1 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:06,880 All right, you may be seated. If you have a Bible, get that book open to Luke chapter 7. 2 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:17,360 We finished up chapter 6, looking at, excuse me, the first part of chapter 7, 3 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:24,940 when we see the Jesus healing of the centurion servant, the power of his authority, 4 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:31,360 that not only that Jesus had, but that he gives to those who follow him. 5 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:37,320 As many as received him, to them he gave the authority to be the sons and daughters of God, 6 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:46,940 not be you and I. And it's powerful in that eyes were opened and that leprosy was healed and that 7 00:00:46,940 --> 00:00:53,700 we're going to see today that the dead are raised from this authority that we see in the Lord Jesus. 8 00:00:54,460 --> 00:01:04,240 At your word. At your word. And really, it's amazing to me how many people will throw the word of God aside 9 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:13,140 when they have an opinion that differs with it. Right? People will put God's word aside when they, 10 00:01:13,140 --> 00:01:18,640 and they'll say, I don't believe that. You don't believe God's word? How's that work? 11 00:01:20,140 --> 00:01:27,600 Right? Because the psalmist writes, he says, listen, the Lord esteems his word even above his name. 12 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:35,880 And is there any name like Jesus? There's no name like Jesus. It's the powerful name. 13 00:01:36,820 --> 00:01:45,480 It has power over the wind and the, and the rain and, and, and you and me and, and even a donkey. 14 00:01:50,040 --> 00:02:01,700 I had this, uh, this thing happened to me. I was, I was riding colts and trying to make a little extra money, 15 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:05,940 putting food on the table for my family. I was fairly young. I was in my thirties and, 16 00:02:05,940 --> 00:02:11,320 and I'd ride from my house into work. It was about 13 miles. And if I hit a good trot, 17 00:02:11,380 --> 00:02:18,000 I could do it in about 45 minutes to an hour and five or 10 minutes. And I was, I was trotting along 18 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:24,120 there and I was leading one and riding one. And all of a sudden I go past this pasture and I see this 19 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:30,360 mule out in this pasture. And as I'm going along there, just to trotting along and, and, uh, all of a 20 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:36,640 sudden behind me, I hear wire stretching. Who's ever heard the sound of wire stretching? There's something 21 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:42,680 about that sound. I just don't like because it's usually means that something's going to be bleeding, 22 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:51,240 right? Sometimes it's a person. Sometimes it's a horse. And, uh, so I, I, so I look back and this 23 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:56,620 mule had tried going over the fence. And when it did, it put one foot inside the wire on this side. 24 00:02:56,620 --> 00:03:02,860 Then it tipped over the fence and the wires had it figurated its front feet. It was on its back and 25 00:03:02,860 --> 00:03:09,280 it's had it front feet, uh, figured eight together. And I thought, oh, so I thought, well, I'm going to help 26 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:22,020 the poor mule. Bad idea. So I went over and I got the mule out of these, out of the fence and, uh, it 27 00:03:22,020 --> 00:03:26,740 jumped up and it jumped up and it stayed right with me. It's shaking there for a little bit. And so I jumped 28 00:03:26,740 --> 00:03:32,780 on my horse and took off and pretty soon the mule, it was a John mule that had not been castrated. 29 00:03:32,780 --> 00:03:41,120 Who knows what that is? Okay. He had not been castrated. So he was a John mule with, what do 30 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,800 they call it? Intact. That's a nice way of saying, you know, he had some cojones. 31 00:03:47,980 --> 00:03:53,900 Okay. We're a cowboy church. All right. That's this mule jumps on the horse. I'm riding 32 00:03:53,900 --> 00:04:00,580 jumps on it. And I'm like this. And I, so I try punching this mule and hurt my hand. And I got 33 00:04:00,580 --> 00:04:08,560 in the soft part of his nose and got him off. And then he came again on top of me and I hit him hard 34 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,440 enough. The next time, then he just started jumping on the horse that I was leading. And I didn't know I 35 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:18,240 was beside myself. I didn't know. Why did I let this mule go? I should have just left him there to die. 36 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:27,860 And so I finally, it just dawned on me. Oh, there's power in Jesus name. I said, in Jesus name, I rebuke 37 00:04:27,860 --> 00:04:34,880 you. And that donkey threw his tail in the air and took off running away from me as fast as he could run. 38 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:38,600 I said, wow. 39 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:45,280 If it'll work on a donkey, what else will it work on? 40 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:54,540 Now we do live in grizzly bear country. So please remember the name of Jesus. Would you? 41 00:04:54,540 --> 00:04:59,960 If you're up there hiking, right? Because I think they kind of like the taste of pepper spray. 42 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:10,340 But there's power there, right? There's authority. There was power. And, you know, 43 00:05:10,340 --> 00:05:16,800 and Jesus was in awe by this guy's great faith when he just said, yeah, all you have to do is say the word. 44 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:24,440 And great faith means, it means much faith or priceless. This guy's faith to Jesus was priceless. 45 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:31,760 What's your faith like towards Jesus? Is it priceless? Is it weak? Is it little? 46 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:37,800 He condemns his disciples. Oh, ye of little faith. 47 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,880 And Peter, when he sunk in the water, why did you doubt? 48 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:46,180 I don't know about you, but I'm a doubter. Do you doubt? 49 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:53,180 That's something we have to ride herd on constantly in our lives is these doubts. 50 00:05:53,180 --> 00:05:58,820 We pray one thing. We pray and God does it. And then we go, can you believe what God did? 51 00:05:58,820 --> 00:06:01,940 It's like you're shocked. Well, didn't you pray for that? 52 00:06:01,940 --> 00:06:04,380 Well, yes, but what? 53 00:06:04,380 --> 00:06:06,980 Pray, not doubting. 54 00:06:06,980 --> 00:06:09,540 That's like a double-minded man. 55 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:21,560 So, it's interesting that in the book of Luke here in chapter 7, it does not tell us what Jesus said. 56 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,420 It doesn't say what his words were. 57 00:06:24,420 --> 00:06:26,940 But it does in Matthew. 58 00:06:26,940 --> 00:06:28,680 And Jesus says this, 59 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:33,980 Go your way as you have believed, so let it be done for you. 60 00:06:33,980 --> 00:06:37,020 And his servant was healed that same hour. 61 00:06:38,620 --> 00:06:39,380 So, go your way. 62 00:06:39,380 --> 00:06:42,740 As you believed according to your faith, so be it unto you. 63 00:06:42,740 --> 00:06:48,780 Without faith, folks, it's impossible to please God. 64 00:06:48,780 --> 00:06:54,560 And we truly walk by faith, not by sight. 65 00:06:54,560 --> 00:07:00,160 And this man called on Jesus with his servant being at death's door. 66 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,700 And he was healed at the word. 67 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:04,700 Why? Because he believed it. 68 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:07,700 He recognized the authority that Christ had. 69 00:07:08,140 --> 00:07:09,540 And so it is with us. 70 00:07:09,540 --> 00:07:13,680 We must recognize this authority that Jesus has. 71 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,400 And not only in the world, but in our lives personally. 