1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:18,160 Resurrection Sunday. This is our 17th here at Cross 6 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:25,600 Power. Hey man, 17 you can retire to 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:30,040 retire with 20, right? I'm three years I heard 8 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:34,160 preachers don't get to retire. There's something inside of us 9 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:37,640 that just has to flow out right. But I want to share with you 10 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:39,560 some of the Lord's laid on my heart today. 11 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:47,360 And you know, God has always had a plan, but the first plan God 12 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:53,040 had he created mankind and then he destroyed the plan that he 13 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:57,200 had made because it was evil. It was wicked and it couldn't 14 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,080 keep up with the rules and regulations in the law. 15 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,480 But thank God that's what we celebrate today. 16 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,320 We're in a new covenant, a better covenant. 17 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,240 But I come by to tell you today, I titled this, I come by to tell 18 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,160 you that God has a plan. Look at your neighbor and say 19 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,080 God has a plan. Look at your other neighbor. 20 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,440 I don't think that one hurt it. God has a plan. 21 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,200 Resurrection Sunday There's so many events that happened this 22 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,560 week and I've preached on them numerous, numerous times 23 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,720 throughout my ministry. Resurrection Sunday Sunday, the 24 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,480 betrayal of Christ, all that happened this week, the the 25 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:41,560 cross, the resurrection. You know, we many times this 26 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,560 year they we turn to movies, we turn to things to watch to try 27 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,480 to bring out the reality of what really happened. 28 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,680 And I don't think we'll ever know because we weren't there 29 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,960 the way that Christ was wounded for our transgressions and 30 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,680 bruise for our iniquities. I don't think we can there. 31 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,320 I don't think Hollywood can even bring out the realness of what 32 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,680 happened on that day. I don't think AI can even get 33 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,360 there of what really happened on that day, and I want to. 34 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,400 I wanted to preach on that today, but the Lord led me in a 35 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,880 different direction. The Holy Spirit took me to this. 36 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,240 I want to preach to you today on the events of the not on the 37 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:22,840 events of the resurrection and on Resurrection Sunday, but what 38 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:26,160 was accomplished. Sometimes I think we know the 39 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,200 events as children of God. We know what happened. 40 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,320 We know about the cross. We know about the resurrection, 41 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,160 how he walked out of a borrowed tomb. 42 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:39,600 But do we really know the impact of what it did for all mankind? 43 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:44,640 Can I say that for all mankind, every race, every, every color, 44 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:49,560 every nationality, every false religion for everyone, those 45 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,360 that are trying to kill Christians today across America, 46 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,200 it's for them too. Hey man, if they'll just reach 47 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:59,120 out and grab it and possess that which Christ provided at the 48 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,000 cross of Calvary, I want to preach about it. 49 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:07,280 See in in John chapter 19 and verse 30 when Jesus said it is 50 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,480 finished, admit for all eternity. 51 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,600 Thank God. I may change, my habits may 52 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,840 change over the years, but God never changes. 53 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,640 He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. 54 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:23,720 His forgiveness reaches to the highest mountain and yes it goes 55 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,440 to the lowest valley. There's no place that you're at 56 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,360 today that he can't reach down and redeem you. 57 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:30,720 Amen. Can I get a witness? 58 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:36,360 This morning when he said it is finished, He went to hell. 59 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,320 He took the keys. I preached that a few weeks ago. 60 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,520 To death, hell and the grave once and once and for all. 61 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,320 But we can look throughout the Bible, we can look at front to 62 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:50,120 back and we see that God had a plan. 63 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:54,000 He still got a plan today, though, when we look around at 64 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,520 our country and, and the way that people act and, and the way 65 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:01,080 there's no reverence to God, the way that they try to take Jesus 66 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,680 Christ out of everything and put something else in. 67 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,480 But I cannot tell you it's about Jesus this morning. 68 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,080 You can look throughout the Bible and you can see that God 69 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,440 was trying to accomplish something. 70 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:15,280 What was He trying to accomplish? 71 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:16,640 Have you ever really thought about it? 72 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,640 He was trying to redeem us, His people, as far back as Isaiah 73 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,200 chapter 53. I'm going to read a little bit 74 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:29,160 of Isaiah chapter 53, one of the greatest passages in the Bible 75 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,160 in the Old Testament, years before Jesus Christ would hit 76 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,120 planet earth. The old prophet Isaiah, he said, 77 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:41,120 Who has believed our report, and to whom in Isaiah 53, and one to 78 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,040 whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 79 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,080 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root 80 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,200 from dry ground. He has no form of comeliness. 81 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,880 And when we see Him there is no beauty that we should desire 82 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,720 him. He is despised. 83 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,920 Talking about Jesus prophesying Jesus right here, a man of 84 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:06,440 sorrows and acquainted with grief and we and we hid as it 85 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,840 were our faces from him. He was despised and we did not 86 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:14,200 esteem him. Verse 4 get this this morning. 87 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:18,080 Surely he has bore our griefs. Isn't it good to know that he's 88 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:19,480 bearing your griefs this morning? 