THE TRUTH OF THIS DAY

Thank you for all that you do. God. We thank

you Lord for the blood that was shed. We thank you.

That the blood calls death to pass over.

We thank you that.

We thank you Lord so much that we shall live

and now not die because of our Lord and savior,

Jesus Christ. We thank you Lord that he was obedient

unto death. We thank your God that he was buried

but yet went down and was resurrected, because when he

got up, so did we.

And we thank you for that. God. In the name

of Jesus Christ.

And as your word goes forth, Lord, let it do

what you have it to do, because we know it

shall not come back.

Boy.

Bless us today, God, and forgive us Lord for anything

we may have said or done.

Any way we may have acted.

If we've been wayward, Please forgive us Lord, in the

name of Jesus we spoke.

Ill of anyone.

Please forgive us Lord that we may stand before you

this morning in thy precious sight and in thy precious

presence that is so holy. We thank you God that

you allow such little o' us to stand before.

The great God that you are.

And as your word goes forth, God, individually touch the

hearts of your people and collectively and rebuke the enemy

that tries to come and disturb us and distort your word.

In Jesus' name, we pray amen.

In the Book of Leviticus, in the Book of Leviticus,

chapter twenty.

Three, I.

Would want to have called this when I looked over

it last night, I wanted to say that I was

gonna title this.

The big misunderstanding. But it's not.

It's not a misunderstanding. Folks know even today and yet

still refuse to not succumb to the pagognoistics of this day.

I'm not preaching today, no customary and traditional message concerning this.

Folks have a.

Double standard and a double mind about this. Even there

are churches today that are preaching the ministry of the resurrection,

but they still after service having its egg hunts. There

are there's a church set up down the street right now.

They got three big grills setting out there. They about

to have service outside. I'm not saying they're doing anything wrong,

especially they having service outside for ever all these heathens

to hear.

It's not in service anywhere.

But there are churches that are setting up now for

the Easter egg hunts.

You find the.

Golden egg, the one that got the most money in it,

setting up for Easter dinners, going broke, buying clothes they

can't afford, just to.

Look comparable and compatible.

To those that's in God's house today.

It's an Easter fashion show.

All I'm trying to say is this is a very

sacred day, should I say time, because this is the

time we have chosen to celebrate the death baron resurrection.

Of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

It's very sacred that we should desecrate it with this

custom and.

Tradition of Heathens.

And I'm going to show you what God says about

holidays and the festivals, because there's supposed to be a

You're supposed to cook a dinner and have a sort

of festival of celebration of this day. But unto him

and verse one, and the Lord in verse in chapter

twenty three of Leviticus, and the Lord spake unto more

this God, somebody say this God saying speaking to the

children of Israel. I'm speaking to y'all. I'm speaking to

the Church of God, not the nation.

I'm today. I'm speaking to.

The church as Moses spoke to the nation. I'm saying

to them concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye

shall proclaim to be holy convocations. Even these are my feasts.

Six days shall sixth days shall.

Work be done.

But the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a

holy convocation. Ye shall do no work therein it is

the Sabbath of the Lord. In all your dwellings, there

are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which

ye shall proclaim.

In their season. This is the season of resurrection.

Sunday that we're proclaiming. And in the fourteenth day of

the first month at Eve is the Lord's Passover. It's

the Lord's Easter, it says, the Lord's Easter. Is that

what he says? Everybody agree with that. It's the Lord's Easter. Amen,

y'all talk to me. It's the Lord's Easter.

Talk to me. And oh look I have I got

my glasses. Hold on y'all. Just y'all buried with me.

Right now. It's the Lord's Passover.

Okay, okay, this is the sacred season that we in

right now, the lords pass Over.

Amen.

And I'm gonna title this the truth of this day, Amen,

the truth of this day. You may be seated in

the House of the Lord, for the Lord himself declare

that his seasons are to be holy convocations and not holidays.

Is anybody with me for this day?

Today we celebrate after the fact, because according to God's record,

it was to be on the fourteenth day of the

first month. So that makes the past over to have

been Saturday and not today. But the pagan worshipers celebrate

what they call Easter. I said, the pagan worship us

celebrate today what they call not God call Easter on

this Sunday. And this was done to worship a goddess

of light and spring, are a goddess of fertility.

