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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I look forward to our specials we do every year
Mother's Day, Father's Day, Independence Day, Veterans Day, and Memorial Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving.
But Easter is the most important of them all to
me because Easter is the manifestation of everything. I believe
(00:27):
the birth and death of Christ are very important, but
the resurrection is to me, the inspiration. That's the beautiful part.
So I look forward to the show and I hope
you enjoy it as we always to get a start,
(00:47):
as we always do courtesy the greatest executive producer and
all the land, Chattaconi Nakanishi. I go into tex Mex
restaurant and this blows my mind alone, and they don't
have chips and sauce, and you have to add asked
for it. I'm like, by God, the Russians have won.
A good Text Mex experience is to walk in and
there's some guy who doesn't wait table. He's about four
(01:09):
or eleven. You sit down and he slides that basket
of piping hot tortilla chips in front of him.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh Man was stabbed at a mortuary in Southwest Houston.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
He said.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Police say that he went to look for his mother's body,
only to find several others lying in the open.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Discover their deceased loved one was left decomposing in a
room with.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
No ac She described conditions as deplorable.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
They have nats, they and foxes.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
A confrontation broke out with a mortuary worker.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Tamara's brother was stabbed and rushed to the hospital. Did
he go in the back and get the night?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, you wanna fight me.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I'm gonna stab you and guess what when you die,
your family's punishment, he is, We're gonna do the funeral.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
No, not that too.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Dale King wipes away a tear as she rides along
with Katie Perry and four other fellow astronauts to the
launch pad. Go for lunch, Yeah, baby, go for launch.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
My favor words when I hear people say, oh, it's
just a rich people saying, you're not looking at the
bigger picture of what has happening here.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
The concept of being an astronaut. These guys were the
best of the best. They were mental giants, they were
physical giants. And now we've got this cosplay of Gail King.
Anything Gail King does is therefore necessarily not impressive.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
We're the prize patrol of the publishers clearing now by
card and.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
We could surprise you now Publisher's clearing House, it's filing
for Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection. You didn't know they were
still around that whole setup. Man, I'm slogging. My life's miserable,
but maybe I'll win the publisher's and clearing Clappy Eastern.
I want you to join them on the front pew
(02:56):
for a sermon that is going to challenge perspectives and
ignite hearts with the transformative power of the message of Christ.
I'm talking about a renowned preacher by the name of
John Piper and his message about how Jesus defeated our
(03:23):
greatest enemy from the inside. So picture this a battle
of cosmic proportions, raging not on distant battlefields, but within
the very depths of our souls. A tempest in a
teapot of our own individual souls, a battle against sin, darkness,
(03:49):
you know, your demons, against all that seeks to separate
us from the love of God. And in this struggle
stands Christ, our savior, our redeemer, our ultimate champion. In
this sermon, as you're going to hear, John Piper takes
us on a journey into the heart of this. I mean,
(04:14):
it really is spiritual warfare, revealing that Christ doesn't just
defeat sin and death from the outside, but from within,
not just foreign enemies but domestic. Literally the depths of
human broke brokenness. I was going say brokeness, but brokenness
(04:36):
is what he penetrated, our struggling, our suffering, our temptations,
and the ultimate victory. It's a beautiful message Jesus, you
think about it, didn't just come to earth as some
distant observer passing judgment from afar. He walked among us,
(04:58):
felt what we feel, experienced our pain. He was made man,
was made of the flesh, just like us, our sorrows,
our humanity, our pain, our suffering, and in that he
conquered the very forces that sought to distress. Pastor John
(05:21):
Piper unpacks what I considered to be a profound truth,
and he does it with what was his clarity conviction,
and he talks about how this is not just a
one time event, but an ongoing, continual, consistent reality, and
(05:44):
it is available to us today through his death and resurrection.