89 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,440 Whatever you're going through, he can bear it. 90 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,080 He says cast all your cares upon me because I care for you. 91 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,840 He carried our sorrows, and yet we esteemed him stricken and 92 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:37,520 spitting by God afflicted. Verse 5 says he was wounded for 93 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:41,480 our transgressions. He was bruised for our 94 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,360 iniquities. The chastisement of our peace 95 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,720 was upon him, and by His stripes we are healed. 96 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:50,880 Father, we thank you for your word today. 97 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,520 Father, I pray that you would help me to relate the plan of 98 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:55,640 God the way that you showed it to me this week. 99 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:59,400 God that you have a plan, we thank you for the plan of God 100 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,520 through Jesus Christ and through the cross of Calvary and through 101 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:04,960 the empty tomb. And I ask for the anointing of 102 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,480 your Holy Spirit to preach this word once again in Jesus name we 103 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:13,840 pray, Amen. So he was bruised for our 104 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:17,520 iniquities. We read on down to verse 10 and 105 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,960 it says yet it please the Lord, think about that, your only 106 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:26,480 begotten son, your only child, but yet it please the Lord to 107 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:31,840 bruise him. He has put him to grief when you 108 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:33,960 make his soul an offering for sin. 109 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,440 See that's what really happened on the cross. 110 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,440 That's what really happened. Is is is Christ. 111 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:46,120 He made his own soul sin for us. It says he shall see his seed. 112 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,560 That's what he's seeing today, 2026 years later. 113 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,840 He's seeing his seed in the church today. 114 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:59,000 The seed, you're a seed. He shall prolong his days and 115 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,840 the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 116 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:07,880 Once again I say God had a plan. You're his seed this morning. 117 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,400 Because we've been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. 118 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,000 It makes us the seed of Christ. And I want to share with you 119 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,080 today four things that we see plainly in Scripture that I 120 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,120 think a lot of Christians, a lot of God's children overlooked 121 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:24,480 throughout Scripture of what the resurrection really accomplished 122 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,560 when Jesus walked out of that tomb. 123 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,480 People. Well, it, it give us a home in 124 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:32,080 heaven. Oh no, it provided that, but it 125 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,760 did not give it to you because he is a God that will not go 126 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,600 against your free will. Hey, man, that's how much he 127 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:40,560 loves us. He gives you a choice. 128 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,280 But yet through our crazy choices, anybody ever made them 129 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,680 through our crazy choices, sometimes we fail, but the plan 130 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,960 of God is still there. Many are looking today for the 131 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,960 will of God. I believe if you find the plan 132 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,200 of God and you understand the plan of God, you will be in the 133 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,760 will of God, right? I recall in days before iPhones, 134 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,240 as I say many times, we would head out across the United 135 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,560 States and Canada in a little bitty truck that wouldn't run 136 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,120 very fast. And I think of my buddy back 137 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:13,800 there, he knows what I'm talking about. 138 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,760 He had to take a leak one day and we were headed up a mountain 139 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,360 and as Texas boys had never been in the mountains and I'm in a 140 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,720 little Ford Ranger with several 100,000 miles on it, you had to, 141 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,880 you had to fill up with oil and check your gas, if you know what 142 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,320 I mean. It had an oil leak, a major 1 143 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,840 and I, he said I got to go to the bathroom and I'm hitting 144 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:34,600 second. I'm about to have to hit first 145 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,320 to get up this mountain because we had never been out of the 146 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,400 flatlands of Texas. We didn't know if a truck could 147 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,520 make it or not, but we was headed up this big old mountain. 148 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,600 I said get out, do your business. 149 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,160 I'm pretty sure you can catch me. 150 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,280 And so as I headed on up the mountain, here he comes, he 151 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,720 catches me. That's how that's that's what we 152 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:56,880 started out. And thank God for trucks that 153 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,240 run today. Hey, man, thank God. 154 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:04,040 But see, you had to have a plan because you couldn't click the 155 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:05,360 cell phone. Oh, I changed my mind. 156 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,680 I'm going to go here. And people that were ignorant 157 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:08,960 didn't know how to read them out. 158 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:10,960 Hey, man. And a lot of people were that 159 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:12,760 way. We had these little deals that 160 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:15,240 stuck to the windshield with a pad and you'd had to ride. 161 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,880 When you get to Hwy. 79, turn right. 162 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,360 You couldn't say South because most people didn't know N from 163 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,840 South. So you kind of had to have a 164 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:24,240 plan. You know what I'm talking about. 165 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:27,080 The cell phones today have taken all planning out. 166 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,080 You know, you, you decide you want chicken. 167 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:30,320 What's the nearest chicken near me? 168 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,760 Boom, I don't want chicken. I think I want fish. 169 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,120 You get in an argument with your wife or somebody and you, so you 170 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:37,160 clear. I want steak. 171 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,080 Where's the nearest steak? Near me. 172 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,160 We've got it pretty easy. We don't even plan anymore. 