Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.
You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.
We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the
cross. Now let's join the service.
Resurrection Sunday. This is our 17th here at Cross
Power. Hey man, 17 you can retire to
retire with 20, right? I'm three years I heard
preachers don't get to retire. There's something inside of us
that just has to flow out right. But I want to share with you
some of the Lord's laid on my heart today.
And you know, God has always had a plan, but the first plan God
had he created mankind and then he destroyed the plan that he
had made because it was evil. It was wicked and it couldn't
keep up with the rules and regulations in the law.
But thank God that's what we celebrate today.
We're in a new covenant, a better covenant.
But I come by to tell you today, I titled this, I come by to tell
you that God has a plan. Look at your neighbor and say
God has a plan. Look at your other neighbor.
I don't think that one hurt it. God has a plan.
Resurrection Sunday There's so many events that happened this
week and I've preached on them numerous, numerous times
throughout my ministry. Resurrection Sunday Sunday, the
betrayal of Christ, all that happened this week, the the
cross, the resurrection. You know, we many times this
year they we turn to movies, we turn to things to watch to try
to bring out the reality of what really happened.
And I don't think we'll ever know because we weren't there
the way that Christ was wounded for our transgressions and
bruise for our iniquities. I don't think we can there.
I don't think Hollywood can even bring out the realness of what
happened on that day. I don't think AI can even get
there of what really happened on that day, and I want to.
I wanted to preach on that today, but the Lord led me in a
different direction. The Holy Spirit took me to this.
I want to preach to you today on the events of the not on the
events of the resurrection and on Resurrection Sunday, but what
was accomplished. Sometimes I think we know the
events as children of God. We know what happened.
We know about the cross. We know about the resurrection,
how he walked out of a borrowed tomb.
But do we really know the impact of what it did for all mankind?
Can I say that for all mankind, every race, every, every color,
every nationality, every false religion for everyone, those
that are trying to kill Christians today across America,
it's for them too. Hey man, if they'll just reach
out and grab it and possess that which Christ provided at the
cross of Calvary, I want to preach about it.
See in in John chapter 19 and verse 30 when Jesus said it is
finished, admit for all eternity.
Thank God. I may change, my habits may
change over the years, but God never changes.
He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
His forgiveness reaches to the highest mountain and yes it goes
to the lowest valley. There's no place that you're at
today that he can't reach down and redeem you.
Amen. Can I get a witness?
This morning when he said it is finished, He went to hell.
He took the keys. I preached that a few weeks ago.
To death, hell and the grave once and once and for all.
But we can look throughout the Bible, we can look at front to
back and we see that God had a plan.
He still got a plan today, though, when we look around at
our country and, and the way that people act and, and the way
there's no reverence to God, the way that they try to take Jesus
Christ out of everything and put something else in.
But I cannot tell you it's about Jesus this morning.
You can look throughout the Bible and you can see that God
was trying to accomplish something.
What was He trying to accomplish?
Have you ever really thought about it?
He was trying to redeem us, His people, as far back as Isaiah
chapter 53. I'm going to read a little bit
of Isaiah chapter 53, one of the greatest passages in the Bible
in the Old Testament, years before Jesus Christ would hit
planet earth. The old prophet Isaiah, he said,
Who has believed our report, and to whom in Isaiah 53, and one to
whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root
from dry ground. He has no form of comeliness.
And when we see Him there is no beauty that we should desire
him. He is despised.
Talking about Jesus prophesying Jesus right here, a man of
sorrows and acquainted with grief and we and we hid as it
were our faces from him. He was despised and we did not
esteem him. Verse 4 get this this morning.
Surely he has bore our griefs. Isn't it good to know that he's
bearing your griefs this morning?
Whatever you're going through, he can bear it.
He says cast all your cares upon me because I care for you.
He carried our sorrows, and yet we esteemed him stricken and
spitting by God afflicted. Verse 5 says he was wounded for
our transgressions. He was bruised for our
iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him, and by His stripes we are healed.
Father, we thank you for your word today.
Father, I pray that you would help me to relate the plan of
God the way that you showed it to me this week.
