Discover how the truth of the Resurrection can revolutionize our lives, as I, Pastor Joshua, guide you through the profound significance of Christ's ultimate sacrifice. This episode promises to shift your perspective from earthly distractions toward the eternal. We'll examine the perils of misplaced hope in political figures and institutions, drawing from the powerful narratives in Matthew 8 and John 19. Together, we'll explore the victory of faith over chaos, and how the promise of salvation through Jesus can be our anchor in today's turbulent world.
Feel the embrace of God's boundless love as we contemplate its transformative impact on our very being. Through vivid metaphors, I'll describe the sensation of being swept up by God's grace, like a hurricane of divine affection, and sinking in the ocean of His mercy. We're reminded of the joy that's ours to claim and the invitation to live lives resonant with the Gospel's beauty. Join me in embracing the call to worship, casting aside regret, and reveling in the cherished place we hold in God's heart.
Discover how the truth of the Resurrection can revolutionize our lives, as I, Pastor Joshua, guide you through the profound significance of Christ's ultimate sacrifice. This episode promises to shift your perspective from earthly distractions toward the eternal. We'll examine the perils of misplaced hope in political figures and institutions, drawing from the powerful narratives in Matthew 8 and John 19. Together, we'll explore the victory of faith over chaos, and how the promise of salvation through Jesus can be our anchor in today's turbulent world.
Feel the embrace of God's boundless love as we contemplate its transformative impact on our very being. Through vivid metaphors, I'll describe the sensation of being swept up by God's grace, like a hurricane of divine affection, and sinking in the ocean of His mercy. We're reminded of the joy that's ours to claim and the invitation to live lives resonant with the Gospel's beauty. Join me in embracing the call to worship, casting aside regret, and reveling in the cherished place we hold in God's heart.
Live from the Saints headquarters in Tolleson, arizona, spreading the gospel, equipping the Saints, standing for the word of truth, proclaiming God's grace. Now, on a podcast near you, welcome your host, pastor Joshua, on. The Saints Will Overcome Ministries. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
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Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Oh, I'm sorry, there he is, there's your king, son of God.
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Give me a drink.
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My father.
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Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
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My mother.
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Woman.
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Here I am.
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Here is your son, here's your mother.
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I'm the servant of the Lord. Let what you have said have happened to me. Father, into thy hands, I commend my spirit.
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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, is pastor joshua capia with. The saints have overcome ministries, and we've overcame because we are saved by the blood of jesus. That was a scene from jesus's crucifixion. I just want to talk about a few things today. What did God save us from? How do we prepare to wait for the Savior? Evil is out there, evil abounds.
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Ladies and gentlemen, beloved, look at the atmosphere in the United States of America right now. Pay attention to the dissemination of hate, evil, the political bickering. Right now, families are concerned with politics in America more than they are with Christ, and I don't mean that as a generalization. I mean that is happening in our country right now. Some people are waiting for Donald Trump to save them, to bring back a so-called theocratic institution, so to speak, a man sent or ordained by God. But remember the words of Christ render to Caesar's what is Caesar's and render to God's what is God's. Whose face is on the coin? Beloved, institutions of man are institutions of man. We will not get our solution from a earthly king, from an earthly president, whether it's a democrat like joe biden, whether it's a republican like donald trump. Why do I bring that up? Well, ladies and gentlemen, I bring that up. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I bring that up because I want to let you know we have a king that's not human in the sense of a fallen human. He is 100% God and he's 100% man. But, thank God, the kingdom of heaven is not of this world, and I've seen families break apart. I've seen people get into arguments and miss the beauty of the gospel. Ladies and gentlemen, we can deal with our anxiety, our loss of hope, our depression, our loss of hope, our depression, our fallen nature, by giving everything to God and letting God heal us. Ladies and gentlemen, because the crucifixion is sweet.
