1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:06,280 Have you ever read? The book How Not to Die, It's 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:13,640 out there, How Not to Die. Is it? 3 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:18,200 Possible that your own. Social media feed could be. 4 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:24,040 Categorized as how not to die. Maybe that only happens when you 5 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:28,880 hit 50. 7. You start to get all of these 6 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,560 ways to keep. Living and live on and on. 7 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,560 Apparently the. Billionaires want to live to 150 8 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:41,520 and they're trying to get there, but the. 9 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:46,000 Reality is is much observed through. 10 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:48,000 Our lives and through literature and. 11 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:54,920 Others is that we all share a. Common destiny This is what the 12 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:56,920 writer of. Ecclesiastes says. 13 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,680 So just to make it really easy, could you turn to your neighbor 14 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,560 and say we? Share a common destiny. 15 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,200 You know, this is the thing. We're we're all. 16 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,520 Going to die. It goes on in Ecclesiastes to 17 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:23,840 say for the living know that they will die, and then it says, 18 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,920 but no one knows the hour that it will come. 19 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:36,120 Some people say of Christianity. Oh well, it's Christianity is 20 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,560 just another. Answer for not dying. 21 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:45,440 That's not completely accurate. But it is death that. 22 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,600 Causes us to puzzle over our lives. 23 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:55,040 And the older you get the. More you realize that. 24 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,840 It seems to be. On the horizon, somewhere out 25 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:03,400 there. But it's the. 26 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:08,479 Resurrection of Jesus that changes our perspective about 27 00:02:08,479 --> 00:02:13,160 death. And even grief, and even how we 28 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,720 live in. Light of that. 29 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:18,840 You will remember. That we said that. 30 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:23,680 One of the major. Themes of spiritual maturity. 31 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,880 Is learning how to. Give your life away. 32 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:34,360 It is the resurrection of Jesus that tells us that. 33 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,200 That's OK. Because in the process of giving 34 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,840 your life. Away you will discover Good 35 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,920 Friday. You will discover moments that 36 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:50,520 feel like death, moments where you're having to hold so much 37 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:54,080 intention that it feels like death. 38 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:57,640 This. Is not what I want. 39 00:02:57,640 --> 00:02:59,840 But this is what is needed so I can. 40 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:04,040 Give my life away. But then in that. 41 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,920 Process. You have the hope and purpose 42 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:09,320 and. Energy and power to do. 43 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,720 So as a follower. Of Jesus because. 44 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:17,000 Of the resurrection of Jesus and so. 45 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,720 We've we've been celebrating the resurrection. 46 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:21,040 Of Jesus. This is the 5th. 47 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,280 Sunday of Easter. We are an Easter. 48 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,920 Tide of the Christian Calendar and Paul. 49 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:30,480 Writes to the church in. Corinth, the church. 50 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:36,160 That he had spent 18 months, maybe even 2 years with sharing. 51 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,800 His life and the gospel and. He's. 52 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,040 Writing from Ephesus, not. Too long after he had left. 53 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:49,120 From there about the resurrection of Jesus and he 54 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,440 says. So it will be. 55 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,040 With the resurrection of the dead, the. 56 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,800 Body, that is. Sown is perishable. 57 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:04,160 It is raised imperishable. It is sown in dishonor. 58 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,800 It is raised. In Glory. 59 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:11,640 It is sown in weakness. It is raised. 60 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:16,079 In power. It is sown a natural body. 61 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,920 It is raised a. Spiritual body if there. 62 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,840 Is a natural body. There is also. 63 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:29,560 A spiritual body. So it is written the first. 64 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,480 Man, Adam. Became a living being. 65 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,520 The last Adam and by this. He means. 66 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:43,080 Jesus, the last Adam. A life giving spirit. 67 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:48,040 The spiritual did not come. First but the natural, and after 68 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,840 that the spiritual, the first man. 69 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,360 Was of the dust. Of the Earth. 