He Has The Keys

Mark: It's good to see you this morning. Who's glad you came? Yeah, me too. Me too. Well, we gather this morning with the Church of Jesus Christ around the world and all of heaven around the throne to say the Lamb of God has overcome. Jesus is alive. Jesus is alive. He's risen from the dead. I heard somebody say this once, the greatest apologetic for the Christian faith is that they could not find the body. They could not find the body. It was not there because he came out of the grave like he said. We could go to the grave of every religion leader that there ever was. And you know what we'd find? We'd find their bones or we'd find the dust of their bones. But there is only one empty tomb, one empty tomb. And it's a tomb of the resurrected man. our resurrected King, and he's not there because he's seated at the right hand of the Father today. He's the only man to ever die, rise, and stay alive. It's Jesus Christ. He's the centerpiece of everything. His death and his resurrection is the centerpiece of our faith, and he's worthy of all blessing and glory and honor and power, and we should probably just worship another five hours straight. The front row's ready for this. I don't know about everybody else. The death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ changes literally everything. And the good news is this, it's not that God can make bad people good or good people better. It's that he makes dead people come alive. He makes dead people come alive. He makes dead things come to life. The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead literally changes everything for everyone. Whether you realize it or not today, it does. And that's why we've got joy and that's why we celebrate and that's why we worship the way we do. So I just wanna thank you, I'm so glad you're here. I'm so glad you're here. I wanna say welcome to everybody in the Family Center. We have another service going down just the hall and I've heard it's packed out in there and ⁓ people are worshiping the Lord in there. Pastor Diego's leading that room. We wanna say welcome to all of you. Welcome to everybody that's watching online today. And welcome to all of you in this room today. We're so glad you're here. ⁓ I'm thankful that ⁓ Jesus is here. We're not just celebrating an event only, we're celebrating the reality of his presence here with us today. And I believe he's gonna touch us. He's gonna actually transform us today. I believe that. Well, we're gonna be in two passages of scripture today, maybe a couple more, but we're gonna anchor it in two passages. in the first chapter of Revelation, and then we're gonna jump to Revelation 21. And we know this, that the book of Revelation is the revealing of Jesus. It's the pulling back the curtain, the unveiling of the resurrected, ruling, reigning Son of God, who is right now at this moment, ruling and reigning. He is on the throne of God. And at the same time, His presence is here with us. How many thankful that He is here? I am too. So what we're about to read here in a second in Revelation 1 verse 17, these are the words of Jesus. And Jesus is speaking to the Apostle John approximately 65 years after the death and resurrection. 65 years after Jesus. was resurrected and ascended to the throne. And this is what he says in verse 17. He says, fear not. Everybody say fear not. Fear not. I am the first and the last and the living one. I died and behold, I am alive forevermore. And I have the keys to death and Hades. Now you all missed about three times to say amen. So I'm gonna give you another chance. Jesus says this, fear not. I'm the first and the last and the living one. I died and behold, I am alive forevermore. And I have the keys to death and Hades. There you go, there you are. Jesus is announcing to us on this Resurrection Sunday, fear not. I'm the first, the last, I am the living one. And there's two parts of this. He said, I died, but behold, I am alive. And not just did I raise from the dead for a bit, I'm alive forevermore. Philippians chapter two says this. It says this about Jesus, verse seven. It says, emptied himself by taking the form of a servant, by being born in the likeness of men and being found in human form. He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. But how many thankful that that's not the end of the story? It says, therefore, verse nine, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Jesus, he stepped into the very jaws of death. He stepped into the greatest enemy humanity has ever known. On the cross, he let all the powers that threaten to destroy you and me have their way with him. He let death take him captive, but he came out. He burst out through the gates of hell and the grave, and he came out on the other side in triumph, and he's holding the keys. Can you imagine Jesus holding the keys there? He's holding the master key. to everything and he says, I've got the keys to death. That means, hear this, death is not in charge. Death is not in charge. Hell is not in charge. The death that we see around us is not in charge. The hell that we see happening around us and the world around us is not in charge. Jesus is in charge. I believe this is something we need to get on this Resurrection Sunday. that he has the name that is above every name. And when that revelation gets in you, I'm telling you what, whatever other name comes your way, it has to bow to that great name. He says, I'm the first and I'm the last. He says, I have the final word. If you're taking notes this morning, I've got three things that I want you to remember. The first is this, Jesus