The Expectations of Easter - Pastor Greg Jones

You can't do that. You you can't love Jesus and not love his body. There's no possibility of that. There's no way to do that. Amen. It's it it's it's not even it's not thinkable. It's not even right but people say that all the time and I'm telling you right now, it's the church that helps us get free. Well, I got about three of you and half of you maybe but it's the church that gets us free. Amen. Amen. We have to help each other. [00:22:37] (29 seconds)  #LoveJesusLoveChurch

Don't get in just by confessing our sins. I wish that would work. I I wish it was easy and this is an old time thing. It doesn't happen anymore. I don't think anywhere that I know of. Used to, there were some denomination. They said, oh, if you just come shake the preacher's hand. I don't have no power. I can't do away with your sins. What's shaking? I I like shaking hands. I like being friendly. I I like talking to people and all that kind. I can't save you. Don't put that on me. I'm not that. He is. [00:29:25] (38 seconds)  #TrueRepentance

You see, it it wouldn't. Oh, I'm trying my best to explain stuff. It it it was not man that powered himself out of that grave. It was the spirit of god because Paul said, he said, if you got the same spirit that Christ had, it'll raise you up. It's going to pick you up I I feel so strong. I I felt this all week. Matter of fact, I converged two messages together because early last week, I was I was I knew I knew something I was going to preach and then and then the lord begin to work on me and I'm like, you know what? [00:39:07] (56 seconds)  #SpiritRaisesUs

Now, he called Lazarus out and however Lazarus came out, he came out but then he's he told the people. Now, watch this because this is biblical. He told the people, he said, lose him. Get those grave clothes off of him. He can't do it by himself. I know everybody wants to talk about the church. How bad the church is? Oh, I hate the church. I love Jesus but I hate his body. She knows this is not true but that's like me coming to her and say, man, I love this. That's dumb. [00:21:37] (50 seconds)  #CommunityHeals

In other words, there's gotta be something that changes that life. I can't just confess Christ and do the same old things I've always done and be saved. Can't enter the kingdom that way. Cannot do it. Except the man be born of water and of the spirit. Cannot. He cannot. And Nicodemus said, I don't know how that works. Am I supposed to enter the second time into my mother's? He never even heard this concept. It had never been spoken yet. Some prophets had talked about it a little bit. [00:26:26] (41 seconds)  #BornOfWaterAndSpirit

Everything god has ever done or is about to do is by design, by his divine design. Could've titled it that. God's divine design. That's pretty cool. Not even in my notes but it's cool. Easter was not an accident. It it wasn't man made It wasn't about a little bunny or big bunny. It wasn't about I don't know where they got eggs from a bunny but they'll let out some pellets but not egg. I don't know where that came from but Easter is not about that and and it's not man made and and it wasn't started by mankind. We're we're not smart enough for this kind of stuff. [00:05:05] (56 seconds)  #DivineDesign

I don't care how messed up your life is. He is the resurrection. I I don't care how much you stink in your sin. He is the resurrection. I don't care if it has been four days since there was any life or four years or four hundred years. He's still the resurrection. Amen. And and when they finally listen to him and they rolled that tomb, there was somebody laying in the darkness of that tomb that heard a voice calling their name and when Jesus begin to call the name of Lazarus, [00:18:27] (37 seconds)  #HeIsResurrection

God has always had an expectation of Easter. And that whole purpose, that whole expectation is for us to receive salvation from this world, from our sin. That's the whole expectation from god. That's why he calls us out of darkness. Into his marvelous light. The expectation of Easter is for us to live in his kingdom. The expectation of Easter is for us to go to heaven. With him one of these day. Amen. [00:36:37] (42 seconds)  #EasterIsSalvation