He Got Up, So Should You - Pastor J.D. Howell 4-5-2026

Lord, all right, if you have your bibles with you,

will you turn with me to the Book of Saint

John May. I direct your attention to the twentieth chapter

and verses number one through eight. Brother Nathaniel Acts, Chapter

number fourteen, Verses number nineteen through twenty one. Brother Jesse

Firs Peter, Chapter number one and verses number three through five.

I want to say thank you to Brother Caleb for

delivering the Word of God unto us this past Sunday night.

It was truly a blessing to my soul. It's good

to see Sister Vicki Smith's granddaughter here today. Welcome, Praise

the Lord. Good morning everybody, half Easter. Aren't you thankful

for the hope of the Resurrection? Without it we have nothing?

Aren't you thankful for the hope of the Resurrection? Thank God?

Brother Nathaniel Acts, Chapter number fourteen, Verses number nineteen through

twenty one.

My brother, and.

There came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who

persuaded the people in having stone Paul drew him out

of the city, supposing he had been dead. Howbeit as

the disciples stood around about him, he rose up and

came into the city. And the next day he departed

with Barnabas to Derby. And when they had preached the

Gospel to that city and had taught many, they returned

again to Listra, into Iconium, and to Antioch. Amen, Brother

Jesse one Peter, chapter number one, verses number three through five,

My brother.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again

unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ

from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled. And

that fateth not a way reserved in heaven for you,

who are kept by the Great by the power of

God through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in

the last time.

Praise the Lord.

May we stand for the reading of our golden text,

Saint John's Gospel, the twentieth chapter reading verses number one

through eight. The Bible says, the first day of the week,

cometh Mary Magdalene, early when it was yet darkened, to

the suffulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher.

Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter, and to

the other disciple, whom Jesus loved and saith unto them,

they have taken away the Lord out of the suppulcher,

and we know not where they have laid him. And

Peter therefore went forth and that other disciple and came

to the suppulcher. So they ran both together. And the

other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the suffulcher.

And he's stooping down and looking in, saw the light

linen claus lie.

Yet went he not in.

Then come as simoth Peter following him, and went into

the suffucher, and seeth the linen class lie, and the

napkin that was about his head, not lying with the

linen claus but wrapped together in a place by itself.

Then went in also that other disciple, which came first

to a suffulcher, and he.

Saw and believe.

May we pray, Heavenly Father, we love him, We praise you,

We thank you for the opportunity to be in your

house today. We pray God that you would help this

thy people set a guard at their years and help

them to hear what the Spirit of God says unto

the church, not of my words.

But of your words.

I pray that you would annoyt this, thy servant said

a guard at my mouth, and help me to say

the things that you would have me to say. Help

the messenger to deliver the message, I prayed God, without hindrance.

May these say and saturate the oh and the spirit.

May that go below the shoulders, and may we be hearers,

and may we heed, and may we debarked this place

joyfully and not sorrowfully. In Jesus's name in the church

said Hey, man, as you're being seated, let's look again

at John chapter number twenty and verse number three. That

will be our golden text this morning. Peter therefore went

forth and that other disciple and came to the suffulcher.

What a day it must have been when Mary Magdalene

came to Peter and John with wonderful news. Her words

were both comforting and encouraging. The tomb of Joseph of

Arimathea is empty. The body of Christ is inside. He's gone,

and the napkin is folded and lying there neatly. Something

wonderful had happened. He is gone because he got up.

He's not there.

He got up, And I want to preach a message

the Holy Ghost titled he got up, so should you.

And in our golden text you'll notice there in verse

number three that Peter therefore went forth and the other

disciple and came to the suffolker.

So they had to have gotten up.

I believe there was something worth getting up for some

of you this morning. May I had a hard time

getting up. But because these services have been saturated with

the sweet presence of the Lord, you can say they

were worth getting up. For. There's no doubt the apostles

Peter and John never were to forget that moment. It

was an unforgettable moment for each one involved that day,

including Mary Magdalene. In this particular gospel, the Gospel of John,

the author is John himself, and in this gospel he

refers to himself as that other disciple. In John chapter

number two and verse number three our Golden text, you

will find the name Peter, and then a mention of

another disciple, and both of these men ventured into the suffucker.

