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Ed Young - The Promise of Easter

April 20, 2025 | S25:E94

Ed Young - The Promise of Easter
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Promise of Easter | April 20, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: christ is risen.
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  • Congregation: he is risen indeed,
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  • Pastor ed young: christ is risen.
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  • Congregation: he is risen indeed.
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  • Pastor ed young: and throughout our time of proclamation,
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  • When that first statement is made,
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  • I hope you'll respond just exactly the way you did then.
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  • Christ is risen.
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  • Congregation: he is risen indeed.
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  • Pastor ed young: now, there are a lot of questions that swirl
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  • Around easter, and they are legitimate questions.
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  • And therefore, all of us, if we were honest, we too would ask
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  • Some of these questions, and we need to back up and say, "yes,
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  • We want to have answers."
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  • Let me tell you something about christianity.
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  • Christianity says, "come, let us reason together," and we are
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  • Here today because christianity of all the major faiths of the
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  • World is based on historical truth that's hammered out and
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  • Lived out in history.
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  • And therefore, we look at the questions that are raised in the
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  • Bible, and we're going to look at questions that three
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  • Individuals ask.
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  • First of all, the question that thomas asked, and then we'll
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  • Look at the question even that jesus asks, and finally we'll
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  • Look at the decisive question that paul asks.
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  • Let's look at the thomas question.
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  • This is doubting thomas, i like doubting thomas, he's so much
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  • Like a lot of us, he didn't just sit back and assume, he asked
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  • Provocative questions to nail down so he understood what was
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  • Going on.
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  • Let's get the setting for the question; in the upper room, the
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  • Triumphal entry has already taken place, it's a matter of
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  • Hours before jesus would be tried, convicted, and crucified.
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  • And there he looks at his apostles after the instigation
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  • Of the lord's supper, and he saw apprehension, fear, doubt,
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  • Questions, much like all of us feel at this moment in the
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  • History of america and of the world.
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  • There's a fear, there's questions, there's uncertainty
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  • About tomorrow.
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  • And therefore, in the midst of that, after supper, the
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  • Institutional lord's supper, jesus looked at those apostles
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  • And did not utter words of command.
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  • But i think, in a quiet, firm way, he said, "let not your
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  • Heart be troubled; you believe in god, believe also in me.
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  • In my father's house are many mansions;" he said, "if it were
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  • Not so, i would have told you."
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  • And jesus says, "i go to prepare a place for you," and, "i will
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  • Come again and i will
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  • Receive you unto myself; that where i am," said jesus,
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  • "there you will be also."
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  • And he said you know where i'm going, and you know the way.
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  • And following this, thomas evidently wasn't listening, he
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  • May have been a a left brainer, he wanted everything lined
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  • Out, doot-doo-doot.
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  • And thomas says, "lord, we don't know where you are going,
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  • How in the world can we know the way?"
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  • Now, if he had been listening, jesus just told him he was going
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  • To heaven to be with the father, didn't he?
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  • Very clearly.
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  • And he said, "look, when you die, when you leave this earth,
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  • I'm going to come and get you personally myself."
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  • And by the way, that's the same promise he gives to all of us
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  • Who are in christ, that very same promise, he'll come to get
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  • Us, he'll take us to a home which is in heaven.
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  • But thomas, he said, "i don't get it, i don't get it."
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  • And then jesus answered him with one great i am statement.
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  • If you know the i am statements in john, they're tremendous
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  • Statements, claims jesus made.
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  • He said, "i am the good shepherd," "i am the light of
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  • The world," and he had those other i am statements, but this
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  • One is the most staggering of all.
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  • Thomas says, we don't know where you're going, how do we know
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  • The way?
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  • And jesus says, "i am the way, i am the truth, i am the life,
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  • And no one goes to the father," gets to heaven,
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  • "except," jesus said, "through me."
