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April 16, 2022 - Doug Collins Podcast
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The Day with No Name
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Because we won an election.
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Hey everybody, this is a special day.
It's a special episode of the Doug Collins Podcast.
The day is Good Friday.
We're releasing this episode today because it's a special day in the life of Christians around the world.
This is the ending of Holy Week.
It started last week with what we know as Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry of Christ coming into Jerusalem.
And it is ending in probably the most poignant part in history.
And I think that is for Christians in particular.
We have Christmas, the birth that we celebrate, and Easter, which really frames the whole dynamic of a Christian belief system.
And without Easter, without the death and the resurrection, even as Paul, one of the writers in our Bible, says, you know, we don't have a faith apart from Christ being raised.
So that is why you see Christians all over the world, you know, celebrating during this time.
And it is a time in which we see the contrast of this world.
We see the contrast of death in the past, and we see the contrast of hope in the future.
So today, though, I want to do it a little bit differently.
You've always heard, and today, as I've already said here, it's called Good Friday.
And you have Easter, which is on Sunday, so Sunday is named Easter.
And in the middle there is Saturday.
And I thought when I was pastoring a long time ago, I thought to myself, I said, that's rather interesting to me that all these dates around these such important events are named Good Friday, Easter, but Saturday had no name.
And I want to explore that a little bit today, but I think first we need to understand the contrast of these two days, but also understand why they mean so much.
So I want to start this on Friday.
And if you're listening to this on Good Friday, if you're listening at Tour of the Weekend or wherever, we're starting as Jesus has already been betrayed.
He's already before Pilate.
He's already been through the whole ordeal of being condemned.
And now where I pick up in this reading, and I want to start here, is Pilate is giving the people of Jerusalem a chance.
They can take a criminal, Barabbas, because each year he releases one during their celebrations of Passover.
And he says, I'll release a criminal to you.
And he said, this is one criminal that has murdered.
We know he's evil.
And he said, you either release him or release Jesus, who we don't see has done anything wrong.
In fact, what he's trying to do is get out of it here.
It's a discussion, I think, in his own mind of saying, look, I'm going to give them a choice and then they can pick.
One who had committed evil against them, one who had committed no evil against them, see what they said and their very truism of the fact of what the scripture records is that they chose to crucify Jesus.
It says, with one voice they cried out, away with this man, release Barabbas to us.
Barabbas had been thrown into prison for an insurrection in the city and for murder.
You see, he was a criminal.
And he was in there waiting his own death.
Barabbas was released by the people they asked for him to be released.
Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again, saying, But they kept shouting, Crucify him!
Crucify him!
And for a third time he spoke to them.
What crime has he committed?
I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty.
Therefore, I will have him punished and then released him.
But the loud shouts, they insistently demanded that he be crucified and their shouts prevailed.
So Pilate decided to grant their demand and he released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder and the one they asked for and surrendered Jesus to their will.
At this point, Jesus was led away.
He was seized and they see Simon from Serene who was put, who was on his way in from the country and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.
I want you to think about what happened just there.
They took someone out of the crowd.
Someone, Simon, who had just come in from the country.
And Jesus had been beaten so badly and was so weakened by this point that they took Simon and helped put him on the cross, under the cross to help Jesus carry his own cross.
Remember, he had to carry his own cross that they would crucify him on to the place of the crucifixion.
And they put Simon on there to help carry it.
Can you imagine being brought into a city, a city that was so turned turmoil at this point over what was going on?
Just a little less than a week earlier, they had been praising Jesus coming in to the city and now they were screaming for him to be crucified.
And Simon was one that was led to him and brought out of the crowd to carry that cross with him.
And it said a large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him.
Jesus turned and said to them, daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me.
Weep for yourselves and for your children.
For the time will come when you will say, blessed are the barren women, the wounds that never bore and the breasts that never nurse.
Then they will say to the mountains, fall unto us and unto the hills, cover us.
For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?
Two other men, both criminals, were also let out with him to be executed.
