No Greater Love Part 4 Marching Orders 04-05-26

``So the first element in the formula for resurrection is faith in God. And I gotta say it that way because you hear it all the time, but you gotta understand that it's real. That the faith always precedes the resurrection. That's what Jesus said when he resurrected Lazarus. He said, He said, I know. I thank you God because I know that you hear me. In other words, Jesus exercised and articulated his faith that God would do what he's going to do before God did it. The faith always precedes the victory. [00:17:04] (49 seconds)  #FaithPrecedesVictory

But the unique aspect is that his death allowed us to overcome every kind of death in our own life. Death of your dreams, death of a relationship, death of of hope in your life, giving up on what God wanted you to to overcome or do have victory over. Those are the real deaths. This body is just a vehicle. Everybody in this room is gonna lose this vehicle. So that's not a big deal. The big deal is whether you have life on the inside. [00:11:49] (41 seconds)  #LifeOnTheInside

When you have faith and a resolution in your heart and mind that you're gonna get this thing done, You can have your worst game. You can be injured and hobbling, and God will find a way for you to win. Faith can change everything. I was looking at the eyes. You could see it change. You could see them get together and they said, we're not gonna lose this thing. Now it's one thing to have faith in something as mundane as a game. But my beloved, whenever Jesus would heal anyone, he would say, your faith has healed you. [00:15:41] (45 seconds)  #FaithWinsInWeakness

Not asking us to obey anybody here. We're saying everybody here obey God. So we all submit to God. But when all of us are humble and go and obey and don't find reasons not to and make reasons to, that's when God resurrects your life, he resurrects your family, he resurrects your job and your vocation, He resurrects your church. He resurrects your city and your state and your country and your world. He does it one soul at a time when we obey through faith. [00:26:50] (41 seconds)  #ObeyThroughFaith

So be an overcomer. Become resurrected, be transformed, but know that it's not just God, it's you. Your faith, when all the chips are down, can turn things totally around, move you up, put you in a higher place, transform you, make you more like him, and you will be God's trophy. You will be God's example of his reality and his power when people see how he took you out of your darkness and into his wondrous light. Amen. Amen. [00:27:31] (43 seconds)  #BecomeAnOvercomer

And I think that this is the linchpin, and we're gonna talk about that a bit today In our own faith journey, in our own personal resurrection, do we have the faith to thank God in advance for what he's about to do? Then after that, he calls Lazarus. And Lazarus, in his darkness, answers the call to come out of darkness into God's wondrous light. And then finally, fourthly, when he's out, he's still bound in his burial clothes. So Jesus says, cut loose his burial clothes and set him free. [00:08:00] (43 seconds)  #ThankGodInAdvance

to do what you know God has commanded you to do, to do what you know God has promised of you in your life, to step out even though, oh, well, this peace is not in place, and that peace is not in place. And what if that happens? And what if this happens? That's the enemy fanning the fire. And that's you believing the lie. Just like the double lies here, if you're believing, oh, we can't move. Oh, I can't do this or that because these things are not in place. My beloved, it will never be in place before you go. [00:24:11] (31 seconds)  #StepOutInFaith

You have the faith to go to put them in place. And if you act on your love and faith of God inside of your heart, God will transform the circumstances. So the great deception of the enemy is to get you to walk by sight instead of by faith. The great answer of God is to resurrect everything around you through faith by going because he said so. So when he tells us to go and make disciples of all nations, a disciple is a person who is learning to become a Christian. [00:24:42] (39 seconds)  #WalkByFaithNotSight