Come Alive
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 4/11/2024Matthew 11:28
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez delivers a powerful Resurrection Sunday message encouraging listeners to move from spiritual deadness to vitality by embracing the new life offered through Jesus Christ.
Key points
- •The resurrection is more than a tradition; it is the cornerstone of faith that validates Christ as a living, active presence who walks and talks with believers today.
- •Jesus invites those who are 'heavy laden' to come to Him for rest, emphasizing that God is not looking for religious performance but for a relationship that offers peace amidst life's stresses.
- •Being 'in Christ' makes one a new creation, meaning past mistakes and sins are discarded by God and should no longer hold the believer hostage to shame.
- •True life is found only in Christ; professional success, material wealth, and physical health cannot substitute for the spiritual vitality that comes from being born into God's kingdom.
- •Just as Jesus called Lazarus by name to exit the tomb, God is specific in His power to resurrect dead situations, hopeless mindsets, and lost dreams in our lives today.
Scripture
Hope
Salvation
Purpose
Restoration
Faith
Life application
This week, identify one 'dead' or hopeless area of your life-whether it be a relationship, a financial burden, or a habit-and consciously surrender it to Christ, asking Him to bring His resurrection power into that specific situation.
Reflection questions
- In what ways have you been trying to 'carry your own load' instead of taking Jesus up on His invitation to give you rest?
- Bishop Fernandez mentioned that 'the old has passed away.' Is there a past sin or failure you are still letting define you today?
- How does the reality of a 'living Savior' change the way you face challenges compared to just following a set of religious rules?
- Lazarus came out of the tomb but still needed to be 'loosed' from his grave clothes; what 'grave clothes' or old mindsets are you still wearing even though you are in Christ?
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Full transcript
0:01[Music]
0:14he won't be he
0:19won't he
0:21[Music]
0:23won he won't
0:28fail he won't
0:32sing it real big he
0:39[Music]
0:45W
0:46[Music]
0:47Hallelujah he won't fail
0:50us and he's our Firm Foundation come on
0:55let's give the Lord another hand of
0:58praise
1:02Hallelujah if you would please remain
1:06standing as we prepare our hearts to
1:09receive on this Resurrection Day what
1:13the Lord has placed in my spirit for
1:17each and every one of you I think the
1:19song is a perfect
1:22song to prepare
1:24us for what he wants us to hear this
1:27morning because at the end of the day
1:30day he will really truly never fail
1:35you
1:37never
1:39never never fail
1:42you so I don't know what condition you
1:44may be in this
1:47morning what kind of a stuff you're
1:50experiencing but let me just introduce
1:52to you a God who will honestly never
1:56fail you father I have prepared myself
2:02you have spoken clearly to
2:06me about what I'm about to deliver to
2:08your
2:09people it is my
2:12hope that they will open their ears and
2:15their
2:16hearts to hear
2:18you that they will just see me as an
2:21instrument a
2:23servant who's bound to speak thus sayith
2:26the
2:27Lord let us leave here
2:30revived
2:32strengthened
2:34empowered to know that you will never
2:37fail
2:38us and then when we are dead in our
2:41trespasses and
2:43sin that there's a way for us to come
2:46alive in
2:48you may you speak to our hearts we pray
2:52and at the end of the day I pray that
2:54those who don't know you as Lord and
2:56Savior will make that important
2:58decision to say yes to you in Jesus
3:02mighty name somebody shout amen please
3:07be
3:08seated in the presence of the
3:12Lord to all of you
3:15including not only the virtual world but
3:18I'm told that there are many people
3:21they're trying to get seated in the
3:23lobby um that's kind of another
3:27overflow so I want to share with you you
3:30on the simple topic Come
3:34Alive come
3:36alive come alive would you do me a favor
3:40just look at the person next to you who
