In this week's online church service, we look at a summary of the resurrection of Jesus as per the account in John's Gospel.
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⏱️ TIMELINE --
[00:02:09] - Welcome
[00:13:28] - Sermon on the resurrection of Jesus Christ
[00:33:43] - Worship
[00:37:20] - Conversation Street
🎙️ TALK --
Pete gives us a summary of the resurrection of Jesus Christ
⚡️ The first resurrection eye witness was Mary Magdalene, a woman with a troubled past (this is a critical point to the story).
⚡️ Learn how the disciples were sceptical at first as they didn’t see any evidence of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but when they saw signs of the resurrection - they started to believe.
⚡️ After the crucifixion of Jesus and His resurrection - Jesus told His disciples to go and tell his brothers that he was ascending to his Father's side.
⚡️ The resurrection proves that Jesus is who he said he is - the Son of God - and that death has lost its sting.
💬 CONVERSATION STREET --
Matt + Dan talk about ...
⚡️ The crucifixion of Jesus.
⚡️ The death of Christ and what the divine exchange is.
⚡️ How is it possible not to recognise the risen Christ?
⚡️ The first resurrection eye witness being a Mary.
⚡️ What our hope actually is.
Come and join in the conversation!
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Welcome to this week's Crowd Church service.
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Speaker:And now the moment you've been waiting for is here.
Speaker:Our Online Church Service starts right now.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:Good evening and welcome to Crowd Online Church.
Speaker:My name is Matt Edmundson, also known as Batman.
Speaker:And Dan, uh, is sat right next to me, also known as Dan.
Speaker:Where's your Christmas jumper, bro?
Speaker:I know, I, um, I need to do something about that.
Speaker:Yeah, it's that time of year, isn't it?
Speaker:Um, yeah, we're almost there.
Speaker:Tree's up.
Speaker:The trees up aren't quite there.
Speaker:Well, the trees up and I turned the decorations, the
Speaker:lights in the garden on before.
Speaker:But they tripped all the electrics in the house, the electrician.
Speaker:I was like, oh dear.
Speaker:So I, yes, I need to do some, um, some work on that.
Speaker:And just remind what you do for, for a living again Dan.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:At least I know how to fix it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I was gonna say, just, just remind me what you do for a living again?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Electrician
Speaker:That's awesome.
Speaker:That's awesome.
Speaker:Uh, if you are joining us for the first time, warm welcome to you,
Speaker:welcome to our online church.
Speaker:It's great that you are here.
Speaker:Great that you could come join myself and Dan, we're gonna get
Speaker:into, uh, the resurrection today.
Speaker:We got Pete Farrington doing the Talk on the Resurrection, so look forward to that.
Speaker:We got that.
Speaker:I do have to explain a little bit about what's gonna happen.
Speaker:Cause it is a, it's only a little bit different to note.
Speaker:Uh, but that's okay.
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Speaker:Um, we've pinned the link to the YouTube channel.
Speaker:So do come join us on YouTube if you can as we are migrating.
Speaker:Uh, Crowd livestream to just livestream on YouTube only going forward.
Speaker:So we're still doing both, still doing YouTube and Facebook.
Speaker:Um, so you can still watch us on Facebook.
Speaker:Uh, but if you can join us on YouTube, that would be great.
Speaker:Uh, good evening Nicola.
Speaker:Hey Matt, have you worn this shirt yet?
Speaker:Nichola says, no.
Speaker:That will come out.
Speaker:Nicola Trust me.
Speaker:Oh yes, we've got a very special Christmas shirt, uh, which Nicholas
Speaker:sent into me, which is awesome.
Speaker:Uh, and so yeah, I'm really, really excited.
Speaker:That.
Speaker:So, dang.
Speaker:You've got, you've got some catching up to do, bud.
Speaker:I, I have, I definitely, um, yes.
Speaker:Need to dig out my jumper.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:The very least.
Speaker:At the very least, yes.
Speaker:Get, get on it.
Speaker:Now, if you, uh, if you do have a photo of yourself in a Christmas
Speaker:jumper, we would love to see it.
Speaker:And if you don't mind it being on the live stream, send it through.
Speaker:Uh, you can WhatsApp that through or you could email it through.
Speaker:Um, uh, we would love to see it.
Speaker:Just like I say, just be warned if you send me images.
Speaker:There is a chance that it might appear on the livestream.
Speaker:Just say hashtag the same.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So let uh, I was just about to say, Dan, tell them about the little
Speaker:error that we've got, but it's probably best that I explain it.
Speaker:Cause lemme just explain it to you.
Speaker:So what has happened, uh, is that, We have Pete Farrington this week
Speaker:speaking to us about John's Gospel.
Speaker:If you are, uh, new to crowd or if you're just joining us.
Speaker:We have been working our way through the Gospel of John, right?
Speaker:Um, in a series called Origin, where we're looking at the start of
Speaker:the church, sort of the Christian movement, the church movement.
Speaker:And we've been working our way quite rapidly through John's gospel with an
Speaker:idea that in the new year, we're gonna slow down a little bit and work a little
Speaker:bit more methodically through the Book of Acts, which I'm very excited about
Speaker:because Acts is just a stonking book.
Speaker:Some amazing stuff happens in acts.
Speaker:And so, um, we asked our speakers to, to speak on certain things.
Speaker:Now, John, uh, Pete, uh, say John, uh, Pete, Pete Farrington is gonna be
Speaker:talking, like I say about the resurrection for the keen odd amongst you, you
Speaker:will, you'll go, hang on a minute.
Speaker:We seem to have missed it.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:We, we've missed it.
Speaker:We missed
Speaker:He's resurrected without, um, a critical portion of, of Jesus' life.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Now, let me just say this is not Pete's fault.
Speaker:This is entirely my fault, um, uh, that we missed out a piece of scripture.
Speaker:So this week and next week, uh, we've got both Pete Farrington and John
Speaker:Harding talking about the resurrection, uh, which is great and wonderful.
Speaker:And we've got both talks and they're both phenomenal, uh, as you would expect.
Speaker:So we've got some good stuff coming.
