Mystery of the Resurrection

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i've been on the kingdom series and will continue with that until finally the bucket is emptied and the water from the well has been received and we will continue today i'm starting with the subject the mystery of the resurrection of the dead let me pray for you before we take our seats heavenly father thank you for your blessing thank you for this service thank you for the anointing in this place thank you for those who have so able to let us in praise and worship to worship you and thank you for the worshipers that have come willingly with no collusion to submit their worship and their sacrifice of praise to you we pray that you will receive our sacrifice of praise and we thank you for in advance reciprocating our sacrifice our praise in things that we can use in this tangible world and we thank you that we are building some physical thing in the heavens not just for ourselves but of our generations our children our grandchildren our great-grandchildren we bring this country before you we thank you for saving this country from peril and we thank you for keeping us from the dreaded cove at 19 because you are jehovah rafika the god that heals we thank you for blessing africa as a whole and keeping this wonderful continent we thank you that our prayers that we prayed for decades that seemingly didn't provide answers that this is possibly one of the answers that you protected us as a continent we pray for south africa that the outbreaks in south africa will be contained and that no mischief will come we thank you in advance for prosperity and blessing prosperous life prosperous physical health and the manifestation of things in our lives so that we can enjoy a quality of life bless this our service as we predict and receive by faith the resurrection of the dead in jesus name amen remain standing thank you for being with us this morning and unfortunately we can only make accommodation and provision for 100 adults in a venue that will change in the future and will adjust accordingly let's go to first corinthians chapter number 15 i believe it is let's actually follow the slides let's go to john 3 verse 3. nicodemus came to jesus by night and asked him what it would take to enter into the kingdom and jesus said except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of god which is going to be next year series this year series in he's in verse 5. nicodemus said should i be born again by entering into my mother's womb a second time and jesus said verily i say to you except a man be born of water in the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of god so from the beginning of the year we started with entering the kingdom of god everyone say enter the kingdom matthew 13 11 jesus is telling one of seven parables this is the first and the disciples asked him why do you speak to the people in parables he said to them because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them it is not given luke chapter 8 verse 10 and he said to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of god so the messenger of the kingdom of heaven the message of the kingdom of god are just about the same but to others in parables that in seeing they might see and in hearing they might not understand it's possible to understand what they hear but they might not understand but for you it's given to you to know understand receive see the mysteries of the kingdom of god and people in any service whether you are in this physical service whether you are watching online somewhere in harare or around the world you will hear but you might not understand sometimes people say to me you know the server is really great but i couldn't understand what you were saying well that's not my fault it isn't my fault and so we try to make the message eligible as valuable as possible for as many people as possible and so if we keep on preaching milk the meat people are starved their teeth never develop hebrews 5 and by reason of use their senses are not exercised to know good and evil right and wrong and to manifest their gift and so we have to provide milk but we also have to make sure we're throwing our chunks of meat uh the definition of the word mystery is from the greek word mastorium and it uh it means a coded truth that is hidden a coded truth that is hidden it's uh god doesn't hide things from you he hides them for you bible says that when we come into revelation knowledge or when we uncover a mystery they belong to us that once a mystery is discovered it now belongs to us and our children forever so a parable is a heavenly story with an earthly meaning a parable is a word picture it's a word picture that is a visual for our eyes not a building block or principle for the mind and so what a parable does it it develops a word picture it shows you the possibilities of what a thing can be it's not a single block but it's an entire building that settles in your mind and so a lot of times when we speak we speak to children to babies and uh grown-ups adults in the spirit sometimes can't handle or sometimes things for adults children can't handle so the meaning of mystery something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain a mystery is a religious belief based on divine revelation especially one regarded as beyond human understanding a mystery is generally something not understood or something that is beyond understanding we've discovered 17 mysteries in the kingdom mysteries of the kingdom will go through these very quickly we may deal with them as individual subjects number one the mystery of the kingdom and that is including the mystery of the kingdom of heaven number two the mystery of israel will do a lengthy teaching in the future on the mystery of israel how god chose them from abraham made them a people his desire was to make them kings and priests which is uh royal priests and uh how israel renounced almighty god they renounced god's plan renounced jesus and they were scattered abroad and at the end time they will come back and they