1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:04,880 3. Verses this morning John chapter 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:09,000 20, verses 19 through 22 Jesus comes to earth, takes on flesh, 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:11,600 lives the perfect life and then he's. 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,600 Put to death. On a cross. 5 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,840 It shatters everybody's expectations. 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,240 All of his followers go. Running for their lives. 7 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,680 And then? And then this happens in John 8 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:24,480 chapter. 20 a couple days. Later. 9 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:26,720 On the. Evening of the 1st. 10 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,520 Day of the week. The doors were. 11 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:34,640 Locked where the disciples were. For fear of the Jews. 12 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,720 They're locked in their room. They're terrified. 13 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:39,560 Their thought. Process is not. 14 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,160 Oh, let's wait for the. Resurrection their. 15 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:44,920 Thought process says they killed our leader. 16 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,680 They're probably. Coming for us next. 17 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:51,640 So they're. Behind locked doors, Afraid. 18 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:56,120 And then suddenly Jesus shows up. 19 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,640 He's alive. He's not where they last saw 20 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:04,160 him. He's out of the tomb. 21 00:01:05,239 --> 00:01:08,960 Jesus came and stood. Among them and talked. 22 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:11,560 He said to them. Peace be with you. 23 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,000 And when he had. Said this he showed. 24 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,200 Them. His hands. 25 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,240 He has real flesh. And his side? 26 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,640 He has a real. Body that's been resurrected. 27 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:25,040 And when the disciples saw that, then the disciples were glad. 28 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:26,280 When they saw. The Lord. 29 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,160 And so Jesus said. To them again, peace be with 30 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:31,120 you. As the. 31 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,600 Father has sent me. Even so, am I sending you? 32 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:38,000 And when? Jesus. 33 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Had said this, he. Breathed on them. 34 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,520 What a strange detail. He. 35 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,760 Breathed on them and said to them. 36 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:02,000 Receive the Holy Spirit, Heavenly Father, it is just. 37 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,200 Not enough. It's not enough to have oxygen. 38 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:13,280 It's not enough to just talk about resurrection life or. 39 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,280 Think about. Resurrection life or even sing 40 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,440 about resurrection life. We don't. 41 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,880 Just want oxygen? We want the. 42 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:27,440 Breath of Jesus. I don't just want to think about 43 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,760 the resurrection this morning, I want to experience that 44 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,680 resurrection power. And so, Lord, I'm desperate to 45 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:36,400 taste that. I'm desperate to feel that. 46 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:37,760 Would you? Take my old heart. 47 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:39,080 And make it new. Would you take? 48 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,080 Our old hearts and. Make them new. 49 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,320 Would you take our old? Minds and make them. 50 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,600 New Would you take every? Square inch of us. 51 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:51,480 Breathe into us. And make us new, that's what we. 52 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:53,880 Want this morning, Lord? And we ask all these things in 53 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:55,640 the precious name of Jesus and all God's. 54 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:58,480 People said. Amen, You can be. 55 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,400 Seated. You know this. 56 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,560 But in the ancient world there were no Listerine strips all. 57 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:08,600 Right. There was no mouthwash. 58 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:10,880 There were no mouth. Mints. 59 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,240 And so this is a strange. Move for Jesus it was not. 60 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:19,280 Common courtesy in the ancient world without breath mints. 61 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,360 To just. Going around breathing. 62 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,280 On people and so immediately you should ask the question, what's 63 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:26,560 going on here? Why? 64 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,480 Why does the resurrected? Jesus breathe on his. 65 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:32,480 Disciples, what could possibly be going? 66 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,440 On and that brings us. To the first. 67 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,040 Question that we have. This morning, which is. 68 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:43,520 Who? Is Jesus, The text says he 69 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,680 breathed on. Them. 70 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,040 Who's he? Who's Jesus? 71 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:51,640 And the answer. To that question is. 72 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,360 Jesus is fully human. That's one of the most important 73 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,320 things that we got to wrap our. Minds around as we. 74 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,760 Begin to think about. Who this Jesus figure? 75 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,400 Is that has shattered. All of. 76 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:03,240 Human history. The Bible. 77 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:04,800 Loves to refer to him as the second. 78 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,480 Adam or the new Adam and if you. Don't know why it's because. 79 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:10,960 In the book of Genesis, first book of the. 80 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,640 Bible Adam is the first human being in the book of. 81 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,760 Genesis. And what Adam does as he. 82 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,920 Represents all of humanity. He's the family. 