Come on. Good morning, hungry generation. Let's rise to our feet. Hallelujah. Who's excited to be in the house of the Lord today? Okay, I want to ask one more time. Who's excited to be in the house of God? Jesus is alive. He is risen from the dead. Amen. Our God is the king of kings and Lord of lords. Isn't it amazing church that our God, he faced the ultimate thing, the one thing that the enemy had. Death and Jesus has overcome the grave. He has overcome the world and we get to stand in victory. Our God is alive. The devil is defeated and we are gonna praise.  Hallelujah. Come on. Put your hands together. Come on. Just like this. All together. Come on. Come on sing all together. Church, we are blessed. We are blessed to be in this house today. We are blessed to be able to celebrate such a powerful event in human history, the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now many religions preach certain degrees of truth, certain degrees of morality and what they mean to be a good person, to be compassionate. There's only one religion that has the seal of approval, the stamp, the certification of a resurrection by its founder, and that's Jesus Christ. And we don't just believe in something that's, you know, fully blind and no evidence for. There's a lot of evidence for the resurrection of the Lord and the resurrection of the Lord brings us freedom. It delivered us from the bondage of the fear of death, the Bible says in Hebrews. It delivered us when you really think about it. If we die, Jesus said, even though you shall live, if you die, you will actually live if you believe in me.  There's nothing we have to fear because Jesus conquered death. We go to paradise, even the thief on the cross, not going through, you know, a baptism or different things or rites of, he literally just said, Lord, remember me. By faith, he knew he was a sinner. He knew he needed salvation. And he asked the Lord and the Lord said, today you'll be with me in paradise. We will be in paradise with the Lord because of what he did for us on the cross. And I want to share with you church, uh, from the scriptures, the historical account and it reads this in Luke chapter 24. It says, now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came and certain other women with them came to the tomb, bringing the spices, which they had prepared, but they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. Then they went in and they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. And it happened as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them, shining in garments. Then as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, why do you seek the living among the dead? He's not here, but he has risen. Remember how he spoke to you when he was still in Galilee saying, the son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified. And the third day rise again. And they remembered his words and they returned to the tomb and told, returned from the tomb and told all these things to the 11 and to all the rest.  Now listen to this. It says, and their words seemed to them like idle tales and they did not believe them. How many of us used to once believe this was an idle tale? The resurrection of a man? Jesus? Rising from the dead? I used to once believe that. Many still do today. And so did the disciples in that very moment, even though he had told them. He had told them that would happen. And it says, but Peter arose and ran to the tomb and stooping down. He saw the linen clothes lying by themselves and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened, marveling. And that marveling would go on to spread throughout all the other apostles, all the other disciples in amazement at the resurrection of Jesus, where they would preach to the death that Jesus died and he rose again. They said, hey, don't preach that. Don't preach that. We're going to throw you in prison. We're going to flog you.  They said, we can only preach what we saw. And today we have the word of God because these men, these people, these women preached what they saw, that Jesus is alive. Jesus is alive, church. He's alive today. And he wants you to encounter him. It was not only the apostles who saw that day. Another man named Paul, who wrote the majority of the New Testament. He didn't live with the living Jesus in the terms of before his resurrection, but he still encountered Jesus. He still went to the death. He still suffered all the pain that comes with preaching Jesus because he encountered Jesus after the resurrection. The same is true for you. The same is true for me. Jesus wants you to encounter him today as we celebrate his resurrection. Amen, church. So I want us to come back into a heart of worship, a heart of prayer to worship our Lord because he wants to encounter you and for you to encounter him. Let's head back into worship here. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Let's hope your voice is in sync. Heart, you have wanted and death could not hold you down.  I believe he's won the victory. Greet your neighbors, say hello, introduce yourselves, and take your seats. And please help me welcome Pastor Lana to the stage. What a wonderful worship. Amen. Are you excited to be here? Excited. I am so happy to be in the house of God. We're celebrating the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Come on. And I would like to welcome every first time guest. And if you have been coming for a little while, just welcome. Be a part of our family. Thank you so much for coming. And those of you in the gymnasium campus, you know what? Scream out over there. We welcome every single person. We know that it's very much packed over there. And we see what the Lord is doing. He's bringing people in. I appreciate you all, guys. Thank you so much for coming. Right now, we're going to take a moment and worship with our finances. It's something that we do in our house. We give. We love to give. Nobody is expected to give, but all the giving is appreciated. We do a lot with the finances. For example, we support quite a few things overseas. For example, one of them is in Vietnam, Pastor Big. He is one of our interns that went back, started churches, and he's raising people and starting churches. We know that there's a prosecution in that country that is going on. He's been into jails and things like that. So we're supporting their ministry. We're also supporting Brazil. They have a medical boat along the river of Amazon River. So they set up those medical stations in those tribal areas and they serve those people medically and they're preaching the gospel. So these are just a couple of things that we're doing. There's a lot more that I'm not going to be mentioning, all of them. And also I want to thank every single person who has been supporting our building project. How many of you are excited that our building project is going along? Come on, put your hands together for yourself. For those of you who have been supporting physical labor with finances, we have raised over a million dollars, which is one-third of the first stage of the finances that we need. We give all glory to God. We are excited to move into our new building. As you guys see, we have five services today. We're like being crammed in here and we're believing to finish that building faster. But we are not necessarily putting all of our eggs in a basket of that building because we still have a vision to reach more and more people. We have to move forward with what the Lord has is doing already and will be doing further on. Amen. Come on. We are so excited for that. God is bringing people. God is touching people. And our vision is to see thousands of people saved and receive Jesus Christ in our city and also millions globally out there. Amen. With that being said, I would like you to grab your offering, your tithing, whatever you are prepared to give. If you don't have anything to give, that's okay. The Lord sees our hearts and I believe we're going to pray that the Lord blesses your business that it grows, blesses your family that it prospers financially. And then you have overflow to also give into the house of God. Let's just bow our heads and pray. Father God, thank you so much for this opportunity to give.  