Take the world 00:00:43.67\00:00:47.21 Give me Jesus 00:00:47.24\00:00:50.61 Take the world 00:00:50.65\00:00:54.88 Give me Jesus 00:00:54.92\00:00:58.62 Take the world 00:00:58.65\00:01:02.39 Give me Jesus 00:01:02.42\00:01:05.86 Take the world 00:01:05.89\00:01:10.00 Give me Jesus 00:01:10.03\00:01:13.90 You can have all the 00:01:13.94\00:01:17.61 All the world 00:01:17.64\00:01:21.54 You can have mercy 00:01:21.58\00:01:25.38 All day 00:01:25.41\00:01:29.08 You can be happy 00:01:29.12\00:01:31.59 with Jesus the Lord 00:01:31.62\00:01:36.99 Take the world 00:01:37.03\00:01:40.46 Give me Jesus 00:01:40.50\00:01:44.33 Take the world 00:01:44.37\00:01:48.04 Give me Jesus 00:01:48.07\00:01:52.01 Take the world 00:01:52.04\00:01:55.71 Give me Jesus 00:01:55.74\00:01:59.75 Take the world 00:01:59.78\00:02:03.35 Give me Jesus 00:02:03.39\00:02:07.16 You can have all the 00:02:07.19\00:02:11.03 All things 00:02:11.06\00:02:15.50 You can have mercy 00:02:15.53\00:02:18.60 All day 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00:04:01.54\00:04:04.87 There is a name 00:04:16.75\00:04:21.59 That is so precious 00:04:21.62\00:04:26.06 A name so wonderful 00:04:26.09\00:04:31.23 To me 00:04:31.27\00:04:33.77 This name is worthy 00:04:33.80\00:04:38.51 Of all praises 00:04:38.54\00:04:42.41 Because of him 00:04:42.44\00:04:45.25 See I am made free 00:04:45.28\00:04:49.48 You know the name is Jesus 00:04:49.52\00:04:54.09 Oh how I love him 00:04:54.12\00:04:58.39 The one who gave 00:04:58.43\00:05:02.60 His life for me 00:05:02.63\00:05:06.60 Because of love 00:05:06.63\00:05:11.17 so unconditional 00:05:11.21\00:05:15.38 I will have life 00:05:15.41\00:05:18.81 Oh eternally 00:05:18.85\00:05:25.82 His name speaks peace 00:05:39.20\00:05:43.37 To our lives storm clouds 00:05:43.41\00:05:47.51 His name speaks calm 00:05:47.54\00:05:51.41 Through all mercies 00:05:51.45\00:05:55.68 And when I feel 00:05:55.72\00:05:59.69 That no one can love me 00:05:59.72\00:06:04.43 His loving presence 00:06:04.46\00:06:07.86 Is so near 00:06:07.90\00:06:12.03 His name is Jesus 00:06:12.07\00:06:16.34 Oh how I love him 00:06:16.37\00:06:20.38 The one who gave 00:06:20.41\00:06:24.35 His life for me 00:06:24.38\00:06:28.88 Because of love 00:06:28.92\00:06:32.89 So unconditional 00:06:32.92\00:06:37.19 I will have life 00:06:37.23\00:06:40.30 Oh eternally 00:06:40.33\00:06:47.24 Oh Praise 00:06:47.27\00:06:51.47 That name! 00:06:51.51\00:06:55.21 Praise 00:06:55.24\00:06:59.38 That holy name! 00:06:59.41\00:07:03.42 Praise 00:07:03.45\00:07:07.29 That name! 00:07:07.32\00:07:11.76 Praise 00:07:11.79\00:07:14.80 That name! 00:07:14.83\00:07:21.77 Well, someday we want to leave 00:07:21.80\00:07:26.81 This earthly dwelling 00:07:26.84\00:07:31.15 And through time and space 00:07:31.18\00:07:35.88 We all want to soar 00:07:35.92\00:07:40.46 Till we finally see 00:07:40.49\00:07:45.03 The face of Jesus 00:07:45.06\00:07:49.16 Oh the one who raise 00:07:49.20\00:07:53.64 Forevermore! 00:07:53.67\00:07:57.57 City Temple, That name is Jesus 00:07:57.61\00:08:02.78 Oh how I love him 00:08:02.81\00:08:07.28 The one 00:08:07.32\00:08:08.68 Who gave his life 00:08:08.72\00:08:15.26 For me 00:08:15.29\00:08:17.79 For me 00:08:17.83\00:08:20.96 Because of love 00:08:21.00\00:08:25.43 So unconditional 00:08:25.47\00:08:30.27 I will have life 00:08:30.31\00:08:33.61 Of eternally 00:08:33.64\00:08:40.62 Oh, my Jesus 00:08:40.65\00:08:44.82 Is that name 00:08:44.85\00:08:50.09 Glorious 00:08:50.13\00:08:54.26 Is that holy name! 00:08:54.30\00:08:59.73 Wonderful 00:08:59.77\00:09:03.47 Is that mighty name! 00:09:03.51\00:09:07.18 Oh praise 00:09:07.21\00:09:13.92 That name! 00:09:14.95\00:09:21.92 It is certainly good to be back in the house of God. 00:09:27.93\00:09:31.07 Again we know that it might be little chilly outside. 00:09:31.10\00:09:37.37 That's why you come inside 00:09:37.41\00:09:39.71 where the spirit can warm your heart. 00:09:39.74\00:09:42.84 On last week we began a series 00:09:42.88\00:09:46.01 entitled "Spiritual Vital Signs." 00:09:46.05\00:09:50.55 "Spiritual Vital Signs." 00:09:50.59\00:09:53.02 In that series we lifted up the fact 00:09:53.05\00:09:56.79 that when we go to see a physician, 00:09:56.83\00:10:00.00 when we go to the hospital they usually check us 00:10:00.03\00:10:04.13 by checking our vital signs, our temperature, our pulse, 00:10:04.17\00:10:08.24 our respirations and our blood pressure 00:10:08.27\00:10:10.71 to give an overall view 00:10:10.74\00:10:13.58 of how well our body is functioning. 00:10:13.61\00:10:16.58 That happens in the natural 00:10:16.61\00:10:19.01 and it also happens in the spiritual, 00:10:19.05\00:10:21.65 in the spiritual. 00:10:21.68\00:10:23.02 You know, last week we talked about, 00:10:23.05\00:10:26.35 we talked about our spiritual temperature 00:10:26.39\00:10:28.62 under the title "Do you have the holy ghost?" 00:10:28.66\00:10:32.79 "Do you have the holy ghost?" 00:10:32.83\00:10:34.26 Because we found in scripture that the Lord said, 00:10:34.30\00:10:37.47 I got a little substance that gives you 00:10:37.50\00:10:39.00 because you need a hot, no cold. 00:10:39.03\00:10:41.54 You don't have a temperature. 00:10:41.57\00:10:44.21 You need the Holy Ghost 00:10:44.24\00:10:46.61 and so we lifted up 00:10:46.64\00:10:48.98 the third person of the God here. 00:10:49.01\00:10:50.78 On this morning 00:10:50.81\00:10:52.95 we are going to be looking at the pulse now 00:10:52.98\00:10:56.92 and in the spiritual realm 00:10:56.95\00:10:58.75 and I want to direct your attention 00:10:58.79\00:11:00.32 to the Book of 2 Kings. 00:11:00.36\00:11:01.82 What book did I say? 00:11:01.86\00:11:03.96 2 Kings. 