1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 And all of the D groups and Awanas and the youth group that 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000 is going on and all of the grief share and disciple veterans. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 But you guys get the best group. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Right? 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,000 And so we are glad you are here. 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Lots going on at our church and we are just really glad that 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,000 everybody is here. 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 If it's your first time or first time in a long time, we always 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,000 ask those who would like to fill out a guest card and that 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:33,000 you can fill out a guest card in front of you and seat back 11 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:34,000 pocket in front of you. 12 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,000 We want to know who you are and thanks for coming. 13 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Sunday, hey, by the way, this is for the three or four men that 14 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,000 are here. 15 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 This is a public service announcement. 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Mother's day is Sunday. 17 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 So you need to get something for your mother. 18 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 And if you are inclined to think, that means I don't have to get 19 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 my wife because she is not my mother. 20 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,000 You are wrong. 21 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,000 You have to get something for your wife. 22 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Okay? 23 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:07,000 So just be safe, play it safe, go ahead and get something for 24 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 your wife even if she is not your mother, she is A mother. 25 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,000 And don't get her something stupid. 26 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Get her something nice. 27 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Okay? 28 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 So I see no guys writing that down at all. 29 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Didn't even put a note in your phone. 30 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Okay. 31 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 So anyway, that will be Sunday. 32 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Kids are, we have kids singing and all the kids and teenagers will 33 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,000 be singing with the choir. 34 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,000 We are going to be in Psalm 139. 35 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,000 It's going to be a great time. 36 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,000 And so we would love to invite you back for Sunday. 37 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,000 And then in a couple weeks after that, Memorial Day, all the moms, 38 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 by the way, on Sunday will get a gift. 39 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,000 So make sure you come. 40 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 If you like chocolate, you will really like the gift. 41 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,000 If you don't like chocolate, give me your gift. 42 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Also, Memorial Day coming and we are going to honor our military 43 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,000 that are giving their lives for the country. 44 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 And then we are also going to have on that Sunday night the 45 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:11,000 annual dads versus teens basketball, dads versus teenage boys. 46 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,000 We are not like dunking on girls. 47 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 That's not going to be good. 48 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 But anyway, that will be on that Sunday night. 49 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 It will be a lot of fun. 50 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 And so we are excited for summer coming. 51 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Who is excited for summer coming? 52 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 I am so excited for summer coming. 53 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,000 We have camps and vacation Bible school. 54 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,000 We sent out a postcard for vacation Bible school this last 55 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,000 week and we already have 30 people signed up for VBS. 56 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 And it's a month and a half away. 57 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,000 That's pretty cool. 58 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,000 A bunch more kids signed up. 59 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 And it will be really, really good. 60 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,000 So lots going on around here. 61 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:52,000 And we are going to be talking about the life of Jesus and 62 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 here's what I want you to do. 63 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,000 I know this may feel a little bit weird for those of you who are 64 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,000 introverted. 65 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,000 And I know that you are going to be talking about the life of 66 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Jesus and the life of Jesus. 67 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000 And I know that you are going to be talking about the life of 68 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Jesus and the life of Jesus. 69 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,000 And I know this may feel a little bit weird for those of you 70 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,000 who are introverted. 71 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 But we are going to be friendly anyway. 72 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 What is something that you like to share and something that you 73 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 do not like to share? 74 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Something you like to share. 75 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Something you don't like to share. 76 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 And then tell somebody around you. 77 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,000 You don't have to get up and walk around. 78 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 But tell somebody around you. 79 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Something you like to share. 80 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Something you don't like to share. 81 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 What do you like to share? 82 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Nothing. 83 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 What do you like? 84 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 Do you like to share anything, Mom? 85 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Oh, yeah. 86 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Yeah. 87 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:38,000 What do you like to share? 88 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:48,000 There you go. 89 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,000 All right. 90 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Does anybody want to share what there is ironically. 91 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Does anybody like to share? 92 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Who wants to tell me what you like to share? 93 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Ted. 94 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Oh, okay. 95 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Dude, he is going to crank it out on Mother's Day. 96 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,000 I am telling you. 97 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,000 That was good. 98 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Ted. 99 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 All right. 100 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,000 I like that. 101 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Yeah, his points are going up. 102 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Anybody else what do you like to share? 103 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Yeah. 104 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 It's all bad after that. 105 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Yeah. 106 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Anybody what do you like to share? 107 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Dave Fawcett. 108 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 I like to share Jesus. 109 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 It's like you are thinking about what I am going to talk about 110 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,000 tonight. 111 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,000 What else? 112 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,000 I am going to tell you what I like to share and what I don't 113 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,000 like to share. 114 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,000 I like to share. 115 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 I am going to tell you what I like to share and what I don't 116 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 like to share. 117 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,000 I really like to share a meal with somebody. 118 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Go share a meal. 119 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Go sit down and eat. 120 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 I really like doing that. 121 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 I also hate sharing a meal with somebody. 122 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 You get what I am saying? 123 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,000 I like them having theirs and me having mine, right? 124 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 But when my parents, did your parents ever do this to you? 125 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Like we are going to go through McDonald's and you guys can 126 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,000 split. 127 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 You know, you can have it with your parents. 128 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,000 You can have a burger but you are going to split a coke. 129 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Did you ever split a coke with your family? 130 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 We were poor enough that my parents were like, instead of 131 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 two smalls, we will get one medium and you share, right? 132 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,000 And we were, you are probably thinking, you don't look like 133 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 you shared a lot of coax. 134 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,000 You look like you drank a lot of coax. 135 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 So yeah, I like to share a meal but I don't like to share a meal 136 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 because here is the other thing that happens. 