The Sermon Easter Sunday by David McGee
Apr 04, 2010
Easter Sunday (24:28)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 28:5-7;John 14:19
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Easter Bunny & Eggs
Solid or Hollow Rabbit
Solid in Faith Easter Morning
Because I live you will live also
I know my redeemer lives
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Matthew 28:5-7
5) The angel answered the women, "Don‘t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.
6) He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.
7) Go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.‘ Behold, I have told you."
John 14:19
19) Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
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Him Sunday and I just felt pleased that all of you are here the right place to be. Amen. The fields are about to Matthew chapter twenty. Verses five through seven. Matthew twenty eight versus five three seven South and the angel said to the women get on if I find out what you're looking for Jesus who was crucified. It is not here. He has risen, just as he said, see the place where he lay, and quickly tell the disciples, he has risen from the dead and he is going ahead of you into Galilee. Now you will see him now I have told you in any other Scriptures John fourteen nineteen as the second part of the verse and it says, because I live you will live also and noticed this declaration that we are looking at for our understanding of what the resurrection of Jesus Christ is all about. Because he lives we will live also in a few weeks ago I challenge myself and thought is that how did he ever come up with an Easter Bunny and Easter eggs. I never get that out of the resurrection and about the Jesus Christ while I did some reading and I found out number one A's have always been a symbol of fertility, the relatively grace use it for centuries. In fact, the ancient Egyptians used a very Asian. The Joe. It was a sign on the resurrection or sign of hope on of life and then there was also the idea of the Easter Bunny. Where did the Easter Bunny tradition come for where it originated in Eastern Europe and it was there that they revered the rapid as being the sacred animal of the springtime because it became a revered as for Charlie see also the welcoming of spring. There was a tradition that the Raven would like a colored eggs and the children were supposed to create a nest out of the strong things, and some of the very wealthy would decorate your eggs with gold leaf and you do that last night. Decorate gold leave a ninety pound of gold into leaves and cover your eggs. Many, many just boiled them in. I am right of the early diaries last night was raw. The rest of the headaches. If you are while some might as we attributed to immigrants from the get/ worsted/ Germany Soviet official gauge line from Germany settled in Pennsylvania, so this will idea all the Easter bunny and colored eggs of all that came from eastern Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvania Dutch that settled in eastern Pennsylvania started the tradition in America and that is how we come up with eggs and bunnies and now, now you know the rest of the story. Whatever we think about the resurrection, and we think about Easter. It's important for our students how to put together the idea of why we celebrate why we celebrate the resurrection and why we see this as so important in Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead. There is no need to study the Scriptures does not lead to look at the Bible and to study the New Testament because Jesus is risen, then all of it is for naught. Paul says if Christ be not risen from the dead know not of faith is in vain. So each of the him only Christians and suffering are not the religion requires that their founder, not only die that it rattles in the day one of the great facts of Christianity that sets us apart from all other religions is not only that I found her, lived and died, but anyone else in the dad and that it was prophecy. There was a foretelling of events no ten percent of the New Testament alludes to what happened in the Old Testament, so there was a foretelling of events that brought about the fulfillment of that in Jesus Christ and his life is that his burial of his resurrection ten percent of it. Well, back to what was foretold. So not only do we have Christianity as a symbol of life, but we have it as a declaration of foretelling of prophecy, the prophetic word told about the future before it happened. So, it is a celebration of Passover in the Old Testament in the Jewish tradition, there was Passover and all this set up and set in motion. What would come with Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world. In the Old Testament there was a sacrifice of animals for the covering of sin and in the New Testament with Jesus Christ. He came to fulfill that there was Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. We find it in Matthew twenty eight he says. I know that you see Jesus was crucified. He is not here, for he is risen, as he said, if you listen to some of the critics, and you listen to some of the things the right television in all about Christianity and about the death of Christ. It's almost like he tried to be a leader and somehow fail and what effect will you wanted. He was crucified and crucifixion was, byproduct of this failure. But that's not how it happened. The Scriptures that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God slain from the foundation, the world that the idea on the death of Jesus Christ did not catch Jesus off guard. He taught his disciples about it. He taught them that he would die a toilet that he would be the sacrifice I do not want maybe inherent. He said that he will die, but he also said that he would rise from the dead courtesy the place. The angel said to see the place where the Lord lay and quickly tell his disciples, he is risen from the dead. The book of Joe was written