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morning i'll just make a quick correction i'm not executive producer i'm just promoting the film thanks though can i call you executive promoter at least and least will be half right uh no uh it's a very valuable role as well my apologies it's just what's written in front of me Cheryl um kathleen how did this come about uh in terms of were you approached um to sort of help with the source material or did you seek out someone who might be interested in making a making a documentary on this important topic yes so the director of the documentary is a lady called Shannon Cohen um who also lived with endometriosis and she has a filmmaker and a law background and she first produced a documentary in 2016 called end of what um which had its irish premiere in letterkenny and we had a fantastic response to that and you know as you know the community in ireland like worldwide we helped crowdfund that that allowed then below the belt to be launched a couple of years back and we held an irish premiere back in 2022 but it's such a powerful documentary and while we're hoping to get this to broadcast it really is so important that people see it so um Cheryl and myself have decided to bring this to don't go ahead of that so that people can take the education from it people can take the impact from us and you know all of the education that comes with that and i would work very closely with Shannon in terms of you know awareness and different advocacy events worldwide but it's such a powerful story it needs to be told and it is told through four people is that correct it is yeah for for at least four stories within that film and we see the progression um and the impact that it has on these individuals right through from not being believed given inappropriate treatments and diagnosis and also like the financial side of it having to travel for surgery um all things that we see reflected here in the irish community i've spoken to too many women that have struggled to get the diagnosis uh as you've just outlined yourself to the point where it's all in their head or it's this or it's that um and the the common theme is eventually they just you know have to self advocate they do their own research and they say this is what i have now you you know you have to do what you have to do yeah it is it's terrible and and you know i suppose 25 years on for my diagnosis we're still seeing the same fight i'm still seeing people being faced with the same challenges that i faced and the average rate of diagnosis in Ireland is nine years and but i've recently spoken to women who was first diagnosed in her 50s and that's not uncommon you know i will come across women like that quite frequently i think first of all we don't believe women we don't believe that their symptoms are quite severe but equally we find that women don't necessarily know that something's wrong because we've been led to believe that maybe you know paying around the time of periods maybe painful sex painful bowel movements pain empty in your bladder we don't necessarily know that these things are abnormal so we have a huge gap in education and again not just in our limber world why it's that we need to address well Cheryl jane we are making some progress in that more people now than i think you know i don't know how to timeline it five or ten years ago understand or have some knowledge of endometriosis and how it can affect people and i'm not talking about those that that have it i'm on about just general society they also talks to unfortunately another issue that comes up in this show time and time again problems with the health system with health care that continually seem to disproportionately affect women yeah there is so much more work to do really i mean i can only speak i mean i'm not a medical professional or an academic i can only speak from personal experience and as a patient i was misdiagnosed even last year so it took me maybe till late of last year to get diagnosed fully so the experience of that alone is quite frustrating and the understanding of endometriosis in our own still is that it's a woman's disease and it's not it's systemic it has a systemic fallout and it's been fine in every organ in the body so to address that there's research that's just necessary are things catching up though in terms of our understanding of it you know outdated opinions and what have you is the the the broader public conversation hopefully addressing some of those historical issues well historically it's i mean the name itself endometriosis it's very misleading it means endo means within mitra uterus and osis disease and actually it doesn't have anything to do with the uterus itself so that's very confusing for the medical community and the society as well but we are catching up in terms of having conversations about it there's a lot of younger people who booked into the film which i'm very excited to have them as an audience they're more comfortable talking about their bodies but yeah we're getting there but there's just so much work that needs to be done i mean i'm somebody now who's been diagnosed late and that's not a nice not a comfortable experience no and there are consequences for that as well i think it's almost half of infertility cases are due to endometriosis so it's i was going to say it's not just the and thank god i corrected myself but you know some of the things we you know about the frustration of diagnosis the pain that not being believed the late diagnosis of really quite serious ramifications life changing ramifications for people absolutely and a lot of that's a very personal story as well and i think what's a really important message for women is to listen to other women as well because it's kind of like what kathleen was saying that we don't know when we're told like we're telling each other oh i have that that's normal then we're kind of normalizing what's essential pathology so it's very important that women are having conversations with each other believing each other and promoting women's health as well what needs to change though going forward kathleen because you know documentaries like this are incredibly important and we can talk about awareness all day and we can talk about how we hope things might change but fundamentally and i suppose it's in the health system and maybe it starts at the gp practice what or what needs to change is an understanding of what age this can affect people is it making sure that people are correctly signed posted to either identify or rule out endometriosis because i don't want to spend the next 10 20 15 years talking about how we're talking about it how are we going to sort it out yeah it comes from a multifaceted approach really the best way to change this and we're starting off with education in schools and i launched a pilot program in dunigol called misha which is going to help educate the younger generation to recognize the symptoms the second problem that then is healthcare professional and public education and it's very important to think that when you go to gp with symptoms as vague as maybe fatigue and pain on urination or you know pain around the time of menstruation it can be very difficult for gp to recognize those symptoms so we need to train the gps and healthcare professionals to look for the red flags so look for things like painful sex look for things pain where the person is unable to attend something that's important as a family wedding or an exam or something like that there are things that you can help to differentiate and then third of all we look at the government's plan where they have put in endometriosis framework last year now unfortunately there was not enough patient consultation in this and the regional and super regional centers that have been set up unfortunately have left out the west and northwest area so there's a lot of work to do in that and we still don't have the expertise in Ireland you know to be able to provide multidisciplinary care excision surgeon and to cope with the amount of women we're talking about 200,000 women in this country living with endometriosis in all its shapes and forms so we've a lot to do yeah it's estimated one in nine women are affected there's going to be a level of under reporting here and a lag I suppose in counting people given the decades it can take or the decades sorry almost it can take for a full diagnosis we can presume is it that it's a greater figure than one in nine yeah if you look at some populations and particularly those present through with infertility it can be as low as as one in five like I think we need a non-invasive diagnostic method to be able to diagnose endometriosis quicker and I'm delighted to say there are some research going on on that including some Irish research which is going to contribute to reducing the delay from nine years hopefully down to three months and we're a few years off that device going to market but again too that would be a revolutionary change and get people that diagnosis and treatment earlier and Cheryl Jane this isn't just about endometriosis is it I mean this is you know I think every woman affected or not and when I say every woman I mean every one actually because we you know it affects it affects all of us one way or other that this is about actually more broadly to a conversation about health care for all women I believe that definitely yeah I think you know we can all say is you know health care it's not you can't say women are more important than men of course not but biologically we have timeframe that's just science and I think it's important that we do prioritize women's health care and essentially it's you know we're there to reproduce hopefully yeah okay so the the showing of this