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  • And because of that very pejorative statement, and
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  • Because of that statement that seems to x out every other way
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  • Anybody can get to god and get to heaven, it has upset a whole
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  • Lot of people, because it is so overwhelming.
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  • Jesus says, "i am the way," the way we get to god.
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  • Why is that true?
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  • Because you and i can't just barge into god.
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  • Anybody who thinks that, they don't know anything about the
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  • Nature and character of the almighty.
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  • But jesus christ, because he took all of your garbage and my
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  • Garbage upon himself, he died the death that you and i
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  • Deserved to die so we can live the life that he certainly
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  • Deserves to live.
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  • And therefore, jesus prepared the way for us, so we go to
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  • The father.
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  • The father says, "who is this?"
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  • And we could say i'm your son and i'm your daughter through
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  • Jesus christ because he has paved the way for us
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  • To go to heaven.
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  • Christ is risen.
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  • Congregation: he is risen indeed.
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  • Pastor ed young: "i am the way," and he says, "i am the truth."
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  • And as he talked about he is the way, it's very interesting when
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  • He says he is the truth, because jesus lived out the truth before
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  • He ever taught the truth, he lived the sermon of the mount
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  • Before he ever talked about the sermon on the mount.
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  • He told us how to overcome temptation; he had already
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  • Overcome temptation.
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  • He talked about the dignity of labor because he had already
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  • Experienced and known the dignity when he spent the years
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  • As a carpenter.
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  • So we know that he not only said, "i am the truth and
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  • The way," but he lived out the way and he lived out the truth
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  • And said this is how you have the life.
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  • Listen, if i had to have practiced everything that i
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  • Preach and exegete in that bible about, i would have to lived out
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  • All of it first, sermons would be very short.
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  • Jesus didn't just prognosticate, he lived it and he taught it,
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  • It was born out in flesh of his life, and that is the most
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  • Powerful sermon that can be given.
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  • He says, "i am the way you get to god, the only way."
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  • He said, "i am the truth about god."
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  • What do we learn from jesus, in his life that we did not know?
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  • First of all, we learned that god is personal.
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  • Read the old testament, it's hard to find god as personal, he
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  • Is austere, he is away, he is up there, he is a holy one.
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  • But jesus told us that god is personal, not just a force or a
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  • Power, god is personal.
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  • Even we can get the point of saying, "abba, abba god," the
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  • Intimate thing of talking to a dad.
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  • Jesus, as he told us the truth about god, he said
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  • He's personal.
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  • Not only that, he said he's holy, he is perfect, he is
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  • Impeccable, he is pure.
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  • So, therefore, we know that god is holy and totally righteous,
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  • Therefore we can't go to him unless we have clean hands and
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  • Pure hearts, and he has provided for that for you and me on
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  • The cross.
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  • And so we see that, "i am the way," he tells us the way to
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  • God, jesus; "i am the truth," he tells us the truth about god;
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  • "and," he says, "i am the life," the life that we can have now.
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  • He said, in christ, your life will be abundant.
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  • If your life is not abundant now, whatever your circumstance,
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  • You need to check out and see, "man, am i living the
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  • Christ life?"
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  • When i received him, he enables us to live the christ life.
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  • And then he said we'll have life beyond this life that is
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  • Inexplicable and unbelievable and fabulous and glorious.
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  • Jesus says, "i'm the way, the truth, and the life."
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  • And, "no one gets the father but by me."
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  • You see, the questions that were asked that we're going to look
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  • At, every one of them happens to be answered by the truth of
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  • Easter, which is, christ is risen.
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  • Congregation: he is risen indeed.
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  • Pastor ed young: christ is risen.
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  • Congregation: he is risen indeed.
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  • Pastor ed young: and then the next question,
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  • And we can turn over in the gospel of mark
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  • The 15th chapter.
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  • And let me give you the background, jesus is on the
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  • Cross, it's a question that jesus asked.
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  • Whoa, time out, jesus had a question?
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  • Absolutely.
