Participants: Walter Pearson
Series Code: BOL
Program Code: BOL000209
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00:01 IF YOU EVER LET JESUS,
00:02 THIS POWERFUL JESUS HAVE 00:04 ACCESS TO THE PROBLEM, 00:05 THERE'S GONNA BE A SOLUTION. 00:07 IF YOU EVER LET JESUS, 00:09 THIS POWERFUL JESUS, 00:10 HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR SITUATION, 00:12 JESUS WILL MAKE A CHANGE. 00:14 YOU CANNOT BRING JESUS TO 00:16 THE PROBLEM AND NOT HAVE 00:17 SOMETHING CHANGE ABOUT IT. 00:18 JESUS PLUS THE PROBLEM EQUALS VICTORY ! 00:22 ♪ PRAISE THE LORD, LET'S JUST PRAISE THE LORD. ♪ 00:29 Announcer: THIS IS THE BREATH OF LIFE TELEVISION BROADCAST WITH PASTOR WALTER L. PEARSON, JR. 00:33 WHEN GOD GETS READY HE CAN DELIVER YOU, IF YOU CALL ON HIM, IF YOU TRUST IN HIM. 00:38 ♪ HE'S WORTHY OF THE PRAISE, JESUS IS WORTHY. ♪ 00:46 YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOWN FLAT ON YOUR FACE, BUT THE POWER OF GOD WILL LIFT YOU UP. 00:51 ♪ WORTHY OF ALL, ALL THE PRAISE. ♪ 00:57 MARY AND MARTHA WERE SADDENED, 00:59 THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN OF 01:00 BETHANY, WHO LOVED THEM, 01:01 WERE SINCERELY HURT. 01:03 THEY CAME TO WEEP WITH THEM. 01:05 BUT IN THAT DAY, YOU WOULD ALSO 01:07 HAVE PAID MOURNERS, WHO WERE PAID TO WEEP. 01:14 SO THEY WOULD COME TO ADD THEIR EMPTY LAMENT TO THE SOUND OF WEEPING. 01:22 BUT IN THIS CASE, YOU GOTTA KNOW THAT THE PHARISEES 01:25 AND THE DOCTORS OF THE LAW ARE NOT CAUGHT OFF GUARD. 01:28 THEY SAY, "UH-HUH, IF LAZARUS IS DEAD, YOU KNOW WHO'S GONNA SHOW UP. 01:33 HE MAY NOT BE HERE NOW, BUT HE'S COMIN'." 01:36 SO THEY SAID, "WHY DON'T WE SEND A GROUP FOR RECONNAISSANCE PURPOSES ? 01:42 LET THEM GO AND MINGLE WITH THE MOURNERS." 01:45 THEY SAID, "WELL, IF WE GO, WE CAN'T BE SITTING UP THERE 01:47 LOOKING LIKE WE JUST CAME TO CHECK." 01:49 THEY SAID, "NO, NO, NO, YOU MUST MINGLE, YOU MUST BE LIKE THE PEOPLE." 01:54 "WELL, THAT MEANS THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MAYBE. . ." 01:56 "YES, CRY A LITTLE . . ." 02:04 YOU CANNOT TRUST EVERYONE WHO CRIES WITH YOU. 02:07 (applause) 02:13 YOU HAVE HEARD THE TERM, "CROCODILE TEARS." 02:20 THE LAST BOOK I READ ON THE SUBJECT SUGGESTED THAT 02:23 CROCODILES WEEP WHEN THEY ARE CONSUMING WHAT THEY HAVE CAUGHT. 02:28 SO THAT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EMOTION. 02:33 THEY ARE EATING THEIR PREY. 02:36 I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO CALL ANYBODY A CROCODILE, 02:38 BUT I KNOW SOME PEOPLE WHO'S AIM IS TO CONSUME PREY, 02:44 BUT THEY WEEP IN THE PROCESS. 02:46 WELL, TOO DEEP FOR YOU, LET ME LEAVE THAT ALONE. 02:51 I TELL YOU THIS THOUGH, WHEN THOSE PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER, 02:57 YOU READ THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT, 03:00 AND YOU HAVE MARY AND MARTHA CRYING, 03:02 YOU HAVE THE SINCERE MOURNERS CRYING, 03:04 YOU HAVE THE PAID MOURNERS CRYING, 03:06 AND THE ONLY ONE WHO'S NOT IN THE MIX SO FAR, IS JESUS. 