The Death, Burial, & Resurrection... Now What? | Pastor Paul McGee

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I'm going to begin reading in verse number 10 real quickly in

this. Don't necessarily go on the

podcast right here, but asking the church to help me pray.

We have our national symbols, the Lord.

Jesus Christ General Ministry Conference coming up, very

quickly in the month of June and horse have the privilege of

ministering there. But in addition to that, there

are several different offices on National level that are opening

up and I have been spoken to on a few different things.

Concerning fulfilling one of those National offices or being

a part of a team for another and I've been praying along the

journey for some time. Concerning this about what to

do. I'm just asking you to help me.

Pray God, give me a definitive Direction on what needs to be

done. I am not politicking.

I'm not a politician. I don't go around talking to

people and saying, well, you know a rare.

You get me in there and we'll make the assemblies great again.

N. Okay, and I have always went by

the thing that have God opens the door.

I'll step through the door and so just as just be praying with

me because I will don't want to do any misstep in any direction

or anyway, so what you'd be serving, it will still you.

Have you did. It's got to be the right man for

the right time, if that's me. So be it.

If not, so be, it He-Man. So, I'm just asking for your

prayers and ever. Amen!

Philippians chapter number 3 and verse number 10, The Apostle

Paul States, these words that I may know him. the power of His

Resurrection, The Fellowship of his sufferings Being made

conformable unto his death. If by any means, I might attain

unto the resurrection of the Dead.

Not as though I had already attained. either were already

perfect, but I follow after, if that, I may apprehend that for

which also I am apprehended of Christ, Jesus.

Paul says, I want to know him the power of his resurrection

Fellowship of the sun. Basically his death, his burial,

his resurrection. It's a but I'm not necessarily

counted myself to fully attain interesting.

I'm not killing myself to a fully attain.

The resurrection of the Dead. And he makes this phrase in

verse 12. He says I Endeavor to apprehend

that for which also I am a free handed of Christ Jesus for a

little while tonight Minister this the death burial and

Resurrection. Now, what the death burial and

Resurrection? Now, what?

So much soul of Christendom is focused and arrange the realm.

Those three primary, things of the death burial and

Resurrection. This is those after that has

been fulfilled or taken place. You've been initialized in a

life then so now, what do we do? Where do we go from here?

Lord, I come to you tonight, I'm asking God for your help Lord

here this evening. God crafts there, somebody in

this place. This will be a benefit to, and

God, if it's not in this immediate Place, perhaps there

is somebody by way of podcast Lord, that this will be of some

help or benefit to I pray God. Regardless, whether it's here or

whether it's their pray, O Lord for your anointing Lord, Jesus

upon my lips of play. So, Lord today, God, just of

online god, with your purpose, in your plan, God for the

service tonight. God and I Lord, when I Lord to

my home this evening. Lord, I will give you.

Thanks and praise God. For what you do?

Jesus name that I pray. He man a man.

You may be seated tonight. Jesus name, the death burial and

Resurrection. Now, what?

While it is true this evening and it's already been emphasized

over and over again today that Jesus died and that he was

buried. And that the Bible says that God

raised him up the story. However, does not stop there

though. That seems to be a primary focus

and a goal for every believer, for everything one.

That's ever been in the This, if you will of sin, the story does

not stop. There.

We emulate those steps of the death, burial and resurrection

of Jesus Christ by obeying, the gospel through our repentance,

through our baptism through, are receiving of the Holy Ghost, but

this is not The end to settle back in our Laurel.

So to speak. After are born again, experience

is to misunderstand. Jesus is own Resurrection.

The resurrection in and of itself was not the only climax

in his story. Neither.

Should it be the only climax in our story?

We capitalize on the Passover or what is known.

As Resurrection Day and we capitalize on a feast that

happened. 50 days past that called Pentecost that we rally

around as Pentecostals and Apostolic succession.

We talked about Pentecost because it was the day in our

estimation that the resurrection power was initialized in us.

That what Jesus had happened to him at Passover was initialized

Vietnam in US. On the day of Pentecost, the

church, but there are some other aspects of his resurrection that

we best not. Miss being Children of the most

high God. The Bible tells us that Jesus

was as I taught on Wednesday night.

