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[ Congregation sings ]
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>> Amen. Please be seated. ¤¤
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[ Congregation sings ]
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¤¤ "He walks."
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"He lives." ¤¤
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¤¤ "He walks."
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Amen and amen. And
because He lives, He's
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provided the solution.
He's provided the answer.
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And we need so much from Him,
and all our prayer can be is,
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"Lord, I need you."
So sing with us this next
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song, "Lord, I Need You." ¤¤
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[ Congregation sings ]
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"Where sin runs deep." ¤¤
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"So teach." ¤¤
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[ "Turn Your Eyes
Upon Jesus" plays ]
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[ Congregation sings ]
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"Turn your eyes open Jesus." ¤¤
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So this is the
time for your look.
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This is the time to gaze
up into the eyes of Jesus.
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So come forward this morning.
If you have a burden on your
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heart, something that you're
struggling with or maybe a
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praise that you're jumping
through the roof of how God has
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worked in your life, take
this time now and come forward.
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Lay your burdens at the cross.
Bring your praises before God as
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we sing to our mighty savior and
redeemer, Jesus Christ, and look
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at him.
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[ Congregation sings ]
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"Turn your eyes." ¤¤
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>> Nice to see all of you. It's
been awhile since we've been
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together. I think the end of
June, was it? Where have you
been all this summer?
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Let me tell you where I've been.
Because Karen and I did
something we've never done
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before.
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We took all four weeks of our
vacation at one time and, in the
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month of July, went out to
be with our kids and our little
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granddaughter, Ella. All
our kids live in Oregon, and
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that's where Ella is.
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So I got a story that comes from
right out of that moment when we
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were in Ore-- Anybody here been
to Oregon? Anybody here been to
Oregon? Yes, a few have.
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Let me show you a picture of the
little family. Where are they?
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Oh, there they are, The Great
Northwest. Yeah, that's The
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Great Northwest. That's where
Oregon is, but, of course, when
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you go to see your kids, you
really go to see your
grandchild. That's just what you
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do, to let you know in advance.
Let me just see. Is Ella -- Do
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we have -- Oh, there's Ella. Can
you believe it? She'll be 4 this
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October. Look at her. Let
me see another picture of Ella.
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I could spend all -- Ohhh. Papa
took -- That's what she calls
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me, "Papa." Papa took Ella to
Dairy Queen. Is it okay once in
a while to take your
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granddaughter? Is it okay to go
to Dairy Queen? Okay, that's
what Papa did. Oh, she put her
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whole face in that. Is there one
more we have? Oh, it's 4th of
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July! So we're celebrating 4th
of July with her, and she's got
her little red, white, and blue
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whatevers on. Ahh!
But we went hiking.
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We went hiking in the northwest.
One more picture. One more.
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Yeah. We went hiking. There's
the whole family. Kirk and
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Chelsea and little Ella. We went
hiking. Oh, it's so beautiful in
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the northwest. There is a lake
out there not far from where our
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kids live. And one day, we were
going to the lake, and a man
came running up to us, and he
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said, "Hey! You going down to
the lake? You're not gonna
believe this. There is a turtle,
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and you're not gonna believe
what this turtle is doing right
now." I want to see a picture of
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that turtle, please. Oh, there
it is. That's the actual turtle.
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Now, can you see a little red
stripe up right up by its ear?
They call that the red-eared
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terrapin -- slider. The
red-eared slider. It's the most
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popular pet turtle in the world.
If you have a pet, this is
probably the kind of pet you're
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gonna get. They start out small,
but they get big and big and
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big. But it's what they --
Listen. They call it the most
invasive. That means if you
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don't like your pet and you
throw the pet turtle out --
"Well, you're on your own now"
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-- These guys, [Trilling] and
they multiply, and that's what
this mother is doing.
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Look at her back legs. Can you
see her back legs? There are her
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back legs reaching in. She's
made some mud. Don't ask me how
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she made that mud, but she's
made the mud, and she's dropped
her eggs. The average mother
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will have between 2 and 30 eggs.
Plop, plop, plop, plop, plop,
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plop, plop. There they go. Plop,
plop, plop, plop, plop, plop,
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plop. And as soon as the eggs --
Do you think she wants to leave
her eggs in the top of the
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ground? No, because
what would happen? Sshhhhh!
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There goes that old hawk. That
hawk will eat those eggs so
fast, it would make your head
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swim. So the mother knows --
Wkt, wkt, wkt, wkt, wkt, wkt,
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wkt, wkt, wkt, wkt, wkt, wkt.
When we got there, that's what
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she's doing. Wkt, wkt, wkt, wkt,
wkt, wkt, wkt, wkt. And we're
all standing around.
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"Wow! Look at that." When she's
through, you can't hardly tell
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she's there. Let me see that
next picture. Oh, you can hardly
tell. Somebody walking by would
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never know that a mother turtle
buried her eggs right there. The
little babies are gonna come
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out of right there. And
guess what the mother does? She
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leaves! I could not believe
this. Let me see the next
picture. There she goes.
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She's just -- Ella's sitting
there watching. She's planted
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her eggs. She's buried the
eggs. And now, "Bye-bye, see you
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later." And that's exactly
what she does. Crawl across the
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sidewalk. Some beautiful homes
right there by the lake. They're
looking right down on
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this. But you see the
lake up in the corner?
