Experience the power of the resurrection through this special presentation produced in partnership with RightNow Media. We want to thank RightNow Media and Harvest House Publishers for the use of the content filmed on location in Israel and excerpted from Tony Evans’ Bible Study: “The Power of Jesus Names.” We also want to thank Anthony Evans, Jr. for directing and producing the portions filmed on location in Texas. And a special thanks to Kirk Franklin and his group of amazing singers and musicians for sharing the love of God and the power of Jesus through the wonder of song.
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well hello oh click Bible Fellowship
Church family as well as our broader
global audience I promised you last week
that we were going to go on a journey
for Resurrection Sunday and that’s
exactly what we’re going to do as we
prepare to go on this journey I want you
to be prepared in advance for the
conclusion of the journey which will be
around communion so go ahead and get
your juice your bread your crackers God
knows your heart it take what you have
and be prepared that when we finish our
journey we’ll be able to meet the Lord
in a fresh way but our journey is going
to take us to the land of Israel and
we’re going to learn and be reminded of
some great spiritual truths about our
Savior about what he accomplished and
about the power of the Resurrection so
come on let’s go and let’s see what
Jesus has to teach us as we find out
more about him in the land where he
lived died and rose again
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let’s begin our journey of one of the
greatest events in the life of Jesus
demonstrating his miraculous power his
awesome deity and his ability to reverse
a bad situation happened in Bethany and
you know it when he raised Lazarus from
the dead
this event is special because in it
Jesus shows his humanity where he can
hurt with people who are weeping and at
the same time reverse the thing that
caused them to cry this is special so I
want you to join me let’s go into
Lazarus tube and let’s see how this
miracle unfolds
throughout the book of John one of the
ways Jesus affirmed his deity and
expressly declared it was identifying
himself as I am Jesus not only said it
he demonstrated it a few chapters later
in John chapter 11 when three people who
he loved Martha Mary and Lazarus work
we’re struggling because Lazarus was
dying and the sister would cry was
crying out Martha went to him and said
don’t she can’t he could have been here
earlier this didn’t have to go down like
this my brother didn’t have to die
and guess what Jesus said I am the
resurrection and he went a little bit
further he says that he is the
resurrection and anyone who believed in
him
would never die that’s the beauty of
knowing be I am because you escaped
death because he is the resurrection but
there’s another application to this what
do you think has died in your life maybe
hope has died maybe relationships have
died maybe your perspective has died
maybe your your dreams have died guess
what Jesus is still the resurrection he
can take things that are dead and bring
them back to life again here it is real
he says he’s gonna do that with the Dead
Sea he’s gonna bring it back to life he
wants to bring you back to life because
he’s I am and he is relevant to you
right where you are in the DEP you think
you’re in doing Martha said to him well
I know in the future my brother’s gonna
rise I’ve got my eschatology and
theology straight now Jesus says I’m not
just talking about the future I’m
talking about I am in the present I am
right here with you in the pain you’re
experiencing right now Jesus didn’t keep
him from the pain but his am-ness joined
them in the pain that’s why throughout
the book of John him declaring himself
that I am
means that he’s relevant to the present
tense of your reality so faith in Christ
gives you guarantees for eternity but it
gives you hope for a resurrection no
matter how deadly your situation appears
to be in right now he finally told it
Martha if you believe you would see that
if you see you would believe because
faith must precede sight but the faith
he asked for wasn’t just verbal faith he
said move the stone now I didn’t tell
she moved the stone did she seek what
the resurrected Christ could do maybe
your resurrection hasn’t occurred
because you had to go to the stone
demonstrate that you believe that Jesus
is the I am do what he’s told you to do
act in obedience and let’s see what
resurrection he brings in your life and
in your circumstances
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well there’s a lot of concern about
sickness today we’ve got a pandemic
we’ve got a virus that is causing great
pain and heartache Martha Mary we’re
concerned about the physical well-being
of their brother they wanted Jesus to do
