WEBVTT 00:00:03.280 --> 00:00:38.369 I confess. The Resurrection Life Sunday Sermon 00:00:38.369 --> 00:00:41.009 is brought to you by Resurrection Life Church 00:00:41.009 --> 00:00:44.929 in Apex, North Carolina, a congregation of the 00:00:44.929 --> 00:00:49.250 Presbyterian Church in America. This week, we 00:00:49.250 --> 00:00:51.829 begin a new sermon series through the book of 00:00:51.829 --> 00:00:56.909 Hebrews, From Shadow to Substance. Now, here's 00:00:56.909 --> 00:01:01.909 our pastor, Dr. Mark Kadesh. I'm just really 00:01:01.909 --> 00:01:05.329 excited. to do this because I've been wanting 00:01:05.329 --> 00:01:07.730 to preach through this book for a long time. 00:01:08.030 --> 00:01:12.769 And so often I've referred to it, I've quoted 00:01:12.769 --> 00:01:16.549 it in sermons, but to really be able to sink 00:01:16.549 --> 00:01:19.650 our teeth into this book is just, it's just gonna 00:01:19.650 --> 00:01:23.769 be a real honor. So this will take us. few months 00:01:23.769 --> 00:01:28.109 to go through, probably take us to summer. So 00:01:28.109 --> 00:01:32.150 just wanted to invite you to prepare your heart 00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:36.290 for that and perhaps even read it devotionally 00:01:36.290 --> 00:01:38.750 or just read it through a couple times from now 00:01:38.750 --> 00:01:41.290 until the next few weeks just to get a little 00:01:41.290 --> 00:01:44.409 bit familiarized with what is going on here, 00:01:44.629 --> 00:01:48.290 what's the context. If you want to know how to 00:01:48.290 --> 00:01:50.870 read it, you really should join the D -Time class 00:01:50.870 --> 00:01:52.629 because Pastor Jeff will teach you how to read. 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:57.040 the book of Hebrews. But anyway, this morning, 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:59.439 we're going to start from the beginning, right 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:02.180 at the beginning, the first three verses. Only 00:02:02.180 --> 00:02:06.920 three verses, but just jam -packed with goodness, 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:10.719 like a good Snickers bar. And so please join 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:15.500 with me as we read from Hebrews 1, 1 to 3, where 00:02:15.500 --> 00:02:19.300 it says this, long ago at many times and in many 00:02:19.300 --> 00:02:23.449 ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets. 00:02:24.210 --> 00:02:28.009 But in these last days, he has spoken to us by 00:02:28.009 --> 00:02:31.710 his son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, 00:02:31.810 --> 00:02:35.610 through whom also he created the world. He is 00:02:35.610 --> 00:02:40.270 the radiance of the glory of God and the exact 00:02:40.270 --> 00:02:44.030 imprint of his nature. And he upholds the universe 00:02:44.030 --> 00:02:48.669 by the word of his power after making purification 00:02:48.669 --> 00:02:53.150 for sins. He sat down at the right hand of the 00:02:53.150 --> 00:02:56.710 majesty on high. So, brothers and sisters, in 00:02:56.710 --> 00:03:00.710 Jesus Christ, the early days of aviation was 00:03:00.710 --> 00:03:03.800 a little tricky. when you didn't have all the 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:07.439 dials and everything. I just snagged a couple 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:09.780 of pictures of what cockpits looked like from 00:03:09.780 --> 00:03:14.659 the 1920s compared to more recent cockpits. One 00:03:14.659 --> 00:03:19.319 is more complicated. And that old one there, 00:03:19.500 --> 00:03:22.180 you know, obviously doesn't give you all the 00:03:22.180 --> 00:03:25.719 measurements that pilots needed to measure speed 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:29.479 and altitude and orientation and direction and 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:33.770 vertical movements, all that stuff. And so one 00:03:33.770 --> 00:03:36.370 trick of the trade in those early years of aviation 00:03:36.370 --> 00:03:40.110 was pilots would take a look at their shadow, 00:03:40.189 --> 00:03:43.990 the shadow of the plane that is. And so the closer 00:03:43.990 --> 00:03:46.189 that they would see in relation to obviously 00:03:46.189 --> 00:03:49.610 the sun, in relation to the ground, that point 00:03:49.610 --> 00:03:51.870 of reference of the shadow would help them see, 00:03:51.969 --> 00:03:53.889 okay, when am I actually, when is this puppy 00:03:53.889 --> 00:03:57.270 actually going to land? And the closer that the 00:03:57.270 --> 00:03:59.610 shadow obviously would get to the land, you would 00:03:59.610 --> 00:04:02.650 see then, how close you are to the ground. And 00:04:02.650 --> 00:04:04.569 so the purpose of the shadow was to give you 00:04:04.569 --> 00:04:08.310 a sense of orientation, right? There was an aviation 00:04:08.310 --> 00:04:12.310 saying, the shadow lands first. Why do I focus 00:04:12.310 --> 00:04:15.270 on the concept of shadow? Well, the whole sermon 00:04:15.270 --> 00:04:18.550 series is focused on this picture right here, 00:04:18.569 --> 00:04:22.649 from shadow to substance. The shadow came first. 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:25.480 And that is the whole Old Testament providing 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.800 us orientation of what to prepare for and who's 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:32.800 to come. And then once Christ lands, we see the 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:38.779 substance. We see what's real. This title is 00:04:38.779 --> 00:04:42.500 best explained or revealed to us not in the book 00:04:42.500 --> 00:04:44.819 of Hebrews, but in the book of Colossians. Colossians 00:04:44.819 --> 00:04:48.060 2 .17, where it says, referring to Old Testament 00:04:48.060 --> 00:04:52.009 activities, these are a shadow. Of the things 00:04:52.009 --> 00:04:55.149 to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 00:04:55.410 --> 00:04:58.069 Or Hebrews, there's two references to shadows 00:04:58.069 --> 00:05:01.970 in Hebrews. Hebrews 8 .5, they, that is the priest 00:05:01.970 --> 00:05:04.970 in reference to the temple, they serve as a copy 00:05:04.970 --> 00:05:10.009 and shadow of the things, of the heavenly things. 