1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,740 Speaker: I wanna tell you guys about, uh, an announcement that 2 00:00:04,770 --> 00:00:07,050 most people probably ignore. 3 00:00:08,189 --> 00:00:09,870 You guys ever see this sign before? 4 00:00:09,870 --> 00:00:09,930 Yeah. 5 00:00:10,770 --> 00:00:12,750 No one really cares about this sign, right? 6 00:00:12,990 --> 00:00:15,960 It comes on and people are just like, cool. 7 00:00:16,020 --> 00:00:18,450 And then the flight tent has their thing and you're just like, 8 00:00:18,450 --> 00:00:19,890 on your phone or you're talking. 9 00:00:19,950 --> 00:00:22,290 People got their headphones in like this. 10 00:00:22,500 --> 00:00:24,600 They, they put this thing on and they, and they come up and 11 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:25,440 it's like, all right, whatever. 12 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,000 Or sometimes it comes on in the flight and you're like. 13 00:00:27,540 --> 00:00:30,090 Do I really need, like I'm sitting down, do I really need to put my seatbelt on? 14 00:00:30,090 --> 00:00:31,470 I'm not gonna get up, right? 15 00:00:31,470 --> 00:00:32,040 This happens a lot. 16 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:36,330 But one time I was on an airplane where this really, really, really mattered. 17 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,710 So my wife and I were on our way back from our honeymoon in Hawaii, 18 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,500 and there wasn't just this light on. 19 00:00:43,769 --> 00:00:44,910 This light was on. 20 00:00:45,990 --> 00:00:48,600 This light is the, you can't use the bathroom light Now. 21 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,690 The reason that light was on was because we were about to take off. 22 00:00:52,230 --> 00:00:53,760 So we're like coming down the runway. 23 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:54,840 We're getting ready to take off. 24 00:00:55,365 --> 00:00:59,175 There's a woman in the bathroom, there's a woman in the bathroom, and 25 00:00:59,175 --> 00:01:00,765 they're like, you can't be in here. 26 00:01:00,795 --> 00:01:02,055 Like, we, we need to take off. 27 00:01:02,055 --> 00:01:03,465 Like, you're not supposed to be in here. 28 00:01:03,465 --> 00:01:04,845 And she's like, I'm gonna go to the bathroom. 29 00:01:04,905 --> 00:01:09,105 I'm doing it, you guys, I have, I have free rights in this country. 30 00:01:09,105 --> 00:01:10,965 I could do whatever I want on this plane. 31 00:01:11,265 --> 00:01:12,975 I'm gonna go to the bathroom in this plane. 32 00:01:13,545 --> 00:01:16,095 And they didn't, they didn't let her do that. 33 00:01:16,095 --> 00:01:19,035 They, they, they were like, no, like, ma'am, it's not safe for you to do that. 34 00:01:19,035 --> 00:01:20,715 It's not okay when we tell you to. 35 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,400 Put on your seatbelt, you need to put on your seatbelt and be in your seat. 36 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:24,120 You can't be doing this. 37 00:01:24,510 --> 00:01:27,300 So then they eventually, this lady was getting really upset, so 38 00:01:27,300 --> 00:01:30,450 eventually they call, they have to call the security to, so we have 39 00:01:30,450 --> 00:01:31,740 to go all the way back to the gate. 40 00:01:31,830 --> 00:01:35,220 They call the security, they come in and escort her off the plane 41 00:01:35,220 --> 00:01:37,500 after she gave this whole speech about rights and all that stuff. 42 00:01:37,500 --> 00:01:38,670 It was, it was hilarious. 43 00:01:38,729 --> 00:01:42,720 But so they, they escort her off the plane and so she, and all 44 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,250 her family gets kicked off too. 45 00:01:44,250 --> 00:01:47,160 Her husband, her kids, they all get kicked off this plane. 46 00:01:47,820 --> 00:01:49,440 I'm sure they didn't get refunded, right? 47 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,770 So they lost their plane trip, they lost their tickets, they all got 48 00:01:52,770 --> 00:01:55,199 kicked off, and I'm sure other things happened to them afterward too, that, 49 00:01:55,199 --> 00:01:57,000 that weren't necessarily super fun. 50 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,479 So they, they all got kicked off this plane because she 51 00:02:00,479 --> 00:02:01,560 ignored the announcement, right? 52 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:05,009 If she had listened to this sign, she would've been fine, right? 53 00:02:05,009 --> 00:02:06,330 But she, she ignored the announcement. 54 00:02:06,330 --> 00:02:07,320 She didn't take it seriously. 55 00:02:07,860 --> 00:02:10,710 And so she got in big trouble. 56 00:02:10,710 --> 00:02:13,470 Now, I wanna tell you guys about an announcement that's happening in the 57 00:02:13,470 --> 00:02:16,769 gospel of Matthew, chapters 27 and 28, the very end that we're looking at. 58 00:02:17,475 --> 00:02:19,845 That announcement is that Jesus is alive. 59 00:02:20,204 --> 00:02:21,255 Jesus is, he's alive. 60 00:02:21,255 --> 00:02:22,394 He, he's out of the tomb. 61 00:02:22,394 --> 00:02:26,954 He was raised from the dead, and a lot of people take that announcement for granted. 62 00:02:27,135 --> 00:02:28,245 They treat it like the seatbelt sign. 63 00:02:28,245 --> 00:02:28,965 They're just like, whatever. 64 00:02:29,355 --> 00:02:29,924 All right, cool. 65 00:02:29,954 --> 00:02:30,585 Jesus is alive. 66 00:02:30,674 --> 00:02:31,065 Great. 67 00:02:31,394 --> 00:02:32,144 I love that. 68 00:02:32,595 --> 00:02:33,165 That's cool. 69 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:35,670 Maybe they're like, oh, well, did he really? 70 00:02:35,670 --> 00:02:36,450 I don't know. 71 00:02:37,020 --> 00:02:37,800 Eh, that's okay. 72 00:02:37,860 --> 00:02:39,720 Or maybe they're just like, no, I don't believe that. 73 00:02:39,990 --> 00:02:40,410 Whatever. 74 00:02:40,530 --> 00:02:42,840 But I wanna ask you tonight, what are you gonna do about 75 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:44,640 an empty tomb in a risen king? 76 00:02:44,970 --> 00:02:47,310 Because Jesus tomb was empty and king. 77 00:02:47,310 --> 00:02:48,420 Jesus is alive. 78 00:02:49,050 --> 00:02:50,910 And that matters for you. 79 00:02:50,910 --> 00:02:51,600 That matters for me. 80 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,579 That matters for how you live, that matters for your future, 81 00:02:53,730 --> 00:02:56,490 and that's an announcement that you have to do Something about. 82 00:02:56,579 --> 00:03:00,780 How you respond to that announcement really, really, really matters. 83 00:03:00,810 --> 00:03:03,210 Matters even more than getting kicked off an airplane. 84 00:03:03,750 --> 00:03:05,070 So turn within your Bibles. 85 00:03:05,070 --> 00:03:07,590 We're gonna be in Matthew 27 at the very end. 86 00:03:07,590 --> 00:03:11,640 Matthew 27 62 is where we're picking up. 87 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:12,030 All right. 88 00:03:12,989 --> 00:03:15,060 So last week we ended with Jesus burial. 89 00:03:15,209 --> 00:03:15,450 Right? 90 00:03:15,450 --> 00:03:18,329 When it was evening, there was a rich guy named Joseph who came, and 91 00:03:18,329 --> 00:03:19,649 he's, he, he was a disciple of Jesus. 92 00:03:19,679 --> 00:03:22,500 He said, look, I want to put Jesus in in a real tomb. 93 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:24,299 I don't know if I'm gonna be thrown in a, in a common grave. 94 00:03:24,299 --> 00:03:25,589 I'm gonna give him my tomb. 95 00:03:25,589 --> 00:03:26,160 We're gonna bury him. 96 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:27,299 We're gonna take care of his body. 97 00:03:27,510 --> 00:03:30,540 We're gonna do do things the right way for Jesus, because we care about him. 98 00:03:30,630 --> 00:03:31,589 That's where we left off. 99 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:36,420 So look with me at verse actually before we get there, before we get to verse 62. 100 00:03:36,870 --> 00:03:39,089 The way this passage is structured is actually. 101 00:03:39,465 --> 00:03:40,815 Really fun and really interesting. 102 00:03:40,994 --> 00:03:44,415 So normally we kind of work our way straight through the passage, but 103 00:03:44,415 --> 00:03:48,075 the way this passage is structured is actually, uh, if, if you wanna 104 00:03:48,075 --> 00:03:51,405 be fancy, there's this, there's this word, it's called a, a chiasm. 105 00:03:51,435 --> 00:03:52,274 Or a chiasm. 106 00:03:52,605 --> 00:03:55,454 And what that really just means is, it means it's like a sandwich. 107 00:03:55,755 --> 00:03:56,204 All right? 108 00:03:56,565 --> 00:03:57,855 This passage is like a sandwich. 109 00:03:57,855 --> 00:03:58,785 This is what it's gonna look like. 110 00:03:58,815 --> 00:03:59,174 Okay? 111 00:03:59,535 --> 00:04:02,714 So this, this chiasm means it's like this. 112 00:04:02,864 --> 00:04:07,035 So there's parallel sections that work their way to the middle. 113 00:04:07,815 --> 00:04:09,585 The middle is the most important part. 114 00:04:10,335 --> 00:04:11,595 That's how this passage is structured. 115 00:04:11,745 --> 00:04:15,015 So when you're reading this passage, you'll notice there's opposition to 116 00:04:15,015 --> 00:04:16,515 the resurrection at the beginning. 117 00:04:16,665 --> 00:04:18,615 There's opposition to the resurrection at the end. 118 00:04:18,975 --> 00:04:23,235 And then around that section, there's the, the woman arrive at 119 00:04:23,235 --> 00:04:24,525 the tomb and they leave the tomb. 120 00:04:24,735 --> 00:04:27,075 And in the middle is the angel's message. 121 00:04:27,465 --> 00:04:28,965 So that's the way we're gonna look at this sermon. 122 00:04:28,965 --> 00:04:30,435 We're gonna put these chunks together. 123 00:04:30,435 --> 00:04:34,305 We're gonna put these chunks together, and then this is what we're gonna end on. 124 00:04:34,665 --> 00:04:35,055 So. 125 00:04:35,685 --> 00:04:36,465 Fancy word for that. 126 00:04:36,465 --> 00:04:37,530 It's called a chiasm. 127 00:04:37,530 --> 00:04:38,115 Or a chiasm. 128 00:04:38,115 --> 00:04:38,775 It's modeled. 129 00:04:38,865 --> 00:04:42,195 The, the name comes from the Greek letter key, which is an X. 130 00:04:42,375 --> 00:04:44,895 So see how it would, it would be an X if it kept going. 131 00:04:45,195 --> 00:04:45,615 See that? 132 00:04:45,885 --> 00:04:46,815 That's why it's called that. 133 00:04:46,875 --> 00:04:49,275 But that's how we're gonna be looking at this passage, is we're gonna be, we're 134 00:04:49,275 --> 00:04:53,295 gonna take the the outside, and then we're gonna work our way in into the middle. 135 00:04:53,625 --> 00:04:54,075 Cool. 136 00:04:54,885 --> 00:04:55,305 All right. 137 00:04:55,575 --> 00:04:57,405 So it's gonna end up looking like this. 138 00:04:57,615 --> 00:04:58,125 See that? 139 00:04:58,635 --> 00:05:00,645 We went from here to here. 140 00:05:00,975 --> 00:05:01,275 Whoa. 141 00:05:01,605 --> 00:05:01,995 Right. 142 00:05:02,205 --> 00:05:02,595 All right. 143 00:05:02,655 --> 00:05:03,525 So Matthew. 144 00:05:04,590 --> 00:05:05,820 This slide says 26. 145 00:05:05,820 --> 00:05:08,580 It should say 27, Matthew 27 62. 146 00:05:09,030 --> 00:05:13,440 The next day, that is after the day of preparation, the chief priest in the 147 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:15,150 Pharisees, they gathered before Pilate. 