Pivot! (Week One)

Well, good morning church family. I am back at our church on this beautiful morning on April 19th, and we're going to be starting our series title pick this week. And we're going to be going through the next six to seven weeks on the appearances of Jesus in the encounters and he has with people individuals and groups. And so I'm excited. I hope you are too if you joined us last week for Easter. I was kind of like an intro to it. And so so excited to jump right into it today. And before we get into it, I just want to pray over the series pray over today and then we'll get into the message which if you have your Bibles you can open up to John chapter 20 will be spending most of the time in verses 11 to 18 soaked father. We just thank you so much for this opportunity to come before you would be so much nicer to meet in person with one another. Lord You Have you open up the door that we have our hearts that we can be united through Jesus Lord in spirit and in truth and virtual we just thank you for the hope that we have in you where we thank you for the the community that we have in you and knowing that don't worry. We're far apart. We haven't seen each other for a while or that's a that our love and our commitment I Remains the Same to one another as your church. We just thank you. And your name? Amen? So there's there's as you look at the resurrection Story the tomb does questions that often arise from it. Was there one Angel was there two angels. Was it Mary Magdalene and just the other Mary was there other women at this time? And so before we get into the main message today, I think it'll help to have a little bit of History. So we're going to look at just a different encounters Matthew Matthew Mark Luke and John and we're going to look at the stories. We're going to kind of start at the end of the burial work our way through there. But if you open up to Matthew and keep your patient at John 20, we're going to go back to that in the end. But but if you open up with me to to Matthew, we're going to look at the end of 27 which is a ring to find in 61 vs. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite of the Tomb. This is right at the does Preparation day is the burial Jesus. They were there the other Mary sitting at the tomb we don't know exactly who that is, but we'll find out just a little bit if you get into Matthew 28 Converse one it says after the Sabbath at dawn on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. So they're both are there at the tomb the next day. There was a violent earthquake for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and going to the tomb rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning in his clothes were white as snow. The guards was so afraid of him that they should be K Mike. Dedmon. The angel said to the women's do not be afraid for I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified he's not here he is risen just as he sent come and see the place where he lay, then go quickly and tell his disciples he is risen from the dead and is going ahead of you is Galilee there. You will see him now. I have told you and so the women went in a hurry first aid after I feel the joy and ran to him tell his disciples suddenly Jesus met them their greetings. He said they came to him clasped his feet and worship him. Jesus said to them don't go until my brothers and go to Galilee there. They will see me. So this is one encounter that we have. We know that Mary magdalene's they're married the other The Other Woman married and then it says the women is just made me really a reference to women and that they had an encounter these women had an encounter with Jesus on the way back cuz they went to go tell the disciples not forget him to Mark. Let's look at Mark chapter 15, and we're going to look at the end of 15. Joseph like we said last week Joseph and Nicodemus where they're preparing Jesus's body and and then a stone is rolled against the entrance to Min verse 47 chapter 15 verse is Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid where to talk about these women is a second who they were but now we see who the other Mary was Mary the mother of Joseph. Chapter 16 through Jesus when the Sabbath was over Mary Magdalene Mary the mother of James and Salome but spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus a body early the first day of the week just after Sunrise they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each other who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the Tomb. The sword of the stone which was very large had been rolled away as they entered the tomb they saw a young man dressed in white robe sitting on the right side and they were alarmed don't feel worms. She said you are looking for Jesus the Nazarene who was crucified he is risen. He is not here see the place where they laid him, but go tell his disciples and Peter is going ahead of you in 2 gal least there. You will see him just as he told you verse 18 the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone because they were afraid.

It's on the other on under as they're leaving to go to the Cypress didn't tell anybody else. They just they just win. So as you look at Luke now, we're going to look at Luke and we're going to start in chapter 23, going to look at the last part of it in 55 and 56 and says of the women who had come with Jesus From Galilee fall of Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was late in it. Then they went home instead of spices in perfumes, but they rested on the Sabbath it says but all those who knew him including the women who have followed him down at least it at a distance watching these things. So they were watching the death of Jesus. So these women were where there for the death of Jesus they were there for the burial Jesus and some of them were there for the the resurrection of Jesus and then in chapter 24 of Luke is on the first day of the week is very early in the morning the women brought took. Places to get repaired and went to the tomb know we don't hear any mention of any any of the women's