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JACK: Friends, listen, the grave has been broken by Jesus Christ.
Death has been completely defeated by Jesus Christ. Fear
no more. There is no longer fear any longer. Sure, it knocks on
the door, but you don't have to open that door.
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JACK: "Get up." Those are the words that you and I hear to get
going. We've got something to do. We've got urgency before us
to get up. Well, on this resurrection celebration, Jesus
Christ Himself, God and flesh got up and out of the grave.
Listen, what challenges you today? What's going on in your
life that seemingly makes life impossible for you? I've got
good news. Because Jesus Christ is risen from the dead, you and
I both can have a meaningful, purposeful, and directed life by
the power of God. Jesus Christ got up out of the grave so you
can get up out of your life's situations. But that's not only
what He's done for us in this world. My dear friend, when you
and I pass from this world to the next, it's going to be
because we get to enter heaven by this path only. Jesus said,
"I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man comes to
the father but through me." How did He do that? He got up out of
the grave to the glory of God. Let's grab our Bibles and see
what He has in store for us. Let's dive in to this together.
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JACK: Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. Listen to this. Mark
16:1 says, "Now when the Sabbath was past." So we're talking
about Saturday being gone. Now. It's very early Sunday morning
in the dark. Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and
Salome bought spices that they might come and anoint him. Very
early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they came
to the tomb. But remember, there's a big stone, you know,
listen, archeologists tell us the stone that covered Joseph of
Arimathea, his tomb. That's where Jesus's body was laid, in
Joseph of Arimathea's tomb. That the stone that fits in the track
that has been measured there in Jerusalem is a stone that would
weigh somewhere between 2 to 3000 pounds. It's huge. They
didn't care. What beautiful emotions! And I love the fact
all night long, man, their little, their little house or
those maybe there was several homes going. Those women were
candlelight burning the factory, so to speak. They're working.
You know, we're not supposed to be working it's the Sabbath. Who
cares? And they got their stuff together and they were going to
go worship the Lord even though He be dead. Would you be so
committed to worshiping the Lord Jesus Christ if you found out
that all that He did for you, that He was dead? Listen, some
people can't even come and worship God and He's alive. They
were going to worship. They never expected to see Him alive.
Oh, it gets better. Get up
because of what they had
experienced. This is great. Verse 2, "Behold." Means open up
your eyes, big. "There was a great earthquake for an angel of
the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the
stone from the door." And just to be spunky, he sat on it.
Isn't that sassy? He comes down. Ground is shaking, he rolls back
the stone and then sits on it. I think that's awesome. I bet he
folded his hands. His arms. What an amazing sight. The Bible
tells us that in verse 3 that "His countenance was like
lightning." And the Bible tells us that "His clothing was as
white as snow." And the guards. These are the Roman guards.
These are no wimpy guys. They shook for fear and passed out.
They became like dead men. It means they fainted. And I
thought about this for a moment. Everything that God is doing.
Listen, what you and I are hearing about today has been
preached on all around the world today. Listen, you guys, I don't
know if you realize this or not, but right now, at this very
moment in our time zone, Sunday's almost over. Do you
know that? Sunday in most of the world has already happened. That
means all around the world on this Sunday morning,
resurrection Sunday morning, people have been worshiping
Jesus by the billions all around the world. You know what that
means? That means Satan had a very bad day today. And I like
it. Yes. Yeah. But I thought about the choreographing of, of
all of this. Women are running, angel descending, earth shaking,
angel sitting, guards passed out. One act after another, as
though it were. For you and I to study and experience through the
pages of the Bible. And you might say today, well, that's a,
that's about it. It's all limited to the page of the
Bible. What you don't know, my friend, is that the words of
this book gets up off the page and comes after your heart and
your mind. And before we end today, the Word of God is going
to come up off the page and get into your heart, into your mind,
and you're going to have to deal with it. And you can say, I'm
not going to let that happen. I'm going to leave right now.
