Dale Partridge - The Holy Terror of the Resurrection

00:00:00.000 This is kind of my aim today, to turn the resurrection right side up, to turn the resurrection

00:00:11.180 right side up. In America, most Easter services or Resurrection Day services focus almost entirely

00:00:19.720 on this idea of the personal comfort to weary souls about the resurrection, that Jesus defeated

00:00:28.600 death so that you can have peace and hope. Now, that is true, and that is also beautiful.

00:00:37.980 It's like admiring a masterpiece, which is still a masterpiece, but I think it's upside down.

00:00:45.160 When we flip the resurrection right side up, we see something far greater.

00:00:50.780 the resurrection is not primarily about the comfort we receive

00:00:56.160 it is about the fear and the reverence and the total allegiance now required to jesus christ

00:01:05.580 and we're going to see that in this text today it's not primarily about you

00:01:11.360 it's primarily about who christ is

00:01:15.820 Peter grasped this in his sermon at Pentecost, in Acts chapter 2, that says,

00:01:24.200 Therefore, let all of you know for certain that God has made Jesus both Lord and Christ.

00:01:32.840 Paul captures it in Philippians 2, 9 through 11. It says,

00:01:36.360 Therefore, God has highly exalted and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,

00:01:40.800 so that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth

00:01:46.000 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

00:01:51.280 Luke says in Acts 17, 30 through 31, quote, the times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he

00:02:00.960 commands all people everywhere to repent because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the

00:02:07.920 world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed. And of this he has given assurance

00:02:13.400 to all by raising him from the dead. The resurrection is not merely about admiration.

00:02:24.660 It's about coronation. It's about crowning Christ. It's about revealing who he is.

00:02:31.900 it's not primarily about our joy it's primarily about his identity do we get joy out of his

00:02:41.680 identity absolutely but it is not about us primarily it is about him

00:02:48.720 ultimately if there was any doubt about who jesus was the resurrection eliminated that doubt

00:02:57.020 If there was any wavering allegiance of faith or devotion, the resurrection eliminated it.

00:03:08.940 If there was any thought that he was just a good man, or just a good teacher, or just a great rabbi, the resurrection eliminated it.

00:03:18.500 the resurrection is terrifying and fearful because it reveals who you owe all loyalty

00:03:28.280 and devotion and allegiance and worship and faithfulness and obedience

00:03:34.380 it reveals for a fact who owns your life that's what the resurrection does

00:03:44.040 it clarifies identity

00:03:47.800 and so today's text is Matthew 28

00:03:53.540 it's the end of his gospel verses 5 through 8

00:03:57.980 and we're going to go verse by verse but I am going to put a little bit of an

00:04:02.300 emphasis on verse 8 which says

00:04:05.500 so they departed quickly from the tomb with fear

00:04:09.980 and great joy and ran to tell the disciples.

00:04:15.400 So let's read verse 5.

00:04:19.440 But the angel said to the woman, do not be

00:04:22.040 afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

00:04:27.360 Now authority and power are often expressed

00:04:30.000 or demonstrated or manifested by having others speak

00:04:34.160 or announce on your behalf. Okay, an angel announces

00:04:38.140 the conception of Jesus to Mary. We see an angel announces his birth to the shepherds. We see John

00:04:46.140 the Baptist announce his ministry to the world. And now an angel announces his resurrection

00:04:52.960 to these female disciples. Now, this announcement comes immediately after the guards witnessed this

00:05:02.280 extreme, brilliant, bright light, and they stood paralyzed in terror.

00:05:10.860 Now, I want you to notice something important here. The angels don't tell the guards,

00:05:18.200 do not be afraid, okay? But the angel does tell the women to not be afraid. He offers no comfort

00:05:28.120 to the guards. He lets them remain in their fear and their

00:05:33.220 paralyzation and their terror. But again, in contrast, he goes to

00:05:37.800 the women and he says gently, do not be afraid. And I think this

00:05:44.840 is a powerful example that God does not comfort the wicked. The

00:05:49.140 only comfort is condemnation that you might turn. But God does

00:05:54.840 not bring comfort to the wicked. Isaiah 48, 22 says, there is no peace, says the Lord, for the wicked.

00:06:04.580 I think of the alternative of this particular verse is Psalm 34, verse 7. It says, the angel

00:06:11.700 of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and rescues them. I think it's what we're seeing here

00:06:18.560 with this angel. Here the angel says, do not be afraid. I know that you seek Jesus who

00:06:25.540 was crucified. Now notice that the word crucified is in the past tense. Why does that matter?

