Participants: Pr. E.C. Polite
Series Code: HG
Program Code: HG000008
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00:43 Take the world
00:47 Give me Jesus 00:50 Take the world 00:54 Give me Jesus 00:58 Take the world 01:02 Give me Jesus 01:05 Take the world 01:10 Give me Jesus 01:13 You can have all the 01:17 All the world 01:21 You can have mercy 01:25 All day 01:29 You can be happy 01:31 with Jesus the Lord 01:37 Take the world 01:40 Give me Jesus 01:44 Take the world 01:48 Give me Jesus 01:52 Take the world 01:55 Give me Jesus 01:59 Take the world 02:03 Give me Jesus 02:07 You can have all the 02:11 All things 02:15 You can have mercy 02:18 All day 02:23 Happy with Jesus the Lord 02:30 Take the world 02:33 Take the world 02:38 But I'll take 02:40 Jesus for me 02:45 Take the world 02:49 Take the world 02:53 But I'll take 02:56 Jesus for me 03:00 Take the world 03:04 Take the world 03:09 But I'll take 03:11 Jesus for me 03:16 Take the world 03:20 Take the world 03:24 But I'll take 03:26 Jesus for me 03:31 Take the world 03:35 Take the world 03:40 But I will take 03:42 Jesus for me 03:47 Take the world 03:50 Take the world 03:55 But I'll take 03:57 Jesus for me 04:01 Amen 04:16 There is a name 04:21 That is so precious 04:26 A name so wonderful 04:31 To me 04:33 This name is worthy 04:38 Of all praises 04:42 Because of him 04:45 See I am made free 04:49 You know the name is Jesus 04:54 Oh how I love him 04:58 The one who gave 05:02 His life for me 05:06 Because of love 05:11 so unconditional 05:15 I will have life 05:18 Oh eternally 05:39 His name speaks peace 05:43 To our lives storm clouds 05:47 His name speaks calm 05:51 Through all mercies 05:55 And when I feel 05:59 That no one can love me 06:04 His loving presence 06:07 Is so near 06:12 His name is Jesus 06:16 Oh how I love him 06:20 The one who gave 06:24 His life for me 06:28 Because of love 06:32 So unconditional 06:37 I will have life 06:40 Oh eternally 06:47 Oh Praise 06:51 That name! 06:55 Praise 06:59 That holy name! 07:03 Praise 07:07 That name! 07:11 Praise 07:14 That name! 07:21 Well, someday we want to leave 07:26 This earthly dwelling 07:31 And through time and space 07:35 We all want to soar 07:40 Till we finally see 07:45 The face of Jesus 07:49 Oh the one who raise 07:53 Forevermore! 07:57 City Temple, That name is Jesus 08:02 Oh how I love him 08:07 The one 08:08 Who gave his life 08:15 For me 08:17 For me 08:21 Because of love 08:25 So unconditional 08:30 I will have life 08:33 Of eternally 08:40 Oh, my Jesus 08:44 Is that name 08:50 Glorious 08:54 Is that holy name! 08:59 Wonderful 09:03 Is that mighty name! 09:07 Oh praise 09:14 That name! 09:27 It is certainly good to be back in the house of God. 09:31 Again we know that it might be little chilly outside. 09:37 That's why you come inside 09:39 where the spirit can warm your heart. 09:42 On last week we began a series 09:46 entitled "Spiritual Vital Signs." 09:50 "Spiritual Vital Signs." 09:53 In that series we lifted up the fact 09:56 that when we go to see a physician, 10:00 when we go to the hospital they usually check us 10:04 by checking our vital signs, our temperature, our pulse, 10:08 our respirations and our blood pressure 10:10 to give an overall view 10:13 of how well our body is functioning. 10:16 That happens in the natural 10:19 and it also happens in the spiritual, 10:21 in the spiritual. 10:23 You know, last week we talked about, 10:26 we talked about our spiritual temperature 10:28 under the title "Do you have the holy ghost?" 10:32 "Do you have the holy ghost?" 10:34 Because we found in scripture that the Lord said, 10:37 I got a little substance that gives you 10:39 because you need a hot, no cold. 10:41 You don't have a temperature. 10:44 You need the Holy Ghost 10:46 and so we lifted up 10:49 the third person of the God here. 10:50 On this morning 10:52 we are going to be looking at the pulse now 10:56 and in the spiritual realm 10:58 and I want to direct your attention 11:00 to the Book of 2 Kings. 