What does it mean to truly trust Jesus when all hope seems lost? Can faith really overcome the finality of death? Join us as we explore Jesus' incredible authority over death and discover how humility and belief can transform our desperation into hope. Let's dive in together!
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Well, good morning, Cross Church
Phoenix. How are you?
>> Good, good. I'm Pastor DJ. I'm the
pastor here at Cross Church Phoenix and
uh I want to first welcome you. If
you're new here um and I haven't met
with you, come find me afterwards. I'd
love to get to know you more and chat
about our church, whatever you want. Um
make Jesus known. That's what we're all
about. Um and at this time, I want to
invite you to open your Bibles to
Matthew chapter 9.
Matthew chapter 9.
And if you don't have a Bible, there are
Bibles in the seat back in front of you.
And that is our gift to you. If you need
one, uh you can take that home. You can
highlight it, mark it up, do whatever.
Um take notes, and then bring it back
next week. Uh but that is our gift to
you. If you need a Bible, please take
it. As you turn over there, I wanted to
save this story for uh the pulpit. But
um as you know, we at Cross Church are
all about making Jesus known. And not
just here in Phoenix, but in Surprise,
and Elmari and Cornville, around the
world, in the Philippines, and Myanmar.
And we are launching two new churches. I
say launching. One has already launched.
And so we got some pictures to share
with you, but Elesia de la Cruz uh
launched last Sunday uh uh at 5:00 p.m.
out of Elmarrage. That's Pastor Jav. And
they had
120 people show up for that launch.
Isn't that great?
That is awesome. If you see right there,
Paul, go back to the other slide.
They're not in here, but I had to
embarrass them last week. But our very
own Kevin and Christie are part of this
team. And Kevin's right there singing.
Yeah. So that's what's up. Uh but so be
in prayer for them. I was there. I sat
there with my Google Translate right on
my lap and listened to Pastor Jav's
entire sermon just reading through it.
He did a great job. And I learned, you
know, like they you recognize the song
and then you start singing it in
Spanish. You start learning that's all
right. That's what's up. So, I learned
some Spanish. I read uh the his
transcript and it was a a great time. Uh
so, be in prayer. And then, uh coming
soon is cross church mayor. Uh so, be in
prayer for Pastor Lyall um and his wife
Heather as they prepare. There's a lot
of work going on up there in Mayor to
get the building up to uh par and and
looking better and uh more presentable
and just awesomer, right? I can make up
words, right? It's going to be awesomer
and then they'll launch here in a couple
months. So, um, cross church mayor be in
prayer for them. And that's what our
collective really is all about, the
cross church collective. And if you saw
our let's go, uh, sign out there, that
is what we are about is making Jesus
known. And we do that uh, in planting
churches everywhere that God leads us.
So, we go to Elesia Dilla Cruz and Mayor
and beyond. So, well, we're about
halfway through our miracles uh of Jesus
series, and I want to recap what we've
seen thus far. Jesus has authority.
We've seen over nature, uh over demons,
over sin, and what we'll see this
morning over death itself.
We left off at verse 8 last week where
Jesus, if you remember, healed and
forgave the paralytic. Before he even
healed him, he said, "Have courage, son.
Your sins are forgiven." The more
important,
eternally more important miracle.
Well, there are some important details
that we need to know become before we
come to verse 18. We're going to be
picking up in verse 18, but I want to
give a really brief synopsis. So Jesus
after verse after healing and forgiving
the paralytic of his sin calls our man
Matthew the writer of this gospel he's a
tax collector and Jesus says Matthew
follow me and Matthew yep
>> don't follow you and actually what
Matthew does is he throws Jesus a great
a grand banquet the other uh gospels
tell us he throws a party and he invites
his other tax collector uh friends over
and sinners like you and I. He invites
tax collectors and sinners over for a
great banquet and hosts Jesus at his
house. And of course the Pharisees as we
know um who are um who have a negative
view of Christ already. They accuse him
and they complain as they are known to
do. Whining and complaining Pharisees um
and they say this man, this Jesus they
complained eats with tax collectors and
sinners. And so Jesus response is this.
It's not those, his response to the
accusation. It's not those who are well
who need a doctor, but those who are
sick. Friday didn't come to call the
righteous, but sinners. So keep that in
mind as we go through.