two thousand BC and then there is a question that John presents of a man dies on the rise again. That's the question is presented two thousand years before the birth of Christ. Consider what Jesus said. He said that he was the God man that God in the form of man candy. He declares that he has seen me has seen the father ion the father, a one, the verification of who Jesus is and what he does and what he teaches is of extreme importance because it is upon these tropes not hearsay, not tradition. It is upon these truths that our faith is placed in Jesus Christ and in the resurrection. Even his enemies recognized his claim. He have to die because he made himself the son of God is perfect. Life is Godlike character is time for miracles, his message of life, forgiveness and restoration. It was about God becoming man to bring us into a right relationship with God. He says I am the resurrection and the life. His resurrection as a whole him as prophecies about his pronouncements and if Jesus was not risen from the dead. The book of acts, the acts of the apostles would not exist, so you look at the disciples when Jesus was coming into Jerusalem is triumphal entry, we celebrated last week on Palm Sunday, the disciples were expecting Jesus to set himself up as a key like David. They wanted the section we sit on your right hand and on your left. And so whenever they were expecting that they were expecting Jesus to somehow overthrow the Roman government and to have that tragedy am a death in such a program is that take place. It just washed the disciples, and within fifteen days of the resurrection we find them, changing the world whatever conspiracy you might want to pray chickens theologies is alive. The allotted time for these individuals were so changed that their lives changed and how they look at life and how they began to see themselves get what one of the greatest hindrances to Christianity is a poor testimony for testimony. There's something unique about our lives now. I was thinking about what Montevideo weather economy down traditions. I said about Easter eggs and bunnies on a chocolate Easter bunny at your house doesn't have years later, somebody down at Lisa Bunning. Second, I have to hear to a surviving here. I want you to tell me which one of these you think is solid in which one is hollow him. He is silent. I blame the one on the left is solid. Not a few onlookers in the day. The difference between a hollow testimony, did you ever hear the expression, while Eric Christian, I don't want to be one. And why would that be, hollow testimony of the stand with someone like to hold them back than I have and have a seventy years, then one hundred years lab that that we did not hold them to the left of the house is getting on in and out of the end which one is which. But you get the look out and I needed to stop them. Because with someone who doesn't know Jesus is a person talk about Christ, and they claim themselves to be a Christian and you don't seem to live measuring up to it. People who don't believe. Look at that and say while and there is no God is hollow and I got dressed up in their faith and they look good. How do you know with hollow Ali please follow the five years. By United to it, and what happens. It's crushed it are supplied whatever is an onlooker examines the Christian faith, we look at our lives and from my perspective. Hopefully if I see someone who is hollow in their faith. I liken it to the idea that while you know what they're making an attempt let's try and build it up, and let's fill them up with the presence of God fill them up with that of the level chocolate have any insights on the ball of God in their life but to the person who doesn't know God they look at the heartless and say if they're Christian. I don't want to be one. Christians sometime this, I will tell you Sunday were looking at how the group of women came to the other Scripture that we read in the morning they arrived to the net, an Angel and Angel invited them to look inside this empty to the reading talk about this in Sunday school and I'm always imagined in my mind. Now that the disciples and the women arrived at the two and how that they would've looked inside and examines the Jesus would've been wrapped in. I just pictured them as young as filing fly like to see they look inside and say wow is not in their well if you look at Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. These are the guys who took the body of Jesus and they probably rather than. But they also put about fifty pounds of appointment on his body and one commentary I was reading said it would be like mixing flour and that whatever you put that on the body would almost create like a body cast and so that would've put this around the body of Jesus as he was wrapped in the trial and inevitable for this over his body just is not unlike a preservative until they can get their finish the preparing of the body for burial. So when the morning came, Easter Sunday that Jesus would've risen from the dead when they looked in. They were seeing this body cast with no one in it did you ever try and get out of the cast without breaking it. If you ever gone about a fast without breaking. And then there was this napkin that would have covered his face that was neatly feminine set-aside so when the disciples looked in an nice obvious employees him. The something had happened. They are the body was gone like the English row and that is where this body cast preserve his, was there an unbroken. So something happened that morning that changed the lives of all these individuals, John and Peter. They came to the Julie saw the linen clothes lying there and the handkerchief that had been around his head, not lying with the lending flows folded together in a place by itself. It didn't see a body. Knowing the star is one of my favorite because Mary arrives at the two and she looks in and she so restricted. All she knows is that Jesus isn't there. So whatever she comes away from