WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.006 (MUSIC) 00:07.006 --> 00:13.012 COME ON, LET'S GIVE HIM HONOR ON THIS RESURRECTION SUNDAY. OUR 00:13.012 --> 00:16.515 KING IS ALIVE. COME ON, SOMEBODY GIVE HIM A SHOUT THIS MORNING. 00:16.515 --> 00:30.530 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 01:50.109 --> 01:54.447 (MUSIC) 01:54.447 --> 01:59.953 HE IS ALIVE. YESHUA, YOU ARE ALIVE! WE WORSHIP YOU. 01:59.953 --> 02:03.385 LET'S JUST GIVE JESUS, OUR RISEN SAVIOR AND 02:03.390 --> 02:08.370 KING, LET'S GIVE HIM PRAISE. HALLELUJAH! JESUS, YOU ARE ALIVE 02:08.370 --> 02:14.129 AND WE HONOR YOU, WE BLESS YOU. AND WE THANK YOU TODAY, JESUS. 02:14.129 --> 02:18.750 YES, LORD. THAT YOU ENDURED THE CROSS FOR US. YES. AND YOU'RE 02:18.750 --> 02:25.560 ALIVE TODAY, SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, YOUR GOD, OUR GOD, 02:25.560 --> 02:30.930 YOUR FATHER, OUR FATHER. AND WE CELEBRATE YOU, AND WE WANT TO 02:30.930 --> 02:36.629 LET YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE RIGHT HERE IN THE EARTH, 02:36.629 --> 02:45.659 IN THIS PLACE, THAT REMEMBERS, THAT HONORS, AND LOVES YOU VERY, 02:45.659 --> 02:50.069 VERY MUCH. AND IF YOU LOVE YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD, 02:50.069 --> 02:53.506 COME ON, JUST GIVE HIM ONE MORE ROUND OF APPLAUSE. HALLELUJAH! 02:53.506 --> 02:54.841 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 02:54.841 --> 03:03.182 PRAISE THE LORD. WELL, GOOD MORNING, RESURRECTION SUNDAY TO 03:03.182 --> 03:08.245 EVERYBODY. HOW ARE YOU DOING? I STILL DON'T HEAR ANYTHING FROM 03:08.250 --> 03:16.500 THIS SECTION TODAY. WOW, BOB, LOOK AT THIS GUY. I LOVE IT. DID 03:16.500 --> 03:21.389 YOU GUYS SEE BOB? LOOK AT BOB, 'CAUSE LOOK AT THAT. THAT WAS, 03:21.389 --> 03:27.180 YOU'RE REWEARING WHAT YOU WORE FOR YOUR WEDDING. I'VE KNOWN BOB 03:27.180 --> 03:31.020 40 YEARS, I CAN SAY THAT. YOU LOOK SHARP, THAT'S THE TRUTH. 03:31.020 --> 03:34.620 AND I'M JUST MESSING WITH YOU, 'CAUSE I CAN, 'CAUSE, BUT YOU 03:34.620 --> 03:38.939 LOOK SHARP. AND DOESN'T HE LOOK SHARP? LET ME LOOK AROUND, I 03:38.939 --> 03:42.896 JUST LOVE, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT OUTFITS AND THINGS LIKE THAT ON 03:42.896 --> 03:48.120 THIS SPECIAL DAY. AMAZING. ALL RIGHT, WELL HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE 03:48.120 --> 03:52.889 BIG PLANS FOR LUNCH TODAY? ANYBODY WITH BIG PLANS? LET ME 03:52.889 --> 03:58.050 SEE IF YOU HAVE BIG PLANS TODAY. HAM, TURKEY, HAM, HAM, TURKEY, 03:58.050 --> 04:05.939 LAMB, STEAK, SPAGHETTI. OK. ANYWAY, I WANT TO DO THIS. I 04:05.939 --> 04:09.120 WANT TO WELCOME ALL OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD. 04:09.120 --> 04:17.670 JESUS IS ALIVE. AMEN. AND LET US KNOW WHERE YOU'RE WATCHING. WE 04:17.670 --> 04:23.399 ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, THE SUN CAME UP TODAY. YES. IT WAS SO 04:23.399 --> 04:28.680 BEAUTIFUL. AND WE WENT BY SOME WATER AND YOU COULD JUST SEE THE 04:28.680 --> 04:32.189 BEAUTIFUL SUN. SO LET US KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE WHERE YOU'RE AT. 04:32.189 --> 04:34.889 AND IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT, GREAT SERVICE. BY THE WAY, I'VE 04:34.889 --> 04:38.730 GOT A GREAT WORD. I'M EXCITED. YEAH. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT GREAT 04:38.730 --> 04:43.920 THINGS. SO I'M PUMPED ABOUT IT. WELL, I WAS KIND OF, AS I WAS 04:43.920 --> 04:46.829 STUDYING FOR TODAY'S MESSAGE, IT WAS KIND OF INTERESTING WHERE 04:46.829 --> 04:51.029 HOW MANY TIMES I NOTICED, WHETHER IT WAS THE GARDEN OF 04:51.029 --> 04:55.589 GETHSEMANE LEADING UP TO THE TIME OF THE CROSS, AND THEN THAT 04:55.589 --> 05:01.468 WAITING PERIOD FROM THE CROSS UNTIL THE STONE WAS ROLLED AWAY. 05:01.468 --> 05:06.120 IT WAS A LOT OF WAITING. AND SO I STARTED LOOKING AT IT GOING, 05:06.120 --> 05:10.470 WOW, THIS IS THINGS THAT I'VE EXPERIENCED IN WAITING. I TOLD 05:10.470 --> 05:13.410 YOU THAT WAS ONE OF THE WORDS I HATE WAS WAIT. AND THEN I 05:13.410 --> 05:16.470 STARTED LOOKING AT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT AND HOW THEY 05:16.470 --> 05:20.430 REACTED. AND I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT? THOSE ARE GOOD LESSONS IN 05:20.430 --> 05:23.459 LIFE TO REMEMBER. HOW MANY OF YOU HERE AND THOSE OF YOU THAT 05:23.459 --> 05:26.220 ARE WATCHING, I'M GONNA SAY THIS, YOU FEEL LIKE THERE'S 05:26.220 --> 05:29.610 SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE WAITING FOR. RAISE YOUR HAND, LOOK AT 05:29.610 --> 05:32.009 THIS. AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, JUST PUT YOUR HAND UP 05:32.009 --> 05:35.759 SO I KIND OF KNOW THAT YOU'RE WITH US. I THINK YOU'RE GONNA BE 05:35.759 --> 05:40.110 ENCOURAGED BY TODAY'S MESSAGE. BECAUSE HERE'S THE THING, AT THE 05:40.110 --> 05:43.829 END OF THE DAY, THE WAITING WAS OVER AND SOMETHING POWERFUL 05:43.829 --> 05:47.509 EMERGED. AMEN? THAT'S AWESOME, I LOVE IT. JESUS, THAT'S WHAT 05:47.509 --> 05:49.920 WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT. ALL RIGHT, WELL LASTLY, BEFORE WE 05:49.920 --> 05:53.069 WORSHIP, LOOK AT THIS, THIS IS GORGEOUS. ISN'T THAT BEAUTIFUL? 05:53.069 --> 05:57.000 WOW, THEY DID A GREAT JOB. THAT IS SO, SO BEAUTIFUL. WELL, I 05:57.000 --> 05:59.879 GOTTA TELL YOU THIS. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE NOTICED ALL THE TRAFFIC 05:59.879 --> 06:05.009 LATELY AROUND THE CITY? ANYBODY NOTICE THE INCREASE OF TRAFFIC? 06:05.009 --> 06:07.949 SOME OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING NO, I HAVEN'T. IT'S ALWAYS BAD. 06:07.949 --> 06:11.339 REALLY? SOME OF YOU ARE LIKE IN DALLAS AND NEW YORK AND STUFF 06:11.339 --> 06:14.279 LIKE THAT. YEAH, RIGHT. WE ALL KNOW WHAT TRAFFIC IS HERE. SO 06:14.279 --> 06:21.449 I'VE DECIDED SOMETHING WITH ALL THE TRAFFIC. BRENDA, I'M GONNA 06:21.449 --> 06:26.550 GET ME A GUITAR. UH-OH. YEP. YEP, WE'RE GONNA GET ME A 06:26.550 --> 06:29.819 GUITAR. ALL YOU GUITARISTS, I'M GONNA GET A GUITAR. I'M GONNA 06:29.819 --> 06:35.711 LEAVE IT IN THE CAR. AND THAT WAY, WHEN THERE IS TRAFFIC, I 06:35.711 --> 06:38.194 LEAVE MY GUITAR THERE FOR TRAFFIC JAMS. 06:38.194 --> 06:41.567 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 06:41.567 --> 06:45.060 OKAY. ALL RIGHT, WE'LL GIVE YOU THAT ONE. THAT'S A GOOD 06:45.060 --> 06:51.000 RESURRECTION SUNDAY CLAP. HOW MANY OF YOU KNEW I WAS SETTING 06:51.000 --> 06:54.660 YOU UP? YES, WE DID. WE KNEW IT. ALL RIGHT, I THINK IT'S A GOOD 06:54.660 --> 06:58.692 TIME TO LISTEN TO THEM AND NOT ME. LET'S DO IT. ALL RIGHT, ARE 06:58.692 --> 07:01.470 YOU EXCITED TO BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD RESURRECTION 07:01.470 --> 07:07.379 WEEKEND? HALLELUJAH, COME ON. I BELIEVE THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY. 07:07.379 --> 07:10.889 YOU KNOW, I WAS THINKING ABOUT, YOU'VE TOUCHED ON THIS BEFORE, 07:10.889 --> 07:15.750 ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE SO MUCH DISHONOR TO 07:15.750 --> 07:20.519 GOD HAS EMERGED. BUT I JUST SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? I WANT TODAY TO 07:20.519 --> 07:27.000 BE A DAY WHERE THE RESURRECTED LORD HEARS THE PRAISES AND THE 07:27.000 --> 07:31.019 HONOR IN A WORLD THAT MUCH DISHONORS HIM. LET'S LIFT UP OUR 07:31.019 --> 07:35.850 BEST PRAISE TODAY. LET'S HONOR THE LORD JESUS. AMEN, ARE YOU 07:35.850 --> 07:40.019 READY FOR THAT? ALL RIGHT, THROW YOUR HANDS TO HEAVEN. SAY, LORD 07:40.019 --> 07:43.629 JESUS. LORD JESUS. YOU'RE ALIVE. YOU'RE ALIVE. AND YOU'RE ON THE 07:43.629 --> 07:46.800 THRONE. YOU'RE ON THE THRONE. YOU'RE THE KING OF KINGS. YOU'RE 07:46.800 --> 07:51.137 THE KING OF KINGS. YOU'RE THE LORD OF LORDS. AND SO I HONOR 07:51.137 --> 07:56.810 YOU TODAY. I PRAISE YOU TODAY. AND LORD, ON THIS RESURRECTION 07:56.810 --> 08:02.815 DAY, I PROMISE TO GIVE YOU, COME ON, MY VERY 08:02.815 --> 08:06.319 BEST PRAISE. LET'S WORSHIP HIM THIS MORNING. 08:06.319 --> 08:10.156 (CONGREGATION CHEERING) 08:10.156 --> 08:30.509 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 09:23.062 --> 09:36.408 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 13:23.139 --> 13:32.979 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 16:07.299 --> 23:05.719 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 26:28.951 --> 27:12.632 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 27:12.632 --> 27:16.380 JUST KEEP WORSHIPPING HIM ON THE INSTRUMENTS. WE WORSHIP YOU. 27:16.380 --> 27:19.859 COME ON, THE GREATEST INSTRUMENT YOU HAVE IS YOUR HEART AND YOUR 27:19.859 --> 27:24.930 MOUTH CONNECTED. COME ON, JUST WORSHIP HIM ALL OVER THE WORLD. 27:24.930 --> 27:29.579 LET OUR RISEN KING AND RISEN SAVIOR KNOW FROM YOUR HEART, 27:29.579 --> 27:36.000 YOUR MOUTH, HOW MUCH YOU HONOR HIM AND LOVE HIM. AND YOU'RE SO 27:36.000 --> 27:42.847 GRATEFUL FOR HIS SACRIFICE. WE HONOR YOU, WE WORSHIP YOU, WE 27:42.847 --> 27:53.279 ARE SO GRATEFUL. LORD, HOW WE LOVE YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE 27:53.279 --> 28:03.450 WORSHIP YOU. LORD, IN THIS MOMENT, WE STAND IN AWE AND IN 28:03.450 --> 28:12.839 AMAZEMENT OF OUR LIVING GOD. IN THIS DAY, I PRAY AS WE PRESENT 28:12.839 --> 28:20.849 OUR HEARTS AFRESH, OUR LIVES AFRESH, IN SURRENDER, 28:20.849 --> 28:28.710 SUBMISSION, HONOR, OBEDIENCE, SACRIFICE. WE GIVE OUR HEARTS 28:28.710 --> 28:35.214 AND OUR LIVES TO YOU AFRESH. THAT YOU WOULD BE GLORIFIED, 28:35.214 --> 28:38.880 THAT YOU WOULD BE HONORED, AND THAT GOD YOU WOULD TAKE OUR 28:38.880 --> 28:44.250 HEARTS AND OUR LIVES AND YOU WOULD DO SOMETHING SPECIAL WITH 28:44.250 --> 28:49.980 IT THAT WOULD BRING GLORY AND HONOR TO YOU GOD, BUT WOULD BE A 28:49.980 --> 28:55.319 BLESSING TO OTHERS. SO THAT THE NAME OF THE LORD CAN BE 28:55.319 --> 28:59.700 GLORIFIED AND MAGNIFIED THROUGHOUT THE EARTH. AND SO 28:59.700 --> 29:04.349 THIS DAY, NOT ONLY DOES IT MARK THAT THE STONE WAS ROLLED AWAY 29:04.349 --> 29:09.450 IN JESUS, THAT YOU'RE ALIVE, BUT THIS DAY IT MARKS THAT THERE IS 29:09.450 --> 29:16.423 A PEOPLE IN THE EARTH THAT YOU DIED FOR, YOU BLED FOR, JESUS, 29:16.423 --> 29:21.539 THAT HONORS YOU, APPRECIATES YOU, GIVES THANKS TO YOU, AND 29:21.539 --> 29:28.349 MOST OF ALL, WE GIVE OUR LIVES TO YOU TO BE OUR LORD AND OUR 29:28.349 --> 29:42.809 SAVIOR. WHAT AN AMAZING SAVIOR, WHAT AN AMAZING LORD AND GOD. 29:42.809 --> 29:48.121 AMEN. YOU KNOW, THERE'S TIMES IN OUR LIVES YOU HAVE TO DO THAT. 29:48.121 --> 29:55.680 WE JUST SAY TO HIM, "HERE IS MY HEART, HERE IS MY LIFE. I GIVE 29:55.680 --> 30:00.029 IT ALL TO YOU. YOU GAVE IT ALL TO ME, I GIVE IT ALL TO YOU. SO 30:00.029 --> 30:04.170 THAT GOD, YOU CAN BE GLORIFIED AND DO WHATEVER YOU WANNA DO 30:04.170 --> 30:10.195 WITH MY LIFE SO THAT HE CAN BE HONORED. ISN'T THAT THE REASON 30:10.195 --> 30:14.665 WE LIVE? IS WE LIVE FOR HIM? AMEN. WELL, WHY DON'T YOU DO 30:14.665 --> 30:20.185 THIS? WHY DON'T YOU LOOK FOR SOMEBODY WHO'S LOOKING SHARP, AS 30:20.185 --> 30:23.756 SOME OF YOU IN HERE, YOU ARE JUST LOOKING SHARP. WHY DON'T 30:23.756 --> 30:26.756 YOU FIND SOMEBODY, SHARE YOUR NAME, AND YOU KNOW WHAT, TELL 30:26.756 --> 30:32.576 'EM THIS, TELL 'EM, TELL 'EM THIS, SAY, YOUR FAVORITE 30:32.576 --> 30:37.316 CHARACTERISTIC ABOUT JESUS THAT YOU LOVE. ALL RIGHT, GREET ONE 30:37.316 --> 30:40.736 ANOTHER, WE GREET YOU, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING AS WELL, 30:40.736 --> 30:44.516 AND WE ARE SO, SO GRATEFUL. WE LOVE YOU, WE LOVE YOUR 30:44.516 --> 30:48.895 HEART, YOUR PRAYERS, YOUR SUPPORT, AND JESUS IS ALIVE, 30:48.895 --> 30:51.536 AND I WANT YOU TO FEEL THAT PRESENCE IN YOUR 30:51.536 --> 30:53.853 LIFE, BUT WE BLESS YOU TODAY AS WELL. 30:53.853 --> 31:44.069 (MUSIC) 31:44.069 --> 31:50.932 WELL, HAPPY RESURRECTION SUNDAY, AMEN? ANYBODY EXCITED TO BE IN 31:50.935 --> 31:56.246 HIS HOUSE THIS MORNING? WELL, IF THIS IS YOUR VERY FIRST TIME 31:56.246 --> 31:59.036 WITH US IN THE BUILDING, WE WANNA MAKE SURE YOU FEEL 31:59.036 --> 32:02.996 WELCOME. I ALSO WANNA MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVED A BLUE GIFT BAG 32:02.996 --> 32:06.056 WHEN YOU CAME INSIDE THE DOOR. IF YOU DID NOT, PLEASE WAVE YOUR 32:06.056 --> 32:11.096 HAND AT AN USHER. WE'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE YOU GET ONE, 'CAUSE 32:11.096 --> 32:13.586 INSIDE THERE WE HAVE SOME INFORMATION FOR YOU. WE ALSO 32:13.586 --> 32:16.256 HAVE SOME GOODIES TUCKED IN THERE FOR YOU, SO YOU WANNA MAKE 32:16.256 --> 32:21.445 SURE YOU GET ONE. WE ALSO HAVE A GUEST REGISTRY PACKET IN THAT 32:21.445 --> 32:24.393 BLUE GIFT BAG, SO IF YOU HAVE ONE OF THOSE ALREADY, GO AHEAD 32:24.393 --> 32:27.746 AND PULL OUT THE PICTURE OF THE STAGE, HAS A PICTURE OF THE 32:27.746 --> 32:30.145 STAGE ON THE FRONT OF IT, THAT PACKET THAT'S IN THERE, PULL 32:30.145 --> 32:33.925 THAT OUT, OPEN IT UP, THERE'S SOME INFORMATION TO SEND HOME 32:33.925 --> 32:36.145 WITH YOU ABOUT THE MINISTRIES YOU HAVE HERE AT LORD OF HOSTS 32:36.145 --> 32:39.506 CHURCH, AS WELL AS A BRIGHT ORANGE STAY CONNECTED CARD ON 32:39.506 --> 32:42.506 THE LEFTHAND SIDE, GO AHEAD AND TEAR THAT OFF, FILL IT OUT, DROP 32:42.506 --> 32:45.026 IT IN THE OFFERING BASKET WHEN IT COMES BY IN JUST A FEW 32:45.026 --> 32:47.726 MOMENTS. WE JUST WANNA SEND YOU A THANK YOU FOR COMING TO SEE US 32:47.726 --> 32:50.635 THIS MORNING, AND MAKE SURE YOU STAY CONNECTED WITH EVERYTHING 32:50.635 --> 32:54.385 WE HAVE GOING ON HERE AT LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. IF YOU'RE WATCHING 32:54.385 --> 33:01.195 BY LIVESTREAM, FACEBOOK LIVE, ROKU, YOUTUBE, RUMBLE, ONE VOICE 33:01.195 --> 33:04.796 TV, OR ANY OF THE OTHER DIGITAL PLATFORMS, THEY'RE ALL LISTED 33:04.796 --> 33:07.465 RIGHT THERE. YOU CAN GET CONNECTED WITH US ON ANY OF 33:07.465 --> 33:10.496 THOSE. HOWEVER, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET CONNECTED TO 33:10.496 --> 33:15.625 ONEVOICETV.NET OR DOWNLOAD THE ONE VOICE TV APP TO YOUR DEVICES 33:15.625 --> 33:19.165 BECAUSE YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO ALL THIS GREAT CONTENT. DAILY 33:19.165 --> 33:23.846 DECREE, NEW LEVEL, GAME CHANGERS, FLASHPOINT, ALL OF 33:23.846 --> 33:27.236 THAT IS OUT THERE FOR YOU. GET REAL WITH HANK. MAKE SURE YOU 33:27.236 --> 33:29.486 GET CONNECTED SO YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO ALL THAT GREAT 33:29.486 --> 33:33.115 CONTENT. YOU CAN WATCH IT LIVE OR ARCHIVED. AND WE'D LOVE FOR 33:33.115 --> 33:36.175 YOU TO BE BLESSED BY IT. IF YOU WOULD JUST GIVE ALL OF OUR 33:36.175 --> 33:40.915 GUESTS HERE AND ONLINE A HAND. ASK PASTOR BRENDA COMES. AMEN, 33:40.915 --> 33:44.756 AMEN, AMEN, AMEN. WELL, ONE MORE TIME IN CASE ANYBODY ONLINE IS 33:44.756 --> 33:48.895 JUST NOW JOINING US. HAPPY RESURRECTION SUNDAY TO YOU. AND 33:48.895 --> 33:54.153 LET'S JUST SAY IT 'CAUSE WE CAN, JESUS IS ALIVE, AMEN. 33:54.153 --> 33:57.296 (CONGREGATION CHEERING) 33:57.296 --> 34:00.566 WELL, JUST A COUPLE QUICK THINGS. BY THE WAY, LADIES, 34:00.566 --> 34:05.036 WOMAN, YOU ARE ANOINTED CONFERENCE IS AROUND THE CORNER. 