1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:01,639 Speaker 1: The Michael Verry Show. 2 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 2: Anybody here ever lived in Vermont? Would you lift your hand? 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 2: You lived in the state of Vermont. Surely out of 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 2: five six thousand people, somebody's lived in Vermont. 5 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 1: Am I not seeing your hand? Where back there? Stand 6 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,240 Speaker 1: up Vermont? Stand up there for a minute. 7 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 2: Hey, welcome, We got one now. 8 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: I am told that in Vermont. 9 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 2: There would be a lake that's frozen solid in December. 10 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: And here here's a. 11 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 2: Guy who is sees a shortcut on the way home 12 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 2: instead of walking around the lake. 13 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: And who look at him? 14 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 2: He doesn't have a lot of faith, does he. He's 15 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 2: checking out that ice to make sure it's thick enough. 16 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 2: This is December. So here he goes across the lake. 17 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 2: He's just feeling his way along and woop, here comes 18 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 2: man much heavier a snowmobile. And there's a couple on it. 19 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 2: And they don't seem to have any doubts. They've got 20 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 2: great faith. Watch them, they just go watch them? Does 21 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 2: it go across? 22 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: Zoom? Now all of a sudden, he's a believer. And 23 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 1: so we look at. 24 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 2: The guy who's feeling a where wrong? Say, boy, he's skeptical. 25 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 2: He doesn't think that eye is gonna hold him up. 26 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 2: But that couple in the snowmobile, they must have gone 27 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 2: by and said, what are you doing down there on 28 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 2: your knees this December? 29 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: This ice? Oh you you think it won't hold you up? 30 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: You don't have any faith at all. They just zipped across. 31 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: They had great faith, didn't they. 32 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 2: Well, let's just go back to the same lake and 33 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 2: see what happens. In March. It's been a warm time. 34 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 2: And here's this same guy. He's taking a short cut 35 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 2: going to work this. 36 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: Time in March. He still is skeptical. 37 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 2: Old right there, he's still skeptical, but it's March. 38 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: He's siting along. 39 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 2: Here comes this couple, and this couple has the attitude. 40 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 2: You hear this a lot of times in churches and puppets. 41 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 2: If you'll just believe, if you'll have enough faith, or 42 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: if you'll believe and be passionate about your faith. To 43 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 2: believe is to know it's a reality, picture the reality, 44 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 2: and you'll be safe. 45 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: That's what faith is. 46 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 2: You want faith, faith, faith in yourself, faith in what 47 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 2: you believe. 48 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 1: I desire it, I claim it. 49 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 2: In the name of Da Da Da Da, and boy, 50 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 2: it's going to happen. 51 00:02:51,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: They had faith. Well, here we go, Now, what in 52 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 1: the world is this? 53 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 2: You see faith, you see death, and they win that 54 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 2: whole hypothermia, drowned, whatever, death, but they had I had 55 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 2: a lot of faith. And then we see doubt. So 56 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,239 Speaker 2: that's the three words. We're going to look at, three 57 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 2: gigantic words that affect every single one of us today and. 58 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: The rest of our lives. 59 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 2: And we understand, and we'll see what Jesus did and 60 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 2: what Jesus said, what he did, what he said, what 61 00:03:46,200 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 2: he did, and he said about these three giant words faith, death, doubt, hope. 62 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: You have your bibles with you. 63 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 2: Luke Chapter number seven, Luke seven, verse one through ten, 64 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 2: Jesus deals with faith, and then verse eleven through verse 65 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 2: seventeen he deals with death the eath, verse eighteen, all 66 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 2: the way through verse thirty five he deals with doubt, doubt. 