70 00:04:54,040 --> 00:05:00,120 The second. Man is of heaven, and so. 71 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:01,840 As. Was the earthly man. 72 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,240 So are those who are of the earth. 73 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:05,760 And. As is the heavenly. 74 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,440 Man, so also are those who are of heaven. 75 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,720 And just as we have been. Born the image of the earthly 76 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,280 man. So we shall bear the. 77 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:21,080 Image of the heavenly man I. Declare to you, brothers and 78 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,520 sisters, that flesh and blood. Cannot inherit the Kingdom of 79 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:27,160 God. Nor. 80 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,440 Does the perishable inherit the imperishable? 81 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,440 Listen. I tell you A. 82 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:39,520 Mystery we will not. All sleep, but we will all be 83 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,320 changed. In a flash in. 84 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:46,160 The twinkling of an eye. At the last trumpet for the 85 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,480 trumpet will sound. The dead will be raised 86 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:54,880 imperishable and we will be changed. 87 00:05:56,280 --> 00:05:57,960 For the perishable must. Clothe. 88 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,880 Itself with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality when 89 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:04,800 the perishable. Has been clothed with the. 90 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,840 Imperishable and the mortal. With immortality, then the. 91 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:11,480 Saying that is written will come true. 92 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:16,360 Death has been swallowed up in victory. 93 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,560 Where? O death is your sting. 94 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,720 Where O death is your victory? Where O? 95 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:28,920 Death is your sting. The sting of death is. 96 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,040 Sin and the power of sin is the. Law. 97 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,680 But thanks be to God, he gives us the. 98 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,320 Victory through our Lord. Jesus Christ. 99 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:42,920 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. 100 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:47,160 Let nothing move. You always give. 101 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,840 Yourself fully to the work of the Lord. 102 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,400 Because you know that your labor in the. 103 00:06:54,400 --> 00:07:03,680 Lord is not in vain. Most of us at 20. 104 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,400 Spend little. Time thinking of death. 105 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,120 We might have encountered death along the way. 106 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,360 Because a grandparent. Or a family. 107 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,880 Member was ill. I have a friend. 108 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:21,120 Who never experienced the. Loss of a family member. 109 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:26,160 Until he was 35, he found it utterly. 110 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:34,840 Shocking, but it is. Death that betrays. 111 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,360 US. It is death that shows us the 112 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,000 frailty. Of our own bodies. 113 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,560 Paul uses the. Language here of A. 114 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,040 Seed that's. Sown in the ground. 115 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:54,800 Likening the body to a seed, he said this body enters the 116 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,520 ground. Perishable in, dishonor in. 117 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,280 Weakness. A natural body. 118 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,760 How many of you? Have taken up already our book 119 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,880 of for the summer, our summer reading challenge. 120 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,280 Theo of. Golden, I highly recommend it to 121 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:22,040 you because it will deal. With the major issues. 122 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,040 Of our lives and in a conversation. 123 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:35,240 With Theo and Asher we see. Them Speaking of death, Theo. 124 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:41,960 Asked what if your parents? And Asher says, well, my dad 125 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,400 died not too long ago. He was sort. 126 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,360 Of a soft spoken, melancholy soul himself. 127 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,480 But he was a good man, a good dad. 128 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:56,200 He lived with me and Brooke at the end of his life, my mom. 129 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,160 Died a few years ago of Alzheimer's. 130 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,040 I. Was fortunate I was always able 131 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,560 to spend a lot of time with her especially. 132 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:08,480 Toward the end of her life, her mind was really. 133 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:11,320 Gone and. She said some bizarre. 134 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:15,160 Things, but she never got mean. Like some people do. 135 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:20,880 When they get that disease, it was hard on us to watch her 136 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:27,840 trickle away and it pretty much broke us financially, but I'm 137 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,680 glad. I was here up to the very end. 138 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,440 She. Seemed to enjoy painting. 139 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:45,400 It is death and the frailty of our body that exposes. 