What Will You Do With The Empty Tomb | Pastor Paul McGee

Amen. Someone say thank you Lord,

Amen. He is good today.

Amen And I'll echo my wife's words.

It's a good see yes, Hunter and McKenzie and they have two like

visible but one invisible for my understanding on the way.

Amen. And so we're so happy for them.

Amen with that and that sword. And Zoe, of course, has been

adopted into their family now and carry the Adam's name.

And now they're having another, another atoms.

Can the world, can the world endure another atoms?

I'm sure they can. Kevin told me this morning that

that's just the way it works with their family, you know.

And so we're glad to see him this morning too.

Carol, it's good to see you rather than your little face

like in a bubble popping up online.

It's good to see you and in person and, and be able to shake

your hand this morning. So glad to be in God's house.

I'm going to be turning to the Gospel of John today, the Gospel

of John chapter #20 and I'm going to read a few verses of

Scripture, maybe a little bit more lengthy reading than than

typical, but John 20 verses 1:00 and 2:00.

And then I'm going to skip down to verse #11 this morning, Amen.

We're thankful we're able to gather today, Amen.

Because of the Lord, we have religious privileges all across

this land today, Amen, For people to exercise their faith,

Amen. And we're able to do that this

morning. Our, our God is not in a grave

and a tomb. If you go visit there unlike any

other that others may worship, He's not there, He's not there.

The tomb is indeed empty, and we're appreciative today of that

John chapter #20 and verse #1. The Bible says the first day of

the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, and

to the sepulchre, and see if the stone taken away from the

sepulchre. Then she runeth and cometh to

Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and

saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the

sepulcher, and we know not where they have laid him.

For verses 3 through 10, it will talk about Peter and John

running to the tomb and what they witness, and perhaps we'll

touch on that just a little bit later.

But verse #11 continuing with Mary.

But Mary stood without at the sepulchre, weeping.

And as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the

sepulchre, and see if 2 angels in white sitting, the one on the

head, the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had

lain. And they saw.

And they say, rather unto her, Woman, why weepest thou?

She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord,

and I know not where they have laid him.

And when she had thus said, she turned herself back and saw

Jesus standing, knew not that it was Jesus.

Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou?

Whom seekest thou she's supposing him to be?

The gardener said unto him, Sir, if thou hath borne him hence,

tell me where thou has laid him, and I will take him away.

Jesus saith unto her, Mary, she turned herself, and saith unto

him, Rabbini, which is to say, Master, a little while this

morning on this resurrection Sunday, want to minister with

this subject, and it is in question form.

What will you do with the empty tomb?

What will you do with the empty tomb?

Amen. I'm going to ask God to help us

in the next few moments. Father, we need you today, God.

We're thankful, Lord, for the opportunity to celebrate.

God. We have gathered together, Lord,

with that mindset of celebration and Thanksgiving and gratitude

today. I pray you would touch our

hearts and minds this morning. Let that living word, I pray, O

God, express itself to us in such a way.

God that we can understand, God that we can glean something,

Lord, from the story and from Scripture.

God, that will help Lord enrich and embedder our lives by the

power of the Holy Ghost. I pray today in Jesus name a man

and you may be seated today in Jesus name.

There is this morning, and I believe all of us have probably

had that experience of where your feet are standing at a

place where soil has just freshly been turned to over.

There's a unique power in standing before a tomb or before

a grave. It it brings finality.

It speaks speaks of endings. There's a lot of whispers of

loss and whispers of absence whenever your feet are standing

at a grave. A tomb is tombs where we lay to

rest. What we can can no longer be

fixed, right? It's whenever everyone has shook

their head, all the measures have been taken in order to try

to help to fix, repair, whatever it may have been that caused

that moment. And so it's that place where we

lay that to rest, where with all the other efforts now have been

exhausted. It's where we go when when the

fight is over and when hope seems to be extinct.

Distinguished. Our feet are found at that

grave. Nothing else can be said.

I often say that as I stand at a graveside service that I know

that there's nothing else that can be sad or nothing else that

can be done. It's not necessarily thought of

as being a place for beginnings or the place of fresh starts.

It's it's, it's a punctuation mark of a period at the end of

the sentence in many regards. It's where some even quote UN

quote bury their dreams. It's where we set there and we

hug next and we shed tears and we say our goodbyes to what was

and we brace ourselves to live without what we've lost.

