1 00:00:01,100 --> 00:00:04,100 Welcome to the first episode Church podcast. 2 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:08,000 Our church mission is to love as God loves showing compassion 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,500 Every Soul, thus, winning those souls and equipping them to be 4 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:13,800 sent out to plant and to harvest. 5 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:17,000 Thank you for joining us today, and we hope that you are blessed 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:37,900 by today's podcast. Turn to the New Testament book 7 00:00:37,900 --> 00:00:45,200 of Philippians chapter number 3, thankful for those who helped us 8 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:50,000 in areas parking and and out letters this morning and going 9 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,500 to basically put together a service schedule list, probably 10 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:58,100 go on. Teachers the back with kids 11 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,900 hemans. Grateful for everybody and their 12 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:09,300 efforts Philippians 3. Remember camp meeting 13 00:01:09,300 --> 00:01:15,500 registration is open online. If you plan on going demand, 14 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:20,300 Avail yourself of those services with rather, Jeff, Moses being 15 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,400 Night speaker and brother. Jonathan Atkins evangelist. 16 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,500 Jonathan Atkins day speaker. I know our lives will be blessed 17 00:01:28,700 --> 00:01:34,300 in him by their Ministries him. Philippians 3. 18 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:39,200 I'm going to begin reading in verse number 10 real quickly in 19 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:40,700 this. Don't necessarily go on the 20 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:45,000 podcast right here, but asking the church to help me pray. 21 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,500 We have our national symbols, the Lord. 22 00:01:48,500 --> 00:01:51,200 Jesus Christ General Ministry Conference coming up, very 23 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:58,900 quickly in the month of June and horse have the privilege of 24 00:01:58,900 --> 00:02:00,800 ministering there. But in addition to that, there 25 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,400 are several different offices on National level that are opening 26 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,500 up and I have been spoken to on a few different things. 27 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:11,700 Concerning fulfilling one of those National offices or being 28 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:14,200 a part of a team for another and I've been praying along the 29 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,600 journey for some time. Concerning this about what to 30 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,500 do. I'm just asking you to help me. 31 00:02:18,500 --> 00:02:23,400 Pray God, give me a definitive Direction on what needs to be 32 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,000 done. I am not politicking. 33 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,200 I'm not a politician. I don't go around talking to 34 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,300 people and saying, well, you know a rare. 35 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:32,800 You get me in there and we'll make the assemblies great again. 36 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:37,900 N. Okay, and I have always went by 37 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:39,700 the thing that have God opens the door. 38 00:02:39,700 --> 00:02:43,400 I'll step through the door and so just as just be praying with 39 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,300 me because I will don't want to do any misstep in any direction 40 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:51,200 or anyway, so what you'd be serving, it will still you. 41 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,000 Have you did. It's got to be the right man for 42 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,300 the right time, if that's me. So be it. 43 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:57,900 If not, so be, it He-Man. So, I'm just asking for your 44 00:02:57,900 --> 00:02:59,800 prayers and ever. Amen! 45 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:04,400 Philippians chapter number 3 and verse number 10, The Apostle 46 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:10,800 Paul States, these words that I may know him. the power of His 47 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:16,700 Resurrection, The Fellowship of his sufferings Being made 48 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:23,000 conformable unto his death. If by any means, I might attain 49 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,400 unto the resurrection of the Dead. 50 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:32,100 Not as though I had already attained. either were already 51 00:03:32,100 --> 00:03:41,500 perfect, but I follow after, if that, I may apprehend that for 52 00:03:41,500 --> 00:03:46,900 which also I am apprehended of Christ, Jesus. 53 00:03:48,100 --> 00:03:50,300 Paul says, I want to know him the power of his resurrection 54 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:53,500 Fellowship of the sun. Basically his death, his burial, 55 00:03:53,700 --> 00:03:57,000 his resurrection. It's a but I'm not necessarily 56 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,100 counted myself to fully attain interesting. 57 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:03,200 I'm not killing myself to a fully attain. 58 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,500 The resurrection of the Dead. And he makes this phrase in 59 00:04:07,500 --> 00:04:11,800 verse 12. He says I Endeavor to apprehend 60 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:20,500 that for which also I am a free handed of Christ Jesus for a 61 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:26,500 little while tonight Minister this the death burial and 62 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:33,300 Resurrection. Now, what the death burial and 63 00:04:33,300 --> 00:04:36,300 Resurrection? Now, what? 64 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:44,900 So much soul of Christendom is focused and arrange the realm. 65 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:47,500 Those three primary, things of the death burial and 66 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:51,300 Resurrection. This is those after that has 67 00:04:51,300 --> 00:04:54,300 been fulfilled or taken place. You've been initialized in a 68 00:04:54,300 --> 00:05:02,300 life then so now, what do we do? Where do we go from here? 69 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:08,300 Lord, I come to you tonight, I'm asking God for your help Lord 70 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:12,000 here this evening. God crafts there, somebody in 71 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,300 this place. This will be a benefit to, and 72 00:05:14,900 --> 00:05:18,400 God, if it's not in this immediate Place, perhaps there 73 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,100 is somebody by way of podcast Lord, that this will be of some 74 00:05:22,100 --> 00:05:26,600 help or benefit to I pray God. Regardless, whether it's here or 75 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,200 whether it's their pray, O Lord for your anointing Lord, Jesus 76 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:34,100 upon my lips of play. So, Lord today, God, just of 77 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:36,900 online god, with your purpose, in your plan, God for the 78 00:05:36,900 --> 00:05:40,700 service tonight. God and I Lord, when I Lord to 79 00:05:40,700 --> 00:05:42,700 my home this evening. Lord, I will give you. 80 00:05:42,700 --> 00:05:45,400 Thanks and praise God. For what you do? 81 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,200 Jesus name that I pray. He man a man. 82 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,700 You may be seated tonight. Jesus name, the death burial and 83 00:05:52,700 --> 00:05:55,800 Resurrection. Now, what? 84 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,800 While it is true this evening and it's already been emphasized 85 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:09,700 over and over again today that Jesus died and that he was 86 00:06:09,700 --> 00:06:12,800 buried. And that the Bible says that God 87 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:18,500 raised him up the story. However, does not stop there 88 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,400 though. That seems to be a primary focus 89 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:26,700 and a goal for every believer, for everything one. 90 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:32,600 That's ever been in the This, if you will of sin, the story does 91 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,100 not stop. There. 