Echos of Resurrection Power, Easter Sunday - Heaven Part 14

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Happy Easter.
Real life, man.

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Today is just an amazing day
watching heaven get in the

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people I I love.
My favorite part of this morning

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is when we baptized Tyler Adams
and then somebody who said yes

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to and somebody said dunk him
again.

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That's what good friends are
for, right?

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That's awesome.
Yeah.

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We're not into baptizing twice,
but we do for fun.

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We'll store you in right here,
man.

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One of these days, I'm going to
do a cannonball into this this

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this baptistry.
I'm telling you, man, it's

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tempting right now.
So I mean, I'm excited for what

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God's been doing.
I I believe for those guys get

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baptized.
We're so proud of you.

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I believe not today.
What do we got today?

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Holly coming out here?
How many how many 13 people get

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baptized all throughout the day.
So give it up for those 13

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people.
Come on.

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She's the play by play.
I'm like, OK, who, who's in and

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out, you know, but man, it's
super exciting and heaven just

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got to these people and it's
cool to watch because the

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stories of people that are
getting baptized, they're just,

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it's not like, oh, they made a
decision last minute.

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There is a lifetime of inviting
and God's mercy and grace and

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then just seeing other people
living out and make decisions.

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So it's exciting.
Just so personal for me as a

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pastor to watch this.
So excited for you guys.

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I'd be a minist not to thank
your crew today that heavens got

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into for a long time now making
this this happen.

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Our church has been portable for
8 1/2 years and we're in the

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middle of raising funds for
first permanent space, Amen.

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And we're excited about that.
But with that said, we have an

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amazing team that makes this
place happen.

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And today we have the largest
serve team in real life history,

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about 122 people serving today
on Easter.

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Come on, somebody.
So thank you guys.

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It has not happened on accident.
And I know if you walked in,

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you're like, do this every week.
We've been doing this every week

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for 8 1/2 years because of
Jesus, Amen.

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And the life changes.
You just can't put a price tag

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on it.
It is exciting to watch and be a

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part of and get to serve
alongside you guys.

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So thank you guys so much.
Well, today we're going to dive

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in and my prayer has just been
that the resurrection power of

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Jesus, that heaven would get
into you today.

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Maybe you've known Jesus for a
long time and you've kind of

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been going to church.
But today I believe that

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something's going to stir inside
you.

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Or maybe you got invited out and
you've been to church in a long

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time or maybe ever.
And you're like, man, I'm not so

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sure about this.
And I pray that you would just

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see and experience the
resurrection power of God today.

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You know, you think about the
power of Jesus.

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It really kind of echoes
throughout all of eternity.

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And you might have experienced
some of those echoes.

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Barry kind of mentioned that
you, you might have the rumors

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of a changed life or somebody
who who just miraculously

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changed because they they heard
about Jesus and life changed

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happened or there's something
that's unexpected you couldn't

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explain.
And he's like, man, what's that?

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And you don't really know.
This is the power of Jesus.

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Maybe you've heard the rumors or
maybe you've seen it yourself.

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I know for some of you who grew
up in a family kind of like Bart

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Miller that I can only imagine.
And they get that dad that's

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just hard and almost abusive and
it's just angry And all of a

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sudden they meet Jesus and their
life changed forever.

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Amen.
You just seen it with your own

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eyes.
Maybe seen that marriage where

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the there's an alcoholic and and
there's infidelity and it's it's

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just there's no way it's going
to work, but Jesus Amen.

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And it just comes together.
These are all things I've seen

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and and be a part of the story.
I mean, to see people that are

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walking through hard season of
loss or suffering or bad

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diagnosis and there's the peace
of God is on their life.

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Just amazing.
You've experienced that.

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And how about for you today, for
you guys today, how do you guys

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have experienced the
resurrection and power of Jesus?

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Will you just let me know today
you've experienced that?

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Come on somebody.
I just believe if we're to like

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just put like a microphone here
and just like start a line and

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say, can you just come up and
just share the goodness of God's

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grace in your life?
I just believe we'd be here for

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weeks and weeks and weeks
talking about all the things

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that God has done, what you even
know he's done because he is so

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good.
Amen.

