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First, let's take a look at 7 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,880 these women who were standing face to face before Jesus. 8 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:36,560 In verses one through 10, we see that after the Sabbath, towards 9 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,120 the dawn of the first day of the week, which was a Sunday. 10 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:43,760 So it's Jesus was, you know, taken from his disciples. 11 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,680 Thursday evening they were having supper together and next 12 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,000 thing they know he's in Gethsemane praying. 13 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:53,640 And all of a sudden Judas comes and leads soldiers and they take 14 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,560 Jesus away. The disciples scatter like 15 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:00,240 cockroaches and Jesus is taking into a court and overnight he's 16 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:04,640 in justly declared a blasphemer. And by the time he gets to 17 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:09,760 Friday morning, he has already been convicted and sent by Pilot 18 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:11,720 to be crucified. He's been beaten, he's been 19 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:13,680 mocked. And so it happens very quickly. 20 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,080 So Mary Magdalene and the other Mary and all the other 21 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,640 disciples, they wake up and they find Jesus hanging on a cross. 22 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,040 The Sabbath has occurred. The Passover meal is going on 23 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,840 and on the dawn of the first day of the week after Jesus has been 24 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,640 crucified, he's dead, he's been buried. 25 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,040 They head to the tomb. Mary Magdalene if you remember 26 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:38,080 she was the one whom multiple demons were driven out by Jesus 27 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:43,520 and the other Mary who was either the the sister of Martha 28 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,520 was they were eager to see the truth. 29 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:52,720 The tomb verse one they head to the tomb and behold Matthew puts 30 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,080 a point here that behold there was a great earthquake for an 31 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:58,200 Angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back 32 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:00,920 the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like 33 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,600 lightning and his clothing was white as snow and for fear of 34 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:08,080 him the guards trembled and became like dead men. 35 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:13,040 This all happened so quickly. And they find themselves here at 36 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,920 a scene where Matthew pretty much stitches together 37 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:18,360 economically. All the accounts. 38 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,000 If you were to read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, all of the 39 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,880 Gospels, they have different focuses. 40 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,720 Matthew uses his words economically because he's like 41 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,240 speeding to the end. He's like, yeah, this happened. 42 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:29,640 And then they came upon the tomb. 43 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:31,640 If you look at the other accounts, it seems like they 44 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,320 they get there after these men have fainted. 45 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:36,800 There's a reason for that because women would not have 46 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,960 been able to approach the tomb at all at that time. 47 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,000 If there was a guard there. They would never have gone there 48 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,440 with the guard. The guards would never have let 49 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:45,960 them in. And there's also this rock 50 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:48,160 there. So, you know, if they had not 51 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,800 gotten there and the men had fainted and the tomb was rolled 52 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:52,920 away, they would not have been able to see Jesus. 53 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,480 But they're not there to see Jesus, Matthew says. 54 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,800 They're there to actually see the evidence of Jesus's 55 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:03,000 resurrection, the point of this miraculous removal, because 56 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,520 there's no record of that. You will never find in history 57 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:09,040 something like, yeah, I was in the garden and Jesus kind of 58 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,280 like busted through the stone. It was incredible. 59 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,160 There was a crack and then rocks through. 60 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,960 It was like dynamite. And Jesus came out all muscular 61 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,280 and just like, yeah, there's no account of that. 62 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,360 The only account we have is like, yeah, we showed up and 63 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,120 there was no great. There was no body in the grave. 64 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,640 The women are there to see an empty tomb. 65 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,960 Look at verse 5. They're afraid. 66 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:36,080 They're like, they don't know what to do. 67 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,480 The Angel that's there. So the angels still hanging 68 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,240 around. Angels are scary. 69 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,840 They're scary. Every time you see in Scripture 70 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,040 somebody coming on an Angel, they're they're like, this is 71 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:46,240 not good. It's not good for me. 72 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,640 Then they're always like, what? Do not be afraid. 73 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,560 Gabriel comes up every week like do not be afraid. 74 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,680 I've got multiple announcements. Be not afraid. 75 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,520 I've got 7 announcements. No, he says do not be afraid. 76 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,200 I know. Look, look, I know. 77 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,480 What are they there? I know that you're seeking Jesus 78 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:07,040 who was crucified and the best news in all of history. 79 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,920 Verse 6 here it is. He is not here. 80 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,320 He's not here. Why? 81 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,160 Well, he's risen as he said. That's what Matthew was. 82 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,720 He said he's like Jesus said it would happen and it happened. 