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Were humans made to worship? It seems that throughout history, humankind has displayed a deep need to worship something. In fact, it could be argued that there is a void within the hearts of humans that can only be filled by the act of worship. However, what is the best object of man’s worship? Observing history shows us that, while the right kind of worship brings fulfillment, the wrong kind of worship only deepens the need for fulfillment within the human heart. Join us as we examine what the Scriptures have to say about worship; both who we should worship, and how we should worship.
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Unknown (00:06):
Welcome to drippings from the honeycomb, the official
podcast of Another 12Ministries, we are so glad that
you have decided to join us aswe enjoy the sweetness of God's
word, one verse at a time wherehumans made to worship something
greater than themselves. InMatthew 28, verse five and six,
(00:30):
there's a single statement thatcovers two verses. And it's a
quote from an angel thataddressed the women who had come
to the tomb to prepare Jesus forHis final burial. And the angel
says this, do not be afraid, forI know that you see Jesus who
was crucified, He is not herefor he has risen, as he said,
(00:53):
Come and see the place where helay. If we look at history as a
whole, we could point to oneevent that marked the turning
point of all history, allhistory prior to this event,
looked forward to it. And allhistory since that event, has
looked back at it and gainedreference from it. And that
(01:15):
event would be the resurrectionof Jesus Christ. And the reason
it would be the resurrection ofJesus Christ is because of the
uniqueness of the event. It isnot the cross because many
people have been crucified fortheir principles for their
faith, for many various reasons.
On across many people have diedin the place of someone else,
and provided them a temporarystay of death until their
(01:36):
physical bodies died. But onlyone person has risen from the
dead of his own power, and thatis Jesus Christ. In addition,
it's more than just theresurrection. If Jesus just rose
from the dead and there was nocross he died of natural causes
of old age of a heart attack orsome illness, then his
(01:57):
resurrection from the dead wouldreally be nothing special,
because his natural death wouldhave proved that his flesh was
corruptible. And if his fleshwas corruptible, then he would
not have been able to claim tobe fully God and fully man, but
because he claimed to be fullyGod and fully man, and because
he was put to death, allowinghimself to be put to death by
(02:18):
sinful human beings whowrongfully accused him and
wrongfully sentenced him todeath and wrongfully executed
him. And because he lived a lifethat was sinless, and died in
our place and proclaimed that hedied in our place for sin. And
God made evidence during hiscrucifixion, that he was casting
(02:38):
the wrath due to the world onJesus as a substitutionary
atonement. These facts radicallychange the way we should see
Jesus's resurrection. It is themost important event that ever
took place. And it has drawnhuman attention from before its
occurrence. And after itsoccurrence, people looked
(03:00):
forward to the revelation of theMessiah, they look forward to
the deliverer, they lookedforward to the one who was going
to come and change everything.
And since Jesus came andrevealed himself as the Messiah,
revealed Himself as thedeliverer proclaimed himself to
be the coming King, and took thesteps required to prove that he
(03:20):
was the coming King by goingthrough crucifixion, rising from
the dead, ascending into heavenand sending the Holy Spirit, all
of human history has looked backto his resurrection as the key
turning point in the history ofhumanity. Now, of course, we
know that every person who haslived and has looked back at the
resurrection of Jesus Christ hasnot necessarily believed in it.
(03:41):
To be sure history has beenfilled with skeptics, deniers,
non believers, those who rejectthe evidence that Jesus provided
that the scriptures provide ofwho Jesus was during his time on
Earth, and who he is in hisresurrected state in heaven with
God, and the truth that hisreturn his impending return, to
(04:01):
bring his followers into aperfected creation. But human
belief or denial does not changethe reality of the impact that
the resurrection of Jesus Christhas on history has on humanity.
The reality is that just as theScripture teaches, man was
created by a creator, in theimage of that creator for the
(04:25):
purpose of glorifying thatCreator and having relationship
with him. Man was created with avoid within him. And this has
been proved throughout history.
