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Because you live, we can face tomorrow. 07:33 Because you live, we don't have to be afraid. Because you live, there's a 07:40 reason for us to endure and press forward into the future. As we worship you today, 07:50 we invite you to rid us, Lord, of everything that robs us of the resurrection power that 07:57 you want to give us. Restore in us your image and remind us of what it means 08:06 to truly worship you in spirit and in truth. We pray in Jesus name. 08:12 Amen. 08:14 ♪♪ ♪♪ 08:30 ♪♪ ♪♪ 08:47 ♪♪ ♪♪ 09:03 ♪♪ ♪♪ 09:20 ♪♪ ♪♪ 09:36 ♪♪ ♪♪ 09:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ 10:09 ♪♪ ♪♪ 10:30 ♪♪ ♪♪ 10:47 ♪♪ ♪♪ 11:04 ♪♪ ♪♪ 11:21 ♪♪ ♪♪ 11:39 ♪♪ ♪♪ 11:56 ♪♪ ♪♪ 12:13 ♪♪ ♪♪ 12:30 ♪♪ ♪♪ 12:47 ♪♪ ♪♪ 13:05 ♪♪ ♪♪ 13:22 ♪♪ ♪♪ 13:39 ♪♪ ♪♪ 13:56 ♪♪ ♪♪ 14:14 ♪♪ ♪♪ 14:31 ♪♪ ♪♪ 14:48 ♪♪ ♪♪ 15:05 ♪♪ ♪♪ 15:22 ♪♪ ♪♪ 15:40 ♪♪ ♪♪ 15:57 ♪♪ 16:05 [ Applause ] 16:15 ♪♪ ♪♪ 16:29 ♪♪ ♪♪ 16:42 ♪♪ ♪♪ 16:55 ♪♪ 17:02 >> Well, thank you, Andrews Academy Symphony Band. 17:08 Elsy Gallardo-Diaz. Oh, we needed that. 17:12 Come, Christians, now and sing joy in all things. 17:18 Are you grateful for our teenagers? 17:21 What a blessed parish we are with Andrews Academy. For 25 Easters now, this 17:28 procession of hope that we begin together has been a sacred but beloved tradition 17:36 in this congregation. Pastor Esther introduced it to us 25 years ago, and we've 17:40 been doing it ever since. Paul was right. We do not grieve as those who 17:45 have no hope. We do grieve. There's no denying grief. 17:52 Karen and I are about to read the names of 35 individuals who died between last Easter 17:57 and this one. There's a whole lot of grief in this parish. 18:01 And today we will pause to remember these that were a part of us here. 18:08 But we don't grieve without hope. Jesus said, "I am the 18:11 resurrection and the life." They who have died in me, though they die, yet shall they 18:16 live." And that's what stirs up our hearts in this procession of 18:22 hope. And by the way, I need to insert this. 18:25 This is not just for members. Now I'm looking around and people have come with flowers. 18:30 Good for you. You have a loved one, a very special loved one that 18:33 you're going to remember today, and we join you in that memory. You're expressing your own hope 18:37 when you put a flower at the foot of the cross, but you're also declaring that 18:42 beloved one is still very much alive in your heart. But you don't have to be 18:49 a member. I repeat myself, you're here and you didn't know this was 18:52 happening. You have somebody that you wish to remember. 18:56 You believe in the glorious tidings of Easter that Christ has risen. 19:02 You want to express that hope, you come forward, as well. We're going to read these names 19:08 to you. And as we begin to read, please come. 19:13 Now, I've been doing this for 25 years, and I know that everybody kind of sits still. 19:17 Nobody moves until one brave soul steps forward and says, "I'm going to go get that 19:22 flower." So you be that brave soul. Trust me, the door will be open 19:25 and then everybody will be coming. We read to you now the names 19:30 of these beloved. Ruth Boelter, May 10, 2022. >> Irene Touchard, May 13, 2022. 19:43 >> Aileen Edwards, June 17, 2022. >> Donna Habenicht, June 22, 19:53 2022. >> Ivan Flores-Heilbron, July 10, 2022. 20:01 >> Gary Erhard, July 14, 2022. >> Herald Habenicht, July 29, 2022. 20:12 >> Helena Stout, August 14, 2022. >> Dick Postman, September 6, 20:21 2022. >> Art Robertson, September 9, 2022. 20:29 >> Harold Smith III, September 10, 2022. >> Alice Poole, September 14, 20:38 2022. >> Carolyn Frolenko, September 24, 2022. 20:47 >> Norman Pottle, September 28, 2022. >> Glenn St. Clair, 20:54 October 13, 2022. >> Fred Stephan, October 24, 2022. 21:05 >> Rita Baker, October 31, 2022. >> KV Rathnam, November 14, 21:14 2022. >> Sharon Dudgeon, November 23, 2022. 21:21 >> Cynthia Coetzee, December 2, 2022. >> Marilyn Babienco, 21:30 December 3, 2022. >> Rowena Futcher, December 12, 2022. 21:39 >> Sharon Brophy Russell, December 16, 2022. >> John Randall, 21:46 December 18, 2022. >> Esther Goetzke, January 8, 2023. 21:56 >> Kenneth Straw, January 11, 2023. >> Naomie Prosper, January 13, 22:05 2023. >> Mary Zappia, January 28, 2023. 