276: Roger Lewis – The Riddle of the Linen Clothes

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Welcome to Good Chris Selfie and
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Hello, this is Chris.
Back to you with another talk

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this week.
For this week, we’re listening

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to a evening program that was
given by brother Roger Lewis at

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the Texas Bible School in 2006.
A few weeks ago I was talking to

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somebody on one of the social
media platforms giving

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recommendations to a different
class, and they’d asked if we

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had other classes from Roger
Lewis that were similar to the

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Evening with Gabriel One, and in
the process of talking about it

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reminded me of this class, which
is entitled The Riddle of the

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Linen Clothes and What makes
this class particularly

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impactful for me and why.
I also wanted to recommend it

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and I’d actually forgotten about
it because it had been so long

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since I heard it until I was
talking with the this person a

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few weeks ago.
This is one of the first classes

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that I really remember from my
teenage years having a really

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significant impact.
It just kind of digging into the

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scriptures and finding so much
detail out of just a few verses.

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The reading before this is John
chapter 20, the 1st 10 verses,

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and in it Brother Rodger is just
looking at all the little

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details of Christ’s resurrection
and then in turn being made

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immortal after he was
resurrected.

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And I just remember hearing
this, I think I was 15 or 16 at

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the time and just seeing the
scriptures come alive in a whole

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new way.
For me, when I heard this class

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the first time, I actually had
forgotten that I had ACD of it.

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I liked it so much I made sure
to get a copy when I was at the

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Bible school.
So I was able to go and dig

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through and find this copy and
digitize it here to be able to

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share with you.
And I just remember this

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particular class being really
impactful.

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As I said to me, I found it
really a fascinating one at

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looking at all the little
details that are there in the

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scriptures to be found if you
just dig into them a little bit.

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None of this is super
doctrinally critical stuff, but

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I just really loved it because
it really, like I said, just

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made the scriptures come alive
in a way that I felt like I

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hadn’t heard before, at least
that I could really recall.

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So I really wanted to share this
one.

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Once I found the old the old CD
that we had at home, bundle of

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other C DS that I had, I really
wanted to be able to share this

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with everybody.
So I hope that you.

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Find this to be as interesting
and as impactful as I did both

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listening to it again now many
years later and then also for

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past Chris when I was just a
teenager at the Texas Bible

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School.
So as always, thank you for the

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suggestions and the
recommendations and all the

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commentary that we get from
people through e-mail and social

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media.
We really appreciate everybody

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being engaged and giving us
their feedback.

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It’s always super useful in the
recommendations as well are

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always invaluable.
So I hope you find this to be an

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encouraging and uplifting talk.
And with that, we’ll turn it

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over to brother Roger Lewis for
his class, The Riddle of the

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Linen Clothes.
Well, thank you brother,

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Chairman and good evening.
My dear brothers and sisters.

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I’ve got the serious topic.
There are no overheads, no

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PowerPoint presentations.
But I hope all the same that by

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the time I’ve finished tonight
that you will have still been

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excited by the Scriptures.
And maybe I should come clean

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and say right at the outset what
I’m intending to say tonight, so

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that you’re not bewildered as
the story unfolds tonight, is

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really a consideration of when
the Lord was made immortal.

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Of course we know the Lord was.
Question is simply when.

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And tonight what I’m going to
suggest is that I think the Lord

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perhaps received immortality
very earn early on in the peace,

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and in fact that he may have
received his immortality in the

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tomb before he stepped forth.
Now, before you get anxious

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about the fact that I’m about to
preach immortal emergence,

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please don’t feel that I’m going
to do so, because I’m not.

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Because I believe, there’s no
doubt we all do, that the Lord

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was raised mortal in common with
all his Brezon.

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In fact, it was very important,
wasn’t it, that the Lord be

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raised mortal because not only
was He to, not only was the Lord

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to experience that change to
immortality at the appropriate

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time that the Father would
decide, but it was very

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important that the Lord be
raised in such a way that He did

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foreshadow the experience of His
brethren to come, who would be

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raised mortal and who would then
be judged, and if found worthy,

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would then receive the blessing
of immortality.

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There was going to be no
disturbing of this type and the

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story of the resurrection of our
Lord Jesus Christ.

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Just a question of the time.
In fact, I might just say that

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the very most we’re only
debating a few hours here.

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I think the traditional
viewpoint in Christadelphia up

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to this point of time has
probably been that the Lord

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received immortality sometime on
the Resurrection Day, when we’re

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not quite sure, but sometime
that day.

