Early One Sunday Morning | Matthew 28:1-7 | Pastor Walter Bowers Jr.

Thank you, god, for looking at my life and knowing that on my journey sometimes I would do the wrong thing with the wrong people but yet you still agree.

Thank you, god for looking at my life and knowing that for a couple of years I questioned your existence, but in spite of that, you agree.

Thank, you God, but in spite of that, you agree.

Thank you God.

That when I gave up on you you agreed not to give up on me.

Thank you, God.

It has been spoken.

It has been spoken, it has been decreed and declared that some souls will be revived on today so.

I thank you For what you are already doing and what's about to happen.

In our eyes, God, we're still a church that believes in miracles, signs and wonders.

Show yourself mighty.

Today it's your day Lord, so you might as well.

Just show up I thank you, god, because you already have For our prayers.

Just to ask you to show out again when it's all said and done.

We'll be careful to give you a name.

All the glory, all the honor, all the praise.

It's in the power of the name of Jesus.

We pray that Jesus God say amen, amen, amen To God be the glory to God be the glory to God.

Be the glory, hallelujah.

Listen, family.

Before we jump into the word of the Lord, there is something that is uber critical.

That has to happen whenever you come into the house of God.

Ready is real deep.

Here it is.

You got to say hello to people, all right, so let's do that.

It's important.

I know we deep, but it don't matter.

What we got to do is take about 20 seconds and just say hello to somebody that didn't come to you.

Just show some love, right, quick.

Just wave your hands in the air, throw them a pound.

You know what I'm saying.

You ain't got to move far.

You can stand up if you want to, but we just got to fellowship.

Yeah, yeah, there's power in our fellowship, hallelujah.

There's unity in our fellowship.

There's healing in our fellowship.

What's up, y'all?

What's up?

What's up, what's up, what's up?

Amen, amen, hallelujah, hallelujah.

And as we are passing the peace, I'm going to ask some of my clergy, some of the clergy there are some empty seats up here If some of our, our clergy, y'all, can move up front or move down here's some seats down here.

You know why.

Last thing you want to do is come to church on eastern and make you sit by the pastor so some of the clergy y'all can come move up and some seats up here.

I appreciate y'all.

Those that can.

Everybody can't, but those that can we.

Good amen.

We got a few seats up here.

We want to make sure we.

Good Amen To God.

Be the glory To God.

Be the glory, listen, family.

Matthew 28 is our guide today.

We honor all of our guests.

Chosen City, let's make some noise for all of our guests today.

Hallelujah, chosen City.

Let's make some noise for all of our guests today.

Hallelujah.

Make some noise for yourself because you're still here.

Amen, amen.

It is our custom to stand and read the word of God together.

It helps us to remember what God is saying better, but it's also a show of force against the things that we may be dealing with.

Matthew 28, verse 1 through 10.

Matthew 28:1–10

Ready set read.

Early on Sunday morning, as the new day was dawning, mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to visit the tomb.

Suddenly, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, rolled aside the stone and sat on it.

His face shone like lightning and his clothing was as white as snow.

The guards shook with fear when they saw him and they fell into a dead faint.

Then the angel spoke to the women.

Don't be afraid.

He said.

I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified.

He isn't here.

He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen.

Come see where his body was lying and now go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead and he is going ahead of you to Galilee.

You will see him there.

Remember what I have told you.

The women ran quickly from the tomb.

They were very frightened, but also filled with great joy, and they rushed to give the disciples the angel's message.

And as they went, jesus met them and greeted them and they ran to him, grasped his feet and worshiped him.

Then Jesus said to them Don't be afraid, Go tell my brothers to leave for Galilee and they will see me there.

And I would like to use as a sermon subject something you have never, ever heard before.

And I would like to use as a sermon subject something you have never, ever heard before.

Sermon subject today is simply this Early one Sunday morning, you may be seated in the presence of the Lord.

Amen, somebody caught it.

See, if you're from the old church, they judge your Easter sermon on how good you say early Sunday morning.

Then the old preacher have to say he died.

Then what y'all want to say, oh, we got a church today.

I'm looking forward to what God is about to say in this house.

According to the word of God, adam was the first human that the Lord created.

Eve was the first woman that the Lord created.

When he created them, he gave them rule over everything that was created over the earth, over all the creeping things, you name it, over the tilapia, over the steak, all everything you name it.

They were over it.

He gave them a simple instruction though Listen, there is one tree.

Don't touch it.

If you touch it you'll die.

Yes, lord, we won't touch it.

Now, y'all know how it is.

God could be blessing us, and we highly favor it.

And God asks you not to do just this one thing, and that's that one thing you make up in your mind and decide to do.

Well.

So far they're doing well.

And Eve encounters this serpent you may say a snake, if you will that had literally been overtaken by Satan.

Satan, working through the body of this snake, starts to whisper in Eve's ear hey, eve, looking good today.

You do know that there's a reason that the Lord doesn't want you to take a bite of that forbidden fruit, don't you?

No, I was wondering why.

But what's up, you do know, if you take a bite, you'll have the same knowledge that he has.

One of the things that's interesting about the tricks of the enemy it is a lie, but it's mixed in with some truth.

You see, he wasn't lying completely, because at the time, adam and Eve had no knowledge of good and evil.

They had no knowledge that there could be a thing called sin.

So he wasn't lying completely, but everything is not for us.

If God says don't touch it, eve listens to what the serpent has to say.

Now, adam, in my mind, was somewhere minding his own business, doing the right thing.

Perhaps at a marriage conference we could discuss did it go down because of Eve or did it go down because of Adam?

All I know is that thank you, Pastor Chris.

Adam, all I know is that thank you, pass, chris.

All I know is that Adam, when that the initial conversation, he come home hey babe, what's up?

How was your day?

It was good I.

I met this little creature, nice, he crawl and stuff he was.

He was telling me that we take a bite of this fruit you talk about the one that Lord told us not to touch.

Yeah, but he said, if we bite it, we'll have the same knowledge that he has.

I don't know what happened.

Who thought it was Pastor Chris.

All I know is that the Bible says that Adam fell as he listened to his wife.