11:01 What book did I say? 11:03 2 Kings. 11:05 2 Kings 13 Chapter 11:09 2 Kings 13:20, 21. 11:17 2 Kings 13:20, 21 11:22 there you will find these words recorded. 11:25 "And Elisha died, and they buried him. 11:30 And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land 11:34 at the coming in of the year. 11:37 And they came to pass, as they were burying a man, 11:41 that, behold, they spied a band of men, 11:45 and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: 11:50 and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, 11:56 he revived, and stood up on his feet." 12:00 I thought today we talk on the subject 12:03 "Dead Man Walking." 12:05 "Dead Man Walking." 12:07 Now perhaps you may not have figured out by now 12:11 but pastor has a certain comedic element 12:15 about his personality. 12:16 I know that I come across 12:18 as being very serious and stoic and steam, 12:22 but nobody enjoys a better laugh than I. 12:26 In fact, I grew up in a home that was full of laughter. 12:30 I can recall my earliest memories 12:33 were of my mother laughing about something. 12:37 She would be on the phone laughing. 12:39 She talked to somebody and she would be laughing. 12:41 And so laughter is in my DNA. 12:45 This story is one that makes me laugh. 12:50 It makes me laugh because of how it progresses. 12:55 I look at it and I'm thinking to myself 12:59 now something is wrong here. 13:01 A dead man is laid down 13:04 to the grave of another dead man 13:07 and the dead man comes back to life 13:09 on touching the other dead man. 13:14 If the dead man 13:15 can make another dead man come back to life, 13:17 why didn't the original dead man 13:18 come back to life? 13:21 But let me get into, let me get to-- 13:23 I want to get too far here myself 13:25 because there are some obvious questions 13:28 that comes to my mind. 13:30 Who do these bones belong to? 13:34 How did they get there? 13:36 And most important of all how did they get so much power 13:41 that when another dead man touches these bones, 13:45 they come back to life? 13:48 We have the answer to my first quandary 13:51 in verse 21. 13:53 It says that the bones belong to whom? 13:57 Elisha. Elisha. 13:59 Elisha. 14:01 Perhaps then if we can kind of rejoice the life of Elisha, 14:06 it might help us a little bit to understand 14:09 where all this power came from. 14:11 Isn't that right? 14:12 All right. 14:13 When I came into the ministry, 14:17 in fact, I was aware of my call to the ministry 14:22 at a very young age. 14:24 About the age of seven, 14:26 I remember going into the room and telling my mother 14:29 that I was going to be a minister. 14:34 Now she didn't say anything then 14:38 but being older, you know, and remembering my life, 14:42 I guess she might have said to herself, 14:44 she won't discourage me but you want to be minister? 14:49 Baby, what is this? You're not going to be. 14:53 I discovered when I got to college 14:56 that God calls me and other women into ministry 15:01 by one of three ways. 15:03 The first one is called original conviction. 15:06 What did I say? 15:07 Original conviction. 15:09 Jeremiah 1:4-10 15:12 talks about Jeremiah and how the Lord said, 15:16 "While you were still in the womb, Jeremiah, 15:20 I did" what? 15:21 "I called you 15:23 and I ordained you to be a prophet unto all." 15:27 Beloved, Jesus has said that He has plans for us, 15:32 isn't that right? 15:33 Before we are formed and we in the very womb, 15:37 God has a plan for our life 15:40 and you think of the stake about it. 15:42 He doesn't had plans 15:44 for the lives of those individuals 15:46 who were just born legitimately. 15:49 All right, we can see that. 15:50 See that. 15:52 Too many folk running around here with guilt trip 15:54 because of their birth origin. 15:57 I don't care whether you were born out of wedlock 16:02 or in the holy deadlock, 16:04 the fact of the matter is that if you're born at all, 16:09 it's not your idea, it's God's idea, 16:12 and God has a plan for your life. 16:15 Amen. Amen. Amen. 16:17 Too many folk walking around burdened, 16:21 feeling as if they don't matter, 16:24 they had no value because of their origin. 