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and then say back, he has risen. Indeed. Well, we can't say it to the people out loud today, but we can type it. So I say he has risen, and you say, indeed, he has risen. Indeed. I'm gonna give the YouTube delay thirty seconds just to catch up on my screen, and then I can see indeed, indeed, indeed, indeed, indeed. Come on. You gotta know that thing deep in your heart, you remember the hem. You ask me how I know he lives. I didn't see him on the day that he died or the day he got up, but he

lives within my heart. There is resurrection power on the inside of me. On the inside of you. Somebody say, indeed, indeed, wow, I'll tell you what, man, this is really cool because I was expecting the room to be empty today, and from a health protocol standpoint, it is. There's only like two and a half people here, and I'm not gonna say who the half is. But what's really cool is it's not empty. It's not empty. I just need you to believe me when I say the glory of God

is in this place. The presence of the Lord is in this place. I believe that about your home right now too. I believe the presence of God is filling up kitchens and living rooms. Come on, I believe some of y'all are still in bed, but the presence of the Lord is coming right in. Oh, you might set up straight if you catch this. He is listen indeed, indeed, so listen to me. This is very different, right. The

room isn't empty. It isn't empty. And sometimes on Easter, I think we say things that on the surface are true, like we say that the tomb where Jesus was buried is empty, but it's really not. It's really not empty, just like this room really isn't empty. It really isn't empty. First of all, when he left, he put his linens there, so he wanted them to know that he folded his own clothes because he got up on purpose. Come on,

I got up on purpose today. Oh yeah. By the way, I want to take the opportunity and apologize to my mom before I tell you the rest of this. Mom, I am so sorry. I have on a leather jacket on Easter. I know this is not Easter apparel, but since it's such a different Easter, but look, mom, it really is. I want to say something real quick. This jacket Chris gave me for my birthday, true story, and he put it on the inside for graves into gardens. So somebody type in the chat, say, these are my

Easter clothes. Come on, some of y'all got on some big flannel pashamas. These are my Easter clothes. This is my Eastern jacket. Hit the devil with a little bit of resurrection leather. Today. We aren't playing. We've got the joy of Lord. He has risen. Indeed, why'd y'all slow down on the chat? Somebody saying I got up on purpose. I woke up to connect to the presence of God. I'm not here by accident. I'm up on purpose, yes, sir. And not only that, not only that, the tomb had

had linen in it, so it really wasn't empty. It just said he wasn't there he got up, But the tomb really wasn't empty, because let me tell you another thing that stayed in his tomb after he got up. My fear, My fear is in that empty tomb. See the reason I love it and the reason I don't need a crowd to help me shout is because it's not empty. My shame is in that tomb. My sin is in that tomb. You know what was canceled, the

record of ron that stood against me. I'm telling you I left it all in the I'm leaving it all in the grain, every regret, every sail, your pisto, empty pansation. By here, you are a sign against Jesus. This you we got time. This Sunday morning visits sday. It's still Sunday, my cup, It's still Sunday. Sixteen Therasu saks from succeed by your speaking, How tell me ches be see the cresident that si he's as Saday in your day, my coupa tula sixteen radc hiss. Come on, we'll release the

sound of Resurrection. I grabbed my big boy microphone today because I want to release the sound of Resurrection. Come on, I got a fresh night bolt battery, and today we release the sound the Resurrection. I got so sad, Bishop, because I was watching last year's Easter service and something in me started to ache for the people to be here. You know, we those of you that are a part of our church. You know this. If you're just watching today,

because I don't know, somebody wouldn't leave you alone. They bribe you with five Easter dollars in a purple egg to get you to watch or something like that, then maybe you won't get it. But we kind of vibe off of each other, and we kind of preach off of each other. And I don't really preach, I'm called the preacher, but we preach together through our giving and through our worshiping, and all of that is a part

of it. And man, our church is so weird because you got so many different types of people in our church. And I don't just mean like black or white or Latino or any kind of designation like that. I mean like some people grew up in church. I bet there's somebody that's still got their Easter hat on even though it's just you and your cat today, because it's just like, it ain't Easter without a hat. And what I was going to tell you about my mom, she said, this

is the first Easter of her life. I was talking to her yesterday, eric that she was not in a church building. At first. She said, this is my first Easter. She's sixty six. And she said, because her dad was a Methodist minister, that's the church I grew up in. I love that church. Monk's Corner United Methodist. Shout out Monk's Corner. If anybody's watching from Monk's Corner today, put it in the chat. But it's so awesome, because she

