1 00:00:00,620 --> 00:00:01,160 He is risen. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,080 Just checking you. 3 00:00:08,700 --> 00:00:14,280 If you got a Bible, we're going to look at John chapter 20. 4 00:00:16,379 --> 00:00:24,260 I told the first service there could be a little bit of astronaut preaching this here. 5 00:00:27,180 --> 00:00:28,260 Is it still morning? 6 00:00:30,199 --> 00:00:30,680 but 7 00:00:32,259 --> 00:00:33,060 astronauts preaching 8 00:00:33,260 --> 00:00:33,940 is you know when you 9 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:36,360 you read the text 10 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:39,400 depart from the text 11 00:00:39,900 --> 00:00:40,900 never to return 12 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:42,360 to the text 13 00:00:44,340 --> 00:00:45,480 it won't be that bad 14 00:00:45,580 --> 00:00:47,080 but a little bit 15 00:00:47,660 --> 00:00:49,000 well we're going to talk about the resurrection 16 00:00:50,199 --> 00:00:51,680 and we're going to read the resurrection 17 00:00:52,020 --> 00:00:53,280 story this morning and 18 00:00:56,820 --> 00:00:57,320 the resurrection 19 00:00:57,680 --> 00:00:58,800 I mean you either believe it 20 00:00:58,820 --> 00:01:07,920 you don't and uh been to a lot of death beds went to a couple beds this this week and um one man 21 00:01:08,660 --> 00:01:14,540 departed this world prayed we prayed on thursday and he was gone Friday pretty powerful 22 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:26,020 and um our hope is in jesus and the resurrection the other man i ran up to montana and talked to him 23 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:31,220 and asked him if he had ever asked Jesus to come into his heart, he's in his 80s. 24 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:32,880 Now's the time. 25 00:01:34,060 --> 00:01:34,840 It's getting a little late. 26 00:01:36,420 --> 00:01:39,100 And he said, oh yeah, yeah, I have. 27 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,180 And he humbled himself before the Lord as we prayed. 28 00:01:43,150 --> 00:01:51,000 And so God is good, and he's gracious, and he's got in a hand extended to those who would come to him. 29 00:01:53,100 --> 00:01:55,560 And this here is the power of the gospel. 30 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,400 what we're going to talk about today 31 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:02,620 and when we celebrate this day of resurrection. 32 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:05,840 And the Bible talks about two resurrections. 33 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,600 The first and the second. 34 00:02:09,700 --> 00:02:11,740 The first one, let me tell you something. 35 00:02:11,980 --> 00:02:13,220 That's what you want to be a part of. 36 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:15,900 The second one, you don't want to have anything to do with. 37 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:18,660 It's also dubbed as the second death, 38 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:20,620 the second resurrection, 39 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,860 because people will be resurrected to be judged 40 00:02:24,540 --> 00:02:25,540 and cast into the lake. 41 00:02:25,580 --> 00:02:33,540 of fire. And depending on how those who have rejected Christ have lived their life will determine 42 00:02:33,780 --> 00:02:42,880 on what hot is hottest part of that lake of fire they're in. So, 43 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:50,460 praise God for the resurrection. For him being risen in the grave being empty. So we're going to, 44 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:55,060 I'm going to read the resurrection story. I'll try to be fairly quick. 45 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:02,180 it will be 30 verses, I think, or 31 verses in the Gospel of John, chapter 20. 46 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:04,900 And it says this. 47 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:10,420 It says, now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early while it was still dark 48 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,760 and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 49 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:19,540 Then she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciples whom Jesus loved and said to 50 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:24,780 them, they have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him. 51 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:29,220 Peter therefore went out and the other disciple and were going to the tomb. 52 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:32,860 So they both ran together and the other disciple outran Peter. 53 00:03:33,950 --> 00:03:37,900 This is a young guy, kind of got a little puffed up, and came to the tomb first. 54 00:03:38,380 --> 00:03:44,500 And he stooping down and looking in, saw the linen claws lying there, yet he did not go in. 55 00:03:44,690 --> 00:03:47,760 And then Simon Peter came following him and went into the tomb. 56 00:03:47,980 --> 00:03:53,400 And he saw the linen claws lying there in the handkerchief that had been around his head, 57 00:03:53,860 --> 00:03:58,480 not lying with the linen cloth, but folded together in a place by itself. 58 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:04,000 Then the other disciple who came to the tomb first went in also, and he saw and believed. 59 00:04:04,420 --> 00:04:09,060 Yet as yet, they did not know the scripture that he must rise again from the dead. 60 00:04:09,180 --> 00:04:12,900 And then the disciples went away again to their own homes. 61 00:04:13,180 --> 00:04:18,900 But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the tomb, 62 00:04:18,900 --> 00:04:23,540 and she saw two angels in white sitting at the head and the other at the feet, 63 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:29,840 where the body of Jesus had lain. Then they said to her, woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, 64 00:04:31,410 --> 00:04:35,980 because they have taken away, my lord, and I do not know where they have laid him. Now, when she had said 65 00:04:39,350 --> 00:04:41,180 this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there and did not know that it was Jesus. And Jesus said to her 66 00:04:41,180 --> 00:04:53,540 sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away. 67 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:55,640 and Jesus said to her, Mary. 68 00:04:56,740 --> 00:05:00,380 And she turned and said to him, Rabonai, which is to say teacher. 