And it makes sense. Don't that makes sense? Don't it

makes sense? Y'all?

Work with me today, Work with me. Talk to men,

godess of fertility.

That's what you know. Rabbits they you know what rabbits

be doing, be popping them out.

That's why they call him Easter because they equated with

a rabbit. And when a rabbit does what it does

and have babies, they don't come out with eggs, so

they go your era.

See there's always era in what looks like the truth.

This is how you know because when you spiritually deserve.

You can always see the era in what looks like

the truth. You can see the lie in it, which

makes the whole thing of no effect. Rabbits don't lay eggs,

and a rabbit didn't down across. The rabbit might have

been sacrificed for the blood, but he didn't save you.

See, this.

Image was called Estra EO s t r e O

s t r e Estra, and that's where they got

Easter from. But again I will repeat myself, the word

Easter is found.

In the Bible. This word.

See, that's why you can't look. You can't read the

Bible and just run with it. You have to understand

what it means. It's in the Book of Acts, and

it's in the Book of Acts. You know, although the

word Easter does appear in the Bible in Acts chapter twelve.

And four, the Greek.

Word for passover is Easter. So when you see that

word in there, it means passover in the Greek. I

told you the Bible was wrote in the Hebrew, Greek Latin,

and you have to understand it that certain words don't

mean exactly what it says. That's reason why you have

to have a spiritual understanding. When it talks about the

water in the Bible, they ain't talking about stuff you

wash it with and drink, depending on what text is

talking about it in hey, man, That's why I say

all the time, they know what it said, but they

don't know what it's saying.

Are you with me? You understand what I'm saying now?

The Pastos, which is the first of the great holy

festivals of the Hebrew.

People, it's a sacred celebration. And you.

Mess up, you degrade, you curse yourself worshiping this day

and calling it East and.

Equating something so sacred.

Away from our Lord and Savior when you really think.

About it, how can we celebrate it that way?

Thinking about what our Lord and Savior went through to

be resurrected. He was beaten, mould desecrated, mocked, and we

would dare celebrate this sacred day unto anyone else but him.

It's a sacred sacrifice of a lamb that they did

in Egypt when the people of God were slaves and

the last plague came in the Hebrews smeared blood of

the lamb on the doorpost as a signed to God

that death would pass over. Their houses as God had

promised them. Moses told them what God said, do smear

the blood over the top of your doors and on

the door posts, because death is coming, and death is

gonna take out.

Everything.

Two years and under, I said everything, even animals were

taken out. God didn't ask, He didn't excuse anything. And

because when they and I'm gonna tell you something too,

some of those Egyptims, they wasn't They might have been,

they might.

Have been stupid, but they weren't ignorant.

Some of them, and gypsums were up in them houses

where the blood on the door posts were.

Some of them. Believe, you gotta remember this was the

last plague.

So they saw all the other plagues that Moses and

it came to pass. As he spoke with God said,

what happened. You ain't gonna be that dumb.

And keep on.

Following these pagan gods when you see the real God

is doing this and ain't nothing yet your pagan gods

can do to stop it. All of them down there

praying and sweating and falling apart and crying out to

they pagan God, ain't nothing stopping with God said, go happen.

You gotta believe some of them had a right mind.

I would not ever think that some of them didn't

have a right mind to get cover, I think we

better follow what they God doing to night. So they

took that lamb as God has told and commanded him

to do, and they took the blood and put it

on the post. And they survived because death just jumped

right over him and kept going. And that's what happens

to us. But that's not from the blood of that lamb.

But there was another lamb that would shed his blood

later on. But unlike the Lamb of Egypt, whose blood

helped to free them from a physical death and slavery, this.

Lamb, the Lamb of God, which shed his blood as

the ultimate passover.

That was just a temporary passover for that night.

Are you with me? It was a temporary passover for

that night. But this Lamb came and shed his blood for.

Eternal passover for our lives. His blood was the ultimate

passover sacrifice to redeem God's people from the power of

sin and death.

So you see, this day has nothing to do with

a bunny or an egg.