It's why it's why tombs and those things can be so uneasy

sometimes. Graves can be things that can

almost make us tremble as we walk out upon that sacred

ground, because it reminds us of our limits, reminds us that us

too may perhaps have a day of an appointment with a grave.

And it confronts us, really confronts us with all of our our

helplessness, with all the strength that we think and

thought we had in that moment. It seems like just not enough.

It's the silence of a grave that sometimes can even scream louder

than the words. Hey, it's over.

The grave has a louder voice than all of that.

And yet, in the case of Jesus Christ, the tomb didn't close a

chapter, but in reality it opened a whole new book for

humanity. On that resurrection morning,

something impossible had happened according to nature,

According to the religious, seeing something history had

never seen before took place. A man who was crucified, dead

and buried got up and to this day we still do not see him with

our eyes as those of the 1st century.

They had the privilege of seeing the risen Savior after he arose

from the grave. They could handle him, touch

him, speak verbally to him and see him visibly with their eyes.

Us, this generation, we don't have that opportunity per SE of

Jesus being in flesh, walking among those.

But unlike the 1st century, again, we've not handled him.

We've, we've not had a mere period of visitations of him in

his earthly body like they did, but he did leave us with a

enduring sign of his resurrection and that is an

empty tomb. And So what confronts us this

morning to use my subject for us today, what will we do in our

generation with the empty tomb? It was custom, Jewish custom

that loved ones whenever they had died, when they have

deceased and been put in the grave, that Jew custom was they

would visit the deceased tomb for three days after burial,

they would constantly go to the tomb.

They believed that the spirit of the one that deceased hovered

near the body during those three days, and so they would often go

and visit. However, we understand that the

Sabbath law would prevent anybody from visiting.

The tomb of Jesus on that day wasn't allowed.

They wouldn't want to divide, defy, or do anything to

themselves to do so, so no one would approach it.

That's the reason why the day between crucifix and

resurrection seems to be so silent on that second day.

But early that morning when they could visit.

The Bible speaks of 1 character, a woman in particular that seems

to be with some other women, but Mary is a little bit ahead.

The rest she's drawn a little quicker to the tomb than the

rest. This is a woman that had a

transformed past by the Lord. This is a woman that had a heart

that seemed to be devoted to the Lord.

She, she could not wait. If you can only imagine, you

know how it is sometimes when you're waiting to go on the

trip, it's like, let's just leave a little early.

She, she could not wait to get to the tomb, and as soon as she

could, she was going out there. The Bible even tells us this,

that she was going while it was still dark.

She came to the tomb when darkness was still hovering over

the earth. She was making her way there,

not out of obligation, of course, but out of her devotion.

She was making her way there. But this darkness that the Bible

speaks of, that while it was yet dark, we're not just even

talking. And we are to a certain degree,

but not just talking about a natural darkness that happens in

the early morning before the sun comes over the horizon, but I

believe that darkness could also be seen for the condition of

that time. There's emotional darkness.

There's a lot of confusion even in the minds of some of the

disciples and the people of that day.

There's spiritual darkness. There's circumstantial darkness

all around. The people thinking is not this

the third day? And yet it seems as though they

have not seen anything. And here's a woman that's on her

way in the middle of all of this type of darkness that if anybody

knew darkest darkness in those senses of emotional and

circumstantial, she knew because she was the woman that had seven

devils in her at one time. If she ever knew darkness, she

knew darkness in her past. She knew what that felt like.

She knew what she had experienced.

She knew the torment, if you will, of that darkness in her

own life. Yet in the dark of that early

morn, Mary went, and she didn't look.

She went not because the light was over the horizon, or the

weather perhaps was just right, or the lighting was just right.

She didn't wait for the perfect moment, as others might have

been waiting for it to go. No, she went.

Even though there wasn't any light left, even though there

wasn't any light shining yet. She says, I'm going to go.

It might not be the perfect time, but I'm going to go

nonetheless. And she comes with her grief,

She comes with her worry, She comes with her despair, she

comes with her bewilderment. She came, if you will, to the

tomb broken. She came grieving.

She came uncertain about what's going on.

She came with questions. Maybe she came with some doubts.

She came with what she's seen on that early morning prior to

getting there, thinking this is an unfinished work.

She's coming with love, Amen. And those others may have been

journeying with her. She's being pushed out among all

the rest because she wasn't just visiting the grave.