69 00:05:01,180 --> 00:05:06,420 And he said to her, do not cling to me, for I have not ascended, yet ascended to my father, 70 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:11,000 but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my father and your father, 71 00:05:11,030 --> 00:05:12,500 to my God and your God. 72 00:05:13,060 --> 00:05:18,640 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had spoken 73 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:19,620 these things to her. 74 00:05:20,060 --> 00:05:23,520 And then the same day at evening being the first day of the week when the door 75 00:05:23,540 --> 00:05:29,700 doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood in the midst 76 00:05:29,860 --> 00:05:37,320 and said to them, peace be with you. When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. 77 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,800 And then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. And so Jesus said to them again, 78 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:48,280 peace to you. As the father has sent me, I also send you. And when he had said this, he breathed on 79 00:05:48,380 --> 00:05:53,500 them and said to them, received the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, 80 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:58,480 any, they are forgiven them. If you retain the sins of any, they are retained. Now Thomas called the 81 00:05:58,660 --> 00:06:04,300 twin, one of the 12, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, 82 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:09,860 we have seen the Lord. And so he said to them, unless I see his hands and the print of the nails, 83 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:17,360 and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe. 84 00:06:18,060 --> 00:06:23,480 And after eight days, his disciples were again inside and Thomas with them. And Jesus came and the doors were 85 00:06:23,500 --> 00:06:27,840 being shut and he stood in the midst of them and said, peace to you. And he said to Thomas, 86 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:33,480 reach your finger here and look at my hands and reach your hand here and put it into my side. 87 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:40,440 Do not be unbelieving, but believing. And Thomas answered and said to him, my Lord and my God. 88 00:06:40,780 --> 00:06:46,100 And Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who 89 00:06:46,180 --> 00:06:51,580 have not seen and yet have believed. And truly, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his 90 00:06:51,620 --> 00:06:56,340 disciples which are not written in this book. But these are written that you may believe that the 91 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:04,040 son, that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that believing you may have a, have life in 92 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:11,540 his name. Let's pray. Lord, thank you. Thank you for your word. That is, it's alive. And just like you're 93 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:18,580 alive. And you're on the ready, even today, to hear our prayer. Lord, so we humble ourselves. We come 94 00:07:18,620 --> 00:07:25,100 before you, Lord, in this time as we look at this beautiful event, the greatest event in human history, 95 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:32,680 you rising from the dead, Lord, and giving us an eternal hope, Lord, it's an incredible life that 96 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:37,420 you've given us. We thank you for it. Help us not to squander it, but help us to honor you with 97 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:45,540 what you've given us. In Jesus' name, amen. So this is, this is sandwiched in between this day, 98 00:07:45,820 --> 00:07:50,360 Resurrection Day and Palm Sunday, a lot of things happened. 99 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,880 It was a busy week for the Lord. 100 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:04,940 And this is called the Holy Week or the Passion Week between Palm Sunday and Resurrection Sunday. 101 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:13,220 Jesus spoke to some of the most profound teachings and final instructions during this time. 102 00:08:13,540 --> 00:08:20,200 these words range from public parables in confrontations with religious leaders to the intimate 103 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:27,740 seven last words that he spoke from the cross. And so once he turned over the tables there on 104 00:08:27,980 --> 00:08:37,099 Palm Sunday, it was game on. And he fired him up and it just stirred that fire of hatred 105 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:43,219 that they had for him. Palm Sunday to Monday, Tuesday, that's an actual 106 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:52,800 term monday it's a religious term he had public teachings and parables following the the triumphant 107 00:08:53,180 --> 00:08:58,440 entry on the donkey that we looked at last week jesus taught in the temple where he spoke on the 108 00:08:58,660 --> 00:09:06,500 necessity of praise right out of the mouths of babes praises perfected i love talking to kids about jesus 109 00:09:06,980 --> 00:09:13,200 you ever talk to kids about jesus i like the one little kid said his favorite story was 110 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:19,760 the favorites was the virgin birth and Mary's immaculate contraption. 111 00:09:27,140 --> 00:09:29,780 Kids need our help, but they do know how to praise Jesus. 112 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,180 When I was at the school, I'd be leading worship for the kids. 113 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:41,200 And, man, they would take off and start praising the Lord, and it was like, it was euphoric. 114 00:09:41,460 --> 00:09:43,180 It was just like, does this what? 115 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:44,300 what heaven's going to be like? 116 00:09:44,900 --> 00:09:49,240 You know, I'd be undone up there missing cords and starting to blubber. 117 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:50,840 It's powerful. 118 00:09:52,900 --> 00:09:55,580 And Jesus talked to the people about this. 119 00:09:57,500 --> 00:10:03,760 And later, other places he tells us, though, you come to me like a child, right? 120 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,400 I had my little two-year-old with me this week. 121 00:10:06,660 --> 00:10:08,080 He slept with me a few times. 122 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:08,940 That was interesting. 