148 00:05:15,150 --> 00:05:17,309 So the chief priest, Pharisees, those are the guys who wanted to kill 149 00:05:17,309 --> 00:05:19,169 Jesus Pilate, the Roman governor. 150 00:05:19,770 --> 00:05:24,690 They're like, Hey, sir, we remember how that imposter, Jesus said while he was 151 00:05:24,690 --> 00:05:27,750 alive, after three days, I will rise. 152 00:05:28,020 --> 00:05:31,049 So even the Jewish leaders remembered what Jesus said. 153 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,750 Jesus said, after three days, I'm gonna rise from the dead. 154 00:05:34,409 --> 00:05:38,340 So then they're like, all right, we don't want anyone to think that 155 00:05:38,340 --> 00:05:40,950 Jesus is actually gonna be able to rise from the debt, verse 64. 156 00:05:41,430 --> 00:05:47,250 Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day less, or because his 157 00:05:47,250 --> 00:05:51,750 disciples might go and steal him away and tell the people he's risen from the debt. 158 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,070 So the Jewish leaders, they're scared that the disciples are gonna steal Jesus' body 159 00:05:56,070 --> 00:05:57,810 and be like, oh, guys, look empty tomb. 160 00:05:58,230 --> 00:05:59,310 Jesus rose from the dead. 161 00:05:59,430 --> 00:06:00,390 Whoa, isn't that crazy? 162 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,610 That's what they think is gonna happen. 163 00:06:02,610 --> 00:06:06,480 So they, they wanna prevent that, and they're gonna say that the last fraud. 164 00:06:06,870 --> 00:06:08,099 Will be worse than the first. 165 00:06:08,099 --> 00:06:10,890 They're gonna say that fake, a fake resurrection would be worse 166 00:06:10,890 --> 00:06:12,270 than a fake Messiah, right? 167 00:06:12,270 --> 00:06:13,890 Because they didn't think he was a messiah. 168 00:06:14,130 --> 00:06:15,690 They thought he pretended to be the Messiah. 169 00:06:15,810 --> 00:06:18,659 And so then they would say a fake resurrection is even worse 170 00:06:18,780 --> 00:06:19,800 than being a fake Messiah. 171 00:06:19,860 --> 00:06:22,860 So pil, he says to them, you've got a guard of soldiers. 172 00:06:22,860 --> 00:06:26,849 You've got some, some soldiers who, who are security for the temple, go 173 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:28,590 and make the tomb as secure as you can. 174 00:06:28,590 --> 00:06:32,820 So they went and they made the tomb secure by sealing the stone. 175 00:06:33,585 --> 00:06:34,305 Setting a guard. 176 00:06:34,305 --> 00:06:36,104 So they station a guard outside the tomb. 177 00:06:36,375 --> 00:06:40,515 They're just like, all right, we're not gonna let anyone mess with this 178 00:06:40,515 --> 00:06:42,435 tomb to fake a resurrection from Jesus. 179 00:06:42,854 --> 00:06:45,315 Now, spoiler alert, guess what happens? 180 00:06:46,094 --> 00:06:51,495 Jesus is raised from the dead walks out of the tomb, and this doesn't help. 181 00:06:51,645 --> 00:06:52,034 Right? 182 00:06:52,125 --> 00:06:53,474 But they're trying to prevent the resurrection. 183 00:06:53,474 --> 00:06:54,615 They're opposing the resurrection. 184 00:06:54,914 --> 00:06:58,995 Then if you skip down to verse 11 of chapter 28, so remember we're we're 185 00:06:59,145 --> 00:07:00,284 looking at the beginning of the passage. 186 00:07:00,735 --> 00:07:05,895 The end of the passage, if you go to the end of our passage, 28 verse 187 00:07:05,895 --> 00:07:08,475 11, we go back to the Pharisees. 188 00:07:08,475 --> 00:07:12,645 So the announcement happens, angel, the woman, Jesus, all that. 189 00:07:13,005 --> 00:07:18,225 Then while they, the woman we're going, behold some of the guard, so we're now 190 00:07:18,225 --> 00:07:19,605 we're, we're back to where we started. 191 00:07:19,725 --> 00:07:22,545 Behold, some of the guard went into the city and they told the chief 192 00:07:22,545 --> 00:07:23,685 priest everything that took place. 193 00:07:24,195 --> 00:07:26,745 And when they assembled with the elders and taken counsel, 194 00:07:26,745 --> 00:07:27,705 they decided what to do. 195 00:07:27,885 --> 00:07:30,135 They gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers. 196 00:07:30,165 --> 00:07:32,565 They bribed them and they say, all right, here's what we want you to 197 00:07:32,565 --> 00:07:36,645 tell People, tell people that his disciples came by night and stole 198 00:07:36,645 --> 00:07:38,835 him away while we were asleep. 199 00:07:39,225 --> 00:07:44,715 So they say, Hey, we want you to, to pretend like the disciples stole Jesus' 200 00:07:44,715 --> 00:07:47,055 body, and that's why the tomb is empty. 201 00:07:48,030 --> 00:07:52,080 Verse 14, if this comes to the governor's ears, we'll satisfy him. 202 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,980 We'll, you know, we'll protect you, um, and we'll keep you out of trouble because 203 00:07:56,010 --> 00:08:01,469 if you were a guard and the body is no longer in the tomb, you're in big trouble. 204 00:08:01,710 --> 00:08:02,099 Right. 205 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:04,320 That's, I think of that scene. 206 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,800 You know that scene in Captain America one where Captain America needs a uniform, so 207 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,470 he steals Captain or no, captain America two, where he steals the uniform from 208 00:08:10,470 --> 00:08:13,710 the exhibit to wear, and then Stan Lee shows up and he's like, I'm so fired. 209 00:08:13,740 --> 00:08:14,100 Right? 210 00:08:14,610 --> 00:08:15,390 That's the guard. 211 00:08:15,630 --> 00:08:16,350 That's what they're saying. 212 00:08:16,350 --> 00:08:18,120 So they need to figure out something to keep it up, right? 213 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:22,800 So verse 15, they took the money and did as they're directed, and this story has 214 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,830 been spread among the Jews to this day. 215 00:08:26,655 --> 00:08:30,645 So Matthew includes these two sections about opposition to 216 00:08:30,645 --> 00:08:31,905 Jesus, resurrection, right? 217 00:08:32,054 --> 00:08:34,453 People trying to stop Jesus resurrection and people trying 218 00:08:34,453 --> 00:08:36,313 to cover up Jesus resurrection. 219 00:08:36,645 --> 00:08:39,674 And the reason Matthew does that is because he wants to show 220 00:08:39,674 --> 00:08:44,385 everyone, us included, that there always are gonna be people who. 221 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:46,319 Don't like Jesus resurrection. 222 00:08:46,439 --> 00:08:49,470 There's always gonna be people who oppose it, who either want you not 223 00:08:49,470 --> 00:08:52,800 to believe that it's true or want you to ignore it, or want you just 224 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:53,880 to have nothing to do with it. 225 00:08:54,090 --> 00:08:56,340 They want you to think it's made up or they don't like it. 226 00:08:56,939 --> 00:09:03,030 So our first point tonight is expect opposition to the resurrection. 227 00:09:03,660 --> 00:09:08,610 Expect people to push back against the resurrection. 228 00:09:10,965 --> 00:09:12,315 Expect people to say it's not true. 229 00:09:12,315 --> 00:09:14,625 Expect people to be like, oh, you really believe that. 230 00:09:14,625 --> 00:09:16,395 You believe that some guy rose from the dead. 231 00:09:16,875 --> 00:09:20,295 You believe that God actually did that. 232 00:09:20,655 --> 00:09:24,825 Or maybe people are just like, oh, well, maybe he did, but 233 00:09:24,825 --> 00:09:25,665 it doesn't really matter. 234 00:09:25,785 --> 00:09:26,685 That's still opposition. 235 00:09:27,285 --> 00:09:30,285 So expect opposition to the resurrection. 236 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:34,560 There's a lot of different theories actually, that people try to come up 237 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:36,660 with to disprove the resurrection, right? 238 00:09:36,660 --> 00:09:40,620 We saw one in our passage, the Jewish leaders, they said, Hey, tell them 239 00:09:40,620 --> 00:09:42,449 that the disciples stole the body. 240 00:09:42,990 --> 00:09:47,579 So I'm gonna go through a few different common arguments that if you, if you 241 00:09:47,579 --> 00:09:50,579 say, Hey, Jesus was raised from the dead, people are gonna oppose you. 242 00:09:50,910 --> 00:09:53,579 And they might use some of these arguments to say, you know what? 243 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:54,719 This is really what happened. 244 00:09:54,839 --> 00:09:57,060 You know, Jesus didn't actually get out of the, get outta the tomb. 245 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:58,050 This is what really happened. 246 00:09:58,290 --> 00:09:59,099 So the first one. 247 00:09:59,580 --> 00:10:01,410 Is this disciples stole the body. 248 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:01,770 Right? 249 00:10:01,770 --> 00:10:03,870 That's when we saw in our passage, well, here's why. 250 00:10:04,740 --> 00:10:05,820 There's no way that this happened. 251 00:10:06,210 --> 00:10:08,910 First, what happened to all disciples before Jesus died? 252 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,470 Were they like, oh, we love Jesus. 253 00:10:10,470 --> 00:10:11,640 We're so excited about Jesus. 254 00:10:11,820 --> 00:10:12,990 We're gonna fight for Jesus. 255 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:15,240 No, they were all scared, right? 256 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:15,930 They ran away. 257 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,960 So do you think they would come back and be like, you know what guys? 258 00:10:19,890 --> 00:10:21,060 Let's do something about Jesus. 259 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:22,920 No, they were hiding, right? 260 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:24,060 Peter was scared of a servant girl. 261 00:10:24,060 --> 00:10:26,340 Do you think he's gonna go up to a tomb and beat up a Roman 262 00:10:26,340 --> 00:10:27,570 guard and steal the body? 263 00:10:28,470 --> 00:10:30,180 No right sec. 264 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:31,080 Second thing, right? 265 00:10:31,140 --> 00:10:33,360 These disciples would have to go fight these guards and 266 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:34,710 take the body out of the tomb. 267 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,470 So that's 268 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,520 definitely, you know, okay. 269 00:10:41,550 --> 00:10:44,250 These PE don't look like people who would go steal a body. 270 00:10:45,090 --> 00:10:49,170 The third thing is that if they stole the body, then they know Jesus didn't 271 00:10:49,170 --> 00:10:50,310 really rise in the dead, right? 272 00:10:50,940 --> 00:10:51,540 So then. 273 00:10:52,905 --> 00:10:53,955 Why did they all die? 274 00:10:54,105 --> 00:10:55,335 Or all of them except John, right? 275 00:10:55,335 --> 00:10:56,565 He went into exile for life. 276 00:10:56,895 --> 00:11:00,405 But why did they all die if they stole the body, right? 277 00:11:00,405 --> 00:11:04,575 If you fake Jesus resurrection, you stole the body and then you tell people, oh, 278 00:11:04,575 --> 00:11:05,805 hey guys, you just rose from the dead. 279 00:11:07,065 --> 00:11:08,745 And then someone's like, oh, I'll kill you. 280 00:11:08,745 --> 00:11:12,045 If you keep saying that and you knew it was fake, would 281 00:11:12,045 --> 00:11:13,125 you let them cut your head off? 282 00:11:13,155 --> 00:11:15,195 Would you let them crucify you for that? 283 00:11:15,405 --> 00:11:16,575 For a made up lie? 284 00:11:17,805 --> 00:11:18,765 You wouldn't do that, right? 