reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS TO THOSE THAT PERISH IS FOOLISHNESS. 1COR:1:18 FOR THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS IS TO THEM THAT PERISH FOOLISHNESS: BUT UNTO US WHICH ARE SAVED IT IS THE POWER OF GOD. IF YOU ARE A NEW CONVERT TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, YOU MAY NOT KNOW WHY IT WAS NECESSARY FOR JESUS, THE SON OF GOD, TO COME INTO THE WORLD, AND OFFER HIMSELF UP AS A SACRIFICE UNTO GOD. WHEN GOD BY JESUS CHRIST CREATED HEAVEN, AND EARTH, AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM, EVERYTHING WAS GOOD, CLEAN, SANCTIFIED. EPH:3:9 AND TO MAKE ALL MEN SEE WHAT IS THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE MYSTERY, WHICH FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD HATH BEEN HID IN GOD, WHO CREATED ALL THINGS BY JESUS CHRIST. BUT WHEN ADAM, TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD; SIN CAME INTO THE WORLD, AND CONTAMINATED, POLLUTED, AND MADE UNCLEAN THE PEOPLE, THE ANIMALS, THE BIRDS, THE CREEPING THINGS, AND THE GROUND. SIN COMES IN TWO COLORS SCARLET, AND CRIMSON. IS:1:18 COME NOW, AND LET S REASON TOGETHER, SAITH THE LORD: THOUGH YOUR SINS BE AS SCARLET, THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW; THOUGH THEY BE RED LIKE CRIMSON, THEY SHALL BE AS WOOL. SCARLET IS A RED WITH A ORANGE TINT, AND CRIMSON IS A RED WITH A PURPLE TINT. WHEN ADAM TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, SPIRITUALLY, MUCH OF GOD’S CREATION TURNED RED. BECAUSE OF SIN GOD HAD ENMITY, A JUSTIFIED ANGER, TOWARD ALL MANKIND. FOR ALL MANKIND WAS IN ADAM AT THE TIME THAT HE TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD. AND BECAUSE OF OUR PHYSICAL UNION WITH ADAM, SIN WAS IMPUTED UNTO ALL. ROM:3:23 FOR ALL HAVE SINNED, AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD. AND BECAUSE OF SIN, THE SPIRIT OF GOD DEPARTED FROM ADAM, AND WE ALL DIED THE SPIRITUAL DEATH, THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL DIED. 1COR:15:22 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE. NOW WHEN A CHILD IS BORN INTO THE WORLD, HE IS ALIVE PHYSICALLY, BUT DEAD SPIRITUALLY. HE MUST BE BORN AGAIN. THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL MUST BE BROUGHT TO LIFE. JN:3:5 JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. WHY MUST THE ELECT OF GOD BE BORN OF WATER, BAPTIZED? BECAUSE ETERNAL LIFE IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST, 1JN:5:11 AND THIS IS THE RECORD, THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE, AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON. THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY THAT I KNOW TO GET INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND THAT IS THROUGH THE WATER OF BAPTISM. GAL:3:27 FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. WHY MUST A PERSON BE BORN OF THE SPIRIT? IT IS THE HOLY GHOST THAT BRINGS THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL TO LIFE. JN:3:6 THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. IT IS THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL THAT SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY, FOR THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. 2COR:4:16 FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. THINGS THAT ARE SEEN ARE TEMPORARY, THINGS THAT ARE INVISIBLE ARE ETERNAL. 