It's not in these empty tubes, it's ants man have to still fire. It's very something new. You're not gonna run out of miracles any time soon. Good, turn to you every time you sure look good.
And it's good to see you. Hey, how about let's make some noise out in the lobby. We got a lot of people out watching in the lobby. How y'all doing back there?
Yeah. Now, before you're seated, my pastor Bobby said, check the sides if there's a seat toward the inside. Go in and scoop that way just a little bit. We've got a few more people trying to get in here.
And let's make some room. And then after you do that, you can be seated. There's a few more seats right down here at the front. It's gonna be good.
We're just getting started. How many are excited for today? Oh man. Well, here's what I want to say.
If you're here for the first time in the long time, you are our VIPs. And we are so glad that you chose the worship with us on this beautiful Easter Sunday. I promise you, you won't leave here disappointed because there is a God that is here. He is alive and a whale.
And he is still moving in this place. All right, he's already happening. And I believe that some of you are gonna leave here different than you came. I'm believing and I'm trusting.
And I know that God's gonna move. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you for worshiping with us today.
At the end of the service, if you'll stop by that VIP area, we've got a special gift for you. And as well, Pastor De La Bida speak to you to say, hey, thank you for worshiping with us on this Easter Sunday. I got a couple announcements. Number one is that next weekend, we're having a golf alley.
Now that's the outdoors put it on, but that's for anybody. Male, female, it doesn't matter. You can come out and play golf with us. But we need you to sign up.
Get a head count. It's gonna be at Fairmont Golf Course at TNAM. All right. Now listen, some of you're saying, well, how good do you have to be?
Not very. OK? Not very. If you've ever seen a golf ball, you qualify.
All right? So come on out. Join us as good fellowship. Sign up at the Connect desk.
A lot of good things always happen at Connect desk. They can always help you. I see us your answer. Any questions you have, Pastor Corey and his team are there.
They're signing you up for Church 101, which will start the first Sunday in May. You sign up for baptism, which will be coming up really, really soon. Hopefully, after the day, we got even more people sign up for baptism. So excited about that.
A lot of good stuff happening at the Connect desk, and that's the place to sign up and do that. As well for our new lot outdoors, our men's ministry. Just the men, we're going to be having our next meeting next Sunday night. At 6 o'clock, it'll be out at the pastor's house.
And we're doing a little ski shoot. So I would prefer you be a little more versed in guns than you are with golf before you come out to the ski shoot. But if you're not, we do have experts there that can help you along the way. But we would love for you to come be a part of our ski shoot that the men will be having next Sunday night at 6 o'clock at the pastor's house.
We'll have food, fellowship, fun, and shoot some skis. So excited about that as well. And then I told you all last week that I had a little announcement, something that I'm excited about that we're going to do here at this church. So one month from today, the first Sunday in May, we're doing what we're calling old timers day.
That means you can dress like you're from Peaky Blinders. I don't know if y'all watched that. If you do come to the altar right now and just say, or you can wear your overalls and coveralls and all the straw hats and all that stuff. We're going to sing some old timey songs and have a little hold down and just really praise the Lord.
It's going to be a fun time to come out one month from today, old timers day, excited about that, excited about what God's going to do with that. So just always try to have something for you to come and look forward to coming back to each and every week. So excited about that as well. You may have noticed, we got a little bit of a parking problem today, right?
You'll notice that. Some of you that are visiting today, you're like, man, I don't know where they want us to park. Well, guess what? Next, you don't have to worry about that.
Because if you look back there behind our little metal bill, and you already see there's a big piece of equipment already out there ready to go. And tomorrow they're going to start working on expanding our parking lot on the bag. It's going to match pretty much what's on the front. And so we'll have double the parking come next few weeks, months, whatever it takes to get that done.
But I want to say, just thank you for everybody who's been a part of that and give it to our four to three fun. Not only will we be doing that, but they're going to be doing some renovations and some upgrades down at the kids church as well at the same time. And so if you've been given to that, if you place it to give a thousand or whatever it was and you're doing that on the app, I just want to say thank you for doing that and being a part of what God is doing here. In fact, here's what I want to say, if you've ever given one single dollar to this ministry, you're a part of what God is doing.
