Jesus Message to His Church

Luke 24:46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
24:48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
24:49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
24:50 And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
24:51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
24:52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:
24:53 And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

I. The Message (Jesus gave the message.)
a. Christ must suffer and die.
b. Christ must rise from the dead.
c. Repentance and remission of sins through Christ must be the first thing all nations should hear.
d. Repentance must begin at Jerusalem.
e. Repentance must be preached by the witnesses of Christ.

II. The Promise for Power to deliver the Message. (Jesus gave the Promise of Power.)
a. I send the Promise of the Father upon you.
b. Don't try to take this Message by fleshly means!
c. Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem. (Why? Because Jerusalem is the beginning point!) Jerusalem also represents the beginning of the Church and also represents each of us as an individual Believer. God must come into us first! Jesus said of us: "Ye are a city set upon a hill! A city with power flowing to it! That city must be hooked up to the power of God! It must not be experiencing power failure!

TARRY! WAIT! AT THE PLACE WHERE THE LORD SAID TO TARRY!

Tarry_Jesus said! But He added the word UNTIL! Ye be endued with power from on high!

Stay there until the Promise comes!

Don't leave there with a theory! "Well,this is what Jesus said__ No! You stay there until that Promise of the Holy Ghost falls upon you and you know "Thus saith the Lord!"!

III. The Response to Jesus' Message and His Promise.
Luk 24:52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:
Luk 24:53 And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
"Waiting with joy?"

"We don't have time to wait on the Lord today, much less, wait with joy!"

But we see a picture of a few Believers right after the crucifixtion of Christ being given the Promise of an enduement of Power from on high by the Resurrected Lord! They're told to tarry in the city of Jerusalem!

At the cross death came to all their hopes in their thinking. And they would have had no hope unless that "God raised Him from the dead!"

What joy! Hallelujah! Jesus is alive!

He bought my soul__and is here before me__giving me the Promise of the Father! But I must wait! Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem!

For fourty days Jesus shows Himself to Believers after His Resurrection. The Bible said to as many as five hundred brethren at once on an occasion.

As Jesus led them out on the 40th day that He would be received up into heaven, His first emphasis was not on the doing but on the waitng or tarrying for the Promise of Power! Then and only then the works would come!

Luke 24:50 says: and he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them.

Jesus' last 40 days with his disciples wasn't a 40 day list from the "Purpose Driven Church."

No! Jesus message was still the same before the cross. That if you are going to come after Me, you must deny yourself and take up your cross and follow Me! You can't remain the same!

He didn't give them 40 days to strategize to defeat the devil. No! He broke every power and hold of the devil on His cross! All that holds you was broken! You must take up your cross and follow Him!

Now! He's giving a commandment! Not a suggestion! A commandment to His disciples to tarry__in the city of Jerusalem for the Promise of Power to proclaim liberty to those still held captive by their sins.

It was time to go into heaven and as He led them out as far as to Bethany, (it's fitting if you think about as far as He led them was to Bethany, the town Lazarus lived and became sick and died! A city where hope was gone for his two sisters, Mary and Martha. It had been 4 days!"If you'd only been here Jesus, our brother would not have died!"

John 11:25 Jesus said: "I am the Resurection and the Life, he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live!"

John 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Yes! They believed it with joy! They believed what Jesus said!

I believe Lazarus, Mary, and Martha were present in that company!

Now He's about to be received into heaven, He lifts up His hands, an example you and I have from our Savior and Lord. At the last moment of being on planet earth, for coming here! He's alive!

He has revealed Himself to His disciples!
He's given them a commandment__tarry!
He goes as far as the city of Bethany that reminds them all that Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life!

The dead can hear His voice and live!

And the Living can fulfill His purpose!

He blesses them and is carried up into heaven!

The disciples response.

They didn't forget the Promise!


They worshipped Him as long as they could see Him until He became just as a jot or a tittle and then disappeared but they continued to worship Him when the visible became invisible again!

Just because they couldn't see Him didn't alter their worship of Him!

They had been blessed by Him!
They had been given a command to tarry!
They had been given the Promise of the Father!

They worshipped Him!
They returned to Jerusalem not with sadness, wondering how everything is gonna work itself out. No! All that was settled at the cross! Jesus paid it all!!

They returned with great joy to Jerusalem!
They didn't come setting dates when the Promise would come! No! They returned with great joy knowing that they had been given the Promise of Power and they must tarry! Wait for the Promise!
They didn't know when it would come but they knew it would come__and it would be soon!

Most of the people in the church today needs to stop its doing and begin to tarry before the Lord in prayer! Stop trying to invent the church! Get shut in with God! Pray with all that is within you for Jesus Christ to baptize you in the Holy Ghost and with Fire!

Act 1:5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

It won't take the Lord long if you are willing and obedient to tarry!

