You know what, I don't think I'm gonna play the guitar for this song. All right, y'all, come on in, come on in. Come on in, we're running a wee bit behind the schedule. I think we've been running behind schedule ever since Eric silenced his phone. Oh, wait a minute. No, we've been running behind schedule ever since we moved our clocks forward. Come on in. All right, teenagers. Your fearless leader will be with us eventually. All right, he's he's running a little behind. He caught a car on fire on the highway. I mean, there was a car on fire on the highway, and it slowed him down. Not his and he wasn't involved. It just slowed him down. I was I was kidding about that. We're live, aren't we? Yeah, okay. So No names mentioned, I guess. All right, we're gonna sing, oh, for a thousand tongues to sing. It's hymn number 116, and we're gonna sing an acapella. Maybe. It's up to Pastor G. Think we can swing it? All right. Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of His praise. My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim to spread through all the earth abroad the honors of Thy name. Jesus, the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease, tis music in the sinner's ears to his life and health and peace. He breaks the power of canceled sin. He sets the prisoner free. His blood can make the foulest clean. His blood availed for me. Hear Him ye deaf, His praise ye dumb, Your loosened tongues employ, Ye blind behold your Savior come, And leap ye lame for joy. Amen. It's a real short song. A lot of verses, but only two lines per verse. So, all right. We have, let's see, we don't have any missionary letters right now. Okay, so we'll, who has seen the mission display board out front? All right. If you have not seen it, you want to go see it. Not right now. After service. And it's, it's nice. It's nice. So right now we have windows open for fresh air. And so we're going to enjoy some fresh air. And hopefully y'all y'all have has anybody ever heard a baby crying before? What do you do? Sometimes you just live with it. And that's okay. It's okay. It's totally okay. But if we if we do have too many distractions, we'll close the windows. But I mean, you never know what you might be letting in when you open windows. Somebody's gonna crawl in that window after Pastor G in a minute over there. So yeah. So anyhow, so Oh yeah, it's all fenced in. There's two fences there, yeah. So Pastor G, professional fencer over here. All right, we're gonna pray and open the service. Anybody have a particular missionary on their heart? Particular missionary, anybody, anybody? Brother Bella, who you got? The Youngs had a baby like a year ago, yeah. Pretty recent. Almost almost like nine ten months ago. Yeah but if you want to pray for the youngs you can and Who do you have? The hazel woods. All right missionaries the military Isaac you won't pray for the hazel woods for us. I The Hazelwoods, you don't know who they are? You know the people that we... Just pray that God will bless them, that's all. It doesn't have to be too specific. I mean, he's praying for a good recovery from having a baby a year ago. So, you know, that's okay. You can pray about their bunk beds we built for them, like in August. Are there not from Nigeria? No, yeah. Yeah, I think they're from Georgia, or maybe one of them is from Ohio, one of them is from Georgia. Yes, sir. Anybody else? Anybody? All right. All right, Brother Bella, why don't you pray for the Youngs, and then Isaac, you can pray for the Hazelwoods. Dear Lord, I just want to say thank you for looking at Young. I want to say thank you that they had their baby over a year ago now, and I pray that that baby be embraced in your name. and grow up to serving. And Lord, I pray that you just trust them and keep them home and take care of their needs in my area and help them to reach many souls in Jesus name. Lord, we thank you so much for your many blessings, Lord, for the blessings that you bestow on your servants. And we thank you, Lord, for the missionaries that we support. Lord, we think of the Helms and the Hewlett's there in Alaska. Lord, we pray that you'd bless their ministry. The Hazelwoods, as Brother Isaac already prayed for. Howard's there in Utah and the Lord we think of the the Normans over in England and Lord we pray that you'd bless the work there that they're doing as they cover for the Tules and Lord we think about the of course we prayed for the youngs as well and then the Roberts in South Africa Lord we pray that you'd bless them and then Lord our missionaries in the Philippines the tar waters and or we just pray Father that you'd bless them Lord and that you'd continue to provide for the labor that you have for them and the work there. We pray specifically for Brother Labongre's youth revival that he's gonna have at the beginning of April. We pray Father that you'd provide the funding for that as he needs to raise, I think, around $300 to be able to do that. We pray Father that you would bless and provide for that. And Lord, we just pray that you bless the service tonight. Meet with us, Lord. We pray for those that are on their way, that you'd get them here safely. And Lord, we pray, Father, that you'd watch over the vehicles, that there would not be any issues or anything like that. We look forward to all that you're gonna do. In Jesus' name, amen. All right. Let's sing another song. How about 341? 