I thank you so much for every single person who is stretching their hands to give generously. Lord, I pray that you will bless them. I pray that you will bless businesses in our church, Lord. The businesses in our city will prosper in Jesus' name. Lord, I pray for every family that comes through these doors that you will bless them financially that nobody will be lacking and begging for bread. Lord, I pray that your hand will be upon them in a mighty name of Jesus. And Lord, in those that if they have nothing to give today, I pray that you will give them financial breakthrough in Jesus' mighty name. We speak that in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. And right now the baskets will be passed around. There's many ways to give. You can see the options on a screen behind me. And we're going to roll the video clip. If you can put your eyes on the screen. Thank you.   And God says, I got me a David. It's a young generation. They will be bold. They will be courageous. They will be annoyed. And they will defy the odds. They will overcome depression. They will overcome self-neutralization. They will overcome cutting. They will overcome abuse. They will overcome insecurity. They will overcome pornography. They will overcome homosexuality. They will overcome lesbianism. And I will raise my David to bring down a Goliath.  Come on. It can feel that there is celebration in the air today. Amen. Amen. As you just saw on the screen, we are believing that this year, many, many youth will encounter Jesus powerfully at that camp. So if you know of somebody, whether it's your young child or maybe a friend that would like to go, you can find more information at hungrygen.com.com.com. With that being said, I have an incredible story that I want to share with you and I want to dive right in. So why don't you help me welcome our testimony to the stage? So tell us your name and where you're from. My name is Kiriet and I am from Pasco. Kiriet, well thank you for agreeing to share your story today. Why don't you tell us basically how your life was before you experienced the Lord here at Hungrygen? So before, I grew up from a Christian home about 20 or so. I decided to part ways from the things of God and I started this whole thing where my life started to fall, fall away further out. I started drinking, partying. I fell into depression and anxiety. My health started to deteriorate too as well. I had carpal tunnel surgery at age 24 both hands. I had my disc in my mid back bulging. I had my upper neck also deteriorating too and my hips as well too. During that time, I knew that God could heal me because I had seen his work, his miracles throughout my life when I was in church before. So I knew that he could but I just decided not to. I wanted to continue living the lifestyle that I did because I just didn't want to go back to the same thing. I pushed my family away. I pushed the church. I was mad at the church when the church had nothing to do with anything of my own choice and my own decisions in life that I ended up taking. During that time, I had strong suicidal thoughts all the time. I attempted several times to end my life but even though then I could see the glory of God just there which I never ended up taking my life. Thank you Jesus for keeping me safe during that time. And then obviously I was taking a lot of medications. I would always seek doctors. I had so many of them every month, every two to three months. I was taking up to 18 pills of narcotics from pain medications to patches to some patches that will melt in your mouth to stop me from having pain. I got diagnosed with lupus, fibromyalgia. My hands will swell. I couldn't get out of bed. I stayed in bed for days at a time. Sometimes my son would have to help me out of bed so I could use the restroom. If not, I would just stay in one position until I felt like getting out of bed.  I couldn't break free from it. So when was the turning point in your life? I got tired. I got tired of living like the way that I was living. I was tired of living in pain. Every day you wake up and you think like, man, I'm going to get up and walk.   I knew that I had a God that could take everything and anything in that moment. And I just wanted to be set free from everything that I have put myself through. And I know that the only person that I can run to and fall to was just Jesus Christ himself. So you ended up coming here to Hungry Jen and then you went through the deliverance line. What happened in that moment? And then what are the changes that you've seen after? During the time of the printer line, the deliverance line, I was ready. I wanted this so bad because I was completely tired of the way that I was doing. I had my life set before. I decided to come and I was ready to fight my fight. I wanted to push and pray in my word. And in that moment, the word push came through my mind so many times. And for me, push means pray until something happens. Don't leave here without the Lord touching you. Don't leave here the same as when you walk from inside out. Leave healed. Leave completely new. Restore your life again to Christ because he's the only way to freedom, to everything. And so when I decided to completely come and service, I was ready. But in my mind, a little bit of part of me was like, oh, I'm just going to go towards the very end. And I see excites everywhere. I'm like, I'll just exit out, run away. And right before, they had called me up to the front and I ended up coming and I could feel the presence of the God just working through me. I felt this whole heat wave just pouring his love towards me. And I knew that day, since that day on, I knew that God has set me free. Wow, come on. Let's give God some praise for that. What have been some noticeable differences that you've seen in your life since that day? My hands are not swollen. My feet are not swollen. I am here every Sunday. I have my family back. I have my mom, but she's here today. If it wasn't for my mom, my family, and the church that continued to pray for me, I wouldn't be here today. And I am so grateful that I'm here testifying and saying my testimony in front of many because I knew that there was much more of a better plan to come back to the Christ, the feet of Christ. And I'm living proof and I'm completely healed. I know it. Come on. Let's give Jesus some praise. This is what the resurrection caused.  What is the word of advice that you would give to somebody who is watching today? Don't stop praying for those souls. Continue on praying for those people that you know. They'll come. Give them word.  They're still listening. They might be hardheaded, but they're listening to you. Believe me, because every single time I will talk to my mom or my siblings, they will always preach to me. Even though I didn't want to, but I will take it home with me. And I'll be like, yes, I need you, God, you know. But I would do a Jeremiah 29 11 for I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. There are plans for good and not for disaster to give you future and hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. I will look with a whole hearted. You will find me and I will be found by you, says the Lord. I will end captivity and restore infortunes. I will gather you from nations where I have sent you and bring you home, home to your own land. Amen. Thank you so much for sharing your story. Let this be a word of encouragement, an injection into your heart today that no matter what situation you're stuck in, God is alive. And he can do a miracle in your life. Amen. But that please fix your eyes on the screen. My hope is that more and more people will stop being embarrassed by something that Jesus did more than anything else in the entire three and a half years of his ministry. We're not following after the signs. The signs are following after the truth and revival is coming back to truth, biblical truth. There's nothing more biblical than setting people free from the influence of demonic activity. Deliverance leads to reformation. Reformation leads to revival. You can't fight something that you don't know is there. The first deliverance Jesus did was not in the night club. It was in the synagogue. The first time the demon manifested, it happened right in the church. I come out every spirit of the cross. It's happening in the streets, even if it's not happening in the church. We allow things in our school system. That should not be allowed. Heavenly Father, today I claim victory over Satan by putting on the whole armor of God. And we've been trained in the American church, which is far too American and not enough church to show up and have a service whether God shows up or not. And that is unacceptable. We've seen too much. It's been taken out of the box and we're not going back.  