Christ Is Risen | Michael Koulianos | Sunday Morning Service

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] happy resurrection day [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] thank you [Music] jesus oh jesus thank you that you didn't stay in the grave jesus you conquered death with death oh you took the keys to hell and you rose again we thank you father we thank you precious jesus we thank you holy spirit for revealing this man to us do it again today reveal jesus to us today open our eyes to see him rightly so that we can love him rightly today oh we love you jesus you just poured out your affection just begin to thank him this morning [Music] holy thank you jesus [Music] we pour ourselves out on you this morning we pour ourselves out on you this morning jesus beautiful jesus [Music] we honor you in this place we honor you in this place we will not forget we won't forget we love you this morning have your way with us [Music] upon your back bleeding until you find no breath tears of blood a crown of thorns you gave it all there is no greater [Music] [Music] it was more than enough more than what you've done the power of your blood [Music] [Applause] to change history the nails in your hands the hands that saved me the grave was sealed and they've lost once you've done here was more than enough more than [Music] of your enough is more than enough for the cries what you've done the power of your blood come on just start thanking him this morning start pouring your thankful hearts upon us today [Music] this is not a song this is our hearts cry to jesus we couldn't even do this without his blood today [Music] thank you now my heart [Music] thank you forever [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] what you've done it wasn't more than enough [Music] the power of your blood is [Music] the power of your blood [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you for breaking in the garage [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] more than enough the power of your blood before then once you've done [Music] [Music] is [Music] thank you [Music] thank you for breaking the bread [Music] come on sing straight to jesus [Music] thank you [Music] thank you forever it is [Music] [Applause] [Music] it is is [Music] yes [Music] [Music] hey [Music] yeah i am [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] your life [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] what you've done the power of your blood is more than enough [Music] once you've [Music] for two done [Music] so [Music] so we give you the highest praise you deserve it all you deserve it all we give you the highest [Music] you deserve it all you deserve it all we give you the highest price you deserve it all you deserve it all you deserve it all cause you gave [Music] you deserve it all [Applause] you deserve it all you deserve it all we give you the higher it all you deserve it all we give you the highest grace [Music] christ [Music] ah [Music] my soul will rest [Music] my heart cries [Music] my soul [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] in [Music] [Applause] through every story [Applause] [Applause] here [Applause] [Music] you'll deserve it all right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] come on can we just give him our praise this morning [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you jesus [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you'll be [Music] come on lift your voices lift your voices praise him praise him [Music] praise [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] you deserve it you deserve it all [Music] you deserve it all you deserved [Music] [Music] beginning [Music] glory in creation [Music] what a beautiful name it is what a beautiful name it is the name of jesus christ my king what a beautiful name it is nothing compares to this what a beautiful name it is without us so [Music] your jesus was great what a wonderful name it is what a wonderful name it is the name of jesus christ what a wonderful name it is this what a wonderful name it is the name of jesus what a wonderful name it is [Music] times [Music] the praise of your glory for you [Music] god yours is the kingdom yours is the glory [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] again [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] yours is the glory yours is [Music] [Applause] what a powerful name it is the name of jesus what a powerful name it is what a powerful name it is [Music] the ground began to shake the stone was rolled away his perfect love could not be overcome the ground began to shake the stone was rolled away his perfect love could not [Music] his perfect love could not [Music] [Music] you defeat [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] forever [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] forever you are [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you are we sing hallelujah [Music] [Applause] hallelujah we sing hallelujah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Applause] [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] forever you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for you [Music] [Applause] [Music] again [Music] is [Music] the praise of your glory for you [Music] god [Applause] and yours is the kingdom yours is [Applause] [Music] i've seen the praise of your glory [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] forever [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Applause] forever yours is [Applause] [Music] right what a powerful name it is what a powerful name it is what a powerful name it is your name my jesus what a powerful name it is oh my jesus [Music] cause i'll never know how much it costs to see my sin upon your cross i'll never know how much it costs to see my sin upon your cross i'll never know how much it costs to see my sin upon your cross i'll never know how much it costs to see my sin [Music] here [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] worthy [Music] cause i'll never know how much it costs to see my sin upon your cross i'll never know how much it cost to see my sin [Music] upon your cross i'll never know [Music] i'll never know how much it costs to see my sins so [Music] you're all together lovely all together worldly cause here i am [Music] you're wonderful to me [Music] worship [Music] my worship [Music] praise you [Music] you are [Music] you are [Music] oh [Music] you are [Music] i will give [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i [Music] my [Music] okay you are [Music] and again again [Music] i love you and again sing that sing that sing that [Music] [Music] oh [Music] worship [Music] just sing in the spirit come on this wonderful presence of the lord [Music] psalm sins and spiritual songs [Music] that's right that's right just worship the lord [Music] it's a blessed privilege to be used of the spirit right now to magnify the lord [Music] that's right let him carry you let the river of this spirit carry you this morning as yield yield to the wind of the spirit right now [Music] offer your body right now as a living sacrifice to bring him glory [Music] voice every voice touch my heart and fight there's no one else can touch my heart [Applause] [Music] come on would you just close your eyes and lift your hands and sing that from the depths of your heart [Music] no one else [Music] there is [Music] tell him tell him no one else [Music] everything in our voices [Music] foreign more one more one more [Music] and find this no one else can't touch my heart [Music] [Applause] [Music] right now keep singing keep singing [Music] come on [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you my heart oh [Music] [Music] [Music] need [Music] [Music] tell him you're all i ever needed every voice in one accord sing that [Music] help