"He Sees You" - Rich Wilkerson Jr | Awakening Conf

I'm so excited to be here this is so cool to be back in Providence Rhode Island I I'm missed last year and I felt like I missed a part of my life not being here I so so love what God is doing here and every year I get to come I'm always inspired by the incredible movement that's taking place and tonight it's a real honor and a real privilege for me to get to share with you I got a message on my heart it's burning on the inside of me I believe God's going to speak to us I think there's some real legends in this house so many of my good friends and so many amazing pastors but I think first and foremost we got to take some time to thank the lead pastors of this house pastor Steve and Nancy boys for allowing us to come into their church and tear it up man we love you guys and just grateful that I get to come back and be a part of what what's happening here and so appreciate your leadership and so appreciate always you resourcing the next generation and I just thankful for you tonight then of course my really good friend who is now a new father he and his beautiful wife Samantha have really had a vision for this thing from day one and in many ways people would have thought that you were crazy saying that you could lead a movement in New England but you just continue to press forward continue to pursue God and every time I come back I'm just going how in the world is this happening and it really in my opinion is a move of God but I'm thankful for your vision Jordan I'm thankful for your leadership your tenacity and I just think that you two as a couple are absolutely amazing it's going to be fun to continue to watch your life can we just thank God for both of these guys than I thank you so much I'm traveling tonight with my beautiful bride of almost nine years meadow meadow when I was 17 years of age in church hey and uh she is absolutely my best friend she's the greatest gift God ever gave me and I'm thankful she's with me tonight dawn she would you just stand up can you all just make some noise for my beautiful wife gosh we love you and of course so many of my good friends here my big brother from another mother had a huge voice in my life really at the start of our ministry and I just got always make sure I give honor where honors do I was probably 24 years of age I'm 31 now when I first met John Gray we were running probably 150 people on a Tuesday night and he happened to be in Miami I said John is there any way you'll preach for us he said of course I'll preach for you I don't go to places just based upon the attendance or the size of the crowd I go to places that God calls me to go and that night he came and really honestly I think that was the start of a revival which is now what is called the rendezvous we see close to a thousand people almost every Tuesday night John has been a huge voice can we just make some noise for Pastor John Gray in the house thankful for you grateful for you - oh my - my dearest friends in the house they just play the longest game of Jenga of all time but a man these are these are fearless leaders full of faith how many of y'all enjoyed pastor Chad veatch's message last night man and Julia Veatch someone who I'm getting to know that I love so much that I've watched from afar for a lot of years now is a pastor Levi let's go how many of you enjoyed his session who make some noise for Levi and one of my best friends jayven Chavez the man of many talents he makes us all sick he's good at everything I got a message I want to jump into it tonight John chapter 20 John chapter 20 I don't know about you but I came tonight to encounter God and I came tonight with a ward on my heart and it's a fresh word and I'm believing tonight God's gonna speak to you in a mighty way I come from Miami Florida I'm part of an inner city urban church we just announced six months ago that my wife and I we are stepping out to plant a church in the downtown Miami area it's beginning it's exciting man and God's already working in our city and tonight I'm really believed I don't know who you are and how you got here or what you walked in here with tonight but I believe there is a God who was alive there's a God who is active then he wants to be invited into your life fully and tonight I really believe that you're gonna leave this place better than the way that you walked in through God's Word amen so tonight feel free to holler back you can say that's good you could say Amen you could say I like that you can see what people my church say they say preach it white boy so just feel free on the count of three just try one of those who regret ready one two three freakin racist conference John 20 are you there it's gonna be good tonight John 20 verse 13 they asked her woman why are you crying they've taken my lord away she said and I don't know where they've put him at this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there but she did not realize that it was Jesus woman he said why are you crying who is it you're looking for thinking he was the gardener she said sir if you've carried him away tell me where you have put him and I will get him jesus said to her Mary she turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic rabboni which means teacher jesus said do not hold on to me for I have not yet returned to the Father go instead to my brothers and tell them I'm returning to my father and your father to my god and your God verse 18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news someone say the news with the news I have seen the Lord I have seen the Lord maybe just one more verse tonight John chapter 3 John chapter 3 verse 16 most of us in this place we know this scripture but let me just read