The Bible says when Peter and John heard the salutation

of the great News from Mary Magdalene, they got up

if they were sitting down and hurriedly made their way

to an empty tomb, and this was wonderful news to

both disciples, Peter and John, as well as the other

disciples and Sister Hannah Howell Edwards. John may have held

back on the praises of himself, referring to himself as

that other disciple, but he was sure to record that

he outran Peter. He wrote these words in verse number four.

So they ran both together, and the other disciple did

outrun Peter and came first to the suffolcher. The near future,

brother Nathaniel and I will help conduct a crusade in

the Caribbean. I do not know who will arrive first,

probably Brother Nathaniel because he is younger. And what I

mean by that is we will travel both together. But

I suspect that Brother Nathaniel will arrive at the point

of our lodging first, meaning when we get up out

of that rented vehicle and we make our way towards

the place of our lodging, I'm sure he will be

a few steps ahead of me. A lot of people

suppose that one of the reasons why John was able

to outrun Peter is because John was younger. Others have

surmise that Peter carried upon himself a lot of guilt

and shame and was feeling very burdensome because of himself

disappointing the Lord. I don't know the reason for why

John was able to outrun Peter, but John was sure

to note this here in his gospel. And I know

that my efforts would be futile to attempt to outrun

brother Nathaniel.

And the reason for that being is I am now older.

You will remember the Psarma said, I have been young

and now old. I've not seen the righteous forsaken, nor

his seed begging bread. But if we could hit the

rewind but no life, I could take you back to

a time when possibly I could have gave Brother Nathaniel

a run for his money, or we would have ran

neck and neck. My point being, I don't know who's

gonna run faster than who this morning, and I don't

know who's gonna arrive at this altar first, But it

doesn't matter, as long as we run together. I have

a natural brother who says often that he has never

won a foot race. There's something about the muscle in

his legs. He is unable to run fast. I witnessed

as one that was always the fastest in the school,

or the fastest in the class, or one of the

fastest on the team. I witnessed my brother try to

run with us and many others, and for some reason

he just did not have it within him to run

a race. And I know that there's some people in

this building this morning that you feel like you just

do not have it within you to get up. And

if you're ever gonna run a race and finish that race,

you're gonna have to get up. It's gonna have to

be some things that you do, and you have to

run together with that natural brother and sister, or you

have to run together with that brother and sister in Christ.

Those people have like precious faith, Brother Nathaniel. I feel

like there's a lot of people exhausted and tired because

of the weight of their sins. The Bible said that

you should lay aside every weight and sin that does

so easily beset you. I understand when you're carrying a

lot of weight, you not wanting to get up. Brother

Dylan Wallace was sharing with me recently of how he

spent some groll, some toils, some hours training under the

oversight of an army ranger, and he said, Pastor, because

of who we were training underneath of he decided to

shorten the process of our training. He said, in other words,

he crammed everything into a shorter period of time.

Which put more on us.

And I trained under some of the fine of sergeants

and instructors in the land, and I believe that he said,

they were just conditioning us for what is coming, what

is forthcoming. I know there's some people in this building

this morning that just do not fill getting up, but

you have to get up. You didn't feel like getting

up for work this past Monday morning, but you got up.

There's a lot of us in this building. We've got

to get up from whatever it is that has got

us down. There's no doubt these apostles, these disciples and

followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, they were definitely very

exhausted over the events that had taken place. You find

the account of those two people that were on the

road to Amasus how terribly disappointed they were in the

outcome concerning the events of that weekend. They didn't really

feel like Jesus would be crucified, buried and left for dead,

and they were so disappointed in the outcome that Jesus

had not yet been resurrected or brought back to life,

And so they were returning home just totally completely distraught.

And I have no doubt that Peter and John had

to overcome those sentiments and those similar feelings when they

got up and went to see is it true what

Mary Magdalene has said? Is there a possibility of a resurrection?

Is there a possibility of a new life? Is there

a possibility of a new beginning? Oh, thank God, there

is a possibility in a new life today for every

person in this building, including those that have been raised

in pentecostam and Holiness churches, who this morning are just

barely continuing on for whatever reason. So Brother Nathaniel and

I will hold that crusade down there in the Caribbean.

And Brother Nathaniel, you know as good as I do.

It is not a planned vacation, and we don't exactly.