83 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,360 That's what Jesus does. Jesus tells you, here's what I'm 84 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,880 going to do and then he does it. Some people we know don't do 85 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:27,240 that, right? They're like, I'm going to, I'll 86 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,040 text you back. You know, you have the friends 87 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,000 that text you. You're like, you see the 88 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,680 bubbles, you know they, you know, they're reading your text 89 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:37,080 and you're like, why can't you just text me back? 90 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,320 And then a few days later they're like, oh, hey, sorry I 91 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,320 didn't get back to you. It's like, it's like 5 days from 92 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:45,480 now #latex I, you, you did not text me back. 93 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,960 Some of you are should be ridden with guilt right now. 94 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,960 No, he did what he said. And then the angel's like, hey, 95 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,000 come see where he's laying, Like check this out. 96 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:59,840 And in one account, Peter's there too. 97 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:02,880 He catches up to him all out of breath and he's like, he goes 98 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,520 into the tomb. He looks around, it's not he's 99 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,080 not there. But then the Angel says, verse 100 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,680 7, then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from 101 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,960 the dead. And behold, he's going before 102 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:14,240 you. He's going to Galilee. 103 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:18,240 There you will see him. And then it's funny, Matthew's 104 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,360 like, see, I've told you, it's like, alright there, I've done 105 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:21,600 my job. I'm going back to heaven. 106 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,640 He disappears. The Angel reminds them of what 107 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:28,520 Jesus said. Jesus already said if you have a 108 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,680 Bible you can turn. Just make a left hand turn. 109 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,880 In verse 26, chapter 26, verse 32, Jesus told them that's what 110 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:39,840 he was going to do. In chapter 2632, Jesus tells 111 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:43,440 them ahead of time. He says they sung A hymn that 112 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,640 Jesus said to them, You will all fall away because it's written, 113 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:49,960 I will strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be 114 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,640 scattered. But after I am raised up, this 115 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,080 is in Gethsemane, He's like, guys, you're all going to run 116 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,760 like cockroaches. I'm going to be raised up and 117 00:05:57,760 --> 00:05:59,200 then I'm going to meet you in Galilee. 118 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,400 No doubt some of them were like, oh, OK, all right. 119 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,280 But but now it's going to make sense to them. 120 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:08,400 Now it's going to make absolute sense. 121 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:09,880 Jesus said that this was going to happen. 122 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:13,040 So the Angel says, go back. He's going to meet you. 123 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,920 And this is the hope. Imagine Mary, they're there, 124 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,200 they're grieving. Jesus is dead, their friend is 125 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:24,000 dead, and they see no Jesus and an Angel that says go back to 126 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,360 Galilee. So now there's a spark of hope. 127 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,400 That's what Jesus does. Jesus gives us the promise of 128 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,880 hope. He tells us, don't despair. 129 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,200 The promise of seeing Jesus again ignites them. 130 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,440 And so they run. Look at look at verse 8. 131 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,520 They departed quickly. They weren't like, man, this is 132 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:43,920 awkward. You know, they didn't like 133 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,120 slowly go back. They ran when you want to see 134 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,760 someone you love, you run, especially of the news that he 135 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:53,720 was dead, but now he's alive. They ran quickly from the tomb 136 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:57,800 with fear and great joy and they ran to tell the disciples. 137 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,240 They ran with fear and great joy. 138 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:04,600 No wonder they were afraid. There's there's a fear like what 139 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,840 are we going to see and look verse 9, Jesus meets them and 140 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:14,600 says greetings. There is a phrase called absence 141 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:19,000 makes the heart fonder, right? And there is joy at being 142 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,200 reconciled with family. If you ever been apart from 143 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,880 family that you love. I know there's some family like 144 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,480 you can stay where you are, but that's not this situation. 145 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:33,400 They they have seen their friend dead and we can experience like 146 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,960 when we're with long lost friends, there's joy. 147 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,600 When family members are home, there's joy. 148 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:44,000 Or I don't know, when a dead friend who's been dead and 149 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,320 buried comes from the grave and is excited to see you. 150 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:47,840 Joy. I don't know. 151 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:49,760 More like fear. Like what? 152 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,280 I mean, seriously, imagine the initial shock of that. 153 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:55,160 Just put yourself in their shoes. 154 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,040 Just imagine the shock of a scene. 155 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,640 Has anybody seen a family member come back from the grave? 156 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,440 Do you know how shocked you would be if you went home and 157 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:04,200 your grandmother died 100 years from now? 158 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:05,760 Met you in the kitchen cooking ham. 159 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,480 It was like, hey, I just thought I'd come back from the dead. 160 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:13,000 I'm so glad to see you. You'd probably all be like, what 161 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,840 was in the coffee at church? What? 162 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:22,560 Seriously, there's fear and there's joy. 163 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,240 Look what they do. How do they respond to this? 164 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,880 They came up and they took hold of his feet. 165 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,080 They, they, they fell at his feet and they worshipped him. 166 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:37,840 And Jesus said don't be afraid. The only reason why we say don't 167 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:39,480 be afraid is because there's great fear. 168 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,000 I mean, there's fear in their hearts. 