WEBVTT 00:00:15.740 --> 00:00:40.609 Thank you, god, for looking at my life and knowing that on my journey sometimes I would do the wrong thing with the wrong people but yet you still agree. 00:00:40.609 --> 00:00:58.486 Thank you, god for looking at my life and knowing that for a couple of years I questioned your existence, but in spite of that, you agree. 00:00:58.681 --> 00:01:01.820 Thank, you God, but in spite of that, you agree. 00:01:01.820 --> 00:01:03.344 Thank you God. 00:01:10.474 --> 00:01:16.132 That when I gave up on you you agreed not to give up on me. 00:01:17.402 --> 00:01:19.268 Thank you, God. 00:01:19.427 --> 00:01:20.611 It has been spoken. 00:01:20.611 --> 00:01:32.763 It has been spoken, it has been decreed and declared that some souls will be revived on today so. 00:01:32.763 --> 00:01:43.563 I thank you For what you are already doing and what's about to happen. 00:01:43.563 --> 00:01:56.155 In our eyes, God, we're still a church that believes in miracles, signs and wonders. 00:01:56.155 --> 00:02:00.135 Show yourself mighty. 00:02:00.156 --> 00:02:07.332 Today it's your day Lord, so you might as well. 00:02:07.353 --> 00:02:12.686 Just show up I thank you, god, because you already have For our prayers. 00:02:12.686 --> 00:02:18.222 Just to ask you to show out again when it's all said and done. 00:02:18.222 --> 00:02:19.326 We'll be careful to give you a name. 00:02:19.326 --> 00:02:22.692 All the glory, all the honor, all the praise. 00:02:22.692 --> 00:02:24.718 It's in the power of the name of Jesus. 00:02:24.718 --> 00:02:34.310 We pray that Jesus God say amen, amen, amen To God be the glory to God be the glory to God. 00:02:34.471 --> 00:02:35.772 Be the glory, hallelujah. 00:02:39.461 --> 00:02:40.164 Listen, family. 00:02:40.164 --> 00:02:45.020 Before we jump into the word of the Lord, there is something that is uber critical. 00:02:45.020 --> 00:02:47.969 That has to happen whenever you come into the house of God. 00:02:47.969 --> 00:02:50.364 Ready is real deep. 00:02:50.364 --> 00:02:51.427 Here it is. 00:02:51.427 --> 00:02:55.194 You got to say hello to people, all right, so let's do that. 00:02:55.194 --> 00:02:55.640 It's important. 00:02:55.640 --> 00:02:57.266 I know we deep, but it don't matter. 00:02:57.266 --> 00:03:03.400 What we got to do is take about 20 seconds and just say hello to somebody that didn't come to you. 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:05.206 Just show some love, right, quick. 00:03:05.206 --> 00:03:07.245 Just wave your hands in the air, throw them a pound. 00:03:07.245 --> 00:03:08.368 You know what I'm saying. 00:03:08.368 --> 00:03:09.151 You ain't got to move far. 00:03:09.151 --> 00:03:12.625 You can stand up if you want to, but we just got to fellowship. 00:03:12.986 --> 00:03:17.165 Yeah, yeah, there's power in our fellowship, hallelujah. 00:03:17.165 --> 00:03:18.669 There's unity in our fellowship. 00:03:18.669 --> 00:03:20.673 There's healing in our fellowship. 00:03:20.673 --> 00:03:27.381 What's up, y'all? 00:03:27.381 --> 00:03:27.700 What's up? 00:03:27.700 --> 00:03:28.582 What's up, what's up, what's up? 00:03:28.582 --> 00:03:29.843 Amen, amen, hallelujah, hallelujah. 00:03:29.843 --> 00:03:43.981 And as we are passing the peace, I'm going to ask some of my clergy, some of the clergy there are some empty seats up here If some of our, our clergy, y'all, can move up front or move down here's some seats down here. 00:03:43.981 --> 00:03:44.424 You know why. 00:03:45.122 --> 00:03:54.185 Last thing you want to do is come to church on eastern and make you sit by the pastor so some of the clergy y'all can come move up and some seats up here. 00:03:54.185 --> 00:03:54.927 I appreciate y'all. 00:03:54.927 --> 00:03:56.447 Those that can. 00:03:56.447 --> 00:03:58.901 Everybody can't, but those that can we. 00:03:58.901 --> 00:03:59.884 Good amen. 00:03:59.884 --> 00:04:01.229 We got a few seats up here. 00:04:01.229 --> 00:04:02.042 We want to make sure we. 00:04:02.042 --> 00:04:03.284 Good Amen To God. 00:04:03.284 --> 00:04:04.948 Be the glory To God. 00:04:04.948 --> 00:04:07.073 Be the glory, listen, family. 00:04:07.073 --> 00:04:12.650 Matthew 28 is our guide today. 00:04:12.650 --> 00:04:15.397 We honor all of our guests. 00:04:15.397 --> 00:04:17.904 Chosen City, let's make some noise for all of our guests today. 00:04:17.904 --> 00:04:18.255 Hallelujah, chosen City. 00:04:18.255 --> 00:04:18.923 Let's make some noise for all of our guests today. 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:23.767 Hallelujah. 00:04:23.788 --> 00:04:25.911 Make some noise for yourself because you're still here. 00:04:25.911 --> 00:04:27.740 Amen, amen. 00:04:27.740 --> 00:04:32.709 It is our custom to stand and read the word of God together. 00:04:32.709 --> 00:04:45.944 It helps us to remember what God is saying better, but it's also a show of force against the things that we may be dealing with. 00:04:45.944 --> 00:04:49.408 Matthew 28, verse 1 through 10. 