1 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:10,880 Didn't God good? Amen. 2 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,440 If you've been saved, you have a resurrection story. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,160 You've been made alive because Jesus is alive. 4 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:21,080 If you're a guest here with us this morning, I hope you got a 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,440 worship guide on your way in. There's a way we can connect. 6 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,000 If you're willing to fill out that bottom card at some point 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:27,960 in today's service, I would love that. 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,920 You can give it in the basket on the way out at the end, or you 9 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,560 can bring it to me in the lobby. And I'd love the chance to be 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,560 able to connect with you and share more about what we're 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,680 about here at CFBC. If you have your Bible and hope 12 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,680 you do, go and make your way to Isaiah chapter 53. 13 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:46,720 Isaiah chapter 53 This morning on this Easter Sunday, I want to 14 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:51,840 share with you the story of the life, death, burial, and 15 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:55,880 resurrection of Jesus Christ. I want to tell you the 16 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,320 resurrection story. I don't know where you are 17 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,680 spiritually, but I do know this story is the one and only story 18 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,560 that has the power to change your story. 19 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,960 And my question for you this morning is, has the story of the 20 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:13,320 resurrection truly changed your story? 21 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,240 Now you might think that this story of Jesus, his life, death, 22 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,360 burial, and resurrection is only in the New Testament. 23 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,040 Many might assume that, but that's not the case. 24 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,640 It's actually also in the Old Testament, in this book and in 25 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,360 others, but nowhere more clearly in the Old Testament than in 26 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,320 Isaiah chapter 53. As we started examining last 27 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:35,200 week the story of the resurrection and now this story, 28 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,400 I want you to hear it through the words of the prophet Isaiah. 29 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,680 And as you hear and process it, I want you asking the question, 30 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,880 has this story truly changed my story? 31 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,920 Here it is, Part 1. Here's how Isaiah begins the 32 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:50,760 story. You can follow along in your 33 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,200 notes there. Jesus was the opposite of what 34 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:59,640 everyone expected. The story of Jesus starts as the 35 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,600 opposite of what everyone would have expect, expected. 36 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,640 Listen to verses 2 and three from Isaiah 53. 37 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,320 For he that's Jesus grew up before him. 38 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:15,360 That's God the Father, like a young plant and like a root out 39 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,360 of dry ground. He, Jesus, had no majesty that 40 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,000 we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire 41 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,520 Him. He was despised and rejected by 42 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:30,320 men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief as one 43 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:35,680 from whom men hide their faces. He was despised and we esteemed 44 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,360 Him not. The story of Jesus and the exact 45 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,280 opposite of what everyone would expect, could be described as 46 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:49,240 three Nos #1 no chance #2 no majesty and #3 no glory. 47 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,600 Let's talk about no chance. Look what it says there in the 48 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,480 text. He grew up before Him like a 49 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,160 plant out of like a root out of dry ground. 50 00:02:58,160 --> 00:02:59,560 Let me ask you an obvious question. 51 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,640 Do things grow out of dry ground? 52 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,840 No Praise God. Things grow because of what's 53 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:08,680 happening right now and what happened last night. 54 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,240 Amen. Because rain falls from the 55 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:15,360 heavens, sent by God in His design of creation, allowing 56 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:16,920 things to grow. Things don't grow. 57 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:21,480 There's no chance something grows out of dry ground. 58 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:24,040 You say, well, Carl, how is it dry ground for the Messiah? 59 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,600 You see, God had promised that He would send a Savior. 60 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,680 He would send the Messiah, and he would be the son of David. 61 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:32,880 I'm talking about like David versus Goliath. 62 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,080 King David, all right? A son of his would come and 63 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,520 reign and rule forever as the Messiah. 64 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:44,080 The problem is that the line of King David had been cut down 65 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,920 like a tree reduced to a stump, left in dry ground. 66 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,120 It looked as if there was no earthly, no political, no 67 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:56,160 physical chance that a descendant of David would ever 68 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:59,120 be able to rise and rule and reign again. 69 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,520 And yet God said it would happen. 70 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:05,320 In fact, Isaiah verse one and two of Chapter 11 says it like 71 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:08,120 this. There shall come forth a shoot 72 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:12,120 from the stump of Jesse. That's David's father in the 73 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,720 branch from his roots shall bear fruit and who's it going to be. 74 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,120 It says in the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. 