The Posture of obedience Pt 3 "Easter Sunday" Positioned for greatness by the Resurrection

One man’s disobedience broke us, but one Man’s obedience positioned us for greatness.
Romans 5 says where sin increased, grace increased all the more—through Jesus’ cross and resurrection.
In this episode, we explore how His obedience frees you from shame and moves you from stuck to walking in God’s purpose.
If your heart needs hope, freedom, and a fresh start, this conversation is your invitation to hit play.

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As we continue in our theme, the posture of obedience, I would like to minister from this thought positioned for greatness by the resurrection. Positioned for greatness by the resurrection. All around the world, people are gathering in churches and their homes to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus. His resurrection is the ultimate sign that he is who he said he truly was, the Son of God. The enemy thought he had backed Jesus into a corner with no way out. He probably said this: I have him on the cross, bruised, beaten, mocked. I have people questioning him if he's truly the Messiah. Because if he was, he wouldn't let this happen. But the perfect testimony of the posture of obedience was Jesus himself. Philippians 2 18 says it like this, and being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. This was a submission that went far beyond simple compliance. Hebrews 5, 8 says it like this. Meaning his willingness to endure suffering because or suffering became the very vehicle through which he honored the Father's will. This obedience was not passive resignation, but it was a clear choice. John 10, 17 and 18 says this, therefore my father loved me, because I laid down my life so that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it up again. This command I receive from my father. Jesus' whole purpose on earth was to bring us back into the right relationship, the right posture with the Father. The posture of Jesus' heart was right. The posture of Jesus' faith was right. The posture of his obedience was coming into full view. Jesus was fully man and fully God at the same time. But there was a moment where they felt the weight and the struggle of humanity's sin. Hebrews 4:15 tells it like this for we not have a high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities. But with all the points tempted, like we are yet, he did not sin. So when life, so when the weight of life weighs you down, know this Jesus feels your pain. Don't give in to the weight. Instead of folding, he went to the Father in prayer, which was recorded in Matthew 26, 39. So, oh Father, if it's possible, take this cup or let this cup pass me by. Nevertheless, at your will be done. Even though he was hurting at this moment, even though he felt the pressure of humanity's sin at this moment, his posture of obedience sent him to the cross. And he yielded to the will of his father. The same posture of obedience is what kept him on the cross for you and I. This is a powerful moment. The stone was rolled away to let him out. What I'm sorry, the stone wasn't rolled away to let him out, but the stone was rolled away so others can see that he was already gone. Ah, when it's time for you to walk into your miracle, when it's time for you to step into your blessing, when it's time for you to step into your purpose, Jesus is working behind the stone. So when he moves you into position, he moves you in position while the stone is blocking the door. He moves you into position where nobody can see you. He moves you into position when the door is closed. So when he rolls back to stone and people can finally come to see where they put you at, they won't see you there anymore. They'll see you where God took you. I don't know who I'm preaching to, but God said I'm rolling back the stone to show people that you're not there anymore. I'm rolling back to stone to show people I moved you behind the scene. I'm rolling back the stone to show people that you're not where you used to be. But you have to come to me where I took you. So people can see that I'm still a miracle worker. So people can see that what people thought that you were dead from, that you rose to live again. Uh, people bury stuff on you. People put stuff on you. But God said, I put you behind the stone to work the miracle to move you out of the way. But when I come to show people that where you were, you're not there no more. They will have no thing to say, but God did it. Uh, ladies and gentlemen, don't allow people to keep you behind the stone. Uh, because when they come to look again, they will see that the angel is sitting on top of it. And when the angel declares you're not there, they will have to say, Where is he? God said, I moved him already. If you want him, you gotta go find him. Because he's not where you thought you placed him. I took him. They will see where God now has moved you and positioned you. When God shows up, he moves you into your purpose. His work for justifying you through his resurrection positioned you to live out your God-given purpose in your life. You no longer are bound by guilt and shame. You are no longer bound by chains of sin. You have become free because the power of the resurrection of Jesus. So don't let your past tell you. Don't let your past hold you down. Don't let your past or your old guilt and your old shame drag you back to the tomb. The stone moves all the way, and the angel of the Lord is sitting on it as a visual reminder that he set you free. The scripture tells us in John 8, 3, 16, sorry, 8, 38 and 36. Therefore, if the Son of Man has set you free, you are free in thee. Christian freedom is not about doing what we want with no limits. It is the freedom that comes from turning away from sin