The Crucifixtion Was Not The End Rev Edward Agyekum Kufuor 20.4.25

Who has he come to look at me? You have

breathing your lungs. We head pasted the team, telling us,

within a space of five minutes, somebody who was breathing

stopped breathing. Have you come to look at me? I

can't give you breath, and I certainly can't take your breath.

But the one who gives you breath listen. Scripture said.

I was glad when they said, unto me, let us

go into the House of the Lord. Are you glad

to be in the House of the Lord today? Are

you glad? Are you really glad? Do you really appreciate

what Jesus came to do? Do you have a good

grasp and understanding of what he just did? We were

watching a movie, but that was just our attempt to

show pictorially what Jesus Christ went through. That was just

a movie. But I can assure you that if you

were there in person to see, to witness, to experience

for yourself what you went through, you would have come

away with a different impression. You cannot encounter him even

in his suffering, even in that passion week we talked about.

So if you really understand what this whole Easter season

is about as a Christian. You say you're a Christian,

you say you believe in Jesus Christ. Do you do

you believe in Jesus Christ? I know I'm asking you.

I'm turning the mind to you because I want to

hear you and I wanted to be a witness for you.

Do you believe in Jesus Christ? Then let me ask you.

Do you need me to pump you up? You say

you believe, and you know what this easter means because

we've talked about it all these three weeks, knowing what

we've discussed, knowing what we've talked. If you say you

believe and you understand and even after watching the movie

and what really happened was a million times worse than

what you saw in the movie. If you understand what

he has done for you, then why do you need

me to pump you up? When we say praise learn,

I'm not that's good enough for me. That's not good

enough for Jesus. He died for you. Yeah, yeah, exact

yourself a little bit. Look at what he went through.

If you saw the movie, look at what he went through,

and then't club here? If not too much shovel they

shouldn't be too much shovel. Think about it, Think about

it intentionally, be intentional about it. Think about it. He

took critics, he was spat on, he was kids, he

was drowned with thoughts. Why you think Jesus doesn't like comfort?

You think it doesn't like peace? Come on, come on,

come on, this is an excise for you. Don't just

club because I'm talking. Think about it. Think, think, think,

Think somebody I just shut their mouth. They can't breathe,

somebody can't clap. Somebody can't run, somebody can't talk. You can't.

You can't because Jesus is a lie. There is transaction Sunday.

Jesus is a live Do you understand that he's alive.

He's alive, He's not Judge, So why do you act

like it's judge. He's alive, he's risen. Do you understand

that he came and he died for you. He took

your place, so you appreciate that. Think about it. Not

just look at me and now I can't do anything

for you. Think about it? Is that just too much

trouble to even saying thank you? He knew no sin,

he did nothing wrong. He came down in all his divinity, blameless, sinless,

and took your place. Bible says we were conceived in

sin from this first sin, the first adam, the sin

of disobedience. By that, we're all sinless. Generationally, we're all

particulars in what he did. That's why you must watch

what you do because it can invoke generational curtsies. You

might do something now and think I'm just getting away

with it, but it'll follow you. Follow your children, follow

your children's children. Listen. The crisis of the Lord can

go to the tenth generation. That's why I always tell

you be careful. It is a very scary thing to

fall pray to the wrath of God. And because he's

a righteous God, he must judge sin. But Jesus Christ

came and died and took your place. So when God

looks at you, he doesn't see your sin. He sees

the blood of Jesus Christ, sinless. It washes you white

as snow. So when we stand up here and tell

you clap your hands, don't do it because I don't

have nothing. That's what you do. It is no understand

what you're doing. Amen. Amen, one last time before I

give you the word, come on, show appreciation to Jesus,

not to me. To Jesus, come, are you to do it?

Open up? You are breath in your lives. Listen, use

every tis you get. You should make noise out to

your breathless. You owe him what is in your life.

He gave you that. If he takes it away, now

you're done. Amen. First, giving honor to God, who is

the head of my life. I thank him that his

son came to die for my sin. I don't know

about you. I speak for myself for my sin and

has given me the opportunity to stand here. Do you

realize we wouldn't even be worthy to come into his

presence but for what Jesus did. So I thank God

for that opportunity. I thank God for what Jesus Christ did.

And then I thank God for Father, the archbishop, the

visionary by his obedience. See, God showed him something. That's

how yes give God some praise for his life. God

showed him a vision of action, chapel and next generation.

And he was obedient. That's why we are all here.

This sanctuary wouldn't be here how he disobeyed. I he

decided not to listen to the voice of God. So

give God thanks for his life, and pray that wherever

he is, God will protect him and cover him. That

his head will never lack oil because the oil flows downwards.

What the head releases is what prevails. He's the head

of this house. He's the set man of this house.

And we thank God for his life. We thank God

for our bishop, Bishop Joel, who is not here with

us today, but we thank God. Come on, come on,

you know him. You see, you cannot club for Papa

and not club for Bishop. You see Bishop every week.

Papa you may see every now and then. My bishop

is here with us every week. So give God thanks

for his life because he's also obedient and in this place.

That's why we're here. Amen. I know you're thinking, my

parents are burning too much. That Jesus wore a crown

of thorns pierced into his head to his cranium. When

a little knife or a little pin pricks you, he

wore a crown of thorns. Think about it. Be intentional,

understand it, appreciate it. Just think beyond just a movie.

Can you imagine? Can you even start to imagine what

he went through in his body when that crown of

thorns was forced onto his head, piercing his king and

fastening to his head until it couldn't fall off. As

many times as he fell with the way we saw

in the movie The Crown of Thorns stayed. That means

that the thorn piaced and be intentional. It's the least

you could do. Amen, So b seated in the presence

of the Lord. Amen, I have my own testimony because

just a few months ago, I keep telling you right

yet UGMC I was in intensive kre unit I was

released December fifteenth. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't work from

here to here. It felt like I'd run a marathon.

