The Power of the Cross - (Part 3) — Erlo Stegen

The Empty Grave and the Living Christ

Lord Jesus, on this wonderful day, we want to praise your holy name. Indeed, the grave is empty, and you have arisen, and you are alive.

Indeed, the grave is empty, and you have arisen, and you are alive.

And that we can live with you, and you are alive, and we can live with you, and you are alive. You in us, how can we appreciate such a miracle?

You in us, how can we appreciate such a miracle?

Please be with us and reveal your power to us today. Please be with us and reveal your power to us today. We ask it for your namesake and to the glory of your holy name. Amen.

Christ Our Passover Lamb

1 Corinthians 5 and verse 6. Some might say, we would expect you to read from one of the gospels, reading about the woman who went to the tomb and found it empty. Why then is it possible that one could also read from a different text?

Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast, that you may be a new batch without yeast, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Therefore, let us keep the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness,.

But with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth. I'd like to speak about three points here. That what does the risen Christ say to us today? Secondly, we have Christ, our Passover lamb, that has been slain and sacrificed.

Sorrow, Joy, and Sanctification

And then thirdly, about sincerity and purity and cleansing us. The first point contains sorrow. Can we be sorrowful concerning this first day? Secondly, the second point, our joy. Pointless tattoo. And thirdly, our sanctification.

Today is the resurrection day of our Lord. We Germans call it Easter, that it's the festival of Easter.

O-S-T-E-R-N, Osten, wir feiern Osten, das uns führt, Osten. In englisch, das heißt Oster, has got nothing to do with the Easter rabbit, Easter bunny and Easter eggs, but it's Oster. Le Easter, jebo, abansur du bat, ama Easter, soga ama Easter, ama Easter holiday.

Now I'm sorry, I couldn't find any similar word in the Zulu language that compares to that word in German, Osten, and in English, Easter.

I have also searched in Afrikaans, what is Osten? Pas, na week, pas dag, ik stel voor, as daar geen woord voor Osten is, dat julle Afrikaans sprekend is, een nieuwe woord zal schep, voor Osten. Jullie weten, Afrikaans bestaat uit 70 Hollands, 20 Duits, 10 Frans.

Nou, misschien is daar een woord, Osten, Easter, as daar geen is nie, zo bekee huiswerk, ons will een nieuwe woord heen Afrikaans, Osten in Duits. Wat beteken Osten? Jullie feesten Duits, is Osten feest, wat beteken Osten?

Wat betekent Osten?

Wat zegt die Duitsen, wat betekent Osten? We feesten Osten. What does that word Easter mean? Has it nothing to do with a bunny, with Easter eggs? Easter means, Osten, zonnenaufgang.

That means, gushuguti, gutaza, ugupagama, gweelanga, ugpuma gweelanga, it means the sun rise. Afrikaans? Son opkoms. Des Osten. Loko kaza, kaza lelokam. This day surpasses any other day that exists. There is the birth of Jesus.

There is Easter, or Passover, there is the death of Christ. But the day which surpasses any other day is the resurrection of Christ. Even though that day when Christ was born was a great day, but if he hadn't risen from the dead, would it all have been in vain?

The death of Christ on the cross, that was a great event, but if Jesus hadn't risen from the dead, would it all have been in vain? There wouldn't have been a hallelujah. But his resurrection is the greatest day.

Angels at Christ’s Birth and Resurrection

On the day Jesus was born, I don't know if there was any angel, anybody who remained in heaven, I'm sure they were all there witnessing it. I presume heaven was empty on that day. They were all here on earth.

For there was a great multitude of heavenly hosts that were there proclaiming this message to the angels that a child is born. And even though it was pitch dark, it was during the night, it shone, it was radiant all round about them because of their appearance and speaking.

Now angel wanted to remain in heaven with such a great event taking place on earth. They wanted to be there witnessing it even though they had no room for them there in the end. They said, we want to be there, oh God, and speak about this great event.

And once again, at the resurrection of Christ, the same thing happened again where they were present here on earth. The angels in heaven said, we can't but be there at such a great event, at the resurrection of the Son of God and his conquering, him having the keys to life and death, we need to be there.