00:04:49.408 --> 00:04:50.571 Ready set read. 00:04:50.591 --> 00:04:59.651 Early on Sunday morning, as the new day was dawning, mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to visit the tomb. 00:04:59.651 --> 00:05:10.771 Suddenly, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, rolled aside the stone and sat on it. 00:05:10.771 --> 00:05:17.208 His face shone like lightning and his clothing was as white as snow. 00:05:17.208 --> 00:05:24.168 The guards shook with fear when they saw him and they fell into a dead faint. 00:05:24.168 --> 00:05:27.629 Then the angel spoke to the women. 00:05:27.629 --> 00:05:29.504 Don't be afraid. 00:05:29.504 --> 00:05:30.146 He said. 00:05:30.146 --> 00:05:34.408 I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. 00:05:34.408 --> 00:05:36.646 He isn't here. 00:05:36.646 --> 00:05:41.949 He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. 00:05:41.949 --> 00:05:56.199 Come see where his body was lying and now go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead and he is going ahead of you to Galilee. 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:58.425 You will see him there. 00:05:58.425 --> 00:06:01.112 Remember what I have told you. 00:06:01.112 --> 00:06:04.689 The women ran quickly from the tomb. 00:06:04.689 --> 00:06:13.351 They were very frightened, but also filled with great joy, and they rushed to give the disciples the angel's message. 00:06:13.351 --> 00:06:24.192 And as they went, jesus met them and greeted them and they ran to him, grasped his feet and worshiped him. 00:06:24.192 --> 00:06:35.095 Then Jesus said to them Don't be afraid, Go tell my brothers to leave for Galilee and they will see me there. 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:40.182 And I would like to use as a sermon subject something you have never, ever heard before. 00:06:40.182 --> 00:06:43.425 And I would like to use as a sermon subject something you have never, ever heard before. 00:06:43.425 --> 00:06:52.730 Sermon subject today is simply this Early one Sunday morning, you may be seated in the presence of the Lord. 00:06:52.730 --> 00:06:53.850 Amen, somebody caught it. 00:06:53.850 --> 00:06:59.915 See, if you're from the old church, they judge your Easter sermon on how good you say early Sunday morning. 00:06:59.915 --> 00:07:02.055 Then the old preacher have to say he died. 00:07:02.055 --> 00:07:05.098 Then what y'all want to say, oh, we got a church today. 00:07:05.098 --> 00:07:17.180 I'm looking forward to what God is about to say in this house. 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:21.665 According to the word of God, adam was the first human that the Lord created. 00:07:21.665 --> 00:07:28.103 Eve was the first woman that the Lord created. 00:07:28.103 --> 00:07:42.600 When he created them, he gave them rule over everything that was created over the earth, over all the creeping things, you name it, over the tilapia, over the steak, all everything you name it. 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:44.084 They were over it. 00:07:44.084 --> 00:07:48.761 He gave them a simple instruction though Listen, there is one tree. 00:07:48.761 --> 00:07:50.324 Don't touch it. 00:07:50.324 --> 00:07:52.286 If you touch it you'll die. 00:07:52.286 --> 00:07:54.451 Yes, lord, we won't touch it. 00:07:54.451 --> 00:07:56.420 Now, y'all know how it is. 00:07:56.420 --> 00:07:58.586 God could be blessing us, and we highly favor it. 00:07:58.586 --> 00:08:05.009 And God asks you not to do just this one thing, and that's that one thing you make up in your mind and decide to do. 00:08:05.009 --> 00:08:05.881 Well. 00:08:05.881 --> 00:08:07.026 So far they're doing well. 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:16.894 And Eve encounters this serpent you may say a snake, if you will that had literally been overtaken by Satan. 00:08:16.894 --> 00:08:23.824 Satan, working through the body of this snake, starts to whisper in Eve's ear hey, eve, looking good today. 00:08:23.824 --> 00:08:30.105 You do know that there's a reason that the Lord doesn't want you to take a bite of that forbidden fruit, don't you? 00:08:30.105 --> 00:08:31.930 No, I was wondering why. 00:08:31.930 --> 00:08:38.607 But what's up, you do know, if you take a bite, you'll have the same knowledge that he has. 00:08:38.607 --> 00:08:45.889 One of the things that's interesting about the tricks of the enemy it is a lie, but it's mixed in with some truth. 00:08:45.889 --> 00:08:52.810 You see, he wasn't lying completely, because at the time, adam and Eve had no knowledge of good and evil. 00:08:52.810 --> 00:08:55.659 They had no knowledge that there could be a thing called sin. 00:08:55.659 --> 00:09:00.071 So he wasn't lying completely, but everything is not for us. 00:09:00.071 --> 00:09:05.724 If God says don't touch it, eve listens to what the serpent has to say. 00:09:05.724 --> 00:09:10.743 Now, adam, in my mind, was somewhere minding his own business, doing the right thing. 