1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,640 Happy Easter. Real life, man. 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:05,920 Today is just an amazing day watching heaven get in the 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,320 people I I love. My favorite part of this morning 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,760 is when we baptized Tyler Adams and then somebody who said yes 5 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,080 to and somebody said dunk him again. 6 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,080 That's what good friends are for, right? 7 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:19,400 That's awesome. Yeah. 8 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,520 We're not into baptizing twice, but we do for fun. 9 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:22,520 We'll store you in right here, man. 10 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,320 One of these days, I'm going to do a cannonball into this this 11 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:26,600 this baptistry. I'm telling you, man, it's 12 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,400 tempting right now. So I mean, I'm excited for what 13 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,040 God's been doing. I I believe for those guys get 14 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:33,240 baptized. We're so proud of you. 15 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:35,040 I believe not today. What do we got today? 16 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:39,120 Holly coming out here? How many how many 13 people get 17 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,880 baptized all throughout the day. So give it up for those 13 18 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:42,720 people. Come on. 19 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,320 She's the play by play. I'm like, OK, who, who's in and 20 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,440 out, you know, but man, it's super exciting and heaven just 21 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,120 got to these people and it's cool to watch because the 22 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,200 stories of people that are getting baptized, they're just, 23 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:57,160 it's not like, oh, they made a decision last minute. 24 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:01,080 There is a lifetime of inviting and God's mercy and grace and 25 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:03,520 then just seeing other people living out and make decisions. 26 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:05,640 So it's exciting. Just so personal for me as a 27 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:07,360 pastor to watch this. So excited for you guys. 28 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,200 I'd be a minist not to thank your crew today that heavens got 29 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,480 into for a long time now making this this happen. 30 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,760 Our church has been portable for 8 1/2 years and we're in the 31 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,880 middle of raising funds for first permanent space, Amen. 32 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,480 And we're excited about that. But with that said, we have an 33 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,600 amazing team that makes this place happen. 34 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,080 And today we have the largest serve team in real life history, 35 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,360 about 122 people serving today on Easter. 36 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,720 Come on, somebody. So thank you guys. 37 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,080 It has not happened on accident. And I know if you walked in, 38 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,640 you're like, do this every week. We've been doing this every week 39 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,200 for 8 1/2 years because of Jesus, Amen. 40 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:48,640 And the life changes. You just can't put a price tag 41 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:50,840 on it. It is exciting to watch and be a 42 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:52,840 part of and get to serve alongside you guys. 43 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,480 So thank you guys so much. Well, today we're going to dive 44 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,240 in and my prayer has just been that the resurrection power of 45 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,080 Jesus, that heaven would get into you today. 46 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,600 Maybe you've known Jesus for a long time and you've kind of 47 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:05,120 been going to church. But today I believe that 48 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:06,480 something's going to stir inside you. 49 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,800 Or maybe you got invited out and you've been to church in a long 50 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:10,680 time or maybe ever. And you're like, man, I'm not so 51 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:12,760 sure about this. And I pray that you would just 52 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,760 see and experience the resurrection power of God today. 53 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:17,720 You know, you think about the power of Jesus. 54 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,560 It really kind of echoes throughout all of eternity. 55 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,200 And you might have experienced some of those echoes. 56 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:23,680 Barry kind of mentioned that you, you might have the rumors 57 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,760 of a changed life or somebody who who just miraculously 58 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,480 changed because they they heard about Jesus and life changed 59 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,920 happened or there's something that's unexpected you couldn't 60 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:33,640 explain. And he's like, man, what's that? 61 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:35,880 And you don't really know. This is the power of Jesus. 62 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,560 Maybe you've heard the rumors or maybe you've seen it yourself. 63 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,240 I know for some of you who grew up in a family kind of like Bart 64 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,840 Miller that I can only imagine. And they get that dad that's 65 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,320 just hard and almost abusive and it's just angry And all of a 66 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:49,840 sudden they meet Jesus and their life changed forever. 67 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:51,880 Amen. You just seen it with your own 68 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:53,560 eyes. Maybe seen that marriage where 69 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,920 the there's an alcoholic and and there's infidelity and it's it's 70 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:59,640 just there's no way it's going to work, but Jesus Amen. 71 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,480 And it just comes together. These are all things I've seen 72 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,680 and and be a part of the story. I mean, to see people that are 73 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,600 walking through hard season of loss or suffering or bad 74 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,200 diagnosis and there's the peace of God is on their life. 75 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:14,280 Just amazing. You've experienced that. 76 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,880 And how about for you today, for you guys today, how do you guys 77 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,520 have experienced the resurrection and power of Jesus? 78 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,080 Will you just let me know today you've experienced that? 79 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:25,040 Come on somebody. I just believe if we're to like 80 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,640 just put like a microphone here and just like start a line and 81 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:31,760 say, can you just come up and just share the goodness of God's 82 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,440 grace in your life? I just believe we'd be here for 83 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,240 weeks and weeks and weeks talking about all the things 84 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,840 that God has done, what you even know he's done because he is so 85 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:40,520 good. Amen. 86 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,800 And today I just want you to get a sense of how big God is, how 87 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,960 much he loves us and the power of Jesus in our lives and 88 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,240 towards us. And you might sense there's 89 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,160 something out there like there's something different about these 90 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,920 Christians or about what who God is and this God of the Bible. 91 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,720 There's a lady any followed Artemis 2, by the way, Artemis 92 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:05,960 2, that's a rocket. Oh, Lord nerd alert. 93 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,880 Artemis 2, right? Yeah, they're going a little 94 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:10,520 farther. Apollo 13 went around the moon. 95 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:11,600 The furthest they're ever going to go. 96 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,160 That's tomorrow. There's a lady named Christina 97 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,360 Cook, and she's on Artemis 2. And she looked down at Earth 98 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,160 from space and she said this quote. 