1 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:07,464 Welcome to Heaven Earth Church. 2 00:00:07,512 --> 00:00:09,416 My name is Ross Stackhouse. 3 00:00:09,448 --> 00:00:12,680 I'm the founding pastor of Heaven Earth Church. 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,632 From the beginning, our heart was to be a church for people who 5 00:00:16,656 --> 00:00:18,696 don't fit neatly into church. 6 00:00:18,888 --> 00:00:22,712 Our heart is to meet people where they are, to learn their stories, 7 00:00:22,856 --> 00:00:24,072 to honor their stories. 8 00:00:24,136 --> 00:00:27,568 Because in every human story is God's story. 9 00:00:27,744 --> 00:00:31,120 In this podcast, you'll hear more about the people who now call 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:32,768 Heaven Earth Church home. 11 00:00:32,824 --> 00:00:36,800 Their stories, in many cases of misfits who are discovering or 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:38,096 rediscovering faith. 13 00:00:38,208 --> 00:00:41,808 If you want to know more about us, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org 14 00:00:41,984 --> 00:00:45,340 Otherwise, we invite you now into the story. 15 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:48,448 Hello good people. 16 00:00:48,504 --> 00:00:53,360 Brad Miller here, the producer of the Heaven Earth Church podcast. 17 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,104 One of the main benefits of being a part of the Heaven Earth 18 00:00:57,152 --> 00:01:03,214 Church community is our Sunday morning conversations taught by founding 19 00:01:03,262 --> 00:01:05,810 pastor Ross Stackhouse. 20 00:01:06,470 --> 00:01:11,566 You can watch and participate in the Sunday morning conversation 21 00:01:11,758 --> 00:01:20,530 this Sunday morning, 9:30am Eastern time at YouTube.com heavenerthchurch. 22 00:01:21,190 --> 00:01:26,136 The audio version of the Sunday morning conversation is available 23 00:01:26,208 --> 00:01:31,032 here on the podcast, which you can find at Apple Podcasts, Spotify 24 00:01:31,176 --> 00:01:39,640 and on the website, which is heaven earthchurch.org Here now is 25 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:46,184 Pastor Ross Stackhouse with part six of the Dead Man Walking 26 00:01:46,232 --> 00:01:46,488 series. 27 00:01:46,544 --> 00:01:51,420 This is the Palm Sunday Message Death Destroyer. 28 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,260 Hey, good morning everyone. 29 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:00,860 Thank you, Christy. 30 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,020 We have some new folks today, so my name is Ross. 31 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,940 I'm pastor here at Heaven Earth Church. 32 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,752 Thanks to Adam and Emily and Brandon for sharing their gifts with 33 00:02:15,776 --> 00:02:16,740 us this morning. 34 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,220 Hello to everyone online. 35 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:22,536 Just a few announcements. 36 00:02:22,648 --> 00:02:26,020 Actually, not a few, but I'm going to do my best. 37 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,120 First order of business, I'll try to go to the nearest, to the 38 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:33,220 farthest away. 39 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:36,040 Today is Palm Sunday. 40 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,672 It marks the beginning of Holy Week when Jesus entered Jerusalem 41 00:02:39,816 --> 00:02:42,260 and it was the last week of his life. 42 00:02:43,910 --> 00:02:46,542 For this week, we don't have any. 43 00:02:46,646 --> 00:02:48,446 If you've come from a church background. 44 00:02:48,478 --> 00:02:50,862 If you don't, then you're not expecting anything anyways. 45 00:02:50,926 --> 00:02:53,490 So good for you because we have nothing this week anyways. 46 00:02:54,710 --> 00:02:58,542 But if you wanted to go to like what's called a Maundy Thursday 47 00:02:58,646 --> 00:03:04,894 service to celebrate the last supper of Jesus Grace, UMC in Franklin 48 00:03:04,942 --> 00:03:08,570 is close partner to us. 49 00:03:08,950 --> 00:03:10,238 They will have those services. 50 00:03:10,294 --> 00:03:14,630 And also Good Friday service is something really meaningful during 51 00:03:14,670 --> 00:03:15,570 this week. 52 00:03:16,430 --> 00:03:18,342 Something that I'm going to tell you, I'm going to invite you 53 00:03:18,366 --> 00:03:19,830 to do right now with me. 54 00:03:19,950 --> 00:03:21,570 I do this every year. 55 00:03:22,670 --> 00:03:23,878 Check with your doctor first. 56 00:03:23,934 --> 00:03:25,302 Make sure you can do it. 57 00:03:25,486 --> 00:03:27,490 I always fast on Good Friday. 58 00:03:29,470 --> 00:03:32,790 That would be really cool to know that Our church family is doing 59 00:03:32,830 --> 00:03:33,730 that together. 60 00:03:34,910 --> 00:03:38,478 If you get hangry, just don't be around people a lot. 61 00:03:38,574 --> 00:03:39,370 All right. 62 00:03:40,150 --> 00:03:45,582 But it's just a really cool way to mark that day and journey 63 00:03:45,646 --> 00:03:46,850 with Jesus. 64 00:03:49,270 --> 00:03:50,718 So I'll do that on Good Friday. 65 00:03:50,774 --> 00:03:52,410 And then Holy Saturday. 66 00:03:53,110 --> 00:03:57,726 I try to keep a candle lit throughout my house for the Holy 67 00:03:57,758 --> 00:03:59,278 Saturday Saturday vigil. 68 00:03:59,374 --> 00:04:03,566 And then Easter Sunday is next Sunday. 69 00:04:03,638 --> 00:04:06,878 Did you know it will be. 70 00:04:06,934 --> 00:04:11,130 I put this out in an email five years ago. 71 00:04:12,470 --> 00:04:19,902 I got here in 2018 with nothing except my family and we just 72 00:04:19,926 --> 00:04:22,542 started getting to know everyone, making partnerships in 73 00:04:22,566 --> 00:04:23,294 the community. 74 00:04:23,462 --> 00:04:26,046 We started hosting events at Johnson's barbecue. 75 00:04:26,078 --> 00:04:29,342 In January 2019, we started meeting in my house with like five 76 00:04:29,366 --> 00:04:30,250 or six people. 77 00:04:33,370 --> 00:04:36,674 Easter of 2020, we were going to have our first Sunday gathering 78 00:04:36,722 --> 00:04:37,310 here. 79 00:04:38,810 --> 00:04:39,710 And then. 80 00:04:41,210 --> 00:04:43,650 And as it happened, for everyone, like it's been. 81 00:04:43,690 --> 00:04:46,002 It was like this for, for. 82 00:04:46,186 --> 00:04:47,202 It was tough. 83 00:04:47,346 --> 00:04:48,630 It was very tough. 84 00:04:49,290 --> 00:04:54,162 But fast forward five years later, we will celebrate Easter here. 85 00:04:54,346 --> 00:04:56,830 And I'm so excited to do it with you. 86 00:04:57,580 --> 00:04:57,988 I. 87 00:04:58,044 --> 00:05:00,500 I hope to see a lot of our folks who have been a part of our 88 00:05:00,540 --> 00:05:01,316 journey. 89 00:05:01,508 --> 00:05:04,800 But also it's a great time to invite someone. 90 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:06,404 If you're an. 91 00:05:06,492 --> 00:05:10,004 If you're an evangelist like dad, you should be inviting 25 people. 92 00:05:10,092 --> 00:05:10,920 Okay. 93 00:05:11,580 --> 00:05:13,880 He invites somebody every week anyways. 94 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:19,140 But like, look, Ava and Marnie brought like an entire row in a day. 95 00:05:19,180 --> 00:05:21,204 Don't look at him to make him feel awkward or anything. 96 00:05:21,252 --> 00:05:27,006 But if they did that, like, come on, invite somebody. 97 00:05:27,038 --> 00:05:31,166 If this is helpful to you, then it might be helpful to somebody 98 00:05:31,198 --> 00:05:31,406 else. 99 00:05:31,438 --> 00:05:34,090 And Easter is a great time to do that. 100 00:05:34,790 --> 00:05:38,622 Okay, I'm not even done with announcements, so you better keep 101 00:05:38,646 --> 00:05:40,830 giving me your attention because we got a lot of stuff going. 102 00:05:40,870 --> 00:05:46,062 On Wednesday, April 23, after Easter, we have the first of our 103 00:05:46,086 --> 00:05:51,558 Recovery as Possible speaker series where we're featuring local 104 00:05:51,614 --> 00:05:53,190 heroes of recovery. 105 00:05:53,350 --> 00:05:56,518 And Spencer Metcalf is going to be sharing with us that night. 106 00:05:56,574 --> 00:05:58,854 He helped us found Recovery Church. 107 00:05:58,902 --> 00:06:01,650 He'll have eight years of sobriety coming up. 108 00:06:02,030 --> 00:06:05,690 He is now the director of Business development for Spark Recovery. 109 00:06:06,830 --> 00:06:09,558 Maybe you don't need this meeting, but you might know somebody 110 00:06:09,574 --> 00:06:09,990 who does. 111 00:06:10,030 --> 00:06:11,798 Spencer's story is amazing. 112 00:06:11,974 --> 00:06:14,122 He's been a huge part of our journey. 113 00:06:14,246 --> 00:06:18,402 April 23, at 6:30 there's a free meal which we get as a part 114 00:06:18,426 --> 00:06:20,590 of a grant for drug free Johnson County. 115 00:06:22,570 --> 00:06:25,090 So that's a really cool thing that we have coming up. 116 00:06:25,210 --> 00:06:29,630 All right, April 27, are you taking notes, everyone? 117 00:06:30,090 --> 00:06:31,170 Oh my gosh. 118 00:06:31,330 --> 00:06:34,194 We got some people are going to come to our Auto audio, visual 119 00:06:34,242 --> 00:06:34,466 training. 