WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.459 Now, we're going to begin our worship this evening. We're singing in Psalm 97. In St. 00:00:06.560 --> 00:00:12.519 Psalms, that's on page 128. The tune is Warrington. And we're singing verses 1 to 9. 00:00:14.060 --> 00:00:18.559 The Lord reigns. Let the earth be glad. Let distant shores express delight. 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:25.760 Clouds and thick darkness cover Him. His throne is built on truth and right. Psalm 97, 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:29.300 verses 1 to 9. The Lord reigns. 00:00:55.759 --> 00:01:22.759 His throne is built on truth and right. Fire goes before Him and consumes. His enemies on every side. 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:39.640 His lightning flashes through the world. At this the air is set in light. 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:55.640 Hills melt like wax before the Lord. Before the Lord upon the air. 00:01:55.640 --> 00:02:13.639 The hands proclaim His righteousness. All people seek His glorious word. 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:30.019 All those who worship images are good to ever last in shame. 00:02:30.020 --> 00:02:34.020 Their glorious name. The Lord upon the air. 00:02:34.020 --> 00:02:38.020 The Lord upon the air. The Lord upon the air. 00:02:38.020 --> 00:02:47.020 You prospered out before His name. 00:02:47.020 --> 00:02:54.020 To Zion, to Zion, to Zion, and to Zion, and to Zion, and to Zion, and to Zion, and to Zion. 00:02:54.020 --> 00:03:03.020 Your judgment's Lord, great joy supply. 00:03:03.020 --> 00:03:04.020 The Lord upon the air. 00:03:04.020 --> 00:03:20.020 The Lord upon the air. And all the gods. Exalted is the Lord most high. 00:03:20.020 --> 00:03:27.020 Let's join now together in prayer. Let's call upon the Lord. 00:03:27.020 --> 00:03:39.020 O Lord, our gracious God, as we have been singing of Your greatness, we thank You for the factuality of these words that we have been singing. 00:03:39.020 --> 00:03:46.020 That all those things that are said of You are true, for You have revealed them to us, Yourself. 00:03:46.020 --> 00:03:53.020 And we thank You tonight that we stand in Your presence, O Lord, as those whose desire it is to worship You. 00:03:53.020 --> 00:04:01.020 For You have indicated in these words to us, O Lord, that You alone are God and You alone are worthy of worship. 00:04:01.020 --> 00:04:13.020 And You bring Your own condemnation upon those who worship idols and idolatry, and all that seeks to oppose You by way of Your sovereign rule. 00:04:13.020 --> 00:04:20.019 We thank You, Lord, that You have given us such a conviction, such a revelation in Your Word of Yourself. 00:04:20.019 --> 00:04:33.019 And we bless You tonight that we come before You seeking to lift up Your name in worship, seeking to come before You to give You thanks for the goodness that You keep showing to us day by day, 00:04:33.019 --> 00:04:40.019 and seeking to give You thanks especially for Your goodness in Jesus Christ, O Lord. 00:04:40.019 --> 00:04:45.019 We come, Lord, to offer our worship to You through Him and because of Him. 00:04:45.019 --> 00:04:52.019 And we worship You, Lord, because He has come and come into this world in which we ourselves live, 00:04:52.019 --> 00:05:01.019 and taken our human nature so that through this He might give Himself to die the death of the cross and rise from the dead, 00:05:01.019 --> 00:05:07.019 and so be forevermore the God-man who saves His people. 00:05:07.019 --> 00:05:16.019 We thank You, Lord, tonight for all that makes You great, and for the ways in which You have revealed to us certain aspects of Your greatness. 00:05:16.019 --> 00:05:22.019 We know that we cannot comprehend but only a small part of Your greatness. 00:05:22.019 --> 00:05:31.019 Lord, we cannot comprehend even this vast cosmos that You have created, of which we are such a tiny fragment, 00:05:31.019 --> 00:05:38.019 let alone comprehend the vastness, the greatness, the immensity, the eternity of God. 00:05:38.019 --> 00:05:44.019 But we give thanks that all that we need to know about You is revealed already in Your Word, 00:05:44.019 --> 00:05:52.019 and we thank You for the prospect of having eternity for Your people to learn more and more of You, 00:05:52.019 --> 00:05:59.019 and to come into a greater knowledge, a greater comprehension of the works of God. 00:05:59.019 --> 00:06:06.019 We pray, Lord, tonight for that right spirit by which we may worship You in spirit and in truth, 00:06:06.019 --> 00:06:14.019 that spirit of due humbling of ourselves in Your presence, that spirit of thanksgiving, 00:06:14.019 --> 00:06:18.019 and that spirit of renewing our vows in Your presence. 00:06:18.019 --> 00:06:23.019 We pray, O Lord, that You would draw near to us as we gather here in worship, 00:06:23.019 --> 00:06:31.019 and all who are coming to join us online, we give thanks, Lord, for the way in which people are able to do this. 00:06:31.019 --> 00:06:36.019 We pray especially today for those, Lord, at this time who are confined to their homes, 00:06:36.019 --> 00:06:44.019 and depend upon such technology to be involved with ourselves in the worship of Your name. 00:06:44.019 --> 00:06:51.019 And we thank You, O Lord, for that, and pray that You would bless them tonight as they participate in this way. 00:06:51.019 --> 00:06:57.019 And we pray that You would bless all Your people throughout our land and throughout the world today, 00:06:57.019 --> 00:07:02.019 a world that has given acknowledgement to the birth of Christ, 00:07:02.019 --> 00:07:07.019 a world in which that has been prominent in so many ways. 00:07:07.019 --> 00:07:13.019 Yet, O Lord, a world that to such a great extent lies in darkness still. 00:07:13.019 --> 00:07:21.019 And for the light has come into the world, and this is the condemnation that men love the darkness rather than the light, 00:07:21.019 --> 00:07:23.019 because their deeds were evil. 00:07:23.019 --> 00:07:28.019 And we ask, Lord, that You would, through Your own word and through the breath of Your Spirit, 00:07:28.019 --> 00:07:38.019 the creative might of Your Spirit, that You would deliver from darkness those tonight who have yet to come into that knowledge of You as their Savior. 00:07:38.019 --> 00:07:39.019 Our Savior. 00:07:39.019 --> 00:07:48.019 I pray that You would bless the Gospel, bless it to ourselves, and bless ourselves as we seek to carry the Gospel into the world of our day. 00:07:48.019 --> 00:07:57.019 Help us, Lord, in whatever way we can to live as witnesses to You, to be lights that reflect the light of Christ Himself, 00:07:57.019 --> 00:08:00.019 the light of our Savior who is the light of the world. 00:08:00.019 --> 00:08:08.019 And yet we know You described Your people as the light of the world, a city that is set on a hill which cannot be hidden. 00:08:08.019 --> 00:08:12.019 And so gives light, Lord, to those around us. 00:08:12.019 --> 00:08:22.019 And we thank You tonight for this great Gospel, this great news that You have brought to us of salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:08:22.019 --> 00:08:37.019 Lord, we pray amongst the many things that are happening in our world at this time, that You would be pleased to hold forth this word, O God, for all of the people who yet abide in darkness, 00:08:37.019 --> 00:08:42.019 and for the confirmation of Your own people as well in the way of truth. 00:08:42.019 --> 00:08:47.019 We ask that tonight there will be many, Lord, who will be saved. 00:08:47.019 --> 00:08:53.019 They will come to be drawn by Your Spirit and to place their trust and confidence in You. 00:08:53.019 --> 00:09:02.019 We give thanks, Lord, that we are able, in whatever way, to witness and testify to You in our own locality, in our own community. 00:09:02.019 --> 00:09:07.019 We pray that that will be so and enable us to do so in the days to come. 00:09:07.019 --> 00:09:10.019 We pray for our nation at this time, O Lord. 00:09:10.019 --> 00:09:16.019 We recognize that we have so obviously departed from Your ways. 00:09:16.019 --> 00:09:26.019 And we pray, Lord, that You would forgive us and be merciful to us for the many ways in which we truly provoke You to anger. 00:09:26.019 --> 00:09:30.019 And we give thanks that You have not yet turned Your back upon us. 00:09:30.019 --> 00:09:34.019 You have left a remnant to witness to Yourself in our nation. 00:09:34.019 --> 00:09:37.019 And we pray that that will be blessed to the people at large. 00:09:37.019 --> 00:10:03.019 We pray at this time, O Lord, when we have found once again in Parliament that decisions have been taken that are contrary to Your will, to Your Word, to Your laws, to Your values, to the principles that You set out for us in Your Word, for human relationships, for human gender, for that which You have created, and which is now so much gone against in the world of our day. 00:10:03.019 --> 00:10:05.019 Be merciful to us, Lord. 00:10:05.019 --> 00:10:06.019 Be merciful to us, Lord. 00:10:06.019 --> 00:10:07.019 Be merciful to us, Lord. 00:10:07.019 --> 00:10:14.019 Hide Your face from our sins, not only in this way, but in the many other ways in which our sins are so obvious before You. 00:10:14.019 --> 00:10:19.019 And, Lord, we ask that You would, in wrath, remember mercy. 00:10:19.019 --> 00:10:42.019 Oh, turn to us, we pray, in the gospel power of Your Spirit, and turn us to Yourself as a people, and give to those, Lord, in our Parliament, both here in Scotland and in Westminster too, those who do speak up for You, those who witness to their fellow members of Parliament that there is a God in Heaven to whom they are answerable. 00:10:42.019 --> 00:10:51.019 Lord, we pray that You would continue to uphold them, to encourage them, to strengthen them, and to bless their witness and testimony. 00:10:51.019 --> 00:11:16.220 And we pray, Lord, for better days to come as we come towards the end of another year in our experience, years in which we have been recently, last year and this passing year, through so much difficulty, so many things that have challenged us and tried us, so many deaths, Lord, so much disease, so much rampant in our communities where lives have been taken away. 00:11:16.220 --> 00:11:21.220 And yet, Lord, we find that as a people, we have not turned to You. 00:11:21.220 --> 00:11:30.660 We express, Lord, on behalf of our people, our sorrow, that there are not more who come to acknowledge You in our world. 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:38.019 And we pray that that will be something which we see changed and reversed in these days to come. 00:11:38.019 --> 00:11:39.019 Amen. 00:11:39.019 --> 00:11:53.079 Bless the world in which we live, Lord, with all its troubles, with all its places of darkness, of idolatry, of war, of famine, of deprivation, of exploitation of the poor. 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:59.319 Lord, our world has so much that human greed and human mismanagement has caused. 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:07.460 And yet we know that whenever Your name is mentioned, that so often, Lord, we find that the fault is thrown at Your door. 00:12:08.300 --> 00:12:13.700 And we pray that You would bless all those today who are caught up in these difficult situations. 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:20.940 And we ask that Your own gospel will reach out to them with that message of hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:26.740 Remember those of our own number who are away at this time, those who are with families. 00:12:26.740 --> 00:12:35.500 Remember those who are ill at this time, those, Lord, who have confinement to their homes or to hospitals or to care homes. 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:47.039 Remember, too, O Lord, those who mourn the passing of loved ones, those families that in these recent days have come to experience sorrow over the loss of loved ones. 00:12:47.180 --> 00:12:47.980 Remember them, Lord. 00:12:48.500 --> 00:12:53.320 We pray in Your own great mercy and in Your comfort. 00:12:53.320 --> 00:13:03.360 Lord, come, Lord, into their situation with them and assure them of Your love to all those, Lord, who come to place their trust and confidence in You. 00:13:04.020 --> 00:13:11.220 And we pray that as a congregation, when we know of those that were with us for so many years, most of these, 00:13:11.220 --> 00:13:19.740 Lord, we ask that You would raise up others who will come to attend the means of grace, to be a part of a worshiping people, 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:24.320 a part of a people who testify to the grace of Christ. 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:26.500 So, Lord, remember us now. 00:13:26.620 --> 00:13:27.700 Continue with us here. 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:30.779 Hear our prayer and pardon our sins. 00:13:30.779 --> 00:13:32.019 For Jesus' sake. 00:13:32.540 --> 00:13:32.860 Amen. 00:13:32.860 --> 00:13:40.279 Let's again praise God this time from Psalm 61. 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.460 Psalm 61 in the Scottish Psalter. 00:13:44.460 --> 00:13:46.879 That's on page 223. 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:51.700 We sing this time to June Belmont. 00:13:51.700 --> 00:14:02.360 I think that's the wrong page number. 00:14:02.520 --> 00:14:03.420 I've given you Psalm 61. 00:14:03.580 --> 00:14:05.759 It's page 293. 00:14:07.920 --> 00:14:11.220 O God, give ear unto my cry, unto my prayer attend. 00:14:11.920 --> 00:14:15.620 From the utmost corner of the land my cry, to Thee I'll send. 00:14:15.620 --> 00:14:24.299 What time my heart is overwhelmed and in perplexity, do thou may lead unto the rock that higher is than I. 