1 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:08,800 Well, good morning everyone, Happy Resurrection Sunday. 2 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,440 What a great day to be together as a church family. 3 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:16,960 Take your Bibles turn to Isaiah chapter 52, Isaiah chapter 52. 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,360 That is page 650. If you don't have a Bible, 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,680 please take a Bible in the seat that's underneath of you and 6 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,120 that is our gift to you. You'll find us on page 650 there 7 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,600 in that scripture. I love Easter weekend. 8 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,000 It is my favorite weekend of the whole year. 9 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,080 I think it is the best, biggest weekend of the entire year. 10 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:42,000 I'm in fact, I think you could take all the big events that you 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,600 can think of in the course of a year, whether it's the Super 12 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:50,920 Bowl, the Olympics, the World Cup, the Masters golf 13 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,920 tournament, the Stanley Cup finals, the World Series, 14 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:56,280 whatever. And for those of you who aren't 15 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,520 sports fans, the Oscars will throw that in there too and just 16 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:01,440 put them all together in one big event. 17 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:05,360 And you would discover that this event this weekend is bigger and 18 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:06,920 better than all of those things combined. 19 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:12,960 Amen. Right today, as we gather 20 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:17,880 together to celebrate what happened 2000 years ago, we are 21 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:22,240 not just celebrating an event, we are celebrating the one who 22 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:26,200 made the event possible. That's what this is all about. 23 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,800 You know, one of the one of the beautiful and powerful parts of 24 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,320 the human experience are the opportunities where we get to 25 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:35,400 honor and celebrate other people. 26 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,440 And I don't mean it in a token kind of way of honouring and 27 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,840 celebrating other people. Like on Victoria Day, none of us 28 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,080 are thinking about Queen Victoria. 29 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,880 Let's be honest. I I mean genuinely honouring and 30 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:51,920 celebrating other people, the people that you love and care 31 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,080 for, the people who have made a difference in your life, the 32 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:58,080 people you respect for the accomplishments that they've 33 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,760 achieved in life, the people, the teams that you cheer for. 34 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,480 This baseball season's back. I'm so glad baseball season's 35 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,120 back. It was like purgatory for a 36 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,760 while there and we are now in a spot where, like I watched the 37 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,680 home opener of the Blue Jays and they played this video of last 38 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,760 year's team in the home opener and I had a tear in my eyes. 39 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,240 I thought about what a great team that was and just honoring 40 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,480 people like that. But today I want to put this 41 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,360 idea in front of you. There is nobody worth honoring 42 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:33,840 and celebrating more than Jesus. Of all the people that you will 43 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:38,200 ever celebrate and honor in your lifetime, every single one of 44 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:43,000 them pale in comparison to who Jesus is and what Jesus has 45 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,640 done. Of all the humans who have ever 46 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:48,880 lived on earth, who have ever made significant contributions 47 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:53,440 to humanity, there is one man who walked to walked the earth 48 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,640 2000 years ago, who stands head and shoulders above all the 49 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:00,120 rest. Now, if you're here today and 50 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,560 you're not a Christian and you're just kind of checking out 51 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,000 the Christian message in faith today, I want to welcome you. 52 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,720 We're so glad you're here and you might go. 53 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,680 Kirk, that's a bold claim when you think about all the people 54 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,840 who have done great things and all the people even from other 55 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,560 religions who have done good things in the world. 56 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,560 But I want you to know, I mean exactly what I said. 57 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:24,720 There's nobody like Jesus in this passage in Isaiah that 58 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,000 we're going to look at today is going to help us understand why 59 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,360 we say that now. Over the past few weeks as a 60 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,360 church family, we have been walking through this journey 61 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:38,360 that says there is one overarching story to the entire 62 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,800 Bible. And more particular than that, 63 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,600 it's not just one story. It is one person that the whole 64 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:49,120 of Scripture points us to, one person and his name is Jesus. 65 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:54,320 That the Bible made-up of 66 separate books combined is a 2 66 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,760 section called the Old Testament and the New Testament all have 67 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,240 one central person that they are talking about. 68 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:04,720 The Old Testament has 39 different individual books that 69 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:10,280 are written 400 or more years before Jesus was even born, but 70 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,680 they still talk about Jesus and point us to Jesus. 