God that you have a plan, we thank you for the plan of God
through Jesus Christ and through the cross of Calvary and through
the empty tomb. And I ask for the anointing of
your Holy Spirit to preach this word once again in Jesus name we
pray, Amen. So he was bruised for our
iniquities. We read on down to verse 10 and
it says yet it please the Lord, think about that, your only
begotten son, your only child, but yet it please the Lord to
bruise him. He has put him to grief when you
make his soul an offering for sin.
See that's what really happened on the cross.
That's what really happened. Is is is Christ.
He made his own soul sin for us. It says he shall see his seed.
That's what he's seeing today, 2026 years later.
He's seeing his seed in the church today.
The seed, you're a seed. He shall prolong his days and
the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Once again I say God had a plan. You're his seed this morning.
Because we've been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
It makes us the seed of Christ. And I want to share with you
today four things that we see plainly in Scripture that I
think a lot of Christians, a lot of God's children overlooked
throughout Scripture of what the resurrection really accomplished
when Jesus walked out of that tomb.
People. Well, it, it give us a home in
heaven. Oh no, it provided that, but it
did not give it to you because he is a God that will not go
against your free will. Hey, man, that's how much he
loves us. He gives you a choice.
But yet through our crazy choices, anybody ever made them
through our crazy choices, sometimes we fail, but the plan
of God is still there. Many are looking today for the
will of God. I believe if you find the plan
of God and you understand the plan of God, you will be in the
will of God, right? I recall in days before iPhones,
as I say many times, we would head out across the United
States and Canada in a little bitty truck that wouldn't run
very fast. And I think of my buddy back
there, he knows what I'm talking about.
He had to take a leak one day and we were headed up a mountain
and as Texas boys had never been in the mountains and I'm in a
little Ford Ranger with several 100,000 miles on it, you had to,
you had to fill up with oil and check your gas, if you know what
I mean. It had an oil leak, a major 1
and I, he said I got to go to the bathroom and I'm hitting
second. I'm about to have to hit first
to get up this mountain because we had never been out of the
flatlands of Texas. We didn't know if a truck could
make it or not, but we was headed up this big old mountain.
I said get out, do your business.
I'm pretty sure you can catch me.
And so as I headed on up the mountain, here he comes, he
catches me. That's how that's that's what we
started out. And thank God for trucks that
run today. Hey, man, thank God.
But see, you had to have a plan because you couldn't click the
cell phone. Oh, I changed my mind.
I'm going to go here. And people that were ignorant
didn't know how to read them out.
Hey, man. And a lot of people were that
way. We had these little deals that
stuck to the windshield with a pad and you'd had to ride.
When you get to Hwy. 79, turn right.
You couldn't say South because most people didn't know N from
South. So you kind of had to have a
plan. You know what I'm talking about.
The cell phones today have taken all planning out.
You know, you, you decide you want chicken.
What's the nearest chicken near me?
Boom, I don't want chicken. I think I want fish.
You get in an argument with your wife or somebody and you, so you
clear. I want steak.
Where's the nearest steak? Near me.
We've got it pretty easy. We don't even plan anymore.
You can plan a trip that fast, but I want to look at the plan
of God. The detailed message method
formulated in advance, that's what.
That's what a plan is. I wasn't real good at that when
I was younger and detailing a method and formulating a plan in
advance. But thank God he did and it's
probably the greatest known scripture that's read today
across many churches. In John chapter 3 and verse 16,
it says for God so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten Son. Can I tell you that was God's
plan for all time? It has not changed though the
world's trying to change it, though the media's trying to
change it, though politics have tried to change it.
God still love the world and He gave His only begotten Son that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting
life. Isn't that good to know this
morning? For God did not send His Son
into the world to condemn the world.
Wait a minute, that's kind of backwards because when I when I
commit sin, when I get away from God, I I kind of feel condemned
sometime, don't you? But it says that ain't why God
sent him to condemn him, not to condemn us the world, but that I
want to I want to share this with you this morning.
Get this but that through Him we might be saved.
But see the condemnation sets in of what the church and the and
the religiosity has told you you have to become and you have to
do so you get a little condemned.