3:42look like they're kind of
3:55dead well that will wake them up that
3:57will wake them up
4:00just look at anybody and say come alive
4:02in Jesus
4:11Christ the significance of the
4:14Resurrection extends far beyond mere
4:19celebration it's in fact the Cornerstone
4:23of the
4:24authenticity of our
4:26faith what we are commemorating in
4:30today validates our message that we
4:35serve a risen savior who is actively
4:40present in the
4:43world his presence actually reassures us
4:48that he's always
4:50near and ready to assist us in times of
4:55need I love the words of the songwriter
4:59that
5:00says I serve a risen savior he's in the
5:04world
5:05today I know that he is
5:08living whatever men may say I see his
5:13hands of Mercy I hear his voice of chair
5:18and just the time I need him he's
5:22always always
5:25there
5:28always
5:30and my friends one of the things I love
5:33about that verse it says he
5:36lives he lives Christ Jesus lives today
5:42here's the good part he walks with
5:47me come on now anybody can express that
5:51he walks with
5:53me and he talks with me along life's
5:57narrow way
6:00because he's living on the inside of us
6:01so the message that this song is sending
6:04is simply this regardless of the
6:06Skeptics and those who don't believe
6:10that God is ever present in the time of
6:13trouble we can say to them there is
6:16truly a risen savior who lives and walks
6:21with us each and every
6:23day that we're not just going through
6:26the
6:27motion that we are Christian you know
6:30how we go to
6:31church he is truly living on the inside
6:36of us and he's walking with us every
6:39single day he's talking with us every
6:43single day the resurrection of Jesus
6:47Christ gives us hope amidst our
6:51transgressions and
6:54sins the resurrection of Christ gives us
6:57hope that no matter what wrong we have
7:00done please catch this no matter what
7:03wrong we have done the resurrection
7:07gives us
7:09hope that he loves
7:12us that he wants to transform Our Lives
7:15no matter what sins you have committed
7:18the
7:19Resurrection comes to give us hope you
7:23see religion will hold you
7:26bound religion will say you're not good
7:29good enough but when it comes to God our
7:33hope is in him and when your hope is in
7:37him you will find rest in
7:41him that's why for many of us we're not
7:45bothered by
7:46life oh do we have issues absolutely but
7:50we're not bothered by life because we
7:52have found a resting place in him can I
7:57be honest with you if if if some of us
8:00will begin to share our testimony of
8:03what we are going through not what we've
8:05been through the past is the past I'm
8:08talking about what we're going through
8:10right now you would ask us how comes you
8:13don't show it how comes you don't look
8:15at look at your neighbor and say you
8:17don't look what you like what you've
8:18been through you don't look like what
8:21you've been through why it's the grace
8:25of God somehow God's Grace has kept you
8:30he has kept
8:34you you see we have hope that in him we
8:38can find this rest in place for those of
8:41you are
8:42restless you can find Hope in him in
8:46Matthew 11:28 Jesus tells us are you
8:50ready for this he says come to me come
8:54to me come come to me he he didn't say
8:57go to the government he didn't say go to
8:59a system he didn't say go to your best
9:01friend he didn't say go to people come
9:03on go to the systems of the world he
9:05didn't say look to your own resources he
9:07says come to me watch this all you who
9:11are labor and heavy laden and I will
9:15give you rest the word Laden means
9:19heavily loaded or weighed down so when
9:23when you are dealing with the issues of
9:25Life Jesus says come to
9:28me my yoke is
9:30easy I'll get you through
9:34life properly I'll get you through life
9:37without stress I'll get you through that
9:40situation if you come to me so the
9:44resurrection my friends of Jesus also
9:48signifies that through God we can
9:51experience a spiritual renewal and
9:55vitality in Christ that we can come
9:58alive in him
10:00today you may find yourself in a dark
10:03place faced with
10:05hopelessness but let me reassure you