And when they came into that place called the Skull, they crucified him along with the criminals.
And the one was on his right and the other on his left.
And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.
And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
And the people stood by watching, and the rulers even sneered at him.
And they said, He saved others, let him save himself, if he is Christ of God, the Chosen One.
And the soldiers come up even and mocked him and sitting near to him.
And they said, He saved others, let him save himself.
He is Christ the God, the Chosen One.
He said, then they put upon a written notice above him.
It said, this is the king of the Jews.
And then an interesting Conversation took place.
And it said, It was now about the sixth hour and darkness came over the whole land and
until the ninth hour.
For the sun stopped shining and the curtain of the temple was torn in two and Jesus called out with a loud voice, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.
And when he had said this, he breathed his last.
Now, a lot has been discussed about this point in the story, in the death of Jesus on that cross.
Look at what happened in those last few minutes, in those last recorded instances of what happened on the cross.
He spoke to those around him, he gave comfort to those, but he also said this is what was going to happen, and it was not a good thing.
And from them, because of what was going on, the turmoil of earth, the sin of earth, that he was coming to that end, At their point, did not understand completely what was going on, but it was his time and he was comforting still.
Even on the cross, he had two criminals.
I mean, we could understand the soldiers and the leaders and the local politicians who were trying to gain favor were mocking him, saying, you've done all these other things and great things for these other people, but you can't even save yourself.
And yet, even one of the criminals who was hanging on a cross turned to him and started mocking him as well.
And the other criminal looked at him and said, what are you doing?
He said, we're getting what we deserve.
He's not.
You know, that's a big, that's a theme that I want you to remember here.
I want you to remember this theme of the criminal saying, we are getting what we deserve.
He is not.
That is the whole essence of the death on the cross.
That is the whole essence of the Easter resurrection story.
So at that point, he looked and said, I want to be with you in heaven.
And Jesus said, I guarantee you that this day you will be.
And then with that, just a little bit longer, the temple's curtain tore.
The veil in the temple tore.
He cried out and he said, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.
And then the place got quiet.
In fact, in other recording parts of scripture, there was an earthquake.
There was other descriptions that would show that the soldiers even looked up and said, you know, this is not something, this is not normal what we did.
This is the Son of God.
So we take Friday.
Good Friday.
This is what happened.
This was the brutal execution of Jesus on Friday.
He died.
It was predicted.
He said it was going to happen.
This was part of a plan that at that time no one understood, even his closest disciples.
In fact, they fought him for what was happening.
But I want you to remember, as we finish this little bit of discussion here on Good Friday, that it was not something pretty.
That the sin of our life, that the hope Jesus brings To this world was founded in the ugliness around him.
It was founded in the fact that to overcome the sin and the ugliness of this world, that his death was what was going to help us and give us the power to overcome the sin in our life and the separation from God.
Remember, this was always about bringing us back in line with God, and that's through his son, Jesus Christ.
Jesus died on this cross.
We see him die.
He gave his spirit.
And then we go into the weekend.
And then comes Sunday morning.
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.
And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
But when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
While they were wondering about, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them.
In their fright, the women bowed down with their faces to the ground.
But the men said to them, why do you look for the living among the dead?
He's not here.
He is risen.
Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee, the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified on the third day, raised again.
And then they remembered his words.
And when they came back from the tomb, they told these things to the eleven and all the others.
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 It's interesting there that the scripture records Peter running back to the grave.
That after he heard what had happened, he went running back.
Remember, just a minimal hours earlier, just, you know, 48, 72 hours earlier, it was Peter who denied Jesus.
It was Pemeter who three times, who had once proclaimed, I will be with you.
I will be your defender.
I will never forsake you.
And Jesus told him, he said, look, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.
And he did.
And those three times when he denied knowing Jesus, and on that third time he went away and wept bitterly because he realized that what he had said did not match his actions.
But this is a morning in which they woke up on Sunday morning and the angels proclaimed, He is risen!
