1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,880 Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church. 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:19,040 Come on, good morning, good morning, happy Easter. 3 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:23,120 Turn to somebody, give them a high five, tell them you clean up better than usual on Easter. 4 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,200 Come on, you clean up better than usual. 5 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,080 Yes, yes. 6 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:28,320 You all are looking good. 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:29,320 You're looking sharp. 8 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:31,320 It is good to be in God's house. 9 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:35,880 You feel God's presence, the excitement of Jesus being out of the grave. 10 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:36,880 Amen. 11 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,600 I know He's been out of there a long time, but it's still, it never gets old. 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:41,600 Amen. 13 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:42,600 It never gets old. 14 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:44,640 It is so good to have you here worshiping together. 15 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,000 I know they're worshiping at East Shore. 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,200 If you're joining us online this morning, welcome. 17 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:50,760 It's good to have you as well. 18 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,960 And I really want to start this Easter morning off, and it really is a message series that 19 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:55,960 I want to begin. 20 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:00,800 And how many know that it's not always what it looks like, right? 21 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:01,800 It's not. 22 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:09,760 How many know that sometimes things can appear one way, but it's really something completely 23 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:11,120 different, right? 24 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:15,920 Sometimes you look at something and you think you got it all figured out and you know what's 25 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:21,160 going on, and then you find out a little later it's something completely different, right? 26 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,040 Something you're not quite sure of. 27 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,960 And I want to give you just a little bit of example so it sticks this morning. 28 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:30,720 They're going to put a graphic up on the screen. 29 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,240 I want you to stare right now. 30 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:33,240 Stare at the screens. 31 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:34,240 Don't look at me. 32 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:35,240 Stare at the screens. 33 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:36,880 Look at that center right now, that dot. 34 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,040 How many see that center moving and growing right now? 35 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:41,040 Raise your hand. 36 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:42,040 Come on. 37 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:43,040 How many see it? 38 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:44,040 Stare, stare, stare, stare. 39 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:45,040 You see it moving. 40 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:46,040 You see it, right? 41 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:47,040 Then you're starting to shift. 42 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:48,100 Listen, that is not a video. 43 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:49,920 That is just a picture. 44 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:51,080 That's shaking, right? 45 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,140 It's not what it looks like. 46 00:01:53,140 --> 00:01:54,400 I got another one for you. 47 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:55,400 Ready? 48 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:56,400 You ready for the next one? 49 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:57,400 Raise your hand if you're ready for the next one. 50 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,400 Some of you are still just going like this. 51 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,200 I didn't say it was going to leap off the TV. 52 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,200 I just said it's going to move some, right? 53 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:05,560 Let's go to the next one, right? 54 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,400 Take it in the neck. 55 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,600 How many see the young woman there, right? 56 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:11,940 Wearing a parka and a hat. 57 00:02:11,940 --> 00:02:13,680 Raise your hand if you see that. 58 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:15,920 How many see the old woman, right? 59 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:19,400 Smoking a cigarette in church? 60 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:20,400 Come on. 61 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,120 How many see it, right? 62 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:23,600 It's not what it looks like. 63 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,480 Yeah, I don't know. 64 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:26,480 I don't see anything. 65 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,320 There's just as much scribbles on the page, right? 66 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:30,320 Some of you saw it instantly. 67 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:31,680 Well, I'm going to give you one more. 68 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:32,680 How many want one more? 69 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:33,680 Just one more for this morning. 70 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:34,680 One more, one more. 71 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:36,440 This is a classic right here, all right? 