said she stopped herself. She said, I almost said this is my first Easter not going to church, and then she said, but wait a minute. She said, I am church, and she stopped herself and she said, so I'm still I'm still going to be celebrating the resurrection. So sorry about the leather jacket, mom, but I needed something to kick the devil with. I put on some boots with some snake skin on them too, just to let that serpent. No, he's under my bruised heel. Somebody give God a praise

right there in the chat. Put a stop emoji. I see you with the hat emojis and the sunshine in the heart. Somebody put a devil stomp in emoji. Yeah, life is hard, but today we celebrate that God is good and that he is overcome. And the darkness came, but it only had one hour, and that the light is stronger. We believe that for your life today, not just to give you height, but to give you hope. But sometimes every once in a while, you got to find that place inside of you. Do me a favor

right now. I miss you so much. I wish you were here. I wish yall were here like you normally are in Easter, packed into the third overflow, watching on a screen in the bathroom, trying to get in for the next service. But since we don't have that opportunity, just do right now what you normally do. All right. You don't even have your grandma sitting next to you that you dragged the church, and you don't even have to be embarrassed. She can't even see right now, So

just go ahead. If you normally shout, shout, if you normally lift your hands, yeah, right there, right there, right there, right there as a family, and put it on Instagram so I can see it in a few minutes after I've reached this word, if you lift your hands, just to signify that he has risen and I'm getting up to, I'm getting up to. That's really the message that I want to bring to you today. It's called expect a resurrection? Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready? Are

you ready? Expect a resurrection? Expect a resurrection? Somebody say, I expect it. I expect it. In the chat expec I expected in Pittsburgh. I expected in Milwaukee. I expected. Come on, give me a city in the mic. Sometimes I run out of cities to say. I expected in Singapore. I expected in Seattle. I expected in Where do your parents live? Veronica? Where do your parents live? Hillsborough, Dillsburgh, Hillsborough, Dillsburg. They're all here today. Come on, y'all as Eastern I

got resurrection power running in my veins today. You say, didn't that preacher get the memo? It's the end of the world. But guess what I found out. What happens at the end is a new beginning. He showed me that when he got up put my title back up. I expect a resurrection day. Come on, let's do it. You want to do it right now. We got something for you. We were gonna do it at the end,

but I want to do it right now. Y'all. When I tell you to text everybody you know and to tweet this link to everybody who follows you, and to put this on Facebook to all of your politically opinionated friends, just to let them know that Jesus is the name above all names, let me tell you something now, y'all. Calm down, give me a moment to set this up properly. I need something soft, Like it's Saturday, and like we're wondering what to do in between, and the silence of

Saturday is starting to set in. And on Saturday you can't do anything because it's the Sabbath, and so you have to just wait. And just hours ago, you didn't sleep much last night because it was hard to get the images out of your mind of how they beat the one that you believed in, how they broke his bones, how they lashed his back. Most of all, you heard the cry ELOI love a sybotany, My God, my God,

why have you forsaken me? But when he said it is finished, it was the last thing he said before Saturday. And when they heard that it is finished from the cross what Jesus said on Friday, many interpreted it. In fact, most interpreted it like is over. Some of us feel that way right now, life as we know it is over. Maybe you're sitting here today saying my business is over. I lost my job. Many of you are sick right now and feel like this is the end for you,

and you're just tuning in today, hoping, hoping. Hoping. Is hard to hope when you don't hear anything. You know, just like Mary and Martha, who lived in Bethany, who are a big part of the ministry of Jesus, sent word to him the one that you love is sick. That was their brother Lazarus. His name literally means one who God helps. Embedded in his name is the expectation that Jesus, who loved him, would come and heal him. And yet these unmat expectations, these Saturday situations, these are

we going to find a cure for this? Are we going to ever be what we were? Again? That's Saturday, the part we want to skip past His Saturday, the part where we want God to shout but we don't even hear a whisper. When this global pandemic began, I told the Lord in my heart, than anything he gave us as a ministry during this time, we would release it immediately, that we would release it, and so release what God has put in us so that we can receive what God has for us. Release and receive, Release

and receive. And it's hard to let go. It's hard to accept something that's gone away. It's hard to accept that maybe your kids won't go back to school this year. And you're like, that's not hard for me to accept. Well, if you're having to homeschool them, it is. Right now, you'd be like, it's like Saturday every day. Okay, it's like Saturday every day, And when your kids are little and you're trying to deal with that, it may not feel like the end of the world, but it's still

a Saturday. I found out something about Saturday. It's a setup.