the tomb. She say someone and says, where have you taken him where have you taken his body. I got to see his body. She was so so grief stricken that she wanted to is aware of him one more time season one more time and in retrograde. She says where you lay him out. We don't know Howard Watson. But Jesus says her name. He says Mary and whether in her tears as she saw his fees with the now stars in them, whether seeing leveled up and saw his hands as she reads to him, or whether it was the sound of Jesus saying her name. Everything changed in Marietta moment and she realizes she said Rabbi, my teacher if you edit was this revelation that changed her life. Everything that she had believed in him. He had thought was across the cross. But here we find something taking place in this resurrection, that changed her life forever. I'll try to get as we look at these things and we see how it unfolds than we would say why the Romans in the Pharisees if they knew that Jesus had risen from the dead. Then when I believe not so because it was the resurrection of Jesus calling Lazarus out of the two. The Pharisees say robotic killing is becoming too powerful. There are things that happen in our life. The challenge what we believe in challenge, how we see them. Anybody ever remember the first time in a hollow money we disappointed. I remember my first hollow Easter Bunny. I remember thinking how do I want to have this they were in all that chocolate and I appears that it got pretty white real must be whipped chocolate or something of I bet he thought it was hollow and my first thought was my mother must not have known she bought me a highway. She wouldn't. I mean, I Lisa, but she would never find the always of my friends thought how could you know that I was whining. I was shocked when I got the coveted being in a sundial. At least of money and sometimes we look at hollow Christians and one of the walk away from them. I like that video that we had already goads shows the face of that person was in the hockey mask, white thing you know that when I get to pretend to be something that were not were allowed to have our doubts and were allowed to have our questions Jesus, I get upset with questions and doesn't get upset without eleven absent without being human doesn't get upset with you being you. You created us to be who we are. It's just that he wants to bring out the faith that he's instilled in us and to take it in a direction that will build us in our relationship with him and with one another and to take who we are what we are to where he wants us to be a citizen of faith is we have a very real God, and we had problems with a very real situations that we have to deal with it is the feeling of God, and I like the filling. The infilling is aware of God 's presence inside of us and gives us the strength of the sadness of character and your family on a crime or we know all yes or no difficulties were in a half times that just challenges salaries. If you carried him away, tell me there's like no plan of a resurrection with Mary and sometimes there's just no sign of how we can get out of this. But when Jesus said the name of Mary through Mary. It changed her life. This is what I think out for today is Easter that Jesus speaks our name because us by name. He knows who we are. He knows exactly where were at a knows exactly the need of our life and exactly what we need to take place inside of us. Any name any touches us by his Spirit, and he gives us his divine strength and that had a list that we sense on the inside about life and about whatever is going on because us a sense of purpose and he gives us a sense of meaning because it's a way of touching my life that fills this emptiness inside of us. There is a story hello and why father they were driving down a country road that they were driving on be got in the car and the boy was very highly allergic to these things. Anything very, very frightened in the father reached out and grabbed hold of me and held it in his hand and then he left to go and the child became very very frightened again one another and why she do that in the father, as he stopped the car in the way. Look at his hand as if they are signed. There is the sustainer in my hand. The can hurt you anymore, so you don't need to be afraid anymore. I've taken the sting for you. These are messages. This sting of death is goneÒ where is your victory over death, where is your sting life and death, resurrection, and hold when we look at the hand of Jesus. We not only see his nail scarred hands. We also see the sting of death, because where Jesus is there is life, and there is hope. We said earlier, Joe had a question. Two thousand BC the Magi will the will he rise again. John Chapter nineteen, says, I know that my Redeemer lives. This is two thousand years before Jesus Christ before his week. Jesus always was before the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus Christ. Two thousand years prophetic writing. John says I know that my Redeemer lives, and he this is an on the early and after my skin is destroyed. Yes I know that in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself with my eyes. I will see him and not another's eyes. I year is within me for that day. Two thousand years before the resurrection of Jesus Christ Jewell wrote about it. This is as foundational. The solvent miss of our faith. It is based upon hysterics and is not based upon campfire stories is based upon the reality of a God who for thousands of years right about his coming, then his coming was here. It is in the major divergent and then his life, his teachings, his sacrificial death, his resurrection is a sentient. He ever lives to make intercession for us to know us and he calls us by name and it is our choice to be distracted by the hollowness of some things, or to recognize the fullness of our relationship with Jesus Christ. So which one is hollow with Monte Carlo when I will have to learn him. I say this one is all I may say this