and
again in
well glories so good to see you in the house of the Lord today
and
trust that you've been blessed already
by being in his presence
through your worship
I want to read
just a couple of scripture to you
one we're going to quote and the other won't take but just a second
so if you'll just give me about two more minutes
and stand with me for the scripture
this morning I'll let you be
seated and we can
proceed into what the Lord has for us today
amen
we used to sing that old song
at the cross, at the cross where I first
saw the light
and the burdens of my soul they rolled away
how many remember the burden
rolling away
you know I was raised in church
took there since a baby
and
church was good
but it was different when the burden
of my soul got rolled away
amen
we're going to quote together
John 316
and then we're going to look at
Matthew 28 verse 6
this morning and we'll see what the
spirit of the Lord has to say to us
on this resurrection Sunday
John 316 how many
know that one you see it on TV
for God
so loved the world
that he gave his only
begotten son
whosoever believeth in him
should not perish
but have everlasting
life
now we're going to look at verse 6
in Matthew's gospel 28
and it reads this the recording
the words of the angel that was at
his empty tomb
he is not here
for he is risen
as he said
that's important
come see the place where the Lord
lay
that's all he had to offer
there wasn't no Jesus there but you can come look
where he was
for the verification
he is risen
from before Bethlehem
we're going today beyond
Calvary
amen I'll pray for you if you pray for me
and hopefully this next hour won't be as painful
as you thought it might be
Father we love you
we thank you for your goodness and your mercy
I thank you for this opportunity
Lord the request that we have this morning
that have come in
Lord I pray you touch sister Courtney
who's looking at some surgery today
would rather be in your house
but I ask Lord that you watch over and keep her this morning
and Lord for the family friend
that called today and asked
that we would just lift their
family up as they lost a loved one last night
Lord you know who they are
and I ask God that you would encourage them
on this the day that we celebrate
life eternal and life evermore
now Father your word has been spoken
Lord we've read from the precious
book of life now Lord
let our hearts be open and our ears be open
that we would hear what the spirit says
to the church today speak to us today
Father God in the name of Jesus
and everybody says amen
tell you neighbor we're going beyond Calvary today
again thank you so much for being
here you could have been a lot of places today
but you've chosen to worship here at Hopewell
Church of God and I'm so thankful
for that
the past previous
two weeks we've been in a little series
as I've mentioned already
from before Bethlehem
to beyond Calvary
we've just been walking our way
through the life of Jesus Christ
and last week was Palm Sunday
and so we celebrated Palm Sunday's
celebration
with that beginning of the passion week
that week that the Lord
would suffer for you and I
the week that he would ultimately
end up giving his life for us
so that we might be free and so that
we might know him and the love
that he has for us and all that he wants
to deliver into our
hearts and lives when we
think about the week of passion
the walk of
Friday being the
Via Dolorosa and the many
stops that the Lord made there
from this past week hopefully
you've read along and you've brought yourself
up to the expectation of this
resurrection Sunday
Palm Sunday being last week Monday
Jesus cleansed the temple
on Tuesday he would go
about teaching the principles
of the kingdom of heaven
on Wednesday there was the betrayal
the plan was set in place
Judas had already decided
that he was going to betray the Lord
so he does so and then on Thursday
we have that wonderful evening
meal the very last supper we call it
as the Lord would eat with his
disciples but we also have
one of the most important
institutions to the church that we have on
that very night as he would take the bread
and break it and he would take of the
cup and he would say this is my body
amen that is broken for you and he said
this is my blood which is shed
for the remission of the sins of many
and so he gave the wonderful principle
of his life and of his blood for
us that was on Thursday
this Friday we had a wonderful celebration
here of worship and a time
of just worshiping together on what we
what we have called Good Friday
and many people wonder what was so
good about it well it wasn't good for Christ
but it was good for you and I
it was good
it was for the joy that was set before him
and I know we can't hardly see
a crucifixion as something
joy filled or something to be excited
about but the Lord's excitement
was in knowing that he was about to redeem
lost humanity
and make a way and build a bridge
so that the father again could be in
relationship with his creation
so Thursday that meal is given
Friday that walk he goes
to the whipping post and his body
is beaten and he is given
a cross to bear and he begins to carry
it and it would be on that Friday
that under the weight of that cross
his physical body being beaten beyond
recognition that he would fall
under the weight of that cross and Simon
of Cyrene was standing by
which the Roman soldiers would grab
and put the cross of Christ in
him to assist him to
Galgotha's hill but it would be at Galgotha
where he was alone it would be there
where the Roman soldiers would pierce his
arms and his feet with those
old Roman spikes it would
be there where they would suspend him between
