1 00:00:00,420 --> 00:00:08,420 If you have a Bible, turn very quickly to Matthew. I'm not going to take much time on this glorious resurrection day. 2 00:00:08,420 --> 00:00:17,020 I thank the Lord that He has risen indeed, and it fires up my soul every time I think about it. 3 00:00:17,020 --> 00:00:19,900 I don't know about you, but I hope so. 4 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:26,440 And the message that I have this morning is darkness to light, the power of the resurrection. 5 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:33,320 I just want to share four or five thoughts on the resurrection this morning. 6 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:42,540 But in Matthew chapter 28, we read the resurrection story in verse 1 where it says, 7 00:00:42,540 --> 00:00:50,960 Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. 8 00:00:50,960 --> 00:01:02,300 And behold, there was a great earthquake for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat on it. 9 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:07,380 His countenance was like lightning and his clothing as white as snow. 10 00:01:07,700 --> 00:01:12,500 And the guard shook for fear of him and became like dead men. 11 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:16,020 But the angel answered and said to the women, 12 00:01:16,020 --> 00:01:21,340 Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who was crucified. 13 00:01:21,340 --> 00:01:24,040 He is not here, for he is risen. 14 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:30,680 We were a little slow. 15 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:40,440 Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who was crucified. 16 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,180 He is not here, for he is risen. 17 00:01:43,180 --> 00:01:45,400 He is risen indeed. 18 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:46,240 Ka-ching. 19 00:01:49,380 --> 00:01:52,940 As he said, come see the place where they lay the Lord. 20 00:01:52,940 --> 00:01:57,960 And go quickly and tell the disciples that he is risen from the dead. 21 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,820 And indeed, he is going before you into Galilee. 22 00:02:00,820 --> 00:02:02,660 There you will see him. 23 00:02:02,660 --> 00:02:04,700 Behold, I have told you. 24 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:06,640 I did my job. 25 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,120 He's risen from the dead. 26 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:10,340 I moved the stone for you. 27 00:02:10,340 --> 00:02:13,600 You gals would have had a hard time moving this rock. 28 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,600 And the Lord sent an angel to do that. 29 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,060 Notice, it wasn't to let Jesus out. 30 00:02:18,060 --> 00:02:19,680 Right? 31 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:21,560 It was to let them in. 32 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:26,820 Because the resurrected body of Christ, it wasn't bound by things. 33 00:02:26,820 --> 00:02:28,820 Think about our resurrected body. 34 00:02:28,820 --> 00:02:32,020 Think about the things that your body is bound by right now. 35 00:02:32,020 --> 00:02:35,300 From what I can see, it's gray. 36 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:38,700 Right? 37 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:43,480 Yeah, that means we're getting old. 38 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,420 We used to could, but we can't no more. 39 00:02:46,420 --> 00:02:46,920 Right? 40 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:54,820 And, but this new body we're getting, and for us who are getting older, it's just, I just 41 00:02:54,820 --> 00:02:56,160 get plum giddy about it. 42 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:56,640 Right? 43 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:03,340 I'm going to be giggling on my deathbed, you know, with both hits replaced or amputated. 44 00:03:03,340 --> 00:03:04,740 I don't know what's going to happen. 45 00:03:04,740 --> 00:03:08,420 I've been so horrific to this carcass of mine. 46 00:03:08,420 --> 00:03:11,080 But the new one is going to be glorious. 47 00:03:11,220 --> 00:03:12,640 And Jesus wasn't bound by that. 48 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:18,640 This resurrected body could pass through mass and objects and appear. 49 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:22,120 And we're going to have a body like his. 50 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,020 Can't you wait? 51 00:03:24,020 --> 00:03:25,100 Right? 52 00:03:25,100 --> 00:03:26,640 It's going to be so exciting. 53 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:35,180 But it, the power of the resurrection. 54 00:03:35,180 --> 00:03:44,240 This morning we look at it, the pinnacle of our faith is the resurrection of Jesus. 55 00:03:44,780 --> 00:03:46,040 I love what Billy Graham said. 56 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:52,240 He says, the resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative 57 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:58,360 to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to eternal life. 58 00:03:58,740 --> 00:04:03,040 Listen, if you're not born again, if you're not confident that you have eternal life, at 59 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:07,060 the end of the service, I'm going to invite you to come forward and to receive that. 60 00:04:07,060 --> 00:04:08,820 Because you receive it. 61 00:04:08,820 --> 00:04:10,540 And some people say, well, I believe in God. 62 00:04:10,540 --> 00:04:11,080 Yeah. 63 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,960 But have you had a moment when you've been born again? 64 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,760 Because that's what Jesus called Nicodemus to do. 65 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,600 He says, listen, you must be born again. 66 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:21,300 You've got to be born of the spirit. 67 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:23,340 That's what is born of flesh is flesh. 68 00:04:24,020 --> 00:04:25,540 You have a physical birthday. 69 00:04:25,540 --> 00:04:27,500 You need a spiritual birthday. 70 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:32,120 That is when you come to Christ and you say yes to Jesus. 71 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,360 And mark it on your calendar. 72 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:39,120 I remember I was, I was 23 years old. 73 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,260 It was November 1st, 1985. 74 00:04:42,260 --> 00:04:45,940 And I said, yes to Jesus. 75 00:04:45,940 --> 00:04:48,820 I surrendered my life to Jesus. 76 00:04:48,820 --> 00:04:52,480 And things have not been the same since. 77 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:58,640 This eternal life that I've tasted because of this powerful resurrection. 78 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,840 And it's, it is to transform our lives. 79 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:04,560 This, this resurrection. 80 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:12,520 And this power wasn't just introduced in the New Testament, 81 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:17,540 but it was foreshadowed or hinted at and even revealed in the Old Testament. 82 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:23,700 That's why we need to read the full counsel of God from Genesis to Revelation. 