00:05:10.610 --> 00:05:14.189 Or Hebrews 10 .1, for since the law has but a 00:05:14.189 --> 00:05:16.769 shadow of the good things to come, instead of 00:05:16.769 --> 00:05:20.360 the true form of these realities. And so Christ 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:24.540 has come down and this book helps orient us to 00:05:24.540 --> 00:05:29.660 the significance of who he is as the substance. 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:33.339 So the way we're going to talk about that today 00:05:33.339 --> 00:05:37.680 in the sermon is in four parts. Three parts broken 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:41.120 down to the three parts in our passage. And then 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:43.360 the fourth point really is, okay, well, what 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:46.240 does that mean for us then? So what was versus 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:52.000 who is. Who is. is the divine cosmocrat, and 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.819 who is, is our sacrifice and priest, and then 00:05:55.819 --> 00:05:59.860 our confidence and commitment in response. So 00:05:59.860 --> 00:06:04.220 let's begin with what was versus who is. I'm 00:06:04.220 --> 00:06:06.319 going to reread for us verses one and two. Long 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:09.279 ago, at many times, in many ways, God spoke to 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:12.300 our fathers by the prophets. But in these last 00:06:12.300 --> 00:06:17.060 days, he has spoken to us by his son. Now, one 00:06:17.060 --> 00:06:20.800 of the really cool things about what the writer 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:26.360 of Hebrews does here is he has alliteration in 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:29.120 the biblical text. The letter P pops up all over 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:33.040 the place. It's like an engine moving. It's like, 00:06:33.060 --> 00:06:34.519 okay, things are happening. Things are moving 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:40.360 here with this letter P emphasizing what? Emphasizing 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:44.079 a difference that's happening between what was 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:49.459 and who is. It's a lot of, in a very short amount 00:06:49.459 --> 00:06:51.980 of words, it's a lot of comparing that's happening. 00:06:52.180 --> 00:06:56.899 So for example, he writes long ago versus these 00:06:56.899 --> 00:06:59.800 last days. And so there's like this progressive 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.019 revelation that happens throughout the whole 00:07:02.019 --> 00:07:04.920 Old Testament, these shadows, and then the reality 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:07.779 comes, but then, but that's the end of the progression. 00:07:08.660 --> 00:07:11.439 Progressive revelation that we have revealed, 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:14.649 that's revealed to us in scripture, that's The 00:07:14.649 --> 00:07:18.910 canon, that is God's word for us. So it was building 00:07:18.910 --> 00:07:23.569 up and then in the last days, boom, Jesus. And 00:07:23.569 --> 00:07:26.290 then you have at many times versus these last 00:07:26.290 --> 00:07:29.949 days. At many times has the sense of like, what 00:07:29.949 --> 00:07:33.389 was revealed, what God wanted us to know was 00:07:33.389 --> 00:07:36.329 revealed in sort of like a choppy way over time, 00:07:36.430 --> 00:07:39.389 many, many times. But then we have then, but 00:07:39.389 --> 00:07:43.800 now in these last days, There's again a finality 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.300 to what is happening over here. The infrequent 00:07:47.300 --> 00:07:52.199 manyness to now like just this last season. You 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:56.579 have in parts. So in many ways and in many parts. 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:01.779 In the passage it says in many ways when you 00:08:01.779 --> 00:08:05.160 read it. But it's actually what it's trying to 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:08.279 emphasize there is that there's parts. It came 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:11.000 in parts. So it happened many times but also 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:13.720 in like sections. Again, it was like divided 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:17.259 up. It wasn't like this constant thing that was 00:08:17.259 --> 00:08:20.319 going, like something that's revealed wholly 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:24.180 and fully in a person. And so you have in parts 00:08:24.180 --> 00:08:28.980 versus through a person. The addressee is also 00:08:28.980 --> 00:08:34.679 to our fathers. The address is to the fathers, 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:38.159 which has an element of disassociation with it. 00:08:38.539 --> 00:08:41.940 So God in the Old Testament is speaking to those 00:08:41.940 --> 00:08:46.360 fathers who came before. But now we have this 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:49.820 revelation given to us. So where there's things 00:08:49.820 --> 00:08:52.179 that are a little choppy and a long time and 00:08:52.179 --> 00:08:56.840 many times and only two fathers, now we have 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:01.980 to us in a season by person. You also have the 00:09:01.980 --> 00:09:05.779 conduit, the medium of the message is by prophets. 00:09:06.750 --> 00:09:08.870 Again, by prophets, this is like they're just 00:09:08.870 --> 00:09:12.590 merely human. But then over here, you have by 00:09:12.590 --> 00:09:18.730 God's Son. So there's a whole new era. When that 00:09:18.730 --> 00:09:21.549 plane touched down, it was everything changed. 00:09:21.730 --> 00:09:24.889 From all the parts and pieces and time over here 00:09:24.889 --> 00:09:28.690 to now being revealed in God's Son as a person 00:09:28.690 --> 00:09:34.179 with a sense of finality to it. And then what 00:09:34.179 --> 00:09:37.960 that does for the rest of the next several chapters 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:42.620 is it provides for us the context. Okay, so Jesus 00:09:42.620 --> 00:09:45.820 is now the new revelation, and he's the final 00:09:45.820 --> 00:09:48.960 word. And so now the author goes into, well, 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:51.080 then Jesus is, and I'm going to list a number 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:52.980 of things. This is the number of things he deals 00:09:52.980 --> 00:09:54.360 with, and we'll be dealing with these things 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:57.690 in the future weeks, in the coming weeks. Jesus 00:09:57.690 --> 00:10:01.330 is greater than the prophets, which we just heard. 