72 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:37,440 How many see the vase? 73 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:39,000 How many see the vase this morning? 74 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,440 How many see two people looking nose to nose at each other? 75 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,000 Yeah, that's a little easier, right? 76 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:50,400 It's not how many times you can look at something and it's not always what it looks like. 77 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:57,040 And 2000 years ago when Jesus was crucified on a Roman cross, it was not what it looked 78 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:58,200 like. 79 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,040 Let me set the scene for you this morning. 80 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:02,340 Let me set the scene. 81 00:03:02,340 --> 00:03:03,600 I want you to use your imagination. 82 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,600 Sometimes, listen, when people preach, sometimes you got to use your imagination a little bit. 83 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,160 I want you to see it in your mind. 84 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:09,160 Yep. 85 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:10,160 Come on, ready? 86 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:11,760 Thousands are flooding into the city of Jerusalem. 87 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:12,760 Get this in your mind. 88 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:17,360 It is Jewish Passover, a celebration of God's deliverance, right? 89 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:22,480 From the Israelites, from the bondage of Egypt, 1500 plus years before. 90 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,320 Hearts are light in the city. 91 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:29,360 Kind of like this morning, there's a feeling of joy and celebration in the air. 92 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,920 Preparations for the Seder meal are taking place all over the city, right? 93 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:36,320 There's a big sale on bitter herbs and matzah, all right? 94 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:37,900 If you know anything about the Seder, right? 95 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:39,360 There's a big sale going on. 96 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:41,120 People are converging in the city. 97 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:42,680 That was supposed to be a little bit funny. 98 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:43,680 Nobody got it. 99 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:44,680 All right. 100 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:51,060 They're going to celebrate freedom from the Egyptian slavery, a millennial plus before. 101 00:03:51,060 --> 00:03:56,300 And they're doing it in an open and public way in the city of Jerusalem. 102 00:03:56,300 --> 00:03:59,320 Freedom by God's hand, freedom from the Egyptians. 103 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,160 How many know when you're free, you should celebrate, right? 104 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:03,240 You know how you really celebrate? 105 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,680 If you've ever been in bondage and you've been set free, you celebrate. 106 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:08,680 You do. 107 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:10,880 Some of you, how many of you have ever been in bondage? 108 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:12,880 If you're saved, you know what I'm talking about. 109 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,000 And you'll celebrate. 110 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:20,960 And while there's some celebrating taking place and it was complete back then from Egypt, 111 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:27,120 they're currently living in limited freedom, not in slavery, not in slavery under the Roman 112 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:33,440 rule, but they're living under the thumb of the Roman government. 113 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:39,980 The Jewish people are in Jerusalem and they're celebrating, but they only do this by permission 114 00:04:39,980 --> 00:04:41,360 of the Roman government. 115 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:46,600 And in this setting that's taking place, Jesus comes into the city just days before this. 116 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:51,320 And as he comes into the city, the Jewish people are laying palm branches at his feet, 117 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:52,320 right? 118 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:56,160 He's riding in on a young coat and they're laying palm branches in the street and at 119 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:00,660 his feet and they're yelling and they're screaming next King of the Jews, right? 120 00:05:00,660 --> 00:05:02,560 This is going to be Jesus, the King of the Jews. 121 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,040 And why are they doing this? 122 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:05,160 Why are they yelling this out? 123 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,040 We celebrated this last week. 124 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:11,320 They're doing this because Jesus calls people back from the dead. 125 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:17,320 They're doing this because they know that Jesus could heal every type of disease. 126 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:21,280 At this point, all of the society knows that this is the healer. 127 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:22,920 This is the miracle man. 128 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:24,240 He's the one, right? 129 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:25,240 He heals diseases. 130 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:29,840 And matter of fact, he has so much power that he can speak to wind. 131 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:31,320 He can speak to the waves. 132 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:35,760 He can speak to the elements in nature and they listen. 133 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:41,640 And the people in Jerusalem, the Jewish people who want freedom from Rome, their expectation 134 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:42,640 is say expectation. 