WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.760 How powerful is Jesus? 00:03.760 --> 00:06.610 After Jesus died, he was put into a new 00:06.610 --> 00:10.040 grave, too sad his friends thought. 00:10.040 --> 00:13.760 They had no idea about the power of God. 00:13.760 --> 00:16.350 On the third day there was an earthquake, 00:16.350 --> 00:18.620 an angel from God came and rolled away 00:18.620 --> 00:18.800 the 00:18.800 --> 00:22.500 stone in front of the grave, Jesus raised 00:22.500 --> 00:25.640 from the dead, how mighty he is. 00:25.640 --> 00:28.860 His resurrection shows: Jesus has more 00:28.860 --> 00:30.600 power than death. 00:30.600 --> 00:33.120 Jesus is Lord. 00:33.120 --> 00:35.850 That's why from now on he is called in 00:35.850 --> 00:37.820 the Bible: 'Lord Jesus'. 00:37.820 --> 00:41.000 The punishment for sin is paid completely. 00:41.000 --> 00:43.310 By raising his son from the dead, the 00:43.310 --> 00:46.480 father showed: This payment is effective! 00:46.480 --> 00:47.280 No additional 00:47.280 --> 00:50.080 punishment is necessary. No sheep needs 00:50.080 --> 00:52.820 to be sacrificed anymore. Nothing from 00:52.820 --> 00:53.560 your side 00:53.560 --> 00:56.080 needs to be done. 00:56.080 --> 00:58.780 Jesus said to his friends and followers: 00:58.780 --> 01:00.520 "I will go back to heaven. 01:00.520 --> 01:03.870 I will go back to my father and to your 01:03.870 --> 01:05.080 father." 01:05.080 --> 01:07.360 Will we then stay here alone? 01:07.360 --> 01:09.000 No! 01:09.000 --> 01:12.080 Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit. 01:12.080 --> 01:13.680 Do you remember? 01:13.680 --> 01:16.620 The Holy Spirit is the third person in 01:16.620 --> 01:17.240 God. 01:17.240 --> 01:19.370 There is just one God, but there are 01:19.370 --> 01:22.210 three persons in the one God, the Father, 01:22.210 --> 01:23.200 the Son, 01:23.200 --> 01:25.200 the Holy Spirit. 01:25.200 --> 01:27.730 God gives the Holy Spirit to all who have 01:27.730 --> 01:30.030 believed in Jesus, so that they can 01:30.030 --> 01:30.900 always enjoy 01:30.900 --> 01:34.360 the fellowship with God. 01:34.360 --> 01:36.650 After 40 days, Jesus met with his 01:36.650 --> 01:38.720 followers on top of a mountain. 01:38.720 --> 01:41.400 He gave them a great commission: 01:41.400 --> 01:44.520 "Go into all the world and preach the 01:44.520 --> 01:47.000 gospel to all creation." 01:47.000 --> 01:49.520 Mark 16:15. 01:49.520 --> 01:52.040 Everybody shall hear that Jesus has paid 01:52.040 --> 01:54.990 with his own blood the price for us sin! 01:54.990 --> 01:55.280 And then 01:55.280 --> 01:56.760 it happened: 01:56.760 --> 02:00.440 Jesus was lifted up. A cloud covered him. 02:00.440 --> 02:03.330 His followers were looking intently up 02:03.330 --> 02:05.600 into the sky as he was going. 02:05.600 --> 02:09.640 Jesus returned to his father in heaven. 02:09.640 --> 02:12.210 Soon his followers began spreading The 02:12.210 --> 02:13.920 Good News about Jesus. 02:13.920 --> 02:16.150 Turn from your sin! Trust in him with all 02:16.150 --> 02:18.000 your heart and believe that he has 02:18.000 --> 02:18.760 completely 02:18.760 --> 02:22.270 paid the punishment for your sin with his 02:22.270 --> 02:23.480 own blood. 02:23.480 --> 02:27.820 For you he has died, and for you he has 02:27.820 --> 02:29.000 risen. 