That's what the Bible said.

I'm just saying he listened to his wife, he takes a bite and it's at that moment that everything shifts, that everything shifts, because many times we think it's something heavy and deep that knocks us off the plan that God has for our life.

But the raw and the real is is usually something simple.

It was one bite from a forbidden fruit that changed the entire course of humanity.

What do you do when one simple thing has changed the whole course of your life?

One bad decision late at night, one bad decision on the job, one last inbox message you should not have responded to, amen, somebody.

One text that you just should have deleted.

But you said when they sent you W-Y-D, you said I'm just chilling-Y-D.

You said I'm just chilling, and if you could turn back the hands of time?

But I want to encourage you today that God is always ahead of us and he's fully aware that we're going to have one moment in time that we wish we could turn back the hands of time.

And because God already knows he already has a plan, that would be good news, elder David, that he knows he already got a plan.

The Bible says that God did not have to figure out how he was going to solve the sin issue because now he understood that sin, because it entered Adam and Eve, it would trickle down through all of us.

And so in Genesis, the third chapter, verse 15 through 17,.

We have what is referred to as the first messianic prophecy.

It's a prophecy of the Messiah.

He said listen, here's the plan.

I had it on the shelf, I was waiting.

I am going to send salvation through this same woman who fell through her lineage, through her birthing canal I'm going to divinity will be wrapped in dust, a baby shall be born, and this baby will be 100% God and 100% human, and he will be the savior of the world.

Here's the problem.

In order to save the world, he will defeat the enemy.

That's good news.

The enemy is defeated, but he would be wounded in the process.

The enemy would be defeated, but he would be wounded in the process.

That's what God said.

Isaiah 53 gives us the story and I want you to read a little bit of Isaiah 53.

You should read this often, and certainly at this time of the year.

Isaiah 53, you should read this often, and certainly at this time of the year.

Isaiah 53, who has believed our message?

This is a prophetic utterance from Isaiah, 700 years before the Messiah would be born.

Who has believed our message?

To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?

Verse 2, there we go.

My servant grew up in the Lord's presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground.

There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.

He was despised and rejected.

A man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.

This is 700 years before he was born.

Family, we turned our backs on him and looked the other way Can you imagine preaching this?

And everybody like what are you talking about?

He was despised and we did not care.

Yet everybody say.

Yet it was our weaknesses he carried, it was our sorrows that weighed him down and we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins.

But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for sins.

He was beaten so we could be whole.

He was whipped so we could be healed.

All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.

We have left God's path to follow our own.

Yet the Lord, somebody say.

Yet the Lord Laid on him the sins of us all.

He was oppressed and harshly treated, and treated harshly, yet he never said a word.

He was led like a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep is silent before the shearers.

He did not open his mouth.

Unjustly condemned, he was led away.

No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream, 700 years before he was born, y'all.

But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people.

He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone, but he was buried like a criminal.

He was put in a rich man's grave.

I need y'all to understand that prophecy is real, prophesied 700 years before, and evidence and archaeology lets us know today that the grave that jesus was buried in was did not belong to him verse 10 but it was the lord's good plan to crush him and cause him grief.

Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants, he will enjoy a long life and the Lord's good plan will prosper in his hands.

Two more verses when he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied.

And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible.

Watch this this is us y'all.

For many to be counted righteous.

For the folk in Charlotte, north Carolina, to be counted righteous.

I got my crew from Alabama for the they can't to be counted righteous.

For the folk that have done everything other than what God has called you to do to be counted righteous For the folk that God blessed you with that good government job.

God blessed you with that good career.

God blessed you with that business, but you forgot about it.

But he said yet you can be counted righteous.

Why?

Why?

For he will bear all their sins.

Last verse Hallelujah.

I will give him honors of a victorious soldier.

Why?

Because he exposed himself to death.

He was counted among the rebels.

He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels, those of us that rebelled against God.

Isaiah 53 lets you know that God knew that you was going to give up.

God knew that you would turn just a little bit.

But his plan for you is so great that he sent you here on today, whether you're on the stream or in the house.

He sent you here on today.

Now I know you came because your cousin go here or you know you got you dating somebody new and you want to impress them and stuff you.

You've been reading the Bible upside down all day.

It's cool, I'll be a silly y'all, but seriously, he brought you here because he has a plan for you.

It's not about tradition and not just because you're not God in this season is not.

He's never really worked in happenstance.

He didn't work.

In coincidence, you are here because there is something he needs you to hear and I pray that you can experience it and receive it.

And the Lord wants you to understand that on today, he's calling for each and every one of us to have a early Sunday morning experience.

Yeah, early Sunday morning experience.

Yeah, today is already started, but before you leave here, you will have an early Sunday morning experience.

How do I know, pastor Walt?

Well, the first way I know is that, as simple as this, it is your time to be used.

Somebody say it's my time, this is my time.

Someone say it like you mean it's my time.

Matthew 28, verse 1,.

Matthew 28:1

Early on Sunday morning, as the due day was dawning, mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to visit the tomb.

This is very interesting because what God is showing us is that early Sunday morning represents chronos time the time that we use on our watch, the time that we use to wake up in the morning.

That's human system of time.

But the God that we serve said when I talked about early Sunday morning, I wasn't talking about was it five in the morning or was it six in the morning, he was talking about Cairo's time.

That's God's time.

God's time does not, is not restrained by the clock.

God's time is not restrained by our calendar.

God operates outside of time.

Amen, pastor Keith.

Wherever you at, god operates out of the time.

It's the best news that you could ever hear.

You know why?

Because since God operates outside of time, that means that it's never too late for you.

Isn't that amazing?

Some of you come in because you keep telling yourself I wish I had have done X at that time.

But God said you keep forgetting, I operate outside of time.

It ain't too late for you.

Listen, my grandma on my father's side, she was in her late 60s when she got married and got her a good husband.

It wasn't too late for my grandma.

There are some entrepreneurs in the house.

You retire from one job but it's not too late for you to go ahead and go ahead and start and do what God is never too late.

