A Resurrected Jesus Births a Resurrected Faith

Good Friday isn't a once a year remembrance. It's a daily one that should keep us anchored in our faithfulness to the one who died on our behalf. Jesus died for you when he was innocent. We were guilty, but he took that wrath. Who cares what your testimony is? Let his testimony cause you to embrace the cost of discipleship. [01:23:48] (21 seconds)  #AnchoredInChrist

And you never read of them abandoning him ever again. Like, it, like, it literally it didn't just give them a an emotional restoration of faith. You never see them abandon him again, and you read of their persecution all throughout the book of Acts. And even in church history, you read of their persecution, but they never abandoned him again. Why? Because the resurrection of Jesus really, actually, for real, birthed in them a restoration of their faith. [01:50:26] (30 seconds)  #FaithThatEndures

Right? But the commission to tell the disciples he is going where he told them he would meet them is a commission to tell the faithless and wavering disciples that even though they were not faithful, God still is and is and restoration is available to them. He says, remember where I told you I would meet you? I know you left me. Guess what? Meet me where I told you I'd be. Yeah. [01:38:01] (22 seconds)  #MeetHimWherePromised

The only reason some of us in the circumstances that we're in is because we focused on the circumstance, trying to get the solution and a problem that created a bigger problem, and now we got another problem, and now we're focusing on two circumstances, and now we're looking for a problem to solve two circumstances that still ain't Jesus. And I promise you, you're gonna have three circumstances. Because we keep looking for them in places that got no ability. Why are you at the tomb? You at the tomb because you forgot the promise. [01:33:16] (30 seconds)  #PromiseNotCircumstance

She already did this. Why? Because Jesus knew he wasn't gonna be there for you to do it, So she prepared his body ahead of time. So I appreciate that you did it. I appreciate your intention. I appreciate your heart. But here's the thing, you shouldn't be at this tomb. And the only reason you're at this tomb is because you focused on the circumstance instead of the promise. [01:32:57] (19 seconds)  #PreparedNotStuck

Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Loneliness problem won't it's not in the DM. It is not in the club. Your pain and your trauma is not in the weed, man, or the bar. But when we're so preoccupied with our circumstances and our situations, we start looking for our solutions in places that it cannot be found. [01:32:13] (20 seconds)  #HealingNotInTheClub

The very thing that Jesus told them is the cost of following me. When it came time for the rubber to meet the road, they all did the opposite. They no longer followed him, and they were ashamed to confess him. And many Christians today are rewriting the abandonment story in their own lives, desiring to follow Christ while also trying to avoid their cross. And so to they don't stand boldly with them. They get silent and quiet and ashamed when the big mouth world starts running their wicked mouth, [00:59:45] (36 seconds)  #StandNotHide

So that means while the whole region was against Jesus and the crowds were calling for his life, these women were not afraid to still identify with Jesus, and that is the cost of discipleship. And pay attention, because not only were they faithful through the good, through the arrest, through the journey to the cross, embracing the cross of discipleship and Jesus' death, they are still faithful to him now that he's dead. [01:05:11] (27 seconds)  #FaithfulThroughItAll