WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:01.760 Well, welcome to Christ the Redeemer. 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:04.240 We're excited you're here with us this morning. 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:06.000 So uh happy Easter. 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:09.759 Uh I also like to say happy Blazer Sunday for me. 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:15.839 If uh I haven't a blazer, something horrible happened in life, or something wonderful happened in life. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.760 And today, this morning is one of those wonderful blazer days. 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:22.000 And so uh we are so glad you're here with us. 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:23.839 Maybe you're part of our church and you're here. 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:25.760 Maybe you're online, you're you're you're watching. 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:26.800 We're so excited you're here. 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:34.640 Maybe um you haven't been to church in a really long time, given the past year, and uh today's your first time back in church, and so excited you're here. 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:44.240 Now, we know also possibly you're here through family, um, and perhaps you're here through family and you want to be here, or perhaps you're uh here's family and you kind of got roped in, right? 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:45.119 And you're just here. 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:46.560 Um, but we're glad either way. 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:48.479 We're happy you're here either way. 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:54.719 What we love to say to everybody, including myself, every single week is we're more broken than we originally thought. 00:00:54.880 --> 00:01:00.079 We're more sinful than we originally thought, but we're more loved by God than we could dare to dream. 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.600 That's just the thing we keep saying in our church over and over again. 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:06.719 It's the good news for me, it's the good news for you. 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:13.760 So we're gonna pick up this story about Jesus' death and resurrection in Luke chapter 24 this morning. 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:20.640 So Jesus was crucified on Friday, and then here comes a group of women back to the tomb. 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:27.920 So they would expect to see the tomb sealed shut with a big old stone that they wouldn't be able to move, and some soldiers guarding it. 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:29.599 But they get a different scene. 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:31.760 Luke chapter 24, verse 2. 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:38.719 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:44.000 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:48.640 In their fright, the women bowed down their faces to the ground. 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:52.799 But the men said to them, Why do you look for the living among the dead? 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:55.280 He is not here, but has risen. 00:01:55.599 --> 00:02:05.840 Remember how he told you while he was still in Galilee that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise. 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:08.560 Let's pray quickly before we get into the sermon. 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:17.360 God, we come before you, and at the same moment we're so astonished and joyful of this victory. 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:22.319 And at the same time, it can be quite hard to believe in the resurrection. 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:28.000 There can be parts of our hearts that are held back with disbelief. 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:35.120 And we just come before you honestly to say that that is that's real in us, that disbelief. 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:36.879 And we need you. 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:40.400 We need you to help our unbelief. 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:53.759 God, as we look at this story, we pray that your grace, your faithfulness, your goodness, your sufficiency would break through into all of our insufficiency, inability, doubt, and disbelief. 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:58.639 That we might move in a new life that is found only in you. 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:00.159 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:01.120 Amen. 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:07.919 Two years ago, a group of my guy friends, we went out to Yellowstone to hike and hang out and be there together. 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:11.439 And many of you know I'm an absolute national park nerd. 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:33.599 And so we were out there and we were doing some exploring, and we one day we went on a hike, and on the hike, we hiked through a little section where a forest fire had come through, which was pretty incredible because the fire, it was maybe a year old or so, and so what we had was you still had the ash on the ground, and then you had you know some trees still up, some a lot of the trees had fallen over, but the trees that were up were just kind of pencils at this point. 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:42.319 And then what you could see was you could start to see just the new birth, like just little green popping up through all that ash. 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:50.159 And so for me, um, I did what I always do is you know, I just nerded out on forest fires, you know, as soon as I got back to the house. 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:56.240 Uh, whatever is rattling around in my brain come nighttime, that's what I'm gonna get on my phone and and nerd out on it. 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:07.759 So I learned that in 1988, maybe you know this, I didn't know this, in 1988, the largest forest fire ever came through Yellowstone, burned 800,000 acres, 36% of the park. 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:10.560 Here's a picture of the fire back in 88. 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:19.519 We spent$120 million trying to contain that, and here's some firefighters that are trying to contain that fire. 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:24.160 Now, what's interesting is this it looked like all devastation, right? 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:27.439 I mean, you look at this, it just looks like all devastation. 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:38.480 Back in the 1960s, we actually, as a society, we believed, we believed that forest fires were devastation for forests. 