I Saw HIM On Sunday - Bro Nathanael Howell 8-24-2025

I mean, I'm so thankful for what he's already started doing.

It meant the wonderful way he's blessed us.

You know you only get this they man, if the.

Lord's around, you only experience this Amen, in the presence

of Jesus Christ.

They been to try you and God.

It only brings this type of joy Peace, Amen, Praise God,

contentment Aymen, assurance a man even name off everything, Amen,

a person of might experience Amen.

For good Amen, and brand you've ben a trip. It

that to God because the devil ain't got nothing to do.

Amen with you feeling Amen good about it? Praise God. Amen,

I'm so thankful for being here this morning.

A man. I we're gonna miss our pastor over the

next they've been a couple of days. Amen, when we

thank the Lord of the love merger headed off the

celebrinat Amen.

Their anniversary Amen.

We all know the story how sister Hannah wrecked their

plans last year. They man and they didn't get to

take the trip Amen, and planned their whole marriage for

Amen's there. They're making up for lost time this year,

and then we pray God gives them safe Amen, safe

journey Amen of passage and brings them back to us Satemen, sound,

because we sure do. They ben need our shepherd. And

then I'm honored and humbled. I mean, I want to

say thank you even for their giving. I thank the

Lord for my pastor is leadership, and then we give

honor where it's due. This morning, they been realizing that

I'm standing in the reality of the great Man of

God's vision and labor of love. I mean, I'm standing

in the reality a man of the labor of love

that He has worked him Amen, and through God has

built Amen. So I thank God for that, and I

take time to knowledge it this morning, Amen, because I

am amen to being a partaker of it. I mean,

I've been as someone that was able, Amen, to enjoy

the blessings and the fruit of it, even if my

kids will when I pray to God, my grandkids and hey,

maybe even their grandkids we love. And the pastor stayed

around and good healthy man and kept kicking Amen until

he was one hundred and twenty.

Amen. That'd be all right with me. Amen. Praise God.

I Amen.

I walk, I walk wholeheartedly in unison with him, Amen,

and will attempt this morning to contribute what little effort.

I have amen to give that towards Amen, and put

the words Amen, his vision and contribution of small contribution.

This morning, a man, I want you to know, I

walk theymen in unison with my pastor. The Bible said,

happened to walk together.

Except they be agreed.

Ave answered this morning, I'm vote most grateful they've been

for my pastor. I thank the Lord for what we've

already experienced. You've been turning with me to the Book

of John, Saint John. Hey man, we're gonna look at

the Book of Saint John, chapter number twenty this morning. Amen,

What a wonderful day to be in the presence of

the Lord. Amen, on a Sunday, Praise God on a Sunday.

They been God. Lord, I've been good to it. He's

already made himself real to us. I mean he's never

failed us.

I mean this is a very it man, an important

passage of scripture.

Here, this whole chapter is Amen. Any of these chapters

in the Gospel that cover this topic.

Amen, Our imports will talk a little bit more about this,

and may you may think it was an Easter sermon.

Amen, I don't know. We'll see the Lord. This is

what he put on my heart, and I just couldn't.

They may get away from it. This is what the

Lord burden went with a man. I just want to

amen and share my burden with you this morning, and

try to make this make sense to you.

I mean, if I can. They mean.

Let's look at verse number twenty four and verse number

twenty five of Saint John, Chapter number twenty. The Bible said,

but Thomas, one of the twelve Cogitamus, was not with

them when Jesus came, was not with them when Jesus came.

And the other disciples therefore said, unto him, we have

seen the Lord. But he said, unto them, except I

shall see in nine hands into the nails, and putting

my fingers into the print of the nails, and thrust

my hand into his side, I will not believe. And

then here these two latter parts of our golden text.

The man is what stood at for me was not

with them, A man will not believe. I believe these

two were directly amen associated with each other.

Amen.

I believe one was the direct amen, the direct action

or reaction too.

Amen.

The first thing that happened, first off, he was not

with them, and secondly, it led to you a man

disbelieve in his life. I'll stress your hands forward Heaven,

ask God amen to help us this morning. Lord, we

thank you God who you were. We thank you God,

and treasure your spirit.

Lord. We treasure you're leading and you're guiding. God.

We treasure all that you've done this morning. Lord, we

can do nothing except by the powers and.

The truing of good.

Look at them, nothing except through God You and then

all things that come possible. We've gone through you. God. Lord.

We need your nor thing for that will destroy to

yo God. We need a praying church. We need a

church Lord that's thankful for your work. God.

We need a people with ears to hear in the

heart God, that is willing to be obedient God. And

I need Lord, a touch from heaven God that would

move in my life. Lord, teach me the things that

I should say. God would show me what I should say,

nothing more and nothing less.

Set a God about my mouth.

Lord, God for your glory. Let us leave this place

joyful and not sorrowful. And Jesus' thing we ask in pray.

Praise God and thank you for it.

Praise God, and somebody.

Thank the Lord.

If you're in church this morning in Louiyah. Thank God

for being in church this morning. Praks God.

Our Texas found in the twentieth chapter here of Saint

John's Gospel.

I mean he would call himself, Amen, the one who

Jesus loved.

If I'm not mistaken, this was written prayce got somewhere

around most scholars believes somewhere.

Around eighty five idea.