Some angels stood at the entrance to the grave. Some angels came and they rolled that great stone, which was like a big wheel, which weight, some say, maybe three up to five tons. They rolled that away and they cast it to the side.

That's right, I don't think they rolled it, they just took it and threw it there.

Some angels sat there where his head was in the grave. Some sat at his feet side, read your Bibles and you'll find it. And those that sat on the stone, their clothing was radiant like lightning. Oh, that was a great event and the angels came down to celebrate that, the resurrection of Christ.

And they came to worship him, the one who triumphed, the hero of God, the hero of all heroes. He has the keys, they came to worship him. For even though the body of Christ was there in the grave, but his spirit went down and his soul went down into the grave.

Into hell, into the depths. And there he took the keys of hell and he came up with the keys of death. And when he arose, he had the keys of hell and the keys of death. How great is this matter, so great that we need the languages of angels to explain it and express it.

Because it says, oh death, where is your sting? Oh hell, where is your sting? For Christ has overcome it. Where is your victory? He is the one who said, I have died, but now I live.

Can you blame the heavenly Hirsharen, what's that in English? The heavenly hosts, that they came down, heaven came down to have part in the greatest event that ever could take place on this planet. And all planets in the world.

The heavenly hosts, that they came down, heaven came down to have part in the greatest event that ever could take place on this planet.

The heavenly hosts, that they came down, heaven came down to have part in the greatest event that ever could take place on this planet.

Christ’s Sorrow in Gethsemane

There in the garden of Gethsemane, when Jesus was sorrowful unto death, he had asked his three most trusted disciples to be with him, to pray with him, to support him in that hour of sorrow. And they became drowsy, they fell asleep, and one angel couldn't contain himself and he went down to strengthen Jesus.

And so when Jesus conquered, they were there, they wanted to be there to witness that which happened when their hero overcame. It's just so troublesome that we do not see that which happens in the unseen world, in the spiritual world.

But there, when Jesus was in the garden, no human came to support him and to comfort him and to say, Oh Lord, even though it's difficult, persevere, go through with it. There was no one that stood with him.

Their eyes were heavy, full of sleep. Oh, it troubles, it's terrible when you are called and you know that you are called, but you are not there where God has called you to be. You are somewhere else,.

Your eyes heavy with sleep. What a great tragedy if you know you are called, or maybe you're not conscious of it, you are called to a task, to do something. You're getting older, gray hairs, sheep, the Zulu say sheep, are coming on your head, and you are not there where you're supposed to be.

What a tragedy. May God grant that you won't die there. But before you die, you get back to the.

Place where you ought to be. This needn't be a tragedy. That's a scandal. As a Christian,.

You are not there where you ought to be. And you know, God has called you, God has sent you, but you are busy with other things. How will you stand before him, if you stand before him on the day of judgment?

You are not there where you ought to be. But before you die, you get back to the place where you ought to be. You abound with chains of hell and of sin, and Jesus came to set you free, but until now, you're still continuing in your life of sin, unconfessed sin.

Those chains should be broken, and you should have come for them to be broken, to be snapped to pieces, and that you then proclaim this message above all other messages. And the angel said, we want to be there.

The Resurrection Brings Light and Freedom

Easter is the rising of the sun. On that day of resurrection, and it brought daybreak, at the same time, the sun, the eternal sun, arose to bring us light, so that in his light, we may see the light. The eternal sun arose and appeared.

It's always a blessing to me when our brother, Manda Kwela, shares. He's blind, but it's such a blessing to me when he shares concerning his life, when he read there in Isaiah, when God spoke to him through his word, that they won't need the sun, the light of the sun, or the light of the moon, for he will be their light.

He will be their light.

The eternal sun arose and came up, never ever to be extinguished again. He had been extinguished. He had died. He went down to hell, and there he wrestled with the forces of hell. And he came up victorious, coming out with the keys to death and the keys to hell.

He conquered hell. He conquered death. He conquered sin. He conquered Satan.

The sun has come up. The eternal sun. And if that wouldn't have happened,.

And in German they say, he lives. And when you combine those two words, it makes the word experience. Have you experienced that?

He lives. And then you say, have you experienced it? That he lives. In every language you get some wonderful shades of meaning. Even in German. The Germans are not like other people. They've got different manners, different ways.