67 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 2: So let's look at that if we could. Luke seven, 68 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 2: verse one. When he had completed all his discourse, his 69 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 2: teaching in the hearing of the people, he went to Capernaum, Capernaum, 70 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 2: and he'd been out of the plain the side of 71 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 2: the hill, in a flat area, and a centurion slave 72 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 2: who was highly regarded by him was sick and about 73 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 2: to die, And when he heard about Jesus the Centurion, 74 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 2: he sent some Jewish elders asking him to come and 75 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 2: save the life of his slave. And when they came 76 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:07,720 Speaker 2: to Jesus, they earnestly implored him, begged him. See, he 77 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 2: is worthy for you to grant this to him, for 78 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 2: he loves our nation, and it was he who built 79 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 2: our synagogue. Told about the Centurion. Now Jesus start on 80 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 2: his way with them. And when he was not far 81 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 2: from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him, Lord, 82 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 2: do not trouble yourself further, for I'm not worthy for 83 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 2: you to come under my roof. For this reason, I 84 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 2: did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. 85 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. 86 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 2: For I'm a man placed under authority, with soldiers under me, 87 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,679 Speaker 2: and I say to this one go and he goes, 88 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 2: And to another come and he. 89 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: Comes, and to the slave, do this, and he does it. 90 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 2: Now, when Jesus heard this, now listen carefully, he marveled 91 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 2: at him. What does it take to amaze God? What 92 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 2: does it take to just be marveled God? To say 93 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 2: that's amazing? What does it take, and turned and said 94 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 2: the crowd that was following him, this is Jesus. I 95 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 2: say to you, no, not even in Israel have I 96 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 2: found such great faith. When those who had been sent 97 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 2: returned to the house, they found the slave in good health. Interesting, 98 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 2: isn't it we talk about faith. First of all, know 99 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 2: what a centurion is. A centurion would be a captain 100 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 2: in the Roman army, be in charge of about one 101 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 2: hundred soldiers. And that's how the Roman army was established. 102 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 2: They had centurions who were captain. 103 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 1: With a hundred soldiers over them. 104 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,679 Speaker 2: They had generals, and the generals answered to the emperor 105 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 2: to season. And so this centurion was just one away 106 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 2: from ultimate power, the power of Caesar. 107 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: And so we have to understand that in the context. 108 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 2: Now, the centurion had a slave, his right hand man, 109 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 2: whom he loved, I'm sure was like family to him, 110 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 2: and he was dying. And so the centurion sent the 111 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 2: leaders in the synagogue, the Jewish leaders, the elders, and said, 112 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 2: go tell this Jesus, ask this Jesus to heal my slave. 113 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 2: And by the way, this is the gospel of Luke. 114 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 2: Remember Luke was a doctor. Luke was perhaps the only 115 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 2: gentile writer in the New Testament. And so Luke used 116 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 2: the word healing and the word say salvation interchangeably, because 117 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 2: they're the same word in the Greek. If you're healed, 118 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 2: you're saved. If you're saved, you're healed. And that is 119 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 2: really true. All of God's children are healed in this 120 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 2: life or in the next life. 121 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: That's the promise that we have in Christ. So get 122 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: that straight. 123 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 2: And so here we see that the Jewish leaders went 124 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 2: to the centurions, and they went on behalf of the 125 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 2: centurion to Jesus and said, this man is worthy. Did 126 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 2: you notice that is worthy of being healed. 127 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: Man? 128 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 2: He's a conquering officer, he was perhaps over that whole area. 129 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: What had he done in. 130 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 2: The eyes of the Jews to make him worthy? First 131 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 2: of all, he was a friend of the people. In 132 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:34,559 Speaker 2: other words, evidently this centurion had gone the synagogue. He 133 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 2: saw a worship there of a monotheistic God. He saw 134 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 2: the reverence of the people, he saw the morality of 135 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 2: the people. 136 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: He was attracted. And perhaps some. 137 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 2: People think he was not just a god Fearah, but 138 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,319 Speaker 2: he had been apostolyte. He had literally become a Jew 139 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 2: and was a member of the synagogue. 140 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: That made him worthy. 