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 Well, good morning, everyone. Great to be in church with you this morning. If you've

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 just joined us, we have been working our way this year through John's Gospel and looking

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 at the Christian faith in terms of it being reasonable, relevant, and it being good for

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 us in this day and age. And so we're getting to that section in the last couple of weeks

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 in that section of John's Gospel, which really is the centre, the whole building up of the

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 main point of why Jesus came to live. There's a number of directions we could go on a message

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 like this. I've got to say that passage in John's Gospel has to be one of my favourite.

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 As someone who likes to run, I think it's unique that John, talking about the resurrection

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 of Jesus, he makes sure that four times in the first few verses, he makes it clear that

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 he beat Peter to the tomb. And so for the rest of the next 2,000 years, everyone's going

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 to know that John was a faster runner than Peter. I don't know why that's there, but he

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 emphasises it. But we're not going to focus on that this morning. Maybe a sermon on humility

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 might be useful. But each year, Easter time, which is what we're looking at around these

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 central Easter events, mainstream newspapers across our country, publish an opinion piece

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 on why it is that we're having this thing called a long weekend, an Easter long weekend. They

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 try to either explain it or explain it away. The central events of Easter day, namely the

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 resurrection of Jesus Christ from death, they often tend to water it down to a sentimental level,

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 if you like, a lesson about life beyond death or hardship or triumph over difficult circumstances,

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 something like that, turned into something like a nice life lesson. And so I was surprised to read a

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 couple of years ago in the Australian newspaper this in an opinion piece, which was not written by a

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 Christian. Easter provides hope because it shows us that death does not have the final victory.

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 But this works for a person, helps them only if they understand something of the whole supernatural

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 quality of human life. Modern Christians make a tremendous mistake if underplaying the essential

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 supernatural claims of Christianity and of Jesus and the Christian tradition. It is understandable that

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 modern Christians tend to emphasize Christianity's good works. It's hospitals, it's schools, it's shelters for

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 the homeless. But if in truth, Christianity stripped of its supernatural claims is not just an attractive

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 ethical system, it is literally nothing at all. Without its supernatural claims, it is at best delusional

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 and really a system of lies. Nothing of lasting good can come from a system of lies.

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 As St. Paul says in Ephesians, if Christ is not risen, our preaching is useless, our faith is useless.

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 We are all, of all people, the most to be pitied. Christianity is a powerful good because it is true.

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 And if it's not true, it's not a power for anything.

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 I may, I may, I'm pretty sure the guy wasn't a Christian who wrote that, but I'm prepared to be corrected.

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 Because it's profoundly true what they've written. Very insightful.

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 Christianity is not a powerful good unless it's true.

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 It is no power for anything unless it's true.

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 And so the resurrection of Jesus raises two big questions for us.

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 Two big questions of Christianity.

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 That is the truth question and the meaning question.

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 The truth question is, you know, did it actually happen?

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 And the meaning question, well, who cares if it did happen?

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 People will reject Christianity on both accounts.

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 On the truth question and the meaning question.

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 So both questions, the truth question and the so what question are important to address at the same time.

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 I'm going to do that fairly briefly.

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 I want to say three things this morning.

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 The truth question is a true.

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 The second one doesn't matter question.

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 What's its relevance?

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 And thirdly, what it might be to experience life, abundant life in King Jesus.

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 So first of all, is it true?

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 The great C.S. Lewis once wrote that in a world that was making rapid advancement like ours in scientific knowledge,

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 he said there was a danger of chronological snobbery.

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 Chronological snobbery is the assumption that people from generations past and particularly way past like around when Jesus was,

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 they were just a bunch of gullible peasants who did not know how the world worked.

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 But this is not the picture that you get from John 20.

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 Look at the first couple of verses with me.

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 And so she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciples, the one whom Jesus loved.

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 That's John talking about himself again.

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 And notice what she says here.

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 They have taken the Lord out of the tomb and we don't know where they have put him.

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 Now, Jesus had mentioned several times that he would come back to life after he was executed.

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 But Mary was in this moment not expecting an empty tomb.

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 The first assumption she had with the stone rolled away,

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 the first assumption was that the body of Jesus had been moved.

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 It's the same in verse 13.

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 And the assumption was that the enemies of Jesus, most likely the Jewish leaders, had taken his body away.