140 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:51,440 Our frailty. But it is the resurrection that 141 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,040 reveals. Our future. 142 00:09:55,240 --> 00:10:00,840 Paul says this death in the ground is not your full. 143 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:05,280 And final destiny. You are more. 144 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:10,000 Than just a body. Buried. 145 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,320 In the ground or. Rendered unto dust. 146 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:18,880 Dust. To dust, he says. 147 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:23,080 We're more for. Our future is real, revealed by 148 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:27,360 the resurrection, and first and foremost, he would say it's 149 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,320 revealed by the resurrection. Of Jesus. 150 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,760 So he says it is. Written the first. 151 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,840 Man, Adam. Became a living being, do you 152 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,480 know? What Adam means? 153 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:47,640 Born of dust, dirt creature. And it's not just Adam, it was 154 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,240 Eve as well. They're a dirt creature. 155 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,040 I know you're just longing. To tell your neighbor you are a 156 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:59,960 dirt creature. Dust to dust a dirt creature. 157 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:04,360 This is the words that we mark at the beginning of Lent, which 158 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,400 moves us towards the the death of Jesus. 159 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:13,120 In the 40 days of Lent we actually recall and remember we 160 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:17,320 are dust and. To dust we will return. 161 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:19,240 We do try to. Paint it up. 162 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:23,040 Thank you for the physics folks who tell us you are Stardust. 163 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,560 But we are still. Dust. 164 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:35,760 But the resurrection reveals our future, he says. 165 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,760 We are buried, but we're raised in perishable. 166 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,160 We're buried, but we're raised in glory. 167 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,080 We're buried, but we're raised in power. 168 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,560 We're buried, but we're raised with a spiritual body. 169 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,640 You might remember that in our reading. 170 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:56,720 This morning where Martha? Tells Jesus, Jesus, if you had 171 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,440 been here, my brother would not have. 172 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,480 Died. And Jesus goes on to tell. 173 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,160 Her well. You know your brother will live. 174 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:12,040 And she gives her expectation. She says yes. 175 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,720 I know my brother. Will live again at the 176 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,600 resurrection, and so within the Jewish. 177 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,840 Frame of mind. There was an expectation that 178 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,520 there will indeed be a resurrection, that we are all 179 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,440 raised to judgment before. God. 180 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,240 And that we are all raised to give an. 181 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:37,480 Account of our life for our life is more than just flesh and 182 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:45,840 blood our life has a spiritual and soulish quality about it and 183 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:47,240 so. She affirms that she. 184 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,840 Says I know. That my brother will rise again 185 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:57,320 at the resurrection. At the end that Jesus goes on to 186 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,840 tell her what? Don't you also? 187 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,840 Know that I am the resurrection and the life, and that he who 188 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:05,520 believes. In me shall never. 189 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,720 Die but though they. Die they shall. 190 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:20,240 Live and so therein. Is a differentiation between our 191 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,280 common destiny. The common. 192 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:27,280 Destiny of all humanity is that we shall die, that we shall be 193 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:35,760 raised for a judgement. But there is another quality to. 194 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:41,080 Those who are in Christ, Jesus asked her, do you? 195 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,960 Believe this. Wow, can you? 196 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:52,960 Imagine meeting Jesus and 3 minutes in the conversation he 197 00:13:52,960 --> 00:14:00,400 says Do you believe this? This is the question of Jesus 198 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,560 about our lives, our death and our eternity. 199 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:12,440 Do you believe this? So Adam, the first man was a 200 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,800 living being, the last Adam, a life giving spirit. 201 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:17,600 That is Jesus the spiritual. Did not come. 202 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:22,840 First, but the natural and after the spiritual, the. 1st. 203 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:24,880 Man was of the dust of the earth. 204 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:31,080 The second man is of heaven. Our future is revealed in the 205 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,800 resurrection of Jesus. The resurrection of. 206 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,280 Jesus, though, is sometimes a contested event. 