"The Proof" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

0:00 Rescue Radio, cause there's a war for your soul. Father God, we thank you for the revelation of your love and truth that this war, Lord God, that we're in has already been won by you, Lord Jesus. And we thank you, Father, for giving us courage to stand and having done all to stand in these wicked days, these days of great pressure and deception, Father. So give us eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to understand that truth that you have kept and preserved for us through our walk with you, through the Holy Spirit, through your word. I thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross, this very pivotal moment in human history, where you laid down your life, you took on the challenge of death and destruction and sin and Satan himself, and you defeated him through your own death. You crushed the head of the serpent. And we thank you, Lord God, not only did that accomplish that breakthrough for us, it also brought forth the revelation of truth and hope for eternal life for whosoever will. And I thank you, Lord, for that, because

1:31 no one had any way to get us set free, saved, or delivered from this present evil world except through you. And we thank you for giving us now your revelation, your Holy Spirit, to help us understand, to comprehend, to make personal the things, the message, the truth, the hope, the salvation that you've brought forth. Make it personal to each one who's hearing today, that they may be delivered from this present darkness by the power of your truth, by the power of your spirit, by the power of your Holy Word. And I thank you, Lord, also for the promise that no weapon formed against us will prosper. So we're asking today for the divine covenant of God to preserve your anointed, appointed, called, chosen, adopted children and keep us from the evil one. Put the shields of God around all of us so that the vibrations and frequencies and the calamities of this world cannot penetrate into the protective presence of your spirit within us.

2:31 And I thank you now for giving us this opportunity in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Well, today we're going to take a look at the most precious and the most perverted time in all of human history. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. And it's about Jesus and this come down from the cross is what we call this. And if you look at Matthew chapter 27, beginning with verse 37 through verse 42, and they put up over his head the accusation written against him. This is Jesus, the king of the Jews. Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, saying, you who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself if you are the son of God. Come down from the cross. Likewise, the chief priests also mocking with the scribes and elders said he saved others himself. He cannot save if he is the king of Israel. Let him now come down from the cross and we will believe him. Yeah, it's interesting that the the Luke 22 talks about 53, where this is your hour in the power of darkness. There is a time there was a time appointed in in the in time and space were for this moment to happen, where the enemy would overpower or look like he'd overpower the king of kings and the powers of darkness would prevail. And this was their

4:04 mocking. This was their their gleeful victory over what they thought was a victory for them. And they were mocking him. Yeah, it was really echoing the words of Satan. Yeah. When Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness, if you are the son of God, do this. Right. Make stones into right. Jump off the temple, you know, bow down to me and I will. Isn't that interesting how they were parroting the words that Satan himself and religious leaders were parroting the very words of Satan? Yeah. And then he said, you know, they were they were scoffing. They were they were. I don't know what what words are good enough to explain what they were doing, the hate, the mockery, the contempt for Jesus when they said he saved others, but himself, he cannot save how foolish not to recognize, you know, he had saved many. He'd saved many. I mean, you just think of the people that he saved. You know, he he saved a crooked tax collector named Zacchaeus. He saved Mary Magdalene, setting her free from seven demons. He saved the demoniac of Gadara who had the legion of demons setting him free. He saved the woman caught in adultery. He bought blind Bartimaeus and gave him his sight. He saved a woman who was hopelessly bleeding to death for what, 12 years. And the lady that was what, 18 years. She was bowed down by a spirit of

5:35 infirmity. And he immediately healed a man full of leprosy. And he even raised Lazarus from the dead. He'd been dead for four days. So there was no question that Jesus was and could and saved. And as a matter of fact, he was saving people out of situations. The Pharisees and his scoffers had no power to save people out of blindness and bleeding and death and leprosy. He was obviously a savior. And yet at this moment, he was relinquishing that power to submit to them and to their plans to crucify him. Luke 19, 10 says, for the son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. Now the problem with these people, they didn't know they were lost.

6:18 They thought they were the found ones and that he was foolish and that he was anybody who followed him was a fool or a scoundrel. Yeah. And, you know, it's not that he couldn't come down from the cross. It's that he wouldn't come down from the cross because that was the only way we could be saved. The only basically what happens is the cross works backwards and forwards. It's the cross of Jesus, the death of Jesus for our sins to be our savior. Right. It goes all the way back to before the foundation of the world. This is mind blowing. And it extends into all of eternity. It extends basically to the reason people were saved in the Old Testament and the New Testament is because Jesus is the lamb of God who has been slain since the foundation of the world.

