Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope
Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to
Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.
Speaker 1: He lives, He leaves, he leaves. Come on, if you
Speaker 1: know he lives all caps, exclamation mark, come on, put
Speaker 1: a smile on your face. Mis abby. Growing up at
Speaker 1: the Methodist church, we would always say he has risen
Speaker 1: and then say back, he has risen. Indeed. Well, we
Speaker 1: can't say it to the people out loud today, but
Speaker 1: we can type it. So I say he has risen,
Speaker 1: and you say, indeed, he has risen. Indeed. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give the YouTube delay thirty seconds just to catch up
Speaker 1: on my screen, and then I can see indeed, indeed, indeed, indeed, indeed.
Speaker 1: Come on. You gotta know that thing deep in your heart,
Speaker 1: you remember the hem. You ask me how I know
Speaker 1: he lives. I didn't see him on the day that
Speaker 1: he died or the day he got up, but he
Speaker 1: lives within my heart. There is resurrection power on the
Speaker 1: inside of me. On the inside of you. Somebody say, indeed, indeed, wow,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, man, this is really cool because
Speaker 1: I was expecting the room to be empty today, and
Speaker 1: from a health protocol standpoint, it is. There's only like
Speaker 1: two and a half people here, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say who the half is. But what's really cool is
Speaker 1: it's not empty. It's not empty. I just need you
Speaker 1: to believe me when I say the glory of God
Speaker 1: is in this place. The presence of the Lord is
Speaker 1: in this place. I believe that about your home right
Speaker 1: now too. I believe the presence of God is filling
Speaker 1: up kitchens and living rooms. Come on, I believe some
Speaker 1: of y'all are still in bed, but the presence of
Speaker 1: the Lord is coming right in. Oh, you might set
Speaker 1: up straight if you catch this. He is listen indeed, indeed,
Speaker 1: so listen to me. This is very different, right. The
Speaker 1: room isn't empty. It isn't empty. And sometimes on Easter,
Speaker 1: I think we say things that on the surface are true,
Speaker 1: like we say that the tomb where Jesus was buried
Speaker 1: is empty, but it's really not. It's really not empty,
Speaker 1: just like this room really isn't empty. It really isn't empty.
Speaker 1: First of all, when he left, he put his linens there,
Speaker 1: so he wanted them to know that he folded his
Speaker 1: own clothes because he got up on purpose. Come on,
Speaker 1: I got up on purpose today. Oh yeah. By the way,
Speaker 1: I want to take the opportunity and apologize to my
Speaker 1: mom before I tell you the rest of this. Mom,
Speaker 1: I am so sorry. I have on a leather jacket
Speaker 1: on Easter. I know this is not Easter apparel, but
Speaker 1: since it's such a different Easter, but look, mom, it
Speaker 1: really is. I want to say something real quick. This
Speaker 1: jacket Chris gave me for my birthday, true story, and
Speaker 1: he put it on the inside for graves into gardens.
Speaker 1: So somebody type in the chat, say, these are my
Speaker 1: Easter clothes. Come on, some of y'all got on some
Speaker 1: big flannel pashamas. These are my Easter clothes. This is
Speaker 1: my Eastern jacket. Hit the devil with a little bit
Speaker 1: of resurrection leather. Today. We aren't playing. We've got the
Speaker 1: joy of Lord. He has risen. Indeed, why'd y'all slow
Speaker 1: down on the chat? Somebody saying I got up on purpose.
Speaker 1: I woke up to connect to the presence of God.
Speaker 1: I'm not here by accident. I'm up on purpose, yes, sir.
Speaker 1: And not only that, not only that, the tomb had
Speaker 1: had linen in it, so it really wasn't empty. It
Speaker 1: just said he wasn't there he got up, But the
Speaker 1: tomb really wasn't empty, because let me tell you another
Speaker 1: thing that stayed in his tomb after he got up.
Speaker 1: My fear, My fear is in that empty tomb. See
Speaker 1: the reason I love it and the reason I don't
Speaker 1: need a crowd to help me shout is because it's
Speaker 1: not empty. My shame is in that tomb. My sin
Speaker 1: is in that tomb. You know what was canceled, the
Speaker 1: record of ron that stood against me. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: I left it all in the I'm leaving it all
Speaker 1: in the grain, every regret, every sail, your pisto, empty pansation.
Speaker 1: By here, you are a sign against Jesus. This you
Speaker 1: we got time. This Sunday morning visits sday. It's still Sunday,
Speaker 1: my cup, It's still Sunday. Sixteen Therasu saks from succeed
Speaker 1: by your speaking, How tell me ches be see the
Speaker 1: cresident that si he's as Saday in your day, my
Speaker 1: coupa tula sixteen radc hiss. Come on, we'll release the
Speaker 1: sound of Resurrection. I grabbed my big boy microphone today
Speaker 1: because I want to release the sound of Resurrection. Come on,
Speaker 1: I got a fresh night bolt battery, and today we
Speaker 1: release the sound the Resurrection. I got so sad, Bishop,
Speaker 1: because I was watching last year's Easter service and something
Speaker 1: in me started to ache for the people to be here.
Speaker 1: You know, we those of you that are a part
Speaker 1: of our church. You know this. If you're just watching today,
Speaker 1: because I don't know, somebody wouldn't leave you alone. They
Speaker 1: bribe you with five Easter dollars in a purple egg
Speaker 1: to get you to watch or something like that, then
Speaker 1: maybe you won't get it. But we kind of vibe
Speaker 1: off of each other, and we kind of preach off
Speaker 1: of each other. And I don't really preach, I'm called
Speaker 1: the preacher, but we preach together through our giving and
Speaker 1: through our worshiping, and all of that is a part
Speaker 1: of it. And man, our church is so weird because
Speaker 1: you got so many different types of people in our church.
Speaker 1: And I don't just mean like black or white or
Speaker 1: Latino or any kind of designation like that. I mean
Speaker 1: like some people grew up in church. I bet there's
Speaker 1: somebody that's still got their Easter hat on even though
Speaker 1: it's just you and your cat today, because it's just like,
Speaker 1: it ain't Easter without a hat. And what I was
Speaker 1: going to tell you about my mom, she said, this
Speaker 1: is the first Easter of her life. I was talking
Speaker 1: to her yesterday, eric that she was not in a
Speaker 1: church building. At first. She said, this is my first Easter.
Speaker 1: She's sixty six. And she said, because her dad was
Speaker 1: a Methodist minister, that's the church I grew up in.