Amen. But you can go to Romans 8 and 1
and it says there is therefore no condemnation for those who
are in Christ Jesus. See you have to be in Christ and
you have to go through Christ. I like that it said through Him
the world might be saved. See, when we go through or we
become in Christ, as Paul said, then the condemnation begins to
live. We understand the plan of God,
right? But many don't understand the
plan of God. The plan of God for many is
always just don't want me to do anything funny, wants to take
all the things that the world says I can't and can't do.
And that's not the plan of God. The plan of God is to get you to
go through him and to go through him.
You got to go through the cross. Here we see the plan of God.
The plan goes through the cross, say man, and we try to take the
cross out of everything that that the way that we see today.
But see when we go through him and realize that he died on the
cross, You can't just walk around and look at the cross.
Say man. A lot of people are looking at
the cross in their life. I challenge you today to take a
trip around the cross, say man, see the master that's on there.
See the side that the spear went in that was pierced for you?
Take a trip to the back of the cross and begin to look up and
see the stripes that were on His back that it says by His stripes
you can be healed. See, we have to go through the
cross of Calvary to get to Jesus Christ.
It's through Jesus that you find the plan of God.
Why is the plan of God important in Hebrews chapter 10?
Go home and read verses one through 10.
I'm not going to share them all, but in verse 4 it says for it is
not possible that the blood of bulls under the old covenant and
goats could take away the sins because it had to be a lamb
without blemish. And that Lamb's name is Jesus
Christ today, sent to redeem a lost and dying world and
ultimately defeat Satan. Satan is defeated.
He may not feel like it in your life, but when you understand
the plan of God and the plan that God has for children, He
can become defeated in your life because God's got a plan.
When you look at the plan that God had for mankind, you have to
go back as early as Genesis and realize that God's plan for
mankind was what number one? It was perfect.
It was in a perfect garden, in a perfect climate and a perfect
and perfect moisture that would ooze up out of the ground and
water things. There was no sin, there was no
condemnation. Man's needs were forever met,
but we couldn't obey the one thing that God give us.
But he still had a plan, a perfect plan.
So God destroyed that which He had created.
But in Hebrews chapter 8 and verse six, I preached along
these lines Wednesday night as we took communion.
It's a great passage of Scripture.
I got to share it again in Hebrews chapter 8 it talks about
now in verse 6 it says he is also a mediator.
What is a mediator? A go between when two parties
can't seem to get along. See, sin puts us in empathy with
God. Because God is holy and God
can't look upon sin. He turned his back on sin.
That's why Jesus felt forsaken on the cross that day.
Because for a split moment in time, God had to turn his back
and let his Son become sin for us.
Because what? Because Jesus was becoming a
mediator and Hebrews says in verse 8 and six it says he he is
also a mediator of a better covenant which was established
on better promises. Isn't that good to know?
I thought about that when I read it.
How much better could it be when mana fell from heaven?
How much better could it be when the fire LED them by night?
How much better could it be when Aaron had or Moses had a staff
that they could part the Red Sea with?
How much better could it be? So see, we're we're we're the
we're established on a better covenant with better promises,
verse 7 says. For if that first covenant had
been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a
second. Because finding fault with them,
he says, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord.
Can I tell you them days are coming?
They're right now when I will make a new covenant with the
House of Israel and the House of Judah, not according to the
covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took
them by the hand and LED them out of Egypt.
But it's even a better covenant because they did not continue in
my covenant and I disregarded them, says the Lord.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the House of
Israel after those days, says the Lord.
This is where we're living now under grace.
He said, I'm going to put my laws in your mouth and I'm going
to ride them on your hearts, and I will be their God and they
shall be my people. What a better covenant.
None of them shall teach his neighbor, none, his brother
saying, know the Lord. For all shall know me from the
least of them to the greatest, for I will be merciful.
Boy, somebody ought to shout right now, for I will be
merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins
and their lawless deeds. I will remember no more.
Isn't that great to know? You need to remind the enemy
that it don't matter what I did in the past.
I got a God that's forgiven me. I got a God that's wrote my name
down in the Lamb's book of life, and he set my feet on a path of
righteousness. And one day I'm going to see in
that He says a new covenant. He has made the first one
obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete is
growing old and is ready to vanish away because why?