Because he uses every bit of that to reach. Not just here on Sunday mornings, but we're out into schools, we're out in the community, we're doing all kinds of stuff. We have over 50 plus ministry partners that we're with each and every month and just supporting them, trying to reach the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Amen.
So give yourself a hand for being a faithful, given church. Now, I want to shift gears just a little bit. We're going to change our worship just a little bit here. We started out real hot, excited fun, and I hope you're excited fun.
I mean, all of you look great. You came, dressed at looking good, families, all matching. We got photo booth set up out in the four year you get your picture in front of that. There's a circle backdrop as well, plenty of places for you to take a family picture today.
And I hope you came in here excited. But sometimes we forget why we're really here. And that's because Jesus Christ died for us on cross. I want to read a scripture for you.
I want to read a scripture. This is in Isaiah chapter 53, OK? It says verse four, surely he has borne our graves and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crucified for iron equities. Pun him was a chastisement that brought us peace. And he is with his wounds.
We are healed. What we're celebrating today is that the fact is that he did resurrect from the grave. That he did come out of that grave. But to get there, he had to go through a lot.
Not only did he leave his throne in heaven. Right? He had everything in heaven. Everything was right at the right hand of the Father.
He left his throne. He came and took a lowly birth and a manger. He lived for 30 years in obscurity. We didn't hear anything about him.
Maybe one story when he was at the temple when he was at the 12th. We didn't hear anything about him. And then at 30 years old, he starts his public ministry. And for three years, he would preach the gospel that we know today that he has came.
And he has taken on all the weight of our sins and our iniquities. But that came at a price. Because to go through that, he was beaten. He was mocked.
He was ridiculed. They spat upon him. They did the worst imaginable things that you can think of. And you know why he went through all that?
For you. For me. Everyone else. Here's what I want to do.
All I'm just going to tell him, he's going to sing a song. I just want you to stay seated. And while he's singing the song, I want you to focus on these words. Because what it says is that he goes through all of this stuff just so that he can love us.
In fact, of course, that's what you went through to love me. I'll never understand. But what blows my mind away is you love me as I am. Austin.
I'll never understand. But what blows my mind away is you love me as I am. They call for a variety of things. They kill for us.
For raiding your kindness. Like rats do you street. Trade with the weight of the world on your shoulders. And you find that he.
Bird and far too great for flesh and bone to bear. You stretch the key arms as you welcome from me. Trade with the weight of the world on your shoulders. And you find that he.
Bird and far too great for flesh and bone to bear. You stretch the key arms as you welcome from me. And next your body fail. The fairy has a changing world hung up to bear.
Lifting on high, crucified. Even though those here are the Nazarene. The son of man, the man, the man, the man. Oh God, you let me away.
Give and do that. Don't understand. What much of my way is you love me as a woman. I was slain through a shell.
The sinner. Praise to my son. I say he's gone. And now I'm blown away.
I'm blown away. You touch by the weight of the world. And you can't. You touch.
Your blood is in its soul. Three, two, three. The baby. The baby can speak.
And you let out a hope as you can. I survived. Oh my Jesus Christ. Can we do something?
Can we just look up to the heavens and just all of it. Just say thank you. Thank you, Jesus. We say that name, Jesus.
Just continue to say it and say thank you. Because see nothing up to this point matters. This is what matters to death. This is what it was for today.
So Philippians we read that says, Therefore God exalted him to the highest place. Gave him a name above every name. That at that name, Jesus, every knee should bow. Every tongue shall confess.
In heaven and on earth. There's no name greater than that name, Jesus. No name stronger than the name of Jesus. And no name that saves like the name of Jesus.
It is a beautiful, wonderful, powerful name. We're going to sing what a beautiful name. And I just ask this morning, if you would just declare it. Sing it as loud as you can't.