it to tonight I think this is a helpful beautiful picture John 3:16 simply says this for God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever someone say whoever that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life I want to take a few moments tonight and I want to preach this message simply titled this he sees you he sees you and let's pray let's that's the Holy Spirit do what only the Holy Spirit can do Lord we thank you so much that tonight you have you've gathered us here in this place and Lord tonight your word tells us Lord that God where we are Jesus you are Lord tonight we believe God that we're not just sensing a cool atmosphere but rather it's your presence that we're in right now hello at your presence that changes us it's the Holy Spirit we invite you to do the impossible we open up our hearts from the sinner to the saint and everyone in between do work in this place tonight Jesus we honor you we magnify you we praise the one name the name that sits above every name that name is Jesus and if you believe it tonight come on all of God's people said all of God's people said come on if you love Jesus water him a big shout of praise all over this house oh you know my wife is here tonight and that's that's always fun for me and I love traveling my wife I told you we actually met we were 17 years of age I was I was in a church service kind of like this one I saw her she was like up in the balcony area and when I saw I literally thought she was like an angel she like I think she had that Beyonce fans at her feet and her hair was blowin I felt like every step that she took the ground just shook you know I just said I choose you you know and it took her a while to choose me back but praise God she did greatest decision of her life hey and Austria we've now been together since we're 70 I just I turned 31 this year and we'll be married for nine years in August and I don't have to say this man I love I love I love my wife but but but here's what I've discovered and just just bear with me for a moment I I have discovered that girls um girls you you are you you you are complicated I just no no no I love you but but complicated in fact some guys they want a shout but the married guys didn't know they can't shout right now I love girls I but but you're you're complicated and I've learned principles it feels like every year I learn I learn a little bit more but as I learn more I was I didn't know that much to begin with but um one of the principles that I've learned with girls and ladies here's a good moment for you to agree with me is that it's not just what you say to a girl that matters but rather it's is how you say some of you girls that never turned up that much in church before ever great preach to me shut up shut up it's not it's not just it's not what it's how you say it for instance for instance my wife she she's funny you know she likes to take me on the journey with her and one of her favorite things she loves to take me shopping with her now now now right away this is like this is weird because my wife she's like in a department store she's getting clothes she's grabbing everything then she goes into the dressing room but I'm always a creepy because I have to go and follow her and send that weird stool like a predator you know everybody's walking by I'm like hey you know it's weird like I know somebody in there like no you're weird daddy I'm like no like clockwork this is what my wife does this is what she does I'm saying like you know creepy then my wife she comes out of the dress room with a pair of jeans on and she always does the same thing she's barefoot but for some reason she stands on her tippy-toes and she walks that shows babe babe babe babe babe babe babe babe you know babe babe had it babe how do these jeans look you know now what I normally would say is babe those jeans look good because good to a man means good if God was good enough for God in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and he said it was good if it was good enough for God you think it would be good enough for women but good doesn't mean good to my wife good means average mediocre oh so you're saying these jeans make me look fat I'm not getting these jeans I've learned it's not just what I say it's how I say it if I like the jeans I've learned that my wife she wants me to lose my ever-loving mind my wife she comes out you know she comes out the restroom babe babe babe babe you know babe babe babe hey ladies look she wants me to go crazy oh there's a god somewhere oh girl spitter he's shunned Aruba Sheena Oh girls spin spin get 10 pairs get 20 pairs get up if I do that that means oh you like him I love you girls you're amazing I think the good news tonight I literally thought we were about to have a good demon moment right there I think the good news tonight if I can use this somewhat as a premise is that is that our God isn't that complicated say what do you mean well just just try to bear with me for a moment Jesus simply said this jesus said if you love me you will obey me meaning lots of times people wonder oh my goodness we know what's God's love language how do i how do I show God that I love them is it how loud I sing is it how much I go to church is it how much money I put into the offering container is it the duration of my fast how do I show God that I love him Jesus makes it really simple he says if you love me you will simply obey me God's love language has always been one thing it's called obedience here's what I've learned though it gets weirder honestly this section is scaring me tonight I love this group he's good it's honestly here's what I've learned I've honestly learned that we start talking about things like obedience and