00:10:01.450 --> 00:10:03.549 Greater than the angels. That's the next one. 00:10:03.629 --> 00:10:07.070 Greater than Moses. Greater than Old Testament 00:10:07.070 --> 00:10:11.289 high priests. Greater covenant. Greater tabernacle. 00:10:11.529 --> 00:10:15.690 Greater law. Everything is greater. Everything 00:10:15.690 --> 00:10:19.409 is better. Everything is more pure and more final 00:10:19.409 --> 00:10:23.090 and clear. The substance has been revealed in 00:10:23.090 --> 00:10:27.990 Jesus. I love my years working at Marspan growing 00:10:27.990 --> 00:10:31.870 up. So from when I was 16 to just before we got 00:10:31.870 --> 00:10:34.629 married, really, so I was 24 at the time. Most 00:10:34.629 --> 00:10:36.330 of those summers, not all, but most of the summers 00:10:36.330 --> 00:10:41.129 I worked in a truss shop. And as the years progressed, 00:10:41.250 --> 00:10:44.509 I was able to be a sawyer, which was a lot more 00:10:44.509 --> 00:10:48.169 fun because you got to use your brain. But working 00:10:48.169 --> 00:10:52.389 the saw was just really cool. It had these conveyor 00:10:52.389 --> 00:10:56.820 belts. And it had five saws. So you had three 00:10:56.820 --> 00:11:00.139 on one end and you had two on the other. And 00:11:00.139 --> 00:11:03.799 it could cut like two foot two by fours to like 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:06.720 20 foot two by twelves. When I first worked there, 00:11:06.820 --> 00:11:09.940 we had the orange saw. And the orange saw, man, 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:11.879 when I first saw it, I was like, wow, this is 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:15.659 amazing. And in order to get the degrees just 00:11:15.659 --> 00:11:18.159 correct, the angles just right with the saws, 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:21.039 you had these cranks. So hand over hand, you 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:23.419 had to like. turn the blades to get them to the 00:11:23.419 --> 00:11:26.620 right spot. And you had to do it all five. And 00:11:26.620 --> 00:11:28.580 even the distance, I believe we had like a drill 00:11:28.580 --> 00:11:34.080 at the time. A drill would move the saw on the 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:37.440 one end to figure out like how long does this 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.240 board need to be cut. So it had all these just 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:42.279 measurements and had all these like dials and 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:44.559 numbers and you had to move everything. It took 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:48.720 a lot of effort to move, to transition from one 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:53.259 cut piece of board. To another. That was the 00:11:53.259 --> 00:11:56.039 orange saw. I believe it was my second or third 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:59.399 summer there. We got the blue saw. And the blue 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:03.480 saw was awesome. The blue saw had Windows 95. 00:12:04.539 --> 00:12:07.659 Attached to the saw. And so it had a touch screen. 00:12:07.980 --> 00:12:10.799 And you would go. And you would look at the screen. 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:13.940 And in order to go to the next piece. You just 00:12:13.940 --> 00:12:17.620 had to push a button that said. Next piece. And 00:12:17.620 --> 00:12:19.480 you go like this, and the whole saw would just 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:24.440 go. And all the blades would change at the right 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:26.679 angle. And they had to figure out whether the 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:29.240 wood would come in exactly the same amount you 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:31.679 needed with the exact board you needed at that 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:33.860 time. And boom, there you go. You're just off 00:12:33.860 --> 00:12:37.139 to the races. The amount of productivity. It 00:12:37.139 --> 00:12:38.820 was incredible what that technology was able 00:12:38.820 --> 00:12:41.299 to do. Having that blue saw changed everything. 00:12:41.950 --> 00:12:44.169 The orange saw is sort of like the shadows of 00:12:44.169 --> 00:12:45.590 the Old Testament. Everything had to be done 00:12:45.590 --> 00:12:49.110 by hand and everything was very physical, but 00:12:49.110 --> 00:12:51.169 the shadows don't have the same kind of capacity 00:12:51.169 --> 00:12:54.110 or ability or functionality or accessibility 00:12:54.110 --> 00:12:57.250 or convenience than the blue saw did. Everything 00:12:57.250 --> 00:13:00.789 changes with Christ. And so let's dive into a 00:13:00.789 --> 00:13:04.529 little bit more now. Well, who is this guy? Well, 00:13:04.549 --> 00:13:08.980 there's two main aspects here. And they're broken 00:13:08.980 --> 00:13:11.120 down in a number of different items here. But 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.720 the next verse here, who is the divine cosmocrat? 00:13:14.820 --> 00:13:19.019 So listen to this. Try to actually understand 00:13:19.019 --> 00:13:22.299 what this is saying here. So whom he appointed 00:13:22.299 --> 00:13:24.919 the heir of all things, through whom also he 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:27.019 created the world. He is the radiance of the 00:13:27.019 --> 00:13:29.500 glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature. 00:13:29.620 --> 00:13:32.159 And he upholds the universe by the word of his 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:36.139 power. And so we now have this son. And now, 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:38.960 well, what is his credentials? Why should we 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:42.220 listen to him? Well, that's what this list is 00:13:42.220 --> 00:13:46.279 all about. God appointed all things to Jesus. 