WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:11.120 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Friends listen, the grave has 3 00:00:11.120 --> 00:00:16.920 been broken by Jesus Christ. Death has been completely defeated by Jesus Christ. 4 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:24.200 Fear no more. There is no longer fear any longer. Sure it knocks on the door, but 5 00:00:24.200 --> 00:00:27.240 you don't have to open that door. 6 00:00:27.240 --> 00:00:35.520 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:40.920 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 8 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:45.800 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 9 00:00:45.800 --> 00:00:51.360 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 10 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:56.720 Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 11 00:00:57.720 --> 00:01:03.160 Jesus Christ has risen from the dead. Listen to this. Mark 16 verse 1 says now when 12 00:01:03.160 --> 00:01:08.600 the Sabbath was passed. So we're talking about Saturday being gone. Now it's very 13 00:01:08.600 --> 00:01:14.040 early Sunday morning in the dark. Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and 14 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:20.240 Salome brought spices that they might come and anoint him. Very early in the 15 00:01:20.240 --> 00:01:24.880 morning on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb. But remember there's 16 00:01:24.880 --> 00:01:29.940 a big stone. You know, listen, archaeologists tell us the stone that covered 17 00:01:29.940 --> 00:01:35.920 Joseph of Arimathea's tomb. That's where Jesus' body was laid in Joseph of 18 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:40.760 Arimathea's tomb. The stone that fits in the track that has been measured 19 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:45.240 there in Jerusalem is a stone that would weigh somewhere between two to three 20 00:01:45.240 --> 00:01:57.520 thousand pounds. It's huge. They didn't care. What beautiful emotions. And I love 21 00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:01.840 the fact all night long. Man, their little house are those, maybe there was 22 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:05.800 several homes going. Those women were candlelight burning the factory so to 23 00:02:05.800 --> 00:02:08.320 speak. They're working. You know, we're not supposed to be working, it's the 24 00:02:08.320 --> 00:02:13.680 Sabbath. Who cares? And they got their stuff together and they were gonna go 25 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:17.520 worship the Lord even though he be dead. Would you be so committed to worship 26 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:21.040 in the Lord Jesus Christ if you found out that all that he did for you, that he 27 00:02:21.040 --> 00:02:28.600 was dead? Listen, some people can't even come and worship God and he's alive. 28 00:02:28.600 --> 00:02:34.760 They were gonna worship. They never expected to see him alive. All it gets 29 00:02:34.760 --> 00:02:40.600 better, get up because of what they had experienced. This is great. Verse two, 30 00:02:40.600 --> 00:02:48.240 behold. It means open up your eyes. Big. There was a great earthquake for an 31 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:54.480 age of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the 32 00:02:54.480 --> 00:03:02.560 door and just to be spunky, he sat on it. In that sassy, he comes down, ground 33 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:07.720 as shaky, he rolls back the stone and then sits on it. I think that's awesome. 34 00:03:07.720 --> 00:03:18.280 I bet he folded his hands, his arms. What an amazing sight. The Bible tells 35 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:23.520 us that in verse three that his countenance was like lightning and the Bible 36 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:27.800 tells us that his clothing was his whiteest snow and the guards. These are the 37 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:34.440 Roman guards. These are no wimpy guys. They shook for fear and passed out. They 38 00:03:34.440 --> 00:03:40.120 became like dead men. That means they fainted. And I thought about this for a 39 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:44.360 moment. Everything that God is doing. Listen, what you and I are hearing about 40 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:48.240 today has been preached on all around the world today. Listen, you guys, I don't 41 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:53.200 even realize this or not. But right now at this very moment in our time zone, 42 00:03:53.200 --> 00:03:58.280 somebody's almost over. Do you know that? Sunday and most of the world's already 43 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:03.280 happened. That means all around the world on this Sunday morning, resurrection, 44 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:08.520 Sunday morning. People have been worshiping Jesus by the billions all around the 45 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:12.280 world. You know what that means? I mean Satan had a very bad day to day. And I like 46 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:25.360 it. Yes. But I thought about the choreographing of all of this. Women are 47 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:34.120 running, angel descending, earth shaking, angel sitting, guards passed out, one 48 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:40.560 act after another as the would were for you and I to study and experience the 49 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:44.120 pages of the Bible. And you might say today, well, that's about it. It's all 50 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:47.440 limited to the page of the Bible. What you don't know, my friend, is that the 51 00:04:47.440 --> 