He Is Risen. The Proof Is in the Book
Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D.
[{'start': '0.333', 'end': '3.302', 'text': 'When you really start kind of'}, {'start': '1.501', 'end': '4.804', 'text': 'digging, you realize that to say'}, {'start': '3.369', 'end': '7.573', 'text': 'that no one knew which tomb it'}, {'start': '4.871', 'end': '9.075', 'text': 'was in, which is by the way, the'}, {'start': '7.640', 'end': '10.410', 'text': 'mystery today that people fight'}, {'start': '9.142', 'end': '12.945', 'text': 'over which tomb is the tomb of'}, {'start': '10.477', 'end': '13.913', 'text': "Jesus. How about we don't care?"}, {'start': '13.012', 'end': '15.448', 'text': "Because He's not in there"}, {'start': '13.980', 'end': '16.849', 'text': 'anymore, and He came out of it,'}, {'start': '15.515', 'end': '18.818', 'text': "so it's irrelevant which one."}, {'start': '16.916', 'end': '21.254', 'text': 'But, you know, there are people'}, {'start': '18.885', 'end': '22.688', 'text': 'that would just like to add'}, {'start': '21.321', 'end': '23.589', 'text': 'fodder to this argument by'}, {'start': '22.755', 'end': '24.624', 'text': "saying, “Well, you, you can't"}, {'start': '23.656', 'end': '25.825', 'text': 'know which one it is, so'}, {'start': '24.691', 'end': '28.528', 'text': "if you can't know, it must"}, {'start': '25.892', 'end': '29.829', 'text': "be false.” The record's"}, {'start': '28.595', 'end': '36.869', 'text': 'pretty clear though.'}, {'start': '29.896', 'end': '39.772', 'text': '♪ ♪'}, {'start': '36.936', 'end': '41.507', 'text': 'Christianity does not look at'}, {'start': '39.839', 'end': '45.812', 'text': 'the Resurrection as one of the'}, {'start': '41.574', 'end': '48.414', 'text': 'many tenets of belief, but'}, {'start': '45.879', 'end': '51.050', 'text': 'rather the epicenter. Part'}, {'start': '48.481', 'end': '52.819', 'text': 'of my presentation this year is'}, {'start': '51.117', 'end': '54.520', 'text': 'going to be an attempt at'}, {'start': '52.886', 'end': '55.822', 'text': 'getting you to look a little bit'}, {'start': '54.587', 'end': '57.790', 'text': 'differently, using the'}, {'start': '55.889', 'end': '59.659', 'text': "same━there's nothing new in the"}, {'start': '57.857', 'end': '62.361', 'text': 'Bible, okay, but using the same'}, {'start': '59.726', 'end': '63.863', 'text': 'information we have looked at,'}, {'start': '62.428', 'end': '65.331', 'text': "we've studied, we've, we've"}, {'start': '63.930', 'end': '67.333', 'text': 'read, but taking just a little'}, {'start': '65.398', 'end': '68.901', 'text': 'slight different look at it from'}, {'start': '67.400', 'end': '71.204', 'text': 'just a little slightly different'}, {'start': '68.968', 'end': '72.505', 'text': 'angle may help some people. And'}, {'start': '71.271', 'end': '73.339', 'text': "I'm, that's what I'm hoping."}, {'start': '72.572', 'end': '74.273', 'text': 'So if you would, please,'}, {'start': '73.406', 'end': '77.877', 'text': 'turn in your Bibles to'}, {'start': '74.340', 'end': '79.178', 'text': 'Matthew 16 and verse 21.'}, {'start': '77.944', 'end': '80.213', 'text': '"From that time forth began'}, {'start': '79.245', 'end': '81.481', 'text': 'Jesus to show unto'}, {'start': '80.280', 'end': '83.483', 'text': 'his disciples, how that he'}, {'start': '81.548', 'end': '85.485', 'text': 'must go unto Jerusalem,”'}, {'start': '83.550', 'end': '87.820', 'text': 'one, “and suffer many things of'}, {'start': '85.552', 'end': '90.857', 'text': 'the elders and chief priests and'}, {'start': '87.887', 'end': '92.959', 'text': 'scribes,” two, “be killed,”'}, {'start': '90.924', 'end': '94.594', 'text': 'three, “and be raised again the'}, {'start': '93.026', 'end': '96.762', 'text': "third day,” four. There's four"}, {'start': '94.661', 'end': '99.198', 'text': 'things that are, are said right'}, {'start': '96.829', 'end': '101.501', 'text': "there. Now I'm going to do this"}, {'start': '99.265', 'end': '102.401', 'text': 'again. Matthew 17: 9,'}, {'start': '101.601', 'end': '103.703', 'text': '“As they came down from the'}, {'start': '102.468', 'end': '105.538', 'text': 'mountain, Jesus charged them'}, {'start': '103.770', 'end': '106.839', 'text': 'saying, Tell the vision to no'}, {'start': '105.605', 'end': '109.575', 'text': 'one, until the Son of man be'}, {'start': '106.906', 'end': '114.614', 'text': 'risen again from the dead.”'}, {'start': '109.642', 'end': '116.249', 'text': "Okay. Let's look; 17:22"}, {'start': '114.681', 'end': '117.583', 'text': 'and verse 23, which read'}, {'start': '116.316', 'end': '119.051', 'text': 'the following, “And while they'}, {'start': '117.650', 'end': '120.319', 'text': 'abode in Galilee, Jesus said'}, {'start': '119.118', 'end': '121.454', 'text': 'unto them, The Son of man shall'}, {'start': '120.386', 'end': '125.024', 'text': 'be betrayed into the hands of'}, {'start': '121.521', 'end': '127.059', 'text': 'men: they shall kill him, and'}, {'start': '125.091', 'end': '129.962', 'text': 'the third day he shall be raised'}, {'start': '127.126', 'end': '131.998', 'text': 'again. And they were exceeding,'}, {'start': '130.029', 'end': '136.636', 'text': 'they were exceeding sorry.”'}, {'start': '132.065', 'end': '138.271', 'text': 'Again, Matthew 20 and verse 18,'}, {'start': '136.736', 'end': '139.739', 'text': '“Behold, we go up to Jerusalem;'}, {'start': '138.338', 'end': '141.007', 'text': 'and the Son of man shall be,'}, {'start': '139.806', 'end': '143.342', 'text': 'shall be betrayed unto the chief'}, {'start': '141.074', 'end': '144.310', 'text': 'priests and unto the scribes,'}, {'start': '143.409', 'end': '145.945', 'text': 'and they shall condemn him to'}, {'start': '144.377', 'end': '148.181', 'text': 'death, and they shall deliver'}, {'start': '146.012', 'end': '150.550', 'text': 'him to the Gentiles to mock, and'}, {'start': '148.248', 'end': '152.451', 'text': 'to scourge, and to crucify him:'}, {'start': '150.617', 'end': '153.519', 'text': 'and the third day he shall rise'}, {'start': '152.518', 'end': '154.654', 'text': "again.” I'm not done because"}, {'start': '153.586', 'end': '155.588', 'text': "I've got, I've got a couple more"}, {'start': '154.721', 'end': '156.856', 'text': 'passages to read, but I, I want'}, {'start': '155.655', 'end': '159.659', 'text': 'to ask you something.'}, {'start': '156.923', 'end': '162.962', 'text': 'How is it possible that during'}, {'start': '159.726', 'end': '167.800', 'text': 'the lifetime of Christ, how is'}, {'start': '163.029', 'end': '169.869', 'text': 'He able to predict that His'}, {'start': '167.867', 'end': '170.937', 'text': 'enemies, the ones where it says,'}, {'start': '169.969', 'end': '172.305', 'text': '“He came to his own and his own'}, {'start': '171.004', 'end': '175.841', 'text': 'received him not,” His own'}, {'start': '172.372', 'end': '177.677', 'text': 'enemies would do Him in, which'}, {'start': '175.908', 'end': '182.548', 'text': 'indeed were the scribes and the'}, {'start': '177.744', 'end': '184.483', 'text': 'Pharisees, the religious crowd?'}, {'start': '182.615', 'end': '185.985', 'text': 'He then goes on to say, if you'}, {'start': '184.550', 'end': '187.587', 'text': 'read it, “Betrayed unto the'}, {'start': '186.052', 'end': '188.854', 'text': 'chief priests and scribes, they'}, {'start': '187.654', 'end': '190.823', 'text': 'shall condemn him to death,”'}, {'start': '188.921', 'end': '192.258', 'text': 'which they did, but they'}, {'start': '190.890', 'end': '193.492', 'text': "couldn't carry out the sentence"}, {'start': '192.325', 'end': '194.794', 'text': 'of death, unless they did it'}, {'start': '193.559', 'end': '196.762', 'text': 'according to Jewish law, which'}, {'start': '194.861', 'end': '198.631', 'text': 'they obviously broke the law.'}, {'start': '196.829', 'end': '200.433', 'text': 'They should have stoned Him if'}, {'start': '198.698', 'end': '201.601', 'text': 'they actually thought that He'}, {'start': '200.500', 'end': '203.336', 'text': 'was guilty of the things that'}, {'start': '201.668', 'end': '205.004', 'text': 'they charged Him of. But it'}, {'start': '203.403', 'end': '207.940', 'text': 'says, “And shall deliver him to'}, {'start': '205.071', 'end': '209.208', 'text': 'the Gentiles to mock, scourge,'}, {'start': '208.007', 'end': '211.978', 'text': 'and crucify him: and the third'}, {'start': '209.275', 'end': '213.479', 'text': 'day”━all of that information.'}, {'start': '212.045', 'end': '216.015', 'text': 'And no one who reads this ever'}, {'start': '213.546', 'end': '217.550', 'text': 'says, “Yeah, how?” You know, you'}, {'start': '216.082', 'end': '218.751', 'text': 'can control and manipulate the'}, {'start': '217.617', 'end': '219.986', 'text': "people around you, if you're a"}, {'start': '218.818', 'end': '221.687', 'text': 'good manipulator, but how do you'}, {'start': '220.053', 'end': '225.057', 'text': 'manipulate and control your'}, {'start': '221.754', 'end': '227.860', 'text': "enemies? So if you're going to"}, {'start': '225.124', 'end': '230.363', 'text': 'look at picking this document'}, {'start': '227.927', 'end': '233.199', 'text': 'apart, you have to ask more'}, {'start': '230.430', 'end': '235.401', 'text': 'questions than are just what you'}, {'start': '233.266', 'end': '238.571', 'text': "read. You've got to ask the"}, {'start': '235.468', 'end': '239.805', 'text': 'question, “How is it possible'}, {'start': '238.638', 'end': '241.774', 'text': 'that Jesus made all of these'}, {'start': '239.872', 'end': '243.576', 'text': 'statements?” and you, well,'}, {'start': '241.841', 'end': '246.412', 'text': "obviously He's God in the flesh."