WEBVTT 00:00:04.266 --> 00:00:07.732 Well, it's great to be together this morning as we celebrate Easter. 00:00:07.732 --> 00:00:16.065 Of course, the theme for today is “From Death to Life.” And that obviously is a big theme of Easter. 00:00:16.065 --> 00:00:20.399 But you experience this in other arenas of life as well. 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:23.365 You see this in, let's say, fashion. 00:00:23.365 --> 00:00:29.832 Okay, every 20 years or so you thought bellbottoms were dead and gone. Here they come back again. 00:00:29.832 --> 00:00:31.500 You see this in music? 00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:35.600 I thought we'd never hear“Can't Touch This” again after high school. 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:38.165 Here it comes back around every once in a while. 00:00:38.165 --> 00:00:41.165 You see this in hairstyles? 00:00:41.299 --> 00:00:43.732 There was a hairstyle that was... 00:00:43.732 --> 00:00:45.432 popular may not be the right word. 00:00:45.432 --> 00:00:49.500 It was around when I was in high school and it has come back around. 00:00:49.500 --> 00:00:51.165 You know it. You've heard about it. 00:00:51.165 --> 00:00:59.600 Some call it the Kentucky waterfall or the Missouri Compromise, maybe the Walmart Wolverine. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.966 You probably know it as the mullet, right? 00:01:02.966 --> 00:01:12.533 You've seen the mullet, now the mullet I was always impressed by because of the whole business in the front, party In the back aspect. 00:01:12.533 --> 00:01:14.766 You always knew that was true of the mullet. 00:01:14.766 --> 00:01:16.965 This guy, though, has taken it to a whole nother level now. 00:01:16.965 --> 00:01:23.332 It has artistic expression on the side, not just front and back, really enveloping the whole head. 00:01:23.332 --> 00:01:28.665 I think this guy, from what I understand, he's preparing for the national mullet competition. 00:01:29.433 --> 00:01:31.066 Yes, that's a real thing. 00:01:31.066 --> 00:01:34.433 In fact, they have a youth division as well. 00:01:34.433 --> 00:01:37.433 And so parents. 00:01:39.066 --> 00:01:40.365 There is hope. 00:01:40.365 --> 00:01:44.933 Start ‘em early, start ’em young, train up your child and who knows? 00:01:46.465 --> 00:01:50.865 We all have these things in the world we've experienced we thought were dead and gone. 00:01:50.865 --> 00:01:52.132 They come back around. 00:01:52.132 --> 00:01:54.332 That's kind of humorous, but what about when it's not? 00:01:55.865 --> 00:01:57.965 What about when you hope it comes back to life? 00:01:57.965 --> 00:02:00.665 And maybe it may not. 00:02:00.665 --> 00:02:03.500 Friend of mine lost his job recently. 00:02:03.500 --> 00:02:06.799 He thought he would be there the rest of his life. 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:08.665 What do I do now, John? 00:02:08.665 --> 00:02:10.765 What am I going to do? 00:02:10.765 --> 00:02:12.500 Will it come back around or not? 00:02:12.500 --> 00:02:15.133 Where am I going to go? 00:02:15.133 --> 00:02:17.400 What about a relationship? 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:18.699 Maybe there's a relationship. 00:02:18.699 --> 00:02:23.566 You thought that person would always be there for you no matter what. 00:02:23.665 --> 00:02:24.500 And now they're not. 00:02:24.500 --> 00:02:26.665 Maybe they've even betrayed you. 00:02:26.665 --> 00:02:27.832 What do you do? 00:02:27.832 --> 00:02:31.032 Will that relationship get healed again? 00:02:31.032 --> 00:02:34.566 Will life be breathed back into that relationship or not? 00:02:34.566 --> 00:02:37.366 Sometimes it's our health. 00:02:37.366 --> 00:02:39.099 You hit that certain age. 00:02:39.099 --> 00:02:48.265 One author has called it the end of invincibility, and you realize everything doesn't work like it used to. 00:02:48.265 --> 00:02:52.466 Will I be able to continue life like I thought I would? 00:02:52.466 --> 00:02:54.665 Or is that the end of the dream? 00:02:54.665 --> 00:02:56.500 Will life come back? 00:02:56.500 --> 00:03:03.332 You experience this theme in various realms of life, from death to life. 00:03:03.832 --> 00:03:10.366 And the greatest example of that historically is the death and life of Christ. 00:03:10.866 --> 00:03:15.665 He said in John chapter 11, I am the resurrection and the life. 00:03:15.665 --> 00:03:20.665 It's through him that we will experience life to its fullest. 