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The great truths by which we might
know you and know how we ought to
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live. Help us to understand them, help us to remember them and to
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delight in them, to hide them
in our hearts and walk in all your
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ways through faith in Jesus Christ.
We asked that you would bless us in
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these things now, reading and preaching
of your word, and we pray this
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in Jesus name. Man. I'm
so I had planned to preach Ezekiel Twenty
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six through twenty eight, but then
at the last minute I changed my mind
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and because I wanted to preach a
little bit more on the Gospels and the
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resurrection this evening. So I'm going
to share with you a message if shared
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once before, Mark Sixteen. So
if you turn with me, they're Mark
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Chapter Sixteen, and we'll read about
the resurrection from this Gospel. Unsurprisingly to
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me and hopefully to you, these
passage is not unrelated to Ezekiel, twenty
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five and twenty six, because all
the scriptures are related to each other and
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they're all connected. In those passages, which will come to the future,
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we see like the cities before tire
is mocking Israel in her destruction and in
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her downfall. Has This perspective that
she the citied of tires, so great
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and important, and God will help
them to know that he is God,
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he is the Lord. In a
similar way, here in Mark Sixteen,
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we see the Lord reminding us of
how to truly think about him, how
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to think about the work of Christ. And let's turn to it now and
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remember. So Mark Sixteen verses went
through eight. When the Sabbath was past,
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Mary Magdalen, Mary the mother of
James, and Salom a broad spices
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so that they might go and anoint
him. And very early on the first
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day of the week, when the
sun had risen, they went to the
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tomb and they were saying to one
another, who will roll away the stone
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for us, from the entrance of
the tomb, and looking up they saw
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that the stone had been rolled back. It was very large. And entering
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the tomb they saw a young man
sitting on the right side, dressed in
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a white, white robe, and
they were alarmed and he said to them,
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do not be alarmed, you seek
Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified.
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He has risen, he is not
here. See the place where they
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laid him, but go tell his
disciples and Peter that he is going before
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you to Galilee. There you will
see him, just as he told you.
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And they went out and fled from
the Tomb, for trembling and astonishment
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had seized them. And they said
nothing to anyone, for they were afraid,
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maybe seated. So, as we
know, and as we've been singing
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about and praying about and thinking about
all day, the resurrection is a Great
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Triumph of Christ, a triumph of
believers. We sang a moment ago.
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Rise O Church, lift your voices. Christ has conquered death and hill sing
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as all the earth rejoices resurrection.
Anthems Swell Right, the music is building,
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everything is charged. There's great victory, common worship, come and worship,
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worship Christ, the risen king.
So the resurrection is we looked at
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this morning from first Corinthians fifteen.
It proves our freedom from death and sin.
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It guarantees our own resurrection, our
own glory, are imperishable state,
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and so we rightly thank God and
praise him and rejoice. But my question
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to you is, where is any
of that in Mark Sixteen? Where's the
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rejoice the risen king? Where is
the praising? Where's the excitement? Where
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is the the the victorious feeling that
comes with knowing Jesus has risen from the
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dead. Is that what we hear
in Mark Sixteen? It's not. Mark
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ends his book with these followers of
Jesus coming to the tomb of their dear
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friend and teacher to anoint him,
expecting the stone to be in place right.
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Notice how they say who will roll
away for the stone, the stone
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at the entrance of the Tomb.
They expected to be blocked. They expect
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to come and anoint him, who
is dead, unsure how even this small
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act of devotion won't end in failure. But when the time comes, they
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see that the stone is not there, or it's there but it's rolled away,
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and Jesus is missing. And this
young man, who else where is
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identified as an angel, says to
them don't be alarmed, he has risen
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from the dead. Well, it
sounds like this was hard to take to
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heart, because alarm is exactly how
mark expresses their reaction here at the end
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of the section, in Verse Eight, he says they fled right, they
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running away. They fled from the
tomb, trembling right, shaking and astonishment.
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Trembling and astonishment had seized them right
when you are seized by an emotion.
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That's a very intense thing right.
It's a strong word to use.
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They don't just feel this way or
have this thing, they are seized by
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it, seized by trembling. We
might call it uncontrollable trembling, uncontrollable astonishment,
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and even says and they were afraid. They became overwhelmed with fear to
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the point of uncontrollable trembling. Now
you might expect this reaction at the news
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of someone's death, but what about
the news of someone's resurrection from the dead?