Speaker 1: I love that church. Monk's Corner United Methodist. Shout out
Speaker 1: Monk's Corner. If anybody's watching from Monk's Corner today, put
Speaker 1: it in the chat. But it's so awesome, because she
Speaker 1: said she stopped herself. She said, I almost said this
Speaker 1: is my first Easter not going to church, and then
Speaker 1: she said, but wait a minute. She said, I am church,
Speaker 1: and she stopped herself and she said, so I'm still
Speaker 1: I'm still going to be celebrating the resurrection. So sorry
Speaker 1: about the leather jacket, mom, but I needed something to
Speaker 1: kick the devil with. I put on some boots with
Speaker 1: some snake skin on them too, just to let that serpent. No,
Speaker 1: he's under my bruised heel. Somebody give God a praise
Speaker 1: right there in the chat. Put a stop emoji. I
Speaker 1: see you with the hat emojis and the sunshine in
Speaker 1: the heart. Somebody put a devil stomp in emoji. Yeah,
Speaker 1: life is hard, but today we celebrate that God is
Speaker 1: good and that he is overcome. And the darkness came,
Speaker 1: but it only had one hour, and that the light
Speaker 1: is stronger. We believe that for your life today, not
Speaker 1: just to give you height, but to give you hope.
Speaker 1: But sometimes every once in a while, you got to
Speaker 1: find that place inside of you. Do me a favor
Speaker 1: right now. I miss you so much. I wish you
Speaker 1: were here. I wish yall were here like you normally
Speaker 1: are in Easter, packed into the third overflow, watching on
Speaker 1: a screen in the bathroom, trying to get in for
Speaker 1: the next service. But since we don't have that opportunity,
Speaker 1: just do right now what you normally do. All right.
Speaker 1: You don't even have your grandma sitting next to you
Speaker 1: that you dragged the church, and you don't even have
Speaker 1: to be embarrassed. She can't even see right now, So
Speaker 1: just go ahead. If you normally shout, shout, if you
Speaker 1: normally lift your hands, yeah, right there, right there, right there,
Speaker 1: right there as a family, and put it on Instagram
Speaker 1: so I can see it in a few minutes after
Speaker 1: I've reached this word, if you lift your hands, just
Speaker 1: to signify that he has risen and I'm getting up to,
Speaker 1: I'm getting up to. That's really the message that I
Speaker 1: want to bring to you today. It's called expect a resurrection?
Speaker 1: Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready? Are
Speaker 1: you ready? Expect a resurrection? Expect a resurrection? Somebody say,
Speaker 1: I expect it. I expect it. In the chat expec
Speaker 1: I expected in Pittsburgh. I expected in Milwaukee. I expected.
Speaker 1: Come on, give me a city in the mic. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I run out of cities to say. I expected in Singapore.
Speaker 1: I expected in Seattle. I expected in Where do your
Speaker 1: parents live? Veronica? Where do your parents live? Hillsborough, Dillsburgh, Hillsborough, Dillsburg.
Speaker 1: They're all here today. Come on, y'all as Eastern I
Speaker 1: got resurrection power running in my veins today. You say,
Speaker 1: didn't that preacher get the memo? It's the end of
Speaker 1: the world. But guess what I found out. What happens
Speaker 1: at the end is a new beginning. He showed me
Speaker 1: that when he got up put my title back up.
Speaker 1: I expect a resurrection day. Come on, let's do it.
Speaker 1: You want to do it right now. We got something
Speaker 1: for you. We were gonna do it at the end,
Speaker 1: but I want to do it right now. Y'all. When
Speaker 1: I tell you to text everybody you know and to
Speaker 1: tweet this link to everybody who follows you, and to
Speaker 1: put this on Facebook to all of your politically opinionated friends,
Speaker 1: just to let them know that Jesus is the name
Speaker 1: above all names, let me tell you something now, y'all.
Speaker 1: Calm down, give me a moment to set this up properly.
Speaker 1: I need something soft, Like it's Saturday, and like we're
Speaker 1: wondering what to do in between, and the silence of
Speaker 1: Saturday is starting to set in. And on Saturday you
Speaker 1: can't do anything because it's the Sabbath, and so you
Speaker 1: have to just wait. And just hours ago, you didn't
Speaker 1: sleep much last night because it was hard to get
Speaker 1: the images out of your mind of how they beat
Speaker 1: the one that you believed in, how they broke his bones,
Speaker 1: how they lashed his back. Most of all, you heard
Speaker 1: the cry ELOI love a sybotany, My God, my God,
Speaker 1: why have you forsaken me? But when he said it
Speaker 1: is finished, it was the last thing he said before Saturday.
Speaker 1: And when they heard that it is finished from the
Speaker 1: cross what Jesus said on Friday, many interpreted it. In fact,
Speaker 1: most interpreted it like is over. Some of us feel
Speaker 1: that way right now, life as we know it is over.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're sitting here today saying my business is over.
Speaker 1: I lost my job. Many of you are sick right
Speaker 1: now and feel like this is the end for you,
Speaker 1: and you're just tuning in today, hoping, hoping. Hoping. Is
Speaker 1: hard to hope when you don't hear anything. You know,
Speaker 1: just like Mary and Martha, who lived in Bethany, who
Speaker 1: are a big part of the ministry of Jesus, sent
Speaker 1: word to him the one that you love is sick.
Speaker 1: That was their brother Lazarus. His name literally means one
Speaker 1: who God helps. Embedded in his name is the expectation
Speaker 1: that Jesus, who loved him, would come and heal him.
Speaker 1: And yet these unmat expectations, these Saturday situations, these are
Speaker 1: we going to find a cure for this? Are we
Speaker 1: going to ever be what we were? Again? That's Saturday,
Speaker 1: the part we want to skip past His Saturday, the
Speaker 1: part where we want God to shout but we don't
Speaker 1: even hear a whisper. When this global pandemic began, I
Speaker 1: told the Lord in my heart, than anything he gave
Speaker 1: us as a ministry during this time, we would release
Speaker 1: it immediately, that we would release it, and so release
Speaker 1: what God has put in us so that we can
Speaker 1: receive what God has for us. Release and receive, Release
Speaker 1: and receive. And it's hard to let go. It's hard
Speaker 1: to accept something that's gone away. It's hard to accept
Speaker 1: that maybe your kids won't go back to school this year.
Speaker 1: And you're like, that's not hard for me to accept. Well,
Speaker 1: if you're having to homeschool them, it is. Right now,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, it's like Saturday every day. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: like Saturday every day, And when your kids are little
Speaker 1: and you're trying to deal with that, it may not
Speaker 1: feel like the end of the world, but it's still
Speaker 1: a Saturday. I found out something about Saturday. It's a setup.