135 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,680 Do you ever have an expectation for something? 136 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:50,720 Their expectation is that this King is going to rise and he's going to take over and he's 137 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:52,240 going to crush Rome. 138 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,200 And this is their expectation. 139 00:05:54,200 --> 00:06:03,220 But when Jesus doesn't deliver that Jewish expectation, he doesn't come in, ride in and 140 00:06:03,220 --> 00:06:05,000 conquer Rome. 141 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,560 The corrupt religious leaders of the day, they seize the moment. 142 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:13,360 They bribe one of Jesus followers with 30 pieces of silver to betray him. 143 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:18,520 They bribe others to give false accusation and false stories about what's taking place 144 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:20,980 and they arrest him in the garden. 145 00:06:20,980 --> 00:06:28,360 They coerce a Roman ruler named Pontius Pilate to condemn Jesus to death and not just any 146 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,840 death, but death by Roman crucifixion. 147 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:34,320 They're going to put a picture of a cross up. 148 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:41,800 So crucifixion was intended to be a gruesome, gruesome spectacle, the most painful and humiliating 149 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:43,920 death imaginable. 150 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:50,160 And it was used for slaves, runaway slaves, pirates, enemies of the state of Rome. 151 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:56,480 And crucifixion could last for days to ensure maximum pain and to set an example to any 152 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:02,120 of the other would be criminals, or it could be quick and violent depending on the Roman 153 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:06,440 leaders and the soldiers carrying out the execution. 154 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:08,680 Crucifixion was typically carried out by a specialized team. 155 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,480 There would be a Centurion soldier who would be the leader and he would be leading the 156 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:17,920 soldiers who would really enact or do the execution as it is. 157 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:24,340 And the convict usually had to carry a horizontal beam that would be part of what the cross 158 00:07:24,340 --> 00:07:26,080 that they would hang him on. 159 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:31,800 And the crucifixion, the one who was being crucified would first be stripped naked. 160 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,280 I know in the pictures we always see a loin cloth. 161 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,720 That could be the occasion of times when most times they were stripped naked and they were 162 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:43,900 scourged, they were beat on a post and then they would carry this beam. 163 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:45,620 They would march him through town. 164 00:07:45,620 --> 00:07:47,980 They would take him down the most crowded roads. 165 00:07:47,980 --> 00:07:52,360 They wanted to make sure that everybody would see and that they would be completely humiliated. 166 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:57,000 And they usually would put a title list on that piece of wood that said their name and 167 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,880 whatever the crime was. 168 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:03,080 For Jesus, it said Jesus, King of the Jews. 169 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:08,880 And upon arriving to the place of execution, the cross beam, they would lay that person 170 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:13,680 down and they would be laying on the cross beam and they would take nails, spikes as 171 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:17,480 they were, and they would pound them in through the hands, typically the wrist part of the 172 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:21,200 hand and they would put a nail in one and a nail on the other. 173 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:26,240 Then they would hoist that person up by those nails and they would attach that cross beam 174 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,560 and then they would pull the feet together and nail the feet to the cross. 175 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:35,040 Those nails were usually seven inches long and they had a square shank and they would 176 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:40,400 take a hammer and just beat that thing into place, pinning them to the cross. 177 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:46,320 It was there to do maximum harm, to do maximum pain and to humiliate the person that was 178 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,560 being crucified. 179 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:51,440 Death a lot of times was hastened by the soldiers. 180 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:56,160 Sometimes, see, a Roman soldier wasn't allowed to leave a crucifixion to whoever they were 181 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,600 crucified was dead. 182 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:03,360 So sometimes the soldiers or the centurion who was leading it all would get impatient 183 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,560 and they would do things like break bones. 184 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:07,160 They would break the legs. 185 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:10,040 Sometimes they would take a spear just like they did with Jesus and they would thrust 186 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:11,580 it in the side. 187 00:09:11,580 --> 00:09:14,320 Sometimes they would use a spear and beat on their chest. 188 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,800 Other times they would build a fire at the base of the cross that would asphyxiate the 189 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:20,800 person who was hanging. 190 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:25,340 They would break the legs so that all the weight would come down on the arms and squeeze 191 00:09:25,340 --> 00:09:28,640 the lungs until the person who was hanging could no longer breathe. 