something about it that’s probably how
we all feel right now because there’s
this corona virus that won’t leave us
alone and like Martha Mary we’re crying
out god please help us things got worse
as we saw before they got better but
Jesus stepped in we need God right now
to step in and to eradicate this disease
but God gave them a condition they had
to remove the stone in other words they
had to position themselves for a miracle
to deal with whatever the illness was
that brought about Lazarus demise let’s
make sure we are positioning ourselves
for the miracle that we are requesting
many of us are locked up in our homes
and like Mary who wouldn’t even come out
of her house she was sequestered in her
home when Jesus told us come it’s time
to come out cuz it’s time for a miracle
I believe God wants to do a miracle in
our lives and our families and our
marriages you know culture in our
country in our churches but he just
wants that stone removed he wants to
know that we have faith and faith is not
a feeling it’s acting like God is
telling the truth it’s not an emotion
it’s acting like it is so even when it’s
not so in order that it might be so
something because God said so you
measure your faith by your foot
by your mouth not only that but by your
movement by your talk yes but also by
your walk yes you use your lips but it’s
manifested by your life and not until
she removed the stone did she get the
miracle of a resurrection Jesus believes
in resurrections he believes that taking
things that look like there is no hope
and reversing them
yeah we need a reversal with regard to
this virus but you may need a reversal
with regard to your virus whatever that
thing is in your life that looks like
it’s dying or dead
maybe it’s your marriage that seems
hopeless
maybe it’s your relationship with your
children that seemed like it can’t be
resurrected maybe it’s a reversal of
circumstances in your life for which you
are at fault and you need God to
resurrect and bring about a shift in how
things are gonna wind up the question on
the floor is have you removed the stone
have you done what he’s asked you to do
which demonstrates faith which frees him
up to do what he wants to do you will
never know what’s behind the stone will
you never know what your miracle can be
until he sees you removing the stone
until he sees you acting on what he said
which demonstrates faith in his word
when you operate on what you do know
then he can go behind the stone and do
what you don’t know because once the
stone was removed
Jesus kicked in and he prayed a prayer
the great I am went about his
resurrecting duty and he says father I
always know that you hear me
I know we’re praying but the question is
this Jesus praying the prayer that you
are praying so that both of you are
praying the same prayer which means
you’re operating in his will which means
his father never turns down his son when
his son is requesting on our behalf what
we’ve requested
by the way that’s why we end our prayers
in Jesus’s name we want him to
authenticate and authorize what we are
requesting and he’s not about to do it
until he sees Caesarstone moving until
he sees obedience to his revealed word
and did you notice how specific it was
you know this tomb its Lazarus tomb this
thing goes pretty deep
and Jesus said Lazarus come for he
didn’t say y’all come forth and
everybody would have left now he said
Lazarus come forth because there was a
specific answer to a specific request
about a specific situation so you go to
Jesus and you be specific about what you
wanted to do you give it the name
Lazarus or whatever name it ought to be
called but then you make sure you mix it
with obedience that trust in Jesus and
when there is faith filled obedience
then we stand back and we watch him call
the name of our problem our predicament
our virus and then we watch him begin to
eradicate things that nobody else could
fix we’re in a pandemic that it should
be clear now we don’t have ready answers
for that’s because God wants to be the
solution but he’s waiting on us to move
the stone so how long does God have to
wait for us to do what he told us to do
so we can watch him do what he’s
promised to do in moving the stone and
giving us the resurrection we need in
whatever situation we face whether it’s
the pandemic of a virus or the pandemic
of circumstances that need to be lifted
from the grave that we find ourself dug
in Jesus Christ wants to give you a
resurrection a resurrection in the midst
of your trouble and your circumstances
but he’s waiting for you to obey Him and
do what he’s asked you to do
that begins with acknowledging that you
need him that you can’t do this without
him our world needs him you need to go
to him and say my world needs you
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I’m standing on the Mount of Olives this
