blessed and highly favored to know that we have a risen Savior.

And we have a risen Savior as we were reminded this morning through that beautiful visual of

exactly what happened.

It is an incredible time in our lives.

You know, for pastors, sometimes it's difficult after we have worked our way towards Resurrection Sunday and we've

gotten so excited about it and Resurrection Sunday comes and it happens and so we're very,

very excited about that and we continue to share with people, we continue to try to do

all of the things but it's almost like, I don't want to say a let down but it's almost like I don't want to say a letdown but it's almost like how do

you follow that right? How do you follow that? You worked so hard to come and be part of

that and to lead everybody to know Jesus and to see him on that day and then all of a sudden

you're kind of starting again with what do we do? How do we build on that?

And building on something like the resurrection is hard when you're trying to

do it as a sermon, but as I thought about that this week and as I continue to

just pray about what God will do, one of the things that I thought about was this. I thought about that

for many, Jesus' death on the cross seemed to be the end. But for us it's just the beginning.

It's just the beginning. His death on the cross and His resurrection is the beginning. It's the

beginning of our walk. And how do we continue in that walk,

and how do we tell everybody about that?

Resurrection Sunday is amazing to celebrate.

It's amazing.

Listen, I don't know if you saw any other celebrations

on internet services or on television.

Maybe you attended a different service

in addition to this one are and in lieu of it because of family, whatever, maybe

you saw different ones. But it is usually a very impressive day. Lots of people

that perhaps don't come any other time may show up and all the pastors know that.

All the pastors know that. All the pastors know that.

So it's one of those things that they teach you

in seminary, listen, on that day, you got to bring it.

You got to bring it.

On that day, you really got to bring it.

Because you don't know if that person may ever be back

in the service again.

And so all across the nation, you saw, I mean,

ramped up services.

But my thing is, we need to bring it every Sunday.

And then we need to take what we've learned in this resurrection Sunday after we've celebrated.

And we need to think about what follows the resurrection.

What follows the resurrection?

Do any of you live in the United States of America?

Okay, good.

So we all live in the United States of America. Okay, good. So we all live in the United States of America.

This is a country that's built on the freedom of worship.

It's built on trust and following in God.

That's how it began.

And this country, as it continued to evolve and the things that it's done, has followed

a path that's not exactly in that direction anymore.

There are so many things that happen.

And so one of the things that I thought about in our country today and across the world,

in fact, is the disunity of people, the disunity of people. One of the things on Palm Sunday,

we saw all of the people coming together and celebrating We're an amazing picture. But then when the death, the trial came,

they all stood out there shouting, "Crucify."

And then after the resurrection,

everything just went kinda crazy.

Some people were sad, some people were excited,

some people were glad there were so many things going on.

But everyone just became this unified.

Even the apostles were struggling.

Everyone was struggling.

But I want you to take a look today

at Galatians chapter three,

and we're gonna go 24 through 29,

but we're gonna talk about being unified

through the risen Savior.

through the risen Savior.

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

But after that faith is come,

we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

For as many of you have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female

for ye.

or all one in Christ Jesus. And if you be Christ then are you Abraham seed and

heirs according to the promise. I want us to understand the resurrection

through the resurrection came faith prior to the resurrection prior to the resurrection, prior to the death of Christ, prior to the salvation that we

were given through that.

The law was the thing that drove people.

The law was the thing that helped them understand that they were wrong.

The law was the thing that brought them to that point of submission and understanding.

And so Jesus did not come to destroy the law. He

came to fulfill the law. Jesus came to fulfill the law. And so in this passage

it's saying that through the law was teaching us about the ways that we were

walking, it was teaching us of our sin, it was teaching us of the things and

life that we were not doing according to what we should be, it was showing us that there is God and God has the rules for us.

He shows us what we are to do.

He shows us what sin is and that came through the law.

But when Jesus came the law was fulfilled and faith took its place.

Faith in Jesus.

Faith in the gospel message. Faith in Jesus, faith in the Gospel message,

faith in all of those things.

The law was fulfilled and was not needed

to teach us anymore.

In fact, the resurrection destroyed the divisions

and unified the sons and daughters of Christ.

It destroyed the divisions.

What divisions? It destroyed the divisions of the Greeks and the divisions. What divisions?

It destroyed the divisions of the Greeks and the Jews.

It destroyed the divisions of those who were lifted up high by a position.

It destroyed the division of those who said, "We're the chosen people and you're not."

It destroyed the divisions and all of that because Christ died for all.

And it tells us that in this resurrection,

the divisions were destroyed

and the sons and daughters of Christ were unified into one.

Unified into one.

No longer are we separated by our divisions.

We're unified into one if we know Jesus Christ.