92 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,500 We emulate those steps of the death, burial and resurrection 93 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:43,800 of Jesus Christ by obeying, the gospel through our repentance, 94 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:48,800 through our baptism through, are receiving of the Holy Ghost, but 95 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:54,600 this is not The end to settle back in our Laurel. 96 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,700 So to speak. After are born again, experience 97 00:06:57,700 --> 00:07:03,900 is to misunderstand. Jesus is own Resurrection. 98 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:09,100 The resurrection in and of itself was not the only climax 99 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:11,800 in his story. Neither. 100 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,600 Should it be the only climax in our story? 101 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,600 We capitalize on the Passover or what is known. 102 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:26,800 As Resurrection Day and we capitalize on a feast that 103 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:31,400 happened. 50 days past that called Pentecost that we rally 104 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,000 around as Pentecostals and Apostolic succession. 105 00:07:35,300 --> 00:07:38,400 We talked about Pentecost because it was the day in our 106 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:43,900 estimation that the resurrection power was initialized in us. 107 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:49,300 That what Jesus had happened to him at Passover was initialized 108 00:07:49,300 --> 00:07:52,300 Vietnam in US. On the day of Pentecost, the 109 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:58,100 church, but there are some other aspects of his resurrection that 110 00:07:58,100 --> 00:08:01,200 we best not. Miss being Children of the most 111 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,300 high God. The Bible tells us that Jesus 112 00:08:04,300 --> 00:08:06,200 was as I taught on Wednesday night. 113 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,700 The first born, or the first begotten from the dead. 114 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:15,000 In the sense that he rose from the dead into immortality. 115 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:18,300 Amen? Others Rose as Mortals that 116 00:08:18,300 --> 00:08:24,200 would indeed die again. Not Christ Heroes as an immortal 117 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:29,300 being never to die again. And so with this being said, the 118 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:34,700 resurrection of Jesus is is about more than the Dead coming 119 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:38,900 back to life. It is about the Dead coming back 120 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:46,100 to life and continuing to live. It's about the Dead coming back 121 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:50,300 to life and continuing to live. If if the Pentecostal Church in 122 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:54,900 my personal estimation has failed in any area concerning 123 00:08:54,900 --> 00:08:58,000 the gospel, concerning the death, and the burial and the 124 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,900 resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is in the fact that we have 125 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:06,100 shared a have the dead can come to life, but we left them 126 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:09,600 clueless about continuing to live victoriously. 127 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:14,600 After they've been born again up the water and of the Be right. 128 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:18,000 This is not me clicking. If you will, my timesheet 129 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,900 saying, I've met the requirements of the three and 130 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:25,600 now I can just settle back in my seat or in my home or in my save 131 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,400 station and somehow just wait, patiently for the clouds to 132 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:31,700 split. And the last Trump of God, the 133 00:09:31,700 --> 00:09:33,800 sound and I can just go and hope. 134 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,800 No, no doubt folks. There is some living that goes 135 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,900 on between the resurrection and the new birth of the church. 136 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:44,300 And if that's the case for Jesus, that needs to be Be the 137 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:46,600 case for those that are born again. 138 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:53,300 Someone came in. I see in Scripture that Jesus 139 00:09:53,300 --> 00:09:57,500 didn't get up from the grave and then just go find some place of 140 00:09:57,500 --> 00:10:01,700 seclusion for the next 40 days that he was upon this Earth and 141 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:06,500 just wait for his Ascension. He wasn't at home with his feet, 142 00:10:06,500 --> 00:10:09,800 propped up a men. Looking at the camels, going by 143 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:13,300 just waiting for the time that he was to go up into the 144 00:10:13,300 --> 00:10:15,200 heavenlies. He wasn't twiddling. 145 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,000 His thumbs. Amen. 146 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,300 Just waiting to make his debut in the sky. 147 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:25,100 So people could gaze at him and stare at him as he made his 148 00:10:25,100 --> 00:10:27,400 departure from the earth. Hallelujah. 149 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:31,000 Someone say, amen. And if Jesus didn't spend his 150 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,100 days after his resurrection like that. 151 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:40,600 Neither should we, We Do. Some would say, Amen. 152 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,700 Honey. What that means is this bishop. 153 00:10:43,700 --> 00:10:47,100 I don't need to either put myself in a place of seclusion 154 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:49,100 and just be in the wings waiting. 155 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:53,100 If you will for the last Jesus wasn't waiting for his Ascension 156 00:10:53,300 --> 00:10:56,800 and neither do I just need to be waiting around for the Rapture 157 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:58,900 of the church. When the Trump of God shall 158 00:10:58,900 --> 00:11:00,900 skal. Ain't I don't want them to just 159 00:11:00,900 --> 00:11:04,800 be bystanders and say, there they go, but we haven't seen him 160 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:14,000 for the past few days. Jesus arose from the tomb, he 161 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,600 man, he walked among the people. He spoke with the people. 162 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,700 He interact with the people. He didn't Miracles as he did 163 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:22,000 before. Amen. 164 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,800 He intermingled with the people. And the Bible tells me in the 165 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,400 book of Acts that we've been in for a long time. 166 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:33,700 Now, it tells me that Jesus after he resurrected shewed 167 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:39,100 himself alive after his Passion, by many infallible proofs. 168 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:42,100 Hooves being seen of them party days. 169 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,300 And speaking the things that pertaining to the kingdom of 170 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:49,500 God, what that means is this Jesus had some living even after 171 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:53,100 the resurrection. There's more to this episode of 172 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:56,400 Pentecost to life than just being born again. 