would acknowledge jesus as their savior not entirely but as far as the religious body of jewish believers is concerned and some of the signs of the end time matthew chapter number 24 says that when you see the olive tree blossoming you will know that the end is near so the olive tree is israel and the trump presidency has done something that was thought to be impossible by moving the u.s embassy to jerusalem and openly stating as policy that jerusalem is the capital city of israel and yes it caused alarm globally worldwide amongst many of the nations that support and patronize the palestinian people because they also have their rights and so on but the sign of the mystery of israel being restored is now very quickly being fulfilled number three the mystery of iniquity we dealt with that in the last couple of weeks which is a system of organized evil it's not just evil it's a system of organized evil the mystery of god which is his preeminence before everything was before everything will be is the constant which is god always there will never move and his word is synonymous with him number five the mystery of godliness for great is the mystery of godliness god was manifest in the flesh first timothy 3 16 number six the mystery of his will and basically when we deal with god's will they are the seven mysteries of god's will number seven the mystery of christ which is the manifestation of the god man in the earth or the image of god in the earth in the midst of a sinful and godless world number eight the mystery of the gospel this is the vehicle in which the the kingdom of god is released the gospel is good news the gospel is good news when the gospel is preached you cannot preach the gospel without talking about the kingdom of god john said the kingdom is coming jesus preached the kingdom he sent his apostles matthew 11 10 to preach the kingdom the seventy came back with joy luke 11 luke 10 17 saying that even the devils are subject unto us through thy name number nine the mystery of faith which is the currency of the heavens number 10 the mystery of the incarnation the mystery of incarnation our virgin conceives isaiah 7 14 isaiah 9 6 number 11 which we talking about today the mystery of the resurrection which is life in god eternal the mystery of the resurrection please say the mystery of the resurrection can't understand how some of you are folding your arms when you should be taking notes i don't even know how you got a place in this service if you're not interested number 12 the mystery of the indwelling christ the mystery of the indwelling christ that is christ in you the hope of glory number 13 the mystery of the body of christ the mystery of the body of christ that is the church which is the pride which is the word pride is as a lion lions in a group are called a pride the church the pride of christ so christ is mufasa we are all little simbas number 14 the mystery of israel's blindness number 15 the mystery of the rapture of the church which is the second coming of jesus the translation of the saints number 16 the mystery of the antichrist which is pseudo-force christ dealt with that last week i believe of the week before number 17 the mystery of babylon the great that's the fourth church jezebel in operation so let's start with hebrews chapter number six and verse one as the apostle is addressing the church and he starts off the book of hebrews talking about oh god who at sundry times spoke unto the nations through the prophets and then through his son and that how he upholds all things by the word of his power and he goes on in chapter number two to talk about the power of the gospel and that the gospel of christ is actually extremely powerful it's like a two-edged sword dividing between the soul and the marrow joints and the marrow the spirit and the soul and is a discerner of truth and then he moves on later on in chapter number three beginning to talk about how this truth is applicable and when he gets to chapter number six chapter number five he talks about uh the need for spiritual maturity because uh to understand truth is to understand or to know that the truth is in dimensions that all truth is constant all truth is eternal all truth is relevant so if something is true today it was true when adam was alive it will be true when the last person is born truth doesn't change but what truth does truth then exposes another dimension of itself and so you can in maths or arithmetic you can start with one and one is true so that's truth but in that particular formula that one and one is true inside of that simple truth it has within it the potential to reveal levels of geometry and algebra etc that will take us way beyond where you can have men sitting in a lab who through mathematics calculates the speed of an asteroid that civil millions of miles away and develop a probe a vehicle launched from a spot on a rocket to join the asteroid somewhere to gather samples and to send samples from that asteroid in its uh substantive content back to the earth to be analyzed and so all of those individuals didn't go straight into a phd in mathematics or in physics they started with the very simple truth that one and one is true that two multiplied by zero is zero and so understanding the very principle also gives one the potential because once you enter into that world now you have the potential of going into infinity you will never exhaust the whole principle of mathematics because the whole universe is built on maths so maths and faith are the same they're the same the problem with us we think that kingdom cathedral is 25 million it is that's just a number it's equal to faith because when your faith gets to 25 million you'll discover it's just a number so when you first got married you and your honey were living in a one-bedroom apartment with a cardboard box and uh you had the newspaper in your shoes but 25 years later you're still with the same girl hopefully and your house has expanded and all you've done is you've increased in maths when you first started work you were earning 10.60 a week as an