10:08that serving Jesus Christ brings a level
10:12of hope that is
10:16unexplainable
10:18unexplainable a level of hope that I
10:22don't care what you're going through
10:25that he is the
10:26answer that he can fix your problem
10:30he can love you like
10:32nobody else
10:36can he will comfort you he'll give you
10:39peace in the midst of the
10:42storm most of you would agree with me
10:46when I say your life is due a
10:52resurrection your life is due a
10:55resurrection cuz you you are dead to the
10:59realities of life you are dead to hope
11:02you have no peace no joy you're walking
11:05around town just
11:08hopeless though you're living you have
11:11already thrown in the
11:13towel you've lost hope in
11:16yourself you have lost hope that that
11:19somehow your life can turn around for
11:21the better you have lost hope in
11:24believing that God can change your
11:26family you've lost hope that God can
11:28change your finances and change your
11:30life and change your career and change
11:33everything about you you have lost hope
11:35I am here today to tell you your life is
11:38due a resurrection and it can happen
11:42this day you can come alive in Jesus
11:45Christ and he can change it just like
11:49that and this is true because you need
11:52to come alive from your hopelessness
11:55your fear your doubts and your
11:58unfruitfulness
12:00how long are you going to stay in
12:03depression how long are you just going
12:05to dress up with makeup and your hair
12:09and the suits you wear how long are you
12:12going to pretend to people that you're
12:15happy when deep on the inside you're
12:19miserable how long are you going to
12:21pretend as if you've got it all
12:24together when you're just a moment away
12:28from everything falling
12:30apart you can come alive today I'm not
12:34introducing you to religion I'm not
12:36introducing you to a man forget about me
12:39I'm the pastor of this church for 33
12:41years and I love it but it's not about
12:44this God I'm introducing you to a man
12:47who has kept my mind in perfect peace
12:51for 33
12:55years and I know there's somebody in
12:57your roow who can and tell you he kept
13:00my mind too would you just look down
13:03your row and say yeah he kept me
13:07too I could have lost it in fact I
13:11almost lost it but somehow he turned
13:14things
13:16around woo glory to
13:18[Applause]
13:23God perhaps you are currently perceiving
13:25your
13:26circumstances as irreparable
13:29or unchangeable can't be
13:33repaired uh can't
13:36change my hopelessness can't change my
13:40fears and my doubts that's the way I'm
13:42going to die that's a lie maybe you're
13:45believing that you are forever
13:49lost without hope of a positive
13:51turnaround in your
13:53life but let me urge you today to take
13:57advantage right now right now somebody
13:59say right now right now of the
14:01opportunity to experience watch this new
14:05life in Jesus
14:08Christ The Gospel is simple my
14:11friends the gospel is really simple can
14:14I be honest with you it is we preachers
14:17who make it so
14:19complicated it's we Christians who make
14:22the gospel so
14:23complicated we preach it in a way trying
14:26to force people or convince people to
14:28serve our God and we add all the fluffs
14:31to it and we do all those things which
14:34I'm not knocking that but the gospel is
14:37literally
14:39simple he can turn every dead situation
14:43in your life life and bring it to life
14:47it's very
14:48simple God's not desperate he's not
14:51forcing anybody to accept
14:54him God doesn't have low
14:57self-esteem he's not
15:00needy he's not
15:03needy don't get this Twisted don't ever
15:06think for a moment that you're Gathering
15:09here today or if you do it on a weekly
15:11basis that you're doing it because he
15:14needs
15:17it you better do it for you cuz you need
15:22it I need
15:24it I need God in my life I have to have
15:29him in my life I need him to walk with
15:33me and talk with me I need him to show
15:36me the way I need him to support me when
15:38I feel like everything is falling apart
15:41I need him to put a lock on my mouth
15:44when I just want to go off I don't I I