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:45.360 And then, sure enough, we began to learn something else was going on in the, like in the death. 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:47.519 Something was going on in the death. 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:51.519 Because as the trees burn, they actually reseed the forest. 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:58.240 And then as that ash settles into the to the soil, it actually gives nutrients to the soil. 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:01.360 So we declared something dead and over. 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:06.480 And God's creation was only beginning in that process. 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:12.480 And of course, the forests in Yellowstone grew back even healthier than they were before. 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:22.319 You can see a picture here of the new growth forest, and the last picture here, I kind of imagine this is me as an old guy, and I'm telling Christy to take pictures of me while I'm staring at trees. 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:24.319 That's probably what I'll be doing at that point. 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:25.920 So here's the point. 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:30.160 How many times have you thought the story was over? 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:30.879 Right? 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:32.480 Like your story? 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:34.000 Right? 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:37.199 Like joy was over, or peace was over. 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:41.759 Or maybe peace was, excuse me, peace was like for somebody else. 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:51.120 Like it, like, oh, peace can be for him or her, but I don't know if that actually, like I don't know if that kind of healing or like wholeness could be for me. 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:51.839 Right? 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:54.079 Just only despair, only ash. 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:58.160 You didn't see a way out, and then the stones rolled away. 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:02.319 And maybe it's not in a day, right, or a month or a year, right? 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:06.480 But in time the stones rolled away and the new forest grows. 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:12.240 I had a friend say to me this week, she said, I'm starting to trust the pattern. 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:15.759 Ashes to beauty, death to life. 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:17.680 I'm starting to trust the pattern. 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:23.839 A few points to guide us as we contemplate this victory in the new life that we celebrate today. 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:25.120 Here's point number one. 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:35.279 The resurrection gives us the promise of redeemed, not advice to redo. 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:40.879 I saw this picture on Instagram this week and it just made me laugh out loud. 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:46.160 Right? 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:49.600 You can do it. 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:54.079 Let me just offend you this morning and free you. 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:54.639 Right? 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:58.879 I can offend you and free you in the same exact moment with this picture. 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.560 Like you can install a toilet, okay? 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:07.040 Or maybe you're like you're you're really smart, you went to Harvard, and you can do a merger and acquisition. 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:08.959 Let's even give you that, okay? 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:11.279 There's some stuff you can't do. 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:12.000 Right? 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:16.639 And that's gonna offend your human pride and desire to self-improve. 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:20.720 But man, does it free you if you're really at the bottom of the hole. 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:23.439 Or you've been there, or you'll be there. 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:28.160 Because you might be able to install that toilet, but you can't heal your own heart. 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:30.959 You can't work your way out of your own guilt. 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:35.759 You can't work your way into a right, secure, forever relationship with God. 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:38.319 You can't forgive your own sins. 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:40.079 Right? 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:42.079 You can't hold it all together. 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:44.959 And this is when you realize you're at the bottom of the hole. 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:48.879 You need somebody, you need God to come to you. 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:53.279 Not you working toward him or advice how to get better. 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:54.480 We don't need a redo. 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:55.839 We don't need a redo. 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:58.319 We need to be redeemed. 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:05.040 And Jesus is not more advice, although he gives us wonderful advice on how to live. 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:11.360 Jesus, primarily the core of our faith, what we're doing this morning is about redeemed by his work. 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:16.560 A full welcome, a pursuit of him to us. 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:24.639 The story of Christ's death and resurrection, what's going on in the context of this passage, is Passover. 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:27.439 That's what's going on for the Jewish people. 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:36.080 If you remember the story back in Exodus, the people of Israel are enslaved in Egypt, crying out to God, save us, save us, save us. 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:39.039 And finally, God comes and speaks to them and says, Here's what I'm gonna do. 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:44.399 I'm gonna come through in my justice over sin and enslavement. 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:47.919 It's just gonna come through, it is gonna wipe people out. 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:57.039 But if you slaughter a lamb and take the blood of that lamb and put it on the doorpost, I will pass and take you over. 