Speaker:So but I did realize once we'd got Pete's talk in, I was like, oh, we seem to
Speaker:have missed a little bit of scripture.
Speaker:Uh, which is the death burial, uh, of Jesus, the sort of, the bit the
Speaker:sort of leads up to the resurrection.
Speaker:Um, and so what we're gonna do is just bring everybody up to speed.
Speaker:Uh, we're gonna talk about the death of Christ in quite rapid fashion,
Speaker:which is, I appreciate not giving it its due care and attention.
Speaker:Uh, but it, it, unfortunately, it is what it is on this occasion.
Speaker:Um, but we have talked about the death of Christ quite
Speaker:significantly in past livestreams.
Speaker:If you would like to know more about that, especially the online
Speaker:alpha course, you can, uh, you can go and look at it in there.
Speaker:Was that clear enough, Dan?
Speaker:Did I explain that well enough or did you just zone out when I was talking
Speaker:? Partially ? No, I think
Speaker:Good.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Good.
Speaker:So we're jumping straight in.
Speaker:So we're gonna jump straight into Conversation Street.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:Well we're gonna do a bit of Conversation Street now we're gonna
Speaker:talk about the death of Christ.
Speaker:We're gonna bring it up to speed and then we are gonna hit, uh, our normal stride.
Speaker:And then we're gonna have a short Conversation Street at the end.
Speaker:So we're mixing it up a little bit, but that's okay because I'm Batman.
Speaker:Uh, and so it's just.
Speaker:It is, is the way it's now.
Speaker:So let's talk about the death of Christ.
Speaker:Why do Christians talk about the death of Christ?
Speaker:Why do we walk around with crosses on our necks or on our
Speaker:t-shirts or printed everywhere?
Speaker:Why are we so fascinated with this instrument of torture and death in
Speaker:what can only be described as a very odd, um, in a very odd sense, Matt Crew
Speaker:put in the comments, I'm not Batman.
Speaker:All I'm saying is you've never seen me and Batman in the same room.
Speaker:I just, I don't need to say anything else.
Speaker:Um, so Dan, any thoughts on this?
Speaker:Why?
Speaker:Uh, not whether I'm Batman, but you know, why do Christians, uh,
Speaker:why do we talk about the death of Christ as much as we do?
Speaker:It's it, when you, we get so used to it, don't we?
Speaker:Get so, so used to seeing that cross around, like you say,
Speaker:around people's necks on churches.
Speaker:That's amazing that.
Speaker:The symbol of, of Christians all over the world.
Speaker:Um, forgetting that it was a torture symbol that, um, but I suppose
Speaker:the, we were, were, let's put it into just one sentence, almost,
Speaker:that Jesus died, tortured, punished for a crime he didn't commit.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:For, well, for more than, for all the crimes that we committed.
Speaker:He died.
Speaker:And that's why it's central to our faith that Jesus took on all our, our
Speaker:sin, all the things we've done wrong.
Speaker:The reason that we can't be, couldn't be righteous.
Speaker:The reason that we couldn't be made holy.
Speaker:He said, I'm gonna take all those things on because I'm holy and I'm gonna die
Speaker:with the great news of what's coming up.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Resurrection.
Speaker:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker:The resurrection's a critical part.
Speaker:It's a really interesting thing.
Speaker:Have you, have you heard of the Divine Exchange?
Speaker:You've heard of substitute, let's use a theological term, substitutionary,
Speaker:substitutionary atonement.
Speaker:Uh, a very posh term and it's a really interesting idea.
Speaker:You know, why did Jesus have to die?
Speaker:Well, the Bible says the wages of sin is death.
Speaker:So there had to something somewhere had to, had to give away with all this sin.
Speaker:Um, and there was a, I remember years ago my, uh, little sister Amy,
Speaker:um, she was born 18 years, uh, I was 18 years old when she was born.
Speaker:So there's, there's quite a big age gap between us.
Speaker:And I remember standing in, um, her bedroom when she was a couple months
Speaker:old and we were changing her nappy.
Speaker:And I was up there with my dad.
Speaker:Uh, so changing her nappy or a diaper for anybody outside of England,
Speaker:um, and she was really not well.
Speaker:She was really, she was quite poorly.
Speaker:I mean, nothing life-threatening, but she was just, you know, you
Speaker:know what it's like when you've got little kids and they're poorly.
Speaker:My dad said something, which actually is the heart of every dad that I've known
Speaker:since, um, I was not a father at the time, but I remember dad saying this
Speaker:and I remember it sticking with me.
Speaker:He said, you know what Matt, he said, I wish I could be sick for her.
Speaker:I wish I could take that sickness out of her because she doesn't
Speaker:understand what's going on.
Speaker:Poor little thing.
Speaker:And I wish I could give her my health.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So what my dad was expressing was what theologians call substitution.
Speaker:Substitutionary atonement was this divine exchange.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker:Thanks, Dan.
Speaker:Uh, was this desire to take something, uh, bad away from your
Speaker:child and give them your good stuff.
Speaker:And so in the Bible we have this, this, um, picture where Jesus takes
Speaker:upon himself our punishment, our sickness, our disease, our sin, our
Speaker:angst, our anxiety, our brokenness.
Speaker:He takes all of that upon himself, but then he gives us his righteousness,
Speaker:his peace, his joy, his salvation, his, um, all of these amazing things,
Speaker:which have taken me 30 years, and I only feel like I'm scratching the
Speaker:surface of what they actually mean.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Um, but it's this divine exchange and that happened at the death of Christ.
Speaker:So he took upon himself all of that stuff from us and gave
Speaker:us, uh, his amazing stuff.
Speaker:And it's, it's the story of the gospel.
Speaker:But like you say, Dan, it's nothing without the resurrection.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:It was, I mean, it was amazing that he did that for us.
Speaker:But it was the conquering of death, wasn't it?
Speaker:That that's the, the, the celebration that it, um, he died for us, but in that
Speaker:death, he, he conquered death because we're gonna find out, he rose again.
Speaker:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:So we're gonna get into Pete's talk, um, about the resurrection.
Speaker:Then Dan and I will be out back after that, uh, for,
Speaker:um, uh, Conversation Street.