me know [Music] help me musicians come on everyone sing that you're all i want is our love songs these are love songs [Music] help me [Music] oh [Music] worship will take you further than prayer right now [Music] you don't need to ask right now just [Music] sing [Music] you're [Music] you're [Music] help me [Music] [Applause] [Music] help me [Music] oh [Music] tell me [Music] oh [Music] me oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh i'm so close now just tell him how much you love him your own way [Music] oh let it out just very gently let the honey of the spirit drip off of your mouth [Music] jesus we love you we love you [Music] remind us that you're all we need [Music] you just lift these clay hands and this wonderful glory is present [Music] lord we lift holy hands this morning [Music] because you have redeemed us and raised us from the dead the holy spirit lead us through the garden of fellowship this morning hand in hand [Music] and feel the hungry heart and [Music] save the lost soul heal the broken heart [Music] i give you glory we give you glory we give you glory [Music] from where cometh my help let your heart look up at the lord right now my help cometh from above my help cometh from the lord shine on us lord we bask in the rays of your beautiful face son of a righteousness arise this morning with healing in your wings more than anything we pray you would feel our love deeply that you would know that you're loved here and that you were to come and live with us could we say that together as a bride as a church family come and live with us lord come on he hears i'm telling you this this is dear to his heart such an invitation come and live with us lord come and live with us make us a people of the bridegroom the people of the bridegroom an addicted people the people who've gladly lost their name in the name of their husband so we we know nothing but you and we're okay with that [Music] do that in us hallelujah hallelujah to the risen king of glory all right just lift your hands just just breathe in that wonderful presence of the holy spirit who is our life it is our morning who is our springtime [Music] we love you would you say this out loud say jesus you love me you proved your love by dying for me now i want to love you teach me to love jesus wonderful holy spirit [Music] amen amen you should be smiling or crying or both at once and give the lord [Applause] [Music] praise [Music] so [Music] he's alive and in this room i said he is alive and in this room and in your hearts he is in us on us and all around us in him we live move and have our being give the resurrected christ one more offering of praise [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right tell somebody jesus loves them and mean it all right i'd like to come down to the floor stay in the presence of the lord he's here and moving can everyone see me here if you cannot would you just wave it's hard when i'm six four if i were a bit taller maybe six six you'd be able to see me can can everyone see me okay i would like to preach down here would that bother you okay i like to get down to you can i have some help with the pulpit i don't want my bible to fall thank you love you ryan i've never been more proud as a pastor than i am today i walked into the prayer room and by the way our building is coming say yes lord until then we won't stress we're going to worship our way through any journey the lord has for us he is our promised land didn't he what did the lord say to abraham i am your exceeding and great reward and he tested abraham you know when a deep surrender is offered i'll tell you when when you're willing to give back what god has given you it's easy to give your filth well i should say easier sin i mean when jesus comes in the room sin feels putrid and it is right it's it's horrible just look at the cross and you can see the horror of sin but when the lord's love is revealed i mean don't we all just say take it cleanse my soul wash me in the blood we all do and that's really the beginning but a life of surrender includes many requests from the father and it's not that he's wanting to take from us he's he's wanting to be loved by us and so abraham asks i'm sorry god asks abraham for the miracle on the altar that son i gave you abraham that miracle baby now i need you to put them on the altar this is the deep place of surrender the deep place of dependency and it is a magnet for the power of the holy spirit and just life in the spirit fellowship in this spirit i do feel something i feel that there's a a woman here whose life is on the brink of disaster your family is crumbling around you and i got the picture of that woman who ran to jesus's feet and poured her oil on him i felt the lord speak to me about you you you are in such a place with your marriage and even your children you've been wondering if god even sees you and i'm here to tell you today by the spirit that he gives beauty for ashes if all you have is ashes this morning give them to him he'll take them they may be disgusting to you but you know jesus came down the mountain that leper was wondering would the son of david really want to touch my sinful skin and so he was aware of god's ability just not sure of his will he wasn't quite sure if his leprosy would turn jesus away but there had never been such a man like jesus and so he said to jesus a lady you're here in the crowd i want you to listen to me this is for you he said lord if you're willing you can make me clean i know you can i'm just not sure that you want to touch me and jesus said quickly he did not hesitate i am willing and the scripture says that first he stretched out his hand and touched that filthy filthy man touched the one who had been stained with sin symbolically and outcasted his nation everywhere he went he had to scream and i'm unclean i am unclean and the scripture says jesus reached out and touched him first and then prayed can't you see the lord's heart connected to his hand it's like his heart leapt through his hand somehow it seems that his heart was there in his arm and oh he couldn't wait to touch him i could not wait to touch this man who stained with sin and then he said i'm willing be clean and he was made clean lady i know you're in the room and for the sake of your dignity i don't want to call you out but if you're desperate if you're desperate you can lift your hand right now every head about an eye closed this is if you're desperate you say that's me i'm that lady i need a miracle today i see you sweetie yeah would you stand ma'am stand you who have your hand up there you who's there next just help her up ryan carla go back there quick jesus paid it all all to him i owe sin had left the crimson stain he washed it white as snow though our sins be as scarlet he will make us whiter than snow father come upon this dear woman where are you from where ohio father come upon her now not my hand your hand proof to her that it's your hand i am willing be thou cleansed and clean every memory wash your mind let your loving wonderful glory come upon her now and wrap her in the love of god together deeply deeply holy is the lord great is this name greatly to be praised are you every every everybody's attention on jesus right now many of you here in the room have never felt anything quite like this i'd like everyone just to close your eyes close your eyes not out of religion just to give your attention to the lord i've never felt anything quite like this this is the love of god it's the lord himself who comes to live with the people it's church the lord's just touching her you know if you were in pain you would it would sound like something to you thank you for your peace on this precious lady can we be honest in the presence of the lord tonight today i should say could we just be very honest you know you can