Recorded March 30, 2025, with Rhonda Harrison.

Good morning and welcome to Champions in Christ.

We're so glad you joined us. This is the day

the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be

glad in it. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Pray your

day is going well this morning. It is a great

day because Jesus has risen from the dead and

he is alive and well today and he loves you he

loves you very very much and Today we're gonna

get in the word. We're gonna go into John last

week we talked about Jesus raised being raised

from the dead. I mean not Jesus. I'm sorry Lazarus

being raised from the dead and in John chapter

John 11:25

11 verse 25. We talked about where Jesus said

I am the resurrection in the life and he that

believes in me though we were dead yet shall

he live and that is true today. It's true every

day. It will never change. Jesus is the very

life of God and hallelujah. Thank God the Trinity

the Father Son and the Holy Ghost and Lord. I

just thank you right now as we read your word

that she will speak to. every one of our hearts

and we thank you for it in Jesus name in John

John 12 · chapter mention

chapter 12. It was six days before Passover celebration

began and Jesus arrived in Bethany the home of

Lazarus the man who had been raised from the

dead and a dinner was prepared in Jesus's honor

Martha served and Lazarus was among those who

ate with him now Lazarus had just been raised

from the dead not Not long before and Martha

was serving, you know I want to stop right here

and say thank God for all the people that serve

God By serving food by giving cups of water in

Jesus name All of that is the love of God working

through the body of Christ all the people that

serve in all the various churches around the

world and give their heart to teaching Sunday

school or feeding feeding people after service

or feeding the poor or pouring into all of that

is serving the Lord when it's and when it's done

with the right heart God will bless you back.

So just be thankful if you see someone today

that has blessed you in that way, thank them

for it because that is that is a big deal. It's

a really big deal to God that that everything

we do we do is unto the Lord with the right heart

and he will bless us for it. So Martha's serving

Lazarus was sitting at the table amongst others.

There Mary took 12 ounces Mary was Martha and

Lazarus sister and Mary came in the room and

she took a 12 ounce jar of expensive perfume

and Made me I'm sorry made from the essence of

Nard and she anointed Jesus feet with it wiping

his feet with her hair and The house was filled

with the fragrance Wow. Well, she took this expensive

perfume. She worshipped him And in this is another

way that that you can worship by getting at the

feet of Jesus and that's humbling ourself getting

on our knees laying on our face before God and

crying out to him or just loving on him. You

know, there's many ways to worship God. But in

this instance, Mary wanted to worship him by

pouring that expensive oil something that meant

a lot to her over his feet and washing his feet

with her hair. And it says in verse 4, but Judas

Iscariot, the disciple who would soon betray

him said that perfume was worth a year's wages.

It should have been sold and the money given

to the poor. Not that he cared for the poor because

Judas was a thief and since he was in charge

of the disciples money often he stole from them.

He stole out of the bag. This is a New Living

Translation that I'm reading. And Jesus replied

leave her alone. She did this in preparation

for my burial and you will always have the poor

with you, but you will not always have me among

you. You know, Jesus came and he only lived on

earth for 33 years and 30 years of that was being

raised up and trained in the things of God. And

then those last three years were years of ministry

and those ministry because he came on the earth.

to die to be that sacrificial lamb of God. And

so here he is. And he's talking about how Mary

came to prepare for his burial. Now, she didn't

know that she came worshipping him, but it was

in preparation for his burial. So it goes on

to say in verse nine, when all the people heard

that Jesus had arrived, they flocked to see him

and also to see Lazarus, the man Jesus raised

from the dead. Just think about that. If that

happened in your town. Does it still happen today?

Absolutely. God has raised people from the dead,

not just spiritually, but physically and it has

happened around the world. Smith Wigglesworth,

who was an old -time Saint of God who's been

in heaven for a long time. I believe his number

he raised 11 or 13 from the dead in his life

in Christ on the earth. Andrew Womack has raised

a couple people from the dead. I mean, there

are people today that have done it and it's through

the power of God to the glory of God. And we

just thank God that that resurrection power is

still alive and well. And guess what? If you

believe on him that Jesus died and raised from

the dead and you accept his free gift of salvation,

that same power will come and live on the inside

of you. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I am so thankful

for that. Aren't you? And so these so imagine

if someone had you had heard that Jesus raised

someone from the dead in your town. Wouldn't

you want to meet them and see them after they

had died? Wouldn't you want to talk to Jesus

the one who had the power to do that? Well, it

also says in verse 10 that the leading priest

decided to kill Lazarus too. For it was because

of him that many of the Jews deserted them and

believed in Jesus they deserted and turned to

Jesus and believed that the life of Christ and

So the next day the news went out and Jesus was

on his way to Jerusalem swept through the city

a large crowd of Passover visitors took palm

branches and went down the road to meet him You

know, they wanted to celebrate Jesus. They had

heard they had believed they had Accepted what

he was saying and so they began to shout praise

God blessings on the one who comes in the name

of the Lord hail to King of Israel Jesus found

a young donkey and rode in on it fulfilling the

prophecy that said don't be afraid People of

Jerusalem. Look your king is coming riding on

a donkey's colt colt that had been prophesied

six, seven hundred, eight hundred years prior

to Christ coming. And so he's fulfilling that

prophecy and he's triumphantly marching through

the town as they lay palm branches before him.