83 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:20,839 Tree from which? All of the apples. 84 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,200 Fall from and if you know how, the story. 85 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:24,600 Goes he screws up. And he? 86 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,400 Screws up royally on his first. Job of being. 87 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,320 A human being. Tough to read about. 88 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:30,520 It's like, come. On man you had. 89 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,280 One job being a human being, and he fails at that job. 90 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:36,960 So why would the Bible call Jesus the second? 91 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:42,560 Adam Well, the idea here. Is that for salvation to come 92 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:43,960 to? Us as human beings. 93 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,160 The idea is that salvation It can't be. 94 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,480 It it can't. Be like a claw. 95 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,680 Machine from an arcade game. You know God. 96 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:59,960 Can't just reach a. Mechanical hand from heaven, and 97 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:01,960 then pluck us out and save us that way. 98 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:03,840 And the reason why he can't do that? 99 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,120 Is because of justice. Here's. 100 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,280 The problem that we're up against when we think about the 101 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:12,000 human. Problem and salvation human. 102 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,840 Beings. Only human beings sin, and so 103 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:19,520 only human beings should pay for that sin. 104 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,680 Here's the problem. Human beings are not perfect, 105 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,200 only God is. Perfect. 106 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:28,360 So only. God. 107 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,120 Can pay for their sin. This is what you. 108 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:35,560 Call, in the philosophical world, an impossible problem to 109 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:37,960 solve. It's an impossible nut to crack. 110 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,760 It's what happens when an unstoppable object meets an 111 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:44,040 unmovable wall. Sin. 112 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:49,280 Only humans should pay for it. But. 113 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:55,240 Only God can pay for it. Impossible problem unless. 114 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,600 There's only one way. The only way to solve this 115 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:06,000 problem is unless. God became a human. 116 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:12,040 Being then man who should pay for sin, but God who can pay for 117 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,000 sin, would come together in the person. 118 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:15,160 Of Jesus. Christ. 119 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,600 It's really important that we see that Jesus is 100%. 120 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,640 Fully human like we. A couple days ago we went. 121 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:24,920 To after Good Friday service couple. 122 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,120 Me and my friends we we took a bunch of kids to. 123 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,880 The new Mario movie. In theaters. 124 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,640 Which was the craziest? Turn of emotional events, you 125 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,480 know. What I'm saying like we're. 126 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:36,640 We've got like 30 kids. We're walking. 127 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:37,520 Into this movie. Theater. 128 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,320 We walk by a couple high school kids and they're like. 129 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,240 Is this place a daycare or what? We're like, yeah, as long as 130 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,480 we're here. And so we get to the movie 131 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:47,880 theater and like, where is I don't know. 132 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:48,680 This cracked me. Up. 133 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,880 We're getting kids snacks. And Russell's like, I want an 134 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,840 icy, so he gets one of those bright red ices. 135 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:58,160 You know what I'm talking about, the slushy icy thing. 136 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,240 So I'm holding this bright red icy. 137 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:01,560 And all. The kids are coming up and 138 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:03,600 they're like, can I have a sip? I'm like, yeah sure, can I have 139 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:04,760 a sip? Yeah, I'm sure. 140 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:09,640 And and then, and then Calvin comes up to me. 141 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,600 How old is Calvin 6? 6 year old Calvin comes up. 142 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:16,680 He gets on his tip toes. He looks into the icy. 143 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,200 And I think, oh, he's. Going to ask for a drink. 144 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,280 He looks into the icy. He looks up at me and I'm like, 145 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,960 here comes can he have a drink? But instead he looks. 146 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:30,320 At the icy and then he looks up at me and he says, boy, looks 147 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,400 like there's a lot of. Artificial red dyes in. 148 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:37,880 There. Do it go, man. 149 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:42,960 Do it go. One of the earliest. 150 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:44,840 Christian heresies that the. Church had to deal. 151 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,640 With was exactly about that. The ancient people struggled 152 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,400 with this. Idea that matter. 153 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,120 Was. Evil and the physical world was 154 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,480 evil, and so how if Jesus was God, how could he really have a 155 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:55,400 body? And so. 156 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,320 They formulated some wrong ideas. 157 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,920 About God or about Jesus. They were like, well, maybe he's 158 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,960 just like a hologram. And so they started. 159 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:05,440 Teaching. Well, Jesus was actually. 160 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:09,000 Just a spirit. And he just appeared to have. 161 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,760 A body, Just just. Appears like a holograph from 162 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:13,520 heaven when he was crucified on the cross. 