7:13 And, you know, when they were offering those sacrifices in the Old Testament, all those lambs as prescribed in the law, they were actually in a foreshadowing agreement with Jesus dying on the cross. They didn't know that all with all that meant they just through an act of obedience, they just did what what they were told to do. But they also were therefore partaking of that same final sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, the lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. Jesus did not avoid the cross. He embraced the cross because he couldn't he wouldn't come down because he couldn't wouldn't come down from the cross. But he was come to earth for the cross. That's exactly right. That was his ultimate end point journey to come down. You know, the the things he did previous to the cross growing up in the carpenter shop and then taking his three and a half year ministry to the people presenting the gospel and all of the of the kingdom, the principles of the kingdom was part of it. But the final grand finale was actually his death on the cross. Yeah. And again, deliverance from Satan's lies, from Satan himself and from sin doesn't come to us from Jesus getting off the cross. It comes to us from Jesus staying on the cross. And the reason is because people don't understand. And if you don't understand this legal concept or construct in this whole thing, why did Jesus have to die on the cross?

8:43 Why is the blood so important? We have to understand that the problem was sin and the wages of sin is death and the soul that sin shall die. And that was all of us. And Satan got us to sin. So now he was killing people legally, destroying their lives as much as because they had sinned. And so Jesus had to put a stop to that hemorrhaging of the lie and bring people back through the death, his own death, bring them back to life. So somebody had to pay the price for the wages of sin. And that was death, of course. And Satan demanded that. But the only one who was legitimately legally able, qualified to do that was the sinless lamb of God, the son of God. So God himself had to come down and pay the price that Satan demanded, the ransom price, actually, that Satan was demanded for his children. It's like Jesus came down and paid the ransom because we were all held, kidnapped, hostage by the enemy in this snake pit. And God came to rescue whosoever would, whoever would believe and receive that ransom, that deliverance, that salvation.

9:45 And of course, we have to keep in mind that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, it's the central and eternal moment in the perfect redemptive plan of God. I mean, it's a perfect redemptive plan. There's no other way. I mean, for. Yeah, it's not in the past, present, future, there's no future, there's no other way we can be saved, set free, transformed from the inside out, delivered from the powers of darkness, from the powers of sin, except through Jesus Christ. This is the only way. It's not self and through self-improvement or education or a better environment. I mean, all those things can be helpful, but it's not it can't save us. None of that we can't and we can't purchase that either.

10:36 It's not just for the elite and the wealthy that they're the only ones who can afford this salvation. It's not something that we can do, like you said, through works or through earning or obtaining that way. So it puts everybody on an equal playing field here, whether you have money or no money, whether you're known or unknown. This simple one requirement is that you accept the blood of Jesus Christ as the atonement, as the payment for your sins. That's and anybody can do it. A three year old can do it. An eighty nine year old. It's not held. It doesn't restrict ages. It doesn't restrict stations, financial abilities. It is open and free to whosoever wants universal. I mean, anybody, any human being culture, any religious background, whatever it is, no matter what people find themselves in, what situation they find themselves in, either genetically or politically or emotionally or anything like that, it it's it's open to all. It's as he says, where the son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. That's his mission.

11:52 So we qualify. Whoever will can come, can come. So they have to be willing to come. And it seems in some ways so simple and so simplistic. And so how can this even work? Because we're expecting everything to be complicated as the devil complicates everything. But God is a simple is a simple message of coming to me. All you that labor and I have related, I will give you rest. Yeah, I think of this, what we again, what we read here in Matthew 27, Jesus on the cross, they're mocking him. They're saying, come down from the cross. What was going on there? Well, while Jesus was dying, death itself was dying. While the people were cursing him, God was breaking the curse of sin by becoming a curse for us.

12:40 Profound. And while Satan was dishing out his worst, God was given the world his very best. Yeah. And while the crowds were railing, Jesus was redeeming. All they didn't realize. Yeah, they didn't realize it. Blinded to it. All the filth, horror, shame and guilt of the crimes of the human race were laid upon him. Now, think of that broken. You think of that? I mean, just all the filth, the horror, the shame, the guilt, we could say the pain, all the crimes of the human race. All their cries. Were being laid by him. It's like he became a sponge, a celestial sponge, soaking up all the sin and grief of the whole world.

13:31 That's something that we cannot comprehend. No, and I think part of his dying on the cross and, you know, think about the pain. You can think about the pain, the nails in his wrists or the dry, parched tongue or his, you know, this excruciating pain in his body and his limbs. I'm sure his pounding, tormenting headache, the leaking of the blood through his pores and through the lashes. You can imagine the physical pain, but I don't think he was even there with a comprehending feeling. I think he had checked out on that because he was into another arena, another sphere of pain. I believe he was able to see, like sometimes people die and they see within a moment their whole life flashed before them. I believe that Jesus was seeing in that moment flashing before him as he was dying on the cross for those three hours.