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All I’m really going to suggest
tonight is that maybe it was

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just a few hours earlier than
that, but certainly after his

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revival to mortality in the
tomb.

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And the reason why I believe
that that granting of

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immortality to the sun may have
been as early as in the tomb

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itself, well, it’s because of
the Riddle of the linen clothes.

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And that’s what we’re going to
look at, God willing by way of

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investigation tonight.
Funny thing, you know how

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different people can see the
same thing in different ways?

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Come on, have a look at the
Gospel of Luke, chapter 24.

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In the Gospel of Luke and
chapter 24, we’re given Peter’s

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account of the story of the
linen clothes, or at least

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Peter’s viewpoint of them.
It says in Luke chapter 24, and

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reading from verse, maybe from
verse 10, says it was Mary

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Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary
the mother of James, and and

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other women that were with them,
which told these things unto the

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apostles.
And their words seemed to them

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as idle tales, and they believed
them not.

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Then arose Peter and ran unto
the Sepulchre, and stooping

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down, he beheld the linen
clothes laid by themselves, and

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departed, wandering in himself
at that which was come to pass.

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And you see, when you read the
record concerning Peter’s

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investigation of the tomb, you
get the impression that Peter

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rushed to the tomb, looked in,
saw the linen clothes, and went

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away shaking his head, saying, I
don’t know what it’s all about,

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I’m really not sure.
But when we come to the Gospel

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of John in chapter 20, as we
read it together tonight, we’ve

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got John’s reaction to the same
matter, to the same episode, to

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the same event.
And John says, and John chapter

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20, verse four, they both ran
together and the other disciple

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did outrun Peter and came first
to the Sepulchre, and he

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stooping down and looking in,
saw the linen clothes lying.

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Yet he went not in.
Then cometh Simon Peter

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following him, and went into the
sepulchre, and see if the linen

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clothes lie, and the napkin that
was about his head, not lying

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with the linen clothes, but
wrapped together in a place by

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itself.
And then went in also that other

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disciple which came first to the
sepulchre.

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And he he saw and believed.
Now you see, when it says in

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John 20 and verse and verse
eight that this disciple saw and

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believed, it could be that John
simply believed the report of

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Mary, that the body was gone.
But I think the word belief is

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generally used in a much more
powerful way than that in the

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Gospel of John.
In fact, it’s a keyword in the

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Gospel of John.
And the word belief, as you’ll

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know, is interchangeable really,
with the word for faith.

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John had faith in something much
more than merely that the body

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was missing.
That was obvious.

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John was the most spiritually
acute of the disciples.

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If anyone was to see a lesson in
the linen clothes, then it would

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be this disciple most of all.
And I think there was a

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tremendous lesson.
In fact, there were several

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tremendous lessons about the
linen clothes that might well

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have exercised the mind of John
as he came and looked into the

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tomb and saw and believed on
this occasion, in fact, you

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realize of course, what John 20
is about.

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They’re running to the tomb.
They’re running to the tomb to

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verify what brothers and sisters
to verify that the body was

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gone.
But that’s not what John 20

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focuses on, is it?
When John finally arrives at the

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tomb and writes up the story in
his gospel record, he doesn’t

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focus on the fact that the body
had gone.

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He focuses on what’s there and
what was there was the linen

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clothes.
Look at that verse five he saw

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the linen clothes lying.
Verse six he seeth the linen

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clothes.
Verse seven he sees the linen

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clothes.
The focus of John’s attention

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was not on the body that was
gone, but on the linen clothes

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that were there.
A thrice repeated observation

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that attracted John’s attention.
And I think the point of this,

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brothers and sisters, is that
John’s belief was not prompted

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by what he knew before he
entered the tomb, but by what he

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saw after he entered the tomb.
The fact of the empty tomb ran

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contrary to all his natural
expectations, but there was

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evidence that furnished the
basis of his leap to faith on

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this occasion, and I think what
caused John to see and to

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believe was the eloquent witness
of the linen clothes.

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So let’s tonight try and think
for a moment or two what John

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himself might have pondered as
he thought about the linen

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clothes lying in the sepulchre
of Jesus.

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Just come back to Luke chapter
20 for a moment.

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I’m sorry, Luke chapter 2, the
Gospel of Luke and chapter 2.

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Just want to read a handful of
verses from this particular

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chapter.
Luke 2 says this, and reading

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from verse 4, verse four to
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And Joseph also went up from
Galilee, out of the city of

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Nazareth, unto Judea, into
Judea, unto the city of David,

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which is called Bethlehem,
because he was of the house and

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lineage of David to be taxed,
with Mary his espoused wife,

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being great with child.
And so it was that while they

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were there, the days were
accomplished that she should be

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delivered, and she brought forth
her first born son, wrapped them

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in swaddling clothes, laid them
in a Manger, because there was

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no room for them in the inn.
So at the birth of Christ,

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brothers and sisters, there was
a virgin womb, there was a

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Joseph, there was a Mary, and
there were swaddling clothes.

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And now come to Matthew chapter
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Matthew chapter 27 says and
reading from verse 59, Matthew

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27, verse 59.
And when Joseph had taken the

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body, he wrapped it in a clean
linen cloth and laid it in his

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own new tomb.
And of course, Luke adds,

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wherein never man before was
laid a tomb which he had hewn

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out of the rock, and he rolled a
great stone to the door of the

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sepulchre, and departed.
And there was Mary Magdalene.

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And now at the resurrection of
Christ, there is a virgin tomb.

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There is a Joseph, there is a
Mary, and there are swaddling

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clothes.
And I wonder if John thought

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about whether there was a
suggestion here of a new birth.

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And just how significant might
that new birth be?

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Was it a mere reviving back to
mortal life?

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Or did the man who stepped forth
from this tomb possess the life

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that never ends?
Either way, there was a

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parallel, wasn’t there, that
might have struck the attention

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and the thought of John on this
occasion.

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Come back to John, Chapter 20,
and we’re going to come back to

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John 20 several times.
By the way, we want to ring it

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dry.
It’s just a few verses here, but

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we want to ring them dry.
You know, one of the interesting

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things about the record of the
linen clothes is it says there’s

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it says in verse three that
Peter therefore went forth and

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that other disciple and came to
the sepulchre and they ran both

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together.
And the other discipled about,

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run Peter and came to the
sepulchre.

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They saw the linen clothes lying
verse 7.

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The napkin about his head, not
lying with the linen clothes,

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but wrapped together in a place
by itself.

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And to me, one of the remarkable
things about the story, the

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thing that impressed John, is
that they came running into the

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tomb.
And there was a sense somehow as

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if nothing had really been
disturbed in that tomb at all.

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It was as if everything was just
as it should be.

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Everything was in its place.
There was no confusion.

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There was no disarray.
There were no strewn bandages.

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There was no scattering of
spices on the stone floor.

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There was just quietness and a
sense, apart from the puzzle of

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the missing body, that
everything was lying just where

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it should be.
And I think you see, that was

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the Riddle of the linen clothes,
wasn’t it?

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Because there was no signs of
flight or removal.

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And yet, indisputably, the body
was gone, and yet there were no

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signs of haste.
There were only signs instead of

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order.
Do you see what the record says

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that John saw about the linen
clothes?

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He didn’t just see the linen
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There’s a keyword.
Did you notice that John 20

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verse five and he stooping down
and looking in, saw the linen

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clothes lying?
Then comes Simon Peter, verse 6,

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and followed him, and he went
into the circle here, and he

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sees the linen clothes lie, and
the napkin that was about his

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head, not lying with the linen
clothes, but wrapped together in

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a place by itself.
Now you see, what they used to

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do in those days, brothers and
sisters, is that they would wrap

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the body in linen wrappings,
with the spices sprinkled

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between the wrappings and the
myrrh And aloes that Nicodemus

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and and Joseph of Arimathea used
were resinous, gummy substances

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which, when sprinkled as spices
on the linen garments would, as

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it were, glue the garments to
the body.

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And by the time that the legs
were wrapped and the arms were

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wrapped and the torso was
wrapped, there was no way you

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could get the body out of the
bandages.

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It was all glued together.
In fact, that’s one of the great

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mysteries of the two, and it was
certainly something that must

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have exercised the mind of John
on this occasion.

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And you see that word lying in
the Greek it means to lie flat,

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to lie prostate.
And I think you see that what

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John saw was the shape of the
body, except the weight of the

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spices had caused the garments
to fall flat.

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But the outline of the body
could still be seen.

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Mind you, the head napkin was
slightly different, because

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those seven seas concerning the
napkin it was, was wrapped

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together in a place by itself.
And the Greek for the word

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wrapped means literally.
It was twirled together, and

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they crisscrossed the bandages
around the head in such a way

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that even when the head was
gone, the concave shape of the

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crisscrossed bandages meant that
the turban remained in the shape

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of a head, but the head wasn’t
there, and the wrappings look

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like the shape of a body with
arms and legs and torso.