It's some of you to have some spiritual gifts and you've been sitting on them gifts for the last 30 years.

But God is saying it's not too late.

Somebody says it's not too late for me because the God I serve, he ain't worried about the time on the clock.

So when you look at early one Sunday morning, you, you're talking about God saying now it's my time.

And in this text what he was saying to Mary and Mary, mary Magdalene and the other Mary, that it was their time.

What do you mean?

It was interesting that these two women would be the first to proclaim the gospel message At a time when women were thought to be less than, at a time when women did not have rights, at a time when a woman's value was based on the husband that she was married to or the brother that she had in her life.

And if she didn't have a husband, if she didn't have a brother, she was a widow and she was treated lesser than it was so much of a problem that Jesus took time in several of his sermons to remind people of the importance of taking care of widows at that time, because women were thought to be lesser than because people were ignorant and didn't know any better.

But God, in his infinite wisdom, said no for this testimony, for this assignment.

I'm not going to call on David for this testimony, for this assignment.

I'm not going to call on Abraham For this one.

Peter is a bad boy, he carry a switchblade.

Peter is a bad boy, he bout that life.

But for this one I'm not going to call Peter.

This time I'm going to call on two sisters, mary of Magdalene and the other, that the reason God has you here on today is because it's your time to do something that only you can do.

Amen.

Your uncle, that's the bishop, he can't do this one.

That prophet that's kept the whole family together, she kept y'all together, but she can't do this one.

It's your time, and the longer you delay doing what only you can do, the longer your family gonna stay in turmoil.

The longer you delay doing what you supposed to do, the longer you gonna say depressed.

The longer you delay doing what you are supposed to do, the longer you delay doing what you are supposed to do, the longer you're going to stay.

Turning to substance abuse to take the pain away.

Y'all know anything about people that deal with issues of substance abuse.

They are excellent people, but they're just like me and you, with a slight difference.

They've turned to something on the outside trying to fix something on the inside, and we have turned to something on the outside trying to fix something on the inside, and we have turned to something on the inside trying to fix something that's going on on the outside.

I want to talk to somebody in the house of God and say that only God can fix it and he wants to fix it.

How is he going to fix it?

Pastor Walt, since it's up to me, since it's your time, to be used by God, the second thing that you got to know is that, since it's your time, there has to be a shaking.

There has to be a shake up.

Watch verse 2 carefully.

Suddenly, everybody say suddenly, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, rolled aside the stone and sat on it.

In the Bible, when God would get ready to move, every now and then he would shake up the ground.

When God had told Moses to lead the people of God to the promised land and some of the people in the crowd started talking sideways at Moses, korah being one of them got a group of people together and said Moses, you ain't the leader, I could do it better than you.

The Bible says that there was a shaking.

That happened and the earth opened up and all the people that came against God's man fell into the ground.

I want to remind you in the Bible that every time God gets ready to move, there's a whole lot of shaking going on.

May I suggest to remind you in the Bible that every time God gets ready to move, there's a whole lot of shaking going on.

May I suggest to you that some things that are happening in your life are not because God is against you.

He's just saying I got to shake some stuff up.

Do you not realize that sometimes the reason that you went through what you went through is literally God saying I got to shake some stuff loose?

It's literally God saying I got to shake some stuff loose.

The plain reason that you went through it is God has said I got to send an earthquake into your life because you need to let go of something you've been holding on to way too long.

Every time God gets ready to move, there's a whole lot of shaking going on.

And can I talk to somebody and tell you, don't be afraid of the earthquake.

You see this shaking that you're experiencing, this thing that has turned your whole life upside down, this thing that has got you frustrated and confused.

You don't have to feel fearful about it, because what God is doing is he's getting you prepared for the very work that he has called you to do.

Well, if you don't believe me, watch the text.

Because he sent an earthquake and the goal of the earthquake was to roll the stone away.

I got some good news on this early Sunday morning.

I've been praying and I see it in the spirit that, for everybody that can receive it, sometimes God shows you stuff and it's for a few, but for everybody who can receive it.

Sometimes God show you stuff and it's for a few, but for everybody who can receive this by faith.

Before you leave here today, the Lord is going to start rolling the stone away.

That's the word of God.

He says because I need you to experience an early Sunday morning, because it is your time to be used.

I got to send this earthquake so I can roll the stone away.

You got to roll the stone away so that you can do what See his face.

You want to experience an early Sunday morning.

It's because God wants to use you.

It's because he's going to shake some stuff up.

Why?

So that you can see his face.

Here's the text the angels talking to Mary and Martha was telling them what they saw when Jesus defeated the grave.

His face shone like lightning and his clothing was as white as snow.

The Bible talks a lot about the face of God.

It tells us that no man could see his face and live, but it also is described.

His face is described as an encounter with God, a person close enough encounter with God.

Y'all know this amazing man of God right here.

He's an amazing man of God.

He does a lot of our camera ministry Y'all get.

Can y'all see me over here?

Can y'all get the camera over here?

I did have a peppermint today, man of God, but I want you to see something, man of God.

What God is saying to everybody in here and I know you had to be the example is that he's saying that I need to get into the face of all of these women and men and children in here, because the closer I get, you can't see what's going on to the left or to the right.

You don't even see what's about to happen to you.

You ain't worried about it, because I'm like, keep your eyes right here, keep your eyes right here.

Yeah, he said, when you get in the water, don't look to the left, only to the right.

Keep your eyes right here.

And if I got to get closer, I got to get closer, no matter what I got to do.

But we coming out of this thing because you got to see my face, ezekiel.

Ezekiel, watch this one verse about the face of God 39, 29.

Man of God.

Ezekiel 39, 29 says this that I shall no longer hide my face from my people.

Ezekiel 33, verse 29, says that I shall pour out my spirit on all flesh.

Ezekiel 33:29

Isn't that good news, god?

I said I'm not hiding my face from you.

My will for your life is not lost.

How can I?

Why would I hide my will for you?

Because if I hide my will, you'll never understand the assignment that I have for your life.

So he says I'm going to get up real, close and personal so you can experience my face.

How do we experience the face of God?

We have to surrender.

