Words of Jesus Podcast - "All hail!" Jesus The Physical Presentation of the Gospel

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

Jesus made a reconnaissance mission to earth. Jesus came to determine, as a man, what do the humans know. We hear this in his difficulty in communicating heavenly concepts and in his questions; i.e. "How is it that you do not understand?" The goal was to reveal the nature and name of Yehovah to the world; to reveal to mankind the path to salvation. "Keep my commandments." Jesus said. For more information get "The Questions of Jesus" by Don C Harris to hear revelations from the 151 questions asked by Messiah. Available on Amazon or other online retailers. It's worthwhile. Available in audio by request at ThinkRedInk.com .***117: The Women Visit Jesus’ SepulcherMatthew 28:1-10; Mark 16:1-11; Luke 24:1-12; John 20:1-18On the morning of the first day of the week Mary Magdalene with the other Mary went to the sepulcher where Jesus had been buried.            There was a great earthquake; and an angel descended from Heaven, rolled back the stone from the door of the sepulcher, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning and his clothes were white as snow. The angel spoke to the women, saying:            “Fear not ye; for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here; for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee. There shall ye see him. Lo, I have told you.”            The women ran from the sepulcher quickly with great awe and joy to tell the disciples what had happened.            On their way, Jesus met them and said:            “All hail.”            The women fell at his feet and worshiped him. He continued:            “Be not afraid. Go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.”***118: Jesus Appears To His Disciples As They Walk To EmmausMark 16:12,13; Luke 24:13-35 Two of the disciples were on their way to the village of Emmaus, nearly eight miles from Jerusalem. They were sad as they discussed the recent events. As they walked along, Jesus came to them and went with them; but they did not recognize him. Jesus said to them:            “What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?”            One of the disciples, names Cleopas, replied:            “Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and has not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?”            Jesus asked:            “What things?”            The disciples replied to him:            “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people. And now the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel. And beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulcher. And when they found not his body, they came,...

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We're going to delve into mysteries that essentially have been hidden, not from us, but for us, in the words of Jesus. We're continuing in Chapter 117 of our little book called, The Words of Jesus. And this particular chapter is entitled, When the Women Visit the Sepulcher.

On the morning of the first day of the week, what day is that? Does anybody know? Hmm, that would be Sunday. That's what we call it now, Sunday. I'm bringing attention to this for a good cause. Well we'll get into it. On the morning of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene with the other Mary went to

the sepulcher where Jesus had been buried. There was a great earthquake and the angel descended from heaven, rolled back the stone from the door of the sepulcher, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his clothes were as white as snow. The angel spoke to the women, saying, Now before we continue, I want you to notice something here that has seemed to elude a lot of our thoughts and certainly our theology. And that is that Mary comes to the sepulcher and the stone is rolled in front. This angel descends from heaven and rolls the stone back.

I think that because we just happen to think constantly in the in the terms of the physical mirror when Jesus was having he was having complaints with how the Pharisees and even his disciples understood what he had to say. He says I'll tell you what the problem here is, boys. The problem is, you are from beneath, and I am from above. This is a serious problem that we have here. And therefore, when I speak,

you're probably gonna have trouble understanding what I have to say. Well, this little handicap of ours of being human beings and living in this life and living in this world, we have certain ideas about certain things. Some things as simple as doors. We know what doors are for. They're to let people in and out, right? So if Jesus is to be raised from the dead, brought out of that tomb, and we have an angel that moves a stone, what's going on here? Is this guy a doorman for Jesus? Is that what he's there for? We know that in the resurrected form of Jesus Christ that he has the ability to

pass through solid objects. We find that in the scriptures. So you have to ask yourself did the angel remove that stone so that Jesus could get out? Or did He remove the stones so that the women could get in? It's a simple question. And the simple answer will lead you into ways that you probably weren't willing to go up until now. Jesus did not raise on Sunday. There is not a shred of Scripture anywhere that lends itself to that idea that Jesus rose on Sunday. Many times when people are arguing

the validity of the Sabbath day, they say, well, the Sabbath has been changed from Saturday to Sunday in honor of the resurrection. Why would you take the Lord of the Sabbath and celebrate his day any day? On a day other than the Sabbath day, Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath but we worship Him on Sunday. Why do we do that? Because He told us to. Because He told us to honor the day of His resurrection. No, can't find that anywhere. Because He actually rose on

Sunday. Nope, I'm afraid we kind of made that one up. Innocently enough, sure, but you have to understand that as this story continues you're going to find out something you probably never thought about. When Mary came to this tomb on the first day of the week, the tomb was empty. This resurrection did not just take place. This resurrection took place yesterday on the Sabbath day. Jesus actually rose on the Sabbath day. You'll see this. It's pretty obvious. Alright, so describing the angel, his countenance was like lightning and his clothes were as white as snow.