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Next picture, please. She goes
into the grass, and there's a
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rocky bank. She went down that
bank, and she just slid -- pow,
pow, pow, pow, pow -- into the
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water -- psh! Swims away. Those
babies are all on their own.
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Do you understand that? Those
babies will be born between 56
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and 112 days later underground,
and then guess what? When they
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wake up inside the egg, Jesus
made them with a very
interesting, little tooth. They
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call it the eyetooth. The egg
tooth is right here on the beak
of the little baby inside the
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shell, and with that little
pointed tooth -- tchkt! --
breaks the shell. Baby comes
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out. And in one hour, the tooth
disappears, never to grow back
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again. Who told that little
turtle about how to do that?
Isn't that something?
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But then they have to wait 21
days all on their own till they
can find water and live on their
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own. Mother
never comes back. Oh!
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Let me see the last picture,
because we were talking to Kirk
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last night. And the owners of
the houses right here, you see
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this little sign? It says, "Do
not disturb. Turtle nest." Well,
I hope the cats can read
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that, and I hope the dogs that
go running by. [ Girl crying ]
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Oh, somebody's saying, "Don't
tell me about the mother turtle
leaving her babies all alone."
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I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said
that. But that's really what
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happens. Hey, listen, guys.
Aren't you glad that your mommy
doesn't just go walking off
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after you're born and
just leave you to yourself? No!
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There's a little girl crying
for her mommy right now, and her
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mommy's out here. She'll get her
in a moment. But would it be sad
if a mother just -- We came out
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of Mom, "Goodbye. See
you later. Good luck." No.
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Do you think a human mother
would ever do that to a baby?
No, God says in Isaiah 49,
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"Maybe even a mother might
forget, but I will never forget
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you." Jesus will never leave us.
He will never forsake us. What a
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wonderful savior. Does Jesus
love turtles? Yes, he does. Does
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he love us more? Oh, yes. As you
go quietly, reverently back to
your seats, after you're
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saying in your heart, "Thank
you, Jesus. You will never leave
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us or forsake us."
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>> Oh, God, [Clears throat]
blessed assurance just washes
over us, the blessed, blessed
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assurance that Jesus is ours.
There's so much competing for
attention on this planet today,
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in this nation today, in our
private worlds, but blessed
assurance this Jesus offers
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everything that he is to us.
What does that mean for us? Take
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this teaching. Set it ablaze for
your glory. We pray in Christ's
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name. Amen. This is a story
about running. I'm talking about
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a lot of running. I
don't know if you run or not,
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but I happen to run for a
living, which means I run to
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keep living. But the
running that's going on
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in this story is quite
the opposite, I must tell you.
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Nobody's talking
about the living.
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They're thinking about the dead,
and that's why she runs and
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that's why he runs
and that's why he runs.
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Three runners, one story. Here
we go. But here's the question.
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Let me just ask you this. When
you see somebody running -- I
don't care where they are and
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where you are -- except for
exercise, when you see somebody
running, what do you think?
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When you see somebody running,
what does that communicate to
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you? You tell me. What does that
communicate to you when you see
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somebody running? Okay, they're
in a hurry. Good. They're late,
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yeah. You're in an airport, and
when a guy in a business suit go
"psh!", you know exactly what's
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happening. "Hold the plane!" the
woman's crying out, the woman
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with her little briefcase. Yeah,
you're late to an appointment.
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Mm-hmm. What else? What else?
What's another reason why a
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person runs? Yeah, you got good
news. You could have good news
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you want to share with somebody.
That's good. Or it could be bad
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news. It could be you're chased,
you're being chased. You ever
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been chased while you're
running? Now, Dave's a runner
and I'm a runner, and so are
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some of you, but I tell you
what, every runner knows that
the two sounds you don't want to
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hear coming up behind you --
sound number one, the sound of a
dangling chain. If you hear the
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sound of a jangle, jangle,
jangle and it's getting closer
and closer, do you know what
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happens to you? You freeze. Why?
What's the deal about a dangling
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chain? It's on a beast. It's
on a beast. I was running -- No
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kidding. I was running Red Bud
Trail right out here. Red Bud
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Trail. It was a beautiful Sunday
morning, and I ran by a
beautiful red barn.
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I said, "Lovely barn." And as
soon as I got past the barn, I
heard this chain, and
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the chain is getting louder, and
it's coming behind me, and I
turned around -- this is the
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truth -- I turned around.
It was a German Shepherd. Yeah.
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Fortunately, gray goatee, gray
hair, and I said, "Oh!" Because
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he go like... [ Grunting ] I
said, "There's nothing to worry
00:26:10.97\00:26:17.91
about that dog." Phew! Saved by
the chain. Another time -- I'm
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telling you the truth -- dark,
winter, Tudor Road by little
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Three-Mile Loop. Tudor Road. And
this is the other sound. The
sound of a chain, and this
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is the other sound that every
runner knows to listen for. I'll
get the microphone near it.
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[ Tapping ] When you hear that
sound coming behind you on the
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concrete, what's it telling you?
There's something with claws
that is getting closer to you.
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6:30 in the morning, pitch
black, winter, I hear this. I
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say, "Okay." So I grabbed my --
I had a flashlight, fortunately.
I had a flashlight.
