1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:03,400 So she's great. She's actually going to step 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,400 here because there's a point where she's going to read 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:11,320 something and right off here the back so happy, happy 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:15,480 resurrection Sunday, right. This is the the message named 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:21,640 today is proved it and that is what he did 2000 years ago, 6 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:22,960 right? This is he didn't just say 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:28,320 stuff, he proved it. And so she's going to read this 8 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,759 is this is a little excerpt out of the Angel story, which is a 9 00:00:32,759 --> 00:00:36,600 Max Lucado book. It is not, this is not 10 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,400 scripture. This is this is a story a guy 11 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,360 wrote with the idea of what possibly could have been 12 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:47,680 happening in heaven or with the heavenly being. 13 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:52,400 So this is she's going to read a the very end of the book and 14 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:57,000 it's Gabriel Gabriel. Gabriel is, is the one speaking 15 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:01,280 and there's a couple other angels mentioned as he's going 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,760 through it. But I would read this, but I 17 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:10,000 would probably start crying because if you, if you look at 18 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,920 this guys, we sit in this room and I, I taught on Wednesday 19 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:19,400 about, about the cross and all that went on there. 20 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:25,000 And it was 2000 years ago. And it's something that we know 21 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,880 what happens. The Angel watched it first hand 22 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,560 and they watched it with complete power to stop it. 23 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:37,920 They, there was, there was nobody. 24 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,040 The Romans weren't strong enough to stop them, right? 25 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:45,280 101 Angel kills 188,000 Syrians, right? 26 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,440 So so that they had that they had to just watch. 27 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:53,320 And this is Gabriel when God reveals this plan to him. 28 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,640 In that moment a wonderful thing happened. 29 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:05,120 As we looked at the baby Jesus, the darkness lifted. 30 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,680 Not the darkness of night, but the darkness of the mystery. 31 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,400 Heaven's enlightenment engulfed the legions. 32 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,880 Our minds were filled with truth we had never before known. 33 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,080 We became aware for the first time of the Father's plan to 34 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:29,720 rescue those who bear His name. He revealed to us all that was 35 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:31,480 to come. At once. 36 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:37,040 Amazed and stunned, the eye of every Angel went to one part of 37 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:46,160 the Child, the hands which would be pierced at the pounding of 38 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,600 the nail. God told us you will not save 39 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,600 him. You will watch, you will hear, 40 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,800 you will yearn, but you will not rescue. 41 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:06,840 Paragon and Agus turn to me, begging for an explanation. 42 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:12,800 I had none. I exist to serve my King and I 43 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:17,480 must watch him be tortured to look to Michael. 44 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,960 His face was stone hard with torment. 45 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,080 I recognized the look, for I felt the same. 46 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:30,080 We could not fathom the command. How will we sit silent as you 47 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,200 suffer? We asked in unison. 48 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,400 There was no response. Sophia was whispering. 49 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:44,160 I drew near to hear his words. A child has been given to us. 50 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:49,560 God has given us a son. He will be responsible for 51 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,680 leading the people. His name will be wonderful 52 00:03:54,120 --> 00:04:01,040 counselor, powerful God Father who lives forever Prince of 53 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,520 Peace. He will be wounded for the wrong 54 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,800 they did, crushed for the evil they did. 55 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:13,640 The punishment which will make them well will be given to Him. 56 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,640 They will be healed because of His wounds. 57 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,720 Once again I heard the words I had heard first in the throne 58 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,240 room. Only this time I understood. 59 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:33,720 So this is He, Emmanuel. So this is God's gift, a Savior. 60 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:39,320 He shall save His people from their sins. 61 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:50,120 And Lord, I just thank you. I thank you for all of it. 62 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:55,320 Lord, I thank you. I thank you, Father, for being 63 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,040 willing to send your son. I thank you, Jesus, for being 64 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:03,760 willing to come, Lord. And Lord, that as we go through 65 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:11,360 what you've done and the gift that you've given us, Lord, that 66 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:15,640 you would just open our ears to hear and open our eyes to see. 67 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:23,640 And Lord, give us a give us your heart to understand, Lord, and 68 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:25,960 be in our midst today filled with your spirit. 69 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:30,400 I pray this in Jesus name. So when you, when you look at it 70 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:35,640 from the heavenly perspective, I don't know, for me, it just 71 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:40,400 gives that so it really happened. 72 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,760 And I know that we, we stand up here on, I stand up here on 73 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,920 Sunday and I, I tell you the Bible's the truth and it's the 74 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:53,640 word of God. And but I can tell you that if 75 00:05:53,640 --> 00:06:00,880 you, if you dig into this, if you dig into he is risen, you 76 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:07,240 will find that it is true. And if it is true, the rest of 77 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,000 the Bible is easily easy to believe. 78 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,040 And I'm not going to today, I'm not going to stand up here and 79 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:20,440 give you an apologetics lesson on all the reasons that it is 80 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,480 true that Jesus rose from the dead. 81 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:24,920 I'll tell you there's there's books out there. 82 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:30,440 The one that comes to mind is that was coming to mind right 83 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:34,640 before I said that. That's funny. 84 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:38,920 I will remember and let you know there is a, a case for Christ 85 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,480 Lee Strobel. And Lee Strobel was an 86 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:47,560 investigative journalist who his his girlfriend or his wife got 87 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:53,520 saved and he was disgusted. He was an atheist and he was, he 88 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:59,120 went about to prove that Jesus did not rise from the dead. 89 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:04,080 And what he ended up proving was Jesus rose from the dead and 90 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:06,000 obviously wrote the book he saved. 91 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,800 But the point is, the information is out there if you 92 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,840 want to find it. And I will touch on some of it. 93 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,080 But we're just going to take the Bible as the truth. 94 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:22,080 As we go through this, I'll point out some moments that that 95 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:26,960 really prove that it's true. But the the big thing that he 96 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:33,880 proved, guys, is on the cross. He said it is finished, saying 97 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,800 it's finished and it being finished are two different 98 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:42,760 things, right? Unless you're God, in which case 99 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,800 on Sunday when he rose from the dead, that was just proving he 100 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,400 had the right to say it was finished. 