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A Look At The Last Days By: Pete Norris

Harvest Fellowship Church

Jul 26, 2026 · 29 min3K

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God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; (Hebrews 1:1, 2 NKJV)

Hebrews means "to crossover." I believe this is a crossover from the Old Testament to the New Testament. Paul calls this for the last days.

Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. (I John 2:18 NKJV

John calls this the last days. Remember in Genesis it started in the Garden and in Revelation it ends in the Garden.

Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.” (Mark 7:13 NKJV)

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the Lord Shall be saved.’ (Acts 2:14-21 NKJV)

Peter calls this the last days.

For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. (Romans 14:17 NKJV)

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. (Hebrews 5:12, 13 NKJV)

Which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. (Galatians 1:7 NKJV)

The Gospel has been so perverted by performance, law and works.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” (Romans 1:16, 17 NKJV)

This should be our standard of living.

“Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith. (Habakkuk 2:4 NKJV)

But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. (Romans 3:21-26 NKJV)

People had a problem with Paul using the word, Law.

But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago. We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God freely and graciously declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just, and he declares sinners to be right in his sight when they believe in Jesus. (Romans 3:21-26 NLT)

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” (Galatians 3:8 NKJV)

God set forth a propitiation by His blood.

Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. (Romans 5:9 NKJV)

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:13 NKJV)

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:14 NKJV)

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. (Romans 10:2, 3 NKJV)

Lack of knowledge.

And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. (Philippians 3:9-12 NKJV)

Look at perfected.

To the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, (Hebrews 12:23 NKJV)

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; (James 2:8 NKJV)

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:2 NKJV)

This is talking about Royal law. There is a Royal or Kingdom law and there is a ceremonial law of Moses.

To judge someone means you must convert to the law of Moses to be able to judge, because everything under Grace is love.

So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty. (James 2:12 NKJV)

For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. (Galatians 5:5 NKJV)

Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ; (Philippians 1:6 NKJV)

To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily. (Colossians 1:27-29 NKJV)

Of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power. (Ephesians 3:7 NKJV)

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, (Ephesians 3:20 NKJV)

That He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. (Ephesians 5:27 NKJV)

In the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— (Colossians 1:22 NKJV)

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Today on Power in the Word Righteousness, peace and joy So how can you get unrighteous and be in the kingdom? How can you not have peace and be in the kingdom? How can you not have joy and be in the kingdom? What does Nehemiah 10 say? The joy of the Lord is your what? Strength And the Bible said that Jesus said I will give them my joy He wants to give you his peace Not peace that the world talks about, but his peace And he said him who knew no sin became sin That you and I might become the righteousness of God Romans 5 21 So we understand that righteousness is automatic for everybody And you're living that righteousness, you can't fall out of it Welcome to Power in the Word Some say because of the perilous times we live in That we're living in the last days Well, how long have we been living in the last days? Well today Dr. Norris takes an unconventional look At what the Bible has to say about the last days In the last days you might be surprised But surely you'll be encouraged So you stay with us Tonight we want to talk about Let's take a look at the last days Now I'm not talking about eschatology tonight So you don't have to get all uptight all of a sudden And say well he's going to talk about the rapture I'm not

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Let's go to Hebrews chapter 1 verse 1 and 2 God who at various times This is the beginning of Hebrews God at various times and in various ways Spoke in time past to the fathers How did he speak? How did God speak in the Old Testament? Now I want you to think about what you're saying He spoke through the prophets right under the Old Covenant So he never spoke to actual people did he? Now the Bible said he spoke to Moses But most of the time he spoke to prophets And you could really even consider Moses to be a prophet Because he was the one He was actually an example of the Messiah That led Jesus out He led the children out of Israel right? Out of Egypt And led them into the promised land But you know Moses didn't ever go in because he disobeyed God And because he disobeyed God he couldn't go into the promised land Because he done what? He hit the rock twice You know God didn't take our healing twice That ought to be another healing scripture for some of you Because you know you can't smack the rock twice He should have spoke to the rock instead of smacking the rock You need to start speaking to your sickness instead of smacking the rock Amen? Who's the rock? Jesus Christ all throughout the Old Testament