apprentice and you survived you lived you had love you had fresh air you had strawberries and all of that but now years later with the same person god willing uh you're still the same people but now your car's bigger your house is bigger your travel is bigger your wardrobe is bigger all you've done is you've increased in mass and so what the apostle paul is saying here in chapter number six of hebrews after he deals with the lack of spiritual maturity and the need for it so that your gift can manifest he says because you are babies there's things that you should know that you should have known but you have to leave therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine one doctrine of christ let us go on unto perfection not laying again not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works faith toward god doctrine of baptisms laying on of hands number five the resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment he says these are basic principles which we have to leave because verse number three says let us go on to perfection he says this we will do if god permits the word permit there is not permission the word permit is rather if god permits so as you are building the inspectors come and examine the trenches of the foundation then they examine the foundation and give you a permit to go to the next level they then examine the walls going up and they give you a permit to put up the roof and then they examine that they give you a permit for the waterworks and the electrical work and once the whole building is done you should not occupy the building until a permit of occupation has been given and authorized by the right people and so he says we will do all of this every one of these requires a permit so let's now look at the resurrection of the dead first corinthians 15 51. he has already talked about one star differing from another each of them is named and each of them differs in glory one from another and so he says now in dealing with the second coming because in some of the epistles the apostle paul talks about people like hymogenes who have deceived many by saying that christ has already returned and therefore destabilizing the faith of many because in the backdrop historically this was in a time of significant and major persecution where christians were literally dying because of what they believed they were being persecuted in horrendous ways and so people like homogeneous and others said to them you guys are serving god for for nothing because jesus has already come back and destabilizing your face so the apostle paul then is going to now write that uh false statement and those false positions and so he says in 51 of first corinthians 15 behold i show you a mystery say i show you a mystery now say lord show me the mystery say that one against lord show me the mystery okay so we will not all sleep but we shall be changed so according to chapter number 11 of the book of john jesus said to his disciples and he said to to mother lazarus is not dead he is asleep so the first thing that we need to know is that death is not permanent that death is actually slumber it's sleep and so when somebody passes away that's in our family or whatever the case might be yes we are going to be emotional yes we are going to feel lost but what we have to be encouraged in is that the individual has just gone to bed my mom passed away on the 31st of of uh august and when we managed to get to the hospital she had passed away on our journey and when we walked into the room we had seen a few days before in a state of a lot of pain and it was seen on her face and it disturbed us so much but when we got into the hospital what was so stunning she was in perfect sleep and she actually had a a a glorious uh monolistic smile it was a mysterious smile she was beautiful her hair was perfect they hadn't touched her they hadn't made up her hair but but as a soul departed her body came into comfort knowing that she was in the hands of god and she had this little sly uh shallistic smile and if you know my mom with that little pushback you would understand what i would talk about a shallistic smile you know like they thought they had me but i beat this one and we were at such rest and such peace even though we were grieving knowing that she was sleeping and she literally looked like she was sleeping because death is slumber and then he says however in a moment in the twinkling of an eye everyone say a twinkling of an eye the twinkling of an eye from what my eschatological uh eschatology professor told us the twinkling of an eye is a thousandth of a second if you can take one second and break it into a thousand pieces that's what the twinkling on eyes it's one thousandth of a second before you can even blink that's how quick he's coming at the last trump that's not donald at the last trump that's the signing of the trumpet it's the prophetic call for the trumpet shall sound everyone say the trumpet shall sound the book of revelation says that an angel is going to stand with one foot on the land one foot on the sea and declare that time is no more and when that trumpet sound is going to be the heavenly jubilee to announce that the jubilee of jubilees has arrived and the dead shall be raised in collapse incorruptible that's the dead in christ and we shall be changed for this corruptible yama must put on incorruption and this mortal that's our physical lives must put on immortality so when this corruptable shall have put on incorruption and this mothra shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written death is swallowed up in victory question oh death where is your sting second question o grave where is your victory he explains the sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law because the wages of sin is death and the law demands that everyone who breaks the law is required to die and so all have sinned and have come short of the glory of god when jesus came he took the sins of all humanity which meant he died on our behalf all thanks be to god which gives us the victory through jesus oh gives