99 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,640 I'll never be insecure again. That, that that's, that's an 100 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:28,360 echo of the resurrection power God. 101 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,080 That's a picture of the creation of God. 102 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,520 You just see what God has made and you're like, wow, like how 103 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,440 majestic, how powerful. I mean, who has put this 104 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,880 together? And I'm just a small piece, this 105 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,080 amazing puzzle. And so today I want you to see 106 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,360 just some of the echoes of the resurrection power and have it 107 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,520 infiltrate your life today. And you're going to see one of 108 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,560 the first men, if not the first man in the Bible who recognized 109 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:51,560 that Jesus had resurrection power. 110 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,800 And it's John the Baptist and it's in John chapter one, verse 111 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,040 29. This is what John the Baptist 112 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:57,160 says. He's the forerunner. 113 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,440 He looks because the disciples are asking this guy, as he 114 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:04,160 looks, he says, behold The Who? The Lamb of God. 115 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:08,000 Yeah, that that's that's the Lamb of God who's going to take 116 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,760 away the sins of the world. Remember, those other disciples 117 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,760 were jealous that Jesus is baptizing people and his 118 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:16,120 disciples are baptizing people and all. 119 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,040 He's doing better than us. And John's like, dude, you don't 120 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:18,920 miss. You're missing out, man. 121 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,840 That is the Lamb of God who's going to sacrifice himself and 122 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:24,920 take away the sins of the world. Now I don't know what was going 123 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,800 through John the Baptist's mind. Those amazing scripture, Isaiah 124 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,360 53, seven that says he is a is a prophecy towards Jesus. 125 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,680 So Jesus was oppressed and afflicted, but you're going to 126 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,160 see that today. We're talking about the cross. 127 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:39,920 It says yeah, he did not open his mouth. 128 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,920 He was led like a what? There's that lamb to the 129 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,200 slaughter. It has a sheep before it shears 130 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,720 his silence. So he did not open his mouth. 131 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:50,960 John the Baptist recognized something very special about 132 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,640 Jesus. He recognized that Jesus was 133 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,040 born to die. He recognized that this lamb 134 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,720 that God has sent his one and only son, was going to be the 135 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:02,880 perfect permanent sacrifice for our sins. 136 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,200 You have to understand that in this Old Testament system, 137 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,120 that'd be shedding a blood for mission of sins. 138 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,800 They'd raise the sheep outside the temple as temple sheep and 139 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:12,680 they would just raise them with the purpose that they'd be one 140 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,800 day they'd be sacrificing the altar to cover people's sin and 141 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,680 atone for their sin. And John the Baptist recognized 142 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:22,360 that that is the Lamb of God that is being raised up to lay 143 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,680 his life down to take away our sin. 144 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:27,640 He's ultimately saying that this man is going to shame. 145 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:29,520 Shame. This man is going to end the 146 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:31,720 curse. This man is going to kill sin 147 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,600 itself and be death to sin and be made a life to God through 148 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:36,880 Jesus. Now, he probably didn't know 149 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,000 about the whole resurrection story, but he had an echo of the 150 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,680 resurrection. He had part of the power of God 151 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,680 in his mind. You Fast forward about three 152 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:49,000 years in the Bible and John the Baptist had predicted this and 153 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,040 three years later, Jesus ends up in the Passion week. 154 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,760 And that's what we celebrate really this Easter, Thursday 155 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,080 night, Jesus is in the garden. If you remember the story, Jesus 156 00:06:57,280 --> 00:06:59,640 goes to the garden. He has disciples pray in groups 157 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:01,920 and he goes further in begins to pray. 158 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:05,400 Disciples fall asleep and Jesus wakes him up and Jesus begins to 159 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:06,800 pray. And during these moments of 160 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,760 prayer, he's contemplating what is going to happen when he goes 161 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,600 to the cross and it begins to sweat blood. 162 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,120 The Bible says that Jesus tells the Father not but my will be 163 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,240 done, but your will be done, because he knows when he goes to 164 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:25,120 the cross that the sin of the world is going to crush down on 165 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,840 him and not destroy him. But he'll be afflicted and he'll 166 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,840 be persecuted and he'll bleed out for our sins. 167 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,080 And Jesus knows what's about to happen. 168 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:35,200 Nobody has a clue what's going on. 169 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,760 And so Jesus gets up and he goes to the disciples. 170 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,640 He says the hour has come. There's a mob that goes into the 171 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:44,600 garden led by Judas, who betrays Jesus with a kiss for 30 pieces 172 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,760 of silver. Remember when Peter, he gets 173 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:51,320 fired up, he takes out his own security, which is his sword, 174 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:55,040 and he starts fighting and cuts off Malchus's ear and Jesus 175 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:56,680 heals his ear and he says you live by a sword. 176 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:58,240 He died by a sword. And that's the last time I see 177 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,560 Peter ever use a sword, by the way, because he's replaced it 178 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,760 now with the power of God. And so Jesus walks away from the 179 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:08,240 garden. By the way, there's a funny part 180 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:09,520 of the Bible. If you haven't seen the story, 181 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,080 you got to read it this time. The Bible's real. 182 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,920 There's actually a dude that's naked that runs away when the 183 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:15,600 mob shows up. You guys knew that before. 184 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:17,400 Come on. So that's how the Bible's real. 185 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:18,600 Like, nobody else can put that in a story. 186 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,480 But that guy's like, I'm out. And then the disciples, they all 187 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,720 scatter and Jesus goes to a false trial. 188 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:25,560 He actually ends up at Kaifa's house. 189 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,040 The high priest, his dad shows up as well. 190 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,440 It's almost, I didn't know what to do with Jesus, but they got 191 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,600 to get this done. And so like, hey, you know what, 192 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,200 let's bring him to trial from the Jews. 193 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,280 It's in the middle of the night, like straight middle of the 194 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,280 night. And they had this false trial 195 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,559 and they are questioning Jesus and they slapped Jesus across 196 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,800 the face to be in the mock em. And then Jesus declares that I 197 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:46,280 am. And they said, oh, you're 198 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:49,320 blaspheming. And so they accuse him of saying 199 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,320 he's God, which is punishable by death. 