No matter if you're on key. It don't matter. Heaven is not going to be on key. I don't think everybody is going to be on key.
But they're going to be singing and enjoying sing with us this morning. The power of that name and the resurrection of your son has given us all new life and renewed hope this morning. It helped us to live as new people in pursuit of that Christian ideal. Grant us the wisdom to know what we must do.
The will to want to do it and encourage the under-take it. Perseverance to continue to do it. See New York, precious and holy, powerful name and grey. For many of us, it's brunch reservations, pastel colors and kids hunting for eggs in the backyard.
But before all of that, Easter was and still is the greatest breaking news headline in history. Over 2,000 years ago, in a quiet garden outside Jerusalem, a group of women arrived at Jesus' tomb tomorrow. Instead, they found the stone rolled away. And an angel said the words that still shake the world today.
He is not here. He has risen. Today, we refresh our new speeds, looking for something good, something solid. But hope isn't found in a headline.
It's found in a person. The resurrection isn't just a historical moment. It's a present reality. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is still working in the broken, stressed, over-scheduled lives we live right now.
Easter reminds us that failure isn't finite. Darkness doesn't get the last word. And even when life feels like Friday, Sunday is coming. Jesus stepped out of the grave so we can step into hope, freedom and new life.
So whether you're showing up with questions, doubts or a faith, you're still figuring out. Easter is for you because Jesus is alive and hope has a name. Good morning. Happy Easter to all of you.
You're looking great this morning. Thank you so much for coming out today. Let's welcome the Radio and Internet Ministry. Give them a great big.
Hello, we love you from New Light Church. Would you do that? Yeah. We're starting a new series today.
We're going to jump right into it called Unstoppable. It's unstoppable. I'm not going to give you a lot of stuff about that. But here's what I want you to see about the series today.
Unstoppable. It simply means listen carefully. No grave is too sealed. This is Easter now.
No grave is too sealed. No stone is too heavy. No sin is too deep. No past is too broken.
No fear is too strong because Easter, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, what God starts, hell itself, cannot stop. If you believe that, would you stand and give him a praise and a hand clap and let the heavens know we believe every word of it from the bottom of our heart? You're the Lord, right? Yeah.
It's all true. Thank you so much again. Here's what I want to talk about today. Unstoppable grace.
I want to talk about grace. It's the unmerited favor of God on your life. When you don't even deserve it. Don't even know it's there.
It's God working and doing what only God can do. I'll be using John 20 talking about verse 1 through 18 to explain this. I'll give you the context so you can see it this morning. Here it is.
Jesus has been crucified and buried for three days. Mary comes to the tomb. It's dark literally and it's dark spiritually. Because in fact, she knows what she saw when he was on the cross.
She know how he looked. She knew exactly in her mind what he went through. She was expecting to find even darker things. She was expecting to find his body there dead.
No hope. No anything else. So it was a spiritually dark time. She's coming because she believes it's over.
Think about that right there. What she saw, what she witnessed and what she went through led her to believe that it's over. There's no hope. She finds the stone way one to two tons rolled away.
The stone represented finality and the end for her. Jesus not being in there, teaches us that death did not win. Can I tell you the reason the stone was rolled away was so Christ could get out because he was already gone. It was so you and I could look in there and Mary could look in there and the disciples could look in and see that he was not there for their own good will because they thought it was over and they thought it was the end.
So with that in mind, I want to tell you three things I want you to leave here today. Understanding the unstoppable grace of God and number one looks like this. God's grace is unstoppable. Isn't that real simple?
You can't stop it. You can't hold it back. There's no stone that can hold it back. There's nothing in your life that can hold it back.
It is unstoppable. Unmarried in favor from Almighty God working in your life every single day of your life. John says it this way in twenty one through three. Early Sunday morning.
Stop right there. See I'll preach all day today. I got you here. I won't really.
Here's early Sunday morning. Here's what I want you to know about Sundays. They are very special. I'll show you how you can know they're very special.
