He is Risen | Pr Sandra Chin

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Taken first, the Book of John. All right, the Book

of John.

Every year every year, and I don't know if I

said it last week, but every years, as we have

our twenty one day prayer and fast and also what

we call Lent, which is forty days towards Good Friday,

I make it a point to read the whole week

that Jesus, the whole week of the last week of Jesus,

you know, before he went to the Cross. And I

read it again this year from the Book of Luke,

and wow, there were again new revelation, no, well, new

verses that popped up to me that I read it before.

And then it just so flipping right, And this time

I was popping up and jumping up at me on

what Christ did for me going through the cross.

So anyways, here we go.

The Lord is risen. Why amen? Not very convincing, lad Church.

Are you a.

Man? Yeah?

I give you exercise, local exercise.

Amen, Amen? Amen? Amen, all right, local exercises so that

your lungs get bigger. Amen. So we're so grateful for

an empty tomb Okay, if you didn't already know, yeah,

he didn't just hang on the cross and stayed there.

But when they buried him in this tomb in the garden,

when they came on Sunday to food spices and you

know the ladies, yeah, women, No, women were the first

at the tomb.

Women were the last at the cross.

I don't know.

You know, girls, you're blessed.

Amen. You know Jesus was the you know, he talked

to the woman first. I don't know something about the women. Amen.

Hearts are soft, always ready to just you know, hear

from the Lord. So and the men too, until they

came after after ye, So find a good woman, lessons.

You'll find a good woman who will always be at

the feet of Jesus.

All right, John chapter twenty.

And we're gonna read an account here, John chapter twenty,

verse eleven to eighteen. So if you if your Bible,

you can turn to John chapter twenty, verse eleven to eighteen.

Oh see that woman there, Yeah, okay, let's read. Okay,

verse eleven. Hey, maen, are you with me? Praise the Lord? Okay,

So here we go. But Mary stood outside by the

tomb weeping.

That's the picture that I had.

And as she wept, she stooped down and she looked

into the tomb, and then she saw two angels in

white sitting, one at the head and the other at

the feet, where the body of Jesus had.

Past tense ad lane. Wow.

And then they said to her, woman, why are you weeping?

And she said to them because they have taken away

my lord, and I do not know where they have

laid him verse fourteen.

Now, when she had said this, she turned around and.

Saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it

was Jesus. Why Jesus said to her, woman, why are

you weeping? Are you seeking? And she's supposing him to

be the gardener because the tomb was in a garden,

Remember a garden tomb. She said to him, sir, if

you have carried him away, tell me where you have

laid him, and I will take him away. Wow. Mary

was going to carry Jesus away. She must be a

very strong woman, all right. Maybe she's a heavy lifter, yeah, powerlifter.

Then Jesus said to her, no, no, Then Jesus said

to her Mary, She turned and said to him rabboni,

which is.

To say, teacher.

And then Jesus said to her, do not cling to me,

for I have not yet ascended.

To my father.

But go to my brethren and say to them I

am ascending to my father and your father, and to

my God, your God. Amen. And then Mary Magdalene went

off to tell the disciples she had seen the Lord

and that he had spoken these things to her. The

point that we want to capture was that when Jesus

was standing next to her and spoke to her, she

supposing him to be a gardener, said to him, sir,

you have carried him away while weeping and crying. Sir,

if you've carried him away, tell me. And then when

Jesus called her name, she turned and then only recognized

and said, teacher, all right, let's go to the next verse.

John twenty one. It's just the next chapter. John twenty one,

verse four to thirteen. All right, Oh, this is a

good one. Anyone up for breakfast this morning?

Okay?

Fish the LaPier is a lot of that in the

Galilee Lake Lord of Tlapier. Yeah, I don't know. Some

people don't like Delapier anyway, John twenty one, verse four. Now,

now before before verse four, Peter, you know he had been,

you know, he like had the night Jesus. Right, So

he's already feeling low, really low. If your surname is low.

His surname was Peter loaded. Hey yeah, not you John

now ye low as he was low, and he was

feeling really down, and you know, what do we do?

And I feel really down? And everybody's hopeless. They're all scared,

you know, of all the Jewish leaders. I don't know

if they're gonna come and catch us because we were

followers of Christ. So they were all worried and they're all,

you know, just together. And then Peter like, that's it.

I'm just I can't do this anyway. I can't just

do I can't. So said, I'm going fishing. I'm going fishing.

What is it? He's going back to his trade. The

thing that he knew. He was sure that was what

he knew, because right at that moment, they didn't know

what was truth anymore? Where Where where's Jesus? What happened?

