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  Didn't God good? Amen.
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  If you've been saved, you have a resurrection story.
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  You've been made alive because Jesus is alive.
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  If you're a guest here with us this morning, I hope you got a
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  worship guide on your way in. There's a way we can connect.
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  If you're willing to fill out that bottom card at some point
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  in today's service, I would love that.
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  You can give it in the basket on the way out at the end, or you
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  can bring it to me in the lobby. And I'd love the chance to be
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  able to connect with you and share more about what we're
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  about here at CFBC. If you have your Bible and hope
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  you do, go and make your way to Isaiah chapter 53.
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  Isaiah chapter 53 This morning on this Easter Sunday, I want to
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  share with you the story of the life, death, burial, and
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  resurrection of Jesus Christ. I want to tell you the
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  resurrection story. I don't know where you are
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  spiritually, but I do know this story is the one and only story
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  that has the power to change your story.
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  And my question for you this morning is, has the story of the
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  resurrection truly changed your story?
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  Now you might think that this story of Jesus, his life, death,
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  burial, and resurrection is only in the New Testament.
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  Many might assume that, but that's not the case.
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  It's actually also in the Old Testament, in this book and in
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  others, but nowhere more clearly in the Old Testament than in
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  Isaiah chapter 53. As we started examining last
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  week the story of the resurrection and now this story,
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  I want you to hear it through the words of the prophet Isaiah.
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  And as you hear and process it, I want you asking the question,
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  has this story truly changed my story?
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  Here it is, Part 1. Here's how Isaiah begins the
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  story. You can follow along in your
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  notes there. Jesus was the opposite of what
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  everyone expected. The story of Jesus starts as the
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  opposite of what everyone would have expect, expected.
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  Listen to verses 2 and three from Isaiah 53.
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  For he that's Jesus grew up before him.
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  That's God the Father, like a young plant and like a root out
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  of dry ground. He, Jesus, had no majesty that
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  we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire
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  Him. He was despised and rejected by
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  men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief as one
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  from whom men hide their faces. He was despised and we esteemed
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  Him not. The story of Jesus and the exact
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  opposite of what everyone would expect, could be described as
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  three Nos #1 no chance #2 no majesty and #3 no glory.
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  Let's talk about no chance. Look what it says there in the
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  text. He grew up before Him like a
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  plant out of like a root out of dry ground.
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  Let me ask you an obvious question.
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  Do things grow out of dry ground?
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  No Praise God. Things grow because of what's
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  happening right now and what happened last night.
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  Amen. Because rain falls from the
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  heavens, sent by God in His design of creation, allowing
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  things to grow. Things don't grow.
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  There's no chance something grows out of dry ground.
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  You say, well, Carl, how is it dry ground for the Messiah?
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  You see, God had promised that He would send a Savior.
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  He would send the Messiah, and he would be the son of David.
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  I'm talking about like David versus Goliath.
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  King David, all right? A son of his would come and
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  reign and rule forever as the Messiah.
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  The problem is that the line of King David had been cut down
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  like a tree reduced to a stump, left in dry ground.
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  It looked as if there was no earthly, no political, no
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  physical chance that a descendant of David would ever
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  be able to rise and rule and reign again.
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  And yet God said it would happen.
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  In fact, Isaiah verse one and two of Chapter 11 says it like
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  this. There shall come forth a shoot
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  from the stump of Jesse. That's David's father in the
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  branch from his roots shall bear fruit and who's it going to be.
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  It says in the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him.
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  It looked like a set of no way Jose circumstances yet God said
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  it would happen and this is how Jesus puts it in Revelation 22
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  verse 16. I Jesus have sent my Angel to
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  testify to you about these things for the churches
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  including CFBC in 2026. I am, he says, watch this, the
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  root and descendant of David, the bright morning Star.
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  The story of Jesus, friends, begins with what looks like no
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  possible chance. But God said it would happen,
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  and it's happened exactly as God said it.
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  What happened #2 no majesty, no chance, and no majesty.
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  Look what the text says. He had no form or majesty that
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  we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire
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  him. If you could have lived in 1st
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  century Judea and walked up to Jesus and his 12 disciples,
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  perhaps you would have thought you could recognize you could
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  pick out of the line of 13 which one was Jesus.