If I'm not mistaken it somewhere around Therefore, Amen, this

was not written. They meant right after the fact, but

a little further down the line here.

Amen. And that might not not be exact, but I

know that the fact is. And then this is.

Actually the reflections of Amen, an eyewitness.

Amen. This isn't someone that's writing it in the moment. Amen,

but this is John. Amen. And we know he was Amen.

Prace, God received the revelation of revelations. He was Amen,

what some people call the revelator, but really Jesus Christ

was the revelator Undo, his servant John, and John pinned

it down for its children.

Amen.

John would would if.

You if you think about the man that God chosen

and been the one God directed, Amen to.

Write such a foot that God would say there's even

a blessing, and.

Then you just reading it and been the no doubt

you've been understand the importance here of Saint John's Gospel.

Amen.

If God chose him out of the Amen, out of

the out of the eleven that were remaining, and said,

You're gonna be the one, Amen, that.

I revealed myself to in.

Such a way, Ay Ben, that it is the foretelling

of future invention. Theyveen the description of things they been

believers will hold truth to and hold dear too, Andy Ben,

that you must believe the being parted of Saint John's

Gospel must be upgraded importance in the Bible, even no doubt,

all of it's important. I'm not trying to say one

is more important than the other. And remember we must

we must go into this theymen with a mindset of Amen,

how imported it is and been that God would talk

to us through John here and he would pin down

some of these words that would be profitable for doctrine,

for teaching, Amen, and for the days ahead.

Now, I want to lay a foundation as we get

started here. And Amen.

John's Gospel. This chapter, the twentieth chapter is a it's

a pendulum. So to speak of of all those who

claim Christianity as a religion and professed relationship or kinship

with the One true Deity have been the trigut Godhead.

They before we know that if you are to be saved,

one of the thing.

Salvation hinges on and swings from.

Amen, is your belief that he is resurrecting, and he

is sitting on the right hand of God have.

Been making intercession for you. You must believe he died,

was very and rose a gila.

Amen.

And now it is your mediator, Amen, between God and man.

So it is a pendulum chapter here that we find

ourself vienna, Aymen, we must believe.

The account here.

It is the account of the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

the Messiah, from the dead, after he was there two days,

rising again on the third day.

An.

If this is the truth, we find that Aman, if

we find believers here experiencing, ay been what we now believe,

You've gotta put yourself in their shoes this morning and understand, Amen.

They ain't looking at.

It like you are.

It's offense unponing. They've never read about it.

They don't know the end of the story. They don't

know how this is gonna end.

But rather they are experiencing live have been happening. They ben,

You could say, man, praise God. We interrupt this broadcast

to report Jesus Christ is now resurrected. Amen, and Marriage

doesn't see him and Peter went to the two and

found him missing. Oh God, Then they're experiencing God may

been this as it happens. Mayben, if you may be

saying as I've already told you, must believe he came

to back to life on Sunday morning.

We I believe he is alive forevermore.

To make intercession, they've been, bring you and die, Prince God,

that which he laid down, and they been, God gave

him the power to take up again. No man took

him his life from him, aymen, but he willingly laid

it down for humanity. For you see the same power

that allowed him they beant to go into the two mutilated,

beating a man and destroyed, and three days later to

rise with nothing but scars. It's the same power of

God they've been that would cause new life to be breathed.

Into a man.

You beat me by the same to.

My intras were hanging up my pack up.

I mean I can guarantee you Wednesday morning, they'll still

be hanging up out of my packa. They're experiencing the

wonders of God. They've been a Christ whoever, ladd.

We've been a Christ, ay.

Man that has been resurrected.

No matter, we wait to see for his children.

Now through the book of John we find hit here

and then the reflections of an eye witness to the

great happening surrounding the works.

They been Jesus Christ, Dear, while on earth they mean.

It's evident, Amen, that John wrote to the m that

who's the levers to look upon these words would be

convinced that Jesus the Christ, even what's the Christ, the

son of the Living God and man? Without this belief,

and then you will be no. They have no Christ

God belief in the words or the actions taken. If

you do not have us settled, theymen faith and belief

in Christ and his deity, Andy man, you will not

put the trust they been in action behind his directions

and his commandments.

So this morning I'm attempting to.

Build a foundation briefly here they been to try to

help establish.

Dearsamen, we get started.

Now in John there's what's known as the seventh signs

I mean and John. It begins with water being turned

the wine and ends with Lastrius being raised raised from

the dead, all indicating the deity of Christ and pointing

to his lordship, pointing to his proper place in you

and ies lide ayman is it is written for a purpose.

John was a very decisive writer. He wrote for a reason,

and he he structures his Gospel and then to the

end that you might understand the lordship and the deity

of Christ. He covers specific miracles, and then we know

the Bible says he couldn't contain them all.

So why did they cover these pacific ones? What is

themorrow in the story? What is the methods behind the miracle?

What are we to get out of it? For surely

if there was a that there was so much data,

not even the libraries maymen of the world could not

contain it.

And then there must be a specific reason they been

Why a god that is a god directinis.

They've been a god of poethought and poor knowledge.