is a very special place because this is
the place that Jesus ascended to heaven
from Hathi he rose from the dead forty
days later he met with his disciples
giving them final instructions about the
kingdom of God and then stepped on a
cloud and his glorified body and was
taken up to the third heaven to sit on
the right hand side of his father
Zachariah tells us it’s also the places
coming back again where this mountain
will split in two and is coming and
where he will enter through this eastern
gate in order to set up his 1000 year
Kingdom millennial rule that’s going to
be an exciting time and it’s exciting to
just stand in this spot that’s why I
love the name given to Jesus Christ in
Revelation chapter 22 verse 13 where he
says I am the Alpha and the Omega Alpha
and Omega they are the first and last
letters of the Greek alphabet so when
the Bible says that Jesus’s name is
Alpha and Omega what God is telling us
is that he is the first Alpha the first
letter of the Greek alphabet Omega the
last letter of the Greek alphabet and
that means he is the sum total of
everything in between that’s why the
statement is connected to him being the
first and the last that is he is the sum
total of all the manifestation and
communication and revelation of God
alphabet the first two letters of the
Greek language alpha beta that makes up
our English word alphabet which is 26
letters these 26 letters make hundreds
of thousands of words I bought my mother
a UH a Scrabble set one year and she got
very good at it and she was creating all
of these were
is validated by the dictionary from
these 26 letters she didn’t have to go
and find a 27th letter because 26
letters were sufficient for all the
legitimate words that she wanted to make
well just as the 26 letters of the
English alphabet they are sufficient for
all communication so it is Jesus Christ
is sufficient for all of life
that’s why Colossians chapter 3 verse 11
says in Christ he’s all in all he’s
everything he’s the beginning the end
the Alpha and Omega the first and the
last because he is the comprehensive
statement reflection of manifestation of
God in fact the Bible says that in
Christ the fullness of deity dwells in
bodily form all of God is resident in
the person of Jesus Christ that means
that there is nothing missing when you
have him when you have Jesus you have
all that God is resident in you and that
means you have all that you need
resident in Christ that’s now resident
in you because you if you are a believer
are now in Christ to speak of Jesus as
alpha that is to speak of him as the
beginning you are now saying that he is
in the front of everything this is why
Colossians says that Jesus does have
first place in everything he is never to
be second in any area of my life your
life or our lives he is to be consulted
about all matters because after all he
is to be first Jesus being first also
speaks to his rank when we talk about
the first family or the first lady we’re
not we’re emphasizing their rank or
their position Jesus should be fir
time because he’s also first in rank
that is he’s to be positioned above
everything else let me put it another
way all of life is the recognition of
Jesus Christ and if you put him first
and if he becomes the conclusion and
have all matters subject matters
decisions are run through him that he is
being given the position that he demands
the position that he deserves and the
position that he will utilize to be at
worked in your life for your good and
for his glory in Hebrews chapter 12 we
have a great statement about how this
knowledge that Jesus is the sum total of
everything Alpha and Omega which means
everything in between from A to Z we
would say in our own language referring
to the alphabet and it’s comprehensive
nature he says since we have this cloud
of witnesses in verse one that is all
the people in chapter 11 who walked by
faith we should do the same and why
should we do it he says fixing our eyes
on Jesus the author and perfecter of our
faith because Jesus is the sum total of
everything and all of life is the
recognition of Jesus Christ
since he’s God’s philosophy of life
Ephesians 1:10 that all of life is to be
summed up Paul says in the person and
work of Jesus Christ he says get fixated
on him
as the author alpha and finisher Omega
of all of life don’t just take a
peekaboo of Jesus fixate on it in other
words let him be your point of reference
for everything in your life about your
life coming to your life emanating from
your life become so focused on him that
he now takes up the total engulfing you
into his person fix your eyes on Jesus
who when he says endured the cross for
the joy set before him so fixing your
eyes when Jesus doesn’t mean you won’t
have any challenges it has me you won’t
have any problems it means that the