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 Even Peter and John, two of Jesus' key followers,

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 did not automatically jump to the conclusion that Jesus had resurrected.

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 Verses 8 and 9, down a bit further.

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 Finally, the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went inside.

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 He saw and believed.

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 They still did not understand from scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.

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 The early followers of Jesus were not gullible people falling for any conspiracy theory that might come up.

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 The fact remains, what they were confronted with on that morning was a bodiless tomb.

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 One of the great historical evidences of the resurrection of Jesus Christ was that the tomb where the Romans and the Jews put Jesus was empty on the third day.

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 It's historical fact.

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 The enemies of Jesus, they themselves could not produce the body of Jesus.

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 And if they could have produced the body of Jesus, they would have killed this thing called the Christian movement, dead in its tracks, within three days.

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 Overnight, it would have been done.

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 So what's the possible explanations for the empty tomb?

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 Some suggest that Jesus didn't really die.

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 Put him in the dark tomb and he revived in the coolness of the tomb.

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 He then moved the stone away by himself.

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 The stone that took four burly soldiers to put into place.

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 I mean, that's just incomprehensible.

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 But it's been a view that's been circulated for some time.

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 It's certainly a view that doesn't come to grips with the horrible realities of crucifixion.

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 Nor the rigorous steps that Pilate and the leaders themselves took to make sure that he was dead.

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 And the further steps that they took to make sure that no one got in or out of the tomb.

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 Others have suggested that the disciples themselves stole the body.

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 Which means that if they did, the same disciples gave themselves over to death for what is nothing more than an April Fool's joke.

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 Again, incomprehensible.

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 What we do know about these disciples is that they were utterly dejected.

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 They were terrified of losing their own lives after the crucifixion of Jesus.

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 They were hiding in a secluded room and were unwilling to believe the first reports that Jesus had risen from the dead.

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 And yet within weeks, the same disciples, overflowed with joy and courage, suffered for the resurrected Jesus.

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 This little band of ordinary believers changed the course of human history.

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 They and those who came to believe through them loved and served their enemies across the Roman Empire in such a way

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 that within three centuries, the world was changed.

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 What happened to them?

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 Their own explanation was that they had seen Jesus alive after he was dead.

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 Now there is a heap more historical evidence than just that.

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 But doubting the resurrection is not uncommon.

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 It is a worldview changer.

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 The resurrection of Jesus.

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 John 20 is in fact a worldview changer and a step too far for many despite its evidence.

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 And if that's you, that's okay.

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 After all, the first person to doubt the resurrection of Jesus was one of his closest supporters.

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 Thomas, we read there in chapter 20, is the most famous of doubters.

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 We even have a saying in our culture for the skeptic.

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 We call them doubting Thomas.

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 I mean, the poor guy.

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 He's never let it down.

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 I mean, John's known as the runner and Thomas is known as the doubter forever since then.

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 And so for those who are struggling to understand or accept the resurrection,

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 we have to wonder if Thomas can help us here.

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 Thomas was absent, we are told, when Jesus first appeared to his followers after he'd risen from the dead.

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 Verse 24,

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 Notice Thomas says there,

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 Hands,

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 Hands,

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 Hands,

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 Side,

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 All the marks of Jesus being fully, completely dead.

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 And I will only believe if God turns up, Jesus turns up and shows me himself.

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 His response to the news is absolute.

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 He makes his demands in absolute terms.

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 Unless I see and I place my hands, I will not believe.

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 So what he demands here is what you might call exhaustive proof rather than sufficient evidence.

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 He rejects the witness of 10 or more of his trusted friends.

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 And he dictates absolute terms to God about believing.

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 Now we don't know, because the text doesn't tell us, why it was that Thomas, of all of them, was particularly sceptical.

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 There could be many reasons for that.

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 Maybe his issue was an intellectual problem.

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 You know, dead things don't come back to life again.

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 You know, that sort of stuff.

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 Or maybe it was more personal.

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 Could have been much more personal.

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 Imagine, for instance, someone who is close to you.

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 They are in the process of dying.

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 This may not be imagination too hard for some of us gathered in the room or on screen this morning.

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 Maybe you've come to the point where you have accepted it.

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 That all hope of recovery is lost.

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 And your one is going to die.