We're about to see Jesus. Are you getting the plan of God
this morning? See, the plan of God is to put
His laws in your mouth, not just in your mind.
Amen. All you got to do is let your
ears hear your mouth say the word of God and your faith
begins to grow. Why?
Because God had a plan. I like God's plan.
Jeremiah 29 and 11 says I know the plans that I have for you.
It's not to harm you, but it's to prosper you and to give you
what a hope and a future. Isn't it cool to know that God
has a plan this morning and nothing I can do can change that
plan? Isn't that cool?
I can't change that plan. He has a plan to land me in
heaven. So we have the plan of God.
The second thing I want to share with you is the purpose of God.
We all think we know the purpose of God.
The purpose, the definition, is a reason for which something
exists, the reason for something that is done or made.
There's a lot of people today that don't even know why they
exist. They don't even know who they
are, what gender they are. So how can they know their
purpose? How can a Christian who's never
done anything but say, I'm going to preach a little bit now know
the purpose of God? What is God's purpose in your
life? If you understand the plan, now
you have the plan, you might can understand the purpose.
Let's see, from Bethlehem to Calvary to the shores of
Galilee, Jesus had a plan. What's your plan?
He had a purpose to put us back in our place of dominion in
Genesis chapter 1 and 26. I want to read this because it
says that God said let us you don't believe the Trinity right
there it is. Let us God was talking to
someone else, where was God? God is in heaven at this time,
right in the 3rd heaven and he says let us say that with me.
Let us God the Father, God the Son, Jesus had already been
there. Amen.
He was in glory with his Father. Let us, the Son, the Holy
Spirit, let us make man in our image according to our likeness.
Let them have, I want you to get this word dominion.
Dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air,
over the cattle, over all the earth.
Men. If, if that scripture was wrote
today, what would God have to give us?
Dominion over? If, if God could come by and
he'd say, I'm going to give you dominion today.
I'm going to give you to make it where you can control it,
Dominion domain, domain in that place.
I'm going to make it to where it can't destroy you.
What would you say? What would you say?
I know what I would say. I don't have to think twice.
A cell phone, That would be my answer.
God take it. I've lived without it and I can
live again. Now, everybody else may not live
without me with it. Hey, man, your employer may not
live without you with it, but I could live without it.
Is anybody with me? I think I could.
Hey, man, I won't. I would love to have dominion
over it. Some days I just take dominion
over it, Turn it off and everybody.
Oh, you OK? Yeah, I'm fine, don't you?
I mean, it's 'cause I'm OK. I ain't died.
What would we have to put on that today though?
The list would be, I mean, it would be what y'all call it
terabytes. Rachel took terabytes of
pictures on her vacation. I don't even know what a TB is.
I know it's bigger than a mega. I don't get all that stuff,
y'all. Well, how big that would be a TB
if we God could come and say we'll give you dominion over
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
All the things that go through our mind every day that we don't
have dominion over. There was a few things that were
simple here. The fish of the sea, the birds
of the air, the cattle over all the earth.
But this part got me when I read this.
And over every creeping thing, that's where we're at today
because Satan is on his belly and he's creeping into your life
and he's taking dominion over things that God meant for you to
have control over. Can I get a witness?
And he's creeping in. Well, I come by to tell you, God
has a plan for the creeping. Amen.
And God has a purpose for the things that he tries to creep in
on. Anybody getting creeped in on
Satan will creep in on you. He loves to creep in, but when
you recognize the plan of God and the purpose of God in your
life, there's a third thing that comes.
You will know what Resurrection Sunday is about.
It's about the plan of God and the purpose of God.
But can I tell you the 3rd and the greatest thing that happened
when Jesus walked out of that tomb in Acts chapter 8 and verse
one? What did he say in Acts 8 and
verse 1? He said he's going to, He's
going to give us something else called the power.
In Acts chapter 1 and verse 8, it says that you shall receive
the power of the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, when it has come
upon you, and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea
and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.
Jesus spoke this. He said there's something other
than salvation that will come up on you and will come into your
life. And it's the third thing in
these PS that I'm preaching today, the plan, the purpose,
and the power of God. We have too many of God's
children, children today that are powerless.