141 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 2: On top of that, he says, he built the church. 142 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 1: He built the synagogue. 143 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 2: So we see these leaders going to Jesus saying, hey, 144 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 2: he wants you to heal his servant man. He's one 145 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 2: of us, he's a part of the son of God. 146 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: He built the church, he's worthy. 147 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 2: Did you notice response to Centurions group said about him. 148 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:24,079 Speaker 2: They said, he said, I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy 149 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 2: of you to heal me. Now look how the thinking operates. 150 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 2: Good man, moral man built the church, He's worthy of healing. Right, 151 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 2: But the man in South Centurion said no, I'm really 152 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 2: not a good man. I'm really not I'm not worthy 153 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 2: of being healed. And see that's a crazy We think 154 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 2: just like that, ladies and gentlemen. That person is so 155 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 2: good and somorrow he's so fine. He just goes to church. Man, 156 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 2: he is worthy of big healed. And there is that 157 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 2: rascal over there that's come man, he's not worthy of 158 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 2: being healed. 159 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: We think like that, don't we? Sure we do. That's 160 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: the way the Jews thought, and. 161 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 2: The Centurion he brings in a whole new paradigm. Here 162 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 2: he says I'm not worthy, but I know Jesus can 163 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 2: heal me, because I see in Jesus what I see 164 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 2: in myself. 165 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: What was that authority? 166 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,679 Speaker 2: He said, I tell someone to go to battle, they 167 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 2: go to battle. 168 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,319 Speaker 1: I tell someone to come to me, They come to me. 169 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 1: They're my soldiers. I'm in command. I tell my slave 170 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: to do this, and my slave does it. I'm in charge. 171 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: He said. I have listened to Jesus. 172 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 2: I have watched him before miracle after miracle. I see 173 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 2: he too is a man who has authority, authority over life, 174 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 2: authority over sickness, authority in his teaching. 175 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 1: And that was the great faith. 176 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 2: That Jesus saw in the centurion that didn't see in anybody, 177 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 2: all the Jews, all the believers in all of Israel. 178 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 2: That's important we understand this great faith. It wasn't just 179 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 2: the when I've got great faith, I'm. 180 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 1: In my snowmobile. It doesn't matter where the eyes is, 181 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: sticker thing. Boy, I've got faith. We don't go across 182 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,319 Speaker 1: the other side. I've got grave. No, no, no, no, 183 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:27,679 Speaker 1: no no. 184 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 2: He put his faith in Jesus. You see all the Jews, 185 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 2: they said, boy, how was Jesus able to that person? 186 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,199 Speaker 2: Could blind good see and how could Jesus that person 187 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 2: was dead is now alive. How in the world could 188 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 2: Jesus teach this. I've never heard anything like it. It's revelation. 189 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 2: And they were trying to figure it out, trying to 190 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 2: explain it away. When who's who's who's his family? Then 191 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 2: they just carpenters, I mean they were. 192 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: And see the centurion he saw through all that and. 193 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 2: Said, this is God, this is divine activity. This is 194 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 2: someone who has ultimate authority. And Jesus says, man, he 195 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 2: gets it. 196 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: And all the other Jews, so many of them, didn't 197 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 1: get it. He's got the authority. Who had faith? 198 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 2: Going across that lake in Vermont, they well, they had 199 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 2: faith in the snowboll bill. Look at that guy, No, 200 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 2: the guy down who was feeling the how how. 201 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: Heavy the ice could take his weight? 202 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 2: He had reasoned out thought through faith, and when he 203 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 2: saw that the snowboll wing went over, he had great faith. 204 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 2: When he saw it was would not hold him up, 205 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 2: he turned around and went the other way. 206 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 1: You see, doubt preceded faith. 207 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:54,119 Speaker 2: This is what assess thatful mountain climber does. Except montclimber 208 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 2: knows the rock knows his limitation. 