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Sunday Morning | Eld Terence Atkinson

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from axt church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your tea.

  3. The title of the message is Sunday Morning, Sunday Morning. No,

  4. what's good about Sunday morning? Well, if you take it

  5. in context of Friday, Sunday is good. Okay. On Friday

  6. night they crucified Lord on Calvary, but he said, in

  7. three days, look again, I'll be alive. You see, when

  8. problems try to bury you and make it hard to pray,

  9. it may seem like Friday night, But Sundays on the

  10. way to everyone of our Friday nights, there's a Sunday

  11. Morning and wants to speak to us today and to

  12. let us know that throughout our difficulties, whatever they may be,

  13. however tough as situations may seem, there is Sunday morning.

  14. There is Sunday morning. I'm going to read from John

  15. chapter twenty, and I think the verses, Oh yeah, you

  16. see that, go back, go back, go back, go back,

  17. discipleship revival. Oh I like the hour in red. I do,

  18. because that's what's activated now. Right, we're talked about revival.

  19. So this message is also about reviving your spirit. Because

  20. I told you that revival is personal. You may think

  21. that revival is somebody else. You may think revival is

  22. with a whole group of people. But let me tell you,

  23. Revival is personal, all right. Revival is personal. So this

  24. goes to that. Now, reading from John chapter twenty, and

  25. it says, now the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene,

  26. Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early while it was

  27. still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken

  28. away from the tomb. In fact, this message I just

  29. want to share with you, Ah, I want to talk

  30. to you in terms of turns to you are and turns,

  31. And in this passage I will describe three turns that

  32. Mary took, three turns that Mary took, and how it

  33. eventually ended up with something good happening for her. So

  34. now she goes to this tomb. Now, how do you

  35. know that she knows that something had changed, that she

  36. would look at the tomb and see the stone rolled away?

  37. And what did she do next? What the scripture says

  38. she did next while you still do and I verse two,

  39. she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the

  40. other disciple. Who's the other disciple? John? Okay, because John

  41. is speaking in the third person. He didn't want to

  42. put his name down there. So the other disciple he

  43. ran to Peter and John Okay, whom Jesus loved, and

  44. said to them, they have taken away the Lord out

  45. of the tomb, and we do not know where they

  46. have laid him. Wow, how did she know? If you

  47. study the gospels, you will find that Mary was one

  48. of three women I think only three women women who

  49. was there witches throughout his march carrying the cross to Calvary.

  50. And she was one of three who saw him being

  51. nailed to that cross and being lifted up. And she

  52. was one of three who remained there until he gave

  53. up his spirit. And she was one of three who

  54. saw him being taken down by the cross and put

  55. in the tomb. Mary was there? Did it ever strike

  56. you as stranger? The disciples won't there? Do you know

  57. that the disciples were not there? There is no record

  58. in scripture that the disciples were around when Jesus put

  59. in the tomb. There was no record of the disciples

  60. being around at the moment he died. Don't talk about

  61. the disciples. What about his brothers and sisters. There's a

  62. record of his mother being there, Jesus looked at John

  63. and said, behold your mother, and to Mary, behold your son.

  64. And that was before he died. But after that no record.

  65. You read it and see. But this Mary stuck around.

  66. She did not falter. I want you to know something,

  67. This is very important. What did she do when she

  68. saw it happen? She ran to Peter and John? My

  69. first question to you, that was the first turn. Okay,

  70. she saw the first turn, she she ran. Now what

  71. did she do? You ran to Peter and John? Can

  72. you run to others when you want an encounter with Jesus? Guys,

  73. I've been knowing the Lord for forty five years, and

  74. do you know that the only one you can rely

  75. on for your relationship with Jesus is you and Jesus.

  76. You do not grow stronger on your presence in church.

  77. Does that mean I don't need to come to church. No,

  78. it means you need church. Do you mean your presence

  79. is strong when you're in the company of believers? Bible

  80. tells me that Satan conceived sin in the presence of

  81. angels that were worshiping the Lord. So I ask you again,

  82. can you run to someone else when you need an

  83. encounter with Jesus and see, many of us need Jesus' help.

