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Category: Obedience to God’s Will
Speaker: Paul Chisgar
Date: April 16, 2025
This month has been full of blessings. A special praise: Calvary Baptist Cyan Valley was able to purchase the new building. We are very blessed to have a new place to worship and permanent housing for us this year. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the building fund. Renovations have already begun and are going well. Our grand opening service will be on May 18th. Please pray that many will join us this big day to hear the gospel. We have had so much fun working with the youth.
Mothering Day was just a few weeks ago, and we encouraged all the children to bring their mothers with them for a Sunday service. One of the boys became so excited about inviting people that he wanted to ask his whole class at school. He did, and it made such a statement to the teachers and staff that they mentioned it and invited us to give out more flyers for the program. We brought tons of candy and flyers to pass out during their Easter celebration at the primary school.
The staff also took some to place in their offices. Please pray as we try to make more of a difference with the students and the teachers. As a personal update, we’ve been able to register with the National Health Service and have attended a few pregnancy appointments for our baby. The midwives have said that she is a healthy little girl. We were able to get an ultrasound as well and include her picture this month. We could even set up her new nursery since we now have a permanent place to live. Josie and I are very excited.
Thank you for praying for our little family. God has been protecting and providing for us all along the way in Christ, the Shepherd family. Let’s bring the Shepherd family to the Lord in prayer, and we’ll pray about their building and everything they have coming up. Dear Lord, we just thank you so much for this family over in the United Kingdom, spreading your gospel over there, Lord. Doing the work to see people saved. They’re getting the word out. They’re getting into the schools. They’re getting with the children. Lord, it’s so great to hear how much success they’re having there. Thank you for the building that they got. We pray that you’d help their renovations to go well, to go smoothly. We just pray for the pregnancy as well to go smoothly. Lord, I’m sure that there’s many, many other prayer requests that they have that aren’t mentioned here. But Lord, you know them, and we thank you for that. So we just want to lift this family up to you in prayer. Keep your hand of protection and your hand of blessing upon them throughout their time serving you. And we ask all this in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Amen. Thank you, Brother Patrick, for reading those. That’s a blessing. All those are missionaries we support. We’ve been supporting them just for a couple months. They’ve only been there a couple of months. But all of these, you get to have a part in. I appreciate those giving to it.
We will get back to organized sorting on Saturday, 9:30 breakfast right here. And we’ll have a challenge by one of our men that will go out, just a blessing to see God work in alliance. You’ll be praying. If you can come, come. And, you know, right the Sunday or the Saturday before Easter, that’s like, you know, right before the Super Bowl, it’s one of the big ones, you know. You’d be praying, let’s come Sunday, just ready to go, be ready to get your Bible and prayed up and ready to sing and greet people and just excited about a good day in the Lord’s house Sunday.
Now, this last Sunday, we covered Palm Sunday. We had the Lord’s Supper on Sunday night. Tonight we’re going to talk about the crucifixion a bit, and then Sunday morning, his resurrection. I’m looking forward to that. That’s the thing that sets us apart. I mean, we’ll talk about it on Sunday, but you can go to Mecca and see where Mohammed is buried and on and on, but you can’t go and find out where Jesus is buried. He’s risen again, amen.
And we’ll celebrate that on Sunday, but a great day. Bring someone with you. Thank you to all those of you who have brought in eggs, and we’ll get those ready. You can still bring them in Sunday morning, and we can use as many as we can get for those kids. Actually, it’s the kids’ dad that steals it from the kids, you know. So we’ve got to have enough for the kids. And the bus workers, bus drivers, that’s it. Yep, that’s it. There’s one that steals most of it.
If you can help us, we appreciate that. After church Sunday, we’ll have that Easter egg hunt. That’s a great, great time and will be a good thing. We will have the men’s meeting. There’s a bit attending. We’d love to have that come tomorrow night, six o’clock. We will listen to two episodes and going through that tomorrow night, so make a note of that. And anyone need a prayer request card? If you need a prayer request card, grab one of those. One of those shares in front of you all to have that. Fill that thing out.
We’ll pass it down to the aisle and to our ushers in just a minute here. Brother Baxter, could we get you up here to lead us in a word of prayer here? Just a minute. We’ll get Brother Baxter up here. We’ll get all those shuffled over there to him. So get that filled out. Brother Baxter said, please write where I can read it. Amen, you know. I used to read those. Oh, boy, I tell you what, now, you know, that’ll make you pray, you know. But fill those out. We’ll get it passed over to Brother Baxter. He’ll lead us in prayer for those in just a minute.
And prayer on the square. We’re going back to that this year. It’s May the first. It’s Thursday. Murphysboro down there on the Murphysboro Square, the courthouse right behind it. It’ll be open air. And we’ll tell you more about that. And it’ll just be an exciting time. But we need to pray. Someone tonight before the service said, man, God’s been so good and he’s doing a lot of great things. But the devil’s always fighting. And we need to pray for our country, National Day of Prayer. So plan on that. It looks like we’re working and getting a singing group there, 5:30 to 6. We’ll start at 6. We’ll start at 6. We’re going to get somebody there. So plan on that. Looking forward to that.
