WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:04.160 So a few months ago, I watched the movie, the Steve Jobs movie. 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:08.080 I think it's called Steve Jobs is the title of the movie. 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:12.320 And if you remember him, he was the founder of Apple and he was meticulous, right? 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:18.879 I mean, he wore the same outfit over and over and over and over and over again. 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:24.399 And he was just obsessed with efficiency and design and perfection. 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:28.640 He was brutal, brutal to work with. 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:31.839 He wasn't my kind of guy. 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:33.600 He wasn't the kind of guy I would want to work with. 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:38.000 And so I'm kind of watching the movie and I'm going like, the movie's enjoyable, but I don't know if I like you. 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:39.920 I actually don't like you at all. 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:41.679 That's kind of my opinion of him. 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:43.679 Eventually he's kicked out of his own company. 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:49.359 If you remember his story and the story of Apple, he's kicked out of his own company and it's over. 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:50.079 He's over. 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:50.640 He's out. 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:51.840 He's on the out. 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:53.520 He's not coming back in. 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:54.640 It's over. 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:59.840 And then the movie kind of goes along and he he just works his way back in. 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:01.280 Like he just works his way back in. 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:02.960 And I find myself, I'm watching this. 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:04.239 I don't like him. 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:06.000 Don't like this guy. 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.400 And yet I'm loving this. 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:11.200 Like I'm loving what's going on here. 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:13.920 And he gets his way back into Apple, right? 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:19.120 And then the iPod comes out, and that was amazing, right? 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:27.040 Because we all had, or a lot of us had those huge notebooks of CDs, you know, in our passenger seat, you know, flipping those. 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:28.879 I mean, texting is dangerous. 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:31.120 I mean, that notebook was dangerous. 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:32.159 That's what was dangerous. 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:40.400 You put it in your lap and you're finding best hits of Deaf Leopard, and that's in the very back, but you want it, you want it, and so you're going for it. 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:41.599 You know, and all of that. 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:43.680 We'd spend all that time loading our CDs. 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:48.560 We spent all the time loading the CDs into our computer and plugged the iPod up, and all of that was on that little red tape. 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:50.000 It was amazing, amazing. 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:57.359 And then the wheel came out on the iPod, and then the touch screen, and then the iPhone and the iPad, and the iPad mini, all of that, right? 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:57.840 All of that. 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.599 And I'm watching it and I don't like the guy. 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:00.879 I do not like him. 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:01.680 I don't like him. 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:02.640 Too brutal. 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:03.439 Don't like that. 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:07.040 I don't like him, but I'm loving this story. 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:09.439 I'm loving the story. 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:15.039 Because at least for me, I love a resurrection. 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:16.400 I just love it. 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:17.199 I love it. 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:28.719 I love, I love when it's the 15th round and Drago has been pummeling Rocky, and you think Rocky's dead, but somehow his legs are still working. 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:33.120 There's no way, and then all of a sudden Rocky comes back and he wins. 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:34.960 Or Martha Stewart. 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:39.199 She was in jail. 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.199 I don't know if you remember this. 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:45.680 She what sweet Martha was in jail. 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:48.080 We don't even care, do we? 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:50.479 Sweet Martha thinks she comes back out. 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:51.520 Resurrection. 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:52.400 New life. 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:53.919 Backstreet boys. 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:57.680 They are in Vegas right now with a show. 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:00.560 And so I don't know what's going on in your life. 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:06.319 I don't know how hopeless it feels that you can think about the Backstreet Boys. 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:11.280 Because there had to have been a period in their life where they thought nothing will ever come back for us. 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:12.960 And look, look, it happens. 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:13.439 It happens. 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:16.080 Resurrection! Resurrection. 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:19.439 And we feel it at times, right? 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:20.080 We feel this. 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:25.360 We feel like new life and peace, just an impossibility for me. 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:28.879 We all love these resurrection stories. 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:32.879 And we're wondering, where is the new life for me? 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:34.560 Where is that at? 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:46.560 And so it's Easter, Easter morning, and you remember the story, and Sam read it for us, and Jesus was killed on Friday, a political move by Rome, a power move by the Jewish authorities. 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:55.520 And then three days later, and we read that we read this in Luke 24, the women who are close to Jesus, they're coming back to the grave where Jesus was buried. 