341. Or somewhere near there. How about 341? That'll work. Yeah, sure. You can stand. Stretch your legs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah brother Terry you got to grab your toes and pull on them that'll stretch your legs All right victory in Jesus How's everybody doing I heard an old, old story How a Savior came from glory How He gave His life on Calvary To save a wretch like me I heard about His groaning Of His precious blood's atoning Then I repented of my sins and won the victory, O victory in Jesus my Savior forever. He sought me and bought me with His redeeming blood. He loved me ere I knew Him, and all my love is due Him. He plunged me to victory beneath the cleansing flood. I heard about His healing, of His cleansing power revealing. How He made the lame to walk again, and He caused the blind to see. And then I cried, Dear Jesus, come and heal my broken heart. me the victory. Oh, victory in Jesus my Savior forever. He sought me and bought me. Praise God! He loved me ere I knew Him, And all my love is to Him. He plunged me to victory Beneath the cleansing flood. I heard about a mansion He has built for me in glory. And I heard about the streets of gold beyond the crystal sea About the angels singing and the old redemption story And some sweet day I'll sing up there the song of victory Oh, victory in Jesus, my Savior forever. He sought me and bought me with His redeeming blood. Praise God, He loved me ere I knew Him, and all my love is to Him. He plunged me to victory beneath the cleansing flood. Alright, good, good stuff there. I'm trying to, Brother Bella said we had to reintroduce the greeting time, so I have to do what Brother Bella says, so. I'm just kidding. But I thought it was a good idea, you know, it's it's not a bad not a bad idea to reintroduce the greeting time You know if we know that a bunch of people are sick It's it's probably a better idea to do what we just did wave, you know, hey, how's it going? You know, so Upcoming events. It's in your bulletin except there's a couple thing. Well, there's just one thing really brother quick will be with us next Sunday, so Brother Quick will be with us next Sunday, amen? And so y'all be ready for that. It'll be a good time. It'll be a good time. Brother Travis will be teaching Sunday school. Brother Quick will be with us for the morning service. And other than that, everything else is in the bulletin. If we missed anything, we'll give you a call and let you know, all right? Amen. Well, let's make ready for the offering. Oh, yeah. You coming to the pulpit or the piano? All right. I'll snag this out of the way here. All right, Brother Ezra, I want you to lead us in prayer for the offering real quick here. Thank you Lord Jesus. I pray in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and with my dad, my brother, and with my family. Thank you and God bless you. When Jesus comes to reward his servants, whether it be noon or night, faithful to him will he find us watching with our lamps all trimmed and bright. Oh, can we say we are ready, brother, ready for the soul's bright home? Say, will he find you and me still watching, waiting, waiting when the Lord shall come? Blessed are those whom the Lord finds watching, in his glory they shall share. If he shall come at the dawn or midnight, will he find us watching there? Oh, can we say we are ready, brother, ready for the soul's bright home? Say, will he find you and me still watching, waiting, waiting when the Lord shall come? Amen. Are y'all ready? Ready for the Lord to come. Amen. Let's sing showers of blessing. Turn to 335 335. Y'all know we can sing that song when it's not raining outside. Yes. Yeah, that's right. There should be showers of blessing. Contrary to some belief, we're not actually singing about rain. It's showers of blessing. Amen. All right. 335. There shall be showers of blessings, this is the promise of love. There shall be seasons refreshing, sent from the Savior above. Showers of blessings, showers of blessings we need. Mercy drops round us are falling, But for the showers we plead. There shall be showers of blessing, Precious reviving again, Over the hills and the valleys, Sound of abundance of rain. Showers of blessing, Showers of blessing we need, Mercy drops around us are falling, but for the showers we flee. There shall be showers of blessing, Send them upon us, O Lord. Grant to us now a refreshing, Come and now honor Thy Word. Showers of blessing, Showers of blessing we need. Mercy drops round us are calling, But for the showers we plead. There shall be showers of blessing, O that today they might fall. Now as to God we're confessing, now as on Jesus we call. Showers of blessing, showers of blessing we need. Mercy drops around us are falling, but for the showers we plead. Amen. Y'all able to breathe through that song? I guess banging on the guitar makes it harder to breathe. All right, teens, go ahead and head on out. And