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But they were lying flat, You
see, You might recall that there

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was an occasion when the Lord
ascended up into a mountain and

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was transfigured.
The word transfigured, of

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course, is the Greek word
metamorpho, and it’s a word used

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of course of that transformation
that happens when a Caterpillar

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spins A cocoon.
And what they do, of course, the

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Caterpillar spins A cocoon
around itself, and some of the

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cocoons that you see look for
all the world.

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By the way, like linen
wrappings, George happens inside

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the cocoon of that Caterpillar
under the process of

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metamorphosis.
The whole body of the

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Caterpillar liquefies,
completely liquefies, It melts

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upon itself, and when it’s
completely melted, the body

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miraculously reforms into a new
creature entirely.

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But when the cocoon opens, the
creature that emerges is not the

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creature that entered, and it
flies away on Gospel of Wings

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and leaves behind the outer case
of the Old Caterpillar.

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And I think what John saw when
he looked upon the linen

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clothes, brothers and sisters,
was an empty chrysalis.

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But the body was gone, and the
body perhaps was already made

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beautiful with immortality and
removed by divine intervention

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in some miraculous way.
And maybe the mind of John would

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have recognized that there was
in fact an Old Testament

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prophecy somewhat about the
transformation of a cocoon.

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Well, at least of sorts, was
there not?

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So hold your hand in your right
hand.

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Come to Ephesians chapter 4.
So Ephesians chapter 4 in your

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right hand.
I I wonder if the apostle

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thought of this connection of
passages concerning the empty

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wrappings that he gazed upon in
the Sepulchre of Christ.

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Ephesians, chapter 4.
And in your left hand, Psalm

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139.
Do you remember this passage?

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So Psalm 139 and Ephesians
chapter 4.

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Now in Psalm 139 we have a
prophecy at least in measure

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about the birth of Christ,
because the record says in verse

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in verse 13.
For thou hast possessed my

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reins.
Thou hast covered me in my

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mother’s womb.
I will praise thee, for I am

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fearfully and wonderfully made.
Marvelous are thy works, and

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that my soul knoweth right.
Well, and so Psalm 139 speaks of

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the time when the Lord was
conceived and developed in the

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womb of his mother, Mary.
Now do you see what Psalm 139

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goes on to say, Verse 15.
My substance was not hid from

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thee when I was made in secret
and curiously wrote in the

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lowest parts of the earth.
Ah, now where’s that the lowest

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parts of the earth?
Well, have a look at Ephesians

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chapter 4.
Don’t lose the Psalm, but look

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at Ephesians chapter 4.
Now you see what it says.

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Verse nine of Ephesians 4.
Now he that descended, what is

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it but that he also descended
first into the lower parts of

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the earth?
There’s the phrase out of Psalm

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139.
He that descended as the same

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also that they descended far
above all heavens, that he might

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fill all things.
And so here in Ephesians chapter

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4, the lower parts of the earth
are contrasted with the Lord who

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ascended up on high from the
depths of Seoul to the heights

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of heaven.
So the phrase the lower parts of

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the earth and Ephesians chapter
4 verse nine is the grave.

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So Psalm 139 is not just a
prophecy concerning the birth of

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Christ, but perhaps a prophecy
concerning the rebirth of Christ

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in the tomb.
Because verse 16 of Psalm 139

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says, or reading verse 15 again,
my substance was not hid from

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thee.
When I was made in secret, and

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curiously wrought on the lowest
paths of the earth.

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Thine eyes did see my substance,
yet being unperfect, and in thy

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book all my members were
written, which in continuance

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were fashioned when as yet there
were none of them.

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Here is a prophecy of mysterious
embroidery to take part and take

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place in the lower parts of the
earth.

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And you’ll know that the word
curiously wrought in verse 15 is

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related to the embroidery of the
Tabernacle in the Book of

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Exodus.
I’ve got an interesting

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quotation here from Brother
Thomas in Eureka.

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Actually, it’s Eureka volume
one, pages 14 and 15.

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But you might find that quite a
tricky reference because

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unfortunately it’s Eureka volume
one of the little blue Eureka.

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And so I don’t actually know
what the number is in the red

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Eureka nor in the brown Eureka,
not even in the black Eureka.

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This is the little blue Eureka.
But you might track it down,

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because it’s early on in the
piece Eureka, volume one, pages

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14 and 15 of the little blue
edition.

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This is what Mother Thomas says,
speaking on this very verse.