has the final word. Turn to somebody, tell them Jesus has the final word. Jesus has the final word. He says, I had the first word and I have the last word. I hold the keys to death. Keys speak of authority. How many know when you got the key to something, you've got some authority? When I gave my 15-year-old the keys. They had partial authority. Jesus, ⁓ that didn't really work. I don't know, that just came out of my head. That example doesn't work. You get it, don't you? Death is no longer ultimate. The grave is no longer final. Fear is no longer in charge. This is good. This is the good news. He's saying, you don't have to be afraid. Why? Because he confiscated the primary weapon that evil uses to enforce its rule. Think about this. He literally stole the weapon of fear. Now you might not be living in that reality, but I'm gonna tell you that reality can be yours. He stole the weapon of fear. It's why he can come and he can say, fear not. Fear is a powerful force. All fear is firmly rooted in the fear of death. You think about this, the fear of rejection. Have you experienced that before? The fear of ⁓ failure, the fear of loss, the fear of. They're all at their root, the fear of death. But Jesus says, I've got the keys. I've got the keys. Fear doesn't have the final word. Your past doesn't have the final word. No one else has the final word. Jesus says, I've got the final word on you. In him, we don't have to be afraid. This is the power and the reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. All right, here's the second. out of Revelation 21 that I want to get in us today. Verse five, it says this, and he who was seated on the throne said, behold, everybody say behold, behold, I am making all things new. These six words change literally everything, you guys. Then he said this, he said, write this down. Write these words of mine down. They are trustworthy and true. How many know that if Jesus says you need to write something down, you need to write it down. They're trustworthy, they're true. Here's the second thing I want you to remember. Jesus. is making all things new. Jesus is making all things new. You know, there's something in all of us, I think, that longs for something new. We like new things. How many like new things? The rest of you are liars. I know you do. I know you do. We like new things. We like new clothes, right? That's why so many love Easter, because you get to go buy something new. There's this collective yes in all of us to go get a new outfit, right? All the ladies said? Okay. The men are... I purposely chose an old jacket to wear today just to stick it to the man. Whoever that man is. Did you say, ⁓ no, I could represent the man. I don't know what's happening right now, but I'm going to keep going. Here's what I'll say. There's nothing wrong with getting something new, right? But the darker side of getting something new is that things that aren't old that we've had can seem ready to be discarded before they're really ready. And sometimes, in our pursuit of new, we can get rid of stuff a bit too early that shouldn't have been discarded at all. I mean, how many have gotten a new iPhone when you didn't need a new iPhone? Guilty. You know, you're like, the new iPhone comes out, you're like, I need that phone. Can I just tell you as your friend, no, you don't. You don't. You don't. remember, you know, I've said this before, but I remember in those early years when the iPhone come out, you know, the lines of people would be waiting for the new iPhone. I was one of those crazy people. I was there waiting for that phone to come out because I wanted that phone and I wanted it now, the second you could get it. Maybe for you, somebody else realizes this about their life, but maybe for you, it's not an iPhone. Maybe it's some other gadget. Maybe it's a new car. Maybe it's a new house. Maybe it's a new relationship. You're like, I just want something new. I want to move to a new city because I'm tired of my life right here. I know what it's like to want new stuff. But at some point, what I realized is I realized like, The phone I have is great. I just needed to update it. Right? I don't need an upgrade every year. And I think deep down inside of all of us, we have this longing. We have this longing for something new and not just new stuff. We're longing for new hope. We're longing for, you know, a new sense of purpose. We're longing for peace. We long for relationships to be made new. Deep in us. You know, we're drawn to newness and the resurrection of Jesus Christ actually reminds us that newness, true newness is really possible. It's the heart of the gospel. Jesus endures the most brutal, horrific death on a cross. The Bible says that while we were still sinners that Christ died for us. While we were the biggest mess there could ever be, before we did anything right, before we did anything good, Jesus said, I'm gonna give my life for them. He takes our sin, He takes our failure, He takes all of our mess ups, our torment, all the things upon Himself. He's crucified on a cross, but He doesn't stay dead, He rises and because He does, here's what the promise is for us today. You can be made new. You can be made new too. 2 Corinthians 5.17, very familiar to most of us. Therefore, if anyone, that's anyone, there's a person excluded from this. If anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation, the old has passed away. Behold, the new has come. The resurrection, this is important, is not only an event. It is the beginning of new creation breaking in. The resurrection is the beginning of the kingdom of God