It was always about our children. It's always been about the kids. It's always been about the children. We are excited for... There was a time when practicing deliverance gave us names. But what happened is that deliverance from demons, it's the ministry of Jesus. It's in the Bible. And if you don't believe in the existence of demons, read your local newspaper. Look at what's happening in the news. If somebody can take a semi-rifle, go into a school and shoot up children, it's demonic. It's insane. It's not normal. And it's not just mental illness. They don't need just psych words. These people need deliverance. And so these people need the ministry of Jesus Christ. And so what has happened is a month ago, this documentary about really just shows different ministers and it shows our church of what God does in our church. It hid 2,000 theaters, 80,000 people went for it. After the movie, they played a 35-minute mass prayer. I mean, I'm talking about 35-minute non-stop mass prayer.  People were being delivered. People were being set free. And so because of so much exposure to that, the Fenton and marketing company added two more nights which will happen tomorrow and on Tuesday and they brought it to Tri-Cities. So instead of Yakima, it's going to be in Tri-Cities, in Kenwick, Amex Theater.  Get ready right away for deliverance because I believe that it's going to break out in their life. Church, Christ is risen and risen indeed. Can we give the Lord a clap offering for every good thing He has done in our life, for our salvation, for answering our prayers, for sending Jesus to die on the cross, wiping our sins clean by His blood and rising from the dead, raising us up from our sin, giving us hope, giving us future, giving us life.  We want to welcome everybody watching us in our second campus where there is more people there than actually here for the first time. There's people actually packed in the aisles in our gymnasium right now and for the first time, they have a beautiful L.A.D. screen. So we welcome you guys. We love you everybody in the gymnasium right now.   If you are proud to be a Christian, we're not a silent church. We are a loud church because we're not a dead church. We have a purpose and we believe that we will conquer this world for Jesus Christ. Come on, somebody. Hallelujah. We believe not only in this stuff, but we want to practice it and see more of it in Jesus' name. We have amazing things coming up. By the end of this month, we're going to have our deliverance service on Saturday because of the pastor's conference. So we have about 250 pastors that are coming from all around the United States to be a part of three days just a meeting with us. We're going to be praying with them, celebrating with them. And then our intership is coming to an end. So not only this intership is coming to an end, all of our intership, we will no longer do intership at Hungry Jan starting this month. And in July, we are launching not only our home, life class, destiny training and Bible school, but we're launching that online with the purpose of raising disciples who become disciple makers, leaders and pastors so we can have campuses, not just intracities, but all around the United States. While we are excited for our new building, did you guys see those concepts, those new like really nice photos? We're excited for that, but our new building is not the goal. God wants to spread the influence of the kingdom of God and we will not have enough funds or time to build buildings fast enough for what God wants to do in our generation. The harvest is ready. The laborers are few. And we believe that we need to prepare the laborers for the harvest by building an army. So what's been happening every Monday is we've been building an army. Every Monday we have trainings here for people called life class. I want to enlist you into God's army because we have a business to do in the kingdom of God. Summer is coming up. You saw the summer camp. We're believing for 400 youth to come to a summer camp. We want to charge them. We want to enlist them. As you saw a little clip from our youth, we also going to have an unashamed youth conference. Why unashamed? Because it's time not just to hand out popsicles and donuts to the kids, but to give them purpose and to give them an assignment. The number one leading cause among teenagers is suicide. That means that they need purpose. And we want to give them purpose to be unashamed for Jesus Christ, to live out their Christian faith, heal the sick, cast out demons, and to preach the good news. We will have a two week training for our youth before they go to school to get them ready, not just to go to school and so they don't skip classes, but that they win souls. That they make disciples. We have currently in five schools, six clubs. We want to be in every middle school, every high school, every elementary school where our students tell other students about Jesus. Safeways, Fred Myers, and other stores locally. Other stores locally are giving us right now food every week and they're willing to give us truckloads of food. Our desire is to create a system where every day we'll go to schools and bring food, clothing to students who cannot afford it. And through that, preach the good news, go into our classrooms where we can do it today on Tuesdays and preach the good news of Jesus Christ and see kids not take their life, but give their life for Jesus Christ. Come on, somebody, everybody in the gym, let's put our hands together for the Lord. Everybody on Facebook and YouTube, drop that fire emoji if you believe in the vision that God has given to our local community. I want to speak today a message that is a little bit unusual, but if you've been in Hungary a long enough, you know that unusual is our second nature. I want to speak a message today. They will be titled Dragon Slayer. The day where Jesus crushed the head of a snake. In 1 Corinthians chapter 15, verses three and four, it says, For I delivered to you first of all that which I have received, that Christ died for our sins. How many of you are glad Christ died for our sins? According to the Scriptures. And he was buried and he rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures. I want you to notice that Jesus' death, burial and resurrection is what sums up the Gospel. Somebody say the Gospel. The Gospel is not a music genre, a Gospel. The Gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ that Jesus died for our sin. He was buried and he rose from the dead. But I want you to notice this about his death, burial and resurrection. It did not happen in the vacuum. It did not happen spontaneously and it was not a surprise. It was according to the Scripture, meaning it was part of a divine plot. It was part of a divine plan that was unfolded in the Scriptures. I want us to go to the first book. If you have a Bible with you, go to the first book of the Bible, Genesis, and we will open to chapter 3 and verse 15. Before I read Genesis chapter 3, verse 15, I want you to keep it open there. I want to share with you a few thoughts of where everything started and how the Gospel came to be. Point number one, we did not need the good news because everything God made was good. Remember, God didn't create us with a need for the Gospel. Everything he made was so good that in Genesis chapter 1, all those verses, we see this, God makes things and six times he says, it was good. It was good. It was good. And then by the time he comes to make humans, he said it was very good. Turn to your neighbors, say you used to be very good.  