This is “The Devil’s Waterloo.” He’s conquered the grave, He’s conquered sin, and one day He is coming back again! We celebrate the resurrection of Christ, but we also celebrate the coming resurrection of all those who’ve died in Christ. In this message, Jentezen Franklin spells out our promise of eternal life like you’ve never heard before. Why would you put off until tomorrow, what you can have today?
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connection he defeated Heil he defeated
the grave and he defeated your sin and
shame somebody give the Lord a praise
I’m glad that Calvary was the devil’s
Waterloo
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if you have your Bibles I do want to
read in the New Testament Luke 24 now on
the first day of the week very early in
the morning certain other women came
with them to the tomb bringing the
spices which they had prepared turned to
somebody and say so that’s the Spice
Girls and they found the stone and
rolled and it was rolled away from the
tomb and they went in listened and did
not find the body of the Lord Jesus and
it happened as they were greatly
perplexed about this that behold two men
stood by them in shining garments which
tells me it wasn’t men it was angels
then as they were afraid and bowed their
faces to the earth they said to them
what a great question why do you seek
the living among the dead he is not here
but he is risen remember how he spoke to
you when he was at still in Galilee
saying the Son of Man must be delivered
in the hands of sinful men and be
crucified and on the third day rise
again and then they remembered his words
a great great preacher who has gone on
to be with the Lord left a legacy of two
remarkable sermons one of the sermons
that became quite famous from dr. SM
Lockridge he was an african-american
pastor and preacher so leader in the
civil rights movement marched with dr.
King but even more notable than that was
his ability to preach Jesus from the
pulpit he had a famous sermon that was
called that’s my king
and it became world-famous and whether
you realize it or not you’ve heard it
you’ve heard bits and pieces of it
there’s not a preacher in the nation
that hasn’t taken some of it at some
point
and if they if they haven’t they’re just
young and haven’t discovered it yet but
it’s a remarkable remarkable sermon then
his second sermon that became famous
that sometimes someone will say
something and it becomes something that
lives for generations and that’s what’s
happened with his second sermon it was
called it’s Friday but Sunday’s coming
he was right he was preaching Calvary
was Friday but Sunday’s coming but I
want to preach good news today that is
Sunday and Jesus is coming just like he
said he would he’s coming again the sky
grew dark the earth began to tremble
what a horrible horrible thing that was
heard as Jesus uttered from the cross my
father my father why have you forsaken
me
the veil was torn in the temple Jesus
hanging on the cross heaven is weeping
hell is rejoicing the perfect man Jesus
Christ is dying a hideous death on the
cross Satan thought he had destroyed
Jesus on Friday Satan thought that the
battle was won for hell on Friday but
three days later a mighty angel was
dispatched from heaven he rolled the
stone away and Jesus Christ stepped out
of that tomb when he died on the cross
he was a silent lamb but when he rose
from the dead and stepped out of that
tomb he was no longer a silent lamb he
was the Lion of the tribe of Judah and
he was roaring with resurrection power
and today the message is he is not here
in that tomb he is risen
it’s Sunday it’s Easter Sunday and our
Savior has humiliated hail our Savior
has outwitted Satan he has overpowered
the grave he
it’s called sin to bow its knee he has
defeated the strategies of hell against
you and against your family
he has taken your sin and your shame and
he is pronounced that you are forgiven
and you are a child of the Most High God
it’s Sunday and Jesus is coming again do
you believe that say man somebody if you
want to really understand this day what
atheists don’t understand what Christian
critics don’t understand is you can’t
just go to the story of Christmas and
stop of a baby being born you can’t just
go to the cross and realize that he died
for our sins and stop
you don’t understand Christianity if you
do that you can’t even come to Easter
and say because there’s an empty tomb
then the program of God is complete
because that is not the end you have to
go to the back of the book and when I go
to the back of the book it tells me that
it’s not over he has conquered the grave
he has conquered sin but one day he’s
coming back again the trumpet is going
to sound and ain’t no grave gonna hold
our bodies down the trumpet is gonna
sound there is going to come a change in
the moment in the twinkling of an eye
we’ll be caught up together to meet the
Lord in the air it’s Sunday but Jesus is
coming I love that line that s him
Lockridge said he said the world is
winning people are sinning and evil is
grinning but I want to say is Sunday
they may be grinning and winning and
sinning but Jesus is coming and we
better be ready we better get our hearts