15:46don't know I don't know who I'm talking
15:48I need somebody shout I need
15:52him I need him every single day of my
15:58life
16:00I can't do without
16:02him I'm obsessed with him I need
16:05him so you and I need to understand this
16:09that no matter how hopeless you
16:12feel I want you to take advantage of
16:16this experience this new life in Jesus
16:20Christ second Corinthians chapter 5
16:23verse1 17 Paul makes this bold statement
16:26he says therefore watch this therefore
16:30If any man is in
16:33Christ he's a new
16:36creation If any man is in Christ he's a
16:41new creation he didn't
16:44say If any man watch this would come to
16:49Jesus Christ then all the stuff he used
16:52to do before that is held against
16:56you
16:57no what Paul is saying if any man is in
17:01Christ he's a new creation watch this
17:04now and I love the second part of the
17:05verse the old has passed away passed
17:09away passed away the old is gone and
17:13then he says the new has come see the
17:15hope that Jesus gives to us now some of
17:18you not going to like this but boy every
17:19time I get up every morning I think
17:21about this man I love it cuz what Paul
17:23is saying that if you're in Christ Jesus
17:26all the stupid crazy is stuff you
17:30did in the past it's
17:37gone y'all didn't get that you just
17:40didn't get it man he said the old is
17:44gone in other words he takes our sins
17:47and he throws it into the sea of
17:49forgetfulness that's why I do not let
17:52people especially church people try to
17:55remind me of my
17:57past
18:00come on
18:02now when God forgives you it is done
18:05with and you ought to sit in this temper
18:08today realizing that God has forgiven
18:11you and all of your past is behind
18:15you because that's what Paul says the
18:18Apostle Paul introduced us to a
18:21transformative concept that says a life
18:23renewed in Jesus Christ offers a fresh
18:27perspective and a new way of living a
18:31new way to say it is in him I live and
18:34move and exist so listen to me you don't
18:39have to live life
18:41depressed feeling lost or feeling lonely
18:45or being uncertain of your
18:48future Jesus Christ offers you the life
18:52to the full until it
18:56overflows he gives you this life
18:59that gives you the energy to survive the
19:03storms of life because it's not if it is
19:07when the storm
19:09comes who do you have on the inside of
19:12you for you to stand up against those
19:17storms so my friends to come alive in
19:21Jesus Christ one must admit that they
19:24are bound to
19:27sin and dis disobeying God's laws to
19:32accept this new life you can't just jump
19:34in oh I want I want to enjoy all the
19:37benefits of what God has for me you
19:38can't just jump in like some people you
19:41invite them to your house and all of a
19:42sudden they go to the
19:45kitchen opening your refrigerator your
19:48refrigerator without permission I don't
19:51know you like
19:53that you can't come in God's kingdom I
19:56want this I want that no no no no no you
19:59you have to truly be born into the
20:04kingdom and when you're born into the
20:06kingdom he'll give you
20:10Keys when you become a son and a
20:13daughter of the most high God he gives
20:15you
20:16Keys you see I have two boys I have two
20:19boys and both of them have their own
20:21keys to my house when they pull up to my
20:24house they don't have to well should I
20:26go in and when they enter into my my
20:28house they're free to go eat anything
20:33out of the refrigerator they're free to
20:35go into the pantry and other words
20:37they're in my house my boys can go up in
20:40any room in my house cuz they are my
20:44boys they belong to me their bloodline
20:48is connected to my blood those are my
20:51boys but if you come up in my
20:57house
20:59and you try to use a key that I never
21:01gave
21:02you that's called force entry I'm
21:06calling the popo on
21:08[Applause]
21:11you you can't force your way into God's
21:15kingdom if you're born into the kingdom
21:18you're Sons and Daughters of the most
21:20high God so therefore watch this
21:22therefore you have full
21:25[Applause]
21:27access you can come taste and
21:32seeo that God is good and his mercies
