happy Easter to everyone easter is such a special day because Jesus resurrection is the joy of his friends are you his friend are you his friend in heart that is what we are here today to celebrate because Jesus lives we can face tomorrow yes because Jesus lives whatever problem you have is never a problem to despair to destruction to death because Jesus has conquered death and he has made it possible for you and I to have eternal life happy Easter jesus resurrection is a joy of his friends and what the terror of his enemy the terror of Satan the terror of demon the terror of darkness why because the overcomer is real and living in our midst today that's why we celebrate the joy of resurrection we don't celebrate death we celebrate life thank you Jesus so happy Easter to all of you anywhere you are connected today is a day of joy a day that shows that our faith is real amen our faith is not based on history on philosophy on stories our faith is based on the act of God on Christ's death at the cross and his resurrection from the dead we need to understand what's the meaning of that most assuredly I say to you unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life in you whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day for my flesh is food indeed my blood is drink indeed he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father so he who feeds on me will live because of me this is the bread that came down from heaven not as your fathers ate mana and are dead he who eats this bread will live forever it is hot yes hot sun no oh no does this offend you what then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where he was before it is the spirit who gives life the flesh profits nothing the words that I've spoke to you a spirit and life but there are some of you here who do not believe therefore I have said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted him by my father do you also want to go away no Lord where should we go you have the words of eternal life we believe that you are the Christ the son of the living God yes there is the first time Jesus said he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life before he said that because people followed him after he multiplied the bread and the fish and people ate and they were happy because of the miracles and Jesus said I know many of you you are following me because of miracles but there's something far more important than that labor for what gives you eternal life this is the message eternal life eternal life eternal life I want to be eternal life god save my soul i want to live eternal life god save my soul eternal life what does eternal life mean to you what does it mean to you my brother my sister or mother watching us what's the meaning of eternal life if you were to define eternal life how will you say it h eternal life go and read your Bible no man that influences the thinking of human being has never said what Jesus Christ has said jesus came and said "I am the bread of life." John 6:35 and they say "Oh Moses gave us the mana in the wilderness." He said "Yes they ate the wilderness they ate the mana in the wilderness and they all died but he who eats the bread I will give him will never die no one has ever ever said that that's what Jesus said he will never die they say "How could he say you never die?" All the prophet die even Abraham died jesus said "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood and drinks my blood." Shocking words huh will never die have eternal life how can this man give us flesh to eat and his blood to drink we all have read that scripture and everybody ask himself what's the meaning of that bread the same thing Jesus said to the Samaritan woman he who drinks the water I give him will never thirst again means you never hunger again let's listen to what Jesus said listen to his words most assuredly I say to you unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life in you whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood will never will never die and I will raise him up at the last day h this this is the topic of today jesus is saying eternal life starts here that's what he's saying eternal life starts here as I'm talking to you i don't know about you may I have eternal life that's my conviction and I have it what about you yes what about you watching me if you know you have eternal life why are you so afraid and terrified about death that's the question if Jesus said "He who believes in me have eternal life right here and I will raise him up on the last day." We are going to talk about this when Jesus turned everybody went and abandoned him do you also want to go away no Lord where should we go you have the words of eternal life we believe that you are the Christ the son of the living God yes but that's the most important thing that Jesus was telling them he said to the disciples "You why can't you go?" Peter said "What where can we go where are we going you have the words of eternal life you have the words of eternal life look when we are focused too much on material things money all these things we have the tendency to neglect eternity that's why today people are so rushing to get wealth to accumulate money in complete neglect of eternity and Peter said to him you have the words of eternal life this holy bible these words you see they are spirit and life and they are life when we neglect this word we neglect eternal life the words Jesus spoke if it sink deep into your heart and the Holy Spirit open your heart to understand his words you will have joy your joy will go to heaven you will have peace if I have eternal life and Jesus said words more provoking to the human reason than that let's go to John chapter 11 let's listen from verse 23 jesus said to her "Your brother will rise again." Martha said to him "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." Mhm jesus said to her "I am the resurrection and the life." Stop what happened here lazarus died am I right lazarus died and Lazarus was buried was in the tomb for 4 days mhm so Jesus came to the graveside of Lazarus and spoke to the sister Martha can you start from verse 22 let's listen to what Martha say verse even 21 now Martha said to Jesus "Lord if you had been here my brother you had been here my brother wouldn't have died." We we are all Christian let's be honest if we lose a Christian die we lose somebody we begin to mourn we begin to cry as if it is finished we have many God's general Abraham Isaac Jacob all the prophets of old they are not longer here physically m but does it mean they are lost no they've gone home we say gone home now don't forget what Jesus say in Luke 20:38 god is not the God of the dead but the God of the living jesus Christ is not the Lord of the dead but the