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And today I just want you to get
a sense of how big God is, how

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much he loves us and the power
of Jesus in our lives and

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towards us.
And you might sense there's

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something out there like there's
something different about these

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Christians or about what who God
is and this God of the Bible.

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There's a lady any followed
Artemis 2, by the way, Artemis

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2, that's a rocket.
Oh, Lord nerd alert.

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Artemis 2, right?
Yeah, they're going a little

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farther.
Apollo 13 went around the moon.

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The furthest they're ever going
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That's tomorrow.
There's a lady named Christina

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Cook, and she's on Artemis 2.
And she looked down at Earth

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from space and she said this
quote.

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I'll never be insecure again.
That, that that's, that's an

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echo of the resurrection power
God.

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That's a picture of the creation
of God.

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You just see what God has made
and you're like, wow, like how

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majestic, how powerful.
I mean, who has put this

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together?
And I'm just a small piece, this

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amazing puzzle.
And so today I want you to see

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just some of the echoes of the
resurrection power and have it

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infiltrate your life today.
And you're going to see one of

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the first men, if not the first
man in the Bible who recognized

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that Jesus had resurrection
power.

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And it's John the Baptist and
it's in John chapter one, verse

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29.
This is what John the Baptist

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says.
He's the forerunner.

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He looks because the disciples
are asking this guy, as he

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looks, he says, behold The Who?
The Lamb of God.

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Yeah, that that's that's the
Lamb of God who's going to take

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away the sins of the world.
Remember, those other disciples

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were jealous that Jesus is
baptizing people and his

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disciples are baptizing people
and all.

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He's doing better than us.
And John's like, dude, you don't

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miss.
You're missing out, man.

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That is the Lamb of God who's
going to sacrifice himself and

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take away the sins of the world.
Now I don't know what was going

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through John the Baptist's mind.
Those amazing scripture, Isaiah

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53, seven that says he is a is a
prophecy towards Jesus.

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So Jesus was oppressed and
afflicted, but you're going to

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see that today.
We're talking about the cross.

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It says yeah, he did not open
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He was led like a what?
There's that lamb to the

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slaughter.
It has a sheep before it shears

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his silence.
So he did not open his mouth.

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John the Baptist recognized
something very special about

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Jesus.
He recognized that Jesus was

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born to die.
He recognized that this lamb

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that God has sent his one and
only son, was going to be the

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perfect permanent sacrifice for
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You have to understand that in
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that'd be shedding a blood for
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They'd raise the sheep outside
the temple as temple sheep and

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they would just raise them with
the purpose that they'd be one

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day they'd be sacrificing the
altar to cover people's sin and

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atone for their sin.
And John the Baptist recognized

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that that is the Lamb of God
that is being raised up to lay

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his life down to take away our
sin.

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He's ultimately saying that this
man is going to shame.

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Shame.
This man is going to end the

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curse.
This man is going to kill sin

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itself and be death to sin and
be made a life to God through

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Jesus.
Now, he probably didn't know

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about the whole resurrection
story, but he had an echo of the

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resurrection.
He had part of the power of God

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in his mind.
You Fast forward about three

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years in the Bible and John the
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three years later, Jesus ends up
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And that's what we celebrate
really this Easter, Thursday

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night, Jesus is in the garden.
If you remember the story, Jesus

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goes to the garden.
He has disciples pray in groups

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and he goes further in begins to
pray.

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Disciples fall asleep and Jesus
wakes him up and Jesus begins to

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pray.
And during these moments of

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prayer, he's contemplating what
is going to happen when he goes

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to the cross and it begins to
sweat blood.

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The Bible says that Jesus tells
the Father not but my will be

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done, but your will be done,
because he knows when he goes to

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the cross that the sin of the
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him and not destroy him.
But he'll be afflicted and he'll

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be persecuted and he'll bleed
out for our sins.