documentary is on Monday the 29th of April it's at 7 30 p.m it's in Century Cinema Letter Kenny how do people go about sort of getting their tickets and talk to me a little bit then about the the post-show conversation Cheryl Jane so you can we have a link on Ticket Tailor I'll have to admit the tickets are flying out that shows the appetite for the conversation itself so they can contact me on Instagram as well Cheryl Rock but Ticket Tailor should leave them directly to the link and in terms of the post-show discussion we just want to start the curiosity of women with women and also to start you know to encourage self-advocacy it was the first thing someone told me whenever I was diagnosed they said you know you need to self-advocate and I was like what does that mean what is that and you feel like you're being pushy that you feel like you know you're asking but too much you feel like a hypochondriac but then whenever the you know the facts show you realize then and you kind of have to look back at maybe 20 years of being misdiagnosed and that's a difficult experience yeah um Kathleen a call says her daughter has been referred for hysterectomy they think she is endometriosis she's passing out with pain is there any other test you can get done for a diagnosis not a horrendous situation to be in yeah it is it's a bad situation unfortunately laparoscopy is the only way to diagnose endometriosis but I would advise that caller to seek a second opinion a hysterectomy is not a treatment for endometriosis it doesn't remove the disease and the disease by its very nature is outside of the uterus and usually on the pelvic organs so again try and seek somebody who's experience with endometriosis and you know maybe speak to somebody within the community as well it could help signpost can I just correct myself here I just have read hysterectomy so often I went through it's a histo hystereoscopy a big pardon hystereoscopy yeah hystereoscopy yeah hystereoscopy cannot diagnose endometriosis a hystereoscopy hystereoscopy looks inside the uterus itself it looks at the endometrial lining which again is different all right okay sorry about that it's also important to state that very often hysterectomy is you know the go-to for so it was a Freudian slip but it was not a million miles out either sadly yeah with endometriosis do you have rapid weight loss typically I wish if if somebody's experience in symptoms such as nausea or bowel discomfort it may mean that they have you know they're not eating as well or eating less but typically the disease is not associated with either weight loss or weight gain but normally the symptoms around that so maybe the bowel symptoms or the you know the eating patterns from living with pain can affect that okay listen both of you thank you very much indeed I really do appreciate you come on unless there's anything either if you feel we need to add just whilst we're in this space or are you happy enough yeah no thank you very much for helping us promote this and again if people have questions they can reach out to either myself or Cheryl on Instagram's the easiest place to find us okay thank you very much indeed Kathleen King awareness advocate for endometriosis it's good having you on the show and also Cheryl Jane Rock who is a promoter for this event which is on the 29th of April at 7 30 p.m. in the Century Cinema Letter Kenny it's a float for below the belt a powerful documentary on endometriosis thanks so much um it's been a pleasure having you on the show thank you all right take care of yourself bye bye Cheryl Jane Rock there 08 660 25 000 these are whatsapp and text number if you want any further comments on that um obviously I mean maybe I I'm out of touch here but a lot's been happening yesterday and today politically for me it just I don't really maybe I should give it more importance than I am we're going to talk about it tomorrow of course but just to keep you updated for those who are really into the politics um what it seems to be now the case this is informed speculation i.e. leaks and what have you it hasn't been formally confirmed but Helen McIntee's expected to stay in 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i a unwind down and savor the moment at dunagall boardwalk resort carry guard child to parent violence is often described as the secret side of domestic abuse because parents who experience it struggle so much to talk about it or even admit that it is happening aileen hickey is ceo of parent line and is with me on the program now with us in fact aileen thanks for your time today and good morning to you good morning greg how are you i'm good i'm good right so in in terms of contacts to parent line are we seeing any trend in uh the reporting of child to parent violence we're seeing very significant trends so first of all i suppose rather than calling child to parent violence or um adolescent to parent violence as it often is termed as well rather than calling it the secret side it's often more so the unspoken side of domestic violence or domestic abuse because i think most people when they think of domestic violence or domestic abuse think of it very much in a partner to partner setting um but obviously domestic violence or domestic abuse is any sort of abuse or violence that takes place in the domestic settings so child to parent violence or adolescent to parent violence very much falls within that category so um over the last four years we've seen about a 500 increase in first of all in the demand for the supports that we have for child to parent violence uh last year we took about six thousand we took 6147 calls last year to parent line which made 2023 a records year for parent line in the first place but one in three of those calls uh referred to elements of child to parent violence now i will say great i think you know because of the word violence a lot of people that when they think of child when they think of any sort of domestic violence or when they think of child to parent violence might think you know that it's some kind of 15 year old young fella kind of throwing his mother up against the fridge door every night of the week and it can be but it's not always so we would have calls from parents who can have very significant injuries and um are very traumatized and they may have bruising or a broken bone or whatever but it isn't just physical violence as i say it can be but it isn't just physical violence it's also verbal abuse emotional abuse damage to property um coercive behaviors controlling behaviors so there's a number of um elements to child to parent violence i think the only the thing that needs to be remembered is that the crux of it is that it is any violence that leaves the parent afraid or in fear of their child in their own home and that is essentially what child to parent violence is and just you know again not to keep over talking but you know really i think what what the the worst part of child to parent violence in every part of it is bad is that it definitely is a stigma um for the parent and a sense of shame and a sense of silence because it's very difficult for a parent to acknowledge that this sort of behavior is going on in their own home and with their own child because you know this is their beautiful child and they never expected you know these behaviors to be subtly directed at them it's difficult to acknowledge but more and more people are and when you see such a rapid increase 500 increase in demand over such a short period of time you have to ask the question are we seeing more of this is it because more people are living at home now uh or living at home for longer is it that people are becoming more aware that parent line can offer support in this regard and it's the you know maybe the path of least resistance for them in terms before going to the Guardian or whatever I mean what is your analysis of of why we've seen such a rapid increase in a relatively short period of time well i think you've touched on actually a number of the elements i think it's a combination of things so i think certainly and you know parents are probably more willing to talk about it because we've pushed the envelope not just parent line but other organizations and in terms of trying to open the door to a discussion on this and to try and de-stigmatize it and to you know to get parents to open up a bit about it so we've certainly raised the profile um of parent line and the awareness of child to parent violence um but you know i mean look you can't put everything at the door covert um but i think certainly you know the first year that we experienced the spike in calls in relation to child to parent violence and um spike in demand for for the program that we have to support that was during the first covert year in 2020 um and we saw the the demand go out the door at that stage that would have been because i suppose you know families became kind of hot pots you know everyone was living or working from home or go to school from home and you know that it certainly was quite incendiary in a lot of environments that there is another thing which is also that you know the housing crisis i suppose has also kind of driven a bit of this because when we talk about child to parent violence it's children primarily aged from 12 or 13 or that they can be a bit younger uh right through to adult children you know because adult children are they're still your child and now there are so many adult children who because of the housing crisis and because of financial restrictions are living in the family home and it caused a huge difficulty for parents and actually 17 percent of our calls last year more from parents in relation to their adult children so it's a very significant issue as well as i say you know it's you know it