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:28.379 Verses 1 to 5 to June Belmont to God's praise. 00:14:28.379 --> 00:14:49.120 O God, give ear unto my cry, unto my prayer attend. 00:14:49.120 --> 00:15:06.700 From the utmost corner of the land my cry, to Thee I'll send. 00:15:06.700 --> 00:15:36.680 What time my heart is overwhelmed and in perplexity, do thou may lead unto the rock that I am. 00:15:36.700 --> 00:16:06.680 What time my cry, to Thee I'll send. 00:16:06.700 --> 00:16:13.100 O God, give ear unto my life, to Thee I'll send. 00:16:13.100 --> 00:16:13.700 O God, give ear unto God, give ear unto thyDR. 00:16:14.300 --> 00:16:15.080 Is question the air of the Prayer your heart younie the person that you grant me? 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:32.080 Within thy chamber I collide, forever will thou fight. 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:49.080 And land the cover of thy wings, with awful heads behind. 00:16:49.080 --> 00:17:06.079 For thou the world's that I can be, O Lord my God this year. 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:22.579 Thou hast killed me the heritage of those I live that dear. 00:17:25.579 --> 00:17:28.919 Well our reading of scripture tonight is from the Gospel of Mark. 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:31.399 Firstly chapter 15. 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:37.220 Mark chapter 15 at verse 33. 00:17:40.280 --> 00:17:44.880 And we'll read down as far as verse 8 of chapter 16. 00:17:47.460 --> 00:17:52.140 So beginning at Mark chapter 15 and at verse 33. 00:17:56.180 --> 00:18:01.259 And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:07.340 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani. 00:18:07.860 --> 00:18:11.519 Which means, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:18:12.360 --> 00:18:16.140 And some of the bystanders hearing it said, behold, he's calling Elijah. 00:18:16.980 --> 00:18:22.620 And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. 00:18:22.620 --> 00:18:26.900 Saying, wait, let's see whether Elijah will come to take him down. 00:18:26.900 --> 00:18:32.040 And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. 00:18:32.840 --> 00:18:37.160 And the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:43.360 And when the centurion who stood facing him saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, 00:18:44.060 --> 00:18:46.380 truly this man was the Son of God. 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:49.720 There were also women looking on from a distance, 00:18:50.340 --> 00:18:57.120 among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph and Salome. 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:01.620 When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him. 00:19:01.619 --> 00:19:05.299 And there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem. 00:19:06.239 --> 00:19:11.379 And when evening had come, since it was the day of preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, 00:19:12.059 --> 00:19:14.879 Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, 00:19:15.459 --> 00:19:18.000 who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:22.139 took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:26.119 Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died. 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:30.779 And summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead. 00:19:31.619 --> 00:19:36.619 And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph. 00:19:37.439 --> 00:19:42.679 And Joseph bought a linen shroud and, taking him down, wrapped him in a linen shroud 00:19:42.679 --> 00:19:46.019 and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:49.259 And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. 00:19:50.219 --> 00:19:54.279 Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joseph, saw where he was laid. 00:19:54.279 --> 00:20:00.200 When the Sabbath was passed, Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James and Salome, 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:03.399 brought spices so that they might go and anoint him. 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:08.480 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:10.539 And they were saying to one another, 00:20:10.700 --> 00:20:14.480 Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb? 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:18.940 And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back. 00:20:19.180 --> 00:20:20.259 It was very large. 00:20:21.120 --> 00:20:24.620 And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:27.519 dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. 00:20:28.299 --> 00:20:29.140 And he said to them, 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:30.759 Do not be alarmed. 00:20:31.339 --> 00:20:34.380 You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. 00:20:35.319 --> 00:20:36.039 He has risen. 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:37.579 He is not here. 00:20:38.259 --> 00:20:39.900 See the place where they laid him. 00:20:39.900 --> 00:20:45.340 But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. 00:20:46.019 --> 00:20:48.880 There you will see him, just as I told you. 00:20:49.500 --> 00:20:57.120 And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them. 00:20:57.800 --> 00:21:02.280 And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. 00:21:04.320 --> 00:21:04.800 Amen. 00:21:04.900 --> 00:21:06.440 May God once again bless to us. 00:21:07.080 --> 00:21:08.600 Reading of his holy word. 00:21:09.900 --> 00:21:12.660 Let's sing again this time from Psalm number 2. 00:21:13.720 --> 00:21:18.220 Let's sing Psalms on page 2, Psalm 2, verses 1 to 6. 00:21:18.860 --> 00:21:20.160 The tune is before the throne. 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:24.160 Why do the heathen nations rage? 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:26.100 Why do the peoples plot in vain? 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:28.800 Earth's kings combine in enmity. 00:21:29.300 --> 00:21:31.380 Her rulers join against God's reign. 00:21:32.180 --> 00:21:36.080 They take their stand against the Lord and challenge his anointed one. 00:21:36.700 --> 00:21:38.900 Let us break off their chains from us. 00:21:39.380 --> 00:21:41.400 With their restraints, let us be done. 00:21:42.259 --> 00:21:44.220 The one enthroned in heaven laughs. 00:21:44.900 --> 00:21:47.040 The Lord on high derides them all. 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:49.379 Then he rebukes them in his wrath. 00:21:49.460 --> 00:21:51.319 His rage and terror on them fall. 00:21:51.859 --> 00:21:53.879 The Lord has made it known to them. 00:21:54.539 --> 00:21:56.940 My chosen king I have installed. 00:21:57.299 --> 00:21:59.659 On Zion, my own holy hill. 00:22:00.539 --> 00:22:03.519 He is the one whom I have called. 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:08.099 So these verses 1 to 6 in Psalm 2. 00:22:08.220 --> 00:22:10.720 Why do the heathen nations rage? 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:21.180 Why do the heathen nations rage? 00:22:21.380 --> 00:22:26.420 Why do the peoples plot in vain? 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:31.140 Earth's kings combine in enmity. 00:22:32.059 --> 00:22:36.720 Her rulers join against God's reign. 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:47.180 They take their hand against the Lord and challenge his anointed one. 00:22:47.180 --> 00:22:52.420 Let us break off their chains from us. 00:22:52.420 --> 00:22:57.460 With their restraints, let us be done. 00:22:57.460 --> 00:23:02.960 With their restraints, let us be done. 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:08.620 The one enthroned in heaven laughs. 00:23:08.620 --> 00:23:13.960 The Lord on high derides them all. 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:19.120 Then he rebukes them in his wrath. 00:23:19.539 --> 00:23:24.299 His rage and terror on them fall. 00:23:24.299 --> 00:23:29.700 My Lord has made it known to them. 00:23:30.139 --> 00:23:35.000 My chosen king I have installed. 00:23:35.460 --> 00:23:40.220 On Zion, my own holy hill. 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:45.500 He is the one whom I have called. 00:23:45.940 --> 00:23:50.579 He is the one whom I have called. 00:23:50.579 --> 00:23:57.679 Now let's turn for a short time this evening to 1 Corinthians chapter 15. 00:23:59.539 --> 00:24:02.960 First letter of Paul to the Corinthians chapter 15. 00:24:03.899 --> 00:24:05.659 We can read again from the beginning. 00:24:06.279 --> 00:24:09.179 And tonight we're looking at verses 3 to 8. 00:24:12.139 --> 00:24:15.220 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, 00:24:15.699 --> 00:24:19.799 which you received and which you stand and by which you are being saved. 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:24.700 If you hold fast to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 00:24:25.419 --> 00:24:30.059 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received. 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:33.799 That Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures. 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:35.419 That he was buried. 00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:39.579 That he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures. 00:24:40.460 --> 00:24:43.139 And that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:46.899 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time. 00:24:47.500 --> 00:24:49.159 Most of whom are still alive. 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:51.279 Though some have fallen asleep. 00:24:52.060 --> 00:24:53.460 Then he appeared to James. 00:24:54.220 --> 00:24:55.460 Then to all the apostles. 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:02.640 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 00:25:04.420 --> 00:25:11.120 Well, we began looking at this chapter when we looked a couple of weeks ago at the first two verses or so. 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:17.299 And where we found that that's a description Paul gives us of the gospel. 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:23.919 And tonight we're coming in the following verses to look at the core of the gospel or the gospel's core. 00:25:24.459 --> 00:25:26.359 The very central issues of the gospel. 00:25:26.500 --> 00:25:28.239 The foundational matters of the gospel. 00:25:28.240 --> 00:25:31.220 In these verses 3 to 8. 00:25:31.220 --> 00:25:36.799 Particularly verses 3 to 4. 00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:46.019 Now notice that Paul is here referring to this as the matter of what he delivered to them. 00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:54.180 In other words, the gospel that was given to him that he delivered to the Corinthian church as something that was of the first importance. 00:25:54.180 --> 00:25:57.600 He's reminding them here of this gospel. 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:01.060 Last time we saw it's the gospel they received that was preached to them. 00:26:01.539 --> 00:26:04.720 That they received in which they stand, by which they were being saved. 00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:10.920 And now he's saying to them, this is what I delivered to you as of first importance. 00:26:11.299 --> 00:26:12.980 What I also received. 00:26:12.980 --> 00:26:17.259 In other words, what is of first importance is the gospel itself. 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:21.799 Especially the core issues of the gospel that he's now going on to speak of. 00:26:22.039 --> 00:26:23.799 Especially when he speaks of Christ. 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:25.759 Christ's death for our sins. 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:27.059 Christ being buried. 00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:30.339 And Christ raised from the dead on the third day. 00:26:30.500 --> 00:26:33.480 These are the core issues of the gospel. 00:26:34.500 --> 00:26:39.539 And you notice that Paul is saying here that he delivered this to the Corinthians. 00:26:39.819 --> 00:26:42.799 Having first received it from God. 00:26:42.980 --> 00:26:45.319 That which I delivered to you. 00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:47.720 What I also received. 00:26:47.940 --> 00:26:51.400 Paul did not pass on something that he himself had invented. 00:26:52.099 --> 00:26:57.559 He didn't actually give the Corinthians something that at the time the church had put together. 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:04.299 He didn't actually put to them things which were of any human origin itself. 00:27:04.460 --> 00:27:09.460 Something which was received by the apostle from God. 00:27:09.460 --> 00:27:13.180 And what he's really saying is this is not something that's been invented. 00:27:13.480 --> 00:27:18.360 And I'm passing on to you something that not only is it from God. 00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:21.779 But it's not been adapted or adjusted. 00:27:22.019 --> 00:27:24.740 It's as I received it from God. 00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:26.840 So I have passed it on to you. 00:27:27.380 --> 00:27:31.180 And then he goes on to speak of these core issues that he has now. 00:27:31.460 --> 00:27:32.539 That he passed on to them. 00:27:32.539 --> 00:27:35.980 But he's now reiterating or re-emphasizing further. 