Ladies’ tea time, that’s Saturday, May the 3rd. And April 26th, men’s trap shooting. Meet you at the church at 1 o’clock, down to Henry Horton at 2 o’clock. We’ll try our best not to shoot each other. No promises, but we’ll try, amen. We’ll work real hard at that. We do have Southerners and Yankees that’s going to be there that day, so I don’t know. We’ll see what happens on it, but we’ll have a good time. It’ll be great. Looking forward to it. I hope you come to it.
Then our Christian school—our Christian school has a talent show on the 25th. It’s a Friday night, 6 o’clock, and there’s dinner included. Drake’s Restaurant down in Murphysboro is supplying that for us. It’ll be great. See Ms. Tammy McCoy. You’ve got to get those tickets by Sunday. Sunday’s the last day to purchase those tickets. Get them from Tammy McCord, McCord, not McCord, Tammy McCoy. Isn’t that McCore? We got McCord and McCoy? Wow, say that about ten times. McCord, McCoy, that’s all I can do right there, you know. Tammy McCoy, and she has those tickets.
And so see her about getting those. And you’ll enjoy kindergarten through third grade, those little kids up there participating. They had a microphone. They had a microphone right behind the pulpit earlier when I came in tonight, real short. And somebody said, that means Miss Melissa’s leading singing tonight, you know. She’ll get us back here. But I think they were practicing for the talent show. You’ll enjoy that.
And it’ll be good. And then that meal, too, it’ll be a good meal, too. I’ve had some of the food. And so get that. All the funds, everything’s raised, goes towards the new playground on the new property. And so that’d be great. That’d be great. If you got your field out, pass it down the aisle, and we’ll get those over to Brother Baxter. Do we have anybody filling them out tonight? Goodness gracious. Well, we got, we got one. Brother Adam’s got one here. We’ve got a couple. We’ve got a couple. All right, we’ll go get those things gathered up.
And Brother Baxter has power with prayer. Every one of these things would come true. And if you need any kind of healing, if you need to win the lottery, just put it on there. Don’t believe me, I’m lying right now, too. We’ll get Brother Baxter leading us in prayer for legit things. Amen. And I’m glad to see you here on Wednesday night. That’s awesome. That’s awesome. Pray, Lord, you’re in God’s house, right where you ought to be. And Brother Baxter, come read over these.
I always say this, but let’s pray over all these. I mean, pray like it was your request. All of us go into God at the same time about these things, about every one of these things. It means something, God, here’s prayers. Amen. He’ll lead us, please. All right, everybody.
Daniel McNeil.
Kevin Bartlett, kidney stones and preparation for the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Sarah Osmond, pain relief with her O-talk shots in her nerve. Ruby Nelson, dementia. Louise Wade, nursing home, not doing well.
Bill and Patty Johan, praises: awesome grandson week with grandson, awesome visit with grandson, family and friends in Ohio. Prayer request: ladies’ jail services Friday at seven, need prayers. Tim and Jennifer Nyland, praises: God is good all the time. Prayer request: Tim’s boss, James, is lost. His father and mother are the same, lost his father and mother the same week, and he’s not saved. Pray for Tim’s boss. And Jennifer’s brother, Lester, is coming tomorrow. Pray for the buses and the Easter egg hunt. And pray that their car was totaled today and all expenses were covered.
This is from Nancy and I. Praise is God that Pastor Josh Sullivan was rescued and unharmed after a shootout. Hard to believe he didn’t get injured or shot or anything. And prayer request: Nancy, she had an epidural injection today, and just pray that it helps her with her nerve pain in her leg. And pray for salvation of family members and unspoken.
Anybody else’s unspoken? Angela Rennick. Prayer request: Mom had a skin cancer spot removed from her head. Prayers for a quick healing. I’m going to read over these while I pray. Y’all pray too, and then I’ll close it out. Pray for them.
Dear Lord, we come to you at this time. We just lift up these prayer requests to you. We know that you are the way, the light, the ultimate physician, and the healer of all things broken. We just pray over Tim’s boss, James, for the loss of his mom and dad, and just pray that you’ll move in his heart and just move him towards being saved. We pray for Jennifer’s brother that’s coming into town, just be with him on his travels. We pray for the bus ministries and their Easter egg hunt this Sunday, that you’ll be with those kids and just help open their eyes and hearts to you during their Easter visit here. Lord, we pray for the ladies’ jail ministry that will go out Friday at 7 and just lift up these ladies that are going into the jails and just lift up their spirits and their voices and just put forth the message that you put on them, Lord, that those that are there that will go to the service will receive your message and hopefully someone will get saved through this.