00:09:11.345 --> 00:09:16.342 Perhaps at a marriage conference we could discuss did it go down because of Eve or did it go down because of Adam? 00:09:16.342 --> 00:09:17.765 All I know is that thank you, Pastor Chris. 00:09:17.765 --> 00:09:19.048 Adam, all I know is that thank you, pass, chris. 00:09:19.048 --> 00:09:24.578 All I know is that Adam, when that the initial conversation, he come home hey babe, what's up? 00:09:24.578 --> 00:09:25.580 How was your day? 00:09:25.580 --> 00:09:26.061 It was good I. 00:09:26.061 --> 00:09:29.650 I met this little creature, nice, he crawl and stuff he was. 00:09:29.650 --> 00:09:35.766 He was telling me that we take a bite of this fruit you talk about the one that Lord told us not to touch. 00:09:35.766 --> 00:09:39.965 Yeah, but he said, if we bite it, we'll have the same knowledge that he has. 00:09:39.965 --> 00:09:41.360 I don't know what happened. 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:43.484 Who thought it was Pastor Chris. 00:09:43.484 --> 00:09:48.761 All I know is that the Bible says that Adam fell as he listened to his wife. 00:09:48.761 --> 00:09:49.563 That's what the Bible said. 00:09:49.603 --> 00:10:06.838 I'm just saying he listened to his wife, he takes a bite and it's at that moment that everything shifts, that everything shifts, because many times we think it's something heavy and deep that knocks us off the plan that God has for our life. 00:10:06.838 --> 00:10:10.428 But the raw and the real is is usually something simple. 00:10:10.428 --> 00:10:18.109 It was one bite from a forbidden fruit that changed the entire course of humanity. 00:10:18.109 --> 00:10:22.430 What do you do when one simple thing has changed the whole course of your life? 00:10:22.430 --> 00:10:34.793 One bad decision late at night, one bad decision on the job, one last inbox message you should not have responded to, amen, somebody. 00:10:34.793 --> 00:10:37.347 One text that you just should have deleted. 00:10:37.347 --> 00:10:40.399 But you said when they sent you W-Y-D, you said I'm just chilling-Y-D. 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:43.548 You said I'm just chilling, and if you could turn back the hands of time? 00:10:43.548 --> 00:10:58.046 But I want to encourage you today that God is always ahead of us and he's fully aware that we're going to have one moment in time that we wish we could turn back the hands of time. 00:10:58.046 --> 00:11:06.470 And because God already knows he already has a plan, that would be good news, elder David, that he knows he already got a plan. 00:11:07.059 --> 00:11:16.847 The Bible says that God did not have to figure out how he was going to solve the sin issue because now he understood that sin, because it entered Adam and Eve, it would trickle down through all of us. 00:11:16.847 --> 00:11:20.728 And so in Genesis, the third chapter, verse 15 through 17,. 00:11:20.728 --> 00:11:24.506 We have what is referred to as the first messianic prophecy. 00:11:24.506 --> 00:11:26.270 It's a prophecy of the Messiah. 00:11:26.270 --> 00:11:28.101 He said listen, here's the plan. 00:11:28.101 --> 00:11:30.227 I had it on the shelf, I was waiting. 00:11:30.227 --> 00:11:54.866 I am going to send salvation through this same woman who fell through her lineage, through her birthing canal I'm going to divinity will be wrapped in dust, a baby shall be born, and this baby will be 100% God and 100% human, and he will be the savior of the world. 00:11:54.866 --> 00:11:55.568 Here's the problem. 00:11:55.568 --> 00:11:59.425 In order to save the world, he will defeat the enemy. 00:11:59.425 --> 00:12:00.227 That's good news. 00:12:00.227 --> 00:12:11.302 The enemy is defeated, but he would be wounded in the process. 00:12:11.302 --> 00:12:13.028 The enemy would be defeated, but he would be wounded in the process. 00:12:13.028 --> 00:12:13.469 That's what God said. 00:12:13.489 --> 00:12:16.341 Isaiah 53 gives us the story and I want you to read a little bit of Isaiah 53. 00:12:16.341 --> 00:12:19.490 You should read this often, and certainly at this time of the year. 00:12:19.490 --> 00:12:21.215 Isaiah 53, you should read this often, and certainly at this time of the year. 00:12:21.215 --> 00:12:22.619 Isaiah 53, who has believed our message? 00:12:22.619 --> 00:12:27.911 This is a prophetic utterance from Isaiah, 700 years before the Messiah would be born. 00:12:27.911 --> 00:12:30.387 Who has believed our message? 00:12:30.387 --> 00:12:32.768 To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm? 00:12:32.768 --> 00:12:38.727 Verse 2, there we go. 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:44.466 My servant grew up in the Lord's presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. 00:12:44.466 --> 00:12:50.426 There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. 00:12:50.426 --> 00:12:58.970 He was despised and rejected. 00:12:58.970 --> 00:13:03.150 A man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. 