75 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:23,160 It looked like a set of no way Jose circumstances yet God said 76 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,880 it would happen and this is how Jesus puts it in Revelation 22 77 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,000 verse 16. I Jesus have sent my Angel to 78 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,640 testify to you about these things for the churches 79 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:36,480 including CFBC in 2026. I am, he says, watch this, the 80 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:43,840 root and descendant of David, the bright morning Star. 81 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:48,000 The story of Jesus, friends, begins with what looks like no 82 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,720 possible chance. But God said it would happen, 83 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:53,280 and it's happened exactly as God said it. 84 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:57,120 What happened #2 no majesty, no chance, and no majesty. 85 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:02,160 Look what the text says. He had no form or majesty that 86 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:06,360 we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire 87 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,360 him. If you could have lived in 1st 88 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:16,720 century Judea and walked up to Jesus and his 12 disciples, 89 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:21,120 perhaps you would have thought you could recognize you could 90 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,680 pick out of the line of 13 which one was Jesus. 91 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,000 If you thought that you could, you would be wrong. 92 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:32,400 You would have had no earthly idea which one was the living, 93 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,200 breathing in the flesh Son of the living God. 94 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,360 You don't want to know why? Because the Bible says Jesus had 95 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,640 absolutely nothing about him from a physical, earthly 96 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,720 perspective that was attractive or that was physically handsome. 97 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:51,520 No majesty, no beauty. In other words, no one did a 98 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,800 double take when they walked past the living, breathing Son 99 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,120 of God because he didn't look like anything special. 100 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,400 Now here's the deal. I don't know what Jesus looked 101 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,640 like, but here's what I do know. I know that half Angel looking 102 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:07,240 #4 guard, perfectly trimmed beard with Pantene pro V flowing 103 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,680 hair. Picture of a man in church 104 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,520 libraries across America ain't Jesus. 105 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,520 That's a figment of somebody's imagination. 106 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,000 But that ain't biblical. Jesus had no form, no majesty 107 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,240 that you would think him special. 108 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,120 You would have never confused Jesus. 109 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,480 And Thor? No Cape, no beauty, no 110 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,880 impeccable features radiating upon His arrival. 111 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,840 Ladies and gentlemen, let me just put it like this for you. 112 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:32,080 You think I want? Is this practical? 113 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,360 It's practical like this. In a world that idolizes and 114 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,720 worships physical appearance and beauty, we would do well to 115 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:42,920 remember that that had absolutely nothing, zero to do 116 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,760 with the success of the mission of the Son of God. 117 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:49,920 When He was sent from the Father to save the world, it had no 118 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:51,840 bearing. So there was no chance. 119 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:54,840 There was no majesty. Third, there was no glory. 120 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,280 He was despised, Isaiah says, and rejected by men. 121 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,880 A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and is 1 from whom 122 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:06,640 men hide their faces. He was despised and we esteemed 123 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,160 Him not. Keep in mind, this is all 124 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:12,480 written 700 years in advance before it ever happened. 125 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:17,720 No glory, you see, because Jesus was not what people expected. 126 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,720 On the whole, Jesus was rejected. 127 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,160 I know. Yes, Jesus was followed by 128 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,320 massive crowds. But what happened to those 129 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:31,320 crowds, to those people when they discovered what Jesus truly 130 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,920 demanded of them? What did they do? 131 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:39,720 They despised, they rejected, they walked away, they would one 132 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:44,960 day yell crucify him before one of them sold him for silver. 133 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,040 Why was Jesus rejected? He was rejected for the same 134 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,080 reasons Jesus is rejected today. You want to know why? 135 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,560 Because Jesus was not about what they wanted him to be about. 136 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,360 They wanted him to be about wealth and material possessions, 137 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,800 earthly status and reputation, political revolution and 138 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,280 prosperity. And Jesus wasn't about any of 139 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:08,000 those things at that time. And furthermore, Jesus was a man 140 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,360 acquainted with grief and sorrow and tragedy, knowing pain 141 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:14,720 himself. I want you to remember Jesus 142 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:19,240 experienced the trauma of fleeing for his life with his 143 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,760 family to Egypt as a young child. 144 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,440 I want you to remember that Jesus experienced the pain of 145 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,880 losing his earthly father. Remember Jesus is going to 146 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,200 experience the sadness of losing best friends like John the 147 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,080 Baptist. Jesus is going to experience the 148 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:39,760 pain and the the grief of betrayal of those closest to him 149 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,520 and his closest friends and followers. 150 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:46,840 You see in all of this was just a warm up before his greatest 151 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,520 suffering, before he went to the cross and was nailed to the tree 152 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,760 bearing the sins of the the world for you and for me. 153 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:00,240 Jesus's story, friends, begins the exact opposite of what you 154 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:04,160 would expect. No chance, no majesty, no glory, 155 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,200 Isaiah says is how it's going to happen. 