1 00:00:44,033 --> 00:00:45,200 Hey, my friends. 2 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,200 Happy Easter, 3 00:00:49,666 --> 00:00:51,633 It is a good day. 4 00:00:51,633 --> 00:00:52,733 It is a good day. 5 00:00:52,733 --> 00:00:54,400 I'm so happy to be here with you. 6 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,033 Thank you for joining us on this Resurrection Sunday. 7 00:00:58,333 --> 00:01:01,933 Yeah, I know there's a lot of places you could choose to be, but you're here. 8 00:01:01,933 --> 00:01:02,866 I appreciate that. 9 00:01:02,866 --> 00:01:04,500 It's going to be a great time 10 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:07,566 as we continue together looking at the resurrection story. 11 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:10,066 I'm thankful it's not too hot. 12 00:01:10,066 --> 00:01:13,066 We got some fans for you, which is good. 13 00:01:13,866 --> 00:01:16,900 I got my hat on to keep the bald head from getting to read. 14 00:01:17,966 --> 00:01:18,966 But we'll be okay. 15 00:01:18,966 --> 00:01:19,600 We'll be okay. 16 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,800 We're going to go through the book of John and just not the book of Joshua. 17 00:01:22,833 --> 00:01:24,966 Like, I didn't sign up for that. 18 00:01:24,966 --> 00:01:27,166 A chapter in John, chapter 20. 19 00:01:27,166 --> 00:01:29,266 It's about the resurrection story. 20 00:01:29,266 --> 00:01:31,333 But before we get into it, I just want to say 21 00:01:31,333 --> 00:01:35,466 thank you to our flip side team for putting this on there. 22 00:01:35,466 --> 00:01:37,800 So much that went in behind the scenes 23 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:41,933 and everything getting ready for all of us. 24 00:01:41,966 --> 00:01:45,333 I appreciate my team so much and stuff going on with the kids, 25 00:01:45,966 --> 00:01:48,266 and all the different rooms we have. 26 00:01:48,266 --> 00:01:52,400 They just got a great, great, great staff and volunteer team. 27 00:01:52,566 --> 00:01:55,533 And what a great video screen here too, right? 28 00:01:55,533 --> 00:01:57,966 Like, that's a guy in our church named George. 29 00:01:57,966 --> 00:01:58,666 He owns that. 30 00:01:58,666 --> 00:02:00,000 He let us use it today. 31 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,766 And I'm just going to preempt graduation season. 32 00:02:02,766 --> 00:02:05,600 That's a great thing for you to rent from him for all your graduations. 33 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:06,800 Approve. If you love your kids or not. 34 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:08,433 So just kidding. 35 00:02:08,433 --> 00:02:11,433 Just kidding, just kidding. Hey, 36 00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:15,100 I want to draw our attention 37 00:02:15,100 --> 00:02:18,100 to, to a big idea. 38 00:02:18,100 --> 00:02:20,533 And that is this, the resurrection 39 00:02:20,533 --> 00:02:23,066 is not just a historical fact. 40 00:02:23,066 --> 00:02:25,333 It's a personal invitation. 41 00:02:25,333 --> 00:02:27,466 I want you understand that, Tom. 42 00:02:27,466 --> 00:02:30,266 You can follow with me on the screens back there. 43 00:02:30,266 --> 00:02:30,933 Do that. 44 00:02:30,933 --> 00:02:33,633 The resurrection is not just a historical fact. 45 00:02:33,633 --> 00:02:35,566 It is a personal invitation. 46 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:37,666 And I want you to listen 47 00:02:37,666 --> 00:02:40,666 for yours this morning. 48 00:02:41,533 --> 00:02:44,400 Of all the world religions and all the world philosophies, 49 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:49,566 every one of them, except for for every one of the world's religions 50 00:02:49,566 --> 00:02:53,800 and world's philosophies, are built on the teachings of its founder. 51 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,800 Only four are built on the founder themself 52 00:02:58,666 --> 00:03:01,666 and those for Judaism 53 00:03:02,066 --> 00:03:05,533 just built on the founder of it of Abraham 54 00:03:06,066 --> 00:03:09,066 Christianity and its founder Jesus. 55 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:12,700 Buddhism and its founder Buddha 56 00:03:12,733 --> 00:03:15,733 and Islam and its founder Muhammad. 57 00:03:16,100 --> 00:03:21,033 Those are the only four world religions that are built on its founder, 58 00:03:21,033 --> 00:03:25,166 not just the teaching of its founder, and of those for those only one 59 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:29,566 that claims its founder to have died 60 00:03:29,566 --> 00:03:33,100 and risen and is alive today, only one to 61 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:38,833 all the others have never made that claim because they can't make that claim. 62 00:03:39,833 --> 00:03:42,833 Their founder died and stayed married. 63 00:03:43,466 --> 00:03:45,500 Only Jesus. 64 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:48,400 So Christianity is not only unique, 65 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,400 Christianity is singular. 66 00:03:51,733 --> 00:03:54,733 And what sets it apart is what we celebrate this day. 67 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,800 The resurrection. 68 00:03:59,166 --> 00:04:00,133 More. 69 00:04:00,133 --> 00:04:03,133 Every other religion ends at the grave 70 00:04:03,833 --> 00:04:04,700 in Christianity. 71 00:04:04,700 --> 00:04:06,900 Jesus walked out of it. 72 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:09,566 And for the last 2000 years, 73 00:04:09,566 --> 00:04:13,700 his followers, Jesus followers have been gathering on Sunday morning 74 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:17,366 because it is the day of the week that they celebrate this resurrection. 75 00:04:17,666 --> 00:04:20,666 And on this day in particular, 76 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,433 for 2000 years have been celebrating what happened 77 00:04:23,433 --> 00:04:26,433 that we commemorate on this day the empty tomb. 78 00:04:27,733 --> 00:04:29,533 And I want to suggest to you this 79 00:04:29,533 --> 00:04:33,300 that what you see at the empty tomb will determine how you live. 80 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,466 I want you to understand that 81 00:04:37,466 --> 00:04:40,500 what you see at the empty tomb will determine how you live, 82 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,400 as it did for the three that we'll look at in the Gospel of John chapter 20. 83 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,200 Today, there were three people 84 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,533 who were first at the empty tomb, and into what they saw 85 00:04:49,633 --> 00:04:53,633 determine the decisions they made and the course of their life. 86 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,200 The same is true for me and you. 87 00:04:58,200 --> 00:04:59,500 And so I just want to walk through this. 88 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:02,500 If you have a smart device, 89 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:05,333 John, chapter 20, it's also on the screen. 90 00:05:05,333 --> 00:05:07,300 Let me just read what the Bible says. 91 00:05:07,300 --> 00:05:10,000 Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene, 92 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,733 remember that name came to the tomb early while it was still dark, 93 00:05:14,066 --> 00:05:17,400 and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 94 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,333 She ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple. 95 00:05:21,333 --> 00:05:22,733 The one whom Jesus loved, 96 00:05:22,733 --> 00:05:24,800 and said to them, they have taken the Lord out of the tomb, 97 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:26,366 and we don't know where they have laid him. 98 00:05:26,366 --> 00:05:29,366 Why don't you understand what happened on that first early morning 99 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:32,100 before the sun comes up, Mary. 100 00:05:32,100 --> 00:05:35,700 Sleepless night, not understanding what was going on, 101 00:05:35,733 --> 00:05:39,300 or all of her world and her hopes and her dreams have just come crashing down. 102 00:05:39,466 --> 00:05:42,033 And she just can't sleep. If you've been there. Yeah, 103 00:05:43,500 --> 00:05:44,633 yeah. 104 00:05:44,633 --> 00:05:46,033 There's so much on your mind. 105 00:05:46,033 --> 00:05:48,400 And so much on your heart that you don't have answers to. 106 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,400 You're just sleepless. This was Mary. 107 00:05:52,133 --> 00:05:55,133 And the Bible says this woman, Mary Magdalene, 108 00:05:55,233 --> 00:05:58,233 came to the tomb. 109 00:05:59,700 --> 00:06:00,533 There's this scene 110 00:06:00,533 --> 00:06:03,533 that says this familiarity breeds contempt. 111 00:06:04,266 --> 00:06:06,666 Okay? It's true. In marriage. 