People from every nation tribeand Tom have worship woven
within the fabric of theirsociety, and they don't worship
something lesser than them. Theyworship something that they
(04:47):
esteem to be greater than them,whatever that might be. But the
reality is that there is onlyone who is greater and that is
the one who has made all thingsand we know that Paul talks
about this in Romans one, wherehe says that fallen man has
worshipped creation rather thanthe Creator. The reality is it
is impossible for humans to livewithout worshiping something.
(05:12):
Humans were designed to worship.
And this design leaves a holewithin the human heart when
there is nothing to worship.
This is why humans will turn toall manner of different
pursuits, whether they bepersonal success, wealth,
religion, hobby, sportsrelationship, and the list could
go on and on. Humans must lavishtheir time, attention, care,
(05:36):
love, and energies on somethingin order to feel fulfilled. This
is because God designed humansthis way. And here we see in
this passage in Matthew 28, it'sno different. These women come
to the tomb, to seek one thatthey have lavished their
attention, their energies, theirlove, and their time on for a
(06:00):
number of years, they have beenan integral part of Jesus's
ministry, caring for Jesus andhis disciples supporting the
ministry financially, beingpresent constantly from the very
beginning all the way to thecross. Their lives have been
touched by Jesus changed byJesus, they are different people
than when they first met him.
(06:20):
And they will never be the same,because they have been called
into a relationship with Godthrough the ministry of Jesus
Christ. And so on this morning,this Sunday morning, these women
come to the tomb expecting tofind Jesus expecting to find a
dead Jesus, but still coming tofind him to continue to serve
(06:42):
him despite his death. But whenthey come to the tomb, they are
confronted with this scene withan angel sitting on the stone
that has been rolled away. Andhe immediately addresses what
they have come to do. They havecome to seek Jesus to continue
to worship him. The only problemis, Jesus isn't there he is
(07:04):
somewhere else, he has beenraised from the dead. This
reality did not create a lowerexpectation of worship, but a
higher expectation of worship.
This reality does not lessen thewomen's desire to find him and
be with him, it increases theirdesire to find him and be with
Him and serve Him and worshipHim. They came in great sorrow,
they will leave in fear and joy,fear because of the miracle that
(07:30):
has occurred, and the reality ofsomething that is beyond their
comprehension at this time, andjoy because of the impossibility
of what has just happened, thatthe one that they love, that
they care about the one thatthey have served and worship,
the one who touched their livesin immutable ways that can never
be changed, is now alive whenthey thought he was dead, is now
(07:52):
proved to be everything he saidhe was, even when their faith
was too small to believe it evenwhen their understanding was too
dim to see it. Now they areliving the reality of his
prophetic words having beenproved true, and are confronted
with the fullness of the factthat Jesus Christ was indeed and
(08:12):
is indeed, God. You see, thereason that the resurrection has
captivated people from beforethe event, despite the fact that
they didn't fully understandwhat they were looking for just
that they were looking for theadvent of a deliverer to people
who now read about theresurrection in the billions of
copies of the Bible that existaround the world, is that the
(08:35):
resurrection is the only sourceof hope for humanity. The
worship of the Creator is theonly worship that truly
satisfies the craving that Godhas placed within the hearts of
mankind. No other worship cansustain humanity. Humanity was
made to worship God and Godalone. And anything else is
(08:57):
idolatry that not only does notfulfill, but creates an even
greater longing for something tofill the human heart. You see,
there's one very important factabout the resurrection of Jesus
Christ that separatesChristianity from every other
religion in the world in humanhistory. The God of the
(09:17):
universe, lives, the God of theuniverse, sent his Son, Jesus
Christ to die in human form onthis earth. But he rose again
and he lives. Our God lives. Ifyou're a kingdom follower, if
you have put your faith andtrust in Jesus Christ. What
(09:39):
separates your belief systemfrom everybody else's belief
system on the earth is that yourGod is alive. You worship a real
person, someone who exists,someone who lives in the heavens
and someone who knows your name.