156 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,960 Part 2 of the story, Isaiah says, is like this. 157 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:14,240 Jesus suffered for our sake. Jesus suffered for our sake. 158 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,040 Listen to the word of God beginning in verse 4 through 6. 159 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:25,520 Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we 160 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,600 esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 161 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,960 But he was pierced. But He was pierced for our 162 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,920 transgressions. He was crushed for our 163 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,720 iniquities, and upon Him was the chastisement that brought us 164 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:41,960 peace. And with His wounds we are 165 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,000 healed. All we, like sheep, have gone 166 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,480 astray. We have turned everyone to his 167 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,240 own way. And don't miss this part. 168 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,920 And the Lord, and who and the Lord? 169 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,760 The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 170 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:01,880 Everyone looked at Jesus and assumed his suffering must be 171 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:05,640 because he was cursed by God. Surely he was bearing what he 172 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:09,320 deserved, everyone thought. But all the while all that he 173 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,640 was taking, all that he was suffering, all that he was 174 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:15,120 enduring was because not of his sin, not for his crimes, but for 175 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:19,560 my sin and my crimes, and your sin and your crimes against God. 176 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,560 He was suffering in our place as our substitute. 177 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,800 You see, we are the ones, Isaiah says, that had gone astray. 178 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,920 You and I are the ones that have gone our own way. 179 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:32,640 In fact, it says everyone has turned his back, his her back on 180 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,400 God and gone astray. We're the ones who deserve to be 181 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:37,480 stricken, smitten, and afflicted. 182 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,840 Look in the words there. We're the ones who deserve to be 183 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:44,600 pierced, crushed, chastised and wounded for our sin. 184 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:49,000 But friend, that's what Jesus took in your place. 185 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,920 We deserved it and yet he was taking it. 186 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,480 Verse 6 says in the Lord, I don't want you to miss who did 187 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:02,560 it. The Lord God the Father laid on 188 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:07,960 him the sin, the iniquity, the wrongdoing, the guilt, the shame 189 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:14,040 of us all. Pastor Kyle's sin was laid on 190 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:18,480 Jesus. Your sin was laid on Jesus by 191 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,120 who? Well, yes, the religious leaders 192 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:26,600 condemned Jesus and yes the the crowd cried crucified Jesus. 193 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:31,400 And yes, the Roman soldiers actually nailed the spikes that 194 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,120 pierced Jesus. But who sent his Son? 195 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,480 And on who was it that laid the sins of the world on his son? 196 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:43,920 None other than God the Father. What I don't want you to miss is 197 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,280 that Jesus was not a victim. Jesus was not a martyr. 198 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:50,320 Jesus was not a deaf by accident. 199 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:55,800 Jesus was God the Father's sacrifice for your sin and for 200 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,400 mine. For God so loved you, ladies and 201 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:02,040 gentlemen, the world that much that he was the one who 202 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,480 sacrificed his Son. You could put it like this, it 203 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,880 may make you uncomfortable, but this is what the Bible says. 204 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,200 It was ultimately God the Father who crucified his Son for you, 205 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,320 because that's how much he loved you. 206 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:22,200 Jesus with God the Father sacrifice for my sin and yours 207 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:30,160 He suffered in your place. It says in verse 5 upon him was 208 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,880 the chastisement that has brought us. 209 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:36,760 Watch these two things that has brought us peace, and with his 210 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:41,880 wounds we are secondly healed. There are no two greater 211 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:46,120 blessings a human being can experience than to receive and 212 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:51,200 experience peace with God and healing or freedom from the 213 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,560 curse of sin. Ladies and gentlemen, these two 214 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:58,400 things are only made possible by the cross of Jesus Christ. 215 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,240 Because of His blood shed for our sin. 216 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:05,840 We can be made right with God if by faith we call on God to save 217 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,400 us from our sin. Because of what Jesus did for us 218 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:11,280 on the cross, we can be made right with God and not just 219 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:13,480 right with God. We can be set free from the 220 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:15,760 curse of sin. We can be free from the bondage 221 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:18,760 of sin, the shame of sin, the punishment of sin, the weight of 222 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:20,360 sin. We can have the freedom to say 223 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,400 no to sin by the power of the Holy Spirit. 224 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,400 We can live free from sin forever with God in his presence 225 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:29,440 in heaven forever because of what Jesus offers on the cross. 226 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:33,520 Do you realize all the blessings that flow to a human being that 227 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,720 calls themselves a Christian is because of Jesus and these two 228 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:40,400 things he offers to us because of what he did on the cross 229 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:48,120 suffering in our place story Part 3, Isaiah says in verse 7 230 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,760 and 8 is that Jesus died voluntarily. 