When I've had a row with my wife and somebody visits me, then I'll greet him, I've just had a row with my wife. You English speaking people, Africans, would you do such a thing? It's a German, that's how he is.

I've had a row, and I was angry with my wife, or my wife was dead. You wouldn't say that. Good Africans. That's why my daughter said, Papa, you shouldn't be sad when you have a row with an African. It's much better than the Germans.

I'm a German. I'm a German. Now we'll have to see, because the last two are getting married to Germans, and you see what they are like, those sons-in-law. The Germans are just straightforward, blatant, they don't know how to put something discreetly.

And if you want to put something discreetly, then they say, those are lies. You're lying. Well, there is a distinction between being discreet and lying. Sometimes the Zulus will speak green lies, and then they say, no, we're just being discreet.

No, those are lies. But the Holy Spirit is also the spirit of wisdom. Rahab hid those spies from Israel, the Lord's children. She hid them away, and she protected them through wisdom, and they were saved, and she as well.

Abraham said of Sarai's wife that she was his sister, and in that way he protected or hid her. And some say, well, he lied. No, that was the truth. She was his sister. She was his half-sister.

She was as much his sister as his wife. Don't tell everybody just everything. If you go to the toilet, you close the door. You needn't expose your nakedness. But to the Europeans, that has gone lost.

Christ’s Light Exposes Sin

On Easter, Christ arose, the eternal sun, bringing light to everybody. This physical sun which we have only gives light to half the earth. The other half of the globe is in darkness. But Christ brought light to everyone.

And this light only shows you that which you can see on the outside, the leaves and the trunk of the tree. But the light of Christ exposes everything, even the very roots of that tree. Even though those roots might go under a rock, but the light of Christ reveals even those.

There is nothing hidden before him that is not revealed. Now these were still just words of introduction. I haven't yet started with my three points. Now I'm speaking like Nonto yesterday. Now I haven't forgotten my promise of yesterday that I'm going to try and attempt to make it shorter.

I'm stopping now with my introduction. I could still continue on that and preach a whole sermon from A to Z.

That was just the introduction. Now to the first point.

The First Point: Removing the Old Yeast

What does Jesus say to us on his resurrection day? In this text. He reprimands us saying that which breaks one's heart. Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?

Get rid of that old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast. We are celebrating the resurrection of Christ, Easter, and Jesus says your celebration is not good. You haven't yet got rid of that old yeast.

That breaks one's heart that you celebrate the resurrection of Christ and yet there is still of the old yeast in your life. Paul reprimanded the church of Corinth very harshly. He spoke hard words to them.

He said you have sinned grossly. Why? Did they commit adultery? No. Did they steal? No. Did they tell lies? No. So why did he criticize them? Why did he find fault with them? It was because in the church there was one pair, a man and a woman that were living in immorality.

And they told lies. They didn't say no, brother, we will cut your head off. And sister, we cannot tell such a thing in the church of God. No, they closed their eyes. And they swore.

They said, we will cut your head off.

The whole community was guilty before God. Because there were two people among them that were not married, but they lived together. They sinned for the holy God. And they told lies. And they told lies to everyone.

And they said, we will cut your head off. And they stole and they stole. They told lies to everyone. They told lies. They are guilty. They are guilty. Why? And Jesus, the risen Lord, found fault with them and said, don't you realize, don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?

In the same chapter, verse 11, we read, but now I'm writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother, but a sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler.

With such a man, do not even eat. A person who calls himself a believer, a brother, but he's a slanderer, speaking evil of the gospel and of the truth, and you give that person a position, and you are friends with that person, the Bible says, don't even eat with such a person.

And you give that person a position, and you are friends with that person, then the question here is, don't you know that the sin is so strong and it goes through the whole thing?

So, don't you know that the sin is so strong and it goes through the whole thing? And the Lord says, your boasting is not good. And you say, we believers, we Christians, you boast about that. And Jesus says, one who walks in that way, don't even associate with that person.

And when someone says, I am a Christian, I was born again, I am a child of the Lord, and he is sinful, he does not live the sin, the Bible says, you can't even eat with him. He does not speak of the outsiders, of the unbelievers, you can go with them, but not with someone who says, I was born in the precious blood of Jesus, I am a child of the Lord.