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  If you thought that you could, you would be wrong.
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  You would have had no earthly idea which one was the living,
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  breathing in the flesh Son of the living God.
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  You don't want to know why? Because the Bible says Jesus had
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  absolutely nothing about him from a physical, earthly
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  perspective that was attractive or that was physically handsome.
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  No majesty, no beauty. In other words, no one did a
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  double take when they walked past the living, breathing Son
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  of God because he didn't look like anything special.
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  Now here's the deal. I don't know what Jesus looked
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  like, but here's what I do know. I know that half Angel looking
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  #4 guard, perfectly trimmed beard with Pantene pro V flowing
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  hair. Picture of a man in church
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  libraries across America ain't Jesus.
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  That's a figment of somebody's imagination.
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  But that ain't biblical. Jesus had no form, no majesty
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  that you would think him special.
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  You would have never confused Jesus.
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  And Thor? No Cape, no beauty, no
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  impeccable features radiating upon His arrival.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, let me just put it like this for you.
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  You think I want? Is this practical?
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  It's practical like this. In a world that idolizes and
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  worships physical appearance and beauty, we would do well to
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  remember that that had absolutely nothing, zero to do
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  with the success of the mission of the Son of God.
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  When He was sent from the Father to save the world, it had no
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  bearing. So there was no chance.
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  There was no majesty. Third, there was no glory.
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  He was despised, Isaiah says, and rejected by men.
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  A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and is 1 from whom
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  men hide their faces. He was despised and we esteemed
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  Him not. Keep in mind, this is all
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  written 700 years in advance before it ever happened.
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  No glory, you see, because Jesus was not what people expected.
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  On the whole, Jesus was rejected.
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  I know. Yes, Jesus was followed by
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  massive crowds. But what happened to those
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  crowds, to those people when they discovered what Jesus truly
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  demanded of them? What did they do?
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  They despised, they rejected, they walked away, they would one
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  day yell crucify him before one of them sold him for silver.
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  Why was Jesus rejected? He was rejected for the same
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  reasons Jesus is rejected today. You want to know why?
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  Because Jesus was not about what they wanted him to be about.
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  They wanted him to be about wealth and material possessions,
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  earthly status and reputation, political revolution and
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  prosperity. And Jesus wasn't about any of
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  those things at that time. And furthermore, Jesus was a man
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  acquainted with grief and sorrow and tragedy, knowing pain
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  himself. I want you to remember Jesus
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  experienced the trauma of fleeing for his life with his
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  family to Egypt as a young child.
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  I want you to remember that Jesus experienced the pain of
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  losing his earthly father. Remember Jesus is going to
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  experience the sadness of losing best friends like John the
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  Baptist. Jesus is going to experience the
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  pain and the the grief of betrayal of those closest to him
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  and his closest friends and followers.
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  You see in all of this was just a warm up before his greatest
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  suffering, before he went to the cross and was nailed to the tree
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  bearing the sins of the the world for you and for me.
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  Jesus's story, friends, begins the exact opposite of what you
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  would expect. No chance, no majesty, no glory,
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  Isaiah says is how it's going to happen.
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  Part 2 of the story, Isaiah says, is like this.
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  Jesus suffered for our sake. Jesus suffered for our sake.
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  Listen to the word of God beginning in verse 4 through 6.
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  Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we
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  esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
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  But he was pierced. But He was pierced for our
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  transgressions. He was crushed for our
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  iniquities, and upon Him was the chastisement that brought us
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  peace. And with His wounds we are
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  healed. All we, like sheep, have gone
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  astray. We have turned everyone to his
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  own way. And don't miss this part.
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  And the Lord, and who and the Lord?
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  The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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  Everyone looked at Jesus and assumed his suffering must be
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  because he was cursed by God. Surely he was bearing what he
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  deserved, everyone thought. But all the while all that he
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  was taking, all that he was suffering, all that he was
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  enduring was because not of his sin, not for his crimes, but for
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  my sin and my crimes, and your sin and your crimes against God.
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  He was suffering in our place as our substitute.
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  You see, we are the ones, Isaiah says, that had gone astray.
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  You and I are the ones that have gone our own way.
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  In fact, it says everyone has turned his back, his her back on
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  God and gone astray. We're the ones who deserve to be
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  stricken, smitten, and afflicted.
