Isaac Pitre: From the Empty Tomb to the Upper Room (Philippians 3:10-11)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2022-06-24

Isaac Pitre: From the Empty Tomb to the Upper Room (Philippians 3:10-11)
Isaac Pitre speaks virtually at King of Kings Worship Center on Pentecost Sunday, June 5, 2022.Quotes: Philippians 3:10 says, “I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.”

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When Paul said, in Philippians 3:10, "Oh, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection…” There is something the resurrection did that released him into the ability of God, the very power of God. Oh, that I may know," Paul says, "I've been trying to unpack what happened to me with the resurrection from the dead." He says, "I've been trying to know," he begins to go down talking about his pedigree and what he learned of the law and he began to talk about all that he knows, and he's a Pharisee and all, but he says, "All that stuff I learned, I just count as dung for the excellency of the knowledge of God." 

He says, "I'm after something that happened in the resurrection that all that knowledge and human knowledge and human reasoning." He says, "It can't even benefit me now, I'm after something in a dimension that everything I've learned, just forget about all of that." And that's the way some of us feel. There are people who have so much Bible information; they can quote it, they can teach it, they have all the information, information, information.

But Paul said, "Information won't get me where I'm trying to go." He says, "I need revelation. Oh, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection." In other words, he's saying, "Everything I've learned in the law, everything I've learned studying the Pentateuch, everything I've learned, everything that I've attributed to my natural reasoning and education." He says, "There's something that happened to me when I got born again that I need a revelation of, I need it to be unpacked," because he knew something happened with the resurrection.

Stick with me because I’ve got to take you to an empty tomb before you really understand the Upper Room. And the Bible declares that Paul said, "I want to know Him and the power of His resurrection." And it was the apostle Paul, think about it, who God gave revelation of what happened in the resurrection, that He didn't give it to Peter, He didn't give it to James, He didn't give it to John, He didn't give it to Matthew, Bartholomew He didn't give it to those that walked with Him, but Paul received a revelation that none of them had, and it is what happened with the resurrection.

And when God revealed this revelation to Paul, he says in the Book of Galatians, "That once God revealed this revelation to me," he says, "I conferred not with flesh and blood." So think about it, he said, "God gave me a revelation nobody else had ever heard before, and it was so deep when He gave it to me," he said, "I couldn't talk to nobody about it, I couldn't even bring it up, I couldn't bring it up." Because God gave him by revelation and understanding of what happened in the resurrection that not even those that walked with Him had.

And Paul said, "It took me three years after God revealed it to me before I went back to Jerusalem and told the disciples about it." And once he told them about it, he says, "They also validated and testified that what I'm about to reveal to you is the truth." What is that revelation Paul is talking about? The thing that separated the resurrection of Jesus beyond every other resurrection that had ever transpired was the fact that this was a spiritual operation. 

The resurrection of Jesus from the dead wasn't about a man coming back to life again. Many people had been resurrected from the dead physically, but Jesus' resurrection was a spiritual operation. Now, for you to understand this, you got to go back, and let me unpack what happened in Genesis 1 when the Bible says, "And God formed man from the dust of the ground, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul." 

But then the Lord speaks to Adam and says, "You're in my image, you're after my likeness, you have my Spirit, my DNA, you have my mind, you have my emotions, you have my authority, you have been given stewardship over the earth realm, and I give you one commandment, don't eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat of that tree, you shall surely die." He's talking about spiritual death, which means if you eat of that tree your spirit is going to die.