207 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:43,320 Do we really believe that Jesus was raised from the. 208 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:47,520 Dead in fact in First Corinthians before. 209 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:51,960 We get to this bit. Paul speaks to the facts. 210 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:56,120 About the resurrection of Jesus. And he establishes that there 211 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:01,600 are many eyewitnesses to the bodily resurrection of Jesus. 212 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:05,920 He says what I received I. Passed on to you as a first 213 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:09,840 importance. That Christ died for our sins. 214 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,480 According to the scriptures. That he was buried and that he 215 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,920 was raised. On the third day, according to 216 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,480 the scriptures that he. Appeared to Cephas, who is 217 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:26,080 Cephas Peter, and then to the 12:00 and after that he appeared 218 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:30,120 to more than 500 brothers and sisters. 219 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:34,040 At the same time, most. Of whom are still living. 220 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:36,600 Though some of them have fallen. Asleep. 221 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,000 Then he appeared to James, and then to all the apostles. 222 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:45,640 And last of all. He appeared to me also. 223 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:54,640 As one abnormally born, Paul was fairly humble about his own life 224 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,960 and seeing Jesus. But he says I met the 225 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:05,680 resurrected Jesus, and so these testimonies to the physical. 226 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:10,840 Bodily resurrection of Jesus say this was not just a mysterious 227 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:18,360 spiritual event, but instead this was an extraordinary event 228 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:23,320 in which something changed forever between. 229 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:29,480 Heaven and earth and Hades, we picture this. 230 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,800 With a lot of different. Art, but here's. 231 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,840 An Eastern Orthodox icon. Called. 232 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:42,800 Anastasis, which is the. Greek word for resurrection and. 233 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:47,080 There you see Jesus. On the Saturday, maybe. 234 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,920 Even Friday, but they consider it the harrowing of. 235 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:56,120 Hell on Saturday where he. Bangs on the gates of Hell. 236 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,240 He bangs on the gates of Hades of Death. 237 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:07,040 Do you see the 2 gold bars? That's the Gate of Hades. 238 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:12,280 And he's stomping on them. Breaking them open and you can 239 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,880 see his Cape, sort of. Flying up behind him. 240 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:18,599 All heroes have capes, do they not? 241 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:23,760 But there his robes are, fluttering up behind him as he's 242 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,599 breaking the gates of Hades down. 243 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,240 And who has he? Taken hold of. 244 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:38,600 Adam and Eve. My artist here on the front row, 245 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,320 knows his art. That's Adam and Eve. 246 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,600 And he's grabbed hold of them to bring them up from the depths of 247 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:54,970 the grave. This is. 248 00:17:54,970 --> 00:18:01,090 The work of Christ. That if we are in. 249 00:18:01,090 --> 00:18:04,850 Christ. We are raised with Christ. 250 00:18:05,210 --> 00:18:10,050 And so in baptism we celebrate this moment buried with Christ 251 00:18:10,050 --> 00:18:11,610 in. Baptism, but. 252 00:18:11,610 --> 00:18:15,880 Raised to walk in. Newness of life For now, I. 253 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:21,000 I was buried into the death of Christ for the forgiveness of 254 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,600 sin, but now I'm raised to walk in. 255 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:31,800 New life for eternity because I serve a resurrected and living 256 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,920 Lord. There is so much available. 257 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:40,440 To us, in the symbolism of this art, we'll get our artist to do 258 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,000 a study of it and a little workshop maybe. 259 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,120 Thank you, Aiden, for just saying yes. 260 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,120 But you know, the the Corinthians, they didn't have 261 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:59,840 the same problems about death. That we have or. 262 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,160 Even about the resurrection, The Corinthian. 263 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:08,440 Concern was to contemplate a philosophical problem between 264 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,320 spirit and flesh, soul and flesh of. 265 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:16,680 What could be compatible? And they had it in mind that it 266 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,320 was incompatible. To have a human. 267 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:27,120 Body because they viewed it as. Somehow lesser and as unholy. 268 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:31,280 And they had absorbed their. Cultural conversation about this 269 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:34,880 and they. Could not imagine at all that a 270 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:40,040 human body could be transferred into a heavenly space. 271 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:45,800 It did not compute. They could not make sense of it 272 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,560 and. Apparently this. 273 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:54,600 Issue arose again as. Paul had left, and now they were 274 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:56,280 inquiring. Paul could. 