1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,040 I'm a doer, not just a hearer. I am humble before the Lord. I'm obedient to the 2 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:13,120 Lord. I am mature in the Lord. I'm enthusiastic about the Lord. Say that 3 00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:17,200 one again. I'm enthusiastic about the Lord. Say that with a little energy. I'm 4 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:24,080 enthusiastic about the Lord. I know that. Faith coming by hearing and hearing by 5 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:33,920 the Word of God. Amen. In the book of Luke chapter 24 verse 11 and 12, I'll 6 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:40,520 read into your hearing from the Newt King James translation. It says this and 7 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:45,760 their words, somebody said their words. It says, and their words seem to be like 8 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:55,480 idle tales and they did not believe them. But Peter arose and ran to the tomb and 9 00:00:55,480 --> 00:01:02,040 stooped down and he saw the linen clothing lying by themselves and he 10 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:08,480 departed marveling. Somebody say marveling. Marvelling to himself at what had 11 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:15,520 happened. Amen. You may be seated. Now today we're gonna talk from a thought 12 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:23,800 that centers around the amazing resurrection. The amazing resurrection. 13 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,880 Most of you know this story. Most of you know about this week because it's the 14 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:34,200 most important week, most important day on the Christian calendar. Resurrection 15 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:40,520 exceeds Easter. I mean not Easter but Christmas. I'm sorry. Resurrection exceeds 16 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:46,840 Christmas because the world kind of accepts, Cliff, the fact that he was born. 17 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:53,160 Nobody argue about that. Nobody argue the fact that he lived. But when you tell 18 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:59,520 folk he got up, you're gonna have a problem. So the resurrection was a 19 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:04,280 combination of the most powerful and passionate week in Jesus' life and in 20 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:11,040 his ministry. And before I go back and take a look, you know, at Luke's version 21 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,520 of the resurrection, I want to just highlight some of the things that took 22 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:20,880 place during the course of the week. That span of time from his arrival in 23 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:28,440 Jerusalem to the triumphant entry of them saying, Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in 24 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:34,160 the highest. Last week we celebrated Palm Sunday and we had a good time 25 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:39,680 remembering that he rode in on a on a donkey on the coat of a donkey and and 26 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:45,800 they saw him as their Lord and Savior. We even got into a moment where we shouted 27 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:53,160 Hosanna because we understood that it's important for us to all realize that we 28 00:02:53,160 --> 00:03:01,720 need him to save us. But now let me capture some things that happened after 29 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:09,640 the shouting was done and Jesus continued to be about his father's business. You 30 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:16,080 know, if I was to ask you to think about your week from last Sunday when you 31 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:28,080 were jumping, you shouted to Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 32 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:32,360 to now. Some of you probably can play back your week with ease. Some of you, 33 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,480 you know, if you're my age you may have a hard time at times. You may have to kind 34 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,880 of really ponder something, but some of y'all got good minds still and just you 35 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:45,800 can play back your week. There was some good and some bad. During the course of 36 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:52,760 the week, Cliff, somebody may have even lied on you just to mess your week up. So 37 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:59,120 you've got a reason to look forward to the resurrection because you want that 38 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:05,360 week good, bad, and ugly whether you want to or not. It's behind you, but it's good 39 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:09,960 for us to look back at times and just think about what we went through this 40 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:16,800 past week. Play back, and that's all I want to do today before we get back to our 41 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:22,560 Texas to kind of play back some of Jesus' week. Those of you who are old 42 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:28,800 schoolers, you probably got most of this week memorized in your head. Amen. So I 43 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:33,480 just want you to just play a little with me in your head. See how the Lord 44 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:38,800 suret you. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the whole weekend of 45 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:44,200 things that happened between the shout and the cross, there's a lot of things 46 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,640 that went on. This may be new information to you, and I hope that some of it will 47 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:53,040 serve as a memorial in your heart and your mind to know that this week is 48 00:04:53,040 --> 00:05:01,840 important, and more so this day is the most important day of all. Now immediately 49 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:07,480 after Jesus' glorious entry into Jerusalem, he went into the temple. 50 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:12,760 Somebody say the temple. And in Cliff, 51 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:24,480 they were shouting and saying, Hosanna, he go in the temple and get indignant. 52 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:31,800 We don't like to see Jesus being indignant, so I call it righteous indignation. 53 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:36,200 Make it sound a little bit better because nobody want Hosanna coming in 54 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:43,960 riding on the donkey to go in the temple and turn something over. But he went 55 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:48,600 into the temple and in his righteous indignation, he cleansed the temple by 56 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:53,080 driving out the money changers. Somebody say the money changes. And those who 57 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:58,040 sold doves, because they were taking advantage of God's people who were 58 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:02,520 coming in the town to worship. Cliff came in from out of town. He didn't have a 59 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:07,000 dove with him to offer up for a sacrifice. Bolden sitting in the temple 60 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,920 knowing that doves are going at a, you know, normally a dollar a dove, but 61 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,840 because Cliff has got a need that he can't meet and he didn't bring no dove 62 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:19,960 with him, this same dove, I'm gonna charge him $12 because today is the 63 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:23,640 important day. This is the Passover week. This is important celebration. Cliff 64 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:31,160 needed a dove. So I'm gonna make some money off Cliff. That's what they were 65 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,520 doing. They were making some money and now people in the church are making some 66 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:40,720 money off you. You just don't know it, but they, 67 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:47,800 so in his righteous indignation, Jesus said he was gonna drive out the money 68 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:56,880 changers and those who were selling the dove. See, look at your life. He went 69 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:04,360 into the temple. You ain't gonna feel that, but what you got to see, you're now, 70 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:15,200 you are the, and when he come in you, you got to let him, 71 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:24,640 the Bible says your body is the temple of a living God, for behold, so when I'm 72 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,360 trying to say when he ride in the town after you get to shouting, how's that? 73 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:36,120 You got to let him come in and drive some things out because you know there's 74 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,040 something just ain't gonna just leave your life. You're gonna have to let him 75 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:44,360 drive them out. These four weren't just gonna leave the temple. Some of the 76 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:49,920 gospel say he even got a some cars, Cliff plaiting together and whip. Little 77 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:54,640 Jesus coming in on a baby donkey. Now all of a sudden he get righteous and 78 00:07:54,640 --> 00:08:02,080 indignant at the same and whip. See that ain't the Jesus that we like to talk 79 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:06,600 about. We like to talk about the Jesus with the lamb on his shoulder and the 80 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:11,960 humble Jesus, but this same Jesus when you come against things that is of his 81 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:21,640 father's business, he will whip you. He will display some righteous indignation. 