PREACHED ON APRILE THE 4th 2021
PASTOR ANTONIO RUSSO 

THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION

God resolves the past, speaks to us in the present and announces the future.

While we have all lost hope, God tells His children to have hope.

Every day you have to apply blood to your home, and you have to do it with faith.

The covenant is strengthened in everyone's life, God's promises are fulfilled.

Atti 2:24
But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.

Only if we walk in the supernatural can we respond to needs.

Many live in terror, in fear.

The church that does not live in the supernatural cannot respond to needs; there is a need to pay attention to what God says in his Word.

One of the greatest needs of the church is to have a powerful revival.

We must return to the power of the resurrection.. 

-What does the power of the resurrection mean?

- Are we experiencing the power of the resurrection?

-Who has lived this in the Bible?

-And what happened?

The power of the resurrection is the foundation of Christianity.

LWhen the church was born, it was born in the power of the resurrection.

Unfortunately today the church has lost this foundation.

Theology does not necessarily understand the power of the resurrection.

The church must not depend on science or natural things; when it depends on these, it is nullifying the power of Christ's resurrection.

Psalm 11: 3
When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

The resurrection is the foundation of the supernatural, of signs, miracles and wonders.

Without the foundation of the resurrection there is no Christianity. 

Acts 4:33
With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all.

Hell is expanding every day, but what should be expanding is the Kingdom of God.

Isaiah 5:14
Therefore Death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers..

Numbers 16:33
They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.

The church today has changed the message to please people.

People today try to please, while Christ's message is a message of change, of transformation.

The truth makes you free.

We are servants; He is the Lord.

The resurrection and his presence are the power manifested through us, in the present.

Religions believe that Jesus was a good man, a good person, but without the power of the resurrection he remains only such: a good man.

Christianity differs from all other religions for two reasons:

- Jesus is the only begotten son of God;

- Jesus is alive today.

What must be done to be saved?

Believe with your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and Savior.

Romans 10:9
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

You cannot be saved if you do not believe that Christ is risen.

We must bring a resurrection into the now

Many Christians stop at the first step which is that of crucifixion; they believe in the crucifixion but forget the second step, that the resurrection takes place to manifest his power, to destroy the works of the devil.

At the resurrection the supernatural begins.

Philippians 3:10
I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.

The cross is the demonstration of his great love for us.

The resurrection is the demonstration of his great power for our lives.

With the cross he was saved.

With the resurrection, the risen Christ is allowed to continue living through himself and to manifest his power.