231 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:53,520 Jesus died voluntarily. Listen to the word of God. 232 00:13:53,960 --> 00:14:00,080 He was oppressed, He was afflicted, yet He opened not his 233 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,760 mouth. Like a lamb that is led to the 234 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:08,800 slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shears is silent, So 235 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:13,240 he opened not his mouth. By oppression and judgement he 236 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:16,040 was taken away. And As for his generation who 237 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,600 considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, 238 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:25,440 stricken for the transgression of my people, Jesus friends did 239 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:31,480 not resist arrest. Jesus did not protest his 240 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:36,640 enemy's false charges. Jesus did not file for a 241 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,880 mistrial. Jesus did not fight his 242 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:42,440 executioner's. Furthermore, I just want you to 243 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,480 remember, Jesus did not call on the legion of angels that were 244 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,400 there announcing the moment of his birth when he was on the 245 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,600 cross. Nor did Jesus call on that same 246 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,360 host arm of the armies of heaven to help him like they helped him 247 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,480 in the wilderness when he faced temptation. 248 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,080 And after victoriously saying no to the temptations of the enemy 249 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:05,400 and fasting for 40 days, guess who came to his aid to minister 250 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:06,920 to Him? The angels. 251 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,360 God didn't call. Jesus didn't call upon them when 252 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,800 He went to the cross. Neither did He call upon them 253 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,840 when they showed up like they had the night before during His 254 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,880 suffering and agony, when He literally sweat drops of blood 255 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:19,280 and they showed up to minister to. 256 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,040 But in the moment that Jesus gave himself for the sins of 257 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,400 mine, my sins and yours, the sins of the world, Jesus called 258 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:27,920 for nor ain't no angels. Why? 259 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:30,720 He didn't call for the armies of heaven. 260 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,080 Why? Because He was voluntarily 261 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,800 laying his life down for you and for me. 262 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,320 He did it silently. He did it submissively, like a 263 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:46,440 servant in the face of complete injustice, voluntarily laying 264 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:48,840 his life down in obedience to the Father's will. 265 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,080 No one mark it down. No one took Jesus's life from 266 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,240 him. Jesus was not a martyr. 267 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:59,200 Jesus did not die by accident. Jesus was not a victim. 268 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:03,240 Jesus was not the result of injustice or unrighteousness. 269 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:08,760 No, Jesus's death ultimately was because he was willing to die in 270 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,600 your place and in mine #4 Isaiah says. 271 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,920 The story continues like this. I love this part. 272 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,440 You can't make this stuff up over 700 years in advance. 273 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:23,800 Listen to this closely. Jesus was buried, but not as a 274 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:27,040 criminal. Jesus would be buried but Isaiah 275 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,840 says way in advance he's not going to be buried. 276 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,240 Y'all like a criminal. Listen to verse 9. 277 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:36,600 And they made his grave with the wicked and with the rich man in 278 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,000 his death. Well, how could it be that he's 279 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,920 assigned a grave with the wicked and yet also with the rich man 280 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,200 in his death, although he had done no violence, That is no 281 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:50,280 sin, no wrongdoing, and there was no deceit in his mouth. 282 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,880 The burial of Jesus, friends, is often overlooked, but it's 283 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:59,040 actually as critical a component of the gospel as his life and as 284 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,040 his death and as his resurrection. 285 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,800 Why is that? Because the burial of Jesus is 286 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,920 part of the proof that Jesus actually died. 287 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,240 The Romans were pretty good at death. 288 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:13,319 They were experts at execution. No one would have released the 289 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:16,480 body unless they were certain Jesus was dead. 290 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,160 This is why one of the gospels mentions the fact that when 291 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:23,240 Pilate was asked for the body, he confirmed first with the 292 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,560 Roman centurion who was there at the cross that Jesus was in fact 293 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:33,280 dead. The Jews in the days of the 294 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:39,800 crucifixion, the Romans, by typical practice before the 295 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,880 times of the Jews, would typically leave their victims on 296 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:50,240 the cross until they rotted or their bodies fell off piece by 297 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,760 piece. But in the days of the Jews, 298 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,560 they had a law against leaving a corpse unburied. 299 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:05,080 And so Jesus would be assigned a place to be buried with those 300 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:09,240 that were criminals, as if he was one assigned a place with 301 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,520 the wicked. This is what would have happened 302 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,720 to Jesus. But God had prophesied that 303 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:18,920 Jesus body would not see decay. And Isaiah prophesied that his 304 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:21,120 body would not be cast in an unclean place. 305 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,240 Which is why you can read about for yourself the facts of 306 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:26,880 history and the gospels. That a wealthy man just like 307 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,320 Isaiah would come 700 years in advance. 308 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,960 He'd be buried, he'd be assigned to grave with the wealthy. 