She was seeking her savior. She was seeking her savior.

It wasn't about Amen, just going Amen and seeing what's

happening, like being someone on the outskirts of just did it

happen or did it not happen? She was seeking her savior.

And there's all types of other people that would come.

Even in John 20. There'd be Peter and there'd be

John and there would be the other women.

But Mary, Mary was first. Mary was first.

And the miracle, though, for Mary remains the same for every

other person that would come in the daylight, The miracle that

she experienced in the darkness on that early morning was the

same. The tomb was empty.

What I'm saying this morning is this, you don't have to worry.

Wait for the perfect opportunity to come to the empty tomb.

It's not when everything in your life is just exactly the way you

think it should be and the American Dream is being played

out in your story. No, you can come while it's

still yet dark. You can come whenever

circumstances are not favorable in your life, when you have some

questions and you have some doubts and you've been filled

with despair because the miracle of the empty tomb, regardless of

where you are in life, it's going to spell the same.

It's empty. And there is a power in the

risen Christ that's available for whosoever.

Will we have to wait for perfect conditions to experience the

risen King? Because we all find ourselves in

seasons of darkness. We all find ourselves confronted

with grief, confusion, sometimes uncertainty.

Ray. But even in the dark, the tomb's

empty. This morning.

If I say it like this, the perfect moment for you is the

present moment. For you, the perfect moment is

the present moment, even if it's later in your life.

It's like Brother McGee, I'm in the golden years of my life.

My ship has already sailed. I've shown up too late to the

tomb. I've shown up too late to the

grave. Somebody's got there ahead of

me, but the invitation is still the same.

Regardless where you are in your personal physical story of life,

young, middle-aged, golden years, the message is still the

same. Come and see is what they said.

Come and see and you might not encounter the risen Christ in

the same way as somebody else, but the tomb is still testifying

that it is empty. Young or old, if you're a

skeptic, it's empty. If you're seeking for him, it's

empty. If you're early in your life,

you empty. It's it's empty.

If you're late, if this is a later season in your life, it's

empty. Notice what the Bible says in

the Gospel of Mark. And we carry these, these

stories of the resurrection and the death and the crucifix all

through the Gospels in Mark 16 and verse 3.

This is what the Scripture says. And they said among themselves,

who shall roll us away the stone?

These are Mary and a couple of the other women that's on their

way to the tomb, another side of what happens in the resurrection

story. Who shall roll us away the stone

from the door of the sepulcher. And when they look, they saw

that the stone was rolled away, for it was very great.

Mary knew, several of them knew that whenever they went home on

that, that night that Jesus was crucified, they knew and had

seen a stone rolled upon the door.

They understood that there was a Roman seal on that.

They understood that there would be soldiers guarding that.

So as she is on her way on that, on that morn, she's thinking in

her mind, if we're going to do anything concerning the body of

Christ, what are we going to do about the large stone that is at

the door? Amen.

They're, they're even asking them among themselves.

They know it is a obstacle that they're going to have to contend

with. What are, what are we, what are

we, us girls going to do about the stone?

But the Bible says when she arrived, the stone was already

rode away. The very thing that she thought

would be an obstacle. Amen to the tomb.

The very thing that she thought was an obstacle to the body of

her Lord had already been handed handled before she got there.

And so if you're approaching the Lord today and thinking, but

there's a lot of obstacles in the way there, there seems to be

a lot of things between me and him, and I don't know if I can

approach him. I don't know if I can get there.

If that's looming in your mind today, I guarantee you if you

start to make your way toward the tomb, He already made

provision to start removing some of the obstacles out of the way.

Hey man, someone shame in because some of it's like, no, I

can't approach that because I got the obstacle of my past.

No, I can't approach that I got the obstacle of my shame.

No, I can't approach that I got the obstacle of my doubt and my

fear. How do I get past my past?

How can how can I do what I need to do?

How can I make this work? I'll tell you how.

Go on and start the trip with just one step and watch the

obstacle that's looming the greatest in your mind.

What are we going to do? You may be sitting here today

wondering that what am I going to do about this XYZ?

Make the trip. Make the trip.

If you'll pursue him, he'll clear the path.

He'll help make the path clear. The stone was rowed away.

I say this and I think about this every resurrection, but the

stone was rowed away. Not so he could get out.

