373: Jamie Brown – Exhortation: The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

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More about this week’s talk.
Hi everyone, this is Jason

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Hensley.
This week we are going to be

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listening to a talk by brother
Jamie Brown given at the

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Baltimore Ecclesia at the end of
July.

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This is an exhortation and it
was recommended to us as an

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exhortation.
It’s very much focused on the

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Lord Jesus and that’s one of the
things that I absolutely love

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about it.
It is specifically about the

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resurrection.
It’s the resurrection why it

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matters.
Some of the thoughts that would

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have been going through the mind
of the Lord Jesus.

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And I love just some of the
practicality here, the

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practicality of, of recognizing
what a blessed people we are to

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know and believe in the
resurrection.

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And therefore because of that,
we can wake up with smiles on

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our faces.
We can realize that the Lord

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Jesus has defeated death.
He has defeated the greatest

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enemy.
So I hope that you enjoy this

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exhortation.
I hope that you find it

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encouraging, and ultimately, I
hope that it helps you to set

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your eyes on the Lord Jesus, the
one who has conquered and who

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gives us the victory.
Here’s brother Jamie Brown, An

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exhortation on the resurrection
given at Baltimore.

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How do you normally feel when
you wake up in the morning?

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Anything like me wrongy,
probably a child calling and my

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odds are it’s a work day and
I’ve got to go to work soon.

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Rush out of the house and go
listen.

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Yeah, but what about can you
think of a day when you work

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you’re not feeling really
refreshed?

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I can few months ago was the
first day in about 6 months that

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we slept through the night and I
tell you what the difference

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like oh, I feel good.
That was nice.

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It felt powerful that morning.
And what about can you think of

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a day when you’ve woken up
mentally, you know, on it

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excited?
I can’t think of an example, but

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you know, like, like, you know,
when it’s a holiday on a Monday

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and you, you wake up, you’re
like, I can stay in bed for a

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bit longer and yeah, kids are
still asleep and I’m just going

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to enjoy myself.
And maybe an odd occasion when

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you’re off on an exciting
journey.

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I think you’d literally almost
bound out of bed.

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Can’t think of many of them in
my life.

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I’m a sleepy person in the
morning but that put these all

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together and times it by a
hundred 1000 feeling good,

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feeling ready, feeling awake.
Maybe that’s how Jesus felt this

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morning.
We just read about he had pushed

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his body so far.
He had worked so hard and gets

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to wake up this morning.
Just imagine strong new body.

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I’ve done it.
It’s it’s a new whole new plan

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is now enacted no longer how do
we rescue humanity, but how do

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we run with this rescued
humanity.

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So it’s it’s a little bit about
that that I’m going to dwell on

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this morning.
We’ve got to I think that intro

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hold all those thoughts.
I think let’s step back now and

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look at the big picture for a
second.

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This resurrection is so
important.

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You know, you could argue this
is like the most important

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passage of the Bible.
This and Matthew, Mark Luton,

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John’s accounts.
If you know, Paul writes in in

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one Corinthians, just so simply,
you know, if Christ has not been

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raised, then your faith is
futile.

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You’re still in your sins.
Those who have fallen asleep in

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Christ are perished.
And if in Christ we have hope

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now, only then we are, as the AV
puts it, of all men, most

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miserable, you know, if Christ
isn’t raised, if this didn’t

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happen, what’s the point?
Our religion would be very

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different.
But let’s turn with me to 1

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Corinthians 15.
But that’s not the case.

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Jesus is raised, Jesus is risen
is what we just read there in

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Matthew 28.
And I’m just going to read with

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you this the first bit here of 1
Corinthians 15 because it’s

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great.
So 1 Corinthians 15 Now I would

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remind you, brothers, of the
good news I preached to you,

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which you’ve received, and which
you stand and be, which you’re

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being saved, if you hold fast to
the word I preached to you,

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unless you believed in vain.
And what is the good news?

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It’s that Jesus is risen.
For I delivered to you as of

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first importance what I also
received, that Christ died for

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our sins in accordance with the
Scriptures, that He was buried

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and that He was raised on the
third day according to in

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accordance with the Scriptures.
And of course, that’s what we

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just read, isn’t it, in Matthew
27 and 28?