71 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,240 In fact, the book of Isaiah that we're going to look at today was 72 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:22,480 written 700 years before Jesus was born, and it still talks 73 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,080 about him. One of the ways that the Old 74 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:29,360 Testament talks about Jesus is through prophecies, messages 75 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:33,320 directly from God talking about future events. 76 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,080 And so some of the prophecies you'll see in the Old Testament 77 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:40,040 are a conversation about what's called the Messiah, the Messiah 78 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,360 who would come to rescue the world from sin. 79 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:49,040 And Jesus fulfills hundreds of those prophecies of the Messiah. 80 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,200 Another prophecy that shows up in Isaiah here is that one day 81 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,640 there's going to be a servant who's given a special assignment 82 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:01,320 by God. Look at Isaiah 52, verse 13, 83 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,040 where we see this servant show up. 84 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,880 He says, see, my servant will be successful. 85 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:11,760 He will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted. 86 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,280 God says that this servant is going to be wildly successful. 87 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:20,560 He's going to be so successful that kings will have to shut 88 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:25,800 their mouths because of him. That the success and power that 89 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:29,240 other people will have will be nothing compared to the success 90 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,280 of this servant. He will be celebrated. 91 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:35,120 He will be honored above all others. 92 00:05:37,840 --> 00:05:41,480 Now, if you're like most people, that word success brings a whole 93 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,640 bunch of images to your mind. All of us have an idea of what 94 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,880 we think success looks like. We think about the car someone 95 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,480 drives, the house someone lives in, how much money is in their 96 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,160 bank account. We think about success in terms 97 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,760 of achievements in life, the degree that you got, the career 98 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:00,440 that you built, all the things that you were able to accumulate 99 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,400 and accomplish over the course of your life. 100 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,040 And we define success through that lens. 101 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:09,960 But that is not at all what makes this servant a success. 102 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,360 In fact, it's quite the opposite of everything we would normally 103 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,080 think of in terms of success. Look at verse 14 of Isaiah 52. 104 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,280 Just as many were appalled at you, His appearance was so 105 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:26,680 disfigured, he did not look like a man, and his form did not 106 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:31,360 resemble a human being. You, you read that description 107 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,480 and there is nothing in that description that makes you go, 108 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:41,960 there's a successful person. I don't know any of us who have 109 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,440 looked at someone quite like this, where their appearance is 110 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,600 so disfigured they don't even look like a human. 111 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,080 And we thought to ourselves, I want to be just like that 112 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,680 person. So who? 113 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,960 Who is this servant exactly? Well, Isaiah doesn't tell us 114 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,800 exactly, but at least 6 passages in the New Testament tell us 115 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,600 that the servant being talked about is Jesus. 116 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,280 So what is it that makes Jesus such a success story? 117 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:11,960 What is it that makes Jesus worth honoring and celebrating 118 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,920 above all other people? We're going to look at that 119 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:16,720 today through this passage in Isaiah. 120 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,320 The first thing we're going to see is that Jesus does the work 121 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:24,040 that nobody else would or could do. 122 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:29,320 I, I don't know if you've ever seen like really crazy job 123 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,600 advertisements before. Like when you're going for an 124 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:36,400 entry level job and you read a job ad that says 10 years of 125 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,720 experience required for this entry level job. 126 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,200 That feels weird, right? And you're going like, why on 127 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,400 earth do I need 10 years of experience for an entry level 128 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:44,520 job? And how am I ever going to get 129 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:46,880 experience if I can't get into that job? 130 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,200 I read another ad this week for a job that that said this. 131 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:57,840 Join our team as a coffee ninja and become the caffeine packed 132 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:02,440 superhero our office needs. Now for those of you who don't 133 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:04,520 have the gift of interpretation, let me tell you what that's 134 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,160 actually saying. I'm too lazy to get my own 135 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:08,920 coffee and you're going to go and get it for me. 136 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:11,960 OK, what a terrible job advertisement. 137 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:18,840 Well, the first 9 verses of Isaiah chapter 53 reads a little 138 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:22,040 bit like the worst job advertisement in human history. 139 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:29,080 Look at verse one of Isaiah 53. This is the job requirements of 140 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:33,039 the Servant who has believed what we have heard? 