WEBVTT 00:00:01.490 --> 00:00:01.940 Well. 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:02.300 Good morning. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:03.920 Good morning. 00:00:04.620 --> 00:00:05.590 Glad to see a full house today. 00:00:06.780 --> 00:00:07.600 People who love Jesus. 00:00:08.100 --> 00:00:09.140 That's nice to be around, right? 00:00:11.340 --> 00:00:18.480 Easter is a wonderful day of celebration for us, but I've wondered if we've often considered how the Easter 00:00:18.620 --> 00:00:25.140 celebration came about to where we are gathered here today to honor the name of Christ with our lives. 00:00:26.980 --> 00:00:32.229 You know, I find, as I read in the New Testament, Paul sometimes reflects on the word of faith, hope, and love. 00:00:32.500 --> 00:00:39.780 And as I've come to know Jesus my personal life, and begin to walk with him and understand what a relationship with him is all about, 00:00:39.820 --> 00:00:44.180 I find faith, hope, and love significant to the way I live my day to day life. 00:00:46.060 --> 00:00:49.620 It does a lot for the human soul to have hope, doesn't it? 00:00:49.620 --> 00:00:50.410 Hope for tomorrow. 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.040 Love for today and faith to get you through anything. 00:00:58.300 --> 00:00:59.480 When I think about the Easter celebration. 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:06.340 Much of what Easter rides on rests on those three simple principles of faith, hope, and love. 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:16.280 This morning, as we think about and reflect on the history of what Easter has meant throughout time, it wasn't always a celebration that 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:23.400 brought great smiles to your life, because it dealt very much so with death and sacrifice 00:01:26.320 --> 00:01:28.580 and the Genesis chapter three and verse 15. 00:01:28.580 --> 00:01:35.600 If you read the story of Genesis and the creation of this world, and Adam and Eve, who were created, being our first parents, came to this earth, 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:41.820 and it tells us in the very beginning that they ate of the fruit of good and evil, and thus sinned against God. 00:01:45.300 --> 00:01:51.360 In their sin they were in a place of which was total despair to the relationship with the Lord. 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:54.120 They needed faith, hope, and love. 00:01:56.180 --> 00:01:59.560 They needed rescued They needed a Savior. 00:02:01.360 --> 00:02:08.220 Because when sin entered into that world, the relationship with God was marred through sin and they could no longer experience it. 00:02:08.300 --> 00:02:12.900 If you read Ephesians chapter two and verse one, it literally says, your relationship with God is dead. 00:02:15.380 --> 00:02:20.080 When it comes to standing before a perfect, holy, Almighty God in his heavenly kingdom. 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:27.700 We as people with sin have no merit to stand on, and you can do anything in the world to try to earn that favor 00:02:27.700 --> 00:02:28.540 back with God. 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:35.590 But nothing can undo the sin in which you have conducted against him that sin resides for eternity. 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:42.720 Matter of fact, the book of Ephesians and Titus remind us it's not by works of righteousness which we do that earns favor to God. 00:02:43.340 --> 00:02:45.150 Titus chapter three and verse five. 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:51.540 But God being a God of love and creating Adam and Eve and loving them, also created for them hope. 00:02:53.280 --> 00:03:00.500 In Genesis chapter three and verse 15, it gives the first promise to Adam and Eve, or the future Messiah who would come and die for 00:03:00.540 --> 00:03:01.000 their sins. 00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:08.040 And if you think about when someone has wronged you in your own relationships and experience in this world, in order for that relationship to be 00:03:08.040 --> 00:03:14.360 mended, either that person must be given forgiveness by you, or there's no meaning of that relationship. 00:03:14.820 --> 00:03:16.080 There's nothing that they can do. 00:03:17.580 --> 00:03:18.770 Someone has to pay that debt. 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:25.580 If they've offended you can continue to make them pay that debt for the rest of their life, owing it back to you for the offense that they've done. 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:31.640 Or you can forgive them, taking that offense upon yourself and that pain and that heartache for the wrong that person has done against you. 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:35.220 Jesus solution was the latter. 00:03:37.140 --> 00:03:44.240 He could have looked at Adam and Eve in the midst of their sin and caused them to pay for their sin debt, which would have been against an eternal God which could have lasted or would have lasted for 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.540 eternity according to that current relationship. 00:03:46.700 --> 00:03:50.740 But Jesus offered a way out through a messiah who would come and die for their sins. 00:03:52.200 --> 00:03:56.060 He took on that debt, that sin debt that we own. 00:03:57.700 --> 00:04:05.180 As Jesus gave that promise to us in Genesis chapter three, the Bible goes on and begins to share with the life of a man named Abraham and 00:04:05.180 --> 00:04:09.920 the life of Abraham, literally by Abraham and the promise given to him in Genesis chapter 12. 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:14.780 God came to Abraham and said, through you, Abraham, all nations will be blessed. 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:21.490 Abraham's lineage would lead to the future Messiah who would die for all sins. 00:04:23.280 --> 00:04:24.740 Genesis chapter 22. 00:04:24.740 --> 00:04:31.800 It tells us, as Abraham was one day journeying with his son Isaac, the only rightful son that he had who would be heir to the Jewish throne, and from him 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:36.660 the seed would be multiplied of all the Jewish people, and from Isaac all nations would be blessed as well. 00:04:37.320 --> 00:04:44.500 It tells us in Genesis chapter 22 that Abraham took his son up onto a mountain because God said he needed to make 00:04:44.500 --> 00:04:46.240 a sacrifice with his life. 00:04:48.030 --> 00:04:51.730 And God was teaching Abraham something about himself. 