  84. Many of us need his assistance, Many of us need

  85. to look at him. First. Let me tell you something

  86. about Mary Magdalen. Okay, few things you may or may

  87. not know, but it gives you an insight into this

  88. personality that was quite extraordinary. Number one, do you know

  89. that church history says she was a prostitute? You know

  90. which church history are not Catholic church history, because some

  91. pope in the fifteen hundreds declared that she was a prostitute.

  92. Does scripture say that? Scripture does not say that. Scripture

  93. does not equate her to that kind of a lifestyle.

  94. But you know that in Luke one look eight one

  95. to three, she is described as one who traveled with Jesus.

  96. You and I can only get to a place where

  97. Jesus is important to us if we live with him daily,

  98. out of sight, out of mind, You and I. If

  99. we don't get into a regular relationship with the Lord,

  100. we miss it. We shortcut and circumvent our own Christian living.

  101. She was with him, and you want to know what

  102. happened when she was with him. Jesus had an impact

  103. on her. You want Jesus to have an impact on you.

  104. You say, Ah, I can't change. Oh I need to change. Oh,

  105. I'm such a rotten person. He I'm a rotten person.

  106. That's okay. It's okay for you to be truthful to God. God,

  107. I'm a rotten person. But it's not okay to stay

  108. that way. But if you want to see something happened

  109. in your life, you must have that connection with him.

  110. She traveled with Jesus. Ah. She was the one who

  111. poured oil and anointed his feet. This is in Luke

  112. seven thirty six to fifty. Wow. Mary anointed his feet

  113. with oil from the alabaster flask, that nice perfume. I

  114. was thinking to myself, I don't think if Jesus was here,

  115. I'd ever washed his feet with my hair, mainly because

  116. I don't have any No, but come on, think about it.

  117. I mean, would I do that? I don't know, you know,

  118. but she did not think twice about it. Hey, she

  119. broke the flask. You know why she broke the flask.

  120. Nobody was ever gonna use this flask again. It was

  121. for the One, and that's all. I have reserved my

  122. best for the one. And I'm not talking about the matrix.

  123. I am talking about Jesus. So she broke the flask.

  124. Nobody's gonna use this flask anymore. It was meant for him.

  125. I'm using it on him. I'm anointing him, I'm giving

  126. him the best. This was someone who traveled with Jesus daily.

  127. He changed her life. So you say I cannot be

  128. that good, You're wrong. You can be that good. What's

  129. the key? You got to travel with Jesus. In Luke

  130. eight one to three, it says she supported Jesus ministry.

  131. Now that tells me she could have been quite wealthy.

  132. She didn't. Well, the perfume that she put on Jesus

  133. feet was not cheap, the Bible says, so how could

  134. she afford it? Well, she was. Maybe that's why the

  135. church thought that she was a prostitutor. Maybe prostitutes were

  136. wealthy in those days. But there's so many other reasons.

  137. There's so many other She could have inherited the money

  138. from her father or her brother, or her siblings or somebody.

  139. She could have been a great business woman herself, because

  140. there were women who actually, you know, did business, could

  141. been all these things. But whatever it is, she wasn't

  142. afraid to use that money on Jesus. Now. In Luke

  143. eight to three, eight one to three, it also says

  144. she was possessed by seven demons. Hmm, So you and

  145. I can be so rotten and be so changed, isn't

  146. that wonderful? Someone who was possessed by demons loved the

  147. Lord so completely. You can be so possessed with everything

  148. that's not right, But when you walk with Jesus daily,

  149. you can be somebody that does everything right. See. I

  150. want you to know that your life is not stagnant.

  151. Your situation, it's not set in stone. The troubles that

  152. you are having is not permanent. If you can believe it.

  153. If you can believe it, you can change. You can

  154. have great things happen in your life. And of course

  155. Mark fifteen forty she witnessed his death on the cross,

  156. And as I was telling you in Mark fifteen forty

  157. seven and Matthew twenty seven sixty one, she witnessed his burial.