00:04:52.200 words of this book gets up off the page and comes after your heart and your 52 00:04:52.200 --> 00:04:57.000 mind. And before we end today, the word of God's going to come up off the page 53 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:01.280 and get into your heart and your mind. And you're going to have to deal with it. 54 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:04.440 And you can say, I'm not going to let that happen. I'm going to leave right now. He'll 55 00:05:04.440 --> 00:05:12.840 follow you home. He's alive. Matthew chapter 28 verse 5 says, but the angel answered 56 00:05:12.840 --> 00:05:19.200 and said to the women, do not be afraid. For I know that you seek Jesus who was 57 00:05:19.200 --> 00:05:27.480 crucified. I love this next verse. He is not here. For he is risen. As he said, I don't 58 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:34.120 know how he said it. None of us know how he said it. But my imagination goes with 59 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:37.880 that. Come. He says, see the place where the Lord lay and there must have been a 60 00:05:37.880 --> 00:05:46.680 pause. But I love how he says that in verse six, verses seven and eight. What 61 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:57.920 did come to know? The Bible says, and go quickly. I wonder where the angel said quickly. 62 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:04.160 I always wondered about that. I think there's a sense of urgency. Would you agree if 63 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:08.440 we're going to kind of flirt with this a little bit and try to unpack it? Why quickly? 64 00:06:08.440 --> 00:06:13.200 Angel, what's the big deal? I would think the angel would say, well, listen, he rose 65 00:06:13.200 --> 00:06:21.280 again from the dead. This is not some sort of a game here. Him being resurrected from 66 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:32.920 the dead, game on. This war just started for the souls of men and women and boys and girls. 67 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:42.440 Go quickly. There's a message to be proclaimed. Go quickly. Verse seven and go quickly and 68 00:06:42.440 --> 00:06:46.920 tell the disciples that he has risen from the dead. That's the news. And indeed he is going 69 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:53.120 before you into Galilee. That's 90 miles away. He's heading north. Where'd you see Jesus 70 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:59.680 last? Heading north. There you will see him. Behold, I have told you says the angel. And 71 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:08.680 so when they went out quickly from the tomb with reverential awe and great joy, they ran 72 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:14.960 to bring his disciples work. Now notice these are the great disciples that are hiding out. 73 00:07:14.960 --> 00:07:21.280 Who got to the tomb first? Guys are girls. Who are the first evangelists? Guys are girls. 74 00:07:21.280 --> 00:07:25.880 Girls. Listen, in that culture, isn't God good? Women, you ought to just, maybe that's 75 00:07:25.880 --> 00:07:31.060 why more women go to church than men do. Have you noticed that? By the way, call a prayer 76 00:07:31.060 --> 00:07:36.640 meeting. More women will show up and men will say, it's because we're at work. And then 77 00:07:36.640 --> 00:07:41.720 when you probe, you find out that was the golf course they were at. Just kidding. Guys, 78 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:50.360 I love you. But the women, you know, women's testimony in those days, you had to have two 79 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:56.360 women give testimony. Sometimes three, two or three women had to say the same thing about 80 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:02.560 an eyewitness event to one man's testimony. If one man said, yeah, so the guy had to 81 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:08.560 pink shirt on, running around looking crazy and you went out the window and on fire. 82 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:14.800 You had to have three women see the exact same thing for them to be one witness. It's 83 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:21.920 kind of insulting, don't you think, ladies? Isn't that amazing God doesn't think that way? 84 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:25.800 I can just see, I mean, I'm not making this part up right now. This is not in the Bible. 85 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:29.960 This next part. I could just see God say, you know what I'm going to do? The biggest 86 00:08:29.960 --> 00:08:36.480 day of all time and eternity. I'm going to let women know about it first. And then I'm going 87 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:41.640 to give them the privilege and the honor and the glory to run back and tell these disciples 88 00:08:41.640 --> 00:08:48.160 I've been working on for three and a half years, that these ladies got it in five minutes. 89 00:08:48.160 --> 00:09:04.840 All right. That's it. Men visiting today are saying, I'm not coming back here. Well, John's 90 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:11.480 gospel tells us this, John chapter 20, verse 26. And after eight days, so eight days now 91 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:16.360 come by, John 20, verse 26, eight days later, eight days after Jesus has been raised from 92 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:23.120 the dead. After eight days, his disciples were again inside. Hey, where are you guys? 93 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:30.520 Have you, have you seen the disciples? Where are others guys? Can't find them. They're inside. 