names in your way just the women so they found the stone rolled away from the tomb but when they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus while they were wondering about this suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning Stood Beside them in their fright the women bow down with their faces to the ground with the men said to them why you look for the living among the dead he is not here. He is risen. Remember how he told you while he was still with you in the Galilee the son of man must be delivered over to the hands of Sinners be crucified and on the third day raised again, then they remembered his words. When it came back from the tomb they told all these things to the 11th and to all the others and verse 10 says it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna Mary the mother of James and the others with them who told this to the apostles, but they did not believe the women because their words seemed to them like nonsense Peter. However, got up and ran to the tomb bending over he saw the strips of linen flying by themselves and he went away wondering to himself what had happened when you keep in mind that this is Gospel the perspectives are from the different disciples is the right in this so just because Luke not include that John was there doesn't mean that John wasn't there we see in in the Gospel of John that he included himself in here. We see in in Matthew and Mark that other women were named. However, Luke doesn't name specifically but it gives you a picture and you can pay the piece of the puzzle. Together by this and see what it what happened through the the the stories here. Now if you go to John 20:19 rain start in and then we'll go into 20, but it's talking about the burial of Jesus and it's simply just says that that Joseph of Arimathea was there and Nicodemus was there and he was bringing the spices and they prepared Jesus the body and they took his body they wrapped him up if the parent of the spices and chords to Jewish burial customs and reading chapter 15 of John chapter 19 of John Cena verse 4141 at the place where Jesus was crucified. There's a Garden Inn in the garden new tune in which no one has ever been laid because it was a Jewish Day of preparation. And since the tomb is nearby they lead Jesus there that is no mention of who is there but we know from before that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary witness the burial John chapter 26 is early on the first day of the week while I was still dark Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone has been removed from the entrance. So and here we only see that is Mary Magdalene. So she came running to Simon Peter in the other disciple. The one Jesus loved and said they have taken the Lord out of the Tomb and we don't know where they put him. So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb both were running but the cycle outran Peter and reach the tomb first event over and looked in the strips of land along behind as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus's head. The cloth was still lying in its place separate from the linen. Finally the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went inside. He saw and believed they still didn't understand from scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead. Gentle Cycles went back to where they were staying at. This is our passage last week as we talked about Easter in the empty tomb and I read those four gospels because to get the different perspectives and to understand who is there how many angels do this? There's a lot of rumors and end in ful speeches. I've been going around but really what's happening is that tough when you have the women that were there is a tomb and they didn't yet see Jesus, but they were at the tomb they saw that his body wasn't there. They first saw an angel that was sitting on top of the storm that Angels Angel of the Lord the angel that rolled away from rolled away. The stone of this. Angel is was was comforting them and he said that he's risen he's not here and so they went inside they looked so that was one in there. We get an account of two other Angels inside now, their message was not different than the first Angel is the same thing that you know, it's he's not here, you know. Don't be afraid he's reassuring them. It's not contradicting itself. There's just two instances of one Angel outside. You roll the stone away to Angels inside the comfort of the women and where they were and confront the message that you need to go now until the other disciples that Jesus is risen. And so these women you know, where commission to go and tell the other disciples. It's the angels all have the same unifying message. In fact, the angels in inside had said I reminded them of what Jesus said back in a week 9 de Libras Evers 21 or 22. The Jesus even said that he predict his death that he's going to have to go get amongst Spinners that are going to commit his death and that he's going to rise again on the third day. So the angels are committing them and reassuring them of God's word when Jesus said to them now, if you look at these women, we have a specific names that are that are mentioned of women at work. Football in this time and it's important to mention because as we know at the time of the crucifixion all of the men had had pretty much gone the women were the only ones that stay and we can often wonder why that was well back in those days women were less likely to be arrested. You know, we could also say that women are brave men and honesty of seeing my wife give birth and so I'm going to test you that that women are braver than men. But but if you look at it whether regardless of of the reason we know that the women were there they were watching from a distance but they were there at the crucifixion Jesus these women that he no doubt. No doubt Mary the mother of Jesus was there Mary Magdalene was definitely there at the crucifixion Salome was there we know that Joanna and another lady who is mentioned later is Susana, who is there a Jo-Ann and Susanna and Mary Magdalene all had