123 00:10:10,460 --> 00:10:13,160 It was the first time Papa had to pop him on the heine 124 00:10:13,180 --> 00:10:14,640 he's kind of getting out of line. 125 00:10:15,010 --> 00:10:16,920 You know, two-year-olds, they'll take over if you let him. 126 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,580 And I whipped his little hind in, and I mean, he looked at me like, 127 00:10:23,220 --> 00:10:24,700 Papa, you ain't supposed to do that. 128 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,820 But there's never a time when that little boy has come up to me with his hands up 129 00:10:31,140 --> 00:10:32,040 that I don't pick him up. 130 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,680 He just, he comes to me like this, and I pick him up. 131 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:41,380 And that's the heart that the Lord has for us. 132 00:10:42,540 --> 00:10:43,240 He'll pick you up. 133 00:10:44,300 --> 00:10:46,040 And we just got to let him. 134 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,160 We've got to humble ourselves and cry out to him. 135 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:56,180 And so in Luke 19, he wept over Jerusalem, and he challenged the misuse of the temple. 136 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:57,960 We saw that when he overturned the tables. 137 00:10:58,660 --> 00:11:02,740 And the key moments, including praising the widow's offering, right? 138 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:09,960 And delivering the Olivet discourse on the end of times. 139 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,660 Something we should pay attention to in these days in which we live. 140 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:19,640 On Wednesday, while Mary was anointing Jesus for the time when he would be buried, 141 00:11:19,900 --> 00:11:24,940 Judas was conspiring with the scribes and Pharisees on how he might betray him. 142 00:11:26,340 --> 00:11:30,960 Just a little more money, 30 pieces of silver. 143 00:11:32,420 --> 00:11:38,240 On Thursday, Jesus instituted the new covenant instructing disciples to do this in remembrance of me. 144 00:11:38,820 --> 00:11:44,040 He delivered the new commandment to love one another and predicted his betrayal in Peter's denial. 145 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:51,920 In predicting his betrayal, we have one of the most hair-raising verses in Scripture recorded in two of the Gospels. 146 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:56,260 It's found in Luke chapter 22 and in John 13. 147 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,720 I'm going to read the John 13 version in verse 27, where it says, 148 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:05,920 now after the piece of bread, Satan entered him. 149 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,060 Speaking of Judas Ascariot. 150 00:12:11,740 --> 00:12:14,380 And Jesus said to him, what you do, do quickly. 151 00:12:15,940 --> 00:12:17,100 What you do, do quickly. 152 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:19,760 Satan entered him. 153 00:12:21,020 --> 00:12:25,140 It is a horrific thing for a human to let his guard down enough 154 00:12:26,540 --> 00:12:27,740 where Satan would enter him. 155 00:12:30,060 --> 00:12:33,860 Now, we know that according to what Satan, 156 00:12:35,020 --> 00:12:39,980 or what Peter said, excuse me, what Jesus said to Peter about Satan, 157 00:12:40,660 --> 00:12:42,980 that he's asked to sift you as wheat. 158 00:12:44,660 --> 00:12:49,080 Peter, Satan is asked for you by name to sift you as wheat. 159 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,760 But see, Satan can only go as far as God will let him. 160 00:12:54,340 --> 00:12:56,640 Are you under that covering of the protection of Jesus? 161 00:12:57,560 --> 00:12:58,840 It's a good place to stay. 162 00:12:59,380 --> 00:13:01,780 Not only that, to beg for, Lord, please. 163 00:13:02,940 --> 00:13:03,940 Lord, please, keep me cover. 164 00:13:03,980 --> 00:13:09,280 covered. Put your hedge up, man. I don't want that dude getting after me. Because he gets a hold of my 165 00:13:09,420 --> 00:13:18,960 heart. I'll do the most, yeah, hideous stuff known to man. Notice what says, Jesus says, what you do, 166 00:13:18,980 --> 00:13:23,480 do quickly. Who's he talking to right now? Is he talking to Judas? Is he talking to Satan? 167 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:30,860 I believe he's probably talking to Satan. Satan has to serve Jesus. He has to yield to him. 168 00:13:31,860 --> 00:13:33,620 He can only do what God allows him to do. 169 00:13:35,060 --> 00:13:38,700 right we see that with the whole story of job just reading through the book of job this 170 00:13:39,090 --> 00:13:45,920 this last two weeks has been a blast just like wow a lot of stuff going on 171 00:13:46,780 --> 00:13:55,540 job asked that age old question if a man dies will he live again that's in verse chapter 14 172 00:13:55,660 --> 00:14:01,179 and then in chapter 19 job says i know my redeemer lives i know he lives 173 00:14:02,980 --> 00:14:04,580 God has put eternity in our hearts. 174 00:14:05,540 --> 00:14:09,520 So Jesus is teaching all these things. 175 00:14:09,740 --> 00:14:11,860 And then we get to Gethsemini in the garden. 176 00:14:12,020 --> 00:14:15,320 Father, if you're willing, you can take this cup from me, 177 00:14:15,380 --> 00:14:17,540 but not my will, but your will be done. 178 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:21,660 Pilot. 179 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:25,760 He tells Pilate, my kingdom's not of this world. 180 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:28,380 He said, if my kingdom was this world, 181 00:14:29,020 --> 00:14:30,560 I'd call for a legion of angels. 182 00:14:32,340 --> 00:14:34,080 I think Pilate didn't even know what that meant. 183 00:14:34,700 --> 00:14:35,220 A legion? 184 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:46,620 We see in the Old Testament when Snaccharib comes against Israel and Hezekiah lays out the letter that Sanakrabah writes that he's going to destroy Israel. 185 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Hezekiah lays the letter out there in the temple. 186 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:51,700 See what he's saying about you, Lord? 187 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:53,560 Lord goes, don't worry about it. 188 00:14:54,340 --> 00:14:55,380 I've got somebody on it. 189 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:57,620 He sends probably Michael. 190 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,640 Michael, one angel goes and wipes out a hundred. 191 00:15:00,660 --> 00:15:02,320 185,000 soldiers. 192 00:15:03,020 --> 00:15:03,580 One angel. 193 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:06,340 Jesus has a legion at his beck and call. 194 00:15:13,959 --> 00:15:16,940 But I like what it says two verses later, 195 00:15:18,460 --> 00:15:24,060 when Pilate sarcastically responds to Jesus with a question, right? 196 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:25,900 He says, I've come to do the truth, 197 00:15:26,180 --> 00:15:28,160 and Pilate looks at him scoffingly. 