163 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:15,800 It was. Just like the appearance of of 164 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:17,440 a. Body being crucified. 165 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:19,760 It's, it's just, it's. Just a a holograph. 166 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,000 And the the. Thing that we've got to wrap. 167 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,160 Our minds around. If we want to really understand 168 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:27,880 the biblical. Jesus is that. 169 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,160 It was not. Possible to achieve salvation? 170 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,080 For Jesus to bleed artificial red dye. 171 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,679 It's not artificial red dye. It's not a. 172 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,480 Hologram of blood. It's not the likeness of blood. 173 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:41,799 It doesn't. It's not. 174 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:43,200 Just the. Appearance of blood. 175 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:44,600 It's blood. It's blood. 176 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:46,280 Blood. It's human. 177 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,160 Blood that comes from. Human flesh. 178 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:50,200 Out of. A out of a human body. 179 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,480 It was absolutely necessary if Jesus is going to be. 180 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:55,600 The new Adam who? Represents new. 181 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,840 Humanity, then he must. Be fully human, feel all the 182 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:01,600 things that. Humans feel all the. 183 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,040 Pain. All the suffering he had to have 184 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:05,320 a. Nervous system. 185 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:08,360 No, I can't he. Got it. 186 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:10,560 And he knows what nerve pain feels like. 187 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:12,040 He. Had to experience. 188 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:17,480 All the suffering body odor. Fully human and. 189 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:22,480 He's also different. From Adam. 190 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:28,840 So he's the new Adam. Fully human, but distinct from 191 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:30,480 Adam? How? 192 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,800 Because Jesus is fully. Human. 193 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,200 But the other equally important. Thing we have to wrap our minds 194 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,520 around. Is that Jesus is also. 195 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:43,360 Fully. God. 196 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:49,840 No artificial red dyes, 100% man, 100% God, 100% Jesus. 197 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,840 In this detail it actually. Explains that. 198 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:59,240 Awkward detail of when Jesus. Breathed on his disciples. 199 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,800 You notice, and I drew a lot of your attention to that. 200 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,840 What's? What's going on there? 201 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:05,480 Have you ever had somebody breathe on you like? 202 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,320 That I have. It's very awkward. 203 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:13,000 I had a guy walk into the church one random day, as people 204 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,880 sometimes do and. He was. 205 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,400 A wild 120 seconds to hang out with and. 206 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,400 He started praying for. Me and he was praying for me in 207 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,160 tongues and. I'm not a hater. 208 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,120 I believe that God. Continues to give those gifts. 209 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:27,480 Out. I've never experienced them. 210 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:29,520 I asked them, but I haven't. The problem? 211 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,120 Was As he prayed for me in tongues, I started to notice 212 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,240 that the pattern was. He just kept on. 213 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,080 Repeating over and over. Hakuna matata. 214 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:40,760 And I was like. I know where that comes from. 215 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:50,440 And then he goes and he brings on me and I sensed nothing 216 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:51,920 besides really bad. Breath. 217 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:54,880 That's it. Why would? 218 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:57,640 Why this is weird? Why? 219 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,760 Why would Jesus? Breathe on his disciples. 220 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,680 After his resurrection, we'll Cole read the text. 221 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:07,440 It's to give them the Holy Spirit. 222 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,760 No, I get that. What I'm saying is there are 223 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,400 better ways to do this in the ancient world. 224 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,320 Like why doesn't? Jesus, just like clap. 225 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,840 And give them the Holy Spirit. Kids, on the count of three, I 226 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,760 want you to clap 123. He didn't do that. 227 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,960 What? Why didn't Jesus just snap his? 228 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,520 Fingers and give them the. Holy Spirit, kids, if. 229 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:34,040 You can snap your. Fingers on the count of three. 230 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:38,000 Let's do it one. 23. He didn't do that. 231 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,520 Like if I was Jesus I would I would like give the. 232 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,000 Holy Spirit. Out by like. 233 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,680 Getting a sword out and knighting the disciples you 234 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:48,360 know. Like that? 235 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:50,040 Like 80s. Action. 236 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:52,800 Movie. Style knight them and that's how 237 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:54,600 they. Get the Holy Spirit. 238 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,200 That's not. Read the text. 239 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,840 That's not how it goes down. He doesn't snap. 240 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,040 He doesn't clap. He doesn't knight. 