The Resurrection and The Life | Jesus Is: Part III | Episode 46

What does it really mean that Jesus is the resurrection and the life? 

In this episode of For Heaven’s Sake, Jenny and Andrea break down this life-changing truth and how it impacts our faith, our hope, and our everyday walk with God.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Death has no hold on me. That's so true. But only because of Jesus. Like had he not died and spent that time, like you're saying, from Friday to Sunday. Oh yeah. What like defeating hell to raise and say, like, I have defeated Death Hell in the Grave. And that same power. Literally gives me chills. That same power is what I'm gonna give to you. Yep.

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We read it.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

My mouth feels dry. You can get your water. We read it. Are you recording? Oh y'all. Exactly. That's okay. All right. Ready? I'm gonna close moms.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Alright, you ready?

SPEAKER_00 1:04

Hi everyone, and welcome back to For Heaven's Sake. Um, so today is gonna be different. You we have a not so new face on the podcast, Andrea. She was with us for one of our um sons and daughters episodes. So, you know, a little bit familiar face. Um, but our Kaylin, her son, is sick this evening, and we had already kind of planned like our schedule, you know, making things like this. We can just kind of make a schedule and just hope that it sticks. Um, anyways, her son is sick, and so she was not able to be here with us for this, and so um phoned a friend who was and I answered. Yeah, who just happened to be in town. Um, so I'm grateful that you were able to thanks for having me. Come again, yeah, hang out. So I'm Jenny Morgan. This is Andrew Callahan, and we are going into our third episode um on our Easter series. So this will be um it will come out the Monday after Easter. Um, and so going through this Easter season, um, we've talked about the triumphal entry, we've talked about um the crucifixion and like just what sin is and how he um defeated sin and how he, you know, the veil was torn whenever he was crucified. Um and so now I'm stepping into really what Easter Sunday is about, which is the resurrection and the significance of the resurrection. So I wanted to make sure that we highlighted like why the resurrection is important, so it's not just that it happened, like it's not just an event like like praise God he's alive, but what sets the resurrection apart from every other faith and also why it's significant to us for eternity's sake. Um so that's just kind of where I guess I'll start. Yeah. Sound good? Sounds great. Okay, let's go. Um, so whenever we think about the resurrection, you know, we uh whenever I think about Easter, it's like the stone is rolled away, like he's risen, praise the Lord. But the significance of that being that every other like what do you call it? Faith. Religion. I was gonna say religion. Every other religion is based on you know, e either some set of values or the following of a specific person who lived maybe a good life. Maybe they were a moral person who had these moral values that they wanted people to live by, and they died.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

Right.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

And that's the end of the story.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

Yeah, and that's all that happened, that's all she wrote.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

Um, and in the Christian faith, like we have hope because not only did he die for good reason that we'll talk about in a second, um, but he also rose from the dead. And so in that resurrection showed that he had power over death. Right. And that was really the the highlight of what I wanted to talk about today was the the depth of that and go into what the time of him being dead meant, and then the power that he had and then gave to us through the resurrection time. Um I'm gonna start by reading in Luke 24. Let's start there. Obviously, there's lots of parallels in scripture, so you can kind of pick and choose whichever one. Um so the resurrection story is in Matthew 28, it's in Mark 16, it's in Luke 24, and then it's also in John 20. But I'm gonna read specifically from Luke's because I do want to pull out something from it. Um, so Luke 24, and this is verses 1 through 11, and it says, But very early on Sunday morning a woman went to the tomb taking the spices they had prepared. They found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. So they went in, but they didn't find the body of the Lord Jesus. As they stood there puzzled, two men suddenly appeared to them, clothes clothed in dazzling robes. The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground. And the men asked, Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? He isn't here, he is risen from the dead. Remember when he told you back in Galilee that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day. They remembered that he had said this, so that they rushed back from the tomb to his eleven disciples and everyone else, and told everyone else what had happened. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and several other women who told the apostles what had happened, but the story sounded like nonsense to the men, so they didn't believe it. So I'm gonna stop there. Um so I can cannot imagine being I'm gonna specifically think about Mary the mother of Jesus. So now we have a process where we like embalm them and do all these things, and that's like the final thing. We put them in a tomb or put them in a casket, put them in a grave, and that's it. Um so they were going to his body to continue to put spices on it to like preserve the body in burial. Yeah, yeah. Um and so like their expectation was to go to the tomb to be led in and to continue to put spices on the body. Um, and they get there and the angel is like he's not he's not here.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