00:11:03.99\00:11:05.39 2 Kings 13 Chapter 00:11:05.43\00:11:09.80 2 Kings 13:20, 21. 00:11:09.83\00:11:17.21 2 Kings 13:20, 21 00:11:17.24\00:11:22.68 there you will find these words recorded. 00:11:22.71\00:11:25.91 "And Elisha died, and they buried him. 00:11:25.95\00:11:30.89 And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land 00:11:30.92\00:11:34.76 at the coming in of the year. 00:11:34.79\00:11:37.53 And they came to pass, as they were burying a man, 00:11:37.56\00:11:41.76 that, behold, they spied a band of men, 00:11:41.80\00:11:45.63 and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: 00:11:45.67\00:11:50.27 and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, 00:11:50.31\00:11:56.34 he revived, and stood up on his feet." 00:11:56.38\00:12:00.48 I thought today we talk on the subject 00:12:00.52\00:12:02.98 "Dead Man Walking." 00:12:03.02\00:12:05.92 "Dead Man Walking." 00:12:05.95\00:12:07.82 Now perhaps you may not have figured out by now 00:12:07.86\00:12:11.69 but pastor has a certain comedic element 00:12:11.73\00:12:15.23 about his personality. 00:12:15.26\00:12:16.73 I know that I come across 00:12:16.77\00:12:18.43 as being very serious and stoic and steam, 00:12:18.47\00:12:22.44 but nobody enjoys a better laugh than I. 00:12:22.47\00:12:26.81 In fact, I grew up in a home that was full of laughter. 00:12:26.84\00:12:30.75 I can recall my earliest memories 00:12:30.78\00:12:33.68 were of my mother laughing about something. 00:12:33.72\00:12:37.22 She would be on the phone laughing. 00:12:37.25\00:12:39.19 She talked to somebody and she would be laughing. 00:12:39.22\00:12:41.52 And so laughter is in my DNA. 00:12:41.56\00:12:45.73 This story is one that makes me laugh. 00:12:45.76\00:12:50.63 It makes me laugh because of how it progresses. 00:12:50.67\00:12:55.40 I look at it and I'm thinking to myself 00:12:55.44\00:12:58.97 now something is wrong here. 00:12:59.01\00:13:01.14 A dead man is laid down 00:13:01.18\00:13:04.15 to the grave of another dead man 00:13:04.18\00:13:07.18 and the dead man comes back to life 00:13:07.22\00:13:09.78 on touching the other dead man. 00:13:09.82\00:13:14.36 If the dead man 00:13:14.39\00:13:15.72 can make another dead man come back to life, 00:13:15.76\00:13:17.26 why didn't the original dead man 00:13:17.29\00:13:18.63 come back to life? 00:13:18.66\00:13:21.13 But let me get into, let me get to-- 00:13:21.16\00:13:23.33 I want to get too far here myself 00:13:23.37\00:13:25.63 because there are some obvious questions 00:13:25.67\00:13:28.00 that comes to my mind. 00:13:28.04\00:13:30.11 Who do these bones belong to? 00:13:30.14\00:13:34.14 How did they get there? 00:13:34.18\00:13:36.91 And most important of all how did they get so much power 00:13:36.95\00:13:41.65 that when another dead man touches these bones, 00:13:41.68\00:13:45.45 they come back to life? 00:13:45.49\00:13:48.62 We have the answer to my first quandary 00:13:48.66\00:13:51.19 in verse 21. 00:13:51.23\00:13:53.23 It says that the bones belong to whom? 00:13:53.26\00:13:57.27 Elisha. Elisha. 00:13:57.30\00:13:59.77 Elisha. 00:13:59.80\00:14:01.14 Perhaps then if we can kind of rejoice the life of Elisha, 00:14:01.17\00:14:06.47 it might help us a little bit to understand 00:14:06.51\00:14:09.18 where all this power came from. 00:14:09.21\00:14:11.21 Isn't that right? 00:14:11.25\00:14:12.58 All right. 00:14:12.61\00:14:13.95 When I came into the ministry, 00:14:13.98\00:14:17.82 in fact, I was aware of my call to the ministry 00:14:17.85\00:14:22.09 at a very young age. 00:14:22.12\00:14:24.33 About the age of seven, 00:14:24.36\00:14:25.99 I remember going into the room and telling my mother 00:14:26.03\00:14:29.80 that I was going to be a minister. 00:14:29.83\00:14:33.97 Now she didn't say anything then 00:14:34.00\00:14:37.97 but being older, you know, and remembering my life, 00:14:38.01\00:14:42.58 I guess she might have said to herself, 00:14:42.61\00:14:44.91 she won't discourage me but you want to be minister? 00:14:44.95\00:14:49.65 Baby, what is this? You're not going to be. 00:14:49.68\00:14:53.46 I discovered when I got to college 00:14:53.49\00:14:56.83 that God calls me and other women into ministry 00:14:56.86\00:15:01.66 by one of three ways. 00:15:01.70\00:15:03.03 The first one is called original conviction. 00:15:03.06\00:15:06.00 What did I say? 00:15:06.03\00:15:07.50 Original conviction. 00:15:07.54\00:15:09.60 Jeremiah 1:4-10 00:15:09.64\00:15:12.71 talks about Jeremiah and how the Lord said, 00:15:12.74\00:15:16.38 "While you were still in the womb, Jeremiah, 00:15:16.41\00:15:20.02 I did" what? 00:15:20.05\00:15:21.38 "I called you 00:15:21.42\00:15:23.22 and I ordained you to be a prophet unto all." 00:15:23.25\00:15:26.99 Beloved, Jesus has said that He has plans for us, 00:15:27.02\00:15:32.39 isn't that right? 00:15:32.43\00:15:33.76 Before we are formed and we in the very womb, 00:15:33.80\00:15:37.87 God has a plan for our life 00:15:37.90\00:15:40.24 and you think of the stake about it. 00:15:40.27\00:15:42.34 He doesn't had plans 00:15:42.37\00:15:44.21 for the lives of those individuals 00:15:44.24\00:15:46.57 who were just born legitimately. 00:15:46.61\00:15:49.18 All right, we can see that. 00:15:49.21\00:15:50.61 See that. 00:15:50.65\00:15:51.98 Too many folk running around here with guilt trip 00:15:52.01\00:15:54.88 because of their birth origin. 00:15:54.92\00:15:57.39 I don't care whether you were born out of wedlock 00:15:57.42\00:16:02.46 or in the holy deadlock, 00:16:02.49\00:16:04.86 the fact of the matter is that if you're born at all, 00:16:04.89\00:16:09.10 it's not your idea, it's God's idea, 00:16:09.13\00:16:12.77 and God has a plan for your life. 00:16:12.80\00:16:15.24 Amen. Amen. Amen. 00:16:15.27\00:16:17.37 Too many folk walking around burdened, 00:16:17.41\00:16:21.34 feeling as if they don't matter, 00:16:21.38\00:16:24.41 they had no value because of their origin. 