173 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,360 You can plan a trip that fast, but I want to look at the plan 174 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:53,080 of God. The detailed message method 175 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,520 formulated in advance, that's what. 176 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,040 That's what a plan is. I wasn't real good at that when 177 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:02,000 I was younger and detailing a method and formulating a plan in 178 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,360 advance. But thank God he did and it's 179 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,000 probably the greatest known scripture that's read today 180 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,640 across many churches. In John chapter 3 and verse 16, 181 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,560 it says for God so loved the world that he gave his only 182 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:17,640 begotten Son. Can I tell you that was God's 183 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,680 plan for all time? It has not changed though the 184 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:23,040 world's trying to change it, though the media's trying to 185 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,680 change it, though politics have tried to change it. 186 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,960 God still love the world and He gave His only begotten Son that 187 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:34,800 whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting 188 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:36,720 life. Isn't that good to know this 189 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,720 morning? For God did not send His Son 190 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,360 into the world to condemn the world. 191 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:47,040 Wait a minute, that's kind of backwards because when I when I 192 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,480 commit sin, when I get away from God, I I kind of feel condemned 193 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,840 sometime, don't you? But it says that ain't why God 194 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:59,760 sent him to condemn him, not to condemn us the world, but that I 195 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:01,680 want to I want to share this with you this morning. 196 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:06,400 Get this but that through Him we might be saved. 197 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:11,200 But see the condemnation sets in of what the church and the and 198 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,080 the religiosity has told you you have to become and you have to 199 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,880 do so you get a little condemned. 200 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:17,880 Amen. But you can go to Romans 8 and 1 201 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,840 and it says there is therefore no condemnation for those who 202 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,040 are in Christ Jesus. See you have to be in Christ and 203 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:28,360 you have to go through Christ. I like that it said through Him 204 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,200 the world might be saved. See, when we go through or we 205 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:36,360 become in Christ, as Paul said, then the condemnation begins to 206 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:38,640 live. We understand the plan of God, 207 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:40,360 right? But many don't understand the 208 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,440 plan of God. The plan of God for many is 209 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:44,440 always just don't want me to do anything funny, wants to take 210 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,000 all the things that the world says I can't and can't do. 211 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,200 And that's not the plan of God. The plan of God is to get you to 212 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,640 go through him and to go through him. 213 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,640 You got to go through the cross. Here we see the plan of God. 214 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,200 The plan goes through the cross, say man, and we try to take the 215 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,480 cross out of everything that that the way that we see today. 216 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:06,360 But see when we go through him and realize that he died on the 217 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,720 cross, You can't just walk around and look at the cross. 218 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:11,640 Say man. A lot of people are looking at 219 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,600 the cross in their life. I challenge you today to take a 220 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,040 trip around the cross, say man, see the master that's on there. 221 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:21,400 See the side that the spear went in that was pierced for you? 222 00:12:21,560 --> 00:12:24,960 Take a trip to the back of the cross and begin to look up and 223 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:28,600 see the stripes that were on His back that it says by His stripes 224 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,280 you can be healed. See, we have to go through the 225 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,320 cross of Calvary to get to Jesus Christ. 226 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,240 It's through Jesus that you find the plan of God. 227 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,760 Why is the plan of God important in Hebrews chapter 10? 228 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:43,480 Go home and read verses one through 10. 229 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:47,000 I'm not going to share them all, but in verse 4 it says for it is 230 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,880 not possible that the blood of bulls under the old covenant and 231 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:55,000 goats could take away the sins because it had to be a lamb 232 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,640 without blemish. And that Lamb's name is Jesus 233 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,640 Christ today, sent to redeem a lost and dying world and 234 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,680 ultimately defeat Satan. Satan is defeated. 235 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:07,720 He may not feel like it in your life, but when you understand 236 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,240 the plan of God and the plan that God has for children, He 237 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,800 can become defeated in your life because God's got a plan. 238 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,560 When you look at the plan that God had for mankind, you have to 239 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:23,120 go back as early as Genesis and realize that God's plan for 240 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,040 mankind was what number one? It was perfect. 241 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,240 It was in a perfect garden, in a perfect climate and a perfect 242 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,720 and perfect moisture that would ooze up out of the ground and 243 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:35,880 water things. There was no sin, there was no 244 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:39,000 condemnation. Man's needs were forever met, 245 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:42,400 but we couldn't obey the one thing that God give us. 246 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,840 But he still had a plan, a perfect plan. 247 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,760 So God destroyed that which He had created. 248 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,240 But in Hebrews chapter 8 and verse six, I preached along 249 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:55,960 these lines Wednesday night as we took communion. 250 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:57,560 It's a great passage of Scripture. 251 00:13:57,560 --> 00:14:02,520 I got to share it again in Hebrews chapter 8 it talks about 252 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:06,200 now in verse 6 it says he is also a mediator. 253 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,120 What is a mediator? A go between when two parties 254 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,440 can't seem to get along. See, sin puts us in empathy with 255 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,440 God. Because God is holy and God 256 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,560 can't look upon sin. He turned his back on sin. 257 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,360 That's why Jesus felt forsaken on the cross that day. 258 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,800 Because for a split moment in time, God had to turn his back 259 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,480 and let his Son become sin for us. 260 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,200 Because what? Because Jesus was becoming a 261 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:35,440 mediator and Hebrews says in verse 8 and six it says he he is 262 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:39,480 also a mediator of a better covenant which was established 263 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,880 on better promises. Isn't that good to know? 264 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:43,560 I thought about that when I read it. 265 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,160 How much better could it be when mana fell from heaven? 266 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,320 How much better could it be when the fire LED them by night? 