Speaker 1: I found out something about Saturday. It's a setup. And
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, on a Saturday, I started
Speaker 1: texting Chris this melody that had come into my mind
Speaker 1: or my heart or my spirit the night before, and
Speaker 1: we start group texting with a friend of ours named Brandon,
Speaker 1: and the sound that started to come forth just unfolded, unfolded, evolved,
Speaker 1: evolved and grew and grew, and last Sunday, when Holly
Speaker 1: finished preaching that amazing message on the ways of God,
Speaker 1: trading my worries for His ways, something told me to
Speaker 1: come out on this stage and finish the song. Well,
Speaker 1: what I didn't know is that God was using those
Speaker 1: moments to release a sound of resurrection. And this is
Speaker 1: a different kind of Easter. Right Normally, right about now
Speaker 1: here would come up pulpit and then we would stand
Speaker 1: for the reading of God's Word. But God said, We're
Speaker 1: going to do it different today all over the world.
Speaker 1: What we're going to do right now is released the
Speaker 1: sound of Sunday, the rattle of resurrection, into the silence
Speaker 1: of Saturday. And I want you to move everything off
Speaker 1: your coffee table that could be knocked over, because right
Speaker 1: now we are going to declare, like Ezekiel looking over
Speaker 1: the valley at dry bones, breathless bones, hopeless situation exiles,
Speaker 1: declare the word of the Lord. This is what God says.
Speaker 1: God says live not here started in side? Surely suit,
Speaker 1: Since when that's impossible? Ever stopped you? Friday's disappointment, Sunday's
Speaker 1: empty tube. Since when it's impossible? Ever stopped you? This,
Speaker 1: it's the sound of try Bones Ryan. This is the
Speaker 1: phrase may content metal woke again, open the great I'm coming,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna live, gonna live again. This is the sound
Speaker 1: of Tripones, try to land and the past a side
Speaker 1: stirring something new. You wanna not gonna run out of
Speaker 1: miracles anytime soon, Miss House, rising House, They last, I'm
Speaker 1: indeed there's a guy the miracle hearing this road. They
Speaker 1: say it's the sound of Tripa sadell lit. They say
Speaker 1: it's the praise make A didn't let him walk again.
Speaker 1: I be's away, I'm calling it out, I'm gonna leave,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna laugh again. They say it's the sound of
Speaker 1: Tripa sada lift, try ballad. Come, I hear tell your
Speaker 1: side sang the rid and we celebrate that nothing is
Speaker 1: a bustle. My God, you sable, you sink and you leave,
Speaker 1: and heal then to restore, and he sink than you
Speaker 1: was soup, Just sess the man who was throw on
Speaker 1: the booms of belve de Fairs. Anything that he can't
Speaker 1: too right, justsess the store that was all at the
Speaker 1: true into the card and would have the God says
Speaker 1: coming up. I feel him booting it now. I feel
Speaker 1: him too made it now, I feel him too maad
Speaker 1: enough to enough to it. I hand the side. He
Speaker 1: sees the sound of tripon trday. Mary. He sais some
Speaker 1: praise making take me from Okay, Pa the gray. I'm
Speaker 1: falling out. I'm going there. I'm gonna davy, can't well pray.
Speaker 1: I'm falling out. I'm gone there, calling death. I can't
Speaker 1: go people gray, I'm calling it out. I'm going in here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna laugh a case. He seize the sound of
Speaker 1: the trip ball ding the triple shadd the trip see
Speaker 1: the cave, then again, then again, high years a sound.
Speaker 1: I hear the sound. I hear the sound. I hear
Speaker 1: the South. I hear the sound. I hear the sound.
Speaker 1: I hear the sound. I hear the sounds. To get
Speaker 1: jurreado right of rattle again. I hear the sound. I
Speaker 1: hear the sound. I'm here the South by you hear
Speaker 1: the South. I hear the sound I hear the sound.
Speaker 1: I hear the sound. Hear the sound. But here the sound.
Speaker 1: I hear the sound. I hear the south. I hear
Speaker 1: the sound loud God, this is what he said. Let
Speaker 1: leave triposeh the water the word, tripose the murder through
Speaker 1: the Lord. Laugh, tripose the word than This is what
Speaker 1: he said. Laugh tripose here the word of the tripos.
Speaker 1: Here the mod the Lord to try himself. She sees
Speaker 1: the sound, trypas out of it. He says, a place,
Speaker 1: make a ten man, walk again, walk, I'm don my
Speaker 1: God gone nor again my favorite the way I'm gone God,
Speaker 1: go live by God, he says. The sound of tribon
Speaker 1: come on, said live live, come on, It's a rattle
Speaker 1: of resurrection. Ezekiel said, the hand of the Lord was
Speaker 1: upon me, and I saw a valley full of bones
Speaker 1: that were very dry. Ezekiel said that the Lord asked
Speaker 1: me a question, son of man, can these bones again?
Speaker 1: And what Ezekiel said sounds like Saturday to me. He said,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Lord, I don't know. I don't really
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen next in our country, or
Speaker 1: in our world, or in my life. I don't know.
Speaker 1: For some of you who are on the front lines
Speaker 1: fighting for the rest of us. I don't know how
Speaker 1: I'm going to get the energy to face another day.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how I'm going to
Speaker 1: innovate and put my business back together. I don't really know.
Speaker 1: In fact, he said, you alone, Lord, No, that's Saturday.
Speaker 1: But something started happening when the word of the Lord
Speaker 1: came to Ezekiel, and I believe the word of the
Speaker 1: Lord is coming to you today. The word of the
Speaker 1: Lord came to Ezekiel, and he gave them an instruction.
Speaker 1: He said, Ezekiel, I know you don't understand. I know
Speaker 1: you can't explain it. And I know what you're looking
Speaker 1: at right now looks like bones on the valley of
Speaker 1: the floor. That's what your life might look like right now.
Speaker 1: That's what your mind might look like right now. Just
Speaker 1: disjoin it, discombobulated. I don't know what to do. Remember
Speaker 1: what Mary and Martha said to Jesus after he finally
Speaker 1: had the nerve to show up four days late. Where
Speaker 1: were you at when we sent for you? We didn't
Speaker 1: hear back from you. God, I prayed, and might didn't
Speaker 1: feel anything. And it's really amazing, And yeah, I am
Speaker 1: sweating like an Olympic athlete in this leather jacket, but
Speaker 1: I hear the sound right now. Well, Jesus didn't send
Speaker 1: back a message because he was the Word in the beginning,
Speaker 1: was the Word, and the Word was made flesh. So
Speaker 1: when the word of God shows up to a desperate situation,
Speaker 1: does not matter how dead it seems. I feel the
Speaker 1: presence of God in this empty room today. I since
Speaker 1: the presence of God flowing to people's emotions. Today. I
Speaker 1: since the presence of God. You say, the presence of
Speaker 1: God isn't a feeling, Well, it's not a feeling, but
Speaker 1: it will give you a feeling if you let this
Speaker 1: get in your heart and in your soul, past your
Speaker 1: mind where you're trying to figure it out. So listen
Speaker 1: to this. It's so powerful. And I'm going off of
Speaker 1: my memory here, but it was something like, he said,
Speaker 1: Son of Man, this is what you say to those bones.
