The Revelation of Christ's Resurrection | Pastor Paul McGee

It's wonderful today, Hallelujah, praise the name of

Jesus, Amen. You can stand with me today.

If you're still in here, turn to Matthew chapter #12 and a lot of

really a lot of thanks could be given also today, Amen, with the

events of thing. I give thanks to brother Alex

Mason traveling with myself Amen on Friday for our turn around

less than 24 hour trip Amen of getting these seats back home

and so appreciate him going with me making the sacrifice to do

so. And then we had a few different

people here that yesterday, Brother Fred was here, Bishop, I

know help, Brother Reese was here, and then my daughter and

then Alex and Grace was here. And I'm not saying that

disrespectfully, but a few different ones for carrying in,

cleaning off the bottoms and putting an order and so on and

so forth. And just this week we're talking

about some of the things need done leading up to Easter and of

course, getting the lot done. Sister Sheila took care of

making sure that would be done. And and I, I knew we need to get

the weeds out of our landscaping.

Always happens to the winter and spring come we get more grass in

our landscaping. Do we do in the lawn?

And so he was here cleaning that out when we left with a calendar

like meeting with some of our leaders on Thursday.

We just talked about it in meeting.

He was, he was just in tune. I mean, he, he was out there in

the rain getting weeds and such. And so we appreciate him for

doing so. Amen.

Matthew chapter #12 And I'm going to read verse 38 and

several several weeks ago I started on this Revelation bit

and I didn't really plan on going like 5 weeks or anything

like that or his things, but this will be the end of it.

OK, this is this. I'm convinced it's the end.

And you might think I'm a week off because I want to talk about

the revelation of Christ's resurrection and I understand

today's Palm Sunday. I'd get that I'm not a week off.

This is just how it goes, all right?

I sometimes preach thematically, meaning that the special times

three years, like when Independence Day, I'll preach

your long independence Oregon, blah blah, blah.

And there's other times I don't all right.

And if the if the spirit leads, the Lord directs, then so forth.

But here we are today. Matthew chapter #12 So if you've

been here for any of the revelation lessons, messages,

whatever you wish to call them, this this is connected to to

that Matthew rather Matthew 12 verse 38.

Matthew 12:38

Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered,

saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.

But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous

generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given

to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas or Jonah in the

Old Testament. For as Jonas was 3 days and

three nights in the Wells belly, so shall the Son of Man be 3

days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation

and shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching

of Jonas. And behold, a greater than Jonas

is here again. I want to talk to us today about

the revelation of Christ's resurrection of Christ's

resurrection today. Can we lift our voices one more

time in prayer and ask the Lord to help us here today?

Father, I thank you, Lord, for your goodness.

I pray, O Lord Jesus, bring revelation, Lord, in our lives

today. God, we are on the cusp Lord of

entering that time of celebrating your resurrection.

I pray, O Lord, open our minds and understanding to your word.

I pray Jesus today you're able to touch us afresh and a new

God, those here God, those that may be watching online, God that

you're able to bring the Lord God is spirit of enlightenment.

Lord God, our minds and our hearts.

God today concerning this in the lovely name of Jesus Christ that

I pray Hallelujah and Amen of the church say Amen, Amen.

You may be seated this morning. Someone says thank you, thank

you, God bless you, Amen. The resurrection of Jesus

Christ, the resurrection and we are we're right here on the the

cusp of celebrating that of course, next week, Amen.

According to our calendar and such.

But the resurrection of Jesus Christ him coming back to life

differs from some of the others prior to him that came back to

life. All right there's a difference

really we we read through the Gospels of for instance, the

widow son that had came back from from life the widow of name

her son Jesus touched the coffin and he comes back to life.

We read in scripture also of Jerrys daughter who came back to

life after he being dead. We even, we even read of

Lazarus, Jesus standing in that tomb speaking those words,

Lazarus come forth and him coming back to life as well.

