1 00:00:02,300 --> 00:00:07,800 Well, good evening. Thank you, thank you. 2 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,800 If I have, don't know you. My name is Andrew me. 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,500 And my wife, and our three kids. We used to be a part of Frontier 4 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:17,300 church. And about a year and a half ago, 5 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:20,600 we moved down to Texas where we are currently serving in student 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,300 Ministry down there. So we've just been here for a 7 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:25,200 handful of days and it's been a joy to be with you. 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:29,900 So thank you for allowing me this privilege to teach tonight. 9 00:00:29,900 --> 00:00:33,700 And to talk about something that is often misunderstood or is 10 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:37,000 just not thought about it all. I've got a couple of goals for 11 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,600 us tonight and hopefully you've seen. 12 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,500 I'm still on the frontier Church text messaging list so I know 13 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:44,600 Cole has been blasting you with. Hey, here's what's coming up? 14 00:00:44,700 --> 00:00:47,000 Here's some articles to read. So I know that you hopefully 15 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 understand what, what what tonight is about. 16 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,700 But we're going to be talking about the harrowing of Hell or 17 00:00:52,700 --> 00:00:56,400 the dissensus, or the Christ descent into the underworld, or 18 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,900 his descent into hell. And we're going to unpack that 19 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:02,500 here in just a little bit. But on the outset of teaching, I 20 00:01:02,508 --> 00:01:04,200 just want to give you my two goals for the tonight. 21 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,500 I've got two goals, the first goal. 22 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:10,300 Is I want you to have handles to hold on to this doctrine of 23 00:01:10,300 --> 00:01:12,900 Christ descent things that you can hold on, you say, okay. 24 00:01:12,900 --> 00:01:15,100 I know what this is. I understand it. 25 00:01:15,100 --> 00:01:17,900 I know how this impacts my life. That's goal. 26 00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:20,400 Number one and the goal. Number two is, I want you to see 27 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:25,700 how Christ descent gives us joy. How Christ is sent should cause 28 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:29,800 us to worship Him and love him. And follow him, more closely to 29 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,400 simple goals. And then a disclaimer, there is 30 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,900 a lot of content about this doctrine of Christ to Ending 31 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:40,500 into hell tons of it. I've got 30 minutes tonight. 32 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,500 Hopefully, I will stay within that those boundaries, but I've 33 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:45,600 sent through a lot of coal sermons or he went over the 34 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:47,400 boundaries of 30 minutes or 50 minutes. 35 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,800 So I might get to just drop a nuke tonight and he gets to deal 36 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,700 with all the Pastoral ramifications of that. 37 00:01:52,700 --> 00:01:56,500 But anyway, so there should be some things. 38 00:01:56,500 --> 00:01:59,200 There should be some rocks that were not going to uncover and 39 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:00,800 see what's hiding under those rocks. 40 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:05,100 But what I want to do tonight is to give you an overview of what 41 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:08,500 this Doctrine is. And how this leads us to find 42 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:10,800 our joy in Jesus and to follow him. 43 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,800 So I'm going to pray and they were to look at a few passages 44 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,800 of scripture and that what I want to show us is how this 45 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,400 actually impacts our daily lives how this impacts the way we 46 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,100 think about Jesus and how this impacts the way that we think 47 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:25,600 about ourselves. So let's pray and I'm going to 48 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,800 dig into God's word together. Father, I thank you so much for 49 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,400 this church. I think you that after a year 50 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,600 and a half, I get to return and see how this church family has 51 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,300 grown, and is flourishing. And not just because they have a 52 00:02:39,308 --> 00:02:42,000 building. But because of people who are 53 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,000 investing in people in this church, I think you for this 54 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,400 pastoral team in Frontier and how they, they feed the flock, 55 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,000 and how they shepherd, the flock of God, and how they understand 56 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,300 that, they are under Shepherds who were being shepherded by 57 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:56,500 Jesus. I think you for the people who 58 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,800 loudly they are truths through song on Sunday morning. 59 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:03,300 It's a beautiful picture to see people who come from different 60 00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:06,600 walks of life and different backgrounds and come together as 61 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,100 God's people and worship. And declare that Jesus is king 62 00:03:10,100 --> 00:03:11,900 of kings. And he's the Lord of lords that 63 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:14,700 he is, Sovereign over all. And so, I think you for the 64 00:03:14,700 --> 00:03:17,600 blessing that Frontier church, has been to my family and how 65 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,100 they've been a blessing to the city of Des Moines. 66 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:23,200 And so I pray that you would continue to bless them that you 67 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,000 would give them Grace and that you would continue to show them 68 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,800 your kindness. In the powerful name of Jesus 69 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,300 that we declare these things and ask these things of you, amen. 70 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,600 All right, so tonight we are talking about Christ descent. 71 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:42,600 We're talking about him, going down into the underworld after 72 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,300 he's crucified. And I've been, I was a part of 73 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:47,500 Frontier for about five and a half years and pretty much from 74 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:50,200 day one. We've competitive confessed, the 75 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,200 Apostles Creed, we did that tonight and you see this phrase 76 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,900 pop up? He descended into hell. 77 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,100 I don't know if you're like me, I grew up Baptist. 78 00:03:59,100 --> 00:04:00,800 I was Southern Baptist my entire life. 79 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,100 I serve in a Southern Baptist Church now, and I would bump 80 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:07,300 into That phrase, he descended into hell and that would freak 81 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:08,800 me out. Like, what are you toeses think? 82 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,700 Talking about you, Tommy the Jesus descended into hell, and 83 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:15,100 that's because I believed my only understanding of that word 84 00:04:15,100 --> 00:04:20,100 h-e-l-l-o meant a place of eternal torment and so I did 85 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:22,300 hear that and be like families. Catholics are weird. 