Resurrection Power

• PREACHER: Evang. Nathan Davis
• DATE: March 27, 2005, Sunday Evening
• Title: Resurrection Power
• Text: Luke 15:11-24 (18)

We need to seek the Lord fervently with a pure heart. We don't need "fun and games."

Luke 15:24--Rejoicing takes place in Heaven when one sinner comes to the Lord.

I was lost in the world without hope, but Jesus Christ in His goodness drew me and saved me.

v.17 People are hungry tonight. There is a spiritual famine today of the hearing of the Word of God Amos 8:11.

We must not only hear the Word, but we must be a doer of the Word as well. Those that hear the Word ONLY decieve their ownselves.

It is easy to waste your life living in sin. Sin is destructive and does nothing but destroy your life. Romans 6:23 Do we truly desire that life? For us to experience that life we must first experience death. Mark 8:34--We must deny ourself.

I was bound in my sin, and I could not deliver myself. GOD HAS BEEN GOOD TO ME! Romans 2:4. I wallowed in the mire just like the prodigal.

There are conseguences to sin. This man found himself in the pig pen and hungry.

It was in that condition, he sensed his need. Do we sense our need? More of Jesus is what we need! My heart cry is to "Walk Hand in Hand with Jesus". My life I desire to be a testimony that Jesus is a risen Saviour and has the power to save from sin. Philippians 3:10 Know Him and to know His Life in US. Col. 2:13 Repentance is what is missing in our generation. This simplicity of the Gospel is what we need to be preached and not the watered down form we do hear.

There are people in the church that are lost! People have never experienced the Life of Jesus. John 10:10; Ephesians 5:14 Christ is the Giver of life and light. AWAKE. People in the church are asleep, lukewarm, not walking in the power of God. It is going to take the power of God in our lives for us to make it.

v.18 In the mire the prodigal son began to get homesick. He has made up his mind. He finally got sick of being empty. We need to get home and STAY in Father's house.

In the pig pen, he was slipping and sliding. He could not get his feet under him.

JESUS IS THE ANSWER! It is the Believer that lives in the Resurrected Life and Power of God that can shine as a light to the lost who cannot find their way. We must spread the message that Jesus has the power to reach down intot he muck and mire and set the captives free. His power is greater than any power. Psalm 40:2 There are a lot of lost prodigals out there and we must go where they are with the message of life--Gal. 6:1.

When there is genuine salvation there will be a CHANGE.

Not all prodigals make it back to Father's house. May be in the church, but still wallowing in the pig pen. 2 Peter 2:21,22

God is able to KEEP you!

v. 18 "I WILL ARISE" Knowing the Resurrecting power of Christ to lift us out of our deadness and sin. Some are fearful of going back to thier sin, of falling. There ought to be a fear in our hearts for not all the prodigals make it back home. He has the power to keep you FROM falling. Jude 24; 2 Cor. 1:9. No man can come unless the Father draws them--John 6:44.

Romans 8:11 That Ressurection power will help us walk in victory.

Col. 2:12 Faith in Jesus Christ is the only way to walk in Power and victory. Some are struggling with things--YOU CAN ARISE AND WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE.

John 11:25 He can give us the life. Our faith must be in Him.

1 Cor. 15:22 I was dead, but now I live! I was blind but now I see.

There are some here who are in church tonight, but still are not in Father's house. THE WORLD HAS NOTHING TO OFFER.

The devil torments people with the fear of falling, but GOD HAS THE POWER TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING TO ESTABLISH YOU IN YOUR GOINGS. If He has called you, He will enable you. Keep your eyes on the author an finisher of our faith. Heb. 12:2

We can walk in that newness of life and it will be a testimony to others. They will see it and know there has been a change. Share your testimony! Let them know you have the VICTORY over the devil.

GOD HAS THE POWER TO KEEP US.