34:05.036 --> 34:08.246 AND I DID SEE THE LATEST COUNT. I THINK WE'RE WELL OVER 700 34:08.246 --> 34:13.315 WOMEN NOW FOR THE EVENT. THAT'S A GOOD GROUP OF LADIES. BUT 34:13.315 --> 34:16.646 HERE'S THE THING, THEY'LL PUT UP THE INFORMATION UP THERE. YOU DO 34:16.646 --> 34:20.365 HAVE TO REGISTER EVEN THOUGH IT'S FREE. THERE'S A QR CODE 34:20.365 --> 34:23.635 THERE. GO OUT THERE, GET REGISTERED, AND I DO WANNA SAY, 34:23.635 --> 34:26.516 IF YOU'RE THINKING OR TOYING WITH COMING TO THE LUNCHEON OR 34:26.516 --> 34:29.576 INVITING SOMEBODY, THIS IS THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR THE 34:29.576 --> 34:33.596 LUNCHEON. SO YOU NEED TO GET OUT THERE QUICKLY AND REGISTER. AND 34:33.596 --> 34:36.505 IT'S SUPER FUN. IF YOU'VE NOT DONE IT BEFORE, WE ALL SIT IN 34:36.505 --> 34:40.436 HERE. LAST YEAR WE SAT IN HERE WITH BOXED LUNCHES AND IT WAS 34:40.436 --> 34:44.005 LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE CALLED IT PICNIC IN THE TABERNACLE. AND IT 34:44.005 --> 34:49.615 WAS A BLAST. LADIES, WAS IT NOT AWESOME? SO GET OUT THERE, GET 34:49.615 --> 34:52.585 REGISTERED. WE'RE GONNA HAVE A GREAT TIME. AND EVERY YEAR I 34:52.585 --> 34:55.135 THINK IT JUST GETS BETTER AND BETTER. PRAISE THE LORD. WELL, 34:55.135 --> 34:58.016 I'M GONNA JUST KIND OF HOLD OFF ON ALL THE OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS 34:58.016 --> 35:01.226 TODAY, BUT GO OUT, IF YOU'RE NOT ON OUR MAILING LIST, YOU NEED TO 35:01.226 --> 35:04.735 GET OUT THERE, GO TO HANKANDBRENDA.ORG, SIGN UP, GET 35:04.735 --> 35:07.465 OUT AND GET ALL THE INFORMATION THAT WE PUT OUT WITH THE 35:07.465 --> 35:11.365 MINISTRY, OR IF YOU'VE NEVER SIGNED UP TO RECEIVE TEXT 35:11.365 --> 35:15.655 MESSAGES, MAKE SURE YOU DO THAT, GET ON THE EMAIL LIST AS WELL, 35:15.655 --> 35:20.155 AND THEY'LL PUT UP INFORMATION ON HOW YOU CAN GET ON THE TEXT, 35:20.155 --> 35:24.235 TEXT INFORMATION. SO ALL KINDS OF THINGS ARE ALWAYS COMING OUT. 35:24.235 --> 35:27.835 IF WE FORGET TO SAY IT IN THE PULPIT, THAT'S WHAT I LOVE ABOUT 35:27.835 --> 35:31.496 TECHNOLOGY. THERE'S SO MANY OTHER WAYS TO COMMUNICATE. SO GO 35:31.496 --> 35:35.005 OUT THERE AND BE SURE TO GET SIGNED UP FOR WHATEVER IT IS 35:35.005 --> 35:39.175 THAT'S OUT THERE FOR YOU TO SIGN UP FOR. AMEN? ALL RIGHT, WELL, 35:39.175 --> 35:43.346 VERY QUICKLY, WE WANNA GET INTO THIS MORNING'S REGULAR TITHES 35:43.346 --> 35:47.036 AND OFFERINGS, IT'S SUNDAY. SO THIS IS OUR NORMAL SUNDAY TITHES 35:47.036 --> 35:51.536 AND OFFERINGS. IT'S ALSO OUR PASSOVER GIVING TIME. SO I DO 35:51.536 --> 35:56.005 WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IF YOU ARE WANTING TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT, 35:56.005 --> 35:59.425 THAT YOU CAN PARTICIPATE, AND I'LL TELL YOU HOW TO PARTICIPATE 35:59.425 --> 36:03.025 IN THAT IN A MINUTE. BUT I WANNA GO BACK TO SOMETHING. YOU KNOW, 36:03.025 --> 36:08.005 FRIDAY NIGHT WE TALKED ABOUT THE BLESSINGS OF FEAST GIVING. AND 36:08.005 --> 36:10.585 HOW MANY OF YOU JUST LOVED THE LONG LIVE THE KING AND THE 36:10.585 --> 36:14.275 SLIDES THAT WERE COMING UP? AND AS I LOOKED AT THOSE, I THOUGHT, 36:14.275 --> 36:20.186 YOU KNOW, JESUS, ALL YOU'VE EVER EXHIBITED IS HOW MUCH YOU LOVE 36:20.186 --> 36:23.965 TO BLESS. YOU THINK ABOUT THAT. AS HE'S HANGING THERE ON A 36:23.965 --> 36:30.445 CROSS, AS HE'S BEING BEATEN, WHIPPED, YOU KNOW, GAVE, THE 36:30.445 --> 36:35.516 BIBLE SAYS HE GAVE HIS BACK TO THE SMITERS. AS HE CHOSE TO DO 36:35.516 --> 36:41.065 ALL THAT, IT WAS TO BLESS US. AND AS I LOOK AT THE BIBLE, YOU 36:41.065 --> 36:46.436 KNOW, I CAN'T, THERE'S, YOU COULD HARDLY TURN A PAGE. I 36:46.436 --> 36:49.885 MEAN, YEAH, THERE'S THE, SOME OF THEM, MAYBE LEVITICUS, THE 36:49.885 --> 36:53.755 GENEALOGIES AND ALL OF THAT. BUT I'M JUST SAYING, IT'S HARD TO 36:53.755 --> 37:00.626 TURN A PAGE IN SCRIPTURE AND NOT FIND A PLACE WHERE GOD, GOD'S 37:00.626 --> 37:07.556 INTENT TO BLESS US, HEAL US, COME ON, DELIVER US IS NOT 37:07.556 --> 37:10.795 PENNED IN THE PAGES OF SCRIPTURE. IT'S THROUGHOUT THE 37:10.795 --> 37:15.416 BIBLE. AND AS I WAS TALKING FRIDAY NIGHT, AND I'LL READ 37:15.416 --> 37:18.175 THESE BLESSINGS AGAIN, BUT I WANT YOU TO THINK OF IT IN THIS 37:18.175 --> 37:23.456 LIGHT OF PASSOVER GIVING TIME, THE FEAST GIVING SEASONS. IT'S 37:23.456 --> 37:28.706 ALWAYS AGAIN ENCAPSULATED IN BLESSING, GOD WANTING TO BLESS. 37:28.706 --> 37:33.175 AND IT JUST AMAZES ME. I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT SCRIPTURE. 37:33.175 --> 37:38.425 IT SAYS GOD MAKES THE RAIN TO DESCEND ON THE EVIL AND THE 37:38.425 --> 37:43.315 GOOD. GOD EVEN BLESSES THE WICKED. YOU THINK ABOUT THAT. HE 37:43.315 --> 37:48.206 EVEN, THOSE THAT EVEN CURSE HIM, HE ALLOWS HIS BLESSING TO COME 37:48.206 --> 37:52.315 ON THEIR LIFE. GOD IS A GOD THAT LOVES TO BLESS. AND DON'T EVER 37:52.315 --> 37:56.516 THINK THAT IN YOUR LIFE, YOU KNOW, WE THINK, WELL, I HAVE TO 37:56.516 --> 37:58.525 BE PERFECT. I HAVE TO DO ALL THESE THINGS. AND IT'S 37:58.525 --> 38:02.126 IMPORTANT. WE'VE GOT TO PLEASE GOD. THE SCRIPTURE TALKS ABOUT 38:02.126 --> 38:06.235 THAT IN EPHESIANS, THAT WE DO THINGS THAT PLEASE THE LORD. SO 38:06.235 --> 38:10.735 IT'S IMPORTANT, OUR ACTIONS ARE IMPORTANT. BUT WHAT WE HAVE TO 38:10.735 --> 38:16.135 REMEMBER IS WE DON'T HAVE TO ATTAIN PERFECTION. THAT'S WHAT 38:16.135 --> 38:20.005 JESUS' SACRIFICE WAS ABOUT. WE'RE NOT ATTAINING PERFECTION 38:20.005 --> 38:24.128 TO RECEIVE HIS BLESSING. PASTOR AND I WERE TALKING ABOUT THE 38:24.128 --> 38:26.905 SCRIPTURE WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THE LORD'S BENEFITS IN PSALM 38:26.905 --> 38:31.106 103. AND DO YOU EVER NOTICE IN THERE, HE FORGIVES ALL OF OUR 38:31.106 --> 38:35.396 INIQUITIES, BUT IT SAYS FIRST HE HEALS US OF ALL OUR DISEASES. 38:35.396 --> 38:39.295 THE HEALING COMES BEFORE THE FORGIVENESS. WE DON'T HAVE TO BE 38:39.295 --> 38:45.295 FORGIVEN IN ORDER TO BE HEALED. GOD HEALS PEOPLE BECAUSE OF HIS 38:45.295 --> 38:50.005 LOVE FOR PEOPLE. IF YOU READ THE LORD'S SUPPER OR THE LORD'S 38:50.005 --> 38:54.175 PRAYER, EXCUSE ME, IF YOU READ THE LORD'S PRAYER, IT SAYS, 38:54.175 --> 38:57.896 "LORD, GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD." IN OTHER WORDS, 38:57.896 --> 39:02.335 GOD, WE'RE ASKING YOU FOR YOUR BLESSING AND THEN THE REQUEST TO 39:02.335 --> 39:06.416 BE FORGIVEN COMES AFTER. WELL, YOU MEAN YOU SHOULD JUST TAKE 39:06.416 --> 39:11.335 FROM GOD AND THEN REPENT LATER? WELL, THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M 39:11.335 --> 39:17.005 SAYING. WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS THAT WE HONOR GOD, YES, BUT 39:17.005 --> 39:24.103 HE IS SO DISPOSED AND COMMITTED TO SHOW FAVORS. GOD IS A GOD OF 39:24.103 --> 39:30.835 BLESSING. WRITE THAT DOWN AND UNDERLINE IT. HE LOVES TO BLESS. 39:30.835 --> 39:33.445 AND SO I WAS THINKING OF THAT THIS MORNING. I'M GONNA READ 39:33.445 --> 39:38.126 AGAIN, THESE BLESSINGS OF FEAST GIVING. THE BLESSINGS, GOD, YOU 39:38.126 --> 39:41.726 KNOW, GOD DOESN'T DO ANYTHING. HE TELLS US TO TITHE. YOU KNOW, 39:41.726 --> 39:46.302 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT TITHING AND OFFERINGS, BUT IF YOU READ 39:46.302 --> 39:48.865 MALACHI, MANY OF YOU HAVE IT MEMORIZED IN THIS ROOM, IF YOU 39:48.865 --> 39:51.655 READ IT, YOU'LL FIND THAT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT IS SOME MORE 39:51.655 --> 39:55.255 BLESSINGS. THINK ABOUT IT, TITHES AND OFFERINGS. GOD SAID, 39:55.255 --> 39:58.976 "IF YOU'LL DO IT, "I WILL OPEN THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN." I 39:58.976 --> 40:03.206 THOUGHT, LORD, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, TO HAVE THE 40:03.206 --> 40:06.713 WHOLE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN OPENED OVER MY LIFE. NOW, SOME OF YOU 40:06.713 --> 40:09.686 HAVE HEARD ME TELL THIS STORY. I'LL READ THESE IN A MOMENT, BUT 40:09.686 --> 40:12.755 SOME OF YOU HAVE HEARD ME TELL THE STORY. I DID HAVE ONE LITTLE 40:12.755 --> 40:15.936 EXAMPLE THAT I'LL NEVER, AND YOU KNOW, WELL, IT GOES ON IN 40:15.936 --> 40:18.755 MALACHI, AND IT SAYS, "YOU'LL NOT HAVE ROOM ENOUGH "TO RECEIVE 40:18.755 --> 40:21.996 THE BLESSING." AND I THOUGHT, LORD, WHAT DOES THAT FEEL LIKE? 40:21.996 --> 40:24.936 WELL, ONE YEAR, MANY YEARS AGO, PASTOR AND I WERE JUST GETTING 40:24.936 --> 40:30.065 STARTED IN THE MINISTRY. MATTHEW WAS JUST A BABY, AND YOU KNOW, 40:30.065 --> 40:33.286 IT WAS, YOU KNOW, WE PINCHED EVERY PENNY. WE WERE, YOU KNOW, 40:33.286 --> 40:35.525 USING THE CALCULATOR AT THE GROCERY STORE. HOW MANY OF YOU 40:35.525 --> 40:38.795 EVER BEEN THERE? AND THEN YOU PUT SOME STUFF IN YOUR BASKET 40:38.795 --> 40:41.481 AND YOUR CALCULATOR WENT OVER THE AMOUNT YOU HAD TO SPEND AND 40:41.481 --> 40:45.005 SO YOU HAD TO PUT SOMETHING BACK. ANYBODY EVER BEEN THERE? 40:45.005 --> 40:47.465 I'M THE ONLY ONE. YOU THOUGHT, I GOTTA PUT THAT BACK. I CAN'T GET 40:47.465 --> 40:52.385 THAT. AND SO MANY OF OUR DAYS WERE LIKE THAT. WELL, WE HAD 40:52.385 --> 40:57.126 THIS FARMER CALL US AND SAID, YOU KNOW, I HAVE JUST BUTCHERED 40:57.126 --> 41:01.416 THIS COW. IT WAS A QUARTER SIDE OR SOMETHING. AND IN THE HOUSE 41:01.416 --> 41:04.505 WE LIVED IN, WE JUST HAD ONE OF A REALLY SMALL REFRIGERATOR. IT 41:04.505 --> 41:08.135 WAS THIS LITTLE REFRIGERATOR AND IT HAD THE FREEZER ON TOP. YOU 41:08.135 --> 41:10.505 KNOW, THIS WAS BEFORE THE SIDE BY SIDES. I THINK THEY WERE JUST 41:10.505 --> 41:14.436 BARELY COMING OUT AT THAT TIME. AND IT WAS NOT VERY BIG. AND 41:14.436 --> 41:16.985 THIS FARMER CALLED AND HE SAYS, "I'VE GOT THIS WHOLE QUARTER 41:16.985 --> 41:21.846 SIDE. "I'M GONNA BRING IT TO YOU." AND I'M ON THE PHONE AND I 41:21.846 --> 41:26.286 SAID, "WE DON'T HAVE ROOM FOR IT." AND HE SAID, "WELL, I GUESS 41:26.286 --> 41:31.565 YOU JUST GOT A BLESSING. "YOU DON'T HAVE ROOM TO RECEIVE." I 41:31.565 --> 41:35.525 SAID, "WELL, AND HOW DO YOU SAY NO TO THAT? "LIKE GOD'S TRYING 41:35.525 --> 41:40.175 TO BLESS YOU AND YOU TELL GOD NO." SO PASTOR WAS AT WORK AND I 41:40.175 --> 41:42.666 CALLED HIM AND I SAID, "HONEY, YOU'RE NOT GONNA BELIEVE WHAT'S 41:42.666 --> 41:45.846 JUST HAPPENED. "WE'VE GOT THIS." AND HE GOES, "WELL, I GUESS THAT 41:45.846 --> 41:48.996 MEANS "WE HAVE TO GO BUY A FREEZER." NOW WATCH THIS, WE 41:48.996 --> 41:52.956 WENT TO, IT DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE, SEARS AND ROEBUCK, 41:52.956 --> 41:56.465 REMEMBER THEM? THEY WERE KIND OF LIKE THE APPLIANCE KING. BY THE 41:56.465 --> 42:00.815 WAY, IF YOU STILL HAVE A SEARS WASHER, IT'S PROBABLY 35 YEARS 42:00.815 --> 42:05.315 OLD AND IT PROBABLY STILL WORKS. I PROMISE YOU. SO THAT LITTLE 42:05.315 --> 42:10.266 FREEZER, WE WENT AND BOUGHT IT AND WE HAD TO CHARGE IT ON A 42:10.266 --> 42:16.235 SEARS CHARGE CARD. YOU KNOW, WE HAD TO CHARGE TO GET THE 42:16.235 --> 42:22.025 BLESSING. LIKE, WHAT IS UP WITH THAT? SO, AND I REMEMBER THE 42:22.025 --> 42:24.365 PRICE TOO. YOU KNOW, THESE THINGS STICK IN MY MIND. IT WAS 42:24.365 --> 42:31.865 A $700, WAY BACK THEN, FREEZER, WE WENT AND BOUGHT AT SEARS, A 42:31.865 --> 42:35.856 LITTLE UPRIGHT, ALL FREEZER, SO WE COULD FIT THE BLESSING WE 42:35.856 --> 42:40.115 DIDN'T HAVE ROOM TO RECEIVE. AND THAT FARMER CAME, BROUGHT A 42:40.115 --> 42:42.965 BUNCH OF COOLERS WITH ALL OF THAT MEAT, AND WE FILLED THAT 42:42.965 --> 42:47.945 FREEZER. I THOUGHT, WELL, LORD, WE JUST WENT IN DEBT TO RECEIVE 42:47.945 --> 42:52.416 THE BLESSING. BUT YOU KNOW, GOD HAD IT PLANNED. YOU THINK WE 42:52.416 --> 42:56.195 PAID THAT OFF YEARS LATER? OF COURSE. GOD JUST KNOWS WHAT HE 42:56.195 --> 43:00.516 IS DOING. AND SO I'M JUST TELLING YOU, GOD LOVES TO BLESS 43:00.516 --> 43:03.936 AND HE WILL DO THINGS YOU DON'T HAVE ROOM FOR. SAY, WELL, PASTOR 43:03.936 --> 43:07.175 BRENDA, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHEN THAT HAPPENS IN MY LIFE. WELL, 43:07.175 --> 43:10.505 DO YOU HAVE FAITH FOR IT? YOU KNOW, YOU THINK ABOUT EVERY TIME 43:10.505 --> 43:12.876 YOU TITHE, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE DONE THIS? EVERY TIME YOU GIVE 43:12.876 --> 43:15.606 YOUR TITHE OR MAYBE YOU'RE GIVEN A FEAST OFFERING AND YOU SAY 43:15.606 --> 43:19.206 THINGS LIKE, "LORD, I RECEIVE AN OPEN HEAVEN." HOW MANY OF YOU 43:19.206 --> 43:22.686 EVER PRAYED THAT? COME ON. HOW MANY OF YOU EVER SAID, "LORD, I 43:22.686 --> 43:25.746 BELIEVE I WILL HAVE BLESSINGS THAT I WON'T HAVE ROOM TO 43:25.746 --> 43:29.525 RECEIVE." HOW MANY OF YOU EVER PRAYED LIKE THAT? BUT THEN WHEN 43:29.525 --> 43:35.016 IT COMES, DO WE BELIEVE IT? AND THAT DAY WE HARDLY BELIEVED IT, 43:35.016 --> 43:39.396 BUT GOD DID IT. AND SO BE IN EXPECTATION. GOD LOVES TO BLESS. 43:39.396 --> 43:42.936 WE SAW IT ALL OVER THE SLIDES THIS MORNING, A GOD WHO IS 43:42.936 --> 43:46.215 COMMITTED TO BLESS. SO CAN I READ THESE BLESSINGS TO YOU 43:46.215 --> 43:51.005 AGAIN? ALL RIGHT. THESE ARE THE BLESSINGS THAT COME OF GIVING AT 43:51.005 --> 43:54.936 FEAST TIME. THIS IS GOD'S CHARACTER. I JUST CANNOT STOP 43:54.936 --> 43:59.945 SMILING WHEN I READ IT. EXODUS 23, ALL OF THESE ARE WRITTEN IN 43:59.945 --> 44:06.005 THERE. NUMBER ONE, GOD SAID, I WILL SEND MY ANGEL. HOW MANY OF 44:06.005 --> 44:10.536 YOU WOULD LOVE TO SAY I COULD USE ANGELS AROUND MY LIFE? OKAY. 44:10.536 --> 44:12.695 I WAS WORRIED ABOUT SOMETHING ONE NIGHT. I THOUGHT, OH LORD, 44:12.695 --> 44:15.306 DID I, I FORGOT. YOU KNOW, HAVE YOU EVER GONE OUT OF TOWN? IN 44:15.306 --> 44:18.036 FACT, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED. HAVE YOU EVER GONE OUT OF TOWN 44:18.036 --> 44:20.556 AND THINK, DID I LOCK THE HOUSE? I MEAN, HAVE YOU EVER BEEN 44:20.556 --> 44:25.831 THERE? AND YOU'RE GONE ON THE PLANE ALREADY AND YOU'RE LIKE, 44:25.831 --> 44:28.295 AND IT'S TWO AND YOU KNOW, THE THING OF IT, IT ALWAYS HAPPENS 44:28.295 --> 44:31.655 AT 2 A.M. YOU REMEMBER AT TWO IN THE MORNING OR WHATEVER, YOU'RE 44:31.655 --> 44:35.646 ALREADY THERE IN THE HOTEL. AND I'M THINKING, LORD, AND THE LORD 44:35.646 --> 44:39.695 SAID, "MY ANGELS GOT IT." NOW I HAD LOCKED IT, BUT MY ANGELS GOT 44:39.695 --> 44:44.106 IT. SEE, THIS IS HOW GOD IS. SO GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS. WHEN 44:44.106 --> 44:47.195 YOU GET IN YOUR CAR TO DRIVE, GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS. THAT'S 44:47.195 --> 44:49.715 WHAT I LOVE ABOUT PASTOR. EVERY TIME WE GET IN, HE SAYS, "NOPE, 44:49.715 --> 44:52.985 THE ANGELS ARE GOING BEFORE US." OKAY, WE'LL NEVER BE IN AN 44:52.985 --> 44:56.166 ACCIDENT, CAUSE AN ACCIDENT. COME ON, WE HAVE TO CLAIM THOSE 44:56.166 --> 44:59.076 THINGS, RIGHT? DON'T LEAVE YOURSELF OPEN, PRAY TO THE 44:59.076 --> 45:03.545 ENEMY. GOD SAID, "I WILL BRING YOU TO THE PLACE I'VE PREPARED." 45:03.545 --> 45:08.315 WELL, THAT'S PURPOSE. YOU'LL BE GUIDED BY GOD. I WANT THAT IN MY 45:08.315 --> 45:11.465 LIFE, 'CAUSE I DON'T ALWAYS KNOW WHAT TO DO. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN 45:11.465 --> 45:14.346 THERE? YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. SO YOU JUST SAY, "LORD, I 45:14.346 --> 45:17.766 BELIEVE YOU'RE GONNA GET ME "ON TRACK WHEREVER I NEED TO GO." 45:17.766 --> 45:20.195 AND YOU KNOW WHAT I FOUND OUT ABOUT GOD? WE CAN EVEN TAKE A 45:20.195 --> 45:23.585 STUPID DETOUR SOMETIME, AND GOD WILL GET YOU RIGHT BACK WHERE 45:23.585 --> 45:26.376 YOU STARTED, AND HE'LL GET YOU WHERE YOU NEED TO GO. ISN'T THAT 45:26.376 --> 45:29.795 GOOD? BECAUSE HE LOVES TO BLESS. TOUCH YOURSELF AND SAY YOUR 45:29.795 --> 45:36.568 NAME. SAY, GOD, YOU LOVE TO BLESS. AND NOW SAY YOUR NAME. 45:36.568 --> 45:39.902 YOU PUT A NAME ON IT. LET ME READ THE REST OF THESE QUICKLY. 45:39.902 --> 45:42.335 HE SAID, I'LL BE AN ENEMY TO YOUR ENEMIES. COME ON, DON'T 45:42.335 --> 45:45.246 WORRY SO MUCH ABOUT THE DEVIL. COME ON, THE LORD OF THE 45:45.246 --> 45:52.505 COUNTER. YOU HAVE AUTHORITY OVER SATAN. USE IT. CAST HIM OUT. 45:52.505 --> 45:56.376 DEVIL, GET OUT OF MY HOUSE. GET OFF MY FINANCES, GET OUT OF MY 45:56.376 --> 46:00.846 BODY. COME ON, GET OFF MY CHILDREN, GET OFF MY SPOUSE. I 46:00.846 --> 46:05.795 BIND YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS. I'LL BE AN ENEMY TO YOUR 46:05.795 --> 46:08.976 ENEMIES. THAT'S ONE OF GOD'S BLESSINGS. NEXT ONE, I'LL BLESS 46:08.976 --> 46:11.315 YOUR BREAD AND YOUR WATER. THAT'S WHY JESUS COULD SAY, YOU 46:11.315 --> 46:13.416 DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE GONNA EAT OR WHAT YOU'RE 46:13.416 --> 46:16.356 GONNA WEAR. I MEAN, IT'S RESURRECTION SUNDAY. WE ALL HAD 46:16.356 --> 46:19.925 TO THINK A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT WE WANTED TO WEAR. ALL RIGHT, THAT 46:19.925 --> 46:25.896 WAS A JOKE. BUT GOD WILL PROVIDE FOR YOU. SO IF YOU'RE IN A 46:25.896 --> 46:29.255 SEASON WHERE IT SEEMS LIKE MONEY IS TIGHT, JUST KNOW THAT GOD 46:29.255 --> 46:34.025 WILL PROVIDE. TRUST HIM IN THAT. THAT'S WHY PAUL SAID, "I KNOW 46:34.025 --> 46:38.646 HOW TO BE A BASE AND I KNOW HOW TO ABOUND. I KNOW HOW TO RIDE 46:38.646 --> 46:42.335 THROUGH THE SEASONS WHERE PROVISION SEEMS LITTLE, BUT I 46:42.335 --> 46:46.025 KNOW HOW TO RIDE THE WAVE WHEN IT'S ABUNDANT. I KNOW HOW TO DO 46:46.025 --> 46:48.755 BOTH BECAUSE I'VE LEARNED TO TRUST THE GOD THAT LOVES TO 46:48.755 --> 46:53.706 BLESS. HALLELUJAH! ALL RIGHT, VERY QUICKLY, I'LL TAKE SICKNESS 46:53.706 --> 46:57.936 AWAY FROM YOU. THAT'S WHY WE CAN'T MAKE HEALING A HARD THING. 