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Then what did he tell Peter? Peter you're a piece of the rock So we understand that God was symbolizing And bringing us to a place where under the Old Covenant He spoke to the prophets And now under the New Covenant he's speaking to who? Let's go to verse 2 As in the last days Spoken to us by his son So he's considering us 2,000 years ago to the last days Right? So for 2,000 years we've been in the last days Everybody agree with that? So when's the last days? So I'm just showing you some scriptures To kind of open your eyes a little bit I'm not trying to convince you that I'm right But I'm not going to agree with you then Because we'll both be wrong But I'm not trying to convince you that I'm right I'm just trying to convince you And let you see some scriptures And enlighten some scriptures About what the revelation I believe God's trying to speak to us How many of you know the word Hebrew means the cross over? Well what was he crossing over? It was not across the Jordan He was crossing over from the Old Covenant into the New Covenant Now under the Old Covenant he spoke through the prophets Under the New Covenant he speaks through Jesus

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So we see here As in these last days spoken to us by his son Whom he has appointed heir of all things Now if he's heir of all things What does that make you? Heir of all things The Bible says you're heirs of God And joint heirs of Christ Jesus So everything that Jesus has you have Now under the Old Covenant Everything that they had That Jesus had they didn't have Because they didn't have Jesus they were under the law And they operated through the principles of the law Now the church is still trying to operate Through those principles So we don't understand if it's the last days or not But I want to ask you a question If we're in the last days How's there any last days in Jesus? Whom also He made the worlds So ask yourself a question now Did he make the worlds? Did he make the worlds? He framed them and formed them How? By his word So we see here That in the last days

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We're still in those last days 2023 years later We're still in those last days And he's done what? He's speaking to us through who? Jesus Now I want to show you something So Hebrew means to cross over From the Old Testament to the New Testament So Paul calls this the last days Correct? Now some people believe Paul wrote Hebrews And some people believe Luke wrote some of Hebrews I can't really tell you which one wrote it But I can tell you this That he said he was in the last days Right? Are we in the last days? 1st John chapter 2 verse 18. So, little children, it is the last hour that as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming. How many of you have heard the Antichrist is coming? But now, look what he says, even now, many Antichrist. So if there's going to be one, why have we got many? Now the word Antichrist is actually a Greek word that means somebody that's against Christ. That's anybody that's Antichrist. How many people you know preach Christ? Or do we preach Jesus? Jesus was the one that buried that. Christ is the one that got up. So Christ is the resurrection. Now listen to me very carefully. I'm not throwing anybody under the bus. I'm just trying to give you some revelation here that if there's many Antichrist have come by which we know that it is the last hour. So it's been the last hour now for 2,000 years because of the Antichrist. Correct? So John calls this the last days or the last hour. Now you remember in Genesis 1 everything started in the garden. In the