241 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,640 He breathes on them. Why lock in here? 242 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:10,960 This is. Profound the. 243 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:12,640 Bible. You can never find the depths of 244 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:14,320 it, I promise you. Lock in here. 245 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,680 Jesus. By breathing on the disciples is 246 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:19,480 signaling something. Very important to. 247 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,240 You the reader. You. 248 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,040 Notice this if we go. All the way. 249 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,440 Back to the first. Book of the Bible, Genesis and 250 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,160 we Go. All the way. 251 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,440 To the first creation of. Human beings. 252 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,520 How does God? Create the first human being, 253 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:41,080 not by snapping his fingers. Could have not. 254 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,320 By clapping his hands in heaven. Could have, but. 255 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:47,320 He didn't do it. How does he do that? 256 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:49,200 Let me read it. Because I. 257 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:50,240 Want you to be. Sure. 258 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:52,160 That I'm not making. This up. 259 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,400 This is Genesis 2 all the way back in the Old Testament, the 260 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,800 creation of the first human being, then the Lord. 261 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,920 God. Formed the man of dust from the 262 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:11,120 ground, and he breathed. He. 263 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,840 Breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man 264 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,160 became a living. Creature, did you see that? 265 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:20,080 Do you see that detail? There it is. 266 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,280 What's what's? Going on right here, Jesus is. 267 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,360 Signaling in his resurrection. He's signaling to you. 268 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:28,360 That the same. God. 269 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:30,640 Who? Created humanity the same. 270 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:36,880 God, who created everything out of nothing, is Jesus Christ. 271 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:39,960 And by. Breathing again into his 272 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,880 disciples what Jesus is. Doing is he's. 273 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:48,280 Signaling that he is God, He's alive and he's up to something 274 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,720 new. He's breathing on his disciples. 275 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,680 Because he's launching a new creation. 276 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:56,240 Within the old. Creation. 277 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,680 He's creating a. New humanity within the old 278 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:02,000 humanity. We got to understand that the 279 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,600 point of the resurrection isn't. Just for Jesus to keep it to. 280 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:09,040 Himself Jesus's. Resurrection is the intro scene. 281 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,000 To the full length. Movie where he passes. 282 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,280 On. The gift of resurrection life to 283 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:16,040 all who. Believe. 284 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:20,320 You guys with me? We need the resurrection, right? 285 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,080 We if. We don't have the resurrection. 286 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,800 We don't understand Christianity like. 287 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:28,080 So many western modern people think. 288 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:33,720 That the. Christian faith is about bad 289 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:38,880 people becoming good people, wrong good people becoming 290 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:43,520 better people wrong people people. 291 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:46,240 Morals. Maxim wrong. 292 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:51,360 It's not about bad people becoming good people, it's about 293 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,080 dead. People becoming alive, people. 294 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,120 About dead hearts. Coming to life. 295 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,040 It's about hearts that. Don't know Jesus? 296 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,080 And don't love Jesus. Going boom. 297 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,320 Experiencing resurrection breath and. 298 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,000 All of a sudden I love Jesus. Getting a new heart? 299 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,840 That's the resurrection. What is the resurrection? 300 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:11,880 The resurrection is. The greatest story ever told. 301 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,920 It's the story that God. Came to the world. 302 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:19,040 And the world hated him. Which makes perfect sense, 303 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:19,640 doesn't. It. 304 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:21,640 Watch the news. For five. 305 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:24,840 Minutes. 5 minutes. Like. 306 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:28,240 It makes. For me, I don't know about you, 307 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,520 it would be impossible for me. To believe in a God. 308 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:33,720 Who comes to this? World. 309 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:36,200 And then just gets along with it. 310 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:38,840 Right, it'd be impossible. For me to believe. 311 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,360 In a God-given the state of the world. 312 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:44,320 It'd be impossible for me to believe in a God. 313 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:46,240 Who comes to this? Earth. 314 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:48,680 Lives a Really. Long life. 315 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,080 And then just dies. Peacefully in his sleep of. 316 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:55,400 Old age, even Plato like. 304 hundred. 317 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,040 Years before Jesus came predicted that if. 318 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,440 There were a perfect man. He would get beaten up by the 319 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:02,840 world. He would get his eyes. 320 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,760 Gouged out. By the world and he would be 321 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,840 killed and beaten. By the world, of course. 322 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:11,480 When God comes to. The world. 