141 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:37,159 To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed, who grew up 142 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:39,840 before him like a young plant and like a root out of dry 143 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,200 ground. He didn't have an impressive 144 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:46,080 form or majesty that we should look at him, no appearance that 145 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,560 we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by 146 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:53,360 men. He was a man of suffering who 147 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:57,240 knew what sickness was. He was like someone that people 148 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:01,560 turned away from. He was despised and we did not 149 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:06,520 value him. This is the beginning of the job 150 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,160 AD for the servant. What the servant. 151 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:12,080 The servant was going to be. God says the servant's going to 152 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,440 be a nobody. There's going to be nothing 153 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,960 impressive at all about the servant. 154 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,840 And here's how well the job of the servant's going to pay. 155 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,560 You're going to suffer. You're going to have people turn 156 00:09:25,560 --> 00:09:32,000 away from you, despise you, reject you, betray you, and not 157 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,640 value you at all. Keep going. 158 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,800 Verse 4. Yet He himself bore our 159 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:43,120 sicknesses, and he carried our pains, but we in turn regarded 160 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,960 him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. 161 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:50,080 He was pierced because of our rebellion, crushed because of 162 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,200 our iniquities. Punishment for our peace was on 163 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,040 Him, and we are healed by his wounds. 164 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:00,640 We all went astray like sheep. We've all turned to our own way, 165 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:05,480 and the Lord has punished him for the iniquity of us all. 166 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,880 This servant is going to be a substitute for every single 167 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:14,760 human, but, but not in a good way, every human who has ever 168 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:19,400 done anything to transgress to sin against God. 169 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,800 This servant is going to take their place for the punishment 170 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,160 that they deserve. In the place of other people, 171 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,800 this servant would face undeserved suffering and 172 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:36,320 rejection and divine punishment. He will be physically and 173 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:40,400 emotionally crushed. Keep going. 174 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:45,560 Verse 7 He was oppressed and afflicted that he did not open 175 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:48,080 his mouth. Like a lamb led to the 176 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:51,560 slaughter, and like a sheep silent before her shearers, He 177 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:55,000 did not open his mouth. He was taken away because of 178 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,800 oppression and judgement. And who considered his fate, for 179 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:00,760 he was cut off from the land of the living. 180 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,360 He was struck because of my people's rebellion. 181 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,040 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, but he was with a rich 182 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:11,240 man at his death because he had done no violence and had not 183 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:16,560 spoken deceitfully. This suffering servant would 184 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:20,240 have to live a life perfect in the eyes of God. 185 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,600 He's he's going to be oppressed. He's going to be treated all the 186 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,480 ways that we've talked about, but he's going to be willingly 187 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,400 and silently allowing that to happen to him. 188 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,240 He's not going to fight for his rights. 189 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:35,800 He's going to keep his mouth shut. 190 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:40,200 He's going to take it. And ultimately, this suffering 191 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:44,120 servant's going to be killed, cut off from the land of the 192 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:48,240 living. The closest thing he will ever 193 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:53,200 get to being rich on this earth is to be buried in a rich man's 194 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:58,600 tomb. Honestly, who signs up for that 195 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,120 job? Who, who? 196 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:05,440 Who puts their hand up and says, like, I want to be that servant 197 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:13,280 who does that? I'll tell you who Jesus Jesus is 198 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:17,920 the one who says yes to his Father and says yes, I will be 199 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,200 this suffering servant. Only Jesus could live up to 200 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,480 this. Everything described here in 201 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:28,360 Isaiah 53 is pointing us towards Jesus. 202 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,280 In the book of Acts in the New Testament, Philip is telling an 203 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:36,160 Ethiopian about Jesus and he starts by talking about Jesus by 204 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,920 quoting from Isaiah 53. He quotes Isaiah 53 by saying he 205 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:42,840 was led like a sheep to slaughter. 206 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:48,320 In first Peter chapter 2 Peter's writing about Jesus and he 207 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:52,760 quotes Isaiah 53 by saying he did not commit sin and no deceit 208 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:56,520 was found in his mouth. In Matthew Chapter 7, after 209 00:12:56,520 --> 00:13:01,200 Jesus heals the mother-in-law of Peter, Matthew writes this that 210 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:05,400 Jesus was healing so that what was spoken through the prophet 211 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:10,440 Isaiah might be fulfilled, that he himself took our weaknesses 212 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:16,080 and carried our diseases. Everything that Isaiah says is 213 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:17,840 the job of the suffering servant. 