267 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,720 How much better could it be when Aaron had or Moses had a staff 268 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:54,760 that they could part the Red Sea with? 269 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,720 How much better could it be? So see, we're we're we're the 270 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,800 we're established on a better covenant with better promises, 271 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,160 verse 7 says. For if that first covenant had 272 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,240 been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a 273 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:11,720 second. Because finding fault with them, 274 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,080 he says, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord. 275 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:16,520 Can I tell you them days are coming? 276 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,680 They're right now when I will make a new covenant with the 277 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:23,080 House of Israel and the House of Judah, not according to the 278 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:26,280 covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took 279 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,720 them by the hand and LED them out of Egypt. 280 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:32,520 But it's even a better covenant because they did not continue in 281 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:35,520 my covenant and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 282 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,000 For this is the covenant that I will make with the House of 283 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,560 Israel after those days, says the Lord. 284 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:43,680 This is where we're living now under grace. 285 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,600 He said, I'm going to put my laws in your mouth and I'm going 286 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,680 to ride them on your hearts, and I will be their God and they 287 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:51,960 shall be my people. What a better covenant. 288 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,840 None of them shall teach his neighbor, none, his brother 289 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:59,800 saying, know the Lord. For all shall know me from the 290 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,960 least of them to the greatest, for I will be merciful. 291 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,600 Boy, somebody ought to shout right now, for I will be 292 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,800 merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins 293 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:12,200 and their lawless deeds. I will remember no more. 294 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,800 Isn't that great to know? You need to remind the enemy 295 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,080 that it don't matter what I did in the past. 296 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:20,800 I got a God that's forgiven me. I got a God that's wrote my name 297 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,360 down in the Lamb's book of life, and he set my feet on a path of 298 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:28,320 righteousness. And one day I'm going to see in 299 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,240 that He says a new covenant. He has made the first one 300 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,960 obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete is 301 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:37,000 growing old and is ready to vanish away because why? 302 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,120 We're about to see Jesus. Are you getting the plan of God 303 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,360 this morning? See, the plan of God is to put 304 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,160 His laws in your mouth, not just in your mind. 305 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,400 Amen. All you got to do is let your 306 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,160 ears hear your mouth say the word of God and your faith 307 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:51,520 begins to grow. Why? 308 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,480 Because God had a plan. I like God's plan. 309 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:58,360 Jeremiah 29 and 11 says I know the plans that I have for you. 310 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,320 It's not to harm you, but it's to prosper you and to give you 311 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:05,280 what a hope and a future. Isn't it cool to know that God 312 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:09,119 has a plan this morning and nothing I can do can change that 313 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:10,599 plan? Isn't that cool? 314 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:14,280 I can't change that plan. He has a plan to land me in 315 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:16,200 heaven. So we have the plan of God. 316 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,640 The second thing I want to share with you is the purpose of God. 317 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:23,720 We all think we know the purpose of God. 318 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:28,800 The purpose, the definition, is a reason for which something 319 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:35,040 exists, the reason for something that is done or made. 320 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,400 There's a lot of people today that don't even know why they 321 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,280 exist. They don't even know who they 322 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,680 are, what gender they are. So how can they know their 323 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,920 purpose? How can a Christian who's never 324 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:52,120 done anything but say, I'm going to preach a little bit now know 325 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:54,760 the purpose of God? What is God's purpose in your 326 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:58,440 life? If you understand the plan, now 327 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,840 you have the plan, you might can understand the purpose. 328 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,240 Let's see, from Bethlehem to Calvary to the shores of 329 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:10,400 Galilee, Jesus had a plan. What's your plan? 330 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,760 He had a purpose to put us back in our place of dominion in 331 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:19,640 Genesis chapter 1 and 26. I want to read this because it 332 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:26,000 says that God said let us you don't believe the Trinity right 333 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,920 there it is. Let us God was talking to 334 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,000 someone else, where was God? God is in heaven at this time, 335 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:36,760 right in the 3rd heaven and he says let us say that with me. 336 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:41,440 Let us God the Father, God the Son, Jesus had already been 337 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:42,160 there. Amen. 338 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,920 He was in glory with his Father. Let us, the Son, the Holy 339 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:52,320 Spirit, let us make man in our image according to our likeness. 340 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,880 Let them have, I want you to get this word dominion. 341 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:00,800 Dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, 342 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,280 over the cattle, over all the earth. 343 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:06,600 Men. If, if that scripture was wrote 344 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,800 today, what would God have to give us? 345 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,840 Dominion over? If, if God could come by and 346 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,040 he'd say, I'm going to give you dominion today. 347 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,120 I'm going to give you to make it where you can control it, 348 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:20,720 Dominion domain, domain in that place. 349 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,640 I'm going to make it to where it can't destroy you. 350 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,720 What would you say? What would you say? 351 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:29,840 I know what I would say. I don't have to think twice. 352 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,200 A cell phone, That would be my answer. 