200 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,360 But the Jewish people cannot put Jesus to death. 201 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:55,320 They don't have the power to do that. 202 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:59,400 So they had to go to the Romans. So they drag Jesus away and they 203 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,800 bring him to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor. 204 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,200 And this has got to be sometime rural in the morning, probably 205 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,480 7:00 in the morning on Friday. He shows that they beat down the 206 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,520 door Pontius Pilate. And they say, hey, we want him 207 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,480 to be crucified and killed. And Pontius Pilate, was he done? 208 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:14,320 And you don't have any power here. 209 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:15,640 Like, I don't see anything wrong with him. 210 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:18,680 And he starts asking Jesus, do you realize that the power to 211 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:21,040 kill you and the power to make you stay alive? 212 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:24,840 And Jesus looks at him and says, you don't have no power except 213 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:27,880 for the power I've given you. If I didn't want to be here, I 214 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:32,080 wouldn't be here, Amen. And he just say silent through 215 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:33,360 all these accusations. So. 216 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:35,640 So Pontius Pilot says, well, scourge him. 217 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,320 So there's 40 lashings -1 So 40 they thought would kill 218 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,920 somebody. So let's just do 39 just to ride 219 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,120 at the edge of death. And so they take the kite, 9 220 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,520 tails as leather whip full of glass and shards of bone and 221 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,280 just little pieces of rock. And they whip Jesus. 222 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,160 And you've maybe seen the Passion of the Christ. 223 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,720 And I fully believe if they would have shown what really 224 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,200 happened in the, in the real life, what happened to Jesus, 225 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,480 that movie could not have been shown in theaters. 226 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,160 They had to keep it R rated. But it's really beyond what you 227 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,560 saw in that movie. And he's stripped of his flesh. 228 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:07,240 The Bible says in Isaiah he wasn't recognizable as a man. 229 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,840 It's how much he was stripped of his flesh. 230 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:11,680 And they bring it back to Pontius Pilate. 231 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:15,480 At this point, they put a robe on the purple to mock that he is 232 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,560 a king of the Jews. They take a big crown of thorns 233 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:22,320 and they press it down his brow. And he stands before this angry 234 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:23,680 mob of people that want him dead. 235 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,280 And so Pontius Pilate's in this political nightmare. 236 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,800 And so he tells them how he can release one of your prisoners. 237 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:30,760 It's tradition. Would you want Barabbas or 238 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:32,400 Jesus? And they thought for sure he 239 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,600 they take Jesus, but they want Barabbas gone. 240 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,360 And so begin to shout, crucify Jesus, crucify him, crucify him 241 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,480 and crucify him. And Pontius Pilate worried that 242 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,000 this mob is going to erupt if he does not kill Jesus. 243 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,440 He washed his hands of the blood of Jesus, and he senses Jesus to 244 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,560 death on a cross. So the story picks up. 245 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:53,760 This is about 9:00 AM on Friday in Luke 2326. 246 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,560 It says that the soldiers LED Jesus away. 247 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:00,240 They see Simon of Cyrene, who was on his way in from the 248 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:04,640 country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind 249 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:06,440 Jesus. And a large number of people 250 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,080 followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. 251 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:12,640 And there was this group of women that had been serving 252 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,920 Jesus, ministering to Jesus, and now falling entitled with Jesus 253 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,000 as way as being really on his way to be crucified. 254 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:23,080 And they're just beyond emotion, but just staying close to Jesus. 255 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,280 And really all the disciples have left, but these women stay 256 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:27,840 close all the way through the cross. 257 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,800 Verse 32 says to the other men both criminals were also let out 258 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:34,760 with him to be executed. How many guys know that the 259 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,200 cross was actually made for the worst of the worst of the worst 260 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,960 for public execution to be put outside the town on the way in 261 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,280 So when people came in they knew it was like if they broke the 262 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:48,920 law in this city is publicly display of power. 263 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,160 This is when they came to the place called the skull which we 264 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,360 know is Golgotha or Calvary Hill. 265 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:58,360 They what help me out they crucified him. 266 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:03,080 The crucifixion was actually it was put together by God himself. 267 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,200 It was given to the Persians. When the Roman took Roman took 268 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:11,400 Persia, they perfected the art of not killing somebody, but 269 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,480 actually torturing somebody. And so they go to that cross, 270 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:16,760 and they would stretch his arms out, and they would nail in the 271 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:20,200 spikes into his wrist and the cross his ankles, and they would 272 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,040 stain him up for the whole world to see. 273 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,520 I just love that in the fullness of time, you can find out in 274 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:30,520 Galatians when God sent his son that God himself picked the 275 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:34,520 cross of Calvary. So without dispute, God's love 276 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,360 will be on display to a lost and dying world. 277 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:40,840 Amen. Wasn't like they took him out 278 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,000 back. They literally hung in front of 279 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,920 the whole world to see. So nobody can dispute the fact 280 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,920 that he was crucified and died. He was mocked on that cross. 281 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,760 I just love it that when humanity was at his worst that 282 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:58,800 God was at his best, Amen. This is what Jesus does. 283 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:03,040 He's on the cross alongside 2 criminals, 1 on the right and on 284 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,120 the left. And Jesus the heart of God says 285 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:11,560 Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing and 286 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:13,560 they divide it up his clothes and cast lots. 287 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:19,000 Just unfathomable grace, Amen. The depth of God's love. 288 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:21,200 These people are spitting on him and mocking him. 289 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,160 They've ripped his beard out that they're hurling insults. 