00:27:35.980 --> 00:27:40.740 Now of course as we saw the chapter really is about the resurrection. 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:42.480 The resurrection of Christ. 00:27:42.579 --> 00:27:44.160 And the resurrection of Christ's people. 00:27:44.819 --> 00:27:47.860 And so we're leading the way into what he says about the resurrection. 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:51.299 By the gospel and the core of the gospel. 00:27:51.539 --> 00:27:55.420 Which contains of course the resurrection of Christ himself. 00:27:55.420 --> 00:27:59.720 Now if you think of these three things about Jesus. 00:27:59.880 --> 00:28:01.820 Because this really is the core of the gospel. 00:28:02.300 --> 00:28:04.200 And you notice very quickly from these verses. 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:07.820 That Christ himself is the core of the gospel. 00:28:08.180 --> 00:28:10.420 Because all of these things that are mentioned here. 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:15.100 As foundational or of the core of the gospel. 00:28:15.539 --> 00:28:16.820 Are about Jesus himself. 00:28:17.019 --> 00:28:19.380 That he died for our sins. 00:28:19.539 --> 00:28:20.900 In accordance with the scripture. 00:28:21.259 --> 00:28:22.360 That he was buried. 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:24.879 That he was raised on the third day. 00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:26.939 In accordance with the scriptures. 00:28:27.199 --> 00:28:27.639 In other words. 00:28:27.759 --> 00:28:29.279 When you become a Christian. 00:28:29.419 --> 00:28:30.599 If you want to put it that way. 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:32.059 When you're born again. 00:28:32.179 --> 00:28:33.579 When you come to follow Christ. 00:28:33.779 --> 00:28:35.099 When you come to be saved. 00:28:35.159 --> 00:28:36.579 Whatever way you describe it. 00:28:36.639 --> 00:28:38.159 In which the Bible describes it. 00:28:38.379 --> 00:28:40.759 What you're doing is coming to know a person. 00:28:41.579 --> 00:28:44.799 You're coming to know this person of Jesus Christ. 00:28:45.579 --> 00:28:49.219 You don't actually just follow a certain creed. 00:28:49.259 --> 00:28:50.899 Or a certain set of rules. 00:28:50.900 --> 00:28:52.620 Or certain principles. 00:28:52.620 --> 00:28:54.019 That are set down in writing. 00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:55.100 You do that. 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:56.900 But more than that. 00:28:57.340 --> 00:28:58.460 You follow this person. 00:28:58.800 --> 00:28:59.980 You believe in this person. 00:29:00.180 --> 00:29:01.180 You love this person. 00:29:01.340 --> 00:29:03.980 Because your salvation is in this person. 00:29:04.660 --> 00:29:06.040 He is the Savior. 00:29:06.040 --> 00:29:07.460 Who came into the world. 00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:09.740 As we're reminded in these days. 00:29:09.940 --> 00:29:10.240 Especially. 00:29:10.420 --> 00:29:12.200 Though not confining it to that of course. 00:29:12.980 --> 00:29:14.519 But he's saying the core of this. 00:29:14.840 --> 00:29:15.440 Is Christ. 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:17.200 And the three facts. 00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:19.380 And all the way through this chapter. 00:29:19.860 --> 00:29:21.319 The apostle is concerned. 00:29:21.580 --> 00:29:23.319 To show that what he's saying. 00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:24.759 Saying to the Corinthians. 00:29:24.980 --> 00:29:27.140 About these core issues of the gospel. 00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:28.299 They are facts. 00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:30.160 They are not myths. 00:29:30.700 --> 00:29:31.660 They are not things that. 00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:33.720 Are make up a nice story. 00:29:34.180 --> 00:29:36.640 They're not things which make people feel good. 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:39.319 Although they maybe make them feel good. 00:29:39.380 --> 00:29:41.620 But that's not why he's setting it out for them. 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:43.160 That's not what the gospel is about. 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:45.299 They are facts. 00:29:45.460 --> 00:29:46.840 They are historical facts. 00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:48.959 Facts that were actually as we'll see. 00:29:49.439 --> 00:29:52.619 Verified in the days of the apostle himself. 00:29:53.899 --> 00:29:56.000 And there are three facts about Jesus. 00:29:56.699 --> 00:29:59.559 That really comprise the core of the gospel. 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:00.659 First of all. 00:30:01.159 --> 00:30:03.359 He died for our sins. 00:30:03.939 --> 00:30:04.480 Secondly. 00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:05.980 He was buried. 00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:07.240 Thirdly. 00:30:07.919 --> 00:30:10.399 He was raised on the third day. 00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:14.220 All of that in accordance with the scriptures. 00:30:14.220 --> 00:30:15.339 In other words. 00:30:15.339 --> 00:30:17.960 If you think of these three great facts. 00:30:18.100 --> 00:30:19.299 Or these three great truths. 00:30:19.420 --> 00:30:20.559 As they're joined together. 00:30:20.900 --> 00:30:23.900 They really form an unbreakable chain. 00:30:24.740 --> 00:30:25.900 Each of these facts. 00:30:26.019 --> 00:30:28.759 You could think of as a link. 00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:30.980 In this chain. 00:30:31.380 --> 00:30:34.160 That makes up the core of the gospel. 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:35.059 When you find someone. 00:30:35.059 --> 00:30:36.399 For example. 00:30:36.399 --> 00:30:36.639 If. 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:38.159 In icy weather. 00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:39.859 You find a vehicle gone off the road. 00:30:40.679 --> 00:30:42.240 And along comes the rescue vehicle. 00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:44.019 And gives it a tow. 00:30:44.099 --> 00:30:45.740 In order to bring it back up on the road. 00:30:45.819 --> 00:30:47.339 And attaches the chain to it. 00:30:47.659 --> 00:30:49.519 That chain is made up of links. 00:30:49.659 --> 00:30:49.940 Which. 00:30:50.500 --> 00:30:51.799 Unless they hold together. 00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:53.099 It's not going to work. 00:30:53.379 --> 00:30:54.799 If one of these chains. 00:30:54.899 --> 00:30:56.039 And that link snaps. 00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:58.220 The rest of the chain is useless. 00:30:58.220 --> 00:30:59.700 It doesn't actually do. 00:30:59.779 --> 00:31:00.779 What it's meant to do. 00:31:01.460 --> 00:31:03.160 And if you take out any of. 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:04.700 These three links. 00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:07.440 It falls apart. 00:31:08.740 --> 00:31:09.799 It's destructive. 00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:11.279 Of the other two links. 00:31:12.120 --> 00:31:13.259 If for example. 00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:15.019 Christ did not die. 00:31:15.140 --> 00:31:16.160 For our sins. 00:31:16.779 --> 00:31:18.059 Then there's little point. 00:31:18.120 --> 00:31:19.640 In speaking about him being buried. 00:31:20.039 --> 00:31:21.640 Or about him being raised. 00:31:21.819 --> 00:31:22.460 From the dead. 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:23.200 Indeed. 00:31:23.420 --> 00:31:24.860 He could not have been raised. 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:25.539 From the dead. 00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:27.279 If it wasn't for our sins. 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:28.079 That he died. 00:31:29.139 --> 00:31:31.879 These three wonderful links of truth. 00:31:32.779 --> 00:31:34.819 Are inseparably joined together. 00:31:35.220 --> 00:31:37.259 You need to keep this chain intact. 00:31:38.139 --> 00:31:39.759 In order to understand something. 00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:40.899 Of the core. 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:42.039 Of the gospel. 00:31:43.240 --> 00:31:44.000 So what are they? 00:31:44.700 --> 00:31:45.399 First of all. 00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:47.839 He died for our sins. 00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:50.460 In accordance with the scripture. 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:53.000 Now. 00:31:53.299 --> 00:31:55.480 In this particular day. 00:31:55.619 --> 00:31:56.579 This Christmas day. 00:31:57.319 --> 00:31:58.179 A lot of. 00:31:58.980 --> 00:32:00.179 Reminders have been given us. 00:32:00.399 --> 00:32:01.079 Very rightly. 00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:02.179 Of the incarnation. 00:32:02.980 --> 00:32:04.179 Of the birth of Christ. 00:32:04.259 --> 00:32:04.859 Of the Lord. 00:32:05.259 --> 00:32:06.179 Coming into the world. 00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:07.159 Of the Son of God. 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:08.659 Taking our human nature. 00:32:08.659 --> 00:32:09.240 To himself. 00:32:09.339 --> 00:32:09.779 And of course. 00:32:10.159 --> 00:32:11.699 That is such a vital part. 00:32:11.699 --> 00:32:12.879 Of the gospel emphasis. 00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:14.399 And it is itself. 00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:15.039 Itself. 00:32:15.179 --> 00:32:16.720 An aspect of the core issues. 00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:17.419 Of the gospel. 00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:19.240 Though Paul doesn't include it here. 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:20.319 Because he wants to focus. 00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:21.399 On his death. 00:32:21.439 --> 00:32:22.539 Leading to his resurrection. 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:24.759 But. 00:32:24.919 --> 00:32:26.460 It is for this purpose. 00:32:26.460 --> 00:32:27.819 That he came into the world. 00:32:28.439 --> 00:32:29.599 It's for this purpose. 00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:30.500 That he was born. 00:32:31.299 --> 00:32:32.220 It's for this purpose. 00:32:32.220 --> 00:32:33.439 That he took human nature. 00:32:33.439 --> 00:32:34.119 To himself. 00:32:34.779 --> 00:32:36.159 So that he would die. 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:37.720 For our sins. 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:39.019 The death of the cross. 00:32:39.859 --> 00:32:40.759 And be buried. 00:32:41.419 --> 00:32:42.720 And be raised again. 00:32:42.919 --> 00:32:43.939 From the dead. 00:32:43.940 --> 00:32:44.720 That is why. 00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:46.080 He came into the world. 00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:47.080 That is the purpose. 00:32:47.340 --> 00:32:48.180 Of the incarnation. 00:32:48.500 --> 00:32:49.340 That's what the incarnation. 00:32:49.340 --> 00:32:50.200 Is designed. 00:32:50.660 --> 00:32:51.220 To lead to. 00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:52.140 And did lead to. 00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:55.059 He died for our sins. 00:32:56.360 --> 00:32:57.200 In accordance. 00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:58.080 With the scriptures. 00:32:58.340 --> 00:32:59.120 Now when he says here. 00:32:59.220 --> 00:33:00.140 That Christ died. 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:02.100 For our sins. 00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:03.860 The language the apostle uses. 00:33:04.580 --> 00:33:05.779 As it always is. 00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:06.900 Is very precise. 00:33:07.580 --> 00:33:08.799 And it actually means. 00:33:09.080 --> 00:33:09.759 Something like. 00:33:09.860 --> 00:33:11.200 He died the death. 00:33:11.539 --> 00:33:13.779 Which our sins deserve. 00:33:14.860 --> 00:33:16.140 Or which we deserve. 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:17.460 For our sins. 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:19.680 Which our sins warranted. 00:33:19.700 --> 00:33:20.360 In other words. 00:33:20.580 --> 00:33:21.779 This kind of death. 00:33:21.779 --> 00:33:23.000 This death that he died. 00:33:23.420 --> 00:33:24.539 Not just death physical. 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:26.200 But death in enduring. 00:33:26.360 --> 00:33:27.940 And bearing the wrath of God. 00:33:28.220 --> 00:33:29.320 Against sin. 00:33:29.500 --> 00:33:30.860 Against the sin of his people. 00:33:31.320 --> 00:33:32.259 Against our sins. 00:33:32.820 --> 00:33:33.500 He died. 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:35.259 For our sins. 00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:36.740 He died the death. 00:33:36.840 --> 00:33:37.860 That our sins. 00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:38.860 And we in our sins. 00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:39.840 Deserved. 00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:41.279 That's what he's. 00:33:41.340 --> 00:33:42.680 That's what he's emphasizing. 00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:44.140 Our sins. 00:33:44.140 --> 00:33:44.740 In other words. 00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:46.180 Were the procuring. 00:33:46.500 --> 00:33:47.080 Cause. 