the heavens and the earth on Friday
but it was on that Friday when the clouds
turned dark we sang about it this morning
when the skies turned dark
and the earth began to shake
and the earth began to quake when he
gives up the ghost when he gives his life
and it would be that veil that was before
the presence of God and the holiest
of holy places that big curtain
would be torn in two opening
access to humanity because of
the work that Christ had done from before
Bethlehem before
the manger before Christmas
all of this had been set in order
and now it's being fulfilled
because now Saturday oh we call
it silent Saturday we think Saturday
was very quiet and he was
just laying in the grave I'm telling
you there was work going on on Saturday
according to Ephesians chapter 4
before he ascended he first
descended into the lower parts of
the earth and he went down preaching good news
to the captives and he took the captive
and he brought them captive with
him come on somebody
oh I know I may be out there but I'm
giving you a place to go look and read
before he ascended into glory
and all this is going on in these three
he wasn't just laying there resting
can I tell you he didn't have to rest
he was the lord of glory he was the king
of eternal ages he had
work to do and he was doing
his work hallelujah amen
so Saturday passes it by
and early before the dawning of the day
on the first day of the week
Mary and the others because they had
to prepare his body quickly they
didn't have much time to get back
and do the preparation on his
body that they really wanted to do
so they make their way oh
what the way to the tomb and it's
according to the garden tomb they're
discussing ladies how are we going
to roll this big stone out of the way
from the door it's possibly two ton
how can we move it what are we going to do
how are we going to get it rolled away
my god it was a worry they should not
have worried about it's about 90%
of the stuff you and I worry about
it was something you're not going to have to deal with
it was something they didn't have to deal with
and as they made their way to the tomb
they found the stone
already rolled away
they saw an angel there
and they begin to get a report
why seek ye the living
among the dead he is risen
as he said that he would
he is alive
he took the Via De La Rosa trail
and the walkway the pain and the
way of suffering and the way of sorrow
he took it for you and I
my god but he didn't just stay
in a tomb he didn't just stay
dead
it kindly it kindly
it kind of perturbs me from time to time
we we get to Easter Sunday
and all we can do is get to Friday
there'll be countless churches
across the land and around the world
that'll never get past Friday
but I'm here to tell you Friday wasn't
the end Friday
it wasn't over Friday
it was only beginning
hallelujah you gotta get past Calvary
you gotta get you gotta go
beyond Calvary people
he was crucified
but have you noticed the cross
is empty and the tomb is empty
as well but there's a throne
at the right hand of the father
where he is
where he is now seated and where he
is making some
prayer requests for you and I
he's the interceder
for our dilemma
and trouble
man
that's the first sentence of the introduction
so let's see where we can get to now
hallelujah we got
we got to the cross
we we've gotten past the
crucifixion
don't get me wrong
I'm not making light of it
it's a very serious
moment
it's a very agonizing and painful
moment that the Lord
took for you
last Wednesday night brother Randy talked to us
in his teaching about
grace and mercy
what you saw on Calgotha's
hill is God's mercy
when he
takes on to himself
what you and I deserve
when we don't get what we deserve
he took it
he bore it
while you and I were yet sinners
Christ died
for you and I it was an agonizing
death it was a death of suffocation
as he's hanging on that
cross
beaten
bruised
how many of you seen the passion of the
Christ
I saw it once and I said to myself
I'll never see it again
I don't know how it affected you but it hurt me
deep
the best that Hollywood could do
broke me down
to see him at that whipping post
those 39 stripes
saved the one
it tore me up brother David it broke me down
because I deserved that because
of sin
hello he didn't the sinless one are you with me
the sinless one
deserved the whipping post
and the best that Hollywood could do
still didn't even come close
to the day of his beating
when the scripture
says that his body was
opened up you could probably have seen his
lungs moving as he would take
a breath
39 stripes with a cat of nine
tails with the metal and bone
shards and pottery shards anything
sharp that they could get in it that
would tear away the flesh
you're getting a little gross this morning
well my god we need to get a little
gross because we come so nonchalantly
with his sacrifice
I'm trying to tell you I'm not trying to
rush past Calvary because Calvary
was important it was agonizing
he poured out every
drop of blood
for you and I
while we were yet sinners
Christ died
who for the joy that was
set before him he endured the
shame of the cross
and died the death
presented himself
as the only
sacrifice worthy
not to just
cover but
to cleanse and purify sin
the blood of
goats and bulls and sacrifices
merely covered our sin
and they had to be covered every year
for the Israelite people every
year the blood had to be
spilled but I'm here to tell you
it's been spilled for the last time
hallelujah
oh yes oh I know
that they found five
my lord I'm so far from where I wanted to be
but man I just feel
like the lord taking us there this morning
there's the search for the pure sacrifices