275 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:00,280 You tell us a little more about this resurrection. 276 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:04,840 And the resurrection life. How is this possible? 277 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:10,360 And so he's trying to tell. Them that though they live. 278 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:14,400 Now in the age to come, the resurrection fully of. 279 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,800 All will come, and those who are in Christ will be transferred 280 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:24,760 and transformed instantaneously in their bodies. 281 00:20:25,360 --> 00:20:27,360 He says so. It will be with the resurrection 282 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:29,640 of the dead. The body that is sown as 283 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,360 perishable, it is raised. Help me. 284 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:38,320 It is sown in dishonor. It is raised in. 285 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,480 It is sown in weakness. It is raised in. 286 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:48,480 It is sown a natural body. It is raised a if there is a. 287 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:53,800 Natural body There is also a spiritual body when we 288 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:55,960 contemplate. The resurrection of Jesus and 289 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:59,200 his body. We know that it was different. 290 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:04,000 It was a physical body. He could eat the fish and eat 291 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,120 the bread. He could be poked. 292 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:10,240 They could find the hole. In his side and Thomas could 293 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:15,040 have stuck his finger in it. But we know that Jesus moved 294 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,400 about mysteriously and appeared in front of them. 295 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:24,760 His body and. Its ways were different. 296 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:30,880 So. He says I declare to you. 297 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,760 Brothers and sisters that. Flesh and blood cannot inherit 298 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,760 the Kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the 299 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,000 imperishable. Listen. 300 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:42,080 I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we 301 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,840 will all be changed. In other words, he's saying 302 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,880 there will be a generation that will not die. 303 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:52,960 They will not sleep. There will be a generation who 304 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,720 are living, who experience the arrival and. 305 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:01,960 Return of Jesus Christ. But for those of us who did die, 306 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,040 whose bodies are. Asleep. 307 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:10,040 He would later say to be asleep or dead is to be with the Lord, 308 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,480 but he's saying your body is asleep, there'll be a moment of 309 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:19,680 change. We will all be changed in a 310 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,520 flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. 311 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,080 A trumpet. Of judgement the trumpet will 312 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,840 sound, the dead will be raised in perishable. 313 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:36,200 And we will all be changed. And so he's laying it out there, 314 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,440 this. Is your concern. 315 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,720 But you will be changed. I wonder, though, if there's a 316 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:46,400 word in here for our problem, our concern. 317 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,440 Is does faith in the resurrected Christ really matter for living 318 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,240 well today? Most. 319 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:57,440 Of us are not heavenly minded. We're not worried about death. 320 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:06,280 But we're wondering. Is it essential that? 321 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:13,720 Anyone and everyone know Jesus in order to live well in the 322 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,360 eyes of God. Does it? 323 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:22,120 Really matter that much in fact, we might wonder it about 324 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:25,160 ourselves if we. Start to wonder if following. 325 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:30,720 Jesus is becoming costly and we're having to hold some things 326 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:35,440 in tension, like I want to be married, but I want to marry a 327 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,760 Christian. I want this to happen in my life 328 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,640 but. It seems like this is not 329 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,520 happening. In my life and I feel 330 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:50,240 disappointed or I wanted. I'm wondering if following Jesus 331 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,960 is supposed to make everything so much easier in my. 332 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:55,400 Life. But right now things are 333 00:23:55,400 --> 00:24:00,320 difficult in my life. For those who follow Jesus in 334 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,440 places where death seems to surround. 335 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,840 Them where injustice and. Evil sins to surround them. 336 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,520 They may wonder, does it matter? Now that I'm really following 337 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:15,720 Jesus, it seems like the evil people live such easy lives. 