And so no one knew what was coming next. I mean,

they're celebrating Christ again, another way

to worship God. Many people will stand and lift

their hands and worship him. Many will sing praises

to his name. So many wonderful worship and praise

songs nowadays. Glory, glory, glory, glory. And

we're going to turn real quickly to Psalms 112.

And Psalms 112 talks about blessing God. And

in Psalms 112, it says, praise the Lord. How

joyful are those who fear the Lord and delight

in obeying his commands. Their children will

be successful everywhere and an entire generation

of Godly people will be blessed. You know, as

we praise the Lord, God gives us promises and

rewards. He loves people to worship him. He loves

to spend time with you. When you worship him,

you get into that deep place with him where it's

you and him. You can just lock in, shut your

eyes, lift your hands, begin to worship him.

You don't have to have a song. Many of you have

a song in your heart. You can sing to the Lord.

Many times it's just our words of how much we

love him, how much we worship him, how much we

thank him. It continues to say they themselves

will be wealthy and their good deeds will last

forever. That's right. When you sow a deed in

Christ's name with worship in your heart, when

you do something for God, it goes on into heaven,

your heavenly account. And but you get rewarded

here. He talks about right there how how great

things will happen. You know, you yourselves

become wealthy light shines in the darkness for

the godly, you know, God is a lamp into our feet

and a light into our path. He will lead you and

guide you just lift your hands unless you're

driving and praise the Lord and say, Lord, I

thank you. You're a lamp into my feet. I thank

you. You're a light into my path. I thank you,

Lord. that I know the way in which I should go

because he guides you. It continues to say they

are generous and compassionate and righteous

good comes to those who lend money generously

again and conduct business fairly that scripture

is talking about, you know, as people serve God,

they're going to lend generously. Because everybody

that loves and learns about God knows that you

can't sow a seed into someone's life, whether

it's food or money or a car or anything. You

can't sow that you don't reap a harvest because

from now until forever, it's going to be seed

time and harvest. Hallelujah. And you conduct

your business fairly, you know, those with a

heart of God are not going to try and cheat people.

are not going to try and steal from them. They're

going to conduct business honorably and it says

such people will not be overcome with evil. Wow.

Wow. Praise God. Evil cannot overcome light.

Darkness cannot overcome light. So if you worship

and praise God, you have the light of God living

in you and God will see you through. It says

they do not fear for bad news. They are confident

and trust in the Lord who cares for them. They

are confident and fearless and can face their

foes triumphantly why because Jesus defeated

the devil on the cross and hell and the grave

glory to God. So we have nothing to fear. God

has not given us a spirit of fear, but he's given

us power love and a sound mind. They share freely

and give to those generously in need. Let's drop

down. They will have influence and honor. You

know, sometimes we get persecuted. It's promised

in the Bible. When you serve God, persecution

will come. But there are other times God will

honor you to whom honor is due and God will.

He says promotion comes from the Lord. That's

what the word says. So you just trust in him.

You follow after him. You do what he tells you

to do and he will make your way straight. And

even when the persecution comes, he will fill

you with joy. You will laugh through it. You

will just like Paul and Silas when they were

put in prison and stocks on their feet and they

were beaten thrown in there. They began to sing

praises to God. They didn't care that they were

persecuted. They didn't they didn't worry about

the pain that they suffered. They sang praises

and guess what? An angel of God delivered them

open the prison doors. Glory to God. That's our

God. That's our glorious God. You know, it goes

on to say the wicked will see this and be infuriated.

They will grind their teeth in anger. They will

slink away and their hopes will be thwarted.

You know, that's what happened where we were

reading in John chapter 12. Those who had other

John 12 · chapter mention

motives in their heart could not see the glorious

miracle that God did when he when Jesus raised

Lazarus from the dead or they couldn't see the

truth of the worship that Mary did when she poured

over his feet with that expensive perfume and

wiped his feet with her hair. Judas mocked her

why Judas's motives were all wrong. Was he a

disciple? He had been. Did he do miracles? Yeah,

Jesus sent him out with the 12 and and later

the 70 also, but look at his heart. You know,

just because you start out with God doesn't mean

you finished with them. We always want to continue.

You have to pursue them. You'll never not be

blessed when you pursue God. You'll never not

be loved. He loves you whether you pursue him

or not. But if you pursue God, if you love him,

if your heart is hard after him like David, you

will be blessed. Your children will be blessed.