us the victory through our lord jesus christ first thessalonians 4 and verse 15. just go back with me to slide number with the slide that says slide first corinthians 15 51. where he says behold i show you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall be changed so the apostle paul was actually expecting that the lord would come in his lifetime we shall not all sleep but we will all be changed now look at the slide that's uh first thessalonians chapter 4 and verse 15. slide number 16 slide number 16 is for this we say unto you by the word of the lord that we which are alive and remain to the coming of the lord shall not prevent them which sleep so paul actually literally believed that jesus was coming in his lifetime that's almost 1900 years ago i imagine if you were the apostle paul teaching that jesus could come at any moment jesus would come in any moment and then in the year 2020 bishop bismarck is teaching jesus will come at any moment jesus would come at any moment when an apostle said that almost 1900 years ago we are instructed to encourage one another with these words that jesus could come at any moment i don't know when he's coming no man knows the day or the hour only the father knows that but it is what we are obligated to teach that jesus is coming he is returning for i say by the word of the lord that we which are alive and remain to the coming of the lord shall prevent them that are asleep that have passed away for the lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout at the voice of the archangels with the trump of god and the dead in christ shall rise first so when jesus comes the dead in christ shall rise first all those that have died in the lord a mother a grandmother a grandfather a great-grandfather as far back as you can remember at our dad's funeral we learned that his grandfather was a preacher in malawi we'll meet there in the sweet by and by we shall meet on that beautiful shore what you must not fear which many of us do fear we fear dying dying is inevitable as we'll deal with in a minute that's going to happen but our hope is this that when we go to bed nothing unusual except for george ciculo i think we we all go to bed at night and sleep it's like putting on your jammies and going to bed it's just sleeping and waking up sleeping and waking up so when you die it's just going to bed don't your neighbor say you're just going to bed say not so soon say not so soon it's just going to bed and yes you'll wait for your husband your wife your children and so on but we'll meet on the other side and the the mystery is that some of you may have lost a child maybe at one or even at birth and you wouldn't even know what they look like but the mystery is when we get to the other side every human being that child is not going to be a baby in eternity you're gonna have a little child running around in heaven oh mommy i missed you my name is no everyone is going to graduate to what the state of jesus was when he rose from the dead and the state of adam when he was planted in the garden of eden when god made him in his likeness we are all going to be in in that world without a male or female gender we are going to be as the angels with no gender and will be known as we are known will be known as we are known and so when the lord comes verse 17 then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the lord verse 18 let's read this together wherefore comfort one another with these words say that again we were talking about mark yesterday teacher and i were talking about you at semi-length yesterday and of course you lost your wonderful wife in a very difficult manner and i'm sure gloria's about this tall now and she may not remember norm fundo too much but on the other side whether the lord waits for another 100 200 years that's his business when we get on the other side you'll see her not in pain that you experienced in the last hours when she was with you but in absolute strength and in glory we'll deal with the story about the parable of a man of a woman that married seven husbands yes let's go to hebrews chapter number nine verse 27 as it is appointed unto man wants to die and thereafter the judgment and so we do not believe in reincarnation we believe that man comes once into the earth and after death is the judgment and so there are certain religious bodies that have a belief that you come back as something or you have come back as a human you may have been a spider or a dog or some sort of an animal and if you do good in this world you'll come back as something that is a notch higher or maybe in a class higher because some classes some beliefs in the world believe in a class system that that the only way you change your class is by doing good when you die you'll come back and you'll now come back as a higher class and if you are in a higher class if you keep on doing good uh you might graduate towards being possibly some sort of a deity if you do bad you're coming as a lower class and so the challenge i have is that there are more people in the lower class than they are in the upper class which constantly means that people don't do well in that particular group but we with christ in us our graduation is the class above us is a glorified being in christ genesis 2 verse 17 the lord said but of the true of the knowledge of good and even you shall not eat because the day you eat of this fruit you shall surely die so what he's saying here you are going to activate the death cycle he said to adam where you are the death cycle has not been activated you are in the world of eternity you are not subject to time and the byproducts of time that even though the morning and the evening or the first day way i've created you i've created you in my likeness in my image after my likeness which means you are a being that exists in eternity before the foundation of the world time i knew you so you were an eternal being not subject to time you are constant in the world of light and constant in the environment of love and so you are not subject to deterioration or corruption in your