When we now read today in the twentieth chapter, I said,

that's Probaba all for my children up to learn from

and every fashion of their want with me. They must

clean from it. They must understand it. They must realize

why I get it. They been of those that were

around her, how they benefited up and those who were

around how they suffered. Some be defeited because of action

behind the words of Christ. Some have been suffered because

of a neglect or pay Christ. There are also the

revelations I.

Am in John's Gospel.

Seven Revelations my Jesus Christ from his mouth point the

various aspects of Jesus, the capabilities and deity.

He said, I am the Bread of Life. I am

the Light of the world.

I am the Gate.

I am the good Shepherd. I am the Resurrection and

the Life. I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.

And he said, I am the True Mine.

Amen.

He is trying to uncover and make clear to us Aman,

this fat if child in it all in mystery a

man that Jesus.

Christ is the son of God, Deity and Holy. Amen.

He is the Messiah, he is the Chosen Water, he

is Prince of Peace, he is Counselor, he is money.

God who said I am the Resurrection. Why I am

the Light, I am the Bread, I am the God,

I am the Way of all that we would really

believe it, because then we put stuck in his world

when he said thou shalt na we would not we said,

thou shalt we would if we really believe there was

directly read percussions to the words of God.

We said we should do something. We think a little

more about it. Oh God, Amen, I'm trying to live

a foundation. We're almost there this morning.

Now in the Bible we also find and I and

then maybe I ain't smart enough about it.

I mean, I want to sit down with Pastor and glean.

From him, because we also find and we know the

Lord's number seven perfection. I mean, in the words of God,

you also find seven miracles. If my studies were correct,

seven miracles performed on the Sabbath. And then so we

see these sevens here and mean and I I mean,

all I know is the Lord pointed them out.

He I mean, and I think it's worth considering that

a god And mean, as I said, up.

Decisiveness and men did such a thing in such order.

Here there were seven miracles performing on the Sabbath, which

caused they made a little, no small sting among the.

Sadducees and the Pharisees and the scribes.

He was actually one of their biggest problems in faults

that they were acting them. They were able to try

to throw at Jesus, say man. They were trying to

stir up the crowds against him and man, and they

were trying to turn people's They've been persuasions and perspectives

of him. They met him twisting and saying, they bet

he's sitting because he's healing on the Sabbath. He's sinning

because he healed the withered hand on the Sabbath, love God.

They mean he's sitting because he did this. Noah, I

want to read to you a little bit here in Mark.

They been chaptering number two the Bible, said Mark Chapian

number two, twenty seven and twenty eight.

And he said, under them the Sabbath was made for

man and not man for the Sabbath. Then he sat

there for the son of man. Shoot is lord also

of the Sabbath.

I mean he's saying here and he's claiming he stay,

brother Philip, they been here.

He's working miracles, Amena. He's saying, this is my day.

I'll do my will, I'll do it my way.

I'm working those that need it.

Oh, my dear, you can't criticize God for working on

the Sabbath.

Who can't criticize God who's working in his stay.

They try to.

They try to condemn ourself because God has three wadia

in his house on Sunday.

They try to.

Condemn ourself because we let the Holy Ghost go through

this building up. That's what's destined to lend pending fight.

To try you, Godhead.

They just here then have a his way or not

at all. He'll need not a here if he does

not have these perfect ways. So he claimed this day

under himself. He said, I made this day for man.

Man was not made for the Sabbath. Here's the deepness

of this verse. If you want my two cents, if

I created a robot.

To benefit me on Saturday, it was made to work

for me. But if I made a day to spend

with that robot, it was me being available to him.

Does that make sense here?

God did not create man to worship him. Only the

Bible said Amen. In the Bible says, aymen, how can.

Man do it?

He needs not anything from man's hands. The seventh day,

what's made for ourself? What day where God would come

down and come here with humanitia the day when they

would gather in his house.

And he would do his will.

He would strengthen and help, He would perform miracles, He

would perform many mighty acts. He would work and meet

their needs. They would make himself obayla law on this day.

I mean, we ain't given God a privilege when we

make it out to his house. Rather, Sunday is our privilege.

It is our day where we could to spend with God.

He is a blessing to come upon and be with God.

He is a blessing to separate ourselves under God.

He is the blessing to afford.

Him a time on the day which he designed and made,

that he might bless her.

Wos a call on him?

And then you could read in March having number three

to me and the continuation and a demonstration stemming from

the above statement. Here they corner him, and they then say,

why are your children and men eating?

They man here, praace God that I leave it.

They wash their hands and all this nonsense they get

into and amen, He says, here this is my day.

My children will do what they want on my day.

If they're doing any according to my will, and he

gets a little they may upset with him. And he says,

and he entered again into the synagogue, and there was

a man there with a withered hand. Amen, And they

watched him whether they would whether he would heal him

on the.

Seventh day, but they might accuse him.

And he said, under the man with tad the withered hand,

stretching forth, And he said, under, there isn't love to

do good on the Sabbath, or order to do evil

the same life, Lord killing Remember they hell, their piece

didn't burst by.

He gets on down there, and he says, stretching forth.

On his day. He is lord of me, and it's

his way.

And if he said, amen, you need to do gosssa

been on his day, He's got to do it all

on his day.

He's lord on it. He dictates it, he orders it.

They mean he sets it. Arise, Wait, man, it is

his day, and we will rejoice and be glad.

Oh.

God attempted to put an emphasis on Jesus and his

proper place in our.