112 00:06:06,666 --> 00:06:09,100 It's true in relationships. 113 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:10,333 You get too familiar with people. 114 00:06:10,333 --> 00:06:12,600 You start to hold them in contempt. 115 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,600 The same is true for the resurrection. 116 00:06:15,866 --> 00:06:17,800 It's such a common story now. 117 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,266 It's it's like like we all have heard this story over and over and over, 118 00:06:21,466 --> 00:06:24,266 and because we've heard it is familiar and the dangers 119 00:06:24,266 --> 00:06:26,033 that familiarity breeds contempt. 120 00:06:26,033 --> 00:06:29,033 We just don't find the on the wonder in it anymore. 121 00:06:29,166 --> 00:06:33,000 Well, for these in John 20, they had never heard, they never seen. 122 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,166 They said nothing like this. It happened. 123 00:06:35,166 --> 00:06:39,433 And so they're not approaching this with eyes and ears that have heard this before. 124 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:41,633 It's this is brand new information. 125 00:06:42,733 --> 00:06:44,533 And so Mary Magdalene, 126 00:06:44,533 --> 00:06:49,200 sleepless, tormented in turmoil, goes to the tomb. Why? 127 00:06:49,466 --> 00:06:52,000 Because she knew who Jesus was to her. 128 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,533 Mary Magdalene, her name was Mary. 129 00:06:54,533 --> 00:06:57,533 She was from the town of Magdala. 130 00:06:57,833 --> 00:07:00,300 The significant thing about that is the Bible 131 00:07:00,300 --> 00:07:03,966 tells us that out of Mary, Jesus cast out seven demons, 132 00:07:05,100 --> 00:07:07,200 seven 133 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:08,533 now you got to know 134 00:07:08,533 --> 00:07:12,733 if there are seven demons that are comfortable living in a person. 135 00:07:12,833 --> 00:07:15,866 That's a pretty bad life, right? 136 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,233 And the fact that she was from Magdala, because what we know 137 00:07:20,233 --> 00:07:24,533 historically is Magdala was a hotbed for prostitution. 138 00:07:24,766 --> 00:07:28,800 And so you have this woman who's possessed by seven demons 139 00:07:28,966 --> 00:07:30,966 living in the town of prostitution. 140 00:07:30,966 --> 00:07:33,966 What do you think had been done to her? 141 00:07:34,700 --> 00:07:35,900 What do you think she did? 142 00:07:38,066 --> 00:07:39,833 You understand? 143 00:07:39,833 --> 00:07:44,300 And Jesus says that Jesus coming to Mary, cast demons out of her 144 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,900 and restored her and created a brand new woman in her. 145 00:07:50,333 --> 00:07:54,533 And so when she is thinking that this Jesus has died, 146 00:07:54,966 --> 00:07:58,500 the only thing she can think of is, I have to go to his tomb. 147 00:07:59,766 --> 00:08:03,600 I have to go there is significant 148 00:08:04,333 --> 00:08:07,500 that the first eye witness of the resurrection was this Mary, 149 00:08:09,066 --> 00:08:10,700 someone that the rest of the world 150 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:13,700 would have cast aside as beyond help 151 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,500 was worthless. 152 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:18,633 This is the one 153 00:08:18,633 --> 00:08:22,100 that, in God's divine plan, was chosen to be the one 154 00:08:23,300 --> 00:08:24,266 who would be first. 155 00:08:24,266 --> 00:08:27,266 I witnessed the empty tomb. 156 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,933 She. What was she going to do 157 00:08:29,933 --> 00:08:33,533 at the tomb when it says the stone had been rolled away? 158 00:08:33,533 --> 00:08:35,066 That stone that covered the interest. 159 00:08:35,066 --> 00:08:37,700 The tomb was anywhere between 2 and 3 tons. 160 00:08:38,666 --> 00:08:41,666 What was she going to do? 161 00:08:41,700 --> 00:08:45,033 She wasn't going there to expect a resurrected body. 162 00:08:45,033 --> 00:08:48,466 She was going there to visit, of course, behind the three ton rock. 163 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,533 What was she going to do? 164 00:08:51,533 --> 00:08:54,766 She didn't know, but she just had to go. Why? 165 00:08:54,833 --> 00:08:57,833 Because there was this love in her. 166 00:08:57,833 --> 00:09:00,733 Because love makes us 167 00:09:00,733 --> 00:09:04,466 act even when we can't explain why. 168 00:09:06,066 --> 00:09:07,533 And her love for Jesus. 169 00:09:07,533 --> 00:09:12,233 Because the love she got back from first from Jesus propelled her to go. 170 00:09:12,233 --> 00:09:14,133 And she goes. 171 00:09:14,133 --> 00:09:17,333 Jesus had radically changed her past, and I love the fact 172 00:09:17,333 --> 00:09:18,933 that she's the first one who sees. 173 00:09:18,933 --> 00:09:24,766 Because what I know about my Jesus is this there is no past that so permanent 174 00:09:24,766 --> 00:09:28,266 that God can't erase, and there's no past 175 00:09:28,266 --> 00:09:31,266 that's so dark that God cannot redeem. 176 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,033 This is the God that rose from the grave in Jesus. 177 00:09:35,533 --> 00:09:35,800 And I 178 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,800 love the fact that it's Mary who was first there. 179 00:09:38,966 --> 00:09:41,233 Now, I also like the idea that when she goes 180 00:09:41,233 --> 00:09:44,233 to Peter and John and, and and she's like, hey, they moved him. 181 00:09:44,233 --> 00:09:46,900 Who's the they 182 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:49,633 do you ever you ever know people like that that speak in general? 183 00:09:49,633 --> 00:09:51,166 I know like in big generalities. 184 00:09:51,166 --> 00:09:54,766 Like everybody thinks this, everybody says it, everybody's doing this. 185 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,233 Who's everybody. 186 00:09:57,233 --> 00:10:00,200 But this is what happens 187 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:01,800 to just in ignorance on the whole day. 188 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,000 Like we don't know where he is. 189 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,000 And I love the fact the writer of this gospel is John. 190 00:10:06,300 --> 00:10:10,866 And he says, these two disciples, Peter and the one Jesus love. 191 00:10:10,933 --> 00:10:14,166 That's John's humble way of saying, meet. 192 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,200 So he's like, look, I don't want to brag and say, I was the guy there. 193 00:10:19,233 --> 00:10:22,400 I'll just say, it's the one Jesus loved a whole bunch. 194 00:10:23,300 --> 00:10:24,266 That's what he's saying. 195 00:10:26,833 --> 00:10:29,833 Silly, silly, silly. 196 00:10:30,066 --> 00:10:30,400 Look at this. 197 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:33,266 So we're going to be introducing these three at the tomb. 198 00:10:33,266 --> 00:10:33,733 Verse three. 199 00:10:33,733 --> 00:10:38,066 So Peter went out with the other disciple and they were going towards the tomb. 200 00:10:38,066 --> 00:10:42,200 Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter to him. 201 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,066 First see how humble he is. 202 00:10:45,066 --> 00:10:47,633 There's something about him that says, look, I know this is inspired 203 00:10:47,633 --> 00:10:49,233 Word of God, but I just going to make sure that everybody 204 00:10:49,233 --> 00:10:52,233 for all eternity knows that I'm the fast one. 205 00:10:53,666 --> 00:10:54,800 Where am I? 206 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,800 Oh, verse five and stooping 207 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:02,133 to look in, he saw the linen cloth lying, lying there. 208 00:11:02,133 --> 00:11:03,166 But he did not go in. 209 00:11:03,166 --> 00:11:06,000 Then Simon Peter came following him, and we enter the tomb. 210 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,033 He saw the linen cloths lying there, 211 00:11:08,033 --> 00:11:11,266 and the face cloth which had been on Jesus's head, not lying 212 00:11:11,266 --> 00:11:14,533 with the linen cloth, but folded up in a place by itself. 213 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:18,766 Then the other disciple, John, back to him who had reached the tomb first. 214 00:11:18,766 --> 00:11:20,333 There it is. Thanks for your humility. 215 00:11:20,333 --> 00:11:24,100 Also went in and saw and believed, for 216 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:28,066 they did not yet understand the scripture that he must rise from the dead. 217 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:30,266 And the disciples went back to their homes. 218 00:11:31,466 --> 00:11:32,733 These three, 219 00:11:32,733 --> 00:11:35,733 three people, three different responses. 220 00:11:35,733 --> 00:11:39,466 Three people, when they saw the same tomb, saw 221 00:11:39,466 --> 00:11:42,466 the same evidence, came to different conclusions. 