00:03:20.665 --> 00:03:25.066 Now I know some struggle with this idea of resurrection. 00:03:25.066 --> 00:03:32.466 You mean to tell me that some dude 2000 years ago died, supposedly came back to life? 00:03:32.466 --> 00:03:36.000 And then now I'm supposed to trust in him to find my life? 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:36.699 What do you mean? 00:03:36.699 --> 00:03:37.733 I don't get all that. 00:03:37.733 --> 00:03:42.566 And listen, I understand that can be hard to put your mind around. 00:03:42.932 --> 00:03:48.932 And so this morning, what I want to talk about is four reasons why you can trust in the resurrection. 00:03:49.866 --> 00:03:53.633 Four reasons why you can believe in the resurrection. 00:03:53.633 --> 00:03:57.800 Four reasons why you can believe that his death did lead to life. 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:05.466 And in that you can find life and hope and peace and purpose and joy and everything you've longed for today. 00:04:05.466 --> 00:04:08.566 Now, to do that, I'm going to unpack this word life. 00:04:08.566 --> 00:04:13.032 We'll use that as an acronym to talk about these four things The letters L, I, F, & E. 00:04:13.032 --> 00:04:14.066 But I'm going to do it backwards. 00:04:14.066 --> 00:04:17.000 I'm going to do it in reverse because a lot of times you know how this works in life. 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:19.565 You've got to start at the end to know how you want to begin. 00:04:19.565 --> 00:04:22.833 So we're going to start at the end of the word life and start with the letter E. 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:28.000 And the letter E is all about the end of the story. 00:04:28.833 --> 00:04:37.033 This is one of the reasons why we can trust that the resurrection is true, because every single one of us is longing for the end of the story. 00:04:37.899 --> 00:04:48.333 Every good novel you've read, every great movie, it's all about a wonderful ending where everything is made right again because it was broken in the beginning. 00:04:48.333 --> 00:04:51.100 You see that over and over again. 00:04:51.100 --> 00:04:52.833 And of course, our story. 00:04:52.833 --> 00:04:57.533 If we go back to the beginning of the Bible, it began with perfection. 00:04:57.899 --> 00:05:02.266 Adam and Eve, created perfectly, placed in the garden. 00:05:02.266 --> 00:05:03.833 Everything was perfect. 00:05:03.833 --> 00:05:06.699 Anything they wanted to eat whenever was at their hands. 00:05:06.699 --> 00:05:11.165 They walked around naked all the time and weren't even aware of it. 00:05:11.165 --> 00:05:13.865 Which is maybe a loss in my estimation, but I don't. 00:05:13.865 --> 00:05:15.865 You process that however you need to. 00:05:15.865 --> 00:05:21.466 The point being, everything was perfect except for one thing. 00:05:21.466 --> 00:05:22.266 God said, there is. 00:05:22.266 --> 00:05:23.500 You can have everything in here. 00:05:23.500 --> 00:05:26.333 Everything except this one tree. 00:05:26.333 --> 00:05:29.333 Don't eat from it. 00:05:29.699 --> 00:05:32.132 Now you know how this works, right? 00:05:32.132 --> 00:05:36.365 Whenever someone you never wanted something ever in your life, you never had any interest at all. 00:05:36.365 --> 00:05:38.932 And someone says you can't have that. 00:05:38.932 --> 00:05:41.165 And now that's all you can think about. 00:05:41.165 --> 00:05:42.100 I gotta have that. 00:05:42.100 --> 00:05:45.000 Who are you to tell me I can't have that? 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.165 What, are you trying to keep something good from me? 00:05:47.165 --> 00:05:49.733 How dare you? 00:05:49.733 --> 00:05:52.300 Here's how this worked for me. 00:05:52.300 --> 00:05:55.266 I never wanted long hair in my life. 00:05:55.266 --> 00:05:56.165 Ever. 00:05:56.165 --> 00:05:58.966 No interest until I went to a high school. 00:05:58.966 --> 00:05:59.466 And they said. 00:05:59.466 --> 00:06:03.033 If your hair touches your collar, its got to be cut. That's not allowed. 00:06:04.233 --> 00:06:07.833 So here's how that turned out. 00:06:10.065 --> 00:06:12.432 I never wanted long hair. 00:06:12.432 --> 00:06:14.300 And guess what? 00:06:14.300 --> 00:06:22.399 I don't think that would make it into the mullet competition, by the way, I don't want to dishonor mullets by trying to claim that that is that good. 