The Resurrection that Changed Everything"

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In other words, the resurrection is heaven's stamp that says, "You are right with me." Say that out loud. "I'm right with God." Say it again. "I'm right with God." Not because of what I do, but because of what he's done. It's so great to have Dr. Dollar here, the Spirit & Grace Tour and the Grace Gang in town.

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We are changed. I'm going to talk about risen with him. The resurrection that changed everything. The resurrection that changed everything. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is God's declaration of three things. Number one, the declaration of victory to the world. Number two, the declaration of the birth of a new identity for the church.

And then number three, the declaration of the personal awakening of every believer to resurrection life. Today, we celebrate the greatest shift in all of human history. The resurrection of Jesus isn't just a a historical event. The resurrection of Jesus, it's a new beginning for the world, for the church, and for you and I personally.

Jesus didn't just rise from the dead to prove a point. He rose to bring all of us with him. Glory be to God. Now, how did the resurrection change the whole world? I mean, it was declaration to humanity. Now, when I talk about the world, I'm talking about humanity.

I'm talking about human beings on the earth. I I I I want to kind of attack how we use words and they become numb and we don't pay any attention to what it is. When I say the world, I'm talking about human beings on the planet. Which is separated by those who believe and those who don't believe, but it's still every human.

So, I'm talking about humanity when I talk about the world. So, how did the resurrection affect every human, those in the church and those in the club? How did How did the resurrection affect the whole world, those who speak in tongues and those who cuss the paint off the wall?

A A Is it plain? The whole world. And so, the resurrection was not just a Christian event. It was a cosmic announcement. It was a human family announcement. The resurrection was an announcement to to all human beings. Oh my goodness. The world was included in Christ's death. And the resurrection, whether whether they know it or not, it was included.

Look at Titus chapter 2 and 11 real quick. Put these scriptures up. >> [sighs] >> I want to get rid of this idea us against them. You say, "But y'all." We say, "But y'all going to hell." We've made this Christian Christianity a heaven and a hell thing. "I'M GOING TO HEAVEN, YOU GOING TO HELL."

By 12. How did the resurrection impact all of humanity? Titus 2 and 11 says this, "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men." THE GRACE OF GOD HAS APPEARED TO ALL MEN. SO, GRACE APPEARED TO ALL MEN. THE GRACE OF GOD THE GRACE THAT BRINGETH SALVATION.

WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? The grace THAT BRINGETH SALVATION. WHAT IS SALVATION? The grace that bringeth healing, deliverance, soundness, preservation. See, when you believe, you you you you you attach yourself TO ALL THE STUFF YOU'RE TRYING TO GET. EVERY EVERY EVERY man wants to be delivered. Every man wants to be healed.

Every man THE GRACE OF GOD THAT BRINGETH SALVATION, IT'S AVAILABLE TO THE WHOLE WORLD. Second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 19. Let's look at it in the King James and then the Mirror. Just read with me for a moment. Verse 19, he says, "To wit, that God was in Christ."

God was in Christ. I said God was in Christ. God was in Christ. Jesus ain't ain't Excuse my English, he ain't something separate from God. God, that was God in that body. That God was in Christ reconciling When you reconcile something, you restore you restore the the family peace.

You're You're bringing You're bringing peace to restore. It's a relationship that was broken, but it is being restored. And so, he said, "God was in Christ restoring the relationship." Restoring the relationship between him he and man. There was enmity between God and man because of what happened in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve.

And there was restoration that that was going to take place where God was going to reconcile human beings because every human was impacted by what happened in the garden. And there was enmity between God and human beings because of what happened in the garden. What happened in the garden?

What? Somebody and I heard it today, you know, "Because of Jesus, we were free." FREE FROM WHAT? What happened in the garden? God told them, "Don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because when you do, you will surely die." The actual word here is separated.

You will be separated from me. Adam lived 900 some years. He says, "If you do this, you're going to surely die." We became participants of what happened there. Separated from God. So, every man born after Adam was born separated from God. Then Jesus came and reconciled the separation and restored the relationship with humans and God.

So, the resurrection says THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN beings and God has been restored. YOU ARE NOW FREE FROM DEATH AND YOU'RE FREE FROM THE SEPARATION BETWEEN YOU AND GOD. EVERY HUMAN HAS BEEN SET FREE FROM THE DEATH THAT OCCURRED IN THE GARDEN, YOU HAVE BEEN RECONCILED. WHOLE WORLD HAS BEEN RECONCILED.