Sometimes I think this that people believe

the division in humanity today is a new thing.

What division you're talking about?

Well, there's all kinds of them.

Take your pick.

There's lots of divisions.

There's division by, your skin is darker than mine.

There's divisions by, well, I live in a better place than you. There's divisions by, well I live in a better place than you.

There's divisions by ethnicity. There's divisions by people's religion.

There's divisions by their job skills. There's divisions by their sexual preferences.

Whatever it might be, All these divisions are here.

And the world says, that's what we count on.

Those are the things that we celebrate.

Those divisions that's disunity, it's always existed.

It didn't just start in the 20th century.

It didn't just start recently.

These divisions have always been there.

Humanity wants to point out the differences.

We're different.

And so because we're different, we can't be together.

I heard something someone said recently.

And they said, when we really boil it down

and start to look at people, and look at those all these divisions all these differences

Well, you find out when you start looking at humanity because by the way all mankind was made an image of God

When we start to look at the humanity we realize we have more in common than we have

different

We have more in common than we have different

different. We have more in common than we have different. You see no matter what your situation in life is, no matter what your skin color is, no matter your

socioeconomic status, no matter what it is, you have sorrow, just like they have

sorrow, you have joy, just like they have joy, you have trouble, just like they

have trouble. Every day is a challenge in life. We all go through it.

Yet for some reason, we as a country,

we as people, as human beings,

want to focus on the differences

instead of being unified through Christ.

But once you look at verse 26 again,

it says, "For ye are all the children of God

by faith in Christ Jesus."

He are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Yes.

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He are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

There's no other requirement.

There's no other standard.

There's no other...

You don't have to be from a certain location or of being of a certain ethnicity or any way,

we're all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

When we accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, we are all children of God.

Isn't that incredible?

Isn't that incredible to think about that we are all children of God when it comes to that?

There are no differences. Those are not celebrated by Christ. Yes does he use us in

different ways? Sure or because we were made in different ways or we use

differently sometimes yes the reality is we're still children of God. This is

Paul talking to the Galatians by the way, but it could just as well be spoken

today.

It could just as well be spoken today.

Listen, we are all children of God if we have called upon Him as our Lord and Savior.

Well preacher, this is all great.

But you know we're here in church because well we know God and we're coming to worship and you know you're

talking about everybody being the same in God but we already know that so why

is it that you're standing up there talking about all this because I believe as

believers in Christ we must embrace that we are now one with Christ, no differences. We have to embrace that. Why embrace it?

Why do you say we need to embrace it?

With simple, our country, especially,

likes to emphasize the differences and teach hatred

for those differences.

Oh, come on, hatred?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

We cannot tolerate people that are different

than us. We can't tolerate people that live in a different place. We can't tolerate people

that follow this God. We can't tolerate people because they're this way or that way.

It's hate. Pure and simple. It's hate. The world is teaching hate. Listen, we came in this

place last week. We celebrated the risen Savior.

We came in this place this morning,

we celebrated the risen Savior who died for all.

He died for all.

He stepped out of that tomb,

those arms opened wide to accept all.

Why is it that we accept what the world tells us,

and we embrace the hate.

Well listen preacher, we're not doing it here.

Are we, or churches just as guilty as others are?

When I joined the Army, it's an amazing thing.

I joined the Army, they gave me all new clothes. In fact,

they took all my old clothes away. I didn't know if I'd ever seen them again. They went

locked them away somewhere, right? They gave me all brand new clothes. They gave me the

same clothes that everybody else had on. In fact, for a lot of us, and we put on those

uniforms and our hats and whatever, if you didn't see the name tag, you didn't know who it

was. They all looked just alike. Everybody looked just alike. And you know what they told us?

I'll never forget. The uniform was green.

So they taught us this was the color of everyone in the army. We are all the same.

There's no black, no white, no brown, no red, no any other color.

The color is green.

We're all army.

We're all one.

We're all the same.

And we're not talking about any of these differences.

And we're not holding grudges against somebody just simply because of how they were born.

We're all one color.

We're all the same.

It's a shame that the United States military does a better job of teaching

people that people should be unified than believers in Christ, and believers in Christ.

If we as believers all put on the same clothing of Christ, which is what that passage said,

we all put on Christ. If we all put on the same clothing of Christ,

we must understand we are all the same.

We're all the same.

We call upon the name of Jesus and we accept Him as our Savior

and we put Christ on, we're all the same.

Again, preacher, I'm just wondering why you're talking

to us about that. Well, look at verse 28

There's neither Jew nor Greek. There's neither Bonne nor Frey. There's neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ

You're all one in Christ. This is what Paul is saying. The difference

has disappeared when we're unified in the risen Savior. The difference has

disappeared when we're unified in the risen Savior.