}, {'start': '243.643', 'end': '248.214', 'text': 'Obviously He knows what He came'}, {'start': '246.479', 'end': '250.283', 'text': "to do. But imagine He's telling"}, {'start': '248.281', 'end': '252.618', 'text': 'all of these people, right out'}, {'start': '250.350', 'end': '254.954', 'text': "of His mouth, “I, I, I'm going"}, {'start': '252.685', 'end': '256.389', 'text': 'to be basically betrayed, tried,'}, {'start': '255.021', 'end': '258.190', 'text': 'and condemned by these religious'}, {'start': '256.456', 'end': '260.359', 'text': 'people, then handed over to the'}, {'start': '258.257', 'end': '261.494', 'text': 'Gentiles.” Now somebody outside'}, {'start': '260.426', 'end': '262.628', 'text': 'of this might say, “Well, of'}, {'start': '261.561', 'end': '264.463', 'text': 'course, this was written after'}, {'start': '262.695', 'end': '266.132', 'text': 'the events, so the writer took'}, {'start': '264.530', 'end': '269.602', 'text': 'liberties to fill in the'}, {'start': '266.199', 'end': '270.936', 'text': 'blanks.” I would highly doubt'}, {'start': '269.669', 'end': '272.238', 'text': 'that considering the fact that,'}, {'start': '271.003', 'end': '274.140', 'text': 'A) these are supposed to be the'}, {'start': '272.305', 'end': '274.874', 'text': 'words of Christ, number one. And'}, {'start': '274.207', 'end': '276.242', 'text': 'you could say, “Well, He could'}, {'start': '274.941', 'end': '278.544', 'text': "have changed that,” but they're"}, {'start': '276.309', 'end': '279.979', 'text': 'in multiple different reports'}, {'start': '278.611', 'end': '281.113', 'text': 'written by different writers,'}, {'start': '280.046', 'end': '283.249', 'text': "and that's my point I'm going to"}, {'start': '281.180', 'end': '285.418', 'text': 'lead into. Let me keep going'}, {'start': '283.316', 'end': '287.086', 'text': "because I think you're going to"}, {'start': '285.485', 'end': '288.888', 'text': 'get the point very clearly that'}, {'start': '287.153', 'end': '291.390', 'text': 'anybody who says, “Well, this is'}, {'start': '288.955', 'end': '293.559', 'text': 'collusion to the highest degree,'}, {'start': '291.457', 'end': '296.595', 'text': 'conspiracy to set this thing'}, {'start': '293.626', 'end': '298.864', 'text': 'up,” but we, we know that these'}, {'start': '296.662', 'end': '300.766', 'text': 'writings were done in different'}, {'start': '298.931', 'end': '304.537', 'text': 'places at different times by'}, {'start': '300.833', 'end': '307.106', 'text': "different individuals. So let's"}, {'start': '304.604', 'end': '314.013', 'text': 'keep going. Mark 9 and verse'}, {'start': '307.173', 'end': '315.147', 'text': '10, “And they kept saying with'}, {'start': '314.080', 'end': '317.850', 'text': 'themselves, questioning one'}, {'start': '315.214', 'end': '320.119', 'text': 'another what the rising from the'}, {'start': '317.917', 'end': '321.787', 'text': 'dead should mean.” They did not'}, {'start': '320.186', 'end': '323.756', 'text': 'understand what Jesus was'}, {'start': '321.854', 'end': '325.324', 'text': 'saying. Let me give it you in a'}, {'start': '323.823', 'end': '326.459', 'text': 'more colloquial way. I have'}, {'start': '325.391', 'end': '327.960', 'text': 'another translation, I wrote,'}, {'start': '326.559', 'end': '329.128', 'text': '“They seized upon the, that'}, {'start': '328.027', 'end': '331.430', 'text': 'statement, discussing with one'}, {'start': '329.195', 'end': '334.133', 'text': 'another what being raised from'}, {'start': '331.497', 'end': '335.968', 'text': 'the dead actually meant.” I want'}, {'start': '334.200', 'end': '339.138', 'text': 'you to get inside their, their'}, {'start': '336.035', 'end': '340.373', 'text': 'minds. They could not understand'}, {'start': '339.205', 'end': '342.007', 'text': 'what Jesus was saying. They'}, {'start': '340.440', 'end': '342.942', 'text': 'might have been going, “Uh-huh,'}, {'start': '342.074', 'end': '345.911', 'text': "uh-huh,” but they didn't"}, {'start': '343.009', 'end': '348.381', 'text': 'understand, obviously. Luke'}, {'start': '345.978', 'end': '349.582', 'text': '9:22; beginning at verse 21,'}, {'start': '348.448', 'end': '350.549', 'text': 'actually, “He straitly charged'}, {'start': '349.649', 'end': '352.118', 'text': 'them, and commanded them'}, {'start': '350.616', 'end': '352.952', 'text': 'to tell no man that thing;'}, {'start': '352.185', 'end': '356.055', 'text': 'saying, The Son of man'}, {'start': '353.019', 'end': '357.490', 'text': 'must suffer many things, and'}, {'start': '356.122', 'end': '358.424', 'text': 'be rejected of the elders and'}, {'start': '357.557', 'end': '359.825', 'text': 'the chief priests and the'}, {'start': '358.491', 'end': '361.694', 'text': 'scribes, and be slain, and be'}, {'start': '359.892', 'end': '363.162', 'text': 'raised on the third day.” So'}, {'start': '361.761', 'end': '366.699', 'text': 'what I love here is that every'}, {'start': '363.229', 'end': '368.401', 'text': 'writer, there is no discrepancy'}, {'start': '366.766', 'end': '370.836', 'text': 'within the writing. The third'}, {'start': '368.468', 'end': '373.038', 'text': 'day is the common thread, that'}, {'start': '370.903', 'end': '374.340', 'text': 'He must be betrayed, condemned,'}, {'start': '373.105', 'end': '375.908', 'text': 'handed over. Some of them are'}, {'start': '374.407', 'end': '378.544', 'text': 'more elaborate than others, but'}, {'start': '375.975', 'end': '380.813', 'text': 'it crystallizes the point. Now'}, {'start': '378.611', 'end': '382.782', 'text': 'we know that Luke, writing'}, {'start': '380.880', 'end': '384.917', 'text': 'outside of all of the other'}, {'start': '382.849', 'end': '386.552', 'text': "writers that were in Jesus'"}, {'start': '384.984', 'end': '388.854', 'text': 'immediate circle, wrote later to'}, {'start': '386.619', 'end': '389.955', 'text': 'put all things in order. Okay,'}, {'start': '388.921', 'end': '392.224', 'text': 'you could make the argument for'}, {'start': '390.022', 'end': '393.959', 'text': 'this, but listen carefully,'}, {'start': '392.291', 'end': '395.761', 'text': 'because He goes on to say, “And'}, {'start': '394.026', 'end': '397.196', 'text': 'he said to all of them, If any'}, {'start': '395.828', 'end': '398.697', 'text': 'man will come after me, let him'}, {'start': '397.263', 'end': '401.867', 'text': 'deny himself, take up his cross'}, {'start': '398.764', 'end': '402.902', 'text': 'daily, and follow me. For'}, {'start': '401.934', 'end': '404.336', 'text': 'whosoever will save his life'}, {'start': '402.969', 'end': '405.671', 'text': 'shall lose it: but whosoever'}, {'start': '404.403', 'end': '408.707', 'text': 'will lose his life for my sake,'}, {'start': '405.738', 'end': '410.609', 'text': 'the same shall save it. For what'}, {'start': '408.774', 'end': '411.877', 'text': 'is man advantaged, if he gain'}, {'start': '410.676', 'end': '413.646', 'text': 'the whole world, and lose'}, {'start': '411.944', 'end': '416.015', 'text': 'himself, and be cast away? For'}, {'start': '413.713', 'end': '418.417', 'text': 'whosoever shall be ashamed of me'}, {'start': '416.082', 'end': '419.785', 'text': 'and my words, of him shall the'}, {'start': '418.484', 'end': '423.022', 'text': 'Son of man be ashamed.” Can you'}, {'start': '419.852', 'end': '425.324', 'text': 'imagine that? Loving Jesus,'}, {'start': '423.089', 'end': '427.526', 'text': 'loving God the Father, merciful,'}, {'start': '425.391', 'end': '429.929', 'text': "gracious, saying, “If you're"}, {'start': '427.593', 'end': '431.564', 'text': 'ashamed of Him, He will be'}, {'start': '429.996', 'end': '432.965', 'text': 'ashamed of you”; it almost, you'}, {'start': '431.631', 'end': '434.467', 'text': 'almost have to kind of shake'}, {'start': '433.032', 'end': '437.102', 'text': 'your head and say, “Is that even'}, {'start': '434.534', 'end': '439.271', 'text': 'possible?” But it is. Which'}, {'start': '437.169', 'end': '440.473', 'text': 'makes me ask the question, if'}, {'start': '439.338', 'end': '441.507', 'text': "anybody's actually reading, you"}, {'start': '440.540', 'end': '443.642', 'text': "don't have to be a Christian to"}, {'start': '441.574', 'end': '444.510', 'text': 'read this, it would almost jar'}, {'start': '443.709', 'end': '445.611', 'text': 'the mind to say, “Well, I'}, {'start': '444.577', 'end': '447.012', 'text': "wouldn't want God to be ashamed"}, {'start': '445.678', 'end': '449.381', 'text': 'of me,” although He should be'}, {'start': '447.079', 'end': '451.617', 'text': 'for all of my crazy activities'}, {'start': '449.448', 'end': '453.586', 'text': 'and behavior and my lapses and'}, {'start': '451.684', 'end': '455.654', 'text': 'my sinfulness. He should be, but'}, {'start': '453.653', 'end': '458.791', 'text': "He isn't. Just think on these"}, {'start': '455.721', 'end': '461.060', 'text': 'things. And He says here, “But I'}, {'start': '458.858', 'end': '462.495', 'text': 'tell you a truth, there be some'}, {'start': '461.127', 'end': '463.963', 'text': 'standing here, which shall not'}, {'start': '462.562', 'end': '466.799', 'text': 'taste of death, till they see'}, {'start': '464.030', 'end': '469.602', 'text': 'the kingdom of God.” So there is'}, {'start': '466.866', 'end': '471.437', 'text': 'a hard drive to communicate'}, {'start': '469.669', 'end': '473.439', 'text': 'a point. If we analyze the'}, {'start': '471.504', 'end': '474.874', 'text': 'claims that Jesus made, we'}, {'start': '473.506', 'end': '477.109', 'text': 'have to conclude one thing. The'}, {'start': '474.941', 'end': '479.345', 'text': 'entirety of Christianity stands'}, {'start': '477.176', 'end': '481.614', 'text': 'or falls on the words that Jesus'}, {'start': '479.412', 'end': '484.383', 'text': 'spoke foretelling about His'}, {'start': '481.681', 'end': '485.718', 'text': 'death and Resurrection. And I'}, {'start': '484.450', 'end': '487.052', 'text': 'also have to say that everything'}, {'start': '485.785', 'end': '490.422', 'text': 'else, a lot of the other'}, {'start': '487.119', 'end': '493.192', 'text': 'writings are hinged completely'}, {'start': '490.489', 'end': '494.927', 'text': 'on Him raising up. Let me give'}, {'start': '493.259', 'end': '496.562', 'text': 'you an example. The example of'}, {'start': '494.994', 'end': '499.832', 'text': "Peter's sermon on the day of"}, {'start': '496.629', 'end': '501.333', 'text': 'Pentecost is wholly founded, if'}, {'start': '499.899', 'end': '504.003', 'text': 'you go and read it at your own'}, {'start': '501.400', 'end': '506.705', 'text': 'leisure, is wholly founded and'}, {'start': '504.070', 'end': '510.543', 'text': 'only made possible because Jesus'}, {'start': '506.772', 'end': '512.545', 'text': 'died and resurrected. That event'}, {'start': '510.610', 'end': '513.879', 'text': 'would not have happened had'}, {'start': '512.612', 'end': '517.616', 'text': 'Jesus not been raised up from'}, {'start': '513.946', 'end': '519.518', 'text': "the dead. Add to that, there's"}, {'start': '517.683', 'end': '521.220', 'text': 'another part B to what I just'}, {'start': '519.585', 'end': '522.855', 'text': "said. Remember back in John's"}, {'start': '521.287', 'end': '524.356', 'text': 'Gospel, Jesus said, “I must go'}, {'start': '522.922', 'end': '527.826', 'text': 'away, otherwise the Comforter'}, {'start': '524.423', 'end': '530.496', 'text': 'will not come.” What happened on'}, {'start': '527.893', 'end': '531.997', 'text': 'the day of Pentecost? The Spirit'}, {'start': '530.563', 'end': '534.466', 'text': 'was poured out. In other words,'}, {'start': '532.064', 'end': '536.435', 'text': 'you start trying to unravel this'}, {'start': '534.533', 'end': '538.103', 'text': 'thing by pulling on one thread,'}, {'start': '536.502', 'end': '539.438', 'text': "you're going to see something"}, {'start': '538.170', 'end': '541.607', 'text': "quite remarkable. 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But something in here'}, {'start': '1182.914', 'end': '1187.686', 'text': "that's very valuable to us."