03:12 MARY AND MARTHA CRYING, 03:14 SINCERE PEOPLE CRYING, 03:15 PAID MOURNERS CRYING, 03:17 DOCTORS OF THE LAW, YOU KNOW, YOU GOTTA ACT . . . 03:29 "MARY AND MARTHA, WE, WE COULDN'T STAY AWAY." 03:36 YOU KNOW HOW . . . YOU UNDERSTAND ? 03:39 THE ONLY ONE LEFT OUT IS JESUS UNTIL THE SHORTEST TEXT IN THE BIBLE 03:44 AND THEN IT SAYS THAT WHEN JESUS HAD GROANED IN HIS SPIRIT, JESUS WEPT. 03:52 NOW, EVERYBODY IS CRYING. 03:56 I'VE DISCOVERED THAT THERE'S A DIFFERENCE IN TEARS. 04:00 WELL, I DID A LITTLE RESEARCH. 04:03 THERE ARE TEARS CALLED BASAL TEARS; 04:07 THEY ARE THE TEARS THAT ARE IN YOUR EYES ALL THE TIME. 04:11 IF YOU DID NOT HAVE BASAL TEARS, YOUR EYEBALL WOULD NOT MOVE EASILY IN THE SOCKET. 04:17 EVERY TIME YOU OPEN YOUR EYES, YOU WOULD WINCE, 04:21 AND WHEN YOU TURNED TO LOOK SOMEWHERE, IT WOULD HURT. 04:24 SO, BASAL TEARS ARE THERE ALL THE TIME. 04:27 THEN THERE ARE REFLEX TEARS. 04:29 REFLEX TEARS OCCUR WHEN SOMETHING GETS IN YOUR EYE. 04:33 SO SOMETHING FLIES INTO YOUR EYE FROM THE WINDOW OF THE CAR, 04:36 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU CRY, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EMOTIONS OR THOUGHTS, 04:41 THIS IS A REFLEX TO GET THE FOREIGN OBJECT OUT OF YOUR EYE. 04:46 BUT THEN THERE IS ANOTHER TEAR CALLED A PSYCHOGENIC LACRIMATION. 04:53 WELL, I TOLD YOU I DID MY RESEARCH. 04:55 (laughter) 04:59 PSYCHOGENIC LACRIMATIONS COME FROM THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM, 05:04 WHICH IS CONTROLLED BY THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ON A SUBCONSCIOUS BASIS. 05:10 THESE TEARS ARE CONTROLLED BY EMOTION OR THOUGHT. 05:14 SO THAT WHEN AN EMOTION CHANGES QUICKLY, I CAN GET HAPPY 05:17 AND TEARS WILL WELL UP IN MY EYE; 05:21 I CAN GET SAD, TEARS WILL COME. 05:23 YOU CAN LOOK AT A MOTION PICTURE; IT CAN MOVE YOU AND YOU CAN WEEP. 05:27 IT HAPPENS. 05:29 BUT THESE ARE TEARS THAT ARE DIFFERENT, 05:30 AND THE SCIENTISTS HAVE ANALYZED THE DIFFERENT TEARS 05:34 AND DISCOVERED THAT THERE IS 21% MORE PROTEIN IN 05:39 PSYCHOGENIC LACRIMATION THAN IN BASAL OR REFLEX TEARS. 05:49 WELL, YOU WANTED THE PREACHER TO GET READY, DIDN'T YOU ? 05:53 I POSE IT TO YOU TONIGHT THAT IF YOU HAD CHECKED THE TEARS OF THE PHARISEES, 05:59 OR THE DOCTORS OF THE LAW, THEY WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEMSELVES AWAY. 06:04 THESE WERE NOT TEARS THAT CAME FROM THE HEART; 06:06 THESE WERE TEARS THAT CAME BECAUSE THEY FORCED THEMSELVES TO CRY. 06:11 YOU CAN MAKE . . . YOU CAN DO -- HOLD YOUR EYES OPEN 06:15 OR GET AN ONION OR DO SOMETHING, FAN YOUR EYES AND MAKE YOURSELF CRY. 06:20 THERE WAS NOTHING SINCERE ABOUT THOSE, BUT WHEN JESUS WEPT, 06:24 I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS PLAYING ON EMOTIONS 06:27 BECAUSE THERE WAS NOTHING INSINCERE OR DISINGENUOUS ABOUT JESUS. 