one is all the women deleted most of the negative the idea that we can all be distracted by what is all of you, but on the inside Grand Prix. I have faith is something that fills us in case us, and even in the pressures of life. There's still a sense of strength and inside of us that God is there. So let us focus on what Jesus Christ has done for us and how he has changed Iowa Him Sunday and I just felt pleased that all of you are here the right place to be. Amen. The fields are about to Matthew chapter twenty. Verses five through seven. Matthew twenty eight versus five three seven South and the angel said to the women get on if I find out what you're looking for Jesus who was crucified. It is not here. He has risen, just as he said, see the place where he lay, and quickly tell the disciples, he has risen from the dead and he is going ahead of you into Galilee. Now you will see him now I have told you in any other Scriptures John fourteen nineteen as the second part of the verse and it says, because I live you will live also and noticed this declaration that we are looking at for our understanding of what the resurrection of Jesus Christ is all about. Because he lives we will live also in a few weeks ago I challenge myself and thought is that how did he ever come up with an Easter Bunny and Easter eggs. I never get that out of the resurrection and about the Jesus Christ while I did some reading and I found out number one A's have always been a symbol of fertility, the relatively grace use it for centuries. In fact, the ancient Egyptians used a very Asian. The Joe. It was a sign on the resurrection or sign of hope on of life and then there was also the idea of the Easter Bunny. Where did the Easter Bunny tradition come for where it originated in Eastern Europe and it was there that they revered the rapid as being the sacred animal of the springtime because it became a revered as for Charlie see also the welcoming of spring. There was a tradition that the Raven would like a colored eggs and the children were supposed to create a nest out of the strong things, and some of the very wealthy would decorate your eggs with gold leaf and you do that last night. Decorate gold leave a ninety pound of gold into leaves and cover your eggs. Many, many just boiled them in. I am right of the early diaries last night was raw. The rest of the headaches. If you are while some might as we attributed to immigrants from the get/ worsted/ Germany Soviet official gauge line from Germany settled in Pennsylvania, so this will idea all the Easter bunny and colored eggs of all that came from eastern Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvania Dutch that settled in eastern Pennsylvania started the tradition in America and that is how we come up with eggs and bunnies and now, now you know the rest of the story. Whatever we think about the resurrection, and we think about Easter. It's important for our students how to put together the idea of why we celebrate why we celebrate the resurrection and why we see this as so important in Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead. There is no need to study the Scriptures does not lead to look at the Bible and to study the New Testament because Jesus is risen, then all of it is for naught. Paul says if Christ be not risen from the dead know not of faith is in vain. So each of the him only Christians and suffering are not the religion requires that their founder, not only die that it rattles in the day one of the great facts of Christianity that sets us apart from all other religions is not only that I found her, lived and died, but anyone else in the dad and that it was prophecy. There was a foretelling of events no ten percent of the New Testament alludes to what happened in the Old Testament, so there was a foretelling of events that brought about the fulfillment of that in Jesus Christ and his life is that his burial of his resurrection ten percent of it. Well, back to what was foretold. So not only do we have Christianity as a symbol of life, but we have it as a declaration of foretelling of prophecy, the prophetic word told about the future before it happened. So, it is a celebration of Passover in the Old Testament in the Jewish tradition, there was Passover and all this set up and set in motion. What would come with Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world. In the Old Testament there was a sacrifice of animals for the covering of sin and in the New Testament with Jesus Christ. He came to fulfill that there was Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. We find it in Matthew twenty eight he says. I know that you see Jesus was crucified. He is not here, for he is risen, as he said, if you listen to some of the critics, and you listen to some of the things the right television in all about Christianity and about the death of Christ. It's almost like he tried to be a leader and somehow fail and what effect will you wanted. He was crucified and crucifixion was, byproduct of this failure. But that's not how it happened. The Scriptures that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God slain from the foundation, the world that the idea on the death of Jesus Christ did not catch Jesus off guard. He taught his disciples about it. He taught them that he would die a toilet that he would be the sacrifice I do not want maybe inherent. He said that he will die, but he also said that he would rise from the dead courtesy the place. The angel said to see the place where the Lord lay and quickly tell his disciples, he is risen from the dead. The book of Joe was written two thousand BC and then there is a question that John presents of a man dies on the rise again. That's the question is presented two thousand years before the birth of Christ. Consider what Jesus said. He said that he was the God man that God in the form of man candy. He declares that he has seen me has seen the father ion the father, a one, the verification of who Jesus is