1
00:00:03,770 --> 00:00:06,723
Luke seven 1117.

2
00:00:06,723 --> 00:00:09,592
Soon afterward,
he went to a town called main,

3
00:00:09,592 --> 00:00:12,145
and his disciples
and a great crowd went with him.

4
00:00:12,145 --> 00:00:16,199
As he drew near to the gate of the town,
behold, a man who had died

5
00:00:16,199 --> 00:00:17,634
was being carried out.

6
00:00:17,634 --> 00:00:20,420
The only son of his mother,
and she was a widow,

7
00:00:20,420 --> 00:00:23,306
and a considerable crowd from
the town was with her.

8
00:00:23,306 --> 00:00:26,793
And when the Lord saw her,
he had compassion on her, and said to her,

9
00:00:27,410 --> 00:00:29,029
do not weep.

10
00:00:29,029 --> 00:00:31,581
And then he came up and touched the buyer.

11
00:00:31,581 --> 00:00:33,800
And the bear stood still.

12
00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:38,154
And he said, young man,
I say to you, arise.

13
00:00:38,905 --> 00:00:41,808
And the dead man sat up
and began to speak.

14
00:00:41,808 --> 00:00:44,094
And Jesus gave him to his mother.

15
00:00:44,094 --> 00:00:47,363
Fear seized them all,
and they glorified God, saying,

16
00:00:47,814 --> 00:00:52,218
A great prophet has arisen among us,
and God has visited his people.

17
00:00:53,002 --> 00:00:56,005
And this report about him
spread through the whole of Judea

18
00:00:56,156 --> 00:00:57,557
and all the surrounding country.

19
00:01:00,593 --> 00:01:03,546
Everybody, good morning
and welcome to Christ Community Chapel.

20
00:01:03,546 --> 00:01:05,965
So, so, so glad you're here.

21
00:01:05,965 --> 00:01:09,502
I haven't told you this in a while,
so I want to tell you this today

22
00:01:09,502 --> 00:01:10,470
that I love you guys.

23
00:01:10,470 --> 00:01:13,790
I love being a part of this church.

24
00:01:13,790 --> 00:01:16,793
And, all that's going on,

25
00:01:17,210 --> 00:01:20,663
if you were here and you watched
the priest service video, you're in.

26
00:01:20,663 --> 00:01:23,233
Zack, talk about commitment. Night.

27
00:01:23,233 --> 00:01:26,402
Now, you guys came
and you brought your commitments, and.

28
00:01:26,486 --> 00:01:28,021
But you also wrote the names

29
00:01:28,021 --> 00:01:31,758
of people up here on the cement
where the carpet's been pulled away.

30
00:01:32,208 --> 00:01:35,428
And I just want you to know
that this is, baptism weekend.

31
00:01:35,428 --> 00:01:38,631
And on Thursday night, a man was baptized
whose name

32
00:01:38,631 --> 00:01:42,168
was written on the floor over in East Hall
when we replaced that carpet.

33
00:01:42,469 --> 00:01:43,169
How cool is that?

34
00:01:46,890 --> 00:01:49,259
And his neighbor, who started inviting him
to church,

35
00:01:49,259 --> 00:01:53,279
was able to walk him over there and say,
your name is right underneath, right here.

36
00:01:53,396 --> 00:01:53,730
Right.

37
00:01:53,730 --> 00:01:56,733
We want that to happen hundreds of times,

38
00:01:57,383 --> 00:01:59,819
because of what we're doing
with Every Minute Matters.

39
00:01:59,819 --> 00:02:02,822
So very cool. Don't miss,
celebration night.

40
00:02:02,922 --> 00:02:07,343
I got to tell you two, Thursday night had
a five year old little boy come up to me.

41
00:02:07,343 --> 00:02:10,346
His name is Elijah, and he gave me this.

42
00:02:10,763 --> 00:02:11,948
It's,

43
00:02:11,948 --> 00:02:15,301
a dollar bill,
four quarters in two pennies.

44
00:02:16,136 --> 00:02:18,571
And. Yeah, let's go. Yeah.

45
00:02:18,571 --> 00:02:21,508
I asked him what that was was for,
and he said for the building,

46
00:02:21,508 --> 00:02:24,978
which I assume he wants me to apply it
to the indoor playground.

47
00:02:25,044 --> 00:02:28,047
So we're going to do that.

48
00:02:28,248 --> 00:02:29,449
Don't miss celebration night.

49
00:02:29,449 --> 00:02:32,118
It's going to be
a blast tonight. All right.

50
00:02:33,303 --> 00:02:34,771
Okay.