22:13 >> Esther Melnechuk, January 30, 2023. >> Wolfhard Touchard, 22:21 February 5, 2023. >> Floyd Ahlers, February 6, 2023. 22:30 >> Gerre St. Clair, February 21, 2023. >> Jim McKee, March 2, 2023. 22:41 >> Sandra Camp, March 9, 2023. >> And John Henson, March 13, 2023. 22:52 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 23:18 Let us stand to our feet and sing our glorious confession of faith. 23:22 Christ the Lord is risen today. 23:26 ♪♪ ♪♪ 23:43 ♪♪ ♪♪ 24:01 ♪♪ ♪♪ 24:18 ♪♪ ♪♪ 24:35 ♪♪ ♪♪ 24:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ 25:10 ♪♪ ♪♪ 25:28 ♪♪ ♪♪ 25:45 ♪♪ ♪♪ 26:03 ♪♪ ♪♪ 26:20 ♪♪ ♪♪ 26:38 ♪♪ ♪♪ 26:55 ♪♪ ♪♪ 27:13 ♪♪ ♪♪ 27:30 >> Oh, God, every time we stand to our feet and we throw wide our hearts and mouths in this 27:39 mighty resurrection confession, it thrills us to the core. Because it's true. 27:49 We haven't gathered to celebrate a myth. We have not convened 27:53 to celebrate a rumor. The one who lives eternally receives our worship at this 28:03 moment. Ours, the cross, the grave, the skies. 28:09 Alleluia, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, we cry out to you. 28:18 Amen. 28:20 Be seated, please. 28:34 Galatians 6:14 -- "May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, 28:40 through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." 28:45 1 Corinthians 2:2 -- "For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except 28:49 Jesus Christ and Him crucified." Why? Because the Maker of all 28:55 things loves and wants me. That's why. It is high noon. 29:02 For three grueling, exhausting hours now, He has 29:10 been hung up to dry, to die. Somewhere between the brassy 29:17 heavens and the brazen and profane Earth. 29:22 The butt of every sad fool's ridicule, crude as it is. [ Spits ] 29:30 Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, draped and dangling 29:36 from three Roman spikes. As I say, hanged up to dry and to die. 29:45 It's noon. I want to pick up the story right there with you now. 29:50 Open your Bible, please, to Matthew -- the Gospel of Matthew 27, the crucifixion 29:56 chapter. Drop down to verse 45. Read it in your own Bible. 30:06 "From noon until 3 in the afternoon, darkness came over all the land. 30:18 And about 3 in the afternoon, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, 'Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?' 30:31 Which means, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'" Hit the pause button 30:42 right there. Because scientists in the UK just this week made an 30:48 incredible discovery, and I have to pass it on to you. They found what they believe 30:57 is going to turn out to be one of the largest black holes in this universe. 31:06 You say, "What's a black hole?" The scientist types are grinning, because they know the 31:12 answer. Us laymen look it up on the Web. Here's what I found -- "Black 31:17 holes are volumes of space where gravity is extreme enough to prevent the escape of even 31:23 the fastest moving particles. Not even light can break free, hence the name black hole." 31:30 What's left after a star implodes upon itself? Sucks it in. 31:38 Get this -- listen to these stats, news clip this week. Chron.com -- I think that's 31:44 probably the HoustonChronicle.com. News release. 31:49 "A group of astronomers have just discovered a rare, ultramassive black hole believed 31:55 to be one of the largest ever detected to date." Keep reading. 32:01 "The gargantuan black hole, which is said to have the mass of 30 billion suns --" 32:09 That's our sun. 30 billion of our suns are in that hole as a mass. 32:18 This black hole "is located at the center of a galaxy, hundreds of millions 32:23 of light-years from Earth. It was uncovered by a team led by Durham University 32:27 in the United Kingdom using a new technique known as gravitational lensing." 32:32 Black holes. Black holes, they're everywhere. I want to shift and pivot 32:40 on that black hole metaphor, and for a few moments with you, brood over over how the second 32:52 person of the Godhead who created black holes across the cosmos -- I'm talking about 33:01 Jesus. In the beginning, there was the word and the word was with God 33:05 and the word was with God. All things were made through Him. 33:14 Without Him, nothing was made that was made. I'm talking about that Jesus, 33:17 the word who became flesh, the Jesus who dwelt among us, hoisted halfway between heaven 33:26 and Earth on that awful Good Friday. The creator of black holes 33:35 is about to be sucked, pulled into the heart of the most destructive black hole ever 33:47 and ever. Amen. We just read it. 33:53 What's going on here? What were those words again? "My God, My God." 33:59 Last night in Gethsemane, as we reviewed last Sabbath, last night, it was "Abba, Papa, 34:07 Papa, no, not the cup." "Abba, Papa" last night. No, "Abba, Papa" now. 34:18 "My God, My God, you have forsaken Me. Why?" It's not a statement. 