He died? Man?

All this going on and then we heard that the

tomb's empty.

Can't believe these women, you know women, they talk a lot,

and so they like don't know what's going on, right,

and so.

He goes back fishing.

And sometimes in our lives we're like that, when we're

not sure, we go back to this. We just go

back to things that were familiar. And sometimes that can

not always be good, you know. Uh sometimes and I'm

heard worries of how some girls and it really down

and not did they go back to the familiar god

old boyfriend.

Oh man, that's tough. That's tough. There's tough. Yeah yeah, yeah,

yeah yeah, not so good, oh man?

So you know what do we do? Go back to

the things that were familiar with Sometimes it's okay because

we need to.

Find to make sense of what's not clear. So they

go back fishing, right and.

Then verse four, so so what happened in the last thing?

They says okay, like the rest of them said we're

going with you. And they went out and immediately got

into the boat, and that night they caught nothing.

That's verse three. It was night on Saturday night.

It's not it's really after the resurrection, right, So they

go out at night nothing. So but when the morning

had now come, Jesus stood on the shore. Yet the disciples.

You can say it with me, everybody read one more time.

The disciples, Hey did not know if you ever thought

about that? What happened? Then Jesus said to them, children,

have you any food?

And they answered him no.

So he said to them, hey, cast the net on

the right side of the boat and you will find some.

And so they cast Remember all night long no fish.

So they cast it on the right side.

Of the boat.

And now they were not able to draw it in

because of the multitude of fish. So therefore that disciple

whom Jesus loved, said to Peter, so the disciples right

thing is actually Jordna. Jesus loves me so much. Yeah,

so John said to Peter, it is the Lord. He recognized.

And now and then now when Simon Peter that it

was the Lord, he put on his outer garment, for

he had removed it, and he plunged into the sea

as you would expect of Peter.

Just rash right, just jump into the sea, swam.

But the other disciples came in the little boat, for

they were not far from the land, but about two

hundred two hundred cubits. Can I even counter in kilow

meters two hundred yards, I don't know one hundred meters, Okay,

I didn't get the calculation for that anyway. But the

other disciples they came in, dragging the net with the fish.

One hundred meters. That's one hundred meter run right, okay,

so one hundred meters. How far from here to it? Wow? Today?

Maybe where the TV is, or be further, maybe me

further where the pantry is one hundred meters okay, a

little bit more, a little bit more like okay, right

outside there, okay, jump and you go, all right. So

so they dragged in the fish. Then as soon as

they had come to land, they came to land, and

they saw a fire of coals there and the fish laid.

On it and bread.

And then Jesus said to them, bring some of the

fish which you have just hot. Simon Peter went up

and dragged the net to land full of large fish

one hundred and fifty tree. And although there was so many,

the net was not broken. Jesus said to them, come

and eat breakfast. It was barbecue fish and maybe pokasha bread, ah, okay.

Flat bread.

And yet none of the disciples, none of them. Dad

say to him, who are you knowing that it was

the Lord? And then Jesus then came took the bread

gave it to them likewise the fish. And it was

now the third time that Jesus showed himself to his

disciples after he was raised from the dead.

Amen, do you like my picture?

Thank?

You can show my picture XU.

Yeah, okay, see barbecue fish, Yeah, fish jumping out of

the net.

And that was Jesus that morning. Okay, all right?

Is it was that?

Okay? Anyway, there was Peter.

Oh sorry, I thought it was a fish. Okay, Peter

was jumping in. All right, Peter was jumping in. Okay,

two accounts for you. I'm not sure if you've ever

thought about it, but this is Jesus resurrected, and he

was among among the people for about fifty days, visiting, visiting,

turning up suddenly, you know. And then another story which

I didn't put it up here, was the one in

the book of Luke where I remember the two guys

Cleoppers and his friend, and they were walking away from

Jerusalem to Emmaeus, the road to Emmaeus, and then they

were discussing stuff like what law is this Jesus real one?

How come last stable? What a death?

What a death?

Do you really work? They were talking, right, and then

and then suddenly Jesus, like some movies, we don't know

if he had on like a dancer there, like a

theon a cloak, we don't know. But he walked with

them and then he said, so, what are you guys

talking about? And they're like, are you some bordo? You

just came to Jerusalem? Did you not hear the big

thing that happened? No?

What was it?

Tell me? And so they began to tell Jesus and

then they went further further and they still couldn't recognize him,

and then until they came to almost Amaeas and they say, oh,

I think I gotta go. Jesus, say is and they

go like, no, it's won you hang out with us.