309 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,760 Joseph of Arimathea and his friend Nicodemus would ask Pilot 310 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,800 for the body, and they would take him down from the cross and 311 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,640 wrap him in linen and aloes and MERS and lovingly lay his body 312 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,440 in a clean place. Not with the criminals, not with 313 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,480 the wicked. Just like Isaiah said would 314 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,480 happen. Yes, he would die like a 315 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,160 criminal, though he wasn't one. But he would not be buried as 316 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:54,280 one. Hallelujah. 317 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:59,240 You can't make this stuff up. Just like Isaiah said, it would 318 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:05,960 happen in advance #5 Jesus's resurrection was never in doubt. 319 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:14,400 God the Father wasn't surprised on Sunday morning, neither was 320 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:18,280 Jesus. This was the plan, friends, all 321 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:22,000 along. This was the plan to conquer 322 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,080 death, to die in the place of sinful man, and to defeat it on 323 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,400 our behalf. Describing the message of the 324 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,320 gospel Paul writes in First Corinthians 15. 325 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,840 He writes it so concisely there, but he says this as part of the 326 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,800 gospel message. He says, and Jesus was raised, 327 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:43,920 watch this in accordance with the Scriptures, which begs the 328 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:47,400 question, where in the Old Testament Scriptures does it 329 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,400 prophecy? Does it say that he would be 330 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:52,840 raised? Well in a number of places, but 331 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:56,640 none more clearly than right here over 700 years beforehand 332 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,120 in Isaiah 53 verses 10 through 12. 333 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:01,960 Can I read these verses for you and ask you to do something? 334 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:06,880 Can I ask you every time you hear a phrase that speaks to the 335 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,920 fact that Jesus is going to be alive, would you just let it 336 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:12,400 ring in your ears? Watch this. 337 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:16,480 Listen to this. Yet it was the will of the Lord 338 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,120 to crush him. He was put to grief. 339 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:25,920 When his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his 340 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:28,360 offspring. Does that sound like a dead man 341 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:32,200 to you? He shall prolong his days. 342 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,360 The will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand, as the will 343 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:37,280 of the Lord prosper in a dead man's hand. 344 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,400 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied by 345 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,160 his knowledge. Shall the righteous one, My 346 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,160 servant, make many be accounted righteous, and he shall bear 347 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,520 their iniquities. Therefore I will divide him a 348 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,560 portion with the many. He shall divide the spoil with 349 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,440 the strong. Because he poured out his soul 350 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,480 to death and was numbered with the transgressors, yet he bore 351 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:01,880 the sin of many and makes intercession for the 352 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,320 transgressors. Listen to the description of the 353 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,560 resurrection Isaiah gives over 700 years in advance. 354 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,000 Number 1. He says this Jesus will rise to 355 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:17,120 see men and women saved. This is what the text says. 356 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,880 He says this, He shall see his offspring. 357 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:27,200 Death will not close his eyes forever. 358 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,400 The Bible has already told us here that all have strayed like 359 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,520 sheep, all have turned their own way. 360 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,040 We've all sinned against God. But guess what? 361 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,200 Jesus will die for their sin. But guess what further will 362 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,520 happen? Jesus will live to see those who 363 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,040 place their faith in him become his offspring, become the 364 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,480 children of God, become part of the faith family called the 365 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,600 church, become the part of the redeemed, called the Saints, 366 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,680 called the saved. Jesus is going to live to see 367 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,840 men and women, boys and girls, realize what he's done for them 368 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,760 and call on faith. And Jesus will live to see his 369 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:02,400 offspring. He's going to see people saved. 370 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:03,800 The question is, have you been saved? 371 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:06,640 Are you a part of the family of God? 372 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,960 Are you 1? Jesus is alive, seeing right now 373 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,080 as belonging to him. Because you've called on faith 374 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,760 only on Jesus's name #2 Isaiah says about the resurrection. 375 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,720 Jesus will rise to live forever. You notice what he says here. 376 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,680 He shall prolong his days. Death will not be. 377 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,720 Jesus is him. This is Speaking of the eternal 378 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,560 resurrection life of Jesus Christ. 379 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:37,880 Jesus will rise to live forever. Because he lives, we too can 380 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:39,400 experience eternal life with him. 381 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,280 This is one of the blessings he gives those who call on him by 382 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:46,560 faith #3 Jesus will rise to rule and reign forever. 383 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,200 Look at verse 10. The will of the Lord shall 384 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:55,000 prosper in his hand. Death, friends, is not going to 385 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:00,680 stop Jesus's hands from ruling. Jesus is going to be the 386 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,560 executor. He's going to be the doer. 387 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,480 He's going to be the accomplisher of the will of God 388 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:06,760 forever. And just think about how we 389 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,560 could summarize that. Jesus created all things. 