The Significance of Easter Rev Edward Agyekum Kufuor 6.4.25

You haven't come to see me. You have come to

see Jesus, the Christ, the one who gave his life

for you, the one who shed his blood for you,

the one who went to the cross for you. I

can't do anything for you. Open up your mouth and

give him thanks and give him praise this morning, if

you believe that you are standing because of God, and

open up your mouth and give him praise. Not everything

that I've pread, Praise the Lord. Come on, come on,

come on, don't stop. Listen. Some people walk up this

morning and they've already gone to the mortuary. You are

standing here, cut up a marath sorn. Did God praise?

Give him praise? It's not because of your goodness. It's

not off because of your words, but by his brave

and his mercy. Oh, come on, open up your mouth,

say o God, your ma, my b I will name.

I will never be the same. You cannot have Chris

the fame. Come on, you believe me, I will never

be sa. I'll go to your God last. Yeah, I

don't just a look at think say to your suit,

to your price, what one did you like this morning?

The one who appeals your mouth, the one has given

you divine us takes dif I preservations. So I'm not

saying that I am not. I can't do any help

for you. Open up your mouth and give God praise.

It is a It's a good place to give God

some praise. Open up your mouth. Listen. If your praise

is stuck in your mouth, that's what the devil wants.

He doesn't want you to open up your mouth and

give God praise. He's envy us. Every time you open

up your mouth, he twust process. He inhabits. The praise

is the people. When you open up your mouth and

you give God praise, he sits in the midst of

your praise, and he execute Jacqueline and bent him for you.

He can delivers you. But the thing that you don't

even know that happened in your life, God would deliver you.

Open up your mouth, and you'll never be the same man.

Thank you, still in the same atmosphere, the same mode

of praise. I want to offer God great thanks for

allowing me to stand here this morning. I want to

give God thanks because I can tell you my testimony. Briefly.

A few months ago, just barely three months, I was

in UGMC intensive care with oxygen on my face. I

couldn't breathe for myself, but look at me. Why because

I'm so good? No, because of His grace and mercy.

So if you're standing here, you have the faculties together.

Your mind is working, your appendages are working, your arms

are working. You owe it to God because if you're

not sure, go to the mortuary right now. The people

laying down there that don't talk, can't say anything, can move.

And in the hospital are people in traction who wish

they could walk, move, clap like you're doing. So give

God some praise for that. He's worthy, He's worthy, He's worthy.

I want to thank my Papa, our papa, wherever he is.

May the Lord bless him strength and protect him. Made

his head never liked oil. And to our bishop, our

own bishop, our love about bishop. A man sat in

this house. Come on, give God praise for his life.

I'm grateful that he has given me this opportunity to

stand here today. Now, God made the words of my mouth,

its applications of my heart. Everything that you have just

spoken into my being today be delivered for your people,

that they may receive life, and they may be quickened

within their bodies, so that they can go forth and

do the work that you've as signed in the mighty

name of Jesus Christ have prayed Amen, So please be seated.

I have been assigned today to bring the word about

the significance or importance of Easter. The significance the importance, Oh,

give God some praise. So I'm going to quickly go

through some basic things with you so you can understand

the significance or importance of Easter. Easter for us Christians,

the believers, we refer to us resurrection resurrection, and it

is the commemoration of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus

the Christ. It represents for us hope and promise of

eternal life. The resurrection is foundational to the Christian, to

you and me, and it represents Jesus's victory over death

and sin. First Corinthians, Chapter fifteen, verses thirteen through fifteen.

First Corinthians, fifteen, thirteen through fifteen. But if there be

no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen?

Verse fourteen. And if Christ not be risen, then is

our preaching in vain? And your faith and my faith

is also in vain. He's saying that if Christ didn't

die and resurrect on the third day, then all that

we are doing here is in vain. Now let's go

to fifteen yeay, and we have found false witnesses of God,

because if that didn't happen, then the word of God

is not true. That means we all here bearing false witness.

But is that true? Hello? Is it true? Are we

here bearing false witness of God? Is Jesus Christ, the

son of God? Did he come to die for you?