83 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:28,720 To pick up everything in the Old Testament that is about our eternal hope. 84 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,400 This resurrection. 85 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:34,560 The, the coming of Jesus and the dead in Christ to be raised. 86 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:39,820 And, um, in, in the Old Testament, it, it foreshadowed that. 87 00:05:39,820 --> 00:05:41,440 It, it spoke of that. 88 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,120 It suggested that. 89 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:47,160 You remember the, uh, the old patriarch Job. 90 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,520 Some think he's the oldest. 91 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,340 It's the oldest book of the Bible. 92 00:05:52,340 --> 00:05:53,760 This book of Job. 93 00:05:54,340 --> 00:05:57,220 And, and, and Job had this knowledge. 94 00:05:57,220 --> 00:06:00,880 He says, I know that my Redeemer lives in Job 19, 25. 95 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,320 And that in the end, he will stand on the earth. 96 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:08,260 I myself will see him with my own eyes. 97 00:06:08,260 --> 00:06:10,180 I, and not another. 98 00:06:10,180 --> 00:06:14,260 Job had this sense that this wasn't it. 99 00:06:14,260 --> 00:06:15,840 Good thing, right? 100 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:21,280 Cause he had just lost all his buddies, his servants and his, we got a little group that's 101 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:25,260 going through the book of Job and, and his 10 children were all gone. 102 00:06:25,260 --> 00:06:28,500 Just talking to a couple this morning that lost a child. 103 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:33,320 What would it be like if you did not have the hope of the resurrection? 104 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,820 Really? 105 00:06:36,820 --> 00:06:38,680 What would be the use of this life? 106 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:45,540 And yet Jesus came to give us that, to give us that hope, to give us excitement, even in 107 00:06:45,540 --> 00:06:48,580 the face, even in the face of death. 108 00:06:48,580 --> 00:06:53,980 And so Job is suffering, declares a future hope, a bodily resurrection. 109 00:06:53,980 --> 00:07:01,460 Despite his, his pain, he clings to the promise of seeing God in his flesh. 110 00:07:01,460 --> 00:07:06,600 And we have the same hope. 111 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:13,340 We, we see it in the body of Jesus after it come back from the dead. 112 00:07:13,860 --> 00:07:14,860 Abraham and Isaac. 113 00:07:14,860 --> 00:07:20,380 You remember that story where Abe is going to, God says, I want you to take your only 114 00:07:20,380 --> 00:07:23,520 son and I want you to sacrifice him. 115 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:28,980 And you know, Abe, he was a, he was a obedient boy. 116 00:07:28,980 --> 00:07:30,240 He was going to do it. 117 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:34,180 But we don't get the story in Genesis. 118 00:07:34,180 --> 00:07:39,560 But when you read about it in Hebrews, that he actually believed when Abraham is willing 119 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,580 to sacrifice, he actually believed that God would raise him from the dead is what it says 120 00:07:43,580 --> 00:07:45,320 in Hebrews chapter 11. 121 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,640 That God had that power. 122 00:07:49,660 --> 00:07:55,420 You remember when Sarah had been barren for so long and Abraham, the Lord says, is there 123 00:07:55,420 --> 00:07:56,800 anything too hard for the Lord? 124 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:06,420 And then we have Elijah who raises the widow's son, which would be a type of resurrection. 125 00:08:06,420 --> 00:08:08,820 We have Ezekiel's vision of dry bones. 126 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,340 These dead, dry bones come back to life. 127 00:08:11,340 --> 00:08:16,880 We know that today is the nation of Israel has been reborn, resurrected. 128 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:21,040 But the ones that I like, you might want to write these down. 129 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:25,940 The ones that I like is Daniel 12, two and Isaiah 26. 130 00:08:25,940 --> 00:08:30,180 So I'm going to turn to Daniel 12, two real quick and just read it to you. 131 00:08:30,180 --> 00:08:32,980 It says, this is Daniel, right? 132 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:37,800 This is several hundred years before Jesus, before the resurrection happened. 133 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:42,800 It says, and many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake. 134 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:48,580 Some to everlasting life and some to everlasting contempt. 135 00:08:48,580 --> 00:08:49,940 What camp are you in? 136 00:08:49,940 --> 00:08:55,200 Are you in the camp of everlasting life or everlasting contempt? 137 00:09:01,420 --> 00:09:11,920 And then over in Isaiah, the 26th chapter is probably my favorite reference to the resurrection 138 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:17,700 of the dead or could we be more specific and say the rapture of the church? 139 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:24,780 Where it says in 26, Isaiah 26, verse 19, it says, 140 00:09:24,780 --> 00:09:29,440 and your dead shall live together with my dead body. 141 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:35,660 They shall arise, awake and sing you who dwell in dust. 142 00:09:35,660 --> 00:09:40,680 For your dew is like the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead. 143 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:45,400 Come my people into your chambers and shut your doors behind you. 144 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:50,720 Hide yourself as it were for a little moment until the indignation is past. 145 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:57,120 For behold, the Lord comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth and for their 146 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:03,300 iniquity. The earth will also disclose her blood and will no more cover her slain. 147 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:10,020 This is specifically talking about Jesus and the rapture of the church, which is a part of the 148 00:10:10,020 --> 00:10:12,500 resurrection. The resurrection's in parts. 149 00:10:12,500 --> 00:10:18,820 Right? Jesus was the first one to come back to life, never to die again. 150 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,440 Now we see others that had come back to life, but they died. 151 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,460 They were regenerated. 152 00:10:24,460 --> 00:10:26,200 They weren't necessarily resurrected. 153 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,140 I'm talking about the resurrection. 154 00:10:28,140 --> 00:10:32,280 I'm talking about life forever. 155 00:10:38,380 --> 00:10:41,140 I mean, who doesn't want to spend forever in heaven? 156 00:10:41,140 --> 00:10:52,220 I heard a story of a Irishman that preacher was standing up. 157 00:10:52,220 --> 00:10:52,740 He says, how? 158 00:10:52,740 --> 00:10:55,140 Who wants to go to heaven? 