00:04:53.460 --> 00:05:00.720 See, Abraham grew up in a time where people followed all sorts of different gods, and these different gods needed to be pleased, and no one really knew 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:02.820 whether or not based on what they had done in their life. 00:05:02.940 --> 00:05:05.540 If God was or their gods that they worshipped were ever satisfied. 00:05:06.980 --> 00:05:14.180 Even to the point that the people began to sacrifice their own loved ones upon altars in order to please these gods that they think may or may not love them, to satisfy 00:05:14.180 --> 00:05:16.220 their righteous demands on their life. 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:20.330 And Abraham was asked by God to go up on a mountain and to make a sacrifice. 00:05:22.380 --> 00:05:25.580 And God was teaching something about his love to Abraham. 00:05:27.960 --> 00:05:30.760 God was never going to ask Abraham to offer Isaac. 00:05:32.860 --> 00:05:35.600 God, and his love was going to provide that sacrifice for him. 00:05:35.700 --> 00:05:42.900 And you see in Genesis chapter two and verse eight, as Abraham goes up to this mountain thinking he may have to offer a son, he reminds 00:05:42.900 --> 00:05:58.520 his son, what we know about this God that we are following is that he loves us, and that 00:05:58.520 --> 00:05:58.520 he will offer a sacrifice for us. 00:05:58.520 --> 00:05:58.520 A lamb will be provided. 00:05:58.520 --> 00:06:05.740 3500 years ago, 500 years after the life of Abraham, we find the nation of Israel in the land of Egypt. 00:06:07.380 --> 00:06:12.170 They've grown to a group of over 2 million people there in Egypt. 00:06:12.420 --> 00:06:19.720 And God wants to bring this nation out of the land of Egypt to establish themselves as their own people group, their own nation, ruling and 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:20.640 governed by him. 00:06:22.760 --> 00:06:25.350 And you've probably heard the story at some point in your life. 00:06:25.620 --> 00:06:30.740 Moses comes before Pharaoh, and Moses says to Pharaoh, let my people go. 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:33.260 And Pharaoh refused. 00:06:33.860 --> 00:06:35.380 And so God brought a plague. 00:06:36.180 --> 00:06:39.700 Moses comes again before Pharaoh and says, let my people go. 00:06:39.700 --> 00:06:41.000 And Pharaoh refuses. 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:42.760 And God brought a plague. 00:06:42.760 --> 00:06:45.980 And ten plagues took place in succinct order from one another. 00:06:46.300 --> 00:06:53.400 As Pharaoh continued to come before, before Moses continued to come before Pharaoh and say, let my people go And Pharaoh's heart continued 00:06:53.400 --> 00:06:57.190 to harden against the desire of God and what Moses was commanding. 00:07:00.200 --> 00:07:07.240 Until you get to the book of Exodus in chapter 12, God brings his final plague on the nation 00:07:07.300 --> 00:07:07.560 of Egypt. 00:07:09.200 --> 00:07:13.620 God tells the people of Israel that the death angel is about to come through the land. 00:07:15.660 --> 00:07:19.640 It would be the final plague that they experienced in which the people of Israel would be set free. 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:29.480 And once again, God reminds Moses and the nation of Israel and all of us, that he will provide a way of escape, a 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:29.940 way of hope. 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:39.280 He begins to share with Moses in chapter 12 and verse three he says, speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, on the 10th of this month they 00:07:39.280 --> 00:07:45.960 are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their father's household, a lamb for each household. 00:07:46.900 --> 00:07:47.580 Moreover they shall. 00:07:47.880 --> 00:07:54.940 They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts, and on the lintel of the house in which they eat the blood shall 00:07:54.980 --> 00:07:57.560 be a sign for you on the houses where you live. 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:03.920 And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you. 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:05.430 When I strike the land of Egypt. 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.240 And hence we get the name the Passover. 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:18.480 The nation of Israel was required by God to take an innocent lamb of no spot or blemish, much like Jesus, and to slay 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:18.740 this lamb. 00:08:20.380 --> 00:08:27.480 You can imagine if there's over 2 million people in the nation of Israel at this point, and every family is responsible for the sacrificing of their own lamb, their 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:28.600 own perfect lamb. 00:08:28.640 --> 00:08:32.000 How much blood would be spilled on this day? 00:08:34.020 --> 00:08:41.100 And he says to the nation of Israel, if you apply this blood to your life, if you believe that this blood will save you and apply it to your 00:08:41.100 --> 00:08:46.380 life, when the death angel comes, he's literally going to just pass over you. 00:08:48.580 --> 00:08:55.440 A sign of the hope to the people in the moment, a sign of hope to the reflection of what Jesus would bring to the future. 00:08:56.460 --> 00:08:58.160 1500 years before the time of Christ. 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:00.560 They celebrated Easter, but they didn't call it Easter. 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:01.800 They called it the Passover. 00:09:04.050 --> 00:09:08.080 As the story goes on, the nation of Israel escapes out of the bondage in Egypt. 00:09:09.580 --> 00:09:12.660 God instructs the nation of Israel to build what they called the temple. 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:16.520 They built one temple for the entire nation. 00:09:16.520 --> 00:09:19.580 It was a place in which they came to worship the God. 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:25.200 And everything within the temple symbolized and reflected a ministry in which Jesus would fulfill. 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:30.700 One day a priest was responsible for carrying out the duties in the temple. 00:09:32.020 --> 00:09:34.910 Jesus is referred to in the book of Hebrews as our High Priest. 