137 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,000 My brother would always take more. 138 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Are you with me? 139 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Always. 140 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,000 And even if we like split it, he would always take the bigger 141 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000 hat. 142 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Yeah, it's awful. 143 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Okay, what is something you don't like to share? 144 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,000 TJ? 145 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,000 I am still wondering what you are doing. 146 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 I am still wondering what you are doing. 147 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 I am still wondering what you are doing. 148 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,000 I am still wondering what you are doing. 149 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,000 TJ, that's awesome, man. 150 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Yeah, you are very honest. 151 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 No, he doesn't. 152 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 He doesn't want to share it. 153 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 He doesn't want to share it. 154 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,000 He doesn't want to share it. 155 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,000 I get it. 156 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Okay, anything you don't like to share. 157 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,000 What else? 158 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Ms. Debbie. 159 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,000 Chocolate. 160 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Okay. 161 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 We are on the same page. 162 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000 That's good. 163 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Yeah. 164 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,000 What do you think? 165 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Oh, I like this. 166 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 She said, Ms. 167 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Samson says she doesn't like to share her age. 168 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 A lot of ladies. 169 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 I don't think it's been in my mind. 170 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 I don't like it. 171 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,000 What are you saying about gentry? 172 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,000 I just said I didn't think it meant anything to you. 173 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 We are like creating fights back here. 174 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Yes. 175 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,000 I am still wondering what you are doing. 176 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Oh, yes. 177 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,000 She says she will share her age but not her weight. 178 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 I am with you. 179 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 I understand that. 180 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 I am with you. 181 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 I am with you. 182 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 That is no go for me, too. 183 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,000 I am every bit of 150 pounds. 184 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,000 That's what I am. 185 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Every bit of it. 186 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Anyway. 187 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 And Sam. 188 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,000 I have to be honest. 189 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,000 I am being recorded. 190 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Sharing has different connotations. 191 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Even today maybe than it did 20 years ago. 192 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,000 I am not sure if you are watching this. 193 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 I am not sure. 194 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,000 I am just saying like and share. 195 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,000 If you ever watch YouTube, smash that like button. 196 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 And subscribe and share. 197 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,000 What that can mean is send this link to other people. 198 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 That kind of thing. 199 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,000 It used to be that sharing meant you were with somebody. 200 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,000 You could share a sandwich. 201 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 You could share some news. 202 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Paige said she likes to share good news but she doesn't love to 203 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 share bad news with people. 204 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,000 They say don't shoot the messenger. 205 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,000 That's why we don't necessarily like that. 206 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,000 If we are enjoying a meal we share it. 207 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,000 If we take a good picture, we share it. 208 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,000 I remember the first time that there was a time when I had, I 209 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,000 can't remember if it was my child or somebody at one of my friends 210 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,000 kids. 211 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,000 But we had, it had been a while and we had one of those 212 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:17,000 disposable cameras. 213 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Remember disposable cameras? 214 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,000 You take the picture and you remember that. 215 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,000 And I remember being with, this was like right after the digital 216 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 cameras had come out. 217 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 And I remember being shocked because I took a picture with one 218 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,000 of those disposable cameras of one of my, it was a kid. 219 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 It was like a little toddler. 220 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 And I took the picture and then they walked over and they wanted 221 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:40,000 to see the picture. 222 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 And it was a disposable camera. 223 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,000 I couldn't show them the picture. 224 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,000 And I remember seeing the picture. 225 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Does that seem like a long time ago? 226 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,000 We had the picture right away. 227 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 We used to go wait and get the pictures and find out half of them 228 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,000 were bad. 229 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,000 They were just dumb pictures. 230 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Anyway, did you ever take a camera and take a picture of 231 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,000 yourself? 232 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Did you ever do that? 233 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,000 That's nothing to do with the lesson. 234 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Sharing though, sometimes people share too much. 235 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,000 And I don't care what you had for lunch. 236 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:19,000 And I don't need to see a picture of what your cat is wearing. 237 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000 You're buying outfits for them or whatever. 238 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,000 So some people share too much. 239 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,000 But today, if you're a Christian, if you're a believer in Christ, 240 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 one of the things that we're supposed to do, one of the things 241 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,000 that we're called to do is to share Christ. 242 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,000 And when I say share Christ, I'm talking about communicate with 243 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,000 people about Jesus Christ. 244 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,000 This was what Jesus kind of, this was the end of Jesus' 245 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:46,000 mission. 246 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:52,000 This was the end of his discipleship with his disciples. 247 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,000 He had poured into them for three years or more. 248 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,000 He loved them. 249 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,000 He cared for them. 250 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,000 He had taught them. 251 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,000 He had exemplified what ministry looked like to them. 252 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,000 And then at the end, he said, your job is to go out and share 253 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,000 the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ. 254 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,000 And because they did that, who did that with others, 255 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,000 who did that with others, somehow the gospel got to you. 256 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,000 And if it hadn't got to you yet, it will get to you tonight. 257 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Because I want to share what Jesus did for you on the cross 258 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,000 and what he wants you to do in sharing him with others. 259 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,000 We've been in this series called, it's all about Jesus. 260 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 And we've talked about the ministry of Jesus. 261 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,000 And the... 262 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Weird. 263 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Serious sharing with me. 264 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,000 I don't know what's going on there. 265 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,000 We've talked about the ministry of Jesus. 266 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 We've talked about the person of Jesus. 267 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,000 We've talked about the crucifixion of Jesus and the resurrection 268 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,000 of Jesus. 