“Why Do You Look for the Living Among the Dead?” | Luke 24:1–12

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launch into actually a saying that's during the Resurrection, because

this week's all about Jesus' final words. This was certainly

among them. But before we get to that, we actually

have a segment called Hot Takes, Hot Showdown. I don't

know is it? Is it a showdown? Is that appropriately titled?

Because because Desiree rarely makes mistakes.

Oh rarely, so implying that you think it may be

wrong implying that she does.

That's right, you are wrong.

Okay. Well, anyway, Desiree has instructions here that says, do

you agree with this statement or not? Defend your answer

exclamation mark?

Okay you ready, yes, go ahead. Candy corn is delicious.

That's it.

That's period. So do we'd agree with this statement or not?

Ah?

No?

Okay, so a resounding no. Okay.

So here's what the capital heck.

No, here's the thing. I like candy corn.

Pardon my language, note h G c K.

Hey listen, I actually I actually I don't think I

would call it delicious, but you like. But if there

was a bowl of candy corn, I could definitely see

myself picking up a handful and eating one by one.

But you don't care for chocolate. Those are two different monster,

are you?

Those are two different things altogether?

What are you like? Three years old? Are you serious?

When I think candy corn and you don't like.

I'm gonna give you a movie trivia? Okay, okay, oh

candy corn. Let me help you to finish it.

I don't know, but it sounds like an Arnes fors

Andegger voice, well kind of.

It was the voice for a bugs life it was

the big large caterpillar. Yeah, he's walking by the fly

inside the he goes, ooh, candy corn, let me help

you to finish it.

Yeah. I am not a candy corn fan, man, I

like candy corn. I'm pretty sure they had one run

of candy corn.

Yeah.

They just keep packaging it and sending it.

Back up to people because nobody bought it.

Yeah, it's terrible.

Yeah, candy corn is definitely a staple though.

Halloween it is. It's everywhere. Do you remember getting.

Candy corn in your trick or treat bag?

Yes? I would be so mad.

We'd eat all of it, really, every single bit of it.

Wow, well you know what I think you might. You

are now my new best friend. Why because I never

have to compete with you for chocolate, that's true, And

you never have to compete with you with with kendy corn.

So if we're ever in a situation where there's a

bunch of candy thrown our way, you give me all

your candy corn.

I'll give you all the chib Okay, Okay, there we go.

Perfect if that ever happens.

Ever, I can't believe. I just thought this was going

to be a no brainer. By the way that we

thought that was when I was a kid, I.

Liked it a lot more. I still like it. I

just don't love it. But as a kid, I would

have said it was delicious.

Yes, okay, all right, number two? All right, number two.

Referees influence NFL games with their calls to keep them close.

Is that true? Not true?

It depends on what is meant by this statement. In

other words, in other words, here's what this statement. Here's

what this statement implies to me. It implies that saying

is that the referees job, like across the board, every referee,

their shadow mission is to make sure that the games

are always close by every call that they make, like

in other words, like, that's the purpose of the calls.

Right, Oh, Like is that what you think that done?

You've done this. You have done this as a youth

faster where you make rules to make it competitive. Yeah,

so so like that's what it's saying, right. But but

that is a different statement than the Kansas City Chiefs

refs buyofs, which is very famous of course, right to

the fact that there are referees today in the NFL

who are getting paid under the table to help the

Kansas City chiefs.

You watch too many YouTube videos, so you think that's

more likely that there are teams getting paid off.

Now, let me let me make this statement defendive. Let

me take me defenditively. I'm not saying it's likely, but

I am definitely saying it's way more likely than this statement.

Yeah, so I read this statement, I don't think. I

don't read the statement all referees influence NFL games with

their calls to keep them close as their shadow mission.

I think all and as their shadow mission. You added,

I think it could be some referees sometimes influenced.

It doesn't say some. It says referees, which means all referees.

It doesn't it so it doesn't quantify the number of

referees one way or the other. It can be read

either way.

I guess. So, But then why not say some because

referees sort of implies all referees.