173 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,600 There's some living of the backside of your new birth 174 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:11,900 experience. The Bible tells me First 175 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:14,600 Corinthians 15. I'm unsure if I shared this 176 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,200 scripture brother Zack, but if I didn't God bless me. 177 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,400 Amen. First Corinthians 15 speaking 178 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,300 about Jesus is activity in those 40 days. 179 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:26,300 There was activity. Someone say Activity. 180 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,700 There were things going on in the life of Jesus in those 40 181 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:35,000 days. Yeah. 182 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:41,000 The Bible says, First Corinthians 15 and verse number 183 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,600 1. Moreover Brethren the Apostle 184 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,400 Paul writing, I declare unto you the gospel. 185 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:52,300 Which I preached unto you which also ye have received and 186 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:55,400 wherein ye stand by which also ye are saved. 187 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:59,300 If ye keep in memory. What I preached unto you unless 188 00:12:59,300 --> 00:13:02,600 you believed in vain for, I delivered to use talking about 189 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,200 the gospel here. You first of all, which I also 190 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,500 received how that Christ died. There we go. 191 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:10,900 For our sins, according to the scriptures. 192 00:13:10,900 --> 00:13:12,500 All right, and that he was buried. 193 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:14,800 Yep. There we go, and that he rose 194 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,500 again the third day, according to the scriptures. 195 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,900 But he doesn't stop there. I've missed this all my life. 196 00:13:20,900 --> 00:13:23,400 I always just summed up the gospel in the death burial and 197 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,200 the resurrection. But it's almost as Paul is 198 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,300 including as part of the Gospel, not just the death, not just the 199 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:34,000 burial and the resurrection, but the life that was lived after 200 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,100 Resurrection, because he continues and says, and he was 201 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:40,700 buried and that he rose again the third day, according to the 202 00:13:40,700 --> 00:13:44,700 scriptures and that he was seen of cephas and then of the 203 00:13:44,700 --> 00:13:47,400 twelve, and after that, he was seen about 500. 204 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,000 At once of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but 205 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,700 some are fallen asleep. He was also seen of James and 206 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:59,300 then of the Apostles and last of all he was seen of me also as 207 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:03,000 one born out of due time, the Apostle Paul was saying the 208 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,800 gospel entails more than just repentance more than just 209 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,100 baptism in Jesus name and more than the infilling of the Holy 210 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:12,900 Ghost. The gospel also includes what 211 00:14:12,900 --> 00:14:15,700 you do with your life after you receive the Holy Ghost. 212 00:14:19,100 --> 00:14:24,400 Hey, babe. Hey man, it's so he explaining 213 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,300 this to them. He men. 214 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:31,100 He shoot himself Christ, shoot himself alive after his 215 00:14:31,100 --> 00:14:34,100 resurrection. It wasn't just enough. 216 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,900 Amen. It wasn't just enough for Jesus 217 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:41,300 to be up out of the grave and breathing and having respiration 218 00:14:41,300 --> 00:14:45,200 that was taking place. It wasn't just enough to have a 219 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,000 Dakin tune. Amen. 220 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,100 That everybody could point to and say, see he's not there 221 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:53,300 anymore. Coaches show but the Bible says 222 00:14:53,300 --> 00:14:57,700 that he was seen among them. He was heard speaking among 223 00:14:57,700 --> 00:15:00,000 them. And by many infallible proofs. 224 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:04,700 He substantiated the fact that he was the Living Lord and there 225 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:09,500 was indeed an empty tomb. In so much. 226 00:15:09,500 --> 00:15:14,500 So even two generations later when the writer you Sidious was 227 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:17,000 interviewed. He interviewed and had written 228 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:20,200 concerning many people who had known this is documented 229 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,000 history. If any people had known and had 230 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,600 saw Jesus Christ during that 40 day period after his 231 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:31,400 resurrection and they tell stories of Miracles that he 232 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:35,900 performed even some sermons that he had preached and letters that 233 00:15:35,900 --> 00:15:38,500 he had written during those 40 days. 234 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,600 After his resurrection, what? I'm trying to hammer home in our 235 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,300 minds today, the idea of just being born again of the water 236 00:15:46,300 --> 00:15:49,400 and the spirit and we got our ticket and we just Buckle our 237 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,400 seatbelts and it's all said and done. 238 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:54,000 It's a bunch of baloney. I don't care how thin you slice 239 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,200 it. It's still baloney. 240 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,600 I'm here to tell you tonight. There is a life to be lived. 241 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,200 Amen! Post-resurrection, post your 242 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,800 experience with God. We need to figure out what our 243 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:06,300 purpose is. We need to figure out what God 244 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:09,300 would have us to do. We need to figure out Out as our 245 00:16:09,300 --> 00:16:11,300 days are numbered up on this Earth. 246 00:16:11,300 --> 00:16:18,600 What would God have me too? That think about this, this is 247 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:23,700 convicting to me. But the last verse of the last 248 00:16:23,700 --> 00:16:25,700 gospel, which is the Gospel of John. 249 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:31,200 He sums it up quite well because John 21 is actually some of the 250 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,300 things that Jesus did in that 40 days. 251 00:16:33,900 --> 00:16:39,200 He says his John says, and there are also many other things, 252 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,600 which Jesus did though, which if they should be written, 253 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,200 everyone. I see. 254 00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:52,900 Pose that even the world itself could not contain the books. 255 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,800 That should be written. Amen. 256 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:02,500 It's hit me today. As my mind gravitated toward 257 00:17:02,500 --> 00:17:05,200 this verse of scripture. Perhaps. 258 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:10,300 This is the way the off times. I have considered this verse of 259 00:17:10,300 --> 00:17:17,099 scripture that perhaps John was representing the whole Panorama 260 00:17:17,099 --> 00:17:20,200 if you will of the ministry of Jesus. 261 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,500 Whenever he started his public Ministry after his Wilderness, 262 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:27,000 testing until his Ascension, Maybe. 263 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,300 I was saying from the time that Jesus started this ministry 264 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:33,200 until he ascended, there could have been a whole lot more 265 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:34,400 written in. Had it begun. 