285 00:11:18,975 --> 00:11:20,444 So that's pretty solid evidence. 286 00:11:20,444 --> 00:11:22,245 The disciples didn't steal the body. 287 00:11:22,575 --> 00:11:25,965 So if anyone ever tells you, Hey, I think the disciples actually did steal the 288 00:11:25,965 --> 00:11:30,525 body, you can point them to this evidence that says, you know what, actually. 289 00:11:31,305 --> 00:11:34,395 It's really not likely that disciples stole the body, right? 290 00:11:35,084 --> 00:11:37,215 The disciples weren't very likely to steal the body. 291 00:11:37,215 --> 00:11:39,465 They were all scared, and if they did steal the body, why did 292 00:11:39,465 --> 00:11:40,395 they all die for their faith? 293 00:11:40,574 --> 00:11:40,755 Right? 294 00:11:40,755 --> 00:11:41,655 That doesn't make any sense. 295 00:11:41,834 --> 00:11:45,165 So it's not really a good conclusion that disciples stole the body. 296 00:11:45,345 --> 00:11:48,645 Well, okay, let's say you're talking to your friend at school, or you're 297 00:11:48,645 --> 00:11:51,765 a college professor in a few years, and they're like, well, you know what? 298 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:54,540 All the Gospel Council of the Resurrection, they 299 00:11:54,540 --> 00:11:55,350 all contradict each other. 300 00:11:55,650 --> 00:11:59,280 Mark says that the, the woman or the woman got to the tomb 301 00:11:59,610 --> 00:12:01,140 and saw it was already empty. 302 00:12:01,230 --> 00:12:03,630 Matthew says they got to the tomb, and then the angel came. 303 00:12:03,750 --> 00:12:05,970 John says that it was just Mary at the tomb. 304 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:06,360 What? 305 00:12:06,390 --> 00:12:06,900 What is this? 306 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:07,680 They're all contradicting each other. 307 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:09,510 It's clearly made up, right? 308 00:12:09,510 --> 00:12:10,530 Maybe you hear that one. 309 00:12:10,530 --> 00:12:11,699 The gospels contradict each other. 310 00:12:12,150 --> 00:12:13,589 Well, first of all. 311 00:12:13,905 --> 00:12:17,235 The gospels, they're not all describing the exact same moments, right? 312 00:12:17,235 --> 00:12:18,675 You can fit all these together. 313 00:12:18,735 --> 00:12:19,905 You could say, you know what? 314 00:12:20,235 --> 00:12:23,685 Maybe Mary did get to the tomb first, and then the woman came, or maybe 315 00:12:23,895 --> 00:12:26,535 the woman left and Mary stayed, and then Jesus appeared to her. 316 00:12:26,925 --> 00:12:29,445 You can fit all these together in a way that makes sense. 317 00:12:30,435 --> 00:12:32,445 Also, they're eyewitness accounts. 318 00:12:32,445 --> 00:12:34,545 They're not like a timeline, right? 319 00:12:34,545 --> 00:12:36,705 John is giving his account of what happened. 320 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,210 Mark is giving Peter's account of what happened. 321 00:12:39,210 --> 00:12:40,740 Matthew is giving his account of what happened. 322 00:12:40,890 --> 00:12:43,980 They're not meant to be like, here's every single thing that happened in Jesus' life. 323 00:12:44,340 --> 00:12:47,580 Remember at the end of the gospel of John, it says Jesus did a bunch of other 324 00:12:47,580 --> 00:12:51,120 things enough to fill many books, right? 325 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,450 There's a lot of different things that happen, and the gospel writers are only 326 00:12:54,510 --> 00:12:57,810 giving us their perspective, the details that they want you to know that fit 327 00:12:57,810 --> 00:13:00,690 with what they're sharing about Jesus. 328 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,550 And if you want, you can actually put all this together on a timeline. 329 00:13:05,550 --> 00:13:06,540 I found one online. 330 00:13:06,885 --> 00:13:11,084 That lines up all the different accounts, John and Mark and Matthew and Luke. 331 00:13:11,084 --> 00:13:13,275 It puts 'em all together to show you what happened. 332 00:13:13,275 --> 00:13:15,375 So this is from answers to Genesis. 333 00:13:15,435 --> 00:13:17,625 You don't have to copy all this down, but I just want you to show 334 00:13:17,625 --> 00:13:20,505 that it all, I just wanna show you, it all fits together, right? 335 00:13:20,505 --> 00:13:23,354 So if, if someone says, look, the Gospels all contradict each other. 336 00:13:23,685 --> 00:13:25,364 They don't say the same thing about Jesus Resurrection. 337 00:13:25,395 --> 00:13:29,925 You can say, well, actually they all fit, they all make sense together. 338 00:13:30,344 --> 00:13:33,194 So if, if you want, I can send you this, or you could take a picture 339 00:13:33,194 --> 00:13:35,234 of this or whatever, but this is on. 340 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:37,230 Answers in genesis.org. 341 00:13:37,230 --> 00:13:38,790 If you wanna find this chart, you can do that. 342 00:13:39,150 --> 00:13:40,950 Um, but you can fit all this together. 343 00:13:40,950 --> 00:13:44,400 See, we've got, we've got John, we've got Matthew, mark and Luke. 344 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,230 We've got Luke, we've got First Corinthians and Luke. 345 00:13:46,230 --> 00:13:50,700 So it all fits all the accounts of Jesus resurrection fits together really nicely. 346 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:56,910 So if someone ever tells you the gospel's for each other, that's not true. 347 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:01,650 They, they all compliment each other and share one unified story. 348 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:04,860 They just share different parts of the same story. 349 00:14:05,715 --> 00:14:08,535 So then here's my favorite one. 350 00:14:08,535 --> 00:14:09,495 Well, my second favorite one. 351 00:14:09,495 --> 00:14:11,770 My favorite one is that you just didn't really die on the cross. 352 00:14:12,270 --> 00:14:14,550 That's the dumbest thing you could ever say, right? 353 00:14:14,970 --> 00:14:18,000 Oh, he hung on the cross and was beaten and all that stuff that I'm 354 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,150 not, I didn't even put that one in my slideshow because it's so ridiculous. 355 00:14:21,270 --> 00:14:21,600 Right? 356 00:14:21,870 --> 00:14:24,360 Jesus, like faked his death on the cross and then like came out 357 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,580 of the tomb from the inside after he'd been in there for three. 358 00:14:26,580 --> 00:14:27,990 Like, come on, we can do better than that. 359 00:14:28,170 --> 00:14:31,500 So this is my, my other favorite one is that all the disciples are hallucinating. 360 00:14:31,740 --> 00:14:32,670 They're all crazy. 361 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:37,080 They just, they just saw Jesus ghost and they thought it was, it was actually him. 362 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,660 And they said, oh, he's raised from the dead Now. 363 00:14:40,590 --> 00:14:42,090 What could be wrong with this? 364 00:14:43,230 --> 00:14:47,610 Well, one, Jesus appeared multiple times to different groups of people, right? 365 00:14:47,610 --> 00:14:48,570 That's what we see in the Bible. 366 00:14:48,570 --> 00:14:52,110 He's, he's appearing multiple times in, in Luke, he shows up to these people and 367 00:14:52,110 --> 00:14:55,230 he talks to these people, and John, he talks to these people without Thomas. 368 00:14:55,230 --> 00:14:59,310 Then he talks to people with Thomas, and then in Matthew, we, we see him a 369 00:14:59,310 --> 00:15:00,780 few different times talking to people. 370 00:15:00,930 --> 00:15:03,990 So he, all these people are apparently having the same 371 00:15:03,990 --> 00:15:06,840 hallucination over like a month. 372 00:15:07,709 --> 00:15:09,060 That's not very likely. 373 00:15:09,420 --> 00:15:10,530 Jesus ate with people. 374 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:10,709 Right. 375 00:15:10,709 --> 00:15:13,350 We see this in, in, in John and Thomas touched him. 376 00:15:13,620 --> 00:15:14,490 Can you touch a ghost? 377 00:15:15,209 --> 00:15:15,689 No. 378 00:15:15,750 --> 00:15:16,110 Right. 379 00:15:16,620 --> 00:15:18,270 Jesus appeared to large groups of people. 380 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:23,100 So Paul says that he appeared to a ton of people all at once, so 381 00:15:23,579 --> 00:15:26,730 all the people in the same time having the same hallucination. 382 00:15:26,730 --> 00:15:30,510 I I read one guy online, he said that there must, he literally said there 383 00:15:30,510 --> 00:15:32,010 must have been something in the water. 384 00:15:32,865 --> 00:15:33,705 Seriously, bro. 385 00:15:33,705 --> 00:15:34,125 Come on. 386 00:15:34,185 --> 00:15:35,085 Like, no. 387 00:15:36,075 --> 00:15:37,815 All these people have the exact same hallucination at 388 00:15:37,815 --> 00:15:39,255 the same time, not likely. 389 00:15:39,315 --> 00:15:42,675 And then Paul, in one Corinthians 15, he lists names of people. 390 00:15:43,485 --> 00:15:47,655 Now, if you're in, if you're in Corinth and Paul says, oh yeah, this guy saw the 391 00:15:47,655 --> 00:15:50,085 resurrected of Christ, what could you do? 392 00:15:50,805 --> 00:15:54,015 You could go over and say, Hey, did you see Jesus? 393 00:15:54,135 --> 00:15:54,795 What was he like? 394 00:15:54,885 --> 00:15:55,545 What did he say? 395 00:15:55,875 --> 00:15:56,745 And you could go ask him. 396 00:15:56,955 --> 00:16:01,425 So Paul is, is clearly open to people asking people, Hey, did you see Jesus? 397 00:16:01,905 --> 00:16:02,444 What did he say? 398 00:16:02,444 --> 00:16:03,074 What did he teach? 399 00:16:03,074 --> 00:16:03,615 What did he do? 400 00:16:04,395 --> 00:16:08,354 So Paul's not afraid that someone's gonna be like, oh, well actually 401 00:16:08,354 --> 00:16:11,805 it was just a dream, or I was just ghost Jesus floating around, right? 402 00:16:12,045 --> 00:16:15,104 So if someone says, you know, the disciples are just mass 403 00:16:15,104 --> 00:16:18,885 hallucination, they're just going crazy, that's also not true. 404 00:16:19,064 --> 00:16:23,175 So expect people to push back on you. 405 00:16:23,175 --> 00:16:24,615 If you, if you're someone who says, you know what? 406 00:16:24,615 --> 00:16:26,535 I believe that Jesus was raised from the dead. 407 00:16:26,895 --> 00:16:28,035 I believe that Jesus. 408 00:16:28,395 --> 00:16:29,475 Is alive today. 409 00:16:29,625 --> 00:16:34,694 I believe that Jesus walked outta the tomb and we've never found his body, ever. 410 00:16:36,135 --> 00:16:38,985 People are gonna maybe say some things like this, oh, well, maybe the 411 00:16:38,985 --> 00:16:41,625 disciples stole the body, or, well, you know, it doesn't really happen. 412 00:16:41,985 --> 00:16:44,055 I want you to be prepared for that, and I want you to be 413 00:16:44,055 --> 00:16:45,435 able to, to know these things. 414 00:16:45,435 --> 00:16:47,745 You can say, you know what, that's not, that's really not true. 415 00:16:48,495 --> 00:16:50,594 And really you can just walk through the the options. 416 00:16:50,594 --> 00:16:50,834 Right. 