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One word ends the title document's message today simply alive. Let's open God's Encouraging Word together. This is The Encouraging Word featuring the Bible-based printing of Dr. Don Wilton discover more about us on our website@twonline.org tewonline.org large and now today's great teaching Dr. Don Wilton all the all fall, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on the just as it is in heaven.

It is too wonderful for words. So God that you would have loved us so much that you would've same Jesus your son, the spotless Lamb of God to come to this earth, this sinful sin sick world of ours where we tracked in our flesh and where we struggle with so many things Lord. Notwithstanding this about hearts the inclination of our hearts, and yet you would love us so much. Thank you for Jesus. In Jesus name we pray together. A man I just I just cannot try to comprehend the trying tell each one of you how much I thank God for you today and just for the preciousness of us being together like this just so many of us worshiping in Genesis, in celebration in the thousands upon thousands of worship with us today.

I wave television and live streaming places, states, countries, military bases, just people everywhere worshiping the Lord right now. None of that, even touching the hem of the garment of the one of whom we speak. This Jesus and I just pray today that the Lord Jesus would bless you, thank you for joining together like this and right at the outset of our time of worship. Jesus died for you he died for me. Every one of us we see ourselves very often as this boss group of people.

These congregations and gatherings, and most certainly, we are, we see the stadiums of life, but it's just mind-boggling to think that when Jesus went to the cross.

And when God raised him by his power that he had every single one of us in mind. Do you understand that, and he sees you he knows you and what I'm about to share with you today is going to show you how very significant this is because he he understands every single thing about and so many of us today we gather and we bring to this moment in time. Our lives you and I have got a life we've each got a story you know we say this many times, and if we could project onto screens right now just the people worshiping the Lord and each story of every one of us. You and I know very will that we could never ever have enough we couldn't extend that we couldn't find enough screens to project the life story circumstances. Some of you. Some of us we all experiencing such great joy.

You know, not everything about colluded has been bad code is bad. Not everything about it hasn't all been just rotten and bad. I bet people say to me for the first time in my life, I've spent quality time with my family.

I had a father say to me a couple weeks ago he came to me and he said to me you know Don said if you want to look at the silver lining on the cloud of covert. He said it stopped me in my tracks. He said all of a sudden I had to work from home and all of a sudden I started to see my wife through different liens and he said all of a sudden I noticed my children like never before and he told me that he had become so busily consumed by his work was go go go go go you know God is given us an opportunity today to really take note and I'm telling you, I'm praying for you right now we are praying for you. You individually.

I'm gonna awesome you if you know Jesus, not the person next to you.

I'm not asking you today. If your mother praying for you, which I'm sure she did not asking you if you grew up in a Christian home.

I'm asking you if you know Jesus I'm not asking you if you just a wonderfully happy Christian you know everything in the Bible tells me that Christians have the abundant life. And we do, but Christians also sin against God.

Christians also suffer with anxiety. You know much anxiety there is, you know, Christians can get angry Christians can speak out of turn. Christians can behave badly know the Bible tells us that Jesus hung on the cross.

First of all, that we would know him and then having come to know him so that we could live in him today anything in God knows us and he loves us in that battle that you going through right now. Do you know Christians can go through divorces.

Did you know that really fine Christian people, you know, wonderful Christian moms and dads can raise wonderful Christian homes and still have sons and daughters who grow up and today I fall from God. You know that there are moms and veggies who love just love the sons and daughters that cry out to God every day because they sons and daughters don't know Jesus want to read to you from first Corinthians chapter 15 you want to have a look at this in your Bibles with me today. First Corinthians chapter 50 wonderful passage of Scripture. This talks teaches us about the fact that Jesus is alive. First Corinthians chapter 15 in verse 12, listen to how personal this is you going to feel when I read this passage today like you talking to me. Yes it it it's not me. God talks to us individually.

Listen to what he says but if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead. How can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead.

If is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised and if Christ is not being raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith more than that. If Christ is not being raised.