Lord of the living what kind of life we talking about those who have eternal life does that mean our spirit is alive your spirit and your soul we have what we call God said to Adam Adam in the book of Genesis chapter 3 23 when you eat the fruit of this tree in disobedience to my command you will die so God was not referring to physical death as we all know but the devil tell him that this is physical death you will not die eat it you will not die god was referring to spiritual death what is the word death death is separation when the body and the soul separate that is death but there is a death spiritual death when our spirit is separated from God mean no more communication as a dead person can no longer communicate with with the living but that does not mean he's gone forever but God say that person is alive that's why Jesus said to them when God appeared to Moses in the burning bush he said I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac the God of Jacob god is not the God of the dead but the God of the living jesus spoke about Abraham Isaac and Jacob as people that living not dead people and the Bible is clear once you believe in Jesus in spirit and in truth once you are born again eternal life has started eternal life is a spiritual side of your life this body we have is not eternal this body has what beginning and end what is the beginning natural birth on the earth h when you are born from your mom you have a name they register you and the day a person died they say he's dead we remove from the register the claim disease is over that's for the body but what about our spirit when does eternal life start in the spirit when it starts when you truly believe in Jesus Christ and you accept him as your Lord and Savior believing his resurrection from the dead so that means the resurrection of Jesus is so crucial it's absolutely fundamental this a fundament of our faith do you know that in the Bible many people early believed in Jesus right and came to the church and was worshiping and they never believed the resurrection what happened they never received the Holy Spirit so that means they just thought he was a good teacher and a good prophet yes but he didn't believe they didn't believe what he said about himself if you don't believe in Christ's resurrection how will you receive eternal life and holy spirit you have that's the foundation of the Christian faith can we just go back to quickly Romans 10:9 to 10 we are going back to the foundation that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God had raised him from the dead you will be saved you hear that if you believe if you will confess with your mouth everybody know how to do it m we all know how to confess with our mouth in alter call Jesus Lord but the second part is the most difficult what did he say and believe in your heart believe in your heart believe in your spirit god has raised him that God has raised Jesus Christ from the dead you will be saved you will be saved so that saved means eternal life for your spirit good continue verse 10 next verse listen for with the heart one believes unto righteousness with your heart with your spirit you believe unto righteousness which is eternal life and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation you confess with the mouth unto salvation oh my God you can see this mean the word of faith that save you is in your heart you have to believe Christ resurrection from the dead if you hear Jesus crucified that's why we talk about Easter there are two two sides of it he went to the cross he was crucified and he gave up the spirit to the father at the cross for our redemption right but Jesus was in the heart of the earth three days three night on the third day he rose from the dead oh my God let's go back to John i will just tell you the importance of believing Christ resurrection this the foundation of Christian faith jesus has demonstrated that he's worthy of being the objective of our faith unto salvation by believing his resurrection from the dead if truly you are a Christian you have no doubt that Christ has risen from the dead he's alive as I'm talking to you he knows you he sees you and he is the living Christ Jesus in the power of resurrection of the Holy Spirit he's alive that's why I say because I live you live jesus is alive my is alive that is very important that he is alive so you are talking to somebody who is alive somebody who will answer you somebody who sees you somebody who knows you he knows your thought and everything about you and the living God we are serving is the reason you can face whatever challenge you face that's the reason you can face tomorrow whatever challenge whatever difficulty may come in the future because Jesus lives you can face it because he's already defeated death for you and me hallelujah so that means anything else compared to Jesus is not a big deal that's why you have to believe Jesus for eternal life reset your belief if you have been believing Jesus only for healing and for blessing it's time to reset your belief right now it's true the part of you that is sick that is lacking resistant distant this body what about your spirit and your soul before God continue reading jesus said to her "I am the resurrection and the life he who believes in me though he may die he shall live." Oh my God let's stop there what does this mean to you he who believes in me Jesus Christ though he may die he may die yet he shall live yet he shall live how can this be it's a contradiction here in the earth when you die they say he's gone that's why we say "What a terrible mistake we do." Today we say we believe in Jesus but when we lose somebody we begin to cry as if the end has come that person is not lost that person is waiting for you over there all the saints that lived before us in Christ Jesus are not lost they are very much alive in the heavenly realms that's what Jesus is taking talking to you and me he who believes in me even though he may die he shall live he shall live that's what Jesus said so why are you afraid of death i think because we we focus so much of our lives of our everyday decisions in our life just on the natural that is why we're afraid of death because we don't want the natural life to come to an end that's why when a saint depart I don't say die I say depart i will tell you why we should rejoice and celebrate his life not cry we should celebrate and life not death if you know the importance of eternal life if you know the value of Jesus Christ of Nazareth in your life oh my God you will rejoice even though you lack you don't mind because you have Jesus you have the fountain of life and that is a decision that you do have to actually make here whilst on this earth and I think that's why it's so important for us to remind