April 18, 2025 - Louder with Crowder
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| Good Friday to all of you and just wanted to take a second and welcome all the Vince viewers. | |
| We really do appreciate you guys staying around for us on this special Good Friday episode. | |
| We are actually going to get into the story of Easter, talk about the crucifixion, talk about the resurrection, but really what I want to do is tell you a lot of details that maybe you don't hear in church. | |
| Things that I think are really just the fingerprint of God that show you places where you can dig, where you can grab a... | |
| A bit more understanding and really start to see the texture behind the story. | |
| So it isn't just a story that you're hearing. | |
| So stick around. | |
| This is Good Morning Mug Club. | |
| Alright. Look, we have gotten it all wrong. | |
| Good Friday is not a day of mourning. | |
| It is a day of celebration. | |
| Now, I understand if you are somebody who grew up in the church, you've probably heard this story a million times over. | |
| If you're not, welcome. | |
| Thanks for hanging out with us on Good Friday to hear a little bit more about this story. | |
| I have to start with people in the audience, maybe, who are... | |
| You wouldn't classify yourself as somebody who's spiritual or a believer. | |
| It is the most important decision you can make in life for one of two ways. | |
| Either it's true and it changes everything about how you live your life or it's not true and it's a complete waste of time and you don't want to end up falling into that trap. | |
| Either way, it's important to look into this issue of who Jesus is, who God is. | |
| What the story of Easter is and decide for yourself what you believe. | |
| I have a point of view and I hope you follow along with that point of view. | |
| But I understand people are coming from a lot of different places. | |
| So hang out with me for just a little bit and we will get into the details. | |
| But I grew up in church like a lot of people did. | |
| Just going to church because my parents did. | |
| And I spent... | |
| Every Easter, hearing about how Jesus sacrificed his life to reconcile me to God. | |
| And I'll be honest, as a 6, 7, 10-year-old kid, I didn't even understand really what all of that meant other than Jesus was good and he sacrificed himself and I knew the stories. | |
| It was a tough story to hear, right? | |
| Because as anybody who has seen The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson before he went crazy or during, I don't really know which one, but either way, it is absolutely brutal. | |
| But I was eternally grateful that the story was being told. | |
| With that being said, though, there are a lot of details that I never really heard in church. | |
| Now, I want to make sure that I'm clear at the outset. | |
| I am not going to be one of those history channel shows where I promise that we're going to find the mummy at the bottom of some ancient thing that nobody's ever discovered and we don't actually find a mummy. | |
| What I want to tell you, though, is that there are a lot of really interesting details that churches either don't know about, don't have time to cover, Or cover, but maybe you've missed them, so probably in one of those three buckets. | |
| And really what they do is they show the fingerprint of God on the greatest story that has ever been told. | |
| This is the story of Jesus'death, burial, and resurrection, and this is why we celebrate Easter. | |
| Gerald apologizes apologetics. | |
| It doesn't mean that! | |
| It doesn't mean that, but nevertheless, they're never going to correct that. | |
| For years, I grew up in the church studying the Bible, and I loosely would call studying the Bible making sure that I read a little bit of it here and there. | |
| I would go to Sunday school. | |
| I would irregularly attend church. | |
| And when I was 26 years old, I moved from Ohio back down to Texas. | |
| And I found a church that really interested me. | |
| I really wanted to get back into church and really connect with God in a way that I felt like I hadn't done many times throughout my kind of early 20s, late teens. | |
| And an opportunity came up to go to a friend's church, and it turned out to be a life-changing moment for me. | |
| Not because of the church necessarily, though they played a big role in this, but because of what the church introduced me to. | |
| I started discovering a love. | |
| A passion for studying scripture. | |
| For digging deeper than just doing a devotional. | |
| Those are fantastic, don't get me wrong. | |
| It just, it became something bigger for me. | |
| I knew that God wanted me to do more. | |
| I knew that this was an area of my life that I wanted to pursue. | |
| I wanted to pursue my relationship with God. | |
| I wanted to pursue an understanding of Scripture. | |
| And I wanted to do it in a practical way. | |
| And I wanted to put it all into practice. | |
| And I signed up for a ministry school that was offered by the church that I was going to. | |
| And during that time, I met somebody who had insomnia. | |
| And it's only relevant because this guy, I mean, insomnia sounds like the worst possible punishment for somebody ever if it was devised as a punishment, not letting somebody sleep. | |
| But he just had insomnia through no fault of his own and would end up studying Scripture and doing all kinds of things with the extra hours. | |
| And he came across a teacher who was called Chuck Missler. | |
| And Chuck did in-depth Bible studies where he would go line by line through Scripture. | |
| For example, I think his Genesis study is something on the order of... | |
| 30 hours long. | |
| And it's fantastic. | |
| I immediately fell in love with it because it would go verse by verse and it would talk to you about different things that would happen in Scripture and tie it to other places in Scripture, whether it was something that was a fulfilled prophecy or just a story that had a connection. | |