YOU'RE NO LONGER SEPARATED FROM GOD. EVERY HUMAN HAVE HAS BEEN BOUGHT BACK INTO RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, AND HE'S JUST WAITING ON YOU TO BELIEVE it so you can start reaping the benefits of the reconciliation. Is Is that clear, Bishop? Now, now, what's getting ready to happen as I go is your spirit's going to leap, but your head is going to pause.

Because you're going to find yourself working through the religion you have spent time with. TO WIT, THAT GOD was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself. See that? There it is, right? Not imputing their trespasses unto them. So, God said to the whole world, "I am reconciling you back to me, and now that you're back to me and the reconciliation and the relationship has been restored, I want to let ALL THE WORLD KNOW I AM not charging your trespasses against you."

See, you ain't hearing that. You think this is just for Christians. He says to the whole world, "I am announcing the relationship has been restored between you and I, and I am not going to impute or charge your trespasses unto you, and he has committed unto us who believe He's committed unto us who believe the WORD OF RECONCILIATION.

WHAT IS THE WORD WHAT SHOULD WE, as Christians, what should WE BE TELLING HUMANITY? HEY GUYS, IT'S ALL RIGHT. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND GOD IS RESTORED, AND HE WON'T COUNT YOUR sins against you. Really believe him. BELIEVE HIM. NOT TELLING the world, "You got to come to my church and and and you got to be holy, and this train is a holy train, and and and and No, what he says is, "The relationship between us has been taken care of.

Do you believe?" AND THE HUMANS WHO ARE AT THE CLUB WILL SAY, "YES, I BELIEVE." LISTEN, uh Prestige went to a I don't know what club it was, went to a club, a strip club one night to minister to the ladies. And one girl was on the pole, and they they just went to share love, gave give them a rose, tell them God loves you, reconciliation has taken place, and the Holy Ghost came on this one dancer.

She didn't have nothing on but shoes. And she fell down in in one of their laps and said, "I believe." Now, listen. SHE DIDN'T GO TO THE PRAYER ROOM, SHE DIDN'T REPEAT AFTER THE COUNSELORS, BUT I TELL YOU I TELL YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS, SHE GOT HERSELF IN LINE WITH THAT RECONCILIATION.

Y'all Y'all Y'all Y'all I look at this in the mirror. Jesus did not act independently of his father. God was present in Christ when they reconciled the total cosmos or world or human race. They reconciled the total human race to themselves. Deity and humanity embraced. Mhm. God's act of reconciliation takes every of their conclusion out of the equation.

No amount of trespasses can match God's evaluation of the human race. Y'all Y'all Y'all Y'all hear what I'm doing? Y'all Y'all No No amount of evaluation can match match what God has done with the human race. It's redeemed friendship is now announced from within us. So, here's the announcement to the human race.

Jesus is your friend. Yeah, BUT I'M IN THE CLUB. JESUS IS YOUR FRIEND. YEAH, BUT I CUSSED THE PAINT OFF THE WALLPAPER. JESUS IS YOUR FRIEND. WHETHER YOU KNOW IT OR NOT, YOU HAVE ACCESS TO JESUS. Are Are y'all Are y'all listening to me? So, that's heaven's posture.

Heaven's posture is this for the whole world, already reconciled. The resurrection didn't create forgiveness, it revealed forgiveness. The resurrection revealed that we're forgiven. The resurrection revealed that we're forgiven. The resurrection forgive revealed that we're forgiven. We just got TO GET EVERYBODY TO BELIEVE THEY'RE FORGIVEN. WE GOT TO GET EVERY THERE'S PEOPLE THAT COME TO CHURCH THAT DON'T BELIEVE they're forgiven.

You're forgiven. YOU YOU GOT TO YOU GOT YOU GOT TO GO AND TELL SOMEBODY. YOU GOT THE WORD. YOU'RE FORGIVEN. YOU'RE FORGIVEN. YEAH, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF GOD LOVES ME. YOU'RE LOVED. I I I I'm just AIN'T INCLUDED WITH YOU'RE INCLUDED. NOW, IF YOU'RE A RELIGIOUS PERSON, YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT ALL OF THE RULES THEY GOT TO DO in order to get this love.

All right, now watch this. Romans 4:25 in the King James and the NLT. Ooh, Jesus. All right, is everybody on the bus now? All right. Verse 25. Now, don't be Don't be saying what I didn't say and thinking what I ain't saying for you to be thinking. You know how some of y'all are.

Just myself. Look at this. Who was delivered? Jesus was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification, our righteousness, or he was raised again for us to be justified. Just like we had never sinned. Now, look at this in the NLT. What's this? Uh the New Living He says, "He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised to life to make us right with God."