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And I want to say another thing and I want to point something out, and I don't want a lot of you to be offended by this, but I've noticed that we have Easter and we call Resurrection Sunday Easter. I prefer to call today Resurrection Sunday. Can I get an amen? And the reason why is I've noticed in a lot of churches that have made Resurrection Sunday synonymous with Easter and call it Easter pretty much a lot all the time, that there's a lot of Sunday messages that don't have anything to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This should be the day around the world where we proclaim the glory of God, we proclaim the Messiah, we proclaim the resurrection. We, as Christians, proclaim to the masses our king has conquered. Conquered what, ladies and gentlemen beloved? Conquered the demonic forces, conquered the failures of humanity, conquered the rebellion of Adam and Eve through the Garden of Eden, through the New Covenant, the Messiah Covenant, through Jesus Christ, that gave us the Holy Spirit freely.
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Ladies and gentlemen, and I want to start off by reading chapter 8 in the book of Matthew and I was doing a genealogical discussion on my previous show, but I want to read to you about the demons and what they knew to a and the conquering of our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ. Are you ready, ladies and gentlemen beloved? I want to talk about Jesus. When he crossed the countryside and he went to the country of the Gadareans and the demons asked him an important question. I want to start off on chapter 8 in the book of Matthew, on verse 28, where Jesus heals two men with demons. Verse 28 where Jesus heals two men with demons.
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And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadareans, two demon-possessed men met with him coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way. I want you to think about that. These men were so consumed and overcome by demonic possession that no one, no force, no Roman, no Jew could pass that way, because they fell so far from God and they become overcome, I should say, with evil. And behold, they cried out. What have you to do with us, o Son of God? These two men, these demons, see the majesty of Christ, the power, the Son of God, and they cry out what have you to do with us? Leave us alone, let us torment the world, let us torment this man, o Son of God, let us do what we're doing. And they ask a question have you come here to torment us before the time, ladies and gentlemen, what time are these demons talking about? The time, the end, the lake of fire reserved for Satan and his demons, a place of torment, a place where the rebelliousness individuals go, where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth, where you never find peace, where it's absent hell, that is, of God's love, of God's mercy, of God's truth, of God's paradise, of God's wholeness and the dwelling with Him as the Father. And that's why the demons are saying have you come to torment us before the time, the time of our judgment, the time of our destruction.
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Now, a herd of many pigs was feeding at some distance from them and the demons begged him. That is Christ saying If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs Beloved. If we read the Old Testament and we read the ceremonial laws and what Jews could eat, they were forbidden to eat pork. They were forbidden to eat pigs. They were unclean animals, a representation, you can say, of the Gentile nations around them. They were disgusting. They would eat anything. And so Jews looked at pigs as an abomination.
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And the Messiah, the Jews of all Jews, was asked a question. The demons begged him, saying If you cast us out, send us into the herd of pigs, because it's better to punish us that way before the time of the time. And he said to them Go, all Jesus has to do is speak to conquer, to show his presence, to conquer. That is the Messiah we serve and this is before the crucifixion beloved. So they came out, went into the pigs and behold, the whole herd rushed down to the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters. And I want you to think about this act. Christ said go, cast them out of the men that went into the pigs, signifying. You can see a double uncleanness, an infinite uncleanness. And they rushed down to the sea. And the Jews knew that the sea and the waters was a place of turmoil, could not be controlled, of darkness, of oblivion. Once you drown in the dark waters you never come back. And the demons begged Christ to let the pigs and the water take them.
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The herdsmen fled and going into the city, they told everything. These herdsmen watched by, they watched their economy go downhill, so to speak. That was their means of living. They witnessed a miraculous event the Gadareans, christ exercising these men, putting him into pigs and drowning them. So the herdsmen fled, going down the city, told everything, especially what happened to the demon-possessed men. And behold all the city came out to meet Jesus and when they saw him they begged him to leave their region.
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Beloved, the Messiah came, performed a miracle, cast out the demons, rendered them to pigs and drowned them. And the city came out and begged Jesus to leave the region. They didn't want the Messiah. They had no oil in their lamp, they were concerned with pork and pigs and what they had to eat in their lamp. They were concerned with pork and pigs and what they had to eat in their economy more than the one, the only one, the Messiah, the Savior, that can heal them of all sickness, all fears, everything, and that is the personification of love, because he is love and they asked him to leave, beloved. There are people today that Jesus is knocking at the door and they ask him to leave because they simply are concerned more with the pigs, sin, wickedness, than being healed by the love of Christ Beloved. If that's you today, I pray that you will open your heart and accept Jesus and confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Christ can save you. Ladies and gentlemen, let's listen to the story that we just read.