Speaker 1: God says, Live, God says li. God God said, Lived said,
Speaker 1: I believe the word of the Lord to you today
Speaker 1: is this live Live. When the word of the Lord
Speaker 1: hit those dry bones, they had no choice but to
Speaker 1: stand up straight. I wish you would stand up straight.
Speaker 1: Right now, stand up straight and begin to clap your
Speaker 1: hands all over the world. This is the word of
Speaker 1: the Lord. Live live, live, live, live, live, live, live
Speaker 1: live leve Low. God said, love Gosi, codsid love. I
Speaker 1: feel like cossid Lomi hear the word of the loone
Speaker 1: you consent love GODSI cosid godsai to see said time,
Speaker 1: but consaid, hey, look, CONSI love God said the press
Speaker 1: and said TOCONSI for consent, forgotten the wonder. And this
Speaker 1: is what he said. I'm hitting the sound they say
Speaker 1: this time. The jobs, they say, it's ways. Make it
Speaker 1: take bare money, you'll get the gratuy b oh man
Speaker 1: the good did they say? Job? We speak life in
Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. Come on right there in the
Speaker 1: chat on this Resurrection Sunday where we celebrate not only
Speaker 1: that he was resurrected, but that he is resurrection. Do
Speaker 1: you know that he still is? And I want you
Speaker 1: to put that in the chat right now? He still is, y'all.
Speaker 1: I prepared five sermons for this Easter Sunday, and I
Speaker 1: just decided to preach all five. He still is, he said,
Speaker 1: I am the Bread of life. And he still is.
Speaker 1: He said, I am the good Shepherd, and he still is.
Speaker 1: He's leading me and guiding me. Even like Holly said,
Speaker 1: through the Valley of the Shadow of Death is just
Speaker 1: a shadow. The light still shines. He still is. We
Speaker 1: declare it. He still is. He said that he was,
Speaker 1: He said that he was the Way, the Truth, and
Speaker 1: the Light. He still is. I am, He still is.
Speaker 1: I am just like he was for Moses, just like
Speaker 1: he was for Joseph, just like he was for Shadrack,
Speaker 1: just like he was for Daniel, just like he was
Speaker 1: for Abraham. He still is just like he was. He is,
Speaker 1: he still is. And so the decision we have to make,
Speaker 1: you'll be nice back there. I hear the rattling and
Speaker 1: it's about to make me kick over the MIC's stand
Speaker 1: or something like that. Come on, this is a different day, man.
Speaker 1: People need hope. It's like pastor where's your past? Else?
Speaker 1: This is a different kind of Eastern We came today
Speaker 1: to declare, live to your life. Resurrection isn't always pretty.
Speaker 1: The power of the Lord is coming to your bones,
Speaker 1: Come into your mind, come into your will. You will
Speaker 1: not give up. It will not end in death before
Speaker 1: the glory of God. Live Live, Live, Live, Live, Live, Live,
Speaker 1: so what I love about it? Pop quiz real quick?
Speaker 1: Were you watching my Good Friday sermon? Okay, the camera
Speaker 1: people are not let me check this camera out. You
Speaker 1: were there? Were you there for Good Friday? Camera person
Speaker 1: number three? Y'all? I love these camera people coming out
Speaker 1: here and just helping us get this message across. I
Speaker 1: feel like you're right here with me. Put your name
Speaker 1: in the chat so I can put you right here
Speaker 1: in the seat and we'll pretend like we're all dressed up.
Speaker 1: We'll pretend like we put perfume on and took a
Speaker 1: shower and fought through the crowds. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if you got a ham in the oven or something
Speaker 1: like that. But right now, let's just be together for
Speaker 1: a moment. Okay, let's just be together for a moment,
Speaker 1: and let's talk about what it means, what it means
Speaker 1: to expect a resurrection, because on Good Friday, I was saying,
Speaker 1: the only way you can face Friday? What's your name?
Speaker 1: What's your name? I want to speak to somebody, Ruth,
Speaker 1: Brittany Ava, put your name in the chat. The only
Speaker 1: way you can face Friday, Nina Leslie, Can y'all pause
Speaker 1: it real quick? On the screen. This is unbelievable, This
Speaker 1: is outrageous. Eddie Vedder No, Eddie Vance. Sorry, that was
Speaker 1: that rattle getting in my blood, that pearl jam. I
Speaker 1: half expected Joey to get up on a stack of
Speaker 1: speakers and jump off. Rattle, rattle, rattle, Come on, oh man,
Speaker 1: the resurrection. Rattle, the rattle. Oh I like it. The
Speaker 1: silence of Saturday and the rattle of resurrection. Wow. You
Speaker 1: know one thing that the stone at the tomb and
Speaker 1: the bones in the valley had in common. When God
Speaker 1: said live, they both started to shake. Come on, I
Speaker 1: feel something shaken in here today. I feel a stone
Speaker 1: rolling today, a heart opening, anxiety, Get out the way,
Speaker 1: panic attacked, put out to the name of Jesus, confusion,
Speaker 1: get out the room. When he says, move, you got
Speaker 1: a move, You'll got a move, Jill, got a move,
Speaker 1: You'll got a move. You still sound The sound, the sound,
Speaker 1: the sound. Whoa, Hey, if you got my phone number,
Speaker 1: text me real quick and tell me. Tell me if
Speaker 1: I'm going too crazy right now. I just felt like,
Speaker 1: you know what, we can sit in our houses and
Speaker 1: be in mourning like he's still dead, like his Friday,
Speaker 1: or we can acknowledge the fact it's still Sunday. So
Speaker 1: no matter what happens in my situation, Abby, I can live. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm about to mess up all the Baptists because I'm
Speaker 1: about to hit a tongue. I'm about to hit a
Speaker 1: run of ungs. I'm gonna start speaking in every language
Speaker 1: on the screen. I'm telling you right now, you'll be polite.
Speaker 1: It's Easter. It's Easter. Then you know you're supposed to
Speaker 1: be bored on Easter. It's not like you have anything
Speaker 1: to be excited about. Well, anyway, what I was going
Speaker 1: to tell you, Lucilla, what I was going to tell you, Martha.
Speaker 1: I love the people who told their aunt to watch
Speaker 1: elevation today. It's like it'll be very nice. It'd be
Speaker 1: a nice service in a communion or something like that. Well,
Speaker 1: we are having communion. This is communion. This is a
Speaker 1: moment of celebration where we just for about fifty seven good,
Speaker 1: holy spirit filled, sanctified minutes, just celebrate that He still is.