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 You've been through the journey with them over a long time.

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 And then all of a sudden, someone makes contact with you and says,

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 I've just been reading online that there's a possible cure for your loved one's disease on the other side of the world,

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 in some clinic.

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 And you hear that news and you go,

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 there was a time when you had hope for recovery and you did everything you could to bring about that healing.

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 However, your hopes have been dashed.

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 And you've finally come to the point of realizing that your loved one is going to die.

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 When you receive news like that, this brand new piece of information,

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 very few people in that moment will go,

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 fantastic, pull out all stops.

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 I'm now buoyant again.

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 Most people cannot, once they get to their hopes being dashed and come to the realization of that,

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 most people cannot bear to get back out of that place again and to have their hopes up in order to be dashed again.

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 Most people in that scenario will be the skeptic on the new piece of news.

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 We have no, and I think it's potential.

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 This is what's happening for Thomas.

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 He loved Jesus just like all the other disciples.

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 He would have been just as devastated as all the other disciples at the crucifixion of Jesus.

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 And now they come along and say, hey, Thomas, no worry.

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 Good news.

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 We've seen him.

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 He's alive.

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 Thomas is like the other disciples had put all their hope of a new future in Jesus.

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 And those hopes were dashed when he saw Jesus nailed to a cross.

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 And so with this new piece of news, maybe he is simply saying to them,

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 don't you dare get my hopes up.

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 Maybe Thomas was afraid to hope again in the same way that many are afraid to hope nowadays in a glorious new future.

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 It might be a narrow, secular, materialistic worldview that says resurrection of Jesus just can't happen.

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 It might be a personality that needs a little bit more evidence.

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 It might be a personality that needs a little bit more evidence.

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 But it also might be a heart that is afraid to be drawn into something so good,

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 so remarkable, so excellent, so brilliant,

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 that you don't want to be disappointed.

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 In the end, Thomas was able to overcome his scepticism and believe in joy.

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 Verse 26,

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 A week later, his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them.

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 And though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said,

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 Peace be with you.

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 Then he said to Thomas,

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 Put your finger here.

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 See my hands.

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 Reach out your hand and put it into my side.

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 Stop doubting and believe.

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 Thomas said to him,

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 My Lord and my God.

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 That's a remarkable statement.

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 My Lord and my God.

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 For a Jewish man to call another human being not just his Lord,

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 but his God,

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 is incomprehensible to Jewish culture.

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 There is, what we see here with Thomas,

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 the movement from scepticism to a deep face.

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 In fact, I would probably argue that there is no greater confession of faith in Jesus Christ,

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 in all of the Bible,

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 than the words of Thomas,

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 My Lord and my God.

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 The biggest doubter to the greatest trust and joy.

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 Now that brings me to the who,

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 you know, doesn't matter question,

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 you know, the who cares question.

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 Thomas' declaration is broadly the meaning of the resurrection.

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 My Lord and my God.

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 His first words,

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 noticeably,

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 when Jesus appears to him,

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 were not about the facts of the resurrection,

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 but what the resurrection meant.

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 My Lord and my God.

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 The whole issue for Thomas was,

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 I want to see him for myself,

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 and I'm not going to believe unless I touch his wounds.

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 Jesus shows up into the room,

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 and Thomas doesn't even touch him.

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 Doesn't even touch him.

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 You see, the wounds on Jesus were so much more than evidence of resurrection.

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 They were evidence for Thomas of something significantly more,

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 something much more powerful.

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 The evidence of Jesus' resurrection

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 is that every single thing that Jesus said about himself

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 is absolutely fundamentally true.

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 He is God.

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 He is the king of the universe.

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 He is the creator of all things.

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 He is my lord, my king, my boss.

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 He's my ruler.

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 He is my God.

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 He is my savior.

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 He is my friend.

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 It means that Jesus promises all of them have been delivered.

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 He is the one who guarantees my own resurrection.

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 The wounds of the cross on Jesus,

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 the things that Thomas thought had ruined his life,

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 had in fact, in reality, saved his life.

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 The resurrection means everything Jesus said about himself

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 is absolutely true.

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 Jesus is the way for humanity to be reunited with our creator God.

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 The resurrection means human guilt and shame

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 has been finally dealt with, fully, completely dealt with,

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 totally satisfied in God's justice on the cross.