214 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,240 Jesus lived it and Jesus fulfilled it. 215 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:27,520 But why? Why would Jesus be willing to 216 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:32,040 have his body beaten and battered to such a degree that 217 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:33,560 he would not even look like a human being? 218 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:42,760 Why in the world would he be willing to be crushed by God? 219 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,720 That's what verse 10 tells us happens. 220 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,200 The Lord was pleased to crush him severely. 221 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,800 When you make him a guilt offering, he will see his seed, 222 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,080 He will prolong his days, and by his hand the Lord's pleasure 223 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,960 will be accomplished. Here's why Jesus became a 224 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,040 suffering servant so that you could be forgiven. 225 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:08,280 That's why he's called a guilt offering. 226 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:12,520 Here in verse 10. The Old Testament guilt offering 227 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:17,400 was all about repaying damages in order to fix a relationship. 228 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,880 So imagine you invite someone into your home and when you 229 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,840 invite them into your home out of the goodness of your heart 230 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,440 and your love and care for them, but then they turn around and 231 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:32,000 they start to destroy your home. They start to do things that 232 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:34,640 leave a mark and leave destruction and you know it's 233 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:40,560 going to cost and you're everything in you is like you 234 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,520 need to repay me for the damage you've done to my house. 235 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:49,360 Every single sin that you and I have committed in our lifetime 236 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:55,640 is offensive to God because it scars and destroys everything in 237 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:01,720 his good creation. But Jesus doesn't go for 238 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,880 revenge. Instead, Jesus pays the damages 239 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,320 for you so that you could be forgiven by God. 240 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:16,120 Like, think about a time when someone did something to really 241 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,040 hurt or offend you. I mean really hurt or offend 242 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,320 you. Now ask yourself this question. 243 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:29,080 To what lengths would you be willing to go so that the other 244 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:30,880 person could be forgiven for what they did? 245 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,440 There's a lot of lengths that as humans, there's a there's all 246 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:39,400 kinds of things we will do when people hurt us. 247 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,200 There are all kinds of ways and lengths that we will go 248 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,360 sometimes to get even with that person. 249 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:47,520 There's a lot of anger we will have. 250 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:49,000 There's a lot of emotions that will come out. 251 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,160 There are all kinds of ways we will live to tear the other 252 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:57,200 person down. Sometimes we don't just respond 253 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,200 outwardly. Sometimes we carry that 254 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,960 ourselves and it turns into bitterness and in our own hearts 255 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,640 and lives, but we're still carrying this, this sense of 256 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,720 they've done something to hurt me and harm me and they owe me 257 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:15,040 something. Here's what I know of all the 258 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,600 people I've ever met in my life, including myself, who've ever 259 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:22,040 had that happen to them. I don't know many people who 260 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:26,520 would put themselves through the kind of shame and pain that 261 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:30,080 Jesus goes through in order to forgive the one who's offended 262 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,400 them. But that's Jesus. 263 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:39,320 That's what he does for you. He he doesn't ignore the damages 264 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,560 that you and I owe him for our sin. 265 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,640 Instead, Jesus absorbs that himself so that you and I could 266 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:48,560 be forgiven and reconciled to God. 267 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:53,360 And it's not just a token. I forgive you like we make kids 268 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,920 say when we're making them apologize to each other. 269 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,680 The the very end of verse 5 in Isaiah 53 tells us this 270 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:06,200 punishment for our peace was on Him and we are healed by His 271 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,440 wounds. Those two words, peace and 272 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,920 healing, they tell you just how great and extensive this 273 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:19,119 forgiveness is, that everything that has been broken between you 274 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:24,880 and God as a result of your sin can be healed, that you can be 275 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,760 reconciled to God instead of being an enemy of God. 276 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,560 But the debt that you owe God for the sins that you've 277 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:36,440 committed, they are paid in full by Jesus. 278 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:43,400 They never need to be held against you again to such a 279 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,320 degree that your complete healing is guaranteed, whether 280 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:49,840 it's in this life or the next, that there's going to be a 281 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,400 restoring of wholeness to your life. 282 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,040 Every part of your life that's been damaged and destroyed by 283 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,720 sin can have new life breathed into it. 284 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:05,080 That's part of what we remember and reflect on during the Easter 285 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:06,920 season. It's what the story of Good 286 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,400 Friday and the death of Jesus on the cross is all about. 