The generations behind you will be blessed. And

so there's lots of ways to praise the Lord. If

we go on, if we go on and we look in Psalms 116,

116 says I love the Lord because he hears my

voice and my prayers for his mercy Do you know

God hears your prayers? He hears every one of

them every one of them and he answers them It

says because he bends down to listen. I will

pray as long as I have breath Jesus bends down

to hear you It says death wrapped its ropes around

me. The tears of the grave overtook me. I saw

only trouble and sorrow and then I called upon

the name of the Lord. Please Lord save me how

kind the Lord is how good he is. So merciful

this God of ours verse 6 the Lord protects those

of childlike faith. That's right. He likes us

to come and just believe it. Just believe it

when he says, I love you. Just believe it when

he says, I want to save you. Just accept that

free gift. He loves it. Simple faith. God is

simple. He keeps everything simple. And so we

continue on and it says the Lord protects those

of childlike faith. I was facing death and he

saved me. Are you facing death today? He'll be

your Savior. Are you sick in body today? He's

your healer. Are you low in finances today? He

is the victory in your finances. He will bless

your socks off. You'll look around and go my

my my look what the Lord has done. Hallelujah.

It says let my soul be at rest again for the

Lord has been good to me. He has saved me from

death my eyes from tears my feet from stumbling

and so I walk. in the Lord's presence. Wow. Wow.

And how do we get in his presence? The Bible

says he lives in the praises of his people. So

just by praising him, his presence will come.

He can't stay away. He cannot help himself, but

show up when you start praising and worshipping,

you will feel the presence of God. But whether

you feel it or not, he's there because he's omnipresent

and he loves You he loves you so much and he

goes on to say here. It says he has saved me

from death my ears from tears my feet from stumbling.

And so I walk in the presence of God as I live

here on earth. I believed you. So I said I'm

deeply troubled Lord and in my anxiety. I cried

out to you. These people are liars. What can

I offer the Lord for all he's done for me? I

will lift up the cup of salvation and praise

the Lord's name for saving me. I will keep my

promises to the Lord and in the presence of all

his people. Glory to God. Do you know God will

save you? You don't have to listen to the words

of people talking about you cast that down and

lift up your voice. God will deliver you. He

will set those people right. He will make your

name great. He will make your name great. You

just look unto him. It says the Lord cares deeply.

When his loved ones die, even when you die, he

loves he's present in death and to be absent

from the body is to be present with the Lord.

And when we're present with the Lord, it's a

glorious thing. But we want to be present in

heaven and we'll talk about that in just a moment.

And it continues to say Oh Lord, I am your servant.

I am your servant born in your house. You have

freed me from my chains. He will free you from

the chains of mockery from the chains of sin

death hell in the grave. It says I will offer

to you a sacrifice of Thanksgiving and call upon

the Lord. I will fulfill my vows to the Lord

in the presence of his people and in the house

of the Lord in the heart of Jerusalem. Praise

the Lord. Again, God loves you. He wants the

best for you. He wants to be your victory. He

is our victory. You know, Psalm 117 says, praise

the Lord. All you nations, praise him. All you

people in the earth, praise him for his unfailing

love to us is powerful and the Lord's faithfulness

endures forever. Praise the Lord. You know, Jesus.

Is the sweetest name. I know why because he came

on the earth. He died for you and me. He didn't

have to he could have wiped this all out and

started over, but he didn't he wanted to save

his people. He loves you today. He loves you.

And if you need a Savior today, I want you to

listen to this song. These two songs that are

coming up. They talk about praise and the Lord

it talks about that sweet sweet name of Jesus

Christ who died for you and rose from the grave

and is victorious and is waiting on your behalf.

He's waiting for you. He's waiting for you. So

we're going to break away and I'll come right

back at you at the end of these couple of songs.

Met a good, good God I remember when my heart

was broken But now it's not I've tasted and I've

seen You've been so good to me From the moment

that you changed my life, God You never stopped

I'm gonna sing Come try to get me gonna praise

the Lord From the moment when the Sun starts

rising till the Sun goes down I'm surrounded

by Got filled with the spirit And now I'm satisfied

Hallelujah. He is the sweetest name I know. And

if you don't know him today, we want to give

you opportunity right now. You know, the Bible

says that he that believes on Jesus Christ shall

be saved. The Bible says for God so loved the

world that he gave his only begotten son that

whosoever calls upon his name shall have eternal

life. You know, if you believe in your heart

that Jesus died from the grit died and rose from

the grave, you can be born again. Just pray this

prayer with me. Dear Jesus I come before you

and I ask you to forgive me to wash me of my

sin I receive your salvation your free gift through

Jesus Christ I thank you Lord and accept that

you died and rose again on my behalf and I thank

you father I ask you to fill me with your Holy

Spirit and I thank you that I am a new creature

in Christ today in Jesus name Amen. Hallelujah.

If you prayed that prayer today, you've been

born again. If you prayed that prayer and you

haven't prayed it in a long time, you've just

been brought back to the restoration with God.

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