Jesus broke the power of sin and death once and
for all, offering us the hope, the prayer, the opportunity
(06:06):
of new life and freedom in him.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
In the beginning was the Word, and the word was
with God, and the Word was God. Jesus Christ is God,
and therefore he has divine rights, creator rights to subdue
all reality under his feet. However, there is another sense
(06:31):
in which he has that power, because what we learn
in the New Testament is that God the Father thought
it fitting and wise and just and beautiful and good
and right that the one who would reign over humans,
(06:54):
and reign over all the pain of humans and all
the sin of humans, would be one of them. Before
he assumes his role as reigning judge over them. There
is a fitness in God's mind that the one who
will rule should also redeem, that the one who will
(07:17):
come as the Lion of Judah before whom people will
want to commit suicide rather than face his judgment. That
the Lion of Judah will first be the lamb slain
on the cross for the sins of those he's coming
to damn if they reject him. It is fitting that
(07:38):
one who sits upon the throne of the universe calling
the shots heaven or Hell, will have come among them
and said I will save you.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I will save you if you will have me.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
It is so fitting that God would do it this way,
and he did it this way. He doesn't just rule
over all things by virtue of his divine creator rights.
He rules over all things by virtue of.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
His redeemer purchased rights.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
He came among us, He bore our sin, He suffered
all of our temptations, He took all of our pain,
he took all of our shame. So that he has
not only a creator right to subdue the world, he
has a redeemer right. There will be a fitness about it.
Let me read you one verse on this. Listen to
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Hebrews two ten, for it was fitting that he, for
whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many
sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation
perfect through suffering. That's a heavy verse. That's an awesome verse.
(08:51):
I'll read it again. This is Hebrews two ten. For
it is fitting that he, this is God, the Father,
for whom and from whom all things exist, in bringing
many of you, many of you, I pray this morning,
all of you to glory, should make the founder that's
Jesus should make the founder of their salvation perfect. Through suffering,
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the Lord, the Judge, the savior over the universe was tested.
He didn't just go up there, he was tested. He
walked all your paths, suffered all your pain, tested by
all of your temptations, and he conquered. Satan took hold
of him, killed him, and he let him do it.
(09:42):
Nobody takes my life from me. I lay it down,
and if I lay it down, I can take it again.
He handed his life over to Satan's blast weapon and
from the inside blew it toshitherin.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
It's another work week in the books, getting you geared.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Up the weekend, It's the Friday drive home. On the
Michael Berry Show, Bishop T. D. Jake says, come under
a lot of suspicion of Late for his personal life,
for his personal behaviors, for his money. But I'll tell
(10:22):
you what. I can't speak to any of that, But
I can tell you that he has a God given
talent to preach, and that when he's preaching, he has
a voice that booms like thunder and a spirit that
ignites like wildfire. And I do think it has captured
(10:47):
hearts and souls for Christ. And I think he's in
the Hall of Fame of Christ gatherers Christ ministers for that.
Pete Rose may have had some personal indiscretions, but you
can't doubt what he did on the field. So as
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we delve into on this good Friday, on this beginning
of the resurrection season, open your hearts and minds to
the wisdom and inspiration that is not that of Tdjkes,
but God who speaks through us. I hope you enjoy this.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It was absolutely a perilous time. It was a time
that Jesus had forewarned them about, but they did not understand.
It was a time that their faith was to being
challenged in a way that it had never been challenged before.
It was a time that it was no longer popular
to say you were with Jesus. They had snatched him
from judgment hall to judgment hall. They had beat him
(11:49):
until he was almost unrecognizable. There was no beauty about
him that we should desire him. And they had hugged
him high, had stretched him wide on a cross until
the sun got embarrass then refused to shine. The ground
got nervous and began to tremble, And one writer wrote
that Graves opened up all over Jerusalem. The veil of
the temple was rent from the top to the bottom.
(12:11):
But you must be clear and understanding that even even
his closest disciples wondered was he really? Was he really
who they thought he was? After him being publicly villainized
and ostracized and alienated, they ran in the head and
they were afred, and they were concerned, and they were perplexed,
(12:31):
and they were jobless, and they were lonely, and they
were uncertain, and they hid. It got dark. Oh, not
just on Friday. It was a dark Saturday. It was
a dark Sabbath. It was a dark moment of contemplation
and confusion and the alienation, and them going back in
their mind with memory after memory of what Jesus had
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said and what he had done. But the memory that
they could not get out of their head was the
memory of the fact that he died on that cross.