We're powerless and most of us because we don't speak the word
of God. Faith comes by one way, what
what does faith come by hearing the word of God?
That doesn't mean from the preacher that helps, but it
believes your beings, your mouth, and #1 you got to know
what you're speaking. You got to hide the word of God
in your heart lest you sin against him so your ears can
hear your mouth proclaim the word of God.
That's where faith comes. You can't hum it up.
You can't hum as I do many times and hum up faith.
Amen. You got to hear the word of God.
And as you hear the word of God, it begins to build your faith.
And when you understand the plan of God and you have the purpose
of God, then you can have the power of God.
In John chapter 10 and 17, Jesus spoke of this power.
He said, therefore my Father loves me because I lay down my
life that I might take it up again.
That's what today's about. You know, you hear a preacher
say, well, the Roman government was really big.
No, no, no, it didn't matter how big they was because God had a
plan and God, you know, by the way, Jesus could have called
10,000 legions of angels at any time and been delivered.
But He so loved us. I like what this says.
He says I lay down my life. Why did Jesus lay down?
So he could take it up again. Why?
So people would believe, right? Verse 18, He says get this in
you, get this in your spirit. No man, no one takes it from me.
See the plan of God and the purpose of God and the power of
God. You got to get this this
morning. This will change your life.
No man can take it from you, but you can willingly give it by not
giving God His time, by not spending time with the Holy
Spirit and slowly drifting away. No man, no one takes it from me,
but I lay it down myself. Look what Jesus said.
He said, I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it
up again. See this commandment He says
that He received from His Father.
As we sing those song, there's power, power, wonder, working
power in the blood of the Lamb. Go to John chapter 14.
Jesus spoke of this power again in verse 12 and 13.
And Jesus said most assuredly in John 1412 and 13.
I say to you, do you believe in Him this morning?
Well, that's weak. Do you believe in him?
This morning he said he who believes in me, the works that I
do, he will do also. And I preach this a lot around
here because I I've told the Lord, I said, man, this
Christian walk would have been a lot easier if you hadn't wrote
that, if you hadn't spoke that he who believes in me, do you
believe in him? The works that I do, he will do
also and greater works than he will do because I walked out of
that tomb, because I go to the father, right?
Greater works. I was talking to him one day.
I said, Lord, why did you put that in there, man?
That made it where I can't never rest.
That made it where I can't never take a breath because I want, I
want some of them works in my life.
I see a lot of Christian they don't want any of them.
Hey man, let's go to that next verse in 13.
It says this really rock your world right here.
Whatever you ask in my name, that I will do.
Go out and pray for a new truck. I'm not going to tell you it's
going to happen. Because if you're doing that,
you hadn't understand the plan of God.
You hadn't understood the purpose of God.
So therefore He's not going to give his power to someone that's
ignorant of His word. Can I get a witness?
But when you're not ignorant of the word and you understand the
plan of God, the purpose of God, He will pour His power up on
you, right? We need the power of God.
Jesus operated in this power and because he walked out of the
grave and because he lives, I can face tomorrow and I can have
power because there's one to working power in the blood.
Because I go to the Father and whatever you ask in my name that
I will do that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Ask anything. Ask anything in my name and if
you try to tell me any different, guess what?
I'm not going to believe it. I had a broke neck risking
paralyzation and I said in an old recliner and I prayed to
God. I said, if this is your will,
I'm accepting it, but I really don't believe it's in your will.
I was supposed to preach that week in Vegas and had things
lined up and God supernaturally healed my broken neck.
Hey man, I didn't even have to have.
So if you come by to tell me, well, sometimes you know, when I
when my mind goes blank, I know that scripture like the back of
my hand, but all this stuff gets rolling through my mind.
And sometimes I use Google and I said, where does it say where
does it say what verse I just read to you?
I quote, you can quote a little man.
That's the greatest tool of studying the Bible.
You, you don't I don't know. I still and I still have people
say, well, I don't know where that's at in the Bible.
Push Google, he'll show you. I just can't find it past push
Google. Just mention one word in the
verse for God sold up. Boom, there it is.
But here's what you got to watch.
