Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
Speaker 1: the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
Speaker 1: glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
Speaker 1: God will transform your life.
Speaker 2: Do today's message Today, I want.
Speaker 3: To speak to you.
Speaker 2: I want to preach to help you understand how good
Speaker 2: God is. If I never see you again, if this
Speaker 2: is the only time that I get to speak to
Speaker 2: you today, I'm going to try my hardest to convince
Speaker 2: you that there's no better way than Jesus. Like like,
Speaker 2: I just want to sell you up front, because a
Speaker 2: lot of people they want to impress you first.
Speaker 3: I want to tell you.
Speaker 2: My end goal is that you leave here and forget
Speaker 2: me and only remember Jesus.
Speaker 3: And so today it is my attempt.
Speaker 2: To speak words that make sense enough for somebody to.
Speaker 3: Make an eternal decision. Thank you for coming.
Speaker 2: But if he didn't come, none of us would be here,
Speaker 2: and today I'm grateful. It's weird because I haven't been
Speaker 2: able to preach on a Sunday on Easter for like
Speaker 2: eight years, because usually we're doing ransom at this time,
Speaker 2: and I have a little sermonette prepared for y'all in
Speaker 2: the middle to tell you about the Gospel, but I
Speaker 2: don't get to preach a whole message. And today I
Speaker 2: want to let you know Ransom is probably one of
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Speaker 2: of Ransom tonight at six p m. And I want
Speaker 2: you to gather your families. I want you to gather
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you it will transform their lives. From children
Speaker 2: all the way up. We've already seen hundreds of salvations
Speaker 2: through the But I felt that God told me that
Speaker 2: I was supposed to speak a word to you in
Speaker 2: season today and so the one thing that I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do is be obedient to God. And so if you
Speaker 2: came for a play, you got played. We tried to
Speaker 2: tell everybody, we tried to communicate, but today I have
Speaker 2: a word, and a word from God is better than
Speaker 2: anything you could want.
Speaker 3: It's what He wants you to have.
Speaker 2: So today, can we pray together and ask God to
Speaker 2: open up our hearts to be ready to receive Father
Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus. I thank you that you
Speaker 2: would speak in this place today, do what I can't do,
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3: I need your health of here.
Speaker 2: For the thousands of people that are in this room
Speaker 2: and watching online, I thank you that today would mark
Speaker 2: their life forever.
Speaker 3: For such a time as.
Speaker 2: This, You've brought us into this building, and I thank
Speaker 2: you that there will be thousands of people that receive
Speaker 2: Jesus at the end of this service, not just for
Speaker 2: a moment, Father, but their lives will be radically transformed.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: We give you glory, we give you honor, and we
Speaker 2: give you praise. You'll be lifted high in this place.
Speaker 2: God have your way in Jesus' name. Everybody say, we agree,
Speaker 2: we expect.
Speaker 3: Say amen?
Speaker 2: Would you put your hands together one more time as.
Speaker 3: We go into the word amen.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: Hi, my name is Michael. I'm wearing a yellow suit.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get that out the way. My daughter
Speaker 2: told me I looked like the guy from Curious George today.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Bella. He ain't never been this fly ah.
Speaker 3: No, today.
Speaker 2: I want to I want to encourage you. I think
Speaker 2: if I could do anything today, I want you to
Speaker 2: leave like with a smile on your face saying like,
Speaker 2: oh snap.
Speaker 3: I actually do have joy.
Speaker 2: Like if you're in a dark situation right now, if
Speaker 2: things aren't looking good for you right now, I just
Speaker 2: want you to be encouraged that the brighter side.
Speaker 3: Is coming to your life. Somebody, just if you want
Speaker 3: a brighter side.
Speaker 2: If you want things to light up, if you want
Speaker 2: things to get better, I need you to make some
Speaker 2: noise in the building right now, Okay, just need to
Speaker 2: make sure I was talking to the right people in
Speaker 2: this place.
Speaker 3: And so today I believe that the word.
Speaker 2: Of God is going to be something that is going
Speaker 2: to bring joy to your life. I want to look
Speaker 2: at the actual story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ
Speaker 2: on Easter. We teach so many other things a lot
Speaker 2: of times, and you don't look at just actually what happened, Luke,
Speaker 2: Chapter twenty four, verse one.
Speaker 3: It's us. But very early on.
Speaker 2: Sunday morning, there were two women that went to the tomb.
Speaker 3: They took the.
Speaker 2: Spices they had prepared. I didn't know if they had
Speaker 2: Lowry's or seasoned inside. I don't know what type of
Speaker 2: spice is. But they found that the stone had been raw.
Speaker 3: Away from the entrance. So they went in.
Speaker 2: That's where it would have stopped for me, if the
Speaker 2: stone would have been rolled away. That's white people's stuff.
Speaker 3: Y'all want to go.
Speaker 2: In in like Scooby. Dude, Nah, I'm just like like that.
Speaker 2: I would have stopped like the sons rolled away. Either
Speaker 2: he came out, they went in.
Speaker 3: I'm out of here. But they went in.
Speaker 2: And they didn't find the body of the Lord Jesus.
Speaker 2: As they stood there puzzle, two men suddenly appeared to.
Speaker 3: Them, clothed in dazzling rolls.
Speaker 2: The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to
Speaker 2: the ground.
Speaker 3: Then the men asked, watch this.
Speaker 2: Why are you looking among the dead for someone who
Speaker 2: is alive. He isn't here. He is risen from the dead.
Speaker 2: Somebody say, the King is alive. If you're excited that
Speaker 2: the King Jesus is a lie, just give him one
Speaker 2: shout of praise.
Speaker 3: The ching is a lie.
Speaker 2: Sunday was awesome, y'all. That's why we celebrate. That's why
Speaker 2: we put our kids in flowers. That's why we praise God.