287 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:13,920 This intense, brutal, sadistic suffering that Jesus endured on 288 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:19,400 the cross as he's fulfilling the job of the suffering servant for 289 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:24,320 you and me. Jesus did the work that nobody 290 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:30,240 else would or could do there. There's nothing about this that 291 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:32,960 makes him a success story in our eyes. 292 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,480 There's nothing if we saw Jesus on the cross that would make us 293 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,120 go. That's a guy I want to 294 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:43,560 celebrate, but thank God that's not where the story ends. 295 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,720 See, the second reason why Jesus is different than everybody else 296 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,480 is because Jesus conquers the one thing that no other human 297 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:55,040 can conquer. Look at verse 11 of Isaiah 53. 298 00:18:56,080 --> 00:19:01,360 After his anguish, He will see light and be satisfied by His 299 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:03,000 knowledge. My righteous servant will 300 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,920 justify many, and He will carry their iniquities. 301 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:14,520 After all the pain and suffering is done, after being completely 302 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:19,960 crushed, after seeing his life taken away from him, the 303 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,920 suffering servant will see light again and be satisfied. 304 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:30,520 The servant would conquer death. All the way back here in Isaiah 305 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:35,080 53, God is prophesying and saying that one day this 306 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:39,280 suffering servant who would die, He would open his eyes again and 307 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,680 be brought back to life. You know, there've been a lot of 308 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,520 people over the years who have done some death defying things. 309 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,400 I think the craziest thing I've ever witnessed is the story of 310 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:54,120 Felix Baumgartner. You may not know that name, but 311 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:58,080 you probably know this story. Back in 2012, Felix Baumgartner 312 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,440 thought it would be a great idea to go to the edge of space 24 313 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:06,680 miles above the Earth and jump and free fall down to the earth. 314 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,200 And so that's what he did. He, he, he was, it was sponsored 315 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:12,920 by Red Bull. So I'm assuming he was high on 316 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,920 Red Bull when he did it. And he he got to, he got to the 317 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,800 edge of space, got pulled, walked out the edge of a capsule 318 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,520 that had carried him up there. And he jumps. 319 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,520 And there's this video of Kim diving down towards the Earth in 320 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,880 real time. And at one point, he just loses 321 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:33,520 complete control. And you can see his body 322 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:35,520 spinning and spinning and spinning out of control. 323 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,840 And I'm mesmerized in a very morbid kind of way, thinking 324 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,880 this guy's going to spot her all over the ground right on TV. 325 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,160 And and then just as he gets closer to the ground, he pulls 326 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,520 the parrot, he regains control, pulls the parachute and lands 327 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:50,200 safely. And you think to yourself, man, 328 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,280 if a guy can survive that, he can survive anything. 329 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,800 Until last year, when he decided to go paragliding. 330 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:03,240 Last year, a guy who could defy death by jumping 24 miles above 331 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:07,440 the earth goes paragliding, loses control of the paraglider, 332 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,200 ends up in a tragic accident, and dies. 333 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,720 Death is the harsh truth that faces every human being. 334 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,600 You can defy death many times. Some of you have stories where 335 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,320 you've got 9 lives. You you can defy death many 336 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:30,040 times in your life, but you cannot deny death. 337 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:36,080 It will come calling. And while death came calling for 338 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,560 Jesus, death did not have the final say. 339 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,120 Jesus conquered what no other human can conquer. 340 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:48,720 On the third day after your body is dead, you are starting to 341 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:53,120 bloat up really good. You are releasing gases you've 342 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:55,240 never released before in your life. 343 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:00,440 You stinketh. OK, That's what's happening on 344 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,800 the third day after you're dead. For Jesus, He opened his eyes 345 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:10,080 and he got up out of the grave. The grave did its worst and it 346 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:15,920 failed. Jesus is alive and I wish, I 347 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:22,120 wish I had the right words to try and help us really grasp 348 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:24,400 just how big and significant this is. 349 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,280 If you're here today and you are new to the Christian story, 350 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,520 here's the most simple way that I can put it for you. 351 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,840 Because death did not get the final say for Jesus, it does not 352 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:39,640 need to get the final say for any human. 