Stop Staring At That Stone

0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:06.200 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.240 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.600 Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:19.720 new sermons every week. Hope you're blessed today. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.800 We've been in a series as a church called c 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:23.920 King Jesus. 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:27.080 Our final installment of. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.880 That series is happening right now, and I'm so. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:31.080 Glad that you're here for it. 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.040 I want you to turn in your Bible to John 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:37.720 chapter twenty. This is my favorite chapter of the personal 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.960 experiences of people concerning the resurrection of Jesus Christ in 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.320 the Bible. And I'm going to read you from verses 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.159 one and two. Then I'll drop down for timesake and 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:53.720 readverse eleven through eighteen. And the Lord has a word 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:54.400 for you today. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:56.720 I pray that you will receive. 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:01.080 It in faith, the Bible says in John chapter twenty, 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.720 verse one. Now, on the first day of the week, 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.480 Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early while it was 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.679 still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:16.280 away from the tomb. So she ran and went to 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:20.520 Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.400 That's the guy who's writing this by the way, wow. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.000 And said to them, they have taken the Lord out 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.840 of the tomb, and we do not know where they 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:32.640 have laid him. 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.679 So Peter and John go and check it out. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:40.160 They run back home verse eleven. But Mary stood weeping 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.680 outside the tomb. And as she wept, she stooped to 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.880 look into the tomb, and she saw two angels in 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.640 white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:51.800 at the head and one at the feet. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.160 They said to her, woman, why are you weeping? 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.680 She said to them, they have taken away my lord, 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.200 and I do not know where they have laid him. 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.760 Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.000 but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.040 said to her, woman, why are you weeping? Whom are 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:14.680 you seeking? Supposing him to be the gardener, she said 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.600 to him, sir, if you have carried him away, tell 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.600 me where you laid him, and I'll take him away. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.800 I'll take care of this. I see you men can't 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.280 do anything right. You can't guard it to whom. Just 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.680 let me deal with it. Just show me where the 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.280 mess is. I'll clean it up. But Jesus said to her. Mary, 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:36.280 she turned and said to him in Aramaic rabon eye, 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.720 which means teacher. Jesus said to her, do not cling 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:45.239 to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:49.840 But go to my brothers. Wouldn't that be something. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.600 You're one of the ones who just denied Jesus while 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.960 he was on the cross, and he calls you his brother. 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.440 What a wonderful savior, What a merciful God, What a 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.520 patient and compassion and creator and redeemer, What a faithful friend. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.799 Don't cling to me, but go tell my brothers. I 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.280 am ascending to my father and your father, to my 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.519 God and your God. And Mary Magdalene went and announced 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.040 to the disciples, listen to this. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.840 I have seen the Lord. I feel like. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.120 She said it with a little bit of a and 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:30.960 you didn't kind of attitude behind somebody say, I come on, 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:37.200 shouted like you're proud about it. I have seen the Lord. 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.120 She told them that I have seen the Lord, and 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.040 that he had said these things to her. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.120 Go back to verse one for just a moment. I'll 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.000 give you my title now. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.320 On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.960 to the tomb early while it was still dark, and 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.640 saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:57.720 The word of the Lord today, He told me to 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.400 tell you stop staring at that stone. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.440 Stop. Tell your neighbor real quick. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:12.280 Stop it, tell them stop staring at that stone. You've 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.440 been focused on some of the wrong things. You've been 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.000 looking in some of the wrong places. You've been fixated 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.760 on some of the failures. But the Lord said today, 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:28.320 stop looking, stop staring, stop standing. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.560 At that stone. Father, thank you for your word. Appreach 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.560 it better than I can use my voice box. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.960 I'm your vessel in Jesus name. Hey man, you may 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:46.080 be seated. Stop staring at that stone. One of the 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.599 things that is the most remarkable in this text is 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:56.839 that Mary Magdalene, who has a very painful past, is 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.839 the very first person that Jesus there is Christ reveals 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:06.840 his power to Even more specifically, we know from another 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.760 scripture in Mark chapter sixteen, that Mary had been possessed 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:16.560 of seven demons and Jesus had driven them out, so 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:21.039 we understand something about her pain when he was taken 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:22.520 away because he had done. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:23.880 So much for her. 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.560 And what really got my attention about the text as 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.839 I read it to share with you today. Is the 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:37.080 contrast between the angel's response to the stone being rolled 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.159 and Mary's response to the stone being ruled. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:41.880 Now, this is not Mary the mother of Jesus. This 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:43.640 is Mary from Magdala. 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.920 She's not Mary Magdalene, like that's her last name, that's 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.560 where she's from, like Jesus the Nazarene, Mary the Magdalene. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:55.279 So this woman who had been possessed by seven devils 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:57.839 has an encounter with two angels. 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.359 Isn't God hilarious? 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:05.119 I mean, what does she know about angels. She's lived 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.880 a very, very difficult life, and she's been through a 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.360 lot of things. And the Lord chooses to reveal his 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.119 glory sometimes to the people who have suffered the most, 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.680 to the people that others are most skeptical of. And 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.600 when she went and told the disciples about jesus stone 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.480 being rolled away, they didn't believe her at all. That's 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.400 why they ran to check it out for themselves. And 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.400 they went back home, and she stood at the stone weeping. 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.240 And as she stands at the stone weeping, the angels 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.279 from inside, two angels who, by the way, the men. 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:38.600 Did not see. 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.440 I don't know what that means that the woman saw 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.719 them and the men didn't. I don't know if that 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.080 means that women have the ability to look for things 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.120 a little more deeply than men. You know, John saw 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.320 a linen claw the face claw. Don't clap at that. 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.160 I'm just putting it in there as a bonus. When 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.200 when I read it this time, I thought about how 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.200 different people can be going through the same experience or 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.680 looking at the same picture and have a completely different 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.400 perspective on it. Isn't that true when we say the 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.920 stone is rolled away? Even when I read that verse 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.560 to you the stone is rolled away, I heard a. 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:15.920 Few people start to shout. 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.360 Because for us that has become the icon and the 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.440 image of victory. The ultimate victory for the Christian is 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.000 the fact that the stone is rolled. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.680 Away, and to us that represents power. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:30.840 That they can put him on the cross, but they 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:35.440 can't hold him, That they can betray him and mock him, 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.000 but they cannot take his true crown. That they can 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.360 reject him, but they cannot diminish his royalty. For us, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.880 the stone is rolled as a statement of power. For us, 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.320 the stone is rolled as a statement of possibility. It 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.080 makes us feel like anything can happen. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:50.760 In our life. 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.560 It makes us feel like maybe we're not stuck where 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.440 we are forever. The stone is rolled. When I say 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.000 the stone is rolled, you want to shout because to 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:03.040 us that's that's a statement of praise. The stone is rolled, 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.080 and we all, two thousand years after the fact, start 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.120 to praise God because when we say the stone is rolled, 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:10.720 it's a statement of praise. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:15.080 But when Mary said it, for her it was a problem. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.280 It was a problem because the last time she saw 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.720 Jesus he was laying in a grave. 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:24.960 She goes back to the place where she last saw 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:29.000 him and he is not there. The stone is rolled. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.280 So when she says to Peter, the stone is rolled, 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.600 it is no coincidence that she says it to Peter. Peter, 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.120 we learn in the garden, has a sword and she 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:43.080 wants him to do something about this situation. Who took him? 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.800 Go find him? Peter, the stone is rolled. Isn't it 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:51.320 amazing how we say it as a praise and she 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:53.280 saw it as a problem. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.320 And is that God's message to us that some of 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:58.040 the things. 