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I just, fwoo! And when I went
"schwoo!" like that, I tell you
00:26:58.21\00:27:02.68
the truth, already he is off the
ground and his fangs are open
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just like this. And I did the
first thing that came to my
mind. I screamed like a girl.
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I just screamed! [
Laughter ] That poor dog.
00:27:12.16\00:27:18.80
Midair -- just like the cartoons
-- Midair, U-turn. Sshhh, pshoo!
00:27:18.80\00:27:25.47
And I am absolutely awash. I am
trembling in adrenaline. Karen
and I later figured it
00:27:25.47\00:27:32.85
out. It looked like a
small German Shepherd.
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It wasn't. Coyote. Coyote.
00:27:35.08\00:27:39.25
We got coyotes around us.
00:27:39.25\00:27:40.92
Probably thought I was some old,
dumb deer running in the dark on
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down the road and
said, "I'll eat that one."
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[ Laughter ]
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So when you run, there are
multiple reasons for running.
Somebody could be chasing you.
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You could be crying for help.
When she runs -- There are three
runners in this one story --
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when she runs, there's something
anxious, there is something
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agitated. She is driven by an
urgency. And I want you to track
these three runners for a
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moment. Open your Bible with me,
please, to "Ground Zero Number
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Two." "Ground Zero
Number One," last Sabbath.
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Ground Zero number one
-- Last night, the cross.
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36 hours later, and just a
few yards away, here we are at
00:28:23.10\00:28:27.40
Ground Zero two. Open
your Bible to the Gospel of
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John Chapter 20. The
Gospel of John Chapter 20.
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What's in the story for
us? Living on the cusp of a new
00:28:34.21\00:28:39.05
year. John Chapter 20.
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Verse 1. "Early on
the first day of the
00:28:42.42\00:28:45.52
week" -- Good Friday's
passed. Restful Sabbath is over.
00:28:45.52\00:28:50.96
This is early in the
first day of the week.
00:28:50.96\00:28:54.40
"While it was
still dark" -- Key point.
00:28:54.40\00:28:57.60
Dark. Tricky time
to be running, when
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it's dark. "While
it was still dark,
00:29:01.80\00:29:04.51
Mary Magdalene went to the tomb
and saw that the stone had been
00:29:04.51\00:29:08.78
removed from the
entrance. So she came running."
00:29:08.78\00:29:13.38
She comes
running. She came running.
00:29:13.38\00:29:16.42
She's not
jogging. She's not loping.
00:29:16.42\00:29:19.45
She's flat-out, flat-out.
"She came running to Simon Peter
00:29:19.45\00:29:26.83
and the other disciple, the
one Jesus loves," and that's the
00:29:26.83\00:29:29.23
author of this
book. That's John boy.
00:29:29.23\00:29:30.87
"And she cries out"
-- [ Breathing heavily ]
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Because when you -- male or
female, when you're flat-out,
00:29:34.00\00:29:37.44
[Breathing heavily]
that's how you breathe.
00:29:37.44\00:29:40.18
"'They have taken the Lord out
of the tomb, and we don't know
00:29:40.18\00:29:44.25
where they have put him!'"
00:29:44.25\00:29:46.75
She's nearly wild with grief.
She hasn't been able to sleep
all night, and finally rolling
00:29:46.92\00:29:52.05
out of that bed before the crack
of dawn, she stumbles through
the night, shadows still silver
00:29:52.05\00:29:57.59
beneath the almost still full
moon of Passover. Through the
00:29:57.59\00:30:05.90
shadows, the young woman darts.
One mission. Until all alone,
00:30:05.90\00:30:12.07
mission accomplished, she stands
before the tomb of her Lord, but
like a shrine that has been
00:30:12.07\00:30:20.18
grotesquely violated. The
sepulchre door thrown aside and
nobody -- nobody, not a
00:30:20.18\00:30:29.39
guard, not a soldier, not
nobody, just silence emanating
from this gaping hole into which
00:30:29.39\00:30:39.83
she peers. They've stolen --
Somebody has stolen her master's
00:30:39.83\00:30:49.41
corpse. Poor Mary, blind with
grief. Back through the same
silver shadows, through the city
00:30:49.41\00:30:57.09
gate, ajar, in through, up
the stairways, now in front of a
00:30:57.09\00:31:01.52
wooden door. Boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom!
00:31:01.52\00:31:04.96
It's barred and shuttered for
fear of arrest. Finally somebody
00:31:04.96\00:31:10.30
comes to the door, and the door
opens just wide enough to cast
an orange CAT-scanned streak
00:31:10.30\00:31:18.11
right down the middle of her
face. She's recognized. She
comes in. [ Breathing heavily ]
00:31:18.11\00:31:28.85
Poor Mary. Runner one, and,
oh, boy, that's all it takes.
00:31:28.85\00:31:36.19
Runner two and runner three,
here they come. Three runners,
00:31:36.19\00:31:40.50
one story. Here comes the next
two. Number two. "So Peter" --
00:31:40.50\00:31:43.60
that would be runner number two
-- "and the other disciple" --
that's John boy, runner number
00:31:43.60\00:31:47.64
three -- "started for the tomb."
This is a foot race, and this
one will be flat-out, as well.
00:31:47.64\00:31:53.44
They're not just sauntering
down, a little bit of jogging.