86 00:04:22,300 --> 00:04:24,700 Why are we reading this Apostles Creed thing, and those press, 87 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:27,000 those, those anglicans, they are some weird Falk. 88 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,500 They believe that Jesus descended into hell, what, what 89 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:34,200 is going on here? But as I've grown and come to a 90 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,300 Understand the scriptures more richly and understanding what 91 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:39,500 the Apostles Creed is trying to accomplish. 92 00:04:39,900 --> 00:04:43,800 It gave me a broader view of what Jesus did on behalf of 93 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:48,100 those who would follow him. And so we're looking at the 94 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:52,300 dissension of Christ into hell. We're looking at him going into 95 00:04:52,300 --> 00:04:54,900 the Afterlife and I want to flush that out here more in just 96 00:04:54,900 --> 00:04:58,600 a second but we all know about Good Friday. 97 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:03,000 Good Friday, we may wear black clothing. 98 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,600 You try to take on a more somber tone. 99 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,300 We turn the lights down, we leave in silence and so we 100 00:05:07,300 --> 00:05:12,300 celebrate, and we mourn our sin and know that Jesus has been 101 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:14,400 crucified on behalf of the faithful. 102 00:05:14,500 --> 00:05:16,800 We know that. And then we have this Saturday, 103 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:18,200 they were like well I guess we're just waiting. 104 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:20,100 We just going to fill these Easter baskets baskets on 105 00:05:20,100 --> 00:05:22,200 Saturday night. So the kids can have them and we 106 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,700 really don't know what to do with Saturday and then and then 107 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:28,200 Easter Sunday morning, we could celebrate and sing our guts out 108 00:05:28,300 --> 00:05:30,800 about Christ. Resurrection, but there's this 109 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,300 time in between that we neglect often in our theology, in our 110 00:05:35,300 --> 00:05:39,600 understanding of Christ's Ministry that that, that we can 111 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,900 squeeze out more joy out of it. And so this this day Saturday 112 00:05:43,900 --> 00:05:46,900 which throughout church history has been known as Holy Saturday. 113 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:50,200 We look at what Jesus did whenever he was dead. 114 00:05:50,900 --> 00:05:55,200 We'd look at we're all pretty familiar with Christ died and 115 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,400 then Christ was resurrected, but what do you do on the 116 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,600 in-between? What's what He accomplished 117 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:03,800 while his body was dead, while his lungs had no breath in them 118 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,800 while his heart had no beet inside his chest. 119 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:10,400 What is Christ at work doing? What does he accomplishing in 120 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,500 his death and this doctrine of Christ descending into hell? 121 00:06:14,500 --> 00:06:17,800 The dissensus, the harrowing of hell, we see that Christ even 122 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:22,400 though his body is dead, his spirit is at work on behalf of 123 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:26,500 God's people and God's glory and God's judgment over the forces 124 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:29,000 of evil. There's so much that we can 125 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,800 learn. From this one day this Holy 126 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,400 Saturday and understand what Jesus was doing for us. 127 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,400 And I love this Doctrine, just really a few years ago is 128 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,700 whenever I started to understand it and really fall in love with 129 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,400 with this Doctrine. And so I hope that tonight what 130 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,800 we accomplished here in these next, few moments will be 131 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,500 helpful for you and that whenever you get to Holly 132 00:06:50,500 --> 00:06:53,800 Saturday here in a few weeks that it your Holy Saturday won't 133 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,900 be wasted but that you'll actually know what to do. 134 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:59,200 You'll know what to celebrate on that Saturday before Easter 135 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,900 Sunday it. So we're going to look at three 136 00:07:01,900 --> 00:07:04,900 passages here and what I really want to do is present you kind 137 00:07:04,900 --> 00:07:08,000 of with what one of my favorite theologians will call a matrix 138 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,300 of ideas, how all these ideas operate with one another and 139 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:15,900 present us with information about who Jesus is? 140 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,100 So the first pass is going to look at and if you want to turn 141 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:21,000 there and your scriptures or turn on your glowy screen and 142 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,400 and figure out what's going on there, you can turn to 143 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,500 Revelation 1 and we'll look at 7 verses 17 and 18, Revelation, 1 144 00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:30,900 17 and 18. But we're going to start here, 145 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:32,600 and we're going to kind of use this as a launching pad. 146 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:37,400 And as I said earlier, there's a whole mine that we can dig and 147 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,700 bring things back up to the surface and the passages that 148 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:42,700 we're look at tonight, we're not going to have time to do all of 149 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:45,100 that. And I'll if you want to catch me 150 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:47,700 after we're done tonight, I can give you some more resources, 151 00:07:47,700 --> 00:07:50,000 Point some books out to you that have been really helpful for me. 152 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,300 But we're to look at these passages and scrape the surface 153 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:55,800 and then I get to leave and then I get to hear about what 154 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,600 Frontier does next year on Holy Saturday. 155 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,500 And how you guys are Going down into the mines, digging up these 156 00:08:01,500 --> 00:08:03,400 jewels that we find in these passages. 157 00:08:04,300 --> 00:08:09,100 Let me read read for us here. When I saw him, I fell at his 158 00:08:09,100 --> 00:08:13,200 feet as though dead, but he laid his right hand on me saying, 159 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,100 fear not. I am the first and the last and 160 00:08:17,100 --> 00:08:20,800 the living one, I died and behold. 161 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:25,100 I am alive for Evermore and I have the keys of death and 162 00:08:25,100 --> 00:08:29,900 Hades. Two verses there that I probably 163 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:31,400 read. I don't know how many times in 164 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,000 my life in the Bible reading plan or just me being bored. 165 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,700 Like, let's look at this kooky stuff and Revelation these two 166 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:40,299 simple versus here. Kind of set the stage for us. 167 00:08:40,299 --> 00:08:45,100 So we have John, who is given this Revelation by God, and he 168 00:08:45,100 --> 00:08:48,400 is encountering Jesus. And he's having this 169 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:52,200 conversation with Jesus and John falls down at Jesus feet and 170 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,400 he's freaking out. He says I it was basically like 171 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,900 I was dead. I just fell on my face. 172 00:08:56,900 --> 00:09:01,200 Face and then Jesus lays his right hand on John. 173 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:06,100 And he says, fear not. Why is he not supposed to fear, 174 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:07,600 will? He unpacks and things but he 175 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:12,300 says, behold I have the keys of death and Hades. 