S2 Episode 14 | Resurrection Day

S2 Episode 14 | Resurrection Day. In this episode Leon discusses Jesus defeating the grave. He also discusses the church and sharing the gospel. Please watch and share this important episode. Thanks, Leon

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Hello and welcome to the Unqualified Podcast with Leon Wilson. That's me. I am uh excited to invite you to just watch the rest of this program and excited to remind you that the tomb is empty. It's resurrection day, this uh beautiful April 5th of 2026. And uh a lot of the uh the scholars and and the folks that have done the legwork would tell you that uh we are exactly 1993 years since the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the tomb is still empty. Um that was April 5th, which is today, only it was year 33 AD. So um Jesus was crucified on April 3rd of uh that's Friday, the April, um 3rd of April in AD 33, and then on Friday or on Sunday, the 5th, he resurrected, and here we are um just 1993 years afterwards, and the tomb is empty. Our Lord is alive, and you can go and you can search the different tombs of all the uh the people that have deified themselves over the years and over the over the recorded history, and I can assure you their bones can be found or their remains can be dug up, and um and they're dead. They are dead, doornail dead, and my Jesus is alive. Um, that is uh that is a fact, that is the truth. He is alive, he is seated at the right hand of God the Father, making intercession for you and me. And so wherever you are, wherever you watch this from, understand that Christianity is the only religion, if you will, where you get a relationship with God, you get a relationship with his son Jesus, you get a relationship with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, and guess what? You are saved by believing that. You don't have to do anything for salvation in Christianity, minus believe. You just have to accept it. If you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and commit or and confess with your mouth that he is Lord to the glory of God the Father, and you believe that he died for your sins, you believe that he was raised again, you believe this gospel, my Bible says you're saved. That's what my Bible says. Any religion in this world, you've got stuff you've got to do in order to maintain your salvation or be saved. Or get a chance at an afterlife. Not with Jesus. Oh no, that's not how it works. You see, since the garden, since we fell in the garden, mankind fell in the garden, uh we had to uh we we lost the the salvation. We lost our glorified bodies, we lost the relationship, this back and forth, this together relationship with Jesus, with with God Almighty. And in the garden, when when he cursed the ground, he cursed man, he cursed woman, he cursed the serpent. This whole plane of existence was cursed. He already had our rescue mission in mind. That's what he did. And in this rescue mission, I submit to you that God already had the plan of salvation through Jesus. Which is why he met with Abraham and he said, Hey, that son I gave you that I promised you, take him to a mountain, I'll show you which mountain, and sacrifice him there to me. Abraham said, Okay. And so he packed his stuff up and grabbed Isaac and took him to Mount Moriah. And while he was up there, he was following through with the sacrifice, and the angel of the Lord stopped him. Whoa! Stop. Don't hurt him. Gave him a ram. Sacrifice the ram. On that very mountain. Here comes David. He buys it. Builds um build puts the uh tabernacle up there after Shiloh. Here comes Solomon. I'm building a temple on this spot. And then here comes Jesus. Sacrificed up there. In that same area. Here's what's wild. It started with a tree. And it ended with Jesus and a tree. And then in my Bible, you look at the last of it in the book of Revelation, one of our rewards is a tree. A tree was our downfall, a tree was where our salvation came from, the finished work of the cross. And then a tree is in our future, the tree of life. It's amazing the difference the tree makes. We live in houses made of wood. We live we we write with things made of wood. We sit on things made of wood. We we take advantage. This desk is wood. A walk on wood. It's amazing to me. In that garden. They ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The downfall was at the tree. And then my savior hung on the tree. So that I could have access to a tree. And that amaz that fascinates me. Maybe not you. I don't know about you, but it fascinates me. Today we had an incredible service at Mercy Church. And um we were about packed. We had a heap of kids. It was amazing. They were just so loud and and happy back there. And and it just, man, it is such a fulfilling thing to hear them children laughing and everything. And and we had just a powerful service. And um folks got saved today, and and folks came back to to the the Lord today, and and that had drifted away. And then uh some folks joined our church today. And um, you know, it's it just amazes me what God is doing at Mercy Church. And um, you know, we he's not done. I mean, it's it's gonna continue because that's what he's doing. He's building this church. And let me just go ahead and say that uh on this Easter day, this resurrection Sunday, um, I can sit here as the pastor of this church and tell you that um no matter what anybody tells you, um push forward with what the Lord has put in your heart and trust that he's gonna make a way. And you don't have to worry about what the world says because the world doesn't matter. Their words don't matter. Um