323 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:12,960 The world. Hates him the. 324 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,240 Only thing that's surprising. To me. 325 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,680 About the crucifixion of. Jesus is that he made. 326 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:21,360 It all the way to 33. Years old, the world. 327 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,160 Always crucifies whatever gets in the way. 328 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,760 Of its destructive desires. I remember thinking about this 329 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,040 and thinking OK. If you think that there's a God, 330 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,440 you think he would be like us. No. 331 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:38,040 And if there's a. God who's not like us, and he 332 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,520 comes to this world. You think he'd be a coward? 333 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:47,520 No. What he would do is he would. 334 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,600 Up and our pride cut. Down our idolatries disrupt. 335 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:52,480 Our. Vices. 336 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:54,240 And that's exactly what Jesus did. 337 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:57,240 And so this world puts this God to death. 338 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,360 On a cross. Where human? 339 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:03,480 Sin and suffering was. Experienced in totality. 340 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:05,240 By this God. Again. 341 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,640 I can't think of any idea of God. 342 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,839 That makes more sense to me than that. 343 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,119 The idea that there's. Some God out. 344 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:13,440 There. But he's a long. 345 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:15,359 Ways. Away and he's ignorant. 346 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,280 And doesn't know know what pain and suffering. 347 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:19,520 Feels like could. Never believe in that God. 348 00:17:20,599 --> 00:17:23,720 Could never worship a God who? Doesn't know what pain and 349 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:27,280 suffering feel like. Who doesn't know what nerve pain 350 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,480 is like? And so this God. 351 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:33,120 Is crucified on a cross. Experiences human suffering and 352 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:35,560 sin and. After this God is. 353 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:39,320 Crucified because he. Was and is eternal and the 354 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,600 author of Life. This God is resurrected. 355 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,320 And walking around chilling a couple days later. 356 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:46,920 What? Jesus. 357 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,800 Does in the resurrection? As he demonstrates that. 358 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:55,080 Death. Is an abyss that has a back. 359 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,160 Door. There's a crack at the bottom of 360 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,440 the foundation and Jesus. Ripped it open. 361 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,160 And he came out the other side, dies for our sin. 362 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,200 Descends into hell. Overthrows. 363 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,520 The enemy rises again. And. 364 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,000 Breathes his spirit into all who. 365 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,600 Believe he's alive. Amen this. 366 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:15,040 Is the resurrection. And I know you say. 367 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,240 Come on ma'am. Dead bodies coming back to life. 368 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,280 Get real. I know this is, I know this is 369 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,640 church, but let's live in the. Real world, ma'am. 370 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,560 That's what I'm advocating for. If you reject the resurrection 371 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:29,800 of. Jesus, you're not living in the 372 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:30,680 real. World. 373 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,680 Even as Christians, sometimes there's this pocket in our 374 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:36,440 hearts. Maybe it's a? 375 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,640 Small one. Maybe it's a big one that when 376 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:39,800 we think about Jesus. 'S. 377 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:41,720 Dead body coming back to life. We think. 378 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:46,280 Well, you know, of course ancient people thought. 379 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:49,800 That. Because ancient people are 380 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:53,440 gullible. And they didn't have science and 381 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:55,560 they didn't understand that dead bodies. 382 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,880 Don't rise from the dead. So of course they were gullible. 383 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,200 To which I would say bro they. Know that better than you. 384 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,600 Like they. The modern world that we live 385 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,640 in, it's the most sanitized, scared of death, put makeup on 386 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:10,480 the dead. Body and let's. 387 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:12,120 Be done with. It in a day culture in the 388 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:15,160 history of the world if anything, as modern people, 389 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:16,160 we're the. Ones. 390 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:18,120 Who are the most gullible about death? 391 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,760 The ancients who saw Jesus. Rise from the dead. 392 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:25,760 More than 500 of them. They were equally surprised to 393 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:27,000 see. Him resurrected. 394 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,360 Did. You. 395 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,960 Notice the. Response of the disciples. 396 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,680 In the text that we read. They weren't gullible. 397 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,400 What? What was going on with them? 398 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,760 Did you notice the emotional state of the disciples, the 399 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,360 people who are closest to Jesus when they were resurrected? 