Feel like going down there.

Were exhausted and we're tied, But we're going down there

because people need something real. We're going down there because

they need something alive. Many down there are tired of

their dead religion. Many down there are disgusted with their

dry routines. There's been a lot of you show up

here on our doorsteps, so to speaking, when given an

opportunity to testify, you say, I am here at the

Bethel Holiness Church because I got tired of a dead religion.

I got tired of a dry routine.

You see, those folks in the Caribbean will be looking

for the words of the Master. They will not be

looking for the words of Brother Jeremy Howell or Brother

Nathaniel Howell. They will be looking for words of spirit

and words of life, and those are the words of God.

Brother Nathaniel will get up early someday.

In the near future, and he will make his way there.

But at some point of those who were down there

will have found themselves sitting in the presence of somebody

that got up and brought the Gospel light to them.

The same thing could be said of the Father's son Jesus,

who was sitting at the right hand of the Father.

When the Triune God had beheld the condition of man,

Jesus got up and walked down that grand staircase that

led from heaven down to lowly Earth.

And sister, how well.

He walked among those that were sitting in darkness, Men

who were sitting in darkness witness to a great light.

And there are people perhaps in this building this morning

who were sitting in darkness. And but I want you

to do like we hope those in the Caribbean will do.

I want you to get up and get away from

darkness and death. Brother Jesse, we expect people to get up,

and we want to see them back up on their

feet again. We desire the same for every person here today.

But you have to be willing enough to get up.

When Jesus brought back the man who was impotent in

his legs and feet and his strength, Jesus spoke to

him that he had to get up. He had to

roll up that man or that cotton and be on

his way again. I'm preaching a message the Holy Girl's

title that he.

Got up, and so should you.

I feel like every preacher and teacher of the Bethel

Holiness Church today would desire to see every person walk out.

Of this building with a smile on their face and

without a doubt.

We expect some to leave this morning with their burdens

who rolled away. We expect some to not to testify

and say I am forever change But those things will

only take place if those who are down get up,

and then they can stand again, and again they can run.

Peter and John got up.

Before they stood up, and before they ran to the

empty tomb, they got up. And when they arrived at

the empty tomb, they noticed that Jesus Christ himself had

got up. Even though it was early in the morning,

the stone.

Was rolled away. Who is as wide open up as.

The pool behind camper of the Red Neck and the

Appellachian Mountains? How many of you have ever been an

eyewitness to that. You can be taken a drive through

the mountains in some rural area and you look at

those single wire trailers or those pool behind campers, and

you wonder, how, oh how did they get that up there?

And old how or how.

Are they gonna get that down from there when it

comes time to replace it? But almost always the door

is wide open. And I want to tell somebody today

the same thing can be said about every spiritual door

in the House of God. While you have breast, and

while the church is being the church, while services are

being conducted, and while the altar is open, the every

spiritual door is open again. Peter and John they saw

that the stone wall had been rolled away. You say, well,

I'm up against something that's keeping me from exiting my grave. Listen,

I don't know what to buried you. I don't know

the name of your grave. That I know that God

can roll away the stone if you will get up,

if you will knock on the door, so to speaker Jesus,

Christ will open the door and he will let you out.

But you've got to get up half of that cold

stone coughing. You've got a walk to that stone, cold,

and you've gotta beat your knuckles red until he here's you.

He schedules your release.

Can I tell you that in a moment that you

sincerely cry out through godly sorrow and true great repentance,

he will open the door. I'm telling you what hinders

you is not something in the church. It's not a

certain preacher. It's not a certain teacher. It's not the

pastor Hope. Come on now, I'll say it again. Every

spiritual door that you need to walk through, he says,

wide open. There as the pool behind camper there on

the Appalachian ridd Next camper, come on there. The lords

By's not gonna be found inside of that tombor, and my.

Prairies today that your lie, lifeless, cold body will not

be found in your tomb. Jesus was not going to

allow it to be called the tomb of Jesus.

It's still called to this day the.

Tomb of Joseph of Arimathea.

And that does not have to be the place of

your death.

That does not have.

To be the place from your demise. All you gotta

do is get up and say, I.

Shall not dissolve away here. I will get up out

of this place of destruction.

I will get out of this house her death.