Lives, hearts and minds.

He is Lord.

Amen, he is at the top with our priority list.

He is our everything.

We see. Oh, I want to see him.

They been, But sometimes where are we Thomas? Sometimes where

are we dining us?

So we've bet. Sometimes Jesus comes by and Thomas sus mission.

And then sometimes God call up on his day to

work among his children a man and somebody's missing her.

Sometimes God stuck pire to bless you in a special way,

but you're missing her.

Oh there was still tear gather he who Then Judas

was gonner, he was in hell mn.

But Tomas, where were you?

Oh? There was just keen disciples and some friends here,

and the Bible.

Saidah, And then no Jim.

Then Tina Mess' was not with him.

When Jesus came, I come just briefly to talk to

you this morning. Oh when I saw him on Sunday.

I saw him on Sunday. All the benefits of park House, well,

the way he comes by and blesses her and restores

her her grandson to us aur petitions.

Whoa when we honor him, and then he blesses her.

So when we work they had him do things the

secret he open openly, he rewards, I said. And then

when we had of him with our lives, we've been

in the fruit of our lips. We experienced the glory

of God as he blesses his children. Remember what about

those but.

Used to seal on these cuts that we now go

and tell. I saw Jesus. Oh Sunday he came by.

Oh God, Oh, I had to pray for me this morning. Look, God,

we find that disciples catching up with him. Thomas in

verse twenty five, praise God in the Bible. Said the

other disciples therefore said under him.

We have seen the Lord. Right is it?

We have seen the Lord.

They're probably bouncing. Oh, we just saw Jesus, Thomas, Thomas,

Oh you should have been there.

Oh we come by.

He moved so wonderfully. What about the town that we

preach use Longton and Thomas. Why wasn't there, Brother Luda,

it stinned from one of the enda, or if he

had been there on Sunday morning, he would have had

dog God, it stood from.

His lack of with a tennis.

But the worship survis God read into their excitement. Imagine,

you're damn they didn't walk out, Damn me, No, it's

an exuberant We.

Just saw Jesus. He's here. Hey, Mary told us he

was risen.

I got it down it myself, But I saw you.

I saw it on Sunday.

Morning when it came I want the milliclosa. Oh, my Gods,

when he showed us many sage the run no.

And in their excitement, no doubt, the glowing faces and

been Thomas, we've been looking for you.

Where were you?

Oh?

We got good news. And then we just saw God.

We just saw him resurrected. We just saw him. Amen.

Ready, they've been to mediate possa on our behalf. He

just came down to USA. They've been improved himself. When

he said it's finished on the cross women, he now

had power live in the water on our behalf.

Oh God, first night he was the result a Sunday service.

Here.

I want to t you a little bit about I

saw him on Sunday here if I stroll down here.

Then the same day at evening, being the first day

of the week, that Sunday, when the doors were shut,

and then when the doors were shut where the disciples

were assembled to fear and in for fear of the Jews,

came Jesus and stood in the midst and said under them,

peace be under you.

Verse night. He was the result of a church service.

He brought such peace under us he reminded us of

his promise.

And then when we were down and broken and hurting and.

Destitute, and we were wondering what we were going to do,

and possibly we're having meetings about where do we go

from here? And do we believe in Mary Magdalene? And

they'd been made and we had our own deaths. Jesus

came by and he stood there in the mind, said

he created. He greeted us in a familiar way. This

is how he often greeted his children. Peace be under

you always say to all piece by all means. Always

one writer has said they've been all pieces.

By all means. Ah ways, I give it to you

any way. You can have any chores anytime you needed.

The chores come all me turning there and during until

next generation when during.

Under your cheery brother Jesse, they're gonna have.

Piece on Sunday morning when Jesus coming by her and.

They're struggling her and they just lost the spass, and

they just lost the child. They when Jesus on a

Sunday morning, so gonna stop by and give the pastor

a message. He says, I got your back, and they'll

leave with Piece and nobody else understands they're wonder the house.

Then they're throw a piece of Sunday school classes.

Two days after the little boy time, my God gave

me pizza on a Sunday morning.

My friend, you ain't gonna.

Have that peace, you misstr time as gods, Thomas shuppered

because of a lack of church attendants. I can't give

it to you any other way. When John gave it

to me, Thomas would have left that Sunday morning. Brother,

stay with the same peace Peter had. He just wanted

to judge.

He just want them.

You want to know where your questions come from. It

comes from lack of churge attendants.

You want to know where your struggles come from. They

come from not being there. When God speaks the words

of peace, he.

Will remind you in a church service of words and

promises he had given you in the past, and these

words a line with John fourteen and twenty seven.

He said, peace I leave with.

You, My peace I give under you, Nor is the

world giving you I under you. Would not your heart

be troubled, neither letting me afraid?

What stake were they in? I dare say there was

some feer.

I dare say there was this concernment women as they

wondered where do we go?

What do we believe?

And one statement from Jesus would have reminded them of

John fourteen and twenty seven, where he said, I'm gonna

leave it with you women. I women you for God.

I made a promise.

I'm with you always, even until the end.

No, I'm not going to leave her nor forsake you.

I'll go with you always through all trouble and all.

Child who'd be honest on the Sunday morning. You need

to God to remind you that he was with you.

You need to God to remind you he had pencil.