everybody else, we're gonna get started on our study here. I did not print copies of the study page. So if you don't have one, I'm sorry. It's your fault. I'm kidding. You can order the book if you need to. But we're on the back of the page that I did copy The last two weeks There are a couple extra on the back table. So first first two of them gets them so And I've got this this window open back here, but I've got the blinds down so that I don't blind y'all right see if we do that if I put the blinds up it's like this you know so I figure y'all don't want that so we went ahead and left them put them down but that means that it's going to be blowing around so if it becomes too much of a distraction just let me know I'll close the windows no big deal so all right we're going to be there at point number two this is uh oh did you say did you have this set as As part two or three. Good. Good. All right. Part. It is part three. So we are looking at the two resurrections. OK, so the two resurrections so far, we've just looked at the fact of resurrection, the fact that it is a thing that it does happen. Right. Resurrection happens and it will happen. Right. So we looked at Old Testament examples and proofs of resurrection New Testament proofs of resurrection. And and then we also looked at references about the resurrection to come. All right. So now in In our next point, we're looking at the importance of the resurrection. It's important. It's not something that we just say, oh yeah, yeah, you know, resurrection, it's a thing, it happens, you know. But rather, we want to emphasize its importance. Our study here says the importance of the Christian's resurrection is seen in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ's resurrection is both important and essential because three things. And this is what we'll cover tonight. And maybe, maybe we'll get into the third main point. Probably not. But we'll look here, especially at these three points. And that is, it is essential. So I'll read that sentence again or that phrase again. Christ's resurrection is both important and essential because It declared number one it declared or letter a it declared his death to have been of redeeming value letter B. It declares the extent of power available to us and letter C or the third one there. It declares the fact of our own resurrection and so In that first point now, most of this really would be best handled in 1st Corinthians 15. Did y'all remember we read that whole chapter last week, didn't we? We're not going to do that this week. All right. Y'all have it all memorized from last week, right? Everybody's got it. All right. First Corinthians 15. You got it all down. Only 58 verses. So easy to remember, right? Eight verses from First Corinthians 15 or 858 verses from First Corinthians 15. Now, we can leave the front door open, it's fine, but we just had to tell people to not slam doors going in and out, but that's okay. Well, I'll go out there and slam the door too. I'm just kidding. You know, it's a beautiful, beautiful day. If we were out in the sun, I would almost be totally fine with doing this class outside. But it's too late. We already started and here we are. So you're all stuck in here. Yeah, Brother Travis is outside. He's having class out there. So teens get to have all the fun, right? As the guy on It's a Wonderful Life said, you know, youth is wasted on the young. So I'm kidding there. Anyhow, number two here that we're looking at is the importance of the resurrection. It's important and essential because it declared the death of Christ to have been of redeeming value. Think about this. Think about this. Every religious leader in history has died. None of them have come back except Jesus. And he's not a religious leader, but founder of his church, right? And so everyone, you know, Buddha's died. He's still dead, right? Confucius, he's dead. Joseph Smith, he's dead. Macaroni, you know, his buddy, he's dead. No, I'm kidding. Who else here? There's, I mean, every founder of every, Mary Baker Eddy, she's dead. Who? Ellen White. Oh, yeah. If she's not dead someday. Yeah, Joseph Smith, we already mentioned. Yeah. So, I mean, every, every, hey, every president up, you know, way back when, they, none of them, you know, obviously we've got, we've got some that are still around, right? But all the ones that have died, you know, great leader or not, they're dead. They didn't come back. Right? I mean, all of human history. If you look, you get the theme of every man's life in Genesis. If you want to turn over to Genesis here. The very beginning. Yep, that's where we're going, brother. You know it. Genesis chapter 5. Verse number three is where we'll begin here and try to get a whole gallon of water in tonight. All right. Genesis chapter five and verse number three says an Adam lived and a hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own likeness after his image and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years and he begat sons and daughters and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years and he died. And I'm going to just kind of skim and hit some highlights here. OK Seth. Seth lived. He