Proof of Payment - Pastor Joseph Pringle

The resurrection of Jesus is personal proof that God's payment for our sins has cleared. Through examining evidence at the empty tomb and Mary's encounter with Christ, we discover resurrection faith is both rational and purposeful. Scriptures: John 20:1-18, 1 Corinthians 15:17, Hebrews 10:12

Show Notes

Ever wonder why Jesus had to rise from the dead if He already said "It is finished" on the cross? The resurrection isn't just historical proof—it's your personal receipt that God's payment for sin has cleared.

In this powerful Easter message, Pastor Joseph Pringle explores the empty tomb through the eyes of Peter, John, and Mary Magdalene, revealing four life-changing truths: Resurrection faith is rational, not blind—the evidence at the tomb demands investigation. It's deeply personal—Jesus knows and calls your name even in your darkest moments. It's overwhelmingly merciful—choosing broken people like Mary Magdalene to carry His greatest message. And it's purposeful—authentic encounters with the risen Christ always produce a "sent life."

Whether you're investigating faith for the first time or need fresh hope in your trials, discover how the resurrection changes everything. Stop disqualifying yourself—Jesus qualifies you for His kingdom purposes.

Ready to encounter the risen King? Visit C3OC this Sunday and connect with a community that believes resurrection power is still at work today.

Scriptures: John 20:1-18, 1 Corinthians 15:17, Hebrews 10:12

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Hi, thanks for tuning in to this Week's message at C3OC. We hope that it blesses you, equips you, and fills you with faith. Let's dive in. It is awesome to be here and celebrating the resurrection of our living God. Amen. And today I wanted to center in, obviously, around the resurrection. We're going to be focusing out of John 20, verses 1 through 18. So if you have your Bible, you can find your way there. But I believe it's important for us that as we come around this time, that we actually ask ourselves and are able to answer this, whether you've been in the faith for a long time or if this is, you know, one of your first times, or maybe you come to church once or twice a year when it's Easter or when it's Christmas and we come in and we hear the story about the death and the resurrection of Christ, and we might have, you know, the understanding of the historical context. But I think it's very important for us to be able to answer and to know within our heart, not just our head, why this matters to me. Why does this matter to me? How does this affect my life? This great man in history who also claimed to be God walking among us? When he died, I understand that there was this finishing of my sin being fulfilled. It was now fulfilled in his sacrifice. The justice of God found its fulfillment in Jesus sacrifice. And then the resurrection came. And it's kind of like, well, he said, it is finished. So what does the resurrection have to do? He said, it's finished on the cross. So what is the resurrection then proving to us? Because I think if we're honest, some of us can walk around, or you might have walked in here this morning and have that question, why is the resurrection meaningful to me? What did it complete in my life? So I want you to just take a moment to imagine that Jesus actually, he didn't come. Jesus Christ did not get sent through the virgin birth down on this earth. And you wake up every morning with the weight of the world on your shoulders. You have committed your life. You're saying, I want to be one of God's family. But yet you still feel like you are continually falling short in your ways. The Lord demands perfection, but you cannot give it. Your sin demands a cost, but you can't afford it. And there is this gnawing feeling that is within you that there is no bridge to God, but there is a vast separation between you and his purposes, between you and his calling in your life. When we're distant From God this time, he is also distant from us. And so there is this feeling that is within us. I will never be enough for God. And I know that some of us might struggle with that today. The good news is, is that Jesus wiped that away. He said, there is a chance, there is an opportunity, there is an assuredness that when you come to the Father in me, you will be connected to him. You will have a relationship with him. And as you live in this quietness, this quiet awareness of Christ has not yet come. There is that vast separation. And so when Jesus came, like I said, he bridged the gap between the separation of man to God. He fulfilled the law by laying on the cross, carrying that cross, being lashed across his back, he fulfilled what the sacrifice demanded of the law. Every lash across his back, he was saying, I love you. He was innocent. He was sent from God down on this earth. That's why the virgin birth is so important to us. Because from the beginning of time, Adam, when he took a bite of that apple, the one thing that we inherited, and I say this, I think Adam's going to have some real red cheeks in heaven as people are going to walk up, go, why'd you eat that apple? But from Adam, our inheritance was sin. It was a brokenness that entered into our lives. So when God was speaking to Mary, sent the angel and he said, you are going to birth the Son of God. And it was an immaculate conception. It did not come from the