192 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:30,680 It was a horrible death. 193 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:37,280 Death by Roman crucifixion was probably one of the most brutal and was rarely recorded. 194 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:41,840 And matter of fact, it was so brutal that even in Rome, it was kind of taboo to talk 195 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:44,200 about crucifixions. 196 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:49,820 And Rome had crucified thousands and thousands. 197 00:09:49,820 --> 00:09:53,640 But this crucifixion was not what it looked like. 198 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,160 This was no ordinary criminal. 199 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,520 Actually it was not a criminal at all. 200 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:02,060 Nothing about this crucifixion was what it seems. 201 00:10:02,060 --> 00:10:04,520 If you got your Bibles, I want you to go to Luke chapter 23. 202 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:08,040 I'm going to start at verse 27 and I'm going to pray while you're turning there. 203 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:09,600 Lord, we thank you for your word. 204 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:11,880 I thank you Jesus that you rose from the grave. 205 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:14,400 I thank you Lord that you were willing to suffer and die. 206 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,520 Lord, a brutal death for our salvation. 207 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:20,360 And Lord, today as we read, God, just settle these words into our hearts. 208 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:26,680 God, that we might Lord chase hard after you in Jesus name and amen. 209 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:32,400 Luke 23, 27 says this, and a great multitude of the people followed him and the women also 210 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,920 mourned and lamented him. 211 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:39,840 But Jesus turning to them said, daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep 212 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,080 for yourselves and for your children. 213 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:47,040 For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, blessed are the barren women that 214 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,880 never bore in the breast which never nursed. 215 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:54,120 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, following us and to the hills, cover us. 216 00:10:54,120 --> 00:11:00,280 For if they do these things in the greenwood, what will be done in the dry? 217 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,620 Jesus has just suffered a Roman scourging. 218 00:11:03,620 --> 00:11:07,040 And if you don't know anything about a Roman scourging, they would chain the prisoner to 219 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:12,600 a post and they would begin to, they would use a whip or a scourge. 220 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,200 They would call it to, to lash this person. 221 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:21,080 They would strip them naked and a Roman scourge was just a whip and it had a rod on it. 222 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:25,680 And on the end were long leather thongs, long leather strips or thongs. 223 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:28,680 They would call them put onto the end of that whip. 224 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:32,480 And they weren't just, it wasn't just the leather strips that somebody was being beat 225 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:33,480 with. 226 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:37,200 They would embed lead balls into the leather stripping on those. 227 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,440 They would also place steel and bone that was sharpened into there. 228 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:46,520 And the idea was this, if a skilled Roman soldier, they would, they would throw those, 229 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:50,880 all those leather strips towards the prisoner and land them into their back, their legs, 230 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:52,720 the back of their legs or the back of the neck. 231 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:57,520 And when they pulled away, it would shred the flesh on that person. 232 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,680 It would pull the flesh away and they would begin to bleed. 233 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:06,720 And they would do this sometimes up to 39 times on the back and the neck. 234 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:11,120 And sometimes it would even wrap around to the face. 235 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,800 And Jesus has just suffered this kind of scourging. 236 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,920 Many times prisoners, whoever they got the scourging, they didn't even make it through 237 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:19,920 this. 238 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:21,520 They died on the post. 239 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,220 But if they didn't die, they would unchain them. 240 00:12:24,220 --> 00:12:29,000 They would strap them to that cross piece of the cross and they would begin to march 241 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,000 him down the road. 242 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,740 And Jesus went down to Villa de la Rosa, just about a half a mile, not quite a half a mile. 243 00:12:34,740 --> 00:12:36,300 He would carry this cross. 244 00:12:36,300 --> 00:12:40,760 And as he's carrying this cross and while he's bleeding profusely and it's his body 245 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:46,240 begins to go into shock, the women that know him, the people that know him, as close as 246 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:50,080 they can, as close as the Romans would let him come in, these women are following behind 247 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,880 Jesus and they're crying out and they're lamenting and they're crying. 248 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:57,460 And Jesus says something to them that stops them in their tracks. 