We are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Jesus Christ from the dead, but he did not raise him if in fact we did on not racist. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ is not being raised, your faith is futile and you are still lost in your sins. Then those who have died or fallen asleep in Christ are lost if only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all people, but Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who were full and the sleep for since the came through man, the resurrection from the dead and all the dead comes also through a man full as in Adam and Eve all die, but in Christ we are all made alive. It's a powerful passage of Scripture.

That's the Easter message right there full of personal questions. You know I am no different. I was born and raised on the other side of the world, but just like you. Many of our side eyes. I grew up enough in a wonderful home and I grew up in a home where my mother and father came to know the Lord and love the Lord Jesus, I can stand here today and say to you when I was a young boy I heard about Jesus, I read about Jesus our soul. Jesus demonstrated lived out in the life of my parents and so many others I was in church. You know my friends had come to where I gonna raised Jesus from the I had to believe and how do you believe something that is so bizarre. You see, that's what faith stepping out in faith know that we love to pray with you and for you in faith about anything any time at 866-899-WORD, that's our phone number 86689673 would love to encourage you anytime day or night, and especially encourage you about the daily Encouraging Word The Encouraging Word's most requested resource is the daily Encouraging Word daily Encouraging Word is a daily devotional made available in a quarterly booklet or delivered each morning in your email docs like to request this free devotional.

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Again, that's just one resource. There are many available on our website@twonline.org that's TW online.org about today's great teaching with Dr. Don Wilton gone, when Jesus went to the cross. They will hundred and they were hundreds of them that shot for his blood ice cream they wanted him crucified.

In fact, they would.

They right there when Jesus was. They watched by sort. There was even one of the soldiers even made a comment when Jesus said it is finished and.he turned around the seed to his buddy next to him. Surely this must be Jesus.

This must be the son of God, and then they were the people around him that just they knew it they just believed that they couldn't understand it but they got it and they accepted it by trusted I came to the point in my life when I just believed it when I was like eight years of age. I was in boarding school in Africa and and I made a decision as as a young boy to give my heart to Jesus.

Did you maybe do that maybe is a young girl young boy and you made to decide what I did. I'm here to tell you and you know I believe because faith is so simple as you have faith.

He comes in your heart, not not tell you from the age of eight until you know the age of 23 I tell you I battled with this thing called faith and trust and I battle to live out that life was never overtly bad, but is certainly if if you'd seen me especially in my mid and later teen years and early college years.

This note, there was no connection if you had known me in the Army you would never of said will you know Don Wilton's are a Christian man. He believes that Jesus is alive.

You wouldn't of said because there was nothing in me that spoke to that. Then I met this unbelievably beautiful young lady and fell in love with her and her life and her influence in an and I just remember going to the church service on Easter Sunday in the city. On the other side of the world. I remember that pasta getting up. He began to talk about Jesus that he was so real and alive, and it's not that I didn't. I just, that was the day when my faith became so real to me. I said yes Lord, I'm going to just trust you. You see this passage of Scripture tells us that Jesus have to come and die on the cross and be raised by God because just like Adam and Eve, we too are born and conceived in sin and we are condemned to die because the Bible sees the wages of sin is the so that greater diversity in verse 22.

Let's think about it from in verse 20 2C is but for as in Adam all die, what does that mean so you remember when back in the book of Genesis. The Bible tells us that God created Adam and Eve goes with the first two human beings. God made so if you could transport yourself and trying to imagine the unimaginable.

We always talk about the garden of Eden Dunkley how perfect it must've been and that was perfect. Well Bible sees that when God created the first two people he created them perfect. All right, now we're all going to have a serious problem here because apart from one or two of you there not a lot of perfect people around of and it's hard to be humble when you just perfect in every way. Quite frankly, I think I'm quite terrific.