crucifixion of Friday becomes the
resurrection of Sunday and God can take
messes and create miracles if you get
fixated that is if your perspective gets
zeroed in on him when Peter was drowning
because of the storm surrounding him he
got fixated on Jesus Christ until he got
fixated things kept going kept going
south but when he got fixated on the
author and finisher the one who started
him on walking on water alpha was the
finisher the one omega who reached down
in water and brought him back to safety
again so when Jesus Christ calls you at
the beginning alpha he can reach you
even when you’re sinking in between to
bring you to the place that you should
be he even had begun a good work in you
will continue it and complete it what am
I saying
Jesus doesn’t alpha what he doesn’t
Omega Jesus doesn’t start what he’s not
able to finish and if you will get
started with him
and keep walking with him he will bring
you to a conclusion for his glory you’re
good as you’ll conformed to his image he
keeps his promises he is able to bring
you to the finish line the finish line
of life the finish line of ministry the
finish line of circumstances I will
never forget the 1996 Olympics that’s
when a young gymnasts named Kerri Strug
was doing the vault that would bring the
United States a gold medal in gymnastics
the problem was that when she did her of
all she sprained her ankle and she could
barely walk
she was about to give up when she looked
over in the corner and saw her coach she
saw her coach and her coach was saying
you can do it Carrie you can do it
Carrie I believe in you Carrie but she
was in pain and she was hurting but at
the beckoning of her coach calling her
to finish she decided to try it again
the problem was it was her last try and
she was limping and they needed a high
score for the American team to win the
gold medal but she kept looking at the
coach and when she ran half limp have
run and vaulted and flipped in the air
she came down on her two legs and had to
lift one up because of the spring that
she had had previously but she landed
solid in spite of the limp when she was
asked how she was able to do that she
says I wasn’t able on my own but I kept
my eyes fixed on the coach and he kept
believing in me when I couldn’t believe
in me the one who brought her into
gymnastics her coach was the one who
brought her through gymnastics so that
the US team won the gold medal God has a
gold medal for you and if he led you to
salvation alpha that he’s going to bring
you to glorification Omega and that
means he’s gonna walk with you through
the whole destination so you hang in
there keep your eyes fixed on Jesus
because he that got you started is able
to bring you to a powerful victorious
conclusion because his name is Alpha and
Omega
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since Jesus is Alpha and Omega that
brings about a question so question that
everyone is asking now who has any kind
of biblical knowledge and spiritual
sensitivity that is what is the
relationship of this pandemic to end
times to when Jesus is going to bring
history to a conclusion
well this site the Mount of Olives
really relates to that question because
in Matthew chapter 24 verse 3 Jesus said
on the Mount of Olives with his
disciples and they wanted to know what’s
the timeframe for your coming especially
since it’s going to involve all of these
negative events that affect society and
humanity and I get that question a lot
is God preparing us for the end times
let me give you a response one of three
things is happening
God is preparing us for the end times in
his prophetic calendar for the rapture
of the church the introduction of the
tribulation which leads to his
millennial reign and all of this chaos
given our sudden it is and how worldwide
the scope is is a set up for his
concluding time in history that’s one
option
the two or the second option is that
this is about a cosmic reset that God is
resetting humanity he seen the evil he’s
seen the chaos he sing the rebellion
he’s seen the idolatry and he’s creating
a situation to force men toward him
because human solutions aren’t working
and so he’s resetting the norm to create
a new norm and giving mankind a new
opportunity to get right with him
because what we’ve seen with this
pandemic is when God allows something to
move it can move real fast and it can be
quite disconcerting for all of humanity
at the very same time this ought to be a
wake-up call to Nations two Kings two
leaders to citizens to families that God
can turn things on a dime he wants our
undivided attention and then there is a
third option and that is a wake-up call
for the church the most important option
you see in Acts chapter 8 when the
Christians had gotten too comfortable in
Jerusalem God let havoc set in to take
them out of their comfort zone and move
