1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:03,200 Joe Galbraith was an American Economist and one day. 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,700 He said to his housekeeper, Emily Emily. 3 00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:08,600 I want you to hold the phone for one hour, no, phone calls 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,100 because I want to take a nap. So away went Joe, Galbraith he 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,600 let down and took a nap anyway. 10 minutes into his nap. 6 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:17,600 What do you think started to happen? 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,400 Ring ring, ring ring. Hello. 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,400 Hi. It's Lyndon Johnson. 9 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:24,900 I'd like to speak to mr. Galbraith please. 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,200 Oh hello. Mr. President I'm sorry but mr. 11 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:29,900 Galbraith is taking a nap, right? 12 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,800 Right now and now well, wake him up there. 13 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,900 No, I'm sorry, mr. President I work for him. 14 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:40,000 Not you and apparently as soon as the phone call ended mr. 15 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,400 Lyndon Johnson said that woman is remarkable. 16 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,100 Bring it to the White House. I wanted to work for me. 17 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,200 You see my dear friends loyalty is very hard to find, isn't it? 18 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:54,700 But I believe there is one person in the Bible, who is more 19 00:00:54,700 --> 00:00:57,700 loyal to the Lord Jesus Christ than anyone else. 20 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:58,900 In fact, I'm going to raise the bar. 21 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:01,900 I believe this person. And is the most godly woman who 22 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:04,400 ever lived. Who am I talking about? 23 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:11,200 Mary Magdalene, you see, Mary had one motivation, one in a 24 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,100 compulsion, she wanted to be near the Lord. 25 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:17,300 This is a woman who before she met the Lord Jesus Christ. 26 00:01:17,300 --> 00:01:20,500 She was very lost. The Bible is so descriptive. 27 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:23,900 It says that she didn't just have one demon, not two, but 28 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:28,100 seven, demons occupied This Woman's life and somewhere in 29 00:01:28,100 --> 00:01:32,400 her past she'd opened up Herself up to the kingdoms of darkness. 30 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:36,200 When she met Lord, Jesus Christ, the light of the world cast 31 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,600 those demons out of her and made into one of the most godliest 32 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,000 Saints in history. My dear friend, that is the 33 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,800 beautiful message of the Gospel. That's why it's good news 34 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,300 because it doesn't matter how you started in life. 35 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,300 Doesn't matter what your background is, doesn't matter 36 00:01:51,300 --> 00:01:53,500 what your pedigree is, it doesn't matter how much you have 37 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:56,300 messed up. The main thing is this, how will 38 00:01:56,300 --> 00:01:58,800 you finish? And everyone who comes to the 39 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:03,000 Lord Jesus Christ, As a promise of a beautiful ending, because 40 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,700 Christ changes all and gives, every single person who comes to 41 00:02:06,700 --> 00:02:10,400 him a fresh start a fresh beginning and a hope beyond the 42 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,700 grave. So why was Mary so loyal will, 43 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:17,200 because those who've been forgiven, much, love much. 44 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,900 And the day that she met the Lord, Jesus Christ is the day 45 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:24,600 that Mary's agenda died. She surrendered all to Christ. 46 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,600 She was sold out. It's almost as if she gave 47 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,200 Christ a blank check and said fill it in Lord. 48 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,300 I'm told. Only your's, I'll do whatever 49 00:02:31,300 --> 00:02:35,200 you say she funded Christ's Ministry, she called him Lord, 50 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,600 and she followed him all the way from the northern town of 51 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,900 magdala all the way to the south of Jerusalem everywhere. 52 00:02:40,900 --> 00:02:44,900 Jesus went Mary went to. She even followed him to the 53 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:48,500 Cross when all of the disciples scattered except for one, when 54 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:52,300 all the disciples forsook the Lord, Jesus Christ on the cross, 55 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,200 Mary stood there. Mary stayed, she saw the Lord, 56 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,800 Jesus Christ, being mocked being scorned. 