  158. This was the one that the Church of the Early

  159. Church so wrongly attributed to a wrong lifestyle. But I

  160. want you to know it doesn't matter what people say.

  161. The only thing that matters is what God thinks of you,

  162. and what does he think of you? I had a

  163. taste of it this morning. Not he He said, I

  164. loved you and I loved this word in spite of

  165. who you were. In spite that means God did not

  166. think of who I was, what I was, how good

  167. I was, how bad I was. He just loved me,

  168. just as he just loved you. And my prayer this

  169. morning was for me to come to XPG today and

  170. see people give their lives to Jesus, because a lot

  171. that would be the greatest wonder to see people receive

  172. the Lord. I'm going to tell you this, and I'll

  173. be very honest with me, very straight. How are you

  174. going to see people come to the Lord if you

  175. don't invite them, if you don't get them in to

  176. hear God speak to their heart? How will they get

  177. saved If you're not bringing them into church to hear

  178. the word of God. You should be sharing Jesus with

  179. them out of church. I had a testimony. This was

  180. from Klang. This was last week. How one lady came

  181. up to me and she said, you know, I've never

  182. shared the gospel in memory because I'm not so good

  183. in mendoring. But then you said, whether you can talk,

  184. whether you can't talk, just tell them about Jesus. And

  185. then if they want to receive, Okay, if they don't,

  186. that's their business. You see. Your business is to tell

  187. is their business to take it up, whether they want

  188. to or not. Don't be concerned whether somebody receives the

  189. Lord that doesn't receive the Lord. You make sure they

  190. hear here, make sure they hear. So she said, I

  191. remembered what you said, you know, so I didn't care.

  192. I just told her you need to receive Jesus to

  193. be safe. Guess what she said, Yes, what stage cancer?

  194. And this lady said yes, And she said, I was

  195. so afraid to speak, but I remembered what you said.

  196. Don't care about that, just do it. We must have

  197. that kind of attitude. That's what you call having the

  198. tick skin. We should have the tick skin when it

  199. comes to telling people about Jesus. Hey, my job. But

  200. you know, I was just telling elder people in the

  201. car today. If someone were to come up to me

  202. and say, you must prove to me that Jesus is

  203. Lord before I receive him, I said, no, I don't

  204. care to prove anything to you. I'm just to tell

  205. you you want to believe, you don't want to believe.

  206. That's your business. I've done my part because I'm not

  207. going to get into any own you can prove to me.

  208. I don't need to prove anything you don't want to

  209. receive in this your business, non, I got other people

  210. to talk to. Do you know that Paul actually told

  211. the Jews that because you don't want to hear I

  212. leave you alone, I will now go to the Gentiles.

  213. And even that they got angry. They get angry when

  214. he talked to him about Jesus, got angry when he said,

  215. I don't talk to you anymore, I'll go to the Gentiles.

  216. That also, they got angry. Guys, God's on your side.

  217. Now let's look at John twenty verses six to ten,

  218. and it goes on like this. Then Simon Peter came okay, okay, okay,

  219. Peter went out okay in the other disciple. They both

  220. ran together, right, But Peter was a big man. John

  221. was not. So who rifles John John and ri first.

  222. But the thing about Johnny is John was a little

  223. bit of a kun kongs at first. At first, okay,

  224. he refused to go in from the outside. He looked,

  225. they're not go in. Peter on the other side, on

  226. the other hand, was a slow guiler. Finally got there.

  227. What he did do He just walked in. You gotta

  228. love Peter. Peter just always fit first. But you see,

  229. Peter walked on water. So Peter walked in. He got

  230. into the situation. I want to tell you how many

  231. of us we'll walk into the situation. I want to

  232. give you testimony. On December eighteen, twenty twenty five. I

  233. remember the date so clearly. I was doing work in church,

  234. fixing an electric dough. So I was going up the stairs, down,

  235. up the ladder, down the ladder, up the ladder, down

  236. the ladder for six seven hours. I was having so

  237. much of difficulty because I thought I was wrong. It

  238. wasn't me that was wrong. The panel was put okay.