| And I just remember being fascinated because I had no idea that all of these little details in Scripture connected to all of the other places. | |
| When Chuck would show us those things. | |
| So my goal today is basically to help you see some of those connections and encourage you to go and do some of this study for yourselves. | |
| So one quick analogy, there's several things that I could tell you, one of which would be that, and look this up, God gave an entire people hemorrhoids as a punishment for stealing the Ark of the Covenant. | |
| That's pretty hilarious if you're God and you've got a Rolodex of punishments. | |
| You know, you're looking through, you're like, nope, done that, locusts, done that, frogs, it's a little dated. | |
| Hemorrhoids. Haven't done hemorrhoids. | |
| Let's see how this one goes. | |
| I think that's kind of funny. | |
| I think that shows that God has a sense of humor even though he's getting a message across. | |
| Or perhaps the idea that during the Exodus there was a giant cross in the middle of the desert that only God could really see because we didn't really have the power of flight. | |
| Maybe I guess if you stood on a mountain nearby you could see it. | |
| But if you look at how the Israelites were supposed to camp around the kind of the tabernacle that they took with them. | |
| You will essentially see, if you put some mathematical equation together of, I don't know, every person is one square foot and look at the number of people and where they were told to camp, you'll see that it makes a giant cross. | |
| Those kinds of things were things that I never really knew about. | |
| And they're not doctrinal positions necessarily, but they're just little interesting details that give the Bible more texture. | |
| So I wanted to start out with one of those and go into a little bit more depth, and that is the story of the serpent on a pole. | |
| One thing I want you to keep in mind as we go through this is that to the Jewish mind, pattern is prophecy, right? | |
| In our kind of Western mind, we think of prophecy as, you know, you make some kind of a prophetic claim and then there's some fulfillment to that claim. | |
| Like it's going to rain tomorrow and then it rains tomorrow. | |
| Well, for the Jews, you start establishing a pattern and when you see something that fits that pattern, that is prophecy, right? | |
| Pattern is prophecy. | |
| It's a different way of thinking and I think what you'll see, Sometimes we miss those prophecies in Scripture because we don't see the pattern for what it really is. | |
| So in Numbers 21, 7-9, I'll just read it for you and then I'll tell you kind of what I think about this. | |
| It says, Then the people came to Moses and cried out, We have sinned. | |
| Remember that word, we've sinned. | |
| Not that they've done something wrong, they specifically said sinned. | |
| We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. | |
| Pray that the Lord will take away the snakes. | |
| It's also a pretty wicked punishment that God sent a bunch of snakes to bite people. | |
| That's got to be terrifying. | |
| So Moses prayed for the people. | |
| Then the Lord told him, make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to a pole. | |
| All who are bitten will live if they simply look at it. | |
| So Moses made a snake out of bronze and attached it to a pole. | |
| Then anyone who was bitten by a snake could look at the bronze snake and be healed. | |
| Okay. So these people, let me go back to what their sin was. | |
| We spoke out against you, or the Lord, and against you. | |
| Okay, so they spoke out against them. | |
| That's their sin. | |
| If you're somebody looking at this story going, okay, what's the bad movie lines game we play sometimes? | |
| What's the next line from God? | |
| I guarantee you, you're not choosing the option where God says, go and make a snake out of brass and put it on a pole and put it on a heel and everybody who looks upon it is going to be healed. | |
| So why did God do this? | |
| It doesn't make any sense unless he's trying to continue a pattern for them to be able to see. | |
| So, all they had to do was look at the snake on a pole, and they would be healed of their sin. | |
| So, let's take a look at the elements here. | |
| You've got a snake. | |
| Where do we know the snake from in Scripture? | |
| That was basically the curse of Satan was made a snake, right? | |
| So Satan equals a snake equals sin. | |
| Okay, so now, clearly, we have sin. | |
| Let's do it like that. | |
| And then you can look at the pole. | |
| Why put the snake upon a pole? | |
| Doesn't seem to be much reason for that, but let's just kind of surmise, maybe it looks something like, you know, a straight-up pole, and then you kind of hung this snake on it like this, right? | |
| Now you start to see, okay, maybe that has some similarity to the cross. | |
| How it looked isn't quite as important as what it symbolized, though, right? | |
| So we've already said that the snake symbolizes sin. | |
| So if you put sin on a pole, on a heel, those who have sinned can look upon it and be healed. | |
| If that's not a picture of what Jesus Christ did, During the crucifixion, during the Easter celebration that we know it, I don't know what is. | |
| And it's really interesting because all you had to do was look upon it. | |
| There was no other work needing to be done. | |
| You just had to look upon this saving figure and you were saved. | |
| So when we call Jesus sin on the cross, he literally was made sin and we'll get back to that in just a minute. | |
| But he became sin for us, was on a cross, and all we have to do. | |
| So that's an interesting story out of numbers that not a lot of people will have heard the comparison. | |
| But it is part of the pattern. | |
| So again, I hope you do more digging. | |
| Dive into that story a little bit more if you want to. | |
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