120 00:06:34,498 --> 00:06:37,266 There's so many ways to just serve and plug in and take ownership 121 00:06:37,298 --> 00:06:37,746 of the church. 122 00:06:37,778 --> 00:06:39,074 On Sunday mornings. 123 00:06:39,202 --> 00:06:42,432 You can be a part of the hospitality team with Rachel Roebling. 124 00:06:42,586 --> 00:06:45,480 You can be a part of the music team if you reach out to Emily. 125 00:06:45,980 --> 00:06:48,644 One of the things we do back there, hey, look at Natalie and Ellie 126 00:06:48,692 --> 00:06:49,348 right back there. 127 00:06:49,404 --> 00:06:50,820 Ellie's ducking right now. 128 00:06:50,940 --> 00:06:53,120 She doesn't want to be seen, but she's there. 129 00:06:53,660 --> 00:06:55,300 They're running the show back there today. 130 00:06:55,340 --> 00:06:59,220 If you want to chip in in that way and learn what's going on next 131 00:06:59,260 --> 00:07:03,252 Sunday, 11:15am but then we got another thing next Sunday as 132 00:07:03,276 --> 00:07:03,460 well. 133 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:04,388 Go to that one now. 134 00:07:04,444 --> 00:07:05,160 Boom. 135 00:07:06,540 --> 00:07:07,044 What? 136 00:07:07,132 --> 00:07:07,876 Two Sundays. 137 00:07:07,908 --> 00:07:08,516 Two Sundays. 138 00:07:08,548 --> 00:07:09,284 Not next Sunday. 139 00:07:09,372 --> 00:07:10,324 April 27th. 140 00:07:10,372 --> 00:07:11,120 Thank you. 141 00:07:11,810 --> 00:07:14,890 Our garden architect, Jill Bevins, from last year. 142 00:07:14,930 --> 00:07:18,202 We had a great team put together our community garden last 143 00:07:18,226 --> 00:07:18,506 year. 144 00:07:18,578 --> 00:07:22,634 We're kicking it off again, but we're putting a new spin on community 145 00:07:22,722 --> 00:07:23,550 garden. 146 00:07:23,970 --> 00:07:29,130 We actually want to invite you and teach you and equip you to create 147 00:07:29,170 --> 00:07:30,330 a garden at home. 148 00:07:30,450 --> 00:07:32,170 Now, some of you are like, I already do that. 149 00:07:32,210 --> 00:07:33,190 Good for you. 150 00:07:33,730 --> 00:07:37,434 We're going to help you to create a spiritual garden and a literal 151 00:07:37,482 --> 00:07:44,290 garden at home so that you, you cultivate fruit, literally, or 152 00:07:44,330 --> 00:07:45,170 flowers and. 153 00:07:45,210 --> 00:07:49,762 Or flowers and spiritual fruit at home that you bring back to the 154 00:07:49,786 --> 00:07:50,350 community. 155 00:07:51,530 --> 00:07:54,882 Because as we get deeper into the gardening season, we're going 156 00:07:54,906 --> 00:07:58,722 to have a couple of distribution days throughout the 157 00:07:58,746 --> 00:07:59,170 week. 158 00:07:59,290 --> 00:08:03,682 One here and one off site so that we take our fruit and our produce 159 00:08:03,746 --> 00:08:04,830 into the community. 160 00:08:05,540 --> 00:08:10,060 If you don't have any room to garden at home, we will offer our 161 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:13,292 plot to you and you can claim a little space. 162 00:08:13,316 --> 00:08:15,720 But just heads up, it's your space. 163 00:08:16,020 --> 00:08:18,540 So if I see weeds growing there, I'm like, oh, look at those 164 00:08:18,580 --> 00:08:18,956 cute weeds. 165 00:08:18,988 --> 00:08:20,796 And I'm going to go right back inside. 166 00:08:20,988 --> 00:08:21,372 All right? 167 00:08:21,396 --> 00:08:24,444 Because it's your garden, it's your plot that's part of a bigger 168 00:08:24,492 --> 00:08:25,100 plot. 169 00:08:25,260 --> 00:08:26,076 All right? 170 00:08:26,228 --> 00:08:30,540 So with that in mind, on April 27, we're going to have a, like, 171 00:08:30,580 --> 00:08:35,932 sort of launching your garden workshop that Jill is going to lead 172 00:08:36,116 --> 00:08:37,660 Gardening 101. 173 00:08:37,780 --> 00:08:39,244 You can sign up on a paper. 174 00:08:39,292 --> 00:08:41,200 Where's that paper, Emily? 175 00:08:41,540 --> 00:08:43,228 Jill's got it right there. 176 00:08:43,364 --> 00:08:46,844 If you go to our Planning center or our Church center app, 177 00:08:47,012 --> 00:08:48,332 it's on the homepage. 178 00:08:48,396 --> 00:08:50,140 So you go to Church center down on the app. 179 00:08:50,180 --> 00:08:51,804 Make Heaven Earth Church your church. 180 00:08:51,932 --> 00:08:53,116 There's a button. 181 00:08:53,228 --> 00:08:55,640 You just click and sign up for it. 182 00:08:57,220 --> 00:08:59,180 We will equip you with knowledge. 183 00:08:59,260 --> 00:09:00,636 We'll equip you with supplies. 184 00:09:00,668 --> 00:09:06,462 If need be, we want to help you garden at home so you grow spiritually 185 00:09:06,606 --> 00:09:08,590 and as a gardener at home and then part here. 186 00:09:08,630 --> 00:09:09,758 Anything else, Jill? 187 00:09:09,934 --> 00:09:10,366 Sorry. 188 00:09:10,398 --> 00:09:14,590 I'm gonna ask this around and you guys will see. 189 00:09:14,630 --> 00:09:18,542 You can mark if you want to be on the gardening team, distribution, 190 00:09:18,606 --> 00:09:22,494 team growth, and then what supplies you might need, the experience 191 00:09:22,582 --> 00:09:25,210 you have, what kind of support you'll need. 192 00:09:25,830 --> 00:09:31,448 We're definitely creating on giving out the seedlings at the kickoff 193 00:09:31,544 --> 00:09:31,944 meeting. 194 00:09:32,032 --> 00:09:37,176 And you know, however these people will provide the plants, soil, 195 00:09:37,288 --> 00:09:41,480 you know, lend tools, whatever the case may be to try and empower 196 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:43,304 people to be successful. 197 00:09:43,432 --> 00:09:47,048 And we would really like to incorporate flowers this year too, 198 00:09:47,104 --> 00:09:48,424 so you can get flower gardens. 199 00:09:48,472 --> 00:09:52,376 But as a vegetable garden, we, on these distribution days, we'd 200 00:09:52,408 --> 00:09:58,914 like to, to give away flowers as well as tomatoes and spinach or 201 00:09:58,922 --> 00:10:00,082 whatever else we've got. 202 00:10:00,186 --> 00:10:04,402 So we really thought the discipline of growing at home and 203 00:10:04,506 --> 00:10:12,114 even incorporating family kids would be a good disciplined practice 204 00:10:12,162 --> 00:10:15,378 and then to bear fruit and share that with the community. 205 00:10:15,514 --> 00:10:18,790 So I pass this around if anything was questioned. 206 00:10:21,860 --> 00:10:23,724 Yes, thanks to Jill. 207 00:10:23,772 --> 00:10:27,000 This is Jill's vision and I'm so excited for it. 208 00:10:31,380 --> 00:10:33,372 So, okay, the last two. 209 00:10:33,476 --> 00:10:34,908 I swear I'm done after this. 210 00:10:34,964 --> 00:10:35,484 I forgot. 211 00:10:35,532 --> 00:10:39,820 Youth night is tonight at 5:00. 212 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:43,708 Here some more fun times and games. 213 00:10:43,764 --> 00:10:46,572 Like we played a card game called Piles last week and then they 214 00:10:46,596 --> 00:10:51,656 asked this easy question about how do you reconcile scientific explanations 215 00:10:51,688 --> 00:10:53,912 of the beginning of the universe is what it says in the Bible. 216 00:10:53,976 --> 00:10:55,100 Easy stuff. 217 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:57,980 We're going to pick that back up tonight. 218 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:02,952 So it's, it's, it's a growing group that's exciting to be a part 219 00:11:02,976 --> 00:11:03,112 of. 220 00:11:03,136 --> 00:11:07,080 And then the last thing on May 2, it's a Friday night, we're having 221 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,872 a service and partnership night from 5:30 to 7:30. 222 00:11:10,976 --> 00:11:12,184 So just mark your calendar. 223 00:11:12,232 --> 00:11:15,352 Friday, May 2nd, we're gonna have several projects that you can 224 00:11:15,376 --> 00:11:18,436 be a part of around our community building here, but also 225 00:11:18,508 --> 00:11:20,320 some projects out in the community. 226 00:11:20,620 --> 00:11:21,684 So mark your calendar. 227 00:11:21,732 --> 00:11:23,940 Friday, May 2, 5:30 to 7:30. 228 00:11:23,980 --> 00:11:25,732 A service and partnership night. 229 00:11:25,836 --> 00:11:26,960 We did it. 230 00:11:27,740 --> 00:11:29,360 Could you stand up, please? 231 00:11:34,780 --> 00:11:43,210 I just would invite you to take a big deep breath in and out. 232 00:11:45,590 --> 00:11:47,010 Breath is a gift. 233 00:11:47,430 --> 00:11:48,814 The Holy Spirit is a gift. 234 00:11:48,862 --> 00:11:53,770 Breathe in and out. 235 00:11:56,230 --> 00:12:00,302 God, we ask that your Holy Spirit would be with us so we can 236 00:12:00,326 --> 00:12:02,926 see things we couldn't see on our own, hear things we couldn't 237 00:12:02,958 --> 00:12:07,022 hear on our own, and ultimately be a part of this incredible 238 00:12:07,086 --> 00:12:10,040 mission that you've brought to us in Jesus. 239 00:12:10,460 --> 00:12:12,212 It's in his name I pray. 240 00:12:12,356 --> 00:12:13,028 Amen. 241 00:12:13,124 --> 00:12:14,692 Okay, you can have a seat. 242 00:12:14,836 --> 00:12:16,740 Unless you want to do some jumping jacks real quick. 243 00:12:16,780 --> 00:12:18,080 Make sure you're with me. 244 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:20,916 All right, listen up. 245 00:12:21,068 --> 00:12:22,116 Here's the real deal. 246 00:12:22,188 --> 00:12:24,852 If I've ever struggled to not go over today is going to be the 247 00:12:24,876 --> 00:12:25,444 worst struggle. 