72 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,600 He has the authority to do what he wants to do. 73 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:27,400 And so, I entitled this message today, 74 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,500 Death Meets Life. 75 00:07:29,500 --> 00:07:30,500 Read with me. 76 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:33,120 We're going to start in verse 11. 77 00:07:33,220 --> 00:07:34,780 We're just going to read through verse 17. 78 00:07:34,780 --> 00:07:35,400 And it says, 79 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:43,260 Now it happened the day after that when that he went into a city called Nain. 80 00:07:43,260 --> 00:07:47,160 And many of his disciples went with him and a large crowd. 81 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:52,400 And when he came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out. 82 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,400 The only son of his mother. 83 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:55,880 And she was a widow. 84 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,020 And a large crowd from the city was with her. 85 00:07:59,220 --> 00:08:04,000 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, 86 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,100 Do not weep. 87 00:08:05,100 --> 00:08:08,400 And then he came and touched the open coffin. 88 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,120 And those who carried him stood still. 89 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,040 And he said, Young man, I say to you, arise. 90 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:19,720 So he who was dead sat up and began to speak. 91 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,220 And he presented him to his mother. 92 00:08:22,220 --> 00:08:24,500 Then fear came upon all. 93 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:29,540 And they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has risen up among us. 94 00:08:29,540 --> 00:08:31,840 And God has visited his people. 95 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:39,060 And this report about him went through all, throughout all Judea and all the surrounding region. 96 00:08:39,060 --> 00:08:39,680 Shall we pray? 97 00:08:39,680 --> 00:08:40,580 Father, thank you. 98 00:08:40,580 --> 00:08:42,300 Thank you for this story. 99 00:08:42,300 --> 00:08:45,100 Lord, it's so full of life. 100 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,220 And yet it has death in it as well. 101 00:08:48,220 --> 00:08:53,600 And life is that much greater simply because death is present. 102 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:55,560 And Lord, we love you. 103 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:58,880 We thank you for this authority that you have even over this. 104 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:03,880 As we look at it, Lord, I pray that you being the God of all comfort would comfort our hearts. 105 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:08,120 Lord, that we would be in a place where we are trusting you fully. 106 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:12,420 Lord, not leaning on our own understanding, but acknowledging you in all of our ways. 107 00:09:12,540 --> 00:09:16,560 And so, Lord, speak to us from this passage, we pray. 108 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:18,820 Just truths that bless our heart, Lord. 109 00:09:18,820 --> 00:09:21,640 Things that encourage us in our faith, Lord. 110 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,560 And maybe just help us to get one day closer to seeing you return. 111 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:26,800 In Jesus' name. 112 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:27,780 Amen. 113 00:09:27,780 --> 00:09:27,960 Amen. 114 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:28,240 Amen. 115 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:29,240 Amen. 116 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:29,280 Amen. 117 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:29,400 Amen. 118 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:29,400 Amen. 119 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:29,400 Amen. 120 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:30,340 Amen. 121 00:09:30,340 --> 00:09:33,280 So, notice it starts off. 122 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,900 And that happened the day after. 123 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:37,800 The day after what? 124 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,180 The day after the healing of the centurion servant. 125 00:09:40,180 --> 00:09:43,300 Jesus is shifting gears here. 126 00:09:43,300 --> 00:09:46,340 And it's amazing. 127 00:09:46,540 --> 00:09:52,440 He's created quite the buzz by healing the centurion servant. 128 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,620 And people are looking at this guy going, wow, could this be? 129 00:09:55,620 --> 00:09:59,920 No doubt the Jewish people have the mindset of a Messiah coming. 130 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:01,900 That there's a Messiah coming. 131 00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:05,260 Still today, they have this idea that Messiah is coming. 132 00:10:05,260 --> 00:10:06,280 He's coming. 133 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:06,900 All right. 134 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:08,780 And he's coming very soon. 135 00:10:08,780 --> 00:10:18,780 And this young carpenter, by trade, has become this itinerant rabbi. 136 00:10:18,780 --> 00:10:22,000 And he is stirring everybody up. 137 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:27,120 Warren Wiersbe, in his commentary on this, says this. 138 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,560 He says, Jesus came along. 139 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:33,780 Or this story is where two crowds met. 140 00:10:33,780 --> 00:10:35,620 Two sons met. 141 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:37,700 Two sufferers met. 142 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:39,840 And two enemies met. 143 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:41,540 Right? 144 00:10:41,540 --> 00:10:45,040 And so, we're going to look at that kind of with that mindset. 145 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:46,940 First, it's the two crowds. 146 00:10:46,940 --> 00:10:47,660 Right? 147 00:10:47,660 --> 00:10:49,900 The people, the disciples are following Jesus. 148 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:52,380 But he's created quite a crowd. 149 00:10:52,380 --> 00:10:55,260 Probably those who would be counting the costs. 150 00:10:55,260 --> 00:10:57,760 Really checking Jesus out. 151 00:10:57,760 --> 00:10:59,060 Maybe that's you today. 152 00:10:59,060 --> 00:10:59,940 You're just here. 153 00:10:59,940 --> 00:11:01,340 You're just kind of checking Jesus out. 154 00:11:01,340 --> 00:11:02,620 You're not all in yet. 155 00:11:02,620 --> 00:11:03,100 Right? 156 00:11:03,100 --> 00:11:04,540 You haven't jumped in with both feet. 157 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:06,900 He's not everything to you. 158 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:09,420 But you're thinking about it. 159 00:11:09,420 --> 00:11:10,540 Good on you. 160 00:11:10,540 --> 00:11:12,000 It's a good start. 161 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,080 That's better than somebody that, you know, gives him the finger. 162 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,820 Because a lot of people do that all the time. 163 00:11:19,820 --> 00:11:21,280 They'll even come do it in church. 164 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:27,720 And so, but this crowd is growing. 165 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,120 It's quite large. 166 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:30,760 And they come to this place called Nain. 167 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:36,840 Now, Nain is just a few miles south of the town of Nazareth where Jesus grew up. 168 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:41,180 But it's right on the thoroughfare between Capernaum all the way to Jerusalem. 169 00:11:41,180 --> 00:11:42,620 And then you go right by Nain. 170 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,640 And she's coming into the city gate, it says there. 171 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:53,620 And there was another group. 172 00:11:53,620 --> 00:11:55,760 Another crowd. 173 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:57,800 But they weren't excited. 174 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,020 Right? 175 00:11:59,020 --> 00:12:04,640 They were in a place of mourning and weeping. 