390 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,800 Jesus is sustaining all things. Jesus will remake all things new 391 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:19,120 one day forever for those to be in his presence that have called 392 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:24,720 on him and received him as Lord and savior #4 Jesus, Isaiah 393 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,400 says, will rise and be satisfied. 394 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,240 It says here out of the anguish of his soul, Speaking of His 395 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:35,720 death and bearing the sins of the world, He shall see and be 396 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,080 satisfied. The death of Jesus will be the 397 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,600 door that will lead to his greatest victory. 398 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,920 Jesus is going to live again and be satisfied by the success of 399 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:48,960 his mission. I love how the Bible describes 400 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,080 it in Hebrews. After Jesus rose from the dead, 401 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,600 he sat down at the right hand of the Father. 402 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,960 You know why he sat down? Because he cried out on the 403 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,040 cross. It is. 404 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,360 It's finished. Sin, debt paid. 405 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,160 And now he arose from the dead, sat down at the right hand of 406 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:09,400 the Father, satisfied with the success of his mission, offering 407 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,920 life and righteousness and freedom to all who would call on 408 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,320 him by faith. Yo, Jesus is not just going to 409 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:16,920 live. He's going to succeed. 410 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,000 He's going to be satisfied with what he's accomplished by the 411 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:25,600 power of God, living righteously, substituting 412 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:30,000 Himself for sinners, and defeating death itself. 413 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:38,760 Next, Jesus #5 will rise to share His glory with the saved. 414 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:44,600 It says here he shall divide the spoil in verse 12 with the 415 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,720 strong. What does that mean? 416 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:52,800 In days of old, a military soldier was compensated by the 417 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,760 spoils of the wars that they won. 418 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,840 Defeat a village. Soldiers would plunder, take 419 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,880 what they wanted as part of their compensation for their 420 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,080 work on the battlefield. What is it saying here that he's 421 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,280 going to divide the spoils with the strong? 422 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:11,120 What are the spoils of the war that Jesus has won? 423 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,000 In the battle between good and evil, in the battle between God 424 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,480 and Satan, in the battle over the souls of lost men and women? 425 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,960 It says here he will rise to share the spoil, to share the 426 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,240 blessings of victory, to share the inheritance given by his 427 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,120 Father, to share a life, righteousness, peace with God, 428 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:30,200 eternal life, a time and place coming of no more tears, no more 429 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,320 pain, no more death. All the blessings that will flow 430 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,880 to the strong, not strong in ourselves, but strong in him, 431 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,800 the strength of Jesus. This is the spoils, this is the 432 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,960 blessings, this is the inheritance of our salvation and 433 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,360 all that Jesus will share with those who've called on him and 434 00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:49,720 by faith have been made strong by faith and the one and only 435 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:55,160 Savior of the world. Y'all, this is what we could 436 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,480 call, like we said last week, the scandal of the gospel. 437 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,200 You say God, what do you mean by scandal? 438 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:08,240 I mean God does the unthinkable through his Son Jesus for us. 439 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:15,840 You want to know what that is? God accepts unacceptable people. 440 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,000 Do you know who unacceptable people are? 441 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,400 Me and you, because we've sinned against the holy God. 442 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:31,240 God honors shameful people. You know who shameful people is? 443 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,920 Me and you. God treats rebels like royalty 444 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:41,800 if they put their faith in Jesus. 445 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:46,760 God calls sinners sons and daughters. 446 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,800 Who does that? The God of heaven, the maker of 447 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,320 all things. That's scandalous. 448 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,000 We don't deserve it. We could never earn it, but by 449 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,440 faith, Jesus provides it for those of us willing to see and 450 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,880 believe and receive what God does for those who can never 451 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,080 earn it. That's scandalous. 452 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,000 And yet it's true. And yet This is why people hear 453 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,480 the preaching of the cross and call it foolishness. 454 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,640 But the Bible says it's the power of God for those who will 455 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,640 believe. Have you believed and realize 456 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:21,480 what God has done for you? Finally, number six, Jesus. 457 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,760 We will rise to intercede for us at the right hand of the Father. 458 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,400 We spoke about this earlier at our prayer time. 459 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,640 Listen to what Isaiah says. He bore the sin of many and 460 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,640 makes intercession. That's a fancy word for 461 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,720 prayerful pleading, makes intercession for the 462 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,840 transgressors. That's the sinners, that's you, 463 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:48,640 and that's me. Because Jesus is a risen Savior, 464 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:55,600 He now sits at the right hand of the Father 24/7 365 as our 465 00:27:55,600 --> 00:28:01,440 living lawyer, as our advocate, when every sin and every time we 466 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,360 stumble and every time we do that which is wrong and doesn't 467 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:08,240 honor God and the enemy brings a case against us to the Father. 468 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,760 Jesus calls out your name and mine and says they've been 469 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:16,520 covered by my blood. Case dismissed immediately. 