222 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,133 I want you to stand when the Bible says that John got there first 223 00:11:46,133 --> 00:11:47,266 and looked in and saw. 224 00:11:47,266 --> 00:11:50,866 There's three words used first saw in this little passage. 225 00:11:50,966 --> 00:11:54,766 The first one, John got there first and looked in, and the Bible says that he saw. 226 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:56,166 Pull that up. 227 00:11:56,166 --> 00:11:58,866 Tom, I want you to stand with these words. Are 228 00:11:58,866 --> 00:12:00,600 the first word is a Greek word, Aleppo. 229 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,000 And it just means to see and to notice. 230 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,166 Like when you see and you notice the screen there, it's beautiful 231 00:12:06,466 --> 00:12:09,333 when you look at, you know, said Tree Aleppo, I just see and I noticed it. 232 00:12:09,333 --> 00:12:10,366 That's all it is. 233 00:12:10,366 --> 00:12:12,900 And so all John did was walk in. He just saw. 234 00:12:12,900 --> 00:12:15,633 He just noticed. Oh, there's there's clothes or cloth on the ground. 235 00:12:15,633 --> 00:12:19,000 He saw there was no understanding. 236 00:12:20,166 --> 00:12:21,900 There was there was no contemplation. 237 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:22,866 He just noticed it. 238 00:12:22,866 --> 00:12:26,566 The second word when Peter walks in and Peter saw, that's the second word 239 00:12:26,566 --> 00:12:27,166 called three. 240 00:12:27,166 --> 00:12:30,600 Oh, and that's where we get our English word theater. 241 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,000 And it's when you look in the same direction for a long time 242 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,733 and you start to realize something's going on, but you can't quite make it out. 243 00:12:37,866 --> 00:12:41,100 But you know that something is happening, right? 244 00:12:41,733 --> 00:12:44,400 Like you're watching a movie, you're not sure how it's going 245 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,200 to get to the end, but you know, something's happening. 246 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:52,433 So Peter walks in and he sees there rattle, something's going on. 247 00:12:52,433 --> 00:12:53,666 I don't know what. Something's going on. 248 00:12:53,666 --> 00:12:57,533 And then the third word, when John takes a moment 249 00:12:59,266 --> 00:13:01,266 and that Greek word, what he saw is on. 250 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,500 And that's to see with comprehension. 251 00:13:07,033 --> 00:13:09,066 He notices 252 00:13:09,066 --> 00:13:13,700 the cloth on the, on the ground and the head piece, and he says, 253 00:13:13,700 --> 00:13:18,300 now he knows what he comprehends and what the Bible says, right? 254 00:13:18,566 --> 00:13:23,133 John saw and what to remember and what believed. 255 00:13:24,933 --> 00:13:27,933 He didn't believe when it was just Aleppo. 256 00:13:28,066 --> 00:13:31,000 He didn't believe when I was there at all. 257 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,000 But finally at the Idan Peace. 258 00:13:34,666 --> 00:13:36,500 Now I'm seeing with comprehension. 259 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:38,333 And here's what I want us to understand. 260 00:13:38,333 --> 00:13:42,000 Some of you here have seen this story just with Aleppo. 261 00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:47,100 You just notice that it's Easter. 262 00:13:47,466 --> 00:13:48,533 There's eggs. 263 00:13:48,533 --> 00:13:51,533 My kid gets candy. It. 264 00:13:52,433 --> 00:13:55,433 I used to do this when I was young. 265 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,400 And you're missing the wonder. 266 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,033 The resurrection. 267 00:14:01,033 --> 00:14:02,700 Some of us see it in stereo. 268 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:04,666 We look and we know and we see. 269 00:14:04,666 --> 00:14:06,166 And we know something's going on. 270 00:14:06,166 --> 00:14:09,533 But we really haven't grasped it and comprehended it. 271 00:14:10,533 --> 00:14:13,466 We're so familiar with it that we hold it in contempt. 272 00:14:13,466 --> 00:14:16,466 And it's not special and amazing anymore. 273 00:14:18,733 --> 00:14:21,300 There's some of us, 274 00:14:21,300 --> 00:14:24,300 and perhaps some of you will become this today. 275 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:28,800 That sees with it on. 276 00:14:28,833 --> 00:14:31,833 It's more than what I've seen before. 277 00:14:32,266 --> 00:14:35,266 And now I comprehend what has happened. 278 00:14:35,833 --> 00:14:38,066 You see, what you see is the empty tomb 279 00:14:38,066 --> 00:14:41,066 will determine right 280 00:14:41,100 --> 00:14:44,100 how you live. 281 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,366 It's a powerful story. 282 00:14:47,366 --> 00:14:48,600 See, the tomb was open. 283 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:49,033 We got in. 284 00:14:49,033 --> 00:14:51,600 Since the tomb was open, not so Jesus could get out. 285 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,600 The tomb was open so we could see in. 286 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,000 And when you see in what eyes do you have Aleppo? 287 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:01,566 They are real. 288 00:15:01,566 --> 00:15:04,566 Or on. 289 00:15:04,733 --> 00:15:06,900 Knowing that he rose is not enough. 290 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:09,800 You can know with all you can know, with the real. 291 00:15:12,833 --> 00:15:15,833 But the invitation is to eat on 292 00:15:16,300 --> 00:15:18,633 concrete. Hand 293 00:15:18,633 --> 00:15:21,600 what Jesus has done. 294 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,466 The reason why John 295 00:15:24,466 --> 00:15:27,133 is at this place and now he believes, 296 00:15:27,133 --> 00:15:30,466 is because he saw it on the clothes, the cloth. 297 00:15:30,700 --> 00:15:33,533 Here's why it was so transformative for him 298 00:15:33,533 --> 00:15:36,200 that moved from Aleppo all the way to honor. 299 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:36,900 And here's why. 300 00:15:36,900 --> 00:15:38,666 Because in the ancient times, 301 00:15:38,666 --> 00:15:41,933 when the Jews would wrap the dead bodies for burial, 302 00:15:42,066 --> 00:15:46,033 they would take each individual appendage and wrap it separately 303 00:15:46,333 --> 00:15:49,333 so the leg would be wrapped separately from this leg, 304 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:53,066 this arm separately from this arm, all wrapped up and then folded 305 00:15:53,066 --> 00:15:56,633 over and wrap the entire body without the head being wrapped. 306 00:15:57,133 --> 00:16:00,600 So all of this body was wrapped separately, individually, 307 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,466 and then in unison, 308 00:16:03,466 --> 00:16:05,866 and then the head would, would be wrapped 309 00:16:05,866 --> 00:16:09,300 on top of all of these, these wrappings, 310 00:16:09,433 --> 00:16:13,566 they would be soaked in spices and oils and ointments 311 00:16:14,366 --> 00:16:17,333 and fragrances and, 312 00:16:17,333 --> 00:16:21,466 about 100 pounds worth of fragrances and oils. 313 00:16:22,500 --> 00:16:23,400 And so you take 314 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,633 this man, Jesus, probably a hundred and 7,075 pounds. 315 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:30,166 Add another 100 pounds to him because of barrel spices. 316 00:16:30,166 --> 00:16:33,166 What did Mary think she was going to do when she got there? 317 00:16:33,766 --> 00:16:37,466 Even if she could get this body, it's like 275 pounds, 318 00:16:38,233 --> 00:16:40,700 but this body is all wrapped. 319 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:43,700 And then what would happen over that, as the days would take by 320 00:16:43,700 --> 00:16:47,533 all of these ointments would start to dry and crystallize 321 00:16:47,533 --> 00:16:50,533 and harden like a cocoon. 322 00:16:51,300 --> 00:16:53,700 When John looked in 323 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:56,866 what he saw, we know it from the Scripture. 324 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,966 Is all the cloth in perfect 325 00:16:59,966 --> 00:17:02,966 shape and form, just deflated. 326 00:17:04,533 --> 00:17:06,200 And he had comprehension 327 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:11,933 how Jesus passed out because of blood loss and then revived in the corners 328 00:17:11,966 --> 00:17:16,333 of the tomb and somehow, out of a straitjacket, unwrapped himself. 329 00:17:16,500 --> 00:17:21,900 The cloth wouldn't be undisturbed and just simply vacant. 