290 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:25,360 You got that sign above his head. 291 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:29,200 Here hangs the king of the Jews in Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew, so 292 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,720 everybody know how to mock him. And then his soldiers are 293 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,480 crucifying him. He's struggling to breathe, had 294 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,440 to lift off his legs to get oxygen. 295 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,800 And every breath he struggles and he whispers the word Father. 296 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,640 Forgive them for they know not what they do to actually forgive 297 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:49,080 the very sins to take away the sins of the world, including the 298 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:55,040 mockers and the Pharisees and the soldiers that crucified him. 299 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:59,160 That's the grace of God Amen. It includes every one of our 300 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:04,200 sins past, present and future. Isaiah 53 five says, but he 301 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,360 being Jesus was pierced for our transgressions. 302 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,960 Talk about the cross. He was crushed for our 303 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:13,960 iniquities, that crushing of the weight of our sin as we pressed 304 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,520 out on Jesus. It says the punishment that 305 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:22,560 brought us peace was on Him, and by his wounds we were healed. 306 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,440 Amen. Thank you Jesus. 307 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,040 It's not my work that gets us there. 308 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:29,880 It's not my ability that gets me to heaven. 309 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,760 It's Jesus work on the cross for me because he loved me. 310 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,960 What kind of love has the Father bestowed on us that he would 311 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:41,960 send Jesus Mark 1533 At noon, darkness came over the whole 312 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:43,720 land until 3:00 in the afternoon. 313 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,280 In the At 3:00 in the afternoon, Jesus cried out with a loud 314 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,480 voice. Eloy, Eloy Lama Sabakthanai, 315 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:55,320 which means my God, my God, why have thou forsaken me? 316 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,400 You think about this moment. This is this is the darkest 317 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,120 moment in the history of humanity. 318 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,280 The skies already dark because God has made it be dark for 319 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,680 three hours and he's on this cross. 320 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,880 And the moment the Father turns his back on the Son, because 321 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:13,160 there's the Father's holy, the only thing that even goes to 322 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:16,320 heaven is holy, Amen. And God's primary attribute is 323 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,000 holiness. And so for us to be made free 324 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,520 from sin, somebody has to pay. There's a debt to be paid, a 325 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:24,640 land be sacrifice. In that moment this is what 326 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:25,720 happens. The Father turns his back. 327 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:29,720 And the Bible says in first John 22 that he's a propitiation. 328 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:34,880 He is a wrath burying sacrifice. So the wrath of God in that 329 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,680 moment in time for all of our sins past, present and future is 330 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,080 literally pushed down and poured out and pressed down on Jesus. 331 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:45,760 This is why Jesus was sweating blood in the garden, because he 332 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,080 knew he was going to pay for every wrong act from AB and Eve 333 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:50,880 all the way through the end of humanity. 334 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,640 He was going to carry on that cross. 335 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:56,280 Amen. This is what Jesus has done for 336 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,040 us. I love this. 337 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:05,160 When Jesus raised from the dead. Spoiler but when Jesus raised 338 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,680 from the dead is not just a dead man coming to life because we 339 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:10,840 talked about there's been we know at least six other dead 340 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:12,960 people have come to life up to this point before Jesus. 341 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:18,480 It's actually a dead person to sin that's coming to life. 342 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:20,520 Amen. It's not that Jesus could have 343 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,120 sinned, but the power of sin is now destroyed. 344 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,320 He just come back to life. He come back back to life 345 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:30,720 resurrected with the power of sin has no power of him to take 346 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,840 away the sins of the world. And John 1928 says later, 347 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:36,720 knowing that everything had been finished. 348 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:39,240 All the things are written in Scripture. 349 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,560 I love that you can go back in Scripture and see all the 350 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:45,440 prophecies that happened If you get a chance to read Psalm 22 351 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,560 and just lead into like the greatest picture of the cross 352 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,200 1000 years for the cross. And then Jesus said, I am 353 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,040 thirsty and a jar of wine vinegar was there and they 354 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,800 soaked in a sponge on it in it and put the sponge on the stock 355 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,760 of hisop plant and lifted it to Jesus lips. 356 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,720 And that hisop was a symbol of purification. 357 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,599 And it was a symbol that of cleanliness is a symbol of 358 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:09,960 completion. It it it's a symbol that is paid 359 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,119 in full that that Jesus has wiped away every one of our 360 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,040 sins. And after this happens, the very 361 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,720 next verse of what Jesus said when he received the drink that 362 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:22,079 Jesus said what help me out. It is it is finished. 363 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,280 And this word in Greek is to tell us I and what's really 364 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:27,400 amazing, if you, if you look at the word, it means this, it 365 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:32,400 means paid in full. Paid in full says Hissa Branch. 366 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,640 It's the last prophecy. And they said it is finished to 367 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:40,400 tell us die and the debt of our sin has received full payment. 368 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,680 The check is cleared, Amen. Jesus did what we could never do 369 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:45,800 for ourselves. We said it is finished. 370 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,960 What is he talking about? He's saying that sin is 371 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,640 finished, Amen. That that was that was the, that 372 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,880 was the beginning of the end. Like there's no more power sin 373 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:55,840 that he is rolled away to shame, Amen. 374 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,240 Combination is finished. The curse is broken. 375 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,400 It is amazing to me that that sin entered the world because of 376 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,200 a tree of fruit and that sin would exit the world because of 377 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,680 man that's hung on the tree. It's amazing to think about and 378 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:12,520 there's so many parallels. I can't even get into Abraham 379 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,800 and Isaac. I can't even get in the very 380 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:19,640 fact of all the pictures that that that Abraham would believe 381 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,560 that God could raise his son from the dead. 382 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:26,280 And it's just a few 100 meters away on Mount Moriah where Isaac 383 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,480 would have been sacrificed, where Jesus was sacrificed. 384 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:32,520 It's just amazing to me like what God has put together. 