169 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,160 Like this is unbelievable, but yet there he is. 170 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,760 He says don't be afraid. Go back to Galilee, tell my 171 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:52,600 brothers, tell the disciples, I'm going to meet them there. 172 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:56,280 And so Jesus has always addressed his fears. 173 00:08:56,560 --> 00:08:58,920 He knows we're afraid about things that we can't understand. 174 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:01,280 He knows that they're afraid. They they should be filled with 175 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:05,080 fear and awe, but he commands them not to be afraid. 176 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:08,000 And he does the same for you and I. 177 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:09,560 There's things that we're afraid of. 178 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:10,760 There's things that we don't understand. 179 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,520 But Jesus meets us. He says, don't be afraid, I'm in 180 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,440 control. I mean, if you can beat death, 181 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,320 Jesus, then I'll trust you. I'll trust you. 182 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:19,640 You can. That's one of the things that 183 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:21,440 the resurrection does. The resurrection says, well, 184 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,000 what's the worst that can happen? 185 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,040 I often say that all the time. Like, what's the worst that can 186 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:26,200 happen? This could fall apart. 187 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,440 I could, I don't know, Like, you know, I could be, you know, 188 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:32,800 absolutely poor and hungry. But what's the worst that can 189 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:34,040 happen? Most of us say, well, the worst 190 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,080 that can happen is we could die. But even then, Jesus, like, 191 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:38,920 yeah, I don't know. I've defeated that. 192 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:40,920 I I, I see what's on the other side. 193 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,640 You don't even have to be afraid of death, OK? 194 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:46,920 We need not be afraid when we are with Jesus. 195 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,040 And so standing face to face with Jesus here in the pages of 196 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,160 Scriptures, we see that he is risen from the dead. 197 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:57,480 He is, He is out of the tomb. Look at verses 11 through 15. 198 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,400 One of the things that's important to understand is that 199 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,400 not everybody believed that Jesus was who he said he was. 200 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,320 We not only stand face to face with Jesus, but we we stand face 201 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:13,280 to face with God himself. Look, while they were going, 202 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:17,720 verse 11 while they were going. Now, the reason why he says that 203 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:21,200 is because if you know anything about Galilee, that's the north 204 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,640 of Israel. Jerusalem is in the South of 205 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:26,360 Israel. It's about 60 to 80 miles north 206 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,000 of, of, of Jerusalem. Sometimes when I read the 207 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,960 scriptures, I don't know about you, but I'm like, oh, this 208 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,280 happened and this happened and then that happened. 209 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,920 You're not like in the movies, you see clips, but you don't 210 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,840 really think about the fact that there's time that is in between 211 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,920 there. Life happens between certain 212 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:44,520 chapters of a movie, but you just see a story and it goes 213 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,080 from here to here to here. But then you don't you stop 214 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,040 thinking like, oh man, well, how long would it have taken them to 215 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,800 travel 80 miles? How long would it take you to 216 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:57,280 travel 80 miles? It'd be like starting to walk to 217 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,720 Harrisburg after church. Guys, I'll meet you in 218 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,640 Harrisburg, right? TJ? 219 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:04,360 You walk in Harrisburg. No, he's driving. 220 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,480 They didn't have cars back then, so they're going north. 221 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:10,520 So there's a few things that happened. 222 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:14,880 Galilee lays lies north and so the journey between them would 223 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,600 have taken several days. And This is why in the accounts, 224 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,480 Jesus can pop in and out. He can show himself to others. 225 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:22,920 He's taking his time. He's going to get there, but 226 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,840 it's going to take them time. This is also why it says that 227 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,520 look, here's what happened while they were going scene cut to 228 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,240 scene 2. What happens? 229 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,480 Look at verse 11. Some of the guard went into the 230 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,640 city after they after they woke up, after they changed their 231 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:40,520 pants, after they went back to the they went back and they and 232 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,800 they told the chief priests all that had taken place. 233 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:45,000 Would you have liked to have been a family on that wall? 234 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,880 You know, a bunch of grown men coming in to like, seriously, 235 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,640 here's what happened. Angels came. 236 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,080 There was an earthquake. Some of us fainted. 237 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:55,760 I didn't. I just kind of was pretending to 238 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:57,640 be asleep. These other guys did faint, you 239 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:01,920 know, and and something happened to Jesus. 240 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:03,400 And they're like, well, what happened to Jesus? 241 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,320 We sent you there. We paid you to guard the tomb. 242 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,520 Yeah, about that. He's not there anymore. 243 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,280 What? I mean, this ruins their whole 244 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:14,000 plan. Verse 12, When they had 245 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,360 assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave 246 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,080 sufficient sum of money to the soldiers. 