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:56.879 And these women were hurt. 00:03:56.960 --> 00:03:58.000 I mean, they were broken. 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:03.280 This was, they loved him, and he was going to make everything better. 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:07.280 And now he's dead, and they're distraught and they're grieving. 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:10.080 So let's reread verses 2 through 7. 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:16.319 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:23.439 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:27.279 Okay, it's a strange, strange scene, strange scene. 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:31.279 In their fright, the women bowed down with their faces to the ground. 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:35.199 Rightfully so, I think all of us, we would just fall out at this point. 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:39.519 But the men said to them, Why do you look for the living among the dead? 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:42.319 He is not here, but has risen. 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:45.519 Remember how he told you while he was still in Galilee? 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:46.319 Like you remember that? 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:47.439 He was telling you a lot of stuff. 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:55.199 Verse 7, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and on the third day rise. 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:57.839 So let's break this down. 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:03.839 Let's break this down into four points about love this morning. 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:06.560 So point number one, God is love. 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:07.680 God is love. 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:08.480 1 John. 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:08.720 St. 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:10.399 John wrote that in 1 John. 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:11.600 God is love. 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:13.600 That is the ark of the scriptures. 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:19.839 I'm not talking about let's look at a like narrowed into like a battle in the Old Testament, and you go, I don't know about that. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:26.639 No, I'm talking about the ark, the story of the scriptures is God is love. 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:28.800 We could spend a year on it. 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.040 We could we'll spend our lives on that, okay? 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:33.279 I understand, but we'll be succinct this morning. 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:36.319 Point number two love is of God. 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:38.560 Love is of God. 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:41.199 Love is not God. 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.040 See, love has God as its source. 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:46.319 We're getting philosophical. 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:52.639 Love has God as its source, but God does not have love as his source. 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:58.720 But rather, love is the expression of God for us to know. 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.199 So now we can think about the cross. 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:03.920 I'm gonna get us, I'm gonna eventually get us to the empty tomb. 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.319 Now we can think about the cross, point number three. 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:11.920 No greater love is this than a man should lay down his life for another. 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:14.639 So that's straight from John chapter 15. 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:23.519 Jesus, incarnate God, the face of God, hangs vulnerably on a cross for us. 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:27.839 And that's all about our sin and our shame and the condemnation. 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:30.000 All is put upon him. 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:33.439 We're always trying to sacrifice ourselves for all those things, right? 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:35.839 Just keep sacrificing yourself, sacrifice yourself, sacrifice. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:42.480 And God says, No, no, no, I will come into your mess, I will sacrifice myself and take that upon myself. 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:43.600 That's how much I love you. 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:48.720 I'll do that, I'll sacrifice myself, and I will give to you my righteousness. 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:52.480 And this is a picture of what God thinks about you. 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:55.600 And all of us think about this all the time. 00:06:55.839 --> 00:07:01.040 All of us think about love all the time because we all want to be loved. 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:15.519 We all want to be loved, and it's whether my wife loves me or my husband loves me, or that girl in the eighth grade, her name was Kristen Looney, she had long brown hair, that is her real name, and does she love me? 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:18.480 Or the guy in accounting. 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:35.040 And our heart just putters away at the thought, the thought, the thought that another person could accept me and approve of me and want me, like really want me as I am, you know, to stamp, to stamp us with validation. 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:41.680 But deeper than that, what we're wondering is like, would could that go into our failure? 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:47.519 Like before we get all prettied up in the morning and dressed up. 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:49.519 Could it go there? 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:51.600 Like, what about my shame? 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:53.120 Could you handle that? 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.399 Could you love me in that place? 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:00.079 Man, we'd live for that thought. 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:05.600 People move across the world for that thought. 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:11.439 And all of this is human romantic love, and it's a taste. 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:15.040 It is a taste of something deeper. 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:19.360 That God sees us before we get all fancied up. 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:24.879 And he sees our sin, he sees our shame, and he says, I'll take it. 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:26.079 I'll take it. 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:30.480 That will not be the last word for you. 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:35.519 And the thing is, is this is where the freedom is. 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:48.720 It's because we're constantly trying to get God to approve of us, or somebody to approve of us, of our, with our achievement in the world, or achievement and our self-righteousness within religious life, and we're constantly trying to use all these different things. 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:51.840 And it's just it's us sacrificing ourselves more and more and more. 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:53.600 But God sees us before all of it. 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:56.080 And he says, Man, I love that girl. 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:57.759 I love that boy. 00:08:58.639 --> 00:08:59.919 Now, listen to this quote. 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:05.440 I read it to this quote this week, and it's from The Guardian, an article in 2015. 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:12.320 So The Guardian's a secular magazine, 2015, and the title of the article is Christianity is for losers. 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:14.320 And now this is gonna get us to the empty tomb. 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:20.960 I said we're gonna get, you know, God is love, love is love is of God, no greater love is this than a man should lay down his life for another. 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:25.440 That was point number three, and now we're we're getting to the resurrection. 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:27.600 Christianity is for losers. 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:40.320 The Christian story, like the best sort of terrifying psychoanalysis, strips you down to nothing in order for you to face yourself anew. 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:44.960 For it turns out that losers are not despised or rejected, not ultimately. 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:58.639 In fact, losers can discover something about themselves that winners cannot ever appreciate, that they are loved and wanted simply because of who they are, not because of what they achieve. 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:03.360 This is revealed precisely at the greatest point of dejection. 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:17.440 The resurrection is not a conjuring trick with bones, it is a revelation that love is stronger than death, that human worth is not indexed to worldly success. 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:21.279 So point number four. 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:27.279 But the God of victorious love abides in you. 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:34.559 And new life comes from that and abiding in that deep love. 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:37.440 And you know what? 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:41.440 It won't make your junky, stressful job go away. 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:42.399 It won't. 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:45.919 Or your kids to become perfect, they won't. 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:48.559 Or you won't make you become perfect. 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:51.840 It won't make your mom less passive-aggressive. 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:54.639 Or you or me. 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:58.000 It doesn't mean you're gonna be perfectly happy. 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:00.399 It doesn't mean even you're gonna be good. 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:04.480 It doesn't even mean everything in your life's gonna become healed and everything's wonderful. 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:05.679 That's not what it means. 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:13.360 What it means is that there's victory over all of those realities being the thing that justifies you. 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:24.399 That the empty tomb is the word over you, not the collection of how you're doing and all these other realms of life. 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:32.000 I went for a walk in the woods this week for two hours without my phone. 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:34.000 You done that? 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:35.360 Have you done that recently? 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:36.159 I had not. 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:37.519 I have not done that recently. 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:39.120 And so I said, I get there. 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:42.080 I said, I'm gonna leave my phone in the car. 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:47.440 And so I get into the woods, I just start walking in, and it's about every fifth step. 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:48.879 You know what I'm talking about, right? 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:49.679 Little pat. 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:51.279 Make sure where's it at? 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:55.360 You know, look like that's usually that's you know, keys, phone, wallet. 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:56.559 Guys, you know what I'm talking about. 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:00.639 I don't know the woman's rhythm there, but keys, phone, wallet, keys, phone, wallet. 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:01.679 It's like every five steps. 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:06.000 You just I felt like I felt like I felt like I didn't have pants on. 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:07.360 I kept tapping. 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:09.279 I kept tapping, where is it at? 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:16.240 And then all these fears, all these anxieties, just like I thought about like immediate, I'm in there, I'm like, what if a tree falls on me? 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:16.960 How am I gonna call? 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:17.759 Who am I gonna call? 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:18.720 How's this gonna work out? 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:25.600 Because I've been on this trail a lot, and usually it's about two people per hour that I see on this one trail in Kennesaw Park, about two people per hour. 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.799 And so I figure out if a tree falls on me, I'm there for 30 minutes. 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:30.159 That's what I figure out. 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.120 I have to come to grip, I have to come to grips with this. 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:34.320 This is my anxiety. 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:36.639 So usually I can cover it up with a podcast, right? 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:42.159 Just put it in, another podcast, another song, but all this anxiety comes up is I'm not covering it all up. 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:48.960 And the what if the tree falls on me and I reconcile that, I get comfortable with that, and then I start to think about are there bears in Kennesaw Park? 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:51.200 I'm not making this up, I'm not making it up. 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:59.200 And I'm pretty sure there's not bears in Kennesaw Park, but I also don't know because I've never I've never Googled it. 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:03.519 And I can't Google it now because I don't have my phone. 