06:32 JESUS WEPT. 06:35 NOW, LET ME EXPLAIN SOMETHING. 06:39 JESUS IS NOT CRYING ABOUT LAZARUS. 06:44 GOES TO MARY AND MARTHA AND SAYS, "WHERE HAVE YOU LAID HIM ?" 06:48 MOST SCHOLARS SAY THAT IT IS CRISSOSTOM WHO SUGGESTED THAT 06:54 JESUS ASKED, "WHERE HAVE YOU BURIED HIM ?" BECAUSE IF HE HAD KNOWN WHERE THEY HAD BURIED HIM, 06:59 PEOPLE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT SOME CHICANERY WAS AFOOT. 07:04 THAT LAZARUS AND JESUS HAD GOTTEN TOGETHER AND A TRICK WAS BEING FOISTED ON THEM. 07:10 SO JESUS, WHO COULD HAVE ASKED HIS FATHER, 07:13 "FATHER, WHERE HAVE THEY BURIED HIM ?" 07:15 AND GOD, IN HIS INIMITABLE FASHION COULD HAVE REVEALED TO HIS SON WHERE THE GRAVE WAS. 07:20 BUT INSTEAD HE SAID, "TELL ME, WHERE DID YOU BURY HIM ?" 07:23 SO THAT THOSE WHO WERE AROUND TO BE CRITICS COULD UNDERSTAND THAT 07:26 THERE WAS NO TRICK HERE, THERE WAS NO EFFORT TO FOOL ANYBODY. 07:29 JESUS SAID, "WHERE DID YOU BURY HIM ?" 07:32 THEY SAID, "COME AND SEE." 07:33 AND AS MARY AND MARTHA CAME, MARTHA HAD FIRST MET WITH 07:37 JESUS WEEPING, THEN MARY, THEN EVERYBODY FOLLOWED. 07:40 NOW THEY GO DOWN TO THE TOMB AND JESUS SAYS, 07:44 "ROLL AWAY THE STONE." 07:46 MARTHA SAYS, "NO, NO, NO." 07:50 ONE WRITER SAYS THAT MARTHA SPEAKS FOR SATAN. 07:54 THE DEVIL ALWAYS WANTS TO SAY, WHEN JESUS IS GETTING READY TO DO SOMETHING, 07:58 "NO, DON'T ROLL THE STONE AWAY. 08:01 LET IT STAY LIKE IT IS. 08:03 LEAVE IT LIKE IT IS." 08:05 YOU SEE, JESUS COULD HAVE ARRANGED FOR THE STONE TO BE GONE. 08:09 REMEMBER WHEN WHEN JESUS FINALLY DIED AND THEY PUT HIM IN A TOMB, 08:12 ONE ANGEL WITH ONE TOUCH MADE THE SAME KIND OF STONE SKIP OUT OF ITS PLACE. 08:21 THIS WAS PROBABLY A PLACE WHERE 13 CRYPTS WERE PUT INSIDE OF A CAVE 08:25 AND ALL OF THEM HAD A STONE ROLLED IN A LITTLE TRENCH 08:29 THAT WAS DUG IN STONE AND THEY ROLLED A CIRCULAR STONE TO CLOSE IT UP, 08:33 AND 13 OF THEM WERE GENERALLY ARRANGED IN THERE. 08:35 AND WHEN THEY FINALLY GOT TO THE PLACE, 08:37 JESUS COULD HAVE CALLED TO HIS FATHER AND SAID, 08:39 "GET ME SOME HELP, I NEED THAT STONE GONE." 08:42 BUT THERE ARE SOME TIMES WHEN DEBILITY COOPERATES WITH HUMANITY. 08:47 THERE ARE TIMES WHEN GOD WILL GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN A MIRACLE. 08:52 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES LIKE 08:54 THAT IN MY LIFE WHEN THE LORD SAID, 08:56 "I NEED YOU TO DO THIS, AND I'M GONNA TAKE CARE OF THIS, 08:59 AND WHEN YOU PUT THESE TWO TOGETHER, IT'S GONNA BE SOMETHIN'." 09:03 AND I KNOW THAT IT HAPPENS. 09:05 HAVEN'T YOU HAD IT HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE ? 09:07 JESUS SAID, "ROLL THE STONE AWAY." 09:09 MARTHA SAID, "NO, DON'T DO IT." 09:10 SHE SPEAKS FOR THE DEVIL BECAUSE THE DEVIL KNOWS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN. 09:13 IF YOU EVER LET JESUS, THIS POWERFUL JESUS HAVE 09:17 ACCESS TO THE PROBLEM, THERE'S GONNA BE A SOLUTION. 