He got stiff on that cross. They took his Rigamortiu's
ridden body and folded his stiff arms into a death
positioner and wrapped him in linen and put him in
the tomb. And the thing that they knew, irrevocably, without
any question at all, is that Jesus, the Master who
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had once walked on water, Jesus who had healed the
sick and raised the dead, Jesus who had turned water
into wine, Jesus who had stood on the mount of
Transfiguration and caused the very heavens to open up. The
one thing they knew for jury is that Jesus he
was gone. He was absolutely gone. His mama knew he
was gone. She had stood there and watched not only
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the Messiah, not only the Lord, not only the King
of Glory, not only watching him die, but her baby,
her child, the one she had raised and nurtured and
nursed on her own rest. She watched him die. And
the one thing they were clear about is that he
was gone. And people began to scatter. Jesus had hung
himself at the crucifixion and recognized in his own mind,
(13:56):
this is too much for me to bear. Thomas had
ran out, doubting and saying, I just I just don't
know what to think about this. Peter had cursed somebody
out and denied that he had ever known the Lord.
And the tension was so thick you could cut it
with a knife. Now, let me be clear in our
understanding of the darkness of Saturday. They went back in
their mind, and they had seen Jesus rebuked death before
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he had stopped the widow of Name and touched the
body of her son, just by touching the casket, and
the boy sat up and walked. He had gone in
and laid and spoke to a dead girl and said
tonight though Kumai, and she had gotten up and started
moving again and walking again. They had seen Jesus' defeat death.
He had walked down to the tomb of Lazarus and
stood outside the tomb and said, Lazarus, come forth. They
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had seen Jesus raise other people, But now the one
who raised other people from the dead had died himself,
And they felt hopeless, like some of you might feel
hopeless right now. They felt lifeless and faithless and fearful
and nervous and upset. All Saturday long, all Saturday night,
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they felt the same way. But early Sunday morning, before
the dew had settled on the roads, this early Sunday morning,
before the sun had fully peaked his eye above the
mountainous terrain surrounding Jerusalem. Early Sunday morning, when the women
rose up early to go down to dress the body,
and to adds some frankinsense and merc so that the
stench of his death did not embarrass the legacy of
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his memory. Early Sunday morning they got a shocker. The
stone had been rolled back, the grave was empty, the
death knapkin had been folded. You see, there is a
distinction between this moment from any other moment that we
talked about before. Yes, there were people all through the
Old Testament that had been raised from the dead, but
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they all rose to die again. But Jesus rose up
to never die again. And the question hurled and out
of the mouth of the angel, why seek key the
living amongst the dead? For he who risen he is
not here. He has risen above what everybody said about him.
He has risen above what everybody doubted in him. He
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has risen above every scandal and every ostracization that has
been applied to it. He has risen above the expectations
of even his followers. He has risen above the powers
of the Roman empower. He has risen above the reach
of the sand heapron court. He has risen above the
Pharisees and the Sadducees. He has risen above death, hell
and the grave. He has snatched the sting out of
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death and the victory out of the grave, and he
has risen with all power in his hand. That's what
it means to start talking about the resurrection of the Lord.
It is not that we don't go down. It is
not that it does not get dark. It is not
that it doesn't get deep and confusing and complexity. It
is not that we don't have pain, and that we
don't have fear, and sometimes we must admit that we
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do have doubt. But what the resurrection is all about
is that God does not need our stress to do
what he said he is going to do. He is
not a man that he should lie, or the son
of man that he should repent. If God said he's
gonna get up, he's gonna get up. And if God
said you're gonna get up, You're gonna get up. And
if God said you're gonna be an overcomer, You're gonna
be an overcomer. Because he rolls from the dead with
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all power in his hands, and the angels began to see,
and Heaven began to rejoice, and the glory began to fall.
Because he that was dead is alive forevermore. He lives.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
He lives.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
We serve and absolutely risen savior. Not a defeated fold,
not of feeling nailed to a tree, not a scandalous
individual that's ostracized by his community. But we are serving
a risen Lord, a roaring lion from the tribe of Judah,
the seed of Abraham, the bright and morning star, the
lily of the valley. He got up with all power
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in his hand. No wonder, this hormis said. We've been
made endure for a night. But if you can take
a tough night, I've got news for your joy, absolute
blessful joy comes in the morning. And I just stopped by.
I had to tell you, I just stopped by to
let you know. I just stopped by to declare unto
you that I just check my watch. It's not like anymore.