159 00:10:55,140 --> 00:10:55,840 Stand up. 160 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:56,800 And they stood up. 161 00:10:57,380 --> 00:10:58,500 He sat him down. 162 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:00,060 Who wants to go to hell? 163 00:11:00,060 --> 00:11:00,700 Stand up. 164 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:03,180 One little guy stood up. 165 00:11:03,180 --> 00:11:05,920 He said, surely you don't want to go to hell. 166 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,960 No, pastor, but it looked like you were very lonely up there. 167 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:10,340 So I didn't want you to feel alone. 168 00:11:10,340 --> 00:11:10,380 I didn't want you to feel alone. 169 00:11:24,060 --> 00:11:28,660 The dust is going to give up the dead that are in them. 170 00:11:28,660 --> 00:11:32,280 And so we see that in the Old Testament. 171 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,500 It's pointing to what Jesus is going to come and do. 172 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:43,460 And then we see, secondly, so first we see the resurrection spoken of or prophesied or foreshadowed in the Old Testament. 173 00:11:43,460 --> 00:11:48,900 And then we see the resurrection of Christ Jesus fulfilling those types. 174 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:49,880 Right? 175 00:11:51,820 --> 00:12:01,280 Jesus said in Luke 24, 44, everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets and the Psalms. 176 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,440 And this was prophesied. 177 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,740 Some 300 Old Testament prophecies. 178 00:12:07,740 --> 00:12:11,460 And Jesus has fulfilled almost all of them. 179 00:12:17,380 --> 00:12:20,480 His resurrection wasn't a prize, right? 180 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:28,680 It was the climax or the ultimate of the redemption story. 181 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:30,940 That he would come back from the dead. 182 00:12:30,940 --> 00:12:34,560 And that death would not have a hold on him. 183 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:40,260 When I speak at funerals, I ask people if they've taken the cure. 184 00:12:40,260 --> 00:12:42,700 Because Jesus is the cure for death. 185 00:12:43,700 --> 00:12:44,960 Have you taken the cure? 186 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:50,420 And that's what he challenged at the funeral there in John chapter 11. 187 00:12:50,420 --> 00:12:51,720 I'm the resurrection and life. 188 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,380 He who believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. 189 00:12:55,380 --> 00:12:58,000 And then it finishes with the question, do you believe this? 190 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,320 Romans 6, 9. 191 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:03,940 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again. 192 00:13:03,940 --> 00:13:06,500 Death no longer has mastery over him. 193 00:13:06,500 --> 00:13:08,060 Nor those who are in him. 194 00:13:11,420 --> 00:13:13,900 Because the Bible says that we've been crucified with Christ. 195 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:18,060 And if we're crucified with him and go into the ground, then we're raised with him also. 196 00:13:18,060 --> 00:13:23,680 The resurrection proves three powerful truths. 197 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:25,800 And that is, Jesus is who he said he is. 198 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:27,600 The payment of sin is accepted. 199 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:29,520 And death is no longer the end. 200 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:30,820 Amen? 201 00:13:35,380 --> 00:13:36,640 C.S. Lewis said this. 202 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:44,660 The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. 203 00:13:44,660 --> 00:13:48,600 He is the first fruits, the pioneer of life. 204 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:53,820 He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. 205 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,420 And the Lord pointed to this in Genesis chapter 3. 206 00:14:00,420 --> 00:14:01,920 There's going to be coming this one. 207 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:02,980 Right? 208 00:14:02,980 --> 00:14:04,900 And there's going to be this battle. 209 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:10,220 And the serpent is going to try to destroy him. 210 00:14:11,540 --> 00:14:19,480 But the son, the seed of the woman is going to crush his head. 211 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,660 And in fact, that's what we see happening. 212 00:14:23,660 --> 00:14:29,120 You know, it's interesting that Lewis there mentions first fruits. 213 00:14:30,220 --> 00:14:35,880 And it's really a powerful thing in Leviticus chapter 23. 214 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:37,740 It was in our Bible reading this week. 215 00:14:37,740 --> 00:14:43,260 And as I was looking at it, I'm just thinking, man, this is pretty cool. 216 00:14:43,260 --> 00:14:45,380 Because it breaks down the feast. 217 00:14:45,380 --> 00:14:52,200 It goes, you know, like Sabbath and unleavened bread and Passover and first fruits. 218 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,540 Or Passover, unleavened bread and first fruits. 219 00:14:55,540 --> 00:14:57,780 These three feasts. 220 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:03,660 And Jesus filled all three of them in three consecutive days. 221 00:15:03,660 --> 00:15:08,520 But it wasn't necessarily three consecutive days that they fell. 222 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:10,980 It only happened so often. 223 00:15:10,980 --> 00:15:13,340 Because Passover was always on the same day. 224 00:15:13,340 --> 00:15:15,860 It was on the 14th day of Niason. 225 00:15:15,860 --> 00:15:19,620 The month in the Hebrew calendar. 226 00:15:19,620 --> 00:15:21,220 It was always on the 14th day. 227 00:15:21,220 --> 00:15:25,580 But Good Friday happened to be 228 00:15:25,580 --> 00:15:28,500 Passover. 229 00:15:28,500 --> 00:15:32,520 Good Friday happened to be Passover. 230 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:34,240 The beginning of it. 231 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:37,860 So then you have consecutive the very next day. 232 00:15:37,860 --> 00:15:42,220 So Good Friday and Sabbath was unleavened bread. 233 00:15:42,220 --> 00:15:47,880 But the first fruit was always on the first Sabbath after Passover. 234 00:15:48,220 --> 00:15:50,760 So Passover, you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. 235 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:52,020 Passover could be. 236 00:15:52,020 --> 00:15:59,180 And first fruits was always on the first, the first day of the week after Passover. 237 00:15:59,180 --> 00:16:00,980 First day of the week. 238 00:16:00,980 --> 00:16:01,840 What day is that? 239 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:03,180 Sunday. 240 00:16:03,180 --> 00:16:05,760 That's why we worship on Sunday. 241 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,980 Jesus rose on Sunday. 242 00:16:10,780 --> 00:16:14,700 And know that it's the evening and the morning, right? 243 00:16:14,700 --> 00:16:18,400 This is what's, this is where I got my darkness to light thing. 244 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:19,780 Always evening to morning. 245 00:16:19,780 --> 00:16:21,200 It's always darkness to light. 246 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:22,180 Not the other way around. 247 00:16:22,180 --> 00:16:24,460 It's always darkness to light. 