And all those individuals, the widow son of all those that I've

mentioned, they all, they all were revived in their bodies,

revived with life, but their bodies by and large wasn't

materially different than what they were before.

And as a matter of fact, each one of them would eventually

meet death again. They they would go by way of the

grave again. However, whenever Jesus

resurrected from the dead, we understand and we read in the

Gospel some of the, the great feats and great acts of Jesus,

even after his resurrection. And we read such things like

this that, that there's times that he is what appears as you

read in Scripture. He's walking through walls all

right, there's closed doors and he's I don't know about you, but

in this physical body I have right now, if I walk toward that

wall, you're going to hire a thud that's that's as good as

it's going to get all right, but but Jesus is walking through

walls where there's closed doors.

As a matter of fact, his bodily appearance seems to be very

seems to be like it was before at least the appearance of it.

But the essence is that it was different.

It wasn't the same body, so to speak, that He was put in the

ground with the Angel had met Mary there at the tomb whenever

Mary went to the tomb to see concerning her Lord and Savior

and the Angel indeed told her that He is risen and with the

Lord, unlike these others that had been revived, death never

revisited him. Death never revisited his body.

We read in first Corinthians 15 in first Corinthians 15 is a

whole chapter really about the resurrection.

If you've never read it before, I suggest that you do so.

But there are some verses in first Corinthians 15 verse #42

starting it says these words. So also is the resurrection of

the dead. It is sown in corruption, but

it's raised in incorruption. It's sown in dishonor, but it is

raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is

raised in power. It is sown a natural body, but

it is raised a spiritual body. There's a natural body and

there's a spiritual body. The Apostle Paul speaking to the

church at Corinth and he is telling them and he uses as an

analogy, and I've spoke of this to this extent before here, but

he uses an analogy of like seeds that are put or planted are sown

in the ground. That the seed that you put in

the ground, that's not necessarily the same form that

it comes out of the ground. You, you put a acorn in the

ground and it's not as though it comes up looking like what was

put into the ground, right? It it has a different body, if

you will. It's not what is sown.

It's not the same thing that comes up.

And So what that's what the apostle Paul is alluding to

here. He says whenever there's a

resurrected body, that which goes into the ground is not

identical or the same. It's not 100% the same.

The Jesus resurrection, though, on that matter, whenever he came

for from the tomb, it was more than just spirit that came from

the tomb. It's more than just spirit that

came from the tomb. He did have a body of some

magnitude. He did have a body of some

degree. As a matter of fact, we read in

Scripture in Luke 24 that Jesus did come among his disciples

after the resurrection, and he come before them and they were

startled. The Bible says they were

startled supposing they had seen a spirit is what the Scripture

says. They're startled seeing him #1

he's supposed to be dead, right? And so they're startled

supposing that they had seen a spirit and Jesus is then replied

to them from that, knowing what was in their minds and their

hearts. He told them, he said it is I

myself. What did he tell them?

He said handle me, handle me and see.

He said, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me

have. This is the resurrected Christ

saying that. This is the resurrected Christ

saying that a spirit don't have flesh and bones as I have right

now. So he still had some magnitude

of a body after his resurrection, but it just wasn't

exactly the same body that he had prior to the resurrection

because he's refuting all their thinking that this is just a

spirit. No, handle me, I can be that you

can feel me. I have flesh and I have bones.

As a matter of fact they went to the degree and Thomas for sure

wanted this when he seen the Lord.

He wanted to feel, you know, the nail prints in his hands and

where the spear went through his side.

And all of those things are, are bodily wounds that the Lord had

from his previous time of being alive.

And they wanted to fill all those things.

And so Paul said it right, Absolutely.

In First Corinthians 15, Paul said that the resurrected body,

it's different. It's a glorified body.

It's a powerful body. It's a spiritual body.

And so Jesus came back resurrected in the in a bodily

life type of form, but it wasn't exactly like that which hung on

the cross because now he's going through walls right there in

their presence, right? And he's going to shoot himself

alive by many infallible proofs the Bible says.