338 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:20,920 Does it? Matter now. 339 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,760 I think Paul would say it does for he. 340 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:26,960 Says when the perishable has been closed with the 341 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,440 imperishable and the mortal with the immortality, then the. 342 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,640 Saying that is written. Will come true death? 343 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,280 Has been swallowed up in victory. 344 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,600 He's. Quoting from Isaiah. 345 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,360 Isaiah and Hosea were. Contemporary prophets and they. 346 00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:54,320 Could see on the horizon that Israel was in trouble because 347 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,600 they had been breaking the covenant of God. 348 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,760 And they they could both see on the horizon the Assyrians were 349 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,960 coming death. Was coming. 350 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,400 Death. Destruction and. 351 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,680 Evil was coming. To Israel, they could see it. 352 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:21,880 But they could also see. Beyond it the promise of God 353 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,760 where? Death could be swallowed. 354 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:33,760 Up where a banquet feast could be spread for all the nations. 355 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:40,360 Where every tear would be. Wiped from the eyes of those who 356 00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:46,960 shared that meal with God. And so he says, the moment. 357 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,600 Will come when death has been. Swallowed up in victory. 358 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:55,800 Where O death is your victory? Where O death? 359 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,200 Is your sting and I think he would. 360 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:06,040 Say to us, we still experience. The sting of death. 361 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,920 We still experience. The fear of death. 362 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:20,160 It comes to us. In guilt and shame and just 363 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,760 being afraid. What are you afraid of? 364 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:28,560 For some of us to. Face what we're. 365 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,800 Afraid of means we. First have to answer the 366 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,520 question of. What am I so angry about? 367 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,840 Because. Underneath that anger resides. 368 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:44,360 The fear. The fear is that oh. 369 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:47,840 I might be embarrassed. The fear is that oh. 370 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,680 My guilt might show. My fear is that there is no 371 00:26:51,680 --> 00:27:00,620 justice in this world. My fear is that I'm not. 372 00:27:00,620 --> 00:27:06,140 Going to have the right kind of job my. 373 00:27:06,140 --> 00:27:09,500 Fear is that someone might look at me. 374 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:13,700 And judge my life and say unacceptable. 375 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,720 They're innumerable. They are. 376 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:29,360 All evidences. Of death for the. 377 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:34,960 Sting of death is. Sin and the power of sin is the 378 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,920 law. This inability to attain all of 379 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,160 the. Standards of God or of others? 380 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:46,520 Of our parents. Or even ourselves until he would 381 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:51,960 say, yeah, the resurrected Christ really does matter for 382 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:57,040 you today, knowing. And following the resurrected 383 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:02,840 Christ really does matter. Jamie Winship shares. 384 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,720 That he was in. Indonesia, having been invited 385 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,240 into a large. Rave big. 386 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:15,200 Party and the two main DJs had accepted Jesus and the kids who 387 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:20,360 had LED them to Jesus said we think you should start to tell 388 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:23,280 other people about Jesus. And they said well we're going 389 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,440 to have a big crowd together. You should come and talk to them 390 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:34,680 about Jesus. So at some point in the night in 391 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:40,120 this large facility, the music shut down and. 392 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,200 One of the guys said we have a. Friend here. 393 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:44,760 Tonight, who wants to speak to you Handed? 394 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:47,840 Him the. Mic. 395 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,440 And he said, in summary, this was my message. 396 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,880 I told them a story and then I told them well. 397 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,640 There's demons out there that. Want you, and you're all going 398 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,200 to die. And then he sat down. 399 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,080 He says it didn't feel like my greatest moment, but I didn't 400 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:16,840 know what else to do. So I told them a story and I 401 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,640 said there's demons. Out there that want you. 402 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:25,480 And you're all going to die. In the follow up of that night, 403 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:30,000 hundreds of people turned their lives over to Jesus. 