51
00:02:34,771 --> 00:02:37,974
Jesus has a lot of things
that he's the son of God.

52
00:02:37,974 --> 00:02:40,977
He's, miracle worker, teacher,

53
00:02:41,394 --> 00:02:43,313
rightful king.

54
00:02:43,313 --> 00:02:45,532
But, of all the things that Jesus

55
00:02:45,532 --> 00:02:48,535
is the most important thing he has for us

56
00:02:48,768 --> 00:02:50,270
is Redeemer.

57
00:02:50,270 --> 00:02:53,456
He is the only one who can deliver us,

58
00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,492
who can forgive us,

59
00:02:56,492 --> 00:02:59,729
who can save us, who can set us free.

60
00:03:00,413 --> 00:03:03,233
Which is why we're spending ten weeks
looking,

61
00:03:03,233 --> 00:03:06,002
in the Gospel of Luke, Jesus the Redeemer.

62
00:03:06,002 --> 00:03:08,304
And today we're in Luke chapter seven.

63
00:03:08,304 --> 00:03:10,139
So if you have your Bibles,
you can turn there.

64
00:03:10,139 --> 00:03:12,358
You can wait for it
to come up on the screen.

65
00:03:12,358 --> 00:03:13,526
You can pull it up on your phone.

66
00:03:13,526 --> 00:03:16,529
If you're going to use one of our Bibles,
it's on page

67
00:03:16,563 --> 00:03:19,349
eight, 11, page 11.

68
00:03:19,349 --> 00:03:22,669
And my, my outline
for this passage is very simple,

69
00:03:22,669 --> 00:03:25,822
but I think the truths are very profound.

70
00:03:26,272 --> 00:03:28,041
And here are my three points.

71
00:03:28,041 --> 00:03:31,277
I just want to talk about what Jesus sees,

72
00:03:32,011 --> 00:03:35,448
what Jesus feels, and what Jesus does.

73
00:03:36,032 --> 00:03:36,599
That's it.

74
00:03:36,599 --> 00:03:40,286
What Jesus sees, what
Jesus feels, what Jesus does.

75
00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,438
It's, seven verses.

76
00:03:42,438 --> 00:03:44,424
Let me read it again.
So it's fresh in your mind.

77
00:03:44,424 --> 00:03:45,808
Then we'll talk about it. This is what,

78
00:03:46,976 --> 00:03:48,978
Luke says soon afterward,

79
00:03:48,978 --> 00:03:51,981
he, being Jesus,
went to a town called Nain,

80
00:03:52,282 --> 00:03:55,218
and his disciples in a great
crowd went with him.

81
00:03:55,218 --> 00:03:58,922
As he drew near to the gate of the town,
behold, a man who had died

82
00:03:58,922 --> 00:04:02,308
was being carried out, the only son
of his mother, and she was a widow.

83
00:04:02,909 --> 00:04:06,446
And a considerable considerable
crowd from the town was with her.

84
00:04:07,196 --> 00:04:11,517
And when the Lord saw her,
he had compassion on her, and said to her,

85
00:04:11,517 --> 00:04:12,835
do not weep.

86
00:04:12,835 --> 00:04:16,940
Then he came up and touched the beer,
and the bear stood still.

87
00:04:17,156 --> 00:04:20,159
And he said, young man,
I say to you, arise.

88
00:04:20,159 --> 00:04:22,262
And the dead man sat up
and began to speak.

89
00:04:22,262 --> 00:04:24,681
And Jesus gave him to his mother.

90
00:04:24,681 --> 00:04:25,982
Fear sees them all.

91
00:04:25,982 --> 00:04:29,252
And they glorified God, saying,
A great prophet has arisen

92
00:04:29,252 --> 00:04:32,238
among us, and God has visited his people.

93
00:04:32,238 --> 00:04:34,590
And this report about him spread

94
00:04:34,590 --> 00:04:38,328
through the whole of Judea
and all the surrounding country.

95
00:04:39,512 --> 00:04:40,346
I think

96
00:04:40,346 --> 00:04:43,466
there are some stories in the Gospels
about Jesus that,

97
00:04:44,100 --> 00:04:47,820
strike me as being almost comically brief.

98
00:04:48,988 --> 00:04:51,591
What I mean is that Jesus raises

99
00:04:51,591 --> 00:04:55,728
somebody from the dead,
and and Luke gives it all of seven verses.

100
00:04:56,546 --> 00:05:01,167
I just think if, if sometime in my career,
I stopped a funeral procession

101
00:05:01,434 --> 00:05:06,139
and I raised somebody from the dead,
and you were writing a biography about me,

102
00:05:06,139 --> 00:05:09,142
I think that event would merit
at least a whole chapter.