They still don't know who he is. And yeah, now

I need you to imagine a little bit like what's

going on. They don't know the stranger. And they're like, hey,

comes stay with us.

Now?

How am I having tea with us? Let's have coffee bean,

come on, and let's you know, just come. And then

I said, okay, I'll go, because they said would you

would you stay? And they say, okay, I'll stay. When

you invite Jesus, he stays and he stayed with them,

and then as they broke bread, their eyes were open,

and then they and then he disappeared. And then they said,

did our hearts not burn? Because he began to open

scripture to them, tell them about the prophets and the

law and in shad. And then they said, did our

hearts not burn? You can read that in the last

chapter of Look. And yet they couldn't recognize him. We

are not sure now, club Us. If you do a study,

they say there was. His name was mentioned actually clock

Bus in another part of the gospel in Mark, so

now she of the same person.

But they were obviously people who knew Jesus.

Mary Magdalene was so definitely would have known Jesus. We

have known your we'd have known your face. How come

she didn't recognize Have you ever asked the question? I

read it many times? I said, oh, come, you didn't

recognize Jesus. And then these guys like one hundred meters,

so a few assumptions. One hundred meters it's early morning,

maybe he was six still dark, very hard to recognize.

If Eunis was standing one hundred meters and it's six

o'clock in the morning, I'm standing.

There trying to look.

You cannot recognize her maybe hundred meters maybe ice not

good or four eyes so okaynot okay? So uh, you know.

And then and then and then this lady, but but

Jesus was next to her. But she was crying.

She's weeping, this girl, this woman really loved Jesus because

he set her free from several demons that had taken

over her life. The she's so grateful. Now she's lost

the savior, right, so she's crying. Maybe in between all

the tears and the snort and you know, blood already,

how maybe maybe cannot recognize. I'm more dark, some more

early morning, still cannot recognize. But then when when they

when he said Mary, and then she turned and recognized him. Amen.

So I'm trying to put some thoughts together with this

and why could they not recognize search the commentaries and

different commentaries say have different thoughts about this. But I'd

like to if you wouldn't allow if you would allow

me to suggest this next few points, that that maybe

when Jesus was resurrected, remember what was the last scene

they saw of Jesus? What was the last thing they

saw of Jesus? Anybody crucified? What what did he look like? Bloody? Injured?

Maybe how you say, swollen the face because he was

whipped right and and the whip were like this and pulled,

so all his skin was ripped. He's bleeding, right, his

back was ripped. The whole body was just ripped with

these some little uh the metal and the and the

and the bones.

Right there's shop.

So he's he's bleeding. And I said, fifty three says

he was beyond recognition. He was so just this figured

that it just you couldn't you couldn't tell it was Jesus.

But even when he was alive, they didn't even know

who was Jesus, because I've said here many times, he

didn't look anything like the picture that you know, the

ex kids had that day with the superheroes, Jesus with

the specs on and like muscular. I mean, that is

a gorgeous man. But Jesus didn't look anything like that

man with the specs. I asked the designers, I said,

you sure Jesus was specs? He said, you know, he

might have god dact lets. I don't know what.

They had very good eyesight.

So Jesus in scripture if you read Isaiah the whole chapter,

he says he had nothing comely.

That means he was not go looking on.

He's not like Sharrow Khane, you know, he even looked

anything like I don't.

Know, Middle Eastern. You know, Albert Ling's nothing.

You know, because Albert Lingo saw you can recognize, right,

but when you walk around you we might recognize. But

Jesus walked around the people every day, and yet he

was betrayed by a kiss. Because they could recognize Jesus,

they needed someone to show them who Jesus was.

So we've got to use imagination.

We got to think when Jesus walked on the earth,

would anyone have followed him? Would not have been for

his looks. Okay, it would not have been for his looks.

It had to be his spirit and the way he

knew people and connected with people that they followed Christ.

And so after the resurrection, you know, if you read

Corinthians and you read Thessalonians, they say that when we

are when we get resurrected, when God, you know, in

the second Coming, takes up all the bodies that are dead,

and then we'll be changed in the twinkle of an eye,

and then we'll have a new body, right, and and

that'll be your new heavens and new earth. We have

no idea what all this means because we never experienced

it before.

But some of us are like, yes, all my fans

will be gone. Okay, that's it.

That's it. Oh no, I'll go back haird everything. If

you lost hair, you know, all the men will lose hair. Yeah,

oh my hair will come back, and then you know.