00:13:03.150 --> 00:13:04.745 This is 700 years before he was born. 00:13:04.745 --> 00:13:10.823 Family, we turned our backs on him and looked the other way Can you imagine preaching this? 00:13:10.823 --> 00:13:12.368 And everybody like what are you talking about? 00:13:12.368 --> 00:13:15.608 He was despised and we did not care. 00:13:17.442 --> 00:13:18.329 Yet everybody say. 00:13:18.329 --> 00:13:31.633 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried, it was our sorrows that weighed him down and we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins. 00:13:31.633 --> 00:13:41.910 But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for sins. 00:13:41.910 --> 00:13:45.354 He was beaten so we could be whole. 00:13:45.354 --> 00:13:50.142 He was whipped so we could be healed. 00:13:50.142 --> 00:13:54.408 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. 00:13:54.408 --> 00:13:58.312 We have left God's path to follow our own. 00:13:58.312 --> 00:14:00.455 Yet the Lord, somebody say. 00:14:00.455 --> 00:14:05.069 Yet the Lord Laid on him the sins of us all. 00:14:05.069 --> 00:14:13.225 He was oppressed and harshly treated, and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. 00:14:13.225 --> 00:14:20.733 He was led like a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep is silent before the shearers. 00:14:20.733 --> 00:14:24.164 He did not open his mouth. 00:14:24.164 --> 00:14:28.333 Unjustly condemned, he was led away. 00:14:28.333 --> 00:14:37.221 No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream, 700 years before he was born, y'all. 00:14:37.221 --> 00:14:40.871 But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people. 00:14:40.871 --> 00:14:48.067 He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone, but he was buried like a criminal. 00:14:48.067 --> 00:14:50.607 He was put in a rich man's grave. 00:14:51.099 --> 00:15:09.152 I need y'all to understand that prophecy is real, prophesied 700 years before, and evidence and archaeology lets us know today that the grave that jesus was buried in was did not belong to him verse 10 but it was the lord's good plan to crush him and cause him grief. 00:15:09.152 --> 00:15:24.755 Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants, he will enjoy a long life and the Lord's good plan will prosper in his hands. 00:15:24.755 --> 00:15:32.972 Two more verses when he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. 00:15:32.972 --> 00:15:38.524 And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible. 00:15:38.524 --> 00:15:40.186 Watch this this is us y'all. 00:15:40.186 --> 00:15:44.010 For many to be counted righteous. 00:15:44.010 --> 00:15:49.275 For the folk in Charlotte, north Carolina, to be counted righteous. 00:15:49.275 --> 00:16:09.522 I got my crew from Alabama for the they can't to be counted righteous. 00:16:09.522 --> 00:16:18.789 For the folk that have done everything other than what God has called you to do to be counted righteous For the folk that God blessed you with that good government job. 00:16:18.789 --> 00:16:20.490 God blessed you with that good career. 00:16:20.490 --> 00:16:23.333 God blessed you with that business, but you forgot about it. 00:16:23.333 --> 00:16:28.277 But he said yet you can be counted righteous. 00:16:28.277 --> 00:16:29.197 Why? 00:16:29.197 --> 00:16:31.199 Why? 00:16:31.199 --> 00:16:38.570 For he will bear all their sins. 00:16:38.570 --> 00:16:40.914 Last verse Hallelujah. 00:16:40.914 --> 00:16:45.988 I will give him honors of a victorious soldier. 00:16:45.988 --> 00:16:47.011 Why? 00:16:47.011 --> 00:16:49.387 Because he exposed himself to death. 00:16:49.387 --> 00:16:51.926 He was counted among the rebels. 00:16:51.926 --> 00:16:59.305 He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels, those of us that rebelled against God. 00:16:59.439 --> 00:17:02.784 Isaiah 53 lets you know that God knew that you was going to give up. 00:17:02.784 --> 00:17:04.987 God knew that you would turn just a little bit. 00:17:04.987 --> 00:17:11.961 But his plan for you is so great that he sent you here on today, whether you're on the stream or in the house. 00:17:11.961 --> 00:17:13.781 He sent you here on today. 00:17:13.781 --> 00:17:21.172 Now I know you came because your cousin go here or you know you got you dating somebody new and you want to impress them and stuff you. 00:17:21.172 --> 00:17:23.599 You've been reading the Bible upside down all day. 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:30.984 It's cool, I'll be a silly y'all, but seriously, he brought you here because he has a plan for you. 00:17:30.984 --> 00:17:35.303 It's not about tradition and not just because you're not God in this season is not. 00:17:35.303 --> 00:17:37.369 He's never really worked in happenstance. 00:17:37.369 --> 00:17:38.280 He didn't work. 00:17:38.280 --> 00:17:44.549 In coincidence, you are here because there is something he needs you to hear and I pray that you can experience it and receive it. 00:17:44.549 --> 00:17:58.675 And the Lord wants you to understand that on today, he's calling for each and every one of us to have a early Sunday morning experience. 