Speaker:But actually after the talk there's a brief time of worship and then we'll
Speaker:be back for Conversation Street.
Speaker:So, uh, get busy in the comments.
Speaker:We'll be in there.
Speaker:Dan and I jumping in saying hello.
Speaker:Uh, so it'd be great to see you in there and we'll be back in just a few minutes.
Speaker:I'm just looking for the button on my.
Speaker:I'm just gonna click the mouse thing on my screen cause it's probably easier.
Speaker:Uh, so here is Mr.
Speaker:Pete Farrington, uh, talking about the resurrection of Christ.
Speaker:Hello Crowd church.
Speaker:It's fantastic to be with you again.
Speaker:And today I'm gonna be walking us through the final part of the Gospel of John.
Speaker:Um, while I do that, I may, uh, glance to my right.
Speaker:Now and then, uh, it's not because I've got the footy on, it's because
Speaker:I've got a baby monitor here and my little boy is asleep upstairs.
Speaker:And hopefully he will stay that way, uh, for a little longer.
Speaker:Um, so today we're looking at John chapter 20, and, uh, we'll start
Speaker:at the very beginning, verse one.
Speaker:So on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early while
Speaker:it was still dark, and she saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
Speaker:So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus
Speaker:loved, and said to them, they have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we
Speaker:do not know where they have laid him.
Speaker:Um, so here we see that the first eyewitness of the empty tomb,
Speaker:Mary Magdalene, we've actually met her a few times before.
Speaker:Um, she's the one who Jesus cast seven demons out of.
Speaker:And, um, this is massive that she's the first person to see the empty tomb.
Speaker:Um, the Jewish historian Josephus just a few decades after this said that a woman's
Speaker:testimony at the time was not deemed acceptable in a court of law because of
Speaker:"the levity and boldness of their sex".
Speaker:Um, a guy called Calsus in the second century scoffed at the idea of Mary
Speaker:Magdalene being the first eyewitness, calling her a hysterical woman.
Speaker:Um, and he, he talked about her being, uh, deceived by sorcery and all this.
Speaker:Um, and then a guy called Philo, who was a contemporary of Josephus,
Speaker:said of women that "she easily gives way and is taken in by plausible
Speaker:falsehoods, which resemble the truth.
Speaker:The female sex is irrational and akin to bestial passions, fear,
Speaker:sorrow, pleasure and desire from which ensue, incurable diseases
Speaker:and, uh, indescribable weaknesses."
Speaker:I would like to point out at this point that not all views expressed
Speaker:in this talk are my own, um, but I, I include those quotes here to give
Speaker:you a, a little bit of a, um, glimpse of how women were viewed at the time.
Speaker:And, uh, this is really important because if you were going to make up a story and,
Speaker:and try to make it sound credible which is what many have argued, um, that the,
Speaker:the disciples did with, uh, with the tomb and the whole story of the resurrection.
Speaker:Uh, if you wanted to come up with a mad conspiracy theory and, and you really
Speaker:wanted it to catch on, well, probably the very last thing you would've done
Speaker:in the first century would be to have had a woman as the first eyewitness.
Speaker:Um, but let's go back to, uh, and continue in verse three.
Speaker:So, Peter went out with the other disciple and they were going toward the tomb.
Speaker:Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter
Speaker:and reached the tomb first and stooping to look in he saw the linen cloths
Speaker:lying there, but he did not go in.
Speaker:Then Simon Peter came following him and went into the tomb.
Speaker:He saw the linen cloths lying there and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus'
Speaker:head not lying with the linen cloths, but folded up in a place by itself.
Speaker:Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in.
Speaker:And he saw and believed for as yet they did not understand the scripture
Speaker:that he must rise from the dead.
Speaker:So here, um, we get our first admissible testimony, really,
Speaker:um, the presence of two men.
Speaker:But if you still want to try and argue that this whole thing was fabricated,
Speaker:uh, by Jesus's disciples so that it would all kind of match up with what they, uh,
Speaker:thought Jesus had been predicticting, um, you've, you've, you've got a big problem.
Speaker:Um, because clearly resurrection hadn't even crossed their minds.
Speaker:Uh, it says, for as yet, they did not understand the scripture
Speaker:that he must rise from the dead.
Speaker:And even Mary Magdalene hadn't considered this a possibility either.
Speaker:She'd only said, uh, she'd only reported to Peter and John.
Speaker:They have taken the Lord out of the tomb and we don't know where they've laid him.
Speaker:Um, and I think this.
Speaker:Uh, this passage also shows us the importance of God's word, um, because
Speaker:it's God's word that helps us make sense of the things that we see and
Speaker:experience and walk through in life.
Speaker:It's, it's God's word that helps us to think rightly about him and about
Speaker:ourselves, um, and, and about life.
Speaker:And this is why I, I kind of take issue a little bit when people say
Speaker:things like, we don't need more theology, we need more experience.
Speaker:I'm like, If that's, if that's the case, how are you going
Speaker:to understand your experience?
Speaker:Um, we, we, we shouldn't be pitting the two things against each other.
Speaker:We, we both need to experience God and we also need to understand
Speaker:him and think rightly about him.
Speaker:Uh, and so studying his word uh, is vitally important, um, to
Speaker:understand what, what we experience.
Speaker:Um, but we've talked a little bit about the fact of the resurrection.
Speaker:Um, but let's now think a bit about the meaning of it because we want
Speaker:to, we want to see the resurrection.
Speaker:Um, a little bit like how the wise men saw the star in the sky.
Speaker:It wasn't just, oh, I see a new star in the sky.
Speaker:I see it and I believe it.
Speaker:Um, they, they saw in the sense that they, they perceived it.
Speaker:They, they understood the, the meaning and the significance of it.
Speaker:Um, so what does the resurrection mean?
Speaker:What is its significance?
Speaker:Um, I think firstly, the resurrection was validation of Jesus' deity.
Speaker:In Romans one verse four, it tells us that.
Speaker:Jesus was declared to be the son of God in power according to the spirit of holiness
Speaker:by his resurrection from the dead.
