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THE FALL AND RISE OF HUMANKIND

Minister Lisa Kane

January 23, 2022

In The Fall and Rise of Humankind, Lisa Kane begins by grounding the message in Genesis 1–3, explaining the creation, the planning phase of God’s design, and the perfection of the original world. She shows how humanity was given authority, yet fell through deception when Eve and Adam disobeyed God, leading to three lasting curses: the serpent’s humiliation, pain and subjection for women, and toil and death for men.

The teaching highlights how Lucifer, once exalted, resented humanity’s relationship with God and sought to corrupt it through sin. Yet, this sets the stage for God’s plan of redemption. Lisa connects Genesis to the New Testament, demonstrating how Jesus, the Word made flesh, became the perfect answer to mankind’s fall. Through His death, resurrection, and the shedding of His blood, Jesus broke the curse of sin and provided the way back to God.

The message builds to the triumphant truth that although all are born into sin, believers can rise through Christ into eternal life. Lisa calls listeners to repentance and acceptance of Jesus as Savior, stressing the urgency of salvation and the reality of eternity. She closes by encouraging believers to walk in relationship with God, live redeemed lives, and stand ready for Christ’s return.

Objective:

The objective of this message is to teach and reveal the biblical truth about humanity’s fall into sin through Adam and Eve, the consequences of that fall, and the redemptive plan of God fulfilled through Jesus Christ. It aims to help listeners understand why sin entered the world, how it affects all people, and why redemption through Jesus is essential for eternal life. The message also emphasizes building a personal relationship with God, recognizing spiritual authority over the enemy, and choosing salvation to secure one’s place with Christ.

Synopsis:

In The Fall and Rise of Humankind, Lisa Kane begins by grounding the message in Genesis 1–3, explaining the creation, the planning phase of God’s design, and the perfection of the original world. She shows how humanity was given authority, yet fell through deception when Eve and Adam disobeyed God, leading to three lasting curses: the serpent’s humiliation, pain and subjection for women, and toil and death for men.

The teaching highlights how Lucifer, once exalted, resented humanity’s relationship with God and sought to corrupt it through sin. Yet, this sets the stage for God’s plan of redemption. Lisa connects Genesis to the New Testament, demonstrating how Jesus, the Word made flesh, became the perfect answer to mankind’s fall. Through His death, resurrection, and the shedding of His blood, Jesus broke the curse of sin and provided the way back to God.

The message builds to the triumphant truth that although all are born into sin, believers can rise through Christ into eternal life. Lisa calls listeners to repentance and acceptance of Jesus as Savior, stressing the urgency of salvation and the reality of eternity. She closes by encouraging believers to walk in relationship with God, live redeemed lives, and stand ready for Christ’s return.

Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above:

Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Sunday, January 23rd, 2002. And this message is called The Fall and Rise of Humankind. So, let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we lift up this word to you and bless it in the name of Jesus. Open up our hearts to receive and our understanding to comprehend and give us the strength and the endurance to live it and walk with it and to believe. In the glorious name of Jesus we pray. Amen. All right. So, as you can see, I'm doing a little bit of a different format here. Let's see how this works. I've been playing with lighting and sound, just trying to find something that I'm happy with. So far, this is looking okay. So, let's let's give this one a try. So, let's get right into the message. The fall and rise of humankind. Okay. Where are we going with this, Lisa? All right. So, our opening scripture here is Genesis 2:1. Thus, the heavens and the earth and all the host of them were finished. What an interesting scripture to start with, Lisa. It's like this is the done. It's done. All right. So, why do we need to do this? Okay. I understand that there are a lot of teachers out there and preachers who don't teach on the book of Genesis. I also understand that there's a lot of people who think that's in the past. I don't need to think about it or worry about it. It has nothing to do with me. Well, if you read Matthew 24 and Jesus is talking about prophecy, he tells you, I believe it's in verse 37, that it'll be like the days of Noah. So, you got to know about Noah's flood at least. Okay. But the most important part is you're probably asking yourself the question why. You know, I've already kind of touched a little bit on what we go through, but when you understand how mankind fell in the beginning and that you are born into it, then it it kind of comes like, oh wow, I have to deal with this. And there's a reality check in here. And it really once you get that why answered, it is absolutely imperative that you see where you're going with this and why you need to believe. So I think addressing the why is very important. On top of it all, man, if you read Genesis 1, 2, and 3, chapters 1 through 3, oh my goodness, there are so many golden nuggets and mysteries here that kind of answer a lot of things that science has been answering, but you've got a lot of people lying to us. So, let's get into it and let's just show you how mankind fell, what that story is, uh, and where what Jesus, it actually helps you understand what the redemption of what God and Jesus did. It's really, really, and you see the connection. Scripture just connects it all together. It's very powerful. So, I'm very excited about this message as you could tell. So, let's get into it. So, it is finished. So, you can see here um the heavens and the earth. Now this is Genesis 2 verse one. Now golden nugget number one. Let me just tell you if you do a word study on Genesis 1:es 1 and two and there's a lot of theologians out there who have a theory that another world existed before us. And they it's because they did a word study on here. So you might be interested in checking that out. But basically, God sees this darkness here, this uckiness and he's he he makes life in that and he doesn't understand. You're going to see that in scriptures. So, it's like, wow. Okay. Um, you know, it kind of hints like what did God destroy before to make it like that? And did he start over? I mean, it's really really interesting and and you can get a lot of questions out of that. And these are things you can ask God and hope that he answers it for you. Um, I suggest writing it down in a journal, date it, and one day you may get your answer and you can write it down. Could be in a dream, it could be scripture. He'll reveal that to you as a believer in Christ. So, I highly encourage you to do that. So, that's Genesis 1 and two. Now, I want you to see um or verses one and two in chapter one. I want you to see something here because if you go on an internet search, which I don't recommend doing that, but anyways, when you do, you're gonna hear all these people that talk about two atoms and two E's, and it's like, come on, people. This is not complicated. When you read chapters one and two, you're seeing the same story from two different perspectives. Perspective number one is chapter one, and that's the planning phase. God plans everything out. You're gonna see how this connects to the redemption. Oh, this is so good. I'm so excited about it. So, he plans everything. So, when I say he plans, pretend, think of it like this. He's in his workshop. He's got a bowl of water and that's going to be the oceans. He's got a bowl of earth, that's going to be the land mass. So, and he lays everything out, including man and woman. So, everything is laid out. This is chapter one. and he tells you what he does on each day. So he creates the sun and the moon and the stars and he does all that. I'm not going to go into a lot of that scripture. I encourage you to read chapter one and figure it out and read it from the perspective that it's a planning phase. Really helps when you understand that because then you get chapter two because you know when people come back and say no two Adams two n okay just understand the scriptures. Okay. So, in fact, let's go to the next verse here because I think this is going to also clarify and help you understand this planning phase. So, Genesis 2, now we're in verses four and six, and it says, "This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens before." So, if you read all chapter one, you think, "Okay, well, this is what he did on day one. This is what he did on day two." Yes, but he made it, but he didn't put it in action. It was a plan. Think of it as a planning phase. This is very important. So, look at what he says here. Before any plant of the field was in the earth, and before any herb of the field had grown, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground, but a mist went it from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. Okay. So also while you're seeing that he talked about the planning phase now you're seeing he's talking about how the environment of the earth existed prior to what we know it today. Okay so today we get rain today we get winds this weekend we've had heavy winds here in Lakeor but uh they that didn't exist then. In fact it was such a perfect temperature that the water would miss you didn't even need to wear clothing. Adam was made without clothing and until he sinned, God didn't put clothes on clothes on him until then. So you can see that the atmosphere was completely different. So I the reason I'm stressing this is because I want you to see when you think of science and you you get into the world of science and they tell you evolution and all this kind of stuff, I want you to consider how the world existed then. God was perfect. And in fact, every time he went through whatever he planned, he said, "And this is good. He blessed it. It is good." So get into that. See that and watch how it unfolds. Okay. Now, I want you to see that God set things up here. This is and this also reinforces how chapter 1 reads as a plan. Look at the next scripture here. Genesis chapter 2 15-1 17. Then the Lord God took the man. Where did he take him from? [Laughter] I'm telling you, it was like he was in a workshop and he took him out of the workshop and now put him into the universe into the area. I'm not kidding. This is scripture. This is absolutely amazing. Watch this. So then God, the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die." So God sets the parameters. So Adam now knows what he needs to do. So he's there to tend the garden. So let me let me kind of go a little further. That word, by the way, tand is to guard. Uh, and if you want to do a word st study, again, I encourage you to do that. But I also want you to think this through for just a quick moment. You know, there's a lot of things that Moses did not write in here because it's implied. So, you can think the situation and the logical through this. And it is really, really interesting. So, we know that dinosaurs existed. You notice the scripture doesn't talk anything about it. does talk about all the animals are created here and you're going to see that Adam's going to end up naming all of the um all the animals. So, they're there. So, what's the purpose of having a dinosaur? You have to keep in mind also there's something else going on here. Sin has not appeared yet. There's no sin yet. So, that means you don't have animal eating animal. Okay? There there there's no viciousness. So, everything is edible from the earth. Meaning you can grab whatever root, stem, branch, you can eat it. It's all edible. This is the environment that the Lord created. It was naturally watered by the earth. But dinosaurs, what was their purpose? Well, if Adam only had, we don't know how much land he was given to tend. But we do know that whatever that amount is is only one man. How much can one man handle? Okay. But in all reality, if he's just having to guard it, then it's a matter of what he can eat, right? If he can only eat so much, does everything grow and overgrown? So, dinosaurs have to eat the grass and the trees and the bushes to keep things from overgrowing. That's why they're there. I just thought I'd throw that in there because this makes the whole thing make a whole lot more sense when science says, "Well, there's dinosaurs and evolution." It helps you understand things. And I'm going to talk about evolution here in just a minute. So, I want you to see. So, let's now look at what Adam does here because there's still no Eve in the picture. Watch this. So, here you can see God took Adam. He puts him into this particular land. And this is what he has them do. Genesis 2 19-20. Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature that was its name. So Adam gave names to all cattle to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. Eve is not there yet. Okay? I want you to see that there is so much in these two scriptures. I need to elaborate because this is so powerful. This is going to help you understand what the devil's up to and why redemption is so important and it's in these two scriptures. So God forms all the animals. He forms them out of the dirt. He he brings them all to Adam and he names them. Now, first question you got to ask yourself, how long did it take Adam to name all those animals? Now, keep in mind these are kinds. So, we're not talking about different breeds of dogs or horses or cats. We are talking about a dog, a cat, a horse, a giraffe, an elephant, dinosaur, type of dinosaur. But all of these animals existed and Adam is naming them. So, did it take him a couple hours, days, weeks, months, years, 5,000 years? Well, let's take a moment and analyze this because I think this is very important. Watch this. So, if sin hasn't happened, Romans 6:23 says the wages of sin is dead. Adam isn't dying. That means he's not aging. Notice God doesn't tell you how old he was when he made him. He's an adult. Full mature adult. We just don't know. Is he 21, 28, 33, 55? We don't know how old he is. God doesn't have tails because there's no age here.