198 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:29,480 What is truth? 199 00:15:31,900 --> 00:15:32,500 what is truth 200 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:34,140 is that a good question 201 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:35,940 how would you answer that question 202 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:38,460 and the truth project 203 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,580 with uh with del tackett he asked that question 204 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:42,300 what is truth 205 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,940 and then you listen to all these brilliant bible scholars 206 00:15:46,540 --> 00:15:48,800 i can't remember augs last name but 207 00:15:49,820 --> 00:15:52,380 uh john lennon and and ravi zacharias 208 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,820 and r c sprawl and they all give their take on what truth is 209 00:15:57,420 --> 00:15:59,500 and they all really come to 210 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:08,260 a consensus that truth is ultimate reality. But what Pilate doesn't realize here, he says this 211 00:16:08,580 --> 00:16:15,380 in verse 38 of John chapter 18, it says, and Pilate said to him, what is truth? And when he had said 212 00:16:15,460 --> 00:16:23,580 this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, I find no fault in him at all. What's 213 00:16:23,740 --> 00:16:28,620 interesting is Pilate asked the question, what is truth? And then he answers his own question. 214 00:16:29,380 --> 00:16:33,960 because the truth is I find no fault in him at all. None. 215 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:41,740 Jesus was a perfect sacrifice, a perfect human being. He was perfectly human and perfectly God. 216 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:46,540 How's that all work? I don't know. It's bigger than me. My little pea brain can't really get a 217 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:55,940 grasp on that. I find no fault in him at all. That was what truth was. 218 00:16:58,260 --> 00:17:03,520 That's what qualified Jesus to be the way, the truth, and the life. 219 00:17:06,660 --> 00:17:08,180 He is the truth. 220 00:17:08,699 --> 00:17:11,500 And then we have the seven last words on the cross on Good Friday. 221 00:17:11,980 --> 00:17:15,400 Jesus made seven final statements detailed in scripture, 222 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,020 including requests for forgiveness. 223 00:17:18,260 --> 00:17:19,500 Remember, he said, Father, forgive them. 224 00:17:19,579 --> 00:17:20,939 They know not what they do. 225 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:23,380 The promise of paradise to the thief. 226 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,819 The entrustment of his mother to the apostle, 227 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:36,360 John, the cry of abandonment, Elo, Elo, Elo, Lama, Sabakhani, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 228 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:42,940 The expression of thirst, the declaration of completion when he says, it is finished. 229 00:17:43,900 --> 00:17:44,640 It's done. 230 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:47,780 Finito, paid for, you and me. 231 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:51,820 What he came to do was complete. 232 00:17:53,760 --> 00:18:00,200 And that final commendation of his spirit to the Father, into your hand, I commit my spirit. 233 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:05,540 See, all this stuff, folks, was foretold. 234 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,340 Hundreds of years before Jesus even came on the scene. 235 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:11,320 That's who God is. 236 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:15,300 He tells the future before it happens. 237 00:18:18,460 --> 00:18:23,240 Isaiah, the prophet, talks about the virgin birth, the suffering servant, and the resurrection. 238 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:32,840 resurrection. Daniel the prophet talked about the eternal kingdom that would never end. The end of the age and the 239 00:18:33,060 --> 00:18:38,940 resurrection. He talked about both of them, all of them. David mentions the deity of Christ, 240 00:18:39,420 --> 00:18:47,040 the crucifixion of Christ, right down to his last word that we just read. It is finished. It was prophesied 241 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:52,440 in Psalm 22. I have the amplified Bible version here so it says, 242 00:18:52,780 --> 00:18:56,240 they will come and declare his righteousness to a people not yet born, 243 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,420 that he has done this and it is finished. 244 00:19:01,220 --> 00:19:04,280 That's the whole passage on the crucifixion in Psalm 22. 245 00:19:05,980 --> 00:19:09,600 He talks about his bones staring at him and not one of his bones was broken. 246 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:12,880 Hundreds. 247 00:19:15,140 --> 00:19:19,260 Over a thousand years, some, before Jesus was even born. 248 00:19:19,780 --> 00:19:22,300 There are over 300 prophecies about the Messiah. 249 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:27,060 because most prophecy is about the Messiah, right? 250 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:34,080 They say the Bible consists of about 23 to 28% prophecy. 251 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,580 And so it's all about him. 252 00:19:42,140 --> 00:19:44,580 That's what it tells us in Revelation, chapter 19, verse 10. 253 00:19:44,580 --> 00:19:47,960 It says, for the testimony of Jesus, check this out. 254 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:51,560 For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 255 00:19:52,980 --> 00:19:53,620 It's all about Jesus. 256 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:55,140 It's pointing to him. 257 00:19:56,140 --> 00:19:57,260 That's why we're looking now 258 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:58,900 because there's more prophecies 259 00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:00,940 about him coming a second time 260 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,080 than there was about him coming the first time. 261 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:07,320 The ones that said he was coming the first time, 262 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:08,960 guess what? He did. 263 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:12,200 And he's coming again. 264 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,040 And we better be ready. 