}, {'start': '1185.684', 'end': '1189.721', 'text': 'Within all of the Gospels, we'}, {'start': '1187.753', 'end': '1192.390', 'text': 'have a record, obviously, of'}, {'start': '1189.788', 'end': '1193.558', 'text': 'Jesus dying. In some cases, “My'}, {'start': '1192.457', 'end': '1194.893', 'text': 'God, my God, why hast thou'}, {'start': '1193.625', 'end': '1196.962', 'text': 'forsaken me?” In other places,'}, {'start': '1194.993', 'end': '1198.230', 'text': '“It is finished,” tetelestai, He'}, {'start': '1197.029', 'end': '1202.267', 'text': 'gives up the breath. 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Remember, Jesus is late'}, {'start': '1371.736', 'end': '1374.973', 'text': 'and they say, “Well, you know,'}, {'start': '1373.371', 'end': '1375.874', 'text': 'but, well, he stinks by now.”'}, {'start': '1375.040', 'end': '1377.609', 'text': 'That would mean that was, that'}, {'start': '1375.941', 'end': '1382.180', 'text': 'was done by design to tell the'}, {'start': '1377.676', 'end': '1384.048', 'text': 'reader He was dead, not just He'}, {'start': '1382.247', 'end': '1385.850', 'text': "passed out or He's still wrapped"}, {'start': '1384.115', 'end': '1388.319', 'text': 'up in His clothes going, “Ugh,'}, {'start': '1385.917', 'end': '1389.454', 'text': 'ugh, ugh.” No, He is dead. Okay?'}, {'start': '1388.386', 'end': '1394.325', 'text': 'That was the point of that'}, {'start': '1389.521', 'end': '1396.327', 'text': 'story. 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The passage that'}, {'start': '1480.679', 'end': '1485.316', 'text': 'says that Joseph of Arimathea'}, {'start': '1482.113', 'end': '1488.920', 'text': 'and Nicodemus, they wrapped the'}, {'start': '1485.383', 'end': '1490.722', 'text': 'body with very pungent spices,'}, {'start': '1488.987', 'end': '1492.490', 'text': 'which was the practice in those'}, {'start': '1490.789', 'end': '1495.493', 'text': 'days to prevent the body from'}, {'start': '1492.557', 'end': '1497.862', 'text': 'stinking, they basically put all'}, {'start': '1495.560', 'end': '1501.232', 'text': 'these spices, myrrh, aloe. 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If you wanted to'}, {'start': '1511.076', 'end': '1515.813', 'text': 'indulge that, this one basically'}, {'start': '1513.378', 'end': '1518.216', 'text': 'puts that theory to rest,'}, {'start': '1515.880', 'end': '1521.219', 'text': 'The volume of spices and'}, {'start': '1518.283', 'end': '1523.221', 'text': 'the pungent odor of the spices'}, {'start': '1521.286', 'end': '1524.989', 'text': 'and the wrapping of the linen on'}, {'start': '1523.288', 'end': '1526.958', 'text': 'His body, there are several'}, {'start': '1525.056', 'end': '1528.493', 'text': 'things that are problematic.'}, {'start': '1527.025', 'end': '1529.394', 'text': "First of all, if He wasn't dead"}, {'start': '1528.560', 'end': '1530.862', 'text': 'and they wrapped Him with all'}, {'start': '1529.461', 'end': '1532.597', 'text': 'those spices, it would have'}, {'start': '1530.929', 'end': '1533.565', 'text': 'been, “Ugh, ughhhh!” There would'}, {'start': '1532.664', 'end': '1535.867', 'text': 'have been noise from the'}, {'start': '1533.632', 'end': '1537.468', 'text': 'wrappings. Okay? Because the,'}, {'start': '1535.934', 'end': '1539.370', 'text': "the, we're talking about"}, {'start': '1537.535', 'end': '1540.672', 'text': "something that's so powerful"}, {'start': '1539.437', 'end': '1541.739', 'text': 'that you, if, if it, if we were'}, {'start': '1540.739', 'end': '1542.607', 'text': "around it, we'd be like, “Oh,"}, {'start': '1541.806', 'end': '1545.143', 'text': "I've got to cover my nose, it's"}, {'start': '1542.674', 'end': '1547.211', 'text': 'so strong,” like that. But then'}, {'start': '1545.210', 'end': '1548.980', 'text': "on top of that, they didn't"}, {'start': '1547.278', 'end': '1551.182', 'text': 'bandage up His wounds like a'}, {'start': '1549.047', 'end': '1553.284', 'text': 'tight tourniquet. 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So, the stone that'}, {'start': '2006.871', 'end': '2009.940', 'text': 'covered the opening of'}, {'start': '2008.005', 'end': '2011.375', 'text': 'the tomb, there is an'}, {'start': '2010.007', 'end': '2013.778', 'text': 'inscription in the Codex Bezae,'}, {'start': '2011.442', 'end': '2016.514', 'text': "that's in the Cambridge Library,"}, {'start': '2013.845', 'end': '2018.015', 'text': "that says, and it's scribbled,"}, {'start': '2016.581', 'end': '2019.850', 'text': "and it's assumed that a scribe,"}, {'start': '2018.082', 'end': '2021.685', 'text': 'when copying that codex, copied'}, {'start': '2019.917', 'end': '2023.087', 'text': 'it from an original manuscript'}, {'start': '2021.752', 'end': '2025.256', 'text': 'out of maybe first or second'}, {'start': '2023.154', 'end': '2027.758', 'text': 'century, that says, “And when He'}, {'start': '2025.323', 'end': '2029.827', 'text': 'was laid there, he,” Joseph of'}, {'start': '2027.825', 'end': '2031.529', 'text': 'Arimathea, “put against the tomb'}, {'start': '2029.894', 'end': '2034.298', 'text': 'a stone which twenty men could'}, {'start': '2031.596', 'end': '2037.068', 'text': 'not roll away.” This inscription'}, {'start': '2034.365', 'end': '2038.436', 'text': 'is believed to, to come from'}, {'start': '2037.135', 'end': '2039.970', 'text': 'another manuscript, not just'}, {'start': '2038.503', 'end': '2041.972', 'text': 'some graffiti on a page, but'}, {'start': '2040.037', 'end': '2044.642', 'text': 'copied from another manuscript'}, {'start': '2042.039', 'end': '2045.843', 'text': 'from a much earlier date. And if'}, {'start': '2044.709', 'end': '2047.578', 'text': 'you want more information on'}, {'start': '2045.910', 'end': '2048.679', 'text': 'what I just told you about, and'}, {'start': '2047.645', 'end': '2051.482', 'text': "you're interested, look up the"}, {'start': '2048.746', 'end': '2052.783', 'text': 'works of Gilbert West, in his'}, {'start': '2051.549', 'end': '2054.952', 'text': 'writings of Observations on the'}, {'start': '2052.850', 'end': '2056.320', 'text': 'History and Evidences of the'}, {'start': '2055.019', 'end': '2059.356', 'text': 'Resurrection of Jesus Christ,'}, {'start': '2056.387', 'end': '2060.524', 'text': 'pages 36 to 40. It, it clues you'}, {'start': '2059.423', 'end': '2062.193', 'text': 'in on that inscription, which I'}, {'start': '2060.591', 'end': '2064.595', 'text': 'think is very, very important'}, {'start': '2062.260', 'end': '2066.430', 'text': 'for people who are interested.'}, {'start': '2064.662', 'end': '2068.065', 'text': 'So, what we do know is that the'}, {'start': '2066.497', 'end': '2070.267', 'text': 'women arrived at the tomb, the'}, {'start': '2068.132', 'end': '2072.136', 'text': 'stone was rolled away, and'}, {'start': '2070.334', 'end': '2074.371', 'text': 'we know the women did not'}, {'start': '2072.203', 'end': '2077.007', 'text': 'do it. I love the work'}, {'start': '2074.438', 'end': '2078.943', 'text': 'of Frank Morison, you know, the'}, {'start': '2077.074', 'end': '2080.077', 'text': 'book Who Moved the Stone? You'}, {'start': '2079.010', 'end': '2082.146', 'text': "know his story. It's pretty"}, {'start': '2080.144', 'end': '2083.881', 'text': "amazing. Here's a guy who was"}, {'start': '2082.213', 'end': '2087.084', 'text': 'actually born not Frank Morison,'}, {'start': '2083.948', 'end': '2090.054', 'text': 'but Albert Henry Ross. He was'}, {'start': '2087.151', 'end': '2091.889', 'text': 'born in 1881, died in 1951, an'}, {'start': '2090.121', 'end': '2093.524', 'text': 'advertising agent and a'}, {'start': '2091.956', 'end': '2096.060', 'text': 'freelance writer born in'}, {'start': '2093.591', 'end': '2098.362', 'text': 'England, staunch atheist;'}, {'start': '2096.127', 'end': '2101.098', 'text': 'staunch atheist. Right? Who set'}, {'start': '2098.429', 'end': '2103.334', 'text': 'out to prove to the world that'}, {'start': '2101.165', 'end': '2105.836', 'text': 'the Resurrection was a complete'}, {'start': '2103.401', 'end': '2108.372', 'text': "myth. Here's a man who"}, {'start': '2105.903', 'end': '2110.674', 'text': 'spent a lot of time researching'}, {'start': '2108.439', 'end': '2112.910', 'text': 'to, to disprove, and he'}, {'start': '2110.741', 'end': '2114.645', 'text': 'ends up writing a book'}, {'start': '2112.977', 'end': '2115.613', 'text': 'entitled Who Moved the Stone?'}, {'start': '2114.712', 'end': '2117.381', 'text': "So, if you haven't read it,"}, {'start': '2115.680', 'end': '2119.583', 'text': 'please do. It is a brilliant'}, {'start': '2117.448', 'end': '2121.819', 'text': 'book for thinking people'}, {'start': '2119.650', 'end': '2123.954', 'text': 'regarding this very subject, and'}, {'start': '2121.886', 'end': '2126.323', 'text': 'he goes through every element. I'}, {'start': '2124.021', 'end': '2128.092', 'text': 'really love it, but he says,'}, {'start': '2126.423', 'end': '2129.426', 'text': '“One of the silent and'}, {'start': '2128.159', 'end': '2130.728', 'text': 'infallible witnesses in the'}, {'start': '2129.493', 'end': '2133.197', 'text': 'whole episode, and there are'}, {'start': '2130.795', 'end': '2134.765', 'text': 'certain facts about this stone”"'}, {'start': '2133.264', 'end': '2135.966', 'text': "he's talking about the stone"}, {'start': '2134.832', 'end': '2137.868', 'text': 'that was rolled over the mouth'}, {'start': '2136.033', 'end': '2139.570', 'text': 'of the tomb, he says, “that call'}, {'start': '2137.935', 'end': '2141.739', 'text': 'for very careful study and'}, {'start': '2139.637', 'end': '2142.740', 'text': 'investigation.” So, if you'}, {'start': '2141.806', 'end': '2143.908', 'text': "haven't read it, I highly"}, {'start': '2142.807', 'end': '2145.409', 'text': 'recommend that you read his'}, {'start': '2143.975', 'end': '2146.944', 'text': 'work, but let me talk about the'}, {'start': '2145.476', 'end': '2148.179', 'text': "seal on the tomb. So, we're"}, {'start': '2147.011', 'end': '2150.548', 'text': 'going to ask the question'}, {'start': '2148.246', 'end': '2152.783', 'text': 'again. Did they go overkill'}, {'start': '2150.615', 'end': '2153.884', 'text': 'here? Because, you know, we got'}, {'start': '2152.850', 'end': '2154.919', 'text': 'the religious leaders up in'}, {'start': '2153.951', 'end': '2155.986', 'text': 'arms, and “Well, we think the'}, {'start': '2154.986', 'end': '2157.454', 'text': 'disciples are going to steal the'}, {'start': '2156.053', 'end': '2158.756', 'text': 'body, so we want Roman guards,”'}, {'start': '2157.521', 'end': '2160.724', 'text': 'and the Roman guards come, and'}, {'start': '2158.823', 'end': '2162.826', 'text': 'they are going to seal up that'}, {'start': '2160.791', 'end': '2164.695', 'text': 'thing with that heavy rock over'}, {'start': '2162.893', 'end': '2166.397', 'text': "the entrance, and then they're"}, {'start': '2164.762', 'end': '2169.433', 'text': 'going to seal it. 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They were interested in'}, {'start': '2203.267', 'end': '2206.704', 'text': 'the imperial seal that sealed'}, {'start': '2205.836', 'end': '2208.806', 'text': 'that tomb. That was their'}, {'start': '2206.771', 'end': '2211.175', 'text': 'interest. Tampering with that'}, {'start': '2208.873', 'end': '2213.844', 'text': 'seal, vandalizing or anything'}, {'start': '2211.242', 'end': '2215.045', 'text': 'else, was usually handled'}, {'start': '2213.911', 'end': '2217.715', 'text': 'in a very direct way:'}, {'start': '2215.112', 'end': '2220.284', 'text': 'death. Okay? And by the way,'}, {'start': '2217.782', 'end': '2223.254', 'text': 'also, on this, if we want to'}, {'start': '2220.351', 'end': '2224.455', 'text': 'talk about the Roman guards, if'}, {'start': '2223.321', 'end': '2226.890', 'text': 'the Roman guards left their'}, {'start': '2224.522', 'end': '2229.126', 'text': 'position, fell asleep, or did'}, {'start': '2226.957', 'end': '2231.595', 'text': 'not take their duties as they'}, {'start': '2229.193', 'end': '2232.863', 'text': 'were called to do, they too'}, {'start': '2231.662', 'end': '2234.164', 'text': 'would be punished, and usually'}, {'start': '2232.930', 'end': '2235.466', 'text': 'most of those, especially'}, {'start': '2234.231', 'end': '2238.202', 'text': 'deserting or sleeping at your'}, {'start': '2235.533', 'end': '2241.238', 'text': 'post: death. So, the whole'}, {'start': '2238.269', 'end': '2243.207', 'text': 'picture painted here is, is'}, {'start': '2241.305', 'end': '2244.208', 'text': 'attesting to something, and this'}, {'start': '2243.274', 'end': '2249.113', 'text': "is why I say I'm going back to"}, {'start': '2244.275', 'end': '2250.781', 'text': 'this idea that if the Jewish'}, {'start': '2249.180', 'end': '2252.750', 'text': 'religious leaders wanted to'}, {'start': '2250.848', 'end': '2254.318', 'text': 'prevent the duplicitous'}, {'start': '2252.817', 'end': '2257.154', 'text': 'disciples from attempting to'}, {'start': '2254.385', 'end': '2258.188', 'text': 'snatch the body out of the tomb,'}, {'start': '2257.221', 'end': '2260.858', 'text': 'which was heavily guarded,'}, {'start': '2258.255', 'end': '2263.027', 'text': 'sealed with an official seal and'}, {'start': '2260.925', 'end': '2266.797', 'text': 'a stone that no idiot would try'}, {'start': '2263.094', 'end': '2267.731', 'text': "to move, I'm asking you again,"}, {'start': '2266.864', 'end': '2269.266', 'text': 'do you really think that they'}, {'start': '2267.798', 'end': '2270.567', 'text': 'were really that concerned for'}, {'start': '2269.333', 'end': '2272.202', 'text': 'them to steal the body? Because'}, {'start': '2270.634', 'end': '2275.172', 'text': "I'm, as I investigated this, I,"}, {'start': '2272.269', 'end': '2276.373', 'text': "I held that as a theory, but I'm"}, {'start': '2275.239', 'end': '2277.941', 'text': 'also led to believe that all of'}, {'start': '2276.440', 'end': '2279.176', 'text': 'this overkill━and again, if'}, {'start': '2278.008', 'end': '2280.978', 'text': "you're writing a story and"}, {'start': '2279.243', 'end': '2282.413', 'text': 'making it up, would you engage'}, {'start': '2281.045', 'end': '2285.215', 'text': "in this much overkill? The guy's"}, {'start': '2282.480', 'end': '2286.750', 'text': 'dead. Give me a break. Does a'}, {'start': '2285.282', 'end': '2289.119', 'text': 'dead person come back to life?'}, {'start': '2286.817', 'end': '2290.020', 'text': 'Hell no. So, yeah, maybe you'}, {'start': '2289.186', 'end': '2291.322', 'text': "could say they're worried about"}, {'start': '2290.087', 'end': '2292.423', 'text': 'the disciples. I actually think'}, {'start': '2291.389', 'end': '2295.225', 'text': 'that there was a faction of'}, {'start': '2292.490', 'end': '2296.593', 'text': 'these that knew the word, knew'}, {'start': '2295.292', 'end': '2298.562', 'text': 'the prophecies, and the'}, {'start': '2296.660', 'end': '2300.164', 'text': 'possibility might have been'}, {'start': '2298.629', 'end': '2302.266', 'text': 'entertained. And why do I say'}, {'start': '2300.231', 'end': '2305.069', 'text': "that? Because you've got secret"}, {'start': '2302.333', 'end': '2307.104', 'text': 'disciples like Nicodemus, who'}, {'start': '2305.136', 'end': '2310.140', 'text': 'was part of the Sanhedrin, part'}, {'start': '2307.171', 'end': '2311.842', 'text': 'of the religious leaders that'}, {'start': '2310.207', 'end': '2313.043', 'text': 'secretly followed Christ. So, do'}, {'start': '2311.909', 'end': '2314.178', 'text': 'I believe that there were people'}, {'start': '2313.110', 'end': '2315.612', 'text': 'within that faction that'}, {'start': '2314.245', 'end': '2317.014', 'text': 'actually thought He might'}, {'start': '2315.679', 'end': '2319.049', 'text': 'actually come back to life? Oh,'}, {'start': '2317.081', 'end': '2319.917', 'text': 'yeah, I do believe that. I'}, {'start': '2319.116', 'end': '2323.153', 'text': "didn't believe that before. I do"}, {'start': '2319.984', 'end': '2325.322', 'text': "believe that now. So, it's"}, {'start': '2323.220', 'end': '2327.991', 'text': 'fascinating to me that'}, {'start': '2325.389', 'end': '2329.993', 'text': 'Pilate acquiesced to this'}, {'start': '2328.058', 'end': '2332.196', 'text': 'request of posting a guard'}, {'start': '2330.060', 'end': '2334.164', 'text': 'there. It tells me there had to'}, {'start': '2332.263', 'end': '2335.599', 'text': 'be something more. In other'}, {'start': '2334.231', 'end': '2339.002', 'text': 'words, all of this is a, an'}, {'start': '2335.666', 'end': '2340.003', 'text': 'amazing setup, because the'}, {'start': '2339.069', 'end': '2341.905', 'text': "something more is He's going to"}, {'start': '2340.070', 'end': '2343.907', 'text': 'come out of that tomb, but the'}, {'start': '2341.972', 'end': '2346.377', 'text': 'setup is to ensure that there'}, {'start': '2343.974', 'end': '2347.845', 'text': 'were ample breadcrumbs laid'}, {'start': '2346.444', 'end': '2349.113', 'text': "down, so that, no, you're not"}, {'start': '2347.912', 'end': '2350.180', 'text': 'trying to figure out, “What are'}, {'start': '2349.180', 'end': '2351.281', 'text': "the breadcrumbs?” There's a,"}, {'start': '2350.247', 'end': '2352.750', 'text': 'excuse me, almost the entire'}, {'start': '2351.348', 'end': '2354.852', 'text': 'loaf has been left for you to'}, {'start': '2352.817', 'end': '2356.420', 'text': 'put this together, like, duh.'}, {'start': '2354.919', 'end': '2358.088', 'text': 'The people that were guarding'}, {'start': '2356.487', 'end': '2360.290', 'text': 'the tomb, that have no skin in'}, {'start': '2358.155', 'end': '2362.893', 'text': 'the game, what are they going to'}, {'start': '2360.357', 'end': '2363.861', 'text': 'say when the tomb is open? They'}, {'start': '2362.960', 'end': '2364.895', 'text': "don't have any skin in the game."}, {'start': '2363.928', 'end': '2366.430', 'text': "The only skin they're going to"}, {'start': '2364.962', 'end': '2369.500', 'text': 'have is their own skin by Rome,'}, {'start': '2366.497', 'end': '2371.335', 'text': 'because somehow the grave got'}, {'start': '2369.567', 'end': '2372.770', 'text': "opened up and the person that's"}, {'start': '2371.402', 'end': '2374.638', 'text': 'supposed to be in there dead is'}, {'start': '2372.837', 'end': '2375.939', 'text': 'not in there anymore. So, I'}, {'start': '2374.705', 'end': '2378.242', 'text': "think it's kind of; you, you've"}, {'start': '2376.006', 'end': '2379.143', 'text': 'got to probe these questions.'}, {'start': '2378.309', 'end': '2381.612', 'text': 'So, let me get to the bottom'}, {'start': '2379.210', 'end': '2382.646', 'text': 'line. The Roman soldiers'}, {'start': '2381.679', 'end': '2384.681', 'text': "obviously didn't care about what"}, {'start': '2382.713', 'end': '2385.983', 'text': 'laid in the tomb, but they were'}, {'start': '2384.748', 'end': '2387.284', 'text': 'there doing their job, so they,'}, {'start': '2386.050', 'end': '2388.452', 'text': "they're not connected like, “Oh,"}, {'start': '2387.351', 'end': '2389.553', 'text': 'well, what if, what if this guy'}, {'start': '2388.519', 'end': '2392.256', 'text': "really comes back?” They're just"}, {'start': '2389.620', 'end': '2393.690', 'text': 'doing their job. The religious'}, {'start': '2392.323', 'end': '2395.659', 'text': 'leaders, they had a mission,'}, {'start': '2393.757', 'end': '2397.394', 'text': 'they accomplished it. The'}, {'start': '2395.726', 'end': '2400.130', 'text': 'disciples, at this point, as I,'}, {'start': '2397.461', 'end': '2402.166', 'text': 'if you recall what I just said,'}, {'start': '2400.197', 'end': '2404.535', 'text': "there's only one person that's"}, {'start': '2402.233', 'end': '2406.036', 'text': "going to go, “Oh, that's what He"}, {'start': '2404.602', 'end': '2409.173', 'text': 'was talking about.” And, and'}, {'start': '2406.103', 'end': '2412.042', 'text': "that's uncovered when we read"}, {'start': '2409.240', 'end': '2414.244', 'text': "about how they're running"}, {'start': '2412.109', 'end': '2417.047', 'text': 'towards the tomb, which is now'}, {'start': '2414.311', 'end': '2418.649', 'text': 'empty. And this is important.'