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book of Revelation everything ends in the garden. Right? Now watch this. I want you to see something because I want you to take a look at the last days. Go to Mark chapter 7 verse 13. Is it possible that we've made the Word of God to no effect through our tradition? Now the word tradition means what? The word tradition means what we've been brought up to believe that may be incorrect. Also the word tradition has a numerical value of 666. So is it possible that 666 that everybody thinks they're going to take is a tradition of the church that is keeping us from walking into the message of grace? So is the Antichrist possibly the pastors? I'm not trying to be mean. I'm not trying to be mean at all, but are we preaching Christ? What did Paul say? Paul said I preach Christ and Him crucified and anything else outside of that is what? Dung. So what I'm trying to get you to understand here is it possible that with the Word of God is no longer a fact because of the traditions which you've been handed down and many such things you do. Now I'm not calling pastors Antichrist. I'm not calling them. I did not call them that. I said is it possible that the traditions of the church is what's keeping us from receiving the revelation of grace? I think so many people know about grace but they're afraid to preach it. We'll preach grace to get born again, but grace keeps us too. Grace sustains us too. It's like the story in John chapter 14. Let not your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. How many of you heard in church when you were growing up? He's building a mansion for you. And then I got to thinking one night. I was laying in bed and I got to thinking. You know it took him six days to make everything and now he's been working on a mansion for 2,000 years. 6,000 years. Man, that must be a big old place. But then I began to read the book and it didn't make any sense because John 13, 38, 39 says this. He said Peter you're going to deny me three times before the cock crows. Now you all know what does a cock crow for? For a new day. So the cock crowing was presenting a new day, a new revelation. And then verse 14 and 1 he said let not your heart be troubled Peter. I got you. He wasn't telling me he was going to build in a mansion nowhere in heaven. He said I'm putting my dwelling in you buddy. I'm going to look after you. I'm going to sustain you. It's okay. My grace has got you. Pretty much grace on

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steroids really. So really what is God saying to us man? His grace has got us. But hang on. You grew up in church. He's building a mansion for you. He's coming back for you. He's going to take you with him and you're going to the mansion. And he's going to use golden nails to build that mansion. And then some people are saying well I don't even care about a mansion. I just want a cabin at the front of that thing. Give me a cabin in the back. I ain't never liked the back of nothing. Have you? So let's go to Acts chapter 2, 14 through 21. Now watch this. I want you to see something here. This is a powerful revelation. And I'm going to take you from the old covenant into the new covenant with this revelation on Acts chapter 2. Because Acts chapter 2, everybody loves it, especially Pentecostal folks. But look what he said. But Peter, now who was the one that denied him? Peter. Peter means a piece of the rock, right? Who's the one that walked on water? Peter. Man, Peter, who's the one that cut off the guy's ear? Peter. Who wanted to cuss a little bit? How many of you, who's the one that said a sermon that 3,000 people got born again or recreated in a moment? Peter cussed you out in a minute. Whacked your ear off with a sword and the next minute he's preaching the gospel. You can't tell me there's not a grace God. That tells me you got a chance brother. But look what he said, but Peter standing up with the leaven, now remember that leaven, raised his voice and said to the men of Judah and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be made known to you and heed to my words. Now how many people is he talking to? Eleven. How many disciples are there now? How many brothers did Jacob have? Eleven. Where are we going with this? Remember what Jacob had a dream and he told the eleven brothers and he said, are you going to bow down to me and the sun and the moon, my mama and my daddy? Remember that. Let's go to verse 15. For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it's only the third hour of the day. They ain't drunk, they're ready. Look at 16. And this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. Now how many of you have heard preached the spirit of Joel's about to hit the church? You've heard that? Look at 17. And it shall come to pass, says God, that I'll pour out my spirit on all flesh, all flesh, say all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. 18. And I will show wonders in heaven above and