00:33:47.600 --> 00:33:48.380 Of Christ's death. 00:33:48.460 --> 00:33:48.640 Of course. 00:33:48.700 --> 00:33:49.779 When you speak about causes. 00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:51.279 The highest cause. 00:33:51.380 --> 00:33:51.720 Of anything. 00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:52.779 Is God himself. 00:33:53.299 --> 00:33:54.440 The purpose of God. 00:33:54.740 --> 00:33:55.519 The overarching. 00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:56.279 Purpose. 00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:57.299 Of God. 00:33:57.799 --> 00:33:58.980 But underneath that. 00:33:59.420 --> 00:33:59.920 There are other. 00:34:00.420 --> 00:34:01.060 Causes. 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:02.140 Such as here. 00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:03.519 What does it cause. 00:34:03.640 --> 00:34:04.620 The death of Christ. 00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:04.920 Well. 00:34:05.320 --> 00:34:06.440 In the highest sense. 00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:07.600 The death of Christ. 00:34:07.660 --> 00:34:08.200 Was caused. 00:34:08.199 --> 00:34:08.779 By the fact. 00:34:08.779 --> 00:34:09.719 That God the Father. 00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:10.539 Gave him. 00:34:10.539 --> 00:34:11.859 To die the death. 00:34:11.859 --> 00:34:12.359 Of the cross. 00:34:12.359 --> 00:34:13.179 For his people. 00:34:15.179 --> 00:34:16.359 But beneath that. 00:34:16.439 --> 00:34:17.659 You've got the procuring cause. 00:34:17.699 --> 00:34:19.259 Or the most immediate cause. 00:34:19.819 --> 00:34:21.619 Which is the sins. 00:34:21.619 --> 00:34:22.500 Of his people. 00:34:23.359 --> 00:34:25.019 Our sins. 00:34:25.179 --> 00:34:25.739 Caused. 00:34:26.799 --> 00:34:28.000 The death of Jesus. 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:33.239 That's what. 00:34:34.300 --> 00:34:34.860 McChain. 00:34:34.980 --> 00:34:35.619 In his hymn. 00:34:36.260 --> 00:34:37.340 Jehovah Sidkenu. 00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:37.940 Came to. 00:34:38.139 --> 00:34:39.739 Came to actually realize. 00:34:40.699 --> 00:34:41.420 He talks about. 00:34:41.579 --> 00:34:41.719 When. 00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:43.179 He heard the gospel. 00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:43.920 Many times. 00:34:43.980 --> 00:34:44.699 That he wept. 00:34:45.820 --> 00:34:46.559 When he heard. 00:34:46.739 --> 00:34:47.340 As he put it. 00:34:47.579 --> 00:34:48.320 When the water. 00:34:48.460 --> 00:34:49.960 Went over his soul. 00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:51.159 Yet. 00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:52.260 Thought not. 00:34:52.380 --> 00:34:53.679 That my sins. 00:34:54.099 --> 00:34:54.880 Had nailed. 00:34:55.079 --> 00:34:55.699 To the tree. 00:34:56.119 --> 00:34:57.260 Jehovah Sidkenu. 00:34:57.260 --> 00:34:58.140 It was nothing. 00:34:58.140 --> 00:34:58.700 To me. 00:35:00.180 --> 00:35:00.600 But then. 00:35:00.700 --> 00:35:01.460 When free grace. 00:35:01.520 --> 00:35:02.060 Awoke him. 00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:03.080 With light. 00:35:03.180 --> 00:35:03.760 From on high. 00:35:04.820 --> 00:35:05.840 Then legal fear. 00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:06.360 Shook me. 00:35:06.660 --> 00:35:07.300 I trembled. 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:07.860 To die. 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:08.980 No refuge. 00:35:09.080 --> 00:35:09.640 No safety. 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:10.460 In self. 00:35:10.540 --> 00:35:11.080 Could I see. 00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:12.840 Jehovah Sidkenu. 00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:14.360 My refuge. 00:35:14.460 --> 00:35:15.060 Must be. 00:35:16.460 --> 00:35:17.420 He came to realize. 00:35:17.640 --> 00:35:17.840 Us. 00:35:18.120 --> 00:35:19.120 We come to realize. 00:35:19.120 --> 00:35:19.760 Ourselves. 00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:20.780 When we come to know. 00:35:20.780 --> 00:35:21.260 The Lord. 00:35:22.380 --> 00:35:22.840 That is. 00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:23.820 Death was caused. 00:35:23.820 --> 00:35:24.980 By our sins. 00:35:25.600 --> 00:35:26.260 Why else. 00:35:26.260 --> 00:35:27.240 Would Jesus die. 00:35:27.759 --> 00:35:28.199 What else. 00:35:28.199 --> 00:35:28.500 Could be. 00:35:28.579 --> 00:35:29.259 The procuring. 00:35:29.259 --> 00:35:29.759 Cause. 00:35:29.899 --> 00:35:30.339 Of the death. 00:35:30.399 --> 00:35:30.779 Of Christ. 00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:31.539 What else. 00:35:31.539 --> 00:35:31.799 Could be. 00:35:31.879 --> 00:35:32.299 The reason. 00:35:32.419 --> 00:35:32.939 That the son. 00:35:33.019 --> 00:35:33.519 Of God. 00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:33.919 Came. 00:35:34.179 --> 00:35:35.059 To take the form. 00:35:35.099 --> 00:35:35.759 Of a servant. 00:35:35.759 --> 00:35:36.279 And live. 00:35:36.279 --> 00:35:37.159 As a servant. 00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:37.879 In this world. 00:35:38.319 --> 00:35:39.259 And expose himself. 00:35:39.399 --> 00:35:40.179 To deprivation. 00:35:40.299 --> 00:35:40.899 And to suffering. 00:35:41.019 --> 00:35:41.599 And temptation. 00:35:42.019 --> 00:35:42.419 And everything. 00:35:42.619 --> 00:35:43.119 That he suffered. 00:35:43.399 --> 00:35:43.919 And especially. 00:35:44.379 --> 00:35:45.419 Come to experience. 00:35:45.579 --> 00:35:46.119 And give himself. 00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:46.719 To the death. 00:35:46.759 --> 00:35:47.219 Of the cross. 00:35:47.359 --> 00:35:48.379 To the condemnation. 00:35:48.379 --> 00:35:48.919 Of God. 00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:50.039 Why would that be. 00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:50.779 Why could it. 00:35:50.779 --> 00:35:50.939 Come. 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:51.459 Why would it. 00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:52.419 Come to him. 00:35:52.479 --> 00:35:53.000 As we read. 00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:53.819 In Mark's gospel. 00:35:54.019 --> 00:35:54.879 Saying from the cross. 00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:55.680 My God. 00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:56.200 My God. 00:35:56.280 --> 00:35:56.900 Why have you. 00:35:57.059 --> 00:35:57.940 Forsaken me. 00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:00.599 Because he was there. 00:36:00.700 --> 00:36:01.960 As our sin bearer. 00:36:03.019 --> 00:36:04.660 And as he's the sin bearer. 00:36:04.720 --> 00:36:05.240 What he did. 00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:08.220 In coming into the world. 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:08.820 Was taking. 00:36:08.820 --> 00:36:10.300 The sin of his people. 00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:11.080 To himself. 00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:13.400 And you know. 00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:13.760 There's the. 00:36:14.100 --> 00:36:14.900 There's the great. 00:36:15.380 --> 00:36:15.860 Transaction. 00:36:16.740 --> 00:36:17.559 That you find. 00:36:17.740 --> 00:36:18.200 Spoken of. 00:36:18.300 --> 00:36:18.580 Especially. 00:36:18.840 --> 00:36:20.140 In Paul's writings. 00:36:21.340 --> 00:36:21.900 Jesus. 00:36:22.120 --> 00:36:23.160 Made the sins. 00:36:23.160 --> 00:36:23.980 Of his people. 00:36:24.100 --> 00:36:24.740 His own. 00:36:25.220 --> 00:36:26.400 As if he had committed. 00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:27.220 Them himself. 00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:28.559 Which he never did. 00:36:29.820 --> 00:36:30.820 But he made them. 00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:31.420 His own. 00:36:31.620 --> 00:36:32.580 To the extent. 00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:33.539 That it was just. 00:36:33.640 --> 00:36:34.140 As if. 00:36:34.260 --> 00:36:35.600 They were his sins. 00:36:36.200 --> 00:36:37.200 That he had committed. 00:36:37.340 --> 00:36:37.740 Himself. 00:36:38.820 --> 00:36:39.720 The sins. 00:36:39.780 --> 00:36:40.380 Of his people. 00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:43.120 And the other side. 00:36:43.120 --> 00:36:43.700 Of that is. 00:36:43.780 --> 00:36:44.519 When you come to think. 00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:45.920 Of your justification. 00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:47.800 The righteousness. 00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:48.880 That God's people. 00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:49.860 Are given. 00:36:51.080 --> 00:36:52.080 In their justification. 00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:54.620 It's the righteousness. 00:36:54.620 --> 00:36:55.340 Of Jesus. 00:36:55.640 --> 00:36:56.539 It's Christ. 00:36:56.900 --> 00:36:57.640 A righteousness. 00:36:57.900 --> 00:36:58.620 It's Jehovah. 00:36:58.820 --> 00:36:59.480 Sidkenu. 00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:00.360 The Lord. 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:01.039 A righteousness. 00:37:01.680 --> 00:37:02.059 And you know. 00:37:02.140 --> 00:37:02.820 That righteousness. 00:37:02.820 --> 00:37:03.680 That you have. 00:37:03.800 --> 00:37:04.700 By faith. 00:37:04.740 --> 00:37:05.340 In Christ. 00:37:05.860 --> 00:37:06.480 The righteousness. 00:37:06.620 --> 00:37:06.860 You have. 00:37:06.900 --> 00:37:07.720 In your justification. 00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:09.139 The Jesus. 00:37:09.279 --> 00:37:10.179 Who is your righteousness. 00:37:10.699 --> 00:37:11.799 It's as if you've. 00:37:11.879 --> 00:37:12.779 Made it up yourself. 00:37:12.899 --> 00:37:13.539 It's as if you've. 00:37:13.579 --> 00:37:14.539 Created it yourself. 00:37:14.759 --> 00:37:15.959 It is yours. 00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:16.519 Personally. 00:37:16.759 --> 00:37:17.959 Because of who he is. 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:18.759 And what he's done. 00:37:20.019 --> 00:37:21.219 He made his sin. 00:37:21.319 --> 00:37:21.959 Your sins. 00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:23.299 His own. 00:37:24.579 --> 00:37:25.319 You make. 00:37:25.419 --> 00:37:26.299 His righteousness. 00:37:27.099 --> 00:37:27.719 Your own. 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:30.119 By faith. 00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:31.459 By trusting. 00:37:31.459 --> 00:37:31.959 In him. 00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:34.179 In other words. 00:37:34.780 --> 00:37:35.380 His death. 00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:35.960 Really was. 00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:38.240 The punishment. 00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:39.800 The penalty. 00:37:40.900 --> 00:37:41.579 That sin. 00:37:42.340 --> 00:37:43.139 Deserved. 00:37:44.720 --> 00:37:45.880 We're not going to. 00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:46.780 Go so far. 00:37:46.780 --> 00:37:47.139 As to say. 00:37:47.220 --> 00:37:48.220 Jesus deserved. 00:37:48.340 --> 00:37:49.400 The death of the cross. 00:37:50.260 --> 00:37:50.980 There's a sense. 00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:51.980 In which that is true. 00:37:52.099 --> 00:37:53.000 But it's always dangerous. 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:53.740 To say it. 00:37:54.420 --> 00:37:55.019 The only way. 00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:55.780 In which it is true. 00:37:55.900 --> 00:37:56.199 Is that. 00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:57.340 It was in bearing. 00:37:57.340 --> 00:37:58.320 Our sins. 00:37:59.019 --> 00:38:00.160 That it was right. 00:38:00.220 --> 00:38:00.800 Of God. 00:38:00.900 --> 00:38:01.500 To apply. 00:38:02.160 --> 00:38:03.079 This penalty. 00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:03.720 To him. 00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:05.559 And that is what happened. 00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:07.280 This is the core. 00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:07.960 Of the gospel. 00:38:08.600 --> 00:38:09.440 He died. 00:38:10.180 --> 00:38:10.640 For. 00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:11.700 Our sins. 00:38:12.100 --> 00:38:13.180 He was born. 00:38:13.300 --> 00:38:13.920 Into the world. 00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:14.900 To this end. 00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:16.360 With this purpose. 00:38:16.519 --> 00:38:17.200 With this end. 00:38:17.260 --> 00:38:17.620 In view. 00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:19.019 With this objective. 00:38:19.700 --> 00:38:20.760 That he would die. 00:38:21.140 --> 00:38:22.100 For the sins. 00:38:22.100 --> 00:38:22.800 Of his people. 00:38:23.720 --> 00:38:24.660 That is exactly. 00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:25.900 What he did. 00:38:25.900 --> 00:38:27.680 And you notice. 00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:28.119 He is saying. 00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:28.880 In accordance. 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:29.860 With the scriptures. 00:38:30.619 --> 00:38:31.539 And that is saying. 