57 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,800 She stood in the crowd. Christ had Nails driven through 58 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,900 his hands and his feet. She saw the spear in his side. 59 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:08,100 She saw the spit on his face that blood running down his 60 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:11,000 brown. She saw Christ suffer the most 61 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:12,900 agonizing death. Why? 62 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,400 Because love endures all things. Here's a question for you. 63 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,300 Have you ever heard people say? God is against women. 64 00:03:21,500 --> 00:03:25,200 The Bible looks down on women and sees women as inferior to 65 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,600 men. Let me prove to you why that is 66 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,400 total nonsense. When Jesus Christ did the most 67 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,400 colossal event in history. What did the most important 68 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,400 thing to mankind? When you Rose himself back from 69 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,700 the dead? Who did he appear to? 70 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:43,400 He appeared to Loyal Mary. And when he was doing that, when 71 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:48,300 he spoke to Mary first, he was making a very bold statement to 72 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:50,800 the whole of the world. He was saying even though this 73 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,000 culture right now sees a woman's testimony as invalid. 74 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,200 I am telling you all that a woman's testimony is valid. 75 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,400 It is credible and women and men. 76 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,900 And that's why I've appeared to Mary Magdalene the Bible says, 77 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:06,200 now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus 78 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,500 standing there and did not know that. 79 00:04:08,500 --> 00:04:12,400 It was Jesus. Jesus said to her woman, why are 80 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,700 you weeping whom are you seeking? 81 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:18,399 She supposing him to be the gardener said to him, sir, if 82 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:22,100 you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him and I 83 00:04:22,100 --> 00:04:25,000 will take him away now. Perhaps I'm reading too much 84 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,100 into this, but you not find it fascinating, that Mary mistook 85 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:31,600 the Lord Jesus. Christ for a gardener? 86 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:33,400 Why did she not think he was a soldier? 87 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,600 An Undertaker, a farmer fisherman? 88 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,700 Why did Mary Think Jesus was a gardener what could it be this 89 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,900 many many years ago? A man Adam stood in a garden and 90 00:04:43,900 --> 00:04:47,600 threw that one man's Rebellion. He brought into the world sin 91 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,700 suffering pain and destruction but here we have another atom 92 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:54,300 the last Adam the won't be another the Lord Jesus Christ. 93 00:04:54,300 --> 00:04:58,400 Again stands in a garden but this time he brings hope 94 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:03,600 restoration Life and renewal, that's why I think Mary mistook 95 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,000 Jesus for being a gardener. I don't know what's going on in 96 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,600 your life right now. Perhaps at the moment, you're 97 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,900 feeling the blessing of the Lord and, you know, in a real Joy, a 98 00:05:12,900 --> 00:05:16,000 real great period of life. But perhaps, you're not perhaps 99 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,700 right now, you are in the darkest period of your life. 100 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:23,800 You feel alone, you feel broken. You feel like you've been left. 101 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,100 All I want to remind you when we are going through our darkest 102 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:29,800 trials, when like Mary, our eyes are filled with tears. 103 00:05:29,900 --> 00:05:31,600 Tears. And we feel so alone. 104 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,400 Jesus Christ is stood there all along, even though like Mary, we 105 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,700 can't see him, he's never left us, you'll never leave us, he'll 106 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:41,700 never forsake us. So today, or tomorrow when you 107 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:45,300 feel like you're struggling, don't miss the Lord, like Mary. 108 00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:49,500 Make sure you open your eyes and see he's here, he's holding my 109 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:53,600 hand, and he will not let go, he will guide me through this 110 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,700 difficulty, okay? If you writing down notes, write 111 00:05:56,700 --> 00:06:01,800 this down, Mary has muscles. Weiss we see Mary Magdalene 112 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,400 prepared to flex her muscles, the Lord Jesus Christ. 