176 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:08,400 And in that culture, they would hire those to weep and wail. 177 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:15,120 I guess it was an expression of how much love the people had for those who have died. 178 00:12:15,660 --> 00:12:18,380 You know, it's kind of like the people that go to a funeral. 179 00:12:18,380 --> 00:12:20,360 There's different motives. 180 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:21,360 Right? 181 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:25,320 Some of the mourners would come to just get paid in this situation. 182 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:30,920 I know some people that go to funerals just to make sure the person whose funeral it is is really dead. 183 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:39,260 Heard the story of a guy that he had a guy that he'd known his whole life. 184 00:12:39,260 --> 00:12:40,280 And they got sideways. 185 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:44,060 Because the one guy owed the other guy 40 bucks. 186 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:47,520 And so the guy died that owed the 40 bucks. 187 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,260 And the other guy refused to go to his funeral. 188 00:12:49,260 --> 00:12:53,120 And when everybody asked, I said, why won't you go to his funeral? 189 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:54,640 Because he owes me 40 bucks. 190 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,620 Really? 191 00:12:57,620 --> 00:12:59,960 That's funny. 192 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:03,380 Has some of you not gone to a funeral because somebody owes you money? 193 00:13:03,380 --> 00:13:07,940 I don't know. 194 00:13:07,940 --> 00:13:09,480 I think I could forgive 40 bucks. 195 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:09,920 Don't you? 196 00:13:12,740 --> 00:13:13,140 Anyway. 197 00:13:13,140 --> 00:13:16,040 So there's two crowds. 198 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:17,600 One seems to be jubilant. 199 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:18,820 The other one's in mourning. 200 00:13:18,820 --> 00:13:21,120 And there's kind of a kind of clash here. 201 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:22,680 Now, Ecclesiastes 7. 202 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:24,920 I always read this passage when I do funerals. 203 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:25,620 It says, 204 00:13:25,740 --> 00:13:36,380 Going to a funeral is a good thing. 205 00:13:36,380 --> 00:13:37,900 Why? 206 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:43,140 Because it reminds you and I that this will be us someday. 207 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,780 And you can't get past that. 208 00:13:48,780 --> 00:13:51,260 That's the power of death. 209 00:13:51,260 --> 00:13:53,520 That's the power that death has. 210 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:57,440 That it reminds us that this life is brief. 211 00:13:59,780 --> 00:14:01,740 The psalmist writes, right? 212 00:14:01,740 --> 00:14:05,920 Man at his very best is but a vapor. 213 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:13,160 You're reminded of that when I remember doing my grandpa on my mother's side, my grandpa Jones, 214 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:14,040 I doing his funeral. 215 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:16,640 Grandpa was 91. 216 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:22,300 And when my little brother asked him about, you know, he says, Grandpa, what would you want? 217 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:24,840 You know, a service, you know. 218 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:26,640 A service. 219 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:30,760 He says to Rick, nobody's coming to my service. 220 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:32,500 Because everybody I know is dead. 221 00:14:36,660 --> 00:14:37,020 Right? 222 00:14:37,020 --> 00:14:42,920 It's like, you live long enough and it's, but you ask him about his life and all the things that he saw. 223 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:46,720 He was born in 1913. 224 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:50,100 And all the things that my grandpa had saw in his life. 225 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:52,700 And he said, it sure went fast. 226 00:14:52,700 --> 00:14:54,700 At 91. 227 00:14:54,700 --> 00:14:56,360 I don't know about you. 228 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:57,720 I don't think I want to get there. 229 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,180 63 is plenty. 230 00:14:59,180 --> 00:15:00,220 That's all I need. 231 00:15:04,380 --> 00:15:07,900 But it's this place of mourning and the living taking it to heart. 232 00:15:07,900 --> 00:15:10,260 And it's kind of weighty at times. 233 00:15:10,260 --> 00:15:13,520 You're thinking, yeah, there is a day when I'm going to take my last breath. 234 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,360 And what's that going to be like? 235 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:25,160 Those of us who are walking by faith, there's a kind of a giddiness about it. 236 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,540 There's an expectation that it's going to be good. 237 00:15:27,540 --> 00:15:30,140 And that we're going to be like the Old Testament saints. 238 00:15:30,140 --> 00:15:32,000 We're going to be gathered to our people. 239 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:37,360 And we're going to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. 240 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,660 And that most of life's woes for the believer are over. 241 00:15:41,660 --> 00:15:43,180 Thank you, Lord. 242 00:15:43,180 --> 00:15:45,840 It's a great thing to look forward to, isn't it? 243 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:51,580 Psalm 30 verse 11 says, 244 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:56,320 You have turned me from my mourning into dancing. 245 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:57,560 And that's what's going to happen here. 246 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:02,680 You have turned me from my mourning into dancing. 247 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:08,400 If we could see our loved ones that are on the other side. 248 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,940 And we can't. 249 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,400 But we would rejoice for them. 250 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,920 I'm telling you, they wouldn't want to come back here. 251 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,440 I love what Pastor Chuck Smith used to say. 252 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,800 He said, if something happens to me and I die and you revive me, 253 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,040 the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to punch you right in the face. 254 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,000 You just leave me alone. 255 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,680 Don't revive me. 256 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,420 He'll turn our mourning into dancing. 257 00:16:43,420 --> 00:16:49,000 And so that's where two crowds met. 258 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:56,760 The mourning with those who are celebrating or excited about this person 259 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,040 that very well could be the Messiah. 260 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,340 Secondly, we have two sons meeting. 261 00:17:01,340 --> 00:17:02,000 Right? 262 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,220 Notice their only sons. 263 00:17:03,220 --> 00:17:04,940 This was this woman's only son. 264 00:17:04,940 --> 00:17:06,320 And he was a young man. 265 00:17:06,980 --> 00:17:10,620 So we don't know how old this woman was, but we do know that she was a widow. 266 00:17:10,620 --> 00:17:13,260 So she's already buried her husband. 267 00:17:13,260 --> 00:17:18,280 And so these two sons meet. 268 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:22,000 Jesus sees the casket and he walks up and he doesn't know. 269 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,180 No, he touches it. 270 00:17:23,180 --> 00:17:25,560 You're not just supposed to do that. 271 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:27,200 In the law, it was forbidden. 