encounters. Jesus in the fact that they were they were they had demons that were exercise from them in Jesus's earlier Ministry. And so these women really have to be in Fall Jesus over time and each one is women a little bit. I mentioned some of them a little bit more than others, but as we looked at Salome Salome was a woman who is married to Zebedee Fe recall back in early in Jesus's Ministry. Zebedee was the prosperous fisherman in the father of James and John and they had other kids with James and John went on to be Disciples of Jesus Testament writer. And James was not the one who wrote the book of James the fact there was another woman there who had a son named James and they named him James the last or James the younger I to differentiate himself from the other James who is a disciple and that James's mother was named. Her name is Mary. Mary was a common name back then and so they would say Mary wife of you know, Mary Magdalene, which we'll talk about a second refers to where she's from but Mary Mother of Jesus. She was one of the women of Galilee mentioned in the scriptures that say that this Mary had to had the Sun and James been a son named Joseph and and so James the the younger her son went on to be a disciple of Jesus and another Mary who is obviously Mary the mother of Jesus the one who who is visited by Gabriel the Angel and you know said, Afraid that you're going to be having a baby and you know, he's in you know, she was frightened by that but as as it went on and is the war just gave her a piece of Jesus Through the Holy Spirit. Jesus is born through Mary and Joseph and they had many other children. But James was another one of the children mentioned in there. In fact as you look at go back to James, but as big as we think of James will why have you know that one of them wasn't the one who wrote James while James was written about 30-40 years after these these guys they weren't and so is James weren't weren't the ones who wrote the the book but we do know that James the brother of Jesus later went on to believe in Jesus. And so as we look at these women, we also know that Joanna was says that the wise the wife of chuza who is the sister was the manager of King Herod King Herod. Agrippa's sorry King Herod of his whole estate. And so that was his job. And so she was a woman of prominence as well these women as we want it to Luke. I'm going to look at Luke chapter 8 and it gives us a little bit more insight on to to who these women were and what they did. Why do with Jesus but before the parable of the sower which Mavis was familiar with in verse 1 through 3. It says this after this kid just got finished anointing the sinful woman with a few weeks ago. We went through that and in Luke 7:36 250, but he says this after this Jesus traveled about from one town and Village to another for claiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases Mary called Magdalene from whom seven demons head, Joanna wife of chuza, the manager of Terrace House hold Susanna and many others these women were helping to support them out of their own means so we can see from scripture that these women not only just we're tagging along Jesus ministry, but they were the ones that really supported financially Jesus ministry. These women were women who who were not necessarily great greatly Welty, but they had enough money beyond their means to be able to support Jesus ministry. We know that Zebedee was prosperous fisherman, so he probably had bunnies Salome was his wife and she was with him. We also see that you know, the Joanna sorry was the the wife of Joseph who is the King Herod of Antipas his his wife but this guy was over all of his estate. So you can assume that she was probably wealthy and so are these women with would travel with Jesus because they were changed by Jesus because they believed in Jesus and he was they made that choice first Faith, but but they chose to take a step further and and financially support the ministry in to the to the point. They would also support the other twelve because it says that they were helping to support them plural out of their own me and so we can get a sense of where these who these women were what they did and it so it kind of gives us a little better insight as to Mary Magdalene being one of those women who supported Jesus as be as we get into our scripture today. Open up a message on 20th and specific Encounter With Jesus and she was the first one to witness the resurrected Jesus and so it says in chapter 20 of John the verse 11, we're going to read to reread the 15 and they're going to stop but now Mary Magna Mary. Mary Magdalen Street outside the tomb crying as she went she been over to look into the tomb and saw two angels and white seated were Jesus's body had been one of the head and the other at the foot. They asked her woman. Why are you crying? They have taken my Lord away. She said and I don't know where they put him at this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. He asked her woman. Why are you crying? Who is it? You're looking for thinking he was the gardener. She said sir, if you carry him away tell me where you have put him and I will get him. And so we see the first part of Mary Mary is worried that Jesus was was taken that his body was was taken by somebody. She was frantic. She has you know, just got done telling the Disciples of Jesus was was you know, what the Angels had told her to do. She went back to hold them Jam John Peter can they look but then they didn't see Jesus said believe that they went back home and Mary went return back to the tomb and she's sitting there and she's weeping just trying to piece things together and try to understand what is going on right now, you know where it where is Jesus somebody stole his body and and she's so consumed in her grief right now that she doesn't realize who's actually talking to her. She thinks it's it's the Garner so before just not be able to think straight, you know, it's kind of where Mary was she was just not thinking straight. She was in in briefing enough where she was at Mary Magdalene. Her