The angel spoke to the women saying, fear ye not, for I know that ye seek Jesus which was crucified. He is not here. If he just opened the sepulcher door, so to speak, and the women were standing there when he opened that door, for the angel to say he is not here, we'd have to believe, number one, that the stone was rolled away before and then rolled back or we believe that when Jesus rose from the dead that the door was no hindrance to Him whatsoever. Evidently the non-glorified part of Jesus could not go with Him. When they got there and they looked in there, what they saw was his grave clothes.

Grave clothes are, you know, a tangible three dimensional object that are going to have real difficulty getting through rock. So what was glorified about Christ was his resurrected body had the ability to go out through this stone without a problem, without a qualm. And this stone was rolled back, not for him to get out, but for them to get in. He says, I know you're looking for him, but he's not here for or because, because he is risen. As he said, Come, see the place where the Lord lay,

and go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. And behold, he goeth before you into Galilee. There shall you see him, lo, I have told you." The women ran from the sepulcher quickly with great awe and joy to tell the disciples what had happened. On their way Jesus met them and said, all hail. Now, people who know more about languages than I do say that this salutation all hail. You know, I'm not even going to attempt this because I don't want to purport myself as some kind of a language expert. But Jesus was actually speaking at this particular point his name his description everything about him the Savior of the world is here this is this is great news this is you're essentially looking at a physical manifestation of the gospel the women fell at his feet and worshiped him.

He continued, Be not afraid, go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there they shall see me. This particular chapter of this book is essentially a historic point and words that were spoken that have importance but there's very small amount of spiritual value behind these words as much as there is historical value behind these words and and of course the identification of the Sabbath day, which is extremely important. And here we have corresponding historical evidence that here Jesus did not raise on the Sunday.

This was just an excuse. It was just an excuse to change the day of worship, which was the Sabbath day. Actually, the commandment just teaches us that we're not to work on that day, but over a period of time, we used that time that we didn't work to read the Scriptures and to fellowship and those kind of things. And those were all good and important things. And when Constantine went, well let's just essentially say when

the Catholic Church, this was before the Catholic Church, but they changed it to the Venerable Day of the Sun, which was their worship day, which was Sunday. This was part of their syncretism. This was part of their bringing these first century Christian ideas into an inclusive of Judaism, an inclusive of Catholicism, and unfortunately, paganism. So when they did this, in order to salve the consciences of the people who said, I thought he was Lord of the Sabbath day. Let me put this in today's vernacular because when I say Sabbath day, I know a lot of people are still thinking about Sunday. It's just like when I say church, you're not thinking about the great invisible church that spread out throughout time and eternity and all

the people who have ever lived properly in the sight of God. They're not talking about them. They're not talking about the great state of Israel, the people who have prevailed with God. They think when I say the word church, they're thinking of a brick building with a big erection on top of it signals to everybody this is a church building. And I know they spend a lot of time in Sunday school saying the church is not the building, it's the people. But everything else they do in their lives

show us that they believe that the church is a building and it's not necessarily the people. It's what you do folks, it's not what you say, it's not even what you believe. But nevertheless they changed that day from Saturday to Sunday in order to salve the consciences of the people who knew that the Lord expected us to honor His day, which was the Sabbath day. They said that they're changing it in honor of the resurrection. Well unfortunately they got that part wrong. They claim that Jesus was raised on Sunday and He wasn't. And so they come up with Good Friday, they come up with

this is why three days and three nights doesn't work. The whole idea of Jesus being in the tomb three days and three nights, if you think about it, they couldn't leave the body on the tree because it was a Sabbath. They don't even know what a Sabbath is. You've got a bunch of people that are teaching you that have no earthly idea what these words mean. And so we end up with false doctrine. Not necessarily damnable doctrine. That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm just saying it's just that putrid, nonsensical, fairy-tale style doctrine that does absolutely no good in your life whatsoever.