bear false witness about your own condition as well something wonderful about being honest with jesus when he's there many of you have left the lover of your soul in some way shape or form or maybe you don't know him at all you think possibly your friend brought you because it's easter sunday your friend didn't bring you god used your friend god brought you here the holy spirit used your friend you some of you are convicted of the life you're living that's not condemnation that's the conviction the love of the holy spirit telling you right now you can be clean too you can be like that leper you can get so tired of your sin that you run up to jesus and break all the religious rules and ask him a question like i know you can but do you want to i'm here to tell you as the lord's servant this morning on the authority of his holy word that he is willing he is willing to cleanse you to wash every stain away this morning every stain that you're embarrassed to even walk into church with many of you have felt off-kilter just coming in the room and let alone stand before the throne one day if you felt that here what would you feel standing before the throne having to give an account for those stains but the bible says god did not send his son to condemn the world but that the world would be saved through him with every head bowed an eye closed if you need your sin washed away you want to leave brand new actually changed actually changed for real you've discovered the emptiness of this life and going your own way the scripture says we have gone astray we have all gone our own way friend the most astray you can ever go is your own way you say michael that's me i want to be made clean this morning like that leper like this woman who's being ministered to by the lord i want you to lift your hand all over the room every head about an eye closed it's beautiful it's beautiful i'd like everyone to stand everyone stay do not waste this tangible sense of the presence of god john we'll have to move the pulpit if we could just slide it to the side if you raised your hand listen listen listen to me you can actually leave with a cleansed conscience it's a beautiful gift the bible says the blood cleanses our conscience you can actually leave brand new today if you raised your hand or you wish you did you say michael i gave my life to the lord when i was 10. but is jesus living his life through you now if you raised your hand or you wish you did i want you to get down here come on it's beautiful come come come come praise you jesus praise you lord come on give the lord praise this is wonderful come bro come come on many of you raised your hand get down here get down here come give your life to jesus come come come if you brought someone listen if you brought someone here and there's doubt in your heart as their friend as to whether or not they're walking with the lord i want you to look them in the eye and say do you want to go give your heart to jesus i'll go with you i'll go with you thank you father for what you're doing thank you father for what you're doing children if you're in the room and you want to give your heart to jesus i want you to look your parents in the eye and say mommy and daddy i want to go down i want to meet the one michael's talking about hallelujah can we give the lord praise come on come on give your life to the lord come and give your life to the lord welcome them home come on welcome them home let them feel the love of god flowing through you welcome home it really is the holy spirit isn't it it's not our screaming our great sermons it's his presence come come give your life to jesus hallelujah i am willing god bless you god bless all of you team i like everybody here these two sections right here i want you to just create a little half circle around them we don't have to lay hands on them just just create a wall of prayer theo and benny you too and lily just just get out there yeah that's right let them feel protected hedged in and welcomed into the family of god can we give the lord one more offering of praise thank you lord would all of you who came forward look at me please just you're like i'm looking at jesus right now i'd rather not look at you i understand now listen carefully when the lord is looking for is an honest heart truth he's not looking for perfection right now it's his perfection he's going to give you it's not about you getting these words perfectly what it ultimately is about is you giving your heart your sin your stain all of it to this loving lord you know i feel for you what's your name raylyn i feel that you're shocked right now by the love of god that your perspective of the lord was just so off and even now you're going i didn't know he was this wonderful my vision of god my perspective of church and god was that he hated me and that he was after me and he was a mean father and i pray for you raylen right that you will never recover from the wonder in your heart right now and i i pray for you i pray that at some point this will happen somebody around you maybe even other christians will go raylen just calm down a little be balanced tone it down i want you to say i remember michael saying that i never had to recover i want to be in love i want to be in love with god okay all of you who came forward this morning you're going to give your life over as a transaction the best you can that's all you that's all he's asking the best you can you all for your life and we're going to pray right now and we're going to talk to the father this is not a mere confession that we'd speak randomly you're actually talking to the father and he will hear every word i said he will hear every word church he will hear every word let's all pray this i want them to feel the force and the power of the gospel are you all ready to pray are you ready to hand your life over i'd like you who've come forward just to lift your hands as as an offering everyone out there stretch your hands come on and your heart for those of you in your seats is this this is your heart right now as we all pray that they will never know a day away from god and if i'm while i'm praying you feel like you need to get down here you come interrupt everything be like the leper break the rules and get down here are you ready let's pray everyone who came forward everybody in their seats out loud let's mean it from the depths of our souls heavenly father i come to you this morning having sinned against you i realize my sin they are many jesus wash me clean in your precious blood jesus i believe that you died on the cross that you shed your blood that you were buried and raised from the dead three days later because you are the son of the living god jesus i believe that you ascended to the right hand of the father and that you are coming back again to rule and reign as king of kings and lord of lords here we go now get ready jesus i turn from this world i turn from satan i turn from my own ambition and i put my full trust in the precious cross of jesus christ my trust is in you i repent and turn to you come and live in my heart save my soul me for you and you for me i am a child of god i am fully forgiven i am born again in jesus name amen come on thank you lord oh you can do better heavens doing way more [Applause] come on all of heaven rejoices when one when one sinner repents when one those of you who are watching at home thousands of you watch these sunday mornings all over the world for everyone under the sound of my voice you can know jesus too and if you want to know jesus just say lord i repent of my sin here's my life i take it all now for those of you who came forward would you please stand and those of you who are at home you're going to need to hear this as well you know why we're standing as a church right now in honor we're standing in honor of what just took place