Speaker:So it's a, it's a declaration of his deity.
Speaker:Um, John actually alludes to this a little bit, I think in verse seven of our
Speaker:passage today, where his language kind of contrasts Jesus' resurrection with
Speaker:the raising of Lazarus from the dead.
Speaker:Um, earlier in the gospel of John in chapter 11, um, it, it says of
Speaker:Lazarus that the man who would come out of the tomb, um, his hands and
Speaker:feet bound with linen strips and his face was wrapped with a cloth.
Speaker:Jesus said to him, unbind him and let him go.
Speaker:Um, but Jesus didn't rise in the same way that Lazarus rose.
Speaker:He didn't stumble out of the tomb with his hands bound and his face covered.
Speaker:Um, he, he even neatly folded up um, the face cloth.
Speaker:And later in this passage we'll see that Jesus says to Mary,
Speaker:I am ascending to the Father.
Speaker:So he didn't rise like Lazarus to die again.
Speaker:And we see this all throughout scripture where Jesus is shown to be the better.
Speaker:He's the better Moses, he's the better David, he's the better Lazarus.
Speaker:Um, the resurrection was also the authentication of
Speaker:the claims that Jesus made.
Speaker:And, and I wonder a bit what, what Peter and John might have said to
Speaker:each other on their way back at home as they tried to come to terms with
Speaker:what they'd seen and make sense of it.
Speaker:Um, you know, I wonder if they'd been like, Hey John, were you, were you there
Speaker:when Jesus said all that stuff about the son of man rising after three days?
Speaker:Do you think like that's, do you think that's what we've,
Speaker:what we're seeing right now?
Speaker:Um, cuz Jesus had said in Mark eight, verse 31, and he began to teach them that
Speaker:the son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief
Speaker:priests and the scribes and be killed.
Speaker:And after three days rise again.
Speaker:Um, without the resurrection, Jesus' death would have been rendered
Speaker:ineffective and insufficient.
Speaker:Uh, in Romans four verse 25, it says that he, Jesus was delivered up for
Speaker:our trespasses, for our sins, and he was raised for our justification.
Speaker:So without the resurrection, we are not justified, before God.
Speaker:Um, in one Corinthians 15:17 it says this explicitly, and if Christ has
Speaker:not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
Speaker:There is no forgiveness without the resurrection.
Speaker:Um, and, and there is no hope that we have outside of the resurrection.
Speaker:Um, but the resurrection also means that death has lost its sting and
Speaker:death does not have the final word.
Speaker:In, in one Corinthians 15, verse 55 to 57 tells us, oh, death.
Speaker:Where is your victory?
Speaker:Oh, death.
Speaker:Where is your sting?
Speaker:The sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the law, but thanks
Speaker:be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker:Um, and 1 Thessalonians four verses 13 to 14 tells us, but we do not want
Speaker:you to be uninformed brothers about those who are asleep, that you may not
Speaker:grieve as others do, who have no hope.
Speaker:For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again.
Speaker:Even so through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
Speaker:So death is not the end.
Speaker:Um, we will rise.
Speaker:We too will rise again.
Speaker:Um, and the resurrection also means that Jesus's ministry continues.
Speaker:I absolutely love this verse in Hebrews seven.
Speaker:Um, this is 24 to 25 it says, but he, that's Jesus, holds his priesthood
Speaker:permanently because he continues forever.
Speaker:Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost, those who draw near
Speaker:to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Speaker:So Jesus's resurrection means that Christ's ministry has not ended.
Speaker:And if you are in Jesus, you had an intercessor yesterday, you
Speaker:have an intercessor today, and you will have an intercessor tomorrow.
Speaker:He always lives to make intercession for us.
Speaker:He's able to save us to the uttermost.
Speaker:Um, now going back to our texts, um, we see that Peter and John, uh, go
Speaker:back to their homes, but Mary stays and is weeping outside the tomb.
Speaker:Um, she, she goes into the tomb and she sees two angels there.
Speaker:And, uh, we'll pick up the passage again.
Speaker:Verse 13.
Speaker:So, um, the angel said to her woman, why are you, why are you weeping?
Speaker:She said to them, they have taken away my Lord, and I do not
Speaker:know where they have laid him.
Speaker:So still she's not thinking about resurrection.
Speaker:Verse 14, having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but
Speaker:she did not know that it was Jesus.
Speaker:Jesus said to her Woman, why are you weeping?
Speaker:Whom are you seeking?
Speaker:Supposing him to be the gardener she said to him, sir, if you have carried
Speaker:him away, tell me where you have laid him and I will take him away.
Speaker:Jesus said to her, Mary, she turned and said to him in Aramaic,
Speaker:Rabboni, which means teacher.
Speaker:Jesus said to her, do not cling to me for I have not yet ascended to the Father.
Speaker:But go to my brothers and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and
Speaker:your Father, to my God and your God.
Speaker:Mary Magdalene's, uh, deeply troubled past didn't disqualify her from,
Speaker:from being the first commissioned messenger of the resurrection.
Speaker:It's incredible.
Speaker:She's the first person to see the risen Jesus.
Speaker:Um, and I, I imagine the disciples must have been beside themselves,
Speaker:uh, at this point when, when Mary came to bring them the news.
Speaker:It's like, Jesus, you're really not helping us here.
Speaker:If anybody, how is anybody gonna believe us uh, if you keep choosing to reveal
Speaker:yourself to women, Um, but what, what Jesus says to Mary is so beautiful.
Speaker:Uh, remember, these are the guys, um, his disciples were the ones,
Speaker:uh, who, who, well, most of them deserted, uh, and even denied Jesus.
Speaker:And yet he identifies himself with them.
Speaker:He, he says, uh, go to my brothers.
Speaker:Um, he, uh, he says, I'm ascending to my Father and your Father.
Speaker:To my God and your God.
Speaker:Not just my God, but your God.
Speaker:He identifies himself with us.
Speaker:It's incredible.
Speaker:Um, John 20 verses 19 to 20, um, says on, on the evening of that day, the first day
Speaker:of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews.
Speaker:Jesus came and stood among them and said, Peace be with you.