269 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Tonight we're going to talk about the mission of Jesus. 270 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,000 And here's the big idea of the lesson. 271 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,000 The truth about Jesus is too big and too important to keep to 272 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 ourselves. 273 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,000 The story of Jesus, the truth about Jesus Christ is too big 274 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,000 and too important to keep to ourselves. 275 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,000 I want to talk about three factors in our sharing about 276 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Jesus Christ. 277 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Here's the first one. 278 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,000 The first one is the evidence we are to engage. 279 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Now this is what we're going to see. 280 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,000 We're going to see these factors in the life of Jesus. 281 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,000 This is after he resurrects from the dead. 282 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Now you may be asking me. 283 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000 For some of you it's not a surprise. 284 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 For some maybe it may feel like a surprise. 285 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,000 You may ask the question, do you believe that Jesus Christ 286 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:42,000 actually physically, bodily, supernaturally rose from the 287 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,000 dead? 288 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,000 And I'm not crazy. 289 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,000 I actually believe that. 290 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,000 I actually believe that he was dead and that he rose from the 291 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,000 dead. 292 00:12:54,000 --> 00:13:00,000 And literally today I was on the way listening to, I like to 293 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,000 listen to a lot of stuff. 294 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,000 I listen all the time to things. 295 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,000 There was a guy named Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins is a 296 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 well-known atheist. 297 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,000 He calls himself a Christian atheist here lately. 298 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,000 He talked about that. 299 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 That's a whole other conversation. 300 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,000 But as an atheist he says he's more Christian than anything 301 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000 else. 302 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,000 But that's a whole other topic. 303 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,000 If you want to talk about it, we'll have some coffee and talk 304 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000 about that. 305 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:35,000 But he was talking to, he was writing, he was doing an open 306 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:40,000 letter essentially and reading it on his podcast to another lady 307 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 who has recently converted to Christianity. 308 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,000 And this was basically his message to her. 309 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:51,000 You are way too smart to actually believe what you say you now 310 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000 believe. 311 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,000 You are way too smart to believe that there's a God who created 312 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,000 everything and you are way too smart to believe that God became a 313 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 man and rose from the dead. 314 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:07,000 As if if you believe that you are dumb, right? 315 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,000 He's essentially saying I know you, you are an intelligent woman, 316 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,000 why would you say you believe that? 317 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,000 There's lots of reasons we can believe it. 318 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Not all facts do you learn or can you know the same way. 319 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Meaning there are some things that are repeatable and testable. 320 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,000 That's what we call the study of science. 321 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:32,000 In science you do experimentation. 322 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:38,000 And you can, if you looked under a microscope at a particular 323 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,000 element in 1973 and then you look at that same element under a 324 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 microscope in 2024, it will be the same. 325 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 It will be the same. 326 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Historical information is not like that. 327 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 History is not like that. 328 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,000 You can't have a repeatable George Washington. 329 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 There was only one George Washington. 330 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,000 So you can't do an experiment to find out who the first president 331 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:06,000 was because that's not something you learn by experimentation. 332 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:10,000 That's something you learn by evidence and you learn it by 333 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,000 historical fact. 334 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Does that make sense? 335 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,000 So it doesn't necessarily mean that no matter how far back you go, 336 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:23,000 the further back it is that you can't prove it. 337 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Now there may be less evidence out there to prove something. 338 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Certain notable figures may have not a lot of things written down, 339 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,000 things you can find out about them. 340 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,000 But we can find out a whole lot about Jesus. 341 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 And we can know a lot about him. 342 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Now there was evidence that the disciples got that they were 343 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,000 supposed to engage with. 344 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,000 And this is what we are going to find out in Luke chapter 24. 345 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:53,000 If you have your Bible, Luke chapter 24, look at verse 44. 346 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Here's what it says. 347 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Actually we are going to go back, not to 44. 348 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Let's go back all the way to verse 36. 349 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:08,000 Luke 24, 36. 350 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Here's what it says. 351 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000 I will get there. 352 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:18,000 The real skills are slow here. 353 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:23,000 It says, and as they thus spake, now it's always good to kind of 354 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,000 know, what are we talking about? 355 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Where are we, who is they? 356 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Well if you look in chapter 24, here we go, verse 36. 357 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 And as they thus spake. 358 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Now this is the disciples. 359 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:52,000 And it says it back in verse, let's go back to verse 31. 360 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Their eyes were open. 361 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Verse 32. 362 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,000 And they said, one another did not our heart burn within us. 363 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,000 While they talked with us by the way and opened us to the 364 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,000 scriptures and rose the same hour and returned to Jerusalem and 365 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:08,000 returned to Jerusalem and returned to Jerusalem. 366 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:12,000 And they said, the Lord is risen indeed. 367 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Let me catch you up to where we are. 368 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:19,000 There were two disciples walking on the road to Emmaus. 369 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,000 If you go back to verse 13, it starts the story about these two 370 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,000 guys, they are going on the road to Emmaus. 371 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,000 And Jesus shows up next to them and begins to walk with them. 372 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:35,000 And they don't know that it is Jesus. 373 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,000 And Jesus, they start saying, what are you guys talking about? 374 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,000 They tell them, haven't you heard about what is going on in 375 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Jerusalem and they begin to explain all of these things to 376 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,000 them. 377 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,000 They explain what their friends are saying about Jesus rising 378 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,000 from the dead and they don't know if they can believe it. 379 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,000 And he says in verse 25. 380 00:17:54,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Jesus says, why are you so slow of hearts to believe all that the 381 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,000 prophets have spoken? 382 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 This is Jesus talking. 383 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,000 They don't know it is Jesus. 384 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,000 And they are telling him about this claim that Jesus has 385 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:14,000 resurrected and how they are having a hard time believing it. 386 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,000 Jesus says, why are you so slow of hearts to believe all that the 387 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,000 prophets have spoken? 388 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 And in the Old Testament where they wrote what would happen in 389 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:28,000 the future, they spoke about Jesus' death and his resurrection. 