flesh and so adam flowing through his veins was literal glory he was filled with the glory of god adam's veins were filled with the power and the magnificence of the essence of god and so when they ate of that fruit in a decision they made they chose evil and the knowledge of evil they chose darkness they chose that above choosing life the lord tells us deuteronomy 30 verse 19 i set before you life and death blessing and cursing and then he tells you how to choose and he isn't amazing that even though god tells you what to choose people choose death and cursing and so when you choose life in our case life is jesus when we choose jesus we then activate in our human system life and life more abundantly our body deteriorates but we've activated life what adam and eve did they activated death and their bodies were so strong so powerful that they could live to they could live a whole day which is a thousand years a thousand years is one day days as a thousand years so they activated the death cycle and along with that the byproducts of the death cycle sickness disease pain the sickness is more mental emotional emotional physical uh in the garden of eden adam couldn't dash his foot against the stone psalm 91. and so he didn't know what pain was he couldn't be mad with eve or mad with eve couldn't be mad angry with her husband they they were in a state of totally emotional balance galatians 6 5 22 all the fruit of the spirit was resident in them their physical bodies were satisfied by physical fruit in the garden but inside of them their total being was the fruit of the holy spirit love joy peace not suffering generous kindness genders faith all of that was in them they were in a constant state of knowing and knowledge and love and perfection but when they ate of that fruit that instant the clock started running they activated the death cycle the scripture is not clear how long they were in that glorious cycle in the place called eden the bible doesn't tell us but what we do know from the time that adam activated the death cycle he lived for 939 years in the earth which is quite something proverbs chapter number 27 verse one do not boast of yourself of tomorrow for uh you don't know what the next day is going to bring and so if we get back next sunday by the grace of god you may hear that bishop was preaching so hard on the resurrection of the dead and he went to meet his maker and only 50 people were allowed to go to the funeral i'm going to die don't be surprised if he's this week matthew chapter 6 verse 34 take no thought of tomorrow he's not saying don't be irresponsible he's not saying don't make a plan he's not saying don't get a mortgage he's not saying don't enroll in university what he's saying here is that tomorrow will take care of itself what you have to think of reading the pre text of this verse is saying you have to accommodate for your future in terms of spiritual things make sure that your soul raquel is saved that your spiritual life is growing that you are pursuing and and reaching for those things that are above and not those things that are beneath and you have to press towards the prize of the high calling in christ jesus which are spiritual things not natural things james 4 verse 14 whereas you know not what tomorrow will bring or what is your life going to turn out to be because life as it is is a mere vapor it just appears for a little time and then vanishes away job chapter 7 verse 6 my days are swifter than the weaver shuttle and they are spent without hope just remember this one thing your life is like a wind just the other day i was five years old she and i were having a discussion over lunch yesterday and were talking about mom chichi's mom and we were trying to date uh some of the events in our lives and uh we we were quite stunned and mom sitting right you were quite stunned that when we when i first met mum that she was actually young but she was always the old queen but she was actually young turn to your neighbors say you were actually young rachel you were actually young joe 14 verse 1 man that is born of a woman is just of a few days the oldest person i ever met in my life was pastor baby the night richard lee her our cousin received the holy ghost in ingubuhenja in the flats there he was a church of christ minister for over 80 years and that night he received the holy spirit he was 103 years old and after he received the holy ghost he said i've been alive as a preacher without the baptism of the holy spirit he said and for years when we started hearing about speaking in tongues tauren indie things he said uh i taught against it i thought it was demonic he said and now god has spared me to live a hundred years just for a moment for me to receive the baptism of the holy spirit and a few days later he died but he got a chance that was a friday night it was after midnight uh richard received the holy ghost and passed the babies wanted to speak in tongues it was so amazing saturday he gathered his family shared with his family he received the holy spirit some of them weren't happy sunday he got up and he spoke to his entire church and apologized to them for not teaching them the baptism of the holy spirit and then shared with them his glorious experience and then the unction of the holy spirit and the spirit of utterance came on him acts chapter number two and he began to speak in tongues in the presence of all of them and many that believed his experience because he never misled them they also began to receive the holy spirit and he died in the course of that week and we thank god for the holy spirit but again that 100 years he's just like a vapor ecclesiastes 3 verse 20. all go to one place all of the dust all turn again to dust ecclesiastes 12 7 then shall thus return to the earth as it was but the spirit and the spirit shall return to god who gave it ecclesiastes 8 verse 8 there is no man that has the power over the spirit uh to retain the spirit and there's no man that has the power over death and you read in history about the great tsars of russia and the chancellors