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  Look in the words there. We're the ones who deserve to be
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  pierced, crushed, chastised and wounded for our sin.
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  But friend, that's what Jesus took in your place.
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  We deserved it and yet he was taking it.
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  Verse 6 says in the Lord, I don't want you to miss who did
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  it. The Lord God the Father laid on
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  him the sin, the iniquity, the wrongdoing, the guilt, the shame
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  of us all. Pastor Kyle's sin was laid on
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  Jesus. Your sin was laid on Jesus by
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  who? Well, yes, the religious leaders
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  condemned Jesus and yes the the crowd cried crucified Jesus.
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  And yes, the Roman soldiers actually nailed the spikes that
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  pierced Jesus. But who sent his Son?
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  And on who was it that laid the sins of the world on his son?
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  None other than God the Father. What I don't want you to miss is
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  that Jesus was not a victim. Jesus was not a martyr.
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  Jesus was not a deaf by accident.
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  Jesus was God the Father's sacrifice for your sin and for
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  mine. For God so loved you, ladies and
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  gentlemen, the world that much that he was the one who
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  sacrificed his Son. You could put it like this, it
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  may make you uncomfortable, but this is what the Bible says.
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  It was ultimately God the Father who crucified his Son for you,
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  because that's how much he loved you.
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  Jesus with God the Father sacrifice for my sin and yours
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  He suffered in your place. It says in verse 5 upon him was
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  the chastisement that has brought us.
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  Watch these two things that has brought us peace, and with his
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  wounds we are secondly healed. There are no two greater
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  blessings a human being can experience than to receive and
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  experience peace with God and healing or freedom from the
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  curse of sin. Ladies and gentlemen, these two
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  things are only made possible by the cross of Jesus Christ.
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  Because of His blood shed for our sin.
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  We can be made right with God if by faith we call on God to save
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  us from our sin. Because of what Jesus did for us
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  on the cross, we can be made right with God and not just
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  right with God. We can be set free from the
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  curse of sin. We can be free from the bondage
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  of sin, the shame of sin, the punishment of sin, the weight of
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  sin. We can have the freedom to say
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  no to sin by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  We can live free from sin forever with God in his presence
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  in heaven forever because of what Jesus offers on the cross.
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  Do you realize all the blessings that flow to a human being that
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  calls themselves a Christian is because of Jesus and these two
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  things he offers to us because of what he did on the cross
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  suffering in our place story Part 3, Isaiah says in verse 7
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  and 8 is that Jesus died voluntarily.
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  Jesus died voluntarily. Listen to the word of God.
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  He was oppressed, He was afflicted, yet He opened not his
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  mouth. Like a lamb that is led to the
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  slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shears is silent, So
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  he opened not his mouth. By oppression and judgement he
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  was taken away. And As for his generation who
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  considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
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  stricken for the transgression of my people, Jesus friends did
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  not resist arrest. Jesus did not protest his
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  enemy's false charges. Jesus did not file for a
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  mistrial. Jesus did not fight his
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  executioner's. Furthermore, I just want you to
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  remember, Jesus did not call on the legion of angels that were
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  there announcing the moment of his birth when he was on the
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  cross. Nor did Jesus call on that same
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  host arm of the armies of heaven to help him like they helped him
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  in the wilderness when he faced temptation.
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  And after victoriously saying no to the temptations of the enemy
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  and fasting for 40 days, guess who came to his aid to minister
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  to Him? The angels.
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  God didn't call. Jesus didn't call upon them when
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  He went to the cross. Neither did He call upon them
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  when they showed up like they had the night before during His
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  suffering and agony, when He literally sweat drops of blood
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  and they showed up to minister to.
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  But in the moment that Jesus gave himself for the sins of
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  mine, my sins and yours, the sins of the world, Jesus called
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  for nor ain't no angels. Why?
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  He didn't call for the armies of heaven.
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  Why? Because He was voluntarily
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  laying his life down for you and for me.
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  He did it silently. He did it submissively, like a
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  servant in the face of complete injustice, voluntarily laying
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  his life down in obedience to the Father's will.
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  No one mark it down. No one took Jesus's life from
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  him. Jesus was not a martyr.
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  Jesus did not die by accident. Jesus was not a victim.