And so here's the thing. If if this death defying feat of

him this death defying feat of him alive on whenever Jesus

spoke to Mary after his resurrection, he to meet me at

Galilee, just like I aforementioned before I was ever

crucified that they meet me there at Galilee.

Go tell them to do that. And so she went and told them

that the Lord and if you'll remember she she spelled out

specifically and Peter, you know I want you all to meet the Lord

allely disciples of the Lord like Peter, James and John.

We're talking about household disciple names that whenever

they got there. The Bible tells us that there

were some that worshipped, but there were others that doubted.

That's right. Yeah.

Among those that ate with him, you know, climbed hills with

him, seeing the miraculous done by him, there were some that

were worshipping as a result of seeing him pass the resurrection

there others that still had some doubts in their mind.

As a matter of fact, whatever Jesus appeared to Mary

Magdalene, Amen. She she told those that had been

with him during his earthly ministry.

Again she told them, hey, I've been there, I've seen it.

The tomb is empty, but he is alive.

From her own her own first account witness of what she had

been exposed to the Bible says many of them did not believe her

and it was typical. And I don't I don't get out in

the waters of this. And and this is not a male

chauvinist statement here. This is just a cultural thing.

In those days, they they just had a problem believing they

thought women were unreliable. Right or wrong, right or wrong,

they thought they were unreliable, which is simply the

case. So whenever they spoke those

words to her, Scripture even tells us in one of the Gospels,

they received her words as though it was just some idle

tale. They couldn't put no credence.

They couldn't put no, no, no, no weight in that because it came

from Mary. But then the Bible tells us

there were two other disciples. This is spoken in one of the in

one of the Gospels, presumably the two that were on their way

to Emmaus in scriptures that whenever they had their

interactive action with the resurrection Jesus, the Bible

says they they left Emmaus and they went back to where the

other disciples were and they begin to share with them every

thing that they had experienced. And once again, the Scripture

says this, that those two who told their story to the others,

the others did not believe, Amen, did not believe.

Then much later in Acts 17, and, and I can almost even accept

this more than the disciples saying they didn't believe.

Much later in Acts 17, the apostle is there at Athens and

he's talking to people that are not in covenant with the Lord

and just at him mentioning the resurrection from the dead.

The Bible says that they even mocked.

Well, I can see that maybe someone that has no, no, if you

will, relationship with Jesus Christ saying, well, that's just

a bunch of whatever I'm talking about.

There were many instances of the disciples where there were

certain disbelief among them. But something had to happen,

right? Because we read in scripture

these disciples, many of them unbelieving in disbelief, so on

and so forth. And somewhere along the way,

these very same ones then started to embrace the fact that

the one that said he died and rise the Thursday he is indeed

like. They started believing that

doubters became believers. The ones that were questionable

became believers. So something had to happen.

Something had to change in order for them to say no, it didn't

happen. To announce that being, if you

will, the voice that says it did happen, something had to change.

The Bible tells us, and we see it.

For one thing, we remember that whenever Mary come and told the

disciples, the Bible says that Peter and John gets in this foot

race as though it seems on the way to the tomb for them to

witness for themselves these very things.

And the Bible says when they get there, they witness that the

tomb is empty. They know emphatically that that

had to be in a filled tomb. It was a borrowed tomb, but they

had been a filled tomb with Christ's body, but now it is

empty. So for one thing, they had their

own witness, sister, she lives seeing with their own eyes of

what should have been there was not there.

The Bible tells us, Mary Magdalene, she thought when she

got the tomb and seen the condition, that hey, there's not

a body here, She evens going around like where?

Where have they taken my Lord? Somebody's taking him.

Where? Where his body, somebody's

taking him. She's speaking.

If you'll just tell me where he's at, I'll take care of the

body. I'll make sure he's tended to.

If you can just tell me where it's at.

As a matter of fact, we understand then that that opened

up a whole, if you will, nest of rumors and lies.