330 00:17:22,700 --> 00:17:24,000 It would be a mess. 331 00:17:25,333 --> 00:17:26,933 If people had stolen the 332 00:17:26,933 --> 00:17:30,000 body, the cloth wouldn't be there in the first place. 333 00:17:30,666 --> 00:17:33,800 If the disciples have stolen the body and unwrapped it first, 334 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:37,200 there's no way they could wrap up all the cloth again. 335 00:17:38,166 --> 00:17:40,966 There's no body. 336 00:17:40,966 --> 00:17:44,400 Whoever was able to disprove the resurrection, 337 00:17:45,033 --> 00:17:46,266 the Jews would have loved to. 338 00:17:46,266 --> 00:17:49,266 The Romans would have left who nobody could. 339 00:17:49,266 --> 00:17:51,900 And when the disciple looked in and saw 340 00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:54,933 that the cloth wasn't disturbed, it was just empty. 341 00:17:55,033 --> 00:17:59,866 He knew that the only logical explanation was the resurrection 342 00:17:59,966 --> 00:18:03,300 and so he saw with Ayden and believed 343 00:18:03,900 --> 00:18:06,733 and man him. 344 00:18:06,733 --> 00:18:09,733 And it was powerful. Oh, 345 00:18:10,833 --> 00:18:13,300 not only that, 346 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:15,300 it's just a little bit of trivia for you. 347 00:18:15,300 --> 00:18:17,400 The head cloth. 348 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,733 The tradition tells us that 349 00:18:19,733 --> 00:18:23,066 when the Jews would meet together and eat supper together, 350 00:18:23,966 --> 00:18:27,266 if the get and invited guests over, if the guests felt loved 351 00:18:27,933 --> 00:18:30,933 and welcomed and appreciated 352 00:18:30,966 --> 00:18:35,900 and honored and enjoyed the meal, they would take the napkin 353 00:18:35,966 --> 00:18:40,433 and crinkle it up and throw it on the plate like it was so good. 354 00:18:40,433 --> 00:18:43,066 It just it was just a this is awesome. 355 00:18:45,100 --> 00:18:48,100 But if the guest did not feel loved, 356 00:18:48,633 --> 00:18:51,633 not appreciated, dishonored, 357 00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:55,700 and did not enjoy the meal 358 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:00,133 as a subtle sign of disapproval, 359 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:05,266 and the statement says, I will never be back to this particular place again. 360 00:19:05,366 --> 00:19:08,366 They would fold the napkin and set it down. 361 00:19:09,166 --> 00:19:12,833 And what Jesus was saying in this moment that John saw with 362 00:19:12,833 --> 00:19:16,933 Ayden is that I came and you rejected me. 363 00:19:16,933 --> 00:19:19,333 I came and you didn't show me love. 364 00:19:19,333 --> 00:19:21,533 I came and you didn't honor me. 365 00:19:21,533 --> 00:19:22,733 I came to my own. 366 00:19:22,733 --> 00:19:24,700 The Bible says I my own rejected me. 367 00:19:24,700 --> 00:19:28,566 I am never coming back to this place of the grave again. 368 00:19:30,033 --> 00:19:33,033 I've done it once for you. 369 00:19:36,466 --> 00:19:39,466 It's powerful. Man. 370 00:19:39,733 --> 00:19:42,733 This is the resurrection story. 371 00:19:43,333 --> 00:19:46,666 Let me just read this next set of verses here, verse 11, if you follow along. 372 00:19:46,866 --> 00:19:49,466 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb as she wept. 373 00:19:49,466 --> 00:19:54,566 She, stooped to look into the tomb, and she saw two angels in white sitting 374 00:19:54,633 --> 00:19:57,900 where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. 375 00:19:58,500 --> 00:20:01,533 This is awesome to me, because she's not ready to go home. 376 00:20:01,766 --> 00:20:03,300 She hasn't seen her Jesus yet. 377 00:20:04,233 --> 00:20:06,500 She wants something more. 378 00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:07,900 She doesn't want the null. 379 00:20:07,900 --> 00:20:10,900 If she wants the relationship, she wants to experience. 380 00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:14,500 And she's sitting there and there's two angels. 381 00:20:14,700 --> 00:20:18,400 There's three places where angels actually showed up in Jesus's life. 382 00:20:18,733 --> 00:20:21,733 One was at his birth, 383 00:20:22,033 --> 00:20:23,733 the second was in the Garden of Gethsemane, 384 00:20:23,733 --> 00:20:26,166 and one is praying and sweating drops of blood. 385 00:20:26,166 --> 00:20:27,366 And they came to minister to him. 386 00:20:27,366 --> 00:20:29,966 And the third was as resurrection. 387 00:20:29,966 --> 00:20:33,000 And this is the only place they're sitting because the work had been done, 388 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,000 there was nothing else to do. 389 00:20:38,300 --> 00:20:41,100 Look at what the Scripture says 390 00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:44,100 in verse 13. 391 00:20:45,133 --> 00:20:46,666 They said to her, woman, why are you weeping? 392 00:20:46,666 --> 00:20:48,866 What she's 393 00:20:48,866 --> 00:20:52,833 that just sounds like really like she's a woman at a grave. 394 00:20:52,833 --> 00:20:53,766 Of course she's weeping. 395 00:20:54,866 --> 00:20:55,800 I think they knew why. 396 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,466 I think they wanted her to MIT. Why, 397 00:20:58,466 --> 00:21:00,066 she said to them, they they're they're all again. 398 00:21:00,066 --> 00:21:01,233 They they whoever they are. 399 00:21:01,233 --> 00:21:04,033 Well, everybody, they've taken them away. 400 00:21:04,033 --> 00:21:06,700 They've taken away, my Lord. And I do not know where they've laid him. 401 00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:09,500 Having said that, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, 402 00:21:09,500 --> 00:21:12,500 but she didn't know who it was, didn't know it was him. 403 00:21:13,766 --> 00:21:15,966 Jesus said to her, woman, why are you weeping? Why? 404 00:21:15,966 --> 00:21:17,866 Who in whom are you seeking? 405 00:21:17,866 --> 00:21:21,666 Supposing him to be gardener, she said, sir, if you have carried him away, 406 00:21:21,666 --> 00:21:23,766 tell me where they have laid him, and I'll go. 407 00:21:23,766 --> 00:21:25,033 Take him away. 408 00:21:25,033 --> 00:21:28,033 She'll know what to say. 409 00:21:28,533 --> 00:21:31,533 And Jesus comes and says, what? 410 00:21:31,533 --> 00:21:33,600 Why are you crying? 411 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,066 He wants her to come to terms with with the emotion of her own heart. 412 00:21:38,066 --> 00:21:38,333 And the 413 00:21:38,333 --> 00:21:42,166 thing I love about this interaction is that Jesus is right there 414 00:21:42,166 --> 00:21:45,900 with her, in her grief and in her despair and in her pain. 415 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,000 He's there. She just couldn't see him. 416 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,633 And I wonder for how many of us were in those moments of despair 417 00:21:53,666 --> 00:21:56,666 and turmoil and questions and doubt 418 00:21:56,700 --> 00:22:00,033 and fear as though Jesus is here with us? 419 00:22:00,033 --> 00:22:02,133 Do we miss him? 420 00:22:02,133 --> 00:22:04,833 I fear we do. 421 00:22:04,833 --> 00:22:07,800 She missed him. 422 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,500 She thought it was the gardener. 423 00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:12,733 If I can be, this is just my own humor. 424 00:22:12,733 --> 00:22:15,533 And so those of you who are part of my church understand me. 425 00:22:15,533 --> 00:22:19,466 And I don't offend you, but some of you are not usually part of my church. 426 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:25,200 And, I don't mean to be, not politically correct, but I get her thinking. 427 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:25,966 He was a gardener. 428 00:22:25,966 --> 00:22:27,833 There's a guy in the garden named Jesus. 429 00:22:27,833 --> 00:22:28,900 What else is she going to think? 430 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:36,733 I got funny, Tim. 431 00:22:36,733 --> 00:22:37,500 You okay? 432 00:22:37,500 --> 00:22:40,500 That's pretty funny, 433 00:22:43,333 --> 00:22:46,333 You know what to do 434 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,266 in verse 16, 435 00:22:48,266 --> 00:22:51,266 Jesus said to her, Mary. 436 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:53,500 She turned and said to him in Aramaic rabona, 437 00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:56,500 which means teacher. 438 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,533 I love the fact that Jesus preaches 439 00:22:58,533 --> 00:23:01,533 a one word sermon to her. 440 00:23:01,966 --> 00:23:03,733 He doesn't have to address her grief, her 441 00:23:03,733 --> 00:23:06,733 doubt, her fear, her confusion, her pain. 442 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:09,600 He just has to say your name. 443 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,600 It's a one word sermon that will change your life. 444 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,400 When you hear Jesus call your name. 445 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:20,233 Mary, 446 00:23:20,233 --> 00:23:21,800 a one word sermon changes 447 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,800 everything for her. 448 00:23:25,866 --> 00:23:28,266 Mary is overwhelmed 449 00:23:28,266 --> 00:23:29,733 and in her overwhelmed nature. 