248 00:12:25,492 --> 00:12:28,340 So don't be like, oh, man, that means Ross is going way over 249 00:12:28,380 --> 00:12:28,628 today. 250 00:12:28,684 --> 00:12:30,160 No, I tried my best. 251 00:12:31,260 --> 00:12:37,374 This is the most work I've ever done for a sermon because I 252 00:12:37,382 --> 00:12:38,490 think it's that important. 253 00:12:39,270 --> 00:12:40,286 We got questions. 254 00:12:40,318 --> 00:12:44,446 When we started this Dead Man Walking series, why did Jesus die? 255 00:12:44,478 --> 00:12:45,262 And who cares? 256 00:12:45,326 --> 00:12:49,970 Kind of one question we got is, why is death the mechanism? 257 00:12:50,870 --> 00:12:52,770 Why is blood the mechanism? 258 00:12:53,110 --> 00:12:56,254 We just had a song that said bought by your blood. 259 00:12:56,382 --> 00:12:57,118 I know it. 260 00:12:57,174 --> 00:12:58,062 I could feel it in the room. 261 00:12:58,086 --> 00:13:02,960 Some of you went with that part, right? 262 00:13:03,580 --> 00:13:05,220 No, Ross, we're churchy people. 263 00:13:05,260 --> 00:13:06,960 We're just joyful all the time. 264 00:13:07,500 --> 00:13:09,000 We love Jesus. 265 00:13:09,420 --> 00:13:11,172 Any song we sing, we just like it. 266 00:13:11,196 --> 00:13:12,880 And we just sing our lungs out. 267 00:13:13,420 --> 00:13:14,116 No, you don't. 268 00:13:14,148 --> 00:13:14,724 You were lying. 269 00:13:14,772 --> 00:13:15,760 I felt it. 270 00:13:17,180 --> 00:13:19,680 So that's what we're talking about today. 271 00:13:19,980 --> 00:13:22,800 We have way more to get to than we're going to get to. 272 00:13:24,140 --> 00:13:27,022 So first thing I want to ask you though is this. 273 00:13:27,206 --> 00:13:30,062 What would you do if you ultimately had nothing to fear in 274 00:13:30,086 --> 00:13:30,810 the future? 275 00:13:34,150 --> 00:13:37,566 What if you knew or trusted completely that death ultimately 276 00:13:37,598 --> 00:13:38,650 has no power? 277 00:13:41,910 --> 00:13:45,086 What if you believed completely that death will be destroyed 278 00:13:45,118 --> 00:13:47,810 and everything will be restored? 279 00:13:49,110 --> 00:13:52,890 What if you really, really trusted these things? 280 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,060 Would you live with more joy? 281 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:02,040 Would you be less. 282 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:03,580 Oh, go ahead, Christy. 283 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:07,260 Live with less worry. 284 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:08,700 Okay. 285 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:16,296 Others, what would you do if you ultimately had nothing to fear 286 00:14:16,328 --> 00:14:20,002 in the future because you believe that death's going to be 287 00:14:20,026 --> 00:14:22,070 destroyed and everything will be restored? 288 00:14:24,570 --> 00:14:25,570 Right now I can feel. 289 00:14:25,610 --> 00:14:26,870 Oh, go ahead, Tucker. 290 00:14:32,810 --> 00:14:33,830 Interesting. 291 00:14:43,050 --> 00:14:44,070 Interesting. 292 00:14:46,650 --> 00:14:48,350 There's a song by. 293 00:14:50,330 --> 00:14:52,350 If we were Vampires, by. 294 00:14:53,450 --> 00:14:55,150 Come on, somebody help me out. 295 00:14:58,570 --> 00:15:02,310 If we were vampires and death were a joke. 296 00:15:03,290 --> 00:15:04,386 Jason Isbell. 297 00:15:04,418 --> 00:15:05,230 Thank you. 298 00:15:05,930 --> 00:15:08,790 He says maybe time running out is a gift. 299 00:15:10,820 --> 00:15:11,852 That was a curveball. 300 00:15:11,916 --> 00:15:13,560 I did not expect this morning. 301 00:15:14,820 --> 00:15:15,900 Love it, Tucker. 302 00:15:15,980 --> 00:15:17,308 God, man, I love our. 303 00:15:17,364 --> 00:15:19,400 I love our students so much. 304 00:15:20,340 --> 00:15:24,320 Yeah, maybe time running out as a gift. 305 00:15:28,020 --> 00:15:29,116 That's Tucker's answer. 306 00:15:29,148 --> 00:15:29,960 What about you? 307 00:15:30,260 --> 00:15:31,404 Would you be braver? 308 00:15:31,452 --> 00:15:32,796 Would you live with more courage? 309 00:15:32,828 --> 00:15:36,000 Would you live with less ambition and more presence? 310 00:15:40,050 --> 00:15:43,642 What if you weren't always in self preservation and self protection 311 00:15:43,706 --> 00:15:44,350 mode? 312 00:15:51,570 --> 00:15:54,110 What if you ultimately had nothing to fear? 313 00:15:54,850 --> 00:15:58,234 I'll tell you today that the Bible's main concern. 314 00:15:58,402 --> 00:16:00,810 I have good basis for this, folks. 315 00:16:00,970 --> 00:16:04,570 It's been well documented that one of the most commonly occurring 316 00:16:04,650 --> 00:16:12,230 Commands in the Bible, if not the most, is do not fear. 317 00:16:13,770 --> 00:16:15,710 Well, why would the Bible say that? 318 00:16:16,410 --> 00:16:19,870 Because the thing that human beings are plagued by the most is. 319 00:16:24,570 --> 00:16:26,690 We're going to talk about that today as a part of this. 320 00:16:26,730 --> 00:16:28,514 Like, why is death the mechanism? 321 00:16:28,642 --> 00:16:29,570 Why is blood. 322 00:16:29,650 --> 00:16:34,332 Like, why does Jesus have to die to save the world? 323 00:16:34,356 --> 00:16:37,560 And what does that even mean to begin with or to end with? 324 00:16:38,660 --> 00:16:39,500 There's. 325 00:16:39,660 --> 00:16:40,652 We have. 326 00:16:40,836 --> 00:16:44,764 As Willy Wonga says, we have so much time and so little to do. 327 00:16:44,932 --> 00:16:45,788 But it's the. 328 00:16:45,844 --> 00:16:48,556 If there's ever a time where the exact opposite of the reverse, 329 00:16:48,588 --> 00:16:49,480 that is today. 330 00:16:51,220 --> 00:16:58,236 I want to tell you that as I think about this topic, I think about 331 00:16:58,308 --> 00:17:02,040 how we're pressing against our limits as we talk about this. 332 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,512 We are pressing against our limits. 333 00:17:05,656 --> 00:17:09,224 If there's ever a time that, like, the more I dove in, folks, 334 00:17:09,272 --> 00:17:14,648 I took a whole survey of the New Testament to find out, like, 335 00:17:14,704 --> 00:17:16,860 everything that's said about salvation. 336 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:27,512 And I feel like I had that experience where I know less than 337 00:17:27,536 --> 00:17:28,460 when I began. 338 00:17:30,340 --> 00:17:33,852 It's like, dang it, I did all this searching for treasure, and 339 00:17:33,876 --> 00:17:36,400 I know less than when I began. 340 00:17:37,460 --> 00:17:41,068 And yet I had this experience that the first saints had. 341 00:17:41,124 --> 00:17:47,804 The first saints and sinners where, like, they fell into the mystery. 342 00:17:47,852 --> 00:17:50,480 Like, you fall into the ocean and just float. 343 00:17:52,340 --> 00:17:56,306 And they're like, oh, my God, I know nothing. 344 00:17:56,338 --> 00:17:57,630 And I know everything. 345 00:17:59,930 --> 00:18:04,658 He is Lord, Lord of the universe, and he has conquered all 346 00:18:04,714 --> 00:18:06,898 death and demons and evil, and I am free. 347 00:18:06,954 --> 00:18:10,150 And I have no idea what that means, but God, it's awesome. 348 00:18:14,090 --> 00:18:16,498 That's what I saw in the New Testament. 349 00:18:16,594 --> 00:18:20,450 I told you, like, in the church, we've shrunk down salvation 350 00:18:20,530 --> 00:18:24,570 to a formula that was manageable so we'd have control and 351 00:18:24,610 --> 00:18:25,402 certainty. 352 00:18:25,546 --> 00:18:25,850 Why? 353 00:18:25,890 --> 00:18:26,650 Because what are the. 354 00:18:26,690 --> 00:18:28,298 What's one thing that we're so afraid of? 355 00:18:28,354 --> 00:18:29,470 Uncertainty. 356 00:18:29,810 --> 00:18:31,546 We don't want mysterious human beings. 357 00:18:31,578 --> 00:18:34,270 That goes against our biological code. 358 00:18:36,770 --> 00:18:42,410 But one thing I saw, like, we shrunk it down going through this, 359 00:18:42,450 --> 00:18:42,714 guys. 360 00:18:42,762 --> 00:18:45,066 I feel like I saw the whole Starry Night painting. 361 00:18:45,098 --> 00:18:46,990 We talked about that in last week's. 362 00:18:48,860 --> 00:18:50,868 I feel like I'm seeing the whole thing. 363 00:18:51,004 --> 00:18:56,480 I understand less of it, and yet I trust more of it. 364 00:18:56,780 --> 00:18:57,700 It's possible. 365 00:18:57,820 --> 00:19:05,540 Folks, I want to share with you what I found and invite you into 366 00:19:05,580 --> 00:19:06,260 the mystery. 367 00:19:06,340 --> 00:19:09,156 You very well might walk out today, be like, ross didn't answer 368 00:19:09,188 --> 00:19:09,588 that question. 369 00:19:09,644 --> 00:19:12,400 All Brandon's gonna be like, I'm never gonna ask a question again. 370 00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:14,660 This guy just gave me more questions. 371 00:19:14,740 --> 00:19:14,986 He. 372 00:19:15,028 --> 00:19:17,198 Yep, it's probably going to happen today. 373 00:19:17,334 --> 00:19:18,530 I'M not sorry. 374 00:19:19,030 --> 00:19:23,730 We have to get out of the addiction to certainty. 375 00:19:24,710 --> 00:19:30,366 If we want to know Jesus, we have to get more comfortable with 376 00:19:30,438 --> 00:19:32,370 discomfort and mystery. 