Your Redemptive Identity - Sunday Service

world changers. ((music playing)) Well, it's opportunity for wholeness time, opportunity for prosperity time. If you need an offering envelope, raise your hands. The ushers will be more than happy to assist you as they do that. If you'll go with me to the book of uh John chapter 3, 16-1 17 in the King James.

It is something that I want you to understand that you carry the DNA of your heavenly father. And that DNA DNA is giving, giving, giving. That's what he does. He does that. He says in verse 16, "For God so loved the world." He didn't say, "For God so just loved the church.

God loves the the world, the cosmos." God so loved humanity that he gave his only begotten son for the world that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but they shall have everlasting life. And in verse 17, he says, "For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved, healed, delivered, rescued."

And so we see the giving nature of God, how God's love was demonstrated through his giving. And we have to allow that DNA to step up in our own lives. I'm not talking about just giving throughout an offering, but you have encounters every day. This life of a follower of Christ is all about how you live it every day.

It's not about, well, I'm a Christian cuz I come to church. It's it's your waking up in the morning. It's your living it throughout the day. It's your encounters with good and bad. It's your encounter with all kinds of people. Those are the encounters that will allow you to really exercise what you're learning about Jesus, what you're learning about this grace life.

So many people just kind of play with this thing and it's like here's the script for living and so we want to stop living, go into a cave somewhere and and say I fasted for 50 days. Look at me. I'm really really holy. No, we're going to find out how holy you are when you can deal with somebody that called you out your name, cussed you out, betrayed you, robbed from you, spoke to you in a harsh way.

Those are all opportunities to grow in the thing you say you believe. And so, the only people that have a problem with giving are those who doubt God's care for them. I know God cares for you. I know that he has already made his mind up that he's going to care for you.

Our giving is not some transaction that's making God do something. Our giving is an opportunity for us to participate in that DNA that God has and that DNA that he's passed down to us that every time you go around, not just at church, not just when during offering time, but when you go to a restaurant and and a waiter comes up and and and you don't know them, never don't know their name, never met him before.

When they walk away with your order, God says, "I want you to really bless him financially today." And then you confront the the nervousness and the fear of you want me to get that man $150. Lord, you know, my light bill about about $175. I need this. >> Say this out loud.

God cares for me. >> God cares for me. >> And I know it. >> And I know it. >> So when you give, you give knowing that you become a part of the generosity flow of God. You give because you are trusting and participating with something that's already finished.

Your attitude should be, "I'm good. I'm already taken care of." So when God leads you, you never have to force yourself to do something that God didn't tell you to do. You know that, right? In this anointing, you flow. Not force. You flow. You flow. You flow. You flow in this anointing.

And you allow God to to show you what to do and show you how to carry yourself. And you'll be just fine. You'll be just fine. Father, we thank you for the opportunity to give and to plant and to sew and to be a blessing to the work of the ministry.

And Father, I thank you that you will allow us all to come in great confidence that you take care of us for you supply all of our needs according to your riches and glory through and by Christ Jesus. And we thank you for it in Jesus name. Amen. >> Users, go ahead and receive this offering this morning.

Oh, thank you, Dwayne. The word of the Lord came to me this morning concerning you. Yeah. Come on up here. Uh, you have been operating in power. Let's go down here. You've been operating in power dealing with electricity and you think that was really all your choice. God says I wanted you to know about that so that you will come to understand this that I have put on inside of you.

Now there are times you wonder Lord am I called to do this or not? Do I have an anointing in me to do this or not? And I want to give you a word of great confirmation today. You can't stop what God has started in you, man of God.

What he has put on you is working itself in your vocal cords, is working itself in your mind. >> And it is never too late to do everything that God called you to do. You're not late. You're right on time because the spirit of God says, "I claim you as mine."

So, you prepare yourself to move over this next year and a half. I'm going to begin to bring you into places, open some doors up just to show you that it is your anointing that I have put on the inside of you. >> I am not calling you to compare or look to be like anybody else. for this anointing, this power that is in you is for the time right now.

They need your voice. They need your anointing and it will flow out of you just like those that electricity flows through all those wires that you are acquainted with. So now in the name of Jesus, my son, I declare the anointing for ministry come on you seven times greater than myself in Jesus name.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. You watch. That's a powerhouse right there. >> In the name of Jesus. >> Father, we thank you for this another opportunity to minister to these your precious sheep. Thank you Lord that revelation knowledge will flow freely uninterrupted and unhindered by any satanic or demonic force.

Lord speak through my vocal cords and think through my mind. None of me and all of you. It's in Jesus name we pray. And everybody said >> amen. Amen. Give the Lord a big hand clap of praise. He's worthy of it. If you have your Bibles, go with me to the the book of uh Romans chapter 4 and verse 25 in the King James.

Romans chapter 4 and verse 25. This morning we're going to talk about uh the resurrected identity. The resurrected identity. See, the resurrection didn't just happen to Christ. It happened to you in him. I'm going to use again our illustration of the envelope and the and the pen. Here's the envelope which represents Christ.

And this pen represents you. So you got to understand that the resurrection bought you into union with Christ. Write this down so I can remember what this envelope mean. And so because he resurrected you and I humanity can get in Christ. To be in Christ means you share with his accomplishments.

To be in Christ means you share with everything that Christ accomplished. Christ accomplished righteousness. You're righteous. Christ accomplished forgiveness. You're forgiven. From this point on, there is nothing that Christ has accomplished that you hadn't accomplished. If he accomplished it, you are sharing in his accomplishment. Every time you see in Christ, remind yourself, I share with everything he has accomplished.

Now, not only are you in Christ, because the church will say, "Watch out. You got to be careful now because you might fall out of Christ." You're not going to fall out of Christ just like this pen is not going to fall out of the envelope because he will seal you >> with the Holy Ghost. >> So no matter what happens to this envelope, however it's treated, you still going to be in Christ. >> Somebody say, "Well, I had a rough weekend and somebody told you you were not righteous no more."

All you got to do is recognize you're still in Christ. As long as Christ is righteous, you righteous. >> So remember this now. You are in Christ. And this is something that has been set for all of humanity. They have the opportunity to be in Christ. So when resurrection happened, it wasn't just to Christ.

It happened to you in him. Your identity is rooted in what God accomplished when he raised Jesus from the dead. Your identity is rooted in what Jesus accomplished when he was raised from the dead in Christ sharing his accomplishments. Now, just as a quick review, let me give you uh these six things, these resurrected base identities.

Well, in other words, when we talk about resurrection, what's the result of it? Well, number one, new birth. Your new birth is a result of the resurrection. Your identity is not based on your behavior. It is based on resurrection reality. Your identity is not based on your behavior.

It is based on your resurrection reality. Please understand something. If you will accept and if you will share in the finished works of Jesus, if you will share in everything that Jesus has accomplished by taking hold of it, by agreeing with it, lining up with it, embracing it, then your behavior is going to change because your behavior will follow that new identity.

Stop trying to change your behavior first before you tag it with a a title or an identity. Your behavior should not be determining your identity. Why? Cuz if you have bad behavior, then it's going to tell you you bad. If you have some crazy behavior, it's going to tell you you crazy.