101 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,720 So we're going to actually be in to begin. 102 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,520 We're going to be in First Corinthians 15, and this is Paul 103 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:02,440 talking. And this is just the importance 104 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,440 of this being true. Moreover, brethren, I declare to 105 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:11,800 you the gospel which I preach to you, which also you received, in 106 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:17,240 which you you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold 107 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:22,440 fast that word which I preach to you, unless, unless you believed 108 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,280 in vain. For I delivered to you first of 109 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:30,080 all that which I also received, that Jesus Christ died for our 110 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,720 sins according to the Scriptures, and that he was 111 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:36,000 buried, and that he rose again on the third day according to 112 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,799 the Scriptures. And that he was seen by Cephas 113 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:44,120 then by the 12:00, and after that he was seen by over 500 114 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:48,400 brethren at once, whom the greater part remained to the 115 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,040 present. But some have fallen asleep. 116 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:56,360 So that's one of those. And we'll, we'll dig into it a 117 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:02,960 farther down, but so this is during the lifetime of Jesus, of 118 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:08,400 not of Jesus, of, of those that watch these 500 men, many of 119 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,560 them are still alive. The the apostles, many of them 120 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:14,000 are still alive. The witnesses, many of them are 121 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,400 still alive. So this, the point is, is that 122 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,960 if I stood up here today and told you that John F Kennedy 123 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:24,280 rose from the dead and would anybody believe me? 124 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:25,440 No. Why? 125 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,360 Because we know that that didn't happen. 126 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:32,200 And there is there is no there we are in a in a time frame that 127 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,520 we can prove that right. And this is this is this. 128 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,960 And they are not afraid to share out loud. 129 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:44,440 And we'll by the end of this, we will have numerous times where 130 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,120 they shared bluntly in front of people that could have said 131 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:48,400 you're lying. That didn't happen. 132 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,960 But I'm going to do some review from Wednesday. 133 00:09:55,960 --> 00:10:00,800 We talked about Jesus was beaten and crucified while the heavens 134 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,920 watched, right? And that's, we just, we just 135 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,440 kind of heard what that was going to be like. 136 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,040 Oh, and that book is called an Angel Story by Max Lucado, if 137 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:14,040 you guys are interested. And it's, it's all about, it's 138 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,400 all about Christmas from that perspective. 139 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:22,880 The Tri-cities Calvary Chapel's youth group reads that every 140 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:25,680 Christmas as like a Christmas Eve's. 141 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:29,960 They're not like a Christmas evening thing that they do to 142 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:31,840 the kids. And it's it's pretty powerful 143 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,640 just because it's not. It's just looking at it from the 144 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:42,280 position of the real right, is that that we get the idea that 145 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:48,000 where we're at is real and heavens ghosty and there there's 146 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,800 nothing farther from the truth. Heaven's the real and we're the 147 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:55,760 ghosty, which means as solid as this is, heaven is more solid, 148 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:59,360 right? And so as Jesus is doing this, 149 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:03,720 just know that it's being done completely and forever. 150 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:09,560 But at the same time, Satan, Satan and his were celebrating 151 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:13,760 thinking they had won, right? That I mean, that's, that's the, 152 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,640 that's as God leads them down this path, right? 153 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,360 That's one of those things that I, I love about the story. 154 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,720 You know, Jesus or Satan is probably saying it at some point 155 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,800 during the crucifixion. There will be no seed crushing 156 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,760 today or no head crushing today by that seed, right? 157 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:34,040 Is that he, he had finally like put a fork in it. 158 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:35,640 He'd finished, he'd won the game. 159 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:41,040 And my question is, when did Satan figure out he had 160 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,400 overplayed his hand? You know what, when, when it 161 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:48,240 went dark for three hours, you know, because that darkness. 162 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,880 And that's, that's one of those proofs when you look into the, 163 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,000 when you look into the resurrection, that's one of the, 164 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,760 or the crucifixion, that's one of the proofs that had happened 165 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:00,960 is there was 3 hours of darkness between noon and 3:00. 166 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:07,800 So that that three hours of darkness happens and it's it's 167 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:11,720 documented by secular non Christian historians. 168 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:16,240 And some of them, some of them just explain it as it happened. 169 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,480 Some of them explained it and say it was an eclipse. 170 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:23,600 The problem with an eclipse is that Passover is, is on a full 171 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,440 moon and which means if you guys don't know how all that works, 172 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:31,120 the sun is over there and the moon is over there and the earth 173 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,040 isn't blocking either 1 So they it can't be an eclipse, right? 174 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,800 Because but it was dark for three hours. 175 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:43,880 So you got to wonder, did Satan go, Well, that's unfortunate. 176 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:45,680 And then the earth started quaking. 177 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:48,640 Well, I'm getting somebody's attention. 178 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,680 And then then you got to wonder when Jesus said it is finished, 179 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,400 was that the moment that he went, well, what's finished? 180 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:05,680 And I tell you that the one that the one that is always, let me 181 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:09,160 see, where am I at? So Luke 2344 says now it was 182 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,080 about the 6th hour and there was darkness over the earth until 183 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:15,040 the 9th hour. The sun was darkened and the 184 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:18,160 veil of the temple was torn in two. 185 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:24,320 So what's, what's the deal? And we've talked about the veil 186 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:29,560 in the past, but this veil is is actually what it's all about. 187 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:31,320 But it's not the veil in the temple. 188 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,360 The temple veil was really cool and very symbolic of what the 189 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:38,880 veil was. But Exodus 2631 says you shall 190 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,840 make a veil woven of blue, purple and scarlet thread and 191 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:47,160 fine and woven linen. It shall be woven with artistic 192 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,320 design and cherubim. You shall hang it upon the four 193 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,120 pillars of the Acacia wood overlaid with gold. 194 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,280 Their hooks shall be gold upon the four sockets of silver. 