103
00:05:09,409 --> 00:05:11,661
Hey, can I just say that?

104
00:05:11,661 --> 00:05:13,730
And the reason
I want to point out a couple of things.

105
00:05:13,730 --> 00:05:18,167
One is, in the Gospel of John,
John at the very end says, Jesus

106
00:05:18,167 --> 00:05:23,323
did a lot of things, and of all the things
that Jesus did were all written down.

107
00:05:23,339 --> 00:05:27,443
He said, I suppose all the books in
the world could not contain it.

108
00:05:27,443 --> 00:05:29,846
That's why some stories are so brief.

109
00:05:29,846 --> 00:05:34,400
But when you take such an amazing event
and you make it so brief,

110
00:05:34,701 --> 00:05:37,704
we should probably pay attention
to the details.

111
00:05:37,937 --> 00:05:42,241
So in this story, in verse
11, we're told that Jesus

112
00:05:42,241 --> 00:05:47,430
was coming into this little town of Nain
and there was a great crowd with him.

113
00:05:47,814 --> 00:05:50,817
I don't know when the last time
you were in a big crowd was,

114
00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,753
but whenever I'm in a big crowd, there are
a couple things that are happening.

115
00:05:53,753 --> 00:05:55,471
I'm I'm looking at the person
in front of me.

116
00:05:55,471 --> 00:05:58,858
Usually I'm looking down
because I don't want to hit their feet.

117
00:05:58,858 --> 00:06:02,178
I'm trying to stay at the same speed
of the rest of the crowd,

118
00:06:02,178 --> 00:06:05,898
because I don't want somebody coming up
and hitting me in the back, right?

119
00:06:05,898 --> 00:06:08,901
I'm trying to get where I'm going
so I can stop being,

120
00:06:09,485 --> 00:06:11,187
you know, in the midst of a crowd.

121
00:06:11,187 --> 00:06:13,039
That's the kind of crowd that Jesus is in.

122
00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,075
And then he looks up

123
00:06:16,075 --> 00:06:19,078
and he sees a funeral procession.

124
00:06:19,228 --> 00:06:22,014
And, verse 12 actually gives us

125
00:06:22,014 --> 00:06:25,201
a lot of details
about that funeral procession.

126
00:06:25,201 --> 00:06:28,521
We know that, that the, the main mourner,

127
00:06:28,521 --> 00:06:32,341
the only real mourner was a woman.

128
00:06:33,509 --> 00:06:36,863
And the man who was being buried,

129
00:06:36,863 --> 00:06:42,318
who had died was her only son,
and she had already lost her husband

130
00:06:42,318 --> 00:06:45,321
because it says she was a widow.

131
00:06:46,105 --> 00:06:47,507
Now, you're probably like me.

132
00:06:47,507 --> 00:06:49,642
You've seen a lot of funeral processions.

133
00:06:49,642 --> 00:06:52,945
You come up to a traffic light,
there's a police car that's turned

134
00:06:52,945 --> 00:06:56,816
kind of diagonally with the lights on,
and you see a long row of cars,

135
00:06:56,816 --> 00:06:59,569
each with their headlights on.
And that's how you know.

136
00:06:59,569 --> 00:07:03,623
And when I've seen that, you know,
I wonder who the person might be,

137
00:07:03,873 --> 00:07:06,859
particularly
if there are signs that it might have been

138
00:07:06,893 --> 00:07:09,896
a really important person here.

139
00:07:09,896 --> 00:07:11,931
Jesus finds out the details.

140
00:07:13,282 --> 00:07:15,301
I don't know what my guess is.

141
00:07:15,301 --> 00:07:17,670
He asked somebody

142
00:07:17,670 --> 00:07:21,057
and they told him, all right,
so so he knows

143
00:07:22,308 --> 00:07:24,861
that this is a mom

144
00:07:24,861 --> 00:07:27,864
who's lost her only son, who's a widow,

145
00:07:28,247 --> 00:07:31,250
which of course,
put her in a terrible place

146
00:07:31,467 --> 00:07:34,887
because by losing her husband
and now losing her only son,

147
00:07:34,887 --> 00:07:37,940
she has lost all of her support

148
00:07:39,091 --> 00:07:41,878
and all of her security.

149
00:07:41,878 --> 00:07:46,232
She is now completely alone in the world.

150
00:07:47,066 --> 00:07:49,852
And Jesus sees

151
00:07:49,852 --> 00:07:52,855
hard son.