176 00:09:13,100 --> 00:09:15,400 What is, what does that mean? We could do a whole study on 177 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:18,800 language of keys in the Old Testament and the ancient world 178 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,800 and the Greco-Roman culture of the study of keys. 179 00:09:22,100 --> 00:09:24,000 We're not, we don't have the time for that tonight, but what 180 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,600 Jesus is saying, is that I have ownership over death, and over 181 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:32,100 Hades, Hades is the Greek word for hell and not just a place of 182 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:35,100 eternal torment. But the place where, when you I 183 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:39,500 your soul goes somewhere, your spirit goes somewhere, and to 184 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:41,300 understand this more fully. We have to think about how 185 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:46,200 people conceptualize the world. And this time frame, they view 186 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,300 the world as a, it was a three, tiered Cosmos. 187 00:09:49,500 --> 00:09:52,800 There were the heavens, there's the Earth, and there's the realm 188 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,400 under the Earth and that realm under the Earth is where your 189 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,500 soul goes to after you die. And for God's people, his 190 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:03,500 faithful people in the Old Testament, we see them expecting 191 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:06,000 something to happen. After they died, when their soul 192 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,500 is separated from their bodies, they they have hope that God is 193 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:13,700 going to reunite their bodies and their souls. 194 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:17,300 And in Revelation, we see this unfold that one day, there's a 195 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:20,600 new heavens and a new Earth. But but where do where do these 196 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:22,500 souls go? When they die, will they go into 197 00:10:22,500 --> 00:10:26,900 the underworld? If you were to ask someone 5,000 198 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:28,800 years ago, four thousand years ago, three thousand years ago, 199 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,300 two thousand years ago. What happens when you die, they 200 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:34,800 would tell you, well our souls, leave our bodies because we If 201 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:38,600 that we're not just we're not just sacks of flesh but there's 202 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:41,200 something that inhabits our bodies. 203 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,900 And when we die, when our blood isn't getting pumped through our 204 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:48,800 bodies, whenever our lungs aren't pushing air in and out 205 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,600 our souls depart somewhere and it goes into the underworld, it 206 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,800 goes into Shale is the Hebrew word for this and the Hebrew 207 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:00,100 understanding or it goes into Hades which is the Greek 208 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:03,000 understanding of the afterlife but you'll see this language of 209 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,100 Underworld. So when I swear I'm going to use 210 00:11:05,100 --> 00:11:08,800 these words very interchangeably tonight but Shale Hades 211 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:13,100 underworld Realm of the dead. It's this this concept of when 212 00:11:13,100 --> 00:11:17,300 you die, your soul goes somewhere, you don't just cease 213 00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:19,000 to exist. You don't just you're not just 214 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,500 annihilated. But you, your soul goes 215 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:23,700 somewhere in the hope for God's faithful people. 216 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,700 And the Old Testament is that God would resurrect you. 217 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:29,500 He would reunite your body and your soul and you would Rule and 218 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:33,100 reign with him forever. So that's come to understanding 219 00:11:33,100 --> 00:11:36,700 of, okay? There's this three-tiered Cosmos 220 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:40,200 Heaven Earth, the underworld where you go when you die. 221 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,900 And you're there. And it's not, it's not that 222 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:47,600 you're being punished as an Unfaithful as a faithful 223 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:51,600 follower of God, but you're in this, not Purgatory, but your 224 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,200 soul goes somewhere and is waiting for something. 225 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,700 And now we see in this Revelation to John, that Jesus 226 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:01,500 says, I hold the keys of death and Hades. 227 00:12:02,300 --> 00:12:05,200 I have ownership. I can unlock these Gates. 228 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,900 I am the title holder here. If you want to, you want to see 229 00:12:07,900 --> 00:12:10,100 the deed to this property? I got this deed to this 230 00:12:10,100 --> 00:12:12,300 property. I own the these things. 231 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:17,400 Jesus tells him this because it tells John this to, hey, don't 232 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,100 be fearful. Don't be afraid. 233 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:22,600 I own death. I own the underworld. 234 00:12:22,900 --> 00:12:25,500 I own these things. I have rule over these things. 235 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:28,600 I have sovereignty over these things and that should comfort 236 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,700 you, John, and today, that should comfort us knowing that 237 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:34,400 Jesus has authority over all things, the little things and 238 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,300 the big things, he's authority over all of those things. 239 00:12:37,900 --> 00:12:41,100 And so, I wanted us to jump into this passage first. 240 00:12:41,100 --> 00:12:43,300 Just to show us, Jesus has authority over. 241 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:48,100 Life and death. And the Underworld, the place 242 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:51,700 that your soul goes when you die or at least in one cover. 243 00:12:51,700 --> 00:12:54,600 This more in a little bit. I'm getting ahead of myself, but 244 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,700 we see, Jesus Authority, that should give us joy. 245 00:12:57,700 --> 00:13:01,000 When we see Jesus, Jesus have authority over all things. 246 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,100 I don't know about you, but my life has been out of control a 247 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:07,400 time or two people that I love and know their lives have been 248 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,800 out of control after a time or two, but the hope that we have, 249 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,600 as followers of Jesus is that he He is in control of all things. 250 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,800 Nothing is a surprise to him. So, John is being comforted 251 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,700 with, with the knowledge of Jesus Authority, his ownership, 252 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:26,300 his holding the keys, Over Hades and death. 253 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,000 I used to have a key to Noche were Frontier gathered a while 254 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,400 back. I had this since kind of sense 255 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,100 of ownership but I don't own that building Frontier. 