385 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,960 He says it is finished. Very next version would have 386 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,640 been almost the same breath. Jesus called out a loud voice, 387 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:40,400 Father, into your hands I commit my spirit. 388 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,920 When he said this, he breathed his last. 389 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,760 There's another version of the gospel where he says he moaned 390 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,120 loudly and he gave up his last breath. 391 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,720 This is how Jesus died on the cross and this earthquake 392 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,480 happened and the earth shook. Creation itself has been 393 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:01,840 groaning for the resurrection and power of Jesus replied back 394 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,600 with the earth shaking. And then the temple, there's a 395 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,160 big curtain, it's taller than this building. 396 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:08,920 It's 60 foot high, it's 3 foot thick. 397 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,440 And it separates the the holy of holies from the rest of the 398 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,360 temple. And the only person who can go 399 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:17,760 back there is a perfectly righteous person which limits it 400 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:20,160 down very quickly. And it's the high priest. 401 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,720 Once a year they tie a rope around his waist and he'd go in. 402 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,600 And if he had any sin in his heart, in his life at all, he 403 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,040 just dropped dead in the moment in the presence of God. 404 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,440 And what happened when Jesus died on the cross? 405 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:35,120 And he said it is finished and he gave up his ghost. 406 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,960 The temple curtain was torn from top to bottom, straight down the 407 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:40,840 middle. And I believe, and I mean this 408 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:42,600 is speculation, so I'll give it to that. 409 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:44,720 Bodies believe as Jesus on that cross. 410 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,680 And Jesus fulfilled every part of these prophecies and he made 411 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:51,160 away, He took away sin that the Father took the top of the curve 412 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:54,920 and he is tore in half because the presence of God is no longer 413 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,720 contained for perfect people that can show up in his 414 00:19:57,720 --> 00:19:59,560 presence. But now because Jesus made a 415 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:03,120 way, he took imperfect people and gave him this righteousness 416 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,800 so that the presence and power and provision of God can go out 417 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,920 to all humanity. That's what the Father did. 418 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,720 That's Easter, baby. That's the power of God. 419 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,000 That's a resurrection of Christ. That's what we celebrate every 420 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,160 single Sunday. Verse 24, on the first day of 421 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,320 the week, this is Sunday, very, very early in the morning, the 422 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:26,160 women took the spices they prepared and went to the tomb. 423 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:27,720 They couldn't go on Saturday. It was a Sabbath. 424 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:29,840 But as soon as they could, they win. 425 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,560 And the NBA give this morning to the sunrise a little bit. 426 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:38,440 My first hour, my first 830 crew was like, yeah, 10:00 is like, 427 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:42,800 no, I pulled in this parking lot and the sun was coming up and I 428 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,480 was like, man, he is risen. Amen. 429 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,240 I'm pretty sure those women, women were there before the sun 430 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,160 rose that day. It's fast. 431 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,360 They get there. They found the stone rolled away 432 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:53,600 from the tomb. When they entered, they found 433 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,320 the body, Did not find the body, Lord Jesus. 434 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,080 And when they were wondering what is going on, they couldn't 435 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,600 fathom, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like 436 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,280 lightning stood beside them. These are angels and in their 437 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,520 fright the women bow down their faces to the ground. 438 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:10,360 But the men said to them, look at this, Why do you look for the 439 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:15,000 living among the dead? He is not here. 440 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,720 He has risen. Amen. 441 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,080 They had no idea what's going on. 442 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,200 They were, they were wondering like what is still to make sense 443 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:26,640 to them. And this Angel, look at the next 444 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:28,560 word. Remember how he told you This 445 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,160 Angel is actually going to quote Jesus. 446 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,800 This is in red letters. The Angel is going to quote what 447 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,400 Jesus already said to them years ago and in their ministry. 448 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,520 He's going to say the Son of Man. 449 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,840 There's a quote must be delivered over the hands of 450 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:46,800 sinners crucified and on the third day be raised again in the 451 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,320 they said they remembered. Know what's really cool about 452 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:55,080 this story is that Jesus already planted the echoes of the 453 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,520 resurrection in them before it ever happened. 454 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,960 They, they already knew Jesus already predicted his death 455 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,600 three times. He had told him he was going to 456 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:06,080 raise him dead 3 different times. 457 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,840 And of course in, in hindsight 2020, we know this, but in their 458 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,320 time they're like, huh, this is unfathomable. 459 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,840 Like they would be crucified like, and they've forgotten. 460 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,720 And the Angel reminds them that this is part of God's plan. 461 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,560 I don't know about you, but have you experienced the echoes of 462 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:23,880 the resurrection power in your life? 463 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,200 Have you seen that around you? Because you might be like, this 464 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,280 world doesn't make a lot of sense and it is kind of crazy. 465 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,360 The world has just lost its mind, right? 466 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,520 But Jesus, you see this around you like as a pastor, you see 467 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,440 some interesting things. And I've seen a lot of power of 468 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,000 God. And just recently, just about 469 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,000 two weeks ago, there was a man I met with and he, he was an 470 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,840 alcoholic for years. He'd watch some of his family 471 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:46,680 pass away. He lost his way. 472 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,480 He just turned to the bottle, lost about everything he had in 473 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,280 life. Matter of fact, he's that guy we 474 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,280 talked about a few weeks ago that I went at 3:00 in the 475 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,960 morning at Belton Police station because he needed a pastor and a 476 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,720 chaplain to show up. But I'm not a chaplain of the 477 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,360 Police Department. Thinks a great calling. 478 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,840 It's just not mine. Takes a lot of time and energy 479 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:04,480 and don't have it. Some of y'all could do it. 480 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,600 Amen. But I showed up down there and 481 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,680 just got to encourage this guy a little bit. 482 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,520 Just plant some seeds. But this man over time he came 483 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,600 clean and end up here at our church. 