152
00:07:53,005 --> 00:07:54,357
Do you know how wonderful

153
00:07:54,357 --> 00:07:58,344
those three words are to that woman,

154
00:07:59,662 --> 00:08:01,280
to you?

155
00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,283
That Jesus, in the midst of a crowd,

156
00:08:04,767 --> 00:08:07,770
looks over and sees this woman

157
00:08:08,371 --> 00:08:11,357
who is in the worst place, who

158
00:08:11,574 --> 00:08:14,911
who has lost her husband, lost her son,

159
00:08:16,646 --> 00:08:18,714
and he sees her

160
00:08:18,714 --> 00:08:20,750
because sometimes in the midst of a crowd

161
00:08:20,750 --> 00:08:23,753
and she's in a crowd, two
you can feel the most alone.

162
00:08:24,170 --> 00:08:25,588
And that could be you.

163
00:08:25,588 --> 00:08:27,290
Like, right here in this crowd.

164
00:08:28,741 --> 00:08:30,142
And if you are here and

165
00:08:30,142 --> 00:08:33,145
you feel alone or in pain,

166
00:08:34,881 --> 00:08:37,667
can I tell you something wonderful,

167
00:08:37,667 --> 00:08:40,319
something amazing?

168
00:08:40,319 --> 00:08:42,321
Jesus sees.

169
00:08:42,321 --> 00:08:43,890
He sees you.

170
00:08:43,890 --> 00:08:48,110
And not just that he sees the detail,
the unique details

171
00:08:48,110 --> 00:08:51,347
of your particular situation,

172
00:08:52,014 --> 00:08:55,017
of your pain, of your in aloneness.

173
00:08:55,952 --> 00:08:57,537
That's the first thing.

174
00:08:57,537 --> 00:08:59,005
That's what Jesus sees.

175
00:08:59,005 --> 00:09:01,140
But he doesn't just stop at sin.

176
00:09:01,140 --> 00:09:04,143
The second point is what Jesus feels.

177
00:09:04,727 --> 00:09:07,430
You know,
when I was doing my doctoral studies,

178
00:09:07,430 --> 00:09:10,499
I remember
writing a paper on comparative religions.

179
00:09:10,499 --> 00:09:13,502
And so I did do some research
into Buddhism.

180
00:09:13,886 --> 00:09:16,923
And Buddhism began
with a man named Siddartha.

181
00:09:16,923 --> 00:09:19,792
He became known as Siddartha Buddha.

182
00:09:19,792 --> 00:09:23,729
But when he was a young man,
he was very sheltered.

183
00:09:23,729 --> 00:09:25,464
His father was very, very wealthy.

184
00:09:25,464 --> 00:09:26,899
His father decided

185
00:09:26,899 --> 00:09:30,836
that he didn't want his son
exposed to any pain or suffering or death.

186
00:09:30,836 --> 00:09:33,172
So he raised him in a bubble.

187
00:09:33,172 --> 00:09:35,575
And instead Martha,
when he was a young man, ventured

188
00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:40,112
outside the bubble
and was stunned by what he saw

189
00:09:40,947 --> 00:09:44,417
and all the suffering and all the pain
and the death.

190
00:09:45,084 --> 00:09:47,486
And Buddhism was really developed

191
00:09:47,486 --> 00:09:51,357
by Siddartha to to deal with the pain
and suffering of the world.

192
00:09:51,357 --> 00:09:56,696
And the way he did it was that he
he felt like your pain and your suffering

193
00:09:56,696 --> 00:10:01,951
was connected to whatever
your desires were, your attachment was.

194
00:10:01,951 --> 00:10:07,223
And so what he would say is, what you
don't want to get attached to anything.

195
00:10:07,857 --> 00:10:10,293
Because of course,
if you're not attached to anything,

196
00:10:10,293 --> 00:10:14,664
it won't hurt so badly
when you lose everything.

197
00:10:15,531 --> 00:10:17,033
And of course, that makes sense.

198
00:10:17,033 --> 00:10:18,951
It's a little bit
like cutting the nerve endings,

199
00:10:20,519 --> 00:10:23,222
but as a philosophy
to deal with pain and suffering,

200
00:10:23,222 --> 00:10:27,593
it could not be further away
from Christianity and Jesus,

201
00:10:27,593 --> 00:10:32,632
because in verse 13, what this says is
when Jesus saw this woman

202
00:10:33,332 --> 00:10:36,502
who was mourning,
he had compassion on her.

203
00:10:36,502 --> 00:10:39,805
That's a very,
very strong word in the original language.

204
00:10:40,039 --> 00:10:42,958
It means to feel pain to such an extent

205
00:10:42,958 --> 00:10:45,961
that it implies attacks you physically.

