Resurrection!

Main idea: Trust the risen Christ; He holds your now and forever.

1. The revelation of resurrection
   1. Isaiah 26:19
   2. Ezekiel 37:12, 14
   3. Daniel 12:2 
   4. Job 19:25-27
   5. Psalm 16:10
   6. Isaiah 53:10 
   7. Zechariah 12:10 
   8. Matthew 22:31-33
2. The resurrection, awe and joy (Matthew 28:1-10)
3. Resurrection, power and purpose (Matthew 28:18-20)

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  He is risen for my feeble attempts at another language. Christos Vasquez, well done. Thanks. Welcome. If you are visiting with us, I'm so glad you're here. My name is Dan, and I'm one of the pastors. If you're brand new to church, if you've not been to church in a long time, we stand and sing a lot. Amen. We love singing. We love singing because God has taken hold of our hearts and given us eternal life and hope and purpose here. So we love to sing. And if you're visiting with us, before long, you'll love to sing too. So we're we're eager for that. I have never loved our church more. I see God working in the lives of people, their relationships and their growth groups, the way that they're pursuing the Lord in so many ways. I just watched that transformation our young musicians, our choir, our orchestra, and all of them wanting from their hearts to glorify Jesus for all his grace with the Best Musical Expressions that they can. And that is a joy for me to watch. Thank you for our choir and orchestra, if you are you encouraged by them this week I should be like Friday night and this morning have been really incredible. So it's been, it's been a joy to be part of that. We're going to turn our attention to the resurrection of Jesus Christ this morning, and we're going to be looking at the Gospel of Matthew. It's in the New Testament. It's the first book. We're going to look at the last chapter, the first book of the New Testament, chapter 28 and we're going to read about this life, world changing. Day. Stand with me for the reading of God's word when, when we get done our tradition as I'll read it, and then I'll say, this is the word of the Lord. You say thanks be to God, because you're thankful that he speaks to us still through His Word. Matthew 28 verse one, now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb, and behold, there was a great earthquake for an angel of the LORD descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone that is over Jesus' grave, and he sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow for fear of him, the guards trembled. Became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said, Come see the place where he lay. Then go quickly tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him. See I have told you. So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy and ran to tell his disciples. Behold, Jesus met them and said greetings, and they came up and he took and they took hold of his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, for there they will see me. This is the word of the Lord, our great God and Father. This this resurrection day, we are reminded of the way you changed the course of history, the way you carried out your plan to rescue sinners by your son's death, and then by raising Him from the dead. Good Friday, we saw Lord Jesus that you gave your life on a cross to pay for our sins. And at that moment when you died, tombs were opened, then saints from some time past were raised to life, and this day they came out,
  
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  this day that we're looking at you, rose from the dead a victor over all things evil. Lord Jesus, we thank you for sending us your spirit so that we could hear this word. To respond to it, and I pray that you would make us alive with it. Some are here who have not yet put their faith and trust in you, and they're on the beginning of the journey. Make your word clearer. Many of us have walked with you many decades. Refresh and renew our hearts in this very powerful truth. And I pray across the city that every pulpit, every household where there are Christians in it, there would be an overflowing joy representing Jesus, relishing in the Gospel, and many will sit with people who do not love Jesus, and may the testimony of the saints be a magnetic attraction to the power of the gospel to change lives. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen, you may be seated. Stephen Colbert interviews the most famous celebrities in his late night talk show, and it's called The Colbert questionnaire. It opens with sort of an innocuous question, what's the best sandwich? I might now say the rubano, which is a Cuban styled Reuben at zozos, not to make anybody hungry. There are serious questions as he rolls through it, he really asks this question, what do you think happens when you die? Almost every celebrity squirms in their chair and says, I don't know. And then they give some kind of wishful guess. The last question that he asks Is this, in five words describe the rest of your life. One event in cosmic history directs the answer to both of those questions. What you do with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ determines what happens when you die and what you do with the rest of this life. And I want to say friends, you don't have to fidget, you don't have to squirm, you don't need wishful thinking. You can know what happens when you die, and you can live the rest of your life with joyful significance. Jesus is alive from the dead. If I were to think the main point, what the women show us in this section is a version of faith, and the call for us is to trust the risen Christ, because he holds your now and your forever. He is ascended over all this, your first Sunday in a church or hearing from the Bible, welcome. We're glad you're here. You picked our favorite Sunday, our favorite Sunday of the year. It's a day Christians celebrate the greatest event in cosmic history, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And for those who take Jesus at his word, it is new life and purpose. It's also one of the most important resets for the next year. It reignites our first love. Since this world is filled with all kinds of distracting, tempting things, we can often wander off the path toward God, and this is a week that calls us back for a little context of what we've been doing. Again, if you're new with us, we this is connected to a series last week we looked at what we would call the purple thread Jesus came into Jerusalem about a week before his crucifixion. It's something that the church has always called the triumphal entry. About 100 to 200,000 people joined Jesus in the throng shouting praises to Him because they believed he was the Messiah. He had already fulfilled so many prophecies. He had done so many great things, they thought he was coming to retake his place, God's place. That's the purple thread, because all throughout the Old Testament, there was a promise of a king to come.
  