right away a lot of us we kind of cringe Oh Oh B D instead I don't like that word here's here's what I've discovered obedience really a better way of saying it just to simply trust God's plan over your plan God I'm actually going to trust your plan over my plan I'm going to obey you ultimately God I'm going to let you lead me hear me night the problem for so many of us is this until you understand how much God loves you you'll never allow God to lead you Paul says this in Ephesians he says I want you to try and grasp how wide how deep how high how long God's love is because when you do that you'll be full of the measure of God's love you're me loud and clear tonight whatever you are full of it's what you'll be led by the problem for a lot of us tonight is that we're not full of God's love instead we're full of anger that's why we're always led by our anger some of us were full of bitterness that's why we're always led by our bitterness some of us are full of unforgiveness because something happened in our past and because of it unforgiveness leads us but Paul says this Paul says maturity in God is not when you begin to proclaim your love for God but rather when you stand and you bask in God's love for you I want to get full of God's love now I'll be led by God's love tonight is kind of a different night for a Friday night session because typically my assignment would be to come up here and to preach a message to pump you up and get your faith really large but tonight I really just want to try and do something a little bit different I want to proclaim tonight God's love to you because I believe that if you'll get full of his love you'll be led by his love you actually love him in the way that he wants to be loved which is God I trust you with my life I want to give you three simple thoughts tonight about what I believe the process of God's love looks like in the process we take in the beginning to let God lead us number one if you're taking notes write this down he being God he expressed it he expressed it I'm so thankful that we serve a God who is alive and who is active whether or not you believe God is moving guess what he's doing more than you think he's doing more than you can imagine whether or not you feel him tonight guess what he's closer than you think we serve an expressive God I love that about our God he has no problems expressing to you how he feels I know we live in a day and age where a lot of men in 2015 somehow are ignorant enough to believe that it's not their job to pursue a woman in fact some guys in here actually think it's the woman's job to pursue them but what I love about your God is your God is a real man he's got no problem pursuing his bride called the church he's an expressive God he's expressive a lot of men today we don't want to show emotion no no no we want to stay locked up we don't want you to know what's going on inside of us not your God your God is expressive your God has feelings did you know me he has feelings Bible says God gets angry Bible says that God has grief God has compassion Bible says he gets jealous Bible says he laughs I love that God laughs hey that's good I think we didn't laugh more in church in fact I've started practicing when I get really frustrated instead of like screaming and getting mad I just start laughing car crushed can't pay my bills a hey God is expressive and what I so love about him is that God doesn't just say that he loves you he shows you that he loves you I grew up in a pretty strong Pentecostal home I'm for generations Pentecostal preacher on both sides and I grew up in a strong conservative home and my dad you know he had all sorts of funny rules I often joke about the fact that my first slow dance was to our God is an awesome God you don't know about my pain you know and my dad was always indirect really fun traditions and like different things and we should do this thing on Christmas morning we would do the thing called the Santa circle ever I was probably about 10 years of age and it was the Santa circle what that is that there's four boys in my house had an older brother and two younger brothers and we would get around the Christmas tree and dad we put on Santa costume and it was called the Santa circle and he would pull the president like oh ho ho you know we all knew it was dad okay dad no oh ho I'm Santa you know and then he would he would give us a gift and we would open the gift and once we opened it everybody would clap and then the next brother would open the next gift it started 10 years of age I remember I was I was there this Christmas born I was opening up gifts and when I was opening up the gifts I was kind of having a bad attitude on Christmas Day I was kind of being selfish and I was kind of being sarcastic I was saying thank you but I was doing it with a sarcastic tone how many know there's nothing more annoying than a 10 year old who's sarcastic my parents don't play the like rich will kill you bury you in the backyard make another one nobody ever know you existed you know and so I remember like my dad's in a city of Santa ho ho you know and I open this this president Michael oh thanks you know just like that and my dad quickly turned out of his Santa voice into dad voice he said hey rich change your attitude and my dad has like this crooked finger that he points at you with rich changed your attitude now in my house we didn't do like one you know Cody too you know you know Cody you know ninety-eight it was just one there wasn't one two three and so literally like I opened the gift I'm like yeah I saw my dad the circle came back around to me and I opened the gift again and I just said oh you know thanks when I did this Christmas Christmas Day it was on like Donkey