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  • Look at the setting, jesus already had been denied, jesus
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  • Was already in his life.
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  • Remember when he went to the synagogue, his home synagogue,
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  • As he was starting out on his ministry?
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  • He opened the bible, the scrolls, he began to teach those
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  • Jews that had taught him the truth about how god
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  • Really operates.
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  • It was so upsetting to those people.
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  • Remember when he got through, they tried to take the hometown
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  • Prophet and push him over a cliff?
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  • I've been right to that space in nazareth, where they wanted to
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  • Push him over the cliff.
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  • So he was already disenfranchised by his
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  • Hometown folks.
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  • And as he was teaching, remember, his family came to him
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  • And said, "you know, you're somewhat of embarrassment to us,
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  • Maybe your elevator isn't going all the way to the top," and
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  • They tried to call him out.
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  • So he was almost excluded from almost all of his family.
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  • And then as he had large crowds, he healed people and they
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  • Followed him.
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  • And then there was that triumphant entry into jerusalem,
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  • And now everybody was saying, "hosanna," palm branches, coats
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  • On the way, riding on that donkey like a king.
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  • What a moment.
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  • And then all of a sudden something happened, his
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  • Popularity waned, why?
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  • Because there was a contract on him for his life, and already he
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  • Knew that one of his closest apostles, closest friend had
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  • Already exercised that contract and was going to point him out
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  • So he could be executed.
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  • Boy, what happened?
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  • And what about the most bombastic, most bombastic
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  • Follower he had in that room?
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  • He said, "this guy is gonna just chicken out when i'm taken to be
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  • Tried and crucified," six trials jesus went through, and that's
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  • Exactly what happened.
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  • Until peter, of all people, big, strong, mighty peter, when two
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  • Little girls asked him, "you've got a galilean accent, you must
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  • Belong to jesus."
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  • And he was being taken out, and with a word of profanity, tell
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  • Them, "i don't even know that man."
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  • And now the trial took place, the sanhedrin supreme court
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  • Said, "hey, we've got to get rid of him.
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  • If he keeps on doing this, displaying power, we'll lose our
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  • Power with the roman government."
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  • It was a power play, that's all it was, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • And then we see there that he went to herod, who was a jewish
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  • King, and herod tried to joke and said, "man, perform some
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  • Little slight, do one of those miracles for me."
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  • And then finally went to pontius pilate, he was the last resort
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  • That was there, the last resort.
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  • And pilate examined him, saw that he was innocent, saw this
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  • Was religious gamesmanship, and so they had a little dialogue
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  • About truth.
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  • You remember that?
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  • It's a wonderful thing.
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  • Jesus says, "i represent truth," and pilate says, "what
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  • Is truth?"
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  • And he walked out, pilate walked out.
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  • And then pilate said, "you know, i'm just gonna let him go, this
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  • Is a game for the sadducees, the pharisees, the herodians,
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  • The essenes, they're just playing games."
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  • But somebody whispered to pilate, "if you let him go, you
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  • Will not be a friend of caesar."
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  • Ooh, ho-ho-ho, the magic words, and pilate said, "i'd
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  • Better reconsider this thing."
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  • And so he decided that the law was they let one criminal go
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  • Every passover season.
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  • Remember, there's a million and a half more jews and other
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  • People in jerusalem than normally would be there because
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  • The passover.
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  • And so he went before the crowd and he said, "we've got this
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  • Reprobate, this criminal, this revolutionary, you know who he
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  • Is, he's barabbas."
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  • And he said, "i'll either let him go or i'll let go jesus, who
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  • Is called king of the jews."
  • 00:14:18.180 --> 00:14:21.016
  • And, "which one will it be, barabbas or jesus?"
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  • And they said, "give us barabbas."
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  • Pilate was shocked.
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  • He said, "what do you want me to do with jesus?"
