Resurrection : Victory of Joy

🎙️ Resurrection : Victory of Joy 📖 Luke 18:9–14 | ✝️ A Sermon by Rev. Chuck Rains | April 12, 1998

Join us for a meaningful Easter Sunday message delivered by Rev. Chuck Rains, titled “The Man Who Thought He Was Righteous.” In this sermon, originally preached on April 12, 1998, we revisit Jesus’ parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector—a timeless story that speaks directly to the heart of the Gospel.

As the tomb stands empty and we rejoice in the resurrection of Christ, Rev. Rains brings us back to the foundation of our faith: humility, repentance, and the incredible mercy of God. Through the contrast of a proud Pharisee and a broken tax collector, we are challenged to examine our own hearts. Are we standing before God based on our own perceived righteousness—or are we crying out, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner”?

This sermon not only captures the spirit of Easter—the triumph of grace over sin—but also offers a sobering and transformative reminder: only those who come to God in humility will be lifted up. The cross levels the ground for all, and the resurrection offers new life to those who believe.

Whether you’re a long-time believer or simply curious about the Christian faith, this Easter message offers encouragement, conviction, and the hope of redemption found only in Jesus Christ.

💬 “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” – Luke 18:14

🕊️ Tune in, reflect deeply, and let this Easter Sunday message renew your understanding of God’s amazing grace.

 

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Episode Transcript

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This one happens to be from April 12, 1998.
I keep trying to say 89 because I've been doing it once from 89 lately.
This is from 98.
It's on the resurrection.
So it's a good Easter episode.
So I thought I would bring it right now.

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So what an entitled of it is resurrection, victory of joy.
Okay, so we'll get that.
That's from our pastor, Reverend Chuck Rains Fellowship Bible Church.
So bringing that to right now.
So let's get right into it.

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The scenes leading to the cross are familiar to us.
Consider the scene of the Last Supper where the Lord humbly washes the feet of the disciples.
Until he gets to one who just doesn't think it should be that way, Peter, Lord, you want

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to wash my feet.
And the Lord explains to Peter, Peter, if you don't let me wash your feet, then you
have nothing to do with me.
You have nothing to do with my life, my ministry.
You and I are not, what it is saying is that you and I are not joined.

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You're not a part of this whole work.
How Peter changes his mind immediately and says, well, then, wash not just my feet, wash
me all over, Lord, my head, my whole body.
Jesus has to explain again there to Peter.
No, those that are clean only need their feet washed.

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And that, of course, looks back to the days in the Middle East when because people wore
sandals and walked around in the dusty streets and paths of the day that after they had taken
a full bath for their body, the only thing really that would get soiled as they walked
along would be their feet.

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And that reminds us that when we are forgiven of our sin by the Lord, when we come to him
and see ourselves before him as sinners and all men are sinners, all people are sinners.
When we come before him and ask him for forgiveness and trust him to be our Savior, he cleanses

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us completely.
It's like a full bath from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet.
But after he cleanses you, you're still here in this world.
And if you know yourself, you know that even though you may have trusted Christ as your
Savior, you're still capable of sin.

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And if you read the Bible to mean that when somebody receives Christ as Savior, they don't
sin anymore, you're reading it wrongly because God never says that.
In fact, He says just to reverse.
He says that all of His children sin because He needs to discipline them all.
And in fact, if He doesn't discipline somebody, it's not because they're perfect, it's because

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they're not one of His.
If God doesn't discipline you, it's not because you're so wonderful, it's because you just
don't belong to Him.
So at least you can say, if the Lord disciplines you, well, I know I'm His.
I know I'm His.
So what Jesus wanted to say was, you do need your feet washed.

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You need to come to the Lord every day and admit to Him that though you're His child,
you need to admit to Him that there are things in your life that need to be forgiven for
that day.
Here's child, but still we know we human parents know that though we have children,

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they aren't perfect.
They need to be forgiven as the days go along, but still they are our children.
Then at the last end of that night, the last supper, remember the Lord took bread and broke
it, likened it to His body, took the cup, they shared the cup, likening it to His blood.