We got to focus, we got to let God in and we got to let God have his way.

I want to do something right, quick, to help us to experience the face of God, without any music, without any clapping.

I just want everybody in the house of God to lift up your hands.

You see, in combat, in warfare, when a person lifts up their hands, it's a sign and a showing of what Surrender.

So God said if you want to see my face, surrender.

Don't put me in front of your career, surrender.

Put me in front of your relationships, surrender.

Put me in front of your agenda, surrender.

I need some people in the house of God that don't mind saying it from your heart Now.

Don't say it if you don't mean it, but I need some people in the house of God that say God I surrender.

Oh yeah, you can say it like you mean it.

I surrender all to thee, my blessed Savior.

I surrender all.

When you pray like that, when you move like that, when you move like that, you suddenly start to encounter God in a special, special, special way.

It's your time to be used by God.

There has to be a shaking so that you can see his face.

Why is it important to see his face?

It's important so that you can see his face.

Why is it important to see his face?

It's important so that strongholds will die.

Matthew 28, verse 4.

Matthew 28:4

Watch what's happening at resurrection.

On this early Sunday morning, the angels still testify, and when the angels, when the enemy, the adversary, saw the face of God in its full glory, they shook with fear and they fell into a dead faith.

Jesus was in a stronghold.

A stronghold is a fixed position.

It is something that is built to defend against a determined enemy.

It's a fixed position.

It may consist of a trench.

It may consist of a fortified barrier.

It may consist of concealment and cover.

It is a fixed.

It's a stronghold saying that this is where we stand and this is where we fight and this is where we die.

They thought they had Jesus in a stronghold.

Think about it.

They put him in a grave that was at least this deep I've never visited.

Some of you may have the site that they believe, but it was deep enough for a man of average height to be able to lay out straight.

It was deep enough for a man of average height to be able to lay out straight.

It was deep.

Not only was he in this deep tomb, they decided to roll a stone so large that it took several men to roll it to put it in front of the tomb.

He was in a stronghold, but when the enemy is determined to keep you down, the enemy go all the way in.

They said that wasn't good enough.

I need two special forces soldiers to stand guard all night and all day, because the word on the street was that something might be happening in about three days and we don't believe it.

But it's amazing what the enemies say.

They don't believe, but they prepare.

You know how many folks say they didn't believe you, but they keep following you on social media to see if the you.

But they keep following you on social media to see if the business open.

They keep following you on social media to see if y'all still together.

They say they don't believe it, but why you still watching me?

He's in a tomb.

You got a stone.

You got special forces soldiers and legions of Roman soldiers down the street.

I don't know why they're down the street, since they don't believe, but nevertheless they're there.

But when Jesus is resurrected by the Father and the glory of the Lord rises upon him, it is so powerful that the stone rolls away and the special forces soldiers fall into a dead faint.

May I suggest to you on this early Sunday morning, I hear the Lord saying that what is happening for you in this moment is God is breaking the stronghold through the power of his glory.

That's why we had to worship the way that we worship, because some of you came in with a stronghold, something that's been trying to either keep you in or keep you out.

But the glory of the Lord breaks strongholds.

That's why we come into his house and lift him up, because the glory of the Lord breaks chains.

That's why we come in and we pray and we cry and we fast, because we believe in the power of God to shift your life.

I need everybody in the house that believes in God's power to do it, and to do it right now, just simply declaring this atmosphere, lord, do it.

And to do it right now.

Just simply declaring this atmosphere, lord, do it.

Oh, we got enough folk in the house, because all god said is it takes just a few.

Gathered in my name.

There I am also, and I'm gonna be honest with you.

I know for a fact that there are some people that are coming to the house of god with some strongholds that God is saying hear this, listen, the glory has opened, rolled the stone away and you can walk out.

But the reason that you remain in the dead place, the reason you are still in the tomb, is because you have not allowed me to break whatever is keeping you bound.

Every time you come to church, it's as if God has rolled a stone away, but for some of us, you leave out of church and you go back into your tomb, but I hear the Lord say haven't you been in the tomb long enough?

Haven't you been crying long enough?

Haven't you been struggling long enough?

Haven't you been unhappy long enough?

Haven't you been disappointed long enough?

Haven't you been broke long enough?

Haven't you been unhappy long enough?

Haven't you been disappointed long enough?

Haven't you been broke long enough?

Haven't you been dealing with this stuff long enough?

Haven't you had headaches and migraines long enough?

Haven't you been in the storm too long long enough?

I need some people in the house of God that believe God to say you know what.

I've been where I am long enough and I believe god to be able to break this stronghold.

I, I feel a breaking about to happen in this place.

You know why?

Because I I prayed for this breaking.

I I said it's folks that are coming from near and far god.

But we didn't come for church as ordinary.

We came for folks to experience a breakthrough.

We came for folks to experience a come out for somebody.

Today is Easter, but you'll never forget this early Sunday morning because it's the Sunday that God broke you out of it and you never went back to it.

It's the Sunday where you got back to it.

It's the Sunday where you got your joy back.

It's the Sunday where your family got back together.

It's the Sunday where God took the pain away.

It's the Sunday where you realize that our God is still holding a waystone.

How do you know, pastor Walt?

Why?

Because on this early Sunday morning, it's time for you to be used by the Lord.

On this early Sunday morning, it's time for you to be used by the Lord.

He's shaking some stuff up in your life so he can get you in his face.

That's why he's breaking the strongholds here.

It is so that now you can experience a resurrection.

Verse 5 and 6.

The angel spoke to the woman.

Don't be afraid.

He said.

Can I talk to somebody right there who came in and remind you that God has not given us a spirit of fear?

I know you're afraid because of what you've been going through, but the angel, the angel is a messenger.

That's literally what the word means.

And if you allow me to be your messenger, today I hear the Lord saying Mama, don't be afraid, you got nothing to worry about.

Everything is going to be all right.

Sometimes, when you got a word for your own family, you can tell them at the dinner table.

But me and my mom, we live in a state of transparency.

That's how we help folks.

So, mama, don't be afraid.

And if my mom ain't afraid, that means guess what?