They're going to get good today. The Bible says God made everything good. One of the biggest problems people have with Christianity, which I think one of the biggest problems we all should have with just life on earth is this. Why is there evil on this earth?  Why did mom died out of cancer?  Why is this happening if God is good? But I want to bring to your attention, Genesis chapter 1, verse 1, verse 2, 3, 4 and so forth. God says everything was good. God makes humanity. He says everything was very good. And then God ends this whole thing in Genesis chapter 1 verse 28, where God says this, God blesses us. So not only we're good, God gives us his blessing and he says be fruitful and multiply, subdue the earth, fill the earth and have dominion. God hands the keys of the universe of the planet earth, not the universe, the planet earth to his image barriers. We are not a clumb of cells. We are not just a progression of molecules going from one generation to another. Our ancestor is not a Shempanzee or a monkey. Our ancestor, our creator, we bear the image of an intelligent, self-existent, almighty God. We're not gods, but we resemble him. We can think, we can create, we can make decisions because we're made in the image and likeness of God. Because God made us in his image and likeness, he gave us the keys because God is a ruler. He gave his children. He gave his creation keys to rule not just a neighborhood, a planet. Now what could go wrong? Nothing could go wrong because it's a paradise, just one tree for us to avoid and everything is smooth and incredible. But the Bible says in chapter 3 of Genesis, where the trouble comes, chaos, suffering and pain did not come into this earth until there arrived the dark one, the dragon, the serpent. Please understand, we couldn't screw things up on our own without somebody coming in and deceiving us into disobeying God. Unlike you and I, we had no human fallen nature. Man were innocent. Man had a pure desire to obey God. Man didn't have a reason not to obey God but there is somebody who had a fight, an anger, an issue with God and it was God's enemy, the serpent, the dragon and one of the ways he wanted to take over this earth was to deceive us to give these keys of this earth to him and then he will do the rest of the damage. He couldn't deceive us, he couldn't get the keys until he would lead us into disobedience and Satan comes to Adam and Eve and the Bible says, he says this, has God said you should not eat of the tree of good and evil? So he puts a question mark where God said very clearly an exclamation mark and then he asked this question he said, God knows the day you eat of that tree you will be like him. In other words, if I can put it in a plain man's language is this devil is saying to Adam, to Eve he says, God is good but he can't be trusted. He doesn't have your best interest in mind he's holding something good from you and this is where the humanity started to entertain the thought that perhaps this mighty God is selfish he is hiding something good from us he doesn't have our best interest in mind and let us follow the temptation the lure of a dragon I want to tell you something that our God is good he doesn't have bad he doesn't plan bad he doesn't have a multiple personality disorder where one day he's good the other day he's bad and you just never knew which part of his mood you're gonna ever come on he is always good he plans always good things where did things go wrong and we have to address this as Christians because God is not at fault for what has happened on this earth God gave the keys to the earth to humans because he made him in his image and likeness we were not descendants of monkeys we are not animals we are not beasts we were made as an intelligent smart creative human beings and with that came dominion and responsibility but we had a dark lord we had an enemy who has a fight who has a beef with God and looking at us I think he was jealous because maybe perhaps this is my speculation maybe perhaps him being cast out of heaven God created us to place us instead of him maybe perhaps and not only he created us as angels but he created us giving us a dignity Satan never had giving us honor Satan never had and on our first day of creation God entrusts us with the keys to the planet I mean talk about a slap in the face to a dragon he's lived longer than we existed and these naked human beings running around have no idea how the creator of the galaxies has chosen them to be at such a high and lofty place all he has to do is to begin to plant seeds your creator your God is holding something from you and Eve fell for it through deception but Adam committed conscious willful decision to sin Satan didn't deceive everyone he deceived one person and Eve introduced it to her husband and her husband instead of fighting that he embraced that deception became decision after that decision men started to hide from God who created them we felt shame a feeling that was foreign to us we hid from God and we knew this was wrong so we started to cover ourselves and Satan left us in self-destruction but something happened in that moment a transaction took place we did not know it's almost like the devil offered with one hand something that seemed exciting with the left hand he took our keys to this earth for forward thousands years later in the garden excuse me in the wilderness Jesus Satan is talking to Jesus and he says in Luke chapter 4 he says this all the kingdoms of this world I will give to you if you bow and worship me and this is what Satan says for they have been delivered to me who gave them to Satan it wasn't God last time I checked God gave the earth to us the bible says heavens are the lords but the earth he gave to the sons of men who gave that to Satan see when we took of that fruit we took of that lie and we believe that God doesn't have good intentions for us he is not to be trusted we replaced God in reality we became slaves to Satan we became victims of his deception and we became perpetrators of his evil in humanity and all he did when we were not watching is snatched our keys and he became the dark lord over this planet and unlike God who loves humanity he introduced calamity blame hate murder destruction and this evil started to perpetrate our society sin became the law of the land now we have this law today called gravity gravity works for the rich for the poor gravity doesn't discriminate gravity also does not care if you are heavy or light gravity works for objects and gravity works for humans I can put this microphone and it will fall I can put my watch and it will fall gravity works for everyone and it automatically by its force pulls things to the ground when sin entered this world this is what entered the new law came into this world called sin where everything good started to get pulled too bad where everything great started to degrade where plants started to die where our bodies started to get weak and old where animals started to fight against each other where our oceans started to go boisterous where storms came where things started to change even in our ecosystem the whole world started to actually go into a decay in one setting we are excelling today our world is better than it's ever been before our phones are smarter we're not so much but our phones are our computers are faster our world is so much more connected you can speak to another person in the other part of the world yet the evil decay death suffering murder rebellion hatred racism abortion miscarriage evil committed by us and evil committed by natural disasters there's a lot of gravity that every single person is born to is drags you to the bottom and most of us say well god is responsible for it not god we gave the keys to the dark lord and he is bent