353 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,040 God take it. I've lived without it and I can 354 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,960 live again. Now, everybody else may not live 355 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:46,320 without me with it. Hey, man, your employer may not 356 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:51,120 live without you with it, but I could live without it. 357 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:53,280 Is anybody with me? I think I could. 358 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:56,680 Hey, man, I won't. I would love to have dominion 359 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:58,560 over it. Some days I just take dominion 360 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,560 over it, Turn it off and everybody. 361 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,240 Oh, you OK? Yeah, I'm fine, don't you? 362 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,720 I mean, it's 'cause I'm OK. I ain't died. 363 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,240 What would we have to put on that today though? 364 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,680 The list would be, I mean, it would be what y'all call it 365 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:17,520 terabytes. Rachel took terabytes of 366 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,560 pictures on her vacation. I don't even know what a TB is. 367 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:25,920 I know it's bigger than a mega. I don't get all that stuff, 368 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:31,360 y'all. Well, how big that would be a TB 369 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:33,480 if we God could come and say we'll give you dominion over 370 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:34,640 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. 371 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:37,680 All the things that go through our mind every day that we don't 372 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,800 have dominion over. There was a few things that were 373 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,440 simple here. The fish of the sea, the birds 374 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,240 of the air, the cattle over all the earth. 375 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,320 But this part got me when I read this. 376 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:51,960 And over every creeping thing, that's where we're at today 377 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,920 because Satan is on his belly and he's creeping into your life 378 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,400 and he's taking dominion over things that God meant for you to 379 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,440 have control over. Can I get a witness? 380 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,480 And he's creeping in. Well, I come by to tell you, God 381 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,360 has a plan for the creeping. Amen. 382 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:10,600 And God has a purpose for the things that he tries to creep in 383 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,320 on. Anybody getting creeped in on 384 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:17,800 Satan will creep in on you. He loves to creep in, but when 385 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,600 you recognize the plan of God and the purpose of God in your 386 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,160 life, there's a third thing that comes. 387 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,360 You will know what Resurrection Sunday is about. 388 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,320 It's about the plan of God and the purpose of God. 389 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,800 But can I tell you the 3rd and the greatest thing that happened 390 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,600 when Jesus walked out of that tomb in Acts chapter 8 and verse 391 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,960 one? What did he say in Acts 8 and 392 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,240 verse 1? He said he's going to, He's 393 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,360 going to give us something else called the power. 394 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,520 In Acts chapter 1 and verse 8, it says that you shall receive 395 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:54,800 the power of the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, when it has come 396 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,160 upon you, and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea 397 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,120 and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth. 398 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,880 Jesus spoke this. He said there's something other 399 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,360 than salvation that will come up on you and will come into your 400 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:09,400 life. And it's the third thing in 401 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,760 these PS that I'm preaching today, the plan, the purpose, 402 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,920 and the power of God. We have too many of God's 403 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,600 children, children today that are powerless. 404 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,760 We're powerless and most of us because we don't speak the word 405 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,240 of God. Faith comes by one way, what 406 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,760 what does faith come by hearing the word of God? 407 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,640 That doesn't mean from the preacher that helps, but it 408 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,640 believes your beings, your mouth, and #1 you got to know 409 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:36,680 what you're speaking. You got to hide the word of God 410 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,440 in your heart lest you sin against him so your ears can 411 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,800 hear your mouth proclaim the word of God. 412 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,080 That's where faith comes. You can't hum it up. 413 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,920 You can't hum as I do many times and hum up faith. 414 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,720 Amen. You got to hear the word of God. 415 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,960 And as you hear the word of God, it begins to build your faith. 416 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,040 And when you understand the plan of God and you have the purpose 417 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,480 of God, then you can have the power of God. 418 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,640 In John chapter 10 and 17, Jesus spoke of this power. 419 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:11,240 He said, therefore my Father loves me because I lay down my 420 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,480 life that I might take it up again. 421 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,240 That's what today's about. You know, you hear a preacher 422 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:18,960 say, well, the Roman government was really big. 423 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,760 No, no, no, it didn't matter how big they was because God had a 424 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:25,080 plan and God, you know, by the way, Jesus could have called 425 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,400 10,000 legions of angels at any time and been delivered. 426 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:33,200 But He so loved us. I like what this says. 427 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,680 He says I lay down my life. Why did Jesus lay down? 428 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:37,880 So he could take it up again. Why? 429 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:42,080 So people would believe, right? Verse 18, He says get this in 430 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:47,720 you, get this in your spirit. No man, no one takes it from me. 431 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,320 See the plan of God and the purpose of God and the power of 432 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,080 God. You got to get this this 433 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:55,640 morning. This will change your life. 434 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:00,560 No man can take it from you, but you can willingly give it by not 435 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,760 giving God His time, by not spending time with the Holy 436 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:12,840 Spirit and slowly drifting away. No man, no one takes it from me, 437 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:16,000 but I lay it down myself. Look what Jesus said. 438 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:22,600 He said, I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it 439 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,440 up again. See this commandment He says 440 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:27,080 that He received from His Father. 