247 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,160 And they said, hey, tell you what, this is what we're going 248 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:21,560 to do. We're going to solve this. 249 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,760 Take this money, right? And tell people what did they 250 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,600 tell them? Say this, Well, his disciples 251 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,240 came by night and stole him away while they were asleep. 252 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,240 OK, take the money and tell everybody that. 253 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,200 And if this comes to the governor's ears, we'll satisfy 254 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:39,720 and keep you out of trouble. It won't. 255 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:41,720 We'll we'll take this. It's like mafia. 256 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,120 That's like the mafia, right? It's like, hey, take this, we'll 257 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,000 take care of you. Don't worry about it. 258 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:48,760 Don't worry about it. I don't know. 259 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,560 I don't know why I do that. I do that every few weeks. 260 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,080 I just. So they took the money and they 261 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,000 did as they were directed. And Matthew leaves a note and 262 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,600 this story, this is important. This story. 263 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:05,000 In other words, they're saying, hey, lie about this this lie, 264 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,760 because it is a lie. This lie has been spread among 265 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:15,640 the Jews to this day. Ask, ask a devout Jew whether or 266 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,800 not Jesus Christ rose from the dead. 267 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,880 Ask them and they will tell you, no, that's a lie. 268 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,160 Words have power. Lies have power. 269 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:26,960 They're sustained Over and over again. 270 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:34,520 The Prince of lies spreads this lie and here's the exposure of 271 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,160 what's truly in their hearts. They're liars. 272 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:40,120 These men who are the religious leaders. 273 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,200 If you've been with us in Matthew, you know that these are 274 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:43,680 men that were pushing against Jesus. 275 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:47,000 They're trying, in fact, they're trying to set him up and crucify 276 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:47,920 him. And they did it. 277 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:50,240 It worked. They're like, let's get him 278 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,800 gone. Let's let's nail him to a cross. 279 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,520 Let's bury him. Let's convict him of blasphemy. 280 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:58,280 And then all of our problems will, will neutralize the 281 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:00,640 situation. As they say in the military. 282 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:04,120 Jesus has called them out. He's like, you know what? 283 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,840 You guys are the your father's a father of lies. 284 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:07,840 They're like, what are you talking about? 285 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:10,320 We're sons of Abraham. We're religious, devout 286 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,520 Abramites. We we, we obey Moses. 287 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:14,320 Like, yeah, no, no, no. You're a bunch of lying 288 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,040 hypocrites and you're in it for your own good. 289 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,960 And your father is a liar too. He's also a murderer, of which 290 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:22,400 you're going to murder me. Do you remember this 291 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:23,720 conversation Jesus had with them? 292 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,600 He's they're like, he's, he's like, you guys are trying to 293 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,320 murder me. They're like, you're nuts. 294 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:29,920 What do you think? What are you trying to murder 295 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,360 you? Yes, you are. 296 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,560 And here is the evidence. This is the exposure of what's 297 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,200 in men's hearts. Lying, murderous thieves. 298 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:46,720 They knew that if on the third day if they knew that if this 299 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:51,440 was true in the third day would pass away as Jesus said, destroy 300 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,240 this temple and in three days I will raise it again. 301 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,600 They knew that if this happens they're in trouble because if 302 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,200 he's found in the grave done deal. 303 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,360 We are all miserable wretches. You should do something 304 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,880 different with your morning. This morning, you could be doing 305 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,920 anything but here, singing about and hearing about Jesus. 306 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:16,440 Because if, as Paul says, Jesus didn't raise from the dead, 307 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:21,160 we're a bunch of idiots. We're to be pitied because we're 308 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,120 wasting our time. We're saying, you know what? 309 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:24,800 I'm going to die and raise from the dead. 310 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,440 And if that's not true, Jesus doesn't raise from the dead, 311 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,600 then that's not true. We ought to be hopeless, 312 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,840 heartless, we ought to be fearful of what's happened, or 313 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:36,560 we just ought to live the way that we want to live. 314 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,960 Live, live as you will live, because, you know, tomorrow we 315 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:47,400 die. But the tomb does not have a 316 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:52,600 dead body in it. He rose at the appointed time. 317 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:58,120 Romans 14 says he was declared to be the Son of God. 318 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:03,320 That's important because that is the knowledge that God has a son 319 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:07,000 and the first born son is every much equal to the Father and all 320 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,520 rights and privileges and inheritance. 321 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,800 He is the Son of God. He is God himself. 322 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:16,120 And Paul says that the Son of God rose with power from the 323 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:21,480 dead. And so because the the women and 324 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:26,120 the disciples and all the early Christians, CT Craig says this, 325 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,760 the early Christians did not believe in the resurrection of 326 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:30,920 Christ because they couldn't find his dead body. 327 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:35,120 It's not like they're like, Yep, there's nobody here confirmed 328 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:40,640 they believed because they saw a living Christ. 