450 00:23:29,733 --> 00:23:30,766 He calls her name. 451 00:23:30,766 --> 00:23:33,066 And this is why this is what it means. 452 00:23:33,066 --> 00:23:35,033 Well, let me just read 1780 and I'm going to come back to this. 453 00:23:35,033 --> 00:23:36,066 I'm gonna tell you something else. 454 00:23:36,066 --> 00:23:39,600 Jesus said her, don't cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the father, but 455 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,700 go to my brothers and say, 456 00:23:42,933 --> 00:23:43,933 say to them, 457 00:23:43,933 --> 00:23:46,900 I'm ascending to my father, and your father and my God and your God. 458 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:50,400 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, I have seen the Lord, 459 00:23:50,933 --> 00:23:53,233 and that he said these things to her. 460 00:23:53,233 --> 00:23:54,466 Here's what happens. 461 00:23:54,466 --> 00:23:58,333 And this is why it's so important for you to hear Jesus say your name. 462 00:23:58,866 --> 00:24:01,333 When Jesus says your name, it means a couple of things, 463 00:24:01,333 --> 00:24:02,200 and I want you to understand 464 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:06,333 what it means that Jesus knows your name and says your name for those up time. 465 00:24:06,333 --> 00:24:09,333 The first thing it means is that he knows you. 466 00:24:10,933 --> 00:24:12,900 He knows you. 467 00:24:12,900 --> 00:24:15,233 If you can't find Jesus, he can still find you. 468 00:24:15,233 --> 00:24:17,633 When he finds you, he calls your name. 469 00:24:17,633 --> 00:24:20,633 And the thing that it means when he calls your name is that he knows you 470 00:24:21,166 --> 00:24:22,066 personally. 471 00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:23,700 And because he 472 00:24:23,700 --> 00:24:26,700 knows you, he wants your attention. 473 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,133 So he calls your name. 474 00:24:29,133 --> 00:24:31,600 And the reason he wants your attention 475 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,600 is because you matter deeply to him. 476 00:24:34,733 --> 00:24:37,733 And so he calls your name. 477 00:24:37,866 --> 00:24:39,233 You matter deeply to him. 478 00:24:39,233 --> 00:24:42,233 So he has something for you. 479 00:24:43,033 --> 00:24:43,933 He has, he has. 480 00:24:43,933 --> 00:24:46,333 He has something for you 481 00:24:46,333 --> 00:24:49,200 because your name. 482 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,200 Because he's waiting for your reply. 483 00:24:53,666 --> 00:24:56,733 I believe with all my heart that he's calling me your name. 484 00:24:56,733 --> 00:24:57,900 He's calling all of our names. 485 00:24:57,900 --> 00:25:00,900 Some of us are going to hear, 486 00:25:01,033 --> 00:25:04,333 and some of us are going to realize that he knows me. 487 00:25:04,333 --> 00:25:05,300 I matter to him. 488 00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:08,300 He has something for me and he's waiting for my reply. 489 00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:09,366 That's what's going on. 490 00:25:09,366 --> 00:25:12,366 When he calls Mary's name. 491 00:25:12,433 --> 00:25:14,533 And I love the fact 492 00:25:14,533 --> 00:25:17,533 that he says, don't, don't cling on to me. 493 00:25:17,566 --> 00:25:20,566 What he's saying is, don't hold onto me so tightly. 494 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:24,300 You you, you're holding on me so tight I can't, I can't move like 495 00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:27,300 let me go a little bit. Why? 496 00:25:27,366 --> 00:25:30,300 Because he has a mission to fulfill 497 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:33,600 and he says, don't hold onto me so tightly, but go. 498 00:25:33,666 --> 00:25:35,333 What are you saying to this woman? 499 00:25:35,333 --> 00:25:38,100 Is this I have a mission and you have a commission. 500 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:40,733 You go tell who. 501 00:25:40,733 --> 00:25:41,400 What do you say? 502 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,166 You go tell who do you remember? 503 00:25:44,166 --> 00:25:47,000 You go tell who. My brothers. 504 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,333 It's the first time he's called anybody. 505 00:25:49,333 --> 00:25:52,200 He's call the disciples. His brothers. 506 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,300 They've been servants. 507 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:54,500 They've been disciples. 508 00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:55,700 They've been apprentices. 509 00:25:55,700 --> 00:25:57,666 They've never been his brother. Why? 510 00:25:57,666 --> 00:26:01,700 Because the resurrection turns religion into relationship. 511 00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:05,233 You understand? 512 00:26:05,233 --> 00:26:08,233 And that's the call of our name. 513 00:26:08,233 --> 00:26:09,466 You matter so much. 514 00:26:09,466 --> 00:26:10,533 I know you. Sure. 515 00:26:10,533 --> 00:26:13,200 I want a relationship with you. 516 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,766 My brother, my sister. 517 00:26:15,766 --> 00:26:18,800 And I love the fact that Mary, this Mary 518 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:22,933 who's past had condemned her future, that God redeems it 519 00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:26,933 and she becomes the first missionary of the resurrection. 520 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,600 Well, what an awesome woman. 521 00:26:33,366 --> 00:26:36,366 And I think Jesus would say the same to us. 522 00:26:36,366 --> 00:26:37,733 I've got a commission for you. 523 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,700 Let me just wrap up with this. 524 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:43,166 The story isn't quite done. 525 00:26:43,166 --> 00:26:46,166 It goes on for about a week, and John 20. 526 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,066 And in verse 19, on the evening of that first day. 527 00:26:51,100 --> 00:26:54,100 So Jesus crucified, buried 528 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,133 early Sunday morning, they go to the tomb. 529 00:26:57,133 --> 00:26:58,066 He's not there. 530 00:26:58,066 --> 00:27:01,066 This is Sunday night. 531 00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:04,633 The first day of the week in that evening, the doors being locked 532 00:27:04,633 --> 00:27:08,333 where the disciples, were there because they were afraid of the Jews. 533 00:27:08,900 --> 00:27:11,900 Jesus came and stood among them and said, peace be with you. 534 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,233 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. 535 00:27:15,366 --> 00:27:17,866 Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 536 00:27:17,866 --> 00:27:18,900 Jesus said to them again, 537 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:22,666 peace be with you as a father who sent me, even I am sending you. 538 00:27:22,833 --> 00:27:23,800 And we had said this. 539 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,033 He breathed on them and said, Receive the Holy Spirit. 540 00:27:26,033 --> 00:27:27,766 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven. 541 00:27:27,766 --> 00:27:30,800 If you withhold forgiveness, from any it's withheld. 542 00:27:30,866 --> 00:27:33,866 What he's saying is just agree with heaven with what's been happened. 543 00:27:34,033 --> 00:27:37,666 But I love the fact that Jesus shows up in the midst of the disciples 544 00:27:37,666 --> 00:27:38,633 in an upper room. 545 00:27:38,633 --> 00:27:40,500 They had heard the story that he was resurrected, 546 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:41,866 but they were still living in fear. 547 00:27:41,866 --> 00:27:44,566 And that's my concern for some of us. 548 00:27:44,566 --> 00:27:46,133 We've heard the story. 549 00:27:46,133 --> 00:27:49,200 We might even believe it, but we still live in fear. 550 00:27:49,933 --> 00:27:52,200 And Jesus had to show up in the middle of them. 551 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,900 And his first words were, these guys, every one of them. 552 00:27:54,900 --> 00:27:57,633 But John ran away from him at the right, at the crucifixion. 553 00:27:57,633 --> 00:28:01,200 Every one of them doubted, every one of them denied him. 554 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,666 And what is his first words to these losers? 555 00:28:07,133 --> 00:28:09,300 What is it? 556 00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:12,300 Peace be with you. 557 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,700 And you watch him to understand it so much. 558 00:28:14,700 --> 00:28:16,666 He says it twice. 