Looking for Life in All the Wrong Places

I want you to listen to this. Make no mistake, the ultimate desire in Easter call for every person in this building, for all of us in this world, the Easter message is this, for your life today and forever, is to be in right relationship with Christ because if we're not, we've missed everything. We can have all kinds of money. We can have a nice home. We can drive nice cars. We can do everything in the world. But if we miss this, we miss everything. I am the resurrection of the life. I am the resurrection of life. We don't need to miss him. [01:08:59] (46 seconds)  #RightWithChrist

Yet even now I know that whatever you ask from God he will give. You see the e the essence of the Easter message in a world of pain and suffering is that even now Jesus has always been life and he always will be. Jesus is life. We're looking for life in all the wrong places. You come to Jesus, you found what life is all about. [00:54:04] (27 seconds)  #JesusIsLife

You believe that? I do. I believe that. I believe one day when I get to heaven I'll see my father again and be with him for eternity. I haven't seen My father's been twenty five years. One day I will see my little brother again that I haven't seen since I was a three year old. One day you can fill in the blank. We tell people that all the time, that they can trust him if that's what it is. That even now, God shows up. That that's what the resurrection is all about. Why? Because Jesus holds the reigns over life and death. [00:55:57] (37 seconds)  #JesusOverLifeAndDeath

Jesus wants a relationship with us, a living, breathing relationship with us, that he will abide with us and walk with us. The essence of the resurrection is that Jesus took our sin upon himself. He took upon himself what he did not deserve because he never sinned, therefore he didn't deserve death, hell, and eternal separation from God, from the father. He did not deserve to go to the grave. But because he never sinned, he resurrected and so he can cry out and say, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man come to the father except through me. That is the essence of Easter. [00:57:14] (34 seconds)  #WayTruthLife

That thing that once fed you and you thought you got pleasure out of. You thought that it was it was it. It's no longer it and you know it's not. But some of us are too prideful to admit that what that's not what life's all about. It's not about going back to that same old empty drawer. It's about opening ourself up and realizing we need something so much more we need Jesus. That's the essence of Easter. In the middle of all darkness, in the middle of even in a hospital room, an emergency room, there's hope because there's Jesus. If there's Jesus, there's always hope. There's always life. For he is the resurrection. [01:02:19] (45 seconds)  #HopeInJesus

Some of us need to stop. We need to take an honest look. We need to realize it's not working. There was a time you could drink enough, man, where you you didn't feel anymore, but then that drinking took over you. Maybe it's some other sin. I don't know. A lot of times I see this for me as a teenager, it was pornography. But after a while, it so sears your mind and your heart that you become callous. You don't feel anymore because that drawer is empty. Jesus is life. He's the light of the world. He's the bread of life. He wants to give you life. [01:03:06] (47 seconds)  #ChooseLifeNotAddiction

It's not it's not just because we get new clothes or because it's just a day that we celebrate and get with families. It's much more than that. It is the essence. It is the apex. It is the very top of our of our spiritual life because if the resurrection is not true, Christianity is not true and therefore there is no hope. So don't treat it like it's just some kind of religious, you know, kind of idealism. That's not what it is. It's an actual literal historical event of which Jesus proved that he had he had victory over death. And so because he had victory over death, regardless of what we carry in this place, we have victory over that too. We can celebrate that. That's what the what Easter is all about. [00:57:48] (49 seconds)  #ResurrectionIsReal

When I was a kid, my father used to leave chain in his drawer in the morning until he realized one day that we had discovered his chains drawer and man, we were raiding it every day. And I would go back when I need to go to the store, I'll go get a get a dollars worth of of change, and I get all this. And and then I started noticing that there wasn't there was only 70¢, and there was only 50¢, there were only 20. Then I noticed it dried up completely. It didn't stop me from keep going back to that drawer to see if I could pull something out of the crack or the corner or something or lift something else up. I look in the other drawers, and I found out it was all gone. But I kept going back. Some of you are going back to empty drawers. [01:01:43] (35 seconds)  #EmptyDrawersNoMore