It appeared to many that death had secured the earthly

body of Jesus. Surely the messages, including the Romans and

the Jews, taught that the grave held him firmly. But

you know what, Hell knew better. Lucifer knew better. They

knew that Jesus wasn't finished. Last year, I felt impressed

to the Lord to preach an Easter sermon titled Underestimating

what is Underneath. And you know what Jesus did on

what a lot of people called Silent Sunday. He didn't

lay there in that tomb motionless. Brother Nathaniel, I dare say,

as soon as natural breath left his earthly body, he

went down into the lowest regions of the damned and

knocked on the door of death, hell and the grave,

and said, turn over the keys. You will no longer

have control over people's time of death. You will never

no longer have control over how long you hold somebody.

I am the one that will hold the keys, and

I want you to know he held the keys. But

even concerning his natural death, on that third day, I said,

on that third day, possibly April fifth, he got up.

I said, on that third day, he got up with

the keys the death.

Held in the grave.

Sister Sheryl and Sister Simmons and heaven now and then

we may need to help you too get up at times.

But Jesus did not need any assistance getting up. He

wasn't elderly, he wasn't aged, He wasn't barely alive in

spite of the severe beatings. Brother Aaron Wood preached to

us about this past Sunday night.

But he was very much alive.

I said, he was very much alive because he got

up in power. Oh, come on him more eloquent terms.

He was resurrected in power, and he stood up and

he walked out. Everything changed for the world in that moment.

Without the resurrection, we have no hope.

The preaching and every effort is futile without the resurrection.

The same thing that hyphen Jesus takes place in the

life of a person who surrenders to his pool, who

convicts themselves, and who allows God to convict them. Those

who are dead come to life in a moment. It's

called the resurrection of the spiritual man. But all you've

got to do is when you are supposed to be

his sheep, and you hear the call of the shepherd,

get up and come home. That's what the prodigals son

heard when it came to himself and was get up

and come home.

It ain't you waiting on the pastor.

It's not you waiting on the church, and it's not

you waiting on their teacher. It's not your prodigal son

waiting on the father. It's the Father waiting on you.

Somebody packed that altar right there for me, that precious altar.

I said, that glorious altar where resurrection power takes place.

Let people pass her from dasl right to life. You

gotta wanna live. You gotta wanna get out of the.

Talents of who death. You gotta want to get up.

Do you really want to get well? Do you really

want to be back on your feet again? Do you

really want to change? David said, he lit me up

and out horrible pit. How the myray Clay brother Jesse,

I believe old David was one when he found himself

in the muck and the mire. He was calling on God,

get me out. And you know what, God never had

to tell David get up to get out. I feel

like the same thing could be said about Jeremiah, weeping

prophet while he was down there in that pit.

I believe he was standing up.

I don't believe he was laying there in the muck

of the mirror giving up and gonna die. There may

have been some other bones in the bottom of that pit,

but that weeping preacher was probably crying on the God,

not crying for deliverance from man, but crying to God

for deliverance. And some tender hearted, compassionate soul said, we

can't leave him in there, because if we do, he

will die. And they took some old rags and they

lowered him down there, said put them under those little

fragile arms. Prophet Jeremiah has been weeping and praying, you're

so hungry, you're so fragile, you are so bruised and

battered and beaten, and will lift you up and out.

Brother Nathaniel, they'd have never got him out if he

hadn't a got up and put them rags underneath his armpits.

And I'm preaching us somebody here this morning. You gotta

get up and make the walk. Even Jason Crab knows that.

I've heard Jason Crab sing a song about taking the walk.

I've heard people sing songs about whenever you take the

first step of God will.

Carry you the rest of the way to the altar.

It was this past Wednesday night while preaching that message

I heard something hit the altar, and I realized a

young man who has been receiving words from his daddy,

a young man who had been talked to by his pastor,

a young man who in order in the church have

been praying for he plowed into this end of the altar,

and he left tear drops, and and there's tear stains

on the altar today from this young man coming to

the altar.

I will say this. If you are not knocking up.

On the door of your prison, if you're not up

rattling the bars of your cage, you're never gonna get out.

You've got to get up to get out.

I'm preaching this morning ascerning the Holy Ghost title. He

got up, so should you. I said, he got up,

and so should you. Marry Magdalene witness to the fact

that he got up and he got out. And I'm

telling you before you get out, you've got.