Oxygen was not going because my chest was so congested

that to siphon me that to give me injections, they

have to put oxygen on my face. And then I

appreciated what it means to do this. You do it

so often that you take it for granted. You think

when you do this, it means you're going to get

the next one and do this and keep doing it.

Your head past that tin in a space of five minutes,

the man who was sitting there complain of pain in

his abdomen. Suddenly he couldn't do let me tell you

what it felt like when they came to me. They

had to put oxygen on me. When the oxygen is

not coming where you can't get the breath, you're looking

for something to hold on to. In the middle of

the night, when the oxygen runs out, there's a little

device they put the oxygen and mix it with what

is that water, distilled water so that it'll bubble, because

the pure oxygen can actually burn your nostrils, so they

have to mix it with some mist, something wet, something

damn so that your body can receive it and then

the oxygen can dissolve and get in. But my chest

was so congested that they had to ciphon out the

mucus from the pneumonia acteria where in their fungus was

in my lungs, the place where you can't see by

the stuff going on. Let me tell you, Jesus delivers

you from dangers seen and unseen. There is no way

I could have known what was going on in my lungs.

But thank God for doctors. But I'm telling you, in

the middle of the night, when the oxygen run out,

so they always have the panic button right like a

red cord right next to me because sometimes in the middle,

in the middle of sleep, you suddenly feel like you

can't breathe. You have to press the button and the

nurses come running. Yeah, so when you take a breath,

I appreciate it. You ought to give God listen without ceasing, Pray,

pray because the enemy will use any little opening to

take you out. Why because you said you're a child

of God, You're for Jesus. You're on the side. You

are at war. You're not here looking pretty sidney in

your chair. You have selected to be You chose, He

gave you free will. You chose to be a Christian.

You are at war. This is the camp of warriors. Amen,

so understand it. So this whole is that we've been

talking about the significance of this Easter period, and a

couple of weeks ago we started we talked about you

know what it means for a Christian that our whole

faith and our belief is hinged on that and without it,

that means everything we're doing doesn't matter. So we understand

that our faith that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,

that it came to earth, he suffered, died, was buried,

and he rose. Today's day. But prior to that, we

had also talked about palm Sunday when he made the

triumphant entry into Jerusalem. But I gave you the real

consideration of triumphant. You see, in those days, when the

king or the general or whoever the leader was would

go to war and was successful and was coming home,

that he would be met with people rejoicing and shouting

because of you know, winning the conquest, and they would

sing songs, and they would chant even the psalms in

praise and in adoration. Jesus Christ had not been to war,

the kind of war that the kings and generals go to.

He was about to go to war. So as he

was being healed, as he entered Jerusalem and there was

the people waving the palm branches around, and I told

you what the palm branches mean. Symbol of victory, A

symbol of resilience, because the palm tree can grow in

any condition. If it's too hot, it will survive. If

it's too cold, it will survive. If it's too windy,

it will survive. When there's no water, it will survive.

So the palm tree is symbolic of victory and the

resilience so they wave it because he's coming back victorious.

But Jesus Christ went to Jerusalem knowing that in a

few days he was going to die. He hadn't fought

a battle yet, but he was about to fight the

greatest of all battles. Going to submit to the cross,

to die, so that he can go down to Hell,

to Hades, the land of the dead, the realm of

the dead, and to take authority, to take away the

sting of death, to take away the power. And it

is Satan who wills the power of death. And that's

what he uses the tormentous every man here, whether you

like it or not, whether you admit it or not,

our greatest fear is death. If death were to enter

this room right now, we'll see who'll stay. Now. That's

how we know who can run and who's who is

an athlete and who is not. If death showed up

right now, and I don't know how you can imagine

what it looks like. But he walk through that door

right now and says, oh, free meat, even in the

glasses that you pass through. The glass to get away

from death is the one thing the greatest fear of man.

But Jesus Christ face death went to hades and took

the power, took the case, took away the sting of

death and the sin which causes death, because that's what

Scripture says, sin when it is matured, produces death. Death

spiritually is being cut off from God. Death in the

natural means you go into the ground. We are made

from dust, and you shall return to dusk. But your

spirit comes from God. Amen, Say thank you God for

your spirit. Oh, come on, say thank you God for

your spirit. Be intentional, understand it. Because God breathed his essence,

his spirit into the nostrils of the man Adam he

had created from dust, and that's how he was quickened,

and that's how he became alive. It is the breath

of God in your lungs that keeps you alife. It's

not the alarm clock that wakes you up and the

fact that you you know, feeling good and you you

got I'm alive, I got my swag on. And let

him take his breath away, and let's see what happens

to you. That's how you're made in His image and

in his likeness. That essence, what he breathed into you

is what makes you like him his spirit. Amen. So yes,

we had that when we had the passion week. And

the passion week is not about that when we say

passionate week is not about the things Jesus Christ likes,

what he's passionate about. And in one sense it is

his passion because he was so passionate about us that

he entered Jerusalem knowing that that place he was going.

If I tell you go through this door and when

you get there, you'll get beheaded, will you pass it?

Will you pass it? I can't hear. If I tell

you go this way and behind there there's somebody waked

in there to decapitate you, to cut your head clean off.

Will you go? Ah? But Jesus Christ went to Jerusalem,

and you meet you there. Jesus Christ went to Jerusalem

knowing that this is the place where they were going

to accuse him, where they're going to arrest him, molest him,

abuse him, beat him, and eventually crucify him. In those

his suspicion was the worst kind of death. It's significant,

signified shame, reproach, a curse to hang on the tree.