Speaker 2: Sunday was awesome. But can I tell you something that
Speaker 2: the resurrection on Sunday doesn't take away the reality of Saturday.
Speaker 3: Like everybody's excited about this.
Speaker 2: Moment, about the mountaintops in our lives, But there are
Speaker 2: so many people that right now, even as you are
Speaker 2: sitting here listening to me preach, you feel this emptiness
Speaker 2: because you're feeling the sorrow of Saturday. Jesus is alive,
Speaker 2: but I'm still hurting. Jesus is alive, but I still
Speaker 2: feel lonely. He is risen, but I still feel like
Speaker 2: giving up. And the truth of the matter is most people,
Speaker 2: when they come to the resurrection and the thing that
Speaker 2: we're thinking about how God did his thing, it's like,
Speaker 2: I'm glad.
Speaker 3: That happened for you. But when am I gonna see
Speaker 3: some resurrection?
Speaker 2: When am I gonna feel like death ain't all over me?
Speaker 2: And for real, some of y'all are dealing with the
Speaker 2: reality of your Saturday, the reality of raising kids, the
Speaker 2: reality of navigating this economy, the reality of wrestling with
Speaker 2: your purpose, the reality of a diagnosis that was not favorable.
Speaker 2: The real is anybody dealing with reality? It here in
Speaker 2: the Okay, I need to find out where the real
Speaker 2: church is humble, open and transparent. How many people got
Speaker 2: some real stuff going on right now that is really
Speaker 2: taking up a lot of your brain space, heart space,
Speaker 2: emotional space. You ain't even got time for the people
Speaker 2: you love because you're dealing with other stuff. The resurrection,
Speaker 2: the reality, praise him, problems.
Speaker 3: He's the healer.
Speaker 2: I'm still hurting, y'all. Don't want to be real this Sunday,
Speaker 2: because the truth is that this disgruntle, this tension, this
Speaker 2: frustration is why most people only come once a year.
Speaker 2: They only come when.
Speaker 3: They need it. The reason why.
Speaker 2: Is because I cannot reconcile how he's so good but
Speaker 2: this still feels so bad.
Speaker 3: Okay, but this is the.
Speaker 2: Thing you need to know about Jesus that separates him
Speaker 2: from every other god or deity or idea of a
Speaker 2: higher power that we serve. The only god that the
Speaker 2: Bible says.
Speaker 3: He can relate.
Speaker 2: He's the only one that actually came to walk our
Speaker 2: steps for thirty three years.
Speaker 3: And he can relate.
Speaker 2: I'll prove it to you in the Bible Hebrews, chapter four,
Speaker 2: verse fifteen. For we do not have a high priest
Speaker 2: Jesus who is unable to empathize with our weakness.
Speaker 3: You're not serving a.
Speaker 2: God that's like, look at these peasant servant children of mine.
Speaker 2: Dealing with all of this stuff that I would never
Speaker 2: have to. It says he was tempted at every turn
Speaker 2: with everything that you were tempted with. But we have one,
Speaker 2: a high priest who has been tempted in every way
Speaker 2: just as we are. Yet he did not sin. Jesus
Speaker 2: can relate. So maybe you've had a hard week, maybe
Speaker 2: you've had a hard year, maybe you've had a hard life.
Speaker 3: But Jesus can relate. Somebody say that with me. Jesus
Speaker 3: can relate.
Speaker 2: Let's just think about the last seven days of Jesus's life.
Speaker 2: If this is the resurrection, he's coming back, Let's just
Speaker 2: think about the last seven days. A week ago, seven
Speaker 2: days ago, he came into the city owned a don
Speaker 2: king and they were.
Speaker 3: Streaming Hosannah shouting that's my man, God.
Speaker 2: God, go, God, Jesus God. Oh. They was at.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 2: And then on Monday there was a shaken because he
Speaker 2: went to the temple courts.
Speaker 3: And people was using the place that should be holy
Speaker 3: to actually make.
Speaker 2: Money off of people and trade and he start flipping
Speaker 2: tables and he's like, oh, my goodness, I gotta come
Speaker 2: in here and set this straight.
Speaker 3: Knowing that literally on Sunday he would be dead. By Saturday,
Speaker 3: he'd be dead and he would have to rise again. Tuesday,
Speaker 3: he's speaking to.
Speaker 2: The government of the time, the religious leaders, and having
Speaker 2: to tell them, yo, this is not how it's supposed
Speaker 2: to be done. On Wednesday, he got ops scheming to
Speaker 2: kill him for all my old.
Speaker 3: Folks, ops opposition.
Speaker 2: Okay, people that don't like him, you with me, okay,
Speaker 2: all right. On Thursday, it's like, I just need some
Speaker 2: time with my people.
Speaker 3: So it's the Last Supper on Thursday.
Speaker 2: But even in the last Supper he has somebody that's
Speaker 2: gonna betray him sitting at the table. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you ever know what it's like to have somebody
Speaker 2: you wash their feet, but they gonna sell you out. Okay,
Speaker 2: let me just stay on them notes. So Thursday he's
Speaker 2: washing the feet of somebody that will betray him. Think
Speaker 2: about his week, he can relate. On Friday, he's praying
Speaker 2: in the garden to where he's dropping blood, and they
Speaker 2: come to get him. They whip him, they stone him,
Speaker 2: they mock him, they spit on him. They give him
Speaker 2: a crown of thorns, and then he goes to the cross.
Speaker 2: And Saturday it's silent, nothing happens, nobody moving, and.
Speaker 3: Then Sunday, Glory to God.
Speaker 2: And a lot of times our Sunday experience makes us
Speaker 2: forget about all we had to do to get there. Today,
Speaker 2: I just came to talk to some people who are
Speaker 2: really going through some real stuff and need to understand
Speaker 2: that God can relate.
Speaker 3: Say it with me one more time, Jesus can relate.