The first born, or the first begotten from the dead.

In the sense that he rose from the dead into immortality.

Amen? Others Rose as Mortals that

would indeed die again. Not Christ Heroes as an immortal

being never to die again. And so with this being said, the

resurrection of Jesus is is about more than the Dead coming

back to life. It is about the Dead coming back

to life and continuing to live. It's about the Dead coming back

to life and continuing to live. If if the Pentecostal Church in

my personal estimation has failed in any area concerning

the gospel, concerning the death, and the burial and the

resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is in the fact that we have

shared a have the dead can come to life, but we left them

clueless about continuing to live victoriously.

After they've been born again up the water and of the Be right.

This is not me clicking. If you will, my timesheet

saying, I've met the requirements of the three and

now I can just settle back in my seat or in my home or in my save

station and somehow just wait, patiently for the clouds to

split. And the last Trump of God, the

sound and I can just go and hope.

No, no doubt folks. There is some living that goes

on between the resurrection and the new birth of the church.

And if that's the case for Jesus, that needs to be Be the

case for those that are born again.

Someone came in. I see in Scripture that Jesus

didn't get up from the grave and then just go find some place of

seclusion for the next 40 days that he was upon this Earth and

just wait for his Ascension. He wasn't at home with his feet,

propped up a men. Looking at the camels, going by

just waiting for the time that he was to go up into the

heavenlies. He wasn't twiddling.

His thumbs. Amen.

Just waiting to make his debut in the sky.

So people could gaze at him and stare at him as he made his

departure from the earth. Hallelujah.

Someone say, amen. And if Jesus didn't spend his

days after his resurrection like that.

Neither should we, We Do. Some would say, Amen.

Honey. What that means is this bishop.

I don't need to either put myself in a place of seclusion

and just be in the wings waiting.

If you will for the last Jesus wasn't waiting for his Ascension

and neither do I just need to be waiting around for the Rapture

of the church. When the Trump of God shall

skal. Ain't I don't want them to just

be bystanders and say, there they go, but we haven't seen him

for the past few days. Jesus arose from the tomb, he

man, he walked among the people. He spoke with the people.

He interact with the people. He didn't Miracles as he did

before. Amen.

He intermingled with the people. And the Bible tells me in the

book of Acts that we've been in for a long time.

Now, it tells me that Jesus after he resurrected shewed

himself alive after his Passion, by many infallible proofs.

Hooves being seen of them party days.

And speaking the things that pertaining to the kingdom of

God, what that means is this Jesus had some living even after

the resurrection. There's more to this episode of

Pentecost to life than just being born again.

There's some living of the backside of your new birth

experience. The Bible tells me First

Corinthians 15. I'm unsure if I shared this

scripture brother Zack, but if I didn't God bless me.

Amen. First Corinthians 15 speaking

about Jesus is activity in those 40 days.

There was activity. Someone say Activity.

There were things going on in the life of Jesus in those 40

days. Yeah.

The Bible says, First Corinthians 15 and verse number

1. Moreover Brethren the Apostle

Paul writing, I declare unto you the gospel.

Which I preached unto you which also ye have received and

wherein ye stand by which also ye are saved.

If ye keep in memory. What I preached unto you unless

you believed in vain for, I delivered to use talking about

the gospel here. You first of all, which I also

received how that Christ died. There we go.

For our sins, according to the scriptures.

All right, and that he was buried.

Yep. There we go, and that he rose

again the third day, according to the scriptures.

But he doesn't stop there. I've missed this all my life.

I always just summed up the gospel in the death burial and

the resurrection. But it's almost as Paul is

including as part of the Gospel, not just the death, not just the

burial and the resurrection, but the life that was lived after

Resurrection, because he continues and says, and he was

buried and that he rose again the third day, according to the

scriptures and that he was seen of cephas and then of the

twelve, and after that, he was seen about 500.