329 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:42,720 That's one of the evidences of the Scriptures. 330 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:47,720 Why would men perpetrate a lie if they knew that it was a lie? 331 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:49,880 Why would you give your lives? All of the disciples were 332 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:52,920 martyred. Theater would be crucified 333 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,600 upside down. James would be the first martyr. 334 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,120 John might have been dipped in hot oil or tar. 335 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,320 Most of the men were beaten brutally. 336 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,680 Paul persecuted Christians. Nobody dies. 337 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,359 They might die for a good cause, but nobody dies for a lie. 338 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,160 Nobody dies for a lie. And this is one of the evidences 339 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,280 of Scripture being one of the things where you can trust in. 340 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:19,920 Matthew is writing this Gospel account that we're reading. 341 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,200 And he's saying you can go ask these people. 342 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,920 They're within one lifetime. Like, you know, he names people 343 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,720 and all of the Gospels, like, you know, you know, it was 344 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:29,680 Malchus. That's the guy. 345 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:31,880 Peter cut his ear off. He can go see his ears. 346 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:34,440 It it was healed. Go ask Malchus. 347 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:38,160 Jesus put it back on. He was like, Malchus would be 348 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:39,560 like, yeah, that's actually true. 349 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:45,080 They saw a living Christ. And so when we stand before 350 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:49,120 Jesus, what we are standing before is God himself. 351 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:54,480 And there are two categories. You are either a liar that says 352 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,400 that God, what he says is not true. 353 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,960 These men who told these guards, hey, lie about it. 354 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,160 You're either in one camp where you say, no, God's lying. 355 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,720 This is not true, which means that you're an enemy of God. 356 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:12,240 God is very clear those who lie about what he says is true to 357 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:16,440 say it's not true. You're an enemy or your friend. 358 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,240 We're either called friends of God if we believe or enemies of 359 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:26,320 God if we don't. As friends, as believers, as 360 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,720 Christians, when we say, yeah, Christ rose from the dead, right 361 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:31,040 now, we are faced with the truth that's being proclaimed to us. 362 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:35,040 Back then, Mary and the disciples, they were able to see 363 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:37,080 the risen Christ. But we, we're seeing him right 364 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,320 now in the words we, we, we're, we're seeing Jesus because it's 365 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,160 recorded for us. God is speaking to us. 366 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,800 We, we're either believing that what Jesus is saying is true and 367 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:49,440 that these are trustworthy accounts, or they're not the 368 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,720 promises for friends of God. We're called friends of God if 369 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,840 we believe what He says about His Son. 370 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,800 The resurrection demonstrates that Christ has indeed been 371 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:04,160 raised for our justification. Romans 425 says that He is 372 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,280 raised for our justification. And so we look to Him and we are 373 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:09,400 justified not because of anything that we do. 374 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,240 We're raised with Him to walk in newness of life. 375 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:17,840 Romans 6 as we are born again. We read the chapter this 376 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,520 morning, first, Peter, 1/3 through five, that we've been 377 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:25,080 raised to a living hope, born again, that we have an 378 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,280 inheritance that is imperishable, undefined, 379 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:31,080 unfading, kept in heaven. We have an assurance of our 380 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:34,400 future resurrection. And in Romans 8, Christ who is 381 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:36,040 raised is at the right hand of God. 382 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,760 He is interceding for us. All of this are the promises of 383 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,680 those who are friends of God. You're a friend of God when you 384 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,040 believe. Now here's the sad news. 385 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,680 We all have to hear this. We all have to hear this. 386 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:53,400 You can also be an enemy of God. We are called enemies of God 387 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:57,160 when we do not believe. And here's the scary part, when 388 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:01,000 we do not believe, when we speak that God is you know what Jesus 389 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,440 might be one way, but not he's not the only way. 390 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:06,960 He's there's some other ways to get to God. 391 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,760 We what we do is John says we call God to be a liar and God 392 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,600 will have none of that. He's not a liar. 393 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:19,560 Those who outrightly reject Jesus as his Son, as Lord, they 394 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:21,880 reject the atonement that is sent by God. 395 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,280 Here's your one and only chance guys. 396 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,280 Christ and Christ alone. That's it, period. 397 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,240 God gives us no other chances. It is only through his Son or 398 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:38,320 nothing. Those who reject Christ 399 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:42,040 experience God's wrath. John says that the wrath of God 400 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,000 still remains as we're all born under wrath. 401 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:46,040 This is a rescue mission by Jesus. 402 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,840 This isn't we. We find Jesus and that we earn 403 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:49,960 life. Though He's like you guys are in 404 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:51,320 trouble. We're all in trouble. 