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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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The Power of Resurrection 0:01 Welcome to the ALSC podcast. Here at ALSC, we seek the lost, teach the found, and send the disciples. We truly hope you are encouraged by this week's message.0:14 Amen. Give Jesus some praise a little bit if you believe he's risen. God gets all the praise this resurrection Sunday. Praise God. As you're finding your seat, why don't you look at0:26 someone and let them know. Remind them, he's risen. Let them know today that there's good news today. Today, reason why the gospel is called good news because when you hear0:38 it, that's what exactly what it is. It's good news. It's good news for anyone that would receive this message as their own. And we're so honored that all of you guys would be here this resurrection Sunday,0:50 rain or shine, everybody came. And in California, that says a lot. I've always said before that if anybody in California would go to church when it rains, there is1:02 an added tier of mansion in heaven reserved for California to go to church when water is outside. It's a it's a big deal for all of us. And so we're so glad that all of you guys1:14 would be here today on this resurrection Sunday. It's such a special day. It's a special day, as we're about to jump into the message, but I'll say this special day for me as well because it's my first resurrection1:26 Sunday that I get to share with you guys, and and I'm so honored to do that. And, you know, this Easter today will mark, 30 Easters that1:38 Abundant Living Family Church has had. Abundant Living Church is 30 years old. And, I do have some pictures that the team may have already showed. I saw in the corner of my eye. Right there, we always did a1:50 church picnic around the same time as Easter. And that's me in 19 94, our first year as a church. We did a church picnic and, that's the only shirt size2:02 they had for me. And then, there I am in 94, and then here I am in 2008, our first Easter Sunday here in this property. And so I'm in my dad's office at2:14 that time. Here's how you know I was raised in a black church, because my tie matches my shirt, because it came in a pack. At the Stacy Adams store, they came in a pack with the2:26 tie and the shirt. And then you don't see it, but I had fake gator skin shoes with a metal tip in that outfit. That just goes to show that I've2:37 had the opportunity to hear my dad preach on resurrection Sunday. I'm a little older than 30 years, but for 30 years, even when I was in college, I'd come home, I have been able to hear the message of resurrection2:49 Sunday every Easter Sunday here at Abundant Living Family Church. And so, I don't take it for granted, not only what God has done here at a l f c, but also for3:01 pastor Diego and pastor Cindy who have faithfully continued to pastor here at Abundant Living Family Church. Because there weren't always easy days and Easters didn't always look like this on Sundays,3:13 but they stay faithful. Why? Because it was all worship to God. That's what it was. And so, so blessed that I get to continue that legacy here at AFC to be able to share. And pastor Diego's here. He'll be here3:25 second and third service. We have multi site campuses now. So today, he's hanging out a first service at AFFC Pomona and saying hi to everyone over there who don't get to see him regularly because he's usually hanging3:36 out with us. Well, I'm gonna jump into the word today because I'm excited to share with you all in Mark chapter 16. And would you guys do me a favor as we jump right into the word and stand for the honor of reading God's3:48 word? So whether you're in our in this room in the overflow cafe, Jim, outside, would you join me? We're gonna read a little bit of verses today, but I think it's important to read the passages of scriptures4:01 that inspired what you saw through film and through the performance today that allowed the bible to come to life in a fresh way. But as we read the word, we see the truth in which we saw. It says this4:12 starting in verse 1, When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the4:24 first day of the week when the sun had risen, they went into the tomb. And there they were saying to 1 another, who will wait roll away the stone, for it is very large. And4:36 entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side dressed in a white robe and they were alarmed. And he said to them, do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified.4:48 He has risen. He's not here. See the place where they laid him, but go and tell the disciples and Peter that he is going to go before you to Galilee. There5:00 you will see him just as he told you. And they went out and fled from the tomb for trembling and astonishment has seized them. And