353 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:46,560 The resurrection of Jesus is the great hope that shows eternal 354 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:51,200 life is possible for anyone. For those of you who've heard 355 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,600 this story over and over again over the course of your entire 356 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,800 life, man, I've been praying that God, through the power of 357 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:02,800 the Holy Spirit, would help all of us to have our sense of awe 358 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:09,160 reignited for exactly what happened when Jesus rose from 359 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:13,000 the dead. This is so much bigger than any 360 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:18,040 rags to riches story. This is so much more miraculous 361 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,560 than the Leafs winning the Stanley Cup next year, or at 362 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:24,240 all. This is so much more life 363 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:29,160 altering and life giving than anything else has the potential 364 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:34,000 to be. When Jesus rose from the dead, 365 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,680 it was the beginning of God restoring the world to what it 366 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,520 was intended to be. Martin Luther put it this way. 367 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:46,240 He said the cross is the victory and the resurrection is the 368 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,720 triumph. The resurrection is the public 369 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:55,120 display of the victory. You know, one of the things I 370 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:59,760 love to do is I love to watch the facial reactions of people 371 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,920 and their body language in significant moments in their 372 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,480 life when they've had a significant achievement in life. 373 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,680 There's just something about seeing the sense of joy, the 374 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,600 sense of satisfaction that people have when they've 375 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:17,160 accomplished something great. Like think about a graduate at a 376 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,560 graduation ceremony. They, they're walking across 377 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,160 that stage to get their degree or their diploma. 378 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,160 And as they're walking across all those years of hard work and 379 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,480 you just see it in them. You're like, man, they just, you 380 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:33,040 can see how grateful they are to get to this point and the joy in 381 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,000 their face. You think about athletes when 382 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,600 they win a medal at the Olympics or when their team wins a 383 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,480 championship and the sheer sense of satisfaction and joy that 384 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,240 they have. Yeah, I, I think about a bride 385 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,360 and a groom on a wedding day. And there's just something 386 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,960 amazing to watch a bride and a groom on a wedding day as the 387 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,880 bride is walking down the aisle and the groom is at the front 388 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,600 looking and watching his bride walk down the aisle. 389 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,040 And you just see the sense of joy on their face and 390 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,680 satisfaction of going, yes, we're here. 391 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:09,160 We're finally making it. And and and the thing that we 392 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,400 see when we see people have that sense of satisfaction over 393 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,600 accomplishing something big. Jesus is no different. 394 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:21,120 He's he's human as well. Isaiah says in verse 11 that he 395 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:29,680 will see light and be satisfied. Like imagine Jesus inside the 396 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,600 tomb before the stone is rolled away. 397 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:39,960 Those first moments where breath starts to return to his lungs 398 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:46,600 and his eyes start to flicker a little bit as he's waking up 399 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:52,240 after sleeping for a few days. And then there's the moment 400 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:57,560 where his eyes come alive and he's fully alert and he knows 401 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,760 exactly what's going on. I'm trying to imagine what it 402 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,840 must have been like for Jesus in that moment. 403 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:09,320 Hebrews chapter 12 tells us that one of the reasons Jesus endured 404 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:13,320 all the suffering on the cross is because of the joy that was 405 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:17,200 set before him. That there was something on the 406 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,600 other side of the suffering that kept Jesus focused and kept him 407 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,520 going. That there was a dream and a 408 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,480 desire so great he was willing to fulfill the role of the 409 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,360 suffering servant. And finally in that tomb on that 410 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:38,840 day, as life starts to come back into his body, Jesus knows he's 411 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,760 conquered everything, standing in the way of that joy being 412 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,680 realized. What was it like for Jesus on 413 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,680 that day? What was it like for him to be 414 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,040 fully satisfied with all of his work? 415 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,280 What did his face and his body language communicate? 416 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,200 And we don't know exactly. The Bible doesn't say, but we do 417 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,920 know this. What Jesus accomplished was so 418 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:06,720 great that God Himself declares Jesus to be the King of kings. 419 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:12,840 Look at verse 12 of Isaiah 53. Therefore I will give him the 420 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:17,080 many as a portion, and he will receive the mightiest spoil, 421 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,880 because he willingly submitted to death and was counted among 422 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:25,440 the rebels, yet he bore the sin of many and interceded for the 423 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,000 rebels. Notice the change of language 424 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,200 here in verse 12. God is now speaking. 