00:38:31.680 --> 00:38:32.880 Something more to us. 00:38:32.940 --> 00:38:33.700 Than just that. 00:38:34.139 --> 00:38:34.840 The scriptures. 00:38:35.099 --> 00:38:36.619 Actually predicted this. 00:38:37.260 --> 00:38:37.760 You can. 00:38:38.780 --> 00:38:40.119 Flip back to Romans. 00:38:40.240 --> 00:38:40.980 Chapter 3. 00:38:41.940 --> 00:38:42.700 There is a verse there. 00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:44.300 I can just mention it. 00:38:44.340 --> 00:38:44.900 At this time. 00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:46.420 Now the righteousness. 00:38:46.420 --> 00:38:47.079 Of God. 00:38:47.200 --> 00:38:48.160 Has been manifested. 00:38:48.639 --> 00:38:50.360 Apart from the law. 00:38:50.900 --> 00:38:51.840 Although the law. 00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:52.740 And the prophets. 00:38:53.260 --> 00:38:54.539 Bear witness to it. 00:38:54.940 --> 00:38:55.539 The righteousness. 00:38:55.539 --> 00:38:56.099 Of God. 00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:56.739 Through faith. 00:38:57.219 --> 00:38:57.980 In Jesus Christ. 00:38:58.059 --> 00:38:58.980 To all who believe. 00:38:59.079 --> 00:38:59.460 In other words. 00:38:59.519 --> 00:38:59.840 The law. 00:38:59.900 --> 00:39:00.380 And the prophets. 00:39:00.759 --> 00:39:01.579 The apostle is saying. 00:39:01.699 --> 00:39:02.639 They testified. 00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:04.320 To this death. 00:39:04.380 --> 00:39:05.420 That Jesus died. 00:39:05.500 --> 00:39:06.179 Hundreds of years. 00:39:06.259 --> 00:39:07.119 Before it happened. 00:39:07.779 --> 00:39:08.779 But they actually. 00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:09.340 The law. 00:39:09.460 --> 00:39:10.119 And the prophets. 00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:10.579 Together. 00:39:10.739 --> 00:39:11.639 In the Old Testament. 00:39:11.820 --> 00:39:12.179 Scriptures. 00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:14.019 They were testifying. 00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:15.099 To this event. 00:39:15.759 --> 00:39:16.880 To this factual. 00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:18.019 Historical event. 00:39:18.019 --> 00:39:19.380 Of the death of Christ. 00:39:19.860 --> 00:39:20.599 So he died. 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:22.380 In accordance. 00:39:22.380 --> 00:39:23.360 With the scripture. 00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:24.280 And it's not just. 00:39:24.740 --> 00:39:25.880 Therefore saying to us. 00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:27.440 The scripture predicted this. 00:39:27.579 --> 00:39:28.400 But it's. 00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:29.320 Exactly. 00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:30.579 As the scripture said. 00:39:30.660 --> 00:39:30.820 You know. 00:39:30.860 --> 00:39:31.320 One of the. 00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:33.019 The wonderful testimonies. 00:39:33.140 --> 00:39:35.260 To what the bible actually is. 00:39:35.260 --> 00:39:36.660 As the word of God. 00:39:37.120 --> 00:39:37.820 As the word. 00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:38.680 That God himself. 00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:39.840 By his spirit. 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:40.800 Has authored. 00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:42.079 Using human. 00:39:42.460 --> 00:39:42.960 Authors. 00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:43.420 As well. 00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:44.760 To actually have this. 00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:45.680 Put into writing. 00:39:45.680 --> 00:39:46.240 For us. 00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:47.240 What is. 00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:48.180 One of the great. 00:39:48.179 --> 00:39:49.399 Testimonies. 00:39:49.460 --> 00:39:50.099 Or proofs. 00:39:50.139 --> 00:39:50.539 If you like. 00:39:50.739 --> 00:39:51.440 That this bible. 00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:52.079 Is actually. 00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:52.839 God's word. 00:39:52.919 --> 00:39:54.219 Is how can you possibly. 00:39:54.219 --> 00:39:55.219 Imagine things. 00:39:55.539 --> 00:39:55.839 Hundreds. 00:39:56.019 --> 00:39:56.699 And even thousands. 00:39:56.699 --> 00:39:57.139 Of years. 00:39:57.219 --> 00:39:58.199 Before they happened. 00:39:58.419 --> 00:39:59.399 To be spoken of. 00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:00.299 With such detail. 00:40:00.359 --> 00:40:00.960 As you find. 00:40:01.379 --> 00:40:01.759 In next. 00:40:01.839 --> 00:40:02.319 For example. 00:40:02.460 --> 00:40:03.919 In Isaiah chapter 53. 00:40:04.460 --> 00:40:05.500 That came to be. 00:40:05.759 --> 00:40:06.599 Fulfilled so. 00:40:06.980 --> 00:40:07.460 Wonderfully. 00:40:07.460 --> 00:40:08.099 And exactly. 00:40:08.279 --> 00:40:09.299 In the death of Christ. 00:40:10.339 --> 00:40:11.079 Only because. 00:40:11.799 --> 00:40:12.619 They're part of. 00:40:13.099 --> 00:40:13.579 God's. 00:40:13.859 --> 00:40:14.679 Own word. 00:40:14.879 --> 00:40:15.339 God's own. 00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:15.919 Authorship. 00:40:16.059 --> 00:40:16.839 God's purpose. 00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:16.980 God's purpose. 00:40:18.180 --> 00:40:18.980 It happened. 00:40:19.100 --> 00:40:19.620 In accordance. 00:40:20.340 --> 00:40:21.120 With the scriptures. 00:40:21.240 --> 00:40:21.960 And when you go back. 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:23.360 To the old testament. 00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:24.579 Think of the sacrifices. 00:40:25.220 --> 00:40:26.519 Think of the day of atonement. 00:40:26.740 --> 00:40:27.120 Think of. 00:40:27.620 --> 00:40:28.400 The description there. 00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:29.579 In Leviticus 16. 00:40:29.740 --> 00:40:31.019 Of the sacrifice. 00:40:31.140 --> 00:40:32.180 On the day of atonement. 00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:33.460 And the. 00:40:33.579 --> 00:40:34.800 The killing of the. 00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:35.760 The one goat. 00:40:35.820 --> 00:40:36.660 For the sacrifice. 00:40:36.780 --> 00:40:37.380 The blood of it. 00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:38.059 Then used. 00:40:38.980 --> 00:40:40.019 In reference. 00:40:40.140 --> 00:40:40.640 To the altar. 00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:41.519 And then the other goat. 00:40:41.700 --> 00:40:42.539 The live goat. 00:40:43.140 --> 00:40:43.940 Let loose. 00:40:44.019 --> 00:40:44.800 Into the wilderness. 00:40:45.500 --> 00:40:46.600 Having had the high priest. 00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:48.400 Symbolically. 00:40:48.739 --> 00:40:49.579 Transfer the sin. 00:40:49.579 --> 00:40:50.099 Of the people. 00:40:50.259 --> 00:40:50.799 Onto its head. 00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:51.480 Well there you see. 00:40:51.839 --> 00:40:52.779 How exactly. 00:40:52.940 --> 00:40:53.900 That is a type. 00:40:54.259 --> 00:40:54.759 How exactly. 00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:56.099 That is a symbolical. 00:40:56.099 --> 00:40:57.019 Representation. 00:40:57.019 --> 00:40:57.579 Of Jesus. 00:41:00.059 --> 00:41:00.980 He died. 00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:02.019 The death of the cross. 00:41:02.380 --> 00:41:02.980 He died. 00:41:02.980 --> 00:41:04.139 For our sins. 00:41:04.940 --> 00:41:05.739 But in dying. 00:41:05.900 --> 00:41:06.599 For our sins. 00:41:06.980 --> 00:41:08.319 It was with the. 00:41:08.659 --> 00:41:09.440 Purpose of God. 00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:10.179 To take away. 00:41:10.299 --> 00:41:10.739 The sins. 00:41:10.839 --> 00:41:11.480 Of his people. 00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:13.000 He died. 00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:14.059 For our sins. 00:41:14.059 --> 00:41:15.719 So that we would not die. 00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:16.799 For our sins. 00:41:17.259 --> 00:41:18.380 So that we would not die. 00:41:18.460 --> 00:41:19.079 The sins. 00:41:19.460 --> 00:41:19.960 The death. 00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:20.659 Our sins. 00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:22.000 Deserved. 00:41:22.980 --> 00:41:24.320 And that is the core. 00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:25.019 Of the gospel. 00:41:26.059 --> 00:41:27.380 That is what we want. 00:41:27.380 --> 00:41:28.480 To seek. 00:41:28.699 --> 00:41:29.259 Constantly. 00:41:29.259 --> 00:41:30.119 To put across. 00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:30.739 To the world. 00:41:30.739 --> 00:41:31.460 Of our day. 00:41:32.739 --> 00:41:33.299 That. 00:41:33.860 --> 00:41:34.840 There is hope. 00:41:34.980 --> 00:41:35.500 For people. 00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:37.539 There is a great hope. 00:41:38.279 --> 00:41:39.239 There is a hope. 00:41:39.239 --> 00:41:40.599 Unlike any other hope. 00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:40.679 Hope. 00:41:41.719 --> 00:41:43.759 And it is in the Jesus of the cross. 00:41:44.619 --> 00:41:46.579 Not just in the Jesus of the cradle. 00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:48.940 But in the Jesus of the cross. 00:41:49.019 --> 00:41:49.900 The one person. 00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:51.839 Who came to be born. 00:41:51.980 --> 00:41:53.000 So that he would die. 00:41:53.860 --> 00:41:55.179 And die the death. 00:41:55.819 --> 00:41:56.940 That we deserved. 00:41:57.480 --> 00:41:58.099 So he was. 00:41:58.360 --> 00:41:58.980 He died. 00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:01.360 In accordance with the scripture. 00:42:01.500 --> 00:42:02.860 He died for our sins. 00:42:03.739 --> 00:42:04.860 Second thing he says. 00:42:04.860 --> 00:42:06.739 The second link in this chain. 00:42:06.839 --> 00:42:07.719 Is he was buried. 00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:11.239 That Christ died for our sins. 00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:12.859 According to the scripture. 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:14.259 That he was buried. 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:16.339 There is only a few words there. 00:42:16.419 --> 00:42:17.859 And it seems you can pass over it. 00:42:18.119 --> 00:42:18.779 Very quickly. 00:42:18.879 --> 00:42:19.899 Really without noticing. 00:42:20.139 --> 00:42:21.179 That it is of any importance. 00:42:21.379 --> 00:42:22.639 But of course it is of importance. 00:42:23.539 --> 00:42:24.299 Because Jesus. 00:42:24.879 --> 00:42:25.779 Entered into. 00:42:26.359 --> 00:42:27.159 Our experiences. 00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:27.919 Even to. 00:42:28.279 --> 00:42:29.619 The extent of his body. 00:42:29.899 --> 00:42:31.319 Being laid in a sepulcher. 00:42:32.099 --> 00:42:32.559 His body. 00:42:33.099 --> 00:42:34.359 Though it did not see corruption. 00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:34.859 Nevertheless. 00:42:35.299 --> 00:42:36.359 He was buried. 00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:39.059 And it is very interesting. 00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:39.380 That. 00:42:40.640 --> 00:42:42.140 When John comes to speak. 00:42:42.200 --> 00:42:43.200 Of Jesus. 00:42:43.980 --> 00:42:44.380 Death. 00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:45.440 And when he speaks about. 00:42:46.780 --> 00:42:47.660 Jesus being. 00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:48.300 Being buried. 00:42:49.120 --> 00:42:50.340 This is what he says. 00:42:50.500 --> 00:42:50.840 That they. 00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:52.720 In chapter 19. 00:42:53.220 --> 00:42:53.740 Speaking there. 00:42:53.820 --> 00:42:54.519 About the garden. 00:42:54.620 --> 00:42:55.160 And the tomb. 00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:55.920 The new tomb. 00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:57.820 In which no one had been laid. 00:42:58.140 --> 00:43:00.099 Because of the Jewish day of preparation. 00:43:00.700 --> 00:43:01.880 Since the tomb. 00:43:02.059 --> 00:43:02.880 Was close at hand. 00:43:03.320 --> 00:43:04.059 They laid. 00:43:04.059 --> 00:43:05.460 Jesus. 00:43:06.460 --> 00:43:06.759 There. 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:08.779 It doesn't just say. 00:43:08.860 --> 00:43:09.940 They laid his body there. 00:43:09.980 --> 00:43:10.259 Of course. 00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:11.039 That's what happened. 00:43:11.799 --> 00:43:12.639 It was his body. 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:13.739 That they laid. 00:43:13.799 --> 00:43:14.360 Very quickly. 00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:14.960 As it happened. 00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:15.380 There. 00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:17.239 Because the time was short. 00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:17.840 During. 00:43:18.380 --> 00:43:19.219 Due to the. 00:43:19.340 --> 00:43:20.679 It being the preparation day. 00:43:21.579 --> 00:43:22.440 But they laid. 00:43:23.179 --> 00:43:24.179 Jesus there. 00:43:25.179 --> 00:43:26.159 It was something. 00:43:26.299 --> 00:43:27.259 That belonged to. 00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:28.920 The experience. 