00:09:36.340 --> 00:09:39.540 As you journeyed into the temple, you would come to the very first inner rooms. 00:09:39.640 --> 00:09:47.120 What you would see is the basin of water for the purification and cleansing of your hands, to remind you of the washing of sin that needs to take place in 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:47.620 your life. 00:09:47.680 --> 00:09:55.060 And you would see next to the basin of water, the altar of sacrifice, in which innocent lambs or animals were sacrificed upon the altar for 00:09:55.060 --> 00:09:56.500 the remission of sins. 00:09:57.900 --> 00:10:02.500 As you journeyed into the building in the back with the gold plate along the top, you would find the. 00:10:03.460 --> 00:10:09.300 The bread of showplace is a table in which fresh bread was portrayed upon. 00:10:09.420 --> 00:10:09.800 It was. 00:10:10.280 --> 00:10:14.740 It was a reminder to us as Jesus came in the book of John, he referred to himself as the bread of life. 00:10:14.920 --> 00:10:17.360 Jesus would give life to us as people. 00:10:18.340 --> 00:10:20.640 Opposite side of the bread table you would find the candlesticks. 00:10:22.340 --> 00:10:26.050 Jesus referred to himself in the book of John as the light of this world. 00:10:27.460 --> 00:10:32.900 As you went to the very back of the room, there was a 15 by 15 room that was closed off to everyone else in the world. 00:10:32.900 --> 00:10:38.440 No one in Israel could go into this room except for the high priest, and he could only go into this room one time of year. 00:10:39.460 --> 00:10:43.000 It was referred to as the Holy Place, the Holy of Holies. 00:10:44.950 --> 00:10:49.940 The glory of God was said to have dwelled there once a year. 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:51.940 A high priest would make a sacrifice and he would. 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:56.360 He would wear this long robe and attach this long robe would literally be tassels and bells. 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:01.920 And when he would go into the building, everyone would listen on the outside as he entered behind that curtain to make sure he was still alive. 00:11:01.920 --> 00:11:07.120 Because if the high priest entered into that room with any sin in his life, he would be struck dead on the spot. 00:11:09.900 --> 00:11:17.940 And once a year he would apply the blood of an innocent goat upon the mercy seat, the Ark of the covenant, a 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:21.820 sacrifice on behalf of the nation of Israel for their sins. 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:31.560 Everything dealing with this temple pointed to Jesus tells us in Second Chronicles 00:11:31.560 --> 00:11:39.320 chapter 35 and verse seven that on the Passover day, when the nation of Israel gathered to worship, over 30,000 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:42.160 lambs were sacrificed on the altar in front of that temple. 00:11:43.780 --> 00:11:46.220 In addition to that, there were other sacrifices that went along. 00:11:47.660 --> 00:11:50.140 And on that day when you entered into the temple. 00:11:50.300 --> 00:11:53.800 Blood literally flowed from this building. 00:11:54.600 --> 00:12:01.490 It was a sobering moment to the people as they worshiped God on the Passover, a reality of what their sin brings. 00:12:03.040 --> 00:12:08.410 But as they looked at the innocence of the lamb who was sacrificed, it was a reminder to them that all those sin brings death. 00:12:08.540 --> 00:12:13.610 There is hope to come as Jesus will be provided for that sacrifice for them. 00:12:15.020 --> 00:12:19.560 Bible tells us in Hebrews chapter ten everything that took place in the temple. 00:12:19.800 --> 00:12:25.440 He says, law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming, not the realities themselves. 00:12:26.500 --> 00:12:33.500 For this reason, it can never by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 00:12:34.380 --> 00:12:41.540 Otherwise would they not have stopped being offered, for the worshippers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer 00:12:41.540 --> 00:12:43.060 have felt guilt for their sins. 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:47.140 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sin. 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:55.220 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin, nor the ministry that took place 00:12:55.220 --> 00:13:00.260 within the temple was a reminder to the people that ultimately there was a better sacrifice to come. 00:13:00.280 --> 00:13:05.170 It was merely a shadow that represented all the things in which Jesus was to fulfill when he was on the earth. 00:13:06.660 --> 00:13:13.880 In fact, as the people of Israel went and they began to worship in the temple, and they began to honor God through the rituals in which God had instilled in their hearts, he continued to 00:13:13.880 --> 00:13:21.000 remind them throughout Scripture and all sorts of wonderful places of the opportunity of a messiah who would come, who would give his life for their sins 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:25.730 if they would simply apply the blood to their lives. 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:30.720 It says in Isaiah 53, but he was pierced for our transgressions, talking about Jesus. 00:13:31.800 --> 00:13:34.180 This was recorded hundreds of years before Christ came. 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:36.490 It says he was crushed for our iniquities. 00:13:36.700 --> 00:13:42.490 The punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. 00:13:43.300 --> 00:13:44.480 We all like sheep have gone astray. 00:13:44.920 --> 00:13:46.360 Each one of us has turned our own way. 00:13:46.760 --> 00:13:49.200 And the Lord has laid upon him the iniquity of us all. 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:51.610 He was oppressed and afflicted. 00:13:52.700 --> 00:13:55.520 He did not open his mouth, and he was led like a lamb to the slaughter. 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:57.380 And as a sheep before its shearers is silent. 00:13:57.760 --> 00:13:59.160 So he did not open his mouth. 00:13:59.160 --> 00:14:02.540 Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer. 00:14:03.460 --> 00:14:10.460 And though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, the Bible gives this picture. 00:14:12.180 --> 00:14:19.380 It's as if this innocent lamb is just walking around and God looks at that innocent lamb as if it contains every sin that we carry 00:14:19.380 --> 00:14:20.020 in this world. 