484 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,640 And a few weeks ago I sat down with him at the Hope Center and 485 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,680 connect the dots. I was like, you're the guy, like 486 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,960 you're the guy that I met with at 3:00 in the morning. 487 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,960 He's like, huh, You know, I was like, it was me, man. 488 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,520 You don't Remember Me, but you, it was me. 489 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,240 He's like, I didn't remember you, but that was crazy. 490 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,200 I said, how in the world did you come out of alcohol and 491 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,240 addiction and have come back to God? 492 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,320 What in the world happened to you? 493 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,520 He said, look, man, I used to go to church all every Sunday. 494 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,360 I used to teach Sunday school class. 495 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,320 I know the Bible was this out by these guys. 496 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,800 I lost my way, but God never gave up on me. 497 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,360 It is the resurrection power of Jesus in his life once again, 498 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:51,440 Amen. There's a part of him that God 499 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,720 never get on. There's a Holy Spirit inside 500 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,400 him, convicted him of a sin and he just woke up and said I'm 501 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,360 done. Doesn't mean it's perfect, Amen. 502 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:00,080 But he's living a different path. 503 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,240 What's crazy about it is he now serves on our dream team. 504 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,360 This is a second Sunday serving on our team. 505 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:10,240 Isn't that crazy? Teaching the Bible, teaching the 506 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:11,920 Bible. I, I was talking to him and he 507 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,280 would finish every verse I would say. 508 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:14,600 And I was killing some hard ones out. 509 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,160 Like I'm like, nobody's going to know this verse. 510 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,320 You know, I'm in Revelation 5, I'm back in Psalms. 511 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,120 I mean, I'm over the place. Like there's no way. 512 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:22,400 And he's pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. 513 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,760 He just lost his way. But God never gave up on him. 514 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:28,680 A few months ago, I was with a man and he was deciding if he 515 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,960 should file for a divorce and he and his wife had been cheating 516 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:35,600 on him and just high infidelity, all sorts of stuff, a lot of 517 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,800 situational things that happened and he's broken. 518 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,360 He loves his wife, but he's like, I cannot continue in this. 519 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,120 I said, look, I can't give you direction of what to do, but 520 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:47,120 I'll pray for God's wisdom on you to make the decision that 521 00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:48,880 the Holy Spirit make it very clear to you what to next. 522 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,720 And so he show up to his wife with divorce papers and said, 523 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,800 hey, I'm I'm out. And she was shocked, absolutely 524 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,520 shocked that he was leaving. And she said, if I have made a 525 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:03,000 huge mistake, I'm done cheating. Like I can't live in a story 526 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,760 relationship and he had some mandates come on somebody side, 527 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,560 side projects gone. But in God's grace because the 528 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,480 resurrection power of Jesus in his life, because the only way 529 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,320 to ever forgive somebody this level, he brings her back in and 530 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:20,160 accepts her and forgives her and is rebuilding their marriage. 531 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,720 Amen. That's the power of Jesus and 532 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,240 it's only Jesus can do that. There's no other glory that can 533 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:30,600 be given as God has forgiven us, so we forgive others. 534 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,600 It's the grace of God on display. 535 00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:37,480 I remember I was 15 years old. I got invited to church by some 536 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,440 friends of mine. It's funny as a guy I met the 537 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,760 first gather I think it was. Maybe it's this one. 538 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,400 Graduate high school in 2003 together. 539 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:47,840 And, but anyway, I ran some friends. 540 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:50,400 I became a drum major and, and band my sophomore year and I, I 541 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,280 started hanging with some different friends and there was 542 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,680 something different about them. And at the time I, I didn't know 543 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,160 what it was, but it's like, man, the way they care about people, 544 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,000 the way they care themselves when they treat people, it's 545 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,520 just so foreign to me. Like I, I'd never seen anything 546 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:02,680 like it. And they invited me out to 547 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,840 church and, and you got to understand, like I, I had never 548 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,600 really been, I'd never been to church to go to church. 549 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,600 I've been to church to, to go to a couple funerals, couple random 550 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,520 weddings. I, I had never heard somebody 551 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,400 preach a message. I I I had never seen a single 552 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,320 person in my life ever pray. I'd never seen anybody pray. 553 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,760 The only time I heard the name of Jesus was put between 2F 554 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,240 words. It's Lou. 555 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,360 The only time it was just fill in the blank Jesus, fill in the 556 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:25,320 blank. That was it. 557 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,240 I had no idea. I didn't know the Bible and I'd 558 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,560 show up this Wednesday night at a church and somebody was 559 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,680 sharing what I found out later is the Romans wrote. 560 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,760 I started hearing about the good news that Jesus that God sold 561 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,840 the world. They'd give us only son who 562 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,880 would believe in him shall not perish without eternal life. 563 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,640 I'm like this is making a lot of sense that when I was yet 564 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,840 stranded Christ died for me, but God shows left toward me even 565 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,480 though I was yet sinners. Christ died for me and that he 566 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,920 the newest sin became sin for us that we become the righteousness 567 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,280 of God in this verse out of Romans 10/9, which I didn't know 568 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,120 what Romans was. I didn't know there was awesome 569 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,560 these little other books in the I had no idea. 570 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,480 And it reads if you can fetch them out the Lord Jesus and 571 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,280 believe your heart that God raised and dead, you'll be saved 572 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,000 and you start making way too much sense. 573 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,760 So in the back of this youth room, there's this old choir 574 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,240 room. I got on my knees and I prayed 575 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,960 and I accepted the resurrection power of Jesus to forgive my 576 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:24,080 sins in the fall of 2000. Amen. 577 00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:28,040 It's the grace of God. And I started realizing that 578 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,560 wasn't really the first time that the grace of God has tried 579 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:34,560 to get into my family's life. So Fast forward, we're looking 580 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,240 forward to look back. So in 2020, my grandpa passed 581 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,880 away. My grandpa's name was Jack 582 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,560 Petrie. My oldest son, my first born son 583 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:43,640 is named after my grandpa. I looked up to my grandpa. 