seed of Adam. It came from God. And so it was separate. He lived a sinless and a blameless life. And as he walked to the cross, it was the perfect sacrifice for you and I to live under, he said. And he is declaring that the work required for your salvation is complete. The debt has been paid. Nothing is left outstanding. Nothing is left outstanding. There's a great story that represents the gospel of a great king. And he was wise and he was very kind, and he was compassionate. And one day they realized that someone was stealing from the king's treasury, was stealing bars of gold from the treasury. And they couldn't figure out who it was. So the king made a decree. And he said, the person who was stealing from the king's treasury, if you are found out, you will receive 10 lashes across the back. So he made that decree. And the stealing, it kept going on. So he made another decree. 20 lashes to the person, 30 lashes, in the hopes that this severe penalty would withhold this person that is stealing and stealing and stealing. Finally, he says, there will be 40 lashes to the person who is found stealing from the Treasury. 40 lashes is a. Is a death sentence. 40 lashes across the back is you are. You are committing that person to death. And as they investigate a little further, it so comes about that it's the king's own daughter who is the one who is stealing from the treasury. So now the king is confronted. Do I show mercy and show there is no justice in the kingdom, or do I show justice and I reveal I'm not a merciful God? My own daughter, my own flesh and blood has committed this crime. And everyone's talking in the streets, what's the king going to do? And the king makes a decree out to the kingdom. And he says, my. My daughter shall receive the 40 lashes. And on the day of the lashing, she's dragged out to the table, the executioner's table, where she is handcuffed over the table. And the guy with the lash, he rips open the back of her shirt, exposing her back. And the guy, he raises up to bring about the first lashing upon the body. And just at the last moment, the king says, stop. He says, stop, wait. And he runs over to his daughter and he wraps his arms around her and he pulls the shirt off of his own back and he says, proceed with the punishment. That is what Christ did for you. He showed his mercy in offering himself up as the sacrifice. He did not withhold justice, but yet he consumed it himself on his own back. And that's the glory of his death. Is that instead of me having to stand there and take all of the punishment that the Lord needed, Jesus came in the place. He said, you're my son and you're my daughter. I wrap my arms around you and I will take this for you. And he said, it is finished at the end of these lashings. And he died on that cross. But the tension is, if he said it is finished, then why did he have to be raised again? Did it actually work? Would be the real question. And the proof of that is in his resurrection. 1 Corinthians 15:17. It says, if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is futile. That's the Apostle Paul saying to the people who are questioning about resurrection and the power that brought dead to life within Christ and within other scenarios, stories, miracles within the Bible. He is saying, he actually goes on. And he says, if the resurrection did not happen, then we are to be the most pitied in our faith. The cross is the declaration that your debt has been paid. The resurrection is the confirmation that the payment has been received. That's what it is, it's that you have a proof that the fund's cleared. Jesus wrote the check and it cleared. That you can walk around and say he defeated sin and he set you free from the grips of death. And then as we walk into a death in this life, we walk out the other side alive. That is what the resurrection is for us. That there is nothing in this life that can steal that away. That when you have received the blood of Christ, when you have the power of the Holy Spirit at work within you, you need not fear death. That's why it says, o death, where is your sting? Where is your sting? Our hope lives a little differently than everyone else in the world. For we know Jesus defeated death. It is God declaring that justice has been satisfied, that wrath has been fully poured out, and that mercy can now be extended without compromising his holiness. This wasn't a lowering of the standard. It was Jesus meeting it for us. In Hebrews 10:12. Oh, man. This is the greatest scripture for you and I to hold on to. No one is exempt from receiving the blood of Christ. There is nothing in your life that his blood cannot wash away. It says, this is. Tells us that Christ offered for all time a single sacrifice for all sins. For all sins. That means that there is nothing for you and I to add. You can't work your way into salvation. You can't title your way into salvation. It is by the work of Christ on the cross and the power of his resurrection. There is no remaining balance. There is no spiritual installment payment plan. When you receive Jesus, his blood covers you. So if this is true, then this isn't something to believe. It's something that we also have to come to terms with throughout our whole life. And so in John 20, it talks about the resurrection of Christ, talks about the tomb. Mary Magdalene, in verses one, she's standing at the tomb and she is weeping. And she realizes that the stone has