405 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,160 This is a sinking ship. All of us are born under sin. 406 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,120 There's no escape. You cannot work your way out of 407 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:00,080 this hole. You can't pay the debt back. 408 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,360 It's a rescue mission. That's why it's called 409 00:21:03,360 --> 00:21:05,080 redemption. Reconciliation. 410 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,960 We're brought back. We, we, we can't do it 411 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,680 ourselves. We need somebody to come and 412 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:12,040 rescue us because we're born under wrath. 413 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:15,640 We walk as enemies, Philippians 318 through 19. 414 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,600 We walk as enemies of the cross. And the end is our destruction. 415 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,240 The end is our destruction. We, we will not escape the 416 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,960 destruction if we continue to call God a liar. 417 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,480 And you can't be saved by being born into a Christian family. 418 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:33,360 My parents are Christians. I went to church. 419 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:36,280 That doesn't save you. You've got to come to your own 420 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:40,160 understanding of who Christ is. You have to confess him as Lord 421 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,520 because he's God. There's no doubt now. 422 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,600 Jesus can't be just said He's a good teacher. 423 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:52,040 He's God who has the power over sin and death. 424 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,800 And one day we will be asked to depart from him if we have not 425 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:00,560 become his friends. For the enemies of Christ, only 426 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,760 judgement awaits. Hebrews chapter 10 says there's 427 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:05,680 a fearful expectation of judgement. 428 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:10,320 The judgement that Christ receives on the cross is a 429 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:11,840 judgement that we can experience. 430 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,880 The first words Jesus says we look at Psalm 22. 431 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,640 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 432 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,080 Why have you forsaken me? What he experienced was the 433 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:25,520 turning of God's face away from Him to be separated from the one 434 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,440 whom he loved and who loved him. But yet what he does is he 435 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,440 promises he's like that face has turned back to his Son because 436 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,840 Jesus lived the perfect life that we could not. 437 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,960 And as our representative, what Jesus does, it says, Father, if 438 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,440 you love me, then apply my righteousness. 439 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,680 Apply your love that I'm representing all of mankind 440 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:50,160 because I'm the second Adam. I'll do what Adam the first time 441 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,840 could not do. Look to me and I will get you in 442 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:57,080 with the Father. Don't look to him, don't look to 443 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,440 her, Don't look to this. Look to me and I will get you 444 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,680 into the graces of my Father because my Father will love to 445 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,040 forgive you because you love me. Because what you're doing, 446 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:09,840 you're saying he's not a liar. The Father says this is my son. 447 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,880 Look to him. And Jesus says look to me, my 448 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,240 Father, my Father will save you. He will give you mercy. 449 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:19,840 And when we looked at Jesus, Jesus like, yes, you're mine. 450 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,400 This is why it's called the good news, because you don't have to 451 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:26,800 do anything. You don't have to go home and do 452 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,400 anything. You just look to Christ and you 453 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,760 say that's my salvation. He's my salvation. 454 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,880 I want him to pay my penalty. He paid my debt. 455 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,960 He did the work. Does that mean we don't have a 456 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,240 responsibility in living in obedience to him? 457 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:47,600 No, but as far as our salvation comes, it is Christ and Christ 458 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,120 alone. What's the guarantee that the 459 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:51,960 payment's been paid? It is Resurrection Sunday. 460 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:59,440 There is no body in the grave, which gives me great confidence 461 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,240 that my body won't stay in the grave. 462 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:06,200 Right? And this is the good news of the 463 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,960 Gospel. Notice, though, what Jesus 464 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,080 doesn't do. Notice what Jesus does not do. 465 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:18,800 He does not come out of the grave and go after his enemies. 466 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,720 He does not come out. That's that's good news for us 467 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,760 because what Jesus doesn't do is like, Hey, Mary Magdalene, Mary 468 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,920 Magdalene and Mary go back and tell my disciples is get the 469 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,920 weapons together. It's go time, baby, right. 470 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,960 Unlike the mob where they come and kill their enemies. 471 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,000 I think the reason why I'm thinking about the mob is 472 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,120 because it's the 40th anniversary of the Godfather and 473 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:43,120 I just watched one and two, we're going to go to the 474 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:44,920 mattresses. Jesus does not say we're going 475 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,680 to go to the mattresses. He's not Don Corleone wiping out 476 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,280 all of his enemies, right? Right. 477 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:53,480 No, no. What does he do? 478 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,640 What does Jesus do? He says go back and tell them, 479 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,840 don't be afraid. He doesn't kick down the door of 480 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,040 all of his enemies. He has no thoughts of revenge. 481 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,960 He gives time for his enemies to repent. 