and dedicating our lives to God. Real liberation happens when God removes every barrier, social, spiritual, emotional, or institutional, that keeps you from our keeps you from your true purpose, to love Him and to worship Him and to enjoy God forever. Galatians 40, I'm sorry, Galatians 4, 31 and 5 and 1 puts it like this. So, my brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again in the yoke of bondage. Since we have been spiritually renewed and have embraced our freedom that comes with a new way of living, now we can embrace the hope of the resurrection, we can embrace the hope that the resurrection gives us. The Bible tells us in Philippians 1 and 6 that we can be confident in this very thing: that he who began a good work in you shall complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. There are four confidences as a believer that we get from the resurrection. The first confidence is the confidence of God's faithfulness. This ensures us that God is not distant, but that He is actively working in our lives, guiding you, sustaining you through every circumstance. The second confidence is confidence in prayer. This is the boldness that comes before God, knowing that because of Christ's advocacy, that the Father hears you and responds to his children. The third confidence is in the face of adversity. This is the grace to endure with joy, to count on all joy, knowing what you are facing is temporary, and that God will turn your sorrow into lasting joy, because the joy of the Lord is your strength. The final confidence is the confidence of salvation. Through Christ's sacrifice on the cross and his resurrection, we have confidence in God. We have confidence in our posture before God. There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. And this and that assures removal from fear and frees us to live a life of obedience fueled not by fueled by love and not by obligation. When we have the hope, we know that we are walking in our God-given purpose. And because of what Jesus did on the cross through the power of his resurrection, we now are walking in victory. The resurrection of our Lord proves that death, failure, sin, and shame do not have the final say so in our lives. We can live again, we can hope again, and the work that God started in us, He has not finished yet. Romans 8, 37 declares this: yet in all things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. This love showed on the cross and in the power of him revealed through the resurrection has positioned us for greatness. The resurrection gives us confidence right now. Confidence in God's faithfulness, confidence that he hears our prayer, confidence in knowing that when we face adversity, he's with us, and confidence in salvation. But the blessings of the resurrection don't stop there. It goes beyond that. It goes in and beyond what we see now, but it goes to the life hereafter. It stretches beyond time itself. The resurrection secured our place in a believer's eternity place with God. 2 Corinthians 5, I'm sorry, first 2 Corinthians 5, 5 and 8 tells us like this. Now he who has prepared us for this very thing is God. So when all given us the stitch the spirit of guarantee, so we all, so we all always knowing, always confident, knowing while we are yet at home in the body, we are absent with the Lord. For we walk by faith and not by sight. We are confident yet well pleased, rather to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. What the apostle Paul is saying here, that God has prepared a place for us in eternity. We have to carry the posture of confidence, knowing that when God calls us home, it is not death but victory. All death can do is touch our mortal bodies, but our spirit belongs to the Lord. This is why Paul acts in 1 Corinthians 5, 55 and 15. Oh death, where is your sting? Oh Hades, where is your victory? Then he declares, thanks be to God who gives us the victory through Jesus Christ. It goes on to say, right after that, in the book of Revelation 1 and 8, I am the one who lives and was dead, and behold, I live forevermore, and I have the keys of Haiti in my hands. Ladies and gentlemen, when we are placed our confidence in God, when we place our life in the obedience and following what God has to do for us, He is telling us, I have you in the palm of my hands. You have the confidence to know that I am with you every step of the way. You have the confidence to know that whatever you go through, as long as you're following in my footsteps, as long as you're listening to what I have to tell you, as long as you listen to my obedience and be obedient to my word, I'm going to be with you. No matter where we go, no matter where I take you, listen to my instructions, listen to what I'm telling you. So your posture of obedience has to line up with what I'm telling you. Why? So you can hear my instructions. And when you hear my instructions, don't waver. Do what I tell you to do. As I always said, and God placed in my spirit, there's a blessing on the other side of obedience. See, when we obey God, we don't obey him out of obligations. We don't obey him because of what he can do for us. We obey him because we love him. We obey him because we have a relationship with him. We obey him because of what he, what, what, what, what we feel for him. We obey him by our love. So when God tells us something, we don't have to question it. We don't have to worry about it. All we got to do is move to Jesus, even though he was feeling the humanity, the scent of the humanity on him. He really, his human side, did not want to go to the cross. His human side did not want to suffer anguish. His human side did not want to die. But his spirit said, Father, nevertheless, thy will be done. Jesus is not looking for a yes man. Jesus is looking for yes from your