256 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:36,600 Only went up in there one son once a week on Sunday mornings. 257 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:40,100 So, I had this illusion of ownership, but Jesus, there's no 258 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:43,500 illusion of ownership with Jesus, he totally owns 259 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:48,000 everything. He has control over Hades, the 260 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,300 underworld He has control over death. 261 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,500 So we're starting here because well if Jesus has the keys of 262 00:13:57,500 --> 00:13:59,800 Hades and death will then what does that imply? 263 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,700 It implies that he had to go somewhere to get these keys and 264 00:14:03,700 --> 00:14:05,800 there's like a I'll punch a complaint. 265 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,800 You some really helpful resources on just this concept 266 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:10,900 of Jesus having the keys, there's an awesome book called 267 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:13,800 The Battle of the keys. And it's about what Jesus did 268 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,200 when he descended. And so we're starting here of 269 00:14:16,300 --> 00:14:19,500 Jesus, whenever he was crucified, he died as king Jimmy 270 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:22,500 would say he gave up the ghost, his spirit. 271 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,100 Descended into the underworld and he battles for the keys. 272 00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:30,200 He snatches the keys from Satan's grasp and now he owns 273 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,700 it. And we'll show, I'll show you 274 00:14:32,700 --> 00:14:34,900 why that's important to understand him battling for the 275 00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:37,600 keys and having the keys in our next passage. 276 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,600 So Jesus having these Keys implies that he went somewhere 277 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,700 to get these keys. So the next passage I want to 278 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:47,900 point us to is First Peter chapter 3 First. 279 00:14:47,900 --> 00:14:50,700 Peter chapter 3 will look at verses 18 to 22. 280 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,200 First Peter 3, 18 to 22. So kind of laid the foundation 281 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:59,300 here of Jesus, is the owner of these keys of death and Hades. 282 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,500 Well, why is that significant What's going on here? 283 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:06,100 Well, in First, Peter 3, Peter is writing to a church that is 284 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:10,300 suffering or they're about to experience more suffering. 285 00:15:10,500 --> 00:15:13,100 There's a lot of debate on exactly what's going on but 286 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:15,700 there is a level of suffering that Peter is addressing in 287 00:15:15,700 --> 00:15:20,000 these churches that are scattered about Asia Minor and 288 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,900 he writes to them, he addresses their suffering and then he says 289 00:15:23,300 --> 00:15:26,900 for Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the 290 00:15:26,900 --> 00:15:31,100 unrighteous that he might bring us to God, being put to death 291 00:15:31,100 --> 00:15:33,700 and The flesh but made alive in the spirit. 292 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:36,400 Oh, that seems like we've heard that about Peter. 293 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:37,900 Yeah, we've heard. We've heard you talk about some 294 00:15:37,900 --> 00:15:39,400 things like this before. We've heard Paul talked about 295 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,800 some things like that before, and then he goes on in which he 296 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,900 went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison. 297 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:46,900 What are you talking about here Peter? 298 00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:51,300 He went to his Spirit went and he proclaimed to the spirits in 299 00:15:51,300 --> 00:15:52,900 prison. Where is this prison located? 300 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,200 And he goes on to say because they formerly did not obey when 301 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,200 God's patience waited in the days of Noah while the ark was 302 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,600 being prepared in which a few that is eight persons were 303 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:06,200 brought slave safely through water baptism which corresponds 304 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,900 to this now saves you know as a removal of dirt from the body 305 00:16:08,900 --> 00:16:13,100 but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, Through the 306 00:16:13,108 --> 00:16:16,000 resurrection of Jesus Christ who has gone into heaven and is at 307 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,200 the right hand of God with angels authorities and Powers 308 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:24,600 having been subjected to him. There's a lot of stuff in there, 309 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,700 like I've heard that before, then you kind of hear, he 310 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:28,200 wouldn't proclaimed a Spirits in prison. 311 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:32,300 What is what's going on here? There's a lot of things that 312 00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:37,500 Peters assuming in addressing his original audience and we can 313 00:16:37,500 --> 00:16:40,600 we'll pull back a couple layers here but what Peter is assuming 314 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,800 in his audiences that they're familiar with the story and it's 315 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:49,200 called first Enoch where Enoch and it's a way we could no doubt 316 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,000 on this and spin like seven hours talking about this 317 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,500 tonight. But I'm trying to be I'm trying 318 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:54,000 to be helpful. Be helpful in If you help. 319 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Okay. But it's a story and it's a 320 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,700 fictional story is not in the scriptures, it's not canonical, 321 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:02,700 but it's the story of Enoch. He was a righteous man he walked 322 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:07,599 with God and he is taken for he is not so he never tasted death 323 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:11,599 and then Enoch gets summons by these spirits who were 324 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:14,200 imprisoned in hell and the underworld are in the 325 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,700 unrighteous compartment of hell and they gets he gets summoned 326 00:17:17,700 --> 00:17:20,700 by them so he not goes down there and he's like what's up 327 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:22,400 guys? And you know and they totally 328 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,099 knock hey Can you go tell God that? 329 00:17:25,099 --> 00:17:29,900 We're sorry for this whole thing that we this whole Genesis 6 330 00:17:29,900 --> 00:17:32,400 thing where we were the sons of the most high. 331 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,600 We were sons of God and we came down, we made it with women. 332 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:36,800 We made babies made these things called Nephilim and that guy 333 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:40,200 kind of wild not a hand. We did a lot of bad stuff but 334 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,400 please tell him that we are sorry and we'll never do it 335 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:45,100 again. And so you knock goes into God's 336 00:17:45,100 --> 00:17:48,400 presence and he tells God hate these dudes down here. 337 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:53,200 They said that they're sorry, and that they'll never do it 338 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,800 again. And then God says, You can tell 339 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,100 them it's just as bad and I got some bad news for you. 340 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:01,800 You're not going to be released from your change. 