We pray for Kevin Barnett and his kidney stones and just hopefully prepare him and those doctors on their way as he goes to the Mayo Clinic. Pray for Sarah Osmond and hopefully she’ll have some relief from the Botox shot she got her nerves. Pray for Ruby Nelson and her dementia. Just be with her, Lord, and just just comfort her and those that are around her taking care of her, that you will just ease their worries and just be with them. And Louise Wade in the nursing home, just, Lord, put your hands upon her. She’s not doing well, that you can give her some relief from what she’s going through. Comfort her and those that are taking care of her. Pray for Angela’s mom and her skin cancer and just hopefully they got all of it and that she heals up from the surgery today and just continue to put your hands on her. Pray for Nancy, Lord, that you will just be with her and just hope that the injection she received today will take the pain away that she’s been having in her legs and just give her some relief from the aches and pains of the nerve pain. And we pray for family members that are not saved, not just ours, but anybody here that has family members that aren’t saved, Lord, just be with them, their families, and open their hearts and just show a way, show us the way to speak to them, to guide them. And we pray for the unspoken prayers, Lord, that everyone in here has that, and you know our hearts, you know our minds, and you know our needs. We just lay these upon you, Lord. Lord, we pray that you will be with the pastor as he gives us our service today leading up to the resurrection. We know the pain that Christ must have went through for us and for our sins. And we just thank you, Lord, for what you’ve done for us and what you’ve given us. And you continue to give us and you continue to be there for us. We just pray that we don’t take our eyes off of you, Lord, and we do not see that we can continue to see your love and your guidance. Please let us take these offerings, Lord, and just further your kingdom. And just we honor and worship you, Lord. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.
I appreciate it. Luke chapter number 23, we’re going to start out tonight. Luke chapter number 23 in God’s Word. And we’re going to venture on this subject tonight: What day of the week did Jesus die? I know you’re like, duh, Good Friday. Well, okay, we’ll talk about that. But just hold on for a little bit before you draw all your conclusions.
I’d say this, I’d say this: the big thing, the big thing that’s important is that Jesus Christ died for our sins and rose again. Amen? And the Bible does talk about the weightier matters of the law. In other words, there are some things that are more important than other things. And this, I would say, is not one of those things that are just necessity. Nothing to argue over. You’ll notice we’re covering it on a Wednesday night. I don’t think we’ll cover it on a Sunday morning. In fact, 25 years I’ve never preached a message on it. For years, I’ve kind of withheld my opinion on it because I wasn’t sure. I’ve been taught a certain way, but I didn’t want to just go that way because I was taught it. I wanted to believe it myself.
I remember Brother Warren used to sit up here. Oh, Brother Warren’s a good one. Been to Bible college and all that. He was a great man, but he came to one time. He said, “Pastor, when do you believe Jesus died?” What the other way? Can I say, “Brother Warren? Praise the Lord, he died and rose again. Amen.”
And I’ve studied over the years, and it’s taken me years to come to a conclusion. If you disagree with me, that’s fine. You can be wrong all day long if you like to. And I’m kind of teasing. It’s not an essential, but it is something interesting. I thought we’d take a Wednesday night and cover it. And it’s got all kind of different curves and twists on it. All right, I’m just going to warn you up front.
I was telling, I think Brother Josh before service, it reminds me of years ago. I covered Daniel 9:27 on there. And it was in the very first building, the daycare. And I think I lost people in about the first 30 seconds. And I was stranded on an island for the rest of the service. And I thought, Paul, don’t do that again. And I feel like we could do that tonight. I don’t want to do that tonight. I don’t want to try to keep us all on board as we cover this subject tonight: What day did Jesus die on the cross?
Okay, just a couple of things just before we get into it. Some will really kind of dive into the calendar, and they’ll be diving and diving and diving and diving. We’ve got, you know, we’ve got the American calendar, then the Jewish and the Gregorian and the Roman calendar, and boy, there’ll just be diving, dive, and dive, and diving. You can’t really kind of reach any conclusions on that. By the way, we want to reach our conclusions from the Bible anyway. Amen.
So we won’t dive into that part. We’ll let the scholars argue about that until the cows come home, you know. If you hear a mooing out there, the cows have come home. Maybe we need to quit, all right? But for a bit, we’ll cover it. I want you to have something in writing because it can be a confusing subject. Let me do this in Sunday school, but I very rarely do this in a church service, but I thought for this, since it is a confusing subject, we’d have a little syllabus tonight.
Miss Sarah Chisgar’s already yawning over there. Just can’t believe it. I haven’t even started yet. She’s already yawning. She’s my daughter, so I can give her a hard time. She’ll give me a hard time back when she gets the opportunity, you know. Anyway, y’all ready to dive into this thing?
This crowd’s ready over here. This crowd over here is like, “I’m ready for bed tonight. Let’s go to sleep.” Amen, Miss Johnny. I appreciate that. There you go. We got a couple of them over there. Good, good, good. Let’s just add a tradition in trying to show respect to God’s Word. Would you please stand as we start this first one over here? Luke 23. Luke 23. And just a couple of verses to kind of get us going on this subject: What day of the week did Jesus die? All right?