Did he resurrect after the third day? Then we are

not bearing false witness of God because we have testified

of God that he raised up Christ whom he raised,

not up, whom he raised not up. If so be

that the dead rise not so if that is not true,

then for us as a Christian, all of this cannot

be true because all of that it's hinged on the

fact that our faith is in the fact that Jesus

came to die for our sins, was buried, and he

rose on the third day. So that is why we're

here today bearing witness. And if all of that didn't exist,

then we all wasting our time here. But ten to

your neighbors, say, Jesus died for my sins. Now, the

resurrection validates Jesus' identity as the son of God. The

fact that God raised him up from the dead validates

the fact that he's the son of God and confirms

his authority to grant forgiveness of sins and reconcile humanity

with God. Because he came, died for our sins, he

took our place. It is evident that he is the

only one having done that, having taken that place, having

become sin for our sake. That gives him the authority

to forgive you of your sins. Because he died, he

paid the price with his blood for your sins. Secondly,

it provides the assurance of our redemption and the promise

of eternal life or new life in Christ. Because if

we believe in Him and he has died and he

has risen, because we are him, we now become heirs

and we will reign with him. That's what the scripture says.

So then it gives us the hope of redemption, the

assurance of our redemption, and the promise of eternal life.

We will reign with him eternally. Amen. So I want

to quickly give you a few definitions because they are

key to this whole theme about the importance of Easter.

Who can tell me what faith is? Anyone. I haven't

come to talk at you. I've come to talk with you.

Anybody give me an idea what faith? Anybody has an

idea what faith is? Faith is? If you're not even sure?

If you know the scripture? What does the scripture say

about faith? Hebrews eleven one and two? What does it

say Hebrews eleven one and two. Now, faith is the

substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Now faith in this people read it. Now faith is

But I'm saying now, faith because in the moment which

you exist, don't forget. The next moment is not promise

to you. I've seen people standing in the pulpit and

they drop. The next moment they're dead. So why are

you yet alive? Now? Faith in this moment. Faith is

the substance of things hoped for. You aspire to some

things you hope. You have a desire for some things

that you have not seen yet they are not yet manifested.

But your faith gives substance to those things that you

hope for. Amen. So now faith is the substance of

things for the evidence of things not seen, but by faith,

because you believe that your God, that Christ can do

that for you. Your faith is what gives those things substance. Amen.

The second thing I want to discuss with you is redemption. Redemption,

redemption as it relates to Easter. We have just spoken

about it. That Christ came, he died for us, He

died in our place. He redeemed us, He paid the price.

You see, because we are sinful by nature, we should

have been judged by God. We should have paid the price.

And the price for sin, according to scripture, is what death.

For the wages of sin is what. Amen, are you

here for the wages of sin is what? So by

the scripture, God came in right now, none of us

will stand because we all say, but Christ came and

redeemed us, and he bought back, brought our precious lives back,

paid the price, and became a curse by hanging on

the tree, and he redeemed us from the law Galatians

three eleven through fourteen. Galatians three eleven through fourteen. But

no man is justified by the law in the sight

of God, because you know the law is for man.

If you do this, then this is what it is.

There's no it's just. The law is like robotic this

is what you shouldn't do. If you break it, then

these are the consequences. But no man is justified by

the law. In the sight of God. It is evident form.

The just shall live by what the just shall live

by faith? So what does that mean? Can anybody tell

me what that means? Your faith is your belief in Christ.

That Christ came, He's the son of God. He came,

he died, he was buried, he rose again on the

third day. But your faith exercised is what makes you righteous.

You're made right in the sight of God because you

have chosen to believe in Christ. And when I say chosen,

because He says, I choose you this day. I'm presenting

to you life and death. If you choose Christ, I

am the Way, the Truth. And what So when you

choose Christ, you've chosen what amen, You've chosen life. So

choose you this day as is presented to you. So

He came to redeem us by taking a place and

dying on the cross for us. And I'm giving you this.

I've given you faith, I've give you redemption. Now salvation.

I see you guys are not very awake this morning.

Who can tell me what salvation is? Do you want

me to come down there because I can easily work

among you and so we can communicate. Amen. So salvation.

Who can tell me what salvation is? Anybody? You don't

have the word in you don't you your study your scriptures?

Who can tell me what salvation is? Yeah?

So, salvation is when you accept Christ for the forgiveness

of your sins. So it's not based on your works

or what you think you can offer, but is by

accepting the gift, the free gift that God gives us.

If somebody gives you a gift, it's not something that.

