1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Thank you for listening to your Daily Bible Verse, 2 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: the podcast that examines one verse each day to learn 3 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: more about God and his will for our lives. I'm 4 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 1: your host, Kyle Norman. After a brief message from one 5 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: of our sponsors, we will continue with today's verse. Today's 6 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: verse can be founded Mark chapter sixteen, verse two. Very 7 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 1: early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, 8 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: they were on their way to the tomb, and they 9 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: asked each other, who will roll the stone away from 10 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: the entrance of the tomb. My wife is a crafter. 11 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: She loves making things. Last year she made me a 12 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: sweatshirt that sports a quote supposedly from Jesus. The quote reads, 13 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: in bold letters, you only live once. Just joking, be 14 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:16,559 Speaker 1: right back. It's humorous because it plays on the fact 15 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:20,839 Speaker 1: that most people have some working knowledge of jesus resurrection, 16 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: whether they believe it or not. Most people have heard 17 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 1: about Jesus' crucifixion and his resurrection three days later. It's 18 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: a common story that people know, and because of that, 19 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: it can be very easy to miss just how radical 20 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 1: and earth shattering this news originally was. Today, we might 21 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 1: feel that the resurrection of Jesus is old news. We've 22 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: heard it before. The fact is, the resurrection of Jesus 23 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: was an unexpected surprise. See everything about the resurrection betrays 24 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 1: common knowledge. We sometimes see our time as much more 25 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: advanced than the ancient world, But even the ancient world 26 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: and knew a fundamental truth about life. Dead people stay dead. 27 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: And that's the spirit in which Mary Magdalen and another 28 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: woman named Mary go to the tomb in the early 29 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: morning after the Sabbath. They go to prepare Jesus' body 30 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: for burial. They come with spices and anointments. They are 31 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 1: concerned about who will roll the stone away so they 32 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: may have access to the body. The point is they 33 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: aren't thinking about the resurrection. They aren't skipping along a 34 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 1: garden path excited about what they're going to find. No, 35 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: these women are grieving, and everything within them said that 36 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: the story of Jesus was done. Jesus had nothing more 37 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: to say to them. From the standpoint of the women 38 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: that morning and the disciples hiding in the upper room, 39 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: Jesus existed entirely in the past tense because over the 40 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: years there had been many people who had been crucified, 41 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: and they all remained in their tombs. Similarly, the first 42 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: century world was filled with religious teachers and Messianic figures, 43 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: all who ended up being executed. So in many ways, 44 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: Jesus had died as all the other would be Messiah's 45 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: out there. So what in the first century world, the 46 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: thought probably would have been, We've seen this before, and 47 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: we'll probably see it again. And that was the spirit 48 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: in which the disciples hid in the upper room, and 49 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: the women approach the tomb. They asked each other, who 50 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: will roll the stone away? And they asked us, because 51 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: everything within them expects that the body that had been 52 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: placed there three days prior remained there. Resurrection just simply 53 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: wasn't on the radar. But there is an undisputed fact 54 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: that history has never been able to explain away. Three 55 00:03:55,960 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: days after Jesus' death, the women began spreading the news 56 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: Jesus was raised and we've seen him. What caused these 57 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: grieving women, who by the way, were not considered reliable 58 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: witnesses to anything in the ancient world, to start telling 59 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: this unbelievable, unheard of and frankly in the eyes of 60 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: the world, ridiculous story. What made them move from tears 61 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:28,119 Speaker 1: to testimony from weeping to worship, from grieving to glorifying. 62 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: Do we really think that their message is just an 63 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 1: old wives tale? Do we really think that they didn't 64 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 1: experience something that morning which changed their very understanding of 65 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: the world around them? And this pattern gets repeated again 66 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,799 Speaker 1: in the game. The disciples, they don't initially believe the women, 67 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 1: but by the end of the day they begin saying, 68 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: Jesus was raised from the dead, and we've seen him. 69 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: Two disciples who ran away from Jerusalem towards Amais end 70 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: up returning to Jerusalem saying to everybody, Jesus has been raised, 71 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: and we've seen him. Thomas, who is skeptical and doubtful 72 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,720 Speaker 1: about the resurrection, one week later begins saying to people, 73 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 1: Jesus is alive, and I've seen him. And years later 74 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: Saul of Tarsus, who was a persecutor of the church 75 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 1: who hated the Christian message, he begins declaring, Jesus is 76 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: alive and I've seen him. What if the resurrection stands 77 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: as the most significant surprise in history, one that changes 78 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: absolutely everything. What if the resurrection means that Jesus can 79 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 1: be experienced in your life. See, Jesus is not simply 80 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: someone who existed in the past tense. He's not someone 81 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: locked solely in the pages of ancient texts. And as 82 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: surprising as it might sound, we can find ourselves in 83 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: his presence today, just like the two Men, just like 84 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: the Disciples, and just like the apostle Paul. You have 85 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: a choice to make. Either the resurrection of Jesus has 86 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: nothing to do with you, or it has everything to 87 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: do with you. Now, you may not see Jesus walking 88 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: the dusty streets of your city or town, but Jesus 89 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 1: can be known in the deepest places of your life, 90 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: touching the deepest needs and healing the deepest wounds. So, 91 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: as surprising as it might sound, dare to believe this 92 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: gospel truth. Jesus is alive and you can see him.