34:28 "You have abandoned Me. Why?" You know what? Jesus knows exactly 34:36 what's happening now. That's why He was pleading last night in Gethsemane, 34:42 "Get me out of here. I don't want that cup. Take the cup. 34:47 Take it away. Find another way." But -- How did He end the 34:54 prayer? "Not what I want but you want." Yeah. 35:01 Apparently this is what He wants. Oh, Jesus is no stranger 35:08 to this black hole. In fact, it's interesting, in the gospels, seven times -- 35:12 count them seven times -- Jesus will end a parable, a story, or make an observation 35:20 with this awful ending, terrible ending. I put it on the screen for you. 35:25 You can see how bad it is. "...and they shall be thrown outside," Jesus speaking, 35:30 red letters, "and they shall be thrown outside into darkness, where there will be weeping 35:37 and gnashing of teeth..." What's He talking about? Whatever it is, it is so 35:43 terrible you don't want to go there. That's His point. 35:48 Because that, my friends, darkness, weeping, gnashing of teeth is His code language for 35:55 Hell -- H-E-L-L, Hell. You don't want to go there. You don't want your story to end 36:06 in darkness with weeping and gnashing of teeth. And what is hell? 36:15 Oh, we know Romans 6:23 well, don't we, you and I? For the wages of sin is death, 36:21 and the gift of God is what? Eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 36:26 So whatever the wage is, it's the antithesis of the gift. And the gift is eternal. 36:30 So guess what? The wage is -- The wage is eternal death. 36:36 Black hole. Black hole. Gone. 36:44 Forever. That's what's going on. Wow. 36:51 Adiós. Finis. Owari. 36:56 Au revoir. Forever and ever, forever and ever. 37:03 Just let the Bible describe it for you and me. Hebrews 2:9 -- 37:09 "But we do see Jesus --" Yes, we do. "Who was made lower than the 37:13 angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death on the 37:19 cross." Keep reading. "So that by the grace of God, 37:22 He might taste death for everyone." Let's be really clear about this 37:28 right now. Hell is not eternal dying. Hell is eternal death. 37:39 If He descended into hell as the old Protestant confession of faith declares, then He would 37:46 still be dying if Hell were dying. It's not at all. 37:52 It's death. Black hole, oblivion sucked into the ravaging pull of that from 38:02 which you will never escape. Gone forever. He tasted that for you and me. 38:15 Unbelievable. Oh, here's another one. 2 Corinthians 5:21 -- 38:19 "God made Jesus who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the 38:27 righteousness of God." Something's going on. Three hours of funereal darkness 38:36 only pierced in the end by a naked scream. My God. 38:42 And by the way, it wasn't a whisper. It's not -- It's not a cry, 38:47 a whimper, mnh-mnh. "Megaphone" in the Greek, "megaphone" in English. 38:53 A loud voice. It's a scream, a naked scream. At the end of three torturous 38:59 hours of utter blackness. Black hole. Sucked in by sin's gravity. 39:09 Oblivion where there is no escape, that's where He went. God made Him to be sin 39:18 in order to save me from my sin. I bow before it. I cannot comprehend what I'm 39:26 talking of. Oh, and this is the familiar words of the ancient gospel 39:31 prophet Isaiah, as well. We know these words well. Isaiah 53 -- "Surely He, 39:35 the Messiah, took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered Him 39:41 punished by God, stricken by Him, and afflicted." Black hole. 39:49 "But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities. 39:55 The punishment that brought us peace was on Him, and by His wounds, we are healed." 