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Telling them that they should do this as off as they took it in remembrance of Him.
And that they should do that until He came.
Now that's a reference, a prophetic reference to the fact that He would return one day
to take them home to heaven.
You remember that after that supper, they went together out to the garden.

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And that was a time to pray and He prayed as it were great, sweat dropses of blood.
Others that were supposed to be faithfully praying fell asleep.
But He prayed was a agonizing time of prayer for Him.

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Why?
Because the whole, the sin of the whole world was going to come down upon Him at the cross.
The Apostle Peter writes in his book of Jesus, it says, who his own self bear our sins in
his own body on the tree.
And that's the idea that going to that cross, he would have to take upon him the sin of the whole world.

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And that was an agonizing thought.
And yet he was motivated, moved to the cross, moved toward the cross because of his great love for mankind.
Love drove him to the cross.
And so he perspired there in the garden.
And then we go from that scene, we see the the the betrayal scene where Judas comes with

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soldiers really from the high priest and the elders.
And they come before Jesus and Judas actually goes up to him and kisses him and betrays him,
identifies him with a kiss, with a kiss.

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And then they of course are about to take Jesus.
And again, Peter decides this isn't going to happen.
And he draws his sword.
He had from the wording we have and apparently he had a short sword like the sort that the Romans
used, short sword, but very sharp.
And he raised it in anger and brought it down on the right ear of the high priest servant.

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His name according to the gospel of John was Malchus.
God gives us great details like that.
And the ear fell to the ground.
And Jesus rebuked Peter and he said, put up your sword.
In other words, put it in its sheath.
And then John also tells us that he picked the ear up and replaced it on the man's head.

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Now that was the high priest servant.
Yes, we know that the high priest was at the forefront of the determined plan to crucify Christ.
And yet here God shows us how in the moment of betrayal love can be shown.

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I believe that even though that high priest was still determined to have his will and did
accomplish it at the cross, I think that in his own household, in his own household,
as we know in Herod's household, with the woman that was married to the steward of Herod and so

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forth, we know that God was at work in hearts like perhaps in this man who had his ear chopped
off and then lovingly replaced to win their hearts to realize this one that was dying
wasn't an enemy. He wasn't to be hated. He was the son of God that had come as redeemer.

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You go from there and you see Christ's drug through trial after trial, first before pilot.
I'm sorry, first before the high priest in the Sanhedrin and then before Pilate and then
the Herod back to Pilate and on and on and on through the night, all night long drug from trial,
so-called trial, so-called legal proceeding. They could find no evidence against him. You see,

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they even had to pay false witnesses to say things against him because they couldn't find anybody
that could really raise any charge against him. Not even Pilate could find anything against him
by no fault in the man, but for political maneuvering sake, he sent him to Herod,

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Herod for trying to politically maneuver, sending back to Pilate. They became friends at the expense
of crucifying the Lord. He surrendered to the mob's pressure, Pilate did, even though he found
nothing at fault in him. And almost in a blasphemous move, they demanded that a man named Barabbas

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be released to them to choose that robber over Jesus, but they did it. And so it went through the night
and as Jesus was there being brought before the the priests and the high priest, Peter was out in

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the courtyard three times. He denied that he had any relationship with Christ three times.
I don't know him. No, I'm not one of them. And he swore to seal it. He swore to make them realize
he's of the people. He's one of the people of the dirt like they are. He could swear with the best

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of them. He swore I have nothing to do with this man.
And Jesus just looked at him. He caught the gaze of Christ.
Not a word was said. And Peter went out by himself in the darkness somewhere.

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And the Scripture says he wept bitterly. He was ashamed. He had denied his Lord.
All of those scenes come to mind that final caving in against all pressures and against all false

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witnesses. Pilate released him to be crucified. First they scourged him.
He had been humilted with rods apparently before Herod.

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Now mockingly he had been crowned, of course, with a crown of thorns. He had had a purple robe put on
him. We don't know at what point the plucking of the beard came because Isaiah said it would come.
We believe the Scriptures and therefore it did come. But they pulled his beard out.