266 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,500 The world itself? Could not contain the pages 267 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:41,200 thereof. But today it hit me since this 268 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:45,300 is chapter 21. And since this is some of the 269 00:17:45,300 --> 00:17:49,200 things that happened in that 40 day period after Jesus. 270 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,300 Rex erection, I'm just toying with the idea in my mind or 271 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:58,500 could John had been saying and simply implying and that Jesus 272 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:02,500 did so many things in those last 40 days. 273 00:18:06,100 --> 00:18:11,600 Jesus did so many things things in those last 40 days after his 274 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:16,900 resurrection that even the world itself could not contain the 275 00:18:16,900 --> 00:18:20,100 books necessary to write what he did. 276 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:26,200 After his resurrection. Someone say, amen. 277 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,400 And with that consideration, I want to ask us all a very honest 278 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,700 question here tonight. Have you done anything 279 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:35,000 meaningful with your life in Christ? 280 00:18:35,100 --> 00:18:43,000 That's been worth recording? Or have you been stuck on being 281 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,800 brought into this new life? And you failed to continue to 282 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:56,300 live? What I'm saying is it's very 283 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:01,500 easy to become enamored. With having been saved from 284 00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:06,300 death to the place. You're so enamored, you forget, 285 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:08,800 or you put off the fact that you need to live. 286 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:18,200 She for some people in the New Testament scripture and empty 287 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:24,500 tomb wasn't enough for them. Testimonies of other people, you 288 00:19:24,500 --> 00:19:26,700 read your Bible in the gospels. I have this week. 289 00:19:26,700 --> 00:19:30,200 I've reread all the accounts of of the resurrection of the Lord, 290 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,500 throughout the scriptures in the gospels and there's testimonies 291 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:37,300 of other people that have come to people that believed in Jesus 292 00:19:37,300 --> 00:19:40,100 and believed in Christ, testimonies people coming to 293 00:19:40,100 --> 00:19:43,000 them and saying we have seen the Living Lord. 294 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,900 And for those who had been Believers, that was not enough. 295 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,600 Mary Magdalene. And some of the ladies, some of 296 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:54,800 the women had been to the Sepulchre. 297 00:19:55,100 --> 00:19:57,100 They returned from the Sepulchre. 298 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:00,800 They were commissioned by the angels that they had seen, the 299 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,800 angel said, go tell the apostles and all the others that he is, 300 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:09,200 not here that he is risen. And so Mary Magdalene and the 301 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,200 ladies leave the Sepulchre. They go back to the apostles and 302 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,900 the Bible says to all the rest of the group and they tell them 303 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,500 he is not there. But Has risen. 304 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,600 And this is their recorded response to their testimony and 305 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:28,600 Luke 24, 11, and their words seemed to them as Idle tales. 306 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:35,600 And they believe they're not. For those people, they needed 307 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,700 something more than just the concept that a resurrection had 308 00:20:38,700 --> 00:20:44,700 happened. They needed to see the life that 309 00:20:44,700 --> 00:20:50,900 came after the resurrection. They needed more than the story 310 00:20:51,100 --> 00:20:54,300 about somebody that had resurrected from the dead. 311 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:58,700 They needed somebody to live the resurrected life before them. 312 00:21:00,100 --> 00:21:02,700 It wasn't enough to know all that happened to them. 313 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:07,900 No, I want to see a played out in my own eyes in our life that 314 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,600 Consider, if you will, the convincing that this is the 315 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,200 reason why we, there, there is something Beyond New Birth. 316 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,200 There is something that is required that we need to do 317 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,500 that. We need to engage him. 318 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:27,100 Consider. If you will the two on the road 319 00:21:27,100 --> 00:21:32,900 to Emmaus after the resurrection two disciples on the road to 320 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:36,700 Emmaus after the Resurrection May begin to talk among 321 00:21:36,700 --> 00:21:39,000 themselves. They describe everything that 322 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,300 has happened. Jesus shows up while there. 323 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:45,600 Often, they do not realize it is Jesus, but they, he shows up and 324 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,100 they're like, what are you talking about? 325 00:21:47,100 --> 00:21:48,800 You don't know what we're talking about and he's just 326 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,500 playing, you know, playing it all up. 327 00:21:50,500 --> 00:21:51,800 No, I don't know. Tell me about this. 328 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,700 So man, they start rehearsing it all. 329 00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:57,600 Well, Jesus of Nazareth, they start to tell how he was 330 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,600 condemned to death. They begin to tell Jesus about 331 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:04,000 how he was crucified and how they thought, and everybody 332 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,700 thought that Jesus was to be the Redeemer of Israel to bring the 333 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:10,800 nation of Israel back where it needed to be and this is this 334 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,600 amazing. Me, they're talking to Jesus 335 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,300 while they're telling him all this and they said the top it 336 00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:23,100 all, this is the third day. Because the promise and the 337 00:22:23,108 --> 00:22:25,600 thing that was spoken is on that per day. 338 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,900 He's going to rise again. But listen to me, they went a 339 00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:30,900 little further while they talk above all that. 340 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,600 It's the third day and then they start talking about Beach. 341 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,300 Ladies Mary Magdalene in those ladies said there was some 342 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:40,300 ladies that come and relate their experience with the angels 343 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:43,800 at the Sepulchre and they talked about an empty tomb and they 344 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,100 told others about it and even some of the others ran to the 345 00:22:47,100 --> 00:22:52,200 tomb and they verified what the Ted said yet still there seems 346 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:57,900 to be no impact. Nothing going on and the Bible 347 00:22:57,900 --> 00:23:00,700 says later that day, as they constrain the Lord still not 348 00:23:00,700 --> 00:23:03,100 knowing it was him to come into the house. 