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  Jesus was not the result of injustice or unrighteousness.
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  No, Jesus's death ultimately was because he was willing to die in
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  your place and in mine #4 Isaiah says.
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  The story continues like this. I love this part.
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  You can't make this stuff up over 700 years in advance.
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  Listen to this closely. Jesus was buried, but not as a
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  criminal. Jesus would be buried but Isaiah
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  says way in advance he's not going to be buried.
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  Y'all like a criminal. Listen to verse 9.
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  And they made his grave with the wicked and with the rich man in
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  his death. Well, how could it be that he's
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  assigned a grave with the wicked and yet also with the rich man
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  in his death, although he had done no violence, That is no
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  sin, no wrongdoing, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
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  The burial of Jesus, friends, is often overlooked, but it's
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  actually as critical a component of the gospel as his life and as
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  his death and as his resurrection.
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  Why is that? Because the burial of Jesus is
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  part of the proof that Jesus actually died.
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  The Romans were pretty good at death.
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  They were experts at execution. No one would have released the
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  body unless they were certain Jesus was dead.
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  This is why one of the gospels mentions the fact that when
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  Pilate was asked for the body, he confirmed first with the
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  Roman centurion who was there at the cross that Jesus was in fact
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  dead. The Jews in the days of the
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  crucifixion, the Romans, by typical practice before the
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  times of the Jews, would typically leave their victims on
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  the cross until they rotted or their bodies fell off piece by
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  piece. But in the days of the Jews,
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  they had a law against leaving a corpse unburied.
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  And so Jesus would be assigned a place to be buried with those
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  that were criminals, as if he was one assigned a place with
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  the wicked. This is what would have happened
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  to Jesus. But God had prophesied that
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  Jesus body would not see decay. And Isaiah prophesied that his
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  body would not be cast in an unclean place.
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  Which is why you can read about for yourself the facts of
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  history and the gospels. That a wealthy man just like
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  Isaiah would come 700 years in advance.
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  He'd be buried, he'd be assigned to grave with the wealthy.
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  Joseph of Arimathea and his friend Nicodemus would ask Pilot
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  for the body, and they would take him down from the cross and
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  wrap him in linen and aloes and MERS and lovingly lay his body
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  in a clean place. Not with the criminals, not with
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  the wicked. Just like Isaiah said would
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  happen. Yes, he would die like a
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  criminal, though he wasn't one. But he would not be buried as
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  one. Hallelujah.
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  You can't make this stuff up. Just like Isaiah said, it would
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  happen in advance #5 Jesus's resurrection was never in doubt.
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  God the Father wasn't surprised on Sunday morning, neither was
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  Jesus. This was the plan, friends, all
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  along. This was the plan to conquer
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  death, to die in the place of sinful man, and to defeat it on
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  our behalf. Describing the message of the
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  gospel Paul writes in First Corinthians 15.
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  He writes it so concisely there, but he says this as part of the
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  gospel message. He says, and Jesus was raised,
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  watch this in accordance with the Scriptures, which begs the
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  question, where in the Old Testament Scriptures does it
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  prophecy? Does it say that he would be
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  raised? Well in a number of places, but
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  none more clearly than right here over 700 years beforehand
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  in Isaiah 53 verses 10 through 12.
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  Can I read these verses for you and ask you to do something?
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  Can I ask you every time you hear a phrase that speaks to the
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  fact that Jesus is going to be alive, would you just let it
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  ring in your ears? Watch this.
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  Listen to this. Yet it was the will of the Lord
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  to crush him. He was put to grief.
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  When his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his
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  offspring. Does that sound like a dead man
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  to you? He shall prolong his days.
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  The will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand, as the will
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  of the Lord prosper in a dead man's hand.
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  Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied by
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  his knowledge. Shall the righteous one, My
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  servant, make many be accounted righteous, and he shall bear
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  their iniquities. Therefore I will divide him a
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  portion with the many. He shall divide the spoil with
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  the strong. Because he poured out his soul
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  to death and was numbered with the transgressors, yet he bore
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  the sin of many and makes intercession for the
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  transgressors. Listen to the description of the
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  resurrection Isaiah gives over 700 years in advance.
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  Number 1. He says this Jesus will rise to
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  see men and women saved. This is what the text says.