14:21 The whole, the tragedy of the bloodshed of the whole world, all of the human sacrifices, all of the wars, all of the lies, all the treachery, all of the deception, all the cunning of Satan to bring people into death and destruction, the torture, the programming, the insidious division, divisive, bitter hatred of Satan towards the people, the children of God. I'm sure Jesus disassociated, disconnected from the pain of the cross to look at the pain and the redemption and the healings. And also I think what sustained him was the promise of his father that all of these grievances and bitter, wicked things against the people would also be brought up into the court of heaven and judged and that justice and peace and restoration, reparation, if you will, would be made for the ones who were made to suffer at the hand of Satan and the serpent.

15:20 There's a song that says, while he was on the cross, I was on his mind. Yeah. And it says, just think of this, a totally sinless man, fully man, fully God bore our sin. Had feelings, had emotions, felt rejection, felt betrayal, felt all of the things that we are frustrated, was falsely accused. All of these things that we humanly suffer, you know, he also suffered. If you read carefully the gospels, the last, the endings of each of the gospels right before the crucifixion and the days leading up to it, you will see the building of the bitter hatred of the religious leaders and their contempt for him and their actual plotting to kill him. They hadn't even, it wasn't even under wraps anymore. It was out in the open.

16:10 We are looking for a way to kill him. And so you can imagine how Jesus began in the beginning of his ministry with, you know, keep it secret, don't say anything. Even the demons who said, we know you're the son of God. He said, be quiet. He did not want this, this information about who he was to get out until the last minute, because he knew that the minute there was leaking of his miracles and the, and the healings and stuff, he would be the focus of the, of the bitter hatred of the, and the contempt of the religious leaders. And so he was, he stayed in the wilderness. He hung by the seaside. He went at the, he taught them in the mountain, you know, all these places with publicans. Well, he kept off the main path, you know, because it was all timing. It's all a matter of perfect time. And they wanted to remember that time they wanted to kill him by pushing him over the cliff when he was in Nazareth and he walked right. He said, it is not the right time. And he just passed right through them. But their, their intention to defend the law of God was so has so overtaken them with demonic rage that they were willing to push the son of man over the cliff, but that would not have counted. He would have been a murder victim. And at the cross, he was the sacrificial lamb of God. And so Satan tried, like I said, many times to kill him or to cut him off. That's why he had to keep himself quiet and secret yet. The secret couldn't be kept. Yeah. It's good. And second Corinthians five 21 for he, that is God, the father has made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the

17:45 righteousness of God in him. And I think of, you know, isn't that amazing? The righteousness of God in him. So Jesus's death purged our sins and our righteousness no longer comes from being right or being perfect or, or, um, you know, all of those things we think the world demands of us to be perfect, to be righteous, to be awarded the prize or earn the right to this or that. But our righteousness comes from submitting to the righteousness of Jesus Christ. He is the only one. He is the fountain. He is the source of righteousness. It's not my rightness. And so people who have to be right in order to think that if I'm not right, I'm wrong. If I'm wrong, I'm not right, right. I'm not righteous. They, they contend with their opinions. They submit not to God and the truth. So our righteousness is already taken care of if we surrender to Jesus Christ. Yeah. And you can see the demonic rage and contempt among the, the very religious elite, the ones who were supposed to be the holiest, the ones who were supposed to be the most avid keepers of the law were the most vicious and violent. It wasn't the common people. It wasn't the tax collectors. It wasn't the harlots that were saved. It wasn't the common people, the beggars that were saved. It was that religious elite. Now think of, think of this now, the cross for us,

19:18 Christ's obedience took them to the cross and our obedience will take us to our cross as well. And it's interesting when he said, um, Mark chapter eight, this is, you know, earlier actually in his ministry, he says when, when he had called the people onto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me for whosoever will save his life. She'll lose it. But whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospels, the same shall save it. That's Mark eight, 34 and 35. So basically when people took up the cross, they usually didn't back in those days, there were people being crucified all the time. It was one of the popular methods that the Romans had borrowed.

20:11 I think it was from the Babylonians to execute people, execute the lowest of the criminals. Most people that carried the cross didn't carry the whole post thing. It was the cross beam. And when everybody, when anybody saw they were someone carrying their cross or cross beam going up to go Gotha or wherever it was, they knew it was a one way trip. There was no coming back. They were not coming back. That's the last time you're going to see them alive. That's the last of their hope. And you know, but the thing is, as you, um, but here on earth, what do we talk about? Well, we, instead of losing our life, denying ourselves, we try to save ourselves or satisfy ourselves or indulge ourselves or assert ourselves or defend ourselves. We try to affirm ourselves. We're always trying to get in touch with ourselves.