Amen. In the 1st century, the Romans

started rumoring around that the disciples came during the night

and they stole the body of the Lord Jesus Christ away.

As a matter of fact, the tells us that they even paid some

money to a few folks. If you can start the rumor, if

you can get word around. But this is indeed what's

happened. While the soldiers slept, they

came in and they stole away the body.

Amen. But you got to understand, in

order for that to happen, in order for that rumor to be true,

that the disciples stole away the body of the Lord Jesus

Christ, here's what had to happen.

You had to have these disciples who were very fearful during all

of this time of the Lord being apprehended, arrested,

crucified. They're very fearful at this

time. They're on egg shells.

Point in case at Gethsemane when they all should have been

praying and the band of soldiers show up with their swords and

with their stage at Gethsemane. The Bible tells us all of them

fled. As a matter of fact, we only

have really in the Bible we know of just a couple that's even

showing up at the crucifix that we know John was there.

And it seems like maybe Peter may have been there.

But we really don't have record of anybody else's per SE.

And so if, if, if the rumor is true that they stole, if they

stole the body away, you're going to have to have a bunch of

fearful disciples come to a tomb that was sealed with a Roman

tomb and guarded by soldiers. Remove a stone while soldiers

slept. I'm sure that's not the quietest

thing to do, Remove a stone while the soldiers slept and not

disturb them. And that they would be able to

get beyond their fear that if someone woke up, they're going

to be OK. I'm going to say Amen.

Not only that, there's other, we have other evidence here.

These soldiers, if they fell asleep, Roman law had it, if

those soldiers fell asleep and they lost the body that they

were supposed to be guarding. Scripture tells us in other

places when soldiers have been given the responsibility over a

prisoner or someone like that, it was his life for their life.

If they lost the one, then they're going to their life is

going to be done with. And so here are these men that

are falling asleep. If they lost a body, they may

have just easily been killed. So we have disciples the

impossibly showing up at a very potentially dangerous time at

the garden tomb. Amen.

And they're going to still await the body when they couldn't even

appear at the cross. Someone say Amen.

But another proof is that Jesus's resurrection he appeared

to many that knew him before his death, after his death, and they

could confirm that's him. The Bible says in your Bible in

Acts chapter #1 that after his passion, which is his death,

burial and resurrection, after his passion he shooed himself

alive. He showed himself to them by

many infallible proofs, being seen of them, His disciples for

40 days after his resurrection. Jesus is making house calls left

and right after his resurrection.

He's showing up to people that knew him before he was ever

crucified. After his resurrection, he

appeared to Mary Magdalene. He appeared to many of his

female followers as well. According to the scripture.

He appeared to Simon Peter, James and John, and Thomas and

Nathaniel. He appeared to two other

disciples. He appeared to the whole 11 as a

group. There was a unnamed disciple.

The Bible speaks of that. He appeared to.

The book of Corinthians says there were more than 500

brethren at once that he had shown himself to.

Amen. On one hand, we could even point

to the fact, listen, we have people after Jesus resurrected

that they went on preaching the gospel in the ministry of the

Lord Jesus Christ. You know what they were doing,

Brother Reese. They didn't care how dangerous

it was. They were to the point of

surrendering their very lives as martyrs for the truth of the

death and the burial of resurrection.

If it was a farce, if it was untrue, why in the world would

you give yourself to something that has no no meaning to it, no

truth to it? But they said I'm willing to

die. Peter says you can crucify me

upside down because I'm not even worthy to be crucified right

side up as he is. If anything else, they were

willing to give their all for what had taken place and what

had happened. Someone say Amen.

But just equally important as all of that.

Is that the resurrection fulfills scripture as much as

His crucifixion fulfills Scripture.

We have stuff from the Old Testament.

We talk about no bone of his body being broke.

We talk about Him being pierced with all these things of Old

Testament prophecies that are fulfilled in his crucifixion.