We can't conceive this thing perfect fact in first Corinthians, Paul puts it like this in chapter 13. He says he says we ought imperfect, but when the perfect comes, I'm going to explain that to you. So when God made Adam and Eve man and woman he made them perfect, which means three things. Number one he made them to look like God I can't wrap my mind around that. The Bible says that Adam and Eve were created in the image of God.

If you want to understand an image gun stand in front of them, which most of us did this morning and look at yourself.

You are seeing your self as you all that mean when you look at them when they were made and put into the Garden of Eden when they looked into the mirror, they saw the face of God that were made in the image of God in God's likeness that were made to look like God. Secondly, that were made to love like God they love was pure. It was holy. Now we can't figure that out. It was so pure and so holy they were not even aware of their own differences their own makeup, their own physiological design.

It was not an issue there was no need to cover up because they were perfect. There was no consideration all different kid different.

There, and they were made to love like God with the pure love. Can you imagine a world where there is just pure love and the third thing about Adam was that he was made to live with God not I need to look like God not only to love like God but to live with God you not see heaven and a God.

The garden was as much God's haven and his home as heaven was in the Bible city just came down and walked around and had fellowship that was where God was. They lived together. Please forgive me if I sound to human but in then living together that fellowship. Good morning God, how are you will I'm fine Adam and how you there was a a one on one. There was a there was a oneness. So what happened what what spoiled everything sin.

Devon came and said you don't really mean God seed that in Adam and Eve did what God said not to do God said, and they said no they send syndrome is falling short of God, anything that so much as misses the mark of God's absolute is sin. Excuse me. Where does that leave all of us will sentence always get amused when people pointed Christians and so I will lay some hypocrites. Hello.

Welcome to the world. Everybody's a sinner and when they sinned, they will cost out from the presence of God because God's righteousness and holiness could no longer accept them or tolerate them. So what happened when sin entered the life of Adam and Eve three things happen. They could no longer look like God. And if you want to know how that works just like a look at me, go ahead. All of you can look at me. I know it's a shock to some of you my here is not quite the same color as it was.

It's changing did you see this little bump bar chair that I put something on the Trenton covered over you look at you ladies will let Mary Kay stuff and we very happy with very very thankful. But we're also grateful you didn't come here when you got out of bed this morning. I didn't say I'm in trouble I'm in trouble I'm in trouble.

We love you just the same height. Listen we no longer look look like God. Anybody got anything to say about that. I'm telling you now. Every day we wake up, do you know when we're born we start dying.

The moment the baby comes into this world. This finish because of sin begins to take on the sinful nature the decay of the body. We can no longer look like God. We can no longer love like God have have you noticed what is really missing and I will focus you know sin came into the life of Adam and Eve they could no longer look like God and I could no longer love like God and serve me. They couldn't longer live with God.

God can't live with anybody that has any sin, because he supposed Jesus is the only answer to this problem. These solution, you know, here's the issue.

When Jesus came because Jesus is alive. When we put our faith and trust in him. Three things happen. I'm on we can once again look like God. We can once again love life.

We can once again live with. That's what happened because he paid the price. When Jesus went to the cross said it's finished paying off paid taken away or use of every seat frame watches for many years. I heard about understood in some kind of way you know I Jesus ready for this.

You give your heart to treat as many of the worship center bowing their heads to open your heart, not necessarily value ahead and close your eyes, but hope in your heart to what Dr. Don was to share with you next. Are you ready to give your heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ. Why don't you pray this prayer with me right there. God, I know that and I know that Jesus died for me today. I repent of my sin and by faith I receive you into my phone in Jesus night, my friend. I welcome you today into the family of God.

This is exciting new God is moving your life today. You've made a change course correction that he prayed along with the pastor moments ago would love to pray with you put some free resources in your hands if you call us our numbers. 866-899-WORD 866-899-9673 would love to connect with those free resources but also you can visit us online for a period of resources@ourwebsitetwonline.org that's T EW online.org 24 hours a day, you can connect with us resources like signing up for the daily Encouraging Word email from Dr. Don again. It's online@tewonline.org