been rolled away and that the tomb is empty. And her first thought it goes to, oh, my gosh, someone's stolen his body. So that they could discredit and disclaim him. They can do whatever they want to his body. She runs back to the disciples, runs back and says, his body, his body is gone. So Peter and John, they have a race. They're running to the. Running back to the tomb to see what is happening at this moment, to see it for themselves. And as they're running to the tomb, it says, you know, there's always a little competition between the disciples. As Peter was in front of Him, But John outran him and made it to the tomb first. And in verse six to eight, it says this. Then Simon Peter came following him and went into the tomb. And so John ran to the tomb. It says he stood outside. But Peter being the bold one, Peter is the guy who kind of like steps on everyone's toes. He just does not care. He's all about. So he just runs and runs straight into the tomb, following him. He went into the tomb and it says he saw the linen cloths lying there and the face cloth which has been on Jesus's head, not lying with the linen clothes, but folded up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in and he saw and believed. This is my first point today. Today's title for the message is Proof of payment. Proof of payment. That's what the resurrection is. His first point is, this isn't blind faith. This is not a blind faith that we have. Listen, the tomb was not open so that Jesus could get out. We see in a few verses later, we see that the disciples are in a room with all the windows shut and the doors locked. And then Jesus was in the room with them. He didn't need an open door to get into. The tomb was left open so that you and I can look in. You don't have to sacrifice your brain to believe in the resurrection of Christ. That's not what the ask is. I'm telling you today that it is incredibly rational to believe in the resurrection of Jesus. So when Peter comes in and it says he saw the linen cloth, this is a word that is different from all the other saws from when John saw, from when first saw as they walked in. This saw actually means theros is the original word. It's where we get the word theorize. So he is there and he's rationally going through this. He's considering all of the evidence that is laying ahead of him and trying to compute it in his puny Peter brain. He's trying to understand everything that's going on. If the grave was robbed, why the heck would the robbers pull off all of the linen and leave it behind? And then why would they fold his face cloth? First of all, it's a dead body. Those linens are covered in really beautiful, expensive spices. You could resell that for a lot of money. Not only that, but if I'm running away with a dead body, it's going to kind of smell a little bit, right? Maybe it's a good idea to keep it wrapped up. To, to hide the smell of a decomposing body. Why would a thief, after moving a stone that is about 2 to 4 tons, that's about how heavy those stones are. 2 to 4 tons, rolled it out of the way. Why would they take the time to fold the linen cloth and leave it there? Why on earth would the disciples, who were hiding, scared, running, wanted to deny Christ in his moment of crisis, turned his back, ran and fled in the garden of Gethsemane when he was arrested, why in a moment would they be standing boldly proclaiming the name of Jesus unto their death? There is no way that any of us would put our lives on the line and then be crucified, upside down, boiled in oil, beheaded, stoned, mocked in front of a whole nation for a lie. There is no way that any of us would. Would put ourselves in that for a lie, for a story that's been made up. No. So as Peter is there, he is rationalizing in his mind the evidence that is ever present in, in that spot right there. If you've never looked at the evidence, go and satisfy your questions. There is so much evidence that is out there for you to actually process intellectually. And I'm telling you it's not just a leap of faith about the resurrection of Christ that there is much evidence that you and I can lean into and actually understand that the resurrection doesn't need blind faith. The resurrection and what came after is rational. And the evidence demands a verdict. And I'm challenging you. Have you ever looked at it? Have you ever dived into that? That it's not just a little click off in the head, but you've actually dove into this. I could tell you story after story of people who want to disprove Jesus Christ, his divinity, and yet they have turned, after studying all of the evidence, to say there's no way that anyone can deny that this actually happened. Go and investigate on your own. God is not afraid of your questions. He's not intimidated by your skepticism. He can handle your examination. He built the universe, for goodness sake. He will hold up under any or all of our scrutiny. So I'm telling you that to believe in the resurrection is a completely rational decision, along with our faith. Amen. Point number two, the resurrection is personal. For you and I, the resurrection is personal. In verses 11 and 17, it says, Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. And as she wept, she stooped to look into the tomb, and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. And they said to her, woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have laid him. Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? Supposing him to be the gardener. This is Mary, supposing him to be the gardener. She said to him, sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him and I will take him away. And Jesus said to her, mary. She turned to him and said in Aramaic, rabboni, which means teacher. Jesus said to her, do not cling for me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. I want you to recognize and see what happens in this moment. Mary is standing at the tomb and she is weeping. She turns around and sees Jesus. She can see him. But I picture her with tear soaked eyes. When my wife, you know, we watch a movie and it swells up the emotion. She doesn't like crying because her eyes, they swell up a little bit and she finds it hard to see. And I can imagine Mary in the midst of her grief, in the midst of her loss, looking through the weeping eyes, her swollen eyes, that she cannot recognize Jesus in that moment. And how many times for us can we be standing in the middle of our grief, in the middle of our trial, in the middle of our loss, where we're trying to look at Jesus but we cannot see him. Because what we have known of Christ is that of pre resurrection, pre crucifixion Christ, that we ourselves have not yet gone through trials. And so we start looking through weeping eyes, through a trial, filtered vision, and we cannot yet see Jesus. And then he calls your name. And I'm telling you, you can live a life with knowing Jesus up here, with knowing him in a cultural context. But have you encountered him when he calls your name? Because when he calls your name, he sets himself apart in your life from any other person, from any other thing in this world. And that's what separates Christ. And I believe Jesus is teaching Mary. Oh, man, he's so graceful. He doesn't beat her over the head like Mary. Come on, stop being a fool. It's me. I'm not the gardener. No, he asked her, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for? You got to understand, this is a graceful God. And I think what he is teaching her is this. Is that as grand as her devotion to Jesus was, as grand and as deeply as she followed him, he was exposing that her estimate of him was still far too small. And for us, this is a good thing to consider. Is my estimate of Christ far too small? Is My devotion to him as grand as it is, as deep as I am in that direction? But deep in my heart, I feel like I haven't had an encounter where he has said my name, where he says, stephen, I call you. He said, stephen, come, where he's spoken directly to you. Because an encounter will change everything in your world. The Resurrection is deeply personal. He knows your name. You're not just a number to him. You are a name. You are a purpose. You are a person that has a destiny in this world and a purpose and in his kingdom. So for us to recognize this and not just think that it's just our devotion that keeps us covered, but man, it's my encounter in Christ that will continue to sustain me in this world. Everything shifts in that moment. When he says his name, she recognizes, recognizes him immediately. Straight away she goes, oh, who? Rabbani, my teacher. In that moment, he didn't give a theological argument. It wasn't because he performed a miracle. It was simply because he said her name. And some of you have been in church your whole life and you've never had a moment like Mary had. You may know the doctrine of the Resurrection, you may know his history, his theology, but you've never heard him say your name. I believe you're going to hear him call your name here today. I believe you're going to see him and encounter him just as Mary did at this tomb, that the tears would be wiped away and you would see clearly Jesus standing in front of you and calling your name. He is there in your confusion. He shows up in your grief. He shows up when you're weeping outside the tomb of something that has died in your life. Maybe it's a relationship, maybe it's a career, maybe it's a heartbreak within your life. I thought this was the way it's going to work out, but it hasn't. And he is standing outside that tomb and he's calling your name. That's who he is. And he is calling you out of a small estimate of his power into a larger, resurrected estimate of who he is. In verse 17, this is point three, the resurrection is merciful. It's so merciful for you and I. In John 2017, it says, but go to my brothers and say to them, I am Ascending to my Father and your father and my God and your God. Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, I have seen the Lord. And that he had said these things to her. Jesus rises from the dead. He's just conquered sin, went to Sheol, he set the captives free, and then he was resurrected in a new body and walked out amongst the disciples. And the first thing he says, the first message he sends, is not tell those cowards, those people who call themselves my friends, those cowards who turned their back on me and they ran. Tell those guys who betrayed me in that instance, go and tell them that this. No, he says, go and tell my brothers. It's the first time in Scripture that Jesus calls his disciples not disciples, not servants. It's the first time he calls them brothers. In the time of their deepest turning of the back on Jesus, he says, go and tell my brothers after they all ran and they hid, he still calls them brothers. And then you got to consider who he chooses to deliver