00:14:20.280 --> 00:14:27.540 And God literally crushes under a fatal blow the sin of our lives, the life of Jesus. 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:35.950 As we look in further in Scripture, we're reminded about the sacrifices that took place in the temple. 00:14:36.020 --> 00:14:37.690 One day Jesus came on the scene. 00:14:39.640 --> 00:14:43.700 It tells us in John chapter one, in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. 00:14:43.740 --> 00:14:45.100 And the same was in the beginning with God. 00:14:45.460 --> 00:14:52.580 It says in verse 14, and we beheld his glory full of grace and truth, and the word became flesh, 00:14:53.020 --> 00:14:56.080 and dwelt among us. 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:58.840 Grace had arrived. 00:14:59.180 --> 00:15:06.280 Hope had come, and the opportunity of your relationship with Jesus had been restored, though sin had marred 00:15:06.280 --> 00:15:06.660 it. 00:15:06.660 --> 00:15:09.600 And John the Baptist laid on the side of the Jordan River. 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:14.400 And he began to preach to the people who would come, listen to him, repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand. 00:15:14.660 --> 00:15:16.800 Be baptized, for the kingdom of God is at hand. 00:15:17.920 --> 00:15:20.160 It was an unfamiliar message to the people at the time. 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:22.520 Jewish people didn't get baptized. 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:31.020 Gentile people got baptized as they came to embrace Judaism, to accept Judaism and walk in the newness of and belief in which 00:15:31.020 --> 00:15:31.690 they carried. 00:15:31.900 --> 00:15:37.020 They had to be baptized in order to recognize themselves as being Jews, among some other things. 00:15:37.880 --> 00:15:44.780 And yet John shows up on the shore in John in chapter one, John the Baptist, and he says to the people, repent and be baptized. 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:46.040 There is a better way coming. 00:15:47.740 --> 00:15:54.920 And as John stands on the side of the Jordan River, one day, Jesus comes near and John 00:15:54.920 --> 00:15:56.600 makes this remark about Jesus. 00:15:56.680 --> 00:16:03.580 He says, the next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world. 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:13.820 4000 years since the time of Abraham, people have known that an innocent lamb would 00:16:13.820 --> 00:16:16.030 make a sacrifice for our sins. 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:24.080 Since Genesis chapter three, Adam and Eve knew that God was going to bring to this world someone to die for you. 00:16:25.920 --> 00:16:30.470 In John chapter one, John identifies him as the Christ. 00:16:32.400 --> 00:16:36.120 For the rest of Jesus's ministry that's conducted for the next three and a half years. 00:16:36.140 --> 00:16:39.280 It tells us throughout Scripture that he works to build his kingdom. 00:16:40.660 --> 00:16:46.920 He makes converts, he gets followers, he gets his 12 disciples, and he continues to minister to them. 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:52.470 Until we get to the culmination of what we refer to as the Passion Week, the week of the Passover. 00:16:54.500 --> 00:17:01.680 It tells us in that final week, the very first day leading into that final week, Jesus rides into the Jerusalem on the back of a donkey and all the people begin to 00:17:01.680 --> 00:17:02.840 shout, Hosanna! 00:17:03.060 --> 00:17:03.620 Hosanna! 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:05.880 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 00:17:06.099 --> 00:17:07.339 There is hope for us. 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:08.780 God has brought it to our lives. 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.760 The lamb who takes away the sins of the world is coming for us. 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:20.410 Those very same people who lined the streets shouting praise to their king would later deny him as he went to the cross. 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:30.780 The Bible tells us in the final night leading up to the Passover, that Jesus went into the upper room with his disciples, he 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:32.730 began to celebrate a feast with them. 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:35.420 He began to share all sorts of things. 00:17:35.820 --> 00:17:38.300 As they began to eat their meals together. 00:17:39.340 --> 00:17:40.520 How to serve one another. 00:17:41.740 --> 00:17:42.890 How to live for one another. 00:17:44.600 --> 00:17:46.300 In this church here is built on relationships. 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:49.340 Understand? 00:17:49.340 --> 00:17:52.120 There's two relationships God wants us to function with in this world. 00:17:52.260 --> 00:17:54.020 One is to love the Lord your God with all your heart. 00:17:54.080 --> 00:17:56.960 That is the most significant thing you could ever choose to believe in this world. 00:17:59.020 --> 00:18:01.080 And the second is to love one another. 00:18:02.360 --> 00:18:06.680 Whether or not you choose to believe in Christ is denied by the way you choose to live your life. 00:18:06.980 --> 00:18:09.290 If you love Jesus, you will love one another. 00:18:10.260 --> 00:18:11.940 And he began to wash the feet of his disciples. 00:18:15.840 --> 00:18:22.960 As Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, he taught them something significant about the position that we should take in this world that if you trust in him, the way 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:25.260 you should seek to live your life is to serve. 00:18:28.360 --> 00:18:30.120 And very interesting in what Jesus did. 00:18:30.120 --> 00:18:37.800 After he began to share this with his disciples, he partook of something that we refer to today as communion Going 00:18:37.800 --> 00:18:39.470 into this upper room with his disciples. 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:46.740 They could have shared and listened to Jesus as he began to share about all the things that were going to take place at the temple that day, and the sacrifice of the lamb. 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:48.560 Jesus, this is going to be a wonderful celebration. 