There's your situation in your.

Power of me. Jesus was still there.

He still was in the talk a Sunday morning. I'm

trying to be quick.

Let me do it.

Let me give some of this.

It depends on who you came to see as to

your results. Some will make it.

The heaven sat there and say, Lord, you walked up

and down arrives and I dare see and then a

bomb off skined Rope had come about the hole in

his church. And know there's a God move.

That don't mean they saw him.

For those that see him leave changed. And I feel

like there are some people that sat on church pews

and man and God to him and say Lord, you shouted,

sister woman, the man you dance, brother Steri and then

the power of God, and they been a testimony.

Moved on brother Jesse. We saw you do things through

them and men there could be nothing but the handiwork

of God. Remember, they'll get to heaven, saying I never

saw him, amen, I saw it moving a man. I

saw what he could do. I saw what he was doing, hemember.

I did not have or encounter with him. And that

leaves questions, and that leaves towns.

When you find yourself in a situation, well you ain't

seen Jesus in a while, where you ain't talked face

to face with him in a while, you'll leave a Thomas.

With questions, You'll leave.

He may been saying foolish statement, flager they man accept her.

I will not believe her.

Putting foolish qualifiers on his relationship with Jesus. Pretty foolish

qualifiers on his trust in Jesus.

You realize what a foolish thing he did.

To qualifier all it up.

They would would have went to a devil's hell.

If not for the mercy of Jesus to appear under

them again, he could have qualifier all it said, I

gotta have this, this and there, and then I'll believe. Friend,

you need to believe.

Called them when you need to have an encounter.

But how do your death had?

You'll come to his house and where his spirit's working now,

and you'd be allowed us to say.

Good hight in peace?

Might need call her?

Why need the Lord to work?

There's a lot in this chapter.

There's a lot between nineteen and twenty four that he

did for his children.

He reveals under them the price that was paid.

In verse twenty and when he had said, when he

had so said, he shoot under them his hands and

his side.

Now what was Thomas's clarifiers? Y'all say your sord, But

for me, I ain't good enough. If I was there,

I'd have crabbed my hand in there, said Lord, is

that really here? My God? You know why you think

such a stupid thing, because you wasn't there to experience

the magistry. You know why you wonder a man was God? Really?

They been in that night, brother Philip, through a back

door open and the spirit of God come in and

you could question a miracle like that because you didn't

experience the majesty and don't get this this morning.

They mean you miss out or nothing.

The moons of God.

You'll find yourself powerent questioned. You wonder about it. You'll say,

did it really happened? Might have had to experience something

more than what they're putting their trust in. Might have

needed something better from God before I threw myself. That's

something so foolish. Oh God, you hear something the pastor

said over the airways. They been praised God, and you say,

maybe maybe I shouldn't. Am I trusting it. I've got

to research it. But if you'd have been in the

midst of.

God was holding it up, you set up through.

Your heart across the finish side.

And pursue God's correction.

My God, what sundayed on a Sunday is another look

at his torn body, another realization of the price that

was paid.

It was for the redemption of sins. Praise God.

And I remember it wasn't exactly on a Sunday when

I saw it. It wasn't exactly on a Sunday morning,

Hey man, Praise God. It was a Thursday morning service. Amen,

And I can remember. The current experience I enjoy with

God stemms from nothing that I hadn't had prior experiences,

and nothing that I still don't have experiences with Jesus.

But when I I'm telling you, his one experience, one

face to face encounter, took all my questions away and

left me with total trust and belief in the Savior.

They've been praised God. I remember, they been God doing

wonderful work.

Amen.

Brother Philip can remember, Amen, I believe he tells it.

Looking into the sky one night a man asked the church, Amen,

was praying and door find God, and he was being

obedient to the revelation of God. They ben, Brother Philip,

what you saw might have been some sky and some

stars before you faded.

Amen. But I dare say, if you look far enough,

if we are mortalize could have.

Seen they man, there have been a Jesus standing on

the right hand of God to the morning.

You see these stripes you see when I bought for him.

What brother Philip found, Amen, was another look at Christ.

What brother Philip pound wasn't encounter with Jesus when he

showed him they been the truth of wooded Boy. There's

such a healing the truth of Woody Boy. They been

for such an appeal to we been when we needed

God to move wmen? What are you trying to say

this morning?

I'm telling you they may on a Sunday morning, a

Sunday night, of a Wednesday night, you can see Jesus Ageana.

You can find a church the tip and me.

He is still ever a president that the label prased out,

all powerful, and he's still available to all of those

that are looking for him. They've been looking for Here

is a appearing on wing. Where does he appear at today?

In his half? Where is he peer at today on

a Wednesday.

Night with the prince? How does he appear to you?

In a prayer crossing? When I was looking for him,

I went there with expectations to see.

I went there with out her.

I went there with questions.

Oh, with one.

Account, with God answered it all. I'm trying to hurry.

The Bible tells that he walked through closed doors on

a Sunday morning, the best the hold of his church

never saw glass doors swing open. We never saw him

enter the men As a sister succumbed to what appeared

to be that appointed time.

Amen, But Jesus did.

Shoot.

Hey, I thought about We never saw you, amen, blow

the doors open the man. We never saw the Prince

God the form of his visit, Jamn. We never saw

all the sheep n outline of Jesus Christ.