But there is Scripture that's fulfilled in his resurrection as

well. The Bible says, and you can look

at it, Jesus references a passage from the Old Testament

that supports Paul's statement. Paul said that he was raised on

the third day in accordance with Scripture, was raised on the

third day in accordance with Scripture.

And so in our text, Jesus is really using an Old Testament

passage that supports this, this statement, if you will,

Scripture being fulfilled. He said they're asking for a

sign. Remember we talked about that a

few weeks ago, but they're asking for a sign.

And he says there shall no sign be given you but the sign of the

prophet Jonas. Jonas spent three days and three

nights in the wells belly and said like like means or likewise

shall the Son of Man spend 3 days and three nights in the

heart of the earth from our previous studies and you may go

back to listen them. In our previous studies we made

it clear that the messages we have established that the Son of

man was the Messiah was Jesus Christ.

Doctor Brandt says this, it's interesting and you could go

really either way as you read the scripture of Jonah, he says.

But if you read the book of Jonah carefully, you will

discover something interesting. The author of the book never

claims that Jonah remained alive for three days and three nights

in the fish. In fact, it pretty explicitly

says that Jonah died and went to the realm of the dead.

Jonah chapter one, verse 17. Now the Lord had prepared a

great fish to swallow you ready to go back to Sunday school?

So we have got the little fish out today, a great fish out to

swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of

the fish 3 days and three nights.

If you go to verse 2, I believe it is of chapter #2 and we begin

to look at the prayer of Jonah. He says out of the belly of

hell, which is show pride eye show is a Old Testament

designation for the abode of the dead.

So he's saying out of the belly of the abode of the dead.

I cried, Jonah says in verse 5 of that same chapter.

He said the waters come passing me about even to the soul.

He said the earth with her bars was about me forever.

Yet thou has brought up my life from corruption many times to

the Old Testament. When you read corruption Amen.

It is talking about the grave or destruction.

You remember Paul said in first Corinthians 1542 that even the

resurrection from the dead, they're sown in what they're

sown in corruption, but they're raised in in corruption.

The psalmist David said it like this or Psalms rather Psalm 16

and verse 10 and we read this in New Testament Scripture as well.

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, which is show the

grave, neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption

again speaking concerning the the the the decomposition, the

destruction that one would find being in the grave.

Then in Jonah 2 and verse 10 back to Jonah 2 and 10.

The Bible says, tells us that the fish vomited out Jonah.

That's always a nice verse to read.

And it gives you just, yeah, it vomited out Jonah.

If he was in fact, and you listen, I'm not saying, listen,

maybe he was alive. Maybe he was dead.

Maybe what he's saying in chapter #2 maybe it's all

poetic, Amen. Referencing death.

Or maybe he was dead. Maybe it's a reference that he

died. But if so, if Jonas vomited out

this body or this corpse is vomited out here on the dry

ground, the Bible says here are the first words so that God

spoke to a vomited out Jonah and Jonah, I know, I'm sorry.

It should I say he like, yeah, regurgitated.

Would that be better? Jonah chapter 3 and verse #2 the

Jonah 3 · chapter mention

first words of God to him, right.

So you can go two ways. You can assume he's vomited out

and he's there alive, or he's vomited out, he's there dead.

The first word that God speaks to him is arise.

Now what's interesting about this word arise in the Hebrew,

it's kum says arising, going to Nineveh, that great city, and

preach and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

But that group, that Hebrew word arise kum, has its Aramaic

equivalent in the New Testament areas eating this is Jesus now

and speaking Jairus's daughter. And he took the damsel by the

hand and said unto her, Kalitha Kumi, which is being

interpreted, damsel. I say unto thee, arise that Old

Testament word here in Mark 5 that's it's Aramaic equivalent

and it's used for someone that was dead that's being called

back to life. And it's the first word we have

in the book of Jonah that God speaks to Jonah after his body

is expelled. How about that?

Expelled on the dry ground. It was a rise.