82 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:27,640 He said it is written my father house shall be called a house of prayer, but 83 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:33,760 you have made it a dinner. There's some folks stealing in the church. 84 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:42,440 Somebody said it ain't so, but there are some folk stealing in the church. There 85 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:49,480 are some folks right now today as we speak stealing on the Lord's Day, on 86 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:56,360 resurrection Sunday. There are some people in the church. I won't go in the 87 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,840 ways how they steal, but you know there are people who know how to steal from 88 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:05,960 you even on resurrection. And we need the Holy Spirit to drive some of that out 89 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:13,880 of, let me move on that was just the beginning after you know Hosanna. Then 90 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:18,520 he started to heal the blind and the lame that was in the temple. By doing that 91 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,960 the religious leader, the chief priest and the scribe, you know they became 92 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:29,040 indignant. Now they get upset because the people start to praise Jesus for what 93 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:33,800 he is doing in their lives. They got so upset to the point that they 94 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:40,400 wanted to plot how to kill him. See sometime envy and jealousy would turn 95 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:45,760 into pure hatred. You know when you don't get control of your envy and your 96 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:50,880 jealous of how you look at other folk, you can develop a spirit of hatred. Well 97 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:57,160 you can just see people and you just don't know nothing about them, but you 98 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:01,560 just see them. Somebody done planted a seed in your heart and in your mind about 99 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:08,880 a person. You don't even know, but just by pure hatred can show up. And when pure 100 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:13,560 hatred show up, guess what? Your mild manner of behavior would turn into hate 101 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:20,840 to the point you want to hurt. You know right now I know this is resurrection 102 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:26,400 Sunday, but I got to resurrect the USA. You know there's a spirit of pure 103 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:32,680 going around in America right now on all sides. A spirit of pure. Anytime you go 104 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:37,000 in a school and shoot up some kids, that's just pure. 105 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:48,320 You need to be careful that that spirit don't come on you. Let me move on because 106 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,200 I said I wasn't gonna stay here long. We just recapping this week. He taught 107 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:55,800 several powerful and thought-provoking parables. He taught the parable of the 108 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:00,200 wicked wine dresser, which was about stewardship. He taught the parable of 109 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,560 the wedding feast. And the wedding feast was designed to let the Jews know 110 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:09,480 because they rejected his invitation that the call was worldwide, that the call 111 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,920 was universal, and because they turned him down, there would be others out there 112 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:19,320 who would accept the call. So that call of salvation is still going forth today. 113 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:23,200 It's going to be going forth on leaf and it's going to be going forth when our 114 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:28,880 children leave because it's an eternal call. Until Jesus come back, the call of 115 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:35,480 salvation is going to always be relevant. Somebody needs to get saved. All 116 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:41,440 mankind needs to know who Jesus is. Then he taught the parable of the five wives 117 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:45,920 and the five foolish virgins. Some of you know this, and he was stressing the 118 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:51,480 importance of being ready, Cliff, and being prepared for his return. And so you 119 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:55,000 got to understand the Bible, so he's coming back, Brother Herb, as a thief. 120 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:00,280 And then he's coming back. No man know the hour, the day that he's coming back, 121 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:06,240 but we all know that he's coming back. And he told us to watch and we need to be 122 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:10,560 living on alert. Right now, instead of you living on alert, some of you are walking 123 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:16,480 around sleeping when you ought to be living. You ought to be paying attention 124 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,560 to what's going on around you and the times that you're living in so that you 125 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:24,920 will be aware what's about to happen because the spirit can reveal some things 126 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:36,280 to you even before the newsman. We need to be alert. We need to watch and so my 127 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:42,680 question is just a simple one. Are you ready today? Do you even know like they 128 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:50,600 said, on what time it is? Some folks come in the church on Resurrection Sunday, 129 00:12:50,600 --> 00:13:04,840 clueless. On Resurrection, clueless. And I dropped by on my way to Heaven just to 130 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:13,160 tell you better wake up and figure out what time it is in your life, where you 131 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:25,360 are in your walk. How much time you got? You better figure out what. Then he 132 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:30,280 entertained some questions from the religious leader. Those questions weren't 133 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:35,400 sincere. They were designed to trap him, to say something that would be against 134 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:42,960 the law. So they asked him questions like, isn't lawful to pay taxes to Caesar? 135 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:47,200 They weren't concerned about no tax. They weren't going to trap Jesus. See, we get 136 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:53,440 Caesar mad at him. And Jesus kind of said, well, look at the money. See who 137 00:13:53,440 --> 00:14:01,720 picture on it? Lincoln, Washington, Benjamin. Look at the money. Whoever's on the 138 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:08,840 money, that's who you pay it. So some of y'all dropped by here to tell me, for me to 139 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:19,760 tell you in this tax season, you got to the 15. Oh, it's 18 now. Okay, help me out 140 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:25,640 right there. Because I know mine already pays. I'm good. Mine already pays. But you 141 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:31,320 got you got to give back to Caesar what's here. Hey man, you spend Caesar money. 142 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:37,280 You got to give Caesar his money. And I know someone got upset when he 143 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,160 answered that question like that. And then they asked him questions about the 144 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:45,200 first and greatest command. Like they really want to know how much they love 145 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:50,000 God, how much they got to love them neighbor, and how much they got to love 146 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:59,640 themselves. Then they asked him a question, you know, is it lawful to heal on the 147 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:04,000 Sabbath? That would be like, is it lawful for you to do some work to heal 148 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:10,080 somebody on Sunday? Now in Jesus' wildness, no, they didn't care about whether you 149 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:14,400 were sick or not. They were just trying to get him to break the law. So he flipped 150 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:19,880 the script and said, well, now if you had a donkey or oxen and he fell in a hole on 151 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:24,640 the Sabbath, are you gonna leave him now? And let me say it on Sunday. He fell in 152 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:33,080 the hole on Sunday. Are you gonna leave him now to Monday? But you know, you just 153 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:41,440 got to wait. It's Sunday. I don't do no work on Sunday. You just hold out to 154 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:46,720 tomorrow morning and I'll come get you out. But in the meantime, it's NBA season 155 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:53,680 two. It's not like I'm gonna be studying the world while I leave you in the hole. 156 00:15:53,680 --> 00:16:02,400 I'm gonna be watching. I figured I'd lighten up the mood a little bit on 157 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:11,280 resurrection Sunday. Can we talk about the course of Jesus week? Then he had a 158 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:16,600 knockdown, what I call a knockdown, drag out tough conversation with the 159 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:24,320 religious leader, where he denounced and rebuked their lifestyle by emphatically 160 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:30,480 calling them hypocrites. You know, we will probably like the religious leader too. 161 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:38,160 If Jesus came and got in our lifestyle basically, you ain't got no business 162 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:43,040 looking at what I do when I'm in church, Jesus. What I do when I say amen and 163 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:48,960 leave him, no concern of yours. Jesus, I love you, but look at don't mess with my 164 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:54,120 life. Don't you come and rebuke my lifestyle? I'm gonna call me no hypocrite. 