00:31:53.44\00:31:57.58
This is flat-out. It can't
be. It just cannot be. Flat-out
00:31:57.58\00:32:02.15
they're running. "Both were
running" -- verse 4 -- "but the
other disciple" -- that would be
00:32:02.15\00:32:07.52
John boy -- "outran Peter and
reached the tomb first." John,
00:32:07.52\00:32:12.46
in this one little paragraph,
twice is gonna tell us, "I got
there first." [ Laughter ]
00:32:12.46\00:32:18.07
You got a problem with this,
John? Of course you got there
00:32:18.07\00:32:22.14
first. Look at you. 20 years
old. Peter, the big fisherman.
00:32:22.14\00:32:28.11
Of course you won. Twice in one
story. "Oh, I was there first."
00:32:28.11\00:32:36.22
So John does get there first.
Verse 5. Oh, and he bends over,
00:32:36.22\00:32:41.12
looks in at the strips of linen
lying there, but did not go in.
So...[ Breathing heavily ]
00:32:41.12\00:32:47.86
And here comes Peter, the big
fisherman. And by the way, these
00:32:47.86\00:32:51.13
boys are buds. Everywhere in
the Book of Acts, they appear
00:32:51.13\00:32:53.94
together. They are buds. They
fish together for all their
young and not-so-young life.
00:32:53.94\00:32:58.01
They are friends. Now big
Peter -- [ Breathing heavily ]
00:32:58.01\00:33:02.11
"Step aside, boy. Let me see."
And Peter, no, no, he's not
worried about a thing.
00:33:02.11\00:33:06.15
He goes straight in, and Peter
sees that the linen is lying
there folded here, folded here,
00:33:06.15\00:33:14.06
for the torso, torso. And then
the little handkerchief for the
head has been folded up
00:33:14.06\00:33:19.63
very nicely and placed there.
Peter comes out saying, "What's
00:33:19.63\00:33:27.14
up with this?" Now watch this.
John boy, verse 8. John boy now
00:33:27.14\00:33:33.34
goes in. "Finally the other
disciple, who had reached the
tomb first, also went inside the
00:33:33.34\00:33:39.21
tomb. And he saw and" -- what?
He said, "I believe." How could
00:33:39.21\00:33:46.22
you do that, boy? How'd you
figure that out? Simple. If it
were grave robbers and
00:33:46.22\00:33:50.33
they're going for a body -- tft,
tft, tft, tft -- they're not
00:33:50.33\00:33:54.56
keeping it folded. Get out.
Let's go. Wouldn't be folded. If
it were the priests, high
00:33:54.56\00:33:59.23
probability -- could be the
priests. If it were the priests,
00:33:59.23\00:34:02.14
they wouldn't become unclean by
touching this corpse, so they
would have sent the rabble, and
00:34:02.14\00:34:05.84
the rabble would have done the
same thing. Tft, tft, tft, tft,
00:34:05.84\00:34:08.94
go, let's get out of here,
quick. If it had been the
Romans, there would be nothing
00:34:08.94\00:34:13.35
left, because they would have
cleaned that place clean,
spanking, empty, not a shred of
00:34:13.35\00:34:21.49
evidence. So John boy steps
in. It can't be any of these
00:34:21.49\00:34:27.13
options. Somebody folded
his handkerchief on his face. [
00:34:27.13\00:34:35.27
Snaps fingers ] And John
believed. Now verse 9 tells us,
"Oh, by the way..."
00:34:35.27\00:34:40.94
And somewhere along the way,
runner number one is no longer
00:34:49.95\00:34:54.22
running. There's no purpose for
her to run now. She knows the
00:34:54.22\00:34:58.19
bad news. She's walking. Somehow
she misses Peter and she misses
00:34:58.19\00:35:03.16
John. And Mary -- poor Mary --
is back to the tomb, the dawn by
every slipping moment grows
00:35:03.16\00:35:13.41
quietly brighter as she returns
to the hole in the ground. And
she looks in again.
00:35:13.41\00:35:20.38
Verse 11 now.
00:35:20.38\00:35:22.52
Verse 12.
00:35:26.92\00:35:29.06
Verse 13.
00:35:34.23\00:35:36.40
Isn't that amazing? The Gospel
of John, the first red-letter
words in the entire
00:35:54.75\00:36:01.29
Gospel of John are obviously the
words of Jesus. When he turns
00:36:01.29\00:36:05.69
around -- when the same John boy
three and a half years younger
with Peter's brother, probably
00:36:05.69\00:36:10.40
kid brother, Andrew, they're
tagging behind him. They're
00:36:10.40\00:36:13.37
following him. And Jesus turns
around and he says, "What are
00:36:13.37\00:36:17.04
you looking for?" Isn't that
something? The first words of
Jesus in the Gospel, "What are
00:36:17.04\00:36:21.38
you looking for?" And near the
end of the Gospel, his words now
00:36:21.38\00:36:27.32
are, "Who are you looking for?