341 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,200 You're going to remain imprisoned, you're going to be 342 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:05,700 punished, you're going to be destroyed. 343 00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:09,100 And so Enoch takes his journey back down, talk to these. 344 00:18:09,100 --> 00:18:13,100 These homies who were in Chains and tells him hey God said that, 345 00:18:13,500 --> 00:18:16,500 it's cool that you're sorry but you can't undo what you have 346 00:18:16,500 --> 00:18:18,300 done. There is no forgiveness for you. 347 00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:21,800 You're going to be continued to remain and imprisoned here and 348 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:26,000 so he preaches to them and then you knock goes back, elsewhere. 349 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:27,600 And so, that's kind of an assumption. 350 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:32,700 This was a very popular story that existed in Jewish culture 351 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,000 and so Peter, we may not pick up on this stuff immediately, but, 352 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,400 but Peters, audiences connect kind of have this in the back of 353 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:44,600 their minds, this dissension to preach to these Spirits in 354 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,300 prison and then Enoch goes back into God's presence. 355 00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:52,700 And so, what we see Peter doing here, as he says, he's using 356 00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:57,900 Enoch as a typology pointing to Jesus, And what Peter says is 357 00:18:57,900 --> 00:19:01,000 Christ, he was righteous, but he suffered for the unrighteous, 358 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,900 and he was made dead in his flesh. 359 00:19:02,900 --> 00:19:07,000 But alive in his Spirit, he was made alive in his spirit, so he 360 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,100 could go and preach to Spirits who were imprisoned. 361 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:15,800 And so Jesus on, Holy Saturday, he is crucified and his Spirit 362 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:20,800 descends into the underworld. And he goes on a preaching tour 363 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:24,400 that we said that word proclaim here and most translations in 364 00:19:24,408 --> 00:19:27,600 English, but a better way to to help us understand this in a 365 00:19:27,608 --> 00:19:29,300 better translation. Is that he preached. 366 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:32,000 So Jesus is going on this preaching to her, he shows up 367 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,300 into the underworld and these evil spirits who rebelled 368 00:19:34,300 --> 00:19:38,600 against God in Genesis chapter 6, They're probably like a week 369 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:40,900 got this, dude, he thought he could trick us, he thought he 370 00:19:40,900 --> 00:19:44,100 could, he thought he was gonna just be hot stuff and he was 371 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:45,400 never gonna die while we got him. 372 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:48,700 And Jesus says, hey, I've got some bad news for you guys. 373 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,300 I'm only going to be up in here for just a little bit and I'm 374 00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:54,800 going to be resurrected and I'm gonna be the first fruit of New 375 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,600 Creation. My, my body is dead. 376 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,100 My spirit is alive. And so Jesus, preaching the 377 00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:02,400 gospel to these evil spirits, the Spiritual Beings were in 378 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,400 prison who stepped outside of their bounds. 379 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,800 As we see elsewhere in scripture to describe this, Yeah. 380 00:20:07,900 --> 00:20:10,200 But there is no hope for forgiveness for them. 381 00:20:10,700 --> 00:20:14,900 There is no hope for a change of heart for them, but Jesus doing 382 00:20:14,900 --> 00:20:17,400 is he's, I picture in my mind, he's rattling. 383 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,900 The cages of their jail cell and saying, what you have done is 384 00:20:20,900 --> 00:20:25,200 going to be undone by me. I have the keys now, I could let 385 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,700 you out if I wanted to, but I'm not going to let you out. 386 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,100 I could do this but I'm not going to because what you have 387 00:20:31,100 --> 00:20:33,200 done is you've perverted Humanity? 388 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,900 You have brought more corruption into Humanity, you have brought 389 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:40,000 you or agents of the kingdom of darkness, but the king of 390 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,800 darkness is not going to overpower the Kingdom of Light. 391 00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:46,600 The city of man, the evil city of man is not going to overpower 392 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,200 the city of God. This Kingdom you tried to build 393 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,500 is not going to be powerful enough to wage war. 394 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:54,900 That is going to be that. It's going to be thwarting. 395 00:20:54,900 --> 00:20:58,300 The kingdom of God, Jesus has the keys. 396 00:20:58,300 --> 00:21:00,300 He's Jingling the keys in front of them. 397 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:01,900 Hey, you guys want to get out? Oh, psych. 398 00:21:01,900 --> 00:21:04,800 You can't get out, but they were also what he's doing. 399 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,100 And we see this in Ephesians chapter 4 verses 8 and 9. 400 00:21:08,300 --> 00:21:10,000 We have a ton of time to get into that. 401 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,000 But, but it talks about Jesus descending. 402 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,500 There's a lot of debate on this passage and I can show you later 403 00:21:14,500 --> 00:21:18,500 why there's debate on this but talks about Jesus descending to 404 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:20,600 the lower regions. If you have the ESV is going to 405 00:21:20,608 --> 00:21:24,100 say the lower regions comma the Earth. 406 00:21:25,100 --> 00:21:28,200 There's other translations that would say the lower regions in 407 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,400 the earth. I just read a toll call like I 408 00:21:31,408 --> 00:21:34,400 would read a bunch of stuff other night and it kind of gave 409 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,700 me too much content and I just verbally diary and up here right 410 00:21:37,700 --> 00:21:41,800 now as a result of that. But I think I think the more 411 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,000 helpful translation is that he did descend into the lower 412 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 regions of the earth. He goes down in there. 413 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,400 And what he does is, he leads a host of captives and he gives 414 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,500 gifts to men. And so Jesus, not only does he 415 00:21:54,508 --> 00:21:59,000 go on a preaching tour and Proclaim his victory over the 416 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,400 principalities and over the darkness and over the evil 417 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,100 Spiritual Beings, but he also does something else. 418 00:22:04,100 --> 00:22:08,100 He leads a host of captives and gives gifts to men, Luke talked 419 00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:10,600 about on Sunday, and I hate that he's not here because I was 420 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,600 gonna give him a hard time about just because it's fun to do to 421 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:18,900 Luke, but, but he talked about God's victory, over the Gods on 422 00:22:18,900 --> 00:22:21,400 the Earth. He set me up real well for 423 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,900 tonight. God is going to destroy these 424 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:27,300 gods that are on the earth that are leading God's people astray 425 00:22:27,300 --> 00:22:29,900 and causing them to worship idols. 426 00:22:31,300 --> 00:22:34,900 And now what we see in Jesus descent as him and his victory 427 00:22:35,500 --> 00:22:39,800 over the Spiritual Beings and the underworld under the Earth. 