Friday, April 7, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 09:25)
Good Friday, Indeed: The Centrality of the Cross and Resurrection to Christian Hope
Part II (09:25 - 13:42)
Did Jesus Have Free Will? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part III (13:42 - 15:32)
Did Jesus Sweat Blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, or Were His Tears Merely Like Drops of Blood? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (15:32 - 21:11)
What Are Your Thoughts on Andy Stanley’s Apologetic Method of Focusing on the Resurrection of Christ Apart from Scriptural Authority? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (21:11 - 23:12)
Why Did Jesus Not Have to Stay Dead For Eternity? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part VI (23:12 - 27:20)
Why Is the Shed Blood of Jesus So Important? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 7, 2023. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis |
| 0:11.2 | of news and events from a Christian world view. This is the day that is known as Good |
| 0:15.8 | Friday throughout much of the Christian world, and even in the non- liturgical churches |
| 0:20.2 | that don't operate out of a liturgical calendar, there is a sense of memory attached to this |
| 0:26.0 | Friday because of the Christian observation, especially in the Western churches, of what |
| 0:31.4 | is known as the Festival of the Resurrection, more commonly known, if I think more accidentally |
| 0:36.8 | known as Easter. The fact is that the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead is not |
| 0:42.4 | according to Christian tradition, something that comes on one Sunday, one festival or |
| 0:48.0 | festival Sunday in the history of the Christian church every year. No, it is every Lord's |
| 0:52.6 | day. The New Testament tells us that the early believers gather together on the first day |
| 0:57.7 | of the week, every week, in honor of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. |
| 1:04.1 | But it is not wrong to think in terms of a Christian year, especially with the two great |
| 1:09.6 | festivals, the Festival of the Incarnation, which is more famously known as Christmas |
| 1:14.6 | and the Festival of the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. And that is |
| 1:19.6 | more commonly, I say, known as Easter, that actually goes back to a root that isn't very |
| 1:24.3 | helpful to Christianity in terms of the word that is now used in the English as Easter. |
| 1:31.4 | But that pagan background is basically lost. People do associate the word Easter with the |
| 1:36.3 | resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. But there are still signs of cultural |
| 1:41.3 | confusion when you have Easter eggs and Easter bunnies and all the rest. But nonetheless, |
| 1:46.8 | I'm not on a crusade against either of those. I am on a platform of hoping to encourage Christians |
| 1:53.9 | on this Friday, considering what is coming this Lord's day as in a special way, much as |
| 2:00.6 | when we focus on the incarnation at Christmas, we focus on the resurrection of the Lord Jesus |
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