Whom do you seek?" A little -- A
00:36:27.32\00:36:37.49
little inclusio. It's a literary
device where the author sticks a
bookend here and a bookend here
00:36:37.49\00:36:42.13
to make a point when you see
both bookends as if to tell us
to remind us that if you're
00:36:42.13\00:36:46.80
struggling through life, looking
for your purpose -- and you may
be new at Andrews University and
00:36:46.80\00:36:50.81
asking, "Listen, God, what am
I supposed to do? I haven't made
00:36:50.81\00:36:54.51
up my mind on a major. I'm not
quite sure if You have a plan
00:36:54.51\00:36:57.45
for me." If you're asking the
question, "What am I looking
for?", the little inclusio is to
00:36:57.45\00:37:03.49
remind you and me that the
ultimate question of life is
not, "What are you seeking?"
00:37:03.49\00:37:07.56
It's "Whom are you seeking?" And
Jesus whispers to you, "I hope
it's me you're looking
00:37:07.56\00:37:14.66
for." Embedded right
there in the fourth Gospel.
00:37:14.66\00:37:22.90
And Mary responds. Go on
to verse 15. Mary responds,
00:37:22.90\00:37:26.17
"Thinking he was the gardener"
-- because he's against the
light, perhaps, or is just a
00:37:26.17\00:37:31.05
silhouette... It's amazing. It's
amazing that she takes the very
words "carried him away,"
00:37:39.35\00:37:44.76
"have you taken him away" are
the very words that John the
Baptist used when he
00:37:44.76\00:37:48.63
saw Jesus coming, and he says,
"Behold, the lamb of God who
takes away the sins of the
00:37:48.63\00:37:52.83
world." So there is another
embedded clue that the man who
00:37:52.83\00:37:56.24
is standing here has already
forgiven Mary. She knew she had
00:37:56.24\00:38:00.88
been forgiven by the dead
Jesus of Nazareth. She knows.
00:38:00.88\00:38:04.65
And so she uses the language.
"Did you take him away, like the
00:38:04.81\00:38:12.89
lamb of God took away my sins?"
00:38:12.89\00:38:16.32
And then it is... that Jesus
speaks. "Where have you put him?
00:38:27.44\00:38:38.31
I'll get him."
00:38:38.31\00:38:40.28
There's no way -- if you could
YouTube this moment, there is no
way you could capture the
00:38:45.42\00:38:49.39
electricity of what
happens next. You just can't.
00:38:49.39\00:38:53.46
You couldn't act it out. Just in
stark, plain detail, Mary, who
tells John the story,
00:38:53.46\00:39:02.64
records it. Verse 16.
"And Jesus said to her" --
00:39:02.64\00:39:12.38
I love this. "And Jesus
said to her, 'Mary. Mary.'"
00:39:12.38\00:39:18.89
Proving, too, by the way what he
said in John 10. "My sheep will
00:39:18.89\00:39:25.63
hear my voice and know I
call their name." "Mary."
00:39:25.63\00:39:33.03
Obviously she's thrown herself
at the nail-scarred feet of her
00:39:41.51\00:39:45.38
master. She's clinging to him,
sobbing. Jesus said, "Don't hold
00:39:45.55\00:39:48.82
on to me, Mary.
No, no, no. Let me go.
00:39:48.82\00:39:50.72
Let me go."
00:39:50.72\00:39:52.85
Verse 18.
00:39:59.86\00:40:01.93
I got to tell you -- Hit the
pause button right there --
Every time I read this story, I
00:40:10.74\00:40:15.64
find it absolutely
stunning to me. I mean, come on.
00:40:15.64\00:40:20.22
You have the king of the
universe, the savior of the
world, the Lord of the galaxies,
00:40:20.22\00:40:28.29
king of angels. And all of
heaven is waiting for daddy's
boy to just show up,
00:40:28.29\00:40:35.26
just show up for just a moment,
to let us know. But before
00:40:35.26\00:40:43.61
returning to the Father, with
whom he has shared eternity like
this, he waits. He waits in the
00:40:43.61\00:40:54.62
shadows for a little woman whose
stained and sullied life is
known to the whole community.
00:40:54.62\00:41:04.63
Some scholars believe -- and I
happen to agree with them, along
with "Desire of Ages," I believe
00:41:04.63\00:41:09.56
it's the rightful conclusion
that Mary Magdalene -- Listen,
listen, listen -- Mary Magdalene
00:41:09.56\00:41:14.50
is the same Mary, the sister of
Martha and Lazarus. "Desire of
Ages" tells us that
00:41:14.50\00:41:24.01
Mary was led into sin by her
uncle, Simon the Pharisee. You
know, as a pastor, I do a
00:41:24.01\00:41:32.29
lot of interacting with people.
And oftentimes I have found that
00:41:32.29\00:41:44.40
because of... sexual abuse as a
little girl, as a little boy.
And some of you here know of
00:41:44.40\00:41:51.94
what I speak. But because of
previous sexual abuse by someone
00:41:51.94\00:41:57.75
you trusted, someone you said,
"I'm safe with him, I'm safe
with her," oftentimes -- not
00:41:57.75\00:42:06.25
always. I'm not a psychologist.
But oftentimes the link to a
life of promiscuity goes back to
00:42:06.25\00:42:14.60
that violation long ago. It's
what happened to Mary. Her
uncle, her trusted Pharisee.
00:42:14.60\00:42:22.34
He's a clergyman. "A clergyman
would never do this to me."
00:42:22.34\00:42:25.84
He abused her sexually. And as
the victim often does, the
victim blames herself.