249 00:12:57,460 --> 00:13:00,880 He says, daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me. 250 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:06,800 Don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 251 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,360 This is not what it looks like. 252 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:15,240 You think I'm condemned, but I'm actually fulfilling God's plan to reconcile mankind 253 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:16,500 back to God. 254 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:22,040 You think that that I am condemned and the reality is that those who reject me are the 255 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,560 ones who are going to be condemned and suffer judgment. 256 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:26,220 You think I'm powerless. 257 00:13:26,220 --> 00:13:30,700 You think that Rome has power me in reality is all authority has been given to me in heaven 258 00:13:30,700 --> 00:13:31,700 and earth. 259 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:35,160 You think I'm weak and the death is the final victory month. 260 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,860 But this is not what it looks like. 261 00:13:37,860 --> 00:13:39,520 Weep for yourselves. 262 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:44,040 They thought this was the end of Jesus and Jesus was letting them know this isn't the 263 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:45,040 end. 264 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:46,440 This is just the beginning. 265 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:47,520 This is just the beginning. 266 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:49,580 I'm just getting started. 267 00:13:49,580 --> 00:13:51,780 It's not what it looks like. 268 00:13:51,780 --> 00:13:56,880 And I can tell you this this morning that in Jesus, it's never what it looks like in 269 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:57,880 Jesus Christ. 270 00:13:57,880 --> 00:13:58,880 It's not. 271 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,220 It's rarely what we think when we're in Jesus. 272 00:14:01,220 --> 00:14:04,060 It typically doesn't look like we think it's going to look like. 273 00:14:04,060 --> 00:14:06,380 We got one expectation and God's got another. 274 00:14:06,380 --> 00:14:11,180 Our perception many time when Jesus is involved in it is way off. 275 00:14:11,180 --> 00:14:13,880 And this is no ordinary Roman crucifixion. 276 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:15,840 John 10 17 says this. 277 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:21,180 Therefore my father loves me because I laid down my life that it may be taken up again. 278 00:14:21,180 --> 00:14:26,800 This is the only Roman crucifixion where that Rome listen, this is the only one where Rome 279 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:27,900 didn't have the authority. 280 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:31,640 They thought they had the authority, but Jesus could have came off the cross at any point 281 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:32,640 in time. 282 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:33,640 They had. 283 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:34,880 Listen, he commanded winds and waves. 284 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:39,980 I said this last week, he wouldn't have had any problem speaking and legions of angels 285 00:14:39,980 --> 00:14:41,620 showing up. 286 00:14:41,620 --> 00:14:42,760 Romans weren't taking his life. 287 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:44,320 He was laying it down. 288 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:45,620 They didn't overpower him. 289 00:14:45,620 --> 00:14:46,620 He was. 290 00:14:46,620 --> 00:14:50,940 He was willingly giving it to follow the father's plan for salvation. 291 00:14:50,940 --> 00:14:52,820 This is not what it looks like. 292 00:14:52,820 --> 00:14:54,360 In verse 18, he says this. 293 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,340 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down myself. 294 00:14:57,340 --> 00:15:02,020 I have power to lay it down and I have the power to take it up again. 295 00:15:02,020 --> 00:15:06,180 This command I have received from my father. 296 00:15:06,180 --> 00:15:09,100 He's walking in obedience to God's plan. 297 00:15:09,100 --> 00:15:12,260 Jesus came into this world, died on her cross. 298 00:15:12,260 --> 00:15:15,380 And the reason was to purchase our salvation. 299 00:15:15,380 --> 00:15:16,580 That was the plan. 300 00:15:16,580 --> 00:15:22,560 Blood had to be spilled to purchase salvation for us, to atone for our sins. 301 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:23,560 And he paid it. 302 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:27,640 And if you get your head around this, if you get your heart around this and you understand 303 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:33,060 that Jesus willingly did this, he willingly suffered this kind of judgment and took it 304 00:15:33,060 --> 00:15:35,580 on so you didn't have to. 305 00:15:35,580 --> 00:15:37,580 He suffered my condemnation. 306 00:15:37,580 --> 00:15:39,820 He suffered my pain, right? 307 00:15:39,820 --> 00:15:41,980 So I didn't have to. 308 00:15:41,980 --> 00:15:44,620 This is not what it looks like. 309 00:15:44,620 --> 00:15:46,820 This is God unfolding his plan. 310 00:15:46,820 --> 00:15:51,180 John 3, 17 says, for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but 311 00:15:51,180 --> 00:15:54,340 that the world through him might be saved. 312 00:15:54,340 --> 00:15:57,300 There's nothing normal about this crucifixion. 313 00:15:57,300 --> 00:15:59,540 Absolutely nothing. 314 00:15:59,540 --> 00:16:03,380 In Jesus, it's not what it looks like. 315 00:16:03,380 --> 00:16:07,660 And you might be here this morning and you might be kind of down and out, but I'm here 316 00:16:07,660 --> 00:16:10,940 to tell you, if you're in Jesus Christ, you're not down and out. 317 00:16:10,940 --> 00:16:13,860 You're probably, God's going to get you up and get you moving. 318 00:16:13,860 --> 00:16:14,860 Amen? 319 00:16:14,860 --> 00:16:15,860 It's true. 320 00:16:15,860 --> 00:16:19,860 It might look like you're at the end of your rope this morning and people might even be 321 00:16:19,860 --> 00:16:20,860 waiting. 322 00:16:20,860 --> 00:16:23,140 How many know sometimes you get on the end of the rope, people leave, right? 323 00:16:23,140 --> 00:16:24,820 And they're just waiting to see what happens, right? 324 00:16:24,820 --> 00:16:25,820 Will they drop off the rope? 325 00:16:25,820 --> 00:16:27,340 Are they going to go down the chute? 