That's my favorite. That's a little bit my I was telling on the way here. I'm like, that's my favorite part of Sunday's Coming, the song. It's like, why are you looking for the living among the dead? He's alive. Why are you looking for the thing? Why are you here? He literally told you he was not gonna be here.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

That's what I'm putting in my notes. Um, and I and I'm gonna go back to um what is it, Luke 9, where it's referenced in this specific scripture. He says, Remember when he told you back in Galilee that he must be betrayed and that he would be crucified and that he would rise again. And I'm sure that while he was dying, they're thinking about the things that he told him, but having never experienced that, they had to have had some doubt, doubt. Yeah, for sure. Um, and still seeing him die in the manner that he did was horrific. Oh, yeah. I couldn't I could not imagine that. Did you imagine that?

SPEAKER_01 8:18

No, I could not imagine that.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

Uh-uh.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

And so seeing him dying in the manner that he did, and then those moments where he was trying to tell them who he was and what he was doing would probably be like in the back of their mind, like not something that they and like yeah, like they're literally hiding at this point because they're scared. 100%. All of the disciples are like, mm-hmm. Yeah. So I couldn't imagine being like, oh yeah, what he said in that moment, what he said is true. I could see them definitely being like, oh no.

SPEAKER_00 8:53

So and he says this in back in Luke 9, and it says, The Son of Man must suffer many terrible things. He will be rejected by the elders, the leaders and the priests, and the teachers of religious law. He will be killed, but on the third day he will be raised from the dead. Um and I'm just gonna stop there. He obviously goes on with more good good nuggets, but um, so he's you know talking to them um right before he's transfigured like before the transfiguration on the mount, um, when he reveals more of who he is and that like how close to God he really is to them. Um, but he's trying to tell them what has to happen, and even and that's really close to the same verse where he's trying to tell Peter, and Peter's like, No. Yeah, and Jesus says, We've talked about this in the last one, and he's like, No, get behind me, Satan. Yeah, like I have to die. This is the whole reason I came. Um, so not only did he try and tell them that he would have to die, but also tell them that he was gonna resurrect.

SPEAKER_01 9:55

Um well, and it says it many times too in the Bible. There's so many like parallels of where it happens. There are times where he says it, and something I have was John 2 19, where Jesus tells the religious leaders that it says um he's gonna destroy the temple and in three days it's gonna rob it. Yeah, but he wasn't talking about the temple, he was talking about himself, right? And so there's so many times where he says things like, I'm going to die and I'm gonna come back in three days, and still it was like, Are you though?

SPEAKER_00 10:26

Are you um and what this resurrection does, like while he is like fulfilling what he said he would do and is fulfilling prophecy in that we're gonna have a risen king, a risen savior, um, he's also showing the importance of his power and the power that he has specifically over death, um, and and how that connects to the eternal life that he promises us and our ability to defeat the grave. And so I want to park there for like just a second. Um so without the resurrection, there's no promise to us of eternal life. And so now, whenever we die, our soul does not have to die that it through through him, through his death, but also through his resurrection is how we have life. Um, and I this is way down in my in my notes. But when we think about, and oh, it's actually for the next episode, but when we think about the Great Commission, it says that to to baptize them in the name of the Father and Son of the Holy Ghost, and that the Holy Ghost is the thing that was to come. So it wasn't just that we are dead in our trespasses and raised to life the same way that he was we are, and then, or to go out in the Holy Spirit again, getting way ahead of myself, um, which I tend to do. But in his death, that he in his resurrection that he defeated death. And I love the verse that's in Revelations 1 and 18, um, that it says, Don't it's so back up. I'm yip yapping a lot. I'm sorry. That whenever God is showing John the things that are to come in the future, he before he's like, hey, write this down, the way that he um like shows himself, it he says, Don't be afraid, for I'm the first and the last, I'm the living one. I died, but look, I'm alive forever and ever. And hold the keys of death in the grave. And this is so powerful to me. Because in that time when he's dead, and and I think this is controversial. I think some people think differently, and like I'm just gonna say what I think, and we'll just roll with it. I guess it's our podcast. You can do whatever we think. We'll do whatever we want. Um, but that in that death that he went to hell to steal the ability for Satan to kill people for an eternity. I know that's like kind of deep, kind of woo, but but real. That in that in his death, like he didn't just he wasn't just laying in the tomb for three days.