I found out something about Saturday. It's a setup. And a couple of weeks ago, on a Saturday, I started texting Chris this melody that had come into my mind or my heart or my spirit the night before, and we start group texting with a friend of ours named Brandon, and the sound that started to come forth just unfolded, unfolded, evolved, evolved and grew and grew, and last Sunday, when Holly finished preaching that amazing message on the ways of God,

trading my worries for His ways, something told me to come out on this stage and finish the song. Well, what I didn't know is that God was using those moments to release a sound of resurrection. And this is a different kind of Easter. Right Normally, right about now here would come up pulpit and then we would stand for the reading of God's Word. But God said, We're going to do it different today all over the world.

What we're going to do right now is released the sound of Sunday, the rattle of resurrection, into the silence of Saturday. And I want you to move everything off your coffee table that could be knocked over, because right now we are going to declare, like Ezekiel looking over the valley at dry bones, breathless bones, hopeless situation exiles, declare the word of the Lord. This is what God says. God says live not here started in side? Surely suit,

Since when that's impossible? Ever stopped you? Friday's disappointment, Sunday's empty tube. Since when it's impossible? Ever stopped you? This, it's the sound of try Bones Ryan. This is the phrase may content metal woke again, open the great I'm coming, I'm gonna live, gonna live again. This is the sound of Tripones, try to land and the past a side stirring something new. You wanna not gonna run out of miracles anytime soon, Miss House, rising House, They last, I'm

indeed there's a guy the miracle hearing this road. They say it's the sound of Tripa sadell lit. They say it's the praise make A didn't let him walk again. I be's away, I'm calling it out, I'm gonna leave, I'm gonna laugh again. They say it's the sound of Tripa sada lift, try ballad. Come, I hear tell your side sang the rid and we celebrate that nothing is

a bustle. My God, you sable, you sink and you leave, and heal then to restore, and he sink than you was soup, Just sess the man who was throw on the booms of belve de Fairs. Anything that he can't too right, justsess the store that was all at the true into the card and would have the God says coming up. I feel him booting it now. I feel him too made it now, I feel him too maad enough to enough to it. I hand the side. He sees the sound of tripon trday. Mary. He sais some

praise making take me from Okay, Pa the gray. I'm falling out. I'm going there. I'm gonna davy, can't well pray. I'm falling out. I'm gone there, calling death. I can't go people gray, I'm calling it out. I'm going in here. I'm gonna laugh a case. He seize the sound of the trip ball ding the triple shadd the trip see the cave, then again, then again, high years a sound. I hear the sound. I hear the sound. I hear the South. I hear the sound. I hear the sound.

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Here the mod the Lord to try himself. She sees the sound, trypas out of it. He says, a place, make a ten man, walk again, walk, I'm don my God gone nor again my favorite the way I'm gone God, go live by God, he says. The sound of tribon come on, said live live, come on, It's a rattle of resurrection. Ezekiel said, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and I saw a valley full of bones that were very dry. Ezekiel said that the Lord asked me a question, son of man, can these bones again?

And what Ezekiel said sounds like Saturday to me. He said, I don't know, Lord, I don't know. I don't really know what's going to happen next in our country, or in our world, or in my life. I don't know. For some of you who are on the front lines fighting for the rest of us. I don't know how I'm going to get the energy to face another day. I don't know. I don't know how I'm going to innovate and put my business back together. I don't really know.

In fact, he said, you alone, Lord, No, that's Saturday. But something started happening when the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel, and I believe the word of the Lord is coming to you today. The word of the Lord came to Ezekiel, and he gave them an instruction. He said, Ezekiel, I know you don't understand. I know you can't explain it. And I know what you're looking at right now looks like bones on the valley of the floor. That's what your life might look like right now.

That's what your mind might look like right now. Just disjoin it, discombobulated. I don't know what to do. Remember what Mary and Martha said to Jesus after he finally had the nerve to show up four days late. Where were you at when we sent for you? We didn't hear back from you. God, I prayed, and might didn't feel anything. And it's really amazing, And yeah, I am sweating like an Olympic athlete in this leather jacket, but

I hear the sound right now. Well, Jesus didn't send back a message because he was the Word in the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was made flesh. So when the word of God shows up to a desperate situation, does not matter how dead it seems. I feel the presence of God in this empty room today. I since the presence of God flowing to people's emotions. Today. I

since the presence of God. You say, the presence of God isn't a feeling, Well, it's not a feeling, but it will give you a feeling if you let this get in your heart and in your soul, past your mind where you're trying to figure it out. So listen to this. It's so powerful. And I'm going off of my memory here, but it was something like, he said, Son of Man, this is what you say to those bones. God says, Live, God says li. God God said, Lived said, I believe the word of the Lord to you today

is this live Live. When the word of the Lord hit those dry bones, they had no choice but to stand up straight. I wish you would stand up straight. Right now, stand up straight and begin to clap your hands all over the world. This is the word of the Lord. Live live, live, live, live, live, live, live

live leve Low. God said, love Gosi, codsid love. I feel like cossid Lomi hear the word of the loone you consent love GODSI cosid godsai to see said time, but consaid, hey, look, CONSI love God said the press and said TOCONSI for consent, forgotten the wonder. And this is what he said. I'm hitting the sound they say this time. The jobs, they say, it's ways. Make it take bare money, you'll get the gratuy b oh man the good did they say? Job? We speak life in

the name of Jesus. Come on right there in the chat on this Resurrection Sunday where we celebrate not only that he was resurrected, but that he is resurrection. Do you know that he still is? And I want you to put that in the chat right now? He still is, y'all. I prepared five sermons for this Easter Sunday, and I just decided to preach all five. He still is, he said, I am the Bread of life. And he still is. He said, I am the good Shepherd, and he still is.

He's leading me and guiding me. Even like Holly said, through the Valley of the Shadow of Death is just a shadow. The light still shines. He still is. We declare it. He still is. He said that he was, He said that he was the Way, the Truth, and the Light. He still is. I am, He still is. I am just like he was for Moses, just like he was for Joseph, just like he was for Shadrack, just like he was for Daniel, just like he was for Abraham. He still is just like he was. He is,

he still is. And so the decision we have to make, you'll be nice back there. I hear the rattling and it's about to make me kick over the MIC's stand or something like that. Come on, this is a different day, man. People need hope. It's like pastor where's your past? Else? This is a different kind of Eastern We came today to declare, live to your life. Resurrection isn't always pretty. The power of the Lord is coming to your bones, Come into your mind, come into your will. You will

not give up. It will not end in death before the glory of God. Live Live, Live, Live, Live, Live, Live, so what I love about it? Pop quiz real quick? Were you watching my Good Friday sermon? Okay, the camera people are not let me check this camera out. You were there? Were you there for Good Friday? Camera person number three? Y'all? I love these camera people coming out here and just helping us get this message across. I

feel like you're right here with me. Put your name in the chat so I can put you right here in the seat and we'll pretend like we're all dressed up. We'll pretend like we put perfume on and took a shower and fought through the crowds. And I don't know if you got a ham in the oven or something like that. But right now, let's just be together for

a moment. Okay, let's just be together for a moment, and let's talk about what it means, what it means to expect a resurrection, because on Good Friday, I was saying, the only way you can face Friday? What's your name? What's your name? I want to speak to somebody, Ruth, Brittany Ava, put your name in the chat. The only way you can face Friday, Nina Leslie, Can y'all pause it real quick? On the screen. This is unbelievable, This is outrageous. Eddie Vedder No, Eddie Vance. Sorry, that was

that rattle getting in my blood, that pearl jam. I half expected Joey to get up on a stack of speakers and jump off. Rattle, rattle, rattle, Come on, oh man, the resurrection. Rattle, the rattle. Oh I like it. The silence of Saturday and the rattle of resurrection. Wow. You know one thing that the stone at the tomb and the bones in the valley had in common. When God said live, they both started to shake. Come on, I

feel something shaken in here today. I feel a stone rolling today, a heart opening, anxiety, Get out the way, panic attacked, put out to the name of Jesus, confusion, get out the room. When he says, move, you got a move, You'll got a move, Jill, got a move, You'll got a move. You still sound The sound, the sound, the sound. Whoa, Hey, if you got my phone number, text me real quick and tell me. Tell me if

I'm going too crazy right now. I just felt like, you know what, we can sit in our houses and be in mourning like he's still dead, like his Friday, or we can acknowledge the fact it's still Sunday. So no matter what happens in my situation, Abby, I can live. Hey, I'm about to mess up all the Baptists because I'm about to hit a tongue. I'm about to hit a run of ungs. I'm gonna start speaking in every language on the screen. I'm telling you right now, you'll be polite.