265 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:20,100 So there was this fella, 266 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:26,320 an MIT professor and mathematician named Dr. Peter Stoner. 267 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:29,520 Stoner, what a name. 268 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,480 He'd fit right in today, wouldn't he? 269 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,020 Who wrote a book entitled, listen to this. 270 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:42,260 This guy's pretty brilliant. 271 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,480 He wrote a book entitled Science Speaks. 272 00:20:48,660 --> 00:20:54,220 You know, it's so funny because people say, well, science in the Bible are, they contradict each other. 273 00:20:55,140 --> 00:20:55,320 No. 274 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,680 True science confirms the Bible. 275 00:21:00,260 --> 00:21:01,560 The Bible is full of science. 276 00:21:02,010 --> 00:21:03,540 The word science means knowledge. 277 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,080 Colossians tells us that all knowledge and wisdom are found in Christ Jesus. 278 00:21:09,430 --> 00:21:11,180 He knows everything because he made everything. 279 00:21:11,690 --> 00:21:12,880 He knows how it all works. 280 00:21:15,820 --> 00:21:18,140 And so this Peter Stoner, 281 00:21:19,020 --> 00:21:21,380 he writes this book and in his book, 282 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:25,580 taking into account that 300 predictions are about this one person, 283 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:27,120 he did some calculations. 284 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:29,220 Most of you have heard this. 285 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:31,060 If you've been in Christendom very long, 286 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,340 you've heard this and it's old hat and I apologize. 287 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:38,120 But for you who don't, the numbers are staggering. 288 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:41,600 Don't they say numbers don't lie? 289 00:21:42,650 --> 00:21:43,500 I think they say that. 290 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,180 Unless you're a... 291 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:49,860 Unless you're a wicked accountant. 292 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,680 And the boss asks you, what's two plus four? 293 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,460 And the accountant says, what do you want it to be? 294 00:22:07,179 --> 00:22:10,520 So he did the calculations on the odds of this. 295 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:11,620 So there's 300 prophecies. 296 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,320 So he did calculations on eight. 297 00:22:13,740 --> 00:22:14,840 Just eight prophecies. 298 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,140 The odds of one man fulfilling eight specific biblical. 299 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:22,440 Prophyses by chance are astronomically low. 300 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:28,860 And he estimated that it was one in 10 to the 17th. 301 00:22:29,460 --> 00:22:31,580 That's a 10 with 17 zeros behind it. 302 00:22:32,540 --> 00:22:33,040 What is that? 303 00:22:33,580 --> 00:22:35,820 Well, I'll tell you what it is. 304 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,340 It's 100 quadrillion. 305 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:47,760 One chance in 100 quadrillion could one man fulfill eight of those prophecies. 306 00:22:49,780 --> 00:22:50,780 quadrillion how much is a 307 00:22:51,100 --> 00:22:53,840 I don't know I don't even really get a grip on trillion 308 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,100 except for I see the numbers just keep going like that 309 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,240 when they show it on the thing with the national debt 310 00:22:58,420 --> 00:22:59,580 it's just like numbers just keep going 311 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:01,920 it's like in real time right 312 00:23:02,220 --> 00:23:03,020 it's just adding up 313 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,020 and all of you have heard this story right 314 00:23:09,180 --> 00:23:11,720 the visual that he gives about the silver dollars 315 00:23:11,860 --> 00:23:13,840 over the state of Texas two feet deep 316 00:23:14,340 --> 00:23:16,280 right if you took the it would be the chances 317 00:23:16,350 --> 00:23:17,880 of filling the state of 318 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:22,880 Texas with two feet high of silver dollars, painting one of those silver dollars red, 319 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:28,100 blindfolding a guy, happening walk out into the vastness of the Texas wilderness, 320 00:23:28,580 --> 00:23:32,280 reached down and the very first coin he picks up is the one that's painted red. That's the 321 00:23:32,420 --> 00:23:41,000 chances. For eight prophecies. I'll say it backwards. Wow. 322 00:23:47,060 --> 00:23:48,460 He doesn't stop there, Stoner. 323 00:23:48,770 --> 00:23:49,780 He doesn't stop there. 324 00:23:50,070 --> 00:23:52,620 He says, let's times that time six. 325 00:23:52,780 --> 00:24:02,040 So the chances of one man fulfilling 48 prophecies, 48 of those 300 prophecies, one man, the chances are 326 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:05,720 one in 10 to 157th. 327 00:24:06,580 --> 00:24:10,400 That's a 10 with 157 zeros behind it. 328 00:24:10,870 --> 00:24:11,420 I don't know. 329 00:24:11,580 --> 00:24:12,320 Maybe a gazillion. 330 00:24:12,590 --> 00:24:14,160 I don't know how that goes. 331 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:22,500 So the probability becomes so low that according to the numbers, it is impossible due to chance, 332 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,700 indicating, listen, purposeful fulfillment. 333 00:24:27,780 --> 00:24:29,240 That's the God we serve. 334 00:24:32,860 --> 00:24:33,900 I thought it was pretty cool. 335 00:24:36,900 --> 00:24:40,660 So the resurrection of Jesus is pretty significant. 336 00:24:42,540 --> 00:24:45,680 Because it's kind of the pinnacle of what he came to do. 337 00:24:46,340 --> 00:24:52,080 think about if he just died on the cross when he assumed that was it well he'd be like every other 338 00:24:52,320 --> 00:25:02,660 religious guru Muhammad Confucius you name them their graves are full of bones but not our 339 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:13,120 Jesus amen so the significance of the resurrection think about these people right they come to 340 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:18,300 the tomb expecting to see the marred, mutilated, 341 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,720 chopped steak body of Jesus. 