on destroying us and destroying slapping god in the face see the worst thing about this sin that started to happen is in chapter four of genesis are you with me are you guys in the gym with me in chapter four of genesis the bible says that a first family already has children cain is one of the children and cain is struggling with something in his heart toward his brother called hate this hate is getting so strong that god is noticing and god comes to cain and god says this cain he says sin so it's not just a serpent no more not just a dragon now the sin i want you to see this it started as satan coming and taking the keys but now the law of the land the rule of human heart is another entity living there that has a mind of its own and god says sin is crouching in other translation it says lies at the door and the same word is used for a predator hiding behind in the bush so this is not just satan now this is the nature of human heart is like a predator seeking whom they can devour and cain did not have a rifle or semi-weapon he kills his own brother and interesting when god comes god does not blame the stone cain used he blames the cain who used the stone for those of you who think that all we need to do is remove guns from people and murder will stop and our shooting will stop in our schools i want to tell you something guns don't kill people just like pencils don't misspell words Matthew 15 Jesus says that evil comes not from the devil now it doesn't come from god it comes from the human heart where there is a gravity that pulls every one of us no matter how rich you are no matter how many degrees you have attached to your name you have a gravity lives inside of you and it pulls you to the ground it pulls you to decay it pulls you to hate it pulls you to sin you might say i don't believe in god it's the same thing as if you walk around and say i don't believe in gravity gravity you don't need to believe in gravity for it to work sin you don't have to believe in sin for it to work by default setting you and i have a disease inside of us called sin and this sin is disobedience we sin in our thoughts we sin in our attitudes we sin in our motives we sin in our words and our works we sin by what we do we sin by what we don't do we are penetrated with this disease and the interesting part at the same time we're smart we got airplanes we got we can go to space our cars now can drive themselves our computers can write books now by themselves i mean our world is so incredible because we're made in the image of god and that part is never removed yet we have a gravity inside that drags us down and on top of that because we're advancing externally and regressing internally deception comes in i'm fine all i need is try harder so what god introduces before he brings a savior he introduces this thing called the law before god introduces his savior he introduces his diagnosis why does he bring the law to prepare us for the cure he's about to give us you will never receive the cure if you don't know you're sick sometimes we live in the world where the devil will lie to us and say that the symptoms you have is not a disease that's just normal but god introduces the law in fact when he introduced the law to his people israel israel was already breaking that law on the bottom of the mountain and moses breaks the law knowing we can't keep it can i submit something to you god didn't give us the law for us to keep he gave us the law for us to break the law of god is like a thermometer you put under your tongue it's to measure how sick you are measure your temperature how many of you know if you swallow the thermometer it doesn't break the fever so for those of you who think that if i'm gonna try to live harder the law of god i'm going to break this sin no thermometer is not an Advil thermometer is sent to measure to you and let you know you are sick but then god now says i have a cure the law of god is like a mirror it's not a shower by looking in the mirror you don't get washed by looking in the mirror you get reminded that you don't look good god introduces the law and the law introduces guilt and that is a purpose for guilt for those of you who feel guilty you're like man god take away the guilt guilt is good because guilt points to a problem that you have a disease that only god can cure now what our culture has introduced is the culture introduced therapy forgive yourself love yourself self-gospel meaning a good news of you don't need god you just need to you need to practice your breathing you can breathe your your sin out as long as you don't judge yourself but you love yourself you will find peace i get it there's just one problem with that every sin you commit you incur debt with god even if you could forgive yourself of what you did it doesn't change the fact your record is gathering debt imagine this you go on the shopping spree you take six credit cards max all of them out you buy a lot of stuff you come home you feel guilty you're like let me meditate let me practice my breathing let me tell myself i'm not guilty i'm not guilty i'm not guilty i'm not guilty i'm not guilty i love myself i love myself i'm good i'm not a shopaholic i just like things i feel so much better how many of you know that doesn't pay off the credit cards it doesn't matter what you tell yourself it doesn't matter what garbage you fill into your head it doesn't change the fact the credit cards will be calling and say you always this and that please understand no matter how much perfume you spray on the corpse the corpse is still dead it doesn't matter how much self-help books we read it doesn't change the fact our sin a fence a holy god and that record and that debt somebody needs to pay new age hinduism buddhism none of that can pay that now it can help you to calm your mind for a little bit but it doesn't change the fact you stand in front of a holy god and you owe a debt you cannot pay some of us will say well i'm gonna try good works it doesn't change that it's kind of like saying i got all of this stuff that i bought from my shopping spree i got like 27 shoes and seven suits and i got a lot of you know belts so if i'm gonna go right now and give it to my neighbors my debt will be paid you still owe that debt my friend we have incurred debt with god not only sin is a disease not only sin is a disobedience to god not only sin separates me from god but while i am sinning and saying god i don't want to do anything with you i am done with you you don't put this guilt on me i just want to live how i want to live at the same time you keep slicing the corn and your debt has an interest rate it keeps growing and growing and growing and growing and one day you're gonna have to stand before god and make a payment and fool and my friend that payment the wages of sin is death for all have seen and fallen short of the glory of god god knows this god sees our problem we're sinking deeper and deeper we're deceived we're dissolutioned we are desensitized we are dead in our sins and when that is happening in the garden are you in Genesis 3 verse 15 you waiting for me there this is what god promises when all of this is unfolding i will put enmity between you he's speaking to the dragon and the woman between your seed so people who will propagate that serpents works on this earth and her seed now you don't have to be a biologist or no human autonomy to no human body to no one thing a woman has eggs a man has a seed a sperm and when an egg and a sperm goes together a little babies are made a woman does not have a seed the word here for a seed is sperm woman doesn't have that my question to you now what is he talking about a woman will have a seed theologians and scholars tell us Genesis 3 14 is the first gospel preached by god to our parents god is telling them you guys screwed up you made a mess you are deceived disease is spreading in your body your world is going down and your world will keep going down because the dark lord took over but i'm going to plan an invasion into an enemy's territory and god is telling the snake right away there is a rematch