441 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,720 As we sing those song, there's power, power, wonder, working 442 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,840 power in the blood of the Lamb. Go to John chapter 14. 443 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,760 Jesus spoke of this power again in verse 12 and 13. 444 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,560 And Jesus said most assuredly in John 1412 and 13. 445 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,160 I say to you, do you believe in Him this morning? 446 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,560 Well, that's weak. Do you believe in him? 447 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:58,320 This morning he said he who believes in me, the works that I 448 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,600 do, he will do also. And I preach this a lot around 449 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,400 here because I I've told the Lord, I said, man, this 450 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,040 Christian walk would have been a lot easier if you hadn't wrote 451 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:16,640 that, if you hadn't spoke that he who believes in me, do you 452 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,920 believe in him? The works that I do, he will do 453 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:25,760 also and greater works than he will do because I walked out of 454 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:29,240 that tomb, because I go to the father, right? 455 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:34,040 Greater works. I was talking to him one day. 456 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,880 I said, Lord, why did you put that in there, man? 457 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:38,680 That made it where I can't never rest. 458 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,320 That made it where I can't never take a breath because I want, I 459 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,080 want some of them works in my life. 460 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,440 I see a lot of Christian they don't want any of them. 461 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:50,440 Hey man, let's go to that next verse in 13. 462 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,160 It says this really rock your world right here. 463 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,760 Whatever you ask in my name, that I will do. 464 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,880 Go out and pray for a new truck. I'm not going to tell you it's 465 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:01,680 going to happen. Because if you're doing that, 466 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,880 you hadn't understand the plan of God. 467 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,920 You hadn't understood the purpose of God. 468 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,120 So therefore He's not going to give his power to someone that's 469 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:11,320 ignorant of His word. Can I get a witness? 470 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,760 But when you're not ignorant of the word and you understand the 471 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,480 plan of God, the purpose of God, He will pour His power up on 472 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,040 you, right? We need the power of God. 473 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,280 Jesus operated in this power and because he walked out of the 474 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,240 grave and because he lives, I can face tomorrow and I can have 475 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,800 power because there's one to working power in the blood. 476 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:37,600 Because I go to the Father and whatever you ask in my name that 477 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,160 I will do that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 478 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,160 Ask anything. Ask anything in my name and if 479 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,440 you try to tell me any different, guess what? 480 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,520 I'm not going to believe it. I had a broke neck risking 481 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,680 paralyzation and I said in an old recliner and I prayed to 482 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,320 God. I said, if this is your will, 483 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,320 I'm accepting it, but I really don't believe it's in your will. 484 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,040 I was supposed to preach that week in Vegas and had things 485 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,640 lined up and God supernaturally healed my broken neck. 486 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,320 Hey man, I didn't even have to have. 487 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,960 So if you come by to tell me, well, sometimes you know, when I 488 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,600 when my mind goes blank, I know that scripture like the back of 489 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,160 my hand, but all this stuff gets rolling through my mind. 490 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:22,440 And sometimes I use Google and I said, where does it say where 491 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,880 does it say what verse I just read to you? 492 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:26,400 I quote, you can quote a little man. 493 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,280 That's the greatest tool of studying the Bible. 494 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,840 You, you don't I don't know. I still and I still have people 495 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:32,800 say, well, I don't know where that's at in the Bible. 496 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:37,920 Push Google, he'll show you. I just can't find it past push 497 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,360 Google. Just mention one word in the 498 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:43,400 verse for God sold up. Boom, there it is. 499 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:45,480 But here's what you got to watch. 500 00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:50,640 Here's what you got to watch because the nominations creep 501 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,440 into Google and they share that Scripture and then they want to 502 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,120 put their little take on it. Well, when I Google this, let's 503 00:27:58,120 --> 00:27:59,880 go back to verse 30. Let's go back to that. 504 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,200 Most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in me, the work 505 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,160 said I do OK. We had some educated commentary 506 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,480 on that. You know what it said? 507 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:17,280 Be careful when you hear a preacher say first of all, but 508 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,120 that's what the commentary said. First of all, you got to 509 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:23,440 understand that when he was talking about these works in 510 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,920 this power, he was talking to the 1st century church. 511 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,680 Well, I'm sure he was. We weren't there. 512 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,880 I love to take the Holy Ghost and just tear up education 513 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,080 because there's some things that it's great to know where the 514 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,080 Scriptures are, but it's better when you walk through life and 515 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,400 you've used them. Hey, man, so don't try to come 516 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,480 and tell me that the power is not available. 517 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,880 Obviously, he was talking to the 1st century church. 518 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,760 Why don't they let people like me on TV because the Holy Ghost 519 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:56,600 will shoot them down so quick. He just put this in my mind 520 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,720 right then God said I would love to ask him this. 521 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,760 OK, When he quoted John 316, I'd like to ask the man, are you 522 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,000 saved? He wasn't talking to you when he 523 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,840 quoted John 316, you wasn't there. 