195 00:13:57,680 --> 00:13:59,520 And you shall hang the veil from the class. 196 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,960 Then you shall bring the Ark of the Testimony in there behind 197 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,520 the veil. The veil shall be the divider 198 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,400 for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy. 199 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:13,400 You shall put the mercy seat upon the Ark of the Testimony in 200 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:20,640 the Most Holy Place. So this veil is separating the 201 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:24,920 Holy Place from the Most Holy Place and and we're not we're 202 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,960 not Jewish from back then or we're not Israelis. 203 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:33,400 And that's that seems distant, but the idea there is the mercy 204 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,600 seat was where that was. That was God's throne on earth. 205 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:43,720 But in Hebrews it says, for Christ has not entered the holy 206 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:48,480 places made with hands which are copies of the true, but into 207 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,160 heaven itself. Now to to appear in the presence 208 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:57,760 of God for us. That's what he did in heaven. 209 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:03,160 He took down that wall of separation and gave us the gave 210 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:08,800 us the ability to come into God's presence, not not in my 211 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,640 power, right, not because I'm special, but because in Christ. 212 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:17,640 And if I am saved and I'm in him, I now have the the the 213 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:21,320 right through what he did on the cross to come into the presence 214 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:25,640 of God and have have conversations with him and and 215 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:31,200 be that that cool of the day, being able to just talk and 216 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,440 speak to God, not as not as something that is afar off 217 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,360 right. This is this is the thing about 218 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:46,640 Christianity is we dig into the proof we serve a living God. 219 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:54,360 We don't serve a religion. And I know that I you, you guys 220 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,080 have me up here every week and and I beat on that. 221 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,440 But it is so important for you to understand it isn't a game to 222 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:06,320 be played. It it is if you, if you do not 223 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:10,160 have a relationship with Jesus and you're in church every 224 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,680 Sunday and you stand up front every Sunday and you do 225 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:16,600 everything that's at a church to be able to do, but you do not 226 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:18,360 have a relationship with the living God. 227 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:23,160 You are lost. And that relationship isn't 228 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:27,480 something that is. It isn't ghosty. 229 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,920 It's it's simple. Lord, come into me. 230 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,480 I want to come into you. Forgive me for my sins, but it's 231 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:36,440 something you have to do between you and him. 232 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:41,680 You someone can lead you in a prayer, but the prayers words 233 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:46,360 are not magical. Your heart being changed, is 234 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:55,280 that right? That proof is there and the 235 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:59,800 thing about that proof is when when you are in Christ and in 236 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:04,119 His grace, you become more than conquerors, right? 237 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,440 And what that means is you live in a different way. 238 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:12,040 There is a joy about your life. That isn't because isn't because 239 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,520 you go to church and I have joy. Look at me, I smile all the 240 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,880 time. There is a peace in your life in 241 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,440 my life that is given to us by him that I can't explain to 242 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,000 others. I mean, I can explain it, but I 243 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:30,840 it, it's literally mine. It's something he gave me and 244 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,920 that that being more than conquerors means that I can 245 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,920 trust him, right? And and the one of the reasons I 246 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:40,640 can trust him is that he proved it. 247 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,560 But Romans 837 it it Paul's talking about this. 248 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:49,040 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him 249 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:51,800 who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither 250 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:55,200 death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor 251 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,840 things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor 252 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,280 any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the 253 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,200 love of God, which is in Jesus our Lord. 254 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:12,560 So Paul proclaims that nothing can separate us when we're in 255 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,400 Christ. You give your life to the Lord. 256 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:22,480 You are safe in Him now you need to remain in him and that means 257 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,440 it's no different than I need to remain married to my wife, 258 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:31,320 right? It's we have a relationship and 259 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:37,120 but there isn't anybody that is going to snatch us out of his 260 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:41,920 hand. He is, he is able to do what he 261 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:45,080 says He can do in my I shared this on Wednesday and those that 262 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,360 were here are going to hear it again. 263 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:53,120 But when Jesus proved it right, when he said it is finished and 264 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:58,560 then rose again, that rising again is exactly like what he 265 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,920 does in Luke 523 with the paralyzed man. 266 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:06,360 And that is the Pharisees were doubting whether or not he had 267 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:08,000 the power to do what he said he could do. 268 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,880 And so Jesus said he could do it and then he did it. 269 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:18,640 And so that's the tomb, right? He said he could do it, and it 270 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,880 was done. The empty tomb just proves that 271 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:23,600 he was right. Does that make sense? 272 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:29,400 It's Luke 523, which is easier to say to you, say your sins are 273 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,000 forgiven you, or to say, rise up and walk. 274 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,280 And So what has happened here is this man was lowered down 275 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,160 through the ceiling by his friends, and he landed in front 276 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,360 of him, a paralyzed man. And Jesus says your sins are 277 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:42,840 forgiven. And the Pharisees and the 278 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,600 Sadducees and all the religious leaders lost their everliving 279 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,920 mind because this guy is forgiving sins, and how can he 280 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,280 forgive sins? And so Jesus says, which is 281 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:56,960 easier to say your sins are forgiven, or rise up and walk, 282 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:01,120 but that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to 283 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:04,800 forgive sins, He said to the man. 284 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:09,320 Who was paralyzed I say to you, arise, take up your bed and go 285 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:13,040 your go to your house. Immediately he rose up before 286 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:18,880 them and took up for them had been lying on Oh, where did I 287 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:20,640 go? Immediately he rose up before 288 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:25,160 them, took up what he had been lying on and separated to, 289 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,840 departed to his home glorifying God. 290 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,520 And they were all amazed and glorified God. 291 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,640 And we're filled with fear, saying we have seen strange 292 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:42,200 things today. So Jesus explains over and over, 293 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,080 you can go. You can go from the beginning to 294 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,480 the end of every one of the Gospels and He will explain to 295 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,280 you every way it can be explained. 