And I thought about trying to break it down on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Those are the three major views. Put Bible verses under each one. I’m just trying to make it as simple as I can, and I don’t know that it did that, amen. But it can’t be too hard because I’m not smart enough to make it too hard, amen, you know? So…
But these are some truths that we know from Scripture. We’re just going to go from these, and I want you to make a decision, if you would, maybe take a week or two and study it over, pray over. But on the bottom, it’s got Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, the very bottom of it. You may come to a point and the Holy Spirit says, “That’s not it,” and mark it off. And you may have one you end up with and circle that one, but you pray about it. And I mean that. It’s not a dissension. If somebody wants to argue about this, go ahead and argue, but I’m not going to be involved in it.
I mentioned this 25 years—really the first time I’ve really addressed the subject that I can remember from the pulpit. So, not an essential, all right. We’re in Luke 23, verse number 44 tonight. If you’re there, would you say amen? Good. And it was about the sixth hour. Now, what time of the day would that be? Noon. The Jewish day always started at 6 a.m. So when the Bible says the third or the sixth of the night, just add that to 6. So 6 plus 6 equals 13, right? No, it’s noon. Trying to see if you’re listening or not. So it was about the 6th hour. That’s noon. And there was darkness over all the earth until the 9th hour. What time would that be? 3. Good, good.
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. Actually, the gospel says from the top to the bottom, always just rent apart. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice—by the way, nobody, they didn’t kill him, he laid down his life. God was dying just his last breath. It’s not loud, but he had life left in him, but he laid down his life. He cried with a loud voice. He had energy left, but he laid down his life. When Jesus said, cry with a loud voice, he said, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.” That can be so much said there, but just a little side note. I don’t want to chase too many rabbits or run out of time. But spirit, there’s more than just this, but spirit has to do with your spirit or your attitude, if you will, the atmosphere around you. The actual pneuma has to do with air flowing and pneumatic tools—it’s the air you give off, your spirit, your attitude. You know, they never got Jesus’ attitude. They tortured him, they lied about him, and they mocked him. They spit on him, they plucked his spirit, but they never got his hat [attitude]. He never lost it. I like that: “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.”
And having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
We’ll just end there. This is what I’m trying to get at. And when you sit down, you’re out of there. Number one: Jesus died a little after 3 p.m. It was noon, went dark until 3 p.m. Then after 3 p.m., maybe 3:15, maybe 3:30. We don’t know. A little after 3, he gave up the ghost. We’ll just start and kind of there. Let’s pray. Father, would you use this? Lord, help me and help us not to get stuck in details. Help us to keep the big picture in front of us. My Father, also help us to rightly divide your Word. And Lord, I pray it be a help, Lord, not to argue, but there may be a day where we could remember better what you did for us and help us to stay right on course where you’d have us be. And Lord, we thank you for what you do. We ask for this, Father, in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.
So number one, number one, Jesus died a little after what? After 3 p.m. It may have been 3:15, 3:10, 3:30. We’re not sure. But we know from what we just read, it went dark at noon, then after 3, the light came back, if you will, and Jesus cried a loud voice, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.” That was after 3 p.m., or whatever the day it was.
Now look over in Mark chapter number 15. Mark chapter 15. We’re going to be thumbing through the Bible a lot tonight. Get your thumbs and fingers ready to go. Hope you have all of yours. Help you out a little bit there. A couple of you called it. A couple of you sleep. Anyway, Matthew 15, Matthew 15, excuse me, Mark 15, Mark 15. And verse number 42. Mark 15 and verse number 42.
Now, when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath. Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable counselor which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate and craved the body of Jesus. And Pilate marveled that he were already dead, calling unto him the centurion, and he asked whether he had been dead a while, and all in all, he was dead.
So that number two, that number two, it was the day before a Sabbath that he died. All right. Now with that, with that, you say, “All right, that’s it. It’s a done deal. Sabbath is on Saturday, the last day of the week. It’s the day before. It’s Friday.” I mean, let’s have a closing prayer and go home, you know. But hang on just a second. It might not be quite that simple. All right. Now let’s keep that thought. We do. It was very clear there. It was the day before a Sabbath. We know that. But let’s go over to Matthew chapter number 12. Matthew chapter number 12. And when you find verse number 40, would you say amen?
Just wanting to make sure you’re still on board. God, about this crowd over here, they’re ready to go over here tonight. They’re saying amen, everything, you know. Miss Johnny’s ready to go, good, good. We’re going to pass out coffee over there as long as you’re probably not spilling on the carpet to get you awake over there now, you know. Brother Mark Gates will get you. He just changes carpets out for us, you know.
Here we’re in Matthew 12, and look in verse number 40. For as Jonah—that would be Jonah. That spelling is a little different as you go from the Hebrew to the Greek New Testament—for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall the Son—that’s capital, that’s the Son of Man—be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
So the Bible here is saying that Jesus was in the tomb for three days and three nights. Help me out. How many hours would three days and three nights equal up to? Man, you folks are intelligent tonight. I tell you what, you didn’t get your phones out and put it on a calendar. You look good. 72 hours. Some will say, “Well, don’t get too dogmatic about it. It doesn’t say 72 hours,” but it does say three days and three nights.