No. Jesus has determined your identity when he resurrected from the dead. Your identity is in Christ. You share with his accomplishments. Do that first. I DON'T CARE HOW CRAZY YOU ACT. DO THAT FIRST and your behavior will follow your identity and it will begin to change. That sounds weird to some people because religion has trained us, you know, do the five things to act right first and then we'll call you saved. >> Religion tells us you're not really saved.

You got to endure to the end. So that means you didn't accept what he told you about who you really are and you're waiting to allow your behavior to determine your identity. And if you ever get this, you have to understand Satan will attack your identity at the very beginning.

Because if he can get you to renounce who Christ has made you, then you'll start allowing your your behavior to determine how you live instead of your identity. If you understand that, say amen. >> Amen. >> So, here's what happened when when he was raised from the dead.

All right? Uh your you your new birth is what happened. Number one. Number two, you were raised with him, not after him. You were raised with him, not after him. You were seated together with him, you're with him. This is not imitation. You know, people say we need to imitate Christ.

No, we need we need to participate with Christ. We need to have union with Christ. This is not by imitating. It's by connecting with who he really is. Number three, this resurrection, what happened? The same power that raised Jesus from the from the dead defi defines you. The same power that raises Jesus from the dead defines you.

Your identity is empowered. It's not weak or striving. It's defined by resurrection power. If he hadn't resurrected from the dead, we wouldn't have this opportunity to have this identity. Number what is this? Four. Your old identity died. Your new one is resurrected based. Your old identity died when he was raised from the dead.

The old identity dead. The new one is resurrectionbased identity. You were crucified with him. You were raised with him. This means the old man is not your struggle. It is your past. The old man is not your struggle. It is your past. Your current identity is newness of life.

Number five, oh, excuse me. Yeah, five. Your identity is hidden in the risen Christ. Your identity is hidden in the risen Christ. Christ is not just your savior. He is now your life. He's not just your savior, he's your life. And then finally, you are a new creation because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

New creation because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Uh put up that uh comparison between resurrection of Christ and your identity in Christ. All right, take note of this in this resurrection of of Christ versus your identity in Christ. Look at what happened. He was made alive. You were made alive.

He was raised, you were raised. He was seated, you're seated. He lives. Christ is your life. He is righteous. You are righteous. Pin in the envelope. You're in Christ. You share with all of his accomplishments. If you understand all that, say, "Amen." >> Amen. >> Now, let's start this sermon this morning.

And I want you to listen very carefully because it is woo it's pretty pretty interesting. So the question I want to deal with this morning this Easter Sunday morning I mean I we all grew up on Easter. We we got saved. We joined the church and we still didn't quite understand what's the big fuss.

What's the celebration? What's the noise? I want us to deal with something. I want us to deal with what God accomplished when he raised Jesus from the dead. What was accomplished when Jesus was raised from the dead? Today we we call this resurrection Sunday, but we have to know what was accomplished on this day that we celebrate Jesus being raised from the dead.

Everybody on the bus. So look at Romans 4:25. Here's the first thing he accomplished as a result of being raised from the dead. He declared humanity fully justified. He declared humanity fully justified. I need you to understand what I mean when I say humanity. I didn't say he declared everybody that goes to church only justified.

I didn't say he declared everybody that got born again in the prayer room prayer room justified. I said he declared every human being. >> That's tough to say in a crowd like this. He declared humanity fully justified. Now, somebody said, "Oh, well, what what exactly does that word mean?"

Woo. HE LOOKED AT MANKIND AND SAID, "I am now available. If you receive me, I am I have I have declared you as if you never sinned. >> I AM LOOKING AT YOU AS IF YOU NEVER SINNED. IT is available." Look what he said in Romans 4:25. who was delivered for our offenses and he was raised again for our justification.

HE WAS RAISED FOR OUR JUSTIFICATION. The resurrection was God's receipt that sin had been completely dealt with. Somebody on the bus, everybody else on the train. The resurrection was God's receipt that sin had been completely dealt with. So the end of sin consciousness is what this was. When he was raised from the dead, it said sin consciousness ends.

Innocence consciousness begins. And he is saying to ALL HUMANITY, HERE IS HOW YOU WALK IN THIS JUSTIFICATION. You got to move away from sin consciousness and you got to get into innocence consciousness. YOU GOT TO GET RID OF THIS I'M A SINNER SAVED BY GRACE. YOU GOT TO GET RID OF THIS CONDEMNATION THAT I'm I'm this shame, THIS ALL OF THIS STUFF, THIS FEAR, ALL OF THIS STUFF THAT'S ASSOCIATED with sin consciousness.

And he says you NEED TO COME OVER HERE to innocence consciousness that you are righteous, that you are forgiven, that you are delivered, that you are born again, that you are are are complete in Jesus Christ. You've got to switch CONSCIOUSNESS. YOU CAN NOW DO it because of what Jesus has done.

Now look at this in Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 28 in the King James and then go to the NLT. Now, this is a shocking scripture, but it's in the Bible. Read it with me. Put it up. So, I want everybody to read this cuz you have to know it's in there.

You got to deal with this scripture. So, Christ was once offered to bear the sins of the world. And unto them that look for him >> shall he appear. The second time >> without >> without sin >> under salvation. >> All right. Now look at this in the NLT.

SO ALSO CHRIST WAS offered once for all time as a sacrifice. Now he WAS OFFERED ONCE. YOU don't see him getting on the cross more than one time. >> And you DON'T SEE HIM DYING BUT ONE TIME. SO ALSO CHRIST WAS OFFERED ONCE FOR ALL times as a sacrifice.

He was the sacrifice. He was the the um ransom TO TAKE AWAY THE sins of many people. Now again you're thinking behavior. Thank you Lord for showing me this. You read this like this. So also Christ was offered once for all times as a sacrifice to take away the sinning behavior of many people.

That's not what he's talking about. Your behavior came from the old man you used to have. You identified with the old creation, the sin man. If you take away the root, you take away the fruit. >> Amen. So he has delivered all of us from the sin nature, the sin man.

What happened when you were submitted to the sin man? You for you sin, you are no longer obligated to sin to sinful behavior because you are delivered from the sinful man. Sin shall not have dominion over you. >> What's he talking about? That sinful man that we all used to have. >> Can't dominate you no more.

What does that mean? He can't make you do what you don't want to do. >> That's right. That's right. >> Under the sinful man, you you you say you didn't was going to do it, but you did it anyway because you were under the dominion of that sinful man.

When Jesus paid the price and was a sacrifice, he delivered you from the dictates and the dominion and the have to do it of the sinful nature. You don't have that nature to sin anymore. >> The nature of a racehorse versus the nature of a mule. You can take a mule, brush him like a racehorse, feed him like a racehorse, GIVE HIM A RACEHORSE NAME, >> BUT when you put him behind the starting gates >> and the gun goes off, he's going to act LIKE A MU.