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:50.720 Jerusalem is packed this week. 00:18:52.120 --> 00:18:54.400 Did you see the way that they were treating you when you walked in? 00:18:54.620 --> 00:18:56.430 I mean, they were calling you King. 00:18:59.560 --> 00:19:06.600 As Jesus begins to share with his disciples that night, rather than talk about the sacrifice of the lamb and the temple, Jesus 00:19:06.600 --> 00:19:07.960 began to talk about himself. 00:19:11.230 --> 00:19:16.160 He passed out communion to his followers. 00:19:18.420 --> 00:19:25.580 His reminder to his followers is that what was about to take place, and what had taken place throughout the history of Israel, was the sacrifice of this precious lamb for 00:19:25.580 --> 00:19:27.000 the sins of the world. 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:32.190 But now, ultimately, one sacrifice was going to come for all mankind at one time to die for all the sins. 00:19:32.380 --> 00:19:38.060 And rather than talk about the lamb, he talked about Himself. 00:19:38.800 --> 00:19:45.980 How strange in that moment to sit in that room and rather than converse about this unblemished lamb, 00:19:45.980 --> 00:19:47.470 you begin to talk about yourself. 00:19:47.700 --> 00:19:54.880 Could you imagine in those moments what must have been going on in the lives and the minds of the disciples as they sat there and listened to Jesus share 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:57.930 about the sacrifice that he was about to make for them? 00:19:59.560 --> 00:20:06.700 And could you imagine, just as we're doing now, he began to pass out this bread and this drink before the people who were gathered in that upper 00:20:06.700 --> 00:20:09.540 room, listening to his teaching and following after him. 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:16.810 And he says to them, this is a reflection of what's about to take place to me. 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:21.760 He reminds them that they continue to do this until his return. 00:20:21.760 --> 00:20:29.000 And his promise to you is that if you trust in Jesus, one day you will drink this 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:36.240 wine and eat this bread new with Him and His Father's kingdom Tells us in John chapter 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:37.040 14. 00:20:38.040 --> 00:20:40.590 Behold, I go to prepare a place for you. 00:20:41.590 --> 00:20:48.700 As we as a church gather together to worship the name of Jesus this morning, we're reminded as we're here, thinking about him, reflecting on what he's 00:20:48.700 --> 00:20:51.320 done for him, making him infinitely valuable in our lives. 00:20:51.340 --> 00:20:54.800 Because all purpose, all hope, all love, all joy comes through him. 00:20:55.420 --> 00:21:02.440 Jesus is waiting for his church to join him in heaven and just worship with him because of 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:04.670 the sacrifice he's made for you. 00:21:05.840 --> 00:21:07.560 The communion's disappeared and I didn't grab one. 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:09.890 So we're going to take this together without me this morning? 00:21:10.840 --> 00:21:12.060 Yeah. 00:21:12.180 --> 00:21:16.000 And I that's good. 00:21:16.740 --> 00:21:24.520 Says in verse 22, and as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it, and gave it unto them, and said, take this 00:21:24.520 --> 00:21:24.980 is my body. 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:27.960 I want to take it twice. 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:35.920 Thank you And he took the 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:38.050 cup when he had given thanks. 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:52.980 They drank it and he said to them, this is the blood of the covenant, which is poured out for 00:21:52.980 --> 00:21:52.980 many. 00:21:52.980 --> 00:21:53.530 He gives you the promise. 00:21:53.820 --> 00:21:58.440 In verse 25 it says, truly I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it new in the kingdom. 00:21:58.840 --> 00:22:02.020 And it tells us in verse 26, they began to sing a hymn together. 00:22:03.120 --> 00:22:09.230 It was a tradition for the nation of Israel to sing from Psalm 113 to 118 together, as they celebrated the name of Jesus. 00:22:10.140 --> 00:22:17.320 And as Jesus shared everything that he was about to do, the Bible tells us that Jesus then within just a few hours, went 00:22:17.320 --> 00:22:18.120 to the cross. 00:22:19.940 --> 00:22:20.910 Have you ever studied the crucifixion? 00:22:23.250 --> 00:22:24.500 It was the worst way to go. 00:22:26.100 --> 00:22:27.220 Genesis 313. 00:22:27.220 --> 00:22:34.360 It tells us literally, whoever hung upon the cross was someone who was cursed it was intentionally designed to torture 00:22:34.360 --> 00:22:36.260 someone through the delaying of their death. 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:39.820 And we know Jesus leading up to the crucifixion. 00:22:40.080 --> 00:22:47.260 He was beaten so bad with the Cat of Nine tails that literally his back would have hung like ribbons from his body as his flesh just dangled 00:22:47.260 --> 00:22:54.460 there, his eternal organs would have been exposed, ribs would have been seen, thorns pressed into his head, 00:22:54.520 --> 00:22:58.210 poisonous thorns that would have been throbbing as it was pounded into the side of his face. 00:22:58.600 --> 00:23:05.700 He was literally beaten beyond recognition, hair pulled from his face, nails driven through the main main veins that 00:23:05.700 --> 00:23:08.580 run through your wrists, one of the major veins of pain. 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:17.280 He was dropped into a cross, tells us in Psalm 22 that his joints would have been out of place. 00:23:18.120 --> 00:23:25.140 The jolting of dropping into the hole would have caused such pressure on his body that he would have lost control of his of his 00:23:25.140 --> 00:23:25.520 joints. 00:23:25.520 --> 00:23:32.540 They would have popped out of place and was often talked about upon the cross, is that they were low enough to the ground that when bystanders walked by through throughout the city, they 00:23:32.540 --> 00:23:34.660 could spit on the face of the individual who hung there. 00:23:36.560 --> 00:23:41.240 Many times the pressure as they hung up on the cross was so bad that a person would lose control of his bowels. 00:23:42.900 --> 00:23:50.400 You can imagine the humiliation that would have occurred in those moments, because many a times as they hung on the cross, they are often exposed 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:52.510 completely to the elements. 