524 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:15,400 But yet you believe in being saved because it's just a home 525 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,960 in heaven and fire insurance for you is all it is. 526 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:24,280 And you know what? He's got a scripture for that 527 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:29,080 too, Mr. Professor. They said my people honor me 528 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,400 with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 529 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,000 They go after the sayings of man and forsake the commandments of 530 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,520 God. And then he says this. 531 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:41,640 By doing so you make the word of God of no effect in your life. 532 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:49,160 I think of Jesus when he was about this power he had, he was 533 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:53,080 headed to to heal, to heal Jay Iris's daughter, the ruler of a 534 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,320 great synagogue. He was going to heal the 535 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,280 preacher that couldn't hear that kid had prayed for and she was 536 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,080 on her deathbed. But Jesus was walking. 537 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:02,680 Come on, somebody worship with me. 538 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,800 He was walking through the crowd that morning and as he was 539 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,200 walking through the crowd, he heard something. 540 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:12,800 He felt something. I bet this little lady had been 541 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,560 told, oh, that's he just healing those people that's over there. 542 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,880 He's not healing these people over here. 543 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,400 But this little woman had been bleeding for for so many years. 544 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:27,440 After years, she had an issue of blood and she heard the master 545 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,960 was coming by. I'm sure that people in the oh, 546 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,160 you can't get to. And she just kept pressing. 547 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,440 She said, I know I'm going to die, but I got to touch the hem 548 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,520 of his garment. I wonder if she had read Malachi 549 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,960 4 and 2 where it says that there's a savior coming. 550 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,240 You know that little scripture, How many know what it says? 551 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,120 It says there's healing in his wings. 552 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,080 There's power. See the rabbi's of those days, 553 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,040 the priest, they wrote that the the robes that they wore, which 554 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,360 Jesus had on, they had these little tassels that was flinging 555 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,880 off of them. They wasn't from Dooney Burke 556 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,680 and they wasn't from whoever we're worshiping today. 557 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,600 They had they a man. They weren't the bling. 558 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,480 They meant something because old Malachi had prophesied and they 559 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,720 called them wings. They tell the tassels that hung 560 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,720 off them. Oh, somebody ought to get happy 561 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,560 right now. And Malachi said there's a 562 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,800 Savior coming, and when he gets here, there's healing in his 563 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,520 wings. See, the little lady was 564 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,360 pressing through. She said, I've heard there's 565 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:24,760 healing. Maybe she had read the book of 566 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,160 Isaiah. Maybe she had read Malachi four 567 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,840 and two, that there's healing. Well, I'm telling you, I've read 568 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,760 it and I'm just dumb enough to believe it, that there's healing 569 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,120 in his wings. Amen. 570 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,480 Well, wait a minute, Pastor. You always been healed. 571 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:47,080 No, but that don't change his plan, that don't change his 572 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,600 purpose that don't change it at any minute. 573 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,080 God can Amen that don't. I prayed with people for years. 574 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,240 It was addicted to everything and prayed and believe God so 575 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,680 many times that I forgot about it and then get a call Pastor, 576 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,800 I'm no longer on the needle. I'm no longer doing this. 577 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,040 I'm no longer Somehow God just took it from me. 578 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,040 It's not there anymore. That cannot get if God's 579 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,080 delivered you give him praise in the house. 580 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,480 If God's brought you from where you used to be to where you are 581 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,480 now, just go on and believe Him and take a praise break in the 582 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:21,120 house. I'm telling you, there's healing 583 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,280 in the wings. Let's just don't talk about the 584 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,320 resurrection. Let's live the resurrection. 585 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:32,280 Let's live it. You come by too late to give me 586 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:37,920 your commentary. You can say it was for them. 587 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,240 I wonder what people's going to do. 588 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,320 They said, oh, I read this Bible, but how lame is that? 589 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:49,120 To take the power out of it, to take the goodness of God out of 590 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,600 it and just believe what you want to. 591 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,640 We got to believe it from front to back or we might as well 592 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,600 throw it out and turn our backs and go walk for the devil and go 593 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,640 live for the devil because he says anybody that adds to or 594 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,960 takes away from this book, what be damned. 595 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,920 I came by to tell you, there's a plan, there's a purpose, and 596 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,920 yes, there's power. Who can have this? 597 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:18,280 Whosoever will have faith in God, this little lady believed 598 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:23,760 because she didn't listen to what everybody else said around 599 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,520 you. You'll come. 600 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:33,000 Life will take you to a place that you need the plan of God, 601 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:35,880 that you need the purpose of God. 602 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,480 I want you to hear me, I said. Life will take you to a place. 603 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,960 I tell people all the time, you might as well go ahead and give 604 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,920 it to God because you're going, you're going to come with scars. 605 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,160 How many? He's got scars, but thank God 606 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,360 they're a sign of healing. Hey, man, scars are a sign of 607 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,440 healing. But you can go ahead and come to 608 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,920 him for the scars. He's able to detour us around 609 00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,760 things, right? Why? 610 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:05,680 Because God has a plan. God has a purpose, God has the 611 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,600 power, and when you receive these three things, you can step 612 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,480 into #4 and I'm going to close. You can have the provision of 613 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,360 God. Not many Christians have that. 614 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,239 I don't see. I see a lot of worried people 615 00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,880 today. What is a provision? 