326 00:16:27,340 --> 00:16:28,940 Are they going to, you know, are they not going to make it? 327 00:16:28,940 --> 00:16:33,340 And I'm here to tell you, if you're in Jesus, if Jesus is Lord of your life, if you drop 328 00:16:33,340 --> 00:16:35,500 off the rope, guess who will catch you? 329 00:16:35,500 --> 00:16:37,980 He'll catch you and carry you wherever you need to go. 330 00:16:37,980 --> 00:16:39,060 He will. 331 00:16:39,060 --> 00:16:41,780 Because it's not what it looks like with Christ, right? 332 00:16:41,780 --> 00:16:44,060 Because he has all authority in heaven and in earth. 333 00:16:44,060 --> 00:16:45,780 He's spoken to us, right? 334 00:16:45,780 --> 00:16:47,820 It might look like you're down for the count. 335 00:16:47,820 --> 00:16:50,180 It looks like you're done, right? 336 00:16:50,180 --> 00:16:52,460 You're laying on your back. 337 00:16:52,460 --> 00:16:55,620 I'm here to tell you, that's not a bad place to be. 338 00:16:55,620 --> 00:16:58,480 Because if you're in Jesus Christ, he will raise you up. 339 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:00,460 You want to fool everyone around you. 340 00:17:00,460 --> 00:17:01,900 You want them to not listen. 341 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:04,500 You want to make sure that they don't really see what's going on. 342 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:06,500 It won't look what it looks like in Jesus. 343 00:17:06,500 --> 00:17:07,980 It really won't. 344 00:17:07,980 --> 00:17:10,780 He's that amazing. 345 00:17:10,780 --> 00:17:11,780 Come on. 346 00:17:11,780 --> 00:17:14,540 On the outside, it looks like Jesus is finished. 347 00:17:14,540 --> 00:17:15,900 They humiliated him. 348 00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:17,380 They falsely accused him. 349 00:17:17,380 --> 00:17:18,380 They stripped him. 350 00:17:18,380 --> 00:17:19,780 They slapped him. 351 00:17:19,780 --> 00:17:22,000 They have beaten him beyond recognition. 352 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,220 They're tore his flesh from his body. 353 00:17:24,220 --> 00:17:26,100 They have scattered his followers. 354 00:17:26,100 --> 00:17:27,420 They all abandoned him. 355 00:17:27,420 --> 00:17:28,820 They have thoroughly mocked him. 356 00:17:28,820 --> 00:17:32,100 They have jammed the crown of thorns down into his skull. 357 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:38,660 They have nailed him to a cross like a reviled, rejected, common criminal. 358 00:17:38,660 --> 00:17:41,380 And none of this is what it looks like. 359 00:17:41,380 --> 00:17:44,340 Luke 23, 32 says this. 360 00:17:44,340 --> 00:17:45,860 There were also two others. 361 00:17:45,860 --> 00:17:46,860 Say two others. 362 00:17:46,860 --> 00:17:47,860 Good, you're with me. 363 00:17:47,860 --> 00:17:48,860 All right. 364 00:17:48,860 --> 00:17:50,660 Criminals led with him to be put to death. 365 00:17:50,660 --> 00:17:53,900 And when they had come to the place called Calvary, they crucified him. 366 00:17:53,900 --> 00:17:58,660 And the criminals, one on the right hand and one on the left, then Jesus said, Father, 367 00:17:58,660 --> 00:17:59,660 forgive them. 368 00:17:59,660 --> 00:18:02,300 For they do know not what they do. 369 00:18:02,300 --> 00:18:04,380 And they divided his garments and cast lots. 370 00:18:04,380 --> 00:18:06,320 And the people stood, looked on. 371 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:12,460 But even the rulers, when they sneered, saying, he saved others, let him save himself. 372 00:18:12,460 --> 00:18:15,560 If he is the Christ and the chosen one of God. 373 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:20,400 The soldiers also mocked him, coming and offering him sour wine and saying, if you are the king 374 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,020 of the Jews, save yourself. 375 00:18:23,020 --> 00:18:25,340 And inscription, remember I said about that title list. 376 00:18:25,340 --> 00:18:30,100 And inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin and Hebrew. 377 00:18:30,100 --> 00:18:31,620 This is king of the Jews. 378 00:18:31,620 --> 00:18:36,460 Then one of the criminals who were hanged, blasphemed him saying, if you are the Christ, 379 00:18:36,460 --> 00:18:38,860 save yourself and us. 380 00:18:38,860 --> 00:18:40,760 Two criminals hanging on each side, right? 381 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:42,060 One on each side. 382 00:18:42,060 --> 00:18:45,900 One saying, if you're the Christ, he's mocking Jesus. 383 00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:47,980 But listen to what the other says. 384 00:18:47,980 --> 00:18:50,060 But the other, say the other. 385 00:18:50,060 --> 00:18:51,060 Answering. 386 00:18:51,060 --> 00:18:56,180 And rebuked him saying, do you not even fear God saying you are under the same condemnation? 387 00:18:56,180 --> 00:19:00,740 And we indeed justly receive our reward, our due reward for our deeds. 388 00:19:00,740 --> 00:19:04,220 But this man came and does nothing wrong. 389 00:19:04,220 --> 00:19:11,060 Then he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom. 390 00:19:11,060 --> 00:19:15,100 I kind of can't imagine this conversation taking place. 391 00:19:15,100 --> 00:19:17,300 Scourged. 392 00:19:17,300 --> 00:19:19,340 Nailed to a tree. 393 00:19:19,340 --> 00:19:23,380 Jesus is talking to one of these criminals like there's nobody else in the room, right? 394 00:19:23,380 --> 00:19:26,220 They're conversating the other. 395 00:19:26,220 --> 00:19:30,620 And this somehow this criminal and I don't know if he was on the right or the left. 396 00:19:30,620 --> 00:19:33,060 Somehow I think he was on the right because in the Bible talks about those on the left 397 00:19:33,060 --> 00:19:34,060 and on the right. 398 00:19:34,060 --> 00:19:35,060 Right. 399 00:19:35,060 --> 00:19:37,060 And the ones that are right are the ones coming into the kingdom. 400 00:19:37,060 --> 00:19:41,140 But somehow this criminal, whatever side he was on, he recognized it somehow in the middle 401 00:19:41,140 --> 00:19:46,500 of all his pain and all this confusion and all this craziness and Roman soldiers beating 402 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:47,500 them. 403 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:52,100 And he recognizes that the man in the middle, this is not what it looks like. 404 00:19:52,100 --> 00:19:54,100 This is not a common criminal. 405 00:19:54,100 --> 00:19:57,900 Somehow in his spirit, he knows that this is the son of the living God. 406 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:01,860 Somehow he knows that this man is a king and he's going to come into his kingdom. 407 00:20:01,860 --> 00:20:07,620 And in the middle of all this, he says, Lord, when you come into your kingdom, please remember 408 00:20:07,620 --> 00:20:08,780 me. 409 00:20:08,780 --> 00:20:15,780 And Jesus says to him, Surely I say to you, you will be with me in paradise. 