559 00:28:16,666 --> 00:28:19,666 He says, I'm not holding your past against you now. 560 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,533 I've raised so it could be erased. 561 00:28:22,533 --> 00:28:24,600 Your yesterdays gone. 562 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,600 All that stuff before is gone. 563 00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:31,500 I offer you my peace now quit trying to prove yourself. 564 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,600 Quit trying to be impressive to me. 565 00:28:34,633 --> 00:28:36,900 I offer you my peace. 566 00:28:36,900 --> 00:28:39,333 And he says it twice. 567 00:28:39,333 --> 00:28:41,566 I love the fact 568 00:28:41,566 --> 00:28:44,633 that Jesus doesn't shame his followers for their failure. 569 00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:48,600 Some of you need to hear that 570 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,600 Jesus doesn't shame his followers for their failure. 571 00:28:52,833 --> 00:28:54,966 He died to forgive it 572 00:28:54,966 --> 00:28:57,966 and in his place offer you his peace. 573 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,200 Peace I give you. 574 00:29:02,633 --> 00:29:05,633 Look at verse 24 and 25. 575 00:29:06,866 --> 00:29:08,900 Now Thomas, one of the 12 called 576 00:29:08,900 --> 00:29:11,900 the twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 577 00:29:12,233 --> 00:29:15,733 So the other side told him, we've seen the Lord when are excited. 578 00:29:16,766 --> 00:29:19,100 And what is Thomas saying? 579 00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:21,600 Unless, 580 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,466 unless something's happened, I'm not going to believe it 581 00:29:24,466 --> 00:29:27,466 unless I see his hands. 582 00:29:27,900 --> 00:29:28,866 And the marks of the nails. 583 00:29:28,866 --> 00:29:31,233 I placed my finger in the mark of the nails and place my hand inside. 584 00:29:31,233 --> 00:29:34,233 I will not believe. 585 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:37,600 He said, your testimony to me is not enough. 586 00:29:38,933 --> 00:29:39,900 See what happened? 587 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:42,900 Is Thomas as a believer, Miss Church? 588 00:29:43,866 --> 00:29:46,866 And because he missed church, he missed Jesus. 589 00:29:47,366 --> 00:29:48,100 Understand this. 590 00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:51,100 He was a believer, but not a longer. 591 00:29:51,366 --> 00:29:54,366 And Jesus didn't just call us to believe, he called us to belong 592 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:57,766 to him and to each other. 593 00:29:57,766 --> 00:29:59,066 Thomas missed it. 594 00:29:59,066 --> 00:30:01,000 He believed, but he didn't belong. 595 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000 And because of that, he missed the joy of the Lord. 596 00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:06,733 And he says, unless 597 00:30:06,733 --> 00:30:11,100 he was waiting for evidence in the very midst of the people who had the evidence, 598 00:30:12,466 --> 00:30:15,466 and still waiting and dragging his feet. 599 00:30:15,566 --> 00:30:18,100 The Bible says Thomas was the twin. 600 00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:18,833 Guess who? 601 00:30:18,833 --> 00:30:21,833 I think he's a twin of? 602 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,900 Me and you who wait 603 00:30:25,900 --> 00:30:28,900 and make excuses for why you don't believe. 604 00:30:30,833 --> 00:30:31,933 I haven't seen enough. 605 00:30:31,933 --> 00:30:34,066 Yeah, yeah, 606 00:30:34,066 --> 00:30:35,566 it hasn't been explained clear enough 607 00:30:35,566 --> 00:30:38,566 yet, have. 608 00:30:40,266 --> 00:30:41,833 It's time to let all your. 609 00:30:41,833 --> 00:30:44,833 Unless. 610 00:30:45,566 --> 00:30:48,566 Die in the shadow of yesterday. 611 00:30:49,266 --> 00:30:51,566 Say goodbye to the. 612 00:30:51,566 --> 00:30:54,566 Unless as of yesterday. 613 00:30:55,900 --> 00:30:58,466 Don't be his twin. 614 00:30:58,466 --> 00:30:59,900 He refused to believe. 615 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:03,166 Despite the testimony of everybody around him. 616 00:31:05,033 --> 00:31:06,633 Verse 26 and 29. 617 00:31:06,633 --> 00:31:08,633 And I'll be done. 618 00:31:08,633 --> 00:31:12,533 Eight days later, the disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them, 619 00:31:12,533 --> 00:31:15,533 although the old doors were locked because they're still living in fear. 620 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:20,266 Jesus came and stood among them and said, peace be with you. 621 00:31:20,266 --> 00:31:21,333 They had heard those words before, 622 00:31:22,466 --> 00:31:24,800 even for the one who was a skeptic, 623 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,800 even for the one who still had excuses and reasons. 624 00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:31,433 Then he said to Thomas, put your finger here and see my hands. 625 00:31:31,433 --> 00:31:34,066 Put your hand and place it in my side. 626 00:31:34,066 --> 00:31:37,900 Do not disbelieve any longer, 627 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,100 Thomas answered, my Lord and my God. 628 00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:45,600 Jesus said to him, have you believed because you've seen me? 629 00:31:45,766 --> 00:31:50,900 Now watch this blessed are those who have not seen yet have believed. 630 00:31:51,433 --> 00:31:54,066 Guess who that is? 631 00:31:54,066 --> 00:31:56,700 Me and you. 632 00:31:56,700 --> 00:31:57,633 It's Jesus, 633 00:31:57,633 --> 00:32:00,633 a special blessing upon us when we believe. 634 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,866 No, we haven't seen him like Thomas did. 635 00:32:02,866 --> 00:32:05,866 And yet we believed all. 636 00:32:06,633 --> 00:32:08,800 I love the fact 637 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,300 that Jesus said, peace to you, oh skeptic, 638 00:32:14,033 --> 00:32:17,033 I didn't come to condemn you. 639 00:32:17,366 --> 00:32:18,600 I came to show you my love. 640 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,000 And will you see me with it on and believe? 641 00:32:24,266 --> 00:32:27,266 Friends, I want you to understand what belief means. 642 00:32:27,700 --> 00:32:30,900 Belief means about four things that I came up with. 643 00:32:31,333 --> 00:32:34,333 It's more than mental agreement. 644 00:32:34,433 --> 00:32:36,366 It's more than mental agreement. 645 00:32:36,366 --> 00:32:38,166 It's surrender. 646 00:32:38,166 --> 00:32:41,166 To believe means to surrender not just to agree with 647 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:43,333 an in surrender. 648 00:32:43,333 --> 00:32:45,900 Belief means this 649 00:32:45,900 --> 00:32:49,500 that I am separated by God from sin. 650 00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:52,966 And it means that I believe that 651 00:32:52,966 --> 00:32:55,966 Jesus is the only way to the father. 652 00:32:57,533 --> 00:33:00,300 It means that I believe that faith 653 00:33:00,300 --> 00:33:03,066 in Jesus demands my surrender 654 00:33:03,066 --> 00:33:06,066 to him of my life. 655 00:33:06,266 --> 00:33:07,400 And belief means that 656 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,400 repentance leads to following, 657 00:33:11,300 --> 00:33:13,633 just not agreeing 658 00:33:13,633 --> 00:33:15,300 leads to following. 659 00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:17,966 See, resurrection is not just a historical fact, 660 00:33:17,966 --> 00:33:21,033 it is your personal invitation 661 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:23,633 to come and believe. 662 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,000 And I don't want you to miss the empty tomb. 663 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,000 I don't want you to miss him calling your name. 664 00:33:32,933 --> 00:33:35,933 Believe is trusting. 665 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,933 That leads to turning at least to following. 666 00:33:42,300 --> 00:33:45,300 And that's your invitation this morning. 667 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:48,000 There's one more 668 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,000 Bible verse I want to share with you is from the book of First Timothy. 669 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,566 First Timothy chapter two, verses five, six and seven. 670 00:33:53,566 --> 00:33:56,566 Look at what it says, for there's one God, 671 00:33:57,433 --> 00:34:00,366 and there's one mediator between God and men, the man 672 00:34:00,366 --> 00:34:03,566 Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all. 673 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:07,500 The living Bible says it like this. 674 00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:10,166 Pull up that graphic. 