery in the brain. I know when they replaced the arteries in my heart, they had shut the heart down and then started back up. I don't know how that's going to work with the brain, but anyway. Who else? Glenn? pray to the Lord that I went to the doctor last Monday for my annual checkup, and she gave me a clean bill of health. Wow. Good kidneys, good liver, everything's working. No diabetes. Yeah, as old as you are, something ought to be going wrong with you. Yeah. Amanda, what's your praise? I just want to praise the Lord, the work he's doing. My husband went to men's study for the first time and he loved it. He came home so lit up. Good. It feels so hard to see that. I have one of my co-workers, I put it on a prayer request, her dad has a very aggressive form of liver cancer and the insurance is dragging her feet on whether or not they're going to allow him to be eligible for a transplant, which is pretty terrible is the word we use. And he got approved and so just grateful that they were able to add him to the transplant list and put him as an emergency donor so hopefully they'll Find them something pretty quickly, so he's got a couple kids. I think their youngest is 10, so I Don't think he's a very older guy, but you know just praise it Okay, who else other praises Lisa I I managed to do a little bit of reconstructive art. The heat is bad and the air quality is horrible. So I'm surprised. And a really dear friend brought grass over to fill in our bald spot where I did the work. That was really sweet. I didn't even have to pick it up. And I bought dirt and went under it today. Well, I was able to get some work done. I didn't do the work. I paid for having it done, but I call it the same thing. It got done. And all those bamboos that were leaning over on the neighbor's side, we got those all trimmed up and cut away. Josh, go ahead. So my praise is that the customers, you know, it was a real easy situation that could have really easily been a, you know, You messed up my turf, type of deal. And they were really calm about it. We all kind of agreed. In fact, it was their idea that it was a wooden glass, so I didn't have to point it out. They could have said, why did you sell me such cheap, no good turf? They could have said all kind of things. So I'll praise the Lord that it went real smoothly. We got it repaired and fixed. And they know it's an issue with their window that they're going to cover. But we got it fixed for them anyway. So I'll praise the Lord that went smoothly when it didn't have to. Oh, yeah. Amen. Speaking of work, we've been struggling. My team's been struggling at work. We've just been going through it. And I was down to one guy who was basically doing the job at three. And I brought in a new girl last week, and she's doing really well. And I got another guy starting on Monday. So hopefully, we'll just continue to just bless our team. Yeah, amen. The Lord brought us a rent house and it comes with a washer and dryer which saves a lot of money. And they get a backyard which I'm dying for. pay somebody to do it or you do it yourself. When did we move away from Mary Lane? 2007. So this would have been about 04. In 2004, Mike and Tracy started their lawn care business. They were, of course, neighbors, just lived next to Nick's property up the street. I was out there on my tractor. I had a tractor with a box blade and a mower deck and a finishing mower deck and a tiller and a whole bunch of stuff. And we were mowing that three acres. And I'm out there sweating and riding that tractor and mowing that. And I got to thinking how much, what all this, you know, every time I turn around I have to fix the equipment because it's breaking all the time. And so I thought, well, you know, what could I get for this? I got to adding it all up and I thought, I'll probably get $10,000 for this. pile of junk here, all this different equipment. And I thought, how many times can I get my grass mowed for $10,000? And I sold all that stuff the next week, and I have never mowed a blade of grass since. I'm still operating on that $10,000. I guess it's gone by now, but there's been replacements. As far as I'm concerned, it's still there. Yep. Somebody else is doing it. Getting it done. Any other praises? Frances. I'd like to praise the Lord for this amazing family I have. Surprising me with the beautiful basket of gifts and all the love and support and phone calls and texts. Well, we pray for one another too. That's probably the most valuable thing we receive from our family. The Lord is being lifted up in prayer. And we've all felt and seen it work. We know what God does and what motivates him to do what he does. He loves us and probably would have care of the things we prayed for anyway at some point, but he asks us to do it. He commands us to pray. He wants us to be a part of it, to participate in it. That's pretty amazing that the king of the universe would allow us to persist and desire us to participate in what he's doing in this place. All right. Last chance for praise. Going once, Lisa. I'm detail oriented. I've noticed that too. God doesn't correct my grammar nearly as often as someone else does. So he wouldn't have to correct it. I guess that's true. He gave me her for that. So just don't pray in front of her and you'll be fine. My favorite things about it. I love it. Go ahead. I just want to praise the Lord that I'm feeling a little better, you know, all the time. It's just slowly increasing my energy, you know, from this mold and stuff, but you know, it's slow. It's going to take time, but I'm just praising the Lord for that. Yep. Praise the Lord. Any increment of improvement is a praise. It does. It just gives me more hope and more hope all the time. Alright, you ready? This is John chapter 19 and we're gonna start in verse 30. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished. And he bowed his head and gave up the ghost. The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, for that Sabbath day was a high day, besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers and break the legs of the first and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already, break not his legs. But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side and forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that saw it bare record and his record is true and he knoweth that he sayeth true that you might believe. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true, and he knoweth that he sayeth true, that ye might believe. And that person is who? Well, John the Apostle. He saw it, and you might believe, and we did. For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, the bone of him shall not be broken. And again, another scripture, they shall look on him whom they pierced. that scripture is found in Zechariah chapter 12 and the one about the bone is in the Psalms. And after this, Joseph of Arimathea being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus and There came also Nicodemus which at the first came to Jesus by night and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes about a hundred pound weight. Then they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen cloths with the spices as the manner of the Jews is to bury. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden and in the garden a new sepulcher wherein was never man yet laid, and there laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day, for the sepulchre was nigh at hand. The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early when it was yet dark unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and saith unto them, they have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher and we know not where they have laid him. Peter therefore went forth and that other disciple and came to the sepulcher." Every time I read this word, this is a commonly mispronounced word, Josh. I'd just like to know. Other people mispronounce this word often. It's most commonly called a sepulcher, but it's a sepulcher. Not very long after I got saved, I began teaching the teens in our church. And it wasn't very long that we had a whole class full of teens, boys, girls. Three or four that were pretty serious about learning more and wondering if they were being called to the Lord to minister. So I gave these boys an opportunity to speak to the class, practice, and apply their trade to see if they had what was coming. And the one fellow, I can remember his face, but I can't remember his name, and he was talking about the Pharisees being like a whited sepulcher. But he didn't do as well as Josh at pronouncing these words. He called it a whited seapulcher. And I had this picture in my head that every time I see this word, I think about him. And that whited seapulcher that he was telling us about. And verse five says, and he stooping down, looking in, saw the linen clothes lying, yet he went not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went in to the sepulcher, and seeth the linen clothes of his lie." This is such an obvious Peter. John comes up to the tomb, and basically he sticks his head in and looks, and is observing everything. And Peter comes up, barges right in, just like he does verbally, just like he did with the sword in the garden. just barges right in, and the napkin that was about his head not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. You've got this description of these clothes lying there. They had taken linen strips, long linen pieces, and wrapped the body of Jesus like a mummy with spices wrapped up against him for, well, obvious reasons. Lazarus was in the grave, and Jesus told him to remove the stone. His sister said, Lord, by now he stinks. And that's what those spices were for. I mean, they weren't really buried. There was a stone rolled up there against the stone, but that's not gonna keep the odor from getting out. and those spices were there for a reason. It says, then went in also that other disciple which came first to the sepulcher and he saw and believed. There was something about the way these clothes were lying that caused them to believe. Do you understand that the clothes were just lying there? Like the body evaporated. Jesus, they were just like they were. They were wound around him and he came through them. Just like he came out of the tomb. Just like he came into the room the next day. I think it is this particular place that gives people the idea that when Jesus comes that the saints from God are going to disappear and their clothing is going to fall behind and they're going to disappear in the rapture. That's a cool idea. It's cool here. What can you say? But that's not what the scriptures say it's gonna be like. The scriptures say that the spirits rise and the bodies stay. Flesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of God. And the disciples ask where? he said, they're going to be taken away, they said, where Lord? And he said, where you see the eagles gathered, there will the carcasses be. So this world about a week after the rapture, This world is going to become a very unsavory place to live. I mean, just think about it. Amanda, what's your question? I've never heard it like that. That's just like blowing my mind. Fascinating. So I guess to the dying world, it'll look like we all just dropped dead. That's right. Wow. I would have never seen it like that. A lot of older people, all the little babies, some kind of mysterious disease. We're already programmed to be scared of mysterious diseases. I was talking to Ray about it. He said that the Muslim faith believes that Jesus is going