When you go back and you look, say he rose on the third day which was Sunday morning and it was at the seventh day. It was Sunday the first day of the week. When you go back and look at the Bible, if you look at the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came like Jesus said he was coming, guess what day it was. It was on Sunday.
When you think about the first sermon being preached by Peter, the apostle where three thousand people got saved. It was on Sunday. I want to tell you Sunday is a special day. It's the first day of the week.
You ought to always worship God, glorify God. You ought to do that all the time. But on the first day of the week to get the rest of your week where it ought to be, you ought to be worshiping and praising God and being in God's house honoring Him because here's the deal. There are some great things in history that have happened on Sunday and there are some great things in your life that can happen on Sunday as well.
God can move Monday through Saturday. No question about that. He's not limited by time space or days. But there's something special about Sunday.
When God's people get together, here's what I want you to know. It doesn't matter what you came in here with this morning. It doesn't matter what you've been going through. It doesn't matter how dark it looks or what your expectations may be.
What matters is we're in the house of the Lord. We are celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which happened on a Sunday. The Holy Spirit is here, which came on a Sunday. And He does some great mighty miracles to work in your life on Sunday.
Would you help me give Him another praise about being in the house of the Lord on Sunday? Early on Sunday morning. While it was still dark, Mary Maglin came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciples, the one whom Jesus loved.
She said, they have taken the Lord's body out of the tomb and we don't know where they have put Him. Peter and the other disciples started out for the tomb. They were both running, but the other disciples out around Peter and reached the tomb first. He stooped and looked in and saw the linen wrappings lying there.
But he didn't go in. Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there. While the cloth that had covered Jesus' head was folded up and lying apart from the other wrappings.
Then the disciples who had reached the tomb first also went in and he saw and believed. For until then they still hadn't understood the scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead. Then they went home. That is their first encounter with the tomb right there.
He was crucified and he had been there three days. Unstoppable grace is a supernatural move of God. Sometimes God would do it supernaturally. Sometimes God would do it through angels and sometimes God would do it through people.
Are you hearing me today? So if you're in this house today and you need a supernatural move of God, you need the unmarried, it's the favor of God, the grace of God on your life. I want to tell you it's here because here's what you need to know about that. It doesn't require permission from God.
Aren't you glad about that? Not only does it require permission, it doesn't require that you and I understand what God is doing and how God is doing. We just need to know that the unstoppable grace of God works on our behalf sometimes when we're expecting it. Sometimes when we're not, we don't have to ask Him.
He doesn't have to ask us if we're ready for it. We don't have to worry about it because here's what happened. It just how to breaks through right in the middle of your disappointment, right in the middle of your mess, right in the middle of your depression, right in the middle of when you think it's all over it. When you think the stone is too great, you can't get through that thing.
The unstoppable grace of God always comes through every single time. And there's some people in here today who witnessed that unstoppable grace of God in your life. You know what God has done for you and you ought to be real happy now because other people need to understand and know that we have a great God that offers us unstoppable grace. Watch this right here.
The Bible says in Matthew 28 and 2, suddenly there was a great earthquake. For an angel Lord came down from heaven, rode aside the stone and sat on it. See, here's what I want you to see. When you think about the power of God, it's the same power that moved the stone for Him is available to you and out of day.
That same power that was working right there is available in my life and in your life. In fact, Hebrews would say it this way so you can understand about this grace. Therefore, angels are only servants, spirits, sent the care for people who will inherit salvation. That word salvation means rescue, restore and deliver.
And here's what I want to tell you. If you're here today and you've been saved, you've been rescued, amen? If you understand that, now God is in the process of restoring your life and in fact delivering you and it will not stop until it gets it done. He uses angels to do that.
Sometimes he uses a preacher to preach to you and sometimes he'll use a mom and dad or friend to speak a word into your life. His grace is unstoppable and you and I can trust that. In fact, when we got up this morning, the Bible says that goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our life. So here's what I say about that.
I have one angel named goodness and I have another angel named mercy that's following me everywhere I go. No matter where I find myself today, no matter of what situation or circumstance I may be in today. Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever and ever. Do you know what I'm talking about church?