At once of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but

some are fallen asleep. He was also seen of James and

then of the Apostles and last of all he was seen of me also as

one born out of due time, the Apostle Paul was saying the

gospel entails more than just repentance more than just

baptism in Jesus name and more than the infilling of the Holy

Ghost. The gospel also includes what

you do with your life after you receive the Holy Ghost.

Hey, babe. Hey man, it's so he explaining

this to them. He men.

He shoot himself Christ, shoot himself alive after his

resurrection. It wasn't just enough.

Amen. It wasn't just enough for Jesus

to be up out of the grave and breathing and having respiration

that was taking place. It wasn't just enough to have a

Dakin tune. Amen.

That everybody could point to and say, see he's not there

anymore. Coaches show but the Bible says

that he was seen among them. He was heard speaking among

them. And by many infallible proofs.

He substantiated the fact that he was the Living Lord and there

was indeed an empty tomb. In so much.

So even two generations later when the writer you Sidious was

interviewed. He interviewed and had written

concerning many people who had known this is documented

history. If any people had known and had

saw Jesus Christ during that 40 day period after his

resurrection and they tell stories of Miracles that he

performed even some sermons that he had preached and letters that

he had written during those 40 days.

After his resurrection, what? I'm trying to hammer home in our

minds today, the idea of just being born again of the water

and the spirit and we got our ticket and we just Buckle our

seatbelts and it's all said and done.

It's a bunch of baloney. I don't care how thin you slice

it. It's still baloney.

I'm here to tell you tonight. There is a life to be lived.

Amen! Post-resurrection, post your

experience with God. We need to figure out what our

purpose is. We need to figure out what God

would have us to do. We need to figure out Out as our

days are numbered up on this Earth.

What would God have me too? That think about this, this is

convicting to me. But the last verse of the last

gospel, which is the Gospel of John.

He sums it up quite well because John 21 is actually some of the

things that Jesus did in that 40 days.

He says his John says, and there are also many other things,

which Jesus did though, which if they should be written,

everyone. I see.

Pose that even the world itself could not contain the books.

That should be written. Amen.

It's hit me today. As my mind gravitated toward

this verse of scripture. Perhaps.

This is the way the off times. I have considered this verse of

scripture that perhaps John was representing the whole Panorama

if you will of the ministry of Jesus.

Whenever he started his public Ministry after his Wilderness,

testing until his Ascension, Maybe.

I was saying from the time that Jesus started this ministry

until he ascended, there could have been a whole lot more

written in. Had it begun.

The world itself? Could not contain the pages

thereof. But today it hit me since this

is chapter 21. And since this is some of the

Isaiah 21 · chapter mention

things that happened in that 40 day period after Jesus.

Rex erection, I'm just toying with the idea in my mind or

could John had been saying and simply implying and that Jesus

did so many things in those last 40 days.

Jesus did so many things things in those last 40 days after his

resurrection that even the world itself could not contain the

books necessary to write what he did.

After his resurrection. Someone say, amen.

And with that consideration, I want to ask us all a very honest

question here tonight. Have you done anything

meaningful with your life in Christ?

That's been worth recording? Or have you been stuck on being

brought into this new life? And you failed to continue to

live? What I'm saying is it's very

easy to become enamored. With having been saved from

death to the place. You're so enamored, you forget,

or you put off the fact that you need to live.

She for some people in the New Testament scripture and empty

tomb wasn't enough for them. Testimonies of other people, you

read your Bible in the gospels. I have this week.

I've reread all the accounts of of the resurrection of the Lord,

throughout the scriptures in the gospels and there's testimonies

of other people that have come to people that believed in Jesus

and believed in Christ, testimonies people coming to

them and saying we have seen the Living Lord.

And for those who had been Believers, that was not enough.

Mary Magdalene. And some of the ladies, some of

the women had been to the Sepulchre.

They returned from the Sepulchre.

They were commissioned by the angels that they had seen, the

angel said, go tell the apostles and all the others that he is,

not here that he is risen. And so Mary Magdalene and the

ladies leave the Sepulchre. They go back to the apostles and

the Bible says to all the rest of the group and they tell them

he is not there. But Has risen.

And this is their recorded response to their testimony and

Luke 24, 11, and their words seemed to them as Idle tales.