SPEAKER_01 13:25

Like, no, he was working behind the scenes.

SPEAKER_00 13:27

Right, yeah, that he was dying for the purpose of going to get the power of Satan to kill people for eternity.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

As I say, we always focus on Friday and we focus on Sunday, but the in-between of that is God was working like overtime on the in-between of it doing that.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

Absolutely. So he goes to get the keys of death, hell, and the grave, the takes the power from Satan to do that, and like while God is all-powerful, like that is uh like further proof that not only is he all-powerful in earth, like he's all powerful in the spiritual realm as well. And that by doing that, by taking those keys of death, hell, and the grave, and then raising and saying, I like death no longer, like I think the the um song is like death, oh death wears your sting, like to raise and say, like, I have defeated death, hell, and the grave, and that same power literally gives you chills, that same power is what I'm gonna give to you. Yep. And I think that we belittle that.

SPEAKER_01 14:47

Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

I think that we we treat like we treat going into Easter Sunday as oh, it's let's it's another holiday. It's time to wear spring colors and Easter bunny and all the things, and we forget the power that we are granted as sons and daughters of Jesus. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:10

Like or we just think about it on Easter. Like it's not just facts, he didn't just die and rise again, like come rise from the dead again on Easter. He did it, and then we all forever we live in it every day, yeah. And we skip past that the rest of the time of the year. Well, most people do, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Where well, and I think that um something that our youth pastor said last night that was so like such a good reminder that we have we let the holy things become common. Yes. And the holiness of that, of us having through Jesus the power to defeat hell and to defeat the grave and to defeat the enemy um that that is what's granted to us as sons and daughters.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

I think we forget that. I think we forget that he literally tells us like I'm I'm giving you this, what I can do, the things that I have done. Well, now it's your turn to do then, and you'll do greater, and we'll talk about that in the next one.

SPEAKER_00 16:12

And we definitely forget it. Uh-huh. Um so that he has to die to conquer death, and that through that we are given eternal life. So um and I think that our plan in the podcast is to continue to go through acts and rollments um in the next couple of seasons. But just to touch on that a little bit, and I'm gonna actually not go to either of those. I'm gonna go to I'm jumping down super far. Oh no, no, no. This is right. Maybe. No, it's definitely the last thing on my notes. You see my cute notes? I normally have my little my little uh remarkable and I can't find the pen to it. It's somewhere. Don't kill me, Brandon. So it says in Romans 6 and 7 through 10, and it says, For when we died with Christ, we were set free from the power of sin. And since we died with Christ, we will also live with him. We are sure that of this, because Christ was raised from the dead and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. When he died, he died once to break the power of sin, but now he lives and he lives for the glory of God. And so we don't have to fear death, we don't have to be concerned about our future that if we believe in Christ, believe in his death, believe in his resurrection, and take on him and and receive our our son and daughtership through him, we don't have to worry about that.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

I think I have to see where I put it at, but somewhere on my notes, I was talking about how we sometimes we we act like the the cross or the death and the resurrection is the end of it, but really that is the beginning of us in our lives. And I don't remember I wrote that, but I remember writing it down where I'm like the the cross looked like the end for a lot of us, but really the cross was the beginning for us. Everybody, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:21

That's exciting, 100%. Um and that his death was necessary to prove that he was God and that he had all power. And that through that, like through his resurrection, and then and we'll I think I'm gonna talk about this in the next episode, is like him appearing to the disciples and appearing to the women who uh came, like appeared like as a gardener, they thought he was a gardener, and like him having all power in that, like that he didn't just die and come back, like he died, came back, and then showed himself. And in that proof, number one, is people would be like, Oh, like there's no like you believe in something that's not real, like how do you know he's alive? Like the the number of people that he appeared to, and then um the things that he like said and did with those people afterwards. Um thinking about doubting Thomas, he's like, I won't believe it until I put my fingers in his hands, and the Lord's like, well, like you can do that.