We become one body.

And if that's the case, we all become one body in Christ.

Why is it that we have such a hard time being unified for the purpose of reaching others for God?

Why is it that we have such a hard time and we say,

"Well, our church is better than that church,

that church is better than this church?"

Listen, I've said this many times before.

I want you to seriously think about this.

The 11 o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated

hour in the country.

Think about that.

What? 500 yards down the street?

There's another church. They're meeting this morning.

They're celebrating the Savior. The same God we're celebrating.

They're celebrating Jesus.

They're celebrating that the only way to the Father's through the Son.

They're celebrating just exactly the way we are.

Yet they're celebrating a different building

just down the street.

Why?

Why?

Well, our skin colors are a little different.

So they gotta go to their church.

We gotta go to our church.

Why?

Why is that?

We all put on Christ. We all put on Christ. You

know across the county of Mobile, there are churches that have a congregation that's predominantly

Vietnamese. They have congregations that are predominantly other ethnicities across the

globe. We have more international people in the city of

Mobile than most cities in the United States and they meet in different

circles every Sunday. We have churches meeting that have younger

congregations. We have churches meeting that have older congregations and

they don't come together. We have all these people who say, "I am a child of God.

I believe in Jesus Christ. He is my

Savior, yet I can't meet with you. I can't meet with you on Sunday morning. We

can't do that. Why? We're supposed to be unified in a risen Savior. We're

supposed to be one in Christ. We're all supposed to be His children, lifted up by by the resurrection power. And yet, we want to stay separate.

Separate.

Why?

That's the big question.

Why?

Why?

Why don't we want to stay separate?

People come to the church, they check it out.

I think I like these people. I think I can join this church. People come to the church, they check it out.

I think I like these people.

I think I can join this church.

I can be part of this church.

You know, they come and they join the church.

And they accept it.

Some people come to this church, and they come in, and they say,

"Hmm, these people are a lot different than I am.

I don't think I can stay here.

I think I need to go.

I need to find a church where they're more likely.

They're more like you have.

When we come together in a church, what are we looking for?

Are we looking for a group of people that are worse than God?

Are we looking for a group of people that love Jesus?

Are we looking for a group of people that wants to change the world by sharing the gospel of Christ.

If that's what we're looking for, then it's here.

It's also there and it's also there and it's also there.

So why are we separated?

Sometimes we're separated because of geographic location.

I live way down in Bala Batcheries too far to drive all the way out there.

So I go to a church down there.

Okay, I can understand that.

But when we're looking at churches, I count them one time, just between the beginning of Friday, Cody and Ziggler,

you come up Cody and overlook, and all the way down to the university there's like seven different churches.

Folks, that's like seven different churches.

Folks, that's less than five miles.

And we have all these different churches that are stacked up.

Why?

Because instead of celebrating the unity in Christ, we focus on the differences.

This morning we saw a representation of Jesus stepping out of that grave.

And when he stepped out he didn't say, "I'm here this morning for all of the

southerners." I stepped out of the grave for all of you people

west of the Mississippi. I stepped out of the grave for all you people who skin colors the same as mine.

I stepped out of the grave.

He didn't say anything like that.

When Jesus stepped out the grave, his arms opened, he froze for everyone.

Why?

Are we so sacred?

to be the ones to tear down racism in America.

Let me say that again.

We have to be the ones to tear down racism in America.

Those who know Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior.

There's no room for racism in our life.

There's no room for us to be segregated

from those who also know Jesus as Lord and Savior.

We have to show the world that we're one. We have to be for us to be segregated from those who also know Jesus

as Lord and Savior. We have to show the world that we're one. And by showing the world

that we're one we can begin to reach people that we can't reach otherwise. The reality

is we celebrate a risen Savior. And oh how wonderful we celebrate that resurrection day. And then we just go back to being segregated again.

Christ resurrection provided the unity. We must embrace it. We must embrace it. We are different in our looks. Everybody can't

be as handsome as I am. We are different in how we were raised. We're different in

all those things, but listen to me. We're more like that we're different. We're different and all those things, but listen to me. We're more like than we're different.

We're all made in the image of Christ.

That's the most important thing.

That's the most important thing.

Little bit of verse 29.

Verse 29 said, "And if ye be Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the purpose, according to the promise.

This verse shows that we as Christ followers

are grafted into God's chosen people.

We are grafted into God's chosen people.

He brought us in.

He said, "Come on into the family.

Come on into the family." "Come on into the family."

And if God's purpose was to bring people into one family,

then why is it that our purpose is not the same?

Why is it that our purpose is not the same?

To bring everyone into God's family?

We look at this list, and even today,

there are people that have grand arguments

over whether or not the Jews are the chosen people of God.