them out of their churches and into the
broader society as witnesses for him so
that the Word of God wouldn’t be held
hostage to one location
and so he’s taking us out of our church
buildings we’re no longer having you
know regular church services why because
he’s disturbing the church to wake the
church up to our call to be witnesses
and disciple makers and to infiltrate
the nation’s with the good news of Jesus
Christ
the Church of Jesus Christ has gotten
too comfortable we have become too
church’ fide and our witness is not
being seen in the broader world so now
he’s forced us into the broader world
he’s Foster’s in the technology he’s
forced us into to being testimonies for
him he’s forcing us to go public and no
longer being secret-agent Christians so
yes it could be one two or three or it
could be one two and three because God
could be doing a number of things at the
same time but all of this is designed
with a ultimate purpose in mind that
Jesus sets up his kingdom rule in his
kingdom reign that Jesus sets up history
as it was designed when he first created
the first man Adam and the first couple
Adam and Eve when he will bring history
to its ultimate conclusion where Jesus
Christ rules God is glorified his saints
rule with him and earth becomes the
place it was created to be under the
rulership of Jesus Christ
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this pandemic has opened up an awesome
opportunity for the church people are
afraid they’re insecure and so they’re
much more open to a message of hope and
the good news of the gospel God has
uniquely given us a platform and open
doing an opportunity to proclaim His
Word globally through the use of
technology media radio television social
media the Internet and through the
written text we’re able now to reach
hundreds of thousands and millions of
people with the powerful truth of God’s
inerrant Word and so I’m inviting you to
join us in enabling us to take advantage
of this unique moment in history through
the Ministry of the Urban alternative
through your prayers and through your
generosity your giving will help us to
take advantage of doors that are coming
to us like crazy because people are
looking for the message of God’s Word to
be proclaimed to them in this time of
need so thank you for supporting this
ministry if you would like to find out
more about the urban/alternative log on
to tony evans org and it will show you
all the things we’re doing the resources
we’re providing the impact we’re making
the people that we’re reaching worldwide
your generosity will allow us to not
only keep things going but expand them
exponentially because of the doors
available to us thank you for your
friendship thank for your faithfulness
thank you for your support we need it we
appreciate it and we will only use it
for the purpose for which it is given
which is to glorify God exalt Jesus
Christ and see lives of people impacted
and changed for time and for eternity
as a powerful spiritual lesson with this
coronavirus it is an invisible enemy
that have invaded the human race and it
threatens to kill well there’s another
virus that has invaded the human race
the virus of sin and it is affecting
every human being and it threatens to
kill and now everyone is looking for a
cure something that will be a vaccine
that will keep this virus from doing its
deadly damaged well the virus of sin has
a antidote a vaccine that’s designed to
remove its ability to destroy your life
in history as well as your separation
from God in eternity
the virus of sin doesn’t have to have
your name on it because Jesus Christ has
given the cure that’s why he could say
in John 11 I am the resurrection and the
life and that a person who lives even if
he dies he makes it clear that that
person still lives in fact he goes on to
say that person will never ever die do
you know the good news about Jesus’s
cure is that you’ll never see death this
is good news that the biggest virus that
the human race has ever experienced the
greatest pandemic that mankind has ever
known has a cure and it is found in the
life-giving resurrecting work of the
Lord Jesus Christ and so I want you now
to make a decision I want you to decide
to come to Jesus Christ for this gift of
eternal life to get rid of this virus of
sin
that wants to destroy you in time and
remove your hope for heaven and eternity
the story is told of a father and son
who were driving in a car a bee flew in
the window and was buzzing around the
inside of the car and the little boy
panicked he was terrified that he was
going to get stung by this threat of
this bee buzzing around that’s when the
father reached out and grabbed the bee
and held it in its hand the son panicked
as the father opened his hand and let
the bee go because the Beast spun around
making noise again threatening sounds he
said daddy daddy the beans gonna get me