According to one story, the book called Heaven is so

Real by this little the parents of this little boy

who wrote it, when he saw his grandfather in heaven, right,

he said, who did you see? And then he said this,

he saw people, but he didn't know who until he

saw the picture of his grandfather when his grandfather was

twenty one years old, and he said, I saw that man.

And then they go like, wow, Grandpa's gonna We're all

gonna look to anyone forever. Twenty one is it's it's

not just a label.

It might be true.

Okay, all right. If you today I look at my

old pictures, I cry cry, Oh my good I could

wear size as now cannot.

Okay, all right, So I don't know the new.

Body, God says you will, the dead will rise, they'll

have new body if we are still around and got

raptures as well, Da da da, and then all our sickness,

all our tears, you know, gone. So so maybe when

Jesus was resurrected, not just maybe it looks like something changed.

I don't know what it is because I wasn't there.

And then the scripture here that's in John chapter twenty,

verse verse thirty thirty one, it says, yeah, and truly

Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples,

which are not written in this book, but these are

written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ,

the Son of God, and that believing you may have

life in his name, that you may have eternal life

in his name. We have not seen Christ. Honestly, I

don't know what he looks like except for what pictures

show us. It may not even look like that. But

you know, will recognize him. How how so that's why

I ask what you indulge me in in what I'm

suggesting today in our faith, that they couldn't recognize him

until until there was a familiar a pattern. Throw your

nets on the right. Where did that happen before right

right in look, you can read that they were fishing.

And then this guy goes there and looks at him. Hello,

your carpenter, we had a fisherman. You're telling us that

we should throw our nets on the other side. And

then they say, okay, we did this the whole night,

but if you say so, boom, and then the whole

net is filled with fish. And then Mary, she she

was delivered by the Lord, set her free. I guess

when he called her, Mary, you know something open up

and she recognized the voice. Amen, and she she said, immediately, teacher.

So maybe we might not always be able to see

so clearly. Maybe cannot recognize. Maybe I had a face lift,

all right, but maybe you would recognize the familiar what

we have been used to. The voice read, you can't

see my heart, but you would feel my heart. So

I suggest to you this morning as we walk, I

also thought about it. When the Lord Jesus comes again.

They say he's gonna come in this in the clouds,

and it'll be so bright the whole world will see

that he's coming on this chariot. You read that in Caesssalonians.

And the whole world will see and I'm wondering, then again,

we've never seen Jesus. How will I know that's Jesus.

But Scripture tells us also, if you read it, that

if we're walking, he says, those who have ears hear

what the spirit of God is saying. It tells us

to watch and pray and look at the times and seasons,

and that you'll know that you'll hear a word prompted

in your heart that the Lord is coming. So I

suggest to you this morning, even though today most of

us have never seen I've never seen Jesus, I've heard

of him. I heard the transformation of what he'd done

to the lives of so many, and then I was transformed.

How did I receive Christ? I've never seen him, but

I heard about him, and I sensed him. I had

an ear to hear, I had an encounter with him,

and then I entered into a relationship. And my fourth

e is that I experienced him. That's all I have

of him, not a face, but his spirit lives in me. Amen.

So as we walk on earth today, as we continue

with our walking Jesus, I want to encourage us. Sometimes

we may not because he says people will go like

here's the Christ. There's the Christ, here's the Christ. Jesus

acond coming coming now now tomorrow. You know, remember year

two thousand, Jesus coming didn't happen, all right? Others will

say this, so how will you know? How will you know?

And I'm thinking the first thing is because you are

walking with the Lord, because you are seeking him, you

have your quiet time you talk to him. The first

thing is that you would recognize his voice. Now the

voice is not hello, Evelyn, but it's a voice in

your spirit. Because you've been talking to the Lord and

he speaks with you through the stirring in your heart,

in your spirit, you recognize his voice. So many times

I hear testimonies from you that you didn't see something,

but you heard your sense in your spirit. So there's

a recognition. But this recognition comes because of the every day,

because of the consistency, because you've been talking and you've

been listening, and then you know, you get being used

to this voice.

At first, not used to it. You know, you get used.

To it used, and you get more and more familiar

with that voice. So sometimes when you're you're busy with

life and you may forget that you can actually talk

to Jesus. And then that voice that's stirring, that says, hey,

you didn't lock your car. Then you're like, huh what

you didn't lock your car because I had that you

didn't lock your car? Like what I didn't? I didn't

border right this some years ago. It wasn't even my

car was the boyfriend's car.

