Today I want to share with you, obviously it's Easter Sunday.
Resurrection Sunday and I want to kind of look at it from a
slightly different different angle and we know if you're a
Christian, you would know that Good Friday is when Christ died
for our sins took the punishment for us on the cross and then
Easter Sundays when he was resurrected back to life and the
Bible says the same spirit that rose Christ from the dead lives
in us and will quicken our mortal bodies as well.
Is why even more than Christmas? This is the most important week
on the Christian calendar and reminds us than you life that we
actually have in Christ, not only available for those that
are currently Christian but for all those that believe and if
you're in this place and you have not got a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ. Can I tell you? It is available
to you? the Bible says that he is risen. He is seated at the
right hand of the father. He is alive and if you invite him into
your life, he will save your soul and he will get to go to
heaven. But you will have a relationship with God, right
here. Right now and all of us here have made that decision in
the past. We had testimony of the fact that he is alive
because his spirit lives in us and so that is why today,
regardless of challenges that you might face in your life.
Regardless, the things that you may go through in Christ. We
have knew life Amen and which is wonderful and so today, though I
want to look at it from the aspect of the fact that Christ
was the greatest promise ever
made. Fulfillment of a great promise the Bible tells us in
the Old Testament all through it that he was actually prophesied
about his coming and so he's the ultimate promise made in the
ultimate promise fulfilled but not only that Christ is not the
only promise that God actually makes to us all through the
scripture. There are number of promises that God makes to us
also to we believe that as Christians. You can have a
relationship with God, he's a living. God and he actually
makes promises to us on a personal level as well, and what
we find here at.
The celebration of Christ death, burial and resurrection, we find
here a pattern of gods fulfilled promises and so today. I just
want to briefly look at the different days of creation, so
that we can not creation of different days of Easter so that
we can have a look at them and see a pattern that forms when
God fulfills. His promises and so after that will be going
outside will be hot cross buns for everybody. We also got an
Easter egg hunt for the kids if you are on a diet.
I will write the awesome thing is as a church. We care about
you and so next month. We're doing 21 days of breakthrough so
which is 21 days of prayer, and fasting and so, if you're
counting calories. Today does not count and so feel free to
participate and then as a choice will take care of your health by
doing 21 days of breakthrough next month, which is awesome,
and that's what I call a
balanced diet. And so, but first of all I want to look at the 3
days of Easter. The first day of Easter is Good Friday and Good
Friday and the only reason why we call it good is causes a
resurrection Sunday. If there was if there was no
resurrection. It wouldn't be a Good Friday. It actually be a
bad Friday but it's Good Friday be cause. There is a
resurrection Sunday. But this is the day where Christ actually
perished. Here is the living promise the promised Messiah
just before this, his disciples actually confessed it Simon.
She said to Jesus you are the Messiah the son of the Living
God. And yet after that, he actually Christ grows to Christ
coats of the cross and he actually dies. The first pattern
of gods fulfilled promises is number one that sometimes they
perish. Sometimes they perish. They literally when God makes
you a promise very often afterwards. It looks like the
exact opposite actually takes place in fact, on very nervous
when God makes a lot of promises to me about the same subject.
Often it means I actually need to remember it because often the
exact opposite actually comes to pass. It is possible that God
would make you a promise and then it looks like the exact
opposite is counter powers or actually might even allow it to
die. The story in the Old Testament. There's a story in
the Old Testament about the prophet of larger and so a
larger was going to use to state, a place called sooner and
it would stay with this couple that live there and it doesn't
tell us their names and then one day in order to bless them.
The woman he said to wear this time next year, you're going to
have a baby in your arms and so her and her husband had been
unable to have any children. And yet within 12 months. They had a
baby in their arms. Fast forward a number of years we're not sure
exactly when it is somewhere between preteen and early teen
ages. This child was out in the field working with his father.
And while she was working with his father, he all of a sudden
had was was probably a brain.
And then all the sudden, he said. My head my head and he
dropped dead on the spot right. Then they called for the boys
mother and then they took that she said. Take the boy and put
him in the prophet. Elisha's room and so they put him in the
room, so watch this here is the promise child here is the
promised sent by God that she was going to receive and then
sometime later it actually dies.
But the awesome thing is weights over Resurrection God and So
what happened was that child was taken into the prophet. Elisha's
room. He came sometime later and laid down on the boy and the
Bible says that the boy was raised to life and their promise
was resurrected back to life in the same way there at times when
God gives us a promise and then things might go pear shaped or
the exact opposite might happen and it might even look like that
promises did Batista reminds us,
especially resurrection Sunday. Sort of a Resurrection God and
he can bring these dead promises back to life for some of you.
There's been promises that God is made, and it looks like they
finished and that their over. But I'm here to let you know
that we server. Resurrection guard and he can bring those
dead things back to life.