this message. He chooses Mary Magdalene. If you go back to the beginning of the Gospels, you'll see Mary Magdalene was a woman who was demon possessed. It doesn't give much of a. Too much of a backstory. But we could consider that she lived a pretty wild life, right? Okay. And she had seven demons, and these demons were cast out of her, and she devoted her life to following Jesus from that point, let alone. And I know that this is California in 2026, but back in these days, the testimony of a woman would not be considered credible. So if I was to fake this story, if I'm sitting around with the disciples, with the fire and saying, this is how we're going to tell the story? Yeah, we're going to die excruciatingly painful deaths, and we're going to make this up and this is the way it's going to go. Oh, we should have a woman. No, we're definitely not having a woman who brings the first testimony that Jesus is alive. That would not do that. So for it to be actually kept within the Gospels is declaring to us there is historically right rationality within this text. So Mary, this broken person, she wasn't. She wasn't born into it. She. She was delivered at a moment. She was covered in tears. She was a mess. When she said, take this message and run back and tell my brothers. Tell my brothers this message. It doesn't matter where you're at in your life. It doesn't matter if you're in the middle of a severe trial or you're messy and Disheveled at this time. God wants to give you a message to take to the world. It's merciful. So many people disqualify themselves because of what happened yesterday, what decisions they made yesterday, or what they've been involved with in the past. I'm telling you, if there is people who are not credible, then I am the least of these. Being a drug addict, running from God, denying everything, closing out my family, living a tumultuous life, making so many terrible decisions that were hurting people all around. Careless, fractured, broken, rejecting and rejected. Come crawling back to God at the bottom and say, just like the prodigal son, even if there's a place just to serve in the lowest place of your kingdom, I will do it. I'm telling you, there is a place for you in God's kingdom. Stop unqualifying yourself. Jesus qualifies you. It's not by our works. And so here's Mary, and she sent. I'm telling you, the resurrection reveals his mercy in your life. It reveals his mercy. Jesus is making a declaration here, and he's saying it as loudly and clearly as he can. Salvation does not come on the basis of your pedigree. It does not come come because of your track record. It is not about how moral you are, how religious you are, how together you appear to be. It comes because the blood of Jesus was spilled for you. He atoned for you. And then he defeated death and he rose again. Stop disqualifying yourself. Jesus did not die for nothing. He died for your liberation. I'll tell you this. Mary Magdalene was the first one at the tomb. Not Peter, not John. Mary, the one with the seven demon history. And Jesus chose her to preach the first Easter Sunday message. He chose her to bring the good news to his brothers. His mercy is not reserved. It's not hidden from you. It is poured out on the broken who are desperate enough to stay at the feet of Jesus when everyone else has gone home. Be desperate for Jesus. He loves you. I'll close out with this, my last point. The resurrection is filled with purpose. It's filled with purpose. John 20:17 says this. Go to my brothers and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and to your Father, to my God, and to your God. Every single time, Jesus encounters someone in this chapter. Mary, the disciples, Thomas. You can read that in the next paragraph there. He doesn't let them stay in the moment, but he sends them. He says, go. Go and tell. Go and say. As soon as she hears her name, he says, go and tell my brothers as soon as he appears to the disciples, he says, as my Father sent me, I am sending you. Here's what I need you to hear. An authentic encounter with Jesus, with the risen king always produces a sent life. You have deep meaning, you have deep purpose in this life that goes beyond just our preference and what we want to achieve in this world. There is a kingdom that you are now a son and daughter. You are now a servant within. You are now a brother and a sister that is standing next to each other and advancing the kingdom of God. If you've truly encountered Jesus and not just emotionally moved by good music, you're not just intellectually persuaded by a well crafted sermon, but you've actually encountered the risen God. Your life will not stay the same. There will be a go in your life. Go is a big word in the Bible. Go and make disciples is the great commission. Go is two thirds of God's name. Just let us sink in. Go is 2/3 of God's name. He wants you to go with the good news that he has given you. You will have direction, a purpose, and a mission that wasn't there before. Honestly, I think that sometimes we settle for a Christianity that is entirely about receiving and never about sending. Come to church. I get fed, I get my inspiration. I've got my little uplifting moment. I get inspired, I go home. And then I just repeat, this is not what the resurrection produces in our life. The resurrection produces people who go. And I'm telling you again, you cannot disqualify yourself from this. For it is not by