00:17:59.018 --> 00:18:01.741 Yeah, early Sunday morning experience. 00:18:01.821 --> 00:18:10.408 Yeah, today is already started, but before you leave here, you will have an early Sunday morning experience. 00:18:10.408 --> 00:18:11.509 How do I know, pastor Walt? 00:18:11.509 --> 00:18:19.537 Well, the first way I know is that, as simple as this, it is your time to be used. 00:18:19.537 --> 00:18:24.541 Somebody say it's my time, this is my time. 00:18:24.541 --> 00:18:25.583 Someone say it like you mean it's my time. 00:18:25.583 --> 00:18:26.945 Matthew 28, verse 1,. 00:18:26.945 --> 00:18:36.048 Early on Sunday morning, as the due day was dawning, mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to visit the tomb. 00:18:36.048 --> 00:18:50.740 This is very interesting because what God is showing us is that early Sunday morning represents chronos time the time that we use on our watch, the time that we use to wake up in the morning. 00:18:50.740 --> 00:18:53.009 That's human system of time. 00:18:53.009 --> 00:19:02.049 But the God that we serve said when I talked about early Sunday morning, I wasn't talking about was it five in the morning or was it six in the morning, he was talking about Cairo's time. 00:19:02.049 --> 00:19:03.572 That's God's time. 00:19:03.572 --> 00:19:07.560 God's time does not, is not restrained by the clock. 00:19:07.560 --> 00:19:11.607 God's time is not restrained by our calendar. 00:19:11.607 --> 00:19:14.854 God operates outside of time. 00:19:14.854 --> 00:19:15.760 Amen, pastor Keith. 00:19:15.780 --> 00:19:19.188 Wherever you at, god operates out of the time. 00:19:19.188 --> 00:19:21.153 It's the best news that you could ever hear. 00:19:21.153 --> 00:19:22.060 You know why? 00:19:22.060 --> 00:19:28.201 Because since God operates outside of time, that means that it's never too late for you. 00:19:28.201 --> 00:19:29.322 Isn't that amazing? 00:19:29.322 --> 00:19:37.989 Some of you come in because you keep telling yourself I wish I had have done X at that time. 00:19:37.989 --> 00:19:41.517 But God said you keep forgetting, I operate outside of time. 00:19:41.517 --> 00:19:43.540 It ain't too late for you. 00:19:43.540 --> 00:19:51.243 Listen, my grandma on my father's side, she was in her late 60s when she got married and got her a good husband. 00:19:51.243 --> 00:19:52.567 It wasn't too late for my grandma. 00:19:52.567 --> 00:19:55.880 There are some entrepreneurs in the house. 00:19:55.880 --> 00:20:02.711 You retire from one job but it's not too late for you to go ahead and go ahead and start and do what God is never too late. 00:20:02.711 --> 00:20:08.068 It's some of you to have some spiritual gifts and you've been sitting on them gifts for the last 30 years. 00:20:08.068 --> 00:20:09.957 But God is saying it's not too late. 00:20:09.957 --> 00:20:15.279 Somebody says it's not too late for me because the God I serve, he ain't worried about the time on the clock. 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:22.233 So when you look at early one Sunday morning, you, you're talking about God saying now it's my time. 00:20:22.233 --> 00:20:28.550 And in this text what he was saying to Mary and Mary, mary Magdalene and the other Mary, that it was their time. 00:20:28.550 --> 00:20:29.753 What do you mean? 00:20:29.753 --> 00:20:46.280 It was interesting that these two women would be the first to proclaim the gospel message At a time when women were thought to be less than, at a time when women did not have rights, at a time when a woman's value was based on the husband that she was married to or the brother that she had in her life. 00:20:46.521 --> 00:21:05.829 And if she didn't have a husband, if she didn't have a brother, she was a widow and she was treated lesser than it was so much of a problem that Jesus took time in several of his sermons to remind people of the importance of taking care of widows at that time, because women were thought to be lesser than because people were ignorant and didn't know any better. 00:21:05.829 --> 00:21:12.031 But God, in his infinite wisdom, said no for this testimony, for this assignment. 00:21:12.031 --> 00:21:17.325 I'm not going to call on David for this testimony, for this assignment. 00:21:17.325 --> 00:21:20.851 I'm not going to call on Abraham For this one. 00:21:20.851 --> 00:21:22.944 Peter is a bad boy, he carry a switchblade. 00:21:22.944 --> 00:21:25.187 Peter is a bad boy, he bout that life. 00:21:25.187 --> 00:21:26.787 But for this one I'm not going to call Peter. 00:21:26.787 --> 00:21:47.926 This time I'm going to call on two sisters, mary of Magdalene and the other, that the reason God has you here on today is because it's your time to do something that only you can do. 00:21:47.926 --> 00:21:49.089 Amen. 00:21:49.089 --> 00:21:55.467 Your uncle, that's the bishop, he can't do this one. 00:21:55.467 --> 00:22:00.905 That prophet that's kept the whole family together, she kept y'all together, but she can't do this one. 00:22:00.905 --> 00:22:09.599 It's your time, and the longer you delay doing what only you can do, the longer your family gonna stay in turmoil. 