00:06:36.080 Well, because without a real death, there is no real atonement. And without a real atonement,

00:06:42.200 there's no real gospel. There's no real forgiveness, no reconciliation, no redemption, no salvation.

00:06:48.560 If Christ was not actually crucified and actually killed, then he truly did not pay the penalty of death that is deserved for our sins.

00:06:57.440 And if Christ did not die and bear God's wrath on our behalf, then we will bear it ourselves.

00:07:03.940 And so there's a lot of theological, forensic, complicated, but beautiful truths wrapped up in these very simple words.

00:07:14.200 And that's why the angel's words are so precise.

00:07:16.600 He says, I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified, not appeared to be crucified, not seemed to suffer, but was crucified.

00:07:28.580 Now, crucified is basically a synonym for tortured to death.

00:07:34.280 Nobody lives from crucifixion.

00:07:39.760 You could say, who was beheaded.

00:07:45.360 Nobody lives from being beheaded.

00:07:49.180 It's a similar phraseology.

00:07:55.980 Any claim that softens or denies the death of Christ stands in direct opposition to Scripture.

00:08:02.240 We actually see this quite often.

00:08:03.640 If you get into the apologetic arena around the resurrection,

00:08:06.800 certainly the argument surrounds this particular moment.

00:08:11.060 They want to soften or deny the death of Christ,

00:08:13.860 And that is the Bible does not present a symbolic sacrifice, but a real one, a real death.

00:08:21.680 And it's why scripture says that Christ was the lamb who was slain, who was slain.

00:08:27.840 The word slain means to be killed.

00:08:30.520 It actually has a really an emphasis of being forcefully killed or forcefully killed under judgment. 0.90

00:08:37.320 To be slain.

00:08:39.300 Jesus Christ is the lamb that was slain.

00:08:42.040 That's why Paul says, for I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

00:08:48.240 Over and over, the crucifixion is a very important dimension of the gospel.

00:08:55.340 Without the death of Christ, you cannot have the death of death, which we will get to here shortly.

00:09:00.020 The angel continues in verse 6, he says, he is not here, for he has risen as he said.

00:09:08.200 Come, see the place where he lay.

00:09:11.320 So the last words you expect to hear when you're trying to go visit somebody who's dead is,

00:09:17.140 he is not here.

00:09:18.660 You're thinking, where is he?

00:09:22.360 How?

00:09:23.300 How is he not here?

00:09:24.800 What's going on?

00:09:26.920 To that, the angel says, he has risen.

00:09:31.080 Now, as I was studying this, I was trying to put myself in the experience and the context of the disciples,

00:09:39.640 especially those that had walked with him for some time, including Mary Magdalene, who was here.

00:09:46.900 Now, as shocking as this statement, he has risen, is to us, I'm not sure it was as jarring to the

00:09:53.420 disciples, and let me tell you for two reasons. First, just weeks earlier, Jesus had raised

00:10:01.540 Lazarus from the dead, just like a few weeks before this moment. He had raised Lazarus from

00:10:06.980 the dead. Before that, he had raised Jairus' daughter. Before that, he had raised the widow's

00:10:13.760 son. And so to the disciples, resurrection, while incredibly astonishing, it wasn't outside of their

00:10:24.660 very recent experience. It's something that Jesus did three times in his ministry.

00:10:29.940 and the second reason is Jesus had clearly told his disciples that he would rise from the dead

00:10:38.000 now to be clear I do not believe that they fully understood his words in fact scripture says

00:10:42.940 that every time he said something about the resurrection it said that they didn't fully

00:10:47.440 understand and I think because of their weak faith at this particular time that when he died

00:10:53.720 they generally expected him to remain dead.

00:10:59.460 But the angel reminds the woman in our text,

00:11:02.340 or the women in our text,

00:11:03.420 he says,

00:11:04.900 he has risen as he said.

00:11:10.140 It's not like Jesus was trying to conceal this.

00:11:14.620 He told people.

00:11:19.060 That's a pretty incredible fact to go,

00:11:20.860 hey, by the way, 0.66

00:11:21.880 I'm just letting you guys know I'm going to die.

