WEBVTT 00:00:00.479 --> 00:00:03.279 Well, three days ago was Monday Thursday. 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:04.719 Monday is a weird word. 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:06.799 Some people call that Thursday, Holy Thursday. 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:10.000 But Monday in Latin means command. 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:18.719 And what we saw there on Monday Thursday was Jesus watched his disciples' feet, even the one who would go on to betray him. 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:23.280 And there at that meal, he said, This is what you should love like. 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:24.640 You should love like this. 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:26.320 That's the command, is to love. 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:30.160 So if you want something to do in the Christian life, it's to love. 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:40.079 And then at that meal, Jesus holds up the bread and the wine, that food of the Passover feast, and he says, This is my body broken for you, and this is my blood shed for you. 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:44.240 Then he prays for his friends, and then he leaves for the Mount of Olives. 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:46.000 He goes to the Garden of Gethsemane. 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:49.920 Gethsemane was a tool that squeezed an olive. 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:57.359 So it's this imagery of Jesus in that garden, knowing where he's headed on Friday to the cross, and he is in anguish. 00:00:57.679 --> 00:00:59.280 He's being squeezed. 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:01.359 That night he's rested. 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:03.039 That night he's tried. 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:14.319 And then on Friday, nailed to a cross like a common criminal, so that he who knew no sin might become sin, that we might become the righteousness of God. 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:17.840 On Saturday, hope was gone. 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:20.560 Then there's Sunday. 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:21.760 Resurrection. 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:24.319 There is resurrection. 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:29.920 So what might this mean for your heart and your life 2,000 years later? 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:37.200 I mean, are we still, are we just gathering in churches like this, just out of ritual and out of religion? 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:41.680 Or is there something more? 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:49.599 I'm going to reread just three verses of the passage that Janine read, Luke 24, 1 through 12. 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:55.439 I'm going to read 10 through 12 for her to narrow our focus. 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:56.239 Verse 10. 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:07.519 Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary, the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, but these words seemed to them an idle tale. 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:09.599 And they did not believe them. 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:13.280 But Peter rose and ran to the tomb. 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:18.639 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves. 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:23.680 And he went home marveling at what had happened. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:33.039 So, point number one is this: the resurrection humbles and compels us into a marvel of God. 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:36.800 I love that word marvel in verse 12. 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:41.759 The word marvel means to have wonder or admiration. 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:45.120 We marvel at something remarkable. 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:57.280 Twenty years ago, I saw something remarkable in Savannah, Georgia at the WWE SmackDown Wrestling Match 20 years ago. 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:01.280 First one I'd ever been to, the last one I've ever been to. 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:08.159 I was on my way down to Daytona Beach with a group to lead a student ministry beach retreat. 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:11.680 Now, mind you, other pastors are with me. 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:12.560 Thank you very much. 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:18.639 The spiritual leaders for the next generation of faith preparing at the SmackDown event. 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:22.879 I'm pretty sure the final event was Chris Jericho versus the Edge. 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:26.879 Here's a picture of that final event there. 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:29.520 Sorry, you had to see that. 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:36.639 Might need an extra shower this afternoon or something, kind of cleanse yourself and uh ruin your Easter there. 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:38.000 But that happened. 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:40.400 That I saw that, right? 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:42.560 Like that happened. 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:44.639 I saw the remarkable thing. 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:46.639 I mean, I'm a testimony. 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:49.120 I can testify, and we can take that down. 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:50.000 We don't have to keep there. 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.840 That was quite a juxtaposition going from that image to that image. 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:56.479 I saw something. 00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:07.360 I saw like a 300-pound man top jumping off the top rope, backflip, with his elbow perfectly landing across the throat of his enemy. 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:10.719 Like that's remarkable, right? 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:12.159 I don't care if it's fake. 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:18.879 The 300 pounds wasn't fake, the top top rope wasn't fake, the backflip was, I mean, that was a remarkable thing to see. 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:22.000 Now, I've seen other remarkable things. 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:24.959 Like I've I've I've seen a Monet. 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:27.839 That's a little bit different than the SmackDown event. 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:29.920 That was a different crowd. 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:40.240 I've seen the Teton range early in the morning when the sun rises and hits it. 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:46.160 I've seen a baby born and I've sat with someone when they died. 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:50.480 I've seen parents who love rebellious children. 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:56.639 I've seen parents who love like really bratty children, like the ones where you're like, no, like, nope. 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:00.959 And I'm like, wow, like that's that's remarkable. 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:03.839 Like we should do like a church video on that. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.800 That's that should be a video in church right there. 