209 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 1: He knows himself. It's an exercise in reality. You say, well, 210 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 1: that's not really biblical faith. Then you don't know the 211 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:04,079 Speaker 1: definition of biblical faith. 212 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 2: Look at it in Hebrews, chapter number eleven, verse one. Now, 213 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 2: faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the 214 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 2: conviction of things not seen. Faith is assurance. Doesn't sound 215 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 2: like pie and the power I hope, I wish does it. 216 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 2: It's the assurance, and it's the evidence of things you 217 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 2: don't see. Faith is exercising reality, ladies and gentlemen. And 218 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 2: so this is what this was the faith that was 219 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 2: demonstrated by the Cinture. 220 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:40,440 Speaker 1: This was a great faith. 221 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 2: Jesus applauded and said he'd. 222 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: Not seen anything like it before. 223 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 2: It's because he saw in Jesus the authority. What does 224 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 2: it take for you to lie to make it do 225 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:54,680 Speaker 2: any situation? Just enough faith to turn ourselves and turn 226 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 2: the situation over to Jesus. 227 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: That's all it takes. That's all it takes. 228 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 2: Right there, that's great faith, faith based on truth, based 229 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 2: on experience. You just can't argue with it. So then 230 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 2: we see the next section of our study. It deals 231 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 2: with death. We see what Jesus said about faith, what 232 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 2: he did about faith. Now we see what Jesus said 233 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 2: about death and what he did about death. Look back 234 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 2: if you would in Luke chapter seven, verse eleven. And 235 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 2: soon afterwards he went to a city called name. 236 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: That's what he did. 237 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 2: And the disciples were going with him, a company by 238 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 2: a large crowd. Now, as he approached the gate of 239 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 2: the city, a dead man was being carried out, the 240 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 2: only son of his mother. And she was a widow, 241 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 2: and a sizeable crowd from the city was with her. 242 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 2: When the Lord saw her, he felt compassion for her 243 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 2: and said to her, do not weep. That's what he said. 244 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 2: And he came up and touched the coffin. That's what 245 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 2: he did. And the bearers came to a halt, and 246 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 2: he said, young man, I say to you arrive. And 247 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 2: the dead man set up and began to speak, and 248 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 2: Jesus gave him back to his mother, and fear gripped. 249 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: Them all they'll be in glorifying God. 250 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 2: Saying a great prophet has risen among us, and. 251 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: God has visited his people. 252 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 2: What about death? I love what weersby, said his commentary. 253 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 2: He has people meeting, He said two crowds met. He said, 254 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 2: you have Jesus, and you have his apostles and his disciples, 255 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 2: and a whole crowd coming from Capernaum all the way 256 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 2: to Name. There's a old crowd of people falling Jews. 257 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: Down the road. 258 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 2: At the same time there's a whole crowd of people 259 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 2: with a widow of. 260 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: Name and the body of her dead son. And so 261 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: these two crowds met. Two crowds met. 262 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 2: One was going out to the cemetery bury the boy. 263 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 2: The other was going into the city to celebrate Christ. 264 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 2: Two crowds met. By the way, you and I are 265 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 2: in one crowd or another because of our saying world 266 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 2: way to the cemetery death out of Vengess over going 267 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 2: way to the city, which is in New Jerusalem. 268 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: But that's sub plot. 269 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 2: Also, not only two Chris, two only sons met Jesus, 270 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 2: the only begotten son of God. And then this was 271 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 2: the only son of the widow from Name. So these 272 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 2: two sons met, both only sons. They met, but one 273 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 2: was dead and one was alive. Jesus was alive, he 274 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 2: would soon be dead, and the boy who was dead, 275 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 2: Jesus would soon pronounce him and he would come alive. Interesting, 276 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 2: isn't it? Also two sufferers met. There was a widow 277 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 2: who was weeping, and there was Jesus, who was the 278 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 2: suffering servant, identifying with her in compassion and weeping with her. 279 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 2: He asked, all, is a man of sorrows with us? 280 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 2: So two sufferers met. But the most important thing about 281 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:07,360 Speaker 2: these meetings, going in and going out, is two enemies met. 282 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: Life and death. Life and death. 