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 As I said last week, it is finished.

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 The resurrection guarantees it's finished.

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 Death has not only been confronted,

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 death's been conquered.

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 It means that new and true life can be experienced before death

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 and eternal life after death.

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 It means that there is a new heaven and a new earth

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 where those who put their trust in Christ will live forever

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 like he right now lives forever.

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 It's what Jesus offers us today.

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 Several chapters earlier in John's account

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 of the good news of Jesus,

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 we have Jesus declaring the life-changing news of the resurrection

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 and his own resurrection guarantees this for us.

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 I am the resurrection and the life.

00:22:04.140 --> 00:22:07.380
 The one who believes in me will live even though they die.

00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:12.640
 And whoever lives by believing in me will never die.

00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:19.280
 Something incredibly unique and life-changing

00:22:19.280 --> 00:22:21.360
 and worldview-shaving has happened

00:22:21.360 --> 00:22:23.600
 with the resurrection of Jesus.

00:22:28.600 --> 00:22:30.600
 And so here's the implication

00:22:30.600 --> 00:22:34.200
 from that article a couple of years ago

00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:36.980
 from the Australian newspaper.

00:22:36.980 --> 00:22:42.140
 There is really no halfway house with Christianity.

00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:46.059
 Either Jesus is God

00:22:46.059 --> 00:22:48.700
 and we are immortal beings

00:22:48.700 --> 00:22:51.559
 fueled with eternal destiny, moral choice,

00:22:52.259 --> 00:22:55.180
 divine status, irreducible human dignity

00:22:55.180 --> 00:22:56.579
 and moral responsibility

00:22:56.579 --> 00:23:02.019
 and loved as though an only child of God.

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 It's either that or lies.

00:23:06.980 --> 00:23:10.440
 And I'd rather be at the beach.

00:23:18.140 --> 00:23:19.740
 There's no halfway house

00:23:19.740 --> 00:23:21.839
 with the Christian faith.

00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:25.019
 So I want to ask you,

00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:27.680
 is that how you treat it?

00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:30.960
 Like a halfway house?

00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:31.059
 Yes.

00:23:31.059 --> 00:23:38.079
 We pick and choose the bits of the Bible

00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:40.000
 that we want to believe

00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:41.419
 and want to affirm in our life

00:23:41.419 --> 00:23:43.000
 and bits that don't suit we don't.

00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:49.599
 How do we discover full and complete life in the King?

00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:52.359
 That's my final point.

00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:56.779
 The first thing we need to do

00:23:56.779 --> 00:23:59.779
 is it's so crucial to him

00:23:59.779 --> 00:24:02.759
 that we listen to the eyewitness accounts.

00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:06.579
 We are told that Thomas wasn't there

00:24:06.579 --> 00:24:08.779
 when Jesus first appeared to the disciples.

00:24:08.940 --> 00:24:09.640
 One week later,

00:24:09.740 --> 00:24:11.660
 Jesus showed up again with Thomas present.

00:24:12.420 --> 00:24:13.839
 During that week,

00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:17.079
 during that week in between,

00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:19.519
 we are told in verse 25

00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:23.099
 that the other disciples kept telling him

00:24:23.099 --> 00:24:24.759
 that they had seen the Lord.

00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:28.740
 What that means is

00:24:28.740 --> 00:24:30.759
 that every single one of us

00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:32.740
 on the face of the earth right now

00:24:32.740 --> 00:24:33.839
 who are still breathing,

00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:37.720
 we're in the same position as Thomas.

00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:40.539
 We have access

00:24:40.539 --> 00:24:43.379
 to the same people

00:24:43.379 --> 00:24:46.700
 who saw Jesus raised from the dead.

00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:51.900
 And that's what we've been doing

00:24:51.900 --> 00:24:53.559
 as we go through John's account.

00:24:54.759 --> 00:24:57.740
 His eyewitness account of Jesus.

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 It's written down in the four Gospels

00:25:01.500 --> 00:25:02.359
 of the New Testament.

00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:07.039
 There is an enormous amount of scholarship

00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:09.160
 that supports the Gospel accounts

00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:11.519
 as having the marks of oral history

00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:14.000
 and eyewitness testimony

00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:16.759
 rather than being myths or fables.