had a son named Enos. And then he died. Enos lived, he had a son named Canaan, and then Enos died. Canaan lived for a while. He had a son named Mahalaleel. And then you know what? Canaan died. And then Mahalaleel had, he lived a while, had a son named Jared. And then Mahalalil died. And then Jared had a son named Enoch. And then Jared died. Now, Enoch is kind of, you know, the exception to the rule, okay? So Enoch, you know, he had a son, Methuselah. And then Enoch didn't die, but he left. And he didn't come back. He's still gone, all right? I wouldn't come back either. I don't blame him. I don't blame him. Well, he didn't leave, God took him. And then Methuselah, he lived a real long time. And you know, Lamech, he came along, you know, after so many years. And then guess what happened to Methuselah? He lived 969 years. And then what happened? He died. He died. Hmm. Then Lamech, Lamech had a son named Noah. And you know what? Lemic died. You know, Noah lived through a flood where everybody else in the world died, but his family. And then you know what? After that, he died. And Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, they died, too. Yeah. And then you know what? You get you get further into like in Chapter 10 here. I mean, every person named in the Bible died. Except Elijah and Enoch. Everybody died. They didn't all get shot. They all died, though. They all died. Everybody that's lived up to this point and isn't currently living has died. I know that sounds kind of funny, right? It doesn't sound funny, but it sounds kind of strange that you'd say, well, of course they're not alive. They're dead, right? But Jesus, when he died, death could not hold him. And it is extremely important. It is extremely important that He had to raise from the dead. It is extremely important for Him to have raised from the dead because it proved that His sacrifice was sufficient. It proved that death could not hold Him. It proved that death could not conquer Him. It proved that He was with God. And in 1 Corinthians 15 and verse number 17, it says, If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins. If He didn't raise from the dead, we would have no hope. No hope of salvation. No hope of justification. No hope of being made right with God. If it wasn't for the resurrection of Jesus Christ, you know, His death wouldn't have been that big of a thing. He'd be like 107 billion other people that have come and gone. But He's not like 107 billion other people that have come and gone. He's God. And God, though He laid down His life for us, could not be held by the grips of death. He rose again. And it is really, really important. I know we meet on the first day of the week because we recognize the importance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's not because it's Sunday. It's not because other people met on the first day of the week other than the disciples, right? The disciples, the followers of Jesus, they met the first day of the week. Why? Because it's the day He rose again. They called it the Lord's Day. Why do we call this the Lord's Day? Every day is his day, but they specifically called the first day of the week, the Lord's Day, not Easter, not Resurrection Sunday. The first day of every week is the Lord's Day. Now, yeah, we'll we'll take advantage of the opportunity to celebrate it even more, you know, when it's nice and and beautiful out and it's and the temperature is getting just a wee bit cool. I think I might start closing some windows in a second. Right. First day of the week, we ought to be given the beginning of our week to Him. Yes. But the reality is, it is set as the first day of the week because we're remembering that Jesus rose on the first day of the week. And it's exciting that Jesus rose again, that He didn't stay in the grave. Alright, y'all, shield your eyes for just a second. Alright. I was just catching a breeze there. I didn't wanna put my coat on. Some of y'all are already cold. So, Pastor G, are you okay? If you get a chill, you can close that one. It's fine. Um or if if if anybody else gets like really cold, just do this and then Pastor G will close the window, alright? So, The resurrection of Christ is of absolute importance. And I keep saying that over and over again. How do you emphasize something more than just repeating it? It's important. I don't know, think about this. Think about where you were before you got saved. And think about where you would be today if it wasn't for Jesus Christ dying for your sin, being buried, and raising again the third day. Think about where you would be today if it wasn't for that. Now, He didn't raise again just for you, but He did. He rose again because he's God. He couldn't stay dead. But beyond that, though, and and even and in addition to that, for us, we we get to think about, I mean, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't be I wouldn't be in good shape. Now, and you might say, well, you know, I was brought up well and everything was good. You wouldn't have been if Jesus didn't raise from the dead. There probably wouldn't be like the United States of America if Jesus didn't raise from the dead. I'm not saying