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  The people understood that they had a problem dealing with a holy God. They needed to be purified. The temple stood for this where Jesus went into the temple was the place where sacrifices were made. Because how does a holy God live with an unholy people? Something? Somebody must die. Since sin. Ian brings death. We need to be cleansed.
  
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  The white thread, the thread of God's holiness. Last Friday, we saw the scarlet thread, some in song, some in Scripture, because from the beginning after sin, there has been a steady demonstration of sacrifices in blood that showed us the need to be cleansed from our sin by the blood of someone else. And we celebrate Good Friday because it was the day that Jesus was willingly crucified to pay for our sins. That scarlet thread. Today, we're going to look at the green thread, the green thread God's plan across the Bible, ultimately, from the beginning to the end, has pointed to new life in a new garden. That's where the whole story of the Bible ends in Revelation. We're going to look at it in three parts from Matthew 28 and other passages the revelation of resurrection, how God has shown us how resurrection travels from the Old Testament into the new the resurrection, awe and joy number two, and then the resurrection, power and purpose. If you're if you're at church for the first time, if you open a paper Bible to the table of contents, the first 39 books make up the Old Testament. The last 27 make up the New Testament. Those first 39 there's a little list in notes, if you picked up notes, a little sidebar, and there are names, and those are the names of the books, and then the first set of letters or numbers is the chapter. There's a colon, and then the next letters are verses, chapters and verses. You've seen them on the screen if you're new to the Bible, and they really help us get around the books of the Bible. And I've left the list longer than we can take today, but I would love you and your kids to be able to look up these verses, these statements from scripture that point us to resurrection. I want you to be able to see and find them yourself. So let's take a look at this glorious statement we were listening to my son Evans church on Good Friday. This is what pastors do when their kids are pastors. When pastors kids are pastors, you go watch their services after your services are done, we watched Good Friday service, their pastor, Nate said that looking at the resurrection is for a Christian, like every person looks at a sunset. You ever get tired of beautiful sunsets? When was the last time you were wore out by a glorious sunrise? Never you always love them. Christians always love this news. We're going to look at the revelation that points us to it. So let's start with number one, the revelation of resurrection. Jews and Christians did not invent resurrection. God revealed it from Genesis to Zechariah, one of the last books of the Old Testament. I want you to see where it fits in. Remember, God created the heavens and the earth. Chapter Genesis, chapter one, the opening of the Bible. All life. And then He created Adam and Eve. They were created to be king and queen of creation. They were to reflect God, that's image. They were to have a big family. They were to tend and keep the world, God would dwell with them and provide for them abundantly, they would have everything they need. He gave them one, do not, one prohibition, one, Thou shalt not. You shall not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This is in the garden that they were placed in for the day that you eat it, you will surely die. That tree of the knowledge of the good, of good and evil, was God's way of saying, Are you going to trust that my Rules for Living in my world are best? I want you to trust my rules. Now, God had also made angels. One great Angel, Satan rebelled, and he possessed a snake tempted Adam and Eve, telling them that if they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they wouldn't die. You won't die, plus you'll be like God, you'll get to make your own rules. They ate from the tree, and the ground from which the tree sprouted was cursed. Mankind dies. They believed that. The deception and the lie, and God did what he said.
  