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Church is morning. Wipe the tears out of your eyes
and praise our God because he rolls up early, early,
early Sunday morning resurrection.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
It's hes the Michael Berry Show, the place of where
woke goes to dying.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Reverend Billy Graham. What a level of influence he had,
Undoubtedly the most well known preacher in America's history. So
it's only fitting that we do here on the show
something I enjoy doing in my free time, going back
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and listening to a few of his timeless sermons about
the death and resurrect action of Jesus Christ. On this
good Friday before Easter Sunday, let's start with the real
message of it all, Reverend Billy Graham proclaiming that Jesus
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is alive.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
You know, they only brought three charges against him. To
crucify one, they said, this man loves sinners, the second
he healed on the Sabbath day, and the third he
claimed to be the son of God. Did ever a
man die like Jesus. They first took long leve of
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thorns with steel pellets or lead pellets on the end,
and beat him across the back until he could hardly
stand up. Then they put a crown of thorns on
his brow, and his face was bleeding, and he dragged
and lifted and haul that cross. And then on the
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cross he said, my God, wifst out forsaken me. And
then he dropped his head and said it's finished.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
They laid him away in a tomb, and when they
went out to the tomb. That morning they heard the
greatest news the world is ever known. He is not here,
he has risen. He's alive. He is not here. Death
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could not hold him. He had plunked at the grave.
That's the greatest news of the world has ever heard.
He's a living sap he's alive.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
That is powerful stuff right there. As my pastor used
to say growing up, that's the good news. The next
one that we pulled because we literally could have handed
the show over to several hours of Billy Graham preaching,
is Billy Graham preaching that the Lord has risen.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yes, Jesus Christ is alive. He rose from the dead.
And that day, that Easter Sunday morning, that first Easter,
when Mary and Mary Magdalene and Saloon went to the
grave expecting to annoy a dead body, they saw the
Angel sitting back and they said, where is Jesus. The
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Angel said, he is not here. He has risen. I
submit to you tonight that that's the greatest news the
world has ever heard. He is not here. He has
conquered the grave. He's alive. And ladies and gentlemen, I
believe that there's more proof that Jesus Christ rose from
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the dead than almost any other fact in Roman history.
I don't believe there's a fact in ancient history today
so well proven as the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But
even if there was no proof, no historical proof, no
scientific proof, and there is, I would still believe it
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because I believe this book is God's inspired word. And
the whole Early Church went up and down the country
preaching the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That was the thing
that shook the Roman Empire, that a man had risen
from the dead, that he was alive, that death could
not hold him. Christ is alive, He's a living savior.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
As I said, we could have devoted the entire show
to Billy Graham's sermons on Easter, and it would have
been wonderful. We chose not to do that. But we
do finish up our Billy Graham segment with the Great
Reverend and reconciliation with Heaven through the Cross.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
The only way that earth can ever find reconciliation with Heaven,
it's by way of the cross. The only way that
you can ever get to Heaven is by way of
the cross. And if Jesus Christ did not gone to
the cross, you could have never had sin forgiven, you
could have never gone to heaven, and the problems of
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earth would have never had a solution. Only by the
way of the cross can we find our way back
to God. And that's why it was important that Jesus
stay on the cross. Because you see, man is in
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rebellion against God. Adam and Eve rebelled in the garden
of Eden, and every man since Adam and Eve has
broken God's law and sinned against God. And as a
res that God and man are separated, and man's only
way back to God is through Jesus Christ. Man had
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broken the law. Man deserved death, he deserved judgment, he
deserved hell. But God said, wait a minute, I'll give
my son. I'll let him die. I'll let him take
the judgment and the hell for you. And if you
will put your trust and your faith in my son,
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I will forgive your sin. I will change your life.
I will give you an inner peace and joy and
satisfaction that you would never find in any other way.
So Jesus worth dying on that cross for your sins
and your sins some people say, why don't you try
(24:56):
to make your gospel relevant? The most relevant message in
the world tonight is the fact that Christ died for you.
He died in your place. He shed his blood for you.
And without that experience, no one can get to Heaven. Yes, Jesus,
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Christ died, and the people laughed and sneered. And two
people that sneered and laughed the most were these two
thieves and murderers that were dying with him. They were
both mocking him, but one of them became strangely silent.
(25:44):
And finally, this one that was silent turned and rebuked
the other thief in the air, the murderer, and said,
we're dying justly. We deserve to be crucified. But not
this man in the middle. He's a good man. He's
the son of God. Then he turned to it and
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asked him what seemed to be an improbable, un impossible question.
He said, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom?
Will you remember me? Lord? And then Jesus gave one
of the most astounding answers in the history of the world.