46:57.936 --> 47:00.936 GOD SAID, "I WANT TO, I'LL HEAL YOU." COME ON, HEALING 47:00.936 --> 47:05.916 SCRIPTURES ARE PLASTERED THROUGH THE BIBLE. GOD LOVES TO HEAL. 47:05.916 --> 47:09.425 MATTHEW 12:15, WRITE THIS SCRIPTURE DOWN. IT SAYS, "AND 47:09.425 --> 47:16.235 JESUS HEALED THEM ALL." MEMORIZE THAT. HE DIDN'T PICK AND CHOOSE, 47:16.235 --> 47:19.385 HE HEALED THEM ALL. NEXT ONE IS, "NONE SHALL BE BARREN." THAT 47:19.385 --> 47:22.806 COULD BE NATURAL IF YOU'RE TRYING TO HAVE CHILDREN, OR IT'S 47:22.806 --> 47:25.206 ALSO THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BEAR FRUIT AS A CHRISTIAN AND A 47:25.206 --> 47:31.775 BELIEVER. YOU'LL LIVE A LONG LIFE. OKAY? DON'T JUST RESORT 47:31.775 --> 47:35.525 TO, "WELL, IT WAS THEIR TIME." NO, GOD IS NOT ABOUT PREMATURE 47:35.525 --> 47:39.096 DEATH. NOW, I DON'T HAVE TIME TO EXPLAIN IT TODAY. IN FACT, IT'S 47:39.096 --> 47:44.045 IN MY MANUSCRIPT COMING OUT ON COMMANDING PEACE, AND I TALK 47:44.045 --> 47:46.715 ABOUT THE BLESSING OF LONG LIFE IN THERE AND THINGS THAT DO TAKE 47:46.715 --> 47:49.985 PEOPLE OUT, BUT GOD'S INTENT IS ALWAYS FOR US TO LIVE THE FULL 47:49.985 --> 47:54.635 LENGTH OF DAYS. THAT'S GOD'S BLESSING. HE LOVES TO BLESS. SAY 47:54.635 --> 48:00.119 YOUR NAME AGAIN. SAY YOUR NAME. SAY, GOD LOVES TO BLESS YOU. 48:01.505 --> 48:05.405 LAST ONE, YOU WILL HAVE INFLUENCE AND FAVOR. GOD SAID, I 48:05.405 --> 48:09.246 WILL SEND MY FEAR BEFORE YOU. JUST KNOW THAT GOD GOES BEFORE 48:09.246 --> 48:12.876 US. HE IS THE GOD THAT LOVES TO BLESS. AMEN. ARE YOU READY TO 48:12.876 --> 48:15.456 GIVE IN THAT ATMOSPHERE? ALL RIGHT, LET'S PUT THE GIVING 48:15.456 --> 48:20.016 INFORMATION UP ON THE SCREEN FOR EVERYBODY AROUND THE WORLD. AND 48:20.016 --> 48:23.556 IF YOU'RE GIVING YOUR PASSOVER OFFERING AND YOU WANT TO SOW 48:23.556 --> 48:27.335 INTO THAT KEY TIME, THIS IS WHAT WE READ ABOUT WAS THE KEY 48:27.335 --> 48:30.335 BLESSINGS OF FEAST GIVING. THERE'S AN ENVELOPE ON YOUR 48:30.335 --> 48:33.365 CHAIR OR THERE'S A PLACE THAT SAYS PASSOVER RESURRECTION 48:33.365 --> 48:38.255 OFFERING UP ON THE DROP DOWN. AND YOU CAN GIVE THERE AS WELL 48:38.255 --> 48:42.036 AND THE QR CODE TO GIVE. IF YOU HAVE YOUR OFFERING READY, YOU 48:42.036 --> 48:44.226 CAN GO AHEAD AND STAND OR IF YOU'RE STILL WRITING, I'LL GIVE 48:44.226 --> 48:47.615 YOU JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES. AND I'M EXCITED. WE'RE GONNA, 48:47.615 --> 48:50.114 I'M GONNA PRAY OVER YOU FIRST, WE'RE GONNA DO THAT. AND THEN 48:50.114 --> 48:53.885 WE'RE GONNA KIND OF LIKE NOT DO OUR NORMAL DECREE BECAUSE OUR 48:53.885 --> 48:58.115 WORSHIP TEAM HAS PUT TOGETHER AN AMAZING MUSIC SPECIAL. THEY'RE 48:58.115 --> 49:00.965 GONNA SING A SONG, BUT LET'S JUST DO THIS. IF YOU HAVE YOUR 49:00.965 --> 49:04.445 OFFERING READY AND YOU'RE READY TO STAND, LET'S STAND UP AND 49:04.445 --> 49:08.166 HOLD IT UP HIGH. AND I WANT YOU TO JUST PAUSE AND THINK FOR A 49:08.166 --> 49:13.735 MOMENT AND REMIND YOURSELF THAT GOD LOVES TO BLESS YOU. OKAY, 49:13.735 --> 49:16.985 MAYBE YOU'RE DEALING WITH THE SPIRIT OF FAILURE TODAY AND YOU 49:16.985 --> 49:19.596 FEEL LIKE, WELL, GOD, I'VE DONE ALL OF THESE THINGS. I JUST NEED 49:19.596 --> 49:25.235 TO MAKE A SHIFT. REMIND YOURSELF, GOD LOVES TO BLESS. IF 49:25.235 --> 49:28.985 YOU'VE MESSED UP, MAYBE YOU'VE BEEN AWAY FROM GOD. IF YOU'RE 49:28.985 --> 49:32.405 HERE OR YOU'RE ONLINE, MAYBE YOU'VE MADE SOME MISTAKES. DON'T 49:32.405 --> 49:37.806 RUN FROM GOD TODAY, RUN TO HIM. RUN TO THE ARMS OF JESUS. HE IS 49:37.806 --> 49:41.585 WAITING TO RECEIVE YOU. AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO, MAYBE YOU'VE 49:41.585 --> 49:45.306 NEVER ASKED JESUS TO COME IN YOUR HEART AND FORGIVE YOUR SINS 49:45.306 --> 49:48.155 AND BE THE LORD OF YOUR LIFE. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SAY, 49:48.155 --> 49:51.786 JESUS, COME IN MY HEART. IN FACT, I FEEL THE ANOINTING. I 49:51.786 --> 49:54.876 THINK WE OUGHT TO DO THAT RIGHT NOW. IF YOU'RE IN THIS ROOM AND 49:54.876 --> 49:58.925 YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN BORN AGAIN, YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN SAVED, MAYBE 49:58.925 --> 50:01.565 YOU'RE AWAY OR YOU'RE AWAY FROM THE LORD. THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 50:01.565 --> 50:05.106 WATCHING ONLINE, IT IS NOT HARD TO COME BACK TO GOD. AND I'M 50:05.106 --> 50:08.106 JUST GONNA SAY IT FOR THE RECORD. HE IS WAITING FOR YOU 50:08.106 --> 50:14.255 TODAY. HE IS WAITING FOR YOU TODAY. HE'S WAITING FOR YOU. 50:14.255 --> 50:18.891 HE'S BEEN WAITING. HE'S CALLING YOUR NAME. SO IF THAT'S YOU, 50:18.891 --> 50:21.442 LET'S JUST PRAY. I'M GOING TO PRAY THE SINNER'S PRAYER. I WANT 50:21.442 --> 50:24.170 ALL OF US TO PRAY IT TOGETHER. I FEEL LIKE THAT'S WHAT THE LORD 50:24.170 --> 50:27.110 WANTS US TO DO RIGHT NOW. CAN YOU DO THAT AT OFFERING TIME? 50:27.110 --> 50:30.650 YOU COULD DO THAT AT ANY TIME. SO IF YOU NEED TO COME BACK TO 50:30.650 --> 50:34.192 GOD TODAY, BEFORE WE EVEN GIVE, I WANT YOU TO HAVE THAT 50:34.192 --> 50:36.742 OPPORTUNITY. I WANT YOU TO SAY THESE WORDS. I MEAN THEM WITH 50:36.742 --> 50:40.371 EVERY OUNCE OF YOUR HEART AND YOUR SOUL. SAY THESE WORDS. SAY, 50:40.371 --> 50:47.302 "LORD JESUS, I BELIEVE IN YOU. YOU DIED FOR ME. AND ON THE 50:47.302 --> 50:51.380 THIRD DAY, YOU WERE RAISED." THAT'S WHAT WE'RE CELEBRATING 50:51.380 --> 50:58.186 TODAY. AND JESUS, I JUST WANT TO SAY, I NEED YOU. I NEED YOU IN 50:58.186 --> 51:07.791 MY LIFE. I ASK YOU TO COME INTO MY HEART. WASH AWAY ALL MY SINS. 51:07.791 --> 51:14.570 GOD, I NEED A DO-OVER. I NEED TO START FRESH. AND I TRUST YOU 51:14.570 --> 51:20.570 TODAY THAT YOU WILL TAKE MY SINS, ALL MY WRONGDOING, AND 51:20.570 --> 51:24.771 THROW IT AS FAR AS THE EAST IS FROM THE WEST. THAT'S WHAT THE 51:24.771 --> 51:32.032 BIBLE SAYS. JESUS, I COMMIT MYSELF TO YOU IN A FRESH WAY. I 51:32.032 --> 51:39.264 CALL YOU MY LORD. I CALL YOU MY SAVIOR. I CALL YOU MY MASTER. 51:39.264 --> 51:44.661 AND I MAKE A COMMITMENT AND A VOW TODAY TO SERVE YOU TO THE 51:44.661 --> 51:52.192 BEST OF MY ABILITY. I TURN FROM MY PAST. I TURN FROM MY SINS AND 51:52.192 --> 52:00.262 I TURN TO YOU. THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR LOVING ME. IN JESUS' NAME, 52:00.262 --> 52:07.641 AMEN. WOO! HALLELUJAH! IF YOU PRAYED THAT, THEY'LL BE POSTING 52:07.641 --> 52:10.577 ONLINE. IF YOU'RE ONLINE, AND PASTOR DOUG, AT THE END OF THE 52:10.577 --> 52:14.302 SERVICE, WE'LL HAVE PRAYER ALTAR WORKERS WILL BE READY TO HELP 52:14.302 --> 52:17.391 YOU AND GET STARTED ON YOUR JOURNEY. AND BY THE WAY, GET TO 52:17.391 --> 52:20.420 KNOW CHRISTIANS. DON'T HANG AROUND ALL THOSE FOOLS OUT THERE 52:20.420 --> 52:25.521 ANYMORE. GET AROUND SOME GOOD QUALITY FOLKS. WELL, YEAH, BUT 52:25.521 --> 52:29.032 CHURCH PEOPLE ARE HYPOCRITES. COME ON, IF YOU THINK THAT, THEN 52:29.032 --> 52:32.211 YOU'RE ALREADY MESSED UP. DON'T DO THAT. COME, THERE ARE GOOD 52:32.211 --> 52:35.661 CHURCH PEOPLE. ARE THEY PERFECT? NO. IT'S LIKE ONE GUY SAID, I 52:35.661 --> 52:39.231 THOUGHT ALL CHRISTIANS HAD ANGEL WINGS SPROUTING OUT, AND I FOUND 52:39.231 --> 52:44.931 OUT THEY WERE JUST SHOULDER BLADES. ALL RIGHT, HOLD YOUR 52:44.931 --> 52:50.001 OFFERING UP REAL HIGH. THAT WAS GOOD. HOLD IT UP HIGH. SAY THIS, 52:50.001 --> 52:56.302 SAY, LORD, THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS BLESSING ME. I TRUST THAT YOU 52:56.302 --> 53:01.820 ARE A GOD WHO LOVES TO BLESS. BLESS ME TODAY. I BELIEVE ALL 53:01.820 --> 53:07.340 THE BLESSINGS IN THE BIBLE. AND AS I GIVE THIS OFFERING TODAY, I 53:07.340 --> 53:12.621 THANK YOU THAT ALL THE BLESSINGS CONNECTED TO IT THAT YOU WROTE 53:12.621 --> 53:17.782 IN SCRIPTURE WILL BE A REALITY IN MY LIFE, AND I THANK YOU FOR 53:17.782 --> 53:20.938 IT. COME ON, GIVE HIM A GREAT BIG SHOUT AS THE USHERS SERVE 53:20.938 --> 53:23.242 YOU, AND LET'S WELCOME OUR WORSHIP TEAM. 53:23.242 --> 53:36.882 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 56:14.228 --> 56:19.880 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 56:19.880 --> 56:25.942 HALLELUJAH, GIVE HIM SOME PRAISE THIS MORNING. WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR 56:25.942 --> 56:33.226 YOUR LOVE, LORD. WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT SACRIFICE YOU GAVE US. 56:33.226 --> 56:38.090 AMEN, AMEN, AMEN. WELL, BEFORE PASTOR HANK COMES UP, I GOTTA 56:38.090 --> 56:48.351 MENTION ONE QUICK THING. I FORGOT TO MENTION IT EARLIER. I 56:48.351 --> 56:55.192 AM, I'M PARTIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS, SO I WANT YOU ALL TO 56:55.192 --> 57:00.081 SUPPORT IT. WE HAVE A SPECIAL IN THE CAFE THIS MORNING. PUT THE 57:00.081 --> 57:07.400 PICTURE UP. AND I WANT YOU ALL TO GO BUY THEM. CAN YOU DO THAT 57:07.400 --> 57:13.911 FOR ME? SO I DON'T LOOK BAD FOR ALICIA. SHE WORKS SO HARD. SHE 57:13.911 --> 57:16.911 PUT THESE TOGETHER. I ASKED HER TO PUT THEM TOGETHER. I THOUGHT 57:16.911 --> 57:21.202 THEY WERE CUTE. GO OUT AND GET THEM FROM THE CAFE AFTER 57:21.202 --> 57:28.251 SERVICE. I THOUGHT THEY WERE ADORABLE. SO GO SUPPORT THEM AS 57:28.251 --> 57:32.476 PASTOR HANK COMES. ALL RIGHT. I THINK YOU OUGHT TO GO OUT AND 57:32.476 --> 57:36.802 GET ONE OF THOSE. AMEN. WELL, GIVE SOMEBODY AROUND YOU A 57:36.802 --> 57:44.001 KNUCKLE TOUCH, FIST PUNCH. THAT'S GOOD. SO DID THEY MAKE 57:44.001 --> 57:46.880 THOSE THINGS? IS THAT RIGHT? WOW, THAT'S PRETTY CREATIVE, I 57:46.880 --> 57:52.070 LIKE THAT. THAT'S REALLY GOOD. BRENDA MADE ME LAMB STEW FOR 57:52.070 --> 57:56.271 PASSOVER, MAN. SHE'S A FANTASTIC COOK, IT WAS REALLY, REALLY 57:56.271 --> 57:59.782 GOOD. AND EVEN HAD IT, IT WAS SO GOOD, I HAD IT TWICE FOR 57:59.782 --> 58:06.771 LEFTOVERS. SO, AND TALKING ABOUT PASTOR BRENDA, YOU KNOW, JESUS 58:06.771 --> 58:10.365 2,000 YEARS AGO, OVER 2,000 YEARS AGO, ROLLED AWAY THE 58:10.365 --> 58:15.081 STONE. 37 YEARS AGO, I PRESENTED THE STONE. 58:15.081 --> 58:17.420 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 58:17.420 --> 58:23.630 AMEN, I DID, YOU LIKE THAT? YEAH, SO 37 YEARS AGO, ON 58:23.630 --> 58:30.590 RESURRECTION SUNDAY, I PROPOSED TO MY LADY. AND I WAS DRESSED 58:30.590 --> 58:33.920 LIKE JESUS. NOW, LET ME JUST SAY THIS, I DIDN'T GO OUT AND GET A 58:33.920 --> 58:38.211 JESUS EASTER COSTUME SO I COULD PROPOSE TO HER, I WAS PLAYING 58:38.211 --> 58:45.771 JESUS IN A EASTER DRAMA. BILL, YOU REMEMBER THAT, YEAH. AND 58:45.771 --> 58:49.880 MATTHEW, YOU LOOKED A LOT LIKE HOW I DID WHEN I PORTRAYED 58:49.880 --> 58:54.920 JESUS. SO, BUT ANYWAY, IN FACT, WHEN I MET JIM CAVIEZEL, I TOLD 58:54.920 --> 59:00.539 HIM, I SAID, WELL, JIM, SORRY THAT YOU HAVE COMPETITION. 59:00.539 --> 59:03.771 YOU'RE ALL LAUGHING, I WASN'T. NO, NO, I'M MESSING. I HAD A 59:03.771 --> 59:07.041 FAKE BEARD 'CAUSE I CAN'T GROW A BEARD. EVERY TIME I'D TALK, THE 59:07.041 --> 59:10.041 DISCIPLES WOULD LAUGH 'CAUSE IT'D GO LIKE THIS. 'CAUSE THE 59:10.041 --> 59:14.900 GLUE WOULD SEPARATE FROM MY NERVOUS SWEAT. SO ANYWAY, BOB, 59:14.900 --> 59:20.630 YOU AND TASHA WERE THERE. AND I WAS LIKE, OKAY, SO AFTER THE 59:20.630 --> 59:24.561 RESURRECTION PLAY AND EVERYTHING, I TOLD BRENDA, I 59:24.561 --> 59:29.242 SAID, "MEET ME IN THE UPPER ROOM." AND I SAID, "THEN WE'LL 59:29.242 --> 59:33.952 GO TO YOUR PARENTS FOR LUNCH." SHE DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS COMING 59:33.952 --> 59:37.641 AND WHAT WAS ABOUT TO ENTER INTO THE UPPER ROOM. AND JUST LIKE 59:37.641 --> 59:43.762 JESUS, I WALKED IN LIKE THIS. SHE LOOKED AT ME, AND I KNELT 59:43.762 --> 59:51.257 DOWN, AND I ASKED HER TO MARRY ME. AND YOU KNOW WHAT SHE SAID? 59:51.257 --> 59:56.181 "I WILL FOR THE ROCK." NO, SHE DIDN'T, SHE DIDN'T. NO, SHE SAID 59:56.181 --> 01:00:00.590 YES, AND OUR FIRST RINGS WERE $99 AT SERVICE MERCHANDISE. IT 01:00:00.590 --> 01:00:04.851 WAS SO LITTLE, YOU COULDN'T EVEN SEE IT. ANYWAY, THANK YOU FOR 01:00:04.851 --> 01:00:10.284 SAYING YES. IT'S BEEN A GREAT 37 YEARS, BUT ANYWAY. SO, YEAH, I 01:00:10.284 --> 01:00:14.900 FIGURED IT THIS WAY. HOW CAN YOU TURN SOMEBODY DOWN WHO LOOKED 01:00:14.900 --> 01:00:20.717 AND ACTED LIKE JESUS, ESPECIALLY WITH MARRIAGE, I MEAN... I MEAN, 01:00:20.717 --> 01:00:22.818 I JUST FEEL LIKE AS I'M SITTING HERE, Y'ALL ARE JUST LIKE, HUH? 01:00:22.818 --> 01:00:26.807 OKAY, NEVER MIND. MUST BE THE DAY. BUT I JUST WANTED TO HONOR 01:00:26.807 --> 01:00:29.358 GOD AND HONOR THAT. ALL RIGHT, I WANT YOU TO OPEN YOUR BIBLES, 01:00:29.358 --> 01:00:37.757 PLEASE, TO, WE'LL GO TO MARK CHAPTER, LET'S GO TO MARK 01:00:37.757 --> 01:00:42.498 CHAPTER 15, VERSE 37. WE'LL START THERE. AND THANK YOU FOR 01:00:42.498 --> 01:00:47.898 BEING HERE TODAY. AND THIS IS A GREAT DAY TO BE ALIVE BECAUSE 01:00:47.898 --> 01:00:52.907 HE'S ALIVE, AMEN? NOW, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING TODAY AS 01:00:52.907 --> 01:00:56.867 YOU'RE OPENING YOUR BIBLE, WE MENTIONED EARLIER, IS THERE 01:00:56.867 --> 01:01:00.239 SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU'RE WAITING FOR? IS THERE 01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:05.998 SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU HAVE MAYBE GIVEN UP ON? MAYBE 01:01:05.998 --> 01:01:08.717 YOU FELT HOPELESS OR YOU FEEL HOPELESS ABOUT IT. YOU'RE LIKE, 01:01:08.717 --> 01:01:11.628 YOU KNOW, I'M JUST TIRED OF WAITING. IS THAT THING EVER 01:01:11.628 --> 01:01:15.347 GONNA HAPPEN? SOMETIMES, AND WE'RE GONNA FIND IN THIS MESSAGE 01:01:15.347 --> 01:01:18.168 TODAY THAT WHEN WE ARE IN A SEASON OF WAITING OR WE'RE 01:01:18.168 --> 01:01:25.038 WAITING FOR SOMETHING, THAT WE TOO CAN DOUBT. WE TOO CAN STOP 01:01:25.038 --> 01:01:29.688 BELIEVING IN THE MIRACULOUS. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA FIND IN 01:01:29.688 --> 01:01:32.628 THE STORIES THAT WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT, THE DIFFERENT EXAMPLES. 01:01:32.628 --> 01:01:35.657 BUT I WANT US TO LOOK AT MARK CHAPTER 15, VERSE 37. I WANNA 01:01:35.657 --> 01:01:40.788 BRING US BACK TO WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE RESURRECTION. AND 01:01:40.788 --> 01:01:45.438 JESUS CRIED, VERSE 37, WITH A LOUD VOICE, AND HE SAID, "IT IS 01:01:45.438 --> 01:01:49.128 FINISHED," AND GAVE UP THE GHOST. AND THE VEIL OF THE 01:01:49.128 --> 01:01:53.358 TEMPLE WAS RENT IN TWO, FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM. AND WHEN THE 01:01:53.358 --> 01:01:57.498 CENTURION WHICH STOOD OVER AGAINST HIM SAW THAT, HE CRIED 01:01:57.498 --> 01:02:03.768 OUT AND GAVE UP THE GHOST. HE SAID, "TRULY THIS MAN WAS THE 01:02:03.768 --> 01:02:10.367 SON OF GOD." POWERFUL. ALL RIGHT, I WANT YOU JUST TO COME 01:02:10.367 --> 01:02:13.577 DOWN TO VERSE 46. THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION THERE, WHICH IS 01:02:13.577 --> 01:02:16.367 ALL GOOD. YOU COULD READ IT. THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT IN THE 01:02:16.367 --> 01:02:19.398 VERSES THAT I'M SKIPPING THROUGH, THAT THEY CAME TO 01:02:19.398 --> 01:02:25.157 PILATE ASKING, REQUESTING FOR THE BODY OF JESUS. NOW LOOK AT 01:02:25.157 --> 01:02:31.097 VERSE 46, "AND SO THEY BOUGHT FINE LINEN AND TOOK HIM DOWN AND 01:02:31.097 --> 01:02:34.697 WRAPPED JESUS IN THE LINEN AND THEY LAID HIM IN THE SEPULCHER 01:02:34.697 --> 01:02:40.697 WHICH WAS CARVED OUT OF A ROCK AND ROLLED A STONE UPON THE DOOR 01:02:40.697 --> 01:02:45.197 OF THAT GRAVE. AND MARY MAGDALENE AND MARY THE MOTHER OF 01:02:45.197 --> 01:02:49.907 HOSEA, BEHOLD WHERE HE WAS LAID. SO I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHAT 01:02:49.907 --> 01:02:56.268 HAPPENED NOW. JESUS DIED, HE SAID TO GOD AND SPOKE IT OUT, 01:02:56.268 --> 01:03:00.498 "IT IS FINISHED." THEY WENT AND THEY GATHERED THE BODY OF JESUS 01:03:00.498 --> 01:03:04.788 THAT HAD BEEN CRUCIFIED ON THE CROSS AND NOW THEY HAD LAID IT 01:03:04.788 --> 01:03:10.097 IN A TOMB. THERE WAS A WAITING PERIOD. IT WAS FROM FRIDAY, GOOD 01:03:10.097 --> 01:03:15.108 FRIDAY, ALL THE WAY TO THAT SUNDAY MORNING. THERE WAS A 01:03:15.108 --> 01:03:22.068 WAITING PERIOD. THERE WAS A MOMENT OF, DID HE REALLY SAY HE 01:03:22.068 --> 01:03:25.338 WAS GONNA RISE AGAIN? YOU'RE GONNA FIND THAT THAT'S WHAT SOME 01:03:25.338 --> 01:03:29.358 OF HIS DISCIPLES SAID. YOU'RE GONNA SEE THAT JESUS TOLD HIS 01:03:29.358 --> 01:03:33.378 DISCIPLES WHERE TO MEET HIM AND THEY WEREN'T THERE. THEY WERE 15 01:03:33.378 --> 01:03:38.628 MILES OFF COURSE. YOU'RE GONNA SEE THAT THERE ARE THOSE THAT 01:03:38.628 --> 01:03:45.527 BEGAN TO QUESTION, WELL, WAS IT REALLY TRUE? BECAUSE OF THE 01:03:45.527 --> 01:03:50.088 WAITING PERIOD THAT HAPPENED FROM THE TIME THAT THEY TOOK HIM 01:03:50.088 --> 01:03:52.608 OFF THE CROSS, PUT HIM IN THE GRAVE TILL THE TIME, I'M GONNA 01:03:52.608 --> 01:03:56.688 READ YOU THE NEXT PASSAGE. LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 28, VERSES 2 01:03:56.688 --> 01:04:01.697 THROUGH 6. "THREE DAYS, THREE NIGHTS, BEHOLD, "THERE WAS A 01:04:01.697 --> 01:04:06.797 GREAT EARTHQUAKE. "FOR THE ANGEL OF THE LORD DESCENDED FROM 01:04:06.797 --> 01:04:12.918 HEAVEN "AND CAME AND ROLLED BACK THE STONE FROM THE DOOR "AND SAT 01:04:12.918 --> 01:04:15.047 ON IT." NOW YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT. FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 01:04:15.047 --> 01:04:21.438 WATCHING TODAY, LITERALLY THERE IS ONE VERSION OF THIS AND THE 01:04:21.438 --> 01:04:25.547 LITERAL TRANSLATION IS THE STONE WASN'T JUST ROLLED BACK. ONE 01:04:25.547 --> 01:04:30.378 TRANSLATION SAYS THAT IT WAS BACK UP ON THE HILL. IT WAS SUCH 01:04:30.378 --> 01:04:34.878 THE BLAST OF NUCLEAR POWER. HE DIDN'T JUST ROLL AWAY THE STONE. 