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Why were they so afraid? You
might say that we are astonished at
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their astonishment. What makes sense of
this, and I want to reflect on
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this with you for a few minutes. The first thing to remember is that,
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of course, we have the benefit
of looking back. We look back
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on the resurrection as an event and
the well established past. They were the
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very first ones to experience this,
very first ones. At this point in
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the history, no one was expecting
Jesus to rise from the dead. Doesn't
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mean they shouldn't have expected him to
rise from the dead, but no one
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was expecting him to rise from the
dead. Before this point, everyone exists
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expecting him to become king of Israel, to throw off the Roman government,
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to re establish a theocracy as it
was under his father, great, great,
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great, great, great great grandfather
David. Just a week earlier,
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Jerusalem was in a frenzy of throwing
palm branches and a not and singing about
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Jesus coming into the temple as a
king. Hosanna, blessed is he who
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comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed in the coming of the king
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is our father David, Hosanna in
the highest but all these expression expectations,
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all of these hopes, were crushed
and the same people turned and crucified him
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a few days later. Remember on
his cross it said, ironically, or
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meant to be ironic, King of
the Jews. For the followers of Jesus,
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this seemed very much like the end
of the story. The great hero
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who is going to change everything was
now dead, publicly humiliated, shamed and
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now in a tomb, utterly defeated
and, worse, even killed. The
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people had turned on Jesus and Jesus
had failed to save himself, and now
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these people would turn on them and
the savior they thought was going to save
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them was now dead. How who
do they turn to for protection? Who
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Do they go to for salvation,
when their savior, the one who was
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supposed to save them, was not
there? And so many of them,
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like Peter, distance themselves from their
former teacher. They doubted, they deserted,
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they denied him before men and in
their own hearts. Now, of
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course, the three women here were
not deserting Jesus. They were there at
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the tomb, but they were not
eagerly awaiting the resurrection either. Note that
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they did not get up early to
worship their resurrected king. Let's go see
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Jesus, it's the third day,
right. They weren't excited and anticipating and
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filled with expectation and hope. They
got up early expecting to annoy their dead
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teacher. When the stone was rolled
away. They didn't give an another look,
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a look and say look, it's
happening. They were alarmed, they
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were surprised, they were not filled
with great joy. Know all of this
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was very shocking. Instead, without
the sure hope and expectation of Jesus's Resurrection,
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the events of this past several days
were likely the most overwhelming and emotionally
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overwhelming these people had perhaps ever experienced. So when they hear this angel say
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he is not here, he is
risen. Perhaps this was just one more
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thing that they couldn't take. This
was not good news, this was their
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world spinning out of control. But
the fact of the matter is that,
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though the world as they perceived it, was spinning out of control, that
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was only their perception of things right, it wasn't really reality. What was
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happening in the world, is it? It was all going exactly according to
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how God had planned it since before
he even made the world. Remember,
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the Messiah had come. According to
the Scriptures and the fullness of time,
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he had come. There wasn't a
slight, the slightest hiccup in the entire
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plan. Everything was working according to
the Eternal Plan of God. So then,
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why is everyone panicking, even at
the good news of the resurrection?
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I think they became unnerved because they
failed to hear and to believe what God
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had told them about them coming.
Messiah, excuse me, Jesus, had
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been speaking about this, he'd been
telling them this, he'd been teaching them
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these but they misunderstood and they didn't
remember and they didn't hear things that we
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must remember, we must hear and
we must believe. For one, they
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misunderstood the Messiah's purpose. The scriptures
tell us a lot about the savior of
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God's people, about what he would
accomplish once he came. The Promised Messiah
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Would Have Dominion over the Earth.
He would rule in a way that would
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surpass Adam. Isaiah eleven six says
this. The Wolf shall dwell down or
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shall dwell with the lamb. The
leopards shall lie down with the young goat
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and the calf and the lion and
the fat and calf together, and the
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little child shall leave them. Lead
them the peace that's described here, and
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Isaiah six eleven six is coupled with
prosperity. Listen to Amos thirteen. Behold,
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the days are coming to Claire as
the Lord, when the Plowman shall
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overtake the reaper and the treader of
the grapes, him who sows the seed.
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The mountains shall drip with sweet wine
and all the hills shall flow it
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or shall flow with it. The
Promise Messiah would bring about the second exodus,
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overwhelming and overcoming enemies and ruling his
people in a way that surpassed Moses.