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He says the man Jesus who had
left behind him, a character

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which the Father Spirit
acknowledged as his own, had

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been too excellent and admirable
a person to be abandoned to the

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power of the enemy.
The corpse rested, waiting to

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become the basis of a new
revelation of spirit.

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And a spirit revelation was to
be given to the body repaired

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for a body thou repairest for
me.

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Hebrews 10, verse 5A.
Breach had been made in it.

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Its loins were filled with a
loathsome disease, and there was

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no soundness in its flesh.
This was its condition while

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prostate, and hidden in the
noisome pit beneath the turf,

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but those sealed up in Joseph’s
cave.

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It was not concealed from the
father’s spirit who had so

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recently forsaken it.
Walls and seals and soldiers

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could not bar out the spirit
from the body he was about to

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repair for future
manifestations.

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Hence the spirit, and David
represents the Son as saying, My

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body was not concealed from thee
when I was made in the secret

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place I was embroidered in the
under parts of the earth.

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Then I saw mine imperfect
substance, and in my book all of

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them were written as to the days
they were fashioned.

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When there was not one among
them, the body was repaired, and

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in its being freed from the
loathsomeness of death, it was

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created a spiritual body with
all the embroidery of the

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spirit.
Psalm 139 And do you see what

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the Psalm says?
The Psalm goes on to say

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concerning this one, to be
embroidered in the lowest parts

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of the earth.
Verse 17 How precious also are

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thy thoughts unto me?
Oh, God, how great is the sum of

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them?
If I should count them, they are

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they are more in number than the
sand.

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And now look at these words.
When I wake, I am still with

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thee.
Oh yes, I think there’s a

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prophecy of the resurrection of
the Lord and perhaps more than

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just the resurrection.
But the embroidery of his body

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removed atom by atom from the
grave clothes, leaving them

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disturbed that he might be
rebuilt of spiritual body.

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There was no other way of
removing the body from the

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clothes other than by some
operation of Almighty God upon

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His Son.
Now coming to John Chapter 20.

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And once you’ve got John chapter
20 in your right hand and

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sitting comfortably, find John
Chapter 11 with your left hand

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and let’s just compare 2
passages in John chapter 20 and

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John Chapter 11.
So John 20 says that John comes

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in verse 6 or verse 5 and saw
the linen clothes lying.

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Not only were they flat brothers
and sisters, but they were

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there.
The body was gone but the

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clothes were there.
Now do you see what John Chapter

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11 says?
In John 11, verse 41 the record

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says concerning Lazarus.
Then they took away the stone

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from the place where the dead
was laid.

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And Jesus lifted up his eyes,
and said, Father, I thank thee

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that thou hast heard me, and I
knew that thou hearest me

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always, but because of the
people which stand by, I said

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it, that they may believe that
thou hast sent me.

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And when he had thus spoken, he
cried with a loud voice.

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Lazarus come forth, and he that
was dead came forth.

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Ah, but he was bound hand and
foot with grave clothes, and his

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face was bound about with a
napkin, and Jesus said, loose

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him.
So what do we make of the

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emergence of Lazarus from the
tomb, brothers and sisters?

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And the answer is that, you see,
Lazarus, although raised

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clearly, still remained shackled
to mortality.

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The bindings of Death still
remained upon him.

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He was raised, but he’s still
mortal.

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He’s still subject to death.
He’s still bound by his grave

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clothes, and the lesson of John
11 was that although the miracle

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of resurrection had been had
been performed upon Lazarus,

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that he would nevertheless
return to the grave again,

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because being bound by the grave
clothes, he was not yet free

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from the shackles of mortality.
So what do we make, then, of the

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man of John 20, who has clearly
stepped forth from the tomb that

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left his grave clothes behind
him?

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And presumably the Lord has left
mortality behind.

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He’s now free from all those
earthly constraints that the

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linen grave clothes betokened.
He’s not bound like Lazarus, you

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see.
He’s walked away free of the

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linen clothes.
And that takes us to another

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interesting passage, because if
you come to the Book of

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Leviticus in chapter 16, we come
to the day of, well, the Day of

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Atonement.
Leviticus chapter 16 tells us

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that of course, on the Day of
Atonement, the high priest would

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work a work of atonement on
behalf of the nation as a whole.

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In fact, we’re told in verse 15
of Leviticus 16 that he would

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kill the goat of the sin
offering, that is for the

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people, and bring his blood
within the veil, and do with

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that blood as he did with the
blood of the Bullock, and

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sprinkle it upon the Mercy Seat
and before the Mercy Seat and

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shall make atonement for the
Holy Place And So on.