ourselves to do things because of eternal life because I remember you said one time that here Jesus is our savior to save us mhm on this earth mhm if we believe in Jesus the promise is there for us to have eternal life even now the promise is there for our spirit our soul to to have life in Christ but over there we meet him as judge absolutely meaning that here is opportunity for you to have faith to believe that's why we need to make the most of this time what are you doing with Jesus in your life you can ask a lot of questions but over there no question answer will wait for you the Bible says if somebody leave this earth without the knowledge of Christ that person will have more questions to answer over there than when he was alive the question what seems easy we don't value it what is the value of Jesus what's the value of Easter what's the value of resurrection sometime we are on the surface when Jesus came the first thing God the reason why Jesus sent God sent Jesus is eternal life when create when God created Adam and Eve there was no death you can see the first people that lived on earth they were living 200 300 400 500 900 years but the corruption of sin came progressively and death spread to all human beings that's what the Bible say the soul who sins in the soul who dies ezekiel chapter 28 from verse 24 down 4 and 24 jesus has come to deliver you and I from death and spiritual death which comes from sin because the soul that is in sin is sick is is is is dying and that is what Jesus came to deliver us from from spiritual death which comes through sin the reason why we show you those two drama is to reset your focus to believe Jesus for eternal life why did the apostles of old follow Jesus suffered persecution even to death who will believe to death something earthly why they were not afraid of death why many of them were marted and persecuted but they believe stood because they they knew what eternal life means remember the words of Apostle Paul in Philippians chapter 1 verse 1-21 for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain but if I live on in the flesh this will mean fruit from my labor yet what I shall choose I cannot tell mhm for I am hardpressed between the two having a desire to depart and be with Christ which is far better you hear i desire to depart a Christian does not die he departs that's why when a saint or a believer leave this earth I don't use the word dead I say depart he departs of this earth to another world who is departing not this body but your spiritual side soul and spirit will depart to be with the lord we need to understand that Jesus said when you believe in him you are born again which part of you is born again your spirit you are born of the spirit you have a new spirit you have a your heart a new conscience that part is new born again that's what Jesus explained to Nicodemus yes and when you have not born again holy spirit will dwell in the new spirit that is pure holy spirit cannot dwell in an unholy place that means you can't have the holy spirit in you if your if your spirit your soul is not revived born again new now I want to show you something let's talk about something we talk about Lazarus okay we talk about resurrection do you believe you yourself one Hey you will rise from the dead if you see man in the natural and believe oh it's only here after we die it's over but the Bible never says that the Bible says that the day there is a separation between the body and the soul that which is dust we'll go back to the dust genesis 3 19 let's listen to what God say because of sin because of disobedience spiritual death came to old man and that's what the Christ has come to resolve in the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground out of it you were taken yes for dust you are and to dust you shall return that is it mean every man born of man and woman will go back to the dust this body came for a man and woman it will go back to the dust yours everybody everyone the only thing that is sure on earth is this physical death m everybody will go through it everybody so why are we such afraid for something you cannot dodge is human life like a light of candle that will go off forever and stop there no there is more to life that meets the ordinary eyes there's more to human being than this body that's what Christ has come to reveal whom you are in Christ once we understand the divine meaning of Easter once we understand the purpose of Christ then we begin to realize who we are we begin to realize who God is and we begin to have relationship with God in spirit and in truth you begin to have visions of voices happening tomorrow you begin to have relationship with the Holy Spirit in your heart your conscious become alive god is no longer a foreigner not something strange until they say "Oh this is esoteric this is mystic this is not strange it is reality for the spiritual person." Now let's let's let's continue back to John that's the Easter we are talking about martha said to Jesus "Ah if you were here verse 21 my brother would not have died." Because her purpose she does not want Lazarus to die we human beings we live as if we are eternal nobody thinks about death we reject the thought of death we we we try to ignore it and imagine that it's just not going to happen we even don't want to think about it even the biggest sins a man of faith when death come say "Hey no not yet." We live as if eternal here on earth this body is not eternal the part of you that is eternal is your spirit and your soul we've been given We've been given a grace of time and space to act in that is just it and it is a grace from God life is a gift now we celebrate Easter the whole world celebrates Easter today if you go to many houses people are in the beaches people are on the golf golf course celebrating Easter eating good food what about Jesus is Jesus at home in your heart is Jesus in the midst of your spirit homelessness is man's condition without God if you don't have Jesus for God you are homeless in the streets some people are homeless but there the terrible homeless when your spirit is naked when your soul is naked airing in the darkness without a home that's the one Jesus come to solve jesus said to her I am the resurrection and the life he who believes in me though he may die he shall live and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die let's break it whoever lives and believes in me Jesus Christ shall never die that's what the Lord said you it looks like contradiction the first one is say he who believes in me even though he die will live and he say he who believes in me will never die what is Jesus talking about he talk about your spiritual man it is our spirit our soul our heart that believes in Christ that soul that spirit will never