Louder with Crowder - 🔴 Good Friday: A Day for Mourning or A Day for Celebration?

00:01:03.000 Good Friday to all of you and just wanted to take a second and welcome all the Vince viewers.

00:01:08.000 We really do appreciate you guys staying around for us on this special Good Friday episode.

00:01:14.000 We are actually going to get into the story of Easter, talk about the crucifixion, talk about the resurrection, but really what I want to do is tell you a lot of details that maybe you don't hear in church.

00:01:25.000 Things that I think are really just the fingerprint of God that show you places where you can dig, where you can grab a...

00:01:31.000 A bit more understanding and really start to see the texture behind the story.

00:01:36.000 So it isn't just a story that you're hearing.

00:01:38.000 So stick around.

00:01:40.000 This is Good Morning Mug Club.

00:01:58.000 Alright. Look, we have gotten it all wrong.

00:02:02.000 Good Friday is not a day of mourning.

00:02:04.000 It is a day of celebration.

00:02:06.000 Now, I understand if you are somebody who grew up in the church, you've probably heard this story a million times over.

00:02:12.000 If you're not, welcome.

00:02:13.000 Thanks for hanging out with us on Good Friday to hear a little bit more about this story.

00:02:18.000 I have to start with people in the audience, maybe, who are...

00:02:20.000 You wouldn't classify yourself as somebody who's spiritual or a believer.

00:02:24.000 It is the most important decision you can make in life for one of two ways.

00:02:27.000 Either it's true and it changes everything about how you live your life or it's not true and it's a complete waste of time and you don't want to end up falling into that trap.

00:02:37.000 Either way, it's important to look into this issue of who Jesus is, who God is.

00:02:42.000 What the story of Easter is and decide for yourself what you believe.

00:02:46.000 I have a point of view and I hope you follow along with that point of view.

00:02:50.000 But I understand people are coming from a lot of different places.

00:02:52.000 So hang out with me for just a little bit and we will get into the details.

00:02:57.000 But I grew up in church like a lot of people did.

00:02:59.000 Just going to church because my parents did.

00:03:01.000 And I spent...

00:03:02.000 Every Easter, hearing about how Jesus sacrificed his life to reconcile me to God.

00:03:08.000 And I'll be honest, as a 6, 7, 10-year-old kid, I didn't even understand really what all of that meant other than Jesus was good and he sacrificed himself and I knew the stories.

00:03:19.000 It was a tough story to hear, right?

00:03:22.000 Because as anybody who has seen The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson before he went crazy or during, I don't really know which one, but either way, it is absolutely brutal.

00:03:32.000 But I was eternally grateful that the story was being told.

00:03:36.000 With that being said, though, there are a lot of details that I never really heard in church.

00:03:41.000 Now, I want to make sure that I'm clear at the outset.

00:03:43.000 I am not going to be one of those history channel shows where I promise that we're going to find the mummy at the bottom of some ancient thing that nobody's ever discovered and we don't actually find a mummy.

00:03:52.000 What I want to tell you, though, is that there are a lot of really interesting details that churches either don't know about, don't have time to cover, Or cover, but maybe you've missed them, so probably in one of those three buckets.

00:04:05.000 And really what they do is they show the fingerprint of God on the greatest story that has ever been told.

00:04:11.000 This is the story of Jesus'death, burial, and resurrection, and this is why we celebrate Easter.

00:04:17.000 Gerald apologizes apologetics.

00:04:25.000 It doesn't mean that!

00:04:27.000 It doesn't mean that, but nevertheless, they're never going to correct that.

00:04:31.000 For years, I grew up in the church studying the Bible, and I loosely would call studying the Bible making sure that I read a little bit of it here and there.

00:04:39.000 I would go to Sunday school.

00:04:41.000 I would irregularly attend church.

00:04:44.000 And when I was 26 years old, I moved from Ohio back down to Texas.

00:04:49.000 And I found a church that really interested me.