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And Jesus knows what's about to
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Nobody has a clue what's going
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And so Jesus gets up and he goes
to the disciples.

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He says the hour has come.
There's a mob that goes into the

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garden led by Judas, who betrays
Jesus with a kiss for 30 pieces

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of silver.
Remember when Peter, he gets

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fired up, he takes out his own
security, which is his sword,

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and he starts fighting and cuts
off Malchus's ear and Jesus

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heals his ear and he says you
live by a sword.

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He died by a sword.
And that's the last time I see

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Peter ever use a sword, by the
way, because he's replaced it

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now with the power of God.
And so Jesus walks away from the

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garden.
By the way, there's a funny part

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of the Bible.
If you haven't seen the story,

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you got to read it this time.
The Bible's real.

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There's actually a dude that's
naked that runs away when the

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mob shows up.
You guys knew that before.

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Come on.
So that's how the Bible's real.

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Like, nobody else can put that
in a story.

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But that guy's like, I'm out.
And then the disciples, they all

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scatter and Jesus goes to a
false trial.

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He actually ends up at Kaifa's
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The high priest, his dad shows
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It's almost, I didn't know what
to do with Jesus, but they got

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to get this done.
And so like, hey, you know what,

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let's bring him to trial from
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It's in the middle of the night,
like straight middle of the

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night.
And they had this false trial

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and they are questioning Jesus
and they slapped Jesus across

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the face to be in the mock em.
And then Jesus declares that I

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am.
And they said, oh, you're

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blaspheming.
And so they accuse him of saying

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he's God, which is punishable by
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But the Jewish people cannot put
Jesus to death.

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They don't have the power to do
that.

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So they had to go to the Romans.
So they drag Jesus away and they

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bring him to Pontius Pilate, the
Roman governor.

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And this has got to be sometime
rural in the morning, probably

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7:00 in the morning on Friday.
He shows that they beat down the

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door Pontius Pilate.
And they say, hey, we want him

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to be crucified and killed.
And Pontius Pilate, was he done?

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And you don't have any power
here.

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Like, I don't see anything wrong
with him.

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And he starts asking Jesus, do
you realize that the power to

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kill you and the power to make
you stay alive?

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And Jesus looks at him and says,
you don't have no power except

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for the power I've given you.
If I didn't want to be here, I

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wouldn't be here, Amen.
And he just say silent through

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all these accusations.
So.

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So Pontius Pilot says, well,
scourge him.

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So there's 40 lashings -1 So 40
they thought would kill

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somebody.
So let's just do 39 just to ride

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at the edge of death.
And so they take the kite, 9

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tails as leather whip full of
glass and shards of bone and

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just little pieces of rock.
And they whip Jesus.

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And you've maybe seen the
Passion of the Christ.

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And I fully believe if they
would have shown what really

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happened in the, in the real
life, what happened to Jesus,

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that movie could not have been
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They had to keep it R rated.
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saw in that movie.
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The Bible says in Isaiah he
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It's how much he was stripped of
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At this point, they put a robe
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a king of the Jews.
They take a big crown of thorns

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and they press it down his brow.
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mob of people that want him
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It's tradition.
Would you want Barabbas or

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Jesus?
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they take Jesus, but they want
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And so begin to shout, crucify
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and crucify him.
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this mob is going to erupt if he
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He washed his hands of the blood
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death on a cross.
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This is about 9:00 AM on Friday
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It says that the soldiers LED
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They see Simon of Cyrene, who
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country, and put the cross on
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Jesus.
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followed him, including women
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Jesus, ministering to Jesus, and
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as way as being really on his
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And they're just beyond emotion,
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And really all the disciples
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close all the way through the
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Verse 32 says to the other men
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with him to be executed.
How many guys know that the

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cross was actually made for the
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for public execution to be put
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So when people came in they knew
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law in this city is publicly
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This is when they came to the
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know is Golgotha or Calvary
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They what help me out they
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The crucifixion was actually it
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It was given to the Persians.
When the Roman took Roman took

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Persia, they perfected the art
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actually torturing somebody.
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and they would stretch his arms
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spikes into his wrist and the
cross his ankles, and they would

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stain him up for the whole world
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I just love that in the fullness
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Galatians when God sent his son
that God himself picked the

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cross of Calvary.
So without dispute, God's love

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will be on display to a lost and
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Amen.
Wasn't like they took him out

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back.
They literally hung in front of

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the whole world to see.
So nobody can dispute the fact

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that he was crucified and died.
He was mocked on that cross.