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  He says this, He shall see his offspring.
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  Death will not close his eyes forever.
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  The Bible has already told us here that all have strayed like
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  sheep, all have turned their own way.
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  We've all sinned against God. But guess what?
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  Jesus will die for their sin. But guess what further will
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  happen? Jesus will live to see those who
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  place their faith in him become his offspring, become the
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  children of God, become part of the faith family called the
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  church, become the part of the redeemed, called the Saints,
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  called the saved. Jesus is going to live to see
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  men and women, boys and girls, realize what he's done for them
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  and call on faith. And Jesus will live to see his
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  offspring. He's going to see people saved.
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  The question is, have you been saved?
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  Are you a part of the family of God?
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  Are you 1? Jesus is alive, seeing right now
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  as belonging to him. Because you've called on faith
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  only on Jesus's name #2 Isaiah says about the resurrection.
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  Jesus will rise to live forever. You notice what he says here.
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  He shall prolong his days. Death will not be.
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  Jesus is him. This is Speaking of the eternal
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  resurrection life of Jesus Christ.
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  Jesus will rise to live forever. Because he lives, we too can
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  experience eternal life with him.
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  This is one of the blessings he gives those who call on him by
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  faith #3 Jesus will rise to rule and reign forever.
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  Look at verse 10. The will of the Lord shall
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  prosper in his hand. Death, friends, is not going to
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  stop Jesus's hands from ruling. Jesus is going to be the
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  executor. He's going to be the doer.
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  He's going to be the accomplisher of the will of God
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  forever. And just think about how we
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  could summarize that. Jesus created all things.
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  Jesus is sustaining all things. Jesus will remake all things new
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  one day forever for those to be in his presence that have called
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  on him and received him as Lord and savior #4 Jesus, Isaiah
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  says, will rise and be satisfied.
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  It says here out of the anguish of his soul, Speaking of His
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  death and bearing the sins of the world, He shall see and be
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  satisfied. The death of Jesus will be the
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  door that will lead to his greatest victory.
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  Jesus is going to live again and be satisfied by the success of
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  his mission. I love how the Bible describes
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  it in Hebrews. After Jesus rose from the dead,
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  he sat down at the right hand of the Father.
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  You know why he sat down? Because he cried out on the
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  cross. It is.
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  It's finished. Sin, debt paid.
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  And now he arose from the dead, sat down at the right hand of
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  the Father, satisfied with the success of his mission, offering
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  life and righteousness and freedom to all who would call on
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  him by faith. Yo, Jesus is not just going to
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  live. He's going to succeed.
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  He's going to be satisfied with what he's accomplished by the
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  power of God, living righteously, substituting
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  Himself for sinners, and defeating death itself.
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  Next, Jesus #5 will rise to share His glory with the saved.
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  It says here he shall divide the spoil in verse 12 with the
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  strong. What does that mean?
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  In days of old, a military soldier was compensated by the
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  spoils of the wars that they won.
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  Defeat a village. Soldiers would plunder, take
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  what they wanted as part of their compensation for their
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  work on the battlefield. What is it saying here that he's
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  going to divide the spoils with the strong?
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  What are the spoils of the war that Jesus has won?
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  In the battle between good and evil, in the battle between God
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  and Satan, in the battle over the souls of lost men and women?
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  It says here he will rise to share the spoil, to share the
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  blessings of victory, to share the inheritance given by his
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  Father, to share a life, righteousness, peace with God,
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  eternal life, a time and place coming of no more tears, no more
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  pain, no more death. All the blessings that will flow
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  to the strong, not strong in ourselves, but strong in him,
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  the strength of Jesus. This is the spoils, this is the
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  blessings, this is the inheritance of our salvation and
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  all that Jesus will share with those who've called on him and
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  by faith have been made strong by faith and the one and only
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  Savior of the world. Y'all, this is what we could
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  call, like we said last week, the scandal of the gospel.
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  You say God, what do you mean by scandal?
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  I mean God does the unthinkable through his Son Jesus for us.
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  You want to know what that is? God accepts unacceptable people.
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  Do you know who unacceptable people are?
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  Me and you, because we've sinned against the holy God.
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  God honors shameful people. You know who shameful people is?
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  Me and you. God treats rebels like royalty
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  if they put their faith in Jesus.
