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Resurrection Life

Say amen. It's not about hunting Easter eggs. I've always wanted to see that rabbit that could lay eggs, but knowing that Jesus is alive-praise God! What an exciting, exciting thing to see our kids raised up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Well, He is risen, amen? Paul said if He isn't, that we of all men are most miserable. A lot of people think Christianity is just a way of life, they-another way to project different mores of life. It's not about how we live here, it's about the fact that we will live forever-amen?-in His presence, in His glory. He said, "I've gone to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you I shall doubtless come again and receive you unto Myself that where I am, there you may be also (John 14:2-3)." Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus.

It's an exciting day; I always enjoy Easter, and one of the things I like about Easter-we were approached the other day and they were saying, "Well, what are you going to do about Easter, whatever you have planned special?" I said, "Every day's Easter for the true believer," amen? We don't change anything for Easter. We come Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, prayer-the body of Christ doesn't recognize one day above another. We celebrate Easter in remembrance of Him but it's not a holy day. It's the celebration of our living every day in expectation of His coming, everyday by the power of His grace, everyday enjoying the free gift of salvation. He who knew no sin was made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. Think about that; that's what Easter is all about. He is risen. He has ascended to the right hand of God the Father and He ever lives to make intercession for us. That's Easter, praise God.

Every day we can live, then, in the great hope of that transformation, for old things are going to pass away and all things are going to be new. Think about it. At the last trump of God the dead in Christ shall rise first and then those of us that remain will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, praise God. That's what Easter's all about. We have a lot to celebrate, a lot to be thankful for.

As you think back on all of the different aspects of what culminated in Easter. Emmanuel, God with us and we always celebrate the great Christmas, birth of Christ and God becoming flesh. It wasn't just that there was a baby in a manger, it was God becoming flesh and tabernacling among us and living a sinless life so that He could become the sinless sacrifice. Him being freely offered up, as the Scripture tells us so clearly, suffered and bore our punishment. Isaiah 53:10, the prophet said, "It pleased the Lord to bruise Him." We think of the horrendous crucifixion. The movie a few years ago that was so popular didn't even come close to depicting the horrors that Jesus went through on that cross. The Scripture, the prophets spoke it more clearly, said He was beaten to the place that His visage was so marred that you couldn't even tell He was even a human. He was just pummeled flesh.

The innocent Lamb of God, the sinless One, was on that tree because of my sin, because of your sin. Never sinned. We sent Him to that cross and He went willingly because He loved us. As He became sin with our sin and cried, "It is finished." The Scripture tells us that the judgment of God came upon Him and we heard the cry "My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34) He knew why He came, for this cause I came, He said. When they tried to give Him the myrrh to cause Him to begin to hallucinate and deal with the pain (that was given many times), He refused it. He took the full brunt of the physical suffering, but it was nothing like the suffering of the pure being made impure. The sinless being made sin. Not became a sinner. He was made sin with our sin that we might be made righteous with His righteousness. Following that death, of course, we know they put Him in that tomb.

Easter is not about an empty tomb. Easter is about changed lives. Amen? It's not that Jesus came out of the tomb; it's that He lead captive death, hell and the grave. It's that He ascended to the right hand of God the Father and ever lives to make intercession. The resurrection is about the visitations after the resurrection, the lives that were changed and are stilled being changed today. How many of you've encountered the resurrected Jesus? Let me see your hands! Amen, never the same. We're going to talk about that this morning. You see, when you've really encountered Jesus, when you've really encountered Easter, you're never the same. Your value system changes, and I'm not talking about your morals, I'm talking about the treasure of your heart. I'm talking about who sits on the throne of your life. When you've encountered Easter, you're no longer lord, Jesus is. Amen. That's what it's all about: A changed life.

We're going to take a little bit of a look this morning at the lives that encountered Jesus freshly after His resurrection and how they were affected. We want to hold our lives up against that and say, "Have we really encountered the resurrected Jesus or are we practicing religion?" Religion is, as the Marxist declared, "the opium of the people." Religion is vanity, but a relationship with the resurrected Christ is life more abundant. Becoming a new creation, old things passing away is the consequence of experiencing the One that God raised from the dead. It was impossible that death could hold Him.

Let's turn over to 1 Corinthians 15 this morning. We'll take a few minutes and look at some passages of Scripture that many of us are familiar with and yet at the same time are the core issues of this gospel that we've been called to preach. As I've shared so many times my own personal testimony, and what a blessing yesterday as the kids put on the resurrection celebration. We had like 125 visitors that came yesterday. Thank God for seed that was sown, amen? Some of those people we'll probably never see again but seed was sown into their hearts. They can never get away from the gospel that they heard. That's what our job is as believers, just to go out and freely give what we've been so freely given. Paul says it in 1 Corinthians 15 this way, verse 3, "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures..."

I thought, as I saw all of those young people up here yesterday-some of the kids that were brought here for the celebration-I thought back to my own life the first time I ever heard the gospel.

The one little skit that the kids did over the gummy bears and the heart was being contented for, that's the same message I heard as a little kid, eight years old. I'd never been to church. I didn't know anything about Jesus. I didn't know anything about Bible, just went into that little place they called the Joy Club because some lady was giving away free Kool-Aid and cookies. I sat down and heard a very similar story about the war for my heart and how Jesus died for our sins. Never went to church again until I was seventeen. God's Word does not return void, amen? Those of you that have been sharing with different ones at work or in the neighborhood, don't get discouraged because there's not some immediate response. The Word is alive, powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, dividing asunder between joint and marrow. It's a discerner of the thoughts and the intentions of the heart. That Word is alive, and as you speak the gospel-He died, He was made sin with our sin. "This is what I heard from the beginning," Paul said, "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures." It's a simple message. We get into trouble when we try to give it creditability. It doesn't need your creditability. It has its own power, amen? It doesn't need your philosophical arguments. It's alive and powerful. Just tell it like it is. Jesus is the Son of God. He came as a man. He was made sin with our sin. He died on the cross to destroy Satan's lordship over man. He was raised from the dead and He's coming back to receive us to Himself, praise God! The love of God draws everybody that has a heart to hear.

"And that he was buried, [verse 4 says] and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once..." Now, why would Paul take time to make these statements? Remember who they're primarily speaking to at this time: the Jewish people, the covenant children of God, Abraham's seed-people that had the Scriptures, people that were monotheistic. People that believed in Jehovah but they didn't really know whether Jesus was the Messiah or not. Paul's going back to the authority of God's Word because the Scripture very clearly substantiated one thing-at the mouth of two or three witnesses let every word be established. We still live by that in our judicial system today. If there are eyewitnesses, if you can get two eyewitnesses to agree upon an account, it carries a lot of creditability, doesn't it? Paul, speaking back to these people, says, "Listen. You've got to understand something. He was seen by Peter after He was raised from the dead. He was seen by the twelve; and not only that, there were 500 people in addition that have seen Him since He was crucified, since He was buried. They've seen this resurrected Christ; in fact the greater part remain unto this present time. If you don't accept my words, go hunt some of these guys up and ask them-eyewitnesses to the resurrection." What I want to do this morning is show you that though we would think that would be the most credible way, we can't minimize the power of the gospel, the power of the Word of God.

Let me show you what I'm talking about. Keep your place here in Corinthians and turn back with me to Luke, Chapter 24. We see the gospel account of what's going on, and some very interesting statements that are made as Jesus appears to those that were on the road to Emmaus. He appears in His glorified body. Now remember what this glorified body is. It's not spooky, it's not some type of a spirit. For Jesus said, "Touch me. A spirit has no flesh and bone." On numerous accounts we see Jesus in His glorified body being touched, handled physically, eating. That should be good news to some of us! We get eat in our glorified bodies, praise God, and put on no weight. How cool is that?

We need to understand what this resurrection is all about. Why such an emphasis on resurrection, on bodily resurrection? Because it has to do with how holy we treat our temples in this life. We have to understand the correlation. Though we are spiritual beings, we're trinities in our true essence of spirit, soul and body. We're spirits that possess souls that live in bodies. That's who we are as human beings. When God made Adam from the dust of the earth and then the Holy Ghost was breathed into Him, the ruwach of God, the breath of God. He breathed into him and he became a living soul. We are spiritual beings; "they that worship God must worship Him, [John says,] in spirit and in truth." You're not going to know God intellectually; you're going to know Him internally, spiritually. God is not comprehended. He is apprehended by faith, and we embrace Him.

As Jesus appears to these on the road to Emmaus, some very interesting things happen. Verse 16 says, in Chapter 24 of Luke, "But their eyes were holden that they should not know him." Now here's a people, remember, that had heard the ministry of the resurrection and now they're on their journey to Emmaus and Jesus appears to them. He said, "What is it that you all are talking about?" Verse 17, or as King James says, "...What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?" Isn't it interesting how many people were sad at the first Easter because they really didn't comprehend what the resurrection was going to afford them? They were hearing stories but nobody really was able to, at this time, fully apprehend the magnitude of what had been accomplished. We are going to see from this moment on lives being transformed. They had a knowledge of the resurrection-I won't get into that this morning, but many times Jesus told them "I'm going to have to go Jerusalem. I'm going to be killed and I'm going to rise on the third day." He told them that plainly. He told them at the mount of transfiguration, "You've seen me transfigured in your eyes and exalted and glorified. Don't tell any man until after God has raised me from the dead." They knew there was a resurrection coming. Do you understand that, with that knowledge, how horrendous that crucifixion must have been; how much value they had placed upon the physical Jesus, that they didn't realize that the spiritual Jesus was going to be closer to them than the physical Jesus had ever been? Many of us here would love to have a visible, physical visitation of Jesus. "It would change my life." I want to tell you something: the spiritual visitation changes people's lives more than the physical visitation. Don't let anybody deceive you and deceive yourself that you need something special, some great visitation such as "Thomas. I will not believe until I've put my finger in those nail prints and thrust my hand into the side in His wound." Now, Jesus didn't-we give Thomas a harder time for doubting than Jesus did, don't we? How many of you have trouble with-periodically we say, "Thomas what's wrong with you?" I don't do that personally. You want to know why? Because I'm a doubter too. How many of you have ever doubted? How many of you have ever encountered Jesus, walked with Jesus, been healed by Jesus, your life has changed by Jesus, and since that have doubted? Let me see your hands. I have. Well we're in good company with Thomas, amen? I want to hang around him, me and my buddy Thomas-doubters.

Blessed are those which have not seen and yet believed. I'm one of those blessed ones that haven't seen but believe, and so are you. When the doubts come, don't worry about it. You're in good company, amen? Jesus isn't going to forsake you. Not only will Jesus not forsake you for doubting, Jesus won't forsake you for denying Him, because Peter denied Him. As they sat around the fire and Jesus was in the judgment hall and he began to experience the torment and the rejection and the ridicule of men and Peter was asked, are you one of them? No, I don't know the man. Jesus had told him, He said, "Before the cock crows three times you're going to deny me." On the denial-"Before the cock crows you're going to deny Me three times," and on the third denial, as the cock crew, we see Jesus walking by and He glanced over at Peter. I try to imagine that. I try to imagine what the glance could have been. Can you imagine the piercing of Peter's heart? I'm sure His eyes were full of compassion, but at the same time I'm sure that they were still those eyes of the book of Revelation that says He has eyes of fire, as Peter was pierced to the heart. The Scripture says he began to weep bitterly. I don't know about you, I'm one of those people that are usually very hard on myself. How many of you have a tendency to be harder on yourself than other people on you? Let me see your hands. That's pride; just thought I'd have you acknowledge that publicly. I think I excel at that. I just think I ought to always be doing better and not only doing better, but I'm surely convinced that I should doing better than you. When I don't, I really get down on myself and we know Peter's personality by reading the Scriptures, he's that kind of guy. He's a type-A personality and we see him just begin to weep, but one of my favorite parts of the whole resurrection story is when Mary encounters Him and says, Rabboni, (master, teacher), and she wants to grab Him (and regardless of what all the Discovery Channels say she was not His wife).

These people-I heard one guy trying to use that passage as an explanation because the words "Mary, don't touch me." Now the Greek definitely does not mean don't touch me-it's not saying, "Don't make contact with me, because I've not yet ascended to my God and your God." The Scripture in the Greek definitely says do not grab me and cling to me. They were trying to say that's the embrace of a wife to her husband. That's not what that word means. It means to grab hold of and cling to, to retain, to hold onto. I can't lose you again. I don't-I'm not going to let you out of my sight. He said, "Don't try to hold onto me, because if I don't go to my Father and your Father, you're still in your sins. This thing has to be finished. It's not about keeping Me here in your, presence where you can see me. It's about having Me dwell inside your spirit," Amen? That's the message He was sending her in the garden but she says, "Rabboni" and He says, "Don't touch me. I'm going to see Father. Go tell the disciples and Peter that I've risen," praise God.

Aren't you glad the Lord doesn't give up on you? We've denied Him by our actions. We've denied Him by our associations. Some of us may have even denied Him in word and if not in word, in our hearts. The Scripture says we have to know that fellowship of His sufferings so we can know the power of His resurrection, amen? You see, it's these trials, it's these encounters, it's the realizing of the fragility of our flesh. Without Him we can do... [nothing]. Have you ever noticed how failures seem to come when you're doing your best-some of your greatest failures? Why? To keep you humble. To realize you can't do this thing. You just come to realize, "I'm just a mess-up, that's all." He is faithful and just to forgive us,1 John says, when we just come and confess our sins; amen? Lord, I can't do it. I need your help. Lord, I believe, help my... [unbelief]. That's the attitude we have as we experience His resurrection power.

He's walking with these guys down the road to Emmaus and they're saddened. "And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, [Are you the only guy in town that doesn't know what just happened?] Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass therein these days?" [If he only knew who he was talking to at that moment. Jesus says, what's the news? Verse 19] And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word [by God, for God] before God and all the people: And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel:" We saw Him as our deliverer and now He's gone. Now, remember what they were wanting. They were wanting deliverance from the power of Rome, and Jesus was coming to deliver them from the power of sin; amen? See, many of us want the deliverance from the power of sadness and poverty and sickness and oppression of governments, and the Lord wants you free from the power of sin. The Scripture says that here they were thinking that He was the one that was to redeem Israel. Besides all of this, today's the third day since those things were done. They knew the message. "On the third day God's going to raise Me," but we don't understand. The women that went to the tomb came back and gave us word that He was risen, but nothing's changed. There's no new kingdom being established, Rome still in power. Where is He? If God's going to raise Him up-see, they were looking for a physical resurrection like Lazarus had experienced. When Jesus spoke at the tomb and said, "Lazarus, come forth," and he, still bound hand and foot, came out of that tomb and they had to unwrap him. They were looking for Jesus to come back and possibly take up sword and take over Rome, and it's the third day and there's no sign of Him. "Our hope had been for a new kingdom. They found not His body and they came and told us that they'd seen a visitation of an angel and that He was alive. For the angel said to the women, ‘Why are you weeping? Why are you seeking the living among the dead?'" Don't you like that phrase? A lot of dead religion today. Jesus isn't going to be found in the cathedrals or the sanctuaries of men's religion. He's going to be found on the altar of a broken and contrite heart. A people that are not looking for a better life but a different life. A people that are not looking for reinforcement of self-image but embracing their total depravity. Acknowledging His Lordship and saying it is no longer I that live but Christ that liveth in me. The life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

As Jesus is introducing this to these on the road to Emmaus, certain of them which were with them [had gone] to the sepulcher and found it even as the women had said, but they didn't see Him. There's an empty tomb but there's no Jesus. You see, it's not about the empty tomb; it's about the visitation of Jesus in your life personally. It's not about the historical facts. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most substantiated events to occur in human history. It is totally, categorically, undeniable. It can be proven as much as any other event in history, if not more, based upon the writings of antiquity, the magnitude of them, but I'm not going to get into all of the study of Bibliology this morning and the different aspects from the apologetic perspective of credibility of Scripture, the historic reliability, archeological discoveries. "But him . . . [what a phrase!]" "But him they saw not. Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. But they constrained him, saying, [No, stay here with us it's really late, it's dangerous out there, no one should be on the roads at this time because of all the thieves and the peril] Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them." Pretty significant isn't it? Do you remember the breaking of the bread and the feeding of the five thousand? Do you remember the breaking of the bread at the last supper? He said, "As often as you eat this, remember Me until I come." The significance of the blessing of that cup and that bread, "This is My body which was broken for you." And as He blessed it, the Scripture says, "And their eyes were opened, [Verse 31] and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight."

Isn't it interesting that just when people really want to see Him, He vanishes? Many of us have had Jesus appear to us-not in the natural, but a tangible visitation in the spiritual realm to where we've encountered Him; and we want to hold onto that, but I want to tell something: that one encounter will change your life and cause you to walk without ever seeing Him again or experiencing that again the rest of your life; amen? It only takes one genuine encounter to change you forever, one resurrection visitation to change you forever, and one genuine visitation will change the way you perceive everything that's happening around you, not only your temporal treasures but the immediate circumstances of life. Many of us live in fear, and we're afraid of the economy and we're afraid our children are going to end up on drugs. Afraid they're going to end up with illicit sexual behavior, some type of disease. We're afraid that our spouse is going to leave us; we're afraid that we're going to lose our-all of these different things-these people were afraid too. Look what happens after an encounter with Jesus. "And they said one to another, [verse 32, I love this:] Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

You want to know Jesus? You want a constant visitation? You want your heart to burn in you? You want to know that Jesus is alive? You want His wisdom? You want His power? It's right here [holding up Bible], amen? The Word of God is alive, it's powerful. It's sharper than any two-edged sword. The Word is a lamp unto our feet to keep us from sliding. I found your Word and I ate it and it became unto me the rejoicing of my heart. Praise God! I've become a companion of all those that love Your commandments. We all say we'd love a visitation. It's right here for the taking every day. That's where you encounter Jesus, right there. Now watch, "...Did not our heart burn within us..." Now, these are the guys that were just afraid of thieves, these are guys that were all taken up with the fact that it was getting late, we're weary, we've walked all this way, we're hungry. Look, one encounter with Jesus and it says, "And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem..."

Isn't it amazing how a visitation from God refreshes you and changes all of life's circumstances? Why did they turn and go back to Jerusalem? What causes spiritual energy? When you encounter the reality that Jesus has risen, you have to tell somebody; amen? You have to do something about it. You can't sit on this message. When you leave here this afternoon-and some of you are going to go home, some of you are going to go to restaurants. You can't sit on this message. You've got to tell somebody that Jesus is alive and he's just-you've just experienced a visitation with Him today. Praise God! In His Word, in prayer, as we fellowship together in the body of Christ, one member edifying the other, just sharing the goodness of God, comforting one another, lifting up hands that are hanging down; but you've got to tell somebody.

They "...returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon." [They said, whoa! We got the same message.] "And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread." Simple message: "All I know is once I was blind and now I see," the man had said. All I know is once my life was governed with pride and ambition, hatred and fear. All I was living for was the moment, as Paul's going to make comment in the fifteenth Chapter of Corinthians, but I encountered Jesus and old things have passed away. I'm at peace and I don't have to achieve anything in the natural because I have new treasures that are in heaven. I'm living for-from an eternal perspective. You go on in this passage, of course, and Jesus appears again to them and the doubting Thomas incident to where Jesus did let them handle Him, but He makes a comment, "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe." You know what He is saying to me there? You don't have to see to believe. We don't have to think that people need to experience some kind of spectacular visitation. Not everybody needs a road to Damascus experience like the Apostle Paul, but we believe upon the word of the prophets. We believe upon the testimony of those who, like you, have just simply encountered Him. And the greatest testimony of all is a truly transformed life.