die mean you have eternal life m now from here eternal life starts now right on this earth God is here as I'm talking to you Holy Spirit is here as I'm talking to you God is here heaven is here in your heart oh my god why we allow Satan to blindfold us to focus on the natural to focus on what you see and you completely lose sight of eternity of God with you our mind become kindly minded we think about earthly things and We value earthly things more than eternal life and that's the truth if you understand the meaning of eternal life if you understand life after life you will never cry you will rejoice that's what Jesus said a little while you will see me no more a little while you will see me and your joy will be great and nobody can remove your joy once you understand this you will understand as Peter John Bethlehem the twel apostle in the midst of life threat was singing with joy because they know that this body nobody can remove it you can remove this body but not their soul let's go to Matthew 10:28 listen to what Jesus told them and their so much believe and know the truth and do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell read it again slowly listen to what Ruth is saying and do not fear do not fear who kill the body those going to kill this body but cannot kill the soul but cannot kill your soul mean there are two lives in you soul and body but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body destroy both soul and body in hell jesus is the one talking meaning that Jesus has power over every part of your life this mean hell is a reality jesus said it do not fear the one who can kill this body this body will never go to heaven it will go back to the earth but fear the one who can destroy both body and soul in hell that's what Jesus said and that's the truth that should awaken our spirit that there's life after life that one day we will face God one day and the day of the judgment it's true absolutely true that's why Jesus said let's go back to John mean there are two death the body can die and the spirit can die but when you have Jesus the spirit will live forever we have death on earth in the body and we have another death over there the second death when the soul and the spirit will cast into the hell forever that's what the bible says to those of And God's word Jesus even speaking will never fall to the ground whether you believe or not the moment this body is separated from the soul you leave this earth immediately the consciousness of heaven will come to you immediately and you cannot come back it's too late go back to John sorry she said to him "Yes Lord i believe that you are the Christ and the the son of God who is to come into the world." Mhm and when she said this these things she went away and secretly called Mary her sister saying "The teacher has come and is calling for you." Good go back to verse 23 there's something she said I want to say again to you jesus said to her "Your brother will rise again." Your brother said to him "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day." You hear that jesus said "Your brother will rise again." They say I know my brother will rest again on the resurrection on the last day we're going to talk about that but Jesus will not talk yeah okay now resurrection there are two types of resurrection which we want to talk about to you today and we are going to use the resurrection of Lazarus as example compared to the resurrection of Jesus what was the difference between the two that's what Jesus was saying martha was thinking about resurrection of the last day for judgment but he said "No I'm talking about resurrection today which nobody has ever seen." He said "This man died he's in a grave since 4 days decomposed he's smelling." You say "This guy can come back to life again." Nobody said Jesus said "If you believe you will see the glory of God." Cut to the reading now Jesus had not yet come into the town but was in the place where mother met him then the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out followed her saying "She is going to the tomb to weep there." Then when Mary came where Jesus was and saw him she fell down at his feet saying to him "Lord if you had been here my brother would not have died." Could you imagine they said "Jesus if you have not delayed my brother wouldn't have died because you will heal him we only focus on healing we only focus on this earth that's we it's we can't see beyond the natural but Jesus sees beyond the natural if you have been there it's too late my brother die is gone it's over but Jesus say it's not over when it is over with man that's the beginning with God continue therefore when Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping he groaned in the spirit and was troubled and he said where have you laid him no they said to him "Lord come and see." Jesus wept jesus wept why did Jesus wept i'm asking you the question jesus wept what do you think and cause Jesus to weep because of the un and belief in the hearts of people jesus wept because God can do nothing without believing he came to save and to offer eternal life but nobody believes it that was why in his own town he said that a prophet is little honored where he's come from and that is why he was not able to perform so many miracles because of the unbelief of the people because they were seeing him just in the natural light jesus wept twice because of unbelief for Lazarus and the day he enter on Palm Sunday to Jerusalem m Jesus Jerusalem he wept over the city because you have not understood the day of your visitation and he knew what was coming he he knew that just 50 years after his his his death and resurrection they would come and destroy the temple jesus said Jesus saw it you say "I come to gather you like a hen went to gather his cheeks." But you didn't want it the greatest trouble is ignorance ignorance is unbelief then the Jews said "See how he loved him see how he loved him." And some of them said "Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept this this man from dying?" Can't you hear that they say "This man Jesus he opened the eyes of the blind we have seen it he cleansed the leopard we have seen it the lame walk why can't this man stop this man from dying if he's his best friend?" Then Jesus came then Jesus again groaning in himself came to the tomb it was a cave and a stone lay against it jesus said "Take away the stone." Martha the sister of him who was dead said to him "Lord by this time there is a stench for he has been dead four days." Stop this is a m to him jesus said "If you believe we all say we believe we believe i believe in Jesus i believe." Do you believe in resurrection ma Martha spoke as if she believed in resurrection but when Jesus said removed the stone he said "Master master master." No it's 4 days he died he's smelling he cannot come back again martha the sister of him who was dead said to him "Lord by this time there is a stench for he has been dead four days." 4 days it's impossible jesus said to her Jesus said "Did I not say to you if you would believe if you believe in me you would see the glory of God." What does it mean jesus if you don't believe in me the resurrection and the life you have to believe Jesus is the resurrection and the life you have to believe Jesus has risen from the dead and he will raise him from the dead that our faith is in Christ his death and resurrection for you if you believe you receive the gift of righteous eternal life that's what he said continue then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was laying and Jesus lifted up his eyes and said "Father I thank you that you have heard me and I know that you always hear me but because of the people who were standing by I said this that they could believe that they may believe that you sent me now when he had said these things he cried with a loud voice Lazarus come forth lazarus come forth and what happened and he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave clothes and his face was wrapped with a cloth let's stop there lazarus for a man like you and I he fell sick a deadly disease and he died then they took him to the tomb and they buried him after 4 days the body begin to decompose as a stench when Jesus call him back to life Lazarus came out but in that body no sickness he was made whole what happened at that moment i want to explain to you let me show you one diagram try to explain we are going to compare in the Bible we have many cases of resurrection in the Bible so many in the book of first king chapter 17 ruth can you go to first Kings 17:23 even 22 then the Lord heard the voice of Elijah and the soul of the child came back read before read before the the boy was dead read verse before then he cried out to the Lord and said "Oh Lord my God have you also brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge by killing her son?" Mhm and he stretched himself out on the child three times and cried out to the Lord and said "Oh Lord my God I pray let this child's soul come back to him." Come on when we die in the body you can see there's a separation between the spirit and the soul and the body that is death physical death the spirit and the soul are separated from the body and the body still remain on the earth it came from the dust if we go back to the dust here now when Elijah prayed he said "God let the soul come back to this body." That's what Elijah prayed lord let this soul who departed who disconnected from this body bringing physical death let him come back to this body so his body can live again that was a prayer of Elijah what happened Ruth then the Lord heard the voice of Elijah and the soul of the child came back to him and he revived the soul came back and revived this is resurrection for somebody who's dead and come back to life again that's resurrection that Elijah did the same happened to Elisha with the widow of Zarapath now Jesus did one let's go to Luke 7:1 and this one is different from Lazarus now we can see many resurrection happened in the Bible but those people those people were not buried yet they were just die they be on their bed they be in the hostel bed whatever the soul come back and they begin to live again now it happened the day after that he went into a city called Naine and many of his disciples went with him and a large crowd and when he came near the gate of the city behold a dead man was being carried out a dead man the only son of his mother they were taken to the graveyard and she was a widow mhm and the large crowd from the city was with her yes when the Lord saw her he had compassion on her and said to her "Do not weep." Then he came and touched the open coffin and those who carried him stood still and he said "Young man I say to you arise." So he So he who was dead sat up and began to speak and he presented him to his mother then fear came upon all and they glorified God saying "A great prophet has risen among us and God has visited his spoke and the boy come back to life." The question we need to ask who is Jesus he spoke and the dead came back to life lazarus died body decomposed jesus spoke and he came back and Jesus revealed himself to that situation i am the resurrection and the life mean who will raise you from the dead that is Jesus himself he who believes in me will never die and I will raise him at the last day this is the assurance you have and I the day we leave this earth one day Jesus will raise us from the dead what is the difference between Lazarus and Jesus it is written here Jesus adop let's go back Jesus now we talk about Easter right the soul and the spirit of Lazarus when Jesus spoke come back inside the grave and Lazarus resurrected inside the grave and then he came out and we saw him physically now at the cross when Jesus was crucified in the book of Matthew chapter 27 Jesus said father into your hand I commit my spirit There is a difference between the two death lazarus died because of the sick but Jesus said "No one takes my life from me i lay it down and I take it back." Let's go to John 10:18 it's important we understand this Easter we are talking about this resurrection of Jesus no one takes it from me but I lay it down of myself i have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again can you imagine this command I have received from my father no one takes my life from me i have power to lay it down and I have power to take it back to take it back what does it mean to take it back power over death power to come back to life okay go to John 2:1 19 now you understand what Jesus said to the Pharisees when he came to the temple i give my spirit i can take it back jesus say clearly in John 2:1 19 listen to what he says jesus answered and said to them "Destroy this temple and in 3 days I will raise it up." Destroy this temple my body mean this body it was a temple who dwells in the temple god not the temple of wall of Solomon but the temple of his body was talking about destroy this body in three days i myself I will raise up that's what Jesus said i lay it down i have power to take it back i am the resurrection i am the life that's the Jesus we believe what does it mean you were talking about what then the Jews said "It has taken 46 years to build this temple and you will raise it up in three days." And they were focusing on the natural on the building but he was speaking of the temple of his body temple of his body i want you to understand if Jesus say his body is a temple Jesus is an embodiment of the father and of the holy spirit god himself but you and I our body