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:49.399 And when it says in the text, in the English 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:53.399 Standard Version, all things, the word things 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:57.539 actually isn't in the text. And that's a little 00:13:57.539 --> 00:13:59.019 unfortunate because when we think of things, 00:13:59.179 --> 00:14:01.500 we think of things that are tangible, you know, 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:03.659 things we could kick, things we could cut, whatever. 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:10.059 But it's just the word all. Time, space, all 00:14:10.059 --> 00:14:16.220 of it. He is the heir of all. And I really want 00:14:16.220 --> 00:14:19.399 you to hear this. Some of you may know the reference 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:23.940 to Ron Swanson who asks for bacon in a restaurant. 00:14:24.220 --> 00:14:26.460 For those of you who do not know, it's a scene 00:14:26.460 --> 00:14:29.460 where this character named Ron Swanson in Parks 00:14:29.460 --> 00:14:33.100 and Recreation, he's depressed about the closing 00:14:33.100 --> 00:14:36.620 of his favorite steak place. And so he goes to 00:14:36.620 --> 00:14:39.379 a diner, and he says, he orders food, and he 00:14:39.379 --> 00:14:42.100 says in a depressed state, just give me all the 00:14:42.100 --> 00:14:45.240 bacon and eggs you have. Wait, I worry what you 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:49.580 heard was, give me a lot of bacon and eggs. What 00:14:49.580 --> 00:14:53.759 I said was, give me all the bacon and eggs you 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:57.480 have. Do you understand? And the guy nods like, 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:00.379 yes, sir, right away, sir, right? It's like this 00:15:00.379 --> 00:15:02.629 with the author of Hebrews. It's like him saying 00:15:02.629 --> 00:15:05.629 this, when I wrote he is appointed inheritor 00:15:05.629 --> 00:15:08.370 of all, I'm concerned what you heard was he's 00:15:08.370 --> 00:15:13.169 inheritor of spiritual things or your soul or 00:15:13.169 --> 00:15:16.970 churchy kind of things. What I said was Jesus 00:15:16.970 --> 00:15:21.690 is the inheritor of all. Do you understand? It 00:15:21.690 --> 00:15:23.970 says that the next part here, through whom also 00:15:23.970 --> 00:15:26.940 he created the world. Again, a little unfortunate 00:15:26.940 --> 00:15:29.960 translation with the word world, because the 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:34.659 word world there is actually the word ages. It's 00:15:34.659 --> 00:15:41.980 plural. It's about not merely, if the first portion 00:15:41.980 --> 00:15:44.879 here, all things emphasizes, perhaps all things, 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:46.240 but emphasize a little bit more of the material. 00:15:46.539 --> 00:15:50.840 This is emphasizing the time aspect of what he 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.320 owns. He owns all the ages. He created all the 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:58.460 seasons of life. Psalm 2 .8 says, ask of me and 00:15:58.460 --> 00:16:01.019 I will make the nations your heritage and the 00:16:01.019 --> 00:16:03.759 ends of the earth your possession. Everything 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:09.700 God owns and has been given to Jesus as his heir. 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:13.240 But the point is not that Jesus is a creation. 00:16:13.620 --> 00:16:16.580 He's the heir of all things, but also the creator 00:16:16.580 --> 00:16:20.740 of all things. Next, he's the radiance of the 00:16:20.740 --> 00:16:23.759 glory of God. This is the only reference to radiance 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:27.240 in scripture, this particular word. And it's 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:31.139 referring what commentators like to focus on, 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:37.700 effulgence, radiance. It's the, what someone 00:16:37.700 --> 00:16:40.379 once said, what sunshine is of the sun. And that's 00:16:40.379 --> 00:16:43.200 important because this is not saying that Jesus 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:46.679 is a reflection. No, he's the radiance of the 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:49.039 glory of God. So in other words, Jesus is the 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:54.929 sunshine. The sunlight, but it's not saying that 00:16:54.929 --> 00:16:57.529 Jesus is the moon. The moon just reflects light, 00:16:57.549 --> 00:16:59.629 and it can be really bright at night. But this 00:16:59.629 --> 00:17:02.490 is not the point. The point is that Jesus himself 00:17:02.490 --> 00:17:05.930 is the sunlight. And commentators throughout 00:17:05.930 --> 00:17:08.450 all time and history have picked up on this word, 00:17:08.529 --> 00:17:11.490 even from the third century. Athanasius, one 00:17:11.490 --> 00:17:14.490 of the great African church fathers, writes this. 00:17:14.569 --> 00:17:18.029 Who does not see that the brightness cannot be 00:17:18.029 --> 00:17:21.640 separated from the light? but that it is by nature 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:25.539 proper to it and co -existent with it and is 00:17:25.539 --> 00:17:28.519 not produced after it. Or the fourth century 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:32.460 Ambrose. Think not that there was ever a moment 00:17:32.460 --> 00:17:36.319 of time when God was without wisdom, any more 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:39.220 than that there was ever a time when light was 00:17:39.220 --> 00:17:42.960 without radiance. In some radiance of the glory 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:46.220 of God is not the moon, but more like the particle 00:17:46.220 --> 00:17:50.539 -like waves emanating from the sun. He is, to 00:17:50.539 --> 00:17:54.400 summarize how Calvin views this, he is why and 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:57.299 how we could experience the Father. He is the 00:17:57.299 --> 00:17:59.559 light that gives us the ability to see and to 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:02.400 live what is not accessible to us without Christ. 