Dharius Daniels - Master Saying "Goodbye" to Old Relationships and Passions

So we’ve got to walk through some seasons of life, realizing that some friendships might not survive, some ambitions might not flourish, some desires might not materialize, some expectations might not manifest, and some preferences might not endure. However, our challenge in these seasons is trusting that what you gain in resurrection is far greater than what you lose in crucifixion. So stop trying to perform CPR on something that God wants to remain buried. Purpose will require you and me to adopt and accept the principle that Dr. Henry Cloud calls necessary endings. He states that entrances into new seasons must be preceded by exits out of old ones. He says if you are unwilling to say goodbye to something old, you will be unable to say hello to something new. Are you following me? He states that a life skill that everyone needs to develop is the ability to say goodbye. Come on! Spring can’t begin unless winter ends, summer can’t begin unless spring ends, and fall can’t begin unless summer ends. Come on! Winter can’t begin unless fall ends, and there are some seasons that can’t commence because there are other seasons we won’t conclude. Talk back to me! Some advancement requires elimination, and purpose will require you and me to place certain things in the grave. So we’ve got to walk through some seasons of life, realizing that some friendships might not endure, some ambitions might not flourish, some desires might not materialize, some expectations might not manifest, and some preferences might not last. However, our challenge during these seasons is trusting that what you gain in resurrection is far greater than what you lose in crucifixion. So stop trying to perform CPR on something that God wants to stay buried. If you go ahead and experience the crucifixion, the sooner you let Him crucify it, the sooner He’s getting ready to resurrect it. What comes after resurrection is always greater and better than what you lost in crucifixion. I want to speak to anyone who feels like something in your life is dying. Maybe a relationship is failing, maybe pride is waning, or maybe your dream is fading. I came to tell you to give it three days. Somebody missed it! Just hang in there Friday night, hang in there Saturday, and hang in there Saturday night. But early Sunday morning—God! Am I making sense? Jesus is entering Jerusalem for this annual celebration called Passover. Everybody say «Passover.» Okay, everyone who grew up in a church with some charismatic, continuationist, Pentecostal, or Holiness leanings, I want you to say «Passover» like you’re about to get excited! Come on, say «Passover!» He is celebrating a feast called Passover. Passover was a time of celebration for God’s preservation of His people from a plague in Egypt. It’s captured in Exodus chapter 12 where God tells Moses to instruct the leaders of households to find an innocent lamb without defect. He instructs them to slay the lamb, then take the blood from the lamb and put it on the tops and sides of the doorposts. When the plague comes by, intended to wipe out the firstborn of everything in Egypt, He says, «When I see the blood, I will pass over that house.» I don’t know if you’re catching the revelation here, but it means that the plague may have been in their city, it may have been in their neighborhood, it may have reached every house before theirs, but when He saw the blood, He passed over that house. You may not have had a literal Passover, but all of us have had a metaphorical Passover. The truth is, there is something that could have and should have hit your life, but because you’re covered in the blood of a lamb named Jesus, some things have passed over you. This is why, every now and then, you ought to give God a Passover praise! Yes! See, all the perfect people are quiet. This moment isn’t for the perfect. This is for people who have made mistakes and missteps—that say some stuff should have happened to me that didn’t happen to me. He made it pass over! So when I think of the goodness of Jesus, we must move on, but can somebody just be honest and say, «I’m not praising God because I’ve been good to Him?» People may call you a hypocrite, but you’re like, «I’m not praising God because I have been good to Him; I’m praising God because He has been good to me!» Passover! Passover! Because of the blood of an innocent lamb without defect, that blood—that lamb—is Jesus. And the Bible says in Leviticus 17:11, «The life of the flesh is in the blood.» So the blood symbolizes that a life has already been given. Y’all missed it! So don’t take this life, because a life has already been given. Don’t imprison them! The sentence has already been served. You can’t recharge them for the same crime because someone did their time for them! Yeah, yeah! Passover is a powerful picture of what we call grace and mercy in Christian spaces. What’s grace? It’s undeserved favor. Grace is when God gives you what you don’t deserve. But then you have mercy, whereas grace is when God gives you what you don’t deserve; mercy—I’m going to see if I can get a shout here—is when God doesn’t give you what you do deserve. It is when God interrupts the law of sowing and reaping. Y’all aren’t talking! I’m looking for honest people who will say, «I haven’t always sown good seed! I haven’t always made good choices, and there’s a harvest that could have come back on me…»