248 00:16:24,460 --> 00:16:28,860 It's like, it's like God could for, for see into the future. 249 00:16:28,860 --> 00:16:30,000 Imagine that. 250 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,400 And then it would be darkness before it would be light. 251 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:37,500 Your life and my life. 252 00:16:37,500 --> 00:16:39,220 Isn't it darkness before it's light? 253 00:16:39,220 --> 00:16:40,320 Right? 254 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:41,680 Paul tells the Ephesians, right? 255 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:43,360 You are all once darkness. 256 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,660 There's no light in you until you're born again. 257 00:16:46,660 --> 00:16:51,120 And then God comes and he, he lights you up, so to speak. 258 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:57,780 And that's what happened at the cross. 259 00:16:57,780 --> 00:17:02,200 Six hours of darkness before the light came. 260 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,020 The light of the resurrection. 261 00:17:05,020 --> 00:17:09,720 It's interesting that Mary, the Marys were going to the tomb 262 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,500 right as the sun was starting to come up. 263 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:17,560 But they saw something much brighter than the sun. 264 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:19,760 A light. 265 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,040 Really powerful stuff. 266 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:30,440 Thirdly, how the resurrection affects our lives. 267 00:17:31,940 --> 00:17:36,320 Peter, 1 Peter 1.3 tells us we have a living hope. 268 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,300 He has given us a new birth into a living hope 269 00:17:39,300 --> 00:17:41,820 through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 270 00:17:41,820 --> 00:17:45,520 Our hope, it's not in circumstances. 271 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,040 It's in a living savior, a person. 272 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,440 That's why we hear people talking about the, 273 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,360 a personal relationship, right? 274 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:54,400 It's almost getting like a cliche, 275 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,300 the personal relationship thing, right? 276 00:17:57,300 --> 00:17:58,880 Because we see it in other religions too. 277 00:17:58,880 --> 00:17:59,780 They're talking about it. 278 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:02,260 Well, you got to have a personal relationship with the savior. 279 00:18:02,260 --> 00:18:03,400 Well, who's the savior? 280 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,560 I'll guarantee you he's not the spirit brother of Satan. 281 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:10,460 Right? 282 00:18:11,980 --> 00:18:14,000 He's not a man who became God. 283 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,280 He's not Michael the archangel. 284 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:21,340 No, he was God who became man. 285 00:18:21,340 --> 00:18:24,360 He became like us and offered himself. 286 00:18:24,360 --> 00:18:27,500 It's a living hope. 287 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:28,720 He's alive. 288 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:29,980 He's alive. 289 00:18:31,100 --> 00:18:31,920 He's risen. 290 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:31,960 He's risen. 291 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:39,680 And then what's wild is, 292 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,900 is, is, is how it affects us is, 293 00:18:41,900 --> 00:18:44,440 is the fact that the resurrection power is, 294 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,740 is available to us. 295 00:18:46,740 --> 00:18:53,980 If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead 296 00:18:53,980 --> 00:18:54,880 is living in you, 297 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:56,580 you have resurrection power. 298 00:18:56,780 --> 00:18:59,140 That's the power that raised Christ from the dead. 299 00:18:59,140 --> 00:19:05,120 So many people have this power available to them, 300 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:06,860 but they won't draw on him. 301 00:19:06,860 --> 00:19:08,440 Because why? 302 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,280 Because he's come in and he was removed. 303 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,020 He's removed this whole death thing. 304 00:19:13,020 --> 00:19:15,500 He's removed it from us. 305 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:16,520 If you have a Bible, 306 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:17,860 turn very quickly. 307 00:19:17,860 --> 00:19:20,700 I should have called this astronaut preaching 308 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:22,300 because I read a text, 309 00:19:22,300 --> 00:19:23,900 departed from that text, 310 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:26,160 never to return to that text. 311 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:30,240 But that's, 312 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,840 we're trying to keep the theme the same thing here. 313 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:33,740 But in, 314 00:19:33,740 --> 00:19:34,920 in Hebrews chapter two, 315 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:35,140 it's, 316 00:19:35,140 --> 00:19:35,940 it's so powerful. 317 00:19:35,940 --> 00:19:36,260 I, 318 00:19:36,260 --> 00:19:38,760 I share this scripture a lot at funerals, 319 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,020 mainly verses nine, 320 00:19:40,020 --> 00:19:41,140 which says that, 321 00:19:41,140 --> 00:19:41,980 that he, 322 00:19:41,980 --> 00:19:44,340 he tasted death for everyone. 323 00:19:44,340 --> 00:19:45,500 Jesus did. 324 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:45,860 And, 325 00:19:45,860 --> 00:19:47,480 and then in, 326 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:47,840 in, 327 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:49,100 in verse 15, 328 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:50,240 but I'm, 329 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:51,400 I'm just going to read, 330 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:56,580 I'm going to read 11 through 18 to you here in Hebrews chapter two. 331 00:19:56,580 --> 00:19:58,300 And verse 11 says, 332 00:19:58,300 --> 00:19:59,800 for both he, 333 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:04,220 Jesus who sanctifies and though whose are being sanctified, 334 00:20:04,220 --> 00:20:07,800 that'd be you and means are all of one, 335 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,800 for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brethren. 336 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:16,420 Jesus is not ashamed to call us his brothers and sisters. 337 00:20:16,420 --> 00:20:18,940 Not cool. 338 00:20:18,940 --> 00:20:20,860 That's just like, 339 00:20:20,860 --> 00:20:21,860 uh, 340 00:20:21,860 --> 00:20:22,180 Lord, 341 00:20:22,180 --> 00:20:24,640 I think you should be ashamed to call me that. 342 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,800 Cause I know what I be. 343 00:20:28,620 --> 00:20:33,520 And I know it's not good saying he's saying here, 344 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:38,600 I will declare your name to my brethren in the midst of the assembly. 