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.360 That you see as a problem today will be a 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:07.720 praise tomorrow. Don't get too discouraged about the job. Change 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.480 some of the things that are a problem today might 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:14.280 be a praise tomorrow. Don't be too upset about the breakup. 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.920 Some of the things that are a problem today will 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.120 be a praise tomorrow. You might be thinking God a 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.760 few days from now about what he took away, because 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.240 you might realize that the first thing that God does 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.720 before he brings forth this takes away. So I need 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.880 you to go ahead and do what we do by faith, 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:35.480 we praise God today for the problem before we see 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:36.680 the power breakthrough. 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.600 I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me slow this message down. Well, 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:42.120 go ahead and. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:43.920 Tell somebody praise him anyway. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.240 Praise him anyway. See. 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.600 I think what's amazing about Mary is that she went 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.760 to the tomb even though there was nothing she could 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.360 do about the situation. I think it's amazing about Mary 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.000 that she went with her spices, with the other women 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.640 just to anoint the body of the one who had 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.640 died and disappointed her. You judge her because she wept 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:08.319 and did not believe in the resurrection. I celebrate her 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.760 because she walked in the dark to the tomb while weeping. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.240 And I think that's a faith worth emulating. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.120 When you can walk toward the tomb while weeping, when 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.680 you can walk toward the tomb while weeping. And when 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.360 she gets to the tomb, she is met by a 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.440 sight that to her is a problem, but to us 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.560 is a praise. The stone is rolled away. Tell three 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.960 people the stone is rolled away. And whether that's a 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.280 problem or a praise, that depends on which way you 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.160 look at it. Because some of the ways we understand 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.280 things on this side of the resurrection, they had to 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.520 believe by faith on that side of the resurrection, and 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.960 some of the things that we know now as fact, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:56.120 we had to understand that they took by faith. Two 0:10:56.160 --> 0:11:00.959 people looking at the same picture from a completely different perspective. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.199 In fact, don't want to show you a picture, a 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:08.520 family picture, family Easter picture that we never posted. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:10.200 Can I show you this? 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.120 There's my favorite family furdict family Easter picture, but we 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.240 never posted it, so I want to share it with you. Now, 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:22.600 that's Graham, that's Abby, and that's Holly. 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:27.240 Is it big enough that you can see it? Answer me? 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.600 Is it big enough that you can see it? Why 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.079 y'all so quiet on Easter? 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.920 Y'all luck like y'all are scared that they might come 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.560 crucify you on Easter if you shall, nobody's coming in 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.520 here to get you. Can you see the picture? 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:40.800 Hey, I can make it bigger if you can. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.559 A little bit bigger, a little bit bigger, a little 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.400 bit bigger. That's what God is saying about your dream too. 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.720 A little bit bigger, a little bit bigger, a little 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.120 bit bigger. That's what God is saying about your view 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:53.439 of Him. 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.440 A little bit bigger, a little bit bigger. 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.960 That's what God is saying about your praise too. A 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.079 little bit bigger, a little bit bigger. You need a 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.679 little bit bigger. Can you make it a little bit bigger? Well, 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.520 let me break it down for you. In this picture, 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:14.000 Abby is crying, Graham is confused, Holly is happy. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.640 What's happening in this picture. 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:24.240 That Graham is confused, Abby is crying, and Holly is happy. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.920 Let me show you the picture that happened thirty minutes 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:31.760 before that. Abby is crying. Of course, she's crying about 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.600 a bunny, that's right. 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.839 This picture was taken at the Elevation Church staff event 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:38.520 called the Hop. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.360 And at the Hop, somebody thought it'd be a wonderful 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.360 idea if they had a drawing and some kid, some 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.160 blessed staff kid got to take home a live bunny. 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:47.439 As a pet. 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.640 As a blessing to all of our staff, we wanted 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.679 to send one of their kids home with a bunny. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:57.839 That's called pastoral care discernment. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.840 Anyway, beholding the bunny, that she had the opportunity to win, 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:06.160 as her name was entered in the drawing, so she 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:12.040 thought showed him the earlier picture. She didn't win. And 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.920 so this is Abby not winning. This is Abby weeping. 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.360 This this is Graham. 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:25.200 See Graham's verse in this passage is John twenty, verse thirteen. 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:26.600 Put that back on the screen real quick. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.760 Graham is saying, in this picture, woman, why are. 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.200 You weeping? 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:41.400 Put the picture back up? So Graham is why Abby 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:47.760 is weeping? And Holly, what is Holly smiling about? We've 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.640 wondered this for eleven years, but I saw the mystery 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.600 last night. I said, why were you smiling while your 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:59.079 daughter was crying? And she said, because I knew she 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.760 wasn't going to win, because I did not put her 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.840 name in the hat for the bunny, because I knew 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.920 that I would be the one changing the paper for 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:10.560 the bunny. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.640 And Abby is finding out with the rest of you. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:19.520 Why her mom is happy while she is weeping. So 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:23.960 we got one person praising, we got one person in pain, 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.560 and we got one person perplexed. 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.000 Put the picture back up. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.360 One more time. Which one are you? One is happy? 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:32.280 Holly's happy. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.440 She rigged this whole thing. She's the most. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:39.120 Devious pastor's wife in all of history. Y'all think she's sweet, 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.040 and she is, but she's also strategic. She said, I 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.920 rigged this bunny thing. You weren't gonna ever get a bunny. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.640 And Abby is broken hearted about the bunny that she 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.600 was never gonna get, and Grandma is saying, what Jesus said, woman. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.400 Why are you weeping? And I don't know where Elijah is. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.640 He's probably feeding the bunny some peanut m and M's 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.760 trying to get him to choke on a peanut allergy, 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:01.920 or maybe feeding them a peep, trying to see if 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:08.080 they're cannibal. But Elijah isn't pictured. But Holly's happy. Abby's weeping, 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:17.680 and Grandness wondering why. 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.480 Because of a bunny. 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.400 Now she's four years old, so why she's crying over 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.200 a bunny? Crying over something that she didn't really lose. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.600 She never had it to begin with. So now bridge 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:37.240 with me. Mary said, they have taken my lord away. 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.480 He's the only one who really saw me for what 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:45.640 I could be. He's the only one that saw past 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:51.600 the demons that were running my life by default and 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:55.520 drove them out. He is the only one who had 0:15:55.560 --> 0:16:00.200 the power to see the Mary beneath the misery. He 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.800 is the only one who ever spoke to my issue 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:05.800 and showed me my identity. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.560 And he's gone. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.960 And I don't know what to do about the fact 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.360 that he's gone. But I am going to this tomb 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.080 if it's the last thing I do. I'm gonna see 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.760 to it that he has a proper burial. They didn't 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.000 get to bury him, right. He died so late in 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.320 the day they had to lay him to rest in 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.000 a tomb that was nearby. They didn't even get to 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.960 annoying his body, right, I'm at least going to finish 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:33.440 the job. I can't bring him back. I can't understand. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.920 I can't stop crying. I can't explain it. I can't 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.720 make sense of it. I can't redeem it in this moment. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:43.240 But I'm gonna do what I'm able to do. And 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.000 she gets to the stone and it's rolled. 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:51.560 Are you serious? And the angels are rejoicing. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:58.520 Because to them the stone roll means risen, but to 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:03.400 her the stone rolled it means robbed. And I came 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:07.720 to say they were looking at the same stone. 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:08.880 They were looking at. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:15.640 The exact same stone, and the angel said risen, and 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.040 Mary said robbed. Do you know there are people in 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.760 here today who are looking at their life and feeling. 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.240 Like they're robbed, that God has left them, that my 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:30.120 joy is gone, my peace is gone, my life is over, 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.879 it is all done for me, It's gone. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.879 And I'm here at church and I'm dressed up in church, 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.600 but I feel like I'm robbed down on the inside. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.520 And there's somebody else sitting in this same church with 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.879 the worst situation. And because he has risen, they have 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.600 a perspective to know. Watch this that sometimes it is 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:52.720 not what you are looking at, It is what you 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.960 believe about what you are looking at that determines how 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:58.439 you feel when you see it. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:00.959 Look at it different. 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.080 If you look at the stone being rolled as the 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.360 evidence that someone came and stole. 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:07.680 The body, you will weep. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.320 If you look at the stone being rolled away as 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.399 the evidence that his presence could not be contained in 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:14.359 a borrowed grave. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.640 It will cause you to rejoice. 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:22.800 So I came to say, today, change your angle, change 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.280 the angle that you are looking at your life. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.680 The resurrection is more than just a cute cliche. 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.080 When we say the stone is rolled, we are not 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.879 simply saying that God can do a miracle. We are 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.320 not simply saying that God can do great things. We 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.920 are not simply saying that God can do the impossible. 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.919 We are saying that, but we are also saying that 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.280 there is no situation in your life, no heartbreak in 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.479 your life, no disease in your life, no devil in 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.919 your life, no possession, no power, no scheme, no curse. 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:57.159 There is nothing too big for our God. And I 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.760 want the whole church to praise him right now. I 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:05.520 mean every single person in this church to praise them 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:12.040 right now. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:16.119 The angel said Risen. 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.760 Mary said, Rob, I want you to look at the 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.760 problem that's in your life right now. Is it really 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.160 a problem or is it a platform? Is it really 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.760 a problem or is it an opportunity for God. 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.199 To show you what He alone can do? All right, 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:35.439 So now let me teach you a little bit. 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:41.800 So Mary is at the tomb, and she is staring 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:46.040 at the stone. And the thing we wonder about Mary 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.880 at this point is, how could somebody drive seven devils 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.840 out of you and you not recognize them when you 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:56.840 saw them. How could somebody do something so profound for 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:02.280 you and you be blind to be holding them. At first, 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:06.480 I thought that it was because of Mary's tears that 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:11.560 she could not see Jesus, which may have contributed to. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:13.440 The fact that she couldn't see him. 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.399 You know, sometimes our pain has a way of blocking 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:24.080 our perspective. Sometimes you can't see the truth through your tears. See, 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:25.879 if the end of gets you so discouraged that you 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:27.680 believe this is all it's ever going to be, you'll 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.280 never see what God is doing because you can't see. 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:33.560 The truth through your tears. 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:36.520 And I thought that when the scripture said that that 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.440 she did not recognize Jesus, she did not know it 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.679 was him, that maybe she was blinded by her own tears. 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:46.920 And I thought, how many of us are how many 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.360 of us cannot see him through our sorrow, even though 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.440 he is designated by Isaiah as the Man of sorrows. 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.040 I thought about how sometimes in our life we trust 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.119 our tears more than we trust what God tells us, 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:03.320 and we will allow the enemy to get us in 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:08.120 a position, whether through depression or isolation, or our sin 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:11.240 or our addiction, that we cannot see. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.960 The truth of who God is through our tears. That 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:15.840 was a contributing factor for sure. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:19.280 But I also noticed in verse one it said that 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.359 Mary went to the tomb early in the morning while 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:27.159 it was still dark, and that helped me to realize 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:31.200 a second reason that she couldn't see him exactly is that. 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:32.440 She was in transition. 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:37.760 It's difficult to see God through tears, and it's difficult 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:41.520 to see God in transition. It's easy to see God 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:44.439 when everything in your life looks like you expected it 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:48.120 to look. It was easy for her to receive Jesus 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.080 as a teacher as long as she could see the 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:50.919 one that was teaching. 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:52.760 But now he's risen. 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:56.080 And while him being risen will later be a reason 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.880 for her to praise him, right now it's a problem 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:02.600 because she can't see him through her tears, and she 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:06.240 can't see him in the transition. The way that Jewish 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:07.480 people marked time. 