But we saw the manifestations of his power that left

all in the building with.

No questions out of the fact that God had just

raised one that was.

Dead back to life.

We've been sure they there have questions. A friend promised

you too. That's what I'm getting out this morning. They

been one side of this message he is. You keep

telling your testimony, Peter. You keep telling him, Tarna, you

keep telling.

That world out there, you good things of God.

They may have questions, and they may ha telled they,

but it's just because they ain't looked on him. It's

just because they ain't seen her from e relation.

That was power.

It's just because they didn't experience the glory of his majesty.

We he walked in and writing the situation. We he

walked in and mood on his children's behalf. They looked

under the heels and there was his appearing. They quiet

under him that night, and oh God, was there and

when they were hurting her, but night they called on him.

Ain't not understanding in the world, but the same girl.

But we know Jesus, and there's a life and well

and still moving the first children, still working in the midst.

Still appearing under them. They are doing wonders. Don't let

them stuff you from telling them.

I've seen Jesus. I've seen him on Sunday. God, I've

seen him all Sunday.

And then now the latter part of verse twenty, as

we can get further into this, then where.

The disciples glad when they saw the Lord, My God,

there's someone preaching here.

And then I had to try to say, Lord, what

do I say? And not say why are they suffering

out there in the world, Mother Jeremiah, why don't.

They have joy?

It's all right here, It's in this little portion of scripture,

My God. All they needs one encounter with Jesus. All

they needs one encountered with the lawyer.

When you want to know why you.

Ain't having the joy of the Lord when he ain't

to stranger you feeling weak in your faith, you ain't

seen Jesus.

Slavely, you want to know why you're missing something? You

need to see him again.

You need to go look again.

You need another in tower with God.

You need to say the lawyer, we feel yourself to

man like yeah, shoot heading ever out.

Didn't whether the side was glad when.

They saw the Lord.

Oh God, Amen man Man. I enjoyed reading list and

sent so much off of it, and I Where's God?

I hope I'm not boring you.

I'm trying to preach doctrine for you, though this morning

I feel like everything I'm saying is rude. Got here

they've been in chapter number twenty, they've been. The God

is speaking in us through these verses. They been is

a parodymen, there's a reason he recorded it, Ayim. In

this way, John believed in his duty, his power, and

his lordship.

You know why they're losing their joy? They haven't been.

They been in a good old fashioned hold the ghost

devil chasing Amen, he'll stomping.

They've been service in a while. It's the truth. You

want to know why the Baptist thank God. What you've

got truth is it ain't sorry for a while.

Of what.

You want to know why they're letting up on their.

Standards and they're losing their strength to stand truth is

he ain't been.

In that house, and why he ain't been there in

the why and then because if they had questions on

the standards.

They been, if they were in the House of God

where he appeared, he would have answered those questions on

a Sunday morning and Sunday night.

On Wednesday night. Now, may bet you want to know

why some of them do have the street they used

to hal may bet they.

Don't even have Wednesday night or Sunday night services anymore.

They when they forsaken it outin't giving it up. What

are they giving up, brother Calebus the truth?

They give it up encounters with God?

What are you giving up?

You're giving up an encounter with the Son of God.

You're giving up an experience of shit God, we're feeling

his presence. What's in really worth to experience his presence

of Oh, your family members, they don't think it's worth much.

But those of you that know what he looks like

and what he's able to tell even sacrifice the service.

All even that they experience in a lifetime.

In verse twenty one, we find the commissioning and a

clear proclamation of purpose. Then said Jesus under them peace

beyonder you as my father had sent me.

Even so I send you.

You know, life sometimes can't feel him like it's what

it needs to be. Without purpose, the world so often

says why am I hearing?

What am I here?

For?

Jesus will answer those kinds of questions on a Sunday morning.

Jesus will answer those questions. They been in a wonderful service.

It mean like we had this morning and where he said, Hey,

the world isn't your purpose, don't get adjusted to it.

And men still think on heavenly things.

And when we find a commissioning and a clear proclamation

of purpose, you will never live a full life without

purpose and direction.

And Jesus will give.

You both the man verse twenty two.

And when he had said this, he breathed on them

and said, under them, receive ye the Holy Ghost. I mean,

he gives a promise that he will give them the

gift of the Holy Ghost. It gives a commandment under them, aymen,

In what he was commanding is the nature of man.

They been in the nature of man. You are now

able to receive My God. If you're get this this morning.

Those out there in the world may not understand why

and then they can't get what you have.

What they need is a God from.

Heaven to come down and speak of that nature and

make all things new the man, make all things change

and make them Amen a vessela amen that is able

to may man that is acceptable to receive the glimmers

of God. He spoke under them, receive you the holy cursor,

that man. He said under them, I'm gonna give you

they been what you need. I'm gonna make you eligible.

For what I had promised you. Wan what happens in revivals,

and then God comes by and sanctifies they man.

It cleanses that all sitful what nature they man, and

those that couldn't receive it by the water.

Those that didn't have but they needed.

Inside to receive such a cur and Holy God, and

holy dear to you.

May been.

God speaks under that nature and say, Amen, I cleanse you.

I forgive you of your seant aymen, I purify you.

I work in your life.

And now you're able to up.