}, {'start': '2417.114', 'end': '2420.350', 'text': "Again, you can say it's all"}, {'start': '2418.716', 'end': '2422.653', 'text': "fabricated, but there's an"}, {'start': '2420.417', 'end': '2423.720', 'text': 'eyewitness something to the'}, {'start': '2422.720', 'end': '2425.722', 'text': "writing, where it's talking"}, {'start': '2423.787', 'end': '2427.524', 'text': 'about how Peter and John are'}, {'start': '2425.789', 'end': '2430.294', 'text': "running to the tomb. They're"}, {'start': '2427.591', 'end': '2433.430', 'text': 'running there. And one just'}, {'start': '2430.361', 'end': '2434.932', 'text': 'peeps his head in and comes out,'}, {'start': '2433.497', 'end': '2436.967', 'text': 'and the other one has to go in'}, {'start': '2434.999', 'end': '2439.937', 'text': 'there and look. But the'}, {'start': '2437.034', 'end': '2442.406', 'text': 'conclusion of one, John; John is'}, {'start': '2440.004', 'end': '2443.340', 'text': 'the only one, he saw, he'}, {'start': '2442.473', 'end': '2446.043', 'text': 'believed. Probably something in'}, {'start': '2443.407', 'end': '2448.979', 'text': 'his mind went, “Third day, this'}, {'start': '2446.110', 'end': '2450.781', 'text': 'is it; no question.” I want you'}, {'start': '2449.046', 'end': '2451.982', 'text': 'to think about something because'}, {'start': '2450.848', 'end': '2454.251', 'text': 'we always talk about the empty'}, {'start': '2452.049', 'end': '2457.387', 'text': 'tomb this way. The empty tomb,'}, {'start': '2454.318', 'end': '2459.857', 'text': 'by way of what you read in each'}, {'start': '2457.454', 'end': '2461.458', 'text': "account, doesn't leave you with"}, {'start': '2459.924', 'end': '2463.560', 'text': 'the idea that just the fact that'}, {'start': '2461.525', 'end': '2466.196', 'text': 'the tomb was empty, that that'}, {'start': '2463.627', 'end': '2467.598', 'text': 'all came together in that moment'}, {'start': '2466.263', 'end': '2469.466', 'text': "to, “He is risen! He's not"}, {'start': '2467.665', 'end': '2472.703', 'text': 'here!” That, we read it that'}, {'start': '2469.533', 'end': '2474.838', 'text': 'way, but only John did that'}, {'start': '2472.770', 'end': '2476.440', 'text': 'whole, he saw, he believed. John'}, {'start': '2474.905', 'end': '2478.175', 'text': '20 and verse 8, he saw, he'}, {'start': '2476.507', 'end': '2479.209', 'text': 'believed. For the rest of them,'}, {'start': '2478.242', 'end': '2481.478', 'text': 'think of the women, think of'}, {'start': '2479.276', 'end': '2483.614', 'text': 'Peter. They may have reacted,'}, {'start': '2481.545', 'end': '2485.849', 'text': "but it's only when they have the"}, {'start': '2483.681', 'end': '2487.451', 'text': 'encounter with Christ. And you'}, {'start': '2485.916', 'end': '2488.585', 'text': 'can say, the women are running'}, {'start': '2487.518', 'end': '2490.554', 'text': "off saying, “He is risen. He's"}, {'start': '2488.652', 'end': '2492.122', 'text': 'not here.” But think about'}, {'start': '2490.621', 'end': '2495.959', 'text': 'hardhead Peter. He will not'}, {'start': '2492.189', 'end': '2496.894', 'text': 'believe until he sees also. And'}, {'start': '2496.026', 'end': '2498.228', 'text': 'this is why I believe, when he'}, {'start': '2496.961', 'end': '2499.162', 'text': 'says, “I know, I go a fishing,”'}, {'start': '2498.295', 'end': '2503.066', 'text': "like, “You know, I'm out of"}, {'start': '2499.229', 'end': '2504.301', 'text': 'here.” So, in Matthew 28:15,'}, {'start': '2503.133', 'end': '2505.135', 'text': 'we have the record of'}, {'start': '2504.368', 'end': '2506.203', 'text': 'the Jewish leaders trying'}, {'start': '2505.202', 'end': '2507.104', 'text': 'to bribe the Roman'}, {'start': '2506.270', 'end': '2508.372', 'text': 'guards, saying to the'}, {'start': '2507.171', 'end': '2510.374', 'text': 'disciples, saying that the'}, {'start': '2508.439', 'end': '2511.875', 'text': 'disciples stole the body. James'}, {'start': '2510.441', 'end': '2513.410', 'text': "Hastings, who's another giant of"}, {'start': '2511.942', 'end': '2515.512', 'text': 'the church, he wrote in the'}, {'start': '2513.477', 'end': '2516.880', 'text': 'Dictionary of, of the Apostolic'}, {'start': '2515.579', 'end': '2519.950', 'text': 'Church, he said, “The fraudulent'}, {'start': '2516.947', 'end': '2521.585', 'text': 'transaction proceeds upon the'}, {'start': '2520.017', 'end': '2523.086', 'text': 'admission by the enemies of'}, {'start': '2521.652', 'end': '2525.455', 'text': 'Christianity that the grave was'}, {'start': '2523.153', 'end': '2527.057', 'text': 'empty, an admission which is'}, {'start': '2525.522', 'end': '2528.959', 'text': 'enough to show that the evidence'}, {'start': '2527.124', 'end': '2532.863', 'text': 'for the empty, empty tomb was'}, {'start': '2529.026', 'end': '2533.797', 'text': 'too notorious to be denied.” And'}, {'start': '2532.930', 'end': '2536.133', 'text': 'I love that, because it'}, {'start': '2533.864', 'end': '2537.501', 'text': 'basically puts exclamation mark'}, {'start': '2536.200', 'end': '2539.002', 'text': 'and mic drop right there. What'}, {'start': '2537.568', 'end': '2540.070', 'text': 'are you going to do with that?'}, {'start': '2539.069', 'end': '2542.039', 'text': 'Because it, it forced even the'}, {'start': '2540.137', 'end': '2544.675', 'text': 'Jewish leaders and Rome to'}, {'start': '2542.106', 'end': '2546.076', 'text': "acknowledge, “Okay, now He's not"}, {'start': '2544.742', 'end': '2548.345', 'text': "here,” so, either He's risen or"}, {'start': '2546.143', 'end': '2549.846', 'text': "somebody's got the body. Those"}, {'start': '2548.412', 'end': '2551.148', 'text': 'are your only two options,'}, {'start': '2549.913', 'end': '2552.249', 'text': "right? So, there's some"}, {'start': '2551.215', 'end': '2553.684', 'text': 'interesting things here I want'}, {'start': '2552.316', 'end': '2554.484', 'text': 'you to pick apart with me,'}, {'start': '2553.751', 'end': '2555.319', 'text': "because there's always these"}, {'start': '2554.551', 'end': '2557.955', 'text': 'people that come up with these'}, {'start': '2555.386', 'end': '2559.323', 'text': 'very interesting questions. If'}, {'start': '2558.022', 'end': '2560.824', 'text': 'we read in John 20, it talks'}, {'start': '2559.390', 'end': '2562.259', 'text': 'about the wrappings or the grave'}, {'start': '2560.891', 'end': '2563.961', 'text': 'clothes that are mentioned that'}, {'start': '2562.326', 'end': '2567.397', 'text': 'are left in the grave, in the'}, {'start': '2564.028', 'end': '2569.333', 'text': 'empty tomb. It is characterized'}, {'start': '2567.464', 'end': '2571.969', 'text': 'by the eyewitnesses in a type of'}, {'start': '2569.400', 'end': '2573.870', 'text': 'description. Some read into this'}, {'start': '2572.036', 'end': '2575.439', 'text': 'and, and say whatever they saw'}, {'start': '2573.937', 'end': '2576.473', 'text': 'about the grave clothes, but I,'}, {'start': '2575.506', 'end': '2578.375', 'text': 'I want you to recognize'}, {'start': '2576.540', 'end': '2580.077', 'text': "something. Let's go back to the"}, {'start': '2578.442', 'end': '2581.612', 'text': 'question of “How can we know'}, {'start': '2580.144', 'end': '2582.779', 'text': 'that that was the right tomb?'}, {'start': '2581.679', 'end': '2584.881', 'text': "How can we know?” They're dumb"}, {'start': '2582.846', 'end': '2585.649', 'text': 'questions, by the way. Well, all'}, {'start': '2584.948', 'end': '2586.750', 'text': 'they had to do is go and get'}, {'start': '2585.716', 'end': '2587.985', 'text': 'Joseph of Arimathea and'}, {'start': '2586.817', 'end': '2590.120', 'text': 'Nicodemus, and say, “Are these'}, {'start': '2588.052', 'end': '2591.722', 'text': 'the cloths that you guys used?”'}, {'start': '2590.187', 'end': '2592.823', 'text': 'If there was any confusion, “Are'}, {'start': '2591.789', 'end': '2593.991', 'text': 'these the cloths that you'}, {'start': '2592.890', 'end': '2594.958', 'text': 'wrapped the,” because they, they'}, {'start': '2594.058', 'end': '2598.161', 'text': 'would have had to have cut the'}, {'start': '2595.025', 'end': '2599.863', 'text': 'cloths themselves, “Are these'}, {'start': '2598.228', 'end': '2600.631', 'text': 'the materials you used?” And'}, {'start': '2599.930', 'end': '2603.000', 'text': 'they would have been able to'}, {'start': '2600.698', 'end': '2604.935', 'text': 'look and go, “Oh or no?” Yes or'}, {'start': '2603.067', 'end': '2606.470', 'text': "no. Right? There's several ways"}, {'start': '2605.002', 'end': '2608.939', 'text': 'that if, if people were'}, {'start': '2606.537', 'end': '2610.807', 'text': 'genuinely uncertain, there are'}, {'start': '2609.006', 'end': '2612.109', 'text': 'other ways to flush out whether'}, {'start': '2610.874', 'end': '2613.543', 'text': 'or not the truth is being told.'}, {'start': '2612.176', 'end': '2615.779', 'text': 'And no one ever scrutinizes'}, {'start': '2613.610', 'end': '2618.515', 'text': 'those smallest pieces of'}, {'start': '2615.846', 'end': '2620.917', 'text': 'information within the Bible. So'}, {'start': '2618.582', 'end': '2622.552', 'text': 'let me take one last step here.'}, {'start': '2620.984', 'end': '2624.988', 'text': 'We know that it was Joseph of'}, {'start': '2622.619', 'end': '2626.690', 'text': 'Arimathea and Nicodemus who'}, {'start': '2625.055', 'end': '2629.993', 'text': 'wrapped the body. We also know'}, {'start': '2626.757', 'end': '2631.395', 'text': 'the women made several trips'}, {'start': '2630.060', 'end': '2633.397', 'text': 'back and forth. We, we tend to'}, {'start': '2631.462', 'end': '2634.698', 'text': 'read it as they went and then'}, {'start': '2633.464', 'end': '2636.066', 'text': 'they had to come back and they,'}, {'start': '2634.765', 'end': '2639.036', 'text': 'they were going to return after'}, {'start': '2636.133', 'end': '2640.170', 'text': "the Sabbath. All I'm going to"}, {'start': '2639.103', 'end': '2641.371', 'text': "tell you is that there's too"}, {'start': '2640.237', 'end': '2643.640', 'text': "much traffic, there's too much"}, {'start': '2641.438', 'end': '2646.376', 'text': 'foot traffic to talk about'}, {'start': '2643.707', 'end': '2648.145', 'text': 'anything other than they were at'}, {'start': '2646.443', 'end': '2649.846', 'text': 'the right tomb, at the right'}, {'start': '2648.212', 'end': '2652.182', 'text': "place. And because I'm running"}, {'start': '2649.913', 'end': '2655.552', 'text': 'out of time, let me jump to the'}, {'start': '2652.249', 'end': '2657.387', 'text': 'appearances of the risen Savior'}, {'start': '2655.619', 'end': '2658.922', 'text': 'that help us to understand and'}, {'start': '2657.454', 'end': '2661.191', 'text': 'kind of start tying everything'}, {'start': '2658.989', 'end': '2662.259', 'text': 'together, because people say,'}, {'start': '2661.291', 'end': '2663.427', 'text': '“What other proofs could you'}, {'start': '2662.326', 'end': '2664.528', 'text': 'say? And how could you connect'}, {'start': '2663.494', 'end': '2666.430', 'text': 'the dots?” Well, in His'}, {'start': '2664.595', 'end': '2669.199', 'text': 'appearances. So, Paul writing,'}, {'start': '2666.497', 'end': '2671.902', 'text': 'sometime in the 50s, says over'}, {'start': '2669.266', 'end': '2673.970', 'text': '500 people saw the risen Christ'}, {'start': '2671.969', 'end': '2675.205', 'text': 'all at once, and he says, “Some'}, {'start': '2674.037', 'end': '2676.473', 'text': 'of them are still alive. Some of'}, {'start': '2675.272', 'end': '2677.607', 'text': 'them are dead, but some of them'}, {'start': '2676.540', 'end': '2678.542', 'text': 'are, are still alive to this'}, {'start': '2677.674', 'end': '2680.844', 'text': 'day,” at the time of his'}, {'start': '2678.609', 'end': '2684.114', 'text': 'writing. Why is that relevant?'