It's Easter. It's Easter. Then you know you're supposed to be bored on Easter. It's not like you have anything to be excited about. Well, anyway, what I was going to tell you, Lucilla, what I was going to tell you, Martha. I love the people who told their aunt to watch elevation today. It's like it'll be very nice. It'd be a nice service in a communion or something like that. Well,

we are having communion. This is communion. This is a moment of celebration where we just for about fifty seven good, holy spirit filled, sanctified minutes, just celebrate that He still is. So here's what happened. Okay, I gotta give you this. I've had a promise. We're about to close. I think I don't really care. There's nobody waiting to get in the building. It's not like YouTube has a mac seating capacity. It's not like Facebook has an overflow room. Let's just

have church, all right. So y'all are like, where's the sermon. This is the sermon, this is the sound. Resurrection is not an intellectual proposition. Resurrection is a present tense reality. So here's how I know that. Okay, Lazarus the one who God helps. This is Jesus' greatest miracle other than that fold his own linens. When he gets up from his own grave and come out with the keys of death,

hell and the grave thing, that was pretty good. But this is the one that set the stage for resurrection. Somebody say in the chat, I'm expecting a resurrection now. When Lazarus died and Jesus did not send a message back to the sisters, it would have been easy to assume that his silence indicated his absence. Okay, God's silence. What I mean by that, when you don't feel God, or when you don't know what to do, or you can't figure out, you don't have a sense of direction,

that doesn't mean he's gone. He still is. So when Jesus showed up and they were like, you know Martha was the first one out the house because she was an enneagram. What's the one I ate? The challenger was a well Martha could flip all between all the different enneagrams because one moment she was coming up to him like, you know what, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. And I wonder sometimes do we get crucified on that cross of what we thought God

was going to do, thought you would come. I thought I was going to have a normal wedding. So many people come in on my social media accounts pray for me because this is my son's senior year, and he worked hard. He started out. One person told me he started out with a two point three gpa and he was going to graduate. And so now the graduation is going to be kind of anti climac, going to be flipping a tassel on the sofa and it's not very cool. It's no fun. Like Holly is having her birthday and

I'm not going to tell you which one. That's up to her to tell you, but it's a significant one. Might be twenty, might be thirty, might be forty. It's one of those round numbers. And we had this whole thing planned, and she's like, oh man, it sounds small because so many people are suffering so much more. I know it's not a big deal. But even in the small ways, don't you know that that unat expectation can

turn into resentment. So if it's resentment or if it's regret, it's like Martha and Mary saying, Lord, if you had been here, this wouldn't happen. God, why couldn't you keep this sickness away? Or why couldn't you keep it from ending this poorly? And it's amazing because Jesus had just finished telling his disciples this sickness will not end in death. And then it did, and then it did. Sometimes it does, sometimes it does her. Sometimes people do leave you. Sometimes

it does get tougher. Happens to all of us. But here's what I want you to get in your spirit today, Okay, And if you want to put this in the chat or just say it out loud, even if it does, even if it does, even if it does, he still is. He's still with you, He's still for you. Not on the basis of circumstance, but on the basis of faith.

I can say I expect a resurrection. And I just joined my faith with you today, not in a weird way where I send you some kind of like cloth in the mail or anything like that, but just by connecting our faith. Right now, I expect a resurrection. Yet I know that the only way to get to resurrection

is to accept death. And that's what I was saying on Friday, on Good Friday, is that before Jesus could show up and call Lazarus from the grave, because he already had in mind what he was going to do, he was just trying to show them something new about who he was. That's what he's doing in your life right now. He's showing you how deep his comfort runs. It's beneath feelings, it's beneath facts, it's beneath logic, it's

beyond it. So when he spoke to the sisters and they were still thinking about the past, what God could have done, and I know, I know you're there sometimes I am to God. If you would have just would if you would have just That's what she said. And then Jesus said, your brother will rise again, God says live. And then the sister was like, well, I know he will. On the last day, she was thinking about the eschatological

implications of the resurrection. She was thinking about, Well, I know it's going to be all right when I get to heaven. You know that song from church, when we all get to heaven. What a day of rejoicing that will be when we all get to heaven. But we're not in heaven right now. Sometimes our life feels like a sort of purgatory where God's plan and our plan have no synchronicity. What's going to happen about your job? We were talking about that this week. This is real stuff.

So resurrection has to be real to me. It can't just be what Jesus did, that's the past two thousand years ago. That's not the only thing that resurrection means to me. It can't just be about you know, my sins are forgiven, thank God they are, and I'm going to heaven one day when I die, and thank God I am. But it can't just be about that. Faith can't just be in the future, and purpose can't be stuck in the past. So what has to happen is what Jesus said to the sister when he gave the revelation.

Are you ready for this? This is resurrection? Are you ready for resurrection because some of us are refusing right now to accept what was taken away and what changed. So we have lost our ability to expect what God is going to do next, and we can't deal with what is because we're still thinking about what should have been, could have been, would have been, or what will be. Like the Woman of God preached last Sunday, things that

haven't even happened yet. And yet Jesus said the greatest revelation, not I am the Bread of life. They knew that they saw him feed the five thousand, Not I am the good Shepherd. They had seen him lead them throughout a three year tenure around the Sea of Galilee and all the places that he minister. But he went much deeper this time. The seventh of the I Am Statements of Jesus, he said, I am resurrection. Get it right. I do resurrection because he was going to raise Lazarus

from the dead. And he does resurrection because he was going to get up himself. Lazarus was the opening app Do you understand that Lazarus was just getting the EQ right. Jesus said, I am resurrection. I am This is not a note taking sermon. Really, this is a sermon for you to receive the resurrection power of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit. And when he said I am resurrection, what he said next was so important. Are you listening to this? Aj, Let's put this down in the book.