16:30 The last time I checked, 16:32 God made babies before they made mistakes. 16:35 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 16:39 Yes, sir. Hello. 16:42 And so therefore 16:44 Jeremiah has been called to the ministry 16:48 by original conviction. 16:50 Then the second way, 16:51 an individual is called into the ministry 16:53 is by direct confrontation. 16:56 What did I say? 16:58 Direct confrontation. 16:59 You can mean that kind of inspiration. 17:01 Acts 9:1-22 where Saul is called 17:08 and he becomes the Apostle Paul. 17:11 Sometimes the Lord has to knock you off your donkey. 17:20 I told you I have a comedic side. 17:23 I won't say donkey. 17:25 He will knock you off your name so that He impress you up, 17:30 stand you up and send you where He wants you to go. 17:35 The third, the third way, 17:37 an individual is called into the ministry 17:40 is by association. 17:42 What did I say? 17:43 Association. Association. 17:45 1 Kings 19:19-20 17:49 this is the way that Elisha received his call 17:54 to the ministry. 17:56 He was affiliated, 17:57 well associated with the prophet Elijah. 18:02 You know Elijah, don't you? 18:04 Amen. 18:05 Elijah was the man who in 1 Kings 18 18:12 was so, he was so bad, brazen, and bold 18:18 that he went up some 1,700 feet to the site of Mount Carmel 18:23 to take off 450 other fellows. 18:28 Now you don't let them sound like a fair fight already. 18:33 But that means something over the mountains. 18:36 One that gets 450 18:40 and he is not there 18:42 because they are in the midst of getting warfare. 18:47 It's not a battle between the Prince and the Blood. 18:51 This is another time of warfare. 18:54 This is a warfare between good and evil. 18:58 God's prophets and the devil's prophets, 19:02 they are looking each other in the face 19:05 and they are trying to decide whose God is bigger, 19:10 whose God is better, whose God is more powerful. 19:14 You know, when you are growing up 19:16 and you outside selling your woof tickets 19:18 and you say "My daddy is bigger than your daddy. 19:22 My daddy is stronger than your daddy. 19:25 My daddy can beat your daddy." 19:28 I remember called my dad was in the 30, 19:31 and the people would say that. 19:33 I would say, "Oh, my dad all he got to do 19:36 is pull out a granite out of his pocket 19:37 and blew your daddy up." 19:45 We're just always trying, 19:47 trying to fight for the supremacy 19:50 and so it has Elijah up there. 19:53 Now remember, this is a man that was so bad 19:55 that this three years before the man said a prayer 20:01 and then told the people that it's not going to rain. 20:05 In a time, a man can pray 20:08 and the rain not fall for three years. 20:11 You know that man's got a lot of power in his life. 20:15 I like folk that have powerful prayers, 20:19 prayers that can move mountains, 20:21 prayers that can cast out devils, 20:24 prayers that can raise up the sick, 20:26 prayers that can seek the holy, 20:28 prayers that can call the death. 20:30 I like folk that had powerful prayers. 20:34 The reason I'm in the ministry today 20:37 is because momma prayed a powerful prayer over my life 20:42 because if you handle me, you will look at me and laugh, 20:46 I said that way it will be nothing. 20:49 It's about praying, you don't be a devil. 20:52 That's his planted life 20:55 but God honors the prayers of a sincere and the faithful. 21:01 And so, Elijah is up there and he says 21:06 "We want to settle this thing once and for all. 21:09 I'm tired of you all arguing and gives me trying to say 21:13 whose God is greater." 21:15 We are going to put people two altars 21:17 and we're gonna put two sacrifices over there 21:20 and we are not going to make this sacrifice, 21:23 we are gonna ask our gods. 21:28 You ask your God to light of, 21:32 in fact, your God is so bad, 21:34 I'm gonna let your God go first. 