Speaker 3: As I was.
Speaker 2: Thinking about this, I read the entire Passion story again.
Speaker 2: I read what Jesus did through this whole week, and
Speaker 2: I found a scripture that I'd never seen before, and
Speaker 2: today I want to take my text from it.
Speaker 3: It Sluke, Chapter twenty three, verse forty four. This is
Speaker 3: Jesus on the cross on Friday.
Speaker 2: It said, by this time it was about noon, and
Speaker 2: darkness fell across the whole land until three o'clock. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you know this, but this was when
Speaker 2: he was on the cross between two thieves, and he
Speaker 2: offered them to be able to come to Heaven with him.
Speaker 2: One said yes, one said no. This is where we
Speaker 2: find ourselves right here. And look at verse forty five.
Speaker 2: It said the light from the sun.
Speaker 3: Was gone.
Speaker 2: Now there has never been a moment like this in
Speaker 2: all of history ever before that, the sun that got
Speaker 2: put into place on the creation, it literally stopped shining.
Speaker 2: It hasn't happened before that, and it hasn't happened since then.
Speaker 2: Why did it stop shining? It was at that moment
Speaker 2: the light of the sun Son responded to the weight
Speaker 2: of sin that was on the s n Son. He's
Speaker 2: sitting there with all of my pornography addictions, he's sitting
Speaker 2: there with your lives.
Speaker 3: He's sitting there with all of our things.
Speaker 2: And he's in agony because he is being killed for
Speaker 2: our punishment. Literally, think about it, that every sin that
Speaker 2: had been committed, every sin that would be committed, in
Speaker 2: every sin that anybody ever did, it was on him
Speaker 2: at that moment, and it was such an agonizing moment
Speaker 2: that the creation had to respond to the Creator.
Speaker 3: If you didn't know that he was.
Speaker 2: Jesus, this is another moment where you could understand he
Speaker 2: still was God, because creation always is supposed to respond
Speaker 2: to the Creator. And he's sitting there in agony. So
Speaker 2: much the pain, the disease, the evil, the missteps, the mistakes,
Speaker 2: all on him, taking it for the entire world to
Speaker 2: the point where Tewod Corinthians five twenty one says, for
Speaker 2: our sake, somebody say for my sake, say it like
Speaker 2: you mean it.
Speaker 3: For my sake. God made him.
Speaker 2: Who knew no sin, to become sin so that we
Speaker 2: might become the righteousness of God. Write this point down.
Speaker 2: Creation always responds to the creator. Creation always responds to
Speaker 2: the Creator.
Speaker 3: The question is will you? The Sun had to start
Speaker 3: praising God at that moment because of the agony that
Speaker 3: he was under, and says, I got to do. I
Speaker 3: know I'm always supposed to shine.
Speaker 2: I know that's my cosmic calling is to shine.
Speaker 3: But my creator is suffering.
Speaker 2: I gotta do something to identify that I'm with him.
Speaker 3: And if the.
Speaker 2: Sun only has one switch on, the only thing the
Speaker 2: Sun could do to I identify with the Creator is
Speaker 2: turn off.
Speaker 3: I need you to understand. This ain't never happened before.
Speaker 3: This is not a solar eclipse. This is not the
Speaker 3: moon in front of the sun. This is the sun
Speaker 3: literally saying off because I got to identify with my creator.
Speaker 3: But will you?
Speaker 2: And I need to mess with your theology just for
Speaker 2: a second, because in the beginning, I think everybody knows this.
Speaker 2: When God created everything, he said, let there be and
Speaker 2: there was light. But that light wasn't the sun. Let
Speaker 2: there be light. Everybody thought the sun came on, but
Speaker 2: the Bible tells us that it was day four that
Speaker 2: the sun and the moon were created.
Speaker 3: Let me just give you a little tidbit. The source
Speaker 3: of light isn't the s u in the source of
Speaker 3: light is the s o n in the beginning? Let
Speaker 3: that be light. That was Jesus. He's the source of life.
Speaker 2: He's the source of your strength. He's the source of
Speaker 2: your ability.
Speaker 3: He's the source of every The s o N is
Speaker 3: the source of the s u in.
Speaker 2: All right, I'll prove it to you John eight twelve.
Speaker 2: Jesus he so gangster. He told people himself.
Speaker 3: He was the light. He on earth with the disciple
Speaker 3: John eight twelve.
Speaker 2: Jesus spoke to the people once again and said.
Speaker 3: I am the light. I'm the light of the world.
Speaker 2: If you follow me, you won't have to walk in
Speaker 2: darkness because you will have watched this the light that
Speaker 2: leads to life, the light that leads to life.
Speaker 3: In the beginning, God created light. That was the revelation
Speaker 3: of Jesus. And if you.
Speaker 2: Understand that it leads to life, and so now Jesus says,
Speaker 2: I'm the light of the world.
Speaker 3: I'm going somewhere. Stay with me. This's is about to
Speaker 3: bless your heart.
Speaker 2: So if the source of light isn't the sun, I
Speaker 2: started to think about it.
Speaker 3: The source.
Speaker 2: Of the sun actually is used for something very strong.
Speaker 3: It's used for time. Stay with me. I know I'm
Speaker 3: scientific right now, but it's going somewhere.
Speaker 2: The sun one s in is the source of the sun.
Speaker 2: But the source of time is the sun. Because before
Speaker 2: there were stop watches and clocks and iPhones, the only
Speaker 2: way you knew the time.
Speaker 3: Was where the sun. The sun was, y'all staying with me,
Speaker 3: y'all remember sun dials, and well you know, y'all don't.
Speaker 3: But the only way that you knew.
Speaker 2: It was morning is that the sun came up.
Speaker 3: And the only way that you knew it was evening
Speaker 3: is that the sun went. So the sun is the
Speaker 3: source for time. How someboke, why did you say all that?