Here's even the most important part. So, let's let's do a quick scenario here. Let's say uh God brings in two big fat gray things and he asks Adam to name them male and female. And Adam says, "I'm gonna call him an elephant." God chuckles and says, "Why?" And Adam says, "Cuz I got trunks." You know, Adam is a child in his mind. Okay? And God is working with him to see what his creation is like. So, this is kind of really neat and important here. So, as they're having this conversation, so God chuckles and he moves on, but Adam stops him and he says, "Well, wait a minute, God, I have a question." And I said, "Okay, what's your question?" And and Adam's like, "You know, I I named that dinosaur back there. He's got big old long fat tail to hold up his girth because he's a big he's a big guy. But these elephants are big, too. And you gave them a skinny long tail. why they need the tail to help them hold up their curves. And so God goes and explains his creation. His mind is thinking, you know, so God and Adam are building a relationship here.

And while they're doing that, somebody's watching something take place. Now, I want to go into the next scripture here real quick because I think this is going to help you understand what's going on behind the scenes. Now, we're going to go back to Genesis chapter 1. Remember, this is the planning phase. Look at this. Genesis chapter 1 26 through 27. And God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God. He created him male and female. He created him. Now remember, this is chapter one, the planning phase. So he already made Eve. He already made Adam. He already made all the animals. But you got to remember, he formed all the animals from the dirt and then brought them to Adam. So his chapter one is all about planning. So now, so here God and Adam are having a relationship. God is spending so much time with Adam. This is absolutely incredible. He loves Adam. He's enjoying his relationship with Adam. So remember chapter 2 verse one, the opening scripture, and all the earth and heaven was finished. So now you also know the heavens are built and made and finished. They're there means all the angels are there. God doesn't go into details of what he did in the heavens and in fact you know the mystery of heaven is we know about angels because the term angel is a messenger so they came and spoke to us from heaven gave Mary a message gave you know Daniel messages so the angels have had an important role but if you read Ezekiel there's some interesting creatures in heaven book of Enoch even talks about watchers are they really angels you know was it a messenger or were they a different form you don't know this. So the heavenly realm already exists right here, right now. So God and Adam are relating. God made Adam in his image and he's like seeing his image in the flesh and there's this devil at that time. He was an angel and he's sitting there. He's watching this unfold. He's there going to Ezekiel and he talks about him being there. the uh the devil taking the form of the serpent. And again, I have so many scriptures. I didn't include that here, but you can go read that. So, here you've got Adam and God. And you know, when that the scriptures talk about, you know, the devil's there because you're going to hear about him interacting with Eve here in just a minute. You know, he's there. He took the form of the serpent. You know this. And they Ezekiel confirms it as being the devil. So, I'm telling you that he's watching God and Adam right here, right now in that moment. And he is trying to figure out what's going on because he knows what God looks like. You know, Lucifer knows what God look like. Looks like And there he is. He's looking at him and he's kind of looking at the tube, but he sees Adam in this weak form. He's he's uh flesh on top of it. He stinks. If you read the book of Enoch, I'm not going to describe what the angel smell is like, but it's not pleasant. We don't smoke it to them. So Lucifer standing there, he's watching this going, "Why?" Because in his mind, it was made the most beautiful creature. And he's like, "I'm top dog here, folks. You need to me. You need to worship me. And you got to give me Mike dude credit. This is the devil talking. Okay. So, here you are. You're you're seeing this scene unfold. You're seeing God. You're seeing Adam. They're getting along. God is thrilled. Yes, he made him in his own image. He loves him. He loves his creation. This is absolutely incredible because he's basically ignoring everybody else. And Lucifer is getting madder and matter because he can't figure out what's going on. In fact, in his mind, he's thinking that thing, that human thing is stupid. I could deceive that thing.