That's what the scripture says. Somebody who did nothing for

you and me. How many people have their friends with

them here? Who is sitting with their friend or their

best friend? Anybody your best friends? That's your boy. Okay,

if I tell you right now that he has done

something and I have to punish him, but because you are,

you're his boy, his buddy buddy, come let me punish

you instead. Would you agree? You ask? What what am

I coming to do? Okay, Come and let me torture you.

I won't even kill you. Let me torture you if

you'll pull your nails out, repliers, I'll give you a

crown of thoughts. I'll dap your ribs and I'll whip

you until the flesh on your on your back comes

off so you have wealth, so your stripes on your back. Eh.

And I will yank your arm until it comes out

of socket. Hey, you didn't see that on the movie

when they were trying to nail and he was so

contorted that they couldn't really what did they do? They

yanked arm to pull the arm out of the socket

so that it.

Could reach where the hole was and they could nail him.

Will you do that for him? That's how you know?

You listen, you're on your own. We sell my best friend.

Oh my, oh, you go for yourself, each man for himself,

God for us, all the same way. On accountability, the

day of accountability, it will be you and God, not

anybody else.

So remember that. So the Passion Week was about Jesus' suffering,

his willingness to go to the cross, go through all

of that humiliation and all that torture so that you

and I can rise with him on this day resurrection

on Easter. That's why I say be intentional. Understand what

you're doing, Understand why you're doing it, because if you do,

you won't take it for granted, and you won't just

do it anyhow. Amen. So Good Friday where we watched

that movie, was the culmination of all of that. Okay,

Palm Sunday, the Passion Week, and then the Friday he

was I don't know what to use execute it because

that's why he was framed up. He didn't do any calling,

and they literally executed him. They didn't use a gun.

They used something worse than a gun. Slow motion, beat

him until he couldn't stand up, tortured him until his

body couldn't take it, pumped him, pierced it until his spirit.

You see, there's something about this flesh. Nothing good can

come from the flesh. That's what the Bible says. But

this flesh can only take so much. Flesh doesn't like

he likes comfortole. If you destroy this flesh, if you

torment this flesh, if you abuse this flesh, if you

break down this flesh, the spirit has no choice but

to leave because it cannot contain. Once it's broken down.

Your whole. Your body is a system. Your heart is

there pumping so that your blood will flow. The blood flows,

it sends oxygen to different parts of your body so

that your mind will wear. When your mind is working,

it controls all your skills, your motor skills. You're walking

if you don't, if your mind wasn't working, and your

cognitive part of your brain wasn't working, you wouldn't be

able to put right left, right left. You'll be trying

to that's what you be doing because your mind is

not working. Your mind is not in control. So understand

that this thing that you are, this meat suit, is

a system on his own, but it requires something for

it to function. So all of that got thrown out

of whack because certain things, certain conditions that Jesus need

to remain in a state that he needed to remain

in had changed. He had been abused, He had violated

that system and torn down the body to the point

where the spirit had to leave. But it was all

in the plan, because if he had not died, you

and I would be facing judgment for our sins. There

will be no redemption, there will be no justification, there

will be no scientification. There will be, you know, salvation.

All the things we talked about last week and the

week before. Give God some praise. Yeah, okay, don't listen

to me. Don't do it for me. I said, give

God some praise. Do you understand? Have you thought? Have

you heard anything I've said? Have you been able to

go there pictorially in your mind? Yeah? Today, all these

events culminated in the resurrection. The title for today's message

is the crucifixion was not the end. Turn to your

neighbor and say the crucifixion, open up your mouth, you

have breathing your lungs. The crucifixion was not the end.

The purpose and importance of Jesus' resurrection. We spoke in

the past couple of weeks, and I've gone through it

that he came to die to reconcile and to himself,

to God and Jesus Christ. We believe in the trying God, God,

the Father, God, the Son God, the Holy Spirit. He

is a dispensation and representation of God. So Jesus is God.

He is the son of God. Because he was born,

he had to come down to earth, take on flesh,

to come and dwell amongst us, so he could now

die to redeem us. You see, the only way to

live on this earth legally is to be born of

a woman. That's the way God has made it. You

have to be born of a woman to live legally

on this earth. So all the spirits we hear about,

and this Dad and then my vultarian brothers, bah, evil spirit.

There are spirits that are roaming around. Yeah here illegally.

They are illegal aliens. So why are you afraid of them?

You were born legally. Jesus Christ came God took on

flesh so that he could enter this realm to be

among us, so that he could do what he had

planned to do to reconcile us to himself, to reconcile us,

redeem us, justify us, and grant us the free gifts,

the precious gift of salvation. So on the cross, Jesus

accomplished his mission, his assignment, his purpose. That is why

he said it is finished. He saw it in the

movie when he was finally giving up the spirit, he

said it is finished. He went through all of that

and he accomplished it. That is also why he is

now seated at the right ing of God in glory.

I don't think anybody would go through all of that

and not be rewarded. He's seated at the right hand

of God in Heaven. Go there in your mind, may

I think in pictures those of us who daydream, it's

a good thing. You can imagine. I can imagine him

sitting there right next to God. After all that he

went through in his glorified body. His body is not

torn down anymore. He's reigning because of what he did

for us. Amen, his assignment was indeed finished, and that's

why he was seated. See, when you finish what you're doing,

you can now sit, you can take a break. If

he wasn't done, he wouldn't be seated there. If he

hadn't accomplished it, he wouldn't be seated there. Amen, He's

seated at the right hand of God. His resurrection on

the third day proves. It proves without doubt that Jesus

is the son of God, and indeed God himself is

the mystery of Christianity. The scripture says in John ten,

verse thirty, I and I and the Father are one.

