Zoom Out, Not In (Session 12) | Emerson Ferrell | Series: Messages After the Grave

Emerson Ferrell (0:01)

I hope you're having a good day. This will be the last in our series of Messages After the Grave, but I wanted to make this a very special program. I want this to really be an impact in your life. You know how special you are to the Lord? Wherever you are in your life right now, you're better than you've ever been. And I want you to hear me. There's so much that we could be focused on outside of the goodness of what God has given us. But I want you to take this opportunity to just thank Him right now. Thank Him for the wonderful, beautiful, precious gift of resurrection. Thank Him for the everlasting life that He's purchased for each of us. And I want you to really, really take this opportunity to give Him thanks. Father, as we glorify You today, we want to recognize how precious our life is because of You. There's not anything outside of time and space that You have not overcome. Beyond our wildest imaginations, You have made a way for us to prosper and live abundantly inside of Your presence. And because of that, Lord, there's no words to describe our thanksgiving towards You. We love You, Father, we glorify You, and we ask that every word that comes from Your Spirit this hour changes our perception, changes our past into a glorious present. And as we live in that glorious present, we can be thankful in such a greater manner. And I want you to live in that presence right now, because this is the best opportunity we've ever had to exalt the goodness of the Lord in our life. Don't let that pass you by.

Today, as we speak about some things that the Lord has put on my heart, I want the presence of God to resonate deeply inside of you. I want it to be a conscious observation and feeling that you start to understand how to maintain. You know, over these past sessions, we've talked about our unconscious behavior and thoughts. And how they drive the narrative inside of our minds and thinking and perception. But we have the power to change that. We don't have to be driven by fear and thoughts of lack or distress or death. That's a choice we make.

So, take these messages, listen to them, let them resonate inside of you, let them vibrate a different way to perceive your life. And trust me, if you'll practice it, your life will never be the same. I've done this as a experiment in my life over the years, and now it's become a way of life. And I wouldn't trade that first step I made years ago for where I am right now with the Lord. And each one of you have the same opportunity.

There's a scripture in John that sums up what Christ did. In John 11, 25 through 26, Jesus says, I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live. And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.

Do you believe this? He asked his disciples, do you believe this? Because here's the key.

Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live. And whoever lives, are you living? Yeah, you're living.

And believes shall never die. So he's giving a key to what life is. Believing in him is one thing.

But thinking about death and not understanding that you're alive and believing is what makes you live forever.

So we have to understand what life really is. It's a combination of not just breathing, but believing.

So breathing is one thing. That's a physical life. But believing is what takes you to the level where you never die. Did you hear me? Breathing is one thing, but believing takes you past the death into everlasting life.

Do you believe this? You see, Jesus was speaking beyond the grave to those disciples that he was ministering to. He wasn't just talking about a physical death. He was talking about something that transpasses physical death, which is believing that he overcame death. Death is a big deal in the physical realm.

And Jesus talked about it quite a bit because he understood what the foundation of this world system that human beings live in. It is formed from the fear of death. That's what he came to overcome. You see, when the word was made flesh, it was designed so that he could break this duality world that was formed from the sin of disobedience in the beginning. When Adam made of the fruit, he changed the dimension of this world, this planet, into a world system controlled by duality. Cause and effect. You know what cause and effect is. Every time you feel a pain or you see something happen, you start thinking, hmm, what caused that? Where did that come from? Let's put everything down and let's get an equation and let's say, this happened, how did that happen? So let's figure it out. That's cause and effect. Most people live in that dimension. They spend their life trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist if your everlasting life is priority. Let me say it a different way. You're not looking to solve a problem in this dimension if you live outside of this dimension.