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:07.500 All right, so more ways in which Jesus flexes 00:18:07.500 --> 00:18:10.240 his credential here is he's the exact imprint 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:13.299 of his nature. The word imprint here is where 00:18:13.299 --> 00:18:17.119 we get the word character from. The more typical 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:21.440 word for image, is icon which would which is 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:25.420 used but this is the word character it's like 00:18:25.420 --> 00:18:28.460 an engraving engraving onto something especially 00:18:28.460 --> 00:18:32.960 for coins engraving so characters when you think 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:37.420 of characters they are engraved imaging engraved 00:18:37.420 --> 00:18:40.599 they're like images of what is what is out what 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:44.680 else is out there so you have actors who portray 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:48.039 something and they try to really really be that 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:51.619 And some actors do what's called method acting. 00:18:51.740 --> 00:18:54.420 They're the kind of characters who not only practice 00:18:54.420 --> 00:18:58.359 pretending to be this person in this play or 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:01.099 this movie, but even off camera, they're thinking 00:19:01.099 --> 00:19:03.759 about how can I take on the emotions and the 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.019 persona of this person over here. They're trying 00:19:07.019 --> 00:19:09.920 to make an exact imprint, an exact character 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:14.140 of this. It's a very interesting documentary 00:19:14.140 --> 00:19:18.059 that came out in 2017. It's called Jim and Andy 00:19:18.059 --> 00:19:20.680 Kaufman, The Great Beyond. And it's a bizarre 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:24.980 documentary. It's about how Jim Carrey, the actor, 00:19:25.180 --> 00:19:29.339 plays Andy Kaufman in a movie called The Man 00:19:29.339 --> 00:19:32.640 on the Moon. So it's a documentary about how 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:36.160 Jim Carrey prepared for this movie. And it's 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:40.720 weird. Jim Carrey, literally, he takes on the 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:43.400 personality of Andy Kaufman, not only on camera, 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:45.880 but off camera. And Andy Kaufman plays all these 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:48.039 weird, different kind of characters. He takes 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:51.660 on all those weird characters. It gets so strange 00:19:51.660 --> 00:19:55.539 in the movie, in the documentary, that Andy Kaufman's 00:19:55.539 --> 00:19:59.539 children wanted to meet with Jim Carrey as a 00:19:59.539 --> 00:20:03.279 way to almost hear from their dad. This is like 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:07.079 an extreme method, extreme method of acting. 00:20:07.380 --> 00:20:09.640 To the point where Jim Carrey even says, I felt 00:20:09.640 --> 00:20:14.259 like the soul of Andy Kaufman came into me. and 00:20:14.259 --> 00:20:19.900 took over. Jesus never, Jesus was eternally, 00:20:19.900 --> 00:20:25.180 eternally the exact imprint of the nature of 00:20:25.180 --> 00:20:28.839 God. He didn't suddenly become it. He was always 00:20:28.839 --> 00:20:32.759 God's son, regardless of where and what time 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:36.299 in history. The triune God is always, always 00:20:36.299 --> 00:20:38.759 existent. And I thought about this documentary 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:41.140 and I was thinking about how Jesus is the exact 00:20:41.140 --> 00:20:44.359 imprint of God. He's exact. He's not playing 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:47.859 a part. He is God. Jesus is the engraved image, 00:20:47.940 --> 00:20:51.380 the character of God, how he behaves, what he 00:20:51.380 --> 00:20:54.460 says, his persona. It's all an embodiment of 00:20:54.460 --> 00:20:58.220 God, the exact imprint of God's nature. And this 00:20:58.220 --> 00:21:01.299 word with nature, the word nature is loaded in 00:21:01.299 --> 00:21:03.059 one dictionary. It's called the New Testament 00:21:03.059 --> 00:21:06.599 Dictionary of, sorry, the Theological Dictionary 00:21:06.599 --> 00:21:10.140 of the New Testament. It covers this word. with 00:21:10.140 --> 00:21:14.819 7 ,236 other words. And I won't bore you with 00:21:14.819 --> 00:21:17.940 all of that, but it has theological, metaphorical, 00:21:17.980 --> 00:21:20.420 philosophical, and medical significance attached 00:21:20.420 --> 00:21:23.019 to this word, just this word nature. But in sum, 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:26.980 it means substance, the reality. So Jesus wasn't 00:21:26.980 --> 00:21:30.880 like method acting. Jesus was and is the son 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:34.319 of God, the exact imprint. Same way like how 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:36.980 technology changed for many of us in the 80s, 00:21:36.980 --> 00:21:38.920 where instead of sitting there with a cassette 00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:41.309 tape, and trying to wait for our song to come 00:21:41.309 --> 00:21:44.430 on the radio and record that song. It never sounded 00:21:44.430 --> 00:21:46.630 the exact same as when it sounded on the radio. 00:21:46.750 --> 00:21:49.009 Well, why is that? It's because with that technology, 00:21:49.210 --> 00:21:53.150 with the magnetism that this cassette tape used 00:21:53.150 --> 00:21:56.569 to create the sound, you get what's called generational 00:21:56.569 --> 00:21:59.890 loss. And if you recorded a recording of that, 00:22:00.150 --> 00:22:02.410 you get a little even more generational loss. 00:22:02.529 --> 00:22:05.970 And you do that several hundred times, you get 00:22:05.970 --> 00:22:07.829 something that you could hardly even hear anymore. 