and when you discover the majesty of what took place you can stand we're talking about eternal destinies completely shifted completely this is a big deal this is a big deal this is the biggest deal that's why we stand in honor the lord is in the room angels are in the room the champions of the past are cheering us on watching the harvest that they dreamt about this is a big deal hallelujah now for those of you who came forward uh joe could you give me my bible there's a few things listen carefully so a few things you need to do so that you live strong in the faith number one read the word of god every day do not visit your bible live in your bible you say i don't know how to do that well just take a bible we'll help you get one and start reading start with the gospel of john if you want and then read the whole new testament and then go to genesis and we will put you on our reading plan we can help you we'll answer your help answer your questions nobody fully understands every word in the scriptures but listen carefully jesus said man does not live by bread alone so he said man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god in other words reading your bible is a matter of living not reading it is a matter of dying does that make sense read your bible number two pray every day just pray you jesus said go into your room close the door and talk to your father who's in secret and your father who lives in secret will reward you openly that means every time you go into the room and close the door your father's there that'll change your perspective on prayer and then he'll reward you with what with himself when whenever he wants to and there's nothing more beautiful than just driving down the road and god's sneaking up on you he starts sobbing you don't know why you know you just see a billboard about an insurance company and you start crying he'll reward you openly it's what he does okay number three you need to be baptized in water it's very important jesus said go into all the world remind them disciple the nations teach them everything i've told you he said baptize them in the name of the father the son and the holy spirit when you go into the waters of baptism you will literally be cut off from this age from the grave and your old life we want to help you make sure you're baptized fourthly you need to find a people that love jesus and come into his presence with them and and do life with them i just said do life i sound like a hipster millennial preacher just come into jesus come into his presence with people and don't attend a church be the church get to know people okay this is important and their strength will become your own all right lastly this is wonderful how many of you who came forward have people in your life that need to feel what you're feeling right now and all of you all right you don't have to do it in your own strength jesus promised that we would receive the same power that rested upon his his life and ministry we call that the power of the holy spirit the beautiful thing is jesus said you will receive power after that the holy spirit has come upon you it is the promise of the father you don't have to beg you simply need to ask okay you need the power of the spirit so that your cousin your mom your dad your friends meet jesus that's why today you were drawn to come to the lord it was the power of the holy spirit not not me i didn't even have a sermon it's the lord drawing you okay today when you go home i want you i want you to say lord michael said you've promised the holy spirit come upon me in power so that others would know you and he will but i'm going to pray it now over you lift your hands everyone stretch your hands forward father the holy spirit the baptism of the spirit is the promise of the father and jesus you sit at the right hand of the father interceding for what has already been promised so we can't lose we can't lose clothe these precious souls in the power of the holy spirit and bring many into the kingdom through them in jesus name amen i want our church to erupt in praise thank you lord thank you jesus thank you jesus now [Music] now all of you um john john reed both hands come up here john all of you who came forward just trust us you're gonna have to trust our integrity there are no curveballs going on here this is john reed he and his wife jenna they're expecting their first child so jenna's not here john and jenna help lead the new believers and so after this service today we just want five minutes of your time meet them at the new believer's table so that we can make sure you're equipped to walk with jesus okay all right this is john meet him say i will because it's easter all right have a let's give everybody a big god bless you can we do that please all right you may go back to your seats church welcome them home welcome them home welcome them home oh hallelujah it's warmer here than it was good friday i think this is the greatest time and opportunity for us to give our tithes and offerings to the lord say amen say amen that was not an amen that was a vow of quietude amen i want a real amen it's our joy to give to jesus listen listen listen as raul said beautifully at school generosity is who the lord is he is generous his children should be generous and the scripture says if he did not spare his own son what good thing with he will hold from us so our heart should be giving hearts now if jesus image is your church we come in our entry giving is the tithe and that and i'm gonna just briefly touch on this and the day will come here where i never have to mention it again because you'll refuse to live under the influence of the devourer see how i slid that in there it's good huh when you tithe you are protected from the devourer the blessing of the lord is on your resources because they're really his resources so tithe the tithe is not giving because the bible never said give your tithe the scripture says bring your tithe because you cannot give what is not yours do you understand so tithing is a matter of bringing and since it's a matter of bringing malachi says you've stolen the tithe because it's not ours you understand so before we break into offerings and extravagant giving that is a sweet smelling fragrance of the lord the tithe is the shallow end and as we're entrusted with the tithe the lord entrusts us with more so that we would give more to the kingdom to help other people that's what paul said that we would be a blessing to all now on good friday i think i don't know where are the numbers now is that all or is that all that came in we're at we need or that much has come in oh so that's a blessing okay it cost us 85 000 to do that and how many people got born again a lot people around the world let's give the lord praise good friday it was beautiful it was beautiful and it was an aw it was money well spent and it shook the nations all right we still need thirty 35 000 to break even so about 50 came in is that right 50 came in the total was 85. i'm not going to take two separate offerings but i do believe we can come in and do something extra today on this wonderful holy day jesse and i are going to do the same amen so if you'd like to give by text to give just text give to that number on your screen if you're watching on social media right now you can do the same and let's bring our offering before the lord come on father we thank you for the wonder of your goodness toward us and i do pray for everyone right now i don't care what the nations are saying and what the media is saying father you protect your people and don't only protect them i'm asking you to do what you did with the israelites during the exodus that you would bless them in the face of what happened in egypt now bless your people in the face of what's going on in the nations we are yours we are a different people we