283 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 2: Jesus came and brought life to him who was dead, 284 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 2: And ladies and gentlemen, that is always how Jesus handles death. 285 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 2: That's always how he handles it, every single time. What 286 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 2: does Paul tell us? In one Corinthians fifteen Great chapter? 287 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 2: He says, what happens when we're follows of Jesus Christ? 288 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 2: He said, this which is perishable, so we take it off, 289 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 2: we throw it away. We put on that which is imperisiable. 290 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 2: He said, this which is mortal, not gonna be here. 291 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,400 Speaker 2: Forever we take it off, we put on that which 292 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 2: is immortality. 293 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 1: Isn't that terrific? He said? In fact, explaining to me. 294 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 2: Death is swallowed up in victory, he said, death has 295 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,360 Speaker 2: no stem, because stem comes from sin. And Jesus took 296 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 2: care of our sin on the cross. Then he says, 297 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 2: thanks being the God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. This 298 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:19,439 Speaker 2: is how Jesus handles death. He eliminates it. Death is 299 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:23,959 Speaker 2: dead in Jesus Christ, without of business, it's non functioning. 300 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 2: And so we see here this is what Jesus did 301 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 2: and what Jesus said about death. It's always what he 302 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 2: does and always what he says about death. And we 303 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 2: see it here in that young man was brought back 304 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 2: to life. And then we see how Jesus dealt with doubt. 305 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 1: By the way, if. 306 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 2: You'd ask any of us to this point, if we 307 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 2: read the Bible, who is the one person that would 308 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 2: never doubt that Jesus was the Son of God that 309 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 2: we discussed in the Bible, from Genesis all the way 310 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 2: to this point. One person that would never doubt who 311 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 2: Jesus was. I would say it to be John the Baptist, 312 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 2: wouldn't you? I mean John the Baptist. He would doubt 313 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:12,880 Speaker 2: that Jesus was Messiah. That's that's that's I would never 314 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 2: believe that. 315 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 1: You just can't be. He was his cousin. He was 316 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: a forerunner. 317 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 2: He announced he was coming my John the Baptist. He 318 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,919 Speaker 2: sends a delegation to Jesus, and he has doubts that 319 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 2: Jesus is the Messiah. 320 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:36,360 Speaker 1: Hello, look at it in our scripture verse eighteen. 321 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 2: Still Luke seven the disciples that John reported to him 322 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 2: about all these things. 323 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: Summoning two of the. 324 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 2: Disciples, John from his prison sent them to the Lord, saying, 325 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 2: are you the expected one Messiah? 326 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: Or do we look for someone else? Now? Verse twenty. 327 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 2: When the men came came to him, they said, John, 328 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 2: the babtist, this has sent us to you to ask 329 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 2: are you the one, the expected one? 330 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: Or do you do we look for someone else? Verse 331 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:05,880 Speaker 1: twenty one. 332 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 2: At that same time, very important Jesus cured many people's 333 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 2: diseases and afflictions and evil spirits, and he gave sight 334 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 2: to many who were blind. Now this delegation kingdom John 335 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 2: asking Jesus is are you the Messiah? 336 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: Are you the one? 337 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 2: And then Jesus is healing people. Here's someone's death, they hear, 338 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 2: and he's healing people. And then Jesus turns around to him. 339 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 2: After they had witnessed this verse twenty two. He answered 340 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 2: them said go and report to John what you seen 341 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 2: and heard. The blind receives sight the lame walk, the 342 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 2: lepers are clings the death. 343 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 1: Here, the dead. 344 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 2: Are raised up, the poor have the gospel speakers preached 345 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 2: to them. Blessed is he who does not take a 346 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 2: vince at me. What is Jesus quoting? Jesus is quoting 347 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:59,919 Speaker 2: here from four different passages of Scripture, all in Isaiah, 348 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 2: Isaiah twenty six, Isaiah twenty nine, Isaiah thirty five, Isaiah 349 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,159 Speaker 2: sixty one, and he sort of puts them all together. 