Speaker 1: So here's what happened. Okay, I gotta give you this.
Speaker 1: I've had a promise. We're about to close. I think
Speaker 1: I don't really care. There's nobody waiting to get in
Speaker 1: the building. It's not like YouTube has a mac seating capacity.
Speaker 1: It's not like Facebook has an overflow room. Let's just
Speaker 1: have church, all right. So y'all are like, where's the sermon.
Speaker 1: This is the sermon, this is the sound. Resurrection is
Speaker 1: not an intellectual proposition. Resurrection is a present tense reality.
Speaker 1: So here's how I know that. Okay, Lazarus the one
Speaker 1: who God helps. This is Jesus' greatest miracle other than
Speaker 1: that fold his own linens. When he gets up from
Speaker 1: his own grave and come out with the keys of death,
Speaker 1: hell and the grave thing, that was pretty good. But
Speaker 1: this is the one that set the stage for resurrection.
Speaker 1: Somebody say in the chat, I'm expecting a resurrection now.
Speaker 1: When Lazarus died and Jesus did not send a message
Speaker 1: back to the sisters, it would have been easy to
Speaker 1: assume that his silence indicated his absence. Okay, God's silence.
Speaker 1: What I mean by that, when you don't feel God,
Speaker 1: or when you don't know what to do, or you
Speaker 1: can't figure out, you don't have a sense of direction,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean he's gone. He still is. So when
Speaker 1: Jesus showed up and they were like, you know Martha
Speaker 1: was the first one out the house because she was
Speaker 1: an enneagram. What's the one I ate? The challenger was
Speaker 1: a well Martha could flip all between all the different
Speaker 1: enneagrams because one moment she was coming up to him like,
Speaker 1: you know what, if you would have been here, my
Speaker 1: brother wouldn't have died. And I wonder sometimes do we
Speaker 1: get crucified on that cross of what we thought God
Speaker 1: was going to do, thought you would come. I thought
Speaker 1: I was going to have a normal wedding. So many
Speaker 1: people come in on my social media accounts pray for
Speaker 1: me because this is my son's senior year, and he
Speaker 1: worked hard. He started out. One person told me he
Speaker 1: started out with a two point three gpa and he
Speaker 1: was going to graduate. And so now the graduation is
Speaker 1: going to be kind of anti climac, going to be
Speaker 1: flipping a tassel on the sofa and it's not very cool.
Speaker 1: It's no fun. Like Holly is having her birthday and
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you which one. That's up
Speaker 1: to her to tell you, but it's a significant one.
Speaker 1: Might be twenty, might be thirty, might be forty. It's
Speaker 1: one of those round numbers. And we had this whole
Speaker 1: thing planned, and she's like, oh man, it sounds small
Speaker 1: because so many people are suffering so much more. I
Speaker 1: know it's not a big deal. But even in the
Speaker 1: small ways, don't you know that that unat expectation can
Speaker 1: turn into resentment. So if it's resentment or if it's regret,
Speaker 1: it's like Martha and Mary saying, Lord, if you had
Speaker 1: been here, this wouldn't happen. God, why couldn't you keep
Speaker 1: this sickness away? Or why couldn't you keep it from
Speaker 1: ending this poorly? And it's amazing because Jesus had just
Speaker 1: finished telling his disciples this sickness will not end in death.
Speaker 1: And then it did, and then it did. Sometimes it does,
Speaker 1: sometimes it does her. Sometimes people do leave you. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it does get tougher. Happens to all of us. But
Speaker 1: here's what I want you to get in your spirit today, Okay,
Speaker 1: And if you want to put this in the chat
Speaker 1: or just say it out loud, even if it does,
Speaker 1: even if it does, even if it does, he still is.
Speaker 1: He's still with you, He's still for you. Not on
Speaker 1: the basis of circumstance, but on the basis of faith.
Speaker 1: I can say I expect a resurrection. And I just
Speaker 1: joined my faith with you today, not in a weird
Speaker 1: way where I send you some kind of like cloth
Speaker 1: in the mail or anything like that, but just by
Speaker 1: connecting our faith. Right now, I expect a resurrection. Yet
Speaker 1: I know that the only way to get to resurrection
Speaker 1: is to accept death. And that's what I was saying
Speaker 1: on Friday, on Good Friday, is that before Jesus could
Speaker 1: show up and call Lazarus from the grave, because he
Speaker 1: already had in mind what he was going to do,
Speaker 1: he was just trying to show them something new about
Speaker 1: who he was. That's what he's doing in your life
Speaker 1: right now. He's showing you how deep his comfort runs.
Speaker 1: It's beneath feelings, it's beneath facts, it's beneath logic, it's
Speaker 1: beyond it. So when he spoke to the sisters and
Speaker 1: they were still thinking about the past, what God could
Speaker 1: have done, and I know, I know you're there sometimes
Speaker 1: I am to God. If you would have just would
Speaker 1: if you would have just That's what she said. And
Speaker 1: then Jesus said, your brother will rise again, God says live.
Speaker 1: And then the sister was like, well, I know he will.
Speaker 1: On the last day, she was thinking about the eschatological
Speaker 1: implications of the resurrection. She was thinking about, Well, I
Speaker 1: know it's going to be all right when I get
Speaker 1: to heaven. You know that song from church, when we
Speaker 1: all get to heaven. What a day of rejoicing that
Speaker 1: will be when we all get to heaven. But we're
Speaker 1: not in heaven right now. Sometimes our life feels like
Speaker 1: a sort of purgatory where God's plan and our plan
Speaker 1: have no synchronicity. What's going to happen about your job?
Speaker 1: We were talking about that this week. This is real stuff.
Speaker 1: So resurrection has to be real to me. It can't
Speaker 1: just be what Jesus did, that's the past two thousand
Speaker 1: years ago. That's not the only thing that resurrection means
Speaker 1: to me. It can't just be about you know, my
Speaker 1: sins are forgiven, thank God they are, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to heaven one day when I die, and thank God
Speaker 1: I am. But it can't just be about that. Faith
Speaker 1: can't just be in the future, and purpose can't be
Speaker 1: stuck in the past. So what has to happen is
Speaker 1: what Jesus said to the sister when he gave the revelation.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? This is resurrection? Are you
Speaker 1: ready for resurrection because some of us are refusing right
Speaker 1: now to accept what was taken away and what changed.
Speaker 1: So we have lost our ability to expect what God
Speaker 1: is going to do next, and we can't deal with
Speaker 1: what is because we're still thinking about what should have been,
Speaker 1: could have been, would have been, or what will be.