2COR:4:18 WHILE WE LOOK NOT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN, BUT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN: FOR THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN ARE TEMPORAL; BUT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL. FROM THE TIME THAT ADAM TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, UNTIL MOSES WAS BORN. DEATH REIGNED UPON ALL MANKIND. MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, WENT OUT INTO ETERNITY WITHOUT HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE. FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN PERISHED. ROM:5:12 WHEREFORE, AS BY ONE MAN SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD, AND DEATH BY SIN; AND SO DEATH PASSED UPON ALL MEN, FOR THAT ALL HAVE SINNED; 13. (FOR UNTIL THE LAW SIN WAS IN THE WORLD: BUT SIN IS NOT IMPUTED WHEN THERE IS NO LAW. 14. NEVERTHELESS DEATH REIGNED FROM ADAM TO MOSES, EVEN OVER THEM THAT HAD NOT SINNED AFTER THE SIMILITUDE OF ADAM’S TRANSGRESSION, WHO IS THE FIGURE OF HIM THAT WAS TO COME. WHEN MOSES WAS BORN GOD CHOSE HIM A PEOPLE, ISRAEL, AND ALLOWED THEM TO PUT OFF THE SPIRITUAL DEATH YEAR, BY YEAR, BY USING THE SCAPEGOAT UNTIL CHRIST WAS BORN INTO THE WORLD. BUT, FOR THE GENTILE BOTH THE PHYSICAL DEATH, AND THE SPIRITUAL DEATH, REIGNED FROM ADAM UNTIL CHRIST HANG ON CALVARY'S CROSS. FROM THE TIME OF ADAM UNTIL JESUS HANG ON CALVARIES TREE WE, AS GENTILES, WERE WITHOUT HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE. EPH:2:11 WHEREFORE REMEMBER, THAT YE BEING IN TIME PAST GENTILES IN THE FLESH, WHO ARE CALLED UNCIRCUMCISION BY THAT WHICH IS CALLED THE CIRCUMCISION IN THE FLESH MADE BY HANDS; 12. THAT AT THAT TIME YE WERE WITHOUT CHRIST, BEING ALIENS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL, AND STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS OF PROMISE, HAVING NO HOPE, AND WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD. THERE WAS NOT A GIFT IN ALL THE WORLD THAT COULD BE OFFERED UP TO GOD, TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR OUR SINS. IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME, GOD SENT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON INTO THE WORLD TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR OUR SINS. JN:3:17 FOR GOD SENT NOT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD; BUT THAT THE WORLD THROUGH HIM MIGHT BE SAVED. WHEN CHRIST JESUS WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY HE HAD TWO NATURES, HE WAS BOTH GOD, AND MAN. JESUS WAS A MAN ABLE TO SUFFER BLEED, AND DIE; HE WAS GOD ABLE TO CALM A STORMY SEA, ABLE TO RAISE THE DEAD, ABLE TO TURN WATER INTO WINE. HEB:2:16 FOR VERILY HE TOOK NOT ON HIM THE NATURE OF ANGELS; BUT HE TOOK ON HIM THE SEED OF ABRAHAM. 17. WHEREFORE IN ALL THINGS IT BEHOVED HIM TO BE MADE LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN, THAT HE MIGHT BE A MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL HIGH PRIEST IN THINGS PERTAINING TO GOD, TO MAKE RECONCILIATION FOR THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE. MT:1:23 BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD, AND SHALL BRING FORTH A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME EMMANUEL, WHICH BEING INTERPRETED IS, GOD WITH US. THOUGH ISAIAH LIVED HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE CHRIST WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY, YET GOD REVEALED TO HIM THESE THINGS CONCERNING CHRIST, AND HIS CRUCIFIXION. IS:53:5 BUT HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSION, HE WAS BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITIES: THE CHASTISEMENT OF OUR PEACE WAS UPON HIM; AND WITH HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED. 6. ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY; WE HAVE TURNED EVERY ONE TO HIS OWN WAY AND THE LORD HATH LAID ON HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL. 7. HE WAS OPPRESSED, AND HE WAS AFFLICTED, YET HE OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH; HE IS BROUGHT AS A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER, AND AS A SHEEP BEFORE HER SHEARERS IS DUMB, SO HE OPENETH NOT HIS MOUTH. 