00:04:51.000 I really wanted to get back into church and really connect with God in a way that I felt like I hadn't done many times throughout my kind of early 20s, late teens.

00:05:01.000 And an opportunity came up to go to a friend's church, and it turned out to be a life-changing moment for me.

00:05:07.000 Not because of the church necessarily, though they played a big role in this, but because of what the church introduced me to.

00:05:13.000 I started discovering a love.

00:05:16.000 A passion for studying scripture.

00:05:18.000 For digging deeper than just doing a devotional.

00:05:22.000 Those are fantastic, don't get me wrong.

00:05:24.000 It just, it became something bigger for me.

00:05:29.000 I knew that God wanted me to do more.

00:05:32.000 I knew that this was an area of my life that I wanted to pursue.

00:05:36.000 I wanted to pursue my relationship with God.

00:05:38.000 I wanted to pursue an understanding of Scripture.

00:05:40.000 And I wanted to do it in a practical way.

00:05:42.000 And I wanted to put it all into practice.

00:05:45.000 And I signed up for a ministry school that was offered by the church that I was going to.

00:05:51.000 And during that time, I met somebody who had insomnia.

00:05:54.000 And it's only relevant because this guy, I mean, insomnia sounds like the worst possible punishment for somebody ever if it was devised as a punishment, not letting somebody sleep.

00:06:04.000 But he just had insomnia through no fault of his own and would end up studying Scripture and doing all kinds of things with the extra hours.

00:06:11.000 And he came across a teacher who was called Chuck Missler.

00:06:15.000 And Chuck did in-depth Bible studies where he would go line by line through Scripture.

00:06:20.000 For example, I think his Genesis study is something on the order of...

00:06:24.000 30 hours long.

00:06:25.000 And it's fantastic.

00:06:27.000 I immediately fell in love with it because it would go verse by verse and it would talk to you about different things that would happen in Scripture and tie it to other places in Scripture, whether it was something that was a fulfilled prophecy or just a story that had a connection.

00:06:42.000 And I just remember being fascinated because I had no idea that all of these little details in Scripture connected to all of the other places.

00:06:51.000 When Chuck would show us those things.

00:06:53.000 So my goal today is basically to help you see some of those connections and encourage you to go and do some of this study for yourselves.

00:07:00.000 So one quick analogy, there's several things that I could tell you, one of which would be that, and look this up, God gave an entire people hemorrhoids as a punishment for stealing the Ark of the Covenant.

00:07:10.000 That's pretty hilarious if you're God and you've got a Rolodex of punishments.

00:07:13.000 You know, you're looking through, you're like, nope, done that, locusts, done that, frogs, it's a little dated.

00:07:20.000 Hemorrhoids. Haven't done hemorrhoids.

00:07:22.000 Let's see how this one goes.

00:07:24.000 I think that's kind of funny.

00:07:25.000 I think that shows that God has a sense of humor even though he's getting a message across.

00:07:29.000 Or perhaps the idea that during the Exodus there was a giant cross in the middle of the desert that only God could really see because we didn't really have the power of flight.

00:07:40.000 Maybe I guess if you stood on a mountain nearby you could see it.

00:07:43.000 But if you look at how the Israelites were supposed to camp around the kind of the tabernacle that they took with them.

00:07:50.000 You will essentially see, if you put some mathematical equation together of, I don't know, every person is one square foot and look at the number of people and where they were told to camp, you'll see that it makes a giant cross.

00:08:01.000 Those kinds of things were things that I never really knew about.

00:08:03.000 And they're not doctrinal positions necessarily, but they're just little interesting details that give the Bible more texture.

00:08:11.000 So I wanted to start out with one of those and go into a little bit more depth, and that is the story of the serpent on a pole.

00:08:17.000 One thing I want you to keep in mind as we go through this is that to the Jewish mind, pattern is prophecy, right? 0.84

00:08:24.000 In our kind of Western mind, we think of prophecy as, you know, you make some kind of a prophetic claim and then there's some fulfillment to that claim.

00:08:31.000 Like it's going to rain tomorrow and then it rains tomorrow.