Jesus says in the New Testament, he said there's no sign going to

be given you, but the sign of Jonah 3 days and three nights in

the wells, barely. And I can accept that.

I can see the Lord was 3 days and three nights in the heart of

the earth. I have no problem with that.

But I'm just saying this morning, consider we're dealing

more than just some poetic reference for death in the book

of Jonah. Consider we're dealing with

something more with just, you know, imagery and things of that

nature. Consider if we're talking about

a Jonah that was dead in the belly.

Amen of well and as we expelled on the ground and the first

words that God spoke to him from, there was a rise which has

its Aramaic equivalent of getting up from death.

Amen and go do the job folks. Whenever I start processing all

that, I'm along with the apostle Paul saying in accordance to

Scripture, he has resurrection. In accordance with Scripture,

he's come back to life dead 3 days, but now life is now

through his veins again, Amen. And so that's wonderful that the

resurrection of Jesus Christ in part is the Son of man, or

Christ Jesus fulfilling the words or the prophecy of Jonah

being three days, three nights in the belly, Amen, of the well.

But there's something else that I think we need to take in

consideration this morning as well.

I think there's another aspect to the sign of Jonah in, in the

book of Jonah chapter #3 because Jonah does arise and he does go

to the city of Nineveh, which was the, the, the, the main city

of the Assyrian Empire. If I say it like this, it was

sister Amaya, A Gentile city, Gentile city.

And he's going there and he's preaching his message.

He's delivering what God told him to deliver.

And as a result of that, we're seeing a Gentile king with

Gentile people and they're putting on sackcloth and they're

rubbing their heads with ashes, which was a sign of repentance.

They were humiliating themselves, so to speak, in the

dust. As a matter of fact, the Gentile

king gives a decree to his people, but they were even going

to fast and that they were going to cry out to God.

That's Jonah 37. They were a Gentile nation, a

Gentile city going to cry out to God because of the message that

they had heard by Jonah. The king even urges every one of

them. He says turn from your evil way.

When you, you, you hear that language of turn in the Old

Testament, that's repentance because, because that's what

repentance is. It's a turn.

It's an about face. It's 180° turn around.

He's telling these Gentile people, Amen, to repent, to turn

from your evil way. And so we have a Gentile city

that is repenting based upon the message that they have heard by

Jonah. What are you saying?

I'm saying this is another aspect of the sign of Jonah

because Jonah, if we can, rose from the dead and he goes with

the message and based upon his message, there's Gentile people

that are starting to repent. Do you know that after the

resurrection of Jesus Christ we see a move into the Gentile

cities and nations of that day greater than before his

resurrection? Whenever he resurrection,

there's Gentile people on the left hand and right hand

throughout Scripture begin to read up that they start to

repent, they start to come to God.

They're a group, even nations, that start to become Christians

and lovers of God based upon the message of a resurrected man.

Hey man, glory. So there's really, he says you,

you, you want, you want a revelation of Christ's

resurrection. I tell you what it is.

It's not just that he was three days and three nights and he was

dead and came back to life, but it's that there is this great

revival among the Gentiles happening after he resurrected

concerning Jonah, likewise concerning the Lord Jesus Christ

after his resurrection. What's he do?

He gathers his disciples together and he gives them what

is popularly called the Great Commission, right?

Go into all the world, not just the Jewish sectors of the world,

but go into all the world, teach them, make disciples, if you

will, of all nations, if I say all nations.

So now the, the primary focus here, the Commission, it's not

just Jewish focused. Christ first came to the earth.

There was still yet a much a bigger Jewish focus than world

focus, right. Later talks about, well, you

know, even the dogs receive the crumbs that come from the

master's table. He's talked to her about my meat

is not for the gentile, but for the Jews, you know, you

understand. And so there is this, this

switch that is coming place here because now the ministry in the

mission is for sure as it was supposed to be, it was a global

mission that included Jews, Samaritan, Gentile, it did not

matter. But all that predominantly

happens after Jesus is resurrected.