272 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:31,640 You weren't to touch a carcass or something that had touched a dead carcass. 273 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:32,740 You weren't to do that. 274 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,780 No doubt that pallbearers are going, like, what's this guy doing? 275 00:17:36,780 --> 00:17:38,160 Right? 276 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:42,160 And he comes up and he touches the casket. 277 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:46,860 And being a rabbi? 278 00:17:46,860 --> 00:17:48,900 Breaking the law? 279 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:53,140 By touching this dead man's box? 280 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,700 And so he sits up and he starts talking. 281 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:01,640 That would be pretty freaky, wouldn't it? 282 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:08,240 I have sat behind a pulpit like this and had a lot of caskets down below me that are open. 283 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:13,280 And I'm telling you, it would freak me out if somebody sat up and said, 284 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:14,760 Hey, preach, what's up? 285 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:22,520 Just sits up and starts talking. 286 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:30,460 Could you imagine the bewilderment on people's faces watching this dead person just sit up? 287 00:18:30,460 --> 00:18:42,620 I did hear the story of a guy's mother-in-law who had passed away and they were taking her down. 288 00:18:42,620 --> 00:18:44,800 It was back at the turn of the century. 289 00:18:44,940 --> 00:18:48,220 And they were taking her down this dirt road and they come to this little rough spot. 290 00:18:48,220 --> 00:18:50,440 And the casket wiggled back and forth. 291 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,480 And all of a sudden an arm came up. 292 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:56,920 And they went over and looked in the casket. 293 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:58,580 She goes, what happened? 294 00:18:58,580 --> 00:18:59,780 What are you guys doing with me? 295 00:18:59,780 --> 00:19:01,880 She wasn't dead. 296 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:08,800 And so about 20 years later, she ended up dying. 297 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,140 And so they start going down the same road. 298 00:19:12,140 --> 00:19:14,180 And the guy takes a shortcut. 299 00:19:14,180 --> 00:19:15,560 He says, what are you doing? 300 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,780 He says, I don't want to get to that rough spot again. 301 00:19:17,780 --> 00:19:19,060 I know what happened last time. 302 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,780 But do you think this guy ever talked about Jesus after this? 303 00:19:32,780 --> 00:19:35,360 Seriously. 304 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:39,960 What do you think his take on Jesus was after this? 305 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,680 Is this the same take that you have? 306 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:48,080 That he actually brought you from a place of death to life? 307 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:54,060 I'm thinking this dude was probably pretty bold. 308 00:19:54,720 --> 00:20:01,240 He might have jumped in with the 12 apostles somewhere along the line. 309 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:11,480 And he's talking to the only begotten son of the father. 310 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,340 This only son. 311 00:20:14,340 --> 00:20:19,540 He could identify as the only begotten of the father. 312 00:20:19,540 --> 00:20:23,340 Notice what it says in John chapter 3. 313 00:20:24,180 --> 00:20:27,720 It says that God gave his only begotten son. 314 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:33,080 That whosoever would believe it in him would not perish but have everlasting life. 315 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:34,260 Are you a whosoever? 316 00:20:34,260 --> 00:20:35,300 Somebody's got that shirt. 317 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:36,140 It's a pretty cool shirt. 318 00:20:36,140 --> 00:20:38,060 I'm one of the whosoever's. 319 00:20:38,060 --> 00:20:39,120 Right? 320 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:41,180 This guy became the whosoever. 321 00:20:41,180 --> 00:20:43,340 That believed in Jesus. 322 00:20:43,340 --> 00:20:48,000 After Jesus raised him from the dead. 323 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:53,560 And I could imagine this testimony and how powerful it was. 324 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,980 And how could you argue with this guy? 325 00:20:55,980 --> 00:20:57,140 Oh, that Jesus. 326 00:20:57,140 --> 00:20:59,320 Yeah, he raises the dead. 327 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,360 Because I was dead and he raised me. 328 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:07,340 I think sometimes we don't realize the power of our testimony. 329 00:21:07,340 --> 00:21:09,500 How Jesus changed our life. 330 00:21:09,500 --> 00:21:13,220 Do you realize it's yours? 331 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,620 It doesn't belong to anyone else. 332 00:21:15,620 --> 00:21:17,940 And who can argue with it? 333 00:21:17,940 --> 00:21:23,340 Who can argue with how Jesus Christ has affected your life? 334 00:21:23,340 --> 00:21:24,500 Nobody can. 335 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:26,540 It's like Paul there. 336 00:21:26,540 --> 00:21:32,640 I was just reading it this morning in Acts chapter 21 when he recounts to the people. 337 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:39,540 He says, I was just going along, persecuting the way, the believers in Jesus. 338 00:21:39,540 --> 00:21:42,140 And all of a sudden, kaboom! 339 00:21:42,140 --> 00:21:44,040 Right? 340 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:45,060 He's knocked to the ground. 341 00:21:45,060 --> 00:21:46,760 He's blinded for three days. 342 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:48,900 And Jesus goes, what? 343 00:21:48,900 --> 00:21:50,720 Dude, why are you persecuting me? 344 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,300 It's a powerful testimony. 345 00:21:53,300 --> 00:21:56,320 Your testimony is powerful. 346 00:22:01,820 --> 00:22:08,720 It displays the authority of Christ Jesus when you share how God has changed your life. 347 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:12,720 You say, well, I'm not good at that Bible stuff. 348 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:13,920 Then share your testimony. 349 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:20,000 If you really love him and you've given your life to him, share your testimony. 350 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,840 No doubt this guy did. 351 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,120 Secondly, we see two sufferers. 352 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:29,720 Jesus could identify with this woman. 353 00:22:31,420 --> 00:22:36,120 Because no doubt, Jesus suffered like no one else. 354 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:39,840 Reading through Isaiah here this last month. 355 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:47,120 There in one of the most powerful verses, I think, in the Old Testament about Christ's sacrifice for us. 356 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:53,740 Says that, I believe it's Isaiah 54 or 52, 14. 357 00:22:53,740 --> 00:22:57,340 That says he was marred more than any man. 358 00:22:57,340 --> 00:22:59,080 Jesus was. 359 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,400 He was marred more than any man. 360 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,380 That's because he's the one who chose the moment of his death. 361 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,260 You couldn't take his life from him. 362 00:23:07,260 --> 00:23:10,720 His life was his own. 363 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,340 Unlike ours. 364 00:23:12,340 --> 00:23:14,720 You can take my life from me. 365 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:19,000 This life that I know here on this earth. 366 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,200 You can't take my eternal life from me. 367 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,040 But you can take my life from me. 368 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:30,380 But this woman, she no doubt had been so affected and devastated by death. 