ready we better get our families ready
because he’s coming soon he’s coming
soon
you can’t take half the gospel and it
doesn’t in at the tune
he’s coming soon I’ve read the back of
the book and his Sunday but Jesus is
coming I want you to know that we don’t
celebrate a resurrection only that
happened 2,000 years ago but one of
these days the trumpet is going to sound
and we’re going to a land where there is
no more death no more crying no more
sign no more pain for the former things
will be passed away and I want to remind
Satan that one angel is going to chain
him and throw him in a bottomless pit
and ultimately he’s going to burn in the
lake of fire that I’ll never go to
because Jesus is alive it’s Sunday but
Jesus is coming give him a praise if you
believe it
give him a mighty praise right now
hallelujah
Calvary was a tremendous temporary
victory for Satan and all of Hell it’s a
true story about the war between England
and France Napoleon had invaded England
and everyone knew in that nation of
England that if they didn’t make a stand
and stop Napoleon at a place called
Waterloo the whole nation would fall
they would all go into captivity so the
Battle of Waterloo became critical the
British captain was named Wellington he
was overall the armed forces that would
fight Napoleon in his powerful army they
had never been defeated and back then
they had signalman that would stand on
mountains and they would send signals
from mountaintop to mountaintop from
signalman one to another until they
reached the City of London there in
London thousands upon thousands of
people back in those days the only form
of communication they erected a big
billboard as massive as they could see
so that everybody in the streets of
London could look up and see how the
battle had ended at Waterloo they knew
if Wellington had been defeated at
Waterloo
then the battle was over and they were
going to become slaves to Napoleon and
his armies so they waited watching and
the signal started coming from the
battlefield how the battle had gone and
just as it would happen this is a true
story
the fog started setting in as if you’ve
ever been there to London it can come
suddenly out of nowhere and as the man
was riding on the Billboard with red
paint he wrote these words and then the
fog came and it covered but all they
could see was two words that he wrote
Wellington defeated Wellington defeated
the people of London their hearts sank
in fear many began to tremble and cry
and some ran to their homes and lock the
doors and others stood in the streets
dumbfounded heartbroken realizing that
their nation would never be the same
Wellington defeated was the message but
as some were still standing in the
streets the fog began to lift some time
later and someone happened to look up
and they realized that the message had
been obscured in its entirety one word
was missing
it said Wellington defeated and the word
missing was Napoleon nobody knew it
didn’t looked like it and now suddenly
the weeping turned into rejoicing
suddenly the people realize that that
Napoleon didn’t defeat our general but
our general defeated Napoleon and they
were rejoicing and they were stansson in
the streets 2,000 years ago on the cross
when they put Jesus crown that
crown of thorns on his head stabbed him
in his side and pierced his heart up
through his abdomen ripped his back to
pieces and it looked like that it was
over inhale put up a big billboard Jesus
Christ defeated in all of Hell was
laughing in all of heaven was weeping
but three days later at the dawning of a
new day suddenly the fog lifted and the
message was not when Jesus came out of
that tomb Jesus Christ defeated it was
Jesus Christ defeated Satan he defeated
hell he defeated the grave and he
defeated your sin and shame somebody
give the Lord a praise I’m glad that
Calvary was the devil’s Waterloo I heard
a story the other day or read it
actually about a man who was in a hurry
walking home and he decided that he
needed to take a shortcut and it was
very dark
this night and he had to go through a
cemetery and he had to walk through it
with no lights and he was walking and I
guess he was a little freaked out and he
was looking around hearing strange
sounds and he walked and fell right into
a grave that had been fresh freshly dug
they were probably gonna put a coffin in
there the next morning and when he hit
the bottom of that grave he jumped and
he called and he did everything he could
to try to get out but it was too deep
and he could not get out after trying
for about 30 minutes and sweating and he
finally just said in the dark corner of
that grave that’s so dark that you
couldn’t even hardly see your hand in
front of you he said in the shadow of
that corner of that grave and just said
to himself I’ll wait for the Sun to come
up and somebody will come find me
tomorrow while he was sitting in that
shadow along comes another man and he
falls into the same grave on the other
end and he
naturally and quickly starts grabbing
and clawing and scratching trying to get
his trying to lift himself out of that
grave and he can’t get out he tries and
tries and tries and finally after about
ten minutes he just sits down in the