John ten thirty, I and the Father are one. Are

we there? Okay, let's move on. Maybe we can put

it on later. John fourteen and nine says, if you've

seen me, you have seen the Father. Jesus and God

are one. Jesus is God Amen in essence, his resurrection

today is significance of today validates his humanity and his

divinity all at once. Humanity because he took on flesh,

came here and was born of a woman of the

virgin Mary, came here to earth. See, God won't break

his own rules, so you have to take on flesh

to come here to dwell. Here can operate to execute

that plan to redeem us to himself. So his resurrection,

what today symbolizes, validates his humanity. Jesus was one hundred

percent man and one hundred percent divinity. You say, well,

how is that possible? Because he subjected himself to be

born of a woman and take on flesh. He stepped

out of time. Eternity is not governed by time. We

are governed by time. Step from that realm into this realm,

take on flesh, so that if you don't believe it,

go to John one and one. Okay, on John one

and one. In the beginning was the Word, and the

word was with God, and the word was God. In

the beginning was the word? Who is the Word? Who

is the word? Jesus. He is the Word incarnates, the

Word made flesh, the Word that took on the flesh

and was born. Jesus is talking about Jesus. In the beginning,

was the word in the beginning was Jesus. So Jesus

was there, And the word was with God, God, the Father, God,

the Son God, the Holy Spirit. God took himself out

of eternity. He had to find a way to come

here to die for us. So, and the word was God,

and the word a mean And the word was with God,

and the word was God. Jesus was with God. But

Jesus is God. He is the Son of God. But

he is God, the Triune God. We serve and we

believe in Amen. When Jesus was born, it was his incarnation,

the word became flesh. That's what the scripture says. His

birth signified the introduction of divinity into humanity. The divine

God came to dwell amongst humans. Divinity came to humanity

a man. When the man Jesus died on the cross,

he neutralized the power of sin and death. That's what

he came to die for, to erase us sin, to

take care of our sin, and to take away the

power of death. But his resurrection introduced humanity into divinity

because now the man Jesus, who had flesh died resurrected

on the third day with a glorified body, a transformed body,

glorified promoted to another level because of what he had

at a complies. That's why he's seated at the biden

of God, reigning and ruining. So in that the divinity part,

he came, died as a man, and then resurrected as

the son of God and took on that new level.

So now he introduced humanity. He left as a man

and ascended to heaven in his glorified body. So now

he took humanity to divinity. When he was born, he

introduced divinity to humanity. When he died as a man,

he took humanity into divinity. Amen. So, Jesus Christ is

one hundred percent man. So you hear people say he's

fifty percent, He's not fifty percent anything. He's not half

of anything. His whole. Amen repeated after me, He's whole,

one hundred percent man and one hundred percent divinity. So

in order to legally enter this earth, he had to

take on the flesh. But guess what, even when you

lived amongst us, he didn't become corrupted. He was subjected

to everything was subjected to. He was hungry, he was tired,

he was thirsty, all of that. But in all the

life experiences that you and I face, that he also experienced,

he never got corrupted. He never subjected himself allowed sin

to taint his divinity. He remained one hundred percent divine,

even as a man. That's given to us in John

chapter one, verse fourteen. And the Word was made flesh

and amongst us, and we beheld his glory, the glory

as of the only begotten of the Father, the only

son of God. Yes, when he came down and wrapped

up in flesh, he was God's son. On this in

this realm. He became God's firstborn, full of grace and truth.

So that's the evidence. Secondly, his resurrection also confirms and

proves our redemption and takes out an issue of our sin.

Because he died for our sins and he resurrected. That's evidence.

That's where our faith comes from. He died from my

sins and he resurrected. He took my place, and he

became a cursed first Corinthians, fifteen seventeen, Frest Corinthians, fifteen seventeen.

It is proof that his sacrifice on the cross was

accepted by God the Father as atonement for our sins.

If Christ was not raised from the dead or from

the grave, then you and I would not have any

hope of forgiveness. If He had not died for the sin,

then our sins would never have been forgiven. Everything that

you do, every sin that you've committed, would remain with you,

and you would be judged by God, the Father, the Creator.

But because Jesus died for us, we have hope of

the forgiveness of our sins and the precious gifts of salvation.

And if Christ be not raised, your faith and my

faith is in vain because that's why we believe. Because

he died for our sins, we have faith that we

are justified, that we are reconciled to God, that God

has accepted his sacrifice as atonement exchange. He has pacified

God and said, listen, they can't do it of their

own free will. So please let me die. Let me

shed my blood, divine blood, taintless, pure, no sin. Let

me shed my blood. The only thing that was good

enough for God was the blood, divine blood of Jesus Christ,

the efficacious blood, the blood that can do everything, covers all.

That was the only thing that was acceptable. Of all

the things you can think of, nothing would have made

up for your sins except for the blood of Jesus.

That's why when God looks at you, he doesn't see

in your sin the lies, the fornication, the stealing, the

backbites and the gossiping, all those things that you go

with little little white light, just something small. All those

things sin is sin. But when God looks at you

doesn't see all of that, those things, those character flaws

that we all have. When he looks at you, he

sees the blood. He's covered, He's covered your sins. So

when your name comes up in heaven says, Okay, I

just can't before a sin. We need to judge him.

Jesus gotay has accepted me this one. Look at me.

You don't see him. You get to hide behind Jesus

because of his grace. But does that mean you're allowed

to sing? Continue singing because there's grace. That's what scripture says,

you're not. Don't take it for granted. Oh I did it,

or I know when I praise as we forgive me.

So I feel like doing this only and when I

do it when I finish our pray. But you know

what I told you last week. Even as humans, when

your child, for those of us who have children, when

your child is doing the wrong thing, you give them,

you for give them for bearance. Stop don't touch it

and will touch it? He didn't I tell you, just

stop it. I'll repew when you're not looking. Hey, jay mable,

At some point the parent gets failed. It's like, listen,

I've had enough. I've warned you. I've given you chance

after chance after chance. At some point you have to

face the consequences. You see his choices that we make

for every choice that you make as a consequence, So

don't think that. Because there's grace, you can keep sinning,

keep sinning, keep sinning, and go back and pray and repent, listen.