WHY? CUZ THAT'S HIS NATURE. >> YOU DON'T HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN sin for behavior anymore. BECAUSE IT IS NO LONGER YOUR NATURE TO PARTICIPATE IN SINFUL BEHAVIOR. EVEN THOUGH YOU STILL HAVE SOME BEHAVIOR THAT IS BEING WORKED OUT BY THE HOLY GHOST, THAT'S NOT YOUR NATURE ANYMORE. BUT BEFORE YOU GOT RECEIVED JESUS INTO your life and believe WHAT HE DID, YOU'RE YOU SIN BECAUSE THAT WAS YOUR NATURE. >> GO BACK INTO YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU WAS A OLD GOOD FOR NOTHING.

You know what it was. And and IT WAS YOUR NATURE TO do what YOU DID. BUT NOW THAT YOU'RE BORN AGAIN AND YOU FIND YOURSELF STRUGGLING WITH WHAT THE OLD NATURE TRIED TO GET YOU TO DO AND NOW THE NEW NATURE IS IN CONFLICT WITH THAT OLD NATURE THAT LEFT BEHIND THAT OLD BEHAVIOR AND NOW YOU'RE DOING IT AND YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU'RE DOING NO MORE.

SEE, IT WAS A NATURE, THE nature that you used to have that cause you to get drunk all the time, cuss folks out, DO ALL THAT STUFF. BUT NOW YOU GOT A NEW NATURE. YOU YOU YOU'RE GOING TO DO THAT BECAUSE THAT WAS YOUR NATURE. BUT NOW YOU DON'T FEEL GOOD ABOUT DOING IT NO MORE.

IT DON'T TASTE LIKE IT USED TO TASTE. IT DON'T FEEL LIKE IT USED TO FEEL. WHY? BECAUSE YOU HAVE A NEW NATURE IN YOU THAT IS contradicting that old behavior. And if you'll let the new nature have its way, your behavior WILL START CHANGING AS IT FOLLOWS THE NEW NATURE. >> You following?

((applause)) >> Yes, sir. We like that. >> I like it too. So also Christ was offered once for all times as a sacrifice to take away the sins. How's he going to take away the sins? By taking away the root >> of many people. Now he will come again.

He's talking about Christ. Not to deal with our sins. Woo. >> Well, WHY HE GOING TO COME AGAIN? ALL RIGHT. SO, SO we got to get this. When is he coming again? Here's another thing. All right. Go back to the King James Bible. The King James gives a number and he said that he's coming the second time.

Go back to uh King James Bible and then come back to the NLT. He says, "So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time." All right, now watch me. Most people when they read that, they think he's The second time is when he when he show up in the clouds and we waiting on him to appear the second time.

Guys, we got to learn how to count. When was the first time Jesus appeared? >> He was born and they called him Emmanuel, which means what? That was the first time he appeared. When is the second time he appeared? >> When he was resurrected. >> When he was resurrected.

And when he was resurrected from the dead, the Bible says he will appear the second time, but not to deal with your sins. >> Why? Because he dealt with your sins when he died. Ah. But when he got up, he's getting ready to deal with your innocence conscience.

He's getting ready to deal with the grace of God. He's getting ready to deal with your victory. He's getting ready to deal with you in your new nature. SO THE SECOND time was when he was was resurrected FROM THE DEAD. THE SECOND TIME he appeared unto them that look for him shall be shall he appear the second time WITHOUT SIN UNTO SALVATION.

HE SAYS SALVATION'S MADE AVAILABLE NOW. HE DIDN'T GET UP FROM THE GRAVE. THAT'S THE SECOND TIME. FIRST TIME WAS WHEN HE WAS BORN. Second time is when he was raised from the dead. And that's why a lot of people still think it's a problem with them because they he ain't came back the second time yet and all that that he go back to NLT.

So also Christ was offered once for all times as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will come again, but not when he raised FROM THE DEAD, NOT TO DEAL WITH OUR SINS. HE DIDN'T HE DIDN'T OH, this is powerful. HE WASN'T HE DURING THE RESURRECTION, he was not resurrected to deal with your sin.

He was resurrected to deal with your salvation. this the your your your your your salvation, your deliverance, your your your healing, your everything that's in salvation to BRING SALVATION TO ALL WHO are eagerly waiting for him. >> This stuff sounds strange. I got so many people looking at me like this like >> cuz that's what happen when you get stuck in religion.

You get stuck into something and talking about it's the word of God and then when you go read the word of God, it ain't the word at all. Come on, sir. >> So, number one, what did God accomplish when he raised Jesus from the dead? He declared humanity fully justified.

Say out loud, I am fully justified. >> I am fully justified. >> Say this out loud. God sees me >> God sees me >> as if I have never sinned. >> as if I have never sinned. >> Lord have mercy. Number two, here's what else he accomplished. He established a new humanity.

Everybody's thinking about behavior. Everybody's thinking about how everybody acting. And he's he's trying to get you to focus on what he has done. Look at 2 Corinthians chapter 5:17. Before [clears throat] Jesus was raised from the dead, we were all a part of the Adam identity, Adamic identity. Verse 17, therefore, if any man, Did you see that word any?

If any man be in Christ, what does it mean to be in Christ? To share with his accomplishments. So if you're in Christ, if any man will share in the accomplishments of Jesus, if any man will share in righteousness, any man share in forgiveness, I mean, you wake up every morning, YOU SAY, "I THANK GOD I'M FORGIVEN.

I'M FORGIVEN." YOU'RE sharing in what he accomplished for you. OH, FATHER, I THANK YOU THAT I'M RIGHTEOUS. YOU'RE SHARING IN THAT ACCOMP. YOU'RE BRINGING IT NOW TO WHERE WHERE YOU ARE. YOU ARE IN THE ENVELOPE. Praise God. If he has BEEN MADE RIGHTEOUS, YOU are righteous. If he has been made redeemed, you are redeemed.

Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a what? >> New creatur. >> He is a what? >> New creature. >> He is a what? >> New creature. >> So, once you get in Christ, once you share, listen, here's the deal. Here's here's the deal. I I have to say it like I know it said.

You have all been given this wonderful gift to be in Christ. All right. Now, as a new creation, share in what he has done. M >> quit acting like a sinner that ain't you no more. Share in what he has done. So instead OF YOU GETTING UP saying I ain't no good, getting up in the morning and say my identity is in his righteousness.

My identity is in his forgiveness. OH, YOU START LOOKING AT YOUR PAST, you say, "Oh man, I can't believe I did that. Oh, I'm no good for nothing. Oh, I'm this and that." NO, NO, NO, NO. WHEN WHEN YOU START LOOKING AT your your nasty past, say, "Whoa, that ain't me no more." >> Amen. >> That's not ME NO MORE.

YOU GOT TO LEARN HOW TO FIGHT THIS FIGHT. THE DEVIL IS going to take advantage of your ignorance. You if you don't do this AND HE'S TRYING TO DO THAT NOW. NOW YOU KNOW YOU AIN'T in no Christ talking about some Christ. You you know what you did last night and I know what you did last night cuz Satan will tempt you to do stupid and then condemn you for doing it after you do it. >> Amen. >> He's a new creature.

He says old things are passed away. So let them be passed away. Quit it resurrecting them every day. >> Quit resurrecting them every day. Well, y'all know I ain't no good. Well, y'all know I ain't nothing but a drug addict. Well, y'all know I'm just I ain't nothing but a little whoreonger.