00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:30.400 Of the son of God. 00:43:30.739 --> 00:43:31.679 In our nature. 00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:33.639 He died. 00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:35.279 And he was buried. 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:37.359 His body. 00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:38.819 Was laid in the tomb. 00:43:38.899 --> 00:43:40.339 But it was nobody else's body. 00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:41.460 That body. 00:43:41.639 --> 00:43:42.659 Did not have an existence. 00:43:42.659 --> 00:43:43.480 Apart from. 00:43:43.980 --> 00:43:44.980 The son of God. 00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:47.039 Having taken it to himself. 00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:49.960 He died. 00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:50.519 And was. 00:43:51.219 --> 00:43:51.599 Buried. 00:43:51.699 --> 00:43:52.179 But of course. 00:43:52.460 --> 00:43:53.299 In the chapter. 00:43:54.319 --> 00:43:54.779 You have. 00:43:55.279 --> 00:43:56.559 Even more importance. 00:43:56.559 --> 00:43:57.559 Attached to the fact. 00:43:57.659 --> 00:43:58.440 That he was buried. 00:43:58.440 --> 00:43:58.960 Because. 00:43:59.820 --> 00:44:00.940 It's logically. 00:44:01.539 --> 00:44:02.240 The case. 00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:04.380 That in order for there to be a resurrection. 00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:05.440 There has to be a death. 00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:06.500 There has to be a burial. 00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:08.099 And to demonstrate. 00:44:08.300 --> 00:44:09.619 The fact of the resurrection. 00:44:10.240 --> 00:44:11.579 The wonderful truth. 00:44:11.639 --> 00:44:12.340 Of the resurrection. 00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:13.720 Jesus was buried. 00:44:15.300 --> 00:44:16.460 His body was laid. 00:44:16.780 --> 00:44:17.820 Into the ground. 00:44:18.480 --> 00:44:19.380 So that it would be. 00:44:20.059 --> 00:44:20.619 Demonstrably. 00:44:20.679 --> 00:44:21.119 The case. 00:44:21.240 --> 00:44:22.139 That there was indeed. 00:44:22.220 --> 00:44:22.920 A resurrection. 00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:23.659 From the dead. 00:44:23.980 --> 00:44:25.000 On his part. 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:26.139 To which the resurrection. 00:44:26.139 --> 00:44:26.800 Of his people. 00:44:26.940 --> 00:44:27.500 Is attached. 00:44:27.500 --> 00:44:30.320 The burial. 00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:30.980 Was needed. 00:44:31.739 --> 00:44:33.420 As a precursor. 00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:34.679 To the resurrection. 00:44:34.900 --> 00:44:36.639 As a necessary event. 00:44:37.099 --> 00:44:38.219 For there to have been. 00:44:38.739 --> 00:44:39.460 A resurrection. 00:44:39.739 --> 00:44:40.460 Following it. 00:44:41.619 --> 00:44:42.960 And it is a physical. 00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:45.179 A physical fact. 00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:45.860 A fact of. 00:44:46.500 --> 00:44:47.659 Physical dimensions. 00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:49.880 And don't go along with the idea. 00:44:50.019 --> 00:44:50.619 That you find in. 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:51.780 Modern theology. 00:44:51.980 --> 00:44:52.400 That somehow. 00:44:52.659 --> 00:44:53.239 The resurrection. 00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:53.900 Is just. 00:44:53.900 --> 00:44:54.099 The. 00:44:54.619 --> 00:44:55.099 These. 00:44:55.300 --> 00:44:56.300 These individuals. 00:44:56.300 --> 00:44:57.340 These apostles. 00:44:57.340 --> 00:44:57.640 These. 00:44:57.640 --> 00:44:58.660 These shattered. 00:44:58.960 --> 00:44:59.960 Disappointed apostles. 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:01.400 Making up the fact. 00:45:01.400 --> 00:45:02.560 That he had risen from the dead. 00:45:02.560 --> 00:45:03.940 Just to keep alive. 00:45:04.140 --> 00:45:04.960 His teachings. 00:45:05.100 --> 00:45:06.060 And pass that on. 00:45:06.260 --> 00:45:07.160 To those around them. 00:45:07.180 --> 00:45:08.280 Or those coming after them. 00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:09.660 That's not resurrection. 00:45:11.900 --> 00:45:12.980 It was very easy. 00:45:12.980 --> 00:45:13.800 To prove. 00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:14.820 In the days. 00:45:14.900 --> 00:45:15.720 Of the apostles. 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:18.480 That he had risen from the dead. 00:45:18.680 --> 00:45:19.800 As indeed it shows. 00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:21.920 As Paul here mentions. 00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:23.100 In the following verses. 00:45:23.680 --> 00:45:24.660 After him being raised. 00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:26.220 He appeared to certain people. 00:45:27.080 --> 00:45:27.660 But he rose. 00:45:28.120 --> 00:45:29.160 Having been buried. 00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:29.640 He rose. 00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:31.260 It's a physical resurrection. 00:45:33.140 --> 00:45:34.740 A resurrection of his body. 00:45:34.740 --> 00:45:35.480 From the dead. 00:45:38.140 --> 00:45:38.920 That's what. 00:45:39.740 --> 00:45:40.920 That's what gave. 00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:43.140 The apostles. 00:45:43.640 --> 00:45:44.480 Such a wonderful. 00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:46.000 Strength. 00:45:46.140 --> 00:45:46.960 And commitment. 00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:49.079 To preaching the gospel. 00:45:49.579 --> 00:45:50.420 That they received. 00:45:50.420 --> 00:45:51.119 From the Lord. 00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:52.539 I mean. 00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:53.220 Can you imagine. 00:45:54.380 --> 00:45:55.320 Can you imagine. 00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:56.280 These people. 00:45:57.300 --> 00:45:58.079 These apostles. 00:45:58.280 --> 00:45:58.619 Going out. 00:45:58.740 --> 00:45:59.780 Into the world. 00:46:00.099 --> 00:46:01.260 With the boldness. 00:46:01.340 --> 00:46:02.720 That the Bible describes. 00:46:03.639 --> 00:46:04.559 If all they were actually. 00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:05.119 Conveying. 00:46:05.199 --> 00:46:06.119 Was their own idea. 00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:07.500 Or something. 00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:08.420 That they were conveying. 00:46:08.500 --> 00:46:08.920 As a myth. 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:09.780 That they had made up. 00:46:10.340 --> 00:46:11.380 But that event. 00:46:11.519 --> 00:46:12.099 That actually. 00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:13.039 Historically. 00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:14.679 And in a physical sense. 00:46:14.720 --> 00:46:15.900 The Lord hadn't died at all. 00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:16.320 Imagine. 00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:17.580 These people. 00:46:18.100 --> 00:46:18.500 Boldly. 00:46:18.580 --> 00:46:19.000 Going out. 00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:19.700 Into the world. 00:46:19.820 --> 00:46:20.680 With the message. 00:46:20.680 --> 00:46:21.580 Of the resurrection. 00:46:21.900 --> 00:46:22.720 If they knew. 00:46:22.860 --> 00:46:23.720 In their heart of hearts. 00:46:23.820 --> 00:46:24.920 That the body of Jesus. 00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:25.880 Was still in the ground. 00:46:26.059 --> 00:46:27.240 You can't really imagine it. 00:46:27.260 --> 00:46:27.600 Can you? 00:46:28.380 --> 00:46:28.980 All the things. 00:46:29.019 --> 00:46:29.620 That they put up. 00:46:29.660 --> 00:46:30.300 With the hardships. 00:46:30.600 --> 00:46:31.680 The persecutions. 00:46:32.059 --> 00:46:33.300 The martyrdoms. 00:46:34.380 --> 00:46:35.000 Can you imagine. 00:46:35.100 --> 00:46:36.240 Them just agreeing. 00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:38.200 To go out. 00:46:38.260 --> 00:46:38.820 With the gospel. 00:46:38.940 --> 00:46:39.460 And putting up. 00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:40.180 With such things. 00:46:40.240 --> 00:46:41.180 As danger. 00:46:41.180 --> 00:46:41.720 Of life. 00:46:41.780 --> 00:46:42.360 And death. 00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:42.480 Death. 00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:45.260 If what they were conveying. 00:46:45.260 --> 00:46:45.860 To the world. 00:46:45.860 --> 00:46:46.460 Was just. 00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:48.599 Short of being factually true. 00:46:49.420 --> 00:46:50.400 Of course not. 00:46:52.019 --> 00:46:52.660 They knew. 00:46:52.820 --> 00:46:53.320 That he had risen. 00:46:53.460 --> 00:46:54.019 From the dead. 00:46:55.180 --> 00:46:56.340 That he had been raised. 00:46:57.019 --> 00:46:57.800 From the dead. 00:46:57.880 --> 00:46:58.700 Having been buried. 00:46:58.800 --> 00:46:59.140 And you know. 00:46:59.139 --> 00:47:01.000 Just the other day. 00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:01.440 We've had. 00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:02.239 A number of. 00:47:02.440 --> 00:47:03.739 Of funerals. 00:47:03.879 --> 00:47:04.199 This week. 00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:04.619 Of course. 00:47:04.759 --> 00:47:04.879 And. 00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:06.480 Most often. 00:47:06.579 --> 00:47:07.099 Not always. 00:47:07.219 --> 00:47:07.400 But. 00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:08.319 Usually. 00:47:08.900 --> 00:47:09.779 As I stand there. 00:47:09.839 --> 00:47:11.059 At the open grave. 00:47:11.159 --> 00:47:11.500 The coffin. 00:47:11.639 --> 00:47:12.339 Having been lowered. 00:47:12.460 --> 00:47:13.279 Into the grave. 00:47:14.179 --> 00:47:14.900 The thought. 00:47:15.019 --> 00:47:15.719 Comes to me. 00:47:16.460 --> 00:47:17.000 And it. 00:47:17.259 --> 00:47:18.759 It's an amazing thought. 00:47:18.819 --> 00:47:19.420 And I sometimes. 00:47:19.619 --> 00:47:20.719 Just stand there. 00:47:21.099 --> 00:47:21.819 Reflecting on it. 00:47:21.859 --> 00:47:22.799 Before I say anything. 00:47:22.799 --> 00:47:23.219 At all. 00:47:23.259 --> 00:47:23.859 As I look down. 00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:24.759 Into that grave. 00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:26.420 This is. 00:47:26.659 --> 00:47:27.059 The thought. 00:47:27.159 --> 00:47:27.859 That comes to me. 00:47:29.139 --> 00:47:30.199 The son of God. 00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:30.799 Was here. 00:47:33.139 --> 00:47:34.779 The son of God. 00:47:35.799 --> 00:47:37.440 Through his human nature. 00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:38.739 Was here. 00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:40.420 In a grave. 00:47:42.379 --> 00:47:42.819 Buried. 00:47:44.460 --> 00:47:45.219 Entombed. 00:47:46.579 --> 00:47:48.159 Ready for resurrection. 00:47:49.019 --> 00:47:49.579 But nevertheless. 00:47:50.619 --> 00:47:52.079 Under the power of death. 00:47:52.859 --> 00:47:53.519 For a time. 00:47:55.319 --> 00:47:56.819 Isn't that an amazing thought? 00:47:56.820 --> 00:48:00.360 But isn't it a very comforting thought? 00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:02.780 That when you come to think of the grave. 00:48:02.860 --> 00:48:04.260 And I come to think of the grave. 00:48:04.500 --> 00:48:06.220 And I come to think of our own bodies. 00:48:06.220 --> 00:48:08.019 Being laid to rest in the grave. 00:48:08.160 --> 00:48:09.660 In the deadness of the grave. 00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:11.019 In the deadness of the earth. 00:48:11.940 --> 00:48:12.940 That you can say. 00:48:13.340 --> 00:48:14.580 The footsteps of Jesus. 00:48:14.780 --> 00:48:15.640 Are actually here. 00:48:16.760 --> 00:48:18.140 He's been here before me. 00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:19.500 And therefore. 00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:21.180 I know that this. 00:48:21.640 --> 00:48:23.740 Will not be my final resting place. 00:48:23.739 --> 00:48:26.159 That he will lead me home. 00:48:26.799 --> 00:48:28.779 That he will take up my body again. 00:48:29.899 --> 00:48:31.619 And that he will actually lead me. 00:48:32.819 --> 00:48:34.099 Resurrected from the dead. 00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:37.479 To unending glory with himself. 00:48:38.959 --> 00:48:39.939 There is the fact. 00:48:40.699 --> 00:48:41.639 He was buried. 00:48:42.959 --> 00:48:45.399 He did in fact enter into the sepulcher. 00:48:46.339 --> 00:48:47.839 He knew this would be the case. 00:48:47.840 --> 00:48:50.019 When he came into this world to die. 00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:52.620 And when he died. 00:48:53.700 --> 00:48:55.780 And his body was laid in the sepulcher. 00:48:56.579 --> 00:48:58.200 It was a precursor to. 00:48:58.700 --> 00:49:00.500 The next thing that Paul speaks of. 00:49:00.900 --> 00:49:02.780 He was raised on the third day. 00:49:03.500 --> 00:49:04.400 According to this. 00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:05.760 In accordance with the scriptures. 