You ain't got to be afraid.

You ain't got to be afraid.

And if you ain't got to be afraid, guess what your children ain't got to be afraid.

And if your children ain't got to be afraid, then guess what your grandma ain't got to be afraid and the cousins ain't got to be afraid.

Fear not, because the Lord is with you.

Here it is in the text.

He says don't be afraid.

I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified.

He isn't here.

He is risen from the dead.

Dead just as he said would happen.

Somebody say just as he said he would.

Can I tell you that what god has said could turn you.

It will happen, just as he said it would.

Come see what's the message of the saying.

I got evidence.

Come see where the body was.

Laying.

Hold up right here on verse 6.

I feel something on the inside, pastor Young.

I've discovered something, montana.

Sometimes people won't believe because they are looking for evidence.

Sometimes people don't believe of the power of this old, rugged cross because they are looking for proof.

Sometimes we give up on God because we're looking for the facts.

But I want you to know that you don't have to look far to find evidence.

Matter of fact, most of us can look in the mirror.

You don't have to look far to find evidence.

There are testimonies all around Sister Montina she survived a cancer a couple of years ago that they didn't even have a prognosis and a cure for.

You don't have to look around to find evidence.

I know a couple of you who went through a nasty divorce but on the other side God has given you love again.

You don't have to look around for to find evidence.

I know some of you that have filed chapter 7 bankruptcy and they said with your credit, you never own a home, but your devil is a liar.

You just got the keys to y'all.

You don't have to look around to find evidence.

I know for a fact because I knew it in the spirit and was confirmed by a woman that came in and said she was going to take her life that week, but something in the worship service allowed her to hold on just a little while longer.

You don't have to look very far to find evidence.

You ought to tell somebody.

You ought to look at the place where they declared that it was over for me.

You ought to look at the place where they declared that my vision wasn't going to come to pass.

You ought to look at the place where everybody was laughing at me.

You ought to look at that place where everybody was mocking me.

You ought to look at that place where they had started reading my obituary, where everybody was mocking me.

You oughta look at that place where they had started reading my obituary.

You oughta look at that place where they had flowers on both sides.

You oughta look at that place where they had my best picture on the front of the picture here.

You oughta look at that place where my friends had gathered with my face on the t-shirt.

You ought to look at that place where my other friends who don't go to church they poured out a little liquor for my homie.

That wasn't here.

You ought to look at that place where they said that there was no tomorrow for me.

But see, something happened at the place that was supposed to be my burial.

You see, this was an unusual funeral.

You see, most times when you come into the funeral you start with the casket open.

But this was an unusual funeral.

They started my funeral and they started your funeral with the casket closed.

This was an unusual funeral.

Folks you ain't heard from in a long time All of a sudden came to see about you and really they didn't care about you.

They just wanted to confirm that you were dead.

This was an unusual future.

While you was asking for help with the business, none of them would show up, but for some strange reason, they put $25 on your flowers.

This is an unusual funeral.

They're around the grave crying.

They're around the casket crying, and they ain't even called a check on me when I was alive.

This is an unusual funeral.

Well, the pallbearer declared, since the casket has been closed the whole time, we might as well open that thing up and get one last.

Look at him.

It finally killed him.

It finally took him out.

The weight of being a pastor was too much.

The weight of being a father about took him down.

The weight of being a husband was too much.

The weight of trying to start a business made him lose his mind.

Y'all come take a look.

So what happened to him?

What happened to you?

Y'all come take a look.

You see, that's what happened when you're too ambitious.

That's what happened when you walk around crazy.

That's what happened when y'all walk by faith.

I need everybody to come take a look.

Well, pastor Chris, the pallbearers started to open the casket and lo and behold today's surprise the body that they were looking for.

It was not there, because Walter?

Bowers is still alive and I need some other folk that you've been a part of this unusual funeral.

Some people have counted your family out.

Some people have counted your God out.

Some people have counted your dreams out.

Show up to the funeral if you want to, but when you open my casket you'll see that I'm still alive.

Is there anybody beside myself?

What?

about here in this back section.

I need about 25 of y'all and I'll be number 26.

Everybody counted you out.

They counted you for dead, but you're still here.

They said it was over, but God has restored you.

I need to talk to some people on this side.

God is saying it's your season.

That's why he's shaking some stuff up.

It's your season.

He's shaking some stuff up, he's showing you his face.

He's breaking the strongholds so that you can experience a resurrection.

I need to talk to some people in the house of God.

You've been dead in your faith long enough.

Man of God.

You've been dead in your faith long enough.

Man of God, you've been dead in your faith long enough.

Man of God, you've been dead in your faith long enough.

Man of God, you've been dead in your faith long enough.

Man of God, you've been dead in your faith long enough.

Pastor walk while you keep saying the same thing over, because there was this time in the passage, uh, when Jesus had to talk to a dead man, uh, and the dead man was Lazarus and Jesus cried out with a loud voice and Lazarus, come out of that grave.

And Lazarus stood up and all I'm trying to do With the last 60 seconds I got Is use my prophetic voice, use the Holy Ghost that was in me.

I feel my help coming on.

I need to call some people out Because this is their resurrection Sunday, because if they don't come out of the grave today, they may not see a tomorrow.

So excuse me sir, excuse me, ma'am, I need some people that don't mind praying.

I need some people that don't mind interceding to help me.

To tell some men of God.

Man of God, come out of that place.

Man of God, stand out of that place.

Man of God, stand up for your family.

Man of God, be who he's called you to be.

Man of God, surrender to the.

Lord, I'm calling on God For all of the men in the room, because I understand men are silent in the room.

And, man of God, you need to take your place, place.

You need to be the priest of your household.

You need to be the prayer warrior of your house.

You need to be the preacher of your house.

You gotta be the prophet of your house, you gotta be the physician of your house.

You gotta be the financer of your house, man of're coming out of this.

I believe that God sent some men here early Sunday morning.

I know you're successful.

There's a world to find success.

I know you make a lot of money.

The world talks about money, but God is saying there is more that I require of me.

I'm talking to the men in the house because if the men get right the whole house gets saved if the men get right.

