The empty Grave part 3

The Empty Grave part 3

Early on Sunday morning, as the new day was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to visit the tomb.

Suddenly there was a great earthquake! For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, rolled aside the stone, and sat on it.

His face shone like lightning, and his clothing was as white as snow.

The guards shook with fear when they saw him, and they fell into a dead faint.

Then the angel spoke to the women. "Don't be afraid!" he said. "I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

INTRODUCTION

Good morning, Southpointe Happy, Blessed Easter!

It is at end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary visit or the King James version said to see the sepulchre.

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In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

Sepulchre – represents tomb.

TOMB:

1 : an excavation in which a corpse is buried

2 : a house, chamber, or vault for the dead

So it is what we would call a grave today.

We see here that Mary went to the tomb as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week. Christ arose on the first day of the week; on the first day of the first week God commanded the light to shine out of darkness;

He who was to be the Light of the world, shine out of the darkness of the grave.

Whenever there is darkness, you must realize that light is never far away.

It doesn’t matter how sad your morning may be; your evening will be bright.

It doesn’t matter how bad your Sabbath is, your new day is coming. Because God is not far from you and resurrection is coming to your life.

It might be Friday but Sunday is coming.

And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

The gift to the world was shut up in that tomb! But look what God did:

There was an earthquake: Where there seems to be no way, God will make a way!

Many times there are satanic attacks against your life to roll stones over the doors of opportunities that will bring you to your prosperity.

Many times there are satanic attacks against your life to roll stones over the doors of opportunities that will bring you to your prosperity. As we read here, the angel of the Lord is rolling the stone away and he sat upon it which means that he will never let anything come back to shut up your miracle again!

As we read here, the angel of the Lord is rolling the stone away and he sat upon it which means that he will never let anything come back to shut up your miracle again!

How many want your life to be open and never close again?

"I know all the things you do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can close. You have little strength, yet you obeyed My word and did not deny Me.

On this Easter morning the enemy, Satan thought he had close the door on the gift of God to the world.

But God send an earthquake.

God always open the door for us to receive His blessings.

His face shone like lightning, and his clothing was as white as snow.

The guards shook with fear when they saw him, and they fell into a dead faint.

For two days, 254 soldiers watch the grave of Christ. But when it was time for Christ to rise, HE GOT UP and the soldiers became as dead men.

His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

When it is time for you to move, the ones who are trying to block you will be as dead men.

And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.

For two days, 254 soldiers watch the grave of Christ. But when it was time for Christ to rise, HE GOT UP and the soldiers became as dead men. When it is time for you to move, the ones who are trying to block you will be as dead men.

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

The gates of hell shall not prevail against the church; and since you are the Body of Christ, the church, the gates of hell cannot prevail against you.

The gates of hell shall not prevail against the church; and since you are the Body of Christ, the church, the gates of hell cannot prevail against you.

The gates of hell shall not prevail against the church; and since you are the Body of Christ, the church, the gates of hell cannot prevail against you.

Christ told Peter that I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven.

In both the Old and New Testaments, keys symbolize power and authority.

I will give him the key to the house of David—the highest position in the royal court. When he opens doors, no one will be able to close them; when he closes doors, no one will be able to open them.

This is referring to “the key of the house of David,” which in the context refers to the authority of the steward who manages the household of the king.

While the focus in is dealing with Peter, this same authority is extended to the entire church in .

Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

When the church follows Jesus’ teaching, they can be confident that their actions of binding and loosing are an extension of God’s actions in heaven.

Jesus uses the same language of binding and loosing in the context of how the church should handle unrepentant sinners. When the church follows Jesus’ teaching, they can be confident that their actions of binding and loosing are an extension of God’s actions in heaven.

Nothing going to hold this body down!!! The grave will be empty!!

Then the angel spoke to the women. "Don't be afraid!" he said. "I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

Whenever you are in the grave, you can’t find Jesus there.

A living Christ cannot be in a dead situation or grave.

Whenever you are in the grave, you can’t find Jesus there. A living Christ cannot be in a dead situation or grave. It doesn’t matter how long you stay, you will not see him. Those who saw him will tell you, he is not here.

It doesn’t matter how long you stay, you will not see Him. Those who saw Him will tell you, He is not here.

Now let’s look at what Mark said about the Easter morning:

Very early on Sunday morning, just at sunrise, they went to the tomb.

