Come to Me | Resurrection - Keithen Schwahn

Church of the City New York

COTC NYC

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This Sunday, Pastor Keithen taught from John 11 and made the case that most of us, have gotten the story badly wrong. He opened with a telling moment from an "Ask the Pastor" session at a high school on the Upper East Side. Every question the students asked him was about who gets into heaven. Not one was about Jesus. From there, he traced the two answers to eternity we've inherited — secularism, which says death is just the end, and a kind of religious gnosticism, which says the physical world is bad and the goal of faith is to escape it. Pastor Keithen argued that neither is what Jesus actually taught. In John 11, standing outside the tomb of his dead friend Lazarus, Jesus doesn't offer Martha a better destination. He weeps. He raises Lazarus bodily from the dead. And before he does, he says the most staggering thing anyone in that world had ever heard: I am the resurrection and the life. He wasn't pointing her toward a place she'd go one day. He was telling her the hope she'd been waiting for was standing right in front of her. Our eternal destiny isn't something transactional, it's relational. And because resurrection is true, it changes how we live right now, not just what happens after.

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0:00.0	If you could remain standing for the reading of God's Word,
0:05.7	tonight we're going to be in John Chapter 11,
0:10.0	and we're going to be reading verse 21 through 26,
0:14.6	and I'm reading from the NIV.
0:20.2	Lord, Martha said to Jesus, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
0:27.8	But I know that even now, God will give you whatever you ask.
0:32.3	Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again.
0:36.2	Martha answered, I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
0:41.6	Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life.
0:47.5	The one who believes in me will live even though they die.
0:51.3	And whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?
0:56.3	This is the word of the Lord. What's up, Church of the City? How are you guys doing? You're good?
1:02.9	Amazing. Is this thing on? Sweet. I think it should be. All right. Welcome to the 6 p.m.
1:15.0	Don't tell the other gatherings, but this is my favorite gathering right here. John Chapter 11, I'm going to get right into the word tonight. A few weeks ago, I found myself up at the front of a high school classroom on the Upper East
1:34.2	Side.
1:35.5	And there was this teacher who goes to our church, her name his Kirsten Lundberg, and she's
1:41.2	been a teacher there for 20 years.
1:43.3	And she reaches out to me, and she says,
1:45.9	Keithan, I want you to come and stand in front of my class, and I've got this idea to do an
1:52.6	ask the pastor any question, kind of a thing. And I was like, okay, like, what am I signing up for here?
2:00.7	So she sends them all like a Google form, which is like, hey, if you, if you've ever had a
2:06.6	question at all to ask a pastor, this is your chance.
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