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They pounded him in the face having blindfolded him. Mocked him saying now that he should tell them
who it was that hit him. And then the scourging the tore open his back
and they laid a cross on him. Made him drag it to the streets of Jerusalem.

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And then out as he went along that roadway he fainted under it. And another had to come and
bring it the rest of the way to the hill. And at the hill of Galgatha, the place of the skull,
a nailed metal spike, iron spikes through his hands and feet tied him to a cross. Mockingly put

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a sign over his head. This is Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews. Written in three languages
to make sure nobody would be apt to miss that title.
Hebrew, Greek, Latin. There he was.

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Heng. Naked. Put out the shame.
Between two thieves. As the Scripture says, numbered with the transgressors.
He bled for hours. Part of the pain was that everybody forsook him. At one point the Scripture

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is clear. At one point there was nobody there with him. Later we see his mother and we see John
at the foot of the cross. But there was a point at which and there's some who so
almost deify Mary that they don't like to be reminded of this. But there was a point at which
even his mother forsook him. For so in the sense that they drew away and wouldn't be identified

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with him. Though she later was there at the foot of the cross with John, the apostle.
That doesn't mean that the Lord condemned him in that. Rather, he forgave him.
Immersively, kindly, gently forgave him. He even forgave those that drove the nails into his hands.

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Those that whipped him. He said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
They do these things and they're deserving of eternal judgment, but they don't understand what
they're doing. They're ignorant in their sin. That's the kind of arbitrator. That's the kind of go

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between. That's the kind of lawyer that we have that makes our plea before God the Father.
He understands our heart. He understands our need. All because of his love, he went there.
Well, everything seemed hopeless at that point to all his followers.

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Having withdrawn for a while from the cross scene, they really withdrew inside.
When Jesus died, it just seemed like all hope died with him.
In Luke 24, just this bit of comment about these two men again that walked along the road to the

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little town of Emmaus, I think they're wonderful examples of the hopelessness that was felt by
the disciples at that time. Let me read from Luke 24, verse 17.
This is at the point when the Lord Jesus comes along and joins himself to these two men as they

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walk along the road. What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk
and are sad? The Lord says to them. Basically, what are you talking about as you go along the road here?
You're so sad. They were sad. They were heartbroken.

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And so they turned to him in verse 18, and he said, then the one whose name was Cleopas answered and
said to him, are you the only stranger in Jerusalem? And have you not known the things which happened
here in these days? Apparently, they assumed he was from Jerusalem because he was walking the

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same way they were, and they were walking away from Jerusalem. So they assumed they'd come out of
Jerusalem. But do you notice what they call him? The one thing he certainly isn't a stranger.
He's not a stranger. He not only knows about these things, he's the very one in whom these things

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are done. He understands the heart of man better than we do, better than we understand our own hearts.
Are you a stranger? No, thank God he's not a stranger. He's one that sticks closer than a brother.

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You don't know these things. He said to them, one things. That wasn't because he didn't know he
just wanted to prompt them to give testimony. So they said to him, the things concerning Jesus of
Nazareth, who was a prophet, notice they are sure he was a prophet. They didn't say who might have

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been a prophet, who was a prophet. But the other sad thing is, was is a past tense verb. And as far
as losing hope goes, he was a prophet. That's all over. Death has ended it. He's not a prophet
anymore. It's over. He was a prophet. They're sure that he was a prophet. Oh, also they're sure

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mighty indeed and word before God and all the people. Yes, he was mighty in word indeed.
They're sure that. No question about that in their minds.
And then they say they rehearse how he was treated, how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him

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to be condemned to death and crucified him. They're sure about the guilt of those leaders, those spiritual
leaders, those priests and the high priests, they're sure about their guilt and they're sure
what happened to him. They're sure he was crucified. They're sure he has been killed. He's been murdered.

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They're not in any doubt about any of that.
But verse 21 shows you why they're sad. Now the rest of it, you say, so you might make them
perhaps angry, might rile them up.

