WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.000 As a Jesus disciple and a Kingdom of God revolutionary, our faith is grounded in the resurrection of Christ. 2 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:20.000 Throughout church history, there has been this strong belief that the cornerstone of the Christian faith is the resurrection of Christ. 3 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:39.000 Even in the first century, Paul, in describing to the Corinthians what he believed were key elements of faith that would cause the disciple to grow, he came to the resurrection. 4 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.000 Here's what he says in 1 Corinthians 15, 5 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:47.000 So this is like the first thing. 6 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:51.000 This is so important as we grow as kingdom revolutionaries and disciples of Christ. 7 00:00:51.000 --> 00:01:02.000 First of all, that which I also received, so in other words, he had been taught this himself, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. 8 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:09.000 And then he goes on to say, and that he was buried, he rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures. 9 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:15.000 So twice he's talking about the Bible being the basis of the resurrection of Christ. 10 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:27.000 He was seen of Peter and then of the twelve, and after that he was seen by over 500 people at once, of whom the greater part remain into this present, but some are fallen asleep. 11 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:32.000 Now what's interesting is a few verses later, Paul continues by saying this, 12 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:40.000 And if Christ be not risen, then all of our preaching is in vain, and your faith is also in vain. 13 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:45.000 So as we're growing in Christ, as we're learning to be a kingdom revolutionary, to be a disciple of Christ, 14 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:54.000 it's so important that we understand that our faith is solidly grounded in the third day resurrection of Christ. 15 00:01:54.000 --> 00:02:02.000 He died on the cross, he died for our sins, he was buried, and on the third day he rose again from the grave. 16 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:05.000 So what I want to do today is talk about the resurrection of Christ. 17 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:10.000 And let me give you three reasons why I think the resurrection of Christ is so important. 18 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:17.000 First of all, only a sinless son, a sinless son of God could have risen from the grave. 19 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:24.000 In other words, the power of sin, though he was tempted, never caused Christ to succumb. 20 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:31.000 And so the power of his sinless life and death was the key to him rising from the grave. 21 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:38.000 Because we also know in 1 Corinthians 15 that the power of the devil, the power of Satan is death. 22 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:46.000 And all of us are going to physically die unless the Lord comes back in our lifetime or we're raptured out of here. 23 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.000 The reality is, is that we're all going to die. 24 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:53.000 But Christ, who was sinless, didn't need to die. 25 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:56.000 And so he rose again because he lived a sinless life. 26 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:04.000 Secondly, the resurrection confirms that Jesus had power over Satan and demons. 27 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.000 In 1 Corinthians 25 we read, 28 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:13.000 For he, meaning Christ, must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet. 29 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:16.000 The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. 30 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:27.000 So the resurrection is proof of the power of Christ to have authority over Satan and demons. 31 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:33.000 And we believe from both Revelation as well as other passages that during the three days, 32 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:42.000 it's believed even in the Nicene Creed that Christ actually went in to hell and took away the keys of death away from Satan. 33 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:48.000 And then thirdly, and this is really, really important, is that again in 1 Corinthians 15, 34 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:53.000 Paul talks about that he is the first fruits of the resurrection. 35 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:57.000 So in other words, because Christ rose from the grave, 36 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:04.000 you as a disciple of Christ are also going to rise from your physical death into immortality. 