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1 Corinthians 15 Pt. 3 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Starting your day right means starting it with God.
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  Speaker 1: And there's no better way to start your day with
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  Speaker 1: God than to take some time with Him and just
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  Speaker 1: listen to what He has to say, to speak into
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  Speaker 1: your life, to shape your way of thinking, to set
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  Speaker 1: your mind for the day on the things that really matter. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's what we do each weekday at this time.
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  Speaker 1: We stop and read from God's word, the Bible, and
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  Speaker 1: listen to God. And this week I love the theme
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: because this is the heart of Christianity. This is the
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  Speaker 1: foundation on which everything else stands. The apostle Paul has
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  Speaker 1: started off chapter 15 of 1 Corinthians that we're looking
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  Speaker 1: at this week, talking about the.
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  Speaker 1: The Gospel, this simple message that Christ died for our sins.
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  Speaker 1: He took our place and faced God's judgement for us
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  Speaker 1: so that we could come into His place and be
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  Speaker 1: sons and daughters of God, welcomed into God's family, and
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus, risen from the dead, can come into our
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  Speaker 1: lives and change us completely and bring us into a
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  Speaker 1: living daily relationship with Him.
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  Speaker 1: Paul goes on to say, while this message about the
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  Speaker 1: death and resurrection of Jesus, uh, it's the heart, it's
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  Speaker 1: the foundation, and you need to understand it, he says,
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  Speaker 1: starting in verse 12. Now if Christ is proclaimed as
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  Speaker 1: raised from the dead, how can some of you say
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  Speaker 1: there is no such thing as resurrection from the dead?
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  Speaker 1: If there's no resurrection of the dead, then not even
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  Speaker 1: Christ has been raised, and if Christ has not been raised,
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  Speaker 1: then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is
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  Speaker 1: in vain.
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  Speaker 1: We are even found to be misrepresenting God because we
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  Speaker 1: testified about God that He raised Christ, whom He did
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  Speaker 1: not raise if it's true that the dead are not raised,
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  Speaker 1: for if the dead are not raised, not even Christ
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  Speaker 1: has been raised, and if Christ has not been raised,
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  Speaker 1: your faith is futile, and you are still in your sins.
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  Speaker 1: Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ, that is,
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  Speaker 1: those Christians who have died, have perished. If in Christ
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  Speaker 1: we have hope in this life only.
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  Speaker 1: We are of all people most to be pitied.
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  Speaker 1: Well,
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people who would say, well, that's right,
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  Speaker 1: we do just pity Christians for believing in those things
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  Speaker 1: and using religion as a crutch to try and make
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  Speaker 1: them feel better about life. Well, I will say, yes, uh,
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  Speaker 1: my faith is a crutch in a sense because my
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  Speaker 1: life is broken.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't feel like your life's broken, if you
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  Speaker 1: feel like everything's great and everything's as it ought to be,
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  Speaker 1: you are definitely not ready to put your faith in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ and become a follower of his. It's when
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  Speaker 1: you come to the realisation that every person on this
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  Speaker 1: world is broken.
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  Speaker 1: And that brokenness is because of the distance between us
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  Speaker 1: and God who made us for Himself.
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  Speaker 1: Until you come to that realisation and you look at
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  Speaker 1: your own life and you say.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what it looks like on the outside, there
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  Speaker 1: is a kind of desperation on the inside because I
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  Speaker 1: know life has to be so much more than this,
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  Speaker 1: and I know that death is not just the end
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  Speaker 1: of everything, but that my spirit will live on.
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  Speaker 1: And I need God.
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  Speaker 1: Well
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  Speaker 1: That's the message of Christianity. Jesus didn't stay dead. He
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  Speaker 1: rose from the dead. This is one of the most
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  Speaker 1: faith inspiring things I ever did in my life. I said, OK,
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  Speaker 1: if that's the case, I want to study the death
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  Speaker 1: and resurrection of Jesus and see what evidence there is
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  Speaker 1: for the resurrection of Jesus. I want you to know
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  Speaker 1: that when you look at the historical evidence for the
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  Speaker 1: resurrection of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: It gives you such a firm foundation for your faith
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  Speaker 1: about everything else in the Bible. The resurrection of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ is one of the most solid historical events ever
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  Speaker 1: recorded in human history, testified to by.
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  Speaker 1: Countless eyewitnesses, people who were willing to die for their
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  Speaker 1: claim that he had risen from the dead, it was
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  Speaker 1: no advantage to them to make that claim at that point.
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  Speaker 1: And yet they lived and died on this basis. Not
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  Speaker 1: only that.
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  Speaker 1: But I can tell you that I have encountered the
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  Speaker 1: risen Lord Jesus, not in a physical sense, no, but
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  Speaker 1: He has changed my life like night and day, and
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  Speaker 1: He can change yours too. This is the heart of Christianity.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ rose from the dead, and your faith is
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  Speaker 1: real when you put it in Him. I'm John North.