Let's go down in the community.

Man of God, under the power that the Lord has given unto me.

I'm calling you out of this.

I'm calling you up, man this.

I'm calling you up man of God.

Stand up, man of God.

Be strong, man of God.

Be not dismayed.

Man of God, Be everything that God has called you to be Woman of God.

He ain't done with you yet I need to talk to you, woman of God, because they talking to the men.

The Holy Ghost is moving on these men.

Some men going to get straight today, some men about to get right today, some men about to get freedom today, some boyfriends about to get delivered today and some brothers about to give their life to the Lord.

today I hear the Lord say don't let up on the men, men of God.

If you're a man of God and God is filled you with the Holy Ghost, I need you to yoke up with another man.

What does it mean to yoke up?

When I get yoked up, I get connected.

I need to yoke up with some men.

I need every man in the house to yoke up with another man.

We coming out this way together.

I don't care how much I got to prove, but you're coming out of this.

You ain't came to this church for no ordinary stuff.

You came to be set free.

You came for the taste to fall off your throat.

You came to come out.

We're coming for the men, Because if all of us get yoked up, nobody gets up.

The man of God said don't me.

You almost throw it in the towel.

Stand and fight, man of God.

You built for this battle.

Stand and fight, man of God.

The battle is not yours, it belongs to the Lord.

Stand and fight, man of God.

Don't stop believing man of God.

Don't stop trusting man of God.

Stand and fight man of God.

Hey, Look at the meat.

We coming out of this man of God.

You got nothing to be ashamed of.

You got to get yoked up.

There's a power in this house, Lord.

There's a deliverance in this house.

The devil said that men wouldn't come back to church.

Tell the enemy.

We got evidence that he is a liar.

Tell the enemy to come and change the city church.

There are anointed men, every man of God in this house.

I need to touch every man in this house.

The devil is a liar.

God be exalted.

Every man in this house.

You're going to make it man of God.

You're going to overcome.

Man of God.

You're going to be what God has called you to be.

I see a ship happening and the men are breaking it.

There's a fresh wind coming through all of these men.

There's a move on the way.

God is moving through the men.

I see the men.

I see the men.

I felt something on my own brothers y'all.

They both were naughty, but God is saying it's my brother's time.

Both of them are gifted, but the moment they surrender, tell them it's their time.

I need some intercessors that don't mind interceding for my brothers, because my brothers need the Lord.

My brothers are gifted, but tell them it's their time.

Tell them to say they wrote these brothers up.

It's your time.

I feel a shift happening in this place.

I need every woman that believes what happening in this place.

I need everyone that believes what God is doing.

I need everyone that believes what God is doing To stand behind these brothers as we are yoked up together, because it's our resurrection time, it's our breakthrough time.

It's our time for miracles, it's our time for signs, it's our time for wonders.

Only God our time for signs.

It's our time for wonders.

Only God can do it.

Only God can do it.

God bless you, young man.

You are a gift to young man.

I felt something on you when I touched your head.

God's gonna use you in a great way.

Keep doing great things.

I feel the spirit of the Lord.

I feel him in this place.

God, have your way.

Only you can do it.

You're raising up a generation of men that are about to shift their souls.

They're about to shift their own homes.

They're about to shift their own minds.

They're about to shift their own finances.

It is so.

God bless you, little homie.

It is so manly.

I believe in every man that is under the sound of my voice, that God has something greater in store for you.

Now, men of God, let me tell you how you activate the move of God in your life.

There is one thing that you got to do to activate the move of God in your life.

Father, in the name of Jesus, there's a young man, man, and he's on some crutches right now.

I pray that you heal his body, because I believe you'll be a healer.

I pray that you'll touch him.

Show the people of God that we walk by faith and not by sight.

I believe you, god, not based on what I've seen, but I believe you, god, based on what you say Healing God.

But I believe you, god, based on what you say healing God before he leaves this place.

It is so.

In Jesus name, my sisters and my brothers, here's what I need your help with we gotta activate what we are believing God, for.

The only way you activate is you gotta believe in the name of God.

It's in you, man of God, but you gotta believe in God.

I hear the Lord say there's a lot of greatness in you.

Activate.

Tell him I gave him the gift that he got.

Tell him I got a plan for his life.

Tell him just to surrender to me and I'll show him some of that.

Now, every man in here, every man in the house of God.

There is one way we activate what God is wanting to do.

It is very simple we have to be obedient to what God is saying.

There's only one way to activate.

There is only one way to activate it.

There's only one way to activate it.

The way that we activate it is that we've got to have a faith move.

We've got to have a faith shout.

So what I want you to do, men, is listen very carefully.

We're about to activate something that's been deposited into your face.

We're about to activate something that's been deposited into your face.

You're about to activate something that's been deposited into your spirit, but the only way that happens is that you've got to believe it.

Jesus gives instructions, and the people that follow the instructions are the people that were blessed.

Now, men and women of God, this beautiful Easter Sunday, what I want you to do if you believe it, I want you to release the person that's next to you.

But now is the time for you to give God a best point.

What is a best point?

That means that you cry out to God.

Some of y'all ain't cried out to God in a long time.

Some of y'all ain't cried out to God in a long time, some of y'all got to cry out to God, got to cry out to God in a long time, some of y'all got to cry out to God.

You got to cry out to God.

God you hear the cries.

You got to cry out to God like you need a miracle.

You got to cry out to God like you need a breakthrough.

You got to cry out to God like you need a healing.

You got to cry out to God for your girlfriend.

You got to cry out to God for your daughter.

You got to cry out to God for your spouse.

You got to cry out to God for your sons.

You got to cry out to God like he's going to answer right now.

What would a cry sound like if you believed that God himself would show up?

What would your shout sound like if you believed that God would come sit next to you right now?

That's the kind of praise that he's looking for.

I need you to try it again.

Man of God With everything that's in you.

There's a revival that has hit this house.

There's a revival that hit this house.

There's a transformation that's hit this house.

There's a revival that's hit.

It just hit y'all.

It just got there.

The man just came out of the grave y'all.

I see some lives being saved.

