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he knows me he knows you he knows where
we’ve been he knows what we’ve done he
knows our weaknesses he knows our
strengths he comes to the
disenfranchised and the people that are
lonly and the people like me that are in
need of a savior and he speaks our name
Jesus took our place on the cross he was
forsaken by the father so that the
father will never forsake us wipe the
tears out of your eyes and praise our
God because he rose up early early early
Sunday
morning
Resurrection is y for 3 years Jesus
ministered he healed the sick gave sight
to the blind cast out demons and calmed
the storm with his hands three years of
ministry culminated with a final message
to his closest friend a message we
remember as the Last Supper
here’s Jensen Franklin Psalms 23 says he
prepares a table before us in the
presence of our enemies isn’t it amazing
that the first time that communion was
served it was not served in a church or
in a cathedral it was served in
someone’s home Matthew 26 said that
Jesus told a man I want to use your
house the upper room of that house to
serve communion to my disciples and the
first time the meal was served the bread
and the wine representing the body of
Christ that would hang on the cross and
the blood that he would shed the first
time that meal was served it was not in
a church it was in a house Exodus 12 the
Passover meal was served in the house it
was a family occasion Jesus in the New
Testament made communion a your house
experience a generational meal for the
children the children need to eat this
meal and the Bible said when they ask
what does it mean you are to teach them
that this is a meal that heals that this
is a meal that protects from destruction
and plagues and death this is a meal
that cleanses any and all sin this is a
meal that
heals offense and hurt and disagreements
this is the meal that
heals and I love the fact that when the
world drinks the world drinks to to
forget one country artist had a song
that said Whiskey River take my mind why
because he was brokenhearted and he had
so many bad memories he was trying to
escape but Jesus said when you drink my
cup you drink to remember not to forget
what do we remember the cross the blood
the suffering he took our sin and he
took our shame this meal has the power
to remember the backslider to remember
the F the families that have been
dismembered by offense and disagreement
so many people don’t speak to people
that they love but he said examine
yourself when you eat this meal because
this is the meal that has a mysterious
power to bring back together what has
been dismembered I can remember remember
and Jesus said as often as you eat this
you do in remembrance of me you see the
body is represented in the bread and the
blood in the cup and when you separate a
body from blood a body that doesn’t have
blood dies it brings death but he said
when you take this
meal you remember me you cause me to
have life in your home in your family in
your marriage you remember what death
dismembered and as often as you do this
you do it in remembrance of me I want to
tell somebody that because of what Jesus
did you can have the power of
restoration hit your life and family and
you can be remembered to God back to God
you backslider you who are running you
feel so far and you’re afraid of what’s
Happening you can be REM membered you
don’t have to be dismembered Jesus said
this day you’ll be with me in Paradise
that was a reference to the Garden of
Eden where Adam and Eve were dismembered
because of sin but Jesus was saying this
meal will remember all the people who’ve
been dismembered from the family of God
come on home through this meal take the
bread right there in your home Jesus
said this bread represents my body take
eat this do in remembrance of me until I
come and then he said take this cup it’s
the New
Covenant and this do and remembrance of
me it can wash you it is for the
remission of sins it can protect you it
will bless your household it will cause
the destroyer and the plague to pass
over take drink this do in remembrance
of me until I
come there’s coming a day when the
trumpet is going to sound and the bodies
and the spirits of those who have
trusted in Christ they’re separated
they’re dismembered but when the trumpet
sounds there’s going to become a
remembering and the grave Ain’t No Grave
going to hold our bodies down and the
Bible said that the living members of
the family will be reunited with those
who have died in the Lord and there’s
going to be a remembering in midair when
the trumpet sounds the dead in Christ
shall rise and we who are alive and
remain shall be caught up to meet the
Lord in the air what a day that would be
and lastly Jesus said I will not eat
this meal
again until I eat it at the marriage
supper of the lamb and when you make it
home to Heaven one of these days all of
us who have been separated from God
we’re going to hear the call to go home
and when we all get to heaven what a day
of rejoicing that will be and he said I
won’t eat this meal again until that
which has been dismembered is fully