Haha.

My boyfriend was studying in Singapore Bible School. So I

didn't lock my car. The car and next morning, lo

and behold, someone robbed my car right took all.

The whatever CD player, da da da whatever was that time?

Oh, do tell boyfriends, are your car got broken into?

But that voice, actually we can recognize it. Amen, be

assured that as you walk with the low and you

are getting used to him. Just this past week, one

of the sisters in our church, Sunny, said, passively spray

for me. I've I just got out and I can't walk.

Looks like I pulled the muscle and she needed crutches.

And then I said, okay, we'll pays. Say what happened?

How did this?

I don't know it just boo, you know.

And then she wrote to the next day she said, basta,

I was just going to watch TV like rest my leg,

and I felt this. I sensed the voice saying, spend

time with me, and I really wanted to watch TV.

But then I recognized it was the voice of the

Lord saying spend time with me. So I shut everything

out and I just worshiped the Lord and I read

the scriptures. And as she did that, she spent that hour,

whatever time that she spent. As she was done, she said,

as I stood up, the pain was no more. Wow. Amen.

Amen, Amen, when.

The Lord calls to you, take time, even if you

feel like I just want to sleep or I just

want to know I have an empty empty brain, right

empty box, and just watch TV or something, or watch

my favorite movie, all play the game or just scroll.

And the Lord just says stop. Would you just spend

time with me? And she said, okay, recognize his voice, Amen, Church,

we can recognize this stirring. The voice is not hello,

is it me? You're looking?

Oh, it's not. It's a voice that is a stirring

in your heart. And that's what.

Many of you experience. And and then that voice tells

you don't you know? You know that watch out you know?

And then you turn or you you know you, you

go back home and somebody an Another one of our

leaders told me on Friday, she said, passa, you know what,

I really took a break to that.

I said, what happened?

I got ready as my usual. And she's a very

she's a very systematic person. The coffee is here, the beard,

the bag, the computer. And then she gets into the

car and she's so society. She she doesn't like us

who are not systematic and organized. She doesn't, she doesn't.

She just really hates us, like you blowsy people. But

so she's so organized. And then she she goes off

to work, driving halfway the lot, says, you didn't take

your laptop or your note book?

Muh can be begs behind. I don't care.

I'm just driving around. Get to the office right. She

looks there, there ain't no bag. Whoa no bag, no

laptop cannot work right, And then she said, Cela, the

Holy Spirit on me, and I just didn't want to listen.

So there is the voice when you walk with Jesus,

and sometimes we tend to make it. Keep quiet, keep quiet, right.

Sometimes he gives you a red flag.

Don't go there, don't go there? Why what just go?

Just go there Alama, wrong place, or don't get into

that relationship. Don't get into that business connection because it's

not good for you. He's warning us, come on, right,

He's showing you all the signs but you can see.

And then you say, God, please speak to me. But

he's speaking to you. Remember old movie called Bruce Almighty? Right,

then what's his name? The actor Jim Gary. He's like, God,

speak to me, and then the arrow is showing him

here everything still drives and do it? So, yeah, God

speaks to you, but in ways that you will recognize

you just you, just you, and I sometimes just push

it behind. So I want to suggest to you, could

it be that maybe we'll not recognize his face. We

don't know how Jesus looks like, but we know his

heart for us.

We know that he went all the way to the

cross for us.

He before he was crucified, he refused to take the

sour wine mixed with mrk or God, because that was

a sedation drink to let you not feel the pain.

But he said, no, I'm gonna take that pain for

all of mankind. You and I have never been nailed

to any cross like we probably nailed our finger and

never staple our finger. How pain right, it is painful,

but this is nails nailing to the cross.

Jesus did not take any sedation.

No numbness.

He every shooting pain he felt.

So you and I can trust him to see us

through because he didn't.

Take a shortcut. He didn't come one day.

God could just send him one day, one day to

you know, just come and set us free. But he didn't.

He came for thirty three years so that he could.

Feel what we feel, our loss, our hurt, our pain,

our betrayals, the mockings in our lives are failures, our regrets.

Everything Jesus has gone through.

If whatever you felt and off have felt and will feel,

he has gone through simply to say to you you

can come, Just come, because I have taken it for you.

We don't understand a lot of things. A lot of

things happen. I don't understand. I pray that as you

walk with Jesus, recognize his voice that speaks to you

in a man right here he speaks to us.

So number one, recognize his voice.