By the time you get to verse 14, there's
a crowd gathering around Jesus. You
know, people have questions. And one of
those questions was about fasting. So
why they came to Jesus and said why do
John's disciples John the Baptist's
disciples and the Pharisees fast but
Jesus your disciples don't um and Jesus
then says uh he asks this question can
the wedding guests be sad okay so just
remember that can the wedding guests be
sad while the groom is with them right
and so a wedding is a joyous time of
celebration not a time to mourn and fast
which is fitting because Jesus just came
from a grand banquet over at Matthew's
house. And then Jesus gives the parable
of the wine skins, which we'll come back
to in our parable series. But the reason
I want to go over at 30,000 ft level,
verses 9-1 17, is because these I want
you to keep in mind these are the things
quote unquote that Jesus was telling the
people when J. Iris comes to him. So
let's pray. Father, we thank you for
this morning. We thank you for your
word. Pray now, Lord, that you would um
speak through me. Get me out of the way,
Pastor DJ out of the way. And I pray
that you would speak your word to your
people, God. Pray that you give us ears
to hear what the spirit has to say to
the church here at Cross Church in Jesus
name. Amen.
If you would stand, we're going to, if
you're able to stand with us, we're
going to read Matthew 9:18-26. So, I'm
going to read the whole passage, but we
will be breaking it up. But just so we
kind of have some context there,
Matthew 9, beginning at verse 18.
As he Jesus was telling them these
things, suddenly one of the leaders came
and knelt down before him. This leader
is his name is J. Iris, saying, "My
daughter just died, but come and lay
your hand on her and she will live." So
Jesus and his disciples got up and
followed him. Just then, a woman who had
suffered from bleeding for 12 years
approached from behind and touched the
end of his robe. For she said to
herself, "If I can just touch his robe,
I'll be made well." Jesus turned and saw
her, "Have courage, daughter." Sound
familiar? "Have courage." He said, "Your
faith has saved you." And the woman was
made well from that moment. When Jesus
came to the leader's house, to Gyrus's
house, he saw the flute players in the
crowd lamenting loudly.
"Leave. Don't you love Jesus?" "Leave,"
he said, "because the girl is not dead,
but is asleep." And they laughed at him.
After the crowd had been put outside, he
went in and took her by the hand, and
the girl got up. Then the news of this
spread throughout the whole area.
Thanks. You can be seated.
Amen.
So, although this passage contains two
miracles, we're going to focus on one
this morning, the raising of Gyrus
daughter, showing Jesus authority over
death. And we will revisit the uh
healing of the woman in verses 20 to 22
next week. But the reason I read the
whole uh scene is because I want us to
have the whole picture of what's going
on.
Have you ever been desperate before?
Truly desperate.
As you think through that, a Google
definition of what that would mean to be
desperate goes like this. Quote, "A
state of extreme need, anxiety, or
hopelessness, often prompting reckless
or dangerous behavior. It signifies an
urgent, often last resort attempt to
change a bad situation. End quote.
Have you been there?
Maybe you're there right now.
How did you or how do you respond to
your own desperation?
Those times in your life where you are
desperate. Some deal with desperation by
turning to substances, alcohol, drugs,
or sexual immorality, pornography,
sinful indulgences to numb the pain or
to take away the hurt or any number of
other idols that people will turn to.
But that only leads to more desperation,
right? Uh turning to those things piles
desperation upon desperation. It's not
helpful. It just stacks pain upon pain
and leaves one more hopeless and more
anxious and more desperate than when
they began.
For some reason, even among Christians,
running to Christ seems like the last
resort, right? Like after you've tried
everything else, then come give Jesus a
shot, right?
I'll try Jesus cuz hey, I've tried
everything else. Right?
And even amongst Christians, sometimes
Jesus is the last person we turn to. We
can understand a non-Christian might
turn to many other things before they
come to Christ. But even among
Christians,
Jesus is the last one we'll run to.
This morning we get to learn from a man
whose first resort was to come at his
most desperate time in his life straight
to Jesus.
And so our main heading this morning, if
you have a handout, if you don't,
they're in the back on the table there.
Faith in the midst of desperation.
That's the main heading this morning.
Faith in the midst of desperation.
And the first thing we see is that faith
in the midst of desperation will come to
Christ in humility.
Come to Christ in humility.