So let’s just go a little bit with that. If it was Friday, we know it’s a little after what time? Three. We’re just going to say three for making it easy. So if it was Friday at 3 p.m. and we’ve got to have three days and three nights. Well, many will say this: they’ll say the Jewish people, if it’s just part of a day or a time, they’ll include it all. It’s all of it. So we’ll go with that for just sake of argument, argument. And so we’ll say 3 p.m. Well, their next day, our start at midnight; theirs starts at 6 p.m. See? That’s why over there, “the evening and the morning were the first day,” the evening and the morning were the second day, evening and the morning, the third day. By the way, there’s a great truth there. If you really want to have a good morning, you start the night before, really. That’s not a truth, anyway. That’s for another sermon sometime. But we don’t want to chase too many rabbits tonight.
But, okay, so we’re saying Friday, we’re looking at the Friday argument here. So 3 p.m. Friday. So we’ll say, well, there’s a couple hours of day. So we’ll give them a day on Friday. We got a day on Saturday. And we got a day on Sunday. Well, he actually, before the sun was up, he was already risen. But, all right, we’ll give you—we’ll give you Sunday if you really want it real bad, all right. We’ll just have it. So we got Friday day, Saturday, and Sunday day. All right, we’re giving that one to you a bit. But let’s go to nights. We got Friday night. We got Saturday night. Something ain’t right. How can we get Sunday night? We already know for sure he’s risen. And in the tomb for three days and three nights? Y’all want me out there? I got a problem. It just—okay, three days, maybe three nights, no way. 72 hours? All right, let’s take 72 if we’re going on time. By the way, typically the Bible, when it says something, usually it’s like spot on, you know. It’s like, boom. We talked Sunday about how Jesus said not one stone upon the other. It’s amazing how that was fulfilled. The gold was melted down, and the Roman soldiers were taking those rocks off and getting that gold—that was fulfilled, just like Jesus said. Y’all out there with me? So let’s take the 72 hours, all right? Well, if it’s Friday, 3 p.m., we’ve got Saturday at 3 p.m. How many hours does that be? Point of where we got Sunday, 3 p.m. Monday, 3 p.m.? Houston, we got a problem. Something ain’t right here.
Probably the biggest argument, really, for Friday being the day that he died on the cross—probably the biggest argument, honestly—is just tradition: Good Friday. Now, here’s another debate, if you really want to debate. I was talking to Zach Terry. How many of you remember Zach Terry? I grew up riding the bus around here. He’s married. His wife is about to have a baby in May, and he called me the other day. I remember when he—he likes to argue. We were meeting at McDonald’s over here for soul winning, and Jehovah’s Witnesses just happened to be meeting at the same time, and Zach went over there, and it wasn’t like it was hard for him to do it. He was enjoying going over there and debating with the Jehovah’s Witnesses. He was loving it, man. I mean, he just wanted to argue with somebody. So if you want another argument, all right, here’s another one. I can’t remember what the argument is now. I sit and told that story about Zachary. That’ll get you off anytime. Oh, we’re on Good Friday. Who started Good Friday? There’ll be a debate about it. Well, the early church did, and it was way back in the first century. And then some—many will say the Catholic Church did, different dates, some 692, whatnot. But that’s just an argument. But really, nobody can argue that Good Friday has been promoted greatly by the Catholic Church. Nobody really can debate that. I mean, you just check it out, check it out online, whatever. It’s the one that’s been pushing Good Friday for years and years and years. Anybody, you understand, check it out. If you don’t think that’s true, they’re the ones that just promoted it and promoted it and promoted, and still are.
By the way, if you believe—and I do—Revelation chapter number 17, that the Catholic Church is the mother of harlots, then as we get closer to the end times, those Protestant churches that split off the Mother Church in the Reformation, remember that, and the Dark Ages and all that, and those come back up underneath the Mother, they’ll start promoting more and more Good Friday, and they are. It’s very popular nowadays, friends. And I’m not saying it’s something. I’m not trying to teach this tonight so you can go argue with everybody. Remember we talked about: major on the majors, minor on the minors. It’s a minor. But we’re just trying to get the truth out of it tonight for you and I, all right? So just some thoughts there on the Friday view. All right? Let’s keep going a little bit more.
Father, into the Word of God. Look over in John 19, John chapter number 19. John chapter number 19. And we’re in verse number 31. John 19 and verse number 31. And by the way, if you didn’t fill out your syllabus for number three, Jesus is in the tomb three days and three nights, which equals 72 hours. We’re in John 19:31. Here we go. The Jews, therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, watch this: For that Sabbath was a—what’s the next word?—High day. Besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, that they might be taken away.
Now, once you’re talking about a high day, all right? Let me explain a little bit to you about the Sabbath. There is a weekly Sabbath, all right? When does the weekly Sabbath happen, on what day of the week? Saturday. Then sometimes throughout the Jewish calendar, there’s a high or a special Sabbath day. Okay, it happens a couple times a year. It would happen on different days of the week, right? And we know the typical weekly—52 of those of you hear—weekly Sabbath was on Saturday. But there were other Sabbaths. By the way, the word Sabbath has to do with rest. It means rest. There were other days of rest or Sabbath rest days throughout the Jewish calendar. All right. Y’all with me here? This here wasn’t just a regular Sabbath. It was a high day or a high Sabbath. It was one of the unique ones. All right? Y’all with me on there? So we’ve got down there, number four: It was the day before a high Sabbath day. We already know it was the day before Sabbath, that’s number two. Now number four, it was the day before a high Sabbath day.