He'll follow you home. He's alive. Matthew chapter 28:5
says, "But the angel answered and said to the women, do not be
afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified." I love
this next verse. "He is not here, for He is risen, as He
said." I don't know how He said it. None of us know how He said
it, but my imagination goes with that. "Come, he says, see the
place where the Lord lay." And there must have been a pause.
But I love how he says that in verse 6, verses 7 and 8. What
they had come to know. The Bible says, "And go quickly." I wonder
why the, wonder why the angel said quickly? I always wondered
about that. I think there's a sense of urgency. Would you
agree, if we're going to kind of flirt with this a little bit and
try to unpack it? Why quickly? Angel, what's the big deal? I
would think the angel would say, well, listen, He rose again from
the dead. This is not some sort of a game here. Him being
resurrected from the dead game on. This war just started. For
the souls of men and women and boys and girls. Go quickly.
There's a message to be proclaimed. Go quickly. Verse 7,
"And go quickly and tell the disciples that He is risen from
the dead." That's the news. "And indeed He is going before you
into Galilee." That's 90 miles away. He's heading north.
Where'd you see Jesus last? Heading north. There you will
see Him. "Behold, I have told you," says the angel. And so
when they went out quickly from the tomb, with reverential awe
and great joy, they ran to bring his disciples word. Now notice
these are the great disciples that are hiding out. Who got to
the tomb first? Guys or girls? Who were the first evangelists?
Guys or girls? Girls. Listen, in that culture, isn't God good?
Women you ought to just... Maybe that's why more women go to
church than men do? Have you noticed that? By the way, call a
prayer meeting. More women will show up and men will say, "It's
because we're at work." And then when you probe, you find out
that was the golf course they were at. Just kidding. Guys, you
know I love you. But the women, you know, a woman's testimony in
those days, you had to have two women give testimony. Sometimes
three, 2 or 3 women had to say the same thing about an
eyewitness event to one man's testimony. If one man said,
"Yeah, I saw the guy, he had a pink shirt on running around
looking crazy, and he went out the window and on fire." You had
to have three women say the exact same thing for them to be
one witness. It's kind of insulting, don't you think,
ladies? Isn't that amazing God doesn't think that way? I can
just see. I mean, I'm making this part up right now. This is
not in the Bible. This next part, I could just see God
saying, you know what I'm going to do? The biggest thing of all
time and eternity. I'm going to let women know about it first,
and then I'm going to give them the, I'm going to give them the
privilege and the honor and the glory to run back and tell these
disciples I've been working on for three and a half years. That
these ladies got it in five minutes. All right. That's it.
Men visiting today are saying, "I'm not coming back here to
this place." Well, John's gospel tells us this John chapter
20:26. "And after eight days." So eight days now have gone by?
John 20:26, eight days later, eight days after Jesus has been
raised from the dead. "After eight days, His disciples were
again inside." He's read that. Hey, where are you guys? Have
anybody seen the disciples? Where are those guys? I can't
find them. They're inside. Excuse me. There's a knock at
the door. Can the disciples come out and play? Nope. They're
indoors. "And Thomas with them." Oh, that means something's
coming up. "Jesus came." I love this! Jesus came, "The doors
being shut and stood in the midst and said to them, peace be
to you." Peace to you. Is that awesome? He showed up without
going through the door. Jesus's resurrected body was glorified.
But I'm confused. He walked. He, He suddenly appears without
going through the door. But you said earlier that on the
resurrection morning the women grabbed Him by the feet. They
were hanging on to Him and they worshiped Him. That's right.
Well, which one is it? Umhmm. His glorified body is not
subject to earthly physics. You could touch Him and hold Him,
and then He'd vanish. Not without being a ghost. You could
touch Him and hold Him. And then when He wanted to leave, He
left. Is that awesome? I like that. The Bible tells us in
John's gospel later on that the disciples are all depressed.