what the naysayers say isn't gonna matter. And it's just like, you know, with with those layer ladies who went to the tomb that morning, the Marys who went to the tomb that morning, you know, they were going there for a purpose. They they had to take the Sabbath off, and and then the Sunday came, the first day of the week came, and they get to the tomb, and um they they were worried about who was gonna roll the stone away. The stone was rolled away, the angels were there, and and the angel had told them, peek inside, go ahead and look inside. But here's your work that you gotta do. And and they went and did the work. And Jesus caught them on the way. And you know, that's that's part of the whole thing is there's always some labor to do. You're not saved by your works, you're saved done to works. Those works that you are supposed to do in your life, that is to bear fruit. Because the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the tree that Jesus hung on, the tree of life that's in our future, it's it's all symbolic, but it's all real. And just as symbolic as we are trees that are supposed to bear fruit, it is also real that we should bear fruit. And a tree doesn't bear fruit so that it can eat it itself. A tree bears fruit so that others can eat that fruit. I bear my fruit for you. I'm bearing fruit right now. And it's up to you to delight yourself in the fruit that I bear. The encouragement that you might feel, that is my fruit unto you. God's fruit through me to you. It is not of myself that I do these things, it is for God. I delight in my service unto the Father. And if I am doing what I'm supposed to do, whether it's one person or one million people that are able to delight themselves in that fruit, it is to the glory of God the Father, and it is my job, it is my purpose, it is my labor, it is the fruit this tree is supposed to bear. My question to you, what's your fruit? What are you supposed to be bearing? Because you are supposed to be bearing some kind of fruit. In whatever form, fashion, or way the Lord has moved in your life, you are supposed to be expressing that to someone somehow. Whether you're an artist, whether you're a singer, whether you're a um, I don't know, whatever way you express yourself, whatever way that the Lord has given you a gift, you are to use that for the kingdom so that we can crowd heaven full of people who are going to do the same thing. And it's a cycle, it's a whole thing. It's it's why um it's why the the gospel is such an organic um thing. It's why the church is such an organism, it's it's why this um it's why the gospel is always viral, one way or the other. You might be able to suppress it in this area, but it's gonna flourish in this area. And then when you concentrate about that area, you're it's gonna flourish in this area. And that's the gospel. That's the way it works. It's it's been that way since the resurrection. For 1993 years, the gospel has pushed forward into the world. And here we are. I'm I'm in South Carolina right now, telling you there's a man named Jesus who was born of a virgin, who lived a sinless life, who died for our sins, he was resurrected, he rose to uh the rose up to the right hand of God the Father, and he's making intercession for you and me, and he's gonna return sometime soon. And I I posed this idea, this this idea perspective, and I'm not saying it's I'm not setting a date or anything like that. Uh uh, I'm just saying it's a hypothetical um situation that I want you to consider. You ready? 13 minutes, 35 seconds into the broadcast, and here you go. What if three minutes from now? We'll say three, I'll tell you when. What if three minutes was left on the clock, and that's all you had left to decide whether you were going to get saved or not? I want you to think about this right now, three minutes on the clock. And you are having to process the information of whether or not you believe in this Jesus. And he's got a grip on your heart right now, and the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost is is is giving you, is convicting your heart, saying, You know you're a sinner, you know you haven't lived right, you know you were born in sin, you know you're living under the curse, you know deep down there's a man named Jesus who loves you and who wants to have a relationship with you. You know deep down that he died for your sins. You know this gospel that that man is talking about is real. You know that there's something to it. You may not have all of the information, but you know there's a chunk of your heart missing. You know there's a chunk of you missing, and those pieces are in the shape of Almighty God. And now it's just two minutes left. And then that trumpet's gonna sound and and the dead in Christ are gonna rise first, and then we who are alive and remain are gonna be caught up in the air to meet him with in the clouds, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. And and all we're waiting on is that trumpet, that shout of acclamation, and all we're waiting on is for this to happen. And you are sitting there thinking, man, is that is there something to this? And in just a minute and 30 seconds left now, this trumpet sounds, and here you are, you're wondering, man, you know, do I believe? Do I not believe? Is it time right now? Do I do I cry out to this Jesus? Do I call upon this name of the Lord? Um, you know, and and let me just say it like this: you are a sinner, you were born a sinner for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. If you've ever lied, cheat, stolen, if you've ever done anything like that, and you know you