345 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:40,060 I will sing praise to you. 346 00:20:40,060 --> 00:20:41,140 We see that, 347 00:20:41,140 --> 00:20:41,880 uh, 348 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:43,080 the night he was betrayed. 349 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:43,360 They, 350 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:43,640 they, 351 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,160 after the last supper, 352 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:46,320 they sang praises. 353 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,500 Can you imagine being sitting next to Jesus? 354 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:50,240 Think he's saying off key. 355 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:51,500 I don't think so. 356 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:54,740 Sing praises to you. 357 00:20:54,740 --> 00:20:55,200 And again, 358 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,560 I will pour out my trust in him. 359 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:58,080 And again, 360 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:02,440 here am I and the children whom God has given me in as much. 361 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,340 Then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, 362 00:21:05,340 --> 00:21:06,020 that's you and I, 363 00:21:06,020 --> 00:21:08,160 we have this human experience of flesh and blood. 364 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:09,500 He himself, 365 00:21:09,500 --> 00:21:11,240 likewise shared in the same. 366 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,280 Jesus became a man like us that through death, 367 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,900 he might destroy him who had the power of death. 368 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:18,180 That is the devil. 369 00:21:18,180 --> 00:21:20,300 That's the squishing of the serpent's head. 370 00:21:20,820 --> 00:21:21,040 Listen, 371 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:22,640 this is the powerful part. 372 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,800 And release those who through the, 373 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,880 through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 374 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:34,380 People who are afraid to die are crippled or shackled. 375 00:21:34,660 --> 00:21:36,160 You're all bound up. 376 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,700 For indeed, 377 00:21:38,700 --> 00:21:41,020 he does not give aid to angels, 378 00:21:41,020 --> 00:21:44,440 but he does give aid to the seed of Abraham. 379 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:45,460 That would be you and me, 380 00:21:45,460 --> 00:21:46,440 the seed of Abraham. 381 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:47,740 Right? 382 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:49,460 Because of faith. 383 00:21:49,460 --> 00:21:51,020 The, 384 00:21:51,020 --> 00:21:51,980 the faithful, 385 00:21:51,980 --> 00:21:53,820 the father of faith, 386 00:21:53,820 --> 00:21:54,340 Abraham, 387 00:21:54,340 --> 00:21:55,940 whose children we are, 388 00:21:55,940 --> 00:21:56,580 the Bible says, 389 00:21:56,580 --> 00:21:58,320 if we believe as though he did. 390 00:21:58,320 --> 00:21:59,040 Therefore, 391 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:00,240 in all things, 392 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,560 he had to be made like his brothers, 393 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,360 that he might be merciful and faithful, 394 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:08,860 a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, 395 00:22:08,860 --> 00:22:12,760 to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 396 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:13,860 For in that, 397 00:22:13,860 --> 00:22:16,700 he himself has suffered being tempted. 398 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,800 he is able to aid those who are tempted. 399 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,680 So Jesus came. 400 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:24,640 He's like us. 401 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:25,220 He, 402 00:22:25,220 --> 00:22:26,200 he has this, 403 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:26,840 this, 404 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:31,440 this flesh that never gave into temptation. 405 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:32,360 Right? 406 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:33,020 We shared, 407 00:22:33,020 --> 00:22:34,220 I shared Wednesday night, 408 00:22:34,220 --> 00:22:35,700 Jesus never sinned in, 409 00:22:35,700 --> 00:22:36,360 in thought, 410 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:37,220 word or deed. 411 00:22:37,220 --> 00:22:38,320 He never sinned. 412 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,160 And yet he was tempted in all points like us. 413 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:46,540 And so then he faces death. 414 00:22:46,620 --> 00:22:51,620 he overcomes death and therefore gives us this confidence that, 415 00:22:51,620 --> 00:22:51,980 oh, 416 00:22:51,980 --> 00:22:53,700 we're, 417 00:22:53,700 --> 00:22:55,420 we're in him. 418 00:22:55,420 --> 00:23:01,940 All who are in Christ Jesus are new creations. 419 00:23:01,940 --> 00:23:03,120 You're actually, 420 00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:04,440 when Jesus comes in, 421 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:05,060 he, 422 00:23:05,060 --> 00:23:07,240 he gives you heavenly citizenship, 423 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:08,320 right? 424 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:08,320 Right? 425 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,500 Your citizenship now is in heaven. 426 00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:13,620 And so when people go there, 427 00:23:13,620 --> 00:23:15,420 why do we mourn? 428 00:23:15,420 --> 00:23:16,820 Because we're selfish. 429 00:23:16,820 --> 00:23:18,440 That's why. 430 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,020 That's why we mourn. 431 00:23:20,020 --> 00:23:20,780 No, 432 00:23:20,780 --> 00:23:20,920 no, 433 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:21,220 I want, 434 00:23:21,220 --> 00:23:22,440 I want him here with me. 435 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,440 You know, 436 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:27,200 you hear all the time, 437 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,140 people are in a better place. 438 00:23:28,140 --> 00:23:28,300 Well, 439 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:29,600 they're in a better place. 440 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,660 Listen, 441 00:23:31,660 --> 00:23:33,680 they're not in a better place if they don't know Jesus. 442 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,220 Right? 443 00:23:35,220 --> 00:23:37,960 Now, 444 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:38,920 if they know Jesus, 445 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:40,220 they're in the best place. 446 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,400 and why would we want to bring them back? 447 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,720 Cause they ain't wanting to come. 448 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:48,720 I guarantee you that. 449 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:55,380 Isn't it amazing? 