The Third Day

Thankful today, Lord Jesus, for your blessings upon us. Hallelujah. You are indeed worthy. You are indeed worthy, mighty God. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Bless the name of Jesus. Bless the name of Jesus.

How many in this room, the Lord has been good to you. Hallelujah. I don't know if you have ever heard the statement or not, but I've made it and I have made it this way. The Lord has been so good to me, you can't even believe how good he's been to me. And recently, somebody said to me this, "Well, if he's been that good to you, why don't your praise show that?"

Because the individual was saying, "If he's been that good to you, I can't tell by the way you're acting. There's been some worship. Thank you, praise team, for leading us into the presence of the Lord. But I'm telling you today, God's been good to me. And I pray that somehow in my worship and in my praise to him that you really can tell he's been good to me.

He's been better to me than I deserve. Hallelujah. Praise God. Praise God. Well, it's good to be back again.

Cornerstone. on. Amen. I guess it's been said we've preached at every location here, but maybe the last one. And so I have been told, and it's always an honor to be invited to preach at places.

It's equally nice to be invited back. Kind of Well, this thing right here is cutting up. See, this is why I hate technology. But anyhow, amen. Praise God.

We're going to We're going to magnify the Lord today. And I believe the Lord's not finished here yet. The fact of the matter, if you if you're here today and you you feel like that maybe you've missed your moment, you haven't missed your moment. You still can be baptized. You still can be delivered.

Amen. You still can be set free. Praise God. Amen. Praise God.

And I'm kind of looking around here because few minutes ago some brother came up to me and he said, "Uh, you look so much slimmer than you did when you were here the last time." I said, "You're my favorite person in this building today." Amen. My favorite person here today. Praise God.

Amen. This uh but let's go to the word of the Lord this today. We love your pastor and wife. This praise this team here that you guys have put together. Amen.

We're so thankful for the goodness of God. Amen. And what he has done for us. And there's a passage of scripture. It's no secret today what we're going to be ministering about.

It's the theme around here. But I want to direct your attention to a passage of scripture to kind of get us here on the same page. And you guys have been kind to welcome us here. Thank you for all that you've done. The food, the fellowship.

Amen. Praise God. I got to give honor for the food there because a lot of things I don't do anymore, but I do eat. Amen. Praise.

This little thing right here is is got a demon in it. Amen. 1 Corinthians chapter 15. We do love your pastor and wife and I said this team here. And you know what?

It's just this is just beginning, church. Praise God. Amen. Let's just see what God will do around here. Amen.

In days and months and years to come. 1 Corinthians 15, beginning at verse number one. Good to see one of my old Bible school buddies running around here. I couldn't believe it when I seen him up here a while ago. I thought, don't that's what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

What happened in Bible school stays in Bible school. So anyhow, 1 Corinthians 15, Paul writing to the church at Corinth, he said, "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received and wherein you stand, by which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scripture, and that he was buried, and that he rose again. Everyone say, "The third day." You've heard that before.

Everyone say, "The third day." Amen. According to the scriptures. Amen. And we're going to just expound on that today.

Now, it's not important today that I get finished. That's not important. What's important is is that you receive something in your spirit today from the Lord to help you. Why don't you lift your voices and your hands all over this building right now in Jesus' name. God, we praise you right now.

Ask the Lord to meet here with us. Mighty God, in your name be with us, Lord Jesus. In your name, mighty God, we give you glory today and honor and praise you in Jesus name. In Jesus name. Praise God.

You may be seated. So thankful my wife is with me today. A lot of times she does not get to go with me. Amen. And so she has instructed me on a few things to do and not do.

So I'm going to try to be very obedient because I have to take her home with me and and I have to live with her. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. Love my wife.

This September we've been married 40 years. So Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. Praise God.

So, here we are today. Turn to your neighbor and say, "Let's have church. Let's see what'll happen here in the next few minutes." Amen. Here we are today, gathered together to celebrate one of the greatest accounts recorded in history.

Yeah. Come on. That's a little bit weak. We need to do that all over again. We're here today.

We've gathered here together to celebrate one of the greatest accounts recorded in history. We're going to elaborate on that in a minute. When we examine the scriptures, we find the word of God is filled with miracles that cause us to say, "What a mighty God we serve." I don't have time to pick out particular scriptures today because there are many many many times over of things that has been recorded in scripture that would preach in this service today. But today we're singling out the one that uh that uh uh is really the pinnacle of what we really believe in and stand for.