00:42:25.84\00:42:32.58
The victim blames -- "This
is my fault," and she flees.
00:42:32.58\00:42:35.85
She goes to a little village
around the corner of Galilee
called Magdala, away from
00:42:35.85\00:42:40.46
Bethany, away from Martha, away
from Lazarus, and there she
plunges even deeper into sin
00:42:40.46\00:42:45.96
because shame is that powerful.
It will drive you away from the
people that you love.
00:42:45.96\00:42:51.47
Shame. So let me tell you about
a book I've been reading this
00:42:51.47\00:42:55.77
summer written by a writer named
Alan Mann. Title of the book --
00:42:55.77\00:42:59.71
Fascinating title, by the way --
"Atonement for a Sinless
Society." Let me repeat that.
00:42:59.71\00:43:04.21
"Atonement for a Sinless
Society." Because guess what,
00:43:04.21\00:43:07.62
ladies and gentlemen? This is
the culture that says, "There's
no such thing as sin.
00:43:07.62\00:43:10.99
I don't have a problem
with sin." The only sin we have,
00:43:10.99\00:43:14.46
according to this culture, is
the sin against ourselves, when
00:43:14.46\00:43:18.13
we hurt ourselves. Well, that's
a terrible sin. Don't hurt
yourself. Otherwise, no sin.
00:43:18.13\00:43:23.83
How can you present the Gospel
to a culture that says, "I don't
00:43:23.83\00:43:27.90
have sin. I have no need of a
savior"? "Ah," Alan Mann says.
You know what this culture has?
00:43:27.90\00:43:32.41
Instead of sin, here's how
it reacts. It responds to what's
00:43:32.41\00:43:36.01
called shame. Brené Brown,
the most watched YouTube around.
00:43:36.01\00:43:41.58
Brené Brown. She's dealing
the whole time with shame.
00:43:41.58\00:43:45.02
John Bradshaw -- What's
he talking about? Shame.
00:43:45.02\00:43:47.79
Shame is the moniker of this
generation. We don't have sin.
00:43:47.79\00:43:52.69
We have shame. And so here's
this bright mind struggling with
00:43:52.69\00:43:57.67
this and saying, "How can we
apply the Gospel to shame?"
Listen, I'll put his words up on
00:43:57.67\00:44:00.67
the screen,
Alan Mann. Alan Mann.
00:44:00.67\00:44:03.61
Of course it doesn't create this
notion in reality. It's just
00:44:07.48\00:44:12.71
perception. Don't
have sin. Don't have sin.
00:44:12.71\00:44:17.12
Keep reading.
00:44:22.26\00:44:24.16
The divine Other or just the
other, the neighbor next to you.
00:44:33.74\00:44:37.87
How many of our hearts here
today are struggling with shame?
Something that came into our
00:44:38.04\00:44:44.31
lives. We can't blame it,
in the end, on anybody else.
00:44:44.31\00:44:48.05
We know the shame. How many of
us here today, just like Mary,
00:44:48.05\00:44:57.36
in shame have fled the evidence
of the truth? "Desire of Ages."
Oh, this is something.
00:44:57.36\00:45:03.00
On the screen for you.
00:45:03.00\00:45:05.37
Mary Magdalene is the name of
her past. They've tried to hide
00:45:31.49\00:45:35.36
that identity. When she's around
Martha and Lazarus, she's just
00:45:35.36\00:45:39.53
called Mary. But she's now dead
when John writes the Gospel, so
he goes ahead and uses the code
00:45:39.53\00:45:44.77
name. This is the woman that
fell. This is the sexual sinner
that Jesus forgave.
00:45:44.77\00:45:49.44
The Gospels say out of Mary he
cast seven demons. This is that
00:45:49.44\00:45:57.55
Mary that Jesus waits in the
shadows. Can you imagine that?
He waits in the shadows for her
00:45:57.55\00:46:03.22
before going to the Father to
receive seal of approval. "Done,
00:46:03.22\00:46:12.30
son. You go." What a Christ.
What a savior. Come on, guys. He
00:46:12.30\00:46:20.64
waits. Amazing grace, how sweet
the sound that saved a wretch
00:46:20.64\00:46:26.92
like me. Shame. Shame.
How's verse 18 go again?
00:46:26.92\00:46:32.52
"I've just seen Jesus." By the
way, Pilate -- Jesus stood in
00:46:40.20\00:46:44.83
front of Pilate. He never saw
him. Jesus stood gagged and
bound before Caiaphas.
00:46:44.83\00:46:47.97
Never saw him. Jesus stands
before the rabble. They don't
00:46:47.97\00:46:51.24
see him. But this fallen woman
sees Jesus and sees him for all
he is. "I've just seen Jesus."
00:46:51.24\00:46:59.78
[ Scoffs ]
00:46:59.78\00:47:01.88
The Ground Zero of Calvary and
the Ground Zero of the empty
tomb now meet in Mary.
00:47:05.85\00:47:15.90
Now, hold on. This is
really important. Hold on now.
00:47:15.90\00:47:19.57
Two spiritually nuclear Ground
Zero events within the space of
36 hours, parts of three days.