616 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:28,560 Is the act of supplying or providing something prematurely 617 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,400 A preparatory measure for future needs? 618 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,520 We need provision. All through the Bible we read of 619 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:41,120 a God that provided he's preparing something for you and 620 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,679 I This morning Jesus told his disciples at the beginning of 621 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:46,520 his ministry. He said, hey guys, you may not 622 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,120 want to follow me. I wonder how many he'd have on 623 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,840 staff today. Hello. 624 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,199 It's not going to pay anything. It's not going to do this. 625 00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:58,280 It's not going to do that. I don't have any place to lay my 626 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,040 head. He told his disciples, but in 627 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:06,520 Matthew chapter 17 and verse 24, I'm sure the disciples wanted to 628 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,960 know what to do that day. Are you getting this this 629 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,080 morning? We need to understand the plan 630 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,120 of God. We need to understand the 631 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:21,040 purpose of God. Over 7000 church denominations 632 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,680 and clicking. There's one way, there's one 633 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:30,920 truth and there's one life. You know how I just think of 634 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:32,600 that many times. How does that confuse them? 635 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:35,800 I told the pastors in Campbell one time we had 8-9 churches 636 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,160 here. One time I said if we got the 637 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,600 whole town of Campbell, we all wouldn't have. 638 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:43,720 But 20, Won't we come together while y'all are a little 639 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:45,760 different over there? Different. 640 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,000 I think they said that about Jesus. 641 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:51,960 I don't know that it's different. 642 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,360 I think it's just kind of excited about the resurrection. 643 00:35:55,360 --> 00:36:00,240 Hey man, I think I just can't. I just can't help but talk about 644 00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:04,960 what Jesus did for me because see, in Matthew chapter 17, 645 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,840 Peter come to Jesus. He said, hey, he said they're 646 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,520 wanting us to pay our temple tax over there. 647 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,880 Tax has been around a long time. Taxes will get you in the flesh, 648 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:19,160 right? Jesus didn't get all deterbed 649 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,480 about it. He didn't go up there and debate 650 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:22,920 it. Sometimes you go up there and 651 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,200 debate it, it puts a flag on you and they'll really come Jack 652 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,400 with you. I like the way Jesus did. 653 00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:30,760 He said Peter quit worrying. He said just go over. 654 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,680 You know, this hit me last. I thought one translation says a 655 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:40,080 brook, a brook is little, but the original translation says go 656 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,960 over and cast your hook into the sea. 657 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,760 He really tested Peter. Let's go cast a hook into the 658 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,200 big old sea. And he said the fur talking 659 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,760 about the provision of God and he said the first fish that you 660 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,640 catch will have a coin in his mouth. 661 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:04,000 Google that one to one to one ways that I was preaching on 662 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,600 that. But you know what we're we're so 663 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,920 little we think about the we we we we we limit ourselves to the 664 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,920 tide. It's way bigger than the tithe. 665 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,840 It's the plan of God is trusting God with the first and foremost 666 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,480 thing of your life. Amen. 667 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:23,080 But if you can't trust God with the 10th holy that he's given 668 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,720 us, how can we? How can we know that he supplies 669 00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:26,360 everything? Peter said. 670 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:27,600 You want me to do what? Go fishing? 671 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,600 I'm sure Peter had a question. He's just go cast it in there. 672 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,080 It's not about it's not about the tithe. 673 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,800 It's about the provision. It's about it being in the 674 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,640 fish's mouth when God's children needs it, a man and him telling 675 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,240 us where it is to go, whatever the provision is. 676 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:47,720 And then we have preachers pollute it, preach about give 677 00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:50,600 and this and that. I can promise you God will take 678 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,720 care of you, though he's not promised us anything but to take 679 00:37:54,720 --> 00:38:00,400 care of us. Jesus had no place to lay his 680 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,320 head. Jesus and Peter, what a story. 681 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,520 Why could Jesus say that? Because he knew that he was 682 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,760 Jehovah Jireh, the great provider. 683 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:19,880 The plan of God, the purpose of God as you stand your feet and 684 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:25,360 the power of God will bring you into the say it with me 685 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:32,360 provision of God. As Jesus would walk from death 686 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:34,560 into life and walk out of that tomb. 687 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,640 It was only borrowed because he didn't plan to stay. 688 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:45,080 Isn't that cool? The plan of God for you and I, 689 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:53,200 Jesus is the purpose of God. Jesus is the power of God. 690 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:59,560 And Jesus, as Paul said, shall supply all of my needs according 691 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,720 to his riches and glory. I ask you today while this song 692 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:07,920 plays, do you have a plan if you don't try gods? 693 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,600 I didn't have a plan, that's why I tried. 694 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:17,160 Gods, does your plan have a purpose? 695 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,640 Would you close your eyes and ask yourself, do I have a plan 696 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,280 for my spiritual life? If I don't, I'm going to try. 697 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:28,920 Gods, does your plan have a purpose? 698 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:35,320 Does your purpose have power? If you can answer yes, I can 699 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,240 tell you this morning He's your provider. 700 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,800 Thanks for listening to the Cross Power Church podcast. 701 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,760 May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be 702 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:48,200 found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 703 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,320 would love for you to join us in person. 704 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,880 You can find service times at crosspowerchurch.com.