349 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,200 That whenever he broke bread, their eyes were opened and they 350 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,900 realized who it was. And whenever they seen that, the 351 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:13,600 Bible says they returned to right back to Jerusalem to tell 352 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,100 others. This is what they said. 353 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:20,600 The Bible says, they told them the Lord is risen, indeed, what 354 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:25,500 made that that so imperative to them now, rather than before. 355 00:23:25,700 --> 00:23:28,800 Because they had more than a story of the Resurrection. 356 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,500 They had the life of a resurrected individual that 357 00:23:32,500 --> 00:23:36,000 lived and breathed and was seen right before their very eyes. 358 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,600 Honey, they might know your story, but they need to see your 359 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,100 life lived. They might have heard about what 360 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:48,000 happened to you, but they need to see a live doubt. 361 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,200 There's something beyond the resurrection. 362 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,700 The reason why they went back and said indeed is because they 363 00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:16,700 had witnessed the life of the resurrected, Lord, right before 364 00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:22,300 their eyes. He shewed himself alive to them 365 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:28,400 and they saw him and they heard him with their own ears. 366 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,800 It wasn't a story being told by another, they had witnessed it 367 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:40,600 for them self. See, Jesus, Jesus kept himself 368 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,800 cloaked with purpose there for a moment with those two boys, but 369 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,500 let's learn something from this tonight. 370 00:24:46,500 --> 00:24:48,900 Folks. From those to Emmaus, boys. 371 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,100 It would serve listen to me as a church as people. 372 00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:56,100 That's been born again. It would serve our best interest 373 00:24:56,300 --> 00:24:59,000 and the interest. Listen to me in the interest of 374 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,400 those that remain in the balance. 375 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,400 On this new life thing on this, Holy Ghost experience. 376 00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:08,900 It would serve our best interest and their best interest. 377 00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:11,700 If we remove the cloak and make ourselves known to die 378 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:17,800 generation. Because those boys whenever he 379 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,900 made himself known and he departed, one looked at the 380 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:24,700 other and said did not our hearts burn within us as he 381 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:28,200 walked with us, but we didn't know he was the resurrected 382 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:29,000 life. Honey. 383 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,300 If you keep this thing cloaked up, you're going to rub 384 00:25:31,300 --> 00:25:34,100 shoulders with people and their hearts would have been within 385 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:36,800 him and they're not going to know why unless you live the 386 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,300 life of your Resurrection before them. 387 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,000 That's something that's after all of this. 388 00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:51,500 So when he made himself known it removed all doubts, they said 389 00:25:51,500 --> 00:25:56,700 this is the life. This is he in deed. 390 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:04,400 The Bible says, the Bible says that Paul back to our scripture 391 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,900 setting. Philippians 3. 392 00:26:07,500 --> 00:26:12,100 He said that, I may know him. Here's this checklist. 393 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:15,500 Okay. He then he then continues with 394 00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:17,500 his checklist that I might know him. 395 00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:21,500 Here we go. Power of his resurrection Chet. 396 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:27,000 Paul was filled with the spirit. Holy God. 397 00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:36,300 Checklist, The Fellowship of his sufferings jet. 9A of spitting, 398 00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:38,900 the deep and Perils of my own countrymen. 399 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:44,900 Forty Stripes. Save one, huh Tech. 400 00:26:45,300 --> 00:26:48,300 He said I bore my body, the marks, right? 401 00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:57,300 Check made conformable unto his death. admit baptism, check And 402 00:26:57,300 --> 00:27:03,300 then verse 11, if by any means, I might attain unto the 403 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:04,800 resurrection of that. Now, Paul. 404 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:11,500 What in the world are you do? You told us going through your 405 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:14,500 checklist that I might know him and the power of his 406 00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:16,700 resurrection. You've received the baptism of 407 00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:20,300 the Holy Ghost and now you're saying if you might obtain my 408 00:27:20,300 --> 00:27:24,400 attain to the resurrection of the Dead, Paul, you, you've 409 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,800 repented Paul, you you've been baptized and you've received the 410 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:34,000 Holy Ghost, but you still say, if by any means you might attain 411 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,300 and to the resurrection of the Dead, what in the world? 412 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,800 I mean, you've done it. You have a ride. 413 00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:48,800 I mean, you're just waiting to walk through the Pearly Gates. 414 00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:54,600 You have the spirit of God in you. 415 00:27:57,100 --> 00:27:58,600 I mean, what more could there be? 416 00:28:02,100 --> 00:28:04,900 Now I understand tonight and I'm not going to I'm not going to 417 00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:09,300 get real trivial or earlier just dance back and forth over this. 418 00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:13,100 Understand on one hand, that the Apostle Paul may be talking 419 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:17,100 about the resurrection of his body someday in the Rapture, 420 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,700 that he's not yet attained, the resurrection of the Dead, He's 421 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:25,000 not yet died and resurrected in a very physical since that, that 422 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,100 his body someday and the Rapture. 423 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,500 Amen will resurrect. But I also I am also very 424 00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:35,400 confident and I Is that Paul? Understood that the resurrection 425 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,100 of the Dead isn't just about receiving the Holy Ghost. 426 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:44,000 It's about as Jesus did showing yourself alive after the fact. 427 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,400 Paul said, I've not yet attained. 428 00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:55,500 In other words, he says I got the Holy Ghost, but I've not yet 429 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:59,900 attained. Paul had to write the gift of 430 00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:01,900 the. Holy Ghost was his birth 431 00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:03,600 certificate. Not as diploma. 432 00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:16,500 Hey, man, Paul wasn't perfect. He agreed that he wasn't. 433 00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:19,000 In other words. He's saying I'm not complete yet 434 00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:23,300 and the words he's saying there's a life to be lived after 435 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:26,800 I've received the Holy Ghost. And then note the next phrase 436 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,400 that Paul shares with us. And this should be our desired. 