Now look over in Exodus chapter number 12. Exodus chapter number 12 in God’s Word. We’re going to be—we’re digging tonight. And it’s not the thing you want to argue about. We’re going to go through twists and turns and everywhere, but just—it’s all. 25 years, time to at least address the subject here. Exodus chapter 12, look in verse number 16, verse number 16.
And he has been talking about the Passover and how to practice it, and then what to do right after the Passover, right after the Passover, all right? Exodus 12, verse number 16. And in the first day, that’s the first day after the Passover, there should be a holy convocation. That convocation has to do with the rest. They’re assembling. And in the seventh day, there shall be a holy convocation to you. No manner of work should be done in them save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. Let me explain a little bit. So when it’s the Passover week, they have a Sabbath right after the day after the Passover. And then they have the regular weekly Sabbath on Saturday. All right? Y’all getting that?
Look over, if you will, in Leviticus. It basically says the same thing. Look over in Leviticus chapter number 23. Leviticus 23, we’re going down deep. I don’t want to go down deep and come up dry, so hopefully we’re going somewhere tonight. But Leviticus 23 and look in verse number five. Verse number five. In the 14th day of the first month, at evening, is the Lord’s—what?—Passover. Yeah, yeah. By the way, when they had the Last Supper, Jesus and apostles, what was that? That was the Passover. Right. So verse number six—no, the 15th day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread. I’m sorry. Let me go back to verse number five. Let’s get all those tied in. Verse number five: “In the 14th day of the first month at evening is the Lord’s Passover. And on the 15th day, the next day of the same month, is the Feast of Unleavened Bread unto the Lord. Seven days ye may eat unleavened bread. In the first day, ye shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no servile work therein.” So, same thing. You’ve got the Passover. Then after the Passover, you have a Sabbath, a high Sabbath. Then the last day of the week, you have the regular weekly Sabbath. That’s what’s going on because it’s Passover week. It’s when they have the Last Meal, a Last Supper. So you’ve got two Passover—excuse me, two Sabbaths going on: a high Sabbath and a weekly Sabbath when Jesus died on the cross that week, all right?
Now, so here’s the thing. Let’s talk about this for just a minute. Some will say, “See there, Jesus died on a Thursday.” Let’s talk about Thursday for a minute, all right? We’ve talked about Friday. You just—you just maybe can get three days. You can’t get three nights for sure. You sure can’t get 72 hours for sure. Let’s try Thursday, all right? They’ll say, “See there, the Thursday people.” They’ll think, “Well, there was a high Sabbath on Thursday—excuse me—on Friday, and then the regular weekly Sabbath on Saturday, so it was a day before the high Sabbath was on Thursday.” Seems to line up, all right.
Let’s just look at it. Let’s look at it time-wise: three days and three nights. If it’s three days, or if it’s Thursday, what time of the day did he die on the cross? Three. So we got… Friday would be one day, three. Saturday would be two days, three. We’ve got two days. Excuse me. Do I get this thing mixed up? We’re going to get it all right. Let me get my mind engaged here. All right now. We got Thursday, that’s when he died. We’re going to that Thursday view. So Friday would be one day. Saturday would be two days. Sunday would be three days. Well, if you go by the Jewish people, you know, any little bit of part of the day was the whole day, then maybe. How about three nights? We’ve got Thursday night, we got Friday night, and we got Saturday. It seems like it lines up there for sure. Three days, maybe a little bit hard. About three nights, no problem. 72 hours? Well, let’s take 72 hours. We got Thursday, three; we got Friday, 3, 12, 24. We got Saturday, three, that’s 48. Then we got Sunday, 72 hours. That won’t be Sunday about 3 p.m. Well, we got a problem because they came there early on Sunday morning; he had already risen again.
Now with that, now with that, let’s keep going a little bit as we dig on this Sabbath thing here a little bit, if you would, please. Look over to Luke chapter number 23. Luke chapter number 23.
And there’s got a little spin and twist, so you’re really got to be engaged on this part right here, if you would. We’re over in Luke 23. And verse number 56: “And they”—that’s these ladies, the women, verse 5 tells us that—“returned and prepared spices and ointments, and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment.” So they were good Jewish people. They rested on the Sabbath day. All right. Y’all with me there? No, that’s—this is an important matter of fact there.
Now look over in Mark chapter number 16. Mark chapter number 16. Mark 16. So under number six, that first little dash there, “Women rested on the Sabbath day.” Now, Mark 16, and verse number one: “And when the Sabbath day was what?” Oh, y’all not women. Mark 16, verse number one: “And when the Sabbath day was passed, yeah, Sabbath day was done. And when the Sabbath day was passed, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome had bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint him.” So they went and bought these things like anoint, but that was after the Sabbath days. So that bottom line under number six: “Women bought spices after Sabbath day.”