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The story that we just read. There he is the Messiah. What have you to do with us, oh son of God? Have you come here to torment us before our time? We beg you to cast us in this herd of pigs. We know who you are.
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We know about your power we have nothing to do with man and take life. I have come to restore life. Given power by the Father in heaven, I will grant your request and I will cast you into the pigs, into utter darkness, chaos.
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I order you, by the power of God, to go into the pigs and I will drive you into the sea demons.
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Leave us, jesus. Leave us now. Leave our city. We no longer want you here. We don't want any more problems from you. Look what you did to our livestock. Look what you did to our livestock. Look what you did to our food supply. Jesus, just leave. Please go now. We no longer want you here. Go away, don't come back. Look what this guy, jesus, did to us. Look what he did to our farms, our pigs, our community. Go away, jesus. Do not come back and disturb us. We no longer want you. My God, please forgive them. You created such a miracle for me.
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I was tormented day and night by these demons, and you rescued me, lord, please take me with you, please.
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I want to follow you, messiah, my God.
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Follow you, messiah, by God, my son, go and proclaim these miracles to everyone along the countryside. Go in peace, Beloved. I pray that you understood and enjoyed that rendition of the Gadarene demoniac, the townspeople and Christ's miracle he performed. And I want to discuss some scripture and I want to jump to Matthew 25, verse 31, the sheep and the goats. When the Son of man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, he will sit on His glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before Him and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on His right side and the goats on his left. Then the king will say to those on his right come, you who are blessed by my father, take your inheritance. The kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. God has prepared an inheritance for us if we just accept him, accept his crucifixion, resurrection and be born again by belief.
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And I like how Wesley put it when it came to the graces, prevenient grace. This is God setting a grace for each one of us before our birth. And then we got that convicting grace, the grace that convicts us when God illuminates our mind and searches us out. And then we have that cooperating grace where we can say, father, I choose to confess you with my mouth and believe in my heart. Or one can say, I rather be rebellious and run. But for those that accept and cooperate with the grace, we have sanctifying grace and we can go on to look more like Christ, our Messiah that saved us by shedding his blood at Calvary. Saved us by shedding his blood at Calvary. And let's continue on, ladies and gentlemen, verse 34. Then the king will say to those on his right Come you who are?
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blessed by my father, take your inheritance. The kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For when I was hungry, you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited me in. I needed clothes and you clothed me. I was sick and you looked after me. I was in prison and you came to visit me.
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Then the righteous will answer him Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes to clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go visit you? The king will reply truly. I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. So Jesus equates showing love in his name, the seal of redemption, pouring out charity and helping people in prison need to be clothed and taking the stranger in. But look what Christ says to those on the left. What Christ says to those on the left, then he will say to those on his left depart from me. You are cursed into the eternal fire, prepared for the devil in his angels. Lord, have you come before the time? Do you remember that the place prepared weeping and gnashing of teeth? For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink. I was a stranger and you did not invite me in. I needed clothes and you did not clothe me. I was sick and in prison and you did not clothe me. I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me. Then also will answer Lord when did we see you hungry or thirsty, or a stranger, or needing clothes, or sick or in prison, and did not help you? And the Lord will reply to them. You and the lord will reply to them. Truly, I tell you, whatever you did not for one of the least of these, you did not do for me, then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the reason why I brought up the politics, the divisiveness, the hate, the anger in this world is because it's dragging people to hell. Don't get up. Don't get caught up with politics, don't get caught up with all of these earthly things that are gonna weigh you down. Grab on to the hem of the messiah's garment and experience his power and his love, mercy, accept the gift at Calvary, the one that was crucified for us. No-transcript, because he is such an amazing Savior. Christ took the sin of the world, became sin to deliver us, and he was crucified for us. Beloved, let's pick up and make a transition to John, chapter 19, and just witness what Christ took on for us.
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Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him, and the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. They came up to him saying hell, the king of the Druze, and struck him with their hands. Pilate went out again and said to him see, I am bringing out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him. So Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to him Behold the man. When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said to them Take him yourself and crucify him to them. Take him yourself and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him. The Jews answered him we have a law and according to the law he ought to die because he made himself the son of God. But you see, jesus demonstrated that he was the son of God, freeing the demon-possessed men, breaking their chains, casting the demons into the pigs. And that went around the entire country. No doubt the Pharisees heard it, no doubt the Sadducees heard it, but they wanted him dead.
