ALIVE

Devotional

Sermon Summary

Bible Study Guide

Sermon Clips

The good news for us is we didn't have to live through that. We can grab this word that says, if he said that and that happened, the next thing he says is gonna happen, it's gonna happen. And I'm here to tell you on the prophetic time clock, the next thing to happen is a trump of God and sound. The dead in Christ gonna rise. And those of us that are alive and remain, this is gonna be a remnant, are gonna be caught up together. Everybody else is gonna be mid and post. Congratulations. You're right. But as for me in this house, we're out on the first bus. [00:44:47] (39 seconds)  #RemnantRapture Download clip

Fire doesn't do that. So, what happened was as the gold began to melt, started coming down, the Roman soldiers completely lost their mind because they wanted to get to the gold. The gold was literally going into the crevices, into cracks of the the stone. So what did they do? They literally started pushing the stones off of each other to rake off and and and get the gold, get all the gold they could get. The gold that was in was in between there was being preserved because it was there before I hadn't hit it yet trying to get to it. And they did it until every stone that was stacked up was laid upon each other as a heap on the outside. [00:07:22] (37 seconds)  #GoldInTheCracks Download clip

So if you got if you got people saying, well, well, rapture has never been in the bible. It just started in the fourth century. You can find out when it was. Well, it wasn't. Rapture wasn't, but harpazo always has been. And listen to listen to the word here, harpazo, and I'll tell you what exactly what what harparzo means. Harparzo in the Greek means to seize, to snatch, to take away by force. So, obviously, you see the you see the Latin word now. You see you see raptus, which is now it's the same word harparzo. It means to seize, to snatch, to take away by force. It is where we get the word rapture. [00:09:41] (37 seconds)  #HarpazoExplained Download clip

To walk with God you know what I mean to walk with God? To walk I've done this illustration before. To walk, you can't walk with no feet on the ground. To walk, you gotta put one foot up. I work on my balance. There you go. One foot up, but the other foot's always down. When this foot is down, this foot is up. That's how we live for Christ. We might not always have both feet on the ground, but we never don't have any feet on the ground. Some of us, we're walking. Some days you feel like, oh, my whole feet, my body, and my head, everything about me is in Christ, and sometimes I feel like I've got one toe in. That's alright. You're walking with him. Don't disengage. Stay engaged. [00:41:20] (59 seconds)  #WalkWithGodDaily Download clip

I am not dead, I'm alive. I'm engaged. I'm engaged into your word, Lord. I'm engaged to who you are, God. I'm engaged in who it is that you've created me to be, Lord, and I will walk with you, God. Every single day, God, as you show me how, Lord. Come on. Breathe out to me. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for saving my soul, waking me from the dead, and causing me to be alive, and because you have put life in me, and given me the gift of eternal life, I'm gonna live for you forever by the grace and the mercy that you have placed upon me in Jesus' name. Amen. [00:49:32] (45 seconds)  #AliveInChrist Download clip

You have you have a name. That word name there is a reputation. When you got a reputation, you're living off the past. Too many Christians, too many of us are living from the past. I've got this reputation. I've been going to church now for thirty eight years, but guess what? You ain't changing nothing. If you weren't in my first grade class tomorrow and there was a 60 year old man sitting in a in a seat, you would say that's cute. But if you found out that the dude's been sitting there for this is his thirty fifth year. It's not cute anymore. It's sad because he hasn't progressed or graduated or matured one ounce in thirty something years. You know what's wrong with the church of twenty twenty six? Most churches have not progressed in over thirty years from where they are, and we think it's cute. [00:36:00] (71 seconds)  #GrowBeyondReputation Download clip

Some Christians believe in their rapture and some don't. I'm of the opinion now. That's because some are going, Christians, and some are not. I don't know. Far be it for me. I'm done arguing with it. I want us focused on being and living who god says we're supposed to be and being spiritually alive and engaged. I gotta hurry. Luke eighteen and eight, when a son, when the son of man comes, will he really find faith on the earth? Question mark. That word finder means an investigation or to look hard into. When Jesus comes on the earth, will he have to look hard and investigate just to find those who are spiritually engaged? Probably so. [00:28:35] (66 seconds)  #WillHeFindFaith Download clip

Then he says, those which are alive. Will you keep that scripture? Those that are alive and remain. Now the word remain is is a kind of explanation of the alive or the vibrant or the vibrant ones. Who who are these alive, These vibrant ones. The what, those that are alive, it it it tells them who they are and it also tells them what they are. Remains means explains who the alive ones are, the the spiritually engaged ones are. Church, it's time to be spiritually engaged. Look at this, To remain comes from a word that describes a small piece of fabric or remnant. The big meaning this, the bigger amount is gone. It's been lost and this is what's left. [00:25:06] (62 seconds)  #BeTheRemnant Download clip

Ask a question about this sermon