And the devil, he has lost the battle!
He has lost!
The Lord has won it!
Yes, he has!
Oh, yes, Lord!
TG, this day, who are you going to
serve?
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first
day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary went to look at the tomb.
There was a violent earthquake, for an angel
of the Lord came down from heaven, and
going to the tomb rolled back the stone
that sat on it.
There's a guy up here that called me
lukewarm.
I don't want to be lukewarm.
I want to be on fire!
I want to be on fire for Jesus!
His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes
were white as snow.
The guards were so afraid of him, they
shook and became like dead men.
The angel said to the women, Do not
be afraid, for I know that you are
looking for Jesus who was crucified.
He is not here.
He has risen, just as he said.
Come and see the place where he lay.
Then go quickly and tell his disciples, He
has risen from the dead and is going
ahead of you into Galilee.
There you will see him.
Now I have told you.
So the women hurried away from the tomb,
afraid, yet filled with joy, and ran to
tell his disciples.
Suddenly, Jesus met them.
They came to him, clasped his feet, and
worshipped him.
Then Jesus said to them, Do not be
afraid.
Go and tell my brothers to go to
Galilee.
There they will see me.
I can't stand it!
I love it!
And I just pray that you'll take this
from me.
There's a way.
Don't keep it.
And I thank you, Lord.
I'm in your hands now.
And I tell you what, I'm alive!
I'm alive!
I've been dead!
I'm alive!
Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to
the mountain where Jesus had told them to
go.
When they saw him, they worshipped him.
But some doubted.
Then Jesus came to them and said, All
authority in heaven and on earth has been
given to me.
Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I
have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always, to
the very end of the age.
About five months ago, I came to the
end of myself.
Being addicted to drugs for so long, I
wanted to kill myself.
But someone had a different plan.
Jesus led me to show me that I
am worth love.
I'm worth being loved.
And that he's truly loved me.
And how can I not love someone who's
loved me so much as to give his
own life for me?
So, I didn't need a twelve-step program
to beat my drug addiction problems.
One step.
Thank you, God.
And now, all I want to do is
take as many to heaven with me as
I can.
The rock and roll tapes, the drugs, the
booze, I don't want that mess no more.
God, the almighty God, is the one that
rules my life now.
And my life is no longer my own.
It belongs to him.
And God deserves all the glory, all the
praise.
He told me how much he loved me,
and I felt his love for me.
How much his infinite love must be when
he went to the cross for my sins.
And then he opened my eyes to the
lies in my life.
My name is John Welsh.
For the last eight years of my life,
I've identified myself as a homosexual.
And on November 25th, 1996, at 7 o
'clock in my living room, a friend of
mine witnessed to me that I'd been saved
two days earlier.
And she just took it all away.
The Holy Spirit has been speaking to me
a lot about my past lifestyle.
And I want to say to everybody out
there who may be living that lifestyle, or
who knows somebody who is, it's a lie.
It's a lie.
And the reason that you think you're born
that way, and the reason you think that
that's how you are, is because the lie
starts at a young age, and the devil
doesn't ever stop lying to you.
No one needs to go to hell.
Everyone needs to be saved.
I didn't think I had any purpose in
my life.
I thought my life was for nothing.
Every day I wake up, it's just another
day.
It's kind of hard to wake up every
day and go to work with no purpose.
It just seems like yesterday I was in
a bar sheeting pool.
Do you know God?
Do you believe in God?
Do you know God?
And I didn't know God at all.
I had no clue.
And that was the first time in my
life that I even thought about it.
The night that I got saved, I was
just like Lazarus, man.
I was dead in the tomb.
We read in there where Jesus said, roll
away the stone.
And the man said, but Lord, he's been
dead four days, and he stinks by now.
Brother, I'm stumped, but there's so many of
you.
You're in the same spot that I was.
You're in the tomb, man, and you're dead,
and you stink, but Jesus said, roll away
the stone.
And right now, he's calling out to you,
and he's saying, Lazarus, come forth!
Lazarus, come forth!
So, I didn't have a clue on how
to pray.
I just didn't know how.
Lord, I'm guilty!
Lord Jesus, save me!