How many of you are tired of winter and need sunshine? Mark mention right off the bat> At sunrise!

But as they arrived, they looked up and saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled aside.

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And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre, at the rising of the sun.

When we are in darkness, light will come. Say: I AM EXPECTING MY RISING SUN! Because Jesus said that He took us out of darkness into His marvelous light.

How many of you are tired of winter and need sunshine? The Bible said the rising of the sun! When we are in darkness, light will come. Say: I AM EXPECTING MY RISING SUN! Because Jesus said that he took us out of darkness into His marvelous light.

No matter how long you have been in the dark, your RISING SUN is coming. Your miracle is here. Defeat ends today. Say: I STAKE MY CLAIM, MY DEFEAT ENDS TODAY.

Now is the time that your dreams and hopes that God has show, hang on because the sun is rising. God is ready to take your darkness and give you the rising sun!

On the way they were asking each other, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?"

Conclusion of the matter:

1. Your sun is about to start to rise

2. Your rising sun is about to rise

3. The stone in the door of your life is rolled away

4. The angel who is helping you to roll it is going to sit on it, so that the stone will not roll back on your life (the angels will help you in – lest you step on a stone)

Who shall roll us away the stone?

And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?

Who shall roll us away the stone?

When you have no power, find who can do it for you. The biggest problem in this country is that people are ashamed to ask for help. They know they are sick, and they don’t look for healing.

The question is: Who shall roll us away the stone? If the stone is too heavy, find someone to roll it away for you. The sooner the stone is rolled, the better your life is? ASK FOR HELP!

"Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

It doesn’t hurt to ask for help. The people will carry it for you and then you bless them. (leave the Washington’s home…carry more Franklin’s)

Ask God for help!

But as they arrived, they looked up and saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled aside.

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And when they looked, they saw the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.

Are you ready for God to carry your heavy load for you! Say: YES!

When they looked, When they looked, When they looked, When they looked, they saw! When they looked, they saw! When they looked, they saw.

The reason many of us never advance is that stone. And we are so afraid of that stone but it’s has been rolled away and the grave is empty.

And you will never know until you looked. But you have to get out and look, because the stone is rolled away! The grave is empty

That load you left at home will not be there when you get there.

Conclusion of the matter:

5. That load you left at home will not be there when you get there.

The grief, sorrow or fear will not be there, but Jesus has taken it away!

It’s gone! It’s gone! It’s gone! The stone is rolled away already! The grave is empty.

The stone is rolled away already!

The angel told the stone to get back and not to come again!

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When they were tired of crying, before they got there God moved the stone by the angel.

The angel told the stone to get back and not to come again!

When they entered the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a white robe sitting on the right side. The women were shocked,

but the angel said, "Don't be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He isn't here! He is risen from the dead! Look, this is where they laid His body.

Now go and tell His disciples, including Peter, that Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see Him there, just as He told you before He died."

When you look and see that Jesus is alive and when you experience Him bring you back alive, then you will be ready to tell other about Him.

Jesus included Peter, one who denied Him.

There’s going to come a time in your life when you are at the grave, God identifies you to tell you “If you are looking for me, don’t go to the tomb”. If you want to see me in my power, you must rise and shine.

7. Your next door, no man will shut.

They looked…so you must be bold and look. When you never inquire, you never acquire.

Many are crying in tears in the name of religion and never see what God has done.

When you look, you will see that the stone is rolled away.

When Jesus was whipped, they whipped us. He was bruised for our iniquities and by his stripes we are healed.

When they did all that to Christ, we died with Him and rose with Him.

When Jesus said at the cross it is finished, that is the end of your accepting punishment. Believe that it is finished.

Conclusion of the matter:

8. All your tears, sickness, defeats, fears, losses, debt are finished! IT IS FINISHED.

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The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

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Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.

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Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.

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So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.

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And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.

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Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,

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And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.

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Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, And he saw, and believed.

Conclusion of the matter:

9. When Jesus was to be buried, they wrapped his body in linen clothes.

10.They wrapped his head with napkins.

11.But when Jesus was about to rise, he put on a new white gown or garment. (Where did he get a garment from in the tomb).

If God can give Jesus new clothes in the grave, He can give you new clothes when you are alive.