  239. In the process of doing that, I hurt my knee,

  240. my right knee, and I was limping ever since, limping, limping.

  241. In fact, when I did the play, it was it

  242. was a real torture because I was you know, it

  243. was quite painful. And those of you can remember the

  244. last time I was here. If you all saw me

  245. try and climb up the stairs. It was very difficult.

  246. So this was three weeks ago and I was saying

  247. that this hurt me so much. I had to open

  248. up the school early every Wednesday morning. For me to

  249. do that, I had to get down on the floor

  250. and unlock the glass door at the floor. Why can't

  251. they be like China, China? Hear? Yeah, true, in China

  252. the glass door the lock is here. In Militia, everything

  253. is on the floor. Problem is I get done. I

  254. cannot get up. This is really the problem. And for

  255. me to get up, I have to hold the handle

  256. and pull myself up. How many of you know I

  257. now I'm not liked. Issue is I could break the glass.

  258. So I thought, okay, never mind, I'll become like the

  259. last airbender. I'll get myself a staff. So I actually

  260. bought the stuff from Indonesia. Staff came four feet so

  261. that Wednesday I carried the staff in the church into

  262. the place. I unlock, put the stuff on the ground

  263. and pulled myself up. Yeah yeah, I should ever say,

  264. oh yeah, this can worker. God wanted to see to

  265. what extent I would go to do my responsibilities in

  266. spite of my bad knee. That Wednesday itself as I

  267. was walking to the lift. I was met at the

  268. lift by the professor of physiotherapy in Cyberjaya University and

  269. he said, you're having a problem with your knee. I

  270. said yeah. I said, I've had it x ray. Then

  271. the doctor said, oh, it's it's an age issue, muscles

  272. around my knee. I have to go for physio and

  273. you know, so I was really you know, that's what

  274. I thought it was. This is now mine, you come

  275. and see me. So next day I went to see him.

  276. This is the next day. Next day I went to

  277. see him. Then he saw me walking and I was

  278. really limping and struggling. You know how I used to

  279. walk like this? Okay, anyway, I saw him. He checked

  280. me out and then he said, so you had your

  281. knee x ray. Say yeah. The doctor didn't say any

  282. doctor is some muscle thing that kind of stuff. He says, no,

  283. you have a dislocated me. For four months, I had

  284. a dislocated kneecap and I did not know my kneecap.

  285. My right kneecap had fallen about two inches below my

  286. left knee cap. So this is where it's supposed to be.

  287. It was here, but because of the swelling. I couldn't

  288. tell and I can't imagine how come the doctor whom

  289. I went to see and took X ray could not

  290. tell me. So he just told me, you know, it's okay,

  291. something that can be resolved. You just relaxed, and you

  292. know there are So he didn't give me. He didn't

  293. give me warning it and he says, Oka, can I

  294. move your knee? Wow, that's amazing. He says, you just

  295. give it about a week, you'll be fine. Then he says,

  296. I want to see you again. So the next time

  297. I saw him, he put me with some of these machines.

  298. This is these Korean machines which ems and tens and

  299. electric these things. Is that is to break up the

  300. fluid in the knee and send it to the limboes

  301. and to heal the muscle, you know. So he did that.

  302. So he says, you know, most people will be paying

  303. something like two hundred dollars a minute or something like this.

  304. What is two hundred for every five minutes. I was

  305. using it for behlf an hour. So he did it,

  306. and he says, I think you'll be okay today. In

  307. the last two days, I walked twenty five kilometers I'm fine.

  308. My knee is fine. And I told the congregation on

  309. that Sunday before I saw him, there was this lady

  310. that came and asked me, I saw you struggling with

  311. your knee, and I heard what you said on stage.

  312. You know what I told him on stage? I said,

  313. if God has to give someone mobility, he will give

  314. someone mobility to me, someone like me who doesn't care

  315. about his knee, who will dance before the Lord. And

  316. you see me, I worship the Lord moving from side

  317. to side. I'm sixty five years old and I continue

  318. to worship the Lord in dance. So if God is

  319. going to give mobility, who will he give it to?