8. HE WAS TAKEN FROM PRISON AND FROM JUDGMENT: AND WHO SHALL DECLARE HIS GENERATION? FOR HE WAS CUT OFF OUT OF THE LAND OF THE LIVING: FOR THE TRANSGRESSION OF MY PEOPLE WAS HE STRICKEN. 9. AND HE MADE HIS GRAVE WITH THE WICKED, AND WITH THE RICH IN HIS DEATH: BECAUSE HE HAD DONE NO VIOLENCE, NEITHER WAS ANY DECEIT IN HIS MOUTH. 10. YET IT PLEASED THE LORD TO BRUISE HIM; HE HATH PUT HIM TO GRIEF: WHEN THOU SHALT MAKE HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN, HE SHALL SEE HIS SEED, HE SHALL PROLONG HIS DAYS, AND THE PLEASURE OF THE LORD SHALL PROSPER IN HIS HAND. 11. HE SHALL SEE THE TRAVAIL OF HIS SOUL, AND SHALL BE SATISFIED: BY HIS KNOWLEDGE SHALL MY RIGHTEOUS SERVANT JUSTIFY MANY; FOR HE SHALL BEAR THEIR INIQUITIES. 12. THEREFORE WILL I DIVIDE HIM A PORTION WITH THE GREAT, AND HE SHALL DIVIDE THE SPOIL WITH THE STRONG; BECAUSE HE HATH POURED OUT HIS SOUL UNTO DEATH; AND HE WAS NUMBERED WITH THE TRANSGRESSORS; AND HE BARE THE SIN MANY, AND MADE INTERCESSION FOR THE TRANSGRESSORS. WHAT DID JESUS CHRIST ACCOMPLISH ON THE CROSS? AS THE MEN DROVE THE NAILS THOUGH HIS HANDS AND HIS FEET IT WAS IN THE FLESH THAT THE ENMITY THAT GOD HAD FOR MAN WAS ABOLISHED. EPH:2:15 HAVING ABOLISHED IN HIS FLESH THE ENMITY, EVEN THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES; FOR TO MAKE IN HIMSELF OF TWAIN ONE NEW MAN, SO MAKING PEACE. AS THE NAILS STRUCK THE CROSS, IT NAILED EVERY ORDINANCE, EVERY LAW, THAT WAS AGAINST US TO THE CROSS TAKING THEM OUT OF THE WAY. COL:2:13 AND YOU, BEING DEAD IN YOUR SINS AND THE UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH, HATH HE QUICKENED TOGETHER WITH HIM, HAVING FORGIVEN YOU ALL TRESPASSES; 14. BLOTTING OUT THE HANDWRITING OF ORDINANCES THAT WAS AGAINST US, WHICH WAS CONTRARY TO US, AND TOOK IT OUT OF THE WAY, NAILING IT TO HIS CROSS. WHEN THE MEN LIFT CHRIST JESUS UP ON THE CROSS HE TOOK AWAY THE CURSE, THE SENTENCE OF CONDEMNATION THAT WAS AGAINST US , FOR IT IS WRITTEN CURSED IS EVERY MAN THAT HANGETH UPON A TREE. GAL:3:13 CHRIST HATH REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW, BEING MADE A CURSE FOR US: FOR IT IS WRITTEN, CURSED IS EVERY ONE THAT HANGETH ON A TREE; WHEN CHRIST JESUS HANG ON CALVARY'S CROSS, HE TORN DOWN THE PARTITION BETWEEN THE JEW, AND THE GENTILE, AND MADE OF THE TWO ONE NEW MAN IN CHRIST. EPH:2:12 THAT AT THAT TIME YE WERE WITHOUT CHRIST, BEING ALIENS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL, AND STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS OF PROMISE, HAVING NO HOPE, AND WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD 13. BUT NOW IN CHRIST JESUS YE WHO SOMETIMES WERE FAR OFF ARE MADE NIGH BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. 14. FOR HE IS OUR PEACE, WHO HATH MADE BOTH ONE, AND HATH BROKEN DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION BETWEEN US; 15. HAVING ABOLISHED IN HIS FLESH THE ENMITY, EVEN THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES; FOR TO MAKE IN HIMSELF OF TWAIN ONE NEW MAN, SO MAKING PEACE. AS AARON PLACED THE SINS OF ISRAEL UPON THE HEAD OF THE SCAPEGOAT. GOD PLACED OUR SINS UPON JESUS. LV:16:21 AND AARON SHALL LAY BOTH HIS HANDS UPON THE HEAD OF THE LIVE GOAT, AND CONFESS OVER HIM ALL THE INIQUITIES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND ALL THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS IN ALL THEIR SINS, PUTTING THEM UPON THE HEAD OF THE GOAT, AND SHALL SEND HIM AWAY BY THE HAND OF A FIT MAN INTO THE WILDERNESS. THE OUTWARD MAN, JESUS THE SON OF THE VIRGIN MARY, DIED ON CALVARY’S CROSS. BUT THE SON OF GOD, THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL OF JESUS, TOOK OUR SINS AWAY. THE SCRIPTURES SAY, SPEAKING OF JESUS THAT HIS SOUL WAS MADE AN OFFERING FOR SIN. IS53:10 YET IT PLEASED THE LORD TO BRUISE HIM; HE HATH PUT HIM TO GRIEF: WHEN THOU SHALT MAKE HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN, HE SHALL SEE HIS SEED, HE SHALL PROLONG HIS DAYS, AND THE PLEASURE OF THE LORD SHALL PROSPER IN HIS HAND. 11. HE SHALL SEE OF THE TRAVAIL OF HIS SOUL, AND SHALL BE SATISFIED: BY HIS KNOWLEDGE SHALL MY RIGHTEOUS SERVANT JUSTIFY MANY; FOR HE SHALL BEAR THEIR INIQUITIES. 