410 00:20:15,780 --> 00:20:19,220 Jesus is not yelling obscenities at his torturers. 411 00:20:19,220 --> 00:20:21,980 He's not condemning them or rebuking them. 412 00:20:21,980 --> 00:20:24,220 He's nailed to a tree. 413 00:20:24,220 --> 00:20:31,260 He's a king and a man, a criminal, common criminal beside him says, remember me. 414 00:20:31,260 --> 00:20:33,620 It's not what it looks like. 415 00:20:33,620 --> 00:20:35,580 Luke 23, 44 says this now. 416 00:20:35,580 --> 00:20:37,660 It's about the sixth hour, say the sixth hour. 417 00:20:37,660 --> 00:20:39,820 Come on, we're telling a story this morning. 418 00:20:39,820 --> 00:20:42,980 And there was darkness over the whole earth until the ninth hour. 419 00:20:42,980 --> 00:20:46,620 The sun was darkened and the veil of the temple was torn in two. 420 00:20:46,620 --> 00:20:51,060 And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, he said, Father, in your hands, I commit my 421 00:20:51,060 --> 00:20:52,420 spirit. 422 00:20:52,420 --> 00:20:54,340 Having said this, he breathed his last. 423 00:20:54,340 --> 00:21:00,060 So when the centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God saying, certainly this was 424 00:21:00,060 --> 00:21:02,580 a righteous man. 425 00:21:02,580 --> 00:21:07,620 Remember I told you that the centurion was the leader of the soldiers of the whatever, 426 00:21:07,620 --> 00:21:10,580 how many soldiers there would have been that would have been assigned to that area. 427 00:21:10,580 --> 00:21:12,540 This centurion was the leader of them. 428 00:21:12,540 --> 00:21:18,220 He recognizes that this isn't what it looks like because when Jesus is on the cross, the 429 00:21:18,220 --> 00:21:19,940 sun goes dark for three hours. 430 00:21:19,940 --> 00:21:24,700 Now, listen, there's other recorded history that talks about this three hours and it was 431 00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:25,700 not an eclipse. 432 00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:26,980 There was not a lunar eclipse. 433 00:21:26,980 --> 00:21:28,100 They know what those were back then. 434 00:21:28,100 --> 00:21:32,460 There was not an eclipse of the sun that just happened to simultaneously line up with Jesus' 435 00:21:32,460 --> 00:21:33,980 death. 436 00:21:33,980 --> 00:21:35,060 It wasn't that at all. 437 00:21:35,060 --> 00:21:36,700 It wasn't excessively cloudy. 438 00:21:36,700 --> 00:21:41,100 It got dark, like midnight dark for three hours. 439 00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:44,100 And I got to imagine people are starting to look around like this isn't what it looks 440 00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:45,100 like. 441 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:46,100 Right. 442 00:21:46,100 --> 00:21:52,540 And while Jesus is breathing his last in the temple that there was a veil that separated 443 00:21:52,540 --> 00:21:56,580 the where the priests were from the Ark of the Covenant. 444 00:21:56,580 --> 00:22:01,660 And for 1500 years or plus more than that, actually, the Ark of the Covenant was on one 445 00:22:01,660 --> 00:22:04,980 side and it was a veil that was actually three and a half inches thick. 446 00:22:04,980 --> 00:22:08,580 And the only one that could go into the Ark of the Covenant to make atonement for sin 447 00:22:08,580 --> 00:22:09,900 was the high priest. 448 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:11,820 The high priest would go into the temple. 449 00:22:11,820 --> 00:22:15,100 He would be cleansed himself and he would go through the veil. 450 00:22:15,100 --> 00:22:19,060 And once a year he would make atonement for the people, all of Jerusalem. 451 00:22:19,060 --> 00:22:23,640 And if the priest wasn't clean himself, he would go into that place and they would literally 452 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,580 tie a rope to his ankle and bells on the on the bottom of his robe. 453 00:22:27,580 --> 00:22:32,620 And if he was not pure before God, he would die and they would drag him back out. 454 00:22:32,620 --> 00:22:35,260 But once he was cleansed, he would go in and make atonement. 455 00:22:35,260 --> 00:22:40,620 That veil, which was three and a half inches thick, was torn supernaturally in the temple 456 00:22:40,620 --> 00:22:41,980 from top to bottom. 457 00:22:41,980 --> 00:22:46,860 And what that showed was that no longer would a priest have to be the go between between 458 00:22:46,860 --> 00:22:47,900 me and God. 459 00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:48,900 No longer. 460 00:22:48,900 --> 00:22:49,900 Jesus came. 461 00:22:49,900 --> 00:22:54,560 He paid the price for all of us so that every one of us could go into the presence of God. 462 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,660 The Ark of the Covenant had the mercy seat on top of it. 463 00:22:57,660 --> 00:22:59,540 God's presence literally dwelled there. 464 00:22:59,540 --> 00:23:01,820 That's why you just didn't wall sin to there. 465 00:23:01,820 --> 00:23:03,300 It was God's presence. 466 00:23:03,300 --> 00:23:04,300 And the door opened. 467 00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:05,300 Right. 468 00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:09,620 The veil was torn and this centurion and the earth shook and it quaked. 469 00:23:09,620 --> 00:23:12,900 You can read that in another part of scripture. 470 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:16,940 And this centurion realized this man has authority. 471 00:23:16,940 --> 00:23:19,140 This man has authority over the elements. 472 00:23:19,140 --> 00:23:23,340 This is not what it looks like. 473 00:23:23,340 --> 00:23:28,240 Even a heathen centurion who worshiped multiple gods. 474 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:33,660 So when the centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God saying, certainly this was 475 00:23:33,660 --> 00:23:35,060 a righteous man. 476 00:23:35,060 --> 00:23:38,500 Other interpretations say the son of God. 477 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:42,620 Nothing with Jesus is what it looks like. 478 00:23:42,620 --> 00:23:46,620 Now they put him in a tomb. 479 00:23:46,620 --> 00:23:47,620 Come on. 480 00:23:47,620 --> 00:23:50,300 They put him in a tomb. 481 00:23:50,300 --> 00:23:51,820 They put him in a tomb. 482 00:23:51,820 --> 00:23:52,820 They think it's over. 483 00:23:52,820 --> 00:23:56,820 How many know when they put you in a tomb it's over? 484 00:23:56,820 --> 00:23:57,820 That's about as over as you get. 485 00:23:57,820 --> 00:23:58,820 All right. 486 00:23:58,820 --> 00:24:00,940 One of these days I'm getting older now. 487 00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:04,620 One of these days I tell my kids I'm getting old and crusty. 488 00:24:04,620 --> 00:24:06,860 One of these days I'm going to get a lot older and crusty. 