He is going to return for you,specifically, you and others.
(10:00):
But you specifically when hereturns, you specifically will
be on his mind and on his heart.
He has never forgotten yourname. He has never forgotten
anything about you. In fact,because He is the Creator, He
knows everything about youbecause he designed you
personally, to be known likethat, by the one true God who
lives is the only answer to fillthe hole that exists in the
(10:25):
heart of mankind. The worship ofthe one true God is the only
hope that can sustain men andwomen in this world today.
Everything else is fleeting,everything else is failing,
everything else, will eventuallystop fulfilling the heart that
worships it. But because Jesusis alive, because He is God,
(10:46):
because he has done the ultimatework to save the world, because
he knows each and every personbecause they were made according
to his will and pleasure. He isable to have true relationship
with humanity, he is able tohave a personal relationship
with each and every human thathe created. That does not mean
(11:09):
that each and every human thathe created will pursue
relationship with Him. Many,many people have rejected Jesus
Christ despite the evidence ofHis life, death, resurrection
and ascension. But as I saidbefore, their acceptance or
rejection of Jesus Christ doesnot change the impact that his
(11:30):
resurrection had on humanhistory. Without His
resurrection, human historywould look vastly different
without his resurrection, somany things that are would not
be and there would be, aboveall, no hope for humanity. You
see, the reason for this is thatbefore Jesus came before his
(11:53):
advent, God had given mankind ahope. In Genesis three, he had
told Adam and Eve who had falleninto sin, that one day he would
send a deliverer, to take theirsin away, to restore everything,
to crush the Serpent and tobring hope to mankind. And from
Adam and Eve, until the adventof Jesus. Humanity hoped and
(12:16):
waited for that deliver,humanity sought for a
fulfillment for the worship needof their heart, much of humanity
sought the wrong thing. Much ofhumanity worshipped the creation
rather than the Creator. But Godstill revealed himself
throughout history, and gave manhope. Those who put their faith
(12:39):
in God's promises, gave themhope of a future redemption.
When Jesus came, He fulfilledthat hope and those who
recognized who he was, and whyhe had come understood that he
was the fulfillment of thathope. And for a few brief hours,
that hope, died in the lack offaith of those who had
(13:00):
surrounded Jesus during Hisministry, that hope seemed to be
over the one that they hadwaited for the one they were so
sure was the Messiah was dead.
And there was no hope. But thenhe rose, and he appeared and he
proved that he was alive and heascended and He sent the Holy
Spirit, and that hope wasrekindled but rekindled with a
(13:23):
flame far bigger than it existedbefore the advent of Jesus, a
flame that lights all of historyshowing that everything that
happened from creation to theresurrection point into that
moment, and everything since theresurrection has looked back to
that moment, because it is wherehope for humanity comes from. It
is the only source of true hopefor humanity because the only
(13:46):
hope for humans to have a rightrelationship with God is to
accept Jesus Christ as theirSavior and look forward to when
he will return to make allthings new. You see, humans were
made to be immortal. Before Adamand Eve sinned in the garden of
Eden, there was no death. Humanswould have existed for eternity
(14:06):
in perfect fellowship with God,humans crave eternity, humans
have always sought longer life,whether it is through the search
of a mythical place to drinkwater that would end aging or
medicines to heal every ailmentin the body or surgical
practices to repair damage toour human bodies. Humans have
sought freedom from pain,freedom from death, freedom from
(14:29):
illness, freedom fromdiscomfort. Why? Because we were
made to be free from thosethings. In God's designed before
the fall, man was made to livein perfect harmony with his
creator forever and with oneanother forever. At the
baseline. The heart of man knowsthis and seeks this and desires
(14:50):
this eternity. But because ofour sin because of our rebellion
against God, it was taken fromus. But Jesus changed all that
when he rose from the dead.