Oh, go ahead, and maya go ahead, and nature go ahead.

Reborn creature and received the character and the promise of God.

Now he takes the very unique.

Also in verse twenty two, he takes the very unique

and distinct action taken at the beginning. The Bible says

he breathed on them. He breathed on the pride of Christ.

He just as in Genesis too and seven, when he

breathed life into humanity. God breathe the very breath of life. Amen,

into that budding and blossoming.

They been knew.

They've been coming into that buddy in blossoming God, they

been knew. And then relationship with humanity. They he changed

the nature. They made a blood sacrifice to her.

Now I am the water and the only way.

He breathed old Dimo and made themn Amen some water

may been they could walk in newness of vital The

Bible said, we were deed.

With trespassers and sea. We have been wanting you need

on a Sunday morninga sun needer. We've been God to

breathe her on that old pet nature. They made a

throw away with those simple appatiter threw away with those pains.

They strug over.

Wait what you need on a Sunday, Mornia. This is

a birth of parlor. To go through this piano, we

met to go through this building. When to go through

your inner court horse. We've been creating the news, creating

a writer, restoring and making right. They when he breathed

on Damner, it watched the breath of life. They washed

through life.

He said, I am the ways come on, and then

you want to look the town? I agree? Or just

get takes you do would be a new question because

our ship. Should you go just to stir away and get.

The bunting you up and then or hate you? You

used to lie. That's your house. Somebody get down.

Pay.

You say it couldn't happen. You just ain't see it coming.

You say it couldn't happen on a Sunday morning.

For me and I transform.

I never struggle with that Ideain you just ain't seen it.

You just can see it.

Well, He's ready to.

Do it for all of those and William, I mean.

He still be life into the spiritually dead and causing

them to be.

Or a living soul, showing them how to live in him,

how to move in him, and how they're very being.

Their very existence.

You call amen from existing under the lust of the flesh,

shall wait. Man. You can't do it on your own.

You can change your appetites on your own. What you

need is to meet Jesus Thomas. And what you need

is to let him answer your questions.

What you need to be.

He's a faintable when her pears. Are you abbaiinable this

morning enough? Or you off somewhere else in your minds?

Are you available for him to walk heut? Or are

you not concentrating on the back he's walking up and

down the aisles of seeing bolder. They've been the brothers

and the sisters. They've been moving, but I've yet holding by.

I've getten the sea. I'm getting experience. They've been Him

in my life. I got I know.

I can't cram everything. We have seen God doing a

church service in one message and it maintained its message.

I can't cram everything I'd love to say we've seen

happen at bething.

I mean one message. They they've been something that still.

Has They've been a message going forth and just be.

A mumble they man a jumble message if I tried

to do it the man, but God, they've been pointed.

Out specific things to be in this verse of these verses.

Amen, and if you have traumas, they've been the simple

point of my message here a man is if Thomas

had been with them, he would.

Have experienced it. He wouldn't have left there with the

mindset he had from verse even in these verses what

is this verse twenty and.

Twenty four, He wouldn't have had that mindset if he

had been there in nineteen for twenty three year, he wouldn't.

Where are we at on Wednesday night, when God's preaching

is our mind off?

Are we in tomorrow?

Where will we meet tonight when Brother Jesse preaches the

word of God? Are we looking? Are we coming to

God God's house to have it encounter with him? We

are we coming to God's house to watch him work?

And I know those or those in those circumstances where

we all can, they been where some can't make it.

I'm not they have been trying to beat anybody over

the head this morning. I love you all dearly amen,

So don't andy, but.

Don't think I'm baseball bat in you this morning? Praise God.

The what do they call that?

The baton? Baton cages? They don't feel like with the

bat and cages this morning?

I know they been, but I still have to proclaim

the benefits and some day I still have to proclaim

for you, the benefits of church, the wonderful things we've

seen God do. On a Sunday morning, My God, I

told you a little bit of my story. Amen, Grace God.

I remember God.

Working on me. I stood right over there as Pastor

preach to meet. I'm pro tragedy. What I experienced was

peace beyond you, the family, Peace beyond me.

You may not feel like you're feeling it now, but

here's the thing, my peace I leave with you. It's

gonna go with you. I'm gonna walk with you.

I'm gonna be with you.

You're gonna have that assurance that they been my peace

I gave. I'm to you, Amen. And what I've given you,

the world can't take it away. It's yours. It's your treasure.

You hold on through Where I got it? Where'd I

keet it do?

I got it on a Sunday morning in God's house

when He revealed himself to me through the words, When

God spoke to me what I needed in that moment

of die and man diere straits. And into that moment,

I was hungry. I was needing God to answer questions.

Amen.

And God came to me, May man not that I

questioned my salvation or anything like that. But we always say, Laura,

I'd like to know why the man and if.

You'd like to tell me, Amen, I he might make life.

He's from me. He knows all things. He may know

my non other Amen.

In that instance, he spoke to me and said, Amen,

those things I've got you back.

I'm with you.

I came to church and man, let me let me

summarize verse them, which wee just twenty three because of

what the spirit's been saying to the churches.

If I could a very interesting verse.

What's whoever sins he re meant, they are remended unto them,

and whosoever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Amen. If you really look into.

This, it doesn't mean that I can tell brother Jesse,

I'm forgiving your sins like a pope would.