When it comes down to cut and bait, you've got to know what's going on. You've got to know what's important and what's not important. What God feels like is important and what God feels like isn't important. We need to know these things. There's nothing wrong with doctrine. Alright, let's look at chapter 118. This is another wrong with doctrine. Let's look at chapter 118. This is another little short one.

Jesus appears to His disciples as they walk to Emmaus. Two of the disciples were on their way to the village of Emmaus, nearly eight miles from Jerusalem. They were sad as they discussed the recent events. What recent events? What are they sad about? Well Jesus is dead. We didn't expect him to die. I mean it was even said of him, I thought that when Messiah came that he was going to abide forever. What do you mean he's going to die? What do you mean he's going to be lifted up? You remember that?

And so they were sad that this is the way things turned out. They thought that he was... Oh well, I'll let them explain. And so they were sad as they discussed the recent events, as they walked along. Jesus came to them and went with them, but they did not recognize him. Jesus said to them,

What manner of communications are these that you have one to another as you walk and are sad? One of the disciples named Cleopas replied, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem? Hast thou not known the things which have come to pass in these days? Jesus asked, what things? The disciples replied to him concerning Jesus of Nazareth which was a prophet. Now, he's thinking that he's talking to a stranger here but Jesus is taking this opportunity to find out

I wonder what my disciples think actually happened here. Jesus of Nazareth who was mighty indeed in word before the Lord and all the people and now the chief priest and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and have crucified him but we trusted that it would be he which would have redeemed Israel and beside all this today is the third day since these things were done. 19 And certain women of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulcher. And when they found not his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels which said that he was alive. And certain of them were with us, went to the sepulcher and found it was even so as the women had said.

But they saw him not. Jesus said to His disciples, O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophet has spoken, I thought Christ had suffered these things and entered into His glory. Well, they're wondering, wait a minute, who is this guy? And what does he know about all this? Because Jesus is saying, these things shouldn't be taking you by surprise, and they certainly shouldn't be making you sad.

Now, at this particular point, he could have opened his eyes and opened their eyes, and they would have remembered that he said, you know I told you that I'm going away and you're sad, but your sorrow will be turned to joy. So where is it? Unfortunately we don't always listen. Unfortunately we hear the Lord say things, we even quote what the Lord says sometimes, but you know when it really comes down to actually living it, we have to admit

I really wasn't listening. I get letters from people about this broadcast and say, I didn't know the Bible said that. Well, how many times have you read it? A hundred. Well, you see, that's what happens when you turn the Bible into an educational enterprise instead of a revelational experience. So now people are learning to allow things to be revealed to them. They're thinking, oh, there's more to this than I understood. This is what Jesus was trying to tell them. How many times have you read about that the Son of God would come and give himself

a ransom for many? And now it's done and you're sad about it? What's up with that? He was a lot kinder than I'm being right now, which is usually the case. But I think that he was entertaining them as they spoke, because he really wanted to know what the average person's attitude was about what had happened in Jerusalem. Let me continue. Then, beginning with Moses and the prophets, Jesus explained to the disciples all the things in the scriptures about himself. When they came to Emmaus, Jesus acted as though he would continue on. But the disciples said to him, abide with us, it's getting toward evening and day is far spent. Jesus remained

with them. At the evening meal he took bread and blessed it and broke it and gave it to them. They're starting to see, wow that that looks familiar. Do we know you? You see Jesus was was acting out exactly what he had acted on on the 13th on the night of the 13th of that month when he broke bread with his disciples. And so he is doing it again and as they took this bread I believe as they started to eat it at that moment they knew him, but he vanished from their sight.

The disciples said to one another, Did not our hearts burn within us when He opened unto us the Scriptures? Did you feel that? The disciples looked at each other. And as this man disappeared from their sight, went out of the room, by the way, he didn't open the door when he left.

