Artwork for podcast CROWD Church Livestream
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ: Summary | Part 1 | Origin Series #12
5th December 2022 • CROWD Church Livestream • Crowd Church
00:00:00 00:55:57

Share Episode

Shownotes

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.

WATCH NEXT -- The Empty Tomb, and why it still matters https://youtu.be/pSkqOC_JC3M

⏱️ 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!


#crowdchurch #sermon #preaching #onlinechurch


Subscribe to Crowd Church to receive our latest messages: https://crowd.church

Transcripts

Speaker:

Welcome to this week's Crowd Church service.

Speaker:

We are a digital church on a quest to discover how Jesus helps

Speaker:

us live a more meaningful life.

Speaker:

We are a community, a space to explore the Christian faith and a place

Speaker:

where you can contribute and grow.

Speaker:

Our service, uh, will last about an hour and in a few seconds you'll

Speaker:

meet our hosts, uh, for our service, who will introduce today's talk.

Speaker:

After the talk, we will have a time of worship and reflection after which we

Speaker:

head into Conversation Street, where we look at your stories and questions

Speaker:

that you've posted in the comments.

Speaker:

Now, we want to invite you to connect with us here at Crowd Church, and we've got a

Speaker:

few ways in which you can do just that.

Speaker:

Firstly, you can engage with Crowd from any device during our

Speaker:

livestream, and if you're up for it.

Speaker:

Why not invite a few friends over and experience the service together?

Speaker:

See, church is all about connecting with God and connecting with others,

Speaker:

and one of the easiest ways for you to do that is join one of our

Speaker:

midweek groups where we meet online together to catch up and discover

Speaker:

more about the amazingness of Christ.

Speaker:

You can also subscribe to our fairly new podcast called What's the Story?

Speaker:

Uh, where we deep dive into stories of faith and courage from everyday people.

Speaker:

More information about all of these things can be found on our website

Speaker:

www.crowd.church, or you can reach out to us on social media at Crowd Church.

Speaker:

If you are new to Crowd or new to the Christian faith and would like to

Speaker:

know what your next steps to take are, well why not head over to our website,

Speaker:

www.crowd.church/next for more details.

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.

Speaker:

If you are watching on Facebook, a very warm welcome to you.

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.

Links

Chapters

Video

More from YouTube