has been caused by a number of factors but it was primarily that you know the housing crisis and the difficulty of getting accommodation and being able to afford accommodation so i think it's all that but i think also maybe parents are a bit more willing to look for support yeah and so i'm not saying that it wasn't always there because i you know i i mean it may have increased but i think maybe it's an increased awareness but also aileen what's happening too when we talk about child to parent abuse is that there are people listening to the show today that maybe think it's normal maybe just put up and shut up and they're actually saying actually i'm a victim of this so you know the awareness i think actually sort of makes people realize that's you know that's the life of the living which they shouldn't what are the like if you someone contacts parent line or some other group that offers support in this area um i don't want any trouble for them you know i just want a resolution to this i don't want the guards involved or whatever it might be in every case is different are there interventions or things that you can suggest that that can try and address the issues before it is escalated or elevated first of all 100 and second of all i suppose what we will always say is you know the sooner you you ask for help you know the better you will feel and it's okay it's okay to ask for help because you know this isn't a behavior that you need to accept in your own home so we have a very specific program called the non-violent resistance program now we're not the ordinary organization that has this program a number of other organizations cams would have it and uh to sort of have it and burn out there are a number of agencies and organizations would have it i suppose where parent line comes into its own is that we are one of the few if not the only organization that um has such an amount of non-violence resistance trained practitioners because it's a very specific training program that our volunteers have to do in order to do the program uh we now have 33 volunteers who are trained in this specific program and also because the added bonus is that we do it over the phone with parents so it takes out the logistical difficulties of coming to meet somebody it also adds to the confidentiality of parents who are looking for the service because again you know they're not always willing to to meet somebody face to face or in a group setting um or whatever so in in short first of all i would say that if anyone is is dealing with this issue in their own house the best thing to do would be to go and look at the parent line website we've got a huge amount of information on the parent line website on child to parent violence and on the non-violent resistance program and there's testimonials on the website in relation to parents who have been through the program and they speak about their experience prior to do the program and a lot of them were in very drastic circumstances and they were very distressed and a lot of them didn't believe the program would work for them but you know they also then describe how they went through the program and how it worked from the back end for them essentially you know you know it's an eight to ten week program so i'm not going to be able to explain it in three minutes but essentially it's a it's a non- blaming intervention program but what it essentially tells Greg is it sets about changing the reaction of the parent to the behaviors that are being exhibited or displayed against them because i think most children know exactly what buttons to press and exactly what reaction they're going to get when they press a particular button and often it's like throwing oil onto a fire but if you change the parent's reaction or change the parent engages with that behavior that in turn brings about a behavioral change in the child no obviously it's not as simplistic as that and unfortunately for many parents they would love us to be able to post some magic bean or to wave our magic wand to resolve what's going on it doesn't work like that but for parents who do this program with us as i said a one-to-one basis over the phone is a fantastic program as long as they commit to doing what's being suggested to them on the program i mean you know it changes family dynamics and family outcomes right going forward brilliant stuff okay Aileen thank you so much for your time Aileen Hickey CEO of ParentLine and the website address Aileen is parentline.ie is it okay thank you very much indeed i'll double check that we just got cut off there just at the very last okay again if that's an issue that affects you or you want to share your story and it's very difficult very sensitive i i did have quite a long back and forward communication on this issue with someone on social media gone back sometime and thankfully the situation was resolved but the person in question an terrible desperate situation and there was a violent element to their situation as well um but um my last communication indicated that they did uh address the issues and felt safer in their homes okay we'll be back with more after these the 90 noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie new this week in home store and more all 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the future as Ireland's international airport Dublin airport welcomes passengers from all walks of life in a daily basis and we pride ourselves on offering high levels of customer service to all while also adhering to the extremely strict security requirements that ensure the safety of our passengers and staff the team will be back in touch with the listener presently and we look forward to welcoming her back to Dublin airport soon when we can assure her of a much more positive experience so it is um it is a response let's say actions will speak louder than words hi my daughter has to have ambulatory gynecology is this to investigate endometriosis she's passing out with endometriosis pain i've got to help her i'm not obviously the ladies that would know that aren't with me at the moment i disagree with avril mcmonigal when she says salaries for teachers in that space is low it's actually one of the highest in europe and in comparison to our colleagues in northern Ireland we're also better off northern Ireland get two months paid holiday in the summer we get three so that's in the early years that's what one listener says there i pulled up to a rural self-service petrol pumps and a middle-aged lady approached an elderly lady who was filling up her car the lady looked very uncomfortable and got into the car and drove off she didn't approach me as i had my husband in the car i drove off and this lady was still at the petrol pumps so i'm not sure if she was looking to extort people or not but that's one person's experience so charlie mcconnellogue is to be now blaney's director of elections in his run for a euro seat must be a match made in heaven for radiophina fall which i presume that's what they're calling us would it not suit the inch on td better to help his micro-stricken constituents rather than spend his time helping his party colleague in a forlorn attempt to gain a seat in brussels charity begins at home charlie remember that at the local elections count well it would be the uh dull elections but i take your point people driving carelessly on roads have got away for far too long they'll always get money for fines there's people going to jail for less crimes authorities need to wake up mary the one thing uh i mean there is a catastrophic loss of life on our roads north and south by the way what i don't understand is the approach to it i'm not you know too much policing and all that kind of stuff and extra laws uh you know people have their reservations on that but why do we target driving safety like for a weekend at a time i mean that is the biggest suggestion that the resources are crap that there could be so you get one weekend where the speed vans are at the guards are at the check and tax insurance the check and tires and it's all done in a a big weekend surely that should be the case all of the time because what happens is is yeah all right it's not this weekend i'll just drive how i like i don't but that's how some people might think so i think the fact that they have to do these throw the resources at it and you still don't see many about if the truth be told the odd speed fun in here and there i've never been stopped once on a one of these high awareness weekends but it points to the fact that for the rest of the year obviously there's a serious gap if that is what a targeted uh a target approach to road safety is i watched up front with katey cannon last night an rg regarding integration when we go on holidays we have to show our passport to get on the plane yet hundreds of people in dublin or land in dublin with no documentation the question is if 200 people are scanned onto a plane say in spain and 198 to scan through immigration in dublin why can't the two people that have lost their passports on route not be picked out well you see i think the problem is is or the situation is is some people might not see it as a problem is that once they get off the plane uh once they get off the plane they can claim um can they not claim uh asylum at that point and then international laws kicking uh i was on a flight quite some time ago and they were checking passports as you come off the plane you know that you know the tunnel the the tunnel that goes between the plane and the now if that were to refuse entry before people actually physically got off the plane i'm not really quite sure coming up and ours to protect it is a tuesday so ours to protect is on during john show time's running out to get yourself registered for