437 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,100 This should be our mission, our mission of Discovery for every 438 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:35,300 last single one of us sitting on the sound of my voice tonight. 439 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,300 Listen to Paul's and x-rays here. 440 00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:45,900 He says, But I follow after yet that I met at every hand that 441 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,500 for which also, I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 442 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:54,700 He says, I follow after, it's in the next verses, Paul's going to 443 00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:58,000 go to his his race analogy about pressing toward the mark of the 444 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,700 prize of the High Calling which is in Christ. 445 00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:01,000 Jesus. Our lord. 446 00:30:01,100 --> 00:30:02,700 He says, I'm going to follow after that. 447 00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:05,300 Means I'm going to run or I'm going to flee. 448 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:09,700 I'm gonna run swiftly in order to catch a person or a Dang, it 449 00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:12,300 means that he's going to be engaged if you will. 450 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,100 Figuratively in a race to swiftly reach his. 451 00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:18,700 Do, you know what? Paul understood? 452 00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:24,200 Paul understood that his born-again experience was more. 453 00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:28,400 Then essential and necessary steps for heaven. 454 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,400 Here's where Taft. Paul knew. 455 00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:47,300 That Jesus had saved him here. It is on purpose for a purpose. 456 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:56,500 And Paul was not satisfied until he caught the purpose for which 457 00:30:56,500 --> 00:31:02,000 Jesus had saved him. That's the reason why he says, I 458 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,700 follow after. If I might apprehend or I might 459 00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:11,900 grasp that for which also, I am caught or grasped by Christ 460 00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:13,900 Jesus. And other words Christ saved me 461 00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:17,300 with a reason and I'm going to continue on the journey to I 462 00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:18,900 find out what the reason was he say. 463 00:31:19,100 --> 00:31:24,900 Me poor. That goes beyond your repentance 464 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:29,000 that goes beyond, your baptism. That goes beyond your new birth. 465 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,000 We got to come to terms with God. 466 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,700 Why did you save me? What's my purpose? 467 00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:37,000 What's the reason? What are you want me to do after 468 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,700 my resurrection? Someone say, Amen. 469 00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:49,900 I agree. Were all baptized by one Spirit 470 00:31:49,900 --> 00:31:52,700 into one body, but we need to be seeking out. 471 00:31:53,200 --> 00:32:00,900 What our purpose is in the body. If God Saint Paul with a purpose 472 00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:03,400 in mind, I am convinced that he is saying this all with a 473 00:32:03,408 --> 00:32:05,900 purpose. In mind. 474 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,400 And in spite of, I don't care who they are, make tell you 475 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,000 there are no unnecessary members in the body. 476 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,100 Our repentance our baptism in our Holy Ghost and filling 477 00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:24,800 Brothers, Hank McGee, put us all in the body, but it's once we're 478 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,300 in the body. We need to be seeking after that 479 00:32:28,900 --> 00:32:37,400 reason, why purpose God saved us for in the show and say, Amen. 480 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,200 Sorry State a different way 11 version said like this, our task 481 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,600 in life is to do this lay a lay hold of what? 482 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,400 Lay a hold of that, for which Christ laid, a hold of us, lay 483 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,100 hold of that, for which Christ laid, hold of us. 484 00:32:52,300 --> 00:32:55,400 And so, Paul here in the Philippian scripture has made a 485 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,700 vow about himself about among the Philippians. 486 00:32:58,700 --> 00:33:01,800 This, that after I've experienced the resurrection 487 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,500 power, after I've experienced the infilling of the Holy Ghost. 488 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,200 I'm going to go on to go on living until I discovered 489 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,900 Purpose that God has for me, the Apostle Paul. 490 00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:19,200 See, here's the thing. There'll be other blow Jose. 491 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:23,100 It was sitting somewhere in a hut or a mud David building that 492 00:33:23,100 --> 00:33:25,500 they got the Holy Ghost and they're sitting there till the 493 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:29,400 second coming of Christ. Paul says, but I know I'm not 494 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,800 here without him. Want me here for a purpose and 495 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,300 I'm not going to be satisfied till I figure out what that is. 496 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,600 So I'm going to do some living on the backside of my 497 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:46,600 resurrection. So he's going to live his life, 498 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,400 trying to fulfill that purpose. He's going to follow after it. 499 00:33:50,408 --> 00:33:55,500 He's going to run after that go. He's going to run after that 500 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:59,800 goal. What his purpose is columnist. 501 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:04,500 Her obtained wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle. 502 00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:10,500 He said every morning. In Africa, a gazelle wakes up. 503 00:34:11,500 --> 00:34:17,000 It knows, it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will 504 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,600 be killed. He said every morning, align 505 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,900 wakes up and it knows. It must outrun the slowest, 506 00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:27,300 gazelle, or it will starve to death. 507 00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:31,100 He said it doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a 508 00:34:31,100 --> 00:34:33,199 gazelle. He said, but when the sun's 509 00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:38,500 comes up, you better be running. What I'm saying is this your 510 00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:41,800 purpose might not be my purpose. And my purpose might not be your 511 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,100 purpose. But we all need to be involved 512 00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:46,699 in the Endeavor of trying to figure out what our purpose in 513 00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:50,699 one might be aligned. And another might be a gazelle. 514 00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:53,600 But whenever the new day comes, I got some living to do on the 515 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:59,900 backside of my resurrection. Someone came in. 516 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,600 So God has a purpose for you. And here's the thing, folks. 517 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:11,100 The impact of your purpose is amazing, ROFL to those that are 518 00:35:11,100 --> 00:35:13,700 in need of the Assurance of the Salvation message. 