to come back and punish everyone for believing that he's the son of God, and by doing so, kill them all. Oh, boy. That's an interesting thought. Wow. It's that interesting. That's, that is. So all these Muslims are gonna say, I told you so. I told you so. People say like, how could people not, how could people not believe in Jesus when that happened? But that's how. This week. I watched a couple of Christian movies, again, like God's Not Dead and God's Not Dead 2. And then I watched The Case for Christ, which is based on the book by Lee Struble, who is an investigative reporter, who was an atheist when he started investigating Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection. There's no doubt that he's a historical figure, but whatever. There were some other shows that automatically came on after that, and one of them was called The End Times. And it was just real conversationally presented and so on spot. And it was less than an hour, but I don't know how to find it unless, I mean, it just seems like there'd be a lot of programs. You know, the end times. Call the end times. It would be weird, but it was really good. Really good. Oh, is that how they ever get that right? Yeah. Yeah. But it wasn't like a big presentation to make money either. It was a couple of biblical scholars. Did the cover have like a younger looking guy with black beard on it? There's one, I'm pretty sure it's called In My Heart. Well, there were some other shows that came on, too, about the Bible. But I think this had to have been made maybe in the 90s, maybe the early 2000s. It seems like maybe Tim LaHaye was one of the guys, which he was one of the authors that wrote the Left Behind series. And if y'all don't know about that, check it out. I listened to that in the car, in my brother's car, on the way to Colorado when I was a kid. He had the cassette tapes, and he'd put them in and we'd listen to it. I didn't register that until a couple years ago, but I was like, hey, what was that thing we listened to in the car? He's like, I don't remember that. When I was watching these over again, I know more than I did when they first were done. Hi, baby. You laughing at my voice? The Left Behind series was very There was a lot of stuff in it that wasn't right, but it was very entertaining. I read the entire series and waited until Lee's book came out, bought the book, read it on paper. And it was very entertaining. As a matter of fact, it got me started being a reader, I think. Gary, go ahead. Something struck me at the end of chapter 19. It never hit me exactly this way before. Nicodemus was a very practical man, it seems like to me, because it looks like, you know, Joseph goes to get the body. He's like, Oh, you're going to get the body. Great. I'm gonna go get the incense, the spices and stuff that we're gonna need. We're gonna need them. Yeah. So then Joseph gets the body down. About that time, Nicodemus shows up, you know, and he was very practical going through Jesus at night too, I mean, for a number of reasons. The practicality of it just never struck me that way, which is kind of surprising because I'm a very practical man, so it never struck me that way. Yeah, Nicodemus was smart enough to figure it out. I always have a deal in my head when I read this in verse 20. The napkin is folded and laid by its side and all the linen is laying there. I have this image in my head of Jesus rising through the linen but keeping the one on his head. Can we get enough to wipe this for you? Let me give you this official version rather than me just telling you about it. This is Matthew 24. Someone look up Mark, look up the two men in one bed. This is the particular lesson where the Lord is telling the disciples about the two women should be grinding. Luke 17, we'll find a spot. Find a spot and read it for us. I tell you in that night there shall be two men in one bed. The one shall be taken and the other shall be left. Keep reading. Two women shall be grinding together. The one shall be taken and the other left. Two men shall be in the field. The one shall be taken and the other left. And they answered and said unto him, where, Lord? And he said unto them, wheresoever the body is, Will the evils be gathered together? He said, there will be two. One's taken, one's left. Three times. There are two in a bed. There are two in a field. There's two grinding. One's taken, one left. And the disciples said, where, Lord? What does that mean? What are they asking? It's either where are they being taken or where are they being left? It's only two possible answers. And the answer he gave them is, eliminates one possibility. And the Lord said, wheresoever the carcasses, read that last two verses again. And the last two verses, and they answered and said unto him, where, Lord? And he said unto them, wheresoever the body is, to there will the eagles be gathered together. Yeah. And in Matthew 24, he says in verse 24, there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders insomuch that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore, if they say unto you, behold, he is in this desert, go not forth. Behold, he is in the secret chambers. Believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth unto the west, so shall also the coming of the son of man be. That's a good description. Lightning flashes and goes from the east to the west. How long does that take? It happens instantly. So shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. For wheresoever the carcasses is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Why is it saying two women and one will be taken and two men? Who can answer that? You have a righteous spirit and you have a flesh. It's called the old man and the new man in the Bible, two men. So it's in reference to what we were just