remembered together in a land where
there is no weeping no sorrow and you
can have that promise of heaven
today through the Lord’s table give him
your life give him your family right
there in the sacredness of your home
take this meal together and speak the
blessing over your home father I pray
the healing
protection power of God to cleanse the
home remember families marriages and
homes that have been dismembered and
destroyed by sin remember the
backsliders and those who are coming
home calling on you I thank you for it
there’s power in the Lord’s
communion
what a powerful word from Jensen just
hours before his crucifixion scripture
says Jesus went to a garden to pray on
his knees he contended with his Destiny
he knew he would be betrayed he knew he
would be tortured he knew he would die
in the garden he faced the greatest
decision would he go to the
Cross he could have quit he could have
turned around and said no it’s too much
I can’t do it but he didn’t In The
Garden of Gethsemane Jesus chose to go
to the Cross because he loved us after
the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus was
betrayed put on trial and sentenced to
death you must remember crucifixion was
reserved for the most vile of criminals
but on Good Friday the son of God would
make his way from the courtyard of pilot
to the hills of Calvary carrying his own
cross with stripes on his back and the
crown of thorns on his head Jesus would
pay the ultimate price for our
healing here’s Robert Morris when Jesus
was on the cross he made seven
statements that share with us seven
truths for from the cross the seven
truths of Easter I call these here’s the
first statement that Jesus made on the
cross father forgive them for they do
not know what they do the first truth is
total forgiveness this is why Jesus died
on the cross to completely and totally
forgive us of all of our sins this word
forgive means to remove the guilt and
many times we think about removing the
feeling of guilt but he’s actually
talking about removing the guilt of our
sin there’s another word that’s similar
to this in the Bible called Justified
you can remember this word the
definition is just as if i’ never sinned
and that’s the very first thing Jesus
did on the cross was pray for our
forgiveness the second statement that
Jesus made was he’s talking to the thief
on the cross that said remember me when
you come into your kingdom Jesus said to
him assuredly I say to you today you
will be with me in Paradise today so the
second truth promise from the cross is
immediate Paradise Paul said when we’re
absent from the body we’re present with
the Lord about 2 years ago uh I had a
time when I was bleeding internally and
almost bled to death the doctors the
medical professionals and prayers of
God’s people saved my life and doctors
have attested to that I was being
careflighted and I remember in that
helicopter I felt like I was dying I
later told the doctor that I said I felt
like I was dying he said you were dying
but in that helicopter I could sense the
presence of the Lord I sensed his
presence so strong and when we give our
lives to Jesus Christ when we leave this
earth we are immediately in the presence
of God the third statement that Jesus
made on the cross is my God my God why
have you forsaken me now sometimes this
is very hard to understand why Jesus
would say father why are you forsaking
me and yet Hebrews 13:5 helps us to
understand it it says I will never leave
you nor forsake you so why did God
forsake Jesus on the cross it’s really
very simple he forsook his son so that
he would never have to forsake you in
other words Jesus took our place on the
cross he was forsaken by the father so
that the father will never forsake us
the psalmist said it this way I’ve been
young and now I’m old and yet I’ve never
seen the righteous forsaken nor his
descendants begging bread God’s never
going to forsake you the fourth
statement Jesus makes on the cross he
looks at his mother Mary and says woman
behold your son speaking about the
disciple John and he says to John behold
your mother here’s what’s amazing to me
he’s dying on the cross and yet he’s
thinking about caring for his mother
constant care is this fourth truth from
the cross constant care Jesus Will
constantly care for you and that’s what
the message of the Cross is we know that
Joseph Jesus’s Earthly father had died
he’s never spoken of in any of Jesus’s
public Ministry and Jesus wouldn’t have
told his mother to go home with John if
her husband Joseph had still been alive
and that begs the question did God know
when he chose Joseph to be his Earthly
father that he was going to die I think
he did but I think he did so that Jesus
could experience what we experience he
could experience loss and sympathize
with us so constant
care the fifth statement that Jesus
makes on the cross is I thirst
I thirst I think this actually refers to
full atonement now you’re probably
thinking I don’t get that I understand
that but the word atonement if you take
the three syllables at one meant and
then change the suffix meant to with
it’s like at one with God through Jesus