Secondly, I suggest to you and encourage you, would you

continue to grow in the knowledge of the Lord. Grow

in that knowledge and the only way to grow Number

one is to have a word of God as you

read it. As you read and just read, you know

and in different.

Days, different verses will speak to your heart.

It may not you ready two years ago, but today

it means something to you. The knowledge of God is

what people. People need to know the Lord. How can

I know the Lord by reading what he's saying to me?

Reading who is Jesus? Maybe maybe I asked you, do

you really know the life of Jesus? Do you know him?

Have we really taken time to know the lot as

we read?

I want to do that and continue to know the Lord. Amen,

grow in your knowledge, because when the Lord speaks or

when the Lord comes again, because you have read and

you've married NATed your meditator, you will have a sense

in your spirit that this is the word of the

Lord for me, This is the word for that person.

God uses you to speak and it will set someone free.

God calls you at a time that you says, sudden,

you know, have you felt those times you're just meditating

on the Lord? And then the Lord says, Christina, call Joel.

Now You're like why, but you do it? And then

and then the Lord gives you the word to speak

to your son or to a friend or Yeah. Why

because as you grow in your knowledge, the Lord releases

his words and his thoughts to you. Amen, And so

we want to grow. Thirdly, I want to ask us

all to expect experience the grace of God.

Experience it? How can I experience it?

And this is how I I I interpret this for myself.

Like I said, my four years earlier, I knew Christ

because someone spoke to me. So I heard it and

then I encountered Christ for myself and then I entered

into a relationship with Sheesus. Thank you, and then I

experienced transformation in my life, my testimony. So the experience

of the grace of God is the things that you

and I are going through that we need the grace.

But sometimes I feel we might just carry on, you know, close,

and we Forgod that there's the grace of God to

carry us through. So if you would ask the Lord,

he would come with you in that situation. It's not

that he but he knows he should know what to do, right,

and he does know and he knows what to do.

Remember last week I said, God extended my what time

the submission timing from five pm last last Sunday to

eleven pm.

I didn't even have to ask the Lord for that.

He just did it for me.

So God does give us, you know, beautiful surprises right there.

But there are times when you are going through don't

be too shy, too scared, too proud to just speak

to the Lord and say, God, I just want to

experience your deliverance in this issue.

I want to experience your guidance.

I believe you will. You will enter into that experience

of the fullness of God's working his word, his direction.

There are just people in this room that have shared testimony.

Is how God is you just experience is Him guiding

you every step of the way and on this way

to do the business.

Okay, do this, go this, meet this person, You experience it,

experiencing the.

Grace of God in your life. Amen, see this doctor.

Go to that hospital. Yeah, move today, you need that

paper sign go to this office this time.

You're like, why you know? And then but then you're

in land and.

You're okay, okay, I believe it's the Lord, and you

do it, and then you meet the right officer and

then your document gets you know, stamped and approved. I

think we all need a little bit more of that

experience of this grace of God in our lives, especially

in the midst of your challenge and that storm that

you don't know what's going on.

Then you ask get into the experience.

So why because we're going to learn to recognize God's

leading God's boys, growing in our knowledge that he does

things not the same pattern every time, but he does

it in various amazing examples to us. Amen, So experience

the grace of God that way. I think you've heard

past the chef. You haven't for the sake of others.

How many many years ago and my father in law

had a stroke and we had to take care of

my father in law and that's how I ended up

in Quota, Kamonning twenty six years ago. How did I

come to Quota because of my father in law who

had a stroke and then we had to take care

of him, and we had to find the right house

so that he would have an en suite, toilet and

the robe. And we found the house that I'm staying

now with no money. Right we had no money to

pay that kind of rent. But but we couldn't personally

take care because I still had to work. I had

to work right past us to work. And then we said, okay,

we'll go get a helper. But you all a right

to get a helper. I must earn a certain amount.

Both of us have to have a certain amount of earnings,

which he has no earnings and mine was just so little,

all right. So but he felt that he would just

go fill up the papers, go. There was passes on

personal experience that I put. I myself was not with

him in that journey. I was just I just had

to take care of the ministry. So I had to

go every day do the stuff. But he had to

walk this journey by himself to go and sit in

front of the officer. And when they said, where is

your documents, your KWSB, your EPF, your salary that is

I don't have, then you can't. Then the lord says

sit back there. So he sits back there and then

a lady walks in.

If you heard.

Kick CLICKLUCKI clup cick club with a handbag, you know, hi,

heues kick cluck cy cluckyck club mana Orantu sana jumper

manatu you need to And then they're like, hey, he

got a meet.