390 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,000 And he is saying, why is it so hard for you to believe that? 391 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,000 Verse 26. 392 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:36,000 ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into 393 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,000 his glory. 394 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,000 And then it says in verse 27. 395 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:45,000 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded under 396 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,000 them all the scriptures, the things concerning himself. 397 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Now when you read in verse number 27, beginning at Moses and all 398 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:00,000 the prophets, who, what is he talking about with Moses? 399 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:05,000 He is talking about the first five books of the Bible. 400 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Moses wrote Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. 401 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:14,000 And when you sit, when the expression, Moses and the prophets 402 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:19,000 is an expression that basically is saying he took the Old Testament, 403 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,000 the scriptures that they had at that time, and he walked through 404 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:29,000 the Old Testament telling them about the Messiah and how the 405 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000 Messiah was supposed to die and rise again. 406 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 That's literally what he's talking about. 407 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,000 All the things concerning himself. 408 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Now you might say, did he really as they walk on the road go through 409 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,000 every verse in the Old Testament? 410 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,000 I think what he did was he went into some parts in Moses and 411 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,000 some parts, you know, you could go to Exodus with the Passover 412 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:56,000 Lamb, you could go to Psalm chapter 22 and what happened there. 413 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,000 You could go to Isaiah chapter 53 and what happened there. 414 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:03,000 And he's going to specific spots to show them in the scripture 415 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:08,000 from memory what the Old Testament says pointing to his 416 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Messiah ship, his death, his burial and his resurrection. 417 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:18,000 And what I want to say to us is this, that there are reasons to believe 418 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,000 that Jesus actually rose from the dead. 419 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,000 One of them is it was predicted and then it happened. 420 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000 It was predicted and it happened. 421 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 He goes on. 422 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:33,000 So when it gets to, when you get to verse 36, what you find out is 423 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:38,000 they finally, they get to a place they're eating, these two guys 424 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,000 on the road to Emmaus, Jesus opens their eyes, they realize it's 425 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,000 him and then he vanishes. 426 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Okay, that's what happens in verse number 31. 427 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Their eyes were open and they knew him and he vanished out of 428 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,000 their sight. 429 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Verse 30, so then they go to Jerusalem, they go to the 11 who 430 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:05,000 were gathered together and they say, hey, it's true, we saw it. 431 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,000 Verse 34, the Lord has risen indeed and had to appear to Simon 432 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,000 and they told what things were done in the way and how he was 433 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,000 made known of them and breaking a bread. 434 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:22,000 And as they thus spake, here it is, verse 36, Jesus himself stood 435 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:29,000 in the midst of them and said unto them, peace be unto you. 436 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:34,000 This is the same kind of thing that is said if you look in all 437 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,000 the New Testament and even into the Old Testament, every time an 438 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:42,000 angel appears to somebody, what do angels say when they show up? 439 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Angels showed up to Mary and he says, fear not, Mary, don't be 440 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,000 afraid, why? 441 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Because if there's nobody in front of you and all of a sudden 442 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:57,000 they're in front of you, who agrees that would be kind of 443 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 scary, right? 444 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000 And so he wasn't there and all of a sudden he was there and he 445 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,000 goes, I'm sure what they did was... 446 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Now why would they be startled? 447 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,000 One thing would be because he was stood in front of them, another 448 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,000 thing was, he was dead! 449 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,000 And now he's alive! 450 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:23,000 Now, if you saw somebody that was dead become alive, what would 451 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:28,000 be something you might think? 452 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,000 What would be one way to explain what you're seeing? 453 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Who thinks that somebody might say he's a ghost, right? 454 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 That could be something somebody would say, you've heard of that 455 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,000 stuff? 456 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Anybody here ever go in the Haunted Mansion down at Disney? 457 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 You have no idea what I'm talking about. 458 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 You bunch of Ohioans have never been to... 459 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Have you been to Disney World? 460 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,000 The Haunted Mansion, you see those like... 461 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,000 You guys don't want to participate, yeah. 462 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 You might think that somebody is down everywhere. 463 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 You might think, oh, this is a ghost. 464 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:01,000 Now, verse 37, they were terrified and affrighted and 465 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,000 suppose that they had seen a spirit. 466 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,000 You see it there? 467 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 They're worried. 468 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,000 And he said unto them, why are ye troubled and why do your thoughts 469 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000 arise in your hearts? 470 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,000 Behold my hands and my feet that it is myself. 471 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Why is he showing them his hands and his feet? 472 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000 What had happened to him? 473 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 The scars were there. 474 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,000 Hey, look, it's me. 475 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,000 I got a piercing. 476 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,000 A couple of them, right? 477 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,000 For a spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have. 478 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,000 And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his 479 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:49,000 feet and while they yet believed not for joy and wondered, 480 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:54,000 he said unto them, have ye hear any meat? 481 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:59,000 Meat there, meat is not just necessarily protein. 482 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 It's also, it's any food. 483 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:06,000 So he's literally saying, now I love that verse, in verse 41, 484 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,000 you see that they believe not for joy. 485 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000 What does that expression mean? 486 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,000 You want to take a stab at it? 487 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:20,000 You want to take a stab at it? 488 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,000 Right. 489 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:25,000 I think that expression is saying they're trying to comprehend 490 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,000 this as good news. 491 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,000 I agree with you. 492 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,000 I just think, I think what I believe what it's saying is, it's 493 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,000 like, have you ever seen something that's too good to be true? 494 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,000 That's, it caught your lying eyes, right? 495 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 It's like, he's here. 496 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 He's really alive. 497 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000 This is really him. 498 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 They're excited, right? 499 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 They're pumped. 500 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,000 And so then he asks, have you any meat? 501 00:24:53,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Why do you think he wants to eat in front of them? 502 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Spirits don't eat. 503 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Yeah. 504 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Spirits don't eat. 505 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,000 He's asking, hey, you have any food? 506 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,000 And they gave him a piece of broiled fish and of a hunting 507 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 fish. 508 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,000 And he took it and ate it before them. 509 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000 That's pretty sweet. 