37 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:12.000 So immortality is ours because of the first fruits, the first person that went ahead of us, which is Jesus Christ. 38 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:20.000 So what I want to do in our talk today is look at eight historical facts about the resurrection 39 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:28.000 that solidly ground us in the historicity and the veracity of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 40 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:38.000 The reality is there's no other historical event that has been so studied and so scrutinized through the centuries 41 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:43.000 and found to be so well documented than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 42 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:48.000 Simon Greenleaf, former dean of the Greenleaf School of Law says, 43 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:55.000 quote, It passes the bounds of credibility that the early Christians would have manufactured such a tale 44 00:04:55.000 --> 00:05:00.000 and then preached it among those who might easily have refuted it simply 45 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.080 by reproducing the body of Christ. 46 00:05:03.080 --> 00:05:08.880 In other words, to base their entire faith on something that was false, that the authorities 47 00:05:08.880 --> 00:05:14.120 that were opposed to the Christians, opposed to the way, could have brought forth a dead 48 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:21.480 body is, by all means of credibility, the greatest proof that it was true. 49 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:26.400 Paul Atheas, former professor, University of Erlangen, Germany, writes, 50 00:05:26.400 --> 00:05:34.020 The resurrection could not have been maintained for a single day, for a single hour, if the 51 00:05:34.020 --> 00:05:40.000 emptiness of the tomb had not been maintained as a fact for all concerned. 52 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:44.600 Paul Mayer, one of the great historians of our time, in the 20th century and 21st century, 53 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:50.660 wrote, If all the evidence is weighed carefully and fairly, it is indeed justifiable, according 54 00:05:50.660 --> 00:05:56.460 to the canons of historical research, to conclude that the tomb in which Jesus was 55 00:05:56.460 --> 00:06:01.260 buried was actually empty on the first century. 56 00:06:01.260 --> 00:06:08.060 And no shred of evidence has yet been discovered in literary sources, epigraphy, or archaeology 57 00:06:08.060 --> 00:06:10.220 that would disprove this statement. 58 00:06:10.220 --> 00:06:15.380 So let me give you what I believe are eight historical facts for the resurrection and 59 00:06:15.380 --> 00:06:17.500 why this is so important. 60 00:06:17.500 --> 00:06:20.940 Fact number one, a broken Roman seal. 61 00:06:20.940 --> 00:06:24.140 The seal over the tomb was a Roman seal. 62 00:06:24.140 --> 00:06:26.620 It represented the authority of Rome. 63 00:06:26.620 --> 00:06:29.220 It represented the emperor of Rome. 64 00:06:29.220 --> 00:06:33.940 And all of the soldiers that were guarding the tomb knew that they were guarding a Roman 65 00:06:33.940 --> 00:06:37.380 seal with their life. 66 00:06:37.380 --> 00:06:43.820 And if that seal was broken by anyone other than the authorities, they would each be crucified 67 00:06:43.820 --> 00:06:45.140 upside down. 68 00:06:45.140 --> 00:06:49.780 So the fact that the Roman seal was broken is fact number one. 69 00:06:49.780 --> 00:06:52.940 Fact number two, an empty tomb. 70 00:06:52.940 --> 00:06:57.320 We must remember that the disciples did not go to Athens, Greece. 71 00:06:57.320 --> 00:07:00.360 They did not go to the province of Galatia. 72 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:04.340 They didn't go to North Africa and preach about the resurrection of Christ. 73 00:07:04.340 --> 00:07:13.580 They preached it in Jerusalem, just within 40 days of the actual event of when it occurred, 74 00:07:13.580 --> 00:07:18.300 that the people who were actually witnesses of the crucifixion were there. 75 00:07:18.300 --> 00:07:22.300 I mean, they're preaching to the people who saw Jesus die. 76 00:07:22.300 --> 00:07:29.500 They saw him buried, and now they're hearing about him rising from the grave. 77 00:07:29.500 --> 00:07:35.080 So if it was not true, any one of them could have gone to the authorities, produced a body, 78 00:07:35.080 --> 00:07:36.660 and said, you're lying. 79 00:07:36.660 --> 00:07:41.540 So the empty tomb remained empty and no body was ever found. 80 00:07:41.540 --> 00:07:45.500 Number three, a large stone moved away. 81 00:07:45.500 --> 00:07:52.820 So we believe it was a two-ton stone, somewhat round in the measure of that time, and it's 82 00:07:52.820 --> 00:07:58.780 interesting that in the Gospel of Matthew, Matthew chapter 27, there's actually a preposition 83 00:07:58.780 --> 00:08:05.820 used in the description of the resurrection that would indicate that the stone, which 84 00:08:05.820 --> 00:08:10.580 was by average about two tons, it might have even been larger than that, had actually been 85 00:08:10.580 --> 00:08:13.100 moved up an incline. 