165 00:16:54,120 --> 00:17:01,400 You just don't know. I got up early this morning to come hear word about you. So I 166 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,400 dare you. Let me come and sit and strive for two hours and not leave you. You 167 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:12,200 gonna call me a all because when I leave here, my lifestyle don't look nothing 168 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,000 like I look right. 169 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,960 See, long as I was talking about the religious leader, y'all was happy, but I 170 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:22,440 can feel some tension that's coming on right now. My spirit is sensing that 171 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:28,680 there's some tension and I just hope it makes you think about your lifestyle 172 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:44,520 when you leave here. Now, if you ain't living here for critically, he ain't 173 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:53,680 talking to you. You ain't gotta get mad at him. But if the shoe fit, 174 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:58,200 there ain't no Easter message. What that got to do with the resurrection? I'm trying to resurrect you. 175 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:07,200 I know Jesus them God up and I ain't sure about you. I want to make sure you. 176 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:17,720 You know, that exchange enraged them to the point that they no longer was 177 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:25,000 thinking about killing him. They developed a plan to kill him. That plan 178 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:32,080 even included getting one of Jesus very own disciples to betray him for 179 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:38,160 30 pieces of silver. You know, I tell people all the time, betrayal is always 180 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:48,160 the inside. People who don't know you can't betray you. So it's people who are 181 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:55,200 close to you that have become too close to the enemy. In other words, there's some 182 00:18:55,200 --> 00:19:02,400 people that you call your besties, but they are also friends with your enemy. 183 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:12,280 And they are the ones that can go back to your enemy and talk about. So you got 184 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:21,200 to be careful who you just label your besties, your rider. Because all of them 185 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,280 may not be riding and dying with you until they find somebody else they can 186 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:33,040 ride. So Jesus had one of his very own that he a disciple. We call him Judas. 187 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:37,240 I guess that's why you know about the name they kid Jews today. That name 188 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:42,360 Judas just got a bad rain. You know you say, Judas, you look at your kid, Judas. 189 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:49,480 Judas, they don't think about nothing good when they hear the name. Someone who 190 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:59,880 betrayed him. And then after that, he had that moment, what I call an honorable and 191 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:07,080 gut-riching moment in the God. You know, proud of that he had told Peter, hey Peter 192 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:15,680 man, look, you gonna betray me. You gonna deny me. But like most of us clear. 193 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:22,480 Oh the moment Peter said, I'm with you. To the end. You know, and I just drop out of 194 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:27,520 town before I get to the garden that sometime talk is, 195 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:34,480 see you don't really know what you will do until you under pressure. When there's 196 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:43,800 no pressure is on you. You'll do say anything. But when pressure in the old 197 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:50,800 day, when you say pressure bus pipe and some people just can't handle even people 198 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:57,360 who say I'm gonna be. So all that leads him to this garden where he go through 199 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:03,320 this trial of his own because in the flesh, clips, they want to really die 200 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:08,120 for you. He knew what his assignment was, but when it was time to fulfill that 201 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:13,680 assignment, he had to go and reconcile some different within himself. Because he 202 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:19,680 went to the Father's and law if it is possible. Not just one time, clear. He 203 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:27,040 went if it is possible, take this cup away from me. I didn't see what they're 204 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:33,040 about to do to me. And if it's possible, there's another way to get there. Crying 205 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,200 so hard. Somebody said that his sweat was like 206 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:45,280 cause he was under. And if I know if Jesus had a hard time handling 207 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:52,240 pressure, I know what you gonna do. If you don't have a spirit of God in you 208 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:53,320 when you're under. 209 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:58,440 I don't know what that pressure may be. It may be pressure from your fiance, 210 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,640 your boyfriend, your girlfriend, maybe present from your job. It may be 211 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:05,840 pressure from your mama and your daddy. But it's still 212 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,160 and what are you gonna do 213 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:10,960 when you're under? 214 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:13,640 Are you gonna say, Father? 215 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,160 If it's not possible, not my will, 216 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:24,240 but your will be done. In other words, God, this situation that I'm in is not 217 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:28,760 gonna change, but God, in spite of what I think about it, in spite of what I 218 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,360 feel, God let your will be done and not mine. 219 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:35,400 That's what you gonna have to do when you're under. 220 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,920 Cause it's easy to say God, your will be done in my life when there's no 221 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:42,920 pressure in your life. 222 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,040 When your fiance gave you an automaton 223 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:55,320 and telling his ride or die time and you just say, nah, we wait, we get married. 224 00:22:55,320 --> 00:23:01,320 Pressure. Pressure. 225 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,000 Lord, if it be that will, 226 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,760 or it's gonna be her will or his will, 227 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:11,600 pressure. 228 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:18,160 He's right now, he's either on Sunday morning or early or Easter Sunday morning. 229 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:23,240 He's either to say, hey, the pressure ain't real, but wait, wait, wait, wait. 230 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,360 You got to leave here. 231 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,800 He got to be real bold and put pressure on you in here. 232 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,440 Let me move on. Let me, I'm just talking about pressure. 233 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,720 I don't got caught up in a moment there. Let me just talk about pressure. 234 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:47,640 But even under pressure, Jesus could have wimped out because he could still do 235 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:54,680 his will. He realized he had to submit to the Father's will. Now get this, your 236 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:59,680 life is not going to get any better until you start submitting to God's will. 237 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:04,040 Now he going to let you do whatever you want to do, when you want to do it, who 238 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,960 you want to do it with, because he is not going to violate your will. 239 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:14,880 But the minute you want your life to get on this resurrection Sunday, you came 240 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:19,320 here to hear me tell you, if you want your life to get, you're going to have 241 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:25,760 to submit your will to his will and then believe that his will for your life is 242 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:31,640 better than your very own. That he know more about you than you know about 243 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:38,560 yourself. Now following that precious moment, that precious moment in time, 244 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:44,200 Jesus was betrayed and then he was arrested. First he faced religious 245 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:50,200 leaders, the Sanhedrin Council, where they tried to bring people to falsely 246 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,960 testify against Jesus. In other words, they went out and found some people to 247 00:24:53,960 --> 00:25:00,080 make us some lies about Jesus so that they could have enough evidence to take 248 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,240 him before the Romans so that the Romans could put him to death. 