and the newness of the kingdom of God, the life of the kingdom of God, breaking in on us, on earth, bringing the realities of heaven to earth one day at a time. I wanna tell you, his kingdom has come, it is coming, and it will come. He is making all things new. That's what Revelation 21 is telling us. If you ever wonder what Jesus is up to, this is what he's up to. This is the storyline of God. He's making all things new. It's the headline of heaven. He's making all things new. The kingdom of God breaking in, in and through Jesus. And what God will fully do in the future when he returns, when he wipes every tear, when he wipes the tears from our face and every eye, and when there's gonna be no more mourning and there's gonna be no more pain. Do you know that there's a day coming where there's no more pain? There's a day coming when the anguish of earth will be no more. And what he will fully do in the future He's already begun. It's already started. What this means is that Jesus isn't only promising something later, he's releasing something right now. He's working right now. Notice what Jesus doesn't say. I think this is important. He doesn't say, I'm making all new things. He says, no, I'm making all things new. To say that God is making all things new is basically saying that God doesn't need to start all over again with new material. To say that he's making all new things is to say that God gives up on stuff. That God gives up on stuff that doesn't work. That God gives up on that person that didn't work, that situation that didn't work. So I need new, all new things. But here's the good news of the resurrection. Get this, you guys. God doesn't give up on stuff that seems to be of no good purpose. God doesn't give up on stuff that seems to be dead. God works with what God has. God doesn't abandon creation and humanity. He doesn't give up on you. He uses what he has. How many thankful for that this morning? He uses what he has. Somebody said this. They said, I love this. I think we have the quote up there. Says that God's solution for a creation marked by sin and death is not to abandon it, evacuate it, condemn it or destroy it, but to remake it. to make it new again. That's what was inaugurated on Easter. Here's the third thing I want you to remember today. God works with what he has. Turn to somebody, tell them God works with what he has. Look them in the eyes, tell them God can work with this. Look at their face. God can work with this. When Jesus appeared to his disciples after his resurrection, You know, it wasn't a different Jesus. He's the same Jesus, but resurrected and new. You ever thought about this? Remember they didn't recognize him? Remember they thought he was the gardener? And then in another account on the road to Emmaus, they couldn't recognize him either. And then Thomas, doubting Thomas, know, he didn't believe it was him. And what does Jesus say? says like, He's like, touch my side, look at my side, touch my hands. Same body, but somehow new. do we see in this, you guys? What we see in the resurrection of Jesus Christ is that somehow God knows how to take stuff that's dead and make it alive. Like God knows how to take people who are dead and bring them to life. God knows how to take what seems to be out of order and make it new. I you know what Jesus' body endured, the stripes, the brutality that it suffered, and somehow there he is. New, same Jesus. Here's what we get. He works with what he has. He's the potter. We're the clay. And God's mercy does not discard the clay. This is the amen time right now. His faithful love stays with us. It works with us. He keeps shaping us and fashioning us and making all things new. This is the good news. You know, maybe you're here today and you're listening and you've relapsed into some kind of addiction. and you think God can't work with me. Or maybe you've made some really bad decisions that have led you to a really bad place in life. Maybe you're living in some secret life that nobody knows about. Maybe you've been away from church for a long time, away from God, you say, if you only knew the real me, if you only knew what was really going on in my life, if you knew my sins, you'd say there's no hope for me. I wanna tell you that on this Easter Sunday, we're worshiping a God who keeps working with the clay. Who keeps working with the clay. You may have given up on you, but I wanna tell you, God has not given up on you. God is not abandoning what is broken. He is restoring it, He's redeeming it, He's renewing it. Jesus is saying, let me make you new today, because behold, I'm making all things new. These seven words I actually believe have the power to change our lives. And I wanna break them down just really quickly. I wanna take this first word, behold. Jesus says, behold. What does that mean? It means look. It means wake up, see this, see this. In the middle of your life, in the middle of what only you can see with your natural eyes, I want you to see something different. I want you to see something deeper. In the middle of your current circumstance, whatever that is, in the middle of your pain, in the middle of your disappointment, in the middle of the anguish that you're in, in the midst of what seems to be dead and dying, in the midst of all this around you, behold you, I want you to see what you cannot see. The next word, I am, behold, I am. He's saying, I am the source. He doesn't say, behold yourself. If you're looking at you, you're not gonna be able to see, but if you're looking at him, you're gonna get eyes that can see. He's saying, I am the source, behold, I am. The