Speaker 3: Because I have four kids and I'm trying to teach.
Speaker 2: Them how to tell time right now, and Gia is
Speaker 2: about to be five years old and she has no
Speaker 2: concept of time. So I can say five hours and
Speaker 2: it's the same thing as five.
Speaker 3: Minutes to her.
Speaker 2: So the other day I told her, I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: just wait for me. It's only gonna take five minutes.
Speaker 2: She said, oh, I'm like, oh, Dad.
Speaker 3: That's gonna take forever. And because she doesn't have a concept.
Speaker 2: Of time for real, she thought, five minutes, what's gonna
Speaker 2: take forever?
Speaker 3: Now? Me, I can't get five minutes in a day
Speaker 3: of quiet, peace, tranquility. All the parents should say amen.
Speaker 2: But five minutes wouldn't even be no time. But for her,
Speaker 2: because she had no concept of time, five minutes felt
Speaker 2: like forever. Well, I started to think about this. If
Speaker 2: you don't have a concept of time, seconds feel like centuries,
Speaker 2: minutes feel like millenniums. And have you ever felt like
Speaker 2: time was taking its time?
Speaker 3: It said, like this is taking too long?
Speaker 5: God?
Speaker 3: I mean, I know you almighty and you saw right
Speaker 3: on time? But uh, where are you at though?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay? Where how many people's like?
Speaker 2: God, if you're gonna do it, could you.
Speaker 3: Go ahead right now? Feel like a good time with
Speaker 3: my husband, Lord, It feel like a good time for
Speaker 3: him to be here on Easter. Somebody stood up in
Speaker 3: the back, sit down. Do you know what makes time
Speaker 3: even harder is if it's time under tension. Time under
Speaker 3: tension is a rough thing.
Speaker 1: You know what.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna prove it to you because some of y'all
Speaker 2: don't understand. I got two hundred dollars for somebody who
Speaker 2: can do a two minute plank a plan for two minutes. Dude,
Speaker 2: Come on, bro, I'll do one more person, one of
Speaker 2: the youth. Come on, two minute plank. Come on, come on,
Speaker 2: you right there? Yeah, come on, come on, y'all. Hurry
Speaker 2: up here, come on up here, gonna roll it out
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 3: We're about to.
Speaker 2: See for real. Come on up here. He reconsidering here like,
Speaker 2: oh shoot, yeah, come on up, come on, come on.
Speaker 3: What's your name? Big dog? Cedric?
Speaker 2: Okay, come on right over here, Cedric? What's your name?
Speaker 3: Little dog? What dwight? All right? You come over here?
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I know you weren't preparing for this, but I'm about
Speaker 2: to clock it. All right, y'all ready assume the position
Speaker 2: a two minute plank on your elbows.
Speaker 3: Here we go, ready, set go? All right? All right, well,
Speaker 3: let's keep preaching. Somebody say Jesus is the light of
Speaker 3: the world.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep going. Time under tension somebody said,
Speaker 2: don't laugh that, don't help. Keep praying over there he
Speaker 2: is praying. Somebody said, lock in.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, the crazy thing about this is they have no
Speaker 2: idea how long they've been here.
Speaker 3: I do, I'm clocking it, but they are just waiting.
Speaker 3: What's the last good movie you've seen, Bud? I'm good?
Speaker 3: How old are you? Man? Mario Brothers? Was it good? Okay?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: H He looking at the whole youth section like, y'all
Speaker 6: ain't gonna let you down.
Speaker 3: Ain't go let you down a prose, I gonna let
Speaker 3: you down a province. People screaming, hold it you you ain't.
Speaker 3: You didn't come, you didn't come up here time. It's
Speaker 3: been two minutes. Yeah, give it.
Speaker 2: Give him some dapt, give him some dap. Y'all made
Speaker 2: it there, you go. Two hundred for you, two hundred
Speaker 2: for you. I now now watch the after y'all saw
Speaker 2: them do that. Now, people are like, and.
Speaker 3: I could do that.
Speaker 2: I should have gone over to he didn't see if
Speaker 2: he my hand was up stop.
Speaker 3: Ifausd Mike, why did you do that?
Speaker 2: Because the thing that made that very difficult is that
Speaker 2: I never gave them the time. If I would have
Speaker 2: said every ten seconds or thirty seconds or every minute,
Speaker 2: or I said, oh, you only.
Speaker 3: Got thirty seconds left.
Speaker 2: It would have given them, watch this, the ability to endure. Okay,
Speaker 2: because knowing the end helps you endure.
Speaker 3: But there's so many of.
Speaker 2: Us that don't know what the end of the situation
Speaker 2: we're in it looks like, and so it's very easy
Speaker 2: to give up.
Speaker 3: Today. I want to tell you just a few things
Speaker 3: about time that I think that's going to help you
Speaker 3: write this down. Time proves that God is kind.
Speaker 2: If I was trying to be kind to them, I
Speaker 2: would have told them thirty seconds gone, hip, you only
Speaker 2: got a minute left. I would have made them aware
Speaker 2: of the time that they had. And what ends up
Speaker 2: happening is time is a parameter, no matter what. Everybody
Speaker 2: in this room has twenty four hours in a day.
Speaker 2: You have the same twenty four hours as Beyonce, Jeff Bisos,
Speaker 2: you have the same twenty four hours as Lebron Justin Bieber,
Speaker 2: the same twenty four hours as carry Under with they
Speaker 2: make a little more money.
Speaker 3: With they twenty four hours than most of us.
Speaker 2: But somebody say the same day you have the same.
Speaker 3: Twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: That means that you have fourteen hundred and forty minutes
Speaker 2: eighty six thousand, four hundred seconds in every day. And
Speaker 2: for some of you that may be powerful, or for
Speaker 2: some of you that may be a problem, because depending
Speaker 2: on how you use that. Everybody say time, it depends
Speaker 2: on what is going to happen in your life.