Repentance it's not just saying that I'm sorry. It means

turning away from leaving that turn away and don't go

back to it. That's when you know you're repentant. When

nothing that you used to do, the wrong thing that

you used to do now become so abhorrent to you

that when you think of you, like what was I thinking?

When you don't even want to think about it or

go near it or do it again. That's repenting. It

comes with conviction because when you're convicted of it, that

means you have encountered Jesus Christ. As far as that

sin is concerned, you cannot encounter Jesus Christ and remain

the same amen. Thirdly, his resurrection proved that he, Jesus,

is the only one who had been prophesied about in

the book of Genesis, and it nullifies it negates all

the allegations, the charges, the accusations that were watching the movie,

remember the Pharisees he has blasphemed, he said he's the

son of God. That's blasphemy, so crucify him until they

even chose to release a murderer Barabas. They were so

bent on killing Jesus for no reason, false accusation, allegations, innuendo,

the information of character. They were so bent on killing

him that they claim that he had blasphemed by claiming

he was the son of God. Acts, Chapter two, verse

twenty seven. Peter applies the prophet David Psalm sixteen and ten,

where David speaks of God's promise to him to him,

David that he God would not abandon his soul in

the land of Hades, nor let his body be decayed.

So Peter was liking that conversation that David, the prophet

David had with God in Psalms Psalm sixteen, verse ten.

Peter in Acts two and twenty seven was saying the

same thing applied to Jesus, because Jesus, in communication with

God was saying that you would not abandon my soul

in Hades. He wouldn't ness let him die and go

to the land of the Hades is the land of

the dead, that he would die and go down there,

be buried and go to Hades and just stay there

because God had already plan that he would wake up.

He promised him that you'd wake up to accomplish the

purpose of coming to die from him, and that he

would not allow his body to be corrupted. So he

rose on the third day, so that his body, the

flesh part, would not see decay, but would rather be

transformed into a glorified form. Amen. Jesus' resurrection, as we've discussed, it,

loosed the bands that the hold that death and the

grave have on us it has on mortal men. But

Jesus was also divinity, as I've told you, So death

and that hold of the grave could not hold him.

The grave could not contain him. So on the third

day today he rose from the dead. He overcame the

hold of death and the grave in his resurrection. So

shall we if we are in him, If you've accepted

him as your Lord and savior, and your faith is

in him, then just as he has risen today, you

too will rise on that day when God comes, when

Jesus comes, when the sky crises open, when he's coming

to take his own you'll take you with him. And

he said you will reign with him. He sees out

of the right hand of God, we will sit there

with him because we are in him, we are his,

We become part of his kingdom, and we will reign

with him, and we will judge in some popular scriptures,

we will even judge angels. See, if you don't know

the word, you don't know who you are, You don't

have you don't know the power, the kind of power

that you have. You don't know your position. That's why

the devil is able to kick you around and dribble you. See,

if your father gives you this, and you don't have

an understanding that this is yours, I can come and say,

ex give me that, and what will you sit down

and do he took Please give it to me. But

if you know it's yours that your daddy gave it

to you, give me back my bottle. For boys. We

know sometimes you go and play with your friends and

somebody's dad has bought him a new ball. If you

don't allow him to score or play the way he wants,

you just come and carry his more. My daddy bought

it from you. Yes, you don't understand what you're entitled

to the promises. You don't understand what Christ has done

for you. You don't understand the power that you will.

So the devil comes and takes what is yours. He

denies you of what you're entitled to, and all you

do is sit down there and whine. When you have authority,

he say, you shall becreate a thing, and it shall

be established. Open up your mouth and say whatever you

say because of the spirit, his spirit in you your words.

That's why I said be careful what you say, because

what you decree is what is going to be established.

So sometimes we speak death, we speak distraction. Oh that's

what this one they do, kill me, you die. Oh

this one they will feel. Yes, you will feel because

you spoke it. And your words are not just empty.

It carries spirit, the spirit that God breathed into you.

That's the life. Watch what you say. Tell to your

neighbor and say what's your confession. Turn to your neighbor

and look them in there and tell them watch your confession,

because most of the time it's not somebody that is

doing you. You are doing yourself by your own tongue.

Life and death is what Scripture says, is in the

power of the words. Life and death is in the

power of the words. See this tongue. The same tongue

can bring peace, The same tongue can bring more life

and death is in the power of the tone. You

shall decree a thing and it shall be established, because

He has given you that authority. But you don't know.

You won't read the words, you won't study. Listen when

you're studying the way you're not doing for Godo, it's

a chance for you to see who you are, to

understand who you are. Who do you belong to? If

you say you belong to Jesus Christ. The Bible is

your manual Loo for you to know. See the cars

that you drive, there's a manual in it. The person

who manufactured the car put a Manuel in it so

that you are you do what you have the best

use of the car. So you get to understand the car.

So when the light comes on and it's beeping, Babe, babe, babe,

you know what it means. Means when the attack is

empty and it goes to red Asah. If you don't

read the book the Manuel, you don't know what it means.

You'll be going to Oh, I don't know what happened

to me, Patrol Nolsan. You didn't read the Manuel, that

when that light comes on. It means Petro is finished.

The manual the Bible for your life, your daily living,

that's the manual, the one who made you put everything

about you. Every situation you can face life is represented

in the Bible. You will find an example. That's why

the Bible can answer everything. When you're afraid, when you

are when you need protection, when you need healing, it's

all in the Bible. Whatever you are entitled to as

a child of God's in the Bible is in the Manuel. Yes.