510 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,000 So he is giving them evidence. 511 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000 He didn't just resurrect. 512 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 He resurrected and stayed around. 513 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,000 And in his resurrected body, which apparently can just show up 514 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:35,000 into walls and appear in places, he actually takes the, how cool 515 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,000 would it be, I know I said this before, but how amazing would it 516 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:44,000 be to do a Bible study with Jesus in his resurrected body, 517 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000 taking you through the Old Testament and showing how the 518 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000 Old Testament points to him. 519 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Who thinks that would be such a cool thing to do? 520 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 And that's literally what he's doing. 521 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 There's evidence of his body. 522 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 There's evidence as he's eating. 523 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 There's evidence in his appearing. 524 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,000 There's evidence in the scripture. 525 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 And this is exactly what he does. 526 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:11,000 It says in verse after he eats, verse 40, 40, said unto them, 527 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,000 these are the words which I have spoken into you while I was 528 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000 yet with you. 529 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,000 What does that mean? 530 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Yeah, I predicted this. 531 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,000 What you're seeing is what I told you. 532 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000 You had a hard time believing it. 533 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,000 I told you, no man takes my life from me. 534 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,000 I lay it down so that I could pick it up, take it up again. 535 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,000 That's exactly the kind of thing he told me, told them that he 536 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,000 would do. 537 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,000 And he's saying, listen, this is exactly what I told you. 538 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:47,000 And it's exactly what the prophet said, that all things must 539 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,000 be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses and in the 540 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:56,000 prophets and in the Psalms concerning me. 541 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Then open he their understanding that they might understand the 542 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,000 scriptures. 543 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,000 That is amazing. 544 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,000 That's what he did. 545 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,000 So now here's something I want to show you. 546 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 And I'm going a little bit off script. 547 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,000 I didn't write down the verses. 548 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,000 But if you have your Bibles, go to Acts. 549 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:28,000 And I'm looking for Acts chapter number one and look down 550 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:40,000 in verse 15. 551 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:44,000 And in those days, this is, okay, so in my Bible, I have a red 552 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,000 letter edition. 553 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,000 Do you have a red letter edition Bible? 554 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Okay. 555 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,000 The words of Jesus are in red, right? 556 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,000 When it's very obviously Jesus, it's in red. 557 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,000 And if you look at the book of John, just a couple of pages 558 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,000 before, there's red on every page, right? 559 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000 Because Jesus is there, this is the story of Jesus. 560 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,000 When you look at the book of Acts, there's red on the first 561 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,000 chapter and then there's very little red going on. 562 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000 Later on there is a couple of times where somebody is quoting 563 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000 Jesus and that's how that is. 564 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000 But in the book of Acts you have Jesus right at the beginning 565 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,000 because the book of Acts is Acts of the Apostles. 566 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,000 And you see Jesus and now they are actually going out and 567 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,000 helping to propagate and expand the church. 568 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000 That's what they are doing. 569 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Jesus had these 12 disciples. 570 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,000 One of the 12 disciples that he had was Judas. 571 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,000 Judas was the one that betrayed him. 572 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:44,000 They weren't the only disciples but there were definitely 573 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,000 apostles that were named those 12 apostles. 574 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,000 So in verse number 15 of chapter one it says, and in those 575 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,000 verses Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said, 576 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,000 the number of names together were about 120. 577 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,000 So where he's talking in this upper room is where it is, 578 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,000 there's 120 that are there. 579 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,000 And he says, men and brother in the scripture must needs have 580 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,000 been fulfilled which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David 581 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,000 spake concerning Judas which was guided them that took Jesus 582 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,000 for he was numbered with us and had attained part of this 583 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,000 ministry. 584 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity and 585 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,000 failing headlong he burst the thunder in the midst and all his 586 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,000 bells gushed out and it was known to all that dwellers in 587 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,000 Jerusalem and so much as the field is called in their proper 588 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,000 tongue, asal dama which is to say the field of blood. 589 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,000 So what is he saying? 590 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,000 Hey, one of these who was a disciple betrayed Jesus and 591 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,000 committed suicide. 592 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,000 And now there's not 12 disciples, there's 11. 593 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:54,000 And this was predicted by the Holy Ghost through David, King David, 594 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,000 talked about that this would happen. 595 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000 It's written in the book of Psalms verse 20, let his habitation 596 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,000 be desiplit and let no man dwell therein and his bishop 597 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,000 rick let another take. 598 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,000 Wherefore of these men which have accompanied with us all the 599 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,000 time, here's the point I'm trying to make, verse 21, 600 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:17,000 wherefore of these men which have accompanied with us all the 601 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,000 time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us beginning from 602 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,000 the baptism of John under that same day that he was taken up 603 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:31,000 from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his 604 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,000 what? 605 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000 Resurrection. 606 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,000 So what Peter's saying is Jesus ordained 12, the Holy Spirit 607 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,000 said that there would be 12, like that would be part of this 608 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000 group. 609 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:51,000 And part of what we're supposed to be is people who proclaim 610 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:56,000 from the time of Jesus' baptism his death, his burial, his 611 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,000 resurrection and even his ascension back to the Father, we 612 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,000 need people to be, we need one more person to be an official 613 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,000 apostle. 614 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,000 And the official is one who is sent for what? 615 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:15,000 Sent with eyewitness testimony that what Jesus did and what is 616 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,000 what he did. 617 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000 So that's what they did. 618 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,000 They appointed two. 619 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,000 This literally is the definition of an apostle. 620 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,000 Someone who saw, literally there's the qualifications. 621 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:33,000 Verse 23, they appointed two Joseph called Bersabbas, whose 622 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:38,000 name is Jesus and they prayed and said, God, which knows the hearts 623 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,000 of all men show whether these two have chosen, that he may take 624 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,000 part of this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by 625 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,000 transgression fell and that he might go to his own place. 626 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,000 And they gave their lots and fell on Matthias and numbered with 627 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000 the 11 apostles. 