296 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:54,760 God is in charge. He is running this show and He 297 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,440 is giving power for each step of the show. 298 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:05,320 The only power that Satan has, the only power darkness gets is 299 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,560 given to him by God. And that doesn't mean that God 300 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,000 is darkness. It means that God is allowing to 301 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,720 move the story forward as God says, right? 302 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,360 It's his story. It's like think of a think of a 303 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:24,120 novel and the writer right at the end of the at the end of the 304 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:27,440 story, all the people win. But there's got to be a bad guy 305 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:31,520 right to to get the get the good guys where he wants, wants them 306 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,920 to go. And that's that that analogy 307 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,600 breaks down. Yes, it does, but that's the 308 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:41,000 idea, right? Luke 2252 Then Jesus said to the 309 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,040 chief priests, captains, captains of the temple and the 310 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,960 elders who had come to him. Have you come out against a 311 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:53,000 robber with swords and clubs? When I was with you daily in the 312 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:59,800 temple, you did not try to seize me but in your hour, but sorry, 313 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,080 but this is your hour and the power of darkness. 314 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,160 So that power of darkness, right? 315 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:09,800 So that isn't the dunamis, which we, we talk about dunamis and 316 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,200 that's, that's explosive power, right? 317 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,760 That isn't that power. This is this is delegated power. 318 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:20,240 This is you. It's like it's the, the police 319 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,000 have the have the power to write us a ticket out here. 320 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,720 And they were given that power by the city, right? 321 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,320 And the city was given that power to to have police write 322 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,360 that by the state. And the state was given that 323 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:35,560 power by America, right? And it's, it's those that kind 324 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,280 of power just delegated power, right? 325 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:42,000 You're allowed, you were allowed in this moment to run, to run 326 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:47,160 this. And Jesus goes on to explain to 327 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:53,320 the world, which would be Pilot because Pilot is, I always feel 328 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:59,760 for Pilot because if his life didn't change, if, if things 329 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,880 didn't go another way for him before his death, he had a 330 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:07,320 second meeting with Jesus, it didn't go well. 331 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,320 And we don't want to ever be that right? 332 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,120 We, we want to, we want to make that, that decision. 333 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:18,640 And Pilot may have right. I, I don't, I don't condemn him 334 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,760 because I don't know. But I know in this moment he 335 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,680 made some bad choices. But John 1910 it says then 336 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,560 Pilate said to him, are you not speaking to me? 337 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,120 Do you not know that I have the power to crucify you and the 338 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:36,520 power to release you? Jesus answered, you could have 339 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,160 no power at all against me unless it had been given you 340 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:44,120 from above. Therefore, no one delivers me to 341 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:49,040 you or sorry, the ones who delivered me to you has the 342 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,400 greater sin. And, and the point there is 343 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,240 Jesus says it later on that that he's going to lay down his life 344 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,200 and he has the, he has the power to lay it down and pick it up 345 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,400 right. Jesus and the Father and the 346 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,160 Holy Spirit run this whole thing. 347 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,440 You know it. You'll, you'll hear different, 348 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,560 different people talk about the Jews crucify Jesus, the Romans 349 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:14,320 crucify Jesus. And, and the facts are this was 350 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,400 his story. It was the plan. 351 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,880 Because like I said, there's a point where I'm sure Satan went 352 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,080 that didn't go like I wanted it, where he overplayed his hand. 353 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:31,520 And that was God just letting it just going, you have it do your 354 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,360 worst. And Satan went to work, right? 355 00:24:41,570 --> 00:24:44,370 So then we finally get to he's risen, right? 356 00:24:44,490 --> 00:24:48,250 And that is this is these are the the moments in this proof. 357 00:24:48,250 --> 00:24:54,370 So the best, the best proof that Jesus rose from the dead is 358 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,200 there's many of them. But the one I, I love is that 359 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,040 you know who God had placed right outside the tomb doors? 360 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,240 He had guards and he had Roman guards. 361 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,680 Now these Roman guards, if they let, if they let some fishermen 362 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:14,240 swing by, roll the tomb, the the stone away and steal the body, 363 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,880 these are Romans. They didn't like Jews to begin 364 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,960 with. And they were Romans whose lies 365 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,320 were on the line. Because if they fail, they can 366 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,600 be killed. And so you put all that together 367 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,960 and they're the best witnesses because they're not going to lie 368 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,720 for nobody, right? They are, they are literally 369 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:37,760 their, their necks are on the line. 370 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:42,760 So it says Matthew 2762. On the next day, which followed 371 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,600 the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees 372 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,680 gathered together to pilot, saying, Sir, we remember while 373 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:54,640 he was alive, how that deceiver said, After three days I will 374 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,880 rise. Therefore command the two. 375 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,360 Command that the tomb be secured until the 3rd day, unless his 376 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:05,040 disciples come by night, steal him away and say that the people 377 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,880 are, and say to the people, He has risen from the dead, so that 378 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,400 last deception will be worse than the first. 379 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,560 Pilot said to them, You have a guard go your way, make it as 380 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,400 secure as you know how. So they went and made the tomb 381 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,200 secure, sealing the stone and setting a guard. 382 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,320 And I kind of like that backhanded comment of Pilot 383 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:28,840 because remember, this is after the crucifixion. 384 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,280 This is after three days of darkness or three hours of 385 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,920 darkness. This is after the veil torn 2 386 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,400 and and Pilot at this point is coming. 387 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,760 Yeah, you go make it as secure as you know how, right? 388 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:43,120 I'm, I'm pretty sure we're all in trouble here, right? 