09:20 IF YOU EVER LET JESUS, THIS POWERFUL JESUS, 09:23 HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR SITUATION, JESUS WILL MAKE A CHANGE. 09:27 YOU CANNOT BRING JESUS TO THE PROBLEM AND NOT HAVE SOMETHING CHANGE ABOUT IT. 09:31 JESUS PLUS THE PROBLEM EQUALS VICTORY ! 09:35 IT HAPPENS EVERY TIME ! 09:40 SO THE DEVIL'S TRYING TO HOLD THINGS . . . 09:46 DON'T ROLL IT BACK. 09:47 BUT WHEN THEY ROLL IT BACK, 09:50 JESUS TALKS TO HIS FATHER. 09:53 WANTS TO KNOW NOW, CAN YOU LET 'EM KNOW WHO I AM ? 09:58 BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA NEED TO KNOW WAY DOWN IN A CHURCH ONE DAY, 10:03 SOMEBODY'S GONNA NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW POWERFUL I 10:07 REALLY AM, AND IF I FACE DEATH, IT'S GONNA BE AN ACID TEST. 10:13 SO FATHER, LET 'EM SEE WHO I AM. 10:16 AND THEN JESUS, IN HIS PRAYER, GIVES THANKS FOR WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. 10:21 AND THEN SAYS WITH A CLEAR VOICE, "LAZARUS, COME FORTH !" 10:30 NOW I KNOW THAT YOU'VE GOT LAZARUS WALKING OUT OF THE GRAVE. 10:34 THEY HAD WRAPPED HIM IN THOSE WRAPPINGS, THE CEREMONIAL WRAPPINGS 10:40 AND THE BEST THAT LAZARUS WAS PROBABLY ABLE TO DO IF HE COULD WORK HIS WAY UP, 10:46 AFTER HE WAS ALIVE THERE, AND YOU KNOW THEY WERE LISTENING -- 10:53 THE DOUBTERS. 11:01 AND YOU KNOW THERE HAD TO BE A POIGNANT PAUSE. 11:05 AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN SOMEONE HEARS A SWISH, SWISH, SWISH. 11:15 COME ON FOLKS, DON'T TELL ME SOMEBODY WASN'T A LITTLE 11:20 WORRIED WHEN THEY HEARD THAT NOISE ! 11:24 AND LAZARUS COMES -- SAY, LOOSE HIM ! 11:33 UNWRAP HIM. 11:35 DON'T STAND THERE LOOKIN' AT HIM, TURN HIM LOOSE AND LET HIM GO. 11:42 NOW, THE BEST POINT HAS NOT COME. 11:47 THE POWERFUL JESUS HAD TO CONFRONT DEATH BECAUSE YOU 11:51 HAD TO KNOW THAT THE THING THAT FRIGHTENS YOU MOST IS NO PROBLEM. 12:00 SO, I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU. 12:02 I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS AFRAID OF FUNERAL HOMES, AND COFFINS, 12:06 AND HEARSES, AND ALL OF THE PARAPHERNALIA OF DEATH, 12:10 BUT WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU BE DISTURBED WHEN THE FACT IS 12:12 THAT JESUS DECLARED AT THE SITUATION WITH LAZARUS, 12:16 HE'S ASLEEP, HE'S NOT DEAD. 12:18 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING DEAD AND ASLEEP IS CLEAR. 12:23 SLEEP AND DEATH ARE NOT THE SAME. 12:25 I KNOW WHEN YOU GO TO A FUNERAL, YOU ALMOST THINK THAT YOU HAVE TO SAY IT, 12:30 "AH, SHE LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS SLEEPING." 12:36 I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE CONFUSED A CORPSE, 12:43 NO MATTER HOW GOOD THE UNDERTAKER WAS, 12:46 I ALWAYS KNOW THIS PERSON IS NOT ASLEEP, THIS PERSON IS DEAD. 12:52 BUT THE DIFFERENCE THEOLOGICALLY IS THAT IF YOU DIE IN CHRIST, 13:00 YOU'LL WAKE UP. 13:02 IF YOU DIE WITHOUT HIM, THERE IS NO FUTURE. 