Luk 15:24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate. Luk 15:32 It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’

• Winter arising to life by spring sets Resurrection in the created order. Phoenix arising from the ashes & hero coming back to defeat the villain, are popular stories in many cultures. Right triumphing over evil, is the cry of the human heart. Grain of wheat falling down to the ground to die, rather than abide alone, and then arising as a hundred fold harvest, maximum possible with natural seed (without genetic engineering) according to the Lord Jesus, was How He Himself described His Death & Resurrection one week prior to his Crucifixion.
• Every Old Testament prophecy or Type that predicted Crucifixion also included the Promise of the Resurrection. Humble Suffering Servant who dies as the Lamb of God & the Risen L ord & the Returning King were the three roles of the Good Shepherd projected in Prophecy. Two are fulfilled – one is to come. The Law of defining sin, indictment & prescribing punishment passed away to give way to Grace & Mercy.

Life For Any Soil
• Isa 53:2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
• Psa 16:9-11 Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. (10) For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. (11) You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Promise of Resurrection
• Isa 53:10 Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
• he shall see his offspring; = Church, Family of God
• he shall prolong his days; = Resurrection
• the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand – His life in us will overcome all odds.
• We prosper in the Will of the Lord
Resurrection – Fruit of Travail, Satisfaction & Justify
• Isa 53:11 As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities.
• Isa 53:12 Therefore I’ll reward him extravagantly– the best of everything, the highest honors– Because he looked death in the face and didn’t flinch, because he embraced the company of the lowest. He took on his own shoulders the sin of the many, he took up the cause of all the black sheep.

Victim Turns Victor
• Emancipation & Liberation, the cry of every human heart, the hope that springs eternal in every human breast was fulfilled when the Victim Christ turned tables & trumped the Tyrant – demonic, religious, political, socio-economic & all spheres, to burst the gates of oppression, repression & suppression and arise as Compassionate Victor. Sons in slavery will be redeemed with His purchase price, the Ransom and will become the Prized Progeny of the New Global Order where Mercy Triumphs over Justice.

Resurrection Parade – 1. Prodigals Return Home
Luk 15:20-22 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. (21) And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ (22) But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. Luk 15:23-24 And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. (24) For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.

Resurrection Parade – 2. Robe, Ring, Right Walk
• Robe – no more nakedness, Father has covered you with His Robe. No more son but fathering other prodigals. Learning Fatherhood.
• Ring – Authority, restoration – Steward all what father had. But he had no more Estate. Only the restored relationship with the Father – No trust in the Estate
• Sandals – Walk Right. Preparation of the Gospel of Peace. You will walk for the Gospel.
• Resurrect the dead, the bound.
Resurrection Parade – 3. Pharisee Servants Learn Sonship
son of yours – my brother
• Luk 15:28-32 But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, (29) but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. (30) But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’ (31) And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. (32) It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”

Death Prescription of Simon Peter
• Luk 22:31-33 “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; (32) but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.” (33) But he said to Him, “Lord, with You I am ready to go both to prison and to death!”
• Mat_26:33 Peter answered and said to Him, though all shall be offended because of You, I will never be offended – power in his own clique

Peter’s Resurrection – Prelude to Resurrection
• Demanded to have you – to sift you – send through a winnowing fan or sieve
• This was the Cross for Jesus. There was nothing in Jesus satan could have
• Peter had much that satan could have him
• When you are converted – Peter’s needed resurrection
• Strengthen your brethren

No More Galilean – Resurrected Peter
• Act 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.
• Act 4:19 But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge,
• Act 4:20 for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.

Resurrection Rewards
• We come alive on all matters pertaining to our healing, prosperity and greatness in Christ Jesus to serve the purpose of God in our generation without fear in holiness and righteousness all the days of our lives.
• We completely suspend and abolish poverty, slavery, rejection, segregation, divorce, delayed marriages, injustice, witchcraft, sorcery and any form inhuman treatment, in all our territories and places of influence.

Resurrection for My Inward Parts
• Father please forgive. Bring down by hillocks. Fill up my low dips. Make straight my repetitive crooked turns. Smoothen my rough reactions. Lord my warfare comes from these hillocks, dips, crooks & roughs. Send comfort Lord. Is 40:1-3. Do the same for my family. Do the same for my friends, my relatives & my nation Lord. Let not my nation wallow & sink in her iniquities & the judgements I have made against her & her rulers. We are her guardians. We hold shields for her. Bless the Guardian & the guarded.

• A Baptism of Mercy is coming over Sri Lanka. Be the Herald of the New; stop being reporter of bad news. When all cry foul & justice about drug cartels. We cry favour & mercy. You O Church, who long served like the Lily in the Valley in mud mire & insults, will now be the Rose of the Shephella Sharon – best pasture lands, on the salubrious mountain slopes. Your leader will no more be hidden. Gone are the days of eating the bread of sorrows. But a Baptism of Mercy is the harbinger of the new season. You will cry mercy when others cry justice. You will cry favour when others cry foul. Prophesy what you see. Watchman what of the Night? It’s almost over – Dawn is due. Dawn is in our thoughts, inclinations, words & deeds.

• Lord I pray you cleanse by your blood all offence umbrage, rage grudge, falling away, arrogance – where I needed to humbly repent & take away from my life & washed by the blood of Jesus. I know where Jesus’ blood cleanses, your Holy Fire by your Holy Spirit will flush out all apostasy – me doing my own will. I come running to the mercy seat
• In the darkness – Where everything is unknown – Lord I come to the Mercy Seat to be washed by the blood of Jesus
• Father forgive When I face the power of sin on my own, I did not know of a place I could go – but thank you for Jesus’ blood that pleaded for me
• Where I could not find a way to Heal my wounded soul, Thank you for saying I could come into Your presence without fear – where the blood of Jesus cleanses and I come Into the holy place where Your mercy hovers near

Peter’s Resurrection – Prelude to Resurrection
• My way My Will – (3) Simon Peter *said to them, “I am going fishing.” They *said to him, “We will also come with you.”
• The Old which makes you great – They went out and got into the boat;
• Turning Point – and that night they caught nothing.
• (4) But when the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.
• (5) So Jesus *said to them, “Children, you do not have any fish, do you?” They answered Him, “No.”
Resurrection from Fish to Lambs
• Joh 21:15 So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus *said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Tend My lambs.”

Lord Who Died as Lamb of God – Seeks Shepherd to Tend the Flock
• Joh 21:16-18 He *said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Shepherd My sheep.” (17) He *said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus *said to him, “Tend My sheep.
• We become His sheep that we become like the Shepherd to shepherd the sheep. Loving God has only one definition – look after His Sheep

I Surrender My Rights to Lead
• (18) “Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go.”

• Sitna is over, Esek is over, Rehoboth ahs come
• 100 fold harvest in famine time.
• All the clogged up wells of your father open up
• Well of seven blessings – Beersheba has come

• Joh 20:1-10 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene *came early to the tomb, while it *was still dark, and *saw the stone already taken away from the tomb. (2) So she *ran and *came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and *said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.” (3) So Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they were going to the tomb. (4) The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first;

• (5) and stooping and looking in, he *saw the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in. (6) And so Simon Peter also *came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he *saw the linen wrappings lying there, (7) and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself. (8) So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed. (9) For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. (10) So the disciples went away again to their own homes.
• Resurrection of Peter in Jesus
• Luk 8:2 and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
• Not she with traitorous kiss her Master stung, Not she denied Him with unfaithful tongue; She, when apostles fled, could dangers brave, Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave.