348: Joshua Kempster – Exhortation: The Stone is Rolled Back

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This week’s talk is an
exhortation that was sent in by

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a recent recommendation from the
Tea Tree Gully SA Ecclesia.

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Brother Joshua Kempster gave the
exhort called The Stone is

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Rolled Back and it is definitely
one of the most memorable

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exhortations that I’ve ever
heard.

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It is long for an exhort in my
opinion, but I found it to be so

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captivating that I was right in
there with him the whole time.

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It starts strong and it just
never lets up.

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Brother Joshua is basically
telling us a story, almost like

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a narration, about the
perspective of what should have

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happened to Jesus body and his
reputation if he was treated

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like the rest of the victims of
crucifixion and just discarded

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in the trash heap that was
burning at Gehenna.

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But how things changed when
Joseph of Arimathea and

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Nicodemus involve themselves
personally in the care of his

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body, and then the ensuing
scenes at the empty tomb Brother

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Joshua litters in.
Great practical application gems

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and reminders for us to focus on
what the work of God’s grace has

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accomplished for us and warns us
to stop trying to return to the

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tombs for bits and pieces of our
old lives.

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You know these grave clothes
that we should leave behind as

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well as the core comforting
lesson that where God has rolled

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the stone back for us, we are
not going to undo His work by

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our daily shortcomings.
Truly one of the most memorable

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talks I’ve ever listened to, and
one that I hope is a great

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comfort and reflection to you as
well.

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So, as always, we hope that this
strengthens your faith and

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brightens your day.
Brother Joshua Kempster, The

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stone is rolled back.
Good morning brothers and

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sisters in our Lord.
Jesus Christ, it’s delightful to

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be back.
Here in the first ecclesia I

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ever attended, not as a member,
but as a nought to. 3 year old

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child so.
It’s nice to be back.

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And share fellowship with you
all.

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I bring love, loving greetings
from the Woodville Ecclesia and

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the brothers and sisters there,
grace and peace from God and our

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Lord Jesus Christ.
Everything had gone to plan.

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The peasant preacher from
despised Nazareth, hung lifeless

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from a cross, condemned as a
criminal and shamed before the

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entire nation.
He was nothing.

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There was not a thought, not a
stir of consciousness in his

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mind.
Death is a horrible process.

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It’s a degradation of what?
Used to be a vital.

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Moving living being into nothing
in Matthew 27 verse 50, Jesus

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when he had.
Cried with a loud voice, yielded

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up the spirit.
When it came to the physical.

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Process of death he was.
No different to any.

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Other before or after.
Him When a person dies, the

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cells begin to die, some like
brain cells, within minutes.

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Others over the course.
Of an hour or longer the longest

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living cells, the.
White blood cells.

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May last up to 70 hours.
But after three days have.

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Passed.
All cells have entirely

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collapsed and there is no life
in them.

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Our Lord.
Was no exception in verse. 57 to

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60.
We won’t read it, but you can

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pick out in verse. 58 The body.
In verse 59.

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The body.
And referred to as it in verse

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60 and laid it in his own new
tomb.

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It’s an object.
It’s no longer Jesus it’s no

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longer that most lovely man it’s
just organic matter that used to

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be him.
Jesus is gone from his birth

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until now there were only. 3.
Days when he wasn’t very aware

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of his surroundings.
And those three days occur here.

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What once was living is now
dead, it seems.

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Irreversible.
Everything had gone to plan.

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The body was due to be.
Thrown onto the rubbish heap

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into Gehenna with the criminals,
it would have been tossed

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unceremoniously and uncaringly
into a burning fire that sends

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the worst stench into the
nostrils of those unfortunate

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enough to walk by the renegade
preacher.

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That three and a.
Half year headache dealt with.

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Everything had gone to plan.
But oh, what a tragedy.

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What a shameful thing for that
to.

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Happen to the?
Body of the Son of.

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God, the body of.
Jesus may have just been,

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strictly scientifically
speaking, organic matter.

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But it was too precious to
leave.

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Who would take action?
Who?

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Would prevent this criminal
treatment of this.

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Precious body, those who you
expect to care for the body.

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They were gone, the disciples.
Surely the disciples who had

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followed Jesus.
For three, some for.

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Over three years, who had
professed that they would die

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for?
Him.

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Would surely be there to care.
For their friend who had cared

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for them gone.
All his friends had forsaken

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him.
But Joseph of Arimathea.

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What a brave man.
Never mentioned before, never

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mentioned after.
He appears only to perform this

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most necessary of actions.
The heart fills with emotion

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considering the.
Father.

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Looking down on this happening,
he had engineered circumstances

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such.
That there was.

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One on earth who would stand in
for him, who could stand in as

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the Father with gentle, strong
hands.

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Respectfully.
And carefully taking the body

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down and treating it the way any
father would want their son to

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be treated.
It was the same at the birth.

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Of Jesus.
God required a man to stand in

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on earth.
As his father.

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The Heavenly Father would always
be present, opening his ear

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morning by morning, but God
required a human father presence

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in the household to complete the
family unit to teach his sons

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the practical skills.
Of life to lift.

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Him to reach the high.
Shelf to pick.

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Him up when he.
Fell as a child to do the heavy

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work.
That his mother couldn’t do to

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carry him sleeping and place him
gently into bed.

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This man was also named Joseph
Both.

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Described as a just.
Man.

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There as.
Bookends to his mortal life.

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Was Joseph a stand?
In for the father working the

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work.
That the father.

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Desperately needed doing, this
was.

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Yahweh’s boy and.
No one seemed to.

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Care.
This was Yahweh’s boy, that

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Hosea. 11 says he took by the
hands and he taught him how to

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walk.
He did that through a Joseph.

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And now, through a Joseph, he
lays him to rest.

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We know it’s only for three
days, but three days on that

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burning.
Rubbish heap of.

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Gehenna would have left an
altogether different sensation

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on the death and resurrection of
the Lord.

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Where in that burning is the
image of rest, of sleeping, of

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incorruption, of serene
composure and total control?

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So there is Joseph.
Of all the people mentioned at.

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The death of the Lord.
He alone is mentioned in all. 4

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Gospels.
A record of the ministry of our

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Lord is incomplete without
mention of this man.

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Bravely, Joseph went to the
governor and begged the body.

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Of Jesus, what might Joseph have
said?

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Perhaps he appealed to.
Pilot’s evident guilt.

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Perhaps there was money
involved.

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He was a rich man and Pilot was
clearly a man of dubious morals.

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Likely it was just.
Persistence like that parable of

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the unjust judge humbling
himself from his.

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High Estate.
As a member of the Sanhedrin and

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a rich man and grovelling and
scraping.

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He was a.
Rich man had status used to

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being a top in society but.
He put all of that aside for the

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body of our Lord.
Whatever it was that he did,

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Joseph left.
With permission to take the body

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down and treat it with dignity
and love, consider for a moment

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the lesson of Joseph of
Arimathea, a man who had

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everything in this life.
He was, he had power, he had

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riches.
But he risked that all for the.

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Lord, now he didn’t just.
Risk it.

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He gave it up.
Little more needs to be said

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than that, but reflect on that
for.

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Yourself.
Where is the risk?

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In our lives?
Or have we hedged our

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investments for our insurance,
build up our savings, and live

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in a comfortable bubble waiting
for someone else to associate

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themselves with the body of?
Christ.

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And what does he do?
With the body, he carefully

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wraps it.
And lays it in a new tomb, a

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tomb which, as Luke and John
say, was a new tomb in which

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never man had laid.
Of course, no one had laid

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there.
Before.

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No one had ever passed.
The way Jesus was.

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Going to pass.
No one had ever laid in a tomb

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like this, one that would soon
eject it’s occupant unable.

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To hold it so filled with the
power and spirit of God as he

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was, but before that.
We still observe the scene.

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The body laid.
The last glance, the straining

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against the stone, the dull
resonant boom as the.

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Great weight of the.
Stone falls into place, sealing

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the entrance, the silent tears
streaming from the eyes.

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Of the watchers.
Those watchers?

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Wondering who are these
strangers burying the.

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Body of our Lord.
I can’t imagine a word was said

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in that.
Garden.

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What words would suffice?
It was only confusion and.

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Grief.
The sort of grief that had.

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Shaken the earth and veiled the
sun.

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We aren’t the only ones to
observe this scene.

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Joseph wasn’t the only one
present.

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There were certainly others at
present there.

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But Matthew records only two
others, both by the name of

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Mary.
Verse 61.

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There was Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary sitting over against

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the sepulchre.
Mary Magdalene and the other

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Mary, the mother of Joseph and
James.

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Magdalene is an epithet to Mary
which means a watchtower, and

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this is what this Mary becomes
known for, always being present,

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watching.
She’s a reliable presence, a

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strong watchtower rising early
in the morning.

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Before it’s dark.
Alerting the other disciples

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when something seems amiss.
Mary the Watchtower So in this

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tragic scene, Matthew presents
just two names at the death.

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Of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Joseph.

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And Mary witnesses to his birth,
witnesses to his death.

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Here Joseph takes the body.
Wraps it in a clean linen cloth

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and lays it tenderly in a new
tomb while Mary watches on.

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Well, let’s visit Luke chapter
2.

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Let’s.
Look through the window 33 1/2.

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Years earlier to see the.
Beginning of this life that has

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ended so horribly come to Luke
chapter 2 from verse. 4 Luke 2,

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verse 4.
And Joseph also went up from

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Galilee out of the city of
Nazareth into Judea under the

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city.
Of David, which is called.

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Bethlehem.
Because he was of the.

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House and lineage of David.
To be.

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Taxed with Mary, his espoused
wife, being great with child and

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so it.
Was that while they were there

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the the days were?
Accomplished that she should be

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delivered, and she brought forth
her first born son, and wrapped

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him in swaddling clothes, and
laid him in a Manger, because

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there was no room for them in
the inn.

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And there were in the same
country shepherds abiding in the

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field, keeping watch over their
flock by night.

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And lo, the Angel of the Lord
came upon them, and the glory of

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the Lord shone round about them,
and they were sore afraid.

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So there Joseph laid the body.
In a clean linen cloth in a in a

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new tomb here, Mary wraps the
first born son in swaddling

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clothes and gently lays him in a
Manger while Joseph looks on.

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It was Mary who brought this son
into the world and and laid him

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in a Manger, likely where no man
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And it’s Joseph who lays him to
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Life this.
Son was born at night and buried

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at evening.
At his birth, there would.

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Have been all the usual sounds
of a newborn, the crying, the

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rejoicing at his burial, only
tears and silence you can see

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there’s a similarity but a
contrast and the.

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Burial of this body was a blow
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Plans, this body now had been
treated with dignity and

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respect, with care and love, but
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They approached the governor and
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Picture the futility of this.
Scene The Lord is dead.

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He has ceased to exist, the one
who was always there to.

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Calm the storm to answer the
challenging questions to comfort

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the mourner to.
Heal the.

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Broken hearted, he’s no longer
there.

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In their most confused and
difficult state, they don’t have

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the one that.
Is there usually to solve their

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problems?
And obviously, the death.

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Of the Lord is the.
Biggest thing in this chapter,

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but consider the other things in
Matthew chapter 27 that are.

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Added to show the.
Helplessness of the situation,

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well, he’s condemned as a
criminal so that public

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association with him will lead
to death.

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John 19 verse 40 says that he’s
been wound in linen and this

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word wound.
Is.

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The same as binding.
Like the man who was bound hand

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and foot and cast into outer
darkness.

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Here he is bound in darkness,
unable to be freed, unable to

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free himself, bound hand and
foot.

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And then there’s the stone, the
great stone, The Monolithos.

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Historians tell us it could have
taken 20 Roman soldiers to move

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a stone like that out of its
place, and we might ask why, how

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Joseph and Nicodemus could move
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Well, typically there was a
small depression in front of the

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grave, and moving it into place
was significantly easier than

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moving it out of.
Place at least.

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For a man, but this word
monolithos, it’s a monolith.

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Is a the sort?
Of thing that we typically look

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at today and think.
How did that get there?

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Things like Stonehenge.
Or the Easter Island heads.

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They look immovable and that’s
what this stone is meant to look

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like, immovable.
And just to emphasize this in

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Mark chapter 16, verse 3, when
the women are coming to the tomb

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on the first day of.
The week they say, Who shall

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roll away?
Who shall roll us away?

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The.
Stone from the door.

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Of the sepulchre.
This was their major concern.

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How can we?
Possibly use these sweet spices.

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We’ve prepared on our Lord when
this great stone is blocking

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access.
And then there’s the seal on the

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tomb.
Matthew 27 verse. 66 says so

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they.
Went and made the sepulchre

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shore, sealing the stone and
setting a watch.

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This seal is illegal to break.
It’s against the law of sin and

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death in a sense.
To break the.

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Seal to this tomb and then.
There’s the watch the Guard.

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Preventing anyone from
approaching the tomb.

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It’s a futile.
Scene from the inside out.

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The Lord is dead.
He’s.

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Bound, unable to move.
There’s this great immovable

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stone.
There’s a seal on the.

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Tube there are soldiers.
It’s an impossible situation.

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How do we even get to the Lord?
It’s impossible the way to.

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The Tree of life is barred.
Everything had gone to plan it.

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Seems but.
As we know, while this.

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Burial was the.
End of a life it can also be

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seen and it.
Was also the.

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Beginning of a new one.
This is the amazing.

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Beauty of scriptures.
That it can present a contrast

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that seems to be.
A reversal of Jesus birth to his

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death.
Yet there are.

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Seeds here, seeds being planted
in the ground that are setting

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up a new birth.
The situation looked impossible.

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But with God all.
Things are possible.

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It’s exactly the point.
It had to look impossible.

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It is impossible because man
cannot do it in.

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Death there is a hopeless.
Finality when we don’t consider

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God the Great Stone is
impossible.

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Come to Isaiah chapter 59,
Isaiah chapter 59 verse one, and

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verse 2.
Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not

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shortened that it cannot save,
neither is ear heavy that it

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cannot hear, but your iniquities
have separated between you and

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your God.
And your sins have hid his face

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from you, that he will not hear.
The great stone that separates

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us.
From God, from life and

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pleasures for evermore is our
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It’s our iniquities.
It’s our sins that have hidden

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God’s face from us.
Notice that God never hid His

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face from us.
It’s our.

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Sins that have hidden God.
‘S face.

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From us.
It’s the object.

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Performing the action is our
sins.

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Your sins have hid his face from
you.

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The margin tries to make sense
of this by saying our sins have

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made him hide his face from us.
But notice that that is not the

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original.
The Him is not in the original.

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He didn’t do this.
We did.

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We hid his.
Face from us, but.

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He will resolve it.
The verses that continue on here

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describe terrible sins, but sins
that were very fresh in the eyes

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of God at the death of his sons.
They.

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Describe the Jews to AT verse. 3
For your hands are defiled with

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blood, and your fingers with
iniquity.

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Your lips have spoken lies, your
tongues have, your tongue hath

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muttered perverseness.
None calleth for justice, nor

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any.
Pleadeth for truth.

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This is exactly what has just.
Happened in the last day in

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Matthew 27.
They trust in vanity and speak.

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Lies.
They conceive mischief and bring

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forth iniquity.
They hatch cockatrice eggs and

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weave the spider.
‘S web he the eateth of their

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eggs.
Dieth and that which is.

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Crushed.
Breaketh out into a Viper.

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Their webs shall not become
garments, neither shall they

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cover themselves.
With their works, their works

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are works of.
Iniquity and the act of violence

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is in their hands.
Their feet run to evil.

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And they make haste to shed
innocent blood.

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Their thoughts are thoughts of
iniquity, wasting and

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destruction are in their.
Paths, the way of peace.

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They know not, and there is no
judgement in their goings.

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They have made them crooked.
Paths whosoever goeth.

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Therein shall not know.
Peace.

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That’s the Jews, the Jewish
leaders, but.

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They shall not know peace, and
verse 9 and 10 describes the

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situation that we that we
painted a picture of.

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At the death of our Lord.
It says that we stumble at

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noonday as in the night.
We we wait for light, but behold

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us obscurity.
There’s there’s just.

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Darkness when it seemed like the
light was coming to the nation.

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Now we are locked in that dark
tomb, unable to see out, unable

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to get out.
Because of that, great.

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Stone that resonating boom was
the stone being shot on sin

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sealed in place in the.
That grave.

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Lay the old man, never to exit,
never to escape.

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But it wasn’t shot on the Lord
Jesus.

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Christ, the stone was rolled
back.

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It was.
Rolled back apicoolio to roll

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back.
And with that stone, everything

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it represents was.
Rolled back.

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Sin, mortality, death, the
curse.

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Rolled.
Back reversed.

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Undone in Genesis 3, the.
Way to the tree of.

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Life had been sealed and guarded
by angels, but here was an open

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door in a garden, with an Angel
not guarding the way, but

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sitting on the door on the
stone, inviting Annie to pass.

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Through.
But not the way that the women

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and disciples were passing into
death.

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Rather the opposite.
The invitation from this sitting

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Angel was to come out.
Come out.

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Of the grave, the tree of life.
Was in the garden the only thing

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left in the tomb?
Were the discarded clothes.

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Of mortality, the fig leaf
covering that could never have.

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Saved.
That’s what the disciples saw.

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When they entered the tomb.
The clothes.

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Mortality discarded, but now?
The way, the truth.

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And the life had emerged.
It had been a new tomb wherein

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never man had laid, but now that
one man.

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Had broken the seal.
The floodgates were open.

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It took just.
One man to lay in that tomb and

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pave.
The way for all to follow.

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He was the first fruits.
Romans 5 verse 18 says

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therefore.
As by the.

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Offence of 1.
Judgement came upon all men to

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condemnation, Even so by the
righteousness of 1.

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The free gift?
Came upon all men unto the

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justification of life, and that
is Isaiah 59 verse 16 and.

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He that is God saw.
That there was no man, and

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wondered that there was no
intercessor.

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Therefore his arm brought
salvation unto him, and his

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righteousness it it sustained
him.

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God’s arm, the only arm that
could have moved the stone.

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Brought.
Salvation and Jesus exited the

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tomb, reclosed, not bound with
mortality.

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He was loosed from that and
left.

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Those grave clothes.
Neatly in the tomb.

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No one need to be tangled up
with the wrappings as they left

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the tomb they were placed.
To the side, they’re off to the

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side.
As a reminder.

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That they had.
Been conquered and the old man

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in his garments remain in the
tomb instead.

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Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Is reclothed and that’s verse 17

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for he put on righteousness as a
breath breastplate and a helmet

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of salvation upon his head and
he put on the garments of

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vengeance for clothing and was.
Clad with zeal as a cloak, he’s

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put off those old.
Garments and he’s reclothed

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Joseph, the man, despite
standing in to work the loving

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work of an ABBA to a dead son,
was still a man he had been the

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1:00 to.
Prosculio to roll the stone to

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the door of the.
Tomb, as had every man from Adam

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onwards.
They had rolled their.

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Sins and sealed themselves into
death, but the heavenly.

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Father by the.
Action of One man apiculioed the

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stone, rolled it.
Back to pass this way.

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Is beyond the realm of.
Possibility without God, the

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other past path.
Into the tomb is well.

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Trodden.
It’s the Broadway, both David

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and Joshua said at.
The end of their lives.

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I go the way of all the earth.
Job said When a few years are

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come, I shall.
Go the way.

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Whence I shall not return.
No one goes the.

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Other way?
Until now, everything had

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actually gone to plan to God’s
plan.

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Now 1.
Aside, a word of caution.

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We’ve seen the sins of.
The Pharisees, but.

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Perhaps their greatest sin was.
To seal the.

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Stone and everything that
represented in Matthew 23 and

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throughout the ministry of our.
Lord, he describes the Pharisees

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as.
Shutting up the Kingdom of

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heaven against men, and they
literally.

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Tried to do this by.
Sealing the stone.

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Just as the caribbeat guard to
the way of the tree of life was.

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Stepping back, the Jews stepped
in and said no, we want no one

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going that way.
The dangers of setting a seal on

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the tomb of Christ on the way to
salvation.

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Do we do that?
Do we seal our lips and hide our

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00:28:24,600 –> 00:28:28,840
light behind a great rock which
is immovable?

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00:28:30,240 –> 00:28:32,560
Do we hide our faith in?
Public, or at least.

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00:28:32,560 –> 00:28:34,960
Put a lid on it to not be as.
Awkward.

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00:28:36,600 –> 00:28:38,480
Do we put?
Stumbling blocks in the way of

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00:28:38,560 –> 00:28:43,400
our brothers and sisters by our
words and actions and seal up

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00:28:43,400 –> 00:28:48,440
the Kingdom of heaven.
Do we hoard and our time and

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00:28:48,440 –> 00:28:52,320
resources for ourselves and bury
our talent in the earth, hidden

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00:28:52,320 –> 00:28:55,320
away, trusting that it will be
acceptable with our Lord’s

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00:28:55,320 –> 00:28:58,440
return?
Let’s not seal the stone.

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00:28:59,040 –> 00:29:00,840
Let’s be able to echo the words
of.

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00:29:00,840 –> 00:29:06,320
Paul in first the Corinthians 11
verse 1 be followers of me, even

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00:29:06,320 –> 00:29:09,440
as I also am of Christ, leading
others out of the tomb,

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00:29:09,440 –> 00:29:15,120
following him that way.
This whole story, as we’ve

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00:29:15,120 –> 00:29:19,720
alluded to, is a story.
Of new birth, of new creation.

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As was his usual.
Custom throughout his mortal

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00:29:23,480 –> 00:29:25,200
life.
Jesus rose.

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00:29:25,200 –> 00:29:30,400
Early in the morning to perform
His greatest work, a work of

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00:29:30,480 –> 00:29:34,880
creation, new creation.
He was the Sun of righteousness

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00:29:34,880 –> 00:29:39,080
dawning on a new world, and we
follow the same process.

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00:29:39,680 –> 00:29:43,720
Second, in Corinthians 5 verse
17 says if any man be in Christ,

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he is a new creature.
Old things are passed away.

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All things have become new.
Come to 1st Corinthians 15 where

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we read about.
Ourselves.

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00:29:56,440 –> 00:30:16,620
Following the example of Christ
in First Corinthians 15 verse

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00:30:16,620 –> 00:30:20,420
20, now is Christ risen from the
dead and become the first fruits

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00:30:20,460 –> 00:30:23,700
of them that slept Christ.
Is the first.

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00:30:23,700 –> 00:30:25,300
Fruits and come across to verse
30.

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Five How’s this going to?
Happen, some men will say.

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00:30:28,680 –> 00:30:31,280
How are the dead raised?
Up and with what body do they

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00:30:31,280 –> 00:30:34,800
come thou?
Fool that which thou sowest,

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00:30:35,360 –> 00:30:38,920
that which thou sowest.
Is not quickened except it die.

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00:30:39,320 –> 00:30:41,800
And that which thou sowest, thou
sowest not that.

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00:30:41,800 –> 00:30:45,680
Body that shall be.
But bare grain it may chance of

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00:30:45,680 –> 00:30:47,960
wheat or of some other grain,
but God.

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00:30:47,960 –> 00:30:49,920
Giveth it a body as it hath.
Pleased him.

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00:30:49,960 –> 00:30:55,240
And to every seed, his own body.
It matters not that every cell

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00:30:55,440 –> 00:30:59,120
has died and become dead.
Inorganic matter.

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00:30:59,640 –> 00:31:02,640
In fact, it’s necessary for new
life.

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00:31:02,960 –> 00:31:07,560
That the old life dies.
Resurrection is not as simple as

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00:31:07,560 –> 00:31:10,280
reanimating a body.
Every cell is rebuilt.

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00:31:10,280 –> 00:31:16,080
It’s an entirely new man
physically and in baptism we

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00:31:16,080 –> 00:31:19,080
imitated.
That process here we all are.

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00:31:19,080 –> 00:31:23,680
New men and new women, entirely
rebuilt and reanimated in

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00:31:23,680 –> 00:31:26,760
Christ.
Or are we?

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00:31:28,760 –> 00:31:30,920
Do we?
Allow influences from our.

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00:31:30,920 –> 00:31:32,920
Previous way of life.
To cling to us.

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00:31:35,360 –> 00:31:37,880
Do we?
Allow some cells from.

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00:31:38,080 –> 00:31:46,840
The previous body to still.
Live inside us in John chapter

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00:31:46,840 –> 00:31:51,560
20 Mary the Magdalene the.
Watchtower was the 1st to see

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00:31:51,560 –> 00:31:53,480
Jesus Christ after his.
Resurrection.

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00:31:54,680 –> 00:31:57,480
And she thought.
He was the gardener.

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00:31:57,760 –> 00:32:00,720
That was her first thought.
In a way.

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00:32:00,920 –> 00:32:04,880
This is appropriate the 1st.
Man of the new creation was

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00:32:04,880 –> 00:32:08,160
going to be the one that would
tenderly look after these new

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00:32:08,160 –> 00:32:11,160
sprouting plants, these ones
that have been buried in the

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00:32:11,160 –> 00:32:14,000
ground as a seed and now sprout
up to new life.

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00:32:14,640 –> 00:32:16,400
Just like the first.
Man, Adam.

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00:32:16,600 –> 00:32:19,680
Was told to dress.
And keep the Garden of Eden.

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00:32:20,440 –> 00:32:24,400
So she recognized his new role
that completely missed the

507
00:32:24,400 –> 00:32:29,680
personal connection until he
called her name and his sheep

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00:32:29,680 –> 00:32:32,680
know his voice.
Instantly she jumped to him to

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00:32:32,680 –> 00:32:36,600
hold him, to touch him, but he
wouldn’t allow it.

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00:32:38,080 –> 00:32:42,240
Why?
Well, Mary had been heartbroken.

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00:32:43,000 –> 00:32:45,040
Why did he not?
Allow her, she, she.

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00:32:45,040 –> 00:32:48,400
Missed her beloved desperately.
She couldn’t understand what had

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00:32:48,400 –> 00:32:51,040
happened.
Yet in that moment when she

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00:32:51,040 –> 00:32:53,960
realized and wanted to seize and
to hold her bridegroom, she

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00:32:53,960 –> 00:32:56,880
couldn’t.
Why would he not allow that?

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00:32:59,640 –> 00:33:03,600
Well, we find ourselves in the
same state.

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00:33:05,680 –> 00:33:09,520
We are rebirthed.
We are new creatures in baptism.

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00:33:09,520 –> 00:33:12,240
We have imitated the process of
death in the ground and

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00:33:12,600 –> 00:33:16,200
resurrection of the sprout body,
but we have not yet ascended.

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00:33:16,400 –> 00:33:19,120
To our Father, because that’s
what Christ replied.

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00:33:19,440 –> 00:33:23,240
He says in the ESV, do not cling
to me, for I have not yet

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00:33:23,240 –> 00:33:27,680
ascended to my to the Father,
but go to my brothers and say to

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00:33:27,680 –> 00:33:31,560
them, I am ascending to my
Father, and to your Father, to

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00:33:31,560 –> 00:33:36,120
my God and to your God we have
not yet ascended.

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00:33:36,200 –> 00:33:38,960
To our Father we have rebirthed.
We have.

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00:33:38,960 –> 00:33:43,760
Exited the tomb in baptism, but
we have not yet ascended to the

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00:33:43,760 –> 00:33:47,720
Father, and a day is coming when
we will be like Him, but in the

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00:33:47,720 –> 00:33:49,760
meantime we cannot.
Let the old way of.

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00:33:49,760 –> 00:33:54,480
Life cling to us, those old
cells cling to us in fact, we

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00:33:54,480 –> 00:33:57,160
can’t let the.
Old way of life touch us at all?

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00:33:58,040 –> 00:34:01,120
And at times I feel like I’m
dragging a.

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00:34:01,120 –> 00:34:04,280
Whole world’s worth.
Of things with me out of the

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00:34:04,280 –> 00:34:07,880
tomb that are attached to me.
And maybe you feel the same.

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00:34:08,639 –> 00:34:11,480
What are the things of the past?
Way of death that you’re.

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00:34:11,480 –> 00:34:16,840
Trying to fit past that stone
and bring with you remember that

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00:34:16,840 –> 00:34:21,280
John It says he had to stoop
down to see into the tomb the

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00:34:21,280 –> 00:34:24,719
stole the stone may be rolled
back, but it isn’t a.

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00:34:24,719 –> 00:34:29,360
Wide, easy door to pass through.
You can’t bring your camel with

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00:34:29,360 –> 00:34:33,760
you.
You come out of this tomb, out

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00:34:33,760 –> 00:34:37,159
of the womb of the earth, a new
birth with nothing, just like

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00:34:37,159 –> 00:34:41,560
any birth the Son of Man had.
Nowhere to lay his head.

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00:34:42,560 –> 00:34:45,159
He didn’t accumulate material
possessions.

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00:34:46,120 –> 00:34:50,920
Even the place he laid his head
in death belonged to another, to

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00:34:50,920 –> 00:34:55,480
a rich man, Joseph.
And Joseph too understood this.

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00:34:55,480 –> 00:34:57,800
He left behind all his worldly
concerns.

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00:34:57,960 –> 00:35:01,760
About worldly wealth to.
Follow his Lord.

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00:35:03,160 –> 00:35:06,320
Material possessions aren’t the
only things that we may try to

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00:35:06,320 –> 00:35:07,200
drag.
With us.

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00:35:07,600 –> 00:35:11,840
Maybe it’s entertainment,
fulfilment, career, comfort.

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00:35:12,520 –> 00:35:15,680
Sometimes we try try to drag the
stone itself.

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00:35:15,680 –> 00:35:20,920
Our sins of pride, laziness,
hatred, lust, gossiping, lying,

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00:35:20,920 –> 00:35:25,800
and much more that stone was.
Rolled back by God.

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00:35:26,600 –> 00:35:30,800
But remember, it took just one
man to roll it into place in our

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00:35:30,800 –> 00:35:32,440
lives.
We could be so busy.

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00:35:33,040 –> 00:35:35,920
Dipping back into the tomb to
get one more thing from the old.

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00:35:35,920 –> 00:35:39,720
Way of life.
That we bump the great stone,

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00:35:39,720 –> 00:35:42,400
our sins roll down into the
small depression in front of the

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00:35:42,400 –> 00:35:45,640
door, and we block ourselves in
the door being shut.

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00:35:45,640 –> 00:35:50,200
To us at Christ’s.
Return in the words of the

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00:35:50,200 –> 00:35:52,600
Angel.
Why do you seek the?

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00:35:52,600 –> 00:35:56,680
Living among the.
Dead God has.

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00:35:56,680 –> 00:36:00,080
Opened the way the tomb is void,
you’ll find nothing but

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00:36:00,080 –> 00:36:02,120
uncreation there.
The.

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00:36:02,120 –> 00:36:07,280
Opposite of Christ’s birth.
But even before our Lord’s

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00:36:07,280 –> 00:36:12,200
return, we may find ourselves
back in the tomb, in the grave,

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00:36:12,200 –> 00:36:17,800
in darkness, unsure of where to
turn in that movement.

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00:36:18,800 –> 00:36:24,080
When you can’t see anything, you
have other senses take.

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00:36:24,080 –> 00:36:26,280
A breath.
Take a deep.

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00:36:26,280 –> 00:36:29,520
Breath through your nose and
even with.

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00:36:29,520 –> 00:36:32,200
The lack of light.
You’ll detect something.

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00:36:32,680 –> 00:36:55,280
Come to John chapter 19, verse
39. 1st from verse 38 first and

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00:36:55,280 –> 00:36:56,920
after.
This Joseph of Arimathea.

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00:36:56,920 –> 00:36:59,520
Being a disciple.
Of Jesus, but secretly, for fear

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00:36:59,520 –> 00:37:02,080
of the Jews besought.
Pilate that he might take.

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00:37:02,080 –> 00:37:05,320
Away the body of Jesus.
And Pilate gave him leave.

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00:37:06,000 –> 00:37:08,360
He came, therefore, and took.
The body of Jesus.

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00:37:09,120 –> 00:37:10,560
There was another.
There as well.

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00:37:11,040 –> 00:37:13,800
And there came also Nicodemus.
Which at the 1st.

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00:37:13,800 –> 00:37:17,480
Came to Jesus by night and
brought a mixture of myrrh and

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00:37:17,480 –> 00:37:20,840
aloes, about 100 LB weight and
then they.

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00:37:20,840 –> 00:37:23,040
Took the body of Jesus.
And wound it in linen.

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00:37:23,040 –> 00:37:25,720
Clothes with those spices.
As the manner of.

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00:37:25,720 –> 00:37:30,280
The juiciest to bury, So there’s
a very.

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00:37:30,280 –> 00:37:34,880
Strong smell in this tomb.
What an unspoken contrast rather

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00:37:34,880 –> 00:37:37,160
than the horrible stench of
Gehenna.

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00:37:37,440 –> 00:37:39,840
That Jesus body would have.
Been thrown onto.

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00:37:39,840 –> 00:37:43,400
Would have been added to if it
weren’t for these two noble men.

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00:37:44,440 –> 00:37:46,000
They prepare.
The body in a way.

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00:37:46,000 –> 00:37:49,240
That gives off a powerful.
Aroma befitting the Son of God.

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00:37:49,760 –> 00:37:51,840
Whose life?
Rose as a sweet smelling.

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00:37:51,840 –> 00:37:55,920
Savour to his father.
Smells have a powerful

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00:37:55,920 –> 00:37:58,760
association that can trigger
memories from long ago.

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00:38:00,080 –> 00:38:04,640
God is not forget, but at least
for us, this smell of sweet

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00:38:04,640 –> 00:38:08,240
spices triggers.
The memory of the first time a

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00:38:08,240 –> 00:38:10,800
sweet smelling saver ever rose
in the nostrils.

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00:38:10,800 –> 00:38:14,840
Of our God.
It was in Genesis 8 verse 21.

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00:38:15,840 –> 00:38:18,800
Now we don’t have time to deal
with it in any detail.

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00:38:18,800 –> 00:38:21,880
But the flood?
Again, is another picture of

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00:38:21,880 –> 00:38:25,320
this exact event.
It uses language of creation of

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00:38:25,320 –> 00:38:28,440
new creation.
First reversal by.

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00:38:28,440 –> 00:38:32,560
Covering everything with water
and then a new creation as the

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00:38:32,560 –> 00:38:37,480
waters receded.
And Genesis 8 verse 21 says that

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00:38:38,520 –> 00:38:42,320
Yahweh smelled a sweet savour
when Noah offered an offering.

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00:38:43,000 –> 00:38:46,920
And Yahweh said in his heart, I
will not again curse the ground

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00:38:46,920 –> 00:38:49,280
anymore for man’s.
Sake for the.

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00:38:49,280 –> 00:38:51,920
Imagination of man’s heart is
evil from his youth.

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00:38:52,320 –> 00:38:55,520
Neither will I again smite
anymore every living thing as I

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00:38:55,520 –> 00:39:00,680
have done.
So like the Great Stone, this

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00:39:00,800 –> 00:39:04,280
these waters receded.
And God rolled it back, and he

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00:39:04,280 –> 00:39:06,080
rolled.
Back part of the curse here as

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00:39:06,080 –> 00:39:08,200
well, he said.
He will no more curse the ground

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00:39:08,440 –> 00:39:12,520
for man’s sake.
And over and over and over again

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00:39:12,520 –> 00:39:16,000
throughout Scripture, we get
this principle of God rolling

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00:39:16,000 –> 00:39:16,960
back the.
Curse.

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00:39:16,960 –> 00:39:19,200
Rolling everything back.
Rolling back.

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00:39:19,200 –> 00:39:21,480
Sins.
Just a quick survey.

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00:39:21,760 –> 00:39:25,240
In Genesis 29, the first time a
great stone is mentioned in the

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00:39:25,240 –> 00:39:27,880
Bible.
Jacob rolls it back to provide

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00:39:27,880 –> 00:39:30,880
water for the sheep, just as
Christ.

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00:39:30,920 –> 00:39:34,560
At Jacob’s well in Samaria said
that he could give to drink of

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00:39:34,560 –> 00:39:37,240
living water which you’d never
thirst again.

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00:39:38,200 –> 00:39:41,560
Christ was that rock.
In the wilderness out of which

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00:39:41,560 –> 00:39:45,560
came living water in.
Joshua, the waters were rolled.

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00:39:45,560 –> 00:39:49,640
Back and Gilgal, meaning to roll
like a stone, was named.

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00:39:49,640 –> 00:39:54,440
So because God had rolled away
the reproaches of Egypt from

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00:39:54,440 –> 00:39:57,040
off.
Them those sins that they were

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00:39:57,040 –> 00:40:00,840
leaving behind in Egypt, God had
even said to Jesus.

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00:40:00,840 –> 00:40:03,040
At the start that.
You have not.

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00:40:03,040 –> 00:40:06,560
Passed this way heretofore he
said that before they crossed

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00:40:06,560 –> 00:40:08,560
the River Jordan.
Well, no one had.

631
00:40:08,960 –> 00:40:11,400
It was a new tomb in which never
man had laid.

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00:40:11,400 –> 00:40:13,240
No one had come out of here
before.

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00:40:15,000 –> 00:40:18,520
And also in Joshua, the great
stones were stacked on the mouth

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00:40:18,520 –> 00:40:21,520
of The Cave containing the five
kings, and those stones remain

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00:40:21,520 –> 00:40:26,760
until this day because of the
five king, because the five

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00:40:26,760 –> 00:40:28,800
kings were still.
There they are.

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00:40:29,160 –> 00:40:30,800
They.
Represent sin and death

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00:40:31,200 –> 00:40:34,160
remaining in the grave.
It’s only the living that emerge

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00:40:35,920 –> 00:40:39,320
everything in the scriptures.
Is about is.

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00:40:39,440 –> 00:40:41,200
Leading up to this point of
rolling.

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00:40:41,200 –> 00:40:44,160
Back the curse.
Even the reversal of the sun in

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00:40:44,160 –> 00:40:45,320
the.
Days of Hezekiah.

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00:40:45,560 –> 00:40:49,440
It returned, undoing the 10
steps that had gone down in the

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00:40:49,440 –> 00:40:53,120
dial of Ahaz, reversing the
damage of the previous king and

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00:40:53,120 –> 00:40:56,400
granting new life to the
terminally ill Hezekiah.

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00:40:57,200 –> 00:41:02,240
Again and again we get this
image of rolling back reversing,

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00:41:03,520 –> 00:41:04,920
but it was merely a.
Shadow of.

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00:41:05,360 –> 00:41:08,240
What was to come?
Perhaps there was a?

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00:41:08,240 –> 00:41:11,320
Sliver of light.
Each time as the as the stone is

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00:41:11,640 –> 00:41:17,200
moved, but then it would fall
back into its place early in the

651
00:41:17,200 –> 00:41:22,200
morning though on the.
First day of the week, The 8th

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00:41:22,200 –> 00:41:23,160
day.
The day.

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00:41:23,160 –> 00:41:25,680
Of new creation.
The stone was rolled back.

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00:41:25,680 –> 00:41:27,880
For good.
So if you’re there.

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00:41:27,880 –> 00:41:33,160
In the tomb, seeking the living
among the dead, Smell the spices

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00:41:33,720 –> 00:41:36,640
and remember that Jesus.
Christ was there first.

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00:41:36,920 –> 00:41:38,960
Remember that the stone was
rolled back.

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00:41:38,960 –> 00:41:40,480
Remember that.
For 6000.

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00:41:40,480 –> 00:41:43,640
Years God has been working.
To roll back the curse.

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00:41:43,640 –> 00:41:47,400
And it’s there through every.
Page of Scripture to reverse the

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00:41:47,400 –> 00:41:50,160
fool.
To make the new, to make a new

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00:41:50,160 –> 00:41:53,800
creation.
He does not desire to smite

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00:41:53,800 –> 00:41:58,320
every living thing again.
Rather to save them so.

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00:41:58,320 –> 00:42:01,840
Don’t stay in the tomb.
Trust that God.

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00:42:02,640 –> 00:42:05,200
Wants to save and turn around
and.

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00:42:05,200 –> 00:42:10,440
Follow Jesus Christ out of it.
The only time in the New

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00:42:10,440 –> 00:42:14,440
Testament that another
monolithos a great stone is

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00:42:14,440 –> 00:42:19,080
mentioned is in Revelation 18
verse 21, when a mighty Angel

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00:42:19,080 –> 00:42:22,600
took up a stone like a great
millstone and threw it into the

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00:42:22,600 –> 00:42:26,120
sea, saying so will.
Babylon the great city be.

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00:42:26,120 –> 00:42:28,480
Thrown down with violence and be
found no more.

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00:42:30,480 –> 00:42:33,240
It takes faith.
To believe that God.

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00:42:33,240 –> 00:42:37,040
Can move the stone that God can
castaway our sins into the

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00:42:37,040 –> 00:42:39,040
depths.
Of the sea, but that’s exactly

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00:42:39,040 –> 00:42:43,000
what he.
Does it is unfaithful to think

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00:42:43,200 –> 00:42:45,880
that our sins have still
separated us from God?

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00:42:46,400 –> 00:42:49,480
It’s lack of faith.
In the sacrifice of.

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00:42:49,480 –> 00:42:53,160
Christ to let our failures.
Prevent us from approaching him

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00:42:53,160 –> 00:42:56,800
daily.
It’s lack of faith to actually

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00:42:56,800 –> 00:42:59,080
see what the picture.
I painted earlier to think that

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00:42:59,080 –> 00:43:02,400
the stone ever can roll back
toward the tomb again.

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00:43:02,800 –> 00:43:06,440
To think that Christ’s death and
resurrection cannot save you or

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00:43:06,440 –> 00:43:08,160
forgive your sins.
What’s so?

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00:43:08,160 –> 00:43:10,000
Special about you, that God.
‘S plan.

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00:43:10,000 –> 00:43:16,880
Couldn’t work for you or.
For anyone, even faith as a

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00:43:16,880 –> 00:43:24,480
grain of mustard seed can do it.
And there are certain sins in

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00:43:24,480 –> 00:43:27,600
our life, certain ailments of
the flesh, that are the kind

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00:43:27,600 –> 00:43:32,160
that only comes out by prayer
and fasting, as as Jesus said

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00:43:32,160 –> 00:43:34,280
when.
The disciples failed to heal.

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00:43:34,280 –> 00:43:38,680
This violent demoniac by.
Prayer to God and.

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00:43:38,680 –> 00:43:42,720
Reading the word fasting from
natural food and eating of the

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00:43:42,720 –> 00:43:47,120
bread of heaven, but in that
same context.

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00:43:47,280 –> 00:43:50,240
Jesus says if you have faith.
As a grain of mustard.

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00:43:50,240 –> 00:43:53,200
Seed.
You can say to this mountain not

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00:43:53,200 –> 00:43:57,120
just a great stone, to this
mountain remove hence to Yonder

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00:43:57,120 –> 00:44:01,560
place, and it shall remove.
Sins may feel like mountains.

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00:44:02,400 –> 00:44:04,960
But trust that God.
Can and that he has.

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00:44:04,960 –> 00:44:08,560
Paved the way to life.
Despite our mortality and

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00:44:08,560 –> 00:44:15,120
weaknesses, it looked impossible
that anyone could enter or exit

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00:44:15,120 –> 00:44:17,800
that tomb but God.
Did it?

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00:44:18,320 –> 00:44:20,200
He can reanimate a dead.
Body.

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00:44:20,560 –> 00:44:23,520
He can certainly cleanse your
sins and reanimate your

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00:44:23,520 –> 00:44:27,600
spiritual body, and this isn’t
something we.

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00:44:27,600 –> 00:44:30,520
Should reserve.
Simply for a Sunday morning.

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00:44:31,320 –> 00:44:34,120
Nor should we ask again for sins
that are already forgiven.

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00:44:34,120 –> 00:44:35,920
Trust that God has.
Forgiven if you’ve.

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00:44:35,920 –> 00:44:39,080
Asked that throughout the week,
but it’s especially powerful.

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00:44:39,080 –> 00:44:42,400
To remember that here here on
the.

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00:44:42,400 –> 00:44:46,600
First day of the week.
Nearly 2000.

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00:44:46,600 –> 00:44:48,880
Years after the great.
Stone was rolled back.

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00:44:50,080 –> 00:44:52,400
Here we are remembering the body
of our.

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00:44:52,400 –> 00:44:56,640
Lord, that was laid.
Gently in the tomb and the wine,

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00:44:57,440 –> 00:45:00,480
the wine that our Lord will
drink with us in the Kingdom.

714
00:45:01,920 –> 00:45:07,000
Approach the Father with prayer.
And fasting allow him to roll

715
00:45:07,000 –> 00:45:08,960
the sins away and cast them into
the.

716
00:45:08,960 –> 00:45:11,360
Depths of the sea as far as
east.

717
00:45:11,360 –> 00:45:17,000
From West as far as the sun
rising on the Day of

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00:45:17,000 –> 00:45:21,000
resurrection in the east.
From the sun setting on the day

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00:45:21,000 –> 00:45:26,400
of crucifixion in the West, it’s
midday on the.

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00:45:26,400 –> 00:45:29,840
First day of the week.
And we’re here because very

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00:45:29,840 –> 00:45:32,240
early in the morning on another.
First day of the week.

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00:45:32,480 –> 00:45:37,400
Before the sun had risen, the
greatest of miracles occurred.

723
00:45:38,000 –> 00:45:41,960
The reversal of the curse the.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

724
00:45:42,840 –> 00:45:45,920
That event changed the world.
It was the hinge around.

725
00:45:45,920 –> 00:45:49,000
Which the world pivots.
It was everything that the

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00:45:49,000 –> 00:45:52,840
previous 4000 years had been
building up to and the start of

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00:45:52,840 –> 00:45:57,040
a new era, a new creation that
has been underway.

728
00:45:57,040 –> 00:46:01,240
Ever since before was death,
after was life.

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00:46:01,880 –> 00:46:07,360
And we live in life.
Everything has gone to plan.

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00:46:07,720 –> 00:46:12,280
God’s plan is irreversible.
The way to death has.

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00:46:12,280 –> 00:46:17,680
Been rolled back.
So discard your clothes.

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00:46:18,320 –> 00:46:22,360
Of mortality in the tomb, and go
seek the living among the

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00:46:22,360 –> 00:46:38,100
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