newness that you're looking for is only found in him. The newness that you are aching for in your marriage, in your relationships, that sole ache that is inside of you, I'm telling you, is only found in Jesus Christ. Some of us think if I got a new job or if I went to a new school, I'd feel new. If I had a new relationship, I'd feel new or a new spouse. Don't say amen there. I'd feel new. But here's what I gotta tell you today. The only one who can make you truly new is the I Am. Is the I Am. The one that's speaking these words is the one who is seated on the throne of heaven right now and to the degree that you surrender your life, that you surrender your will. that you lay all of those things before him and you take up your cross and you follow him, it's to that degree that his life begins to flow through you. You may be looking for newness in a hundred places, but only Jesus can make a human soul new. The next word he says is making. Behold, I am making, making. What I love about it is it's a present tense. It's the present tense. It's not will make. Or one day he says, I am currently, presently making all things new. Starting right now, how many believe that that can be? Like right? Now, right now, right now. Easter is about more than how we say this, because I think it's important. Easter is about more than making it to heaven when we die. Easter is about heaven breaking into earth while we live here and now. And when we really, really, really believe this, it changes everything about our life. What shifts is that I'm not just trying to make it through life to heaven one day. No, I'm alive with new creation life and he's living in me and he's living through me and I'm becoming new more and more and more. The new isn't just for one day in heaven. The new is coming forth now. Even when you can't see it, even when you don't feel it, He is working. Maybe you say, I don't know how God could bring anything good out of this thing I'm in. This situation, so dark, so hopeless. I've sat with people in the last three weeks that are right in that place, over and over, tears flowing down their face, feeling like it's too far gone, it's too far gone. I wanna remind you today of the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Don't forget the present tense promise, I am making. I am working. I am moving. His eyes sees what you cannot see. He knows what you cannot know. He sees the beginning from the end. How many thankful that you don't? He sees the beginning from the end. He knows everything about everything. And here's the thing, it doesn't mean that by tomorrow or next week or next month or even next year, all will be new. But the promises that we don't trust in the outcomes of our everyday, we trust in the one who reigns over every outcome in the end. And he says, I am making, I am making. Think about this, he made us out of dust. God can make you out of dust? Like think about this. He knows how to make stuff out of nothing. Absolutely nothing. And then he says all things. Behold, I am making all things. I love that he doesn't say some things. He says all things, all things. There's nothing out of his reach. There is no one out of his reach. I'm telling you what, if you imagine in your mind the person that seems so far and in such a pit and so far from God, I wanna tell you that person's included in this. There is no sin too big, that is love cannot go deeper. There is no struggle that is too great that God's grace cannot free you from. There is no pit too deep. There's no night too dark. There's no addiction too strong. There is no marriage that is too broken. There is no mind that is too torment. tormented, is no history that's too tangled up in all the things that his resurrection power cannot restore and make new. This is the good news of Jesus. And I'm so thankful that it's not just hype for a Sunday morning, it's a reality for Tuesday and Thursday and Friday and Saturday nights. He's making not some things new, he's making all things new. New. restored, renewed. The resurrection is his commitment that he's not giving up on you. You might have given up on you. You might feel like you're just a shell of who you once were. I feel like I'm talking to people in this room. That you look back and you're like, I wish I could go back to this season. I wish I could go back to when I was a kid or I wish I could go back here. No, I wanna tell you, God works with what he has. Right now, maybe life has done a number on you. Maybe you feel like you've been beat up, burned out, hurting life, hurting church, spit out, maybe religion has done that to you. Maybe this has happened in a church and somehow you just managed to get through the doors and it came back today. I wanna tell you, he loves you. He's drawing you today. I wanna remind you the promise of Jesus. says, I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you and I'm not giving up on you. Hear this today, what you believe that is beyond fixing or beyond repair, he says, if you'll allow me to fashion it, if you'll allow me to make it, I'll do what you could never imagine. because I'm making all things new. Yeah. I've got three daughters. Amen. You do too? Okay, okay, I get that now. I love them. They're the best. And you know, when you have daughters, you learn things. Right? Like good things. ⁓ my, I could go there, but I won't. But all three of my girls, they love to go thrifting. Yeah. ⁓ there's other thrifters here. I see you. ⁓ I guess thrifting is a thing. And they go to these stores full of, now, if I wasn't a pastor and on a stage, I would say crap. I'm, I am a pastor. I