the climate action hero challenge donna marie darty speaks to handzomer ceo of the global action plan island so tune in at 12 30 uh today on around the north west to learn more there i want to mention by the way because this is a few short days uh the 10 000 euro home makeover is coming to a conclusion on friday on john show so i'm asking you have you entered the 10 000 euro home makeover droids an association with foreign company on friday the 12th of april we'll be calling one lucky winner live around the north west now see the calling live your ticket will come out and you win so you you can buy your ticket you're not going to you don't have to receive a call to win okay um so you uh your ticket comes out you win so what would you do with your 10 grand around your house inside or add and not only that's right we're also giving away 5000 euro in cash so if you want to be involved in that the most you have to pay for a ticket is 10 euro one ticket 10 euro six tickets for 50 10 for 80 it's just a draw by the way so you don't have to answer your phone it's nice if you do we can have a chat brilliant but that's not a prerequisite you can buy your tickets you're thrown in the draw drum it's as simple as that i'll show those watching the draw drum there it is look full of tickets well it's not full of tickets uh you've a really good chance of winning compared to some of the competitions you might enter in terms of the amount that have entered uh so if you want to buy a ticket go on our website highlandradio.com it's 10 euro if you have that and you want to have a pond uh if you want to buy tickets for other people and yourself six for 50 euro so they get cheaper 10 for 80 euro and um the draws on friday someone's going to win a 10 000 euro makeover package plus five grand in cash it's a draw so all it has to happen is your number comes out of the draw drum and you've won whether you answer the phone or not that's not part of this at all at all right that's where we have to leave it on the show mikaela clark's around the north west my mistake she's not she's just hanging around the studio john breslin is around the north west that's coming up after 12 enjoy the rest of your tuesday we will be back with you tomorrow morning from nine


Life is a vapor. In any moment of any day, anyone can pass into eternity. When we lose someone we love in this way, we can become overwhelmed with disbelief and grief. We search for answers even when we don't know exactly what questions we should be asking. Why did God allow this? How can we go on? After the initial shock, there's a flurry of thoughts that rush through your mind or perhaps there's just one thought about which you cannot stop obsessing. Maybe you feel angry, maybe you feel guilty, maybe hopeless, depressed, afraid, confused. When you lose a loved one, you know that no one can possibly know the pain you feel. Because how can they? The person you lost was unique. The relationship you had with them was unique. Friends' connections are different and so are the ways we grieve those connections. You have a unique collection of experiences, conversations, and feelings that nobody else will ever have and can therefore never understand. Your loss of a parent is different than someone else's loss of a parent. Your loss of a child is different than someone else's loss of a child. The same is true of all loss of a sibling, of a friend, of a family member, of a mentor. We experience a unique kind of pain for the loss of every unique kind of connection. Is there a loved one you fondly remember? Tell us about them in the comments section. Jesus never promised that our lives would be without heartache. Now, I share that truth at the risk of sounding as if I'm trying to minimize grief. But I remind you of this because some are at risk of falling into a snare of bitterness against God. If we believe we are owed a life without pain, then we may feel disillusioned, abandoned, and lied to when we inevitably do feel pain. Especially if one tragedy strikes right after the other. In our struggle to catch a breath, we may find it difficult to remember the goodness of God. When faced with tremendous loss, Job cried, The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Well it's easier said than done. We can praise in the midst of pain. We can trust God even when nothing makes sense. However, we don't serve a God who is cold and distant. He's near to us and he understands our pain. He's the only one, whoever truly can. Christ himself experienced the pain of grief. The King was distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he ordered that her request be granted and had John be headed in the prison. His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl who carried it to her mother. Once disciples came and took his body and buried it, then they went and told Jesus. Jesus heard what had happened. He withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. I believe that Jesus went away to a solitary place to grieve, to weep, to pray. The Lord Jesus can empathize with us, therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. Therefore, we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet he did not sin. That's Hebrews chapter 4 verses 14 and 15. You can be angry, you can ask questions, you can weep, you can grieve. The Lord isn't going to hold it against you, he's going to hold you. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. That's Psalm chapter 34 verse 18. And in our grief, let us not forget our great hope. Only in God can we find hope for the future, the strength to continue. If grief is an impossible burden to bear, then hope is that help that makes it just possible enough. To who can we turn when death strikes? No man or woman, no matter how powerful they are, can prevent or reverse death. No man or woman, no matter how wise they are, can make sense of it. Only God can give us hope in times of loss and grief. This is why Paul the Apostle wrote, Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind who have no hope for. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord's word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not proceed those who have fallen asleep, for the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we'll be with the Lord forever. Therefore, encourage one another with these words. It is the hope of heaven that removes the sting of death, and Christ himself is that hope. Help spread this message of hope with others by leaving a like on this video. Paul the Apostle likens death for the believer to sleep. It's temporary. One day, they will live again. Though it might not be true, I once heard it said that as we enter into the gates of heaven, we'll enter alongside those who died years before we did. What is true is that time, from the perspective of eternity, isn't the uncrossable chasm we often imagine it to be. Perhaps you were able to see your loved one go. If you saw them resting in a casket or on a hospital bed, did you notice how different they looked? The body is only the shell, but the soul lives forever. In fact, Paul the Apostle wrote of the fact that we would one day receive new bodies, glorified vessels that cannot be touched by sickness or death, and the Holy Spirit within us now is the guarantee of the fulfillment of this promise then. For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile, we groan longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now, the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. That's 2 Corinthians chapter five, verses one through five. Still, one might worry, what of my loved ones who didn't know or accept Christ? And there's always the hope that they, as did the thief on the cross, accepted the Savior with their dying breaths, that they encountered God within the split seconds before they stepped into eternity. So even then, we can find a reason to hope. This is part of the joy of heaven, to again embrace the ones who for now feel so far away. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. That's Romans chapter eight, verse 18. The pain you feel today will one day be washed up in a joyful reunion. And the grief we now feel will become a distant memory. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true, death has been swallowed up in victory. Where oh death is your victory? Where oh death is your sting? That's 1 Corinthians chapter 15, verses 53 to 55. You'll see them again. You'll see your mom again. You will see your dad again. You'll see your brother, your sister, your cousin, your grandma, your grandpa, your friend. They'll be there. That's the hope. You will hold your son again. You will hug your daughter again. Because of the cross, we can say concerning them. For now, it is dark. It is night. For now, you sleep. But I'll see you in the morning. Let's stay connected. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more encouraging content and click the bell so you don't miss anything. Also, this free content is donor supported. If you've been blessed by this ministry, consider paying it forward. Become a monthly ministry supporter by going to davidhernandezministries.com slash partner. And until next time, remember, nothing is impossible with God.