And they believe they're not. For those people, they needed

something more than just the concept that a resurrection had

happened. They needed to see the life that

came after the resurrection. They needed more than the story

about somebody that had resurrected from the dead.

They needed somebody to live the resurrected life before them.

It wasn't enough to know all that happened to them.

No, I want to see a played out in my own eyes in our life that

Consider, if you will, the convincing that this is the

reason why we, there, there is something Beyond New Birth.

There is something that is required that we need to do

that. We need to engage him.

Consider. If you will the two on the road

to Emmaus after the resurrection two disciples on the road to

Emmaus after the Resurrection May begin to talk among

themselves. They describe everything that

has happened. Jesus shows up while there.

Often, they do not realize it is Jesus, but they, he shows up and

they're like, what are you talking about?

You don't know what we're talking about and he's just

playing, you know, playing it all up.

No, I don't know. Tell me about this.

So man, they start rehearsing it all.

Well, Jesus of Nazareth, they start to tell how he was

condemned to death. They begin to tell Jesus about

how he was crucified and how they thought, and everybody

thought that Jesus was to be the Redeemer of Israel to bring the

nation of Israel back where it needed to be and this is this

amazing. Me, they're talking to Jesus

while they're telling him all this and they said the top it

all, this is the third day. Because the promise and the

thing that was spoken is on that per day.

He's going to rise again. But listen to me, they went a

little further while they talk above all that.

It's the third day and then they start talking about Beach.

Ladies Mary Magdalene in those ladies said there was some

ladies that come and relate their experience with the angels

at the Sepulchre and they talked about an empty tomb and they

told others about it and even some of the others ran to the

tomb and they verified what the Ted said yet still there seems

to be no impact. Nothing going on and the Bible

says later that day, as they constrain the Lord still not

knowing it was him to come into the house.

That whenever he broke bread, their eyes were opened and they

realized who it was. And whenever they seen that, the

Bible says they returned to right back to Jerusalem to tell

others. This is what they said.

The Bible says, they told them the Lord is risen, indeed, what

made that that so imperative to them now, rather than before.

Because they had more than a story of the Resurrection.

They had the life of a resurrected individual that

lived and breathed and was seen right before their very eyes.

Honey, they might know your story, but they need to see your

life lived. They might have heard about what

happened to you, but they need to see a live doubt.

There's something beyond the resurrection.

The reason why they went back and said indeed is because they

had witnessed the life of the resurrected, Lord, right before

their eyes. He shewed himself alive to them

and they saw him and they heard him with their own ears.

It wasn't a story being told by another, they had witnessed it

for them self. See, Jesus, Jesus kept himself

cloaked with purpose there for a moment with those two boys, but

let's learn something from this tonight.

Folks. From those to Emmaus, boys.

It would serve listen to me as a church as people.

That's been born again. It would serve our best interest

and the interest. Listen to me in the interest of

those that remain in the balance.

On this new life thing on this, Holy Ghost experience.

It would serve our best interest and their best interest.

If we remove the cloak and make ourselves known to die

generation. Because those boys whenever he

made himself known and he departed, one looked at the

other and said did not our hearts burn within us as he

walked with us, but we didn't know he was the resurrected

life. Honey.

If you keep this thing cloaked up, you're going to rub

shoulders with people and their hearts would have been within

him and they're not going to know why unless you live the

life of your Resurrection before them.

That's something that's after all of this.

So when he made himself known it removed all doubts, they said

this is the life. This is he in deed.

The Bible says, the Bible says that Paul back to our scripture

setting. Philippians 3.

He said that, I may know him. Here's this checklist.

Okay. He then he then continues with

his checklist that I might know him.

Here we go. Power of his resurrection Chet.

Paul was filled with the spirit. Holy God.

Checklist, The Fellowship of his sufferings jet. 9A of spitting,

the deep and Perils of my own countrymen.

Forty Stripes. Save one, huh Tech.

He said I bore my body, the marks, right?

Check made conformable unto his death. admit baptism, check And

then verse 11, if by any means, I might attain unto the

resurrection of that. Now, Paul.