they will they said nothing to anyone for they were afraid. Now, when he5:12 rose on the first day of the week, he appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom he cast out 7 demons. The author wants to remind us of who this woman once5:24 was. Told those who had been with him as they mourned and wept, but when they heard that he was alive and he'd been sent by here, what? They would not believe5:36 it. They still did not believe. Verse 14. Afterward, he appeared to the leaven in Galilee themselves as they were reclining at the table. And he rebuked them for their unbelief5:48 and their hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. And he said to them, go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole of5:59 creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe in my name and they will cast out demons.6:11 They will speak in new tongues. They will pick up serpents with their hands and they will drink any deadly poison and it will not hurt them. They will lay their hands on the sick and6:23 they will recover. So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere while the Lord worked with them and6:35 confirmed the message6:57 a. M. The resurrection is God's amen. That I did that. The the moment that God said, my wrath was poured on my son and 3 days as he7:09 lay in the tomb, the fact that the spirit has given him life, that is his punctuation point. That's his exclamation point. That's his, hey, this journey ends and a new7:21 journey continues. It's God's final moment that he tells us that he succeeded in what he endeavor to do for humanity. And nothing was going to stop him. And so the7:33 resurrection is God's redemption. It's his retaliation, and it's his resolution for humanity. God redeems us. He retaliates against sin and Satan,7:45 and he brings about a resolution to this life that we so desperately need, that the world has still been searching for to this day. You know, a couple weeks ago,7:57 I was, you know, I've started to kind of get into trying to get active and try to work out a little more. And so I got an Apple watch and I thought to myself, well, if I'm gonna wear an Apple watch, I need some8:09 fitness bands now. You know, I, like, I gotta look the part when I'm wearing the Apple watch because the bands I had were like the metal ones. So I'm like, I need the stretchy fitness ones. And so, I go on the Apple app8:20 on my phone and I go to purchase a couple fitness bands that I had been looking at. Well, they don't unclasp. You have to know your size because it it comes a certain size and there's like 15 sizes.8:33 And so I open up, it says, oh, you don't know your size? Type in your wrist width. And I'm thinking to myself, okay, I I know the width of my wrist. And so I input it and I and I buy8:45 about 3 bracelets, which if you ever been to Apple, I mean, even a sticker cost 200 dollars, you know. So buying 3 bracelets was not cheap. And they come to my house and I start opening them and8:56 I attach it to my Apple watch and I put it on my wrist and then I notice I move and then I'd start wearing it throughout the day, it'd be like this. I think to myself that the9:08 thing doesn't fit. And so, I'm mad because it's supposed to be a fitness thing, so it's supposed to be real tight, supposed to be all you tight. So I'm upset, so I go on the app and I'm saying, I'm going to return these9:19 bracelets. What a waste of money. And then I open it, and there's a little sign that says, not eligible for return. I think to myself,9:31 oh no, Apple. Oh no. We're going to have some issues. How y'all charge as much as you charge and it don't even fit? And it basically said, you took the test beforehand. You you told us what9:43 your size was and so when you bought it, it's on you not eligible for return. Well, here's I'll tell you this. The beauty about the resurrection is that is not eligible for return. You you you9:55 can't put Jesus back in the tomb. The gospel doesn't go back in the tomb, and the message doesn't go back in the tomb. There may be people who want the message to go back. There may be people who don't like that message,10:06 but the reality is is once the box was opened, it was open. And once Jesus resurrected, oh, he resurrected and he had new life. Here's the part I didn't tell you about that Apple watch10:18 thing was I had lost some weight and I used the measurement of my old weight to input in the app. And so here I was, I was upset at Apple, I'm mad10:30 at Apple, I'm walking around going, man, I don't know if I'll ever get something there again. And then when I realized, oh, it's because I had a fit that I was putting into the app, and it was just10:42 giving me what I was putting it out. And there's a lot of times people don't want this good news and it doesn't sound like good news to them, not because the gospel isn't good news, it's because