They're up. So the, they were amazing. They were all depressed
even after his resurrection. So they went fishing. That's what
it says. Peter said, "I've had enough. I'm going fishing." And
they all said, "Can we go with you?" And they went fishing and
they fished all night and caught nothing. The Bible tells us
Later on, the morning began to dawn and Jesus, there was a
fire. There was a campfire on the shore, and there was some
guy all by himself cooking fish tacos in the morning. Grilled
fish tacos. And the voice from shore says, "Little children
come and eat." And I love Peter. Peter says, "It's the Lord." And
Peter jumps out of, he takes off his, throws his clothes off.
Peter dives into the water and swims to Jesus. I don't think it
was because he was hungry. I think it was because it was
Jesus. What a precious thing. But the Bible here tells us that
Jesus suddenly appears. He's in the room and He says to Thomas.
"Thomas, reach your finger here and look at my hands. And reach
your hand here and put it in my side. Do not be unbelieving, but
believe." That's a rebuke. Can you imagine God saying that to
you? How many times has God said it to us? "Do not be
unbelieving, but believe." See, Thomas was mouthing off earlier
that week. Everybody is gathering together, talking
about Jesus, and Thomas says, "I'm not going to believe it. I
don't believe it unless I'm able to put my finger in the holes of
his hands and thrust my hand into his side, where the hole
from Friday was. I'm not going to believe it." So Jesus
appears. Hey, Thomas, how are you doing? Can you come over
here for a second, please? Can you imagine? But isn't that what
He does with us? Listen, are you a real Christian? You know
exactly what I'm talking about. I see some heads going like
this. Oh, I know how he does that. Listen, please don't be in
association with Jesus. Don't be near Him. Be with Him. Don't
know about Him. Know Him. And He says, Thomas. My translation.
"Thomas, hey, guys listen, this is going to be really painful
for him. People will read about this for a couple thousand
years. Hey, Thomas, take your fingers and put them in the
holes. Pass them through. You see that it is me? You want to
see my side? There you go. Big gaping hole. All right, Thomas,
for now on, no more doubting. Go." And that moment had to be
tremendously humbling, Thomas. Exclaims. Verse 28. "My Lord and
my God." And then Jesus says something that involves you
right now, you today. And Jesus said to him, verse 29, "Thomas,
because you have seen me, and you believe and you have
believed, blessed are those, those. Blessed are those who
have not seen and yet believe." That's good news. He's talking
about us and all those generations since. Yeah, you can
clap for that. That's good news. That's beautiful news. But I
love the fact these women, they went and told the disciples. And
the Bible tells us that. The disciples didn't believe.
Remember "Show and Tell? Did you guys have Show and Tell in
school? Do they still have Show and Tell? No? Yes? Sort of? You
know, I don't know. Back in the 1800s, when I was a little kid,
we would take awesome stuff to Show and Tell back in, back in
those days, you take, like, your grandpa's 25 millimeter. No, no,
really, it was a very odd number. I don't remember what it
was, a 25 or 28 millimeter gun that he had in the First World
War. And you take it to school? Can you imagine that? "Hey, what
are you doing?" "Taking this gun to school." "That's awesome."
Crazy us. We never thought about shooting people up back in those
days. "This was my great grandpa's gun during the First
World War! This is a Purple Heart!" All the kids, they see
it, and then you tell them about it, and then you sit down, and
then somebody gets up and says, "This is my grandma's knitting
set and she came over in the covered wagon and." You know, it
was just, just Show and Tell. It's part of school. Well, these
women, they showed up and they told those disciples. And the
Bible says, "That to the disciples, their words seemed
like idle tales." "Stop telling stories, women." "We've been up
all night." "Well maybe that's your problem. You should get
some sleep." I'm sure these guys. Peter, James, John, all of
them, they didn't believe. Now, for those of you who are
skeptics, this has got to be quite disturbing to you. Because
if you're thinking, oh, these guys all made up this story and
this, this whole gospel thing is a big joke. They made it up.
It's a conspiracy. Well, if it is, it's pretty wimpy on their
part. The thing that they conspired to dupe everybody
with, they wound up not even believing it themselves. But
Peter got up. God bless Peter. That big, bumbling fisherman.