Revival just hit this house.

God kept his word.

Somebody's coming home, somebody's coming out.

Revival just hit this house.

Somebody just got what they're praying for.

Revival just hit this house.

Revive us again, oh lord, there will be everything that you call us to be.

We'll do everything that you call us to be.

We'll do everything that you call us to do.

A revival just hit this house.

Some man just got his door back.

Some man just got released from something.

Some man may need to come to the altar but revival just hit his house.

What you are feeling is an early Sunday morning experience.

I pray in the spirit.

I pray in the spirit.

I pray in the spirit, god, that these men are spirits of revival.

God, touch them, god touch them, god, right where they are, let them lay some burdens down, shake it loose for the men shake it loose for with a man, shake it a loose with his brothers hallelujah, women of God, hallelujah.

I hear the Lord say don't forget about the sisters.

Ladies, I won't keep you long, but I will tell you this, ladies, it started with the men, because the men are leading up front and God wants us to be the leaders we're supposed to be.

When was the last time you seen this many men slain before the Lord?

So, ladies, guess what's happening.

We're in spiritual order in this house.

We're in spiritual order.

I had a little say y'all in spiritual order.

He said the men have opened the door for the ladies to get their breakthrough.

The men have opened the door for the ladies to get everything they stand in the need of the men rolled a stone away, the men have prayed in God's presence Now.

I need every lady in the house that stands in the need of an early Sunday morning experience.

Who's not ashamed?

to get to this altar.

Who's not ashamed?

but proud to God, the men have paved the way, Ladies you are excellent leaders.

It anointed.

You are prophetic, you are powerful.

You are sheroes, you're strong.

Wives, you're strong.

Single mothers You're strong aunts.

You're strong sisters.

If I hear the Lord say you ain't got to be strong today.

Most of the time, ladies, you got to be strong today.

Most of the time, ladies, you got to be strong Because us men, we have gotten out of place, but the men of this house are in the right place, and any man that got strip left in his bones.

I need you to make sure that the women feel safe enough to cry out to God.

I need you to help the women to get to the place.

Where they feel comfortable.

As a matter of fact, if you're a husband and you brought your wife, tell your wife, it's okay that she needs to cry.

If you're a single lady, I want you to know that the Spirit of God is covering you.

And it's okay to cry.

Because we came in for a resurrection, we came in for a transition.

We came in for a breakthrough.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What would happen if you cried to God and let it go?

You would experience early Sunday morning.

You would experience the power of the Holy Spirit in your life.

Lord, fill your people with the power of the Holy Spirit right now.

Right now, god, god.

Some of them are empty.

Breathe on your people, god.

Breathe on your people, god.

Breathe on some children, god, so that the parents will know that this is real, because they know the children won't play with you.

Breathe on your children, fill some children with the Holy Ghost.

Right now.

I pray for my own children.

God Fill them with the Holy Ghost.

Right now I pray for my own children.

God fill them with the Holy Ghost.

I pray for my nephews.

Fill them, god, with the power Of your Holy.

Spirit.

Our children need the Holy Ghost in the classroom.

They need them on the athletic fields, they need them in the classroom, they need them where they go.

God, we need you.

Oh, set a fresh wind in this place, god because we can't provide them.

I got a call to all the fans.

Here's what we are saying.

There was a moment that came in the text that, after they experienced the resurrection, they were told to go run and tell it, because when God moves in your life, you got to go run and tell it.

That was an exciting moment and, man, I need to switch that right there Because that's somber, but we got to get excited.

We got to get excited because somebody about to come out of here and have something to run and tell they.

About to go and testify.

Sister Brandy, if you're still close by, I need you to feed something to them.

You tell them what it's going to be, because we need to set an atmosphere of victory.

Now, you see, when mary and and the other mary left the tomb, they left in victory and I need some people to walk out of here in victory.

I need the people to walk out of here filled with the holy ghost.

I need some people to walk out of here with your head up.

I need some people to walk out of here with your post, your chest poked out.

I need some people to walk out of here with your chest poked out.

I need some people to walk out of here feeling good.

I need to walk people out.

Walk out feeling fresh.

What happened in that church?

I got my swag back.

What happened in that church?

I stepped my game up.

What happened in that church?

Something on the inside, god working on the outside, and a wonderful change came over me.

Hey, I need some people right now that you feel a change in your house, you feel a change in your body, you feel a change in your mind, you feel a change in your condition, you feel a change in your circumstance.

I need some people who back what's over against the wall.

But God made a way.

God, oh made a way.

Oh made a way, oh made a way.

Only God can do it, Only God can do it, only God can do it, only God can do it, only God can do it.

And the Lord is saying give him a praise that declares that it's all ready done.

Sometimes we sing songs with hoping, but the Lord said don't sing one that's hoping.

Sing one that's saying that it's done.

Sing one that's saying that it's done.

Sister Brenda, you still around.

Woman of God, is she still here?

What's she at, sister Brenda?

The Spirit's saying something, saying it's done, something that declaring that he's already made it win, he's already performed a miracle.

Because they need to leave out here knowing that it's done.

They ain't waiting on it, it's done, hallelujah.

Hallelujah, hallelujah.

You made a way.

You made a way.

You made a way.

Oh, you made a way.

When our backs were against the wall and it looked as if it was over.

You made a way.

Can we lift it up and say you made a way, say you made a way, made a way when, made a way when our backs were, when our backs were against the wall and it looks like it looks as if it was over.

You made a way.

Has he made a way for you?

Yeah, made a way.

You made a way for you away and it looks like you made a way over and over again.

You made a way, you made a way.

Every time I turn around, you keep making way over and over again.

You made a way, you made a way.

You made a way.

Yeah, when I back to, when I back to against the wall and it looks like when I back to against the wall and it looks like when we could not see how dark it was, you made a way.

You made a way.

You made a way Over and over again.

We don't know how you're gonna do it, but we know that you're gonna make a way.

Thank you for making a way when our backs were against the wall, when our backs were against the wall and it looks like the empty was over.

Family.

this is what we're going to do For you to have the fullness of this early Sunday morning experience.

