It Is Finished — Now Arise: Rise Into New Life

when he was up on that cross and he said it's finished, it doesn't mean it's over. The price that needed to be paid was finished. But the truth is it's time for you to arise. The Apostle Paul says in Ephesians four five fourteen, he says, awaken. Awake, oh sleeper. He says, arise from the dead. There are so many people of us that we're living this life but we're really dead inside. We've been walking around like zombies. We've been walking around in our grave clothes. The apostle Paul says, therefore, awake you who sleep. Arise from the dead and Christ will give you light. [01:25:55] (47 seconds)  #AriseItsNotOver

See, the contrast here, g Lazarus had to be resuscitated. Jesus, he is the resurrection. Lazarus came back to life, but Jesus stepped into a new kind of life. See, Lazarus, he smelled. Lazarus had the old man all over him. He had the old life all over him. But when Jesus rose, he was something different. He looked different. He smelled different. Mary Magdalene and the others, they came with the essential oils. They came with those oils to make him smell. But he didn't need any of this earthly stuff because heaven was already on him. Heaven was already in him. Life was overflowing from him. [01:21:57] (48 seconds)  #HeIsResurrection

He folded those clothes with intentional victory. See, the understanding is when you get up from the table and you fold your handkerchief, you fold your cloth, you're saying, I'm coming back. Those clothes were laid there and that thing that was wrapped around his head, it was folded because the truth is he's coming back. The cross speaks victory. The cross speaks healing. It speaks salvation. He is the lamb that was slain from the beginning of time. The cross, I am grateful for. But this day, that grave, it is still open. And I was there a couple years ago and nobody's in that grave. There's no one in that grave. [01:24:16] (60 seconds)  #FoldedClothesVictory

Lazarus, he came out alive but he was still bound. In John chapter eleven forty four it says, he came out bound hand and foot with his grave clothes. He was alive but he was restricted. He was moving but he was limited. He needed others to lose him. Lazarus might have had life but he was still wearing the death clothes. Some of you in this room right now, he's calling your name. He's calling your name but those death clothes. Maybe the truth is maybe you're still in the grave. Maybe you're still in that tomb and you haven't come out to grab hold of the word of life yet. [01:20:57] (43 seconds)  #UnbindAndRise

He's calling you up. He's calling you to arise. Your freedom is not just for you though. Your freedom is also it's an assignment so you can free others. See when when the son and the grandson came to the Lord, it wasn't just for them. They became an instrument in seeing mister Ernest come to the Lord as well. And I'll tell you what, this is actually a true story. This is based off of a true story. Both of these accounts of something that happened two thousand years ago and something that happened just a few months ago. God is calling you. I ask you this question. Is today your day? The day of your salvation. [01:28:06] (51 seconds)  #AnswerTheCallToday

You need the life of God right now. See, the truth is some of you believe in God. Some of you believe in Jesus, but you're still wearing those grave clothes. Wow. You were saved, but the truth is some of you are stuck. You are stuck. He's calling you out. Don't be stuck any longer. Don't be bound any longer. See, what are some of those grave clothes today for you and I? Some of them are old mindsets, sin patterns, shame cycles, fear of even stepping into your purpose. And some of you, you have an orphan mentality which means I'm all by myself. Nobody loves me. I'm off on my own. [01:26:41] (49 seconds)  #ShedGraveClothes

And Jesus said, it's for the glory of God that that this has happened and he opens that grave if you remember the story and he says, Lazarus, come forth. He says, Lazarus, come on out of here. Four days dead. The bible says that if you're in the King James, it says the man stinketh. He smelled. He started to to lose all of the body functions and all. But Jesus, he is the resurrection and he is the life. And he said, Lazarus, come forth and Lazarus came forth and he was bound. He was bound with those grave clothes. [01:15:18] (40 seconds)  #LazarusComeForth

The bible says that we gotta do this day by day, step by step. You can't do this just one time a year. You can't do this at Christmas and Easter and and once in a while, you need people in your life to lock arms with. Self hatred needs to go. Shame needs to go. Some of you have done some self mutilation. You've cut yourself. You've even thought about taking your own life. But I'll say today, God wants to forgive you. God wants to heal you. Today, God wants to put some new clothes on you. He wants to put garments of praise for your spirit of heaviness. He wants to put joy inside of you so that day after day you don't hate life, you don't hate yourself. [01:37:39] (64 seconds)  #DailyRenewal