249 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:08,720 Jews did not have the authority to kill. They can judge each other, but the 250 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:14,920 Romans had to execute judgment when it comes to killing, but we were called 251 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:21,320 capital punishment. They can execute punishment for minor offenses, but when 252 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:26,080 it came to capital punishment, going to the cross, only the Romans could do 253 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,520 that. So now in order to get a case to the Romans, they got to go out and get 254 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,240 some liars. They got to find some people that are going to tell some lies on 255 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,800 him, say he violated their rules, their laws, anything that would cause them to 256 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:41,040 him look like he came against Rome so that now we have justification to take 257 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:46,240 him to be crucified. Now get this. 258 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,840 I think that's in here today to let some of y'all know before the week's 259 00:25:51,840 --> 00:26:00,440 out, or even maybe even last week, you had some liars in your life. Some 260 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:05,800 folk just lie. And when they couldn't get the case, they went out and got 261 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:11,160 other folk just lie. You know, it's easy to get folks to believe a lie and 262 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,880 spread a lie more so than true. And I want to warn you that before this week is 263 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:21,960 out, some of you, somebody's gonna, and when they lie on you, you don't even need 264 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:26,720 to get offended. You don't need to get all out of salt and go back to your old 265 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:32,760 nature. You just say, hey, the spirit told me you were gonna show up this week. 266 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:41,000 I was expecting you to tell that lie. See, when you can't expect certain things 267 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,240 before it happens, you don't have to react the way people think you're gonna 268 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,360 react when they catch you by surprise. 269 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:58,640 So now he's before the council. The council didn't have enough, but they got 270 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:04,520 people to lie and then they now take him to the Romans. You know, and as he was 271 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:11,840 standing before power, you know, he really didn't want to kill Jesus. He had 272 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,600 some options, Cliff. There was another thief out there, that was somebody else, 273 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:20,800 a notorious criminal. And the Romans had this policy that I guess we were called 274 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:25,480 like when the president can pardon you, no matter how bad you've been. If you get 275 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,960 the presidential pardon, he's setting you free. And so the Romans had a policy that, 276 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:37,920 hey, we're willing to set somebody free. But when he wanted to set Jesus free, 277 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:44,160 because he didn't have enough evidence, the people rose up in an uproar and 278 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:50,000 they said, look, we want the other guy. We want you to release the criminal, but 279 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:56,160 put that guy to death. They just rose. And Cliff, I think brother Anthony said this 280 00:27:56,160 --> 00:28:04,280 on Friday night. Some of those same folk that were shouting ho, a week ago and now 281 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:11,280 saying, y'all know the story. Some of the same people that were patting you on your 282 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:18,520 back last Sunday, it's stabbing you this. Some of the same people that say, I love 283 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:24,760 you today, next week. They'll be saying some things against you. They don't say, 284 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:30,480 where did the love go? The same people. So look here, you got to be careful what 285 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,760 people say with their mouth, because the mouth is not always a clear indicator 286 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:39,120 was truly in their heart, what they think about you. And so therefore you got to be 287 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:43,680 able to discern what people really think about you. So when they laugh in your 288 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,880 face and they skin and grin with you and they pat you on the back, you better say, 289 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:53,400 hey, the Holy Spirit that already revealed to me that today you said pat pat pat 290 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:59,560 and the next week you're going to be said crucified, crucified. The last week we 291 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:05,960 were taking off our clothes, laying them down in front of them, Hosanna. But all 292 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:11,080 because maybe he didn't do what we wanted him to do this week. He didn't live up 293 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:15,640 our expectation. We had an expectation that he won't come back like this powerful 294 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:20,360 king and overturn the Roma, but he didn't even overturn the Roma. If he didn't do 295 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:27,040 that, he is of no use. So we might as well crucify him. He didn't already got on 296 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,320 our last nerve when he rebuked us and called us hypocrites. So we might as 297 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:37,000 well go ahead and crucify. Might as well go ahead and just let him be killed. 298 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:45,000 Not realizing that even though it looked bad, it was all part of God's 299 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:55,000 plan. What they were meaning for evil, going to turn out and work for our good. 300 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,640 The thing that they thought was going to be the end of the story, just open up 301 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:04,680 the final chapter of the story. You know, Tonya said on Friday night that 302 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,680 that was not the last episode. It was just a cliffhanger to get you to come back 303 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:13,480 today to see how the story really ends. And see, I just about to tell you that 304 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,800 look, even though they took him, gave him to the Roma, they beat him down. You saw 305 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,400 the story on Friday night. You heard about it. Maybe they even alluded to some of 306 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,720 it this morning. Beat him down, nailed him to the cross, across, across the 307 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:32,440 instrument of death. Not just a quick death clip, but a slow and pain for death. 308 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:37,720 Where he hung on that cross, at least from noon to three, dying. The Bible say the 309 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:42,680 earth became dark while he was dying. Some even mentioned that again on Friday. 310 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:49,080 His seven last says why he was on that cross. 311 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:56,520 Then, when he finally releases spirit back to the father, 312 00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:02,840 like most of his disciples, along with the Roma, and probably even some of you 313 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:11,080 sitting in here today thought that that was the end of the story. 314 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:18,760 Can I make it real? I think all of us have buried a loved one. 315 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:27,800 And over time, the feeling that you had when they were, you were at the grave 316 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:33,720 is not the same feeling that you have a year from now. 317 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:45,960 Because you move on with your life. Jesus' disciples moved on with their life. 318 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:51,080 All that teaching Clifton, he did, all the things he said, even though he told me 319 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,960 they're going to destroy this temple. And in three days, I'm going to write it 320 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:00,040 from the day they didn't get it. They didn't get it. They just believed what 321 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:04,520 they heard and what they saw at the time. I know they don't put the tomb there. 322 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:10,600 They don't put a stone in front of it. It must be. 323 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:18,120 So they started living like it was. There are a lot of people in church on this 324 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:22,040 very Sunday morning who's living like this. 325 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:29,480 They don't see life after death. They see death as the final 326 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:34,440 chapter. So when things get to that point, they give up hope. 327 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:39,880 And when loved ones die, they give up hope of ever seeing them 328 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:44,280 because they have a problem understanding the Resurrection. 