628 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,000 What's my point? 629 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,000 My point is this. 630 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:05,000 In a very specific way, Jesus Christ, his whole ministry, his 631 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,000 death, his burial, his resurrection, they had seen his body, 632 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:14,000 they had been at the Bible study, they knew who Jesus was. 633 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,000 And what's amazing is, then they went out and proclaimed that 634 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,000 evidence that they knew to the whole world. 635 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,000 To the point that all of them by tradition we understand and 636 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,000 we have several reasons to believe this, there's even some 637 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,000 biblical evidence, all of them but one died. 638 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,000 And they died, I mean all of them died. 639 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,000 All of them, 11 of them died a martyr's death. 640 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,000 They were killed for what they said they believed. 641 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,000 And so they had evidence and we have some of that same evidence. 642 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,000 People don't die for a lie. 643 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:56,000 And so they died because they claimed I saw them dead and I 644 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:01,000 saw them alive and you can't help, you can't get me to stop 645 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,000 talking about Jesus. 646 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,000 They had evidence that they were to engage. 647 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:11,000 We have evidence to believe what we believe and to proclaim to 648 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,000 others. 649 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,000 Here's the second thing, the second factor, okay? 650 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,000 Number two, there was an evangelism they were to execute. 651 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,000 Not enough that they had the evidence, it was time for them to 652 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,000 share the evidence. 653 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:30,000 Look at Luke chapter 26 verse 46. 654 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,000 It started verse 45, they opened and he there are 655 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,000 standing that they might understand the scriptures and he 656 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,000 said to them, thus it is written. 657 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:46,000 And thus it behooved Christ to suffer and to rise from the 658 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,000 dead the third day. 659 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,000 That's the event, that's what happened. 660 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:56,000 Why did it happen, right? 661 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,000 Why did it happen? 662 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:04,000 Verse 47, and that repentance and remission of sin, what's 663 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,000 remission of sins? 664 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,000 What does remission mean? 665 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:15,000 Repentance is turning from your sin, changing the way you 666 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,000 believe, changing your perspective on your sin to the way 667 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,000 God does. 668 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000 So you're right on that, Doran. 669 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,000 Remission is pardon, it's forgiveness. 670 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,000 What's the point of Jesus' death, bone resurrection? 671 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000 It's so that there can be forgiveness of sin. 672 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000 That's the point. 673 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:37,000 When I'm doing ministry, sometimes parents will come to me 674 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:42,000 and they want me to share the gospel, share Jesus with their 675 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,000 child, or they'll come to me and say, how do I know my kids 676 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000 have been talking about salvation, how do I know when 677 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,000 they're saved? 678 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:54,000 One of the biggest things that I think is an indication on 679 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:59,000 whether a kid really truly understands salvation in the 680 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,000 gospel where they can actually comprehend it, is when you ask 681 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,000 them, why do you want to be saved? 682 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,000 Right? 683 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,000 If they say, I want to be saved because I want to go to 684 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000 heaven, hey, who agrees, that's a good thing. 685 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,000 It's not bad, that's a good thing. 686 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,000 What do you need to be saved from? 687 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,000 I want to be saved so I can go to heaven. 688 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,000 Unless they can actually explain or understand their own 689 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:29,000 sinfulness that our sin keeps us from God, that our sin must be 690 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,000 punished, right? 691 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,000 They don't have an understanding of what salvation really is all 692 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,000 about. 693 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,000 And so you don't want to just say it, look at somebody and go, 694 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,000 hey, do you want to go to heaven? 695 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,000 Pray this prayer. 696 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,000 That's a bad plan because what do I need to be saved from? 697 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,000 This is what it's saying here. 698 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,000 What is the point of the gospel? 699 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,000 It's so that our sin could be forgiven. 700 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,000 And there's repentance and remission of sins that is preached 701 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:03,000 in His name, I love this next phrase, among all nations. 702 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,000 This isn't just for Jews. 703 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000 This is for people in Ohio. 704 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,000 This is for us in the world. 705 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,000 In 2024. 706 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,000 This is for us Gentiles. 707 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,000 It's for everybody. 708 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,000 It started there, it says in verse 47, beginning at Jerusalem 709 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:24,000 and he says to them, and ye are witnesses of these things. 710 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000 So what's the mission? 711 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000 What's the evangelism to engage in? 712 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,000 What's the evidence to engage in and the evangelism to execute? 713 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,000 To go proclaim Jesus to those who have never heard Him or those 714 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:40,000 who do not believe in Him so that they will believe. 715 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,000 So that their sins could be forgiven. 716 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000 Here's the last part, this is really cool. 717 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:50,000 There's an empowerment that they're to expect. 718 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,000 Number three, empowerment they're to expect. 719 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,000 Look at verse 49. 720 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,000 And behold, he says, I sin the promise of my Father upon you, 721 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:06,000 but tear ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued with 722 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:10,000 power from on high, and he led them out as far as Bethany and 723 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,000 lifted up his hands and blessed them and came to pass them while 724 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000 he blessed them and carried them to heaven. 725 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,000 And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great 726 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,000 joy and they were continually in the temple praising and 727 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,000 blessing God. 728 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,000 I want you, when you go, you're not going to go by yourself. 729 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,000 You're going to go and the Holy Spirit is going to live inside 730 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,000 of you. 731 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,000 And the Holy Spirit is going to guide you and direct you. 732 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:44,000 The author of the book of the Old Testament was going to be used 733 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,000 by these, this author was going to entwell these men. 734 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,000 And then they were going to write so many of them, not all of 735 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,000 them, but so many of them were going to write what became the 736 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,000 scriptures, what was the scriptures when they wrote it, 737 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,000 and then we get to have that same thing. 738 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,000 The truth of the matter is when we share, there's evidence that 739 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,000 we're supposed to engage in. 740 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:09,000 There is evangelism that we're supposed to execute. 741 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,000 And there's an empowerment. 742 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,000 We have the Holy Spirit living inside of us. 743 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,000 What I'm talking about tonight without actually using the 744 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:22,000 phrase is the term, the great commission. 745 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000 This is the great commission. 