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  Romans, 512, says, Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, so death spread to all men, because all sinned, all of us sin, all of us have sinned. We face judgment for making our own rules to live in God's world. And now there's two kingdoms in conflict from Genesis three the beginning, there are two kingdoms in conflict God and His rule over all of heaven and earth, Satan and his rule over just the Earth as the tempter and tyrant. But right from the beginning, God is just and merciful. God is powerful and gracious, and he set forth a plan to reclaim the Earth from Satan. The first good news of the Bible is what Jesus told Satan about Eve's offspring. He will crush your head and you will bruise his heel. Satan, you're going to kill him. Poison snakes bites do that, but it will be small. It will be temporary. Satan, his death will destroy you. And that's been the trajectory of the old testament to the new. And embedded in that is the idea resurrection, the one who dies will only be dead temporarily.
  
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  For all history, we are still told a lie. You can make your own rules and you can be like, God, no consequences. It's not worked out that way. On Wednesday at Discovery, I was invited again to ask Pastor Dan, one parent or maybe one really bright kid had a question, like there are stumpers every time, Does God love Satan? I don't think so. Very confident answer I had, I think God hates Satan. He's always an enemy. While I was waiting for these questions to come, our little guys are playing games out in the foyer, as they often do. One of them tripped on the carpet, hit his chin, scraped his chin, and he's brought down to the room that we're in. He's He's crying. His little boy is crying. He just did a face plant, and his his cheek is bleeding from a little rug burn, and we're trying to comfort him. And I said to him, buddy, you're doing great. You're doing great. And he says, I'm not doing great, I'm doing horrible, right? You're it's true, buddy, you're doing horrible. The Devil and the world around us are telling you to live your own life. You're taking it on the chin with all the consequences. You're dying. Conflicts run amok in your life. They're saying you're doing great, buddy, but you know, I'm doing horrible. We're all going to die. Going to die. What does God say happens when you die? Well, to those who trust God in the Old Testament, there are some promises. Looking ahead to those who will trust Christ, there are some promises. And I just give you a sample from some of that list. In that call out box, Isaiah, 26 the prophet Isaiah says this, your dead shall live. Their bodies shall rise from the Old Testament, there is a prediction of new life. Ezekiel, 3712 and 14. Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live. From the Old Testament, there are promises of resurrection. Here's a really critical one in the book of Daniel, Daniel, famous for Daniel and the lion's den and many other famous stories at the end of Daniel, God has. Daniel write this, many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt. There is a resurrection day promised, and it's a day of judgment to those who have trusted, repented of sin, trusted in God instead of idols, they are awakened to everlasting life in a judgment, then those who are awakened to life in bodies have to face Messiah and answer for their unbelief, everlasting contempt, and there was a promise of one. Special person called Messiah, Christ, who would lead resurrection and judgment. He would reward the believer and punish the unbeliever. King David connected his resurrection to Messiah's resurrection. Said this psalm, 1610, for you will not abandon my soul to Sheol or let your Holy One see corruption. Here's what David is saying, You're not going to let me stay dead forever, and you, God won't let your Holy One, which was a name for Messiah, David connected Messiah's resurrection to His resurrection. Isaiah, the prophet knew that the Messiah must come and deal with sin. There must be a sacrifice for our sin, and there must be a conquest of sin before he could raise us to life. Isaiah, 53, verse 10, says this, yet it was the will of the Lord to crush Him. Christ, He has put Him to grief when he makes when his soul makes an offering for guilt, that's what we celebrated Friday. He shall see his offspring. He shall prolong his days. The will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He can't see it. It can't prosper unless he's raised. Messiah's mission was to live as a man, die for sinners, rise from the dead and rescue us from Satan's deceptive rule.
  