of the deutsche lands and the hitlers and the mussolinis the napoleons the charlemagnes you read about the founders of the united states the john pococks and the benjamin franklins the george washingtons and in our own uh history of an african nation of african nations the coming kurumas julius new year is the moyes the mugabes included the mandelas with great power to liberate nations but there's not a single person that has ever had the power over life every single person doesn't have power over that excuse me it's in god's hands but one thing we know that when we die our spirit goes to the lord there was a rich man and a poor man they died on the same day the poor man's name was lazarus and when they died the rich man found himself in hell and he looking up he saw abraham in heaven called abraham's bosom in lazarus with abraham and they had a conversation and the man said please can you let lazarus give me a drop of water and of course it was impossible for that to happen then he said to abraham he said please send lazarus back or somebody from the dead back to warn my brothers and my sisters and abraham's response was they have the law and the prophets if they won't obey the law and the prophets which is the word they won't believe somebody that comes from the dead in my life i have seen three people raised from the dead one time in our revival in bohera when i was 17 a person was raised from the dead but even when that person was raised from the dead and uh there were many people that got saved there were many they were saying hi he wasn't even dead anyway because people won't believe miracle signs and wonders don't grow a church they gather crowds teaching and preaching grows a church discipline grows a church and so when people are chasing miracles and shrinkage and all these things bushirism and stuff like that their faith is very weak what actually what actually approves a believer is one that is able to go through trials and tests and difficulties in the next service i'm preaching on the subject my cross is too heavy first peter chapter number one verse 24 for flesh is as grass a man's life is like the flower of grass it withers away very quickly but the lord or the word of the lord endures forever and so there is a land says and brothers beyond this world there is a world beyond this world it's just above us it's the intangible it's what we call the abstract it's the world that faith cohabits with with the spirit of love and joy and peace and patience and kindness those are the things we attain to that world is just above us and and that world will assist us in in our life on the earth and so when a person lives a very difficult life a world of of egregious sin their body ages quicker in general terms but a person that's serving the lord that doesn't subject themselves to the vices of evil the body deterior the body deteriorates a lot quicker when people serve sin but the body survives a lot longer when you don't subject yourself to the vices of sin i met a guy the other day who is my age and he looks like he's 84. walking like this like he's 84 no teeth everything is white everywhere back bent down because he's given his last 40 years to hard strong drinking but look at me i look like i'm 34 years old amen job chapter 14 verse 14 if a man die shall he live again all the days of my appointed time will i wait till my change come psalm 90 verse 10 the days of our years are 70. that's david saying we have seven decades and by reason of strength you can go to 80. the queen is here she's a strong 82 year old walking cooking every day driving the other day we had to macgyver her car and take out the part because she was driving in the wrong lane and shouting at people because they were in in her view the wrong lane but cooks strong and it's god's grace and we believe she lived as her mother did into her 90s granny maria was 90 something this tall walking taking small steps like this but walking fast praying and making chichi pray amazing and so we we we thank god for a long life psalm 91 the last verse the blessing of psalm 91 is that with long life god will satisfy you and show you your salvation shalt i receive three times i receive i receive i receive if you have long leg granted to you it must be in salvation and in peace and in joy what's the point of having a long life if it's in pain struggling under the same government with the same tyranny with the same struggles it's better for me to go philippians 1 verse 23 paul said i'm i'm i'm in a place of two decisions i have a desire to depart and to be with christ which is more better it's more better i have a desire to be with christ which is more better but the reason i'm still here is so that you get the benefits i have epistles i have to write there's people i have to encourage they are sons i have to raise up the gospel has to be preached and so my body and my soul my body and my soul are separated at death my body's put to the ground but it's waiting for a resurrection moment and that resurrection moment is coming when jesus got the tomb of lazarus and he said show me where you have laid him and he told the girls lazarus is not dead he is asleep he will rise again and the girls went to the future and said lord we know that in the last day he shall rise again because resurrection was taught to the jews they were taught for generations that there is a resurrection of the dead the resurrection of the dead in the new testament church is granted to believers but which we will meet christ in the air but all human beings sinner or not sinner will experience resurrection to the eternal judgment where the sheep and the goats are separated and the bible says in romans 8 and verse 11 but if the spirit of him that raised jesus from the dead dwell in you he that raised up christ from the dead shall also quicken or give life to your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwells in you so the holy spirit is not just given to you to speak in tongues the holy spirit is not just given to you to perform miracles the holy spirit is not given to