428 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,900 Jesus, secures Victory on the cross whenever he is the perfect 429 00:22:43,900 --> 00:22:49,800 spotless atoning sacrifice. And then he goes down into the 430 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,300 underworld and he proclaims his victory, he proclaims that. 431 00:22:53,300 --> 00:22:57,400 What I have done my perfect life, my sacrificial death. 432 00:22:58,300 --> 00:23:01,000 This was sufficient to rescue people who were in the 433 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,200 Underworld and Usher them into God's presence. 434 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,900 And so, Jesus goes on this preaching tour, it's like, eight 435 00:23:07,100 --> 00:23:10,800 pronounces, judgment pronounces that there is no hope for these 436 00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:15,000 rebellious Spiritual Beings, but then he also brings out. 437 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,900 God's faithful people that are in the Underworld, I should have 438 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:19,600 mentioned us earlier. And the way that people 439 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,900 conceptualize the underworld, as there is an unrighteous 440 00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:24,600 compartment of this not should have put a graphic on the screen 441 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,000 but, you know, I'm not like coal and all that graphics on screens 442 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,600 but there's an unrighteous compartment where the people who 443 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,400 have rejected God and the following other gods are and 444 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,100 where evil Spiritual Beings are. And then there's the righteous 445 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:39,800 compartment where the Old Testament Believers were 446 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,500 located. But when Jesus goes down in 447 00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:44,000 there, he leads a host of captives. 448 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,800 He brings God's faithful people out of this out of the 449 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,100 underworld. Old and brings them into God's 450 00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:53,300 presence. He gives gifts to men. 451 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:57,100 If you look at later on and if he's in chapter 4, what Jesus 452 00:23:57,100 --> 00:24:01,500 does is the gifts that he is giving our roles in the church 453 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:04,200 that benefit the church and that build up the church where he's 454 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,300 building up his kingdom. Within These Little mobile human 455 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:11,200 beings, who are images of God and who are filled with God's 456 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:12,900 presence. They are now that they're the 457 00:24:12,900 --> 00:24:16,300 new temples that are walking around and saw Jesus. 458 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,600 He pronounces judgment Heap. Announces victory in the 459 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,000 Underworld but he also rescues a group of people. 460 00:24:24,300 --> 00:24:27,900 And Peter also goes on here in First Peter chapter 3 he uses 461 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:30,400 Enoch was kind of the story of Enoch. 462 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,500 That's in the social imagination to show that Jesus is better 463 00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:36,400 than Enoch. He's stronger than Enoch, he's 464 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,600 more powerfully than Enoch. He didn't just like Enoch, he 465 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,600 didn't, just go and preach he preached. 466 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,600 But then, he rescued and led people out of out of the 467 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,600 underworld and to God's presence. 468 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,000 And that's good news for us because whenever our souls 469 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:53,600 depart from our bodies Upon Our death, Is that we don't just go 470 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,700 into the underworld? We get to be like that thief on 471 00:24:56,700 --> 00:24:59,800 the cross, who Jesus says today you will be with me in Paradise. 472 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,900 We get to be in God's presence and if you know your Bibles and 473 00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:06,100 you know, Revelation when you know that it's not the end of 474 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,700 Heaven is not just like Cole said the other day on our pot, 475 00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:11,000 on the podcast, Heaven is not the end zone. 476 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,400 Heaven is the red zone there is going to be a day that comes 477 00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:18,800 whenever we die in our souls. Go to be present with Christ. 478 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:21,900 There's going to be a day that comes where Heaven and Earth are 479 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:23,800 going to overlap and it's going to be a new Heaven and it's 480 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,500 gonna be a new Earth. The Whole Earth is going to be 481 00:25:25,508 --> 00:25:28,800 the Garden of Eden as we better than anything we could possibly 482 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,300 imagine. But our souls, and our bodies 483 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:33,600 are going to reunite all because of what Jesus has done on the 484 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:38,100 cross and in his dissent. And so we have the hope that 485 00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:41,400 we're not just going to be this, disembodied spirit for eternity 486 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,900 and that was still be sweet enough, right? 487 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,000 We get to be disembodied floating around with our that 488 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,300 looks like as a disembodied spirit with Jesus, but, but 489 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:52,800 Jesus is returning back to God's. 490 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:57,700 I bring returns us back to God. Odds ideal of being embodied 491 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:04,000 spirits, who dwell and Rule, and Reign alongside God as a 492 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,800 glorious reality, that Jesus has accomplished on behalf on our 493 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,800 behalf. I don't know about you, I 494 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,500 couldn't accomplish this, right? I've sent a couple of times as 495 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:15,600 I've been here. There's a long story, but 496 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:21,000 anyway. Yeah, stay up way too late every 497 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,500 night this week. My kids have stayed up way too 498 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:26,500 late every night this week, but the last text that I want to, 499 00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:29,000 that want to point us to. We've looked at Revelations, we 500 00:26:29,008 --> 00:26:31,400 looked at John. Look at First Peter, we've heard 501 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:35,800 Peters encouragement of the church that hey, I know, you're 502 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,900 suffering and suffering is gonna get worse for you. 503 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:42,900 But Jesus not only suffered on the cross for you but he also 504 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:47,300 descended into hell. And proclaimed his victory over 505 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:50,300 over sin and over death to that, that should help you. 506 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,700 That should help you be motivated to pursue 507 00:26:52,700 --> 00:26:54,800 righteousness whenever you're being persecuted. 508 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,900 We've looked at those those two two pieces of scripture and if 509 00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:01,400 you might think that, well, this is just what these guys, this 510 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,700 was their interpretation of what Jesus had to do. 511 00:27:05,700 --> 00:27:08,600 They just kind of came up with this, on their own, but if we 512 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:13,900 take a gander at Matthew chapter 12, we see that Jesus has this 513 00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:18,300 in his in his mind, as well. The Jesus. 