425 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,720 God says I will give him the many as a portion and receive 426 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:40,040 the mightiest spoil. God saying, because Jesus 427 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,920 fulfilled the role of the suffering servant, because Jesus 428 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:48,520 conquered the grave, God now speaks and he says to Jesus, you 429 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,840 are the king who's won the spoils of war. 430 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,280 You are the king who's going to receive the rewards of victory. 431 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:02,880 Philippians tells us that God has highly exalted Jesus and 432 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,160 given him a name above all other names. 433 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,600 Part of the reason why we should honor and celebrate Jesus above 434 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,800 every other human being is because God himself honors and 435 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,920 celebrates his Son above all others. 436 00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:21,720 One of the things that's fascinating when you study human 437 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,400 history is the love affair that humans have with power. 438 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,800 Throughout all of human history, there are so many people who 439 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:36,600 have aspired to be powerful. Even today we see it, whether 440 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,400 it's in the world of politics or business, whether it's in 441 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,080 relationships or in your workplace, there are people who 442 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:48,280 are continuing to pursue power and control all over the place. 443 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,640 But here's what God is saying in Isaiah 53. 444 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:58,440 The most powerful people in the world will fall silent before 445 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:03,880 Jesus because they will realize that they are in the presence of 446 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,840 someone who is stronger than the strong. 447 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,800 There are a lot of powerful people I know, and I know that 448 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,480 they can create some difficulties and challenges, and 449 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,560 many of you are experiencing that right now. 450 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,840 A lot of people who are making life sometimes difficult or 451 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,360 painful, but they're using their power to do that. 452 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:27,920 And here's what God has to say about all that. 453 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:35,480 Jesus is the king of all kings. I don't care who it is. 454 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,640 You can insert the name of any politician, any business leader, 455 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,480 any person in your life who thinks that they are all that. 456 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:48,240 And in the eyes of God, they are like little kids compared to the 457 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:53,920 power of Jesus. None of them could do what the 458 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,760 suffering servant did. None of them can carry the sins 459 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,000 of the entire world and defeat death. 460 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,920 And one day the Bible tells us that no matter who they are, 461 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:12,240 every single knee will bow, every single tongue will confess 462 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:21,160 that Jesus Christ is Lord. Jesus is the King of all kings, 463 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,200 and while the mighty will fall before the king, there's another 464 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,840 group of people who show up in this in this verse, the many who 465 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:34,640 are given as a portion. I said a minute ago that Jesus 466 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,400 endured the suffering of the cross for the joy that was set 467 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,720 before him. You know what part of that joy 468 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,320 was? It's you. 469 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:50,840 You were part of that joy. The King of all Kings loves you. 470 00:30:53,400 --> 00:31:00,640 This whole story is the overwhelming, glorious reality 471 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,200 that the one who deserves the most honor and the most 472 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:12,320 celebration also loves you. So to the person who's here 473 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:17,080 today, who's made a train wreck out of their life and you think 474 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:21,920 there is no hope, I want you to know the King of Kings loves you 475 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:26,480 and came for you. To the person who's here today 476 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,800 who is sinned and they know they've sinned and they don't 477 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,280 know how to get out of the sin that they keep committing, I 478 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:40,920 want you to know the King of all Kings came for you to forgive 479 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,520 you and set you free from the power of sin. 480 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:50,680 To the person who's living with fear and anxiety over what might 481 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,560 happen today or tomorrow because the world is so unpredictable 482 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:59,560 right now, I want you to know the King of All Kings knows 483 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:05,960 exactly what's going on. He is ultimately in control and 484 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,360 he loves you. You don't have anything to be 485 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,760 afraid of. To the person who's lived their 486 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:18,640 entire life on the margins and been undervalued, struggling to 487 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,960 make it, the King of all kings knows what it's like to live a 488 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:29,680 life where nobody wants them. And he loves you. 489 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:37,840 Everything Jesus goes through is because of his willingness to 490 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,000 say yes to His Father and because of his love for you. 491 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,960 He came to rescue you from the power of sin. 492 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,640 He came to give you the hope of eternal life. 493 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,720 You are not forgiven because you can do anything to earn God's 494 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,760 forgiveness. Jesus paid the price. 