675 00:34:10,166 --> 00:34:12,400 The Living Bible says it like this, 676 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,766 that all people are on one side and God is on the other. 677 00:34:16,866 --> 00:34:18,300 That's how that verse reads. 678 00:34:19,566 --> 00:34:22,566 And this morning I want you to grasp this, 679 00:34:23,066 --> 00:34:27,500 that us and our humanity are on one side, God is on the other. 680 00:34:28,033 --> 00:34:30,900 And there's a great chasm between us, 681 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:35,533 and we cannot make our way over to God no matter how hard we try. 682 00:34:35,566 --> 00:34:37,800 Yeah, we try. 683 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,800 We try to be good and it falls short. 684 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,933 We try, we try to be religious and it falls short. 685 00:34:44,933 --> 00:34:47,233 Pull up that next slide. 686 00:34:47,233 --> 00:34:49,833 We try all these things of our behavior. 687 00:34:49,833 --> 00:34:52,566 We try to be generous and it falls short. 688 00:34:52,566 --> 00:34:54,233 And it might feel like some things 689 00:34:54,233 --> 00:34:57,900 get us closer across, but nothing gets us all the way across. 690 00:34:57,966 --> 00:34:59,066 And everything. 691 00:34:59,066 --> 00:35:04,400 We try to jump the chasm to get from where we are to where God is fall short. 692 00:35:04,566 --> 00:35:07,266 And the end of that pit of falling short. 693 00:35:07,266 --> 00:35:08,400 The Bible says his death. 694 00:35:09,933 --> 00:35:12,933 All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 695 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,000 and the wages of sin is death. 696 00:35:16,333 --> 00:35:20,900 And this is what we try all our lives to try to get close to God, 697 00:35:20,966 --> 00:35:24,166 to try to be near him, to try to follow him. 698 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:28,533 And when we try all these other things, inevitably, and you know this, 699 00:35:28,533 --> 00:35:32,200 and I know this because we've tried it and we failed and it's worn us out. 700 00:35:32,333 --> 00:35:34,266 It all falls short. 701 00:35:34,266 --> 00:35:37,333 And so God said, I need to bridge the gap. 702 00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:41,000 They can't get to me. I must go to them. 703 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,833 And so what the Bible says is that enter Jesus 704 00:35:44,833 --> 00:35:47,833 on the cross. 705 00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:51,900 And God says, I'll bridge the gap 706 00:35:51,933 --> 00:35:54,933 by my son on the cross. 707 00:35:56,566 --> 00:35:57,766 And because he's done 708 00:35:57,766 --> 00:36:02,600 that, he's invited us to move from where we are 709 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,800 through Jesus to the father. 710 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,266 Do you understand? 711 00:36:09,266 --> 00:36:11,733 Do you understand? 712 00:36:11,733 --> 00:36:14,733 Here's what I want you to do 713 00:36:14,766 --> 00:36:17,766 in your mind's eye right now. 714 00:36:17,866 --> 00:36:20,400 Put yourself right now, not where you wish 715 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,400 you were, not where you want to be right now. 716 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,766 Where are you 717 00:36:25,766 --> 00:36:28,766 in that journey? 718 00:36:29,333 --> 00:36:32,333 You're somewhere. 719 00:36:36,700 --> 00:36:38,966 Some of you haven't even tried 720 00:36:38,966 --> 00:36:41,966 to leave this side of the cliff. 721 00:36:43,166 --> 00:36:45,033 And you know. 722 00:36:45,033 --> 00:36:48,033 And you feel how far away from God you are. 723 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,400 Where are you? 724 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,666 Some of you have taken steps, and you're trying. 725 00:36:55,666 --> 00:36:58,666 You're trying your hardest. 726 00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:02,300 And you really are a good person. 727 00:37:04,666 --> 00:37:07,666 But you're not there. 728 00:37:09,633 --> 00:37:12,833 And you're working hard and you're trying hard and you're striving hard. 729 00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:14,733 But you know that you just. 730 00:37:14,733 --> 00:37:17,300 You just can't. Like, there's something there's. 731 00:37:17,300 --> 00:37:20,300 I got to, 732 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,800 And there are some of us who have understood the depravity of our own sin 733 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,000 and realized God's grace and his love and his mercy shown to us 734 00:37:30,366 --> 00:37:33,366 through his son on the cross. 735 00:37:33,833 --> 00:37:36,900 And have this beautiful relationship, communion with the father. 736 00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:39,966 When rather than condemnation from him, we hear peace, peace, 737 00:37:39,966 --> 00:37:42,966 peace. 738 00:37:43,466 --> 00:37:45,566 Friends, let me ask you, 739 00:37:45,566 --> 00:37:48,566 if you can't with certainty 740 00:37:48,766 --> 00:37:51,766 pinpoint yourself with God 741 00:37:52,466 --> 00:37:55,466 through the cross of Christ, 742 00:37:55,966 --> 00:37:58,966 why don't you do that right now? 743 00:38:00,666 --> 00:38:03,666 Will you allow me to lead you into this? 744 00:38:07,033 --> 00:38:10,033 This is the resurrection. 745 00:38:11,066 --> 00:38:14,066 And he is for you. 746 00:38:14,666 --> 00:38:17,666 And is calling your name. 747 00:38:18,433 --> 00:38:21,433 I want you to pray with me. 748 00:38:22,366 --> 00:38:24,500 If you've never made 749 00:38:24,500 --> 00:38:27,500 this conscious choice and decision 750 00:38:28,333 --> 00:38:32,200 to make Jesus the Lord of your life and accept what he did on the cross 751 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:37,500 for the very first time, I invite you to pray a real simple prayer. 752 00:38:41,566 --> 00:38:44,566 I admit, God that I'm a sinner. 753 00:38:47,066 --> 00:38:50,100 I've not lived up to your perfect standard, 754 00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:54,900 and I am admit it. 755 00:38:56,100 --> 00:38:59,400 Thank you that you loved me enough 756 00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:03,200 to send your son Jesus to die on the cross 757 00:39:04,533 --> 00:39:07,533 for my sin. 758 00:39:07,966 --> 00:39:12,366 This morning I accept Jesus's work. 759 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,700 And this morning I'm going through him to get to you. 760 00:39:19,700 --> 00:39:22,700 Father. Yes. 761 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,000 I accept you, Jesus, as my Savior. 762 00:39:29,533 --> 00:39:32,533 And father, I want to live forever with you. 763 00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:39,800 Just say that. 764 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,533 Some of you, this isn't your first time. 765 00:39:41,533 --> 00:39:44,533 It's a more of a recommitment. 766 00:39:44,666 --> 00:39:46,866 And it feels like you have watched that bridge back 767 00:39:46,866 --> 00:39:49,866 and forth, back and forth, back and forth. 768 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:53,366 And I want to invite you in this moment 769 00:39:53,366 --> 00:39:56,366 to recommit yourself. 770 00:39:57,300 --> 00:40:00,100 Say, Jesus, I realize what you did on that cross for me. 771 00:40:02,166 --> 00:40:03,133 Father, I 772 00:40:03,133 --> 00:40:07,033 recognize again with understanding how much you love me. 773 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,600 Jesus, I hear you calling my name. 774 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,466 And I want to reply, 775 00:40:15,466 --> 00:40:18,466 I choose to follow you. 776 00:40:19,166 --> 00:40:20,733 I choose to follow you with my life. 777 00:40:20,733 --> 00:40:23,733 I don't even know what that means, but I but I want to do it. 778 00:40:24,733 --> 00:40:27,600 Thank you for your forgiveness. 779 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:28,866 Some of you are coming back. 780 00:40:28,866 --> 00:40:31,866 It's a recommitment and it's important. 781 00:40:33,566 --> 00:40:35,700 Whether it's your first time or a recommitment 782 00:40:35,700 --> 00:40:39,033 of some other time, you hear him calling your name 783 00:40:40,566 --> 00:40:43,566 and he wants to make all your yesterdays forgotten and gone 784 00:40:44,533 --> 00:40:47,533 and create a new a new person. 785 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,333 It's by a confession of faith. 786 00:40:52,333 --> 00:40:53,433 So here's what I'm going to do. 787 00:40:53,433 --> 00:40:54,100 Those of you 788 00:40:54,100 --> 00:40:57,100 just in this moment of prayer right now, we're still in this moment of prayer. 