482 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,480 Peter says that the Lord is not slow in keeping his promises of 483 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,000 coming back and bringing justice to the world and judgement to 484 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,800 the world. It will be a good thing when the 485 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,440 wicked and evil and sin and death is all wiped out. 486 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,040 There will be justice. There will be justice for the 487 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,120 millions of Christians who are slaughtered at the hands of 488 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:25,840 Muslims and of atheists in Soviet Russia and in Africa and 489 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,720 in South America. There will be justice for all of 490 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,920 those who've been oppressed. Trust me, the enemies of God 491 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:39,520 will be judged, but it's not now, and all of us are born 492 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,680 under that judgement unless we trust the son. 493 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:50,280 Spurgeon says this. He might have told the disciples 494 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:54,800 to ignore the Jewish people when they preached. 495 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:57,840 He gives them a mission. We'll look at that in just a 496 00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:58,920 moment. But he gives them a mission. 497 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,080 But no, He expressly instructs them to start at Jerusalem, thus 498 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,640 commanding his disciples to preach the gospel first to those 499 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:11,200 who murdered him. Preach the gospel. 500 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:16,040 The good news you, Father, forgive them for what they know, 501 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,840 not what they do. God is such a compassionate God 502 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,280 that he looks under sin and he doesn't what we think we don't 503 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,720 think. He's a say you're nasty. 504 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:29,520 No, he says, I am so sorry that you you are burdened under the 505 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,280 sin. It's it is nasty. 506 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,000 Can I rescue you from it? That cancer that's in your 507 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:35,920 heart. I want to heal you. 508 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,240 That that cancer of sin and death, I want to take that away. 509 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,200 He's a compassionate God. He looks at her sin and he does. 510 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,360 He says it's it's not the way that it should be. 511 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,200 Even Jesus's own family did not believe him during his ministry. 512 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,080 And in First Corinthians 15-7, his brother James, he actually 513 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,600 shows up to his his brothers. If you remember, they're like, 514 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,680 dude, why don't you do an ad campaign? 515 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,640 Isn't it your time to like raise? 516 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,120 And, and even it says in the gospels, even his family 517 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:12,480 rejected him. And yet after they see the 518 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,840 living Christ, they're like, oh, I guess we were wrong. 519 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,480 Kind of what happens when you see someone who's up from the 520 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:26,920 grave, right? We can stand friends, either 521 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:31,200 face to face with Jesus as friends, or we can stand face to 522 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,080 face with Jesus as enemies. Which one are you? 523 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,920 Which one are you? There is no in between. 524 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:39,880 There's no neutral ground. You can't stand in the center 525 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:45,000 here. Friends or enemies, friends or 526 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,160 enemies. I switched that up just so just 527 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:52,080 in case that's the question that I am faced with. 528 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,400 That's the question that you are faced with. 529 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,320 That's the question that every human being, man, woman and 530 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,480 child that hears the proclamation of the gospel is 531 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,720 faced with. And that leads me to my last 532 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,280 point is that we must be face to face with others. 533 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,840 Look at verse 16. It says now the 11 disciples 534 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,320 went to Galilee. Some time has passed. 535 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,640 They went to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 536 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,920 Some theologians believe that this is actually the mount of 537 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,280 Transfiguration. They go back to the mountain 538 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,120 where Jesus was revealed as the Son of God, where God said, this 539 00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:23,920 is my son, and whom I am well pleased. 540 00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:26,560 And when they saw him, what did they do? 541 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,040 They worshipped Him. No one. 542 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,240 No good Jew worships anything. We read it this morning. 543 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,440 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 544 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,800 So another evidence to the resurrected Lord being God is 545 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,320 that no Jew would have worshiped him. 546 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:41,880 They would have been counted as blasphemous. 547 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,360 But they worshiped him. Mary worshiped him. 548 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,840 All the early Christians worshiped him as God. 549 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,920 We worship him this morning. We worship him every day of 550 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,280 every week of every month of every year, because He is God. 551 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,960 They worship him. But some doubted, some doubted, 552 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,040 some were like this is I can't Thomas doubted and that's in 553 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,920 Jesus is patient with us. Jesus comes to them and says all 554 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,640 authority, all authority in heaven and earth has been given 555 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:16,320 to me go Therefore, because all authorities I'm going to 556 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:21,600 exercise that authority. Jesus is like I'm back guys, and 557 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,120 I've proven everything that I've said. 558 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,080 So therefore, if we're all in agreement, I'm going to I'm 559 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,200 going to play this this card, I'm going to use my authority. 560 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:35,200 Here's what I want you to do. I want you to go into Jerusalem, 561 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,680 wipe them out, establish my Kingdom, and I'll come back, 562 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,840 right? No, he doesn't say that is I 563 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,400 want you to go back and I want you to lay burdens on people 564 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:43,880 like now I'm going to have my revenge. 