Okay. Greetings, friends and new listeners, and welcome to this program of the R.G. Hardy Ministries. I'm Sharon Knotts thanking you for joining us today because we know that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Today's message by my father Brother Hardy is: What is the exceeding greatness of God's power?
Maybe you know the answer, or maybe you're not sure.
Well either way, I believe you will learn something new today as you listen to this dynamic message, What is the exceeding greatness of God's power?
So here's this sealed tomb with all the power of man on the earth sealing it. About the Lord, help me Jesus. Mm. Yeah. God turnt all of his exceeding great power beyond comprehension.
Heman say amen, beyond the ability of man to even know how great his power is. He turned it upon that body in that tomb. He turned that power on that body and a double miracle happened. It was not only raised from the dead, it was changed. We shall not all sleep or die, but we all shall be changed.
I don't want to go through eternity with this body now. No, it's too old, it's worn out and all that stuff. It's got too many wrinkles, and Max Factor can't help it. And the face lifts have fell down, and all that stuff. You know what I mean?
That can't help it. And you can't put enough Max Factor on there. You know, some people, you ever heard of that there's movie Three Faces of Eve? And some women wear three faces all at once, but it still hadn't helped them. I gotta keep you.
Sister Wilson had to do that to keep them awake, you know. Yeah. Come on. Come on. Man, when that power hit that tomb...
Whew! Did a double miracle, and the spirit man of Jesus stepped into that glorified body. The earth shook. It knocked the soldiers to the ground. They were scared to death.
They didn't know what to do. How many say amen? Are you are you there? And one half better. Jesus didn't walk out of the mouth of that tomb after the angel rolled the stone away.
The angel rolled the stone away to show he's not in there. Yeah. He didn't no stone could hold him down. He walked right through the wall. Huh?
Just like he appeared to the disciples in the upper room, scared to death, he just walked right through the wall. Oh Lord, help me. I'm going to run all around this place.
Now, how would you like to be in the revelation of God and God showing you all this? How can you contain yourself? You're almost going crazy. I got doodads on my doodads.
Somebody said, the Spirit of God is going to me, I got beat that's on me. Glorified that body. Yeah. The properties. of the heavenly bodies.
that's not subject to Earth's physical laws. Yeah. How many say amen? Somebody said, that's impossible. Can't be done on earth.
How many say you men? But God's not bound by physical laws. He made them. And anytime he wants, he can set him aside. If you're in trouble out on the water, he can come walking on it.
Amen. Amen. And water in the Bible always means trouble. He'll just walk on the trouble, he'll put the trouble under his feet. And then, when he gets on the boat, they don't have to say nothing.
Soon he got on the boat, the storm was over with, and the boat was already on the other side.
Okay, this is just leading up to the messages is that okay, leading up.
Okay, go ahead. Official reader. Which he wrought in Christ. Which he worked in Christ. When he wrought in Christ, we go back to the.
What is the excellent thing? Wait a minute, go ahead of it. What did he walk on? That exceeding great. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power?
God wants you to know. How powerful he is. How awesome he is. How great he is. You ain't got a peanut God.
You Come on. Come on. I thought I was gonna rapture then. Oh Lord, help me. Something hit the bottom of my feet and I began to feel light.
I don't know if it's true, but they said there was a preacher back in the m in the middle days that the Spirit would get on him and he would float all over the place.
Well maybe I'm gonna pick it up he's mail. Are you following me? Go ahead. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward? To us, to us word, to us, for us, to us, for us.
Say it again, Charles. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. In the Greek grammar, That case would be either translated to two or four. Go ahead.
So they translate it to. It's called the dat of in the Greek, two or four. According to the working of his mighty power.
Now, what kind of a. power as he turned towards us. You got that port so far. He's turked, he wants us to know the exceeding greatness beyond words. No words can describe it.
Huh? He wants us to know that Power That he energized in Christ. How many say amen? But what what is it? That is now, that power is now, that power that.
Energize Jesus. That raised his body and changed it into his immortal glorified body and then he raised him above all of the power of the devil. Oh, you got it in your head? All of it. We're going to read it down there.
He raised him and sat him at his own right hand, the place of honor and power in the heavenlies. And they gave him a name. I'm trying to stick in English now, but I'm gonna know. I'm gonna get in a little tongue-tied. And they say, Amen, and gave him the name that's above every name at the name of Jesus.
Now, Jesus isn't a name because he already had the name Jesus.
So he gave him a name, and the name he gave him was Jehovah, Yahweh Jesus. That's that's that we translate it Lord. His official title now is Lord. Jesus glorified Christ. Christ is not his name.