they have a10:54 measurement of their life that they're trying to live their way that they're trying to do. And they're inputting that way with the resurrection. I'll tell you this, that doesn't fit. That's why what we read11:05 reminds us that Mary Magdalene once had 7 demons. It was a reminder to say, hey, don't get lost that this woman was once someone that no 1 wanted to be11:17 around. And it's the first person that Jesus wanted to get next to. Because what happened was is she had gotten to a place where she had rid herself of some things from her life by the power of11:29 God. And it wants to remind us, hey, in this moment, she is not the person she once was. And God's gonna trust her with a message that some people would doubt, even his11:40 disciples doubted hearing it from Mary. They had to see Jesus with their own eyes. And when Jesus comes to them, he says, he rebukes them. Why? For their unbelief in11:52 Jesus being risen. And so today, we're challenged on resurrection Sunday, not just to see the resurrection with our eyes because I could take you to Israel and I could show you to an empty tomb,12:04 and would that be enough proof for you? I don't know. The reality is is believing this takes faith. Because that is what Jesus wanted us to do to preach the gospel.12:16 He wanted you and I to exercise the faith that it takes to fully rely on Jesus, to fully trust his resurrection. So I encourage you just like I didn't do with my12:28 watch, don't measure your life but what was, measure your life by what is. What is true is Jesus has risen and he has been disturbed to our benefit.12:41 Jesus been disturbed to our benefit. A couple months ago, you have been to a hotel and you ever seen 1 of these do not disturb signs? So first thing, if you're like me, first thing I do is I put this outside12:53 my room right away. I grab it, take it, put it outside. Well, it just so happened 1 day we were staying somewhere and it was checkout time and but checkout time was at 11,13:05 AM. And the cleaning people start knocking on our door around 8 AM to try to see if we left yet to get in there to clean it. And so at about 8 AM, they say, they knock13:17 housekeeping, they open the door. I go, Oh, we're still in here. Okay. Sorry. And they close the door. About 8 45, knock on the door again, come in. They start bringing their stuff in because now I'm in the restroom, and13:27 I go, Excuse me. I'm still here. Oh, okay. Sorry. They go out again. About 10 o'clock now. They come back. They open the door. They open the13:39 door now. They knock. And then I grabbed the do not disturb sign. I said, excuse me. Does this mean something to you that I thought it's supposed to mean to me? My checkout's at 1113:51 AM. I thought you're not supposed to disturb until this sign is off. And they go, oh, yes, yes. We're just trying to come and clean. I say, I understand that, but the sign14:05 is on the door. They didn't come back until 11 AM. But the reality is when satan would come to try to disturb humanity, he tried to14:17 disturb Peter, He tried he did disturb Judas. He tried to disturb Mary. The resurrection is the only thing that you can put on your life, that you can place on you, that when the enemy,14:29 when Satan, when sin comes to tempt you, come to try you, the resurrection is the only thing you could point to and say, excuse me, I have a do not disturb sign on my life. His name is14:41 Jesus. Jesus came down on this earth, disturbed himself in heaven with the father, and said, I'm gonna come down and I'm gonna redeem humanity. So that in the same way, Jesus had14:53 a do not disturb in heaven with Satan. Satan couldn't do anything. But God said, this is the plan I had for my people. This is the plan that Adam and Eve had for their own life, but they15:04 chose to sin and corrupt those things. So Jesus decides to retaliate against what satan tried to do to disturb humanity. And here's the promise15:16 God gives us in Isaiah 61 10. It says this, Isaiah 61 10. It says, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. This is a prophetic text concerning Jesus. My15:28 soul shall exalt in my God for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness as a bridegroom decks himself like a15:40 priest with a beautiful headdress and as a bride adorns herself with jewels. God has placed garments of salvation on your life. In the resurrection, God gives you a15:52 robe of righteousness. You may ask yourself, why does that matter? Why do I need garments of salvation? Why would I need a16:04 robe of salvation? What does that matter? And why does the resurrection give me those things? Well, all you have to do is point back to Genesis chapter 3. You see, in Genesis chapter 3,16:16 when satan comes to disturb humanity for the first time and succeeds, it says this, he said to the woman, did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden? And