What in the world are you do? You told us going through your

checklist that I might know him and the power of his

resurrection. You've received the baptism of

the Holy Ghost and now you're saying if you might obtain my

attain to the resurrection of the Dead, Paul, you, you've

repented Paul, you you've been baptized and you've received the

Holy Ghost, but you still say, if by any means you might attain

and to the resurrection of the Dead, what in the world?

I mean, you've done it. You have a ride.

I mean, you're just waiting to walk through the Pearly Gates.

You have the spirit of God in you.

I mean, what more could there be?

Now I understand tonight and I'm not going to I'm not going to

get real trivial or earlier just dance back and forth over this.

Understand on one hand, that the Apostle Paul may be talking

about the resurrection of his body someday in the Rapture,

that he's not yet attained, the resurrection of the Dead, He's

not yet died and resurrected in a very physical since that, that

his body someday and the Rapture.

Amen will resurrect. But I also I am also very

confident and I Is that Paul? Understood that the resurrection

of the Dead isn't just about receiving the Holy Ghost.

It's about as Jesus did showing yourself alive after the fact.

Paul said, I've not yet attained.

In other words, he says I got the Holy Ghost, but I've not yet

attained. Paul had to write the gift of

the. Holy Ghost was his birth

certificate. Not as diploma.

Hey, man, Paul wasn't perfect. He agreed that he wasn't.

In other words. He's saying I'm not complete yet

and the words he's saying there's a life to be lived after

I've received the Holy Ghost. And then note the next phrase

that Paul shares with us. And this should be our desired.

This should be our mission, our mission of Discovery for every

last single one of us sitting on the sound of my voice tonight.

Listen to Paul's and x-rays here.

He says, But I follow after yet that I met at every hand that

for which also, I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

He says, I follow after, it's in the next verses, Paul's going to

go to his his race analogy about pressing toward the mark of the

prize of the High Calling which is in Christ.

Jesus. Our lord.

He says, I'm going to follow after that.

Means I'm going to run or I'm going to flee.

I'm gonna run swiftly in order to catch a person or a Dang, it

means that he's going to be engaged if you will.

Figuratively in a race to swiftly reach his.

Do, you know what? Paul understood?

Paul understood that his born-again experience was more.

Then essential and necessary steps for heaven.

Here's where Taft. Paul knew.

That Jesus had saved him here. It is on purpose for a purpose.

And Paul was not satisfied until he caught the purpose for which

Jesus had saved him. That's the reason why he says, I

follow after. If I might apprehend or I might

grasp that for which also, I am caught or grasped by Christ

Jesus. And other words Christ saved me

with a reason and I'm going to continue on the journey to I

find out what the reason was he say.

Me poor. That goes beyond your repentance

that goes beyond, your baptism. That goes beyond your new birth.

We got to come to terms with God.

Why did you save me? What's my purpose?

What's the reason? What are you want me to do after

my resurrection? Someone say, Amen.

I agree. Were all baptized by one Spirit

into one body, but we need to be seeking out.

What our purpose is in the body. If God Saint Paul with a purpose

in mind, I am convinced that he is saying this all with a

purpose. In mind.

And in spite of, I don't care who they are, make tell you

there are no unnecessary members in the body.

Our repentance our baptism in our Holy Ghost and filling

Brothers, Hank McGee, put us all in the body, but it's once we're

in the body. We need to be seeking after that

reason, why purpose God saved us for in the show and say, Amen.

Sorry State a different way 11 version said like this, our task

in life is to do this lay a lay hold of what?

Lay a hold of that, for which Christ laid, a hold of us, lay

hold of that, for which Christ laid, hold of us.

And so, Paul here in the Philippian scripture has made a

vow about himself about among the Philippians.

This, that after I've experienced the resurrection

power, after I've experienced the infilling of the Holy Ghost.

I'm going to go on to go on living until I discovered

Purpose that God has for me, the Apostle Paul.

See, here's the thing. There'll be other blow Jose.

It was sitting somewhere in a hut or a mud David building that

they got the Holy Ghost and they're sitting there till the

second coming of Christ. Paul says, but I know I'm not

here without him. Want me here for a purpose and

I'm not going to be satisfied till I figure out what that is.