So, let's watch what unfolds here because now you understand why suddenly the serpent goes and talks to Eve because the scripture doesn't tell you why. So when you understand that he was there watching this relationship build up, this love for such a lowly creature as us, we're lower than the angels. And at that time, Lucifer was higher than us. So you could see, you know, Lucifer had no love for us at all. He did not like us. So what happens next? So let us go into what he does with Eve. And I want you to see something. He goes after Eve. He didn't go after Adam. Adam spent time with God. Now, once Adam is done naming all the animals, God brings Eve into the picture, puts Adam to sleep. You can read the scriptures. I'm not going to read all of those. And Eve, you know, comes into existence. Now, I'm going to tell you right now, after they sin, they're pushed out of the Garden of Eden. Eve did not have a child in the Garden of Eden. So, now we're looking at a nine-month period. Okay? So, we have now nine months before Adam and Eve are outside of um the Garden of Eden. So, watch what the serpent says to Eve. And you have to understand Adam is right there with her. He he is um he's one happy boy. He's having his honeymoon. He's happy. So, let's look at what happens here with the serpent and Eve. So, we're in Genesis chapter 3 now, and this is verses four and five. Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." Again, I'm not bringing the whole conversation to you. This to say the least, Eve got deceived by Satan. And you can see Satan boldly lied because God did say, "You will surely die." Remember the rule I read earlier with Adam? God says, "You will surely die." And uh proof is they did die. um might have been like over 900 years later but they died. So Satan boldly lies. He deceives Eve and now the fall of man mankind occurs. Sin takes place the moment that Eve pulls that fruit off, takes a bite, gives some to her husband who's standing right there. He takes a bite as well. This sets in motion three curses that you and I still live under today, which is the fall of humankind. So, let's go take a look at those three curses in detail here. This is the part I wanted to get to, but I had to lay that foundation here for you. So, I do encourage you to go read Genesis 1 through3 and see how it all pans out and and continue on if you're interested. It's it's such a neat beginning to see how things got started. It really is. All right. So curse number one. So Genesis in chapter 3 verse4 and 15. So the Lord said to the serpent, "Because you have done this. You are cursed more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field. On your belly you shall go and you shall eat death all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel." Again, I'm not going to go into all of what that implies, but the most important part I want you to see here is that he has to crawl on his belly. And what did God do in the planning phase? He gave authority to his image us over every creeping crawling thing on the earth. So he demoted Lucifer to be lower than the humans for that matter lower than the cattle. So he lost his rank. And you know if you go and you study the time between um Adam and Eve and they start having their household, their family and their kids and up to the flood and you realize this entire civilization comes into existence and you see that the Greek mythology comes out of there. Read the book of Enoch. You talk about the 200 watchers. Satan did this and he got demoted bad. And one of the thoughts I always had in the back of my mind is why wasn't he in charge of the 200 watchers and telling him what to do? But he got demoted. He's an outcast. So these 200 watchers decide to go ahead and do something and then they're cursed really bad, too. God um uh they can't die. He He doesn't kill his spiritual beings, but their offspring that they had with women. And this is in Genesis, I believe, chapter 6. you again I'm going down a rabbit trail but you can go read the scriptures if you if you want they had so the these giants had these offspring and God cursed the offspring and had them die within 500 years of their lives and then uh those angels those demons of 200 watchers here were put somewhere on the earth in a deep place with the covering of her but it's a dark place they they're not seeing any light they will be released in the time of tribulation in Revelation you can read more about that too in Jude food. But if you're interested, it's the book of Enoch. It is not in the Bible, but it is a book that was found with the old scriptures of the Bible in the C room case. So that might be something you're interested in looking at. So you can see here though that Satan is cursed and now he's below us. This is why we have the authority to o to overcome Satan. So when he comes in, you know, and God uses Satan. He's a puppet. So if God sends Satan to attack us, we can say, "Hey, you know what? Be gone with you. Get below my feet. you're not in my life. And then go to God and say, I don't know why you allowed him to do that, but I'm coming here and I'm gonna repent and I'm gonna get myself lined up with you. And that's how that works. So this is so you can see curse one. You can see our role in it. We still live with that today because we are dealing with Satan. So let's look at curse number two. This is against Eve woman. Uh so Genesis 3:16, to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception. and in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you. Sorry women, but men are going to rule over us because that's part of the curse that we are. And uh although we're making strides, it ain't going to the the roles are never going to switch. But and notice she has to give birth in pain. And we still deal with that today, you know. And for all those methods doing in the water and not not that I experienced that I'm going to tell you right now I don't know how much easier it was but it was still painful having kids is painful that's a curse we still live with today now let's look at curse three this is the most interesting curse because you think Adam got cursed maybe in a roundabout way but look how God does it Genesis 3 17-19 then to Adam he said because you have heeded the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, you shall not eat of it. Cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil, you shall eat of it all the days of your life, both