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  God calls sinners sons and daughters.
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  Who does that? The God of heaven, the maker of
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  all things. That's scandalous.
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  We don't deserve it. We could never earn it, but by
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  faith, Jesus provides it for those of us willing to see and
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  believe and receive what God does for those who can never
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  earn it. That's scandalous.
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  And yet it's true. And yet This is why people hear
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  the preaching of the cross and call it foolishness.
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  But the Bible says it's the power of God for those who will
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  believe. Have you believed and realize
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  what God has done for you? Finally, number six, Jesus.
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  We will rise to intercede for us at the right hand of the Father.
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  We spoke about this earlier at our prayer time.
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  Listen to what Isaiah says. He bore the sin of many and
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  makes intercession. That's a fancy word for
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  prayerful pleading, makes intercession for the
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  transgressors. That's the sinners, that's you,
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  and that's me. Because Jesus is a risen Savior,
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  He now sits at the right hand of the Father 24/7 365 as our
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  living lawyer, as our advocate, when every sin and every time we
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  stumble and every time we do that which is wrong and doesn't
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  honor God and the enemy brings a case against us to the Father.
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  Jesus calls out your name and mine and says they've been
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  covered by my blood. Case dismissed immediately.
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  Set free from sin. We should suffer punishment and
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  shame for that. Jesus took it all for you and
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  for me. He lives to make intercession
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  for sinners, for you and for me at the right hand of the Father.
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  Friends, this is the story of the resurrection.
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  This is the story of the life, death, burial, and resurrection.
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  My question to you is, has this story changed your story?
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  Has it been a moment when you realized it was true and
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  everything changed for you because you realize what Jesus
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  had done for you? I was reading this morning in
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  Luke as the women made their way to the grave, the tomb, early on
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  Sunday morning. I just was writing in my journal
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  there. What?
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  What would it have been like to walk up to see the stone rolled
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  away? They just watched it rolled into
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  place the night, Friday night, and Jesus was buried Friday
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  afternoon. What would it have been like to
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  walk in and see the tomb unoccupied?
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  What would it have been like to hear the angels say he's not
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  here, He's risen? Just like he helped me out, just
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  like he said, and just like Isaiah said he would over 700
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  years beforehand? Listen, I don't know your story.
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  I know God does, and I know He sent His Son into this world
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  that he had made. And this is the story of what He
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  did. This is the story of who He is
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  all offered to you so that your story could be changed forever
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  because of this story. Has your story been changed
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  because of the resurrection story of Jesus Christ?
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  You may say, Pastor Kyle, I don't really know how to answer
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  that question. Let me see if I can help you
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  answer that question. Are you ready?
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  I came across an old African American spiritual that I think
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  was first printed around the year 1899.
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  It's been sung by the likes of the contemporary like Johnny
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  Cash and others. You may know the words.
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  Listen to it. I want you.
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  I want you to examine whether your story's been changed.
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  As I walk you through this, listen to this.
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  Were you there? Were you there when they
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  crucified my Lord? Were you there?
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  Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
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  Sometimes it causes me to tremble.
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  To tremble. Were you there when they
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  crucified my Lord? Were you there when they nailed
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  him to the cross? Were you there?
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  Have you been there? Were you there when they nailed
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  him to the cross? Sometimes it causes me to
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  tremble, to tremble. Were you there?
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  Have you been there, That place where they crucified my Lord?
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  Were you there when they pierced Him in His side?
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  Were you there? Were you there when they pierced
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  His side? Sometimes it causes me to to
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  tremble, to tremble, to tremble. Were you there when they pierced
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  my Savior in His side? Were you there when the sun
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  refused to shine? Were you there?
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  Were you there when the sun from noon to three in the afternoon
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  refused to shine on? The Son of God that had spoken
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  it into existence was paying the price of the sins of the world?
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  Were you there? Did you behold the reality of
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  the sun refusing to shine? Were you there?
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  Sometimes it causes me to tremble, to tremble.
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  Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
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  Were you there? Were you there when they laid
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  him in the tomb? Can you imagine?
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  Can you imagine being there and witnessing what the women
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  watched when the Savior of the world, Jesus the Christ, the Son
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  of the living God, was laid horizontal in a tomb, tasting
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  death for you in advance to defeat it for you, so that that
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  tomb didn't have to be the end for you or for me?