342 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,200 That's what they came to see, and they came to anoint him. 343 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,340 And they had been devastated because they watched it, especially the girls. 344 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,660 The girls sat there and watch a lot of the disciples fled. 345 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,340 John was there, obviously, at the cross we know. 346 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,800 And so they saw him marred. 347 00:25:43,020 --> 00:25:48,740 Isaiah tells us he was marred more than any man. In other words, he was marred beyond human recognition. 348 00:25:49,180 --> 00:25:53,160 You could not recognize him as a human because of the swelling and the bleeding. 349 00:25:53,700 --> 00:26:00,540 The fact that he stayed alive through the brutality was miraculous because they didn't take his life from him. 350 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:07,460 He gave it up. He chose the moment it was to give up. You and I would have, we would have never made it to the cross. 351 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,740 We would have died from shock from the scourging. 352 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,980 And so it's extremely significant. 353 00:26:19,780 --> 00:26:25,680 And think about, talk about PTSD, watching that. 354 00:26:28,059 --> 00:26:30,560 I know PTSD is a real thing. 355 00:26:32,340 --> 00:26:33,520 And I've not really experienced. 356 00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:35,820 I've had some, you know, hard things happen in my life. 357 00:26:36,180 --> 00:26:40,740 One of the hardest things that really hit me like a brick was doing the, I was doing the, 358 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:46,540 the concealed weapons training with the county and you do videos right you have these electronic 359 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:55,860 pistols so i went into this uh training and you're so a cop's standing right next to you and you're going 360 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:02,800 walking into this active shooter it's like a video but you're in the video and all of a sudden we're 361 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:08,740 in this school and we're stepping over people that are crying and bleeding and um and i'm in this cafeteria 362 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,540 and this guy steps out from one of them fold-up tables, you know, 363 00:27:12,980 --> 00:27:14,060 and he has a teenage girl. 364 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:18,880 And before I can pull the trigger and shoot him, he blows her head off. 365 00:27:20,300 --> 00:27:21,820 And the graphics are pretty graphic. 366 00:27:22,620 --> 00:27:25,880 When I left, as I was driving away, I started crying. 367 00:27:26,420 --> 00:27:29,480 I just like, whoa, that was so, because it was so real. 368 00:27:31,540 --> 00:27:33,760 And kind of, in a sense, it's on your watch. 369 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,260 So, but to see this crucifixion, 370 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:40,180 of what happened. 371 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:42,860 No doubt it messed with them. 372 00:27:44,420 --> 00:27:45,120 It messed with them. 373 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:47,140 And they're in this place. 374 00:27:47,260 --> 00:27:47,780 They're afraid. 375 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:50,560 What they saw happen to Jesus, they're thinking, oh, no. 376 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:51,080 Right? 377 00:27:51,180 --> 00:27:52,760 They're hiding for fear of the Jews. 378 00:27:53,020 --> 00:27:54,300 Oh, no, it's going to happen to us. 379 00:28:00,620 --> 00:28:02,840 And I'm wondering, is it the trauma? 380 00:28:02,980 --> 00:28:05,080 Because several times in the scriptures, 381 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:06,720 when Jesus appears, 382 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,480 At the resurrection, when he resurrects and he appears to Mary, 383 00:28:11,740 --> 00:28:14,880 notice she didn't recognize him until he spoke her name. 384 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:16,540 She recognized his voice. 385 00:28:18,140 --> 00:28:19,280 You recognize the Lord's voice? 386 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,860 Listen, when the Lord speaks to you, respond. 387 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:25,020 Just say, yes, Lord. 388 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,580 Remember one time I was walking through, 389 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,880 I was staying with my grandpa after my grandma passed away. 390 00:28:31,660 --> 00:28:33,020 He was in pretty good health and everything, 391 00:28:33,220 --> 00:28:34,700 but I walked through the house one day, 392 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,660 and I felt this impression. 393 00:28:36,940 --> 00:28:37,960 I'd never felt it before. 394 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,480 And it was like, tell your grandpa you love him. 395 00:28:41,860 --> 00:28:44,380 It's just like, and I don't know. 396 00:28:44,420 --> 00:28:45,400 Have you ever argued with the Lord? 397 00:28:45,940 --> 00:28:49,660 I'm like, he's playing, he's playing solitary, 398 00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:51,420 and he knows I love him, right? 399 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:53,600 And I mean, it wouldn't go away. 400 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:56,520 And so I said, okay. 401 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:58,480 I said, hey, grandpa, I love you. 402 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,020 He looks at me, he stops playing his card, 403 00:29:03,020 --> 00:29:05,400 and he looks at him, he goes, hmm, that's good. 404 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:10,860 I don't know what that did for him, 405 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,300 but I mean, maybe it was just an obedience thing for me. 406 00:29:14,020 --> 00:29:16,880 But when the Lord speaks to your heart, respond. 407 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:17,980 Right? 408 00:29:18,460 --> 00:29:19,600 Just simply respond. 409 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:25,400 And so she recognizes him. 410 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,660 He tells her, don't cling to me, right? 