00:23:54.020 --> 00:23:59.140 Most of the time nude, whatever the weather brought that day. 00:23:59.980 --> 00:24:04.050 That's what the individual endured in order to prolong death. 00:24:04.340 --> 00:24:10.820 The soldiers would oftentimes tak a seat just below the bottom of the individual so he could sit there and catch his breath. 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:18.140 Because when you died on the cross, what killed you was literally the asphyxiation of your body as it compressed upon itself, as you hung on the cross until you 00:24:18.140 --> 00:24:19.000 couldn't breathe anymore. 00:24:19.380 --> 00:24:22.680 And so, to prolong the death, they would provide a seat for the individual to sit on. 00:24:24.060 --> 00:24:29.900 And as he sat there, he would then have to push up on his feet as he hung on the cross, as the nail pierced through his leg. 00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:36.690 If your death took too long and they decided that you needed to go, they would break your legs with a hammer. 00:24:38.500 --> 00:24:40.260 Either way, it was a horrific way to go. 00:24:40.260 --> 00:24:43.880 But in the case of Jesus, Jesus never suffocated. 00:24:44.820 --> 00:24:51.310 A lot of the doctors believe that when Jesus died, what killed Christ was literally a broken heart. 00:24:53.420 --> 00:25:00.660 So your heart has a wonderful tendency when it begins to go through a tremendous amount of pressure, that it's got a clear sack of fluid that develops around 00:25:00.660 --> 00:25:02.250 it to protect it. 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:07.910 It provides a cavity of protection against any blow that your heart might receive. 00:25:09.360 --> 00:25:16.560 And Jesus, carrying the weight of sin upon his shoulders, had a tense amount of pressure placed upon his body, and that sack began to 00:25:16.700 --> 00:25:17.980 fill around his heart. 00:25:19.540 --> 00:25:26.980 Leading up to the cross, Jesus had lost such a tremendous amount of blood that as that sack began to fill up, his heart couldn't pump 00:25:26.980 --> 00:25:34.080 past the pressure that was created from that sack until that sack became so enormous and powerful against the pressure of 00:25:34.080 --> 00:25:36.100 his heart that it literally stopped it from beating. 00:25:36.360 --> 00:25:38.010 And Jesus's heart was crushed. 00:25:39.500 --> 00:25:44.090 He died of a broken heart for you and for me. 00:25:46.100 --> 00:25:50.520 As you read in Scripture, as Jesus hung upon the cross, it tells us that the soldiers went beside Christ. 00:25:50.660 --> 00:25:55.340 They were wanting to take the people down from the cross before the Passover celebration really got going. 00:25:55.840 --> 00:25:57.740 And they came to Jesus and noticed he was dead. 00:25:57.760 --> 00:26:04.800 But to make sure he was dead, a professional executioner walked up to Christ and took a spear and rammed it under his ribs and into his heart. 00:26:04.800 --> 00:26:11.640 And it tells us in that passage of Scripture that literally blood and water from the sack flowed. 00:26:13.940 --> 00:26:19.540 Jesus died on the cross for you and for me. 00:26:21.060 --> 00:26:24.840 God is a God of hope, and God is a God of love. 00:26:26.140 --> 00:26:33.320 And there is a price to pay for any sin, regardless if it's the one who is offended or the one who does the offending. 00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:37.560 And those who trust in Jesus find freedom. 00:26:39.180 --> 00:26:43.320 It tells us in John 1930, when Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished. 00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:45.540 And he bowed his head, and he gave up the ghost. 00:26:46.560 --> 00:26:47.160 It is finished. 00:26:47.180 --> 00:26:47.900 Literally. 00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:51.060 It is a slave term that means paid in full. 00:26:51.840 --> 00:26:54.640 When God looks at your life, he's saying, we are slaves to sin. 00:26:54.640 --> 00:26:55.400 What we need is freedom. 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:57.020 Jesus came to the cross. 00:26:57.020 --> 00:27:01.000 He died for your sins and thinking about you as a slave to sin, wanting you to be free. 00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:03.060 Jesus says, I have bought you. 00:27:03.260 --> 00:27:08.260 Your price has been paid in full. 00:27:09.620 --> 00:27:10.200 Not question. 00:27:10.220 --> 00:27:13.020 As I examine the Passover celebration is why so bloody? 00:27:14.700 --> 00:27:16.280 Why is this event so bloody? 00:27:18.760 --> 00:27:22.010 I think first of all, it reminds us of how God views sin. 00:27:23.360 --> 00:27:29.020 Just as blood is repulsive to people, so sin is repulsive to God. 00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:32.160 I think second, it reminds us of death. 00:27:33.300 --> 00:27:37.100 If we walked into a room and there was blood everywhere, the next question we would ask is what died here? 00:27:38.660 --> 00:27:41.460 And we go into the temple and we see the blood that's offered in the temple. 00:27:41.500 --> 00:27:42.980 We see the blood that takes place on the cross. 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:44.820 We wonder what in the world died here. 00:27:45.080 --> 00:27:46.850 Why did something have to die in this position? 00:27:47.080 --> 00:27:53.600 And third, the thing that the blood does for us is it causes us in a very sober reality to make a decision. 00:27:55.860 --> 00:27:58.400 Don't bring up the history of sacrifice for entertainment. 00:27:58.620 --> 00:28:03.240 We don't bring up the sacrifice that Jesus made in our lives just to sound gory and cool. 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:11.200 We bring it up because it's a sobering reality of the sacrifice that had to be taken place for our sins, and to look into this moment and say, 00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:18.320 what kind of decision am I going to make for someone who loved me so much that God came to this world and died for my sins? 00:28:18.320 --> 00:28:20.090 There is a choice to be made. 00:28:21.780 --> 00:28:24.900 See, my job this morning is just to share the truth. 00:28:26.760 --> 00:28:28.930 Your job this morning is to make a decision. 00:28:31.620 --> 00:28:33.910 Hope comes from this message. 00:28:35.800 --> 00:28:37.020 We ask this morning what? 00:28:37.180 --> 00:28:38.180 What's the point of Easter? 