are not citizens of this earth we are citizens of heaven sojourners pilgrims the scripture says strangers bless your people in jesus name as they give so that jesus's gospel would literally flood the nations at a pace we've never known in jesus name amen amen if you'd like to give in the buckets you can you can bring your offering to the lord and again if you'd like to give how many of you need an envelope you would like to to to not text to give we've got a few there okay good all right god bless you let's run a nice worship song we have something we have a choir number what do we got chris i trust you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] salvation [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] here [Applause] [Music] how i love that choir oh man we've got some friends in town you just stay up there joel would you stay with me you don't have to play right now but our musicians man they work hard i love you guys you're amazing we've got friends in town uh court and savatta are here would you guys stand stan put your hands up so they can see you all right i want to say um pastor wally has done an amazing job with the choir but i also want to say it was a dream i brought to court and i said court i want a choir and she's like oh is that all i said yeah and i want it now because they have them in heaven and if it's supposed to be on earth as it is in heaven let's all sing in one accord and she goes you got it and when you give court the ball it crosses the goal line and i love you court and sabada you're like the most peaceful joyous i don't even know what to call you cherub and uh obviously steph steph is here she opened let's let steph know we love her it's so good to have her [Applause] bill said to all of you you have issues i thought you know they have good ones but they do have issues for sure it's so good to have you here steph and i hope you feel at home good steven's here as well and wonder and it's been a wonderful time together on the way um home we were in reading last week and on the way home we bumped into a few people flying in from all over america to be here this weekend and uh we bumped into a group of young ladies actually from dallas i think or as we saw you guys in dallas you said we'll see a good friday i think they were on our flight are y'all here tonight or to this morning by any chance no there oh there you are you where are y'all from california do you like florida good good good welcome to the east coast god's coast welcome to revival land you all showed up for easter very wise of you oh tonight will be uh amazing 6 p.m we start get there early if you don't get there early you will not have a seat and then do not email us for not having a seat you're at chipotle till 5 and you can't get there all right are you happy this morning i'm buzzing with the power of god i absolutely love his presence jesus is alive he's alive you should be really happy today jesus is alive yeah i grew up uh and many many of you who grew up in mainline denominations probably grew up hearing this for 40 days in the tradition i grew up in we would say after easter which actually takes place on a saturday night at the strike of midnight now last night the western traditions celebrated really passover and resurrection day the eastern church celebrates in a few weeks orthodox alone i think there are over 300 million just in the eastern church who will celebrate the resurrection of the lord in just a few weeks is it okay that i preach down here or is it bothering you i just want to make sure okay i like it better when i'm close to you but of course like we see you fine i know i know you do i figured um so at the strike of midnight uh i used to be an altar boy a bad one not not bad at what i did but we were all uh interesting we would line the altar the poor priest with firecrackers yeah right right there i'm serious and the moment midnight hit you know our church we lit candles and the altar boys would light the wicks in the church yeah yeah and if you asked us why we did it i'm not joking i mean bricks if you don't you know what a brick of firecrackers is for those of you who grew up in the south you know to brick of fire well we did that yeah and the bishop would be in town the vestments the crowns and the moment midnight hit a little altar boy would and the whole church and if if when when uh people who were not greek orthodox would ask us like you know just a regular american person they'd go why why do you do that and we'd say our answer was because christ is risen and they go we're having trouble connecting the two what what what's wrong with you guys but one thing we did do that was beautiful is the church would go black and then we would light candles and we'd start with the bishop or the priest and it would go and you would light a candle one for every family one person and then we would sing a song and it's a powerful song the song in greek is called christos a nasty good for you i have a greek man here good for you i'm not alone and in english the old ancient hymn of the church is this christ is risen from the dead and with death he has conquered death and to those in the tombs he has given life you should say wow because you'll face a tomb one day and the only thing keeping you out of that tomb eternally is what i just said so we would sing this really throughout that 40-day season my cousin was the archbishop of north and south america and another cousin was bishop of hong kong and asia i think now is in northern europe somewhere so i am steeped in these traditions and many of them are so powerful but something we did for those 40 days is if you ever bumped into another believer from your tradition before you started random conversation steph was uh speaking last night at our table to ben fitzgerald who always he's watching right now who always manifests at our table somehow ben is still here guys by the way he came for jesus 20. and ben we love you i mean i've been telling you i don't know what to say so ben then still here and so last night we were we were eating and steph said to ben you know something i appreciate i appreciate about you ben is that we don't waste conversations we talk about jesus what else they're talking about you know when you really see him it's tough to talk about other stuff he's just so wonderful and and so when you entered a conversation when i grew up the first thing out of your mouth before you said who won the knicks game was this you said christos to another believer and out of their mouth they would say what that young man in the back just said i i would say to you and this is what that means i would come up to you and say christ is risen and you would reply ali which truly he has risen or he is risen indeed now this was the this was the life of the early church because you couldn't do what we're doing right now without dying without being killed you could not do what we're doing right now so they'd walk up to somebody at the market and um if they had a feeling they were a believer or recognized another believer sometimes they could see that they were believers through their eyes when you walk with jesus you can do the same thing you see them in their eyes eyes don't lie christian lingo lies outfits lie oh instagram really lies from watching some of y'all dance on tik tok you guys are lying you think you should be dancing you can't dance i'm just joking your hashtags lie all sorts of stuff lies but eyes don't lie countenance cannot lie and so they'd see jesus and they'd whisper you know imagine you're going to the market 2000 years ago they'd see jesus in somebody's eyes and they go i know that look now they talk different now that guy just ripped him off and he smiled at him and blessed him he must belong to the nazarene and so they'd say this christ has risen you know and that