To get up.

All you need to do is get up. Some of

you drive an hour to this church. I didn't ask

you to come here. You do it of your own.

I'm choosing. I'm thrilled to have you here.

Sister Howl and I drove for six years two hours

each way, a four hour drive on Wednesday to church,

so a lot of times in the early days for

an hour long church service before we learn to get

up and get in. And Brother Jesse, every time we

went to church it was five hours of our day.

And Brother Nathaniel, when you and I traveled down there

to the Caribbean, we caught Caribbean.

They caught Caribbean.

When we traveled down there to minister in that crusade

with three of our Caribbean brothers. Oh, come on now,

us five preachers making our way to that little, little,

tiny primitive island. Brother Jesse, We're gonna have a burden.

We're gonna have a burden. We're gonna have a mission.

We're gonna walk into some dark situations. Literally, we're gonna

walk into some places shine in the gospel light. We're

gonna walk into some places delivering our soul. But how

them people don't get up, if they don't get out

of them pews, if they don't get out of them

folding chairs, if they don't get up and worship God.

Come on, now, I'm telling you we got to do something.

It's not the pastor that's the problem. It's not the

teacher that's the problem. It's not mom and dad that's

the problem. We got to get out. Come on, somebody's

gotta get out. In order to do that, you have

to get up. So Brother Nathaniel and I will try

our best to encourage people to get up. You're having

this crusade for a reason. You are hungry for a reason.

You have an appetite and increased desire for a reason.

There's something to go, something to be said about that,

there's something to get up for. And Brother Philip, I

don't understand how the table can be spread. Again, I

don't understand how the table can be spread and people

won't get up and go to the table.

Y'all seen it before.

Again, we drove two hours to the service, and we

had to get up and get ready. I remember, with

six little kids as to how would tell me it

would take two hours to get them kids ready. She

had to get started not long after lunch to get

here on time, and a lot of times we got

here thirty minutes to.

An hour early.

Brother Nathan, you and I will get up probably around

four o'clock in the morning, and we will travel from

about five am until five pm, including using an aircraft

in order to get to where we're going, Sister Wood.

And it's not gonna just happen. We've got to get up.

We gotta go out the doors of our respective places,

and we got to sit in that airplane terminal and

at the gate there. Then we gotta get up, and

we gotta walk into that pilot's aircraft and sit down.

And then whenever he says it's time to disembark. We

gotta get up, and we gotta get out, and we've

got to go down tarmac in that third world country

with that look in each other's eyes, looking at one another,

wondering will we ever make it home again? Will we

make it back safely? Because in this situation, it could

be that we don't make it home. It's very moving

and very unnerving. But we will rely totally on the Lord.

But we will never get to those people if we

don't get up, and you will never get to this

altar if you don't get up. And the Bible said

of Peter and John, they got up, and you know what, brother,

they must have stood up. And then after standing there,

they ran to the tomb. And that's what I remember

people doing years ago, when holy ghost conviction would come

into place, they would stand up. And that was good

that they got up, and then they had to run.

And the Bible said that Peter and John, when they

got there, they got to looking for I'm one, I said.

When they got there, they got to looking for someone.

I'm not looking for an apology from somebody. I'm not

looking for somebody to pat me on the back.

I'm not looking for affirmation.

Approval or applause when it's time.

For me to repent, nor should you.

I remember when I got saved nearly thirty four years ago.

It didn't matter who was preaching. It didn't matter who

was teaching. I don't remember what songs were sung. I

don't remember what the pastor preacher. I don't remember what

the evangelist said. All I remember was Jeremy Howell needed

to go to the altar, and Jeremy Howell needed to

get things right in my old life. I need to

pass from death into life. And if you're gonna do

that as well, you've got to get up. The same

power that raised him from the dead can bring you

into newness of life. Every person in this building can

be brought to newness of life. The songwriter pen these lyrics,

get Up, Get Up, Get Up, in Jesus's name. In

the Book of Ephesians, Paul said, you were dead, that's

past feeling. If you would, that's past hope when you're dead.

That's what I said. But because of Jesus, there is

no hopeless case, there's no hopeless calls, there's no hopeless situation.