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:16.648 The longer you delay doing what you supposed to do, the longer you gonna say depressed. 00:22:16.648 --> 00:22:22.826 The longer you delay doing what you are supposed to do, the longer you delay doing what you are supposed to do, the longer you're going to stay. 00:22:22.985 --> 00:22:26.250 Turning to substance abuse to take the pain away. 00:22:26.250 --> 00:22:30.885 Y'all know anything about people that deal with issues of substance abuse. 00:22:30.885 --> 00:22:36.905 They are excellent people, but they're just like me and you, with a slight difference. 00:22:36.905 --> 00:22:48.341 They've turned to something on the outside trying to fix something on the inside, and we have turned to something on the outside trying to fix something on the inside, and we have turned to something on the inside trying to fix something that's going on on the outside. 00:22:48.341 --> 00:22:54.544 I want to talk to somebody in the house of God and say that only God can fix it and he wants to fix it. 00:22:54.544 --> 00:22:56.730 How is he going to fix it? 00:22:56.769 --> 00:23:07.492 Pastor Walt, since it's up to me, since it's your time, to be used by God, the second thing that you got to know is that, since it's your time, there has to be a shaking. 00:23:07.492 --> 00:23:10.086 There has to be a shake up. 00:23:10.086 --> 00:23:11.980 Watch verse 2 carefully. 00:23:11.980 --> 00:23:22.954 Suddenly, everybody say suddenly, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, rolled aside the stone and sat on it. 00:23:22.954 --> 00:23:30.813 In the Bible, when God would get ready to move, every now and then he would shake up the ground. 00:23:30.813 --> 00:23:46.150 When God had told Moses to lead the people of God to the promised land and some of the people in the crowd started talking sideways at Moses, korah being one of them got a group of people together and said Moses, you ain't the leader, I could do it better than you. 00:23:46.150 --> 00:23:48.644 The Bible says that there was a shaking. 00:23:48.644 --> 00:23:55.386 That happened and the earth opened up and all the people that came against God's man fell into the ground. 00:23:56.168 --> 00:23:59.067 I want to remind you in the Bible that every time God gets ready to move, there's a whole lot of shaking going on. 00:23:59.067 --> 00:24:01.679 May I suggest to remind you in the Bible that every time God gets ready to move, there's a whole lot of shaking going on. 00:24:01.679 --> 00:24:07.271 May I suggest to you that some things that are happening in your life are not because God is against you. 00:24:07.271 --> 00:24:09.967 He's just saying I got to shake some stuff up. 00:24:09.967 --> 00:24:18.772 Do you not realize that sometimes the reason that you went through what you went through is literally God saying I got to shake some stuff loose? 00:24:18.772 --> 00:24:22.239 It's literally God saying I got to shake some stuff loose. 00:24:22.239 --> 00:24:29.319 The plain reason that you went through it is God has said I got to send an earthquake into your life because you need to let go of something you've been holding on to way too long. 00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:34.231 Every time God gets ready to move, there's a whole lot of shaking going on. 00:24:34.231 --> 00:24:37.730 And can I talk to somebody and tell you, don't be afraid of the earthquake. 00:24:37.730 --> 00:24:44.985 You see this shaking that you're experiencing, this thing that has turned your whole life upside down, this thing that has got you frustrated and confused. 00:24:44.985 --> 00:24:53.092 You don't have to feel fearful about it, because what God is doing is he's getting you prepared for the very work that he has called you to do. 00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:58.769 Well, if you don't believe me, watch the text. 00:24:58.769 --> 00:25:08.532 Because he sent an earthquake and the goal of the earthquake was to roll the stone away. 00:25:08.532 --> 00:25:12.349 I got some good news on this early Sunday morning. 00:25:12.349 --> 00:25:21.282 I've been praying and I see it in the spirit that, for everybody that can receive it, sometimes God shows you stuff and it's for a few, but for everybody who can receive it. 00:25:21.282 --> 00:25:23.667 Sometimes God show you stuff and it's for a few, but for everybody who can receive this by faith. 00:25:23.687 --> 00:25:26.313 Before you leave here today, the Lord is going to start rolling the stone away. 00:25:26.313 --> 00:25:28.121 That's the word of God. 00:25:28.121 --> 00:25:36.979 He says because I need you to experience an early Sunday morning, because it is your time to be used. 00:25:36.979 --> 00:25:45.038 I got to send this earthquake so I can roll the stone away. 00:25:45.038 --> 00:25:53.592 You got to roll the stone away so that you can do what See his face. 00:25:53.592 --> 00:25:58.070 You want to experience an early Sunday morning. 