21:37 Let him get the first turn here 21:40 and then I'll ask my God. 21:43 And so that year almost 450 prophets of Baal 21:50 calling themselves and screaming 21:52 and calling up for their gods 21:55 and that's invite a cool, comfort and collective 21:59 sitting back there watching 22:01 as they're running out of brethren. 22:03 Maybe your God is asleep. 22:06 Maybe He is caught in a way going to movie. 22:08 You should cry out a little bit longer 22:11 and they cry for more." 22:13 And yet they did it all day without even a spark. 22:20 Then Elijah says, it's my turn. 22:24 I'll talk to my God. 22:27 He said, in fact, 22:29 I'll make it little bit harder for my God. 22:33 I want you to dig a trench around my altar 22:38 and then we are gonna put water on my sacrifice 22:41 and, you know, we don't really have fire. 22:43 Water does what? 22:45 Puts outside, isn't it right? 22:47 It extinguishes, put some water on my sacrifice. 22:51 They put some water in the ditch around the altar 22:55 and then I'll talk to my God. 22:58 And there he is a man who prayed for thought 23:01 that it would rain for few years. 23:02 God, we got 450 unbelievers. 23:09 They said that their God is stronger than you 23:13 In fact, you know that, snap in if you will 23:17 I'm flexible, 23:21 put miracles in my life and in the life of Israel, 23:25 not one shall tell who the real God is. 23:30 Will the real God please stand up? 23:34 God come down and then light the fire 23:38 and the Bible says there at 1 Kings 18 23:42 that the fire came down from God 23:46 and it lit up the altar, lit up the water, 23:52 lit up the dust around in altar, 23:55 lit up the sticks under the sacrifice. 23:58 Burnt up everything that was in place 24:01 and there was nothing standing there 24:03 after Elijah's God got down. 24:08 You know, our God is a real God. 24:11 He doesn't have to, He does things to perfection 24:16 and yet after such a momentous event, 24:20 the Bible says, that just a chapter later 24:24 in 1 Kings 19 24:26 we find that same prophet Elijah 24:30 depressed, distressed 24:34 and hiding in a leaf. 24:38 You got to, you got to say something. 24:41 With the Lord let you have a mountain top experience 24:46 that he prepared for me. 24:48 Good. That's right. 24:50 Because the devil doesn't quit when he loses. 24:55 That's true. That's true. 24:56 He keeps on fighting, he keeps on our treadle, 25:00 he won't let up, he won't let you go. 25:04 Yes, you may have gotten off a dress, 25:06 yes, you had a good job family back together. 25:09 Yes, you might have raise your children right. 25:12 Yes, you might have return a faithful tithe, 25:15 but the devil is not going to stop. 25:18 He is trying to check us up 25:21 and each and every one of us need to look for the cave 25:25 after the mountain. 25:30 What's wrong with your life? 25:33 I got to preserve myself, why? 25:37 Because if they give me, 25:40 you won't have anybody to testify. 25:44 You won't have any witnesses if they-- 25:48 Don't you know that seven thousand of us, 25:52 they had to pick up--. 25:54 We have to get out of this me thing. 25:57 Well, we think the only way 26:01 only presence set to God. 26:03 God has it everywhere. 26:05 You don't know anything about and make the mistake about, 26:09 they all went inside this church. 26:12 All right, all right, we can see that. 26:15 I'll start faithfully everywhere 26:19 and you don't know anything about it. 26:22 Yes, to encourage him. 26:25 He says, well, I take that as a comment, 26:29 she might get me. 26:32 She who? 26:34 Jezebel. 26:37 You know, she don't have no fury like a woman's heart. 26:43 I told you come out of cave. 26:46 I will take care of the woman. 26:49 You come out of cave. 26:50 I want you to go and find, 26:52 find a Tishbite fawn name Elisha. 26:58 I want you to mentor him 27:00 and because I'm calling him into ministry 27:04 and so Elisha becomes a constant companion of Elijah 27:10 and Elijah wants to test his mettle, 27:13 to test his faithfulness. 