because he conquered death, heconquered pain, he conquered
illness, he conquered all of thethings that cause humanity to
suffer. And he made a promisethat he would return, he would
(15:12):
return for those who had giventheir life to follow Him and to
obey him. And he would destroythe sinful Earth and remake it
knew the way it was before sinand bring humanity those who had
put their faith and trust in Himto be with him. They're in
perfect harmony and fellowshipfor eternity. This is why the
(15:32):
resurrection is the mostimportant event in all of
history. This is why allhumanity, whether they
acknowledge it, or deny it,whether they have faith and
accept the reality of theresurrection, or whether they
are skeptical of the reality ofthe resurrection, all humanity
looked to the resurrection asthe most defining moment in
(15:54):
human history, because eitherit's completely false, the
resurrection didn't happen. Andwe ignore all the evidence that
says it did. And we are leftwith an utterly hopeless future,
a dark abyss of despair that isnever ending for the human race.
Or we live with hope to thefuture, because we know through
the evidence of God's word whichhas been proved true time and
(16:17):
time and time again, that wehave a hope in a Savior, who
died for us and who rose toconquer death, and is coming
back to take those who have puttheir faith and trust in Him
with him to a new eternity,where we will live on a new
earth, in perfect harmony,without death, without pain,
without sin, in perfectfellowship with Him, and with
(16:40):
each other. The hope for whichhuman hearts crave is only found
in the resurrection of JesusChrist, and in the relationship
that he offers throughsalvation. If you have never
accepted Jesus Christ as yourSavior, but you are desperate
for the hope that only arelationship with Jesus Christ
can bring. The scriptures arequite clear about how to bow the
(17:03):
knee before Jesus. Romans 10Nine and 10 says, because if you
confess with your mouth, thatJesus is Lord and believe in
your heart that God raised Himfrom the dead, you will be
saved. For with the heart onebelieves and is justified, and
with the mouth, one confessesand is saved. Repent from your
sin, cry out to Jesus and Hewill hear you cry out to Him for
(17:26):
salvation acknowledged to him,that you need him. You need him
to be the center of worship inyour life, acknowledged that you
believe that he is who he sayshe is, and that he has done what
he said he has done and ask himto do for you what you cannot do
for yourself to come into yourheart and fill you with the Holy
(17:48):
Spirit and commit your life toserve him from this moment on.
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(18:10):
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Welcome to drippings from the honeycomb, the official
podcast of Another 12Ministries, we are so glad that
you have decided to join us aswe enjoy the sweetness of God's
word, one verse at a time wherehumans made to worship something
greater than themselves. InMatthew 28, verse five and six,
(00:30):
there's a single statement thatcovers two verses. And it's a
quote from an angel thataddressed the women who had come
to the tomb to prepare Jesus forHis final burial. And the angel
says this, do not be afraid, forI know that you see Jesus who
was crucified, He is not herefor he has risen, as he said,
(00:53):
Come and see the place where helay. If we look at history as a
whole, we could point to oneevent that marked the turning
point of all history, allhistory prior to this event,
looked forward to it. And allhistory since that event, has
looked back at it and gainedreference from it. And that
(01:15):
event would be the resurrectionof Jesus Christ. And the reason
it would be the resurrection ofJesus Christ is because of the
uniqueness of the event. It isnot the cross because many
people have been crucified fortheir principles for their
faith, for many various reasons.
On across many people have diedin the place of someone else,
and provided them a temporarystay of death until their
(01:36):
physical bodies died. But onlyone person has risen from the
dead of his own power, and thatis Jesus Christ. In addition,
it's more than just theresurrection. If Jesus just rose
from the dead and there was nocross he died of natural causes
of old age of a heart attack orsome illness, then his
(01:57):
resurrection from the dead wouldreally be nothing special,
because his natural death wouldhave proved that his flesh was
corruptible. And if his fleshwas corruptible, then he would
not have been able to claim tobe fully God and fully man, but
because he claimed to be fullyGod and fully man, and because
he was put to death, allowinghimself to be put to death by
(02:18):
sinful human beings whowrongfully accused him and
wrongfully sentenced him todeath and wrongfully executed
him. And because he lived a lifethat was sinless, and died in
our place and proclaimed that hedied in our place for sin. And
God made evidence during hiscrucifixion, that he was casting
(02:38):
the wrath due to the world onJesus as a substitutionary
atonement. These facts radicallychange the way we should see
Jesus's resurrection. It is themost important event that ever
took place. And it has drawnhuman attention from before its
occurrence. And after itsoccurrence, people looked
(03:00):
forward to the revelation of theMessiah, they look forward to
the deliverer, they lookedforward to the one who was going
to come and change everything.