00:16:24.45\00:16:30.25 The last time I checked, 00:16:30.29\00:16:32.52 God made babies before they made mistakes. 00:16:32.55\00:16:35.62 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 00:16:35.66\00:16:39.29 Yes, sir. Hello. 00:16:39.33\00:16:42.26 And so therefore 00:16:42.30\00:16:44.33 Jeremiah has been called to the ministry 00:16:44.37\00:16:48.10 by original conviction. 00:16:48.14\00:16:50.31 Then the second way, 00:16:50.34\00:16:51.67 an individual is called into the ministry 00:16:51.71\00:16:53.54 is by direct confrontation. 00:16:53.58\00:16:56.31 What did I say? 00:16:56.34\00:16:58.11 Direct confrontation. 00:16:58.15\00:16:59.48 You can mean that kind of inspiration. 00:16:59.51\00:17:01.95 Acts 9:1-22 where Saul is called 00:17:01.98\00:17:08.42 and he becomes the Apostle Paul. 00:17:08.46\00:17:11.86 Sometimes the Lord has to knock you off your donkey. 00:17:11.89\00:17:15.60 I told you I have a comedic side. 00:17:20.07\00:17:23.20 I won't say donkey. 00:17:23.24\00:17:25.74 He will knock you off your name so that He impress you up, 00:17:25.77\00:17:30.68 stand you up and send you where He wants you to go. 00:17:30.71\00:17:35.52 The third, the third way, 00:17:35.55\00:17:37.82 an individual is called into the ministry 00:17:37.85\00:17:40.62 is by association. 00:17:40.66\00:17:42.46 What did I say? 00:17:42.49\00:17:43.83 Association. Association. 00:17:43.86\00:17:45.73 1 Kings 19:19-20 00:17:45.76\00:17:49.60 this is the way that Elisha received his call 00:17:49.63\00:17:54.67 to the ministry. 00:17:54.70\00:17:56.04 He was affiliated, 00:17:56.07\00:17:57.41 well associated with the prophet Elijah. 00:17:57.44\00:18:02.68 You know Elijah, don't you? 00:18:02.71\00:18:04.35 Amen. 00:18:04.38\00:18:05.71 Elijah was the man who in 1 Kings 18 00:18:05.75\00:18:12.05 was so, he was so bad, brazen, and bold 00:18:12.09\00:18:17.99 that he went up some 1,700 feet to the site of Mount Carmel 00:18:18.03\00:18:23.37 to take off 450 other fellows. 00:18:23.40\00:18:28.44 Now you don't let them sound like a fair fight already. 00:18:28.47\00:18:33.07 But that means something over the mountains. 00:18:33.11\00:18:36.14 One that gets 450 00:18:36.18\00:18:40.92 and he is not there 00:18:40.95\00:18:42.88 because they are in the midst of getting warfare. 00:18:42.92\00:18:47.06 It's not a battle between the Prince and the Blood. 00:18:47.09\00:18:51.36 This is another time of warfare. 00:18:51.39\00:18:54.50 This is a warfare between good and evil. 00:18:54.53\00:18:58.13 God's prophets and the devil's prophets, 00:18:58.17\00:19:02.10 they are looking each other in the face 00:19:02.14\00:19:05.21 and they are trying to decide whose God is bigger, 00:19:05.24\00:19:10.15 whose God is better, whose God is more powerful. 00:19:10.18\00:19:14.62 You know, when you are growing up 00:19:14.65\00:19:16.18 and you outside selling your woof tickets 00:19:16.22\00:19:18.89 and you say "My daddy is bigger than your daddy. 00:19:18.92\00:19:22.42 My daddy is stronger than your daddy. 00:19:22.46\00:19:25.43 My daddy can beat your daddy." 00:19:25.46\00:19:28.86 I remember called my dad was in the 30, 00:19:28.90\00:19:31.73 and the people would say that. 00:19:31.77\00:19:33.17 I would say, "Oh, my dad all he got to do 00:19:33.20\00:19:36.04 is pull out a granite out of his pocket 00:19:36.07\00:19:37.74 and blew your daddy up." 00:19:37.77\00:19:39.31 We're just always trying, 00:19:45.11\00:19:47.42 trying to fight for the supremacy 00:19:47.45\00:19:50.39 and so it has Elijah up there. 00:19:50.42\00:19:53.46 Now remember, this is a man that was so bad 00:19:53.49\00:19:55.96 that this three years before the man said a prayer 00:19:55.99\00:20:01.53 and then told the people that it's not going to rain. 00:20:01.56\00:20:05.83 In a time, a man can pray 00:20:05.87\00:20:08.37 and the rain not fall for three years. 00:20:08.40\00:20:11.67 You know that man's got a lot of power in his life. 00:20:11.71\00:20:15.81 I like folk that have powerful prayers, 00:20:15.84\00:20:19.55 prayers that can move mountains, 00:20:19.58\00:20:21.85 prayers that can cast out devils, 00:20:21.88\00:20:24.25 prayers that can raise up the sick, 00:20:24.29\00:20:26.55 prayers that can seek the holy, 00:20:26.59\00:20:28.86 prayers that can call the death. 00:20:28.89\00:20:30.33 I like folk that had powerful prayers. 00:20:30.36\00:20:34.23 The reason I'm in the ministry today 00:20:34.26\00:20:36.97 is because momma prayed a powerful prayer over my life 00:20:37.00\00:20:42.50 because if you handle me, you will look at me and laugh, 00:20:42.54\00:20:46.71 I said that way it will be nothing. 00:20:46.74\00:20:49.04 It's about praying, you don't be a devil. 00:20:49.08\00:20:52.45 That's his planted life 00:20:52.48\00:20:55.15 but God honors the prayers of a sincere and the faithful. 00:20:55.18\00:21:01.56 And so, Elijah is up there and he says 00:21:01.59\00:21:06.29 "We want to settle this thing once and for all. 00:21:06.33\00:21:09.20 I'm tired of you all arguing and gives me trying to say 00:21:09.23\00:21:13.47 whose God is greater." 00:21:13.50\00:21:15.44 We are going to put people two altars 00:21:15.47\00:21:17.94 and we're gonna put two sacrifices over there 00:21:17.97\00:21:20.51 and we are not going to make this sacrifice, 00:21:20.54\00:21:23.08 we are gonna ask our gods. 00:21:23.11\00:21:25.55 You ask your God to light of, 00:21:28.65\00:21:32.12 in fact, your God is so bad, 00:21:32.15\00:21:34.09 I'm gonna let your God go first. 