94 00:09:30.520 --> 00:09:37.600 Excuse me, there's a knock at the door. Can the disciples come out and play? Nope, they're 95 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:47.360 indoors and Thomas with them. Oh, that means something's coming up. Jesus came. I love this. Jesus 96 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:54.680 came, the doors being shut and stood on the midst and said to them, peace be to you. Peace to you. Is 97 00:09:54.680 --> 00:10:02.640 that awesome? He showed up without going through the door. Jesus's resurrected body was glorified. 98 00:10:02.640 --> 00:10:09.080 But, Jesus, check, I'm confused. He, he, he suddenly appears without going through the door, but 99 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:12.880 you said earlier that on the resurrection morning, the women grabbed him by the feet. They were 100 00:10:12.880 --> 00:10:21.240 hanging on to him and they worshipped him. That's right. Well, which one is it? Mm-hmm. His glorified 101 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:29.680 body is not subject to earthly physics. You could touch him and hold him and then he'd vanish. 102 00:10:29.920 --> 00:10:35.280 Not without being a ghost. You could touch him and hold him and then when he wanted to leave, he 103 00:10:35.280 --> 00:10:43.680 left. They're awesome. I like that. The Bible tells us in John's Gospel later on that the disciples 104 00:10:43.680 --> 00:10:49.040 are all depressed. They're up. They're so, they were amazing. They're all depressed even after his 105 00:10:49.040 --> 00:10:54.800 resurrection so they went fishing. That's what it says. Peter said, I've had enough. I'm going 106 00:10:54.800 --> 00:11:00.640 fishing. And they all said, can we go with you? And they went fishing and they fished all night 107 00:11:00.640 --> 00:11:09.920 and cut nothing. The Bible tells us later on the morning began to dawn in Jesus. There was a fire. 108 00:11:09.920 --> 00:11:16.400 There was a campfire on the shore and there was some guy all by himself cooking fish tacos in 109 00:11:16.400 --> 00:11:32.240 the morning. Grilled fish tacos. And the voice from shore says, little children coming eat. 110 00:11:34.160 --> 00:11:40.560 And I love Peter. Peter says it's the Lord. And Peter jumps out. He takes off his throws 111 00:11:40.560 --> 00:11:45.120 his clothes off. Peter dives into the water and swims at Jesus. I don't think it was because he 112 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:56.960 was hungry. I think it was because it was Jesus. What a precious thing. The Bible here tells us that 113 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:07.200 Jesus suddenly appears. He's in the room. And he says to Thomas, Thomas, reach your finger here 114 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:18.080 and look at my hands and reach your hand here and put it in my side. Do not be unbelieving but 115 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:23.280 believe. That's a rebuke. Can you imagine God saying that to you? How many times has God said it 116 00:12:23.280 --> 00:12:31.680 to us? Do not be unbelieving but believe. See, Thomas was mouthing off earlier that week. Everybody 117 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:36.800 is gathering together talking about Jesus and Thomas says, I'm not going to believe it. 118 00:12:38.640 --> 00:12:46.560 I don't believe it. Unless I'm able to put my finger in the holes of his hands and thrust my hand 119 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:52.640 into his side where the hole from Friday was, I'm not going to believe it. So Jesus appears, 120 00:12:52.640 --> 00:12:57.920 hey, Thomas, how are you doing? Can you come over here for a second, please? Can you imagine? 121 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:02.560 But isn't that what he does with us? Listen, are you a real Christian? You know exactly what I'm 122 00:13:02.560 --> 00:13:07.200 talking about. I see some heads going like this. Oh, I know how he does that. Listen, please don't 123 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:16.560 be in association with Jesus. Don't be near him. Be with him. Don't know about him. Know him. 124 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:28.240 And he says, Thomas, my translation, Thomas, hey guys, listen, this is going to be really 125 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:34.560 painful for him. People will read about this for a couple thousand years. Hey, Thomas, take your 126 00:13:34.560 --> 00:13:43.200 fingers and put them in the holes. Pass them through. You see that it is me. I want to see my side. 127 00:13:43.760 --> 00:13:54.000 There you go. Big gaping hole. All right, Thomas, for now on, no more doubting. Go. 128 00:13:55.920 --> 00:14:05.440 And that moment had to be tremendously humbling. Thomas exclaims, verse 28, my Lord and my God. 129 00:14:06.560 --> 00:14:12.240 And then Jesus says something that involves you, right now you today. And Jesus said to him, 130 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:17.760 verse 29, Thomas, because you have seen me and you believe and you have believed. 131 00:14:17.760 --> 00:14:25.760 Blessed are those, those blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe. That's good news. 132 00:14:25.760 --> 00:14:31.280 It's talking about us and all those generations since. Yeah, you can clap for that. That's good news. 133 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:38.960 That's beautiful news. But I love the fact these women, they went and told the disciples 134 00:14:39.920 --> 00:14:45.360 and the Bible tells us that the disciples didn't believe. 135 00:14:49.680 --> 00:14:52.560 Remember show and tell, did you guys have show and tell in school? 136 00:14:53.120 --> 00:15:01.280 Did they still have show and tell? No, yes, sort of. You know, I don't know. Back in the 1800s, 137 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:09.920 when I was a little kid, we would take awesome stuff to show and tell. Back in those days, 138 00:15:09.920 --> 00:15:18.320 you take like your grandpa's 25 millimeter. No, no, really, it was a very odd number. I don't 139 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:25.680 remember what it was, a 25 or 28 millimeter gun that he had in the First World War. 140 00:15:26.560 --> 00:15:29.600 And you take it to school. Can you imagine that? Hey, what are you doing? 