21:37endure forever so you need to ask Jesus
21:41to be Lord of your
21:43life you see the real purpose of Jesus
21:46coming to the Earth was all about
21:49reconnecting us to the
21:52original will of God for our
21:57lives that was a
22:00purpose remember what John 3:16 tells
22:03us it's a very famous passage of
22:07scripture it tells us for God watch this
22:10so
22:12loved the world he never said for so for
22:17God so Lov the Pharisees and the
22:20Sadducees or the
22:23priest or my followers or for God so
22:27loved the disciples
22:30come on Focus now he never said for God
22:32so Lov the
22:34disciples somehow we church people think
22:38God only loves
22:41[Applause]
22:43us and that's why the unchurch sometimes
22:47find it very difficult watch this to
22:49come into a place where we say God is
22:53love but yet we
22:57discriminate
22:58[Applause]
23:02he says for God so loved the world words
23:05of Jesus here he said that he gave his
23:10only
23:12son gave his only son that whosoever
23:15believes in Him should not perish but
23:19come
23:20alive have eternal life in him so if you
23:24are happppy with your
23:26life and you're seeking a better way to
23:29live your life let me offer you this
23:32amazing opportunity today to
23:35experience the Faith
23:38Life the Faith
23:40Life this life that says it's all by
23:44faith the just should live by faith
23:47faith simply means that you need a
23:50higher power to help you figure things
23:53out faith is never needed in perfection
23:59faith is never needed when everything is
24:02all
24:04together faith is only needed when
24:07there's
24:09chaos
24:11dysfunction when nothing makes
24:13sense so if you come to him this morning
24:17and you give him your life you can live
24:20this Faith Life where you really don't
24:23know where you're going how you're going
24:26to make it but faith in God will help
24:31you to make those moves every single day
24:36it's called The Faith Life that 5 years
24:39from now you can be a living testimony
24:41to people to say now Look What the Lord
24:43Has Done in my life it is marvelous in
24:47my
24:48eyes and you too can experience the same
24:52God so if you're
24:54unhappy I encourage you to seek the
24:56better life the Faith Life and let me be
24:58clear to you this morning if you're not
25:01living your life in Jesus Christ you are
25:04not living the good
25:08life I don't care how attractive you
25:10look this
25:11morning I don't care how handsome you
25:14look I don't care what clothes you're
25:15wearing I don't care how educated you
25:18are I don't care the car you got in the
25:21parking lot I really don't care what
25:23house you live in it doesn't matter to
25:25me how much money you have in your bank
25:29account I'm telling you here this
25:33morning that if you do not have Jesus
25:39Christ Living on the inside of you you
25:42are dead to your trespasses in
25:46sins simple as
25:48that and perhaps you will disagree with
25:51me because you're enjoying the pledges
25:53of the
25:54world therefore you have
25:57concluded that you're living the good
25:59life you're living the good
26:02life you got a lot to show for
26:05it look at you you're looking
26:09good you look
26:11happy after all look at the house you're
26:14going back to this
26:17afternoon some of you are streaming
26:19you're fine you're great you've got nice
26:22jobs some of you know your direct
26:24deposit is going to come this week look
26:28at
26:29you man you're living it
26:32up you look
26:34blessed and why do I need God what I
26:38need Church why do I need to read my
26:40Bible every day why do I need to pray
26:43why do I need to do all these things cuz
26:45I'm I'm
26:47good I'm
26:49[Laughter]
26:50good here's the truth want me to give
26:53you a little bit of wisdom this morning
26:56Solomon said in Proverbs 14 12 oh this
26:59going to shake you up he said there's a
27:01way that seems
27:04right to a
27:06man seems
27:08right oh it feels
27:12right I'm fine I don't need to do all
27:15that stuff in other words I can make God
27:18who I want him to
27:20be I'm going to rewrite the Bible I
27:22don't need church I don't need a pastor
27:24I don't need this I don't listen God