400 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,800 They were. Huddling in a room, cowering 401 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,480 like kick dogs. Afraid that the Jewish leaders 402 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,320 were. Going to come for them next you 403 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:54,240 got to. Realize this they. 404 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,920 Sometimes we think that. The disciples after the death of 405 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,400 Jesus were like. Well, you know. 406 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:03,880 That was tough. But we're ancient people, so 407 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,840 sometimes you just got to hold on to hope. 408 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:08,920 And so. Let's wait around a couple days 409 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,880 for the resurrection, get some Life One O 1.9 bumper stickers 410 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:13,120 and listen to Forrest Frank and we'll. 411 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:15,520 Wait for the resurrection. I like Forrest Frank. 412 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,320 I don't know why I said that. That's not what's going. 413 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,960 On, though, that's not. That's not their worldview. 414 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,160 The problem with the disciples it. 415 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:27,400 Was the same problem. That we have. 416 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,040 They were. They were. 417 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,800 Realists. They're being realistic. 418 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:35,840 We live in a. Materialistic world. 419 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:37,440 If you can't measure it, it's not real. 420 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:38,920 If you can't see it, it's not real. 421 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,320 We've seen dead bodies. Go into tombs we've. 422 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:45,680 Never seen dead bodies come out of tombs, therefore I'm afraid 423 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,880 that was the state that they were in and that's why Jesus. 424 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:54,320 Needed to breathe the. Holy Spirit into them. 425 00:20:55,600 --> 00:21:00,400 Without the Holy Spirit. They got nothing like faith 426 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,160 without the Holy Spirit is like giving a book. 427 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:04,960 To somebody that can't read, it's just. 428 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:10,920 All unintelligible symbols that mean nothing but the spirit. 429 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,160 Gives life. The Spirit gives sight. 430 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,120 The Spirit gives resurrection life. 431 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,000 And I know the next. Response is OK I. 432 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,480 So they weren't gullible. But where's the? 433 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:27,120 Evidence for the resurrection. And that's a fair question. 434 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:30,800 I want to be. A little bit careful with it 435 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,280 though. Because what we don't want to do 436 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,440 is treat God. Like he's a captive. 437 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,360 In a materialistic universe. Like God is. 438 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:40,520 Just a. Thing. 439 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,240 Among other things, and just a. Really big. 440 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:44,680 Object. Among. 441 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,400 Other objects within the world that you can put within a Petri 442 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:49,720 dish and say. Aha. 443 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:54,000 I found the evidence for God. I found the fingerprint. 444 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,360 God's not like that. He's not an. 445 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:57,360 Object among objects. Or a thing. 446 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,560 Among things, he's not just. Another thing within the time 447 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,800 space continuum that we can prove like a fossil. 448 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,760 He's above and. Beyond and outside of. 449 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,400 Existence. He's the self. 450 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,720 Giving donor of all of existence. 451 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,600 So one thing we have to wrap our minds around. 452 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,240 Is that there? Actually is no evidence. 453 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,320 For God in the. World besides. 454 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:23,240 Everything right? Everything. 455 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,840 Your consciousness. The created world, the. 456 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,440 Experience of the Spirit, the conditions of life. 457 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,160 Being met. For the world, everything. 458 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,160 There's no evidence. For God in the world. 459 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:39,920 Besides everything, he's not. Something you put underneath a 460 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,320 microscope and then say. Aha, he proved himself. 461 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:47,440 To me, he doesn't need to prove himself to anybody, but there is 462 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,760 evidence of the resurrection. It just happens. 463 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:54,520 To be that that the. Things that generally get in the 464 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:55,160 way. Of us. 465 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,200 Embracing the resurrection isn't arguments for the resurrection. 466 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:00,960 It's usually like emotional. Barriers, right? 467 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,000 It's usually. Like you're going. 468 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Through a tough. Season and you're like. 469 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,880 How did if Jesus is alive, how does he fit? 470 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:15,960 Into all that like. Have you ever tried to believe? 471 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:17,680 In the resurrection of. Jesus. 472 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:22,680 While you are potty. Training your two year old, that 473 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,680 was our. Week, Easter week, baby. 474 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,320 Because what's? What's a few more? 475 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,520 Chocolate eggs hidden around the house on Easter week, You know 476 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,760 what I'm saying? Now you're doing most of the. 477 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,640 Chloe's crushing it. That's those are, those are. 478 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:39,080 The things when you're going through a hell. 479 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,400 And suffering. And you're like, Jesus is alive. 480 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,000 Then why is life like? This OK? 481 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,320 Like I remember I was hanging out with an athlete a couple 482 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,120 years ago. He's going through a tough. 