He got me. T no, no, no no, I said

a bangadier.

I got my run.

And the Lord said follow her, follow her. You can

imagine that voice. Follow her, okay, follow and uh. The

lady gets something done with the main officer and then

the doors open. Bust just peeps in and he goes like,

what do you want? And he said, sir, I just

have these documents. I need your approval, but you should

do it outside.

But I'm here. Here's the document. And God moves.

This is impossible. It's impossible for us. We have no papers,

we have no that kind of salary. They turn the

pages and then he goes, hey, that's Mike Bernie. Who

is he?

It's my dad, so.

Oh my money, young lapper. He's got stroke ogus. So

how what do you need me? I said, we just

need your sickney. I just need a stamp so that

I can get a helper. The guy just stamped in.

Then he click, club goes to the officer.

Nah ganada Jacab, you need that paper. There's a bit

so I know. Amen.

Amen, you need an experience.

You need to come on, give God praise. Come on people,

we gotta have some energy, got some expectation of what

the Holy Spirit can do and will do. We live.

You're not called to live a normal life. You're called

to live supernatural.

You and I, You and I, You and I called

to live supernatural. And and this is what I had

to live for the last.

Four weeks, supernatural.

I'm like and have to write the DCS like I

can't do this law, you know, like why do I

do this? But then you have to call on the

law loud. Okay, Jesus, I need your help, right. We

need an experience, amen, we need an experience. So that's

how you begin to exercise that listening and that recognizing

of the voice of God, the direction. Why would you

follow antick law? You follow me? Right? But that's what

the Lord said, do it, and he did it. That's

an experience that takes experience. Never let something like not

enough money.

That door not open.

Sohow No, there are people here in this room waiting

for a door to open. And you just need that

one word from the Lord, that one voice of the

Holy Spirit saying this is the way to go, and

then you are assured that is the way you need

that I need that experience of the grace of God.

It's powerful church.

The Church is filled with the grace of God, but

the church refuses to engage in that grace because it

feels funny, it feels silly to ask for such things.

If pastors did not follow the lady, he would not

have met the officer or the boss, and it would

not have got me if he thought it was so

silly to follow the lady.

Right, but he did. That's childlike faith.

That's faith and bracing the grace that God gives to us. Amen,

Come on, judge, be encouraged. You know, it's really not

what you can see. It's what you can't see, but

you sense in your heart the Lord is for you.

He's not against you. He's for you. You trust him. And

then the next one is when you can't understand, then

what you say, His ways are higher and his thoughts

are higher. His ways are always higher. We cannot beat

his plans. His ways are higher and his thoughts are higher,

and we rely and then we surrender to that plan

of God that we couldn't understand why it happened. Amen.

So there's a higher way the Lord will lead you.

And maybe nobody else has done that pathway, but you're

taking it. You're saying it sounds so nobody to reference. Lave,

you be the reference law. God has told you this

way to go, you take it because his ways are higher,

his thoughts are higher. Maybe you've been through something, a loss,

a lack, a complication, something that, No, it's so tough.

But as you begin to surrender and you tell the

Lord your ways are higher than mine and your thoughts

are higher, Lord, you take over and allow the Holy

Spirit to lead you. I have to say many times

when we have done that, the road has been different

from what I expected, but it was a better road,

and it just opened doors that I would never have

seen that.

But the Lord knows.

Amen.

So that's my my again, my suggestion to us at Wow.

We can't always recognize the face because I have not

met Jesus, but there's this spirit of God that works

in us, and my experience of him brings that, you know,

the assurance that God is not gonna let us go. Amen.

And all that He's done at the cross, he did

not get numbing medication. He took the stripes, the whipping,

the crown of thorns, the crucifixion to experience our loss

and our pain and our shame. Remember, Jesus hung there naked, naked,

Our Lord was naked. He went all the way so

that you would come. You can trust in Jesus. You

can trust. That's my last point. You can trust in

Jesus because no other man has ever gone through what

he has done to die, almost humiliate death, but to

have walked a journey of both the good, the rejoicing,

but also the humiliation the losses. He did it so

that you and I could come that he has walked

in the path that we will walk.

And someone wrote and said the last word that he said.

Was I thirst.

I thirst.

First, you don't want to drink this our point, because

he wants to take all the pain. And then now

he says I But when did he say I thirst?

He said it and you read it in the Gospels,

when everything that scripture has written was done, all accomplished.

And then he said I. First they took the sponge

of sour wine, no gall no more.

They touched his lips.