little vendor selling falafel then israel would go he is risen indeed all right so this is what i would like i i would like our church to declare that this morning and i'm going to say he is risen or christ is risen and you're going to say truly he is risen now that may sound minimal to you but you mark my words it sends a tremor through the pit of hell a tremor all right so i feel like we need to stand up and do it with boldness and you help me on that instrument you fill it with a big full pad nothing too high that's it that feels right all right so i'm going to say christ is risen and you're going to say truly he has risen and we're going to do it three times all right why don't you lift your hands to heaven i need a little more volume on those keys and stuff you walked in with it's going to bow it's going to bow to the majesty of the king are you ready christ is risen christ is risen christ is risen let's do it again this feels right christ is risen again christ is jerusalem one more christ is risen now give the lord praise give the lord praise hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah a wonderful holy spirit speak to us and reveal the majesty of the risen king this morning reveal the majesty of the risen king before our eyes in jesus name amen i'm going to let you out of here by 12 15. i promise we got lost in his presence gladly no apologies it's easter where else you're gonna go chase a bunny rabbit around [Applause] all of you came without an easter egg huh amazing what the presence of jesus can do all of you came oh genesis 3. genesis 3. miss debbie it's so good to see you i love watching you worship the lord we've known mr babe when did you meet ms debbie so you've never not known miss debbie miss debbie went to occ when we were young and blessed jesse by helping her as a little one that's how she got so sweet thanks miss debbie genesis 3 oh man let's let's go to verse we'll just start with verse one i was going to say 15 but you know how we love the bible here when you look at 15 you're like no we need more we need more we need more all right now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the lord god had made and he said to the woman has god indeed said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden i preached on the tree on good friday some of you heard that let me just help you here in verse one god only indeed says stuff people don't indeed say things like what is holy when somebody asks you how you're doing and you're doing horrible and you say i'm doing great that's called not indeed saying something saying i love you yet not laying your life down from an for another believer is not indeed saying something not indeed saying something looks like speaking in a way that the heart does not know when the heart connects with the tongue we call that truth as a lifestyle and that's why the word is truth because what god has spoken rests in his heart so god only indeed when we say hallelujah and don't actually mean praise ye the lord it's not truthful so religion causes us to quote things that the heart is not burning for does that make sense and so we become addicted to the discipline and not the flow of the spirit it's like loving your plumbing more than the water that comes out so you can brush your teeth that's what happens so plumbing is actually made for water there's nothing wrong with discipline you should live a disciplined prayer life you should have that but if you're not being satisfied by the nectar then you're missing the point so the vents here this ventilation system thank god it's working but the only reason the vents are created is so air can flow so when god says i love you he really means it and so we see this connection here jesus said in john chapter 4 that the day would come where we would not be limited to worshipping in a certain place but that we would worship in spirit and truth say spirit and truth the two go hand in hand the more of his spirit you begin to live in and walk in and receive the more truthful your life shall look and the more truthful your life becomes the more attracted to your life the holy spirit is the two must go hand in hand so we all enter a place and we did today thank god where we started crying and ministering to the lord what happened the songs began to match the flame in here the the lyrics began so we actually started meaning it and that's what it looks like to worship in spirit and truth so look yeah one of you liked that you're right it only took 28 years to get it thank you thank you for appreciating that ma'am god only indeed says and so here we see the enemy coming to question what god indeed said did he really say you shall not eat of the tree of the garden verse 2 and the woman said to the serpent we may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden god has said you shall not eat it nor shall you touch it lest you die first mistake eve made was to talk to a snake when she could talk to god some of the most demonized people i've ever met are the ones who are most into deliverance and i know them and sometimes they try to hang out with me and i don't let them now casting out devils is easy sometimes but i'm not addicted to devils if they like bill says if they show their face i put them in the scope and i talk to them just long enough to pull the trigger i love that but some people are more into deliverance than the beauty of the king there is a spiritual principle the principle is this seek and you will find you go seeking devils in people they'll eventually come knocking on your door it's a spiritual principle you seek the lord you find the lord the greatest form of spiritual warfare is burning with the love of jesus i feel to say this we're family right it's sunday morning um spotting a devil somebody in somebody and not walking him into freedom is not a deliverance ministry it's an accusation ministry god bless you verse 4 and then the serpent said to the woman see you engage him he'll engage you back the serpent said to the woman you will not surely die for god knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be open and you'll be like god knowing good and evil they were already like god but he lied again verse six so when the woman saw that the tree was good for food that it was pleasant to the eyes which is the way the enemy works he entices the eyes and the tree desirable to wake make one wise we have so much focus on who's right and wrong today who's the wisest what's the greatest perspective how should society function what's the wisest sermon i can come up with it's easter sunday how can i wild the people with wisdom oh there's a wisdom that you might think is wisdom but it's not it's foolishness paul said he has become wisdom to me there is one wisdom his name is jesus she took of the fruit and ate it so now she touched what he offered she gave it to her husband with her and he ate men you better marry the right girl women have an amazing amount of influence i'm just helping you guys doesn't matter well it doesn't matter how she looks it helps i love that jess as pretty but i want to say this i want to say this let's just be real i mean you know you got a girl that loves jesus and she's pretty double blessed all right a woman has been created to influence a man and when that's coupled with a godly life she actually causes her husband to soar all right another side note don't marry a lady who loves talking to the devil i i've never understood i don't know i'm talking about this on easter but somebody's got to hear it i i i've never understood people who bind and loose all day long when they could be singing it's like the lord's up there going i already handled that but thanks so much i've seen some intercession sessions that look like wwf i'm serious it's like and the lord's going uh please please finish please