And it doesn't mean I'm gonna.

Tell Brother Samuel you're guilty of this now God's holding

the account. Or do something you never committed, what it

empowered the believer to do. They stand on Jesus's behalf

and say that is sin. They say judging on that,

you be not judged. Friend, that is something you can

stand on. He said, those that are committing sin, you

remit it to him. You tell them you're doing wrong.

The Bible said so, And I got the authority to

tell you God said you're doing wrong. And for those

that come amen distraught that you know, half repent, the

pastor can say, I mean God's never God don't remember.

God don't know what you're talking about.

I mean the ability to say, under those that need comforting,

God's word says, and the ability to those that need

conviction to say, the Bible says, you better change. And

then Jesus gave us that authority here in verse twenty three.

He gave us the ability to say, under this old,

dying world without his amen physical presence, say to the Pharisees, they, man, you're.

A bunch of dead. They've been tried up. Seffulckers the man.

Now Peter and John can both the standing brother of

them and say, you crucified the son of God. You're

gonna bust hell wide open for your actions. They men,

we have the right to stand on the word of God.

When they transgress it and say, you know you're doing wrong,

and God's word holds you accountable.

Man, I'll right the check. And then God gave it

to me. I'll write the check and tell you. If

you're a liar, you're going to hell. I'll write to

check or tell you maybe if you're committing these sins

they've been written. Amen, Corinthians and Galatians, you're on your

way to a devil's hell.

But such for some of you mayben.

But to your loster and all of those that got

forgiveness for these sins of you no longer.

Have to worry about.

But God send it to you to hell.

Over the transgressions of your pastor they've been for God

that's given you.

They've been forgiveness of it.

My God.

Yeah, I mean I ain't closing Hebrews ten and twenty

six twenty five.

You know what I gotta read it.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.

That's the manner of souls such as tough to see this,

but exhorting one another, and so much the more as

you see the day at truly, so no longer see

the value.

Amen. In Wednesday night and Sunday services. Amen. A matter

of fact, a lot of the big megachurches reach me.

Why it's they'm the same.

To say we don't need it because they don't want

to have to broadcast the Wednesday crowd. They don't want

to have to broadcast the Sunday night crowd because they

run five hundred on Sunday morning and fifty on Wednesday.

So where's the problem. Because some are forsaken the assembly

of their selves together. Well let's stand this morning, andy Man.

Something no longer see its value, some no longer see

its effect. Remember, brother Jesse, if you come get us

song this morning, all I can tell you is they man,

it looks simply at what God done in one service.

What we saw, in essence, you could say, was the

first church service they'd been at the new Bride of Christ.

Jesus arose on Sunday morning and went and had church

my God, and he did all of this that we've

talked about in one service.

And then don't end up with Thomas making foolish statements

because you wasn't there to see the true value.

He wasn't there experienced the true majesty.

And then he put on a very he put a

very dangerous qualifiers have already said on his belief and

trust in Jesus because he wasn't present for his revelation

and when these altars are open, Amen, and I want

to read under you praise God again the latter part

here and then.

But Thomas, one of the twelve called Titimus, was not

with them when Jesus came a man.

Now this fary thing here in verse number twenty six,

he said, And after they again, his disciples.

Were with him, and Thomas with them.

Then came Jesus, the man on the door being shut,

and stood in the lift and said, peace be under you.

To me.

Thomas went eight days es, eight days with his wonder,

eight days with what do I do?

Eight days with doubt?

Man, what if you were left? They been in Thomas's shoes,

You missed the servants. God spoke to you. And it

was eight days, or it was eight weeks. There, it

was eight months, and it was eight years before he

came by him and revealed himself in the manner.

And measure that you needed. They meant, they meant soothe

your DAWs and called your fears.

Imagine eight days with questions because he missed one Sunday service.

I love Church, I love you, and I love Jesus.

I mean in verse number thirty one said, but these

are written that you may they in burt backing up

here verse thirty. Many other signs that jee aymen, truly

get Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are

not written in this book, but these are written that

you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son

of God, and that believing you may have life through

his name, truly God would do. That has done much

more than.

What I was able to cover. Amen, And what I

pray was the brief sermon. Amen, I lost track of

time and been God.

Is able to help you and move if you don't

want to come to the office this morning, I know

Jesus is here.

He's willing to mado ben himself. They been available to you.

He is here walking up.

And down these houles. And he said where two and three.

Are gathered together? And there would I be in the

mythst that we saw the first assembly.

A man of ten in the court with Luke's and friends.

Amen, if Jesus revealed himself undo them as he promised. Amen, friend,

my treasure, your friendship, our treasure, your church attendants, and

then our treasure, the ability to have an encounter when

Jesus tries and watch him work and then where will

you be, Thomas, will you be in attendance? I know

Peter was there and he didn't have the questions. Oh God,

that we will let the Lord work in our lives

this morning and answer our questions.

But God has come in the midst He will offer.

Peace to those that need it. He will offer purpose

to those that need it. He will offer promise to those.

That need it.

He will offer recreation power to those that need reconstructive

and creative.

Power that need to be new creatures in Christ Jesus

off on a Sunday morning through the power.

Of his name, and then the wondrous even works of

his presence. I mean, let's pray this morning. They may

be thinking about his presents.

Yeah, look