Back to Corinthians 15, and then we will end with this for this morning. Paul said, here's the message I received, "...Christ died for our sins...he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:...seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:...five hundred. After that, he was seen of James and of all the apostles. Last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. For I am the least of the apostles...I persecuted the church of God. I mocked this message. I had people imprisoned that believed this message, and yet God in all of His mercy sought me out. His mercy endures forever, but by the grace of God I am what I am (1 Corinthians 3-9).

We end with this for this morning, "Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?" The Sadducees, of course, held that perspective. The Pharisees believed in resurrection, in spirits, in angels. The Sadducees had a totally intellectual pursuit of God. They accepted nothing but forensic evidence. But Paul's argument says this, verse 13, "But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." If Jesus isn't risen we need to go out and party. We should dismiss right now and head to the mall, get our boats, go to the ball game and do what everybody does in their idolatry that are around us. If Christ be not risen, we're wasting our time. If "...we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. If in this life only [verse 19] we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable." Jesus isn't about making this a better life. It's about life more abundantly; spiritual, eternal life. It's about life in proper biblical order, acknowledging His Lordship. It's not just pie-in-the-sky. We're not talking about just enduring this life so we get to go to heaven and hang out. It's about bringing glory to God and acknowledging His majesty. The fact that, whatever it is that He has for us in eternity, it's no longer creator-worship. It's not about man. We've become so man-centered in our gospel. It's about the glory of God. You listen today to most Christian messages and they're about man, not about God. It's about making life better for man. God didn't come to give you a better natural life; He came to give eternal life, life more abundantly. Oh, thank God we'll do well in this life and He'll bless us and heal us and the different things according to His own sovereign purposes, but if in this life only we have hope, we of all men most miserable. That's a message that needs to become loud and clear. We're living for eternity.

Father, we thank You for Your Word this morning. We celebrate the great the resurrection power today that's made us new creatures. Oh, Father, the tendency's always there in our members to live for ourselves, to get caught up in the cares of this world. That's what's in us as the children of Adam, but greater is He that is in us than He that is in the world. The life that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. If you know Him in the fellowship of His sufferings-in other words, Gethsemane, not my will, thy will be done-if you can know Him in that fellowship of dying to self-will then you will know Him in the power of His resurrection. That's what He wants for you. If Jesus is risen, then He is Lord, not you. If Jesus is risen there is a heaven and there is a hell. If Jesus is risen, you're not your own. You've been bought with a price so give it up and make Him Lord. That's what Easter is all about. Let's stand before the Lord this morning.

We'll take just a moment as Gary plays for us and we just rest in the presence of God. Maybe you're here this morning and you've never made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life. You've never experienced His lordship, the renewing that we talked about. Like myself, you've-I was a young man, I was nineteen but I'd never known any of this message and heard a simple message just like you did this morning and I said, "That's the truth. That's what I need. I want to give my life to Jesus." It's your opportunity this morning, and as we sing this chorus you slip out of your chairs and you come and stand here in the front and make Jesus the Lord of your life.

Sing it, You're my Lord, and just thank Him for it this morning. Hallelujah! Just thank Him for just a moment. Just thank Him for His love for you, His mercy. The washing of His blood in your life, the forgiveness of your sins. We're a blessed people, praise God. We're making investments for eternity through our obedience, through our acknowledging of His Lordship. Thank You, Lord, for Your goodness. Hallelujah! Take just a moment before you go; turn to somebody next to you and say, "He is risen!" Praise God. Amen. Go in peace. God's love go with you.

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