Speaker 3: Watch this.
Speaker 2: But more than it being a problem, or more than
Speaker 2: it being powerful, or more than it being a parameter,
Speaker 2: God is so kind, watch this because time is a promise.
Speaker 2: I set up everything I said to get you to
Speaker 2: this point. That the fact that a God that stands
Speaker 2: outside of time puts all of us in time and gives.
Speaker 3: Us only twenty four hours in every day, it is
Speaker 3: a promise. Pastor Mike, how is it a promise?
Speaker 2: No matter how long your day is, it can never
Speaker 2: be longer than twenty four hours. Some of you should
Speaker 2: get excited right there, because the thing that you got
Speaker 2: to understand is that the Bible tells us that every
Speaker 2: twenty four hours there is something brand new that is
Speaker 2: given to you.
Speaker 3: Lamentations three twenty.
Speaker 2: Two says, the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.
Speaker 2: His mercies never come to aentyny. They are new every morning.
Speaker 3: Greatest thy faithfulness. This is why the old folks.
Speaker 2: Sing that song, greatest our Faithfulness is because.
Speaker 3: How do you know it's morning? How do you know
Speaker 3: it's morning? The sun comes up? Hmm.
Speaker 2: The reason I know it's morning is because every morning
Speaker 2: God has given us a picture that that day has
Speaker 2: to end.
Speaker 3: And now the sun has coming, has come up.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you more to tell me how do
Speaker 2: you know it's morning? What if I told you that
Speaker 2: God gave us a picture in the sky of the
Speaker 2: cosmic sun to.
Speaker 3: Point you back to remember the Sun, his only.
Speaker 2: Son, that no matter how dark your day or night is,
Speaker 2: the fact that the sun comes is proof that you
Speaker 2: have a brand new day. This is what God declares
Speaker 2: to all of humanity, is a new day the sun
Speaker 2: that He gave over two thousand years ago. When you
Speaker 2: receive the sun, it's a brand new day.
Speaker 3: Say it with me, A brand new day.
Speaker 2: The sun means a brand new day. So when I
Speaker 2: got this revelation, I begin to think about it, and
Speaker 2: this got me excited on the inside because I know
Speaker 2: there's some people that are going through dark situations right now,
Speaker 2: and I need you to know this darkness has a deadline.
Speaker 3: This Easter.
Speaker 2: I want to let you know that, because there's a
Speaker 2: brand new day every twenty four hours. Darkness has a deadline.
Speaker 3: How long you've been in depression.
Speaker 2: It has a deadline, how long you've been dealing with anxiety.
Speaker 2: I'm about to preach this thing.
Speaker 3: It has a deadline.
Speaker 2: How long you've been confused and walking around in circles.
Speaker 3: Darkness has.
Speaker 2: If God did not give us the sun, we would
Speaker 2: just be in darkness.
Speaker 3: We would have no way to recalibrate. Oh, it's a
Speaker 3: new start right now.
Speaker 2: Even your body, the circadian rhythms that are with your body.
Speaker 2: If you just your body, if you expose it to sunlight,
Speaker 2: it'll start waking up with the sun.
Speaker 3: This is why the invention of dark out curtains.
Speaker 2: Is a billion dollar industry, because you are trying to
Speaker 2: control when your body interacts with the Because if your
Speaker 2: body does interact.
Speaker 3: With the sun, it has no other choice but to respond.
Speaker 2: Oh God, remember what I said that creation has to
Speaker 2: respond to there.
Speaker 3: So if you get close enough to it, if you
Speaker 3: just here.
Speaker 2: That's why it's dangerous to come to this search because
Speaker 2: if you keep coming, you will have no other option.
Speaker 2: And that's why some of y'all putting dark out curtains
Speaker 2: on your emotions.
Speaker 3: You're putting dark out curtains on your on your love life,
Speaker 3: and dark out curtains on your.
Speaker 2: Your your addictions, dark out curtains on your sexual orientation.
Speaker 3: Dark out curtains.
Speaker 2: I don't want the sun so in to shine his
Speaker 2: light in here, because if he shined his light on
Speaker 2: your situation, he ain't scared of the darkness.
Speaker 3: The darkness is never scared. This light is never scared
Speaker 3: of darkness. The light shows up and darkness has to leave.
Speaker 2: So the only thing you can do with darkness is
Speaker 2: try to keep it out. I mean, the only thing
Speaker 2: that you can do with light is try to keep
Speaker 2: it out, because if light connects with your darkness, your
Speaker 2: body has nothing else to do, your mind has nothing
Speaker 2: else to do. Somebody shot at me and say, the
Speaker 2: sun is coming. I believe that for your life. I
Speaker 2: believe that for your marriage. I believe that for your faith.
Speaker 2: I believe that for everything. And I know it's uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: and that's why you're trying to stay wrapped up. That's
Speaker 2: why you're trying to Like Noah, I don't want to
Speaker 2: tell nobody about what I've been through. That's why you're saying,
Speaker 2: I don't want to get close to nobody because if
Speaker 2: the sun ever gets in contact with creation. And so
Speaker 2: when I begin to look at this, write the point down.
Speaker 2: The resurrection is the eternal example that darkness has a deadline.
Speaker 2: And if I was talking to my daughter and some
Speaker 2: of her friends, I would say, clockett.
Speaker 3: I know everybody don't understand that, but just everybody say
Speaker 3: clock it for me.
Speaker 2: Huh, let me give everybody a definition. Since we're talking
Speaker 2: about time, clockett means calling out a truth, noticing, or recognizing.
Speaker 3: This is from the Urban Dictionary, calling.
Speaker 2: Out a truth, noticing, or recognizing being in agreement with
Speaker 2: an accurate observation. So when it's darkness and the sun comes,
Speaker 2: you can start clocking it.