I've heard that they've
discovered five of the
animals that are necessary
to bring about the purification
sacrifices
as the people the Jewish people
are getting ready for their messiah
well they've missed
the one event that they should have been paying
attention to and he is
coming
well we better get on past
calvary hadn't we
things are being set in
order time is
coming into place
amen the week of the passion
many emotions from hearts of
believers worldwide
they range in depth
some see no severity
in it at all and take Sunday
it's just another day to cheat and eat some chocolate
that's how nonchalantly
some so called
Christians see
the resurrection Sunday
it's a day to dress up
a day to get a new outfit
I'm surprised I didn't see at least one
Easter hat in the house
for many it's an excuse to get them a new
hat to wear in a new
Easter dress hat
for some that's as deep as they go and
that's as moved as they are
but others are so overwhelmed
because of the passion of the Christ
the sorrow of the Christ and the agony
of the Christ and in the Philippines
they actually are beaten
and they are actually taking crosses
and they are actually nailed
the two across amen
and they are suspended I'm here to tell you
you don't have to do that you don't have to
go that far amen but I
think in the heart of the believer we should
understand the passion of the Christ
and know that that mercy was
bestowed I who was a sinner
am a sinner no more
hallelujah why because grace
entered in and grace was introduced
because of the mercy
and the debt that he paid for us all
we can lean upon him because
of his good grace and no
free pardon
from sin
several years
ago the secular songwriter John Meyer
or Mayor, however you want to pronounce it
produced a song that was titled
Waiting on the World to Change
the lyrics
of this song give some insight to the
mentality of our society of that day
but even more so
this day
one particular verse
goes this way now we see everything
that's going wrong
with the world and those who lead it
we just feel like we don't have
the means to rise above
and beat it
so we keep waiting
waiting on the world to change
we keep waiting
waiting on the world to change
those lyrics offer
absolutely no hope
and actually it sounds like it's coming from a man
who has no hope from a man
who does not know what
I'm preaching to you this morning
it comes from a heart that
can only see the world and society
and how deeply
depraved that man is kidding
and it's worse now some 15
18 20 years later from when this
song was introduced our world
is in an upside down turmoil
my god I hoped
and I said I wouldn't do it but I'm just
going to draw our attention just a little bit
to the leadership of this nation
and the declaration they made over this
day and the ideology
to begin to change
my god there is a transformation
that is available and this world
has been changed because
of the introduction of
Jesus Christ into it
and the day that he went to Calvary
and even greater so on that
first morning of the week when
he rose from the dead
hallelujah there has been a change agent
introduced to society
a change agent has been introduced
and it is Jesus Christ the
righteous from before Bethlehem
to Calvary and beyond
beyond Calvary is an empty
tomb I'm not waiting on the world
to change I'm waiting on the world
changer to come back
I'm waiting on the world
changer to make his way
back
well give the lord praise in his house
he's worthy of it come on
we're waiting on the world changer
beyond Calvary these are just
these are gone
that's over
that first sentence is all we got
which is probably to your benefit
I'll get done quicker
we're waiting upon the world changer to introduce
himself again to a lost
world
amen but it took
Calvary it took Bethlehem it took
a manger
it required all
those things it required his sacrifice
what is it your and my
salvation redemption
many think well I don't
know that I need it well let me just share with you
today you need
it
how so I've not done anything wrong you
were born and that's enough
that's all is required for humanity
to deserve
the wrath of God why so
because of the sin in the garden
of Adam and Eve the
disobedience of God's word
and sin
entered in and because sin entered in
death reigned
how many of us are afraid of death
I'll be honest
I don't relish
the thought
I like living
I enjoy life
this beautiful day
I enjoy God's creation
I'm not looking to leave here tomorrow
unless he comes to
get us all
all who are ready
that means get ready
because of that
original sin that
we are born with
the attempts of the heavenly father
to spare his son
through the giving of that law
for blood to cover
but man couldn't
even live by that
too difficult
we made it
so then the simplicity of faith
through grace
his grace
your and my
faith
and the sacrifice that he made
that God loved
this world that he gave his son
so that you and I
would not have to perish
I know we live in a day
in time where the harshness
of the gospel seems too much
for some
they want a heaven
but not the reality of a hell
I'm here to tell you Christ
went through all of that suffering and pain
and agony to spare you and I
from that hell
if there was no hell
I guarantee you he would not have been
at a Roman whipping post
if there was no hell
to save us from I assure you
he would not have surrendered himself
and allowed them
to drive those Roman rusty spikes
through his limbs
and elevate him between heaven
and earth
how do you know? Because at his
very word
legions of angels
would have leaped out of heaven
come to
Galgotha's hill
there wouldn't have been a Roman standing
but he surrendered
because why?