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Listen to Jeremiah twenty three seven through
eight therefore behold. The days are
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coming, declares the Lord, when
they shall no longer say as the Lord
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lives who brought up the people out
of Israel, out of the land of
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Egypt, but as the Lord lives
who brought up and led the offspring of
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the House of Israel out of the
North country and out of all the countries
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where he had driven driven them.
They shall dwell in their own land.
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The promise Massiga and other words,
would be a king who would dwell in
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righteousness and wisdom. He would dwell
and rule a kingdom filled with peace and
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prosperity that would surpass anything the world
had ever known, anything Israel had ever
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experienced, even under some of her
greatest kings. Psalm one hundred and ten
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one says that his enemies would be
made his footstool. Psalm to six says
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that the ends of the Earth would
be his possession, and even the angels
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would help accomplish this. Listen to
Isaiah seven, the prophecy there of the
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increase of his government and of peace. There will be no end the increase
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of his government and of peace.
There will be no end. It just
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keeps going and going and going and
on the throne of David and over his
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kingdom, or on the throne of
David and over his kingdom, to establish
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it and to uphold it with justice, with righteousness, from this time forth
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and forevermore, the zeal of the
Lord of hosts will do this. This
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is just a sampling and we're only
reading from the Old Testament and we haven't
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even gotten into things Jesus taught about, Jesus spoke, the examples that he
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gave, the miracles that he did. This is a sampling, just a
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little bit, of the promises and
the objectives of what would come with the
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coming Messiah. But, as so
often happens between men and God, we
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expect so little of him. We
expect so little, we trust him so
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little, we remember so little.
And so when Jesus came, when the
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Messiah came, despite the grand announcements, despite angels and the sky and miracles
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happening all over the place, they
didn't understand his purposes. These prophecies were
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promising a messiah who went far beyond
anything Adam, Moses or David ever were.
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The Messiah was not going to just
bring his people into Jerusalem or even
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Eden. These earthly copies of the
spiritual kingdom. But this exodus would be
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for a world to come. Hebrews
to five says, and opening up a
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new age, even as Hebrews Twelve
says, a new heavens and a new
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earth. This place that Jesus went
aug it would inaugurate would not just be
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the temple complex under Rome. It
would be an eternal, immense, indestructible
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kingdom where only the most expansive rest, prosperity, peace and joy could reside
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forever. And the people in that
kingdom, as we talked about this morning,
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from first Corinthias fifteen, would be
us, people that he saved and
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people that, in their resurrection,
are made fit for that kind of kingdom.
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But even if the disciples had understood
the purpose of the Messiah, they
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also misunderstood the mode of the Messiah. These glorious ends would not be achieved
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all at once, nor they would
they be inaugurated in some kind of glorious
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entrance or battle. The Great Messiah, Warrior King prophesied about in the prophecited
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prophecies, would rule over the whole
world. The first he would die by
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its hands. This was highly unexpected
and it's very counterintuitive to us, because
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our constant hope is that man is
going to achieve greatness somehow. Apart from
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dealing with sin. We're always thinking
and always falling into this era that somehow
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we can just ignore the sin in
the world, ignore the sin in our
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lives, and just sort of start
climbing the ladder until we get to the
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Kingdom of God. We think goodness
and holiness are on some kind of sliding
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scale, but God demands Absolute Holiness, absolute perfection. We need a deep
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and everlasting change in our hearts.
We need a forgiveness of sins that removes
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our sins completely from our from God's
judgment over us. So in order to
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rule over the righteous, he first
had to make us righteous, and that
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would not be easy. It would
involve the mode of the Messiah, would
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involve His crucifixion and his death and
his suffering under the wrath of God,
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not because of anything he did,
but because of the things we did,
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the things that we deserve. Jesus, the Scriptures say new no sin,
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but he became sin so that sinners
like us might become sinless. They didn't
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see this coming. About a week
before Jesus is crucifixion. James and John
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and their mom saw enter up to
Jesus and and asks demand that they place
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are the he placed them in positions
of honor when he comes into his glory.