00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:21.099
 John, who wrote this biography

00:25:21.099 --> 00:25:23.099
 that we've been working through for months now,

00:25:23.099 --> 00:25:25.759
 was one of those eyewitnesses.

00:25:27.079 --> 00:25:28.659
 This is what he says

00:25:28.659 --> 00:25:30.119
 about how we,

00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:32.679
 in 2024,

00:25:34.139 --> 00:25:34.939
 in Sydney,

00:25:36.740 --> 00:25:37.659
 how we

00:25:37.659 --> 00:25:39.539
 come to see

00:25:39.539 --> 00:25:40.719
 and believe

00:25:40.719 --> 00:25:42.839
 as Thomas came to see

00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:43.459
 and believe.

00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:45.519
 Verse 30.

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 Jesus did many other miraculous signs

00:25:48.900 --> 00:25:50.339
 in the presence of his disciples

00:25:50.339 --> 00:25:52.700
 which are not recorded in this book.

00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:55.299
 But these are written

00:25:55.299 --> 00:25:57.319
 that you may believe

00:25:57.319 --> 00:25:59.279
 that Jesus is the Christ,

00:25:59.960 --> 00:26:00.960
 the Son of God,

00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:02.460
 and that by believing

00:26:02.460 --> 00:26:03.859
 you may have life in his name.

00:26:03.859 --> 00:26:07.639
 He says that what is written

00:26:07.639 --> 00:26:11.000
 in this biography of Jesus' life,

00:26:11.879 --> 00:26:12.959
 his ministry,

00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:14.319
 his death,

00:26:14.439 --> 00:26:15.240
 his resurrection,

00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:17.139
 by an eyewitness

00:26:17.139 --> 00:26:20.099
 is absolutely everything

00:26:20.099 --> 00:26:21.099
 that you need

00:26:21.099 --> 00:26:22.139
 to have certainty

00:26:22.139 --> 00:26:23.139
 of the hope

00:26:23.139 --> 00:26:24.699
 of eternal life.

00:26:24.700 --> 00:26:26.539
 you need

00:26:26.539 --> 00:26:27.279
 nothing more.

00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:33.519
 All I'm suggesting

00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:35.740
 is to operate

00:26:35.740 --> 00:26:36.380
 with the news

00:26:36.380 --> 00:26:37.120
 of the resurrection

00:26:37.120 --> 00:26:37.700
 of Jesus

00:26:37.700 --> 00:26:38.380
 in the same way

00:26:38.380 --> 00:26:38.920
 you operate

00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:39.460
 with the rest

00:26:39.460 --> 00:26:40.220
 of your life.

00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:43.220
 I mean,

00:26:43.580 --> 00:26:45.319
 think about this.

00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:46.360
 How many

00:26:46.360 --> 00:26:47.200
 of the things

00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:47.960
 that you believe

00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:48.799
 happened in history

00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:50.059
 did you actually see?

00:26:50.059 --> 00:26:54.319
 I mean,

00:26:54.339 --> 00:26:54.779
 come on.

00:26:57.440 --> 00:26:58.359
 How many of them

00:26:58.359 --> 00:26:58.940
 were you there

00:26:58.940 --> 00:26:59.619
 as an eyewitness?

00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:04.740
 We believe

00:27:04.740 --> 00:27:05.339
 eyewitness

00:27:05.339 --> 00:27:05.960
 a testimony

00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:07.500
 that has been

00:27:07.500 --> 00:27:08.099
 written down

00:27:08.099 --> 00:27:08.940
 by historically

00:27:08.940 --> 00:27:10.379
 reliable authors.

00:27:11.579 --> 00:27:12.599
 All I'm suggesting

00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:13.399
 is you do the same

00:27:13.399 --> 00:27:14.000
 with Jesus.

00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:16.319
 It's as simple as that.

00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:17.559
 Do the same

00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:18.019
 with Jesus.

00:27:18.019 --> 00:27:20.359
 We don't need

00:27:20.359 --> 00:27:21.139
 to know anything

00:27:21.139 --> 00:27:22.099
 more than what

00:27:22.099 --> 00:27:22.480
 is written

00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:23.279
 in John's gospel

00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:24.420
 to see and believe.

00:27:26.200 --> 00:27:27.019
 And so read

00:27:27.019 --> 00:27:27.900
 John's gospel.