  • 00:14:32.094 --> 00:14:34.997
  • And the same crowd, a lot of them because jesus did not
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  • Become the political king, they were hosanna-ing around on that
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  • Sunday before, they turned on him and the hosannas turned to,
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  • "crucify, crucify."
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  • And then pilate, in a wonderful, symbolical way, it says he
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  • Washed his hands.
  • 00:14:58.487 --> 00:15:00.689
  • Isn't that a graphic picture?
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  • Pilate, he said, "i'm washing my hands, this is an innocent man,
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  • I'm not involved, it wasn't me, it was somebody else."
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  • And the whole process of rationalization, which, all of
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  • Us are phi beta kappan brethren, don't make any mistake about it,
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  • We're all good at it.
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  • Don't sit there so pious, it's true.
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  • And pilate said, "you know, i washed my hands of this man."
  • 00:15:19.908 --> 00:15:24.079
  • And now jesus, beaten, shamed, spat upon, stripped naked,
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  • Nailed to that cross, standing between earth and heaven,
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  • And now in the 9th hour, here's the question he asks:
  • 00:15:35.324 --> 00:15:39.828
  • "eloi eloi lama sabachthani?"
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  • He spoke in aramaic.
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  • Interpreting that means, "my god, my god,
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  • Why have you forsaken me?"
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  • Now, there's a moment.
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  • How can divinity turn its back on divinity?
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  • What happened in that moment, to jesus, on the cross?
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  • He had been one with the father from prehistory.
  • 00:16:14.129 --> 00:16:17.633
  • He said it over and over again, he was there on the cross
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  • Because he decided to do the father's will and not his will.
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  • And god turned his back on his son who lived a perfect life.
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  • What's going on here?
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  • At that moment, ladies and gentlemen, a cosmic event was
  • 00:16:37.586 --> 00:16:42.057
  • Carried out in real time and real history when all of the
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  • Sin, the trash, the evil of the world was put in jesus who was
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  • Sinless, and now he became completely sin.
  • 00:16:53.469 --> 00:16:59.174
  • God cannot look upon sin.
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  • If there's active sin in your life, in my life, we go to pray,
  • 00:17:03.645 --> 00:17:07.049
  • God can't hear that prayer because sin is a barricade
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  • Between him and god, because god is absolutely holy and pure.
  • 00:17:11.086 --> 00:17:17.493
  • So now god turns his back on his son, and god joins all the other
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  • Hand-washers, "i wash my hands of jesus, i wash my hands of
  • 00:17:23.432 --> 00:17:28.470
  • Jesus," because now jesus was totally sin.
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  • Let me tell you what's going on, jesus was forsaken by god
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  • So that you and i will never be forsaken.
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  • That's what that's all about. that's what that's all about.
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  • And so we see on the cross jesus asked this question, but there
  • 00:17:51.360 --> 00:17:59.201
  • Are a lot of other questions that are asked.
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  • We ask the question, how far can force go in the world?
  • 00:18:02.204 --> 00:18:08.577
  • Good question.
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  • How far can force go in the world?
  • 00:18:10.946 --> 00:18:14.383
  • Jesus said earlier it can't go very far.
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  • You remember when peter put out his sword to protect jesus when
  • 00:18:18.153 --> 00:18:21.523
  • They came to take him away?
  • 00:18:21.523 --> 00:18:23.125
  • Jesus said, "he that takes up the sword will die by
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  • The sword."
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  • Well, that's just what the bible says.
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  • Study history, study history, that is always true, "he that
  • 00:18:31.800 --> 00:18:36.205
  • Takes up the sword dies by the sword."
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  • Look at empires and nations and cults; let them take up the
  • 00:18:40.976 --> 00:18:44.513
  • Sword, always, inevitably they die by that sword.
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  • Every revolution, that's been true; when they take up the
  • 00:18:49.618 --> 00:18:53.689
  • Sword, they die by the sword.
  • 00:18:53.689 --> 00:18:56.725
  • And so we here to have that question, how far can force go?