your power, it is not by your might, but it is by God's spirit. It is by his spirit. Mary didn't organize a committee. She didn't wait for the perfect moment. The text says she went immediately. Like I said. She preached the first Easter Sunday sermon and it was five words. Amen. But you'll wish the sermons were five words. Five words is what she said. I have seen the Lord. And when you've truly encountered Christ, and he has called your name. I see Alan. Neely. I see. Christ has called your name. I see. Valerie. Christ has called your name. I see the Feldmans, the whole family. Christ has called your name. I see. Kevin. Christ has called your name. I see. Bailey and Jessica. Christ has called your name. I see the Campbells. Christ has called your name. Scout. Christ has called your name. Louise. Christ has called your name. Jay and Nancy. Christ has called your name. Ethan. Moghadam. Christ has called your name. It produces a people who have an encounter and they go for there is good news that this world needs. There is too much bad news that gets headlines in people's worlds. There's too much bad news. Boldness that is within our hearts that we let settle. That's why it's so important to understand that the message of the cross is merciful. It's deeply rational. That it is merciful and personal to you. And that it has a mission that it is sending. She just simply declared, I have seen the Lord and it changed everything. Let's rise here today. Thank you, Father. You are a good God. Thank you, Father, that you defeated death. You give us hope in this world. That through suffering there is hope. That through trial there is hope. That in the midst of chaos. Just as the disciples encountered. When they walked into that tomb. It wasn't a mess. No. You folded your death clothes to show this. That the kingdom of God has peace in the midst of it. That it has order in the midst of it. I thank you, Father. With every hand lifted here today. I pray for a calling of names. I thank you for an encounter with the living God. The God. Where there are shadows, light burns them away. That where there is cynicism, truth stands in the middle. That where there is hopelessness or depression or despair. Peace walks in the room. For peace is not a moment, but it is a person. Mercy is not a moment. It is a person. Hope is not a moment. It is a person. So we put our trust in you, Jesus. Why don't you just raise your hands and say, jesus. Speak. Jesus. Speak. Just pray. Just pray to him. Say, Jesus. Speak, Lord. Speak. Speak, Lord. Speak to my heart. Speak to my situation. Clear my vision. That I would speak. See you not as the gardener. But I would see you as the risen Lord. Father. That I would see you as nothing less. Increase the estimate of my heart of who you really are. Father. God. Oh, God. O God. O God. O God. According to the riches of your glory. Strengthen our inner man, our inner woman. By the power of your spirit to comprehend the bigness of your love. Father, thank you, Jesus. That there is resurrection in people's worlds here today. That which is being called dead. Relationships, marriages, life. Where there is sickness. Father, you said that by the stripes on my back. I send healing. I call. Thank you, Father. You are a God that heals diseases and sickness within our body. Torn ligaments. Thank you, Father. That you are the healer of broken hearts and broken faith and broken hope. So, God, we cry out to you here today. Just pray. Just let it out of your mouth. Say, speak, Lord. Speak. Call Me. Call my name. I am hungry. I am desperate for you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Speak to your people here today, Father. Speak to the name of Jesus. Let them hear your voice, Father. Hear your voice. Louder than all of the doubt. Louder than all of the cynicism. Oh, God. I speak to lies. Lies have seen him planted in the mind that they would be evicted here today. In the name of Jesus, I pray for deliverance in people's lives. Deliverance from lies. Deliverance from a spirit of death that has been hanging over, echoing within the minds. God, oh God. I speak against the spirit of depression. That there is deliverance. In the name of Jesus. Oh, God. Oh God. Lift that which we cannot lift up ourselves. Lift it up, Father. Lift it up. Oh, come on. Tell him that there is something he needs to lift up. Your life or you've been desiring it. I see people who've been desiring for a change in their world crying in their bedroom. Say it now. Lift it fast. Be hungry enough. Be hungry for his touch. Be hungry for his deliverance. In the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus. Oh, I declare your blood over your people. Thank you, Father. Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord. Thank you, Father. You did not just hang on that cross and rise again to set us free from the grips of death. No, it was for freedom. It was for purpose. It was for mission. It was for counsel. It was fulfilling. So I thank you, Jesus, that you would send your holy spirit upon your people here today. Send your spirit here today. Your word says Jesus breathed on the disciples and said, receive my spirit. Oh, I pray your breath upon us. Your breath upon us, Father, your mighty name. Hey, thanks for tuning in. There's a bunch of different ways that we connect throughout the week, including Sunday mornings, and we would love to see you there. You can check out all the [e-mail].