411 00:29:27,780 --> 00:29:30,000 That just meant don't cling to me now because I'm going to go. 412 00:29:30,540 --> 00:29:32,680 You know, I'm good. 413 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:33,780 I'm alive. 414 00:29:34,740 --> 00:29:35,400 But they didn't recognize. 415 00:29:35,420 --> 00:29:41,380 recognize him. The two going on the road to a mess, they didn't recognize him. Why? We know he had his 416 00:29:41,500 --> 00:29:46,280 scars because he showed him to Thomas, right? He says, here, stick your hand right here, 417 00:29:47,060 --> 00:29:55,480 stick it in there. Here's my side. Go ahead. So was he so scarred? Isaiah tells us they pulled 418 00:29:55,600 --> 00:30:04,000 his beard out by the roots. Was he so scarred that he was unrecognizable? Was it the trauma that 419 00:30:04,060 --> 00:30:12,500 they saw watching it and the last thing they saw was him just a piece of meat? I don't know. 420 00:30:13,980 --> 00:30:19,200 But when he talks to him and he confirms who he is, I like the one at breakfast, you know, 421 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:26,700 there's, Peter goes, that's it. This stuff is too much for me. I'm going fishing. Right? I'm going 422 00:30:26,860 --> 00:30:31,940 fishing. And he's out there. And the Lord had told him, he said, I'll meet you in Galilee. And he's out there and they're 423 00:30:32,060 --> 00:30:33,980 looking and they see this guy on the shore. He goes, hey, boy. 424 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:34,820 Lord is catching any? 425 00:30:37,460 --> 00:30:38,140 I love the Lord. 426 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,500 He just seems to be so cool, 427 00:30:40,740 --> 00:30:41,320 down to earth. 428 00:30:41,390 --> 00:30:42,080 You catching any? 429 00:30:42,940 --> 00:30:43,300 No. 430 00:30:44,380 --> 00:30:45,780 Chuck it on the other side. 431 00:30:45,940 --> 00:30:46,920 Try the other side. 432 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:48,800 Notice they don't argue with him. 433 00:30:50,020 --> 00:30:50,180 Right? 434 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:51,620 They don't argue with him. 435 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:53,740 Jack in Luke chapter 5, they argue, 436 00:30:53,940 --> 00:30:55,100 Peter, Lord, 437 00:30:56,180 --> 00:30:56,680 I'm a fisherman. 438 00:30:57,140 --> 00:30:57,760 You're a carpenter. 439 00:30:58,160 --> 00:30:59,000 I've been fishing all night. 440 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:00,640 You're telling me throw my nets. 441 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:01,540 I know what I'm doing. 442 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:03,460 But nevertheless, 443 00:31:03,940 --> 00:31:11,900 your word. And this time, maybe they had a little more faith than they thought. What about you? 444 00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:19,660 You might just have a little more faith than you think. Why'd you come on Easter morning? 445 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:29,960 Right? Maybe you want your faith to grow? I want mine to grow. Right? Because I've examined all 446 00:31:29,980 --> 00:31:38,700 the options, right? I could go the divorce and adultery and, you know, another chick route. I know 447 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:43,740 what that would do to my family. I could go the drug and alcohol route. Kind of tried that. 448 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:50,940 It's kind of blasé, actually, well, gets old really fast. Or I can go this route where I can stay 449 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:59,240 faithful to my wife. I can love my kids where they still come home. And I've got this hope of heaven. 450 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:03,180 and if I die and it's not there, I've lost nothing. 451 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,280 I've lost absolutely nothing. 452 00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:13,780 Because I've put my faith in this, in him. 453 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:17,520 I got nothing to lose. 454 00:32:18,380 --> 00:32:21,440 Got everything to gain and got nothing to lose. 455 00:32:21,660 --> 00:32:25,440 If I go one of those other ways, I've got everything to lose and nothing to gain. 456 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:39,660 So I want to close today with six things on the significance of the resurrection for us. 457 00:32:39,940 --> 00:32:40,400 Six things. 458 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,060 Really simple, real quick, and I'll do it quick. 459 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:44,520 Number one. 460 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,040 Number one, you might want to jot these down. 461 00:32:47,180 --> 00:32:49,280 You can go, you can look at the scriptures or whatever. 462 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,960 Number one, the resurrection proves that he, Jesus, is the son of God. 463 00:32:55,300 --> 00:32:56,740 It proves that he's the son of God. 464 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:58,760 John chapter 10, verse 17 and 18. 465 00:32:59,220 --> 00:33:03,100 Therefore, my father loves me because I lay down my life that I may take it again. 466 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,820 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. 467 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,960 I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it up again. 468 00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:11,160 This command I have received from my father. 469 00:33:11,860 --> 00:33:13,860 Jesus has the power of life and death. 470 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,360 He holds the keys that tells us in the book of Revelation of life and death. 471 00:33:17,660 --> 00:33:18,220 He determines. 472 00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:23,420 The Old Testament tells us in two places, I kill and I make alive, says the Lord. 473 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,140 when you got a God like that, it's a good idea to fear him. 474 00:33:30,660 --> 00:33:32,200 So number one, proves he's the son of God. 475 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:37,980 Number two, the resurrection verifies the truth of the scripture, right? 476 00:33:38,620 --> 00:33:45,540 Psalm 1610, for you will not leave my soul in shield or hell, nor will you allow your 477 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,520 holy one to see corruption. 478 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:48,280 Right? 479 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,020 So when Jesus resurrects, he goes away, moves away from corruption. 