While Jesus is talking about, remember
now the discussion going on is this talk
about coming for the sick and not being
sad and new wine
suddenly, right? or behold
a leader Gyrus who's a synagogue ruler
in Capernaum the other gospels tell us
comes to Christ and kneels before him
the Greek procstrate
yourself to bow down and worship the
same word is used for worship he comes
kneels bows before Christ in a
worshipful manner and says my daughter
just died
if anyone has a reason to be sad
distraught.
At this time, it would be Gyrus.
Luke tells us that this is J Iris's only
daughter, and she's about 12 years old.
I have a 12-year-old daughter. Her name
is Claire. I'll embarrass her. She's
sitting right down here uh pretending to
pay attention. No, I'm just kidding,
honey. See, she is. She is taking notes
diligently.
But I have a 12-year-old daughter now. I
can't imagine what this felt like for
him. Your only daughter just died. I
would be a complete mess if any of my
daughters or my son died or my wife or
anybody. I would be a disaster.
A complete mess. And here's G. Iris
coming to Christ.
Gyrus's position you need to understand
as a ruler of the synagogue is very
important to note. The scribes and the
Pharisees already consider Jesus what?
We talked about this last week, a
blasphemer and a fraud. They already
hate Jesus by now. It's not in process.
They already hate Jesus.
And here we have a Jewish leader, a guy
who runs operations at the local Jewish
synagogue. He's in Jewish leadership
coming to Jesus, the one the scribes and
the Pharisees hate and think is a
blasphemer. We have a religious Jewish
leader coming to Christ in humility.
One commentator wrote this that I
appreciated. He said that when J Iris
came to Jesus and knelt before him, you
can kind of imagine uh a job posting
going up immediately.
uh Capernium synagogue ruler position
open taking resumes to replace Gyrus
right and we don't know if it cost him
his job for sure that's not in the Bible
but this would be seen coming to Christ
kneeling at his feet showing Jesus
Christ's reverence respect and worship
flies in the face of what the other
Jewish leaders thought of Jesus and
would quite possibly cost him his
position
as a synagogue ruler, but he is coming
in a worshipful manner before Jesus
regardless of what anyone thinks of him,
humbling himself, his job, his position,
everything
to Jesus.
The scribes and the Pharisees would
consider this preposterous and really an
act of defiance against them, the
scribes and the Pharisees.
But because Jesus is a believer or I'm
sorry, because Gyrus is a believer in
Jesus
and what he can do, he comes humbly
before Christ. And when he kneels before
Jesus, he says, "My daughter just died,
but don't you love that?" "My daughter
just died, but
but come and lay your hand on her and
she will live." That's faith, friends,
in the midst of desperation.
His daughter just experienced the most
irreversible event known to mankind,
death. There's no cure for death, right?
You don't manage death's symptoms. You
don't get medication to manage your
symptoms of death. She's dead.
Now, think about what Gyrus is asking
Jesus to do.
Go touch a dead body.
As a synagogue ruler, J Iris would know
the law, right? And so would Jesus, of
course, that anyone who touches a dead
body is unclean.
And especially a a leader, a priest was
not was commanded not to. But anyone,
the book of Numbers and Leviticus tell
us that anyone who touches a dead body
is unclean. Under normal circumstances,
this request would be completely
ridiculous. Hey rabbi, go make yourself
unclean and touch this dead body for me,
will you?
But what does J Iris believe will
actually happen? This is the
transformation of his life happening
before his very eyes, his own eyes. He
doesn't think that Jesus will be made
unclean by touching his daughter. He
believes that his daughter will be made
clean, restored to life as a result of
touching his daughter. This is Gyrus
coming humbling himself and
acknowledging Jesus Christ is the one
with the power and authority to raise
the dead.
He Gyrus is nothing. Jesus is
everything.
and he's acknowledging that and coming
to grips with that fact and his actions
speak for themselves coming before
Christ.
It took great humility for him to come
kneel and make this request. What about
you?
What about us?
Do you come in times of desperation? Do
you humble yourself at the feet of
Jesus?
Do you come before him,
pour out your heart to him without
reservation?
That's faith in the midst of
desperation. It'll humbly come to
Christ. Number two, faith in the midst
of desperation will trust God in the
face of ridicule. It's number two, trust
God in the face of ridicule.
So when we put this whole scene together
with all of the gospels, the order of
events goes like this. This is from Luke
8, which is the parallel. And then Mark
5. Luke 8 says this, and I want you to
see it. And there came a man named
Gyrus, who was a ruler of the synagogue.