86 00:08:13.100 --> 00:08:15.340 So something moved the stone. 87 00:08:15.340 --> 00:08:18.660 Well, who moved the stone? 88 00:08:18.660 --> 00:08:26.140 Soldiers who would die for breaking the Roman seal and allowing the tomb to be raided, if 89 00:08:26.140 --> 00:08:29.620 that was the case, who would be crucified for that? 90 00:08:29.620 --> 00:08:30.860 I don't think so. 91 00:08:30.860 --> 00:08:37.620 The women, three women coming to the tomb or two women coming to the tomb, not a chance. 92 00:08:37.620 --> 00:08:41.460 The disciples who were still so scared that they're hanging out in the upper room even 93 00:08:41.460 --> 00:08:44.340 after the resurrection, no way. 94 00:08:44.340 --> 00:08:51.320 So the only explanation under scrutiny that makes any sense is it was a supernatural work 95 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:57.340 of probably angels moving that stone, but God moved it. 96 00:08:57.340 --> 00:09:01.980 Fact number four, Roman guard goes AWOL. 97 00:09:01.980 --> 00:09:04.140 The guards weren't there. 98 00:09:04.140 --> 00:09:05.420 They had fled. 99 00:09:05.420 --> 00:09:15.240 Something so fantastic, something so frightening happened at the tomb that these elite special 100 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:20.220 forces, Roman guards, 16 in number, fled. 101 00:09:20.220 --> 00:09:22.660 They ran for their lives. 102 00:09:22.660 --> 00:09:25.220 What was that? 103 00:09:25.220 --> 00:09:32.740 Fact number five, grave clothes tell a tale like the empty chrysalis of a caterpillar's 104 00:09:32.740 --> 00:09:34.420 cocoon. 105 00:09:34.420 --> 00:09:41.020 It appears from what we see in the descriptions in the gospels of the disciples seeing the 106 00:09:41.020 --> 00:09:46.540 grave clothes of Christ, that it actually looked kind of like a cocoon of where the 107 00:09:46.540 --> 00:09:53.780 body had been sort of collapsed in as if the body had just been supernaturally transposed 108 00:09:53.980 --> 00:09:58.580 out of the grave clothes and from the grave site. 109 00:09:58.580 --> 00:10:00.020 And so it says that John, when John... 110 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.640 John looked in, he saw this, and he believed. 111 00:10:03.640 --> 00:10:06.480 So again, it wasn't that it was just unwrapped, 112 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:08.760 it was the fact that actually the body 113 00:10:08.760 --> 00:10:11.540 had been supernaturally transposed 114 00:10:11.540 --> 00:10:14.160 out of the grave clothes. 115 00:10:14.160 --> 00:10:17.680 Fact number six, his appearance. 116 00:10:17.680 --> 00:10:20.680 So in 1 Corinthians 15, I just read it earlier, 117 00:10:20.680 --> 00:10:25.280 over 500 people saw Christ risen from the grave. 118 00:10:25.280 --> 00:10:27.960 And what's interesting about the passage when I read it 119 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:31.280 is that Paul, in writing to the Corinthians, 120 00:10:31.280 --> 00:10:35.240 said even some of these people who now sleep. 121 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.800 So in other words, most of the people, 122 00:10:37.800 --> 00:10:42.300 most of the 500 people who saw Jesus risen from the grave 123 00:10:42.300 --> 00:10:43.860 were still alive. 124 00:10:43.860 --> 00:10:48.860 So he's preaching the gospel, he's writing what happened 125 00:10:49.460 --> 00:10:53.160 knowing that the very people who had seen Jesus 126 00:10:53.160 --> 00:10:55.400 risen from the grave were actually there. 127 00:10:55.400 --> 00:10:57.160 So they were eyewitnesses. 128 00:10:57.160 --> 00:11:02.160 And my son, one of my sons is a lawyer, 129 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:07.720 and he is a litigation lawyer, he's in trial all the time. 130 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:09.440 And he will be the first to tell you 131 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:12.440 that the key to winning any case 132 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:14.680 is who do you have as an eyewitness? 133 00:11:14.680 --> 00:11:16.800 You need eyewitnesses. 134 00:11:16.800 --> 00:11:19.640 And even in a court of law today, 135 00:11:19.640 --> 00:11:22.800 in the 21st century, one eyewitness 136 00:11:22.800 --> 00:11:26.280 is often all that you need to convict someone of a crime. 137 00:11:26.280 --> 00:11:29.440 So here in scripture, over 500 people 138 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:32.000 saw Jesus risen from the grave. 139 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:36.000 Dr. Edwin Yamauchi, Associate Professor of History 140 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:39.760 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, emphasizes, quote, 141 00:11:39.760 --> 00:11:42.640 what gives a special authority to the list of witnesses 142 00:11:42.640 --> 00:11:45.580 as historical evidence is the reference 143 00:11:45.580 --> 00:11:50.320 to most of the 500 brethren being still alive. 