27:26know here's a big one he knows my
27:32heart he knows my heart but there's a
27:35way that seems right to a man but its
27:39end is the way of watch this
27:42death
27:44death why do you think Jesus went to the
27:46Cross to conquer death and the
27:49grave so that all of us might find life
27:53in him in fact Jesus said in John 10:10
27:58and he came that we might have life to
28:02the
28:03full until it
28:07overflows this is why I'm encouraging
28:09you today to come alive in Jesus Christ
28:12regardless of the challenges of life if
28:15you turn to the resurrected Christ I
28:18firmly believe that he will cause you to
28:20experience life to the
28:23full to truly achieve a meaningful
28:29and fulfilling life I want to encourage
28:31you to direct your complete Focus
28:34towards the individual who has a proven
28:39track
28:40record of resurrecting the dead and his
28:44name is
28:46Jesus Jesus is so awesome man because
28:50before his resurrection watch this
28:52before his
28:53resurrection he went to a guy's house by
28:56the way his sisters called and said hey
28:59he's dead Lazarus is dead and and could
29:02you come cuz we know you're a Healer you
29:03see they knew watch this they knew that
29:07Jesus had the ability watch that to heal
29:10him but maybe not
29:13necessarily rais him from the dead they
29:16didn't ask Jesus to come to raise
29:18Lazarus from the dead the first message
29:21was come see about your
29:24friend
29:26come and the Bible said Jesus didn't
29:29rush to go see him like us how many
29:33times we have prayed hey Jesus Come See
29:37About Me come I need you now I need your
29:42power don't wait until I lose it all
29:45don't wait until I'm in a dreadful
29:48situation don't wait until things are
29:51dead if you're going to do something do
29:54it when I'm
29:57alive
29:59so they
30:00thought
30:01okay I guess he didn't really cared
30:04about Lazarus that much kind of like us
30:07when God doesn't give us what we want
30:09when we want
30:10it we have concluded he doesn't love us
30:14he doesn't care so when Jesus showed up
30:16the sisters had a little attitude you
30:19know women you know when women tell men
30:21to do stuff and we don't do it on time
30:23come on you know the attitude we
30:26get
30:28you know if you were here a long time
30:30ago you know my brother wouldn't have
30:34died and Jesus said cuz watch this you
30:38have to
30:39remember in just a few days he was going
30:43to go to the Grave
30:46himself and he knew he told them long
30:49time in three days I'm going to get
30:51up so you think death bothered him you
30:56think your situation that you have
30:59rendered dead do you think that that
31:01bothers do you think that God is moved
31:03because things are not moving the way
31:05you want it to move when you want it to
31:08move I promise you when the Yeshua shows
31:12up in your life he will change
31:18everything they fail to
31:22understand that their timing is not
31:24God's timing the important thing is for
31:27him to show up
31:28up if he can show up in your life oh
31:31he'll raise every dead situation and
31:34bring it back to
31:37life so when he went to the
31:41Grave this is how bad he is man so
31:44that's why when when he got into the
31:46grave he wasn't
31:49worried because resurrection power was
31:52in him before he
31:55died I got to say it again resurrection
31:59power was in Jesus before he died so he
32:02wasn't worried about what was to come he
32:06was dealing with a crisis Lazarus was
32:08there and he went to the tomb of Lazarus
32:11and I love how Jesus walked up in
32:14confidence and he says please pull that
32:17stone away remove it it was a rehearsal
32:21for what was to
32:23come ah y'all didn't hear that it was a
32:26rehearsal he knew what he was doing and
32:30when they pushed the stone
32:32away I love
32:34it Jesus stood on the
32:37outside and I'm so glad he never said
32:41let the dead come forth how do he say
32:45that he had enough power to raise up
32:49every dead person in that
32:54Cemetery he was specific he knew knew
32:58who he was going after he was not going
33:01after every dead
33:03person he was going after one man named