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I mean that shunk of verses is
so powerful because it goes

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through all these three phases,
His death, his burial, and His

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resurrection.
But continuing here 1 continues

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15 verse 5.
Then he appeared to Cephas, and

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then to the 12.
Then he appeared to more than

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500 brothers at one time, most
of whom are still alive.

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That would be good, wouldn’t it,
to talk to these people, and

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some have fallen asleep.
Then he appeared to James, then

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to all the apostles, and last of
all, as to 1 untimely born, he

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appeared also to me.
You know, the fact that Jesus

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was raised from the dead as
witnessed by over 500 people,

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more than enough to satisfy any
legal court.

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And it’s not just he was
witnessed by his faithful

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believers who made it all up.
The one that gets me is he was

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witnessed by his religious enemy
in Seoul.

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That’s Paul.
That last one there, you know,

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he was doing everything in his
power to stop this new religion

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from founding.
He he probably went to find the

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body of Jesus and see if he
could prove that Jesus didn’t

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raise him.
And here he was running around

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and around to persecuting the
Christian, sending him Alta

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literally shut up and and Jesus
meets him on the road to

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Damascus.
Yes, in a vision, but he met him

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nonetheless.
And such was the change in Saul

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and Paul that he does a complete
180 and starts being the most

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successful apostle in many ways
in going around the whole of the

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then known world convinced that
Jesus was risen.

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Who else witnessed his
resurrection?

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I love this one.
I will go back to Matthew for a

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bit.
The soldiers.

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I mean, it’s, I just listening
to Christopher talk on this and

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you know the guy, the guy goes,
who’s your heroes today?

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My heroes.
And the Pharisees.

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Well, the Pharisees were good
enough to post some really

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independent witnesses at the
tomb so that we could have this

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lovely independent source of
historical fact that Jesus was

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raised from the dead.
And they did they, they are the

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only ones that were there when
the Angel arrived, when the

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Angel unsealed the tomb and
rolled it back.

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We get from the other letters
apostles that, that the, the

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women weren’t there yet, they
came later.

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That the disciples, you know,
Peter and John weren’t there.

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They came later.
The only people that were there

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to account this exact phrase
were the soldiers.

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And what did they see now after
the Sabbath?

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28 verse one of Matthew, Towards
the dawn of the first day, Mary

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Magdalene and Mary were going to
see the tomb, and behold, there

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was a great earthquake.
And the soldiers saw the

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earthquake, and felt it, and
heard it.

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For an Angel of heaven, sorry,
Angel of the Lord, descended

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from heaven, and came, rolled
back the stone, and sat on it.

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And his appearance was like
lightning, and his clothing

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white as snow.
No one else witnessed that, just

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those soldiers.
And as much as the Pharisees

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tried to hush this all up, we,
we got there at the end of 28,

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you know, they, they went to the
Pharisees and the elders and,

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and they said, I have some money
and we’ll make sure this doesn’t

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get out.
But it got out and everyone in

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Jerusalem heard the account
passed around that an Angel came

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from heaven, rolled back that
stone sat on it.

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It’s incredible, it’s great.
Just a wonderful fact that that

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was witnessed.
And so my point is that Jesus

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has risen and, and such was the
power and proof of this, that

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the entire Christian faith
starts and is unstoppable.

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No one could prove otherwise.
No one could turn it around,

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stop it.
No matter how much the Jews

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persecuted them, Herod
persecuted them, the Romans

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persecuted them, no one could
stop it because of the facts

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that Jesus was risen.
It’s it’s what we believe in.

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It’s what we’re here to remember
in many ways.

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Perhaps we should talk a bit
more.

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And so our hope stands because
Jesus is the tomb is empty and

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he is standing on God’s right
hat.

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So that’s how I wanted to start
today.

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I it’s not a segue, it’s very
relevant and it was just

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fascinating to me when I
suddenly noticed the the

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language there in in one
Corinthians 15.

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It we read this a little bit
later in the chapter.

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Christ has indeed been raised
from the dead, the first fruits

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of those who have fallen asleep,
but each in turn Christ the

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first fruits, then when he
comes, those who belong to him.

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I just did a little digging into
this idea of first fruits.

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So I’m going to drag you along
with me if you’ll all allow me.