144 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:55.320 St. Paul says in effect, if you don't believe me, ask them. 145 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:59.440 Such a statement is an admittedly genuine letter 146 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:02.200 written within 30 years of the event 147 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:05.520 is almost as strong an evidence as one could hope to get 148 00:12:05.520 --> 00:12:09.640 for something that happened nearly 2,000 years ago. 149 00:12:09.640 --> 00:12:12.120 Okay, before I go to fact number seven, 150 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:13.480 let me explain something. 151 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:18.320 So in graduate school, as a missiology major 152 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:20.840 at Fuller Theological Seminary, 153 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:23.840 one of the classes that we talked about 154 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:26.680 related to the Dead Sea Scrolls 155 00:12:26.680 --> 00:12:31.560 and other evidence of parchments 156 00:12:31.560 --> 00:12:33.640 and passages that have been found 157 00:12:33.640 --> 00:12:36.480 through archeology over the centuries. 158 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:38.840 And one of the things we were talking about 159 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:41.520 is how do you know whether something 160 00:12:41.520 --> 00:12:45.360 of an old parchment is authentic or fake? 161 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:47.600 Because if you saw Raiders of the Lost Ark 162 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:49.960 and movies like that that try to depict 163 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:52.000 sort of the archeological world, 164 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:53.960 one of the aspects of that movie that's really true 165 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:55.560 was all the fake stuff. 166 00:12:55.560 --> 00:13:00.560 So it's true, one of my sons is partially an archeologist. 167 00:13:02.280 --> 00:13:04.360 He's been on some digs in Israel 168 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:08.040 and it was a minor that he took when he was in university. 169 00:13:08.040 --> 00:13:13.040 But there are ways in which you can discern 170 00:13:13.040 --> 00:13:17.240 whether a particular parchment is fake or real. 171 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:18.560 And here's what's interesting. 172 00:13:18.560 --> 00:13:23.560 What's interesting is that when you look at a document 173 00:13:24.040 --> 00:13:26.880 that you're trying to find if it's verifiable, 174 00:13:26.880 --> 00:13:31.640 authentic or not, you often look at the particular, 175 00:13:31.640 --> 00:13:34.280 say, passage of scripture that we have today. 176 00:13:34.280 --> 00:13:37.320 And if it's exactly the same, I mean, 177 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:39.760 if it's exactly the same as what we have, 178 00:13:39.760 --> 00:13:42.640 then there's a high probability that it's a fake. 179 00:13:42.640 --> 00:13:46.280 In other words, everything that we have 180 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:48.360 in the world of historical evidence 181 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.280 comes from a different angle. 182 00:13:51.280 --> 00:13:52.800 So someone's viewpoint is gonna be 183 00:13:52.800 --> 00:13:54.760 slightly different than another. 184 00:13:54.760 --> 00:13:58.640 So in the Dead Sea Scrolls, we had Isaiah 53 185 00:13:58.640 --> 00:14:01.000 is the most famous passage from the Dead Sea Scrolls, 186 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.000 which were found in the 1940s. 187 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:06.040 And one of the ways, one of many, not just, 188 00:14:06.040 --> 00:14:08.800 I mean, there's also carbon dating and things like that. 189 00:14:08.800 --> 00:14:10.880 But as far as the actual passage itself, 190 00:14:10.880 --> 00:14:12.840 if there's slight differences, 191 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:15.160 and what I mean by differences might be, 192 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.120 there might be a word difference, 193 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:20.240 there might be a grammatical aspect 194 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:23.320 to between two words or between a paragraph 195 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:25.360 that's different from what we have now. 196 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:28.200 That's actually an indication that's authentic 197 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.960 because it's not perfectly copied. 198 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:35.240 And so the next point is really important. 199 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.800 And that is fact number seven on the resurrection of Christ 200 00:14:38.800 --> 00:14:42.120 is the women saw Christ first. 201 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:46.560 Now, if I was in collusion with a group of people 202 00:14:46.560 --> 00:14:50.240 2000 years ago, and I'm trying to just make up 203 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:53.800 out of the blue, this story that Jesus rose from the grave, 204 00:14:53.800 --> 00:14:57.360 I'm not gonna use women as my first witnesses. 205 00:14:57.360 --> 00:14:59.440 Because at that time, women weren't even allowed 206 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:00.280 in the courts. 