I don't know. I don't know, But what I'm saying

is it could just be on occasion. I think you're

subconscious wants a good game, and I think I think

it can be one of those moments where you just go, ah, right,

I'm not gonna call that. Yeah, And I think that

that's what happens. A lot of times they could call

they could call holding on every single play.

Oh yeah, there there are a lot of holdings that

get away with every they play they let something.

So then all of a sudden, there's four holding calls

in a row, and they move you back twenty hours

and can't get the next first down, and then you

have to pump.

The ball if you're playing against the Chiefs.

And so that's what I'm saying is they they do

pick and choose what calls they make. Yeah, And so

then the question here is do you think they do

that in order to keep the game close?

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

Well, we have to take we have to take a

hot take. We have to say yes or no. We

agree with that, don't.

Okay, I don't think that that's what they do.

You don't think they do.

But I do think that that some referees do get

paid under the table and have been crooked. Wow, I

do for sure.

Wow. Yeah, yeah, only only on.

Behalf of the Well, well, I'll tell you what the

the How.

Did a team like the Chiefs in a small towel

market wind up getting to the point where they win so

many Super Bowls.

Right, Well, honestly, the Chiefs just through Taylor swifts in

Travis Kelcey relationship. But they just get engaged. By the way.

You know that, Okay, did you know that?

I'm super thrilled.

Did you know that.

This doesn't mean no, I didn't know that.

Okay, good. I was wanting to make sure that you

didn't know that because I was I was afraid that

maybe you were unwilling to admit that you knew that. Okay,

they just got engaged.

Oh well, congratulations Jason and Taylor. If you're listening.

Taylor, if you're listening, I have one word for you. Prenup.

Anyway, we never advised prenups Bible.

I'm just kidding. I just saw that in the YouTube video.

Somebody said he was a lawyer. But no, here's what

I'm saying. I'm saying that we need to wrap this up.

But I'm saying definitively that the the the movement that

was going around in the last couple of years was

specifically for the Chiefs. And so what happened is the

Chiefs would play and then people would build their evidence.

They would throw it all on you know, Instagram reels

or whatever, and then you'd sit there and watch this

and analyze it. And I'm telling you that if somebody

wasn't being paid under the table, it was the big

coincidence in the history of ever.

Yeah. Well, I think you'd have to combine that with

how many horrible calls have been made against the Lions

over left, and apparently somebody's paying those same refs to

go against us.

Yeah, no doubt.

Right, So I don't know, no doubt it's coincidence. But anyways,

so for the four listeners that made it through the

Candy Corn and NFL conversation, by the way.

The difference is the Chiefs made the NFL millions and

millions and millions and millions more than the Lions did.

Sure, that's why.

Sure, that's why.

Yeah, but they just hate us for some reason. So

for all of our for all four listeners that made

it all the way through the Candy Corn conversation, yes,

and then through the NFL Football conversation, we're going to

pivot into Luke chapter twenty four. Yes, right, Oh, which

I have is that the transition. I have no transition.

Jesus rises from the dead.

Here wait if if you made it through that, then

that means that you you you've survived a lot, you

can overcome a lot. And you know who else overcame something.

Jesus, Jesus when from the grave. Yeah, okay, good job,

good job.

I was fighting for it.

Good job, Chris, I found something. One is more important

than the other. But hey, okay, Luke. Chapter twenty four,

verse one says, but very early on Sunday morning, the

women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared,

and they found that the stone had been rolled away

from the entrance. So they went in, but they didn't

find the body the Lord Jesus. As they stood there, puzzled,

two men suddenly appeared to them, clothed in dazzling robes.

The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to

the ground. And then the men asked, why are you

looking among the dead for someone who is alive. He

isn't here. He's risen from the dead. Remember what he

told you back in Galilee, that the son of Man

must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and

be crucified, and then he would rise again on the

third day. Then they remembered that he had said this,

and so they rushed back from the tomb to tell

his eleven disciples and everyone else what had happened. It

was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary, the mother of James, and

several other women who told the apostles what had happened,

but the story sounded like nonsense to the men, so

they didn't believe it. However, Peter jumped up and ran

to the tomb to look. Stooping, he peered in and

saw the empty linen wrappings, and then he went home again,

wondering what had happened.