Christ is his title, the Messiah, his Alphas, the glorified, the glorified Jesus, who is also Yahweh, what he was in the beginning when he prayed in John, the 17th chapter. I want you to return unto me the glory that I had with thee before the foundation of the world. Hemming, say amen. Remember, glory means recognition. And that's what God gave him, the recognition that he was Yahweh.
Yeah. Hello, come on.
Somebody says, he's crazy, but you're not feeling as good as I am. I asked the Lord specifically, Lord, I said, give me something good for the people. You've been giving them negative messages the last couple of weeks. Give me something that'll build them up.
Now go back that he wants us to know the exceeding greatness of his power. We're going to run it together now. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe according to the working of his mighty power. It's going to be according, the word according to means in the mode of. What is usually, if God supplies your need according to his riches and glory.
Giving you a dollar is not according to his riches. His riches and glory means. All of his fullness.
Okay, go ahead, go ahead. Which he wrought in Christ. When he energized, put into operation in Christ. When did he energize him? When he raised him from the dead, when he raised him from the dead with a glorified body and set him up at his own right hand in the heavenly places, where all principality and power and might and might and dominion.
Woo! If that don't make you happy, you are dead. Who is the favorite undertector? Marsh, you need to go turn yourself in. Go ahead.
And hath put all things under the corner of the world. You emphasize it, all things. How many say amen? Under his feet. And gave him over all things in the church.
Pertaining to the church. He made us his head, but as the head, we draw his wisdom. And knowledge. That's where your knowledge comes, your direction. How many said, you didn't know all that was jammed in that little few verses, did you?
Go ahead. Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. The body of Christ. is God's fullness on the earth. The head of the body.
The church. which is God's fullness. The whole church is supposed to have all of the fullness of God operating in it. You're not supposed to be some weak sister. Afraid of your shadow.
You need to get up in the morning, look in the mirror, and say, Do you know who you are? You need to say I'm a son of God. I'm in the same family as the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost. I got the same nature. I got the same ability.
I got the same promises. I got the same power. How many say amen? Because he raised us up to and set us with Jesus in heavenly places with all principalities, powers, thrones, and minions, and every name and every potentate. I don't care what you call him, huh?
The pasha or the king or the prince or the czar. They're all under our feet. Shut up, devil. Amen. Yes, do it.
Amen. Come on. He put on my killer shoes. How many of you heard Sister Sharon preach that? I'm going to illustrate that.
One of these days, the killer's shoes. He's down and if he opens his mouth, I'm going to stick my foot in his mouth. Man, you ought to be straightening up now and saying, Hmm. Greater sheet is in me. And he's the most the most powerful.
Powerful. Being in the whole universe. Huh? And he's demonstrated their power. Because the hardest thing for man is to raise some money from the dead.
They can't do it. Doctors are doing wonderful things now. But when God says to the spirit come out of that body Nothing they can do. Nothing they can do is come out to the family, hang their head, said we did all we could. My cherry four will.
Died. And when they took him in there, They try to put a pacemaker in. They try to do this, but You see, God called the Spirit. There's nothing they can do, nothing medical science could do, nothing all these great medical minds can do. He's gone.
Hemity, say amen. But God has turned his power to us. The greatest miracle was raising Jesus from the dead. That's the greatest demonstration. The next greatest is raising you from the dead of trespasses and sin.
And changed you from the vile creature that you are into. the likeness of Jesus and made an heir and a joint heir with him. I remember rarely, oh man, it must be over 50 years ago when God gave me that message. Heirs of God and joint heirs are it blew me it blew my mind I couldn't contain it. I'm an equal wear with Jesus.
What kind of love is this that he takes such a dirty, vile person and makes him an equal heir with Jesus? What is this? What is this? My lord. I'm surprised somebody didn't know the gust of runners aren't here.
They should have been here. You should have told guys and runners. We're going to have a run or no more. service this morning. We're going to have the preakness.
Some of the horses didn't show up. Yeah, one of them canceled, didn't run. Keep on writing, I'm not finished. And you, we're going to the second chapter now. And you hath he quickened.
And you hath he quickened. And when it says you, that's you. See, you ain't me. And I ain't you, but I'm a you. I'm a you in that verse.
And what you do is initial it, you, R.G. Hardy. And you hath he quickened who were dead. quick and made alive We were dead, but he made us alive. He didn't raise us from the dead.