Good morning, radiant family. How is everyone this morning? So glad you're all here with us. I'm Pastor Josh. I'm one of the worship pastors here. So thankful that you're here and we can celebrate the resurrection of our Lord together today. Let's all stand and let's enter into worship. 2 says that when Jesus came, he came found in the likeness of men. He came as one of us, God incarnate in the flesh. And it says that when he came in our likeness, he took upon him the form of a servant. See when Jesus came, what his whole life, what everything that he did was all about was serving. He served us by dying for our sins. He served us by demonstrating the heart of the Father. And it says he was obedient to the point of death, even death upon a cross. And it was because of this that the Bible says because Jesus suffered and died in radical obedience to the will of the Father, which was the only thing that could rescue and save us. It says it was because of that obedience that God has highly exalted him and given him a name that is above every other name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee would bow in heaven, on earth, and under the earth. And every tongue would confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. You see, today is a day that we celebrate with those around the world. What started with just a handful of disciples peeking into an empty tomb today has erupted into billions and millions of people who have encountered the resurrected Jesus, the Lord of Glory, who are shouting his name and joining with the choruses of heaven. I want you to know today that because Jesus died on Good Friday on Sunday morning, God highly exalted him and gave him a name that's higher than any other name. It's higher than cancer. It's higher than whatever sin has beset you. It's higher than the name of any government officials, any nation. It's higher than any name that would boast for itself. It's the name of Jesus. And it's the power of God unto salvation. Come on, one more time. Let's sing this. Let's sing this chorus. Death could not hold him. Come on. Death could not hold him. Jesus broke the bonds of sin and death for us today. Come on. Let's sing it one more time. His name this morning, Jesus. No higher. Amen. Come on, everybody. This is the day where we remember that 2,000 years ago, death died and hope was resurrected because Jesus is alive.  But Jesus, the Bible says that the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells within us. So we have resurrection power this morning. A.m., amen. A.m. and amen. Hey, turn around. Welcome somebody. Tell them you're so glad that they are here and that he is risen. Hey, good morning, we need church. Can we give it up for our worship team, our choir, our fearless leader, Pastor Caleb? So grateful for all that they have poured into helping enter us into the presence of God, where we are worshiping our risen Savior and we're so grateful that you're joining us. Welcome to Radiant. This may be your first time. Maybe you're here, you're visiting. We're so grateful and honored, honestly, to have you as a guest. We actually have prepared an Easter song that we want you to sing. No, I'm just kidding like that. If this is your first time, we're not going to single you out, call you out, anything like that. But we would love to know you were here.  If you'd be willing to fill that out, hang on to it actually and then out those doors to the right at the end of the service. There's an area called Guest Central. We have some leaders, pastors from our church that are there. And we have a gift for you, a free gift that we want to put in your hands, no strings attached. Just our way of saying thank you so much for joining us on Easter Sunday. So if this is your first time, thank you for being here. Welcome. I want to just highlight the news, the update that's going to come on after I pray to just pay attention to it. We have some cool things coming up if you are newer. We have water baptisms next week and then the following week, we have our Be Radiant class, which is sort of a next step for how to get involved or how to learn more about radiant, especially if you're new. So pay attention to that. I'm going to ask the ushers if they would to come forward. We're going to continue to worship with our giving. And this is a part of who we are and what we do as followers of Jesus. Jesus said in Matthew 6, when you pray, when you fast and when you give, you're doing something that has eternal impact. And so I just want to remind you of that this morning that literally in this room, in the nations of the world, in our city and region, people are hearing the good news of Jesus Christ, who was resurrected and conquered death and sin because of your faithfulness, your giving, your prayers, and your serving. So we thank you so much for that. As always, the ushers are going to pass buckets. You can give on our website, reading.church.give, or you can text that number. But let's pray. And let's just ask the Lord to bless what we give and also just open our spiritual eyes and ears to Pastor Lee's Word, to the Holy Spirit, who wants to bring his voice into our lives and into our hearts. So Father, we thank you this morning and we serve a risen Savior, not a relic, not a historical artifact that our God is alive.  So God, I thank you for every single person who sacrificially puts you first in their finances. You said that you would open the windows of heaven. You would pour blessing into our lives when we trust you as our provider. So God, use these gifts, this money, these funds to further the kingdom of God. Let people know your love because of the faithful giving of Radiant Church and open our eyes and ears to hear what the Holy Spirit has for us as your Word is proclaimed today in Jesus' name. Amen. Hey everyone and welcome to Radiant. My name is Preston and my name is Jackie and this is Radiant News. If this is your first time here or you've been attending for a long time and want to get involved and learn more about Radiant, we encourage you to sign up for our upcoming V Radiant class taking place next Sunday. At 5 p.m. in Richland and Portage, you'll learn how to partner with the vision, purpose, and heartbeat of Radiant Church. Being water baptized is an outward proclamation of an inward decision to follow Jesus. If you're a Christian but you've never been water baptized, consider this your next step in the journey. We're hosting water baptisms at our weekend services on April 23rd and 24th in Richland and Portage and we encourage you to register. You're going to want to be here next weekend as we are excited to have Pastor Lee kick off a brand new series called Wind and Fire. This series will take us through the Book of Acts where we'll get to dive deeper into the Apostle's life and the birth of the church. Don't miss it. You can find all this information and more at Radiant.Church slash weekend. That's it for us. Thanks for following along. Well, happy Easter morning, everybody. Hey, we want to real quick, we want to celebrate and we want to just cheer on our Portage location. Today is the five year anniversary of the opening of our Portage location. So we celebrate. Celebrate you guys. We love you. Pastor Stefan and Candice and the whole team that is over there at all of you. We love so many of you and man, happy Easter morning. This is the big day. This is the day when everything changed, when history changed. There's not a single day in human history more significant than the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. And right now, I just want to remind you that all over the planet, believers are gathering and all kinds of different churches, some of them in massive cathedrals and some of them in grass huts, some of them in their backyards of Cuba sitting in white lawn chairs and some of them in bunkers in Ukraine, where they are all together in different languages and in different cultures and in different situations, singing the same song, which is Christ, the Lord is risen today. What began with a handful at an empty tomb is now a worldwide movement that has been transformed by the saving power of Jesus Christ. We are part, we are part of that. And I just remind us of that because otherwise we can just get into a mode of thinking that this is just us. This is what we do in the spring.  But I want you to know it's so much bigger than that. This is the day when Christ, our victory, rose from the dead. We're so glad that you're joining us and this morning I want to invite you, if you do have a Bible with you, which I hope you do, if not it will come up on the screens to turn with me to Colossians chapter two. Colossians chapter two. We're going to read these words from the apostle Paul to the church at Colossae reminding us of what took place at the cross and at the resurrection. And here's what he says beginning in verse 13. And you who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses by cancelling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. And this he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing over them in it, which is the cross. And when it says that he's raised us up together with him, he's talking about Jesus and he's talking about the resurrection, that when Christ was raised, those of us who have placed our faith in Christ as our Savior, we were also raised to the newness of life with him. But it's because of what took place on Friday that the power and the victory of the resurrection has such a ramification upon each of our lives individually. Because here's what we need to know. Every single one of us come to the resurrection of Christ with a different vantage point. All of us have to deal and we have to grapple with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's just what do you do with what took place on that first Easter morning. Some of us might come and as they did on that first resurrection morning, we peer into the empty tomb and we might walk away going, yeah, it's a great story, but it doesn't really mean anything.  