coming there is going to be another human being that will show up he will be born from a woman but he will not be born because of a man and a woman it will be a virgin birth and god is telling the serpent you deceived my first man Adam but i'm going to send another man named Jesus you will not trick him or deceive him because this man will rematch this man will pretty much undo what the first man did he will be born out of a virgin because it will be a seed of a woman but i want you to notice this what god promises here he said he jesus will bruise your no no no he speaks of serpent i apologize he will bruise your he will bruise your head so this speaks of serpent bruising the head of our savior and you the serpent shall bruise his heel i never saw jesus's death on the cross and the suffering he endured as something that satan had something to do with i always thought that this was just god creating all of this situation to pay for our sins but the first prophecy concerning jesus's death has to do with the dragon inflicting pain and the man jesus who will come on this earth he will bruise his heel satan deceives Judas to betray jesus he's involved in bruising the heel of christ the bible says in Corinthians that if they would know the rulers of this age would have known they would have not crucified the lord of glory so thousands of years pass and an invasion takes place in a very small town it's like an arms pit of israel nobody knows that town nobody cares about that town it's not big or famous it's not new york's los angeles or las vegas it's nazareth jesus is born there and god makes an invasion angels get excited they intrude into this realm dominated by the dark serpent jesus for 30 years almost disappears you don't see him 30 years later there's a cousin of jesus named john who is stirring up messianic hopes because israel for years had these hopes messiah's coming and john finally showing up which was prophesied that i will send a messenger before your face and as john comes and he says he's already almost here the kingdom is already here get ready guys get water baptized he baptizes them and then john makes this crazy declaration he said he's not just coming he's already here in fact i already heard about him and god told me who the messiah is and he points to jesus and says behold the lamb of god the hope the messiah is coming is going through the roof mind you for israel they're not expecting a savior to crush the dragon they're expecting david 2.0 to kill romans israel is expecting someone to make israel great again restore their dignity in the nations kill them romans that's what we need the messiah for so jesus comes and disciples of jesus are signing up for this campaign i want to be a part of this messiah who's going to crush rom and make israel the beacon of hope for the world for three and a half years jesus' message doesn't seem to fit that parent type he says i'm the king i'm preaching the kingdom yet he says things like you gotta go low to go up you gotta die to live i'm completely opposite but they think jesus is going to get on board with the program one time jesus walks on water they think this is going to be super great when we need to cross from one place to another we don't even need boats our messiah walks on water he heals the sick he raises the dead i mean his portfolio his resume perfect disciples are signing up people are signing up and on the top of that this messiah is good he's not just conquering squashing stuff he's actually helping people then right before his crucifixion he rides into jerusalem and jerusalem is one of those places it's like new york washington dc it's like seattle it's one of those places if you really want to become famous that's where you go so disciples are seeing that a week before this he raised Lazarus jesus' viral videos going around jesus' poll numbers are high through the roof this is incredible messiah right about now jesus is gonna disclose his secret plan crush rom they're going into jerusalem everybody's getting the news he's riding on a donkey people are shouting hosanna and jesus doesn't stop them this is incredible messiah is coming he's it's almost here disciples are getting ready we will be famous they're debating where they will sit in his new kingdom and jesus keeps hinting i will die and rise again but of course it goes one year in and the other way out why? because they have a paradigm messiah will squash Rome where they missed is the messiah will crush the dragon Rome is not the problem Rome didn't take over the earth the dragon did Rome is just a pet in the dragon's hand Rome, Greece, evil, murder all of that there is somebody pulling the strings and it's a dragon who watches who is the ruler jesus is the ruler of this world and jesus isn't coming to kill the symptoms he's coming for the head of a dragon but before he crushes his head the dragon will bruise his heel the hell we live in today on this earth where we see evil God not only feels our pain but God is not responsible for that and God invaded our world by becoming a man growing up and going straight to the head of that dragon and hurting him in such a way where he will never recover and reclaiming us back to God and reclaiming the keys of this earth as a human jesus says all the authority has been given to me why did he say that because he's a fully man who now rules the planet he's the legal rightful king of this planet on Thursday night disciples gather and on this Thursday night it's a Passover meal during this Passover meal they celebrate the exodus from Egypt and that night few days before the Judas few days before that Judas already made a deal with Pharisees that he will deny Jesus Judas didn't think it will work because he's seen people Jesus walk on water I'm just gonna get somebody Jesus is gonna spank them Pharisees Romans are gonna see the power of God and I'm gonna get make some money on the side he didn't think it will work because Jesus, his God, his Messiah he will not be tricked except on Thursday night after their meal the prayers Jesus surprisingly gets arrested he chooses to be arrested because when they said are you the one he says yes and the soldiers fell back because of the power of God and then when they got back up instead of running for their lives Jesus pretty much put his hands up he willingly went to get arrested that's not what Messiah should do their paradigm is being broken and something begins and this is when the dragon came out and started bruising the heel of Jesus it started with his friends betraying him Jesus gets to six trials and six trials find him guilty even though he's innocent Thursday night he barely sleeps most likely that's when he was beaten scorched made fun of soldiers mocked him by Friday morning they decided they need to execute Jesus and crucify him now please understand crucifixion was the worst form of death anybody could die it was so terrible that Romans who did it never crucified their own citizens that's why Paul was beheaded he was a Roman citizen he wasn't crucified it was so hideous it was a statement by Roman Empire they would hang those criminals and rebels like a billboard to everybody to say this is what's gonna happen to you and what they decide to do is to crucify Jesus not only that before they crucified him they scorched him and while this is scorching has happened I want you to know this is not just God allowing Jesus to pay for our sin there is a dragon breathing and seeking to inflict pain and our Savior because he wants to bruise his heel he's not gonna let the fight go he's not just gonna accept his defeat without inflicting some pain on our Savior and at the time of 9am on Friday after losing so much blood that the history says most people who go through that beating they don't survive and they die at the whipping post there's a famous saying that says that he was scorched 39 times that's not true you know why? because the Jewish law had a rule you cannot beat somebody more than 39 times guess who was scorching Jesus? Romans they don't have that law to them you beat a person until you think