Did you hear Did you hear any of that in

there about a bunny and an egg. This ain't got

nothing to do with a bunny and egg. I'm gonna

tell you what's wrong with God's.

People and the world.

I'm finna tell you what's wrong with them. I'm gonna

tell you what the problem is. On God's holy convocational days,

they call it holidays. It was wrong with the reason

why they there's a couple of reasons why they're calling

them holidays.

I'm gonna tell you.

One of them is because it's a custom and traditions

that's been pushed upon them from their youth till they've grown,

and then when they get kids, they push it on them,

and then they push it further to theirs, and then

it keeps on going. That's the first that's one of

the problems.

But there's a.

Bigger problem involved in all them that why they really

do it. Ay Man, But you didn't hear me say nothing, body,

no Bunny says even you didn't hear me say nothing

about shopping for people to go out on this day.

This is the day we're supposed to go out and

get us.

An Easter suit.

If it's an Easter suit, wait, keep buying one every Easter.

Just wear it on Easter. See anybody with me?

Did you hear me? Brother Mary? You call it an

Easter suit. Way, keep buying one every Eastern Just wear

that on Easter. Save yourself some money. Most folks go

out and buy new clothes. But they just like the

Pharisees were the Jesus. Jesus said, you like white washed walls.

You just like white washed walls. Let me break it

down to you. You got on your new suit, your

new dress and hat and all that. You clean on

the outside, but on the inside you like filthy McNasty.

You're filthy McNasty on the inside.

But you're clean on the outside, but you're filter McNasty

on the inside.

You just like white washed walls.

Got on your new suit, new dress and hat and

all that, but you're filter nasty on the inside.

You're still demonic.

You like a car that just got washed and drove

down the street and hit mud puddles on all four tis,

you're still dirty.

I like what you said. You gave me another scenario.

You're like a car that been washed on the outside,

but the engine dirty. Oh boy, y'all, y'all missed that, y'all.

Mister.

In other words, you done cleaned up your body, but

your mind's still dirty.

You're like white washed walls.

This ain't got nothing to do with bunnies and eggs

and clothes baskets filled with candy. It has nothing to

do with shopping for what folks call the Easter dinner. Oh,

but when you really know the truth, it's all about freedom.

Oh, when you really know the truth, it's all about freedom.

It's all about Jesus shedding his blood to cover up

our sins, to deliver us from death to life.

That's what it's all about.

To clean us up from the sin that enslaved us

for so long. To listen, it's to clean us up.

Stay with me, from the sin that held us captives

for so long?

Are you hearing me?

Clean us up from the sin that enslaved us and

held us filthy for so long, To clean us up

the blood. But yet though it clean us up, it's

so it also came.

To stain us. It cleaned us up and stained us.

You don't hear what I'm saying. It came to clean

us up, but it came to stain us.

I gotta say, am I clean? If I got a stain?

Yeah, you're clean with the stain, so that the end,

so that the stain that's on us.

When God seized the blood stained on us, he knows

we belong to him the blood stained, that we may

live and not die. But people have.

And soul has. The Church commercialized one of the most

important and sacred times of the year. They commercialized it,

took Jesus out of it. You got nothing to do

with this. Jesus saw what you died on the cross,

blood and with bearing resurrected.

So we need these.

Bunnies in these eggs, and its dinner and these new

clothes high. Look, I'm gonna tell you why we need

all that, or why they need all that.

Most sacred time of the year we desecrated. I dared

not give this day.

To the worship of a pagan godd in no form

and no fashion. I said, in no form and no fashion.

I'm not doing trunk or treat, no farm and no fashion.

But to my Lord and Savior, I give all praise

and glory and to worship. Glory for Jesus is the

reason for this.

Whole season, as God says, my seasons holy convocations.

In the fourteenth day of the first month, at eve

is the Lord's passover. There are the feasts of the Lord,

even holy convocations which ye shall proclaim, which ye.

Shall put claim.

Not buddies in easter you shall proclaim the passover, you

shall proclaim in their seasons. He was beat and he bled,

shed his blood for mine and your sins, beating, beating

for my sins and yours. He bore our grief and

carried our sorrows. He was struck down by God and afflicted,

but not affected.