You can imagine if I ask you when was the

last time Jesus had a drink?

This is Friday.

On Thursday they had to pass over supper, right, and

he said, this is the cup that I will drink

no other time except when you come into my kingdom,

when you see each other again. That was the last

time he had a drink. And from that time till

the hanging on the cross, there was no water to drink.

So with all that he went through, probably having fever.

And I don't know. Medical doctors will know better when

you get beaten like this and you know, woundered, you know,

just I think fever will be the first thing that happens,

because open wound, that lips are dry, throat, this dry,

probably not much voice. And yet he settles everything, you know,

like John, this is your mom, Now take care of

my mom. Right, And then he goes forgive them lord,

because they don't know what they do.

And then he goes, I thirst, why of all things

earlier wandry? Now you see you dress. I think it

was just human.

That he would thirst.

He was sleepy before he got angry. He was hungry.

He thirst.

So we could come, so we could come. And then

he breath breathes last, and he went so the Roman

soldiers didn't kill him, they didn't take his life. When

everything was done, you breathe this last, and then he went.

He laid his life down according to his time. So

all was done so you could come, All of this

could all was done for us so that we could

come a man church. So really we do have a

very victorious entry into heaven to serve the Lord, to

live for him, to live every day with these thoughts

in your mind, that you would recognize his voice, the

familiar sound of his voice to you. How you'll sound

to me will be different now how he sounds to you.

Maybe he'll call you Ariel. Maybe he'll call you a sweetheart.

Maybe he'll call your daughter. Maybe you'll call your son.

Maybe you'll call you Jai. Maybe you'll call you I

don't know reason he has a secret Christian name. I

don't know. I don't know. Maybe he'll call you and

you would recognize it, and then you grow in your

knowledge of him. You just keep you know, how do

we read biographies, don't we? And we get to know

about this person right, and oh he did this, and

he did that. Oh that's what he liked to do.

And that's how we know the stories of men of

old have conquered and done great things. We read about them.

Now we have the Bible, read about Jesus, about our

father heavenly Father, we read. Amen, So we grow in

our knowledge. We experience the grace of God. As you

experience him, know that his ways are higher, his thoughts

are higher than your thoughts. And you can't trust him

because He's done everything. So you would come, you could come, Amen, Amen,

Church to this morning, may you establish this thoughts, this

thoughts for your own walking Christ as we remember the

finished work at the cross. So remember today the tomb

that was, the tomb that is empty. Amen. Nobody's dead,

their body lie nothing there. And if you're still looking

for Jesus, there's there.

No, He's risen. Amen, He's risen. Hallelujah.

And your faith is established upon the rock Jesus Christ.

He anchors you. And there is so much hope, so

much hope for us to live every day. Friends, as

a church, as we speak to one another, we are

living in very difficult times, very very trying times, and

maybe it'll get worse. But don't just get caught up

with what the news is. Get caught up with that

voice that is going to come you and speak with

you about the needs that you have. That the Lord

would speak to you and direct you. Some of you

will get you know, even ways of what to do

and how to do it and how to you know,

I don't know, jugger your wealth or whatever. I don't know,

take care of this or the But I want to say,

we want to be anchored in our faith in Christ,

in a faith that no other has been able to

confirm and say to us, he is risen and he

has gone through all things for us so that we

might have life and life more abundantly. Amen. And we

do not have to fear what the news brings each day.

It will trouble us, that's normal, but may fear not

grip your heart and say that's grip you, grit your

how my children's education are you how? We have to

just say, Lord, I don't know how, but you know.

And we will have to trust God in these last

last days. We're not yet really at there, but it's

getting there. So whatever that's gonna sway your faith today

is still the day of grace for us to learn

to recognize.

His voice, as I repeat myself, to grow in.

Your knowledge of the Lord. Come on, don't let the

Bible carry us. You opened the Bible daily, don't make

it like your library. Take it, flip it, open, realy

it to know him. Don't say I was too hard.

Please don't go and read the old King James version.

I also don't understand find a CEV or find a

new living translation read just know him. Experience the grace,

ask the Lord of just bring you through an experience

so that you know and you can testify the people

in this room who experienced God's provision. You didn't know

what was happening, how it was going to take place,

but the Lord opened away for you and you are

experiencing his higher ways, his higher thoughts. I just want

to say, you can trust Jesus over and over again.

He can trust in Jesus. Amen, Hallelujah, Thank you, Thank you, Jesus,

Come Holy Spirit, and just fill our hearts with that

assurance that are you away us. Amen. We hope you've

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