Well, you got up. You had the breath of God in you today. You had a life in you today. It doesn't matter about the circumstances surrounding you.
What matters is the one that can control the circumstances right there with you. He never leaves us or forsakes us. That's what this day is all about. So here's what I want to ask you right now.
What stone are you staring at right now? What barrier in your life looks immovable because all of us have them. There are things in our life that we just can't get over. There are situations and circumstances that we just don't know how we're going to get around them.
They're just too big for us. They're bigger than our ability to handle them. I'll give you a few examples and then we'll move on. Some of you here today, maybe it's a broken relationship.
I don't know what that relationship could be, but maybe it's the family member that you deleted two years ago and you said I can't do that. And maybe something is pushing you today to say, hey, reconcile. Go ahead and take care of that. Maybe it's other broken relationships.
Maybe it's a sin pattern in your life. You know those sins where you confess it a hundred times and now you're still doing it a hundred times. You know the one where you get up and say, Lord, I'm never going to do that again. I know it's wrong.
I don't want that. But it's a problem in your life. You can't handle it again over. Maybe it's a financial situation that feels hopeless in your life.
Maybe it's a health diagnosis that feels like a death sentence. Maybe the doctors said we can't do anything for you. Maybe it's past mistakes that haunt us and haunt you and I. And they come and tell us that what we did years ago or some time ago has disqualified us from the pandemic.
Maybe it's not what the Bible says. The Bible says something a whole lot different right here. Watch out. We say about such wonderful things as these.
If God is for us who can ever be against us. Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity or a persecuted or hungry or destitute or in danger or threatened with death? No.
Despite all these things overwhelmingly victory. It's our through Christ Jesus who loved us the word that God sent me to tell you today. It doesn't matter what you're facing. It doesn't matter what you're going through.
And it doesn't matter how impossible it looks. What matters is we have unstoppable grace coming from us to a heavenly Father that loved us so much that he sent his son to die on the cross of God before us. Ephesians says it another way. It says this.
I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God's power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God's right hand in the heavenly Rams. You know here's what the Lord is saying to us that that same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead is available to work in your life in my life. When we get up every morning that same power is there.
So when you think about resurrection power, you're really thinking about unstoppable grace. You can't stop it. You can't do anything with it. God can move and do whatever he needs to do.
Watch this right here unstoppable grace calls out personally. In other words, it's not just a generic thing. He calls our name personally. Grace.
This unstoppable grace of God comes to us for we're not our worst time. When things are not looking good, God's grace can't be stopped in your life. For those who believe in Jesus Christ and trust him are you hearing me today. When you think about that, look at this right here.
Mary was standing outside the tomb crying. As she went, she stood and looked in. She saw two road angels, one setting on the head and the other at the foot of the place where the body of Jesus had been lying. Dear woman, who are you?
Why are you crying? The angel asked her because they have taken away my Lord. She replied. And I don't know where they have put in.
She turned to leave and saw someone standing there get ready, Church. It was Jesus Christ, but she didn't recognize him. Dear woman, why are you crying? Jesus asked her.
Who are you looking for? She thought he was the gardener. Sir, she said, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him. And I will go and get him.
Mary, Jesus said, she turned to him and cried out, Ravona, which is Hebrew for teacher. Here's what I want you to see, Church. He was three feet away from her. Jesus was standing there.
She didn't realize who he was. She was in despair. She was worried. She was facing all this uncertainty and doubt.
She knew what happened to him. She didn't know how all this was going to turn out, but she knew that her Savior was absolutely gone. She couldn't recognize him. And here's the problem.
You know why she couldn't recognize him because she was looking for a dead body. Some of you come to church today and you can't recognize that the presence of God is standing right beside of you and ready to do something great in your life because you're looking at the circumstances all around you. You're looking at the stone that's covering the tomb up. You're looking at the empty tomb and maybe the empty bank account and maybe the empty health problem in your life.