just sing me a song verse 7 then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked shame came in and self-awareness oh i could go there but we're under a time limit here if you're more aware of who you are in the lord than the lord you're not who you are in the lord do you think the lord is learning when you go i am a son of the king he's going well that's thanks for the info i didn't know i purchased you didn't know you were mine imagine if my son came up to me ten times a day in the kitchen and said i am a son of michael eventually i'd go hey are you all okay but how does it truly manifest listen listen how does true identity manifest because many people claim identity to defend their sin how does true identity manifest true identity manifests by saying abba that's what the bible says wherein he cries whereby we cry abba proof that i'm their dad is when they go dad good morning and proof that i'm their dad is proximity they're in the house with me do you understand you're welcome you just got a whole semester without jesus school tuition you're welcome the eyes of them were open they saw that they were naked and now here was the remedy to solve the origin of every issue in the history of humanity six thousand years of wars and murder and racism and poverty and cancer and this is the origin you're looking at it right here this is the birthplace this is the launch pad of it all and this is the best they could come up with outside of the glory they made fig leaf underwear that's the best they could do so you can literally go from naming the animals to creating fruit of the loom in a moment when you leave the presence listen to me if you want to get dumb really quickly leave the glory the wisest people love his presence and that is found in the sermon with the wise and foolish virgins what was the the one difference between the foolish and the wise some had oil some did not say here's my wisdom hallelujah no fig leafed underwear verse 8 and they heard the sound of the lord god walking in the garden in the cool of the day and adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord god among the trees of the garden they heard listen to the wording the sound of the lord god walking who is the sound of the lord who's the word of the lord jesus they heard him walking verse 9 then the lord god called to adam and said where are you it's not that he didn't know adam missed his first appointment of fellowship and as reinhard used to say reinhardt bonkey used to say adam was willing to move on without god forever but god was not willing to move on without adam so he said i heard your voice in the garden and was afraid because i was naked and i hid myself and he said who told you that you were naked have you eaten from the tree which i commanded that you should not eat then the man said the woman whom you gave to be with me she gave me the tree and i ate he went like this she did it don't say that alex if you want to get married alex goes amen that's not how you find one and the lord god said to the woman what is this you've done and then the woman said the serpent did it he deceives me it's amazing when you leave the presence you deflect so the lord said to the serpent and this is where i'm going are you enjoying this because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field on your belly you shall go and you shall eat dust all the days of your life here we go now this is called the proto-evangelion or the first gospel sermon i will put enmity between you the serpent and the woman and between your seed and her seed seed with a capital s and he shall bruise your head and you will bruise his heel he will crush you the translation says and you will wound him the bible says he was wounded for our transgressions look here he says you will bruise his heel he was bruised for our iniquity bruise is an inner bleeding iniquity is inner sin inner blood for inner sin this is the first declaration not the first actually but this is a mighty declaration of the resurrection god crushed the devil in the resurrection hang a quick left this is so powerful can i have five more minutes well i can't do that i gotta take a nap got church tonight i am a pastor now all right genesis 1. this is gonna i'm telling you i'm sorry genesis 2. this is so good oh i want to get you another translation here just give me a second you can just feel awkward or stare at the person next to you make them feel awkward wonderful all right are you ready i have the new king james but i my wi-fi is not working i wanted to give you a new american standard does anybody have a i want to do it on a device do you do you have that casey you got it this is going to blow your mind and then i'm going to dismiss you i want you to all leave having never recovered hallelujah is right oh jesus i'm gonna read you this verse thanks casey solid phone emf blocker you got an emf blocker in there good good man all right all right let me read this to you i'm going to read the verse you're going to go home and find it because in finding the verse you seek the lord all right listen to this i'll give you an idea it's in early genesis then god said let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place this speaks of worship by the way in the life of prayer you need the attention the waters of your heart to gather all right that's why we all worship we come in to one accord and let the dry land appear in other words we have nothing to stand on until our thoughts are collected toward jesus and it was so and god called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters he called seas and god saw that it was good then god said let the earth bring forth grass the herb that yields seed and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind whose seed say seed whose seed is in itself on the earth and it was so and the earth brought forth grass the herb that yields seed according to its kind and the tree that yields fruit whose seed is in itself according to its kind and god saw that it was good so the evening and the morning were the third day oh my it seems that the seed with a capital s breaks the earth on the third day god began prophesying of the perfect seed who would break the limitations of the grave listen listen and come out of the ground as the first fruits now remember oh i feel the lord i feel the lord remember remember in john 12 do you remember the greeks come and the greeks love to ask questions because we think we invented oxygen so the the greeks come to fill up and this would have happened a million times in the life of jesus i mean if you're a pastor this happens hundreds and hundreds of times in a month somebody comes up to you and says so and so would like to talk to you they'd like to meet you so the greeks went to philip philip went to the lord this is john chapter 12. and philip says to the lord these greeks would like to talk to you and jesus pulls one of those answers he did this all the time to the disciples remember they're not filled with the spirit they had to be confused and this is how jesus answers this request all philip says by the way is they'd like to meet you and jesus says this unless a kernel of grain fall into the earth and die it abideth alone but if it goes into the earth and dies it beareth much fruit so philip's like what i guarantee you get the disciples didn't even know they couldn't even figure out that jesus was going to die after jesus told them i'm going to die so philip had to go maybe andrew was in there and he goes um do you have any idea what that meant i just need a yes or no do you want to talk to these people or not what is jesus saying it's not time for them to meet me one day i'll go into the ground and i'll give him my life i will die as the seed of the lord the seed who would crush the head of satan and i'll go into the ground and