Speaker 3: That is just a matter of time.
Speaker 2: If the sun hits your situation, clocket, it's just a
Speaker 2: matter of time for that addiction turns around. Oh, if
Speaker 2: you let the sun in, you can cut.
Speaker 3: If you are in a situation.
Speaker 2: Right now that it feels like you can't get out
Speaker 2: of it has been a situation that has literally kept
Speaker 2: you in a cycle for decades. Today I'm telling you
Speaker 2: let the sun in, and then because it's just a
Speaker 2: matter of time. Let me prove it to you throughout history,
Speaker 2: because it doesn't.
Speaker 3: Matter how long it's been. It doesn't matter how dark
Speaker 3: it's been.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how frustrated you've been, it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: how drive the season has been. It doesn't matter when
Speaker 2: the sun shows up. Darkness has a deadline. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to contain myself. Castor Charles would say it like this.
Speaker 2: God was standing outside of time, and then he created
Speaker 2: time and placed you in time so that at the
Speaker 2: right time you would be on time for an appointed time.
Speaker 3: Somebody shot of me, clocket. Somebody needs to know that God.
Speaker 2: Is consistent, just as consistent as the sun shows up.
Speaker 2: Darkness has a deadline.
Speaker 3: I feel this. I don't got no more points.
Speaker 2: I came to tell you that darkness has a deadline
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 3: You've been sitting around waiting.
Speaker 2: For something else to happen, and God told you this Easter.
Speaker 2: Let the sun in, Let Jesus christ him, Let him
Speaker 2: into your heart, Let him into your situation, let him
Speaker 2: into your frustration, let him into your pain, and then
Speaker 2: clock it.
Speaker 3: It's his nature to transform things.
Speaker 2: It's his nature to speak to things that aren't moving,
Speaker 2: and they start moving. Let me prove it to you.
Speaker 2: If I was talking to Daniel and the lions, them
Speaker 2: surrounded by what should have taken them out, but God
Speaker 2: shut the mouth of the lions, I would have told
Speaker 2: Daniel clock it. The three Hebrew boys that were thrown
Speaker 2: into the fiery furnace, he turned the heat way up.
Speaker 3: But when they looked again, they said, there's a fourth
Speaker 3: man in the fire.
Speaker 2: Somebody say, locket, David standing in front of her.
Speaker 3: Life, no armor on, no experience, just crazy faith. What
Speaker 3: looked like.
Speaker 2: A mismatch turned into a miracle. Somebody shot at me, clockt.
Speaker 2: It's God's design.
Speaker 3: To step into dark situations and let the sun in.
Speaker 2: Moses standing at the red sea, water in front of him,
Speaker 2: the enemy behind him, nowhere to go, and God made
Speaker 2: a way where there was no way.
Speaker 3: Clocket, some of y'all need to set your timers. The
Speaker 3: fact that you showed up on Easter Sunday, the fact
Speaker 3: that God's speaking to you through this message, the fact
Speaker 3: that you got over your fear and your frustration and
Speaker 3: you're here today. God is saying, Clocket, you let me in.
Speaker 2: You done messed up, and let me in Your heart,
Speaker 2: you done messed up, and God in the atmosphere worship
Speaker 2: you were watching online and you've been talking about weed
Speaker 2: being the thing to give you peace. You just messed
Speaker 2: around and rolled up on the principiece and you've about
Speaker 2: to let the sun in. And I'm telling you something
Speaker 2: in your life is about to change because darkness has
Speaker 2: a dead one.
Speaker 3: Shut at me, clocking that's the mike. Why are you
Speaker 3: saying that?
Speaker 2: It's because if you let the sun in, it's just
Speaker 2: a matter of time until transformation comes. There's only so
Speaker 2: much you can play with fire till you get burned.
Speaker 2: And I'm talking about the Holy ghost. There's only so
Speaker 2: much time you can be around people that have good character,
Speaker 2: and be around people that want the best for you,
Speaker 2: and be around people who are gonna speak life into
Speaker 2: you and call you high. There's only so many times
Speaker 2: you can be around people that'll pray for you, and
Speaker 2: those prayers don't start getting up on you. Some of
Speaker 2: y'all are here because you're your Grandmama's prayers right now,
Speaker 2: and some of your here because of an auntie's prayer.
Speaker 3: You didn't even know there are.
Speaker 2: That's why the old folks would have said He may
Speaker 2: not come with.
Speaker 3: You when you want him, but he'll be there right
Speaker 3: on time.
Speaker 2: Clock Yet, y'all gotta add the finger with it when
Speaker 2: you do it. My daughter told me I was doing
Speaker 2: it wrong. I was using the other finger. It's the
Speaker 2: point of finger. You gotta clock here. Agree with God.
Speaker 2: Joseph stone into a pit, portrayed by his own family,
Speaker 2: sitting in prison for something he didn't do.
Speaker 3: But what looked like a set back was a set up.
Speaker 3: Clock here.
Speaker 2: Some of y'all gonna be walking around and you're gonna
Speaker 2: see God start to move in your situation of transformation.
Speaker 3: And I need you to know, no matter.
Speaker 2: What's going on, no matter if it's a physical issue,
Speaker 2: an emotional issue, whether it's an issue in your.
Speaker 3: Family, it's just a matter of time.
Speaker 2: The sun is coming. I think about the woman with
Speaker 2: the issue of blood. She had been to every doctor
Speaker 2: she could find for twelve years, used her entire fortune
Speaker 2: to try to get healed, but she could not stop
Speaker 2: profusely bleeding until she met Jesus and had one moment
Speaker 2: with the sun, and it healed her forever. Clocket, this
Speaker 2: is the God we serve, and some of you have
Speaker 2: had time under tension. Let the sun in. Let the
Speaker 2: sun in. Let him into that place where you're still
Speaker 2: hurting from that baby daddy, who did you wrong, and
Speaker 2: now you hate all men. Let the sun in from
Speaker 2: that abuse you experience. Let the sun in for the
Speaker 2: failure of that business. Let the sun in. Two thousand
Speaker 2: years ago, on a Friday, it got real dark because
Speaker 2: our Savior was beaten, scourged, spit on, ripped limb from limb. Literally,
Speaker 2: they broke his limbs to fit him on the Roman Cross.