00:11:23.180 and i'm going to rise now this is not just some sort of passing or isolated remark the gospels

00:11:30.540 record explicitly three times that's recorded nine times in the actual gospel corpus

00:11:37.480 but he also has three additional implicit statements about him being raised from the

00:11:47.400 dead as well. So there's really six very clear statements about Jesus saying, I'm going to die

00:11:54.200 and I'm going to raise. He even clarifies in most of them on the third day. The first is Matthew 16

00:12:00.460 verses 21. It says, from that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem

00:12:06.020 and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and on the

00:12:11.860 third day be raised. Okay, so this is like a statement that he's saying from that time he

00:12:18.020 began to show. He could have said it many times. He could have been consistently teaching on it.

00:12:23.260 So at some degree, I generally believe that they didn't understand and that their weak faith

00:12:28.660 didn't actually believe that Jesus was going to resurrect. But I also don't believe that they

00:12:33.560 were as shocked as we might think they were when they found out that he did rise from the dead.

00:12:42.860 The second verse is Mark 9, 30-32.

00:12:46.320 It says,

00:12:46.820 For he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, 0.92

00:12:49.060 The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him.

00:12:52.880 And when he is killed after these days, he will rise. 0.99

00:12:56.820 But then it says right here,

00:12:58.220 But they did not understand the saying and were afraid to ask him.

00:13:03.300 So again, it's not that they didn't have the information.

00:13:06.120 The information hit.

00:13:08.360 They just didn't grasp what was happening.

00:13:11.860 The third is Luke 18, 31-33, saying,

00:13:16.560 He said to them, See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished, 0.74

00:13:23.100 for he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon. 0.92

00:13:28.420 And after flogging him, they will kill him, and on the third day he will rise, end quote. 0.98

00:13:34.940 So again, just, it's over and over, and they're hitting it intellectually, 0.74

00:13:39.920 but it's not translating particularly into a belief from the degree of the soul.

00:13:48.940 But then we also have statements like Matthew 12 40 that says, for just as Jonah was three days

00:13:54.900 and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the son of man be three days and three

00:13:59.340 nights in the heart of the earth. It's not explicit, but it's pretty close.

00:14:04.240 Matthew 17 9 says

00:14:08.700 And they were coming down from the mountain 0.51

00:14:10.860 Jesus commanded them off the transfiguration

00:14:12.900 Saying tell the vision to no one

00:14:14.580 Until the son of man has risen from the dead

00:14:16.820 John 10 18 says

00:14:21.360 No one has taken my life away from me

00:14:25.380 But I lay it down on my own initiative

00:14:27.700 I have authority to lay it down

00:14:29.980 And I have authority to take it up again

00:14:32.180 this commandment I received from the Father.

00:14:37.360 So Jesus says this over and over throughout his ministry.

00:14:40.960 And again, I don't believe it was as shocking.

00:14:44.320 I think it was almost, oh my goodness, he did it.

00:14:51.060 I think there could have been some element there that we don't know.

00:14:55.840 This is me putting myself in the shoes of the disciples.

00:14:58.060 but we know that jesus's claims were so often that even his enemies had heard that he was

00:15:06.420 making them in matthew 27 63 through 64 the pharisee said to pilate sir we remember that

00:15:13.320 when he was still alive that deceiver said quote after three days i am to rise again

00:15:19.960 therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day lest the disciples go and steal him

00:15:26.420 away and tell the people he has risen from the dead. This wasn't like a hidden statement.

00:15:34.760 It's not like, oh my goodness, I never expected such a thing. Certainly there was some of that,

00:15:42.060 but there are certainly the information had been communicated.

00:15:48.500 So while the news of his resurrection would have been shocking, it wasn't entirely

00:15:53.040 unconceivable or inconceivable to the disciples.

00:15:58.080 Now, what made this resurrection so unique was this.

00:16:01.820 This is where I think they might have stumbled.

00:16:06.820 Every other resurrection in Scripture

00:16:09.260 has a man standing over the dead.

00:16:13.220 Whether it's the Old Testament, whether it's the New Testament,

00:16:16.380 every resurrection in Scripture has a man standing over the dead.

00:16:20.180 When Lazarus is raised, Jesus is there.

00:16:23.960 When Jairus' daughter is raised, Jesus is there.

00:16:27.600 When the widow's son is raised, Jesus is there. 0.95

00:16:31.420 In every case, the power appears to be located in the man who is speaking. 0.86

00:16:38.180 Whether it's the prophet Elisha in the Old Testament,

00:16:41.720 whether it is Jesus here in the New Testament.