  320. Someone will use it for his glory as somebody will

  321. stand still. Guys you're like young, do not worship the

  322. Lord like you're a cayo, Okay, because when you grow old,

  323. you need to show God that you will use the

  324. mobility he's given you for his glory. I said it

  325. that Sunday Monday. I was here Monday, I was completely healed.

  326. And today I can walk up the stairs, walk down

  327. the stairs. I praise the Lord. I can now go

  328. for my morning walks kilometers and kilometers which I have

  329. not been doing for four months. God is on your side.

  330. Are you willing to go in or not? I give

  331. you another testimony? Are right? So two years ago? Oh yeah,

  332. he goes with one of those old stories. No no, no, no,

  333. this is an old story that has a current ending. Okay.

  334. Two years ago I went for a check up. The

  335. results came back very bad. You got a high calcium score,

  336. which means you at risk cover heart attack. You have

  337. sugar of seven, which means you are diabetic. You have

  338. high cholesterol. You have protein discharge meaning that kidney God

  339. issues also all these things right, So I was very

  340. down and UH, I shared with Pasta. They've given me

  341. this medication. I just cannot bring myself to start taking it.

  342. He says, Terence, ticket is going to be okay. So,

  343. based on his encouragement, I started taking uh a sprint

  344. for for for blattening and a little bit of stating

  345. for cholesterol. But the sugar. I told the doctor give

  346. me a few months. I do want to take this.

  347. So I started to change my lifestyle. So then I

  348. also put my name into going start you know, since

  349. I'm retired, start with the government hospital for my heart.

  350. That process took me two years. Why it took me

  351. two years because they lost my file, my medical records,

  352. which you know they lost it. And then when I

  353. went back another time, I say, if you don't put

  354. me on, I'm just going to write to the Ministry

  355. of Help. Immediately they gave me. So, okay, I took

  356. my blood test, I went for my check up. I

  357. got the results. Let me tell you what the results are.

  358. ECG normal, BP normal, that of a young man, by

  359. the way, sugar normal, liver normal, normal, cholesterol issue, kidneys normal.

  360. God healed me, and the doctor said, I'm discharging you. Guys,

  361. this is what you need from the Lord, someone who's

  362. going to help you when things are tough, when situations

  363. are bad. Why does he do that? You think I'm

  364. talking about me? Guys. He does it for you, He

  365. does it for anyone. The reason why I give this

  366. testimony is to show you God's word works. If it

  367. works for me, it'll work for you. You think I'm

  368. I give these testimonies to get some kind of personal glory.

  369. Am I going to give you a healing? Am I

  370. going to answer your prayer? No? So what's the point.

  371. The point is he he'll do it for me. He'll

  372. do it for you. Okay, let's move on. Okay, all

  373. that from Peter going in there, Okay, all right, So

  374. now in verse six to ten, it says this he's

  375. now Peter ran in and he stooped down, and he

  376. saw the linen clothes lying there, yet did not go in.

  377. Then that was a John. Then Simon Peter came followed

  378. him and went into the tomb, and he saw the

  379. linen clothes lying there. You know that when Lazarus came

  380. out of the tomb, he had his clothes, the you know,

  381. the bindings and the bandage and all that around him,

  382. and he hobbled out the two. You know that Jesus

  383. didn't do that. When Jesus rose, put the burial clothes

  384. around him, just flattened. Because no burial clothes holds your

  385. Lord of mind. Nothing could hold Jesus. And I want

  386. you to know that the Bible says his the face

  387. calf was folded and put on the side and the head.

  388. Do you know what that how that is important to us? Hey,

  389. God's always got his eyes on you. Jesus has got

  390. his eyes on you. Nothing is covering He's from looking

  391. at you. Hey, that cloth is still on his face.

  392. You will be blamey sid But what did the Bible

  393. say the cloth was folded? That tells me another thing

  394. about Jesus. He's very neat. How come the cloth just

  395. throw thrown on the floor. I don't need you anymore. No, no, no,

  396. Jesus folded it nicely, put it in the side. Jesus

  397. very neat. So when you come into the house of

  398. the Lord, if you see rubbish on the floor, do

  399. not wait for somebody else to clean it up. Is

  400. the house of the Lord, you go and clean it.