329 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:49,960 If they understood and believed the Resurrection, 330 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:55,480 they will see death as a transition from one part of life. 331 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,040 I know you can't get that right down because that's something that is 332 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:02,520 for us to get in our natural minds. Sometimes natural truth is hard to 333 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:09,240 comprehend when you can't believe what you're hearing. 334 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,360 So we get back to our text. I'm going to finish up this. 335 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:16,680 Chapter 24. And let me start with verse one. 336 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:22,760 And I read through to verse 12. Chapter 24. 337 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:29,640 Luke's story. It says, now on the first day. Somebody say the first day. 338 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,680 Now on the first day of the week. That's why where we get Sunday from and that's 339 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,360 why we worship on Sunday. Because in the Christian phase, for the 340 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:41,000 most part, we have put Sunday in health, Sunday in high esteem. 341 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,200 That's why on the Roman calendar, Greek calendar, whatever calendar that came 342 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,960 from, Sunday is considered the first day of the week. 343 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,880 Because in the Jewish culture, you know, the Sabbath was Saturday. 344 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:56,520 And so what happens is when Jesus died on Friday afternoon, 345 00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:04,760 you know, on the cross, three to six, well Friday is counted and in at six o'clock. 346 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:09,560 Friday's over in their calendar. Then now becomes the Sabbath, 347 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:15,800 which is from Friday night at six to Saturday night at two days. 348 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:23,160 So at six o'clock one on Saturday night, we're on the third day. 349 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:27,160 And I'll capture and count it. You say that's less than 96 hours. That's 350 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:31,960 less than 72 hours. How? That way. Yeah. Well, don't get wrapped around 351 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:37,560 the acts about the way you count hours. You got to look at it how God counts. 352 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,640 Not how you count. Because if you look at it how you count, 353 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:46,440 you'll be looking on the wrong. 354 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:52,360 You'll be like these guys sitting down and then forgot all about the third. 355 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:58,120 Okay. So on the first day of the week, very early, some say very early. 356 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:04,920 You know, still dark early before the rooster crow. 357 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,640 Early. You know, this will be like our three four 358 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:12,680 clock in the morning. Some of y'all ain't familiar with that time. 359 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,640 Some of y'all don't even know what it's like. Three or four o'clock. 360 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:20,280 No, they're there for me. And because you know you deep somewhere. 361 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,560 You know, you you turn over at that time. That's your last turn. 362 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,160 Because for you, they don't even start to seven o'clock and eight o'clock. 363 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,680 You know, it's just three o'clock in the morning early. 364 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,440 Me trying to find Jesus at three o'clock in the morning. 365 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:39,240 Ain't happening, captain, because I got up. Oh, Lord. 366 00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:42,440 Early. I just dropped by again to tell you sometime 367 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,560 if you want to seek the Lord, you will have to find him early. 368 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,360 You will have to be in convenience to get up out of your deep sleep. 369 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,080 When the Spirit of the Lord touch you at three o'clock in the morning, 370 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:56,280 you need to wake up early and seek him so that he can be. 371 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:03,480 Stop lying to yourself like you're going to pray at nine o'clock when you get up. 372 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,920 You might want to set your phone for three o'clock. 373 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,240 Inconvenience yourself. I'm challenging some of y'all right now because 374 00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:15,800 you know, he said we got to watch and he didn't say what time you ought to be in 375 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,240 a prayer for mine all the time. But I just want to challenge you 376 00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:25,400 early on Monday morning. You got to go to work anyway. 377 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:32,040 So early tomorrow morning, three o'clock, four o'clock. We'll split the difference. 378 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:35,080 Just say four o'clock. I'll give you a break. 379 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:40,360 Just when you go home, just hit your phone. I'll phone and tell you to do it all. 380 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:45,160 You ain't ready to trust your spirit. 381 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,200 I can hear some of y'all thinking right now. I'm going to just let the spirit wake me up now. 382 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,680 You ain't ready yet. 383 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,480 You ain't ready to trust your spirit right now. You need to trust the clock. 384 00:36:55,480 --> 00:37:02,120 Once you start trusting the clock, then your spirit will kick in. 385 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,720 My spirit wake me up every morning about the same time 386 00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:09,640 when sports center is on about five o'clock in the morning. 387 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:15,560 I don't even have an alarm clock. Every morning I wake up at the same 388 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,200 sports center on. 389 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:25,160 Then Kishon J. Wheeler, Matt. Every morning wake up right there at that time. 390 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:34,600 I don't even set no clock because my spirit be looking for Kishon J. Wheeler. 391 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,600 Some of y'all sports people know who I'm talking about. 392 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:46,680 But I'm trying to say that same spirit can wake me up and say Jesus is calling 393 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:51,080 on you to wake up and pray. He's speaking to you in the same way as 394 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:56,120 I'm trying to tell you. Sometimes you've got to sacrifice and seek him early. 395 00:37:56,120 --> 00:38:00,200 Early in your life, early in the morning. Man, can you imagine what it would be 396 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:04,200 like if your children truly found him? 397 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:10,920 What your life would be like if you had truly found him? 398 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:19,320 They, the word says, bear early in the morning. They and certain other, 399 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:27,880 somebody say women, with them. Wow. This was an all-woman movement. 400 00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:31,240 Not a man to be found. 401 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:37,720 Early in the morning. Now they went out there for a different reason, 402 00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:41,080 but the boys could have been looking too if they had been countenanced. 403 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,040 They should have known on the third day something was supposed to happen. 404 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,360 So now we got all these women and I can't understand why do we want to silence 405 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:54,440 women in the church today when they got up early on resurrection morning? 406 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:58,840 While the boys were sleeping in and then fearing running for their lives, 407 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,800 women got up. 408 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:10,840 Certain women, not just one, early. 409 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,760 They came to the tomb bringing spices which they had prepared. In other words, 410 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:19,160 these women realized that we didn't get time to prepare his body properly 411 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:24,680 on fry because you know the Sabbath here and we couldn't do no work. 412 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:29,080 So we had to stop, but now the Sabbath is over and it's early. 413 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,760 So we can go and do what we normally would have done by putting spices on his 414 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:36,520 dead because you know when Lazarus in the tomb 415 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,480 is having the third day, you know he's stinking. 