If you want when a man finds a wife, you

find out the good thing ob his what. Yeah. So

if you want a wife, that too is in the Bible,

and it gives you the fruit of the If you

want a child, that too is in the Bible. When

you are sick you need healing, that too is in

the Bible by stripes. Healing is the bread of the children.

It's in the Bible. So we don't know who we

are and whose we are and what we're entitled to.

So the devil is counting on that. Because you do

everything else but pray and read the Bible. While you

pick up the Bible to reader, you start, spirit of

sleep will come over you. A heaviness will come over you.

Why because he doesn't want you to read. Why once

you get your note right it there's a proverb in

tree and partner my language, WHI are now grown niggu.

The day the food becomes wise, you can't full him anymore.

That's why that's anti proverb says same thing in the Bible.

That's why the devil doesn't want you to read the

Bible and understand who you are, because the day you

come to enlightenment revelation that he so I have this power,

I can just say it be gone and you have

to go. I can just say be cast out, leave now,

and you have to go. And now you're sitting there crying.

It is written so when you see them, hey, don't

try it, Satan. I've seen you. God says I have

the power. I have a divine right. See here on earth,

I'm his ambassador. Go to any embassy, and go to

the American embassy. Once you enter there, it is like

you are in America. That space, not one acre or

two acres of land where the embassy is sitting, is

in Ghano, but doesn't belong together. Let a war happened

in Ghanah and you run. If you're a citizen, you're

run into the American embassy. You're protected. Nobody can enter

the income and get you because that's the representation of America.

Here in Ghana. Same thing here. While you are here

as the representation the ambassador of God, ambassador of the

Kingdom of Heaven. You have dominion and authority, but you

don't know. So you're walking around with an ambassador and

who doesn't know his title, doesn't know his position, what

he can do. You're walking around just banging your head.

You go here, gar rejectory, bang your head. You come here,

and I wondn't be nobody. When you come to the

realization of who you are, you can stand, take charge exactly,

say listen, I have authority, and you speak to the situation.

Speak in line with the word of God. Speak what

God has said about you. God you said, I shall

declare a thing and it shall be established. If God

is lying, then you are lying. And God cannot lie.

But understand who you are, and understand what Jesus has

done for you on that cross, when he died for you,

and when he rose, you shall rise with him. He

has overcome the hold of the grave and the sting

of death. And because you are in him, just as

he rose today this resurrection Sunday, you shall rise again. Amen.

Turn to anybody say I shall rise again. See the

other significance of Eastern resurrection is that while Jesus was

here as a man, he could not inhabit you and I.

He had to die go from the flesh suit to

the glorified body. Now he's the spirit, and the spirit

can dwell in you. But how about when he dwells

at you? You are his temple. That's why he said,

watch what you do. Your body is the temple of God.

But if you are the temple of God, the temple

is the Church. So you and I, who claim Jesus

is ours, we are the temple. We are the church.

Turn your neighbor and said, do you know you are

the church? Do you know you are the temple of God?

Do you know that the glorified God lives in you?

Look them in there and tell them. Maybe they're not aware.

By his resurrection, you have his peace. Knowing that your

sins are forgiven and that you are redeemed. It gives

you peace because if you have to think every day.

Yesterday I liked tell it to diners to gossipped up

a man's last night. When Gramein was coming as a gasician,

it would be all those things that you've done, if

you didn't have Christ to die for you, all those

things will be on your mind. Do you think you

could manage it? You will lose your mind trying to

keep up with your sins, trying to control is one

more is becoming more and more he is one day

when judgment comes. Had Jesus not died for you, you

wouldn't have any peace for fear of what would befall

you from your own actions. You'd be so afraid of

your own self and the things that you do, and

what it means, what it means you're going to face

the judgment, the kind of judgment you're going to face

that you will lose your mind trying to keep up. Today.

I'll try not to say no, because yesterday, yesterday day,

when I watched that pesh, yesterday, when I went and

when I wait and I did that in that text,

and I sent those pictures that I was looking at. Today,

I'll try not to do it because it's adding ave.

If God comes right now, Charlie, in my own year

straight to fire. MHM. But you have peace because you

have the assurance that because Jesus Christ died, your sins

are forgiven, that you will resurrect with.

Him, that when he comes, you will go back with him.

Amen. So his resurrection gives you peace. His resurrection also

gives you power by the indwelling of the spirit. He

said when when he had to leave, so that the

Holy Spirit will come. And when the Spirit comes upon you, you

will do powerful. You will be able to exhibit you

were able to do things that he did because of

the power of God, the Spirit of God. See, the

Holy Spirit is the power of God. And when he's

in you, you are able to do things. There will

be science, wonders, miracles, breakthroughs. That's why it's important. That's

why you have to understand. You don't just accept him

just by word, but accepting be intentional. Understand why and

what it means to accept him. Amen. Because of your

encounter with the spirit, you can witness of his spirit

and make disciples. You see, when Jesus rose from the dead,

he appeared. The scripture says he appeared to select few

of people. Normally, Jesus will tell you go and tell

go and tell he appeared to selected people so that

they would go out, and there were witness I've seen Jesus.

He has resurrected from the dead, and that testimony, that

witness would also win others. So others will be one

by that encounter with Jesus. So you win disciples by

the resurrection of Jesus. You win disciples by that encounter

with Jesus. Having heard that word today on this Resurrection Day,

understanding what all of this easter has meant. That Jesus

came to reconcile mane, to die, shed us blood, to

be the sacrifice to reconcile man to himself, and he

is God and the Father. I won. If you've seen me,

you've seen the Father. So in one dispensation is God

the Father, and the dispensation that we got to know

on earth is God the Son. And by his death

and being transformed, he becomes the Spirit of God, the

Holy God, the one that gives you the power. That's

why you can tell to say, come out and the

spirit will get up. Have you been to a deliverance

service and seeing people being delivered? That power is the

Spirit of God. When the Man of God commands life

and death is the power of the tongue. When he commands,

when he speaks, when he decrease according to the Word

of God, says, you cannot dwell here. This body is

the temple of God. This body is the Church of God.