He said. He said, take me to the place where you laid him. That's where we've got to go, the place where we were disappointed. Now on Good Friday, I showed you how the first person do you remember, the first person that Jesus appeared to when he was resurrected, was not Peter, who was the preacher. It was not Matthew, the tax collector, all of these people that we call the disciples. He showed himself. Do you remember Mary, Mary from Magdala, out of whom he had cast seven demons.

He had done a lot for her, and in turn, she had done a lot for him. And I love how. Gimme Mark, Yeah, Mark, Chapter sixteen, verse nine. You've already got it ready. Somebody say, I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm ready. I don't know what God is going to do, but I'm ready. I'm ready. He's with me. I'm ready. I'm ready to see how God is going to reveal himself. I'm ready.

So when Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to marry Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. I love that the first one that he showed himself to was the one who had the most dysfunction. If we come to Jesus full of pride, we can't experience his power. But if we're saying today, I need your presence God, I'm an empty vessel. He will fill that empty vessel with his presence and power. So he showed himself first to Mary.

And at first I thought maybe it was because she was wealthy, because history tells us she was a very wealthy woman. But now I think the reason that she was the first to witness his resurrection on Sunday morning. Check this out, John, I think it's because she fully accepted his death. If you will remember Peter and the other disciples, they resisted the idea that Jesus was going to be crucified. They wanted things to stay the way

they were. Oh if you would have been here, Oh you should do this, This is what you should do. This is what you should have done. But Mary, Mary Magdalene, with some of the other women, look what she did on Friday. The Bible says in Mark chapter fifteen, verse forty six, that when Joseph brought some linen cloth and took down the body and wrapped it in the linen and placed it in a tomb cut out of a rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.

They rolled a stone, and so on resurrection Sunday. It comes as no surprise. Look at the next verse that Mary Magdalene and the mother of josephs saw where he was laid. I get ready to get happy. Okay, are you all happy? I'm not saying is is life perfect? I'm saying, are you happy on the inside to know that you have resurrection power? All right? Check this out? I love it. I love it. I love it. Okay. It says that she saw where he was laid, where

they rolled the stone. That same stone that they rolled when he was dead was the same stone she saw on Sunday that revealed his resurrection power. It was the same stone on Friday that they roll to say it's over. He's dead. There's no hope for you. Is over. Lazarus is dead. By this time. He's thinking, there's maggots already. It's bad, it's bad. But God said, tell the maggot stop eating his body, because when resurrection comes, everything is reversed.

And the same stone that they rolled to keep him in the grave, I hear the sound of the rental of resurrection, speaking to your spirit, speaking to your joy, speaking to your peace. Lazarus Cook fussed, he is not here. He is resid. My God is ab said, even didn't live for many years, and restore any thing that I want. Somebody telling the stone to disess the family, but tell me lies and Defairsny think that he can't. He says, that's the stachouses stuff. What happens when God's faded too,

and what happens when God sends stores time. Sir, I feel it, Boomy, I feel it too, mad it do It's good feeling too. M do it now, gotta do it. He sees the town on the table, time, he sees the place they can take me again. I'm coming out. I'm coming out of this. I'm coming out. Job. Thank you Jesus, We thank you for your power at work within us. L J. Minister right here right now. The resurrection is a reality, not a history lesson. Yes, he got up. It's not a metaphor, but it is a

miracle that is available to all who will believe. Now listen to me. We can shout a lot and it's cool and it's great and it's right and it's fine. I feel fourteen years old again today. I'll tell you right now, this is what my punk rock self always wanted to preach like that, just to tell you dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. I don't understand why the world has the worst message and they scream at the loudest and we have the best message in me coming. No,

this is our day. This is resurrection day, even in our homes. It's a resurrection in your home. So I just want to know today, what do you need to accept in this season? Just think about this, just reflect. We'll call this. We had the rattle of resurrection, but now let's have a moment of resurrection reflection. Come on, I got range. I can bring it way up or way down. So right now, I just want us to talk, just us, okay, and again, if you just tell me

a first name and where you're watching from. Holly I got ninety text messages on my phone. I didn't know ninety people had my number. Praise the Lord, Tom Scott, your sister Emily texted me. She texted me Rattle of Resurrection with a snake emoji. I'm just kidding about the snake, but she did text me the Rattle of Resurrection. Levi Lusco, Tom Layman. Tom knows about resurrection. Yeah, Tom knows about resurrection. Tom and Lisa know about resurrection. That's one thing about

this Easter. You know, Tom and Lisa are fam here at the church knows and our worldwide fam hasn't met them yet, but you will. They've been in the church so long and they lost their teenage son here on this earth. This was before you were here. Zeke at the church in twenty twelve, and through his life a ministry has been birth called Riley's Catch. And Riley loved to fish and he wanted to start a fishing club.