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signs of the earth, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. Guys, this has already happened, right? Didn't we see this on the book of Acts? Isn't this what he prophesied? Didn't this come to pass in Acts? Look, let's go on to verse 20. And the sun will turn into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great awesome day of the Lord. Now how many of you heard this in church when you were growing up? The moon's going to turn like blood when it gets ready to come back. But do you understand that we've had several blood moons and it didn't come? Do you understand that under the old covenant, the Jews knew exactly what a blood moon represented? It meant that they weren't in power and that God was. Is it really the same thing today that we see a blood moon that everybody wants to give a prophecy to and give a revelation about? Is it really about that or is it really about Jesus himself? The way, the truth, and the life. And so Peter's preaching to these people in heaven, said, man, this is what's going to happen before the great and the awesome day of the Lord. The great and the awesome day of the Lord. This is what's going to happen. Look at verse 21. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now how could that be dealing with the end of time if ever who calls upon it can be saved right now? So when's the last days? The last 2,000 years are right now. So every one of us in the last days. Smith Wickersworth said he knew he was going to see the coming of the Lord in his lifetime. And I thought for the longest time he don't know what he's talking about because he's dead. And Lord spoke to him one night, he said, you don't know what you're talking about because he ain't dead. So his lifetime don't ever end. So when you see the last days and you think you're going to be here in the last days, you're all going to be here in the last days because this is going to be your last day. In the natural, but we're going to step into the spirit of where there's no limit or no day or no night. So what is God really trying to tell us? So Peter was calling this the last days, was he not? Now go to Romans chapter 14, Romans chapter 14. So we're taking a look at the last days. For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking. What was he telling the people here? He was telling the Romans here, look guys, it ain't about what you eat or what you drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Where do we see righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit? See, if we ever understand our righteousness, peace is not going to be a problem. And if we ever understand righteousness and peace, joy ain't never going to be a problem. So the kingdom of God is made up of what? Righteousness, peace and joy. So how can you get unrighteous and be in the kingdom? How can you not have peace and be in the kingdom? How can you not have joy and be in the kingdom? What does Nehemiah 8 and 10 say? The joy of the Lord is your what? Strength. And the Bible said it, Jesus said, I will give them my joy. He wants to give you his peace, not peace that the world talks about, but his peace. And he said, him who knew no sin became sin, that you and I might become the righteousness

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of God, Romans 5, 21. So we understand that righteousness is automatic for everybody and you're living that righteousness, you can't fall out of it. You can't fall out of righteousness because once you understand righteousness, peace is automatic. And when you understand righteousness and peace becomes automatic, joy will be in your life. Joy unspeakable and full of glory. Now, how many of you want peace? You need to understand righteousness. What did he say? He said there's going to be a latter reign and a former reign. A former reign and a latter reign in the same month. The word former in the actual Hebrew means a teacher of righteousness. I heard a preacher say this week, he said, all we need in the church is more righteousness. And I thought, how are we going to get more righteousness than Jesus? Jesus is absolute righteousness, and because He's righteous, you're always righteous. Let me tell you something, for you to become unrighteous, He would have to become unrighteous. For you not to have peace, He would have to not have peace. For you not to have joy, He would have to have not joy. If we're in Christ, like the Bible says in John 15 and 7, you abide in Him and He abides in you, then ask yourself a question, where's my righteousness? It's in Him. The Bible said in 1 John 3, verse 8, that the Son of God come to destroy the works of a devil. Me and you are the righteousness of God. Let me tell you something, we're some kind of something. You need to be happy that you're right here right now, alive. You need to be, you're blessed to be in this place tonight. We're blessed to be on this earth. We're blessed to be alive in Christ. Listen, we ain't got a worry in the world. Go to Hebrews chapter 5. Watch this, for though by this time you ought to be to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have come to need milk and not solid food. Now watch this, verse 13, for everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is of age. Now I want to ask you a question. How many of you went to church and every Sunday you heard a salvation message? The lost sheep. And I thought, I don't need to hear salvation, I'm born again. I'm a new creature. Old things have passed away. So why do I need to hear about a lost sheep? Because I ain't lost. But every Sunday we hear the lost sheep. And I understand the purpose of the message. The message is for those that are there that are lost. But what if we told them how wonderful God was? And what if we told them that, according to Romans 2 and 4, that is the goodness of the