519 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:19,000 Your purpose is a measurable to those upon whom are counting on 520 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:24,600 you. Bible says in Philippians 3 and 521 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,800 verse 15. He goes on. 522 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:32,100 He says, let us therefore as many as be perfect, you wasn't 523 00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:35,200 claiming to be perfect. But he says, as many as as be, 524 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:39,100 it's something that we are going toward be thus minded. 525 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:40,600 Doing what? Trying to seek out, what the 526 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,000 purpose is for our lives. On the backside of our new birth 527 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,600 experience. If anything, you'd be otherwise 528 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,500 minded if anything, he'd be, otherwise minded, God shall 529 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,300 Reveal even this unto you. He says, nevertheless. 530 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,900 Whereto, we have already attained. 531 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,800 Let us walk by the same Rule and let us mind the same thing. 532 00:36:02,900 --> 00:36:06,300 He said, Brethren be followers together, me and mark them, 533 00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:09,700 which walk. So as ye have us for an 534 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:15,500 ensample. Listen to me to see. 535 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,800 Oh, he's conveying the few things here. 536 00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:21,700 Number one. I believe he's conveying that 537 00:36:21,700 --> 00:36:28,300 one of the greatest frustrations to finding your purpose is 538 00:36:28,300 --> 00:36:30,700 mistaking. Someone else's purpose for your 539 00:36:30,700 --> 00:36:34,000 own. Did that make sense? 540 00:36:34,900 --> 00:36:37,900 Does that make sense? When the greatest frustrations 541 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:41,300 in you trying to find your purpose is trying to adopt 542 00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:45,100 somebody else's purpose as your own? 543 00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:48,000 Because too often. I believe we assume our 544 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,500 trajectory in our Christian experience. 545 00:36:50,700 --> 00:37:01,200 Post Resurrection will mirror the exact image of another and I 546 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:05,500 Do by no means I Do by no means refute tonight, but there are 547 00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:10,400 some non-negotiable threads a similarity in all of our lives, 548 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,600 but there will also be some nuances to that's just specific 549 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:20,100 to your purpose and your purpose that God has saved to you for. 550 00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:23,200 Paul admonishes, the Philippians. 551 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,600 This is important. Listen to me. 552 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,700 Paul admonishes, the Philippians. 553 00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:31,900 He says you all. You want you want to get off 554 00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:34,000 track concerning what you should be doing. 555 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,500 Post Resurrection. He said, then I admonish you to 556 00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:40,600 stray away from Civil War breaking out among you. 557 00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:44,500 Let me tell you a present day. Syria is a good indication. 558 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,800 And Civil War has nothing but havoc and a cost to it. 559 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:53,800 Here's what he says. He said, if there's some point. 560 00:37:54,900 --> 00:37:57,000 On which you see things differently. 561 00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,700 He said God will make it clear to you. 562 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,400 That's what he said. You know what he said though in 563 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,300 the meanwhile, let's go forward on the road. 564 00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:08,200 That's already brought us to where we are. 565 00:38:11,700 --> 00:38:15,700 He says rather than losing time and what we should be doing on 566 00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:17,500 the backside of our Resurrection. 567 00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:20,700 Because we see things a little differently than the brother or 568 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,400 a little off from our sister. He said, let's continue. 569 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,900 Traveling The Proven Road. That's brought us to where we 570 00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:29,700 are. He's telling me. 571 00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:32,900 So I don't want you boys to be getting held up over some petty 572 00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:37,300 differences among yourselves, because one perceives a thing as 573 00:38:37,300 --> 00:38:39,300 different way, or a particular way. 574 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:42,700 He says for that matter, he says Don't need to be super imposing 575 00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:45,800 our purpose on other people. So not only can you get 576 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,200 frustrated by trying to cling somebody else's purpose. 577 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,100 You can frustrate other people by putting your purpose on them. 578 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,900 Not everybody was meant to be a preacher. 579 00:38:56,100 --> 00:38:58,500 Not, everybody was meant to be a Sunday school teacher. 580 00:38:58,700 --> 00:39:00,800 Not everybody was meant to be a musician. 581 00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:03,500 But we all were meant to be prayer warriors, some Bible 582 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:05,800 readers, and pastors and dedicated. 583 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,500 There is a Common Thread, we all have nuances, but I'm not going 584 00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:12,400 to put my purpose on you. If you don't try to pull your 585 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:18,500 purpose on me that we all that some living to do on the 586 00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:20,900 backside of our new birth experience. 587 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,400 Just what I want you boys to do, is to continue to know this 588 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,600 tried-and-true road. Hey, man, that brought us to 589 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,100 where at rather than being stifled over these little 590 00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:34,700 points. If you will, these little 591 00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:39,200 subjective points and questions continue on this road of 592 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:47,100 purpose. Now, it serves to reason, Paul 593 00:39:47,100 --> 00:39:53,500 seems to describe. That God would reveal it to 594 00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:55,900 them. Meaning this that God will give 595 00:39:55,900 --> 00:40:00,400 clarity as they continue to walk the road that brought them to 596 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:15,100 where they are. Keep traveling this same away 597 00:40:15,100 --> 00:40:21,500 your because it's been faithful. And getting you to where you're 598 00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:23,300 at. And he finally says brothers be 599 00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:26,300 United if you will, he says, let's be United. 600 00:40:26,300 --> 00:40:29,400 Let's be followers together. Let's be United following my 601 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,700 rule of life. In other words, take you, some 602 00:40:31,700 --> 00:40:34,200 models people that people that is modeled. 603 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,700 If you will live in life after their new birth experience of 604 00:40:37,700 --> 00:40:40,100 finding their purpose, initializing that and living it 605 00:40:40,100 --> 00:40:42,200 out. Find you some people like that 606 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,800 that you can model after that. You can study them. 607 00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:46,500 Don't follow these novices though. 