(26:33):
The angels in heaven must have been shaken and startled
and amazed when they heard what Jesus I said. Jesus said,
today today, thou shalt be with me in Paradise,
I look forward to our specials we do every year
Mother's Day, Father's Day, Independence Day, Veterans Day, and Memorial Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving.
But Easter is the most important of them all to
me because Easter is the manifestation of everything. I believe
(00:27):
the birth and death of Christ are very important, but
the resurrection is to me, the inspiration. That's the beautiful part.
So I look forward to the show and I hope
you enjoy it as we always to get a start,
(00:47):
as we always do courtesy the greatest executive producer and
all the land, Chattaconi Nakanishi. I go into tex Mex
restaurant and this blows my mind alone, and they don't
have chips and sauce, and you have to add asked
for it. I'm like, by God, the Russians have won.
A good Text Mex experience is to walk in and
there's some guy who doesn't wait table. He's about four
(01:09):
or eleven. You sit down and he slides that basket
of piping hot tortilla chips in front of him.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh Man was stabbed at a mortuary in Southwest Houston.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
He said.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Police say that he went to look for his mother's body,
only to find several others lying in the open.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Discover their deceased loved one was left decomposing in a
room with.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
No ac She described conditions as deplorable.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
They have nats, they and foxes.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
A confrontation broke out with a mortuary worker.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Tamara's brother was stabbed and rushed to the hospital. Did
he go in the back and get the night?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, you wanna fight me.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I'm gonna stab you and guess what when you die,
your family's punishment, he is, We're gonna do the funeral.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
No, not that too.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Dale King wipes away a tear as she rides along
with Katie Perry and four other fellow astronauts to the
launch pad. Go for lunch, Yeah, baby, go for launch.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
My favor words when I hear people say, oh, it's
just a rich people saying, you're not looking at the
bigger picture of what has happening here.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
The concept of being an astronaut. These guys were the
best of the best. They were mental giants, they were
physical giants. And now we've got this cosplay of Gail King.
Anything Gail King does is therefore necessarily not impressive.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
We're the prize patrol of the publishers clearing now by
card and.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
We could surprise you now Publisher's clearing House, it's filing
for Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection. You didn't know they were
still around that whole setup. Man, I'm slogging. My life's miserable,
but maybe I'll win the publisher's and clearing Clappy Eastern.
I want you to join them on the front pew
(02:56):
for a sermon that is going to challenge perspectives and
ignite hearts with the transformative power of the message of Christ.
I'm talking about a renowned preacher by the name of
John Piper and his message about how Jesus defeated our
(03:23):
greatest enemy from the inside. So picture this a battle
of cosmic proportions, raging not on distant battlefields, but within
the very depths of our souls. A tempest in a
teapot of our own individual souls, a battle against sin, darkness,
(03:49):
you know, your demons, against all that seeks to separate
us from the love of God. And in this struggle
stands Christ, our savior, our redeemer, our ultimate champion. In
this sermon, as you're going to hear, John Piper takes
us on a journey into the heart of this. I mean,
(04:14):
it really is spiritual warfare, revealing that Christ doesn't just
defeat sin and death from the outside, but from within,
not just foreign enemies but domestic. Literally the depths of
human broke brokenness. I was going say brokeness, but brokenness
(04:36):
is what he penetrated, our struggling, our suffering, our temptations,
and the ultimate victory. It's a beautiful message Jesus, you
think about it, didn't just come to earth as some
distant observer passing judgment from afar. He walked among us,
(04:58):
felt what we feel, experienced our pain. He was made man,
was made of the flesh, just like us, our sorrows,
our humanity, our pain, our suffering, and in that he
conquered the very forces that sought to distress. Pastor John
(05:21):
Piper unpacks what I considered to be a profound truth,
and he does it with what was his clarity conviction,
and he talks about how this is not just a
one time event, but an ongoing, continual, consistent reality, and
(05:44):
it is available to us today through his death and resurrection.