Hmm, there it is.

Yeah, so though, why did you why do you look

for the living among the dead? Is not a statement

from Jesus? Oh, but I think he'd be a big

fan of it and have it on his podcast. Anyways.

Oh yeah, well this is this is actually yeah, this

would be as far as I know, this is the

only time that we're talking about a statement that isn't

made by Jesus.

Yah, it's about him.

It's about him. Yeah, yeah.

Anyway.

Now, to be fair, Jesus did in other passages and

other gospels, Jesus did say to Mary, who was crying

by the tomb, who is it that you're searching for, right.

I believe? So, no, he did, he did, Yes, he did,

he did.

And so we did a whole Eastern Remember all seventeen services.

I preached seven of them, but I was a big attention. Yeah,

I'm sure you were paying attention. So in fact, they

were fabulous. Anyway, So Jesus did sort of ask a

similar question, right, why do you look for the living

among the dead? I believe that Jesus's question actually implies

that who who is it that you're searching for? Because

remember Mary was crying and she thought he was the gardener,

and he says, who are you searching for?

And in such a sage, and so it really is.

And what we did was we took on Easter Sunday,

we took that phrase and what we said was, are

you looking Have you walked in through the doors of

this church expecting a dead Jesus, a Jesus that is

not alive, that's not powerful, a Jesus that is not resurrected,

that that can't say to you from your sins or

your soul, like, are you are you looking for that

kind of Jesus? Or are you looking for the Jesus

who is who's conquered sin and death and is all powerful,

can give us a home in heaven and give us

life abundantly now. And so that was the question today.

That was the answer to that question, John twenty, Which

Jesus are you looking for?

Right? That's great?

And the Angel just said it plainly. Why are you

looking for someone who's living among the dead dead? You

came expecting a dead Jesus, but he's not dead anymore.

I think about that sometimes. Isn't it interesting how we

live so much of our life looking for peace. We

look for happiness and joy and blessing. We look for opportunity,

we look for meaning and purpose and relationships. I can

just go on and on all the things. We spend

all of our life searching for love. And we're searching

for all of those things among the dead. But Jesus

is the Prince of peace. God is love. He's the

only source of our purpose.

So explain what you mean by that looking for that

among the dead.

So the Bible says that we are dead in our

sins right until we're made alive in Christ. So when

we do what the whole rest of the world does,

and we look for satisfaction where the rest of the

world looks for satisfaction. We live the same lifestyle the

whole rest of the world lives. There. We're literally living

among the walking dead, that's what we're doing. And we're

looking for hope and satisfaction among them, when really the

God Man is the only solution that really brings real

love and real joy and real peace to our life.

We look for all those things among the dead all

the time. We do it too.

Yep.

I think it's fair for God to ask us the

same question.

Yeah, righty, look for the living among the dead.

Yeah, we're looking for life in the places of death

all the time.

I think it was twenty fifteen. I did a series

right after Easter and it was called The Walking Dead. Yeah,

and so it was after the you know, the zombie

thing or whatever.

Yeah, when the show was popular.

Yep. And uh, And it was sort of the same idea, right.

It was the idea that, like, we are dead in

our sins, you know, we're the walking dead. Until we

it was just kind of neat. So yeah, that's really

that's really great. So now let's go back to the beginning.

On the very first sentence.

It comes to you here it is, it says thank you.

It says but very early on Sunday morning. H last

week on the Bible guys, we talked about how the

Jewish calendar starts at six am. That's correct, and it

goes to, uh, you know, so six am till six

pm or the first twelve hours, and that's when the

sun is generally up, and then starting at six pm

when the sun goes down. They called that night, and

so that their twenty four hours would have been six

am to six am. So on Sunday morning when it

says early on Sunday morning, one verse one Gospel says, well,

it was still dark, so it was it was right

at the crack of dawn. Now, remember last podcast, you

and I said, there's gonna be a lot of things

when we get to heaven, we'll say wow. Right. I

believe that that rising of the sun is also symbolic.