  401. You know what, You follow the example of Jesus. He's

  402. very neat. Now you don't have a cloth in front

  403. of his eyes. He can see you. That's what this means. Okay,

  404. Now I'll move on and go a little bit faster.

  405. So he stooped, looked lying there. A Verse six, s

  406. Peter came to the tomb handkerchief, nod in his head,

  407. not lying there. Verse eight. Then the other disciples came

  408. in into the tomb. He went in also saw and believed,

  409. for they had yet did not know, For as yet

  410. they did not know the scripture that he must rise

  411. again from the dead. Then the disciples went away and

  412. went to their own home. You know what surprises me.

  413. Neither of them stop to have a word with Mary

  414. and say Jesus' reason? Who was it who called them Mary?

  415. Did they stop to say anything to me? No? They

  416. saw for themselves. Okay, believe ballad la. Guys, when you

  417. have a problem, is your friend. The first person you

  418. tell it to. You know what happened. After you finish

  419. the story, they go home, Which is why the first

  420. person I tell my issues too is God. He's the

  421. first person you always speak to when you have an issue.

  422. Am I saying that counsel speaking to the your CPC

  423. speaking to pastors? Wrong? No, tell it to God first?

  424. What is that respect? He's the boss. Tell it to

  425. him first. Then when you tell his lieutenant, who's the lieutenant?

  426. The pastor's the CPC. You're also covered by scripture. You

  427. know why because the Bible says the prayer of a

  428. righteous man abulent march, where two or three agree upon

  429. anything that should be done for you. So now even now,

  430. when you go to that person, you are also doing

  431. what is right. But if you go to that person first,

  432. if I was Jesus, I'll say that follow an ilure.

  433. Who's got the power? I got power? Who's got the power? Jesus,

  434. You got to go to him first. Wait, any no

  435. matter how small the issue is, go with him first.

  436. Every time I go into a pack, into a you know,

  437. a complex that my word is packing seriously, then I

  438. say this prayer, Lord, you always find me packing? Can

  439. you find me packing? And immediately somebody will pull out

  440. in front of me and I'll just drive in. This

  441. happens all the time. When I go walking in the

  442. morning and it starts to rain. In the name of Jesus,

  443. I look at Jesus first, stop the rain until I

  444. finish my walk. And it happens every time. Jesus first,

  445. because people don't appreciate your problem like you appreciate your problem.

  446. So they went back. I just cannot imagine. When I

  447. was reading this, I was thinking, what's wrong with this guyser?

  448. But you want to know something. Jesus saw it too.

  449. Jesus also saw their reaction, and Jesus said, I won't

  450. stand for it. It is Mother's Day, right, isn't it

  451. one of I don't know whether Mary Magdalene was a mother,

  452. but she is a woman. She was an extraordinary woman,

  453. And you know women of substance the extraordinary. So let's

  454. read on. But Mary stood outside by the two weeping,

  455. and you know she stood aground. She needed Jesus. She's

  456. in verse eleven. And as she wept, she stooped down

  457. and looked into the tomb, and she saw two angels

  458. in white, one on the head, one of the other

  459. feet where the body of Jesus had lain. And when

  460. they had seen her, they asked her. They said to her, woman,

  461. why are you weeping? Hmm? Mary stood a ground. She

  462. needed her Jesus. Her devotion was fully invested, by the way,

  463. because when the disciples ran ran away, most of us

  464. would have been uh and ties to run away with

  465. the disciples? What where? What did you go? Y? Not?

  466. But not Mary? She was fully invested in the Lord.

  467. Are you fully invested in the Lord? Are you fully

  468. invested that you will not leave until you get your answer?

  469. You see, that's why a lot of us sometimes don't

  470. get what we're looking for, because we go away together

  471. with the others. Hey scripture says she was fully invested.