He knew
that Sunday was coming
I assure you
on Calvary
he was thinking
about Sunday
oh they played that little video
in here Friday night, it's Friday
but Sunday's coming
Sunday's here
and the reality
of that first Sunday
is that you and I
because of his grace
and abundant mercy
can have hope beyond
Calvary
we can have hope that
carries us and ushers us into
a heavenly home with him
because remember
John's gospel recorded in that
14th chapter, let not your
hearts be troubled
you believe in God, believe also in me
for in my
father's house there are
many mansions
and he said I'm going to prepare a place for you
that where I am there
and maybe also
and they're scratching their heads
saying we don't know how to get there
he says
you know the way
I've demonstrated and showed you the way
and matter of fact
I am the way
the truth and the life
no man comes to the father
but by me
so while we're
in a world that's waiting for a change
simply what the world
fails to see is they have
to accept the change that has
been offered
the world changer has already made
the offer
you don't have to
live it out through
the suffering
of this life
but even though we receive him
and accept him, one of the puzzling
things for us is
that we too may have to suffer
for all those who live
godly in Christ Jesus
we're going to suffer and we're going to face
persecution
remember his words, they hated me and they're
going to hate you, have you ever seen a
day in time
not the world, let's just narrow it down
in our 200 plus odd year history
of this nation, have you ever
seen a time when there are so
many who anti-Christ
and anti-God than right
now?
but the world changer
is coming
beyond
Calvary is this
beyond Calvary is Luke 24
13 and behold two of them
went that same day, we're talking about
the same day
of this first day
of the week, the same, two of them
went that same day to a village called
Emmaus which was from Jerusalem
about three score furlongs or about seven
miles
and they talked together of all
these things which had happened
they talked about the week of the passion
they talked about the crucifixion
and they had left town early before the ladies
got back from the resurrection
they're trying to make
that seven mile journey
and while they
communed together and reasoned
Jesus himself
drew near
and went with them
now isn't that wonderful
there was a lot of things the Lord
needed to be doing
a lot of different things
he could have been doing
but he was walking
with two of his disciples
talking about
the previous week's events
and how they said we
actually thought he was the one
I can see him standing there with a grin
you reckon?
I mean
couldn't you just see the Lord interjecting
in that sad conversation
of two depressed
disciples leaving Jerusalem
before they got the news
what happened fellas?
well you know he raised
the dead and we thought he was the one
I mean he opened blinded eyes
lame people walked
the disciples said that he spoke to the
seas and the waves laid flat
and we surely thought
well he was the one
was there any other
proof?
well I mean there's this guy
Lazarus
you know he was dead and already
starting to stink
and he raised him from the
dead and well we really thought
he was the guy I mean how much more proof
are you needing here?