And as we go along, you will understand that a whole lot more. The Bible tells us in Revelation 1 and verse 18, the word of the Lord says this, I am he that liveth and was dead. And behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. And how the keys of hell and of death.

Can I tell you today, I don't know what you've come in here battling. I don't know what it is you're experiencing, but can I tell you the Lord has the key to your deliverance? Whatever that is, whatever it is you're facing, I'm here to tell you today, he can get you out of that. He can get you through that. Amen.

In Jesus name. In Jesus name. 1 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 14 says, "And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain?" Let that sink in just for a minute. Let me read it again.

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and our faith is also vain. Can I tell you in the Holy Ghost, the resurrection validates everything that we teach and preach. Turn to your neighbor, say everything. It validates everything that we teach and preach. The situation that you are facing this morning, can I tell you in the Holy Ghost is tailor made for Jesus.

Oh, that's kind of weak. It's tailor made. I I'm going to tell you, you're not experiencing anything in your life that's causing Jesus today to scratch his head and say, "Wow, you've brought me something I don't know how to fix. You've brought me something that I don't know how to to deal with. Can I tell you, I don't care how complicated the situation is.

I don't care how difficult it may seem. The Lord can fix you. He can take care of it. Turn to your neighbor and say, "Jesus is qualified to work in your life." He's qualified.

He is qualified. Whatever it is you have need of today, he can take care of that. Someone in this room today, you need to know beyond a shadow of a doubt. Man, you hear me in the Holy Ghost right now? your situation is fixable.

The adversary would love for you to believe that you've reached a dead end and you are out of options. Can I tell you because he got up out of the grave and because of the third day there is hope for you. Uh there is hope for me. There is hope for all of us simply because simply because he got up. Huh?

He got up. 1 Corinthians chapter number two verses 6-8. There's a passage of scripture here that I want to really bring to your attention. There's a verse in here today that's going to become a theme that I feel like the Lord has sent me here today for 1 Corinthians 2:6-8. Paul also writing here to the church at Corinth, he said, "How be it, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world that come to not, but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory, which none of the princes of this world knew.

For had they known it, they would have not crucified the Lord of glory. I got to read that last part again there. Which none of the princes knew of this world knew. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. I want you to pay close attention to that statement today.

This statement was not made about the loaves and fishes. Remember the account in the Bible? 5,000 besides men and women that were fed with five loaves of bread and two How many knows that's a great miracle? Could you imagine? Could you imagine standing here today with somebody with five loaves of bread and two fishes and the master begin to break the bread and and and break the fish and and pass it out to the disciples and but hey, five loaves of bread and two fish wouldn't feed me on a good day.

But imagine 5,000 beside women and children. Huh? Turn to your neighbor and say, "Amazing miracle." I don't know what I mean. I I I would have loved to have been there on the hillside as Jesus took that little lunch in his hand and begin to pray over that and he blessed and break it and begin to pass that out to the multitude.

I would have loved to been there. Let me pull another one out. Blind Barameus is also one of my favorites. I would have loved to have been there hearing blind Barnameus cry out, "Thou son of David, have mercy on me." Turn to your neighbor and say, "Pardon me."

You know, it's amazing when you come to the house of God, you get around some people and they just say, "Man, you're making too much noise. You're making too much racket. I feel like preaching right now." Can I tell you, those people can see But though pardon those of us that wandered in here and we don't know where we're going, we don't know what direction to go in. And all of a sudden, God Almighty comes by us and gives us purpose and meaning in life to go on.

Yeah. So, pardon those of us that are making some noise because we can't see. So if that person beside you is making lots of noise, they need Jesus. Come on, somebody. They need Jesus.

And there's some of us that can't get over what he's done in our life. There's some of us that can't get past the miracle that he did for us. And so there is praise still. So I'm just I'm just making some points here now. The lame man at the pool of Bethesda.

We'll try to move on. But I love that account. Jesus kind of began to just wander through the crowd and he came to that man. Wilt thou be made whole? Turn to your neighbor.

It's a great story right there. The raising of Lazarus. So, I've touched on a few and I may come back and pick that last one up there in a minute. But hear me today in the Holy Ghost. out of the ones that I just mentioned to you, it didn't say had the princess of the world knew knew about the the loaves and the fishes, they wish that miracle hadn't happened.

They didn't say that about blind Barnameus. They did not say that about the raising of Lazarus from the dead. They did not say that about the lame man, but some reason why. They said which none of the princes of this world knew. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

So what is it different about this miracle than all the rest? Are we here today? Come on, somebody. I got I I see I see it spinning. Why did it not?