00:27:28.220 --> 00:27:29.259
 Read one of the gospels.

00:27:31.139 --> 00:27:32.339
 And just pray

00:27:32.339 --> 00:27:33.259
 a simple prayer.

00:27:34.299 --> 00:27:34.720
 God,

00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:35.460
 if you are

00:27:35.460 --> 00:27:36.319
 true,

00:27:36.539 --> 00:27:37.500
 if you are real,

00:27:37.619 --> 00:27:38.440
 if Jesus did

00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:39.559
 rise from the dead,

00:27:40.779 --> 00:27:42.119
 help me see

00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:42.599
 and believe.

00:27:45.639 --> 00:27:46.220
 You see,

00:27:46.259 --> 00:27:46.900
 the Christian faith

00:27:46.900 --> 00:27:47.480
 is no mere

00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:48.099
 philosophy,

00:27:48.900 --> 00:27:49.460
 even though

00:27:49.460 --> 00:27:50.539
 it is a

00:27:50.539 --> 00:27:51.140
 philosophically

00:27:51.140 --> 00:27:52.019
 viable worldview.

00:27:52.740 --> 00:27:53.799
 It is not

00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:54.700
 merely subjective,

00:27:55.620 --> 00:27:56.200
 even though

00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:56.779
 there are

00:27:56.779 --> 00:27:57.299
 emotional,

00:27:57.539 --> 00:27:58.559
 satisfying experiences

00:27:58.559 --> 00:27:59.160
 for followers

00:27:59.160 --> 00:27:59.640
 of Jesus.

00:28:00.819 --> 00:28:01.779
 The Christian faith

00:28:01.779 --> 00:28:02.380
 is not merely

00:28:02.380 --> 00:28:02.920
 sentimental.

00:28:04.019 --> 00:28:04.599
 It's not just

00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:05.099
 uplifting,

00:28:05.240 --> 00:28:06.099
 like a piece of art,

00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:06.720
 even though there

00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:07.440
 is lots of beauty

00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:08.099
 to behold

00:28:08.099 --> 00:28:10.700
 in the Christian faith.

00:28:10.700 --> 00:28:10.759
 faith.

00:28:12.080 --> 00:28:13.519
 The Christian faith

00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:14.779
 is absolutely

00:28:14.779 --> 00:28:15.759
 nothing.

00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:18.279
 It is nothing

00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:20.759
 if Jesus Christ

00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:22.019
 did not actually

00:28:22.019 --> 00:28:23.000
 rise bodily

00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:23.740
 from the dead.

00:28:23.740 --> 00:28:28.000
 the truth of his

00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:28.620
 resurrection

00:28:28.620 --> 00:28:30.980
 is not based

00:28:30.980 --> 00:28:32.759
 on experiential

00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:33.420
 methods of

00:28:33.420 --> 00:28:34.359
 natural science.

00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:35.299
 It's not

00:28:35.299 --> 00:28:36.759
 verifiable by

00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:37.460
 test tubes

00:28:37.460 --> 00:28:38.140
 or empirical

00:28:38.140 --> 00:28:38.640
 data,

00:28:39.259 --> 00:28:40.400
 nor is it based

00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:41.180
 only on the

00:28:41.180 --> 00:28:41.819
 arguments of

00:28:41.819 --> 00:28:42.279
 logic.

00:28:42.579 --> 00:28:43.339
 It is based

00:28:43.339 --> 00:28:44.200
 on history,

00:28:44.900 --> 00:28:45.620
 on eyewitness

00:28:45.620 --> 00:28:46.220
 accounts.

00:28:47.620 --> 00:28:48.339
 And so read a

00:28:48.339 --> 00:28:48.940
 gospel if you

00:28:48.940 --> 00:28:49.539
 haven't done one

00:28:49.539 --> 00:28:49.759
 yet.

00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:53.339
 read it

00:28:53.339 --> 00:28:54.539
 as if it is

00:28:54.539 --> 00:28:55.019
 eyewitness

00:28:55.019 --> 00:28:55.519
 account

00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:56.900
 and think.