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This on this special day, the
High Priest went into the Most

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Holy Place itself to make
atonement for his people.

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You know, brothers and sisters,
on this day when the High Priest

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went into the Most Holy Place,
we’re told expressly in verse

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four that he put on the holy
linen coat that he had upon him

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linen breeches, that he was
girded with a linen girdle and

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had a linen mitre attired upon
his head.

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These are his holy garments, and
before he went into the Most

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Holy Place, he arrayed himself
in linen clothes.

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Now what’s interesting about the
Day of Atonement is that when

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the high priest came back out,
by the way, he went in about

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four times that day.
And every every time he he did

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the same thing.
He put linen clothes on every

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time he went in, but when he
came out, he he wasn’t wearing

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the same clothes.
Do you know?

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Each time he came out he
changed.

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Now Leviticus 16 now he reports
one of these episodes.

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But it was true of the totality
of his labours that day.

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And you see what it says.
And Leviticus, chapter 16 and

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verse 23.
And Aaron shall come into the

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Tabernacle of the congregation,
into the most holy, is where he

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came, of course, to make
atonement on that day.

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And now verse 23 says, And he
shall put off the linen garments

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which he put on when he went
into the holy place, and he

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shall leave them there.
The work of atonement has been

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completed, and the man who steps
forth is arrayed in different

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00:34:31,639 –> 00:34:36,360
garments for glory and beauty
when he re emerges and his work

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00:34:36,360 –> 00:34:39,840
of atonement is done.
Isn’t that interesting?

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Do you know, brothers and
sisters, if you stop and think

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about the tomb of our Lord Jesus
Christ?

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In a sense, the tomb was a most
holy place.

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Inside that tomb was the Ark of
the Covenant.

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Inside that tomb were two
kerubic angels overshadowing the

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ark.
Inside that tomb was the blood

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spattered mercy seat in the form
of the body of our Lord Jesus

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Christ.
All the signs of the atonement

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that had been wrought were to be
found in the Sepulchre of

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Christ, and now the linen
clothes are left there as well.

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When the Lord departs, come back
to John chapter 20.

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There was something else that
John saw.

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We know that he saw it because
he makes a special reference to

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it.
He says this John chapter 20.

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He says verse five he saw the
linen clothes but went not in.

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Simon Peter following him, went
into the sepulchre and sees the

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linen clothes lie, and the
napkin that was about his head

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not lying with the linen
clothes, but wrapped together in

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a place by itself.
And John saw expressly that they

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were linen clothes in one place
and a linen turban still wrapped

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00:36:23,480 –> 00:36:30,280
in its shape in another place,
And that these two garments were

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distinct and different, the one
from the other.

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00:36:33,200 –> 00:36:34,600
They weren’t all bundled
together.

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There was the linen clothes and
the linen turban.

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But if you come back to
Zechariah chapter three, you

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remember the promise that was
made to Joshua the high priest

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as a result of his faithfulness.
We’re told in Joshua chapter 3

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and verse 3 the record says this
Now Joshua was clothed with

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filthy garments, and stood
before the Angel.

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And he answered and spake unto
those that stood before him,

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saying, Take away the filthy
garments from him.

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00:37:18,800 –> 00:37:21,480
And unto him he said, Behold,
I’ve caused thine iniquity to

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00:37:21,480 –> 00:37:25,160
pass from thee, and I will
clothe thee with a change of

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raiment.
And I said, let them set a fair

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00:37:29,240 –> 00:37:34,360
mitre upon his head.
So they set a fair mitre upon

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his head, and plathed him with
garments.

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The Angel of Yahweh stood by,
and the prophecy of Zechariah

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00:37:46,920 –> 00:37:49,560
prophesied of a time when there
would be a change of garments

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and a change of head covering.
And in the tomb is left behind a

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set of garments and a head
covering, in a sense.

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You see, the Lord’s been given
his reward.

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Oh, and come back to John,
Chapter 20.

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I think there was something else
that John saw.

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You see, You see, John 20 says
concerning the napkin.

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Verse seven, it says.
And the napkin that was about

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00:38:18,480 –> 00:38:21,240
his head not lying with the
linen clothes, but wrapped

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together, and not just wrapped
together, but in a place by

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itself, by itself.
So the head turban was separated

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from the rest of the linen
clothes.

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And you notice it doesn’t say
that the clothes were by

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themselves, it says the turban
was by itself.