}, {'start': '2680.911', 'end': '2685.549', 'text': 'Because if you can imagine, the'}, {'start': '2684.181', 'end': '2687.651', 'text': 'writing of Paul would have been'}, {'start': '2685.616', 'end': '2690.387', 'text': 'something like, what, what we'}, {'start': '2687.718', 'end': '2691.588', 'text': 'maybe equate to, maybe turn of'}, {'start': '2690.454', 'end': '2694.691', 'text': 'the century here when people'}, {'start': '2691.655', 'end': '2697.094', 'text': 'would run out to find the'}, {'start': '2694.758', 'end': '2698.528', 'text': 'Gazette crier in the streets, to'}, {'start': '2697.161', 'end': '2699.529', 'text': 'grab the headline news and to'}, {'start': '2698.595', 'end': '2700.630', 'text': 'read it. It would have been'}, {'start': '2699.596', 'end': '2702.466', 'text': 'something like, “I want to know'}, {'start': '2700.697', 'end': '2703.400', 'text': "what's going on.” That, that's"}, {'start': '2702.533', 'end': '2705.035', 'text': 'kind of the reaction that people'}, {'start': '2703.467', 'end': '2708.338', 'text': "would have had to Paul's"}, {'start': '2705.102', 'end': '2710.073', 'text': "writing. Because now we've got"}, {'start': '2708.405', 'end': '2712.542', 'text': "some preaching going on, we've"}, {'start': '2710.140', 'end': '2714.678', 'text': 'got the pot stirred up. So 500'}, {'start': '2712.609', 'end': '2716.480', 'text': 'people, saying 500 people saw'}, {'start': '2714.745', 'end': '2718.849', 'text': 'the risen Christ; that could'}, {'start': '2716.547', 'end': '2720.717', 'text': 'have turned into a riot, if Paul'}, {'start': '2718.916', 'end': '2722.619', 'text': 'was lying. Somebody could have'}, {'start': '2720.784', 'end': '2724.387', 'text': 'confronted Paul from his writing'}, {'start': '2722.686', 'end': '2726.423', 'text': 'and said, “Okay, where are the'}, {'start': '2724.454', 'end': '2727.390', 'text': '500 people that━and tell me the'}, {'start': '2726.490', 'end': '2728.658', 'text': 'ones that are alive. I want to'}, {'start': '2727.457', 'end': '2729.726', 'text': 'go talk to them.” This could'}, {'start': '2728.725', 'end': '2730.827', 'text': 'have been challenged. This could'}, {'start': '2729.793', 'end': '2733.663', 'text': "have been, we're talking about"}, {'start': '2730.894', 'end': '2735.599', 'text': 'churches and, slash, synagogue,'}, {'start': '2733.730', 'end': '2737.134', 'text': 'collection of people that would'}, {'start': '2735.666', 'end': '2738.235', 'text': 'have been jumping on this like'}, {'start': '2737.201', 'end': '2739.402', 'text': "nobody's business, say, “What,"}, {'start': '2738.302', 'end': '2740.637', 'text': "what are you talking about? I've"}, {'start': '2739.469', 'end': '2742.272', 'text': 'been with you everywhere, Paul,'}, {'start': '2740.704', 'end': '2747.043', 'text': "and I've not seen one appearance"}, {'start': '2742.339', 'end': '2747.844', 'text': 'of Christ.” Or, “I was there. I'}, {'start': '2747.110', 'end': '2751.314', 'text': "can't tell you what the heck I"}, {'start': '2747.911', 'end': '2754.584', 'text': 'saw, but I was there.” Right?'}, {'start': '2751.381', 'end': '2756.987', 'text': "All right, so there's that. Then"}, {'start': '2754.651', 'end': '2758.822', 'text': 'you have these different'}, {'start': '2757.054', 'end': '2763.026', 'text': 'appearances, obviously, the'}, {'start': '2758.889', 'end': '2765.095', 'text': 'women, Mary specifically; Peter;'}, {'start': '2763.093', 'end': '2766.263', 'text': 'the Emmaus disciples; the'}, {'start': '2765.162', 'end': '2769.332', 'text': 'apostles without, or the'}, {'start': '2766.330', 'end': '2771.034', 'text': 'disciples without Thomas; the'}, {'start': '2769.399', 'end': '2773.336', 'text': 'disciples with Thomas; the seven'}, {'start': '2771.101', 'end': '2774.938', 'text': 'at Lake Tiberias; again, I'}, {'start': '2773.403', 'end': '2776.940', 'text': 'mention the 500 at once; to'}, {'start': '2775.005', 'end': '2779.442', 'text': 'James; to the eleven at His'}, {'start': '2777.007', 'end': '2780.677', 'text': 'ascension; to Stephen; to John'}, {'start': '2779.509', 'end': '2783.613', 'text': 'on Patmos, to the, to the'}, {'start': '2780.744', 'end': '2785.982', 'text': 'apostle Paul in Acts 9; then to'}, {'start': '2783.680', 'end': '2787.551', 'text': 'the apostle Paul in the temple;'}, {'start': '2786.049', 'end': '2789.319', 'text': 'and you can just keep looking'}, {'start': '2787.618', 'end': '2794.658', 'text': 'for these. 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They were'}, {'start': '2813.043', 'end': '2817.414', 'text': 'radically changed by the fact of'}, {'start': '2815.979', 'end': '2819.783', 'text': 'the Resurrection. Something that'}, {'start': '2817.481', 'end': '2822.619', 'text': 'they encountered was so'}, {'start': '2819.850', 'end': '2824.521', 'text': 'life-changing that you have, for'}, {'start': '2822.686', 'end': '2827.390', 'text': 'example, Peter, the impetuous,'}, {'start': '2824.588', 'end': '2829.125', 'text': 'kind of blabbing his mouth off'}, {'start': '2827.457', 'end': '2831.194', 'text': 'becomes Mr. Eloquence, preacher'}, {'start': '2829.192', 'end': '2832.596', 'text': 'of the day of Pentecost. The'}, {'start': '2831.261', 'end': '2834.164', 'text': 'Sons of Thunder, specifically'}, {'start': '2832.663', 'end': '2836.900', 'text': 'John, becomes the disciple of'}, {'start': '2834.231', 'end': '2839.369', 'text': 'love. And each and every one of'}, {'start': '2836.967', 'end': '2842.772', 'text': 'these people take on a'}, {'start': '2839.436', 'end': '2844.507', 'text': 'personality or a trait that they'}, {'start': '2842.839', 'end': '2846.109', 'text': 'did not possess before. 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Now, I've"}, {'start': '2873.937', 'end': '2876.172', 'text': "said this before, and I'm going"}, {'start': '2875.105', 'end': '2877.507', 'text': 'to say this again, because it is'}, {'start': '2876.239', 'end': '2879.809', 'text': 'a brilliant point, in my'}, {'start': '2877.574', 'end': '2880.877', 'text': 'opinion. I could understand some'}, {'start': '2879.876', 'end': '2882.345', 'text': 'of you out there saying, “Well,'}, {'start': '2880.944', 'end': '2883.413', 'text': 'yes, the disciples loved their'}, {'start': '2882.412', 'end': '2885.215', 'text': "blessed Master, so there's,"}, {'start': '2883.480', 'end': '2886.750', 'text': "there's nothing that they"}, {'start': '2885.282', 'end': '2888.451', 'text': "wouldn't have said to keep the"}, {'start': '2886.817', 'end': '2890.587', 'text': 'story alive and keep the whole'}, {'start': '2888.518', 'end': '2891.888', 'text': 'Resurrection story alive.” “Come'}, {'start': '2890.654', 'end': '2893.356', 'text': "on, guys, stick together. We'll,"}, {'start': '2891.955', 'end': '2894.457', 'text': "we'll say that he rose from the"}, {'start': '2893.423', 'end': '2895.992', 'text': "dead, even though he didn't,"}, {'start': '2894.524', 'end': '2899.095', 'text': 'because we want to protect this'}, {'start': '2896.059', 'end': '2900.130', 'text': "precious dead man's memory.” But"}, {'start': '2899.162', 'end': '2901.431', 'text': 'the guy who comes out of'}, {'start': '2900.197', 'end': '2904.367', 'text': "nowhere, who's not part of all"}, {'start': '2901.498', 'end': '2906.036', 'text': 'the disciples, becomes the'}, {'start': '2904.434', 'end': '2907.470', 'text': 'greatest heralder and an'}, {'start': '2906.103', 'end': '2909.039', 'text': 'ambassador for Christ,'}, {'start': '2907.537', 'end': '2910.106', 'text': 'in the apostle Paul. Has'}, {'start': '2909.106', 'end': '2911.274', 'text': "no skin in the game. He's not"}, {'start': '2910.173', 'end': '2913.777', 'text': 'part of the original band of'}, {'start': '2911.341', 'end': '2916.146', 'text': 'disciples, and yet his life is'}, {'start': '2913.844', 'end': '2918.114', 'text': 'turned around radically, so that'}, {'start': '2916.213', 'end': '2919.316', 'text': 'after he is blinded by his'}, {'start': '2918.181', 'end': '2920.717', 'text': 'experience of encountering'}, {'start': '2919.383', 'end': '2922.419', 'text': 'Christ, and he regains his'}, {'start': '2920.784', 'end': '2923.453', 'text': 'sight, the first thing he does,'}, {'start': '2922.486', 'end': '2925.021', 'text': 'he goes out and he starts'}, {'start': '2923.520', 'end': '2927.991', 'text': 'preaching the gospel of Jesus'}, {'start': '2925.088', 'end': '2929.225', 'text': 'Christ. Now, all these other'}, {'start': '2928.058', 'end': '2932.562', 'text': 'people, we can talk about the'}, {'start': '2929.292', 'end': '2933.930', 'text': 'power of their changed nature,'}, {'start': '2932.629', 'end': '2935.398', 'text': 'and we could talk about the'}, {'start': '2933.997', 'end': '2937.567', 'text': 'amazing things that they did. We'}, {'start': '2935.465', 'end': '2939.202', 'text': 'know that all of these men will'}, {'start': '2937.634', 'end': '2941.171', 'text': "follow the Lord's Great"}, {'start': '2939.269', 'end': '2943.139', 'text': 'Commission, when He tells them,'}, {'start': '2941.271', 'end': '2944.975', 'text': '“Go out and make disciples; make'}, {'start': '2943.206', 'end': '2946.376', 'text': 'learners, and go into all the'}, {'start': '2945.042', 'end': '2947.510', 'text': 'corners of the earth.” And they'}, {'start': '2946.443', 'end': '2949.446', 'text': 'did that. We followed the'}, {'start': '2947.577', 'end': '2950.480', 'text': "disciples' journey, and we know"}, {'start': '2949.513', 'end': '2952.615', 'text': 'that they all went into'}, {'start': '2950.547', 'end': '2955.518', 'text': 'far-flung corners of the earth,'}, {'start': '2952.682', 'end': '2957.053', 'text': 'and all of them, read their'}, {'start': '2955.585', 'end': '2959.155', 'text': "stories, they all died martyr's"}, {'start': '2957.120', 'end': '2960.523', 'text': 'death. They all died. Some of'}, {'start': '2959.222', 'end': '2962.025', 'text': 'them were skinned alive. Some'}, {'start': '2960.590', 'end': '2964.160', 'text': 'were hung upside down. Some were'}, {'start': '2962.092', 'end': '2966.329', 'text': 'hung on crosses like this. Some'}, {'start': '2964.227', 'end': '2970.033', 'text': 'were just hanged on an olive'}, {'start': '2966.396', 'end': '2971.701', 'text': "tree. Didn't matter. But they"}, {'start': '2970.100', 'end': '2974.738', 'text': 'were all martyred for one'}, {'start': '2971.768', 'end': '2976.239', 'text': 'singular reason: they would not'}, {'start': '2974.805', 'end': '2978.441', 'text': 'stop preaching the message of'}, {'start': '2976.306', 'end': '2980.577', 'text': "Jesus Christ. And again, I don't"}, {'start': '2978.508', 'end': '2982.278', 'text': 'know about you, but my mind'}, {'start': '2980.644', 'end': '2984.881', 'text': "always goes to this. If it's a"}, {'start': '2982.345', 'end': '2986.516', 'text': "lie, if it's all made up, they"}, {'start': '2984.948', 'end': '2987.784', 'text': 'could have secretly, each one by'}, {'start': '2986.583', 'end': '2989.819', 'text': "one, said, “It's a lie. We made"}, {'start': '2987.851', 'end': '2992.288', 'text': 'it all up. We, we just wanted to'}, {'start': '2989.886', 'end': '2993.390', 'text': 'keep the thing going, so my bad.'}, {'start': '2992.355', 'end': '2994.657', 'text': "Let's, let's all go back to"}, {'start': '2993.457', 'end': '2995.992', 'text': "everything, and we won't talk"}, {'start': '2994.724', 'end': '2997.761', 'text': 'about Christ anymore. Leave me'}, {'start': '2996.059', 'end': '3001.031', 'text': 'alone.” They could have done'}, {'start': '2997.828', 'end': '3002.866', 'text': "that. They did not. And I don't"}, {'start': '3001.098', 'end': '3005.902', 'text': 'know that a normal person goes'}, {'start': '3002.933', 'end': '3008.938', 'text': 'to, to die to just keep'}, {'start': '3005.969', 'end': '3010.774', 'text': "propagating another man's lie."