Others of us might come to the tomb like many of the disciples did. We might come and look at the empty tomb and doubt. But others of us come to the tomb and we believe the report that Christ is risen from the grave. But here's what you cannot do. You cannot look at Jesus at the cross and his resurrection and have no perspective. This morning, my hope is that if you are one who believes like many of us are, we're here today because we're celebrating and worshiping him. And by the way, Easter is not just one day on a calendar where we celebrate the resurrection and then like the beautiful runner on our table for Easter dinner, we fold it up and put it away. Every day is Easter Sunday for every Christian. Every day because Christ, his resurrection impacts and changes our lives every single day. You might come to the resurrection and you might look at it and you might doubt. And I would say to you that there's so much powerful historical and secular reason to believe as well as the scriptures themselves and the eyewitnesses accounts to believe on Jesus as risen from the dead. Lee Strobel has written a good, an incredible book, he's been here many times, his book called The Case for Christ where an atheist trained in law at Yale and then a Chicago Tribune investigative reporter investigates the claims of Christ's resurrection and does it from the vantage point of an atheist, but turns out to become a believer because there's so much evidence for the resurrection. But one thing that you cannot do with the resurrection is you cannot walk by it passively and not have a perspective. Today, I want to talk to you about why Christ's resurrection is actually our victory. And I've entitled this message, Christ's Victor, which in Latin means Christ the Victor or literally Christ our victory. Why is it that Christ at his resurrection, Jesus Christ, not only was victorious over the grave, but becomes your victory? You know, one of the most famous passages that is preached on Easter Sunday is 1 Corinthians 15 or chapter 15 verse 55 and it says this, oh death where is your sting? O grave where is your victory? Have you ever heard that verse before? In fact, you might be familiar with it. It's sung many, many times in many different hymns.  O grave where is your victory? When I was contemplating that question that scripture asks, the Holy Spirit just highlighted it. He says, I'll tell you where the victory of the grave is. It's no longer in the grave. Jesus went into the grave, but on the third day he took that victory with him out of the grave and he offers it to everyone who trust in him as their personal Lord and Savior. You see, the victory of the grave was 100% consistent and undefeated until Jesus defeated the grave. And when he defeated the grave, he gave the victory to those who would place their trust in him. Good Friday asked the question, who is this man? But Easter Sunday answers the question by stating that Christ is our victory.  And Romans 6 verse 9 says it like this. It says, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him, for death has died. You see, Easter is not just a celebration of Jesus alive, but it's also a celebration of death being dead. And it says that death has died and it says he, Jesus, died to sin once and for all, but the life that he lives, he lives unto God. Jesus defeated death. When the stone was rolled away and Jesus' dead body was made alive again by the power of the Holy Spirit and he walked out of the tomb. This wasn't just an event one time in history that we look at and go, look, one man defeated death.  But he said, if you put your trust in me, not only will it be my victory, but it can be your victory. You see, all the things that sent Jesus to the grave and all the things that send you and I to the grave are the very things that Jesus defeated. But before we can understand what took place at the resurrection, we have to have an appreciation and an understanding of what Jesus paid for on the cross. On Good Friday, Jesus allowed himself to be falsely accused, to be arrested, to be humiliated, to be crucified, to be tortured and to be killed. And the reason why he did it was not because he deserved it, he did it because we deserved it. Jesus exchanged his righteousness for our unrighteousness and his right to never die for our penalty that we had to die because the Bible says that the wages of sin is death.  But the fact that he rose again gives us brand new hope. And church, we are people of hope. I was sitting with my staff, my pastoral team yesterday before Saturday evening service. And we pray together before every service, every weekend. And yesterday I decided, I said, I'm going to read you guys a quote from somebody that you know, you will recognize their name.  And so I read the quote to him. And I'm going to read it to you today. And the quote, it's so powerful. I think it says this, it says, the victory of the cross was not apparent on Friday.  Isn't that powerful? So I asked my pastoral team, I said, guys, tell me who it is. Who am I quoting? And somebody said, is that C.S. Lewis? And I said, no, it's not C.S. Lewis. And they said, is that Tim Keller? And I said, no, it's not Tim Keller. And one of my other pastors said, no, I can't be Keller. It's too simple. And I said, well, yeah, it's still a good quote. And then they said, well, who is it? And I said, well, it's me. See what happens when you can't find the right quote is you write one. And then you just simply state it has been said. But I wrote this statement because as I was contemplating the connection between the cross and the resurrection, this is the reality of it. On Friday, Jesus died and it was not apparent what was happening. Hell thought that they had defeated love. Hell thought that they had defeated God. Hell thought that God had injected a savior into the world to save humanity from the bondage of sin, death, and ultimately the destination of Hell, because we are guilty as charged. But what he didn't realize is it was actually a time-released victory. With every lash upon Jesus' body, healing was occurring. With every nail that was piercing his hands, the keys of freedom were going into the lock of the human soul.  And it would not be fully released until Sunday morning. A. W. Tozer says this. He says, we understand this and acknowledge that the resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's suffering. Jesus is victorious and Jesus' decisive victory on the third day means this, that your history ended at the cross on Good Friday and it means that your future began on Sunday at Jesus' resurrection. Your history ends at the cross. All of your sin, all of the things that made you guilty and condemned before God that ended at the cross. And my friend, your new life, your new beginning, your eternal life begins on Sunday at the resurrection. When He rose, we rose. This is our hope. Jesus' victory becomes our victory. It says that in Him, God has made us alive and raised us up together with Him.  He was your victory. And listen to me. If you're here today and you are not a follower of Jesus, you can't, you don't just have to look at the resurrection today. You can enter into the resurrection. His victory can become your victory. What did Jesus really do at the cross that so affects us on Easter Sunday? Well, He did three things. And it's written right here in Colossians chapter three. And let me share over the next few moments what I believe is so powerful about the cross and the resurrection that it ultimately can become the victory that we could never win for ourselves, not a single one of us, but is accomplished in Christ alone at the cross. Number one, it says here that He has forgiven you, forgiven us of all of our sins and our trespasses. It says that you and I were dead in our trespasses and in the uncircumcision of our flesh, but God made us alive, having forgiven us all of our trespasses. What's a trespass? You might read that in the Bible sometimes and go, what does it mean a trespass? You might have grown up reciting the Lord's prayer, forgive us our trespasses. What does it mean to trespass? The word trespass, you can call it sin, but it's actually more than that. You see, a trespass is when you cross a boundary into a territory illegally that does not belong to you. If you've ever seen signs, no trespassing. When you cross over a boundary line that does not belong to you into territory that you have no right to tread upon, that's called trespassing. And the Bible says that every single one of us have trespassed into territory that alone belongs to God. You see, God draws boundary lines and He says, don't do this. God draws boundary lines and says, this is my territory to define for you what is right, what is true, what is praiseworthy, what is excellent, what honors me, what is pleasing to others. And He says, don't cross these lines, but every single one of us have stepped over the line into territory that only belongs to God and thus we've declared, I don't need you God and I don't need to respect your lines. I am my own leader. I am my own maker of rules and rights. And when we do that, we sin against the holy God and we are guilty as charged. When I was a elementary age child, we grew up in Kentwood, Michigan, and we lived from second to fifth grade, sixth grade in an apartment.  Well, there's not a lot of room for exploration on an apartment complex. You know, we would explore the laundry rooms or, you know, run up and down the stairs or there was a pool house. So we would go to the pool house and but you begin to look for other things to explore right on the edge of the apartment complex property was a vast open field. I mean, just acres and acres of land and woods and barns and old silos. But there was a barbed wire fence that separated the apartment complex from this property. And there were signs posted all over that said, do not trespass. Well, how many of you think that a band of 10 or so fourth and fifth grade boys listened to that sign? No, we crossed over that barbed wire in and we explored all over the place.  