Those other miracles are great miracles. They are amazing miracles. They are mighty miracles, but it's not recorded in history anywhere that we just kind of wish that that had not happened. But on the miracle of what we're celebrating today, they said had they known, they'd have never done it. So why can I tell you I have an answer today for all of us in this room.

It's because this miracle is still working today. What happened two thou what happened thousands of years ago? Can I tell you it's still active right now. The miracle and the fishes, it's gone. Blind Barnameus, it's gone.

The raising of Lazarus, it's behind us. But the resurrection that we worship and celebrate today, it is active right now. This is real right now. The Lord is still setting free. He is still delivering.

He is still changing lives. Hear me today. The third day. Everyone say the third day. It validates all that we celebrate right now.

You see, we can pick out any area that we want to pick out of in this particular setting. And and the thing that probably amazes me most is everyone say the blood of Jesus. You can't preach the third day without mentioning the blood because the third day validates it. because he got up. The blood works today.

That's why before you leave out of here, you can be set free. That's why before you leave out of here today, you can be healed. Can I tell you, I feel this very strongly. So many times we wait for the minister to grab the bottle of oil and to lay hands on people and them to be healed. Can I tell you the gift of faith is in operation in this room and right where you sit, you can be healed.

right where you're sitting, you can receive a miracle. All you got to do is connect with him, the one that got up on the third day. So, permit me, just permit me to use, and I I know, don't make me qualify. What really took place on Good Friday. What really took place when the first drop of blood came out of his body?

It was like no other blood ever. Out of all the blood of bulls and goats that was shed and that was sacrificed, all that did was push things ahead and pile it up. But I got to tell you something took place on this day when that first drop of blood turn to your neighbor and say shed. Say that out loud again. Notice I didn't say spilled.

And I intentionally said that because this preacher has a problem with songs that are sung and pre messages that are preached that talk about Jesus spilling his blood. Biblically, you can't prove that because when you spill something, you do it accidentally. I need somebody to talk to me today. If you've got children, grandchildren, you know what spilling is. Oh, that's just all right, baby.

You know, man, they could they could they could drown the house. Oh, it's good. My boys asked me one day, "Where was you at when I was growing up? Well, I was having to pay for all this stuff. Now I'm using your inheritance to live, Bubba.

You saw it in the Declaration, estates and inheritance. My son said that to me the other day. He said, "Dad, I can't wait to get that." I said, "I'm spending it right now, buddy. You ain't getting it."

And your children, my grandchildren's getting it anyways. Yeah. Everyone say sinless. This blood was sinless. This blood had no earthly father.

The word had declared, the word of God declares to us that the conception that took place in Mary was by the Holy Ghost. The blood that coursed through this body did not have any human DNA. Come on, somebody. We're going. We're talking about the shed blood.

Everyone say shed. He didn't do that accidentally. Turn to your neighbor. Say on purpose. Everything he did was on purpose and intentional.

So if you're here today and you need something, can I tell you it has already been paid for. int on purpose and intentional. Pardon me for just being that analytical in that particular deal, but that's just the way I feel. This blood is like no other. This blood is powerful.

This blood's powerful. Some in here will remember the old songs that we used to sing. There's power in the blood. And we sung a little course that went something like that. Would you be free from the burden of sin?

There's power in the blood. Power in the blood. Would you are evil or victory win? There's wonderful power in the blood. And then we went to that course.

There is power, power, wonderworking power in the blood of the lamb. There is power, power, wonderworking in the precious blood of the lamb. Then we would jump to another stanza. Would you be free from your passion and pride? There's power in the blood.

Uh there's power in the blood. Come for a cleansing to Calvar's tide. There's wonderful power in the blood. Would you be whiter, much whiter than snow? There's power in the blood.

Sin stains are lost in its lifegiving flow. There's one. The third day validates the blood. Had he not got up, this blood would not mean anything to you and I. Paul said if he didn't get up, our faith literally is in vain.

Oh me, my age is showing today. Everyone say, "Nothing but the blood." What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole?

Did anybody come in here today feeling incomplete? Did you come in here feeling incomplete? Can I tell you the blood of Jesus can make you whole again. How precious is the flow that makes me white as snow. No other found I know.

Nothing for my pardon. This I see. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. For my cleansing this hypy. Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Everyone say the blood of Jesus. Oh, somebody needs to hear me today. The blood of Jesus has power. The blood of Jesus has saving power. The blood of Jesus has delivering power.