Speaker 1: Like the Woman of God preached last Sunday, things that
Speaker 1: haven't even happened yet. And yet Jesus said the greatest revelation,
Speaker 1: not I am the Bread of life. They knew that
Speaker 1: they saw him feed the five thousand, Not I am
Speaker 1: the good Shepherd. They had seen him lead them throughout
Speaker 1: a three year tenure around the Sea of Galilee and
Speaker 1: all the places that he minister. But he went much
Speaker 1: deeper this time. The seventh of the I Am Statements
Speaker 1: of Jesus, he said, I am resurrection. Get it right.
Speaker 1: I do resurrection because he was going to raise Lazarus
Speaker 1: from the dead. And he does resurrection because he was
Speaker 1: going to get up himself. Lazarus was the opening app
Speaker 1: Do you understand that Lazarus was just getting the EQ right.
Speaker 1: Jesus said, I am resurrection. I am This is not
Speaker 1: a note taking sermon. Really, this is a sermon for
Speaker 1: you to receive the resurrection power of Jesus Christ by
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. And when he said I am resurrection,
Speaker 1: what he said next was so important. Are you listening
Speaker 1: to this? Aj, Let's put this down in the book.
Speaker 1: He said. He said, take me to the place where
Speaker 1: you laid him. That's where we've got to go, the
Speaker 1: place where we were disappointed. Now on Good Friday, I
Speaker 1: showed you how the first person do you remember, the
Speaker 1: first person that Jesus appeared to when he was resurrected,
Speaker 1: was not Peter, who was the preacher. It was not Matthew,
Speaker 1: the tax collector, all of these people that we call
Speaker 1: the disciples. He showed himself. Do you remember Mary, Mary
Speaker 1: from Magdala, out of whom he had cast seven demons.
Speaker 1: He had done a lot for her, and in turn,
Speaker 1: she had done a lot for him. And I love how.
Speaker 1: Gimme Mark, Yeah, Mark, Chapter sixteen, verse nine. You've already
Speaker 1: got it ready. Somebody say, I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm ready. I don't
Speaker 1: know what God is going to do, but I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I'm ready. He's with me. I'm ready. I'm ready to
Speaker 1: see how God is going to reveal himself. I'm ready.
Speaker 1: So when Jesus rose early on the first day of
Speaker 1: the week, he appeared first to marry Magdalene, out of
Speaker 1: whom he had driven seven demons. I love that the
Speaker 1: first one that he showed himself to was the one
Speaker 1: who had the most dysfunction. If we come to Jesus
Speaker 1: full of pride, we can't experience his power. But if
Speaker 1: we're saying today, I need your presence God, I'm an
Speaker 1: empty vessel. He will fill that empty vessel with his
Speaker 1: presence and power. So he showed himself first to Mary.
Speaker 1: And at first I thought maybe it was because she
Speaker 1: was wealthy, because history tells us she was a very
Speaker 1: wealthy woman. But now I think the reason that she
Speaker 1: was the first to witness his resurrection on Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: Check this out, John, I think it's because she fully
Speaker 1: accepted his death. If you will remember Peter and the
Speaker 1: other disciples, they resisted the idea that Jesus was going
Speaker 1: to be crucified. They wanted things to stay the way
Speaker 1: they were. Oh if you would have been here, Oh
Speaker 1: you should do this, This is what you should do.
Speaker 1: This is what you should have done. But Mary, Mary Magdalene,
Speaker 1: with some of the other women, look what she did
Speaker 1: on Friday. The Bible says in Mark chapter fifteen, verse
Speaker 1: forty six, that when Joseph brought some linen cloth and
Speaker 1: took down the body and wrapped it in the linen
Speaker 1: and placed it in a tomb cut out of a rock.
Speaker 1: Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
Speaker 1: They rolled a stone, and so on resurrection Sunday. It
Speaker 1: comes as no surprise. Look at the next verse that
Speaker 1: Mary Magdalene and the mother of josephs saw where he
Speaker 1: was laid. I get ready to get happy. Okay, are
Speaker 1: you all happy? I'm not saying is is life perfect?
Speaker 1: I'm saying, are you happy on the inside to know
Speaker 1: that you have resurrection power? All right? Check this out?
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I love it. Okay.
Speaker 1: It says that she saw where he was laid, where
Speaker 1: they rolled the stone. That same stone that they rolled
Speaker 1: when he was dead was the same stone she saw
Speaker 1: on Sunday that revealed his resurrection power. It was the
Speaker 1: same stone on Friday that they roll to say it's over.
Speaker 1: He's dead. There's no hope for you. Is over. Lazarus
Speaker 1: is dead. By this time. He's thinking, there's maggots already.
Speaker 1: It's bad, it's bad. But God said, tell the maggot
Speaker 1: stop eating his body, because when resurrection comes, everything is reversed.
Speaker 1: And the same stone that they rolled to keep him
Speaker 1: in the grave, I hear the sound of the rental
Speaker 1: of resurrection, speaking to your spirit, speaking to your joy,
Speaker 1: speaking to your peace. Lazarus Cook fussed, he is not here.
Speaker 1: He is resid. My God is ab said, even didn't
Speaker 1: live for many years, and restore any thing that I want.
Speaker 1: Somebody telling the stone to disess the family, but tell
Speaker 1: me lies and Defairsny think that he can't. He says,
Speaker 1: that's the stachouses stuff. What happens when God's faded too,
Speaker 1: and what happens when God sends stores time. Sir, I
Speaker 1: feel it, Boomy, I feel it too, mad it do
Speaker 1: It's good feeling too. M do it now, gotta do it.
Speaker 1: He sees the town on the table, time, he sees
Speaker 1: the place they can take me again. I'm coming out.
Speaker 1: I'm coming out of this. I'm coming out. Job. Thank
Speaker 1: you Jesus, We thank you for your power at work
Speaker 1: within us. L J. Minister right here right now. The
Speaker 1: resurrection is a reality, not a history lesson. Yes, he
Speaker 1: got up. It's not a metaphor, but it is a
Speaker 1: miracle that is available to all who will believe. Now
Speaker 1: listen to me. We can shout a lot and it's
Speaker 1: cool and it's great and it's right and it's fine.
Speaker 1: I feel fourteen years old again today. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: right now, this is what my punk rock self always
Speaker 1: wanted to preach like that, just to tell you dry bones,
Speaker 1: hear the word of the Lord. I don't understand why
Speaker 1: the world has the worst message and they scream at
Speaker 1: the loudest and we have the best message in me coming. No,
Speaker 1: this is our day. This is resurrection day, even in
Speaker 1: our homes. It's a resurrection in your home. So I
Speaker 1: just want to know today, what do you need to
Speaker 1: accept in this season? Just think about this, just reflect.