514 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:23,500 Talks about him descending wasn't just what some guys were 515 00:27:23,508 --> 00:27:25,100 like. It'd be cool if we wrote some 516 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:26,800 stories about Jesus descending into hell. 517 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,800 That wouldn't that be awesome if we talk about that? 518 00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:30,500 But Jesus conceptualize this as well. 519 00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:34,300 In Matthew chapter 12 verses 38 to 42 you probably got the 520 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:37,800 heading in your scriptures that says something like the the sign 521 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:43,600 of Jonah May have some different language there, but and the ESV 522 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,500 what I've got here is the sign of Jonah. 523 00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:48,500 And so Jesus is talking with these fools, the scribes the 524 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:51,300 Pharisees and they were talking to him and they said, hey 525 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,800 teacher, we wish to see a sign from you. 526 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,500 Jesus has been engaging, these scribes and the Pharisees, and 527 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:01,600 they've been dogging him and trying to get them, but Jesus 528 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,500 knows who they are and Jesus Jesus. 529 00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:07,800 So he is going to win and Jesus answers them an evil and 530 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,000 adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be 531 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,100 given to it except the sign of the prophet. 532 00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:18,700 Jonah for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in 533 00:28:18,700 --> 00:28:22,300 the belly of the great fish. So will the son of man be three 534 00:28:22,300 --> 00:28:27,900 days and three nights in the heart of the Earth, the men of 535 00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:31,000 Nineveh will rise up at the Judgment with this generation 536 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,900 and condemn it for they repented at the preaching and behold 537 00:28:34,900 --> 00:28:36,500 something greater than Jonah is here. 538 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,900 The queen of the South will rise up at the Judgment with this 539 00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:41,500 generation and condemn it for. She came from the ends of the 540 00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:44,300 Earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon and behold something 541 00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:48,200 greater than Solomon is here. So Jesus uses Jonah as an 542 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,500 archetype, as a typology of what he is going to do. 543 00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:55,200 If you don't remember the story of Jonah, which as long as you 544 00:28:55,208 --> 00:28:58,700 don't remember it, as Like in terms of VeggieTales then you 545 00:28:58,700 --> 00:29:00,000 can kind of understand what's going on here. 546 00:29:01,300 --> 00:29:05,800 Jonas told to go preach to Nineveh caught, tell them to 547 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,100 repent and Jonah says, no, I don't like those guys. 548 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,900 And so Jonah goes, the exact opposite direction gets on a 549 00:29:12,908 --> 00:29:14,600 boat. The boat starts rocking in a row 550 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:15,900 on. The sailors are praying to all 551 00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:18,200 their guys and they're like, yo, don't know, why are you asleep 552 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:19,100 in this boat? Man? 553 00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:20,800 We're about to all about to die. I pray to your God. 554 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,800 And so I was like, hey, this is because of me, guys. 555 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,000 If you chunk me over the the edge of this boat will be good 556 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,100 to go. So they tossed Jonah over the 557 00:29:28,108 --> 00:29:30,400 boat and he goes into the water and he's like, okay, cool. 558 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,400 I finally Like I'm for sure, not going to Nineveh. 559 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,800 Now I'm going to die, I'm going to drown and then this fish 560 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,700 comes in Scoops, Jonah out. And then we see Jonah kind of 561 00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:41,100 come to terms. He kind of repents he prays this 562 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:44,800 prayer and Jonah talks about him being in the pits, which another 563 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,700 way to think about that as Jonah was envisioning himself. 564 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:51,800 As in Shale. He was, he was in this place and 565 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,700 he had descended down. And then he gets spewed out onto 566 00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:58,100 the shores and he had goes to Nineveh and preaches. 567 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:03,600 And Jesus says uses this as the sign of Jonah, these scribes and 568 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,300 Pharisees are wanting a sign they wanted Jesus to do 569 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:08,200 something that and Jesus has been providing, all these signs 570 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,100 has been healing. People casting out demons, and 571 00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:12,700 preaching and teaching, but they want something more in, Jesus 572 00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:16,500 says, what I'm going to do, I'm going to take on the sign of 573 00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:18,600 Jonah Jonah. Went into a fish for this amount 574 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,500 of time but I'm going to go into the heart of the earth. 575 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,600 So Jesus is saying I'm going to go into anyone. 576 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,600 Say that the understanding is that he's going into the place 577 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,900 of the dead, that's where he's going to be. 578 00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:32,700 He's descending down in there and then he's going to rise up 579 00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:35,800 again victoriously and he's going to have this preaching 580 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,500 tour just like Jonah did Jonah went and preached around in 581 00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:40,700 Nova. Looks very short and what we 582 00:30:40,700 --> 00:30:44,100 have in the scriptures but Jesus while he's descended and why 583 00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:47,100 he's resurrected preaches. Then he resurrects and it is at 584 00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:52,000 this as a sign of the power of God that he holds the keys. 585 00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:56,500 That he has authority over all things that death cannot control 586 00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:59,100 him. That's a lot of information, a 587 00:30:59,100 --> 00:31:01,600 lot of content, right? There's probably some murky 588 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,700 areas that I left there and I'm some of them. 589 00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:05,800 I left intentionally murky to. So you can have some follow up 590 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,500 with coal while I'm gone. We recorded a podcast yesterday 591 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:11,800 that maybe can be complementary to this. 592 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:15,600 But as I said, the beginning, I wanted to give you some 593 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,000 information to give you handles onto this doctrine of what 594 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,300 happened when Christ died, the you just die and go take a nap. 595 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,100 That he died and just wait for his resurrection or was he at 596 00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:28,200 work? I think the scriptures have 597 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,700 given us an information here that Jesus was at work. 598 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:33,700 At First Peter 3 pack, text has become one of my favorite 599 00:31:33,700 --> 00:31:38,000 passages because it shows him at were even, Jesus Is So Glorious. 