Even if you promise parishes doesn't mean that God can't
bring that thing back to life. Another, the next day of Easter
is Easter Saturday.
Then, if you talk to preachers around Easter Time is the times
a great time to preach 'cause you don't have to pray. A lot
about what you're going to preach on because the topic is
kind of already set so on, Good Friday. You preach about the
cross of Christ and Resurrection Sunday. Are you talking about
resurrection, which is just fantastic and so you talk to
different creatures and they will tell you I've I've found a
lot of them have a preference for what they like preaching
about some guys like preaching about Good Friday and Good
Friday Christ on. For us, many like preaching about asa
someday speciales Pentecostals. We like
resurrection Sunday and so they talk about when Christ
came to life. I have not met anybody who likes preaching
about Easter Saturday.
Haven't met anyone and in fact, we don't even do church on
Easter Saturday. Why is it that people don't like preaching
about a Saturday? Because nothing happened.
Nothing happened on Easter
Saturday. Christ died on Good
Friday. Was resurrected on
Easter Sunday? But in the in between time nothing.
But here's the thing. You don't get to Easter Sunday.
Without God through Easter Saturday.
There's always a period of time between the time when God makes
a promise and even when it dies.
And when it actually comes back
to life. That's why church you would not have said many times,
Hebrews Chapter 6 verse 12. The promises of God are inherited
through faith. Impatience.
You should be saving for it, I
like the second bit. Like the
first bit. When God tells me that's when I wanted to come to
pass but we inherit God's promises through faith and
patience, so the second key. In fact, some translations don't
use the word patients use another word long suffering.
Which means sometimes you gotta
suffer along time? Before God's promises actually come to pass.
But here's the thing if you're going to inherit the promises of
God. We actually need to have patience your promise could look
dead and a could look buried.
But that doesn't mean God can't bring it back to life.
Becaus we serve a Resurrection God. In fact, what I have found
is this that. There are times when actually people walk away
from God in that middle bit.
Because they want because the promise thought and then
nothing happens. And so then I just walk away or what we need
to understand is that just because it doesn't look like
anything is happening. God is actively always doing something
I believe the reason? Why God allow Jesus to stay dead. On
Easter Saturday will so that people can't go around, saying
later that he was somehow sedated.
If I can't go around saying that somehow. We just kind of fell
asleep and then woke up that he stayed dead long enough. the
Bible says that when he was on the cross when the side was
pierced blood and water came out separately. What does that mean
when you die your blood in the water separate he was dead on
Friday and then on Saturday he
stayed that. Just to make sure that when I want can say later
on that he was somehow sleeping. But here's the awesome thing.
Just because you're promised looks dead and it stays dead
doesn't mean God can't bring it back to pass. We serve a
Resurrection God. I am convinced there are times. God allows our
promises to die and stay dead so that when he fulfills him, he'll
get all the glory.
That, he can demonstrate his power in that way. I love the
story about Lazarus, who was the brother of Jesus's friends. Mary
and Martha the Bible says that Lazarus Gazik, close to death
and so Mary and Martha came to Jesus and said Jesus would you
pray for him, he's close to death and so and so then they
went back home but Jesus got held up where he was and spend a
little bit extra time. So when he actually went to see Lazarus.
Lazarus was already dead when he got there. Mary mother said.
Lord if you had it come before he wouldn't have died, he would
have still been alive.
And then we see the shortest verse in the whole of the Bible.
It's Jesus wept Jesus wept. Some people think Jesus wept because
he was so sad that Lazarus died, but that's not actually why he
wept. He went because of the unbelief around 'cause. They
didn't believe that he could actually bring Lazarus back to
live. And then I love the story where they go to Lazarus's tomb
and he said roll away. The stone and as they did that someone
complained. They said Lord.
He stinkers in the King James version.
I said Lord Buddy Stinkers? What are they saying not only is he
dead? He's already started
decomposing. He's been dead for
awhile. But it doesn't matter if your promises dead and it
doesn't matter if it's been dead for a wall. We still serve a
Resurrection God. Can bring those things back to life and
then the scripture says that he called out Lazarus come forth
and Lazarus came forth and it was risen from the dead. We
serve a resurrection. God there are some people here, God made
you a promise and you have never felt so far away from it, but
I'm here to let you know today that you've probably never been
so close. It my look like it's over and it's finished and it's
never gonna come to pass but we server. Resurrection guard and
it doesn't matter if your promises dead and it doesn't
matter if it's buried.
We need to have patience.
Forgot inherit all that God has
promised to us. The third thing the 3rd day of the
3rd day of Easter.