00:47:19.57\00:47:24.34
The Ground Zero of the wooden
cross, the Ground Zero of the
empty tomb, and together -- and
00:47:24.34\00:47:29.01
by the way, ladies and
gentlemen, only together -- this
is the key point -- only
00:47:29.01\00:47:33.21
together can they remain Ground
Zero for eternity because either
one of them isolated by itself
00:47:33.21\00:47:38.82
could not possibly ignite the
explosive nuclear fallout that
is still radioactive with the
00:47:38.82\00:47:44.36
human race, and that's called
salvation. Isolated, they are
00:47:44.36\00:47:50.03
not -- They are impotent. Only
when the two Ground Zeros are
united, because the cross is
00:47:50.03\00:48:00.04
all about redemption. The empty
tomb is all about ratification.
00:48:00.04\00:48:04.38
If you have the cross with no
resurrection, you have no
resurrection means no atonement,
00:48:04.38\00:48:09.42
no salvation, no redemption, no
hope. You have to have the two
00:48:09.42\00:48:13.15
together. That's why Paul
writes -- We'll end with this,
00:48:13.15\00:48:16.26
1 Corinthians 15. Take a look
at 1 Corinthians 15. Here's the
00:48:16.26\00:48:19.96
point that Paul is making. So
many people focus on the cross,
on the cross, on the
00:48:19.96\00:48:24.60
cross, and that's all they
focus on. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
00:48:24.60\00:48:27.77
You have to have both Ground
Zeros together. Watch this.
00:48:27.77\00:48:30.87
1 Corinthians -- What is it?
1 Corinthians 15. Drop down to
00:48:30.87\00:48:34.64
verse 17. "And if Christ has not
been raised, then your faith is
00:48:34.64\00:48:38.75
futile." No point in it.
00:48:38.75\00:48:40.85
Verse 18.
00:48:43.79\00:48:45.79
You can't have Calvary without
the empty tomb. No empty tomb,
00:48:52.83\00:48:58.23
no Calvary. Does that make
sense? Which means in the Book
of Acts, when they talk
00:48:58.23\00:49:03.00
dominantly about the
resurrection, more than they
talk about the cross, there's a
00:49:03.00\00:49:07.94
reason -- because it's the
resurrection that ratifies it,
that empowers the witness. You
00:49:07.94\00:49:13.05
got to talk about both. It's not
just "I have a savior who died
on Calvary for me." No, I had a
00:49:13.05\00:49:17.52
savior who died on Calvary for
me but rose again for me. And in
00:49:17.52\00:49:21.46
the power of that resurrection,
I now live. I've just seen
Jesus. See, your life will
00:49:21.46\00:49:27.00
breathe that testimony. I've
just seen Jesus. He's alive.
00:49:27.00\00:49:31.77
[ Scoffs ] Inseparably
bound. The cross declares his
00:49:31.77\00:49:36.60
lordship -- but hold on. The
cross declares his lordship, but
the empty tomb declares his
00:49:36.60\00:49:41.74
kingship. You have to have
the kingship along with the
00:49:41.74\00:49:45.91
lordship. It's the two together,
the two together. And that's why
00:49:45.91\00:49:50.25
Jesus -- I love this -- Jesus is
the hero of Ground Zero. Come
on. That's the tag line.
00:49:50.25\00:49:53.89
You can take that one home. Now,
you go ahead and smile at it,
because that's the truth.
00:49:53.89\00:49:57.49
Jesus is the hero. Come
on, say that out loud with me.
00:49:57.49\00:49:59.93
Read it out loud with me. Jesus
is the hero of Ground Zero.
00:49:59.93\00:50:03.47
Say that again. Jesus
is the hero of Ground Zero.
00:50:03.47\00:50:07.50
Both of them together. Nuclear,
radioactive, unleashed when the
cross and the empty
00:50:07.50\00:50:14.81
tomb are a part of your
testimony. I've just seen Jesus.
00:50:14.81\00:50:17.85
And guess what? He wants to be
the hero of your story, as well.
00:50:17.85\00:50:21.85
He wants to be the hero of your
story, as well. He was Mary's
00:50:21.85\00:50:26.15
hero. Hey, he was Peter's hero.
In fact, do you know this? Maybe
00:50:26.15\00:50:30.56
you don't. Do you know that
Jesus did the same thing for
Peter as he did for Mary?
00:50:30.56\00:50:34.00
Do you know that? Come
on. You don't know this?
00:50:34.00\00:50:39.47
Do you remember when the two
disciples -- talking about run
-- you remember the two
00:50:39.47\00:50:43.14
disciples that run seven miles
from Emmaus in the middle of the
night, they're running to the
00:50:43.14\00:50:46.88
upper room in Jerusalem. You
remember the two disciples from
00:50:46.88\00:50:49.58
Emmaus? And they go, pound,
pound, pound, pound! The door
00:50:49.58\00:50:51.91
opens. [ Breathing heavily
] "Man, you guys are not gonna
00:50:51.91\00:50:55.18
believe this. He's alive! He
just broke bread, and our hearts
00:50:55.18\00:50:59.85
burn within us!" You remember
that? Do you remember in Luke 24
what the disciples say, "Calm
00:50:59.85\00:51:03.39
down, calm down," and they
announce something else. Do you
00:51:03.39\00:51:06.53
remember what they announced?