You pay for. Amen. Amen, by faith. Amen, let's give

God a handle for the Amen. So salvation tells us

that Jesus Christ is the exclusive source of salvation. Salvation

is founding no one else, For there is no other

name given under this heaven given to mankind by which

we must be saved. Your mother can save you, Your

father can't save you, your brother can save you, Your

sister can't save you. Your friends, even your enemies can't

save you. Amen. Only Jesus Christ can save and it

gives it to you freely. All you have to do

is accept it by faith, because when you accept by

faith and you're made righteous, it is imputed onto you

because you've accepted him by faith, because you can say, well,

how do I really know you know that it is

true and that if I believe in Jesus Christ, when

I die, I'm going to heaven. How do I really know?

You haven't seen it. You haven't seen heaven but by faith.

But the scripture also tells us that faith comes by

the hearing, by the hearing of the word. When you

hear the word, it enters into your spirit, enters into

your ear gates and into your spirit, and it bears

witness with your spirit, and you are quickened to receive

it to believe it. Amen. So now we know what

faith is, we know what redemption is, we know what

salvation is, and that is the foundational What is the

word I'm looking for? It is foundational to what we

believe as Christians. Amen. Because if all of that is

not true and we don't have all of that, then,

like the Scripture says, everything we are doing here comes

to nought. But we believe. Amen. So let us go

back and really take it. Let's go to Genesis. So

how come man became separated from God? Because that's what

sin does. It separates you from God and then you

cannot commune with God. And then even your prayers cannot

be received because God cannot deal with sin. He has

nothing to do with sin. In fact, if you haven't

accepted the gift of salvation and made righteous by faith

in Jesus Christ, God cannot deal with you. That's why

on the cross, when Jesus was dying in the last minute,

he had become sin. He had become a curse by

hanging on that tree. That's what the scripture says. Anyone

that hangs on the tree is a curse on the cross,

that's what I mean by hanging on the tree. Okay,

So at that point Jesus was sin. He became sin.

He exchanged places with us, so God could not That's

why he said, Father, Father, why have that forsaken me?

Because at that point God turned his face away from Christ.

And I think that is what really killed Jesus. It

wasn't the pain, the beating, it was the he was

broken that God had abandoned him at that point. It's

like you have become sin, though it was all in

the plan, because that's why he came to reconcile humanity

mankind back to God. So in Genesis three we go

Genesis three, Genesis three, let us go from the beginning,

and I think you read it at home, because we

have you know, we don't have plenty of time. But

that's where the whole story about the serpent coming to

the garden of Eden and presenting the apple, the fruit

to even telling your look, as God said, if you

eat this, you're going to die. You're surely not going

to die. That's why you have to be careful of

who you're listening to and what you're hearing, because he

comes to plant those seeds to shake your faith. But

you're supposed to be set first, immovable in whatever you've

chosen to believe. You can choose to believe otherwise. But

this is the thing about the Kingdom. Either you're with him,

you're for Christ, you're in Christ, or you're with you

know who. There's no middle ground you can alsay. Ask

for me, I don't believe in Christ, but I'm not

doing the devil's work, so I'm here. No, either you're

with Christ or you're with the devil. Amen, Ask your neighbor,

who are you with today? Who are you listening to today?

What voices are you hearing today? Because what you hear

can cause you to lose the gift, to miss that

gift of salvation. Amen. So this is what happened in

the garden. Satan comes, the serpent comes, and he talks

to Eve, and he confuses her, and she is what

is the word beguiled? Yes, she becomes big guile that

you know, be fuddled. Let me use some big words

on tears it now you know boom. So now she

now thinks, oh, so I'm not going to die, I'm

going to become as wise as God. I'm going to

be able to see. So she eats it and then

she gives it to her husband Adam, and that represents

the beginning of sin. Now, the scripture tells us that

in the cool of day, the voice of the Lord,

the spirit of God comes into the garden to commune.

God is the god of community. To tell your neighbor,

God is a god of community. So he comes into

the garden to commune with them. And then when he

comes he can't find them. They're hiding. He said, where

are you? This is how we relate for somebody you

have a relationship with, You have meeting times, you have

times where you communicate with them. So if you have

agreed to come and we have this communion, and then

I come and I can't find He's like, what's going on?

You're standing me up? You brown and me what why

aren't you here? So God comes and he finds out said,

we were afraid because we were naked all the time,

You've been naked, So what happened? Who told you today

that you're naked? What opened your eyes? Right there? God

knows you have eaten of the fruit of that tree

that I told you not to eat from. So that's

what Satan came to do. And so that's how sin

entered into the world. And I told you Sin cuts

us off, separates it. It's like a wall between you

and God. It blocks communication. Your prayers cannot get through.