Now, what is it? But I thought they rested. So if it was—if the Sabbath, the high Sabbath, was on Friday, they had to go buy them. Well, we’ll get that in a second here. They had to rest one of these days. Saturday, the weekly Sabbath. Well, if they bought it on Sunday, they’re already at the grave before the sun’s up with the spices. We’ve got a problem. Actually, there has to be a rest somewhere, too. They bought it after the—how could they rest when they bought it after? There’s a problem. You understand why the two Sabbath days could not be back-to-back? Does that make sense to y’all? Shake your head, yes, no. You got me all confused. I feel like a termite in a yo-yo. Come on now, say something, you know. If they’re resting on the Sabbath, yet they bought it after the Sabbath. If they’re side-by-side, we’ve got a problem, Houston. You understand? But if you move that high Sabbath over to Thursday, see, then they could have bought it after the Sabbath and then rested on the weekly Sabbath. Well, they already had the spices. You understand? Is that as clear as mud? Yeah, yeah. Thank you. I appreciate a couple of you saying it’s clear. So number six here, I hope we’re not—we don’t go this deep typically, but I hope we’re not losing. Verse number six, not verse, number six right here: There was a day between Sabbaths because ladies bought spices after a Sabbath, then rested on a Sabbath, and then went to anoint his body on Sunday. See? So let’s keep going. Let’s keep going.
Let me say this, all right. So let’s go to Wednesday. Let’s say, let’s take the Wednesday view. Y’all let me out there. We’re going to go to Wednesday here, all right? Let’s look at this three days and three nights. If he died on Wednesday, 3 p.m. And then we’re going to say Thursday. We’re going to say Thursday. We’ve got a Friday. And we’ve got a Saturday. If we go nights, we got Wednesday night, we got Thursday night, and we got Saturday. Well, let’s go—let’s go to the 72 hours. Would I say that wrong? Okay, okay. So we got going on the nights, on the nights, we’ve got a Wednesday night, a Thursday night, and a Friday night. All right, my bad, you’re right, you’re right. That’s hard for me to say you’re right, especially Ms. Reese said, “No.” I’m joking with it, I’m teasing with her. Let’s try the 72 hours. No, she’s right. Let’s try the 72 hours. Wednesday, 3 p.m. We’re going on the Wednesday view. So we got Thursday at 3 p.m. That’d be 24 hours. We got Friday, 3 p.m. We got 48 hours. We got Saturday, 3 p.m. We got 72 hours.
Well, wait a second. The common thing that so often is said is that Jesus rose on Sunday, but actually, friend, the Bible never says that. Check it out. Now, 13 times it says he rose on the third day. 13 times. But it never says he rose on Sunday. In fact, let’s look at John chapter number 20, John chapter 20, and look at verse number one. John 20 and verse number one. The first day of the week—what day is that? Oh, my goodness. Come on now. John 20, I’m going to wait for a second. John 20, verse number one. I’ve lost you. I’ve lost some of you at least. John chapter 20, looking verse number one: “The first day of the week”—what day is that? Sunday—“come with Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and see if the stone taken away from it.” It’s already done.
Look, if you will, look if you will over in where we’re at here in Mark chapter number 16. Look over Mark chapter number 16. Mark 16, and we’ll start in verse number two. Mark 16, where we’re—I know it, this is one of the unusual Bible studies on a Wednesday night. Mark 16, look at verse number two: “And very early in the morning, the first day of the week”—what day is that? Sunday—“they came into the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.” They said among themselves, “Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?” And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away, for it was very great. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a white garment. And they were affrighted, and he said, “Be not afraid. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified. He is risen. He is not here. Behold the place where they laid him.”
Here’s what I’m getting at: By Sunday morning, as the sun gets still dark, Jesus ought already risen. You won’t find the Bible where it says he’s going to rise on Sunday. No, he rose on the third day. Many, many, many times says that. Many, many times, 13 times to be exact. So do we have a problem with him being risen on Saturday at 3 p.m.? I’ll be honest with you. I debated that for years. But as I studied out biblically, the more I look at it, no, I don’t have a problem with that. Not a problem at all. The Bible never said he would be raised on Sunday. By the time they came on Sunday, man, he was risen. He was—he’s already out of there, friend. We celebrated. That’s the day we found out, and the day they went to the tomb, but man, he was already—he was already gone. By early Sunday morning, Jesus was already risen. So, number seven there: Jesus was already risen before sunrise by Sunday or on Sunday, having one word—[pause]—number eight, we’ve already spilled the beans on that with number eight. Scripture never tells us he would rise on Sunday, but 13 times it says the third day. Third day.