389 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:49,400 And so that's that the guards were there to witness this. 390 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,280 And and if you can imagine Peter and John or James or any of them 391 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,000 showing up with swords and they're going to take on the 392 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,160 Roman soldiers, that going to work out. 393 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:10,800 I mean, they Peter, Peter just a day before had like denied Jesus 394 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,280 to a little girl. I'm pretty sure he wasn't 395 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,120 picking up a sword against the soldiers. 396 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:24,440 But so then Matthew 28 verse 2 says, and behold, there was a 397 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,400 great earthquake for the Angel of the Lord descended from 398 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,760 heaven for sorry for an Angel of the Lord descended from heaven 399 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,480 and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat on 400 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,960 it. His countenance was like 401 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,080 lightning, his clothes as white as snow. 402 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:43,960 And the guard shook for fear of him and became like dead man. 403 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,840 OK, so let's go back to the beginning story that Faye read. 404 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,520 So this is this is the one shot. This is an Angel that has wanted 405 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,840 to whack off Roman heads for days at this point, right? 406 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,680 Because they and he gets to scare him to death, right? 407 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:04,600 And he gets, I mean, he gets to make a show and because you got 408 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:09,720 to know at this moment, guys, the, the stone was not rolled 409 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:14,840 away to let Jesus out. It was rolled away to let us in, 410 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:17,920 right? Jesus was gone. 411 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:22,400 This is this is, this is the, the Angel knows exactly what's 412 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,960 happened. The Lord is alive and hey, let, 413 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,520 let me go down and take care of these guards. 414 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,360 Now he isn't allowed to touch him, but he does he does give 415 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:37,880 him a bit of a you know, and they became like dead men, 416 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:39,920 right? That's that's pretty scary. 417 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:46,240 So but all of that to be said, these soldiers failed and the 418 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:51,560 penalty for failure was death. So and this will go into some 419 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,520 hardness of heart of guys. When you look around the world 420 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,840 and you go, how can they not the level of hardness this part 421 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:03,840 takes. Matthew 28 now 2011 Now while 422 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,480 they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city 423 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,200 and reported to the chief priests all the things that had 424 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,960 happened when they had assembled with the elders and consulted 425 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,200 together. They gave a large sum of money 426 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,120 to the soldiers saying tell the tell them his disciple came at 427 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,160 his disciples came at night and stole him away while we slept. 428 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,720 And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will appease 429 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:32,040 appease him and make you secure. So the the soldiers weren't 430 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:33,840 going to pilot that'll get him killed. 431 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,760 They go to the they go to the chief priests. 432 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,760 And I know that we always look at them and they're the guys 433 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,040 with the black mask. And and you know, if they this 434 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,720 was a stage, you're going to say Boo when they came up on stage, 435 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:49,000 that kind of stuff. When you read that, how hard are 436 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:54,400 those hearts? How how they the guards, these 437 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,480 are these are not Jewish guards. These are not believers. 438 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,640 These are just just Roman soldiers. 439 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:06,800 Come and tell you that an Angel of light came down and rolled a 440 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:11,040 stone away from a tomb and there was no body in the tomb anymore 441 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,800 and you were there the entire time. 442 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:20,960 And this leads you to believe that Jesus was telling the truth 443 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,480 and that he is risen. And the Pharisees and the 444 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,280 Sadducees and the the leaders say, let's cover it up. 445 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:34,360 I mean that they even thought they could, but they were 446 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:38,880 willing to try it. I mean that there is a level of, 447 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,200 of just blindness in that I always say when, when Jesus 448 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:48,400 raised Lazarus from the dead, the, the leaders left there 449 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,640 going, well, how are we going to kill Lazarus too? 450 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:55,320 And, and so guys, that blindness is real. 451 00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:01,040 And when we talk about that, that blindness will not go away 452 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,280 in debate, right? You're not going to debate that 453 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,520 blindness out of somebody. You're not going to debate that 454 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,400 because you proved the things right. 455 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:14,160 How how that blindness is taken away is prayer. 456 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:22,120 And I say that when you Fast forward to Paul or when Saul was 457 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:27,120 persecuting the church, imagine how many people were praying for 458 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,760 or against him. But there was definitely prayer 459 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,840 battling Saul, whether that was they were praying he would see 460 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,520 the light or they were praying he would be killed and not kill 461 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:45,960 them because he was not nice and the scales were taken off his 462 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:50,960 eyes, right? Paul was this level of blind 463 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:56,280 about who Jesus was. And then because the scales were 464 00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:03,200 taken off his eyes, he became the writer of of a good most of 465 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:08,880 the New Testament, right. So no prayer is is the thing, 466 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:10,400 guys. It's not debate, right? 467 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,520 It's not say the right thing. It's say the thing the Lord 468 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:18,280 asked you to say. But now we are we are truly now 469 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,520 to where he is risen. Mark 16 One. 470 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,080 Now when the Sabbath was passed, Mary Magdalene, Mary, Mary, the 471 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,280 mother of James, and Salomon brought spices, that they might 472 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,400 come and anoint him. Very early in the morning on the 473 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,920 first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had 474 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,240 risen. And they said among themselves, 475 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,120 Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for 476 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,240 us? But when they looked up, they 477 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,960 saw that the stone had been rolled away, for that was, for 478 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,200 it was very large. And entering the tomb they saw a 479 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,400 young man clothed in long white robes, sitting on the right 480 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,760 side. And they were alarmed. 481 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,520 But he said, He said to them, Do not be alarmed. 482 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,720 You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. 