40:00 Now, here it comes. "We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has 40:04 turned to our own way," time and time and time again. Between two Easters, 40:10 how many times have we turned to our own way? You have and I have. 40:15 "Each of us has turned to our own way." And here it comes. 40:18 "The Lord has laid on Him --" The spotless Lamb of God who takes away the sin 40:25 of the world. "He has laid on Him --" In that awful blackness. 40:32 What did He lay on Him? What's it read? 40:35 The iniquity of how many of us? All of us. 40:39 Your darling sin, my darling sin. 40:41 Yep, there it was dealt with. 40:48 Wow. What's going on here? 40:53 The maker of all things loves and wants me. 40:56 That's what's going on. That's it. 41:00 He loved and wanted you so bad, He loved and wanted me so bad, 41:05 He let sin suck Him into the black hole of oblivion 41:10 from which no one escapes. 41:14 My, oh, my. Oh, my. Listen to Mead McGuire in that 41:23 book of his, "His Cross and Mine" -- "Probably the most dreadful 41:30 punishment men can inflict is solitary confinement in darkness. 41:35 It often drives men insane." Those of you that read the autobiography of 41:45 John McCain remember the torture he faced in what they called the Hanoi Hilton there in 41:51 North Vietnam during the war. Solitary confinement. No sentient being comes 42:00 in communication and touch with you. Dark, dark, alone. 42:11 McGuire is right. He goes on -- "The consciousness of His Father's presence, 42:17 which had sustained Jesus throughout His life, had left Him. 42:20 He was drinking that dreadful cup that He pleaded last night not to drink." 42:25 Please. "He was drinking that dreadful cup over which He had wrestled 42:29 so many hours in Gethsemane, but which He had never named. But now, with a sudden cry 42:36 of inexpressible woe, the words burst from His lips, 'My God, My God, 42:42 why hast thou forsaken me? He was grappling with the overwhelming sense 42:46 of abandonment and despair. All the pain and torture of the crucifixion 42:49 were as nothing to the horror of spiritual separation from God. In descending into that outer 42:55 darkness, He was suffering not only the sorrows of death, but the pains of hell." 43:03 Go to Hell. Some poor soul cries out. And He did. 43:12 He went to hell for you so you'll never go to hell. 43:21 Richard John Neuhaus, in his stirring book, "Death on a Friday Afternoon", puts it 43:27 this way, that naked scream -- "Something has been lost, something has been withdrawn, 43:33 and it cannot be called back." 43:40 Hmm. Matthew Arnold, the poet, in his poem, "Dover Beach", 43:48 captures a bit of that sense of lostness. "The Sea of Faith was once, too, 43:57 at the full and round Earth's shore. Lay like the folds of a bright 44:03 girdle furled. But now I only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing 44:10 roar. Retreating to the breath. Of the night wind, down the vast 44:14 edges drear. And naked shingles of the world." 44:19 Did you catch that line? "Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar." 44:28 "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" "Desire of Ages" offers the last 44:37 word -- "Satan with his fierce temptations --" 44:43 There on Calvary in that funereal darkness. "Wrung the heart of Jesus. 44:49 The Savior could not see through the portals of the tomb. Hope did not present to Him. 44:54 His coming forth from the grave a conqueror, or tell Him of the Father's acceptance of the 44:59 sacrifice. He feared that sin was so offensive to God 45:02 that Their --" Capital "T". "Their separation was to be 45:07 eternal." Forever. Goodbye. 45:18 Finis. 45:24 Wow. "Desire of Ages" goes on -- "But it was not the spear 45:28 thrust, it was not the pain of the cross, that caused the death of Jesus. 45:33 That cry, uttered 'with a loud voice' at the moment of death, the stream of blood and water 45:37 that flowed from His side, declared that Jesus died of a broken heart. 45:42 His heart was broken by mental anguish. He was slain by the sin of the 45:50 world." 45:55 So whatever I laugh off cost Him Hell. Whatever I dismiss with a silly 46:07 grin cost Him Hell. 46:15 He thought their separation was to be eternal. He thought that He would never 46:23 return from this black hole. And so He dies of a broken heart for you, for me. 46:36 It cannot be, but it is. Oh, of course, we've been singing with all the gusto. 