This is what the Lord is saying that has to happen.

If you're not from here and you're visiting the city, the Lord is saying go, get connected to a local assembly.

And even until you get connected to a local assembly, and even until you get connected to a local assembly, allow us to cover you, because you can get connected here, we'll cover you virtually indefinitely, but the key is to be covered.

We got a lot of things that are coming at us in 2024.

Nothing to be afraid of, but there's going to be some shaking.

That's happening.

We have an election coming up.

Things that are going on.

Nothing to be afraid of, but you got to be covered.

You got to be connected.

Things happening in the Middle East, Things happening in sweet Haiti, East things happening in Sweet Haiti and all over the land, things happening right here in Charlotte homicides daily across the country.

You got to be connected.

So here the Lord is saying for everybody the word is connect.

No more excuses.

I got some bad news.

You've been looking for the perfect church.

It does not exist, Because the moment you showed up, it became imperfect.

The moment I showed up, it became imperfect.

The perfect church does not exist, but what happens is is when the spirit is in you and the spirit is in me, Together.

Eyes have not not seen, ears have not heard, but the scripture declares further that it has been revealed.

And what the lord is saying to me if the people are obedient to this word and get connected.

So today you can get partnered with this church and we'll cover you until the Lord tells you to go somewhere else, but don't leave like you came.

So I extend an invitation, first and foremost, and I need my partners and the family to help.

I need you to ask somebody next to you are you connected with a church?

And if they answer no, they say do you mind if I help you to get connected?

And if they say they don't mind what I need you to do.

I need you to stand with that person and today we're going to take everybody.

We've got a great crowd today.

I think the pastor's living room is open and from the pastor's living room they'll take you where you need to be.

It's very brief, but as everyone in the building is standing to their feet, I believe that there are many of you that need to be connected today.

Don't let the enemy whisper in your ear like he whispered in Eve's ear.

The enemy will always give you a reason to do something opposite of what the Lord is saying.

Hear the voice of the Lord.

Let the Lord get close to your face and say you've been without a church long enough.

You've been without a church family long enough.

You may be the first person in your family to get connected.

You may be the first person of your persuasion to get connected, connected.

You may be the first person of your persuasion to get connected, but what happens is when you move suddenly it's going to send a wave of the folks that's like you, because they said if he can do it, I can do it, and if she can do it, I can.

So I need some of the men of God that came today that don't have a church home, men of God, I need you to grab your family, go back to your family and say we're going to get connected today.

We didn't come for that, but we're going to get connected today.

Ladies, if you are the head of your house.

I need some of you to say we're going to get connected today If you're a single lady you got children, Come on y'all.

Let's celebrate God with expectation, I believe that God is moving in this place.

If you're a person that the Spirit is talking to and you're going to get connected today, there's a room right here to my left.

It'll be on your left.

I want you to just start walking to that room.

Come on, let's celebrate God.

I know I believe in the Spirit that some people will be getting connected today.

Listen, there's somebody that need to give your life to Jesus today.

What a great day if you've never been baptized.

The bible says this is how we become saved we confess with our mouth and believe, and then we are baptized.

So I want to encourage somebody today that came.

You've never been baptized.

Well, Well, guess what?

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Listen, you can get connected in that room.

I want to make sure we got some clergy in the pastor's living room.

I sent some people back there.

You can come to this altar, but the goal is not to leave like you came.

There are many of you that want to get connected.

You need to get connected.

You need a church home.

There's a spiritual gift.

I see this.

Let's celebrate God.

Hallelujah.

God bless you.

I need all of my clergy to come down and come in the aisles or bless your own duty in the back, because God is sending more souls.

Praise God and listen what the church should do.

Hallelujah.

You should be interceding in prayer right now.

All of us have an agenda and places to go, but if you got a few minutes, just intercede in prayer, because somebody's victory is on your lips when you start to pray and intercede for somebody else.

There's somebody else here today that needs to give their life to the Lord.

There's somebody else here today that needs to surrender to God.

Come on.

Come on, come on, hallelujah.

Hallelujah, glory to God.

Look at this beautiful family.

God bless you, man of God.

Thank you for leading from the front.

God bless you, man of God.

Thank you for leading from the front.

God bless you, woman of God.

A great leader.

She's a great leader, I sense it.

The whole family, the children there are some others.

Some are in the pastor's living room.

Make sure we got clergy back there.

Some are right here, you don't have to leave here like you came.

The Lord sent you here for a reason.

It may seem crazy, because you didn't come for that, but that's how God rose.

Your deliverance is in what you do next.

We can leave out of here and do what we always do, but you can finally say you know what?

Today is my day, hallelujah.

Know what?

Today is my day, hallelujah.

Somebody saying today is my day, glory to God.

The presence of the Lord is here.

The presence of the Lord is here.

He's making way.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, glory to God.

We're about to go, but I need to give somebody else a chance.

I need to give somebody else a chance.

Make your way, make your way.

Make your way.

Make your way.

Make your way.

Make your way.

Make your way if you make your way.

If you make your way over and over, If you make your way, if you make your way, if you make your way over and over, If you make your way, if you make your way, if you make your way over and over.

My prayer is that you connect and stay connected, because the enemy wants people to connect and walk out the back door on the other side of the front door that they walked in, but I already was ahead of the enemy.

I said God when you send them today, I'm already praying that they're going to stay connected this time, because the enemy is not going to have his way.

So today, when you respond, you're going to get connected and you're going to stay connected.

You're going to serve on the missions team and help people that need hope.

You're going to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with other people.

You're going to use your gifts to sing and to serve.

You're going to use your gifts.

We got businesses over here.

You're going to help with the business incubator.

There's a daycare over there.

You're going to help with that.

You're going to be obedient to the Spirit and you're going to use your gifts Because God is up to serve.

Now come on, Come on, come on.

I'm trying to go.

It's with you, it's Easter, it's your resurrection.

Come on, come on, I'm trying to go.

It's with you, it's Easter, it's your resurrection.

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

Ain't that a bit of shame, lord?

Ain't Let one of us have to make this walk?

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, make it way, make it way, make it way.