You can't do that. That's what it is, and what you is, if you are so sinful and live in other people. And they say, he is a child of the Lord, as you are.

And they say, he has no head, no tail, no hands, no legs, he has no hands, no arms. Or maybe he has no legs, because he has no hands.

I am not empty-handed, if I do something like that, what will they do with me? What will they do with me? What will they say of me? I have to prove to them I am empty-handed. Son, come here.

What do you want? Where is your man who is making a demonstration? I will tell you when he is coming to me.

He is definitely worthless. Yes, he is. Just come here. What do you mean? God is more important than you. You are godless. You cannot understand the word of God. How can God be with you? If you say something not obedient, Go to that person.

Speak nicely with that person. If they don't listen, take the second one and say it for him. If they don't listen, bring him to the municipality. And if the municipality does it, they have the man there, but not the man who got up from the dead.

Don't speak ill of people, you are the mother of the people. What do you want? Don't speak ill of people, because you don't even have a father.

You don't even have a son. You're talking about your own mother, with the condition you're living in. You have all the rest of the family. You want to concede and be a father. The Lord says your boasting is not good.

That person is a swindler he's a slanderer he's immoral. And then you take that person and you associate with him and maybe even put him right here in the pulpit to preach. Realize that you have.

Fallen you have fallen he's doing what's to it he's like that he's on it. Don't be off the ground. In your living you see need in the light of God. You must repent.

And return to his standard. Either we obey or live in disobedience, which is like witchcraft.

But you must be a man of God. You must be a man of God. You must be a man of God.

You're boasting is not good. The Lord says, don't you realize that a little bit of yeast works with a whole batch of dough. Now, have you swept your life? Have you got rid of that old yeast? I'm very thankful to hear that the night before last, when people were here for counseling, they stopped at two o 'clock.

And then last night they stopped earlier only.

At half past 12. But have you done that? Now, are there some that will be going back home,.

Not having cleansed their lives, not having swept it from all this old yeast? If you haven't done it, when are you going to do it? Or are you going to die with that yeast in your life? In this text, this passage which we have read, our hero starts with these heartbreaking words.

You're boasting isn't good, reprimanding us. And that ought to cause us to come to him, humbling ourselves, saying, Lord, forgive us, have mercy on us. We were disobedient to you.

The sun has come up, is shining brightly. Do you see yourself in this light? Or do you run away.

From it and hide? Out with that old yeast. Get rid of it. Sweep it out.

The Second Point: Joy Through the Passover Sacrifice

Pointless belief. Now the second point. The joy of this day. For Christ, our Passover lamb,.

Who is without spot or blemish, has been sacrificed. And therefore we rejoice for our sins. Our multitude of sins have been washed away. They've been cleansed. They've been forgiven because the sacrifice has been made.

We are forgiven and cleansed by that.

Precious blood. What said it in Afrikaans? What is precious blood? The Kospare blood. In 1954, while I was in Pretoria, we read a book, The Chemistry of the Blood, by Dr. Tehan. Where he says, he speaks about the blood, the chemistry of the blood.

He says, when a child is born, it hasn't got one drop of blood from the mother's veins. Has only got the father's blood. The rest is from the mother. But the blood from the father. Now the father passes on the blood to the child.

The life is in the blood. That's why we are all sinners. After, just because of our fathers, we were born in sin. We are not sinners because we have sinned. We sin because we are sinners. The blood in us, the blood of our fathers, sinful blood, Adam's blood.

That's why so many South Africans have got something of the Germans in them. Our old president, Pierre Vierre Bouta, said, the white South Africans, 30 of them, not just the Afrikaans speaking, the whites, have German blood.

Dear lady, if you can't always understand your husband, maybe you will understand now. Maybe this is the German good name.

The Virgin Birth and the Sinlessness of Christ

Jesus was born of Mary. In an unusual way. People are, children are born into the world because of men and women coming together. But Jesus wasn't born in that manner. The Holy Spirit overshadowed her.

God's power came upon her. There was no sex involved.

Jesus came down from heaven and miraculously went into her womb. With her being a virgin, had nothing to do with any sex. If Jesus would have had an earthly father, he could not have been spotless. He couldn't have been perfect.