Speaker 1: We'll call this. We had the rattle of resurrection, but
Speaker 1: now let's have a moment of resurrection reflection. Come on,
Speaker 1: I got range. I can bring it way up or
Speaker 1: way down. So right now, I just want us to talk,
Speaker 1: just us, okay, and again, if you just tell me
Speaker 1: a first name and where you're watching from. Holly I
Speaker 1: got ninety text messages on my phone. I didn't know
Speaker 1: ninety people had my number. Praise the Lord, Tom Scott,
Speaker 1: your sister Emily texted me. She texted me Rattle of
Speaker 1: Resurrection with a snake emoji. I'm just kidding about the snake,
Speaker 1: but she did text me the Rattle of Resurrection. Levi Lusco,
Speaker 1: Tom Layman. Tom knows about resurrection. Yeah, Tom knows about resurrection.
Speaker 1: Tom and Lisa know about resurrection. That's one thing about
Speaker 1: this Easter. You know, Tom and Lisa are fam here
Speaker 1: at the church knows and our worldwide fam hasn't met
Speaker 1: them yet, but you will. They've been in the church
Speaker 1: so long and they lost their teenage son here on
Speaker 1: this earth. This was before you were here. Zeke at
Speaker 1: the church in twenty twelve, and through his life a
Speaker 1: ministry has been birth called Riley's Catch. And Riley loved
Speaker 1: to fish and he wanted to start a fishing club.
Speaker 1: And then his life was taken too soon in a
Speaker 1: car accident on the tenth night of our twelve night
Speaker 1: cod Orange Revival. And nothing in the world that his
Speaker 1: dad and mom wouldn't give to bring him back. But
Speaker 1: sometimes sometimes you don't get it back in the same form.
Speaker 1: But God is always bringing something forth. And that's what
Speaker 1: Tom told me when I preached for Riley's memorial. He said,
Speaker 1: we got to start that fishing club for him. I
Speaker 1: will make you fishers of men. And then they started
Speaker 1: inviting all of Riley's friends to join the fishing club.
Speaker 1: And they've seen hundreds of them except Christ. That's resurrection.
Speaker 1: You understand what I'm saying. So when we preach this,
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, man, are you in La La Land?
Speaker 1: Do you not watch the news? No? I check it.
Speaker 1: I don't watch it all day. Okay, If I watch
Speaker 1: it all day, I'm gonna be filled with worry all day.
Speaker 1: If I watch it all day, I'm gonna end up
Speaker 1: eating seventeen slices of cake to try to cancel out
Speaker 1: what I've feeling my nervous system and so my waistline
Speaker 1: can't afford to just watch the news all day. Even
Speaker 1: this Easter is the first one without Shiz, because he
Speaker 1: would sit over there where there's nobody in the building.
Speaker 1: Right now, he's not here. He's not here, and we
Speaker 1: lost Lashan way too soon, and I'm still not over that.
Speaker 1: He was helping my son learn how to make music,
Speaker 1: and to my son, Chiz was like the angel Gabriel,
Speaker 1: and it would even make me mad. He'd be like,
Speaker 1: Chiz says this, and Chiz says that he'd come on,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, I told you all that too, But
Speaker 1: when Chiz said it, he just said it better. And
Speaker 1: the fact that Jad in April, you know watching right now,
Speaker 1: we love you. Lashan still lives. Chiz still lives because
Speaker 1: God is resurrection. He is, He's not sitting in that seat.
Speaker 1: I was texting him last Easter because it was Coachella
Speaker 1: and Kanye was up there doing this amazing, amazing thing
Speaker 1: that ended up being bigger than any of us knew,
Speaker 1: and we were talking about how God is blurring the
Speaker 1: lines between, you know, all of these distinctions we have
Speaker 1: Black church and white church, and how God is doing
Speaker 1: a new thing and he was supposed to be here
Speaker 1: to see what we're experiencing today. But he still lives.
Speaker 1: His life is going to live on in such a
Speaker 1: powerful way because He still is resurrection. And it's only
Speaker 1: after April and Jet and Tom and Lisa have stood
Speaker 1: at the tomb and watch the stone be rolled that
Speaker 1: we can expect the resurrection on the other side. I
Speaker 1: feel the presence of the Lord. Come into your situation,
Speaker 1: Come into your valley, Come into your dry bones. You've
Speaker 1: been weary, you've been worried. That's all right. He still
Speaker 1: is Prince of Peace. He still is. He still is.
Speaker 1: And Jesus said, in a loud voice, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to do it now. But he hollered. He said, Lazarus,
Speaker 1: come forth. I believe God has calling some things for today.
Speaker 1: The only way to expect resurrection is to fully accept death.
Speaker 1: So what is God calling you to accept today? Maybe
Speaker 1: it's uncertainty. Maybe you control freak you you're having to acknowledge.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I can't manipulate this.
Speaker 1: I can't fix this. Okay, you know what the moment
Speaker 1: you accept that expect resurrection, the moment you accept the
Speaker 1: pain and don't try to shove it down. Marian Mark like,
Speaker 1: we can't roll the stone away. It stinks in there. God.
Speaker 1: I can't be honest. I don't have it together. God,
Speaker 1: I can't believe in you. I have so much doubt.
Speaker 1: Here's what I love about it. Sometimes God asks you
Speaker 1: to roll your own stone away. That's just opening up
Speaker 1: your heart to receive resurrection. I want to pray with
Speaker 1: you right now. If you know somebody who's going through
Speaker 1: a silent Saturday right now, maybe you want to send
Speaker 1: him a link and say, I want you to watch this.
Speaker 1: It's gonna rebroadcast several times, and I don't even know
Speaker 1: if we'll put it online after that, because honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't know where the message starts and ends. But right now,
Speaker 1: I want to pray with you now. I just want
Speaker 1: to believe God with you for resurrection. Here's what I've learned.
Speaker 1: I learned it from Lazarus. I learned it from Mary Magdalen,
Speaker 1: who stood at the tomb, and because she faced Friday,
Speaker 1: she got to see him on side. Thank you Lord,
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord. I'm going to see him on Sunday.
Speaker 1: The beautiful thing about it is that, just like Jesus
Speaker 1: called Lazarus for, he's always bringing something for it. I
Speaker 1: believe He's using this time in some of our lives
Speaker 1: to set us free from the wrong priorities, helping us
Speaker 1: to do the math on what really matters, helping us
Speaker 1: to realize that we're in this together and we are
Speaker 1: not independent. I believe God's going to bring something forth Lazarus,
Speaker 1: come forth, dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
Speaker 1: Ask the stone what happens when God says to move?
Speaker 1: And I want to pray for you right now, because listen,
Speaker 1: here's the whole message. If you're like I didn't like
Speaker 1: all that holler and screaming and jumping around about the bones.