746 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,000 It's named in every gospel and it's named in the book of Acts. 747 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,000 It's pointed to in the Old Testament and pointed back to all 748 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,000 the way through the epistles and even in Revelation. 749 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000 What is the great commission? 750 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,000 Well, we read the one in Luke. 751 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,000 The great commission in Luke is this. 752 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,000 You're going to be my witnesses of the fact that I was dead, 753 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000 buried and risen again. 754 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,000 And you're going to be witnesses of that, sharing that to every 755 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,000 nation. 756 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,000 That's the great commission there. 757 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,000 If you go back to Matthew 28, Matthew, this is the one in 758 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:06,000 Matthew 28, it's the very end of the message of the book of 759 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,000 Matthew. 760 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,000 He says, all power is given unto me in heaven and earth, go 761 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,000 you there for and teach all nations, baptizing them in the 762 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,000 name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, teaching them 763 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,000 to observe all things I've commanded you and allow them with 764 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,000 you always even unto the end of the world. 765 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:26,000 This was the mission he sent them on to go share the gospel 766 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,000 with everybody. 767 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,000 And so here's four commands I want to share with you. 768 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,000 Just the very end here. 769 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:37,000 Four truths about Jesus that were commanded to go and tell. 770 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,000 Number one, this is four things about the command. 771 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:44,000 Number one, Jesus' command is not negotiable. 772 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,000 Okay. 773 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:50,000 Meaning if you know Christ as your Savior, God never intended 774 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:55,000 for you to optionally, like I get saved, cool, but whether or 775 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,000 not I share that with other people, that's optional. 776 00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,000 Right? 777 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,000 This is not an, if you're saved, to follow Jesus is to be a 778 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,000 fisherman. 779 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:09,000 When Jesus called the disciples, he says, this is like part of 780 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,000 hate. 781 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000 You become one of my disciples. 782 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,000 You follow me, follow me and I'll make you to become 783 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,000 fishers of men. 784 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,000 To follow Jesus is to fish. 785 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:26,000 What, did anybody come on Saturday to Don Henley's 786 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,000 funeral? 787 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000 You guys were there? 788 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,000 That was amazing. 789 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,000 That was incredible. 790 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,000 Aren't you glad to have known him? 791 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,000 I'm so glad to know. 792 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,000 Don Henley, those of you who may not know, was a member of our 793 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:47,000 church up until two Fridays ago when he went home to be at the 794 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:48,000 Lord. 795 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,000 And so many of you were there. 796 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,000 Like there are people, we had a testimony. 797 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,000 I could have, we could have kept going for another hour. 798 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,000 People standing up, hey, this guy over here, is that right 799 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,000 between Gentry and Kathy right here? 800 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:06,000 In 1984, I was a drunk guy walking down the road and Don 801 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:11,000 Henley stopped and picked me up, took me to where I needed to go, 802 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000 made sure I was safe. 803 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,000 And then he started talking to me all the time. 804 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,000 I think he even said something about getting him a job or 805 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,000 something. 806 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,000 And from 1984, and then 1989 is when he got saved. 807 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,000 And I know Jesus today because Don Henley shared the gospel with 808 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,000 me. 809 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000 And there's a lady that stood up over here. 810 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,000 I knew Cassandra, but Don told me about the gospel. 811 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,000 I got saved. 812 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,000 And how cool is that? 813 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:42,000 And I don't want my funeral to be like that. 814 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,000 Right? 815 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,000 And to think that when he gets to heaven, there are probably people 816 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,000 there that he got to lead to Christ. 817 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:52,000 I want there to be a welcoming committee when I get to heaven. 818 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,000 Not because of me, but because that's what God has called us to 819 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,000 do. 820 00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:00,000 So this command is not like, this isn't the great suggestion. 821 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,000 It's the great commission. 822 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,000 Go make disciples of all nations. 823 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000 So it's not negotiable. 824 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,000 Number two, the commandment is not restrictive. 825 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,000 It's not restrictive. 826 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,000 What do I mean? 827 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,000 It's an inclusive command. 828 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,000 Who are we supposed to share the gospel with? 829 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,000 Everybody. 830 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,000 Everybody you can. 831 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,000 All nations. 832 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:28,000 And if you look at Matthew 28, we go out under his authority. 833 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,000 We're going to go out under his authority to all nations. 834 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,000 So it's not restrictive. 835 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,000 It's for everybody. 836 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,000 Here's another one. 837 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:36,000 It's not negotiable. 838 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,000 It's not restrictive. 839 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,000 Number three, it's not complicated. 840 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,000 It's not complicated. 841 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,000 We're supposed to go. 842 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,000 We're supposed to share. 843 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:53,000 There's a sense in which in the passage that going is implied 844 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:58,000 in Matthew 28, it's almost got the sense of as you go, make 845 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,000 disciples of all nations. 846 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,000 And this is like a lifestyle thing that we do. 847 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:08,000 When I say lifestyle, there was this thing years ago and people 848 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,000 still kind of push it sometime today. 849 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,000 This lifestyle of angelism. 850 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,000 I'm just going to go and I'm never going to bring Jesus up. 851 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,000 I'm just going to be nice and hope that people ask me about it. 852 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,000 Now, I think you should be nice. 853 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:24,000 And I think you should live differently if you're a Christian. 854 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,000 But you can't keep your mouth shut. 855 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,000 You got to actually talk about Jesus. 856 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,000 And you have to know the gospel. 857 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,000 There is no getting saved without knowing the gospel. 858 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,000 Does that make sense? 859 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,000 This is what we're supposed to do. 860 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,000 And so, but it needs to be a part of who we are and part of our 861 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,000 lifestyle. 862 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:44,000 It's not complicated. 863 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:49,000 We go, we share, and we bring others along the road of following 864 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,000 Jesus. 865 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:56,000 And then last thing, last part, Jesus' command is not alone. 866 00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:00,000 Jesus commands us with authority and then sends us on mission, 867 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,000 but he also promises his presence. 868 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,000 He literally says, teach them to observe all things I've commanded 869 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:14,000 you and lo, I'm with you all the way, even unto the end of the 870 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:20,000 world. 