416 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:43,800 They didn't want Jesus to be stinking on the third day 417 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,160 even though they was doing something good they didn't go that with their mind 418 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,720 that he wasn't. 419 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,640 They was doing the right thing in Resolatum, but they went that with an 420 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:59,720 attitude that he must still be, still be dead. 421 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:03,720 He got to be dead. We bring his spices so he don't stink. 422 00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:08,440 We don't want him stinking up the tomb, you know what I mean? So we're gonna bring 423 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:12,760 well that's better than the men. Men didn't bring nothing. 424 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,680 In fact they left him on the cross some of them. They just gone, scattered. 425 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:20,360 Sorry boy, they ain't a ride or die. I'm a ride or die with you. 426 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,480 Then when he died they run. 427 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:28,680 So I believe there's some ladies that are ride or die more than some brothers. 428 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:41,640 So look at this, but they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 429 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:46,440 Verse 2. Now Luke said that when they got there 430 00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,800 they asked them on themselves who gonna roll the stone away. 431 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,880 So they went there with the expectation that somebody had to come in 432 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:58,280 take action. They needed help. We need some men to do this, 433 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,200 but God knew the men scared. 434 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:08,120 So when I can't get a man to do what needs to be done I'll just send an angel. 435 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:14,200 Down. Now he's gonna send an angel. At least don't get in my story now. 436 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,880 I done already brought the women in the story. I gotta bring the angel in the 437 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,240 story. Because ladies no matter what you think 438 00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:24,120 you couldn't move them. 439 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:30,280 Your heart was in the right place, but God had to send an angel. 440 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,760 Now I ain't trying to speak to women weakness and anything and 441 00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:38,440 well, but every now and then, ladies, you just need a man. 442 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,600 I know you say I don't need a man. I got my education. I got this. I got that. 443 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,040 But every now and 444 00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,560 if you can't find a real one, find an angel then. 445 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,640 But no, the every now and 446 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:02,520 then. Oh Lord, I don't got off script here. Let me 447 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:06,520 get back over here because the women realized that they could not 448 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:10,920 roll the stone away. 449 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:16,360 They realized that. So God understood that they knew they couldn't roll the 450 00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:21,960 stone. So because the boys were scared, he sent a 451 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:27,160 angel. Matthew's virgin say the earth quaked 452 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:33,720 and an angel of the Lord came down and moved the stone away. 453 00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:37,320 See sometime there's some things in your life that's blocking you 454 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:41,400 from where you're trying to go and you can't move it 455 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:47,960 by yourself. You need to say God, I need you to send me some 456 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:53,400 because if you don't send me some help, this thing is going to keep me from 457 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,680 going where I'm trying to get. 458 00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:00,280 But you got to have a heart to be trying to go somewhere. 459 00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:05,320 I don't need to send you no help if you ain't doing other standing still. 460 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:10,120 If you ain't doing another marching time in place, I only need to send you some 461 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,320 help when you at least move into water director 462 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,080 that I want you to go in. But as long as you just meditating on it, 463 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,840 thinking on it, I really... 464 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:31,640 Verse 2 says they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 465 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:37,880 Verse 3, they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 466 00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,640 Verse 4, and it happened as they were greatly, 467 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:45,960 somebody said, perplexed. See they went in thinking one thing but when what they 468 00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,160 were thinking did not happen, they got kind of perplexed. 469 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,440 You know how it is with you and I'm like that now. I go into certain situations 470 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,760 thinking one thing and when I'm thinking don't happen, I get 471 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,360 puzzled. I get bewildered. I get kind of confused. 472 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:02,200 Hey, what's going on? Somebody needs to slow this down 473 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:08,120 and tell me what is going. I came in thinking one thing and all of a sudden 474 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,320 I walk in here and I see something entirely different. 475 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:19,720 They went in looking for a body but when they got there, 476 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:24,520 they had the wrong expectation. 477 00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:28,120 Even though they went, their expectation was just like the man. 478 00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:35,400 They didn't expect him to be gone. So it happened when they were greatly 479 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:39,400 perplexed about this that behold, two men, the Bible says here, 480 00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:44,280 Angelic being stood by them in shining garment. 481 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:51,080 They then as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to 482 00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:59,640 them, why do you seek the living among the dead? 483 00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:03,720 Man, y'all got to get there. It sounds like a simple little old question 484 00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:07,880 but man that is a powerful question. Why are you trying to find 485 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:14,120 the living among dead things? Some of your life is not, your life is not 486 00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:21,080 where it's supposed to be because you're looking among dead things. 487 00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:28,440 Trying to find life and you can't find life that's going to make your life 488 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:32,520 better when you're hanging around. 489 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:39,880 Sometimes the dead things in your life got to, that's why they died. 490 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:44,680 They got to. I ain't talking about relatives and all that. 491 00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,960 I'm talking about dead things that you're doing that don't bring nothing 492 00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:51,800 beneficial to you. You're doing some things that just 493 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:56,280 is not beneficial to your spiritual growth. They're dead. 494 00:45:56,280 --> 00:46:04,040 Like they say, you just carry around dead weight. 495 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,560 So they had enough sense to bow down and worship and show 496 00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:13,880 profound respect when they got there. Then look at this. They ain't to give them 497 00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:18,680 this revelation. He is not here but he is wise. 498 00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,640 That's the whole reason we're here today because of that. 499 00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,240 If that don't happen then everything that we're doing in the church 500 00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:29,160 is in vain. If the resurrection didn't take place 501 00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,440 then you might as well let's just leave here. Don't come back next year 502 00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:36,520 and let's just go to the beach on Sunday. Let's just go and have us a beach 503 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:40,040 bash on Easter Sunday morning and just go and have some fun because 504 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,480 all we're doing now is in. 505 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:51,240 That's why it's important for you to believe in the resurrection. 