on the cross reconciles us so we can be
one with him it’s something Jesus prayed
John 17 that we would be one with him
and with the father so he causes us to
be one with him through the atonement
but why why do I say I thirst if you
remember in the garden he said father if
it be your will let this cup pass for me
and then when he’s being arrested Peter
pulls out his sword and Jesus says put
your sword away shall I not drink the
cup which my father set before me I
believe in that cup for the sins of the
world and Jesus knew when he drank that
cup he’d be separated from his father so
that we would not have to be separated
from the Father the sixth statement that
Jesus makes on the cross is it is
finished it’s finished everything that
needs to be done so that sinful man can
have a relationship with holy God has
been done it’s been completely finished
he’s done it all I knew in that
helicopter even when I was dying that my
salvation did not depend on my own works
it depends completely and totally on the
grace of God this is what we call the
substitutionary death of Jesus Christ on
the cross this is the message of Easter
this is a truth of Easter in one of the
statements that Jesus says he says it is
finished it’s done everything that needs
to be done has been done and the last
statement that Jesus makes on the cross
is Father into your hands I commit my
spirit into your hands I commit my
spirit this truth I call Eternal
commitment God makes an eternal
commitment to us when we meet when we
make a commitment to him Jesus even said
you’re in my hand and you’re in my
father’s hand and no one can pluck you
out God commits to us us when we commit
to him take these seven truths from the
cross these seven statements that Jesus
made while he was on the cross and
receive Jesus Christ as your lord and
savior and receive what Jesus did for us
over 2,000 years ago on a cross on a
Hill Called Calvary Jesus decision to go
to the Cross was an extraordinary Act of
love
the cross was what we deserved not Him
scripture says that while we were still
sinners Christ died for us without Good
Friday we don’t have Resurrection Sunday
and without Sunday we have no chance at
eternity with God his crucifixion paved
the way for our
Redemption what Jesus did on the cross
on Good Friday that made all the
difference it was early on Sunday
morning morning and the sky was still
dark those in fact are the exact words
John the Beloved disciple wrote about
that first Easter Sunday morning you see
Mary Magdalene visited the tomb darkened
by the shadows of a silent Saturday the
only thing she expected to find was cold
dead lifeless lonely body little did she
know D was breaking and hope was
Rising here’s Priscilla Sher John
chapter 20 says that it was early in the
morning even while it was still dark
that Mary of magdala made her way to the
Garden tomb picture her arriving at the
Tomb of the one whom had changed her
entire life Jesus had met Mary at a time
when her life was in complete disrepair
Not only was she oppressed but she was
marginalized in a socioeconomic time
period where women were not valued at
all but she lacked Joy she lacked peace
she lacked Freedom she lacked fullness
until Jesus came and then everything
changed she had followed him ever since
with a new light in her eyes and New
Hope in her future and not only did she
follow him closely but she supported him
his ministry in every single way that
she possibly could and she had been
there by his side during during the
trials she had been there while they had
whipped him to the point where he could
not even be recognized she had been
there to witness his crucifixion and now
she is there a lone figure in the
darkness wandering into the garden so
that she can come and pay respects to
him at the tomb and while she cannot see
much because the light of the sun has
yet to arrive on this morning what she
can see is that the gargantuan stone
that had been used to seal up the tomb
that it has been rolled way and her mind
in the moment that could only mean one
thing that robbers have come and they
have stolen the body of her Lord she
races away so that she can tell the
disciples and two of them immediately
run as fast as they can along with her
back to the tomb those two go in and
corroborate that indeed Jesus’s body is
not there and long after they have gone
home John chapter 20 says that Mary
remains of course she does her heart
longs in again to see her Lord she is
weeping a River of Tears when she looks
inside and realizes that there are two
angels that have come one is positioned
at the head and the other at the foot of
the slab where Jesus’s body has once
been laid and as she looks in and sees
them and they see her they ask
Heroman why are you
weeping she says I’ve come looking for
Jesus and I cannot find him where is is
his body and before they can even
respond something Garners her attention
whether it’s a rustle in the foliage
behind or whether it’s just the sense of
a presence the scripture says she turns
around and she sees someone standing
there who she supposes to be the
gardener and she’s still weeping and