am on a stage. So I will say stuff. Okay. So they go to these stores full of all this stuff. It's wild when we're in a different city, visiting on vacation or something, they'll also go to these kinds of stores. So they can, you know, go out and buy other people's stuff from other states. I'll just be honest with you, I walk into these stores and I feel anxiety. I mean, I want to start throwing things away. Right? Like, I'm a minimalist. just, don't like clutter. I don't like stuff. I just, I'm like, let's just have two pairs of pants, two shirts and a, yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like. In these stores, they smell. You know? They smell like the collective scent of everything everybody wanted to get rid of. You know? Like, it's really weird to me. It's really weird. But my girls, you know, they have an eye in these stores. And they find stuff that people decided to discard. ⁓ They find the stuff that people were done with and stuff that people kicked to the curb. ⁓ and set out with the old and with the new. My girls, they get so excited about what they find, and they'll come home with their finds. They'll say, Dad, look what I found. Isn't it great? And I'm like, amazing. You know? Amazing! I can smell it! But here's the thing, they sometimes see what I can't see. They see what others didn't want anymore. They see what's been overlooked, discarded. They see value where others saw something old and unneeded. And I'd like to just suggest to you this morning that that's what God's like. You may never shop at a thrift store the same after this message, but I believe that that's actually what God is like. I think God is looking for the stuff that people say is broken, that seems beyond repair, the stuff that people have put on the curb of life. He's looking for the stuff that people say can't be fixed. He's looking. to restore. He's looking for the stuff that people say can't be renewed, can't be brought back to life. He's looking for the stuff where people say, I'm done. I'm done. I'm done with that. And on this Resurrection Sunday, I wanna ask you this question this morning. What have you put on the curb of your own life? What have you given up on? What have you lost hope in? Maybe it's a destructive cycle in your life that you're like, I just, I'm giving into this. This is my life. And you've tried to stop it, but you couldn't. For some of us, maybe you put your marriage on the curb and you've said, this is beyond fixing. This is beyond repair. It's dead. Maybe it's a relationship with a child. Maybe it's a relationship with a parent. that you've really just been tempted to give up on and say, I just can't. So what I tell you today? Maybe you can't, but I wanna tell you, he can. He can. Maybe it's a relationship that you just feel like is absolutely hopeless. Maybe it's a health issue, I don't know, or a situation that just seems just too far gone. On this Resurrection Sunday, man, I've. I just wanna declare, we worship a God who makes all things new. And some of us, some of us have put ourselves literally on the curb. We've given up on ourselves. We've become defeated in life. We've lost hope. I know there are people in this room like that. You say, if you understood my problems, really Josh, if we got into it and you understood my trauma, you understood my mess ups, you knew my failures. For some you, maybe you put your family, your future, your faith, you say nothing can fix this, nothing can repair this. I've got to tell you what Jesus has said. I bring dead things back to life. We worship a God who brings dead things back to life. And the good news is that no matter where you find yourself today, no matter what seems beyond repair, what seems beyond renewal, beyond hope, Jesus says, on, hold on, behold, I am making all things new. Buechner, he says this, he says, the resurrection shows us that the worst thing is never the last thing. When we look at all that's going on in the world around us, or maybe you're looking at the things in your life and you're saying, I don't know how God could do anything good. I don't know how we could bring anything good out of this. It's so dark, it's so far gone. Be encouraged in Jesus. The worst thing is never the last thing we face. Because we serve a God who knows how to bring old things and dead things back to life. How do we know this? Because of what we've just read this morning. He's the first and the last, the beginning and the end. The final word, church, is resurrection. The final word is newness of life. The final word is Jesus is Lord. Death doesn't have the final word over your life. Jesus does. How can we be certain? Because He has the keys. He has the keys and He's alive forevermore. Amen. Stand with me this morning. I wanna invite our ministry team to come forward if you would. Thank you. Thank you. I love what we get to do. Yeah, ministry team, come on, we're gonna have some prayer time here. I really believe the Lord is here. I love what we get to do this weekend in celebrating. I'll tell you this, Easter isn't just about dressing up and coming to this building. It's about the transforming power of Jesus Christ. It really is to make all things new. And ⁓ there's two things I wanna pray for today. And I know we've had some movement. I'm going to ask it in just a second. Everybody just hold still. The first thing is this. The most wonderful thing that could happen today is to say yes to Jesus. Maybe you're here today and you'd say, I don't want to leave like I came. I don't want to leave like I came. I actually want this newness. I need this newness. I need the