name is the last name Magdalene is often thought from Scholars widely accepted that she's from the town of magdalia, which is Western Sea of Galilee and she also is from a very prosperous fishing town. It's it's often said magdalia is is the name for a Tower Castle. I'm so it's the it's the rich part of town, you know is where they're from. Now a lot of a lot of rumors have speculated mainly from the Catholic church over 1400 years, but but other people are accepted as to that that Mary Magdalene was a woman who is who is sinful who is the woman of adultery the woman who anointed Jesus feet in brought that perfume you're from her sinful lifestyle and if they've all been accepted at that Mary Magdalene was it was a prostitute living of a wife and since we don't see any evidence of that within the within scripture at least I don't as I as a reading here, I don't see that about Mary Mack. What we do know about a last name is that there were so many Mary's around. It's like you don't have in the name John. I mean Mary is still pretty common name, but they would just ruin she ate Mary's based off of Mary of or the wife of like I said before the town where they're from and so Mary Magdalene Magdalene is from the town of magdalia. And so we can see that she was probably a prosperous job that wish you was doing but along the way as we read in Luke chapter 8, we read that she was possessed by demons and specifically it says 7 weather. That's the specific number. How many game demon she had inside of her or 7 we know that is a number of completion in the Bible. We know that so based off that we could say that she was completely overwhelmed in her physical body and mentally that she was overwhelmed by demons regardless, she was demon-possessed and so regardless of what her her life was whether it was She was wealthy and I am a businesswoman or the way. I do, you know the from a family of money or she was sinful woman as as as they say it. It doesn't matter more evidence supports that she was from a wealthy area and that she did pretty well for himself, but we know that she regardless of her instance in the life. She was possessed by demons and she had an encounter with Jesus to the fact that Jesus healed her mind heal her body the demons have left and she chose at that moment to follow Jesus really for the rest of her life and she's committed your life to Jesus is so as we work at this where she where she came from. She was ministering with the other women and she was giving of her resources and her finances and things that they had the support Jesus ministry, you know in so they they continue to follow Jesus as we look at this passage where she's at right now. She's she's in grief, you know, she's in in Despair and she's just not sure what's going on because these women and had to had just been at the the the crucifixion of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and the other Mary where they're at the burial and we see that some of them return to the tomb after you know, that the men wear their two are we talked about the men of the disciples a lot and I want to one of the focus on the women today and we're going to talk about different types of people the next next week's but but I know that your eyes were as we're reading God's word we can we can really see that God speaks to them and meet women where they're at as well. And it was said I was reading this post earlier as I was pretty good. It's about, you know, God a lot of times often makes men climb a mountain like Moses and and to hear from God or going to the Wilderness arrest. And these different stories but but oftentimes he needs women where they're at in life, you know in the women are so busy if their moms they're ten times as busy but women are are busy going through life. But but God meets them in the quiet where they're at. And I think that's true in the United States. If God does meet men to you know, where they're at. But it's I think it's just doing my wife I could just see that that that he speaks to her in the moments of life that she really needs it most and and you know, it's so exciting is different for men and men and women both ways, but I just thought that was interesting that this week but some things that we can get from here is that in our grief and in our sorrow oftentimes, we we can get so consumed in overwhelmed by it. And as we're sitting there we we can't even see as Mary Magdalene we came in really see Jesus who is right in front of us. You don't say anything why you leaving? You know, I've nothing to be because you know, I offer a hope and I offer peace and I offer something that the this world can and so this is where it where Mary's at. She's sitting in the Tomb and her whole life is just completely in a way in or in Ruins because somebody stole the person that she gave up everything for you know, if you look at the disciples the man the women all these Disciples of Jesus, they've given up their old ways of life. So I'm giving up jobs, you know, James and John sons of Zebedee, they left their fishing business to go fall Jesus. And so I think about the grief and despair a lot of these were people were were encountering in the moments between his crucifixion and Resurrection, but Donald J of his resurrection Easter day not all of them saw the resurrected Jesus, but Mary Magda was the first one to see Jesus. It's a merry here. She is she sitting down and Ennis. It says that verse 14 at this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize it was Jesus. So she saw on stand there. She can't realize it was him. She thought it was the gardener and then she saying if you carry them away and put them somewhere. Let me know tell me where you're so I'll go get them. So sure she is ready to go back to the first Jesus said to her Mary she turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic Revenant which means t-shirts. Jesus said to not hold onto me for I have not yet ascended to the father don't send to my brothers and tell them I am sending to my father and your father to my God and your God Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news. I