483 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:51,120 Season of life. And that was his question, man. 484 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,720 If life sucks, so. Much how? 485 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:55,520 Could Jesus be? Alive. 486 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:56,560 That's the. That's the. 487 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,040 Barrier, right? And so I'm talking with this 488 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,000 athlete, and I do this a lot. OK. 489 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,480 So I say. Do you like the movie Rocky? 490 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,320 He's an athlete, so he says. Yeah, of course. 491 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,920 Yeah, I love the movie Rocky. I was like, what do you think 492 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,120 about the training montages? Like Rocky 4. 493 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:19,840 Have you guys seen? Rocky 4 Rocky. 4 Where the 494 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,600 trainer goes, you're going to go through hell like no other man 495 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:27,480 has gone through before, Worse than any other nightmare. 496 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,760 You've ever gone through? Put on the other end. 497 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,600 I know you'll be the one standing. 498 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,560 Chills. Did you guys get the chills I 499 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:35,880 get? The chills every time I watch. 500 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,360 That scene. So I was like. 501 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,360 Do you like? The training montages, he's 502 00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:41,080 like, yeah, it's like one of the best parts of the movie. 503 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,600 And. I was like, what would you think 504 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:44,360 of the? Movie. 505 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,040 If they took the training montages out. 506 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,320 It's like, well, it wouldn't be. A good movie anymore. 507 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,040 So why would God take the? Training. 508 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,400 Montages out of your. Story. 509 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,240 You can't. Remove the resurrection from. 510 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,560 The cross. Can't have resurrection without. 511 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,280 Death don't get the good. Movie without the training. 512 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,800 Montages. Those are the things that. 513 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,480 Generally are the. Obstacles for us embracing. 514 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,760 The Resurrection. Yes, there are plenty of logical 515 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:16,800 AND. Argumentational. 516 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,560 Evidence for the resurrection we could, for instance, observe the 517 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,080 fact that. The 12 disciples were cowards 518 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,400 before Jesus death. And then became so convinced of. 519 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,040 His resurrection. That the same ones who sold out? 520 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:29,960 Jesus. All literally. 521 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,640 Died for the sake of Jesus. You don't die for a lie. 522 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:37,720 How did all? Of them do that. 523 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,680 How do you account for that? We can observe. 524 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:46,080 The fact that Jesus. Breaks the messianic pattern, 525 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,200 Did you know that? Plenty of other men around the 526 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,480 time of Jesus claimed. To be the Messiah, do. 527 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,800 You know that. Do you know what their names 528 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,240 are? No. 529 00:25:57,360 --> 00:25:59,640 Why not? Because they're still dead. 530 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,840 What happened is when men. Claimed to be the. 531 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,680 Messiah. They would get a. 532 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,280 Large following then. They'd be put to death. 533 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,920 And the following. Shrank to 0. 534 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,120 What happened with? Jesus, he gets put. 535 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:17,880 To death. And then his following. 536 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:21,760 Grows afterwards, explodes afterwards. 537 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:23,360 Rather than dwelling down to 0, that's. 538 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:26,120 When it explodes. How do you explain that? 539 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,640 How do you account for that? We can observe the. 540 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,080 Fact that the. Mathematical probability that a 541 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,440 small Middle Eastern religion beginning with. 12 people. 542 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,640 Has overcome the world. In the last two. 1000 years and 543 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,440 filled the globe with Christianity and the possibility 544 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,560 of that happening 12 people spreading. 545 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,920 The faith is like .00. Times, 1,000,001. 546 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,320 It's basically a negative probability. 547 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:56,480 How do you explain that? We can observe the fact that 548 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:57,600 ancient. Judaism. 549 00:26:58,240 --> 00:26:59,600 Put. People to death for. 550 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,880 Worshipping anything other than God. 551 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:03,840 That's how seriously they took idolatry. 552 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,040 And suddenly. After the death of Jesus. 553 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,920 You have ancient Jewish. People and everything. 554 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,880 People worshipping a human being. 555 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,000 Who, by the way? The Roman government told them 556 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,720 was a criminal and was put. To death. 557 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,760 Publicly on a cross. How do you account? 558 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,360 For that it's all. There. 559 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,480 And so. That's who Jesus is. 560 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,960 He's God. He's man. 561 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,880 He's the God, ma'am. He's the beginning, He's the 562 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,800 end. He's everlasting. 