46:46 We could ramp up that mighty, triumphant declaration, "Christ the Lord is risen 46:53 today." You're right. Love rose on the first day, but 47:02 it was love with a broken heart that will be broken forever and ever. 47:14 Yeah, some people come to me and say, "Oh, Dwight, come on, get real. 47:19 He didn't really die forever. That's impossible. He knew He was coming out of 47:24 it." Oh, really? I end with a story that I heard 47:32 sometime in childhood somewhere. The story of a young boy who was terribly sick, so sick, in fact, 47:40 that the doctors determined that unless they could find a rare but perfect match for the boy, 47:49 it was curtains. He would die. They tested the whole family. 47:54 His little sister, you guessed it -- rare but perfect match. 48:02 The doctors, grateful. The parents look down into that little girl's face, and they ask 48:09 if she'd be willing to give her blood to save her brother's life. 48:17 She looked away for a moment, ponderous written on her face. Thought. 48:27 The mother looks back and into the downturn faces -- faces that are waiting for an answer. 48:32 She nods her curls. She will give her blood. The med techs are ready to go. 48:40 In goes the needle into her elbow. And soon that little plastic bag 48:45 began to fill with her life-saving blood. It's not a hurried procedure. 48:51 It takes time, but eventually the procedure is through. And as they're leading her 48:57 out of the room, she looks up at her father, the tears in her eyes and a quiver in her voice. 49:09 She said, "Daddy, Daddy, when will I die now?" The father smiled, looked down 49:21 at her. And then it hit him like a bolt of lightning. 49:27 She had just gone through that procedure believing that when the procedure was through, 49:30 she would die. I ask you a question. Academic but essential. 49:38 Did that little girl die for her brother? Yes or no? 49:44 Yes or no? Tell me yes or no. >> Yes. 49:48 >> She did right here. Did Jesus die forever for that sin that I wish to let go of, 49:59 but struggle to hold onto? Did He die forever for that sin? Yes or no? 50:05 >> Yes. >> Yes, He did, forever right here. 50:18 The black hole. Into that black hole. That is the truth 50:25 of Good Friday, Holy Sabbath, and Easter Sunday. Some of you right now, I know, 50:35 are standing on the precipice of the black hole of death. Death, period. 50:43 You know it's coming. And unless there is a miracle, as Pastor Jenifer described, 50:52 death will arrive. I want to say to you who are pondering this gargantuan black 51:03 hole you have never been to before. 51:07 I want to say to you that the glad tidings of Easter 51:15 are proof -- Jesus, if He had not come out of 51:22 that grave, would not have accomplished what He set out to 51:27 do. In my humble opinion, 51:32 the resurrection of Christ is the existential evidence 51:35 we need to prove He went into the black hole and emerged 51:45 for you and me forever. 51:53 And today, in that ravaging black hole, that the enemy 51:58 would make certain devours the entire human race. 52:03 Hey, listen, listen, listen, before you leave. 52:05 In the heart of that black hole of oblivion today because of 52:10 Calvary, there flows a white stream of light through the 52:16 heart of that black hole. 52:19 A white stream of light that declares, "Because I live, you shall live also. 52:26 I promise you, you will live again. I promise you." 52:34 Why? Because the Maker of all things loves and wants me, that's why. 52:39 In my humble opinion, this is the greatest truth in the universe. 52:47 Which is why Romans 8 ends the way it does. I want us to read these words 52:53 out loud together. Romans 8, that will declare to us this truth. 53:00 It will declare to us this truth -- "He was willing to die forever 53:07 so that I -- we might live forever." I don't understand it, 53:15 my friend. I do not comprehend it. He was willing to die forever 53:19 so that I might live forever. That's the very point at the pinnacle of Scripture, 53:27 is Romans 8:38-39. Let's read these out loud together, as well -- 53:33 "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present 53:43 nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all 53:51 creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our 53:59 Lord." And all the people of God said what? 54:03 >> Amen. >> Amen. 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