13:05 SO, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEATH AND SLEEP IS SIMPLE, 13:08 YOU WAKE UP FROM ONE, FROM THE OTHER THERE IS NO HOPE. 13:12 AND JESUS MUST CONFRONT THIS TERMINAL IN HIM. 13:18 SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW THAT WHATEVER YOU FACE, 13:22 NO MATTER HOW BIG YOUR BILL, 13:24 NO MATTER HOW POWERFUL YOUR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE 13:28 ARE YOU STILL WITH ME ? 13:30 IF YOU'RE SITTING IN HERE RIGHT NOW AND YOU CAN BARELY MAKE OUT 13:34 MY WORDS BECAUSE YOU'VE PUT SOMETHING IN YOUR BODY 13:36 THAT NOW HAS CONTROL OF YOUR MIND, YOU MUST UNDERSTAND 13:41 THAT IF JESUS CAN HANDLE DEATH, HE CAN HANDLE THAT SUBSTANCE THAT YOU PUT IN YOUR BODY. 13:48 YOU GOT SOME STRANGE SITUATION GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE, 13:51 WHERE YOU HAVE ALLIED YOURSELF WITH SOMEBODY WHO YOU SHOULDN'T BE RELATED WITH, 13:56 WHO YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH, AND YOU THINK YOU CAN'T BREAK LOOSE. 14:01 IF JESUS CAN HANDLE DEATH, CAN HE HANDLE THAT ? 14:06 HE'S A FRIEND THAT STICKS CLOSER THAN A BROTHER. 14:09 THERE IS NOTHING THAT JESUS CANNOT HANDLE. 14:13 SO JESUS HAD TO FACE DEATH AND STARE IT DOWN, 14:19 SO THAT YOU COULD UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NOTHING THAT YOU'VE GOT TO BE AFRAID OF. 14:25 IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF DEATH, THEN YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF ANYTHING. 14:29 SO PUT THE BILL ON ME. 14:34 IF I DON'T KNOW WHERE BREAKFAST IS COMING FROM, JESUS DOES. 14:41 MY BROTHER AND I ONE TIME, WERE OFF IN SOME STRANGE PLACE 14:45 WHERE MY MOTHER WAS TEACHING, AND SHE WASN'T MAKING A LOT 14:48 OF MONEY AND MY DAD WAS CONTRACTING SOMEWHERE ELSE 14:52 AND TRYING TO PUT THE MONEY TOGETHER, AND WE RAN OUT OF FOOD. 14:57 NOW, WHEN YOU DO THAT THESE DAYS WHAT YOU MEAN IS, YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING YOU LIKE. 15:03 (laughter) 15:07 RIGHT ? 15:11 WE RAN OUT. 15:14 WE HAD DONE THE THING WITH RECYCLED BREAKFAST CEREALS. 15:19 LET ME BE PLAIN. 15:22 SOME OF YOU WILL BE SURPRISED TO KNOW THAT THERE IS SOMETHING 15:24 IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES THAT IS KNOWN AS GRITS. 15:34 I HAVE A STRIKING AFFINITY FOR THESE THINGS CALLED GRITS. 15:42 IT HAS COME FROM MY CHILDHOOD. 15:45 AND WHEN WE HAD GRITS ONE DAY, 15:47 THIS IS AN AMAZING CULTURAL SITUATION HERE; 15:51 I'M NOW TAKING YOU TO THE DAYS OF YESTERYEAR. 15:56 WHEN YOU HAD HAD GRITS FOR ONE DAY, THE NEXT DAY, 15:59 IF YOU WERE RESOURCEFUL, YOU COULD TAKE THESE SAME GRITS 16:02 AND MASH THEM WITH SOME UTENSIL, PUT THEM INTO A FRYING PAN, 16:07 PUT A LITTLE OIL THERE, AND WITH A LITTLE HEAT, 16:10 THEY WOULD COME WITH ANOTHER FLAVOR ALTOGETHER. 