is a temple of holy spirit so if you destroy his temple God will raise it up when you have Jesus when you have Holy Spirit you have eternal life god dwells in you you become the temple of God but Jesus said "Destroy this temple." I have power to raise it up now let's talk about Jesus here let me move you back jesus was buried like Lazarus was in the tomb three days three nights on the third day Jesus rose from the dead the difference between the two lazarus came back to life with a normal body he came back to life with normal body and after he died like all men died all the people that were raised from the dead resurrected they lived and after one time they die again but the case of Jesus is different the case of Jesus Colossians chapter 1:18 let's talk about resurrection of Jesus colossians 1:18 now this is the area that concerns you and I this is the question we talk about the resurrection of the last day and he is the head of the body the church who is the beginning the firstborn from the dead that in all things he may have preeminence why we call the firstborn from the dead because his resurrection was different which kind of resurrection is talking about it's not Lazarus one this one is completely different when Jesus rose from the dead on the third day what happened no human being will see him jesus appeared by revelation to his disciples he was in the body of glory jesus can enter without opening the door and disappeared and when he rose from the dead the disciple refused to believe and he told them because they only know natural death but this time Jesus rose from the dead appeared to the women they didn't believe and Jesus came to the midst of them and say and he greet all of them peace be with you and they saw him he said touch me a spirit has no flesh and bones it was his body crucified they saw with the holes with the pain but that body was not natural body was a body of glory Jesus can appear can disappear and he ascended back to heaven like he appeared on the way to Emmas exactly on the way to emer appeared to two that's the d we saw but they didn't believe they think physical death is the end of everything why are we so much conditioned to believe that when you die it is over and that's the greatest mistake people are making today if a holy person a believer dies only in body but he continues to live in the spirit with God he may not relate with you on the physically but the Bible says he's alive when Jesus referred to Abra Abraham God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob god is not the God of the dead he's the God of the living now let me talk about something what happened i said everybody who died naturally in the Bible and who was raised from the dead all of them they died finally they go back to the dust everybody but Jesus after 40 days Jesus ascended to heaven and sat at the right hand of God the other people what happened to other people what happen now if a believer dies in the natural where will he go that's the question we are talking about before we talk about believer I'm talking about unbeliever I hope you can see me right you can see death is separation if an unbeliever dies what happen the body go back to the dust the Question his spirit on soul where is he going the scripture says clearly that if a person dies here and his body is buried his soul and spirit will go to darkness they go to darkness waiting for a judgment of the last day jesus is talking about Jesus say he is the judge of the living and of the dead can you go to 2 Timothy 4:1 i charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom jesus will judge the living and the dead 2 Corinthians 5:10 this should go there again mean on the earth Jesus is the savior but don't forget at the last day he say will come to me Lord I cast out demon I prophesy I heal people said get behind me I don't know you terrible judgment in Matthew chapter 26:45 to the end he said at the last day I will separate the book from the god I will say to you come Come and take my kingdom i was naked you closed me i was hungry you fed me come and enter eternal life jesus will be standing to judge every human being no one comes to heaven except through him mhm before we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things done in the body according to what he has done whether good or bad that's why the Bible calls Jesus the judge of the living and the judge of the dead nobody can bypass Jesus if you ignore when when it says the judge of the living it means that even now on whilst we're alive on earth it's only God who can judge the motive of our heart well it means at the resurrection both the saved and unsaved everybody will rise from the dead and appear before him so that's what it means the living and the dead meaning living in your soul and dead in your soul i'm coming to that's what I'm coming to demonstrate here we have the dead and the living such a person here God say he's dead because he never born again m if a person is born on the earth naturally and he dies naturally for God like a still birth who died in the mother womb he never saw eternal life never born again as he came he disappeared but his soul and spirit go to this darkness waiting for the judgment day at the last day that's what the Bible says that's why we preach the gospel for salvation for eternal life to bring awareness of life after life of the truth after life we should believe God for salvation we should believe Jesus for eternal life don't forget he said many will come to me say Lord Lord Lord I prophesy I heal the sick say I don't know you you who practice lawlessness he judges the fruit of the spirit in our lives that's the heavenly currency that's the heavenly currency m so here now I want to go quickly and read here the resurrection and condemnation of the just now if the unjust die the Bible say at the resurrection there's a hell here that's why Matthew 10 28 say do not fear the one who can kill the body but rather fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hellfire m that is it at that day everybody who die will resurrect you can see this person will resurrect in a new body and may end up in hell forever why because this body that is resurrected is a body of glory that body will be there forever there's no decomposition we will be in the hellfire for eternity because that body is eternal eternally in hell eternally inment eternally in punishment that's terrible where do you want to spend eternity can you compare the lifespan here on earth to lifespan in eternity there either in hell in paradise that's what the Bible says so why we value so much natural things and neglect eternity where will you spend eternity that's what the Bible says and if we believe we're going to spend eternity with Jesus then why don't we