You don't hear what I'm saying. He was afflicted but

not affected.

He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniqualities.

The chastisement of our peace was upon him and me.

And you buy his strife, I said, by his strife

we will heal. Healed from sin, healed from sickness, and

delivered us from death.

And hell.

Didn't no rapid do that. Didnt no new clothes do that?

Then no eggs do that, Then no dinner do that.

Jesus did that. Jesus, and Jesus alone did that.

Nobody, I said, nobody but Jesus. Nobody, nobody but Jesus

could have did all of that for you, and for me,

nobody but the Lord. Nobody, nobody, this blood called all

of that to pass by us. And Lord, I thank you.

If I had a thousand tons, it wouldn't be enough

to say, Lord, I.

Thank you, But Lord I thank you.

I would not give a moment of this day, not

an inkling in celebration to nobody but Jesus. And I

don't care about going in another way for those who

feel sended.

M and I would not ever go in another way.

If you go in another way, you set him to,

you're setting him aside.

I would not would not ever set him aside.

I would never go in another way or another direction

for this very reason. This is the reason I've been

telling you about, so that the little children can have

some fun.

This why you keep doing it. It's the little children.

That's why you keep doing Easter baskets and clothes and

getting children look more beautiful on Most children look more

I'm gonna say most children. Most children look so beautiful

on the Resurrection Sunday that it is Sunday. They bring

them the church any kind of ragging tour from the floor,

but not on Easter Sunday.

Not Easter Sunday they Easter Sunday, they got to have

their hair done. They got that. They out there doing

it up. That's probably why God let it rain yesterday.

They out there doing it up.

They're getting haircuts, twists, braids, flip flops, everything for this day,

but every other Sunday.

You don't care how they look. This is the reason for.

The season of the heat even and the people in

the church with no real understanding, and for those women

understanding but still yet set God aside. For the little

children can have some fun, but they take it and

they want the little children to have fun and shame

this day that belongs to Jesus and Jesus alone.

It don't belong to the little children. But the little children.

We can, y'all, can you, y'all?

Everybody them, continue to allow them to worship pagan holiday,

pagan gods because of the children.

They do it for.

It's the children. That's why they do it at Christmas children,

That's why they do it at Eastern children.

That's why I do it.

On the fourth of July and Negros me so be

celebrating of independence that we never had, celebrate, going out

getting them fire crackers and barbecuing.

And celebrate you a slaves in seventeen seventy six.

You wasn't free, You ain't have no independence, see how

than we are.

But we go along with the custom and tradition.

We stand there and we put our hand over our physical,

blood pumping heart.

And say the pleasure lesions. I dared not we saying,

don't even listen to it.

Our pleasure lesions to the flag, Our pleasure lesions to Jesus,

not no flag. When you learn better, you should do better.

Although they know, they still didn't do what he said do.

I don't pleasure no legion to no flag.

I was at an event one time and I was

sitting there and everybody stood up, the players of the

legion to the flag.

I ain't get up. Heard the woman behind me talking

about that. Yeah, I can hear a whispering to the

other women. Y'all hear real good, especially if you whisper.

She said, Yeah, he must be one of them. Yeah,

I'm one of them. I'm one of them. But the

them is what you don't realize and don't know what

the them and one of I'm one of.

Them that only plash my legions to Jesus. I'm one

of them.

I don't know what dim she was talking about, but

I am one of them. They do it so that

the little children can have some fun. And while they're

allowing the children to have fun, they shame this day

that belongs to Jesus and Jesus alone. I give no praise,

no attention to no one but Jesus on this holy.

Because he alone died alone.

Nobody else was with him alone died. Even God turned

from him alone.

He died in blood for me and for you, and

it was his blood.

His blood has the power to free man came and

his alone. Can you say, man, his blood and his

blood alone. Can you say, man, say amen means you agreed.

That means our agreed. You don't say, ma'am mean.

You must don't agree. We as Christians have to stay focused.

It don't make no difference with the world doing because

if you really stay focused, you ain't gotta pay attention.

You already know what they're doing.

That's why you can stay focused here because focus here tells.