And so we would all day long and we found these old barn and old barn and old silos, you know, we climb up to the top of the silos and we could have fallen down in that silo and people still would be looking for us. And we made forts. It was it was every boys dream.  We had a whole fort set up old farming implements that was out there. It was like our clubhouse and every day in the summer, we'd get on our bikes, we'd lift them over the barbed wire fence and do our, you know, our little mountain biking expedition back to the barn trespassing until one day when we showed up and the owner of the property was waiting for us. We rode up and he came up out of the barn. He said, what are you boys doing here? We're like, oh, I don't know. And he goes, is this all your stuff up in my barn? It's like, I don't know. And he's like, you're trespassing on my land. You get out of here. Your parents know that you're here. No, we didn't even wait around. We got on our bikes and we hightailed it out of there. Why? Because we knew we were wrong and we continue to go back. And you know, this is what we do with God. God says, this is the line of holiness. This is the line of my law. And yet, you know, what we continue to do, we trespass over that line into territory that only God should tread. And it's because of that we stand before God guilty. Our pride can say, well, I'm not going to give God any, any pleasure. I'm not going to give God any excuse. But what he's looking for is humility. And when we come to him for humility, here's what Jesus did for us on the cross. It says he forgave all of our trespasses all the times we've stepped over the line. You know, today, the most powerful testimony to the resurrection of Jesus is not the forensic or the historical evidence. It's a life that's changed. It's a life that's been transformed and changed weekend and week out through radiant stories and testimonies that we hear here and outside of the building, whether it's downtown or portage or on the other side of the world through a kingdom builder story. When we hear stories of people that hear the gospel and receive the forgiveness of sins, we see the power of what took place at the cross where the trespasses and the things that in our own hearts, our own consciences condemn us, the guilt and the shame, the times where we've stepped over the line, the times that our hearts have become hardened. And yet we meet the resurrected Savior and we hear the good news and we believe it. And all of the sin and all of the guilt is stripped away. That is the greatest testimony to the power of Jesus' resurrection. The second thing that took place at the cross was it says that he has canceled our record of debt. It says that he cancels the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. So with our sins comes a written statement of our sins and our legal debt. You know written above Jesus on the cross was the accusations made against him. But unseen to the natural eye when Jesus was on the cross was also written every sin and every legal accusation against you and me and every person who's ever lived. Because that's what the devil does. The devil stands before God like a prosecuting attorney saying, God, you are holy, but they are sinful. And here's exactly what they've done. Here's all the examples. Can you imagine somebody taking and writing a list of all the things that you have done, all the sins, all the mistakes, all the times you've missed the mark, all the decisions you've made out of pride and rebellion against what you know in your heart and in your conscience is right?  Can you imagine how your heart would begin to sink like somebody who is under the weight of an insurmountable and unpayable debt? Imagine that list. I know we're in church. I know it's Easter. So I'm going to get you at a moment when you know you cannot lie. How many of you know that you have missed the mark you've sinned at least one time in your life? Just raise your hand. If you're not raising your hand right now, welcome to the club. But we know really that it's more than one. Imagine that list. The Bible actually says that Lord, if you measured all of our transgressions, who could stand? Who could stand before you? And there's a lot of talk in our culture right now about canceling debt. Canceling debt. Hey, we should just cancel everybody's student debt, four trillion dollars of student debt. There's a lot of talk about bankruptcy and about the economy and about how it's impacted people's lives. And it's just easier to kind of wipe out debt. But here's what I want everybody to know. I think we already know this. When you forgive people's debt, when you cancel debt, somebody pays for it. Somebody pays for it. It's either the taxpayer or people say, well, the government should just do it. Can I just remind you the government doesn't have any money except our money. And when they give it to other people, they're the one that gets the thanks and we get the bill. When we look at forgiveness of all of our sin and all of our debt before God, it's a debt that you and I could never pay. I promise you four trillion dollars is like a drop in the bucket compared to the sin debt that we owe to God. You will never be able to pay it back. You can't do enough good. There's nothing that you could. Somebody has to pay the debt. Well, who paid our debt? Who? When Satan came before God and said, this person can't get into heaven. This person is not right before you.  Sin cannot enter into your presence. The way, the soul that sins must die and Satan like a good prosecuting attorney at the cross is condemning Jesus. And what he doesn't realize he's actually allowing the release of us because at the cross, Jesus takes the bill of our debt and he cancels it. He cancels it with his own blood. He paid a debt that he did not owe. He paid a debt that no human being could ever pay. Because it takes a sinless man and yet he did not deserve it, but he willingly laid down his life and canceled the record of debt that is so big that we could never pay it so that you and I could receive it.  Look at this. It says in verse 15, and he disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing over them in it. He disarmed them. He disarmed them.  Look, we've got the victory over you. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter two, had the rulers of this age known what the outcome would be on the other side of Friday when Sunday rolled around. They would never have crucified the Lord of glory. But in the process of Jesus dying, absorbing our sin, your sin, my sin, the enemy thought he was winning had no idea that Jesus was actually disarming him. Stripping him of his authority, his dignity, and his power in his arsenal because the weaponry of the enemy against the human heart is condemnation. It is pride. It is deception. It is our heart hearts. It is our open rebellion against God. It is that condemnation that he continually comes back and says, God would never want you. I heard it this week. Somebody says, oh, I could never go to a radiant church. Somebody invited them to come to church. I could never go there.  I promise you, only sinners come through these doors. But there's only a Savior that meets us here. You see, we, that's what the enemy does. He condemns us, doesn't he?  You got to pay your own debt.  Only Jesus can do that. You got to clean yourself up a little bit. Only Jesus can do that. You got to stop crossing the barbed wire fence. Only Jesus can do that. But the enemy is constantly there using his weapons of sin and shame and the cycle of defeat where you say, I'm going to change, and then you don't, and then you feel condemned, and you run from God, and you bear your own burden, and it pushes you further and further away from God. When Jesus was on the cross, he was stripping the enemy of his authority and his power. So the enemy no longer has any weapons against you. Jesus has disarmed them all and triumphed over the devil in the cross. What kind of a victory? What kind of a victory is it when a man stretches out his arms between heaven and earth and instead of retaliating, gives up his life? How did he defeat and disarm the devil? He did it with one statement. It is finished. It is finished. I'm sure the devil scratched it and said, what does that mean? He thought Jesus was saying, this is the end. This is it for me. But what he didn't realize is Jesus was actually saying, no, it's actually the end for you, devil. Give me three days.  