And since Jesus came andrevealed himself as the Messiah,
revealed Himself as thedeliverer proclaimed himself to
be the coming King, and took thesteps required to prove that he
(03:20):
was the coming King by goingthrough crucifixion, rising from
the dead, ascending into heavenand sending the Holy Spirit, all
of human history has looked backto his resurrection as the key
turning point in the history ofhumanity. Now, of course, we
know that every person who haslived and has looked back at the
resurrection of Jesus Christ hasnot necessarily believed in it.
(03:41):
To be sure history has beenfilled with skeptics, deniers,
non believers, those who rejectthe evidence that Jesus provided
that the scriptures provide ofwho Jesus was during his time on
Earth, and who he is in hisresurrected state in heaven with
God, and the truth that hisreturn his impending return, to
(04:01):
bring his followers into aperfected creation. But human
belief or denial does not changethe reality of the impact that
the resurrection of Jesus Christhas on history has on humanity.
The reality is that just as theScripture teaches, man was
created by a creator, in theimage of that creator for the
(04:25):
purpose of glorifying thatCreator and having relationship
with him. Man was created with avoid within him. And this has
been proved throughout history.
People from every nation tribeand Tom have worship woven
within the fabric of theirsociety, and they don't worship
something lesser than them. Theyworship something that they
(04:47):
esteem to be greater than them,whatever that might be. But the
reality is that there is onlyone who is greater and that is
the one who has made all thingsand we know that Paul talks
about this in Romans one, wherehe says that fallen man has
worshipped creation rather thanthe Creator. The reality is it
is impossible for humans to livewithout worshiping something.
(05:12):
Humans were designed to worship.
And this design leaves a holewithin the human heart when
there is nothing to worship.
This is why humans will turn toall manner of different
pursuits, whether they bepersonal success, wealth,
religion, hobby, sportsrelationship, and the list could
go on and on. Humans must lavishtheir time, attention, care,
(05:36):
love, and energies on somethingin order to feel fulfilled. This
is because God designed humansthis way. And here we see in
this passage in Matthew 28, it'sno different. These women come
to the tomb, to seek one thatthey have lavished their
attention, their energies, theirlove, and their time on for a
(06:00):
number of years, they have beenan integral part of Jesus's
ministry, caring for Jesus andhis disciples supporting the
ministry financially, beingpresent constantly from the very
beginning all the way to thecross. Their lives have been
touched by Jesus changed byJesus, they are different people
than when they first met him.
(06:20):
And they will never be the same,because they have been called
into a relationship with Godthrough the ministry of Jesus
Christ. And so on this morning,this Sunday morning, these women
come to the tomb expecting tofind Jesus expecting to find a
dead Jesus, but still coming tofind him to continue to serve
(06:42):
him despite his death. But whenthey come to the tomb, they are
confronted with this scene withan angel sitting on the stone
that has been rolled away. Andhe immediately addresses what
they have come to do. They havecome to seek Jesus to continue
to worship him. The only problemis, Jesus isn't there he is
(07:04):
somewhere else, he has beenraised from the dead. This
reality did not create a lowerexpectation of worship, but a
higher expectation of worship.