  472. Her devotion now attracted the intention of the spiritual realm.

  473. Do you know that when you do not move your ground.

  474. Heavens open the spiritual becomes natural. Do you know that

  475. it's there? In scripture? She stood at ground. There was

  476. one person. The child is in hospital. The child was is,

  477. you know, very sickly at the moment. And when I

  478. went to see the parents, and what do I share

  479. with them? What do I tell them? And then I

  480. just spoke this and just came out of my mouth.

  481. He said, we can be on your side, praying together

  482. with you, believing together with you, praying along with you.

  483. But let me tell you. The one who needs the

  484. miracle is you. And how do you get that miracle?

  485. I said, when you can have a devotion so strong

  486. and unwavering that you can push through the multitudes, get

  487. down on your knees and say, if I but touch

  488. the hem of Jesus, I will receive my healing, meaning

  489. that it's not the crowds, it's your personal great will

  490. you let go, because if you let go, you lose out.

  491. Don't let go this woman, she didn't run away with

  492. Peter and Jane and Peter and John. She stood there.

  493. She was fully invested in Jesus. And because of that,

  494. the spiritual realm opened up to heaven, and her eyes

  495. were opened to two angels who said, a woman, what's wrong?

  496. Why are you crying? And she answered them and said,

  497. And she answered them and said, because this is a

  498. verse thirteen, She said to them, because they have taken

  499. away my lord, and I do not know where they

  500. had laid him. Now when she said this, so the

  501. first turn was that now the second turn. When she

  502. said this, she had already opened up the spiritual realm.

  503. You know, when the spiritual realm opens, you can see angels.

  504. How many of you rejoiced that you can see angels? Okay,

  505. let me tell you. We can see angels. You can

  506. see demons also, Okay. So if you want to know

  507. why sometimes we don't see to me angels, is because

  508. if if we can see the spiritual realm, we can

  509. we can actually see the spiritual realm. Okay, that's for

  510. a different that's for a different topic. But here we

  511. see that. This is the second turn, all right, the

  512. second turn. You see, as she said this, she turned

  513. around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not

  514. know that it was Jesus. I do not know whether

  515. she turned around like this or she turned around like this,

  516. because she if she saw somebody standing there, she might

  517. not have recognized rite who he was. If she had

  518. turned around like this, she might have recognized. So second

  519. turn she turned around all right. Because she refused to

  520. let go her confect. Her confession attracted the only one

  521. who could answer Jesus. The second term put her in

  522. the presence of Jesus. I'm just describing actions so that

  523. you can break down the story. Second turn put her

  524. in the presence of Jesus, and she expresses the need

  525. to know more about the Lord, and I do not

  526. know where they have put him. Sometimes we are unaware

  527. of just who we're talking to. The Lord is standing

  528. by her side. Sometimes angels can just look like ordinary people.

  529. I remember that I was writing from Clang to kl

  530. to Clang, sorry, after my studies. I was doing it

  531. so my studies the class finished late, and I was

  532. riding back on my Kawasaki gto This is about ten

  533. ten thirteen in the night. And those days when you

  534. ride to Clang, no lights, okay, the street is dark. Okay.

  535. So those of you that no motorcycles, there's a reserve tank. Okay.

  536. Those were the days before fuel gages on the Dicense.

  537. It so you put it normal, you fill up, so

  538. when your bike runs out of fuel, you turn it

  539. to reserve tank. You still got some gas left, right.

  540. I did not turn it the last time I filled up.

  541. So my bike ran out of patrol somewhere between Charalam

  542. and Klang, fifteen kilometers away by ten thirteen in the night.

  543. I say, Lord, give me strength, Okay, give me strength.

  544. A few minutes later, one man comes up to me

  545. behind me and he says riding. He says, you're out

  546. of petrol. I say yeah. He says, worry, I'll take

  547. care of it. He when he looked around, he found

  548. a box. You know the drink boxes that juesday the

  549. box are? He tore it opened. He pulled out his

  550. fuel line from his motorbike, filled it up with fuel,

  551. put it into my tank, and I told him, thank

  552. you very much. I'm so appreciative. Where do you live? Say,

  553. I live in Tolopuolai. Okay, those of you inclined you

  554. nola huh, I live in Tolopuula Where in Tolopulai he

  555. gave me the dress. Thank you so much. I'm so

  556. grateful I got back. You know, you know how much

  557. that did? It the delay was only about ten minutes.