The First Church prayed until and the Last Church must pray until! We are the same Church!

That Promise and Command was enough!
They returned to where Jesus said to go with great joy and were continually in the temple praising and blessing God which is a picture of what the Holy Ghost would do when He moved into His New Temple____His people!

He would continually be in the Temple__praising and blessing God!

Act 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Act 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Act 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Act 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

As the "Early Church" tarried upon the Lord to send the promise, they were all filled with the Spirit and spoke with other tongues as the Spirit gave the utterance!

They were saved and waiting for the Promise of the Father! As obedient children they tarried until! They were all filled and began to be that witness unto Christ!

A true Holy Ghost baptized person will witness the Life of Christ!

"All forms of life will manifest itself."

There are certain things about all forms of life that let you know what kind of life it is.

Hogs grunt...............ducks fly..............chickens cluck.

"And Holy Ghost filled people worship God and witness Jesus!"

That's what they did after they were filled!

May God fill you with that hunger and thirst after righteousness!

Let His Church go forth and be the Church filled with power and walking like Jesus! Amen!

"Who were you named after?"

I don't really know who I was named after by my parents other than my last name which is Gulledge.




I can't think of any of my uncles or grand-parents or any other kin by the name Gary or by the name Wayne.



But for whatever reason my Daddy and Mama named me Gary Wayne Gulledge. I never wanted to change my name because it was given to me by my parents that I love.



Think about your given name just a moment, no matter what it looks like written or what it sounds like said; it belongs to you, it was given to you by those that loved you. It's a good name because it was given.



Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.



They shall call His name Jesus! His name means Jehovah-saved!



God chose to name is Son, "Jesus."



I really don't know who I was named after other than my last name. But I know that God named me after His Son, Jesus! I have been named after the name above all other names. That at the name of Jesus every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord to the glory of the Father!

• There is no weapon that is formed that can prosper against that name!

• Nothing shall separate us from the love of God that is in that name!

• Nothing shall by any means harm us because of that name!



"I have been given a name victorious over death, hell, and the grave!"



That name represents me and I have been given authority to represent that name to the uttermost part of the earth!



All that is in God is in that name! The name of Jesus! Devils still tremble at His name!



The sinner is saved through that name!

The sick are made well through that name! The lame walk, the blind see, and the dead are raised to life through that name!



And the poor and neglected and needy have the gospel of Christ preached to them through that name!



There is no other name given among men whereby we must be saved!



I've been named after that name! The name of Jesus Christ! I am in Christ and Christ is in me! Hallelujah! What a name God has given to us!



"Who were you named after?

“A Picture of Mixture in the Church Today.”

Nehemiah 13:23-24




In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:



And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.



God’s chosen people had gone outside of God’s prescribed way and made relationships with those that rejected them bread and water when God was bringing them into the land of promise.



They were to be a separated people unto God. When God called Abram (Abraham) out of Mesopotamia, God began first by calling a man out to separate himself from where he was to the place where God would show him, Abram had nothing but a promise from God and God who is faithful to His’ word.



The scripture above in Nehemiah chapter 13:23-24, is a type or a picture out of a real Old Testament account of how God’s people through their own disobedience to God’s word caused them the ruin of many lives and ultimately the ruin of their nation which brought them into captivity by the heathen (unbelievers) nations around them.



These that had married these wives outside of God’s way had children born that spoke the voice of the heathen. They knew nothing of language of the chosen people of God. They had become the influence to those that married them instead of being the influence of God to them.



This is a picture of what has happen in the churches today! Now this is not about any man who is washed in the blood of Jesus Christ who has married any woman washed in the blood of Jesus Christ, God blesses these two people, regardless of who they are.



This shows us how when we take the world into His’ Church we are asking for trouble. Who is the Church? Washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ believers are!



Who’s building the Church? Jesus is! Upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:18



We’ve got people today that know all about the world, they can tell everything about all the idols or icons of this world have attained to but they won’t pray, they don’t get into God’s word. They really don’t love God because Jesus said: If you love Me you will keep My sayings. John 14:21

They really don’t love Jesus! They say “I love Jesus,” But they don’t love Him! How can you say that? I can say it simply by their life, it’s speak so much louder than all the “I love Jesus” we can say! Jesus said: Matthew 14:23-24 When our flesh leads us and we follow, we can be certain that God will not be glorified and there will be lasting consequences!



Nehemiah separated the people in his day for God. And now, we are to separate ourselves unto God from the world, flesh, and the devil by as God’s people, walk as dear children. Ephesians 5:1-21



“That’s the Church that Jesus is building and the gates of hell can’t come into it or prevail against it!”

The only way that any can enter in is through the Cross of Christ and that means certain death to those that choose to do so!



But praise God! He raises us up when we are willing to die!



God forbid if I preach any message other than the Cross!