Speaker:When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
Speaker:Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord, Jesus said to
Speaker:them again, peace be with you.
Speaker:So just imagine what's going on in the disciples' heads, um, they had
Speaker:left everything to follow this guy.
Speaker:Um, they'd, they'd then watched Jesus die, or, well, most of
Speaker:them deserted him, but they.
Speaker:You know, their hero died, the one they pinned all of their hopes on died.
Speaker:They're now scared for their lives.
Speaker:And they've, they've now got this, this woman claiming he's alive.
Speaker:Um, and they, they must have been racked with, with terror and doubt.
Speaker:You know, like, was everything that, that we'd seen just Crowd hysteria?
Speaker:Was it just hype?
Speaker:Was it just smoke machines?
Speaker:But even with the doors locked and barricaded, Jesus can
Speaker:reach you wherever you are.
Speaker:Jesus can do things that no one else and nothing else can do.
Speaker:And the disciples, they, they didn't just need, uh, to read the latest
Speaker:self-help book or do the latest personality test or just find the
Speaker:road back to their true selves.
Speaker:They needed to see the risen Jesus.
Speaker:Nothing else, nothing else can bring us hope.
Speaker:And Jesus comes to these weak, uh, these sinful, cowardly, and
Speaker:faithless men who had deserted him.
Speaker:And the words that he chooses to greet them with is just astonishing.
Speaker:He says, peace be with you.
Speaker:We, we cannot miss the significance of this.
Speaker:Um, the disciples must have been stunned because not only is this
Speaker:the man that, that, uh, had been crucified before their very eyes,
Speaker:but perhaps even more astonishingly, he claims to come with peace.
Speaker:How could there possibly have been anything but disappointment, anger,
Speaker:fury, and condemnation in Jesus' face?
Speaker:But what Jesus does next answers that very question cuz what does he give as
Speaker:a symbol or, or a sign or justification of, of, uh, of him coming in peace?
Speaker:He shows them his hands and his side and it, it is only then that we are
Speaker:told that the disciples were glad to see the Lord because you see their,
Speaker:their shame and their guilt actually rightfully told them that, but for some
Speaker:miracle, but for the blood of Jesus to stand before him, to stand before
Speaker:the king would be a terrible thing.
Speaker:Because they were, as are we deserving of nothing but punishment and wrath.
Speaker:Jesus is telling them that the resurrection is the receipt, the debt
Speaker:that was owed has been paid in full.
Speaker:God's wrath for those who are in Christ Jesus has been, has
Speaker:been fully, uh, laid on Jesus.
Speaker:It's been fully spent on Jesus and there's nothing outstanding.
Speaker:Um, Paul tells us in Romans eight verse one, that there is now, there
Speaker:is, therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Speaker:Jesus then repeats the greeting, um, to make sure they've got it.
Speaker:He says it again, peace be with you.
Speaker:The resurrected Jesus brings peace.
Speaker:He's um, and he, he, he shows them his hands and his side.
Speaker:Um, because that is how God demonstrates his love for us.
Speaker:Romans five verse eight says that, but God shows his love for us in that while
Speaker:we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Speaker:This is how he demonstrates his love for us.
Speaker:He, he points the disciples to that demonstration of his love.
Speaker:He points them to the cross.
Speaker:And I wonder if at this point, uh, it occurred to any of the disciples that
Speaker:Jesus had already said this to them.
Speaker:At the last Supper, Jesus had said to his disciples, uh, in John
Speaker:14:27, peace I leave with you.
Speaker:My peace I give to you not as the world gives do I give to you?
Speaker:Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Speaker:And this really begs the question, well, how does the world give?
Speaker:In what way does the world give?
Speaker:And I think at least one way that the world gives is that, um, or at least
Speaker:one way that, that, that we as humans give is that it's really much easier
Speaker:to, um, give extravagantly to someone who is maybe quite well off, um, who,
Speaker:you know, is very good at giving gifts.
Speaker:Uh, someone who, who just really gets you, um, and you know, and
Speaker:whose gifts you won't end up.
Speaker:Just taking to the charity shop the first week of January or trying to palm after
Speaker:someone else as a gift next Christmas.
Speaker:Um, but it's different with God, isn't it?
Speaker:Because all that I have to give to God is dust and yet he gives me life.
Speaker:All I have in my heart to give him is chaos and confusion, and he brings peace.
Speaker:He gives me peace.
Speaker:This is true generosity, um, because I cannot pay back, um, what he's, what he's
Speaker:given, you know, if someone, um, it's just so easy, isn't it, to give to someone
Speaker:who, um, who, who you think probably has the ability to give you something
Speaker:really good at some point in the future.
Speaker:Um, it is not so with us.
Speaker:All I have to give him is myself and, and, and he gives me everything.
Speaker:Namely himself.
Speaker:Um, we, we have the tendency to, to be fascinated and get distracted
Speaker:by, uh, the peripheral benefits of the Christian life when the greatest
Speaker:treasure that God gives us is himself.
Speaker:And there really is no miracle greater than a sinner and a traitor standing
Speaker:before the risen king and hearing those words, peace be with you.
Speaker:My peace I give you.
Speaker:He is so generous that even though we can give him nothing, we can only give
Speaker:us, we can only give him ourselves.
Speaker:He gives us everything himself.
Speaker:So thank you very much for listening guys.
Speaker:And um, yeah.
Speaker:Well, that's it.
Speaker:Bye.
Speaker:Welcome back.
Speaker:Uh, great talk Pete.
Speaker:Uh, great talk.
Speaker:I was grateful that his son didn't wake up, or maybe he did and he just paused
Speaker:it in the middle and we never knew.
Speaker:Cause it was edited out but is great, great, great talk there from Pete.
Speaker:Always love, love when Pete talks.
Speaker:Just the simplicity of the gospel.
Speaker:He's great at bringing that, which is fantastic.
Speaker:So Dan.
Speaker:I'll ask the first question, bud.
Speaker:Go on then.
Speaker:Let's go for it.
Speaker:Uh, excuse me.
Speaker:Um, what stood out to you most about Pete's talk?