16:13 (laughter) 16:22 IN FACT, I'M GETTING' KIND OF HUNGRY RIGHT NOW TALKING ABOUT IT. 16:27 WELL, WE HAD ALREADY DONE THAT. 16:29 WE HAD DONE THE RECYCLE THING, 16:31 WE HAD DONE ALL THAT AND SOME LADY HAD COME BRINGING CUCUMBERS. 16:37 I HAVE TROUBLE NOW LIKING CUCUMBERS BECAUSE FOR, 16:40 IT APPEARED, IT FELT LIKE A LONG TIME THAT WE WERE 16:43 EATING CUCUMBERS AND THE CHOICES WERE VERY FEW. 16:47 EITHER CUT THEM LONG WAYS OR CUT THEM ACROSS. 16:52 WE COULD EITHER PEEL THEM OR NOT PEEL THEM. 16:55 WE COULD PUT SALT ON THEM, WHICH WAS ALL WE HAD LEFT, OR NOT SALT. 16:59 SO, WE ATE THEM WITH SALT, WITHOUT SALT; 17:02 PEELED -- NOT PEELED; SLICED LONG WAYS, SLICED CROSSWAYS. 17:09 MY WIFE WILL TELL YOU IT TOOK ME AGES BEFORE I COULD EAT CUCUMBERS AGAIN. 17:14 BUT MY MOTHER WOULD SIT US DOWN ONE DAY, AND I'LL NEVER FORGET IT, 17:18 SHE SAT US DOWN AT THE TABLE; 17:21 WE KNEW THERE WAS NO FOOD IN THE HOUSE. 17:24 AND SHE SAID, "LET'S THANK GOD." 17:31 MY BROTHER AND I WERE LOOKING. 17:37 YOU KNOW IN THOSE DAYS YOU COULDN'T SAY EVERYTHING THAT WAS ON YOUR MIND, 17:40 THERE WAS SOMETHING CALLED "CORPORAL PUNISHMENT." 17:42 IT CAN'T HAPPEN ANYMORE, BUT IT COULD THEN. 17:48 AND WE SAT AT THE TABLE AS MY MOTHER PRAYED AND THANKED GOD FOR FOOD WE DID NOT HAVE. 17:55 YOU NEED TO TRY IT. 17:57 IF YOU THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED, 18:00 AND ACT AS THOUGH YOU ALREADY HAVE IT, 18:04 GOD WILL OFTEN TIMES HONOR YOUR FAITH AND GIVE YOU MORE THAN YOU CAN ASK OR IMAGINE. 18:11 (applause) 18:14 WE PRAYED THAT MORNING AND THANKED GOD FOR WHAT WE DID NOT HAVE, 18:18 AND BY AFTERNOON -- I REMEMBER WE WERE LIVING IN A DUPLEX 18:21 UPSTAIRS AND I LOOKED DOWN THROUGH THAT CLOUDY, GLASS WINDOW. 18:25 SOMEBODY RANG THE BELL AND I WENT DOWN TO ANSWER IT. 18:28 HE WHOLE WINDOW WAS CLOUDED WITH SOMETHING DARK 18:31 AND WHEN I OPENED THE DOOR THERE WERE PEOPLE THERE WITH GROCERY BAGS. 18:34 THEY CAME UPSTAIRS WITH FOOD THAT WE HAD NOT ASKED FOR. 18:38 MY MOTHER ASKED, "HOW DID YOU KNOW ?" 18:41 THEY SAID, "THE LORD TOLD US TO BRING THIS FOOD." 18:44 (applause) 18:53 AND I THINK YOU CAN LOOK AT ME AND TELL THAT I FOUND A SECRET. 19:01 I LEARNED THAT IF THIS POWERFUL JESUS CAN CONFRONT DEATH, 19:05 THERE IS NOTHING THAT JESUS CANNOT HANDLE. 19:08 WHAT IS IT THAT IS ON YOUR HEART NOW ? 19:11 WHAT IS IT THAT SEEMS SO POWERFUL TO YOU TONIGHT ? 19:14 IF JESUS CAN HANDLE DEATH, WHAT CAN'T HE HANDLE ? 19:19 IS THERE SOME PROBLEM IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT ? 19:25 UNDERSTAND THAT JESUS IS POWERFUL. 19:28 WELL, LET ME DO THIS FAST. 19:32 THE REASON WHY JESUS CAN'T ABIDE DEATH IS BECAUSE DEATH 19:37 IS IN CONSTANT TENSION WITH GOD. 19:43 IF YOU READ IN I CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 14 AND VERSE 33 IT SAYS, 19:47 "GOD IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION." 19:52 ALRIGHT ? 19:53 GOD IS ABOUT ORDER. 