Well, y'all know. And then you carry that guilt and you keep that stuff fresh and it's fighting your new creation. And your new creation is saying, "No, that's not you anymore." Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is. Ain't no use of me lying. No, no, no, no, no. You ain't lying.

You're agreeing with what Jesus has done. Listen, if you'll just give it time, if you give it time, your state is going to line up with your stance. In other words, if you keep saying, "I'm righteous," long enough, then righteous behavior is going to start following that righteous uh equipping, that righteous confession, that righteous acknowledgement, >> BUT AIN'T NOTHING GOING TO CHANGE IF YOU KEEP AGREEING WITH YOUR PAST.

If you keep agreeing with what's passed away. OKAY? YEAH, YOU WAS A HOE 20 YEARS AGO, BUT YOU AIN'T NO HOE NOW. DON'T GET UP IN THE MORNING, I'M JUST A HOE. NO. Probably should have put piss something better, but Oh, don't seem like I got your attention.

I seem like I got your ATTENTION NOW. BUT NOW THAT YOU'RE IN CHRIST AND NOW THAT HE'S COME THE SECOND TIME, YOU AIN'T NO HOE NO MORE. YOU ARE YOU ARE BEING DELIVERED. PRAISE GOD. YOU ARE YOU ARE OH, I COULD HAVE PICKED A BETTER EXAMPLE. WELL, I hope y'all pray for me. >> Yeah, that that collar came out of it.

Y'all pray for me. Don't do that. DON'T DON'T AGREE WITH YOUR PAST. YOUR PAST. DON'T DON'T DON'T YOU'RE NOT WHAT YOUR PAST TELLS YOU ARE. YOU'RE NOT WHAT UH OH PEOPLE TELL YOU YOU ARE. YOU YOU'RE NOT WHAT YOUR REGRETS TELL YOU YOU ARE. YOU ARE WHAT GOD SAYS YOU ARE.

YOU ARE WHAT THE WORD SAYS YOU ARE. YOU ARE WHAT CHRIST JESUS SAYS YOU ARE. But yeah, pastor, BUT I DID IT. WHAT? >> Moses was a murderer. >> Paul was a murderer. >> David was a peeping tom. >> Some of the disciples were complainers. >> God does not use perfect people.

Amen. That is so true. >> Amen. >> He takes you right where you are and perfects you. >> But it starts with your identity. But religion tells you otherwise. Oh no. Religion says you got to do something first before you can say you're that. You can't say you righteous until you start doing righteous.

But I can't start doing righteous until I first receive my new identity. And if I see my new identity as righteous, I'm going to start doing righteous because my behavior follows my identity. >> That's right. >> But some reason, we won't give this a chance cuz religion TELLS YOU YOU THINK YOU KNOW MORE THAN GOD.

AND YOU TRYING TO BE LIKE GOD WITHOUT GOD. How many y'all know what I'm talking about? You You are not You are not what you used to be. you have been doing this and you you've been saying it. You've been getting up every morning, you just keep speaking good about yourself.

You you think, I don't know why I'm talking good about myself, but then you look up one day and what you've been saying about yourself and what you've been agreeing with and what you've been lining yourself up with is changing you and you don't know how. You can't explain all the intricate details of how THE HOLY GHOST STARTED transforming you on the inside.

And you're no longer what LIKE YOU YOU DON'T EVEN WANT WHAT YOU USED TO WANT. YOU USED TO SHAKE in in in some type of uh what's when you're addicted to drugs, you got these these uh >> WITHDRAWALS AND ALL THAT STUFF. IT AIN'T EVEN THAT NO MORE.

YOU WHAT HAPPENED? GOD says you have what you say. >> You have what you line up with. You've been lining up with this and the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost has been traming. Your transform, your transformation takes place from the inside out. It doesn't take place from the outside in.

And the resurrection guarantees you that. >> That's right. >> But you got to follow the the instructions, man. >> Because the instructions are going to put you in a position where you're trusting God. >> HE IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING. >> So when you go somewhere and you feel like you going to fall, you need TO AGREE THAT GOD IS [screaming] ABLE ((applause)) >> to keep me from falling. >> He will mess your plan up.

You get your oody call book. You know what I'm talking about. He will mess THAT PLAN UP. SOMEBODY WILL GET SICK. THE THE tie get flat. The lights WILL GO OFF. GOD KNOWS HOW TO INTERFERE WITH SOMETHING THAT'S TRYING TO TAKE YOU BACK TO WHERE HE HAS BOUGHT YOU OUT OF.

HE BEEN HE WAS WET WITH TOO MANY TOO MANY FLASHES. HE WENT TO HELL. HE SUFFERED TOO MUCH TO DIVORCE YOU BECAUSE YOU DON'T THINK YOU CAN MAKE IT OUT. If you go to the club and act a fool, I'M TELLING YOU, GOD'S GOING TO GO WITH YOU.

IF YOU GO TO THE HOTEL TRYING TO HAVE IT, GOD GOING TO GO WITH YOU. THERE'S A THERE'S A a sex something in here this morning. AND I'M GOING TO DRIVE IT OUT OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS BECAUSE HE RAISED HE WAS HE RAISED YOU UP FROM THE DEAD SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE IN BONDAGE TO THAT SEX DEMON THAT KEEPS TRYING TO PULL YOU BACK.

AND EVERY TIME YOU GO BACK, YOU TELL YOURSELF, "YOU AIN'T NO GOOD. LOOK, I DID IT AGAIN. LOOK, I did it again." I DON'T CARE HOW MANY TIMES YOU DID IT, HONEY. THE THE WHAT THE THE RIGHTEOUS MAN FALL SEVEN TIMES. GLORY TO GOD. BUT HE'LL GET BACK UP.

AND I'M TELLING YOU, JUST KEEP GETTING BACK UP. JUST KEEP GETTING BACK UP. JUST KEEP GETTING BACK UP. JUST KEEP GETTING BACK UP. ((applause)) >> OO, TAFFY. Must be that green powder again. This is what we're celebrating, ladies and gentlemen. Not some little play about some dude carrying a cross and got three little scratches on his back.

You think Jesus did all that for no reason at all? He said, "Humanity, it was an archangel's fault that bought this stuff on you. I got you. Thank you. >> But through all of the things you go through on this journey, you will mature. >> You will be transformed into something so beautiful.

I think about Jesus. He's just he wants people to understand what he did for them and how much he loves you. And I know it was going to rain today. I thought it was going to be a sunny day today. Taffy said, "Look, the rain messing up them people's Easter egg hunt." >> I I mean, I literally cried because I said, "They just don't get it."

That's right. >> And and and the spirit of God said, "That's what I said." I'm like, "Why you said that?" >> He said, "Father, forgive them." Yeah, >> they don't know what they doing. >> That's why I can't stop preaching this gospel of grace. >> I ask God to give me courage every day to keep preaching it cuz I I know I'm going to be dogged about dogged out, slandered.

I I can't I can't stop preaching it because I keep noticing the transformation that has taken place in me. >> Glory to God. I like the sound of the rain. Reminds me of the anointing, >> the latter rain and the early rain coming together at one time. >> And that's exactly what's going to happen.