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:58.399 Pass over. 00:08:59.919 --> 00:09:07.279 And so the people did that, and those people were saved, and they're delivered out of the bondage of slavery. 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:08.639 And so a ritual begins. 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:19.039 We see through the entirety of the Old Testament of sacrificing an animal, a lamb, bull, goat, to atone for their sins. 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:23.039 The blood of the lamb was used for the payment of the sin rather than the people themselves. 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:24.639 You go, oh, it's so barbaric. 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:26.879 It's like we still do it, right? 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:30.960 Like you sacrifice yourself, like trying to get good enough, get good enough, get good enough. 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:42.399 Then maybe God loves me, or they live me, or I'll love myself, or condemn yourself enough, it works both ways, or condemn yourself enough, belittle yourself enough, then maybe that's enough payment for your sin. 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:45.200 And there's one problem to all of that. 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:47.840 It's endless, it doesn't stop. 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:49.279 There's no end to it. 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:51.279 You do it your whole life. 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:56.320 But all of this leads us to Jesus. 00:09:56.639 --> 00:09:58.080 Hebrews 9 12. 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:08.559 He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:10.000 Hebrews 10, 4. 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:15.279 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:20.000 This week I learned about an artist, James Tussaud. 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:23.440 He's a French artist back in the 1800s. 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:27.519 He painted hundreds of pictures of Jesus' life. 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:35.519 He traveled, for 10 years, he traveled from France to the Holy Land, painted 350 pieces of art on the life of Christ. 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:39.200 This is the one entitled, What Our Lord Saw from the Cross. 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:40.639 All right, so this is a picture. 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:44.559 You have to put yourself in Jesus' place up on the cross, looking out. 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:52.320 You can see Jesus' feet there at the bottom, Mary Magdalene there at his feet, Mother Mary's out there in sorrow and in anguish. 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:57.360 John the evangelist, he's in anguish, the centurion, he looks like maybe he made a mistake. 00:10:57.519 --> 00:10:59.519 The men on the horses look satisfied. 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:03.279 And then the crowd is there just watching, just to watch. 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:07.039 Not coming to save him, not coming to worship him or thank him. 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:14.639 And then in the middle of the picture, in the middle of that background, you see a tomb with the door open. 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:19.200 And it's Tussault's way of saying, this isn't the end of the story. 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:28.879 In 1894, in the Paris Salon, 270 of Tussault's works hung up and were exhibited. 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:35.519 And it was described that men were coming through and reverently taking off their hats. 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:41.039 Women were coming through, kneeling down at the front of these paintings and weeping. 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:43.519 Now, why? 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:44.799 Why? 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:51.120 Not because it's a pat on the back and like, oh, you are so great, and here's some advice for you to go do. 00:11:51.279 --> 00:12:01.440 No, they're doing that because they see they're at the bottom of a hole, and this work of God for them is his pursuit of love of them at the bottom of the hole. 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:05.919 It's a proclamation of you can't do it. 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.120 It's us under that bridge where we just get stopped. 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:10.240 We need a rescue. 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:12.559 We can't control enough or be enough or earn enough. 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:15.679 There's not enough enoughness inside of me or you. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:19.200 We need God's grace to come toward us. 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:27.039 And these men and women in Paris in 1894 weeping in these paintings, they understood something. 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:35.600 What they understood was is God so loved the world, meant God so loves you. 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:47.039 On Thursday, at the Last Supper, where Jesus washes his disciples' feet, even the traitor amongst them. 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:49.840 He says, as I have loved you. 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:52.720 That's how you're going to do any of this. 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:55.440 Loving other people, as I have loved you. 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:56.879 You gotta know this love. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:03.039 On the cross, he looks out at that crowd and he says, forgive them. 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:04.159 Forgive them. 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:06.000 They don't know what they're doing. 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:08.720 It's finished. 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:09.679 He says, It's finished. 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:11.759 This word's finished for them. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:20.879 And then after the resurrection, when he finds his disciples hauled up in fear, he says, Peace be with you. 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:26.240 His love, his word, our peace. 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:31.039 Point number two is this we receive our victory over sin and death. 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:32.480 That's how the victory comes. 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:36.879 We receive our victory over sin and death and into secure forgiveness and righteousness. 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:40.240 It's a receiving posture that we have. 