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So I was like, is this first
fruits?

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Isn’t there a feast of the first
fruits?

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And yeah, there is a feast of
the first fruits.

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Guess when the feast of the
first fruits was that very

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morning.
Today, Jesus was raised from the

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dead.
There is, there it is.

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You may as well come with me to
Leviticus and read this with me.

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Leviticus 23, the feasts of the
Lord.

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So there’s lots of feasts.
The Jewish calendar is great,

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gives them loads of holidays,
and they all have a point.

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They’re all to remember gods.
So the first one is the Sabbath

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there in verse 3.
Just generally on the 7th day is

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a Sabbath every week and then
the Passover.

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I might be right in saying
that’s the first passage of but

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the first Sabbath of the year,
but don’t quote me on that.

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The first big holiday is the
Passover and then the feasts of

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first fruits.
So let’s read about the feasts

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of first fruits first nine on a
bit.

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So the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying, Speak to the people of

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Israel, and say to them, When
you come into the land that I

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give you and reap its harvest,
you shall bring the sheaf of the

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first fruits of your harvest to
the priest.

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He will wave the sheaf before
the Lord, so that you may be

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accepted.
On the day after the Sabbath,

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the priest shall wave it.
And on the day when you wave the

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sheaf, you shall offer a male
lamb a year old without blemish

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as a burnt offering to the Lord.
And the grain offer with its

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shall be 2/10 of an ether of
fine flour mixed with oil, a

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food offering to the Lord with a
pleasing aroma.

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And the drink offering with it
shall be of wine, 1/4 of him.

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And you shall eat neither bread
nor grain, parched or fresh,

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until this same day when you
brought the offering to God.

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It’s a statute forever
throughout your generations in

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all your dwellings.
And I’m going to read the next

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verse.
You shall count 7-4 weeks from

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the day after the Sabbath, from
the day that you brought the

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sheaf of the wave offering, you
should count 50 weeks days to

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the day after the and that’s to
the feast of weeks.

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And I wanted to read on those
next two verse because it just

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sets the dates.
Actually, you’ve got Passover,

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and then the first day after the
Sabbath, the day you brought the

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sheaf of the wave offering
happens next.

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And then 70 weeks, 70 days, 50
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Pentecost, as we often know of
it nowadays.

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And that’s the feast of weeks
here.

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So that’s the order of these
wonderful little holidays.

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And I love this.
This is a great holiday.

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God’s asking the children of
Israel, I want you to trust me,

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and I want you to remember you
trust me every year.

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And how are you going to trust
me?

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You’ve been hungry for a few
months.

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Maybe your barns are getting a
bit empty and you’ve got your

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first harvest.
Please don’t eat it.

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Please bring it to me and show
your faith in me and your love

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for the Levites and bring it to
them and give it to them.

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And it’s just a beautiful little
holiday.

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I, you know, with so many of
these Jewish holidays, you

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wonder how many of them are
actually done through their

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history.
But I’m confident there was a

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time in the history this was
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And I think it was a great
reminder to them year after year

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to first wait and trust in God.
And if you think I’m making this

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up for the, the spiritual kind
of emphasis they put on this,

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come with me to Deuteronomy 26.
We get Moses talking about this

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feast and he, he, he tells them
to say something when they come

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to this feast.
And we’re going to read it

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together.
Deuteronomy 26, verse 5 to 11

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and you know, the, the first few
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this.
And I love that he’s now saying,

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you know, verse 26, verse one,
you’re about to go into the

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land.
When you come into the land that

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the Lord your God is giving you
for inheritance and have taken

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possession of it and live in it.
You should take some of the

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first of all the fruit off the
ground which you harvest from

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your land that the Lord your God
is giving you.

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Put it in a basket.
Go to the place the Lord your

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God will choose and make his
name dwell there.

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Go to the priest who’s in office
at that time, and say to him, I

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declare today to the Lord your
God that I’ve come into the land

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that the Lord God swore to our
fathers to give us.

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Then the priest will take the
basket from your hand and set it

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down before the altar of the
Lord your God, and you shall

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make response before the Lord
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I found this fascinating.
This, this is something they,

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they needed to say every year.
Oh, wondering Aramean was my

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father, and he went down into
Egypt and sojourned there, few

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in number, and there became a
great nation, mighty and

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populist.
And the Egyptians treated us

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harshly and humiliated us and
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Then we cried to the Lord, the
God of our fathers, and the Lord

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heard our voice and saw our
reflection, our toil, our

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oppression.
And the Lord brought us out of

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Egypt with a mighty hand and an
outstretched arm, with great

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deeds of terror, with signs and
wonders.

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And he brought us into this
place and gave us this land, a

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land flowing with milk and
honey.

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And now behold, I bring the
first of the fruit of the ground

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which you, O Lord, have given
me, and you shall set it down

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before the Lord your God and
worship before the Lord your

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God, and you shall rejoice in
all the good that the Lord your

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God has given you to your house,
you and the Levite and the

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sojourner who’s among you.
I thought this, I mean simply, I

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think this is a beautiful thing.
This feast is a beautiful thing,

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but it, it’s very relevant to
the resurrection story, the

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resurrection facts, you know, in
the same way that there was a

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first fruits of the grain that
they had to trust would be the

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beginning of many new wheat ears
and and similar things.

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They would bring it and trust
that they didn’t need this now,

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but instead they would go and,
and give it.

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And also the words that they,
they would say, you know, set it

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down before the Lord your God
and worship before the Lord your

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God and you shall rejoice in all
the good the Lord your God has

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given you at you and your house.
You know, this was a wonderful,

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enthusiastic thing.
If you can trust that God is

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going to follow up and repeat
this gift.

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And in the same way, Jesus was
the first fruits of the

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resurrection.
And why?

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Why I sometimes I ask myself,
why?

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Why did Jesus have to go away
for 2000 years?

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Why did he have to do it this
way?

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Why did we have to wait and
trust?

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Well, that’s going to inspire
faith far more than any just

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casual receiving of a gift to
have to trust in it.

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A whole of humanity having to
trust for the last 2000 years.

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Anyone that wants to hear that,
that’s the first fruits and

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we’re ready to wait for the full
harvest and we’re ready to

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rejoice and worship before your
God.

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Rejoice in all the good that
your Lord of God has given to

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you.
And it started with Jesus.

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And what struck me to close this
idea is how similar this feast

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is to what we do here today.
You know, we do a very similar

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thing.
We come here to worship.

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We come here to remember to
rejoice that we have harvest.

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This is our first fruits here.
And we remember these first

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fruits as we wait for the full
harvest and trust in God.

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And I didn’t really have much to
say about the second reading,

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but this I do.
I just couldn’t not say these

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words.
Jeremiah 17, this incredible

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verse hidden in the middle of
this book verses blessed is the

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man who trusts in the Lord,
whose trust is in the Lord.

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He’s like a tree planted by
water that sends out its roots

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by the stream and does not fear
when heat comes, for his leaves

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remain green, and is not anxious
in the euro drought, for it does

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not cease to bear fruit.
You know, this is the behaviour

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God wanted from his people.
He was trying to inspire this

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behaviour with all his feasts.
He tried to set in law a way to

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be faithful and ultimately
failed from nearly all of them.

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But you know, we are here to try
and live these words and to

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trust in the Lord.
It’s just, you know, the

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undercurrents of our faith,
isn’t it?

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To trust, to try and be this
fruitful tree.

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So back to the resurrection.
Christ is our guarantee.

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You know, as we said, you know,
if Christ isn’t risen, then our

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whole face is just in vain.
We hope.

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Romans 823 We ourselves, the
first fruits of the Spirit, grow

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inwardly as we wait eagerly for
our adoption to sonship, the

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redemption of our bodies.
You know, we’re, we are that

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those farmers just I want to eat
this, but I’ll wait.

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I’ll wait.
I will wait.

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God asked me to wait, so I will
wait.

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You know, resurrection.
Resurrection is a fact and we’re

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here witnessing to that fact
that Christ rose and in the same

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way we will rise.
So that’s that all.

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Second, first portion of our
class today.

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I’ve got a little bit more to
say.

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I wanted to try and dive into if
anything we can find out about

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Christ, more about Jesus
experience of the resurrection

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so that we could try and get
ready for our experience of the

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resurrection.
You know, we’ve just read about,

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you know, how important it is to
our faith.

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We just looked at the example of
the first fruits and how that

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that so perfectly mirrors our
situation now.

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But but what about it?
What can we learn more about

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this resurrection to try and get
a bit more excited for it and

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understand a bit more about it?
You know what if you’re in

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Matthew still, if you remember
what we read in Matthew, it was

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pretty sparse on details,
especially from Jesus point of

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view.
He meets his disciples and tells

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them to get ready.
But if you go direct to some

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sounds, there’s some insights
there that I find very exciting.

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Come with me first at Psalm 22.
You know, I believe we get a

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little bit of the mind of Jesus
in some of these psalms, the

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mind of Jesus in this incredible
moment of his life.

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I think you’re probably all
familiar with Psalm 22.

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In fact, it was quoted there in
our reading.

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Jesus quotes it.
Psalm 22, verse one.

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My God, I got why have you
forsaken me?

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Why are you so far from saving
me from the words of my

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groaning?
You know, that’s what Jesus

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quotes.
And you know, we don’t need to

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worry that Jesus lost his faith
all of a sudden.

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This Psalm fills in all the dots
and gaps for us.

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This Psalm is full of
confidence.

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You know, verse 19.
But you, our Lord, don’t be far

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off.
Oh, you.

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My help will come quickly to my
end.

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Deliver me.
Deliver my soul from the sword,

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my precious life from the power
of the dock.

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Save me from the mouth of the
lion.

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You have.
Yeah.

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I’m going to pause there.
Save me from the mouth of the

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lion.
That’s that’s our Lord’s hope

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and confidence, the confidence
of a man hoping for something to

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change in the future.
But I tell you it changes there

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in the middle of verse 21 and it
goes from being the point of

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view of a man on a cross to the
triumphant point of view of

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somebody raised from the dead.
This is my reading of it.

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So we just read there.
Save me from the mouth of the

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line.
You see the future tense

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request.
What do you make of you?

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Have past tense rescued me from
the horns of the lion?

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Could that not be the mind of
our Lord as he wakes up and

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realises he has been saved?
What about the next bit, verse

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22?
I will tell of your name to my

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brothers in the midst of the
congregation.

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I will praise you.
Is that not what Jesus did next?

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You who fear the Lord, praise
him.

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Do you not think that’s the
words of Jesus as he talks to

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his brothers?
All your offspring of Jacob

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glorify him and stand in awe of
Him, all your offspring of

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Israel.
But he has not despised or abort

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the affliction of the afflicted.
And he’s not hidden his face

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from him.
But he has heard when he cried

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to him.
From you comes my praise and the

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great congregation.
My vows I will perform before

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those who fear Him.
You know, it’s it’s and it goes

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on for time.
We can’t go on.

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I think this is the mind of our
Lord Jesus Christ as he goes

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from on the cross to
resurrected.

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It’s his mind, it’s his next
steps.

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It’s his plans, it’s his hopes
as he realises I’m ready.

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I’m jumping out of bed.
I’m excited for the next

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journey.
I know what I’m going to do

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next.
I’m going to go tell tell of

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this to my brothers in the
congregation.

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I’m going to go there in the
middle of the upper room and

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tell I’m going to meet a huge
host of them up in Galilean and

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tell them this is our Lord’s
mindset and I just love the

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positivity.
And I don’t think it’s just here

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in Psalm 22.
Come with me to Psalm 16.

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I know again, Psalm 16 starts.
Preserve me, O God, for in you I

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take refresh.
You know, this is a future tense

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request.
This is hope for the future.

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You know, I say to the Lord, you
are my God.

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I have no good apart from you.
Now this is perhaps Jesus on the

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cross.
And then right at the end of

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this we get the confidence of
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Verse 10.
You will not abandon my soul to

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shield or let your Holy one see
corruption.

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You know, there’s our Lord Joyce
set before him, knowing that he

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will rise again, and he knows
you will not abandon my soul to

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shield.
And then how about verse 11?

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You make known to me the path of
life in your presence.

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There is fullness of joy at your
right hand and pleasures

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forevermore.
You know, yes, this could be the

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thoughts of Jesus on the cross,
the joy set before him, but

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couldn’t it also be what he
thinks when he wakes up?

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You make me known to me the path
of life.

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He’s there standing on it, the
path of life.

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He’s live again in your
presence, this fullness of joy.

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He’s about to go to God’s
presence at your hand, the

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pleasures forevermore.
I just love the positive

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statement here and whether
whether this is Jesus mind on

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the cross or his mind that
joyful morning.

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It’s it’s this is the mind of
Jesus around this exact time.

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And you know, this is the mind
we we should try and see.

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And I’ll come back to our point
of view.

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But you know, I think this is
for us to try and see in our

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future too.
And then finally, I’m going to

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we’re going to go to one more
Psalm, Psalm 40.

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I love this Psalm 40 verse one.
I waited patiently for the Lord.

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He inclined to me and heard my
cry.

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He drew me up from the pit of
destruction out of the miry bar

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and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure.

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He put a new song in my mouth, a
song of praise to our God.

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Many will see in fear and put
their trust in the Lord.

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Is that not the mind of Jesus in
the resurrection?

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I waited, I waited for you and
you heard me.

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You drew me up out of the pit of
destruction, out of the Maori

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bog and set my feet on a rock
and my steps secure.

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How secure was our Lord on that
morning knowing He’d achieved

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his goal and He was in a new
immortal body?

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And however this he put a new
song in my mouth.

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I want to know what song Jesus
sang that morning.

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I actually think we get a bit
more in verse 7 to 9 of this

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song.
This is interesting and you may

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have to bear with me.
I’ll just move on in your minds.

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But verse starting verse 6IN
sacrifice and offering, you’ve

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not delighted, but you’ve given
me an open air burnt offering

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and sin offering.
You’ve not required.

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Then I said, behold, I’ve come
in the scroll of the book.

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It is written of me.
I delight to do your will.

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Oh my God, your law is within my
heart.

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So Hebrews picks up on this idea
and adds a couple of different

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words and says and she start it
starts the same in sacrifice and

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offerings.
You’ve not declited delighted,

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but a body you have prepared for
me.

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And the the writer of the author
adds a little commentary and it

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and explains that this is
Jesus’s death and resurrection.

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This is our salvation that he
came and did this and and you

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know, behold, I’ve come in the
scroll of the book.

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It has written on me.
This is the whole plan of God

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that he would come and give his
body.

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I delight to do your will.
Oh my God, isn’t that Jesus in

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the garden of blessing me, not
my will, but yours be done and I

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just love that verse 9 picks up
just just like verse Psalm 22

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did.
So what’s he going to do next?

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Well, I’m going to tell the glad
news of deliverance in the great

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congregation.
Congregation.

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I’ve not restrained my lips as
you know, O Lord, I’ve not

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hidden your deliverance within
my heart.

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I’ve spoken your faithfulness
and your salvation.

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I’ve not concealed your
steadfast love and your

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faithfulness and the great
congregation.

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You know I love that to to our
Lord Jesus.

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You know, his, he would be
joyful, he would sing a new

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00:31:22,160 –> 00:31:27,040
song, acknowledge the rock he
now stood upon and go and act

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and start his new role.
And I think that’s that was my

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take away looking at looking at
the resurrection.

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You know, I just wanted to dig a
little deeper and I think

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there’s a little bit more to be
found.

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And I just think it’s great that
we get a little insight into our

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Lord’s mind around these times.
So what about for us?

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Well, we’re the he’s the first
fruits, but we’re following on.

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Sometimes we’re in miry clay.
It might indeed we be.

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We fall asleep and sink down
into that miry pit.

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But it won’t end there.
There will be a new day when we

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will be set on a rock that will
not move, that we will be in new

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00:32:14,520 –> 00:32:18,840
bodies, alert and ready to take
on a new role, to start planning

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00:32:18,840 –> 00:32:23,520
next steps to go and declare to
the whole world what has

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00:32:23,520 –> 00:32:27,480
happened.
You know he is the first fruits

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00:32:27,480 –> 00:32:31,440
and we are them that follow.
I, you know, they obviously it

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00:32:31,440 –> 00:32:33,960
stood up to me, a singer, but
he’ll put a new song in my

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00:32:33,960 –> 00:32:36,760
mouth, a song of praise to our
God.