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  We go into the New Testament, Gospel of Matthew and the three other gospels during any time before Good Friday, if you would have asked Jesus the question, what do you think happens when you die? What would Jesus say? He answered it six different times. Six different times. He told His disciples that He had to go to Jerusalem. He had to be betrayed and arrested and crucified by Romans and religious leaders, and on the third day he would rise. What do you think happens when you die? Jesus? He would say, resurrection. On the third day after my murder, I will rise from the dead. If you would have asked him during that time while He was on earth, in five words describe the rest of your life, he would have said, die for sinners, defeat Satan, knowing beforehand about resurrection gave him confidence in dying for sinners. That's the revelation, just a sampling of it. We turned to the second resurrection, joy and on, and here we're now in what we read from the Scripture. Here's what happens with Jesus, now, after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. They had wrapped his body, fitted him for burial, but they were in a rush, because they had to be done by Sabbath. They were Jewish, so they put him in a shelf in Joseph's tomb. Now, after Sabbath was over, just as it's starting its first light, they get their things together. They go to the temple or temple, they go to the to the tomb, and they see something. Verse Two. Behold, there was a great earthquake. It's the second earthquake in three days. The first one was on Good Friday, Friday night, when Jesus bowed his head, breathed his last, the earth shook. Their tombs were opened. That death was so powerful that it even awakened some of the old saints from death, and after this resurrection, they went out. Here is another powerful earthquake. Why was there an earthquake? Well, an angel from the LORD descended from heaven. Angels are heavenly beings who serve God and serve man. And this is a great Angel, an earthquake causing angel. He comes directly from the presence of God. He rolls back the stone and sits on it. His appearance was like lightning. His clothing white as snow. For fear of him, the guards trembled and became like dead men. This holy angel, supernatural being served God, serving people, arrives in heavenly brilliance. Science causes the earthquake rolls back the stone. I mean, think of this powerful reality, a fallen angel Satan tempts Adam and Eve the ground is cursed. A holy angel descends from heaven, rolls back the stone, the curse, it's time. It's going to be reversed. Jesus had already risen. The angel comforts the women. This very common statement, the angel said to the women, do not be afraid. I mean, I know I'm terrifying, glorious and majestic. I mean, maybe he's being casual. He sits on a stone, or his legs kicking. I mean, I always try to imagine what this thing is going to look like. He sits on a stone. How does an angel sit on a stone? But he says, For I know that you seek Jesus, who is crucified. He is not here. I was reading this morning a quote from an old preacher. This is he is not here. It's good news every other time in the Gospels. He is here is good news in Capernaum, in Nain with a dead widow
  
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  at Galilee in Jericho, at Bethany, at the resurrection of Lazarus, he is here is good news. Here he is not here is good news. He is alive from the dead. He has risen, as he said, Come see the place where he lay. They had just put him in the on the shelf in Joseph's new tomb. On Friday night, they'd know just where they laid him. They knew what it was like take a torch or step in as the light grows and they can see quickly, he says, go look, look inside. Then go quickly tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee, now that's significant. Ladies, go tell my disciples that he's risen, risen from the dead. Why Galilee? Why would he make that here? Well, the night of the Last Supper, as Jesus is sharing all of the elements of the Passover meal, and then what we'll celebrate later in communion, Judas was fix him to betray Jesus. Jesus says, One of you will betray Me. Judas asked, is it i Lord? Jesus says, it is as you say. Peter says, you know all may fall away from you. All may leave you. I will never leave you. I'll die with You. Lord Jesus looks at him and said, Peter today, before the rooster crows three times, you will deny me. You will deny me three times. But when I have been raised from the dead. I will go before you to Galilee, and there you will strengthen many of your brothers Galilee. He is going to Galilee for Peter and the disciples who fled in fear and denied him. Galilee was a multi national Crossroads from people from all over the world. Jesus was alive. He had plans, and they were plans for the world. There you will see him. And so the women departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy and ran to tell his disciples. I mean, think of it, earthquake, Angel, empty tomb, Jesus is alive, yes, fear, wonder, awe, terrifying and good, all at the same time. Verse nine, behold, Jesus met them and said greetings, and that was all he said, Greetings, little more Jesus. But you know what? Jesus standing in front of them and a greeting was all their minds could handle. No, he's alive. They came up and took hold of his feet, which means they fell on their faces, and grabbed Jesus around the knees, and they worshiped him. He is no mere man. He had power within himself to live death. Could not hold him. They worshiped God alive. Jesus gives the next word of comfort. Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee. There they will see me, just in case they won't believe the angel. I need them to believe me. Go tell them. And right here in these brief verses, there's five responses that should be our responses. First, fear.
  