Kong mmm my dad believes in the gift of laying on of hands if you know time talking about my dad took me into the back Santa Claus if you will Bad Santa Hey and let's just say he blessed me that day okay I was changed from the inside out in my dad you know he would he would discipline us and he was crazy at the end of him disciplined us that the worst thing he would do is he would make us look back at him and say I love you that's like the meanest thing ever you know you're crying you ever cry so hard you convince yourself you have asthma look but it's like Rich tell Santa you love him you know I'm like I remember I was I was crying but hmm dad but I said thank you and everything my dad man said rich you said thank you but you didn't show gratitude why because how many of you know there's a big difference between saying something and showing it saying something is easy but friends make no mistake talk is cheap but what I love about our God is we don't serve a talker we serve a door for God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son if you're thankful tonight for Jesus somebody makes some noise in this place doesn't just say God so loved the world this is end there but rather it goes into an action god so loved the world that He gave that he gave man reality of it is is that giving is an action giving there's always a sacrifice literally the moment that giving dries up the relationship is over because a relationship cannot happen without generosity there's no doubt man you can give without loving but how many know you cannot love without giving but God didn't just love you so much that he wrapped up a big old gift no he wrapped up the greatest gift ever it was his one and only Son it's some of us in your night we still don't understand the level of this gift and until I understand how much this love of the father is I'll never allow this father to lead me God so loved you that he he gave his one and only Son to the truth the matter is that all of us according to Scripture have fallen short of God's glory and I don't know who you are tonight I don't know where you come from I don't know how you walked in this room I know we've had a lot of followers of Jesus and there's others of you night you came in with a heart full of doubt you came in with a critical spirit you just kind of came in here wondering let me just tell you real quick all of us would agree that if we kind of get our head above the haze every once awhile if we can get our head above the clouds every once awhile what we'll see what we'll all agree with is that this world is a broken place nobody's in you're going oh man this is this is bright this is perfect is it this is how it's supposed to be no we all have these moments where we go wait a minute something's wrong with this place this place is broken this is this isn't right what what's wrong with humanity well according to God's Word you and I we were born with this sinful nature and sin has only one reward it's called death for the wages of sin is death the only thing that you and I deserve is is death our only wage our only payment was death but God loved you so much he expressed it by giving Jesus and Jesus came and he didn't just trade places with you it's better than that he didn't just die for you on a cross it's better than that he actually died as you on that cross and he died because sin has a wage and it's called death and Jesus died so that you could live he expressed it now I've learned in my marriage and study and research will tell us this as well that 85% of communication is nonverbal meaning it's body language meaning when my wife walks I said how was your day she was fine I know that fine don't really mean fine but rather when my wife does her hair like that I know I'm in trouble when she does her eyebrows a certain way I know that she's saying hey I need to spend more time with you her body language communicates a whole nother message sometimes than what she is just saying I want you understand something for a moment the cross that you wear around your neck is so much more than a piece of jewelry but rather it is a visual aid it is God's body language from heaven to say that you are so loved the cross is not a symbol the cross is a statement from Heaven's throne it's a shout with no words to say how much are you loved you are so loved if you didn't get it with my words look at my body language I love you I gave my one and only Son for you in Jesus he didn't come to just give you more religion religion his rules regulations Jesus came for a relationship with you I love it he did come to law you to death he came to love you to death his name is Jesus and he's got a plan for you tonight somebody gives some praise in this place oh you can do better than that somebody give God some praise in this place we serve an expressive God I'm not just gonna say it I'm gonna I'm gonna show it you are so loved I love God because he expressed it but I want you to get the second part cuz this is so important you experienced it this is big this is big I'm praying for this tonight right now it's got to go beyond my words it's got to go into the supernatural here it's got to go to revelation here he expressed it I used the word you on purpose you experienced it the truth of matter is is that God has expressed his love he continues to express his love there's nothing new about God except for one thing his mercies which are new every day yet if we're being honest like if we grew up in America which most of us probably did we all have heard the scripture for God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son we've heard that many of us can quote that I mean thank you Tim Tebow we know the verse but what happens to a lot of us is