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But what made them really sad is this in verse 21. But we were hoping, you see, hope there is past
tense also. We were hoping. That means we're not hoping anymore. We were before, but we're not now.
We were hoping that it was he who was going to redeem Israel. We were hoping he was the Redeemer.

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We were hoping that he was the Redeemer even to use the word. If you know the Old Testament at all
means to pay a price, to redeem is to pay a price.
If someone was redeemed and the Old Testament, it was by offering up a redemption sacrifice.

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If a slave was redeemed, it was by money. And by the way, the price of a slave, as we're told in
the Old Testament, is what? We're told this exactly. 30 pieces of silver.
That somebody had to step in and die in your place. God said that could be done with sacrificial

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animals. If somebody was to be redeemed, they had to be redeemed by blood. Life had to be given.
Life had to be shed. Blood had to be shed. That was God's way. People say, why would God
bring that upon poor animals? I love animals, by the way. They're God's creatures. I have had pets

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all my life. I think of, I really have learned by having a, we had a pet robin, we had a couple
of them, actually, but we had one pet robin for seven or eight years in our home. And used to
ride around on our shoulder and used to just play with it in the faucet at the sink. And that
little robin used to run up and down on my body every time I'd lay down to do something under the

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sink with the plumbing or got down to, you know, to fix something. This is the most curious bird
in the world. We love that little bird had his own personality. I learn, and you know this with
dogs and cats, every animal has its own personality. They're all different.
But I learned that day in that, with that little bird, I learned that every robin has a different

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personality. Every sparrow has a different personality. I never dreamed that that was true.
I never looked out there and saw all those little animals as being different. Each one with its
own personality, like a dog or a cat, I never thought of that. Squirrels, you know,
they're just animals. And they're really, they're dear to God. And yet, you know, they're just animals.

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They are not spirited beings. They're special. They're wonderful. But they really should not be
talked of as people. And people shouldn't be sending other people to jail for treating them
in ways that if you treat a person that way, you want to go to jail. They're different.

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I don't say it should be cruel to them. I don't think that at all, but they're not people.
They're God's creatures. But God was the one that said they could be taken certain ones of them,
sheep, goats, cattle, doves, pigeons. They could be taken and used as sacrificial substitutes.

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They could have their necks cut, their blood could be spilled as a substitute for the one worshiping.
And then we learned that that was only a picture. The Bible says itself that no
single sin, not one sin was ever taken away by the shedding of the blood of an animal.

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No sin, not one was ever taken away by the shedding of the blood of an animal.
The Bible says the blood of bulls and goats can never take away sin.
But what were they? They were pictures. They were prophecies that one day God would send his own

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son and his own son would die and his blood would take away sin. That's why he'd let that be done to
the animals. And so the death of Christ at the cross did redeem us. And these two man was,
we were hoping that it was he that would redeem Israel. Well, bless their hearts, it was him.

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He did redeem Israel with his blood and only his blood could redeem.
But you see, because they had no more hope, they were sad. And besides that, and when you're sad,
and when you've lost your hope, the more time passes, the more you seem down in the dumps, the more

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dreary, the more hopeless things get. You know, one day had become two and two had become three.
And they said, and you know what, this is the third day since these things happened. Time's
going along. Our hope is lost. It's already three days past this. Little did they know yet

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that it was three days, exactly three days. And on that third day he was resurrected.
It wasn't long. They arrived at the end and they sat down and the meal together, he was going to,
he made as though he was going to go on and they urged him to stay and he stayed with them.
And in the discussion, as he went along the road and as it came to the end, he did one thing.

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The scriptures were open to them. Now this is so important. If you want to get rid of your sadness,
if you want joy to happen, if you want joy to happen in your life, you've got to come to the scriptures.
Here's what he did.