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I just love it that when
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God was at his best, Amen.
This is what Jesus does.

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He's on the cross alongside 2
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the left.
And Jesus the heart of God says

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Father forgive them for they do
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they divide it up his clothes
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Just unfathomable grace, Amen.
The depth of God's love.

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These people are spitting on him
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They've ripped his beard out
that they're hurling insults.

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You got that sign above his
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Here hangs the king of the Jews
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everybody know how to mock him.
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crucifying him.
He's struggling to breathe, had

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to lift off his legs to get
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And every breath he struggles
and he whispers the word Father.

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Forgive them for they know not
what they do to actually forgive

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the very sins to take away the
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mockers and the Pharisees and
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That's the grace of God Amen.
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sins past, present and future.
Isaiah 53 five says, but he

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being Jesus was pierced for our
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Talk about the cross.
He was crushed for our

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iniquities, that crushing of the
weight of our sin as we pressed

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out on Jesus.
It says the punishment that

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brought us peace was on Him, and
by his wounds we were healed.

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Amen.
Thank you Jesus.

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It's not my work that gets us
there.

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It's not my ability that gets me
to heaven.

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It's Jesus work on the cross for
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What kind of love has the Father
bestowed on us that he would

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send Jesus Mark 1533 At noon,
darkness came over the whole

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land until 3:00 in the
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In the At 3:00 in the afternoon,
Jesus cried out with a loud

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voice.
Eloy, Eloy Lama Sabakthanai,

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which means my God, my God, why
have thou forsaken me?

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You think about this moment.
This is this is the darkest

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The skies already dark because
God has made it be dark for

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three hours and he's on this
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his back on the Son, because

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there's the Father's holy, the
only thing that even goes to

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heaven is holy, Amen.
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holiness.
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from sin, somebody has to pay.
There's a debt to be paid, a

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land be sacrifice.
In that moment this is what

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happens.
The Father turns his back.

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And the Bible says in first John
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He is a wrath burying sacrifice.
So the wrath of God in that

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moment in time for all of our
sins past, present and future is

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literally pushed down and poured
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This is why Jesus was sweating
blood in the garden, because he

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knew he was going to pay for
every wrong act from AB and Eve

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all the way through the end of
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He was going to carry on that
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Amen.
This is what Jesus has done for

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us.
I love this.

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When Jesus raised from the dead.
Spoiler but when Jesus raised

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from the dead is not just a dead
man coming to life because we

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talked about there's been we
know at least six other dead

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people have come to life up to
this point before Jesus.

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It's actually a dead person to
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Amen.
It's not that Jesus could have

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sinned, but the power of sin is
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He just come back to life.
He come back back to life

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resurrected with the power of
sin has no power of him to take

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away the sins of the world.
And John 1928 says later,

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knowing that everything had been
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All the things are written in
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I love that you can go back in
Scripture and see all the

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prophecies that happened If you
get a chance to read Psalm 22

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and just lead into like the
greatest picture of the cross

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1000 years for the cross.
And then Jesus said, I am

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thirsty and a jar of wine
vinegar was there and they

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soaked in a sponge on it in it
and put the sponge on the stock

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of hisop plant and lifted it to
Jesus lips.

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And that hisop was a symbol of
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And it was a symbol that of
cleanliness is a symbol of

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completion.
It it it's a symbol that is paid

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in full that that Jesus has
wiped away every one of our

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sins.
And after this happens, the very

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next verse of what Jesus said
when he received the drink that

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Jesus said what help me out.
It is it is finished.