that Jesus founded the country. But. If you think about. How much history would have been different? If Jesus hadn't raised from the dead. Would His disciples have suffered martyrdom if He didn't raise from the dead? Maybe not. Wouldn't have been such a ruckus. That was the message that was preached. That Christ, the son of God, he rose from the dead. I mean, that was the big thing. That was the big deal, right? And that was what through the book of Acts, you see the leadership. They're saying, you know, when Paul's arrested, he says, the one king speaking to the other king, he says, or politician, we'll just put it that way. It's just simple. The one politician speaking to the other politician, he says, well, what's he in here for? He said, well, we would have let him go. You know, he's just they're just talking about differences of opinion that they're talking about this Jesus whom the Jews say is dead, who Paul says rose again. And then they've got a problem with that. And. That's that's the thing, but think about it. Think about what wouldn't be. That Israel would still be. Scattered because that was a that was a Jewish thing that scattering. But think about what wouldn't be. Well, there would be no Catholicism because they wouldn't have a Christianity to overtake. They wouldn't have the cross wouldn't mean anything. You realize thousands and thousands of people died on crosses. There was nothing unique about dying on a cross in Rome, in Roman under Roman rule, nothing unique about dying on a cross. Thieves died on the cross. Murderers died on crosses. Lots of people died on crosses. It was a pretty common thing, really. So what's the big deal? Well, He's one who died on the cross and didn't stay dead. You realize, like, dying through crucifixion is not something that one could recover from. In fact, simply proposing the possibility, I've heard people say, well, you know, Jesus didn't, He didn't really die. You know, they just pretended He died and they took Him away. Like, okay. So, they ripped the flesh off His back. Bones exposed. Probably could see His ribs as He was breathing through His back there. You could probably see His lungs even, possibly, through the ribs in His back there. the crown of thorns on his head and then Nailing them to the cross and you know when you're nailed to to a cross the the way that they die is from suffocation and So the the the arms, you know, it's hard for me to hold my arms up like this for a long time, right? But the arms would be nailed on there and you're not just holding your arms up You're actually holding your whole body up the weight of your body and you're not holding the weight of your body up by grabbing a hold of something and holding the weight of your body up. No, you've got nails driven through your hands and your feet. And the weight of your body is being held. And so if you pull up with your hands, it hurts. If you push up with your feet, it hurts. And so if you just let go, well, it hurts your hands some more. And then, it's hard to breathe. And then to get a breath, You have to lift, right? And that's how they would die. They would suffer and die in that manner. And, I mean, if nothing else, bleeding to death over a period of three hours of being nailed there, having your back wounded. Do you all know how many times Jesus was whipped on His back? No. No. It doesn't say. It doesn't say. Paul said he was whipped 40 times. He received 40 stripes save one because the Jewish commandment was no more than 40. That was the commandment. That was not a Roman commandment. They could beat them literally to death. And it didn't matter. And so it is highly unlikely that he got less than 40 stripes. Highly unlikely. So the possibility of human survival after going through what he went through over a 24 hour period is extremely, extremely low. And so that being said, his His death was fully expected. I turned it up. It's set for auto, which what I was trying to do is just turn it up where it will stop running. That was all. So you're still hot. Well, you're sitting back there with like 18 machines around you that are running heat fans and stuff on them and stuff. But, hey, you know it's something if I'm actually feeling a little chilly. And Shay's over here, she's got icicles coming off her face. No, I'm kidding. She's fine. She's got a winter coat on. But the possibility of death, it was pretty well fixed. It was going to happen. The possibility of surviving that, Really, I mean, that in and of itself would have been a miracle. But even more. Dying. Being buried dead. And raising again the third day. You know, the burial we often we, you know, we say Jesus died and rose again. Well, he died and he was buried and he rose again. He was buried and he was in the grave for three days, not from Friday night to Sunday morning. OK, it was three whole days, 72 hours dead. And then not dead anymore. And that's a really big deal. It's a big deal. Because he didn't stay dead. But it's a big deal because it shows his power. It shows his power over the grave. It shows his power over death. It shows his power over creation. And seeing his power. It declares also letter B. It declares