369 00:23:30,380 --> 00:23:32,420 The death of her husband and now the death of her son. 370 00:23:32,420 --> 00:23:36,560 Isaiah 53 says, Jesus is a man of sorrow. 371 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:37,580 He was acquainted with grief. 372 00:23:37,580 --> 00:23:38,760 He knew what it was like. 373 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:44,340 So when you're going through grief, please don't think the Lord don't know what you're going through. 374 00:23:44,340 --> 00:23:46,180 Because he does. 375 00:23:46,180 --> 00:23:50,100 And to a very great degree. 376 00:23:50,100 --> 00:23:56,600 And she's crying. 377 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,160 She's crying. 378 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,100 And Jesus says, don't cry. 379 00:24:01,100 --> 00:24:03,180 Really? 380 00:24:03,180 --> 00:24:04,800 This kind of struck me. 381 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:05,880 Jesus said, don't cry. 382 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,460 But what about Jesus when he was at Lazarus' tomb? 383 00:24:10,380 --> 00:24:11,920 And the shortest verse in the Bible. 384 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,440 Many can remember this verse. 385 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:14,400 Because it's only two words. 386 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:15,520 Shortest verse in the Bible. 387 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,700 If you've never memorized a Bible verse. 388 00:24:17,700 --> 00:24:19,820 Memorize this one right now. 389 00:24:19,820 --> 00:24:22,360 It's John 11, 35. 390 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:22,860 Right? 391 00:24:22,860 --> 00:24:24,440 It says, Jesus wept. 392 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,600 Jesus wept. 393 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,740 At the tomb of Lazarus. 394 00:24:28,740 --> 00:24:29,780 He wept. 395 00:24:29,780 --> 00:24:31,700 Why did Jesus weep? 396 00:24:31,700 --> 00:24:33,920 Why did he weep? 397 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,140 He knew he was going to call Lazarus out of the grave. 398 00:24:37,140 --> 00:24:39,140 So why did he weep? 399 00:24:39,140 --> 00:24:43,020 I think everybody. 400 00:24:43,020 --> 00:24:45,700 You know, commentators. 401 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:51,600 They give their thoughts and opinions about why Jesus wept. 402 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:56,640 But you have to remember that all Bible commentators are just that. 403 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,480 They're just commentators. 404 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:06,100 It wasn't that bad? 405 00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:06,540 Okay. 406 00:25:06,540 --> 00:25:12,900 Maybe they're all from Idaho. 407 00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:13,540 I don't know. 408 00:25:13,540 --> 00:25:14,860 Common taters. 409 00:25:14,860 --> 00:25:21,340 But I think he wept about the whole death thing. 410 00:25:21,340 --> 00:25:22,180 The death. 411 00:25:23,660 --> 00:25:25,780 This death thing that we all have to deal with. 412 00:25:25,780 --> 00:25:29,620 You know, it was God's promise to Moses way back when. 413 00:25:29,620 --> 00:25:32,520 When he tells him, today I set before you life and death. 414 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:33,580 Choose life. 415 00:25:33,580 --> 00:25:38,560 The thing about it is, is it is, is it's in front of us every single day. 416 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,180 You have a choice to make every day. 417 00:25:40,340 --> 00:25:41,460 We have a choice to make. 418 00:25:41,460 --> 00:25:48,100 Either to live in that life that God has given us or to go the other way. 419 00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:50,000 It's one or the other. 420 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,440 You can choose your attitude for the day. 421 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,680 You can choose what you do with those first moments in the morning. 422 00:25:56,860 --> 00:26:02,900 I'm finding the older I get, the more important it is for me to be reading the word and to be encouraged. 423 00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:04,820 Otherwise, death overwhelms me. 424 00:26:04,820 --> 00:26:11,820 But when I'm, when I'm reading the words of life that come from Jesus, then death has no hold on me. 425 00:26:20,820 --> 00:26:26,900 Jesus tells her not to cry because he knows that joy is just around the corner. 426 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:28,940 It's just around the corner. 427 00:26:28,940 --> 00:26:32,260 It's. 428 00:26:32,260 --> 00:26:37,660 No doubt heartbreaking for her. 429 00:26:37,660 --> 00:26:41,840 And she can't see what he's going to do. 430 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:46,500 She realizes, oh, no, I'm all by myself now. 431 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,100 So my neighbor right across the street from me, he just passed away last week. 432 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:57,420 And my wife was standing in the kitchen and looked across. 433 00:26:57,420 --> 00:26:59,540 And she was all by herself, his widow. 434 00:26:59,540 --> 00:27:01,620 Just walking around. 435 00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:04,420 Kind of walking around the yard all by herself. 436 00:27:04,420 --> 00:27:07,060 Just stopping momentarily. 437 00:27:07,060 --> 00:27:10,100 No doubt was like this woman. 438 00:27:10,100 --> 00:27:13,540 Just in a place of, you know, loss, mourning. 439 00:27:13,540 --> 00:27:18,700 And just wondering if she's ever encountered Jesus. 440 00:27:19,620 --> 00:27:23,660 Because he's the one who can, can bring joy. 441 00:27:23,660 --> 00:27:26,740 He's the one that has compassion. 442 00:27:26,740 --> 00:27:30,520 It says, and he had compassion on her. 443 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,640 I love that word there. 444 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:33,520 Compassion. 445 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,480 It means to be moved in the inward parts. 446 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:38,660 That it's real. 447 00:27:38,660 --> 00:27:39,980 Right? 448 00:27:39,980 --> 00:27:42,140 It's a, it's a love that can be felt. 449 00:27:42,140 --> 00:27:43,180 It's tangible. 450 00:27:43,900 --> 00:27:45,620 And that's what Jesus had for people. 451 00:27:45,620 --> 00:27:48,680 And that's what he calls you and I to have for people. 452 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,560 It's to love them. 453 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,040 Have compassion. 454 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,820 Right? 455 00:27:53,820 --> 00:28:00,660 We see a world where that's, it's just not, I don't know if it's not popular or if it's unknown. 456 00:28:01,740 --> 00:28:08,160 And can you really know genuine compassion without knowing the, the one who is love? 457 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,120 God is love. 458 00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:10,160 The Bible tells us. 459 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,500 Can you really know that? 460 00:28:13,020 --> 00:28:14,400 I don't know that you can. 461 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,760 Not honestly, not like, not like this. 462 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,800 Willing to give your life towards somebody. 463 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:31,820 Share the love of God that he puts in our hearts. 464 00:28:31,820 --> 00:28:34,680 So Jesus, you think about it. 465 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:35,960 He makes it all better. 466 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,300 Or at least he makes it bearable. 467 00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:41,560 I know many of you. 468 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,440 I've stood with some of you next to the casket of your loved ones. 469 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,340 And it's, it's not easy. 470 00:28:49,340 --> 00:28:50,900 It's hard. 471 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,860 But even in the midst of the sorrow, there's joy. 472 00:28:53,860 --> 00:28:59,380 There's joy knowing that we don't mourn as those who have no hope. 473 00:28:59,380 --> 00:29:07,000 So Jesus could totally identify with this lady suffering. 