But when he disappeared from their sight, they thought, whoa, what was that? That must have been the Lord. And they must have discussed it quickly among themselves in short, unfinished sentences, with bewildered looks on their face and their eyebrows pulled together in the middle. Was that the Lord? How did they identify that they had been with the Lord Jesus? How did they identify that they had been with the Lord Jesus?

How did they identify? Hey, did you feel goosebumps when He was here? He didn't mention goosebumps. Anybody get healed when He was here? No. Nobody spoke in tongues? No. How do we...what is the common thing among His disciples that have spent time with the Lord,

and is now spending time with the Lord? What's going to be the common thing? It's going to be revelation, my friend. That's what He came to do. He didn't come to heal you or your dog. He came to reveal to us the secrets that have been kept since the foundation of the world. What is that? Christ in you, the hope of glory. He didn't come to pay your bills.

He didn't come to make you happy. He didn't come to reunite the 12 tribes of Israel. He didn't come to reestablish Israel as a nation in the world. He didn't even come to be murderously tortured on a cross by a bunch of ungrateful people. What he came to do was reveal the Father to us. Reveal Himself to us. You can't believe in the Father? Is that what I'm hearing you say? Can you believe in me? Here's your opportunity. You can believe in me. If you believe in me, you know what my Father is going to say? If they believe in you, they'll believe in me.

He was the conduit. He's the conduit between us and our God. That's all He came to do. Reveal. To reveal. Two people who are in a position to understand you gotta get in that position you have to live a holy life you have to do oh gosh here we go talking about works it's all about works bonehead this has nothing to do with what you believe

doesn't matter what you believe you'll stand judgment one day and I guarantee you according to what I've read in the scriptures, your judgment will never, ever, ever move even close to the subject of what you believe. No, we are going to be given account of the deeds done in the flesh. That sounds like a bunch of good works or bad works or other. You can turn it into anything you want. But when the Bible teaches that we are going to give an account of the deeds done in the flesh you know what that means?

That means how you lived. What was important to you? What was most important to you? What wasn't important to you? What did you feel like wasn't important at all? Where did you spend most of your time? Most of your money? Most of your life? Those are the deeds done in the flesh. That's what he's interested in judging. That's what he will judge.

It doesn't really take a lot of spiritual understanding to get this. He makes it so clear over and over and over again. Believe in me. If you believe in me, you'll do what I say. You can be my friend if you believe in me, if you do what I tell you to do. All these promises of being His friend and being His partner and being His... what we consider ourselves to be which is you know just buds with Jesus. All this peace with God. I have the peace that passes all understanding. Yeah, and you don't keep His commandments.

You know what you've got is you've got numbness of mind. That's what you've got is you've got numbness of mind. That's what you've got. I mean, for you, the peace that passes all understanding is essentially anesthetizing a horrible, fatal, tragic disease. Nothing's been healed. You just can't feel it anymore. Consciousness is seared with a hot iron. Brent, it's time that we understand this

for what it really is. Jesus Christ is the Son of God and He came to reveal Himself and His Father to you. You think you know the Father, but you don't know the Son? This is the horrible, pitiful place that the Jew finds himself today.

They feel like they know Jehovah. They feel like they know Jehovah. You know what Jesus said? If you don't know me, you don't know the Father. If you don't know the Father, you don't know me. You think you're Abraham's children? You're not Abraham's children. I know Abraham. Abraham knows me.

You're nothing like him. Nothing like him at all. You think you that your life is formulated around the laws of Moses? You don't keep the laws of Moses. You don't keep my laws. You don't keep the Father's laws. What are you gonna do? Are we just gonna ignore all that Jesus ever said to us? Is that what we're going to do? And just say that He's merciful and He's going to overlook? He's not going to overlook.

He is merciful. He's not going to overlook. So what do we need to do? Repent and believe. That's what we need to do. We need to repent and believe. So how did they know that this was Jesus? How did they know? One of the disciples said to the other,

Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us by the way, and opened to us the Scriptures? Do you remember that? Yeah, I remember that. Wow! That was a very familiar feeling. This was the Lord Jesus. And they returned to Jerusalem and told the others, the Lord has risen indeed and appeared to Simon. How did they know that? Their hearts burned within them. They were experiencing what Jesus came to do. Reveal Himself to us. Alright, it's time for me to go. Gotta go, gotta go.

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