00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:06.140 So. 00:49:06.680 --> 00:49:08.019 He died for our sins. 00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:09.440 He was buried. 00:49:10.059 --> 00:49:11.820 He was raised on the third day. 00:49:12.200 --> 00:49:12.860 According to. 00:49:12.980 --> 00:49:14.240 In accordance with the scriptures. 00:49:14.240 --> 00:49:15.519 Now that's important as well. 00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:18.039 Because obviously it's important for the resurrection. 00:49:18.599 --> 00:49:20.639 That he goes then on to speak about in more detail. 00:49:21.940 --> 00:49:23.820 But it's important in this way too. 00:49:24.039 --> 00:49:24.920 That it says here. 00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:26.199 He was raised. 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:30.259 It doesn't say he rose. 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:32.259 Though that obviously is true too. 00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:33.380 But he was raised. 00:49:33.440 --> 00:49:33.940 In other words. 00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:35.800 He's speaking here as you find elsewhere. 00:49:36.019 --> 00:49:36.980 In the New Testament. 00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:39.440 Of the role of God the Father. 00:49:39.980 --> 00:49:41.599 In the resurrection of Jesus. 00:49:41.599 --> 00:49:41.839 Jesus. 00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:44.699 It was God who gave his son. 00:49:44.819 --> 00:49:46.319 To die the death of the cross. 00:49:46.819 --> 00:49:47.860 God so loved the world. 00:49:48.219 --> 00:49:50.219 That he gave his only begotten. 00:49:51.380 --> 00:49:53.539 And God raised him from the dead. 00:49:53.940 --> 00:49:54.880 This is what Paul says. 00:49:55.239 --> 00:49:56.219 Elsewhere Ephesians. 00:49:56.920 --> 00:49:58.380 Chapter 1 and verse 20. 00:49:58.480 --> 00:50:00.159 Remember there he's talking about the power. 00:50:00.539 --> 00:50:02.980 That works in the life of God's people. 00:50:03.699 --> 00:50:04.980 What kind of power is it? 00:50:05.380 --> 00:50:06.940 What kind of power do you have tonight? 00:50:06.940 --> 00:50:07.659 As a Christian. 00:50:08.339 --> 00:50:09.480 What sort of power do you have? 00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:10.539 In facing the world. 00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:12.719 What sort of power do you have? 00:50:12.980 --> 00:50:14.659 In going towards your own death. 00:50:14.820 --> 00:50:15.719 Towards eternity. 00:50:16.460 --> 00:50:19.579 Towards everything that's between you now and that. 00:50:20.500 --> 00:50:21.539 Well he tells us there. 00:50:22.059 --> 00:50:24.000 In Ephesians chapter 1. 00:50:24.099 --> 00:50:26.260 And what is the immeasurable greatness? 00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:26.699 He says. 00:50:26.760 --> 00:50:28.880 Of his power to us were to believe. 00:50:29.420 --> 00:50:32.219 According to the working of his great might. 00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:34.119 That he worked in Christ. 00:50:34.519 --> 00:50:36.280 When he raised him from the dead. 00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:38.280 And seated him at his right hand. 00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:39.380 In the heavenly places. 00:50:39.700 --> 00:50:41.080 That's the power that's working. 00:50:41.280 --> 00:50:43.060 In the life of those people of God. 00:50:43.120 --> 00:50:43.820 In this world. 00:50:45.160 --> 00:50:45.960 It's the work. 00:50:46.100 --> 00:50:47.620 It's the power that worked. 00:50:48.620 --> 00:50:49.519 In raising. 00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:51.700 Christ from the dead. 00:50:53.820 --> 00:50:55.040 And that's a fact. 00:50:56.300 --> 00:50:57.380 It's not a myth. 00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:00.760 Any more than the raising of Christ himself. 00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:01.340 Is a myth. 00:51:01.340 --> 00:51:03.760 Hebrews chapter 13. 00:51:04.140 --> 00:51:06.260 Puts it in an even more remarkable way. 00:51:06.840 --> 00:51:08.600 Hebrews 13 and verse 20. 00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:11.920 This is how the writer to the Hebrews put it. 00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:15.079 It's in a form of a prayer really. 00:51:15.220 --> 00:51:16.700 Now may the God of peace. 00:51:17.380 --> 00:51:19.280 Again it's important the title he gives him. 00:51:19.980 --> 00:51:22.100 Who brought again from the dead. 00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:23.460 Our Lord Jesus. 00:51:24.140 --> 00:51:25.579 And these words brought again. 00:51:25.940 --> 00:51:26.840 Literally mean. 00:51:26.840 --> 00:51:28.820 Who was under obligation. 00:51:29.100 --> 00:51:30.840 To bring him back from the dead. 00:51:30.900 --> 00:51:31.880 Now why does he say that? 00:51:32.220 --> 00:51:34.120 Why would God be under obligation. 00:51:34.120 --> 00:51:35.100 In any sense. 00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:38.360 Well because the death of Christ. 00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:39.420 Was so perfect. 00:51:40.180 --> 00:51:41.340 And so complete. 00:51:41.440 --> 00:51:43.360 In atonement for the sins of his people. 00:51:43.700 --> 00:51:44.880 That God the Father. 00:51:45.100 --> 00:51:46.300 Was under obligation. 00:51:46.300 --> 00:51:47.680 To raise him from the dead. 00:51:47.680 --> 00:51:50.180 He could not be left in the grave. 00:51:50.660 --> 00:51:52.140 Because of the completeness. 00:51:52.260 --> 00:51:54.019 Of the work that he'd done in his death. 00:51:54.019 --> 00:51:56.239 His death demanded. 00:51:56.599 --> 00:51:57.980 The nature of his death. 00:51:58.059 --> 00:51:58.739 Being the death. 00:51:59.239 --> 00:52:01.119 That he died for our sins. 00:52:01.900 --> 00:52:03.039 And because that death. 00:52:03.139 --> 00:52:04.420 Was a perfect atonement. 00:52:05.199 --> 00:52:06.199 Because that death. 00:52:06.340 --> 00:52:08.380 Was perfectly accepted by God. 00:52:09.619 --> 00:52:11.019 As sufficient to cover. 00:52:11.300 --> 00:52:12.739 The sins of his people forever. 00:52:13.659 --> 00:52:15.519 He raised him from the dead. 00:52:16.900 --> 00:52:18.000 And that too. 00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:20.059 Is a remarkable emphasis. 00:52:20.059 --> 00:52:20.299 Jesus. 00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:22.880 He raised him. 00:52:23.519 --> 00:52:24.279 From the dead. 00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:25.739 And that is a crucial point. 00:52:26.299 --> 00:52:27.579 Because as we'll go on to see. 00:52:27.619 --> 00:52:28.039 God willing. 00:52:28.679 --> 00:52:29.599 In this chapter. 00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:30.039 Chapter. 00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:31.159 In the chapter. 00:52:31.259 --> 00:52:33.139 Verses 14 and 17. 00:52:33.279 --> 00:52:33.480 You know. 00:52:33.539 --> 00:52:34.000 It's what he's saying. 00:52:34.059 --> 00:52:35.659 If Christ has not been raised. 00:52:36.179 --> 00:52:37.759 Then our preaching is in vain. 00:52:37.820 --> 00:52:39.219 And your faith is in vain. 00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:41.219 For if the dead are not raised. 00:52:41.219 --> 00:52:43.039 Not even Christ has been raised. 00:52:43.420 --> 00:52:44.880 And if Christ has not been raised. 00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:45.940 Your faith is futile. 00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:47.820 And you are still in your sins. 00:52:48.539 --> 00:52:50.800 If this is not factually true. 00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:52.720 If it's not historically true. 00:52:53.080 --> 00:52:55.100 If Christ has not been raised from the dead. 00:52:55.240 --> 00:52:56.200 If he was buried. 00:52:56.340 --> 00:52:58.860 But did not come back again from the dead. 00:52:58.940 --> 00:52:59.720 If God the Father. 00:52:59.980 --> 00:53:02.160 Did not bring him back from the dead. 00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:04.519 We're as well going home. 00:53:06.080 --> 00:53:07.559 We're as well giving up. 00:53:08.340 --> 00:53:10.500 There's no point in preaching the gospel. 00:53:11.260 --> 00:53:13.140 If Christ has not been raised. 00:53:13.139 --> 00:53:17.579 Because it's of the core issues of the gospel. 00:53:18.259 --> 00:53:19.359 That he was buried. 00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:21.480 That he was raised on the third day. 00:53:22.219 --> 00:53:24.679 Again in accordance with the scriptures. 00:53:26.619 --> 00:53:31.819 And that's why he spoke with those on the way to Emmaus. 00:53:31.900 --> 00:53:33.559 You remember in Luke chapter 24. 00:53:34.500 --> 00:53:38.019 Where Paul here is saying he was raised according to the scriptures as well. 00:53:38.420 --> 00:53:39.819 In accordance with the scriptures. 00:53:39.820 --> 00:53:42.240 On the way to Emmaus. 00:53:42.300 --> 00:53:44.600 You remember he met with these disciples. 00:53:45.600 --> 00:53:47.280 And they started speaking to him. 00:53:47.900 --> 00:53:48.840 And verse 25. 00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:50.400 This is what he said. 00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:51.360 Oh fools. 00:53:52.160 --> 00:53:52.800 And slow. 00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:53.700 Oh fools. 00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:54.760 And slow of heart. 00:53:55.139 --> 00:53:57.139 To believe all that the prophets have spoken. 00:53:57.619 --> 00:54:00.860 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things. 00:54:01.059 --> 00:54:02.740 And enter into his glory. 00:54:02.940 --> 00:54:05.160 And beginning with Moses and all the prophets. 00:54:05.380 --> 00:54:07.400 He interpreted them in all the scriptures. 00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:09.019 The things concerning himself. 00:54:09.639 --> 00:54:10.579 And I think I've said before. 00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:11.740 What a sermon. 00:54:12.579 --> 00:54:14.139 Wouldn't you have loved to have been. 00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:16.220 Listening to that sermon. 00:54:17.660 --> 00:54:18.680 That's what he did. 00:54:18.679 --> 00:54:21.000 But then you see the chapter goes on. 00:54:21.819 --> 00:54:25.079 And you find there in verses 44 to 48. 00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:26.480 That eventually he came to say. 00:54:27.099 --> 00:54:29.960 These are my words that I spoke to you. 00:54:30.219 --> 00:54:31.519 While I was still with you. 00:54:31.940 --> 00:54:33.559 That everything written about me. 00:54:33.599 --> 00:54:35.859 In the law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms. 00:54:36.279 --> 00:54:37.539 Must be fulfilled. 00:54:38.279 --> 00:54:39.659 Then he opened their minds. 00:54:40.099 --> 00:54:41.919 To understand the scriptures. 00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:43.119 That's why Paul is saying. 00:54:43.119 --> 00:54:44.599 He was raised from the dead. 00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:46.779 In accordance with the scriptures. 00:54:46.780 --> 00:54:50.140 The scriptures that referred to his death. 00:54:50.340 --> 00:54:51.800 And to his resurrection. 00:54:52.300 --> 00:54:54.000 And it happened exactly. 00:54:54.420 --> 00:54:55.800 As foretold. 00:54:56.280 --> 00:54:57.680 Because these were the words. 00:54:58.360 --> 00:54:59.340 And the predictions. 00:54:59.660 --> 00:55:00.400 And the prophecies. 00:55:00.740 --> 00:55:01.560 Of God. 00:55:02.740 --> 00:55:03.980 And then he appeared. 00:55:04.760 --> 00:55:05.840 I'll just finish with that. 00:55:06.200 --> 00:55:06.920 He appeared. 00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:08.760 As proof of his resurrection. 00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:09.500 He appeared. 00:55:10.300 --> 00:55:11.380 To Kephas. 00:55:11.480 --> 00:55:11.980 That's Peter. 00:55:12.600 --> 00:55:13.620 Then to the twelve. 00:55:13.619 --> 00:55:17.199 Then to more than five hundred brothers at one time. 00:55:18.039 --> 00:55:20.059 Most of whom are still alive. 00:55:20.619 --> 00:55:21.839 Why does Paul mention. 00:55:22.279 --> 00:55:24.079 Most of whom are still alive. 00:55:24.839 --> 00:55:25.839 Well because. 00:55:26.359 --> 00:55:28.179 His resurrection was verified. 00:55:29.139 --> 00:55:30.559 It was proved to be true. 00:55:31.159 --> 00:55:33.259 Because most of these people who are still alive. 00:55:33.339 --> 00:55:33.599 Could say. 00:55:33.859 --> 00:55:34.420 Of course he did. 00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:36.019 I saw him for myself. 00:55:37.359 --> 00:55:38.880 I didn't make this up. 00:55:39.359 --> 00:55:41.400 Any more than Paul is making it up. 00:55:41.400 --> 00:55:42.660 You see. 00:55:42.820 --> 00:55:43.000 So. 00:55:43.559 --> 00:55:44.700 He appeared then to James. 00:55:44.900 --> 00:55:45.740 Then to the apostles. 00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:47.079 Last of all. 00:55:47.160 --> 00:55:48.480 As to one untimely born. 00:55:48.559 --> 00:55:49.099 He appeared. 00:55:49.619 --> 00:55:50.019 Also. 00:55:50.660 --> 00:55:51.139 To me. 00:55:52.720 --> 00:55:53.180 You see. 00:55:53.260 --> 00:55:53.960 That's what we're saying. 00:55:54.340 --> 00:55:56.039 This wasn't something the church invented. 00:55:56.180 --> 00:55:57.420 So as to keep the teachings of. 00:55:57.579 --> 00:55:58.660 Of Jesus alive. 