Resurrection Sunday. In resurrection Sunday speaks of
God's power. Bible says the same, the same spirit that rose
cross from the dead will quicken our mortal bodies and leaving
us. This tells me about God's
power. That, it doesn't matter hell defeated the position. You
might be in. It doesn't matter how digital promise might look
God can resurrect that promise and he can actually bring that
thing back to life. Maybe you're in a situation today and you
came to church. In some of what I'm saying might be provoking
you and on the inside. You might be a little bit resistant Scion
being I don't want to get my hopes up while I'm here to let
you know to date. Feel free to
get your hopes up. Because we serve a resurrection guard and
he can bring dead things back to life. Just last week. We were at
a conference in Brisbane called Planetshakers Conference, which
was just fantastic. It was awesome. There's about 100
people from our church that went to it, and there was about 30
students from their college, that went toward as well. And it
was just incredible. And it was just a power of God God was
touching people and there was faith in the place. It was just
just great. I know for myself. I just had the best time and.
We really believing to say 200 people to it, which I think will
be will be really awesome. But one of the speakers. There was a
guy by the name of the River and Samuel Rodriguez and I called
him the machine gun preacher. Now he's not the machine gun
preacher. There's actually a preacher called the machine gun
preacher. But he's not, but I calling machine gun preacher
because he's like a Mexican or something like that, and what he
preaches it likely speak so
fast. So I'll call him, the machine gun preacher and he was
actually one of the people that actually spoken prophesied at
Donald Trump's inauguration and actually got in trouble for it.
'cause he didn't abide by everything they wanted him to do
and so and later great movement over in the US but also to is a
movie producer and so just to about 3 days ago. The movie that
he had produced was actually coming out and it was called
breakthrough, and it was a story about a young man who was a
promise. For his for his parents and then when he was a teenager,
he was actually skating on some on a Lake or frozen Overlake,
but had been started thawing out and so he actually went through
went through into the water and it was under the water for 15
minutes and he was pronounced dead and so they grabbed him and
they took him to the hospital and now basically telling his
parents listen. You just gotta say your goodbyes and that sort
of thing and then in the movie and I guess this is a spoiler
alert. She she yells out and calls down the pound presence of
God and her son actually comes back to life and it's an
actually a true story. It actually happened and at talk
and the movie is actually called breakthrough, and on the day
that was released in America. I went to number one even actually
had more views than actually Aladdin Praise God and so I
think that's going to be coming out praise God that's a miracle
as well. And I think they will be coming out in Australia as
well. But the moral of the story
is this. Had died.
And it's tided and in the natural there was no way it
could be resurrected. Batista Sunday reminds us that we Server
Resurrection God and he can bring those things back to life.
Maybe I just get a sense right now there are some people that
you have some children that away from God. You had a prophesied
over you that they would one day. You would be sitting in
this church with your children somewhere else in here all
worshipping God together. I'm going to let you know where
Server Resurrection God and he can bring dead promises back to
life. There are some people here, you started out on a
business and you thought it was going to go well, and for
whatever reason. Thing died and you were close to bankruptcy and
you thought yourself well, it's over. It's finished you know, I
there's nothing I can do now, but God wants you to know you
server. Resurrection guard and it you can bring dead things
back to life. There's some people here, you've had a
physical element for a long time and it's been something you've
been passing for it's something you've been praying for it's
something that you've had actually had hands laid on you
for an anointed with all 4 and nothing's happened and you
thought. Maybe this is something I've got to live with this
promise is dead and it stayed dead for awhile but I'm here to
let you know you Server Resurrection God, who can break.
Things back to life. There are other people here and there
wasn't expected breakthrough in your finances that you will
believe in 4 and it never came to pass and the thing that you
stepped out into the opportunity that you went for and the whole
thing went to custard the whole thing ended up like scrambled
eggs, but which server resurrection. God and it can
bring that thing back to life. And when he does there will be
no mistake people will not look at you and think it was by your
might or by your power but people are going to notice by
his might and his power and by
his spirit. The same spirit that rose Christ from the dead
will quicken your mortal body will rise again. Yours are
broken promises and he will bring those things back to
life, Easter Sunday reminds Maine that it doesn't matter
what you've been through it doesn't matter what's happened.
It doesn't matter how empty and did some of your life feels.
I'm here to let you know, we server. Resurrection guard and
he can bring those things back to life.
And I know I'm yelling.
But someone needs to hear this, it's not dead just sleeping.
Salon.
You know when people think nothing happened on Easter
Saturday.
But the Bible tells us light on
the New Testament what happened.
God is working. Just went down grab the keys of death and help.
So that we might have life.
Even if you can't see what's happening God's working on your
behalf. And if he can bring
Christ from the dead. Surely you can bring your promise back to
pass we serve a resurrection dog
I meant. And maybe you're in this place and you were
expecting this today. Maybe something a bit more genteel.