have seen the Lord and she told them that he had said these things to her. And so we get a sense of Jesus are the Jesus speaking to Mary. But what is what is Jesus have to say? What does he say to married to really calm her of everything? He says her name, you know what I mean think of it in our lives that that life can be chaotic right now life is chaotic for many of many of you. But Jesus is calling out your name and it's up to us to listen to him that he offers the hope that we need in this in this life the piece that day that he offers is beyond anything that we could ever imagine in this life and the lessons we can learn really from Mary and tennis lessons. We can learn through a lot of the appearances that Jesus had with people after his in his resurrection and Butter Jesus could have appeared to any person You know, he he could have appeared to his disciples you could have appeared to his own mother Peter right after Peter deny them knowing how much grief and in guilt that Peter felt he chose to reveal himself to Mary Magdalene 1st and may never know why exactly Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene first, when all the others went home and you know that Mary Magdalene went back to the tune to the place where Jesus was last known to be she wait she sat there and and and in a way we just in disbelief in grieving, but she loves Jesus so much that she was just sitting there find out where she is you want to just see where he was. Jesus can find people in their darkest places in life. And that's one of the lessons we can learn from. This is that Mary Magdalene was possessed by a by multiple demons and in her life physically and mentally and the anguish and a torment of that is is what's as we reading scripture is is unbearable what they go through physically and in just think of the freedom that Mary experienced in her life at the moment that Jesus freed her from The Possession and so we just think of that the majority of us and wife have not been possessed by by demons and that way many of us in life have been possessed by Idols even possessed by bison in our lives and it's by our own choosing and so we look at this as as opportunity to re-evaluate realized as we look at the series pivot. We're choosing the pimp. our wives and then to accept the truth of Jesus. Jesus is Alive intuitive to put our faith in him and to follow him is Asbury did and there's a freedom that we have that only Jesus offers and we look at Mary magdalene's instance and it can encourage us to give an N serve generously as she did in Jesus Ministry Jesus gives us and we think you know that we have so little here, but but if we look at the World At Large we have so much more than so many people do in another another country specifically third world countries, but we have a lot in our lives and then we can probably skip on a lot of things in our in our lives and our budgets and go through things and cut them back a little bit my wife and I have overtime to And I think it's just such a good thing because God does you know, he does meet us our needs where we're at. And when we give God often meets our needs we don't give to be blessed. We don't give realizing that we're going to be completely prosperous in life. And you know, that's why we're doing it but we give because God gave to us that that it really everything that we have is God's to begin with that is the bottom line of it in there and I'm going to sit in that tomb realize that she gave everything and she was still waiting on Jesus. It on so the other side of shoes that women at that time. They were not seen as credible Witnesses in court. Their testimonies were were basically pushed to the side. They didn't matter in any way we can look at Jesus resurrection validating that Jesus. That's a woman's testimonies are worth listening to as we look at the story of Mary Magdalene and the changed life that Jesus did and in her life knowing what he didn't free tour from women can speak into other people as well. And so Jesus is whether you're validating that through. To to Marion in the women and tell him it's a go and tell the other disciples and so they were commissioned to go until you know, women in the same way that men are commissioned the Great Commission to go and end in end in share the love of fries to share what God has done in your life and said to make disciples we can all leave people to Christ. So I think it's just great that that Jesus showed us that that said that women have value that you can turn anybody from Darkness to light and we looked at last week when we seek the Risen Lord that are temporary Sorrows are turned to Hope and life and looks like it's our first Thessalonians really good 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 13. I love this truth that are temporary sorrow is our turn to Hope and life is his brothers and sisters. We do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep and death so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind who have no hope you know, it's so good because when we grieve and we go through sorrow in life, we don't have to go through sorrow and grief and go through life in the spare we go through life and we grieve knowing that we have hope It's a real process to grieve. It's not bad to grieve. It's not bad to have to experience that in a life. But as Believers, we have the boat Beyond this life that when we grieve we grieve knowing that we have hope and those around us that don't have kept open their grief. It's up to us as the fault at the as followers of Christ to share the hope that we have so they have that in their grease that they have that hope in their sorrow, but they have the Hope in their sin they can turn from and they can they can see how good Jesus is that Jesus did not Remain the grave but Jesus is Alive and Well, he wants to bring people from just to life and that is the message that we have to offer people should be excited about that as the church. Your throat are our grief. Did we can have them have right reasons to go through it, but knowing that