and what he does and what he teaches is of extreme importance because it is upon these tropes not hearsay, not tradition. It is upon these truths that our faith is placed in Jesus Christ and in the resurrection. Even his enemies recognized his claim. He have to die because he made himself the son of God is perfect. Life is Godlike character is time for miracles, his message of life, forgiveness and restoration. It was about God becoming man to bring us into a right relationship with God. He says I am the resurrection and the life. His resurrection as a whole him as prophecies about his pronouncements and if Jesus was not risen from the dead. The book of acts, the acts of the apostles would not exist, so you look at the disciples when Jesus was coming into Jerusalem is triumphal entry, we celebrated last week on Palm Sunday, the disciples were expecting Jesus to set himself up as a key like David. They wanted the section we sit on your right hand and on your left. And so whenever they were expecting that they were expecting Jesus to somehow overthrow the Roman government and to have that tragedy am a death in such a program is that take place. It just washed the disciples, and within fifteen days of the resurrection we find them, changing the world whatever conspiracy you might want to pray chickens theologies is alive. The allotted time for these individuals were so changed that their lives changed and how they look at life and how they began to see themselves get what one of the greatest hindrances to Christianity is a poor testimony for testimony. There's something unique about our lives now. I was thinking about what Montevideo weather economy down traditions. I said about Easter eggs and bunnies on a chocolate Easter bunny at your house doesn't have years later, somebody down at Lisa Bunning. Second, I have to hear to a surviving here. I want you to tell me which one of these you think is solid in which one is hollow him. He is silent. I blame the one on the left is solid. Not a few onlookers in the day. The difference between a hollow testimony, did you ever hear the expression, while Eric Christian, I don't want to be one. And why would that be, hollow testimony of the stand with someone like to hold them back than I have and have a seventy years, then one hundred years lab that that we did not hold them to the left of the house is getting on in and out of the end which one is which. But you get the look out and I needed to stop them. Because with someone who doesn't know Jesus is a person talk about Christ, and they claim themselves to be a Christian and you don't seem to live measuring up to it. People who don't believe. Look at that and say while and there is no God is hollow and I got dressed up in their faith and they look good. How do you know with hollow Ali please follow the five years. By United to it, and what happens. It's crushed it are supplied whatever is an onlooker examines the Christian faith, we look at our lives and from my perspective. Hopefully if I see someone who is hollow in their faith. I liken it to the idea that while you know what they're making an attempt let's try and build it up, and let's fill them up with the presence of God fill them up with that of the level chocolate have any insights on the ball of God in their life but to the person who doesn't know God they look at the heartless and say if they're Christian. I don't want to be one. Christians sometime this, I will tell you Sunday were looking at how the group of women came to the other Scripture that we read in the morning they arrived to the net, an Angel and Angel invited them to look inside this empty to the reading talk about this in Sunday school and I'm always imagined in my mind. Now that the disciples and the women arrived at the two and how that they would've looked inside and examines the Jesus would've been wrapped in. I just pictured them as young as filing fly like to see they look inside and say wow is not in their well if you look at Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. These are the guys who took the body of Jesus and they probably rather than. But they also put about fifty pounds of appointment on his body and one commentary I was reading said it would be like mixing flour and that whatever you put that on the body would almost create like a body cast and so that would've put this around the body of Jesus as he was wrapped in the trial and inevitable for this over his body just is not unlike a preservative until they can get their finish the preparing of the body for burial. So when the morning came, Easter Sunday that Jesus would've risen from the dead when they looked in. They were seeing this body cast with no one in it did you ever try and get out of the cast without breaking it. If you ever gone about a fast without breaking. And then there was this napkin that would have covered his face that was neatly feminine set-aside so when the disciples looked in an nice obvious employees him. The something had happened. They are the body was gone like the English row and that is where this body cast preserve his, was there an unbroken. So something happened that morning that changed the lives of all these individuals, John and Peter. They came to the Julie saw the linen clothes lying there and the handkerchief that had been around his head, not lying with the lending flows folded together in a place by itself. It didn't see a body. Knowing the star is one of my favorite because Mary arrives at the two and she looks in and she so restricted. All she knows is that Jesus isn't there. So whatever she comes away from the tomb. She say someone and says, where have you taken him where have you taken his body. I got to see his body. She was so so grief stricken that she wanted to is aware of him one more time season one more time and in retrograde. She says where you lay him out. We don't know Howard Watson. But Jesus says her name. He says Mary and whether in her tears as she saw his fees