01:04:34.878 --> 01:04:38.597 IT'S LIKE IF YOU WOULD SHAKE UP, I GUESS YOU'VE SEEN LIKE WITH 01:04:38.597 --> 01:04:41.327 CHAMPAGNE, IF YOU SHAKE IT UP, YOU'VE SEEN THAT ON LIKE 01:04:41.327 --> 01:04:44.628 COMMERCIALS AND DIFFERENT THINGS AND YOU POP THE CORK, EXCEPT 01:04:44.628 --> 01:04:46.907 THIS WAS AT A WHOLE ‘NOTHER LEVEL. THE STONE WASN'T JUST 01:04:46.907 --> 01:04:52.068 ROLLED BACK, IT WAS LIKE NUCLEAR ENERGY. IT BLASTED OFF AND WAS 01:04:52.068 --> 01:04:59.748 PUT BACK ON TOP OF THE HILL. NOW THAT ROCK WAS SEVERAL TONS. YOU 01:04:59.748 --> 01:05:06.588 CAN IMAGINE THE SIGN AND THE WONDER. THEY FORMULATED A LIE, 01:05:06.588 --> 01:05:11.057 THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, THAT THE DISCIPLES LIED ABOUT THE 01:05:11.057 --> 01:05:13.847 WHOLE THING, THE BODY WAS STOLEN, THEY MADE THIS WHOLE 01:05:13.847 --> 01:05:17.507 THING UP, BUT HERE'S WHAT THEY COULD NOT DENY. THEY ALL KNEW 01:05:17.507 --> 01:05:23.088 WHAT I JUST READ YOU, THAT THAT STONE WAS PUT IN FRONT OF THE 01:05:23.088 --> 01:05:27.378 GRAVE. THEY ALL KNEW THAT IT WAS SEALED, AND THEY ALL KNEW THAT 01:05:27.378 --> 01:05:31.157 PILATE, UNDER THE ORDERS OF THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT, HAD PUT THAT 01:05:31.157 --> 01:05:35.963 STONE IN PLACE WITH A BUNCH OF ROMAN SOLDIERS, THEY SAY TWO TO 01:05:35.963 --> 01:05:41.358 400 OF THEM. AND LET ME SAY THIS, THEY ALSO WERE UNDER SUCH 01:05:41.358 --> 01:05:47.898 ORDERS THAT IF ANYTHING HAPPENS, IT'S YOUR LIFE NOW. SO THEY 01:05:47.898 --> 01:05:53.268 WERE, THESE SOLDIERS WEREN'T PART OF A LIE. BUT NOBODY COULD 01:05:53.268 --> 01:05:57.378 DENY, GO BACK TO THAT VERSE, MATTHEW 28, WHAT HAPPENED, THOSE 01:05:57.378 --> 01:06:00.978 OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING AS WELL AS THOSE IN THIS ROOM, THAT THE 01:06:00.978 --> 01:06:06.887 POWER OF THE RESURRECTED CHRIST WAS SO GREAT THAT THIS MASSIVE 01:06:06.887 --> 01:06:15.467 TON ROCK, BOULDER, HAD BLASTED OFF OF THE GRAVE DOOR AND NOW 01:06:15.467 --> 01:06:23.898 WAS BACK UP ON THE HILL. THAT IS POWERFUL. KEEP READING, WATCH 01:06:23.898 --> 01:06:28.307 WHAT HAPPENS. VERSE THREE, "AND HIS COUNTENANCE, HIS ANGEL, "WAS 01:06:28.307 --> 01:06:34.277 LIKE LIGHTNING, AND HIS RAIMENT WAS WHITE AS SNOW. "AND FOR FEAR 01:06:34.277 --> 01:06:39.347 OF HIM, THE SOLDIERS BEGAN TO SHAKE, "AND BECAME AS DEAD MEN." 01:06:39.347 --> 01:06:42.588 THEY FELL UNDER THE POWER OF GOD. LOOK AT VERSE FIVE. "AND 01:06:42.588 --> 01:06:45.467 THE ANGEL ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THE WOMAN," WHO'S THERE, "FEAR 01:06:45.467 --> 01:06:49.277 NOT, FOR I KNOW THAT YOU SEEK JESUS, "WHICH WAS CRUCIFIED." 01:06:49.277 --> 01:06:54.197 YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR HIM. HE'S NOT HERE. SOMETIMES WHEN 01:06:54.197 --> 01:07:01.398 WE'RE WAITING, WHAT'S THE THING THAT WE DO? WE START DOUBTING. 01:07:01.398 --> 01:07:07.577 "FOR HE IS RISEN, AS HE HAD SAID." SOMETIMES WHEN IT COMES 01:07:07.577 --> 01:07:11.387 TO WAITING, WE FORGET SOMETIMES WHAT WE'RE WAITING FOR. 01:07:11.387 --> 01:07:14.867 SOMETIMES WE FORGET REALLY WHAT THE PROMISE WAS THAT WE WERE 01:07:14.867 --> 01:07:18.768 STANDING ON. WE FORGET ABOUT THE PRAYERS THAT WE PRAYED THAT GOD 01:07:18.768 --> 01:07:23.958 DID IN FACT HEAR. BUT THE ANGEL SAID, HE SAID HE WOULD RISE 01:07:23.958 --> 01:07:27.318 AGAIN. I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN WAITING. NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT 01:07:27.318 --> 01:07:31.248 THIS, BECAUSE THERE IS A WAITING PERIOD. ALL OF THESE EVENTS HAD 01:07:31.248 --> 01:07:35.538 TO DO WITH WAITING. HOPE WAS AND SEEMED DELAYED. WAITING BECAME 01:07:35.538 --> 01:07:40.878 SOMETHING THAT WAS REALLY FOR SOME, IT WAS A SENSE OF 01:07:40.878 --> 01:07:43.427 EMPTINESS, IT WAS A SENSE OF PAIN, IT WAS A SENSE OF 01:07:43.427 --> 01:07:46.096 HOPELESSNESS. MAYBE THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE AT TODAY AND YOU THAT ARE 01:07:46.096 --> 01:07:49.458 AROUND THE WORLD WHERE YOU'RE LIKE, I'M JUST TIRED OF WAITING. 01:07:49.458 --> 01:07:53.597 I'M TIRED OF BELIEVING FOR SOMETHING THAT IT SEEMS LIKE IS 01:07:53.597 --> 01:07:58.248 NOT HERE. BUT HERE'S THE THING, SOMETIMES IN WAITING, WE HAVE TO 01:07:58.248 --> 01:08:02.748 BE VERY WISE ABOUT SOMETHING. WHERE WE TAKE THE FOCUS AND WE 01:08:02.748 --> 01:08:07.038 PUT IT ON OURSELVES RATHER THAN ON THE THING THAT WE'RE WAITING 01:08:07.038 --> 01:08:14.597 FOR. I REMEMBER MANY YEARS WAITING FOR THIS. I HAD PROMISE 01:08:14.597 --> 01:08:18.887 AFTER PROMISE AFTER PROMISE, PROPHECY AFTER PROPHECY. I WOULD 01:08:18.887 --> 01:08:23.028 SEE, AND I DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD WAS TRYING TO SHOW ME, 01:08:23.028 --> 01:08:26.688 THAT THERE WAS A DIFFERENT CHURCH. I WOULD SEE MYSELF IN A 01:08:26.688 --> 01:08:31.217 DIFFERENT CONGREGATIONAL STRUCTURE THAN WHAT WE WERE IN. 01:08:32.238 --> 01:08:38.417 BUT I KEPT LOOKING AT THE MOMENT AND MY WAITING THAT I LOST 01:08:39.438 --> 01:08:45.228 GLIMPSE OF THIS, THE PROMISE. MANY TIMES, AND I GOT 01:08:45.228 --> 01:08:48.257 DISCOURAGED. I STARTED THINKING THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH 01:08:48.257 --> 01:08:52.877 ME AS A PASTOR. I THOUGHT I WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH. THERE WAS 01:08:52.877 --> 01:08:56.328 TIMES THAT I WOULD PREACH A MESSAGE AND THINK, BRENDA, I AM 01:08:56.328 --> 01:08:58.864 JUST A TERRIBLE PREACHER. SHE'D SAY, NO, THAT WAS A GREAT, I 01:08:58.864 --> 01:09:04.310 SAID, NO, IF I WAS A BETTER PREACHER, PEOPLE WOULD COME. 01:09:04.310 --> 01:09:07.818 THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, AROUND THE WORLD, STADIUMS STARTED OPENING, 01:09:07.818 --> 01:09:10.158 BIG ARENAS, AND I WAS PREACHING IN THOSE, AND I THOUGHT, WELL, 01:09:10.158 --> 01:09:13.247 EVERYBODY ELSE THINKS THAT I'M AN OKAY PREACHER, BUT MY OWN 01:09:13.247 --> 01:09:24.408 TOWN. I GOT TIRED OF WAITING. GOT TIRED OF WAITING. COME ON, 01:09:24.408 --> 01:09:27.408 HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE BEFORE? I GOT TIRED OF WAITING. I DIDN'T 01:09:27.408 --> 01:09:31.127 BELIEVE IT ANYMORE. THERE'S TIMES I DOUBTED IT, GOT MAD, GOT 01:09:31.127 --> 01:09:34.188 UPSET. THERE'S TIMES I WENT TO GOD AND I SAID, "GOD, I'M NOT 01:09:34.188 --> 01:09:36.978 EVEN GONNA TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT ANYMORE "BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY YOU 01:09:36.978 --> 01:09:42.018 AND I AREN'T CONNECTING ON THIS." SO I LEAVE IT IN YOUR 01:09:42.018 --> 01:09:45.438 HANDS. I REMEMBER MY CHILDREN'S BOOKS. I PUT THAT THING ON THE 01:09:45.438 --> 01:09:50.297 SHELF FOR 20 YEARS. SAID, "I CREATED ALL OF THIS, GOD, FOR 01:09:50.297 --> 01:09:55.068 YOU, FOR KIDS, FOR FAMILIES, FOR CHILDREN, AND WHAT GOOD IS IT IF 01:09:55.068 --> 01:10:00.738 THEY'RE JUST SITTING IN A BUNCH OF BOXES, THE FIRST EDITIONS?" I 01:10:00.738 --> 01:10:06.228 GUESS MAYBE I MISSED IT, GOD. AND I SHOVED 'EM AWAY, PUT 'EM 01:10:06.228 --> 01:10:09.137 IN BOXES, AND IT WASN'T UNTIL I MET NORRIS HALL, OUR 01:10:09.137 --> 01:10:14.807 ILLUSTRATOR, THAT GOD SAID, "IT'S TIME." BUT IN ALL THOSE 01:10:14.807 --> 01:10:18.773 YEARS, I WAS READY TO JUST WALK AWAY FROM IT ALL. YOU GETTING A 01:10:18.773 --> 01:10:24.734 LITTLE BITTER? WELL, GOD'S SPONGEBOB SEEMS TO, YOU LIKE HIM 01:10:24.734 --> 01:10:29.113 BETTER THAN ME. OH NO, I PRAYED THAT PRAYER. I GUESS YOU DON'T 01:10:29.113 --> 01:10:31.753 CARE THAT THERE'S NASTY CARTOONS OUT THERE AND I'M TRYING TO GIVE 01:10:31.753 --> 01:10:34.872 GOOD STUFF. YES, IT DOESN'T MATTER TO YOU, GOD. NOW, YOU 01:10:34.872 --> 01:10:39.762 KNOW HOW STUPID THAT IS, OKAY? AND I KNOW GOD WELL ENOUGH. AND 01:10:39.762 --> 01:10:41.573 HE JUST LOOKED AT ME AND PROBABLY SMILED AND 01:10:41.573 --> 01:10:44.143 THOUGHT, YOU ARE A SNOTTY LITTLE BOY. 01:10:44.143 --> 01:10:45.972 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:10:45.972 --> 01:10:50.802 BUT HE LOVES ME ENOUGH TO PUT UP WITH THAT, RIGHT? LOOK AT WHAT 01:10:50.802 --> 01:10:54.372 PROVERBS 13, VERSE 22 SAYS. THIS MIGHT BE WHERE SOME OF YOU ARE 01:10:54.372 --> 01:10:58.453 AT TODAY. BUT HERE'S THE PROMISE OF WHY WE CELEBRATE TODAY. WE 01:10:58.453 --> 01:11:02.743 CELEBRATE A RISEN CHRIST, WHO EVEN THOUGH IT WAS THREE DAYS 01:11:02.743 --> 01:11:08.435 AND THREE NIGHTS, AS HE SAID, AND THERE WAS A WAITING PERIOD, 01:11:08.435 --> 01:11:13.842 SOMETHING POWERFUL EMERGED. COME ON, FOLKS, LOOK AT THIS CHURCH. 01:11:13.842 --> 01:11:18.463 SOME OF YOU, YOU NEED TO COME, WATCH US, AND SEE WHAT YOU AND 01:11:18.463 --> 01:11:23.203 GOD TOGETHER, NOT IN THAT ORDER, BUT GOD IN YOU. SOMETHING 01:11:23.203 --> 01:11:26.591 POWERFUL EMERGED, EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS A PASTOR AT TIMES THAT 01:11:26.591 --> 01:11:32.293 GOT FRUSTRATED, GOT DISCOURAGED, GOT UPSET, STARTED BLAMING 01:11:32.293 --> 01:11:35.774 HIMSELF, STARTED LISTENING TO, WATCH THIS, I EVEN STARTED 01:11:35.774 --> 01:11:42.912 LISTENING TO THOSE THAT HATED ME. THEY USED TO CALL ME PASTOR. 01:11:42.912 --> 01:11:45.524 AND I THOUGHT, WELL, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, AND THERE'S ALWAYS GOOD 01:11:45.524 --> 01:11:49.393 SELF-EXAMINATION. SOMETIMES YOUR CRITICS ARE GOOD 'CAUSE IT KINDA 01:11:49.393 --> 01:11:51.703 HELPS YOU EXAMINE YOURSELF SO THAT YOU MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE 01:11:51.703 --> 01:11:56.654 WALKING IN A LEVEL OF HONOR BEFORE GOD AND THE PEOPLE THAT 01:11:56.654 --> 01:12:05.654 YOU ARE CALLED TO. RIGHT? SO YOU HAVE TO WATCH VOICES, BUT IT 01:12:05.654 --> 01:12:12.734 SAYS, "A GOOD MAN," NO, THAT'S NOT IT. 13:12, DID I SAY 22? IT 01:12:12.734 --> 01:12:16.604 LOOKED LIKE A 2 WITHOUT MY GLASSES. SO THERE YOU GO. "HOPE 01:12:16.604 --> 01:12:23.203 DELAYED MAKES THE HEART SICK." COME ON, WHEN SOMETHING THAT 01:12:23.203 --> 01:12:25.604 YOU'RE WAITING FOR, YOU CAN SEE THAT WITH MARY MAGDALENE, YOU 01:12:25.604 --> 01:12:28.993 CAN SEE THAT WITH THE DISCIPLES. THEY DID NOT LIKE THE THREE 01:12:28.993 --> 01:12:32.538 DAYS, FROM GOOD FRIDAY TO SUNDAY, THEY DIDN'T LIKE IT. 01:12:32.538 --> 01:12:35.953 THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE TIMEFRAME. THEY BEGAN TO GET SICK IN THEIR 01:12:35.953 --> 01:12:38.802 HEART. THEY BEGAN TO GET DISCOURAGED. THEY BEGAN TO QUIT. 01:12:38.802 --> 01:12:42.073 THEY BEGAN TO GIVE UP. AND IT SAYS, "HOPE DELAYED, IT'LL MAKE 01:12:42.073 --> 01:12:45.404 YOUR HEART SICK." YOU GOTTA WATCH IT, BECAUSE YOU KNOW HOW 01:12:45.404 --> 01:12:49.842 SOME PEOPLE'S HEARTS GET SICK? IS YOU GET NASTY, YOU GET MEAN, 01:12:49.842 --> 01:12:54.583 YOU GET BITTER. YOU GET CRITICAL, YOU QUIT, YOU GIVE UP. 01:12:54.583 --> 01:13:00.762 NOBODY CAN TALK TO YOU. YOU STOP BEING ABOUT SPIRITUAL THINGS 01:13:00.762 --> 01:13:03.643 BECAUSE NOW YOU'RE MAD AT GOD, YOU'RE MAD BECAUSE YOU'RE 01:13:03.643 --> 01:13:09.134 WAITING, AND YOU'RE MAD AT LIFE. IT AFFECTS YOUR HEART, YOU'VE 01:13:09.134 --> 01:13:14.622 GOT TO BE CAREFUL. THANK GOD IN THE MIDST OF ALL THE YEARS THAT 01:13:14.622 --> 01:13:18.703 I WAITED FOR THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN PROPHESIED TO ME THAT 01:13:18.703 --> 01:13:22.543 YOU APPRECIATE IT, YOU'RE SEEING THE FRUIT OF IT. BUT LISTEN, THE 01:13:22.543 --> 01:13:26.203 JOURNEY, THE WAIT TO GET HERE, THAT WE ARE ENJOYING THE FRUIT 01:13:26.203 --> 01:13:32.384 OF THIS VESSEL'S LIFE. THANK GOD IN ALL OF IT, AS STUPID AS I WAS 01:13:32.384 --> 01:13:41.713 SOMETIMES, I KEPT MY HEART RIGHT. BECAUSE NOBODY WOULD WANT 01:13:41.713 --> 01:13:45.194 A BITTER PASTOR. NOBODY WOULD WANT A PASTOR THAT WALKED AROUND 01:13:45.194 --> 01:13:52.003 ANGRY AND BITTER AND MAD AND, IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT. YOU'RE THE 01:13:52.003 --> 01:13:58.842 REASON THAT MY CHURCH WAS THE UGLIEST CHURCH IN TOWN. YOU EVER 01:13:58.842 --> 01:14:01.783 BEEN THERE? AM I THE ONLY ONE? LORD, THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME 01:14:01.783 --> 01:14:05.984 THIS MESSAGE SO I CAN PREACH IT FOR MYSELF. NOW, BUT HERE'S THE 01:14:05.984 --> 01:14:10.033 THING, JUST LIKE THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS, SOMETHING POWERFUL 01:14:10.033 --> 01:14:15.854 WAS ABOUT TO EMERGE. A STONE THAT WAS SEVERAL TONS IN ITS 01:14:15.854 --> 01:14:22.722 WEIGHT WAS BLASTED. COME ON, WHAT IS READY TO BLAST OPEN FOR 01:14:22.722 --> 01:14:29.802 YOU? THAT'S WHAT THE RESURRECTION IS ABOUT. YOUR 01:14:29.802 --> 01:14:36.546 WAITING IS NOT IN VAIN. SOMETHING OF GOD AND THE 01:14:36.546 --> 01:14:42.194 SUPERNATURAL POWER OF GOD IS ABOUT TO BRING SOMETHING TO 01:14:42.194 --> 01:14:47.622 MANIFESTATION IN YOUR LIFE, THIS NATION, THE EARTH. 01:14:47.622 --> 01:14:51.673 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:14:51.673 --> 01:14:54.613 HOPE DELAYED, IT MAKES YOUR HEART SICK, BUT WHEN 01:14:54.613 --> 01:15:00.833 IT FINALLY HAPPENS, IT'S ABOUT TO BUST OPEN. 01:15:00.833 --> 01:15:04.783 PSALM 37, VERSE 7, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT MANY TIMES WHERE 01:15:04.783 --> 01:15:08.323 PEOPLE HAD TO WAIT, TELLS US THAT WE HAVE TO WAIT. I TOLD YOU 01:15:08.323 --> 01:15:12.643 ABOUT SHILOH, THE LAST WORD I HEARD, I SAID, "GOD, HE KEPT 01:15:12.643 --> 01:15:15.314 POKING AT ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT "I WOULD TURN OVER AND 01:15:15.314 --> 01:15:19.122 I KNEW IT, I SAID, "GOD, QUIT POKING ON ME LIKE THE PILLSBURY 01:15:19.122 --> 01:15:24.314 DOUGHBOY." I TOLD HIM THAT. I SAID, "I HATE THAT WORD." HE 01:15:24.314 --> 01:15:31.845 SAID, "WAIT." I SAID, "LORD, I'LL WAIT AS LONG AS YOU LET 01:15:31.845 --> 01:15:36.734 SOMETHING POWERFUL EMERGE." AND I KEPT ROLLING OVER. HE SAID, 01:15:36.734 --> 01:15:42.162 "WAIT." I SAID, "LORD, I DON'T LIKE THAT WORD." SOMETHING 01:15:42.162 --> 01:15:50.323 POWERFUL IS ABOUT TO EMERGE. WE WILL HAVE OUR SHILOH. YOU WATCH. 