00:16:44.820 But here, in this particular moment of Jesus in the tomb, the scene is reversed.

00:16:51.880 Christ is the one who is dead.

00:16:54.340 And no one is standing over him.

00:16:56.800 There is no man calling him out.

00:16:59.980 No prophet, no apostle, no human voice calling him back to life.

00:17:07.320 The one who called the dead to life is himself dead.

00:17:11.380 and then he rises

00:17:15.300 what does that show us that should start making you think theologically here

00:17:23.320 what does that mean what's the implication here

00:17:26.880 the power has never merely been in the man it was always in god god is the one who raises the dead

00:17:35.940 God is the one that raised Christ from the dead

00:17:39.920 Acts 22 verses 23-24 says

00:17:42.340 this Jesus delivered up according to the definite plan

00:17:45.920 and foreknowledge of God 0.96

00:17:46.940 you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men 0.84

00:17:50.120 God raised him up 0.98

00:17:51.860 God raised him up

00:17:55.640 now why does that matter

00:17:58.800 like what's the theological significance of the resurrection

00:18:03.200 Again, we're not kindergarten Christians here.

00:18:06.840 Some of you have been Christians for 10 to 15 to 20 to 30 years.

00:18:10.300 You should be able to explain to me what's the significance of that verse. 0.91

00:18:18.500 Death is the consequence of sin.

00:18:20.360 We know that the scriptures say that the wages of sin is death.

00:18:23.240 The reason people die is because of sin.

00:18:25.920 The reason that you must die is because of sin.

00:18:28.520 the death is the consequence of sin the reason people die now check this out the reason people

00:18:36.280 die and stay dead is because they're sinners the reason people die and stay dead is because they

00:18:43.700 are sinners now let me give you something real quick lazarus lazarus died and was resurrected

00:18:50.740 But did you know that above his tomb says, Lazarus, twice dead.

00:18:59.300 Lazarus died again, and he's not here right now.

00:19:06.400 So the reason people die and stay dead is because the wages of sin is death.

00:19:15.800 see but here's the here's the very important theological implication Christ had no sin

00:19:25.340 and because he had no sin death could not hold him you've heard that phrase death could not hold

00:19:33.780 him he did not deserve to die if a man has no sin and dies he must be resurrected

00:19:43.000 in fact acts 2 24 goes on to say god raised him up loosing the pangs of death because it was not

00:19:57.420 possible for him to be held by it he couldn't be held by death because it would have been an

00:20:03.740 injustice a divine injustice and what i want you to see is that the resurrection of christ

00:20:11.500 is not just a biological miracle. That's not what it is. It's not, oh my goodness,

00:20:17.020 his body started working again. That's not what's being communicated here.

00:20:22.220 It is a forensic and judicial statement. It is a statement about his identity,

00:20:28.840 about who he is. God is publicly vindicating Jesus. Everybody called him a sinner and killed

00:20:35.300 him as a sinner. And Jesus is vindicated through the resurrection. When Jesus rises up from

00:20:45.300 the grave, it is God's way of saying, this man has no sin. In other words, if Christ had

00:20:57.580 not been raised, you have to make two conclusions. Number one is that Christ was a sinner and

00:21:04.200 he deserved to die and he paid the consequences of his sin with his own death. That's the first

00:21:09.640 conclusion. The second conclusion is that God failed to vindicate a righteous man. Those are

00:21:16.800 the only options you have. Had Christ not been resurrected, that's what you got. Either Christ

00:21:22.620 was a sinner or God is not righteous and he's unjust. Those are the only options theologically

00:21:30.700 that you have. But neither can be true without the entire gospel collapsing.

00:21:37.600 So the resurrection is not just a man coming back to life. The resurrection declares

00:21:41.800 that Christ was perfectly righteous. Unlike the first Adam who failed to keep 1.00

00:21:49.140 God's commandments, Jesus is the second Adam that kept the commandments perfectly. 0.83

00:21:55.300 You were born in Adam, and because you were born of Adam, you will die like Adam. 0.89

00:22:01.200 You must now be born again in Christ, the second Adam. 0.71

00:22:04.700 And if you are born in Christ, you will rise like the second Adam. 0.75

00:22:08.800 This is what's happening in the gospel. 0.85

00:22:14.860 The angel continues in verse 7.