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And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures,
the things concerning himself. You see the place of the scriptures? If they were going to get their
hope, they had to come back to the scriptures. And so he expounded the scriptures and they drew

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near to the village where they were to go. And this is where they persuaded him to come into
the end with him and he sat a table with them and he blessed the bread and he broke it and he gave
it to them. And then their eyes were opened that says in verse 31, and they knew him and he vanished
from their sight. If you want your joy to return, if you want to even have joy, you're going to have

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to come to the place where you are willing to believe God's word.
Why? Because you will not have the chance to see these things that this Bible tells you about.
This is a once for all time. He came but once, he lived but once on this earth, he died and he

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died but once. He was buried only one time and he was resurrected only once. These are historic
events and you're not going to ever see them in this life. You're going to learn of them only by
the record of history. From those who were there, from those who witnessed it, from those who give

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us this record, and if you don't believe the record, you'll have no foundation for joy.
This must be so or you have no hope. The Apostle Paul made it very clear, if Christ is not raised
from the dead, then we of all men are most miserable. We don't have any hope. We have none.

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This is the foundation of hope.
That's why Mary Magdalene was crying at the grave. She was weeping and weeping sorrowfully
and she looked in and the tomb was empty and there were two angels that talked to her.
Why are you weeping? Well, they've taken my Lord's body away. I don't know where they've laid him.

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She said, then he spoke and he said one word and changed sorrow and weeping into joy.
That one word was her name. He just said, Mary.

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And she turned and she said, Rabonna, master.
And sorrow became joy. By the way, there was still some weeping, but now it was weeping for joy.

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Thomas was so sure.
He didn't trust himself, I think is a better way to put it. He didn't trust himself to believe the reports,
the reports of the women, the reports of these two brethren from Emmaus. He didn't want to trust
himself to believe the reports, even of Peter and of John. He didn't want to believe those things.

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He had appeared to Mary Magdalene. He had appeared to different ones.
But Thomas was afraid to believe those things. You know why? Because if he believed them,
and this is how it goes, I mean, I've had to deal with people counseling them about whether they
should get married or not. And sometimes you come together, you get people together, and you find

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out that they're really a little bit afraid about this marriage thing.
And in fact, I've had some that have agonized over marrying somebody for years.
I can't take time today, but maybe I've told you about my dear friend,
Donald Crawford's Phil Indiana, this dear lady who was dating this fellow.

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Let's see. He was in the Second World War, came back in 1945. I met them in 1955. That was 10 years,
1956, 1957, 1958. They were dating all this time. 12, 13 years.

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Esther was her name. Byron was his name. Brian. Byron. Byron. Thank you.
And they were leaders of the youth group in their church.
Take a listen here, Darren. And one day one of the kids in their youth group came to me,

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because I was leading their Bible club, and they said to me, we're kind of worried about Esther and
Byron. They were seeing the other night, necking out in the car, out on one of the streets.
We don't want the word to get out. The leaders of our youth group are outnecking in, you know,

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under the lamps up the streets of the city. So I went to Esther and Byron. I said, listen, folks,
it's time to get married. Time to get married. Well, you know, we've got our mothers and our
father. We got to take time to get married. You know, you're 40 some years old now, and you've

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been dating for 15 years, whatever. I don't know. You've got to get married. It's time to do it.
And you know, we had a wedding ceremony. We got those two married.
When you deal with some people, sometimes they're afraid. They're afraid because, and I'll tell you
why a lot of times they're afraid that if they go ahead and get married, they're going to find out

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after they do get married that other person is not going to be perfect, that other person is not
going to be faithful or maybe the joy will be gone somehow. It'll be snatched away from them
because they dared to trust. They dared to trust. And now the whole foundation for trust is gone.
And so it's a little safer just not to not to expose yourself to all that.

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I'm going to tell you something. That's where Thomas was. If he was going to allow himself to
commit to that idea that Jesus was still really alive, what would he do if he found out he wasn't?
And so Thomas was one of those people that just wanted to make sure he safeguarded his heart.
And he said, no, I'm not going to believe it till I can put my finger in the wounds.

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That's safe. And if you say, I'm not going to receive Jesus as my savior until I see him in front
of me physically. Jesus has a word for you because when Thomas saw him physically, he invited him to
put his finger into the wounds. He didn't. He didn't. Some people think he did. He didn't though.