470 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,680 Set free from sin. We should suffer punishment and 471 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,440 shame for that. Jesus took it all for you and 472 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,960 for me. He lives to make intercession 473 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,280 for sinners, for you and for me at the right hand of the Father. 474 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,680 Friends, this is the story of the resurrection. 475 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:35,600 This is the story of the life, death, burial, and resurrection. 476 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,560 My question to you is, has this story changed your story? 477 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,120 Has it been a moment when you realized it was true and 478 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,400 everything changed for you because you realize what Jesus 479 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,080 had done for you? I was reading this morning in 480 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:57,960 Luke as the women made their way to the grave, the tomb, early on 481 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,800 Sunday morning. I just was writing in my journal 482 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:02,360 there. What? 483 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,000 What would it have been like to walk up to see the stone rolled 484 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,680 away? They just watched it rolled into 485 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:13,680 place the night, Friday night, and Jesus was buried Friday 486 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:18,440 afternoon. What would it have been like to 487 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,280 walk in and see the tomb unoccupied? 488 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:25,920 What would it have been like to hear the angels say he's not 489 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:31,880 here, He's risen? Just like he helped me out, just 490 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:36,080 like he said, and just like Isaiah said he would over 700 491 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,520 years beforehand? Listen, I don't know your story. 492 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:47,120 I know God does, and I know He sent His Son into this world 493 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,760 that he had made. And this is the story of what He 494 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,160 did. This is the story of who He is 495 00:29:55,120 --> 00:30:00,080 all offered to you so that your story could be changed forever 496 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:04,200 because of this story. Has your story been changed 497 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,120 because of the resurrection story of Jesus Christ? 498 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,080 You may say, Pastor Kyle, I don't really know how to answer 499 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,840 that question. Let me see if I can help you 500 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,040 answer that question. Are you ready? 501 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,120 I came across an old African American spiritual that I think 502 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,680 was first printed around the year 1899. 503 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,440 It's been sung by the likes of the contemporary like Johnny 504 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,080 Cash and others. You may know the words. 505 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:28,960 Listen to it. I want you. 506 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,360 I want you to examine whether your story's been changed. 507 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,480 As I walk you through this, listen to this. 508 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,320 Were you there? Were you there when they 509 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,280 crucified my Lord? Were you there? 510 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,000 Were you there when they crucified my Lord? 511 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,360 Sometimes it causes me to tremble. 512 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:56,960 To tremble. Were you there when they 513 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:02,160 crucified my Lord? Were you there when they nailed 514 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,040 him to the cross? Were you there? 515 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,440 Have you been there? Were you there when they nailed 516 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,280 him to the cross? Sometimes it causes me to 517 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,880 tremble, to tremble. Were you there? 518 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:22,000 Have you been there, That place where they crucified my Lord? 519 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,720 Were you there when they pierced Him in His side? 520 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,120 Were you there? Were you there when they pierced 521 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:32,760 His side? Sometimes it causes me to to 522 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:37,520 tremble, to tremble, to tremble. Were you there when they pierced 523 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:41,760 my Savior in His side? Were you there when the sun 524 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,600 refused to shine? Were you there? 525 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:48,960 Were you there when the sun from noon to three in the afternoon 526 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,920 refused to shine on? The Son of God that had spoken 527 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:57,600 it into existence was paying the price of the sins of the world? 528 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,320 Were you there? Did you behold the reality of 529 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,240 the sun refusing to shine? Were you there? 530 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,760 Sometimes it causes me to tremble, to tremble. 531 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,440 Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? 532 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:10,720 Were you there? Were you there when they laid 533 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:11,960 him in the tomb? Can you imagine? 534 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,440 Can you imagine being there and witnessing what the women 535 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:18,400 watched when the Savior of the world, Jesus the Christ, the Son 536 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,040 of the living God, was laid horizontal in a tomb, tasting 537 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,840 death for you in advance to defeat it for you, so that that 538 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:30,040 tomb didn't have to be the end for you or for me? 539 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,240 Have you been there? Sometimes it causes me to 540 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,520 tremble. Listen, as a nine year old boy, 541 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,920 I realized somebody went to that cross and went to that tomb, 542 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,840 died for me, paid for what I had done wrong and defeated and 543 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,760 walked out alive. And I trembled as a nine year 544 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,520 old boy. It's changed my story. 545 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,440 It's continuing to change me today. 546 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,120 I've never been the same since because I've been there. 547 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:58,280 No, not physically, but by faith, the truth of the Word of 548 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,720 God, by the Spirit of God impressing upon my heart. 