That anointing is getting ready to come on you all at one time. The anointing that was on Elijah and the anointing that was on the apostles getting ready to come on you right now in the name of Jesus. Now you have the anointing in you, >> but it's going to begin to be released upon you and your journey and your life and your situations. >> Old things are passed away.

Say, old things have passed away. >> Old things are passed away. >> All right. Now, watch this. This is what's got to happen in order for that to be true. Behold, all things are become right now new. >> You've got to receive it done right now. New. >> Say, I have the new now. >> I have the new now. >> Right now, I have the new. >> Right now, I have the new. >> You see what I'm saying?

You are you are embracing what already is. >> Yes, sir. to see it become what you said it already is. >> Amen. >> You are embracing >> your Jesus identity to see it become Jesus identity. >> You are embracing your righteousness to see it become righteous living and righteous behavior.

But if you if you don't embrace what is then you just delay what is to become. >> Okay. >> Number three, what God accomplished when he raised Jesus from the dead. Number three, he defeated death and the entire system of separation. Death literally means more than what we've said because uh look at 1 Corinthians 15 uh 1 Corinthians 15 55-6.

So death wasn't just physical. When he's talking about here, death was not just physical. He said in verse 55, 56, "Oh death, where is thy sting?" So I need to know what the sting is. What's the sting? I've heard people talk about the sting and say many things about it.

What is the sting? You got to get context. What are you talking about? Oh death, where's your sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory? 56. The sting of death is sin. >> SO HE'S SAYING, "OH DEATH, WHERE'S SIN?" >> AND THE STRENGTH OF SIN IS THE LAW. [screaming] THE STRENGTH OF SIN IS YOU PERFORMING AND STRIVING TO TRY TO get what Jesus has already gifted and given TO YOU. >> OH DEATH, WHERE IS SIN?

OH GRAVE, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? OH MY GOODNESS. The strength of sin. Look at this. What strengthens sin? What strengthens sinful behavior? What strengthens you keep going back to sin? What strengthens that? It's the law. It's you continuing to try to live your life by the law after Jesus has declared that sin shall not have dominion over you because you are not under the law.

You are under grace. Under the law, you give sin dominance OVER YOU. UNDER GRACE, you have victory over that dominance. >> Amen. >> Amen. >> BUT YOU KEEP LIVING BY LAW. What do you mean the law? The law of Moses. What about the law of Moses? The law of Moses is a performance-based uh agreement.

The law of Moses says you have to do this in order to do that. If you do ABC, then uh you'll be blessed with uh EFG. That's what we do. It's always a if you do then you'll have it's a if then thing in most of the church.

Do this and then God will do that. You want GOD'S GOODNESS. OH YES. WELL, then you got to be good. And he was like, "That strengthens sin because you're not trusting in what he's already done. YOU TRYING TO PERFORM TO GET IT." THE BIBLE CALLS it dead works.

Dead works are when you try to do something to deserve from God. >> Now think about it. ALL YOUR LIFE, ALL YOUR WHOLE LIFE, EVERYTHING HAS been given to you from a transactional basis. Got to do this in order for God to do that. And God's like, that's not me anymore.

That was me under the old agreement. But under the new agreement that Jesus resurrected so that you can have under this agreement, all you need to do is receive what Jesus has already done because you couldn't do it. AND YOU STILL TRYING TO DO SOMETHING THAT YOU COULDN'T do in the first place. >> Still trying to do it.

Well, I ain't come here for all that. I just thought you was going to do a little popcorn here and there and let us go. He arose. He arose. Yes, he arose. Rose, rose, rose, rose. You know, he died. YES, HE DIED. DIED. YES, he died. I'm not doing that.

I'm not doing that because it makes me sad to know that Jesus died for us to stay ignorant. >> Yes. That's right. Amen. I'm forced to walk around religious. Hey brother, happy Easter. Well, praise the Lord. He arose that. You don't have a clue. You look at your life and it is exactly the same as it was last Easter. >> Come on now. >> Covered in ignorance because I don't know.

Yeah, I do. Yeah, I do. I know. the old Adamic identity gone. So it's not just a physical death. It's separation. It's fear and it's condemnation. When when when on this third thing he defeated death and the entire system of separation. when he was resurrected from the dead.

Separation from God over. You're not separated from God. You no longer have to look up to the sky and talking about Lord come down and stop by just a little while. >> If you'll stop by just a little while, >> then everything going to be all right. [laughter] But under this new agreement, he's like, I don't have to stop by.

I moved in. ((applause)) >> I am in union with you. >> There are prayers that are being answered by some of you that you don't even remember allowing it to come out of your mouth. But because he lives in you, >> he knew it before you could pray it. >> Amen.

Hallelujah. >> So the separation is over with. Let me tell you something else that's over with now because of his resurrection. Uh fear. The number one fear of Christian people is you're afraid that what he promised won't come to pass. >> MY GOD. YOU'RE AFRAID THAT BY ME PREACHING STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BIBLE AND SHOWING YOU THE SCRIPTURES RIGHT THERE, YOU'RE AFRAID THAT MIGHT NOT BE TRUE CUZ ALL YOUR LIFE YOU HEARD SOMETHING THAT never lined up with the context of the new covenant. >> Right? >> Afraid that what God promised might not happen. >> Help us, Lord. >> Afraid I can't give because I don't know if he going to take care of me if I do this. >> Help us, Lord. >> I'm afraid that I'm not really righteous and I'm going to go to hell.

I don't understand how you can even have fear about hell when he said, "I have seated you with me >> in heavenly places." >> Yes. >> Yeah. But what if that ain't true? Well, Jesus said, "I I I am the way. I am the truth." >> Yes. >> Listen to me.

All of the things we we we try to do, strive to do >> to accomplish what Jesus has already accomplished, all those things If you could accomplish it, if I could accomplish it, why would Jesus waste his time >> to show up and get mugged >> and go to a cross?

Why? It doesn't make any sense. Why would anybody go through that if you could already do it? There's no man alive that could have accomplished what Jesus accomplished. And God knew it. That's why he gave him the law, WHICH WAS SO FLAWLESS AND SO PERFECT. THE LAW'S NOT BAD.

THE law's not wicked. The law is good. The law represents THE CHARACTER OF GOD, BUT IT'S TOO PERFECT FOR FALLEN MEN TO DO. AND YET, FALLEN MEN THOUGHT THEY COULD DO IT, >> RIGHT? >> AND GOD KNEW THEY WEREN'T GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO IT. SO, WE instituted the sacrificial offering system where you can come once a year, bring a suitable offering, and he the blood of that offering you bought, if it's a good one, it will cover your sins just for a year.

And you just walked away from the altar and and you and your wife cussed each other out on the way back home and they ain't had no cars then. So y'all had a long way. Y'all was cussing each other out in the dust and everything. And you had to wait A WHOLE 11 ALMOST 12 MONTHS TO GO BY before you can go and get all that covered up again. >> Because without the shedding of in the presence of blood, there can be no remission of sin. >> And offering sacrifice after sacrifice wasn't good enough.

