Thank you.

Thank you. Thanks for joining us on Truth for Life weekend. As we celebrate Easter with millions of

believers all around the world, Alistair Begg reminds us that Resurrection Sunday isn't

simply a spring festivity. It's a commemoration of the event at the very heart

of the Christian faith. We'll find out why it demands a decision from each one of us. We're

studying John chapter 20. In keeping with John's evangelistic purpose, I want to let you know that all that we're now about to look at in the Bible calls for a decision from every one of us.

Either that we lay, if you like, our hands upon Christ as a Savior and a Lord and King,

or we continue to put our hands in our pockets or put them anywhere else

and walk out as the master of our own destiny.

Just to let you know, I want to bring that challenge very clearly to us

this morning. John Macefield's poetry is largely unknown, except perhaps for, I must go down to the seas

again, which we had to learn at school. I never really knew what C we were going down to,

and I never paid much attention to it at all. I haven't really followed his poetry, but I did

come across this last two weeks, a book that he had written entitled The Trial of Jesus.

And in that book, he has a fictitious conversation between Pilate's wife, whom he calls in his novel Procula, and Longinus, is the name that he gives to the centurion who was responsible for the overseeing of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And Prokula, that's Pilate's wife, comes to the centurion to ask him, how did that man die?

And the centurion lets her know.

She then says to him,

Do you think he is dead? No lady, Long Junis replies, I don't. Then she says,

Then where is he? The centurion replies, let loose in the world, lady,

where neither Roman nor Jew can stop this truth. He's let loose in the world lady, where neither

Jew nor Roman can stop this truth. The conversation, of course,

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