113 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,200 The first time is here where she thought that Jesus Christ was 114 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,800 the gardener and she said to this Gardener tell me where you 115 00:06:10,808 --> 00:06:13,300 have laid the body and I will take him away. 116 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:17,200 So here is this little woman who just wants to make sure that 117 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,700 Jesus has the correct burial, the right environment, the right 118 00:06:20,700 --> 00:06:25,000 spices and she is prepared to carry a grown man from one side 119 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,300 of the cemetery to the other. Now I know what you're thinking, 120 00:06:28,300 --> 00:06:32,000 you're saying Joe we don't. Know how big Mary Magdalene was 121 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,700 and you're right. We don't know how big she was 122 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,400 but there's one thing I do know. There are very few women. 123 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,900 There are very few men who could carry a grown man from one side 124 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:45,300 of a graveyard to the other but Mary was prepared to do it. 125 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,500 Why? Because love bears, all things. 126 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,300 Now, what I'm about to say next, some of you are going to say 127 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,900 speak for yourself, Joe, but I personally believe that Mary 128 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:59,700 Magdalene was more dedicated to what she thought was a dead. 129 00:06:59,900 --> 00:07:01,100 Jesus Christ. Then? 130 00:07:01,100 --> 00:07:02,500 What? Many Christians including 131 00:07:02,500 --> 00:07:04,900 myself? No to be the Risen Lord, she 132 00:07:04,900 --> 00:07:06,600 would do anything for what she thought. 133 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:11,000 Was just a dead body and yet we know that Jesus Christ is risen 134 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,800 from the grave and when he says obey me worship me spend time 135 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,600 with me. We so often neglect our duties 136 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,400 for the Risen Lord, but the second time we see Mary prepared 137 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:25,200 to flex her muscles is in John chapter 20, verse 17. 138 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,700 It says Jesus said to her, do not cling to me for I have not 139 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:31,500 yet. Yet ascended to my father. 140 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:34,900 Did you catch that? Because Mary is holding on to 141 00:07:34,900 --> 00:07:36,300 the Lord. Jesus Christ. 142 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:39,700 So tightly because she's thinking in her mind, I can't 143 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:41,700 let you go. I've been separated from you 144 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:45,100 once I can't lose you again. What does the Lord Jesus Christ 145 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:47,700 have to do? He has to say, stop. 146 00:07:47,900 --> 00:07:49,800 Clinging to me. I wonder now. 147 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,300 Could Christ Jesus say that you could. 148 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:55,900 He say you're holding onto me too tight. 149 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,700 Stop clinging to me like Jacob. Remember, Jacob, wrestled. 150 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:04,100 God he said, I will not let go of you until you bless me and so 151 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:08,700 God had to physically wrestle him off, Jacob does God have to 152 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:12,200 do that to you to wrestle you off him, because you're so 153 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,500 close. You're so tight in communion 154 00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:16,800 with him? Or does God, have to wrestle as 155 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,700 off other things? Does God have to tell us to stop 156 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:22,400 clinging to other sins to other Idols in our life. 157 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:26,100 Because so very often we'd rather choose Darkness over 158 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:28,600 light. If we're honest with ourselves, 159 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,400 we've all cling to That which we shouldn't. 160 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,400 But I do believe that, every true Christian should know. 161 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,299 Something of how Mary Magdalene felt that day. 162 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:40,400 We've all sort of had that prayer time where God has been 163 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,700 so close to us. That it's almost as if, if we 164 00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:46,100 reached our handout, we could touch God himself because he's 165 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:49,700 been so near and we cry out. So in that moment, Lord don't 166 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:53,600 leave me, don't go, I don't send me back to the world and all my 167 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,200 problems. I just want to be near to you. 168 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,000 I just want to be close to you, perhaps at times. 