00:21:34.12\00:21:37.63 Let him get the first turn here 00:21:37.66\00:21:40.70 and then I'll ask my God. 00:21:40.73\00:21:43.00 And so that year almost 450 prophets of Baal 00:21:43.03\00:21:50.11 calling themselves and screaming 00:21:50.14\00:21:52.64 and calling up for their gods 00:21:52.67\00:21:55.04 and that's invite a cool, comfort and collective 00:21:55.08\00:21:59.65 sitting back there watching 00:21:59.68\00:22:01.38 as they're running out of brethren. 00:22:01.42\00:22:03.52 Maybe your God is asleep. 00:22:03.55\00:22:06.15 Maybe He is caught in a way going to movie. 00:22:06.19\00:22:08.32 You should cry out a little bit longer 00:22:08.36\00:22:11.29 and they cry for more." 00:22:11.33\00:22:13.43 And yet they did it all day without even a spark. 00:22:13.46\00:22:20.44 Then Elijah says, it's my turn. 00:22:20.47\00:22:24.64 I'll talk to my God. 00:22:24.67\00:22:27.74 He said, in fact, 00:22:27.78\00:22:29.71 I'll make it little bit harder for my God. 00:22:29.74\00:22:32.98 I want you to dig a trench around my altar 00:22:33.01\00:22:38.12 and then we are gonna put water on my sacrifice 00:22:38.15\00:22:41.56 and, you know, we don't really have fire. 00:22:41.59\00:22:43.73 Water does what? 00:22:43.76\00:22:45.59 Puts outside, isn't it right? 00:22:45.63\00:22:47.90 It extinguishes, put some water on my sacrifice. 00:22:47.93\00:22:51.87 They put some water in the ditch around the altar 00:22:51.90\00:22:55.07 and then I'll talk to my God. 00:22:55.10\00:22:58.54 And there he is a man who prayed for thought 00:22:58.57\00:23:01.11 that it would rain for few years. 00:23:01.14\00:23:02.74 God, we got 450 unbelievers. 00:23:02.78\00:23:09.68 They said that their God is stronger than you 00:23:09.72\00:23:13.09 In fact, you know that, snap in if you will 00:23:13.12\00:23:17.76 I'm flexible, 00:23:17.79\00:23:21.40 put miracles in my life and in the life of Israel, 00:23:21.43\00:23:25.03 not one shall tell who the real God is. 00:23:25.07\00:23:30.27 Will the real God please stand up? 00:23:30.31\00:23:34.74 God come down and then light the fire 00:23:34.78\00:23:38.41 and the Bible says there at 1 Kings 18 00:23:38.45\00:23:42.78 that the fire came down from God 00:23:42.82\00:23:46.22 and it lit up the altar, lit up the water, 00:23:46.25\00:23:52.23 lit up the dust around in altar, 00:23:52.26\00:23:55.16 lit up the sticks under the sacrifice. 00:23:55.20\00:23:58.13 Burnt up everything that was in place 00:23:58.17\00:24:00.97 and there was nothing standing there 00:24:01.00\00:24:03.84 after Elijah's God got down. 00:24:03.87\00:24:08.14 You know, our God is a real God. 00:24:08.18\00:24:11.31 He doesn't have to, He does things to perfection 00:24:11.35\00:24:16.62 and yet after such a momentous event, 00:24:16.65\00:24:20.59 the Bible says, that just a chapter later 00:24:20.62\00:24:24.93 in 1 Kings 19 00:24:24.96\00:24:26.93 we find that same prophet Elijah 00:24:26.96\00:24:30.90 depressed, distressed 00:24:30.93\00:24:34.64 and hiding in a leaf. 00:24:34.67\00:24:38.81 You got to, you got to say something. 00:24:38.84\00:24:41.84 With the Lord let you have a mountain top experience 00:24:41.88\00:24:46.61 that he prepared for me. 00:24:46.65\00:24:48.35 Good. That's right. 00:24:48.38\00:24:50.25 Because the devil doesn't quit when he loses. 00:24:50.29\00:24:55.09 That's true. That's true. 00:24:55.12\00:24:56.46 He keeps on fighting, he keeps on our treadle, 00:24:56.49\00:25:00.70 he won't let up, he won't let you go. 00:25:00.73\00:25:04.07 Yes, you may have gotten off a dress, 00:25:04.10\00:25:06.74 yes, you had a good job family back together. 00:25:06.77\00:25:09.90 Yes, you might have raise your children right. 00:25:09.94\00:25:12.87 Yes, you might have return a faithful tithe, 00:25:12.91\00:25:15.48 but the devil is not going to stop. 00:25:15.51\00:25:18.88 He is trying to check us up 00:25:18.91\00:25:21.22 and each and every one of us need to look for the cave 00:25:21.25\00:25:25.29 after the mountain. 00:25:25.32\00:25:26.76 What's wrong with your life? 00:25:30.26\00:25:33.19 I got to preserve myself, why? 00:25:33.23\00:25:37.90 Because if they give me, 00:25:37.93\00:25:40.70 you won't have anybody to testify. 00:25:40.74\00:25:44.91 You won't have any witnesses if they-- 00:25:44.94\00:25:48.81 Don't you know that seven thousand of us, 00:25:48.84\00:25:52.25 they had to pick up--. 00:25:52.28\00:25:54.72 We have to get out of this me thing. 00:25:54.75\00:25:57.45 Well, we think the only way 00:25:57.49\00:26:01.09 only presence set to God. 00:26:01.12\00:26:03.32 God has it everywhere. 00:26:03.36\00:26:05.96 You don't know anything about and make the mistake about, 00:26:05.99\00:26:09.93 they all went inside this church. 00:26:09.96\00:26:12.20 All right, all right, we can see that. 00:26:12.23\00:26:15.77 I'll start faithfully everywhere 00:26:15.80\00:26:19.71 and you don't know anything about it. 00:26:19.74\00:26:22.84 Yes, to encourage him. 00:26:22.88\00:26:25.41 He says, well, I take that as a comment, 00:26:25.45\00:26:28.98 she might get me. 00:26:29.02\00:26:31.99 She who? 00:26:32.02\00:26:34.89 Jezebel. 00:26:34.92\00:26:36.99 You know, she don't have no fury like a woman's heart. 00:26:37.03\00:26:40.56 I told you come out of cave. 00:26:43.63\00:26:46.43 I will take care of the woman. 00:26:46.47\00:26:49.04 You come out of cave. 00:26:49.07\00:26:50.54 I want you to go and find, 00:26:50.57\00:26:52.94 find a Tishbite fawn name Elisha. 00:26:52.97\00:26:58.05 I want you to mentor him 00:26:58.08\00:27:00.85 and because I'm calling him into ministry 00:27:00.88\00:27:04.65 and so Elisha becomes a constant companion of Elijah 00:27:04.69\00:27:10.33 and Elijah wants to test his mettle, 00:27:10.36\00:27:13.93 to test his faithfulness. 