417 00:16:50,834 --> 00:16:53,594 Well, what do you think is more likely, you think it's more likely 418 00:16:53,594 --> 00:16:54,795 that Jesus didn't really die? 419 00:16:55,485 --> 00:16:58,425 Or do you think it's more likely that all these people had the same 420 00:16:58,425 --> 00:16:59,535 hallucination at the same time? 421 00:17:00,375 --> 00:17:06,075 So the, the logical, reasonable conclusion is that Jesus actually is who he said 422 00:17:06,075 --> 00:17:07,815 he is, and he's raised from the dead. 423 00:17:07,875 --> 00:17:11,655 There's a bunch of other details in the story even that you could point out to, 424 00:17:11,685 --> 00:17:13,515 to show you that, that it's really true. 425 00:17:13,575 --> 00:17:16,275 Maybe you're someone who says, I don't really know if the Bible's true. 426 00:17:16,484 --> 00:17:17,865 I don't really know if God's real. 427 00:17:17,984 --> 00:17:20,085 I don't know if this is really, this whole Christianity thing is 428 00:17:20,085 --> 00:17:21,615 really what everyone says it is. 429 00:17:22,484 --> 00:17:24,795 Well, think about this in this culture. 430 00:17:25,230 --> 00:17:27,780 Matthew says the women were the first people to go to the tomb. 431 00:17:28,830 --> 00:17:33,090 Now, in this culture, did you know that woman actually couldn't testify in court? 432 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,110 So if you're Matthew and you're making up a story, why would you 433 00:17:37,110 --> 00:17:38,550 have your primary witnesses be women? 434 00:17:39,690 --> 00:17:40,020 Right? 435 00:17:40,139 --> 00:17:42,510 Unless it was really the ca like that actually what happened? 436 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:44,370 So that's another thing you could say. 437 00:17:44,375 --> 00:17:48,149 You could even talk about, remember how we saw that even the chief priest knew that 438 00:17:48,149 --> 00:17:50,250 Jesus said he rose from the dead, right? 439 00:17:50,250 --> 00:17:52,830 If you're saying, oh, well the Christian just made it up a hundred years later. 440 00:17:54,405 --> 00:17:57,015 Why are the chief priests also saying, Jesus said he was gonna be 441 00:17:57,015 --> 00:17:58,815 raised from the dead, so it's common. 442 00:17:58,815 --> 00:18:00,825 It was common knowledge that Jesus said stuff like this. 443 00:18:00,825 --> 00:18:03,795 So there's a bunch of other details in the stories, but I just want you 444 00:18:03,795 --> 00:18:07,125 to know that that Christianity isn't just like some made up, you know? 445 00:18:07,125 --> 00:18:08,145 Oh yeah. 446 00:18:08,895 --> 00:18:12,075 This is just something that the church made up to teach people 447 00:18:12,075 --> 00:18:13,095 how to be nice to each other. 448 00:18:13,605 --> 00:18:14,715 That's not true, right? 449 00:18:14,925 --> 00:18:18,825 Th this is actually the only religion that's based on a historical event. 450 00:18:19,335 --> 00:18:20,685 There's no other religion that. 451 00:18:21,060 --> 00:18:24,990 Rises or falls on a real thing that happened in history. 452 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:30,810 So Christianity is, is connected to, to real events, real places, real people. 453 00:18:30,810 --> 00:18:31,710 That really happened. 454 00:18:32,220 --> 00:18:32,610 Um. 455 00:18:33,135 --> 00:18:35,325 You're gonna get pushback if you say stuff like that, people are gonna 456 00:18:35,325 --> 00:18:37,515 be like, you don't really believe that the Bible's true, do you? 457 00:18:37,515 --> 00:18:40,245 You don't really believe that, that Jesus rose in the dead. 458 00:18:40,245 --> 00:18:42,915 Jesus fed all these people with five loaves and two fish. 459 00:18:43,065 --> 00:18:43,545 Jesus, really? 460 00:18:43,545 --> 00:18:44,895 You don't believe that Jesus walked on water? 461 00:18:44,895 --> 00:18:47,025 You don't believe that, et cetera, et cetera, right? 462 00:18:47,295 --> 00:18:48,135 You're gonna hear that. 463 00:18:48,225 --> 00:18:50,715 If you believe this, I want you to expect it, and I want you to 464 00:18:50,715 --> 00:18:53,775 be ready so you're not like, whoa, I've never heard that before. 465 00:18:54,255 --> 00:18:54,585 Right? 466 00:18:54,615 --> 00:18:57,135 I want you to do the homework, do the research, and I'm helping you 467 00:18:57,135 --> 00:19:02,325 with some of it so you can expect opposition to the resurrection. 468 00:19:02,925 --> 00:19:06,675 Also opposition from the resurrection usually doesn't really 469 00:19:06,675 --> 00:19:09,495 come down to a mental question. 470 00:19:10,215 --> 00:19:14,145 Usually the reason people are opposing the resurrection is hard hearts. 471 00:19:14,475 --> 00:19:16,245 People don't want God. 472 00:19:16,275 --> 00:19:17,025 And maybe that's you. 473 00:19:17,475 --> 00:19:20,085 Maybe you're like, well, I know that the resurrection probably happened. 474 00:19:20,085 --> 00:19:21,225 I, I think it makes sense. 475 00:19:21,465 --> 00:19:25,155 I think the Bible's true, but I just, I just don't wanna be a Christian, right? 476 00:19:25,155 --> 00:19:27,375 I don't think God is very good, or I don't want to do all the 477 00:19:27,375 --> 00:19:28,905 things that, that God says. 478 00:19:29,415 --> 00:19:33,045 You're still in your heart, you're still pushing back against the resurrection 479 00:19:33,555 --> 00:19:37,095 because what you're saying is that, well, maybe that is true, and maybe you're not 480 00:19:37,095 --> 00:19:41,774 arguing with it, but you're just like, well, you're, I don't, I don't want that. 481 00:19:41,774 --> 00:19:41,925 Right. 482 00:19:41,925 --> 00:19:43,485 I don't, I don't want Jesus. 483 00:19:45,045 --> 00:19:46,754 You're still opposing Jesus. 484 00:19:47,264 --> 00:19:49,305 You're, you're looking at the creator of the universe who rose 485 00:19:49,305 --> 00:19:51,555 from the dead and saying, peace out. 486 00:19:51,555 --> 00:19:52,785 I don't, I don't want anything to do with you. 487 00:19:53,385 --> 00:19:56,504 That's what you're doing, and it, it always comes down to your heart. 488 00:19:57,150 --> 00:20:02,160 If you, you could have all the evidence you want, but if your heart 489 00:20:02,430 --> 00:20:05,850 is hard and, and you're opposed to Jesus, you're opposed to the 490 00:20:05,850 --> 00:20:08,400 gospel, you're not gonna believe it. 491 00:20:08,430 --> 00:20:11,220 Remember what Jesus said, I think it was in Luke. 492 00:20:11,490 --> 00:20:16,350 He said, if they don't believe Moses, they're not gonna believe someone, 493 00:20:16,410 --> 00:20:19,260 even if they came back from the dead, because maybe you're like, 494 00:20:19,260 --> 00:20:21,330 well, I want Jesus to prove it. 495 00:20:21,330 --> 00:20:23,129 I want a sign from God, or I want this. 496 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:24,150 Why doesn't God do this? 497 00:20:24,150 --> 00:20:24,480 Right? 498 00:20:25,530 --> 00:20:31,080 If you are asking for more evidence, then that probably says more about your heart. 499 00:20:31,950 --> 00:20:34,140 If you're someone out there who's saying, oh, I need more evidence to 500 00:20:34,140 --> 00:20:35,760 believe in the Bible, there's plenty. 501 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:37,260 God's given you everything you need to know. 502 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,290 Um, it, it really is a matter of your heart. 503 00:20:40,290 --> 00:20:42,840 If you've got more evidence, I'm sure what you would do is make up 504 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:46,890 more ways to get around the evidence or ask more questions, so it always 505 00:20:46,890 --> 00:20:47,850 is gonna come down to your heart. 506 00:20:48,330 --> 00:20:48,570 How? 507 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,900 Because you, you're never gonna get enough evidence for. 508 00:20:52,260 --> 00:20:55,560 For Jesus, for God's word, for the existence of God, it's 509 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:56,400 gonna come down to your heart. 510 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,800 All opposition comes down to a hard heart, right? 511 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,750 That's where it started with the chief priest and the Pharisees. 512 00:21:01,050 --> 00:21:04,740 They saw all of Jesus miracles, and guess what? 513 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,020 They were like, nah, let's kill him. 514 00:21:07,530 --> 00:21:10,200 Oh, he's gonna try to make up a story about being raised from the dead. 515 00:21:10,410 --> 00:21:11,070 Let's stop that. 516 00:21:11,310 --> 00:21:15,000 And then the guards come and say, Hey, this angel came and the tomb 517 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,400 was empty, and Jesus is alive. 518 00:21:17,460 --> 00:21:20,130 And they're like, well, just pretend it didn't happen. 519 00:21:21,270 --> 00:21:24,720 No amount of evidence was enough for them, and it's not gonna be 520 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,600 enough for you because ultimately it's gonna come down to your heart. 521 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,790 You have the evidence you need, and what you need to do is, is just 522 00:21:32,790 --> 00:21:36,390 surrender to Christ because he's the king, he's alive, he's, he's reigning. 523 00:21:36,675 --> 00:21:42,360 So if you're that person who's opposing the resurrection, 524 00:21:42,750 --> 00:21:44,010 you know, do do your homework. 525 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,430 Look at the evidence you have, and then come to your conclusion. 526 00:21:48,210 --> 00:21:51,540 If you're someone who believes in the resurrection, who says Jesus is 527 00:21:51,540 --> 00:21:55,470 alive, you learn to defend it because you're gonna get challenged as you 528 00:21:55,470 --> 00:21:59,130 get older, especially, and I want you to be prepared for those moments. 529 00:22:00,900 --> 00:22:03,810 So we're working in, right, we started with the first section in the last 530 00:22:03,810 --> 00:22:05,730 section, opposition to the resurrection. 531 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:11,700 The next thing we're gonna see is how Matthew is actually, he's focusing on 532 00:22:11,700 --> 00:22:13,740 the different emotions of this passage. 533 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:19,110 Matthew really cares about the woman who come to the tomb, hear the angel, 534 00:22:19,170 --> 00:22:20,700 leave the tomb and talk to Jesus. 535 00:22:20,910 --> 00:22:22,590 So look with me in chapter 28. 536 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,050 Now we're working our way to, towards the middle of our sandwich, right? 537 00:22:25,050 --> 00:22:26,550 We finished with, with the buns. 538 00:22:26,550 --> 00:22:29,490 Now we're getting to like the, the cheese or the vegetables or whatever. 539 00:22:30,030 --> 00:22:30,930 That's what we're doing right now. 540 00:22:30,930 --> 00:22:33,210 So verse one of chapter 28. 541 00:22:33,270 --> 00:22:33,600 All right. 542 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:40,290 Now, after the Sabbath toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene 543 00:22:40,290 --> 00:22:43,260 and the other Mary went to see the tomb. 544 00:22:44,355 --> 00:22:48,735 Behold there was a great earthquake for an angel of the Lord descended 545 00:22:48,735 --> 00:22:52,665 from heaven and came back and rolled back the stone and sat on it. 546 00:22:53,565 --> 00:22:55,515 That's like so epic when you think about it. 547 00:22:55,515 --> 00:22:56,985 Like think how big this stone is. 548 00:22:57,495 --> 00:22:59,985 And there's like lightning and there's an earthquake, like if you 549 00:22:59,985 --> 00:23:01,395 wanna talk about it, an entrance. 