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Lord that leads people to repentance. How would the church really respond if we got a hold of how righteous we really were and begin to understand the righteousness of God? And it's not last day, it's your last moment. I want you to go with me to Galatians chapter 1 verse 7. Which is not another, but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. Paul said, listen to me guys, there's some of y'all that are troubling me because y'all want to pervert. He said you want to pervert the gospel of Christ. He didn't say the gospel of Jesus. He said the gospel of Christ. You're trying to pervert it. Wonder what they were doing. They were preaching law and grace. It makes a little bit of law in there with that grace and couldn't let people have freedom. They had to keep a little tie on them and pull a little rope tight and keep them churchified. And so what's happening in the church is we become so churchified that we can't rejoice and be glad in the goodness of the Lord that we got to act right, look right, and do right, and be right, and talk right, and say the right thing. When all the time grace has got us, man, and if grace ain't got you, you in a heap of trouble. But I've got what's used for you. He's got you, and he loves you. He's compassionate for you. He wants to heal you. He's already done it. He wants you whole. He wants you delivered. He wants you free. He wants you happy. He wants you to have righteousness. He wants you to have peace. He wants you to have joy. He wants you to operate the kingdom of God. Why? Because low here, low there, the kingdom of God's on the inside of us. And the kingdom of God is made up of what? Righteousness, peace, and joy. In the Holy Ghost. You're full of the Holy Ghost. So the gospel has been perverted by performance and law and works. If we were born into this earth as a sinner, then I had to be spiritually dead. Correct? Because without me being, if I'm spiritually alive, I can't be in the sin rim anymore. Because there's no death for him that's in righteousness. Jesus was born into the earth spiritually alive. His option was not whether he could sin or not. He didn't have a sin nature. It's not sinning that makes you a sinner. It's the nature of sin that makes you a sinner. And without the sin nature, you can't be righteousness and a sinner at the same time, because that's a schizophrenic. And so that's impossible

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for me and you to become if Jesus was born into the earth absolutely without sin. Could not sin because of the way he was born. Correct? Then you and I became a new creature in Christ Jesus. We can't sin either because sin leads to death and we already dead according to Colossians chapter 3 verse 3. If you be dead, your life is hidden with Christ in God. So it's impossible for me and you to be sinners. Turn to somebody and say it's impossible for you to be sinners. Now if you can't be sinners, you can't be sick. We need to get a hold of this revelation. Because himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. So he took them. So if in himself... I want you to get a hold of this. I want to give you a visual picture of what I kind of visualize the cross and the resurrection being like. Jesus was a vacuum cleaner on the cross. Now, for Jesus to die physically, He had to die spiritually. Once He died spiritually, He could take sin. Because a righteous man can't be a sinner. Sin was put on Jesus. He didn't sin. But that couldn't be put on Him until He had died spiritually. Now watch this. Once sin was put on Him, it was like a vacuum cleaner. He became a suction to all of your sins. He took every one of your sins on Himself. None left in the world. Not one. Now here's what happened. With that sin, He went to the ground with your sins and He buried them. And three days later, that sin nature was quickened and made alive by all the righteousness in the world. And the righteousness in the world, according to Romans chapter 4 verse 25, on the count of our righteousness, He was made whole. He got up because He had sucked all the sin of the world and took it on Himself. And there was no more sin in the world because He took the sin nature of the entire world by dying spiritually. Because the only people that can have sin is a spiritual dead person. So when Jesus died, He gave it up. They didn't kill Him. He gave it up. He said, I command the Spirit unto thee. Right? Remember? And He gave it up. And the Bible said He bowed His head. The Bible said He rested His head in the breast. The actual Greek translation of that word there is He rested in His creation. He rested in the finished work that He had finished on the cross and through the resurrection. And three days later, He stepped up out of the sickness, out of the sin, out of the death, into life, and He's been alive forevermore. Now Lazarus did not resurrect. Lazarus just got up and died again the second time.