00:22:16.680 He says,

00:22:17.760 Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead.

00:22:21.440 you got to think these statements are go quickly and tell the disciples that he was truly the

00:22:28.620 sinless eternal man he was the son of god go tell them the implications of what has just happened

00:22:36.800 and it says that behold he is going before you to galilee there will there you will see him see

00:22:44.540 I just lost my spot.

00:22:50.040 See, I have told you.

00:22:52.580 Verse 8, so they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy and ran to tell his disciples.

00:23:01.680 Now, in God's perfect wisdom, he chose to reveal the resurrection first, not to John, not to Peter, not to James, but to three women.

00:23:13.520 to three women, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Joanna.

00:23:22.720 Now, I think this is spectacular for two reasons.

00:23:26.200 First, nobody inventing this story would say that the resurrection was first seen by three women.

00:23:36.860 Now, if you don't understand the context of this particular time, a woman's testimony was considered legally worthless in a first century.

00:23:51.960 So, to make up a story, to communicate that Jesus resurrected and three women came and told us,

00:24:01.140 would not have been wise if you were trying to convince people of your lie.

00:24:06.860 Second, this was a profound act of dignity and honor toward women.

00:24:17.300 I really do believe it is.

00:24:19.080 Christianity has done more to dignify and elevate women than any other religion.

00:24:23.220 We are now in a time, I just watched a video, of somebody asking white, liberal American women,

00:24:30.180 would you rather hang out with a conservative American Trump supporter

00:24:35.380 or someone running down the street saying, Allah Akbar. 0.83

00:24:41.620 And over and over and over again, these white liberal women said, 0.95

00:24:46.100 oh, I would much stand with the Muslim woman or Muslim man.

00:24:50.680 Yes, I would stand, I feel safer and more at peace with the Muslim man. 1.00

00:24:57.280 Foolishness. Foolishness. 1.00

00:25:05.380 while the world often claims to champion women it is the gospel that declares that they are 0.99

00:25:12.000 made in the image of God equally precious in his sight and worthy to be the first heralds of the

00:25:17.680 resurrection now the other side of this verse is an abuse and a perversion that I've heard many

00:25:25.540 times they use this verse to argue that this is the justification for women pastors okay this is

00:25:32.460 it right here. See, look, if the women can preach the first or the resurrection of Christ,

00:25:36.720 they can certainly pass through the church of God, correct? 0.98

00:25:42.580 Now, this is foolish because it's the same as saying something like the angel also decided

00:25:51.240 to tell the incarnation to shepherds in the field. Therefore, every pastor must be shepherding 0.93

00:26:00.580 actual sheep. It'd be a weird comparison. No, the reality is that

00:26:06.980 that God sovereignly chose women to be the first witnesses does not overturn

00:26:13.640 the clear pattern, instruction, commandment, and clarity in the scriptures about who is to rule

00:26:21.480 over the church of God.

00:26:25.560 I often tell people, if Christ was interested

00:26:28.880 in having women be the leadership model for the church,

00:26:32.780 it's fascinating that he chose 12 men.

00:26:37.020 He chose 12 men.

00:26:40.520 Every prophet,

00:26:43.720 every king,

00:26:47.060 every patriarch,

00:26:49.380 every apostle,

00:26:51.480 was a man. Now we finally arrived at this last line. It says, so they departed quickly from the

00:26:57.560 tomb with fear and great joy. Now notice those two emotions that are held together, fear and great

00:27:04.020 joy. It's kind of a weird contradiction there. How many times in your life are you filled with fear

00:27:10.520 and great joy? Not many. That seems like a very strange combination.

00:27:15.720 but i don't think it's a contradiction it's the only right response to the resurrection when you

00:27:23.380 finally see it right side up there is a wrong fear that you could have a malicious fear a terror

00:27:31.040 that makes you run away from god

00:27:32.940 and that is the fear i think the guards felt when they trembled like dead men as it says in the

00:27:42.540 passage but this is a fear of those who know that they are guilty that's a very different fear

00:27:48.240 that's a fear of death that's a fear of condemnation

00:27:51.560 but there is also a righteous fear a holy fear a holy terror

00:27:57.700 that trembles that draws you in

00:28:02.880 that makes you surrender to christ and that is the fear the women felt

00:28:10.180 It is the fear of which scripture speaks when it says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

00:28:19.140 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

00:28:23.620 Ultimately, the resurrection is terrifying precisely because it reveals who Jesus is.