206
00:10:46,078 --> 00:10:47,546
And that's what Jesus did.

207
00:10:47,546 --> 00:10:51,150
And when I say Buddhism couldn't
be further away from Christianity,

208
00:10:51,150 --> 00:10:54,503
or Buddha further away from Jesus,
what I mean is that if

209
00:10:55,104 --> 00:10:58,741
if Siddartha Buddha
could sit with that woman,

210
00:10:59,575 --> 00:11:02,028
he would have sat in complete serenity

211
00:11:02,028 --> 00:11:05,031
and peace and told her she was in agony

212
00:11:05,698 --> 00:11:09,001
because she was too attached to her son

213
00:11:09,385 --> 00:11:12,722
and probably too
attached to her late husband.

214
00:11:14,006 --> 00:11:16,008
But Jesus

215
00:11:16,008 --> 00:11:18,861
would sit with that woman

216
00:11:18,861 --> 00:11:22,048
and he would feel her pain.

217
00:11:23,549 --> 00:11:26,969
He would experience pain with her

218
00:11:28,070 --> 00:11:30,022
and for her. You.

219
00:11:30,022 --> 00:11:33,893
Whenever I'm talking to somebody
who is struggling with Christianity

220
00:11:33,893 --> 00:11:35,544
or with God,

221
00:11:35,544 --> 00:11:38,547
because of all the pain
and the suffering in the world, I always

222
00:11:38,664 --> 00:11:43,269
try to see them first, because that's
never just a philosophical question.

223
00:11:43,269 --> 00:11:46,405
If somebody says,
I just can't believe that God exists

224
00:11:46,405 --> 00:11:50,009
when there's so much pain and suffering,
that's a personal thing.

225
00:11:50,009 --> 00:11:53,162
They've been through pain and suffering,

226
00:11:54,213 --> 00:11:56,932
but I always end up telling him
that Christianity is different

227
00:11:56,932 --> 00:11:59,101
than all the other religions in the world,

228
00:11:59,101 --> 00:12:02,605
because there's no other religion
in the world that even remotely suggest

229
00:12:03,205 --> 00:12:06,926
that God cares so much about the pain
and suffering of this world

230
00:12:06,926 --> 00:12:08,577
that he was willing to enter into it

231
00:12:09,895 --> 00:12:12,898
and actually feel it.

232
00:12:13,315 --> 00:12:15,568
But that's what Jesus does.

233
00:12:15,568 --> 00:12:18,738
If you've ever been in pain,
you know the difference between sympathy

234
00:12:18,888 --> 00:12:20,423
and compassion.

235
00:12:20,423 --> 00:12:23,008
Sympathy is something
somebody can feel from a distance.

236
00:12:23,008 --> 00:12:27,363
But compassion, you have to be up close
because the word itself

237
00:12:27,363 --> 00:12:31,050
means to to feel with someone.

238
00:12:31,617 --> 00:12:34,620
And that's what Jesus does here.

239
00:12:34,887 --> 00:12:36,722
In many ways, this story is a

240
00:12:36,722 --> 00:12:40,009
harbinger of what is to come, right?

241
00:12:40,042 --> 00:12:43,162
That Jesus here is feeling

242
00:12:43,162 --> 00:12:46,165
the pain of this woman.

243
00:12:46,649 --> 00:12:50,469
He's feeling the pain for this woman.

244
00:12:50,486 --> 00:12:53,305
This is chapter seven.

245
00:12:53,305 --> 00:12:56,308
In Luke chapter 23, Jesus will be hanging

246
00:12:56,542 --> 00:12:59,462
on a cross experiencing pain.

247
00:12:59,462 --> 00:13:01,831
That should be my pain.

248
00:13:01,831 --> 00:13:04,817
Pain that should be your pain.

249
00:13:05,251 --> 00:13:08,487
One of those wonderful things about
Jesus is

250
00:13:08,487 --> 00:13:11,490
his teaching is so connected

251
00:13:11,757 --> 00:13:14,360
to how he lived and what he did

252
00:13:15,411 --> 00:13:15,561
right.

253
00:13:15,561 --> 00:13:20,733
So this story is pointing us toward that.

254
00:13:22,051 --> 00:13:26,155
Jesus feels compassion for this woman,

255
00:13:27,439 --> 00:13:30,442
and he is filled with that.

256
00:13:30,693 --> 00:13:32,061
All right.

257
00:13:32,061 --> 00:13:35,481
So, Jesus, you know, in some ways,
this story, maybe as much

258
00:13:35,481 --> 00:13:38,751
as any other story in the Bible,
is a glimpse into Jesus heart.