It's in those times after his resurrection that we have the

Acts 10 occurrences, right? A Cornelius of the Italian ban,

a Roman centurion a Cornelius of the Italian band, a Roman

centurion. The vision of a sheet coming

down of all these unclean beasts on but it came down 3 as that

which I have cleanse call thou not unclean.

And that's number two. It happened three times and

three individuals were going to show up at his door that by all

law would have been considered unclean.

That thing had happened three times with him.

He didn't hesitate. He went with those men and that

carried him to Cornelius. And it was at Cornelius, in all

of his household, these Gentile people.

What does he start to preach? He preaches Jesus, and while he

yet spoke the Word, they begin to speak in other tongues as the

Spirit of God gave them utterance.

You want a revelation of the resurrection?

Look at the Gentile hall, Look at the Gentile household that's

receiving the gift of God's Spirit.

Amen. It was there Peter's envision

impressed this on him. Acts 10, verse 34 and 35.

Acts 10:34

I'll read it to you. The Bible says.

Then Peter opened his mouth and said of a truth.

Look, look what Peter's saying. This is in this mood with

Cornelius and the Gentile people.

He says of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of

persons, but in every nation, not just the Jewish nation, but

in every nation, He feareth them.

He that feareth Him worketh. Righteousness is accepted with

Him. You know what that's saying?

He's for that one and that one and that one.

There's no one that's out of bounds.

Even the Apostle Paul's ministry was called a light unto the

Gentiles. That's happened after the

resurrection, a light to the Gentiles.

And there's churches being planted.

We see in the book of Acts, there's churches being planted

all throughout the Roman Empire, all throughout a Gentile

littered empire. There's cities like Corinth

where we have the book of Corinthians, the letter that's

written to the church. Then at Corinth, Ephesus, that

city, Ephesians, right, Philippi, that city,

Philippians, Rome, that city, Romans, it's spreading like

wildfire after Jesus's resurrection.

So it goes beyond all these Jewish roots.

It meets the Gentiles as well, and they're embracing that, the

gospel, the death and resurrection, that it occurred.

It happened so that someday in heaven we'll witness what John

witness that there is a number that no man can number prized of

every tribe, every tongue, every nation.

That it will be just like we'd already looked at in weeks past

of the prophecy of Daniel, of that one stone being cut without

hands that takes out every other Kingdom, but then grows into a

such a great mountain that it fuels the whole earth.

Samaritan, Gentile, Japanese, Chinese, Asian, African

American, someone say glory Thomas in handling the

resurrected Christ. It prompted him those famous

words. He handles him.

He's waiting for this moment. He was not there when Jesus

first came. That's Thomas's fault, but he

wasn't there. But whenever he came again,

Thomas handled all those spots and the exclamation from his own

mouth, which was a revelation in essence as he handled the

resurrected Christ was my Lord and my God.

That statement alone brought proof and vindication to

everything that Jesus has been saying in his earthly ministry.

Everything that he done, that was proven.

He was the Messiah and he was more than just a man, He was

divine. You'll stand with me today.

So what are you saying then this morning?

I'm saying this revelation of Christ's resurrection according

to Jesus by his own words in the Gospels, the sign has already

been given. There be no sign but Jonah, 3

days and three nights in the belly of the earth.

And so just as Jonas came from that situation with a message

that changed a Gentile city, Jesus arose also, and a message

continued as well. And listen, that message is

still able to change you today. Some worship, some doubt, but

whether you as a worshipper or a doubter, all were invited.

All were invited. So you don't have to have all

the answers this morning. Hear me well.

I don't have all the answers. You don't have to have all the

answers. You don't even have to feel

qualified. But if you can come in faith

today, faith in the one who conquered death, I guarantee he

can meet us right here this morning.

If you're here today and you're tired of running you, you've

been waiting maybe for the sign, so to speak.

Listen, the sign has already been given.

You need the power of His resurrection in your life.