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:12.680 But when CDs came out, CDs was an exact imprint 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:15.240 of the original because it was using zeros and 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:19.380 ones, zeros and ones. There was no generational 00:22:19.380 --> 00:22:22.500 loss, as they say. Now, there are other issues 00:22:22.500 --> 00:22:25.519 with CDs, obviously, but let's not go too far 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:29.640 down this analogy. With Jesus being God's son, 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:32.720 there is no generational loss. There's no method 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:35.880 acting. He is the exact imprint, exact impression 00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:39.930 of God's essence. The last part here upholds 00:22:39.930 --> 00:22:42.029 all things by the word of his power. Just real 00:22:42.029 --> 00:22:44.849 quickly on this. Not only is Jesus the creator, 00:22:44.970 --> 00:22:47.150 but he's also the sustainer. Think about this. 00:22:47.430 --> 00:22:50.150 So commentators like to point out that this is 00:22:50.150 --> 00:22:52.690 where Jesus differs from the God, the Greek God 00:22:52.690 --> 00:22:55.549 Atlantis. You know, the Greek God Atlantis is 00:22:55.549 --> 00:22:59.809 holding the whole world on his back. He doesn't 00:22:59.809 --> 00:23:03.210 actually, you see pictures of or statues of Atlas. 00:23:03.289 --> 00:23:05.789 He's sort of just looking down. He's not a very 00:23:05.789 --> 00:23:08.359 personal God. He's just holding up the earth. 00:23:08.519 --> 00:23:13.119 But as someone once, someone more recently shared, 00:23:13.259 --> 00:23:15.220 and I can't remember exactly who it is. Jeff 00:23:15.220 --> 00:23:16.460 and I were talking about this more recently, 00:23:16.500 --> 00:23:17.920 about how we were talking about the providence 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:19.779 of God and how it unfolds throughout time and 00:23:19.779 --> 00:23:23.759 history. It's more like an unraveling of a scroll 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:27.660 through time and through space. And so we see 00:23:27.660 --> 00:23:31.240 Jesus intimately involved then. And when he upholds 00:23:31.240 --> 00:23:34.079 all things by the power of his word, It's not 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:36.579 that Jesus is disconnected and looking away. 00:23:36.660 --> 00:23:39.740 No, as the exact imprint of God, he's also intimately 00:23:39.740 --> 00:23:43.460 connected with how the plan unfolds. And that's 00:23:43.460 --> 00:23:46.660 what leads us to this next point. Who is our 00:23:46.660 --> 00:23:49.200 sacrifice and priest? This point won't be as 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:51.519 long, but it's still very important. Because 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:53.420 what the author of Hebrews is trying to get us 00:23:53.420 --> 00:23:56.480 to see is like, we have this new voice coming 00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:59.180 to us in Jesus Christ. He's now the voice box 00:23:59.180 --> 00:24:03.170 of God. These are his credentials. But he's also 00:24:03.170 --> 00:24:07.470 personal. He also did something for us. Again, 00:24:07.529 --> 00:24:09.670 he doesn't stay aloof like Atlas. No, he is very 00:24:09.670 --> 00:24:11.990 much involved with us by what? By making purification 00:24:11.990 --> 00:24:15.589 for sins. Two times God makes something in this 00:24:15.589 --> 00:24:19.190 passage, in our passage. One is God makes creation, 00:24:19.230 --> 00:24:23.990 and now Jesus makes purification. He makes a 00:24:23.990 --> 00:24:26.950 cleansing. He made a cleansing. And it's a huge 00:24:26.950 --> 00:24:29.549 theme of this book. Paul goes back to this over, 00:24:29.690 --> 00:24:32.529 or the writer, I shouldn't say, People think 00:24:32.529 --> 00:24:34.349 Paul may have written it, but we don't know who 00:24:34.349 --> 00:24:37.210 wrote this book. So the author of this book goes 00:24:37.210 --> 00:24:40.509 back to this over and over again, how Jesus is 00:24:40.509 --> 00:24:43.730 the purest form of purification. And we see that 00:24:43.730 --> 00:24:48.049 with this other emphasis here. Jesus, I want 00:24:48.049 --> 00:24:51.309 to share, our kingly high priest. He sat down 00:24:51.309 --> 00:24:53.950 at the right hand of the majesty on high. So 00:24:53.950 --> 00:24:55.529 when I read that for the first time, I thought, 00:24:55.569 --> 00:24:57.809 oh, that's emphasizing the kingship. You know, 00:24:57.849 --> 00:24:59.650 we have prophet, we have priest, we have king. 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:02.900 But this is actually emphasizing his work as 00:25:02.900 --> 00:25:06.519 a kingly priest. Because what we read later in 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:10.339 the book is we see how the priests aren't sitting. 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:13.380 They're standing. They're working over here, 00:25:13.579 --> 00:25:15.700 making sure all the cows are going to come and 00:25:15.700 --> 00:25:17.420 all the lambs and all the sacrifices are going 00:25:17.420 --> 00:25:19.700 to happen. They're working all that they can 00:25:19.700 --> 00:25:22.420 do. Keep turning those levers. Keep turning those 00:25:22.420 --> 00:25:26.359 levers. But in the final days, we have the final 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:29.269 method. Of making purification, which is Jesus 00:25:29.269 --> 00:25:31.609 Christ's sacrifice on the cross. And then right 00:25:31.609 --> 00:25:34.890 after that, we get this whole Easter story in 00:25:34.890 --> 00:25:38.150 one sentence. He sat down at the right hand of 00:25:38.150 --> 00:25:41.069 the majesty on high. He resurrected. And so for 00:25:41.069 --> 00:25:44.069 this writer to say he sits means the job's done. 00:25:44.329 --> 00:25:46.769 What needed to get done over here for so long 00:25:46.769 --> 00:25:49.630 and all these cut up, chopped up times and spaces 00:25:49.630 --> 00:25:52.289 is now fulfilled in Jesus Christ on the cross. 