00:08:33.000 Well, for the Jews, you start establishing a pattern and when you see something that fits that pattern, that is prophecy, right? 0.96

00:08:41.000 Pattern is prophecy.

00:08:42.000 It's a different way of thinking and I think what you'll see, Sometimes we miss those prophecies in Scripture because we don't see the pattern for what it really is.

00:08:52.000 So in Numbers 21, 7-9, I'll just read it for you and then I'll tell you kind of what I think about this.

00:08:56.000 It says, Then the people came to Moses and cried out, We have sinned.

00:09:00.000 Remember that word, we've sinned.

00:09:01.000 Not that they've done something wrong, they specifically said sinned.

00:09:04.000 We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you.

00:09:07.000 Pray that the Lord will take away the snakes.

00:09:09.000 It's also a pretty wicked punishment that God sent a bunch of snakes to bite people.

00:09:13.000 That's got to be terrifying.

00:09:15.000 So Moses prayed for the people.

00:09:17.000 Then the Lord told him, make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to a pole.

00:09:21.000 All who are bitten will live if they simply look at it.

00:09:25.000 So Moses made a snake out of bronze and attached it to a pole.

00:09:29.000 Then anyone who was bitten by a snake could look at the bronze snake and be healed.

00:09:33.000 Okay. So these people, let me go back to what their sin was.

00:09:39.000 We spoke out against you, or the Lord, and against you.

00:09:43.000 Okay, so they spoke out against them.

00:09:45.000 That's their sin.

00:09:47.000 If you're somebody looking at this story going, okay, what's the bad movie lines game we play sometimes?

00:09:53.000 What's the next line from God?

00:09:55.000 I guarantee you, you're not choosing the option where God says, go and make a snake out of brass and put it on a pole and put it on a heel and everybody who looks upon it is going to be healed.

00:10:05.000 So why did God do this?

00:10:06.000 It doesn't make any sense unless he's trying to continue a pattern for them to be able to see.

00:10:14.000 So, all they had to do was look at the snake on a pole, and they would be healed of their sin.

00:10:20.000 So, let's take a look at the elements here.

00:10:22.000 You've got a snake.

00:10:24.000 Where do we know the snake from in Scripture?

00:10:26.000 That was basically the curse of Satan was made a snake, right?

00:10:29.000 So Satan equals a snake equals sin.

00:10:32.000 Okay, so now, clearly, we have sin.

00:10:34.000 Let's do it like that.

00:10:36.000 And then you can look at the pole.

00:10:38.000 Why put the snake upon a pole?

00:10:41.000 Doesn't seem to be much reason for that, but let's just kind of surmise, maybe it looks something like, you know, a straight-up pole, and then you kind of hung this snake on it like this, right?

00:10:50.000 Now you start to see, okay, maybe that has some similarity to the cross.

00:10:55.000 How it looked isn't quite as important as what it symbolized, though, right?

00:10:59.000 So we've already said that the snake symbolizes sin.

00:11:01.000 So if you put sin on a pole, on a heel, those who have sinned can look upon it and be healed.

00:11:12.000 If that's not a picture of what Jesus Christ did, During the crucifixion, during the Easter celebration that we know it, I don't know what is.

00:11:20.000 And it's really interesting because all you had to do was look upon it.

00:11:23.000 There was no other work needing to be done.

00:11:25.000 You just had to look upon this saving figure and you were saved.

00:11:32.000 So when we call Jesus sin on the cross, he literally was made sin and we'll get back to that in just a minute.

00:11:38.000 But he became sin for us, was on a cross, and all we have to do.

00:11:43.000 So that's an interesting story out of numbers that not a lot of people will have heard the comparison.

00:11:50.000 But it is part of the pattern.

00:11:51.000 So again, I hope you do more digging.

00:11:53.000 Dive into that story a little bit more if you want to.

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Louder with Crowder - April 18, 2025

🔴 Good Friday: A Day for Mourning or A Day for Celebration?

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