01:15:50.323 --> 01:15:53.984 NOW, HERE'S WHAT'S AMAZING. REST IN THE LORD. OH, THAT'S THE 01:15:53.984 --> 01:15:57.854 HARDEST ONE. NO, WE'RE GONNA BE LIKE THE DISCIPLES. WE'RE GONNA 01:15:57.854 --> 01:16:00.012 LOCK THE DOORS AND SHUT OURSELVES IN AND QUIT GOING TO 01:16:00.012 --> 01:16:07.842 CHURCH. THAT'S WHAT THEY DID. WE'RE GONNA SHUT PEOPLE OFF. NO, 01:16:07.842 --> 01:16:13.453 REST IN THE LORD. REST IN THE LORD. NOW, I MUST SAY WITH THE 01:16:13.453 --> 01:16:16.783 CHURCH, AS MUCH AS I GAVE YOU THIS STORY, AND EVEN MY 01:16:16.783 --> 01:16:21.404 CHILDREN'S BOOKS, CAN I TELL YOU ONE THING THAT I DID FINALLY DO 01:16:21.404 --> 01:16:25.662 IN KEEPING MY HEART RIGHT IS I WENT FROM STINKING THINKING, 01:16:25.662 --> 01:16:29.293 STINKING ATTITUDES TO HONESTLY, BRENDA KNOWS, I CAME TO A PLACE 01:16:29.293 --> 01:16:32.984 OF FAITH. I CAME TO A PLACE OF REST. I SAID, GOD, I AM NO 01:16:32.984 --> 01:16:38.564 LONGER BEING CRITICAL OF YOU AND YOUR WAYS. I'M RESTING IN THE 01:16:38.564 --> 01:16:44.293 FACT THAT I HAVE PRAYED, I LIVE HONORABLY, I SERVE YOU WITH MY 01:16:44.293 --> 01:16:49.423 WHOLE HEART, I LOVE YOU LIKE EVERYTHING INSIDE OF ME. AND I'M 01:16:49.423 --> 01:16:53.774 RESTING IN THE FACT THAT YOU SAID IT WAS GONNA HAPPEN, IT'S 01:16:53.774 --> 01:16:56.682 YOUR JOB TO BRING IT TO PASS. AND THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS, 01:16:56.682 --> 01:16:59.592 CAST YOUR CARES, THROW IT OVER YOUR SHOULDER AND QUIT TRYING TO 01:16:59.592 --> 01:17:03.253 FISH IT BACK LIKE FISHERMEN. THROW IT OVER YOUR SHOULDER, NOT 01:17:03.253 --> 01:17:06.524 IN FRONT OF YOU. BUT I CAN TELL YOU ONE THING I KNOW, I'M NOT 01:17:06.524 --> 01:17:10.512 SAYING I'M THE GREATEST THING, BUT I CAN TELL YOU, I REMEMBER 01:17:10.512 --> 01:17:15.118 OVER THIS CHURCH, OVER MY LIFE, OVER THE CHILDREN'S BOOKS, I 01:17:15.118 --> 01:17:17.354 MEAN, WE'RE GETTING READY TO ROLL OUT FOUR NEW ANIMATION 01:17:17.354 --> 01:17:21.552 VIDEOS. I'M WORKING ON NINE MORE STORIES. THE PUBLISHER'S GOING 01:17:21.552 --> 01:17:23.833 CRAZY, GOING, "WE WANNA CONTRACT YOU FOR ALL OF THEM "'CAUSE 01:17:23.833 --> 01:17:28.423 THESE ARE GREAT IDEAS." AND I'M PUTTING THEM ALL IN STORIES. AND 01:17:28.423 --> 01:17:30.583 THANK GOD, GOD BROUGHT ME SOMEBODY, GOT ME A GREAT 01:17:30.583 --> 01:17:33.463 ILLUSTRATOR, BROUGHT ME COREY EDWARDS WHO WRITES, USED TO 01:17:33.463 --> 01:17:36.162 WRITE FOR VEGGIETALES, AND HE LAUGHS AT ALL MY STUFF. HE 01:17:36.162 --> 01:17:40.154 SPENDS HOURS ON THE PHONE WITH ME, AND I TELL HIM IDEAS, I TELL 01:17:40.154 --> 01:17:43.003 HIM HOW I WANT THE OUTLINES, AND IT'S GOOD TO HAVE SOMEBODY THAT 01:17:43.003 --> 01:17:45.073 CAN HELP PUT THE THINGS TOGETHER, AND THEN I HELP PUT 01:17:45.073 --> 01:17:48.673 THE DIALOGUE IN, AND THE STORIES GO QUICKER. I WOULD HAVE NEVER 01:17:48.673 --> 01:17:51.734 IMAGINED THAT GOD WOULD HAVE DONE THIS. BUT YOU HAVE TO REST 01:17:51.734 --> 01:17:56.173 IN THE LORD, AND WAIT PATIENTLY FOR HIM. OH, WE DON'T LIKE THAT 01:17:56.173 --> 01:18:02.293 WORD, WAIT PATIENTLY. DON'T FRET. AS ANOTHER THING, WHAT DID 01:18:02.293 --> 01:18:07.393 THE DISCIPLES DO? THEY FRETTED, GOT INTO FEAR. ALL RIGHT, LET'S 01:18:07.393 --> 01:18:10.722 GO ON. LET'S LOOK AT SOME EXAMPLES. NOW IN THE BIBLE, 01:18:10.722 --> 01:18:16.863 ABRAHAM HAD TO WAIT 25 YEARS FOR A SON. WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM? 01:18:16.863 --> 01:18:22.534 JACOB WAITED 14 YEARS BEFORE HE COULD MARRY HIS TRUE BELOVED. 01:18:22.534 --> 01:18:25.694 SOME OF YOU THAT ARE WAITING FOR YOUR SPOUSE, "I'M JUST GONNA 01:18:25.694 --> 01:18:31.904 LIVE THE REST OF MY LIFE SINGLE." WOMAN, YOU'RE ONLY 26. 01:18:31.904 --> 01:18:36.283 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:18:36.283 --> 01:18:42.703 JOSEPH WAITED 13 YEARS BEFORE HE WAS FINALLY VINDICATED. JESUS 01:18:42.703 --> 01:18:48.583 HAD TO WAIT 30 YEARS, AND THEN ONLY TO SERVE THREE AND A HALF 01:18:48.583 --> 01:18:53.567 YEARS OF MINISTRY AND TO GET CRUCIFIED ON A CROSS FOR IT. 01:18:53.567 --> 01:18:58.363 LET'S GO TO MARK 14. LET'S GO BEFORE THE CRUCIFIXION. LET'S GO 01:18:58.363 --> 01:19:00.944 TO THE GARDEN. I WANNA TEACH YOU SOME PRINCIPLES. LOOK AT MARK 01:19:00.944 --> 01:19:05.774 14, VERSE 32 AND 33. SO NOW JESUS, BEFORE HE GOES TO THIS 01:19:05.774 --> 01:19:11.444 CROSS RIGHT HERE, HE GOES TO A GARDEN. AND JESUS IS SO AT A 01:19:11.444 --> 01:19:17.143 PLACE WHERE HE IS UNDERSTANDING THAT ALL THE DISCIPLES, ALL OF 01:19:17.143 --> 01:19:21.643 HIS FOLLOWERS, AND EVEN HIMSELF, IT WOULD BE WORTH THE WAIT. BUT 01:19:21.643 --> 01:19:24.583 HE SAYS TO HIS DISCIPLES, HE SAID, "HEY," COMES TO THE PLACE 01:19:24.583 --> 01:19:27.342 NAMED GETHSEMANE, SAYS TO HIS DISCIPLES, "SIT HERE AND I'M 01:19:27.342 --> 01:19:30.432 GONNA PRAY." NOW LOOK AT WHAT HE SAYS IN VERSE 33. HE SAYS, 01:19:30.432 --> 01:19:34.753 "WOW." HE TAKES WITH HIM PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. NOW, YOU HAVE 01:19:34.753 --> 01:19:39.972 TO UNDERSTAND, GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS VERSE. HE TELLS HIS 01:19:39.972 --> 01:19:44.444 DISCIPLES, HE TOLD HIS OTHER EIGHT, 'CAUSE THERE WERE 11 01:19:44.444 --> 01:19:48.643 DISCIPLES AT THAT POINT. THERE USED TO BE 12, BUT WE KNOW WHAT 01:19:48.643 --> 01:19:54.012 HAPPENED TO JUDAS. HE BETRAYED JESUS, RIGHT? HE WAS OFF GETTING 01:19:54.012 --> 01:19:59.024 READY TO BETRAY HIM. SO THERE WAS ONLY 11 DISCIPLES. JUDAS WAS 01:19:59.024 --> 01:20:02.203 GOING OFF ON HIS BUSINESS TO GET READY TO MEET JESUS IN THE 01:20:02.203 --> 01:20:05.682 GARDEN WITH THE SOLDIERS TO ARREST HIM. SO THERE WERE ONLY 01:20:05.682 --> 01:20:10.993 11. SO IMAGINE EIGHT. HE'S SAYING RIGHT THERE IN VERSE 32, 01:20:10.993 --> 01:20:17.317 YOU NEED TO WAIT OVER HERE. AND THEN NOW LOOK AT VERSE 33. HE 01:20:17.317 --> 01:20:24.939 TAKES OUT OF THAT 11, 3, PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. AND HE TELLS 01:20:24.939 --> 01:20:28.600 THEM TO COME PRAY WITH HIM AND HE TELLS THE OTHERS TO WAIT AND 01:20:28.600 --> 01:20:32.500 HE TELLS THESE THREE TO ALSO PRAY AND WAIT. NOW, LET'S GO 01:20:32.500 --> 01:20:36.579 BACK TO VERSE 32. CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING THOSE EIGHT? I 01:20:36.579 --> 01:20:39.729 DON'T KNOW, WHAT WERE THEIR NAMES? BARTHOLOMEW AND MATTHEW 01:20:39.729 --> 01:20:42.310 AND ALL THAT. OKAY, THEY'RE HAVING TO WAIT AND THEY SEE HIM 01:20:42.310 --> 01:20:45.550 TAKE THREE AND THEY'RE PROBABLY GOING, WHAT? WE'RE SUPPOSED TO 01:20:45.550 --> 01:20:52.149 WAIT? WHAT DID WE DO WRONG? OH, STOP RIGHT THERE. WHAT HAPPENS? 01:20:52.149 --> 01:20:57.159 I TOLD YOU MY STORY. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? IT WAS NOT WHAT I 01:20:57.159 --> 01:21:01.689 WAS DOING WRONG THAT I HAD THE UGLIEST CHURCH IN TOWN, OR THAT 01:21:01.689 --> 01:21:05.109 MY CHILDREN'S BOOKS WERE SITTING ON A SHELF FOR 20 YEARS. IT WAS 01:21:05.109 --> 01:21:10.359 WHAT I WAS DOING RIGHT THAT I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND BECAUSE MY 01:21:10.359 --> 01:21:14.920 EYES WERE ON OTHERS. OTHER CHURCHES, COME ON, CAN I TELL 01:21:14.920 --> 01:21:19.479 YOU? I REMEMBER ONE SUNDAY, I SAID TO BRENDA, RESURRECTION 01:21:19.479 --> 01:21:23.260 SUNDAY IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA, IN THAT SEASON, I SAID, BRENDA, I 01:21:23.260 --> 01:21:25.390 WANT YOU, LET'S JUST TAKE SEPARATE CARS TODAY. SHE SAID, 01:21:25.390 --> 01:21:30.909 "WHY?" I SAID, "I JUST WANNA GO BY OTHER CHURCHES BEFORE OURS 01:21:30.909 --> 01:21:33.159 "AND I WANNA SEE IF THEIR PARKING LOTS ARE FULL "'CAUSE 01:21:33.159 --> 01:21:37.359 OURS NEVER ARE." OUR RESURRECTION SERVICES WERE 01:21:37.359 --> 01:21:42.430 SOMETIMES THE LEAST ATTENDED SERVICES. AND YET EVERY PASTOR 01:21:42.430 --> 01:21:46.568 THAT I KNEW IN TOWN, "OH MY GOODNESS, WE HAD A QUINTUPLE AND 01:21:46.568 --> 01:21:50.890 WE HAD 70 PEOPLE COME TO THE ALTAR. "WHAT'D YOU HAVE, HANK?" 01:21:50.890 --> 01:21:53.140 "I DON'T EVEN THINK I HAD 70 PEOPLE IN THE SERVICE." 01:21:53.140 --> 01:21:57.880 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:21:57.880 --> 01:22:01.329 AND MY EYES WERE ON OTHER CHURCHES, OTHER PASTORS. AND I 01:22:01.329 --> 01:22:07.210 CAME AND I WAS DRIVING BY AND THERE WERE SOME BIG CHURCHES. 01:22:07.210 --> 01:22:09.835 AND I DROVE BY AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD SAID TO ME, HE SAID, "WHAT 01:22:09.835 --> 01:22:14.109 ARE YOU DOING?" "I'M LOOKING AT OTHER CHURCHES," 'CAUSE I HAD AN 01:22:14.109 --> 01:22:16.359 ATTITUDE. I SAID, "I'M LOOKING AT OTHER CHURCHES "BECAUSE THEY 01:22:16.359 --> 01:22:19.439 ALWAYS HAVE A PACKED EASTER SERVICE "AND I DON'T." THAT'S 01:22:19.439 --> 01:22:25.444 WHAT I SAID TO HIM. HE SAID, "WELL, CAN I TELL YOU SOMETHING? 01:22:25.444 --> 01:22:30.430 "MANY OF YOUR PEOPLE ARE IN THOSE CHURCHES." I SAID, "WHAT?" 01:22:30.430 --> 01:22:38.229 HE SAID, "YES. "MANY OF THOSE THAT HAVE CALLED YOU "TO BE 01:22:38.229 --> 01:22:40.989 THEIR PASTOR IN THOSE." I SAID, "LORD, I'M NOT TRYING TO PULL 01:22:40.989 --> 01:22:46.466 ANYBODY FROM A CHURCH." HE SAID, "NO, BUT I AM, AND I WILL, 01:22:46.466 --> 01:22:49.930 "BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT STAND FOR WHAT IS RIGHT "AND WHAT IS 01:22:49.930 --> 01:22:55.119 HONORABLE." HE SAID, "IT WILL COME IN A DAY." NOW, I'M NOT 01:22:55.119 --> 01:22:57.880 HERE TO CRITICIZE ANY OTHER CHURCHES, ANY OTHER PASTORS, BUT 01:22:57.880 --> 01:23:00.430 THERE IS A POINT WHERE GOD DID CALL OUT PASTORS IN THE BIBLE 01:23:00.430 --> 01:23:02.380 'CAUSE SOME OF THEM WEREN'T DOING WHAT HE HAD CALLED THEM TO 01:23:02.380 --> 01:23:05.739 DO, AND HE WAS LOOKING FOR TRUE PASTORS THAT WOULD HAVE HIS 01:23:05.739 --> 01:23:16.149 HEART. AND SO NOW, JUST LIKE THOSE EIGHT, WE GO, "WELL, THAT 01:23:16.149 --> 01:23:18.640 DUDE'S UGLY, "AND HOW COME HE GOT THAT GOOD-LOOKING GIRL TO 01:23:18.640 --> 01:23:23.619 MARRY? "I'M BETTER LOOKING THAN THAT GUY, AND HE'S MARRIED. "I'M 01:23:23.619 --> 01:23:29.109 BETTER LOOKING THAN HER, AND SHE'S MARRIED. "I TITHE AND GIVE 01:23:29.109 --> 01:23:31.359 OFFERINGS, "AND HOW COME HE'S DRIVING IN 01:23:31.359 --> 01:23:34.014 TO THE PARKING LOT WITH THE MERCEDES?" 01:23:34.014 --> 01:23:42.521 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:23:42.521 --> 01:23:45.640 YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT? WHAT WERE THE EIGHT THINKING? I MEAN, 01:23:45.640 --> 01:23:50.350 THEY'RE PROBABLY GOING, PETER, YOU'RE AN IDIOT. YOU ALWAYS 01:23:50.350 --> 01:23:54.760 MOUTH OFF AND SAY THE WRONG THINGS. JESUS CALLED YOU SATAN, 01:23:54.760 --> 01:23:59.590 AND YOU GET TO GO WITH HIM? WHAT UP? AND THOSE EIGHT WERE 01:23:59.590 --> 01:24:02.710 PROBABLY SITTING OVER THERE, "MAN, I'M GONNA KNOCK PETER 01:24:02.710 --> 01:24:05.590 UPSIDE HIS HEAD. "HE GETS TO SPEND TIME WITH JESUS, "AND I 01:24:05.590 --> 01:24:11.859 GOTTA SIT OVER HERE FOR WHAT?" OKAY, I DISTRIBUTED MORE BREAD 01:24:11.859 --> 01:24:16.720 TO THE 5,000 MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN. I'M THE BETTER USHER 01:24:16.720 --> 01:24:20.529 THAN PETER. YOU KNOW WHAT PETER KEPT DOING? PETER KEPT CLEANING 01:24:20.529 --> 01:24:25.090 HIS NAILS WITH HIS FISHING KNIFE. YEAH, WE GET OUR EYES ON 01:24:25.090 --> 01:24:30.670 OTHER PEOPLE. NOW LET'S GO TO THE THREE. SO NOW THE THREE 01:24:30.670 --> 01:24:35.020 LUNKHEADS, PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN, AND I COULD JUST SEE, AND 01:24:35.020 --> 01:24:38.350 I KNOW ME, IF I WAS ONE OF THOSE PETER, JAMES, AND HANK, I'D BE 01:24:38.350 --> 01:24:41.025 LIKE LOOKING AT THE EGG GOING, SORRY, YOU'RE LOST. 01:24:41.025 --> 01:24:43.390 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:24:43.390 --> 01:24:52.420 AND I'D BE DOING MY BEST STRUT MOVE. AND THEN JESUS LOOKED AT 01:24:52.420 --> 01:25:00.766 ME, I'D BE LIKE, WE'RE HERE TO PRAY, WE'RE HERE TO PRAY. RIGHT? 01:25:00.766 --> 01:25:05.500 YOU EVER LOOKED AT IT THAT WAY? I DID. BUT NOW, HERE'S THE 01:25:05.500 --> 01:25:10.000 THING, LOOK AT WHAT JESUS TELLS THEM. "THEY FALL ASLEEP." LOOK 01:25:10.000 --> 01:25:13.600 AT VERSE 38, HE COMES BACK AND HE REBUKES THEM BECAUSE HERE'S 01:25:13.600 --> 01:25:17.529 WHAT HAPPENS IN WAITING. IF WE'RE NOT CAREFUL, THREE THINGS 01:25:17.529 --> 01:25:23.079 CAN HAPPEN IN OUR WAITING PERIOD. WE GET STRESSED. JESUS 01:25:23.079 --> 01:25:28.090 SAID IT, "MY SOUL IS VEXED." WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL THAT YOU 01:25:28.090 --> 01:25:34.801 DON'T GET YOUR HEART, YOUR SOUL, YOUR MIND, YOUR WILL SICK, 01:25:34.801 --> 01:25:43.689 STRESSED IN YOUR WAITING. HERE'S ANOTHER THING. YOU GET TIRED, HE 01:25:43.689 --> 01:25:48.489 COMES BACK AND HE SAYS, "HEY MAN, YOU ALL SLEEPING?" YEAH, I 01:25:48.489 --> 01:25:51.279 KNOW PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY'RE TIRED OF WAITING FOR SOMETHING 01:25:51.279 --> 01:25:56.199 IN THEIR LIFE. GUESS WHAT? THEY WALK AROUND LIKE THEY'RE TIRED 01:25:56.199 --> 01:26:03.310 ALL THE TIME. 'CAUSE THAT'S HOW WE COPE. NOW, BRENDA AND I ARE 01:26:03.310 --> 01:26:06.159 DIFFERENT. SOMETIMES WHEN I'M WAITING FOR SOMEONE, I'M LIKE, 01:26:06.159 --> 01:26:10.300 "BRENDA, I JUST WANNA GO TAKE A NAP." WHEN I DON'T WANNA DEAL 01:26:10.300 --> 01:26:13.207 WITH SOMETHING, SOMETIMES I'M LIKE, "BRENDA, I JUST NEED TO 01:26:13.207 --> 01:26:18.550 TAKE A NAP." I'M JUST LIKE THAT. I TAKE A NAP EVERY SUNDAY, BUT 01:26:18.550 --> 01:26:21.220 THAT'S NOT WHY, 'CAUSE I'M ALWAYS DEALING WITH SOMETHING. I 01:26:21.220 --> 01:26:24.399 JUST LIKE MY SUNDAY NAPS. BUT HERE'S THE OTHER THING. HERE'S 01:26:24.399 --> 01:26:28.720 THE ONE YOU HAVE TO REALLY WATCH. LOOK AT VERSE 38. THIS IS 01:26:28.720 --> 01:26:33.279 INTERESTING. IN YOUR TIME OF WAITING, JESUS SAID, YOU NEED TO 01:26:33.279 --> 01:26:37.539 WAIT AND PRAY. SOMETIMES WE DON'T MIX PRAYER WITH OUR 01:26:37.539 --> 01:26:41.890 WAITING SEASON, BUT WE SURE MIX IT WITH A LOT OF WORDS. THE 01:26:41.890 --> 01:26:45.489 PROBLEM IS THEY'RE THE WRONG WORDS. AND WE KNOW THAT PROVERBS 01:26:45.489 --> 01:26:48.489 6 SAYS, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING AS WELL, WE BECOME 01:26:48.489 --> 01:26:56.851 SNARED, TRAPPED BY OUR WORDS. GOD MOVES BY WORDS, THAT'S HOW 01:26:56.851 --> 01:26:59.590 HE FRAMED THE WORLD AND CREATED IT, BUT SO DOES THE DEVIL. 01:26:59.590 --> 01:27:02.859 THAT'S HOW HE CREATES, HE DOESN'T CREATE, BUT IT'S HOW HE 01:27:02.859 --> 01:27:08.739 FRAMES A LOT OF PROBLEMS IN YOUR WORLD. BY YOUR WORDS THAT YOU 01:27:08.739 --> 01:27:12.520 CHOOSE TO SPEAK IN YOUR TIME OF WAITING. BUT HERE'S WHAT 01:27:12.520 --> 01:27:16.090 HAPPENS. HE SAID THE SPIRIT IS READY. IN OTHER WORDS, JESUS IS 01:27:16.090 --> 01:27:19.659 TELLING THEM, I KNOW YOU'RE WAITING, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? KEEP 01:27:19.659 --> 01:27:22.934 YOUR SPIRIT READY. YOU KNOW WHY? 'CAUSE SOMETHING POWERFUL IS 01:27:22.934 --> 01:27:28.689 ABOUT TO EMERGE. KEEP IN THE GAME. WITH MY CHILDREN'S BOOKS, 01:27:28.689 --> 01:27:32.199 YOU KNOW WHAT? WHEN I PUT THEM ON 20 YEARS, I ALMOST SIGNED A 01:27:32.199 --> 01:27:37.539 DEAL. I HAD NEVER SEEN SO MANY ZEROS BEHIND ONE NUMBER ONE IN 01:27:37.539 --> 01:27:42.399 ALL MY LIFE. AND THEY HAD ALL THE HIGH-POWERED LAWYERS THERE, 01:27:42.399 --> 01:27:45.640 AND THEY WANTED ALL MY CHARACTERS AND STUFF, AND I'LL 01:27:45.640 --> 01:27:48.130 NEVER FORGET IT. I WOKE UP, I WAS SO EXCITED. I SAID, "GOD, 01:27:48.130 --> 01:27:51.880 TODAY WE ARE GONNA TAKE "THESE CHILDREN'S BOOKS TO THE WORLD. 01:27:51.880 --> 01:27:54.340 "WE'RE GONNA HAVE ANIMATION AND TOYS," 'CAUSE THAT'S ALL THAT 01:27:54.340 --> 01:27:58.689 THEY WERE PROMISING, THESE ATTORNEYS AND EVERYTHING. AND 01:27:58.689 --> 01:28:03.189 THEY WROTE OUT A CHECK OF THEIR INVESTMENT, NOT TO ME, BUT FOR 01:28:03.189 --> 01:28:09.310 THE PROJECT. ONE WITH A LOT OF ZEROS, A LOT OF ZEROS, AND IT 01:28:09.310 --> 01:28:16.420 WAS MORE THAN $100,000 IF YOU WANNA KNOW. LIKE, A LOT OF 01:28:16.420 --> 01:28:23.890 MONEY. AND THE LORD SAID TO ME, HE SAID, DISASSOCIATE, 01:28:23.890 --> 01:28:29.680 DISASSEMBLE, AND PULL AWAY FROM THE TABLE AND DO NOT SIGN. I 01:28:29.680 --> 01:28:33.399 LOOKED UP AT HIM AND I SAID, "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" 01:28:33.399 --> 01:28:35.314 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:28:35.314 --> 01:28:39.789 YOU EVER DONE THAT TO GOD IN YOUR WAITING? THERE'S A SHOW 01:28:39.789 --> 01:28:43.689 THAT USED TO BE CALLED FATHER KNOWS BEST. WELL, OUR FATHER 01:28:43.689 --> 01:28:46.239 KNOWS BEST, BUT HOW COME IT IS THAT WE ACT LIKE IN OUR SEASON 01:28:46.239 --> 01:28:50.289 OF WAITING THAT WE KNOW WHAT'S BEST? WE HAVE THE BETTER CHOICE 01:28:50.289 --> 01:28:55.989 OF A SPOUSE THAN GOD. WE HAVE A BETTER CHOICE OF A VEHICLE THAN 01:28:55.989 --> 01:29:03.819 WHAT GOD WOULD CHOOSE, OR A JOB, OR A HOUSE, OR A DREAM, RIGHT? 