549 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,040 Have you been there? Have you been there? 550 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:11,400 Have you been there? Were you there when he rose up 551 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,120 from the grave, When the stone was rolled away, Have you been 552 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,880 there? Have you realized that the tomb 553 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:19,480 is empty? Have you been there? 554 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:23,040 Oh, sometimes it makes me want to shout glory, glory, glory. 555 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,520 Have you been there? Because if you've been there, 556 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,160 you can't walk away changed. I guarantee you'll shout glory 557 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,680 too, for what Jesus did for you that no one else could do, that 558 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,720 you couldn't do for yourself. Friend, if you've been there, 559 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,520 you know that you've been there because you've never been the 560 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,440 same since. Can someone truly go there? 561 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,320 Can someone truly see the Son of the living God in their place, 562 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:49,040 pierced, nailed, laid in a tomb, raised from the dead, and walk 563 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:54,840 away unchanged? I'm asking if you've been there, 564 00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:01,120 because if you have, you've never been the same. 565 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:09,199 If you're here this morning and you haven't been there, I'm 566 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:11,480 inviting you to go there right now. 567 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,719 I'm inviting you to come and see what you may have never seen 568 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:21,239 before, the story of the resurrection of what Jesus did 569 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,199 for you. Say, Kyle, how do I come and 570 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:25,800 see? And I tell you the story of Nick 571 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,800 again that you saw in the video 2 Sundays ago. 572 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,400 I was standing right here. There was a wooden cross on the 573 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,480 stage right there. Nick came to talk to me, but I 574 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,560 was occupied. But you know who Nick did not 575 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:42,639 need? He didn't need a pastor. 576 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:48,840 He needed Jesus and he saw the cross and he was there. 577 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,840 He realized Jesus was there. He realized Jesus is nail. 578 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:54,520 The nail pierced hands were there. 579 00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:56,920 He realized it was from there that Jesus went to the grave. 580 00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,800 He realized it was from there. Jesus rose up to life and Nick 581 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,440 went there and got on his knees and gave his heart and life to 582 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:03,480 Christ. He went there. 583 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,320 He knows he's been there because he's not the same. 584 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,560 It's only been a week and 1/2 his forever is changed. 585 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,800 Have you been there? I'm asking you to come and see 586 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,920 and receive, repent of your sin and believe what Jesus did for 587 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,240 you and go there. The Bible says you go there by 588 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:21,920 faith, you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, you 589 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:23,920 believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and 590 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,120 you'll be saved. I'm inviting you to do that. 591 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,360 I can help you do that. If you want to come talk to me, 592 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,560 we'll have our encouragers or the elders up here. 593 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:33,640 If I'm occupied, they'll be here. 594 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,000 Christian. If you're in the room that 595 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,120 you've been there, you're a Christian. 596 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,560 You know you've been saved because you know you've been 597 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,720 there. But if you're being really 598 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:46,240 honest, you say, Pastor Kyle, it's been a long time since I've 599 00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:49,080 trembled. It's been a long time since I've 600 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,320 shouted glory about what Jesus has done for me. 601 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,080 In fact, I've strayed a long way. 602 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,760 I need to come back. I'm inviting you to come back. 603 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,800 I'm inviting you to repent of sin wherever you've gone. 604 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:05,920 I'm not asking you to be re saved. 605 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,040 You don't need to be re saved. You can't lose what only God can 606 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,680 do to begin with. I'm asking you to recommit. 607 00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:13,320 I'm asking you to come back and dedicate yourself. 608 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,400 Come and tremble at the cross. Come, behold the Lamb of God 609 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,000 slain for you. That the story that the one and 610 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,200 only one that can change yours for forever is true. 611 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,400 Would you come back? Would you come back? 612 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,080 Would you respond the way God is calling you to respond in faith? 613 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,200 We're going to stand in a moment and sync and I'm going to ask 614 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,280 you to come. Heavenly Father, I prayed in his 615 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,280 next few moments. We would say yes to you. 616 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,280 Jesus, You alone are who we need. 617 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,120 I'm asking for people to come and see God. 618 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,720 Would you help them by faith come and see, or to come and 619 00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:42,560 come back, Father, to recommit from where they've strayed, 620 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:46,240 Lord, to come back and tremble at the truth of the cross of 621 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:49,400 Christ and the empty tomb. We want to honor and glorify. 622 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,240 You have your way in us. We pray in Jesus name. 623 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,240 I ask all these things, Amen. Would you stand with me? 624 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,920 Would you come? Would you come and see? 625 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,800 Would you come and repent? Come and believe as the Lord 626 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:01,640 calls you. You come.