19:55 AMEN ? 19:56 BUT IF YOU WERE TO GO TO JOB CHAPTER 10 20:01 AND I BELIEVE RIGHT AROUND VERSE 22, PROBABLY THE LAST VERSE IN CHAPTER 10. 20:07 JOB IS DESCRIBING DEATH. 20:09 HE SAYS "IT IS A PLACE OF DARKNESS AND CONFUSION, WHERE THERE IS NO ORDER AT ALL." 20:19 CAN YOU SEE IT ? 20:20 DEATH IS THE ANTITHESIS OF GOD. 20:27 DEATH RISES UP TO CHALLENGE GOD. 20:31 GOD IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION, BUT OF ORDER. 20:34 DEATH IS DISORDER AND CONFUSION. 20:37 GOD CANNOT BE HAPPY SO LONG A DEATH SEEMS TO HAVE POWER. 20:43 THAT'S WHY THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS THAT THE LAST ENEMY THAT SHALL BE DESTROYED. 20:48 DEATH. 20:49 'CAUSE GOD CAN'T ABIDE IT. 20:52 HE'S NOT THE AUTHOR OF DEATH, BUT OF LIFE. 20:55 AND I BELIEVE THAT WHEN JESUS WENT DOWN TO THAT TOMB, 20:59 HE FELT THE TENSION OF DEATH BEING AGAINST HIS FATHER. 21:07 COULD HAVE BROUGHT EVERYBODY UP. 21:09 ONE PREACHER HAS ALREADY SAID IT, 21:11 "IF HE HADN'T PUT A LIMITING NAME ON IT, 21:14 HE COULD HAVE JUST SAID, 'COME FORTH' EVERYTHING DEAD." 21:26 YOU DON'T BELIEVE GOD CAN BRING EVERYTHING ? 21:30 LAZARUS WAS JUST THE FIRST FRUITS; 21:33 LAZARUS WAS JUST PROOF THAT GOD HAS POWER OVER DEATH. 21:38 IF THE LIMITING NAME HAD NOT BEEN THERE, 21:40 SAYS ONE CREATIVE PREACHER, JESUS COULD HAVE JUST SAID, 21:43 "COME FORTH" AND ANIMALS THAT HAD DIED, 21:45 PLANTS THAT HAD BENT OVER WOULD HAVE STOOD UP AGAIN, 21:48 EVERYTHING DEAD WOULD HAVE COME BACK. 21:54 BUT HE SIMPLY WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW -- THAT THERE'S 21:59 NOTHING THAT THIS POWERFUL JESUS CAN'T HANDLE. 22:05 SO, IF TONIGHT I HAVE SAID IN MY HEART 22:12 THAT IF HE HAD CONQUERED DEATH, THEN HE CAN CONQUER SIN. 22:17 ALL I'VE GOT TO DO IS TO LET JESUS INTO MY LIFE, 22:22 AND LET HIM HAVE CONTROL OF MY PROBLEM. 22:27 TONIGHT MY FRIEND, I PRESENT TO YOU FOR THE FINAL TIME IN THIS SERIES, THE POWERFUL JESUS. 22:37 PEOPLE HAVE REDUCED JESUS TO SOME INFLUENCE; 22:40 THEY HAVE HIM SMALL AND "NAMBY-PAMBY". 22:43 THEY HAVE HIM A CUTE LITTLE BABY IN BETHLEHEM'S MANGER, 22:47 THEY HAVE HIM A WISPY CREATURE HANGING ON A CROSS, 22:50 AND THEY HAVE PITY FOR HIM. 22:54 WHAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND IS THAT JESUS DID NOT DIE BECAUSE HE HAD TO, 22:58 HE DIED BECAUSE HE CHOSE TO. 23:01 AND IN HIS DEATH, THERE IS POWER. 23:05 AND NOW, AT THE GRAVE OF LAZARUS, I GIVE YOU A JESUS 23:10 WHO STANDS FACE TO FACE WITH OUR MORTAL ENEMY, AND SAYS TO DEATH, 23:18 "YOU SHALL RELEASE HIM." 23:23 LAZARUS, IF YOU COULD HAD BROUGHT AUDIBLE THE COMPLAINTS OF IMPS, 23:30 YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD A CACOPHONY OF VOICES, "NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! 23:38 DEATH CAN'T HAVE HIM BACK. 23:40 NO !" 23:43 BUT HE PAID NO ATTENTION. 