This reality does not lessen thewomen's desire to find him and
be with him, it increases theirdesire to find him and be with
Him and serve Him and worshipHim. They came in great sorrow,
they will leave in fear and joy,fear because of the miracle that
(07:30):
has occurred, and the reality ofsomething that is beyond their
comprehension at this time, andjoy because of the impossibility
of what has just happened, thatthe one that they love, that
they care about the one thatthey have served and worship,
the one who touched their livesin immutable ways that can never
be changed, is now alive whenthey thought he was dead, is now
(07:52):
proved to be everything he saidhe was, even when their faith
was too small to believe it evenwhen their understanding was too
dim to see it. Now they areliving the reality of his
prophetic words having beenproved true, and are confronted
with the fullness of the factthat Jesus Christ was indeed and
(08:12):
is indeed, God. You see, thereason that the resurrection has
captivated people from beforethe event, despite the fact that
they didn't fully understandwhat they were looking for just
that they were looking for theadvent of a deliverer to people
who now read about theresurrection in the billions of
copies of the Bible that existaround the world, is that the
(08:35):
resurrection is the only sourceof hope for humanity. The
worship of the Creator is theonly worship that truly
satisfies the craving that Godhas placed within the hearts of
mankind. No other worship cansustain humanity. Humanity was
made to worship God and Godalone. And anything else is
(08:57):
idolatry that not only does notfulfill, but creates an even
greater longing for something tofill the human heart. You see,
there's one very important factabout the resurrection of Jesus
Christ that separatesChristianity from every other
religion in the world in humanhistory. The God of the
(09:17):
universe, lives, the God of theuniverse, sent his Son, Jesus
Christ to die in human form onthis earth. But he rose again
and he lives. Our God lives. Ifyou're a kingdom follower, if
you have put your faith andtrust in Jesus Christ. What
(09:39):
separates your belief systemfrom everybody else's belief
system on the earth is that yourGod is alive. You worship a real
person, someone who exists,someone who lives in the heavens
and someone who knows your name.
He is going to return for you,specifically, you and others.
(10:00):
But you specifically when hereturns, you specifically will
be on his mind and on his heart.
He has never forgotten yourname. He has never forgotten
anything about you. In fact,because He is the Creator, He
knows everything about youbecause he designed you
personally, to be known likethat, by the one true God who
lives is the only answer to fillthe hole that exists in the
(10:25):
heart of mankind. The worship ofthe one true God is the only
hope that can sustain men andwomen in this world today.
Everything else is fleeting,everything else is failing,
everything else, will eventuallystop fulfilling the heart that
worships it. But because Jesusis alive, because He is God,
(10:46):
because he has done the ultimatework to save the world, because
he knows each and every personbecause they were made according
to his will and pleasure. He isable to have true relationship
with humanity, he is able tohave a personal relationship
with each and every human thathe created. That does not mean
(11:09):
that each and every human thathe created will pursue
relationship with Him. Many,many people have rejected Jesus
Christ despite the evidence ofHis life, death, resurrection
and ascension. But as I saidbefore, their acceptance or
rejection of Jesus Christ doesnot change the impact that his
(11:30):
resurrection had on humanhistory. Without His
resurrection, human historywould look vastly different
without his resurrection, somany things that are would not
be and there would be, aboveall, no hope for humanity. You
see, the reason for this is thatbefore Jesus came before his
(11:53):
advent, God had given mankind ahope. In Genesis three, he had
told Adam and Eve who had falleninto sin, that one day he would
send a deliverer, to take theirsin away, to restore everything,
to crush the Serpent and tobring hope to mankind. And from
Adam and Eve, until the adventof Jesus. Humanity hoped and
(12:16):
waited for that deliver,humanity sought for a
fulfillment for the worship needof their heart, much of humanity
sought the wrong thing. Much ofhumanity worshipped the creation
rather than the Creator. But Godstill revealed himself
throughout history, and gave manhope. Those who put their faith
(12:39):
in God's promises, gave themhope of a future redemption.