33:06Lazarus and he stood outside of the Tomb
33:09and he says
33:12Lazarus come
33:16forth and the
33:18moment he made the command Lazarus come
33:21forth all of a
33:24sudden dead man walking out and he came
33:28out the Bible says bound and I'm so glad
33:32that when he came out Jesus said now
33:34untie him loose him loose him baby let
33:38me tell you something when God calls
33:41your name and call your situation he
33:44will untie every situation that has held
33:48you
33:53captive he not only wants you to come
33:56from that dead situation
33:58but he wants to loose
34:00you would you lay your hands on somebody
34:03and say I loose you in the name of
34:06Jesus Oh I loose you I loose you I loose
34:09you in this place to become all that God
34:12has ordained you to be I loose you to
34:15become your best self in
34:17[Applause]
34:22God so in the face of life's
34:26challenges the relent less
34:29efforts of the devil to deceive you the
34:33resurrection serves as a Beacon of Hope
34:35please hear this reminding us that we
34:40are not alone in our
34:42struggles it is The Testament of the
34:45power of faith and the unweaving
34:49love of Jesus
34:52Christ so despite the obstacles and
34:55temptations that may tried to distract
34:59us the resurrection of Jesus
35:03Christ encourages us to stand firm in
35:06our faith and walk confidently on the
35:10path that leads to righteousness so I
35:14conclude today's message with
35:17this I want to encourage you to embrace
35:20Jesus
35:21Christ watch this as your only
35:25hope please hear me
35:28Embrace him this
35:30morning as your only
35:33hope you can come alive in Jesus Christ
35:36if his Spirit lives on the inside of you
35:40because it is in him
35:45you you
35:48live Every Breath You
35:50Take every step you
35:53take it is because of
35:56him and the fact that you woke up this
36:01morning and you
36:06inhal and your heart is
36:10[Applause]
36:14beating it's
36:18beating I promise
36:20you as your heart is beaten you still
36:24have an
36:26opportunity you still have an
36:29opportunity you still have an
36:30opportunity to come in
36:33him because as that heart is beaten it's
36:36a
36:37reminder that he loves
36:39you it's a reminder that though you are
36:43dead in your trespasses and sin if you
36:46say to him Lord I
36:48Surrender while the heart is still
36:52beaten then you have
36:54hope because I know what some of you are
36:57doing
36:58you are thinking you've got it all
37:01together and you're rushing and you're
37:03doing your thing like some of you
37:04walking out
37:08now and you think you've got it all
37:12together and I got to rush into the
37:14parking lot cuz I don't really need this
37:18moment I'm telling
37:21you one
37:23day
37:26this it's going to
37:31stop it's going to
37:33[Applause]
37:37stop and your
37:40presence will no longer
37:43exist on the
37:46earth and if you're not alive in Jesus
37:51Christ if you don't live up to what Paul
37:54said in Romans 8 ver1
37:58he says if the spirit of the one who
38:01raised
38:03Jesus from the dead lives in you the one
38:08who raised Christ from the dead watch
38:10this will give you life to your human
38:14bodies give you
38:18life through his
38:20spirit that lives in you would you bow
38:22your
38:23[Music]
38:26heads it was just
38:30yesterday I stood right on this
38:34pulpit and there was a casket right in
38:37front of
38:40me a
38:42[Music]
38:43man experienced
38:46death cuz his
38:48heart
38:52stopped and I reminded the
38:55people what Eccles eastes 3 says there's
38:59a time for
39:02everything time to be
39:05born and a time to
39:09die we're all going to die I told
39:14them
39:16oh your body is going to be laid down in
39:20a bed hospital car wck I don't know how
39:22you're going to die but your spirit is
39:25going to leave your body
39:28and I would hope this
39:30morning that you will not close
39:33Resurrection
39:35Sunday living but spiritually
39:41dead that you will say yes to
39:44him you would give him your life and
39:48Trust the process that he'll give you
39:50the wisdom how to live your life after
39:54your
39:56confession he's a keeper he'll keep you
40:00if you trust
40:02him I'm going to invite you for those of