Speaker 1: It was kind of scary there. I wanted to hear
Speaker 1: because he lives, and I was going to hear that
Speaker 1: on the Easter sermon. That's great. I like the him too.
Speaker 1: But here's what God said today. Unmet expectation is the
Speaker 1: starting point of resurrection. Unmet expectation is the starting point
Speaker 1: of resurrection. Right there in the chat, I expect resurrection.
Speaker 1: I expect him. So first of all, take your hands
Speaker 1: like this and say, God, I'm letting go. I'm letting
Speaker 1: go of what I thought my life was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: I'm letting go of the plans that I made for
Speaker 1: you know, the plans that you have for me, Plans
Speaker 1: to prosper me, not the harmony, give me hope in
Speaker 1: the future Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven. Plans to do
Speaker 1: exceeding abundantly above all that I ask or imagine according
Speaker 1: to your power that works mightily in us, the same
Speaker 1: power that raised Jesus from the dead Ephesians three twenty
Speaker 1: Now unto him who is able to save and deliver,
Speaker 1: and heal and restore anything. We thank you Lord for
Speaker 1: resurrection power. But the first step to resurrection, we know
Speaker 1: is release. So take your hands like this. Don't be stubborn,
Speaker 1: stop fixing cereal, You're not starving. Take your hands like this.
Speaker 1: Release Lord. I release the way I thought it should be.
Speaker 1: I release the calendar that I made. I released the
Speaker 1: way I expected to be at this age or stage.
Speaker 1: I release the way that I thought you were. You're
Speaker 1: more than I thought you were. You're not just the
Speaker 1: bread of life. You're not just the good shepherd. You're
Speaker 1: not just the way you are resurrection. You're not just
Speaker 1: the light. You are the life. Live. Receive life, come
Speaker 1: breadth from the four winds all over the world. Right now,
Speaker 1: breathe under people. Live, Live, Live, Live, Speak to your hope, Live,
Speaker 1: speak to your purpose. Live. I speak to the legacy
Speaker 1: of those that you've lost. Live it lives on. Resurrection
Speaker 1: is real. Resurrection is right now. He still is, He
Speaker 1: still rolls stones, He still forgive sins. He still saves.
Speaker 1: And now that you've released it, receive it. Come on,
Speaker 1: receive it, Receive it. Receive that healing for your broken heart.
Speaker 1: Receive that comfort in the midst of your chaos. Receive
Speaker 1: that confidence in the midst of your uncertainty. Receive it.
Speaker 1: You know, the scripture says to as many as received him,
Speaker 1: he gave the rights to become a children, the children
Speaker 1: of God. And I believe there's someone right now that
Speaker 1: God has you watching this because this is a moment
Speaker 1: for your resurrection. His already happened. He doesn't need to rise.
Speaker 1: You do. And I came out here today expecting, not
Speaker 1: knowing what to expect, but expecting that many hundreds, if
Speaker 1: not thousands, across the world hearing this message would place
Speaker 1: their faith in Jesus Christ. It's the funny thing about trouble.
Speaker 1: Trouble takes away all of our side pursuits and helps
Speaker 1: us to realize if I don't have God, I don't
Speaker 1: have anything. But I don't have peace. I don't have anything.
Speaker 1: I can't depend on other things. I can't depend on
Speaker 1: an economy. I can't even depend on my help. I
Speaker 1: need the invisible God to become real in my life,
Speaker 1: and right now I want to pray with you. We
Speaker 1: do this every Sunday, but this one is special. This
Speaker 1: one is for you, somebody who is ready to receive
Speaker 1: the grace of God. I want you to pray out
Speaker 1: loud all over the world. Let's stop right now and
Speaker 1: pray with those who are receiving Christ. The Bible says
Speaker 1: that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord,
Speaker 1: and believe in your heart that God raised him from
Speaker 1: the dead, you will be saved. It is by grace
Speaker 1: through faith. Receive this gift right now, and I want
Speaker 1: you to pray after me and invite Jesus Christ to
Speaker 1: come into your life. Say this, Heavenly Father, today is
Speaker 1: my day of resurrection. I am a sinner in need
Speaker 1: of a savior. I give you my life. I believe
Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ died for my sin, rose from the grave.
Speaker 1: Give me life. I receive this new life. I am
Speaker 1: a new creation. I am a child of God in Jesus' names. Amen,
Speaker 1: if you just prayed that prayer to receive Christ, We're
Speaker 1: gonna clap our hands, all eight of us on this stage.
Speaker 1: We're gonna clap our hands and play our instruments, and
Speaker 1: I want you to put in the chat. I receive Jesus.
Speaker 1: I receive Jesus. Come on right in the chat. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wait for you. I'm on the thirty second delay,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna wait. I receive salvation. This is my day,
Speaker 1: this is Easter, this is resurrection Sunday. I receive Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: I receive it. I receive it. Come on, I receive it.
Speaker 1: The angels in heaven are rejoicing because you received it.
Speaker 1: I expect resurrections. Show He's making all things new. Come on,
Speaker 1: we celebrate. I see it going across the screen. I
Speaker 1: hear the sound of the angels in heaven rejoicing over
Speaker 1: the triplanes standing up to receive the breath of the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Come on in the restaurrection day. He got up.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding up too. Till you hear it, till you heard?
Speaker 1: Do you hear it? Here? Here it's a sassy saying,
Speaker 1: he said, and did and he he he restart anything,
Speaker 1: so trcess. The man stroll on the wall, so me
Speaker 1: lies should I be says anything that he can't to
Speaker 1: get a man t saster straw out rod the so
Speaker 1: the word my God said, I feel him buming and down,
Speaker 1: I feel him sing, and now I feel it so
Speaker 1: now now, now, now, now it's not he says, the
Speaker 1: sound of troubles, and he says, please make your take
Speaker 1: me on again, roll me away. I'm coming out. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna gonna leave again. I'm playing right. I'm gone. I'm
Speaker 1: gone again. I'm going to help you. Came. I wading
Speaker 1: the ray. I'm calling it up. I'm falling him, going
Speaker 1: to lap Agat, I'm faizing the ray. By God, I'm
Speaker 1: going to tim l a Can. I'm wheezed the ray.
Speaker 1: I'm closing up. I'm going to leaf l a Can
Speaker 1: by fading. I'm drumming out. I'm going flocking down again.
Speaker 1: I'm fading. I'm the jail again and I'm fading the grave.
Speaker 1: I'm calling it up and I'm going and coming up again.
Speaker 1: I see it's a sound of the jobs and give
Speaker 1: a good age. I gotta see it again, see then
Speaker 1: again to tell them again head seal, then I get back.
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