greetings everyone well i want to share an experience with you that i had 20 years ago i
was living in a small third floor apartment and my bed was like against the wall and one night
there was a rushing wind that came in the room not in the window the window was closed but it came
in the room and it was so strong i held on to both sides of the bed i thought i was going to be swept
away you know like dorothy and the wizard of oz is just going to sweep me away but that wind it just
all i can say was a rushing wind and next thing i knew i was standing next to jesus at the tomb
of lazarus lazarus and everything i mean it's like i was really there the people everybody
around me they were you know it was that day when jesus was going to raise lazarus from the tomb
the smell the taste everything about that day i could hear some people were
crying they were there was the mourners there were those who were kind of sneering and
people in a distance that were watching and there was conversation going on but i was standing
next to jesus and you know it's very interesting because he lazarus had been in the tomb four days
and now jesus you know he's he has conversation with the father and then he said you know i always
and i know you always hear me and because of the people who are standing here i
said this that they may believe that you sent me and then he said lazarus come forth
now it says scripture says and he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave cloths
and his face was wrapped with a cloth and jesus said to them loose him and let him go
now that's exactly what happened but as i'm standing next to the lord and i
see this you know he's coming forth and he's still wrapped in all these
garments you know this cloth i said to the lord i said lord he stinketh not i spoke old king james
but you see he had the breath of life in him he did not stink he should have stunk because he had
been dead for four days but that breath of life in him it brought back life and he did not stink
now my message today is we need to unwrap the grape cloths because it's time for us to come
out of the tomb it's time for us to do the greater works you know jesus when he was he was buried he
was crucified and then they laid him in the tomb and they wrapped him in grave cloths and they put
the napkin over his face and it's interesting in john 20 well in in 19 it's telling you know how
they took the body of jesus bound him in strips of linen with spices that was custom for the day
and then they laid him in the tomb and they placed the uh napkin over his face
and then on the third day mary came to the tomb and and she's looking for jesus and then she
she doesn't see him and she runs and gets uh john and peter now this is what they said
simon peter came following and into the tomb and he saw the linen
saw the linen cloth lying there and the handkerchief that had been around his head
not lined with a linen cloth but folded together in a place by itself okay now
you see jesus loosed lazarus right and he loosed himself so to speak they were no longer bound now
we are born of the spirit baptized in the holy spirit so we should no longer be bound but we
still many of us still have the mentality that we are bound we want to hang on to our grave cloths
we've been set free from sickness disease all infirmity sin
so we should be doing the father's business we should be out doing the greater works
in let me see i believe it's mark 16. just before jesus ascended this is what he told his
disciples and it's for all of us to do it's just before he ascended he said go into all the world
and preach the gospel to every creature he who believes and is baptized will be saved but he
who does not believe is will be condemned and these are the signs that will follow so this
is what's supposed to be following us because we're supposed to be doing the greater works
to those who believe in my name that will cast out demons they will speak with new tongues and
that is a point of contention in the church many denominational churches believe that is
of the devil they are denying the holy spirit they will take up serpents and if they drink
anything deadly it will by no means hurt them they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover
so this is something all of us born again christians are supposed to be doing it's time for
the book of acts we talk about it we talk about it a lot in church we want those days like the
book of acts but yet we conform to that laodicean spirit why is that i mean we all have to answer
for ourself but it's many times it's that way you know if you aren't in a spirit-filled church
then you need to get into a spirit-filled church because the baptism of the holy spirit that is
vital we need to have that gift of speaking in tongues it's that language from god he understands
it he's given it to us and it's you know if somebody was here from a different language from
a different country and they spoke their native tongue we may not understand it but we wouldn't
toss them out the door we would communicate with them in the same way god wants us to communicate
to him by the spirit he's giving us this language the enemy can't hear it it empowers us and we need
this this will bring us into a higher uh level of understanding in the spirit second timothy 3
5 says many have a form of godliness but deny its power that's the power of the holy spirit
from these turn away so i believe that many in the church they've been bound by these grave claws
lazarus he was bound his feet were bound see sometimes people are afraid to take
a stand and in the church if they get up you know his hands and his feet were bound
so you ever see somebody they're scared to death to raise their hands in the church
okay somebody may see me and what are they gonna think okay praise the lord raise your
hands if you want to you're afraid to move their feet to dance whatever worship god in freedom
and in truth by the spirit so you know god has given us that freedom where the spirit of the
lord is there is liberty there is freedom and we need to be free in the spirit not wrapped in
our grave cloths okay so it's time that we are set free it's time that we come out of our grave cloth
we're not going to stink we're going to be filled with the holy spirit
you know you may may you lose friends maybe but you know what they will begin to see
what is going on with you and how people around you their lives are being changed
and how the sick are being healed and you may have opportunity to raise the dead
there's a lot of dead people in the church because they don't know the holy spirit
he is the spirit of life and truth and we need the holy spirit so i just encourage you now cast off
those grave cloths come out of the tomb if you're still wandering around in the tomb wondering what
you should do get free in the holy spirit ask god to baptize you in the holy spirit and be liberated
be set free from those bondages and begin to do the greater works jesus said we would do
greater works than he did and that is the time we're living in we are in that laodicean church
age but we don't need to conform to it those days we need to rise above it and we can only do that
by the infilling of the holy spirit and walking in power okay children till next time be blessed