So I'm going to do some living on the backside of my

resurrection. So he's going to live his life,

trying to fulfill that purpose. He's going to follow after it.

He's going to run after that go. He's going to run after that

goal. What his purpose is columnist.

Her obtained wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle.

He said every morning. In Africa, a gazelle wakes up.

It knows, it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will

be killed. He said every morning, align

wakes up and it knows. It must outrun the slowest,

gazelle, or it will starve to death.

He said it doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a

gazelle. He said, but when the sun's

comes up, you better be running. What I'm saying is this your

purpose might not be my purpose. And my purpose might not be your

purpose. But we all need to be involved

in the Endeavor of trying to figure out what our purpose in

one might be aligned. And another might be a gazelle.

But whenever the new day comes, I got some living to do on the

backside of my resurrection. Someone came in.

So God has a purpose for you. And here's the thing, folks.

The impact of your purpose is amazing, ROFL to those that are

in need of the Assurance of the Salvation message.

Your purpose is a measurable to those upon whom are counting on

you. Bible says in Philippians 3 and

verse 15. He goes on.

He says, let us therefore as many as be perfect, you wasn't

claiming to be perfect. But he says, as many as as be,

it's something that we are going toward be thus minded.

Doing what? Trying to seek out, what the

purpose is for our lives. On the backside of our new birth

experience. If anything, you'd be otherwise

minded if anything, he'd be, otherwise minded, God shall

Reveal even this unto you. He says, nevertheless.

Whereto, we have already attained.

Let us walk by the same Rule and let us mind the same thing.

He said, Brethren be followers together, me and mark them,

which walk. So as ye have us for an

ensample. Listen to me to see.

Oh, he's conveying the few things here.

Number one. I believe he's conveying that

one of the greatest frustrations to finding your purpose is

mistaking. Someone else's purpose for your

own. Did that make sense?

Does that make sense? When the greatest frustrations

in you trying to find your purpose is trying to adopt

somebody else's purpose as your own?

Because too often. I believe we assume our

trajectory in our Christian experience.

Post Resurrection will mirror the exact image of another and I

Do by no means I Do by no means refute tonight, but there are

some non-negotiable threads a similarity in all of our lives,

but there will also be some nuances to that's just specific

to your purpose and your purpose that God has saved to you for.

Paul admonishes, the Philippians.

This is important. Listen to me.

Paul admonishes, the Philippians.

He says you all. You want you want to get off

track concerning what you should be doing.

Post Resurrection. He said, then I admonish you to

stray away from Civil War breaking out among you.

Let me tell you a present day. Syria is a good indication.

And Civil War has nothing but havoc and a cost to it.

Here's what he says. He said, if there's some point.

On which you see things differently.

He said God will make it clear to you.

That's what he said. You know what he said though in

the meanwhile, let's go forward on the road.

That's already brought us to where we are.

He says rather than losing time and what we should be doing on

the backside of our Resurrection.

Because we see things a little differently than the brother or

a little off from our sister. He said, let's continue.

Traveling The Proven Road. That's brought us to where we

are. He's telling me.

So I don't want you boys to be getting held up over some petty

differences among yourselves, because one perceives a thing as

different way, or a particular way.

He says for that matter, he says Don't need to be super imposing

our purpose on other people. So not only can you get

frustrated by trying to cling somebody else's purpose.

You can frustrate other people by putting your purpose on them.

Not everybody was meant to be a preacher.

Not, everybody was meant to be a Sunday school teacher.

Not everybody was meant to be a musician.

But we all were meant to be prayer warriors, some Bible

readers, and pastors and dedicated.

There is a Common Thread, we all have nuances, but I'm not going

to put my purpose on you. If you don't try to pull your

purpose on me that we all that some living to do on the

backside of our new birth experience.

Just what I want you boys to do, is to continue to know this

tried-and-true road. Hey, man, that brought us to

where at rather than being stifled over these little

points. If you will, these little

subjective points and questions continue on this road of

purpose. Now, it serves to reason, Paul

seems to describe. That God would reveal it to

them. Meaning this that God will give

clarity as they continue to walk the road that brought them to

where they are. Keep traveling this same away

your because it's been faithful. And getting you to where you're

at. And he finally says brothers be

United if you will, he says, let's be United.