they didn't even stay around long enough to see
if what he said
was going to come to pass they were just
headed toward Emmaus
and he walked with them talked with them
when they get
to Emmaus
they'll stay and eat with us
we're going to get a bite to eat well I need to get
I need to be going
but since you asked
I will and he breaks bread and then the
light comes on
and the next thing you know
they're back in Jerusalem I don't know where
Jesus went
but the next thing you know
they went back to tell the others
and they get in the room and they say hey well we know
I mean if you'd been you know you
walked 14 miles
for nothing
you could have been here
that's after that's after Calvary
that's beyond Calvary
John 20
19 through 29 then the same
day and evening this is the same day
evening
being the first day of the week
when the doors were shut where the disciples
were assembled for fear of
the Jews came Jesus and stood
in the midst he
said unto them peace be unto you
Thomas
Didymus not being
present
later that day
the conversation happens when Thomas
shows up we saw the
Lord well why didn't somebody come get me
I don't know if you saw him or not
that's why we call him doubting Thomas
prove it I won't
believe it
unless I see for myself
where they put the nails
put my finger in one of the holes
see where they pierced his side and put my
hand tells me it was
a gaping wound
put my hand he's gone from his
finger to his hand and I
put my hand in his side I won't
believe until then well
are you ready
you skip down to verse 26 and after 8 days
say that with me after 8 days
Thomas wasn't there on
the same day the first day
now we're 8 days later
I don't have time to talk about that
number 8 my lord don't get me going
and after 8 days
again his disciples were within and Thomas
with them Thomas is there now
then came
Jesus the doors
have you noticed the emphasis on the doors
being shut they're scared
to death they're afraid
they're coming after them they've been
hiding for 8 days
a few of them
Peter James John got up just enough to go
see if what Mary and the others said was
true and they came back and shut themselves
back up
8 days has come and gone Thomas is there
with them now the
doors being shut and he stood in the midst
and he said peace be unto you
then Thomas he said
to Thomas Thomas
reach your finger over here and stick it in
here
Thomas stick your hand in here
nowhere do we read
where he did either
but what we do read is his confession
on the 8th day my lord
and my god
hallelujah
doubts rolled away by confirmation
there's some doubts in your life
don't be in doubt because he is risen
and he is risen indeed
the tomb is empty
if it's the right place if it's the right tomb
I went in there and
looked for myself
in 22
thousand
I went in there
and he wasn't there
no bones
he was not there
I never forget that day as long as I lived
the Franciscan priest
is watching over the
holy site
I mean there's 8 or 9
preachers in this little old room
and we're getting happy
and this
fellow had the audacity to say to us
why are you so excited
he's not here
I said dude that's the whole point
I mean
you're here every day
it's the whole point
he isn't here you go dig up
Mohammed if it hasn't been long enough
his bones are still rotting and bleaching
in the dirt
you go dig up any of the others and you'll find them there
but you can't find
Jesus
because beyond
Calvary he's in glory
they tried to blame it on the disciples
but they were too scared locked up in a room
it wasn't them that got his body
and the Jews sure enough weren't
going to go get it and try to hide him
because that would be a validation
of his
proclamation
so they didn't do it
and there's no way a
Roman would break
the seal that was put on that
door
it meant their life
so
it was
opened from the inside
out
yeah
nobody won't take responsibility for that one
he takes
responsibility
himself
beyond Calvary's Acts 1 3
to whom also he showed
himself alive after his passion
by many infallible proofs
being seen of them 40 days
and speaking of things pertaining
to the kingdom of God
further so 1st Corinthians 15
I like this one
moreover brethren
I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you
which also you have received
and wherein you stand
by which also you are saved
if you keep in memory
see there's too many people forgetting
what I preached unto you unless you
have believed in vain for I
delivered unto you first of all that which
I also received how that
Christ died for our sins
according to the scriptures
and that he was buried
and that he rose again the third day according
to the scriptures
and that he was seen of Cephas
then the twelve after that he was
seen of above 500
are you hearing me
brethren at once
of whom the greater part
Paul said that most of them are still
alive today and could testify
it was
him
and after
that
he was seen of James
then of all the apostles
in verse 8
and least
of all he was
seen of me also
as one born
out of due time
Stephen saw
him
when they were stoning him to death
because he's preaching the good
news of the gospel
he looks up and he said I
see Jesus
standing
I don't know what that word
standing does for you when you read it
but I'm telling you let me just share
just what you go ahead and stand and I
won't take long in telling you what it means to me
when I read that
word standing
when he said I see Jesus standing
that means he wasn't in
a leisurely position at the
throne of the right hand of the father
it means his attentions were drawn
to one of his servants
who were about to be ushered into his
eternal glory and he's
standing at attention watching the
faithfulness of old Stephen
so beyond Calvary
Revelation 1 18 you will find
the declaration of the Lord himself I am
he that liveth
and was dead
and behold
I am alive
forevermore
amen