she’s still crying because even though
now she has seen two angels and now she
has seen someone that she believes to be
the gardener none of the presence of
these human beings or Angelic beings can
take the place of Jesus and for any of
us who have come to know Jesus Christ as
Lord we can tell you the same thing that
it doesn’t matter who we come in contact
with no matter the success they’ve
achieved no matter how high they have
climbed up the the ladder of success no
matter how notable they are even Angelic
beings cannot take the place of the one
who has changed our lives Lives who has
revolutionized our future and so she
looks at this one who she supposes to be
the gardener and whether she can’t tell
that it’s Jesus because she’s crying so
many tears that those tears have stung
her eyes to the point where her vision
is blurred or whether it is because
supernaturally Jesus has veiled himself
so that she can’t quite make him out
clearly whatever the reason she doesn’t
know that it’s him and again this person
poses the question woman why are you
crying in and she says in so many
words just give me
Jesus and
then he says her
name he
says
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Mary her name only rolled off of the
lips with that kind of love and grace
and kindness of one other person she’s
only known one person to speak her name
with that much Purity and that much
affinity and in that moment the gospel
becomes not just powerful it becomes
personal and when she hears her name her
eyes are open and she recognizes that
this is the gardener after all this
right here this is Jesus Christ and I
can tell you because I’m a witness to it
that Jesus is still calling people’s
names one by one he calls our names and
our hearts warm not just because the
gospel’s powerful
but because it’s personal he knows me he
knows you he knows where we’ve been he
knows what we’ve done he knows our
weaknesses he knows our strengths he
knows the places in our lives where we
need his Mercy or Grace and like Mary he
doesn’t discard us he doesn’t treat us
the way others have he doesn’t
marginalize us he comes to the
disenfranchised and the people that are
lonely and the people like me that are
in need of a savior and he speaks our
name
and when our heart worms with the
conviction that only the holy spirit of
God can give we respond just like Mary
our eyes are opened because we realize
that he is who he says he is and that he
can still accomplish exactly what he
says he could through the Redemption of
our sins Mary man her whole Destiny
changes at this point because she races
away becoming the very first evangelist
telling everybody that she can of what
her eyes have seen Jesus has been raised
from the dead she’s our eyewitness and
you know how it is when you have an
eyewitness think about it when you’re
watching the news and the reporter is
giving you information it’s one thing to
hear the information but once that
reporter takes the microphone and puts
it in front of a person who was there a
person who saw it for themselves a
person who’s not just talking because
they heard about it but because they
were in the room they experienced it all
of a sudden that story that you just had
information about well now it’s got
cement it’s got flesh now you can
believe because you’ve heard from
somebody who saw it Mary is our
eyewitness she saw with her own eyes and
she heard his voice with her own ears
she communicates to us that Jesus raised
from the grave raised from the tomb and
he is still alive today and she is why
we can say with all confidence for any
of us who have placed faith in Jesus
Christ we can say it along with the
ancient hym
writer Because He
Lives I Can Face
Tomorrow it was a time that their faith
was being challenged in a way that it
had never been challenged before it was
a time that it was no longer popular to
say you were with Jesus they had
snatched him from judgment Hall to
judgment Hall they had beat him until he
was almost
unrecognizable there was no Beauty about
him that we should desire him and they
had hung him high and stretched him wide
on a cross until the sun got embarrassed
and refused to shine the ground got
nervous and began to tremble and one
writer wrote that Graves opened up all
over Jerusalem the veil in the temple
was rent from the top to the bottom but
you must be clear in understanding that
even even his closest
disciples wondered was he really was he
really who they thought he was after him
being
publicly villainized and ostracized and
alienated they ran and they hid and they
were afraid and they were concerned and
they were
perplexed and they were
jobless and they were lonely and they
were
uncertain and they
hid they got d dark oh not just on
Friday it was a dark
Saturday it was a dark Sabbath it was a
dark moment of contemplation and
confusion and alienation and them going
back in their mind with memory after
memory of what Jesus had said and what
he had done but the memory that they
could not get out of their head was the
memory of the fact that he died on that
cross he got stiff on that cross they