According to church history, he was huge. Big guy. "I'm going.
Nothing's gonna stop me." And he's running to the tomb. John's
gospel gives you more detail about Peter started running
first, but John started running later and John passed him and
got to the tomb first. John writes that about himself. "I'm
faster than Peter." But the cute thing is John stopped and he
looked in the tomb. Peter couldn't stop, kept running and
went right in. Probably took John with him in the tumble.
Something clicked in Peter enough. "I gotta go. I gotta try
this out. I got to see if it's true." What about you today?
I've got to see if this is true. What you're talking about.
Because, pastor, if it's true what you're talking about, it's
a game changer. Oh, yes, my friend, at least. If what you're
saying is true, then the grave's been broken. Absolutely. If what
you're saying is true, that Jesus is alive. That explains a
lot. Yes it does. He is alive. And the tomb is empty. And
Number five is verses 9 to 10 of Matthew 28. And, "We get up
because of what we must do. And as they went to tell the
disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, 'rejoice'!" Now
there's an exclamation point in your English Bible. It was their
way of trying to take English, which is like black and white
paint, trying to paint with black and white paint. A
language that is in my technicolor's, multiple colors,
beyond. "He rejoiced." It's kind of, and they and Jesus came and
he rejoiced. Hey! No. He rejoiced. You know the old
English word exuberance. Jesus had exuberance. He didn't say,
"Hey, ladies, guess what? It's me." When He said "Rejoice!" It
was so obvious of what He had done and what He had achieved
for us. And Jesus says in verse 10 to them, "Do not be afraid.
Go tell my brethren to go to Galilee and there they will see
me." And that's, that's what you and I are to do today, is what
befalls us to get up is the fact that God wants to use you and I
to tell people. You're going to go somewhere right now. I assume
I don't know if you've eaten breakfast before you came or
afterwards. At some point you're going to have to eat. You need
to tell people. Today's the day, by the way. Just use it as a
gigantic excuse. Tell them, "Hey, happy resurrection day."
You know, because people will say, "Happy Easter. Happy
Ishtar." It's pagan, you know, Easter? You know that? We're not
going to go down that road right now because it'll put a damper
on everything. But it's bad news, Ishtar. Get it, get some
bunnies together and some colored eggs. And go get some
people and let's be like bunnies. That's what that was.
No. No. Happy Resurrection Day. That's what we want to tell
people. Why? Because we've got something to say.
JACK: Friends, think about what Jesus Christ did for us. Number
one, regarding this resurrection season. Jesus Christ bought our
salvation with His own blood. And the second thing is, He
provided for us eternal life by being resurrected from the dead.
That's how He guarantees your entrance into heaven. This is
glorious news because it's all about Him. On the third day,
being resurrected from the dead. Friends, listen, there's no one
like this. Not only in all of human history. There's no one
that has a book written about them that says, this is exactly
what's going to happen. And that's exactly what did happen.
Jesus Christ, based on the Bible, rose again from the
grave. This was for you. This was for me to have our guilt
removed and our sins purged, that you and I might be forgiven
of sin. So listen, remember this. That Jesus didn't die to
make bad men good. He died to make dead men live. That means
no morality is going to be accepted by God. But that which
is of His own son, the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who takes
away the sins of the world. We have been given new life through
Him and Him alone, so trust Him. Will you? Listen to help
you grow in your faith we want you to go to
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walk you through your relationship with God in the
Word of God. Until next time, God bless you.
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trust? When God seems silent in your pain? In, "A Tale of Three
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and Absalom into a powerful narrative about surrender,
trust, and finding peace in the midst of suffering. This
timeless book speaks to anyone who has experienced hurt,
disappointment or conflict, whether in relationships, the
workplace, or even the church. Through these pages, you'll
discover the true strength isn't found in retaliation, but in
surrendering to God's will. If you're wrestling with
unfairness, brokenness, or heartbreak, this book will offer
wisdom, healing, and a new perspective. "A Tale of Three
Kings" is our thank you gift for your donation of any size to
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