00:55:59.579 --> 00:56:00.920 He actually did. 00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:02.639 Rise from the dead. 00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:05.880 It's part of the core. 00:56:06.539 --> 00:56:07.639 Of the gospel. 00:56:08.180 --> 00:56:08.780 That he did. 00:56:08.780 --> 00:56:10.940 And that's why. 00:56:11.440 --> 00:56:12.720 They had that boldness. 00:56:13.620 --> 00:56:13.780 You know. 00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:14.480 Because some people. 00:56:14.860 --> 00:56:15.920 Will say to you today. 00:56:16.040 --> 00:56:16.240 Well. 00:56:16.540 --> 00:56:16.760 You know. 00:56:18.100 --> 00:56:19.400 You're believing in something. 00:56:19.519 --> 00:56:20.720 You cannot prove. 00:56:23.220 --> 00:56:24.160 Prove to me. 00:56:24.380 --> 00:56:25.420 People will say to you. 00:56:26.300 --> 00:56:26.740 That. 00:56:27.120 --> 00:56:27.440 Jesus. 00:56:27.640 --> 00:56:28.400 If he ever existed. 00:56:28.580 --> 00:56:30.060 Actually rose from the dead. 00:56:30.420 --> 00:56:31.660 After he died the death. 00:56:31.720 --> 00:56:33.200 The Bible describes on the cross. 00:56:33.199 --> 00:56:33.339 Yes. 00:56:34.899 --> 00:56:35.359 Well. 00:56:35.739 --> 00:56:37.539 Would somebody be so corrupt. 00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:38.239 As to say. 00:56:39.819 --> 00:56:40.819 The details. 00:56:41.179 --> 00:56:41.819 That he says there. 00:56:41.939 --> 00:56:43.199 Of 500 people. 00:56:43.299 --> 00:56:43.659 At once. 00:56:43.779 --> 00:56:44.279 Seeing him. 00:56:44.839 --> 00:56:46.219 That could have been verified. 00:56:46.219 --> 00:56:47.219 After it was written. 00:56:47.679 --> 00:56:48.739 Because most of these people. 00:56:48.859 --> 00:56:49.659 Were still alive. 00:56:50.939 --> 00:56:51.779 And any atheist. 00:56:51.779 --> 00:56:52.559 Who wanted to say. 00:56:52.639 --> 00:56:53.559 I don't believe in God. 00:56:53.719 --> 00:56:54.939 I don't believe in resurrection. 00:56:55.739 --> 00:56:56.699 All he would have to do. 00:56:56.759 --> 00:56:58.139 Was go and ask any of these people. 00:56:58.219 --> 00:56:59.419 Then there's 500 of them. 00:56:59.420 --> 00:57:01.880 And they will all say. 00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:03.000 Unanimously. 00:57:03.320 --> 00:57:03.639 Yes. 00:57:03.780 --> 00:57:04.159 He did. 00:57:05.159 --> 00:57:06.159 Because we saw him. 00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:07.159 He met with us. 00:57:07.200 --> 00:57:08.079 He spoke with us. 00:57:09.680 --> 00:57:11.280 So don't accept the fallacy. 00:57:11.800 --> 00:57:13.000 Of the argument that says. 00:57:13.159 --> 00:57:13.960 There is no proof. 00:57:14.420 --> 00:57:15.619 Of Christ's resurrection. 00:57:16.900 --> 00:57:18.119 And one of the reasons that. 00:57:18.680 --> 00:57:19.920 The devil will do his utmost. 00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:20.579 To try. 00:57:21.200 --> 00:57:21.599 And. 00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:23.000 Get people to believe. 00:57:23.099 --> 00:57:23.720 That the Bible. 00:57:23.900 --> 00:57:25.300 Is just simply not reliable. 00:57:27.099 --> 00:57:28.380 Is because he knows. 00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:29.159 That this is true. 00:57:30.240 --> 00:57:31.760 That the teaching of the Bible. 00:57:31.960 --> 00:57:32.300 Is. 00:57:32.920 --> 00:57:34.380 The factually accurate. 00:57:34.380 --> 00:57:35.380 Word of God. 00:57:36.860 --> 00:57:37.760 And the only way. 00:57:37.860 --> 00:57:39.139 That you can get rid of. 00:57:39.500 --> 00:57:41.079 That sort of emphasis there. 00:57:41.180 --> 00:57:41.740 That he appeared. 00:57:41.820 --> 00:57:42.539 To these 500. 00:57:42.680 --> 00:57:43.460 But there's most of whom. 00:57:43.500 --> 00:57:44.200 Are still alive. 00:57:45.059 --> 00:57:46.019 Is if people will say. 00:57:46.119 --> 00:57:46.400 Well yeah. 00:57:46.460 --> 00:57:46.860 But that's. 00:57:46.900 --> 00:57:47.780 That's just fallacy. 00:57:48.320 --> 00:57:49.260 You would never actually. 00:57:49.400 --> 00:57:50.159 Say that nowadays. 00:57:51.900 --> 00:57:52.340 Friends. 00:57:52.740 --> 00:57:54.360 The core of the gospel. 00:57:55.039 --> 00:57:55.800 Is historically. 00:57:57.059 --> 00:57:57.539 Accurate. 00:57:57.720 --> 00:57:58.220 And true. 00:57:58.219 --> 00:57:58.339 True. 00:58:00.099 --> 00:58:01.239 It is factually. 00:58:01.239 --> 00:58:01.359 Historically. 00:58:01.359 --> 00:58:02.000 Correct. 00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:05.599 Our faith is built. 00:58:06.099 --> 00:58:07.679 And based on the fact. 00:58:08.619 --> 00:58:09.980 That this is the core. 00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:10.659 Of the gospel. 00:58:11.659 --> 00:58:12.599 That Christ died. 00:58:12.599 --> 00:58:13.480 For our sins. 00:58:14.039 --> 00:58:15.279 According to the scriptures. 00:58:15.959 --> 00:58:17.359 That he was buried. 00:58:18.359 --> 00:58:19.799 That he was raised. 00:58:19.799 --> 00:58:20.619 From the dead. 00:58:20.619 --> 00:58:22.420 On the third day. 00:58:23.299 --> 00:58:24.199 In accordance. 00:58:24.199 --> 00:58:25.219 With the scriptures. 00:58:26.759 --> 00:58:27.460 You know. 00:58:27.539 --> 00:58:27.739 There's. 00:58:27.940 --> 00:58:29.299 Some wonderful images. 00:58:29.299 --> 00:58:29.880 At the moment. 00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:30.460 That you can. 00:58:31.139 --> 00:58:32.179 Find online. 00:58:33.139 --> 00:58:33.699 From. 00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:34.900 The. 00:58:35.139 --> 00:58:36.500 James Webb telescope. 00:58:37.500 --> 00:58:38.659 The James Webb telescope. 00:58:38.659 --> 00:58:39.199 Was. 00:58:39.940 --> 00:58:40.920 Launched from earth. 00:58:41.460 --> 00:58:41.980 Exactly. 00:58:42.119 --> 00:58:42.639 A year ago. 00:58:42.699 --> 00:58:42.940 Today. 00:58:43.000 --> 00:58:43.639 On Christmas day. 00:58:43.699 --> 00:58:44.219 Last year. 00:58:44.219 --> 00:58:46.219 And it was. 00:58:46.459 --> 00:58:47.059 Launched out. 00:58:47.059 --> 00:58:47.339 Into. 00:58:47.339 --> 00:58:47.399 Into. 00:58:47.399 --> 00:58:48.339 Into space. 00:58:48.439 --> 00:58:48.879 And began. 00:58:49.579 --> 00:58:50.639 Then through the year. 00:58:50.879 --> 00:58:51.519 Sending back. 00:58:51.639 --> 00:58:52.319 Images from. 00:58:53.599 --> 00:58:54.079 From. 00:58:54.599 --> 00:58:54.739 You know. 00:58:54.739 --> 00:58:55.259 Images that. 00:58:55.679 --> 00:58:56.579 Previous telescopes. 00:58:56.779 --> 00:58:57.539 Just couldn't reach. 00:58:57.619 --> 00:58:58.159 Couldn't actually. 00:58:58.579 --> 00:58:59.139 Produce. 00:58:59.339 --> 00:59:00.279 Just because of the sheer. 00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:00.959 Depth. 00:59:01.359 --> 00:59:01.980 That this telescope. 00:59:02.099 --> 00:59:03.039 Is able to penetrate. 00:59:03.039 --> 00:59:04.279 Into deep space. 00:59:04.280 --> 00:59:04.400 Space. 00:59:06.180 --> 00:59:07.160 And what was said. 00:59:07.200 --> 00:59:07.760 At the time. 00:59:09.060 --> 00:59:10.080 About the telescope. 00:59:10.220 --> 00:59:10.440 Was. 00:59:10.900 --> 00:59:11.560 This is a. 00:59:11.560 --> 00:59:11.980 Ten. 00:59:12.700 --> 00:59:13.220 Billion. 00:59:13.620 --> 00:59:13.980 Dollar. 00:59:14.260 --> 00:59:14.740 Machine. 00:59:15.700 --> 00:59:16.460 In search. 00:59:16.740 --> 00:59:17.380 Of the end. 00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:18.100 Of darkness. 00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:19.940 What they meant. 00:59:20.019 --> 00:59:20.300 By that. 00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:20.540 Was. 00:59:21.160 --> 00:59:21.540 We know. 00:59:21.600 --> 00:59:21.940 That there was. 00:59:22.060 --> 00:59:22.380 Darkness. 00:59:22.519 --> 00:59:23.300 Until this great. 00:59:23.380 --> 00:59:23.880 Explosion. 00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:24.780 In the big bang. 00:59:24.900 --> 00:59:25.519 When the stars. 00:59:25.680 --> 00:59:26.519 Began to be formed. 00:59:27.440 --> 00:59:28.240 And then light. 00:59:28.380 --> 00:59:28.860 Was produced. 00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:29.519 In the universe. 00:59:29.600 --> 00:59:30.180 In the cosmos. 00:59:31.260 --> 00:59:31.820 This is a. 00:59:31.900 --> 00:59:32.160 Ten. 00:59:32.760 --> 00:59:33.240 Billion. 00:59:33.240 --> 00:59:33.780 Dollar. 00:59:33.860 --> 00:59:34.260 Machine. 00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:35.400 In search. 00:59:35.620 --> 00:59:36.280 Of the end. 00:59:36.340 --> 00:59:37.040 Of darkness. 00:59:39.700 --> 00:59:40.540 For the price. 00:59:40.540 --> 00:59:41.160 Of a bible. 00:59:41.660 --> 00:59:42.780 And I'm not decrying. 00:59:43.420 --> 00:59:44.400 Space exploration. 00:59:44.640 --> 00:59:45.280 I'm not decrying. 00:59:45.460 --> 00:59:46.460 Scientific analysis. 00:59:47.160 --> 00:59:47.680 None of that. 00:59:47.840 --> 00:59:48.960 God created man. 00:59:49.080 --> 00:59:49.940 To explore. 00:59:50.060 --> 00:59:50.500 Himself. 00:59:50.620 --> 00:59:51.280 And to explore. 00:59:51.560 --> 00:59:52.340 His environment. 00:59:52.580 --> 00:59:53.420 Including space. 00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:54.160 And it's amazing. 00:59:54.580 --> 00:59:55.640 What things are discovered. 00:59:55.800 --> 00:59:56.340 Through the likes of. 00:59:56.460 --> 00:59:57.620 The James Webb telescope. 00:59:58.480 --> 00:59:59.260 But for the price. 00:59:59.300 --> 00:59:59.840 Of a bible. 01:00:00.900 --> 01:00:01.740 You read this. 01:00:02.820 --> 01:00:03.820 In the beginning. 01:00:03.820 --> 01:00:04.440 The 70s. 01:00:04.480 --> 01:00:04.680 In the beginning. 01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:05.460 What's the word? 01:00:06.220 --> 01:00:06.780 What's the word? 01:00:06.780 --> 01:00:06.960 Of a bible? 01:00:06.960 --> 01:00:07.120 The word. 01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:16.079 was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through 01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:26.319 him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the 01:00:26.320 --> 01:00:38.400 light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. And you don't need 01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:47.720 a 10 billion dollar telescope to see that great truth, because that great truth is Jesus, 01:00:48.640 --> 01:00:56.160 who was born to die the death. He died for the sins of his people, who was buried, who was raised again, 01:00:56.320 --> 01:01:01.760 from the dead, in accordance with the Scriptures. Let's pray. 01:01:03.840 --> 01:01:08.280 Lord, we thank you for the factuality of these great events your Word describes, 01:01:08.720 --> 01:01:15.680 and we do pray that you would enable us constantly to hold on to them as the basis of our faith. 01:01:16.700 --> 01:01:21.460 For you have given them to us, Lord, in the record of your Word, so that we might know yourself, 01:01:21.460 --> 01:01:27.780 that we might know ourselves in relation with you, in relation to you, and that we might find 01:01:27.780 --> 01:01:35.360 eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ, your Son. Bless to us then, Lord, we pray your Word again 01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:42.260 this evening, and enable us in these days to come to marvel all the more, not only at the great cosmos 01:01:42.260 --> 01:01:49.140 that you have created, but at the salvation especially that you have created and accomplished 01:01:49.140 --> 01:01:57.660 for your people, for Jesus' sake. Amen. We're going to conclude now by singing again to God's praise in 01:01:57.660 --> 01:02:05.060 Psalm number 110. Again, it's one of the Messianic Psalms, the Psalms that speak and foretell us about Jesus, 01:02:05.059 --> 01:02:16.940 and especially his own priesthood and kingship. Psalm 110, verses 1 to 4, page 390. 01:02:17.860 --> 01:02:23.599 And the tune this time is done firmly. The Lord did say unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, 01:02:24.199 --> 01:02:31.779 until I make thy foes a stool where on thy feet may stand. And all the way through to verse 4, 01:02:31.780 --> 01:02:37.840 the Lord himself has made an oath, and will repent him never of the order of Melchizedek, 01:02:38.519 --> 01:02:42.860 thou art a priest forever. These words to God's praise. 01:02:42.860 --> 01:02:43.580 Amen. 01:02:47.580 --> 01:03:00.820 The Lord did say unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, 01:03:00.820 --> 01:03:23.200 until I make thy foes a stool where on thy feet may stand. The Lord, God of Zion's end, 01:03:23.199 --> 01:03:42.439 the Lord, God of thy great power, in midst of all thy enemies, without the governor. 01:03:42.440 --> 01:04:12.420 God of Zion's end, the Lord, God of Zion's end, the Lord, God of Zion. 01:04:12.420 --> 01:04:30.420 The Lord himself hath made an oath, and will repent him never of the order of Melchizedek, 01:04:30.420 --> 01:04:32.420 and will repent him never of the kingdom. 01:04:32.420 --> 01:04:33.180 The Lord, God of Zion's end, the Lord, God of Zion. 01:04:33.180 --> 01:04:35.420 The Lord, God of Zion's end, the Lord, God of Zion. 01:04:35.420 --> 01:04:37.300 The Lord, God of Zion. 01:04:37.300 --> 01:04:38.860 The Lord, God of Zion, the Lord, God of Zion. 01:04:39.599 --> 01:04:41.599 I'll go to the main door after the benediction. 01:04:42.940 --> 01:04:46.700 Now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, 01:04:47.220 --> 01:04:50.740 and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you now and evermore. 01:04:51.240 --> 01:04:51.559 Amen. 01:04:51.559 --> 01:04:51.659 Amen.