the extent of power available to us. Think about that. You're born again tonight. Y'all, the Pentecostals, they don't have all the... Alright, I'm going to be mean for a second. They don't even have the real power of God. But they don't have all the power of God. They don't have a corner on the market on power from the Holy Ghost. They don't. And by the way, being able to do signs and wonders isn't the power of God. That's signs and wonders. I've got some friends that can do some really cool magic tricks. But the power of God isn't a trick. It's not magic. It's not some illusion. Resurrection power. is the greatest power that there is. Because the one thing that no one can beat is death. And this is the power that God makes available to the believer in his daily walk. Power that not even death can take. Think about that. Think about that and I'm not like I said, I'm not trying to like. Go charismatic here. I'm trying to, yeah, and my wife warned me I didn't think there were bugs flying around, but. Oh, it's a piece of lint. And it's flying like a bug, like it says. Oh, it's part of a broader brother. Brother Bell is my pet. But the brother Bella, the power of God is available because of the resurrection. Amen. To grow that hair back out. Amen. No. He didn't leave church. Anyhow, go to Romans 1, Romans chapter 1. Romans chapter 1. Yes, sir? Speaking of our Lord Jesus, it says, "...and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead." Now, I could go and start preaching, you know, a lot of stuff in Romans chapter 1 about the power of God. We went there, we did that, right? We've been doing that for, what, 10 weeks now in Romans chapter 1. Notice the connection between the power of God and the resurrection. Go to Philippians chapter 3. Philippians chapter 3. Philippians 3 and verse number Verse 10, that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death, if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. This is Paul's desire. Paul's desire is to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings. Being made conformable unto His death that He might attain to the resurrection. Again, the power of God linked directly to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 1558, right? Who's got it memorized? Anybody? Pastor G, you got it memorized? Started out. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast. Don't read it. Quote it. Be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. For, you know, Your labor is not vain in the Lord. Is that how it goes? For as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. Why? Why isn't it in vain? Because we're we're going to raise again. and that same resurrection power that rose Jesus from the dead. He has and now listen that y'all don't misunderstand it doesn't God didn't like give us like magical powers you know from the resurrection like oh all of a sudden now my fingers can do these crazy and I can wiggle my fingers and make stuff happen right now that that's not what we're we're not talking about mystical stuff. We're talking about the power of God that can overcome addiction. We're talking about the power of God that can overcome sin in your life. The power of God that can break chains of bondage of sin in your life and bad habits. The power of God that can give you the ability to serve God. Whether it's convenient or not the power of God that's there to give you the energy to go and do what you know sometimes you just don't want to do stuff sometimes right. But you know you're supposed to the power of God resurrection power is there we call that grace right. Now a lot of times people look at grace and they think, oh grace, that's extra time to pay my bills. No. No, that's the misapplication of the term grace, right? Grace is God's divine influence upon you that gives you the power to do what you could not otherwise do. Grace is also, now it has multiple flavors of meaning or shades of meaning that have to do with various contexts. But grace is also, you have mercy and grace, they go real close to one another. Mercy is not getting what you deserve from the negative. It's not being punished like we deserve to. And grace is getting what we don't deserve, right? It's kind of like, OK, so let's see here. Who am I going to pick on? Brother Sims, I got to pick on Brother Sims. All right. So Brother Sims, he he did something wrong. All right. What did Brother Sims do? Oh, fell asleep in church. All right. All right. So we say, all right, Brother Sims, the penalty for falling asleep in church is you got to run the aisle 10 times. Right. And I say, you know what? We're going to have mercy on you. You don't have to run the aisle. But I'll tell you what, we're also going to have grace on you. there's a giant cupcake in the back. You didn't earn it, but it's yours. There isn't really, okay, don't get your hopes up. Just an illustration, okay. It's just an illustrative cupcake, it's not real. And so, But that's the idea of grace versus mercy, right? And when we talk about the grace of God, the grace of God does a lot of things, right? We're saved by grace through faith. The grace of God teaches us that denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world. Right? The grace of God grows us. Right? We grow in His grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Right? To Him be glory both now and forever. Amen. Amen. Right? You all have the song in your head now? Alright, so the resurrection of Jesus Christ declares the extent of the power available to us. Let me ask this. If God can raise himself from the dead, what can't he do? I know there's some trivia questions, right? Okay, no, he can't lie, he can't sin, right? He can't let you into heaven without being saved. When I say what can't He do, I mean in the realm of what is He limited by in terms of power? Is God's power limited? No, it's not limited. It's not limited. Now, I'm not talking about trivia like making a rock too big to pick up or something stupid like that, right? No, God wouldn't do that because He's not foolish. He wouldn't do it because he's not foolish, and he wouldn't want to do it because he's not foolish. It's a foolish trivia question is what it is. And so it's not to be entertained. But. What did he ask Abraham? Is anything too hard for me? That was a rhetorical question. In other words, it was a question that was posed in order to spout rhetoric. That's what a rhetorical question is. Y'all know how those words work. There we go. See, I don't know how words work, but y'all do. It is a question that's asked in order to emphasize rhetoric or a statement of truth from the perspective of the speaker. And in this case, it's God. He says, is anything too hard for me? No, of course not. Right? And later on, Jeremiah declares There isn't anything. Too hard for God. And so resurrection power. Is a big deal. And because resurrection power is a big deal. You don't have it without the resurrection. So it goes back to the resurrection. You have to have the resurrection to have that resurrection power. And without resurrection power, we don't have victory over sin. Without resurrection power, we don't have growing in grace. Without resurrection power, we don't have we don't have a hope of eternal life. We don't have justification. We don't have sanctification. We don't have any of the things that go along with the Christian life. Let her see it declares the fact of our own resurrection and in 1st Corinthians 15 and verse number 5 or verse number 22. It says for as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. Pretty excited, pretty exciting. Y'all know, we just went through a little while ago and we looked at 107 billion people that have died, roughly, give or take. Everyone is going to raise again. Some to life and some to everlasting judgment. But the only credence for our faith as Christians is the empty tomb. Right? As the songwriter said, I walked by the tomb of Buddha and looked inside. I saw his bones. Yeah, I went. I traveled on to see Mohammed still wrapped up in his grave clothes. But I journeyed to the garden where old Joseph let him lay. How's it go? Nobody knows. What's that? I don't know. I'll know it in a minute when I get to the chorus. There you go. If you knew him like I know him, you would know that he's alive, right? Anyhow. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, they all go together. So, I don't have it chorded, and I don't know. I could maybe, maybe sing it a cappella if I have the words, maybe. Maybe I'll give it a try after we're not live anymore, so. the resurrection, its importance. Next week, we look at the nature. Well, either next week or the following. It depends on if Brother Quick's preaching Sunday evening next week. If not, then we will cover the nature of the resurrection next week. How about questions, comments on what we've talked about? I know we didn't get very far. It's OK. Anything, questions, comments? Thank you, brother. Yeah. So he was seen of John and Peter and James and then the rest of them. And then he was seen of above 500 brethren at once. And you know, when he launched off of the Mount of Olives, I don't think that it was a private event. I'm pretty sure that anybody, anybody in Jerusalem or in near Judea could probably looked over and said, what is that? Yeah. And it wasn't Elon's spaceship either, right? But. Yeah. Anyhow, so. Yeah, he it was the resurrection was witnessed. People saw him alive after. Yeah. Mm hmm. Pretty awesome. Pretty amazing. Amen. Yes, sir. Gives us hope. Other other thoughts on that. Let not your heart be trouble. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Other thoughts. William sending me the lyrics to the song. Oh, he's not. I might be able to find them faster. First time I heard that song was the Horton family. Brother Rob and his girls sang it at the Preacher boys class is what we called it. It was for young men who were aspiring to be preachers. So, yeah. Other questions? I found it, brother. Then I just need to find the keys. I think Pastor G's got them clipped to his side there. Any other questions or comments on the subject? Anybody still tired from the hour you lost last night? Everybody's like, yeah. Yeah. Pastor G, you don't know the song. Sing it for us. Lost the keys. All right. You can cut the live feed now. We don't have to. I know some people.