259
00:13:40,069 --> 00:13:43,489
Because, you know, for me, the busier I am

260
00:13:44,006 --> 00:13:48,711
are the the less I pay attention
to what anybody else is going through.

261
00:13:48,744 --> 00:13:50,663
Maybe you're like that.

262
00:13:50,663 --> 00:13:52,998
I wouldn't want to compare my busiest day

263
00:13:52,998 --> 00:13:57,469
to Jesus average day,
but here he's in this huge crowd.

264
00:13:57,469 --> 00:13:59,221
They're all trying
to get something from him.

265
00:13:59,221 --> 00:14:03,142
They're pushing him to a place
where probably he has to teach them.

266
00:14:04,193 --> 00:14:07,129
And still he sees this woman,

267
00:14:07,129 --> 00:14:09,632
this woman who was once

268
00:14:09,632 --> 00:14:13,435
a wife
and is no longer wife, was once a mother,

269
00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:16,822
is no longer a mother.

270
00:14:16,822 --> 00:14:19,825
And his heart breaks for her.

271
00:14:19,909 --> 00:14:22,194
That's what Jesus feels.

272
00:14:22,194 --> 00:14:24,747
So Jesus sees what Jesus feels.

273
00:14:24,747 --> 00:14:28,584
Finally, what Jesus does
this is verses 14 through 17.

274
00:14:29,218 --> 00:14:31,737
It says, then he came up and touched

275
00:14:31,737 --> 00:14:34,490
the beer, and the hearers stood still.

276
00:14:34,490 --> 00:14:35,424
The bear stood still.

277
00:14:35,424 --> 00:14:37,910
And he said, young man,
I say to you, arise.

278
00:14:37,910 --> 00:14:40,613
And the dead man sat up
and began to speak.

279
00:14:40,613 --> 00:14:42,798
And Jesus gave him to his mother.

280
00:14:42,798 --> 00:14:43,916
Fear sees them all.

281
00:14:43,916 --> 00:14:47,870
And they glorified God, saying,
A great prophet has risen among us,

282
00:14:48,137 --> 00:14:50,122
and God has visited his people.

283
00:14:50,122 --> 00:14:53,275
And this report about him
spread through the whole of Judea

284
00:14:53,692 --> 00:14:56,695
and all the surrounding country.

285
00:14:57,229 --> 00:15:01,317
So Jesus starts
to make his way over to the funeral,

286
00:15:02,334 --> 00:15:06,021
and people are craning their necks
to see what he's going to do

287
00:15:06,055 --> 00:15:06,839
because they don't know.

288
00:15:07,973 --> 00:15:08,757
And then all of a

289
00:15:08,757 --> 00:15:12,628
sudden there's
this there's this wave of fear

290
00:15:12,628 --> 00:15:16,582
that ripples throughout the people
when they see this man sit up.

291
00:15:16,982 --> 00:15:20,452
You know that what the Scripture says
is that fear sees them.

292
00:15:20,452 --> 00:15:22,671
And even that's an interesting phrase.

293
00:15:22,671 --> 00:15:25,674
It means that there was power
that was unleashed,

294
00:15:25,741 --> 00:15:28,727
that made them feel undone,

295
00:15:29,511 --> 00:15:33,382
and that power was unleashed by Jesus.

296
00:15:34,350 --> 00:15:37,353
And that power actually

297
00:15:37,436 --> 00:15:41,790
changed the flow of nature
in at least three ways.

298
00:15:42,708 --> 00:15:46,228
The first
is the flow from clean to unclean.

299
00:15:46,979 --> 00:15:49,398
Like I told you that

300
00:15:49,398 --> 00:15:53,302
when a story is this brief,
you should pay attention to the details.

301
00:15:53,702 --> 00:15:57,056
And in verse 14,
right at the beginning it says,

302
00:15:57,923 --> 00:16:00,292
Then he came up and touched the beer.

303
00:16:00,292 --> 00:16:03,963
A beer was up
is the plank that the body was laying on.

304
00:16:04,530 --> 00:16:05,898
And it's interesting that Luke would

305
00:16:06,932 --> 00:16:09,752
include the detail that Jesus touched it,

306
00:16:09,752 --> 00:16:12,838
but that's a detail that's included
in a lot of stories about Jesus.

307
00:16:13,522 --> 00:16:18,077
And in Luke chapter four,
he's in the town of Capernaum.

308
00:16:18,510 --> 00:16:21,263
And it says, this night
where the sun was setting, all those

309
00:16:21,263 --> 00:16:25,367
who had any who were sick
with various diseases brought them to him.