871 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,000 We don't do this by ourselves. 872 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,000 We don't do it alone. 873 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:28,000 God's with us. 874 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:32,000 So, here's my challenge. 875 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,000 Two groups of people potentially here tonight. 876 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:40,000 There's two groups of people in every room, potentially. 877 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:48,000 One is people who have never taken that step of faith to actually 878 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,000 believe the truth about Jesus. 879 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:57,000 Jesus Christ's claim was that he was God. 880 00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,000 He claimed to be God. 881 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,000 He didn't claim to just be a prophet or to just be a good teacher. 882 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:09,000 Just to be an exceptional human being, somebody who was really a 883 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:14,000 neat guy, he claimed to be God. 884 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:21,000 And he said that he and the father were one. 885 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,000 Like it was a claim to deity. 886 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,000 And so, he claimed to be God. 887 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:36,000 He's either lying or he's crazy, a lunatic, or he is the Lord that 888 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,000 he said he was. 889 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:42,000 Those are your options. 890 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,000 So, he did that. 891 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,000 And then he said, I'm going to die. 892 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,000 When I die, I'm going to die for your sins. 893 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,000 And then I'm going to resurrect. 894 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:56,000 I'm going to get up out of the grave. 895 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,000 And he said, well, that's hard to believe it almost never happens. 896 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:00,000 Exactly. 897 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,000 That's the point. 898 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:07,000 If resurrection happened all the time, he said hey, you should 899 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,000 believe in Jesus, he resurrected. 900 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,000 So did my cousin Larry. 901 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:15,000 If it happened all the time, it wouldn't be a sign. 902 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:19,000 What it was is a showing of the approval of God that the sacrifice 903 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:24,000 that Jesus made for our sins was exactly, was approved by God 904 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,000 and exactly what should have happened. 905 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,000 And so, if you're here tonight, the Bible says that our sin 906 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,000 separates us from God. 907 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,000 That the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal 908 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,000 life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 909 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:43,000 And he says as many as received him, and then gave he power to 910 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,000 become the sons and daughters of God. 911 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:50,000 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. 912 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,000 Not the painting Jesus. 913 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,000 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have 914 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,000 everlasting life. 915 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,000 This is the gospel. 916 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:04,000 And if you've never, it's one thing to believe that, to believe 917 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:08,000 that it happened or to think of it as a historical reality. 918 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,000 But if I were to ask you why are you going to heaven, why are 919 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,000 your sins forgiven? 920 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:16,000 It didn't just happen because you heard about it, you have to 921 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,000 put your trust in it. 922 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,000 Bible says that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord 923 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,000 shall be saved. 924 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:28,000 We do the calling, he does the saving. 925 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,000 The prayer doesn't save you. 926 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:35,000 It's your trust in Christ that God responds to and takes your 927 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:39,000 sin and gives you Jesus' righteousness. 928 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,000 That's the gospel. 929 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:45,000 If you're here and you've never heard the gospel before and 930 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:49,000 never responded to it and you don't believe it, it's time for 931 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,000 you to believe. 932 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,000 It's time for you to believe. 933 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:57,000 And once you believe, call on the name of the Lord, the next 934 00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,000 step is baptism and discipleship. 935 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,000 That's what you do. 936 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,000 That's what we want to help you do. 937 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,000 There's another group of people in here, I know there's some of 938 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,000 these people in here tonight. 939 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:16,000 And if you know Christ the Savior, you have been put on a 940 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,000 mission. 941 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:24,000 And the mission is there are people all around you that do not 942 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,000 know Jesus Christ the Savior. 943 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,000 They have not become obedient to the gospel. 944 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:33,000 And the Great Commission isn't just for an elite group of 945 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,000 Navy SEAL Christians. 946 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,000 It's not just for the pastor. 947 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,000 It's not just for the deacons. 948 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,000 It's not just for the Sunday school teachers. 949 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,000 Although if our pastors and deacons and Sunday school 950 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,000 teachers aren't sharing the gospel with people, we're in 951 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:51,000 trouble. 952 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:52,000 Right? 953 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:56,000 It's for everyone that knows Jesus to share that with others. 954 00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,000 Not as like, oh, we're so much better. 955 00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,000 We're going to make the world like us. 956 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:02,000 Are you kidding? 957 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:03,000 We are messed up. 958 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:04,000 We are flawed. 959 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,000 But so are they. 960 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,000 This is about them understanding the gospel and knowing for 961 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,000 sure that if they were to die, they go to heaven. 962 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:15,000 We must share. 963 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:20,000 If we don't, eternity could be at stake. 964 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,000 I believe that with all my heart. 965 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,000 Would you buy our closing eyes with me? 966 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,000 I've gone way too long tonight. 967 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:32,000 We're going to take some time here in just a minute to pray for 968 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,000 our prayer requests. 969 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,000 But let's pray to end this session. 970 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,000 God, I love you so much. 971 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,000 I thank you for your word. 972 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,000 I thank you for all that it means to us. 973 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:48,000 I thank you for Jesus Christ, his death, his burial, his 974 00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:52,000 resurrection for our sins according to the scriptures. 975 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:57,000 Help us not to be silent. 976 00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:02,000 Would you put a fire in our hearts for this gospel that burns 977 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:09,000 and melts the lead in our feet to go and make disciples of all 978 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:10,000 nations? 979 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,000 God, if there's someone here tonight that doesn't know USA 980 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:20,000 Bureau, would you provoke them to call on you to ask you to pay 981 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:26,000 for their sin and asking you to save them? 982 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,000 I pray that they do that. 983 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:29,000 They wouldn't stop. 984 00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:30,000 They wouldn't hesitate. 985 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:31,000 They do that now. 986 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:34,000 They believe in your son for salvation. 987 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,000 I love you and I thank you for how you do that. 988 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,000 God, I pray that in the coming days we see more and more people 989 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,000 come to know you as Savior and to follow you in obedience. 990 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,000 In Jesus' name, amen. 991 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:56,000 Amen.