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:08.079 Just you loving that kid. 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:09.360 That's amazing. 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:14.000 He knows, he knows that kid. 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:15.600 He knows the one, the one. 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:20.560 I've seen people forgive like really hurtful things. 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:27.920 I've seen people transform from the heart outward. 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:33.600 And here's the point The point is, is you marvel at the remarkable. 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:40.000 Peter looked in and Jesus was gone, and he marveled. 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:42.079 Wonder and admiration. 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:44.399 For Jesus was dead and then he was alive. 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:50.319 Here's what Peter writes when he thinks about the resurrection and its power and implications for our lives. 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:52.319 1 Peter 1, 3 through 5. 00:05:52.560 --> 00:06:20.959 According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:23.759 Point number two is this. 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:26.879 Really long point makes me look smart. 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.160 The longer the point just makes me look smart, so I do it for y'all. 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:31.759 And we're gonna leave it up there a second. 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:33.519 There's like three of you that take notes, okay? 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:35.759 So the three of you take notes, we're gonna give you plenty of time. 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:37.040 You write in your journal. 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:53.600 Christ's work, the cross, is counted as our work, and Christ's victory, the resurrection, is counted as our victory, so we are given an inheritance beyond. 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:54.720 Imagine. 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:04.480 We can stop at the first five words there in verse three, according to his great mercy. 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:10.959 The word mercy means kindness or goodwill toward the miserable and the afflicted. 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:12.240 Anybody? 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:16.240 Nudge neighbor, like hey, you might not know it, but that's you. 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:21.360 Miserable and afflicted, joined with a desire to help them. 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:28.000 So Peter connects God's mercy to living hope for us through the resurrection. 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:31.920 That's his work, and it says there's an inheritance for you there. 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:38.000 One of the largest inheritances ever received was in India in 2002. 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:48.160 $43.5 billion was passed down to the next generation that did not earn it, right? 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:50.160 That's what an inheritance is. 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:51.759 Mr. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:57.920 Abadi died, and his two sons inherited his business empire, tens of billions of dollars. 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:01.199 One son owns the most expensive private home in the world. 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:02.399 Here's a picture of it. 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:03.199 This is a home. 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:05.439 That's a home, mind you. 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:08.480 27 stories. 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:15.680 I mean, you thought like adding the crown molding in the living room was like that was the big deal, right? 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:20.879 Like you were pricing out per square foot, you talked to your spouse, like I really think we can go for it this month. 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:23.199 Did you know that this is this is something? 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:25.199 Like this is this apparently is in the world? 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:25.600 Like that. 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:26.399 I was like, what? 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:28.160 That's amazing. 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:30.160 Off of inheritance. 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:34.320 Now, not my inheritance, probably not yours. 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:38.320 But that's an inheritance, that's quite an inheritance. 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:44.480 Inheritance is that which you did not earn, but that which is rightfully passed to you as your own. 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:52.399 That's quite an inheritance, that big 27-story house, tens of billions of dollars. 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:54.960 But it is it is still just money. 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:59.840 And I say just money, and it's like, well, you know, money's powerful. 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:02.960 But it has limits. 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:04.480 Right? 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:07.440 We've learned that in the last couple months that money has limits, right? 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:08.480 It changes value. 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:09.519 We just learned that. 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:10.720 Some of us. 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:16.879 Like we're all poorer with 8% inflation today than we were months ago, right? 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:18.480 We're all very aware. 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:19.759 We got poorer. 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.080 Money can change value. 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:26.000 And it never quite does enough for our hearts. 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.000 It doesn't quite do enough for our self-worth. 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:35.519 So, like Peter says, we need another type of inheritance. 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:39.519 Here are four thoughts about our inheritance in Christ. 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:41.039 First, the cross. 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:45.840 His work counted as our work passed down to us. 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:49.120 You can read about that in 2 Corinthians 5. 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:54.240 So this is talking about the fact that we don't work for our own forgiveness. 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:56.799 We don't work for our own righteousness. 00:09:57.519 --> 00:09:59.519 Meaning the guilt trip is over. 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:11.519 Shame-motivated religion or shame-motivated spiritual practices are replaced with grace-compelled marveling at Christ's work for us empowerment. 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:16.639 You and I are fully and always forgiven and righteous. 