00:28:58.039 --> 00:28:58.579
 The second

00:28:58.579 --> 00:28:59.220
 thing to do,

00:28:59.920 --> 00:29:00.839
 to see and

00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:01.440
 believe here,

00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:03.220
 to move from

00:29:03.220 --> 00:29:03.859
 doubt to

00:29:03.859 --> 00:29:04.680
 receiving certain

00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:04.879
 hope,

00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:05.379
 is to drop

00:29:05.379 --> 00:29:06.099
 your conditions.

00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:08.279
 Every one

00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:08.799
 of us,

00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:11.460
 every single

00:29:11.460 --> 00:29:11.839
 one of us

00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:12.440
 is like Thomas

00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:12.940
 in this.

00:29:13.400 --> 00:29:14.099
 Every single

00:29:14.099 --> 00:29:14.599
 one of us

00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:16.299
 moves towards

00:29:16.299 --> 00:29:18.200
 Jesus with

00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:19.059
 a set of

00:29:19.059 --> 00:29:19.599
 conditions.

00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:21.039
 they might

00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:21.599
 be different

00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:22.180
 for all of

00:29:22.180 --> 00:29:22.500
 us,

00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:23.940
 but none

00:29:23.940 --> 00:29:24.240
 of us

00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:25.220
 moves towards

00:29:25.220 --> 00:29:25.680
 him without

00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:26.180
 a set of

00:29:26.180 --> 00:29:26.619
 conditions.

00:29:29.220 --> 00:29:30.019
 No one

00:29:30.019 --> 00:29:30.859
 just goes to

00:29:30.859 --> 00:29:32.160
 him purely

00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:32.700
 on his

00:29:32.700 --> 00:29:33.339
 terms,

00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:35.000
 because he's

00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:35.640
 great and

00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:36.379
 he's glorious

00:29:36.379 --> 00:29:36.759
 and he's

00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:37.279
 majestic.

00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:39.220
 No one

00:29:39.220 --> 00:29:39.940
 ever moves

00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:40.460
 towards him

00:29:40.460 --> 00:29:41.160
 just for his

00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:41.539
 sake.

00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:44.180
 We always

00:29:44.180 --> 00:29:44.940
 move towards

00:29:44.940 --> 00:29:45.779
 him because

00:29:45.779 --> 00:29:46.700
 we want

00:29:46.700 --> 00:29:47.559
 something,

00:29:47.559 --> 00:29:49.720
 which means

00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:50.099
 we have

00:29:50.099 --> 00:29:50.799
 conditions.

00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:53.399
 I've known

00:29:53.399 --> 00:29:53.899
 of people

00:29:53.899 --> 00:29:54.980
 who refused

00:29:54.980 --> 00:29:56.519
 to move

00:29:56.519 --> 00:29:57.319
 towards Jesus

00:29:57.319 --> 00:29:57.899
 because it

00:29:57.899 --> 00:29:58.299
 would mean

00:29:58.299 --> 00:29:58.639
 that they

00:29:58.639 --> 00:29:59.019
 would need

00:29:59.019 --> 00:29:59.539
 to repair

00:29:59.539 --> 00:30:00.259
 a relationship,

00:30:00.779 --> 00:30:01.359
 it would mean

00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:01.679
 that they

00:30:01.679 --> 00:30:02.159
 would have to

00:30:02.159 --> 00:30:02.639
 change a

00:30:02.639 --> 00:30:02.919
 habit,

00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:04.759
 it would mean

00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:05.039
 that they

00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:05.299
 wouldn't be

00:30:05.299 --> 00:30:05.619
 able to go

00:30:05.619 --> 00:30:05.879
 to the

00:30:05.879 --> 00:30:06.379
 beach on a

00:30:06.379 --> 00:30:06.579
 Sunday

00:30:06.579 --> 00:30:07.000
 morning,

00:30:07.339 --> 00:30:07.919
 for instance.

00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:12.340
 we need

00:30:12.340 --> 00:30:12.920
 to drop

00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:13.240
 our

00:30:13.240 --> 00:30:14.000
 conditions

00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:16.039
 because

00:30:16.039 --> 00:30:16.800
 every time

00:30:16.800 --> 00:30:17.060
 we have

00:30:17.060 --> 00:30:17.580
 a condition

00:30:17.580 --> 00:30:18.140
 they say

00:30:18.140 --> 00:30:18.700
 I will

00:30:18.700 --> 00:30:19.340
 love you

00:30:19.340 --> 00:30:19.860
 God

00:30:19.860 --> 00:30:21.200
 and I

00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:21.840
 will accept

00:30:21.840 --> 00:30:22.640
 your hope

00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:23.580
 if,

00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:26.019
 if.