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:09.120 Was very different than the way we mark time. 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.879 See we typically take a clock until the calendar when 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:13.760 to begin a new day. 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:16.560 The Jewish people mark the day not. 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:23.239 By a clock, but from sun down to sun down. Now, 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.920 you got to think about Jesus's death. He died on Friday. 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:31.560 He stayed dead until Sunday, but he was only there 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:34.480 thirty six hours. How do we say it's three days 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.800 when it was only thirty six hours, because there were 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:40.720 a few hours between when Jesus was crucified and when 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:42.640 the sun went down that counted as a full day. 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:46.280 There was silent Saturday when the women prepared the spices 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:50.480 and made their plans. We're going to the tomb, even 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:52.840 though we're sad. We're going to the tomb, even though 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:54.520 we don't know what comes next. 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:55.840 We're going to the tomb. 0:22:56.680 --> 0:23:00.560 And then, of course there was Sunday when Jesus got up. 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:03.560 But notice what he did. He got up while it 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:05.480 was still dark. 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:09.199 And what that speaks to me is God is moving 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:11.000 before I know that he is. 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:13.800 God does stuff in the dark. 0:23:14.840 --> 0:23:17.439 God does stuff in places that are unseen by you. 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:21.280 God does things in places that are unrecognized by you. 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:24.240 God does things in transition. How many are going through 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:25.120 a transition right. 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:26.760 Now in your life? And you feel like it's hard 0:23:27.160 --> 0:23:28.560 for you to recognize God. 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:32.080 Come on, not at me, wave a pinky, throw a shoe, 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:37.040 do something. Going through a transition right now. It's not 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:42.200 exactly night, it's not exactly day. It's the third day, 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:43.639 but it's still early. 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:46.920 I'm in progress in this place in my life. 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:50.000 And I've got tears and I've got transition, and I've 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:53.240 got tears and I've got transition. And the Bible says 0:23:53.240 --> 0:23:56.880 that while she was looking into the tomb, not for Jesus, 0:23:57.280 --> 0:24:00.479 but for a corpse. See, Mary was not looking for 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:05.920 what Jesus was. She was looking for what Jesus had been. Yeah, 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:09.360 she was looking for what he had been. She watched 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:12.720 him die on the cross, she watched him buried in 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:15.160 the grave. And some of the reason that we don't 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:17.840 see Jesus is because of our tears, and some of 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:19.879 the reason that we don't see Jesus is because of 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:22.240 our transition. And some of the reason that we don't 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:25.640 see Jesus as because we are trapped. We are trapped 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:28.880 in the last way we saw him. We are trapped. 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:31.800 We don't think he's moving because he's not moving like 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:34.439 he used to. We don't think he's present because we 0:24:34.480 --> 0:24:36.960 don't feel him like we used to. We don't think 0:24:37.000 --> 0:24:39.720 he's guiding us because we're not going where we. 0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:40.480 Thought we would go. 0:24:41.200 --> 0:24:44.840 And so Mary, while stooping to look into the tomb, 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:48.359 sees two angels where the body of Jesus had been, 0:24:48.800 --> 0:24:51.879 one at the feet, one at the head, and nothing 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:54.679 in between. I love it because it's a reversal of 0:24:54.720 --> 0:24:59.920 the cross. Jesus died between two thieves. When he was raised, 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:04.280 his body had been between two angels. He's changing places. 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:08.840 He's not gone, but he's changed places. God has not 0:25:09.080 --> 0:25:12.480 left your life. God has not left your family. God 0:25:12.560 --> 0:25:16.280 has not left your situation. God has not left you alone. 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:19.640 God has not left you helpless. God has not left 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:20.679 you without a comforter. 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:23.400 He just changing places. 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:26.040 High five. 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:28.119 Somebody says changing places. 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:32.520 He's changing places. He's changing places. 0:25:32.760 --> 0:25:36.280 You're staring at a stone wondering where did he go? 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:40.240 But you should be staring at a stone asking where's 0:25:40.280 --> 0:25:47.680 he at? Because the Bible says, I love the word 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:50.120 of God. I love the word of God. I read 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:52.520 the word of God. It speaks to me. The word 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:55.399 of God gets down in my spirit, and it reminds 0:25:55.440 --> 0:25:59.560 me that sometimes I am looking in the wrong place for. 0:25:59.560 --> 0:26:03.520 The right place person. I got the right. 0:26:03.320 --> 0:26:09.199 Person, but the wrong place, because you're looking for Jesus 0:26:09.480 --> 0:26:13.960 behind a stone. And so the man says, why are 0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:17.000 you weeping? And she says, I don't know where they 0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:19.320 have laid him. I want to take that apart for 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:25.199 a moment verse thirteen. I don't know where they have 0:26:25.359 --> 0:26:27.720 laid him helped me to say it like I saw it. 