00:25:52.509 --> 00:25:55.170 And he now sits. The work is done. Jesus Christ 00:25:55.170 --> 00:25:57.549 accomplished it all for us. And so I love that. 00:25:57.549 --> 00:26:00.369 I love that juxtaposition between Jesus sitting, 00:26:00.569 --> 00:26:03.369 work done, and then later saying, well, in the 00:26:03.369 --> 00:26:04.750 Old Testament, they had to stand all the time 00:26:04.750 --> 00:26:06.410 because they were working all the time. But no, 00:26:06.470 --> 00:26:10.829 Jesus' work is different than the priesthood 00:26:10.829 --> 00:26:13.329 over here. So what does this mean then for us? 00:26:13.950 --> 00:26:18.069 We've been talking so far today about Jesus, 00:26:18.289 --> 00:26:20.890 who Jesus is, his credentials, what he did for 00:26:20.890 --> 00:26:23.970 us personally on the cross, and what he's doing 00:26:23.970 --> 00:26:26.210 today. What does that mean? What does that mean 00:26:26.210 --> 00:26:27.809 for us? Well, I think what it means for us is 00:26:27.809 --> 00:26:29.430 the same thing as what it meant for Christians 00:26:29.430 --> 00:26:31.130 in the first century when they first read this 00:26:31.130 --> 00:26:33.890 book. It was intended to give them a sense of 00:26:33.890 --> 00:26:37.630 confidence and a sense of commitment. If Jesus 00:26:37.630 --> 00:26:42.589 is the all -powerful cosmocrat, then we should 00:26:42.589 --> 00:26:45.730 have confidence. And if Jesus is the all -effective 00:26:45.730 --> 00:26:49.549 sacrifice, then we should be committed. And how 00:26:49.549 --> 00:26:53.349 he summarized the theme of the book of Hebrews, 00:26:53.630 --> 00:26:56.890 Raymond Brown writes this. This magnificent letter 00:26:56.890 --> 00:27:00.009 to the Hebrews was written to a group of first 00:27:00.009 --> 00:27:02.470 century Christians who were in danger of giving 00:27:02.470 --> 00:27:05.150 up. How could these Jewish Christians endure? 00:27:05.430 --> 00:27:08.349 What would enable them to stand firm in hazardous 00:27:08.349 --> 00:27:11.910 times? They must look to Christ. Folks, when 00:27:11.910 --> 00:27:14.710 we look to Christ, we find our confidence. We're 00:27:14.710 --> 00:27:17.630 going to explore some of the most important prose 00:27:17.630 --> 00:27:19.910 of theology in the entire Bible in the next few 00:27:19.910 --> 00:27:22.210 months. We're going to explore the vast riches 00:27:22.210 --> 00:27:26.119 of how Christ fulfilled all Old Testament purpose 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:30.039 and prophecy. We are going to learn how Christ 00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:34.720 didn't leave one iota unturned. Hebrews 1, 1 00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:37.759 to 3 is a snapshot of what's to come. And it 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:42.019 begins with Christ's overwhelming reach and rule 00:27:42.019 --> 00:27:46.440 through time and space. He's the universal, universe 00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:51.220 unifier. He's the greatest and the best. Who 00:27:51.220 --> 00:27:55.220 Jesus is as the all -powerful cosmocrat should 00:27:55.220 --> 00:28:00.259 give us confidence to never, ever give up. To 00:28:00.259 --> 00:28:04.059 face trials with strength, resolve, encouragement, 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:08.180 and courage. Some of you may have had a discouraging 00:28:08.180 --> 00:28:11.180 week. I know Jeff has, and perhaps others of 00:28:11.180 --> 00:28:15.279 you have as well. Some of you may feel sad, grieved, 00:28:15.380 --> 00:28:17.920 beat up. Some of you may feel discouraged for 00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:20.200 setting goals for 2026 that you've already given 00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:23.099 up on long ago. Some of you may struggle with 00:28:23.099 --> 00:28:27.319 a more chronic issue of low self -esteem. You 00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:30.119 just don't like yourself all that much. In fact, 00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:33.019 you regularly may wish you were someone different 00:28:33.019 --> 00:28:35.700 with different gifts and with different abilities, 00:28:35.740 --> 00:28:40.900 with more money, more popularity, or more whatever 00:28:40.900 --> 00:28:44.180 it is that you want more of. And this passage 00:28:44.180 --> 00:28:48.259 screams in our faces like a coach yelling from 00:28:48.259 --> 00:28:51.559 the sidelines, don't give up. Don't ever give 00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:55.519 up. Remember who is on our side. Remember who 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:59.519 is in control. Remember the one who rules. Get 00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:02.579 over yourself by focusing on Christ, your captain. 00:29:02.700 --> 00:29:06.460 This passage says we have the goat. We have the 00:29:06.460 --> 00:29:09.980 greatest of all time. And he created you and 00:29:09.980 --> 00:29:13.920 he sustains you and he provided for you a way 00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:16.839 to receive forgiveness in a place where he will 00:29:16.839 --> 00:29:20.940 rule forever. And as he rolls the scroll through 00:29:20.940 --> 00:29:25.099 time and space, nothing surprises him. He knows 00:29:25.099 --> 00:29:28.920 your inabilities. He knows your inabilities. 00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:32.019 He knows your failures. He knew how you would 00:29:32.019 --> 00:29:36.440 view yourself, your life, your trials. the social 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:39.160 situation we find ourselves in today. Folks, 00:29:39.220 --> 00:29:41.460 this is no self -help therapeutic, just pick 00:29:41.460 --> 00:29:44.420 yourself up by the bootstraps call to confidence. 00:29:44.700 --> 00:29:47.740 This is a call to look to Jesus who gives us 00:29:47.740 --> 00:29:51.839 confidence for it is he who is and what he desires 00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:54.559 to do in your life and through you by his sustaining 00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:57.059 power, even through hardships and even through 00:29:57.059 --> 00:29:59.359 trials, which we will get to later on in the 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:01.839 book of Hebrews. In fact, especially through 00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:05.380 hardships and trials, especially. So don't ever, 00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:09.440 Give up because Jesus. Second, if Jesus is the 00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:11.460 all -effective sacrifice and is the priestly 00:30:11.460 --> 00:30:13.700 king, then we should be committed to him. We 00:30:13.700 --> 00:30:15.059 could have confidence in him, but we should also 00:30:15.059 --> 00:30:17.599 be committed to him. Peter O 'Brien writes this 00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:21.279 about this book. It summons believers, this book 00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:24.220 does, just as it did the first listeners, to 00:30:24.220 --> 00:30:28.740 unqualified commitment, unflagging perseverance, 00:30:29.099 --> 00:30:32.099 and a willingness to suffer for one's faith. 