00:30:29.080 --> 00:30:29.900
 The great

00:30:29.900 --> 00:30:30.240
 news of

00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:30.620
 Christianity

00:30:30.620 --> 00:30:31.180
 is that

00:30:31.180 --> 00:30:31.720
 Jesus did

00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:32.060
 not love

00:30:32.060 --> 00:30:32.740
 for us,

00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:33.620
 he has

00:30:33.620 --> 00:30:34.220
 loved us

00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:35.100
 unconditionally.

00:30:35.099 --> 00:30:37.679
 the death

00:30:37.679 --> 00:30:38.099
 of Jesus

00:30:38.099 --> 00:30:38.679
 was no

00:30:38.679 --> 00:30:39.199
 accident

00:30:39.199 --> 00:30:39.899
 in history.

00:30:41.639 --> 00:30:42.359
 He said

00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:42.980
 last week

00:30:42.980 --> 00:30:43.759
 Jesus died

00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:44.379
 and rose

00:30:44.379 --> 00:30:44.959
 to redeem

00:30:44.959 --> 00:30:45.379
 us and

00:30:45.379 --> 00:30:45.899
 to reclaim

00:30:45.899 --> 00:30:46.299
 us to

00:30:46.299 --> 00:30:46.639
 God.

00:30:48.819 --> 00:30:49.679
 It is a

00:30:49.679 --> 00:30:50.899
 plan that

00:30:50.899 --> 00:30:51.619
 is historically

00:30:51.619 --> 00:30:52.259
 reliable

00:30:52.259 --> 00:30:54.219
 and experientially

00:30:54.219 --> 00:30:55.179
 satisfying as

00:30:55.179 --> 00:30:55.659
 we navigate

00:30:55.659 --> 00:30:56.259
 life.

00:30:57.980 --> 00:30:58.259
 And so

00:30:58.259 --> 00:30:58.599
 friends,

00:30:58.740 --> 00:30:59.279
 Jesus has

00:30:59.279 --> 00:30:59.779
 brought you

00:30:59.779 --> 00:31:00.279
 here this

00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:00.579
 morning,

00:31:00.679 --> 00:31:01.079
 he has

00:31:01.079 --> 00:31:02.039
 tuned you

00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:03.119
 in online

00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:04.159
 for this

00:31:04.159 --> 00:31:04.639
 message.

00:31:05.099 --> 00:31:06.159
 for this

00:31:06.159 --> 00:31:06.480
 little bit

00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:06.699
 of the

00:31:06.699 --> 00:31:07.019
 Bible,

00:31:07.819 --> 00:31:08.599
 for this

00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:09.139
 story of

00:31:09.139 --> 00:31:09.599
 the resurrection

00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:10.119
 of Jesus,

00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:10.559
 for this

00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:11.139
 eyewitness

00:31:11.139 --> 00:31:12.579
 account of

00:31:12.579 --> 00:31:13.299
 John so

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 that you

00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:15.639
 too might

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 believe in

00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:17.559
 Jesus and

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 have certain

00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:18.719
 hope,

00:31:19.219 --> 00:31:20.279
 life forever

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 with joy as

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 Jesus himself

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 is alive

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 forever in

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 the joy of

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 his presence

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 of his

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 father.

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 Friends,

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 I would

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 encourage you

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 if you are

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 someone who

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 is unsure

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 or you're

00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:34.840
 that person

00:31:34.840 --> 00:31:35.259
 needs a

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 little bit

00:31:35.560 --> 00:31:35.780
 more

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 evidence,

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 I've got

00:31:37.019 --> 00:31:37.380
 a couple

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 of books

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 called

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 Is Easter

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 Unbelievable?

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 It's really

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 short,

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 really simple

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 to read.

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 I've got

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 three of

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 these,

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 if you like

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 one of

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 these,

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 if you're

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 online,

00:31:46.080 --> 00:31:46.640
 send us a

00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:47.200
 message and

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 we can post

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 one to you

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 as well.

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 Sample

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 the

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 Let's

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 see

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 the