483 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,360 He is risen. He is not there or He's not 484 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,480 here. See the place where they laid 485 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,080 him. But but go and tell the 486 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:16,720 disciples and Peter that He is going before you into Galilee. 487 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:21,080 There you will see Him. And he said, and as he said to 488 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,560 you, sorry, there you will see Him, as he said to you. 489 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,680 So they went out quickly and fled from the tomb, for they 490 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:35,000 trembled and were amazed, and they said nothing to anyone, for 491 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:39,080 they were afraid. So this is not saying that they 492 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:40,720 didn't go and tell the disciples. 493 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,800 This is saying that they didn't tell anybody along the way 494 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:52,440 because in Luke it talks about then they returned from the tomb 495 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:56,880 and this is the ladies from the tomb to the 11 and all of the 496 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,280 rest. It was Mary Magdalene, Jonah, 497 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:04,640 Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who 498 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,360 told these things to the apostles. 499 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,520 And their words seem to them like idols, idol tales. 500 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,639 And they did not believe them, but Peter arose and ran to the 501 00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:16,120 tomb. So as we go through these three 502 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,719 accounts, this is where people would say there are, there are 503 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,159 discrete, there are they? They contradict each other 504 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:27,040 because they mentioned different people and they're, they were 505 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,920 all the ladies. And then there's in John. 506 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:33,360 It's going to talk about it just being Mary, but it doesn't say 507 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,239 only Mary. It just says Mary and Mary is 508 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,960 the one that speaks. So it's it's the way you explain 509 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,199 that is think of a drive by shooting. 510 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,960 Please show up and they start asking questions and the first 511 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:51,000 person they go and they so a car came by and was shooting at us 512 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:55,600 and it's a 95 Monte Carlo. And then they go to the next 513 00:34:55,600 --> 00:35:00,440 person and they say some guys, some guys were shooting at us. 514 00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:02,880 One of them was tall, one of them was short. 515 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:08,280 And then the last one says James, I recognize him was in 516 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,400 was in a car and he was shooting at us. 517 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,840 OK, all of those are true, right? 518 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,880 But they just were more specific or less specific. 519 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,120 You don't. It's one of those that as the 520 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,720 gospel writers were writing, and John is John is specifically 521 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,200 drawing out particular things in his story. 522 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:30,760 They're they're writing to tell you the story, not to change the 523 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,760 story. They don't do that, but they 524 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,280 they want you to. They're emphasizing parts of it 525 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:43,080 that they want you to see. And so then you get to John 20 526 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,680 verse one says now the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went 527 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:51,920 to the tomb early while it was still dark and saw that the 528 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,080 stone had been taken away from the tomb. 529 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:58,160 Then she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple 530 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,400 whom Jesus loved. And if you guys don't know, that 531 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,360 is John. He that's how he that's what he 532 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:06,840 calls himself all through the book of John and said to them 533 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,400 they have taken away the Lord out of the tomb and we do not 534 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:17,600 know where they have laid him. Peter therefore went out and the 535 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,560 other disciple and we're going and they went to the tomb. 536 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:27,400 Now I love this part because this is so guys are the same. 537 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,520 They were the same 2000 years ago as they are today. 538 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,760 Opportunity to point out that I'm faster than you. 539 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,400 So verse 4. So they both ran together, and 540 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:44,120 the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb 1st And he 541 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:48,320 stooped down and looked inside, looked in, and saw the linen 542 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,600 clothes lying there. Yet he did not go in. 543 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:56,000 Then Simon Peter came following him and went into the tomb, and 544 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,400 he saw the linen clothes lying there, and the handkerchief that 545 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,520 had been around his head, not lying with the linen clothes, 546 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,440 but folded up together in a place by itself. 547 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:10,240 Then the other disciple who came to the tomb first went in also, 548 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:16,080 and saw and believed, for as yet they did not know the Scripture, 549 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:17,920 that he must rise again from the dead. 550 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,040 Then the disciple went out again. 551 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,040 The disciples went out again together to their own homes. 552 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,000 I love that about John. It adds proof to me that that a 553 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,640 guy wrote it because truth, right? 554 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:34,800 I'm faster than Peter. He's kind of slow and wrote it 555 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,240 for all time and eternity. Imagine Peter was excited about 556 00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:41,120 that when he got to to read it. Really. 557 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:50,560 But Jesus then shows, shows up to them all in Luke. 558 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,000 And he this time he shows up in an inner room. 559 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,360 Another passage, it says the doors were locked, which means 560 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,600 he had to come. He had to come in somehow and if 561 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,560 you listen to guys that are way smarter than me, you have to 562 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,240 fold yourselves through multiple dimensions to be able to just 563 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:08,480 enter a room. But so he's, you know, glorified 564 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,920 bodies are pretty cool. But that all being said, this is 565 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:17,800 his proof Jesus wasn't a ghost. He wasn't he didn't he didn't 566 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,160 show up and walked in and walked out. 567 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,160 He showed up and proved he was a lie. 568 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:32,400 Luke 2436 says Now as the as now they said these things, Jesus 569 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,280 himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, Peace to 570 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,120 you. But they were terrified and 571 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,880 frightened, and suppose they had seen a spirit. 572 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:44,040 And he said to them, Why are you troubled, and why do you doubt 573 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,600 arise? Why does doubt arise in your 574 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,720 hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, 575 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,480 that it is myself. Handle me and see, for the 576 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,560 Spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have. 577 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,680 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 578 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:07,640 But while they still did not believe, for joy and marvel, he 579 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,240 said to them, Have you any food here? 580 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,520 So they gave him a piece of broiled fish and some honeycomb, 581 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,440 and he took it and ate it in their presence. 