You cannot talk with God, have a conversation with God

because you have been cut off. Amen. But it all

starts with a desire, lust, a thought. Don't your neighbor say,

watch what you're thinking and what your motives are, Because

as a man thinketh that's what Scripture says, as a

man thinketh so is he? So watch what you're thinking.

Because the desire, the thought that lasts, that thing that

you desire so much that you go after you do

anything to get it, births sin, and sin cuts you off. Now,

sin when it has matured, when you have done it

and you keep doing it, see you sin, you transgress,

and then when you make a lifestyle of it, it

becomes iniquity. That means your conscience is now seared. You

are okay with what you're doing, and you don't even

regard what the consequences are. As for me, this is

how I am. He say animal to you. I'm not

going to change for anybody. You have now chosen to

live in iniquity. Amen, But your thoughts can earth sins,

and sin when it is mature, produces death. That's why

the wages of sin is death, because death is an

offspring of sin, and sin comes by what you're thinking,

those unruly thoughts that you have, unbridled thoughts, those things

that are contrary to what the word says you have

to take on the mind of Christ. Christ is not

thinking about being out there and just having your adults

say I can talk to you. A young adult say,

I can talk to you. It's not about going out

there and watching pornography and going out there and having sex,

and and going out there and trying drugs. Your body

is the temple of the living God. So anything that

you do that violence his body, you're violating God. You're

violating your relationship with God. And so that thought, those

desires which are not controlled, that are not raiding, that

are not subdued. You have to master yourself, don't You

Never say master yourself, because if you don't muster yourself,

the flesh always wants to be in control. But you

are not a man made of flesh. You are a

spirit being. You want evidence checked the Bible, God said

informed an amount of clay, and then he did what

He breathed, his spirit to him. What you are. That's

why you are made in the image and likeness of God.

God does not have flesh. He doesn't deal with his

meat suit because nothing good can come from this flesh.

That's what the scripture said. You are first and foremost

as spirit being. That's why you bear likeness to the

image of God. So if you allow the flesh, the

flesh wants comfortable flesh, no pest or chili or ba

baby air day on pear howl. Eh. He doesn't want

anything that's going to take him, you know, he doesn't

want stress this flesh. That's why you must take control

and let your spirit man lead, because when your flesh leads,

you're always going to end up in sin. And when

you end up in sin, you'll be cut off. And

when you're cut off, you die spiritually, because it's your

relationship with God. That spirit that he breathed into you

now is disconnected. You die spiritually, and then it manifests

in your natural and you can even die fiscally naturally. Amen.

Are you looking? Are you so enjoying so much the

works of your flesh that you're willing to die for it?

That's the name bory? Are you willing to die for

those thoughts? Are you willing to die for those desires?

But Jesus Christ King, because God did not want does

not want anyone to perish, but that all should come

to repentance. Amen. Second Peter three and nine. Second Peter

three and nine. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise,

as some men count slackness, but is long suffering to

us word towards us, not willing that any should what,

not willing that any should what. Not willing that any

should what, but that all should come to what. Okay,

So God didn't plan for us to come in this

as well. Just be here, do whatever you want, and

then in the end, because you've disconnected from him, go

and perish. That was not his plan. God never intended you. See. Hell,

it's not meant for us whole, because God created us

for a purpose in his image and his likeness with love.

You don't have your child to come and just go

and sacrifice or kill the child, or let it go

until something happens to it. You have a certain love,

a certain affinity even when your child is going to

correct them in love out of love. See, your natural

relationship is a reflection of your spiritual relationship. So if

the stuff going wrong in your natural relationships between you

and your parents, you and yours, to check your spiritual

relationship with God because if that's chaotic, it will manifest

because what's in the spirit is what manifests in the natural. Amen.

So God did not desire for any of us to perish,

but that we shall all come to repentance, for we

are all sinners. Romans five and twelve tells us, wherefore

us by one sin entered into the world. I just

told you that Adam and Eve sin entered into the world.

And death by sin, because that's what sin does. It

kills you, cuts you off, disconnects you from God. And

so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned.