that our grief and our temporary sorrow is really not the end its forms are character forms who we are but it's not the end. It does not define Us in in of who we are Jesus is Calling out our names and he offers this piece to us in what we're going through and one day they were going to see our Ward face-to-face as Mary Magdalene saw him and heard him and and he called out her name and she's entered into this eternal Joy knowing that I used the resurrected Lord that he was who he said he was and we can experience that to that. He calls out your name that if you are not if you're not a Believer right now just this all kind of you know, the first time you've heard this before. Maybe you feel like you don't know Jesus as your personal Savior and Lord in your life. I invite you read the Gospel of John read it from start to finish many of us have time to do that right now in quarantine tank Crews. You just feel sick sick the Lord. He will meet you where you're at and and he can reveal truth to you. And God's word will do that as you as you seek him just knows your name is calling out to you and and we can see lastly just from from Mary Magnums experience from her whole life through all the women in the fall of her than Jesus in the ministry. All Jesus disciples who it when they first heard come and follow me and they followed him till now and and you know, we look it over 2000 years later if people are still following Jesus has risen from the dead at this I hate that we read is still alive and well that pierces our hearts and we can read that. Jesus is still the same. Same same Jesus that we read back then he's personal in our lives and it's up to us to walk is Mary did in faith in obedience. And we look at the things that Jesus as the women. They felt like I didn't want to lose him again. Sometimes we we get in the spiritual high in life we go to conference we go to a concert we go to church service. We feel like we're on a spiritual high and then, you know, the Monday comes around me. Can I go down and then like, it's normal we cling to the Lord, you know in those times in the conference is concerts in those a spiritual experience is acquainted the war. We don't ever want to let him go but but reality is that at that moment Jesus was was telling Mary that you cannot hold on to me forever that I have to fulfill the will of my father was just it a sin to his right hand. And so Jesus was was there with her and others over the next Forty days and as we go into the next several Leeks and talk about the experience of Jesus having people we can see that it is life-changing. We can see that that's how we can have faith in obedience just as they did and is the women were commissioned to go and tell the disciples. We can look at this story and we can see there was three things that that that Mary did, but we can do also is that stop clinging to the father is if you know, you'll never see him again. It says don't don't sing for the walk in faith in obedience. See there's a there's a moment that we need to separate ourselves from our pastor or from our grandmother or grandfather of those that are Barse been a spiritual Mentor. They've helped us through life that friend that has been speaking into our lives and encouraging us for years. There's a time when we need to do to stop clinging to them and to walk in faith and obedience in our lives and take to walk and spiritual maturity, and maybe that's you today. Maybe you can make the decision and and not that you Pushing the Maasai you neglecting them, but you're you're really making your face around in your walking in in the in the ways of the Lord in your reading scripture on your own you're beginning to understand that you're relying on the spirits through through license through prayer and in our emotions and and you know through what we're going through in life and that's good in the second. Is that where it were called to go and and and go and tell others of of what Jesus did so it's it's we're going through when is tell, you know, where it where miniature choice to go which is Faith and then to tell which is obedience to the gospel. We going to share the love of Christ. So I just encourage you today that is weak as we looked at this the story of Mary Magdalene and John may be encouraged to go and tell us about the great things that the Lord has done in your life and just be an encouragement to those around you walk in obedience and know that God has given you a story. God has given you a testimony to share with others and Too good not to share the father. We just thank you so much for this time together. Thank you for your words or do you think you for what you doing Eliza? Thank you for the open door that you give us in our hearts to to turn from our sin to walk in your ways or to experience life Everlasting truth your desk. And your Resurrection were that you didn't stay on that cross. But you was you tone for a word that you fulfilled the Covenant through your blood that you offered wife to us through through the death Lord and that you off for like 2 Us abundantly eternally through your resurrection and Lord that said that we could see this story is just too good not to not to tell that we just run out more that we would go and tell people that we would all have this. Hope is beyond beyond this this life or we can see that with or whatever. We're going through weather grief with her sorrow weather Joy. Or we can see that you are the same God that your love endures forever, and we can trust you at your word. We just thank you and praise your name. Amen. Well, thank you for for for listening. We just pray that you get into your Bibles. We would just if you want to jump ahead you can read about the experiences that people had with Jesus over the next Forty days, but I encourage you to get in the word not only getting the word but read it live it do it and go tell others how good Jesus is. And so we just thank you for you. Have a great week. We love you. We miss you. We hope to be back here soon. But regardless we are the church and we're called to live it out. So go live it up.