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.840 Yesterday morning, I woke up incredibly stressed. 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:45.360 I mean, this morning's pretty stressful. 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.879 Like to wake up on this is Super Bowl Sunday for a preacher, right? 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:49.759 I mean, it's Easter. 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:50.480 I mean, this is it. 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:51.519 Doesn't get bigger. 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:54.799 Big Sunday, Blazer Sunday is what's going on this morning. 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:58.080 Yesterday morning, though, I woke up just as stressed. 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:04.639 I coach my little girl's under 10 girls' soccer team. 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:08.879 And I, there's nothing more stressful in my life right now. 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.279 There's a lot of stuff going on in my life right now. 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:16.799 There's nothing legitimately more stressful in my life right now than game morning. 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:28.080 I wake up, I am so amped up about player positions, rotation, my strategy, who's gonna play where, when. 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:32.399 You know, I've started to notice, you know, one girl she gets a little winded halfway through the quarter. 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:34.080 Maybe I can kind of like trade out. 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:36.240 I'm going over it and over it and over. 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:37.440 It's our first season. 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:39.759 We're playing U 10, most of them are eight years old. 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:41.200 You can imagine what that's like. 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:42.399 We're 0-3. 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:57.679 We're coming into this fourth game yesterday morning, and you just gotta prepare your, I just gotta prepare myself for these games and like emotionally to be a somewhat of a nice human being. 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:05.200 We get to the field, the other team, you ten, you ten, the other team is stretching. 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.440 Okay, let me just fill you in. 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:09.440 We're lucky to get to the field. 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:12.159 We're working on double knots, on the shoes. 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:13.519 That's where we're at. 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:15.919 They're stretching before the game. 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.799 And I look at the assistant coach Chris, I look at him, I said, Do you see what's going on over there? 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:22.639 He said, Yeah, they're in a circle. 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:31.039 They practice, they have time to practice stretching, they're in a unified circle stretching, and we're this is this is not gonna go well. 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:33.759 You know, a U-10 team stretching before a game. 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.200 The game starts, we st we start playing pretty good. 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:39.039 Like the ball's over midfield. 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:41.759 Like if you've watched a little kid soccer, and you know what that feels like. 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:44.720 Sometimes you just like, if we get over midfield, I'm gonna count that as a goal. 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:48.080 But like we were we were moving the ball down. 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:51.440 We were actually getting near the one time we got near their goal. 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:52.799 And it's a little pack, right? 00:15:52.879 --> 00:16:00.159 You've seen little kids soccer, a little pack, and the ball, it just squirts out to the left, just kind of just rolls out to the left. 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:03.279 And that little girl who's playing goalie, she was out of position. 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:07.679 I don't care about her, I don't care where she was at because what I know is we're gonna get a goal here. 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:09.279 We haven't scored. 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:11.279 We haven't scored the whole season. 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:12.639 We've been skunked. 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:17.759 And I'm not talking one zero, two zero, I'm talking eight, ten. 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:22.879 Like, it's insurance ball squirts out. 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:25.840 Our girl kicks it in. 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:29.759 Did y'all watch the Gonzaga game last night? 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:30.399 Okay? 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:39.840 This guy sucks, he dribbles like half half court, 3.3 seconds, he dribbles down, he hits a bank shot from like half court to win. 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:41.600 That's what happened on that soccer field. 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:43.440 We went nuts. 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:45.759 It was the game wasn't even over. 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.879 You would have thought we won the final four. 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:50.480 We are jumping up and down. 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:54.320 The girls come off the field, we are celebrating. 00:16:54.559 --> 00:17:01.840 I turned around to the five that aren't playing, they're braiding each other's hair, working on their double knots, and I'm like, we scored. 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:02.799 We scored. 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:03.840 Like this happened. 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:05.599 We didn't know this would happen all season. 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:06.559 This just happened. 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:07.839 They're going nuts. 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:09.599 Here's what's interesting with it, right? 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:14.880 Here's what's interesting is I am proclaiming out we scored. 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:17.279 Libby scored. 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:18.960 That was a little girl who scored. 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:19.759 Libby. 