450 00:23:55,380 --> 00:23:56,460 Even in that, 451 00:23:56,460 --> 00:23:57,660 the death of a loved one, 452 00:23:57,660 --> 00:23:58,500 we can be selfish. 453 00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:01,700 Cause they're satisfied. 454 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:03,260 They're complete in him. 455 00:24:03,260 --> 00:24:04,340 They're with him. 456 00:24:04,340 --> 00:24:11,080 Charles Haddon Spurgeon. 457 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,620 said, 458 00:24:12,620 --> 00:24:19,680 the resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in history, 459 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,620 whether ancient or modern. 460 00:24:21,620 --> 00:24:23,980 And it is the cornerstone of our faith, 461 00:24:23,980 --> 00:24:27,380 but don't just believe in the resurrection. 462 00:24:27,380 --> 00:24:35,220 But we live by the power of the resurrection, 463 00:24:35,220 --> 00:24:37,040 right? 464 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,300 We have that power available to us. 465 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,380 fourthly, 466 00:24:42,380 --> 00:24:43,680 it's our hope. 467 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,500 It's our hope. 468 00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:47,580 When you come to those, 469 00:24:47,580 --> 00:24:48,240 those, 470 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:49,640 those funeral services, 471 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:50,920 right? 472 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:51,800 The hope that I, 473 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:52,600 I see in people. 474 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:53,300 I was over at, 475 00:24:53,300 --> 00:24:53,720 uh, 476 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,640 Rose Hill Cemetery the other day, 477 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:56,340 uh, 478 00:24:56,340 --> 00:24:56,740 with a little, 479 00:24:56,740 --> 00:24:57,260 with a little, 480 00:24:57,260 --> 00:24:57,700 little, 481 00:24:57,700 --> 00:24:58,200 uh, 482 00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:58,860 you know, 483 00:24:58,860 --> 00:25:00,920 intimate family group. 484 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,260 And, 485 00:25:02,260 --> 00:25:02,560 uh, 486 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,020 and just talking to them and, 487 00:25:04,020 --> 00:25:05,020 and telling stories. 488 00:25:05,020 --> 00:25:05,200 and, 489 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,300 and I knew this lady. 490 00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:06,660 Well, 491 00:25:06,660 --> 00:25:07,420 you know, 492 00:25:07,420 --> 00:25:07,700 uh, 493 00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:08,380 she was already, 494 00:25:08,380 --> 00:25:10,260 they had already made her dust, 495 00:25:10,260 --> 00:25:11,060 right? 496 00:25:11,060 --> 00:25:11,820 She was cremated. 497 00:25:11,820 --> 00:25:14,000 They had already put her in the dust form. 498 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,020 And, 499 00:25:15,020 --> 00:25:15,340 um, 500 00:25:15,340 --> 00:25:17,720 but, 501 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:18,820 but the hope and, 502 00:25:18,820 --> 00:25:20,840 and the joy and the, 503 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,800 the ability to speak freely to each other. 504 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:29,360 because one thing I've learned about doing funeral services over the years is you need to be brief. 505 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:32,720 You need to be truthful and, 506 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:33,140 and, 507 00:25:33,140 --> 00:25:34,660 and you need to be sensitive, 508 00:25:34,660 --> 00:25:35,560 right? 509 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,620 You try to balance all three of those things. 510 00:25:37,620 --> 00:25:38,520 It's hard sometimes, 511 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:39,400 but, 512 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,000 but when somebody has been, 513 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:42,740 uh, 514 00:25:42,740 --> 00:25:43,560 transformed, 515 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,100 when somebody has the hope of the resurrection, 516 00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:47,340 it's like, 517 00:25:47,340 --> 00:25:48,620 I mean, 518 00:25:48,620 --> 00:25:51,660 it's almost hard not to do the little leprechaun, 519 00:25:51,660 --> 00:25:51,980 you know, 520 00:25:51,980 --> 00:25:53,080 click your heels together. 521 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:54,620 kind of a thing. 522 00:25:54,620 --> 00:25:56,700 I would try it right now, 523 00:25:56,700 --> 00:25:58,240 but I would embarrass all of us. 524 00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:58,600 So, 525 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:09,500 but first Corinthians 15, 526 00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:11,340 20 tells us Christ was indeed, 527 00:26:11,340 --> 00:26:13,800 has indeed been raised from the dead. 528 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,020 The first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. 529 00:26:16,020 --> 00:26:20,340 He is that first fruit. 530 00:26:20,340 --> 00:26:22,640 The resurrection started with him. 531 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:29,400 And it will end when he brings that last believer to himself. 532 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,900 So really for the believer, 533 00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:35,180 death is not a period. 534 00:26:35,180 --> 00:26:36,200 It's a comma. 535 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,300 Right? 536 00:26:38,300 --> 00:26:39,040 It's a comma. 537 00:26:44,420 --> 00:26:44,860 yes, 538 00:26:44,860 --> 00:26:44,860 yes, 539 00:26:44,860 --> 00:26:45,600 this is a, 540 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:51,740 this is a powerful thing. 541 00:26:51,740 --> 00:26:55,160 This resurrection from darkness to light. 542 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:59,700 And I see that in, 543 00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:01,020 in people's lives that, 544 00:27:01,020 --> 00:27:01,500 that, 545 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:01,840 uh, 546 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,300 when the lights get turned on, 547 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:05,720 it's so powerful that a, 548 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,100 uh, 549 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:12,700 person can be in such a desperate place in that place of darkness. 550 00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:14,920 But when they come to the Lord Jesus, 551 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:15,820 it's, 552 00:27:15,820 --> 00:27:16,740 it's, 553 00:27:16,740 --> 00:27:19,060 it's a powerful transformation that we see. 554 00:27:19,060 --> 00:27:21,720 That's why people's testimony is so powerful. 555 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,140 Something you can't argue with. 556 00:27:23,260 --> 00:27:23,880 It's a, 557 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:23,900 it's a, 558 00:27:23,900 --> 00:27:25,020 it's a changed life. 559 00:27:25,020 --> 00:27:26,300 It's a, 560 00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:27,180 it's, 561 00:27:27,180 --> 00:27:28,200 it's being born again. 