Right when Jesus says I'm the Light of the world,

you know, there's there's a new dawn. It's a new day,

as mercies are, you know, made new every morning. Just

the idea that that they came right at first light

to the tomb, I think was also symbolic as well.

I said, right, but it was wrong. It's sunset to

sunset is how they measure their day.

Did I get it wrong? Six pm to six pm?

Yes, it's sunset to sunset, which that close to the

equator tends to be six to six Is that?

Did I say it wrong?

Yeah? Because I looked it up real quick, I was like,

I think that's wrong. I'm sorry. Oh yeah, so a

it's normally it's sunset to sunset, sun to sunset to

sun Remember in the Book of Genesis, evening and morning

were the first day yep, over and over and over

and even in the morning with second day evening, and

so they keep they manage their days by evening morning.

So amazing thing about Sabbath is so.

I was on the wrong six right, that's right. Okay,

So it wasn't six am, it's six six p Yeah,

that's right.

So the the way that the Sabbath works, and it's

so clever, especially for business people, is the evening of

Friday begins Sabbath and it ends evening on Saturday. So

you can work right up until Sabbath begins on Friday

and you can pick up your work after Sabbath ends

on Saturday, but you still have a twenty four hour

window of rest and reconnection with God. Right. That that's

how it worked. So it's a really interesting.

Oh wait, oh you know what. You know what the

reason why I got confused is because like, for instance,

you know how they always say like on the ninth hour,

remember he cried out on the cross, and then another

translation will say three in the afternoon, right, well, nine

hours from you know, you know three in afternoon. You

go back at that six am, so you would say, oh,

then it's the ninth hour of the day, right, And

what they're saying is at least check GPT is actually

looking up Jewish custom and Jewish calendars, right, and it

actually says, yes, that is correct, But it's it's counting

the day as those twelve hours, so it would say

evening and day. So it's not saying like we say a.

Full day time yes, yeah, yeah, we.

Would say day is midnight to midnight, right, us, we

would say that's one full day, So we're using the

word day even when it's dark. When they're saying day,

they're saying those twelve hours. So when they're saying it

was the ninth hour. They're saying it was the ninth

hour of lighttime O daytime.

So based on Genesis, evening and morning were the first day, correct,

So evening from sunset all the way until sunset.

I'm not saying that it's not called a day. Yeah,

what I'm saying is the ninth hour, third hour, sixth hour.

They were counting from that six am spot.

From six am.

Yeah, and they were calling that day sunrise from sunrise

daytime correct, not the day.

Yeah. Yeah, okay, boy, that was confusing for our listeners.

Well I messed up on it on the air, and.

Go ahead, and that's okay.

But either way, it was still dark.

What you were getting at was at this very moment

when the sun rise.

That's all. That's all. I just got the times wrong.

But but either way, it says very early on Sunday morning,

and we know that the sun was just coming up

because of what we read in all four of the gospels.

So but yeah, so Jesus appears to them and and

but that's not before the angels did. Hey, by the way,

let's talk about this for a minute. So in one gospel,

it says that they were dazzling white and the other

one that says they were sitting on the tomb. So

obviously all of those things are correct.

And one gospel says there was one angel, there was

one mentions yeah, only.

Mentions one angel. Yeah. But either way all have to

be true, right, So they're written from different perspectives. So

all of those things, when you piece them together, we

know that there were multiple angels, and we assume that

the angels were the ones that rolled away the stone

or did God roll away the stone?

I don't know.

It doesn't say it, does it, I don't think. So

have you ever heard of sermons about.

That angels rolled away?

Well, I mean I've heard, I've heard different people talk

about it. But either way, the stones rolled away, and

Jesus is not yet ascended to his father and he

comes out and interacts with Mary.

So the angels, it's interesting sometimes people will point to

the fact that one book says it was one angel,

one book says it was two angels, another book says

two angels clothed and in bright robes. Whatever. I think.