That is why we speak of it that when you hear it in your church service or you hear it during the Easter time, they say, He is risen!
Yes, He is risen indeed!
Because it is the two days That really come into play in our discussion of what this season is really about.
Now you're going to hear plenty of messages and many of you may have already went to your local church or your faith tradition or whatever, however you celebrate this time.
You may have even started on Maundy Thursday.
You started back on Palm Sunday last week.
And you may have taken time today or take time today on Good Friday to just...
Spend time in prayer or go and gather with others and remember what Christ did on this day for you.
And then on Sunday, you wake up.
On the real gloom that I just read for you and told you, there was not a pretty sight.
The idea, many times we see pieces of jewelry and we see others and we see paintings with Jesus on a cross and it looks very sterile and very clean.
It was not.
It was very ugly.
It was a very painful death.
That our sin cost You see, that's the promise of Christ.
It's not that you can do it on your own.
It's not that you have the ability to save yourself.
It's not that you have the ability to hang on a cross to gain forgiveness for your sins.
It was needed that someone who knew no sin died on that cross in a painful, cruel way so that you, that once he died, that he would overcome death in the grave as we celebrate on Easter.
And that is why we celebrate.
That is why we look forward to Easter.
That is why Paul said that without the crucifixion, without the resurrection, this is not a faith worth living for.
It is the reason I believe that when they saw him rise, that these early church followers, they were willing to die because of what they saw.
They knew what they saw.
When easier times would have said, no, it was an illusion, nothing happened.
No, they saw a living Jesus.
And that is what has given us hope.
And that is what has given us strength.
But when I started this, I told you, I said, we have a lot of discussion about Good Friday.
We have a lot of discussion about Easter.
And there's a lot of sermons that you can go, and there's a lot of sermons that you'll hear this week.
And even if you're listening to this after Easter, you probably have heard.
And the whole issue is not about...
Good Friday and Easter.
You've seen those.
But today, I just want to speak just a little bit to you.
Maybe someone who's out there who maybe doesn't understand what this is.
Maybe you were raised in church.
Maybe you went when you were little.
Maybe you got away from it.
Maybe you're an adult who never has been to a Christian church.
Maybe you're just searching and realizing that life is not all that it was sort of cracked up to be.
Maybe that life was just something that has been frustrating and life is something that is really taking a turn for you and you're not able to see what actually can be in your life and what you're called for.
Maybe you're struggling.
Well, I'm going to proffer something to you today.
And this is the reason for this message.
I believe that with the focus of Good Friday and the focus of Easter, we miss an important lesson.
And that is the day that's in between.
It's the day with no name.
You see, in Scripture, I've just read for you, and I read straight through.
I said, hey, we went straight from Friday to Sunday morning.
We skip over Saturday all along.
Isn't that the way it always is?
And when we understand that there are things that we miss, when we go back to it, I believe they can speak profound significance into our lives.
Now, Good Friday is the death of Christ.
Easter is the raising of Christ.
And those two elements profoundly impact the world because they are the crux of our faith.
That a risen Savior lives.
The difference is that of all the religions, Jesus is alive.
That is why we celebrate Easter.
But you know what the reality is?
We go through Good Fridays.
We go through those pain and miseries and those very hard, troubling days.
We go through them a lot.
And yes, we even go through Easter's.
We go through Sundays in which things are great and things are good and your family's working and your job is good and money's okay and the world is at peace.
And we have those juxtapositions of those two days.
We have the Easter message of hope in life and we have the Good Friday message that suffering and pain comes through sin that is common to this world.
But it is that middle ground, that day in between that's not spoke of, that I truly believe is where we live.
I truly believe the day with no name has significance.
Because it's where we live today.
It's where we're going at in our life all throughout the year.
You see, I believe we live between the good and the bad.
We live between the destruction and the pain that we saw in Christ's death on Friday.
And we live between the hope and the resurrection of Christ on Sunday.