562 00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:33,040 And I remember in my own life and I still get excited about it, 563 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:33,260 that, 564 00:27:33,260 --> 00:27:35,560 that God reached down in the darkness and he, 565 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,460 he pulled me into the light. 566 00:27:37,460 --> 00:27:43,700 The conclusion of this is really this, 567 00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:44,000 uh, 568 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:48,500 the resurrection is a historical fact. 569 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:50,740 It's spiritual power for us. 570 00:27:50,740 --> 00:27:51,720 It's that, 571 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,060 that hopeful future for every believer. 572 00:27:54,060 --> 00:27:58,020 Are you living with that confidence? 573 00:27:58,020 --> 00:27:59,420 Do you have the confidence? 574 00:27:59,420 --> 00:28:00,540 of the resurrection? 575 00:28:00,540 --> 00:28:02,360 That, 576 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:05,720 that this is a, 577 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,640 a truth and a power that it, 578 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:08,920 it, 579 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:10,120 it can't be, 580 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:10,560 uh, 581 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:11,780 it can't be stopped. 582 00:28:11,780 --> 00:28:12,700 It's unstoppable. 583 00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:15,420 It's really almost, 584 00:28:15,420 --> 00:28:16,100 um, 585 00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:17,780 uncomprehendable. 586 00:28:17,780 --> 00:28:19,340 Uh, 587 00:28:19,340 --> 00:28:19,620 it's, 588 00:28:19,620 --> 00:28:20,820 it's indescribable. 589 00:28:20,820 --> 00:28:25,100 The scripture says that thanks be to God for his indescribable gift. 590 00:28:25,100 --> 00:28:33,540 we should be the most happy, 591 00:28:33,540 --> 00:28:40,620 giddiest people on the face of the earth because of what Jesus did that Sunday morning. 592 00:28:45,860 --> 00:28:47,220 And today, 593 00:28:47,220 --> 00:28:47,760 like I, 594 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:48,900 I said that at the, 595 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:50,800 at the beginning, 596 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:51,440 that if, 597 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:52,120 if you, 598 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,300 if you haven't come to that place in your life, 599 00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:55,300 uh, 600 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:56,340 where you need to, 601 00:28:56,340 --> 00:28:57,260 where you need to know, 602 00:28:57,260 --> 00:28:58,560 you just need to know. 603 00:28:58,560 --> 00:28:59,780 Maybe you're guessing. 604 00:28:59,780 --> 00:29:01,020 I hope I'm a good person. 605 00:29:01,020 --> 00:29:02,560 Let me tell you, 606 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:03,500 you're not a good person. 607 00:29:04,260 --> 00:29:05,420 There's no such thing. 608 00:29:05,420 --> 00:29:08,200 Let God be true in every man. 609 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:08,580 A liar. 610 00:29:08,580 --> 00:29:09,300 Here we are. 611 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:10,420 All of us. 612 00:29:10,420 --> 00:29:13,200 The chief of liars standing before you. 613 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:19,940 I said that this last week to some people and they looked at me like a calf at a new gate. 614 00:29:19,940 --> 00:29:20,200 Like, 615 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,420 what are you talking about? 616 00:29:23,420 --> 00:29:26,280 You're incriminating yourself. 617 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,000 Mom, 618 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,640 my granny always told me if the shoe fits, 619 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:30,060 wear it. 620 00:29:30,060 --> 00:29:36,540 But my hope is not in my righteousness, 621 00:29:36,540 --> 00:29:37,460 not in my goodness. 622 00:29:37,460 --> 00:29:38,180 It's in his. 623 00:29:38,180 --> 00:29:44,960 And just as he was clothed with this resurrected body, 624 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:49,840 we too will find ourselves in that place coming with him. 625 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,200 On that last day. 626 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:57,940 Maybe he's calling you today. 627 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:03,380 Maybe he's calling you to nail down your relationship with him. 628 00:30:03,380 --> 00:30:05,260 Come to me, 629 00:30:05,260 --> 00:30:06,100 Jesus said, 630 00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:08,220 all you who are weary and heavy laden, 631 00:30:08,220 --> 00:30:09,600 and I will give you rest. 632 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:09,900 You'll, 633 00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:11,580 you'll have rest for your souls. 634 00:30:11,580 --> 00:30:17,580 And in that day, 635 00:30:17,580 --> 00:30:19,400 in that day, 636 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,480 when we're facing our last breath, 637 00:30:23,700 --> 00:30:24,420 it's, 638 00:30:24,420 --> 00:30:25,000 it is, 639 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:25,020 it is, 640 00:30:25,020 --> 00:30:29,960 it is an absolute fascinating thing to watch a Christian die. 641 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,080 It's fascinating to me. 642 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,340 those who are really confident of this, 643 00:30:36,340 --> 00:30:38,280 this resurrection thing. 644 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,580 It is like, 645 00:30:40,580 --> 00:30:42,160 whatever. 646 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,580 Right? 647 00:30:44,580 --> 00:30:45,780 It's no big deal. 648 00:30:45,780 --> 00:30:48,300 They realize that it's not in the here and now, 649 00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:50,600 that the here and now is so temporary, 650 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,180 that eternity, 651 00:30:52,180 --> 00:30:55,420 eternity is coming at us like a freight train. 652 00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:01,560 So if he's calling you today, 653 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,700 and you're thinking, 654 00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:06,860 I know I need something bigger than myself. 655 00:31:06,860 --> 00:31:08,860 You may not even put, 656 00:31:08,860 --> 00:31:10,160 be able to put your finger on it. 657 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,620 Can I just encourage you? 658 00:31:12,620 --> 00:31:13,360 It's Jesus. 659 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,120 It is the risen Christ. 660 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,180 that you're desiring in your heart. 661 00:31:18,180 --> 00:31:21,080 It is the risen Christ that will make you complete. 662 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:29,340 Because he lives, 663 00:31:29,340 --> 00:31:30,400 we can face tomorrow. 