You cannot live here. See God and Satan, those spirits

his allies, the witches that whatever, they cannot live in

the same place. They cannot occupy the same space. If

you allow it, it will live there. But if you

take or throwy and say you have to go, you

can evictim. Come out in the name of Jesus. And

then you start seeing the person manifesting, because that spirit,

that unclean spirit, must leave by the power that is

in you, the spirit of God. Amen. If you've had

that same power today. If you do not know Jesus

in that power, if you do not understand who he is,

and if you don't understand what He came to do

for you on the cross, if you don't understand what

it means for you, I want you to come now.

You see, he died for you, He paid the price,

He redeemed you. He has taken me your sin. He

has become cursed for you. So that you are now acceptable.

His blood was the atonement, it's blad as the only

thing that could pay for your life. So if you

do not know him, and the only way I keep

telling you, there's no middle ground. Your works won't take

you to heaven. The only way you're going to hell

is if you did not choose choose Jesus Christ. That's

the only way you're going to hell. Or Hell was

not made for you and I, for Satain and his

allies and his coords and his covenant keepers, that's who held.

It wasn't made for you and I. But the choice

you make is what is going to determine where you

end up. So if you do not know Jesus Christ

as your Lord and savior, if you haven't come to

the understanding that He came to die for you, redeem you,

justify you, make you as though you're noticing justification, just

as you've never seen when you know you and I

know that you're seen every day, every hour, every minute

you get away. But he justifies you, makes you new,

brand new. If any man being Christ, he's a what

it makes you brand new. If you don't know that,

today you have the opportunity the salvation is a free gift,

and I keep telling you it's like buy an insurance.

If you get to heaven and there's no God after that,

if you find out there's no God, then what have

you lost? But if you get there and there's a God,

there's a heaven and there's a hell, and you didn't

accept Jesus Christ, then by your own choice, because you

heard it. He said, seek him while he may yet

be found. The time is coming that you be seeking God.

Read revelations. There's a time coming where you want to pray.

Why you want to repent too late? Seek him today.

All you have is now you have passed that tame

in a space of five minutes. The man he was

looking at, he went outside and came back. The man

was there. They were doing CPR. He had given up

the ghost. You have now now that you're hearing the word.

If you don't know him, just come. You can't do

anything for it. He has chosen you from the foundation

of the world in the beginning. He was there, said, behold,

I stand at the beginning of your life, and I

know the end. See God created you. He had you

in mind. Turn to your name and say you are special.

To God. He had you in mind, so he created

your life and then caused your parents to come together

to birth you to come and live that light that

he created. So do you think God doesn't know? You

think you didn't know that you'll be here today? But

He has given you free will that you're sitting here

today and you are hearing me talk about it. Say

seek me while I can still be found. I think

it's Isaiah fifty six, isn't it is? They have fifty

six in life. Seek the Lord where he is, he

may still be found. This is your time. All you

have is now. You don't have five minutes from now,

you don't have ten minutes from her. You don't have

one hour, you don't have one week. You don't know.

No man knows. You don't know when he is coming.

You don't know when he's gonna call you. So if

you hear my voice now, I invite you to come

accept Him as your Lord and savior and be entitled

to all those things that the Bible says. You're entitled

to have power because you're carrying a spirit. Walk into

a place and everybody's like, who is that there's something

different about him or her? Because you're carrying his spirit. See,

when you enter the place, you have to change that atmosphere.

Not because you're so beautiful or handsome. More, it's because

of the spiritual carrier. Let your light so shine, because

you're carrying the spirit. When you enter a place, all

of creation has to conform. That's the kind of power

you have. But you don't know when you walk into

a place it could be a den of your enemies.

He will cause your enemies to be at peace with you.

That's what the scripture says. He is here and he's

interested in your well being. He's not going to allow

anything or anyone to harm you because you have accepted him.

You have allowed him to dwell in you. If you

don't know him, this is the time God forbid. Ten

minutes from now he can come. He can call you

everybody else to go. Why you call you? What are

you going to tell him? I heard you revenkle forbad.

I need to wait the next week when I have

my nice new dress. I wanted to wait. You know,

there's some things I want to do when I'm finished

our repent. Come. This is the most important church. I

always say. When you hear the altar called going forth pray.

It's not the time to be looking around. Don't spectate.

If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your lord and

said that you're saved by faith, it's not negotiable. But

that's what the Word of God says. It's not what

Reverend Before is saying. That's what the Bible says. If

you have done that, then you're saying. If you haven't,

you are choosing because He has given you free will.

If you haven't, you are choosing hell by default. If

you don't want to die and go to as simple

there's no middle ground. I can't tell you, oh you know,

you just wait and no listen. Some things, when you

hear you have to be proactive. This is one of them.

Because you don't have the next five you don't have

the next ten minutes. You don't know. I don't know.

Is anybody here who knows what's gonna happen in the

next hour? Anybody? Can anybody tell me what's gonna happen

in the next hour. But God knows because the old

time in his hand. So if you don't know him,

come as you hear my voice.

Come.

If you deny me before people, I'll also deny you

before my father. That's what the scripture says. He will

deny you, he said, depart from me. I never knew you.

Oh but Jesus I was there and I was saying you, listen,

what did you do? Did you act on it? Don't

just be hearers of the word, be doers of the word.