550 00:23:01,395 --> 00:23:02,175 That's an entrance. 551 00:23:04,005 --> 00:23:06,015 His appearance was like lightning verse three. 552 00:23:06,015 --> 00:23:07,965 And his clothing white as snow. 553 00:23:08,205 --> 00:23:12,615 And for fear of him, the guards trembled and became like dead men. 554 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,810 So they just pass out at the sight of this guy. 555 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,980 They fall down as though they are dead. 556 00:23:21,420 --> 00:23:26,610 So then verses five to seven, the angel's gonna say what he's gonna say, and 557 00:23:26,610 --> 00:23:28,380 then afterward, this is what happened. 558 00:23:28,740 --> 00:23:33,090 So the woman, after they hear from the angel, verse eight, they departed quickly 559 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:36,300 from the tomb with fear and great joy. 560 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:37,440 Those are the two emotions. 561 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,700 They, they feel, they feel they're afraid, and they're super excited. 562 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:42,570 They're really happy. 563 00:23:43,350 --> 00:23:47,610 Then they run to tell the disciples and behold Jesus met them. 564 00:23:47,730 --> 00:23:48,959 So they talked to the angels. 565 00:23:48,959 --> 00:23:49,919 Now they talked to Jesus. 566 00:23:50,159 --> 00:23:51,000 Jesus met them. 567 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,879 Now, isn't that like, that's wild. 568 00:23:53,909 --> 00:23:55,290 They saw this guy die. 569 00:23:56,639 --> 00:24:01,800 They saw him die on the cross, and now they're talking to him like, I know you've 570 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,419 heard this before, but think about it. 571 00:24:04,230 --> 00:24:08,189 You saw you watched some guy die, and then three days later you're 572 00:24:08,189 --> 00:24:09,389 having a conversation with him. 573 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,250 That's crazy. 574 00:24:11,940 --> 00:24:14,760 Jesus met them and said, I love this greetings. 575 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:15,420 He's like, hi. 576 00:24:17,010 --> 00:24:20,940 And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him. 577 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,880 Now, if anyone ever tells you, Jesus never claimed to be God, 578 00:24:27,390 --> 00:24:28,590 what do you do when you see God? 579 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:29,940 You worship him. 580 00:24:29,940 --> 00:24:31,650 If Jesus didn't claim to be God, you know what Jesus would do? 581 00:24:32,190 --> 00:24:32,670 Stop. 582 00:24:33,690 --> 00:24:34,320 Don't worship me. 583 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:34,950 What? 584 00:24:34,950 --> 00:24:37,560 We've seen angels do that in the Bible before they, when someone worships 585 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:38,795 them, they're like, no, no, no, no, no. 586 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:39,480 Don't do that. 587 00:24:40,815 --> 00:24:42,435 But Jesus, he's, he's taking it in. 588 00:24:42,615 --> 00:24:43,845 He, he's like, yeah, that's right. 589 00:24:43,905 --> 00:24:44,595 You should worship me. 590 00:24:45,465 --> 00:24:45,945 Verse 10. 591 00:24:46,215 --> 00:24:48,195 Jesus said to them, don't be afraid. 592 00:24:48,615 --> 00:24:52,695 Go and tell my brothers, which also, this is such a huge detail. 593 00:24:54,315 --> 00:24:55,155 Who are these people? 594 00:24:56,355 --> 00:24:57,285 The disciples, right? 595 00:24:58,995 --> 00:25:02,325 Did they show very much loyalty to Jesus? 596 00:25:03,405 --> 00:25:06,855 Did they love Jesus very well up to leading up to his death. 597 00:25:08,475 --> 00:25:08,775 Have. 598 00:25:09,435 --> 00:25:11,385 Jesus says, he doesn't call 'em my disciples. 599 00:25:11,835 --> 00:25:13,785 He doesn't say, oh, those losers who abandoned me. 600 00:25:13,785 --> 00:25:15,765 He says, my brothers like my family. 601 00:25:17,745 --> 00:25:22,275 I wanna see them go to Galilee, just like I said, and they'll see me there. 602 00:25:22,965 --> 00:25:27,795 I he's initiating a relationship with these people who left him. 603 00:25:28,005 --> 00:25:28,845 They, they abandoned him. 604 00:25:28,845 --> 00:25:29,535 They were like, no. 605 00:25:29,835 --> 00:25:31,665 Peter was like, I don't even know who that guy is. 606 00:25:32,715 --> 00:25:35,685 And Jesus says, I want him to be part of my family. 607 00:25:36,810 --> 00:25:38,430 So tell him to go meet me and Galilee. 608 00:25:39,780 --> 00:25:44,490 So what Matthew is focusing on here is he's focusing on these emotions that 609 00:25:44,490 --> 00:25:45,810 the woman's have, that the woman have. 610 00:25:45,810 --> 00:25:50,880 So if you go back this, he doesn't say this explicitly, but think about this. 611 00:25:50,910 --> 00:25:51,720 Think about what they're doing. 612 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,260 Mary and Mary, it's like Shane and Shane before Shane and Shane. 613 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,800 Mary and Mary, they go to see the tomb. 614 00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:03,780 Now they're gonna go and see dead Jesus. 615 00:26:03,780 --> 00:26:05,460 They're just gonna go to his tomb and they're gonna put. 616 00:26:05,985 --> 00:26:06,794 More spices on us. 617 00:26:06,794 --> 00:26:07,935 Doesn't smell terrible. 618 00:26:07,935 --> 00:26:09,014 They're gonna, that's what they're doing. 619 00:26:09,705 --> 00:26:11,655 They're showing devotion to Jesus. 620 00:26:11,685 --> 00:26:12,044 Right? 621 00:26:12,705 --> 00:26:17,834 In Matthew, if you look with me, look back up at the, at verse 55, 622 00:26:18,375 --> 00:26:23,355 in chapter 27, also, there are many women there looking on from a distance 623 00:26:23,685 --> 00:26:28,004 who had followed Jesus from Galilee ministering to him, among whom were Mary 624 00:26:28,004 --> 00:26:30,044 Magdalene and Mary, mother of James. 625 00:26:30,044 --> 00:26:33,915 So Matthew mentions these women who followed Jesus all the way from Galilee. 626 00:26:34,245 --> 00:26:39,165 Then after Jesus is buried, verse 61, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there. 627 00:26:39,435 --> 00:26:42,975 So Matthew really wants you to know these women care about Jesus. 628 00:26:43,215 --> 00:26:43,965 They're devoted to him. 629 00:26:43,965 --> 00:26:44,685 They're committed to him. 630 00:26:44,685 --> 00:26:46,064 They love him, right? 631 00:26:46,064 --> 00:26:49,845 They're super invested in Jesus and, and following him. 632 00:26:50,054 --> 00:26:53,895 So that's the first emotion, is they're devotion. 633 00:26:54,075 --> 00:26:57,105 The second emotion I want you to see is that they're afraid, right? 634 00:26:57,105 --> 00:27:00,825 They, they ran from the tomb with fear and great joy with fear. 635 00:27:02,399 --> 00:27:03,270 What are they afraid of? 636 00:27:03,270 --> 00:27:03,419 Right? 637 00:27:03,419 --> 00:27:05,159 The angels already told 'em, don't be afraid. 638 00:27:05,159 --> 00:27:06,600 He said, Jesus says, don't be afraid. 639 00:27:06,810 --> 00:27:07,649 But they're afraid. 640 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,500 And I think this is actually a good thing. 641 00:27:11,340 --> 00:27:13,590 I think there's something good here. 642 00:27:13,590 --> 00:27:15,540 There's also a lot of fear in this passage, right? 643 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,110 The fear for fear of the angel, the guards trembled. 644 00:27:19,229 --> 00:27:20,580 So there's, there's a lot of devotion. 645 00:27:20,580 --> 00:27:21,959 There's a lot of fear. 646 00:27:22,050 --> 00:27:25,080 And then the last thing is joy, right? 647 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:25,740 Great joy. 648 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:26,760 Not just joy. 649 00:27:26,850 --> 00:27:27,389 Great joy. 650 00:27:28,110 --> 00:27:28,740 A lot of joy. 651 00:27:29,370 --> 00:27:30,629 Those are the three emotions we've got. 652 00:27:30,629 --> 00:27:34,230 Demotion, devotion, fear, and joy. 653 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,290 And then ultimately what those end up with is worship. 654 00:27:38,550 --> 00:27:41,430 And I think that's what Matthew wants you to see in this passage. 655 00:27:41,430 --> 00:27:45,750 I think he wants you to see that this is what worship of Jesus looks like. 656 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,810 Worship of Jesus is actually a combination of these three 657 00:27:48,810 --> 00:27:51,870 emotions, devotion, fear, and joy. 658 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,300 And so write this down as your second point. 659 00:27:54,420 --> 00:27:57,720 Respond to Jesus with heartfelt worship. 660 00:27:59,595 --> 00:28:02,655 Respond to Jesus with heartfelt, right? 661 00:28:02,655 --> 00:28:04,635 Meaningful, emotional, 662 00:28:06,675 --> 00:28:08,415 full worship, not empty worship. 663 00:28:11,925 --> 00:28:16,755 That's the kind of follower that Jesus is asking for, and that's the kind 664 00:28:16,755 --> 00:28:18,315 of follower that these women are. 665 00:28:20,025 --> 00:28:23,415 They're following him with, with all of their, with all their heart, 666 00:28:23,445 --> 00:28:27,075 all of their emotions are engaged, they're devoted, and they're afraid. 667 00:28:28,515 --> 00:28:30,075 They're joyful, they're excited. 668 00:28:30,855 --> 00:28:34,665 Now, something that I hope you've gathered from the gospel of Matthew 669 00:28:34,665 --> 00:28:40,305 so far is that knowing and doing does not always equal worship. 670 00:28:41,115 --> 00:28:41,355 Right? 671 00:28:41,355 --> 00:28:44,235 Knowing the right things about Jesus and doing the right things for 672 00:28:44,235 --> 00:28:47,504 Jesus doesn't always mean worship. 673 00:28:48,045 --> 00:28:50,955 What group in the Gospel of Matthew is really good at knowing things 674 00:28:50,955 --> 00:28:52,545 about God and doing things for God? 675 00:28:54,030 --> 00:28:55,050 Pharisees, right? 676 00:28:55,230 --> 00:28:58,350 The Pharisees, they know a ton about God and they do a lot of things for 677 00:28:58,350 --> 00:29:01,080 God, but are, do they worship Jesus? 678 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:02,010 No. 679 00:29:02,010 --> 00:29:02,580 They kill him. 680 00:29:04,139 --> 00:29:07,770 So I think what Matthew is doing is he's showing us at the very end, here's 681 00:29:07,770 --> 00:29:09,420 what real worship of Jesus looks like. 682 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:16,920 It looks like these three emotions, affections, desires, right? 683 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,230 Worship has to include your heart. 684 00:29:20,070 --> 00:29:22,200 If all your worship is, is just your head. 685 00:29:23,115 --> 00:29:24,195 Your, your actions. 686 00:29:26,205 --> 00:29:29,745 There's, there's nothing that you're really doing that's 687 00:29:29,745 --> 00:29:31,004 different from a Pharisee. 688 00:29:31,875 --> 00:29:33,345 There's nothing about you that's different. 689 00:29:33,705 --> 00:29:34,845 You know the right things about God. 690 00:29:34,845 --> 00:29:35,175 Great. 