789 00:40:57,233 --> 00:41:00,100 If you prayed that prayer for the first time or 790 00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:04,066 as a recommitment of yourself to God, would you just slip up your hand? 791 00:41:04,066 --> 00:41:06,766 I'm gonna pray over you. Just slip up your hand. Thank you. 792 00:41:06,766 --> 00:41:08,900 Thank you. A whole bunch in the middle. Thank you. On the left. 793 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:11,100 Good, good. On the right. Right here. Good. 794 00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:13,333 Raise up your hand. Hi. Just hold it. Thank you. 795 00:41:13,333 --> 00:41:14,100 Good, good. 796 00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:16,866 Just keep that. Keep it up. It's all right. 797 00:41:16,866 --> 00:41:19,000 Your shoulder muscles are going to be okay. 798 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,533 Keep your hand up. I'm gonna pray over you. 799 00:41:20,533 --> 00:41:21,000 Thank you. 800 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,333 Good good good good. 801 00:41:23,333 --> 00:41:26,100 Anybody else in the back? Good. 802 00:41:26,100 --> 00:41:26,933 Anybody else? 803 00:41:26,933 --> 00:41:28,700 Thank you. Good. Do this in faith. 804 00:41:28,700 --> 00:41:31,233 I'm going to pray over you. You're going to receive this. 805 00:41:31,233 --> 00:41:33,800 Just good right there. Good on edge. Good. 806 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,200 Good good. 807 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:38,700 Just receive this. 808 00:41:38,700 --> 00:41:40,800 Pray with me in your spirit and thank you right there. 809 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:41,700 Good. 810 00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:43,666 Pray with me and just received this. 811 00:41:43,666 --> 00:41:46,733 Father, thank you for these hands that you see because they represent 812 00:41:46,733 --> 00:41:49,800 hearts, that you love, people that you died for Jesus. 813 00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:54,766 You said that your eyes run to and fro about there to see those 814 00:41:54,766 --> 00:41:58,533 whose hearts are firmly committed to you, that you may strongly support them. 815 00:41:58,533 --> 00:42:03,200 These with their hands now are strongly committed to you. 816 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:04,366 That's what they're saying. 817 00:42:04,366 --> 00:42:07,366 Be for them on their behalf. 818 00:42:08,766 --> 00:42:11,000 God, come upon them. 819 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,900 By your spirit. Come in them. 820 00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:17,133 Make all their yesterdays gone, all their excuses disappear. 821 00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,066 All the stuff of their past. 822 00:42:19,066 --> 00:42:22,900 God created them a new heart and a new life 823 00:42:23,033 --> 00:42:27,866 and a new present and a new future that they may follow you fully. 824 00:42:29,266 --> 00:42:30,866 Thank you that you love us. 825 00:42:30,866 --> 00:42:31,333 Thank you. 826 00:42:31,333 --> 00:42:32,366 That another hand. Good. 827 00:42:32,366 --> 00:42:35,366 Thank you. 828 00:42:35,666 --> 00:42:38,666 He's calling your name. 829 00:42:38,966 --> 00:42:41,133 See with comprehension what's going on 830 00:42:41,133 --> 00:42:44,133 right now? 831 00:42:44,933 --> 00:42:47,100 In your own spirit, say God, I follow you. 832 00:42:47,100 --> 00:42:48,200 Jesus, I follow you. 833 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,900 Thank you for forgiveness, I am yours. 834 00:42:50,900 --> 00:42:52,166 That's my declaration today. 835 00:42:52,166 --> 00:42:55,166 I am yours. 836 00:42:56,900 --> 00:42:58,133 Father, I thank you for your hands. 837 00:42:58,133 --> 00:43:00,866 And father, thank you for this time. Thank you for these people. 838 00:43:00,866 --> 00:43:04,866 Thank you that you have visited them, that you have spoken 839 00:43:04,866 --> 00:43:08,233 their name, that they have seen you, that they have heard you. 840 00:43:08,233 --> 00:43:12,200 I pray in the name of Jesus now that you would empower them 841 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,200 and strength into to follow you with their life, 842 00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:19,900 and through them you would show all the people around them 843 00:43:21,133 --> 00:43:22,833 what a follower of Jesus looks like. 844 00:43:22,833 --> 00:43:25,866 Now, because they're yesterday's gone 845 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,033 and they're tomorrow's brand new. 846 00:43:30,033 --> 00:43:32,300 Jesus, we love you. 847 00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:33,000 We praise you. 848 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,100 In your name I pray. Amen. 849 00:43:35,100 --> 00:43:36,300 Hey, hey. 850 00:43:36,300 --> 00:43:39,300 I think he deserves a round of applause for what he did. 851 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,300 Hey, here's how we're going to wrap this up. 852 00:43:42,300 --> 00:43:44,700 Now, listen, we're going to sing another song. 853 00:43:44,700 --> 00:43:47,333 It's all about your yesterday being gone now, okay? 854 00:43:47,333 --> 00:43:49,433 It's all about you. Yesterday being gone. 855 00:43:49,433 --> 00:43:52,333 Here's my invitation. 856 00:43:52,333 --> 00:43:53,700 I would love for you 857 00:43:53,700 --> 00:43:56,866 to communicate with us what God has done and is doing. 858 00:43:57,466 --> 00:43:59,300 A couple ways to do that. 859 00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:02,900 Those QR codes on your chairs go there. 860 00:44:03,433 --> 00:44:05,400 That's a way you can communicate with us. 861 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,733 There's a connection button there to communicate. 862 00:44:07,733 --> 00:44:09,833 This is what God is doing, what he just did. 863 00:44:09,833 --> 00:44:11,400 This is my commitment. 864 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:12,633 Please do that. 865 00:44:12,633 --> 00:44:14,966 Those cards, you can fill out those cards. 866 00:44:14,966 --> 00:44:17,500 Take him to the welcome booth right there. 867 00:44:17,500 --> 00:44:18,800 We have a gift for you. 868 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:20,100 Any of you who watch this. 869 00:44:20,100 --> 00:44:23,100 I wrote a book about the foundations of the Christian faith 870 00:44:23,100 --> 00:44:25,266 and what it means to follow. Pick it up. It's free. 871 00:44:26,233 --> 00:44:29,233 If you made a commitment, sign that card and take it there. 872 00:44:29,266 --> 00:44:31,366 Here's my other offer. 873 00:44:31,366 --> 00:44:33,400 Some of you 874 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,566 want to pray 875 00:44:35,566 --> 00:44:38,533 and want to talk with someone right now. 876 00:44:38,533 --> 00:44:40,800 I would love to be that person. 877 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,766 We would love to be that person. 878 00:44:42,766 --> 00:44:44,733 So I'm is going to be here during the song. 879 00:44:44,733 --> 00:44:46,066 After the song. 880 00:44:46,066 --> 00:44:47,300 If you just want to come, 881 00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:48,366 you want to 882 00:44:48,366 --> 00:44:50,733 let's talk about a commitment you made or you just want prayer 883 00:44:50,733 --> 00:44:52,166 over something in your life. 884 00:44:52,166 --> 00:44:55,166 You want to see God step in and do something 885 00:44:55,466 --> 00:44:58,100 that you've not had done yet. 886 00:44:58,100 --> 00:45:00,333 Just come. Let's pray. 887 00:45:00,333 --> 00:45:02,333 I know I got John and Laura down here. 888 00:45:02,333 --> 00:45:04,266 I got Bob and Jennifer back over there. 889 00:45:04,266 --> 00:45:06,666 I got Dennis and Jamie somewhere over here. 890 00:45:06,666 --> 00:45:08,400 They're going to. I haven't even told they're going to do this. 891 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:09,933 You guys, you're going to do this. 892 00:45:09,933 --> 00:45:12,400 You're going to stand up on the edges and down front here. 893 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,400 Any of these people standing kind of off to the side, like 894 00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,466 they'd love to pray with you, you understand? 895 00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:20,400 Yeah. 896 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,200 Hey, listen, I love you. 897 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,166 It's been great to be together. You need a church home. 898 00:45:24,166 --> 00:45:27,166 You come back Sunday at the Maywood Center, nine and 1030. 899 00:45:27,366 --> 00:45:27,800 Okay? 900 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:28,533 It's going to be a good day. 901 00:45:28,533 --> 00:45:30,766 Today would be a great day next Sunday. 902 00:45:30,766 --> 00:45:31,800 Let's sing a little bit. 903 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,133 Yes, indeed. Hey, it is a good Sunday. Hey.