00:28:38.320 --> 00:28:39.570 What's the point of all this blood? 00:28:39.820 --> 00:28:40.800 What is the point? 00:28:42.320 --> 00:28:44.540 Well, the point for us this morning is we celebrate together. 00:28:44.600 --> 00:28:45.920 Is that the tomb was empty. 00:28:47.340 --> 00:28:49.330 You think about the miracle in which Christ performed. 00:28:50.800 --> 00:28:54.520 You've heard people make all kinds of accusations against Jesus of things that could be taken place. 00:28:54.800 --> 00:29:01.800 He was never really dead, really beaten to the point where he's unrecognizable, 00:29:02.380 --> 00:29:05.340 hung up on a cross, pierced by a professional executioner. 00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:10.600 If they came off the cross and they were still alive, it was punishable to those soldiers by death. 00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:11.980 They killed him. 00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:14.760 When they went into the tomb. 00:29:14.760 --> 00:29:21.980 He was wrapped in so much clothing, so many spices, that there was no way any human being could breathe through the amount of material that was wrapped around 00:29:21.980 --> 00:29:27.040 his body, sealed behind the tomb for three days with no medical attention, Jesus died. 00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:36.290 Bible tells us throughout multiple portions of Scripture, it prophetically said Jesus would be born of a virgin, and he was. 00:29:36.800 --> 00:29:39.380 Jesus would come to this earth, perform certain miracles, and he did. 00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:42.040 He would heal in certain particular ways, and he and he did. 00:29:42.700 --> 00:29:43.980 Jesus would die on a cross. 00:29:43.980 --> 00:29:45.000 Not one bone would be broken. 00:29:45.420 --> 00:29:48.440 People would break up his garments below him, and he did. 00:29:48.980 --> 00:29:52.460 Jesus would take upon the sins of the world, and he did prophetically fulfilled. 00:29:52.740 --> 00:29:55.920 Jesus would come back from the grave, and he did. 00:29:55.920 --> 00:30:01.140 Hundreds of years before Christ came to this earth, it was prophesied, and he fulfilled every single one. 00:30:01.940 --> 00:30:03.520 Jesus came back from the grave. 00:30:04.780 --> 00:30:05.160 Amen. 00:30:05.160 --> 00:30:05.880 Amen. 00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:13.740 It tells us in Scripture, first Corinthians that even at one point by 500 people, Jesus was 00:30:13.740 --> 00:30:15.040 seen at one time. 00:30:16.280 --> 00:30:18.840 You think about the testimony of the disciples who saw the resurrected Christ. 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:23.240 What they shared in this world They had nothing to gain. 00:30:23.260 --> 00:30:26.140 They were beaten, bruised and thrown into prison and killed for what they believed. 00:30:26.460 --> 00:30:31.700 Their testimony was that they saw a dead man walking, and if it was for a lie, there was no reason to proclaim it. 00:30:31.780 --> 00:30:35.410 But they knew they had seen Jesus and couldn't deny Jesus. 00:30:36.740 --> 00:30:43.380 And coming back from the grave proves to us that he has the power over Satan, sin, and death, and those who trust in him. 00:30:43.380 --> 00:30:46.560 Those who apply the blood of Christ to their lives have a hopeful future. 00:30:48.360 --> 00:30:50.930 Thomas was one of those doubters we see in Scripture. 00:30:52.260 --> 00:30:59.320 He said in verse 26, after the death of Jesus, after eight days, again his disciples were within, were within, and Thomas was 00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:00.230 with them. 00:31:00.860 --> 00:31:05.700 And Jesus came, and the doors being shut stood in the midst and said, peace be unto you. 00:31:06.380 --> 00:31:08.330 Then said Thomas, reach hither thy finger. 00:31:08.340 --> 00:31:10.620 This is Jesus saying to Thomas, and behold my hands. 00:31:10.620 --> 00:31:14.400 And he reached into to Jesus's hands, and he thrust into Jesus's side. 00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:17.880 He told Thomas to believe. 00:31:19.520 --> 00:31:26.260 And Thomas answered Jesus and said to him, you are my Lord and my God. 00:31:26.660 --> 00:31:29.240 To those who trust in Jesus, they find a hope. 00:31:30.360 --> 00:31:35.640 The second thing that I would share with us this morning is no longer a need to go to any temple. 00:31:37.800 --> 00:31:45.040 As we go into the Holy of Holies, if you are entering to the most sacred room of the Jewish worship ceremony that took place in the temple, you would find 00:31:45.040 --> 00:31:49.740 a curtain that separated the Holy of Holies from everything else. 00:31:50.040 --> 00:31:57.140 That behind that curtain where those lions are with wings, is the room that only the high priest could enter into once and only one time a year was 00:31:57.140 --> 00:32:00.580 he allowed to go in there, and he had to go with no sin upon his life. 00:32:03.140 --> 00:32:10.320 It tells us in the Bible, Mark chapter 15 and verse 37, as Jesus hung on the cross, and as he prepared 00:32:10.320 --> 00:32:15.960 to die, and as he gave his last breath, it says, And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed his last. 00:32:16.020 --> 00:32:19.840 And the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. 00:32:21.740 --> 00:32:29.000 Saying this to us, God from heaven tore a curtain four inches thick from the very top 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:33.590 to the bottom, declaring to people that God's presence no longer dwelled in this temple. 00:32:34.900 --> 00:32:41.920 And if you were to read First Corinthians chapter three, verse 16, and first Corinthians chapter six, verse 19, the Bible tells us that no 00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:48.010 longer does the presence of God dwell within the temple, that the people of God have become that holy temple. 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:56.480 And this morning we get to jam, pack ourselves in a smaller facility and not go to any temple to worship 00:32:56.480 --> 00:33:01.440 God, because the Spirit of God, if you've trusted in him, dwells within you. 00:33:02.800 --> 00:33:08.560 And that relationship that we lost thousands of years ago in the life of Adam and Eve, was made whole through Jesus. 00:33:08.860 --> 00:33:13.490 And we can experience the joy, love and hope that comes to relationship with him. 00:33:15.270 --> 00:33:19.440 But the point of the story is, do you apply the blood to your life? 00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:23.720 What kind of decision will you make? 00:33:25.580 --> 00:33:27.380 It doesn't matter what your parents believe. 