00:25:58.070 --> 00:25:59.434 It's because God wants to use you. 00:25:59.434 --> 00:26:03.333 It's because he's going to shake some stuff up. 00:26:03.333 --> 00:26:04.547 Why? 00:26:04.547 --> 00:26:07.515 So that you can see his face. 00:26:07.515 --> 00:26:15.253 Here's the text the angels talking to Mary and Martha was telling them what they saw when Jesus defeated the grave. 00:26:15.253 --> 00:26:24.096 His face shone like lightning and his clothing was as white as snow. 00:26:25.197 --> 00:26:27.265 The Bible talks a lot about the face of God. 00:26:27.265 --> 00:26:35.520 It tells us that no man could see his face and live, but it also is described. 00:26:35.520 --> 00:26:43.234 His face is described as an encounter with God, a person close enough encounter with God. 00:26:43.234 --> 00:26:46.000 Y'all know this amazing man of God right here. 00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:47.730 He's an amazing man of God. 00:26:47.730 --> 00:26:50.381 He does a lot of our camera ministry Y'all get. 00:26:50.381 --> 00:26:51.745 Can y'all see me over here? 00:26:51.745 --> 00:26:52.848 Can y'all get the camera over here? 00:26:52.848 --> 00:27:00.091 I did have a peppermint today, man of God, but I want you to see something, man of God. 00:27:00.091 --> 00:27:16.067 What God is saying to everybody in here and I know you had to be the example is that he's saying that I need to get into the face of all of these women and men and children in here, because the closer I get, you can't see what's going on to the left or to the right. 00:27:16.067 --> 00:27:18.623 You don't even see what's about to happen to you. 00:27:18.623 --> 00:27:23.356 You ain't worried about it, because I'm like, keep your eyes right here, keep your eyes right here. 00:27:23.356 --> 00:27:26.664 Yeah, he said, when you get in the water, don't look to the left, only to the right. 00:27:26.664 --> 00:27:27.730 Keep your eyes right here. 00:27:27.730 --> 00:27:30.990 And if I got to get closer, I got to get closer, no matter what I got to do. 00:27:30.990 --> 00:28:02.884 But we coming out of this thing because you got to see my face, ezekiel. 00:28:02.904 --> 00:28:04.387 Ezekiel, watch this one verse about the face of God 39, 29. 00:28:04.387 --> 00:28:04.628 Man of God. 00:28:04.628 --> 00:28:07.335 Ezekiel 39, 29 says this that I shall no longer hide my face from my people. 00:28:07.335 --> 00:28:10.320 Ezekiel 33, verse 29, says that I shall pour out my spirit on all flesh. 00:28:10.320 --> 00:28:12.244 Isn't that good news, god? 00:28:12.244 --> 00:28:13.687 I said I'm not hiding my face from you. 00:28:13.687 --> 00:28:16.595 My will for your life is not lost. 00:28:16.595 --> 00:28:17.857 How can I? 00:28:17.857 --> 00:28:19.350 Why would I hide my will for you? 00:28:19.350 --> 00:28:24.557 Because if I hide my will, you'll never understand the assignment that I have for your life. 00:28:24.557 --> 00:28:31.417 So he says I'm going to get up real, close and personal so you can experience my face. 00:28:32.286 --> 00:28:33.992 How do we experience the face of God? 00:28:33.992 --> 00:28:35.827 We have to surrender. 00:28:35.827 --> 00:28:42.355 We got to focus, we got to let God in and we got to let God have his way. 00:28:42.355 --> 00:28:49.253 I want to do something right, quick, to help us to experience the face of God, without any music, without any clapping. 00:28:49.253 --> 00:28:53.012 I just want everybody in the house of God to lift up your hands. 00:28:53.012 --> 00:28:59.693 You see, in combat, in warfare, when a person lifts up their hands, it's a sign and a showing of what Surrender. 00:29:00.294 --> 00:29:03.048 So God said if you want to see my face, surrender. 00:29:03.048 --> 00:29:06.675 Don't put me in front of your career, surrender. 00:29:06.675 --> 00:29:09.686 Put me in front of your relationships, surrender. 00:29:09.686 --> 00:29:13.133 Put me in front of your agenda, surrender. 00:29:13.133 --> 00:29:17.044 I need some people in the house of God that don't mind saying it from your heart Now. 00:29:17.044 --> 00:29:21.855 Don't say it if you don't mean it, but I need some people in the house of God that say God I surrender. 00:29:21.855 --> 00:29:23.956 Oh yeah, you can say it like you mean it. 00:29:23.956 --> 00:29:30.278 I surrender all to thee, my blessed Savior. 00:29:30.278 --> 00:29:33.594 I surrender all. 00:29:34.225 --> 00:29:45.673 When you pray like that, when you move like that, when you move like that, you suddenly start to encounter God in a special, special, special way. 00:29:45.673 --> 00:29:48.134 It's your time to be used by God. 00:29:48.134 --> 00:29:53.435 There has to be a shaking so that you can see his face. 00:29:53.435 --> 00:29:54.967 Why is it important to see his face? 00:29:54.967 --> 00:29:57.219 It's important so that you can see his face. 00:29:57.219 --> 00:29:58.464 Why is it important to see his face? 00:29:58.464 --> 00:30:02.067 It's important so that strongholds will die. 00:30:02.067 --> 00:30:03.369 Matthew 28, verse 4. 