He would have been a sinner like you and me. His body was like yours and mine, from Mary. But he didn't have human blood. He would have been a sinner like you and me, which he inherited from his fathers.

What a mystery. His blood was divine. In telling you that I don't hope that I take pearls and throw them before the swine and the dogs. But if you trade on this blood with your feet, you know what you are in for and what you are asking.

If you trample it underfoot, I feel sorry for you, for your death will be the worst of all kinds of deaths. Death of all mankind. We need to honor and respect that blood, but it ought to be precious to us, for it is the most precious of all things.

He bought us, not with silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ. In that blood is the life of God, and when you are washed in that blood, you become a child of God. You are saved through that.

Israel’s Passover and Liberation from Egypt

We too have our Passover lambs. The Jews had their Passover lambs. They had their Passover lambs. We too have our Passover lambs, which is Christ. And that is what causes us to rejoice and gives us joy, that when you walk, it is as if you are walking on air.

Let us look at the Jews.

For forty years, four hundred years, they were oppressed by Pharaoh and the Egyptians.

Enslaved in Egypt.

And they suffered and cried out because of their suffering, being in chains, being enslaved in Egypt. Eventually, God heard their crying out. And God said, I will save them now. And he came and spoke to Moses.

And he said to Moses, each Israelite family had to look for a lamb, one year old, a male, that is without any defect, and they had to slaughter it that night.

God did many miracles, but everything did not work until he came with the last blow and hit the devil and Pharaoh and knocked him out. That is what he did.

And that night, when they were commanded, slaughter that lamb, they all had to do that, and slaughter that lamb and take its blood and put it on the doorposts of their doors. Because the angel of death was to pass through and it would come and destroy every firstborn, right from Pharaoh's household to the household of the girl working in the garden.

Every firstborn in Egypt will be strangled to death.

And they were told, eat that meat in a hurry. ります. They had to do it in a hurry, and they said, go. And each of them slaughtered that lamb. They put that blood quickly on the posts of the door they ate it they took all their belongings and they said now.

Leave Egypt the land of slavery and the angel of death came through and every.

Household it found where there wasn't blood on the doorpost it went in and it strangled the firstborn. And there was great wailing and mourning in Egypt whereas the Israelites rejoiced. It was their day of liberation of freedom going out of Egypt where they had been enslaved for so many years and oppressed.

But in Egypt there was wailing.

For everybody had a grave their Passover saved them because of the blood of the.

Lamb. Now we as well have got our Passover. That blood speaks much.

Better than that blood of those lambs the Lamb of God the eternal Son of God God himself gives his blood to save us out of the slavery of sin and the life.

In Egypt because of that lamb that has been slain and that blood that has been.

Applied to our life to our life you can accept Christ. If you haven't confessed your sin and washed with the blood you are lost. You will be strangled by the dead spirit that kills all those Egyptians.

But those that have applied the blood that have come to the cross and have been washed in the blood of Jesus they rejoice. God says again I say to you rejoice. You can't be forgiven. And you don't rejoice those that are damned and doomed forever suffering of depressions etc.

But you who have been forgiven you rejoice you praise. And when our lamb was slain angels were there. When he arose with the keys in his hand with a mighty shout of victory the earth trembled. The earth for joy.

That was the greatest thing. Dead people rose up out of the grave rocks broke the greatest thing.

The earth trembled the earth for joy. That was the greatest thing dead people rose up out of the grave. Rocks broke the greatest thing dead people rose up out of the grave.

Rocks broke the greatest thing. Dead people rose up out of the grave. Rocks broke the.

The Joy of Resurrection and Cleansing

The resurrection of Christ caused the heavenly host to rejoice. They were there, sitting on that rock, with close, shining light, lighting, and asking, why are we seeking the dead, the living, at the dead, where the dead are?

The reality in your life, this joy, that man will ask, Madam, what happened? The woman, man, the children, Elders, what happened? Elders, children, what happened? He rose up, our fatherland, he overcame, our sins were forgiven, our skin was washed, whiter than snow.

Our fatherland,.

Our sins were forgiven, our skin was washed, whiter than snow. He rose up, our sins were washed, whiter than snow. He rose up,.

Our sins were washed,.