you to pray deep prayers romans 8 26 with groanings that cannot be uttered but the holy spirit is given to you for this reason that when you die or if you are still alive that the holy spirit will give life to your mortal body and you will meet christ in the air to to be with the lord forever and so jesus yes he did cleanse the leper he did raise the dead and he did give life to those that had no life and and in jesus life experience when john asked him are you the one or should we wait for another he said one of the signs of me being the messiah is that the dead are raised but watch this very carefully the resurrection of the dead was given to three people the widow's son jairus's daughter and lazarus but they all died again but when jesus comes and comes into your life he's going to bring resurrection into your spirit certain of the sadducees and the pharisees asked jesus a question these were the sadducees who do not believe in the resurrection and do not believe in the supernatural they do not believe in angels they said to jesus there was a certain woman turn to your neighbor say a certain woman there was a certain woman who got married and her husband died and then she married again and the second one died and then she married a third time and he died i don't know what was wrong with candidate number four i i wonder who this girl was or what credentials she displayed [Music] i i i can't say too much here unless i get into a place of embarrassing my mother-in-law but she married seven men and the bible says in the book of isaiah in that day seven women shall rise up and say all we want is your name the bible talks about seven different dispensations and so from the first dispensation we see the dispensation of innocence that dispensation looking for a name but the name of adam was not adequate and then the next dispensation the dispensation of conscience the name of uh methuselah was not enough and then the dispensation of human government the name of noah and abraham that was not enough and then in the dispensation of the law the names of moses and joshua caleb and ephraim those names were not enough the names of the prophets elijah and elisha isaiah and jeremiah those names were not enough but i hear an angel whispering to a virgin girl in a little village of nazareth and saying god wants you to carry his son and you shall call his name yeshua jesus in english the bible says in philippians 2 7 that god hath highly exalted him and given him a name that is above every name that at the name of jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that jesus is lord to the glory of god i heard the apostles say neither is there any name given under heaven by the name of jesus that all men shall be saved it's at the name of jesus that demons tremble and are removed jesus said in my name you shall heal the sick in my name you shall speak with other tongues in my name you shall cast out devils oh yes he sanctifies your food when you apply his name he keeps you safe on the road when you use his name he'll activate the miracle in your life at the name of jesus i said there's power in the name i said this healing in the name amen do all things in the name of jesus the bible says in 3 15 of ephesians that by the name of jesus all things are made right and so sisters and brothers if you are gyrus don't just ask the lord to heal your daughter ask him to give you resurrection if you are the widow's son at name don't ask the lord to restore your son but ask him to be a son to you because as many as received him to them he gave the power to become the sons of god and if you are lazarus and you are privileged to receive a resurrection from the dead the first thing you must ask him is not as he said to the little girl give her something to eat it's not like he said to the widow your son is restored if you are lazarus say lord give me the resurrection of the dead in the new world assure me that after i die assure me that i will be raised from the dead to be with you shout lord i receive oh yes so when jesus was crucified the bible says they arrested him in the garden of gethsemane they beat him in the sanhedrin court plucked out his beard the soldiers mocked him they tore him apart by scourging him put a cross for him to carry took him to golgotha the women were weeping for him as he was climbing golgotha he said don't weep for me weep for your children he submitted himself to die he said i laid down my life they nailed him in his hands and nailed him on his feet and pierced him in his side as he laid there and he said when they asked him for a sign i'm only giving you the sign of jonah i'll be three days in the belly of the earth and when he closed his eyes and died the earth had an epileptic convulsion it began to shake in every way as his muscles began to rupture and tear all of creation began to rupture and tear as his blood was poured to the ground the clouds emptied out their tears as a sign of deep intercession the sun hit his face from the face of the son of god who shines on creation the moon refused to rise up because it knew it was a night time for humanity the stars began to retreat in glory because the glory of the only begotten son seemed to be taken away the devils began to get expensive champagne and pop champagne pouring them into classes and began to toast their victory and said we got adam and we killed abel and we destroyed the world and we made noah drunk can i preach like i feel this thing we made lot's wife turn back oh yes we made in the name of jesus we made israel forsake his birthright and they danced and rejoiced they drank their chibuku toasted their double whiskey they lose chad daniels and johnny walker oh yes and the second day they raised the party to a higher level ah yes they pulled out the rolls royce and the jaguar they pulled out the murk and the and the cayenne as they celebrated the death of jesus on the third day they said he's about to rot he's now experiencing rigor mortis satan began to get his chariot ready for the victory march he was about to go before the throne of god