thorns and thistles. It shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you shall return. We die. And what do our bodies do? They turn to dust if you bury them. same thing. Now, man still has to toil the ground. We have to plant um our seeds and we have to pull out the harvest. And that is something that we work hard to do. It is a hard life being a farmer. I'm going to tell you that right now. So, this is another curse that we still live with today. So this entire section of this message is thus for thus far uh the fall of mankind. This is you know we fell. And so every time you're born or anybody's born into this world, guess what? We're born into sin. Now another point to make out here I think that's very important is when God says he made us in his image we can procreate and we can have children and each of our child children become souls future souls. So when animals have their offspring they're they're blank. The animals are instinctive but they don't have the cognitive sensient thinking skills that humans do. We're the only ones that have that and we're the only ones that can procreate. Even the heavenly realm cannot do that. They're already established. So, however many angels God had made initially, that's it. They're already established. Okay. So, now what did God do to save us? This is awesome. Look at We're going to start here in Luke. Luke 1:16. Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people. So, he redeemed us. How did he do that? So, let's go look at the birth of Christ for just a quick moment here in Luke 1:es 30-33. Then the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the son of the highest. And the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. and of his kingdom there will be no end. So God decides, so he made us in his image and now all of a sudden he decides to have a biological son born into the flesh that he made in his image. You know the one that Lucifer thought we're just weak and stupid and can be deceived. Oh, God says, "You want to go there?" I'm telling you who I'm sending there. Look who he sent. Oh, this is so powerful. So, this is his biological son. But watch what he's called here. John 1 1-5. In the beginning was the word. Let's go back to Genesis. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. You see what God is doing here? He is saying Jesus is the redemption for what happened in Genesis. And look at what he says here. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made. Chapter one that whole plan he says he made everything with the power of his word. And now he sent his word into flesh. Let's continue on. Uh in him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shines in the darkness. And the darkness did not comprehend it. Read chapter one of Genesis when God said, "Let there be light in the darkness." Said, "I don't understand what that is. What's that? Do you know what that is?" And you know, it's like, "I don't know what that is." And he's reaffirming it in John chapter one. So God is connecting some dots here. And I want you to see this because this is absolutely imperative that you understand that God went after the devil and he said, "You going to do this? You took my people. You deceived my image, my creation. Now I'm going to take it back and I'm going to redeem it." Look at this. John chapter 1 verse14. And the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth. Hallelujah. So we actually got to see the power of the word of God for those that were alive during Jesus' time during that time. So Jesus, he's alive. He's walking on the earth. He's the power that created it all. Imagine, you know, coming from that greatness, that that power and authority. I mean, put in the flesh. I don't know how that he adapted to, but he's got it. He can do it. And he did it. And then he told us what needed to be done. John chapter uh 14:6, Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me." Jesus flat out said, "There's no other way to get to God." And God, you know, he's redeeming his people. And he's telling us that you have to be saved to get to me. But to be saved, you have to go to Jesus and ask for forgiveness and mercy because he's the only way. So he not only redeems, but he redeemed us, giving you a choice to choose whether you want to be redeemed or not. This is powerful. Let's go into Matthew here. Matthew 27:50-53. This is Jesus now dying on the cross. I want you to see what he had to endure to be able to say, "I can redeem you." Look at this. And and this is absolutely incredible. This is the power of the word that created this world. And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. Then behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. And that veil was several inches thick. You need a sharp blade to to cut that. And it was torn. Torn. That's how strong the angels and and that heavenly realm is. Uh top to bottom. And the earthquake and the rocks were split. And the graves were opened. And many bodies of the saints who have fallen asleep were raised and coming out of the graves after his resurrection. And they went into the holy city and appeared to many. Oh my goodness gracious. So remember, as soon as Adam and Eve ate of that fruit, they shall surely die. Soon as Jesus died on the cross, people came out of the graves and went around seeing their name. Imagine you buried Aunt Susie two years earlier and there she comes walking in the door. Hey guys, how's it going? Let me tell you about Jesus. Oh, this is so powerful. You got to understand Jesus said you had to surely die. I God can't change his word. He has his word. But I'm going to redeem you and fulfill you so that you you will surely die in the flesh. He died in the flesh. He set the example. But he says, "I'm going to get you out of that grave, absent from the body, present with the Lord." And he kept his promise. That is awesome. Oh, hallelujah. Oh, hallelujah. Did I change that screen? I wanted to change. Yeah. So, now look at what Jesus does. Okay. I'm very excited here. Matthew 28:5-7. But the angel answered and said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who was crucified. He's not here, for he is risen." And he said, "Come and see the place where the Lord lay and go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead." And indeed he is going before you into Galilee. There you will see him. Behold, I have told you. Oh my goodness gracious. Jesus came out of the grave.

