{"id":33650,"date":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/he-lives-as-he-said-he-would\/"},"modified":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","slug":"he-lives-as-he-said-he-would","status":"publish","type":"sermons","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/he-lives-as-he-said-he-would\/","title":{"rendered":"He Lives, As He Said He Would"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2005\/08\/18922.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n<p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">There&#8217;s one\nlong sentence in Mark 16 that caught my imagination. It&#8217;s the angel&#8217;s words to\nthe women: &#8220;Go, tell his disciples and Peter, &#8216;He is going ahead of you\ninto Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.&#8217; &#8221; It&#8217;s that\nfinal sentence within a sentence that fascinates me: &#8220;&#8230; as he told\nyou.&#8221; The angel says to the women, &#8220;He is alive.&#8221; Notice, Jesus\nof Nazareth is alive. There&#8217;s no mistake about it. It&#8217;s not the Christ of faith\nor a phantom-spiritualized-Christ the angel is talking about. It&#8217;s Jesus of\nNazareth. This is the historical name of our Lord&#8212;his name, plus the city,\nNazareth. Jesus of Nazareth is alive. He has conquered death. He will meet his\nfriends in Galilee, as he said he would. &#8220;Do you remember what he told\nyou? It&#8217;s all true.&#8221; That&#8217;s what the angel said. Jesus kept his word. I\nwant to reflect upon the amazing fact that Jesus kept his promise. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">A promise\nkept is one of the great experiences in human life<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Do you know\nthat a promise kept is one of the great experiences in human life? I&#8217;m grateful\nfor the legacy of having parents who told me the truth. As I grew up, my mother\nand father both meant what they said and said what they meant. With my father,\nwhat you see is what you get. My father is 87 years old, but if you don&#8217;t get\nin there fast with a firm grip, you end up with a broken hand. He believed in a\nfirm handshake and taught me your shake should be as good as your word. You\nshouldn&#8217;t need a document to prove you&#8217;re telling the truth. If you shake on\nit, you&#8217;re going to tell the truth. That&#8217;s a good legacy. I remember when I was\na young pastor just starting at University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. The\nchief custodian, Bernie Olson, had been there for a number of years. When I&#8217;d\nbeen there about six years, Bernie brought a big cake to staff lunch and said\nwe were going to celebrate. Then he told us a story that hardly any of us in\nthe room knew anything about. Fifteen years before, he had been a general\ncontractor who went bankrupt. He and his wife both went to work&#8212;he as the\ncustodian at the church&#8212;and they had been paying back every single creditor.\nYou don&#8217;t have to pay your creditors when you go Chapter Seven. People do it\nall the time. Every eleven years you can do it. Some people regularly wipe out\ntheir debts that way. But that wasn&#8217;t the way Bernie felt. He had made a\npromise to all those suppliers, and he paid every nickel back. Then he had a\ncelebration with the rest of the church and said, &#8220;I paid it all back.&#8221;\n<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">When you\nexperience a person who is a truth teller who keeps promises, it&#8217;s a\nlife-changing experience. It&#8217;s true historically, too. Some of the great\nhistorical moments have been truth-telling moments. In May of 1942, when the\nUnited States evacuated Corregidor, a submarine came to take General MacArthur\nand his staff to Australia. Before MacArthur got on that submarine, he made a\nvery famous promise: &#8220;I shall return.&#8221; MacArthur had a great sense of\nthe dramatic, but it went deeper than that. When the war in the Pacific turned,\nAmerican troops began to fight their way back toward the Philippines. Some\nadvisers in the Pacific theater felt it was foolish to try to go back.\n&#8220;Just bypass the Philippines,&#8221; they said, &#8220;and go on.&#8221; But\nMacArthur felt a sense of history&#8212;a promise had been made. He went back to\nLeyte Gulf, and you may remember the famous Life magazine photograph as\nMacArthur, with his adjutant at his side, stepped on the beach at Leyte to keep\na promise. Historically, it was an important moment for the Republic of the\nPhilippines. They still remember it with great fondness to this day. After\nPhilippine independence came, almost every American-named street in Manila was\nrenamed&#8212;except MacArthur Boulevard. It&#8217;s still MacArthur Boulevard. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">A promise\nkept has tremendous significance. This is also true in literature. Probably the\ngreatest American novel ever written was Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Huck\nFinn had a worthless father. I say to people, &#8220;If you had a bad father,\nread Huckleberry Finn. Your dad can&#8217;t possibly be as bad as Huck Finn&#8217;s\nfather.&#8221; He must be the worst father of all time. He beats his son and\nties him up in the house. He is a pathological liar, and Huck Finn never heard\none true thing said by his father. When Huck Finn runs away, he floats down the\nMississippi River with a new friend, a runaway slave named Jim, who tells the\ntruth always. Jim never tells a lie. He&#8217;s a truth teller and a promise keeper.\nOf course that&#8217;s what makes the story work. It&#8217;s Huck Finn&#8217;s antiphonal sides:\nthe father who is worthless and the friend who tells the truth. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">In\nDostoyevsky&#8217;s Crime and Punishment, the same dynamics are present. Sonia, the\nChrist figure in the novel, tells Roskolnakov, the murderer, that he must\nconfess his crime. He must kiss the earth and say, &#8220;I am a murderer,&#8221;\nto the north, south, east, and west. It is Sonia who convinces Roskolnakov to\nconfess to the crime even though someone else was convicted for it. When\nRoskolnakov confesses, he is sent to Siberia for punishment. Sonia had made a\npromise to follow him to Siberia. She keeps him alive, although it almost costs\nher own life. She ends up sicker than he, but she brings cabbages and parsnips\nto keep this man alive, because she promised she would. And that&#8217;s what makes\nthe story so great and brings the resurrection scene at the end of the novel.\nIt&#8217;s true in great children&#8217;s literature, too. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">One of my\nfavorite children&#8217;s story writers is Dr. Seuss. The best character in Dr. Seuss\nhas got to be Horton the elephant. I love that guy. Remember that flaky duck\nmother who left her egg with Horton and said, &#8220;Would you watch this egg\nplease?&#8221; She leaves that egg and never comes back. Horton stays with that\negg until it hatches. He&#8217;s a wonderful mother. Remember that great line Dr. Seuss\ngives to Horton? He says, &#8220;I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.\nAn elephant is faithful 100 percent.&#8221; <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Have you had\nexperiences in your life where people told you the truth? You know how exciting\nit is to meet a Horton or someone who tells you the truth, like Jim on the\nMississippi River. Or have you had experiences where people told you what&#8217;s not\ntrue? It&#8217;s devastating. Are you a person who&#8217;s made it worse in your life by\ntelling lies? You&#8217;ve kidded yourself and your children, and you&#8217;ve kidded your\nwife. You&#8217;re telling lies right and left. Is that how you&#8217;re making it all\nwork? If you want to be free of all that, you came to the right place. I want\nto tell you the whole point of this marvelous event we have just read: Easter\nmorning is an event about truth telling. The source of all truth telling is God\nhimself. He is the supreme truth teller. There&#8217;s not a lie in the whole\nBible&#8212;nothing at all. In fact John, in his great letter, 1 John, describes God\nin the following fashion: &#8220;God is light; in him is no darkness at\nall.&#8221; Our Lord Jesus Christ is a truth teller. In the Sermon on the Mount,\nhe gives some advice on truth telling. By the first century, the Jews were\nfascinated with discovering a means to discern whether someone is telling the\ntruth. They had all kinds of tests. They had the famous Nazarite vow, where you\nguarantee to tell the truth by taking a vow and shaving your head. Everybody\nwas concerned with proving somebody was telling the truth. It was an issue\namong Jesus&#8217; disciples. So they asked Jesus, &#8220;How do we prove that someone\nis telling the truth?&#8221; Our Lord&#8217;s answer was specific. In the Sermon on\nthe Mount, he says, &#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you how to know if someone is truthful. Let\nyour &#8216;Yes&#8217; be &#8216;Yes&#8217; and your &#8216;No,&#8217; &#8216;No.&#8217; &#8221; End of discussion. What a\nletdown to the disciples! Of course, Jesus could advocate that because that&#8217;s\nthe way he himself was. What you see is what you get. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">The\nresurrection shows that all God&#8217;s promises are true<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Now in the\nmost important single moment of all human history, the triumph of Jesus Christ\nover sin and death and the Devil, it becomes one more instance of Jesus telling\nthe truth. Don&#8217;t you love the way the angel puts it? It&#8217;s so matter of fact, so\nsimple. The angel says, &#8220;You&#8217;re looking for Jesus of Nazareth? He&#8217;s not\nhere; he&#8217;s alive. Now tell the disciples and Peter&#8212;don&#8217;t forget Peter, because\nhe is so down now. Tell Peter that Jesus will meet them in Galilee as he\npromised.&#8221; I can see how some of the monks in the second century would\nsay, &#8220;You know we&#8217;ve got to have a better ending to the book than\nthat.&#8221; One of the strange endings in the last few verses of Mark says,\n&#8220;You&#8217;ll hold rattlesnakes, and if they bite you, they won&#8217;t kill\nyou.&#8221; That was thrown in during the second century. It&#8217;s not in the\noriginal text. It was put there by someone in the second century who thought\nthe message needed to be beefed up. It doesn&#8217;t need to be beefed up. Let your\nyes be yes, and your no, no. Jesus Christ has conquered death, as he said he\nwould. It&#8217;s that simple. He kept his promise. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">It may be\nyou are discouraged because people have told you lies. Here&#8217;s someone who tells\nyou truth. He always has. He told the truth when he said he would conquer\ndeath, and he did it. When it dawned on the early disciples that Jesus keeps his\npromises, it must have been one of the most exciting parts of the Resurrection\nexperience. That&#8217;s what it was all about. In fact, that&#8217;s how I interpret\nLuke&#8217;s incident on the road to Emmaus. Luke tells us about some disciples who\nmet Jesus. They didn&#8217;t know it was Jesus at first. The text says Jesus took\nthem through the Old Testament, showed them the promises, and said how they\nwere all fulfilled in Christ. The promises had been kept. Their hearts burned\nbecause they were so excited. Can you imagine how exciting it must have been to\nthe early disciples to realize that all the promises Christ made are for real?\nI can now call in all those chits. I can call in those promises. He means to\nkeep them. He kept the biggest one of all; he conquered death. On this Easter I\nwant to reflect on four of those promises. Think of the promises we now know\nare true. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">First, what\nhe said about ourselves and our worth is true. He validated it. My mind goes\nback to the Sermon on the Mount, and that marvelous scene when Jesus says,\n&#8220;Consider the birds of the air. Your Father knows about them, every\nsparrow, and yet you&#8217;re worth more than that. Consider the lilies of the field.\nEven Solomon isn&#8217;t as beautiful as they are, they are alive one day and in the\noven the next. Your Father knows you. Seek first the kingdom of heaven and his\nrighteousness, and all these things will be yours.&#8221; What a profound and\ndeep insight Jesus gives us! What a promise he makes about what we&#8217;re worth and\nhow much we mean to him! We can call that promise in. It&#8217;s true! Christ\nvalidated it. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Think of the\npromises Jesus made concerning himself in the New Testament. One comes to my\nmind from chapter 8 of the Gospel of John. After the woman caught in adultery\nis thrown at Jesus&#8217; feet, our Lord saves her from a mob that would have stoned\nher. Remember the line he said to that mob? &#8220;He who is without sin, let\nhim cast the first stone.&#8221; From the oldest to the youngest, they walked\naway. He was left alone with the woman. He called her to the way of righteousness\nand said, &#8220;Woman, where are your accusers?&#8221; She said, &#8220;They&#8217;re\ngone.&#8221; He said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t accuse you either. Go and sin no more.&#8221;\nThe very next line, in chapter 8, verse 12, Jesus said to them, &#8220;I am the\nlight of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will\nhave the light of life.&#8221; What a tremendous promise! What a promise about\nChrist&#8217;s integrity! He has already shown his love. Now he shows who he is. I\ncan call that in now. I can count on it. I can put my weight down on it. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Then he made\na promise about his plan that we should live forever. That promise is at the\nclose of the Nicodemus incident. Nicodemus comes to him at night. They have a\nlong discourse, and at the end of that discourse, our Lord concludes with\nNicodemus by making a summary statement. John&#8217;s gospel records it in chapter 3,\nverses 16 through 17. Jesus speaks to Nicodemus and says, &#8220;For God so\nloved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him\nshall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the\nworld to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.