27:16 So in 2 Kings the 2 Chapter we find that 27:20 he tries to get rid of him in a number of places. 27:24 In Gilgal and in Bethel and in Jericho 27:28 and going back to the Jordan and you still followed me. 27:33 I thought that can't be, you're some type of difficult. 27:37 You ain't get rid of me. 27:40 I'm called to the ministry. 27:42 God send me here for purpose 27:45 and He said, what can I do for Him? 27:49 You sent out what you got. 27:54 When folk see galore in your life, 27:58 they want what you got. 28:02 You sent him over to your house, 28:05 you sent him over your grave, 28:07 you sent him over to-- you sent him over to occult. 28:11 but in fact just give me Jesus. 28:16 That's what people really want. 28:20 If you will just find way, 28:22 I want the same kind of Holy Ghost power 28:27 that's of your life or my life but they came to see Elijah. 28:33 I wanted in double dose. 28:37 I see what you got is just a single dose. 28:41 Imagine my ministry would be like that 28:43 and I have a double dose of Holy Ghost. 28:47 And Elijah said, if you are with me, 28:50 when I'm translating. 28:53 If you are with me, 28:54 you are going to get your request 28:56 and the Bible says a world that came about Elijah 29:00 and as he was being lifted up into the air, 29:04 elevated to the air brought up by angel 29:07 that he remembered, remembered his commitment to Elijah 29:12 and drop his mantle down, 29:15 that mantle that was who? 29:18 The Holy Ghost power. 29:21 And so, Elijah tells us 29:23 that through the association of Elisha with Elijah, 29:28 many miracles were brought in the ministry of Elisha. 29:35 He saw Elijah transfer him. 29:38 He heal petty wars at Jericho 29:41 when he was stopped by 42 by children, 42 29:45 she bears came out and ate up. 29:48 You can't tell about God's service 29:50 in your kind of way. 29:51 You can't change in your kind of way 29:54 with the help of another prophet's widow 29:57 but don't apply the oil supply miraculously 30:01 he entertained the childless couple 30:04 in their Shunem 30:05 and prophesied you will have a child one day. 30:09 He was called to resonant another child 30:12 and in time, a short time but he locate to it 30:16 and he performed mouth to mouth resuscitation. 30:20 Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. 30:24 Brought back their child back to life. 30:27 Okay, he was able to transform but he is in black beans. 30:35 You all know black beans, don't you? 30:37 Yeah, you all cook, don't you? 30:39 Beans, he was in the place, eat at this place and beans 30:44 at the school of prophet 30:45 and make them come soon. 30:47 He healed Namaan, the leper, of his leprosy. 30:51 He made and ask it for. 30:53 For 60 years he preached the gospel 30:57 and when he was 80 30:59 we see him off his deathbed sick, 31:04 the pillow taken. 31:07 It may sick him, but not discourage. 31:13 They didn't bring that child of God. 31:17 You recognize that the surface of this present life 31:22 they're just not worthy to be compared with the God, 31:26 with the glory that shall one day be revealer. 31:30 You ain't seen nothing yet. 31:34 God gives you a divine perspective of legions 31:37 of being able to seeking on the purpose of this life, 31:42 to see what life will be only outside. 31:46 And one of my favorite authors Ellen White writes this 31:50 Satan must be given the opportunity to annoy us, 31:56 let's he be able to advance the charge 32:00 that he was not given 32:02 a fair opportunity with every soul. 32:10 That's how he will level with God. 32:12 Way back in Job 1, 2 chapters 32:18 the only reason he is serving you 32:22 is because everything is peaches and cream. 32:27 Well, if you change that formula, 32:31 he will crash and die. 32:35 How many times that things come into our lives 32:39 that we couldn't understand 32:41 because we thought we were living 32:43 the right kind of life, 32:46 walking down the right road 32:48 and yet in the midst of our journey 32:50 things just came out of nowhere. 