My King: Resurrection Power That Transforms and Saves

But the message I wanna share with us today here for Easter is that if we want to receive that resurrection of Christ, let's stop betting on it on future day and let God go ahead and live in us now. If the gift of God is eternal life, then that is life with no end. Right? Hallelujah. That's not what eternal means. It means a life with no end and no beginning. So why would we go wait to step into that life with God? [00:52:58] (33 seconds)  #ResurrectionNow

How are you sharing the gospel of Christ, the good news of the resurrection? Well, that's not my job, preacher. That's yours. Really? Because when I read Matthew 28, I see some women coming to do the things that other people wouldn't. And they got to the tomb and they found out that Jesus had risen. And so they did not go and get the disciples them to tell everybody. They just went back and started telling everybody the disciples included. [00:54:07] (30 seconds)  #ShareTheGoodNews

They didn't decide they weren't worthy of it. They didn't decide that they didn't know enough. You know, women in Jewish culture were not allowed. It was illegal for a woman to learn theology. A man had to learn it by a certain age. Women could only learn certain things and not others, and so they weren't well educated in what was taking place in. They didn't need to be. No one expected them to be. All they needed to do is go home and say one thing. He is not here. He is risen. [00:54:37] (36 seconds)  #WitnessWithoutLimits

And Jesus was raised from the dead on that morning, that he was to be a first fruit of all of those that would come after him. See, on the feast of first fruit, you would bring your offering into the church, to the temple, and it was a declaration that more was coming. It was the first step you got off the vine and it was a declaration that more was coming later. And so Jesus rises from the dead not just as a sign that he has conquered death and sin, but there's many coming after. That we have that availability to walk in the power that he gave us that we can receive that same resurrection from the dead. Do you want to receive resurrection? [00:40:01] (44 seconds)  #ResurrectionForAll

If you don't know that you know Jesus today, if you don't see a difference in your life because of Jesus in it, then come and let's pray together and let's talk about it. If you do see that, then I and you recognize that Christ has made a difference in your life, then how are you responding to that? How are you engaging with that? I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that my wife has changed my life. That her love in my life has changed my life. Would that matter one bit if I just never came home again? You know? I have to respond to that love, don't I? [00:57:11] (41 seconds)  #RespondToLove

Hopefully, we're all here today because we want to be raised from the dead and and we're often thinking of that in terms of after I die, then I want to be raised from the dead because resurrection implies that something has to die first. Right? Amen. So when our bodies die, Jesus resurrects our bodies, but is that all he does? No. He asked you for another resurrection. He asked you that you would die to yourself daily, that you would take up your cross, your picture of death, that you would die to yourself daily, and that you allow him to resurrect you here and there. [00:40:45] (39 seconds)  #DieToLiveDaily

He uses the water as a picture because in Jewish culture, the water was a picture of chaos. Underneath the water lived all chaos and all evil, and he's using that as a picture of God pulling him out of it. But in order for him to share his faith, his salvation, he had to first admit that he was sinking deep in sin. [00:51:17] (23 seconds)  #FromChaosToGrace

If you've received that, if you know him and you know that you know him today, then I praise God for that. I am so thankful for that. He has changed you in your life. Have you been able to put your finger on some of the examples of ways that God has changed you, has has helped your life turn in a different direction, not by your own attitude adjustments, not by your own course corrections, but God doing the work in your life. If you truly receive salvation, you should be able to articulate that. And then I would ask, who are you sharing that with? [00:53:31] (36 seconds)  #ShareYourChange