00:27:13.96\00:27:16.23 So in 2 Kings the 2 Chapter we find that 00:27:16.26\00:27:20.00 he tries to get rid of him in a number of places. 00:27:20.04\00:27:24.64 In Gilgal and in Bethel and in Jericho 00:27:24.67\00:27:28.24 and going back to the Jordan and you still followed me. 00:27:28.28\00:27:33.75 I thought that can't be, you're some type of difficult. 00:27:33.78\00:27:37.29 You ain't get rid of me. 00:27:37.32\00:27:40.12 I'm called to the ministry. 00:27:40.16\00:27:42.82 God send me here for purpose 00:27:42.86\00:27:45.93 and He said, what can I do for Him? 00:27:45.96\00:27:49.36 You sent out what you got. 00:27:49.40\00:27:54.14 When folk see galore in your life, 00:27:54.17\00:27:58.77 they want what you got. 00:27:58.81\00:28:02.01 You sent him over to your house, 00:28:02.04\00:28:05.11 you sent him over your grave, 00:28:05.15\00:28:07.38 you sent him over to-- you sent him over to occult. 00:28:07.42\00:28:11.75 but in fact just give me Jesus. 00:28:11.79\00:28:16.66 That's what people really want. 00:28:16.69\00:28:19.96 If you will just find way, 00:28:20.00\00:28:22.93 I want the same kind of Holy Ghost power 00:28:22.96\00:28:27.77 that's of your life or my life but they came to see Elijah. 00:28:27.80\00:28:33.24 I wanted in double dose. 00:28:33.27\00:28:37.11 I see what you got is just a single dose. 00:28:37.15\00:28:41.32 Imagine my ministry would be like that 00:28:41.35\00:28:43.85 and I have a double dose of Holy Ghost. 00:28:43.89\00:28:47.96 And Elijah said, if you are with me, 00:28:47.99\00:28:50.83 when I'm translating. 00:28:50.86\00:28:53.09 If you are with me, 00:28:53.13\00:28:54.93 you are going to get your request 00:28:54.96\00:28:56.87 and the Bible says a world that came about Elijah 00:28:56.90\00:29:00.57 and as he was being lifted up into the air, 00:29:00.60\00:29:04.67 elevated to the air brought up by angel 00:29:04.71\00:29:07.74 that he remembered, remembered his commitment to Elijah 00:29:07.78\00:29:11.98 and drop his mantle down, 00:29:12.01\00:29:15.68 that mantle that was who? 00:29:15.72\00:29:18.52 The Holy Ghost power. 00:29:18.55\00:29:21.32 And so, Elijah tells us 00:29:21.36\00:29:23.76 that through the association of Elisha with Elijah, 00:29:23.79\00:29:28.56 many miracles were brought in the ministry of Elisha. 00:29:28.60\00:29:35.00 He saw Elijah transfer him. 00:29:35.04\00:29:38.27 He heal petty wars at Jericho 00:29:38.31\00:29:41.31 when he was stopped by 42 by children, 42 00:29:41.34\00:29:45.75 she bears came out and ate up. 00:29:45.78\00:29:48.32 You can't tell about God's service 00:29:48.35\00:29:50.39 in your kind of way. 00:29:50.42\00:29:51.75 You can't change in your kind of way 00:29:51.79\00:29:54.86 with the help of another prophet's widow 00:29:54.89\00:29:57.83 but don't apply the oil supply miraculously 00:29:57.86\00:30:01.36 he entertained the childless couple 00:30:01.40\00:30:04.53 in their Shunem 00:30:04.57\00:30:05.90 and prophesied you will have a child one day. 00:30:05.93\00:30:09.77 He was called to resonant another child 00:30:09.80\00:30:12.61 and in time, a short time but he locate to it 00:30:12.64\00:30:16.41 and he performed mouth to mouth resuscitation. 00:30:16.44\00:30:20.72 Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. 00:30:20.75\00:30:24.05 Brought back their child back to life. 00:30:24.09\00:30:27.32 Okay, he was able to transform but he is in black beans. 00:30:27.36\00:30:35.26 You all know black beans, don't you? 00:30:35.30\00:30:37.57 Yeah, you all cook, don't you? 00:30:37.60\00:30:39.93 Beans, he was in the place, eat at this place and beans 00:30:39.97\00:30:44.11 at the school of prophet 00:30:44.14\00:30:45.54 and make them come soon. 00:30:45.57\00:30:47.64 He healed Namaan, the leper, of his leprosy. 00:30:47.68\00:30:51.15 He made and ask it for. 00:30:51.18\00:30:53.78 For 60 years he preached the gospel 00:30:53.82\00:30:57.59 and when he was 80 00:30:57.62\00:30:59.55 we see him off his deathbed sick, 00:30:59.59\00:31:04.96 the pillow taken. 00:31:04.99\00:31:07.00 It may sick him, but not discourage. 00:31:07.03\00:31:13.67 They didn't bring that child of God. 00:31:13.70\00:31:16.97 You recognize that the surface of this present life 00:31:17.01\00:31:22.61 they're just not worthy to be compared with the God, 00:31:22.64\00:31:26.88 with the glory that shall one day be revealer. 00:31:26.92\00:31:30.89 You ain't seen nothing yet. 00:31:30.92\00:31:34.02 God gives you a divine perspective of legions 00:31:34.06\00:31:37.46 of being able to seeking on the purpose of this life, 00:31:37.49\00:31:42.00 to see what life will be only outside. 00:31:42.03\00:31:46.77 And one of my favorite authors Ellen White writes this 00:31:46.80\00:31:50.01 Satan must be given the opportunity to annoy us, 00:31:50.04\00:31:56.51 let's he be able to advance the charge 00:31:56.54\00:32:00.68 that he was not given 00:32:00.72\00:32:02.22 a fair opportunity with every soul. 00:32:02.25\00:32:06.32 That's how he will level with God. 00:32:10.39\00:32:12.49 Way back in Job 1, 2 chapters 00:32:12.53\00:32:18.43 the only reason he is serving you 00:32:18.47\00:32:22.87 is because everything is peaches and cream. 00:32:22.90\00:32:27.84 Well, if you change that formula, 00:32:27.88\00:32:31.21 he will crash and die. 00:32:31.25\00:32:35.45 How many times that things come into our lives 00:32:35.48\00:32:39.22 that we couldn't understand 00:32:39.25\00:32:41.36 because we thought we were living 00:32:41.39\00:32:43.56 the right kind of life, 00:32:43.59\00:32:46.09 walking down the right road 00:32:46.13\00:32:48.00 and yet in the midst of our journey 00:32:48.03\00:32:50.87 things just came out of nowhere. 