489 00:24:06,860 --> 00:24:11,060 And if the Lord doesn't return, something's going to fail inside of this fleshly body 490 00:24:11,060 --> 00:24:16,100 of mine and they're going to stick me in a tomb and they're going to say it's over. 491 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:22,380 Hopefully they grieve and mourn. 492 00:24:22,380 --> 00:24:26,500 Hopefully there's some crying that goes on, but they're going to put me in a tomb. 493 00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:29,940 And they put Jesus in a tomb and they thought it was over. 494 00:24:29,940 --> 00:24:31,540 They thought this is it. 495 00:24:31,540 --> 00:24:35,020 This is done, but it wasn't over. 496 00:24:35,020 --> 00:24:39,220 Luke 24 one says this now on the first day of the week, Sunday. 497 00:24:39,220 --> 00:24:41,700 How many know it was Friday, but Sunday's coming. 498 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:45,980 Very early in the morning, they and certain other women with them came to the tomb bringing 499 00:24:45,980 --> 00:24:47,980 the spices which they had prepared. 500 00:24:47,980 --> 00:24:52,220 But when they had found the stone rolled away from the tomb, they went in and did not find 501 00:24:52,220 --> 00:24:53,940 the body of the Lord Jesus. 502 00:24:53,940 --> 00:24:56,620 And it happened as they were greatly perplexed about this. 503 00:24:56,620 --> 00:25:00,860 They behold two men stood by them in shining garments from angels showed up. 504 00:25:00,860 --> 00:25:05,340 Then as they were afraid about their faces to the earth, they said to them, why do you 505 00:25:05,340 --> 00:25:07,700 seek the living among the dead? 506 00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:09,020 He's not here. 507 00:25:09,020 --> 00:25:10,020 He is a risen. 508 00:25:10,020 --> 00:25:11,020 He is alive. 509 00:25:11,020 --> 00:25:12,020 Right? 510 00:25:12,020 --> 00:25:14,220 Remember how he spoke to you when he was still in Galilee. 511 00:25:14,220 --> 00:25:15,220 Jesus called it man. 512 00:25:15,220 --> 00:25:16,300 It was like playing pool. 513 00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:17,940 He said, I'm telling you, this is what's going to happen. 514 00:25:17,940 --> 00:25:18,940 Right? 515 00:25:18,940 --> 00:25:22,260 Saying the son of man must be delivered into the hands of the sinful men and be crucified. 516 00:25:22,260 --> 00:25:26,860 And on the third day he rise again and they remembered his words and they returned from 517 00:25:26,860 --> 00:25:33,180 the tomb and told all these things to the 11 and to all the rest. 518 00:25:33,180 --> 00:25:39,020 Not even the grave was what it looked like with Jesus. 519 00:25:39,020 --> 00:25:41,260 Dead things are in grace. 520 00:25:41,260 --> 00:25:42,900 Jesus stepped out of the grave. 521 00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:43,900 Right? 522 00:25:43,900 --> 00:25:44,980 Come on. 523 00:25:44,980 --> 00:25:49,500 Angels stood and told the women, why are you seeking the living among the dead? 524 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:50,500 Right? 525 00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:51,500 He's alive. 526 00:25:51,500 --> 00:25:55,500 I'm going to ask you if you'd stand this morning. 527 00:25:55,500 --> 00:25:56,660 It's not what it looks like. 528 00:25:56,660 --> 00:25:57,660 Turn to somebody. 529 00:25:57,660 --> 00:25:59,580 Tell them it's not what it looks like. 530 00:25:59,580 --> 00:26:03,100 It's not what it looks like. 531 00:26:03,100 --> 00:26:04,500 I want to take a moment and pray. 532 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:08,380 And I know those are listening online and you're standing at East Shore and Pastor Eric's 533 00:26:08,380 --> 00:26:11,220 getting ready to come before you. 534 00:26:11,220 --> 00:26:15,260 And I want you to close your eyes just for a moment. 535 00:26:15,260 --> 00:26:20,300 And some of you are thinking, you know, there could be dead things in your life. 536 00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:21,300 Right? 537 00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:22,740 You're thinking that this could be the end. 538 00:26:22,740 --> 00:26:24,660 You're thinking there's just no way. 539 00:26:24,660 --> 00:26:25,660 Right? 540 00:26:25,660 --> 00:26:28,420 That things, Pastor, you don't understand. 541 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:30,020 There's some dead things in my life. 542 00:26:30,020 --> 00:26:32,580 There's some things that got buried in my life. 543 00:26:32,580 --> 00:26:35,340 There's some things that there's no way it's coming back. 544 00:26:35,340 --> 00:26:36,340 Right? 545 00:26:36,340 --> 00:26:39,340 That there's no way there's resurrection for this. 546 00:26:39,340 --> 00:26:43,740 And some of you have relationships. 547 00:26:43,740 --> 00:26:46,580 I want you, man, I just want you to be honest. 548 00:26:46,580 --> 00:26:47,580 Right? 549 00:26:47,580 --> 00:26:52,460 You've got relationships that things have died. 550 00:26:52,460 --> 00:26:58,740 Some of you, some of you have been in relationships and I felt strongly about this this morning 551 00:26:58,740 --> 00:27:01,620 that there was abuse in a relationship. 552 00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:05,780 And you might be thinking, Pastor, you have no idea what has died in my life because of 553 00:27:05,780 --> 00:27:06,780 that relationship. 554 00:27:06,780 --> 00:27:13,960 There are so many things that were killed off in my life in that relationship. 555 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:21,020 Some of you might be thinking, you don't know the circumstance. 556 00:27:21,020 --> 00:27:23,300 You don't know the situation. 557 00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:26,300 You don't know the dreams and callings that God had in my life. 558 00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:30,980 And somehow that got squashed along the way and ended up in a tomb and they're buried 559 00:27:30,980 --> 00:27:33,340 and somehow died. 560 00:27:33,340 --> 00:27:37,220 Some of you, some of you, some of you listening to me right now, and it could be online. 561 00:27:37,220 --> 00:27:38,220 Right? 562 00:27:38,220 --> 00:27:40,900 It could be in East Shore. 563 00:27:40,900 --> 00:27:41,980 It could be right here. 564 00:27:41,980 --> 00:27:45,740 Some of you, some of you here listening, right? 565 00:27:45,740 --> 00:27:49,020 And you don't even know Jesus as Lord and Savior and you don't, and you're thinking, 566 00:27:49,020 --> 00:27:51,940 you don't understand most of the things in my life are dead. 567 00:27:51,940 --> 00:27:57,100 Most of the things in my life are in the tomb. 568 00:27:57,100 --> 00:28:27,020 I'm here to tell you it's not what it looks like in Jesus. 569 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:30,020 I'm here to tell you it's not what it looks like in Jesus.