}, {'start': '3009.005', 'end': '3014.310', 'text': "So you've got to look at these"}, {'start': '3010.841', 'end': '3018.014', 'text': 'people as actual eyewitnesses to'}, {'start': '3014.377', 'end': '3020.250', 'text': 'the event, and save one, that is'}, {'start': '3018.081', 'end': '3022.152', 'text': "John, who did not die a martyr's"}, {'start': '3020.317', 'end': '3023.453', 'text': 'death. They tried to kill him.'}, {'start': '3022.219', 'end': '3025.955', 'text': 'They tried to put him in a pot'}, {'start': '3023.520', 'end': '3028.224', 'text': 'of hot boiling oil, but he was'}, {'start': '3026.022', 'end': '3029.926', 'text': 'then exiled to Patmos, by the'}, {'start': '3028.291', 'end': '3032.429', 'text': 'way, where Christ appeared to'}, {'start': '3029.993', 'end': '3035.065', 'text': 'him there as well, a'}, {'start': '3032.496', 'end': '3036.099', 'text': 'post-Resurrection appearance. So'}, {'start': '3035.132', 'end': '3037.700', 'text': 'when you start putting all this'}, {'start': '3036.166', 'end': '3039.469', 'text': 'together and you recognize, yes,'}, {'start': '3037.767', 'end': '3041.438', 'text': 'the people could be changed.'}, {'start': '3039.536', 'end': '3042.839', 'text': 'Their whole life is changed, and'}, {'start': '3041.505', 'end': '3044.240', 'text': "they're, they're now fulfilling"}, {'start': '3042.906', 'end': '3045.408', 'text': 'what Jesus said they would do:'}, {'start': '3044.307', 'end': '3048.111', 'text': 'Go out into all the earth and'}, {'start': '3045.475', 'end': '3048.978', 'text': 'spread the message. And'}, {'start': '3048.178', 'end': '3050.513', 'text': 'something else. You remember'}, {'start': '3049.045', 'end': '3051.614', 'text': 'what Jesus said to Peter,'}, {'start': '3050.613', 'end': '3053.316', 'text': "“Another one's going to bind you"}, {'start': '3051.681', 'end': '3055.785', 'text': 'and lead you unto death.” Again,'}, {'start': '3053.383', 'end': '3057.520', 'text': 'all of these small statements,'}, {'start': '3055.852', 'end': '3058.988', 'text': "that if you're looking for them,"}, {'start': '3057.587', 'end': '3060.757', 'text': 'they make the whole story come'}, {'start': '3059.055', 'end': '3062.859', 'text': 'to life as these are honest'}, {'start': '3060.824', 'end': '3065.195', 'text': 'reporters writing down what they'}, {'start': '3062.926', 'end': '3067.130', 'text': 'saw, what they experienced. And'}, {'start': '3065.262', 'end': '3069.265', 'text': 'for people that really want to'}, {'start': '3067.197', 'end': '3072.769', 'text': 'wrap their mind around why this'}, {'start': '3069.332', 'end': '3074.571', 'text': "actually matters, I'll tell you."}, {'start': '3072.836', 'end': '3076.906', 'text': 'You can try to find the tomb of'}, {'start': '3074.638', 'end': '3078.608', 'text': 'Confucius, of Buddha, and of'}, {'start': '3076.973', 'end': '3081.444', 'text': 'Muhammad. I believe all of those'}, {'start': '3078.675', 'end': '3083.546', 'text': "tombs will be occupied. There's"}, {'start': '3081.511', 'end': '3085.849', 'text': 'only one tomb on the stage of'}, {'start': '3083.613', 'end': '3086.950', 'text': "human history that's empty, and"}, {'start': '3085.916', 'end': '3088.685', 'text': "whether you say, “Well, we don't"}, {'start': '3087.017', 'end': '3090.320', 'text': "know where it is,” it doesn't"}, {'start': '3088.752', 'end': '3091.821', 'text': "matter, it's still empty. He's"}, {'start': '3090.387', 'end': '3094.224', 'text': 'not there. That means He is'}, {'start': '3091.888', 'end': '3097.093', 'text': 'risen. Now, I want to leave you'}, {'start': '3094.291', 'end': '3099.062', 'text': 'with a quote from maybe my'}, {'start': '3097.160', 'end': '3100.830', 'text': 'favorite author on this subject,'}, {'start': '3099.129', 'end': '3102.999', 'text': 'which is Simon Greenleaf. He was'}, {'start': '3100.897', 'end': '3104.167', 'text': 'that Harvard professor, and he'}, {'start': '3103.066', 'end': '3105.869', 'text': 'wrote a brilliant treatise,'}, {'start': '3104.234', 'end': '3108.371', 'text': 'which you know every single year'}, {'start': '3105.936', 'end': '3110.206', 'text': 'I have mentioned somewhere in my'}, {'start': '3108.438', 'end': '3111.441', 'text': 'message, but I really love what'}, {'start': '3110.273', 'end': '3113.910', 'text': 'he wrote. He said, “All that'}, {'start': '3111.508', 'end': '3115.345', 'text': 'Christianity asks of men, is,'}, {'start': '3113.977', 'end': '3117.747', 'text': 'that they would be consistent'}, {'start': '3115.412', 'end': '3120.283', 'text': 'with themselves; that they would'}, {'start': '3117.814', 'end': '3123.086', 'text': 'treat its evidence as they treat'}, {'start': '3120.350', 'end': '3124.320', 'text': 'the evidence of other things;'}, {'start': '3123.153', 'end': '3127.190', 'text': 'and that they would try and'}, {'start': '3124.387', 'end': '3128.024', 'text': 'judge its actors and witnesses,'}, {'start': '3127.257', 'end': '3130.160', 'text': 'as they deal with their'}, {'start': '3128.091', 'end': '3131.494', 'text': 'fellow-men, when testifying to'}, {'start': '3130.227', 'end': '3134.364', 'text': 'human affairs and actions, in'}, {'start': '3131.561', 'end': '3137.534', 'text': 'human tribunals. Let the'}, {'start': '3134.431', 'end': '3139.402', 'text': 'witnesses be composed,” or'}, {'start': '3137.634', 'end': '3141.504', 'text': '“compared with themselves, with'}, {'start': '3139.469', 'end': '3142.539', 'text': 'each other, and with the'}, {'start': '3141.571', 'end': '3143.806', 'text': 'surrounding facts and'}, {'start': '3142.606', 'end': '3146.509', 'text': 'circumstances; and let their'}, {'start': '3143.873', 'end': '3147.443', 'text': 'testimony be sifted, as if it'}, {'start': '3146.576', 'end': '3149.012', 'text': 'were given in a court of'}, {'start': '3147.510', 'end': '3151.614', 'text': 'justice, on the side of the'}, {'start': '3149.079', 'end': '3152.916', 'text': 'adverse party, the witness being'}, {'start': '3151.681', 'end': '3154.851', 'text': 'subjected to rigorous'}, {'start': '3152.983', 'end': '3158.788', 'text': 'cross-examination. The result,'}, {'start': '3154.918', 'end': '3161.124', 'text': 'it is confidently believed, will'}, {'start': '3158.855', 'end': '3162.592', 'text': 'be an undoubting conviction of'}, {'start': '3161.191', 'end': '3165.528', 'text': 'their integrity, ability, and'}, {'start': '3162.659', 'end': '3166.829', 'text': 'truth.” Now, why I love that is'}, {'start': '3165.595', 'end': '3169.632', 'text': 'because that, that was written'}, {'start': '3166.896', 'end': '3170.667', 'text': 'by a Harvard lawyer who wrote,'}, {'start': '3169.699', 'end': '3172.402', 'text': 'in my opinion, one of the'}, {'start': '3170.734', 'end': '3174.170', 'text': 'greatest defenses of the'}, {'start': '3172.469', 'end': '3176.139', 'text': 'Christian faith by writing about'}, {'start': '3174.237', 'end': '3177.607', 'text': 'the Resurrection, which if you,'}, {'start': '3176.206', 'end': '3179.742', 'text': 'if you can get a copy, I highly'}, {'start': '3177.674', 'end': '3181.277', 'text': 'think you should get one and'}, {'start': '3179.809', 'end': '3183.046', 'text': "read it. It's brilliant, the way"}, {'start': '3181.344', 'end': '3186.282', 'text': "it's put together. But here's"}, {'start': '3183.113', 'end': '3188.718', 'text': 'the thing, the decision becomes'}, {'start': '3186.349', 'end': '3190.353', 'text': 'now the part of the listener.'}, {'start': '3188.785', 'end': '3192.622', 'text': 'And the decision is this: the'}, {'start': '3190.420', 'end': '3194.357', 'text': 'evidence does speak for itself.'}, {'start': '3192.689', 'end': '3195.625', 'text': 'You can talk about a myriad'}, {'start': '3194.424', 'end': '3198.228', 'text': 'number of things. Did the man'}, {'start': '3195.692', 'end': '3202.432', 'text': 'Jesus Christ live, die, and'}, {'start': '3198.295', 'end': '3203.766', 'text': 'resurrect? Did, if He did die,'}, {'start': '3202.499', 'end': '3205.235', 'text': 'was He placed in a tomb? And if'}, {'start': '3203.833', 'end': '3207.170', 'text': 'He did raise up, was that tomb'}, {'start': '3205.302', 'end': '3209.572', 'text': 'empty? And all of the internal'}, {'start': '3207.237', 'end': '3211.908', 'text': 'and intrinsic components to this'}, {'start': '3209.639', 'end': '3213.843', 'text': 'come back with something that,'}, {'start': '3211.975', 'end': '3216.279', 'text': 'for those people who have combed'}, {'start': '3213.910', 'end': '3218.481', 'text': 'the Scripture, you stand on'}, {'start': '3216.346', 'end': '3219.649', 'text': "something absolute. And it's not"}, {'start': '3218.548', 'end': '3220.917', 'text': "because it's Easter, because"}, {'start': '3219.716', 'end': '3222.218', 'text': 'this is the way we live our'}, {'start': '3220.984', 'end': '3223.653', 'text': "lives. That's why when somebody"}, {'start': '3222.285', 'end': '3225.688', 'text': "says, “Well, aren't you sad when"}, {'start': '3223.720', 'end': '3227.190', 'text': 'somebody dies?” Of course, but I'}, {'start': '3225.755', 'end': '3228.758', 'text': 'know the promise of our Lord and'}, {'start': '3227.257', 'end': '3230.627', 'text': 'Savior who basically says,'}, {'start': '3228.858', 'end': '3232.829', 'text': '“Those that believe in Me, the'}, {'start': '3230.694', 'end': '3234.397', 'text': 'one who is believing in Me,'}, {'start': '3232.896', 'end': '3236.432', 'text': 'shall have everlasting life, and'}, {'start': '3234.464', 'end': '3238.601', 'text': 'not perish.” That is His promise'}, {'start': '3236.499', 'end': '3240.703', 'text': 'to us. And He went first; He'}, {'start': '3238.668', 'end': '3243.439', 'text': "went before us. Now we're still"}, {'start': '3240.770', 'end': '3244.841', 'text': 'waiting on that day. But for all'}, {'start': '3243.506', 'end': '3247.510', 'text': 'the people in the sound of my'}, {'start': '3244.908', 'end': '3250.246', 'text': 'voice who perpetually stay in'}, {'start': '3247.577', 'end': '3251.614', 'text': 'this aggravated state of'}, {'start': '3250.313', 'end': '3253.283', 'text': 'indecision or “Could it be'}, {'start': '3251.681', 'end': '3254.751', 'text': "true?” I'm asking you to do"}, {'start': '3253.350', 'end': '3256.686', 'text': 'something this year, not next'}, {'start': '3254.818', 'end': '3259.289', 'text': 'year, not, not even a week from,'}, {'start': '3256.753', 'end': '3262.125', 'text': "from this month. I'm asking you"}, {'start': '3259.356', 'end': '3263.993', 'text': "to start doing it now. If you're"}, {'start': '3262.192', 'end': '3265.495', 'text': 