WORDS OF SM LOCKRIDGE FROM ABOVE VIDEO
I was in Detroit one night and I was preaching on the existence of God and I made a statement that God came from nowhere. And after the service a man came up to me and said preacher, let’s be reasonable about this, you were up there tonight talking about, “God came from nowhere”. That doesn’t make any sense, let’s be reasonable about this. I said, “alright, if you just want to be reasonable about it. The reason God came from nowhere there wasn’t anywhere for him to come from. And coming from nowhere, He stood on nothing, and the reason He had to stand on nothing was that there was nowhere for Him to stand. And standing on nothing, He reached out where there was nowhere to reach and caught something when there was nothing to catch, and hung something on nothing, and told it to stay there. Now you’ll find that in Job 26.7, “that he hung this world on nothing”. Now the same God that is able to change nothing into something is the same God that is able take a good-for-nothing, nobody and turn him into somebody to tell everybody about somebody who can save anybody. He’s the same God that can make a sick man well, an ignorant man wise, a bad man good, a good man better and even a dead man alive in Jesus Christ.
So my question tonight is do you know Him? Now don’t, don’t fool me now because if you don’t know Him, let me tell you about Him. Jesus Christ is the Son of God and He came down the stairways of Heaven, and He was born in Bethlehem, hidden in Egypt, brought up in Nazareth, baptized in Jordan and tempted in the wilderness. He performed miracles by the roadside. He took your sins and my sins and went on on Calvary and there died, and while dying on that cross Jesus says several things. When the thief taunted Him and said, “if you be the Christ, come down from the cross and save yourself and us”. To that taunt, Jesus never said a mumbling word. But the silence seemed to have said, you just wait until Sunday morning and I will show you that it’s better to come up from a grave than to come down from a cross. Then He committed His Spirit unto the Father, dropped His head unto the Locks of His shoulder, and there died, and I mean He really died. Don’t believe the swoon theory, He died. He died until the sun refused to shine, He died until the earth quaked and the rocks rent. He died until the centurion said, “truly this must have been the Son of God”
So my question tonight is do you know Him? Now don’t, don’t fool me now because if you don’t know Him, let me tell you about Him. Jesus Christ is the Son of God and He came down the stairways of Heaven, and He was born in Bethlehem, hidden in Egypt, brought up in Nazareth, baptized in Jordan and tempted in the wilderness. He performed miracles by the roadside. He took your sins and my sins and went on on Calvary and there died, and while dying on that cross Jesus says several things. When the thief taunted Him and said, “if you be the Christ, come down from the cross and save yourself and us”. To that taunt, Jesus never said a mumbling word. But the silence seemed to have said, you just wait until Sunday morning and I will show you that it’s better to come up from a grave than to come down from a cross. Then He committed His Spirit unto the Father, dropped His head unto the Locks of His shoulder, and there died, and I mean He really died. Don’t believe the swoon theory, He died. He died until the sun refused to shine, He died until the earth quaked and the rocks rent. He died until the centurion said, “truly this must have been the Son of God”