Sister Hammon. In Ephesians, Paul said you were dead. That's

past weakness, Sister Simmons, You and Sister Cheryl can tell

us that it's past struggling, Sister whot And I've seen

you and Sister Neely here lately struggling a little bit

to get on your two legs because of those knees.

You get some age. I know, in the middle of

the night after preaching twice on Sunday, I'm a feeling

a little bit of that. I thought I would never

feel the things that I've been feeling. You wonder what

exactly is gone on sometimes. But the Apostle Paul told

the Church of Ephesus.

He said, you were dead. You were dead.

Your past weakness is beyond struggling. And as I preached recently,

dead as a door nail. To use of the words

of Charles Dickens, Paul had experienced the resurrection power. Though

he that had been buried alive physically and left for dead,

knew the resurrection power of the Lord. In Acts chapter

number fourteen, in verse number twenty, he said, how be it?

As the disciples stood round about the Apostle Paul, he

rose up and came into the city. As those disciples

looked home, after that great man of God had been

buried alive and stone to death, he rose up. Do

I need to say it again? He got up? He

rose up, He got up, and he came into the city. He,

like us, had to take some hits. He, like us,

he had been crushed. He, like us, sister haw had

been left for dead. Somebody, get the mental imagery here.

Picture him lying there, lifeless. That is a horrible image,

is it not? The great Apostle Paul, who wanted to

do nothing but good and carried the burden of the

church upon his shoulders, lying there dead. Imagine the mourners

that are standing around. Imagine those that are hoping that

he would get up. But people are saying, there's no use.

The stones they stoned him with that are too big

for him to live through. And you know what, get

this mental imagery. Though he got up. Get that mental imagery.

He got up.

Get that picture in your mind. Picture him getting up.

They thought he was dead, but he wasn't. I wonder

if Apostle Paul, being the man that he was, did

not say to some of his brethren, you tolt, I

was dead, didn't you?

And they said I sure didn't.

He said you thought wrong, And I hope I can

say the same thing about you. I hope when you testify,

you can say, I bet you was.

I was dead. I was buried home, but thank God,

I'm alive. I did not die.

Back to the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, they thought

Jesus was dead, but he was not, I said. They

thought Jesus was dead, but he was not. Some left

Paul underneath the pile of stone. Some left Jesus behind

the stone door. But both men got up. Both men

rose up. Paul knew about the resurrection power. He belonged

to the Pharisees. It's hard for me to imagine that

there were Jewish people who did not believe in the resurrection.

It's hard for me to imagine at.

The Pharisees would try to convince the Sadducees at the

resurrection power that showed up in the days of Elijah

and Elisha was real. It's hard for me to imagine

there would be disputations amongst the Sanhedrin as the weather

or not there's a resurrection. But Paul went into this

thing a Pharisee converted to a Christian, and sister howell.

He always believed in the resurrection power. And if you're

gonna make it, you can't be sad. You see, you

have to believe in the resurrection power of the Lord.

How did somebody question the many notable miracles of men

like Elijah and Elisha, But the Sadducees did.

But God steal raises people up. Sin.

We'll try to bury you, but you don't have to

stay buried. If Jesus hadn't got up, I could offer

you no hope of resurrection. But Jesus got up. Nothing

can hold you down. I'm asking you this morning, will

you let Jesus lift you up? Will you allow Jesus

to hold you up? And will you allow Jesus to

help you walk away? To walk away from that sin nature,

to walk away from the struggle, to walk away from

the weakness, Brother Caleb, the Sadducees were okay with taking

away the hope of the resurrection. I'm not okay with that,

because if in this life only I have hope, I

am of all men most miserable. If I can't hope

to see sister Charity on the other side, I'm in trouble.

If I can't hope to see beautiful Bethel.

They say, there's about eighty of you here today.

If I can't hope to see you beyond the casket,

I am of all men most miserable if I can't

hope to see Jephtha one day, my grandson. That's in

the presence of the Lord. There is blessed hope in

the resurrection. And you know what that old Pentecostal singer

used to sing it years ago, Hold that great getting

up morning.

Fare you well, fare you well.

My mother in law and some of my wife's siblings

got into debate about cremations versus burials, and my mother

in law being a Bible scholar that she is. And

I say that would have small on my face, and

I love you, Laverne. If you're listening, she said, well,

bless the Lord. She said, My God's big enough to

find some ashes as across the field. If he can

locate my ball six feet under, she said, started speaking

in her language. She said, it don't matter what you

do with me, Shane. She said, my Jesus can put

it all back together in a moment, and that's what

resurrection power says.