And falling at Jesus' feet, he implored
him to come to his house, for he had an
only daughter about 12 years of age, and
she was dying.
Okay. Dying.
As Jesus went
to his house, the girl is dying. And
then there's a crowd. There's people
pressing around him. So, initially when
Gyrus came to Jesus, his daughter's on
the brink of death, but hadn't died yet.
Then, right, behold, just then, the
woman with the issue of blood comes to
Jesus, and there's a brief delay.
There's a pause in the scene and this is
purposeful.
They're going to Gyrus house. Gyrus must
be exhilarated, right? Then they get
held up.
What would you be thinking? What would
be going through your mind?
Jesus, we ain't got time for this. We
got to go like right now. Hurry. She's
about to die.
My daughter is dying. And we got to go.
And then he and they're going, "Yes,
Jesus is coming over to my house." And
then he stops and he starts talking to a
woman
like, "Jesus, hurry up." Like, "We got
to go, dude." And Jesus stops to address
the woman in verses 20 to 22, which will
be in next week. But what happens while
Jesus stops to address the woman? This
is Mark 5. Mark 5:35.
It says this, "While he Jesus was still
speaking, while he's speaking with the
woman,
while he's paused on the journey, there
came from the ruler's house, Gyrus
house, some who said, "Your daughter is
dead.
Why trouble the teacher any further?"
But overhearing what they said, Jesus
said to the ruler of the synagogue, he
turns to Gyrus and says,"Do not fear,
only believe.
So while it is while Jesus was talking
to the woman that some folks come from
Gyrus's house and arrive with
devastating news, it's too late, bro.
It's too late, Gyrus. Sorry, bro.
She died.
Don't bother Jesus anymore. No need to
bug or trouble the Lord anymore.
Not any longer.
Your daughter died while you guys were
on the way over. Apparently, while Jesus
was talking to this lady, um, your
daughter died.
But Jesus simply looks at J Iris
and says, "Don't fear, only believe."
Right? I know
that you, Gyrus, just received
devastating news. Your daughter died
while we were on the way over during
this chat with this woman. your daughter
died
but keep on believing. This is the the
word believe. There is an imperative
command. Believe Girus. Believe.
And we pick up in verse 23 back in
Matthew 9 where Jesus arrives at his
house and what's going on? Flute players
and a crowd lamenting.
What is the point? The point is this.
There is zero doubt in anyone's mind
that that young girl is dead in that
house. That's the point.
Some people try to refute the Bible
saying she was just like in a coma or
passed out or whatever, but the Bible
leaves no room for that. She was dying
when Jus first came. She died while they
were in route. And she's been dead long
enough for the hired mourers to start
their business. Yep. Their business.
In those days, it was expected as Jewish
custom to hire no less than two flute
players and one whailing woman.
A professional whailing woman. That's
right. You heard me right.
Two flute players, one whailing woman at
minimum. Even for the poor. This is in
rabbitic Jewish code. It's called the
Mishna, but it's just a a rabbitic
teachings uh collection commanded
command making commandments and all this
stuff. And this is part of their
ceremonies when a person died. And so
there are people flute players and
professional whalers um who get paid to
mourn at your family's funeral.
So they are making a living off of it.
And what does Jesus do?
He kicks him out. Don't you just love
Jesus? He's like he shows up. There's
all these professional whalers and he's
just like, "Leave,
leave." And this the the word leave
there is a command. Like he's not
requesting, "Hey, Gyrus, do you really
like want them here?" No. Jesus comes
in, takes control of the whole house. He
commands the room and he says, "Leave.
Get out." This is not a request. This is
a command. He is ordering them to leave.
Get these professional mourers out.
She's not dead, but asleep. Now, you're
probably thinking like, DJ, you just
told us like she's dead dead and now
Jesus is here saying she's asleep. Which
one is it? Yes. Right.
The word asleep is always, count it,
always used to describe a believer's
death.
A Christian's physical death is always
described as sleep. When Lazarus died
and Jesus delayed that resurrection
miracle um for 4 days, not just maybe
like a few minutes or whatever long it
took for him to talk to the woman. Jesus
delayed for days on Lazarus death. And
you remember the old King James, Lord,
he stinkketh,
right? He's Lazarus was dead so long he
stinkketh. Um, and Jesus came and he
says, "I'm going to go to my friend. My
friend's asleep. I'm going to go wake
him up." That's what Jesus, that's how
Jesus described his miracle and raising
Lazarus from the dead. My friend's
asleep. I'm going to go wake him up.