350 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 2: In other words, he's saying, tell John, what's going on here? 351 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 2: What I'm saying, what I'm doing, What you've seen, what 352 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 2: you've observed. But Jesus leaves out one thing, and John 353 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 2: was looking for this one thing. 354 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: Set the prisoners free. John said, I'm still in prison. 355 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: If he's gonna if justice is gonna. 356 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 2: Rain down like rivers, looks like you'd start with me, 357 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 2: I'm in prison. And then he could have added there, 358 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 2: and by the way, Rome is still running the show. 359 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 2: He could have added there, the religious leaders are solid phonies, 360 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 2: they're hypocrites, And John was saying, what about this? John 361 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 2: proclaimed that Kingdom was coming and called for the people 362 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 2: to be baptized and repent of their sin, and he 363 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 2: looked at Jesus and said, behold the lad of God. 364 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 2: There is a kingdom, there's a promised one, but the 365 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 2: kingdom hadn't come in total prophetic fulfillment. What is our 366 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 2: word here? We've accounted before. It is already the king 367 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 2: is gone, but not yet. 368 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: It is not here completely. It's an already and are 369 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: not yet. 370 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 2: And Jesus saying, don't be discouraged. That's that last little 371 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 2: phrase there, just. 372 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 1: This hang in here. 373 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 2: I brought the kingdom and is already here, but total fulfillment. 374 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 1: Is not yet, not yet. 375 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 2: So we see here how Jesus answered these doubts. Big 376 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 2: words we've looked at, have we not big words? Faith 377 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 2: not what we thought it was getting the snowmobile. 378 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: You gotta believe. You gotta believe death. 379 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 2: If you fall through life, lie to yourself, not in reality, 380 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 2: you'll get on sinking sand. Doubt helps us grow up 381 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 2: in our faith? How does it work itself out? Brennan 382 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 2: Manning got a call one morning from a neighbor. Neighbor said, Brennan, 383 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 2: would you come over and just spent a little. 384 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 1: While with my dad. I brought him here. 385 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 2: He's dying and he just needs someone to visit with 386 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 2: and talk with. He's a great believer, and so Brendan 387 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 2: said sure. So he walked through four doors up wanted 388 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 2: to see the man. His daughter left and they were 389 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 2: in the room and Brennan went to sit down in 390 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 2: a chair there's by his bed, and the man said, 391 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 2: excuse me, would you mind sitting in the chair on 392 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 2: the other side of my bed, And Brendan's oh, oh, certainly, 393 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. He sat down and he said, perhaps you 394 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 2: wondered why I want you to sit over here and 395 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 2: not over there. He said, well, you know, I thought 396 00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 2: maybe that's where you got out of the bed. 397 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 1: He said, oh no, he said, years ago, I had 398 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:03,479 Speaker 1: trouble praying. 399 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,679 Speaker 2: He said, I devise a system that I would have 400 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 2: a chair and it would be that chair, and I 401 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 2: would imagine Jesus in that chair, and I just told Jesus, 402 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 2: he said, lying here in the bed, I've talked to 403 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 2: Jesus a couple hours a day. 404 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: He said. It helps me to pray, to visualize Jesus. 405 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 2: And imagine him in that chair and talked him in 406 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,120 Speaker 2: that chair. He said, do you think anything's. 407 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,639 Speaker 1: Wrong with that? He said, no, no, I think it's 408 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:28,360 Speaker 1: a good symbol. 409 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 2: A few weeks went by and Brunner got a call 410 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 2: from the neighbor and said, my dad just died. It 411 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 2: said a strange thing, and said I didn't quite understand it. 412 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 2: But when we found his body, said I'd been in 413 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 2: there with him, and I'd walked out and went back, 414 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 2: and when we found his body, he was dead. 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