You what they're doing.

But when you ain't focus here, you're gonna focus. Your

focus is gonna be there trying to figure out what

they're doing and be doing what they're doing. But we

gotta stay focused. We can't be caught up in the world.

We in the world, we of the world.

We in the world. We are not of the world.

We're aliens in a strange land. Hebrew says. So when

people ask me, am I ali, I said, yeah, you

believe in the aliens past time? Yeah, he said you

believe in I said, yeah, I'm one. That's when they

really getting messed up. Bible said it.

I say what Jesus said, I'm an alien in a

strange land looking for a homeland.

When you go to Mexico, who's the alien? You are

the Mexicans.

You're an alien in a strange land looking for getting

back to your land America. Okay, so I'm an alien

in a strange land look to get back to Heaven.

Can't be caught up in the world's things. We can't

be caught up in all kinds of mess that had

no value. It has no value and adds no value

to our lives. It don't celebrating this day adds no value.

To us like the world does.

But when we celebrated as a sacred holy.

Day, it is value to us. What value it shows us.

The love we have for him for what he did

for us. That's what it does.

We're communing on this sacred day with our Lord, even

though we may commune every day, but we bring in

and remember us.

We remember how you hung on that cross. We remember.

Let's not just remember the cross. You got to remember

how he got there first. Remember the punishment of the

pain and the bleeding before he got to the cross

and hung up there for us.

He went through.

Hell to get to the cross for us that we

may live and not die. He took a beating that's

not been mentioned about anybody ever in history.

The Jews they didn't have it good, but they didn't

have it like Jesus.

They got to walk into a gas shower and fall

out and die.

That was heineous, but not like gee Jesus.

Slaves got their backs whipped, feet cut off, shot killed,

but not like Jesus. This celebration, as the world and

some church folks do, has no value and adds no

value to our life.

We have to stay focused.

Because Jesus is coming back soon.

I'm telling you Church, you better listen. He soon to come.

Y'all better hear what I'm telling you. God ain't never

gave me nothing to give you that were wrong. If

it was wrong, I was in my emotion.

I came back and tell you old waymen that God

didn't say that I was feeling some kind of way.

But I wouldn't feel no kind of way, and I

ain't feeling no kind of way.

Now he soon to come. You better have your house

in order.

You didn't hear me say you better get your house

in order. I said you better have your house and order.

There's a difference.

Because, as we spoke about in Sunday School, there's a

second coming.

But those that have heard about him, you're not invited.

You'll better hear me. If you don't go on the

first one, and you've heard about him, been told about him,

had a privilege to know about him, you ain't invited

to the second one. If you missed the first one,

that's not for you. You better read your Bible, cause the.

Truth gonna make you free. The truth gonna make you free.

You ain't right when you come on the first one.

You're not invited to the second one. But there is

an invitation for you.

Oh yeah, you better hear the church. He's soon to come,

and wherever situation you in, you won't be into reverse.

It's what he told him.

If you're on the housetops, stay right there, you over

Betty's house, your wife's name suit, stay right there. You're

with jimmy house and your husband named Mark, stayed right there.

If you in the closet, still in the supplies from your.

Job, stay in the closet, stay right there.

If you in the closet about homosexuality, and stay right.

There, because you can't reverse it once he crack it.

Huh, you can't reverse it. It's irreversible once he comes.

I can't take this top off her. I broke the seal.

I can't put it back on her and make the

seal seal again. It's been broken. Or once he break it,

he can't see it. Stay right there. He's coming church,

and he's soon to come. And this is a day

of celebration of his resurrection. This is a day of

celebration of his resurrection, a day of his resurrection, a

praise to him, a worship unto him, a glory unto him,

Him and only him, Jesus. The name is Jesus, because

if he didn't get up from that grave, we would

die and go to hell when y'all, when y'all get

through with them celebrating those rabbits, Can.

I have it? I like gravy on my rabbit when

y'all get through it celebrating them rabbits? Can I have it?

I like gravy on mine? And if y'all ever thought

that the rabbit foot was good luck? What did the

rapid think about it when you cut it off? Somebody

better help me in here. Amen.

He got up so we could get up, so we

could live and not.