you're done so there was no law they didn't keep a law in beating a criminal when they beat him they beat him so much that the Bible says when they put a cross on him he couldn't take it anymore and that's when the dragon was really inflicting and bruising the heel of the seed of the woman and then at 9 o'clock they hanged him on the cross they put a nail most likely not through his palms because if you put a nail through this it will rip right through they put it right through his wrists so it could have a support and they put a nail right through his feet and from 9 o'clock till 3 o'clock there was no worship music there was nobody praying for him but people mocking people ridiculing even the criminal next to him was saying if you are the son of God if you truly that disciples already scattered they couldn't take this the world is broken the mom of Jesus is standing there the prophetic word was long time ago the sword will go into your heart but she didn't think just a week ago Hosanna just a week ago he was the messianic king this doesn't make sense it doesn't fit to see my own son being put to shame and embarrassed on the cross and the dragon is bruising the heel of my Savior the heel of this new human who is fully God and fully human by the time it hit 3 o'clock something else was happening behind the scenes the dragon did not know about not only Jesus voluntarily chose to be bruised God put all the weight of the sin he took your death and he put it on Jesus' account and what the dragon did not see coming he wasn't just wounding my Savior my Savior was being bruised for my transgressions wounded for my inequities the chastisement for my peace was placed on him this was a dual bruising that was taking place the serpent bruising and the Father putting all of my sin upon Jesus and when it was done my Savior shouted it is finished what that meant the word it is finished in original language means paid in full not only the heel was bruised but the dead was paid and what the devil didn't see coming is God clearing the record of everybody's sin in one simple death what he did not see coming is these human beings that he captured now can be forgiven and God says payment received by ripping the veil in the temple and says I'm getting out of the temple and I will live in the temples of people's hearts it is finished at the age of 3 p.m Jesus dies now you must understand the gospel is that he dies for our sins he gets buried and he rises again you have to understand something about Romans is they don't give you a burial if they crucify you you are not allowed to give a crucified offender a proper burial why? because they wanted to shame a criminal so bad to make you carry your cross die on your cross and in that culture the way you honor this person's life the last moment of honor you give to the person is how you bury them that's why there was a huge emphasis not burning bodies cremation was not a thing in the Jewish culture it was very important that people are properly honorably buried and Rome has a tradition that if we crucify you you will stay on the cross for weeks and once the birds ate eat your eyes and they poke different parts of your body and your body it begins to rotten then they take the body you're not allowed to bury it you thrown into a dump outside of Jerusalem called a garbage dump and they set a fire so the disease the disease doesn't get into the city but my bible says that he will be buried in the tomb of the rich because there was no deceit in his mouth and no transgression in his heart Mary is not at the cross anymore because she can take it most likely the disciples are gone Jesus' father Joseph is dead history says comes a rich man called Joseph of Art of Matthew he calls Pilate and says Pilate Jesus is not my relative you need to give me that body I know Rome says we gotta throw them into a dump but that man needs to be buried in my tomb little did Joseph knew it's his filling a piece in the puzzle where Jesus is dead for our sins bruised by the serpent and Jesus is buried Roman customs are broken and Jesus is honored in the rich man's tomb because he had no sin by six o'clock Jesus is laid in the tomb at six o'clock Sabbath starts because their Saturday didn't start on Saturday morning their Saturday started on Friday night everybody has to go and celebrate Sabbath Pharisees quickly send a message to Pilate and says we remember when he was talking about this thing we heard him say something about dying didn't take it seriously but now that we remember it he also mentioned he will rise again we need to put something to guard his tomb because somebody will take his body how foolish they were disciples didn't even believe Jesus will die not even rise from the dead they put the bodies of soldiers 16 soldiers were guarding the tomb four soldiers guarding the front and 12 soldiers taking rotation so they can sleep and circle around look inside and be ready for any assault the tomb was closed Jesus was in the tomb that had no air people who say that Jesus didn't really die his heart was pierced blood came out and water he was already dead and he was placed in the tomb there was air tight sealed they put a stone it's a piece of granite that weighs Georgia Tech people who studied this they said it weighs about one to two tons of weight it's a very heavy piece of granite that they covered his tomb and they put a seal on it and the trained soldiers they will have to be executed if they do not allow if they allow somebody to get inside of the tomb this is how serious this was for them they're guarding the tomb all Saturday Jewish laws don't apply for them so they're guarding it while Jewish people are celebrating the Sabbath and the Bible says early Sunday morning an angel comes from heaven and he makes an arrival that the earth shakes the seal snaps and the angel rolls the stone not to help Jesus get out he was already gone but to let everybody else get in and see him you're seeking him or you're seeking is no longer here it wasn't just his death that gave us forgiveness what gave a confirmation that we have been forgiven is that God has raised Jesus from the dead death couldn't hold a perfect sinless holy man Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 it says in as much as the children have partaken of flesh and blood he himself likewise shared the same that through death he might destroy him who him the dragon who had the power of death that is the devil and what God did on that cross is he mortally wounded the biggest enemy we have had and this wasn't Rome it wasn't Republicans or Democrats our biggest enemy was sin our biggest enemy was the dragon and Jesus deals a blow as a full human and full God and in this hellish hole we live in today Jesus starts a campaign of rebellion and a sabotage against a rulership of this kingdom C.S. Lewis says this in his book enemy occupied territory that's what this world is for those of you who think that just because God created this world this world is perfect I just gave you a picture of where things went wrong what happens today in this world we live in an enemy occupied territory imagine yourself during Hitler's invasion of Europe and you are in France that's exactly what's happening in the last five, six thousand years we are part of an evil tyrant running around today and inflicting injecting venom into people's veins called evil and we all have been deceived by it our victims of it and God is in our enemy the dragon is God sent his son to be born in this enemy occupied territory he didn't need to do that he could have washed us clean and this son named Jesus lived a perfect life he let the enemy bruise him but he paid the price for our sin and this son Jesus Christ mortally fatally wounded the head of the snake C.S. Lewis says this enemy occupied territory that is what this world is Christianity is the story of how the rightful king landed you may just say in disguise and is calling us to take part of the great campaign of sabotage that's why when I become a Christian you become a Christian it's not just about my sins being forgiven I'm