The priest could never sit down because the blood of an animal could not take care of your sin. Amen. >> But when Jesus shed his blood, THE PRIEST COULD SIT DOWN BECAUSE IT'S OVER. >> Condemnation ended. >> The condemnation that says because of how you behaved, you're no longer fit for use.

God can't use me. Y'all don't know my secret. Y'all don't know what I did. God can't use me. Y'all don't know how I allowed myself to be exploited. God can't use me. And he he got up from that grave and you know what he said? I can use you.

[laughter] And he started using people that church folks would never use. >> Like when Jesus went out of his way >> to hook up with a not hook up cuz that means something [laughter] totally different today. Totally different today. Jesus went out of his way to meet a woman >> at the whale. >> At the well. >> A woman at the well who had been married several times. had have been in different relationships several times.

Even the disciples are saying, "You are not going to drink out of the SAME CUP THAT THIS WOMAN DRINKS out of. THEY'RE GOING TO THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK MARK YOU AS UNCLEAN." OH MY GOD. BUT WHAT I BELIEVE WHAT JESUS I THINK HE MIGHT HAVE SAID IT A couple times.

It would have been so cool if he' JUST SAID, "WELL, WHO AIN'T WHO AIN'T unclean down here except me? Why y'all THINK I AIN'T WHY Y'ALL WHY DO YOU THINK I'M HERE? CUZ Y'ALL DIRTY. And I got a Ajax that's going to clean humanity. Praise the Lord. >> That's the thing THAT GETS ME.

HOW DO WE COMPARE OURSELVES AMONGST ourselves where where where where cleanliness is concerned? >> How do YOU DO THAT? OH, I'VE BEEN CLEAN LONGER THAN YOU HAVE. YEAH, BUT YOU ABOUT to get dirty sometime soon. Keep on living. How do we do that? God uses he he he on purpose started picking out people who the church said wasn't usable. >> Right. >> Oh my god.

He picked out some pretty good other boys. But he picked out some folks who Wow. David singing in the wilderness being all nice and everything. And then he got hooked up and his eyes got big and stuff started happening. But David wasn't a fool enough to ignore what was happening.

He's like, "Lord, I'm the I'm I I cleanse me. Wash me. >> But in this new covenant, you're totally being cleansed and washed. Consistently being cleansed and washed. You think God won't use you for real? I prophesy that before the end of this year is over, every person in here who thinks they are not usable, thinks you're condemned, thinks it's not saved for heaven to use you, God is going to use you big time to impact lives of people.

AND YOU'LL NEVER NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT HE WOULD HAVE CHOSE YOU. But I'm telling you, he has already chosen you from the foundations of the world. You better get ready, girl. Don't let your regrets stop you because God has already decided to use you. >> YOU ARE USABLE in the kingdom. >> Hallelujah. >> You're usable. >> You're usable. >> I love how we just look at people and just put them in a place.

Well, they're usable, but they're not. They're usable, but they're not. Well, what about you? How do you do that? When Jesus said, "I didn't come to condemn the world, but that the world through me might be saved." >> I'm not trying to give anybody excuses or license to act crazy.

Cuz I'm telling you, if you'll trust in Jesus and trust in your identity, the transformation takes place in your life. But give people an opportunity to go down a journey and to have a transformation uh path that they go down. We we we go to the prayer room.

You saved. All right. And then we look, you said you're saved. Why you do that? I just got saved. [laughter] Which is why I'm cussing YOU OUT RIGHT NOW CUZ I JUST GOT SAVED YESTERDAY. I ain't have but two cuss words to disappear. I got all the rest of them.

But they GOING TO LEAVE BECAUSE I'M NOT GOING BACK TO WHERE MY PAST IS TRYING TO GET ME TO. I'M NOT GOING BACK TO WHERE THE TEMPTATION AND PRESSURE WAS. I'M GOING TO KEEP GOING FORWARD. PRAISE GOD. Some Christians don't like to hear that. Oh no, no, now I don't know what kind of gospel that is.

It's the gospel you need to hear. How you figure I don't KNOW ABOUT THAT. OH, MISS SHIRLEY, LET'S TALK ABOUT what you did this PAST WEEKEND. AND HEY, YOU FORGOT TO TAKE THE MAD DOG OUT your pocket. So, be careful when you give your offering this morning so the mad dog won't fall out.

Amen. Who does that? What are we in third grade or something? [laughter] cuz you just want to come to church and and and and jerk and try to get somebody to notice you. >> I want you to notice me. >> It's not even about that. >> It's like, Lord, show me how to how to love you and show me how to love other people.

That's not hard. That's it. >> My God. And >> we we we we busy trying to play church and get attention because we've never resolved our inferiority problem. >> So we got to act like we're superior to cover up our inferiority so nobody won't be able to see us as we're really going through this trauma that we don't want to face. >> And Jesus has already faced it for you.

But you don't want to take what he has finished. You want to try to finish something yourself because people who trying to get attention want to be able to get attention to brag about how great they are. >> Where y'all going? These people running out of here, boy.

Let me get on out of here, boy. cuz I got 10 more things I want to do for you. No, I know you you got things you got to do. Praise the Lord. Thank you for coming. I appreciate it. God bless you. See you next Easter. Tapping at me like, "Stop."

No, seriously. People have things to do and I appreciate them coming and they got stuff to do. Might have some emergencies. Might have to go to work. Stop by and get a little word while they can. Might have to go pick up mama. Stuff there. all kinds of stuff that happened.

And I appreciate you just stopping by just a little while. >> Amen. Now, let me tell you what I really mean. Now, no, no, no. Okay. Number four. Number four. >> [laughter] >> what God what God accomplished when when he raised Jesus from the dead. Number four, he seated humanity in righteousness and union.

This is powerful. He was raised from the dead and you were seated in righteousness and union. Now, this includes the ascension. This is not just, you know, I died with him. I was raised with him, but I I also ascended with him. Let me show you this. Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 6 and seven.

It's going to show you our immediate location. You there? Let me say this before I forget it. We've wasted so much time to get there when there is where we are. >> We've wasted so much time trying to get there and there is where we already are. I'm going to show you our immediate location and hath raised us up together.

Pin an envelope. And has made us to sit together. Pin an envelope. In heavenly places in Christ Jesus. We have been raised together and we have ascended together with him and we are seated with him cuz we are a pin in an envelope. He can't go through nothing that doesn't involve us >> cuz we're in him.

We share with his accomplishment. He died. We died. He was resurrected. We were resurrected out of our dead stuff. He was raised to heavenly places. We have ascended. Oh my gosh. Imagine getting up every morning knowing that you have ascended. >> You have ascended in heavenly places. >> YOU HAVE BEEN SEATED WITH him >> in heavenly places.

Lord have mercy. >> Thank you Lord. Your immediate location is heavenly places. THAT IS NOT WHERE YOU ON YOUR WAY TO. >> YES, I'm I don't know them striving to make a 100. 99 and a half WON'T DO. NO. MY IMMEDIATE LOCATION RIGHT NOW TODAY, >> NOT [screaming] NOT AFTERWARDS.

NOT TRYING TO STRIVE, NOT TRYING TO MAKE a hundred. >> I'm there. >> I RECEIVE IT, LORD. I'M THERE WITH YOU. >> So when you pass, when you die, man, it ought to be one of those. I am not scared. Sin made death so scared. scary >> when you pass away.