506 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:54,120 Even though you may not understand it, you may not be able to comprehend it all 507 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:58,040 with your natural mind and your heart. You still got to believe that Jesus rose 508 00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,600 from the dead. You got to believe that he got up on the 509 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:04,680 third day just like he said and now he's seated at the right hand of the father 510 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:08,520 in the seat and for you. You got to believe that. If you don't believe that 511 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,640 then guess what? Chris Daddard would be nothing more than 512 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:16,840 a formality for you. I go to church out of former 513 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:23,960 lizard. See today I did something on purpose. I came up here with my shirt 514 00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:31,320 tell out you know comfortable shoes on 515 00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,680 but back in the day 516 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,040 this was that day. 517 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:44,600 If mama ain't had no money for nothing else 518 00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:49,800 she had some money for Easter. 519 00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:55,800 We were gonna we were gonna get a basket and we were gonna get some new clothes. 520 00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,840 We know that we were gonna get some new clothes and back there you know you got 521 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:03,640 them pattern leather. You can tell there was Easter Sunday 522 00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,800 because all them little girls come in with them pattern 523 00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:13,560 them long can-can dresses, pattern leather and then we had our 524 00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,120 baskets. 525 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:25,880 That was our understanding of we didn't come now thinking about the 526 00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:29,720 resurrection and how important it was to this story. 527 00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:35,800 We can't never want to be dressed up because we got to look good on Easter. 528 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,800 When if you're going to dress up you ought to be dressed up on every Sunday 529 00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,680 that you come to church. 530 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:50,200 So years ago this Easter a child would not have worked 531 00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:56,520 for me because I wanted to be dressed up. I wanted to be 532 00:48:56,520 --> 00:49:12,840 casket ready clean. From my head to my toe. 533 00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:20,280 I mean the shoes I used to wear I believe will live again 534 00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:26,840 because you pour water on them and they start moving. 535 00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:37,560 But that was back in the day. I still got them but now you can pour water on 536 00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:40,600 these and nothing don't happen. 537 00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:47,160 So my point is is I don't want this day become such a formality and we dress up 538 00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:51,000 for this day but we don't dress up for the rest of the year. 539 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:55,640 We don't live for him the rest of the year. We don't carry ourselves for him 540 00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:59,640 the rest of the year. 541 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:04,600 Luke would they ain't you had to say verse six he is not here but he is risen. 542 00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:08,040 Somebody say remember somebody shout remember. 543 00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:13,480 Remember how he spoke to you spoke to you spoke to you. 544 00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:17,240 Guess what he's talking to a bunch of women and he's saying y'all ought to 545 00:50:17,240 --> 00:50:21,240 remember how he spoke to. So that means that these women was 546 00:50:21,240 --> 00:50:26,440 privy to some of the same conversation that the boys were. 547 00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:34,040 Remember how he spoke to you when he was in Galilee saying the son of man 548 00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:37,400 must be delivered be delivered into the hands of sinful men in 549 00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:44,120 Romans and anybody else who came against him and be crucified and the third day 550 00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:48,520 rise again and look at verse eight say they 551 00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:54,520 remembered his word. You came here today so that you can remember 552 00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:58,600 some of Jesus word. You got to remember something that he has said 553 00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,600 and spoke to your heart from this word and you got to be able to call it to 554 00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,480 ring. Every now and then when you go to church 555 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:09,560 you don't come here just to come you come here to get something inside of you 556 00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:13,800 so that when times get tough in your life you can say I can remember what he 557 00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:17,240 said. He told me to love my enemy. He told me to 558 00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:22,120 build my house on a rock and not on sand. My life should be built on stuff 559 00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:27,800 they're gonna toss me to and he told me to let my life so shine that man 560 00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,040 shall see my good works and glorify the father. 561 00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,720 So he's telling me hey I remember when I leave here 562 00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:38,840 I can't walk in darkness I got to let my life 563 00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,560 you got to remember something and what you remember maybe not be what the 564 00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,040 spirit bring to me but all of you ought to have a 565 00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:51,160 remembrance of what the Lord has said to you. 566 00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:56,760 So when times get tough in your life his words can comfort you 567 00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:00,600 his word can also challenge you and his words can convince you 568 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:04,600 that what you believe in is not a lie. 569 00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:10,520 Verse nine then they return from the tomb 570 00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:14,920 and told all these things to the eleven. 571 00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,960 And eleven though I'm gonna just say for the lack of a better term 572 00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:23,320 the boy. They went told the boy and and to all the 573 00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:27,960 rest most of them boys maybe some women sprinkled in but the 574 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:33,080 level was the key. Now look at this it was Mary Magdal, 575 00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:37,800 Joanna, Mary the mother Jane and the and the other 576 00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:41,080 women. They don't even say how many of them was 577 00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,440 boy I know they were in trouble you get that many women coming at you boy you 578 00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:48,440 you're in trouble. You just they were struggling when they got the facts they 579 00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,080 know the truth and they know what they believe man they excited I mean when 580 00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:55,320 they come well that's excitement man you you just cannot deny 581 00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:01,000 when they come with that kind of energy they're gonna get your attention 582 00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:05,240 and they told the apostle these things now look at this the apostles may have 583 00:53:05,240 --> 00:53:09,000 had a block in their mind when they come to receive 584 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:13,880 and truth for information for women 585 00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:17,640 because they weren't used to women bringing on revelation 586 00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:22,200 most of the time there was some a man had to do 587 00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,800 and so it was these women now when I looked up these women 588 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:30,680 and when you look back in what the earlier writers what Luke said 589 00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:34,920 and Matthew said about them some of these women were prominent 590 00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:40,520 women the Bible say they gave Jesus death 591 00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:44,360 so in other words these women were prominent enough some of them not all 592 00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:47,720 of them to be able to support Jesus ministry 593 00:53:47,720 --> 00:53:54,120 why he ministered and now that he was dead they still felt a need 594 00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:58,040 to support him even though they thought they were just supporting them and 595 00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:01,960 putting perfume on his body but they didn't know that they were going to 596 00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:07,240 become evangelists for the Lord they were going to tell the story 597 00:54:07,240 --> 00:54:11,080 before man 598 00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:16,280 this is one off God don't use women for that 599 00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:20,280 or one off 600 00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:26,760 I mean the one who had a husband that she would live with us 601 00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:30,360 had no