  • 00:18:56.725 --> 00:19:00.729
  • Jesus was put on that cross by all kinds of forces, how far can
  • 00:19:00.729 --> 00:19:04.866
  • The force go in the world?
  • 00:19:04.866 --> 00:19:06.969
  • I'll tell you how far it can go.
  • 00:19:06.969 --> 00:19:09.805
  • It can look good one day, force can seem to be winning the
  • 00:19:09.805 --> 00:19:14.109
  • Second day, but the third day is coming, the third day is coming.
  • 00:19:14.109 --> 00:19:23.051
  • Jesus was buried.
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  • Pilate said, "you know, there's a rumor that god would
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  • Resurrect him.
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  • Put some guards around the tomb so that dead man won't get out."
  • 00:19:32.594 --> 00:19:37.232
  • Ain't that amazing?
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  • First time in all of time that guards were put to keep
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  • Somebody dead.
  • 00:19:42.104 --> 00:19:43.705
  • Ever heard of that before or since?
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  • What happened on that easter?
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  • Oh, let me tell you something.
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  • When the stone was rolled away, and by the way, the stone wasn't
  • 00:19:50.746 --> 00:19:53.849
  • Rolled away to get jesus out, that stone was no problem for
  • 00:19:53.849 --> 00:19:56.585
  • Him and his resurrected body; but on that resurrection day,
  • 00:19:56.585 --> 00:19:59.988
  • When jesus stepped out and those guards, that little battalion
  • 00:19:59.988 --> 00:20:03.558
  • Was there to protect him, what did they do?
  • 00:20:03.558 --> 00:20:06.328
  • Historians say they stood there like dead men, power, no power
  • 00:20:06.328 --> 00:20:12.868
  • In the face of the resurrection and the life, and those soldiers
  • 00:20:12.868 --> 00:20:17.673
  • Ran away.
  • 00:20:17.673 --> 00:20:20.409
  • And those guards went and told their leaders, and said, "look,
  • 00:20:20.409 --> 00:20:24.980
  • He came back from the grave."
  • 00:20:24.980 --> 00:20:27.916
  • And they said, "oh, we can't have that."
  • 00:20:27.916 --> 00:20:30.185
  • And they bribed them to tell the people, to lie to the people and
  • 00:20:30.185 --> 00:20:32.888
  • Say, "well, his apostles came and overcame all the military
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  • Might of rome, and they took the body away."
  • 00:20:36.591 --> 00:20:41.129
  • How long did that lie stand? how long did the lie stand?
  • 00:20:41.129 --> 00:20:45.634
  • Not very long, because jesus, for 40 days and 40 nights,
  • 00:20:45.634 --> 00:20:50.372
  • Appeared everywhere all over that part of the country to
  • 00:20:50.372 --> 00:20:53.241
  • People who did not believe, to people who did believe, until
  • 00:20:53.241 --> 00:20:56.211
  • Finally, he appeared to over 500 men, and you know, there were
  • 00:20:56.211 --> 00:20:59.881
  • Another 400-500 women there, till he appeared to more than
  • 00:20:59.881 --> 00:21:05.087
  • 1,000 people.
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  • He who was dead is alive again.
  • 00:21:06.955 --> 00:21:09.391
  • How long did that lie that the body was thrown away?
  • 00:21:09.391 --> 00:21:12.894
  • Just about that long, in 40 days, the validity of the truth,
  • 00:21:12.894 --> 00:21:18.467
  • That christ was risen.
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  • Congregation: he is risen indeed.
  • 00:21:19.968 --> 00:21:21.570
  • Pastor ed young: and what about unjustice?
  • 00:21:21.570 --> 00:21:23.004
  • Unjustice.
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  • If ever there were a crime of unjustice, it was jesus, who
  • 00:21:25.006 --> 00:21:29.644
  • Lived the perfect life of love and graciousness and kindness
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  • And healing and as a suffering servant.
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  • If ever there were an unjust death, that's the cross.