And so we don't always live in the bottom and we don't always live at the top of the mountain.
We live somewhere most of the time in between.
It's often been said you're either going into a storm, you're in a storm, or you're coming out of a storm.
Well, this is sort of where we're at with this story.
And you say, well, Doug, what does it matter that it doesn't have a name?
What does it matter about Saturday that nobody talked about?
They all went back to what they were doing.
They were all scared.
They were all trying to find their own way.
Does that not sound like everyday life?
Does that not sound like all of us?
Many times we get up and we do the same things.
We eat breakfast the same time.
We go to a lot of times the same job.
We have the same routines.
We have the same relationships.
We move in the same circles and I hear so many people so many times saying there's got to be more.
There's something here that I'm missing.
That they want to be better.
They want to have something of hope.
Well, I'm going to tell you today that if you focus on the reality, then you're going to emphasize and understand what the Friday and the Sunday can mean in your life.
What do I mean by that?
Well, the number one, the first principle of Saturday and the day with no name is reality.
It's just what I just said.
It's the reality of every day.
Saturday, they got up.
They had just went through a struggle.
These disciples, the ones who followed, the ladies who went, you know, Joseph of Arimathea who took the body to the tomb.
They got all of this together and then on Saturday you wake up and for many of them, for three plus years, they had given their entire life, they had given everything to following Jesus and now in their mind was over.
Yes, he had talked about it.
Yes, he had said things were coming.
Yes, he said things might change.
But never was there this understanding.
I believe deeply in their hearts that they understood that Jesus would die.
They were looking for a kingdom here.
They were looking for immediate payoff.
Is that not what we do so many times?
We expect that that next job, that next opportunity, even the next time we do a...
For some of you who scratch a lottery ticket, You say, oh, the next one, I'll win the million dollars.
You know, it's always that anticipation of, well, it could be bad, but, you know, I think it's going to get better.
And then all of a sudden, you know, the reality is, you wake up, it's another day.
Reality is not what you see in the movies.
Reality is not what you see on daytime soap properties.
Reality is not what you see in the things that are made up.
Reality, many times, is boring.
It's the same.
And you're trapped so many times in that reality because too many times we do what I believe is look backwards to Friday and we fail to see the promise of Sunday.
What do I mean by that?
Let's think about it.
What was the disciples and the others thinking about on Saturday?
I think the first thing that they were probably thinking about was regret.
Regret for not spending more time with Jesus, not listening more to his teachings, not listening and being just a part, laughing more, crying more.
I tell you, the people in my life that have left and died and are gone, I... I miss the moments that I didn't spend.
I miss not picking up the phone one more time.
I miss taking the time to go by and visit one more time.
I regret things that I may have said.
You see, it's regrets in life.
And you look back and so many times we get stuck in regrets.
We get stuck in what we could have done and should have done and maybe wanted to do but didn't get to it.
And so when you're stuck on a Saturday morning and you're stuck in, quote, this analogy of Saturday being the day in the middle, the caught between, too many times, instead of looking to what may be, we look to what we didn't do.
And this is very real because for most of us, this is the part.
That we believe captures us.
We believe this is the part that holds us back.
We believe this is the part that we should have done, could have done, and if I had have done, then I wouldn't be in the place I'm in today.
Well, I'm just going to let you know that number one, reality, as we already talked about, is every day, and regrets are part of life.
And I think the regrets of those on that Saturday morning, on that day with no name, were regrets of what they could have done, should have done, and wanted to do, but didn't do.
And they had failed to see what was getting ready to be consummated.
Now for us, this is easy.
If I was talking to you on that Friday, and we were followers of Christ back then, it would be a terrible day.
It would be a day in which the walls were coming in, and we felt our whole faith falling and crumbling, and we saw Christ crucified, and we saw the Him pierced with a spear with the blood and the water flowed.
We saw all of that.
And it was tragic because we spent three years of our life following this man, seeing the miracles.