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The emphasis was on the fact
that the wrapping for the head

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was in a place of its own, and
therefore there was a gap

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between itself and the rest of
the linen garments which

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pertained to the body.
Now come to Ephesians chapter

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one and you’ll remember.
Or you may remember what it says

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at the end of Ephesians chapter
one.

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Ephesians chapter One puts it
this way, and I think John

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perhaps saw and understood the
significance of this matter.

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The turban, the napkin wrapped
in a place by itself, separated

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00:39:19,760 –> 00:39:23,280
from the linen garments.
There’s a gap between the two

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00:39:24,720 –> 00:39:27,880
and verse.
Ephesians chapter one, verse 22

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says that after the resurrection
of Christ it says, And he has

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00:39:31,120 –> 00:39:39,120
put all things under his feet
and gave him to be the head over

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00:39:39,120 –> 00:39:47,320
all things to the ecclesia which
is his body, the fullness of him

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00:39:48,600 –> 00:39:54,600
that filleth All in all.
So you see, the Ecclesia of

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00:39:54,600 –> 00:40:01,760
Christ is considered to be his
body and the Lord is considered

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to be the head of that body.
In fact, it’s in this very

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epistle that we’re exhorted to
grow up unto him which is our

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head, even the Lord Jesus
Christ.

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But there’s a gap when you come
to the First of Corinthians.

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In chapter 15 we understand why
they had to be again that little

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separation of space that John
saw in his alertness to all the

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details.
First of Corinthians chapter 15

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00:40:43,680 –> 00:40:48,320
says in verse 22.
For as in Adam all die, Even so

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in Christ, so all be made alive.
But every man in his own order,

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Christ the first fruits, the
neck can wrapped in a place by

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00:41:08,520 –> 00:41:17,960
itself, and afterwards they that
a Christ it is coming the linen

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clothes of his body.
And in the separation between

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the head napkin and the clothes,
there was a prophecy of the

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00:41:26,920 –> 00:41:31,000
resurrection of both Christ and
the Saints that would follow a

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00:41:31,000 –> 00:41:35,120
gap of time being between the
two marvellous brother and

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sisters.
Every detail was so important in

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00:41:38,960 –> 00:41:43,360
the story of the linen clothes
that John saw on this occasion

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as he looked with wondering eyes
into the sepulchre.

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Now do you know there are three
stages to the process of

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judgement as we understand it,
or the process of resurrection

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and judgement as we understand
it to come.

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And it’s really summarized by
three Greek words.

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You’ll know them Anastasis, the
standing up of dead ones.

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Grino, The time of judgement.
E Gyro, the rebuilding to

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immortality itself.
Those are the three stages that

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we all hope to go through, that
we might end up with a body like

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Christ, so that we can praise
the Father in the Kingdom

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00:42:34,720 –> 00:42:38,200
without the weakness of our
mortal nature ever constraining

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us again.
Anesthesis.

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Crino Igyro.
Now think about that just for a

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00:42:46,760 –> 00:42:49,280
moment.
With regard to our Lord Jesus

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Christ.
You see, the Lord clearly was

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raised Anesthesis, the bringing
back to life of a dead one.

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It happened for the Lord in the
two, no doubt about that

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00:43:00,800 –> 00:43:02,840
whatsoever.
And by the way, He was mortal

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when he was revived.
He had to be mortal, not only as

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a parable for his brethren, but
for another reason that we

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should look at by and by.
And was the Lord going to

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experience the process of egyo,
of rebuilding to immortality?

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Why, yes, of course, But the
middle word, Krino.

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Now what was there that the
father needed to judge in the

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Son, do you think?
And the answer was nothing at

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all.
So you see, there was no need in

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00:43:46,760 –> 00:43:51,520
the case of the Lord for there
to be an extensive delay between

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his revival from the dead and
his rebuilding to immortality.

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It’s the same process.
But there was no need for delay,

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00:44:01,600 –> 00:44:06,600
was there?
Do you know what the Lord said

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00:44:06,600 –> 00:44:10,480
when he hung up on the cross as
his life expired?

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He said it is finished and what
he meant was that all his

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00:44:20,680 –> 00:44:24,000
labours, all his work, all the
responsibility of bringing the

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00:44:24,000 –> 00:44:26,360
work of atonement to a
conclusion, it’s all finished,

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it’s all done.
And so it was.