563 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,320 He's the Alpha. He's the Omega, he's our joy. 564 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,640 He's perfect. He's. 565 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:43,880 Everything. Amen. 566 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,960 That's the first of the two questions, but look at the. 567 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:53,720 Text again, he breathed. On them. 568 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:01,200 Is that you? That's the second. 569 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,640 Of the only two questions that are worth. 570 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,560 Asking in this world number one is who? 571 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:11,160 Is Jesus. #2 is who are you, brother? 572 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,200 Who are you sister? Who are you, Julian? 573 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,840 Can I give? Them knuckles it all. 574 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,960 Boils down to this when I ask you. 575 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,040 Who are you? I'm not asking for your name. 576 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,800 I'm not asking for your occupation. 577 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,160 Or how much you? Can bench. 578 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,840 Press Ben Bonwell. It's impressive. 579 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,040 Those are your baseball. Card stats? 580 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,760 That's not who you. Are who are you? 581 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,480 It all boils down to this. Are you? 582 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,360 An old creation. Or are you a new creation? 583 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:51,480 Do you have the breath of Jesus? Or are you just? 584 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,440 Breathing if you are an old creation. 585 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,880 And you don't know Jesus, and you don't. 586 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,000 Have His Holy Spirit, you're an old creation. 587 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:02,960 And you will live. A life of. 588 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:07,040 Fear you'll be afraid of. Everything you'll be. 589 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,040 Afraid of death? You'll be afraid of people 590 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,480 you'll be afraid of. Changing public? 591 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,120 Opinions you'll be afraid of. Slander you'll be afraid of. 592 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:15,920 Loss you'll be afraid of. Suffering. 593 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,800 You'll be afraid of whatever they tell you to be afraid of. 594 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,720 You'll be driven by fear for your whole. 595 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:26,440 Life. Are you an old creation or are 596 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,080 you a new creation? Are you a new creation? 597 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:31,720 Do you trust? Jesus. 598 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:33,920 Do you know? Jesus. 599 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,200 You believe he died for your sins. 600 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,920 You believe he was raised for your righteousness. 601 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,680 You believe He was resurrected to give you new life. 602 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,320 You believe? Death isn't the end. 603 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,120 Hopelessness isn't the end. You know the hell? 604 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,720 You're going through, right? Now is just the training. 605 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,000 Montage for the resurrection. You know. 606 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,600 There's a back door in the bottom of the abyss. 607 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,320 You know. That death publicly, 608 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,960 embarrassingly failed. In its one. 609 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,840 Job to hold. Down the body of Jesus. 610 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,200 And if that's. You if you believe that, if you 611 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,440 know. Jesus, then why are you so 612 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:17,360 afraid? What are you afraid of? 613 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,040 Who are you afraid of? Do not fear. 614 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,080 Don't be afraid of the world. Don't be afraid of death. 615 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,800 Don't be afraid of people. Don't be afraid of. 616 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,960 Changing public opinion. Don't be afraid of. 617 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,440 Failure, loss, pain. Suffering or even. 618 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,880 Death, because it's all. Been conquered in Christ. 619 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,120 It's all been slain by the Lamb who was slain. 620 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,680 It's all been defeated by the one who appeared defeated. 621 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,720 On the cross. It has been like Jesus said, it 622 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,080 has been finished. Wake up. 623 00:30:55,560 --> 00:31:00,240 Wake up this morning. Wake up O sleeper, and rise from 624 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,680 the dead. Wake up to the breath of Jesus 625 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,040 in your lungs. Wake up. 626 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,360 Why? Why wake up? 627 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:14,760 Because, because he has risen. Heavenly Father I. 628 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,400 Pray that we would experience that new life right now. 629 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:22,240 That we would breathe. Deeply, the very breath of God 630 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,600 that we would know you, trust you, that we would be new. 631 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,920 Creations living within the old. Creation. 632 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,520 That we would not just be breathing in. 633 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,080 Oxygen, but that would we would be. 634 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:36,800 Breathing in the very. Breath of God, would you do? 635 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,680 That Lord. Would you come come again this 636 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,560 morning? Walk among us. 637 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,200 Breathe onto. US and give us the Holy Spirit 638 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,840 and radically change our lives we don't have to be who we were 639 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,120 when we. Walked in this morning. 640 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,200 We can be changed, we can be transformed, we can become new 641 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:54,600 because of the Holy. Spirit. 642 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:55,840 So it's. In the precious. 643 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,440 Name of Jesus that. All God's people. 644 00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:58,000 Prayed.