And here on the day in which we thought the greatest miracle could have occurred, not him being crucified, that he would somehow raise his kingdom.
Then he died.
And they buried him.
And that next day, you can just imagine waking up as the eyes of Peter and James and John and the other followers, Mary Magdalene and others.
They open their eyes to maybe regret.
Let me just say, for some of you who listen to this podcast, maybe you're watching this podcast, do not let regret be a paralyzing force in your life.
Now remember, we have an advantage.
We understand Friday.
We understand Saturday.
I could be talking to you on Saturday if it was a long time, but we actually understand Sunday's coming.
We understand the whole story here.
We have the Bible in front of us.
We have the story that shows the pain of Friday and the hope of Sunday.
And we realize that in the middle is this day in which it is on us.
And when we start thinking, regrets start to fall.
The next thing that I believe that probably came out of that day was guilt.
Peter, can you imagine?
Could you imagine for a moment the guilt?
After saying and standing up and saying, No, Jesus, I will always be with you, no matter what others may do.
And that says, I will be there.
And Jesus looked at him and said, No, Peter, you're going to deny me three times.
Peter probably would never believe that, but yet it happened.
Before the rooster crowed, Peter had denied him three times.
And it wasn't just the denial.
Then he had to watch from afar and watch as it happened as they crucified Jesus on that Friday.
The regret of not doing what he said and then the guilt that comes with that.
I see so many people who are trapped in regrets and guilt and it's letting you destroy your life.
That's not why Jesus died on Friday.
That is why Easter comes on Sunday.
It is the regret and guilt in life.
And you're looking back and you say, I wish I had.
Maybe it was a relationship that departed.
Maybe it was something that you did wrong.
And you regret it.
And you feel guilty over it.
And you're letting yourself be bogged down day after day after day after day after day.
And it's not helping.
You know it's not helping.
You sense it every day in your life.
And yet you get up on that Saturday morning, that proverbial Saturday morning, and you're tagged with the chains of regret.
You're tagged with the chains and dragging them of guilt, of bitterness.
Oh, this is one.
You know, the first two, regret and guilt, tend to be on us.
You know, regret for things we didn't do, guilt for the things that we did do.
But you know there's some out there that are living on a Saturday morning, proverbially, every day of their life with bitterness.
You're mad at your mom.
You're mad at your dad.
You're mad at your job.
You're mad at your brother.
You're mad at your sister.
You're mad at your husband.
You're mad at your wife.
You're mad at your kids.
You're mad just to be mad.
Because everybody's done you wrong.
You've not had the breaks.
You've not had everything go right.
And I understand that.
Some of you have been treated very badly.
Some of you have been harmed by others.
Physically, mentally, spiritually.
Just abuse.
Physical abuse, sexual abuse.
It could be there.
And if I'm speaking to you today, please go get help.
Do not let this podcast in.
In fact, stop the podcast now.
You can come back and listen to it.
But if you need someone or someone is hurting you, go to find somebody that can help you.
Because you...
We'll just begin to encompass the bitterness of life at others.
And nobody deserves that.
But also, for many of you, your bitterness is rooted in something that you can't control anymore.
Maybe it's somebody who's passed on.
Maybe it is a job opportunity.
Maybe it is you just are feeling mad because somebody said that they were going to do something for you and they didn't do it.
If you listen to this podcast for no other reason, maybe this is the reason.
This day with no name is the day on Saturday when you resolve in your life to remove bitterness.
It helps no one.
It eats at you.
That bitterness that you feel, that resentfulness that you feel toward others is let it go.
It's this forgiveness.
And I know that's not easy.
But when you hold that inside, when you allow others to control and sort of own space in your own mind, then you are the one that's controlling it at this point.
I'm often reminded of the gentleman who came in to church one morning and he was all upset.
He was just upset and he told the preacher, he said, preacher, I'm just so upset.
And he said, well, the preacher said, oh my God, what happened?
And he said, I was coming to church and we were driving along and all of a sudden this person just ran out in front of me and almost made me wreck.