404 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,800 Does the resurrected Jesus really matter for UBC? 405 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:54,160 For Vancouver? Some of my friends in Haiti 406 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:58,600 would say that they found it so strange that people run, that 407 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,080 people jog one of. Them shared that they had seen a 408 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:06,280 person running down the street and they they got them and drove 409 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,840 up and rolled down their window and caught up with them and said 410 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,400 is someone after you are are you OK? 411 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,880 And they're like. No, I'm just out running, but I 412 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,480 promise you. That there is a marathon. 413 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,760 Being run that none of us can outrun none. 414 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:28,120 Of us will outrun death. None of us. 415 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:39,360 But who is waiting for you? The moment your body stops, it's 416 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,760 Jesus if you. Have entrusted your life to. 417 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:49,240 Jesus, he says. You will never die. 418 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,800 Oh. So though my. 419 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,000 Body like a seed. May perish. 420 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:03,200 I will never die. Do you believe this? 421 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:16,120 If so, then rise up, rise up, church, rise up, he says. 422 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:24,120 Stand firm, let nothing move. You always give yourselves fully 423 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:25,440 to the. Work of the Lord. 424 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,320 Because you know that your labor is not in. 425 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,840 Vain. In summary, he says stand firm. 426 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,480 He says give yourself fully to the work of the Lord. 427 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:44,080 Do you believe this? Then give yourself fully to. 428 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,640 The work of the Lord, I promise you, the work of the Lord 429 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,920 includes. The sanctification of everything 430 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:56,240 God gives you to. Set your hands and mine to. 431 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:02,680 Jesus made breakfast for his. Friends, it was the work of the 432 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,600 Lord. Jesus served in the carpenter's 433 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,600 shop. For 17 years. 434 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,840 Before he began his ministry, it was. 435 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:21,760 The work of the Lord. Jesus worked. 436 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:26,080 Out how to teach. With the genius of. 437 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:33,920 God, it was the work of the Lord, for you know that your 438 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:40,680 labor is not in vain. That word vain vanity means. 439 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,280 Empty. Your work is not empty. 440 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,160 Because. The tomb of Jesus. 441 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:52,080 Is empty. Instead, your work is full and 442 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:56,840 purposeful. Because Jesus is full and 443 00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:03,280 purposeful with life abundant. Do you believe this? 444 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,640 Heavenly Father, we just set our lives before you and we pray 445 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,000 that as we get. Ready to come to? 446 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,960 Your table We would come with the faith of Isaiah, who foresaw 447 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,000 a day when the banquet. Table of God. 448 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,760 Would be spread out, and people from the north and the South and 449 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:27,960 the east and the West would join there as the large family of 450 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,880 God. And so we come with a foretaste. 451 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,800 Of that table prepared to us with the. 452 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,880 Body of Jesus, and with the blood of Jesus. 453 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:52,560 Oh Lord, the empty tomb testifies to the power of God to 454 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:57,280 make our lives full and meaningful forever. 455 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:05,400 And so we celebrate Jesus today, and we consider. 456 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,800 The little. Shadows of death, where we need 457 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,760 to see your light and your presence. 458 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,840 The little. Fears that interrupt us when 459 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,960 we're experiencing a great joyful moment and then just 460 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,000 leaping into our mind. Is that? 461 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:34,880 But don't get too happy because. What if? 462 00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:45,040 So, Lord. Jesus, we know that we live in 463 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,159 the shadow of death, but we pray that even there we would know 464 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:55,480 your goodness and your light, for you make even darkness your 465 00:34:55,480 --> 00:35:01,160 light, so as we come to your table. 466 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:06,600 Lord, we surrender our. Lives to you once again and we 467 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,320 say, would you come and meet us and transform? 468 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:18,800 Our fear, our guilt, our shame. And replace it with immense 469 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:24,400 trust in you, the immense truth of having been forgiven, and the 470 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,400 immense truth of being loved by you. 471 00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:29,000 Come, Lord Jesus, come.