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:23.300 Here's what happened. 00:06:23.300 --> 00:06:27.365 Guess what happened in the summer after graduation? 00:06:27.466 --> 00:06:29.033 It's all cut off. 00:06:29.033 --> 00:06:29.899 Don't tell me. 00:06:29.899 --> 00:06:32.333 Who are you to tell me I can't have long hair? 00:06:32.333 --> 00:06:33.266 I don't even want long hair. 00:06:33.266 --> 00:06:36.033 But are you trying to keep something good from me? 00:06:36.033 --> 00:06:36.865 What are you trying to do? 00:06:36.865 --> 00:06:40.000 You're going to lay down the law in my life. 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:50.899 There's something inside of all of us that says don't you tell me! And Adam and Eve, from the very beginning said, God, we don't want your rule. 00:06:51.233 --> 00:06:54.065 Don't come in here telling us what we can and can't eat. 00:06:54.065 --> 00:06:56.165 And through that entered sin. 00:06:56.165 --> 00:06:59.399 Evil, suffering, grief. 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:00.966 It all came into the world. 00:07:00.966 --> 00:07:04.333 And since then, we've all longed for an end to the story. 00:07:04.333 --> 00:07:08.865 We have all longed for that thing that went wrong to be set right. 00:07:08.865 --> 00:07:15.065 The very fact that we are longing for that tells us that there's a solution out there somewhere. 00:07:15.065 --> 00:07:21.500 In fact, if you have a Bible, I want to point out that this solution, the hope was pointed out from the very beginning of the Bible. 00:07:21.500 --> 00:07:25.565 And look, if you don't have a Bible, the page numbers that are going to be on the screen, we're going to be in Genesis. 00:07:25.565 --> 00:07:27.932 We're going to go right to the beginning of the Bible. 00:07:27.932 --> 00:07:30.300 If you don't have a Bible, we'd love to put one in your hands. 00:07:30.300 --> 00:07:31.632 Just raise your hand where you are. 00:07:31.632 --> 00:07:33.365 We have people who are around you. 00:07:33.365 --> 00:07:37.132 The page numbers on the screen are going to match the page numbers in that Bible. 00:07:37.132 --> 00:07:38.266 We'll put one in your hands. 00:07:38.266 --> 00:07:40.399 You can keep that or you can return it whatever you want. 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:41.300 That's our gift to you. 00:07:41.300 --> 00:07:42.432 But just raise your hands where you are. 00:07:42.432 --> 00:07:47.800 There's some guys wandering around with Bibles, and if we run out, we'll go and grab more. 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:49.300 But we're going to be reading from the Bible. 00:07:49.300 --> 00:07:51.233 Will be in Genesis chapter three. 00:07:51.233 --> 00:07:55.266 Genesis is the first book of the Bible, so it's just a couple of pages. 00:07:55.266 --> 00:07:57.766 Page three, its probably page three in all of our Bibles. 00:07:59.132 --> 00:08:10.266 Genesis three Adam and Eve sin and God says things are going to be different and he gives them correction. 00:08:10.266 --> 00:08:11.033 Adam, Eve. 00:08:11.033 --> 00:08:13.665 But also the serpent, also Satan. 00:08:13.665 --> 00:08:20.665 And look at verse 15, because here's what he says will happen, because in his correction he also gives hope. 00:08:20.665 --> 00:08:31.565 15, I will put enmity or strife between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. 00:08:31.865 --> 00:08:37.466 There will be tension between the... [experiencing technical difficulties] Yes. 00:08:37.466 --> 00:08:38.932 His followers. 00:08:38.932 --> 00:08:39.732 They will. 00:08:39.732 --> 00:08:41.432 They'll mess up. 00:08:41.432 --> 00:08:51.500 In fact, I think 99.9% of people who have wronged me, who have hurt me in some way, have all been American. 00:08:51.500 --> 00:08:53.732 Almost all of them. 00:08:53.732 --> 00:09:00.033 In fact, it all started with beady eyed little Timmy when I was four years old, and he grabbed my plastic machine gun and broke it over his knee. 00:09:00.033 --> 00:09:07.566 He was American, but yet I don't now hate America and swear off all Americans and friendships. 00:09:07.566 --> 00:09:07.765 No. 00:09:07.765 --> 00:09:10.865 Look, I recognize that I still love this country. 00:09:10.865 --> 00:09:14.799 I love America, and yet we're not perfect. 