23:45 IF THE UNIVERSE MIGHT HAVE SPOKEN AT THE MOMENT, 23:49 YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD THE STRANGE OBJECTIONS, 23:52 "NO, IT'S UNFAIR ! 23:54 YOU CAN'T DO THIS ! 23:55 IF YOU DO THIS, PEOPLE WILL THINK THAT YOU CAN DO ANYTHING ! 24:01 NO ! 24:02 IT'S NOT FAIR ! 24:03 IF YOU DO THIS, THE WHOLE GAME WILL SHIFT. 24:07 IF YOU DO THIS, PEOPLE WILL KNOW THAT YOU CAN HANDLE ANY PROBLEM. 24:12 NO !" 24:15 BUT HE WAS SINGLE MINDED, 24:17 HIS EYES PIERCED THE DARKNESS OF THE TOMB, 24:22 AND HIS VOICE IS CLEAR, "LAZARUS, COME FORTH !" 24:27 AND FROM THAT TOMB COMES A PROMISE, 24:31 AND FROM THAT TOMB COMES AN EMBLEM OF A JESUS 24:35 WHO IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO HANDLE ANYTHING. 24:41 SO, YOUNG MAN, IF YOU WANT TO BE POWERFUL, 24:47 FORGET THE COME AND GO HEROES WHO LAST 13 WEEKS ON TELEVISION. 24:56 LITTLE BOYS, FORGET THOSE CARTOON CREATURES, THE ONES THAT YOU FOLD AND UNFOLD. 25:03 FORGET THOSE IMAGES THAT ARE HERE TODAY AND GONE TOMORROW. 25:08 FORGET BASEBALL, FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL FIGURES WHO TELL YOU THEMSELVES, 25:16 "I AM NOT YOUR ROLE MODEL." 25:22 LOOK AT THEM, BUT DON'T FOLLOW THEM. 25:26 LOOK AT THEM AND MARVEL AT THEIR POWER BUT THEIRS IS NOT AN ULTIMATE POWER. 25:33 I DON'T CARE IF YOU CAN JUMP HIGHER THAN MICHAEL JORDAN 25:36 AND DROP A BASKETBALL INTO THE HOOP, 25:39 YOU HAVE NOT GOTTEN CLOSE TO REAL POWER. 25:44 THAT'S NOT POWER, THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT GOD GAVE HIM. 25:48 SOMEWHERE RIGHT NOW THERE'S ANOTHER LITTLE BOY, 25:51 OR MAYBE A LITTLE GIRL, WHO'S GONNA JUMP HIGHER THAN MICHAEL ONE DAY. 25:57 BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT IT'S ABOUT. 26:00 POWER IS NOT ULTIMATE IN SPORTS. 26:03 POWER IS NOT ULTIMATE WITH MONEY. 26:05 POWER IS NOT ULTIMATE WITH POSSESSIONS. 26:08 THE GREATEST POWER THAT THIS UNIVERSE HAS EVER KNOWN 26:13 IS THE POWER OF JESUS CHRIST. 26:16 AND TONIGHT HE IS AVAILABLE TO ME AND AVAILABLE TO YOU. 26:23 AND ALL I'VE GOT TO DO IS TO REACH CLOSE BY AND HE WILL COME INTO MY LIFE. 26:30 Announcer: HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED IF YOUR LIFE MATTERED TO GOD, 26:33 WHAT PLANS HE HAS FOR YOU 26:35 OR HOW THE BIBLE IS RELATIVE TO YOUR LIFE. 26:38 OUR OFFER THIS WEEK IS THE DISCOVER BIBLE GUIDES, 26:41 GUIDING YOU TO NEW HORIZONS ON YOUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY. 26:44 EACH GUIDE IS BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED 26:47 FOR YOU TO DISCOVER FOR YOURSELF 26:49 HOW GOD ANSWERS OUR MOST SEEKING QUESTIONS ABOUT LIFE. 26:52 JUST CALL OUR TOLL-FREE NUMBER AT 877-BOL-OFFER, 26:56 THAT'S 877-265-6333 AND ASK FOR THE DISCOVER BIBLE GUIDES. 27:03 A SET IS YOURS FOR A GIFT OF $5.00 OR MORE. 27:06 OR YOU MAY WRITE AND ASK FOR THE DISCOVER BIBLE GUIDES. 27:09 JUST WRITE TO: 27:11 BREATH OF LIFE, P.O. 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