02:29.000 --> 02:31.450 In the past God didn't judge people for 02:31.450 --> 02:33.600 what they didn't know, but now He 02:33.600 --> 02:34.440 commands all 02:34.440 --> 02:38.370 people everywhere to turn away from their 02:38.370 --> 02:39.160 sins. 02:39.160 --> 02:41.320 Acts 16:31. 02:41.320 --> 02:44.670 "Believe in the Lord Jesus, then you and 02:44.670 --> 02:47.200 your family will be saved." 02:47.200 --> 02:50.120 Romans 4:25. 02:50.120 --> 02:53.560 Jesus was handed over to die for us sins. 02:53.560 --> 02:56.760 He was raised to life in order to make us 02:56.760 --> 02:58.280 right with God. 02:58.280 --> 03:00.640 Many heard and believed in Jesus. 03:00.640 --> 03:03.030 They also began to spread the gospel of 03:03.030 --> 03:05.340 Jesus Christ, and after them others 03:05.340 --> 03:07.240 spread the gospel. 03:07.240 --> 03:09.370 Around the world and through the 03:09.370 --> 03:11.950 centuries people preached Jesus as the 03:11.950 --> 03:13.240 only way to God. 03:13.240 --> 03:15.940 One day we heard it, God let us believe 03:15.940 --> 03:18.680 in Jesus, and today we pass on The Good 03:18.680 --> 03:20.920 News to you. 03:20.920 --> 03:22.480 What will you do? 03:22.480 --> 03:24.800 Will you tell your friends as well? 03:24.800 --> 03:27.470 Remember: For your friends there is no 03:27.470 --> 03:28.840 other way to God. 03:28.840 --> 03:31.800 Jesus has said: "I am the way, and the 03:31.800 --> 03:34.920 truth, and the life, no one comes to the 03:34.920 --> 03:35.800 father but 03:35.800 --> 03:37.320 through me." 03:37.320 --> 03:39.680 John 14:6. 03:39.680 --> 03:41.810 Of course, before you can tell others you 03:41.810 --> 03:43.810 need to know for yourself that God has 03:43.810 --> 03:44.400 forgiven 03:44.400 --> 03:46.400 your sins. 03:46.400 --> 03:48.860 When you came to God through Jesus, he 03:48.860 --> 03:51.320 has accepted you into his kingdom. 03:51.320 --> 03:53.890 Now he wants you to become a person who 03:53.890 --> 03:55.040 pleases him. 03:55.040 --> 03:57.480 Do you know how? 03:57.480 --> 03:59.400 What has changed? 03:59.400 --> 04:01.620 Has God saved you from your sin and 04:01.620 --> 04:04.280 brought you into the kingdom of his son? 04:04.280 --> 04:06.830 When he has also done something inside 04:06.830 --> 04:09.550 you, God the Holy Spirit gave you a new, 04:09.550 --> 04:10.040 clean 04:10.040 --> 04:11.040 life. 04:11.040 --> 04:15.080 The Bible says it is like a new birth. 04:15.080 --> 04:17.920 John 3:4-6. 04:17.920 --> 04:20.040 How can I be born when I am old? 04:20.040 --> 04:23.340 Nicodemus asked, "I can't go back inside 04:23.340 --> 04:24.440 my mother. 04:24.440 --> 04:27.520 I can't be born a second time." 04:27.520 --> 04:30.470 Jesus answered: "What I am about to tell 04:30.470 --> 04:31.600 you, is true. 04:31.600 --> 04:34.590 No one can enter God's kingdom without 04:34.590 --> 04:37.420 being born through water in the Holy 04:37.420 --> 04:38.320 Spirit. 04:38.320 --> 04:41.570 People give birth to people, but the 04:41.570 --> 04:44.600 Spirit gives birth to Spirit." 04:44.600 --> 04:47.250 When your parents gave life to you, you 04:47.250 --> 04:49.480 became a child of your parents. 04:49.480 --> 04:52.180 When God gave new life to you, whose 04:52.180 --> 04:54.360 child are you then as well? 04:54.360 --> 04:57.720 This Bible verse tells you: "To all who 04:57.720 --> 05:00.040 received him, to those who believed in 05:00.040 --> 05:01.080 his name, he 05:01.080 --> 05:05.840 gave the right to become children of God." 05:05.840 --> 05:09.400 John 1:12. 