20:59 This is the whole world. This is the world's programming. This is the world's recommendations to serving ourselves and finding ourselves instead of denying ourselves to follow Jesus. The following Jesus is absolutely contradictory and contrary to everything the world encourages you to do. Every advertisement that you see, which is the world basically programming at another level of subconscious and physiological and physical destruction is contrary to what God says to do. He wants safety. He wants to save his life, lose it. And that's the message of, that's the true message of freedom. If you can, it's not up to me to keep my life safe anymore.

21:45 It's who's going to, who's going to protect me. Who's going to protect me. That's what people look. Well, what's going to help me. What's going to, is this, is this pill, is this person, is this relationship, what's going to help me. Jesus is going to help you. If you find yourself in him, he will protect you. He will keep you. He will save you. He will keep you from whatever Satan has planned for you. But most of us don't know that we have that great asset in our relationship with Jesus Christ. We have the relationship, but we still think it's up to me to try to be good, figure it out and avoid trouble and don't get sick and whatever else we try to avoid and do. Part of the cross is, is that we're on a one-way journey, as we mentioned with him, there's no turning back. Jesus said, if anybody puts his hand to the plow and looks back, he's not fit for the kingdom of heaven. And how many do that? They start out with God.

22:38 Oh, it's all exciting for about three days or four days, but then they don't find any, um, any encouragement or discipleship. They don't find any, they, they dry up. They don't, or they go to a place where the water is, is polluted and poisoned and they can't just be sustained. So a lot of people putting their hand to the plow, um, don't know how to, that, that's courage, that endurance, that trust in the faithfulness of God. This is the problem. You can put your hand to the plow, but if you don't know that, you know, that God is the one who's keeping you, God is the one who's going to get you through, that God is the one who's faithful. If you think it's still up to me somehow to show, to be strong and to do it all myself, you will not be able to plow that field. Yeah. And the cross, and someone put it this way, the cross is for us is when God's will crosses our will and we choose to do the will of God. So we lined up our will with his will. And the thing is too, is that, you know, it means dying to our own plans and ambitions.

23:43 And that's exactly what it means because all the way through this, we have to keep surrendering to the cross of Jesus with the will of God, the leading of God, the power of every day is surrendering what you think to what you know. Yeah. And our cross too includes suffering, even death, shame, ridicule, rejection, and other enemy attacks, fear of being rejected because not because we're doing something stupid or wrong, because we're doing something right because we are followers of Jesus. If the Jesus said, if the world hates me, the world is going to hate you as well, including many in the professing church. Because we become a threat to them. I think that as Jesus became more and more of a threat to his enemies, they became more and more livid in their desire to rid themselves of him. And we, as his followers, carrying the same authority, the same light, the same mandate, the same truth, also become a very incredible danger. We're the greatest danger to Satan on the earth, because we rebel against his lie, because we follow Jesus Christ, our leader, instead of Satan. We're not coming to fear.

25:03 We're following Jesus Christ through faith and confidence. And this is not easy. The devil has not made following Jesus easy, but the Holy Spirit is within us. And the word of God, he uses to, you know, when you start following Jesus, it's not automatically going to be easy, but at the same time, you are already victorious if you just keep following. You just keep believing Jesus has got this. You're okay. Trust him. Don't take matters into your own hands. Abide in him, Jesus says. He's the vine with the branch. As we abide in him, it is doable to follow Jesus, because we're right there connected with him. Where he goes, we go. What he does, we do. And out of that abiding, resting place comes the fruits of righteousness, peace, and joy. You can rest in the middle of this war if you know who you are and who you're connected to. And that would be the only way to get through this real harassment, this conflict, this diabolical war, is to be in that place of standing, in a place of rest, and knowing that we are loved and forgiven.

26:10 Yeah, and the cross of Christ is the most unique. It's a unique and most extreme action ever taken by God in order to rescue us from Satan, sin, and death, and eternity in the lake of fire. So the cross of Christ, it's God went to the most extreme extremity. And he had to. Giving his only son. And showing his love. To show his love. And he, you know, he willingly went to the cross. And Jesus, of course, willingly went to the cross and stayed on his cross until death. They were both in agreement about this, the father and the son.