584 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:46,040 He was a stoic man. He was a strong man. 585 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,800 He kept the family together. He's like that glue, you know, 586 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,800 that puts everything together. And he was born on Thanksgiving 587 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,800 and he died on Thanksgiving, 99 years apart. 588 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,000 He's just one of those guys. I mean, he just trapped a crowd 589 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,960 of people. And so he didn't, he everybody's 590 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,560 kind of Catholic around him. So they didn't know what to do 591 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,320 because he wasn't. So they said, Hey, Sean can do 592 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,760 the funeral because like he didn't fit between anything. 593 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,960 So we'll do like a graveside. And so I, I doing this funeral 594 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,200 and it's the first time that I got to share the gospel with 595 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,160 really most of my family outside of my mom and my sister and my 596 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,120 my immediate family, nobody else in my family had ever seen me 597 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:26,120 preach been preached like 15 years. 598 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,040 So I had the honor of doing this funeral. 599 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:29,720 And the only thing they wanted this funeral. 600 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,320 And this is going to tell you a little bit about my history, 601 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,120 about my family, because you're going to be like, I can't 602 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:35,120 believe you wrote this, but just this is what happened. 603 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,360 The only thing they wanted to happen at the funeral was a poem 604 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:40,240 that my grandpa wrote and he wrote here, here likes Jack. 605 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,200 If he did his best, all will be at peace. 606 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,840 He'll be at rest. But but if Jack didn't do so 607 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,720 well, old Saint Pete, he's going to send him straight to hell. 608 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,320 Isn't that crazy? I mean, imagine delivering that 609 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,960 message, you know, like, thanks for the set up. 610 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,560 You know, I like I'll well, who knows, There's always a way to 611 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,520 the Gospel, by the way, Amen. I mean, you can take anything to 612 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,080 the gospel. So I was like, OK, well, this, 613 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,200 this will be bad. I was like, I don't, I don't, I 614 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,760 really don't know where my, my grandpa's spiritual condition 615 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,480 was, right. But I was like, you know, my 616 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,520 dad, my grandpa was a very sarcastic person, as you say. 617 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:12,520 You read it and say, you know what? 618 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:13,800 But there's a lot of truth about Jesus. 619 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,680 And I started sharing the gospel at my family's funeral and I'm 620 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,640 getting this like, you know, like the people don't want to 621 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,000 hear that. You know, I'm like, I don't 622 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,320 care. You told me to preach here. 623 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,440 I'm preaching, you know, like I'm going to share it like or 624 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:27,600 love or hate it, it's going to happen. 625 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,440 And so welcome to last name Peter. 626 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,440 I guess this is going to happen. And so I, I, I show up, we do 627 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,000 it. The funeral is like 15 minute 628 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,400 thing Max. And we go out to my grandpa's 629 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,680 house and, and, you know, in the estate, it was a, here's all the 630 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,120 personal items are kind of down to that point of like they're 631 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,840 going to just, you know, basically pass all items to all 632 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,080 the kids. He had six kids. 633 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,960 And I show up to the house and, you know, the kids have been 634 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,240 over already, his kids, my dad and all his brothers, sisters. 635 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,080 And they kind of like went through everything, which is 636 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:55,280 great. You know, they get all figured 637 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,400 out and there's a lot of arbitrary items still left and 638 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:58,560 people trying to figure stuff out. 639 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,840 And I get down in the basement and on my grandpa's workbench, 640 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,880 my dad picks up what would be at this point I know is a World War 641 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,520 2 issued Bible to my grandpa. My dad picks it up and he goes, 642 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,120 well, nobody's going to want this anyway. 643 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,920 And he pitches it to me. And I thought, how in the world 644 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,880 that all of you walk through this house, every single one of 645 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,760 my cousins, all of my uncles and aunts, all these people, and you 646 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,280 passed up the greatest treasure in this house. 647 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,240 How in the world did you do that? 648 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,440 How can we see the same thing but have different levels of 649 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,560 faith? Like how in the world do you not 650 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,920 realize that this is the greatest gift you ever could 651 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,960 have given anybody? Was this Bible that fact that's 652 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:42,640 really cool about this Bible is actually 1942 edition of 653 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,520 Gideon's This is the Gideon starting passing out Bibles 654 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,280 before World War 2 to the American armed forces in the 655 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,160 front of the Bible. There's actually a letter from 656 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,680 FDR to all of the soldiers that go out that fight. 657 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,640 My my grandpa, he was too skinny to be airborne. 658 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,320 So he's last in line. All his friends joined the 659 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,920 Airborne and they told me to skinny be like $1.25, you know, 660 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:02,520 and they said, hey, you're going to be a Marine. 661 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,400 And so he went to the Marine table and I got stationed at 662 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,720 Camp Elia Elliot out in California. 663 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:15,200 And some lady, I have no idea who this is, Miss N Gibbons gave 664 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,440 this Bible to my grandpa. It's called a pocket Bible. 665 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,720 And you would literally carry it in the pocket of your military 666 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,240 uniform. And my grandpa would go out to 667 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:29,320 storm the the sands of Saipan to fight the Japanese with this 668 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,320 Bible. Less than an inch of his heart. 669 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:33,080 Pretty cool. Amen. 670 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,360 Greatest treasure that my grandpa left behind was Jesus. 671 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:39,720 She had no idea. This lady had no idea. 672 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,160 By the way, she had this Bible 80 years ago, whatever that'd be 673 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:43,480 83 years ago. I don't know, I'm doing math 674 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,840 wrong here or something. 84 something, right? 675 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,640 She had no idea that I'll be holding this on the stage and 676 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,320 sharing about the resurrection power of Jesus through this 677 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,640 Bible on Easter Sunday to a large group of people. 