Easter and New Year's look similar from the outside, both feel like a fresh start, a chance to finally get it together. But there's one massive difference: New Year's is all about what you're going to do. Easter is about what's already been done.

In this episode of After the Message, Chad unpacks what actually happens after someone comes to Christ. and why so many believers are still living like they're in the grave even after Jesus called them out of it. Using the moment Jesus raises Lazarus, Chad draws one of the sharpest distinctions in the series: Lazarus was already raised when Jesus said "unbind him." The resurrection was real. The grave clothes were still on.

That's the picture of a believer who knows they're saved but is still walking around bound by old mindsets, old hurts, and old debts they were never meant to carry.

This episode is for anyone who keeps taking two steps forward and two steps back and wonders why the blessings of God feel just out of reach. The problem isn't your standing with God. It's what your soul is still wearing.