spend more time with him on this earth because we're going to go and be with him forever so why don't we develop our relationship with him because he because one day we'll return to him and rest in him are you ready for that day that's will you be ready will you best way to be ready go ahead when the Lord shall come are you ready now be ready when the Lord shall come I will be ready i will be ready i will be ready when the Lord shall come can't you see the reason why don't wait to have eternal life now it's offered freely it's a free gift you don't have to work for anything you just have to believe and surrender your heart to Jesus with full repentance and embrace Jesus believing his resurrection the Bible say if you do you receive eternal life today that's what the scripture say that's what Jesus said it's so easy but did you believe it with your heart that Jesus has risen from the dead is able to give eternal life if you welcome into your life now that's what the Bible says now when we are saved this is what happen when we are saved we are our body is here i explained to you last time but your spirit is connected to God because you have the Holy Spirit here you have the Holy Spirit here mean you have eternal life now now now when the Holy Ghost come to you he's sealed with you for eternity can you read John 14 john chapter 14:16 john chapter 14:16 and I will pray that the father and I will pray the father and he will give you another helper mhm that he may abide with you forever oh Lord listen to that he may abide with you forever this means when you receive Holy Spirit you have received eternal life you receive the life of Christ the life of God which is life eternal first John 5 112 he who has a son has life eternal life mean eternal life start right here on earth that's why Jesus say even though he die in the flesh he will never die he will live forever you continue to live in the spirit this is eternal life this is physical life this one will stop for everybody but this one will continue forever with God this is the purpose of the gospel this is the purpose of Christian faith eternal life not on earthly things so now what happened when a believer in Christ Jesus leave this earth i call it departure i don't call it death because Jesus said he who believes in me will never die what happened to this person the body is buried here all the saints everybody you go see the tomb they're buried but the soul and spirit are connected to God for eternity to their holy spirit they continue to live mean a Christian is only transmitted he leave this earth and continue to live here forever there's life after life that's what the Bible teaches that's what Jesus said life after life eternal life so let's read 2 Timothy 4:7 let's listen to Apostle Paul how he considered physical death and let's go to Peter two of them we understand why they were not afraid of death i have fought the good fight i have finished the race i have kept the faith finally there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness mhm which the Lord the righteous judge will give to me on that day and not to me only but also to all who have loved his appearing good my vers say I am poured out like a drink and the time of my departure is at hand oh no that's verse six verse six for I am already being poured out as a drink offering and the time of my departure is at hand the time of my departure he called death departure not death not death because who was talking this man was talking when he say my departure the spiritual man you say I'm departing from this body I'm going to be with the Lord I'm departing to go to heaven I'm departing to go with Jesus Christ with the sins we eat in life with God in heaven forever that's what the Bible says that's why they were not a afraid of any death physical death mean this body will never go to heaven so when Peter said to Jesus you have the words of eternal life he understood by divine revelation that the word of Jesus actually is life to our soul and spirit forever good now go to second Peter chapter 1:15 since you mentioned Peter let's read Peter 2 Peter chapter 1:15 15 moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my decease say my disease my version say after my departure they never he say after my some verse some death but the Peter say after my my departure because this body is a tent it's not me so you remember the message prophet taught everybody your real you your real self is not this body is going to be buried it's your spirit and your soul that's your real God always look at the heart this the one God looks at not this one when the judgment come God will look at your heart to see whether the Holy Spirit is there or not no matter how this body is so the question is are we living today in the light of eternity are we living today because of eternal life you can see this body will rise and be has a body of glory at the last day this is the promise of God daniel 12:2 let's go to Daniel 12:2 to understand what the Bible means about the resurrection of the last day all the people the saint that died before us that left before us were the prophet or believers one day all of us will rise receive a body of glory and stand eternity with Jesus daniel 12:2 and many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake sleep that's why we say they're sleeping they are not dead some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt you hear that some to everlasting life mean when you raise from the dead body of glory will be eternal life with God forever in heaven some to shame and everlasting contempt that's that's the one I saw you before that's that's the res that's the hellfire here it's talking about this is that's the one the unjust so which one do we want when we are celebrating Easter this meaning of Easter it's not a religious organization or a feast is about you it's about me if Jesus had not risen from the dead there would never be eternal life to anybody you have to believe that Jesus rose from the dead for you to receive eternal life it's not about what you've done or you've not done it's all about what Jesus did for you at the cross you have to believe the message of the cross what on the cross he shed his blood to bring forgiveness of sins to make you fit for God to make you fit for eternal life there's nothing you could do physically in this earth to merit eternal life so in conclusion you to be born again is to have everlasting life before you are born again you must die with Jesus and you must resurrect with Jesus what does it mean you must die to sin you must die to forsake all sin and embrace righteousness and when you receive Holy Spirit you begin to live in him in him we live in him we move and have our being because I live you live the life of a Christian