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Well, welcome out.

It's great to see everyone and everyone out there in the hallways too.

I hope you can hear me.

My name is Ryan, Rippey on the pastor of Trinity Church of Benicia here and it is my pleasure to welcome you to our very first service and that yeah.

And by way of introduction, I've lost my place here for a moment.

So you'll have to not mind me.

Yes.

I'm preaching right now.

That's what I'm doing.

We shall see how this all goes.

Yes.

That's right.

Thank you.

That's what I meant to do.

Children.

Kindergarten Elementary school-aged all the way to 5th grade.

You are free to be dismissed to your classroom out the door to the right, and that's what we're doing right now.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

I knew I was forgetting something and their people waving at you out their kids.

You can join them and follow them out.

And if you guys want to make a little more space, now that the kids are free.

You're welcome to spread out.

It's nice and warm in here, at least is up here on the stage.

So

I think I'm going to scoot over, Gavin to this other Podium, because it's a little higher.

You still got me there?

That's good.

Right?

But we're going to be in the Book of John chapter 20 here.

And we're going to look at the hope of Resurrection out of this passage.

In the word death, it has such a finality to it.

Doesn't it?

And brings with its sorrow and despair depression fear.

Sometimes even hopelessness.

And if we think about what has been happening to Jesus, disciples, the last 3 days, prior to Easter Sunday, this day that we're celebrating.

Their lives have been a Trainwreck.

At one of their own Judas had betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.

Peter, their leader had denied Jesus, three times.

He crumbled under the questioning of a young girl.

You think about that?

He just he was the leader and he crumbled all of the disciples fled in fear.

None stood by Jesus.

They see their master who is given an unfair trial, whose beaten and mocked and paraded through the streets and he was executed by crucifixion.

A horribly shameful way to die in the Roman Empire and he was buried in a borrowed tomb.

And the Roman authorities sealed the tomb and posted a guard in the disciples were demoralized and fearful and hopeless.

That's what we come to hear in John chapter 20.

They had no reason to believe that Jesus would rise from the dead.

I mean, think about this just for a moment.

As we think about this covid, the last couple years has been difficult.

We had loved ones die.

We might have you might have had loved ones, die of of other illnesses.

We've had cancer, hit our family.

We've had friends who died in other ways and the reality is when you go to those funerals and I've performed a few funerals the last couple years.

There's a finality to that death.

We don't expect them to get up out of the coffin.

We don't expect them to get up out of the grave.

It would shock our senses and so the disciples they had no reason to believe that Jesus was going to rise from the dead.

And so here in John chapter 20.

We want to look at the hope of Resurrection in what this did to the disciples, this morning this afternoon.

I've been doing this morning for 20 years.

I need to get used to this afternoon.

You're with me.

You know what I'm talkin about.

All right, so John chapter 21st, or going to see that the empty tomb produces faith.

Faith, a producer's faith verses 1 to 10. No. On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early while it was still dark and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

And so she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved and said to him, they taken the Lord out of the Tomb.

And we do not know where they laid him.

So Peter went out with the other disciple and they were going toward the two men, both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran, Peter, and reach the tomb first and stooping to look in.

He saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.

And then Simon Peter came following him and went into the tomb and he saw the linen-closet lying there and the face cloth which has been on Jesus head not lying with the linen cloths, but folded up in a place by itself.

Then the other disciple, who would reach the tomb, first also went in and he saw and believed for his yet.

They did not understand the scriptures that he must rise from the dead.

Then the disciples went back to their homes.

And so, you have this situation where Mary and we know from the other gospel accounts that there were other women with her.

They went to the tomb early in the morning, not because they thought he was risen.

But to visit the tomb, And they see the stone rolled away.

Marry here in this context in John 20, is the, the main actor.

The one that John pulls out, and she sees the, the stone rolled away and she sneaks the glance in and realizes, there's nobody in there.

So she goes in runs and tells the disciples and Peter, and the disciple whom Jesus, loved, which we know from the Gospel of John to be John, the author, they take off, running to see it themselves.

And it says that John ran ahead of Peter probably because he was younger.

Maybe Peter.

It had a few too many fish sticks.

On the Sea of Galilee is a fisherman.

I don't know.

But The point of it is not that he beat him to it.

But rather their eagerness to see that and when they look in, They're shocked because the stone being rolled away removal wasn't easy or expected.

The fact that the Lord was taken out of the Tomb inverse to that.

We do not know where they've laid in Mary says, assuming his body was taken and moved for shady reasons, not knowing who moved it and then we're going to see him vs 3 to 10 that the disciples didn't fully understand the scriptures yet.

That's what what John comments on in verse nine.

That didn't quite get it.

But they say there's this whole conversation about the linen closet in the face, cloth in the neatness in the placement of the Grave clothes.

And what does proves is that the robbers didn't steal the body?

There was no one stole the body because what we know from chapter 19, it was covered with seventy-five pounds of perfume and spices 1939.

And the head covering was in a place by itself, which what this tells us if we could transport back to thousand years.

It gives us a picture of Jesus rising from the dead removing the cloth from his face and folding it nicely to the side of the stone.

Slab, where his body was lying.

And then they verse 10, go back to their homes.

At this point.

The disciples don't fully understand the meaning of this yet, his death and Resurrection, but I want to focus in on verse 8 right here, for a second.