That's why we say we are conceived in sin. Our

very nature is sinful. Our parents are sinful, our grandparents

are sinful. No man is perfect Amen. Psalm fifty one,

verse five says, surely our sinful at birth, sinful from

the time my mother conceived me, even from the womb,

it were sinful, not knowing it, but just by You know,

while curses can generational curses can go on. This is

an example. Something somebody did, something Adam did now has

traveled through the generations and that has been credited to

all of us because of that sin. So you have

to make a conscious decision this Easter, because that's what

Easter is. It presents you the opportunity to accept salvation

free gift. Why because just out of the grace and

mercy of God, because He loves us, he clothed himself

in flesh, came and was born by a virgin to

live among men, to die, to give his blood so

that he can reconcile us, you and me, and you

and you and you and you, reconcile us to himself,

because he never planned for any of us to perish. Amen. Now,

I don't know what else he can do for you

if he's you've gone and committed your sin, and he's thinking, oh,

but I love you so much and want you to

die in your sin. Good hell sin sin, whether it's pornography,

where there's sex, where there's lying, where there's it is sin.

There isn't a small sin. And that what they call

a little white lie. A lie is a lie. Say

a lie is a lie. You gossip? It is sin.

You're backbiting, it is sin. You're bearing false witness. It

is sin. You're drinking, violating your body, it is sin.

You're committing rampant sexual activity with anybody. It is sin.

God sees sin, and he doesn't want you to die

in your sin. So he came down, paid the price,

redeemed you. He went in and said, okay, you know

what he should die for what he has done. She

should die for what she has done. But I'm going

to step in and take their place. I'm going to

change places. Listen, I don't care how much I love you,

how friendly we are. If somebody would come and say, okay,

you have done you have done something so wrong. If

I say I love you so much, then I should

put my head on the guillotin Why you were doing it.

You didn't come and tell me when you were going

out there and doing whatever. You didn't come to me.

I have no knowledge of it. That's what is going

on between us and Christ. That's why this Easter, that's

the significance of Easter resurrection. He had nothing to do

with it. We chose our own way, and yet he

came and redeemed us and then gave us the choice freely,

gave us the gift to accept by faith, so that

we will be justified just as just as if you've

never sinned. Justification. That's what he does. He justifies you

and he wipes away That's why he's the only one

who has the power to forgive your sins, because he

paid with his blood. Amen, it's a good place to clap.

That's why Romans five tells us Romance five and he

tells us, but God commanded his love towards us. He

loves us so much in that while we were yet sinnist,

Christ died for us John three sixteen. That everybody should know.

If you don't know any scripture in the Bible, this

one should know. For God. So amen resurrection this Easter,

this is what we are talking about. So Jesus Christ

has a right to tell you in John fourteen and

six that I am the Way, the truth, and the life.

No one listen. If I've put my head on the

guillotine for you, if I've gone to the cross, if

I've been hanged, if I've whatever method of death they've

executed they've delivered to me, if I've paid that price

for you, then I want my props. You cannot get

to the Father except for me. Why because I took

your skin, I stood in your place. I became judged

the way you should have been judged, because you committed

the sin, and yet I took the judgment. So if

there's anybody who's going to be the way to get

to the Father, because me and my father were one,

and I always use this example, there's relationship. I can

go to my father's house. Now in a breed, I

can enter his bedroom and I can go and talk

to him. Can you go to my father's room? No,

because why I'm his son. It gives me certain rights

and privileges. Same thing with you in Christ. If you've

accepted the gift of salvation that Christ gives you, that

is what it does for you. You can go boldly.

You can approach boldly the throne of mercy, you can

go to God. That's what that sacrifice does for you.

It gives you access, unfettered access when there's see you

come in a good morning say now maybe never know.

Oh I'm time. Unlimited access as awful, unlimited access. That's

what it does for you. And if you choose not

to accept this, don't you numice any check you you

can't think fat are thinking madness. Somebody comes and DAEs

for you, takes your place where you should have been judged,

where you should have gone to the cross you should

have been judged. And listen, what does the scripture say?

Don't be afraid of man or be afraid of God.

It is a wondful thing for you to fall into

the hands of God, the wrath of God. You think

what the small trouble you're seen is a you become

victim to God's judgment. He's a messiful God, but he's

also a just God. He must judge because he's a

just God. So when you sin, if Christ wasn't in

the picture, God would have to judge you according to

what you've done. But Christ, somebody say bad Christ. Christ

steps in between us, says, hey, this one is mine.

I gave my blood for him. So when God looks

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

blood of Jesus Christ, the righteous blood, the efflications blood

of Jesus, the Christ that washes you white as snow,

because your sin is as crimson. That's what the scripture says.