Speaker:I like you say, he, he's really clear, isn't he?
Speaker:He brings across the message in ways, um, when this is, I've heard
Speaker:this, the story so many times and read it and just different bits.
Speaker:He, he, he brought out and, um, uh, the big bit at the start was.
Speaker:If this was a conspiracy, why use a woman's testimony as the first testimony?
Speaker:I love it.
Speaker:I love that Jesus said, Mary Magdalene, I love you.
Speaker:You're gonna be the first person to see me.
Speaker:I love it that she was a woman in that culture in that time.
Speaker:That wasn't the done thing to do.
Speaker:I love it that now when we are in an age of political correctness
Speaker:and making sure, you know, he was there, this was 2000 years ago.
Speaker:Been there, done that.
Speaker:Uh, I just, yeah, I love how, and I love that he said Mary, and
Speaker:that's when she knew it was him.
Speaker:When he calls us by name, when he speaks to us, that's just a beautiful thing.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Sounded like you now saying that, beautiful thing.
Speaker:My work here is complete.
Speaker:Ladies and gentlemen, I'm off.
Speaker:No, it's totally true.
Speaker:It's funny, isn't it?
Speaker:How, um, she, the, the conversation that Jesus has with Mary and
Speaker:Mary doesn't recognize Jesus.
Speaker:It's really intriguing to me.
Speaker:I read that and I go, how is that possible?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Cause it's not like, think as is talking about it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:How did, how did she not know?
Speaker:And there's, when you read, uh, I think it's in Luke's gospel, he goes, He sort of
Speaker:appears to people on the road, doesn't he?
Speaker:And they're talking for ages and they don't know, recognize it's Jesus either.
Speaker:And so it's not just Mary, it's the fellas as well who don't
Speaker:recognize the risen Jesus.
Speaker:And it's really intriguing to me how, how that actually works because
Speaker:she would've met him, she talked to him, she was familiar with jesus.
Speaker:And yet she didn't recognize that this was the risen Jesus and he can.
Speaker:It's interesting, isn't it, that um, you look at that and go, goodness.
Speaker:Now how many times Jesus, have you been stood there?
Speaker:How many times have you been speaking to me and I've just not recognized it?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Do you know what I mean?
Speaker:You're just kind of like, yeah.
Speaker:It's a lot, right?
Speaker:I mean, there's, there's, I'm gonna have more than Mary.
Speaker:I know that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And just have more than Mary.
Speaker:But it's interesting.
Speaker:And it's not until he says her name that she goes, aha.
Speaker:Now that's really interesting, isn't it?
Speaker:So, Yeah, I was fascinated by that.
Speaker:Uh, Dan, I was, and I, I'd not really pulled that out, just as Pete was talking.
Speaker:He was like, yeah, this is a really interesting part of
Speaker:the conversation that she has.
Speaker:And I think for us, we can be like that, can't we?
Speaker:We can.
Speaker:Jesus can be talking to us and we just don't recognize him.
Speaker:But somehow when he calls our name, we, something just happened.
Speaker:And I guess this is my testimony as a Christian, it like, It wasn't until I
Speaker:felt him call my name that everything sort of fell into place and I went,
Speaker:ah, now I understand the risen Christ.
Speaker:Yeah, Do you know what I mean?
Speaker:Amazing.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I'm the same.
Speaker:It wasn't, uh, I was brought up in a Christian family.
Speaker:Um, my dad is an evangelist who'd go around the, around the world.
Speaker:Um, speaking about Jesus, I'd heard the gospel lots of time.
Speaker:So I knew I knew the gospel, but it's when I knew it was for
Speaker:me, that was the difference.
Speaker:Like yeah.
Speaker:That's when he called your name.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And you, I guess in some respects, like Mary had heard Jesus talk about
Speaker:all these things all, all that time, just like you'd heard your dad say
Speaker:the same message over and over again.
Speaker:I mean, I didn't grow up in the church, so I'd not, um, but for you,
Speaker:you'd heard the message over and over again, but when he called your name,
Speaker:that's when it was personal to you.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yeah, that was that moment that that happened, uh, which is just fantastic.
Speaker:So, yeah.
Speaker:Love it.
Speaker:Love the topic.
Speaker:Love the topic.
Speaker:So one of the things, uh, that also intrigues me about this story, right,
Speaker:is the fact that Jesus has to show them his hands, uh, and his side.
Speaker:And the reason he does this, if you're not familiar with the story, is he
Speaker:was nailed to the cross in theory.
Speaker:The nails went through his hands.
Speaker:And there was a spear thrust into his side.
Speaker:And so it's only when they saw those that they were like, okay.
Speaker:And was it at the end of the, the movie, I dunno if you remember that.
Speaker:It's been a while since I've seen it.
Speaker:The, um, the passion of the Christ where at the end Yeah.
Speaker:The sort of the camera shows him standing up and you saw the light
Speaker:shining through the hand Yeah.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker:Really quite intriguing.
Speaker:You know what this tells me?
Speaker:Um, This was a risen body.
Speaker:This was a risen, healed body, but it still had scars.
Speaker:And I think, um, I remember once being in, it sounds a bit odd, I suppose,
Speaker:but I remember once being in a church, uh, church meeting, and I remember I
Speaker:just felt, God tell me I needed to say something to somebody in the meeting.
Speaker:I, in church circles, we would say, he gave me a word for somebody and I, I
Speaker:said this to this, uh, beautiful lady.
Speaker:I said, listen, here's the thing.
Speaker:I know that God has healed you, right?
Speaker:Because I can sense I just, God has healed you of something and I, I appreciate
Speaker:that he's healed you of something, but there are scars that still remain
Speaker:and we have to deal with the scars.
Speaker:Uh, and it was just a really, it was just really interesting revelation.
Speaker:I'd not really thought about it until that very point that actually as Christians,
Speaker:we can be healed of all kinds of things.
Speaker:I mean, even non-Christians can get healed.
Speaker:I mean, you don't have to be a Christian to get healed, but,
Speaker:um, but sometimes the healing is good, but the scars still remain.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Do you know, what I mean and, and actually being aware of that
Speaker:I think is really important.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:So just throwing that, that's a free one.