"Yo, he's already appeared to
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Peter! He's already appeared to
Peter, alone!" He hasn't
appeared to the Twelve
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because nobody in the room has
seen him, except the two from
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Emmaus. And now Peter. And Paul
is so big on this. You still
have your Bible open
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to 1 Corinthians 15. Go
up to verse 5. Look at Paul.
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"And don't forget," Paul writes
to the Corinthians, that Jesus
"appeared to Cephas" -- that
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would be Simon Peter --
"and then to the Twelve."
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Oh, my. You want
to talk about shame?
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Come on, guys. Come on.
You want to talk about shame,
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shame, shame? How do
you think Peter felt over
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that long weekend?
How do you suppose the
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crushing...
brokenness of that tirade of
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cursing in front of all of
Jesus' enemies, cursing, "I
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never knew this blankity
blank blank man in my life.
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I don't know what
you're talking about."
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How do you think he carried
that? Shame, shame, shame.
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And guess what? When shame's
around, it spreads, spreads,
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spreads. Everybody knows.
Everybody knows. And this is
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early Sunday morning. So the
risen Christ, who, by the way,
has every reason to throw
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Peter out of his inner circle,
"You're out of here, boy. It was
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a nice try." Every reason to
throw the book at him. The risen
Christ -- get this --
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maybe right after meeting Mary,
before going back is in the
shadows where Peter's going
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home. He's waiting for Peter to
walk by, because he doesn't want
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John boy there. Peter walks
by, and Jesus, the risen Christ,
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draped in the shadows steps out
of the shadows and does the same
00:53:03.01\00:53:11.25
thing. "Peter. Hey, Pete." And
every time I imagine this, I
just get -- Oh, my.
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Peter bursting into tears. I
mean, what can you say? "Sorry"?
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Peter bursting into tears at
Jesus' feet, and Jesus picking
him up and just holding him
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while this big, burly
man sobs his repentance.
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Peter driven by shame, who, by
the way, came that close to be
driven to the same recourse that
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Judas chose, which is suicide.
Shame can become so oppressive
00:53:56.20\00:54:04.37
to you. But I need to tell you
that if Judas had just backed
away from the cliff after
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everything -- just let the
record be as it is, but he
returns on Sunday in repentance
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to the risen Christ, that Jesus
would have forgiven Judas just
like he forgave Peter, just like
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he forgave Mary. Shame gone.
He just didn't have the guts.
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His pride was too strong. He
couldn't walk back a loose face.
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Some of you are struggling.
00:54:37.24\00:54:39.64
Sir, walk back.
Walk back. Come on.
00:54:39.81\00:54:42.81
Back up. Sister, back up.
00:54:42.81\00:54:46.95
You don't need to go there.
00:54:46.95\00:54:48.65
There is no shame so deep and
dark that the same Jesus who
waited in the shadows
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resurrection morning to hug Mary
and Peter is waiting to hug you,
to hold you and say, "We can get
00:54:56.86\00:55:03.87
over this together, you and me."
You'll see Jesus, and then
you'll have the greatest
00:55:03.87\00:55:08.90
testimony the human race ever
hears. "I've just seen Jesus."
00:55:08.90\00:55:13.68
Wow. Ground Zero.
The hero of Ground Zero.
00:55:18.81\00:55:25.89
I tell you what, as we were
singing this morning all these
beautiful songs, as we were
00:55:25.89\00:55:30.69
worshipping this morning, I'm
saying, "Oh, Jesus, you are my
00:55:30.69\00:55:37.30
hero." You say, "Dwight, I
cannot see Jesus like these
00:55:37.30\00:55:43.41
people saw Jesus." Wrong. Isn't
this Jesus the one that spoke
the red-letter words in
00:55:43.41\00:55:49.08
Revelation 3:20? "Behold,
I stand at the door and..."
00:55:49.08\00:55:53.28
"If anybody hears me knocking,
just, hey, you, just go to the
00:55:53.28\00:55:57.39
door. Just go to the door. Open
the door. I will come into you,
00:55:57.39\00:56:01.66
and I will eat with you, and we
will grow close together. We
will walk together.
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Just let me into your life." And
you'll walk out of that moment
along with Jesus every
00:56:05.89\00:56:11.03
single day, and the first person
you meet, you're gonna say,
00:56:11.03\00:56:14.70
"Guess what? I just saw Jesus.
I've just seen Jesus." That's
00:56:14.70\00:56:19.34
your testimony. It's not just
Mary's. It's not just Peter's.
00:56:19.34\00:56:23.01
It's yours. Don't be like Judas
and walk away and say, "It won't
00:56:23.01\00:56:27.18
work for me." It will work for
you. Give it up. Give yourself
00:56:27.18\00:56:35.42
up and let Jesus just grab you.
Let him start over with you. Why
would you hold back now?
00:56:35.42\00:56:44.13
I've just seen
Jesus. It's your testimony.
00:56:44.13\00:56:48.44
Shame no more. Shame
gone. We've just seen Jesus.
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Give us that testimony every new
day until he comes. We pray in
the name of our hero
00:57:07.19\00:57:20.60
of Ground Zero. Amen.
00:57:20.60\00:57:25.74
>> Think back to your last
heartfelt, meaningful prayer.
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Has it been awhile? Has
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routine, or boring? I
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at the end of our worship today
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In fact, I'd love
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Just call 877 -- those are
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And I hope I'll see you
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