When Jesus came, He fulfilledthat hope and those who
recognized who he was, and whyhe had come understood that he
was the fulfillment of thathope. And for a few brief hours,
that hope, died in the lack offaith of those who had
(13:00):
surrounded Jesus during Hisministry, that hope seemed to be
over the one that they hadwaited for the one they were so
sure was the Messiah was dead.
And there was no hope. But thenhe rose, and he appeared and he
proved that he was alive and heascended and He sent the Holy
Spirit, and that hope wasrekindled but rekindled with a
(13:23):
flame far bigger than it existedbefore the advent of Jesus, a
flame that lights all of historyshowing that everything that
happened from creation to theresurrection point into that
moment, and everything since theresurrection has looked back to
that moment, because it is wherehope for humanity comes from. It
is the only source of true hopefor humanity because the only
(13:46):
hope for humans to have a rightrelationship with God is to
accept Jesus Christ as theirSavior and look forward to when
he will return to make allthings new. You see, humans were
made to be immortal. Before Adamand Eve sinned in the garden of
Eden, there was no death. Humanswould have existed for eternity
(14:06):
in perfect fellowship with God,humans crave eternity, humans
have always sought longer life,whether it is through the search
of a mythical place to drinkwater that would end aging or
medicines to heal every ailmentin the body or surgical
practices to repair damage toour human bodies. Humans have
sought freedom from pain,freedom from death, freedom from
(14:29):
illness, freedom fromdiscomfort. Why? Because we were
made to be free from thosethings. In God's designed before
the fall, man was made to livein perfect harmony with his
creator forever and with oneanother forever. At the
baseline. The heart of man knowsthis and seeks this and desires
(14:50):
this eternity. But because ofour sin because of our rebellion
against God, it was taken fromus. But Jesus changed all that
when he rose from the dead.
because he conquered death, heconquered pain, he conquered
illness, he conquered all of thethings that cause humanity to
suffer. And he made a promisethat he would return, he would
(15:12):
return for those who had giventheir life to follow Him and to
obey him. And he would destroythe sinful Earth and remake it
knew the way it was before sinand bring humanity those who had
put their faith and trust in Himto be with him. They're in
perfect harmony and fellowshipfor eternity. This is why the
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resurrection is the mostimportant event in all of
history. This is why allhumanity, whether they
acknowledge it, or deny it,whether they have faith and
accept the reality of theresurrection, or whether they
are skeptical of the reality ofthe resurrection, all humanity
looked to the resurrection asthe most defining moment in
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human history, because eitherit's completely false, the
resurrection didn't happen. Andwe ignore all the evidence that
says it did. And we are leftwith an utterly hopeless future,
a dark abyss of despair that isnever ending for the human race.
Or we live with hope to thefuture, because we know through
the evidence of God's word whichhas been proved true time and
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time and time again, that wehave a hope in a Savior, who
died for us and who rose toconquer death, and is coming
back to take those who have puttheir faith and trust in Him
with him to a new eternity,where we will live on a new
earth, in perfect harmony,without death, without pain,
without sin, in perfectfellowship with Him, and with
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each other. The hope for whichhuman hearts crave is only found
in the resurrection of JesusChrist, and in the relationship
that he offers throughsalvation. If you have never
accepted Jesus Christ as yourSavior, but you are desperate
for the hope that only arelationship with Jesus Christ
can bring. The scriptures arequite clear about how to bow the
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knee before Jesus. Romans 10Nine and 10 says, because if you
confess with your mouth, thatJesus is Lord and believe in
your heart that God raised Himfrom the dead, you will be
saved. For with the heart onebelieves and is justified, and
with the mouth, one confessesand is saved. Repent from your
sin, cry out to Jesus and Hewill hear you cry out to Him for
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salvation acknowledged to him,that you need him. You need him
to be the center of worship inyour life, acknowledged that you
believe that he is who he sayshe is, and that he has done what
he said he has done and ask himto do for you what you cannot do
for yourself to come into yourheart and fill you with the Holy
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Spirit and commit your life toserve him from this moment on.
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the work that we are doing totrain youth ministry leaders to
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