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:31.500 It doesn't matter if you've grown up in church your whole life. 00:33:33.140 --> 00:33:37.100 The Bible says unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins. 00:33:38.220 --> 00:33:41.440 In Matthew chapter seven, it says, many in that day will say, Lord, Lord. 00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:42.860 And they will come to me. 00:33:42.860 --> 00:33:45.780 But I will say to them, depart from me, you workers of iniquity. 00:33:46.040 --> 00:33:47.160 I never knew you. 00:33:49.760 --> 00:33:50.980 It's not about attending church. 00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:52.800 It's not about doing good. 00:33:52.800 --> 00:33:55.260 It's about who you trust in. 00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:57.780 Do you trust in Jesus? 00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:03.060 The Bible gives us a wonderful promise in Romans chapter ten and verse 13. 00:34:03.060 --> 00:34:10.219 As you think about applying the blood of this lamb to your life, it says, for whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 00:34:12.500 --> 00:34:19.100 To you this morning who has trusted in Jesus, who are here to celebrate the presence of God. 00:34:19.100 --> 00:34:26.219 You have found in Christ a love that is unmatchable, a grace that you've never experienced, a hope that 00:34:26.219 --> 00:34:31.560 is Unescapable you found purpose in Christ, you have found joy in God. 00:34:31.560 --> 00:34:35.239 You have found favor with him, and it is matchless beyond all others. 00:34:35.420 --> 00:34:37.639 Because Jesus has brought into your life forgiveness. 00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:40.360 He is your rescuer. 00:34:42.040 --> 00:34:43.030 He is your Savior. 00:34:43.900 --> 00:34:45.199 He is your God. 00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:52.420 As Thomas says to those here this morning who haven't trusted in Jesus, remember this morning my job is to simply share 00:34:52.420 --> 00:34:55.340 with you the truth, and your job is to make a decision. 00:34:55.500 --> 00:34:59.040 This morning, the simple question is to you what kind of decision do you want to make? 00:35:01.340 --> 00:35:08.620 Jesus has done everything in this world that he needs to do to prove to you his love, to demonstrate and give to you everything that you need to be rescued 00:35:08.620 --> 00:35:10.060 in the state of sin that you're in. 00:35:10.060 --> 00:35:12.960 Listen to these scriptures Isaiah 53 and five. 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:14.460 He was wounded in our transgressions. 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:22.640 Romans 423 he was delivered up for our trespasses in first Corinthians 15 three Christ died for our sins, and 00:35:22.640 --> 00:35:29.020 one Peter 318 Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that we might come to God. 00:35:30.860 --> 00:35:36.340 Jesus literally loved you to death, and he loves you right now. 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:40.280 I ask everyone, just go ahead and bow your heads this morning. 00:35:43.420 --> 00:35:47.080 Let me give you the opportunity in your own life just to talk to the Lord where you are. 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:56.400 Listen, if you're a believer and you've trusted in Christ and you just haven't been following after him, right now is the time just to talk to your Savior and just let him know God. 00:35:57.440 --> 00:35:58.000 I'm sorry. 00:36:02.420 --> 00:36:04.400 Ask him to forgive you. 00:36:06.720 --> 00:36:12.200 If you are an person who has not ever trusted in Jesus, you've been depending on good works to get to heaven. 00:36:12.220 --> 00:36:16.460 You've been depending on the faith of other people or just your church attendance. 00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:19.500 Now is the day of your salvation. 00:36:22.160 --> 00:36:29.360 Jesus has sacrificed himself for you to look at the sins that he has paid for in that sobering moment, to come to terms with reality 00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:32.560 and realizing you have no power over where you spend eternity. 00:36:33.020 --> 00:36:36.880 It all rests upon Christ and what you choose to trust in this moment. 00:36:40.650 --> 00:36:49.920 If you're here this morning and you would say, I don't know if I'm going to heaven, I don't know if Jesus is my Savior, I 00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:50.640 don't know. 00:36:51.780 --> 00:36:54.120 I don't feel secure in where I'm at in my relationship with God. 00:36:54.160 --> 00:36:56.940 I want to give you a chance this morning just to talk to Jesus. 00:36:58.940 --> 00:36:59.540 It's very simple. 00:37:00.260 --> 00:37:04.040 I just want to give you a prayer and it's your job just to share it with God. 00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:05.240 Just talk to God about it. 00:37:05.380 --> 00:37:06.460 Talk to Christ about it. 00:37:06.600 --> 00:37:08.280 Let him know what your need is. 00:37:09.700 --> 00:37:14.880 You can say to him this morning, God I know that I'm a sinner. 00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:19.040 God, I need you to save me. 00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:22.700 And the blood that you shed. 00:37:23.520 --> 00:37:25.360 I want to apply it to my life. 00:37:27.740 --> 00:37:29.120 Thank you for dying for me. 00:37:30.580 --> 00:37:32.380 God, take me to heaven to be with you when I die. 00:37:33.540 --> 00:37:35.250 God, help me to be faithful to you now. 00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:37.850 I trust in you. 00:37:39.540 --> 00:37:40.300 It's in Jesus name. 00:37:41.340 --> 00:37:43.160 Amen. 00:37:43.950 --> 00:37:48.900 This morning church is a day of celebration. 00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:53.550 It's a day that matters more than just beyond today. 00:37:55.940 --> 00:38:02.620 It's a day that each and every day, as we trust in Jesus, gives us a new hope and a purpose and love that we can experience as we draw near to him. 00:38:02.620 --> 00:38:04.400 Because you don't have to go to any temple. 00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:07.380 You are the temple of God. 00:38:07.600 --> 00:38:11.260 God's presence, purpose, and plan dwells with you