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:21.440 I didn't score. 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:22.319 Right? 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:32.640 It's the same way, like you were at the SDC Championship one team and one time, and your team won, and the game's over, and the coach made a speech, and then the band played your school song, right? 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:34.000 And you're crying. 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:37.039 You you didn't play it down, like you didn't do anything. 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:40.079 You didn't throw a ball or make a block. 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:42.559 You you did nothing. 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:46.400 And you would look at your friend and you would say, We won, right? 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:49.440 Like you're, oh, we won, and you're hugging, you're crying, right? 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:50.559 Why? 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:55.200 It's imputed victory because you're in the family. 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:57.680 That's what we have in the resurrection. 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:04.160 God's victory over sin and death given to us in his grace. 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:10.000 We've done nothing in that free, we've done nothing for this, and we can add nothing back to it. 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:18.400 It is fully sufficient for you to have forgiveness of sins, full righteousness forever, forever his beloved, in a secure relationship. 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:19.839 That's amazing. 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:29.759 We're the family, we're the family let into the stadium to watch somebody else win, and we're given the victory. 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:31.440 Listen to this. 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:35.359 Just after the resurrection, his disciples are afraid, they're holed up, they're ready to walk away. 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:38.079 John 12, 19 through 22. 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:50.240 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked, where the disciples were fear for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, Peace be with you. 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:54.799 When he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:58.720 Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:01.519 Jesus said to them again, Peace be with you. 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:05.440 As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you. 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:12.319 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:22.480 So point number three is this resolute peace for your heart is found in God's victory and God's presence. 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:27.119 Both times Jesus shows up and he says, Peace be with you. 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:29.519 Now that's an already but not yet, right? 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:30.880 We say that a lot in our church. 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:34.799 Like, you already have peace and forever peace. 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:37.599 But you're not experiencing that to its fullness right now. 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:44.720 Like, I mean, we all know, we can just, at least my life, I can say my life, it is not like being on the beach in Hawaii after two cocktails. 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:46.720 That is not what my life is like. 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:48.799 It does not feel like that all the time. 00:19:49.119 --> 00:20:02.160 So we have peace, but at the same time, we are traveling through a messy, broken world as messy, broken people in relationship with other messy and broken people toward an eternity where we will know this in its fullness. 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:05.119 But our peace today is resolute. 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:09.920 Not because it's us generating it, but because it's in the victory God has given to us. 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:21.359 So even as our life is up and down and we are up and down, we can know something of peace because we know God is for us, pursuing us, and he's with us. 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:21.839 Right? 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:24.880 Jesus breathes the Holy Spirit on them. 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:27.599 So that means God's for us and he's with us. 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:30.799 The very Spirit of God lives inside of us. 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:42.079 So if we put this all together to be astonished by this gift that we have, the victory is won outside of us, imputed to us, so we have peace in that victory. 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:57.279 And then the very Spirit of God, God Himself, lives in us, working in our hearts, helping our unbelief, praise God, and helping us to come alive to the love of God, to no greater peace. 00:20:57.839 --> 00:20:59.519 Hallelujah, hallelujah. 00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:02.079 He has risen, he has risen. 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:06.240 The victory is his, so the victory is yours. 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:07.519 Let's pray together. 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:10.079 God, thank you for your grace to us. 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:14.079 Thank you that you are the victor so we can know victory. 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:17.519 Thank you that your work for us is sufficient. 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:18.960 We don't have to add to it. 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:22.000 How freeing it is to say, no, I can't do it all. 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:24.240 There's some things I can't do. 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:33.599 The justifying of my own self and worth and value, the earning of forgiveness and righteousness is something I will always get stuck under the bridge of. 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:36.319 And it will crush me. 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:38.640 And it does crush me. 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:45.519 God, we thank you that you are not a redo, you are a redeemer. 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:57.519 Help our unbelief and help us to trust more in you to know this new life where beauty comes from ashes and life comes from death. 00:21:57.759 --> 00:22:02.559 In your powerful redeeming name, we trust and we pray. 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:03.440 Amen.