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  Jesus had raised the dead. Now he's alive from the dead. I mean, think for a minute, Judas Satan possessed Judas to betray him. Local police arrested him. Religious leaders tried him. Weakness and fear like Peter's denied him. Politicians like Herod belittled him, governors like Pilate condemned Him. Soldiers tortured him until his body was bloodied and swollen beyond recognition. Death destroyed him. Now, here he stands. Fear him. Of course, fear him. He has defeated Satan, the Roman Empire and death itself. Fear Him, but notice, it's not just fear. There is comfort. He also said, Do not be afraid. There. There is a fear that drives out all other fears. You could fear a failing economy. You can fear something bad happening to your spouse, to your kids. You can fear a civil war. You can fear the third Gulf War. You could fear a nuclear war. You can fear a government or politicians. You can fear death. You can fear guilt and judgment. You can even fear hell. But a resurrected Jesus
  
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  is the awe fear that drives out all fear because he is victorious. Comfort. Oh, what a comfort it is that Jesus is resurrected from the dead. Third, there's this great joy. It's mixed in the one who loved you and died for you is alive forever more, fitting you for a purpose, giving you a power. In life, there is great joy, and that's why we love to stand and sing for a long time we love to sing. There's such joy in the news that Jesus is alive from the dead. There is worship. There is worship, and it means this really, if you fall at your feet before King Jesus, that's a heart posture if you repent of the sins that he paid for on the cross, your guilt is no match. You can be restored, forgiven, reborn, victorious, the voluntary enslavement we often call addiction in our time, there is it is no match. Temptations that we all feel are no match, interpersonal conflict that happen in most every set of human relationships, marriages and workplaces, they are no match. The loneliness of singleness or the fear of singleness after the death of a spouse is no match. He gives a resurrection power, and for this we give him worship, honor, praise, glory, and the fifth is obedience. He says, Go and tell the women, go and tell he is the king. There is no better way for me to show that I love him than doing what he says. He's always had a good plan. He's always had a victorious plan. I will obey him a resurrection. In awe and comfort. And number three, resurrection, power and purpose. At the end of the chapter, he meets them. The resurrection means that Jesus is Lord over all the earth. Jesus calls his disciples to Galilee, where he's going to instruct them in their nation, in the mission to go to the nations. Verse 16, now the 11 disciples went to Galilee on the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshiped him. But some doubted. I just want to tell you, if you have not yet repented and trusted Jesus, and you think that when you repent and trust Jesus, you then need to be really, really good in order for him to keep you. Want to tell you the disciples who are close to Jesus for His whole ministry saw him and still had doubts. Some like Peter's were self doubts. I don't think I'm worthy to serve him anymore. I think I've got to go back to fishing. Jesus meets him, restores him. Some like Thomas wouldn't believe it until he saw the scars on the hands and the scar in his side. And he did see and he did say, My Lord and my God, I just want you to know that trusting Jesus doesn't mean Satan stops tempting. You don't have your doubts, or you don't stumble and fail in sins, because before Jesus leaves the earth to ascend into heaven, his disciples had their doubts. But this is what Jesus has to say in the face of doubts. Verse 16, All authority in heaven on earth has been given to me.
  