if it beans gonna get me that’s when
daddy said oh no son the bees not gonna
get you you see when I grabbed it it
stung me it only has one stinger that
stinger is in my hands all they can do
now is make a lot of noise it can never
hurt you I’ve got good news for you
today all deaf can do now is make a lot
of noise because Jesus Christ took the
sting of death and when you trust him as
your personal Saviour that noise will
never harm you so right now did you take
a moment bow your head with me and I’m
gonna pray a prayer I want you to pray
it after me but you just have to mean it
for yourself let’s pray
well Jesus I recognize I’m a sinner and
I carry the virus of sin in me
I need a savior because I can’t save
myself I can’t fix this problem on my
own so I now come to Jesus Christ who
died on the cross for my sins in my
place to be my substitute I now receive
him into my life invite him into my life
I now trust him alone for the
forgiveness of my sins and I receive the
gift of eternal life
thank you for your promise to give it to
me
if I came to you for it thank you for my
salvation that I now accept in Jesus
name Amen
now you get to live and you never get to
die
well we’re here at the garden tomb in
Jerusalem this is the area that
celebrates the resurrection of our Lord
by the way the tomb is empty because
Jesus Christ is risen and so we can
celebrate the fact that we have a living
Savior if you were around our church in
Dallas you would regularly hear them
refer to me as pastor now my name is
Tony Evans but they would regularly
refer to me as pastor because they are
really not just referencing my name
they’re referencing my role they’re
expecting me to preach the word they’re
expecting me to give leadership to the
direction of the ministry and to sort of
be in a position to to lead them into
the presence of God because that’s the
pastoring role well when you hear the
name Christ when you hear the name
Messiah
that’s not Jesus’s last name I know
we’re used to hearing Jesus Christ but
it is really a identification of Jesus’s
role the word Christ or Messiah means
anointed it’s the anointed one in John
chapter 1 verse 41 he brought him to
Jesus that is Andrew brought his brother
Peter to Jesus and he says we have found
the Messiah which is translated means
Christ
so Messiah and Christ refer to the
Anointed One the whole Old Testament was
an anticipation of a designated divine
being who would be on earth to fulfill
the promises of God and the destiny of
man and he would be anointed by God to
fulfill this divine role of
responsibility and he would be known as
Messiah or the Emmaus Road in Luke
chapter 24 verses 25 to 27
as the two discouraged disciples were
going down and they were trying to
figure out what
had happened in Jerusalem what in the
world was going on well Jesus came to
them and when he showed up he opened the
scriptures and showed how the whole Old
Testament was talking about him talking
about him the Christ the Messiah so this
idea of Messiah goes all the way back to
the beginning the beginning promised
that there would be one from the seed of
a woman who would defeat Satan and who
would fulfill the promises of God to his
people and he would be the Messiah so
when you hear the name Christ or Messiah
think of the one duly designated to
represent God in history to fulfill
God’s promises for men to men based on
the promises and declarations of God now
this anointing was an official capacity
that Jesus Christ was to fulfill in his
role and it involved three areas first
of all he was anointed as prophet he
would proclaim the Word of God to people
in fact he is identified as the Word of
God so he is prophets
secondly he would be priests he would
represent men to God that would be his
role to represent men before a holy God
and then he would be king God promised
that man would rule but the first Adam
failed in carrying out that Duty so the
anointed one would be the fulfillment of
the promises of God that man
rule on earth and Jesus Christ would be
that Anointed One Jesus was asked in
mark 14 he was asked are you the Messiah
in verses 61 and 62 and Jesus said yes I
am that almost got him killed then
because it says that they came against
him and called it blasphemy that he
would declare himself to be the Anointed
One the point is simply this with Jesus
Christ and his role my role as pastor
has certain responsibilities Jesus’s
role as anointed has prophet priest and
King why does that matter to you and I
that he is the anointed one number one
it matters because he brings the
fulfillment of God’s promises into
history he brings them out of eternity
in history now that ought to help us to
understand a verse we all know but it is
easy to read over two quick Galatians
2:20 one of my favorite verses in the
whole Bible I am crucified what’s this