And then his life was taken too soon in a car accident on the tenth night of our twelve night cod Orange Revival. And nothing in the world that his dad and mom wouldn't give to bring him back. But sometimes sometimes you don't get it back in the same form. But God is always bringing something forth. And that's what Tom told me when I preached for Riley's memorial. He said, we got to start that fishing club for him. I

will make you fishers of men. And then they started inviting all of Riley's friends to join the fishing club. And they've seen hundreds of them except Christ. That's resurrection. You understand what I'm saying. So when we preach this, it's like, hey, man, are you in La La Land? Do you not watch the news? No? I check it. I don't watch it all day. Okay, If I watch it all day, I'm gonna be filled with worry all day.

If I watch it all day, I'm gonna end up eating seventeen slices of cake to try to cancel out what I've feeling my nervous system and so my waistline can't afford to just watch the news all day. Even this Easter is the first one without Shiz, because he would sit over there where there's nobody in the building. Right now, he's not here. He's not here, and we lost Lashan way too soon, and I'm still not over that.

He was helping my son learn how to make music, and to my son, Chiz was like the angel Gabriel, and it would even make me mad. He'd be like, Chiz says this, and Chiz says that he'd come on, I'd be like, I told you all that too, But when Chiz said it, he just said it better. And the fact that Jad in April, you know watching right now, we love you. Lashan still lives. Chiz still lives because God is resurrection. He is, He's not sitting in that seat.

I was texting him last Easter because it was Coachella and Kanye was up there doing this amazing, amazing thing that ended up being bigger than any of us knew, and we were talking about how God is blurring the lines between, you know, all of these distinctions we have Black church and white church, and how God is doing a new thing and he was supposed to be here to see what we're experiencing today. But he still lives. His life is going to live on in such a

powerful way because He still is resurrection. And it's only after April and Jet and Tom and Lisa have stood at the tomb and watch the stone be rolled that we can expect the resurrection on the other side. I feel the presence of the Lord. Come into your situation, Come into your valley, Come into your dry bones. You've been weary, you've been worried. That's all right. He still is Prince of Peace. He still is. He still is. And Jesus said, in a loud voice, I'm not going

to do it now. But he hollered. He said, Lazarus, come forth. I believe God has calling some things for today. The only way to expect resurrection is to fully accept death. So what is God calling you to accept today? Maybe it's uncertainty. Maybe you control freak you you're having to acknowledge. I don't know what to do. I can't manipulate this. I can't fix this. Okay, you know what the moment you accept that expect resurrection, the moment you accept the

pain and don't try to shove it down. Marian Mark like, we can't roll the stone away. It stinks in there. God. I can't be honest. I don't have it together. God, I can't believe in you. I have so much doubt. Here's what I love about it. Sometimes God asks you to roll your own stone away. That's just opening up your heart to receive resurrection. I want to pray with

you right now. If you know somebody who's going through a silent Saturday right now, maybe you want to send him a link and say, I want you to watch this. It's gonna rebroadcast several times, and I don't even know if we'll put it online after that, because honestly, I don't know where the message starts and ends. But right now, I want to pray with you now. I just want to believe God with you for resurrection. Here's what I've learned.

I learned it from Lazarus. I learned it from Mary Magdalen, who stood at the tomb, and because she faced Friday, she got to see him on side. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. I'm going to see him on Sunday. The beautiful thing about it is that, just like Jesus

called Lazarus for, he's always bringing something for it. I believe He's using this time in some of our lives to set us free from the wrong priorities, helping us to do the math on what really matters, helping us to realize that we're in this together and we are not independent. I believe God's going to bring something forth Lazarus, come forth, dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Ask the stone what happens when God says to move? And I want to pray for you right now, because listen,

here's the whole message. If you're like I didn't like all that holler and screaming and jumping around about the bones. It was kind of scary there. I wanted to hear because he lives, and I was going to hear that on the Easter sermon. That's great. I like the him too. But here's what God said today. Unmet expectation is the starting point of resurrection. Unmet expectation is the starting point of resurrection. Right there in the chat, I expect resurrection.