26:57 I believe that the father sustained the son in this journey. And the son was willing to trust the father that he would do the right thing in the end and bring justice and resurrect him. And even though Jesus had taken upon himself all of the sin of the world, he was trusting that his father would see him apart from the sin and bring that day of resurrection to him, which he did. And yet, today, this message of the gospel is still seen as foolishness to those who are perishing. But to those of us who are accepting, it is the power of God. And when you follow Jesus, you do have that authority to legislate on his behalf. Power to bind, to loose, to move forward, to forgive. These are the things God needs his church to do because they release then that prayer, that permission for God to come and act again in the affairs of men. That's what prayer is.

27:59 Petitioning God to come and act in a situation. You have the right to pray that prayer, cry out to God and call on his power because he is willing to save us. So, we're here, we are the fruit of the cross. And Jesus died that we might live. He says, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die. It abides alone. He was talking about himself. As he died, that one corn of wheat or whatever brings forth hundreds and hundreds of corns of wheat or grain. And so, this is the process of promoting the gospel of Jesus Christ to the death of one man. Yeah. And there's a hymn writer named Thomas Shepherd that wrote this. He said, must Jesus bear the cross alone and all the world go free? No, there's a cross for everyone and there's a cross for me. The consecrated cross I'll bear till death shall set me free and then go home my crown to wear for there's a crown for me. So, there's without a cross, there's no cross, no Christ, no cross, no Christian, no cross, no crown. Basically, this is what it is. And the unmistakable proof, Jesus Christ is the lamb of God. They saying if you're in Matthew 27, they're they're mocking him. If you really are the Christ, if you really are the son of God, come down from the cross, prove it to us and we'll believe. Well, he proved it by staying on the cross and we thank God that he did. And he not only proved it by staying on the cross.

29:36 Yeah, but he rose from the dead. It's not that he came down from the cross or even that he stayed on the cross, but that he came up from the grave. That's the positive proof that Jesus Christ and this is in this savior, the only savior, the son of the living God. And this is the this is the victory, the triumph. And yet another side note to this is even in these days where we call this this wonderful moment, the day of resurrection, we rename it, giving it the name of a pagan god, goddess, and we defile it with Easter rabbits and colored eggs and chocolate bunnies and things like that with it, which has nothing to do with the lamb of God. And yet people don't see through this foolishness, this fantasy, this fable. These are children that are drawn into fantasies and fables and and, you know, silly stories to to distract from the power, the life giving power of that of that stone that was rolled away from the tomb by angels that shook the earth. That real event. Jesus really didn't need to have the stone removed. You know, he could have just came out because he was going through walls already. He could have. But the stone was removed for the people to come in and see. Not for that. So he could come out. But let's say we could go in. And so. But the thing

31:09 is, please, this in this this season, this moment, this week, do not be caught up with Easter rabbits and Easter baskets and bunnies. As a matter of fact, refrain, refrain from it. Don't do it. Find the holy substitute, which would probably be, you know, just revel, you know, meditating on reveling and rejoicing and teaching and reading to your children the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ and not mix and mingle the defiled with the holy, because that only waters down your strength, your witness in God. So, again, we're just praising you, Jesus. We thank you for delivering us from darkness. And Lord God, I pray that everyone who's here and listening will get it. It will sink deep, deep, deep into our beings, into our understanding, and we will walk in a new place of gratitude and thanksgiving for what you have done to set us free.

32:10 This is a holy week in many ways, a very holy time to meditate on these very holy things. But that doesn't mean now we can stop at the end of the week. We will continue to walk in a very we're in a very holy time in the preparation for the return of the king of kings. So be aware, read your Bibles and stay tight with God and stay close to God. Let the Lord Holy Spirit lead you. Tell us about your book, Spiritual Warfare and how deliverance can change your life. Well, this is true. Deliverance can change your life, but you have to understand the strategy. There's several rules to this war. This is not a war based on power and strength. It's based on legal rights and understanding our rights as a believer. And so maintaining that power, that authority that God has given us, is not just about binding and loosing. It's about going to court. It's about declaring and petitioning and coming into that court as a petitioner to ask God to move things, change things, break things, release things. And so again, that's part of this. This battle is not just a power struggle. It's a legal battle. It's a legal understanding with God wanting us to know our rights and declare them. Because Satan knows if you don't know the rights, if you don't know your rights, you will not be able to stand. And so taking the devil to court is one of the books I've written. And this is another one,

33:44 Deliverance and how deliverance can change your life. You can get them both on amazon.com. And there are others too by Marjorie Cole. Yeah. Thank you for listening. Thank you for listening and may the Lord bless your meditation and may your thoughts be on him. Amen. Thank you.

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