Say: Yes, Lord! He was buried with linen and wrapped, but when he rose, the linen was on the floor…yet he was not naked when he arose. Your heavenly Father can give you new robe just as he did Jesus in a tomb. You are qualified to wear new robe, when you are living.

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Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,

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And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.

Conclusion of the matter:

12. If Jesus could spend time to wrap the napkin in the grave, He can wrap your life for you. He can put your life together again. It doesn’t matter how close to death you are – a resurrection is coming! It doesn’t matter what the world takes from you, God will give you a better garment. Say: AMEN!

Come and see where they have laid him…He has risen, he is not here…all the Gospels say … he is not here – it doesn’t matter how times I go to the grave, my God says that an angel will roll the stone away. When you come back tomorrow, you will not meet me at the same spot. Say: YES!

Step out of your grave! Three days is enough…don’t stay longer than three days. Say: YES, LORD!

Jesus died in weakness, but rose in power!

When the disciples came, they saw the linen, they saw his napkin, they didn’t see Jesus, Why?

After three days, the living Christ can’t be in the tomb.

Tomb – represents death; not life.

If you are looking for power, for new life, the tomb is not the place to find it!

Many of you think that your miracle will come from the floor, so when you holler and scream and laugh on the floor it will come…only resurrection gives new life. Say: Yes, Lord.

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But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre.

Faith does not come by tears, but by looking and hearing. You can spend 50 years crying…Jesus did not say, “Be of good tears…but cheers…”

The fact that you have learned to cry does not mean you have a walk with God. Everytime Jesus saw someone crying, he said stop crying. If you want your storm to cease, use faith.

Say, they looked!

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And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

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And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She said unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.

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And she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.

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Jesus saith, unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid, him, and I will take him away.

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Jesus said unto her, Mary, She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.

Conclusion of the matter:

13. There must come a time in your life when you are at the grave, God identifies you to tell you “If you are looking for me, don’t go to the tomb”. If you want to see me in my power, you must rise and shine.

It’s about time to get out of the tomb and stop looking for Jesus there.

He is not there, but is risen;

God is looking for men and women who will be like David and kill the lion and bear.

God is looking for people like Paul who says the snake will never bite again but through it in the power.

God is not looking for people who play with snakes!

God is not training you to run from lions, but to destroy them.

Any lion that comes to your house, but never come back. KILL IT! Any snake that bites you, should never be able to bite another person.

The reason the snake is biting Christians, is that they are not throwing it in the fire.

Say: Every snake that comes to my house will never leave.

Don’t let the snake that bites you, bite someone else…KILL IT.

When other lions saw that the ones who went to David to kill his sheep didn’t come back, they knew it was a danger zone and that you would never come back.

Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

This is the day Jesus took the limits out of our life: Jesus’ God is our God. We are serving the risen Christ and the living God.

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And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

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And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments;

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And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

If you are looking for the risen Christ, don’t go to the grave.

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He is not here, but is risen; remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,

If you are looking for a living Christ, don’t go to the tomb. Why? He is not here…

Yes, He went to the cross and He die on the cross, and He went to the tomb and His physical body was dead.

If you are looking for a living Christ, don’t go to the tomb.

But He rose from the dead and He is alive forever more! The grave is empty!!

Conclusion:

But if you are looking for a living Jesus, come forward, I will pray from you! We will pray for you to be dangerous for the Kingdom of God.

But, you need to realize that in

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And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

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And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. (like a violent blast of wind)

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And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

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And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (gave them power to proclaim His message).

Closing Prayer:

Do you have a dream for your this generation. Pray this prayer so that you can see it come to pass:

My dear Father, from today, whatsoever these hands find to do shall be successful. When I lay it on the sick, they shall recover. The labours of my hands, shall be blessed. From now, I will cast out devils, heal the sick and bless the poor. From today, I receive this gift of love, power, might and anointing in the Name of Jesus. From now, I am the head and not the tail, I am blessed, I am not cursed. I am lifted, I am not falling. I lift my hand before you. Touch it with your hands of miracles. In the Name of Jesus, I receive the miracles from You from today and I will use it for my generation.

Last Words:

Oh our wonderful Jesus! He comes and indwells us. He comes to abide. Dare you take your inheritance from God? Dare you believe God? Dare you stand on the record of His Word? What is the record? If thou shalt believe thou shalt see the glory of God.