the16:27 woman said to the servant, we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden. Neither shall you touch it lest you16:39 die. But the serpent said to the woman, you will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you'll be like God knowing good and evil. So when the16:51 woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired and to make 1 wise, she took of its fruit and she ate it. She also gave some to her17:02 husband who was with her and he ate it. Then their eyes were both opened and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made17:14 themselves loin cloths to cover themselves up. To cover themselves up. You see, what happens is we see in Genesis chapter 3 that when17:26 Satan come to disturb humanity, and he succeeded by the way in those moments, he convinces Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit that would open their eyes. Open their eyes to what? Their17:38 own potential unrighteousness. The first thing that happens when they take a bite, the Bible says, they realized they were naked. And so then what do they17:50 do? They start getting leaves and they start covering themselves up. So so something that they did not know beforehand. And so they start getting18:02 leaves and they cover up their nakedness. Why? Because if you cannot clothe yourself with God's righteousness, you will try to cover yourself with anything.18:14 That's the reality of what they did. When they no longer had the righteousness of God in their life, they chose to get anything and start to cover18:25 themselves because they realize we're naked. And there's so many people in this world just like you and me who are covering ourselves with whatever we can find. Why?18:37 Because we have not clothed our life with Christ resurrection. We've not put on the garment of salvation. And if you do not wear the garment of salvation, then this18:49 life will be spent with you trying on thing after thing after thing. That's why you see the world pursuing everything that it does. That's why we put so much hope in19:01 humanity. We put so much hope in what could be fixed and should be fixed. And we put hope in this person and that person. And we put hope in this drug or that thing and this person. Why? Because if19:13 you have not realized that God has a robe of salvation, then you will spend your life trying to wear anything. If right now you went to go take a shower19:24 in 1 of the showers we have on our property and I went and stole your clothes while you were in the shower, and you were completely naked but you had to leave. You would say, Pastor Adam, do you have any clothes for me19:36 to wear? And I'd say, yeah. Let's just say you are a guy. I'd say, yeah, I do, but all I have is this dress. You'd be like, I don't care. I just gotta leave. I'm just trying. Yeah. When you're naked, you you19:48 don't care what you wear. You just try to cover up. And that's what happens when you don't receive the resurrection as your own. When you don't put on that garment of salvation,20:05 cover you up. The success of the cross and the resurrection is God's final point that he says, I can now give my people a robe without it consuming them. I20:17 can give them a garment without it overtaking them, because Jesus is in the middle. But you see, Adam and Eve, 1 of their problems were, and this is the reality, that they thought God20:29 wasn't around. They thought this communication was just between them and the serpent. So they thought if we just take a little bite, how's God supposed to know? And20:41 we know that God sees all, but here's the beauty of what God does. When he first interacts with Adam and Eve, he says this, why do you guys have clothes on? He knew20:53 what happened in heaven. He knows the answer, but he wants them to recognize, you know you can't hide what you did. Right? Because all these habits that you have in your life give21:05 away that I'm not in your life anymore. And so he tells them the fact that you have sewed leaves together and placed them over your life, that I never told you you were naked. And so21:16 something and someone has told you that and now it's a dead giveaway that Adam and Eve realized, oh, we can't hide anything from God. I guess oh, we can't hide anything from God. I I guess there are no secrets from God.21:29 And the resurrection allows us to open that tomb of our life, open up all of the skeletons, all of the bones and God says, I can give life to those skeletons. I can give life to those21:41 bones, if you would realize that there's nothing to hide from God. There's nothing you can hide from the Lord. You know, here at our Rancho campus, I know I got people watching us online. Our Pomona team21:53 team is watching our Pomona campus is watching too. But, here in Rancho, all of you that are here, you know this. Our church is unique in the sense that