and have the keys
of
hell in the grave
you see that's what he was doing on Saturday
never run off with his keys
he's just going to get them back
I know a little bit
something about that
I couldn't find brother Wayne
Henry's truck key this morning they loaned me
I couldn't find it
I looked all over the house
everywhere
but I was so focused on getting
here this morning I had already
forgotten that I'd put it in my pet's pocket
so I wouldn't forget where I put it
I went out to that truck three times
Sister Kathy's up by now
and this is early 630 something like that
what are you looking for
brother Wayne's key
well where'd you put it you know
at that moment
you know frustration
if I knew where I put it
I wouldn't be looking for it
so on that
what we think is a quiet Saturday
he just went looking for his keys
he knew exactly where they were
and he went and put his foot
on the neck
of your and my enemy
I'll be back to finish this
later I'm thinking he's saying
this water's parallel
it's mine I'm preaching
give me the keys
Satan
and
I don't think he moved
from his position one iota
I don't think Jesus
made one
inkling of reaching to take them
put them right here
and I mean now
I don't know what that does
for you but it does a lot for me
we're talking beyond Calvary
this is John the revelator
Jesus testifying
I went and got the keys
here's what he's going to do with them
chapter 19
we're beyond Calvary now we're way past Calvary
John says and I saw
heaven opened
and behold a white horse
and he that sat upon him
was called faithful
and true
and in righteousness
he does judge and make war
his eyes were as a flame
of fire
his head
on it were many
crowns and he
had a name written that no
man knew but he himself
and he was clothed with a vesture
dipped in blood
he never forgot
and his name is called the word
of God
and the armies which
were in heaven
followed him upon white horses
clothed in fine linen
white and clean
now we're way beyond
Calvary I'm reading
to you from a vision
that's way beyond 2024
March 31
this is a moment in time
yet to come
but it's getting closer every day
and out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword
that with it he should
smite the nations and he shall
rule them with a rod of iron
and he treadeth the wine
press of the fierceness and the wrath of
almighty God
he hath on his
vesture and on his thigh
a name written
king of kings
and lord of lords
oh they put a little
placard over his head
at Calvary
I read one of the gospel writers where they
they sat and watched them as
they scribed
Jesus king of the Jews
and they missed that one
we're talking beyond
Calvary
the king of kings
and the lord of lords
while many are waiting
for the world to change
I'm simply waiting
on the world changer
I'm waiting on this
to come to pass
I'm waiting for the fulfillment of the
faith that I have in him
on this Easter Sunday morning
I don't know where you are in your
relationship with this
king of kings and lord of lords
but I do know where you need to be
you need to be in a right relationship
well how do I do that?
repent
for the kingdom of heaven is at hand
well how do I do that?
well we begin by saying
we're sorry
we confess our sin
and we ask him to
cleanse us of it
and according to 1st John 1 and 9
he is faithful and just
to cleanse us when we do that
of all unrighteousness
and we come in right standing
and then from that point
we just walk right, act right, talk right
do right
in accordance to his instruction manual
beyond Calvary is a hope
beyond Calvary is a savior
who will come walk beside you when you're so distraught
in the world that you don't even recognize
that he's with you
like those Emmaus disciples
they were rehearsing the event
thinking we thought he was the one
and the whole
seven mile journey
he's walking with them
and beats them back to Jerusalem by the way
and enters into a room that was shut up
father I love you this morning
thank you for your goodness
and your mercy today, thank you for your help
this morning, I thank you for your anointing
father I've tried my best to
relay what you've put on my heart
fresh and anew, Lord is fresh
this morning and I'm so thankful for that
it's resurrection Sunday
and resurrection means life
not death
not depression, not doubt
not overwhelming
not the presence of fear
I'd like to pray for you this morning
if there's any in here
if you do not know Christ is your Lord and Savior
I'd like to pray with you if you'd meet me down here at this altar
it'd be the simplest
prayer that you'll ever pray
but it will afford you
the greatest eternal value
of any prayer that you'll pray after
I'd love to pray with you
heads bowed all over the house
I promise I'll take just another couple minutes
so important today
as the gospel's been declared
the scripture says the wages of sin is death
it also says by grace you are saved
pastor I need Jesus in my life
in fact would you just
pray with me
I need Jesus in my life
in fact would you just slip a hand up this morning
I need Jesus
I need him
oh I need you
every hour
Father I love you this morning
I thank you so much for this resurrection Sunday
I thank you for every person
in this room
I thank you for every
everyone
Lord as you touch and speak
to hearts and minds
I ask God that you would have your way
that you would lead
Lord as you speak of peace
in the turmoil
in the chaos of life
Father we love you this morning
thank you for your goodness today
and your mercy
Lord you know what the days hold
that lay ahead
and Lord for the worry and the fear
and the anxiety of it all
I pray Lord you touch this young man
Lord through this process
I ask Lord as
those he mayest disciples
had their eyes open that his too would open
to see you in the reality of your help
and the hope that you offer
go with him Lord
in Jesus name
every
hour
every hour