reading. The new man leaves and the body stays. And the eagles feed. Now I've been around a lot of different preachers and a lot of different things. And the scripture is just, I mean, it is what it is. but like Amanda, she'd never heard that before. I've never heard anybody preach it before, but it's been there all time. Then went in also that other disciple, verse eight, which came first to the sepulcher and he saw and believed for as yet they knew not the scripture that he must rise again from the dead. then the disciples went away unto their own home. How come they didn't know about the resurrection from the dead? Had they been told? They'd been told. They're typical Baptists. You don't remember everything you learned. But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping, and as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the sepulcher. This is a very specific picture. She's crying, and while she's crying, she stoops down and looks. Do you remember, Donna, do you remember being at the sepulcher? How big was the door? Is that the size of a normal door? No, it's not. It's little and it's short. That's right, we had to bend down to... Yeah, remember? You had to stoop down to go in. Even you and Lisa had to stoop down to go in. And Lisa said, I'll go on in there shortly. And she's looking through tear-filled eyes. Have you ever done that? Have you ever looked through tear-filled eyes? And seeth two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had lain. And they say unto her, woman, why weepest thou? You can't get inflection when you read this. You have to use your imagination. So what do those angels sound like? Is that what you say at the funerals, when you do funerals, people? What do the angels sound like? Is that what you say? Yeah, I mean, did they say, woman? Or did they say, woman? Why are you crying? It's halfway joyful up there. You what? It was joyful. Woman, why don't we do that? Yeah, I think you're probably right. She saith unto them, because they have taken away my Lord and I know not where they have laid him. And when she had thus said, she turned herself back and saw Jesus standing. He's standing right behind her. How cool is that? And she knew not that it was Jesus. Why didn't she know it was Jesus? because she's looking through thick, blurry glasses called tears. Then saith Jesus unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him and I will take him away. Mary. She turned herself and saith unto him, Rabbani, which is to say, Master. Why didn't she recognize his voice? That's my concern. Yeah, I was wondering that too. I would know my son's voice. Maybe the voices are different. He used a different voice. Yeah. Maybe we have different voices out there. It happened kind of quick. It seems like she walked in, stooped down, two guys like, why are you crying? Then she turned around, there's another guy, why are you crying? When he spoke her name, she knew who it was immediately. Like, like, you don't talk to anybody the same way you talk to Caleb. Right. Totally different voice. Totally different. Yeah. This is woman. Yeah. I'm not I may not be 100% clear on this. Let me make sure. Okay, so when Jesus is right there, where he's talking to Mary, and he has just risen. He is in his new body, and he says later that we're gonna have a body like his. That is correct? Okay, where'd the old body go? That's his new body. That's where his old body at. Apparently that wasn't important enough. It wasn't. Jesus didn't leave his old body. His old body wasn't sinful like ours. His old body is glorified and he rose in his glorified state. It's the same body. Got the nail prints. got the scar on the side, same body. That's why this instance is not a picture of the rapture, like many people assume that it is. It's a different situation. Jesus said unto her, touch me not, for I'm not yet ascended to my father, but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my father and your father, my God and your God. Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had spoken these things unto her. Then this next verse is cool. Then the same day at evening, what day is it? Sunday. The same day and evening being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst and saith unto them, peace be unto you. And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord. Then said Jesus to them again, Now, I don't know if Mary's in the back of the room saying, I told you so, but you know. Then said Jesus unto them again, peace be unto you, as my father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and saith unto them, receive ye the Holy Ghost. That's such a, there's a whole lot in the Bible, several different things in the Bible about Jesus declaring something to be. He said, let there be light and there was light. He said, I declare you righteous and your spirit became righteous. And he said to them, receive ye the Holy Ghost. So what happened? It only works one way. Whosoever sins you remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosoever sins you retain, they are retained. Thomas, we'll stop there with that paragraph. Jerry, go ahead. Back to that, that just struck me on the touching him, okay? Mary was not to touch him because he had not ascended yet. But didn't he tell the apostles to touch him and to handle him? Yeah, after he came back. Okay, so he ascended right after that? Right after that. And then came right back? Yeah. Okay, I didn't understand that. I wasn't 100% sure. Because he ascends, you know, after the 40 days he ascends. But they touched him before that, so I didn't... No, he ascended immediately after the resurrection. He ascended into the heavens, into heaven, Holy of Holies where the real mercy seat is. And there he deposited his shed blood. Hebrews tells us more about that.