'going to sit on the fence, start'}, {'start': '3264.060', 'end': '3268.031', 'text': 'trying to find the proof to'}, {'start': '3265.562', 'end': '3269.666', 'text': 'disprove this book. Start by,'}, {'start': '3268.098', 'end': '3270.967', 'text': "because you're on the fence,"}, {'start': '3269.733', 'end': '3271.768', 'text': "start by saying, “I don't"}, {'start': '3271.034', 'end': '3272.835', 'text': "believe a word of it, and I'm"}, {'start': '3271.835', 'end': '3273.836', 'text': 'going to look for all the holes'}, {'start': '3272.902', 'end': '3275.405', 'text': "and I'm going to look to rip it"}, {'start': '3273.903', 'end': '3277.340', 'text': 'apart,” because what will happen'}, {'start': '3275.472', 'end': '3278.508', 'text': 'to you is the same thing that'}, {'start': '3277.407', 'end': '3280.643', 'text': 'happened to many of the people'}, {'start': '3278.575', 'end': '3282.545', 'text': "that I've looked at their lives"}, {'start': '3280.710', 'end': '3285.014', 'text': 'and understood. As they set out'}, {'start': '3282.612', 'end': '3286.649', 'text': 'to be honest reporters and, as'}, {'start': '3285.081', 'end': '3288.685', 'text': 'they did this, fell under the'}, {'start': '3286.716', 'end': '3290.386', 'text': 'conviction that what they were'}, {'start': '3288.752', 'end': '3293.056', 'text': 'looking at was written by honest'}, {'start': '3290.453', 'end': '3294.324', 'text': 'reporters reporting something'}, {'start': '3293.123', 'end': '3296.359', 'text': 'that has never been repeated on'}, {'start': '3294.391', 'end': '3299.128', 'text': 'the stage of human history. A'}, {'start': '3296.426', 'end': '3302.131', 'text': 'man who said that He came to die'}, {'start': '3299.195', 'end': '3304.901', 'text': 'for the sins of all mankind, who'}, {'start': '3302.198', 'end': '3308.438', 'text': 'also was all God, laid down His'}, {'start': '3304.968', 'end': '3310.473', 'text': 'life at a set and specific time'}, {'start': '3308.505', 'end': '3312.909', 'text': 'to fulfill the Hebrew feast set'}, {'start': '3310.540', 'end': '3314.410', 'text': 'days, to be the fulfillment of'}, {'start': '3312.976', 'end': '3317.447', 'text': 'the Old Testament, to bring us'}, {'start': '3314.477', 'end': '3318.648', 'text': 'into a new dispensation and a'}, {'start': '3317.514', 'end': '3320.516', 'text': "place where we're not having to"}, {'start': '3318.715', 'end': '3321.484', 'text': 'look back, and say, “What do we'}, {'start': '3320.583', 'end': '3323.353', 'text': 'have to do to be right with'}, {'start': '3321.551', 'end': '3325.254', 'text': 'God?” He simplified it. He said,'}, {'start': '3323.453', 'end': '3326.723', 'text': "“All you've got to do is follow"}, {'start': '3325.321', 'end': '3328.658', 'text': 'Me.” And that, that mindset'}, {'start': '3326.790', 'end': '3330.727', 'text': 'says, “Trust that My words are'}, {'start': '3328.725', 'end': '3332.962', 'text': 'true. Trust that I am who I said'}, {'start': '3330.794', 'end': '3334.530', 'text': 'I am, and believe that the words'}, {'start': '3333.029', 'end': '3336.265', 'text': "that I speak, that I've written,"}, {'start': '3334.597', 'end': '3338.000', 'text': 'that My disciples wrote down,'}, {'start': '3336.332', 'end': '3340.069', 'text': 'apply to you. I will never leave'}, {'start': '3338.067', 'end': '3341.471', 'text': 'you nor forsake you. I may be'}, {'start': '3340.136', 'end': '3342.905', 'text': "absent right now, but I'm coming"}, {'start': '3341.538', 'end': '3345.475', 'text': "back.” I'm speaking as if I'm"}, {'start': '3342.972', 'end': '3347.310', 'text': 'Him. So, for the people who say,'}, {'start': '3345.575', 'end': '3349.679', 'text': '“Well, what does it matter?”'}, {'start': '3347.377', 'end': '3350.980', 'text': 'Okay, for you it may not matter.'}, {'start': '3349.746', 'end': '3353.383', 'text': 'But for a person like me and the'}, {'start': '3351.047', 'end': '3355.451', 'text': 'rest of the people like me, I'}, {'start': '3353.450', 'end': '3357.053', 'text': 'look at this day as not just'}, {'start': '3355.518', 'end': '3359.155', 'text': "Easter day I'm celebrating, but"}, {'start': '3357.120', 'end': '3361.124', 'text': 'every day that I live my life'}, {'start': '3359.222', 'end': '3363.559', 'text': 'knowing my Lord and Savior has'}, {'start': '3361.191', 'end': '3365.695', 'text': 'done something so, so far beyond'}, {'start': '3363.626', 'end': '3366.796', 'text': 'what I could ever comprehend,'}, {'start': '3365.762', 'end': '3368.398', 'text': 'that I just have to walk the'}, {'start': '3366.863', 'end': '3370.166', 'text': "steps of faith. After I've done"}, {'start': '3368.465', 'end': '3372.635', 'text': 'this investigative work, my mind'}, {'start': '3370.233', 'end': '3374.704', 'text': 'is set free to walk by faith and'}, {'start': '3372.702', 'end': '3376.105', 'text': 'follow Him and look to the'}, {'start': '3374.771', 'end': '3377.807', 'text': 'pattern that He set. And that'}, {'start': '3376.172', 'end': '3380.777', 'text': 'pattern is one of faith that'}, {'start': '3377.874', 'end': '3384.580', 'text': 'will be vindicated, not in the'}, {'start': '3380.844', 'end': '3386.382', 'text': 'now, but in the future, because'}, {'start': '3384.647', 'end': '3387.850', 'text': 'the other promise is this, when'}, {'start': '3386.449', 'end': '3389.152', 'text': 'it says, “Shall not perish but'}, {'start': '3387.917', 'end': '3391.487', 'text': 'have everlasting life.” That'}, {'start': '3389.219', 'end': '3393.523', 'text': 'means all of our loved ones who'}, {'start': '3391.554', 'end': '3396.359', 'text': 'trusted in Christ. There will be'}, {'start': '3393.590', 'end': '3398.161', 'text': 'a great day of reunion. So for'}, {'start': '3396.426', 'end': '3399.228', 'text': 'those people, for example today,'}, {'start': '3398.228', 'end': '3401.597', 'text': 'the brother that I mentioned'}, {'start': '3399.295', 'end': '3403.032', 'text': "who's here who is remembering"}, {'start': '3401.664', 'end': '3405.601', 'text': "his brother that's been dead for"}, {'start': '3403.099', 'end': '3408.137', 'text': 'two years, remember this too. He'}, {'start': '3405.668', 'end': '3410.807', 'text': 'will be raised up, just like you'}, {'start': '3408.204', 'end': '3413.109', 'text': 'will be, at some point to'}, {'start': '3410.874', 'end': '3415.044', 'text': 'receive that celestial body,'}, {'start': '3413.176', 'end': '3416.512', 'text': 'that body that will not decay,'}, {'start': '3415.111', 'end': '3419.048', 'text': "that never dies, that's promised"}, {'start': '3416.579', 'end': '3422.351', 'text': 'an eternal position right by our'}, {'start': '3419.115', 'end': '3423.519', 'text': 'Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.'}, {'start': '3422.418', 'end': '3425.388', 'text': "That's what this day means. This"}, {'start': '3423.586', 'end': '3426.589', 'text': "day isn't about hope for"}, {'start': '3425.455', 'end': '3428.624', 'text': 'tomorrow. Yes, it can bring'}, {'start': '3426.656', 'end': '3431.027', 'text': "that, but it's hope for all of"}, {'start': '3428.691', 'end': '3434.730', 'text': 'us who know what our end is. And'}, {'start': '3431.094', 'end': '3437.166', 'text': 'that is in Him we shall be like'}, {'start': '3434.797', 'end': '3439.035', 'text': 'Him. You may have to go through'}, {'start': '3437.233', 'end': '3441.471', 'text': 'the valleys right here, just as'}, {'start': '3439.102', 'end': '3443.806', 'text': 'He did in His lifetime. But the'}, {'start': '3441.538', 'end': '3445.341', 'text': 'promise is He is with us, He has'}, {'start': '3443.873', 'end': '3447.643', 'text': 'not left us, He has not forsaken'}, {'start': '3445.408', 'end': '3450.780', 'text': 'us, and at the center of it all'}, {'start': '3447.710', 'end': '3452.315', 'text': 'He is risen. He is risen indeed.'}, {'start': '3450.847', 'end': '3453.983', 'text': 'Happy Easter, and I pray for the'}, {'start': '3452.382', 'end': '3456.219', 'text': 'people who have not yet come to'}, {'start': '3454.050', 'end': '3457.420', 'text': 'this conclusion. Do your'}, {'start': '3456.286', 'end': '3458.888', 'text': 'homework, friends, because it'}, {'start': '3457.487', 'end': '3461.624', 'text': 'pays off big time when you start'}, {'start': '3458.955', 'end': '3463.559', 'text': 'having a real reality check that'}, {'start': '3461.691', 'end': '3464.927', 'text': 'He is who He said He was, and'}, {'start': '3463.626', 'end': '3466.829', 'text': 'the proof is in the book. You'}, {'start': '3464.994', 'end': '3467.997', 'text': 'just need to do a little work to'}, {'start': '3466.896', 'end': '3469.599', 'text': 'ferret it out as I showed you'}, {'start': '3468.064', 'end': '3471.067', 'text': 'today. But for those people who'}, {'start': '3469.666', 'end': '3472.134', 'text': "are willing to look, it's kind"}, {'start': '3471.134', 'end': '3474.437', 'text': 'of mind-blowing, and you walk'}, {'start': '3472.201', 'end': '3475.438', 'text': 'away from this saying, “Yeah,'}, {'start': '3474.504', 'end': '3477.340', 'text': "this is not something that I'm"}, {'start': '3475.505', 'end': '3480.209', 'text': 'going to treat marginally. This'}, {'start': '3477.407', 'end': '3481.477', 'text': 'is something worthy of praise,'}, {'start': '3480.276', 'end': '3482.745', 'text': "worthy of saying, 'Thank You,"}, {'start': '3481.544', 'end': '3485.748', 'text': "for the sacrifice,' for knowing"}, {'start': '3482.812', 'end': '3489.018', 'text': 'my end is not darkness in a cold'}, {'start': '3485.815', 'end': '3490.386', 'text': 'grave, but eternity with Him.”'}, {'start': '3489.085', 'end': '3491.988', 'text': 'And that is our promise also. We'}, {'start': '3490.453', 'end': '3493.322', 'text': 'all claim that together,'}, {'start': '3492.055', 'end': '3496.659', 'text': "in Jesus' name."}, {'start': '3493.389', 'end': '3497.460', 'text': "That's my message."}, {'start': '3496.726', 'end': '3498.794', 'text': 'You have been watching me,'}, {'start': '3497.527', 'end': '3500.296', 'text': 'Pastor Melissa Scott, live from'}, {'start': '3498.861', 'end': '3502.398', 'text': 'Glendale, California at Faith'}, {'start': '3500.363', 'end': '3503.599', 'text': 'Center. If you would like to'}, {'start': '3502.465', 'end': '3505.001', 'text': 'attend the service with us,'}, {'start': '3503.666', 'end': '3508.771', 'text': 'Sunday morning at 11am, simply'}, {'start': '3505.068', 'end': '3511.140', 'text': 'call 1-800-338-3030 to receive'}, {'start': '3508.838', 'end': '3512.775', 'text': "your pass. If you'd like more"}, {'start': '3511.207', 'end': '3514.010', 'text': 'teaching and you would like to'}, {'start': '3512.842', 'end': '3514.877', 'text': 'go straight to our website,'}, {'start': '3514.077', 'end': '3515.377', 'text': 'the address is'}, {'start': '3514.944', 'end': '3516.677', 'text': 'www.PastorMelissaScott.com'}]