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:28.080 Lord. 0:26:28.520 --> 0:26:32.280 There's two things that are keeping Mary from seeing Jesus 0:26:32.280 --> 0:26:34.320 that might be keeping you. I don't know if you 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:36.119 felt lately like God isn't with me. I don't know 0:26:36.160 --> 0:26:37.719 if you've been feeling abandoned by God, or if you've 0:26:37.720 --> 0:26:39.600 been doing pretty good. But there will be a season 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:42.560 in your life where you will need Jesus and you 0:26:42.600 --> 0:26:45.240 will not see him, and you will pray God forgive me, 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:47.800 and the enemy will be telling you he can't forgive. 0:26:47.480 --> 0:26:48.000 You for that. 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:49.920 There will be a season in your life where you'll 0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:52.080 be saying God help me, and the enemy will be 0:26:52.119 --> 0:26:54.320 telling you you are beyond help. And when you get 0:26:54.320 --> 0:26:56.680 to that season where you cannot see him, remember these 0:26:56.720 --> 0:26:59.719 two things about Mary. It wasn't just the tears. It 0:26:59.760 --> 0:27:02.960 was just the transition. It wasn't just that she was trapped, 0:27:03.440 --> 0:27:10.800 it was this they laid him verse thirteen on the screen, 0:27:10.840 --> 0:27:14.080 Please where they. 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:17.600 Laid him. 0:27:17.720 --> 0:27:20.679 Two assumptions that she's making here that are about to 0:27:20.720 --> 0:27:21.800 be proven incorrect. 0:27:22.920 --> 0:27:28.200 One is they moved him. 0:27:28.320 --> 0:27:34.560 Jesus said, nobody has the power to take my life 0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:35.080 from me. 0:27:36.040 --> 0:27:36.960 I lay it down. 0:27:38.160 --> 0:27:40.240 So there is no they in the world that is 0:27:40.280 --> 0:27:44.600 stronger than God. There is no they in the world. 0:27:44.840 --> 0:27:47.640 I speak this word to somebody who's dealing with rejection. 0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:50.720 I speak this word to somebody who's dealing with shame. 0:27:51.040 --> 0:27:53.920 I speak this word, I break the power of they 0:27:54.080 --> 0:27:59.760 off of your life. Because it is not they that 0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:04.840 moved him. Well, that's the first assumption that she said they, 0:28:06.040 --> 0:28:08.560 But the second one is a little less evident. She said, 0:28:08.960 --> 0:28:12.000 I want to see where they laid him. I can't 0:28:12.040 --> 0:28:15.600 get off of that point. They and Jesus is the 0:28:15.600 --> 0:28:18.560 one who got up, and she's given them the credit 0:28:18.600 --> 0:28:22.320 for moving him. And he's the one who Stop giving 0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:26.159 the enemy credit for stuff God is doing. Is this 0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:32.520 a good Eastern message? Stop giving the enemy credit. Jesus 0:28:32.600 --> 0:28:37.359 got up, Nobody moved him. He moved himself. Nobody held him. 0:28:37.600 --> 0:28:41.000 He stayed there as long as he wanted to. So 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:45.640 she said, where have they laid him? And look at 0:28:45.640 --> 0:28:50.000 the next verse, verse fourteen. Having said this, she did 0:28:50.040 --> 0:28:56.760 something so simple. She turned around and saw Jesus standing. 0:28:56.840 --> 0:28:59.920 But she didn't know it was Jesus. Why did it? 0:29:00.000 --> 0:29:02.840 Did she know it was Jesus her tears or transition? 0:29:03.120 --> 0:29:05.160 Why didn't she know it was Jesus? Was he wearing 0:29:05.160 --> 0:29:05.720 a disguise? 0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:06.880 Why didn't she know? 0:29:06.960 --> 0:29:09.120 Even did Jesus change all of a sudden? Did he 0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:11.480 like have an s on his chest for savior now 0:29:11.520 --> 0:29:13.080 that he's up from the grave, and he used to 0:29:13.080 --> 0:29:16.200 look like a carpenter? Why didn't she know it was Jesus? 0:29:17.240 --> 0:29:21.280 Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing. 0:29:23.040 --> 0:29:26.600 Go back to verse thirteen. She said, show me where 0:29:26.640 --> 0:29:31.680 they laid him. 0:29:31.880 --> 0:29:36.840 But when she saw him, he wasn't lying. He was 0:29:37.000 --> 0:29:42.040 verse fourteen standing. So I came to announce on Easter Sunday. 0:29:42.520 --> 0:29:46.720 He wasn't lying when he said I'm going to the cross. 0:29:47.160 --> 0:29:50.080 He wasn't lying when he said they're going to mock 0:29:50.200 --> 0:29:53.000 me and put a crown of thorns on my head. 0:29:53.360 --> 0:29:56.200 He wasn't lying when he told them I'm going to 0:29:56.280 --> 0:29:57.800 be in the ground three days. 0:29:58.320 --> 0:30:00.920 He wasn't lying when he told. 0:30:00.680 --> 0:30:04.840 Them, after three days, I will rebuild this temple and 0:30:05.080 --> 0:30:08.800 rise from the dead. He wasn't lyon when he said, 0:30:08.840 --> 0:30:12.360 I'm gonna take the keys of death and hell and 0:30:12.440 --> 0:30:12.920 the grave. 0:30:13.440 --> 0:30:14.400 He wasn't lyon. 0:30:14.760 --> 0:30:18.200 So if your neighbors say he wasn't lyon when he 0:30:18.280 --> 0:30:21.680 said I have all power and authority, he wasn't lyon 0:30:22.080 --> 0:30:24.120 when he said I'm the King of kings and the 0:30:24.160 --> 0:30:27.640 Lord of lords. He wasn't lying when he set I'll 0:30:27.680 --> 0:30:29.080 provide all your needs. 0:30:29.560 --> 0:30:31.520 He wasn't lion when he. 0:30:31.600 --> 0:30:35.520 Said I am God, I am the Way, the Truth, 0:30:35.600 --> 0:30:36.440 and the lions. 0:30:36.840 --> 0:30:38.120 He wasn't lion. 0:30:39.680 --> 0:30:43.720 He was standing, and he's still standing, And. 0:30:44.000 --> 0:30:44.560 So am I. 0:30:46.120 --> 0:30:52.960 So I celebrate Eastern Does I celebrate the king who 0:30:53.040 --> 0:30:56.719 didn't stay in the graves and age? So let us 0:30:56.800 --> 0:31:01.360 teeth and in age, so let us his but step 0:31:01.400 --> 0:31:07.120 away from that stone. He didn't stay dead. He got up. 0:31:08.880 --> 0:31:16.440 He got up. He's standing. He's standing. Stands up on 0:31:16.480 --> 0:31:19.160 your feet, and celebrate. 0:31:20.080 --> 0:31:20.920 The king. 0:31:22.160 --> 0:31:24.920 Who stands at the. 0:31:24.720 --> 0:31:27.000 Center off the brow. 0:31:28.320 --> 0:31:29.520 I say, King. 0:31:29.480 --> 0:31:35.760 Jesus standing at the center off the throw, looking like 0:31:35.880 --> 0:31:38.400 a lamb that has been slave. 0:31:41.600 --> 0:31:42.080 Part five. 0:31:42.160 --> 0:31:43.840 Everybody who can reach your say. 0:31:43.680 --> 0:31:48.240 I'm standing with him. I'm standing with him. I'm standing 0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:48.760 with him. 0:31:49.200 --> 0:31:53.120 He cast seven devils out of me. I'm standing with him. 0:31:53.640 --> 0:31:56.200 I've been staring at a stone. 0:31:56.640 --> 0:31:58.560 But I'm turning to the Savior. 0:31:59.480 --> 0:32:05.080 God's said, stop staring at that stone. It's turn around time. 0:32:05.720 --> 0:32:10.160 It's turn around time. It's turn around time. Do a 0:32:10.240 --> 0:32:15.280 quick three sixty right there in your and do what 0:32:15.600 --> 0:32:22.400 Mary did. He turn around, turn around. I serve a 0:32:22.560 --> 0:32:25.000 God who can turn. 0:32:24.800 --> 0:32:30.280 A grave, and too, hey, turn. 0:32:30.080 --> 0:32:45.720 Out Top five. 0:32:45.800 --> 0:32:49.200 Your neighbors say, stop staring at that stone. 0:32:50.400 --> 0:32:52.080 That stone can't save you. 0:32:52.520 --> 0:32:56.800 That stone can't stop God. That divorce can't stop God, 0:32:57.200 --> 0:33:02.360 that depression can't stop God, that mental illness can't stop God. 0:33:02.600 --> 0:33:08.160 That chronic fatigue can't stop God. That same can't stop God. 