377 00:19:34,310 --> 00:19:37,454 It doesn't mean we can't ask questions and pursue answers. 378 00:19:37,502 --> 00:19:38,686 We're going to do it today. 379 00:19:38,838 --> 00:19:41,630 We're going to ask questions and pursue answers at Youth Night 380 00:19:41,670 --> 00:19:42,290 tonight. 381 00:19:43,980 --> 00:19:47,636 But if we're waiting for all the certainty to fall into the ocean 382 00:19:47,668 --> 00:19:51,040 of faith, we will never, ever get there. 383 00:19:52,860 --> 00:19:56,836 And that's why many of you quit church, because you got sick 384 00:19:57,028 --> 00:19:59,524 of the certainty that was shoved down your throat. 385 00:19:59,572 --> 00:20:01,120 And you should have quit it. 386 00:20:02,940 --> 00:20:04,080 You should have. 387 00:20:05,820 --> 00:20:08,494 So this. 388 00:20:08,582 --> 00:20:10,730 This is going to be a disaster today. 389 00:20:12,230 --> 00:20:13,890 Good luck, Ross. 390 00:20:14,630 --> 00:20:17,050 Good thing the Holy Spirit's with us, right? 391 00:20:24,870 --> 00:20:27,930 All right, here's what we got to do real quick. 392 00:20:28,630 --> 00:20:30,718 First, I'll tell you the map of the sermon. 393 00:20:30,814 --> 00:20:33,566 I'm going to put up the link to the sermon and the link to the 394 00:20:33,638 --> 00:20:35,966 preparation documents on Church Center. 395 00:20:35,998 --> 00:20:39,160 It'll be on the homepage so you can dive in more. 396 00:20:39,940 --> 00:20:41,548 This is 11 pages here. 397 00:20:41,604 --> 00:20:42,828 We're not getting to it. 398 00:20:42,884 --> 00:20:44,000 It'll be okay. 399 00:20:44,340 --> 00:20:45,920 It'll be okay, Ross. 400 00:20:47,380 --> 00:20:49,980 So first of all, some. 401 00:20:50,100 --> 00:20:53,852 Let's talk about the one thing I'll try to give you a little bit 402 00:20:53,876 --> 00:20:54,440 of. 403 00:20:55,060 --> 00:20:56,140 I don't even like this. 404 00:20:56,180 --> 00:20:58,960 I don't even like this because it doesn't do any of this justice. 405 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:04,780 Jesus frees us from our greatest fear and restores the world 406 00:21:04,820 --> 00:21:08,822 by dethroning and defeating the enemy that humankind created. 407 00:21:08,996 --> 00:21:09,710 Death. 408 00:21:11,370 --> 00:21:15,730 If I had to try my darndest to sum up what the New Testament has 409 00:21:15,770 --> 00:21:19,550 to say, that's it. 410 00:21:23,690 --> 00:21:26,550 This is the sense in which he dies for our sins. 411 00:21:28,090 --> 00:21:32,338 God's beautiful creation has become what it is as a result of 412 00:21:32,394 --> 00:21:34,790 generations of human free choice. 413 00:21:35,930 --> 00:21:39,970 And so if anyone should make great sacrifices to free the world 414 00:21:40,010 --> 00:21:42,910 and restore it, it should be humankind who does it. 415 00:21:44,250 --> 00:21:48,990 Kind of like you made your bed, now you lie in it, right? 416 00:21:51,370 --> 00:21:54,950 It's humans who are writing bad check after bad check. 417 00:21:56,570 --> 00:21:59,794 There are insufficient funds in the bank accounts of our hearts, 418 00:21:59,842 --> 00:22:01,670 and yet we keep on writing. 419 00:22:04,190 --> 00:22:07,062 The truth is that humans are now powerless to restore what has 420 00:22:07,086 --> 00:22:07,478 been lost. 421 00:22:07,534 --> 00:22:10,490 We need a power and glory so much better than ourselves. 422 00:22:11,150 --> 00:22:15,810 Isn't it wonderful that Jesus comes along to be that? 423 00:22:18,190 --> 00:22:21,010 God comes along like it's a jubilee year. 424 00:22:21,790 --> 00:22:25,078 If you don't know what that is in the Old Testament, it's this old 425 00:22:25,134 --> 00:22:25,750 instruction. 426 00:22:25,830 --> 00:22:29,462 God gave people that about every 49, 50 years, you free every 427 00:22:29,486 --> 00:22:30,570 one of their debts. 428 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:37,864 If you've got a debt forgiven, if you're enslaved to somebody nearby 429 00:22:37,912 --> 00:22:39,112 because you owe him a debt. 430 00:22:39,176 --> 00:22:42,952 Release the slave, reset the entire society. 431 00:22:43,016 --> 00:22:43,944 Jesus comes along. 432 00:22:44,032 --> 00:22:46,100 It's a big old fat jubilee year. 433 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,360 It's what he announces in Luke 4. 434 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,032 He said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me to preach good news 435 00:22:51,056 --> 00:22:53,864 to the poor, recovery of sight, to the blind, release of the 436 00:22:53,872 --> 00:22:56,792 captives and let the oppressed go free to proclaim the year of the 437 00:22:56,816 --> 00:22:57,512 Lord's favor. 438 00:22:57,576 --> 00:22:59,648 That is the jubilee year. 439 00:22:59,784 --> 00:23:04,032 God comes along and says, I've decided to release every one of their 440 00:23:04,056 --> 00:23:09,200 debts and the charges related to all those bad checks and fraud. 441 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:09,940 Dad. 442 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:11,104 Dad hasn't. 443 00:23:11,152 --> 00:23:12,144 He's not a fraud guy. 444 00:23:12,192 --> 00:23:15,152 But I just love my father. 445 00:23:15,216 --> 00:23:17,420 It's good news and I want to tell him about it. 446 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,780 I've come to set people free from prisons they didn't choose. 447 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:27,140 And also the prisons they built themselves brick by brick. 448 00:23:28,900 --> 00:23:30,560 I have come to heal. 449 00:23:31,540 --> 00:23:36,732 I have come to be oppressed with them and to liberate them. 450 00:23:36,916 --> 00:23:41,480 I have decided to do this because it's who I am. 451 00:23:43,140 --> 00:23:44,840 That's the one thing for today. 452 00:23:45,140 --> 00:23:46,920 That's not a one thing, is it? 453 00:23:49,220 --> 00:23:51,240 Jesus comes to free us. 454 00:23:51,620 --> 00:23:52,742 I told you. 455 00:23:52,876 --> 00:23:56,626 The same word for forgiveness and release in the New Testament 456 00:23:56,658 --> 00:23:58,150 is the same Greek word. 457 00:23:58,810 --> 00:24:03,070 He is releasing us from these powers that are destroying the world. 458 00:24:03,610 --> 00:24:07,986 He comes to take on this great enemy, death, that we've created. 459 00:24:08,018 --> 00:24:12,770 The entire New Testament create treats death like it's a person, 460 00:24:12,890 --> 00:24:13,954 like it's an enemy. 461 00:24:14,002 --> 00:24:17,010 I've told you, Star wars has done a better job. 462 00:24:17,050 --> 00:24:18,448 Or Lord of the Rings. 463 00:24:18,634 --> 00:24:20,036 Anyone like Lord of the Rings? 464 00:24:20,068 --> 00:24:21,524 I'm sorry, I keep referencing it. 465 00:24:21,612 --> 00:24:22,820 Anyone have no idea. 466 00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:25,300 Like they've never seen it and they're never going to see it. 467 00:24:25,420 --> 00:24:26,164 Okay? 468 00:24:26,292 --> 00:24:27,812 Just trust me on this. 469 00:24:27,916 --> 00:24:32,116 There's this amazing scene where this guy named Gandalf fights 470 00:24:32,148 --> 00:24:33,796 this thing called a Bullrog. 471 00:24:33,908 --> 00:24:35,600 Just go YouTube it later. 472 00:24:35,980 --> 00:24:37,876 You don't even have to see any of the movies. 473 00:24:37,908 --> 00:24:38,404 But there's. 474 00:24:38,452 --> 00:24:40,200 It's epic, isn't it, Natalie? 475 00:24:41,180 --> 00:24:41,748 And he. 476 00:24:41,804 --> 00:24:42,388 What is he? 477 00:24:42,444 --> 00:24:44,800 Charles is mouthing it right back there. 478 00:24:45,310 --> 00:24:49,542 He's got all his friends, Gandalf, have passed this chasm and 479 00:24:49,566 --> 00:24:52,774 this bull Rog, this big ancient demon is chasing them. 480 00:24:52,862 --> 00:24:56,598 And the friends go on and he turns around and he looks this bullrog 481 00:24:56,614 --> 00:24:57,078 in the face. 482 00:24:57,134 --> 00:24:58,246 It's huge and fiery. 483 00:24:58,278 --> 00:25:00,710 It looks like Satan and a freaking demon. 484 00:25:00,790 --> 00:25:01,718 It's crazy. 485 00:25:01,814 --> 00:25:05,334 And he takes his staff and goes boom. 486 00:25:05,382 --> 00:25:06,530 And says, what? 487 00:25:08,030 --> 00:25:09,206 Come on, louder. 488 00:25:09,238 --> 00:25:10,370 People who know it. 489 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:14,720 And he. 490 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:15,264 He. 491 00:25:15,352 --> 00:25:20,736 You think he beats it and then this bull rock falls down deep, deep, 492 00:25:20,768 --> 00:25:21,216 deep. 493 00:25:21,328 --> 00:25:25,680 And he's got this fiery lasso and he gets Gandalf by the leg and 494 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:32,000 drags Gandalf down with him and he fights him and he comes back 495 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,580 as Gandalf the White. 496 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:36,160 Sorry, spoiler alert. 497 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,940 If you didn't see it by now, it's been out for a little while. 498 00:25:42,300 --> 00:25:44,320 Jesus is like that. 499 00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:49,920 He doesn't just die to do a transaction for you. 500 00:25:50,780 --> 00:25:55,716 He comes to fight that bull rug for you and free you and teach 501 00:25:55,748 --> 00:25:55,940 you. 502 00:25:55,980 --> 00:26:00,000 You have nothing to fear, because I am with you. 503 00:26:01,420 --> 00:26:07,280 I will fight the enemy, even the enemies you have created. 