Speaker:Just throwing that out there.
Speaker:Just throwing that out.
Speaker:Well, that, um, Pete goes on to talk about, um, the difference
Speaker:between Lazarus rising rom the dead and Jesus rising from the dead.
Speaker:Jesus didn't need any help.
Speaker:He came out of that too.
Speaker:Um, he didn't stumble out.
Speaker:Um, he didn't have someone come to him and have to take off those, um, death clothes,
Speaker:those, you know, the clothes of the tomb.
Speaker:He, he came out because he.
Speaker:He was done and he came out in his own power.
Speaker:Um, like Lazarus was raised by Jesus' word, but then still is told his
Speaker:friends say, oh, go and help him.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:go and take those bandages off his eyes.
Speaker:And um, he still needed that help.
Speaker:Mmh.
Speaker:Yeah, it's the, and the fact that Jesus took his time to fold his clothes,
Speaker:I just find that most extraordinary.
Speaker:It's, yeah, you, you sort of read what is going on.
Speaker:It's the most extraordinary event, and he takes the time to make
Speaker:his bed and fold his clothes.
Speaker:Take notes.
Speaker:My teenage children take notes.
Speaker:If Jesus can fold his clothes, then so can I.
Speaker:Uh, and, uh, it's something I have to learn.
Speaker:Nichola's has put here in the comments, um, Sometimes the change in people,
Speaker:um, be it good or bad, can make them unrecognizable which is actually,
Speaker:that's actually, I like that.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:Nicola very insightful.
Speaker:That actually, um, when there has been a significant change, people
Speaker:do become unrecognizable in a good way, hopefully, and not in a bad way.
Speaker:Um, and that's, that's, that's, that's quite nice actually, when
Speaker:you've met with the Risen Christ.
Speaker:Do you become unrecognizable?
Speaker:I like that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I like that.
Speaker:Good thought.
Speaker:Good thought.
Speaker:So I noted Pete's comment here, Dan.
Speaker:Um, we do not need the latest self-help book or personality test.
Speaker:Um, hope is found in seeing the risen Jesus.
Speaker:Really interesting comment, isn't it?
Speaker:Because there is this, There is this self-help kind of trap.
Speaker:I think for Christians it actually you, you fall into this trap of if I just do
Speaker:this a bit better, then I will be better.
Speaker:Live your best life.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I can live my best life Do you know what I mean?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And it sounds all very nice and warm and fuzzy and lovely and all a bit self-helpy.
Speaker:Do you know what I mean?
Speaker:I just need to have a positive mental attitude.
Speaker:I just need to do this.
Speaker:I just need to do that.
Speaker:Um, but the reality is, without Christ self-help is just that, it's just,
Speaker:you're just relying on yourself, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But it's only when you meet with the risen Christ that as Nicola says that
Speaker:maybe you find that unrecognizable change.
Speaker:Dunno, what's your thoughts on that?
Speaker:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker:No, I, I like that.
Speaker:I, um, that he, yeah, I put that, that he's, he's our hope.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:It's not to say, that reading books, learning from people
Speaker:isn't, we don't need that.
Speaker:Cause we do.
Speaker:But sometimes we can put that above that what, what God has done.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:We can raise that higher.
Speaker:We can try and do it in our own strength.
Speaker:Um, and that's what other religions do.
Speaker:They try to, it's all about you.
Speaker:It's about what can I do to attain perfection?
Speaker:We can't attain perfection.
Speaker:We just got to have that hope, which is Jesus Christ.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And in him, yeah, in him we have that hope.
Speaker:And I always, um, I used to have a, like a church used to have
Speaker:small, small, um, youth groups and some lads in my youth group.
Speaker:And, um, I'd talk about hope and say in the UK, if you're not in church
Speaker:circles, hope can be a bit like a wish.
Speaker:We use it in the same way.
Speaker:Ah, really wish that I'd get a bike for Christmas.
Speaker:Really hoped that I'd get a bike for Christmas.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's not that.
Speaker:Our hope is, is steadfast.
Speaker:It's not a wish.
Speaker:It's something that's happened.
Speaker:It's something that Jesus is our Yeah.
Speaker:Is that fixed?
Speaker:Steadfast.
Speaker:Steadfast, yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:In Hebrews where Pete brought out that he saves to the uttermost.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I love, I love the Bible cuz it has all the.
Speaker:The definite words, not the great words or the, you know, uttermost.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Um, uh, hope a steadfast rock, you know?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker:It's, um, no, it's great.
Speaker:It's wonderful, isn't it?
Speaker:And, and I think again, you're right.
Speaker:I think you're right that actually it's not bad to learn things.
Speaker:It's not bad to read the self-help books, but if they're in place
Speaker:of Christ, I always liken it to.
Speaker:You can spend all your life trying to become perfect to realize that you are
Speaker:not perfect or you can come to Christ.
Speaker:He makes you perfect, and then you can spend all your life working for him.
Speaker:And that's one way you are.
Speaker:You are trying to build something that Christ freely gives you.
Speaker:And then you, you work out of that.
Speaker:Now am I saying that I don't sin or I don't do anything wrong?
Speaker:No, not at all.
Speaker:But that doesn't change the fact that God made me righteous.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And, um, that, and, and all of that, just so I don't need to attain something
Speaker:I've been given, but because I've been given it, I can, uh, build God's kingdom.
Speaker:That's my plan.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:You know, kingdom builders, that's what we are.
Speaker:So, um.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Brilliant.
Speaker:Absolutely brilliant.
Speaker:So, uh, Matt's put in the comment, so just a reminder there are
Speaker:no midweek Prayer zoom groups.
Speaker:Uh, that's true.
Speaker:There are no Prayer groups this week, um, as we are meeting in person
Speaker:at Chester Cathedral, if you are around, uh, we're gonna go to the
Speaker:Carol Concert, um, as put on by Mr.
Speaker:Mark Mitchell, who coincidentally has just been on what's the story?
Speaker:So if you're not subscribed to What's the Story podcast.