When Steven was martyed in Acts 7, it
says he fell asleep.
Paul himself talks about Christians who
physically died as simply asleep. The
Bible purposely talks about the death of
believers asleep. Why? Because it's
looking forward to the resurrection.
That's why it is a guarantee that you
will be risen with Christ. So when Jesus
says the girl's asleep, he's
acknowledging her physical death. Yes,
she's dead physically. Her hearts are be
she is dead, dead, dead. And the flute
players are here and the professional
mourers are here, but he's about to
raise her. And so he says, "She's
asleep." What do the professional
mourers do? Laugh.
They laugh at Jesus. If you're
wondering, well, how can they go from
like intense mourning to laughter so
quickly? That's why they're hired. They
have no personal connection. There's
probably other family members there,
don't get me wrong, but the ones who are
laughing and mocking, they're they're
hired to be there.
They're getting paid to cry and act sad.
Now, what must G Irus have been thinking
at this time?
I'm not sure, but I submit to you that
he continued to believe in the midst of
all that ridicule.
Have you ever been there?
Have you ever been mocked or laughed at
for your belief in Jesus
or for your belief in what Jesus can do?
These people are laughing at what J.
Iris believes Jesus can do.
They're laughing at Jesus.
She's dead. We all know it, Jesus.
Whatever. We'll leave. But like, ain't
nothing going to happen here.
But faith will withstand mockery and
scorn. So, this leads to the last point.
Faith in the midst of desperation will
see what only God can do.
See what only God can do. Mark tells us
that Jesus allowed only a few people in.
He allowed Peter, James, John, and the
girl's parents. So about five people
witness the miracle. And Jesus goes in.
This is all the gospels kind of put
together for you harmonized. Uh Jesus
goes in, takes her by the hand, and
says, "Tellum,"
which means, "Little girl, I say to you,
get up." And she does.
And the miracle happens. And word
spreads, right?
Jesus shows his authority over death. I
don't know what you're going through
right now.
I'm not going to pretend to know how you
feel,
the pain you're experiencing,
or the loss that you've known.
This text is not a guarantee
that everyone you love will be healed or
brought back to life like this little
girl was given back to you.
But this text is however a guarantee
a guarantee
that Christ has authority over death
both physically and spiritually.
Maybe you are hurting. Maybe a family
member that you know is on the brink of
death. Maybe you're struggling in
desperation in some other area of your
life. For some, it's financially. For
some, it's with their family or it's a
diagnosis or it's this or it's that. I
can't guarantee what God will or won't
do, but I can tell you confident
confidently what you should do. And this
is not DJ's opinion from the text. What
do you What do we do?
When we are faced with desperation, we
bring it to the feet of Jesus in
humility. That's what we do.
No matter what anyone else thinks.
Think about the judgments that could
have been cast against Gyrus from the
scribes and the Pharisees, right?
Ruler of the synagogue bowing down to
this blasphemer that we just saw a few
minutes ago.
didn't matter to him. Doesn't matter.
Who cares what people think? You come to
Christ in humility, no matter what
anyone thinks, and see what God will do.
We know the scriptures say, "We know not
all things are good.
The passing of a loved one is not good.
That diagnosis is not good. That
financial strain is not good. But for
those who love God, those things that
are not good work together for the
overall good. That's Romans 8:28. Romans
8:28 doesn't say everything is good. It
says all things work together for good
to those who love God according to whose
purpose? His, not yours. We don't always
see it. It's our purpose. We have a we
we would have a lot of purposes of our
own that we would like Jesus to come do
and we want hey this is my purpose for
this Jesus. Can you make this happen?
Sometimes the answer is no. God has a
different purpose but it is good and it
is his purpose not ours. But we know
that he'll use it for good according to
his purpose.
You may very well witness a physical mir
miracle right in front of your face or
you may have to wait patiently to see
what God will do. But either way, faith
in the midst of desperation, we'll see
what God can do.
This time, I want to um transition to a
time of communion. What better time to
commune with our Lord than right now?
And if you don't have one of these,
they're in the back tables. You can get
up and grab one real quick and come
back. That's fine. Um,
and I want to give a couple of
admonitions here as we celebrate
communion.