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But Jesus will die no more. And neither will me and you because we died with Him. He didn't die for us. He died as us. And He took the sin nature of the whole entire world just like He did under the old covenant when they put the sin on the Lamb and then the Lamb went out and He was slain. They would slice His throat and He would go out into the wilderness and be killed for the sins of the world. The blood that was shed that was in the Lamb was for the whole world. John said, Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. And because of that, there's no sin in you today. Now listen to me. Listen to me. If you can get a revelation that you're no longer a sinner, you can come out of your sickness. You can come out of the issues and problems that's going on in your life. You can come out when you don't have any condemnation in your life whatsoever. Romans 8 and 1. There's therefore now no condemnation of those in Christ Jesus. None whatsoever. Listen. There is no... Listen to me. Listen to me. There is no sin without the law. You have got to bring the law back into your life to have sin. And if you have, it's because you don't understand the grace message of Christ. We good? So let's go to Romans chapter 1 verse 16 and 17. I'm not ashamed of the gospel of what? I'm not ashamed of the gospel of what? Not the gospel of Jesus. The gospel of what? For it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes. For the Jew first and also for the Greek. Now look at verse 17. For in it... In what? In... What's this now? Let's go back and read 16. For I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to everyone who believes. For in it... In what? The gospel of Christ. You see that? For in it, the gospel of Christ, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written. The just shall live by faith.

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So for in it, the gospel of Christ, the righteousness of God is revealed. You can't know the righteousness of God without understanding the resurrection. You can't understand that you're righteous until you understand the resurrection. Because the gospel that Paul is talking about in Galatians 1 and Romans 1 is the gospel of what? Christ. Him resurrected. Everything else is done. That should be our standard of living. That's how the power of Christ comes, by the gospel of Christ, for in it, for in the gospel of Christ, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith to faith to faith. That's why when you open this book, it ought to be just like, it's not a history book, it ought to be coming alive on the inside of you. It'll be opening up and blooming like a flower. It'll be so fully alive in you that when you read it, this thing becomes, you begin to see it in your spirit, the revelation of who you are in this book. This book is about you. It ain't about what's coming, it's about you. And who you are, this is your inheritance. This is the last willing testament of him, the new testament. Go to Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 4. Habakkuk chapter 2. Behold the proud, his soul is not upright in him, but the just shall live by faith. Listen to me, his soul is not upright in him. It ain't about you at all. Now listen to me, listen to me. If it ain't about you in righteousness, then it ain't about you in sin. Neither side of the coin is it about you. It's about him. Instead of spending your time confessing what you've done wrong, you need to start confessing on who you are in him.

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Because it's his grace that made you righteous. It's his grace that made you whole. It's his grace that lifted you up out of the pit of sin. It's his grace, and no longer can you ever enter back there, guys, because he gave you eternal redemption. Amen? Eternal redemption. Eternal. So, behold the proud, his soul is not upright in him, but the just shall live by what? Are you living by faith? You're not living by feelings. You're not walking by what you see. You're walking by faith. Now what does faith say? Faith says I'm the righteousness of God. Faith says by his stripes I'm healed. Faith says my beloved brother and bishop, of all things you prosper. And be in health, even your soul prospers. Faith says I'm not walking by what I see. I'm walking by what I see is temporary, but what I don't see is eternal. I'm walking by the eternal. I'm a heavenly being existing in a natural realm that I'm overcoming because what's on the inside of me is greater than what I see outside of me. And what's on the inside of me is bigger than whatever comes against me because what I'm dealing with in the past is what I'm living in in the future because my future is much greater than my past has been because the latter glory shall be much greater than the past glory because I am what I am because of him. Paul said I am what I am by the grace of God. Amen.

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I am what I am by the grace of God. Your future is bright, but it will not be bright until you can get rid of your past. You're not a sinner. I want you to understand tonight that you are declared righteous because of him. And you can't get unrighteous. You can't get unrighteous. There ain't no way in the world you can get unrighteous. You can't get out of this. Thank you for joining us today at Power in the Word. All of us here at Harvest Fellowship Church want you to know that God is not mad with you, but he loves you so very much. And he has a plan for your life. Please feel free to contact us here at Harvest Fellowship Church at our website, HarvestFellowshipChurch.net. So until next week, please remember, there's power in the word.

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