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:15.666 We mess up. 00:09:15.666 --> 00:09:17.100 We hurt one another. 00:09:18.466 --> 00:09:21.466 But Jesus is true. 00:09:21.666 --> 00:09:24.332 He is perfectly true. 00:09:24.332 --> 00:09:27.066 And his death and resurrection is something you can trust. 00:09:27.066 --> 00:09:30.432 And I want to point to a passage in First Corinthians 15. 00:09:30.432 --> 00:09:35.533 This is a great testimony to the truth of his death and life and resurrection. 00:09:35.533 --> 00:09:39.332 And I know for not everyone, this doesn't answer every question you have. 00:09:39.332 --> 00:09:44.299 It's not meant to in a short message, to answer every question you have about the truth of Jesus. 00:09:44.299 --> 00:09:48.365 But this is one data point to put in the mix as you're processing. 00:09:48.365 --> 00:09:51.200 Who is he and what does he mean for my life? 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:56.033 First Corinthians 15 Paul is writing to a city in ancient Greece. 00:09:56.033 --> 00:10:03.166 Paul wrote a large portion of the New Testament, and he was writing letters to people who were trying to follow Jesus, and he was trying to give them direction. 00:10:03.166 --> 00:10:05.100 And here's what he says in verse one. 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:12.533 Now, I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you. 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.166 You may have heard that word gospel before. 00:10:15.166 --> 00:10:18.365 We'll use that a lot in church, the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:10:18.365 --> 00:10:21.432 That word gospel just means good news. 00:10:22.633 --> 00:10:28.832 If you need rescuing, if you're in trouble, you don't just want good advice. 00:10:30.166 --> 00:10:32.100 That's what many people think the Bible is about. 00:10:32.100 --> 00:10:33.765 It's just full of good advice. 00:10:33.765 --> 00:10:37.500 There is good advice in the Bible, but when I need rescuing, I don't want good advice. 00:10:37.500 --> 00:10:39.232 I want good news. 00:10:39.232 --> 00:10:41.932 I want to know that a rescuer is coming. 00:10:41.932 --> 00:10:49.133 That's good news [experiencing technical difficulties] And letter I gives us the third reason why we can trust in the resurrection. 00:10:49.133 --> 00:10:52.133 Irresistible hope. 00:10:52.166 --> 00:10:55.033 Irresistible hope. 00:10:55.033 --> 00:10:57.865 What are you going to do with your regrets? 00:10:59.500 --> 00:11:00.600 You've got them. 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:01.432 I've got them. 00:11:01.432 --> 00:11:04.100 What are you going to do with your guilt? 00:11:04.100 --> 00:11:06.799 How do you deal with your shame? 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:09.200 Things you wish you would have done differently. 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:11.533 What are you going to do about your anxieties and fears? 00:11:11.533 --> 00:11:14.533 How will you deal with those? 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:17.232 I heard about an interview recently with a young actress. 00:11:17.232 --> 00:11:25.166 She was working on a film with Tom Cruise, and of course, Tom Cruise, super confident, actor, seems to have no fears. 00:11:25.166 --> 00:11:31.700 And she was really struggling with a few things on set, and she came to him and said, what do I do with my fear about this thing? 00:11:31.700 --> 00:11:32.466 How do I deal with it? 00:11:32.466 --> 00:11:33.500 You seem so confident. 00:11:33.500 --> 00:11:35.832 Do you have any advice? 00:11:35.832 --> 00:11:39.000 Tom Cruise said, here's what I do when I have a fear. 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:44.600 When I fear something, I stare right at it and I stare at it until I learn something about it. 00:11:46.832 --> 00:11:47.832 Okay, Tom, thanks. 00:11:47.832 --> 00:11:49.932 That's helpful, I appreciate it. 00:11:49.932 --> 00:11:52.500 That's kind of creepy the way you're staring at me right now, Tom. 00:11:52.500 --> 00:11:54.399 But you stare right at it. 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:55.799 Stare it down. 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:59.566 But what about when you can't stare at it? 00:11:59.566 --> 00:12:00.799 Those things in the past. 