00:32:50.90\00:32:53.37 Take that insist to us all. 00:32:53.40\00:32:56.34 If God was fair, if He was just 00:32:56.37\00:33:00.88 because we hadn't done anything wrong. 00:33:00.91\00:33:03.85 It maybe he's just thinking, it might have been God's way 00:33:03.88\00:33:08.48 of trying to tell the panel, 00:33:08.52\00:33:10.99 I'll give you an opportunity to touch him. 00:33:11.02\00:33:13.72 Don't take his life, I'll give you an opportunity 00:33:13.76\00:33:16.89 to deal with them but understand something, 00:33:16.93\00:33:19.56 the only reason 00:33:19.59\00:33:21.16 why I'll let you have your faith in him 00:33:21.20\00:33:23.73 is because I know that he will set me 00:33:23.77\00:33:27.47 even if it means death. 00:33:27.50\00:33:30.11 That's the kind of image the three Hebrew boys have. 00:33:30.14\00:33:33.61 We are not careful to answer he who came. 00:33:33.64\00:33:37.55 The God who we say is able to deliver us 00:33:37.58\00:33:42.05 from the burning fiery furnace, 00:33:42.08\00:33:44.02 but if not we stay and we'll serve you, 00:33:44.05\00:33:50.69 we stay and we'll bow down. 00:33:50.73\00:33:53.43 It doesn't matter if we are going to become partners 00:33:53.46\00:33:56.56 you in your furnace, 00:33:56.60\00:33:58.27 we are glad to beat out the bar. 00:33:58.30\00:34:03.81 You must have that kind of commixture, 00:34:03.84\00:34:06.47 hot cast to be fixed, mind me up that you want to live 00:34:06.51\00:34:10.95 for the Lord and Elisha, Elisha died and he gets buried. 00:34:10.98\00:34:17.39 And then comes his funeral is ready. 00:34:17.42\00:34:22.49 They are burying, it doesn't say 00:34:22.52\00:34:25.66 whether he's a family member or dear friend-- 00:34:25.69\00:34:30.90 He just says, they were burying him 00:34:30.93\00:34:35.74 and because they're spying in the distance, the enemy, 00:34:35.77\00:34:41.51 the Moabite enemy, 00:34:41.54\00:34:44.58 they looked and he turn to say, 00:34:44.61\00:34:47.32 we got to finish this funeral later. 00:34:47.35\00:34:50.99 Before and because of last funeral. 00:34:51.02\00:34:55.99 So here he is buried here. 00:34:56.02\00:34:59.66 Let's just put this man in this grave. 00:34:59.69\00:35:03.26 Look, I can't help myself. 00:35:03.30\00:35:07.27 And your prayerfulness. 00:35:07.30\00:35:10.04 The Bible says, they dropped the man in this old grave 00:35:10.07\00:35:16.95 and the Bible says 00:35:16.98\00:35:19.28 that when the dead man touched the bones of Elisha 00:35:19.31\00:35:24.75 that he jumped up out the grave, 00:35:24.79\00:35:28.19 and I can imagine why his buddies were running. 00:35:28.22\00:35:31.59 He caught up with them and say, hey, wait, 00:35:31.63\00:35:33.83 why you're running. 00:35:33.86\00:35:35.20 Yes. Yes, sir. 00:35:35.23\00:35:36.56 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 00:35:36.60\00:35:38.07 Come on now. 00:35:38.10\00:35:39.43 Yes, sir. 00:35:39.47\00:35:40.80 Why do you have to move like this? 00:35:40.84\00:35:43.67 You know Jack ran fast than us 00:35:43.71\00:35:46.68 because he's talking, they left them in the hole. 00:35:46.71\00:35:50.11 but there's problem in the life of the believer 00:35:50.15\00:35:55.55 that nobody can understand 00:35:55.58\00:35:58.02 and the thing we need to act where people 00:35:58.05\00:36:01.59 who are dead man walking, 00:36:01.62\00:36:04.63 something miraculous has to happen to their lives. 00:36:04.66\00:36:08.66 They ought to come back to life just because we touched them. 00:36:08.70\00:36:12.93 Just because we were interactive. 00:36:12.97\00:36:15.70 Just because they knew us. 00:36:15.74\00:36:17.57 Just because they came close to us. 00:36:17.61\00:36:19.44 If they are not coming back to life, 00:36:19.47\00:36:21.98 they take and retake too. 00:36:22.01\00:36:24.65 Amen. That's right. 00:36:24.68\00:36:28.52 When something, when someone is dead, 00:36:28.55\00:36:33.52 I understand that when we tell if you're dead, 00:36:33.56\00:36:37.96 you check the pulse. 00:36:37.99\00:36:40.73 Isn't that right? That's right. 00:36:40.76\00:36:42.26 Yes, philosopher, physician, surgeon Galen 00:36:42.30\00:36:47.94 was the first individual to talk about pulse. 00:36:47.97\00:36:51.21 The pulse is the rate at which the heart contracts 00:36:51.24\00:36:56.51 and sends life giving blood throughout the entire body. 00:36:56.54\00:37:02.22 The pulse getting changed in another places 00:37:02.25\00:37:05.59 as long as you can compress an artery against a bone. 00:37:05.62\00:37:10.03 I understand that if you push on the neck 00:37:10.06\00:37:14.23 and push your artery the carotid artery of the neck 00:37:14.26\00:37:17.47 and hits the ball, you will be able to tell the pulse. 00:37:17.50\00:37:19.67 I understand that behind the knee is a popliteal artery 00:37:19.70\00:37:25.74 that you press it against the back of the knee ball, 00:37:25.77\00:37:28.44 you will be able to check the pulse. 00:37:28.48\00:37:30.08 Out here that inside elbow if you press your artery 00:37:30.11\00:37:35.08 the, brachial artery against the ball in the elbow, 00:37:35.12\00:37:38.72 you will be able to check the pulse. 00:37:38.75\00:37:40.89 And here that somewhere near the knee 00:37:40.92\00:37:43.86 is the posterior tibial artery. 00:37:43.89\00:37:46.80 If you press it, you will be able to tell 00:37:46.83\00:37:48.86 whether somebody is alive or not. 00:37:48.90\00:37:50.73 I walk in this morning, brother and sister, 00:37:50.77\00:37:53.07 if somebody would come 00:37:53.10\00:37:55.37 and check our spiritual pulse today, 00:37:55.40\00:37:58.71 would they say dead or alive. 00:37:58.74\00:38:01.14 Have mercy. Have mercy. 00:38:01.18\00:38:02.51 Have mercy. 