00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:35.319 George Guthrie writes this about this book. Members 00:30:35.319 --> 00:30:37.839 of this church were becoming discouraged about 00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:40.519 Christian commitment. We see reflected in Hebrews 00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:42.500 a community of believers who were struggling 00:30:42.500 --> 00:30:45.279 against spiritual lethargy, which if not addressed 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:47.000 could lead them to abandoning their Christian 00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:50.660 confession. So that is confidence in Christ should 00:30:50.660 --> 00:30:52.779 strengthen our commitment to Christ. The two 00:30:52.779 --> 00:30:55.380 go hand in hand, right? Christ didn't dilly -dally. 00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:58.500 Neither should we. We should be committed to 00:30:58.500 --> 00:31:02.609 following this Jesus. This Jesus with all his 00:31:02.609 --> 00:31:04.809 credentials and not putting any of those credentials 00:31:04.809 --> 00:31:07.430 in a box or dismissing them. We are called to 00:31:07.430 --> 00:31:10.529 be committed, not merely here and now as we worship 00:31:10.529 --> 00:31:12.829 where it's simple, where we see other people 00:31:12.829 --> 00:31:15.470 worshiping and we're comforted by that. And that 00:31:15.470 --> 00:31:18.430 is part of why we gather, to grow in confidence 00:31:18.430 --> 00:31:20.490 together, to grow in commitment together, to 00:31:20.490 --> 00:31:22.849 grow in the comfort that we have in Jesus, but 00:31:22.849 --> 00:31:26.789 also as a way to go out with strength, with commitment. 00:31:27.230 --> 00:31:29.250 Some of you may be struggling with spiritual 00:31:29.250 --> 00:31:31.319 lethargy. Just don't know. I just don't have 00:31:31.319 --> 00:31:33.339 enough in my tank right now. And this book of 00:31:33.339 --> 00:31:35.779 Hebrews is going to challenge us. Don't allow 00:31:35.779 --> 00:31:38.819 that slippery slope to dictate your commitment 00:31:38.819 --> 00:31:41.759 to Jesus. And so as we wrap up, the scale of 00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:45.700 this passage, folks, is so large. This divine 00:31:45.700 --> 00:31:51.440 prophet, this kingly priest, all coming together 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:54.440 as ruler and sustainer of all time and space. 00:31:54.839 --> 00:31:58.660 But then we get this personal relationship emphasis. 00:31:59.369 --> 00:32:02.910 That this Jesus made purification for us and 00:32:02.910 --> 00:32:07.609 rules in heaven for us. It's to him that we must 00:32:07.609 --> 00:32:10.349 turn to for confidence. And it's to him we ought 00:32:10.349 --> 00:32:13.390 to be committed to. Let's pray. Gracious Heavenly 00:32:13.390 --> 00:32:16.069 Father, we thank you for Hebrews 1, 1 to 3. These 00:32:16.069 --> 00:32:19.109 words that are just, they're majestic. They're 00:32:19.109 --> 00:32:24.029 incredible. They describe a reality that our 00:32:24.029 --> 00:32:26.490 brains actually don't know how to comprehend 00:32:26.490 --> 00:32:30.839 fully. but we trust them to be true. And if we 00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:33.839 do trust them to be true, we pray that we will 00:32:33.839 --> 00:32:36.319 grow in confidence in Christ and we'll grow in 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:38.519 our commitment to him. But I think of some of 00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:40.799 the young people in this room, I think of the 00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:43.920 children who are in nursery right now, trying 00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:46.519 to raise next generation of those who have confidence 00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:49.480 in Christ, those who will be committed to him, 00:32:49.539 --> 00:32:52.579 to Jesus and stay committed to him, even when 00:32:52.579 --> 00:32:55.539 they're outside of our control, perceived control 00:32:55.539 --> 00:32:58.049 that is. Lord, I think of, all of us who are 00:32:58.049 --> 00:33:00.109 going through tough times right now, those who 00:33:00.109 --> 00:33:03.250 may be going through trials, who have weighty 00:33:03.250 --> 00:33:06.430 issues going on, or those who are just more lazy, 00:33:06.490 --> 00:33:09.990 experiencing some spiritual lethargy. We pray, 00:33:10.029 --> 00:33:11.869 Lord, that this sermon will kind of redirect 00:33:11.869 --> 00:33:14.750 us and get us back on track to growing confidence 00:33:14.750 --> 00:33:17.569 in Jesus. As we commit our lives to him, we pray 00:33:17.569 --> 00:33:23.619 in Christ's name alone. Amen. You have been listening 00:33:23.619 --> 00:33:27.359 to the Resurrection Life Sunday Sermon from Resurrection 00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:31.299 Life Church in Apex, North Carolina. Resurrection 00:33:31.299 --> 00:33:34.140 Life currently meets in the Apex Middle School 00:33:34.140 --> 00:33:38.319 Auditorium at 400 East Moore Street near downtown 00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:42.079 Apex with additional parking off of Highway 55, 00:33:42.539 --> 00:33:45.769 East Williams Street. Resurrection Life Church 00:33:45.769 --> 00:33:50.269 is pastored by Dr. Mark Kanesh of Apex and Associate 00:33:50.269 --> 00:33:53.930 Pastor Jeff Smith of Cary. Resurrection Life 00:33:53.930 --> 00:33:56.990 meets for worship every Sunday morning at 10 00:33:56.990 --> 00:34:00.869 a .m. Join us this Sunday. And if you found this 00:34:00.869 --> 00:34:04.089 podcast to be a blessing to you, share it with 00:34:04.089 --> 00:34:07.930 a friend. And be sure to subscribe so you don't 00:34:07.930 --> 00:34:11.789 miss next week's Resurrection Life Sunday Sermon. 00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:24.860 I can face tomorrow because he lives. All fear 00:34:24.860 --> 00:34:34.940 is gone because I know he holds the future and 00:34:34.940 --> 00:35:23.440 life. is worth the living just because he lives