The blood of Jesus has sanctifying power. The blood of Jesus has forgiving power. The blood of Jesus has transforming power. The blood of Jesus has healing power. The blood of Jesus has restoring power.

It has redeeming power. It has justifying power. It has reconciling power. And it's all validated by the third day. There is power.

The blood has been shed to redeem you. It's been shed to justify you, to sanctify you. The blood has been shed to give you peace. Shed to reconcile us. It's been shed to bring us near to God.

The blood is shed for all of us to overcome. There's power there. The blood of Jesus has Listen to me. Listen to what this really means. The blood of Jesus has power to cleanse the soul of the adulterer.

The blood of Jesus has the power to heal the heart of a prostitute. The blood of Jesus has power to save the gangster. The blood of Jesus has power to save the human trafficker. The blood of Jesus has power to transform the terrorist. The blood of Jesus has the power to melt the most coldblooded killer and murderer.

The blood of Jesus has power to transform the thinking of a perverted mower. A perverted m. Has there anybody in here been changed by the blood of Jesus? Has anybody been transformed? Hey, the Bible says, uh, we're a new creature in Christ Jesus.

Old things are passed away. Behold, all things become new. I almost did a little rhyme there. The blood of Jesus has the power to stop the drug addict from shooting up. Blood of Jesus has the power to stop the alcoholic from drinking up.

Blood of Jesus has this power to stop the fornicator from shacking up. Blood of Jesus has the power to stop the suicide bomber from blowing up. The blood of Jesus has Somebody's got to hear this today. It has power. Say power.

It ought to be said of us if a mosquito came in here and bit us, it'd fly out of here singing there's power in the blood. That's just my story and I'm sticking to it. Do we really believe that there is transforming power? And everyone say the third day. The third day validates everything because he got up.

Paul said your preaching's not in vain. Your faith is not in vain. No, it's greater than nuclear power. The power is greater than magnetic power. It's greater than electric power.

It's greater than atomic power. It's greater than demonic power. It's greater than economic power. It's greater than disease power. doctor looks you in the eye and says, "You've only got so much so much time to live."

Can I tell you that's according to their facts, but according to truth? He says, "I heal all diseases." Amen. See, I receive it today. The power, the power is greater than fear.

Turn to your neighbor and say, "Satan, the blood of Jesus is against you, and it's all validated by the third day." Listen to scripture. Exodus 12. Verse 21. Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, said unto them, draw out and take you a lamb according to your families and kill the Passover.

You shall take a bunch of hissip and dip it in the blood that is in the basin and strike the lentil and the two side posts with the blood. I feel the Holy Ghost here reading this. with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of that door of his house until the morning. For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians.

And when he seeth the blood upon the lentil and upon the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you. Somebody needs to hear this right now. This destroyer cannot get to you because of the blood. He can't get to you because of the blood. I've come to tell you today, the blood of Jesus can wash away your sins.

He can set you free. He literally can set you free. And that is validated by what we're celebrating today. If he did not get up, it would be in vain. So permit me today as I try to bring this to a close.

I'm not trying to put any kind of damper on this service this morning. But I did mention to you the account of Lazarus and the Lord brought a healing into my life with that account. Couple of years ago, I saw it necessary to get professional help from some childhood demons. Let me just leave it at that. My wife is sitting here.

You got to look at this. I'm 61 years old. This is all I've ever known. I'd go to church. I'd clap my hands and I'd worship God.

I'd speak in tongues and I would leave that church service literally frustrated. I pastored for 10 years with the same mindset. And then the Lord brought a healing into my life. brought a healing into my and I can sit here and tell you all the things that happened. I can tell you all the all the things I wish I could do over.

I can't. But the miracle that took place in my life, I can't explain to you other than the fact, just hear me in the Holy Ghost. Lazarus died and Jesus comes back into town and he asks them, "Where have you laid him?" Get a picture of this today. This is a perfect type and shadow of the death, the burial, and the resurrection.

Lazarus, hear me in the Holy Ghost, was going to be born again. It's a perfect type and shadow. And Jesus w he said, "Take me to that tomb." They took him there and that's where he said, "Lazarus, come forth." Everyone say born again.

Say it with me. Some with some authority. Say born again. Born again. Yes.

Born again. And the Bible says he came forth bound. And I feel like I'm preaching to some people in here. You've been born again, but you don't understand why there's not that freedom that you desire and you walk and your walk with God. Let me tell you in the Holy Ghost what I feel strongly here right now and you hear me.