310
00:16:25,768 --> 00:16:29,388
And he laid his hands on every one of them
and healed them.

311
00:16:30,205 --> 00:16:33,242
And Luke, chapter five
A leper comes up to Jesus and says,

312
00:16:33,242 --> 00:16:35,511
if you're willing, you can make me clean.

313
00:16:35,511 --> 00:16:36,895
Jesus says, I'm willing.

314
00:16:36,895 --> 00:16:40,249
Then Scripture says, he reached out
and he touched him.

315
00:16:41,517 --> 00:16:43,552
Reason that's so important is whenever you

316
00:16:43,552 --> 00:16:46,288
you touch someone who's sick,

317
00:16:46,288 --> 00:16:49,291
you risk getting sick yourself

318
00:16:49,525 --> 00:16:52,378
because that's the way things move.

319
00:16:52,378 --> 00:16:56,432
Like if you have multiple children
and one of your kids comes home sick,

320
00:16:56,582 --> 00:17:00,803
you can just count
on all the rest of the kids getting sick

321
00:17:01,286 --> 00:17:04,289
because that's the way things
flow in our world.

322
00:17:04,590 --> 00:17:05,541
It never flows the other way.

323
00:17:05,541 --> 00:17:09,812
I can't be so healthy
that when you come up to me and you're

324
00:17:09,812 --> 00:17:14,717
sick, my health overwhelms
your sickness and makes you well, right?

325
00:17:15,167 --> 00:17:16,885
Because our world doesn't work like that.

326
00:17:18,570 --> 00:17:19,254
The reason that

327
00:17:19,254 --> 00:17:24,259
Luke includes that detail, that Jesus
reached out and touch in that culture,

328
00:17:24,259 --> 00:17:27,262
that everybody would, would have gasped

329
00:17:27,513 --> 00:17:30,232
because that would have made him unclean.

330
00:17:30,232 --> 00:17:34,019
Because uncleanness
only goes in one direction.

331
00:17:35,070 --> 00:17:35,687
You have to.

332
00:17:35,687 --> 00:17:38,690
If something unclean touches you,

333
00:17:38,807 --> 00:17:41,727
then you become unclean.

334
00:17:41,727 --> 00:17:45,064
But Jesus touches the funeral, the earth,

335
00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:49,818
the reason that Jesus touches the leper,
why he touches all the sick people,

336
00:17:50,636 --> 00:17:54,690
is that he's showing everybody
that he has the authority and the power

337
00:17:55,441 --> 00:17:58,794
to change the unclean, to clean

338
00:18:00,028 --> 00:18:02,147
with the touch.

339
00:18:02,147 --> 00:18:04,800
That's the first flow that he changes.

340
00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:09,238
The second flow is from joy to sadness,

341
00:18:09,922 --> 00:18:14,343
from overwhelming joy
to the depths of grief.

342
00:18:14,843 --> 00:18:18,147
If you could take human emotion,
if it's a 100 point scale

343
00:18:18,330 --> 00:18:22,017
and 100 is the most joy for a human
being can be,

344
00:18:22,017 --> 00:18:26,488
and one is the deepest sadness
someone can experience,

345
00:18:26,755 --> 00:18:31,176
that woman was very close to a one,
and it's there.

346
00:18:31,527 --> 00:18:36,431
It's a very rare thing
for somebody to go from 1 to 100 here.

347
00:18:36,598 --> 00:18:40,352
This woman is walking with this,

348
00:18:40,819 --> 00:18:45,240
her deceased only son, and she is thinking

349
00:18:45,657 --> 00:18:49,578
she can never imagine
smiling again, let alone laughing again.

350
00:18:49,578 --> 00:18:54,900
And in a moment
she is filled with overwhelming joy.

351
00:18:55,017 --> 00:18:58,137
That's the power of a redeemer.

352
00:18:58,854 --> 00:19:01,940
Can you imagine
what that must have been like?

353
00:19:02,541 --> 00:19:04,743
You're, talking in Lord of the rings?

354
00:19:04,743 --> 00:19:09,031
Has one of the characters say, well,
all sad things come untrue.

355
00:19:09,031 --> 00:19:12,050
It's one of my favorite
lines in that whole book.

356
00:19:13,352 --> 00:19:15,437
And here Jesus makes

357
00:19:15,437 --> 00:19:19,007
the saddest thing in this woman's life
come untrue.

358
00:19:19,308 --> 00:19:21,593
And she is filled with joy.

359
00:19:21,593 --> 00:19:24,930
And that flow changes
because of the Redeemer.

360
00:19:25,647 --> 00:19:29,451
And finally the flow from death to life.