when i lay my life my body down as the lord's sabbath let's just stay on the resurrection for like the next few weeks is that cool because we haven't even gotten in yet seriously we have not we're not even in the scriptures we are but we're just like eight percent in as the lord's sabbath he lays his body down and entrusts his body to his father remember jesus did not nail himself to the tree he yielded his life to the father once his body is buried as the seed that went into the earth the grave listen believed because of the foolishness of sin the foolishness of satan the foolishness of the spirit of death and every other principality the grave believed that the grave was a lion that's what the early church used to say that the lion of the grave believed in its victory because it had swallowed a mere man but the grave did not swallow a mere man thank you you're thanking the lord you're right the grave did not swallow a mere man instead the grave more or less swallowed the likes of a nuclear bomb who came to destroy the grave listen with the dazzling of his own divinity you see it'd be like me giving you an eminem with a grenade in the middle in its pride the grave said we won but they had no idea who they swallowed and so the scripture says oh had they known they would have never crucified the lord of glory does the bible say i promise i'll close it's hard to close when i feel the anointing but we off to sleep and be back at six huh the team has to sleep i know i know i know i i know okay just hear me you'll know this will change your life because what i'm giving you will cause you on that day to never fear death all right check this out help me there joel yeah perfect all right the scripture says from thus few have come and to dust you must return right the scripture says the soul that sins shall die so we see the connection here between dust and corruption in other words if you are mere dust your body must decay and your body decays for two reasons in the grave one you sinned or two you are mere dust by the flesh jesus is son of man no doubt he is fully human but there's an aspect of the savior that the grave forgot that his father was not joseph oh yeah he's got a real body but this son is incarnate of the spirit he is from the days of old his father is the one who dwells in unapproachable light joseph you raised him but you did not beget him and so the church prayed in the early days oh grave you should have never received the son of the virgin for he has come to plunder you and destroy you and so through the cross jesus slipped into the underworld through humility and lowliness and destroyed it colossians says and rendered it powerless for ever and so he cried and this is where we'll close so he cried this you will not leave my soul in sheol or hell nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption because jesus is alive you are alive jesus did not only die for you he died as you he identified with you he took your grave he took your death and when he was raised from the dead the scripture says we were raised with him say amen stand your feet for the sake of time we'll receive communion this evening how many of you are grateful for the lord jesus lift your hands i know we went a little long but he's worth it amen this is not a burger king this is the house of god lift your hands to heaven father in the mighty name of jesus let your glory rest on your people let us love you let the power of the resurrection raise everything that is dead here every issue that seems impossible bring resurrection to it and ultimately jesus let us fall in love with you amazed by your wonder in jesus name amen amen god bless you see you tonight did i forget anything oh prayer team if you need prayer we'd like to serve you prayer team would you come forward i'll need somebody assisting each prayer person if you need prayer you'll line up in the center aisle and come forward and our prayer team has been trained to stand with you god bless you we love you so much see you tonight or next sunday morning god demonstrates his own love toward us in the while we were still sinners christ died for us jesus shed his blood he died on the cross he was buried he rose again from the dead on the third day to give you life and to prove that he is the son of god who he said he was today he is seated at the right hand of the father and for those who belong to him he is interceding for them eternally and that same jesus will return again he will craft the eastern sky like a whip and with ten thousands upon ten thousand he will return in glory [Music] [Music] oh in 2017 we received a word from lou engle that we really believe is the word of the lord for our school our house and the entire ministry lou said that the greatest musicians in the world and the greatest vocalist in the world the greatest worshipers that they would descend upon orlando florida to jesus image and that word began to burn in us and we began to dream about what it would look like to one day have a school where people would come to worship jesus and be in his presence and receive his word and a church was birthed in that same worshiping atmosphere and what a beautiful opportunity that we have as a jesus people to come before him and to be at his feet and to pour ourselves out before him worship has the potential to unlock things that really nothing else in the world can unlock and so we decided about a year ago to launch a an opportunity within the jesus school setting for those worshipers for the musicians for the singers for the dancers for the artists for the poets and this is going to be a place where you can come and you can learn and you can grow and we have highly trained instructors who are going to be coming they're going to be teaching instruments they're going to be teaching vocals anything that you can think of with worship it's going to be there the worship is not about us we worship for him so we want to invite you to come come worship the king of kings with us so come and be a part of what the lord is doing come and give your heart to the lord come and surrender yourself to the lord and let's be ones that are willing to rise and go and we decided to name it after bethany that wonderful house where jesus was ministered to that place where the feelings of jesus were preeminent it was a place where he desired to not only move and work and teach and do wonderful things put a place where he would be adored a place where he would rest a place where he would run to so that he would receive ministry and so now jesus school has this space that's been created for all of you who are desiring to use your vocal gifts your instrumental gifts your gifts of worship the dancing gifts and give them to jesus jesus would make this a bethany could he make our lives of bethany where he [Music] you were created to experience the presence of god in a way that will transform your life family and the world we understand how difficult it can be to find time to attend a school where you study the word of god grow in your faith and build a community of believers and that's why we created jesus school online we believe that the holy spirit is unlimited in his reach no matter where you live or what stage of life you're in we invite you to take part in this amazing online opportunity you'll be led by world-renowned speakers and worship leaders you will be taught to seek jesus daily be activated in the power of the holy spirit learn to share the gospel and build community with jesus people from around the world at jesus school online we are passionate about seeing a jesus people raised up to shake the nations for the glory of god you were created for this moment in history the jesus people are emerging and we have one ambition jesus himself will you join us you

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