obedient spirit. Jesus doesn't want your lip service to just be yes. Jesus doesn't want you to say yes and then do something else. When you say yes to Jesus, he's looking for your whole being to move. He's looking for your spirit to dominate your flesh. So no matter what your flesh is going through, your spirit rises up and says, I'll do what the Lord says, do. I'll go where the Lord says go. I'll say what the Lord says, say. I'll do anything that he wants you to do. Why? Because I love him. And how do I show my love for him is by doing what he tells me to do. Ah, yes, will you have questions? Yes. Will you have doubts? Yes. Will you have anxiety? Yes. Will you sometimes fear? Yes. But God said in your word, in his word, that I'm not giving you the spirit of fear, but a power and love and a sound mind. When we think about what God tells us, when we think about what he's doing for us, all we got to do is move. Why? Because God will never lead us and direct us and take us down a path of destruction. God is going to lead us and guide us and take us down a life and a purpose on his purpose for us. So when God steps out in front and he begins to lead, follow his lead, he's not going to hurt you. He's not going to take you somewhere where his grace can't keep you. He's not going to lead you to a place where he can't help you. He's not going to lead you to a place where he can't come in and get you. God knows better than we can. So we cannot continue to walk by faith. I mean, walk by sight, but we have to walk by faith. Don't worry about what your eyes see. Don't worry about what you see in the natural. Don't worry about what you see or what you hear in the natural. When God begins to speak, he is not speaking to you naturally, he's speaking to your spirit. And all he wants from your spirit is yes. Yes to your will. Yes to your way. Ah, God is saying in this moment, when his resurrection power is on you and he's leading you and he's directing you. He's saying, Rise up, my daughter. Moving you to a place, moving you in a direction. I'm moving you away from what you used to be. I'm moving you to a place where I reside. I'm moving you to a place where you can reign with me. I'm moving you into a place where you will see my hand. I'm moving you into a place where you can see my power. I'm moving you into a place where you can see my glory. I'm moving you into a place where others will have to say God did it. I'm moving you into a place, a place of prominence. I'm moving you into a place, I'm positioning you for greatness. All you gotta do is say yes. All you gotta do is move. All you gotta do is come. All you gotta do is stay focused on who I am. All you gotta do is put out the noise, all you gotta do is put away distractions, stay the course. I positioned you for greatness. God went down into hell, death, and the grave. And he is positioning you not only for greatness in this life, but because he now have the keys to hell, he's also you positioning you for greatness in the life thereafter. As I bring this message to a close, I am reminded of the love that God shown by giving us his son Jesus. Jesus who died so that we can live. I'm reminded that his life of obedience to his father was not easy, but it was necessary to fulfill his purpose. Ladies and gentlemen, following and being obedient to God's call in your life is not easy. It's not easy because we live in this flesh. But ladies and gentlemen, I'm reminding them in scripture: God will take the foolish things to confound the wise. Don't let other people talk you out of where God has told you to go. Don't let people talk you out of your blessing. Don't let people talk you out of being obedient to where God told you to do. If God told you to do it, he has graced you to handle it. If God told you to go, he has prepared the way for you already. If God told you to go, he is making the way and preparations for you. All you gotta do is be obedient to the call. And don't take your eyes when things around you start going haywire. Don't take your eyes off of Jesus when he calls you. Don't get distracted. Don't be bothered by what people have to say. Their opinion does not matter when God speaks to you. I'm gonna repeat that again. Their opinion does not matter when God speaks to you. God is looking for your yes. I just want to encourage you today. Living in a posture of obedience is not easy, but it's necessary to fulfill what God has placed inside of you. Through Christ's obedience to the Father, He has positioned every believer to live a life of greatness. His victory is complete. His victory is irreversible, and his victory extends to all who believe in him and put their trust in him. Don't let nobody block you from doing what God called you to do. Thank you, Father, for this. This is not even on my notes. When God speaks to you, you don't have to tell everybody what God said. When God speaks to you, sometimes it's just for you and not nobody else. You don't have to say a word. Just do what God tells you to do. I'm through, let us pray. Heavenly Father, we want to say thank you. Thank you for this opportunity we had to come and hear what you have to say. Now, Heavenly Father, we thank you for what you did on the cross for us. How you bled and died for us. But you did not stop there. You went into the tomb and got up just for us. And for that I say thank you. Thank you for being obedient, Jesus, to the will of your Father. Now, God help us as we continue to develop our posture of obedience, to be obedient to the call that you placed in us and on us. Strengthen us, God, as we continue this walk. Strengthen us, God, as we continue to do what you have called us to do. And we thank you for gracing us in every step of the way. Thank you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen and amen.