He was already out. The stone was rowed away so you

could get in. Resurrection Day today is so

that you might get in. So the invitation of come and

see, you are invited to come and be a part Amen of this body of

Christ that he calls himself. It's an invitation.

It's not an exit as much as it is an entrance.

It's an invitation. It was for our benefit.

It was providing access to justify and even validate what

he said he would do. Look again in our text of John

20 and verse 10. Then the disciples went away

again into their own home. This is after Peter and John's

been there. They've looked at it.

They went back home, the Bible says, but Mary stood without it.

The sepulcher weeping as she wept, she stooped down and

looked into the sepulchre. She sees 2 angels, one at the

head, one at the feet. There where Jesus had lain.

They send her. Why are you weeping?

She says because they've they've taken.

Take it away my Lord. I don't know where they've laid

him. Peter and John had come to the

tomb, almost had a foot race it would seem.

One to ride before the other. One went in before the other,

but they went in. Eventually.

They saw the linen clothes in the napkin line there in the

absence of a body, and they went home.

But not Mary. She stayed, She lingered, she

wept. Her grief just it wasn't just

theoretical. Her grief was deeply personal.

That's the man that delivered me.

Seven demons. That man saw me at my worst.

That man saw me at my worst. And he gave me unconditional

love despite my worst. And so pardon me if I'm a little

concerned about where he's at. Pardon me if I'm a little

concerned about where his body is.

Because I've ran into a lot of other people in my life that saw

me at my worst and didn't have the compassion, didn't have the

understanding that that man had. Other people can leave and go

home, but I got to linger because he waited on me.

Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost right now.

He, he waited on me. Of all the disciples that he

had, Mary perhaps, maybe one of them to owed him the most.

She was, she was willing then, at this moment, to do the most.

She looks into the tomb. She sees those angels.

She sees them there where he would have been laid.

She, she understands that the empty grave is just not an

absence in this moment, But there is it.

It's almost signifying that there was something here.

Amen. And there's almost something

still here, though I don't see it with my eye right now.

This, this, this place of death had become a new mercy seat, if

you will. Amen for Mary.

Amen. It's been a place where God had

met with them, with all the world, right here in a tomb, not

with judgment, but with resurrection power.

And she asked him, where has Jesus been taken?

It wasn't a theological question.

It was the words of love that was porn from her mouth.

Tell me where you've laid him and I'll take him away.

Can you imagine that just for a moment, a lone woman saying, if

you can tell me where the body is, I'll carry it away.

Some lone woman going to carry the dead way of a man that's in

a lifeless man in a tomb. How in the world you think

you're going to do that, Mary? Because Mary's love wasn't

intimidated by the weight or the burden of carrying her Savior

because she remembered the way that he had lifted up off of

her. My God, I imagine she's probably

saying if I can carry 7 devils inside my body, I can carry 1

Savior if it's necessary. She's willing to do this if I

speak just to 1st Apostolic Church, just for a moment here.

When you think what he's carried for you, your guilt, your shame,

your failures. Carrying him is not a burden.

Being mindful of him is not a burden.

Jesus has freed me. So there's nothing but he would

even ask if he did. There's nothing that He wouldn't

ask of me to carry. That seems too heavy when I

think what He carried for me and look at verses 14 through 16

this morning. I'm not going to read them, but

it seems whenever Mary first has this interaction with Jesus, she

doesn't fully recognize him. And we talked a little bit about

this last week, but not only that, grief can be very

blinding. Whenever you're in the emotional

moment of just being totally distraught, it can be very

blinding and trauma and things like that.

It can just totally even disfigure everything that's

familiar to you. And she's in that place right

now and she doesn't totally recognize Him right away.

But the moment that she did recognize him is when he said

her name was in a sentence per SE, just her name.

And he says Mary one word and everything changed concerning

her understanding. He didn't rebuke her.

He didn't explain all of the the theological measures of what

just happened. He just said Mary, and it wasn't

his appearance then that revealed him to her.

It was his voice. It's his voice.

The scripture says that the shepherd can call his sheep by

their name. She's not recognizing him in the

moment, but she recognizes the familiarity of that one saying

Mary. Perhaps she heard that same

voice trying to pull her out of the vices of seven demonic dark

forces one day. Perhaps in that hour she heard

the same voice, Mary, and there's something that's

clicking in her spirit right now.

I know that voice. She turns to respond to him.