12. THEREFORE WILL I DIVIDE HIM A PORTION WITH THE GREAT, AND HE SHALL DIVIDE THE SPOIL WITH THE STRONG; BECAUSE HE HATH POURED OUT HIS SOUL UNTO DEATH; AND HE WAS NUMBERED WITH THE TRANSGRESSORS; AND HE BARE THE SIN OF MANY, AND MADE INTERCESSION FOR THE TRANSGRESSORS. WHAT DID JESUS ACCOMPLISH ON THE CROSS? HE FULFILL PROPHECY SUCH AS THIS. PS:22:14 I AM POURED OUT LIKE WATER, AND ALL MY BONES ARE OUT OF JOINT: MY HEART IS LIKE WAX; IT IS MELTED IN THE MIDST OF MY BOWELS. 15. MY STRENGTH IS DRIED UP LIKE A POTSHERD; AND MY TONGUE CLEAVETH TO MY JAWS; AND THOU HAST BROUGHT ME INTO THE DUST OF DEATH. 16. FOR DOGS HAVE COMPASSED ME; THE ASSEMBLY OF THE WICKED HAVE INCLOSED ME; THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET. IT WAS NECESSARY FOR JESUS TO DIE ON CALVARY’S CROSS THAT HE MIGHT BE LORD OF THE LIVING, AND THE DEAD. ROM:14:9 FOR TO THIS END CHRIST BOTH DIED, AND ROSE, AND REVIVED, THAT HE MIGHT BE LORD BOTH OF THE DEAD AND LIVING. JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD ON CALVARY FOR OUR REDEMPTION. THE SACRIFICE THAT JESUS MADE ON CALVARY WAS ACCEPTED OF GOD , AND GOD AND MAN WERE RECONCILED. JN:20:19 THEN THE SAME DAY AT 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. 20. AND WHEN HE HAD SO SAID, HE SHEWED UNTO THEM HIS HANDS AND HIS SIDE. THEN WERE THE DISCIPLES GLAD, WHEN THEY SAW THE LORD. 21. THEN SAID JESUS TO THEM AGAIN, PEACE BE UNTO YOU: AS MY FATHER HATH SENT ME EVEN SO SEND I YOU. 22. AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE BREATHED ON THEM, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST. 23. WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE REMIT, THEY ARE REMITTED UNTO THEM; AND WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE RETAIN, THEY ARE RETAINED. WHEN JESUS BREATHED ON HIS DISCIPLES AND SAID RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST, POWER CAME TO REMIT SIN, AND TO RETAIN SIN. THE KINGDOM OF GOD CAME. ROM:14:17 FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT MEAT AND DRINK; BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND PEACE, AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST. LOVE CAME TO DWELL WITHIN MAN. 1JN:4:8 HE THAT LOVETH NOT KNOWETH NOT GOD; FOR GOD IS LOVE. WE BECOME A MEMBERS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. 1COR:12:27 NOW YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND MEMBERS IN PARTICULAR. THE ANOINTING CAME THAT TEACHES US. 1JN:2:27 BUT THE ANOINTING WHICH YE HAVE RECEIVED OF HIM ABIDETH IN YOU, AND YE NEED NOT THAT ANY MAN TEACH YOU; BUT AS THE SAME ANOINTING TEACHETH YOU OF ALL THINGS, AND IS TRUTH, AND IS NO LIE, AND EVEN AS IT HATH TAUGHT YOU, YE SHALL ABIDE IN HIM. POWER CAME TO LIVE THE SIN FREE LIFE. 1JN:3:9 WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN; FOR HIS SEED REMAINETH IN HIM: AND HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD. ROM:7:22 FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD AFTER THE INWARD MAN. THE INWARD MAN. THE SOUL CAME TO LIFE. JN:3:6 THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. WHEN A PERSON RECEIVES THE HOLY GHOST IT IS THE EARNEST OF THEIR INHERITANCE. EPH:1:13 IN WHOM YE ALSO AFTER THAT YE BELIEVED, YE WERE SEALED WITH THAT HOLY SPIRIT OF PROMISE. 14. WHICH IS THE EARNEST OF OUR INHERITANCE UNTIL THE REDEMPTION OF THE PURCHASED POSSESSION, UNTO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY.