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April 12, 2020 | Easter Weekend Message from Topeka Bible Church · Topeka Bible Church Audio Archive

• 0:03
  SPEAKER_01: Let me add my word of uh thanks to that of uh Dakota and Rachel and Jeremiah for you joining us separately, of course, at your home, joining us uh for the Easter 2020 celebration service.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: And listen, if you enjoy what you see and hear today, I'd invite you to join us for the next three weeks.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna do a three-week series that's very pandemic appropriate, entitled uh He's Still Got the Whole World in His Hands.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: So uh this is the strangest Easter of our entire lives.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: Am I right?
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: Every Easter up until now, we've rolled out of bed in the morning, we've been really uh pumped, we've been really happy because we've known it's a day of flooding in the church.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: We've known that we would see little boys and little girls in their new dresses and new pants, that we would greet our friends and we would sing songs we know, and we would cry, hallelujah! Christ is risen, Christ is risen indeed.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: And afterwards we'd go home or to the restaurant for a big Easter dinner, and maybe later uh Big Easter hunt, big Easter egg hunt for the kids.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: But wow, this world, this year the world has changed.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_01: We're home alone.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: We're hiding away from a deadly virus and people who might infect us.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, I think I feel like we're living out a scene from uh uh the movie Home Alone.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: Remember when Macaulay Culkin orders the pizza, and the pizza delivery guy comes and goes to the door and he knocks on the door, and then uh Macaulay uh punches the TV, and they're in this loud voice comes, uh, just leave it on the doorstep.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: And the pizza guy uh leaves it on the doorstep, and after he drives away, Macaulay opens the door, reaches out, grabs the pizza, closes the door again just to keep safe.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_01: But here's an Easter thought for you that is this that this is the very first Easter that you and I have ever celebrated that Jesus' own disciples would feel at home in.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_01: Because you realize that first Easter, every single Jesus follower that we know of was hiding and huddling away behind closed doors, you might say, self-quarantining.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, check it out with me.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Mark, uh gospel and the gospel of Mark.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: The social distancing starts back on Good Friday, Mark chapter 15, verse 40.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus is hanging on the cross, and we read some women were watching from a distance.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: From a distance.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: There it is, social distancing.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_01: Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James the younger and of Joseph, and Salome.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: The three women who, by the way, had followed him all the way through Galilee, these were his three leading women followers.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: So they stay there, but at a distance, watching the most wonderful person they had ever known, person that they had been convinced was the Messiah, and they didn't leave, but they didn't get close because it was terrifying.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was terrifying, of course, because it was a bloody gruesome crucifixion.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_01: And it was terrifying because in the middle of things, all of a sudden, a darkness suddenly falls over everything.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: Sun is blotted out for three hours.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: And then Jesus cries out in some strange, gasping voice, Eloy, Eloy, Lama Sabakhtani, which means my God, my God, thou hast forsaken me.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: Why hast thou forsaken me?
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_01: They understood that.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: Then they see Jesus collapse and move no more, even though the two guys hanging on either side, they're far from dying.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_01: And then there's this sudden violent earthquake, and some of the rocks right next to them just break apart.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, really.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_01: They wouldn't move.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_01: They couldn't move.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_01: And later in the afternoon, I'm talking about these three women from a distance, they watch.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: There's a guy they know, a guy everybody knew, a well-known businessman, a Jesus follower, a fellow believer they knew named Joseph came, and he clearly was in a hurry because it's getting late in the afternoon, Shabbat's about to start, when everybody has to stop for 24 hours from whatever they're doing, and they had watched him take the dead body of their Lord off the cross, and then they had followed him at a distance to his home, his property, to this family tomb, something about the size of your bedroom, big cave, you know, newly carved out of white limestone, with half a dozen on the inside, half a dozen approximately holes, rectangular holes carved back into the limestone where Joseph was planning to slide his family members whenever they died.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: And those bodies, a body would be left there for a year until the flesh melted away and it was just bones, and then they'd take out the bones a year later, put them in sort of a big urn, a bone box.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_01: They called it an ossuary.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: And so they watched from a distance.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_01: I think they positioned themselves so they could see Joseph go into his family tomb with the body of Jesus, lay the body of Jesus on the stone table of preparation, wrap that body in a linen, you know, sort of a cloth, and then slide it into one of those rectangular, cool rectangular holes.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: And then they watched him walk out of that tomb and then push the stone, the rolling stone, back out down into the groove of the door where it sort of locked it.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: Joseph had been in a hurry.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: No time to add spices.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_01: He'd left, and they themselves had gone home and closed the door, and the three women had, I'm sure, hugged each other and cried.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: But frankly, the whole thing was freakish and a little frightening.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_01: And by the way, we know that the men followers of Jesus were doing social distancing and self-quarantining at the same time, because they were just as terrified as the three women.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: Even those disciples who'd sworn most solemnly to Jesus at the Last Supper that they had stay by his side even unto death to a man had run away when the soldiers appeared in the night.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_01: And they had been hiding behind closed doors in terror ever since, afraid that those powerful men who had gotten Pilate to crucify Christ might be coming after them too.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: So that's really the crucifixion.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: That's Good Friday, and it shook them, both the women and the men who follow Jesus, because it meant this.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_01: It meant death is near, and I'm helpless to keep it away.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_01: Death feels nearer than it's ever felt before.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: We don't feel safe.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_01: And this week, perhaps more than ever in your life, at least since 9-11, we feel that same insecurity, right?
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: Feel like death is near, and we can't stop it.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: We keep can't keep it away either from ourselves or from our loved ones.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: We can't guarantee our safety.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: We are helpless to stop it.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_01: It feels like it's breathing down our necks.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: Medically speaking, the core of core uh the coronavirus snatches the away the breath in our lungs, which is why hospitals need ventilators and their intensive cares now more than ever.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_01: But frankly, I think the COVID-19 virus has snatched something else away from us as well.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's taken away our confidence that we can keep death at bay, that we are safe from death, that we can keep a safe distance from it.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_01: Now we know different.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: Now we know that death ignores the six-foot barrier.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: Death feels nearer than it ever has before.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's breathing down our necks.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_01: But you say that's the cross.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: That's Good Friday.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: Surely.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: Easter, the empty tomb, will remove all fear, right?
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: Let's check Mark again.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: Mark 16, first eight verses.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: According to scholars, the last eight verses of the book.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: When the Shabbat was over, when the Sabbath was over, same three women, Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, brought spices so that they might go and anoint Jesus' body.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb, and they asked each other, who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_01: As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: Don't be alarmed, he said.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: You're looking for Jesus the Nazarene who was crucified.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: He is risen.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: He is not here.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_01: See the place where they laid him.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: But go, tell his disciples and Peter.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: He's going ahead of you into Galilee.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: There you will see him just as he told you.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_01: They said nothing to anyone because they were afraid.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: These three women, two Marys and a Salome, out of their intense love and devotion to Jesus.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: While the men followers of Jesus are still huddling behind closed doors, maybe still in bed, they're going very early to anoint the body of Jesus with oils and spices to offset the odor of decomposition.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_01: After a couple of days in that culture, if you've been there, you know the smell would already be bad.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: And they're worried as they go.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: They're worried about how they're going to get inside the tomb because the stone's way too heavy for them to roll back up out of the groove in front of the door.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: They're hoping to find somebody nearby who they can commandeer to do it for them, but it's early dawn, so they're worried about it.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: But when they get there, they get a surprise.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: The stones already have been rolled back.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_01: And then they get a second and a third surprise.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: When they step into the tomb, there's a man, a young man, it appears, strangely dressed all in white, sitting on the stone table of preparation.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: And there's something about this guy doesn't look quite normal.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: He's different, and it suddenly struck all of them at the same time that he is an angel.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: And their knees turned to jelly.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_01: The Bible says they were alarmed.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's a mild translation of that word.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: Scared out of their wits might be better.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: And that was their second surprise.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: Seeing him, the third was the biggest and scariest surprise.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: And that's what the angel said.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Don't be scared out of your wits.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_01: Too late.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: You're seeking Jesus of Nazareth.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: Good.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: You come to the right place.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is where he was laid.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: You can see the spot right there, but he's not here.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: He's been raised.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: So go and tell Peter and the others.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: Well, they are so scared, so afraid, we read, they went out and fled from the tomb.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: Terror and alarm had seized them, and they said nothing.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: Did you hear that?
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: They said nothing to anyone.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: So afraid they completely forgot, they disobeyed, or they ignored the angel's command to tell the disciples.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_01: Told no one.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: Went into isolation, self-quarantined, for they were afraid.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's the story.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: That's how the gospel ends in the earliest manuscripts of Mark.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: We have an empty tomb, an angel, and some grieving women running.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: On Easter, we used to cute little girls in pretty dresses sort of parading around in church.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: This is so much different.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: What we see really on the first Easter is middle-aged women with their skirts, actually their robes hitched up above their knees, running as fast as they can over rocks to get back home.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: Well, the other disciples or the other gospels tell the rest of the story, right?
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: They say that the frightened women eventually tell the disciples who themselves are huddling back, frightened behind closed doors.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: But even after three of those disciples, Peter, James, John, run up and check out the story and realize it might be true, they go back and continue their self-quarantine.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: And then Jesus comes, he completely ignores the quarantine, walks to the wall, and says, Would you touch me, please?
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: But Mark's gospel ends with fear.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, really, what exactly was there for them to fear?
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_01: Why weren't they just overjoyed?
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: The answer is, of course, the empty tomb, the resurrection was scary because it meant that nothing was the same anymore, that the world had changed completely and they were helpless to control it.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: Do I need to remind you that the resurrection was a total shock?
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: That no one then, not Jesus' most faithful followers, expected it.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: Not even Peter, James, John, not even these three loyal women, they're headed to the tomb.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: To anoint a dead body.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_01: They see the stone moved away.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: None of them said, oh, maybe Jesus is risen.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't say that because they figure someone had to have taken the body because dead bodies don't move themselves.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: Resurrection is no surprise to you, no surprise to me, but that first Easter, let's remind ourselves it was a total shock to everyone.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: So when an angel says Jesus has risen, their hearts stop, stop dead.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_01: They wish their friend hadn't died, but they knew death, and now that Jesus was dead, you know, we can handle death.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, imagine if you attended a funeral of a loved one, grandma, grandpa, no matter how much you'd like to see him or her alive.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: Imagine as you're sitting there that suddenly the casket creaks open and a leg comes over the top.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna get trampled in the rush to get out of the room.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: ASAP, this isn't real.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: This is the walking dead in real life.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's that's how we'd feel.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: But what this means is that you know what, we know death and we can handle death, but if death's not the end, then something's really out of our control.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: If lives don't end, if there's no period at the end of a life, if we can't move on, that's a scary thing.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: Friends, that's what this book is saying, Mark and the gospel, and Jesus, when it says that the last words are, let's be honest, and they were afraid because the world has changed.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_01: You can't put a period on the end of a life, and you're helpless to do anything about it.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_01: So let me just end this way.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: Let me say we need to come to grips with the same two insecurities that the first Christians felt, because we're feeling them today as we've never felt them before.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: Insecurity number one is Good Friday insecurity, the fear of death.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing is safe, death is near, and I'm helpless to stop it.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: Insecurity number two, though, is Easter insecurity.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing is the same, the world has changed, and I'm helpless to control it.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: What do you do about that?
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: What do you do on the scariest of Easter days?
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm gonna let a friend of mine and a friend of ours, Eric Winrick, tell you what he did.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: When he thought he had everything under control, he had it all, and then he realized he didn't, after all, have everything under control, that his world would change and he was helpless to control it.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: Watch this four-minute video.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: I grew up in southwest Kansas.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: Grew up in a Catholic home, went to Catholic grade school, have a brother and then a whole slew of stepsisters, stepbrothers.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: We always did church on Sunday.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: Typical upbringing.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: Friends and I would get on our bikes as soon as we got home from school and we would ride until the streetlights came on.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_00: That's when we had to be home and in the driveway.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: Growing up in a Catholic grade school, faith seemed to me more like a subject in school, more than a central part of my heart or lifestyle.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: As a child, I don't think I had any ambitions for a particular occupation.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: I just knew, based on my upbringing, I would always end up in a successful position.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: My grandparents went to college, and my parents went to college.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: So in my family, that was just always an expectation to move on to a career after that.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: Early in high school, I came to know Christ and was saved through young life.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: Was probably similar to a lot of early Christians and was on fire for Christ early on.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: By the time I got to college, that began to fade, and I probably went on a divergent path than what God had intended for me.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: Into early adulthood, that path probably got wider and wider as I pursued what I thought was important in the world, which would have been career and some athletic endeavors and making money.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: I became good at that, but I knew that there was still parts of my life that were incomplete.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: So I did very well in college.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, I finished at the top of my class.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: I ended up with a lot of free time on my hands.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: Free time equals me time.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: I partied a lot, I lived the college lifestyle, and I probably lived it to excess.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: About six months before graduation, uh my brother and I had a conversation, and we decided that we would go in business together and follow what my dad had started.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: Over the next 10 years or so, um expanded that family business to a point where we had uh multiple restaurants in multiple cities and multiple businesses locally.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: Shortly after college, decided to run a marathon as a bucket list and through that learned that I was pretty good at endurance sports.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: So for that time in my life, there was quite a number of years where I really felt like I had everything going.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: I had done some things athletically that I was proud of.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: I was a multiple-time winner of the 10 man triathlon.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: I had finished top ten at a major marathon, felt like I really had it all going.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: I had successful businesses.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: With the family, we were making money, everyone was getting along, it sure seemed like all was well.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's also at that time when I realized I didn't have it all.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I felt a tug and continued to feel a tug.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: A few years later, I realized that's what was missing, was God was missing.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: So my restaurant here in Topeka continues to be healthy to this day and is a successful business.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: However, during that time period, there was an overwhelming collapse of some of the other businesses that caused a complete personal financial collapse.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: Lows were very challenging.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: It was very difficult to come to terms with some of the negative things happening in some of the businesses and the strained family relationships that came along with those.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: It got to a point where I no longer could feel like I was in control of that situation and was powerless to what was going on.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: At that point, I had nowhere to turn except to trust in God and know that God had a plan for me.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: And it was at that point that I found peace in that whole mess.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: As the businesses went through this negative transition.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: I had a very supportive spouse, a very hard time for us, but we became stronger and stronger through these struggles.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: One prayer that we prayed every night and continue to pray is that God would stay at the center of our relationship.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: Through this transition in business, I've realized that my approach to business has changed, and it's going to be more about the personal relationships that I have with those six or eight people that I work with every day, and that that has become my mission field, not bigger and better and more.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: As far as my faith, I've had to learn to surrender everything to God, and if I've got a decision to make, whether it's business related or personal or family, I've got to run it by God first.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: I would have never done that before this transition.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: Some of the most painful parts of this journey have been the strained family relationships.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: As I move forward, I just have to trust that God has a plan for healing.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I've learned that surrendering is a process.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: I have to do that every day and put myself in God's hands and trust that He is going to continue to write His story through me.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, on this Easter, the very first Easter in your life when the world has changed and nothing at all is the same, and you're helpless to control it.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: On this Easter, don't try to hide from it, don't quarantine from it, don't try to lock your mind away from it instead.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: Embrace the insecurity.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: Surrender like Eric did.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: Surrender to God, who changed the world forever, by raising Jesus from the grave.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: On this Easter, as strange as the first Easter, God is offering you the same resurrection miracle that He did for His own Son.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: He offers to remove the period from the end of your sentence, the end of your life, to give you eternal life.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: You just need to acknowledge what the virus has made abundantly clear to all of us now that you're not safe, that things are not under your control, that you can't control death, and you can't even control life.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: That life with a resurrected Jesus is the only life worth living.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: And that life is God's gift to you.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: And the moment you surrender your I can do it myself, pride and put your faith in the risen Savior.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: Will you do that today?
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: Let's pray.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for raising Jesus from the dead.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: After letting him die on the cross to take away our sins, and I pray for all who are listening today that we would all say thank you to your son Jesus for dying and rising for us.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: And that you move into the lives of those who aren't sure that they have that eternal life, who still feel afraid that they have a period on the end of their sentence.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: Lord, remove that as they put their faith in your son Jesus Christ this morning, this afternoon, this evening.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.