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:24.480 Second, the resurrection, his victory counted as our victory, also there in 2 Corinthians 5. 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:26.399 We are made new by him. 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:31.440 So we don't have to fight in this world or our faith to be victorious enough. 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:35.039 The victorious life is one that we receive. 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:38.399 We are made new by his work for us. 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:45.519 You and I are victorious as a person and a child of God because of God's grace to us. 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:47.039 Third, the Spirit. 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:49.519 We have a wealth of God in us. 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:52.240 John 16, 7. 00:10:53.519 --> 00:11:01.600 See, as Christ dies, resurrects, and ascends to heaven, the Holy Spirit takes up residence in us. 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:10.720 Meaning we don't have to go try to find God out there, like in some special place, some holy place. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:12.000 The sanctuary. 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:13.679 Don't run in the sanctuary. 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:16.960 Stop running in the sanctuary. 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:19.679 Christ lives in us. 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.879 God doesn't live in a room or a box or a place. 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:24.799 He lives in us. 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:28.559 The Holy Spirit resides in us. 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:30.399 We are the sanctuary. 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:32.240 Fourth, last, heaven. 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:34.720 Christ prepares a home for us. 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:37.519 You can read that in John 14, 3. 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.799 So we don't have to earn our way into heaven. 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:45.840 God welcomes us in Christ, lavishly welcomes us with wide open arms. 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:48.480 Meaning we may be afraid. 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:51.840 We may be afraid when that day comes. 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:54.159 But we don't have to be afraid. 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.159 It's okay if you're afraid. 00:11:56.799 --> 00:11:58.720 But you don't have to be afraid. 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:02.000 You have a loving welcome in heaven. 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:13.919 Maybe you can remember when you were under just that weary burden and exhaustion of trying to perform enough, that performance-oriented faith. 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:19.679 That kind of Christianity of always having to try to be a good enough Christian or do enough. 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:24.080 So tiring, so prideful, and then you're in despair. 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:27.759 Never righteous enough. 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:35.679 But in the cross, you can say, according to his great mercy. 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:43.759 Maybe you could remember that fight to try to feel new again or whole because something happened. 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:44.879 You messed up. 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:46.559 Maybe you hadn't even told anybody. 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:48.639 It's the story you haven't told. 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:50.960 And you just want to feel new again. 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:53.039 You want to feel whole again. 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:54.639 You want to feel victorious. 00:12:54.720 --> 00:13:00.080 And in the resurrection, you can say, according to his great mercy. 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:05.120 Maybe you remember trying to find God. 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:07.039 If only I go there. 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:08.799 If only I get there. 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:12.639 Somewhere out there. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:16.720 But the gift of the Holy Spirit is God residing in us. 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:19.919 According to His great mercy. 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:23.600 Maybe you're near to death. 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:27.679 Your time here is coming to a close. 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:32.720 And with heaven to come, you have a home. 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:35.120 You have hope. 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:39.919 And you can say, can we say it together? 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:40.879 Let's say it together. 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:44.720 According to his great mercy. 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:50.159 A month ago, a photographer in Poland took this photo. 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:51.679 It's gone viral. 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:59.519 Mothers in Poland gathered all their strollers and left them on the platform there at the train station. 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:11.279 So when Ukrainian refugee mothers, who've been carrying their babies through days and weeks of horror, stepped off the train, they would have relief. 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:16.159 See, these Polish mothers brought a gift into someone's need. 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:18.799 This is pursuing love. 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:21.279 Love that does not wait for someone to earn it. 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:24.000 Love that does not wait for someone to find help. 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:26.879 It's love that seeks the one in need. 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:29.679 It's a beautiful image of love. 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:35.279 See, the provision always meets us in our need. 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:45.120 The cross and the resurrection bring the love of God to us in our state, the way we are right now. 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:51.600 It's the gift into our need, according to his great mercy. 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:55.679 And we get to marvel. 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:57.039 Let's pray together. 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:02.559 God, thank you for your astonishing and marveling grace to us. 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:06.000 That the message is not do more and try harder. 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:13.279 The message is trust and marvel and be astonished by how good you are. 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:18.559 How sufficient, how loving, how welcoming, how lavish. 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:36.879 We thank you for the cross and we thank you for the resurrection, for it is there that we find our forgiveness and righteousness, we find our worth, and we find our newness, we find our wholeness, we find our secure standing with you and our life that we will have with you here and forever. 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:37.840 Amen.