00:30:03.369 --> 00:30:04.951 Watch what's happening at resurrection. 00:30:04.951 --> 00:30:27.804 On this early Sunday morning, the angels still testify, and when the angels, when the enemy, the adversary, saw the face of God in its full glory, they shook with fear and they fell into a dead faith. 00:30:27.924 --> 00:30:29.646 Jesus was in a stronghold. 00:30:29.646 --> 00:30:31.690 A stronghold is a fixed position. 00:30:31.690 --> 00:30:38.599 It is something that is built to defend against a determined enemy. 00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:46.905 It's a fixed position. 00:30:46.905 --> 00:30:47.767 It may consist of a trench. 00:30:47.767 --> 00:30:49.108 It may consist of a fortified barrier. 00:30:49.108 --> 00:30:50.369 It may consist of concealment and cover. 00:30:50.369 --> 00:30:51.251 It is a fixed. 00:30:51.251 --> 00:30:58.360 It's a stronghold saying that this is where we stand and this is where we fight and this is where we die. 00:30:59.425 --> 00:31:01.792 They thought they had Jesus in a stronghold. 00:31:01.792 --> 00:31:03.056 Think about it. 00:31:03.056 --> 00:31:07.495 They put him in a grave that was at least this deep I've never visited. 00:31:07.495 --> 00:31:14.197 Some of you may have the site that they believe, but it was deep enough for a man of average height to be able to lay out straight. 00:31:14.197 --> 00:31:17.807 It was deep enough for a man of average height to be able to lay out straight. 00:31:17.807 --> 00:31:18.067 It was deep. 00:31:18.067 --> 00:31:25.206 Not only was he in this deep tomb, they decided to roll a stone so large that it took several men to roll it to put it in front of the tomb. 00:31:25.226 --> 00:31:31.327 He was in a stronghold, but when the enemy is determined to keep you down, the enemy go all the way in. 00:31:31.327 --> 00:31:32.731 They said that wasn't good enough. 00:31:32.731 --> 00:31:46.833 I need two special forces soldiers to stand guard all night and all day, because the word on the street was that something might be happening in about three days and we don't believe it. 00:31:46.833 --> 00:31:48.617 But it's amazing what the enemies say. 00:31:48.617 --> 00:31:50.950 They don't believe, but they prepare. 00:31:50.950 --> 00:31:55.414 You know how many folks say they didn't believe you, but they keep following you on social media to see if the you. 00:31:55.414 --> 00:31:57.518 But they keep following you on social media to see if the business open. 00:31:57.518 --> 00:32:01.208 They keep following you on social media to see if y'all still together. 00:32:01.208 --> 00:32:03.867 They say they don't believe it, but why you still watching me? 00:32:03.867 --> 00:32:08.173 He's in a tomb. 00:32:08.173 --> 00:32:10.417 You got a stone. 00:32:10.417 --> 00:32:16.392 You got special forces soldiers and legions of Roman soldiers down the street. 00:32:16.392 --> 00:32:19.690 I don't know why they're down the street, since they don't believe, but nevertheless they're there. 00:32:19.690 --> 00:32:39.817 But when Jesus is resurrected by the Father and the glory of the Lord rises upon him, it is so powerful that the stone rolls away and the special forces soldiers fall into a dead faint. 00:32:40.884 --> 00:32:56.902 May I suggest to you on this early Sunday morning, I hear the Lord saying that what is happening for you in this moment is God is breaking the stronghold through the power of his glory. 00:32:56.902 --> 00:33:06.315 That's why we had to worship the way that we worship, because some of you came in with a stronghold, something that's been trying to either keep you in or keep you out. 00:33:06.315 --> 00:33:09.634 But the glory of the Lord breaks strongholds. 00:33:09.634 --> 00:33:18.037 That's why we come into his house and lift him up, because the glory of the Lord breaks chains. 00:33:18.037 --> 00:33:26.275 That's why we come in and we pray and we cry and we fast, because we believe in the power of God to shift your life. 00:33:27.244 --> 00:33:34.673 I need everybody in the house that believes in God's power to do it, and to do it right now, just simply declaring this atmosphere, lord, do it. 00:33:34.673 --> 00:33:35.156 And to do it right now. 00:33:35.156 --> 00:33:36.284 Just simply declaring this atmosphere, lord, do it. 00:33:36.284 --> 00:33:42.476 Oh, we got enough folk in the house, because all god said is it takes just a few. 00:33:42.476 --> 00:33:43.745 Gathered in my name. 00:33:43.745 --> 00:33:47.758 There I am also, and I'm gonna be honest with you. 00:33:47.837 --> 00:34:03.175 I know for a fact that there are some people that are coming to the house of god with some strongholds that God is saying hear this, listen, the glory has opened, rolled the stone away and you can walk out. 00:34:03.175 --> 00:34:13.596