with Christ the Anointed One
nevertheless I live yet not i but it’s
this Christ who lives in me the life
which I now live I live by faith in the
Son of God who loved me and gave himself
for me now we know that verse we love
that verse but he speaks about that
verse related to Christ and related to
your identity why does that matter
because to the degree that you identify
with Messiah to the degree that he
becomes the source of your
identification for who you are is to the
degree that the three offices of the
anointing and the Anointed One come to
benefit you in other words when Christ
becomes your identity when he is your
Messiah even as a Christian that means
that God’s Word will now be revealed to
you it means that he will represent you
that’s his whole priesthood and he will
rule on your
so to have Jesus Christ as your Messiah
is not merely to have a savior who takes
you to heaven but an anointed one whose
job it is to bring the Word of God to
bring the presence of God to bring the
rule of God to you while you’re living
on earth but that only takes place if he
is your identity your point of reference
for who you are you know we live in a
world today where there’s a lot of
identity politics identity confusion and
what Jesus is saying is I am the Messiah
I am The Anointed One make me your
identity and those three roles those
three offices I will make available in
your life the context of Galatians 2:20
is very interesting because he’s really
talking to Peter who forgot who he was
and Paul has to get him straight and
tell him no you’re not just this Jewish
person anymore
you are now to be identified with
Messiah when Jesus Christ becomes your
point of reference when his messianic
role which started in Israel but
transfers to the church that’s why he’s
Messiah but then he is known as the
Christ because he is the Christ and the
Messiah even for Christians even though
it comes out of Judaism he wants you to
know that the same Jesus must be your
point of reference now let’s go back to
Luke 24 when Jesus opened the scriptures
to them and said should not the Christ
the Messiah have suffered and fulfilled
all the Old Testament I am the
fulfillment of all the Old Testament
great detail is given by the way in
Matthew chapter 1 and Luke chapter 3
because Messiah had to be from the line
of David and so in Matthew chapter 1 it
shows that Messiah through Joseph was in
the line of David his stepfather and
then it shows all the way back to Adam
in Luke chapter 3 that Messiah has a
human lineage through David so that
David on David’s lineage both legally
and biologically flowed through Messiah
the great detail was
to demonstrate that Jesus Christ
qualified to be Messiah but in Luke
chapter 24 when he took them through the
scriptures to prove he was Messiah they
sat down with him and when they sat down
with him their eyes were opened and when
their eyes was that were open they saw
who he really was when you come to see
that Jesus Christ is your Savior yes
if you’ve trusted him for the
forgiveness of your sins and the gift of
eternal life but he’s also your Messiah
he’s also the Anointed One who puts his
anointing to your benefit and my benefit
when he becomes your identity you know
many Christians are doing the best they
can to to achieve as much as they can in
the Christian life but that’s like a
high jumper jumping over a bar you’re
just doing the best you can a high
jumper can go about nine eight feet it
they’re pretty good but a pole vaulter
is different because a pole vaulter can
go like up to 18 feet because they are
leaning on something else to propel them
higher than they could ever go on their
own Jesus is your Savior but you can
only go so far on your own he wants to
be your pole vaulter as your Messiah
because as The Anointed One who you lead
on he Springs you to a whole new level
of experience he will make the Word of
God alive in you he will intercede for
you because he of his priestly role and
he will rule and overrule on your behalf
because he’s anointed his King all three
of those offices are in Messiah which
means Christ which are available to you
so take advantage of this great name of
Jesus this great name of Jesus Christ
it’s not his last name that’s his role
and he wants to fulfill that role in you
to you and for you as you submit to him
and make him the centerpiece of your
spiritual identity
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why are you
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why are you not paid it all
and that lonely highway
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and his anointing
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my transgressions for my stripes and by
his
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why do you cry
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why are you