Exercise your faith. Faith without works is dead. If you're

hearing it, you believe it, and you're still sitting there,

it amounts to nothing. So come come, I have two minutes. Come,

please come. If you have not accepted Jesus Christ as

your Lord and savior, God bless you, my sister, come

on that day, It'll be you and God and nobody else.

Don't worry about your friends. Come come, come, glory, hallelujah.

Come on, rejoice, rejoice. I keep telling. Scripture says all

of heaven rejoices one one soul one. That's three here,

and I know them more. It's everybody. He has saved

everybody here. I want to do this so that there's evidence.

As it says in Detroying Me, let Heaven and Earth

bear witness. Is everybody here said? Are you saved? Everybody?

Look at your neighbor and as him. Have you accepted

Jesus Christ? Ask them look them in the eye. You

know what I will ask you on that day of

account to be said. You know that girl that was

sitting next to you when rebrienco Forcea had asked them,

did you try and ask them because she was going

to hell? She wasn't saved? Are saved? You are said?

Everybody have accepted Jesus Christ. So if it comes now,

you know you're going to heaven. You're sure it's just

march in heaven that you said, he is amen. I'm

not scary, but it is the truth. That's how it is.

Everybody here safe. You're all giving your life to Jesus Christ.

He's a master of your life. You understand that he

came to die this whole week that we have talked

about the passion of Christ, Good Friday on Friday and

this resurrection, that you have accepted him and what he

did to understand you have salvation and you're justified if

you have been reconciled to God. If it comes now,

you're going with him. You're sure, you're sure that you're sure.

May clap for yourselves. May the Lord record that too,

because I don't want your blood on my hands. That's

why I'm doing this. Everybody here saved, saved. You're sure,

you're sure, you know if it comes right now, you're saying, hey,

pap didn't be you're sure a man. Clap for yourselves

over here, over here, over here, over here, over here. Look,

my time is sure. Come on, everybody saved, sanctify, set apart,

and I like that smell. She knows for sure. Amen,

plan for yourself here, Charlie, you are your body. Boddy,

you're saying you'll accepted him. You guys, it's free. There's

nothing you can do. Jesus Christ said, I shed my

blood for you. If you accept me, you will reign

with me in heaven. When you put that's in life

after death, of don't let That's why that's the type.

It didn't end with the Christie fixio. Afterwards he resurrected,

and then he ascended so that you can be resurrected

and you will assnd to rule with him. Amen. Everybody

he has saved. Heaven is recording it all. It will

play for you, just like see it on that day

or your son before God. I won't be there, your

mother won't be there. Your father won't be there, your

brothers and sisters, your body, body is your friend you.

It'll be each man for himself with God. You heard, Reverendlefore,

what did you do with it? Did you accept him? Amen?

God for yourselves? Okay, here, listen, don't be shy, don't worry.

He's not interested in what you're wearing. You can do

your peruvia, you can do your news. Listen. He wants

you to look good. What do you think you got?

You get all your good desires from every good and

perfect dead comes somewhere, all the good tastes that you have,

the nice things that you want. He wants you to.

I wish above all things that you prosper and being

good health. Even as a soul prosperous. He is more

concerned about the soul. All the nice things will come

seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and is what

and all everything else? The house, the cow, the job,

the husband, the wife, the children, the money. He always

the catalog of all the gold belongs to him. Everything

that was made. There's nothing that was made that was

made without him. That's what scripture says. Whatever you want,

it's in him, but don't get it. Twisted the moment

you start worshiping what He has made creation. If the

creation takes the place of the creator, it becomes idolatry.

If you start worshiping money so much that you don't

have time for God, he said, I hate idolatry, So

stop going after the things. Go after him who owns

the things, and he can gift you. He says, I

will give you all the desires of your heart. All

he needs you to do is acknowledge him. If you

don't acknowledge him here, he will also not cloge you

in heaven. Amen. So everybody He has saved clad for

yourselves here and here. Anybody listen, and it'll play for

you in heaven this day. We'll play right before your eyes.

Don't say you didn't know, but that will be a lie.

And I don't want you to stand before God even

if you want to lie to me here, don't go

and stand before going to say I didn't know. I

didn't hear. Oh you heard. Amen. Everybody is saved. Well, church,

give God some praise in his house. Come on, come on,

open up your mouth. I've just told you why I understand.

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,

Come on, it's resurrections. Wife has risen, and because he's

written you wul rise. There is all also right? Who

thinks that the Amen? God bless you. What's name Victoria,

God bless you. This is the best decision you will

ever make in your life. That's your name, Eugenia, God

bless you. What's your name, Sterling? Yeah, it's a good name, Priscilla.

God bless you. Our brothers and our brothers and sisters,

he have chosen to give their lives to God. So

we ought to give God glory because that means they

are being translated into the Kingdom of God. Amen. On

that day there will reign with Jesus in heaven. Amen. Now,

the Bible says, if you believe in your heart and

you confess with your mother Jesus Christ as the son

of the Living God, that he came to earth, died,

was buried, and resurrected on this Easter Sunday his resurrection. Actually,

do you believe it, then follow me in this prayer

because you have to confess it so that it is

recorded that before all these witnesses that you confess Jesus Christ,

and you're saved. Amen. So repeat off to me, Dear God.

I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of the

Living God. I believe that he came to the earth, suffered, died,

and was buried. But he rose up on the third

day at the resurrection, on this day that we are celebrating,

and he shall reign with you in heaven. And because

I've accepted him. Now, your word says, your word says,

open up your mouth. Your word says, it's not what

re Brancofort said, is what God said. Say. Your word

says that I will resurrect with him and I will

reign with him. I believe it by faith, and I

declare and decree that I'm saved. I'm saved. I'm saved. Church,

Give God some praise. Come on, they have confessed. It

is done, it is sealed, and they are now translated

into the Kingdom of God. Amen. Now I want you