But I'm excited. Could be Server
Resurrection God? If he did it back, then, he can do it
in every year of their life.
And he can do it for you as
well. And maybe oh here in your sign Ben's you been speaking.
I'm getting product unprovoked.
Calls remind me is something that I put to the side that I
had buried myself. And even as you are preaching Ben and I was
feeling I've gotta open that thing up again, and I'm side of
the Lord Lord, it stink if.
It's over.
It's finished.
Resurrection Sunday reminds me.
Waste of a Resurrection God.
It may be a hearing.
You just need that that same life and spirit, the Bible says
that way to patiently endure
patiently wait. It might be some of you, said I've done on
finished. But I just want to fill you with you life and
strength today reminded of what he did. Back then and reminding
of us? What he can do in the
future. Maybe you're in this
place as well and. Your Blue Moon Christian you come once in
a blue moon and on a welcome you today. I want to thank you so
much for coming. And maybe in this place and you know, I grew
up in church and but I actually never didn't become a Christian
myself to the age of 19.
I don't have that personal revelation for myself till 19.
And maybe you're here and maybe grab in church or or you
sometimes go to church but you yourself have never given your
life to Christ. Bob said that he took the punishment for our
sins. So that we can have a
relationship with God. And all you have to do is respond.
Trying to him. That's why we say we say he's done at all, he's
made the way. All you have to do
is receive. And maybe you're in this place and you haven't given
your life to Jesus Christ. But you want to what better day to
do it to resurrect your life that adored on resurrection
Sunday and so can I just everyone just cause or closer
Eisenberger hits for a moment?
If you run this place and you haven't given your life to Jesus
Christ, but you want to.
With every all closed in every hit bat what better day to do
it, then on resurrection Sunday.
So I thought you today in your science and I want to give my
life to Christ. I never
relationship with God. If that is, you brought with you are
slip up your head and say that's made this morning. When I give
my life to Christ when lectureship. Thank you. I see
that and think you'll see that hand down there. That's awesome.
You can put em up nice and heart? Is there anyone else.
Thank you. I see that in there. That's wonderful is your answer
say today. I want to give my life to Christ on our
relationship with God that is, do right with us about your head
and say that's me, I'm going to give my life to Christ want to
join those people with their
hands raised. That is awesome, we're going to do is going to
say a prayer. This is a private invitation going to invite you
to repeat this prayer after Maine. This will be the start of
your journey with God. Pray this afternoon. I'm going to hold
church repeat this as well. Dear
Lord, Jesus. Thank you for dying on the cross for Maine.
Forgive me for being a Sinner.
I actually come into my life.
To be my Lord? Be my say that.
Be my best friend. Help me to
live for you. Well, the days of
my life. And I thank you that this morning.
I'm joining your family.
Awesome one of their time will talk to you afterwards, but you
can put your hand standing church God. Sketcher closure
eyes just for one more moment.
As I was speaking, maybe God was reminding you of an old promise
that was dead and buried.
If that is, you right we're just slip up being right now and say
that's mine either. There's a dead promise that I believe God
wants to resurrect. Father in Jesus name I pray for these
people with their hands rise.
And I thank you log or that
you're a Resurrection God. Just like you spoke the Lazarus and
said come forth. We call these promises 4th load gone and we
thank you for it. Low God and you're going to get all the
Glory Lord. I thank you for that father in Jesus time I thank you
for the testimonies of breakthrough in peoples lives as
a result, we thank you. We praise you for it further in
Jesus name Amen Amen Awesome Church would you stand on your
feet in just a moment?
We're gonna get out.
Acab fix for the die and how cross buns. But before we do, I
just want to just before we get a new song, It's called way
maker is so funny. A few months ago, so I listen to a lot of
worship on YouTube and that sort of thing and feel older people,
YouTube is. Is the channel you can get on the Internet lots of
free stuff awesome? So I was? I was on YouTube and this song.
Just came up and it was just like just came up and as this
one called way maker and it really got in my spirit. I
supply it all the time ask ask Trish she was sick of it.
And then he's a promise
keeper. You make why where there
is no way. And and then 2 weeks ago. Asha worship pastor, she
sent me a text. You said I like
to do this song. And it was why
Mika. I never it's unbelievable because I she wouldn't normally
listen to music like that it
wasn't. You know, I like it wasn't a well known it was just.
And also can we do that is this Sunday. 'cause I'm going to talk
about the promises of God and Easter Sunday reminds us, he's
away maker. So you had a really good practice before.
And because it was new.
How long is the singer one more time the words will be on there
and I want you to make it your declaration today speak to that
tomb, sweet to that did promise. He's away maker a promise keeper
that's who he is. I'm in let's worship him in this place.