664 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:35,060 Because he rose, 665 00:31:35,060 --> 00:31:38,480 you can have the confidence that you're going to rise. 666 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,380 And that he is going to take away all fear and shame. 667 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:46,660 from death itself. 668 00:31:46,660 --> 00:31:51,260 Let's pray, 669 00:31:51,260 --> 00:31:51,620 shall we? 670 00:31:51,620 --> 00:31:52,840 Father, 671 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,240 I just want to come before you, 672 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,320 thanking you for your incredible truth. 673 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,220 This incredible power, 674 00:32:01,220 --> 00:32:01,580 Lord, 675 00:32:01,580 --> 00:32:05,220 though they expect you to save yourself from the cross, 676 00:32:05,220 --> 00:32:05,580 Lord, 677 00:32:05,580 --> 00:32:10,780 and let you knew that you had to endure it for us. 678 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,460 And yet you went into the grave, 679 00:32:17,460 --> 00:32:19,500 head on, 680 00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:20,400 you faced death, 681 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,780 and then you conquered it. 682 00:32:22,780 --> 00:32:24,800 And you walked out. 683 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,720 That it's final. 684 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,420 That 685 00:32:28,420 --> 00:32:32,640 last enemy. 686 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,260 The one who has the power of it, 687 00:32:36,260 --> 00:32:36,540 this, 688 00:32:36,540 --> 00:32:37,300 this Satan, 689 00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:39,140 whom so many fear. 690 00:32:41,340 --> 00:32:41,620 And Lord, 691 00:32:41,620 --> 00:32:43,300 greater is you that is in us. 692 00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:45,780 Greater is this resurrection power in us. 693 00:32:45,780 --> 00:32:49,820 Than he who is in the world. 694 00:32:49,820 --> 00:32:51,820 That this hopelessness of, 695 00:32:51,820 --> 00:32:53,540 of death and dying. 696 00:32:53,540 --> 00:32:55,200 And sin, 697 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,200 overwhelming people. 698 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,780 The chains have been broken. 699 00:32:58,780 --> 00:32:59,320 Lord, 700 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:00,140 you've set us free. 701 00:33:00,140 --> 00:33:02,020 We praise you. 702 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:02,880 I pray for anyone, 703 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:03,200 Lord, 704 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:03,560 who is, 705 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,520 who is yet to come to that place, 706 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:05,780 Lord, 707 00:33:05,780 --> 00:33:06,500 where they've just, 708 00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:13,520 they know that they need you. 709 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:18,000 And I pray that they would have the boldness to cry out to you. 710 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:25,760 If that's you today, 711 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:26,240 I just, 712 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:26,540 uh, 713 00:33:26,540 --> 00:33:29,660 I want to pray this prayer with you. 714 00:33:29,660 --> 00:33:33,340 If you've never prayed and asked Jesus to come into your life, 715 00:33:33,340 --> 00:33:34,400 just pray this prayer. 716 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:34,620 It's, 717 00:33:34,620 --> 00:33:36,180 it's so simple, 718 00:33:36,180 --> 00:33:38,180 but when it's heartfelt and sincere, 719 00:33:38,180 --> 00:33:43,520 it can change your eternal destination. 720 00:33:45,660 --> 00:33:50,740 And if you want your moment to be Easter 2025, 721 00:33:50,740 --> 00:33:56,300 pray this prayer with me. 722 00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:56,580 Say, 723 00:33:56,580 --> 00:33:57,160 Lord Jesus, 724 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,360 forgive me of my sin. 725 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,880 I believe that you came and shed your blood for me. 726 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:10,700 That I'm washed from my sins because of you. 727 00:34:10,700 --> 00:34:13,240 Because of your sacrifice. 728 00:34:13,940 --> 00:34:14,380 Lord, 729 00:34:14,380 --> 00:34:15,860 I want to turn from those things, 730 00:34:15,860 --> 00:34:17,340 wrong things that I've been doing, 731 00:34:17,340 --> 00:34:18,720 those wrong attitudes, 732 00:34:18,720 --> 00:34:19,780 those wrong habits. 733 00:34:19,780 --> 00:34:22,040 And I want to turn to you wholeheartedly. 734 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,520 Fill me with your spirit. 735 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:30,920 Empower me with this resurrection power that's been talked about today. 736 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:37,400 To live this life that you have for those who would place their faith and trust in you. 737 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:38,960 Come in. 738 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,240 I pray in Jesus name. 739 00:34:41,240 --> 00:34:42,460 Amen. 740 00:34:42,460 --> 00:34:43,500 Amen. 741 00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:43,620 Amen. 742 00:34:43,620 --> 00:34:46,160 You prayed that prayer for the first time. 743 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,080 Welcome to God's family. 744 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,240 I'm going to ask the prayer team to come up right now. 745 00:34:51,240 --> 00:34:53,920 They're going to be right over here to my right. 746 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,500 If you prayed that prayer, 747 00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:56,500 can I ask you to just, 748 00:34:56,500 --> 00:34:57,460 while we're doing this song, 749 00:34:57,460 --> 00:34:59,560 make your way up and pray with them. 750 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,120 Or maybe you didn't pray. 751 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:03,240 You got questions. 752 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:06,040 Make your way up more during this last song. 753 00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:08,880 And ask these guys some questions. 754 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,020 If they don't know the answer, 755 00:35:11,020 --> 00:35:12,320 they'll find somebody that does. 756 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,760 He is risen. 757 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:25,720 Because he lives, I can face tomorrow. 758 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:39,680 Because he lives, I can face tomorrow. 759 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:40,680 Because he lives. 760 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:41,680 Because he lives. 761 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,800 Because he lives. 762 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,640 All fear is gone. 763 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:58,320 Because I know he holds the future. 764 00:35:59,740 --> 00:36:05,040 Life is worth the living just because he lives. 765 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:05,940 God bless you guys. 766 00:36:05,940 --> 00:36:06,800 Have a great Easter. 767 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:20,040 God bless you.