I expect him. So first of all, take your hands like this and say, God, I'm letting go. I'm letting go of what I thought my life was supposed to be. I'm letting go of the plans that I made for you know, the plans that you have for me, Plans to prosper me, not the harmony, give me hope in

the future Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven. Plans to do exceeding abundantly above all that I ask or imagine according to your power that works mightily in us, the same power that raised Jesus from the dead Ephesians three twenty Now unto him who is able to save and deliver, and heal and restore anything. We thank you Lord for resurrection power. But the first step to resurrection, we know is release. So take your hands like this. Don't be stubborn,

stop fixing cereal, You're not starving. Take your hands like this. Release Lord. I release the way I thought it should be. I release the calendar that I made. I released the way I expected to be at this age or stage. I release the way that I thought you were. You're more than I thought you were. You're not just the bread of life. You're not just the good shepherd. You're not just the way you are resurrection. You're not just the light. You are the life. Live. Receive life, come

breadth from the four winds all over the world. Right now, breathe under people. Live, Live, Live, Live, Speak to your hope, Live, speak to your purpose. Live. I speak to the legacy of those that you've lost. Live it lives on. Resurrection is real. Resurrection is right now. He still is, He still rolls stones, He still forgive sins. He still saves. And now that you've released it, receive it. Come on, receive it, Receive it. Receive that healing for your broken heart.

Receive that comfort in the midst of your chaos. Receive that confidence in the midst of your uncertainty. Receive it. You know, the scripture says to as many as received him, he gave the rights to become a children, the children of God. And I believe there's someone right now that God has you watching this because this is a moment for your resurrection. His already happened. He doesn't need to rise.

You do. And I came out here today expecting, not knowing what to expect, but expecting that many hundreds, if not thousands, across the world hearing this message would place their faith in Jesus Christ. It's the funny thing about trouble. Trouble takes away all of our side pursuits and helps us to realize if I don't have God, I don't have anything. But I don't have peace. I don't have anything. I can't depend on other things. I can't depend on

an economy. I can't even depend on my help. I need the invisible God to become real in my life, and right now I want to pray with you. We do this every Sunday, but this one is special. This one is for you, somebody who is ready to receive the grace of God. I want you to pray out loud all over the world. Let's stop right now and pray with those who are receiving Christ. The Bible says that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from

the dead, you will be saved. It is by grace through faith. Receive this gift right now, and I want you to pray after me and invite Jesus Christ to come into your life. Say this, Heavenly Father, today is my day of resurrection. I am a sinner in need of a savior. I give you my life. I believe that Jesus Christ died for my sin, rose from the grave. Give me life. I receive this new life. I am

a new creation. I am a child of God in Jesus' names. Amen, if you just prayed that prayer to receive Christ, We're gonna clap our hands, all eight of us on this stage. We're gonna clap our hands and play our instruments, and I want you to put in the chat. I receive Jesus. I receive Jesus. Come on right in the chat. I'm gonna wait for you. I'm on the thirty second delay, but I'm gonna wait. I receive salvation. This is my day, this is Easter, this is resurrection Sunday. I receive Jesus Christ.

I receive it. I receive it. Come on, I receive it. The angels in heaven are rejoicing because you received it. I expect resurrections. Show He's making all things new. Come on, we celebrate. I see it going across the screen. I hear the sound of the angels in heaven rejoicing over the triplanes standing up to receive the breath of the Holy Spirit. Come on in the restaurrection day. He got up. I'm kidding up too. Till you hear it, till you heard?

Do you hear it? Here? Here it's a sassy saying, he said, and did and he he he restart anything, so trcess. The man stroll on the wall, so me lies should I be says anything that he can't to get a man t saster straw out rod the so the word my God said, I feel him buming and down, I feel him sing, and now I feel it so now now, now, now, now it's not he says, the sound of troubles, and he says, please make your take me on again, roll me away. I'm coming out. I'm

gonna gonna leave again. I'm playing right. I'm gone. I'm gone again. I'm going to help you. Came. I wading the ray. I'm calling it up. I'm falling him, going to lap Agat, I'm faizing the ray. By God, I'm going to tim l a Can. I'm wheezed the ray. I'm closing up. I'm going to leaf l a Can by fading. I'm drumming out. I'm going flocking down again. I'm fading. I'm the jail again and I'm fading the grave. I'm calling it up and I'm going and coming up again. I see it's a sound of the jobs and give

a good age. I gotta see it again, see then again to tell them again head seal, then I get back. Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. You can click the link in the description to give now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. You can share it

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