sometimes you read for God so loved the world and it seems so big and it seems so macro God loves the world yeah I know God loves the world yet how many of us sometimes we remove ourselves from the world I know God loves the world but do you actually know that God loves you I miss his cries out 17 years of age my life was utterly changed from the inside out I answered the call of God never looked back made a lot of mistakes from that moment but I never looked back yet it probably wouldn't have been until maybe three or four years ago that I actually get start to get the revelation that Wow God God God loves me yeah what he loves he loves me he see the truth the matter is it's not that surprising to me that God loves you but it's shocking to me that he loves me why cuz I know me I know all about me I know the good the bad and I know all of the ugly and you're telling me that God still loves me so that that messes with you cuz that that changes something God's love is not just to be known it's to be experienced it's to be experienced it's a big God but he's he's big enough to be small enough to be intimately acquainted with you there's a big difference between knowing about something experiencing it and this whole conference man it's cool you're hearing about God's love and you're knowing about God's love but my prayer tonight is that you would experience it I mean this is fun how many out there come on by show of hands how many of you ever you ever heard of New York City Wow look at that everybody all right here's a fun question how many of you by show of hands have never ever been to New York City never ever been there look at that even a new English still never been okay it won't be Enza for those of us who've been to New York City come on how many know that doesn't matter how many times you go to the Wikipedia page doesn't matter how many times you go to Yelp and discover all the greatest restaurants in York you can know all there is to know about New York City you can read about it census you can read about its population you can read about its history you can read about the strategies for the future you can know all the stuff about New York City but those of us who've been to New York City will all agree that you just actually have to at some point go to New York City to experience it I can get blue in the face and I can scream and I can be descriptive and I can tell stories I can make you laugh and I can make you cry but at the end of the day I can't explain to you what it's like to walk down Soho in the fall I can't explain to you what it's like to eat Italian food in the Italian District I can't explain to you what it's like to be in Times Square you just actually have to go there the people they go all rich how do I experience God's love it's the same way how do you experience New York you've just got to be willing to go there you could say oh I go to New York all right you want to go I mean I mean what do I got to do well maybe take a flight well maybe take a train maybe maybe take a bus I don't want do any of that can we walk nope can't walk can you crawl won't crawl but I want to go well but you're not going to go you actually have to be willing to go there it's the same thing with God's love you don't have to know all about it but you just got to be willing to go there i'ma go there tonight in worship I'm gonna go there tonight in my prayer I'm gonna go there tonight in the preaching of God's Word I want to experience God's love is there anybody out there who wants to experience it tonight he expressed it so that you could you could experience it and what I love so much about God's love is that the closer and closer you get to him the more and more you learn about him everybody loves love because the funnest part about love is like you know learning about the other person that's why I like you know new love is the most exciting I remember I first met Don tree on the phone like you know till four no more like hey oh my goodness I'm like oh you like blue oh my god I love the color blue you know I'm like you've eaten pizza oh my god I love pizza it's like the dumbest stuff ever you know you're married for ten years is like girl make your own pizza you know why because the learning leads to loving the pursuing produces the passion a lot of us what happens is is that we get on fire for Jesus at a conference like this because we're learning and it's leading to loving and we're pursuing and it's producing passion but then somehow it's like we kind of get into an old marriage with God and all of a sudden we go up I know everything there is to know about this God Fran I want you to know something you could not be further from the truth what I've discovered is the closer I get to Jesus the more I discover just how far away I always was from Jesus his love it's oceanic man it's bigger than you could ever imagine His grace is deeper His grace is wider I got to get full of his love so I'll be led by his love somebody night needs to experience all there is in God make some noise tonight if you believe it you experience it not your neighbor but your mom not your dad you it's personal it's real yes he loves the world but you and I we are the world heard this beautiful little story about this little boy about nine years old and he had an older sister was about 11 years of age and the older sister she had contracted a rare blood disease and the only way that she could get a cure for this blood disease if she had a blood transfusion but the blood transfusion had to come from somebody who had already overcome the disease the only match they could find was her little brother who had gone through it before so the doctor came to the little boy 9 years of age and said