Scripture tells us that the Jews are chosen people of God.

But it also said that if you accept Jesus as Lord of Savior, then you are grafted into

the chosen people.

And it didn't say that simply because they were a Jew they were going

to heaven.

He said they're the chosen people and if they call upon the name of Jesus Christ the Scripture

says if you call upon the name of Jesus Christ you shall be saved.

It says that if we confess with our mouth Jesus is Lord and believe the God raised him to

the dead you shall be saved.

It says the only way to the Father is through the Son.

And so it doesn't matter who you are,

where you come from, or what label good on you

until you accept Jesus, and you know that He is the Savior,

then only then can you get to the Father.

It's one body.

No separations.

Yet, where too busy worried about what the name on the door says.

Where too worried about whether the name on the door says this church or that church.

We're out trying to bring people into church and we're getting direct competition with other

churches. The Scripture said that because of the resurrection of Christ,

we have become one in hymn, that we have been clothed in Christ,

that we are one body, that we need to be unified,

that the name of the door doesn't matter.

What matters is, are we telling people about hymn?

Are we sharing the gospel? Are we living that life in Christ?

Or are we listening to the lies that the world tells?

And are we celebrating the differences

and the separations and calling ourselves righteous

because of it?

That's not righteous.

That's not righteous.

It's not because of our ethnicity, our culture,

our geographic birth, or anything like that.

That's not why we are one.

We become unified as one people, the children of God.

That's how we become one.

Through God.

Through Jesus.

Through that death, burial and resurrection.

That is how we become one.

We become unified. Unified as one through the resurrection of Christ.

You've said that a lot.

And I understand what you're trying to say here. You're talking about that a whole lot.

And I get it, but you know, is that really the message that we need today in this church?

Yes, why is it the message we need today in this church?

Because I want you to look around.

Don't you look around.

Where are all of you?

Nobody told them about Jesus to have a covenant.

We have opportunity next Saturday morning to go out and talk to the authorities.

You know what we're going to do?

We're going to tell people about Jesus.

We're going to invite them to come to church.

We're going to do that.

Why?

Because that's the most important thing.

Anybody concerned about what's going on in the world these days?

There's a lot of bad things going on in the world.

When there's war, there's natural disasters,

there's all of these things that are happening.

Who knew?

It's never gonna be like that.

Well, I did.

I read about the last days.

I read Revelation.

I read about the last days.

And by the way, we've been living in the last days since Jesus went back to heaven.

But as these things get more and more, we experience more and more births.

How long will it be before Jesus returns?

If somebody out there knows that I'm going to call you a liar because the scripter said nobody knows the father.

How long is it before Jesus returns?

Could it be today?

Absolutely.

Could it be tomorrow?

Sure.

Could it be 500 years from now?

Yes.

But we know the number.

If I was in a building,

and I could see the building was beginning to crumble around me.

And if I leaned on a post too hard the whole thing was probably going to come down.

And there's other people in the building you know what I'm going to say?

Hey, y'all get out.

This is dangerous.

You have a chance of getting killed in this building.

Let's get everybody out of here before it's too late.

That's just a minor role play when it comes to your turn. the And when he does, it's too late. And the scripture says, if you die in your sin,

you will spend the eternity of hell.

We will tell people that.

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Listen, you can't talk about heaven without talking about hell.

(murmurs)

You can't talk about heaven without talking about hell.

Because it's just as real.

The reality for us is if we are and unified people, the children of God, we need to be sharing

that with every person that we can.

We need to be the ones that show the world that this body of believers, nationwide, worldwide

is one body of Christ and that because of that, we want to share with the world how they

too can know and how they can be saved. We need to be unified as one through the resurrection

of Christ, unified as one. Now all these other bodies but unified as one. You know we talk

about church, local, we talk about church universal. But what's the difference?

Church universal means the church that the Scripture talks about.

When the Scripture talks about church it's not talking about the local church.

It's not talking about the buildings we attend.

It's talking about the body of Christ.

When we talk about church overloadings, where you actually show up on Sunday morning in the workshop.

The church local is supposed to be part of the church of Universal.

We're supposed to be trying to win souls

into the church of Universal.

We're trying to show people that we're one body of Christ.

Listen, I love celebrate Easter.

I love it.

I love celebrate that resurrection.

It's an awesome time.

But because of the resurrection, we can't stop there.

We must continue to reach people for gospel of Christ.

So I asked this question of you today.

Have you accepted the Savior?

Have you accepted the Savior? Have you accepted the Savior?

Well listen, preacher, I mean,

you know, we're here.

Yeah, that's true.

But I want you to understand this.

On that day when Jesus returns,

there'll be two working in the field.

One will be gone and one will remain.

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