But that sun, the eternal sun, has come out to bring light, and yet you are still in darkness. You are still in that darkness, but to us who have seen that light, we rejoice because of it. Now I'm leaving that second point of rejoicing.

Remember the first one of grief, and the second one of joy. And then thirdly, sanctification, holiness. Therefore let us keep the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

If you are saddened by your sin, and you blame your sin, then he is forgiven, and he exalts himself. If you grieve and mourn over your sin, then you confess it, and God forgives it, and then you rejoice, and he even forgets that when he forgives.

Then he justifies you, and it is as if you've never sinned before.

And then it says, let us keep the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

The fruit of these two things is sanctification, and if there is no sanctification in your life, then it has no meaning for you.

And then it says, let us keep the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

Don't leave one stone unturned, otherwise you'll regret it at the end when you've lost, lost, lost your life in precious time, and people have gone in the meantime to hell. They would have been saved because of your witness, as this little black girl told us yesterday.

Repentance Illustrated by a Transformed Household

There was a German of old who preached to our forefathers.

He said there was a woman, a widow, who had four children. She was a very diligent woman, she had a home with her children, living alone with them.

When the minister came there to visit her, he found the home filthy, dirty, even last week's nappy still lying around, stinking. It wasn't swept, with a white person. She was a diligent, hardworking woman, and she would cook for the children, do a lot of things, but a very unclean person.

Her children were dirty, in rags, with lice on their heads, and she would also be dressed in a very slothful way, and not even having combed herself properly. The hair was pointing in all different directions, as if she slept in a bush.

When he came in, he was at a loss as to where he would sit, because he looked around, and on some of the sofas and chairs, there was wet washing, unironed washing, other chairs or seats were wet, he didn't know where to sit.

She was diligent, but very unhygienic. She was a German. He was a German, and he said, Mrs. So-and-so, where will I sit? After all, he was a German.

Where should I sit? I see your chairs are dirty, full of stuff all over, where should I sit?

I see your children are so dirty, and you, personally, aren't even afraid to shake your hand to greet you, because your hands are dirty. He said, you need to repent. And he left her. And that woman carried on like that.

And she would still attend church on Sundays, but she carried on living an unclean life. And her home was always topsy-turvy, untidy, dirty. She herself, in her own appearance, was untidy, with her collar one side sticking up, the other side down, and so on.

And he said, Mrs. So-and-so, I read you from your face. I read from your clothing. And I read from the lice on your head. And your dirty children. And your home that's so untidy. That you don't know the lamb that was slain.

And she said, Pastor, but I'm so busy. I don't have time. You know for yourself, I'm a widow, I've got no husband. I've got to look after these four children. I've got so much to do. I just don't get time to tidy up my house.

The reason why you don't wash, and why you're so dirty, is because you hate water. He said, you need to get used to water. And he left. But how? None soldable. How? We are. We are. I don't know. You must be.

You can be. You can see. You can't. How? Oh, fuck. You know what I need to say? How? It's done. Does that get it clean? No punch wins people. How? Who got him? I'm told I get one. And then one day, she arrived at the service, and he was astounded.

Is this the same person? Her whole appearance had changed. She was neat, clean, her hair properly combed. She had a decent dress on. Her hands were clean, even underneath the nails. And he felt that he could even shake her hand.

And her children as well. They were clean and tidy, with their clothing washed and white. He said, I'll visit her. And then, after the service, not long after that, the minister set off to her home to go and visit her.

When he got there, the house wasn't smelling badly anymore. And he got in there, everything was in its place. The chairs were in their place. It was clean. There wasn't any dust all over the show. And she herself was clean and tidy in her appearance.

And he asked, what's happened here? And she said, oh pastor, forgive me. I excused myself, making excuses, saying I had no time. But when I made my life right with Christ, and I started sanctifying my life, then I started cleaning my house as well.

And I had time for that, and I'm doing everything, and I've got more than enough time to do it all. But it was Jesus who changed my life. Easter arrived in her life. The sun, the eternal sun, had risen.

And she said, even as you see, my house is being swept. I first swept my own heart. I got rid of all that old yeast. I went to my neighbors.

I went and I apologized. The sun has risen. That is the fruit of repentance.

Your clothing, your appearance, your dress, your home, it all shows the fruit, or should show the fruit of repentance.

That's what you are like inside.