504 00:26:07,780 --> 00:26:10,492 I will free you from the prisons that you've been placed in, 505 00:26:10,516 --> 00:26:11,708 that you did not earn. 506 00:26:11,804 --> 00:26:14,716 And I'll also free you from the prison that you built, brick 507 00:26:14,748 --> 00:26:15,600 by brick. 508 00:26:16,020 --> 00:26:18,620 I hold the keys of death and Hades in my hand. 509 00:26:18,660 --> 00:26:20,200 As Revelation says. 510 00:26:21,700 --> 00:26:23,292 That's the sermon in a nutshell. 511 00:26:23,356 --> 00:26:25,116 Wait, we're almost out of time already. 512 00:26:25,268 --> 00:26:25,644 Shoot. 513 00:26:25,692 --> 00:26:27,040 Maybe I should just quit. 514 00:26:28,900 --> 00:26:30,204 Listen really quick. 515 00:26:30,292 --> 00:26:31,640 Here's what we're going to do. 516 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,688 Going to give you a little context of why all this stuff about 517 00:26:34,744 --> 00:26:35,024 blood. 518 00:26:35,072 --> 00:26:36,900 We're going to do that in about three minutes. 519 00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:39,136 It's real fast. 520 00:26:39,168 --> 00:26:41,140 We're going to the Old Testament, three minutes. 521 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,128 The suffering servant in one minute. 522 00:26:44,224 --> 00:26:46,880 And then we're going to get to this stuff about death in about five. 523 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:47,776 So I need 10 minutes. 524 00:26:47,808 --> 00:26:48,432 I'm going to do this. 525 00:26:48,456 --> 00:26:49,968 We're going to crush it right now. 526 00:26:50,024 --> 00:26:50,992 Let's go. 527 00:26:51,176 --> 00:26:52,608 Marnie, you ready? 528 00:26:52,784 --> 00:26:54,140 Okay, let's go. 529 00:26:56,850 --> 00:26:58,554 There's a lot about death in the Bible. 530 00:26:58,602 --> 00:27:01,514 There's two context things like why, if you read the Bible and 531 00:27:01,522 --> 00:27:03,466 you read the New Testament, you're like, there's all this stuff 532 00:27:03,498 --> 00:27:05,754 about blood and sacrificing animals. 533 00:27:05,802 --> 00:27:07,066 It's hard for us to understand. 534 00:27:07,218 --> 00:27:10,042 In a thousand years, we'll be like, why was everyone carrying around 535 00:27:10,146 --> 00:27:13,546 a small computer and all the time and just had their face buried 536 00:27:13,578 --> 00:27:14,310 in it? 537 00:27:16,290 --> 00:27:19,754 Well, we read back to their time and it's like, hey, Bill, what 538 00:27:19,762 --> 00:27:20,298 are you doing today? 539 00:27:20,354 --> 00:27:21,914 I'm going to go to the temple and sacrifice. 540 00:27:21,962 --> 00:27:22,218 Go. 541 00:27:22,274 --> 00:27:22,922 Oh, yeah, me too. 542 00:27:22,946 --> 00:27:23,984 I'm going at 3:00. 543 00:27:24,082 --> 00:27:25,092 Maybe I'll see you. 544 00:27:25,196 --> 00:27:26,240 That's how it was. 545 00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:30,324 And they didn't have to ask questions about why Bill was sacrificing 546 00:27:30,372 --> 00:27:30,804 a goat. 547 00:27:30,852 --> 00:27:32,080 Everybody did it. 548 00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:39,044 So there was this idea that here's from a book called Leviticus, 549 00:27:39,092 --> 00:27:41,316 Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, third book in the Bible. 550 00:27:41,348 --> 00:27:42,116 It's in the Torah. 551 00:27:42,148 --> 00:27:42,500 It's called. 552 00:27:42,540 --> 00:27:44,600 It's a Hebrew word that means instruction. 553 00:27:45,740 --> 00:27:48,548 If it is the Entire Israelite community that has done something 554 00:27:48,604 --> 00:27:51,956 wrong unintentionally, and the deed escapes the assembly's notice, 555 00:27:51,988 --> 00:27:54,404 but they've done something that shouldn't be done in violations 556 00:27:54,452 --> 00:27:56,980 of the Lord's command, becoming guilty, guilty of sin. 557 00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,984 Once that sin, they begin and becomes known. 558 00:28:00,152 --> 00:28:03,184 The assembly must present a bull from the herd as purification 559 00:28:03,232 --> 00:28:04,100 offering. 560 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:05,700 Whoop. 561 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,592 They will bring it before the meeting tent. 562 00:28:10,736 --> 00:28:13,312 The community elders will press their hands on the bull's head 563 00:28:13,336 --> 00:28:15,648 before the Lord and then slaughter it before the Lord. 564 00:28:15,744 --> 00:28:17,460 Did I tell you the Bible's weird? 565 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,020 Weird, right? 566 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,680 Hey, in a thousand years, they'll be like, all these people 567 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:23,952 were carrying around small commuters and computers and just 568 00:28:23,976 --> 00:28:25,016 staring at it. 569 00:28:25,208 --> 00:28:27,544 They'd be with people and just staring at it. 570 00:28:27,712 --> 00:28:28,540 Weird. 571 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,744 The anointed priest will take some of the bull's blood into the 572 00:28:32,752 --> 00:28:33,720 meeting tent. 573 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,680 The priest will dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it seven 574 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,460 times before the Lord toward the inner curtain. 575 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,540 What in the world is going on? 576 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:45,736 We got. 577 00:28:45,808 --> 00:28:46,980 There's no time. 578 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:52,110 We need 14 Sundays in a row, then another 14. 579 00:28:53,370 --> 00:28:57,230 Here's the only thing that I can tell you first. 580 00:28:57,690 --> 00:29:02,978 In the ancient view, not just Israelites, Jews, blood was seen 581 00:29:03,034 --> 00:29:05,910 as weirdly, paradoxically, as unclean. 582 00:29:06,650 --> 00:29:08,674 So if you touched it, you were, like, unclean. 583 00:29:08,722 --> 00:29:12,550 But also it was unclean because it was so sacred and holy 584 00:29:14,890 --> 00:29:17,310 blood was the life force within a thing. 585 00:29:18,460 --> 00:29:20,880 So at a purifying kind of power. 586 00:29:21,980 --> 00:29:23,204 So that's the context. 587 00:29:23,252 --> 00:29:24,036 Point number one. 588 00:29:24,108 --> 00:29:28,052 Number two, with these sacrifices, you see two things at 589 00:29:28,076 --> 00:29:30,600 work, accountability and atonement. 590 00:29:32,380 --> 00:29:36,160 If it was working well, not all religion works well, right? 591 00:29:37,020 --> 00:29:42,532 But if it was working right, if you sacrificed an animal, it would 592 00:29:42,556 --> 00:29:44,400 be a sobering experience. 593 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,600 It could remind you, like, there are consequences for what we 594 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:50,220 do. 595 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,672 It could be a sobering experience, really sobering for the 596 00:29:54,696 --> 00:29:55,700 poor animal. 597 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,152 But hopefully for you also, like, hey, even the deeds that you 598 00:29:59,176 --> 00:30:01,860 think go unnoticed, there are consequences. 599 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,216 You may think nobody else saw them, God saw them. 600 00:30:05,288 --> 00:30:07,232 And the harm you may think is not happening. 601 00:30:07,296 --> 00:30:08,140 It might. 602 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,252 So there was an accountability aspect to this system, but also there 603 00:30:13,276 --> 00:30:15,172 was an atoning aspect for it. 604 00:30:15,276 --> 00:30:16,420 They believed that in. 605 00:30:16,460 --> 00:30:21,204 So, like, on the day of atonement, Yom Kippur, still celebrated 606 00:30:21,252 --> 00:30:24,692 by our Jewish brothers and sisters to this day, it was a day 607 00:30:24,716 --> 00:30:28,148 of atonement, where in some way you were doing something with 608 00:30:28,204 --> 00:30:30,868 God in your community to make up for all the. 609 00:30:30,924 --> 00:30:33,040 All these bad choices you had made. 610 00:30:35,180 --> 00:30:38,840 That's in the background, that's in the context. 611 00:30:41,470 --> 00:30:42,150 We did it. 612 00:30:42,190 --> 00:30:44,370 I think that was three minutes, was It. 613 00:30:45,950 --> 00:30:46,822 I don't know. 614 00:30:46,926 --> 00:30:50,050 Listen, here's the second point. 615 00:30:50,350 --> 00:30:52,934 It gets mixed together all the time. 616 00:30:53,102 --> 00:30:54,886 Sorry, if you're falling asleep, hang with me. 617 00:30:54,958 --> 00:30:56,630 It gets mixed together all the time. 618 00:30:56,670 --> 00:30:59,814 There's this other thing that has to do with blood of animals, 619 00:30:59,862 --> 00:31:01,110 but it's not the same thing. 620 00:31:01,150 --> 00:31:02,102 It's called Passover. 