480 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,200 Psalm 110 verse 1, 481 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,860 The Lord said to my Lord, sit up my right hand 482 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,040 till I make your enemies your footstool. 483 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,660 This is the father speaking to the son 484 00:34:01,740 --> 00:34:03,520 and calling him Lord. 485 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,780 Much like Hebrews chapter 1 that says, 486 00:34:10,620 --> 00:34:12,899 and God said to my God. 487 00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:15,800 The father calls the son God. 488 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:18,960 Not with a little G, but with the big G. 489 00:34:20,820 --> 00:34:22,520 So first he proves his son of God. 490 00:34:22,580 --> 00:34:24,379 the resurrection verifies the truth of scripture. 491 00:34:24,580 --> 00:34:27,679 Thirdly, it assures our own future resurrection. 492 00:34:28,700 --> 00:34:28,820 Huh. 493 00:34:29,980 --> 00:34:30,100 Yeah. 494 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:31,700 This ain't it. 495 00:34:34,679 --> 00:34:35,520 We're getting a new one. 496 00:34:37,340 --> 00:34:38,580 We're going to be raised from the dead. 497 00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:40,780 First Thessalonians, 4, 13 through 18. 498 00:34:40,899 --> 00:34:41,520 I'm not going to read it. 499 00:34:41,580 --> 00:34:42,100 Go check it out. 500 00:34:42,110 --> 00:34:44,740 It's about the rapture of the church that we resurrect. 501 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:49,899 First, John chapter 11, verse 25 and 26, my favorite funeral verses. 502 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:52,240 Jesus said to her, I'm the resurrection in the life. 503 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,000 He who believes in me, though he may die. 504 00:34:54,460 --> 00:34:55,320 Yet shall he live. 505 00:34:55,659 --> 00:34:57,840 And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. 506 00:34:57,860 --> 00:34:58,700 Do you believe this? 507 00:34:59,120 --> 00:34:59,820 Love that question. 508 00:35:03,420 --> 00:35:06,100 It assures our own future resurrection. 509 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,040 Fourthly, it's a proof of a future judgment. 510 00:35:11,020 --> 00:35:16,140 The resurrection gives Jesus the authority to judge your life and mind. 511 00:35:18,980 --> 00:35:20,640 It tells us in Acts 1731, 512 00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:28,140 because he has appointed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained. 513 00:35:28,620 --> 00:35:33,280 He has given assurance of this to all by raising him from the dead. 514 00:35:37,860 --> 00:35:43,980 Number five, the resurrection is the basis for Christ's heavenly priesthood. 515 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,100 We've been going through this through the book of Hebrews, right? 516 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,580 That there's this priesthood, there's one priesthood, this one Malkesnik. 517 00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:56,080 priest. His name's Jesus because he's the only eternal priest. All the other people would be prevented 518 00:35:56,190 --> 00:36:05,420 by sin and death. Jesus is eternal because he took sin head on and death head on and conquered both of them. 519 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:14,020 And he is that eternal priest, the one with whom you and I have to do. No one else. No other mediator. 520 00:36:14,450 --> 00:36:20,300 I don't have to go to my pastor or my priest or my bishop or my rabbi to get close to God. 521 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,100 I can do that through Jesus. 522 00:36:23,140 --> 00:36:23,960 He's the mediator. 523 00:36:24,460 --> 00:36:25,940 He's our great high priest. 524 00:36:27,260 --> 00:36:31,320 And number six, it gives power for the Christian life. 525 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:33,540 You got power? 526 00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:36,260 Power is from the Holy Spirit. 527 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:50,120 My boy coined a phrase one time we were just talking about life and the Christian life. 528 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,760 and he said the Christian life is a supernatural life. 529 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,160 It's a supernatural life. 530 00:36:58,620 --> 00:37:00,100 You and I, we can't do this thing. 531 00:37:00,660 --> 00:37:01,160 I can't. 532 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,020 All you'd have to do is following me around for me. 533 00:37:04,100 --> 00:37:05,440 He'll go, Scotty, you need help, dude. 534 00:37:06,500 --> 00:37:06,640 Right? 535 00:37:07,940 --> 00:37:08,400 And I do. 536 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:10,160 But I got it. 537 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:12,460 Because I got God's Holy Spirit. 538 00:37:13,380 --> 00:37:13,540 Right? 539 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:16,400 Romans chapter 6, verse 4. 540 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:20,100 Therefore, we were buried with Christ through baptism. 541 00:37:20,340 --> 00:37:24,460 into death. So that's what baptism is all about, is when you go down under the water, 542 00:37:24,580 --> 00:37:30,480 you're identifying with the death of Christ. You're saying, Lord, I'm dying to myself. Right? I'm dying 543 00:37:30,580 --> 00:37:38,080 to myself. And that, and just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, 544 00:37:38,260 --> 00:37:44,320 even so we all should walk in the newness of life. And that's what happens when you come up. It's a 545 00:37:44,540 --> 00:37:50,120 resurrection life. It's that supernatural life that God helps you and I to live. Because 546 00:37:50,140 --> 00:37:53,380 powerful thing that Jesus came back from the dead, isn't it? 547 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:57,520 Romans 8-11. 548 00:37:58,020 --> 00:38:02,040 But if the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, 549 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:08,100 he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through 550 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:09,940 his spirit who dwells in you. 551 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,940 So the resurrection proves He is God's son, 552 00:38:17,220 --> 00:38:20,100 verifies the truth of Scripture, assures your own resurrection. 553 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:27,540 Reaction, proof of a future judgment. The resurrection is the basis for the priesthood of Christ Jesus, 554 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:35,280 and last of all, it gives power to the Christian life. Amen and amen. Let's all stand, shall we?