In a moment, we shall be changed.

In the twinkling of an eye. If I was called ely,

this is where I end on a high note. All

that great getting up morning. There you will, there you will.

They face the dead towards the Eastern sky. Did y'all

know that Christians face the dead towards the Eastern sky?

We have undertakers in this building today. We have former

undertakers in this building today, and they have told me

they still do that for the most part, because they're

expected resurrection power to happen on Resurrection Morning, when the

archangel sauns that trumpet, and the dead and Christ shall

rise resurrection power. I wonder if the quartet could come

up here and get ready to sing that, then you'll

know he's living inside resurrection power. Let's stand, sister whooting

in the old red backed Church of God hymnal. There's

a lyrical line that goes like this, graves of bursting saints,

of shouting hav any beauty all around.

I don't have a new body.

I'm glad that I don't have to experience resurrection power

only in the afterlife. I'm glad I can expect it

and embrace it in this life. There's something this and

right now that needs to meet me in the altar.

There's some in this building that needs to realize he

got up, and so should you. I give it to you.

We feel like we're buried alive at times. I give

that to you. And I also know we feel like

we're crushed. We feel like we're battered, we feel like

we're broken, we feel like we're wounded. But I want

you to know Jesus has resurrection power. But when Lazarus

was lying in a tomb, Jesus came to see him,

and Jesus delayed because he wanted to prove himself as

the resurrection. Even though Lazarus's sister said, it's the fourth day.

By now, his carcass is rotten. It's thinking the blowflies

are there. In my first an opinion.

That was not so.

I believe resurrection power had preserved him, and I believe

he's asleep. Like Jesus said, plainly, he's dead, just like

your loved ones, just like Jean Wooton plainly stated, he's dead.

Sister Hammond plainly stated, he's dead, but we know they sleep.

I can take you to ol of A cemetery. I

can show you the burial side. Of my grandson. There

he sleeps plainly stated he's dead. And because of the

hardness of their heart and their unbelief, Jesus wept and

cried out of frustration and righteous anger that they didn't believe.

He had to power and he would do this so

that they would believe is the resurrection. And he called

into that Tombe, this is what I want you to know.

He said, take you away the stone. He didn't say

go in there and pick him up. He didn't say

go in there and dragging him out lay before me,

Brother Aaron Wood, in the mouth of an empty tube.

He said, Lazarus, come forth, and sister Howell. This means

he got up, and the Bible said, even though he's

wrapped in grave clothes, he came bounding.

About right.

Brother Aaron Wood said maybe he had to get up

to her three times. Of course, you can't lose yourself.

That's why Jesus said, loose him and let him go. Now,

there was no sadducy that could tell a Pharisee the

resurrection can't happen, And there was no sadduacy that could

tell last Rous and Mary and Martha that there's no

such thing as a resurrection, and I want to open

these altars right now as they begin to sing, sing

that course, if you knew him like I know him,

I remember thirty four years ago, passer from death unto life.

I remember meeting the Resurrection himself outside of my tomb.

The altars open as there a young person, maybe somebody

five years of age, six years, maybe a teenager or

maybe a young adult, say preacher, I'm supposed to be alive,

but I.

Just don't feel like I was alive that I should be.

Anybody you need resurrection power in your life this morning?

Come on, hey man, anybody, let's bow our heads and pray.

Is there somebody Apostle Paul needed resurrection power.

I don't know what you're up against.

I don't know what you're facing. I don't know what's

got you there. Even the best Christians sometimes feel like

they've been buried alive. There's some getting in the altars

that are there? Any others you.

Experience resurrection power? You'll never feel dead again. You'll never

feel dead again. Prost is there one?

I want Methaholder's church to remember this message was preach.

When somebody tells you it's hopeless, I want you to

remember this message with Prince.

When somebody tells you that we didn't love them, I

want you.

To remember this message was preached when somebody tells.

You we didn't reach for them.

There's something special about coming out of the tents, taking

that walk.

Lazarus had to take the walk inside, Yes, singing my brothers.

He used the resurrection, the resurrection. He got up