495 00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:01,800 You can't pay God back. You can't have the hope of 496 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:06,000 eternal life by eating healthier and exercising more. 497 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,880 Being good enough won't give you eternal life because you'll 498 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:16,480 never be good enough. Jesus says He's the resurrection 499 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:22,440 and the life, and whoever believes in him will never die. 500 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:29,200 But the only way to have eternal life is to put your life in the 501 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:34,760 hands of the one who conquered death, the King of Heaven. 502 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:41,040 He willingly left heaven to come to this earth to live amongst 503 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:45,440 rebels in order to save rebels from their sin. 504 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:52,880 What kind of a king does that? If you're here today and you're 505 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,200 you're not yet a believer in Jesus, I just want to ask you 506 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,840 this question. What will you do with this kind 507 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:08,360 of love of a king? The King of kings loves you and 508 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,920 he's calling you by name and saying, follow me. 509 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:17,159 Trust me with your life. I want to invite you to put your 510 00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:22,159 faith and hope in Jesus today. And to all of us who already 511 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:26,440 believe in Jesus, listen, you're the prize he's won. 512 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:33,040 You're the prize he's won. You are the many that have been 513 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,440 given to him as a portion for the victory that he accomplished 514 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,159 on the cross and through his resurrection. 515 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,239 There are a lot of people worth honoring and celebrating in 516 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,400 life, but none of them compared to Jesus. 517 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,960 How will you make sure that your life honors and celebrates his 518 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,040 life? In just a few minutes we're 519 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:57,560 going to have a group of people who are going to come and 520 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,040 they're going to be baptized. And every one of those people 521 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,640 who are coming to be baptized today, that's what they are 522 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,320 doing. They are saying I have put my 523 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:09,840 faith in Jesus for the forgiveness of my sins to be 524 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:15,640 reconciled and restored to God. I have put my life into the 525 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:22,200 hands of Jesus, and now I want my life to live in such a way 526 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,440 that I want to honor him and celebrate him with my life. 527 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:31,200 For those of us who've already been baptized and we're already 528 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,680 believers in Jesus, how are you honoring and celebrating Jesus? 529 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,480 I don't just mean here today, but beyond here. 530 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:47,400 You know, we talk about the people that we want to honour 531 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,000 and celebrate. It's one of the ways we honour 532 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,920 and celebrate people. You, you think about this week, 533 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,400 how many times you've talked about people that you admire or 534 00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:02,040 respect, Co worker, your favorite sports team, people 535 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,320 who've invented something. We talk about those people 536 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,520 because we want to honour and celebrate them. 537 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,360 How often do you talk about Jesus outside of this building? 538 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,960 There are there is there are millions of people all around us 539 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,520 who need to know that of all the people we honor and celebrate in 540 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,400 our culture, as amazing as it is to honor and celebrate those 541 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,840 people, none of them compared to Jesus. 542 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:32,040 We need to be a people that talk about Jesus like he's worth 543 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:35,720 honoring and celebrating if we really believe that is true. 544 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:42,160 One of the ways that we also honor and celebrate Jesus is by 545 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,880 singing. So I'm going to ask you to 546 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:51,680 stand. The Christian faith has always 547 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:56,920 been a singing faith. And I'm going to ask you to do 548 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,960 something. Some of you have come to church 549 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:04,680 and you have not sung a song in a long time, if ever, because 550 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,840 you're like, I don't want anybody around me to hear it. 551 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:12,360 Today's your day to step out in faith and be active in singing. 552 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,440 Jesus is the king. Jesus is worth honoring and 553 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,680 celebrating. Jesus is worth singing about. 554 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:23,440 If there's anybody, anybody worth your affections and your 555 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:27,720 attention, If there's anybody worth you cheering and singing 556 00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:32,360 out loud for, it's Jesus. So as we come together and we 557 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:38,160 sing this song, if you believe that Jesus is worth honoring and 558 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:42,760 celebrating, if you believe that Jesus is your living hope, sing 559 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,520 like you believe it's true. Let's sing this song together, 560 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:47,160 Church.