One of the gospels doesn't even mention the angels, right,

so they must be lies because they don't agree. Right. Well,

if you don't mention any of the angels. The resurrection

still happen, so that's right. They're not the cause of

the resurrect So the angels are are secondary players in

the story. So it doesn't matter if you don't mention them.

It doesn't matter. If you mentioned that there's two angels,

that's fine, that's great. Apparently there were two angels, right,

But then if you say, well, there was one angel,

only one spoke. So in the passage where it says

and the angel spoke, say there was only one angel, right,

it just says the angel spoke right, right, And there

was an angel there dressed in white or whatever, and

he spoke, And so of the two angels, only one

of them speaks, and that's how that works, so it

can reconcile all of them, right.

Well, if anything, we've mentioned this before, but if anything,

it makes it more believable because from four different accounts,

the stories are going to be told four different ways.

And if this was all a lie, they would have

made a congruent.

Oh right, right, They would have colluded so that the

story was exactly the same from all four with you exactly.

Yeah, yeah, Why would they leave any room otherwise?

Yeah, so these are these are not opposing views, the

different perspectives, different perspectives of the same things.

And not to mention just because one doesn't feel like

mentioning a fact doesn't mean that it didn't happen. It

just means he's not mentioning the fact, right, right, right.

So anyways, this is the big question. The ladies come

and they're looking for the resurrected Jesus, and where are

you looking for the living among the dead? I think

back to the beginning of our conversation here, that's a

temptation for all of us. We have to really be

aware of where are we looking for real life? We're

not going to find it where all the walking dead

people are living, right that it's just not We're only

going to find it in Christ and in God's ways,

God's words, all those kinds of things. And so you know,

the angels kind of hinting it. You're kind of wasting

your time, ladies, right. The other one is I wanted

to highlight the fact that these same four ladies keep

showing up all the time, right, it's the other Mary

is the mother of James and John. You've got Mary Magdalene,

is there You've got all these ladies, man talking about

incredibly loyal, godly women that are willing to won. They're

risking their reputations in their lives, you know, to go

down there. This was a sealed tomb being guarded by guards.

How did they even think they were going to get in?

Yeah? Right, right, Well they men just been going to

pay homage.

Or well they brought the spices to Annoin in his body.

Oh yeah, that's right, right, So I don't know how.

Maybe they were just hoping, or.

Maybe maybe it was doable, because it does say several ladies.

Yeah, so how courageous are they compared to the disciples

the men are hiding? So you know, these ladies have

come up multiple times, just in the stories we've told

this week, let alone, all throughout Jesus ministry. I highlighted

the fact that it was those four ladies that were

funding Jesus ministry all the way back at the early

part of his ministry. I just highlighted a couple days ago, right,

these four ladies were well known associates of Jesus. Well

for this, it's not like, oh, don't worry about it.

They're just ladies. Right if the men were being hunted,

so were the women. But the women and weren't afraid.

And it just shows you sometimes how much more courageous

and uh significant that contribution is.

Well, women, I always say, ladies, women first to the cross,

first of the tomb. Yeah right. And by the way,

one more thing, and that is I love the fact

that the angels say he isn't here, he's written from

the dead, and then they say, remember what he told you,

and then it says and then they've remembered what he

had said. And oftentimes in our lives we will see

the promises of God unfold and then will be surprised,

and then it's only then that we remember that God

promised the whole time. Anyway, right, have you ever have

you ever seen that It's like God comes through and

all of a sudden you're like, I can't believe God

came through, and it's like, wait a minute. He promises

to take care of us, you know, he gives us

specific promises. And it was the angels that had to

remind them this was a promise. Jesus said he was

going to do this, which means it's a promise. And

so every time that we doubt and every time we have,

you know, a lack of hope and we're living in despair,

we need to first tell ourselves, hey, let's go back

to the promises of God. What does God promise for

us or to us? And we need to remember that

God's promises are going to come true even when it

seems like it's darkest, right, because that's what happened to

here man.

That's powerful man.

Yep. Okay, well, that's a great place to end. That's

our time, so hopefully we will see you tomorrow on

the babble. Guys,