Rabbani, which means master. But if you look a little further

at it there in the scripture, it means more than master.

It actually means my master. That changes the story.

I can call master here, master there, master everywhere, but

whenever I put the my on the front of that, that gets very

personal. He's not just any master or that

person's master or that society's master.

He's my master. Something.

Oh my God, I'm here to tell you today.

You can leave a empty tomb this morning with on your lips, my

master. Not just master, not just

acknowledgement, not just my master, but Oh yes.

Smarty. He knows your name.

He knows your name before he forever started stitching

together the fiber and the veins and the arteries and the cells

that make you who you are. He knew your name and he's not.

I said your name. I know the world may know you by

your title and they may know you by by your job description.

But he knows your name. Not just your reputation, but

your name. He knows your story.

He knows your pain. He knows your change.

He knows the journey you're being on.

He Oh yes, Woo. And it just something that

happens when you hear him call your name.

Everything else fades in the background.

Everything else slips into oblivion when he calls your

name. But she didn't recognize how

recognition dawns on her at the hearing of her name.

At that point, the resurrection makes sense.

At that point, it becomes very personal.

There could be someone that's walked in here today because in

the days and the weeks leading up to this service deciding

where you're going to go and where you're going to be, he's

been calling your. Peter and John, they visit the

tomb as well. John 20 verses 3 through 10.

John 20:3–10

You can look at it again. I'm not going to read it this

morning for time purposes, but Peter and John ran to the tomb.

The Bible says that John outran Peter.

He didn't go in though when he got to the to the opening of the

tomb, Scripture describes as though he stooped, He saw the

linen clothes. Peter arriving just a little bit

later. Second, he did not just stay at

the opening, but he went on end. He saw more than what John had

saw as a result. He saw the linen clothes, yes,

but in addition he saw the napkin that was voted together

by itself. And then John, I guess, well, he

went in. I can, you know, type of thing.

You know how we are humanity. So John goes in, and then John

saw everything Peter had saw. And the Scripture puts this

little tagline then on John's experience, him having seen

everything that Peter had saw. The Bible says he saw it all and

believed. Again, John's believing not

because he saw Jesus, but because he saw what Jesus left

behind. Grave clothes, napkin folded

together. No rush, no panic, no robbery.

Just order, intention, a serenity of peace.

There are times, and you may be here this morning, you may have

visit the tomb and you're not seeing the complete picture

perhaps of the resurrection. But if you stay around the empty

tomb long enough, you'll start to see what he left behind.

Sometimes for our generation, it's what's in the lives of the

people that know him. The testimony left, the witness

left, the sign left, the change lives that are left, the word of

God that is left. And when we see that, oftentimes

we believe. So you may not see in Jesus in

the flesh, but can you still believe by the things that he's

left that you see a parent in the lives of others is really

that's how we live. We're living a life by faith,

not because we see him in his flesh and blood form as they

did, but we see the chain of events of results of what he

left when he went away. So we talked about Mary, the

other women, Peter, John, but what about you?

What will you do with the empty tomb?

Because each one that came to the tomb responded a shade

differently. Mary lingered and stayed.

Peter walked away, pondering John's believing.

But the power of an empty tomb is this.

It demands a response from each one, and it requires a response

from you. You may not understand

everything. Many of them did not.

They didn't understand all the dynamics of what had just really

happened in those three days. Scripture even says to us in

verse 9 of John 20 speaking that they did not yet understand that

he must rise from the dead. Didn't even really get that.

Listen to me this morning though.

Understanding is not a prerequisite to belief.

You can believe something without understanding the full

dynamics of something. Every time you get into your

vehicle and you put that key in the ignition and you turn it

over. Is there anybody here that can

stand up and tell me all the mechanical processes that

happened the moment that you turn that key?

No, couldn't begin to tell you, but it works, don't it?

I can go back here and turn on or off that light switch back

there. Lights going to come on and off,

but I can't explain to you everything that needs to be

explained. What happens with the

electricity and through the light bulbs and and the ohms and

the voltage. And I cannot explain that.

I don't understand that. But it works.

And when I flip it, in essence, it's an act of faith.

It's going to work, but I don't understand it.

But my understanding doesn't keep me from believing and

responding. So you might not know everything

about the crucifix. You might not know anything

about the resurrection. You might know it, not know much

of anything about a life of God. But you don't have to understand

everything in order to respond by faith.