And the whole way...
I was just furious and I grabbed the steering wheel and I got right up behind them and I blinked the lights and blew the horn.
And the person didn't even slow down, didn't even wave their hand, didn't even acknowledge that they'd run in front of me.
And the pastor looked at him and said, so they didn't even acknowledge you?
And he said, no, they didn't.
Preacher, it's just terrible and I'm just mad about it and I'm just frustrated.
It just ruined my day.
And the pastor looked at him and he said, I have something I need to tell you.
And the guy looked at him.
He said, I think this might help.
And the guy said, yeah, I need it.
It's just ruining my day.
He said, that person doesn't even know you exist.
And the guy looked at the pastor sort of funny.
And as if, well, that didn't help.
What do you mean?
And then all of a sudden it sort of came to him.
He was allowing someone who didn't probably even know he existed to ruin his day.
To ruin his attitude.
To ruin his life.
Think about how many times things that you can't control, that you allow to make you mad, that make you resentful, to hold on to bitterness in your life.
And those people may not even remember the incident.
Why are you still letting them hold on to it?
Now for some of you, you have bitter scars that have lasted and you know who it is and they know who it is.
But the question is, is it helping you?
Now you don't forget about them, but you can forgive.
And I think the day of Saturday between the death of Christ on Friday and the resurrection on Sunday is the perfect time to remember that it is about choices that we make.
It was the choice of Christ to go to that cross.
It was a choice for us to be able to accept that death and resurrection as atonement for our sins.
It is a choice to continue to hold to the regret and the bitterness and the guilt.
Don't let that happen.
That's what we find in reality though.
That is the reality of a Saturday morning.
That's the reality of every day.
And so many times.
We let those things cloud our vision.
Some of you may feel alone on Saturday night.
This is another emotion that I bet was very prevalent on this first Easter weekend, if you would.
They felt alone.
Many of them had left their families, they left their livelihoods, they left everything, and all of a sudden Jesus was gone and they feel alone.
And for some of you today, you feel alone.
You see, are you getting the picture of Saturday as being the reality?
Are you getting the picture of this day with no name?
It actually has many names and the most important of it is just that it's normal.
Everything that I have just described for you is normal.
It's not abnormal.
People get up with regrets every day.
People get up with guilt every day.
People get up with bitterness every day.
People get up happy every day.
People get up content every day.
And sometimes they get up alone and sometimes they're with friends.
But we all go through these range of emotions.
This is where I believe it is captured in the middle of this day with no name.
It is the day in which Christ is most active.
Because for those of us who see into the past...
For those of us who read the story of Easter, who read the story of Good Friday, who live it through ceremony, who go through Sunday and go through Easter and celebrate the fact that Christ is risen, He is present here in this Saturday.
It is because of Friday and because of Sunday that you can live in the Saturdays, the normal of life.
It is because of Friday and because of Sunday, days that have names, that you can live in the day with no name.
By being in the middle.
By being on this day with no name.
You can look backwards to Friday.
You can look ahead to the joy of Sunday.
And live in the normalcy of this life.
Now I know for some that is hard.
It's been hard for me at times.
Saturday sometimes can get too comfortable.
It's a little bit too easy to fall into that sense of regret and bitterness and sort of self-licking that own wound that you like to bring it up because you feel like you've been done wrong.
Well, all I will say is if you're sitting on that middle day, if you're sitting on a normal day feeling sorry for yourself and looking at all the things that are bad and not happening in your life, remember that Jesus loves you so much that he died on a cross for your sins on Friday and that Sunday he rose from the grave.
He is alive right now.
He is alive on that normal day.
He is alive on this day with no name in your life.
This could be any day of the year.
It doesn't have to be the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter.
It could be a normal day in October.
It could be a normal day in August or July.
But when you're sitting there and you're looking at your life, remember God has placed inside you the ability to know Him and to love Him and to be understanding that without Him, you do not have that promise of Sunday.