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  This is precisely what Psalm two predicted about Messiah. He would reign above all nations. All authority in heaven on earth has been given to me. I have conquered Satan. I have defeated now. I am king over both heaven and earth. I have a mission for you. It's an empowered mission. When he says, I have authority. That means whatever He tells his disciples to do, he energizes for them to do it. He empowers them to do it. Later on, we find that Jesus sends His Spirit to indwell and live and help his children follow Him. So He says, Go, therefore, make disciples of all nations. A disciple is someone who learns from Jesus and imitates Jesus. You have lived with me. I've taught you now. You teach others how I lived. Learn from me and imitate me. Do that in all the nations scatter. Remember, 2000 years later, we're in Spokane with a church filled with disciples. Jesus has been empowering his mission. He says baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit. When somebody is baptized, it's a symbol of what's going on in their life. They are leaving their old life in sin and repentance, turning away from it being washed and made new for a new life of faith and obedience. So tell them the gospel, see what my word does to make them alive and send them on to their new way of life. It says, teaching them, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. We're to start living in Christ's new way. And he says this, look at it. Don't look at me. Look at it. If you have a paper Bible, look at it. Behold, I am with you always to the end of the age. Who is with you when you believe the resurrected Son of God, through His Spirit, is with you to the end of the age. The mission to reclaim the world from the clutches of sin and Satan begins in Jerusalem, and it's going to be opposed by Satan, religious leaders and governments. It still is. We still age and die, but this cannot stop the resurrected Christ. He is with us in resurrection power. And it gives several things, one, future hope. Future hope. The apostle Paul later says this in the letter to the Corinthians, Second Corinthians, 416, so we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. It's resurrection power that renews us and renews our hearts. Because Jesus was raised as the first of a great harvest of souls, we look forward to a resurrection. The first letter that Paul wrote to the Corinthians, wanted to remind them of this in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised, imperishable, all believers who are in the grave. What happens when you die? Right now, your soul goes to heaven to be in the glory of Christ. What happens when Jesus returns, your soul is raised imperishable, never to be corrupted, never to be tempted, never to decay again and die. That is the only fitting body for the new heavens and the new earth. We shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable. This mortal body must put on immortality, new life. Of all the Colbert questionnaires we've watched, the best celebrity answer we watched came from Bono, from you too. Some people know that I used to like you too. When I was in high school, I used to think they're a Christian band. He says, Bono, what do you think happens when you die? And Bono did not squirm if one thing Bono does not lack is confidence. And he said, reborn, we are reborn. He says, Stephen, doesn't it say we're in the labor pains, which is quote from the Apostle Paul's letter to the Romans. Romans eight in particular,
  
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  where the apostle Paul reminds us we're still in the fallen world waiting for the resurrection. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. There is a future resurrection when Jesus returns, something like a new birth, an entirely new body, an entirely new planet.
  
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  Now the interview with Jesus is really the only one that really matters, right? If we were to ask Jesus, what do you think happens when you die, Jesus will say, I died, I rose to never die again. He turns it on us. He says, If you die, I can tell you what happens if you refuse my offer at eternal life, if you still want to play this life by your own rules? On my planet, when you die, I will give you what you want, but you can't have anything of mine to enjoy it. It will be Outer Darkness, no pleasure, only pain and regret forever, it will feel like fire alone forever. But if you come to me, repent and trust me, I will give you life. You will enter the joy of my father. I will dwell with you by my spirit. Even though you die, you'll live.
  
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  What would be the answer to the last question and five words describe the rest of your life? It's really simple for me, love God, build people forever, because there is no death for the believer. Oh, the bodies go, but the souls live in the presence of God and the bodies are brought back in the future resurrection. Because Jesus would say, because your life with me goes on forever, you never need to fear death again. Let's pray, Father, thank You for the gospel, word spoken to us. Thank you for this. Look again for me at something greater than any earthly sunrise or sunset, the resurrection. Protection of Jesus and Jesus, we want to love you more. You have given yourself on a cross, cruel, cruel cross. You have been the sacrifice. You shed your blood for our sin, and you have raised in victory, defeat and guilt and death Satan and now we have the best mission in the world to tell of the love of God and the person of Jesus Christ and His salvation. So empower us in that obedience, help us live faithfully in all that we do in this world now in Christ's name.

Dan Jarms

Dr. Dan Jarms is lead pastor at Faith Bible Church in Spokane Washington, as well as associate dean at The Master's Seminary in Spokane. He has been married for over 30 years to Linda, and has three adult children. He earned his B.A. in English at the Master’s College, B.Ed. at Eastern Washington University, M.Div and D.Min in Expository Preaching at The Master’s Seminary. His other interests include NCAA basketball, woodworking, and art.

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