I'm Not Done Yet

“I’M NOT DONE YET”

MARK 16:6

• TODAY IS THE DAY WE CELEBRATE CHRIST RAISING FROM THE DEAD.

• A LOT OF CHURCH TAKE THIS DAY TO HAVE THEIR COMMUNION SERVICE OR AN EASTER PLAY

• IT’S A TIME OF CEREMONIES AND TRADITIONALISM

• BUT THERE HAS BEEN SOMETHING RINGING IN MY SPIRIT THIS ENTIRE WEEK

• EVERYWHERE I LOOK I HEAR THE SAME THING

• I HEAR THE SPIRIT OF THE MERCY OF GOD SCREAMING IN MY SOUL

• “I’M NOT DONE YET”

• IT’S AS IF I’VE HEARD GOD SPEAKING THROUGH ETERNITY “I’M NOT DONE YET”

• IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH

• THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID

• BUT I HEARD GOD SPEAK “I’M NOT DONE YET”

• HE THEN SPOKE CREATION INTO EXISTENCE

• LOOKED AT IT AND SAID “IT IS GOOD”

• BUT I’M NOT DONE YET

• REACHED DOWN AND WITH HIS OWN HANDS

• TOOK THE CLAY FROM THE GROUND AND CREATED MAN

• CREATED HIM IN HIS OWN IMAGE

• BODY SOUL AND SPIRIT

• THEN BREATHED INTO HIM THE VERY BREATH OF LIFE FROM GOD HIMSELF

• GOD SAID “IT IS GOOD”

• BUT I’M NOT DONE YET

• MANKIND DISOBEYED GOD AND BROUGHT SIN INTO THE WORLD

• GOD AS A HOLY GOD HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO PASS JUDGMENT UPON MANKIND.

• BUT I STILL HEARD MERCY SCREAMING THROUGHOUT ETERNITY

• “I’M NOT DONE YET”

• GOD AT THAT POINT HAD A PLAN TO BRING MANKIND BACK TO HIMSELF

• AS TIME WENT ON GOD REGRETTED EVEN MAKING MANKIND

• DECIDED TO DESTROY THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL

• BUT MERCY SAID I’M NOT DONE YET

• NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF GOD

• AND GOD SPARED NOAH AND HIS FAMILY

• THEN CAME THE TOWER OF BABEL

• ONCE AGAIN MAN DISOBEYED GOD

• AND GOD WAS FORCED TO JUDGE THEM

• BUT MERCY ONCE AGAIN SPOKE OUT INTO ETERNITY,

• I’M NOT DONE YET

• ABRAHAM WAS CALLED TO LEAVE HIS COUNTRY AND START THE JEWISH RACE

• THROUGH ISRAEL GOD PLANNED TO BRING THE WORLD BACK TO HIM

• BUT ISRAEL CHOSE NOT TO FOLLOW THE LORD IN HIS PLAN

• GOD WAS ONCE AGAIN FORCED TO JUDGE

• BUT ONCE AGAIN MERCY CAN BE HEARD THROUGHOUT ETERNITY,

• I’M NOT DONE YET

• THEN CAME JESUS INTO THE WORLD

• BORN OF A VIRGIN

• FULFILLING ALL THE PROPHESY’S

• THE MESSIAH HAD COME

• HE HEALED THE SICK, RAISED THE DEAD

• OPENED BLINDED EYES

• BUT ONCE AGAIN MAN DIDN’T SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING

• BUT MERCY STILL CRIED OUT, I’M NOT DONE YET

• AS HE SAT WITH HIS DISCIPLES AT THE LAST SUPPER

• HE TOLD THEM THAT HIS TIME WAS SHORT

• BUT HE NEVER INCURRED THAT IT WAS THE END

• IT WAS AN UNSPOKEN WORD OF

• I’M NOT DONE YET

• THEN AS HE PRAYED IN THE GARDEN AND AGONIZED BEFORE GOD

• HE PRAYED FOR THAT CUP TO PASS FROM HIM

• BUT NOT HIS WILL BUT THE WILL OF THE FATHER TO BE FULFILLED

• HE WAS SAYING I’M NOT DONE YET

• THEN AS HE WAS ARRESTED AND PETER CUT OFF THE EAR OF THE SERVANT

• JESUS HAD MERCY AND HEALED HIM

• BY DOING SO HE WAS SAYING, I’M NOT DONE YET

• THEY ARRESTED HIM, TOOK HIM BEFORE PILOT

• HE WAS SENT TO BE SCOURGED AND BEATEN

• AS HE WAS BEATEN, BLOOD POURING FROM HIS BODY

• HE WAS BEATEN TO THE GROUND

• AS THEY STOPPED AND LOOKED AT HIM

• HE PULLED ALL OF HIS STRENGTH TOGETHER AND WITH MUCH PAIN

• STOOD AGAIN

• AS IF TO SAY, BEAT ME ALL YOU WANT, BUT I’M NOT DONE YET

• THEY NAILED HIM TO A TREE

• WHILE HANGING THERE HE SPOKE TO GOD AND SAID

• FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO

• HE WAS SAYING FATHER, I’M NOT DONE WITH THEM YET

• THEN EVEN AS HE SPOKE HIS LAST WORDS AND TOOK HIS LAST BREATH

• HE SAID “IT IS FINISHED”

• BUT I CAN STILL HEAR THE VOICE OF MERCY CRYING OUT THROUGH ETERNITY.

• “I’M NOT DONE YET”

• HIS BODY WAS IN THE TOMB FOR THREE DAYS

• WHILE HIS BODY WAS THERE

• JESUS WENT AND PREACHED TO THOSE IN PARADISE

• TOOK THE KEYS TO DEATH AND HELL

• AND MERCY CONTINUED CRYING INTO ETERNITY, I’M NOT DONE YET

• JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD ON THAT FIRST EASTER MORN

• APPEARED UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, AND 500 PEOPLE DURING THAT TIME.

• THEN ONE DAY HE STOOD ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND BEGAN TO ASCEND INTO HEAVEN