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When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus when are you from? But Jesus gave him no answer. So Pilate said to him you will not speak to me. Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you? Jesus answered him you would have no authority over me at all, unless it has been given to you from above. Therefore, he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin. And Jesus was crucified for us. Hate, anger. They wanted an earthly Messiah.
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The people, the Gadareans, drove him out. They weren't looking with their spiritual eyes, they hardened their heart. So, jesus, they took him and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place of the skull, which in Aramaic is called Gilgatha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side and Jesus between them. Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross, and it read Jesus of Nazareth, king of the Jews. Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city and it was written in Aramaic, latin and Greek. So the chief priest of the Jews said to Pilate do not write the King of the Jews, but rather this man said I am the king of the Jews. Pilate answered what I have written, I have written.
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When the soldiers have crucified Jesus, they took his garment and divided it into four parts, one for each soldier, also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven into one piece from top to bottom. So they said to one another Let us not tear it, but let us cast lots so it could be one of ours. This was to fulfill the scripture, which says they divided my garments among them and for my clothing they cast lots. Ladies and gentlemen, we worship god. They destroyed him, they beat him, they pierced his side, they killed him and our god was resurrected and we worship him because of his power and his glory. And he's the son of god and he resurrected.
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Now, on the first day of the week, mary magdalene came to his tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to simon peter and the other disciple, the one whom jesus loved, and said to them, they have taken the lord. Out with the other disciple and they were going toward the tomb. Both of them were running but the other went out with the other disciple and they were going towards the tomb, went out with the other disciple and they were going towards the tomb, but both of them running together. But the other disciple outrun Peter and reached the tomb first and stooping to look in he saw the linen cloth lying there but he did not go in.
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Then Simon Peter came following him and went into the tomb, he saw the linen cloth lying there and the face cloth which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloth but folded up in a place by itself.
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Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in and he saw and believed For as yet they did not understand the scripture that he must rise from the dead. And then the disciples went back to their homes. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you believe, believe in this Christ. He's redeemed us and we glorify him today. Jesus is beautiful, the only God, the only Messiah. I want to thank you for being with me today and I want to close in a prayer, if you want to bow your head and close your eyes with me. Prayer If you want to bow your head and close your eyes with me.
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Father, god, we thank you for sending your son, for satisfying your wrath. We did not deserve your love. You were in perfect love, but you chose, out of your love, to love us. If anybody's listening to this podcast, I pray that you remake them, that they're born again when they accept you, that their heart becomes a heart of flesh, changed from a heart of stone, and that they leap like a deer in paradise. I pray that you pour the Holy Spirit out across the nation and across the world and you proclaim your son's miraculous work of resurrection. In Jesus' name, amen, beloved.
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I want to thank you. I love you. Godspeed until we meet again. This is Pastor Joshua on the Saints have Overcome Ministries.
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And he is jealous.
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For me, loves like a hurricane. I am a tree, bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy, when, all of a sudden, the weight of His wind and mercy, when, all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions, eclipsed by glory, and I realize just how beautiful you are and how great your affections are for me. Oh, how he loves us all. Oh how he loves us, how he loves us all. And he is jealous for me, loves like a hurricane.
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I am a tree, bending near the weight of His wind and mercy, eclipse by glory, and I realize just how beautiful you are and how great your affections are for me. Oh, how he loves, yeah, he loves us. Oh how he loves us. Oh, how he loves us. Oh, how he loves us. Oh, how he loves, and we are His portion and he is our prize, drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes, drawn to redemption by the grace in his eyes. If his grace is an ocean, we're all sinking and heaven meets earth like an unforeseen kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest. I don't have time to maintain these regrets when I think about the way, oh, how he loves us all. Oh, how he loves us, how he loves us, how he loves us all, how he loves.
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Yeah, he loves us. Oh how he loves us. Oh how he loves us. Oh how he loves us. Oh how he loves. Oh what love. Yeah, he loves us. Yeah, he loves us, how he loves us. Oh how he loves us all Thank you.