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Put us on your right hand and
your left hand, Jesus. Of
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course, they say this would out
the other disciples listening. They try to
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sort of maneuver and and politically force
themselves into this place of position to this
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coming glory. It's really interesting is
Jesus doesn't deny that the glory is coming,
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but you know what he says to
them? He says you don't know
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what you're talking about. You don't
know what you're asking. Mark Thirty eight
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says, are you able to drink
the cup that I drink or be baptized
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with the baptism with which I am
to be baptized? It was going to
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come in this mode that they weren't
expecting. Peter says, all fight forever
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with you. He and he tried. He cut off the ear of one
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of the the people in the mob
that were coming to get Jesus, and
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Jesus Says No, not that way. And it was at that point that
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Peter started his denials. The mode
of the Messiah was not what most people
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anyway were expecting. On the cross, Jesus would drink the cup of Wrath.
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He would be baptized by the waters
of Judgment for sin, so that
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for us the Cup of the Covenant
wouldn't be a cup of Wrath but a
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cup of salvation, and our baptisms
would not be the washing of judgment but
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the washing of regeneration. But for
most of Jesus's ministry many people didn't understand
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this. They didn't understand it when
he had died. They did not understand
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that this Kingdom of glory would come
through a Ministry of suffering. And the
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final thing that they misunderstood where the
specific details about his plan, not just
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the mode in general. But remember, Jesus tells them so. For example,
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in Mark Ten, thirty three through
thirty four, we read this to
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Jay James, and Johnny says,
see, we are going up to Jerusalem
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and the son of Man will be
delivered over to the chief priests and the
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scribes and they will condemn him to
death and deliver him over to the gentiles
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and they will mock him and spit
on him and flog him and kill him
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and after three days he will rise. We are reminded of the level of
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the detail revealed to his disciples and
our passage as well. Remember, when
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the angel speaks to the women,
he tells them go, tell the disciples
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and Peter that he is going before
you and Galilee, there you will see
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him, just as he told you. All right, parents, perhaps you
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have been in a position where you've
said to your children, did you not
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listen to what I was saying?
I told you I didn't hear. I
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told I didn't hear. Right,
sometimes this happens. Kids, don't worry.
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Parents do this too. No,
no, they don't. Now we
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do. Sometimes we hear things and
just sing one ear out the other,
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and that somehow seems to have been
what happened. Whether it was through a
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lack of belief or not listening or
something, Jesus was amazingly specific with his
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disciples about what was going to happen, and he said it multiple times.
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In Mark Fourteen, another passage,
Jesus said, but after I am raised
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up, I will go before you
to Galilee. Sometimes when we don't listen,
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it's because we come with this these
preconceptions about how something already is we're
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not listening because we think we already
know. We're not listening because we think
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we've already got it figured out.
And so when these words come to us,
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or like noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise,
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nose, whatever, then I'm going
to do what I'm going to do over
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and over again. His followers either
misunderstood him or didn't listen to him.
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My guess is it's because they,
like all these others, and would continue
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to happen in the Ministry of the
apostles, misunders stood how great Jesus really
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was, but also the mode by
which he would achieve this greatness. And
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this is why their world was turning
upside down, this is why they were
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so quick to turn away from Jesus
as the Messiah once he was condemned to
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death. And the Gospel does this. It is a stumbling block. It
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takes our bad presuppositions, are bad
listening, our forgetfulness and it makes us
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fall. We come to the Cross
of Christ, and I know what not
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like that. The Gospel, in
some ways, in our according to our
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flesh and according to our rhisdom and
according to our power and according to the
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ways that we think things ought to
be. That makes us stumble. It
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makes us, who seemed wise and
seem powerful and whatever, actually see me
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and look pretty foolish. Just as
their world seem to be spinning out of
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control, so does ours. So
do ours. When our when we misunderstand
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and don't listen to God's word,
when we don't listen and we don't remember,
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and when we when we when we
just fill it with the things that
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we already think are true, we
often will find ourselves afraid, frustrated,
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sometimes in bittered or confused. We
think the things that God has promised are
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impossible, and so, out of
that doubt, we begin to look for
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those things in the world. You
know this has happened to you, and
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the things that you desire the most
are the things of this world and not
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the world to come. Do you
desire pleasure more than holiness, or wealth
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more than worship, or looking good
more than being godly? These kind of
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things tell us our heart is in
the wrong place, that we're not listening,
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that we don't understand, because the
peace and the prosperity that we rightly
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seek are impossible with man. They
do not come through the things of this
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world. They only come through God
and through the suffering servant. They come
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through death, they come through denial, they come through giving up, not
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by building them up. We receive
a kingdom that cannot be shaken because we
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ourselves have fortified it with a bunch
of our works or whatever. We receive
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a kingdom that cannot be shaken because
it's not made with human hands and because
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it's given to us. The things
of this world eventually come crashing down around
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us, never delivering on what they
deceitfully promised. And Ezekiel, that's what
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they're experiencing as as the temple falls, as the people are scattered. That's
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what the nations are experiencing, who
are mocking Jerusalem. But the good news
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for the whole world is that what
is impossible with man Mark Twenty seven is
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possible with God, and that's exactly
what the resurrection proves. And what we
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see in this passage is that,
despite our lack of perception and our weak
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faith, despite our problems, God
is continually and steadily working to carry out
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his plan. He doesn't see the
fear of these ladies, or the Tomb,
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or the absence of the disciples or
any of this, and say okay.