took his rig mortis ridden body and fold
his stiff arms into a deaf position and
wrapped him in linen and put him in a
tomb and the thing that they knew
irrevocably without any question at all
is that Jesus the
master who had once walked on water
Jesus who had healed the sick and raised
the dead Jesus who had turned water into
wine Jesus who had stood on the Mount of
transfiguration and caused the very
heavens to open up the one thing they
knew for sure is that Jesus he was gone
he was absolutely gone his mama knew he
was gone she had stood there and watch
not only the Messiah not only the Lord
not only the king of glory not only
watching him die but her baby her child
the one she had raised and nurtured and
nursed on her own bre she watched him
die and the one thing they were clear
about is that he was
gone and people begin to scatter Judas
had hung him himself at the crucifixion
and recognized in his own mind this is
too much for me to Bear Thomas had ran
out doubting and saying I just I just I
just don’t know what to think about this
and Peter had cursed somebody out and
denied that he had ever known the Lord
and the tension was so thick you could
cut it with a knife now let me be clear
in our understanding in the darkness of
Saturday they went back in their mind
and they had seen Jesus rebuke death
before he had stopped the Widow of name
and touched the body of her son just by
touching the casket and the boy sat up
and walked he had gone in and laid and
spoke to a dead girl and said TOA Kumai
and she had gotten up and started moving
again and walking again they had seen
Jesus defeat death he had walked down to
the tomb of Lazarus and stood outside
the tomb and said Lazarus come forth
they had seen Jesus raise other
people but now the one who raised other
people from the
dead had died
himself and they felt
hopeless like some of you might feel
hopeless right now they
felt lifeless and faithless and fearful
and nervous and
upset all Saturday
long all Saturday night they felt the
same
way but early Sunday morning before the
D had settled on the the roses early
Sunday morning before the sun had fully
peaked its eye above the mountainous
terrain surrounding Jerusalem early
Sunday morning when the women rose up
early to go down to dress the body and
to add some frankincense and Mer so that
the stench of his death did not
embarrass the legacy of his memory early
Sunday morning they got a
shocker the stone had been rolled back
the grave was empty the napkin had been
folded you see there is a distinction
between this moment from any other
moment that we talked about before yes
there were people all through the Old
Testament that had been raised from the
dead but they all Rose to die again but
Jesus rose up to never die again and the
question hurled it out of the mouth of
the Angel why seek ye the
living amongst the dead for he is real
he is not here he has risen above what
everybody said about him he has risen
above what everybody doubted in him he
has risen above every Scandal and every
ostracization that have been applied to
it he has risen above the expectations
of even his followers he has risen above
the powers of the Roman Empire he has
risen above the reach of the Sanhedrin
Court he has risen above the Pharisees
and the Sadducees he has risen above
death hell and the grave he has snatched
the sting out of death and the Victory
out of the grave and he has risen with
all power in his hand that’s what it
means to start talking about the
resurrection of the Lord it is not that
we don’t go down it is not that it does
not get dark it is not that it doesn’t
get deep and confusing and complexing it
is not that we don’t have pain and that
we don’t have fear and sometimes we must
it that we do have doubt but what the
resurrection is all about is that God
does not need our strength to do what he
said he is going to do he is not a man
that he should lie or the son of man
that he should repent if God said he’s
going to get up he’s going to get up and
if God said you’re going to get up
you’re going to get up and if God said
you’re going to be an overcomer you’re
going to be an overcomer because he rose
from the dead with all power in his
hands and the angels began to sing and
begin to rejoice and the glory Begin to
Fall because he that was dead is alive
forever more he
lives he lives we serve an absolutely
Risen Savior not a defeated fo not a
villain nailed to a tree not a
scandalous individual that’s ostracized
by his community but we are serving a
Risen Lord a roaring lion from the tribe
of Judah the Seed of Abraham the bright
and Morning Star the lily of the valley
he got up with all power in his hand no
wonder the psalmist said weeping may
endure for a night but if you can take a
tough night I’ve got news for you Joy
absolute Blissful Joy comes in the
morning and I just stop by to tell you I
just stop by to let you know I just stop
by to declare unto you that I just
checked my watch it’s not night anymore
church it’s morning wipe the tears out
of your eyes and praise our God because
he rose up early early early Sunday
morning
Resurrection is
yours