Oh man, you ought to have a smile on your face showing teeth cuz you're like, "My state has finally caught up with my stance." All right, y'all on the bus? >> I got five minutes. Come on. Number five. He fulfilled the law and ended its authority over you.

The law has been fulfilled. Jesus didn't come to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law. Why? Cuz nobody else could fulfill it but him. Now look at Romans chapter 10. I'm going to look at it in the King James and in the Mirror Translation. Romans chapter 10, King James and the Mirror Translation.

Now watch this. And hath raised, okay? For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. Now look at this in the mirror translation. Christ is the conclusion of the law. It's the conclusion of the law. The law, he ended the law's dominion over our lives.

Everything the law required of mankind was fulfilled in Jesus. If it was fulfilled in him, it's fulfilled in me. >> He thus represents the righteousness of the human race. Jesus represents the righteousness of the human race based upon faith and not personal performance. >> THIS IS BASED ON YOUR FAITH in what he HAS DONE.

YOUR FAITH IN WHAT he has completed. Do you know what happens when you get into an atmosphere like this and the word of grace is going forth and you're hearing it, but you make your mind up that I'm going to keep on hearing it and I'm going to keep on hearing it and I'm going to keep on hearing it and I'm going to keep on hearing something starts happening with you that won't happen with others because they don't understand the nutrition that is absent from their spiritual diet because they just can't figure out how to show up in here.

That's amen. >> What are you going to say when you get to heaven? Well, Lord, I tried. He said, "You don't have to do nothing. You don't have to do nothing but just hear what I have done and accept it >> and I will start transforming you from the inside out.

Things will change. Stuff changes. It won't matter what's going on in the economy. >> It doesn't matter what's going on around the world. World Wars, soon as a war breaks out, somebody said Jesus coming back." That is not what he said. >> Amen. >> The end doesn't come when there's a war. >> The Bible says when the gospel of the kingdom has been preached, >> then the end will come. >> So what are we going to say?

What are we going to say when we stand in front of this guy who suffered, bled, died, went to hell, did all that stuff for us, and he says, "Okay, I love you. Here it is. Everything you need is right here. And we said, "I'm not interested in it.

I do it on my own." That That breaks my heart. >> Yeah. >> I really thank God for my wife, Tab. She got to talk to me because I'm thinking I'm like, "Look at what he did for us. Look at what he did." Literally didn't ask you to do nothing.

He just SAID, "I DID IT ALL FOR YOU." GOT YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS taken care of. Your your forgiveness taken care of. Your your deliverance taken care of. Your healing taken care of. Your anointing is in you taken care of. Your union with me taken care of. YOUR HEAVENLY SPOT TAKEN CARE OF.

IT'S ALL TAKEN CARE OF. SO FAITH IS NOT TRYING TO COME UP WITH A WAY TO GET IT DONE and take care of it. I'M GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THIS WITH MY FAITH. THAT IS NOT WHAT FAITH IS FOR. FAITH IS FOR YOU RECEIVING WHAT'S DONE. >> FAITH IS FOR TRUSTING and believing and receiving what he's already done. >> BUT WE DON'T ENGAGE FAITH UNTIL WE TRY TO GET SOMETHING DONE.

OH, and I got to I got we got to stand in front of me one day and you got your excuses already to go. is like, "Dude, I did it all." >> Yeah, Lord, but I was but I was still sinning. He said, "Yeah, you wasn't saved but two days.

We didn't even get five steps down the path. This is a journey. I I I had something planned for the journey. And I know that babies can't receive all of what I finished. So, while you were going on a journey, I was going to mature you on the journey, and you were going to come to the end of yourself with all of your intellect and all of your formulas, and I was going to bring you to an end of yourself where you had no choice but to look up and say, "God, I I trust you." >> That's right. >> Everything I've ever gone through, I freak out and I'm thinking like, "I went through that.

I went through that." And when I was going through it, I'M LIKE, "WHY? WHY?" BUT NOW, I look and I say, "Ooh, that humbled me. That made me more empathetic toward people. That showed pride in me. That showed arrogance in me. >> Oh, my heart wasn't there where this concern or that concern.

And I recognize through all of that, you were maturing me. >> And now when you get to this place of maturity, things that used to mess with you don't mess with you no more. They don't do it. >> They don't do it >> because you have a peace that passes all understanding. >> Glory to God. >> Thank you, Jesus. >> People can leave you >> and it won't >> and it won't bother you. >> That's right. >> Thank you, God. >> Because God said, "I'll never leave you nor forsake you." >> You no longer have to lose your composure when you're disrespected. >> That's it.

Because the fruit of the spirit helps you to act differently than the way you used to act. >> You're not afraid to put up boundaries because you've matured. YOU DON'T CHASE PEOPLE. >> And people around you that see you not chasing them, they can respect you more because they say, "Oh, you're secure in yourself."

YOU DON'T SETTLE TO JUST SPEND time with anybody just so you don't be by yourself cuz you've learned the value of being alone with God as he speaks to you about you. >> SO IT DON'T BOTHER YOU NO MORE WHEN SOMEBODY THREATENS TO LEAVE YOU. YOU HURRY UP AND GO AND OPEN THE DOOR AND SAY HELP YOURSELF. because I'm never alone. >> And you have to caution yourself and say, "Whoa, I haven't been around folks in a minute and I' I've been happy.

[laughter] >> God wants to mature you." >> And I tell you, some of the most immature people are in the church. Not this one. We're probably but very [laughter] immature people. They whine, they cry, they complain, they see stuff wrong with everybody else except them. They busy sweeping off somebody else's porch and their porch got leaves and and junk all on it and they ain't even got a broom.

Wow. >> I refuse to be this entertainer at church. >> You knew what you was going to get before you got here because that's what social media is for. To let you know what you're going to get before you get here. It shouldn't be no surprise to you that I teach how I teach and way I teach and you yawning like you didn't know I did this.

And my time is up. That's one thing about it. When my time is up, time to go. All right. As I go to the pool pit, I want to show you this one little illustration right here. Gold does not become gold when it is discovered, but it certainly becomes currency when you discover it.

It it was gold before you discovered it. So just because you discover it doesn't mean so likewise it's not our knowing that position in Christ Jesus and in the father. It's not knowing. It's the knowing awakens us to what we already have. So here's our union folks. That outer line is the father.

Jesus is in the father. Oh yeah. Jesus is in the father. You are in Jesus and the holy ghost is in you. ((applause)) >> And that is not true just because you came to the knowledge of it. You are now aware of it. So you can participate >> in what is already true. >> We are all dependent on the father.

Jesus is in the father. I'm in Jesus and the holy ghost is in you. >> Would you please stand to your feet? Thank y'all so much for for coming today. And I pray that your hunger for the Lord becomes greater and greater and greater and greater. Seek God.

Seek God. Be hungry. Be thirsty. Lift your hands up for the final blessings. And we have ministers down at the altar ready to minister to you. If you want to get saved, rededicate your life, join a church. They'll be here to minister to you. And now, may the spirit of grace be upon these great people and their families.