Shall surely die. You're going to die. Everybody is appointed to die once. But Jesus says, "I have redeemed you if you believe." Oh, and you get to come out of the grave. This is so powerful. Paul explains it here in Ephesians. This is this is neat. Watch this. In Ephesians, how Paul explains it. Ephesians 1 uh 7-10. In him we have redemption. There's the redemption through his blood. You know, Jesus had to sacrifice his blood on the cross. The forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence. having made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times. Oh, this is awesome. He might gather together in all in one all things in Christ both which are in heaven and which are in on earth in him. There's a will and a purpose here. And remember Jes God talked about it in the planning phase of chapter one of Genesis and he says I'm going to redeem my people. And here he has done that. He has redeemed us. We are saved by asking for the forgiveness of sins. And once you do that, because forgiveness, you know, God is merciful. And there's nothing that you did that will make him say, "No, Jesus is going to forgive you of every sin you ever did. You killed somebody, he's going to forgive you." You know, I think a lot of people are going to be shocked when they get to heaven and they find, especially, you know, believers, they get to heaven and they're going to find out what if Hitler asked God to forgive him before he killed himself.

I'm sure a lot of people are not going to be happy about that, but this is the mercy that Jesus has for us. So, we sin. So, now every time we're born, we're born in sin. That was the fall of mankind. But when we come out of those graves, here is the re rise of the image of God. And now we get a new body. We'

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