582 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,360 Then he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you 583 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:25,400 while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled, 584 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,920 which were written in the law of Moses and the prophets, and the 585 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,240 Psalms concerning me. And he opened their 586 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:34,200 understandings, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. 587 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,640 And he said to them, Thus it is written. 588 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:41,840 Thus it was necessary for Christ to suffer and rise from the dead 589 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:48,720 on the third day and they repent and and that repentance and 590 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:51,960 remission of sins should be priests in his name to all 591 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,920 nations beginning in Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these 592 00:39:54,920 --> 00:40:00,880 things. And I know that's a lot, but he 593 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,240 he wanted them to touch him and say you're I'm real. 594 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,920 And then and then eating food, he changed the environment he 595 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,640 was in, right? He ate food. 596 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:12,280 It didn't he didn't want to ghost. 597 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,080 He ate food. You guys watch Casper the 598 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,280 friendly ghost where he's eating and it's just falling on the 599 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,480 floor behind him. That isn't the story, right? 600 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:22,240 Jesus ate fish and it went into his stomach and and he had 601 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:23,640 honeycomb and it went into his stomach. 602 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:29,480 And this is this is his, his proof to them. 603 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:37,040 But remember, he, he continued for 40 days more meeting with up 604 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,760 to 500 people. He, he met John and he, he met 605 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,680 James and he spoke with him. He talked to him. 606 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,920 And then they said things they told people, right? 607 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,520 They continued to speak of, of this and the people believed 608 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,840 them because they saw it and they had friends that saw it. 609 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,880 So this is not something that, that it's like, oh, that was a 610 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,920 neat fable. You'll find that that as you go 611 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:07,040 through the Bible, it loses all of its fable and legend when you 612 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:12,320 just read it because it it gives you verifiable things, things 613 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,280 you can. I mean, it takes work if you 614 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,360 want to dig into it, but if you dig into it, you will find that 615 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:28,840 it's true. See, so Paul and that first, 616 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:33,600 first Corinthians 15, he reminds us that Jesus has risen. 617 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,520 And if he's not risen, guys, and this Paul will go through all 618 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,120 this. If he is not raised up, then we 619 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,880 are not saved because because then we are we are worse than 620 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,360 another religion because we say we have freedom, because Jesus 621 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,440 has risen from the dead. And if he is not risen from the 622 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,360 dead, we do not have freedom and we are not right. 623 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:54,520 We are not able to have that ability to speak to the Lord, 624 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,960 but he is risen and there is proof, right? 625 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:05,000 1st Corinthians 1514 says, and this is Paul speaking and he 626 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,080 says it way better than I do. If Christ is not risen, then our 627 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:13,160 preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. 628 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,920 Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God because we have 629 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:21,160 testified of God that He is, that he raised up Christ, whom 630 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:24,400 he did not raise up. If in fact the dead do not rise, 631 00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,120 for if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. 632 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:32,360 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile, you are still 633 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,320 in your sins. Then also those who have fallen 634 00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:40,720 asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have 635 00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:45,000 hope in Christ, we are all the most pitiable, which means if 636 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:48,200 Jesus isn't living, then we are wasting our time. 637 00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:57,000 But he finishes in verse 20 and says, but now Christ is risen 638 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,560 from the dead and has become the first fruit for those who have 639 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:04,680 fallen asleep. For since by man came death by 640 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:08,080 man also came the resurrection of the dead. 641 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,520 For Adam all died. Even so in Christ all shall be 642 00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,640 made alive. And that is crucial, right, that 643 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:22,120 that idea there is that through Adam we all we have all sinned. 644 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:28,480 We we, we have a sin nature and Christ coming as a man and dying 645 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:32,800 on a cross, if that's all he was, if he was a guy and he was 646 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:37,600 perfect and he never sinned, if that's all he was when he died 647 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:43,840 on the cross, he could save one person because everybody sin 648 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,400 leads to death. So he could save somebody who 649 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:51,640 had some another Sinner, but he couldn't save the whole world 650 00:43:51,720 --> 00:43:58,920 unless he was God. And he proved he was God when he 651 00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,560 rose again on 3rd day. When he said it was finished, it 652 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,920 was finished and then he proved it. 653 00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:13,080 And if you go back to Matthew 16 verse 15, and this is that 654 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,840 passage where him and Peter talking about who he is. 655 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,720 And he said And Peter said, and he said to them, but sorry, 656 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:24,320 Jesus said, and he said to him said to them, but who do you say 657 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,560 I am? Simon Peter answered and said, 658 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,720 You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. 659 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,320 And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you side Simon 660 00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:37,000 Barjona, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my 661 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:42,640 Father who is in heaven, and I also say to you, Peter, on this 662 00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:46,560 rock I will build my church, and the gates of Haiti shall not 663 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:50,920 prevail against it. And this is where knowing what 664 00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:56,320 it says is really important because what it says is you are 665 00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:00,160 Peter, which is Petros, which is stone. 666 00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:06,440 And on this rock, which is Petra, which is bedrock. 667 00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:09,440 And they're big. There's big difference, right? 668 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,440 There's a gravel versus the mountain. 669 00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:21,840 And then that so the truth, so the the bedrock that Jesus will 670 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:26,640 build his church on that the gates of hell will not prevail 671 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:32,000 against is he is the Christ, the son of the living God. 672 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:38,120 That's the truth. And that's, that's the proof 673 00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:43,640 that he gives when he walks out of the grave and, and he 674 00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:49,560 continues to give it to us in, in our lives. 