621 00:31:02,166 --> 00:31:03,250 Have you heard of it? 622 00:31:04,110 --> 00:31:08,390 On Jesus's last supper, he's eating a Passover meal. 623 00:31:09,530 --> 00:31:13,470 The blood there is not the same as the blood here. 624 00:31:13,930 --> 00:31:16,670 It gets mixed together and the church always has. 625 00:31:18,570 --> 00:31:24,562 The Passover story has to do with the Israelites being freed from 626 00:31:24,586 --> 00:31:28,150 the evil and slavery of Egypt. 627 00:31:28,890 --> 00:31:34,780 So in this story, it's really kind of scary and not exciting and 628 00:31:34,820 --> 00:31:37,000 it'll make you kind of squirm a bit. 629 00:31:37,860 --> 00:31:41,532 Moses called together all Israel elders and said to them, go 630 00:31:41,556 --> 00:31:44,972 pick out one of the flock for your families and slaughter the Passover 631 00:31:45,036 --> 00:31:45,680 lamb. 632 00:31:46,180 --> 00:31:48,716 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood that is in the bowl, 633 00:31:48,748 --> 00:31:51,164 and touch the beam above the door and the two doorposts with the 634 00:31:51,172 --> 00:31:51,724 blood in the bowl. 635 00:31:51,772 --> 00:31:55,132 None of you should go out the door of your morning or until the 636 00:31:55,156 --> 00:31:59,280 morning, because the Lord's going to strike down the Egyptians. 637 00:32:00,590 --> 00:32:01,450 Ugh. 638 00:32:02,430 --> 00:32:03,206 Bible's weird. 639 00:32:03,238 --> 00:32:04,210 Did I tell you? 640 00:32:06,110 --> 00:32:10,330 When he sees that blood he'll pass over that door. 641 00:32:11,950 --> 00:32:15,730 He won't let the destroyer into your houses to strike you down. 642 00:32:17,630 --> 00:32:20,582 You should observe this ritual as a regulation for all time for 643 00:32:20,606 --> 00:32:21,382 your children. 644 00:32:21,566 --> 00:32:25,462 The Passover blood is about escaping from slavery and evil and 645 00:32:25,486 --> 00:32:26,050 death. 646 00:32:26,620 --> 00:32:28,200 It's not atonement. 647 00:32:28,700 --> 00:32:30,580 Those are the two context things. 648 00:32:30,620 --> 00:32:35,012 You see, when people thought about Jesus's death in the New Testament, 649 00:32:35,076 --> 00:32:36,560 we had to do that quick. 650 00:32:37,340 --> 00:32:40,916 So when you see blood in the New Testament, the people in Jesus's 651 00:32:40,948 --> 00:32:42,800 time were thinking about these things. 652 00:32:43,740 --> 00:32:44,532 And yet. 653 00:32:44,636 --> 00:32:46,800 Okay, I'm so glad we're done with this part. 654 00:32:47,180 --> 00:32:51,360 It's so, so, so much more. 655 00:32:52,630 --> 00:32:53,438 So much more. 656 00:32:53,494 --> 00:32:56,766 You know how I know this guy named Amos. 657 00:32:56,958 --> 00:32:58,290 He's a prophet. 658 00:32:59,430 --> 00:33:01,582 This is God from the voice of Amos. 659 00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:02,446 I hate. 660 00:33:02,558 --> 00:33:04,046 I reject your festivals. 661 00:33:04,078 --> 00:33:06,610 I don't enjoy your joyous assemblies. 662 00:33:07,830 --> 00:33:10,862 If you bring me your entirely burned offerings and gifts of food, 663 00:33:10,886 --> 00:33:11,774 I won't be pleased. 664 00:33:11,822 --> 00:33:14,850 I won't even look at your offerings of well fed animals. 665 00:33:15,670 --> 00:33:17,486 Take the noise away from your songs. 666 00:33:17,518 --> 00:33:19,570 I won't listen to the melody of your harps. 667 00:33:21,940 --> 00:33:24,440 But let justice roll down like. 668 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:26,492 Are you with me? 669 00:33:26,516 --> 00:33:30,920 But let justice roll down like in righteousness, like in. 670 00:33:31,620 --> 00:33:33,560 God wants something more. 671 00:33:34,020 --> 00:33:38,640 Not blood of animals, not just Passover. 672 00:33:39,060 --> 00:33:42,652 God wants justice to roll down like waters and righteousness like 673 00:33:42,676 --> 00:33:43,820 an ever flowing stream. 674 00:33:43,900 --> 00:33:46,140 So it's bigger than those systems of old. 675 00:33:46,180 --> 00:33:47,480 It doesn't erase them. 676 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,072 And that's why this. 677 00:33:52,176 --> 00:33:54,860 We can't shriek down salvation folks. 678 00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:01,752 If you just make it that Jesus is some sacrifice for our sins so 679 00:34:01,776 --> 00:34:03,272 we can go to heaven and not hell. 680 00:34:03,336 --> 00:34:08,260 We have missed the mark big, big time. 681 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:16,860 Let me show you instead this like big time. 682 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:19,936 Back to Gandalf. 683 00:34:20,128 --> 00:34:21,280 Let's see if you're still with me. 684 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,980 What does Gandalf say when he slams that staff down? 685 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:26,352 Come on. 686 00:34:26,456 --> 00:34:28,060 He doesn't say it like that. 687 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:29,600 He puts it down. 688 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:30,700 What does he say? 689 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:42,654 Jesus is like Gandalf saying, to death and evil and the sinfulness 690 00:34:42,702 --> 00:34:51,530 of humankind no more you shall not pass no more. 691 00:34:55,830 --> 00:34:59,290 Hebrews2.9 says it this way. 692 00:35:01,030 --> 00:35:05,214 However, we do see the one who is made lower in order than the angels 693 00:35:05,262 --> 00:35:06,078 for a little while. 694 00:35:06,134 --> 00:35:07,170 It's Jesus. 695 00:35:07,550 --> 00:35:10,470 He's the one who is now crowned with glory and honor because 696 00:35:10,510 --> 00:35:12,230 of the suffering of his death. 697 00:35:12,350 --> 00:35:16,950 He suffered death so that he could taste death for everyone through 698 00:35:16,990 --> 00:35:18,010 God's grace. 699 00:35:22,910 --> 00:35:24,054 Moving on. 700 00:35:24,222 --> 00:35:28,182 Therefore, since the children shared in flesh and blood, he also 701 00:35:28,206 --> 00:35:30,454 shared the same things in the same way. 702 00:35:30,622 --> 00:35:34,960 He did this to destroy the one who holds the power over death, the 703 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,144 devil, by dying. 704 00:35:36,272 --> 00:35:37,616 I'm not making this up. 705 00:35:37,688 --> 00:35:40,420 It's like Jesus was fighting a bull rug when he died. 706 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:48,860 He took on death to face this enemy that is destroying us. 707 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,460 He tasted death to destroy it. 708 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:54,352 Yes. 709 00:35:54,496 --> 00:35:58,672 Look, it's just like something that the Bible makes clear that. 710 00:35:58,696 --> 00:35:59,696 Here's the mystery, folks. 711 00:35:59,728 --> 00:36:01,232 We're pressing up against our limitations. 712 00:36:01,296 --> 00:36:02,780 Do you feel confused right now? 713 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,088 Yeah, yeah. 714 00:36:07,264 --> 00:36:09,424 It's because we're pressing up against our limits. 715 00:36:09,552 --> 00:36:10,740 This is a mystery. 716 00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:14,512 The Bible says Jesus in his death was doing something for us 717 00:36:14,536 --> 00:36:15,920 we could not do on our own. 718 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,940 If you know nothing else but that, that's good enough. 719 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,272 At the end of the day, we're going to have to trust that I can 720 00:36:22,296 --> 00:36:23,856 sit up here and explain all day. 721 00:36:23,928 --> 00:36:25,740 I can show you all the research. 722 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,742 We could stay here until 2:00. 723 00:36:28,936 --> 00:36:30,938 We can't because we have a birthday party at home today. 724 00:36:30,994 --> 00:36:31,482 Good for you. 725 00:36:31,506 --> 00:36:36,442 Because I would be tempted to do it, but even then I could give 726 00:36:36,466 --> 00:36:39,402 you all the stuff and you'd still be like, hold on, can we go 727 00:36:39,426 --> 00:36:39,706 back? 728 00:36:39,778 --> 00:36:40,910 I'm confused. 729 00:36:42,210 --> 00:36:45,354 The Bible's main testimony is that Jesus has done something for 730 00:36:45,362 --> 00:36:47,162 us that we could not do on our own. 731 00:36:47,346 --> 00:36:50,170 He is the power and glory greater than us that we need to be 732 00:36:50,210 --> 00:36:50,830 saved. 733 00:36:55,500 --> 00:36:57,156 That's basically the thing. 734 00:36:57,308 --> 00:37:00,692 But the new like, why is death the mechanism? 735 00:37:00,756 --> 00:37:01,720 Ultimately? 736 00:37:02,940 --> 00:37:06,276 Because death has entered this world as an enemy that wasn't supposed 737 00:37:06,308 --> 00:37:07,200 to be here. 738 00:37:09,980 --> 00:37:11,700 The Bible says that like over and again. 739 00:37:11,740 --> 00:37:12,132 It's a. 740 00:37:12,156 --> 00:37:15,080 It's an enemy that we created by our choices. 741 00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:18,612 So if anybody should be making great sacrifices to destroy this 742 00:37:18,636 --> 00:37:20,020 enemy, it should be humankind. 743 00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:21,856 And yet humankind can't do it. 744 00:37:21,948 --> 00:37:26,620 And so Jesus sacrifices himself for us to destroy this enemy. 