Jesus broke the power of sin and death once and
for all, offering us the hope, the prayer, the opportunity
(06:06):
of new life and freedom in him.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
In the beginning was the Word, and the word was
with God, and the Word was God. Jesus Christ is God,
and therefore he has divine rights, creator rights to subdue
all reality under his feet. However, there is another sense
(06:31):
in which he has that power, because what we learn
in the New Testament is that God the Father thought
it fitting and wise and just and beautiful and good
and right that the one who would reign over humans,
(06:54):
and reign over all the pain of humans and all
the sin of humans, would be one of them. Before
he assumes his role as reigning judge over them. There
is a fitness in God's mind that the one who
will rule should also redeem, that the one who will
(07:17):
come as the Lion of Judah before whom people will
want to commit suicide rather than face his judgment. That
the Lion of Judah will first be the lamb slain
on the cross for the sins of those he's coming
to damn if they reject him. It is fitting that
(07:38):
one who sits upon the throne of the universe calling
the shots heaven or Hell, will have come among them
and said I will save you.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I will save you if you will have me.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
It is so fitting that God would do it this way,
and he did it this way. He doesn't just rule
over all things by virtue of his divine creator rights.
He rules over all things by virtue of.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
His redeemer purchased rights.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
He came among us, He bore our sin, He suffered
all of our temptations, He took all of our pain,
he took all of our shame. So that he has
not only a creator right to subdue the world, he
has a redeemer right. There will be a fitness about it.
Let me read you one verse on this. Listen to
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Hebrews two ten, for it was fitting that he, for
whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many
sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation
perfect through suffering. That's a heavy verse. That's an awesome verse.
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I'll read it again. This is Hebrews two ten. For
it is fitting that he, this is God, the Father,
for whom and from whom all things exist, in bringing
many of you, many of you, I pray this morning,
all of you to glory, should make the founder that's
Jesus should make the founder of their salvation perfect. Through suffering,
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the Lord, the Judge, the savior over the universe was tested.
He didn't just go up there, he was tested. He
walked all your paths, suffered all your pain, tested by
all of your temptations, and he conquered. Satan took hold
of him, killed him, and he let him do it.
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Nobody takes my life from me. I lay it down,
and if I lay it down, I can take it again.
He handed his life over to Satan's blast weapon and
from the inside blew it toshitherin.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
It's another work week in the books, getting you geared.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Up the weekend, It's the Friday drive home. On the
Michael Berry Show, Bishop T. D. Jake says, come under
a lot of suspicion of Late for his personal life,
for his personal behaviors, for his money. But I'll tell
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you what. I can't speak to any of that, But
I can tell you that he has a God given
talent to preach, and that when he's preaching, he has
a voice that booms like thunder and a spirit that
ignites like wildfire. And I do think it has captured
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hearts and souls for Christ. And I think he's in
the Hall of Fame of Christ gatherers Christ ministers for that.
Pete Rose may have had some personal indiscretions, but you
can't doubt what he did on the field. So as
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we delve into on this good Friday, on this beginning
of the resurrection season, open your hearts and minds to
the wisdom and inspiration that is not that of Tdjkes,
but God who speaks through us. I hope you enjoy this.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It was absolutely a perilous time. It was a time
that Jesus had forewarned them about, but they did not understand.
It was a time that their faith was to being
challenged in a way that it had never been challenged before.
It was a time that it was no longer popular
to say you were with Jesus. They had snatched him
from judgment hall to judgment hall. They had beat him
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until he was almost unrecognizable. There was no beauty about
him that we should desire him. And they had hugged
him high, had stretched him wide on a cross until
the sun got embarrass then refused to shine. The ground
got nervous and began to tremble, And one writer wrote
that Graves opened up all over Jerusalem. The veil of
the temple was rent from the top to the bottom.
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But you must be clear and understanding that even even
his closest disciples wondered was he really? Was he really
who they thought he was? After him being publicly villainized
and ostracized and alienated, they ran in the head and
they were afred, and they were concerned, and they were perplexed,
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and they were jobless, and they were lonely, and they
were uncertain, and they hid. It got dark. Oh, not
just on Friday. It was a dark Saturday. It was
a dark Sabbath. It was a dark moment of contemplation
and confusion and the alienation, and them going back in
their mind with memory after memory of what Jesus had
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said and what he had done. But the memory that
they could not get out of their head was the
memory of the fact that he died on that cross.