32:53 Take that insist to us all. 32:56 If God was fair, if He was just 33:00 because we hadn't done anything wrong. 33:03 It maybe he's just thinking, it might have been God's way 33:08 of trying to tell the panel, 33:11 I'll give you an opportunity to touch him. 33:13 Don't take his life, I'll give you an opportunity 33:16 to deal with them but understand something, 33:19 the only reason 33:21 why I'll let you have your faith in him 33:23 is because I know that he will set me 33:27 even if it means death. 33:30 That's the kind of image the three Hebrew boys have. 33:33 We are not careful to answer he who came. 33:37 The God who we say is able to deliver us 33:42 from the burning fiery furnace, 33:44 but if not we stay and we'll serve you, 33:50 we stay and we'll bow down. 33:53 It doesn't matter if we are going to become partners 33:56 you in your furnace, 33:58 we are glad to beat out the bar. 34:03 You must have that kind of commixture, 34:06 hot cast to be fixed, mind me up that you want to live 34:10 for the Lord and Elisha, Elisha died and he gets buried. 34:17 And then comes his funeral is ready. 34:22 They are burying, it doesn't say 34:25 whether he's a family member or dear friend-- 34:30 He just says, they were burying him 34:35 and because they're spying in the distance, the enemy, 34:41 the Moabite enemy, 34:44 they looked and he turn to say, 34:47 we got to finish this funeral later. 34:51 Before and because of last funeral. 34:56 So here he is buried here. 34:59 Let's just put this man in this grave. 35:03 Look, I can't help myself. 35:07 And your prayerfulness. 35:10 The Bible says, they dropped the man in this old grave 35:16 and the Bible says 35:19 that when the dead man touched the bones of Elisha 35:24 that he jumped up out the grave, 35:28 and I can imagine why his buddies were running. 35:31 He caught up with them and say, hey, wait, 35:33 why you're running. 35:35 Yes. Yes, sir. 35:36 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 35:38 Come on now. 35:39 Yes, sir. 35:40 Why do you have to move like this? 35:43 You know Jack ran fast than us 35:46 because he's talking, they left them in the hole. 35:50 but there's problem in the life of the believer 35:55 that nobody can understand 35:58 and the thing we need to act where people 36:01 who are dead man walking, 36:04 something miraculous has to happen to their lives. 36:08 They ought to come back to life just because we touched them. 36:12 Just because we were interactive. 36:15 Just because they knew us. 36:17 Just because they came close to us. 36:19 If they are not coming back to life, 36:22 they take and retake too. 36:24 Amen. That's right. 36:28 When something, when someone is dead, 36:33 I understand that when we tell if you're dead, 36:37 you check the pulse. 36:40 Isn't that right? That's right. 36:42 Yes, philosopher, physician, surgeon Galen 36:47 was the first individual to talk about pulse. 36:51 The pulse is the rate at which the heart contracts 36:56 and sends life giving blood throughout the entire body. 37:02 The pulse getting changed in another places 37:05 as long as you can compress an artery against a bone. 37:10 I understand that if you push on the neck 37:14 and push your artery the carotid artery of the neck 37:17 and hits the ball, you will be able to tell the pulse. 37:19 I understand that behind the knee is a popliteal artery 37:25 that you press it against the back of the knee ball, 37:28 you will be able to check the pulse. 37:30 Out here that inside elbow if you press your artery 37:35 the, brachial artery against the ball in the elbow, 37:38 you will be able to check the pulse. 37:40 And here that somewhere near the knee 37:43 is the posterior tibial artery. 37:46 If you press it, you will be able to tell 37:48 whether somebody is alive or not. 37:50 I walk in this morning, brother and sister, 37:53 if somebody would come 37:55 and check our spiritual pulse today, 37:58 would they say dead or alive. 