05:09.400 --> 05:11.740 And now look what God has planned for his 05:11.740 --> 05:12.600 children: 05:12.600 --> 05:15.470 "For those God forknew, he has also predestined 05:15.470 --> 05:17.870 to be conformed to the likeness of his 05:17.870 --> 05:18.240 son" 05:18.240 --> 05:20.640 Romans 8:29. 05:20.640 --> 05:22.500 God is at work in you. 05:22.500 --> 05:24.790 He will change the way you think, change 05:24.790 --> 05:27.040 your will and your feelings to make you 05:27.040 --> 05:27.280 more 05:27.280 --> 05:29.640 like his son Jesus. 05:29.640 --> 05:33.070 You cannot make yourself better, but he 05:33.070 --> 05:33.720 can. 05:33.720 --> 05:37.240 Actually, it is again God the Holy Spirit. 05:37.240 --> 05:39.790 To his children, God has given the Holy 05:39.790 --> 05:41.440 Spirit to live in them. 05:41.440 --> 05:43.850 If you are a child of God, he lives in 05:43.850 --> 05:46.760 you too, and he is going to change you. 05:46.760 --> 05:50.480 The Holy Spirit changes your thinking. 05:50.480 --> 05:53.270 Does the Holy Spirit change you in one 05:53.270 --> 05:53.840 day? 05:53.840 --> 05:56.560 To get saved is the work of a moment, but 05:56.560 --> 05:59.420 changing your attitudes takes time. 05:59.420 --> 06:01.940 It is only finished when you are in 06:01.940 --> 06:02.760 heaven. 06:02.760 --> 06:06.320 Here are four helps for you to stop sinning: 06:06.320 --> 06:09.050 One: Read a portion of the Bible every 06:09.050 --> 06:09.700 day. 06:09.700 --> 06:12.500 The Bible is God's power bar for you. 06:12.500 --> 06:14.500 It's food for the new person. 06:14.500 --> 06:16.960 By reading the Bible, you learn what God 06:16.960 --> 06:19.060 likes and what he does not like. 06:19.060 --> 06:22.460 Two: Tell God where you need his power to 06:22.460 --> 06:24.020 overcome a sin. 06:24.020 --> 06:25.300 God is your father. 06:25.300 --> 06:28.060 He wants to help you overcome sin. 06:28.060 --> 06:30.800 Tell him which sin you want to overcome. 06:30.800 --> 06:32.700 Talk to him about everything. 06:32.700 --> 06:34.840 He is interested in you. 06:34.840 --> 06:38.400 Three: Give God your heart. 06:38.400 --> 06:41.260 Proverbs 23:26. 06:41.260 --> 06:43.860 When God rules your heart, it is easier 06:43.860 --> 06:45.180 to overcome sin. 06:45.180 --> 06:47.490 Ask him to control your mind, your will 06:47.490 --> 06:48.780 and your feelings. 06:48.780 --> 06:50.740 Learn to obey him. 06:50.740 --> 06:53.600 Four: Have fellowship with other 06:53.600 --> 06:54.940 Christians. 06:54.940 --> 06:57.340 Wrong friends rub off on you. 06:57.340 --> 07:00.180 Look for friends who love the Lord Jesus. 07:00.180 --> 07:03.420 If possible, go to church each Sunday. 07:03.420 --> 07:06.190 There you hear about God and you can find 07:06.190 --> 07:07.460 good friends. 07:07.460 --> 07:09.500 And what have you sin again? 07:09.500 --> 07:11.870 Then confess your sin to God because sin 07:11.870 --> 07:15.500 pollutes your relationship with God. 07:15.500 --> 07:18.700 If we confess our sins, He is faithful 07:18.700 --> 07:21.170 and just and will forgive us our sins and 07:21.170 --> 07:21.660 purify 07:21.660 --> 07:24.620 us from all unrighteousness. 07:24.620 --> 07:26.860 It's John 1:9.