son would you be willing to give your sister a blood transfusion so that her life could be spared unless she gets this blood transfusion she'll probably die the little boy thought about it for a while he considered it he looked back at the doctor and said yes I will give my sister the blood transfusion they put both the children into wheelchairs and they begin to wheel them into the operating room they were silent not much words were said but all of a sudden they hooked both of them up and the blood transfusion began and as soon as it began the little boy 9 years of age looked up with a doctor and he said doctor when am I going to die now and all of us in the doctor realized oh wow the little boy the entire time thought that a blood transfusion meant that he had to give his life in order for his sister to find life I just I just wonder how that little girl must have felt in that moment as she experienced this love from her brother her brother was willing to give his life that she might find life if she didn't get his blood she was going to die Frank can I tell you tonight that you and I are in the exact same situation if we didn't get the Kings blood his name is Jesus you and I were never going to find a cure but rather we were going to die but thank God for Jesus he wasn't just willing to give his blood he actually went to the cross he died declared it is finished so that you and I could be resurrected we are more than conquerors greater is He that is in us that he that is in the world somebody makes some noise tonight I want to experience it I'm lost without his blood has sense it tonight it's real I feel it I witness it I've experienced his love you see he expressed it you personally you you experience it I love this is the worship he makes the way up this is I love this so much he expressed it you experienced it look at this we evangelize it who he expressed it you experienced it now we evangelize it maybe now got some people you're going yellow like evangelize dog that's like that's one of those weird chipped words you know like that's creepy you know maybe that you brought a friend like dang it you know it's getting weird you ever notice that whenever you bring up your friend at church even praying for forever Church always gets weird it's always a guest pastor it's always the Book of Ezekiel today we're gonna study demonology like dang it not today man you're always looking friend it's never like this it's never like this evangelize hear me is beautiful is what it means it means to preach the gospel you're rich I don't okay to other weird words not not that weird preach simply means to proclaim gospel simply means good news meaning our job is to proclaim good news it's so good where we get there in a second our job is to proclaim good news and what I love about this idea is that now we both know right now that today we are living in a world in 2015 that is full of bad news all you got to do tonight when you leave is go home turn on the TV and you're gonna find a bunch of bad news bad news in the Middle East bad news and our political system bad news in our economy some of you go into your job it's full of bad news some of you're going into a home tonight full of bad news some of you're going back to a relationship full of bad news bad news bad news bad news our world is full of it yet friends we may live in this world but we're not of this world we're not full of bad news rather we've got good news Jesus Saves Jesus sets free whom the Sun sets free is free indeed he expressed it you experience it with me together Evangelos it we share it we spread it I love John 20 I read it at the beginning John 20 is the very first Easter we have I won't try to put some context into this for a moment cuz this is this is powerful to see this tonight literally it's it's Sunday Jesus died on a Friday it's Sunday yet at this moment there's a bunch of bad news going around these disciples these followers of Jesus they thought he was coming to rule and reign right now in the present tense in a political way in a full way here on earth but now Jesus died upon a cross bad news Bible says many scattered and he fell away there scares are full of bad news Friday he died yet on Sunday some of the disciples they came to to pay honor to his body Peter and John they get there at the scene they look inside the tomb to their amazement the stone has been rolled away but when they look inside the tomb they can't believe it Jesus gone they freaked out and they think they can't but they run away the Bible says if the Bible says something beautiful there is a there's a woman there but Mary Magdalene a woman important to note because in middle eastern culture 2,000 years ago women were often overlooked women were oppressed Mary Magdalene she's sitting Athiya legends would tell us that she had seven demons cast out of her many ways she was a cast away from society the Bible says that Mary only just in your heart tonight well says that she's she's weaving she's crying it's it's a bad day this is bad news it was one thing for her Savior to die but now the fact that he's missing can this get any worse Bible says that she she looks into the tomb and she looks in there she just she's weeping and she's crying I don't if you've ever been in a situation before where you've been in pain or you've been broken and you're crying you ever try to look through your tears your vision gets completely blurred many of you tonight the bad news in your life has blurred your vision what you're seeing is not actually reality but rather you're looking through the filter of pain Mary she looks in she looks into the tomb and as she looks in there and she's she's weeping and she's crying this is this is crazy all of