474 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:13,880 Thirdly, fourthly, excuse me, we have two enemies, death and life. 475 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,480 Death and life. 476 00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:21,720 And they're totally opposed to one another. 477 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:27,880 First Corinthians chapter 15, 26 talks a lot about death and resurrection. 478 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,920 About death and life. 479 00:29:30,420 --> 00:29:33,820 And it says our last enemy will be destroyed is death. 480 00:29:33,820 --> 00:29:37,920 It's the thing that you and I have to deal with. 481 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:47,500 We do deal with the death of loved ones, friends, and then ultimately your own. 482 00:29:47,900 --> 00:29:53,020 You know, I do a lot of funerals and pretty soon I'm going to show up at my own. 483 00:29:53,020 --> 00:29:56,240 Right? 484 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,700 Maybe in a little baggie, about that big. 485 00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:02,020 That's about how much ashes are. 486 00:30:02,020 --> 00:30:06,320 Because I've told my family, or I told my wife anyway, I said, I think I want to be buried. 487 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,440 Because we've always talked about cremation, right? 488 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:09,880 I said, I think I want to be buried. 489 00:30:10,420 --> 00:30:11,380 She goes, where at? 490 00:30:11,380 --> 00:30:13,380 Either file or abuse. 491 00:30:13,380 --> 00:30:15,740 That's where I committed most my sin. 492 00:30:15,740 --> 00:30:18,220 That's where this sinful flesh should dwell. 493 00:30:18,220 --> 00:30:19,840 Is in the magic valley. 494 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:28,020 And so, regardless, I just need to be ready for that day. 495 00:30:28,020 --> 00:30:29,980 And it's going to happen. 496 00:30:31,180 --> 00:30:35,140 Just as surely as the sun comes up every morning, it's going to happen. 497 00:30:35,140 --> 00:30:39,880 But notice, this enemy will be totally destroyed. 498 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,760 It no longer will have an effect on us. 499 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,600 Like it does now. 500 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,540 Why does it now? 501 00:30:48,540 --> 00:30:57,800 I get to thinking about my loved ones that have passed and I just get weepy and I miss them and I long to see them. 502 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:03,540 And maybe that's just God's way of using death to get you and I ready to go. 503 00:31:03,540 --> 00:31:08,740 Because, you know, we all know God doesn't waste anything. 504 00:31:08,740 --> 00:31:16,640 Those times of mourning are good. 505 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:22,520 Because it makes us get ready for the day that we die. 506 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,620 1 Corinthians 15, 54 says, 507 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:31,820 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption and this mortal has put on immortality, 508 00:31:31,820 --> 00:31:35,800 then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, 509 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,740 Death is swallowed up in victory. 510 00:31:38,740 --> 00:31:44,060 Jesus comes along and swallows death up for this lady. 511 00:31:44,060 --> 00:31:45,700 Just swallows it up. 512 00:31:45,700 --> 00:31:46,940 Says, give me that. 513 00:31:49,940 --> 00:31:52,840 And puts life into that body of her son. 514 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:58,640 And so really, I'm serious. 515 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,440 Somebody who truly, honestly walks in faith with the Lord Jesus, 516 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,560 they're not affected by this in that way. 517 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:11,360 It doesn't totally destroy their life when somebody passes. 518 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,020 Because they believe this. 519 00:32:13,420 --> 00:32:16,300 They believe that Christ swallowed death up. 520 00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:24,020 This funeral service got swallowed up by life. 521 00:32:24,020 --> 00:32:27,460 And so no longer were there two groups. 522 00:32:27,460 --> 00:32:30,460 There's just one going, looking at Jesus. 523 00:32:30,460 --> 00:32:33,360 Looking at Jesus going, 524 00:32:34,220 --> 00:32:34,840 Wow. 525 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:40,060 They said it backwards, sideways, upside down. 526 00:32:40,060 --> 00:32:40,520 Wow. 527 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,340 I guess that'd be mom, but. 528 00:32:42,340 --> 00:32:51,080 So the whole group began, no doubt, to rejoice. 529 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,040 Why? 530 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,060 Because Jesus, listen, 531 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,100 Jesus is the inventor of life. 532 00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:02,320 The inventor. 533 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:08,520 Peter calls him the prince of life there in Acts chapter 3. 534 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,140 He's the prince of life. 535 00:33:11,140 --> 00:33:22,060 Three thoughts in closing here as we read the last couple verses here that we read. 536 00:33:22,060 --> 00:33:24,440 Verses 16 and 17. 537 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:24,840 It says, 538 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:26,540 Then fear came upon all, 539 00:33:26,540 --> 00:33:28,400 and they glorified God, 540 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:28,860 saying, 541 00:33:28,860 --> 00:33:31,760 A great prophet has risen up among us, 542 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,760 and God has visited his people. 543 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,680 And this report about him went throughout all Judea 544 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,620 and all the surrounding region. 545 00:33:39,620 --> 00:33:40,500 No kidding. 546 00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:44,780 It's not every day that a dude crawls out of a coffin 547 00:33:44,780 --> 00:33:47,540 and goes to a party. 548 00:33:47,540 --> 00:33:52,680 So, first of all, fear. 549 00:33:53,180 --> 00:33:54,640 That word fear there, 550 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:55,960 I mean, it can mean fearful, 551 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:56,620 fears, 552 00:33:56,620 --> 00:33:57,480 intimidation, 553 00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:58,060 respect, 554 00:33:58,060 --> 00:33:58,780 respectful. 555 00:33:58,780 --> 00:34:00,860 No, 556 00:34:00,860 --> 00:34:03,340 some people were scared to death of what they saw. 557 00:34:03,340 --> 00:34:03,680 They're going, 558 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:04,420 Oh my gosh. 559 00:34:04,420 --> 00:34:07,040 If this guy can do this, 560 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:07,860 what else can he do? 561 00:34:07,860 --> 00:34:09,900 And what can he do to me? 562 00:34:09,900 --> 00:34:14,460 And I think that's a really important thing to have 563 00:34:14,460 --> 00:34:16,280 when it comes to your relationship with God. 564 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,500 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 565 00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:24,020 I fear God for what he could do to me. 566 00:34:24,020 --> 00:34:27,820 And I love him for not doing it to me. 567 00:34:27,820 --> 00:34:29,200 Right? 568 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,400 So I fear God and I love God. 569 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:32,700 Those two things are intention. 570 00:34:32,700 --> 00:34:34,980 You can't have one without the other. 571 00:34:34,980 --> 00:34:36,700 Paul says, 572 00:34:36,700 --> 00:34:39,620 I work out my own salvation with fear and trembling. 573 00:34:39,620 --> 00:34:44,280 Paul knew that he should be under the judgment of God 574 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:45,360 for what he did. 575 00:34:45,620 --> 00:34:46,720 He himself said, 576 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:47,780 I wasted the church. 577 00:34:47,780 --> 00:34:50,200 I killed people that believed in Jesus. 578 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,740 And so 579 00:34:52,740 --> 00:34:55,960 the Lord made him pay up. 580 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:56,300 Right? 