side of the grave and he thinks to
himself well I can’t get out and
suddenly while he’s sitting there he
hears from the other end of that dark
grave a voice and the voice said you
can’t get out of here but he did when
they put Jesus in that tomb
all the demons inhaled and death itself
said you can’t get out of here but I
promise you he did he did it for me he
did it for you he paid the price he
conquered death hell and the grave tell
somebody besides you he did it
it’s Sunday but Jesus is coming oh I’m
so thankful that if I die in the Lord
today I’m ready to go I’m in a suit and
everything praise the Lord
just put me in there I look good today
got a town I don’t always look like this
but you know what the shell the old body
will be empty but my spirit to be absent
from the body is to be present with the
Lord
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you understand if you’ve lost a loved
one they are presently with the Lord we
have eternal life we don’t fear death
cancer Caitlyn can’t keep me down
disease can’t keep me down nothing can
separate me from the love of God and
eternal life that has been given through
Jesus Christ boy when you get that
revelation why would you turn him down
how would you wait why would you put it
off to another day or when I get older
later you can have eternal life that
because he was resurrected and came out
of the grave
you have resurrection power you have the
power of the Holy Spirit right now that
says there ain’t no grave the grave of
alcoholism the grave of drug addiction
the grave of shame the grave of failure
the grave of self-hatred eating
disorders whatever it is that the enemy
hasn’t has has put you in and said this
is going to be your death this is going
to be your ending there is no grave that
can hold you if Jesus is Lord of your
life because he gives you resurrection
power today all you have to do is
receiving I have the greatest job in the
world I get to tell you that God loves
you that God is for you and he wants to
get in you he wants to transform your
life and all he’s waiting on is an
invite
if you just open the door if you just
respond if you just let your stinking
pride be put under your foot today say
you know what is Sunday but Jesus is
coming I better get ready I better get
my family ready I better get my whole
life needs to be in one direction moving
toward heaven moving toward eternity
where will you spend eternity where will
you spend eternity because he lives I
can face tomorrow everybody at every
campus singing like a big choir because
that’s beautiful all fear is gone all
fear is gone because I know
I know he holds my future my life is
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just because
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would you just lift your hands and sing
it because
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I can fix I can face tomorrow yesterday
because he’s Emmanuel
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because
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here
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because then sings my soul my Savior God
too
how great singing church
how great
worse you fear
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my god I see to me
oh great
what I think about what you’ve done
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if you’re listening to me the day’s not
by accident
I really feel a constraining now many
many need to make a decision for Jesus
Christ there backsliders I need to come
running not to a God who’s angry at you
but one who’s ready to wrap his arms
around you it’s been waiting if you want
Jesus to be Lord of your life and you
don’t know you’re right with God and
you’d like to have that peace that
forgiveness you know that you I want to
embarrass you I won’t humiliate you I’m
gonna pray for you but he never comes
where he’s not invited and when you
raise your hand in a moment that is the
invitation and his Spirit will come
running
pastor pray for me I need to get right
with God today if that’s you boldly lift
your hand high and unashamed it’s
powerful it’s powerful
raise those hands all over the building
in the overflows thank you for raising
that hand you can put it down
Jesus saw every one of those hands and
now I’m gonna ask this congregation in
unison out loud to pray a prayer that is
a biblical prayer that God said I’ll
back it up I’m the truth and I’ll do
what I said I would do if you’ll pray
this everybody in this room just lift
your hand toward heaven say these words
Lord Jesus I believe in you I believe
you were born of a virgin I believe you
died on the cross
I believe the blood you shared
was precious blood and it cleanses my
sins and I believe on the third day you
did it
you came out of the grave and because
you came out I can come out I receive a
new life I receive a new beginning I
receive the power to be called a child
of God
I am NOT a slave to fear I am a child of
God and I am free I’m born to live free
from this day forward I am your property
Lord and my life is yours give the
biggest praise of the day right now the
Jesus
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