I plead the blood of Jesus over their lives this week. I declare there'll be no loss of life. And wherever's healing is needed, Lord, I thank you that healing will be received. I thank you, Lord, that you've already spoken to angels to watch over these families. Thank you, >> lest their foot dash against the stone.

I declare a abundance of favor over this congregation. That the love of God will begin to blossom like a rose and the power that comes out of that love will begin to remove burdens and destroy yolks. I speak against every every every need right now that those needs are met by the care of God. that whatever is needed, you are the supply house for all of our needs.

I thank you Lord that parents will be restored to their children and their children back to their parents. And I thank you Lord for peace peace in the lives of these precious people. And now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the almighty God be glory, majesty, dominion and power both now and forever.

And everybody said >> God bless you. Happy Easter. Have an amazing day today. >> Something happens when you step out ((music playing)) of the noise. When you give yourself permission to breathe again, to feel joy without pressure, ((music playing)) without performance, this is where the awakening continues. Not forced, not loud, just real.

Join us. It's time to awaken. You don't have to ((music playing)) stay where you've been. Come be refreshed. Come be restored. Come ((music playing)) experience what happens when you make room for joy, peace, and something real. It's time ((music playing)) to awaken. Join us Saturday, April 25th, for an outing that is exactly what you ((music playing)) need and don't want to miss. >> Happy Sunday, Eurch family.

Happy Sunday and happy Easter. >> Happy resurrection. He got up. >> He got up. Put that [laughter] in the chat for us if you will. >> Absolutely. >> Um it it was a full day. It was >> it was a beautiful reminder of what today means. Do you mind if I share like one of our one things?

Uh it was so cool and I just love how pastor said it. He said, "Imagine waking up every day >> knowing that you're ascended. So our immediate location is heavenly places." And I think like I think that did something for me. I think every day I'mma wake wake up like I'm an angel on a cloud like I'm in the heavenlies of heaven.

So put what you got for us, Lauren. What did you get? >> Oh, what did I get? So I wrote down that the devil attempts to take advantage of your ignorance. >> And so then I wrote like a little note to myself. I said, "Always remain a student of grace." >> Oh, absolutely. >> You know, you can't be ignorant if you're always studying. >> You can't.

You can't. >> Absolutely. >> I love that. >> What a good word today. So we're going to transition to our favorite part of service, which is giving. So, we shared the same scripture and I'm going to share it again this week and that is 2 Corinthians 9:11 coming from the New Living Translation and it says, "You will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous."

And when we take our gifts to those who need them, they will thank God. So, I just think about it being an expression of you thanking God for what he's been able to do in your life and financially and otherwise. And then being able to sew that thankfulness into someone else in a church that is very giving.

Absolutely. >> Sometimes it don't even look real the amount of things that we do, right? We're just all over the world. And just know that your seed is in good ground. Right now, there should be a QR code up for you to give. And there are also three other ways.

So, you can text World Changers all together. Leave a space and add the dollar amount that you'd like to give. And you're going to text that to 74483. You can always call us at 866-477683. You can get your little stamp in an envelope if you want to put it in the mail.

That's fine. We'll take that as well. You're going to mail it to 2500 BDET Road, College Park, Georgia 30349. Um and then also you can give online at worldchangers.org or prefloderministries.org. So thank you for sewing into this amazing church. >> Absolutely. And we have some amazing announcements. >> We do coming up.

First off, um we saw during our announcements earlier in the service that we are having an April radical women's fellowship. This isn't time for us to step into a morning of wellness and sisterhood at the Awakening to Wellness picnic in the park. It is happening on Saturday, April 25th at 11:00 a.m. in Kenwood Park.

So, if you're interested, and we know that you are, we would love for you to register today by texting WCCI ladies to 51555. Yes. And it's I know it's, you know, some show up, but please register so we can account for you. We had an amazing time last year.

Um the sun was shining. It was a beautiful day. I feel like everybody, even if they didn't know what was going on, they were coming over to see like what we were doing. And it was such a good time to be outside, move our bodies as an expression of worship.

Um, but actually the very next s weekend, Saturday, the very next Saturday, which is going to be May the 2nd, we have Lemon Bliss. So, calling all mothers and daughters, auntes, nieces, mentors, mentees, even if you're like, "My mom isn't here, you know, come come find a mom at lemon bliss and just come enjoy yourself."

So, it's a whole vibe. We have uh Pastor Chappie who will be there. We're honoring the incredible mothers and mother figures along the way. That is May 2nd at 11:00 a.m. in the chapel with Awakening Every Season of Womanhood. And we experienced so many of them, you know, come and learn more about them with us. >> So, what else do we have?

Oh, we have one additional announcement for you. Transportation volunteer opportunity is here just for you. The transportation ministry is growing and we need your help to meet the demand. So, we're asking if you have a CDL or a non CL driver, we would love for you to come out and support the our ministry.

Um, we're also looking for administrative support as well as crowdcontrol team members. So, if you're interested in joining this particular ministry, help us by um emailing volunteer at worldchangers.org to learn more information and to sign up. Yes. So, I mean, so many good, you know, ways to get involved.

And I share this all the time, but when I first came, I was a college student and I had to take martyr to the bus and I depended on the transportation ministry to get me from the martyr to the church house. So, we need you. It is no little thing.

It is definitely a huge opportunity to serve. Um, we know that we have given you so many different things today. Uh, if you need to look back on anything, worldchangers.org, you can always our Instagram page be it' be lit. You know, all the recaps, all the things you missed, you want to tap in via socials.

Um, we love you. Do you have anything else? No, I don't. I think you kind of hit it. I've If you miss anything, check out worldchangers.org to keep up to date on any upcoming announcements or events that's happening here at WCCI. >> Yeah, we always love to see you here in the blue seats.

Remember, God loves you and he got up. Happy resurrection Sunday. >> Happy resurrection Sunday. >> It's so ((music playing)) great to have Dr. Dollar here, the Spirit and Grace tour and the grace gang in town. It was an absolute blessing. >> This grace message is a soul winner. >> The world needs to hear this message. not only just hear it, but apply ((music playing)) it and watch God bless them. >> I got almost two pages of notes just from the nuggets that he was given.

Just about everybody that gave their ((music playing)) testimony and asking questions and getting answers, I was getting some of the ((music playing)) answers I needed. >> It was like a atmosphere of freedom. Wherever you want to say, whatever you wanted to ask, the atmosphere was just set. ((music playing)) I would encourage people to come >> now.

In Jesus name, I declare you authorized dealers of the grace of God. >> I'm ready to go take the gospel of grace with Pastor ((music playing)) Dollar around the world. Let's do it. >> The Spirit and Grace tour with Crelo Dollar is coming ((music playing)) to a city near you. Only 500 seats and they are going fast.

Register now at spiritandgrace.com. ((music playing)) Change ((music playing)) the world. Change the world. ((music playing)) I'm a world changer. Changing the world everywhere ((music playing)) I go. I'm a world changer. [singing] Anointed with the power of the Holy Ghost. I'm ((music playing)) a world changer. Telling the world of God. I'm a world changer. making a mark that can't be erased.

((music playing)) For God has equipped [singing] us to go higher to make a mark that cannot be erased.