And you don't even recognize that there is a king of kings and a Lord of lords that is standing right beside of you that said he would never leave you or forsake you. He said, if you call on the name of the Lord, you shall be saved. And some of you have walked in here this morning. You weren't looking for a risen Savior.
You weren't looking for anything to change. You brought the same old sad story in here today. Well, I've come to tell you just like Mary, he may be standing three feet away from you and you need to open your eyes and believe what the word of the living God said that he would come out of that grave and he would go back to heaven. They had it in the Old Testament.
They understood that. But she was looking for a dead man in a grave. See, here's what you got to understand. There was one word that changed her whole outlook.
You know what that word was? He called her name. He said Mary. And I tell you, he knows your name too.
Do you understand he knows right where you are? He's standing right there. He said, I'll never leave you for a sake. I'll send the Holy Spirit who is the Spirit of the Lord to be right there with you.
Say she had heard that voice before and she heard that word before because he called her out of darkness. That same voice that spoke to her called her out of darkness. And now that same voice that's speaking to her is going to call her out of her grief. I've just come to tell somebody today, God, the grace of God can whisper a word into your life.
Sometimes he calls you by name. Sometimes he says, take this path. Sometimes he says, believe my word. Sometimes he says, trust me grace.
Whisper's your name in the middle of your mess and in the middle of your doubt. In the middle of the time you're about ready to give up. In the moment that you think it's over and in the moment where you think there's no hope. I want to tell you there's always hope when Jesus Christ is on the throne of God because we have the unstoppable grace of God working around us in us and through us making a way where there seems to be no way and calling those things that are not as though they were.
You ought to get happy and give God a praise clap right there. Here's why. Here's why he knows your name. He knows exactly who you are.
He knows exactly what you're going through. He knows exactly what you have needed. He knows your pain. He knows your concern.
He knows everything about you today. I don't care what religion may have told you. It doesn't matter what the past may have done to you. It doesn't matter what the circumstances are in your life right now.
It may look dead. It may look hopeless. It may look like everything you believe has gone out the window, but Jesus Christ is here to whisper your name today. He's that close Isaiah says it this way to confirm this with us.
But now, O Jacob, listen to the Lord who created you. O Israel, the one who formed you says, here it is, Church, do not be afraid for I have ranced him. He did that on the cross of Calvary for you and I. I have called you by your name.
You are mine. If you know Jesus Christ, you belong to him. There's nothing that can touch you. Nothing that can hurt you.
You say, wait a minute, preach now. Are you telling me I'll never have no problems? Never get sick? No, I'm telling you.
You better get rid of all hell. Can't break loose any time. But I'm also telling you as long as you are his. Death could not hold him and death cannot hold you.
The grave couldn't hold him and the grave cannot hold you. Whatever is dead in your life cannot hold you. Here's what I need to say to somebody. I watch people all the time go through bad stuff and I watch how they handle that.
And there is a way that you're to handle that. I'll talk about that in a minute because grace can meet you right where you are. Grace can turn everything around. Watch Romans 8 right here, what it says.
But God showed us great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were once still sinners. In other words, still in the mess of our life, never recognizing the Lord. How many of you can relate to what I'm saying right there? When Jesus saved you and showed up in your life, you were not serving him, you were not looking for him.
You were partying and doing everything that the world around you does. The last thing on your mind was Jesus Christ. But I thank God there come a day where he said, Hey, it's time for you and I to have a conversation. I'm glad there came a day where he said, Dale, we need to talk a little bit.
I need to get a few things straight now in your life. I'm glad he is a personal Savior and I'm glad he knows my name and I'm glad I belong to him and I'm glad I can stand before you today and tell you that he can take what the devil meant for bad and evil and turn it around every single time and bring glory to his name. That's the God that we serve. Psalms would say it this way right here.
He heals the broken hearted and badges their wounds. He counts the stars and calls them by name. See, when you think about that grace, unstoppable grace, it does remove barriers in our life. It always does that and it can call you by your name.