with the now stars in them, whether seeing leveled up and saw his hands as she reads to him, or whether it was the sound of Jesus saying her name. Everything changed in Marietta moment and she realizes she said Rabbi, my teacher if you edit was this revelation that changed her life. Everything that she had believed in him. He had thought was across the cross. But here we find something taking place in this resurrection, that changed her life forever. I'll try to get as we look at these things and we see how it unfolds than we would say why the Romans in the Pharisees if they knew that Jesus had risen from the dead. Then when I believe not so because it was the resurrection of Jesus calling Lazarus out of the two. The Pharisees say robotic killing is becoming too powerful. There are things that happen in our life. The challenge what we believe in challenge, how we see them. Anybody ever remember the first time in a hollow money we disappointed. I remember my first hollow Easter Bunny. I remember thinking how do I want to have this they were in all that chocolate and I appears that it got pretty white real must be whipped chocolate or something of I bet he thought it was hollow and my first thought was my mother must not have known she bought me a highway. She wouldn't. I mean, I Lisa, but she would never find the always of my friends thought how could you know that I was whining. I was shocked when I got the coveted being in a sundial. At least of money and sometimes we look at hollow Christians and one of the walk away from them. I like that video that we had already goads shows the face of that person was in the hockey mask, white thing you know that when I get to pretend to be something that were not were allowed to have our doubts and were allowed to have our questions Jesus, I get upset with questions and doesn't get upset without eleven absent without being human doesn't get upset with you being you. You created us to be who we are. It's just that he wants to bring out the faith that he's instilled in us and to take it in a direction that will build us in our relationship with him and with one another and to take who we are what we are to where he wants us to be a citizen of faith is we have a very real God, and we had problems with a very real situations that we have to deal with it is the feeling of God, and I like the filling. The infilling is aware of God 's presence inside of us and gives us the strength of the sadness of character and your family on a crime or we know all yes or no difficulties were in a half times that just challenges salaries. If you carried him away, tell me there's like no plan of a resurrection with Mary and sometimes there's just no sign of how we can get out of this. But when Jesus said the name of Mary through Mary. It changed her life. This is what I think out for today is Easter that Jesus speaks our name because us by name. He knows who we are. He knows exactly where were at a knows exactly the need of our life and exactly what we need to take place inside of us. Any name any touches us by his Spirit, and he gives us his divine strength and that had a list that we sense on the inside about life and about whatever is going on because us a sense of purpose and he gives us a sense of meaning because it's a way of touching my life that fills this emptiness inside of us. There is a story hello and why father they were driving down a country road that they were driving on be got in the car and the boy was very highly allergic to these things. Anything very, very frightened in the father reached out and grabbed hold of me and held it in his hand and then he left to go and the child became very very frightened again one another and why she do that in the father, as he stopped the car in the way. Look at his hand as if they are signed. There is the sustainer in my hand. The can hurt you anymore, so you don't need to be afraid anymore. I've taken the sting for you. These are messages. This sting of death is goneÒ where is your victory over death, where is your sting life and death, resurrection, and hold when we look at the hand of Jesus. We not only see his nail scarred hands. We also see the sting of death, because where Jesus is there is life, and there is hope. We said earlier, Joe had a question. Two thousand BC the Magi will the will he rise again. John Chapter nineteen, says, I know that my Redeemer lives. This is two thousand years before Jesus Christ before his week. Jesus always was before the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus Christ. Two thousand years prophetic writing. John says I know that my Redeemer lives, and he this is an on the early and after my skin is destroyed. Yes I know that in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself with my eyes. I will see him and not another's eyes. I year is within me for that day. Two thousand years before the resurrection of Jesus Christ Jewell wrote about it. This is as foundational. The solvent miss of our faith. It is based upon hysterics and is not based upon campfire stories is based upon the reality of a God who for thousands of years right about his coming, then his coming was here. It is in the major divergent and then his life, his teachings, his sacrificial death, his resurrection is a sentient. He ever lives to make intercession for us to know us and he calls us by name and it is our choice to be distracted by the hollowness of some things, or to recognize the fullness of our relationship with Jesus Christ. So which one is hollow with Monte Carlo when I will have to learn him. I say this one is all I may say this one is all the women deleted most of the negative the idea that we can all be distracted by what is all of you, but on the inside Grand Prix. I have faith is something that fills us in case us, and even in the pressures of life. There's still a sense of strength and inside of us that God is there. So let us focus on what Jesus Christ has done for us and how he has changed Iowa