comes from God directly from the Holy Spirit that's eternal life because the Holy Spirit cannot dwell in an unholy place so that is why our heart has to be cleansed and our heart has to be renewed and revived and our heart has to be delivered from sin that is what Jesus came to deliver us from from sin because sin is spiritual death death to our soul death to our spirit and it gives Satan legal right over us but when our sin is forgiven cleansed that's when we can have that relationship and that fellowship with Jesus that's why we need to understand the divine significance of all these resurrection Easter we celebrate the life of Christ we celebrate the new life we celebrate eternal life if you believe it you become partaker of that grace partaker of that life and the life of Christ begin to manifest in you when you have holy spirit someone keeps asking a question maybe like 10 times what was the purpose for Jesus Christ to go and preach to the spirits in prison what happened we have to distinguish before the revelation of Jesus and what existed before and after Jesus the Bible says God brought a judgment in the time of Noah in the time of the flood those spirit those people that's pretty referring to that's what the Bible says in the book of jud and in the book of Peter that those spirit were captive because because of iniquity God sent judgment and everybody died by the flood except Noah and his family eight people were only saved now those people never knew Jesus am I right but God is a faithful God spirit was captive when you die they were in darkness what it means when I said Yeah when but this were here in darkness they died they left the earth but they were darkness waiting for the judgment to come on the last day so when Jesus came the Bible say Jesus went to the earth lower earthly region of the earth to preach to them the gospel of salvation that's what the Bible says he went to preach the gospel to them so nobody can say I never knew Jesus i never knew the gospel m that's the mystery one of the mysteries of the Bible that God gave them a second chance when Jesus preached the gospel to them we don't know the outcome the only judge is Jesus but that's what happened today how do we know who is saved who is not saved only Jesus knows that's why only him can judge who is saved who's not saved nobody can deceive him he looks at your heart to know whether you are Holy Spirit or not somebody can pretend to be a Christian wearing big crown big Bible but the heart is far from God the only judge of the living and the dead is Jesus Christ of Nazareth at the last day so the only judge of your heart is Jesus that's why no man whether your heart is alive or your heart is dead the only one who can know that and judge that is Jesus Christ that's why the Bible says don't rush to judge on the appearance ask God the Holy Spirit to get you past appearance to the heart so you know who the person really is someone's asking how may I know that I'm saved you can know that's the easiest conception if you are saved you have the peace of God in your heart the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit will give you peace of heart and mind if you are saved you forsake the life of sin you were living before if you are saved you want to know God more you want to hear God more you want to fellowship with God more and please him by faith and you have peace in your heart in your life and you trust and believe Jesus that's the evidence of salvation you must have faith to be saved before you become a Christian you must believe in Jesus in your heart you must believe his resurrection in your heart you must repent we forget that you can't just say accept Jesus the Bible say repent the kingdom of God is at hand you must repent and forsake all unrighteousness and embrace Jesus and embrace his new life because Christianity is a lifestyle of trusting in God and then Holy Ghost will help you to be like Jesus to be saved i want to be saved how can I receive the Holy Spirit someone's asking the question is so simple the Bible say you have to believe in Jesus of Nazareth go to act chapter 2 starting from verse 35 to 38 that's why what kind of gospel are we listening today is it gospel for eternal there only one gospel I know the gospel of the kingdom of God the gospel of salvation eternal life of Jesus Christ the son of God that's the only gospel I know this Jesus God has raised up of which we are all witnesses therefore being exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit he poured out this which you now see and hear mhm for David did not ascend into the heavens but he says himself "The Lord said to my Lord sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your foottool." Only through Jesus receive Holy Spirit go to Act 5:32 mean you must believe in Jesus Christ when you believe in him he said "He who believes in me rivers of living water will flow from his spirit from his innermost being." He said it referring to the Holy Spirit and we are w and we are his witnesses to these things and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him that is it if you obey God you receive Holy Spirit you can never be son of God if you don't believe in the son of God if you believe God as your father you can receive a new birth when you believe in his son Jesus Christ the Bible says if you don't know there's the Holy Ghost how will you receive it in Acts chapter 19 they were worshiping but none of them had holy spirit and Paul say did you receive the Holy Ghost when you believe so when you believe in your heart that Jesus has risen from the dead you come to righteousness and you receive Holy Spirit so this message of today is all about seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness eternal life eternal life my dear brother my dear sister if your faith is based on prosperity on things outside it is time to reset your belief that's why Jesus said "Don't worry about what you eat what you wear." Your father in heaven knows that you need it seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness so check yourself check your heart if Jesus is history for you when they ask him to be Lord over your life after true repentance and faith the Bible say you receive Holy Spirit in your life and it's the evidence of faith of salvation and you begin to have a new life before the things you were doing before you stop doing them and you want to please God you bring righteousness examine your life in the past you can see how far the journey of righteousness has changed you from the old life to new life and it is a journey journey of righteousness so we believe we're on this journey together thank you so much for joining us today to celebrate this wonderful Easter Sunday all about the resurrection of Jesus