Speaker:Uh, let me tell you to head over to Crowd Church, www.crowd.church the website, or
Speaker:you can go to whatsthestorypodcast.com.
Speaker:Take you exactly the same place.
Speaker:I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker:Uh, uh, and you can listen to Mark Mitchell's podcast and you can
Speaker:listen to him tell his story about how he lost his car dealership when
Speaker:he decided not to open on Sundays.
Speaker:Uh, but how a very short time later, some really incredible things happened
Speaker:as a result and how he's got, you know, he's, he's thriving as a Christian
Speaker:entrepreneur, really phenomenal story.
Speaker:And actually a few years ago, had a brain hemorrhage, uh, and almost died.
Speaker:So, um, real, real, incredible stuff.
Speaker:So, dig into that.
Speaker:That's on.
Speaker:What's the story.
Speaker:He's, um, made?
Speaker:He doesn't know it, but there was a, he had impact on my life
Speaker:because I bought a car from him.
Speaker:I took my then girlfriend with me to get the car.
Speaker:He gave me some flowers, which I then gave on to, not that I'm trying to do
Speaker:things on cheap, but, lot of nice flowers.
Speaker:Um, but then we went out for our first date, which I say to was TGI Fridays.
Speaker:And um, Lisa says, was.
Speaker:Chiquitos.
Speaker:I think I'm right, but we, we never know.
Speaker:No, you're not Dan.
Speaker:Don't let just, what's wrong with you, man?
Speaker:Your wife is right.
Speaker:Dude.
Speaker:Come on
Speaker:Excellent.
Speaker:So you got your flowers and gave them to your now wife.
Speaker:So Mark Mitchell, you have just no idea of the impact that you've had.
Speaker:So yeah, Lisa's put in the comments.
Speaker:Oh, no.
Speaker:Uh, Lisa says, I assume Lisa, you are saying he's wrong not I'm wrong.
Speaker:Cause I'm saying that you are right.
Speaker:Just want to point that out.
Speaker:I know who's side I'm on, right In this conversation while we're live on air.
Speaker:Dan, when we're off, it'll be different, but when we're live, there's no way.
Speaker:Uh, so yeah, checkout what's the story with Mark Mitchell.
Speaker:We've also recently released an episode called The Need to Encourage Men.
Speaker:That was my conversation with the legendary Al Marshall.
Speaker:So they're both on what's the story?
Speaker:Do check them out.
Speaker:www.crowd.church or whatsthestorypodcast.com.
Speaker:Uh, Dan, next week, tell the good folks what's happening.
Speaker:Next week we have the resurrection again, but this is with John Harding.
Speaker:Um, so I'm, yeah, really interested.
Speaker:He'll pick out some different points of what we've spoken well
Speaker:about what Pete's spoken about today and what we've discussed.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And you've got Anna hosting with John Farrington, who will be
Speaker:great in Conversation Street.
Speaker:Looking forward to hearing what they've got to say.
Speaker:So do come and join us again next week.
Speaker:If you haven't done so already, make sure you like and subscribe
Speaker:to Crowd Church on YouTube.
Speaker:Just hit that little bell notification.
Speaker:Um, you will, uh, you'll, you'll see, uh, when we go live.
Speaker:Uh, so thanks everyone for joining us.
Speaker:Uh, we've got Caleb Mark watching from Kenya.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Great to have you bud.
Speaker:Uh, it's great that you are here.
Speaker:Great that you are joining us.
Speaker:Um, so.
Speaker:That's it from, uh, I was gonna say we're gonna finish a few minutes
Speaker:earlier tonight at the request of Mr.
Speaker:Matt Crew, uh, actually, and also because, um, the England football
Speaker:is on basically, and we, we, you know, we all wanna go watch the game.
Speaker:So Isaac's also watching from Kenya, we've got a lot of people from Kenya watching.
Speaker:So, uh, great that you are joining us.
Speaker:Uh, all the comments are coming up now.
Speaker:Uh, so that's it from myself.
Speaker:That's it from Dan.
Speaker:Like I say, any questions, head over to our website, www.crowd.church
Speaker:where you can connect with us.
Speaker:You can subscribe to our newsletter, you can reach out to us on
Speaker:social media at Crowd Church.
Speaker:We would love to hear from you.
Speaker:Uh, you can send in Prayer requests.
Speaker:We do pray for you throughout the week, which is just great fun.
Speaker:Uh, and um, yeah.
Speaker:Loving the fact that, uh, international, got folks from Kenya, folks all over
Speaker:the world watching what's going on.
Speaker:Uh, and great that you are here.
Speaker:So Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker:We are in the season of Advent now, so, uh, we will be ramping
Speaker:up to Christmas for our Christmas service on the 18th next week.
Speaker:Like Dan said, we have got, um, John Harding.
Speaker:The week after that we have got a talk called Finding Peace in
Speaker:Difficult Times, carrying on Pete's revelation about peace earlier.
Speaker:Uh, so we're gonna get into that a little bit.
Speaker:So wherever you are in the world, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker:It's been an absolute treat and pleasure to be with you.
Speaker:Anything else from you Dan?
Speaker:I just wanted to finish with, um, I wrote it down here.
Speaker:He can reach us anywhere.
Speaker:Pete just briefly said, he said, um, they were in a locked room and Jesus
Speaker:was there, and if you think that you can't be reached, if you think you are
Speaker:in a place that God can't get to you.
Speaker:He can, even if it's your locked room.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Brilliant.
Speaker:That's a great final thought.
Speaker:Maybe we should have a slot called the final thought slot.
Speaker:We'll think about that.
Speaker:Uh, no doubt.
Speaker:Matt Crew remind me.
Speaker:Um, so yes, goodnight all.
Speaker:Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker:God bless you.
Speaker:We'll be back next week.
Speaker:That's it from myself.
Speaker:That's it from Dan.
Speaker:The livestream is now gonna end.
Speaker:uh, and we we're working on a slightly better outro type thing, so it doesn't
Speaker:end as abruptly as it's going to do right now, but, um, yeah, that's it.
Speaker:Uh, God bless you.
Speaker:See you next week.
Speaker:Bye for now, folks.