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And this word in Greek is to
tell us I and what's really

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amazing, if you, if you look at
the word, it means this, it

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means paid in full.
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It's the last prophecy.
And they said it is finished to

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tell us die and the debt of our
sin has received full payment.

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The check is cleared, Amen.
Jesus did what we could never do

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for ourselves.
We said it is finished.

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What is he talking about?
He's saying that sin is

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finished, Amen.
That that was that was the, that

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was the beginning of the end.
Like there's no more power sin

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that he is rolled away to shame,
Amen.

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Combination is finished.
The curse is broken.

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It is amazing to me that that
sin entered the world because of

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a tree of fruit and that sin
would exit the world because of

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man that's hung on the tree.
It's amazing to think about and

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there's so many parallels.
I can't even get into Abraham

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and Isaac.
I can't even get in the very

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fact of all the pictures that
that that Abraham would believe

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that God could raise his son
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And it's just a few 100 meters
away on Mount Moriah where Isaac

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would have been sacrificed,
where Jesus was sacrificed.

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It's just amazing to me like
what God has put together.

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He says it is finished.
Very next version would have

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been almost the same breath.
Jesus called out a loud voice,

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Father, into your hands I commit
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When he said this, he breathed
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There's another version of the
gospel where he says he moaned

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loudly and he gave up his last
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This is how Jesus died on the
cross and this earthquake

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happened and the earth shook.
Creation itself has been

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groaning for the resurrection
and power of Jesus replied back

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with the earth shaking.
And then the temple, there's a

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big curtain, it's taller than
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It's 60 foot high, it's 3 foot
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And it separates the the holy of
holies from the rest of the

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temple.
And the only person who can go

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back there is a perfectly
righteous person which limits it

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down very quickly.
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Once a year they tie a rope
around his waist and he'd go in.

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And if he had any sin in his
heart, in his life at all, he

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just dropped dead in the moment
in the presence of God.

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And what happened when Jesus
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And he said it is finished and
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The temple curtain was torn from
top to bottom, straight down the

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middle.
And I believe, and I mean this

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is speculation, so I'll give it
to that.

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Bodies believe as Jesus on that
cross.

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And Jesus fulfilled every part
of these prophecies and he made

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away, He took away sin that the
Father took the top of the curve

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and he is tore in half because
the presence of God is no longer

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contained for perfect people
that can show up in his

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presence.
But now because Jesus made a

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way, he took imperfect people
and gave him this righteousness

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so that the presence and power
and provision of God can go out

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to all humanity.
That's what the Father did.

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That's Easter, baby.
That's the power of God.

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That's a resurrection of Christ.
That's what we celebrate every

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single Sunday.
Verse 24, on the first day of

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the week, this is Sunday, very,
very early in the morning, the

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women took the spices they
prepared and went to the tomb.

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They couldn't go on Saturday.
It was a Sabbath.

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But as soon as they could, they
win.

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And the NBA give this morning to
the sunrise a little bit.

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My first hour, my first 830 crew
was like, yeah, 10:00 is like,

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no, I pulled in this parking lot
and the sun was coming up and I

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was like, man, he is risen.
Amen.

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I'm pretty sure those women,
women were there before the sun

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rose that day.
It's fast.

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They get there.
They found the stone rolled away

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from the tomb.
When they entered, they found

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the body, Did not find the body,
Lord Jesus.

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And when they were wondering
what is going on, they couldn't

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fathom, suddenly two men in
clothes that gleamed like

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lightning stood beside them.
These are angels and in their

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fright the women bow down their
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But the men said to them, look
at this, Why do you look for the

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living among the dead?
He is not here.

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He has risen.
Amen.

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They had no idea what's going
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They were, they were wondering
like what is still to make sense

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to them.
And this Angel, look at the next

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word.
Remember how he told you This

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Angel is actually going to quote
Jesus.

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This is in red letters.
The Angel is going to quote what

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Jesus already said to them years
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He's going to say the Son of
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There's a quote must be
delivered over the hands of

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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.

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00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,160
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771
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,040
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