You need the power of His erection, resurrection in your

home, in your mind, because this is it.

This is it. The tomb is empty.

Jesus is alive, and from that day until now, Amen.

Even though His physical presence isn't here, but His

spirit is, He is still shooing Himself alive by many infallible

proofs, and one of those proofs is lives still being changed by

the message of whosoever will let him come.

So as we come this morning, you can come with your doubts, you

can come with your questions, you can come with your

brokenness. It don't matter.

You don't have to stay in your seat.

You can come with all of those questionable things in your

mind, but you can say, Lord here, my God, just let the power

of your resurrection somehow bring revelation into my life,

that there is victory over death, O God, there's victory

over sin. And because this morning I Satan

these means, because the tomb is empty, we can have open altars

in our churches. Because it is empty, we can have

open altars in our churches. And I'm just asking you today,

can you respond to an old, old sign that is still just as

relevant, still such as powerful as it's ever been?

He arose, there's a message and there was transformation.

And that's still happening today.

That's the only revelation. I need a man of his

resurrection. Some of you today can stand here

and say, Brother McGee, I can testify.

I thought there was no hope for me.

I thought I was beyond hope, beyond reach.

But he came down, he found you. He gave you a second chance.

And you're like, I can testify today of the power of his

resurrection because I've experienced in my I have no

roots, if you will, that maybe maybe some of you don't have no

roots that are Jewish, so to speak, or you don't have this or

you don't have listen, it's the whosoever will chin.

It doesn't matter. Resurrection just busted open

the doors for a way of ministry reaching every tribe, every

nation around the world, and he's still doing it today.

I just sat up on my Facebook. I was sharing the a OJC of the

Philippines not long ago of all the different ones that got

baptized in the Holy Ghost in 2024 and it's just astronomical.

Filipino people Church is being accepted.

It's all happened all over the world.

If you never follow some of our missionaries, you just need to

do it because it's the scope beyond the United States, right?

The whole world knows. I don't need any other evidence

of the power of a resurrected life when I see the resurrected

lives of those from an old life to a new life today.

Hallelujah. Can we just be mindful, The

Lord, right now? I love you, God.

God, I know sometimes we have doubts and I know sometimes we

have unbelief and there's questions and maybe, God, that

we falter in our walk and we falter.

Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus, you gave us the sign, God, it's the

sign that forever changed the world and changed the dynamics

of the life of those that would allow it, Lord Jesus, into the

innermost parts of their lives. Hallelujah, Jesus.

Lord, next week we're going to come in here.

We're going to celebrate that resurrection next week.

We're going to come in here, we're going to lift up that

name. We're going to take special time

to do so. But God, there's no reason why

God can't even celebrate it today.

And what that power and that glorified Lord Jesus means.

Lord for our personal lives, day by day, hour by hour.

God, what it's done for me. God, I might as well been just

another member, Lord of society and Nineveh.

God that was turning Lord from my evil way.

God that went to a mode of repentance, of crying out for

God for mercy. He's still willing to extend it

today. The power of the resurrection

isn't just a power that's known in the 1st century, but it is

trans. It is transition from century to

century. It's still got power.

The blood still has power. That act that signs still has

power. It's able, Hallelujah, the blood

of the crucifix is still able, still able to heal the power,

the resurrection is still able to revive.

Amen. Those from an old life to a new

life and give you a hope for it tomorrow.

Hallelujah, Jesus, let's worship him right now in song.

This altar is open, Amen. And it's open because there is

empty tomb. It's open because there is a

vacancy somewhere in Jerusalem where a body was laid.

I beg you, Lord Jesus, today, God, for a resurrected Christ,

the resurrected Savior. Hallelujah, He's my Messiah.

He's the anointed one. He's my Messiah.

Come on, let's go to the Lord and worship right now.

I love you Jesus. I love you Jesus.

Jesus, thank you for your grace. You came down God.

You reached down and found me. You came down my sin.

Then you watched and clipped.