207 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.440 of law, they were not considered a verifiable witness 208 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:04.680 because they were women. 209 00:15:04.680 --> 00:15:08.400 That's just a patriarchal culture 210 00:15:08.400 --> 00:15:10.600 that was Judaism at that time. 211 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:12.360 And that was also the culture of the Middle East. 212 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:16.120 So the fact that the writers speak 213 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:21.120 of the women testifying to the resurrection of Christ first 214 00:15:23.520 --> 00:15:25.960 is actually what makes it authentic. 215 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:27.840 It's because it doesn't make sense 216 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:30.040 from a logical perspective. 217 00:15:30.040 --> 00:15:33.940 It must be actually factually what happened. 218 00:15:33.940 --> 00:15:34.920 So this is important. 219 00:15:34.920 --> 00:15:39.080 Dr. Mayer observes the initial reaction 220 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:43.480 of the 11 disciples was understandably one 221 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:45.900 of suspicion and disbelief. 222 00:15:45.900 --> 00:15:49.520 Again, if the resurrection accounts had been manufactured, 223 00:15:49.520 --> 00:15:53.760 women would never have been included in the story. 224 00:15:53.760 --> 00:15:56.680 So the fact that women were included 225 00:15:56.680 --> 00:16:01.680 in the story is what makes it even more authentic. 226 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:03.600 And then lastly, and this is probably 227 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:06.040 the most important aspect in fact, number eight, 228 00:16:06.880 --> 00:16:11.880 and that is that 11 of the 12 disciples gave their lives, 229 00:16:12.160 --> 00:16:16.560 died martyr's death based on the truth 230 00:16:16.560 --> 00:16:18.840 that Christ had risen from the grave. 231 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:22.120 Now we know in history, many people who have died for a lie, 232 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:24.720 but we don't have very much evidence 233 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:26.760 of people who have died for a lie 234 00:16:26.760 --> 00:16:29.600 when they knew that it was a lie. 235 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.360 These men, virtually all of them, 236 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:35.160 John being the only one who died of old age, 237 00:16:35.160 --> 00:16:39.320 who gave us a book of revelation from Patmos. 238 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:41.680 Other than John, all of them died martyr's deaths. 239 00:16:41.680 --> 00:16:43.920 All of them were killed for their faith, 240 00:16:43.920 --> 00:16:46.320 proclaiming that the foundation 241 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:48.240 of everything they believed in 242 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:50.600 was on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 243 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:52.080 So as you're growing in Christ, 244 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:55.000 as you're becoming a kingdom of God revolutionary, 245 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:59.080 your faith is built on the cornerstone 246 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:00.400 of the resurrection of Christ. 247 00:17:00.400 --> 00:17:03.200 And you can take that to the spiritual bank. 248 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.000 That's the most important part of the Christian life. 249 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.280 And so when you go through the book of Acts, 250 00:17:08.280 --> 00:17:09.800 as you're reading the book of Acts, 251 00:17:09.800 --> 00:17:12.880 as you're reading church history, Christian history, 252 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:16.599 you'll find again and again that the main element 253 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:18.160 of those who preach the gospel, 254 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:20.480 first in Jerusalem, then Judea, Samaria, 255 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:22.400 and the remotest parts of the earth, 256 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:26.520 all speak from the perspective of a Christ, 257 00:17:26.520 --> 00:17:30.400 of Jesus rising from the grave. 258 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:31.840 And this is key to your faith. 259 00:17:31.840 --> 00:17:34.920 So I challenge you to go to 1 Corinthians 15, 260 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:36.520 read the entire chapter, 261 00:17:36.520 --> 00:17:38.800 underline some of the key parts. 262 00:17:38.800 --> 00:17:41.360 But these eight historical facts, 263 00:17:41.360 --> 00:17:43.520 I trust are gonna bolster your faith, 264 00:17:43.520 --> 00:17:44.760 strengthen your faith, 265 00:17:44.760 --> 00:17:47.760 and make you more confident in what you believe in.