He made us alive. It's a difference between raising from the dead and quicken and making you alive. Go ahead. who were dead in trespasses and sin. Wherein time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.
Okay, he quickens you so that you not walk in according to the course of this world. Or you? Where are you walking at? You walk in according to the world? See, he's against worldliness.
We walked according to the world, and if you're walking according to the world, then you're walking according to the prince of the power of the world. Called the God of this world, it means evil generation, age. He is now working in those children of disobedience. But If I'm obeying God, he can't work in me. That's why you better take care not to.
disobey God because then pretty soon The Prince of the Power of the Air, the Evil One, will get to work in you. And the word is working, it means energizing you. There's a whole lot of people out there being energized by the devil. Mm-hmm. But I'm energized by the Lord.
Hemity, say amen. And the energy of the Lord is greater than the energy of the devil. Go ahead. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past. King James Version conversation.
I don't mean to talk. It means conduct. your whole mode of life. How many say amen? We had our life.
We walked in the same way. What did we walk in? In the lust of our flesh. He did, but if you're saved, You don't walk in the lust of your flesh. Fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature.
Or mine. But I got a new mind. And I'm not fulfilling the desires of that old nature that's energized by Satan. But what's happening, and we're by nature the children of wrath. I'm a child of wrath, God's wrath is coming against me because I'm doing that.
But what now? But God. But God, I like that. You see, the devil says a lot of things, and people say a lot of things. You're in a situation where nothing can help you.
But then I like the word, but God. You got to bring God into equation. Go ahead. But God, who is rich in mercy. Hallelujah.
Giving us what we shouldn't have. Go ahead. For his great love. For his great love. Wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins.
Hath quickened us together with Christ. Quicken has made us alive with him. By grace, grace, by the free gift. And hath raised us up with him.
Now the second raisin raised us up with him. Go ahead. And made us sit together. Where are you sitting at? Amen.
I ain't worried about Satan's seat. He's going to be fooled out. I'm sitting somewhere. I'm raised up with him. I'm quickened like he was quickened.
I'm raised up with him. I'm seated where he is. And that means all those powers are under my feet.
So I used to preach a message, who's afraid of the big bad wolf? He can half. And he can puff. But he is in blowing my house down. Because number one, I'm not a little piggy, I'm a little lamby.
Yeah. and I'm not in a straw house. And not in the stick house, I'm in the rock of ages. Oh, Lord. I'll tell you what, go out to the mountain, try to blow it down.
Yeah. Put a big fan on it and try to do it. Go ahead. And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. That in the ages to come.
He might show the exceeding riches of his grace. What's he gonna do? We only got a down payment now, but in the ages to come, he's gonna show us something. The exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved.
And that not of yourselves. No, the gift of God. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship. We are His workmanship.
You think God's going to make a bunch of sloppy-looking things? imperfect Go ahead. Christ Jesus. Go ahead. Not works to get in works after you get in.
Go ahead. Which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Walk in good works. Go ahead. Wherefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh.
who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh, made by hands, that at that time ye were without Christ without God, every Gentile. was without God because they weren't under the covenant of Israel. They weren't their covenant people. Go ahead. Being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope.
No hope. We didn't have any hope till Jesus came. And without God. And without God, atheist. But now in Christ Jesus.
Oh, I like that word. But now, but now, but now. Don't tell me what I was, but now, but now. They can pull my past record up because man's got it. But when God pulls my past record up, then ain't nothing past.
I mean, there's nothing in it. It's all gone. It only starts in Jesus. When I got in Jesus, then the rest of it was obliterated. Man might have it in the book, but God has wiped it out.
He just took the blood of Jesus and spilt it all over my past record. And the blood is speaking better things than Abel's side, Father, forgive them because he knew not what he did. Mm-hmm. I'm almost finished. But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Are you near Jesus? Are you near God? If you really know what it's all about, you're not wondering. Where you at, God? You're not worrying about he left you and forsook you.
No, you're near him. Do you realize that you go through the day realizing he's with you? I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you. I am with you always, even to the end of this age.
And then it'll no more be faith. It'll be sight. Go ahead, I'm almost finished. For he is our peace. My peace.
When all the troubles are round. I just shut my eyes. in his peace. Go ahead. Who hath made both one and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us?
Ten Commandments. Go ahead. The enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances for to make in himself of twain one new man to one new man so making peace. It's a little bit of a turn. And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body.
He saved Jew and Gentile in his one crucifixion. By the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.
Okay, stop there. The cross is what he reconciled us. And the enmity he... Slew it by what? The closed.