691 00:29:35,205 --> 00:29:39,405 Satan knows everything there is to know that we could know about God, right? 692 00:29:39,405 --> 00:29:41,879 Satan knows way more about God than you do, so 693 00:29:45,135 --> 00:29:46,514 that's not good enough, right? 694 00:29:46,514 --> 00:29:48,764 That's not true worship, but just knowing things about God 695 00:29:49,155 --> 00:29:50,504 and then doing things right. 696 00:29:50,504 --> 00:29:51,824 Well, about the Pharisee, he did a ton of stuff. 697 00:29:52,785 --> 00:29:55,155 Jesus said, if your righteousness doesn't exceed that of the Pharisees, 698 00:29:55,155 --> 00:29:56,085 you're not gonna make it to heaven. 699 00:29:56,805 --> 00:29:59,385 So worship has to include your heart. 700 00:29:59,745 --> 00:30:02,895 If your heart's not in it, it's not worship, it's just empty. 701 00:30:04,875 --> 00:30:08,745 Now, these three emotions are crucial to worship. 702 00:30:08,775 --> 00:30:09,975 The first one probably makes sense, right? 703 00:30:09,975 --> 00:30:10,455 Devotion. 704 00:30:10,635 --> 00:30:10,995 Okay. 705 00:30:11,235 --> 00:30:13,365 Love and commitment to Jesus, right? 706 00:30:13,365 --> 00:30:14,565 We're, we're faithful to Jesus. 707 00:30:14,565 --> 00:30:15,315 We follow Jesus. 708 00:30:15,315 --> 00:30:16,635 We, we care about him. 709 00:30:16,635 --> 00:30:17,655 We're invested in him. 710 00:30:18,435 --> 00:30:19,485 We're dedicated. 711 00:30:19,695 --> 00:30:19,875 Right? 712 00:30:19,875 --> 00:30:20,565 That makes sense. 713 00:30:20,715 --> 00:30:21,105 Okay. 714 00:30:21,510 --> 00:30:24,420 Contract with that, that that sounds like real worship, but what about fear? 715 00:30:24,420 --> 00:30:24,600 Right? 716 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,370 That doesn't make, why did you include that Lewis? 717 00:30:26,370 --> 00:30:27,540 I thought they said don't be afraid. 718 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:34,440 Well, I think fear of God is something that maybe you, you've thought 719 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:35,520 about or you don't understand. 720 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,390 And I think Matthew is also including that in here because true worship of God 721 00:30:39,390 --> 00:30:43,410 always has right fear of God included. 722 00:30:44,550 --> 00:30:47,040 Now, maybe you've heard fear of God is respect. 723 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,250 That's part of it, but I think it's more than that. 724 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,959 Because I can respect someone without really trembling, right? 725 00:30:54,959 --> 00:30:56,879 I'm not like, oh man, wow. 726 00:30:58,050 --> 00:30:58,800 That's not respect. 727 00:30:59,459 --> 00:31:01,379 So it's a little different than that. 728 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,459 The best way I can describe it is being here. 729 00:31:07,860 --> 00:31:08,969 Have you ever been to the Grand Canyon region? 730 00:31:08,969 --> 00:31:09,810 Have you been to the Grand Canyon? 731 00:31:10,205 --> 00:31:15,689 I remember one time I always said to the Grand Canyon during one of these, 732 00:31:17,580 --> 00:31:18,899 one of the coolest moments of my life. 733 00:31:19,455 --> 00:31:20,235 I was outside. 734 00:31:20,235 --> 00:31:22,335 I think you were there and you were there. 735 00:31:22,365 --> 00:31:24,645 You gave us all COVID when we were there and you were there. 736 00:31:27,135 --> 00:31:31,004 Um, being outside at the Grand Canyon during a thunderstorm, coolest thing 737 00:31:31,004 --> 00:31:33,075 ever because when you get to the Grand Canyon, right, you look over 738 00:31:33,075 --> 00:31:35,895 the edge, you feel so small, right? 739 00:31:35,895 --> 00:31:38,835 You feel tiny, and you see a person down there and you're like, that's a person. 740 00:31:39,405 --> 00:31:40,155 You feel tiny. 741 00:31:40,155 --> 00:31:43,304 But then with a thunderstorm, man, I like 10 outta 10. 742 00:31:43,304 --> 00:31:44,054 Highly recommend this. 743 00:31:44,054 --> 00:31:46,935 You should definitely go to the green hand during a thunderstorm because. 744 00:31:47,610 --> 00:31:51,179 Thunder is loud and scary, but when you're outside in a thunderstorm, 745 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,129 man, that's different, right? 746 00:31:53,129 --> 00:31:55,980 If you go outside, whenever there's a thunderstorm at the office, Mark Hogan 747 00:31:55,980 --> 00:31:57,570 is always like, I love thunderstorms. 748 00:31:57,570 --> 00:31:58,800 And he goes outside and he listens to it. 749 00:31:58,980 --> 00:32:04,409 It's so fun, um, because it's, it makes you realize how small you are, right? 750 00:32:04,409 --> 00:32:09,389 You realize like this electricity is literally creating a vacuum so 751 00:32:09,389 --> 00:32:15,030 loud that the air is going boom and clapping, and you have thunder. 752 00:32:15,975 --> 00:32:19,605 It makes you feel so small now in this moment. 753 00:32:21,015 --> 00:32:23,385 Like, yeah, I'm scared, right? 754 00:32:23,385 --> 00:32:25,875 I'm like, man, if one of those hits me, I'm gone. 755 00:32:26,565 --> 00:32:26,895 Right? 756 00:32:26,895 --> 00:32:29,445 If I get hit by a lightning bolt or if I fall off the edge 757 00:32:29,445 --> 00:32:30,825 of this thing, right, I'm dead. 758 00:32:31,155 --> 00:32:36,465 But at the same time, there's something so like just amazing about it. 759 00:32:36,675 --> 00:32:39,135 You're like, wow, that's so cool. 760 00:32:39,195 --> 00:32:40,545 That's so awesome. 761 00:32:41,655 --> 00:32:43,995 And that I think is a sense of. 762 00:32:44,565 --> 00:32:45,795 Of how fear of God is. 763 00:32:45,825 --> 00:32:46,035 Right? 764 00:32:46,035 --> 00:32:48,345 When you look, when you, when you hear about what God does, when you, 765 00:32:48,345 --> 00:32:54,075 when you see God in his word, there should be a sense of of awe, right? 766 00:32:54,075 --> 00:32:55,185 Of wow. 767 00:32:56,205 --> 00:32:57,255 And you're kind of scared. 768 00:32:58,575 --> 00:33:02,655 But if you're a Christian, you don't have to be afraid of what 769 00:33:02,655 --> 00:33:04,695 God's gonna do to you, right? 770 00:33:04,695 --> 00:33:06,075 Because Jesus paid for your sin. 771 00:33:06,075 --> 00:33:08,715 He took all of God's wrath for you. 772 00:33:09,075 --> 00:33:13,965 So God, God's power is never gonna be directed at you if you're a Christian. 773 00:33:14,610 --> 00:33:16,800 In a punishing way, right? 774 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:22,350 God is never gonna to direct his his power at you in a way that's wrathful or angry. 775 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:28,590 So you don't have to be afraid of God's wrath on you specifically. 776 00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:32,700 But you should, I think sometimes look over the cliff and be like, man, if I 777 00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:36,930 fell that would, that would be terrible. 778 00:33:37,740 --> 00:33:38,850 And that's a long fall. 779 00:33:39,570 --> 00:33:43,080 When you're at Fritz's on the zip line and you got to jump off the thing and commit 780 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:50,429 and trust the zip line, sometimes I don't think Christians think enough about that. 781 00:33:51,449 --> 00:33:53,399 And that's when you think about all these passages in the Bible, 782 00:33:53,399 --> 00:33:56,370 these warning passages like, oh, can I lose my salvation? 783 00:33:56,370 --> 00:33:59,969 Or whatever The reason for the warning passage is so you stay on the path. 784 00:34:01,169 --> 00:34:03,330 The warning passage keeps you on the path if you're a Christian. 785 00:34:04,110 --> 00:34:06,360 So you, you look over the edge and you're like, oh man. 786 00:34:06,449 --> 00:34:07,500 And then you stay on the path. 787 00:34:07,860 --> 00:34:13,230 That's the point of a, of a, like a warning in God's word is for you to 788 00:34:13,230 --> 00:34:14,820 see God and not treat him casually. 789 00:34:15,090 --> 00:34:15,480 Right? 790 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,870 Like if any of you guys, if your, if your parents own a gun, they're, 791 00:34:18,929 --> 00:34:21,270 or if they've ever, if you've ever gone shooting with them, right? 792 00:34:21,449 --> 00:34:23,280 They're very serious about it. 793 00:34:23,429 --> 00:34:25,409 They're like, Hey, this thing is powerful. 794 00:34:25,980 --> 00:34:27,900 You have to treat it properly. 795 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,659 You can't be, be flippant about it or treat it casually. 796 00:34:30,659 --> 00:34:33,630 Or maybe you're learning to drive, or my, my mom, the first time that 797 00:34:33,630 --> 00:34:34,770 I was gonna drive someone else. 798 00:34:35,190 --> 00:34:38,340 My mom said, they're putting their life in your hands right now. 799 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,570 Anytime someone gets in your car, you could kill them. 800 00:34:44,580 --> 00:34:47,100 Anytime you get in a car, you could kill someone else. 801 00:34:49,110 --> 00:34:54,210 There's an appropriate level of man that's intense that you should feel about God. 802 00:34:54,210 --> 00:35:01,110 But at the same time, we also see the joy that these women have, right? 803 00:35:01,110 --> 00:35:02,130 They're, they're so excited. 804 00:35:02,130 --> 00:35:03,900 There was fear and there was great joy. 805 00:35:04,905 --> 00:35:07,125 They were so excited about God. 806 00:35:07,515 --> 00:35:09,915 They were delighted, they were satisfied, they were full. 807 00:35:11,715 --> 00:35:15,735 So Jesus isn't just to be learned about or served. 808 00:35:16,035 --> 00:35:18,675 He's supposed to be served in a way that's worshipful, that's from the 809 00:35:18,675 --> 00:35:23,475 heart, and you're learning about Jesus should fuel your worship, right? 810 00:35:23,535 --> 00:35:28,605 Just like wood fuels a fire or gasoline will help a fire, 811 00:35:28,875 --> 00:35:30,165 but it's not fire, right? 812 00:35:30,165 --> 00:35:31,845 Wood is not fire, but wood helps fire. 813 00:35:33,210 --> 00:35:34,200 Same thing. 814 00:35:34,290 --> 00:35:39,480 Your learning helps you worship, but learning is not worship unless there's 815 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,330 emotion in it, unless there's devotion, unless there's fear, unless there's joy. 816 00:35:43,710 --> 00:35:45,480 So your learning should fuel your worship. 817 00:35:45,900 --> 00:35:48,930 But if all you're doing is stockpiling information about God and memorizing Bible 818 00:35:48,930 --> 00:35:52,050 verses and, and doing all this stuff, and there's no worship, there's no heart 819 00:35:52,050 --> 00:35:55,695 in it, then you're really just, you're just piling up wood and you got no fire. 820 00:35:58,290 --> 00:36:00,360 Same with doing things, doing things for God, right? 821 00:36:00,450 --> 00:36:01,920 I'm not saying doing things for God is bad. 822 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:06,570 I'm saying doing things for God has to have worshipful heart along with it. 823 00:36:08,730 --> 00:36:12,090 So who has your heart? 824 00:36:13,140 --> 00:36:14,340 Maybe you do a lot of things for God. 825 00:36:14,340 --> 00:36:15,360 Maybe you serve at our church. 826 00:36:16,230 --> 00:36:19,470 Maybe you serve in kids' ministry, or you, you help set up, or maybe you, 827 00:36:19,470 --> 00:36:22,620 you like learning about the Bible, you know a lot of information about 828 00:36:22,620 --> 00:36:24,060 God, but, but who has your heart? 