But on Sunday, when the stone rolled away, the very gates of hell trembled and shook as the cell in the prison doors of the race of Adam was thrown wide open and Jesus claimed victory over death, hell, and the grave. Jesus is our victory. Ephesians 2 verse 5 says, even when we were dead in our trespasses, he's made us alive together with Christ. By grace, you've been saved and raised us up together. See, this is what happened at the cross. The disciples were gathered around the cross and they were the same ones two days later, two and a half days later when they came to the empty tomb and they saw that Jesus indeed was raised alive forever. The youngest of those disciples was named John. John who wrote the gospel. And when John wrote his own gospel and he gives the account of resurrection Sunday, he talks about hearing the news and running to the grave. And he also mentions that he beat Peter to the tomb. I love that. A little competitive juices flowing there. John being the youngest, probably a young adult, older teenager when Jesus calls him to leave his father's nets and to follow him. He's probably 20, 21-ish when Jesus is crucified and raised from the dead. And he's then commissioned, as were the others, to go and to proclaim the gospel to the ends of the earth, the powerful, life-changing, saving gospel of Jesus. And John holds the distinction of also being the last apostle of the Lamb to remain alive. You see, over the next several decades, Jesus was crucified around 30, 33 AD. Over the next three to four decades, history records that all of the others were martyred for their faith. Peter was crucified in around 66 AD by Nero, crucified upside down in the city of Rome. Paul was beheaded by the same Nero. Bartholomew was shot through with arrows. Mark was pierced through with spear. Thomas would be killed and martyred at the southern tip of India and on and on and on, all scattered around the world, laying down their lives just like Jesus had, knowing that there is no fear in death because I have eternal life through my resurrected Jesus, John being the last living apostle. And in around 90 AD, John has been arrested. They tried to kill John. They could not. So they exiled John to a rock quarry prison camp out in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea called Patmos. And while John, who's probably around 90 years old at this time, he knows he's the last living apostle. He served Jesus faithfully for all of these years. And he's probably living at a time when he's wondering, Jesus, what have I done wrong? What have I done wrong that I've not been martyred? What have I done wrong that here I am on this island? What purpose am I serving? It may have been a dark night of the soul for John. But the book of Revelation says in chapter one that when John was in the spirit on the Lord's day, which is a Sunday, a Sunday that commemorated the resurrection of Jesus, that the same Jesus that came to him on the sea of Tiberias and told him to leave your nets and follow me, the same Jesus that he leaned against the breast of at the Last Supper, the same Jesus that had walked through the walls into the upper room on that first resurrection morning, the same Jesus that he saw departed 10 days before Pentecost, that same Jesus appeared to him on the island of Patmos with his eyes blazing like fire, his face radiating with the glory of God, and his voice sounding like the sound of many waters stands before John and announces to him in Revelation 1 verse 18, I am he who lives and was dead and behold I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of death. Can you imagine what it must have been like to see Jesus after all of these years and to see that he's still holding the keys of Hades and of death. He still holds the keys of the grave. He still has the victory that he won at the cross of the resurrection, and he's still burning with love and passion. He had not forgotten John. He had not left him behind. He had not dissipated into the annals of history. He was still ruling and reigning, and he still was our victory. I want you to know 2000 years has passed, but church Jesus is still our victory. He still has set us free from the power of the enemy. He still forgives sins. He still tears up the documents and the condemnation and the guilt that the enemy wants to use against us. This is why Jesus is our victory, because Jesus did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Not all the self-help in the world can give us eternal life. Not all the self-help in the world can relieve us of our guilt and shame, but Jesus who is our victory has and does and listen. He still holds the keys. This morning whatever prison door you stand behind, he still holds the keys. Whatever sentence has been leveraged against you, Jesus still holds the keys, and the keys can open any prison door. He can forgive any sin. He can give eternal life to any dead soul. Jesus is Lord. Wherever you're at, Portage and Richland, would you stand to your feet with me this morning? Jesus is our Christus, our victory.  He gives them the ability. He gives them resurrection life. Today we're all dead in our own sin and trespasses without Jesus. Our heart is dead. We might live this life, but the grave awaits us all. Can you defeat the grave on your own? There's only one who has, and to the one who believes in Jesus, he gives that same life, gives us a brand new heart in a new beginning, washes away all of our sins, and fills us with eternal life now. And he disarms the devil just as he did on Good Friday.  Today I want to ask you, what do you do with Jesus the cross and the resurrection today?  Today, if you say, I don't know, I'm not a Christian. Today is a day for you to receive the greatest gift ever given, the gift of eternal life, the gift of forgiveness before God, the gift of a brand new heart. Are you bound by things that you've tried to find your freedom and victory in? Today it's time for you to lay your tools aside and yield and surrender and bow the knee to the one alone who has defeated and can give you the victory. The Bible says that as many as believed in him, he saved. Today if you believe in your heart that Jesus is raised from the dead, today you may have come to church and say, today I know I believe and today I know I want my sins forgiven. Today I want my debt canceled. Jesus, you alone can do that. Save me. Today is a resurrection day for you. And all over this room in just a moment, I'm going to count to three and I'm going to ask you to take a step out of the grave. I'm going to ask you, would you hear me say three? If you know you need to get your life right with God, you need that forgiveness that I talked about.  And you say I know that I'm not right with God, but today is a day of resurrection for me. Jesus, save me.  Here we go. One, two, three, just raise it up and hold it. Today is your resurrection day.  Yes, yes, hands all over the room. If you've not raised it, literally we're going to wait 15 seconds, but you will remember this day for all eternity. If you've not raised it right now, break the shackles off. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hands all over the room at portage as well. Raise your hand. We may not see it, but God sees your hand. You're step of faith. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Right now you can put your hands down. Here's what we're going to do. I'm going to pray a prayer and this is a prayer of confession and imitation.  We're all going to pray this together, but if you raise your hands, this is your prayer to God. Say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, I come in Jesus' name and I confess that I have sinned, I have fallen short and I deserve death, but today I ask for life, resurrection life. I believe in Jesus, that he died on the cross, that he rose on the third day and he is alive forevermore.  Give me a new beginning. Wash all my sins away and set me free from the works of the devil. From this day forward, I set my heart on following you and I turn my back on the devil. I turn my back on the world and on my sin.  Amen and amen. Come on, can we just celebrate? Let's celebrate all over this room. Jesus is our victory. Come on, he's alive. He's good and he saves to the uttermost. Come on, let's take a few moments and let's worship Jesus together. I want to invite our prayer partners to make their way down front today and here's how we're going to close this Easter service this morning. First thing is I want to speak to those of you who raised your hand, pray that prayer and I want to tell you that today you are now a new creation. Your past is separated from you. Your debt has been canceled. Everything that the devil would ever accuse you of has been crossed out and made ineffective and he has no weapons that can prosper against you. But it's important that you know this, that every person that Jesus called, he called publicly and he called to follow me. It's all about obedience. If this is going to be real for you, it's you determining I'm going to obey Jesus as my master. And there's two things this morning that I'm going to ask you to obey Jesus and number one is this. Every person that followed Jesus, he said now believe and be baptized. Water baptism is a public declaration of our faith in Jesus. It's a funeral where we bury the old self and it's a resurrection when we come up out of the water like he came up out of the grave and the power of the resurrection. Next weekend at Radiant we are water baptizing people. If you just received Christ and you have not been baptized since you believed, I want you to obey Jesus and be baptized next weekend. You can come down here in a moment, you can talk to one of our prayer partners, you can stop at guest central or the counters in both of our locations. But sign up, take that step. Don't just be passive. Don't wait for somebody to ask you, you take an active step and say, I'm going to do this because now I'm alive in Christ. And the second thing is this. You need to tell somebody what you just did. And so you may already be a Christian here today, but there may be areas of your life where you feel that the enemy has weapons that he's using against you and you need freedom. Jesus is our victory and he is our freedom. And we would love to pray with you. We would love to stand with you in the battle because power is released when we pray together. And our prayer team is prepared to pray with you, especially if you receive Christ today. Your next step of obedience is when everybody's going that way, give us two minutes, come down the aisle from where you are to one of these prayer partners and just say, I prayed that prayer today. Let us encourage you. If you don't have a Bible, we want to give you one. And we want to just talk to you for a brief moment and encourage you on your next steps and following Jesus. Come on, everybody. Jesus is alive. Amen. Amen. Have a fantastic Resurrection Day celebration. Come forward if you receive Christ. We'll see you next weekend.