01:29:03.819 --> 01:29:09.789 WE ALWAYS HAVE SOMETHING BETTER THAN WHAT GOD HAD IN MIND. 01:29:09.789 --> 01:29:12.460 THAT'S NOT WHAT EPHESIANS 3:20 SAYS, "GOD DOES EXCEEDINGLY 01:29:12.460 --> 01:29:16.930 ABUNDANTLY "BEYOND ALL WE ASK OR THINK." THE KEY IS, GO BACK TO 01:29:16.930 --> 01:29:22.359 VERSE 38, WATCH AND PRAY, WAIT AND PRAY. IF YOU WOULD SPEND AS 01:29:22.359 --> 01:29:26.170 MUCH TIME PRAYING AND WORSHIPING AND HONORING THAN COMPLAINING, 01:29:26.170 --> 01:29:30.250 GETTING MAD, NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS. THE SPIRIT IS, HE SAYS, 01:29:30.250 --> 01:29:32.800 "DON'T ENTER INTO TEMPTATION." I KNOW PEOPLE IN THEIR WAITING 01:29:32.800 --> 01:29:37.090 PERIOD. THEY GOT TIRED OF WAITING FOR SOMETHING. SO GUESS 01:29:37.090 --> 01:29:40.000 WHAT THEY DID? THEY ENTERED INTO THE TEMPTATION OF TAKING THE 01:29:40.000 --> 01:29:44.229 DEAL. I'VE WATCHED PEOPLE MARRY THE WRONG PERSON 'CAUSE THEY GOT 01:29:44.229 --> 01:29:50.079 TIRED OF WAITING. I'VE WATCHED PEOPLE TAKE THE WRONG JOB 01:29:50.079 --> 01:29:55.329 BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T LISTEN. I'VE WATCHED PEOPLE GO AND START 01:29:55.329 --> 01:30:02.350 CHURCHES AND THEY WERE CALLED TO BE PASTORS, I TOLD THEM THAT, 01:30:02.350 --> 01:30:06.970 BUT THEY WOULDN'T WAIT AND LET. I DON'T HAVE CONTROL OVER WHEN 01:30:06.970 --> 01:30:12.250 SOMEBODY HAS TO BE ORDAINED. I DON'T HAVE CONTROL OVER WHEN GOD 01:30:12.250 --> 01:30:16.630 SETS SOMEONE IN AS A PASTOR IN A CHURCH IF THE LORD HAS ME SEND 01:30:16.630 --> 01:30:21.489 SOMEBODY OUT. BUT I'VE HAD, IN 29 YEARS, MANY PEOPLE COME TO ME 01:30:21.489 --> 01:30:24.640 AND TELL ME THAT THEY ARE PASTORS AND THAT I DIDN'T 01:30:24.640 --> 01:30:28.029 RECOGNIZE THEIR GIFT. AND EVERY TIME I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, I'M 01:30:28.029 --> 01:30:32.289 NOT DOUBTING. MANY OF THEM, I SAID, YOU'RE NOT A PASTOR. ONE 01:30:32.289 --> 01:30:37.539 PERSON TRIED, GOT OUT, GOT MAD ONE TIME AND STARTED FIVE 01:30:37.539 --> 01:30:40.614 DIFFERENT CHURCHES THAT NEVER SUCCEEDED IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA, 01:30:40.614 --> 01:30:47.305 AND THAT IS A LOT OF PEOPLE THEY HURT. SOME WERE ACTUALLY 01:30:47.305 --> 01:30:52.854 PASTORS, BUT IF THEY WOULD HAVE JUST WAITED AND ALLOW THAT THING 01:30:52.854 --> 01:30:57.234 TO EMERGE IN THEM, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE ENTERED INTO TEMPTATION. I 01:30:57.234 --> 01:31:01.135 KNOW PEOPLE THAT TAKE MONEY DEALS. I'VE HAD TIMES WHERE I 01:31:01.135 --> 01:31:02.994 WOULD SAY TO PEOPLE, YOU KNOW WHAT, I DON'T FEEL GOOD ABOUT, I 01:31:02.994 --> 01:31:05.364 FEEL LIKE YOU'RE GONNA SIGN SOMETHING, DON'T DO IT. THE 01:31:05.364 --> 01:31:08.935 MONEY ISN'T WORTH IT. AND THEY WOULD SIGN IT, AND THEN AT THE 01:31:08.935 --> 01:31:12.295 END OF A YEAR, TWO YEARS, IT'S ALL GONE. 'CAUSE THEY ENTERED 01:31:12.295 --> 01:31:17.604 INTO TEMPTATION, AND THEY DIDN'T WAIT. ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE 01:31:17.604 --> 01:31:21.354 NEXT ONE. MATTHEW 26, I GOTTA MOVE FAST. LOOK AT THIS ONE. NOW 01:31:21.354 --> 01:31:24.145 LET'S TALK ABOUT PETER. SO HE'S ONE OF THE GUYS THAT GOT TO GO 01:31:24.145 --> 01:31:32.492 WITH JESUS. AFTER A WHILE, VERSE 73, VERSE 74, PETER, REMEMBER 01:31:32.492 --> 01:31:35.185 JESUS TOLD HIM, YOU'RE GONNA DENY ME THREE TIMES JUST LIKE 01:31:35.185 --> 01:31:40.404 THE ROOSTER WHEN IT CROWS. IN VERSE 75, PETER REMEMBERED WHEN 01:31:40.404 --> 01:31:44.904 HE DENIED JESUS THREE TIMES AND HE HEARD THE COCK CROW AND HE 01:31:44.904 --> 01:31:47.994 HEARD JESUS REMIND HIM, YOU'RE GONNA DENY ME THREE TIMES "AND 01:31:47.994 --> 01:31:53.005 HE WENT OUT AND WEPT BITTERLY." WHY DID PETER WEEP BITTERLY? 01:31:53.005 --> 01:31:59.545 BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE GET INTO A WAITING SEASON, SOMETIMES THEY 01:31:59.545 --> 01:32:06.715 FORGET ABOUT GOD AND WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE PROMISED. AND SO 01:32:06.715 --> 01:32:12.685 THEY GET INTO DENIAL. COME ON, I KNOW PEOPLE. I KNOW PEOPLE. I 01:32:12.685 --> 01:32:16.015 KNOW PEOPLE THAT GET TIRED OF WAITING IN MINISTRY AND THEY 01:32:16.015 --> 01:32:20.305 START DENYING THAT THEY'RE CALLED. I KNOW PEOPLE THAT GET 01:32:20.305 --> 01:32:24.984 TIRED OF WAITING IN MARRIAGE AND THEN THEY START BEING IN DENIAL 01:32:24.984 --> 01:32:28.164 THAT THEY'RE EVER CALLED TO BE MARRIED. I KNEW A 70-YEAR-OLD 01:32:28.164 --> 01:32:30.475 PERSON ONE TIME THAT SAID, "WELL, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I 01:32:30.475 --> 01:32:35.515 PRAYED AND, YOU KNOW, "IT JUST NEVER HAPPENED." I KNOW PEOPLE 01:32:35.515 --> 01:32:40.726 THAT LIVE IN THE SAME LIVING CONDITIONS AND THEY DENY, WELL, 01:32:40.726 --> 01:32:43.135 I JUST DON'T THINK GOD WANTS ME TO HAVE ANYTHING BETTER. I'VE 01:32:43.135 --> 01:32:46.975 TRIED, I'VE BEEN DISAPPOINTED MANY TIMES. I KNOW PEOPLE THAT 01:32:46.975 --> 01:32:49.524 ARE, MAYBE YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE THAT ARE WATCHING TODAY AND YOU 01:32:49.524 --> 01:32:55.164 JUST HAPPEN TO VIEW OUR CHANNEL AND YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU'VE HAD 01:32:55.164 --> 01:32:58.435 BAD EXPERIENCES, YOU'RE TIRED OF FINDING THE WRONG CHURCH AND THE 01:32:58.435 --> 01:33:01.074 WRONG PASTOR AND GETTING YOUR HOPES UP, SO NOW YOU DENY THE 01:33:01.074 --> 01:33:09.114 FACT THAT THERE COULD EVER BE A GOOD CHURCH FOR YOU. AND YOU 01:33:09.114 --> 01:33:12.715 KNOW WHAT PETER DID? HE CUSSED. THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT 01:33:12.715 --> 01:33:17.814 HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE GET INTO WAITING. BOY, CAN THEY CUSS LIKE 01:33:17.814 --> 01:33:22.345 A SAILOR. SORRY FOR THOSE OF YOU IN THE NAVY, I'M A MARINE GUY, 01:33:22.345 --> 01:33:27.274 BUT THAT'S OKAY. BUT, HOORAH, CRAIG, WHERE ARE YOU? 01:33:27.274 --> 01:33:28.854 I CAN'T EVEN DO IT LIKE HIM, 'CAUSE HE'S A REAL 01:33:28.854 --> 01:33:32.604 MARINE AND I JUST THOUGHT I WAS. BUT NOW HERE'S THE POINT. THERE 01:33:32.604 --> 01:33:36.354 ARE THOSE, THEY GET CARNAL. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED SOMEBODY, MAN, 01:33:36.354 --> 01:33:40.953 WHEN THEY'RE WAITING, THEY CAN'T FIND THE RIGHT JOB, MAN, THEY'RE 01:33:40.953 --> 01:33:48.324 A PISTOL TO BE AROUND. THEY FORGET THEIR SPIRITUALITY, THEY 01:33:48.324 --> 01:33:52.555 FORGET, JUST LIKE PETER, THEY FORGET THEY'RE JESUS. THEY 01:33:52.555 --> 01:33:57.654 FORGET THEY'RE A CHRISTIAN. WHAT GIVES US A RIGHT WHEN WE'RE 01:33:57.654 --> 01:34:05.125 WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO EMERGE, THAT NOW WE CAN GO CARNAL? WE 01:34:05.125 --> 01:34:18.295 GET MAD. WE SPORT AN ATTITUDE. WE WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW. LOOK 01:34:18.295 --> 01:34:22.494 AT MATTHEW 27, THIS WILL PUT IT INTO PERSPECTIVE. SO JUST BEFORE 01:34:22.494 --> 01:34:26.994 THIS VERSE, IT SAYS, "WHEN MORNING WAS COME," MATTHEW 27, 01:34:26.994 --> 01:34:31.555 VERSE 1 AND 2. "WHEN THE MORNING WAS COME, ALL THE CHIEF PRIESTS 01:34:31.555 --> 01:34:34.914 "AND THE ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE TOOK COUNSEL TO JESUS, "AGAINST 01:34:34.914 --> 01:34:38.335 JESUS." SO NOW, MAN, HE HAD ACCUSERS, THEY WERE PUNCHING 01:34:38.335 --> 01:34:41.994 HIM. YOU GOTTA UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN MATTHEW 26, THE 01:34:41.994 --> 01:34:45.744 CHAPTER BEFORE, THEY WERE GOING AND THEY WERE SPITTING ON HIM. 01:34:45.744 --> 01:34:47.725 COME ON, SOME OF YOU MAY FEEL LIKE YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, 01:34:47.725 --> 01:34:51.505 YOU'VE BEEN SPIT ON. YOU'RE WAITING SEASON, YOU FEEL LIKE 01:34:51.505 --> 01:34:55.765 YOU'RE GETTING SPIT ON. YOU'RE GETTING PUNCHED, YOU'RE HAVING 01:34:55.765 --> 01:34:59.814 TO TAKE THE PUNCHES. NOTHING'S EVER HAPPENING, PEOPLE ARE JUST 01:34:59.814 --> 01:35:03.534 TAKING CRACKS AT YOU, LIFE IS TAKING PUNCHES AT YOU, LIFE 01:35:03.534 --> 01:35:07.854 ISN'T FAIR. YET JESUS STOOD THERE WHILE THEY GOT TO GO, 01:35:07.854 --> 01:35:11.635 PROBABLY A HUNDRED OF THEM, AND PUNCH HIM AS HARD AS THEY COULD, 01:35:11.635 --> 01:35:18.835 TEAR HIS BEARD OUT, SPIT IN HIS FACE. AND NOW, MATTHEW 27, VERSE 01:35:18.835 --> 01:35:22.345 1 SAYS, "IN THE MORNING." WHOA, WAIT, WAIT, I WAS READING 01:35:22.345 --> 01:35:25.824 THIS AND I IMMEDIATELY SLAMMED MY BIBLE SHUT AND I STOOD UP AND 01:35:25.824 --> 01:35:37.614 I SAID, "YESHUA!" YESHUA. IN THE MORNING, AND IT DAWNED ON ME, 01:35:37.614 --> 01:35:43.345 AND I LOOKED UP AT HIM AND I SAID, JESUS, THAT MEANS ALL 01:35:43.345 --> 01:35:53.364 NIGHT AFTER BEING BEATEN, SPIT ON, YOUR BEARD PULLED OUT, YOU 01:35:53.364 --> 01:36:00.685 WERE HAVING TO BE ALONE IN A PRISON CELL. I SAID, WHAT WAS 01:36:00.685 --> 01:36:04.703 GOING ON IN YOUR MIND? I MEAN, YOU ALREADY HAD TO DEAL WITH 01:36:04.703 --> 01:36:09.625 THAT IN THE GARDEN. WHAT WAS GOING ON IN YOUR MIND, IN YOUR 01:36:09.625 --> 01:36:13.675 ALONE MOMENT OF WAITING? AND YOU KNEW WHAT WAS GETTING READY TO 01:36:13.675 --> 01:36:17.755 EMERGE. YOU KNEW THAT THE STONE WOULD BE ROLLED AWAY, THAT THE 01:36:17.755 --> 01:36:24.414 FATHER WOULD SAY TO YOU, THE BELOVED, ARISE, MY LOVE. YET 01:36:24.414 --> 01:36:31.885 JESUS, YOU WERE ALONE IN YOUR WAITING. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? 01:36:31.885 --> 01:36:36.774 WHAT KIND OF THOUGHTS DID THE DEVIL PUT IN YOUR HEAD? COME ON, 01:36:36.774 --> 01:36:41.425 THAT IN OUR TIME OF WAITING. I'M SERIOUS, MAN, I'VE HAD TIMES 01:36:41.425 --> 01:36:46.314 WHERE I HAD HAD TO GUARD MY HEAD BECAUSE OF THE PUNCHES THAT I 01:36:46.314 --> 01:36:50.395 TOOK FOR STANDING FOR GOD AND A NATION, FOR STANDING FOR 01:36:50.395 --> 01:36:54.744 CHILDREN SO THEY COULDN'T BE TRANSGENDER MUTILATED, STANDING 01:36:54.744 --> 01:36:59.215 FOR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE AND GETTING HIT BY THOSE WHO LIE 01:36:59.215 --> 01:37:08.515 THROUGH THE MEDIA. YOU GOT TO WATCH YOUR THOUGHTS. YOU GOT TO 01:37:08.515 --> 01:37:12.444 STAY WITH THE MISSION OF WHAT YOU'RE BELIEVING FOR AND WHAT 01:37:12.444 --> 01:37:18.654 YOU BELIEVE GOD CALLED YOU TO. LET'S GO ON. ALL RIGHT. NOW 01:37:18.654 --> 01:37:23.395 WATCH WHAT HAPPENS. THEY'RE WAITING NOW. JESUS IS GOING TO 01:37:23.395 --> 01:37:27.117 BE TRIED BEFORE PONTIUS PILATE. WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. REMEMBER 01:37:27.117 --> 01:37:30.175 AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR TEXT THAT HE'S PUT IN THE GRAVE. THEY 01:37:30.175 --> 01:37:34.314 ROLL THE STONE IN BUT NOW WE KNOW MATTHEW 28. I READ IT TO 01:37:34.314 --> 01:37:39.354 YOU. THE STONE BOULDER WAS POPPED UP, ROLLED BACK UP ON THE 01:37:39.354 --> 01:37:43.494 HILL. BUT NOW WATCH, WATCH WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS CLOSEST 01:37:43.494 --> 01:37:48.564 FOLLOWERS. THIS IS OFTEN WHAT HAPPENS TO US WHEN SOMETHING IS 01:37:48.564 --> 01:37:53.574 TRYING TO EMERGE IN OUR LIVES. SOMETHING WAS TRYING TO EMERGE 01:37:53.574 --> 01:37:59.935 WITH THIS GREAT TABERNACLE. AND WATCH WHERE PEOPLE'S MINDSETS 01:37:59.935 --> 01:38:03.324 ARE. IT'S ALMOST LIKE I'VE SAID TO GOD MANY TIMES, LORD, IF I 01:38:03.324 --> 01:38:06.354 COULD JUST STEP INTO THE FUTURE. AND WHAT'S SO CRAZY IS IN THE 01:38:06.354 --> 01:38:09.595 PROPHETIC MINISTRY, OFTENTIMES, COME ON, THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE 01:38:09.595 --> 01:38:13.074 HAD GOD GIVE YOU A VISION OR A DREAM PROPHETICALLY, OR TOLD YOU 01:38:13.074 --> 01:38:17.904 SOMETHING PROPHETICALLY, AND YOU KNOW THE END FROM THE VERY 01:38:17.904 --> 01:38:20.635 BEGINNING, YOU SEE THE FUTURE, YOU LIVE IN THE FUTURE, THAT 01:38:20.635 --> 01:38:23.425 FUTURE IS SO REAL TO YOU. THAT'S WHY SOMETIMES WHEN I'VE 01:38:23.425 --> 01:38:27.835 PROPHESIED THINGS IN THE EARTH, MY HEAD GOES, BLUH. BUT YET I'M 01:38:27.835 --> 01:38:30.925 LIKE, I'VE BEEN THERE, I'VE SEEN IT, I KNOW IT, I KNOW WHAT I 01:38:30.925 --> 01:38:34.824 HEARD, I KNOW WHAT I FELT, AND I KNOW WHERE I'VE BEEN. YOU HAVE 01:38:34.824 --> 01:38:39.984 TO REMIND YOURSELF OF THE PROMISE. RIGHT, GOD WANTS YOU 01:38:39.984 --> 01:38:50.095 BLESSED. GOD WANTS YOU BLESSED. LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS. JOHN 20, 01:38:50.095 --> 01:38:54.774 VERSE 19, JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD. YOU THINK HIS DISCIPLES 01:38:54.774 --> 01:38:57.625 WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE OR LOOKING FOR HIM, WAITING FOR HIM? NO, IN 01:38:57.625 --> 01:39:00.114 THEIR TIME OF WAITING, LOOK WHAT THEY DID. AND THE SAME DAY, 01:39:00.114 --> 01:39:04.585 VERSE 19, THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK WHEN THE DOORS WERE SHUT, 01:39:04.585 --> 01:39:07.104 ONE TRANSLATION SAYS THEY WERE LOCKED. ALL RIGHT, HERE'S THE 01:39:07.104 --> 01:39:09.720 OTHER THING. WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WHEN IT SEEMS LIKE IN 01:39:09.720 --> 01:39:15.055 OUR WAITING THAT DOORS ARE SHUT. SOMETIMES THE THING THAT WE WERE 01:39:15.055 --> 01:39:18.744 WAITING FOR, BELIEVING FOR THAT GOT SHUT, THE DOOR, SOMETIMES 01:39:18.744 --> 01:39:23.994 IT'S A POINT OF REFERENCE. YOU KNOW HOW MANY HOUSES IN MY YEARS 01:39:23.994 --> 01:39:30.470 THAT I, AT LEAST A COUPLE OF THEM THAT I WANTED REALLY BAD. 01:39:30.470 --> 01:39:34.435 AND IT DIDN'T WORK OUT FOR WHATEVER REASON. I REMEMBER ONE 01:39:34.435 --> 01:39:37.465 HOUSE WHEN WE FIRST MOVED TO OMAHA, IT DIDN'T WORK OUT AND I 01:39:37.465 --> 01:39:41.305 SAID, BRENDA, COME ON, GOD, YOU KNOW, AND I STARTED DOING THIS. 01:39:41.305 --> 01:39:44.185 AND NOW WE LOOK BACK, WE DROVE BY THAT HOUSE SEVERAL YEARS AGO 01:39:44.185 --> 01:39:49.404 THAT WE WERE WANTING, BELIEVING WAS OUR GOD HOUSE. AND WE'RE 01:39:49.404 --> 01:39:52.704 LIKE, MAN, WE THANK YOU GOD. WE WOULD HAVE NEVER WANTED TO LIVE 01:39:52.704 --> 01:39:56.335 THERE BECAUSE WE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE. OUR KIDS 01:39:56.335 --> 01:39:59.784 WOULD HAVE HAD TO DRIVE A LONG WAYS TO SCHOOL. THAT WOULDN'T 01:39:59.784 --> 01:40:04.465 HAVE BEEN GOOD. AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT WE DIDN'T EVEN LIKE 01:40:04.465 --> 01:40:07.135 THE STYLE OF THE HOUSE 10 YEARS LATER. 01:40:07.135 --> 01:40:10.074 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:40:10.074 --> 01:40:12.774 SOMETIMES GOD WILL PUT THE GRAPES IN FRONT OF YOU LIKE 01:40:12.774 --> 01:40:17.335 JOSHUA AND CALEB DID WITH THE WHOLE NATION OF ISRAEL AND GIVE 01:40:17.335 --> 01:40:23.274 YOU A POINT OF REFERENCE. THIS IS A PART OF THE BIGGER PICTURE, 01:40:23.274 --> 01:40:26.604 THE PROMISED LAND. THIS HOUSE IS A POINT OF REFERENCE. SOMETIMES 01:40:26.604 --> 01:40:30.265 POINTS OF REFERENCES ARE THINGS THAT YOU ARE TO DO OR NOT TO DO. 01:40:30.265 --> 01:40:32.784 LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR DATING RELATIONSHIPS. RATHER THAN CRY 01:40:32.784 --> 01:40:38.994 OVER SPILLED MILK, OH, HE WAS SO HANDSOME, HE WAS SO NICE. 01:40:38.994 --> 01:40:42.055 SOMETIMES IT'S A POINT OF REFERENCE. TWO THINGS, IT COULD 01:40:42.055 --> 01:40:45.774 EITHER BE, YEAH, BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THAT NICE, HANDSOME 01:40:45.774 --> 01:40:50.079 GUY THAT WOULD HAVE DESTROYED YOU. WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN GOOD FOR 01:40:50.079 --> 01:40:52.900 YOU, AND BECAUSE GOD KNOWS THEIR HEART AND KNOWS WHO THEY REALLY 01:40:52.900 --> 01:41:01.360 ARE, HE SAID, EH, NO. ALL RIGHT, I'M GONNA TELL 'EM MYSELF. SO, 01:41:01.360 --> 01:41:06.159 YOU EVER HAD A FACEBOOK FEED COME UP OF A SUGGESTED PERSON? 01:41:06.159 --> 01:41:08.260 AND THERE WAS A PERSON, AND I HOPE YOU'RE NOT WATCHING, YOU 01:41:08.260 --> 01:41:10.659 DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO I AM, WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT, BUT THERE WAS 01:41:10.659 --> 01:41:17.470 A PERSON THAT I HAD DATED IN MY SECULAR YEARS OF HIGH SCHOOL. 01:41:17.470 --> 01:41:22.000 EVERYBODY THOUGHT THEY WERE GREAT LOOKING. I THOUGHT SHE WAS 01:41:22.000 --> 01:41:26.739 GREAT LOOKING. WENT OUT WITH HER A FEW TIMES. SORRY, BRENDA, I'M 01:41:26.739 --> 01:41:30.256 NOT TRYING TO OVEREMPHASIZE IT. I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE A POINT. 01:41:30.256 --> 01:41:34.301 AND THIS NAME, I TOLD HER, I SHOWED IT TO HER. I SAID, I 01:41:34.301 --> 01:41:35.980 DON'T EVEN WANT TO SHOW YOU, BUT I USED TO DATE THAT, AND SHE 01:41:35.980 --> 01:41:41.381 WENT, HUH? I KNOW, I KNOW, I KNOW. SOME HAPPENED FROM THE 01:41:41.381 --> 01:41:48.942 TIME OF HIGH SCHOOL TO NOW, BRENDA, AND IT AIN'T PRETTY. 01:41:48.942 --> 01:41:54.131 SOMETIMES IT'S A POINT OF REFERENCE. AND I REMEMBER HOW 01:41:54.131 --> 01:41:59.171 UPSET I WAS WHEN WE BROKE UP. POINT OF REFERENCE OF WHAT GOD 01:41:59.171 --> 01:42:02.381 DOESN'T HAVE FOR YOU, DIDN'T HAVE FOR YOU, AND THANK GOD, 01:42:02.381 --> 01:42:07.510 LOOK AT THAT GIRL. AMEN, LOOK AT THAT WOMAN. SO THAT'S MY POINT. 