829 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:26,580 When you do things, what is it for? 830 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:28,110 What do you get excited about? 831 00:36:28,170 --> 00:36:28,380 What? 832 00:36:28,380 --> 00:36:29,520 What's your, what's your treasure? 833 00:36:29,550 --> 00:36:30,510 What's most important to you? 834 00:36:31,650 --> 00:36:36,690 That's a worship question, and that's what I want you to be thinking about 835 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,030 as we finish the gospel of Matthew. 836 00:36:39,030 --> 00:36:40,200 I want you to think about who has my heart? 837 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,650 Am I just doing things for God or learning things about God, or am I worshiping God? 838 00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:46,770 Am I just singing songs to God, or am I worshiping God? 839 00:36:47,220 --> 00:36:48,870 Am I just hearing sermons or am I worshiping? 840 00:36:49,350 --> 00:36:49,950 Am I just. 841 00:36:51,180 --> 00:36:54,359 Acting like a Christian around my parents or I worshiping 842 00:36:54,359 --> 00:36:56,129 God with my actions at home. 843 00:36:57,210 --> 00:37:00,089 Those are all things that, that are the difference between real 844 00:37:00,089 --> 00:37:01,799 worship and being a fake Christian. 845 00:37:04,980 --> 00:37:09,750 So then the middle of this passage is gonna show us where that joy and 846 00:37:09,750 --> 00:37:12,330 where that genuine worship comes from. 847 00:37:12,629 --> 00:37:15,330 The source of all this joy is the angel's announcement. 848 00:37:15,330 --> 00:37:18,210 The angel says something that causes the woman to run out. 849 00:37:18,615 --> 00:37:24,615 With great joy, and that's what we see in the middle of this section. 850 00:37:24,615 --> 00:37:24,825 We're at. 851 00:37:24,855 --> 00:37:26,235 We're at the meat of our burger. 852 00:37:26,235 --> 00:37:30,944 All right, so five through seven, but the angel said to the women, so angel 853 00:37:30,944 --> 00:37:32,955 shows up, lightning rolls a stone away. 854 00:37:32,985 --> 00:37:33,315 Right? 855 00:37:33,525 --> 00:37:35,384 Guard falls that down like he's dead. 856 00:37:35,654 --> 00:37:38,775 Angel said to the women, don't be afraid for, I know that you 857 00:37:38,775 --> 00:37:41,085 seek Jesus who was crucified. 858 00:37:41,595 --> 00:37:44,415 He's not here for, he has risen. 859 00:37:44,955 --> 00:37:46,694 As he said, which I love that. 860 00:37:46,755 --> 00:37:48,134 I love that this is here, right? 861 00:37:48,165 --> 00:37:48,795 Jesus called it. 862 00:37:48,795 --> 00:37:49,424 He's like, yep. 863 00:37:49,935 --> 00:37:52,755 I said I was gonna be racing the dead, and I, I am. 864 00:37:53,475 --> 00:37:56,085 So then come see the place where he lay. 865 00:37:56,955 --> 00:38:01,485 Then after you see it, go quickly and tell his disciples that he's 866 00:38:01,485 --> 00:38:06,194 risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee. 867 00:38:06,674 --> 00:38:08,115 There you will see him. 868 00:38:09,165 --> 00:38:11,895 Look, I've told you so the angel's announcement. 869 00:38:12,330 --> 00:38:15,569 Is the middle of this passage is the focus, and it's the 870 00:38:15,569 --> 00:38:17,879 reason that there's so much joy. 871 00:38:20,370 --> 00:38:26,580 Now, the, the reason that the resurrection is, is all of this, 872 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,819 like, it's, it's the, the reason that they're, they're so devoted, Jesus. 873 00:38:29,819 --> 00:38:33,540 The reason they're so afraid, and it's the reason they're so joyful 874 00:38:33,750 --> 00:38:39,720 is because the resurrection is, is everything to a Christian. 875 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:45,630 If Jesus is not alive, we're not worshiping a living God, 876 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:46,950 we're worshiping a dead God. 877 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:48,510 Jesus isn't alive. 878 00:38:48,510 --> 00:38:55,140 He doesn't make any, any difference in anything that we're doing, so Jesus is. 879 00:38:56,415 --> 00:38:58,815 Alive, and that's the source of joy. 880 00:38:58,845 --> 00:39:00,915 But also what I want you to see is there's a lot of, there's a lot of 881 00:39:00,915 --> 00:39:02,505 movement in this passage, isn't there? 882 00:39:02,685 --> 00:39:05,295 Like, come see the place, then go quickly. 883 00:39:05,475 --> 00:39:07,965 He's going like, people are moving all around, right? 884 00:39:07,965 --> 00:39:10,095 The the women are coming this way and they're supposed to go, 885 00:39:10,095 --> 00:39:11,715 and then Jesus is going this way. 886 00:39:11,715 --> 00:39:12,675 They're gonna all go to Galilee. 887 00:39:12,675 --> 00:39:13,965 There's a lot of action here. 888 00:39:14,145 --> 00:39:16,455 And that's because joy is meant to be shared. 889 00:39:16,815 --> 00:39:17,415 Joy. 890 00:39:18,660 --> 00:39:20,669 What it is you have to tell someone, right? 891 00:39:20,669 --> 00:39:21,569 That's how joy works. 892 00:39:21,779 --> 00:39:27,149 And so for our third point tonight, I want you to join Jesus in spreading joy. 893 00:39:30,779 --> 00:39:33,060 Join Jesus in spreading joy. 894 00:39:33,690 --> 00:39:37,109 The resurrection is like an explosion because after the resurrection, all 895 00:39:37,109 --> 00:39:41,310 this, all these people come flying out and they're telling everyone about it. 896 00:39:42,149 --> 00:39:44,879 There's the angel, there's the woman, there's Jesus, there's the disciples. 897 00:39:44,879 --> 00:39:45,600 There's a lot of running. 898 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:46,049 There's a lot of. 899 00:39:46,410 --> 00:39:46,800 Action. 900 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,260 There's a lot of people telling people things, and that's because the 901 00:39:49,260 --> 00:39:51,090 resurrection is the source of joy. 902 00:39:51,420 --> 00:39:56,070 And so from Jesus in his resurrection, it goes outward into everything. 903 00:39:56,070 --> 00:40:00,840 And next week we're gonna see that Jesus says, go to all nations and make 904 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,650 disciples, and in this case, spread joy. 905 00:40:04,740 --> 00:40:12,180 See, joy comes from a living savior, so the resurrection. 906 00:40:13,395 --> 00:40:15,285 Because a lot of Christianity, we talk about the cross, right? 907 00:40:15,285 --> 00:40:17,505 We talk about all the cross and we put crosses on our buildings 908 00:40:17,505 --> 00:40:18,465 and we wear a cross on our neck. 909 00:40:18,675 --> 00:40:19,965 We talk about so much about the cross. 910 00:40:20,535 --> 00:40:26,505 The resurrection, arguably is equally important, right? 911 00:40:27,585 --> 00:40:30,225 The Bible, Romans four says that the resurrection gives us 912 00:40:30,225 --> 00:40:34,275 forgiveness from sin, that Jesus was raised for our justification. 913 00:40:34,665 --> 00:40:37,245 So the resurrection is a source for forgiveness, right? 914 00:40:37,245 --> 00:40:41,385 You, you can say, I don't have to pay for any of my sins because of Jesus. 915 00:40:41,955 --> 00:40:42,675 Jesus is alive. 916 00:40:43,395 --> 00:40:43,905 He's alive. 917 00:40:43,905 --> 00:40:45,735 And so I am free. 918 00:40:45,855 --> 00:40:47,235 I'm not guilty anymore. 919 00:40:48,705 --> 00:40:53,475 The resurrection gives victory over, over death and over sin. 920 00:40:53,625 --> 00:40:55,455 One Corinthians 15, right? 921 00:40:55,455 --> 00:40:58,995 We that quote from Hosea, death is swallowed up in victory, death wears 922 00:40:58,995 --> 00:41:00,705 your victory, death wears your sting. 923 00:41:00,945 --> 00:41:03,795 It's gone because of the resurrection. 924 00:41:04,305 --> 00:41:04,455 Right? 925 00:41:04,455 --> 00:41:06,735 If you ever make a, if you ever see one of those lists online of like 926 00:41:06,735 --> 00:41:08,025 what people are afraid of most. 927 00:41:08,535 --> 00:41:11,654 Number two is always like public speaking, and then number one is death. 928 00:41:12,404 --> 00:41:13,875 That's like always the order. 929 00:41:16,005 --> 00:41:18,944 You don't have to be afraid of death anymore, right? 930 00:41:18,944 --> 00:41:22,575 If, if you, if, if you're someone who, who goes to sleep at night and you're, 931 00:41:22,575 --> 00:41:26,205 you're not sure if you're gonna wake up the next day or, or you, you know, are, 932 00:41:26,205 --> 00:41:28,240 are terrified of, oh, what's gonna happen? 933 00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:31,605 And if I go up in the airplane and it starts getting bumpy, you 934 00:41:31,605 --> 00:41:35,625 don't have to be afraid because you know that death just takes you. 935 00:41:36,990 --> 00:41:39,540 To God, and you know that you have a God who's stronger than death, 936 00:41:39,660 --> 00:41:42,870 who walked out of the tomb, so you don't have to be afraid of that. 937 00:41:42,870 --> 00:41:45,180 So there's joy in being forgiven. 938 00:41:45,180 --> 00:41:47,700 There's joy in freedom from death. 939 00:41:48,060 --> 00:41:51,089 The resurrection, Romans six, four, tells us that there's new 940 00:41:51,089 --> 00:41:52,440 life because of the resurrection. 941 00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:56,100 So as a Christian, you don't have to sin anymore because of of Jesus. 942 00:41:56,100 --> 00:41:59,670 You don't have to spend your life searching for satisfaction and happiness 943 00:41:59,670 --> 00:42:00,990 and these things that leave you empty. 944 00:42:01,635 --> 00:42:03,825 There's so much joy that comes from that. 945 00:42:03,825 --> 00:42:06,285 There's also joy in a certain future with God. 946 00:42:06,435 --> 00:42:11,415 One Peter one says that according to God's great mercy, he's caused 947 00:42:11,415 --> 00:42:16,305 us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of the dead. 948 00:42:16,335 --> 00:42:23,745 The resurrection is the means by which you are certainly going to heaven. 949 00:42:25,305 --> 00:42:26,505 Jesus was raised from the dead. 950 00:42:26,535 --> 00:42:29,235 Therefore, you can be confident. 951 00:42:29,970 --> 00:42:32,550 If you're a Christian that you're going to heaven. 952 00:42:35,790 --> 00:42:40,050 So if you're someone who, maybe you're not sure if you're a Christian 953 00:42:40,110 --> 00:42:42,720 or you, you, you are a Christian, you doubt your salvation a lot. 954 00:42:43,470 --> 00:42:46,800 You can look back at Jesus resurrection. 955 00:42:46,890 --> 00:42:48,090 The tomb is still empty. 956 00:42:48,090 --> 00:42:49,020 Did nothing change. 957 00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:51,930 You can look back and say that tomb is empty. 958 00:42:52,350 --> 00:42:53,190 Jesus is alive. 959 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:55,260 He will take me to heaven. 960 00:42:56,580 --> 00:42:58,050 You can trust Jesus. 961 00:42:59,055 --> 00:43:00,045 You can get joy from that. 962 00:43:00,045 --> 00:43:00,944 You don't have to doubt anymore. 963 00:43:00,944 --> 00:43:02,055 You don't have to be afraid anymore. 964 00:43:02,055 --> 00:43:06,045 You can say Jesus is alive and I'm certain of that, and he will He. 965 00:43:06,045 --> 00:43:09,825 He's interacting with time and history and space, and he 966 00:43:09,825 --> 00:43:11,745 will take me safely to heaven. 967 00:43:12,615 --> 00:43:14,595 He'll protect me from losing my faith. 