675 00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:53,680 It says in first Corinthians 15550 death. 676 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,040 Where is your sting? Oh, Hades, where is your 677 00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,200 victory? Guys, if you're in Christ and 678 00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:02,800 you know, you know, you don't have to worry, right? 679 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:07,480 I, I, I joke about construction and all that stuff. 680 00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,400 And you always have to raise your hand. 681 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:14,360 Who has your CPR card? And my, my standard line to my 682 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,240 guys is that, you know, everybody raise their hand who 683 00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:19,240 has it. I said, hey, if I go down, I'm 684 00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:20,800 good. No kissing, right? 685 00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,720 You can do some, you can do some compressions if you feel like 686 00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:26,400 it, you know, jump up and down on my chest. 687 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,280 But I'm good. I know where I'm going to you. 688 00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,680 And that's my, you know, it's kind of my jab at them first 689 00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,160 thing in the morning just to keep everybody alive and awake 690 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,320 that, you know, getting right. But Jesus is more important than 691 00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:46,080 having your CPR card right now. Here's here's I said there was 692 00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,960 they they all talked about it and there was proof, right. 693 00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:54,880 So Peter days after, right, 40 days after this is just after 694 00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:58,040 Pentecost. And Peter stands up in Jerusalem 695 00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:01,520 where it happened. And this was easy to shut down. 696 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,920 This was easy to tell him to sit down and shut up. 697 00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:11,680 You're lying men of Israel. This is Acts 2 verses 22, and it 698 00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,440 says, Men of Israel, hear these words. 699 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:18,800 Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you, by 700 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,920 miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did through him in 701 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:26,280 your midst, and you yourself also know him. 702 00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,960 Being delivered by the determined purpose and 703 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:33,760 foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands and 704 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:39,560 crucified and put to death whom God raised up, having loosed the 705 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:43,280 pains of death, because it was not possible that he should be 706 00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:48,680 held by it. That's easily proved wrong if it 707 00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:52,600 isn't true. This is, this is within 40 days, 708 00:47:53,080 --> 00:48:00,600 50 days of sorry, 50 days of the crucifixion if Jesus didn't rise 709 00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:02,400 from the dead. There's a bunch of people and 710 00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,080 there's 3000 of them. Get saved. 711 00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:06,560 But there's a bunch of the chief priests and the magistrate 712 00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,640 saying his body's right here. I don't know what you're talking 713 00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:16,320 about. And if you don't, if if you're 714 00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,040 here today and you're like, well, I'm not sure. 715 00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:22,240 He wrote from the dead, come see me, I can share stuff with you. 716 00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,200 But no, it happened. This is true. 717 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:31,960 And because it's true, everything else we read is true, 718 00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:37,200 right? Romans 69 says no, knowing that 719 00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:41,920 Christ, having being raised from the dead, dies no more death, no 720 00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:46,200 longer has dominion over him for death, that he died. 721 00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:51,440 He died to sin once for all, but the life that he lives, he lives 722 00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,600 to God and you can have that life. 723 00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:00,800 But The thing is guys, is that we are all sinners and we many 724 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,800 of us in this room know these verses, right? 725 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:08,240 Romans 323 I didn't say it. He said it for all his sin and 726 00:49:08,240 --> 00:49:10,640 fall short of the glory of God. There is nothing I bring to that 727 00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:14,280 tomb, nothing. I I say it pretty often that the 728 00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:18,440 only thing I brought to Jesus was my need for him. 729 00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:23,840 Period. And if we're all sinners, the 730 00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,040 wages of sin is death. The reason that death couldn't 731 00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:33,560 hold Jesus is he had no sin. And Romans 623 says, but the 732 00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:36,600 gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 733 00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:41,320 So the reason that we can trust that first is that he rose and 734 00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:50,600 he proved that he's able. And here's one that Gabriel was 735 00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:54,760 wrestling with right. And on that the beginning, 736 00:49:54,800 --> 00:50:00,600 beginning, but God demonstrated his own loves towards us. 737 00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:05,840 Yeah, that's dirt in that while we were still sinners, Christ 738 00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,720 died for us. So as as the angels who were 739 00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:18,000 made to serve God heard God's plan and went watched you make 740 00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:27,160 them out of dirt. They're they're they're you call 741 00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,800 them by your name, but I watched you make them out of dirt and 742 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,560 you're going to let them do what Lord and I have to stand and do 743 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:43,760 what Lord God demonstrated his own love towards us in that 744 00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,920 while we were still sinners, Christ died for us to get that 745 00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:51,800 that we are that important to him. 746 00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:58,960 He he proved his love to us on that day, the distance he was 747 00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:03,400 willing to go. He said a lot of things guys and 748 00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:08,200 he proved they were all true 2000 years ago when he walked 749 00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:13,080 out of the two and and spoke to us. 750 00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:14,800 And you can have that relationship. 751 00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,720 If you don't have that relationship, come and see me. 752 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:23,440 If you do have that relationship celebrated, celebrate it daily. 753 00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:27,440 Spend time with your your risen savior who wants to spend time 754 00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:31,680 with you, wants to spend time with you enough that he was 755 00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:39,720 willing to do everything. It took all of it and and BI 756 00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:43,120 want to get weird in the Angel thing, but think of the angels 757 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:50,280 and the and somebody gets saved and then doesn't have time to 758 00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,640 spend time with him. Think of them going what how 759 00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:54,920 does that work? What do you mean? 760 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,760 You've you have access to the living God and you're too busy. 761 00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:09,840 How so spend time with him and Lord, I just I lift up today. 762 00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,600 Lord, thank you. Thank you so much for all that 763 00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:16,800 you've done. Thank you that we can trust you 764 00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,880 and that you, you're here with us today, that you're here with 765 00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,840 us now, Lord, that you, you go in and out with us, that you 766 00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:26,800 just take care of us, Lord, and that you proved who you are. 767 00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,920 And Lord I, I just thank you for all that you do for us. 768 00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,480 Be with us today. Guide and direct us. 769 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:38,120 And I pray this all in Jesus name, Amen.