  558. I ran out of fuel. Next day I went searching

  559. for him in the place where he told me. I

  560. could not find him. I couldn't find his address. I

  561. went around. I really tried to find him. I couldn't

  562. find Could that have been an angel, I don't know.

  563. Maybe I got the address from but whatever it is. See,

  564. this is how God sends people to help us when

  565. we need it, all right, And now, so that second

  566. term put her in the presence of Jesus, and then

  567. Jesus said to her, woman, why are you weeping? Whom

  568. are you seeking? There's a reason I always use this voice, okay,

  569. because when I got saved, I got saved in a hut,

  570. literally in the junk, in a estate with four people,

  571. and during their worship, just simple people who worship the

  572. Lord for four hours, two hours worship, two hours message

  573. to ours worship. The presence of the Lord came down

  574. and I heard the Lord, and his voice to me

  575. was this deep, calming voice, so much of character, strength, power.

  576. So that's why when I, you know, speak Jesus, I

  577. like to to. So anyway, whom are you seeking? And

  578. then she said, supposing him to be the gardener. Jesus

  579. looks like a gardener. Something wrong with her eyes. I

  580. think those days no glasses. But whatever it is, that's what.

  581. Maybe she didn't really look properly. She could have been

  582. looking down or what. I don't know all right, but

  583. what is it is? She said this, sir, if you

  584. have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him,

  585. and I will take him away. I want Jesus with me.

  586. This is the third ten. I want Jesus with me.

  587. That's why maybe maybe that's why we are slow in

  588. getting our responses, because do we say I want Jesus

  589. with me. This is what Jesus did, and Jesus said

  590. to her Mary that voice. She turned and she said, rebuni,

  591. I feel the hairs on the back of my neck.

  592. Standing at this point rebuni connection. She refused to let go,

  593. and what happened there was connection, Jesus responds. When Jesus responds,

  594. our eyes are open to understanding. Our eyes become clear,

  595. our direction becomes clear, our way forward becomes clear, a

  596. path forward becomes clear. We see clearly. You know what

  597. Jesus response was, do not cling to me just yet,

  598. because I have not ascended to my Father. But go

  599. to my brother and say to them, I'm ascending to

  600. my father, to your father, and to my father, and

  601. your father to my God and your God was eighteen.

  602. Then Mary came and told the disciples that she had

  603. seen the Lord and that he had spoken with her.

  604. Did Peter or Jahn say Jesus, No, None of them

  605. saw Jesus. Tell about a week later she saw Jesus,

  606. and I want to tell you something. A complete devotion

  607. arrested Jesus from his plan, because Jesus had finished his

  608. work in disarming and destroying the devil and breaking him

  609. to pieces, and now he said, I want to ascend

  610. to my father. But on that way up to the

  611. he met her. And he had to make a pit

  612. stop before even meeting with the Father, before meeting his

  613. mother and family, or apostles or his other disciples, all

  614. of whom he met only a week later. You can

  615. only touch Jesus with faith, And this showed the difference.

  616. When we are not willing to let go, we will

  617. receive from the Lord. We will hear him call our names,

  618. and in that voice of just calling our name comes

  619. all our answer, comes all that we need, and we

  620. will change and then what did Jesus do? Jesus made

  621. her an evangelist. Did you know that? Go and tell

  622. all those people I'm alive. Go and tell all those

  623. people you've met me, Go and tell them. Is that wonderful?

  624. When we meet Jesus, we change guys. I hope this

  625. message has blessed you as much as it's blessed me.

  626. The preparation of which you know, and that morning walk

  627. is so important because I hear from the Lord, and

  628. for so long it was so difficult to do. So

  629. you've got to understand why I'm so happy that God

  630. has healed me, because nothing stops that.

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  634. this week is going to be a good week ahead

  635. for you. God bless