He got stiff on that cross. They took his Rigamortiu's
ridden body and folded his stiff arms into a death
positioner and wrapped him in linen and put him in
the tomb. And the thing that they knew, irrevocably, without
any question at all, is that Jesus, the Master who
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had once walked on water, Jesus who had healed the
sick and raised the dead, Jesus who had turned water
into wine, Jesus who had stood on the mount of
Transfiguration and caused the very heavens to open up. The
one thing they knew for jury is that Jesus he
was gone. He was absolutely gone. His mama knew he
was gone. She had stood there and watched not only
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the Messiah, not only the Lord, not only the King
of Glory, not only watching him die, but her baby,
her child, the one she had raised and nurtured and
nursed on her own rest. She watched him die. And
the one thing they were clear about is that he
was gone. And people began to scatter. Jesus had hung
himself at the crucifixion and recognized in his own mind,
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this is too much for me to bear. Thomas had
ran out, doubting and saying, I just I just don't
know what to think about this. Peter had cursed somebody
out and denied that he had ever known the Lord.
And the tension was so thick you could cut it
with a knife. Now, let me be clear in our
understanding of the darkness of Saturday. They went back in
their mind, and they had seen Jesus rebuked death before
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he had stopped the widow of Name and touched the
body of her son, just by touching the casket, and
the boy sat up and walked. He had gone in
and laid and spoke to a dead girl and said
tonight though Kumai, and she had gotten up and started
moving again and walking again. They had seen Jesus' defeat death.
He had walked down to the tomb of Lazarus and
stood outside the tomb and said, Lazarus, come forth. They
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had seen Jesus raise other people, But now the one
who raised other people from the dead had died himself,
And they felt hopeless, like some of you might feel
hopeless right now. They felt lifeless and faithless and fearful
and nervous and upset. All Saturday long, all Saturday night,
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they felt the same way. But early Sunday morning, before
the dew had settled on the roads, this early Sunday morning,
before the sun had fully peaked his eye above the
mountainous terrain surrounding Jerusalem. Early Sunday morning, when the women
rose up early to go down to dress the body,
and to adds some frankinsense and merc so that the
stench of his death did not embarrass the legacy of
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his memory. Early Sunday morning they got a shocker. The
stone had been rolled back, the grave was empty, the
death knapkin had been folded. You see, there is a
distinction between this moment from any other moment that we
talked about before. Yes, there were people all through the
Old Testament that had been raised from the dead, but
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they all rose to die again. But Jesus rose up
to never die again. And the question hurled and out
of the mouth of the angel, why seek key the
living amongst the dead? For he who risen he is
not here. He has risen above what everybody said about him.
He has risen above what everybody doubted in him. He
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has risen above every scandal and every ostracization that has
been applied to it. He has risen above the expectations
of even his followers. He has risen above the powers
of the Roman empower. He has risen above the reach
of the sand heapron court. He has risen above the
Pharisees and the Sadducees. He has risen above death, hell
and the grave. He has snatched the sting out of
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death and the victory out of the grave, and he
has risen with all power in his hand. That's what
it means to start talking about the resurrection of the Lord.
It is not that we don't go down. It is
not that it does not get dark. It is not
that it doesn't get deep and confusing and complexity. It
is not that we don't have pain, and that we
don't have fear, and sometimes we must admit that we
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do have doubt. But what the resurrection is all about
is that God does not need our stress to do
what he said he is going to do. He is
not a man that he should lie, or the son
of man that he should repent. If God said he's
gonna get up, he's gonna get up. And if God
said you're gonna get up, You're gonna get up. And
if God said you're gonna be an overcomer, You're gonna
be an overcomer. Because he rolls from the dead with
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all power in his hands, and the angels began to see,
and Heaven began to rejoice, and the glory began to fall.
Because he that was dead is alive forevermore. He lives.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
He lives.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
We serve and absolutely risen savior. Not a defeated fold,
not of feeling nailed to a tree, not a scandalous
individual that's ostracized by his community. But we are serving
a risen Lord, a roaring lion from the tribe of Judah,
the seed of Abraham, the bright and morning star, the
lily of the valley. He got up with all power
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in his hand. No wonder, this hormis said. We've been
made endure for a night. But if you can take
a tough night, I've got news for your joy, absolute
blessful joy comes in the morning. And I just stopped by.
I had to tell you, I just stopped by to
let you know. I just stopped by to declare unto
you that I just check my watch. It's not like anymore.