678 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,160 Amen. He had no idea how the ripples 679 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,760 of an echo of just like gift given in secret and private 680 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,160 would make it across the Pacific Ocean and back to the United 681 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,480 States end up here in Belden, Missouri to declare the 682 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,320 resurrection power of Jesus. My point, I forgot, right? 683 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,160 My point is this is that God had been trying to get a hold of my 684 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,200 family for a long time. You've been trying to hold my 685 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,800 family a long time to get into Jesus. 686 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,400 And it takes one person to listen to the Holy Spirit and 687 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,320 say yes to God to change your family legacy. 688 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,200 And for me, I got this Bible and it will be the greatest 689 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:28,560 treasure. I don't keep a lot of things in 690 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,200 my safe at home, but I keep this in my safe. 691 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,760 I don't bring this out and share it very often because it's so 692 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,800 personal to me. And I think how in the world and 693 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:42,360 two people see the same thing and once you trash another's you 694 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,600 treasure. Most people take this Bible and 695 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,520 they say nobody wants it. Oh, put it in the shelf. 696 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,480 Oh, get rid of it. Donate that to Goodwill. 697 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,360 Any Bibles will show up to my office that people don't want. 698 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:52,600 And I always look at the beginning. 699 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,560 It's always given by somebody that thought maybe God could 700 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,920 change their life, but we're too stubborn to listen. 701 00:32:58,080 --> 00:32:59,680 That's like, man, what if God could get into US? 702 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,680 Amen. Like what if he started saying 703 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,760 yes to Jesus? It's like maybe I start 704 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,560 recognizing that God's been trying to get a hold of your 705 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,200 life for way longer than you know it. 706 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,480 There's a man that stood out there between the gatherings. 707 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,480 You got a Bible in 1966 from somebody in his family and he 708 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,880 got that Bible and he read that Bible and he stopped following 709 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,880 God not because the Bible. He just did his own thing. 710 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,600 He found that Bible just recently. 711 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:23,440 It's been Sinner since 1966. He told me, you know, Sean, I 712 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,400 made a huge mistake because God's been trying to get a hold 713 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,080 of my life this entire time. And maybe today's God has been 714 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:29,040 trying to hold yours. Amen. 715 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,240 So Father would come before you. God, we asked that the echoes of 716 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,080 the resurrection God would be powerful today. 717 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:38,400 God, they would speak to us today. 718 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,920 That's Jesus followers. We'd be the kind of people that 719 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,480 are writing names in other people's Bibles that the gospel 720 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,120 will go out to a lost and dying world. 721 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:47,680 That wouldn't stop at our address. 722 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,240 God forgive us. God, we've made it about us. 723 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:51,960 God, we were so grateful for the cross. 724 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,480 We're so grateful the resurrection power of Jesus. 725 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:56,760 I'll pray for one more group, people in the house. 726 00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,040 That's those of you that recognize today, can you say yes 727 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,320 to Jesus today? You need to say yes to the 728 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,560 resurrection power of Jesus for the very first time. 729 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,480 Do you recognize that God has been trying to get a hold of 730 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,800 your life for a very long time and somebody by the grace of 731 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,080 God, has invited you or shared on Facebook or whatever, and 732 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,639 you're here today not by accident, because the grace of 733 00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:18,159 God, and you may be sensing something today, I'm going to 734 00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:20,760 tell you something. That's the Holy Spirit that's 735 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,280 drawing you to himself. The Bible says that Jesus will 736 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:24,600 be lifted up. He'll draw all people to 737 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,280 himself. And the Holy Spirit is calling 738 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,120 on you to try to shape you and pull you today. 739 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,679 If you just surrender and say Jesus, I believe in you. 740 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,800 They dine across my sins, He will save you, making you. 741 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,719 The Bible says the day is the day is salvation. 742 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,719 If you could change a fool like me 26 years ago, he can change 743 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,199 you. He is faithful. 744 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,400 And so today if you need Jesus, not make it weird or call you 745 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,320 out, but if you need Jesus, we just raise your hand, hide this 746 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,280 place and you say I need Jesus. That's our relationship of 747 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,560 Christ today. I hope of Christ today I see 748 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,280 hands all across the room me to say I need surrender my life 749 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,160 today I'm the resurrection power of Christ today I'm going to be 750 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,440 dead in my sin today. I'm the resurrection of life 751 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,240 today. I knew what Jesus did on the 752 00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:08,800 cross of my life today. Well if that's you believe 753 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,280 through a prayer. The prayer does not save you. 754 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,760 It is truly your belief and your heart towards Christ. 755 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,480 You say father God thank you so much for loving me enough to 756 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,280 send Jesus to down across 2000 years ago God it was my sin that 757 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,600 held him there. It was me that held the nails. 758 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,320 God, I know you've paid because you love for me. 759 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,480 You've paid every sin in my life, past, present and future. 760 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,320 God, I'm no longer living for myself. 761 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,640 God, I ask for your Holy Spirit to come my life. 762 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,400 God, thank you for giving my sins. 763 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,920 God, I surrender my life to you just like these people who are 764 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:37,160 baptized because of what you did. 765 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,640 I know you're doing it in my life right now. 766 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:42,200 God, the resurrect part of me. God, I'm a dead man coming to 767 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,840 life today and I pray this in Jesus name and the church said 768 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:47,880 Amen. Come on, give some glory to God 769 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:48,600 today. Amen. 770 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,160 This is the end of this podcast. We hope you've enjoyed it. 771 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,040 If you have, be sure to hit the subscribe button so you don't 772 00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:59,880 miss another inspirational podcast. 773 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,120 For more great content and updates, visit 774 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,120 reallifechurchkc.com.