38:01 Have mercy. Have mercy. 38:02 Have mercy. 38:04 Is he living or is he dead? 38:08 Is she living or is she dead? 38:12 Do we have a right giving power horsing 38:17 through our veins? 38:23 The Bible says in Romans the 8 chapter, 38:28 turn there with me 38:29 I'll come down the whole stretch here. 38:32 In Romans the 8 chapter, Romans 8:13 38:39 listen to what the word of God says. 38:42 "For if ye live after the flesh, 38:47 ye shall" what? 38:49 "Ye shall die, 38:51 but if ye through the Spirit 38:54 do mortify the deeds of the body, 38:57 you shall" what? 38:59 "You shall live." 39:05 You shall live. 39:08 I heard the same writer 39:11 in chapter 6 and verse 23 says, 39:16 "For the wages of sin is" what? 39:20 "Death." 39:22 Sin is a bad experience. 39:26 Yes, it is. Yes, it is. 39:27 It is contrary to life. 39:32 The end product of sin always is death. 39:38 I had the spirit anything down here 39:42 that has been so dreadful and so terrible 39:46 that-- 39:50 Standing out in the street, 39:52 I did called him again hit by the car 39:56 and he was standing to the street 39:58 and I said, daddy, what's wrong with it. 40:00 You want to kill yourself. 40:02 He said, I won't die, I won't live. 40:07 Isn't that a life doesn't wants to live. 40:10 Yes, sir. 40:11 It doesn't matter how lower your stake in life, 40:17 you recognize something and stick them 40:20 when they are said as bad as things might seem. 40:23 Sin I'll still gonna live at a time. 40:27 What if we continue in sin, if we tackle inequity, 40:33 you bring whole on to that target sin and I'll arise, 40:38 they only out come for us instead. 40:41 True. 40:43 That's right. 40:44 No pulse, 40:47 just death. 40:51 There is a death however. 40:54 Listen, listen, listen, there is a, there is a death, 40:57 a good death. 41:00 I was watching a film one time, 41:02 I came a little late, 41:05 but it ends by saying, it was a good death. 41:08 He died in good. 41:09 What do you mean a good death? 41:13 Look at Romans the 6 chapter, 41:16 Romans 6:3, 4. 41:21 Those are the words that says. 41:24 "Know ye not, 41:26 that so many of us as were" what everybody? 41:29 Baptized. Loudly. 41:31 Baptized. 41:32 "Baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into" what? 41:37 "His death? 41:38 Therefore we are buried with him 41:42 by baptism into death, 41:44 that like as Christ was raised up from the dead 41:49 by the glory of the Father, 41:51 even so we also should walk in the newness of life." 42:00 There is a one death, 42:03 that too death is when we die to sin. 42:07 And we are daily with our Lord in what? 42:11 Don't whisper. 42:13 In what? 42:15 Baptism. 42:18 That's the best funeral that you've been at. 42:23 The funeral of that old man of sin 42:26 and that's what we all have one. 42:29 Romans 3:23 says "That is none righteous." 42:35 No, not, wait, wait, wait, wait. 42:38 Preaching, you're preaching it hard and listen, 42:40 you mean you got some problem? 42:42 Yes, my momma's back there you will ask her. 42:49 But, pastor, we're Christians. 42:55 Well, you're trying to telling me that 42:56 Christians don't have problems? 42:59 If anybody has problems, we have problems. 43:03 Why? 43:05 "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, 43:07 and went out to make war 43:09 against the remnant of her seed, 43:10 which keep the commandments of God, 43:12 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." 43:15 If you declare yourself to be a friend of God, 43:19 you also want to declare yourself 43:22 to be an enemy of the devil 43:24 and I already told you that it's not for the take up, 43:28 not without a fight. 43:31 It's his desire 43:32 that all of us be in the big swim party 43:36 that's planned for him in Revelation 20. 43:43 I ain't trying to go swimming in fire. 43:45 Amen. Amen. 43:47 Amen. 43:49 It doesn't matter whether you put on the rank-- 43:50 this world can have 43:55 but he will tell us to be with him 43:59 in that baptism of fire of destruction. 