we are an ecologically contained campus, which means22:05 that almost every plant and vegetation we have on our property can be eaten and consumed. And so, let's just say that end of the world came and you needed some food. Ecologically22:16 contained means you can survive for a certain period of time just on this campus alone by the fruits and the vegetable and all of the things that we grow. And so that being true, you know, we know we see people here and22:28 there, y'all take oranges and tangerines and stuff like that. That's fine. That's not a big deal. But you know, a lot of people are nudging their their spouse right now.22:41 But how many of you guys have how many of you guys have ever tried to grow an avocado tree before? You ever done that little seed thing, and you put it in the cup, and about a year and a half in, you just end up throwing22:50 it away because you only got like 6 inches of roots and Well, we have about 4 or 5 avocado trees on the north side of our property and, they're legitimate trees that are fruit growing. So those23:02 have taken decades to grow. And then every fruit season, every avocado season is about 2 to 3 years. They're not annual. So it takes about 2 to 3 years for an avocado23:14 to even get to the place that you could pluck it and you can actually eat it. So, my youngest son Thomas just turned 3, which means just recently we were able to pull from our avocado trees, which means23:26 my son wasn't even born yet when those little plants first started to bustle some of the avocado seeds. The tree was there, but the fruit was coming out. My son wasn't even born yet. How many of you guys can23:38 agree? That's that's taking time. Because I look at my 3 year old and I go, oh my goodness. You're already 3. You've gotten so big. That 3 years can be a long time. Well, some of our trees, well, all of our avocado trees23:49 had reached a point of maturity. And so our team, our our facilities team was getting ready to harvest all of them and and we were gonna get maybe about 2 or 300 avocados out of the trees.24:02 And so they started to prepare, and you guys know it goes to our health center, and it goes to other places, and we give it away and stuff like that. So what happened was 1 evening though, before our team was able to24:12 harvest, a gentleman from across the street came when all it got dark late late late at night. He came and he brought sack cloths. And he24:24 came on to the church property and he brought his sack cloths, and he started plucking from the avocado trees. The team guesstimated that he took anywhere24:36 between a hundred and 50 and 200 avocados. How many of you guys have gone to the grocery store and tried to buy 1? What are they right now? Like, 4 dollars, 5 ours are organic. So you know, like, what, 524:48 bucks 1? Like, 5 times a hundred and 50. Okay? You could do the math. And we and so he fills them sack clause, and he just walks back over to his local business.25:00 And so the next day, my our facilities teams comes to me and say, hey, pastor. I just wanna let you know. Here's what happened. Me everything I just said. And I said, Hey, Rich.25:12 How do you know this with such great detail? How do you know, like, what time he came? How do you know how many sack cloths he brought? How how do you know he started explaining to me, like, what he looked like, and and25:23 I said, how do you know? He goes, oh, well, I have a camera on that just aims straight to those trees that I was just able to zoom in and see who it is. He works locally. I've seen him before walking25:35 around his workplace. And he goes, do you want to see it? I said, no, I don't want to see that guy. I said, I don't want to see who it is. I I I'd rather not know who it is, because I want to be able to25:47 drive around this community with a smile on my face everywhere that I go. Yeah. Yeah. But for the sake of fun, I have the video No, I'm just playing that.25:58 Someone would say, that's my uncle. That's my cousin. Or that'd be you sitting in here today. But regardless what it is, isn't amazing that we always think whatever's26:10 done in the dark, no 1 will ever see it, and no 1 will ever hear about it. But that's just not the truth. You know, Jesus tells us in Luke chapter 12, he says, nothing is covered up that will not be26:22 revealed or hidden that will not be known. Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light and whatever you whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the house tops.26:35 There is no secrets when it comes to God. You may think that you have the perfect plan to do whatever it is that you want to do in your life. That guy probably in his head, he thought to himself, I'm waiting I'm26:47 a wait till 11 30 PM. I'm gonna I I have looked. I know where their security drives and doesn't drive, and you can see it so inconspicuously. He my facility team tell me, oh, he knew all the right moves, but what he26:58 didn't realize was there were cameras. He overlooked 1 important part of the matter. NT Wright says this, the resurrection of Jesus is the beginning of God's new project not to27:10 snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. The resurrection calls us to the point where God desires to bring heaven to27:22 earth and God has called you and I. When Jesus spoke to his disciples, he said this, now I give you the message to go on the world and proclaim this. Now I encourage you to go to every corner of the27:34 world and show this. The moment that my team showed me or told me that video would be there, immediately I felt challenged that God just said, you know what, Adam? It's just fruit. It just27:46 let it go. And I just was reminded that God's mercies are new every single day and I was reminded and I'm thankful to God that he doesn't display put me on display27:57 every single day. If if I could just imagine what what would happen if my life was put on a screen? What would happen if my thoughts and my decisions were placed on a screen? What would that look like? I'm thankful that28:09 the grace of God washes away the guilt, washes away the shame, washes away the burden. That you and I can fully trust God. That he would wipe away every tear and he28:21 would wash away every sin. And the resurrection allows us an opportunity for God to cover a multitude of sins. To God to wipe our slate clean.28:33 Wipe our slate clean. The Bible says 1 day there will be a judgment day where we stand before God, and 1 day we will either see our life played out to show our sin, so that God can show28:44 us how many opportunity we had to repent, or God will simply show us the fact where we have said yes to Jesus. God's desire is to show us in our own life 1 day28:56 when we stand before him the 1 decision of accepting the resurrection. Or 1 day, we will have to be showed the decisions we made. Everything we've done in dark, everything we've done in private, the29:08 resurrection opens our life where God can say, I can redeem that. I can touch that and I can use that. And so God has given us a resolution to today's questions. People are always asking questions. There29:20 are multiple websites that are used just for people to ask questions. God gives us the resolution in the resurrection. God's resolution was as Satan would go about disturbing humanity, God would give us a29:32 way to place a person over our life that would give sin and separation no place to disturb our life. The question for us today is the resurrection Sunday, will I allow the29:44 work of Jesus to disturb my sin, and will I allow his sacrifice to redeem me fully? Will I allow the resurrection of Jesus to be personal?29:56 Or will I be like early on some of the disciples that said, oh, when I see him 1 day, I got time. There's still space. I'm still young. We know the reality30:08 of the world today that life is not promised to anyone. There there are people who pass away all the time for all unforeseen things. And the gospel gives us a chance that whoever would hear the good news, you have a30:19 moment to receive it. It's not a task or a duty system for God to receive the resurrection. It's an infinite decision that says in that moment, yes, I trust Jesus to30:31 cover my sins and give me the robe of righteousness and give me the clothing of salvation. I believe that to be true. The resurrection of Jesus gives us the opportunity to say30:43 yes to the work of Jesus. And so I wanna encourage you today, I've heard this now for 20 years on a Easter Sunday and a resurrection Sunday. Pastor Diego says it every30:55 single year and I'm gonna say it to you today for those that have maybe heard never heard this message before, never heard the gospel before, or have but never gave your life to Jesus. There was a story of a man who was31:06 very wealthy and him and his son loved the arts. They would always go to museums and they would always go and he was wealthy so he would collect many paintings. So he would have Picassos31:18 and remembrance and his son was such a such a great artist and so they enjoyed so much of the arts together. They would go to shows and exhibits, anything that was in town and they just loved it. He31:30 had this beautiful home and so when they ever saw a piece they just loved, he would buy it. He put it in the house. And then 1 day during World War 2, his son got drafted into the military. They31:42 can knock on the door and his birthday gets called and so his son has to go to the military and do service. And we all know how gruesome war can be and so every day the father would hope and pray that31:54 his son is alright. And his son would write his dad little letters and he would do little, stick figures and pictures of whatever he saw and wherever he was at. If he was in France