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Well, I guess we have to
shut it all down. It didn't
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work out after all. They were
supposed to be here, they were supposed
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to be excited. No, God
just keeps moving on, keeps moving on.
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Peace and prosperity and a kingdom ruled
in righteousness seem always out of the
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grasp of men, and it is. But the Messiah came into this world
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as the God man to achieve these
ends, and he did. And the
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victory that he has, the righteousness
that he has, his strength, his
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power, all of these things are
made evident and vindicated in the resurrection.
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There is no death in the resurrection, and we see it not only in
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that, but we see it in
his in gathering of his disciples, despite
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the desertion and des doubt of his
disciples, specifically peters. The Lord is
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then working him already. Go Tell
Peter, go tell Peter, he says
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here he is bringing them back to
himself. And, as we know from
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other parts of the scripture, though, the women fled here in fear and
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said nothing more. This was brief. It didn't last forever. They quickly
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became evangelists, good news spreaders.
The trembling stopped. Their hearts were filled
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with faith and they soon told the
disciples what they saw and what they heard,
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and the good news of Jesus's work
on the Cross and his resurrection from
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the dead began to spread, and
spread fast. And this is how God
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works with us all the time.
It's a picture of that and the beginning
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of that here in human history.
He steps into our lives and he reorients
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our hearts, he reorients our minds
and our expectations. He makes us stumbled
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by the Gospel, but he also
makes us live guy the Gospel by that
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same spirit that raised Jesus from the
dead. He teaches us and he opens
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our minds and our hearts so that
we might hear and understand and listen and
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re member and believe. And when
this happens and when we believe and we
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accept the truths of God, when
we see the Messiah as he is,
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that's when our trembling stops, that's
when our fear starts to go away,
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because when we see that the Messiah
has in fact come into the world,
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has in fact triumphed over his and
our enemies, has in fact swallowed up
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death in his victory, when we
stop defining the ourselves and according to the
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things of this world, and begin
looking them them and defining ourselves and seeing
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ourselves in Christ and the Kingdom of
God that is to come. We find
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peace, we find rest, we
find hope, and that's what eventually happens
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here, a hope that spread out
into the world and has continued from generation
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to generation even to here today,
where we here, where we see and
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we tonight believe in the word of
God and the Messiah who came, our
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great king. May God open our
eyes to see the great salvation that has
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come in the resurrected Christ. It's
so that we might see all of our
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lives by the light of heaven itself. Let's pray. Our Lord, God
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and King, Great Savior of all
the earth, we praise your name for
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your mediation for us and for the
work you did on our behalf. We
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thank you that you did not come
into this world in your in your incarnation,
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and destroy us all. We're thankful
that you did not come and glory
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and put to death all of your
enemies right there and then, for surely
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we, along with all else,
would have died. But instead you knowingly,
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willingly went to the Cross and died
for our sins, so that our
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hearts might be subdued, so that
we might live with you forever, so
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that we might no longer be enemies
and children of Wrath, but we might
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become sons and daughters of the king, the risen king, so that we
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might in receive an inheritance that is
imperishable, so that we might receive bodies
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that are imperishable, so that we
might no longer be afraid and astonished and
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shaking, but that we might be
immovable, confidant and bold in this life
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and even more so in the life
to come. Lord, we asked that
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you would bust apart our our misconceptions, our misunderstandings, our doubt, our
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lack of faith. We asked that
you would take away our confidence in ourselves
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and in the flesh and in the
things of this world. We asked that
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you would break us and even cause
us to die to ourselves, that we
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might live in you forever. We
asked that you would strengthen in the these
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things in us, oh Lord,
and that as we and as we grow
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in them, that we would grow
more and more and that you would be
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glorified in your work through us.
We pray this in Jesus name on men.
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All right, let's stand to