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  Have you been there? Sometimes it causes me to
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  tremble. Listen, as a nine year old boy,
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  I realized somebody went to that cross and went to that tomb,
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  died for me, paid for what I had done wrong and defeated and
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  walked out alive. And I trembled as a nine year
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  old boy. It's changed my story.
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  It's continuing to change me today.
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  I've never been the same since because I've been there.
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  No, not physically, but by faith, the truth of the Word of
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  God, by the Spirit of God impressing upon my heart.
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  Have you been there? Have you been there?
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  Have you been there? Were you there when he rose up
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  from the grave, When the stone was rolled away, Have you been
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  there? Have you realized that the tomb
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  is empty? Have you been there?
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  Oh, sometimes it makes me want to shout glory, glory, glory.
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  Have you been there? Because if you've been there,
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  you can't walk away changed. I guarantee you'll shout glory
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  too, for what Jesus did for you that no one else could do, that
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  you couldn't do for yourself. Friend, if you've been there,
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  you know that you've been there because you've never been the
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  same since. Can someone truly go there?
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  Can someone truly see the Son of the living God in their place,
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  pierced, nailed, laid in a tomb, raised from the dead, and walk
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  away unchanged? I'm asking if you've been there,
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  because if you have, you've never been the same.
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  If you're here this morning and you haven't been there, I'm
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  inviting you to go there right now.
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  I'm inviting you to come and see what you may have never seen
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  before, the story of the resurrection of what Jesus did
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  for you. Say, Kyle, how do I come and
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  see? And I tell you the story of Nick
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  again that you saw in the video 2 Sundays ago.
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  I was standing right here. There was a wooden cross on the
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  stage right there. Nick came to talk to me, but I
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  was occupied. But you know who Nick did not
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  need? He didn't need a pastor.
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  He needed Jesus and he saw the cross and he was there.
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  He realized Jesus was there. He realized Jesus is nail.
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  The nail pierced hands were there.
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  He realized it was from there that Jesus went to the grave.
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  He realized it was from there. Jesus rose up to life and Nick
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  went there and got on his knees and gave his heart and life to
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  Christ. He went there.
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  He knows he's been there because he's not the same.
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  It's only been a week and 1/2 his forever is changed.
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  Have you been there? I'm asking you to come and see
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  and receive, repent of your sin and believe what Jesus did for
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  you and go there. The Bible says you go there by
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  faith, you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, you
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  believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and
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  you'll be saved. I'm inviting you to do that.
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  I can help you do that. If you want to come talk to me,
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  we'll have our encouragers or the elders up here.
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  If I'm occupied, they'll be here.
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  Christian. If you're in the room that
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  you've been there, you're a Christian.
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  You know you've been saved because you know you've been
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  there. But if you're being really
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  honest, you say, Pastor Kyle, it's been a long time since I've
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  trembled. It's been a long time since I've
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  shouted glory about what Jesus has done for me.
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  In fact, I've strayed a long way.
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  I need to come back. I'm inviting you to come back.
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  I'm inviting you to repent of sin wherever you've gone.
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  I'm not asking you to be re saved.
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  You don't need to be re saved. You can't lose what only God can
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  do to begin with. I'm asking you to recommit.
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  I'm asking you to come back and dedicate yourself.
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  Come and tremble at the cross. Come, behold the Lamb of God
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  slain for you. That the story that the one and
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  only one that can change yours for forever is true.
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  Would you come back? Would you come back?
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  Would you respond the way God is calling you to respond in faith?
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  We're going to stand in a moment and sync and I'm going to ask
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  you to come. Heavenly Father, I prayed in his
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  next few moments. We would say yes to you.
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  Jesus, You alone are who we need.
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  I'm asking for people to come and see God.
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  Would you help them by faith come and see, or to come and
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  come back, Father, to recommit from where they've strayed,
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  Lord, to come back and tremble at the truth of the cross of
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  Christ and the empty tomb. We want to honor and glorify.
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  You have your way in us. We pray in Jesus name.
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  I ask all these things, Amen. Would you stand with me?
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  Would you come? Would you come and see?
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  Would you come and repent? Come and believe as the Lord
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  calls you. You come.