581 00:34:56,300 --> 00:34:57,520 He had the thorn in the flesh. 582 00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:58,260 God said, 583 00:34:58,260 --> 00:34:59,480 my grace is sufficient. 584 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,660 God's grace is sufficient for all of us. 585 00:35:01,660 --> 00:35:08,920 And Jesus overcomes death with a word. 586 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,180 When he says to the boy, 587 00:35:10,180 --> 00:35:11,480 I say to you, 588 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:12,260 arise. 589 00:35:12,260 --> 00:35:13,480 That's all he had to do. 590 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:22,320 And I'm sure those two words that that woman heard from her son 591 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,800 were pretty sweet. 592 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:24,160 Hi, 593 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:24,420 mom. 594 00:35:24,420 --> 00:35:32,300 So first, 595 00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:33,240 there was a fear of the Lord. 596 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:33,780 Secondly, 597 00:35:33,780 --> 00:35:35,080 they glorified God. 598 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,580 That means to magnify, 599 00:35:37,580 --> 00:35:38,140 make, 600 00:35:38,140 --> 00:35:39,780 make God big, 601 00:35:39,780 --> 00:35:40,620 uh, 602 00:35:40,620 --> 00:35:41,300 in, 603 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:43,380 in your sphere of influence. 604 00:35:45,340 --> 00:35:47,680 saying that a prophet, 605 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:49,360 a prophet, 606 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:50,800 no kidding. 607 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,080 You think this guy's a prophet? 608 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,880 Most, 609 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:59,120 most Jewish minds would go back to Deuteronomy chapter 18. 610 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:00,060 Right? 611 00:36:00,060 --> 00:36:02,360 Where it says that 612 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,000 the Lord, 613 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,620 your God will raise up for you a prophet like me. 614 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:10,880 this is Moses speaking from your midst, 615 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,180 from your brethren, 616 00:36:12,180 --> 00:36:12,600 him, 617 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:13,440 you shall hear. 618 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,280 Having a hear, 619 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,920 ear to hear this one who could raise the dead is, 620 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,500 is probably an important thing. 621 00:36:21,500 --> 00:36:23,560 That may be really important for you today. 622 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,760 Saying God has visited his people. 623 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:27,460 God's here. 624 00:36:27,460 --> 00:36:29,440 They also, 625 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:30,260 well, 626 00:36:30,340 --> 00:36:31,300 something that's interesting 627 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:32,980 that one commentator talked about 628 00:36:32,980 --> 00:36:36,240 is they believe that this was the same area, 629 00:36:36,240 --> 00:36:38,420 the same geographical area 630 00:36:38,420 --> 00:36:42,400 where Elisha and Elijah both raised dead people. 631 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:47,300 And that Jesus does the same here 632 00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:47,800 with the, 633 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,240 the widow's son there at Nain. 634 00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:52,340 God has visited his people. 635 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,700 this is truly something only God can do. 636 00:36:57,700 --> 00:36:59,800 Raise the dead. 637 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:05,280 Because it is truly man's greatest fear. 638 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,040 It's this fear of death. 639 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,640 And, 640 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:11,620 and how, 641 00:37:11,620 --> 00:37:16,160 how God brings life out of death. 642 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,240 That's just the way he works, 643 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:18,500 right? 644 00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:20,440 Think about it. 645 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:21,980 All the, 646 00:37:21,980 --> 00:37:24,780 this agrarian society we live in, 647 00:37:24,860 --> 00:37:26,360 you go and you drive around 648 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:27,680 all the fields here 649 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,120 in Southeast Idaho. 650 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:30,320 And what do you see? 651 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,600 You see seeds that fell into the ground 652 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:33,260 and they did what? 653 00:37:33,260 --> 00:37:34,000 They died. 654 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,380 And then they brought forth life. 655 00:37:36,380 --> 00:37:37,880 That's what Jesus said, 656 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:38,080 right? 657 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,480 Unless the seed falls into the ground and dies, 658 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,100 it doesn't bring forth life. 659 00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:47,940 And so it is with us. 660 00:37:47,940 --> 00:37:51,180 Paul tells us in Ephesians, 661 00:37:51,180 --> 00:37:51,440 listen, 662 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:52,540 you all 663 00:37:52,540 --> 00:37:53,860 and me, 664 00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,140 we're all dead in our sins and trespasses. 665 00:37:57,140 --> 00:37:59,140 We're all dead. 666 00:37:59,140 --> 00:38:00,480 Until what? 667 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,560 Until the life giver comes along 668 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:03,900 and says, 669 00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:04,340 turn, 670 00:38:04,340 --> 00:38:05,980 turn from your sin, 671 00:38:05,980 --> 00:38:07,200 the thing that kills you 672 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:08,980 and brings death to your life. 673 00:38:08,980 --> 00:38:10,300 The wages of sin is death. 674 00:38:10,300 --> 00:38:11,180 Turn 675 00:38:11,180 --> 00:38:13,040 to the one who can give you life. 676 00:38:17,660 --> 00:38:21,300 God brings life out of death. 677 00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:28,740 So let me ask you this. 678 00:38:28,740 --> 00:38:29,840 We're just about done. 679 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:35,000 Has the life of Jesus swallowed up death for you personally? 680 00:38:37,820 --> 00:38:42,040 Has the life of Jesus swallowed up death for you personally? 681 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:47,200 Because if not, 682 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:48,800 if not, 683 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,540 Revelation 3.20 says this. 684 00:38:51,540 --> 00:38:51,840 Listen. 685 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,040 It says, 686 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:54,640 behold, 687 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:54,720 behold, 688 00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:54,720 behold, 689 00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:56,100 I stand, 690 00:38:56,100 --> 00:38:58,020 the words of Jesus are written in red. 691 00:38:58,020 --> 00:38:59,680 And he says, 692 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:00,240 behold, 693 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:03,280 I stand at the door and knock. 694 00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,200 If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, 695 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:10,300 I will come into him and dine with him and he with me. 696 00:39:11,140 --> 00:39:16,680 The three people that we see Jesus raising from the dead in the New Testament, 697 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:17,640 right? 