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:04.932 The things you don't even know why they're there that you feel disconnected from life. 00:12:04.932 --> 00:12:06.265 You feel angst. You feel anger. 00:12:06.265 --> 00:12:08.000 You feel sorrow. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:09.000 What do I do? 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:15.232 Where am I going to find hope, irresistible hope? 00:12:15.232 --> 00:12:22.033 In fact, I think our tendency is when things aren't going right is to think that maybe God is the one to blame. 00:12:22.500 --> 00:12:25.332 Maybe he caused this problem in my life. 00:12:25.332 --> 00:12:33.865 You know, Jesus's... [experiencing technical difficulties] In a moment, he says to her. 00:12:33.865 --> 00:12:35.966 You thought I was only about healing people. 00:12:35.966 --> 00:12:38.232 But I've got a bigger purpose. 00:12:38.232 --> 00:12:45.765 And I'm going to show you that I have not just power over health, but I've got power over death. 00:12:45.765 --> 00:12:47.066 I've conquered death. 00:12:47.066 --> 00:12:48.966 And he raises Lazarus from the dead. 00:12:48.966 --> 00:12:52.365 Now, he's not going to do that for everybody. 00:12:52.365 --> 00:12:59.765 He's not going to come around raising the person that you hoped would still be around. 00:12:59.765 --> 00:13:04.666 Here in this moment he makes a point; I have the power you're looking for. 00:13:04.666 --> 00:13:07.666 I have the hope you are looking for. 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:17.200 And whatever you're trying to find your hope in, whatever you're looking for, for purpose, for life, for meaning, for joy. 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:20.399 It's going to fall short unless you come to Christ. 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:23.166 The one who has power over death. 00:13:23.166 --> 00:13:27.566 He's the one that will bring irresistible hope. 00:13:27.566 --> 00:13:29.666 Now that’s the third reason you can trust in the resurrection. 00:13:29.666 --> 00:13:32.832 The last reason is letter L, working backwards through the word life. 00:13:34.966 --> 00:13:39.166 And I think this is one of the more powerful reasons why we can trust in the resurrection. 00:13:39.166 --> 00:13:42.166 It's our longed for love. 00:13:42.500 --> 00:13:45.432 Every one of us is longing for love. 00:13:45.432 --> 00:13:48.100 We're longing for true love. 00:13:48.100 --> 00:13:51.100 There's so much fake love in this world. 00:13:51.700 --> 00:13:55.799 We want to know love fully at its best. 00:13:56.166 --> 00:14:00.166 We want to experience the kind of love that we read about in the Bible. 00:14:00.166 --> 00:14:04.166 When I see Jesus loving others well, that's the kind of love I long for. 00:14:04.166 --> 00:14:07.166 But yet, where are you going to find it? 00:14:08.133 --> 00:14:11.133 How many times have people let you down? 00:14:11.265 --> 00:14:14.265 Loved ones have hurt you. 00:14:14.832 --> 00:14:19.432 By the way, how many times have I hurt loved ones? 00:14:19.932 --> 00:14:23.600 I can't love anyone perfectly, yet I demand to be loved perfectly. 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:30.033 Love me well, almost everything we do is to get love from someone. We're longing for love. 00:14:30.033 --> 00:14:31.232 Where do you find it? 00:14:31.232 --> 00:14:33.633 The one who loves perfectly is Jesus. 00:14:33.633 --> 00:14:34.899 And here's the powerful part. 00:14:34.899 --> 00:14:37.066 And I want you to see this in Luke 22. 00:14:37.066 --> 00:14:40.500 The powerful part of this is he does it even when he's betrayed. 00:14:42.265 --> 00:14:44.232 Look at Luke chapter 22. 00:14:44.232 --> 00:14:47.732 And here in the story, Jesus life is coming to an end. 00:14:47.732 --> 00:14:50.732 It's nearing the very end. 00:14:53.865 --> 00:14:54.932 And here's what Jesus does. 00:14:54.932 --> 00:14:59.566 They have the Last Supper, and the apostles are there with him. 00:14:59.566 --> 00:15:06.533 And of course, they respond as we would naturally, let's have an argument about who's the best among us. 00:15:06.533 --> 00:15:07.566 What? 00:15:07.566 --> 00:15:08.899 Jesus is about to die. 00:15:08.899 --> 00:15:10.299 He's pouring out his heart before you. 00:15:10.299 --> 00:15:12.832 And let's argue about who's the greatest. 00:15:12.832 --> 00:15:15.832 A little tone deaf in the moment. 