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so when you go don’t you worry
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yes Marissa
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so don’t
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he’s not he’s sweet
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don’t Mona you’re not
you’re not alone
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he’s not he’s not dead
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well we’ve come to the end of our
journey for for Easter 2020 we’ve been
just a little ways with Jesus the
greatest person to ever live and the
most unique person because he’s God
become man so that men could be brought
back into relationship with God in
Romans chapter 5 verse 8 God
demonstrated his love toward us in that
while we were yet sinners Christ died
for us he goes on to say that this death
justifies us but then he continues down
through verse 10 and he says but the
resurrection delivers us it delivers us
not only in eternity but it delivers us
in history it is a rescue kind of
resurrection we need to be rescued a lot
we know we all want to be rescued from
the coronavirus but we need to be
rescued from our viruses and that’s what
the Resurrection does but for the
resurrection to do its work in your life
in my life right now then Jesus Christ
must be treated as Lord he’s not just
the savior for eternity he’s a Lord for
history
that’s why Romans 14 goes on to say that
he is the Lord in life and death he
wants to be ruler of your life he wants
to be the decision maker for your
decisions the director for the
outworking of your being and so he has
given us a tool a symbol and ordinance
to remind us of his ownership because
he’s alive because he ever lives to make
intercession for us because he wants to
own you once you come to him he knows we
need reminders because we get distracted
from his ownership by the world of
in the devil communion is that reminder
you are not your own I’m not my own we
have been bought with a price
we are own now to remind you of your
ownership as you gather now around these
emblems to remind us of the price he
paid to own you and me the bread is his
body broken
it’s where he was shredded in his
humanity so that we don’t have to be the
Bible says that he gave up his body so
that the judgment do us would be put on
him in his humanity and so that now your
body can be lived for him and not for
anything or anyone that contradicts him
because remember now he owns you and he
got chewed up for that ownership let’s
eat now and remember as you chew this he
was chewed because he wants to own you
as your Lord let’s eat together
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of course without the shedding of blood
there’s no remission of sin and sin
that’s the great virus the gay virus
that judges us in eternity and ruins us
in time unless it’s dealt with if you’ve
come to Jesus Christ for salvation the
eternal issue is settled but the
temporal issue is not we still got to
live every day and fight for victory
this is to remind you he owns you and he
wants to be the basis of your victory on
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Friday Saturday because He shed his
blood for that very purpose to forgive
your sins and they give you power over
sin so let’s not right now let’s drink
together and celebrate the blood shed
the blood that by the way will never
lose its power let’s drink together
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lord thank you for your body and your
blood that is your life that was given
from me for all of mankind desiring all
to be saved and all to be victorious
thank you that we are now looking at an
empty tomb because we have a living
risen Savior and we’re going to keep
praising you keep adoring you keep
giving you the glory that you alone
deserve because you alone are worthy in
Jesus name we ask it amen amen and amen
thank you for joining us for this
special Resurrection 2020 worship
experience I hope you were encouraged
and inspired by our time together and
that you want to draw near to our most
precious Savior if you would like to
know more about our ministry the
urban/alternative and all the things
we’re doing to touch people with the
good news of Jesus Christ and with all
the good news about his kingdom and how
he’s building in our personal lives our
family lives our church lives and even
throughout the culture law going to Tony
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things we are doing to make a difference
thank you for being with us I want to
give a special thanks to my son in the
ministry Kirk Franklin who was the music
behind this special message god bless
you and may you grow in grace and in the
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ god
bless
you