968 00:43:14,984 --> 00:43:16,004 You can trust him for that. 969 00:43:16,095 --> 00:43:20,024 So there's so much joy to be found in the resurrection. 970 00:43:21,420 --> 00:43:27,420 But also once Jesus gives you this joy of forgiveness, of victory over death, of 971 00:43:27,420 --> 00:43:31,410 new life, of a certain future with God, once Jesus gives you that joy, naturally, 972 00:43:31,859 --> 00:43:34,200 you should want to share it, right? 973 00:43:34,259 --> 00:43:36,210 If you, if you, if you're like, oh, well that was kind of cool. 974 00:43:36,270 --> 00:43:37,410 You're not gonna share it, right? 975 00:43:37,410 --> 00:43:40,230 But if you are like, oh, wow, that was amazing, you're gonna share it. 976 00:43:40,350 --> 00:43:43,350 Joy is always the best motive for spreading news. 977 00:43:44,009 --> 00:43:48,060 If you don't believe me, why is this always an Instagram post? 978 00:43:49,770 --> 00:43:51,240 This is like always the biggest. 979 00:43:51,540 --> 00:43:54,750 If you want to get the most comments on your Instagram, get engaged. 980 00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:57,540 Everyone's gonna comment. 981 00:43:57,690 --> 00:43:59,520 You're gonna get a ton of emojis, a ton of likes. 982 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,440 Like this is gonna blow up your Instagram if you get engaged 983 00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:06,240 because joy is meant to be shared. 984 00:44:06,810 --> 00:44:09,510 And the more excited you are about something, the easier 985 00:44:09,510 --> 00:44:10,260 it is to tell people that. 986 00:44:10,290 --> 00:44:14,250 Have you ever met an engaged woman who's shy about being engaged? 987 00:44:15,750 --> 00:44:16,350 If you do. 988 00:44:16,935 --> 00:44:17,835 That's a rough situation. 989 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:18,040 Right. 990 00:44:18,980 --> 00:44:22,905 But usually they're, they're like, they can't wait to tell people, you 991 00:44:22,905 --> 00:44:25,785 know, they're like, every time you're talking to 'em, they're like, oh yeah. 992 00:44:26,235 --> 00:44:31,755 Um, you know, I, I was on this trip over the weekend and, and 993 00:44:31,755 --> 00:44:34,395 they're, they're, they're shoving their ring in your face, right? 994 00:44:34,545 --> 00:44:36,915 Or they're typing on the computer and they're like, 995 00:44:37,305 --> 00:44:39,495 yeah, I'm, I'm doing some work. 996 00:44:39,525 --> 00:44:41,025 You know, or. 997 00:44:41,580 --> 00:44:44,100 They're like, oh, did you see my, I just got my nails done. 998 00:44:44,100 --> 00:44:44,370 Right? 999 00:44:44,490 --> 00:44:46,890 If you, if you meet a girl who just got engaged, this is 1000 00:44:46,890 --> 00:44:48,209 happening all the time, right? 1001 00:44:48,209 --> 00:44:49,649 They're, they're like, I got engaged. 1002 00:44:49,649 --> 00:44:54,209 This is the cool, and they're posting, you know, 185 days to the wedding. 1003 00:44:54,270 --> 00:44:55,350 Oh my goodness. 1004 00:44:55,350 --> 00:44:59,549 You know, they're posting all that and then a week later, oh, 178 1005 00:44:59,549 --> 00:45:01,950 days, guys can't believe it, right? 1006 00:45:01,955 --> 00:45:04,109 Because they're excited and they should be 1007 00:45:06,180 --> 00:45:06,390 right. 1008 00:45:06,390 --> 00:45:09,899 Joy is always the best motive for sharing news that that's. 1009 00:45:10,260 --> 00:45:11,160 No brainer. 1010 00:45:11,940 --> 00:45:17,430 And so if, if you are a Christian, you have the, the biggest reason for joy 1011 00:45:17,430 --> 00:45:22,050 of anyone on the planet, you should be more joyful than anyone's fiance. 1012 00:45:22,665 --> 00:45:24,540 You, you should be so excited. 1013 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,890 And if you're scared of evangelism, the easiest way for you to, to get 1014 00:45:28,890 --> 00:45:32,520 better at sharing your faith is to be more excited about Jesus, right? 1015 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,070 The easiest way for you not to be embarrassed about Jesus is for 1016 00:45:35,070 --> 00:45:36,420 you to be like, Jesus is awesome. 1017 00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:37,920 I love Jesus. 1018 00:45:39,540 --> 00:45:41,280 That's the easiest way to do it, right? 1019 00:45:41,310 --> 00:45:42,750 Why do you think a sports team has a parade? 1020 00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:43,590 They're excited. 1021 00:45:43,590 --> 00:45:45,480 They wanna tell everyone, we just won the championship. 1022 00:45:45,990 --> 00:45:48,540 We just did this, and we want everyone to know about it. 1023 00:45:48,540 --> 00:45:51,150 So we're gonna block off the street and we're gonna cause all this traffic 1024 00:45:51,210 --> 00:45:56,040 and we're gonna potentially cause harm by having this giant parade 1025 00:45:56,580 --> 00:45:58,890 because we want you to know we're excited, we're telling people about it. 1026 00:45:58,890 --> 00:45:59,580 That's what they do. 1027 00:46:00,750 --> 00:46:03,150 So joy is meant to be shared. 1028 00:46:03,180 --> 00:46:05,550 And so if you aren't joyful. 1029 00:46:06,180 --> 00:46:06,540 Jesus. 1030 00:46:06,540 --> 00:46:08,490 If you're not excited about being forgiven, if you're not excited 1031 00:46:08,490 --> 00:46:11,070 about not having the fear of death anymore, if you're not excited about 1032 00:46:11,070 --> 00:46:14,430 the certainty of your salvation, you're gonna be a terrible evangelist. 1033 00:46:14,610 --> 00:46:15,000 Right? 1034 00:46:16,020 --> 00:46:21,030 Like, imagine if you were trying to tell someone about your fiance and you're 1035 00:46:21,030 --> 00:46:22,470 like, yeah, well they're, they're okay. 1036 00:46:23,010 --> 00:46:25,020 I mean, they're like sometimes nice to me. 1037 00:46:26,235 --> 00:46:27,435 I'm terrible. 1038 00:46:27,435 --> 00:46:27,675 Right? 1039 00:46:27,675 --> 00:46:28,695 Terrible endorsement. 1040 00:46:28,695 --> 00:46:29,025 Right. 1041 00:46:29,145 --> 00:46:32,475 But if you're like, oh my goodness, my fiance's amazing, and, and 1042 00:46:32,475 --> 00:46:35,115 they're so cool, or they're so gorgeous and they're, they're so 1043 00:46:35,115 --> 00:46:36,855 helpful and they love me so well. 1044 00:46:37,035 --> 00:46:37,365 Right. 1045 00:46:37,545 --> 00:46:40,305 That's a, that's a good evangelist for a fiance, right? 1046 00:46:40,905 --> 00:46:41,535 For a wedding. 1047 00:46:42,975 --> 00:46:47,625 And so if, if you're someone out there, you, you, you, you 1048 00:46:47,625 --> 00:46:48,675 believe in the resurrection. 1049 00:46:48,675 --> 00:46:51,585 You say you're a Christian and you're scared. 1050 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,000 I would just say focus on Jesus. 1051 00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,220 Focus on how much joy you have in him. 1052 00:46:57,690 --> 00:47:00,120 Focus on all the promises he makes to you. 1053 00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,970 Focus on how good he is to you, and that'll help you talk about him. 1054 00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,750 It'll, it'll get easier because you're, you're just, you can't help it. 1055 00:47:06,750 --> 00:47:08,130 Joy is meant to be shared. 1056 00:47:08,130 --> 00:47:10,920 And I also want you guys, maybe you're not a Christian, or maybe you 1057 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,100 are, you never thought about this, but did you know that the gospel is 1058 00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:16,259 really just an invitation to Joy? 1059 00:47:17,670 --> 00:47:19,680 Did you know that the gospel is good news? 1060 00:47:20,370 --> 00:47:23,640 It's not like, oh, you know, God said, do this. 1061 00:47:23,940 --> 00:47:24,690 You stink. 1062 00:47:25,589 --> 00:47:25,950 Right? 1063 00:47:25,950 --> 00:47:27,270 The gospel is good news. 1064 00:47:27,810 --> 00:47:31,440 The gospel is an invitation to the thing that'll make you the happiest to God. 1065 00:47:31,830 --> 00:47:34,890 God says, I want you to be happy, so here I am. 1066 00:47:35,220 --> 00:47:37,109 You can come to me if you trust Jesus. 1067 00:47:37,109 --> 00:47:37,859 That's the gospel. 1068 00:47:38,460 --> 00:47:42,750 The gospel is good news about how to be happy forever, how to be the 1069 00:47:42,750 --> 00:47:44,640 happiest for the most amount of time. 1070 00:47:45,390 --> 00:47:48,180 That's, that's what the gospel is really about. 1071 00:47:48,180 --> 00:47:48,930 It's about joy. 1072 00:47:50,190 --> 00:47:53,970 So maybe you, you've always thought of Christianity as a bunch of rules or 1073 00:47:53,970 --> 00:47:56,700 just something your parents make you do, and I want you to see that the gospel 1074 00:47:56,700 --> 00:47:57,930 is really just an invitation to joy. 1075 00:47:57,990 --> 00:48:03,750 And Jesus is out here telling people about it, spreading joy because God 1076 00:48:03,750 --> 00:48:06,630 is ultimately gonna make you the happiest for the longest amount of time. 1077 00:48:09,030 --> 00:48:12,690 And so if that's you tonight, I, I want you to think there's an 1078 00:48:12,690 --> 00:48:16,320 empty tomb and there's a risen king Jesus alive, and he's inviting you. 1079 00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,260 You can find happiness in me. 1080 00:48:19,500 --> 00:48:24,840 Stop trying to find happiness in whatever you think is gonna make you happy, right? 1081 00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:29,280 Whether it it's approval from others or this dream school or career, or, or 1082 00:48:29,730 --> 00:48:33,090 maybe you just want to your freedom and autonomy and go do whatever you want. 1083 00:48:33,090 --> 00:48:34,140 That's not gonna make you happy. 1084 00:48:34,770 --> 00:48:36,390 It's gonna leave you empty and regretting it. 1085 00:48:36,570 --> 00:48:41,310 But Jesus is alive and he can free you from sin and free you from death 1086 00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,790 and give you the most amount of joy for the longest amount of time. 1087 00:48:45,330 --> 00:48:47,010 Let's pray and we'll go to small groups. 1088 00:48:49,860 --> 00:48:51,900 God thank you that you want us to be happy. 1089 00:48:52,710 --> 00:48:56,550 You don't necessarily have to want us to be happy, but you want us to 1090 00:48:56,550 --> 00:48:58,890 be happy and so you give us yourself. 1091 00:48:59,340 --> 00:49:03,360 I'm so grateful that you make a way for us to relate to you, that you 1092 00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:04,890 want us to be part of your family. 1093 00:49:05,190 --> 00:49:11,430 You want to do good to us, you want to um, you want to work for our joy. 1094 00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:14,670 And so I pray that you would help us to just remember that. 1095 00:49:15,315 --> 00:49:18,165 Oftentimes when we don't trust you, it's because we don't think you're 1096 00:49:18,165 --> 00:49:19,695 looking out for our best interests. 1097 00:49:20,025 --> 00:49:23,325 So I pray that you help all of us here to trust that you know what's best for us. 1098 00:49:23,325 --> 00:49:27,825 You love us more than we love ourselves, and so you ultimately 1099 00:49:27,825 --> 00:49:29,145 will make us the happiest. 1100 00:49:29,145 --> 00:49:30,105 So help us to believe that. 1101 00:49:30,255 --> 00:49:32,384 Help us to be focused and honest in small groups. 1102 00:49:32,835 --> 00:49:34,245 Um, and I pray all this in Jesus name. 1103 00:49:34,485 --> 00:49:34,815 Amen.