169 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,000 We've listened to Sermon always watched a message online and 170 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,500 it's almost been as if God himself as pin due to that seat 171 00:09:05,500 --> 00:09:08,300 and the preacher. Speaking knows every single 172 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:11,000 thing about you and it's not because there's anything special 173 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,700 about the preacher his because the holy spirit is dealing with 174 00:09:14,700 --> 00:09:17,000 you in that moment. And you're thinking in that very 175 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,200 moment, I don't want this message to end. 176 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,900 I don't want this sermon to end because God is speaking right 177 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:25,200 now. If we've not known this for a 178 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,700 long time, or if we've never known it, like, Mary will need 179 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:31,500 to rise. Early to find the Lord when she 180 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:34,900 went to that tomb that day, she went in the Fourth Watch, which 181 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:39,800 is between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. she Rose early to find the Lord God. 182 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,300 And you and I need to go back to basics and meet with the Lord. 183 00:09:43,300 --> 00:09:47,400 God first thing in the morning in prayer and studying the word, 184 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:50,000 a dear brother. An elder of the church, I used 185 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,100 to attend a man called Alan, why he used to preach beautiful 186 00:09:53,100 --> 00:09:57,200 sermons and I remember, once he said instead of singing the hymn 187 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,700 take time to be holy, we're going to sing that hymn. 188 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:01,500 We're going to sing it a little differently. 189 00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:06,000 Let's change the words to take time to Behold Him. 190 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:10,400 My dear brother, my dear sister. We all need to take time to 191 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,700 behold the Lord Jesus Christ because the world does rush on. 192 00:10:14,700 --> 00:10:17,800 Hey, now there's one thing I can guarantee to you. 193 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,400 There's one thing I can promise to every Christian is watching 194 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:23,800 this video right now and it's this. 195 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:28,800 I promise you that you're glad that Mary Magdalene did not find 196 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,600 what she was looking for. For that day in the garden, that 197 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:36,700 Mary did not find a dead body. She found the Risen Lord. 198 00:10:36,700 --> 00:10:38,700 Here is this woman who came to the Lord. 199 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:42,900 Jesus Christ with package with problems, even demons and 200 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:45,800 Christ. Transformed her life and made, 201 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,100 it's one of the most beautiful trophies of Grace. 202 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:53,100 Why did he do that? Because Christ always cleans the 203 00:10:53,100 --> 00:10:56,300 fish that he catches. Have you come to the Lord? 204 00:10:56,300 --> 00:10:59,100 Jesus Christ. Have you let his Blood Washed 205 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:01,400 she White. And snow that blood that was 206 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,500 shed on the cross, cleans us, washes us, and gives us A New 207 00:11:05,500 --> 00:11:08,800 Hope and New, Start A New Beginning, can you like Mary 208 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,700 Magdalene? Say that Jesus is my Lord and 209 00:11:11,700 --> 00:11:13,700 not just any Lord, he's the Risen Lord. 210 00:11:13,700 --> 00:11:17,000 How surrender all to him? Here is my blank check, Lord, 211 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,800 Jesus Christ, and just fill it in. 212 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,400 Do what you want with my life because it belongs to you, are 213 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,500 you prepared to obey this Lord? And even though at times you 214 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:29,300 have desires and things that you want to do, you say I lay them 215 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:31,600 all. Down because Jesus Christ is 216 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,800 worthy of following and I will follow you wherever you will go. 217 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,900 If the answer is no, you know what, I'm going to say to you, 218 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,600 come to Christ and watch him transform your life. 219 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:47,100 Like he transformed that loyal woman Mary magdalene's life and 220 00:11:47,100 --> 00:11:49,500 if the answer is yes stay with him. 221 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:53,400 Stay loyal, stay close to the Lord, Jesus Christ, because it's 222 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,600 not about how you start that matters. 223 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:01,200 What really matters is how the UN Perhaps, right now, you're 224 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,200 the person I was talking about earlier and you're going through 225 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,800 a really dark trial. If that's you, please watch this 226 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,300 video. I think it might just help, and 227 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:13,400 if you haven't yet subscribed, please do consider subscribing. 228 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,900 I'd be so grateful to see you again on this channel. 229 00:12:15,900 --> 00:12:18,200 God bless you all, and thank you for watching.