six of them and the one she was living with there wasn't anyone 602 00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:34,520 huh then when she got a revelation who he was 603 00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:38,200 she went running back telling them whole time 604 00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:43,320 come see a man so ladies I just dropped by to tell you don't let nobody tell you 605 00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:47,080 God can't use you if you open your heart up and 606 00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,520 open your mind God probably already know you've got more 607 00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:55,560 energy than most men we men pretend but we just don't have 608 00:54:55,560 --> 00:55:00,360 a fire not all of us they've got to find some 609 00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,160 people we ain't got we don't have that kind of 610 00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:07,640 fire that ain't our nature but we need some fire plugs 611 00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:11,400 and if they happen to be women that can bring the fire and the truth of the 612 00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:15,240 gospel y'all better clap louder than that I'm 613 00:55:15,240 --> 00:55:19,320 telling you God look at here if God could use the donkey 614 00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:24,760 surely he can use the woman he can use whoever he 615 00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:28,600 pleads to accomplish his 616 00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:35,480 but always be mindful that there's going to be some hard-headed men out there 617 00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:39,480 there's going to be some going to be some hard-headed men 618 00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:43,960 because they told these things to the apostle but look here and their words 619 00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:47,800 seem like idols you talking to people 620 00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:51,880 ladies who walk with him who ain't with him who had the last supper with him 621 00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:57,080 and now when the women come back say hey guess what he done rolled they say 622 00:55:57,080 --> 00:56:00,200 there go to women they just gossiping again 623 00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:04,280 they just lying they just running telling out of tales they just tell 624 00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:11,400 barons that's all they see when you already got a 625 00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:15,880 picture of how you think women act built up in your head 626 00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:21,960 then when they come reveal truth to you you won't even accept it 627 00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:25,880 some of y'all brothers sitting here I know you're educated you know been to 628 00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:29,320 school and got multiple degrees but there's some women I that I can tell 629 00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:31,880 you something 630 00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:37,560 that can enlighten your mind 631 00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:44,680 so every time a woman speak don't act like you listen to idol 632 00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:50,040 tell because if you see her words as idol tells you're going to be just like 633 00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:54,680 these disciples and they did not 634 00:56:54,680 --> 00:57:05,400 did not believe them you know too late for me I wish I hadn't listened to 635 00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:11,160 ladies in that more when she was alive because I'm coming to see now 636 00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:15,240 there was some things that I consider idol 637 00:57:15,240 --> 00:57:23,640 tell had a lot of truth to them but because I was 638 00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:27,480 I'm supposed to know more about this word do you do I study I got the license 639 00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:33,240 I got the law and so that was sometimes that she said 640 00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:39,000 something and I treated it as idol 641 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:44,360 because I just could not comprehend what she was trying to give me 642 00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:48,760 and I'm trying to tell you you're going to have to comprehend 643 00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:52,520 what people are telling you in order for you to believe 644 00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:55,800 what they're telling you and you're going to have to get past 645 00:57:55,800 --> 00:58:00,680 the messenger so that you can receive 646 00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:06,440 young tabard there's a good place to clap because I'm done 647 00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:12,040 don't treat truth as idol tell believe the truth didn't look what it says 648 00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:17,000 there but Peter and I'm done a rose and ran somebody say ran 649 00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,640 he didn't just walk Peter was like that once he get over to something he's gonna 650 00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:23,000 run now he don't came out of his nonsense and now he want to go see for 651 00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:28,280 himself he ran to the tomb and stupid down he saw the linen clothes 652 00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:34,200 lined by themselves and he departed somebody said marvellan 653 00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:38,760 marvellan in other way he was amazed you know he was in awe 654 00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:43,560 and he was wondering as he was departed later what done 655 00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:47,400 what just happened what did I just walk up on what did I just see 656 00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:52,440 something just happen because now my mind says it's changing I really came here 657 00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:56,840 looking to see and find somebody wrapped up in that linen 658 00:58:56,840 --> 00:59:00,280 because the world was already on the street that the disciples going to get 659 00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:03,960 his body and they're going to steal it so that they can claim that he rose from 660 00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:07,880 the dead but I came here and saw my with my own eyes 661 00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:11,320 and and look here can I petonize this and boldenize this 662 00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:14,600 and I came to the conclusion that if cliff 663 00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:22,760 had came in here to steal the body he would not have taken time to undress 664 00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:26,200 the body knowing that he them came and got a dead body 665 00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:30,680 so in my mind I say surely nobody stole the body 666 00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:36,600 he must have been raised just like he said so therefore now I leave that with 667 00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,720 a new attitude that I believe I serve a 668 00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:47,800 rhythm and to further the story 669 00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:52,200 the boys was having dinner Jesus had to walk through the closed door 670 00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:56,440 before Thomas could believe Thomas said look here I heard what y'all done said 671 00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:59,320 I don't heard your testimony but unless I can touch him 672 00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:03,320 and see that the nail prints in his feet touching side I ain't believing 673 01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:09,000 nothing that's why we call him doubting some of you are doubting Thomas is here 674 01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:12,680 today until you see a nail print or a whole print until you see 675 01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:15,320 something that you can comprehend with your natural mind 676 01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:19,080 you ain't gonna believe this and when Jesus showed up and told him to touch 677 01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:22,600 he said now I believe he called him Lord and Jesus said look here 678 01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:29,480 blessed are they who believe and have not seen 679 01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:35,320 you are more blessed than Thomas because you are believing something that you 680 01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:40,040 did not see you're believing that the resurrection of Jesus Christ 681 01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:44,120 was a real event that it occurred and because of that 682 01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:48,760 you have a way back to Christ you have a way back to the kingdom of God 683 01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:54,120 you have a way to eternal life you have a way that you did not have 684 01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:57,880 all because of his resurrection and the deeper truth that you got to 685 01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:01,240 understand and get past your natural mind is that one day 686 01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:06,440 you're going to be raised with him in a moment in a twinkling of an eye 687 01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:12,520 give the Lord some praise on the day praise him for his amazing 688 01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:19,800 resurrection hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah our dancers are 689 01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:24,120 going to come now share experience with you and I 690 01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:30,360 pray that you open your hearts and mind to receive what they have amen 691 01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:33,960 give him some praise that's