It's working all the time. That's why the Holy Spirit is here. Mary says she didn't stay at the grave. Something happened once Jesus called her name and this is so important.
So I'll give you this point. Then we'll close. Unstoppable grace gives you purpose. Grace turns your pain into a platform.
Listen carefully. Now, let me read it before I want to preach right now so bad. Let me get to John 2017 through 18. Don't claim to me, Jesus said, for I haven't yet ascended to the Father, but go find my brothers and tell them I am ascending to my Father and your Father to my God and your God.
Mary Magline founded his cycles and told him I have seen the Lord. This she gave this she gave them his message. See, God doesn't waste any of your pain whatsoever. I don't care what you're going through right now where you've been or what it looks like.
God doesn't waste that. God uses that. I'll give you the scripture. If I can just keep and hold back right here.
I'll give you the scripture so you can sit in Corinthians all praise to God the Father by Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. Everybody say all comfort. He comforts us in.
How many? How many? Our troubles so that we can what? So that we can do what?
So that we can do what? When they are troubled. We will all we will be able to give them the same comfort that God has given us. Did you hear what the Spirit of the Lord says there?
God didn't save you or touch you or call your name to leave you? They leave you broken or disqualified or leave you out? No, he called your name to do something great in your life. He delivers you because you have a story that can help somebody else that's going through what maybe you just went through or something similar to that.
Think about this the moment I see God deliver people. Now here's where it goes. He delivers people sometime and they are delivered. They're standing here.
What they thought was going to take them out. The help diagnosis. They thought was going to take them out. The financial trouble they had they thought it was over and you can name anything else there.
They thought it was over. But God has delivered them. They're standing right here talking to you and I. But the problem is they are rehearsing all the trouble the devil calls him.
You ever seen a Christian person give a testimony they glorify the devil more than ever glorify God. Oh, yeah, you get around. I'll tell you. I know this year's been a rough year.
I'll tell you it's been rough. Oh, you don't know what I went through. I had this serger head. That serger head.
This I've done this done that went through this went through that. Never mentioned God delivering them. They're still there. Here's what I want to tell somebody today.
You may be standing there. You may be right outside of the process and the victory's been won. You're not dead. You're not gone.
You haven't lost all your stuff. God is still right there with you. And what God wants you to do is turn that into a testimony. It was Peter and John that would do it this way.
Peter and John said we cannot stop telling about everything we have seen or heard. God is trying to and they weren't talking about their trouble now. They were talking about Jesus Christ and how he had delivered and how he had set free and all he had done and all the miracles that had worked in their life because somebody needed to hear their story and somebody needs to hear your story today. So what God has sent me to tell you today, you need to start telling your story.
Not all the negative things about it. Not giving the devil. All the credit it needs to start right here. That I did have a problem, but I don't have that problem anymore.
My God and my Savior has delivered me. He has sent me free. He worked a miracle out in my life. When I didn't know how I was going to pay the next bill, all of a sudden God stepped in at something supernatural that happened.
I am today. I'm okay. When I got the bad diagnosis from the doctor, I thought it was over, but you know what? That was six months ago.
That was a year ago or that was last week and it hadn't taken me out yet. My God is working in my life. Let me tell you what he did. We ought to get up every day and tell our testimony to somebody that needs to hear that testimony.
We testify a lot of times it's how powerful and bad the devil was. Let me show you how you testified. You want to see it in Scripture? I'll give it to you in a little close.
Then they read out here. They have defeated Him, the enemy, by what? The blood of the lamb. Stop right there.
Faith in Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross of Calvary and nothing else. How do they defeat Him? By the blood of the lamb. How do we defeat Him?
By faith in Jesus and what He did on the cross of Calvary. Not a bunch of religious activity. Not a bunch of do's and don'ts. Not a bunch of legalistic things.
Not a bunch of stuff to do with how we dress or how we don't dress. Not a bunch of stuff to do with which particular Bible I ought to read or not read. right there. How do we overcome by the blood of the Lamb by faith in Jesus Christ?
