we've been talking about jesus's sacrifice on the cross but if we don't actually also talk about the
resurrection then it was just suffering and death and and just almost a shame like why but this
is this incredible dynamic and i want every person to know that it says for the hope set before him
right jesus endured the cross and what i believe is that jesus was saying i believe on the other
side of this cross is a resurrected people i want to read to you from matthew chapter 27 verses 51
through 53 it says at that moment so when jesus died at that moment the curtain in the sanctuary
of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom now that's something we need to pay attention
it wasn't from bottom to top it was from top to bottom the earth shook rocks split apart
tombs were opened and the bodies of many godly men and women so many godly men and women who had died
were raised from the dead they left the cemetery after jesus's resurrection went into the holy city
of jerusalem and appeared to many people you guys resurrection power yeah and i have a friend who is
a rabbi who explained to me why that veil had to be torn why that curtain needed to be rent
was that actually there was nothing remaining in the holy of holies the ark of the covenant had
been taken and jesus was saying there is nothing it wasn't that the holy spirit was in prison
because jesus was always operating by his spirit breathing on his disciples the spirit it was that
he was saying the resurrection has happened there is no longer a barrier between heaven and earth me
and god and man you can have this incredible power this same spirit that raised christ from the grave
dwells in you and i and i just want to challenge how have you guys seen that resurrection life
worked out in your personal life well can i take just a quick rabbit trail because this is one of
my favorite dramatic passages in matt's gospel yeah and i just want to focus on it for just a
second because it's so cool that matthew gives us these details because you know the curtain was it
was 60 feet long 30 feet wide rabbinic scholars say it was as thick as a man's palm took 300
priests to move it so we're talking mega drapes we're not talking like living room curtains we're
talking about a massive drape yep so when it was ripped and i love that you said from top to bottom
lisa which god did the ripping he makes it real clear i planned the whole thing in acts he said
you think that pilate you think all these guys did the crucifixion no i planned the whole thing
and then my favorite thing about that story is in acts 6 7 you know the temple curtain was torn in
two at the exact time that they were going through the you know wrote ritual of worship in the temple
and it says an act so priests are standing there you know blessing babies passing out candles
whatever they were doing at that time when the curtain rips behind him and it says in acts 6 7
and many of the priests came to faith in jesus christ i'm like i bet they did i bet they did
stand in there so i just i love that it's almost after the sobriety of the cross you get this it's
not just a resurrection party in power i mean it's like nothing they had ever experienced
before it's so supernatural yeah well think about that that was the holy of holies that's where the
presence of god right and he said no longer is it in there just for the priest i am yep i am loose
you've been to israel many many many many times and we were there i've been
there quite a few times but i i'd had the privilege of being there a few years ago
on yom kippur and you yom kippur is the highest holy day in the jewish calendar
where they believe that that's when the priest would have gone into the holy of holies
and whoever the high priest was they would basically give a confession for the sins of all
of israel and the prayer that said on yom kippur is may i be inscribed with a good inscription in
other words i hope you'll forgive all the mistakes i made over the last 364 days maybe just maybe
i'll be inscribed with a good inscription today and so you think the hope that was ushered in
when that curtain was torn that it's not your hope isn't based on one man once a year going
into the presence of god that now we have access to the living god just immediately he inclines
he cups his ear and clines his ear to listen to us everything about the resurrection is it's the hope
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