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00:32:38,880 –> 00:32:42,640
How about you make me know the
path of life in your presence?

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00:32:42,640 –> 00:32:46,600
That’s fullness of joy.
At your right hand are pleasures

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00:32:46,600 –> 00:32:48,920
forevermore.
What a beautiful picture.

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This is the picture of the
resurrection.

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So that’s our hope.
That’s our joy set before us.

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And just to finish, we’ve got to
talk about now.

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I don’t.
What about now?

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00:33:05,400 –> 00:33:08,680
Here and now?
Well, obviously, let’s hold this

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00:33:08,680 –> 00:33:11,880
hope in silence as we go into a
new week to normal life.

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Let’s believe it could be
tomorrow, could be next week.

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Absolutely.
Let’s believe that and hold that

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00:33:18,200 –> 00:33:24,000
that life, but hold that faith.
But also in the New Testament we

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00:33:24,000 –> 00:33:27,920
get advice like, you know, go
on, I’ll read it.

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00:33:28,280 –> 00:33:32,040
Romans 6 was 4.
You know, therefore being buried

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00:33:32,040 –> 00:33:37,120
with him in baptism into death
in order that just as Christ was

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00:33:37,120 –> 00:33:41,120
raised from the dead through the
glory of the Father, we too may

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00:33:41,120 –> 00:33:44,600
live a new life, not not in the
future, but now.

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00:33:44,600 –> 00:33:46,920
We’re going to live a new life
now.

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So my challenge to you all is to
wake up tomorrow with a smile

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and face.
I don’t I’ll succeed.

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But here’s a challenge result.
You know, we’ve got to live this

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new life now.
Just think if you can tomorrow

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morning, try and remember at
some point tomorrow that just

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like you had a new morning, just
think of what Jesus’s new

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00:34:07,800 –> 00:34:11,400
morning was like and what he
thought about when he was raised

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00:34:11,400 –> 00:34:16,600
from the dead.
And so the what, what stands out

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00:34:16,600 –> 00:34:18,719
to me now is what we just read
in one of those psalms, you

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know, the, the here we go.
I’ve got it here again that you

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make me known.
You make known to me the path of

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00:34:27,280 –> 00:34:29,960
life.
You know, we often talk about

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the path, the way, the way, the
truth and the life.

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00:34:32,920 –> 00:34:35,400
And it’s kind of about how we
live, isn’t it?

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00:34:35,679 –> 00:34:38,679
Living as Jesus lived, walking
as Jesus walked.

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What about that echo there when
it, when it talked about set

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00:34:43,840 –> 00:34:47,480
being set on a rock or we want
to build our lives on a rock,

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00:34:47,480 –> 00:34:49,080
don’t we?
And listen to the words and

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00:34:49,080 –> 00:34:50,320
lessons of our Lord Jesus
Christ.

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So I think Jesus obviously woke
up that morning immune to

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00:34:56,760 –> 00:35:00,360
temptation.
We’re told he defeated death and

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00:35:00,360 –> 00:35:02,840
he wasn’t tempted anymore.
I mean, that’s incredible.

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00:35:02,840 –> 00:35:07,960
And whilst we’re still tempted,
we have to live as best we can.

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Like we’re not.
That’s our striving for, to live

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00:35:13,040 –> 00:35:17,960
that way of life, to to act as
according to our Lord’s

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00:35:17,960 –> 00:35:19,600
instructions.
You know, he who listens to

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00:35:19,600 –> 00:35:23,120
these words and does them.
We’re like a man who builds his

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00:35:23,120 –> 00:35:28,000
house on a rock.
That’s our goal now, to follow

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00:35:28,000 –> 00:35:31,200
the path of life and build our
lives on the rock.

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So, yeah, there’s some thoughts
on the resurrection and these

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powerful chapters.
It’s crucial to our faith.

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Our entire religion is based on
believing these this happened.

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And when we get it in our hearts
and our minds that this really

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00:35:48,520 –> 00:35:52,640
happened and is waiting for us,
should make us smile as we take

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00:35:52,640 –> 00:35:56,120
this bread and wine and remember
what Jesus really achieved in

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00:35:56,120 –> 00:35:59,400
his death and resurrection.
Thank you.

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