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And I think that when the Lord
was brought back to life in the

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tomb, brothers and sisters, all
the yearning of his heavenly

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00:44:39,160 –> 00:44:43,960
Father would be to glorify his
Son just as soon as he possibly

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00:44:43,960 –> 00:44:47,880
could, don’t you think?
He certainly wouldn’t want to

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00:44:47,880 –> 00:44:51,760
say to him, well, look, sudden,
you’re going to be given

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00:44:51,760 –> 00:44:54,520
immortality this afternoon, but
there’s a few hours left.

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00:44:54,520 –> 00:45:00,680
So whatever you do, don’t do
anything that might upset the

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00:45:00,680 –> 00:45:06,440
work that’s been accomplished.
Why would God do that?

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Why would God cause the sun to
wait any longer than was

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00:45:14,520 –> 00:45:20,280
necessary?
So how long was necessary, do

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00:45:20,280 –> 00:45:24,360
you think, brothers and sisters?
Well, I think there is an

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00:45:24,360 –> 00:45:28,880
answer, you see.
So come to Psalm 45.

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See, I think the Lord probably
experienced the Psalm, or at

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00:45:39,440 –> 00:45:51,440
least this moment of in Psalm 45
the record says this verse 7.

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Psalm 45 Thou lovest
righteousness and hatest

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00:46:01,520 –> 00:46:07,920
wickedness.
Therefore God thy God, hath

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00:46:07,960 –> 00:46:15,240
anointed thee with the oil of
gladness above thy fellows all

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00:46:15,240 –> 00:46:20,240
thy garments smell of myrrh and
aloes, and cassia.

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00:46:20,560 –> 00:46:24,800
And when the Lord lying in the
sepulchre revived, I wonder if

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he thought about that verse,
brothers and sisters, as he took

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00:46:28,000 –> 00:46:33,160
his first mortal breath again.
And he breathed in the smell of

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00:46:33,160 –> 00:46:36,840
the spices that he was wrapped
in at that time, and he felt his

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00:46:36,840 –> 00:46:40,400
mortal life come back into him
The breath and the spirit of God

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00:46:40,400 –> 00:46:42,240
revived him, and he was awake
again.

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00:46:42,400 –> 00:46:46,760
He was aware of being awake, he
was aware of being alive, he was

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00:46:46,760 –> 00:46:55,080
aware of being mortal, and he
could smell the spices.

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00:46:57,920 –> 00:47:01,400
But he hadn’t yet had the oil of
gladness to anoint him, had he?

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So how long would God wait from
that first sense of the reviving

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00:47:09,120 –> 00:47:13,560
of mortal life before He would
flood his Son with that

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00:47:13,600 –> 00:47:18,840
indescribable sense of joy and
well-being and happiness that

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00:47:18,840 –> 00:47:23,080
would come with the flooding of
immortality into his body to

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00:47:23,080 –> 00:47:25,640
release him forever?
How long would it be brothers

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00:47:25,640 –> 00:47:29,920
and sisters?
And I think the answer is just

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00:47:29,920 –> 00:47:34,920
as long as the as the Lord
needed to know mortality again

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00:47:36,800 –> 00:47:41,800
so that He could experience the
thrill and the joy of

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00:47:41,800 –> 00:47:45,720
immortality.
And I think it was the Father’s

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00:47:45,720 –> 00:47:50,120
good pleasure at that time to
grant that to him.

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And that the man who stepped
forth into the fresh air of the

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00:47:55,920 –> 00:48:02,480
early morning on that day in
Jerusalem was a man already in

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possession of his reward, and
filled now with a life that

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00:48:10,560 –> 00:48:15,640
could never be taken from him.
Well, who knows?

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00:48:15,680 –> 00:48:20,760
Brothers and sisters, it’s not a
matter finally, of doctrinal

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00:48:20,760 –> 00:48:23,640
fundamental significance.
It’s only a debate of hours of

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00:48:23,640 –> 00:48:25,480
time.
Just a few hours.

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00:48:28,280 –> 00:48:34,200
But if we can piece together
just a handful of scriptures, I

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00:48:34,200 –> 00:48:36,920
wonder what John must have
thought with his spiritually

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00:48:36,920 –> 00:48:41,560
acute mind, whether he put all
that together and much more

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00:48:41,560 –> 00:48:44,840
besides.
And that that’s why the record

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00:48:44,840 –> 00:48:52,680
tells us that when John looked
and saw, he believed.

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00:48:54,760 –> 00:48:56,360
He believed brothers and
sisters.

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00:48:58,760 –> 00:49:05,760
Because I think he’d understood
the Riddle of the linen clothes.

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