44:05 We all got our hills to climb 44:11 and Jesus calls us to a life of holiness. 44:16 Get in your life in the waters of baptism 44:21 because when you got out in the waters of baptism 44:25 and your heart is sincere 44:29 and you want to follow Jesus everywhere, 44:33 then we'll get cut up when you get up out the water. 44:37 You are not just wet, 44:40 you are clean everywhere 44:43 and only you can decide 44:46 if you are going to keep your clothes clean. 44:50 Keep your life pure. 44:52 Keep everything spotless before your Lord. 44:56 That's a good kind of death. 44:59 When somebody takes your pulse then? 45:03 It's off the skin. 45:07 I can't tell you how hard, your heart will beat 45:11 but they will change us, takes only inside of you. 45:18 They got, no, what they've got no instrument back then 45:22 to keep up with your heart rate 45:24 because they were so excited about what God is doing. 45:28 So excited about how God will use you. 45:31 So excited about the fact that God is going to save you. 45:36 You just can't keep it to yourself. 45:40 Amen. Amen. 45:42 Over here and we end with this last text 45:48 is a text that I have come to love it. 45:52 You have to it is Galatians 2, 45:55 Galatians 2:20. 46:00 I'm so excited about, 46:01 I want you to find it immediately. 46:04 Galatians 2:20, 46:10 Galatians 2:20 46:15 the Bible says, read it what does it say, 46:19 "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, 46:26 yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, 46:31 and the life which I now live in the flesh I live" how? 46:36 "By the faith of the Son of God, 46:39 who did what? 46:40 Loved me, and gave Himself." 46:45 Oh, somebody ought to say hallelujah. 46:47 Amen. Amen. 46:49 Somebody ought to say thank You, Jesus. 46:51 Somebody ought to say praise the Lord today. 46:56 We've a legend to watch. 47:00 A legend that involved a search for the cross 47:04 that Jesus died. 47:08 They tell me that they brought three crosses 47:13 to an empress namely Helena. 47:18 And said one of these crosses is a cross 47:23 that Christ was crucified. 47:26 Helena said, well, which one? 47:30 We don't know but we collected the three crosses 47:36 that everybody said 47:38 was the cross that Jesus died on. 47:42 She said He only died on one cross, 47:44 I know from the story that there were three crosses 47:49 but all of them didn't have the Son of God on. 47:53 All of them didn't have the Savior on. 47:55 All of them didn't have the Son of man, 47:57 only one of them was the cross that Christ died on 48:02 and they said, and they said what? 48:04 Miss Helena, Empress Helena, 48:06 we don't know which one 48:08 represents the cross that He died on. 48:11 She said, do we have any dead man in the house? 48:15 Come on. Come on. Come on. 48:16 Come on now. 48:18 Yeah, there is some dead people right in. 48:19 Call it, we need a dead man. 48:22 I will watch how they put the dead man 48:24 on each one of the crosses, 48:27 I don't believe that the real cross 48:32 if it's the cross that Jesus died on 48:35 that when that dead man touches the cross 48:40 like the dead man touched the pulse of Elisha, 48:45 that man is gonna come back to life 48:48 and so they put that dead man on one cross. 48:51 They put him over the second cross 48:53 but when they come to the third cross, 48:56 he come on the third cross he came back alive. 49:00 He was a dead man walking. 49:03 Every time we come to the cross that Christ died on brother. 49:08 We become dead man walking 49:10 and so we are declare with the apostle. 49:12 I'm crucified with the Christ yet I still live is not me 49:20 but Jesus never forget me, let's pray by the grace of God 49:24 that from this date on, 49:26 we're not going to try to live under our own power, 49:29 but we want to lean on the power 49:31 of the cross of Christ and people who live in us 49:34 and says there is a dead man walking. |
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