600 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,600 And so powerful, that even while his body is dead, his soul is 601 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:47,000 securing the hope and the destiny of the faithful. 602 00:31:48,100 --> 00:31:51,500 The Jesus, even when his, whenever his body is lifeless 603 00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:55,000 his soul. Is proclaiming victory over the 604 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,800 kingdom of darkness. Let that sink in to your to your 605 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,100 mind in your heart. That's how powerful our Jesus 606 00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:06,300 is. Our King has his Reign, never 607 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:11,200 ends and even when it looks like he lost there on the cross, he 608 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,800 didn't his economy is upside down from that than that of 609 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:19,800 other kings, he died so that he could be a sacrifice, but he 610 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,100 died. So also he could go down and 611 00:32:21,108 --> 00:32:24,200 Proclaim judgment over the principalities in the rulers of 612 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,300 Darkness that are in the Underworld. 613 00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:30,000 That's how powerful Jesus. Is that should give us joy. 614 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,400 That should give us, hope it does this Doctrine. 615 00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:37,400 I'll end with this here before we get to respond, to the power, 616 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,500 and the Majesty of Jesus. But this, this Doctrine has been 617 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:45,700 special to me and several ways. This as I talk with people who 618 00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:50,000 have a fear of death, as I think about my depression and anxiety, 619 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,900 as I think about the evil that exists in this world, embracing 620 00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:56,300 the doctrine of Christ descent into hell. 621 00:32:57,300 --> 00:33:00,800 Helps me combat those things. Helps me combat where I think 622 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,300 that things are just not going to get better. 623 00:33:02,300 --> 00:33:04,800 And you guys, if you were a part of Frontier year and a half ago, 624 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,000 so I'm going to bawl my eyes out and I was just a point where I 625 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,900 felt like nothing was ever going to get better. 626 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:12,600 There's gonna be stuck in this state, embracing this doctrine 627 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,300 of Christ descent that he suffered on my behalf and 628 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:21,100 descended into the place of the dead and he pronounced victory 629 00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:24,700 over the rulers of Darkness. He pronounced a victory over 630 00:33:24,700 --> 00:33:26,700 sin. He pronounces victory. 631 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,900 Over death, that's come. I was comforting for me to 632 00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:33,900 embrace him that to think that Jesus didn't just suffer. 633 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:36,800 But even when he was dead, he was at work for me. 634 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,800 Help me combat that. I kind of have this irrational 635 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,500 fear of death at times, but then, thinking of how Jesus is 636 00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:47,100 Victorious over death, that death could not hold him. 637 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:52,500 And the, that that the rulers of evil thought that they had 638 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:56,800 defeated Jesus, but Jesus says, I'm going to be resurrected, You 639 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,500 Don't Own Me. I own you. 640 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,400 The helps me come combat. That it helps me. 641 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,400 Also, give me a beautiful picture of baptism. 642 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,000 Baptism is a picture of this story of Jesus being crucified. 643 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:08,800 He's buried. Shenzhen to hell. 644 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,500 And then he's a resurrected and brought to New Life, it gives us 645 00:34:11,500 --> 00:34:14,699 another angle to view baptism with there's so many 646 00:34:14,699 --> 00:34:17,900 implications that we have with this doctrine of Christ. 647 00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:20,400 The scent. I know, it's weird, right? 648 00:34:20,699 --> 00:34:21,900 If you think it's weird, it's okay. 649 00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:24,900 But if you also think that Jesus was born of a virgin, that's 650 00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:28,100 also pretty weird as well. So who's to say that Jesus is 651 00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:30,000 limited. He doesn't descend into the 652 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,400 underworld and pronounced victory, over the spirits who 653 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:41,699 are imprisoned So I hope that yeah that this content went 654 00:34:41,699 --> 00:34:44,199 longer than I should have but I hope of this content. 655 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:46,300 Was it helpful for you? Just to kind of conceptualize 656 00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:50,100 what's going on and feed you with joy in Jesus. 657 00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:53,400 So now we get to we're going to confess the Apostles Creed again 658 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,300 together, and then we're going to have to worship Jesus Through 659 00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:57,900 song after we get this Apostles Creed done. 660 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,800 If you got questions about any of the stuff, I joked and said I 661 00:35:00,808 --> 00:35:03,300 was gonna do it on coals lap, but I've got some more notes and 662 00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:07,100 some resources that might be helpful for you, but I'm 663 00:35:07,100 --> 00:35:10,800 passionate about this I love it. It's changed is impacted me. 664 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:13,200 It's been good for me. I've been like, oh, it's not. 665 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,000 Do those Catholic weirdos who balloon talk about the stuff, 666 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:21,600 but people for centuries, believe this in confess this and 667 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,200 I can talk to you about the history of that. 668 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,400 And when it changed, but I'm glad that I get to be a part of 669 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,900 a be here in a part of this with you tonight and y'all don't look 670 00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:32,400 at me. Like I've got 12 heads on my 671 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,500 shoulders right now because I've set talk about this up before 672 00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:39,100 and people look at me like I was a fool anyway. let's stand and 673 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:42,700 can and and confess the Apostles Creed together with that with 674 00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:38,000 the mindset of what Christ did for us when he descended let's 675 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,600 stand and can and and confess the Apostles Creed together with 676 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,400 that with the mindset of what Christ did for us when he 677 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:45,100 descended