Let's be followers together. Let's be United following my

rule of life. In other words, take you, some

models people that people that is modeled.

If you will live in life after their new birth experience of

finding their purpose, initializing that and living it

out. Find you some people like that

that you can model after that. You can study them.

Don't follow these novices though.

Don't listen to people. That that That that says all you

don't have to worry about that and they're not engaged in their

purpose. The last thing you want to do is

follow somebody that's not found their own purpose yet.

That bear on. Resurrection.

You don't want to be somebody that setting in the house

waiting for the Rapture because you've been born again.

You don't want to follow that example.

Do you want to find the example? Somebody that they're out there?

They're trying to you know, what they're even failing sometimes

but in the process each time, they're getting closer to what

the reason why God saved them and it was more than just a have

another number in the heavenlies.

Someone said, sorry. I'll wrap this thing up and

we'll put it in the Easter egg before we go home.

Please listen to me in these just you as little moments here.

The death, the burial, the resurrection now.

I read in your hearing this. 18 and through 20 and I don't have

that after parenthetically Paul Stakes for many walk of whom I

have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are

enemies of the Cross of Christ. Who's in is destruction, whose

God is their belly, whose glory is their shame?

Who mind? Listen Earthly things?

He says for our conversation is in heaven.

And from whence also, we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus

Christ Paul sums, all these things up by saying, this that

there are genome Philippians those that are enemies.

Of the cross. Of Christ.

I want to point bring some clarifiers here for us tonight.

The enemies of the Cross of Christ.

Or not those that refuse to identify with him and

repentance. Refuse to identify with him in

baptism or refuse to be recipients of the infilling of

the Holy Ghost. The enemies of the Cross of

Christ, are the ones that have experienced the power of his

death, the power of His burial and the power of his

resurrection. But they live their lives,

minding Earthly things and they don't live after they've been

resurrected. In other words, they have

availed themselves of the work of Christ, but they've not

sought out their purpose. In Christ.

Big not made no attempts. They are no Journey any race, no

walking no furtherance to try to discover why God saved them.

They squandered their time post-resurrection on meaningless

things. They served their time

post-resurrection on temporal. Thinks they are producing no

infallible proofs about what's happened in their life.

They're neither seen nor are they heard concerning?

The things of the kingdom of God, as Jesus was after his

resurrection. Their lives are consumed with

the kingdom of this world. And Paul simply States,

contrasting them to himself and what he desired Philippians to

be. He says, but our conversation.

Is it heaven? Are the enemies of the Cross.

They want the gift but they don't want to seek out their

purpose and they keep just Tethered to the Earthly and the

worldly. He says we have the same

experience, but we're seeking out our purpose.

In our conversation is Heavenly things.

Our conversation is Heavenly things because I understand

there's a life to be lived after.

After the resurrection. Forty days.

After his passion, many infallible proofs seen and heard

of him. I want.

I want someday. Whenever I leave this earth.

It not to be the first time that some has seen and heard and have

had proof. That we were born again, of

water and the spirit, my prayer is that when I leave this earth

someday. I will have been just short if

not have had my hand on the purpose of why God brought me

into his precious body among his precious family.

Whom do you don't know what your purpose is?

Every day are seeking every day. Oh, but Pastor, you know, yeah,

you know six plus years in evangelism and that your purpose

your pastor. Now, you know, teach Bible says,

let me tell you I'm constantly in search warrant.

Punch the lien search for it. My question is, do you have

anything recorded about how you've been in search of your

compass? Because it's more than your

repentance. It's more than your baptism.

It's more than that. You have some living to do on

the backside of your experience. You need to find your purpose

was as I need to find that for which Christ apprehended me.

I need to find that for which he every ended.

Why why need to lay hold of the reason why he laid a hold of me?

The death, the burial and the resurrection, but now what

there's some living to do on the backside of our resurrections,

if we could just bow our heads in this place.

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