to accuse all men but at midnight on the third day suddenly from nowhere starting in the holy years of holies the two angels that were locked up on the top of the tabernacle on top of the ark of the covenant those two angels made in pure gold suddenly manifest into life and they race towards the tomb and those angels came into new testament manifestation rolled away the stone and what was dead came to life victory came to jesus oh death where is your sting o grave where is your victory the sin and the power of sin was covered by the blood devil and your party bring your head here you have bruised my heel i swear down at your head i crush your head every man every woman he whom the son sets free is free indeed but now that i am free i have hope beyond this world jesus is coming back and when he comes back i'm going to meet him in the air i'm going to meet him in the clouds even so lord jesus come in that creek getting up mourning i'm going to raise up to be with god forever i'm leaving this world forevermore the songwriter said this world is not my home i'm just a passing through my treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue good anger yeah i come army beyond the clouds i'm going home to be with the lord thank god he's coming soon give him a praise [Music] turn to your neighbor and say neighbor if i die this week don't cry for me i'll meet you gudenger [Music] i'll meet you [Music] i'm going up i'm going up thank god encourage one another there is a hematic key and a hell to shun praising for heaven for they is the kingdom and the power and the glory i'm leaving this world godanga i'm going to heaven to be with the lord i'll see my daddy there i'll see my mother there i'll see my sister mary in there and i know i'll see you there give the lord a praise clap your hands everybody [Music] [Applause] in a moment in a one thousandth of a second we shall be changed you'll see juice there raquel jews will be there waiting for you shelley will be there my mother sister and yanwa she received the holy ghost in the church and she never left her muslim attendance and some of the people began to complain and said what's wrong with uh hawa because when they were doing prayers there in the mosque wherever they were pray she was speaking in tongues and she died a horrible death but we'll see her there my grandmother margaret she was 64 years old when she died 13 children never told my grandfather our grandfather muhammad that she converted she was baptized twenty three washing drive in baron green in anti-amina's house my grandmother was always afraid of water which was quite surprising because she um at the guay river they're sugaring i remember the five year old boy them hitting the rocks washing clothes and that really used to sometimes be quite full but my grandmother couldn't bark in that much water because she'd feel like she was drowning and i remember when we baptized it in that bath fold up the bath my job was to hold their legs down my mother was encouraging her as she was baptized by a mushroom in the name of the lord and brought up and began to speak in tongues encouraged me to serve the lord and met chichi and said this is the one for you just before she died but we'll see her there asia there and not only will we see them there because when jesus wrote them that we had time to preach this thing like i feel it matthew 27 when jesus drove from the dead and those dead angels on the ark of the covenant came to life before they rolled back the stone of jesus they began to open the graves elisha joshua the bible says the saints were seen in the streets they were all rejoicing all of them were dancing on their tombstone free free free father we thank you for this message even so lord jesus come even so lord jesus come father we pray that you'll encourage those that are struggling and in pain and experiencing a very difficult time in their lives we encourage ourselves that you are soon returning and we thank you that we have hope beyond the grave if we had no hope beyond the grave we would be of all men most miserable most miserable covet 19 has forced us into silos we can't travel or shouldn't travel and there's people that i know in the states and around the world that we miss thank god for facetime and whatsapp calls etc we can talk to each other but this week we lost a really close friend and almost family bishop jim dutton who struggled for many years physically had a lot of pain and he just succumbed to that pain and that struggle in his physical body and passed away he was buried yesterday and so we've encouraged the family yes they weeping and yes they are so discouraged but be encouraged because we'll see jim not in his struggle with amputated legs and blind eyes and lost his teeth because of his diabetic condition and on and on and on but we'll see him in his resurrected state amen we'll see him in his resurrected state and most of all we'll see jesus with these seven wounds in his resurrection state and we'll say thank you a number of people that i personally would like to thank i'd like to thank noah and abraham isaac jacob moses elijah isaiah daniel oh my goodness i can't wait to get it to thank all those heroes and then the many unsung heroes of african martyrs who have given their lives for this gospel to reach even unto us those who gave their lives during apartheid years those who gave their lives during persecution making a stand i want to thank all of them but all the bible says there's only in heaven all weeping will be removed in 30 minutes of silence that's when you cry about everything cry about the past and when that 30 minutes is over there's no crying there there's no weeping there there's no sickness there there's no death there the great andre crouch said soon and very soon we are going to see our king no more sickness no more death no more weeping no more pain over there if you have endured thank you for enduring but we are kudenga bounds [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] is [Music] uh you

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