The Lord wants to do more than just fill you with the Holy Ghost. That's right. He wants to do more for you than you just experience repentance and baptism. The death, the burial, and the And so many times we and we should put the emphasis on that because you can't be saved without repenting. You can't be saved without waters of baptism.

You cannot be saved without the infilling of the Holy Ghost. But can I tell you today, as plain as I know how, God wants to do more for you than just that. He wants to set you free. We got too many people living for God bound. We got Christians that come in here.

You pay your tithe, you're faithful to the house of God, but you still haven't been set free. Can I tell you the God I'm preaching to you about today wants to set you free before you leave here in your mind in your marriage. I can't explain to you the healing that came to me when I realized I'd talk in tongues. I'd worship, but I learned to do it bound. Jesus turned to those people and they said, "You loose him and let him go."

Yes. There's something to this. When we get up and we sing those songs, he set me free. Yes, he set me free. Come on, somebody.

The liberty and the freedom that you desire happened because of the third day and he desires today. That person, I want you to stand. Get a picture of that. I'm 61. This happened to me when I was 59.

I sat in our Sunday school classes. I went to our youth meetings. I went to our camp meetings. I went to youth revival. But I learn to live for God bound.

Oh, I know that's that's not going over really well today. But can I tell some young person here today, God can do a miracle in your life today? so much that when you leave here, you will literally know that you have been set free by the blood of Jesus. Why don't we lift our hands all over this room today? If you're in this room and you desire for the Lord to just set you free and do a miracle in your life, why don't you step out as an act of faith and come here and stand across the front today.

Hey, we're not here. We're all friends in this place here today. We're friends. The Lord's touching people. The Lord is touching people here today.

Ah, in the name of Jesus. Come on, people. Church, be sensitive right now. Just be sensitive to people that's beside you and around you. Come on.

It's easy for us to learn how to do the Pentecostal antics and still be bound. And Jesus wants to set us free here today. Come on people. Why don't we gather in here today? Why don't we gather in here today?

Find you somebody to pray with. find you somebody in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus.

Jesus. The Lord's going to set somebody free here today. The Lord is going to set someone free here today. Thank you for the miracle. We thank you for the miracle today.

Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. close to Holy Jesus. Thank you.

Jesus. Hallelujah. Jesus. Jesus. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Come on, somebody. It's prayer time. Come on, reach for heaven right now. Jesus, come on, reach to him.

Lord, I love you. I need you. Great is your name. Great is your name. Great is your name.

Thank you for the blood. Thank you for the blood. Thank you for the blood. Oh, come on, somebody pray. Reach.

Come on. It's here today. It's for you. Salvation, healing, deliverance. Come on.

Let the glory of the Lord work in your life right now. Jesus. Come on, reach over. Pray with somebody close to you. Pray with somebody close to you.

Lord, anoint today. Jesus. Oh, come on. That's right. Run to him.

Lord, I need you. Jesus. That's right. Jesus, I believe in you, Lord. darkness.

I love you, Lord. I love you, Lord. I love you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Thank you for the blood.

Go find somebody close to you. Pray with me. Come on. Minister one to another. Let the spirit of the Lord work today in your life.

Come on. Help somebody. Reach past yourself. Help somebody else. Jesus.

Yes. Oh yes, Jesus. Come on. Deliverance in the name of Jesus. Healing in the name of Jesus.

Restorations in the name of Jesus. homeless in the name of Jesus. Jesus, you have saved my life. You brought me from the darkness into the Aren't you thankful for the blood? Thankful for the blood.

Thankful for the blood. Yeah. Power of the blood. The blood. Oh yes.

Resurrection Sunday. He's alive. He's alive. He's alive. He's alive.

Nothing stronger than the wonder working power of the blood. The blood calls us sons and daughterers. We are ransom by our father through the blood. That's right. Pray with someone else.

God, anoint my brother today. Bless their home. Bless his health, Lord. Do a work in his life, Lord. Bless my sister today, God.

Do a work in her, Jesus. Jesus calls the sons and daughters your ransom by Thank you Jesus. There is nothing stronger. I love you. Wonder the working power of the Oh yeah.

That's right. That's right. You are complete in him. You're answered, my father. You are complete in Jesus.

Oh, that's right. Come on, reach out. Lord God, I need you. Jesus, I need you, Lord. I trust you, Lord.

Thank you, Jesus. You have saved my life. Hold me from the darkness. to glorious night. Hallelujah.

Jesus, you've saved my life. Jesus. Hallelujah. Holy, holy God. Come on.

The spirit of the Lord is in this place. The glory of the Lord is in this house.