00:28:30.840 That is, if you could take one thing away today.

00:28:34.000 the resurrection is terrifying precisely because it reveals who jesus really is

00:28:45.580 it's not just that he rose it's that god has made him both christ and lord

00:28:51.280 it is that he now bears the name above every name and that every knee will bow

00:29:01.220 It is that he now sits on the judgment seat over your eternity.

00:29:07.560 It is now that he holds the keys of death and Hades in his hands.

00:29:12.480 It is now that he possesses all authority in heaven and on earth.

00:29:18.420 The resurrection does not merely comfort us, it sobers us.

00:29:23.120 It sobers us.

00:29:24.440 the question

00:29:27.940 that I have for you

00:29:30.700 is

00:29:32.020 do you believe that Jesus

00:29:35.140 is the Christ

00:29:36.040 and I don't care what your mouth says

00:29:41.400 Jesus says many people

00:29:45.220 will say to me in that day Lord Lord

00:29:47.040 have I not done

00:29:49.200 all these miracles in your name and have I not

00:29:51.120 prophesied in your name

00:29:52.420 and he says away from me I do not know you there are many people that have come to church

00:30:01.780 and never came to Christ you're a dead man sitting in a pew happens all the time I preach

00:30:10.840 the gospel to Christians just as much as I preach it preach it to pagans in America where people

00:30:16.080 grew up feeling like they had some sort of emotional experience, but their life has never

00:30:22.860 changed. They don't conform to anything. If you asked, where's the fruit? Who's the Lord of your

00:30:30.820 life? Do you make sacrifice? Do you submit to the obedience and the law of God? And for many people,

00:30:40.140 it's no. No. The terror and the glory of the resurrection is that Jesus cannot be an add-on

00:30:58.500 to your life. We're not looking for Sunday-only Christianity. We're not looking for quiet

00:31:09.460 Christianity, isolated Christianity, compartmentalized Christianity. Do you think the disciples lived

00:31:16.760 like that? Do you think that there was any part of their life that was not fully given over to

00:31:22.980 Christ, that their allegiance was somehow mixed between multiple things? Do you think they left

00:31:29.600 after the resurrection and go, you know what, I think I'm gonna just go, I'm gonna go back to work

00:31:34.980 and I'm going to go and...

00:31:37.300 No, their whole life was changed.

00:31:41.060 Everything about their life

00:31:43.560 was centered around Christ.

00:31:47.020 The way they ate,

00:31:48.720 the way they thought,

00:31:50.500 the way they learned,

00:31:53.360 what they spoke about in public,

00:31:57.200 the way they thought about the poor.

00:31:59.020 it should permeate every possible area of your life c.s lewis famously said jesus is either a 0.95

00:32:10.320 lunatic a liar or lord there are no other options

00:32:15.360 today is a day that we recognize who christ is and that we might bow 0.97

00:32:28.960 that we might bow our lives to Christ

00:32:32.440 to recognize the lordship of Christ

00:32:35.400 in your life

00:32:36.820 all of your decisions should first go

00:32:40.580 hey Lord my master

00:32:42.880 in which I am a slave

00:32:44.580 how should I do this

00:32:46.800 where should my kids go to school

00:32:49.400 how should I spend this money

00:32:52.820 there should be no area of your life

00:32:57.440 that is free from the Lordship of Christ.

00:32:59.100 That's what the resurrection communicates.

00:33:03.740 And so may we leave this place today like those women,

00:33:07.960 with both fear and great joy,

00:33:12.320 and that we might go into the world

00:33:14.080 and tell people about the Lord Jesus Christ.

00:33:17.980 Let's pray.

00:33:19.320 Father, we thank you.

00:33:24.360 We thank you for the great story of redemption,

00:33:26.280 for the great work that you've accomplished on our behalf.

00:33:29.240 Lord, we ask that you would help us to understand

00:33:32.080 and that we might have a saturated life. 0.99

00:33:39.860 That we would see Christianity as a totalizing faith.

00:33:43.420 That we would be devout, consistent, committed, obedient, 0.94

00:33:48.820 good slaves of your son Jesus.

00:33:53.500 Lord, we ask all of these things in the name of Christ.

00:33:56.280 Amen.

Dale Partridge - April 08, 2026

The Holy Terror of the Resurrection

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