40:04you who don't know him as Lord and
40:06Savior to Simply say the sinners prayer
40:08listen to come to him you don't have to
40:10do any works the Bible says it's not of
40:12works that anybody should boast you
40:14don't have to literally work yourself to
40:16be
40:17forgiven just
40:19confess Lord I I don't know how to do
40:23this man I don't know how to do life
40:27without
40:28you I'm sorry for disappointing you I'm
40:31sorry for making bad decisions I'm I'm
40:34sorry for acting as if I don't really
40:36need you I'm sorry for not reverencing
40:40you I'm really sorry I give reverence to
40:43everybody
40:45else but I don't give reverence to you
40:49and because of that I display that in
40:50all walks of life even when I come to
40:52church I disrespect
40:55you if you turn your life over to him I
40:58promise you you'll come alive in him the
41:02Bible says you confess with your mouth
41:04and you believe in your heart then after
41:06you do that go to
41:08church some of you are streaming I know
41:11you can't be here because of where you
41:12live that's okay but if you're in the
41:14area you cannot
41:17survive by dating God
41:21virtually you
41:24can't that's why he says enter into his
41:26Gates Thanksgiving is quot with praise
41:29don't neglect or forsake the assembling
41:33of the Saints so after you have gone
41:36through seven days each
41:39week and you've given your boss or your
41:42place of employment all these
41:44hours you've been to the movie nothing
41:47wrong with you going to the movies oh
41:49you go to dinners
41:52and after you've done all of
41:56that why do you find it so difficult to
41:59give God two hours once a
42:06week doesn't he deserve
42:09that I mean two
42:12hours doesn't he deserve
42:16that go to church read your Bible stay
42:20away from toxic people in toxic
42:22environment and I promise you you will
42:25grow in your faith if that's you while
42:26our Edge bowed and eyes are closed I
42:29want to lead you in the sinner's prayer
42:31would you say Lord Jesus Lord Jesus I am
42:34a
42:35sinner I Repent of my sins
42:38today I embrace the free gift of
42:41Salvation
42:43I and I declare that I'm born
42:46again in Jesus
42:48name father I thank you for their
42:50confession
42:53today thank
42:54you that you spoke to us
42:58about coming alive in
43:01you I've done my
43:06job now the word has been planted in the
43:09hearts of your people it's really up to
43:11us to believe and to respond as we leave
43:15this place to go into the
43:18marketplace let us be the Salt and
43:22Light to go and tell people of our
43:25experience with you how how you have
43:27resurrected every dead are of Our
43:30Lives how you have brought
43:32life to who we
43:35are that without you we're lost we're
43:38nothing and how we love to
43:41fellowship with our brothers and our
43:44sisters that even when we fall and we
43:47fumble you're so gracious to forgive us
43:50and bring us back into right standing
43:53with you help us to be true agents who
43:56will go and share our faith and forgive
43:59us of our sins forgive us of our
44:03unwillingness to do what you've called
44:05us to do I
44:07pray that God somehow every one of us
44:11whether they're watching virtually or on
44:14campus will become the light as we leave
44:18this place
44:20today let's all stand and father as your
44:24people are
44:26standing as they're
44:28standing thank
44:31you thank
44:33you for the
44:35cross thank you for the blood of
44:38Jesus thank you for Resurrection
44:42Day we leave here today knowing that
44:46we're in Christ and Christ
44:49alone and as we return on Wednesday to
44:53study your word we pray your blessings
44:57will be upon
44:58us we make this our weekly confession
45:02cuz we know there going to be mountains
45:04out there this
45:06week but
45:07because we believe in you we declare it
45:12that
45:12Faith In Our God will always move
45:18mountains out of our lives in Jesus name
45:22amen come on let's give God a praise
45:24thanks for coming everybody today we'll
45:27see you on Wednesday if not next Sunday
45:30God bless you Happy Resurrection day God
45:33bless you we love you have a great day