565 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,720 No, he doesn't say that. He says, go, make disciples, 566 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,880 command them, teach them to obey everything that I've commanded 567 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,880 you, baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and 568 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,800 the Holy Spirit, the Trinity. You are now in relationship with 569 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,120 me. Teach them to observe all that 570 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:05,320 I've commanded you, and behold, I am with you to the very end of 571 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,160 the age. 3 times. Matthew repeats, Do not be 572 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,920 afraid, but go and tell. Do not be afraid, but go and 573 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,520 tell. Do not be afraid but go and 574 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,240 tell. No longer is their mission now 575 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,040 restricted to the lost sheep of the House of Israel, as it was 576 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,040 in his Galilean ministry. It's not restricted to just 577 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,120 Israel now. All limitations have been 578 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,640 removed. Jesus says don't just go to the 579 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,480 lost sheep, start there, but then go to the nations. 580 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,640 What is the scope of Jesus's ministry? 581 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:48,880 Well, this this week, did you see those pictures of the space 582 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,520 shuttle? Not space shuttle anymore. 583 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,760 Artemis 2. Did you see those pictures? 584 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,480 They were overwhelmed by the beauty of the sphere of the 585 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,920 globe, of the earth. For many of you flat earthers, 586 00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:01,160 it's over. It's done. 587 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,040 My gosh, if there's any conspiracy, I mean, good Lord, 588 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:13,120 it's just right there. That's that's the span of God's 589 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,040 mission. It's Upper Darby. 590 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,320 It's Broomall. It's New Jersey. 591 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:24,320 Dare say it even Dallas, TX, South America, China, all 7 592 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,560 continents, Jesus, go make disciples. 593 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:31,080 And for 2000 years the disciples have been doing that faithfully 594 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,800 so that you and I sit this morning and we're able to hear 595 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,760 the gospel preserved for us in the Word of God so that we might 596 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,360 have good news and hope for the future. 597 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:47,240 Our mission as a church and as a local church. 598 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:51,360 So there's the larger church, but our church is to continue 599 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,600 engaging as many of those who are currently sinners. 600 00:31:54,880 --> 00:32:00,160 You and I were sinners. Sinners await your words. 601 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,120 You and I were enemies of God. It's not a, it's not a, it's not 602 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,880 a fun term. Our kids are enemies of God. 603 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,960 We are enemies of God until we're no longer enemies but 604 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,480 friends. Paul says that because of 605 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,280 Christ, we now have peace with God. 606 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,280 The war is over. The white flag. 607 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,960 We waved the white flag. When we confess Jesus as Lord, 608 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,240 we waved the white flag and there's peace with God. 609 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:28,600 And the promise is that you will never suffer the judgment of 610 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:33,560 vengeance of God because of Christ, and you will enter into 611 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,040 life eternal. And it won't be floating around 612 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,640 in harps. They won't be singing Matt 613 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,480 Redman songs eternally or hymns eternally. 614 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,560 We are going to be physical human beings raised from the 615 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,880 dead with glorious bodies like Christ. 616 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,480 And the new heavens and the new earth will be our story. 617 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,080 The 1st chapter starts. After that all comes in and we 618 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,080 have a long ways to live forever. 619 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,440 That's the good news of the gospel. 620 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,640 This is not the end. The beginning starts when we 621 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,840 die. Or He comes back and changes 622 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,240 everything. Until that day, our mission is 623 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:10,960 to get as many people around the table. 624 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,520 We talked about his church being rooted in God's Word and 625 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,520 gathering as many people around God's table. 626 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,480 Where there's peace, we take communion because there's peace 627 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,120 with God. We're led by the Spirit. 628 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,640 That's our mission. And we're not driven by duty, 629 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,280 although we have duty. We're driven by the same thing 630 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:33,600 that drove Christ to the cross, which was, we said it, Good 631 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,720 Friday, Joy. He went to the grave because of 632 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,000 joy. He rose from the dead because of 633 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,360 joy. For the joy set before him, He 634 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,920 endured the cross. Therefore, let us also run with 635 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,240 endurance the same walk that Christ did for the joy that is 636 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,440 set before us. That's why we sing with great 637 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:59,160 joy as Christians for the glory of Jesus Christ and for our love 638 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:04,280 for Him, our God and our Savior. The sermon you've just listened 639 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,520 to is a presentation of Church Newtown Square. 640 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,199 To find out more about our church, check out Church 641 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:18,199 nsq.org. That's CHVRCHNS q.org. 642 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,719 You are welcome to copy and distribute this sermon to others 643 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,520 as long as you do not do it for commercial purposes or alter, 644 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,639 transform, or build upon this talk in any way.