00:15:16.133 --> 00:15:20.700 And Jesus points out to them, you guys don't really understand what's happening here. 00:15:20.700 --> 00:15:23.399 In fact, you're going to betray me. 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:24.265 Here's what Peter says. 00:15:24.265 --> 00:15:25.666 Look at chapter 22. 00:15:25.666 --> 00:15:32.033 Peter said to him, verse 33, Peter said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death. 00:15:32.033 --> 00:15:33.899 You think all these other guys will betray you? 00:15:33.899 --> 00:15:36.732 Not me, I’d never give up on you. 00:15:36.732 --> 00:15:38.466 I've been with you every step of the way. 00:15:38.466 --> 00:15:39.932 I've given up so much. 00:15:39.932 --> 00:15:41.600 You think I'd betray you? 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:42.832 You think I'd give up on you? 00:15:45.100 --> 00:15:53.765 And he said to him, after that I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day until you deny three times that you even know me. 00:15:54.865 --> 00:15:57.232 And Peter does that very thing. 00:15:57.232 --> 00:16:08.133 In fact, just a few verses later, verse 61 or verse 60, Peter said, man, I do not know what you are talking about-- When they asked him, do you know Jesus? -- Surely you know him. 00:16:08.133 --> 00:16:15.166 And immediately while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed and the Lord turned and looked at Peter. 00:16:15.166 --> 00:16:19.033 And I've often wondered what that look was like. 00:16:19.732 --> 00:16:20.799 Was it sadness? 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:22.299 Disappointment? Piercing? 00:16:22.299 --> 00:16:24.365 What was it? 00:16:24.365 --> 00:16:25.966 But it crushed Peter. 00:16:25.966 --> 00:16:33.700 He looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said to him, before the rooster crows today you will deny me three times. 00:16:33.700 --> 00:16:39.133 And he went out, and he wept bitterly. 00:16:41.899 --> 00:16:47.000 We've all done things that we know the Lord is not pleased with. 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:49.666 We've all let him down. 00:16:49.666 --> 00:17:00.500 I don't know, though, that any of us can relate to what Peter did in his worst moment, in his lowest moment, going to his death to say, I don't even know him. 00:17:02.299 --> 00:17:04.200 And look at how he responds to Peter. 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:05.232 It's not here. 00:17:05.232 --> 00:17:08.599 It's at the end of the book of John, and I'll just summarize it for you. 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:09.799 Jesus has died. 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:18.365 He's rose again, and he's on the bank of the shore, where Peter, the other side, some of the other disciples had gone back to fishing. 00:17:18.365 --> 00:17:19.799 Peter sees him. 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:21.365 I think that's Jesus. 00:17:21.365 --> 00:17:23.700 He jumps in the water and swims to him and gets to the shore. 00:17:23.700 --> 00:17:31.532 Jesus has breakfast ready for him and Jesus, the one that Peter had walked out on. 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:35.200 Look, I know how that conversation would go if I were Jesus in that moment. 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:35.965 Vengeance is mine. 00:17:35.965 --> 00:17:38.865 Thus saith the Lord, is what we're going to be talking about right then. 00:17:38.865 --> 00:17:41.865 But Jesus says, Peter, do you love me? 00:17:42.732 --> 00:17:44.465 Yes, Lord, you know I love you. 00:17:44.465 --> 00:17:45.232 Feed my sheep. 00:17:45.232 --> 00:17:47.665 Peter, do you love me a second time? 00:17:47.665 --> 00:17:49.099 Yes, Lord, you know I love you. 00:17:49.099 --> 00:17:49.833 Tend my lambs. 00:17:49.833 --> 00:18:08.465 Peter, do you love me a third time to match his three denials, three opportunities to reaffirm his love for Jesus. [Experiencing technical difficulties ] I think she is ready for Christ to come into her life. 00:18:08.465 --> 00:18:10.432 And give her the hope she's looking for. 00:18:10.432 --> 00:18:21.599 She's come to the end of herself to give her the hope, the joy, the peace, all this other stuff where she tried to find all that is coming to an end. 00:18:22.099 --> 00:18:25.066 And that night at dinner, he said, listen, I may be reading this wrong...[experiencing technical difficulties]