00:38:02.54\00:38:04.91 Is he living or is he dead? 00:38:04.95\00:38:08.35 Is she living or is she dead? 00:38:08.38\00:38:12.79 Do we have a right giving power horsing 00:38:12.82\00:38:17.46 through our veins? 00:38:17.49\00:38:23.16 The Bible says in Romans the 8 chapter, 00:38:23.20\00:38:28.34 turn there with me 00:38:28.37\00:38:29.70 I'll come down the whole stretch here. 00:38:29.74\00:38:32.54 In Romans the 8 chapter, Romans 8:13 00:38:32.57\00:38:39.75 listen to what the word of God says. 00:38:39.78\00:38:42.85 "For if ye live after the flesh, 00:38:42.88\00:38:47.82 ye shall" what? 00:38:47.86\00:38:49.49 "Ye shall die, 00:38:49.52\00:38:51.49 but if ye through the Spirit 00:38:51.53\00:38:54.26 do mortify the deeds of the body, 00:38:54.30\00:38:57.70 you shall" what? 00:38:57.73\00:38:59.93 "You shall live." 00:38:59.97\00:39:05.07 You shall live. 00:39:05.11\00:39:08.28 I heard the same writer 00:39:08.31\00:39:11.58 in chapter 6 and verse 23 says, 00:39:11.61\00:39:16.62 "For the wages of sin is" what? 00:39:16.65\00:39:19.99 "Death." 00:39:20.02\00:39:22.72 Sin is a bad experience. 00:39:22.76\00:39:26.19 Yes, it is. Yes, it is. 00:39:26.23\00:39:27.73 It is contrary to life. 00:39:27.76\00:39:32.57 The end product of sin always is death. 00:39:32.60\00:39:38.47 I had the spirit anything down here 00:39:38.51\00:39:42.78 that has been so dreadful and so terrible 00:39:42.81\00:39:46.85 that-- 00:39:46.88\00:39:50.19 Standing out in the street, 00:39:50.22\00:39:52.69 I did called him again hit by the car 00:39:52.72\00:39:56.26 and he was standing to the street 00:39:56.29\00:39:58.19 and I said, daddy, what's wrong with it. 00:39:58.23\00:40:00.53 You want to kill yourself. 00:40:00.56\00:40:02.26 He said, I won't die, I won't live. 00:40:02.30\00:40:07.64 Isn't that a life doesn't wants to live. 00:40:07.67\00:40:10.41 Yes, sir. 00:40:10.44\00:40:11.91 It doesn't matter how lower your stake in life, 00:40:11.94\00:40:17.35 you recognize something and stick them 00:40:17.38\00:40:20.12 when they are said as bad as things might seem. 00:40:20.15\00:40:23.85 Sin I'll still gonna live at a time. 00:40:23.89\00:40:27.86 What if we continue in sin, if we tackle inequity, 00:40:27.89\00:40:33.63 you bring whole on to that target sin and I'll arise, 00:40:33.66\00:40:37.97 they only out come for us instead. 00:40:38.00\00:40:41.84 True. 00:40:41.87\00:40:43.20 That's right. 00:40:43.24\00:40:44.87 No pulse, 00:40:44.91\00:40:47.81 just death. 00:40:47.84\00:40:51.88 There is a death however. 00:40:51.91\00:40:54.42 Listen, listen, listen, there is a, there is a death, 00:40:54.45\00:40:57.45 a good death. 00:40:57.49\00:41:00.42 I was watching a film one time, 00:41:00.46\00:41:02.76 I came a little late, 00:41:02.79\00:41:05.23 but it ends by saying, it was a good death. 00:41:05.26\00:41:08.46 He died in good. 00:41:08.50\00:41:09.90 What do you mean a good death? 00:41:09.93\00:41:13.17 Look at Romans the 6 chapter, 00:41:13.20\00:41:16.54 Romans 6:3, 4. 00:41:16.57\00:41:21.94 Those are the words that says. 00:41:21.98\00:41:24.05 "Know ye not, 00:41:24.08\00:41:26.21 that so many of us as were" what everybody? 00:41:26.25\00:41:29.82 Baptized. Loudly. 00:41:29.85\00:41:31.35 Baptized. 00:41:31.39\00:41:32.72 "Baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into" what? 00:41:32.75\00:41:37.26 "His death? 00:41:37.29\00:41:38.69 Therefore we are buried with him 00:41:38.73\00:41:42.20 by baptism into death, 00:41:42.23\00:41:44.47 that like as Christ was raised up from the dead 00:41:44.50\00:41:49.24 by the glory of the Father, 00:41:49.27\00:41:51.24 even so we also should walk in the newness of life." 00:41:51.27\00:41:57.15 There is a one death, 00:42:00.42\00:42:03.45 that too death is when we die to sin. 00:42:03.49\00:42:07.69 And we are daily with our Lord in what? 00:42:07.72\00:42:11.69 Don't whisper. 00:42:11.73\00:42:13.56 In what? 00:42:13.60\00:42:15.63 Baptism. 00:42:15.66\00:42:18.07 That's the best funeral that you've been at. 00:42:18.10\00:42:22.97 The funeral of that old man of sin 00:42:23.00\00:42:26.94 and that's what we all have one. 00:42:26.98\00:42:29.78 Romans 3:23 says "That is none righteous." 00:42:29.81\00:42:35.18 No, not, wait, wait, wait, wait. 00:42:35.22\00:42:38.35 Preaching, you're preaching it hard and listen, 00:42:38.39\00:42:40.92 you mean you got some problem? 00:42:40.96\00:42:42.39 Yes, my momma's back there you will ask her. 00:42:42.42\00:42:44.89 But, pastor, we're Christians. 00:42:49.40\00:42:55.30 Well, you're trying to telling me that 00:42:55.34\00:42:56.74 Christians don't have problems? 00:42:56.77\00:42:59.44 If anybody has problems, we have problems. 00:42:59.47\00:43:03.95 Why? 00:43:03.98\00:43:05.31 "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, 00:43:05.35\00:43:07.65 and went out to make war 00:43:07.68\00:43:09.22 against the remnant of her seed, 00:43:09.25\00:43:10.82 which keep the commandments of God, 00:43:10.85\00:43:12.75 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." 00:43:12.79\00:43:15.16 If you declare yourself to be a friend of God, 00:43:15.19\00:43:19.56 you also want to declare yourself 00:43:19.59\00:43:21.96 to be an enemy of the devil 00:43:22.00\00:43:24.10 and I already told you that it's not for the take up, 00:43:24.13\00:43:28.54 not without a fight. 00:43:28.57\00:43:31.07 It's his desire 00:43:31.11\00:43:32.87 that all of us be in the big swim party 00:43:32.91\00:43:36.64 that's planned for him in Revelation 20. 00:43:36.68\00:43:40.52 I ain't trying to go swimming in fire. 00:43:43.39\00:43:45.92 Amen. Amen. 00:43:45.95\00:43:47.62 Amen. 00:43:47.66\00:43:48.99 It doesn't matter whether you put on the rank-- 00:43:49.02\00:43:50.93 this world can have 00:43:50.96\00:43:55.33 but he will tell us to be with him 00:43:55.36\00:43:59.70 in that baptism of fire of destruction. 