April 12. You cannot lose in the end. You have a guard of soldiers go, make it as secure as you can.

Matthew 27.65. When Jesus was dead and buried with a big stone rolled against the tomb,

the Pharisees came to pilot and asked for permission to seal the stone and guard the tomb.

They gave it their best shot in vain. It was hopeless then. It is hopeless today

and it will always be hopeless. Try as they may. People can't keep Jesus down. They can't keep

buried. It's not hard to figure out. He can break out because he wasn't forced in.

He let himself be libeled and harassed and blackballed and scorned and shoved around and killed.

I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me but I lay it down of my

own accord. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it up again. John 10,

17 to 18. No one can keep him down because no one ever knocked him down. He lay down when he was

ready. When it looks like he is buried for good, Jesus is doing something awesome in the dark.

The Kingdom of God isn't as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises

night and day and the seed sprouts and grows. He knows not how. Mark 4, 26 to 27.

The world thinks Jesus is done for, out of the way, but Jesus is at work in the dark places.

Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies,

it bears much fruit. John 12, 24. He let himself be buried. No one takes my life from me and he will

come out in power when and where he pleases. I have authority to take it up again.

God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death because it was not possible for him to be held by

Acts 2, 24. Jesus has his priesthood today by the power of an indestructible life,

Hebrews 7, 16. For 20 centuries, the world has given it their best shot in vain.

They can't bury him. They can't hold him in. They can't silence him or limit him.

Jesus is alive and utterly free to go and come where he pleases. Trust him and go with him no

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