The devil doesn't want you to preach the cross. They call it a bloody religion. That's right, it took his blood. He had to shed his blood, brother. And if you ever read or seen that Passions in the movie, you realize a little bit that what he said, it took that.
Go ahead. And came and preached peace to you. Peace to you. Peace to you, Betty. which were afar off.
Come on near. And to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the chief cornerstone that holds it all together, in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord ye are also builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hallelujah. Now how? Is the Lord and the Spirit in us?
I just read it to you. He was the foundation of that building. You're a stone. I'm a stone. We're lively stones built into a holy temple.
For the inhabitants of God. That's how the Spirit is, the Holy Spirit. Every one of us is a stone. Every Christian is a stone, and he's in the middle. of the church in the this temple is a living temple.
It moves when he moves, like the cloud that led Israel, and stays when he stays. Peter said, you're a Living stones. Lively stones, you're saying we're in a creep, but it's okay. You're lively stones in a living building. It's a live building and a God inhabits it by the presence of of the Holy Spirit.
And wherever the Holy Spirit is, that's where his temple is. Amen. And his temple. is holy. I'm going to put both words of that in the English.
Holy, holy. That means WH as well as H-O. completely holy. Absolutely holy. No unholiness in it.
A glorious church that he's going to present into himself without spot or wrinkle nor any such thing, holy and without blemish. Amen. Maybe you ought to be sticking up your chest. Do you realize what you got? Do you realize in any situation The power that went into the tomb and raised Jesus and changed his body.
and raise him above all the powers is at your disposal. How the work can I lose?
So somebody says, what do you do? When the enemy attacks. Ah, tack back, Jack. And he attacks last. Gets the best attack.
And this one person says, Anytime I call Brother Hardy. And he can't wait till they tell me their trouble. And so the first thing he says, let's pray. Let's pray. Let's not talk about it.
That's not trying to analyze it. But let's pray. Resist the devil. And he'll flee you. I don't have no trouble.
The only trouble I got is trying to catch him. Because I'm resisting him. with that exceeding great Power beyond. man's ability to elucidate on it. Let's turn to me and I can go.
And have that power. He gave it to everyone. He had to you. You gotta claim it. He didn't look in that mirror and say, I'm a son of God.
Then you need to say because I'm the son of God. I'm in the same family. as anybody else, which means I'm not inferior. I can stand in God's presence because I'm not inferior. Adam could stand in God's presence because he was in the likeness and image of God.
He wasn't inferior, just had a different type of body. Not inferior. Can you get that? That blows your mind. Not inferior.
God looks us as a joint. Equal. Hemity, say amen. And whatever he has promised to Jesus, He gives it to us because Jesus said, All power in heaven and earth is given unto me. And then Jesus took the checkbook and said, Now I bequeath this.
to every one of my brothers and sisters and you got assigned to cash it. I mean, you could have a big check. Thousand dollars, ten thousand, whatever your number is. But if you don't take and sign it, it ain't no good to you. It's just like a piece of paper.
And you signed it by faith. In fact, Jesus has given us... A bank book. Signed by him. without putting any amount in and according to your faith you fill it in.
Little faith or no faith, you don't feel nothing in. Say, what are you putting on there? Everything! It would take me forever to list it. Everything.
I want everything. I want everything that belongs to me that Jesus brought. I know I don't deserve it. I'm not going to stay here and say I deserve it, but he loved me anyhow. And the devil says, you don't deserve it.
I said, yeah, but God give it to me anyhow. And I praise him. No. Amen. What an anointed and encouraging message by Brother Hardy.
What is the exceeding greatness of God's power? how exciting that God wants us to know, that is to experience the exceeding greatness of His power. He wants the eyes of our spiritual understanding to be enlightened, so that we may know what is the riches of our inheritance in Christ.
Now how can we possibly define God's power in its superlative manifestation? It has been said that when the New Testament writers want to define the greatness of God's love, they point to the cross and when they want to define the greatness of God's power, they point to the empty tomb. But God's power exceeded even the raising of Jesus from the dead, because others have been raised from the dead also. But God not only raised Jesus out of the sepulcher, but He raised Him far above, far above all principality and power, and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world, but in the age to come. He raised Him to sit at His own right hand, the place of supreme power, honor, and authority.
And child of God, it gets better. He raised us up to with Him, and seated us with Him in heavenly places, with all authority under our feet, because we are His body in this world. This wonderful message, What is the exceeding greatness of God's Power? is available on C D for your love gift of $10 or more for the radio ministry. Request offer 314.
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