newness that you are talking about that Jesus is offering. I need that. I need Him to make me new. I need a new life. I want to be washed new today. I need forgiveness. need peace with God. Friend, I want to tell you this, that that desire that is there right now, even if it's a little bit, you know what that is? That's Him drawing you. He's drawing you today. The Bible says that when one turns to the Lord, The veil is removed. What does that mean? That means when his voice, his spirit, the spirit of God, the spirit of Jesus starts speaking in your heart like that and drawing you, and you actually respond to that drawing, when you turn to Jesus, all of a sudden, the veil is lifted from your eyes and you're gonna be able to see him. How many wanna see him this morning? That's a real spiritual reality. The Spirit of the Lord actually opens our eyes when we turn to Him, the spiritual eyes. I wanna tell you, this moment is for you. I like to suggest you're not here by accident today, that He has drawn you today and He wants to take you from a place of death to life. Maybe you've been far away from God. I wanna tell you, God's not far away from you. Maybe you've known the Lord, walked away from the Lord. Today, I wanna tell you, it's your day. Maybe you've been running from God. I'm just telling you, He loves you and He's drawing you today. And if that's you, I'm not even gonna ask anybody to close their eyes. If you're here today and you'd say, I need Him, I need Him to make me new, I want you to lift your hand just boldly right now. If you're here, yeah, yeah. You say, I need to receive Jesus today. I need a new life, come on. Come on, I know there's others. Anyone else? Come on, just lift your hand. Be bold this morning. I wanna ask you to do this. I wanna ask you to step from your seat. This team has been praying for you and I wanna invite you. We wanna pray with you to receive the Lord. We wanna pray for this newness of life to come. We're gonna sing in just a minute, but I wanna invite you to come. The second thing I wanna just say is this. Maybe you're a believer here. And maybe you have been in just a hopeless, discouraged place. Maybe it's a physical condition. Maybe it's the marriage, it's the relationships, maybe whatever it is, something in your life is happening and you'd say, I need God to make this new. I need him. I need the wonder working power of Jesus to touch my life. We're gonna invite you to come. We've got a few minutes and we're gonna invite the... the prayer team, the altars to be open because we wanna pray. How many believe that God wants to touch people today? Whatever that is in your life, I'm telling you, there's hope, there is healing, there is the presence of Jesus for you. Charity is gonna start singing this and I wanna invite all those people to come. Come on, come on as we sing. Whatever the need is today, come on for prayer. If you raised your hand to receive the Lord, come on. My heart is free, the hope of heaven before me, the grave behind me. I've history the whole Come on, if you need healing in your body, you need to just agree with someone in prayer. Come on. My heart is free the hope of heaven before me the grave behind hallelujah you brought me back to life I won't forget. I won't forget the moment I heard you call my name out of the grip of darkness into the light of grace. Just like Lazarus, you brought me back to life where there was No longer. ⁓ But Christ did me for I've My heart is free, the hope of heaven before me. The grave behind, hallelujah. You brought me back to life. When something says I am guilty. Come on, declare this out. I'll point to the price you pay. When something says I'm not worthy, I'll point to that empty grave. Just like Lazarus. ⁓ you brought me back. to life. Let's sing it again. When something says, when something says I am guilty, I'll point to the price you pay. When something says I'm not worthy, I'll point to that empty grave. Come on, declare it out. And just like Lazarus, ⁓ you brought me back to life. Can I begin to thank you for all that you've done for me? Jesus to fully praise you. It will take all eternity. Just like Lazarus. ⁓ you brought me back. Can we lift our hands and just sing that again and thank him right now? We thank you for all you've done, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. For all that you've done for me, Jesus to fully praise you. would take all eternity just like Lazarus. ⁓ you brought me back to life. You brought me back no longer. You my heart is free the hope of heaven before the great behind hallelujah My heart is free. The hope of heaven before me. The grave behind. Hallelujah. You brought me back to life. Yeah. Lord, we thank you. Jesus, we thank you for your death and your resurrection. And we thank you. for your promise that behold, you are making all things new. I pray over the church right now as we leave this place today that this would go far beyond a mental ascension to understanding alone, but it would become reality and power. And that because of this newness, Where we go, you would go. Where you go, we would go. And we would join you in seeing your new creation break out. I pray that in the workplace, in the school place, in our homes, in every realm of our lives, I pray, let your kingdom come. Let your will be done in Jesus' name. And everybody said, amen. One more time, can we give him just a big praise? We love you, Lord. We love you, Lord. We're so glad you are with us today. God bless you. Say hello to as many people as you can and take your time.

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