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:21.560 So I'm doing what Mary did. I'm turning away from 0:33:21.560 --> 0:33:26.280 the stone, and I'm turning to the Savior because I've 0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:28.200 been staring at. 0:33:28.040 --> 0:33:32.520 The wrong stone. Matthew twenty one. 0:33:32.440 --> 0:33:36.040 Says this, Jesus said to them. 0:33:36.360 --> 0:33:37.480 Jesus said to. 0:33:37.400 --> 0:33:43.320 Them, have you not read in the scriptures? The stone 0:33:43.640 --> 0:33:49.400 that the builders rejected has become. 0:33:50.520 --> 0:33:57.040 The corner stone. This was the Lord's doing, Jesus said. 0:33:57.080 --> 0:33:58.479 They didn't move my body. 0:33:58.600 --> 0:33:59.120 I did. 0:34:00.080 --> 0:34:03.880 Didn't roll that stone I did. They didn't do it. 0:34:04.200 --> 0:34:12.320 I did. God did that. This what's the Lord's doing. 0:34:12.560 --> 0:34:15.760 And it is marvelous in our eyes. 0:34:16.960 --> 0:34:20.480 You got a stone and a savior, A stone and 0:34:20.520 --> 0:34:23.320 a savior, A stone and a savior. 0:34:23.640 --> 0:34:26.640 And I see you doing what Mary did today. And 0:34:26.840 --> 0:34:35.680 stop staring at that stone. When she turned to face Jesus. 0:34:37.640 --> 0:34:41.640 The stone was behind her. I came to tell you, 0:34:41.840 --> 0:34:46.400 put it behind you, what you did, what they said, 0:34:46.480 --> 0:34:48.399 what you didn't did, what it was, what. 0:34:48.400 --> 0:34:53.279 It could have been. Put it behind you. 0:34:54.680 --> 0:35:00.879 And like Mary today, there's somebody who said, bye bye stone. 0:35:02.239 --> 0:35:07.160 Hello Jesus, what blew my mind? And I gotta show 0:35:07.200 --> 0:35:10.080 you this. I gotta show you this. I studied all week. 0:35:10.120 --> 0:35:11.640 You think I'm not gonna show you this. 0:35:12.120 --> 0:35:14.560 I don't even like to read, and I studied all week. 0:35:15.120 --> 0:35:18.719 You think I'm not gonna show you this. She did 0:35:18.800 --> 0:35:20.400 not know that it was Jesus. 0:35:20.480 --> 0:35:25.040 But verse fifteen, woo, Jesus said to her same thing. 0:35:25.080 --> 0:35:29.959 The Angel said, woman, why are you weeping? The same 0:35:29.960 --> 0:35:34.160 thing that Graham's face said in the picture woman, why 0:35:34.200 --> 0:35:38.480 are you weeping? The same thing that God is asking 0:35:38.480 --> 0:35:40.320 you today? Why are you weeping? 0:35:40.400 --> 0:35:45.120 When he won? But seeing. 0:35:48.040 --> 0:35:51.320 God can still be winning while you're weeping. 0:35:52.239 --> 0:35:54.239 The two are not mutually exclusive. 0:35:55.719 --> 0:35:59.040 And through her tears she looks at someone she doesn't 0:35:59.040 --> 0:36:02.840 even recognize. She thought he was a gardener, and she 0:36:03.040 --> 0:36:11.640 was kind of right. 0:36:13.160 --> 0:36:17.600 John chapter nineteen, verse forty one says this, Now, in 0:36:17.640 --> 0:36:20.920 the place where he was crucified, there was a garden, 0:36:21.800 --> 0:36:23.960 and in the garden a new tomb in which no 0:36:24.000 --> 0:36:26.520 one had yet been laid. 0:36:27.200 --> 0:36:29.040 But he wasn't lying there anymore, was he? 0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:35.360 And the focus is always either the grave or the garden, 0:36:36.239 --> 0:36:41.440 the stone or the savior, the impossible situation that you're facing, 0:36:42.280 --> 0:36:43.719 or the one who does the impossible. 0:36:45.080 --> 0:36:48.359 Does a rolled stone mean you got robbed? Or does 0:36:48.400 --> 0:36:53.520 it mean that he has risen? So she still can't 0:36:53.600 --> 0:36:54.040 see him. 0:36:54.239 --> 0:36:57.879 It takes time sometimes sometimes even people who God has 0:36:57.960 --> 0:37:00.000 really touched me, I just don't see you right now. 0:37:00.280 --> 0:37:02.040 And that's all right, because watch this. 0:37:02.800 --> 0:37:04.880 Jesus said, whom are you seeking? 0:37:04.920 --> 0:37:08.080 And we know the we we know the irony of 0:37:08.120 --> 0:37:09.440 this that she. 0:37:09.520 --> 0:37:13.960 Is seeking Jesus, but Jesus is seeking her. She doesn't 0:37:14.000 --> 0:37:16.279 know where to look, but he knows where to find her. 0:37:17.560 --> 0:37:20.080 God knows where to find you. God knows what you've 0:37:20.120 --> 0:37:22.560 been into. God knows what you've been up to. God 0:37:22.640 --> 0:37:23.320 knows what you've. 0:37:23.200 --> 0:37:23.840 Been on about. 0:37:24.120 --> 0:37:26.680 God knows where you've been off track. God knows where 0:37:26.680 --> 0:37:29.200 you've wasted time. God knows where you said it wrong, 0:37:29.239 --> 0:37:30.319 did it wrong, got it wrong? 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:32.719 And keep going back. But watch this, she says, sir, 0:37:33.160 --> 0:37:36.000 you know, is this some gardener messing with me? I'm 0:37:36.040 --> 0:37:38.520 trying to grieve even this gardeners bothering me? 0:37:38.680 --> 0:37:39.000 Was it you? 0:37:39.160 --> 0:37:41.040 Did you move him? If you've carried him away, just 0:37:41.080 --> 0:37:43.080 tell me where you've laid him. I'll take him away. 0:37:43.320 --> 0:37:45.880 Of course she can't really do that, but she's just 0:37:46.000 --> 0:37:46.800 trying anything. 0:37:47.880 --> 0:37:54.600 And then Jesus said Mary, And then she turned and said, 0:37:55.760 --> 0:37:56.480 rap on eye. 0:37:58.200 --> 0:38:05.520 When she turned from the tomb, she saw the teacher, but. 0:38:05.520 --> 0:38:09.520 I thought she already turned in verse fourteen the first time, 0:38:09.600 --> 0:38:09.919 go back. 0:38:10.719 --> 0:38:15.399 She turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she didn't 0:38:15.480 --> 0:38:20.040 know that it was Jesus. And she turned back to 0:38:20.160 --> 0:38:24.799 the tomb, and Jesus was close enough for her to touch. 0:38:26.680 --> 0:38:29.200 And I want to tell you today he's close enough 0:38:30.080 --> 0:38:35.239 for you to touch. But you got to turn around 0:38:36.680 --> 0:38:39.560 and stop staring at that stone. 0:38:40.400 --> 0:38:41.480 Your tears. 0:38:42.840 --> 0:38:48.320 Are not telling you good Trump. And when she said Rabona, 0:38:49.040 --> 0:38:50.960 she clinged to his feet for a minute, and he said, 0:38:51.000 --> 0:38:51.719 you can't cling to me. 0:38:51.719 --> 0:38:53.919 I got a job for you to do. I need 0:38:53.960 --> 0:38:55.160 you to go tell those boys. 0:38:55.200 --> 0:38:57.279 And by the way, because Jesus is trolling, He's like, 0:38:57.520 --> 0:39:01.399 call them my brothers to really let them know how 0:39:01.600 --> 0:39:03.799 graceful I am, even though I could call him something 0:39:03.840 --> 0:39:06.560 else right about now, make sure that you let them 0:39:06.600 --> 0:39:08.400 know I called them my bros. 0:39:08.480 --> 0:39:10.640 And she takes off running. 0:39:10.960 --> 0:39:15.160 But in order for her to carry out her assignment, 0:39:15.640 --> 0:39:19.600 she had to stop staring at the stone. 0:39:19.719 --> 0:39:22.919 She had to watch this. She had to pivot from 0:39:22.920 --> 0:39:26.360 her past. She had to turn around. 0:39:26.200 --> 0:39:30.239 And put the past behind her. All seven devils are 0:39:30.280 --> 0:39:33.000 gone now, and there are two angels in this tomb, 0:39:33.239 --> 0:39:37.479 and there is a savior who loves you. So let's 0:39:37.520 --> 0:39:41.640 take a minute on this resurrection Sunday and let the 0:39:41.800 --> 0:39:44.160 enemy know I'm coming out of this tomb. 0:39:45.280 --> 0:39:47.560 I'm stepping away from this stone. 0:39:48.560 --> 0:39:51.520 Not Tomorrow is not in this tomb. 0:39:52.880 --> 0:39:57.480 My tomorrow can't bit in this toomb. Come on, throw 0:39:57.600 --> 0:40:02.719 up your hand like this and wave real quick and 0:40:02.880 --> 0:40:04.320 say bye bye. Stone. 0:40:05.800 --> 0:40:07.800 Come on, say bye bye, Say. 0:40:09.239 --> 0:40:18.040 Say goodbye, fear goodbye, braave goodbye bye. 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