361
00:19:30,185 --> 00:19:30,385
Right?

362
00:19:30,385 --> 00:19:32,688
That Jesus is.

363
00:19:32,688 --> 00:19:35,691
He comes and he is going to undo,

364
00:19:36,391 --> 00:19:40,796
all the damage
that sin has wreaked on our world.

365
00:19:41,430 --> 00:19:47,119
And here death is our final enemy
and Jesus takes death.

366
00:19:47,402 --> 00:19:52,407
And for this young man makes it
nothing more than a peaceful nap.

367
00:19:53,542 --> 00:19:54,293
Right?

368
00:19:54,293 --> 00:19:57,229
This is what I want you to see.

369
00:19:57,229 --> 00:20:00,415
That this is the gospel in seven verses.

370
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,051
Do you see that?

371
00:20:03,051 --> 00:20:06,388
That Jesus comes and he sees you?

372
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,102
Okay, there we go.

373
00:20:20,102 --> 00:20:23,088
We are quick.

374
00:20:24,356 --> 00:20:27,242
It's the gospel in seven verses, right?

375
00:20:27,242 --> 00:20:31,530
Jesus sees you
in your particular circumstance.

376
00:20:32,214 --> 00:20:35,150
Whatever is going on with you,
your sadness, your brokenness.

377
00:20:35,150 --> 00:20:36,418
But more than that,

378
00:20:37,619 --> 00:20:40,822
your sin, your guilt, your shame,

379
00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,493
and instead of being indifferent,

380
00:20:44,493 --> 00:20:48,497
instead of being repulsed,
Jesus is filled with compassion.

381
00:20:48,497 --> 00:20:54,353
That's Romans five eight,
but God demonstrates his love toward you,

382
00:20:54,353 --> 00:20:57,889
that while you were still a sinner,
Christ died for you.

383
00:20:58,557 --> 00:21:02,544
And Jesus, filled with compassion
and with a single touch,

384
00:21:02,544 --> 00:21:05,547
he he changes your uncleanness

385
00:21:06,682 --> 00:21:09,451
to clean.

386
00:21:09,451 --> 00:21:11,153
Your sin and your guilt.

387
00:21:11,153 --> 00:21:12,688
He takes on himself.

388
00:21:12,688 --> 00:21:15,691
So you are set free.

389
00:21:15,958 --> 00:21:19,494
He promises to take every sad thing,
all of it,

390
00:21:20,629 --> 00:21:22,497
and one day make it untrue.

391
00:21:22,497 --> 00:21:25,100
So you are filled

392
00:21:25,100 --> 00:21:29,905
with joy and to take death itself for you

393
00:21:31,223 --> 00:21:33,025
and make it

394
00:21:33,025 --> 00:21:35,694
the most glorious beginning,

395
00:21:35,694 --> 00:21:38,430
not an end, but a beginning.

396
00:21:38,430 --> 00:21:45,087
So great is the power of Jesus,
your Redeemer.

397
00:21:45,737 --> 00:21:46,555
Would you pray with me?

398
00:21:48,740 --> 00:21:50,309
Our father in heaven.

399
00:21:50,309 --> 00:21:53,128
I love that there are,

400
00:21:53,128 --> 00:21:57,599
more and more stories
that we will one day, here

401
00:21:57,599 --> 00:22:02,004
in heaven about all that
Jesus did when he was here on earth.

402
00:22:02,821 --> 00:22:05,807
But I'm so grateful
for the stories that you did include.

403
00:22:06,475 --> 00:22:09,478
I'm grateful for this particular story,

404
00:22:09,895 --> 00:22:12,898
that Jesus would see this woman

405
00:22:13,532 --> 00:22:16,518
in the midst of her alone aloneness.

406
00:22:16,852 --> 00:22:19,788
And that means that Jesus sees us

407
00:22:19,788 --> 00:22:22,791
in the midst of being alone and in pain.

408
00:22:23,358 --> 00:22:26,361
I pray for the people who feel that
right now.

409
00:22:26,845 --> 00:22:29,631
I pray that they would experience,
the love

410
00:22:29,631 --> 00:22:33,235
that Jesus has for them,
but not just his love,

411
00:22:34,286 --> 00:22:36,655
his power as a Redeemer.

412
00:22:36,655 --> 00:22:39,658
And we celebrate that we worship

413
00:22:39,658 --> 00:22:42,661
Jesus
because he is such a wonderful Savior.

414
00:22:43,228 --> 00:22:44,396
Thank you.

415
00:22:44,396 --> 00:22:46,998
We pray this in Jesus name, Amen.