  • 00:21:37.185 --> 00:21:41.957
  • What about injustice on that cross?
  • 00:21:41.957 --> 00:21:44.493
  • The amazing thing that god took the injustice that jesus was
  • 00:21:44.493 --> 00:21:49.064
  • Persecuted and died for, and he transferred that until you and i
  • 00:21:49.064 --> 00:21:56.405
  • Are now pronounced just because jesus experienced
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  • The injustice of the world.
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  • Christ is risen.
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  • Congregation: he is risen indeed.
  • 00:22:07.048 --> 00:22:09.117
  • Pastor ed young: so we see the question jesus asked,
  • 00:22:09.117 --> 00:22:12.621
  • And now the last question, it is found in 1 corinthians 15.
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  • It's the greatest chapter in the bible, it's on the resurrection,
  • 00:22:18.326 --> 00:22:22.364
  • It covers every base, every question you will ask.
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  • Until finally, at the end of that chapter, paul asks a
  • 00:22:27.202 --> 00:22:28.703
  • Question and it has two parts but it's really one question.
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  • And let me read it to you, it's better that i do that.
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  • You're familiar with it, most of us are.
  • 00:22:37.245 --> 00:22:40.048
  • Paul says, "death, where is your sting?
  • 00:22:40.048 --> 00:22:44.886
  • Grave, where is your victory?"
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  • He says the sting of death comes from what?
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  • The stinger is that we committed the sin that we committed, it
  • 00:22:52.861 --> 00:22:55.997
  • Was taken care of on the cross, jesus took those stings.
  • 00:22:55.997 --> 00:22:59.868
  • "death, where is your sting?"
  • 00:22:59.868 --> 00:23:01.203
  • The sting of death is gone, the cross took care of that.
  • 00:23:01.203 --> 00:23:04.673
  • Then he asked the most profound subset of that question, was,
  • 00:23:04.673 --> 00:23:09.010
  • "grave, where is your victory?"
  • 00:23:09.010 --> 00:23:16.318
  • Lot of us here think that the grave has destroyed a lot of
  • 00:23:16.318 --> 00:23:24.125
  • People we knew and loved and family and friends and mom and
  • 00:23:24.125 --> 00:23:27.996
  • Dad and brother and sister, on and on.
  • 00:23:27.996 --> 00:23:32.467
  • We think, "man, the grave is, man, it's a sign of defeat."
  • 00:23:32.467 --> 00:23:36.938
  • But paul said, "grave, where is your victory?"
  • 00:23:36.938 --> 00:23:40.275
  • And he says those who are in christ, this corruptible body
  • 00:23:40.275 --> 00:23:44.079
  • Will become incorruptible, this mortal body will take on
  • 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:48.083
  • Immortality, and that you and i, when we die in christ, we will
  • 00:23:48.083 --> 00:23:52.954
  • Graduate to go and be with the father, jesus will come and get
  • 00:23:52.954 --> 00:23:55.624
  • Us, and we'll have a resurrected body.
  • 00:23:55.624 --> 00:23:57.692
  • The prototype is the resurrected body of jesus christ.
  • 00:23:57.692 --> 00:24:01.963
  • This old body will not make it through eternity,
  • 00:24:01.963 --> 00:24:05.467
  • Does everybody get that?
  • 00:24:05.467 --> 00:24:07.235
  • But he's gonna give us a body,
  • 00:24:07.235 --> 00:24:09.571
  • And that is victory over the grave.
  • 00:24:09.571 --> 00:24:12.274
  • Christ is risen.
  • 00:24:12.274 --> 00:24:13.842
  • Congregation: he is risen indeed.
  • 00:24:13.842 --> 00:24:15.243
  • Pastor ed young: christ is risen.
  • 00:24:15.243 --> 00:24:16.745
  • Congregation: he is risen indeed.
