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2017 Mesages

Five Things That We Know

Being a Son of God

If a Man Die Shall he Live Again?

Three Outstanding Qusstions

Wherefore Remember

Things God Wants You to Know - 15th. Jan 2017

Promises -30th. April 2017

The Preaching of the Cross - 9th. April 2017

It's Easy to Perish - 18th. Dec. 2017

Ye Will Not Come to Me- 11th. Nov. 2017

What Will You do With Jesus? - 22. Oct. 2017

Questions to Make You Think - 17th. Sep. 2017

Zaccheaus - 6th. Aug. 2017

To the Jew First - 25th. June 2017

The Atonement - 18th. June 2017

2016 Mesages

Precious Things - 14th. Aug. 2016

The End of the World - 30th. July 2016

Titles of the Lord Jesus - 19th. June 2016

Four Important Questions - 6th. May 2016

The Wealth of God - 29th. May 2016

He is Coming - 8th. May 2016

What a - messate - miracle - mystery - motivation - 10th. Apr. 2016

Imperatives - 21st. Feb. 2016

Two Great Needs - 17th. Jan. 2016

God - Mar. 2016

This is a Faithful Saying - 18th. Deb 2016

Who Jesus is - 5th. Nov. 2016

Losing to Win - 2nd. Oct. 2016

Because There is Wrath Beware - 9th. Apr. 2016

2015 Mesages

Though He Was Rich

The Gospel in Romans

Some Things we Cannot do Without

Three Asects of Salvation - 19th. Sep. 2015

And I Saw . . . .

Why You Need Salvation - 13th. Dec. 2015

The Way of Salvation

Sin - 31st. Oct. 2015

A Shelter From the Storm - 11th. Oct. 22015

God's Primises

The Lost Coin

Last Things in 1 Cor.15 - Derryneill Baptist Church - 15.04.18

2014 Mesages

We Preach Christ Crucified

Scriptual Certainties

The Bread of Life

After This

Yet There is Room

Things we Know

To Seek and to Save

The Unsearchable of Christ

Reaching Others for Christ

Precious Things

Living Things

If Any Man be in Christ he is a New Creation

I am the Resurrection and the Life

What will You Do With Jesus?

Ye Will Not Come Unto Me

2013 Messages

He Shall be Great

Through His Name

Why Did Jesus Die?

Through His Name

Three Searching Questions

A Ransom for All

Christ's Superior Sacrifice

The Rich Man and Lazarus

The Glorious Gospel of Christ

The Cross

The Name of Jesus

Behold I Stand at the Door and Knock

Are There Few That be Saved?

The Kingdom

2012 Messages

The Purpose of The Ages Part 1

The Purpose of the Ages Part 2

Thou Shalt Call His Name Jesus

“And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee
“To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise”.

The question which is asked is this, did the thief go to “paradise” that day to be with Christ? Almost without a moments hesitation many Christians would answer “yes” but is that indeed what happened? Let us look carefully at the facts. The thief’s request was “Lord remember me when thou comest into Thy kingdom”. The thief was no doubt an Israelite and as such knew well the promises of the Old Testament regarding the Messiah and the kingdom He would reign over. He had read the superscription written over the Saviour’s head “This is Jesus of Nazareth the king of the Jews”. He had watched the Lord and listened to His words and realized He was indeed the King. The thief did not ask to be taken to heaven to be with the Lord when he died that day but for Christ to remember him when he came into His kingdom. Our Lord’s answer to him was regarding that day when His kingdom will be set up on earth otherwise it had no relevance. He promised the thief that he would be part of it when it would come. Later, after His resurrection the Lord told Mary “I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to My God, and your God”. Surely these plain words of scripture are clear, Jesus had not at that point ascended into heaven. The problem lies with the comma and where the translators have placed it in the verse. Greek scholars inform us that in the original greek there are no punctuation marks so it was at the discretion of the translators where they placed it. The words of Christ to the thief are easily understood when we recognize this important fact, He simply told him “I tell you today you will be with me in paradise”. The word “paradise” has the definite article and should read “The paradise”, not referring to heaven at all but the paradise of the kingdom set up on earth. Someone is sure to say that’s what the Jehovah Witnesses teach about this verse. We are not interested in what JW’S say and indeed recognize them as a false cult but we cannot change the true meaning of the verse just to get one over on them. The readers will see as we deal with other texts that it would have been scripturally impossible for the thief to go to heaven that day anyhow, but more on that later.

Luke 23.43 “And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee
“To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise”.

The question which is asked is this, did the thief go to “paradise” that day to be with Christ? Almost without a moments hesitation many Christians would answer “yes” but is that indeed what happened? Let us look carefully at the facts.

The thief’s request was “Lord remember me when thou comest into Thy kingdom”. The thief was no doubt an Israelite and as such knew well the promises of the Old Testament regarding the Messiah and the kingdom He would reign over. He had read the superscription written over the Saviour’s head “This is Jesus of Nazareth the king of the Jews”. He had watched the Lord and listened to His words and realized He was indeed the King. The thief did not ask to be taken to heaven to be with the Lord when he died that day but for Christ to remember him when he came into His kingdom.

Our Lord’s answer to him was regarding that day when His kingdom will be set up on earth otherwise it had no relevance. He promised the thief that he would be part of it when it would come. Later, after His resurrection the Lord told Mary “I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to My God, and your God”. Surely these plain words of scripture are clear, Jesus had not at that point ascended into heaven.

The problem lies with the comma and where the translators have placed it in the verse. Greek scholars inform us that in the original greek there are no punctuation marks so it was at the discretion of the translators where they placed it. The words of Christ to the thief are easily understood when we recognize this important fact, He simply told him “I tell you today you will be with me in paradise”. The word “paradise” has the definite article and should read “The paradise“, not referring to heaven at all but the paradise of the kingdom set up on earth.

S omeone is sure to say that’s what the Jehovah Witnesses teach about this verse. We are not interested in what JW’S say and indeed recognize them as a false cult but we cannot change the true meaning of the verse just to get one over on them. The readers will see as we deal with other texts that it would have been scripturally impossible for the thief to go to heaven that day anyhow, but more on that later.