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:04.879 You see the problem. 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:06.320 You see the problem. 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:09.200 And so I have to let that one go. 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:11.440 Maybe there is, maybe there's not. 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:12.159 I'm not sure. 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:13.039 Gotta let it go. 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:16.080 But then the urge just to look things up starts. 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:19.840 What's the name of the gremlin in that movie? 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:22.720 What is the name of the gremlin? 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:24.320 Gizmo. 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:25.039 Somebody said it. 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:25.440 Very good. 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:26.559 That's right, gizmo. 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:30.240 But I w I wondered that for a while because I couldn't look it up. 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:31.120 Do you see what I'm saying? 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:34.799 Like we're just we're covering all this anxiety inside of us. 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:45.519 And I keep walking, dealing with all this, keep walking, and then this memory, just a memory from 10 years ago, 12 years ago, maybe 12 years ago, comes comes over me. 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:51.840 Where I I had I had publicly failed at something in business. 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:55.279 And I had frustrated a lot of people. 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:57.759 And a lot of people were angry at me. 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:02.879 And it wasn't gonna go away like in a couple hours, it was gonna last for a little bit of time. 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:07.759 Man, I just I felt all of that again. 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:09.039 That shame. 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:14.720 And you know, the voice I heard was um not you had you you failed. 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:16.399 The voice was the voice of shame. 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:18.879 The voice of shame is you are a failure. 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:20.320 That's what shame is. 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.279 And I heard that you are a failure. 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:28.080 And so I just walked to that death voice for a little bit, which is the old Adam. 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:30.000 That's the old Adam, right? 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:34.879 To get you to live out of fear and shame, to motivate your life out of that. 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:38.480 And I realized, like, wow, what is that? 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:39.200 Where did that come? 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:40.240 Where did that come from? 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:41.120 What is that? 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:43.360 Wow, that's still in me. 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:45.840 That still motivates me. 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:48.720 Wow, that's something I need to bring to the Lord. 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:50.320 I mean, that's something important there. 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:54.159 And then I also remembered something else about that first day when that started. 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:58.320 That first day, I had I had called Christy on my way home and said, hey, here's what's going on. 00:14:58.399 --> 00:14:59.200 It's not pretty. 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:06.559 And I get home, I walk straight in, and I get on the bed, and I ball up, and I start to weep. 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:20.799 And Christy comes into the bedroom and she crawls up on the bed and she curls up behind me, and she wraps me up, and she just wept over me. 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:23.279 Right? 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:25.840 There's a taste of sacred love. 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.360 That's the taste, that's the taste, that's the human taste. 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:33.200 Though you fail, I love you. 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:42.080 The final word, the final word is not the word of shame, and it's not the word of death, it's not the cross. 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:44.080 It's the empty tomb. 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:47.759 That love is victorious. 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:51.360 See, the default voice in your life is usually not the good one. 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:52.000 It's not. 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:53.519 That's why we have to keep hearing the gospel. 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:57.200 That's why you have to keep preaching it to yourself over and over and over again. 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:02.320 The default voice is usually the old Adam motivating you out of fear and shame. 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:04.639 It talks a lot about your weight. 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:11.600 Talks a lot about your position and your bank account and your where you're at in the social realm and how your life means anything. 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:13.519 And I'll talk to you a lot about that. 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:22.639 But the final word, the defining word, the justifying word over your life is a word of grace. 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:26.320 It is the gift of the cross and the empty tomb. 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:37.200 It is the sacred, victorious love over you, victory over death that was accomplished by Jesus' death and resurrection for you. 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:40.559 So, you, my brothers and sisters, you are free. 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:45.679 You are free indeed to live life and the resurrection. 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:47.200 Let's pray together. 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:54.000 God, thank you that your work for us is enough. 00:16:55.120 --> 00:17:04.799 And that you died on the cross for our sin, and we live, we live, we live in your righteousness, not our own. 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:06.559 And that the tomb is empty. 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:14.880 A statement in history for us to look to and to know the face of God alive. 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.920 Love is the final word over us and in us. 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:35.680 Would you help us, help us, give us greater trust to rest ourselves at the core of who we are, and this deep love that you have for us, redeeming, resurrecting, love. 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:37.839 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:38.640 Amen.