You cannot overcome this pain of sin and bitterness in your life.
It is through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ that the Christian faith is founded.
Don't let anybody else tell you different.
It is founded in Jesus Christ.
Now, you may be one saying, I don't believe in Jesus.
Okay, fine.
Then check the evidence for yourself.
Go and look at it.
But for the believers, for people who claim Christ as their Savior, for people who claim Christian as their faith, then this is the whole game.
This is the whole thing right here.
And the way that we overcome this, the way that we get up every day and we face life no matter what comes at us is we remember that we are not always on Friday and that Sunday is on the way.
We remember that we're in that Saturday.
We remember that we're in that day with no name.
And we remember that our regrets and our guilt and our bitterness and our hopes and our joys and our sufferings and our pains and our smiles and our happiness all wrapped into that normal day of Saturday.
The day with no name will find its completion in Sunday morning when He is risen.
The past is there and it is real.
It is not something you ignore, but it is something that you live with.
And how do you do that?
You live with what Christ did for you.
He gave you that way to have peace, to have contentment, to have hope, to realize that this life is not it.
The greatest gift that I can give to somebody who is trapped in a bitterness or guilt or regret is to know that this is not it, that you can have life and you can have it again and it comes through this Easter season.
So you see, as we speak together, some of you are stuck on Friday.
You're stuck on Good Friday.
You're stuck on the pain, the regret, the things that didn't happen.
You're stuck on things that happened to you that should have never happened and I do not in any way I don't want to demean or belittle the tragedies in many of your lives.
I don't want to do that.
But Christ came for those.
For wherever you may be hurting, He came, died on that cross for those issues in your life right now.
And you need to hear that.
Because on Sunday, He arose from that tomb.
He lives forevermore.
As the angel said, He is risen.
He is risen indeed.
He's risen for all those days with no names.
They're not holidays.
They're not necessarily special days on the calendar.
But they're your days.
They're normal days.
You're going to get up this morning.
You're going to get up tomorrow morning.
You're going to get up the next morning.
And the question becomes, where do you live?
Do you live with a faith and a hope that is in the past, or do you live with a faith and a hope that is in the future?
When you're in the middle, you can turn both ways.
You can look back to the pain and tragedy of a Friday, or you can look ahead and take what has gone on and hope in the future of the Sunday morning.
My hope for you is that you will look to the saving grace of Christ, that you will accept that by faith, what Christ did for you on that Friday, and then what happened on that Sunday.
You see, the death and the resurrection are the very crux of our faith.
And no matter where you are, the great thing about the Christian faith is it was not for some building, it was not for some temple, it was not for some place to go and to say the right words and the right things.
It was about a relationship with Jesus Christ who lived among us, who experienced all things that we did, but did so without sin so that he could sacrifice for us.
You see, that is the hope of Easter.
That, for believers, is what gets us through those normal days.
The days with no name.
But they're real to you.
They're real to me.
And how we choose to take them is, I believe, the greatest step of faith that we can have.
So on this podcast, on this Looking Back to Friday, on this Good Friday, you'll live in Saturday.
You'll hope for Sunday.
Make sure that your vision is always focused ahead.
If you want to talk to me more about this, go to thedougcollinspodcast.com.
There's a place where you can email me.
I would love to hear your comments.
I'd love to hear what you're going through.
I've been talking about this for many years.
I would love to hear your response on how you live in your day with no name.
But download this podcast, share it, make sure that you like it.
And maybe share it with a friend who's maybe suffering.
Maybe somebody who's looking back and living too much in Friday.
Maybe you need to remind them of Sunday.
Maybe this podcast can do that.
But for you, I love meeting with you through this modem of a podcast, talking to you about all the things in life.
But today was a special day for me.
It's a day in which we talk about the day with no name.
It's a reality day.
Put between the pain of the past and the hope of the future.
My prayer is that you'll see Christ's gift this Easter season and realize how much He loves you.
God bless you.
Now, see you next time.
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