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He just fell at his feet and worshiped him. And then Jesus said this time, it's Thomas,
blessed are you because you're seen, but blessed are others. You see others that come later
who though they haven't seen they believe. And that's where you are, folks.
You want your joy. It's going to have to rest on trusting Jesus without seeing him, but only

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trusting him according to the record and the witness of those that have the experience of
walking through this life day after day with the assurance that he lives inside of them.
And I'm one to tell you that's real. And anybody that claims to be a born again Christian will tell
you, I know that he's alive because he lives in me. And if that makes us sound like nuts, then so be it.

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But we have a hope and it is a hope that is steadfast and sure because Jesus lives.
Mary doesn't have to weep. Thomas doesn't have to be afraid. Peter doesn't have to be angry.

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And you don't have to doubt. Christ is alive.
Victor over death, over grave and over hell. Let me read lastly what Peter, the apostle says in
first Peter 1. And this should be your, if you can say that, oh, that speaks of me.

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If this speaks of you, then you have peace and joy. Here's what Peter says.
At the very, in right as he, here at the beginning, that's kind of in the middle of this chapter,
verse three, he says, blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ to according to his abundant

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mercy has begotten us again to and get this now. Get these two ideas together, a living hope.
Remember those men were without hope? A living hope.
He has given us a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Where did you get

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your hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead? If he's not a risen, then you don't
have any hope. If he is a risen, then you have hope of victory over death for you and over the
grave, over hell. You have hope without him. There is no hope to an inheritance and corruptible

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and undefiled and that does not fade away reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of
God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed at the last time. In this you greatly
get this now rejoice, greatly rejoice. If you got a hope people, then you can have great joy.
One follows the other with hope you get joy without hope you have no joy. You can greatly

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rejoice though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials.
And then he goes through the fact that you've got to live with these kind of trials, but it will all
be over in the revelation of Jesus Christ, the last part of verse 7. That means he's coming back.

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He's coming back for you. And then this last verse, verse 8. Now this is a verse that's talking
about your attitude about Jesus, whom having not seen, now nobody here has seen Jesus, you see,
whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see him, yet believing,

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you see instead of doubting, you believe, you take his fact and you rest on it and you act on it.
You rejoice. He says, believing, you rejoice. If you have faith, if you take it as true, if you rest on it as fact, then you have hope and with hope in believing you have joy.

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You rejoice. And with what? With joy, inexpressible and full of glory. There it is.
There it is. Not only do Christians believe that Jesus is raised from the dead,
not only do we believe that, we actually have joy, inexpressible joy. We have assurance, we have confidence,

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we have hope, we have peace, we have joy. And in the world's eyes, we are nuts.
Because they say, you don't have any foundation for that. And we say, we do. Because it all rests on this.
He not only died, God raised him from the dead and displayed him openly to show that we are redeemed. Our sin is paid for for those that trust him and receive that forgiveness.

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We have forgiveness, we have eternal life, and his life is our assurance that he's coming back for us.
That's pretty good. If you have never received Jesus as your Savior, this is the day that you want to do it.
The day of resurrection. If you believe that he came to this world and he died in your place,

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if you believe that you are a sinner, you've gone your own way in life, you have your own private sins. I don't know what they are. God does.
But if you see that you're a sinner and you need God's forgiveness and you want to be forgiven from all your sin,
then all you have to do is admit to God that you're an undeserving sinner.

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But you want, you ask for his mercy and his forgiveness. Ask him right now in your heart, just say, God, please.
Without you, I have no hope. I give my life to you with all of its wretchedness and I ask your forgiveness.

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If you'll say that to him,
please Lord, will you forgive me?
He will forgive. Please Lord, will you forgive and cleanse me? He will cleanse.
Please Lord, will you come and live in me and guide my life? He will come. He will guide.

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Lord,
help us use this day as a day of joy.
If even one trusts you a savior this morning, it's for them their greatest day of joy.
Thank you Lord that we have hope and therefore we can rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory in Jesus name.

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Thank you Pastor Rains for another message from our deep archive.
He said this is from 1998 and
it was at the church. I would guess it would be the morning service.
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