joining the rebellion that's why I believe in the marriage of one man and one woman I'm a rebel that's why I believe that killing babies is murder I'm part of the sabotage that's why I believe that raising our children in the ways of God not into the woke part of our culture is part of a rebellion my friends there's evil inside of you that only God can remove through the blood of Jesus Christ but when God forgives us he enlists us into his campaign that's why we want to plant churches why because we're pushing back the darkness why because the head of the snake has already been wounded that means that we can reclaim the territory for God we can reclaim our schools for God come on somebody in the gym make some noise we can reclaim our health for God we can reclaim our mind for God we can reclaim our finances for God why because we're no longer under the spell of the dragon let me ask you a question will you follow the lamb or you follow the dragon will you follow the lamb who died for you and who will roar for you like a lion Jesus will come back on this earth you know why this is now his earth that he has a full rightful authority he has the keys I have the authority Christ says he will come and restore full dominion until that day I want to ask you follow the lamb let's push back the darkness if you're part of the devil's scorpions that serpents and dragons spell today come from it repent run from it because that will end up in your full defeat and full separation from God you will have to answer for all of your sins but Jesus is already taking care of that for you he loves you so much the dragon doesn't care about you if you don't believe in that look at the disease and the sickness the dragon is after your destruction he wants to eternally separate you from your creator because he has a beef with God run from him run from his lies and his deception and join Jesus's campaign amen if you are here today and you don't know Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior if you're still part of the dragon's kingdom and you may say no Vlad I don't believe in this dragon stuff there's only two kingdoms there's darkness and there's light there's truth and there's tolerance or everything else that is happening here in our culture Jesus is inviting you today to his kingdom he won't force you he's a gentleman he wants to forgive you of your sins you feel the weight of your sin you feel that you can't change that's part of that disease that's part of the symptoms and the sides of that disease we all been infected with come to Jesus today he will forgive you he will give you the gift of eternal life and most importantly he will fill you with the Holy Spirit and enlist you into his campaign of sabotaging the plots of his enemy I want you to rise every head bowed and every eye closed if you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior if you would like to get saved maybe you want to come back to the Lord you haven't been walking with Christ you churned your back on him walked away and today on this Easter Sunday morning God wants to resurrect your spiritual life when I count to three I'm going to ask you to raise your hand everybody in the gym as well when I count to three I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you want to give your life to Jesus or if you want to come back to Jesus one Christ loves you so much two you will have to pay for your sins or you can experience the forgiveness that he is offering by paying for your sins three just raise that hand high if you say I want to get saved thank you I see your hand anybody else anybody else who say I would like to get saved today just slip your hand high for those of you in the gym just do the same just raise that hand high and I'm going to pray with you I'm going to ask you to do something bold right now I know there's quite a few of you here you came to church today and your heart is beating faster because the king of kings is knocking on it and he wants to today give you victory over your sin freedom from your sin forgiveness of your sin but you need to place your trust in him if you raised your hand or you wanted to raise your hand just a little bit too shy I'm going to ask you to right now burst out from your seat come right here and stand with me and join the rebellion join Jesus's kingdom just make your way forward doesn't matter what anybody thinks of you doesn't matter even if your friends brought you today they wished for this moment if you came with your wife or with your child and they want to do it do it together church as people are coming forward in the gym those of you in the gym just make your way forward make your way forward those of you here as well just make your way forward God bless you God bless you God bless you sir God bless you bless you man anybody else but today you know that this is your day this is your moment you no longer need to live under the spell of a dragon you no longer need to live in his world you can now live in the world of the lamb you can live in the world of somebody who died for you I'm gonna give just few more seconds this is the best day that you can make that because today is the day God has made this for you in the gym just make your way forward make your way forward those of you online just let us know in the comments I want to be saved I want to give my life to Christ if you brought a friend with you I'm just gonna offer for just the 15 second evangelism right now you can just ask a friend and say hey would you like to make the decision I'll go with you they say if they nod their head that's a yes you go with them and so just do the same thing in the gym just if you brought a friend or a family member if they say yes but they're just kind of like I'm just kind of scared say hey I'll walk with you just just just walk with them forward don't be afraid I know there's more people today than want to switch the sides I want the devil to pay I want the hell to be emptied and heaven to be populated I want more people to be healed saved and delivered I want people to experience life and life more abundant we want people to experience breakthrough and follow the new king the king of Jesus God bless you you joining your mom all right all right so those of you in the gym and the campus there as well is here let's get ready to pray together guys I want you to stretch your hands like this this is just you saying I receive Lord say this out loud with me just a few more people are coming okay so just we're just gonna wait for just a second come on come on God bless you say Lord Jesus Christ you are the savior of the world your God's Son who died on that cross for all of my sin I believe you are the Son of God who died on the Calvary for all of my sin I believe you were sent from God in my place I repent of my sin I repent of my evil change me save me wash me take the weight of all my guilt remove my shame give me new heart give me peace with God fill me with your spirit I believe the gospel I believe your word in Jesus name and I choose to be enlisted in your campaign on this earth come on let's give a round of applause those of you in the gym I want to congratulate you guys the Bible says if we confess our sins he's faithful and true to forgive us our sins and to accept us into his kingdom I'm gonna have our team just gonna take you for just about a minute or so into the room there and we'll actually meet the people who gave their life to Jesus from the gym as well and so we're gonna meet you right now there so if you can just follow the team Pastor Rudy right there just follow them for just one minute we'll bring you back church can we give a round of applause to every person that has made a decision to follow Christ today as well as in the gym those of you online let us know that you pray that prayer church I want you to enlist into God's army come to morning prayers let's push back the kingdom of darkness our church is open Monday through Friday at five o'clock where we pray and proceed and where we get busy doing the kingdom of Jesus and the campaign of Jesus amen don't forget to go to us