745 00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:31,900 Someone's at my front door. 746 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,024 Come on, Ring. 747 00:37:34,072 --> 00:37:34,696 Not right now. 748 00:37:34,768 --> 00:37:35,528 I don't have time. 749 00:37:35,584 --> 00:37:36,820 I don't have time for this. 750 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:44,420 Look, he shared the same things we did. 751 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,344 This is what Philippians and Colossians. 752 00:37:48,392 --> 00:37:49,736 All this stuff is about these hymns. 753 00:37:49,768 --> 00:37:50,740 Like he. 754 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,212 He emptied himself and became obedient. 755 00:37:53,356 --> 00:37:55,596 Obedient to the point of death on a cross. 756 00:37:55,788 --> 00:37:56,572 Why? 757 00:37:56,756 --> 00:37:57,948 So that he could come be. 758 00:37:58,004 --> 00:38:01,260 He would become a human with us and suffer not just for us, but 759 00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:02,200 with us. 760 00:38:03,060 --> 00:38:06,760 And take on this enemy that we just keep getting struck down by. 761 00:38:07,380 --> 00:38:08,764 And he destroys this. 762 00:38:08,852 --> 00:38:09,148 This. 763 00:38:09,204 --> 00:38:10,124 This enemy. 764 00:38:10,252 --> 00:38:11,960 That's how Hebrews says it. 765 00:38:12,340 --> 00:38:13,320 Look here. 766 00:38:14,340 --> 00:38:17,500 He did it so that there would be this transferring of allegiances 767 00:38:17,580 --> 00:38:17,884 note. 768 00:38:17,932 --> 00:38:21,400 So that death won't rule us anymore, but grace will rule. 769 00:38:23,100 --> 00:38:26,500 So instead of being like ruled by the forces of death and evil and 770 00:38:26,540 --> 00:38:30,372 sin, we're now transferred over to the rule of grace. 771 00:38:30,516 --> 00:38:32,640 That God's love rules everything. 772 00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:35,620 The power of God's love is stronger than the power of death. 773 00:38:35,660 --> 00:38:37,160 We have nothing to fear. 774 00:38:38,860 --> 00:38:39,732 That's why Paul. 775 00:38:39,796 --> 00:38:42,628 Hey, I told you Romans 5, it's all about that. 776 00:38:42,764 --> 00:38:43,508 While we were. 777 00:38:43,564 --> 00:38:45,120 Someone at my door again. 778 00:38:46,870 --> 00:38:49,822 While we were still weak at the right moment, Christ died for 779 00:38:49,846 --> 00:38:51,022 the ungodly people. 780 00:38:51,126 --> 00:38:54,494 He didn't do it to just say like, hey, Joanna, here. 781 00:38:54,662 --> 00:38:56,206 Here's a golden ticket to heaven. 782 00:38:56,238 --> 00:38:57,406 Just believe in me. 783 00:38:57,558 --> 00:39:00,174 I died like a lamb for your sins. 784 00:39:00,302 --> 00:39:01,278 You're atoned for. 785 00:39:01,334 --> 00:39:01,998 Go to heaven. 786 00:39:02,094 --> 00:39:04,930 No, no, it's so much bigger. 787 00:39:05,590 --> 00:39:09,214 Like Gandalf fighting that Bullrog, saying, no, death, evil, 788 00:39:09,262 --> 00:39:10,318 sin, you shall not pass. 789 00:39:10,374 --> 00:39:14,530 I'm freeing my people, freeing them. 790 00:39:15,630 --> 00:39:17,174 Death will be destroyed. 791 00:39:17,302 --> 00:39:20,710 While we were weak, Christ came and said, I'm going to free 792 00:39:20,750 --> 00:39:21,330 them. 793 00:39:27,070 --> 00:39:29,490 But God shows his love for us. 794 00:39:32,270 --> 00:39:33,766 You want a mystery? 795 00:39:33,958 --> 00:39:35,222 God shows his love for us. 796 00:39:35,246 --> 00:39:37,990 Because while we were still participating, we were like having 797 00:39:38,030 --> 00:39:42,010 our time in Vegas, participating in the powers of sin. 798 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,272 We were on the. 799 00:39:43,296 --> 00:39:44,488 We went to the dark side. 800 00:39:44,544 --> 00:39:46,180 We do it like every day. 801 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,728 I'm gonna go have my party time in Vegas. 802 00:39:48,824 --> 00:39:52,360 Because no, we're made to participate in the kingdom of light 803 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:53,260 and glory. 804 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,160 While we were over Here, participating in the dark side, having 805 00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:57,768 a good time. 806 00:39:57,824 --> 00:40:00,820 Jesus said, I love them so much and I want to liberate them. 807 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,380 But here's the mystery, huh? 808 00:40:07,690 --> 00:40:09,470 But God's mad at us, too. 809 00:40:10,170 --> 00:40:11,270 That's weird. 810 00:40:16,570 --> 00:40:17,714 Well, it's funny. 811 00:40:17,762 --> 00:40:18,386 We don't want God. 812 00:40:18,418 --> 00:40:19,346 I said it recently. 813 00:40:19,498 --> 00:40:21,270 We don't want God to have any rage. 814 00:40:21,930 --> 00:40:25,282 Any of you have any rage lately about how things are in the 815 00:40:25,306 --> 00:40:25,870 world? 816 00:40:26,650 --> 00:40:28,630 Anyone had any rage lately? 817 00:40:31,210 --> 00:40:34,802 I heard of a group that's somewhere out there in the ether 818 00:40:34,866 --> 00:40:38,830 that one of the adjectives to describe their group is raging. 819 00:40:42,130 --> 00:40:43,370 Raging is machine is. 820 00:40:43,410 --> 00:40:45,290 I listen to rage against machine all the time. 821 00:40:45,330 --> 00:40:50,950 PT they help me feel like I think. 822 00:40:51,810 --> 00:40:53,386 But we're like, no, God. 823 00:40:53,418 --> 00:40:54,750 You can't have any rage. 824 00:40:56,850 --> 00:41:01,284 God's got rage about what has gone wrong, and yet what does he 825 00:41:01,292 --> 00:41:02,480 choose to act on? 826 00:41:09,580 --> 00:41:11,524 That's what Romans 5 is about. 827 00:41:11,692 --> 00:41:14,400 Romans 6 also is about this. 828 00:41:14,780 --> 00:41:16,324 It's about this new rule. 829 00:41:16,372 --> 00:41:19,480 Like God says, I don't want my wrath even to rule. 830 00:41:20,460 --> 00:41:22,292 I'm not going to let my rage rule the day. 831 00:41:22,316 --> 00:41:23,028 But I'll tell you this. 832 00:41:23,084 --> 00:41:25,188 Death certainly isn't ruling anymore. 833 00:41:25,284 --> 00:41:27,462 The power of sin isn't ruling anymore. 834 00:41:27,596 --> 00:41:28,990 Grace rules now. 835 00:41:30,090 --> 00:41:31,270 Love rules. 836 00:41:33,530 --> 00:41:36,162 Romans 6 is all about that. 837 00:41:36,346 --> 00:41:39,458 It's about a change of allegiance, a change of power. 838 00:41:39,594 --> 00:41:43,590 Today we celebrate that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. 839 00:41:44,890 --> 00:41:47,990 Some of the powers of the day were like, look at this schmuck. 840 00:41:48,970 --> 00:41:55,460 This poor idiot from Nazareth is riding in here on a donkey and 841 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:56,724 people are hailing the king. 842 00:41:56,772 --> 00:41:58,200 Look at these idiots. 843 00:42:00,860 --> 00:42:03,320 And that's how Jesus does business, guys. 844 00:42:04,540 --> 00:42:08,520 What we think of as power, he thinks of as stupidity. 845 00:42:09,900 --> 00:42:11,040 And it is. 846 00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:16,916 He didn't come to do war with the king of Jerusalem. 847 00:42:16,948 --> 00:42:18,740 He couldn't care less about that guy. 848 00:42:18,820 --> 00:42:24,770 He came to do war with death and evil and sin. 849 00:42:25,590 --> 00:42:27,890 He came in there to start a rebellion. 850 00:42:29,110 --> 00:42:30,730 Do you want to be a part of it? 851 00:42:32,710 --> 00:42:35,294 Every time you choose love through love of God, you're part 852 00:42:35,302 --> 00:42:37,770 of a rebellion every time. 853 00:42:41,590 --> 00:42:45,748 Lastly, I can't believe it's happening right now. 854 00:42:45,854 --> 00:42:48,184 I'm truly to the end of this thing. 855 00:42:48,352 --> 00:42:52,472 I've skipped over, like, 98% of what's in this document. 856 00:42:52,616 --> 00:42:53,420 Exciting. 857 00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:02,504 Listen, if you want to know, like, this stuff is in here, guys. 858 00:43:02,552 --> 00:43:03,768 It's everywhere. 859 00:43:03,944 --> 00:43:04,660 Look. 860 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:06,620 Revelation. 861 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:11,272 Oh, no. 862 00:43:11,296 --> 00:43:12,264 I didn't get the right verse. 863 00:43:12,312 --> 00:43:12,940 Shoot. 864 00:43:13,630 --> 00:43:16,742 He says in Revelation 1:8 that, behold, I hold the keys to 865 00:43:16,766 --> 00:43:18,230 death in the underworld. 866 00:43:18,390 --> 00:43:21,930 Jesus is like, I've destroyed this enemy and now I rule. 867 00:43:23,150 --> 00:43:25,370 I have the keys to let you out of your prison. 868 00:43:26,350 --> 00:43:30,290 Step out, step out. 869 00:43:30,910 --> 00:43:31,702 Paul. 870 00:43:31,846 --> 00:43:33,410 First Corinthians 15. 871 00:43:35,390 --> 00:43:38,278 The Evangelical Church talked about Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul 872 00:43:38,294 --> 00:43:38,678 and Ms. 873 00:43:38,734 --> 00:43:39,370 Paul. 874 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:43,288 Paul says it everywhere. 875 00:43:43,384 --> 00:43:44,904 This is cosmic salvation. 876 00:43:44,952 --> 00:43:46,140 It's galactic. 877 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,640 It's a war against the kingdom of light and glory. 878 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,540 Like war against evil, death, darkness. 879 00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:55,080 Paul sees it this way. 880 00:43:55,120 --> 00:44:00,072 It's like when Christ died, he laid death in death's grave. 881 00:44:00,216 --> 00:44:03,940 Jesus and death went to the tomb and only one guy came out. 882 00:44:07,130 --> 00:44:10,450 Jesus and death went to the tomb and only one guy came out. 883 00:44:10,570 --> 00:44:11,710 It wasn't death. 884 00:44:13,770 --> 00:44:16,430 The whole Bible's view of salvation is like that. 885 00:44:17,130 --> 00:44:20,274 Jesus is the first crop of a new harvest. 886 00:44:20,322 --> 00:44:23,490 So when you garden with us this year and you see that first 887 00:44:23,530 --> 00:44:29,830 shoot out of the ground, think of Jesus as the first in a new creation 888 00:44:30,180 --> 00:44:32,200 that he says you can be a part of too. 889 00:44:34,580 --> 00:44:37,788 Paul says it this way, each event will happen in the right order. 890 00:44:37,844 --> 00:44:40,972 Christ, the first crop of the harvest, then those who belong to 891 00:44:40,996 --> 00:44:45,772 Christ at his coming, and then the end when Christ hands over the 892 00:44:45,796 --> 00:44:46,876 kingdom to God and the Father. 893 00:44:46,908 --> 00:44:50,200 When he brings every form, do you see how cosmic this is? 894 00:44:50,980 --> 00:44:54,924 When he brings every form of rule, every authority and power to 895 00:44:54,932 --> 00:44:55,260 an end. 896 00:44:55,300 --> 00:44:55,548 Why? 897 00:44:55,604 --> 00:44:56,800 Because God rules. 898 00:44:59,020 --> 00:45:01,480 This is not small, shrunk down salvation. 899 00:45:01,980 --> 00:45:03,280 It's big time. 900 00:45:07,500 --> 00:45:08,560 Look at that. 901 00:45:10,620 --> 00:45:11,204 J.K. 902 00:45:11,252 --> 00:45:14,532 rowling admitted she built the entire Harry Potter series off the 903 00:45:14,556 --> 00:45:15,720 Christian narrative. 904 00:45:16,860 --> 00:45:23,400 That's why this, this right here is on the grave of Harry's parents. 905 00:45:26,630 --> 00:45:30,250 Why does Harry go out there and fight Voldemort like he does? 906 00:45:30,710 --> 00:45:37,102 He's fighting death here, he gets killed and then he comes back 907 00:45:37,126 --> 00:45:37,854 to life. 908 00:45:38,022 --> 00:45:40,254 And Voldemort's oh, sorry, spoiler alert. 909 00:45:40,302 --> 00:45:41,630 This one's also been out for a while. 910 00:45:41,670 --> 00:45:48,110 So if you haven't seen it, Voldemort ultimately dies because 911 00:45:48,150 --> 00:45:49,930 he's death in a person. 912 00:45:50,660 --> 00:45:53,640 And Harry dies with him. 913 00:45:54,260 --> 00:46:00,492 But Harry rises because death is the last enemy to be brought to 914 00:46:00,516 --> 00:46:01,292 an end. 915 00:46:01,476 --> 00:46:02,892 This is the gospel. 916 00:46:03,036 --> 00:46:05,120 Jesus is a death destroyer. 917 00:46:09,700 --> 00:46:10,732 That's who Jesus is. 918 00:46:10,756 --> 00:46:11,900 He's a death destroyer. 919 00:46:11,980 --> 00:46:16,154 And that's why there's this big hymn at the end of First Corinthians 920 00:46:16,292 --> 00:46:19,006 that one day when everything is finished. 921 00:46:19,038 --> 00:46:22,510 Because it's not yet we're in the kingdom of heaven here now. 922 00:46:22,550 --> 00:46:23,370 Not yet. 923 00:46:23,910 --> 00:46:27,326 One day we're going to sing this song where death is swallowed 924 00:46:27,358 --> 00:46:27,694 up. 925 00:46:27,782 --> 00:46:30,010 It's a quote from Isaiah 25. 926 00:46:30,470 --> 00:46:32,446 All along the prophets knew it too. 927 00:46:32,518 --> 00:46:35,214 Like man, one day death is going to be swallowed up. 928 00:46:35,302 --> 00:46:37,326 Justice is going to roll down like waters. 929 00:46:37,438 --> 00:46:39,614 Righteousness like an ever flowing stream. 930 00:46:39,742 --> 00:46:42,126 Everything's going to be restored because God's going to swallow 931 00:46:42,158 --> 00:46:44,610 up death and make new life here on this earth. 932 00:46:44,930 --> 00:46:47,578 The knowledge of the Lord's glory will cover the earth as surely 933 00:46:47,594 --> 00:46:48,746 as the waters cover the sea. 934 00:46:48,778 --> 00:46:49,790 Habakkuk. 935 00:46:53,890 --> 00:46:56,350 One day we will sing this song. 936 00:46:58,290 --> 00:47:01,386 O Death, where is your victory? 937 00:47:01,578 --> 00:47:03,230 Death, where's your sting? 938 00:47:06,930 --> 00:47:08,714 I literally just finished the sermon. 939 00:47:08,762 --> 00:47:09,470 Boom. 940 00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:11,300 Let's go. 941 00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:18,536 I actually just have one more thing to tell you and then there's 942 00:47:18,568 --> 00:47:19,860 a question for you. 943 00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,020 Who cares? 944 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:25,860 Who cares about any of this? 945 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:29,060 Why does it matter? 946 00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,340 It goes back to this. 947 00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,384 What would you do if you ultimately had nothing to fear in 948 00:47:37,392 --> 00:47:38,180 your future? 949 00:47:42,900 --> 00:47:45,836 What if you knew or trusted completely that death ultimately 950 00:47:45,868 --> 00:47:47,720 has no power? 951 00:47:51,460 --> 00:47:54,796 If you believe completely that death will be destroyed and everything 952 00:47:54,868 --> 00:47:56,400 will be restored? 953 00:47:57,780 --> 00:47:59,000 What would you do? 954 00:48:01,380 --> 00:48:03,500 Jesus Invitation is clear. 955 00:48:03,620 --> 00:48:06,440 Stop fearing and become a death destroyer with me. 956 00:48:08,370 --> 00:48:11,338 Be a part of the kingdom of light and glory right here, right 957 00:48:11,394 --> 00:48:11,994 now. 958 00:48:12,162 --> 00:48:14,470 Don't participate in the kingdom of death. 959 00:48:14,930 --> 00:48:19,258 Don't participate in the way of self preservation that all humans 960 00:48:19,274 --> 00:48:20,790 are in the business of doing. 961 00:48:21,490 --> 00:48:25,310 Why are we all so darn ambitious, so greedy? 962 00:48:27,650 --> 00:48:29,550 We're trying to protect ourselves. 963 00:48:30,690 --> 00:48:32,270 Look, our ego. 964 00:48:32,590 --> 00:48:35,382 Our ego is a wonderful, beautiful thing that helped us to 965 00:48:35,406 --> 00:48:39,170 survive, but we can't keep hanging on to it. 966 00:48:39,790 --> 00:48:41,942 We're not meant to just survive. 967 00:48:42,006 --> 00:48:43,130 We're meant to thrive. 968 00:48:45,150 --> 00:48:49,570 Jesus is like, hey, I'm giving you power over that bull rug too. 969 00:48:50,510 --> 00:48:55,030 I'm putting the staff in your hand so you can slam it on the ground 970 00:48:55,070 --> 00:48:56,850 and say, what was it again? 971 00:48:58,280 --> 00:48:59,024 Come on. 972 00:48:59,112 --> 00:49:00,220 Better than that. 973 00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:07,696 Jesus is saying, get up in the morning and say you shall not pass, 974 00:49:07,768 --> 00:49:08,528 not today. 975 00:49:08,664 --> 00:49:12,560 And then when you get around your neighbors, advocate for them, 976 00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:18,860 walk with them and say, not here, not here, not here. 977 00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:20,980 Because I belong to the King. 978 00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:23,726 I belong to the King. 979 00:49:23,768 --> 00:49:24,914 King and death, destroyer. 980 00:49:24,962 --> 00:49:33,746 Jesus, it's 1050, so I can't ask you what's stirring in you. 981 00:49:33,818 --> 00:49:35,830 So let's pray. 982 00:49:38,890 --> 00:49:42,610 God, help us to know this mystery not in our minds, but in 983 00:49:42,650 --> 00:49:43,426 our hearts. 984 00:49:43,538 --> 00:49:46,962 We've pressed up against the limits of our knowledge and so help 985 00:49:46,986 --> 00:49:50,080 us not to get this by our knowledge, but by spirit. 986 00:49:53,060 --> 00:49:58,780 Help us to know the mystery of how you freed us and help us to walk 987 00:49:58,820 --> 00:50:04,572 with you in new life, in a new creation for your glory and for the 988 00:50:04,596 --> 00:50:05,788 glory of all things. 989 00:50:05,924 --> 00:50:08,160 In Jesus name, Amen. 990 00:50:11,460 --> 00:50:15,650 Thank you for participating in the conversation happening at Heaven 991 00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:17,358 Heaven Earth Church. 992 00:50:17,534 --> 00:50:23,210 Your next opportunity to do so live is this Sunday morning, 9:30am 993 00:50:23,910 --> 00:50:28,446 Eastern Time, either at the main campus at 309 East Main in Whiteland, 994 00:50:28,478 --> 00:50:32,718 Indiana, or online at YouTube Live. 995 00:50:32,854 --> 00:50:40,174 That's@YouTube.com heavenerthchurch the audio podcast 996 00:50:40,222 --> 00:50:45,998 is always available at Apple Podcast and on Spotify. 997 00:50:46,174 --> 00:50:50,702 You can help others find out about 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