Jesus was raised to life to make us right with God. When deity and human nature When human mankind, they embraced, he was raised to make every human right WITH GOD. EVERYTHING GOD'S ALREADY DONE, HE'S JUST WAITING ON YOU TO BELIEVE IT. HE'S WAIT HE'S WAITING ON YOU TO BELIEVE THAT HE was raised to make you right with God.

In other words, the resurrection is heaven's stamp that says, "You are right with me." Say it out loud. I'm right with God. Say it again. I'm right with God. Not because of what I do, but because of what he's done. When he was raised, he made me right with him.

When he was raised, he made me right with him. Say it out loud. I'm right with God. Oh, but you don't know what I did last night. Say I'm right with God. But you don't understand I'm still struggling with smoking. Say I'm right with God. This is an identity issue.

This is an identity issue. This is an identity issue, not a behavior issue. It is an identity issue. If you will go ahead and believe that you are who he says you are, then you'll start doing in line with who you are. You got to get your identity straight first, and your behavior will follow you're going TO START DOING RIGHT.

But as long AS YOU KEEP TRYING TO MODIFY YOUR behavior instead of changing your identity, say I'm right with God. Say I'm right with God. Somebody said, "But I ain't saved yet." SAY I'M RIGHT WITH GOD. Something about you believing what he said. Wow. The resurrection is God's public announcement that humanity has been made right in Christ, whether the world sees it or not.

The reconciliation has ALREADY HAPPENED. WHETHER THE WORLD SEES IT OR NOT. NOW, YOU MOST OF YOU who are here, YOU SEE IT. BUT MOST OF THOSE WHO WAS IN THE CLUB LAST NIGHT, THEY DON'T SEE IT. THEY'RE AT THE CLUB TRYING TO GET something that Jesus already got for them.

Look at this. Couple of scriptures. Let's Let's go through this. 1 John chapter 2, verse 2, King James in the mirror. 1 John 2, verse 2, King James, and then the mirror. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. And he is the propitiation. Propitiation is the He is the sin offering.

He is the ransom that was paid. He is the peace offering. That's what it means, propitiation. He is Jesus is the propitiation. He's the sin offering that was offered to get us in this place that I just preached about. He is the peace offering to bring peace between God and humanity.

He is the ransom that was paid so you can be set free from the death that occurred in the garden. And he is the propitiation for our sins. And not FOR OURS ONLY. WHOO, BUT FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD. SO, he's not only the propitiation for our sins who believe, but is also the propitiation for those ALL HUMANITY, ALL OF HUMAN BEINGS.

HE'S THE PROPITIATION FOR EVERY PERSON, EVERY HUMAN BEING. HE IS THE SIN OFFERING FOR THE HUMAN BEING. HE'S THE PEACE OFFERING FOR THE HUMAN BEING. HE PAID THE RANSOM FOR THE HUMAN BEING. WHAT'S THE ISSUE? THE ISSUE IS you believe it and they don't believe it yet. And we've been given a word of reconciliation to help them TO COME INTO WHAT THEY ALREADY GOT.

YOU RELIGIOUS people are having a problem with that. Look at this in the Mirror Translation. Jesus is our I got to say it like this first. At-one-ment. Jesus is atonement together, but he is our at-one-ment. Jesus is our at-one-ment. To atone the the atonement was to make something right.

To make it right again. Jesus was our at-one-ment, our atonement. He has reconciled, restored the relationship and the friendship. He's reconciled us to himself and has taken our sins and distortions out of the equation. Good Lord have mercy. WHAT HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED IS NOT TO BE SEEN AS SOMETHING THAT BELONGS to us who BELIEVE EXCLUSIVELY.

THE SAME ATONEMENT INCLUDES THE ENTIRE COSMOS. IT INCLUDES THE ENTIRE HUMAN BEING. THERE IT IS AGAIN. Let's look at John chapter 1:29 King James. And the Mirror. I'm telling you, everybody in here today has access to everything Jesus did. The only thing that's separating you is you don't believe it yet.

You can't see it yet. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith, "Behold the Lamb of God." John sees Jesus, he says, "Behold the LAMB OF GOD WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE COSMOS, THE SIN OF THE WORLD." TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE HUMAN RACE.

LOOK AT THIS IN THE MIRROR TRANSLATION. WELL, PASTOR, WHAT YOU TRYING TO SAY? NOW, you just you just stay on the stay on the bus. The next day John saw Jesus approaching him and declared, "Behold the Lamb of God. This is the one who would lift the sin of the cosmos like an anchor from the from the sea."

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