Here's what you got to watch because the nominations creep
into Google and they share that Scripture and then they want to
put their little take on it. Well, when I Google this, let's
go back to verse 30. Let's go back to that.
Most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in me, the work
said I do OK. We had some educated commentary
on that. You know what it said?
Be careful when you hear a preacher say first of all, but
that's what the commentary said. First of all, you got to
understand that when he was talking about these works in
this power, he was talking to the 1st century church.
Well, I'm sure he was. We weren't there.
I love to take the Holy Ghost and just tear up education
because there's some things that it's great to know where the
Scriptures are, but it's better when you walk through life and
you've used them. Hey, man, so don't try to come
and tell me that the power is not available.
Obviously, he was talking to the 1st century church.
Why don't they let people like me on TV because the Holy Ghost
will shoot them down so quick. He just put this in my mind
right then God said I would love to ask him this.
OK, When he quoted John 316, I'd like to ask the man, are you
saved? He wasn't talking to you when he
quoted John 316, you wasn't there.
But yet you believe in being saved because it's just a home
in heaven and fire insurance for you is all it is.
And you know what? He's got a scripture for that
too, Mr. Professor. They said my people honor me
with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
They go after the sayings of man and forsake the commandments of
God. And then he says this.
By doing so you make the word of God of no effect in your life.
I think of Jesus when he was about this power he had, he was
headed to to heal, to heal Jay Iris's daughter, the ruler of a
great synagogue. He was going to heal the
preacher that couldn't hear that kid had prayed for and she was
on her deathbed. But Jesus was walking.
Come on, somebody worship with me.
He was walking through the crowd that morning and as he was
walking through the crowd, he heard something.
He felt something. I bet this little lady had been
told, oh, that's he just healing those people that's over there.
He's not healing these people over here.
But this little woman had been bleeding for for so many years.
After years, she had an issue of blood and she heard the master
was coming by. I'm sure that people in the oh,
you can't get to. And she just kept pressing.
She said, I know I'm going to die, but I got to touch the hem
of his garment. I wonder if she had read Malachi
4 and 2 where it says that there's a savior coming.
You know that little scripture, How many know what it says?
It says there's healing in his wings.
There's power. See the rabbi's of those days,
the priest, they wrote that the the robes that they wore, which
Jesus had on, they had these little tassels that was flinging
off of them. They wasn't from Dooney Burke
and they wasn't from whoever we're worshiping today.
They had they a man. They weren't the bling.
They meant something because old Malachi had prophesied and they
called them wings. They tell the tassels that hung
off them. Oh, somebody ought to get happy
right now. And Malachi said there's a
Savior coming, and when he gets here, there's healing in his
wings. See, the little lady was
pressing through. She said, I've heard there's
healing. Maybe she had read the book of
Isaiah. Maybe she had read Malachi four
and two, that there's healing. Well, I'm telling you, I've read
it and I'm just dumb enough to believe it, that there's healing
in his wings. Amen.
Well, wait a minute, Pastor. You always been healed.
No, but that don't change his plan, that don't change his
purpose that don't change it at any minute.
God can Amen that don't. I prayed with people for years.
It was addicted to everything and prayed and believe God so
many times that I forgot about it and then get a call Pastor,
I'm no longer on the needle. I'm no longer doing this.
I'm no longer Somehow God just took it from me.
It's not there anymore. That cannot get if God's
delivered you give him praise in the house.
If God's brought you from where you used to be to where you are
now, just go on and believe Him and take a praise break in the
house. I'm telling you, there's healing
in the wings. Let's just don't talk about the
resurrection. Let's live the resurrection.
Let's live it. You come by too late to give me
your commentary. You can say it was for them.
I wonder what people's going to do.
They said, oh, I read this Bible, but how lame is that?
To take the power out of it, to take the goodness of God out of
it and just believe what you want to.
We got to believe it from front to back or we might as well
throw it out and turn our backs and go walk for the devil and go
live for the devil because he says anybody that adds to or
takes away from this book, what be damned.
I came by to tell you, there's a plan, there's a purpose, and
yes, there's power. Who can have this?
Whosoever will have faith in God, this little lady believed
because she didn't listen to what everybody else said around
you. You'll come.
Life will take you to a place that you need the plan of God,
that you need the purpose of God.