You can believe for what you do understand.

John's like he's not here. I believe that it's there's some

things left you can obey. You can obey before you have

every answer and let me tell you, I'm 40 be 47 years old

right here. I still don't have every answer,

but I believe and I can tell you it works.

The old song used to say concerning the experience of

God's Spirit inside of one. We used to sing it that I can't

explain it, but I got it. I got it, I got it.

There's something about the power of the Holy Ghost.

I can't explain it. What's that?

Not having the full understand of all the dynamics of it.

But that didn't keep me from experiencing it.

So you don't have to fully comprehend in order to fully

receive for that matter, and this is kind of a side note, but

the Scripture tells us that when you receive God's Spirit, it

becomes a on board teacher to you.

You'll lead and guide you into all truth comes a teacher to you

if you'll stand with me this morning Paul wrote and if

there's ever a chapter in the Bible you want to read

concerning resurrection, please just read First Corinthians 15.

Man talking about all the if ands and the what ifs if there

wasn't and if there was a resurrection.

Paul wrote basically that if Christ be not risen then our

preaching is in vain. He said that your faith also

your faith be in vain. And he said we would yet be in

our sins if it were not for the resurrection.

In other words, this morning, without the resurrection, we

would have nothing. No hope, no forgiveness, no

purpose, no future. But with the resurrection,

everything changes. Because he lives, your sins can

be forgiven. Because he lives, your past,

whatever that looks like, whatever that looks like, can be

redeemed. Because he lives, your future

can be secured. Because he lives, as the writer

said, he can turn your mourning into dancing.

Because he lives, he can take your darkness, can turn it into

life. Because again, the empty tomb

isn't just a historical fact, it's a personal invitation.

He still calls names. He still calls names, he still

rolls away stones, he still leaves signs behind him.

He still gives strength and life through his name.

So again, I asked this morning, what will you do if we in bow

our heads today? What will you do with the empty

tomb? If you've never believed this

morning, If you've never believed, maybe you're a John.

If you've never believed, invite you to come today.

Maybe you believe somewhere along the way and life grew

weary. It got complex, got confusing.

Perhaps you steered off a path that you once embraced.

If that's you, the invitation is the same.

Come. Or maybe, man, I feel the Holy

Ghost on this this morning. Maybe you need to hear him call

your name, your name. Maybe in this life you've been

some like some of those in the New Testament that there's been

things and consequences and circumstances that have happened

in your life that now become the definer for you.

You know, it's kind of like you're the blind man or you're

the you're the one that stole the goods or you are a rebellor.

Like no one calls you by your name anymore.

They just call you by your mistake, and they call you by

your infraction, and they call you by your confusion, and they

call you by your past. Maybe you came today because you

was hoping you would be at a place that rather than seeing me

for my mistakes, I can enter. A place my feet can somehow just

skirt the emptiness of a tomb. And rather than a reminder of

what I've done or where I've been, I could hear him say Fred.

Paula Hunter. I could hear him.

Just say my name. He's alive today.

The tomb is empty today. And your response to that tomb

could mean everything for you at this juncture of the road.

These altars are open. Listen, you can come here with

your disbelief. You can come here with your

questions. You can come here with your

doubts. You can come here with your

shame, your guilt, whatever it may be, whatever the laundry

list may be. You can come today.

It won't change the fact that the tomb's empty.

It won't change the fact he's left some things behind,

indicators of where he was. And it won't change the fact

that he still knows your name. What will you do with the empty

tomb today? Will you believe?

What will you do with the empty tomb?

Will you linger? What will you do with the empty

tomb? Will you just leave pondering?

There's a choice today. There's a response today.

What will you do with the empty tomb?

These altars are open. I'm asking as many that would

that would respond could come or even in your Pew, or kneeling at

your Pew, or with a raised hand or a closed eye.

However it is you wish to express that, start having a

conversation with God right now. I hear him calling names today.

I hear Him calling names today. I just don't recognize.

Let His name bring clarity. Let His name bring, let that

name bring clarity into your life.

Let that name, if you will clear up some confusion, you may not

understand. Just believe, you may not

understand. Just respond by faith and

obedience and God will meet you there.

He's removing the obstacles right now.

And there's a great storm between me and Him.

He's removing the obstacles right now.

Is it dark in your life? Go on and come.

Is it?