or England, he would send his dad32:06 letters with little pictures and it was just him and his dad. All their other family had passed, just him and his dad. It just so happened that 1 day they get another knock on the door and they're holding the flag32:18 of their son who had passed away in war. The father begins to weep and he's heartbroken. He loved his son so much, and so he turns out all the lights, he covers all the32:29 paintings, he puts black cloth over it. He don't wanna see any of that stuff anymore. He just covers it and just begins to grow and it just begins to sit there and dust and debris begins to form. And all of32:41 a sudden, about a year later, his son's best friend that served with him knocks on the door. And he says, sir, while your son, briefly, right almost momentarily before he passed, he was sitting32:53 in our barracks and he was drawing a picture of himself, a self portrait. And so I happened to have it in my pocket while I was on tour, and when I came back, I just thought to you that maybe you should33:05 deserve this picture. So he gives it to the dad and the dad is filled with great joy and he takes off all the cloths and he kind of has new life again and he's excited. He has his son back. He has a picture33:17 of his son and he's full with so much joy and so much hope, but shortly after that, the father passes of old age. Since there was no 1 there to pass the estate to,33:29 they were doing a public auction. And so the bank came in and the bank got all of his paintings, all of the Picassos, all of the remembrance, all the everything you could think of, they put it and they listed out on33:41 Sotheby's that this is gonna be on a certain day, they're gonna auction off all the paintings. So all the who's who show up. Everybody comes because everyone wants to get a piece of these famous paintings that this man33:51 has collected for decades. Right before the auction starts, they say, hey, before we start the auction of these things, it was placed in the owner's will that we34:03 first put on bid the picture of his son. And so, we're gonna start the bidding off at 300 dollars And so at 300 dollars no 134:15 takes it. So the guy says, how about 2 50? No 1 takes it. How about 200? No 1 takes it. How about a hundred? No 1 takes it. Finally, a man raises his hand. He says, I'll give you34:27 50 dollars for the painting. Let we wanna just get moving. Let let's go. I'll give you 50 dollars for the painting. So all of a sudden, then the auctioneer, he closes the gavel, he slams it on the ground, and he says,34:38 now I'd like to read you the rest of the will of the owner. He says, upon the end of the bid for my son's painting, I would like to know that whoever gets the son gets it34:50 all. And so the man says, so the auction's closed. Sir, everything is yours because you have received the son. That's the resurrection today. He that35:01 gets the son gets it all. He that receives Jesus gets it all. He that trust Jesus gets it all. He that gives their life to Christ, you get it all.35:13 All those that would follow Jesus, you get it all. He that gets the son gets it all. That's the hope of the gospel today. And so if you're in this place watching online and any of our overflows35:25 are in this place, if you've never given your life to Jesus Christ, I encourage you today to choose the son. Clothe yourself in the work of the resurrection. Whatever garments you've been putting on your life,35:37 whatever leaves you've been trying to cover up in your life, the beauty about Jesus is if you would choose Jesus, you get it all. You get all the peace, all the salvation, all the healing, all the35:48 joy, everything that you have been searching for, it's found in Jesus. So I want to encourage you at this time right now. We're gonna say a prayer out loud. And as we say this prayer out loud, we're gonna be36:00 affirming the work of Jesus. And when we're done with this prayer, I'm gonna ask that whoever says that prayer for the first time or rededicate their life, even if you're in overflow, when we're done with that prayer,36:10 I'm gonna count to 3, and I'm just gonna ask that you stand up boldly. We saw today in video, and if you've joined us for the all of Holy Week, that Jesus died publicly on the cross. Least we could do is publicly36:21 acknowledge him. So let's say this together, and then you'll stand to recognize so we can celebrate God's work in your life. Would you join me in saying this day, dear Lord Jesus, in this moment, in this moment, I36:32 confess you as Lord and savior. I believe in my heart that you died on the cross that you died on the cross and you rose 3 days later. From this day forward. From this day36:44 forward. I commit to follow you for the rest of my days. In Jesus name. Amen.36:53 We really hope you enjoyed the message. 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