Now, here’s only one flaw, and I want to show it to you that they’ll really use against us, and it’s a tough one. If you say, “I can’t go there,” then that’s fine. But I want to go and address the one problem that there is with the Wednesday view. All right, look over in Luke chapter number 24. I’m showing you the enemy side, amen. And it is a tough one, and I want to be very upfront with you. And if you want to go the other way because of it, that’s fine. That’s fine. No problem at all, because it isn’t essential. It’s not essential. And so I want you to see this: Luke chapter number 24. Remember, this is Jesus. He’s walking—well, we’ll start with these two disciples there. They’re walking to the road to Emmaus, to this little village, and Jesus shows up with them, and they say, “Hey, here, what’s been going on in Jerusalem?” Jesus is like, “Tell me what’s been going on.”
“Well, don’t you know? Don’t you live around here, you know?” And they were blinded to Bible facts. They had a veil over their eyes. They didn’t know who Jesus was. And Jesus said, “But go ahead and tell me all about it,” type thing, you know, not that he didn’t know already, you know. And they began to tell him. And, oh, we’ll start in verse number 19. He said unto them, “What things that they said concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be—delivered him to be condemned to death and have crucified him? But we trusted that it had been he which had redeemed Israel. And beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done.”
Now that’s the big thing, the big mark against the Wednesday theory. They’re saying—a couple things about that. This wasn’t Jesus speaking. These two guys, they were already blinded. In fact, the first words that Jesus said to them down in verse number 25 are not the most lovable words. Look in verse number 25. Then he said unto them, “Oh, fools.” That’s pretty strong, Jesus. “O slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.” And so on and so on.
But here’s the thing that really—I think that really helps me overcome this hardship if you go to this view—is look back, verse number 21, that last part. These two guys, these two guys are talking. They’ve already got a lot of things wrong. Finally, they figured out who was Jesus when he prayed. But notice the last part: “Today is the third day since these things were done.” So if you say “since,” all right, it doesn’t have to be started—it’s not starting right maybe exactly then, it’s since then. So it can be tough, but then you take the Jewish—they’re counting. It could be Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and since that time, it’s Sunday. We know this was on Sunday. And that’s the argument against it, all right? Y’all follow me? I’m kind of showing you both sides of the thing. And really the only one that makes sense is Wednesday to me. And the answer to me for that is what we got on the syllabus there: Number nine, the only scriptural problem with the Wednesday view is Luke 24:21, and it can be understood by noting they said the third day since. All right, that’s the only thing that can help you there with that.
If you think it was Thursday, if you think it was Friday, if you think it was Monday, if you think it was Tuesday, that’s all right with me, all right. As long as you realize he died for your sins and rose again, that’s what matters. That number 10 there, that number 10: Jesus was crucified for—I want you to put your name in there. I got my name on there. Yeah. And rose again on the third day for—put your name in there.
Look, if you will, over in Romans chapter number four. Romans chapter number four and verse number 25. And we’re going to wind it down tonight. Romans 4 and verse number 25.
Y’all there, amen? Romans 4:25: “Who was delivered up for our offenses and was raised again for our justification.” Justification—just as if I never sinned. He died, and the third day he rose again so I can stand before a holy, righteous God. And he looks down on me because of Jesus’ payment for my sin. And it looks like I’ve never sinned at all because he died and rose again for my—for your justification.
I want you to think about Jesus on the cross. Picture Jesus on the cross. And picture him looking down saying, “I’m on this cross for you.” And I want you to think about your name because he was there for you. He was there on the cross because he loved you so much, so very, very much, and he’s shedding his blood, he’s laying down his life for you, and he rose again for your justification, just as if I never sinned. All those skeletons in the closet, Jesus paid it all. He laid on him our offenses, the iniquity of us all. He paid it all. That’s right before he said, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.” He said, “It is finished.”
By the resurrection, he proved that the Father was satisfied with the payment for sin. If you’re a born-again child of God, God doesn’t see your sin. It’s paid for. If you go to God and say, “Oh my goodness, Lord, I did this, this, this.” Now wait a second. As a child of God, in a court of law, and I said, “I don’t see any sins. What are you talking about?” The devil comes. He’s called the accuser of the brethren, and he’s before God accusing you before God. And God says, “I’ve seen what Steve Page did. I mean, somebody cut him off in traffic and he tailgated them for three hours. Finally pulled up in the grocery store. He pulled out that thing that he has on his side a little bit there, you know, and said, ‘Hey, buddy, you better not ever pull out in front of me.’” And the devil comes and says, “Hey, I saw Steve Page.”
Praise the Lord, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous. He’s our Advocate. He’s our parent. He’s our lawyer. He’s our attorney on our side. He’s never lost a case. And he says, “Father, remember, I paid for that sin. That very sin was put on me on the cross. And I paid it. I shed my blood for that. Father, you remember the third day? You raised me up, and he’s justified by my resurrection.” And God the Father said, “Devil, get on out of here. You ain’t got anything on Steve Page. He’s one of my boys. He’s my Son. He’s justified.”
Hey, it’s interesting to study about what day. Now I showed you what I think, but the big thing is, praise the Lord, I can stand before God, justified. Amen.
Original File: Pastor Paul Chisgar ＂What day？＂ - Wednesday 04⧸16⧸2025 [iT6ru3uANa8]