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Church is morning. Wipe the tears out of your eyes
and praise our God because he rolls up early, early,
early Sunday morning resurrection.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
It's hes the Michael Berry Show, the place of where
woke goes to dying.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Reverend Billy Graham. What a level of influence he had,
Undoubtedly the most well known preacher in America's history. So
it's only fitting that we do here on the show
something I enjoy doing in my free time, going back
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and listening to a few of his timeless sermons about
the death and resurrect action of Jesus Christ. On this
good Friday before Easter Sunday, let's start with the real
message of it all, Reverend Billy Graham proclaiming that Jesus
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is alive.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
You know, they only brought three charges against him. To
crucify one, they said, this man loves sinners, the second
he healed on the Sabbath day, and the third he
claimed to be the son of God. Did ever a
man die like Jesus. They first took long leve of
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thorns with steel pellets or lead pellets on the end,
and beat him across the back until he could hardly
stand up. Then they put a crown of thorns on
his brow, and his face was bleeding, and he dragged
and lifted and haul that cross. And then on the
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cross he said, my God, wifst out forsaken me. And
then he dropped his head and said it's finished.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
They laid him away in a tomb, and when they
went out to the tomb. That morning they heard the
greatest news the world is ever known. He is not here,
he has risen. He's alive. He is not here. Death
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could not hold him. He had plunked at the grave.
That's the greatest news of the world has ever heard.
He's a living sap he's alive.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
That is powerful stuff right there. As my pastor used
to say growing up, that's the good news. The next
one that we pulled because we literally could have handed
the show over to several hours of Billy Graham preaching,
is Billy Graham preaching that the Lord has risen.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yes, Jesus Christ is alive. He rose from the dead.
And that day, that Easter Sunday morning, that first Easter,
when Mary and Mary Magdalene and Saloon went to the
grave expecting to annoy a dead body, they saw the
Angel sitting back and they said, where is Jesus. The
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Angel said, he is not here. He has risen. I
submit to you tonight that that's the greatest news the
world has ever heard. He is not here. He has
conquered the grave. He's alive. And ladies and gentlemen, I
believe that there's more proof that Jesus Christ rose from
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the dead than almost any other fact in Roman history.
I don't believe there's a fact in ancient history today
so well proven as the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But
even if there was no proof, no historical proof, no
scientific proof, and there is, I would still believe it
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because I believe this book is God's inspired word. And
the whole Early Church went up and down the country
preaching the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That was the thing
that shook the Roman Empire, that a man had risen
from the dead, that he was alive, that death could
not hold him. Christ is alive, He's a living savior.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
As I said, we could have devoted the entire show
to Billy Graham's sermons on Easter, and it would have
been wonderful. We chose not to do that. But we
do finish up our Billy Graham segment with the Great
Reverend and reconciliation with Heaven through the Cross.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
The only way that earth can ever find reconciliation with Heaven,
it's by way of the cross. The only way that
you can ever get to Heaven is by way of
the cross. And if Jesus Christ did not gone to
the cross, you could have never had sin forgiven, you
could have never gone to heaven, and the problems of
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earth would have never had a solution. Only by the
way of the cross can we find our way back
to God. And that's why it was important that Jesus
stay on the cross. Because you see, man is in
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rebellion against God. Adam and Eve rebelled in the garden
of Eden, and every man since Adam and Eve has
broken God's law and sinned against God. And as a
res that God and man are separated, and man's only
way back to God is through Jesus Christ. Man had
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broken the law. Man deserved death, he deserved judgment, he
deserved hell. But God said, wait a minute, I'll give
my son. I'll let him die. I'll let him take
the judgment and the hell for you. And if you
will put your trust and your faith in my son,
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I will forgive your sin. I will change your life.
I will give you an inner peace and joy and
satisfaction that you would never find in any other way.
So Jesus worth dying on that cross for your sins
and your sins some people say, why don't you try
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to make your gospel relevant? The most relevant message in
the world tonight is the fact that Christ died for you.
He died in your place. He shed his blood for you.
And without that experience, no one can get to Heaven. Yes, Jesus,
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Christ died, and the people laughed and sneered. And two
people that sneered and laughed the most were these two
thieves and murderers that were dying with him. They were
both mocking him, but one of them became strangely silent.
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And finally, this one that was silent turned and rebuked
the other thief in the air, the murderer, and said,
we're dying justly. We deserve to be crucified. But not
this man in the middle. He's a good man. He's
the son of God. Then he turned to it and
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asked him what seemed to be an improbable, un impossible question.
He said, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom?
Will you remember me? Lord? And then Jesus gave one
of the most astounding answers in the history of the world.
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The angels in heaven must have been shaken and startled
and amazed when they heard what Jesus I said. Jesus said,
today today, thou shalt be with me in Paradise,
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