I want you to hear me, I said. Life will take you to a place.
I tell people all the time, you might as well go ahead and give
it to God because you're going, you're going to come with scars.
How many? He's got scars, but thank God
they're a sign of healing. Hey, man, scars are a sign of
healing. But you can go ahead and come to
him for the scars. He's able to detour us around
things, right? Why?
Because God has a plan. God has a purpose, God has the
power, and when you receive these three things, you can step
into #4 and I'm going to close. You can have the provision of
God. Not many Christians have that.
I don't see. I see a lot of worried people
today. What is a provision?
Is the act of supplying or providing something prematurely
A preparatory measure for future needs?
We need provision. All through the Bible we read of
a God that provided he's preparing something for you and
I This morning Jesus told his disciples at the beginning of
his ministry. He said, hey guys, you may not
want to follow me. I wonder how many he'd have on
staff today. Hello.
It's not going to pay anything. It's not going to do this.
It's not going to do that. I don't have any place to lay my
head. He told his disciples, but in
Matthew chapter 17 and verse 24, I'm sure the disciples wanted to
know what to do that day. Are you getting this this
morning? We need to understand the plan
of God. We need to understand the
purpose of God. Over 7000 church denominations
and clicking. There's one way, there's one
truth and there's one life. You know how I just think of
that many times. How does that confuse them?
I told the pastors in Campbell one time we had 8-9 churches
here. One time I said if we got the
whole town of Campbell, we all wouldn't have.
But 20, Won't we come together while y'all are a little
different over there? Different.
I think they said that about Jesus.
I don't know that it's different.
I think it's just kind of excited about the resurrection.
Hey man, I think I just can't. I just can't help but talk about
what Jesus did for me because see, in Matthew chapter 17,
Peter come to Jesus. He said, hey, he said they're
wanting us to pay our temple tax over there.
Tax has been around a long time. Taxes will get you in the flesh,
right? Jesus didn't get all deterbed
about it. He didn't go up there and debate
it. Sometimes you go up there and
debate it, it puts a flag on you and they'll really come Jack
with you. I like the way Jesus did.
He said Peter quit worrying. He said just go over.
You know, this hit me last. I thought one translation says a
brook, a brook is little, but the original translation says go
over and cast your hook into the sea.
He really tested Peter. Let's go cast a hook into the
big old sea. And he said the fur talking
about the provision of God and he said the first fish that you
catch will have a coin in his mouth.
Google that one to one to one ways that I was preaching on
that. But you know what we're we're so
little we think about the we we we we we limit ourselves to the
tide. It's way bigger than the tithe.
It's the plan of God is trusting God with the first and foremost
thing of your life. Amen.
But if you can't trust God with the 10th holy that he's given
us, how can we? How can we know that he supplies
everything? Peter said.
You want me to do what? Go fishing?
I'm sure Peter had a question. He's just go cast it in there.
It's not about it's not about the tithe.
It's about the provision. It's about it being in the
fish's mouth when God's children needs it, a man and him telling
us where it is to go, whatever the provision is.
And then we have preachers pollute it, preach about give
and this and that. I can promise you God will take
care of you, though he's not promised us anything but to take
care of us. Jesus had no place to lay his
head. Jesus and Peter, what a story.
Why could Jesus say that? Because he knew that he was
Jehovah Jireh, the great provider.
The plan of God, the purpose of God as you stand your feet and
the power of God will bring you into the say it with me
provision of God. As Jesus would walk from death
into life and walk out of that tomb.
It was only borrowed because he didn't plan to stay.
Isn't that cool? The plan of God for you and I,
Jesus is the purpose of God. Jesus is the power of God.
And Jesus, as Paul said, shall supply all of my needs according
to his riches and glory. I ask you today while this song
plays, do you have a plan if you don't try gods?
I didn't have a plan, that's why I tried.
Gods, does your plan have a purpose?
Would you close your eyes and ask yourself, do I have a plan
for my spiritual life? If I don't, I'm going to try.
Gods, does your plan have a purpose?
Does your purpose have power? If you can answer yes, I can
tell you this morning He's your provider.
Thanks for listening to the Cross Power Church podcast.
May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be
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