608 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,400 Don't listen to people. That that That that says all you 609 00:40:49,408 --> 00:40:51,500 don't have to worry about that and they're not engaged in their 610 00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:52,900 purpose. The last thing you want to do is 611 00:40:52,900 --> 00:40:55,500 follow somebody that's not found their own purpose yet. 612 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:04,700 That bear on. Resurrection. 613 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,100 You don't want to be somebody that setting in the house 614 00:41:07,100 --> 00:41:09,400 waiting for the Rapture because you've been born again. 615 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,100 You don't want to follow that example. 616 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,900 Do you want to find the example? Somebody that they're out there? 617 00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:22,500 They're trying to you know, what they're even failing sometimes 618 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,000 but in the process each time, they're getting closer to what 619 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,600 the reason why God saved them and it was more than just a have 620 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,400 another number in the heavenlies. 621 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:47,000 Someone said, sorry. I'll wrap this thing up and 622 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,800 we'll put it in the Easter egg before we go home. 623 00:41:55,900 --> 00:41:58,900 Please listen to me in these just you as little moments here. 624 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,400 The death, the burial, the resurrection now. 625 00:42:06,900 --> 00:42:11,600 I read in your hearing this. 18 and through 20 and I don't have 626 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:16,300 that after parenthetically Paul Stakes for many walk of whom I 627 00:42:16,308 --> 00:42:19,300 have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are 628 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:24,600 enemies of the Cross of Christ. Who's in is destruction, whose 629 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,700 God is their belly, whose glory is their shame? 630 00:42:26,700 --> 00:42:30,100 Who mind? Listen Earthly things? 631 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:32,900 He says for our conversation is in heaven. 632 00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:36,500 And from whence also, we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus 633 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:43,900 Christ Paul sums, all these things up by saying, this that 634 00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:50,600 there are genome Philippians those that are enemies. 635 00:42:51,300 --> 00:42:54,900 Of the cross. Of Christ. 636 00:42:56,900 --> 00:43:00,300 I want to point bring some clarifiers here for us tonight. 637 00:43:01,900 --> 00:43:05,200 The enemies of the Cross of Christ. 638 00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:11,000 Or not those that refuse to identify with him and 639 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,000 repentance. Refuse to identify with him in 640 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:19,700 baptism or refuse to be recipients of the infilling of 641 00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:23,400 the Holy Ghost. The enemies of the Cross of 642 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:28,600 Christ, are the ones that have experienced the power of his 643 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:34,600 death, the power of His burial and the power of his 644 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:39,700 resurrection. But they live their lives, 645 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:47,600 minding Earthly things and they don't live after they've been 646 00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:53,800 resurrected. In other words, they have 647 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:59,600 availed themselves of the work of Christ, but they've not 648 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:04,300 sought out their purpose. In Christ. 649 00:44:06,300 --> 00:44:09,900 Big not made no attempts. They are no Journey any race, no 650 00:44:09,900 --> 00:44:17,400 walking no furtherance to try to discover why God saved them. 651 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:23,000 They squandered their time post-resurrection on meaningless 652 00:44:23,300 --> 00:44:26,300 things. They served their time 653 00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:33,300 post-resurrection on temporal. Thinks they are producing no 654 00:44:33,300 --> 00:44:38,700 infallible proofs about what's happened in their life. 655 00:44:39,500 --> 00:44:43,700 They're neither seen nor are they heard concerning? 656 00:44:43,700 --> 00:44:47,600 The things of the kingdom of God, as Jesus was after his 657 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,300 resurrection. Their lives are consumed with 658 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:59,900 the kingdom of this world. And Paul simply States, 659 00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:06,100 contrasting them to himself and what he desired Philippians to 660 00:45:06,100 --> 00:45:08,900 be. He says, but our conversation. 661 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,200 Is it heaven? Are the enemies of the Cross. 662 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,900 They want the gift but they don't want to seek out their 663 00:45:15,900 --> 00:45:19,200 purpose and they keep just Tethered to the Earthly and the 664 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,700 worldly. He says we have the same 665 00:45:22,700 --> 00:45:25,600 experience, but we're seeking out our purpose. 666 00:45:25,900 --> 00:45:29,100 In our conversation is Heavenly things. 667 00:45:30,300 --> 00:45:34,700 Our conversation is Heavenly things because I understand 668 00:45:35,100 --> 00:45:37,700 there's a life to be lived after. 669 00:45:38,500 --> 00:45:44,100 After the resurrection. Forty days. 670 00:45:45,700 --> 00:45:50,900 After his passion, many infallible proofs seen and heard 671 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:57,400 of him. I want. 672 00:45:59,300 --> 00:46:04,000 I want someday. Whenever I leave this earth. 673 00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:12,000 It not to be the first time that some has seen and heard and have 674 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:17,800 had proof. That we were born again, of 675 00:46:17,808 --> 00:46:22,100 water and the spirit, my prayer is that when I leave this earth 676 00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:26,100 someday. I will have been just short if 677 00:46:26,100 --> 00:46:31,800 not have had my hand on the purpose of why God brought me 678 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:35,500 into his precious body among his precious family. 679 00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:38,600 Whom do you don't know what your purpose is? 680 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:45,100 Every day are seeking every day. Oh, but Pastor, you know, yeah, 681 00:46:45,100 --> 00:46:47,700 you know six plus years in evangelism and that your purpose 682 00:46:47,700 --> 00:46:50,100 your pastor. Now, you know, teach Bible says, 683 00:46:50,100 --> 00:46:52,300 let me tell you I'm constantly in search warrant. 684 00:46:53,300 --> 00:46:57,800 Punch the lien search for it. My question is, do you have 685 00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:01,200 anything recorded about how you've been in search of your 686 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,900 compass? Because it's more than your 687 00:47:03,900 --> 00:47:06,700 repentance. It's more than your baptism. 688 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,100 It's more than that. You have some living to do on 689 00:47:09,100 --> 00:47:13,500 the backside of your experience. You need to find your purpose 690 00:47:15,700 --> 00:47:20,500 was as I need to find that for which Christ apprehended me. 691 00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:22,900 I need to find that for which he every ended. 692 00:47:22,900 --> 00:47:29,700 Why why need to lay hold of the reason why he laid a hold of me? 693 00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:34,800 The death, the burial and the resurrection, but now what 694 00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:40,100 there's some living to do on the backside of our resurrections, 695 00:47:40,100 --> 00:47:42,500 if we could just bow our heads in this place. 696 00:47:45,700 --> 00:47:47,700 Thank you for listening. If you would like more 697 00:47:47,700 --> 00:47:50,900 information about our services and activities, you can find us 698 00:47:50,900 --> 00:47:55,200 on Facebook Instagram and Twitter with the username fac 699 00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,300 MC. Again, that's fac, MC. 700 00:47:58,700 --> 00:48:00,400 Thank you and have a blessed day.