141 00:15:29.680 --> 00:15:35.520 Taking this gun to school. That's awesome. Crazy us. We never thought about shooting people 142 00:15:35.520 --> 00:15:41.520 up back in those days. This was my great grandpa's gun during the First World War. 143 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:49.360 That's a purple heart. All the kids, they see it and then you tell them about it. 144 00:15:50.400 --> 00:15:54.560 And then you sit down and then somebody gets up and says, this is my grandma's knitting set and 145 00:15:55.520 --> 00:16:01.680 she came over and the covered wagon. And you know, this is show and tell. It's part of school. 146 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:06.880 Well, these women, they showed up and they told those disciples. 147 00:16:09.520 --> 00:16:13.200 And the Bible says that to the disciples, their words seem like idle tales. 148 00:16:14.400 --> 00:16:18.720 Stop telling stories women. We've been up all night. Well, maybe that's your problem. You should 149 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:23.760 get some sleep. I'm sure these guys, Peter, James, John, all of them, they didn't believe. 150 00:16:24.800 --> 00:16:29.440 Now, for those of you who are skeptics, this has got to be quite disturbing to you because 151 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:33.680 if you're thinking, oh, these guys all made up this story and this whole gospel thing, 152 00:16:33.680 --> 00:16:39.920 it's a big joke. They made it up as a conspiracy. Well, if it is, it's pretty wimpy on their part. 153 00:16:39.920 --> 00:16:45.040 The thing that they conspired to dop everybody with. They wound up not even believing it themselves. 154 00:16:49.680 --> 00:16:58.880 But Peter got up. God bless Peter. That big, bumbling fisherman, according to church history, 155 00:16:58.880 --> 00:17:09.440 he was huge. Big guy. I'm going. Nothing's going to stop me. And he's running to the tomb. 156 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:15.600 John's gospel gives you more detail about Peter started running first, but John started running 157 00:17:15.600 --> 00:17:21.440 later and John passed him and got to the tomb first. John writes that about himself. I'm 158 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:30.480 faster than Peter. But the cute thing is John stopped and he looked in the tomb. Peter couldn't 159 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:35.200 stop, kept running and went right in. Probably took John with him in the tumble. 160 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:42.640 Something clicked in Peter enough. I got to go. I got to try this out. I got to see if it's 161 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:47.200 true. What about you today? I've got to see if this is true. What you're talking about. 162 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:52.000 Because faster, if it's true, what you're talking about, it's a game changer. Oh, yes, my friend, 163 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:59.280 at least. If what you're saying is true, then the grave has been broken. Absolutely. If what you're 164 00:17:59.280 --> 00:18:08.320 saying is true, that Jesus is alive, that explains a lot. Yes, it does. He is alive. 165 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:24.160 And the tomb is empty. And number five is verses 9 to 10 of Matthew 28 and we get up because 166 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:30.960 of what we must do. And as they went to tell the disciples, behold, Jesus met them. 167 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:40.080 Sanery Joyce. Now, there's an exclamation point in your English Bible. It was their way trying 168 00:18:40.080 --> 00:18:48.080 to take English, which is like black and white paint, trying to paint with black and white paint, 169 00:18:48.320 --> 00:18:57.920 a language that is in multi-technicals, multiple colors beyond. He rejoiced. It's kind of, 170 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:08.080 and Jesus came and he rejoiced. Hey, no, he rejoiced. You know the old English word exuberance? 171 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:18.240 Jesus had exuberance. He didn't say, hey, ladies, guess what? It's me. When he said, 172 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:25.920 rejoice. It was so obvious of what he had done and what he had achieved for us. 173 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:32.080 And Jesus says in verse 10 to them, do not be afraid. Go tell my brethren. 174 00:19:32.560 --> 00:19:40.080 To go to Galilee and there they will see me. And that's what you and I are to do today is what 175 00:19:40.080 --> 00:19:45.840 befalls us to get up is the fact that God wants to use you and hide to tell me. You're going to 176 00:19:45.840 --> 00:19:48.800 go somewhere right now. I assume I don't know if you've eaten breakfast before you. 177 00:19:48.800 --> 00:19:54.400 Ham or afterwards at some point you're going to have to eat. You need to tell me. Today's the day by 178 00:19:54.400 --> 00:20:03.280 the way. Just use it as a gigantic excuse. Help them. Hey, happy resurrection day. 179 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:10.160 You know, because people will say, happy ishtar, it's paid, you know, Easter, you know, 180 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:13.680 that we're not going to go down that road right now because they put a damper in on everything. 181 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:21.760 But it's bad news ishtar. Get some bunnies together in some color days and go get some people 182 00:20:21.760 --> 00:20:32.320 in. Looks like bunnies. That's what that was. No. No. Happy resurrection day. 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