we sometimes move over the very scripture that you highlighted lisa i love think about the wild
nature of this it says the earth shook the rocks split apart and tombs opened the bodies of many
godly men and women who had died were raised from the dead and they walked into town to town
we don't talk about that much we don't talk about it much but i think what's so beautiful
is what we can look at then and and what we see now with this same resurrection power at work
think about the people in the city their response when these people who were dead
are now walking amongst them proclaiming the goodness and the glory this is what i see what
i experienced in my own life and what i just can't help but rejoice and see when others come to know
the mercy of that cross and then the empowerment and the grace of the resurrection because
pre-getting that i was very dead i was depressed i was anxious i was promiscuous i was self-harming
but when i came to know the mercy of that cross and then the indwelling the empowerment
of that resurrection there was no missing it there was no mistaking the change in my life when we
really grasp that same spirit that raised him from the dead is the same spirit that was in moses is
the same spirit that is in me that lives look radically transformed and i have seen people who
you would count out they are the least they are the lost they are the addicts they are imprisoned
who suddenly when that resurrection power transforms their heart you get the same reaction
from the people in their lives as the people in that city what is this right and suddenly those
formerly dead are walking in power and proclaiming the goodness and the glory and that is the gospel
come alive when the resurrection of power that's right is alive there's no missing when when that's
impacted someone's heart because everything changes and it should leave people slack-jawed
when they see the touch of grace on our lives what i also love about the lord is that even his acts
are very prophetic and they echo throughout time because in that moment you know the
people are experiencing the dead literally being raised up now in our time what we
are experiencing and it's not that god doesn't raise the dead he certainly does that till now
but just the prophetic in this moment is that now what we have been dead to in sin we are alive in
god and so i love the way you put that because it's so true that when you encounter the power
the resurrection power it does something in you and it literally transforms you that because even
when i'm thinking about people that were dead and buried i mean they didn't even look the same it's
almost like i'm thinking like how did they even appear to the people you know were they in a
different state where they're in a more glorious state and that is literally what happens in our
lives when we encounter that power because it just transforms everything that we know and people
should should look at you and say you've changed right because now you're walking in a new life and
so that's powerful you know we see resurrection in baptism right that is when we are buried with
christ right and resurrected with christ and i remember never understanding the power of baptism
but it is a symbolic of hey i've died with christ right i buried with christ and now i'm coming out
of that water resurrected right and there's so many things in so many people's lives that all
they need to do is have an encounter with the resurrection power of jesus christ you know i i
mean i'm obsessed with this scripture i'm obsessed with this idea of people who were in tombs and you
know there's people right now you're watching this show and you are living in a tomb your
life has just become a a just an empty void of resurrection power place and i believe that by
the power of the holy spirit that that power of resurrection can be released into your life and
so even as we talk i want you to think about what is that curtain that has separated you from god
what is that tomb where you've buried things that god wants you to tend and water because we believe
in the power of resurrection and we celebrate what jesus did for you that it is it is it's done
everything you need it was done on the cross yeah you know and this is what separates our faith from
every other faith on the planet that's right here muhammad did not rise again for you nobody else
rose again nobody finished it like that and and we can't i love what you were saying lisa about
uh seeing jesus on the cross but we can't leave him there no we have to live in the life that
he is he is resurrected and and lives for us now and is making intercession for us right with the
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