Die and go to hell.

So all praise to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

on his resurrection Sunday.

Amen, All praise and glory to Hell on his day.

This is his day, his resurrection, announced, anointed, recommended, required

day of him of us. This is his day, and

we give all praise and glory to him. We give

all worship and to my Lord and Savior. It's personal

to me. He's my Lord and Savior. He's not just

my savior, he's.

My Lord, my Lord Jesus.

Yes, this is his day of recognition of what he

did that no one has.

Ever done as great a task as he did, and

he did.

It unselfishly for us no praise, no glory, but we

gave him glory and praise anyhow, Amen, Amen, Amen, you

give all praise to our Lord and Savior.

On this resurrection Sunday.

This day belongs to him, belongs to him and him alone.

I dared not, and you should dare not celebrate this

day even when you leave here. I said that for

a reason.

Even when you leave here, it's still sacred, it's still

his day, it's.

Still resurrection Sunday.

Anytime you can have dinner, you got to give him

praise and glory. Anytime you can get some smoke neck bones,

you gotta.

Tell him, thank your Lord. Whoo.

Anytime you can get the macarone there like my grandmama

used to make, tell him thank you, hallelujh. Time you

can get some greens and some simon.

And corn bread.

And some packed peppers, tell him thank you, hallelujh.

Yeah, we take it for granted that we can even

eat like that. When folks are running around.

Trying to catch spider us to eat and bugs all.

He's real, Oh, it's real. A tarantula is a delicacy

in a part of Africa.

They put it between the stick and put it on

the fire that's on the ground.

They ain't got us in our stove.

See, we we were so soft in America.

That's why we just believe anything. We're soft whatever. We

believe what each other say.

You know this rabbit and bunnything, this big fat Santa

Claus man, Santa Claus.

Used to be white. Now he's black. Yeah, he used

to be white. Now he's a Negro. We can have

a negro Santa Claus now. But God ain't never changed.

God ain't never changed, My God, He's never changed.

And I can't understand the saints. And I'm gonna say this,

and I'm done the holiday that tails on itself completely.

You fully persuaded, there's no guessing.

You don't need no angels from heaven or the Holy

Gholst to explain it to you.

To come down. Halloween is evil.

But these saints, who they call themselves saints, they still

worship it.

Well, See, we ain't doing it like. We ain't doing

it like the world.

See, I'm gonna have all my kids knock on the

doors going down the hallway and somebody have somebody behind it,

give them candy.

Look food.

You still celebrate that, Well, we just gonna back up

all the trunks in a circle at the church, at

the church, at the church, at the church, in the

church parking lot on holy ground, and have them come

around to each trunk, each trunk of the car and

get some candy, candy, candy. You don't let candy take

you to hell. I get my candy and eat it

any day. It ain't no special occasion for candy for me.

The only special occasion that God gave somebody the wisdom

to make it. Thank you, Lord, thank you for that

chocolate with peanuts in it. But I ain't gonna worship

this can that will eat it. I'm done with it.

I'm worshiping you because of it. Halloween tells you it's evil.

Witches and goblins and devils come on people giving you

apples with razor blade in and shooting poison in your can.

It's evil. What do you think they supposed to do

on an evil day? Be evil people running?

Back in my days when we would there were guys

that would wait and be following you, and you give

your sack and get so fat, then they run and

snatch it from you. Back in the days when I

used to go out and trick or treat. Now they

didn't get shot. They would run off with your and

you done. Those are the kids that didn't have parents

taking them around. I was one of them kids. My

parents weren't taking me around. It wasn't because they didn't

believe in it either, because they just weren't taking me around.

We all got together and somebody would get their bags snatched.

Somebody had some candy and it probably was some poison

candy in there, so they they paid for snatching it.

And you got parents when they bring their candy home

because the parents.

Didn't go with them, they want to check it what

you're looking for.

You can't see the need of marching all the candy.

You can split that apple open out of that horse.

The metal tech ain't gonna detect the poison in the candy.

In other words, you can't win. The only way to

win is don't celebrate it.

It's an evil day. They're all evil, but Halloween, let

you know it's evil.

Hey man. Amen,