00:43:59.73\00:44:05.94 We all got our hills to climb 00:44:05.97\00:44:11.15 and Jesus calls us to a life of holiness. 00:44:11.18\00:44:16.52 Get in your life in the waters of baptism 00:44:16.55\00:44:21.52 because when you got out in the waters of baptism 00:44:21.56\00:44:25.93 and your heart is sincere 00:44:25.96\00:44:29.06 and you want to follow Jesus everywhere, 00:44:29.10\00:44:33.10 then we'll get cut up when you get up out the water. 00:44:33.13\00:44:37.61 You are not just wet, 00:44:37.64\00:44:40.38 you are clean everywhere 00:44:40.41\00:44:43.48 and only you can decide 00:44:43.51\00:44:46.68 if you are going to keep your clothes clean. 00:44:46.72\00:44:50.09 Keep your life pure. 00:44:50.12\00:44:52.19 Keep everything spotless before your Lord. 00:44:52.22\00:44:56.56 That's a good kind of death. 00:44:56.59\00:44:59.16 When somebody takes your pulse then? 00:44:59.19\00:45:03.30 It's off the skin. 00:45:03.33\00:45:04.80 I can't tell you how hard, your heart will beat 00:45:07.30\00:45:11.67 but they will change us, takes only inside of you. 00:45:11.71\00:45:18.41 They got, no, what they've got no instrument back then 00:45:18.45\00:45:22.32 to keep up with your heart rate 00:45:22.35\00:45:24.65 because they were so excited about what God is doing. 00:45:24.69\00:45:28.79 So excited about how God will use you. 00:45:28.82\00:45:31.89 So excited about the fact that God is going to save you. 00:45:31.93\00:45:36.83 You just can't keep it to yourself. 00:45:36.87\00:45:40.17 Amen. Amen. 00:45:40.20\00:45:42.07 Over here and we end with this last text 00:45:42.10\00:45:48.64 is a text that I have come to love it. 00:45:48.68\00:45:52.08 You have to it is Galatians 2, 00:45:52.11\00:45:55.65 Galatians 2:20. 00:45:55.68\00:46:00.06 I'm so excited about, 00:46:00.09\00:46:01.62 I want you to find it immediately. 00:46:01.66\00:46:04.13 Galatians 2:20, 00:46:04.16\00:46:10.57 Galatians 2:20 00:46:10.60\00:46:15.67 the Bible says, read it what does it say, 00:46:15.70\00:46:19.54 "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, 00:46:19.57\00:46:26.28 yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, 00:46:26.31\00:46:31.29 and the life which I now live in the flesh I live" how? 00:46:31.32\00:46:36.86 "By the faith of the Son of God, 00:46:36.89\00:46:39.13 who did what? 00:46:39.16\00:46:40.86 Loved me, and gave Himself." 00:46:40.90\00:46:45.47 Oh, somebody ought to say hallelujah. 00:46:45.50\00:46:47.60 Amen. Amen. 00:46:47.64\00:46:48.97 Somebody ought to say thank You, Jesus. 00:46:49.00\00:46:51.64 Somebody ought to say praise the Lord today. 00:46:51.67\00:46:56.14 We've a legend to watch. 00:46:56.18\00:46:57.61 A legend that involved a search for the cross 00:47:00.32\00:47:04.85 that Jesus died. 00:47:04.89\00:47:08.86 They tell me that they brought three crosses 00:47:08.89\00:47:13.23 to an empress namely Helena. 00:47:13.26\00:47:15.86 And said one of these crosses is a cross 00:47:18.30\00:47:23.67 that Christ was crucified. 00:47:23.71\00:47:26.88 Helena said, well, which one? 00:47:26.91\00:47:30.95 We don't know but we collected the three crosses 00:47:30.98\00:47:36.89 that everybody said 00:47:36.92\00:47:38.72 was the cross that Jesus died on. 00:47:38.75\00:47:42.26 She said He only died on one cross, 00:47:42.29\00:47:44.79 I know from the story that there were three crosses 00:47:44.83\00:47:49.53 but all of them didn't have the Son of God on. 00:47:49.56\00:47:53.03 All of them didn't have the Savior on. 00:47:53.07\00:47:55.74 All of them didn't have the Son of man, 00:47:55.77\00:47:57.77 only one of them was the cross that Christ died on 00:47:57.81\00:48:02.04 and they said, and they said what? 00:48:02.08\00:48:04.51 Miss Helena, Empress Helena, 00:48:04.55\00:48:06.48 we don't know which one 00:48:06.51\00:48:08.62 represents the cross that He died on. 00:48:08.65\00:48:10.99 She said, do we have any dead man in the house? 00:48:11.02\00:48:15.36 Come on. Come on. Come on. 00:48:15.39\00:48:16.73 Come on now. 00:48:16.76\00:48:18.09 Yeah, there is some dead people right in. 00:48:18.13\00:48:19.89 Call it, we need a dead man. 00:48:19.93\00:48:22.76 I will watch how they put the dead man 00:48:22.80\00:48:24.93 on each one of the crosses, 00:48:24.97\00:48:27.54 I don't believe that the real cross 00:48:27.57\00:48:32.44 if it's the cross that Jesus died on 00:48:32.47\00:48:35.94 that when that dead man touches the cross 00:48:35.98\00:48:40.58 like the dead man touched the pulse of Elisha, 00:48:40.62\00:48:45.02 that man is gonna come back to life 00:48:45.05\00:48:48.19 and so they put that dead man on one cross. 00:48:48.22\00:48:51.23 They put him over the second cross 00:48:51.26\00:48:53.50 but when they come to the third cross, 00:48:53.53\00:48:56.70 he come on the third cross he came back alive. 00:48:56.73\00:49:00.77 He was a dead man walking. 00:49:00.80\00:49:03.34 Every time we come to the cross that Christ died on brother. 00:49:03.37\00:49:08.14 We become dead man walking 00:49:08.18\00:49:10.68 and so we are declare with the apostle. 00:49:10.71\00:49:12.91 I'm crucified with the Christ yet I still live is not me 00:49:12.95\00:49:20.09 but Jesus never forget me, let's pray by the grace of God 00:49:20.12\00:49:24.93 that from this date on, 00:49:24.96\00:49:26.73 we're not going to try to live under our own power, 00:49:26.76\00:49:29.56 but we want to lean on the power 00:49:29.60\00:49:31.83 of the cross of Christ and people who live in us 00:49:31.87\00:49:34.77 and says there is a dead man walking. 00:49:34.80\00:49:37.51