&#8221; That&#8217;s\nGod&#8217;s will for your life. You can count on that promise. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Finally,\nthink of our Lord&#8217;s mandate to the disciples in John 20:21. In the very night\nof his Resurrection, in the upper room, we&#8217;re told he met the disciples and\nsaid, &#8220;Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending\nyou.&#8221; That&#8217;s a promise in the form of a command. The fundamental question\nabout Bad Friday is that when our Lord dies on the cross, he is really struck\ndown as the Great Shepherd. But even in his dying, he makes promises&#8212;right to\nthe very end. Two of the most moving promises our Lord ever made are made while\nhe&#8217;s dying. One is, &#8220;Father forgive them; they know not what they\ndo.&#8221; The other is made to a thief. The most beautiful of all promises is\nmade to one other human being: &#8220;I tell you the truth, today you will be\nwith me in paradise.&#8221; Now the big question that we have to ask\ntheologically is about the promise Christ made to the thief. Was it the\nsentiment of a dying man trying to cheer up another dying man, or can Jesus\nkeep that promise? That&#8217;s the question. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Our Lord\nmade many promises. This is certainly the most moving of them all. Does he keep\nhis promises? Is he as good as his word? Does he mean what he says, and does he\nsay what he means 100 percent? That is the message of Easter. He is risen. He\nlives, as he said he would!<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <em>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Earl Palmer\nis pastor of University Presbyterian Church in Seattle, Washington, and author\nof<\/span>\n      <\/em>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\"> Mastering\nthe New Testament: 1, 2, 3 John and Revelation\/Volume 12 <em>(W Publishing\nGroup, 1991).<\/em><\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>(c) Earl Palmer<\/p>\n    <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">Preaching Today Issue\n#90<\/h2>\n    <p>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preachingtodaysermons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">www.PreachingTodaySermons.com<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>A resource of\nChristianity Today International<\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>For Additional\nPreaching Today Resources:<\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n\n    <p>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preachingtoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">www.PreachingToday.com<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>Get top-notch sermon illustrations, relevant articles,\npreaching tips, and more!<\/p>\n\n    <p>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/go\/pta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">www.ChristianityToday.com\/go\/PTA<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <em>Preaching Today Audio Series<\/em> delivers today&#8217;s best\nsermons to your door each month &#8212; on tape or compact disc. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[306],"tax_ctp_authors":[1494],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_field_guide_subcategory":[],"tax_ctp_field_guides":[],"tax_ctp_format":[170],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[412],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_sermon_series":[],"tax_ctp_tags":[3839,3942,4184,4723,4828,4830,5195,5198,5199],"tax_ctp_topics":[],"class_list":["post-33650","sermons","type-sermons","status-publish","hentry","tax_ctp_authors-earl-palmer","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-easter","tax_ctp_tags-faithfulness","tax_ctp_tags-human-worth","tax_ctp_tags-promises","tax_ctp_tags-resurrection","tax_ctp_tags-resurrection-of-christ","tax_ctp_tags-trust","tax_ctp_tags-trustworthiness-of-god","tax_ctp_tags-truth"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>He Lives, As He Said He Would - CT Pastors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/he-lives-as-he-said-he-would\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"He Lives, As He Said He Would - CT Pastors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&#8217;s one long sentence in Mark 16 that caught my imagination. 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