a sudden a man appears and we know the Bible says that the man is Jesus but but Mary doesn't know it's Jesus Mary thinks he's the gardener and so Mary turns up said she's Joe she's like you know hey Jesus soon where'd you put Jesus Jesus she looked to the most sir if you took him tell me where you put him missus this is funny Jesus where's Jesus hey Jesus I'm sick Jesus I can't find Jesus where you at Jesus Jesus Jesus is what some of our prayer life looks like right hey Jesus huh I don't see you Jesus where yet Jesus Jesus oh Jesus that's like the thing she's looking for she's actually staring at but her filter is bad news he's dead he's gone he's no longer I love this moment because Mary she's looking at Jesus and she thinks he's the gardener but finally look what Jesus does Jesus simply says Mary I want you to know tonight you serve a big God yet he's still small enough to know each and every one of your names and in knowing your name he knows everything there is to know about you he loves you he has a plan for you he is acquainted with every one of you Mary he just says her name Mary the Bible says that Mary turns I can see the picture she wipes her tears away and she runs towards Jesus and she wraps her arms around Jesus understand she had witnessed the expressed love of Jesus Bible says that Mary Magdalene stood at the foot of the cross she experienced the love of Jesus now the Bible and she has her arms around him she's holding on to him yet Jesus says the most profound thing that has been messing with me in the last few weeks this is what Jesus says in this moment he says Mary do not hold on to me but rather Mary go and tell others about me the very first witness of the gospel the very first preacher of the gospel was Mary Magdalene the woman who had seven demons cast out of her who was overlooked and oppressed Jesus simply says this once you've been filled by my love simply obedience now is to go and be spilled out with my love to everybody that you see I get filled up I get spilled out I get filled up I get spilled out he fills me up I gotta get spilled out again the Bible says that Mary goes back to the disciples with the news with the news I got news tonight I came in here with some news tonight I love Mary's testimony it's not eloquent it isn't one that's been to seminary it isn't that profound she's simply walk single hey fellas I got some news tonight I have seen the Lord he's alive he's been set free he's not bound by death you don't have to be damned bound by death I've seen them I've seen Jesus he's alive he's alive Oh Fred the cross if it shows us anything it shows us that Jesus was a man but an empty tomb declares that Jesus was all gone he's alive he is alive I got news tonight I've seen him I've seen I've seen him we've seen Bible says we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony I've got to proclaim it I've got to speak it out that's where my power comes from some unite you need to get good at sharing the simple fact that you've seen Jesus doesn't have to be that Polish doesn't have to be that good in fact the only thing that makes a good testimony is sharing the second part of the testimony say what do you mean you ever heard a bad testimony hears a bad testimony oh man I was crazy oh yeah oh man I used to party hard in New England man I was the man that called me the Rhode Island man I was the I was oh man every night different party Oh to the windows it was awesome and then one day I met Jesus yeah yeah yeah no yeah come check out church it's cool yeah yeah we had a wheel like a Wednesday night function I'm not don't feel pressured don't come I mean just know only if you want to me it's Jesus not me I want to get good at the second part of my testimony I don't know about you but I was lost but guess what I've been found tonight I was blind over baby now I can see I was dead but now I'm alive tonight I've seen the hope he's alive I guess what weapons are gonna be formed day in and day out but guess what they might be formed what they will not prosper I got a testimony friend we just be honest for a moment you got to get this tonight you got to get this this is this is for somebody in this place jesus is alive he he's alive like have you ever considered what this whole thing our faith is about it all hinges on the vent no hitch is on one of it it's called the resurrection how in the world did 12 farmers and tax collectors and fishermen I mean uneducated ordinary dudes how did 12 dudes take a message around the globe multiply it to a point that now one out of every three people on the planet claims to be a follower of Jesus I'll tell you it's called the resurrection of Jesus the life I mean no single event in the world has shaped the world like the resurrection I mean our entire calendar you know BC and AD is all about the resurrection somebody saw something somebody witnessed something he's alive let me consider Jesus never ever ever wrote anything down ever wrote a book never wrote anything down and today there are more books written about Jesus in all of the world and any other subject on the entire planet I think he's alive somebody saw something somebody witnessed something Fred Jesus he he never wrote a song never wrote one song yet there are more songs about Jesus than any other subject in the entire world I think he's alive I think somebody saw something Jesus I mean he was never an artist he never sculpted he never painted he never built a monument yet there are more monuments there are more paintings there are more sculptures in this world than on any other topic in all the world I think somebody saw something I think Jesus is alive

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Published: Sat Nov 21 2015