have, you don't have to prove anything to me. All I'm saying is you got one minute now. And then in this last minute, you have to decide is this the time that you're gonna get saved? And you got you've got 50 seconds left. And is it is it gonna be your pride that keeps you back? Is it gonna be your um your vanity that keeps you back? Is it gonna be your uh bitterness that gets you back? You got 40, 42, 48 seconds, something like that, 45 seconds. And and you have to decide, is this gonna be it? Because this trumpet's gonna sound whether you like it or not, whether you agree with it or not, 30 seconds. And now, um, you know, the and I hate to pressure you, but you don't have a lot of time, 20 seconds now. Are you gonna say, Jesus, Jesus, save me? I want to live for you 15 seconds. I want to spend the rest of eternity with you, and I do believe 10 seconds, nine seconds. Or are you gonna be left behind? Five seconds left. Here's three, two, one trumpet. And then after this, we're in the air, you're left behind. 1993 years have passed. Jesus is in the air, I'm meeting him in the air. My kinfolk are meeting him in the air. I'm seeing the ones that have passed on before. We're in the air. I'm looking around. It's the greatest reunion I've ever seen in my life. Look, there's Jesus. My carnality. This flesh is burnt off and fervent heat in a glorified existence takes its place. A white robe, a crown. And in that crown, the reward that Jesus comes with. And I'm looking around and I can see the same thing has happened to those that are around me in the air. Some crowns are more ornate than others, and some have these other little layers to their crowns, and and it's like uh they're all it's all the just rewards for the work that we put into the kingdom for the kingdom. And I look and as far as the eyes can see, there's people, and then we shoot off to heaven, and boom, there it is, those gates of pearl, the golden streets, the mansions everywhere. And we're in heaven, but on earth, a tribulation has started in seven years because of that's how why that's how it's lined up. These seven years start, and it's literally hell on earth, and you're left behind. And you the words of the preacher on this YouTube video ring in your ears, and you replay it. I remember that video where that guy was talking about three minutes left, and you rewind it, and you're at this point right now, and you know I said these words something like it. Well, this is it. Don't take the mark. Whatever you do, do not take the mark in your right hand or in your forehead, whatever it is. And I know they say that you're not going to be able to buy, you're not gonna be able to sell, you're not gonna be able to eat, feed your family, all these other things. That is way better than taking the mark. Because if you take the marks and take the mark, you read uh watch my revelation videos, walking through the book of Revelation, watch it from chapter 13 on if you want to, but um and I talk specifically about the the mark. Just listen to me. If you don't hear anything else, listen to me. Don't take the mark. Don't let your family take the mark. If you take the mark, you're done. There's still hope for your soul until you take the mark. If you don't take the mark, you can still believe in this gospel that God loved the world so much he sent his son Jesus to die for your sins. And as long as you believe in him, you can be saved. You are saved. If you believe in Jesus, confess it with your mouth. I believe in you, Lord. I believe you died for my sins. I believe in you, Jesus. Help me live a better life. Help me live the life that is going to glorify you. Help me reach other people for you. I believe in you, Jesus. Because if you take the mark, you can say that, you can even mean it. But there is no hope if you take the mark. On this resurrection Sunday, I want you to understand that there is hope. And that hope is in Jesus. If you're not saved, I want you to pay attention to me. It's not too late. That three minutes to the trumpet. You can you can listen to that over and over and over, and there's a lot of pressure behind that. But there's pressure going on in your heart right now. Let's resolve that. Because if he would save you right now, would you do it? I told you the gospel. There's a man named Jesus. He was born of a virgin. He was God's, he is God's only son. He lived a sinless life. He died on that old rugged cross to pay the debt for our sins that we couldn't pay. Past, present, future. And he rose again and he's coming back. If you believe that, pray something like this. Father, I know I'm a sinner. I was born a sinner. And I'm sorry for my sins. Please forgive me. Come into my heart and make me a new creature. Help me from this day forward to live a life that is going to glorify you. Help me to be a light unto somebody to lead them to you. And I will spend the rest of my life in service to you. I believe what you did on Calvary, on that cross, that you died for my sins. And Lord, I will always serve you. But I need your help. In Jesus' name. Amen. If you prayed that prayer, you can shoot me a comment, you can put a comment in there, and you can heart it, you can love it, whatever you want. You can email me at Leon SlickWilson at gmail.com. Add me on Facebook, Leon Wilson. It's got a picture of me with my glasses and my wife on Facebook. You can shoot me that email, whatever you want. I just want to know that you're saved. And if you need a Bible, I'll mail you a Bible. And we'd be happy to do that. Anyways, I love you and God loves you. This has been the Unqualified Podcast. Happy Resurrection Day.