And what He did on the cross of Calvary? But watch, you can't stop there. You got to go to another step here and by there what there testimony. What God has done in their life.
Are you hearing me today? If you want to walk free today, then you begin to place your faith in Jesus. And what He did on the cross of Calvary? Because here it was, it was enough for God.
It satisfied God. It paid a debt that you couldn't pay. It defeated every demon and every principality and every power. If it was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me.
And it's good enough for you. If He said, it is finished, that means I don't have to add anything to it. I don't have to take anything away. I can stand at the foot of the cross and claim the blood of Jesus on my life and tell the devil right in his face that that's where you were defeated.
That's where Jesus got the victory and that's where I'll get the victory. And then I begin to tell people what the Lord has done for me. Is anybody with me today? I have a testimony.
God took a life that was way out there. He took a life that was full of sin. He took a life that it looked like the devil was about to defeat him and it looked like mama's prayers didn't work and it looked like dad's prayers didn't work and it looked like I was going awayward way. But there's another testimony.
There was a God in heaven who gave unstoppable grace to a young boy one day and called him back to the Lord and changed his life and turned it around and did something good in his life. And he'll do that for you too. I know this is Easter Sunday and I know I'm loud and I know I'm excited. But here's why not because I don't think you can hear and not because I don't think God can hear.
I'm worried about yourself. This is a once in a lifetime deal. There's a heaven and there's a hell. There is a life that the enemy can come in and destroy and ruin and you can live the hell on earth right here where you are.
But there's also a life that Jesus Christ can come in and he can do some great things in your life. He can turn your world around. He can give you that abundant life we've been preaching about for three or four weeks. He can give you peace and joy and contempt like you've never had.
The peace and joy and contempt that you've always sought. Jesus Christ can do that. That's what's important about today. If he can come out of the grave, if the stone can be rolled away that way to turn or two tons, then he can do whatever needs to be done in your life because unstoppable grace does that.
So here's where you are today. There are two people in this room today, really maybe three. There's seekers in here. Maybe you come in today and you're not seeking God, but you are seeking contentment.
You're seeking joy. You're seeking peace in your life. You just don't have the peace there. Everything you do, maybe God, you know God blesses the just and the unjust.
You do know that. And maybe God has blessed everything your hands touched, but you still don't have that satisfaction in your heart. You still are not complete. There's something missing.
You're a seeker. Maybe some of you came here today. Your life is so messed up because of what you did or what someone else did. Maybe maybe something.
Maybe you said it's Easter. I got to get in the God's house. Maybe there's some hope for me. Well, there are some hope for you.
All you got to do is accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. You don't have to join the church. You don't have to do all that. All you got to do is call on the name of the Lord and you shall be saved, the Bible says.
You're a seeker. You're ready for a different life. You're ready for God to do something you and fresh in your life. You're ready for a change.
And then there are those who are believers, two things about being a believer. Maybe your testimony is more about what the devil's done in your life than what God's done in your life. And maybe the day you need to change that and you need to start testifying about what Jesus has done in your life. Maybe that's where that is today.
So as every head's about every eye close, I want to ask this question. You're a seeker. You didn't know you were seeking God. You were seeking peace.
You were seeking contentment. You were seeking all those things. But you realize today that you need that unstoppable grace in your life. You really do.
I'm not going to call you. I'm not going to call you forward. This is between you and the Lord. I'm just going to say a simple prayer for you.
You're not going to embarrass you at all. You need that unstoppable grace in your life. You need a new life. You want the abundant life, the whole life that God promised.
If that's you, would you slip that hand up? I'm going to pray for you just get it up. God bless you. Get it up right now.
Come on church. You want that unstoppable grace in your life. You want that peace. You want that contentment in your life.
You're tired of the life you're living. You're a seeker today. You don't know much about the Lord. You don't know much about the Bible.
But you believe the word of the Lord. You just read it. You believe it. If that's you get that hand up, I'm going to pray for you today.
Come on. Get that hand up today. I'm going to pray. God bless you.