  • 00:24:16.745 --> 00:24:18.280
  • Pastor ed young: every one of these questions--
  • 00:24:18.280 --> 00:24:20.949
  • Profound questions, are they not?
  • 00:24:20.949 --> 00:24:23.585
  • Are answered by the resurrection of jesus christ.
  • 00:24:23.585 --> 00:24:27.322
  • And the problem that people have now is really very simple.
  • 00:24:27.322 --> 00:24:31.860
  • Because the resurrection of jesus christ is true,
  • 00:24:31.860 --> 00:24:36.565
  • This verifies, verifies everything
  • 00:24:36.565 --> 00:24:43.605
  • He said and did in his life.
  • 00:24:43.605 --> 00:24:47.375
  • Christ is risen.
  • 00:24:47.375 --> 00:24:49.411
  • Congregation: he is risen indeed.
  • 00:24:49.411 --> 00:24:52.247
  • Male announcer: trials are woven into the very fabric of life.
  • 00:24:52.314 --> 00:24:56.251
  • When we least expect it, storms can come and turn our lives
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  • Upside down, they can come crashing like waves on our
  • 00:24:59.921 --> 00:25:03.858
  • Finances, our health, and our relationships.
  • 00:25:03.858 --> 00:25:07.596
  • So how do we weather these storms and turn the trials
  • 00:25:07.596 --> 00:25:10.765
  • Of life into triumphs?
  • 00:25:10.765 --> 00:25:13.068
  • In his booklet, "hope in the storms of life,"
  • 00:25:13.068 --> 00:25:16.871
  • Dr. ed young looks at how the apostle paul,
  • 00:25:16.871 --> 00:25:19.274
  • Though beaten, robbed and shipwrecked,
  • 00:25:19.274 --> 00:25:21.977
  • Found great joy in life, a joy that our
  • 00:25:21.977 --> 00:25:24.946
  • Heavenly father wants to fill your life.
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  • Into triumphs.
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  • Pastor ed: the apostle paul, writing about the significance
  • 00:25:52.307 --> 00:25:54.376
  • Of christ's resurrection, asks, "where, o death, is your sting?"
  • 00:25:54.376 --> 00:25:58.813
  • We celebrate the answer to that question easter, today.
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  • The resurrection of jesus christ verifies, nails down, that
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  • Everything he said and did is true truth.
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  • And listen, because he lives, you and i can live, we can have
  • 00:26:11.192 --> 00:26:14.629
  • Confidence that after death, as we died in christ, we will get
  • 00:26:14.629 --> 00:26:19.534
  • A new resurrection body.
  • 00:26:19.534 --> 00:26:21.002
  • The prototype of that body would be the prototype of the
  • 00:26:21.002 --> 00:26:24.239
  • Resurrected body of jesus christ.
  • 00:26:24.239 --> 00:26:26.574
  • And this new body will take us all the way through eternity,
  • 00:26:26.574 --> 00:26:31.813
  • Where we'll begin a life in other dimensions that we can't
  • 00:26:31.813 --> 00:26:35.417
  • Even imagine in our humanity.
  • 00:26:35.417 --> 00:26:38.453
  • But even with the evidence of the resurrection, many continue
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  • To delay putting their total faith and confidence in
  • 00:26:42.457 --> 00:26:46.094
  • The lord.
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  • Listen, don't wait any longer, make this easter the time when
  • 00:26:47.429 --> 00:26:51.499
  • You surrender your heart and life over to god through christ.
  • 00:26:51.499 --> 00:26:55.236
  • Trusting him, let me tell you something, it will
  • 00:26:55.236 --> 00:26:57.205
  • Change everything.
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  • And thank you for watching, it is always a privilege to come
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  • Into your home every week.
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  • And join me again next time we take another exciting step
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  • Together on the "winning walk" with jesus christ, which is
  • 00:27:05.313 --> 00:27:10.685
  • Beginning on this earth and will be fulfilled throughout eternity
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  • With our new resurrected body.
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  • ♪♪♪
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