698 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:18,560 The little, 699 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:19,340 little girl, 700 00:39:19,340 --> 00:39:20,580 Jairus' daughter, 701 00:39:20,580 --> 00:39:22,300 and, 702 00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:22,660 and, 703 00:39:22,660 --> 00:39:24,220 and Lazarus and this, 704 00:39:24,220 --> 00:39:24,800 this guy. 705 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:29,160 He speaks to all of them as though they are alive. 706 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:30,480 Why? 707 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:31,840 Because the spirit doesn't die. 708 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:33,580 It's only the body that dies. 709 00:39:33,580 --> 00:39:35,480 He speaks to them. 710 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,540 Specifically, 711 00:39:37,540 --> 00:39:39,500 one guy says, 712 00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:40,560 one commentator said, 713 00:39:40,620 --> 00:39:41,860 if Jesus hadn't said, 714 00:39:41,860 --> 00:39:43,400 Lazarus come forth, 715 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:43,720 he said, 716 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:48,180 every grave in the area would have opened and all the dead would have come up out of the grave. 717 00:39:48,180 --> 00:39:51,880 I don't know about you, 718 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:52,700 but I believe that. 719 00:39:52,700 --> 00:39:55,220 That's his power. 720 00:39:55,220 --> 00:39:57,400 That's his authority over death. 721 00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,620 And it says, 722 00:39:59,620 --> 00:40:04,360 and this report about him went throughout all Judea and all the surrounding region. 723 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,780 This one who can raise the dead. 724 00:40:09,420 --> 00:40:13,820 I'm going to close with the scripture this morning or this now afternoon. 725 00:40:13,820 --> 00:40:16,840 And it's found in John chapter five. 726 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:18,260 It's one of my favorite scriptures. 727 00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:22,780 And it's all about this. 728 00:40:22,780 --> 00:40:25,160 He says, 729 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,080 most assuredly, 730 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:27,020 I say to you, 731 00:40:27,020 --> 00:40:29,020 this is John chapter five, 732 00:40:29,020 --> 00:40:29,760 verse 24. 733 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:30,700 He says, 734 00:40:30,700 --> 00:40:31,660 most assuredly, 735 00:40:31,660 --> 00:40:32,420 Jesus speaking, 736 00:40:32,420 --> 00:40:33,460 I say to you, 737 00:40:33,460 --> 00:40:35,720 he who hears my word 738 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:37,320 and believes 739 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,400 in him who sent me 740 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,220 has everlasting life 741 00:40:41,220 --> 00:40:44,320 and shall not come into judgment. 742 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:44,780 Listen, 743 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,440 but has passed from death to life. 744 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,220 Have you passed from death to life? 745 00:40:50,220 --> 00:40:54,020 Because you still might be dead in your sins right now. 746 00:40:54,020 --> 00:40:56,480 And you haven't cried out 747 00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,360 to the one who can wash your sin away 748 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,040 and raise you out of a grave. 749 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:04,860 that's who 750 00:41:04,860 --> 00:41:06,660 Jesus is. 751 00:41:06,660 --> 00:41:09,060 The one who 752 00:41:09,060 --> 00:41:11,660 gives us a pass 753 00:41:11,660 --> 00:41:13,380 from death 754 00:41:13,380 --> 00:41:14,700 to life. 755 00:41:14,700 --> 00:41:15,920 Pray with me. 756 00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:16,720 Father, 757 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:17,260 thank you 758 00:41:17,260 --> 00:41:19,220 that you are the one 759 00:41:19,220 --> 00:41:19,960 that gives life. 760 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:21,500 Your words, 761 00:41:21,500 --> 00:41:22,100 you tell us, 762 00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:23,160 are spirit 763 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:24,040 in their life. 764 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:25,560 Father, 765 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:26,560 I just pray that 766 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,000 there's anyone here today 767 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,020 that hasn't 768 00:41:29,020 --> 00:41:30,200 cried out to you, 769 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,440 recognized your authority 770 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,580 over death 771 00:41:34,580 --> 00:41:35,100 and hell 772 00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:35,920 and the grave. 773 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:37,120 Lord, 774 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:38,060 that they would just call 775 00:41:38,060 --> 00:41:38,840 on the name of Jesus 776 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:39,740 even right now. 777 00:41:39,740 --> 00:41:40,960 And if that's you 778 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,580 and you believe 779 00:41:43,580 --> 00:41:44,460 and you just call 780 00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:45,180 on that name, 781 00:41:46,180 --> 00:41:47,780 that name 782 00:41:47,780 --> 00:41:48,620 will give you life. 783 00:41:48,620 --> 00:41:51,340 Much like the 784 00:41:51,340 --> 00:41:52,880 Philippian jailer. 785 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:54,700 What must I do 786 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:55,220 to be saved? 787 00:41:55,220 --> 00:41:56,800 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. 788 00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,480 Lord, 789 00:41:58,480 --> 00:41:58,940 thank you. 790 00:41:58,940 --> 00:42:00,140 Thank you for your power. 791 00:42:00,140 --> 00:42:01,340 Lord, 792 00:42:01,340 --> 00:42:02,020 that you're willing 793 00:42:02,020 --> 00:42:03,580 to give it to us weaklings 794 00:42:03,580 --> 00:42:05,080 that can do nothing 795 00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:05,520 about 796 00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:06,660 the day 797 00:42:06,660 --> 00:42:07,700 that we pass over 798 00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:08,120 from 799 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,600 this time 800 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:10,420 into eternity. 801 00:42:10,420 --> 00:42:11,760 And yet, 802 00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:12,500 you've done everything 803 00:42:12,500 --> 00:42:13,020 we need 804 00:42:13,020 --> 00:42:15,120 to 805 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:16,900 look towards 806 00:42:16,900 --> 00:42:17,380 that day 807 00:42:17,380 --> 00:42:18,340 with expectation. 808 00:42:18,340 --> 00:42:20,000 Oh, 809 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:20,240 Lord, 810 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:20,960 that we might hear 811 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:22,060 those precious words. 812 00:42:22,060 --> 00:42:22,580 Well done, 813 00:42:22,580 --> 00:42:23,940 thou good and faithful servant. 814 00:42:23,940 --> 00:42:25,400 Enter into the joy 815 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:25,920 of the Lord. 816 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:27,040 So, 817 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:27,240 Lord, 818 00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:27,780 we love you. 819 00:42:27,780 --> 00:42:28,500 We praise you. 820 00:42:28,500 --> 00:42:29,340 We worship you. 821 00:42:29,340 --> 00:42:30,280 And, 822 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:30,920 Lord, 823 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:32,160 increase our faith. 824 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:33,360 In Jesus' name. 825 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:33,760 Amen. 826 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:34,380 Let's all stand, 827 00:42:34,380 --> 00:42:34,720 shall we? 828 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:35,720 Thank you. 829 00:42:35,720 --> 00:43:05,700 Thank you.