SPEAKER_01 19:34

That also doesn't if that doesn't show us how we are as people, like he is standing in front of me and I can see him, and he's working behind the scenes, like in our lives, but God does this, this, this, and then you're like, but but can I also see your hands? Can I see my hands so I can just make sure that that's real? Yeah, that it describes us as true. That's true.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

So much. And that we qu we still question it.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

Like, like what's right in front of us, we're like, oh, are you sure?

SPEAKER_01 20:05

Are you sure? Are you sure? Because I don't know if I still believe it.

SPEAKER_00 20:11

I want to jump to um, I thought I had it marked. Maybe I don't. You see, I love a chronological Bible, but but bless it. Okay, here it is. I wanted to go to 1 Corinthians 15 and 4, and it says, He was buried and he raised from the dead on the third day, just as scripture said. He was seen by Peter, and then the twelve, and after that he was seen by more than 500 of his followers at one time, most of whom were still alive through so though some have died when this was written. Uh then he was seen by James and later by all of the apostles. Last of all, as though I have been born at the wrong time, I also saw him. Um, so when we like come come to the point of his resurrection, and I thought this was in the next episode, but but it was something that I'd put in here, um, that we have this proof, and that that proof is like un undoubted. And and even years later, um, whenever Paul is writing, he's saying, like, I even saw him. Like, yeah, me too. Yeah, like he's saying, all of these, like all these people saw him, they did all like he did all these things whenever he was still alive. And I'm writing to the to you even now, as someone who saw him with my own eyes, as the resurrected king. Um, but going back to the power that the resurrection has is that that is our hope. And uh we live in a world and in a time that is hopeless. Yeah. I work with and see people all the time who just don't have hope. Like they just think that the end is the end, and when they die, either they're gonna be reincarnated and come back as a fish or whatever. And they well, they just think that whatever end is their end. And they don't have hope for what's next. Yeah. And he says, like, we don't have to fear the grave. We don't have to fear what's to come because if you if we have accepted him and if we have chosen to follow him, then what is for coming for us in our future is greater than what we have here. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. What we have is is greater than what we have here on earth.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

Um, so I do you have anything else that you know I just did I wrote down um before the resurrection hope died when Jesus died, but after it, it was just an unshakable hope. Absolutely because hope isn't based on our circumstances, our it's based on the fact that we have a risk and savior. 100%. And again, I think in our one podcast I said that like heaven changes everything because we have hope in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I'm and that I'm thankful for it.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Yeah, and so uh like thinking about sort of just wrapping up this um Easter season specifically, and we're gonna talk about the Great Commission and and sort of like his last words in the next episode. Um, but being reminded that this Easter season, we are thankful of who he is, thankful that he is Jesus who was willing to come and to die, but thankful that he was willing to go and fight hell on our behalf so that when he rose, he would have a power that would change everything and be able to give us hope for the future, that we don't have to die and live in the pits of hell, or you know, that we that when we die, we have a future and hope with him. Right. Um, so as you finished this Easter season and and or um maybe in this Easter season, you were, you know, just went about it in a way like we said, like it's just another holiday. Um, I I hope that this podcast would remind you that your hope is in Jesus and that we have that joy and that hope because of the fact that he rose from the dead.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

Yeah. And and maybe you don't know that. Maybe you come across this podcast and you don't know that. Um, I would say that I hope that you listen to this and that you do know that there is hope in a savior who came for you and he died for you, um, to love you no matter what your circumstances look like. Um, maybe this Easter season you need to see that and hear that and um know that he loved you and he died for you and he rose for you, and that there is hope in eternity when you are willing to say yes to a savior that loves you.

SPEAKER_00 24:58

Amen. All right. Thank you, friends. See you guys next time on for heaven's sake. Beautiful.