Speaker 2: They crucified him, publicly mocked him, put a crown of
Speaker 2: thorns on his head, and the entire world had to
Speaker 2: respond to our creator being crucified.
Speaker 3: It got dark.
Speaker 2: But if I was with the Disciples, I would have
Speaker 2: just looked at him and said, clock here, because it
Speaker 2: was only.
Speaker 3: Three days.
Speaker 2: That it took him to defeat death, Hell and the grave. See,
Speaker 2: just because you don't see the sun shining doesn't mean
Speaker 2: the sun isn't working. Some of y'all don't get it.
Speaker 2: Just because you don't see the sun shining doesn't mean
Speaker 2: the sun isn't working. When the Sun was crucified here
Speaker 2: on Earth, he was down in the depth of hell,
Speaker 2: rescuing you and me from every lie that the enemy
Speaker 2: would have told us.
Speaker 3: And generational thing, and the.
Speaker 2: Sun was doing work in darkness so that we could
Speaker 2: live in the light today. I want you to believe
Speaker 2: that the sun is a sign that the sin is
Speaker 2: bringing new life to you. And every morning that you
Speaker 2: see great is thy faith for me mourning by morning
Speaker 2: new mercies.
Speaker 5: I see.
Speaker 3: If you feel like you've been in a dark place,
Speaker 3: just came to tell you today, here comes the Sun.
Speaker 3: He's here and available for you right now.
Speaker 2: I could tell you and go through so many stories
Speaker 2: is in my life that I would not be here today.
Speaker 3: Unless the sun showed up.
Speaker 2: I could be faking it, I could be playing. I
Speaker 2: could be acting like everything was okay. I could post
Speaker 2: that everything was okay, but it was dark in my
Speaker 2: heart jealousy and comparison.
Speaker 3: Images, hurts and pains.
Speaker 2: And I don't know what your issue is right now,
Speaker 2: But what I'm saying is, wherever it's darkest, here comes
Speaker 2: the Sun.
Speaker 5: Let him in.
Speaker 3: Those three days changed humanity. The gift was given. The
Speaker 3: question is will you receive it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna read one more scripture to you, and then
Speaker 2: there's a song that I want you to listen to
Speaker 2: and then I'm gonna ask you to receive Jesus.
Speaker 3: No pumping, no priming.
Speaker 2: I want you to know that the darkest areas of
Speaker 2: your life can be transformed right now if you just
Speaker 2: let the sun in. Somebody say the sun is coming.
Speaker 2: Proverbs thirty verse five. Weeping may endure for a night,
Speaker 2: but joy comes in the morning. Anxiety may endure for
Speaker 2: a night, Depression may endure for a night. Worry may
Speaker 2: endure for a night. Fear may endure for a night.
Speaker 2: Failure may endure for a night. But here comes the sun.
Speaker 2: This is what Christ did on cavalry for us.
Speaker 7: It's been a longcal loity days. It feels like you
Speaker 7: since you you totally don't worry, don't be off free.
Speaker 3: Because it's all right.
Speaker 8: Here comes the sign, Here comes the sun, Here comes
Speaker 8: the sun. Right, it's all right, It's all right.
Speaker 4: Oh the blood who was Love.
Speaker 2: Christmas save again it on covers.
Speaker 3: Great love capt you out.
Speaker 2: You it some.
Speaker 8: Youcive me, you said me.
Speaker 4: Who you turk? My lass?
Speaker 3: Little dog?
Speaker 4: Who was the.
Speaker 2: Alright?
Speaker 3: All thees?
Speaker 4: Oh ways.
Speaker 3: For you, all right, oh.
Speaker 7: Your low ways, even in my darkest style.
Speaker 3: You, Oh your.
Speaker 7: Ways is quick even in my darkest hollar.
Speaker 3: A oh ways, ohays you see all the blood, see.
Speaker 5: Me all the bloodless?
Speaker 8: Enough chriss my sake, York's coverless?
Speaker 3: No crazy.
Speaker 4: You up, you up me?
Speaker 2: Yes, as you stand all over this building, Come on,
Speaker 2: just to lift your hands and say, oh the blood?
Speaker 3: O the blood? Was it not Christ? Come on, lift
Speaker 3: your hands. Think about what you did to cover us?
Speaker 3: No pray, Holy Loah kept you up? You answer.
Speaker 5: You eescut me.
Speaker 2: Now, this is the moment of the service where somebody's
Speaker 2: life is gonna transform because they let the sun in.
Speaker 2: I need everybody who's already made this decision. I need
Speaker 2: you to begin to pray, because what I realized is
Speaker 2: that in darkness, the sun is not the only light
Speaker 2: that comes to dispel darkness. God even leaves his grace
Speaker 2: in another light. It's called the moon. And what most
Speaker 2: people don't understand about the moon. I didn't even understand
Speaker 2: it for a long time, is that the moon is
Speaker 2: not a light in itself. The only reason that we
Speaker 2: see the moon is because it reflects the Sun. And
Speaker 2: right now, some of you have been in a place
Speaker 2: where God is saying, I know you've received my Sun,
Speaker 2: but you're not reflecting me. Well, I know you know
Speaker 2: that you in is is the thing that the power
Speaker 2: comes from, or the s o n is the thing
Speaker 2: the power comes from.
Speaker 3: But you have not.
Speaker 2: Been my reflection in the earth, or at your job
Speaker 2: or on social media. They should look at you and
Speaker 2: see the reflection of my light.