If you've trusted Christ as your
personal Lord and Savior, you are
invited to join as we celebrate the
Lord's Supper. This is for for
believers, for Christians. So, you say,
"This is my first time here and I
haven't been to Pizza with the Pastor,
DJ." It's okay. Like, if you're a
Christian,
come to Pizza with a Pastor. but also
celebrate communion, right? Um, but I
also want to say that if you're here and
you don't know Christ,
um, the good news is you can today. The
Bible says today is the day of
salvation. Don't put it off. Don't put
it off. Come talk to me afterwards. I'd
love to introduce you to Christ. Uh, in
the back of the eye said, "Yes, corner
after service and wherever. Find me.
Come just come get me. Fill out a card,
put it in. I'll reach out to you during
the week." Um, but I also would invite
you to watch and not partake because
this is for believers. The scriptures
teach that we do this in remembrance of
Jesus looking back. We do this
proclaiming the Lord's death until he
comes looking forward. And then the
Bible says, "So therefore, let a person,
let a man, let a woman examine
themselves.
Examine yourself." Looking in, we look,
we look back, we look forward, we look
in. So, I want to invite you now to take
time to examine yourself. Are there sins
that need to be confessed to the Lord?
Or is there anything in your life that
you need to turn over to him? Is there
anything you are desperate for? Is there
a desperate need that you have, a
desperate longing that you have
for a family member's healing or for
peace and comfort in the midst of loss?
Turn it over to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Take time now to examine yourself.
Reflect on your love for Christ. Do you
love and cherish Christ? Is he
everything to you like he was everything
for Gyrus?
I invite you to do that right now.
If you're still in prayer, I don't want
to interrupt you um as you commune with
the Lord. Um but if you will, when you
have a second, you can peel back that
smaller layer that has the bread and
take the bread out.
Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 11:es
23 and 24. For I received from the Lord
what I also delivered to you. That the
Lord Jesus on the night when he was
betrayed took bread. And when he had
given thanks, he broke it and said,
"This is my body which is for you. Do
this in remembrance of me." Let's pray.
Father, we thank you for this morning.
We thank you for your word. We thank you
for your body which was broken for us.
We feel pain. We feel sorrow. We hurt.
We suffer.
But if we added up all the pain and
sorrow that we felt in our whole entire
lives,
it wouldn't even come close to what you
experienced on the cross. Help us to
understand that we don't have a high
priest who's who who has no empathy for
us. No, we have a high priest Jesus
Christ who has felt everything that we
have felt and has gone through what we
have and paid the price for sin on the
cross. We thank you in Jesus name. Amen.
Let's partake.
And if you would peel back the larger
layer that has the juice,
Paul continues to write in 1 Corinthians
11:25, "In the same way, he Jesus took
the cup after supper, saying, "This cup
is the new covenant in my blood. Do this
as often as you drink it in remembrance
of me. For as often as you eat this
bread and drink the cup, you proclaim
the Lord's death until he comes." This
is a proclamation
to a dying world, a world lost without
Jesus, that he is alive. You realize you
have to kind of be alive to come, right?
We proclaim the Lord's death
until he comes means he's alive. We
serve a risen savior. Let's pray.
Father, we thank you for the shed blood
of Jesus Christ on the cross for our
sins.
We praise you. Nothing else could wash
away our sin. Nothing else could make us
whole. Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
We thank you Lord for dying on the
cross,
paying our sin debt, past, present, and
future.
And I pray God that if there's anyone
listening here online or
another day
if they don't know Jesus Christ as their
personal L Lord and Savior, may today be
um the last day that that's true and the
first day where they know you in Jesus
name. Amen. Let's partake.
This time I'm invite the worship team
back up as we close in a song
and I'm going to uh close us in one more
uh collective prayer. Father, we thank
you for this morning. We dedicate this
time to you. You have authority over
death
and you
are risen savior. You Lord Jesus
defeated death. I couldn't defeat death.
Paul couldn't defeat death. Muhammad
couldn't defeat death. Uh Joseph Smith
couldn't defeat death. Gandhi couldn't
defeat death. Nobody could could defeat
death except the Lord Jesus Christ who
was and is and is to come who is king of
kings and lord of lords.
We praise you in Jesus name. Amen. Let's
stand as we sing our last song.