So if anyone has a right to take those perhaps

a Christ, because you took your place and became judged,

became sin, became cursed, hang on the cross for you.

You should have been there in between those two thieves,

but for his mercy. But this is what salvation does,

and this is what makes it a give. This is

what makes it so simple. Romance ten Persons nine and ten.

It says, if you confess with your mouth, this is

how simple it is. That is by faith. So if

you just take it on surface value, just as the

scripture says, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus

is Lord and believe in your heart that God has

raised Him from the dead, ask your neighbor today, do

you believe? Come on, Tell your neighbor, don't be afraid

of them. You're saving their life. You're leading them to

get saved. Amen. Ask your neighbor, do you believe in

your heart that God has raised Jesus Christ from the dead.

And get their answer. What are they telling you? Do

you believe it? Ask him required of them, do you

believe it? If they sady, yes, then they are saved.

It's just that simple. It's just that simple because with

your mouth confession is made onto salvation. Because you believe

in your heart and you're spoken with your mouth, you

have received the gift of salvation. And today, having heard

this word, there's a lot more, but we'll come back

and deal with it at another time, because it's important

for us to understand what Resurrection Eastern represents for us

as Christians. It is foundational to everything that we believe in,

everything we do, all the principles that we aspire to

and adhere to. If this one fact doesn't exist or

doesn't hold, then everything we're doing doesn't matter, because it

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

that he came because of our sin, came to earth

and exchanged places with us, so he can reconcile us

back to Christ, back to God. The Son and the

Father are one, paid the scripture, so reconcile us back

on to himself. That's why this resurretion, this whole Easter thing.

It's not about the chocolates and all the stuff that

you enjoy. It's about the fact that he reconciles us

to himself, that he has given his life for us. So,

having heard this word, I want to tell you. In

Second Corinthians sixth and three, he says, behold now now

it is always now in the moment you. Just like

I said, now, faith, it is also now. It's accepted time.

Behold now is the day of salvation. The day that

you hear my voice, That's what the scripture said Hebrews

three and fifteen. The day that you hear my voice,

do not harden your heart. Why, let me advise you, why,

because you're hearing the word now you can step outside

and God forbid. God forbid, you can step outside and

you get hit by a car. You're dead. You heard

the word? You decide, Oh, I'm not ready it. I

want to be cute. I'll wait next week when my

du is together, and when my swag so I can

come and show off. Who told you next week you

are going to be here? Who told you five minutes

from now? A few years back, when I first you're

in action, we had had a crossover service and a

young man came. They called, They did the alto call,

and he went. He gave his life to Christ down

the street by the mall. He got hit by a

car and died, but he had just a few minutes

giving his life to Christ. He made the right choice. Now,

not later, not when you're ready. Listen, you cannot win

this battle this flesh. You cannot win against your flesh.

If you don't have the will, you don't have the capacity.

That's why Jesus Christ came to simplify it for you.

Listen freely, just believe by faith that I Am doing

this for you. And if you believe it, righteousness shall

be accounted to you. You shall be redeemed you will

have salvation and you will reign with me in eternity

and not too on DZA. So then what else can

you do for you? So now is the accepted time,

and today, if you're hearing my voice, I'm calling heaven

and all the hosts of heaven to bear witness against you.

Now today, a reverend before told you at nine o'clock,

eight thirty, whatever time you want to put it, I

told you what Christ has done, what the resurrection and

Esus stands for, and why it is important for you

to accept it because if you don't, you've made a choice.

If you're not for Christ or with Christ, then you

are with the devil. There's no middle ground. You can't

be lukewarm in this game. Either you're with him, you're gathering,

or you're against him, you're scattering. And if you're against him,

won't be tide you because you don't want to fall

of the judgment of God. Amen. So, if you're hearing

my voice today, I want to invite you to come church.

I need you to pray because this is the time.

This is the do or die, this is the now

or never. This is the time when you're hearing my

voice you've heard the word and what it means. What

salvation is, what redemption is, what righteousnessness? What righteousness is,

what your faith does for you by faith. So, if

you're here, if God cracks the sky right now and

says it's coming, are you sure you're going back with him?

What gives you the assurance? Where is your assurance that

you're going back with him? This is the point that

determines if you are going Like the young man who

got hit down the street. This what you do now now,

not tomorrow, not an hour from now, because you don't know.