Speaker 3: And today I have two altered calls. If you know
Speaker 3: you have not been a proper reflection of the sun.
Speaker 2: Today's the day where you're getting a new chance to
Speaker 2: be able to shine. And then there's other people who
Speaker 2: have never received the sun at all. So today two calls.
Speaker 2: Either ref or receive reflect the sun in a way
Speaker 2: that people can see him, or receive the sun and
Speaker 2: allow your life to be transformed forever. If you're in
Speaker 2: this room, or watching online, or watching in prison, or
Speaker 2: watching on rebroadcast, this is what Easter is about.
Speaker 3: Letting the sun come in. It took me from being.
Speaker 2: A liar, a manipulator, addicted to pornography, somebody who had
Speaker 2: very evil things.
Speaker 3: In my heart because of Mike. Why do you keep
Speaker 3: sharing your testimony?
Speaker 2: The Bible tells us in Revelation we overcome by the
Speaker 2: blood of the Lamb.
Speaker 3: That was what was shed on cavalry.
Speaker 2: But the words of my this is how to stay free.
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you where I was. I don't forget.
Speaker 2: Because it was his blood and this testimony that interrupts
Speaker 2: the cycle that would try to pass down generationally. If
Speaker 2: that's you, you're under the sound of my voice. I
Speaker 2: feel the presence of God in this place.
Speaker 7: Y'all.
Speaker 2: There are people that God has been trying to get
Speaker 2: your attention for decades.
Speaker 3: And today is the day of salvation. Church. I need
Speaker 3: you to begin to pray.
Speaker 2: If you're in this room under the sound of my
Speaker 2: voice and you want to receive the free gift of God,
Speaker 2: which is salvation, the Bible tells you that you can
Speaker 2: receive that by, according to Romans, by.
Speaker 3: Confessing and believing.
Speaker 2: That Jesus Christ is Lord in this moment.
Speaker 3: Right now. Tomorrow is not promised.
Speaker 2: Right now is the time that you are supposed to
Speaker 2: receive the Sun Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior
Speaker 2: on account of three. If you're saying, pastor, I want
Speaker 2: you to include me in that prayer. I just want
Speaker 2: you to slip your hand in the air. I already
Speaker 2: see hands going up one. You're making the greatest decision
Speaker 2: of your life to your name is about to be
Speaker 2: written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
Speaker 3: Three shoot your.
Speaker 2: Hand up all over this building if you want to
Speaker 2: receive Jesus.
Speaker 3: I see you, I see a transformation in church. I
Speaker 3: see you.
Speaker 2: How do we celebrate people?
Speaker 3: I see you. God sees you. I see you.
Speaker 2: Brother, you can put your hands down more than me
Speaker 2: seeing you.
Speaker 3: God sees you. Heaven is recording this.
Speaker 2: Every hand that went up in the chat, every hand
Speaker 2: that went up at their job.
Speaker 3: God sees this.
Speaker 2: This is what Ea stir is about the good news
Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ and that transformation.
Speaker 3: We're a family. Nobody prays alone.
Speaker 2: So if everybody would, under the sound of my voice,
Speaker 2: would you just lift your hands and pray this prayer.
Speaker 3: Say, Dear God, thank you for sending the sun just
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 2: Today. I admit I've sinned, but today I repent and
Speaker 2: I turned to you. I believe you lived, you die,
Speaker 2: and you rose again with all.
Speaker 3: Power just for me.
Speaker 2: Here's my life, Change me, renew me, transformance.
Speaker 3: I'm yours in Jesus' naves.
Speaker 2: Jesus Amen on miss Easter Sunday. Can we celebrate y'all
Speaker 2: missed it? Can we celebrate, welcomes in the family. No
Speaker 2: matter how dark it's been, I have good news for you.
Speaker 2: Weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in
Speaker 2: the morning.
Speaker 5: How do we know it's morning?
Speaker 2: The sun comes today. I hope you let the Son
Speaker 2: of God into your life. I hope you let Jesus in.
Speaker 5: If you did, I.
Speaker 2: Want you to remember the text save to A two
Speaker 2: A two A two because we want.
Speaker 5: To walk with you. We want to send you some information.
Speaker 5: We want to let you know that this is a celebration.
Speaker 2: All of Heaven is rejoicing over your salvation today. And
Speaker 2: what a better day than today to give your life
Speaker 2: fully to God. Darkness has a deadline.
Speaker 5: And you can clock it.
Speaker 2: It is a new season for you, a new day,
Speaker 2: new grace and mercy.
Speaker 5: Do not fall back into the old patterns.
Speaker 2: And as a matter of fact, I want to encourage
Speaker 2: you to join us again here next week. I'm telling
Speaker 2: you give me four weeks. Then it'll turn into four months,
Speaker 2: four years, and then forty years. Like I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: if you let the Son in, it becomes something that
Speaker 2: transforms your entire life. I'm so grateful for you. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna ask you for two things. If this message has
Speaker 2: blessed you in any way, would you share it with somebody?
Speaker 2: Transformation is usually started with an invitation share this with
Speaker 2: the coworker, a friend of family.
Speaker 5: Never put it in the family group.
Speaker 2: Check and see if God doesn't allow his son to
Speaker 2: change somebody else's life. And the second thing is if
Speaker 2: you would pray about giving and helping us further this mission.
Speaker 2: We are going into prisons and going into the communities
Speaker 2: and doing things all over the world to try to
Speaker 2: help bring transformation in Christ. And every dollar and every
Speaker 2: obedience step it helps that.
Speaker 5: So pray, and if.
Speaker 2: God tells you to do something, you can give, and
Speaker 2: we will be forever grateful because you will be a
Speaker 2: part of transforming other people's lives. Well, until next week,
Speaker 2: I want you to go out and live a transform life.
Speaker 5: I love you.