01:42:07.510 --> 01:42:09.820 DID Y'ALL GET MY POINT WITHOUT BEING WEIRD? I DON'T LIKE TO 01:42:09.820 --> 01:42:11.829 TALK ABOUT PAST RELATIONSHIPS AND STUFF LIKE THAT, WHO CARES? 01:42:11.829 --> 01:42:14.381 BUT THAT IS A GREAT POINT. I'M A PREACHER, SO I HAD TO MAKE THAT 01:42:14.381 --> 01:42:18.789 POINT. HERE'S THE THING. WHEN THE DOORS ARE SHUT, THEY 01:42:18.789 --> 01:42:23.680 ASSEMBLED IN FEAR. FEAR, COME ON. WHEN YOU'RE IN YOUR WAITING 01:42:23.680 --> 01:42:31.690 TIME, IT'S EASY TO SHUT PEOPLE OUT, TO SHUT YOUR PROMISE OFF, 01:42:31.690 --> 01:42:35.260 TO LOCK THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART. THEY LOCK THE DOOR OF THEIR 01:42:35.260 --> 01:42:40.180 HOUSE. DON'T LOCK YOUR HEART CONCERNING WHAT GOD HAS PROMISED 01:42:40.180 --> 01:42:45.671 YOU. HOW ABOUT THE WOMEN, JOHN 20, VERSES 1 THROUGH 5. WHEN IT 01:42:45.671 --> 01:42:48.760 WAS THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, MARY MAGDALENE, WHEN IT WAS 01:42:48.760 --> 01:42:51.400 DARK, COME ON, SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE WAITING AND IT'S DARK, 01:42:51.400 --> 01:42:55.750 YOU GOTTA AVOID THAT FEELING OF DARK, THAT FEELING OF 01:42:55.750 --> 01:42:59.650 LONELINESS, THAT FEELING OF PAIN. AND THEN HERE'S THIS, MARY 01:42:59.650 --> 01:43:02.350 MAGDALENE IN JOHN CHAPTER 20, GUESS WHAT, IF YOU KEEP READING, 01:43:02.350 --> 01:43:06.640 SHE GOES AND SHE LOOKS INTO, IN HER MOMENT OF WAITING, AND YET 01:43:06.640 --> 01:43:14.890 SHE DIDN'T REALIZE HER PRAYER WAS ALREADY ANSWERED. SOMETIMES 01:43:14.890 --> 01:43:21.100 I'VE HAD GOD TELL ME THAT. HE SAID, HANK, JUST REST. LORD, HOW 01:43:21.100 --> 01:43:23.801 CAN I REST? I'VE BEEN PRAYING AND BELIEVING FOR THIS. HE SAID, 01:43:23.801 --> 01:43:28.390 IF YOU CAN SEE IT, IT'S ALREADY BEEN AGREED UPON. IT'S YES AND 01:43:28.390 --> 01:43:34.000 AMEN. I PUT THE GAVEL DOWN AND IT'S IN PROCESS OF COMING TO 01:43:34.000 --> 01:43:38.530 YOU. THAT'S WHY IT SAYS YOU HAVE TO HAVE FAITH AND PATIENCE. BUT 01:43:38.530 --> 01:43:43.659 SHE DIDN'T REALIZE JESUS HAD ALREADY RISEN FROM THE DEAD AND 01:43:43.659 --> 01:43:47.860 ALL SHE CAN FOCUS ON IS HER FEELINGS. YOU EVER DONE THAT 01:43:47.860 --> 01:43:51.250 WHEN YOU'RE WAITING? YOU JUST FOCUS ON YOUR FEELINGS. I'M 01:43:51.250 --> 01:43:59.230 HURT, I'M DISAPPOINTED, I'M MAD, I'M EMPTY. SHE LOOKED INSIDE THE 01:43:59.230 --> 01:44:05.199 TOMB. TALK ABOUT A FEELING OF EMPTINESS. I MEAN, THAT WAS A 01:44:05.199 --> 01:44:10.390 POWERFUL EASTER EXAMPLE RIGHT THERE. ARE YOU ENJOYING THIS? 01:44:10.390 --> 01:44:14.770 YES. MAYBE IT'S TOO SOMBERING OF AN EASTER MESSAGE OR SOMETHING, 01:44:14.770 --> 01:44:17.530 I DON'T KNOW, MAN, Y'ALL ARE JUST SO QUIET. I'M JUST TELLING 01:44:17.530 --> 01:44:21.789 YOU THE TRUTH. SO THE EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, MARY WENT 01:44:21.789 --> 01:44:24.640 OUTSIDE THE EMPTY TOMB, HER WAITING WAS MARKED BY DEEP 01:44:24.640 --> 01:44:29.711 SORROW, A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING. THE KEY TO THIS TIME IS DON'T 01:44:29.711 --> 01:44:34.360 LOOK AT THINGS ALWAYS NEGATIVE, RESIST THOSE EMPTY FEELINGS OF 01:44:34.360 --> 01:44:38.440 HOPELESSNESS. WE'RE IN A WAITING PERIOD, WE DON'T OFTEN KNOW 01:44:38.440 --> 01:44:43.869 EVERYTHING AND WHAT'S GOING TO EMERGE, BUT STAY WITH THE 01:44:43.869 --> 01:44:47.770 PROMISE AND THE HOPE. LET'S LOOK AT MATTHEW 27. THIS IS AN 01:44:47.770 --> 01:44:52.060 INTERESTING ONE. WE'RE ALMOST DONE ACTUALLY. MATTHEW 27, 01:44:52.060 --> 01:44:54.760 PASTOR DOUG, YOU CAN START MAKING YOUR WAY UP HERE, MAN. 01:44:54.760 --> 01:44:59.289 LOOK AT MATTHEW 27:62-66, AND YOU CAN GET ONE OF THOSE DONUTS, 01:44:59.289 --> 01:45:02.230 I DON'T WANT TO KEEP YOU WAITING FOR THAT. 01:45:02.230 --> 01:45:03.636 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:45:03.636 --> 01:45:08.739 I DON'T WANT TO KEEP YOU WAITING. SOMEBODY GOT YOUR HAM 01:45:08.739 --> 01:45:12.752 IN THERE, WE DON'T WANT TO KEEP IT WAITING. NOW WATCH THIS, THIS 01:45:12.752 --> 01:45:16.989 IS THE ROMAN GUARDS. LET ME SHOW YOU THE EXAMPLE WITH THE ROMAN 01:45:16.989 --> 01:45:21.070 GUARDS, WHAT HAPPENS IN A SEASON OF WAITING. THIS IS REALLY 01:45:21.070 --> 01:45:25.631 IMPORTANT IF YOU'RE BELIEVING GOD FOR HEALING IN YOUR BODY. 01:45:25.631 --> 01:45:28.750 AND YOU'RE WAITING FOR THAT MANIFESTATION. YOU'RE WAITING 01:45:28.750 --> 01:45:33.090 FOR THAT PROMISE OF WHAT JESUS PAID FOR TO HAPPEN. CAN I TELL 01:45:33.090 --> 01:45:36.159 YOU SOMETHING? THIS IS A GREAT, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, 01:45:36.159 --> 01:45:39.520 THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE. ALL RIGHT, WATCH THIS. NOW THE NEXT 01:45:39.520 --> 01:45:42.310 DAY, THEY FOLLOWED THE DAY OF THE PREPARATION. THE CHIEF 01:45:42.310 --> 01:45:45.940 PRIESTS AND THE PHARISEES CAME TOGETHER UNTO PILATE, SAYING, 01:45:45.940 --> 01:45:50.020 "SIR, WE REMEMBER "THAT THAT DECEIVER SAID," ALL RIGHT, STOP 01:45:50.020 --> 01:45:54.400 RIGHT THERE, "IN YOUR TIME OF WAITING, BE CAREFUL WHAT "AND 01:45:54.400 --> 01:46:03.280 WHO YOU LISTEN TO." SOMETIMES WE GET ON THE PHONE, OR WE TEXT 01:46:03.280 --> 01:46:07.869 WITH OUR PHONE, LETTING EVERYBODY KNOW ABOUT WHAT IT IS 01:46:07.869 --> 01:46:11.739 THAT WE'RE WAITING FOR, FRUSTRATED ABOUT IN LIFE. AND IF 01:46:11.739 --> 01:46:14.860 YOU'RE NOT CAREFUL, YOU GET SO MANY VOICES, YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO 01:46:14.860 --> 01:46:18.579 HEAR THE TRUE VOICE, OR THE RIGHT VOICES IN YOUR LIFE, OR 01:46:18.579 --> 01:46:22.698 HOW ABOUT THIS, THE VOICE OF GOD. ALL RIGHT, CALL JESUS A 01:46:22.698 --> 01:46:27.400 DECEIVER. IN THREE DAYS I'LL RISE AGAIN. NOW WATCH THIS. NOW 01:46:27.400 --> 01:46:30.610 THEY MADE UP A STORY, LEST HIS DISCIPLES COME BY NIGHT AND 01:46:30.610 --> 01:46:35.829 STEAL HIM AWAY. BE CAREFUL, BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU ARE IN A 01:46:35.829 --> 01:46:42.070 WAITING PERIOD AND YOU KNOW WHAT GOD'S WORD SAYS. YOU KNOW BEFORE 01:46:42.070 --> 01:46:47.530 THE WAITING PERIOD WHAT WAS PROMISED. PEOPLE WILL MAKE UP 01:46:47.530 --> 01:46:49.570 ALL KINDS OF STUFF. AND LET ME TELL YOU THIS, THE DEVIL WILL 01:46:49.570 --> 01:46:55.301 TRY TO CONVINCE YOU OF ALL KINDS OF THINGS. NOTICE WHAT PILATE 01:46:55.301 --> 01:46:57.489 SAID, HE SAID, "GO AND WATCH, GO AND WAIT." BUT HERE'S WHAT WE 01:46:57.489 --> 01:47:01.329 HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IN THIS TIME. WHEN YOU'RE IN A WAITING PERIOD, 01:47:01.329 --> 01:47:05.650 YOU HAVE TO BE WISE BECAUSE THERE WAS NO EXPECTATION HERE. 01:47:05.650 --> 01:47:09.850 THOSE SOLDIERS, THEY WEREN'T EXPECTING ANYTHING. AND THIS IS 01:47:09.850 --> 01:47:13.421 WHAT IS EVEN MORE DANGEROUS. THOSE SOLDIERS, THEY WERE NOT 01:47:13.421 --> 01:47:19.570 EXPECTING THAT BIG OLD MULTI-TON BOULDER IN FRONT OF THE 01:47:19.570 --> 01:47:23.381 SEPULCHER TO BE BLOWN OFF. THEY DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING 01:47:23.381 --> 01:47:30.341 SUPERNATURAL WAS ABOUT TO EMERGE. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? 01:47:30.341 --> 01:47:35.530 SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL WAS ABOUT TO EMERGE. IT DID EMERGE. JESUS 01:47:35.530 --> 01:47:40.900 ROSE FROM THE DEAD WITH SUCH POWER. SOMETIMES WHEN WE'RE 01:47:40.900 --> 01:47:44.921 BELIEVING FOR OUR HEALING, WE CAN THROW THE SUPERNATURAL OUT. 01:47:44.921 --> 01:47:49.091 'CAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT, LORD, WE TRIED THAT. I TRIED THOSE 01:47:49.091 --> 01:47:52.869 HEALING SCRIPTURES. I TRIED, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PRAYER LINES 01:47:52.869 --> 01:47:59.921 I'VE BEEN IN. WHAT IS IT, 271. SO NOW YOU START DENYING THE 01:47:59.921 --> 01:48:03.610 SUPERNATURAL. YOU DON'T EXPECT THE SUPERNATURAL. YOU DON'T LOOK 01:48:03.610 --> 01:48:06.131 FOR THE SUPERNATURAL ANYMORE. THAT'S WHAT THOSE SOLDIERS DID. 01:48:06.131 --> 01:48:08.890 BUT YET THE SUPERNATURAL HIT THEM UPSIDE THE HEAD, KNOCKED 01:48:08.890 --> 01:48:15.328 THEM ALL OVER AS DEAD MEN BECAUSE SOMETHING DID EMERGE. 01:48:15.328 --> 01:48:18.970 LET'S GO ON TO THE NEXT ONE. THIS ONE, PASTOR BRENDA HAS 01:48:18.970 --> 01:48:25.030 OFTEN PREACHED ABOUT IT. IT'S LUKE 24, VERSE 13. AND THESE ARE 01:48:25.030 --> 01:48:27.854 THE TWO DISCIPLES. IT DIDN'T REALLY SAY WHICH ONES THEY WERE. 01:48:27.854 --> 01:48:31.900 WE'RE ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS. AND THEY WERE IN A STATE OF WAITING 01:48:31.900 --> 01:48:36.610 FOR ANSWERS. CAN YOU IMAGINE SOME OF THE THOUGHTS THAT WERE 01:48:36.610 --> 01:48:42.760 GOING ON IN THEIR HEAD? THEIR DISCUSSIONS. WELL, IT GIVES YOU 01:48:42.760 --> 01:48:47.320 A GLIMPSE OF THEIR DISCUSSION, OF WHAT THEY WERE THINKING THAT 01:48:47.320 --> 01:48:50.680 OFTEN IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE'RE WAITING. VERSE 13, "AND BEHOLD, 01:48:50.680 --> 01:48:53.171 TWO OF THEM WENT THE SAME DAY "TO A VILLAGE CALLED EMMAUS." 01:48:53.171 --> 01:48:58.211 NOW THAT'S 15 MILES OR SO OFF OF WHERE JESUS SAID THE PROMISE 01:48:58.211 --> 01:49:03.070 WOULD BE. AND IT CAME TO PASS, VERSE 15, "WHILE THEY COMMUNED 01:49:03.070 --> 01:49:07.750 TOGETHER AND REASONED," THAT'S THE DANGER OF WAITING. WE REASON 01:49:07.750 --> 01:49:14.980 AMONG OURSELVES, WE GET IN OUR HEAD AND START FORMULATING IDEAS 01:49:14.980 --> 01:49:17.560 ABOUT WHY IT'S NOT HAPPENING, WHY IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, WHY IT 01:49:17.560 --> 01:49:20.199 SHOULD HAPPEN, WHY, YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEAN? WE START 01:49:20.199 --> 01:49:24.850 GETTING OVER INTO HUMAN REASONING. AND CAN I TELL YOU, 01:49:24.850 --> 01:49:30.400 THEY WERE 15 MILES OFF COURSE. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR 01:49:30.400 --> 01:49:32.711 WAITING TIME WHEN WE START GETTING INTO OUR HEAD AND 01:49:32.711 --> 01:49:35.829 REASONING AMONG OURSELVES, YOU'RE GONNA GET OFF COURSE IN 01:49:35.829 --> 01:49:41.980 LIFE, RIGHT? I'VE SEEN IT AFFECT PEOPLE WITH MARRIAGE, SPOUSE 01:49:41.980 --> 01:49:46.060 BELIEVING. I'VE SEEN IT IN PEOPLE WHEN IT CAME TO JOBS AND 01:49:46.060 --> 01:49:53.890 OCCUPATION, MINISTRY CALLINGS, BUSINESSES, BLESSINGS. THEY 01:49:53.890 --> 01:49:58.091 START REASONING AND FIGURING OUT IN THEIR HEAD HOW TO MAKE IT 01:49:58.091 --> 01:50:02.591 HAPPEN. OR THEY START REASONING WHY IT DOESN'T HAPPEN, SO NOW 01:50:02.591 --> 01:50:08.020 THEY GOT OTHER PLANS. BUT THE PROBLEM IS YOU'RE 15 MILES OFF 01:50:08.020 --> 01:50:10.930 COURSE. YOU'RE OFF COURSE OF WHERE YOU NEED TO BE 'CAUSE YOU 01:50:10.930 --> 01:50:16.060 DIDN'T STAY WITH WHAT GOD HAD TOLD YOU OR PLANNED OR HIS 01:50:16.060 --> 01:50:21.461 PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE. VERSE 21, NEW CENTURY VERSION. THIS IS 01:50:21.461 --> 01:50:26.470 WHAT THEY SAID, THIS IS WHAT THEY SAID. WE WERE HOPING THAT 01:50:26.470 --> 01:50:32.140 JESUS WOULD FREE ISRAEL. BESIDES, IT'S NOW THE THIRD DAY. 01:50:32.140 --> 01:50:34.841 I PUT UP THE CENTURY, CEV IF THEY DON'T MIND. I DON'T KNOW 01:50:34.841 --> 01:50:37.180 WHO DOES THAT IN THE BACK, BUT YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB TODAY. 01:50:37.180 --> 01:50:39.820 LET'S GIVE THEM A HAND CLAP. I WANT YOU THAT ARE WATCHING 01:50:39.820 --> 01:50:43.211 AROUND THE WORLD TO SEE THE CEV VERSION, WHICH IS WHAT, IS THAT 01:50:43.211 --> 01:50:49.600 THE CHURCH? NO, IT'S THE COMMON CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH VERSION, 01:50:49.600 --> 01:50:56.199 YEAH. WE HOPED, COME ON, WE HOPED, AGAIN, HOPE DEFERRED. WE 01:50:56.199 --> 01:51:02.171 HOPED THAT HE WOULD BE THE ONE, BUT IT'S ALREADY BEEN THREE DAYS 01:51:02.171 --> 01:51:05.680 SINCE ALL THIS HAPPENED, OR ONE TRANSLATION SAID, I DON'T 01:51:05.680 --> 01:51:08.006 REMEMBER WHICH ONE I HAD HERE, SAYS, "BUT NOTHING HAS 01:51:08.006 --> 01:51:17.485 HAPPENED." NOTHING HAS HAPPENED, OKAY? YEAH, IT DID. IT WAS RIGHT 01:51:17.485 --> 01:51:21.514 THERE WALKING WITH THEM, AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN RECOGNIZE IT. 01:51:21.514 --> 01:51:27.235 SOMETIMES WE CAN GET SO CAUGHT UP IN OUR MOMENT OF FRUSTRATION, 01:51:27.235 --> 01:51:33.025 WE DON'T SEE THE BLESSING SLAPPING US RIGHT IN THE FACE. 01:51:33.025 --> 01:51:36.985 ALL RIGHT, LOOK AT THIS, JOHN 20, VERSE 19, AMPLIFIED. SO WHEN 01:51:36.985 --> 01:51:40.345 IT WAS EVENING OF THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, THE DISCIPLES WERE 01:51:40.345 --> 01:51:45.416 MEETING BEHIND LOCKED DOORS, AND JESUS CAME AND STOOD BEHIND THEM 01:51:45.416 --> 01:51:48.985 AND SAID, "PEACE BE UNTO YOU." HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS IN WAITING 01:51:48.985 --> 01:51:54.145 PERIOD, WE LIVE BOUND. WE PUT UP WALLS, BUT HERE'S WHAT WE HAVE 01:51:54.145 --> 01:51:59.576 TO DO. WE HAVE TO LEARN TO PURSUE PEACE, RECEIVE PEACE, AND 01:51:59.576 --> 01:52:03.746 WALK IN PEACE WHEN YOU DON'T THINK THAT IT'S HAPPENED. THAT'S 01:52:03.746 --> 01:52:07.466 WHY JESUS CAME. ALL RIGHT, LET'S STAND TO OUR FEET. THE LAST ONE, 01:52:07.466 --> 01:52:12.265 THIS IS REALLY POWERFUL. I GOT TWO MORE TO SHOW. LOOK AT JOHN 01:52:12.265 --> 01:52:16.975 21, VERSE 3, OUT OF THE AMPLIFIED. HERE'S THE ONE THAT 01:52:16.975 --> 01:52:21.475 PROBABLY IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONES. AND I CAN TELL YOU, I HAD 01:52:21.475 --> 01:52:27.956 THIS HAPPEN TO ME A FEW TIMES IN MY LIFE. AND I HAD TO JUST GRAB 01:52:27.956 --> 01:52:34.435 AHOLD OF MY HEART STRINGS AND SAY, NO, NO, NO. SIMON PETER 01:52:34.435 --> 01:52:38.576 SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, WHEN IT LOOKED LIKE THE WAITING PERIOD, 01:52:38.576 --> 01:52:41.365 NOTHING WAS HAPPENING, NOTHING WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, NOTHING 01:52:41.365 --> 01:52:44.636 GOOD. COME ON, WHAT DOES ROMANS 8 SAY? AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 01:52:44.636 --> 01:52:48.506 WATCHING TODAY, REMEMBER ALL THINGS, NOT SOME, ALL THINGS 01:52:48.506 --> 01:52:51.865 WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD. NO MATTER WHAT YOU'RE FACING, IT'S 01:52:51.865 --> 01:52:55.855 ALWAYS GONNA TURN OUT GOOD FOR THOSE THAT LOVE GOD AND ARE 01:52:55.855 --> 01:53:00.775 CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. WE KNOW THAT GOD IS GOOD. NOW, 01:53:00.775 --> 01:53:04.667 LET'S GO BACK TO THAT VERSE OF JOHN 21. I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS. 01:53:04.667 --> 01:53:07.765 LOOK AT WHAT PETER SAID. SO IN HIS TIME OF WAITING, HE SAYS TO 01:53:07.765 --> 01:53:13.015 HIS DISCIPLES, HEY MAN, I'M OUTTA HERE, BOYS. I'M GONNA GO 01:53:13.015 --> 01:53:17.485 FISHING. I'M OUTTA HERE, I'M GONNA GO BACK TO WHAT MAKES ME 01:53:17.485 --> 01:53:20.216 FEEL GOOD, MAKES ME FEEL COMFORTABLE. BUT AGAIN, JUST 01:53:20.216 --> 01:53:24.206 LIKE THE TWO ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS, HE WAS OFF COURSE. 01:53:24.206 --> 01:53:28.225 THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU'RE CALLED TO DO, PETER. YOU WEREN'T CALLED TO 01:53:28.225 --> 01:53:31.105 GO BACK TO FISHING. YOU WERE CALLED TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST 01:53:31.105 --> 01:53:36.086 POWERFUL EMERGING VESSELS THAT WOULD BE KNOWN IN THE HISTORY OF 01:53:36.086 --> 01:53:40.256 THE CHURCH. AND YOU'RE GOING BACK TO FISHING, WHY? 'CAUSE IN 01:53:40.256 --> 01:53:43.796 WAITING, AVOID THE TEMPTATION, AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 01:53:43.796 --> 01:53:49.855 LISTENING TO ME IN YOUR LIVING ROOM, AVOID QUITTING. GET RID OF 01:53:49.855 --> 01:53:53.679 THE QUIT SPIRIT. GET RID OF THE I CAN'T SPIRIT. GET RID OF THE 01:53:53.679 --> 01:53:56.905 IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. I DON'T BELIEVE IT WILL HAPPEN. YOU'RE 01:53:56.905 --> 01:54:00.865 NO DIFFERENT THAN PETER. YOU'RE GONNA QUIT GOING TO CHURCH AND 01:54:00.865 --> 01:54:05.336 YOU'RE GONNA QUIT. YOU'RE GONNA QUIT GETTING INVOLVED. YOU'RE 01:54:05.336 --> 01:54:08.216 NOT GONNA BECOME A MEMBER, AN E-MEMBER, A MEMBER IN THE CHURCH 01:54:08.216 --> 01:54:11.786 BECAUSE, OH I'M GONNA GO BACK TO FISHING. I JUST DON'T WANT TO BE 01:54:11.786 --> 01:54:17.858 HURT AGAIN. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT PETER WAS SAYING, HE WAS HURT. 01:54:17.858 --> 01:54:23.966 BUT HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS TODAY. AS I END THIS MESSAGE, WE'RE 01:54:23.966 --> 01:54:29.155 STILL NOW AFTER THE STONE HAS BEEN BLOWN OFF THE GRAVE AND 01:54:29.155 --> 01:54:37.046 BACK UP ON THE HILL. WE AS CHRISTIANS, THE CROSS IS EMPTY, 01:54:37.046 --> 01:54:41.155 THE GRAVE IS EMPTY, BUT IN HEAVEN, HE'S SEATED AT THE RIGHT 01:54:41.155 --> 01:54:46.079 HAND OF GOD THE FATHER. AND NOW, ONCE AGAIN, HIS PEOPLE ARE IN A 01:54:46.079 --> 01:54:53.756 TIME OF WAITING AGAIN. AND THIS IS WHY THE BIBLE SAYS YOU NEED 01:54:53.756 --> 01:54:59.456 TO SAY "MARANATHA" IN THE BIBLE. PERHAPS TODAY, PERHAPS TODAY FOR 01:54:59.456 --> 01:55:03.536 WHAT? HE'S TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING. LOOK AT THIS, ACTS 01:55:03.536 --> 01:55:09.908 CHAPTER 1. JESUS IS GETTING READY TO ASCEND AFTER 50 DAYS. 01:55:09.908 --> 01:55:14.546 HE DIED ON THE CROSS, HE ROSE FROM THE GRAVE, WENT DOWN INTO 01:55:14.546 --> 01:55:18.836 HELL, TOOK AWAY FROM THE DEVIL AND EVERY DEMON, STRIPPED HIM OF 01:55:18.836 --> 01:55:22.466 ALL THE RUBIES AND EVERYTHING, RIGHT? THE JEWELS THAT WERE IN 01:55:22.466 --> 01:55:26.576 SATAN, AND SNATCHED THE KEYS TO DEATH, HELL, AND THE GRAVE, 01:55:26.576 --> 01:55:33.565 KICKED EVERY ONE OF SATAN AND HIS DEMONS, IT'S EASTER SUNDAY, 01:55:33.565 --> 01:55:43.195 GLUTEUS MAXIMUS, THAT'S HEBREW FOR BOOTY. KICKED IT ALL. AND 01:55:43.195 --> 01:55:47.057 THEN NOW, 50 DAYS LATER, WATCH THIS, LOOK AT WHAT, "AND WHEN HE 01:55:47.057 --> 01:55:49.586 HAD SPOKEN THESE THINGS, "WHILE BEHOLD, HE WAS TAKEN UP AND 01:55:49.586 --> 01:55:54.176 RECEIVED OUT OF SIGHT. "ALL THE DISCIPLES, ALL THE PEOPLE, "500 01:55:54.176 --> 01:55:57.595 OF THEM AT ONE TIME SAID, "THE ANGEL SAID, YOU MEN OF GALILEE, 01:55:57.595 --> 01:56:00.565 "WHY ARE YOU STANDING UP HERE LOOKING? "THIS SAME JESUS WHICH 01:56:00.565 --> 01:56:03.506 WAS TAKEN UP INTO HEAVEN, "I'M SORRY, BUT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO 01:56:03.506 --> 01:56:10.139 WAIT. "HE'S GONNA COME AGAIN." LAST SCRIPTURE, TITUS 2, VERSE 01:56:10.139 --> 01:56:16.676 13, LOOK AT WHAT THIS ONE SAYS. IT SAYS, I THINK THE NIV, THIS 01:56:16.676 --> 01:56:20.426 IS LOOKING, BUT THAT WORD IS WAITING. WE ARE NOW WAITING FOR 01:56:20.426 --> 01:56:25.916 THAT BLESSED HOPE OF THE GLORIOUS APPEARING OF THE GREAT 01:56:25.916 --> 01:56:30.926 GOD AND OUR SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE 01:56:30.926 --> 01:56:34.765 HONOR YOU TODAY. IN OUR WAITING, WE WILL NOT GET DISCOURAGED, WE 01:56:34.765 --> 01:56:39.235 WILL NOT QUIT, WE WILL NOT LOOK FOR THINGS THAT APPEAR EMPTY. WE 01:56:39.235 --> 01:56:42.206 WILL LOOK RATHER FOR THE THINGS OF YOUR WORD THAT YOU'VE 01:56:42.206 --> 01:56:45.416 PROMISED AND THE THINGS OF YOUR SPIRIT THAT YOU HAVE SPOKEN 01:56:45.416 --> 01:56:49.315 PROPHETICALLY OVER OUR LIVES, TO OUR LIVES, ABOUT OUR LIVES, OUR 01:56:49.315 --> 01:56:53.336 FAMILY, AND ALL THINGS THAT CONCERN US. AND TODAY WE REFUSE 01:56:53.336 --> 01:56:58.886 TO BE LIKE PETER. WE WILL NOT QUIT. WE WILL NOT GO BACK AND 01:56:58.886 --> 01:57:02.426 GET OFF COURSE LIKE THE TWO ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS. WE WILL NOT 01:57:02.426 --> 01:57:07.256 LOCK THE DOORS AND SHUT YOU OUT OF THE PEOPLE. BUT THIS DAY WE 01:57:07.256 --> 01:57:11.546 RECEIVE YOUR PEACE AND YOUR PROMISE AND WE GO FORWARD AND 01:57:11.546 --> 01:57:18.326 LIKE THE BOOK OF TITUS, WE WAIT WITH GREAT EXPECTATION OF YOU, 01:57:18.326 --> 01:57:24.176 OUR GOD, AND OUR RISEN KING TO RETURN FOR US, YOUR PEOPLE. AND 01:57:24.176 --> 01:57:28.886 ALL THE PEOPLE SAID, AMEN. PASTOR DOUG, COME. PRAISE GOD. 01:57:28.886 --> 01:57:33.775 GIVE PASTOR HANK A HAND. WHAT AN EXCELLENT MESSAGE FOR 01:57:33.775 --> 01:57:37.405 RESURRECTION DAY. YOU CAN BE SEATED FOR JUST A MOMENT. IF YOU 01:57:37.405 --> 01:57:41.636 ARE ASSIGNED TO WORK SOMEWHERE, LIKE THE CONNECT CAFE, TO 01:57:41.636 --> 01:57:45.865 CONTINUE PUTTING THOSE LITTLE SPECIAL RESURRECTION TOMB DONUTS 01:57:45.865 --> 01:57:49.015 TOGETHER I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU CALL THEM. THAT WAS GREAT. BUT 01:57:49.015 --> 01:57:52.405 YOU'RE WELCOME TO GO TO YOUR SPOT. THE REST OF YOU, I'M JUST 01:57:52.405 --> 01:57:56.036 GOING TO KEEP YOU I WON'T KEEP YOU MORE THAN ANOTHER HALF AN 01:57:56.036 --> 01:57:58.706 HOUR OR SOMETHING. NO, I'M JUST JOKING. JUST A COUPLE MINUTES 01:57:58.706 --> 01:58:02.485 HERE. AND AS WE WIND UP, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO ASK THE ALTAR 01:58:02.485 --> 01:58:05.786 TEAM IF YOU'D COME FORWARD AT THIS POINT IN TIME. WE HAVE A 01:58:05.786 --> 01:58:09.355 GREAT ALTAR TEAM HERE. AND IF YOU HAVE PRAYER NEEDS TODAY, YOU 01:58:09.355 --> 01:58:13.706 WANT SOMEONE TO JOIN WITH YOU FOR PRAYER IN YOUR LIFE, OUR 01:58:13.706 --> 01:58:20.065 ALTAR TEAM ARE EXPERIENCED PRAYER WARRIORS, AND THEY ARE 01:58:20.065 --> 01:58:23.576 READY, WILLING, AND ABLE TO PRAY AND AGREE WITH YOU FOR YOUR 01:58:23.576 --> 01:58:27.655 NEEDS TODAY, WHATEVER THEY MAY BE. BUT LET ME JUST ADDRESS ONE 01:58:27.655 --> 01:58:32.779 MORE THING BEFORE I ASK YOU TO COME UP AND WE DISMISS TODAY. 01:58:32.779 --> 01:58:37.405 PASTOR BRENDA PRAYED A WONDERFUL PRAYER THIS MORNING, AND IT WAS 01:58:37.405 --> 01:58:40.435 A PRAYER OF SALVATION. AND THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOME OF YOU 01:58:40.435 --> 01:58:44.275 HERE, I KNOW WE HAVE GUESTS HERE TODAY, THIS COULD HAVE BEEN YOUR 01:58:44.275 --> 01:58:48.626 FIRST TIME TO PRAY THAT PRAYER, ASKING JESUS TO COME INTO YOUR 01:58:48.626 --> 01:58:53.095 HEART. AND THAT'S WHERE IT ALL STARTS. AND PASTOR AND PASTOR 01:58:53.095 --> 01:58:56.966 BRENDA DID A WONDERFUL JOB TALKING ABOUT THE ABUNDANT LIFE 01:58:56.966 --> 01:59:01.256 AND ALL THE BENEFITS OF HAVING JESUS IN YOUR LIFE. IN ADDITION 01:59:01.256 --> 01:59:05.426 TO THAT, IF YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER TODAY, IT SECURES YOUR 01:59:05.426 --> 01:59:10.496 FUTURE ALSO, BECAUSE WHAT IT DOES IS ALLOW YOU TO TRANSITION 01:59:10.496 --> 01:59:15.805 INTO WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS THE NEW BIRTH. BECOMING A CHRISTIAN 01:59:15.805 --> 01:59:20.006 IS A GREAT THING BECAUSE IT ALSO MEANS THAT YOU HAVE ETERNITY 01:59:20.006 --> 01:59:24.115 WITH JESUS CHRIST. SOMEDAY WE'RE ALL GONNA LEAVE THIS EARTH. 01:59:24.115 --> 01:59:26.636 WE'RE ALL GONNA LEAVE. WE'RE ALL GONNA EITHER PASS AWAY OR WE'LL 01:59:26.636 --> 01:59:32.246 GO IN THE RAPTURE WHEN JESUS COMES BACK. ONE OF THE TWO. BUT 01:59:32.246 --> 01:59:35.216 YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE DECISION TO RECEIVE HIM AND KNOW THAT YOU'RE 01:59:35.216 --> 01:59:38.996 PART OF THAT GROUP. MANY OF YOU DID THAT TODAY, I BELIEVE. MANY 01:59:38.996 --> 01:59:42.055 OF YOU HAVE BEEN CHRISTIANS FOR MANY YEARS. I'M JUST GONNA DO 01:59:42.055 --> 01:59:44.786 ONE MORE THING, THOUGH, BECAUSE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU 01:59:44.786 --> 01:59:50.006 KNOW WHAT TO DO TO WALK IT OUT. WE REFER TO IT SOMETIMES LIKE 01:59:50.006 --> 01:59:55.136 FOUR LEGS ON A TABLE. ONCE YOU RECEIVE JESUS, THERE'S FOUR LEGS 01:59:55.136 --> 01:59:57.895 TO THE TABLE TO KEEP THE TABLE SECURE. IF YOU ONLY HAVE TWO 01:59:57.895 --> 02:00:03.086 LEGS OR YOU ONLY HAVE ONE, THAT TABLE WILL FALL OVER EASILY. SO 02:00:03.086 --> 02:00:07.286 THE FOUR LEGS ARE THIS. YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO READ GOD'S WORD. 02:00:07.286 --> 02:00:09.895 YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO PRAY OR COMMUNICATE WITH GOD. AND IT'S 02:00:09.895 --> 02:00:14.275 JUST TALKING TO GOD. IN OTHER WORDS, IT STARTS WITH A SIMPLE 02:00:14.275 --> 02:00:17.155 PRAYER OF SALVATION, BUT THEN YOU NEED TO MOVE ON. IT'S ALSO 02:00:17.155 --> 02:00:20.426 IMPORTANT TO BE IN ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH, WHETHER IT'S ONLINE OR 02:00:20.426 --> 02:00:24.506 HERE PHYSICALLY. AND THEN FOURTHLY, RELATIONSHIPS ARE SO 02:00:24.506 --> 02:00:28.225 IMPORTANT. WHO DO YOU HANG AROUND WITH? WHO'S YOUR FRIENDS? 02:00:28.225 --> 02:00:31.735 WHO DO YOU SPEND TIME WITH? I WANNA HELP YOU WITH THAT TODAY. 02:00:31.735 --> 02:00:34.496 I'M JUST GONNA ASK YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS AGAIN ONE MORE TIME 02:00:34.496 --> 02:00:39.115 WITH ME AND WE'RE GONNA DISMISS SHORTLY. IT'S ONLY 11 O'CLOCK, 02:00:39.115 --> 02:00:43.555 WE'RE OUT OF HERE EARLY TODAY ON EASTER SUNDAY. BUT IF TODAY YOU 02:00:43.555 --> 02:00:47.395 MADE THAT DECISION FOR JESUS CHRIST, YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER 02:00:47.395 --> 02:00:51.956 FOR THE FIRST TIME OR YOU RECOMMITTED YOUR LIFE TO GOD, I 02:00:51.956 --> 02:00:54.836 WANNA KNOW, NO ONE'S LOOKING AROUND, EVERYONE'S HEAD IS 02:00:54.836 --> 02:00:59.395 BOWED, I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN SEE YOU TODAY. IF THAT WAS YOU, 02:00:59.395 --> 02:01:01.826 I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO RAISE YOUR HAND QUICKLY AND SAY, "PASTOR 02:01:01.826 --> 02:01:05.036 DOUG, I PRAYED THAT INITIAL PRAYER, "I WANNA KNOW THAT I'M 02:01:05.036 --> 02:01:09.115 ON MY WAY TO HEAVEN, "I WANNA SECURE MY FUTURE, IT WAS A GREAT 02:01:09.115 --> 02:01:11.996 THING TO DO." YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER TODAY FOR THE FIRST TIME, 02:01:11.996 --> 02:01:14.876 JUST RAISE YOUR HAND QUICKLY AND PUT IT DOWN, I WANNA SEE YOUR 02:01:14.876 --> 02:01:18.317 HANDS TODAY. IF YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER WITH PASTOR BRENDA AND 02:01:18.317 --> 02:01:22.185 THAT WAS YOUR FIRST TIME TO MAKE A DECISION FOR CHRIST, YOU WANNA 02:01:22.185 --> 02:01:24.856 KNOW THAT YOU WERE, OR MAYBE YOU DIDN'T PRAY ALONG WITH THAT 02:01:24.856 --> 02:01:28.576 PRAYER, BUT TODAY IS YOUR DAY AND YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR SURE 02:01:28.576 --> 02:01:30.796 YOU WANNA MAKE THAT DECISION. I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO RAISE YOUR 02:01:30.796 --> 02:01:36.376 HAND. ANYONE HERE IN THE PLACE MADE THAT DECISION FOR JESUS? DO 02:01:36.376 --> 02:01:41.145 WE HAVE A HAND? OKAY, I SEE ONE UP THERE. ANYONE ELSE? ANYONE 02:01:41.145 --> 02:01:45.046 ELSE? THERE'S A COUPLE OTHERS HERE, I BELIEVE. ONE MORE THING, 02:01:45.046 --> 02:01:49.155 THE HOLY SPIRIT'S SHOWING ME SOMETHING. YOU'RE HERE TODAY AND 02:01:49.155 --> 02:01:55.666 YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN, BUT YOU HAVE GOTTEN INTO RELATIONSHIPS WITH 02:01:55.666 --> 02:01:59.087 FRIENDS, JUST WHAT I MENTIONED, AND THAT'S YOU THAT I'M SPEAKING 02:01:59.087 --> 02:02:02.115 TO. YOU'VE GOTTEN INVOLVED IN SOME FRIENDSHIPS AND 02:02:02.115 --> 02:02:06.197 RELATIONSHIPS, PEOPLE YOU'RE SPENDING TIME WITH, THAT YOU 02:02:06.197 --> 02:02:09.886 KNOW IN YOUR HEART AREN'T GODLY. THEY'VE PULLED YOU BACK, THEY'VE 02:02:09.886 --> 02:02:12.496 PULLED YOU AWAY FROM GOD, AND YOU HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO SERVE 02:02:12.496 --> 02:02:15.947 GOD IN THE WAY THAT YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD. YOU FELT CONVICTION 02:02:15.947 --> 02:02:18.796 ABOUT THAT, AND THAT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKING IN YOUR LIFE. BUT 02:02:18.796 --> 02:02:22.006 NOW YOU NEED TO JUST COME FORWARD TODAY AND SAY, I WANNA 02:02:22.006 --> 02:02:26.145 MAKE THIS A NEW DAY OF COMMITMENT. I'M GONNA START 02:02:26.145 --> 02:02:30.856 ASSOCIATING WITH PEOPLE THAT WILL KEEP ME ON TRACK. THAT'S SO 02:02:30.856 --> 02:02:34.666 IMPORTANT, BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN PULL YOU THE WRONG DIRECTION. 02:02:34.666 --> 02:02:37.305 BECAUSE YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN LONELY, YOU GOT OFF TRACK. 02:02:37.305 --> 02:02:40.305 THAT'S OKAY, YOU JUST MAKE A DECISION TO TURN FROM THAT. WHO 02:02:40.305 --> 02:02:43.216 IS THAT TODAY AND YOU SAY, I NEED TO MAKE THAT DECISION, I 02:02:43.216 --> 02:02:45.555 NEED TO MAKE THAT DECISION, RAISE YOUR HAND QUICKLY, IF 02:02:45.555 --> 02:02:49.636 THAT'S YOU, OKAY, I SEE THE HANDS. EVERYONE THAT RAISED YOUR 02:02:49.636 --> 02:02:53.237 HAND TODAY, FOR WHATEVER REASON, THIS ALTAR TEAM HERE IS PREPARED 02:02:53.237 --> 02:02:54.947 AND HONORED TO PRAY WITH YOU, WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU 02:02:54.947 --> 02:02:58.996 INFORMATION, WE'RE GONNA HELP YOU ON YOUR WALK SO THAT YOU CAN 02:02:58.996 --> 02:03:02.087 MAKE THIS COMMITMENT, BUT THEN WALK FORWARD IN IT. IT'S YOUR 02:03:02.087 --> 02:03:05.655 DECISION TO MAKE THE COMMITMENT FOR JESUS, BUT THEN YOU ALSO 02:03:05.655 --> 02:03:09.376 HAVE TO DECIDE, I'M GONNA CONTINUE WITH HIM. IT'S SO 02:03:09.376 --> 02:03:11.777 IMPORTANT. AND IF YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, WE HAVE A 02:03:11.777 --> 02:03:15.015 PRAYER LINE YOU CAN CALL, AND THOSE PEOPLE WILL PRAY AND GIVE 02:03:15.015 --> 02:03:17.577 YOU INFORMATION TOO. BUT IF THAT'S YOU TODAY AND YOU RAISED 02:03:17.577 --> 02:03:20.626 YOUR HAND, I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO DO SOMETHING. COME FORWARD RIGHT 02:03:20.626 --> 02:03:23.837 NOW. LET'S BRING THAT UP A LITTLE BIT, EDDIE. COME FORWARD 02:03:23.837 --> 02:03:27.796 RIGHT NOW, GET UP OUT OF YOUR SEAT, BE BOLD, COME FORWARD, AND 02:03:27.796 --> 02:03:30.947 LET'S GIVE THEM A HAND AS THEY COME TODAY AND MAKE THAT 02:03:30.947 --> 02:03:34.515 DECISION OF CONFIRMATION FOR JESUS CHRIST. I SAW HANDS IN THE 02:03:34.515 --> 02:03:37.786 BACK THERE. JUST GET UP OUT OF YOUR SEAT, SIR, COME ON ON DOWN. 02:03:37.786 --> 02:03:41.176 IF YOU WERE INVOLVED IN OTHER RELATIONSHIPS, I SAW SEVERAL 02:03:41.176 --> 02:03:43.905 HANDS. WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU INFORMATION, WE'RE GONNA GIVE 02:03:43.905 --> 02:03:47.926 YOU HELP, WE'RE GONNA HELP YOU ON YOUR WALK. WE'VE GOT MORE 02:03:47.926 --> 02:03:52.456 COMING HERE, GIVE THEM TIME TO COME. THANK YOU, JESUS. WHETHER 02:03:52.456 --> 02:03:55.185 YOU'RE A FIRST-TIME GUEST OR YOU'VE BEEN HERE MANY TIMES, IT 02:03:55.185 --> 02:03:58.817 DOESN'T MATTER. YOU KNOW, JESUS HAS OPEN ARMS, AND HE'S READY TO 02:03:58.817 --> 02:04:02.865 RECEIVE AS YOU MAKE DECISIONS FOR HIM. AND IF YOU'RE WATCHING 02:04:02.865 --> 02:04:06.405 ONLINE AND YOU CALLED TODAY TO OUR PRAYER LINE, WE'LL SEND YOU 02:04:06.405 --> 02:04:09.765 INFORMATION TO HELP YOU IN YOUR WALK. THANK YOU, SIR, FOR COMING 02:04:09.765 --> 02:04:14.655 FORWARD. LET'S GIVE HIM A HAND. WE'VE GOT MORE COMING. THANK YOU 02:04:14.655 --> 02:04:18.975 FOR DOING THAT. IT'S THE BEST DECISION YOU'LL EVER MAKE TODAY. 02:04:18.975 --> 02:04:22.395 WE'LL GIVE YOU INFORMATION. WE HAVE A CLASS COMING UP LATER 02:04:22.395 --> 02:04:26.115 THIS MONTH THAT WILL HELP YOU AS A NEW BELIEVER TO GET GROUNDED 02:04:26.115 --> 02:04:29.536 IN THE WORD OF GOD, TO HELP YOU TO REALLY MOVE FORWARD IN 02:04:29.536 --> 02:04:32.475 EVERYTHING THAT GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO. GIVE THESE A HAND AS 02:04:32.475 --> 02:04:36.645 THEY'RE COMING TODAY. THANK YOU, FOLKS, FOR DOING THAT. OUR ALTAR 02:04:36.645 --> 02:04:41.386 TEAM WILL HELP FIND SOMEONE TO PRAY WITH YOU. THANK YOU, JESUS. 02:04:41.386 --> 02:04:47.626 AND NOW YOU KNOW THAT APRIL 5, 2026, RESURRECTION SUNDAY, IS A 02:04:47.626 --> 02:04:50.595 VERY SPECIAL DAY IN YOUR LIFE. AND YOU'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD 02:04:50.595 --> 02:04:52.786 TO SOME GREAT THINGS. ALTAR TEAM, CAN YOU HELP THEM TO MAKE 02:04:52.786 --> 02:04:56.805 SURE THEY FIND SOMEONE THAT CAN PRAY WITH THEM SO WE HAVE PEOPLE 02:04:56.805 --> 02:05:01.246 WITH THEM? AND WHILE THEY'RE PRAYING, IF THERE'S STILL 02:05:01.246 --> 02:05:03.947 SOMEONE ELSE AND YOU NEED PRAYER, YOU CAN COME UP HERE AND 02:05:03.947 --> 02:05:08.506 LINE UP. LET ME REMIND YOU, THERE'S NO IN-PERSON WEDNESDAY 02:05:08.506 --> 02:05:12.796 NIGHT MIDWEEK RECHARGE THIS WEEK. WE'RE ONLINE ONLY, ONLINE 02:05:12.796 --> 02:05:17.055 ONLY THIS COMING WEDNESDAY. GOD BLESS YOU. THANK YOU FOR COMING 02:05:17.055 --> 02:05:21.886 TODAY. WE JUST PRAY THAT THIS IS THE BEST RESURRECTION SUNDAY 02:05:21.886 --> 02:05:25.069 YOU'VE EVER HAD. GO ENJOY YOUR DAY AND THANK YOU FOR COMING TO 02:05:25.069 --> 02:05:28.277 THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. THANK YOU ONLINE AUDIENCE FOR TUNING IN. 02:05:28.277 --> 02:05:33.365 (MUSIC)