No man knows when he's gonna call you. What you

decide now is what is going to determine if you

haven't given your life to Christ. I want to invite

you to come now. Don't just sit around and look.

This is important. This is the time when your eyes

should be closed. If you are saved, if you've accepted

the gift of salvation, if you be made righteous by

your faith in Jesus Christ, pray that there praid of

God will move and convict anybody who is not sure.

If you're not sure, it cannot say that if Christ

comes now you're going back with him, then I advise

you to run to this altar. Listen. I can't sugarcoat

it for you. That's his word. Choose you this day.

He's giving you life or death. It is a choice

you're making. You have to be accountable for it. You

cannot blame your mother or your father, your friends. You

are hearing the word today. Choose you this day, Choose

ye this day. Whose side are you on? Acknowledge who

died you, who gave his life for you. If you

haven't given you in life to Christ, come forth. It

is by faith. It's a gift. You can't pay for it.

You can't wipe for it. Anybody, anybody, So everybody here

is saved. And if Christ were to crack the sky

and come right now, you're sure that you're sure, that's

your show that you're going back with him. If you're not,

this is the time. Don't worry about who's sitting next

to you, because on judgment day we'll all be in

the line. Your friend will me and then say oh God,

and man soon said I sheould wait, So I wait,

it's going to be you and him. If you're not sure,

I invite you to come. It is free. If I

came here and I put two hundred city bills all

over here. I want to see how quickly you run

up and come and take it. That's how free it

is a man. Give God some praise, Give God some praise.

Don't worry about anybody, because God, this moment is recorded

in heaven. The scripture says, the angels, amen, rejoice even

when one one. So can you imagine what is going

on in heaven? Now, okay, let's stand up and make it.

Have an exercise. I want you to imagine what the

angels are doing. If the word of God is true,

that our sisters come forward, open up your mouth and

give God praise, and imagine what the angels are doing

right now. And if you're here and you know that

you're not sure, come come, because we will see each

other in heaven. If you're not sure, then when God

comes right now, you're going back with him. I want

to give you the last chance to come. Come, Come, Come, Come, come, come.

Don't worry about your friend. Don't worry about what you

have on. God is not interested on the outside. He's

interested on what's inside. That's how you look like him.

Not the meatship, not the flesh offers at nothing. Anybody

else going once now at this time, Praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Chance, pray, listen, this

is people's lives you're talking about. It turned my life. Pray, pray, pray.

Don't just turn there and look around. It's not time

to look around. Where you meet God on the day

of accountability, You're not gonna be doing this. Hey, where

where's man Son? No? Pray anybody else before we shut

it down. Time we have to. We have to still

be in order. God is a god of order. Time

is up. Come. If you've heard the word today and

you're not sure, this is your chance. Salvation is free.

Christ is offering to redeem you. Amen. Anybody else, one

last time, anybody else. This is so important. I just

I just can't just leave. I don't want you to

go out there without your covering, without having accepted this,

because it literally could mean life and death. And when

I say death, not just in the physical but spiritual.

Can you imagine spending the rest of eternity separated from God?

Who one? Amen? Church, give God a handput come on,

give God a handcluff of praise. We didn't just get one,

we got two. Amen, And even though you've made the choice.

I want you to know, because that's what the scripture says.

You didn't choose God. God chose you from the foundation

of time, the foundation of the world. Even while you

were yet a clock to blood in your mother's room.

God knew that this day you were coming. Amen, Church,

stretch your hands. Let us pray for our sisters. Of

Father God. We thank you for the lives of our

sisters who have heard the word, have not hardened their

hearts and have come forth. Now, God, let it be

done unto them according to your word, according to what

you have said in your scripture, that if they believe

by faith that Jesus Christ is the son of the

Living God, that he came, he died, and rose on. Thirdly,

that if they believe that and they confess it with

their mouth, then they are saved. So I'm here to

decree declare, by the authority of Jesus the Christ and

his word and his afflication of blood which is shed

for you, that you are saved, saved and saved. Church said, Amen,

give God some praise in this place. Give God some

praise in this place. What's your name? Emily Envy, Emmy

Welcome to the kingdom. Welcome to the family. What's your name? Benita?

Emmy and Benita have now been inductive. If you will

into the Kingdom of God, give God some praise. Now

I want you to turn around and go to the past.

Who's telling there you go and give you some gift,

takes information and join us again. Amen, Amen, churnt. If

you've received this word and you believe it is a

good word, I want you to give God praise.