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[2744.86 --> 2747.70] well, you know, now we know better.
[2748.64 --> 2751.24] Now we understand the world better.
[2752.24 --> 2752.46] Right?
[2752.50 --> 2757.36] Now we've understood that how things like this happen naturally.
[2757.36 --> 2764.92] There's a sort of, like, prideful privileging of the contemporary perspective
[2764.92 --> 2769.14] that kind of assumes that people were, back then,
[2769.34 --> 2774.48] perhaps not less intelligent, but they knew less about the world.
[2775.56 --> 2778.68] And therefore, because they knew less, there was more gaps,
[2778.86 --> 2780.36] and they had to believe more.
[2781.22 --> 2784.74] They made sense of the world through myths and gods
[2784.74 --> 2786.30] and things like the spiritual.
[2786.92 --> 2790.78] And while those things still sort of exist in some way,
[2791.10 --> 2794.52] what we know is that we make better sense of the world now.
[2795.62 --> 2796.12] Right?
[2796.16 --> 2799.10] We have better means or other means.
[2799.96 --> 2804.06] Now, I don't have time to parse all of that out this morning,
[2804.46 --> 2807.60] but I do want us to notice something about the resurrection.
[2808.04 --> 2808.18] Okay?
[2809.24 --> 2813.00] The resurrection didn't make sense to the disciples.
[2813.00 --> 2813.40] Right?
[2814.66 --> 2818.24] Their words seemed to them like nonsense.
[2819.50 --> 2822.28] And so even though sometimes we look at the Bible and we think,
[2822.36 --> 2824.92] oh, we know better today and we think differently now,
[2825.06 --> 2826.86] I don't want you to come at this story,
[2826.94 --> 2829.82] the story of the resurrection, from that place.
[2829.84 --> 2833.38] Because resurrection doesn't make sense in the ancient world either.
[2835.06 --> 2835.54] Right?
[2835.56 --> 2839.34] It doesn't make any more sense then as it does now.
[2840.22 --> 2840.70] Right?
[2840.70 --> 2844.72] Resurrection was just as nonsense sounding then as it was today.
[2845.84 --> 2846.76] And here's the point.
[2847.46 --> 2848.70] An interesting point in this.
[2849.04 --> 2852.68] The word that Luke uses that means nonsense,
[2852.90 --> 2854.46] it's the Greek word leros,
[2854.90 --> 2857.44] it's only used here in the Bible.
[2858.58 --> 2861.00] But it's actually an old Greek word,
[2861.14 --> 2862.16] an Attic Greek word,
[2862.26 --> 2864.70] so predating the Greek that was used during this time.
[2864.70 --> 2870.22] And it's a word that shows up in what's called the Hippocratic Corpus.
[2870.76 --> 2875.00] Now, the Hippocratic Corpus is like the WebMD of the ancient world.
[2876.28 --> 2876.90] Right?
[2876.94 --> 2881.48] It's a collection of medical writings from the school of Hippocrates.
[2882.16 --> 2884.96] Maybe you've heard of the phrase the Hippocratic Oath.
[2885.34 --> 2885.52] Right?
[2885.62 --> 2886.34] Do no harm.
[2886.34 --> 2891.88] So Hippocrates was a 4th century BC physician and philosopher.
[2892.24 --> 2896.76] And his school around him collected all of these medical documents
[2896.76 --> 2899.96] and writings about health and well-being.
[2900.74 --> 2905.24] And in the collection of writings associated with Hippocrates,
[2905.24 --> 2910.16] the word leros is used to describe irrational speech,
[2910.66 --> 2912.74] hallucinations, and delirium
[2912.74 --> 2916.50] that's associated with illness or really high fevers.
[2917.52 --> 2919.20] You ever seen someone with a really high fever
[2919.20 --> 2920.68] and they start to say nonsense?
[2920.98 --> 2922.42] That's how this word is used.
[2923.84 --> 2927.58] Point is, the disciples are more likely to believe
[2927.58 --> 2930.54] the women are delirious, are hallucinating,
[2931.04 --> 2932.54] than that Jesus was raised.
[2932.54 --> 2937.86] That's not really that different from today.
[2939.56 --> 2941.64] So to be clear and sure, right,
[2941.72 --> 2944.36] that the resurrection doesn't make sense.
[2944.80 --> 2947.26] Not because it's irrational,
[2947.86 --> 2951.60] but because it doesn't fit into the existing framework
[2951.60 --> 2954.78] of perception and expectation and meaning.
[2957.82 --> 2962.34] That is the world and work of sense-making.
[2963.16 --> 2965.64] Perception, expectation, and meaning
[2965.64 --> 2969.04] is the area of focus and thought
[2969.04 --> 2971.98] where we make sense of the world.
[2972.78 --> 2974.74] I want to play with that word a little bit this morning.
[2975.82 --> 2981.10] The word sense has kind of two meanings with us, right?
[2981.10 --> 2986.00] We use the word sense in reference to our physical perception.
[2986.00 --> 2991.32] What do we call sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing?
[2991.50 --> 2994.46] Our five senses, exactly.
[2995.72 --> 3000.74] But sense also has always included comprehension
[3000.74 --> 3003.34] or even emotional aspects.
[3004.42 --> 3008.78] Think about when a math problem clicks for the very first time.
[3009.72 --> 3010.72] You go, that makes sense.
[3010.72 --> 3011.36] Right?
[3012.30 --> 3012.92] It adds up.
[3013.28 --> 3014.10] It lines up.
[3014.26 --> 3018.70] Or think about when you empathize with someone after a loss, right?
[3018.72 --> 3020.40] And they're explaining their hurt, and you say,
[3020.74 --> 3022.34] yeah, that makes sense.
[3023.94 --> 3024.42] Right?
[3024.44 --> 3027.10] It's not that you can touch, taste, see, or smell
[3027.10 --> 3028.82] what it is that they're feeling,
[3029.38 --> 3030.14] but it fits.
[3030.56 --> 3033.36] It accords with what we know to be true.
[3033.36 --> 3040.00] And so nonsense, right, is the thing or the lack of a thing
[3040.00 --> 3042.82] with a lack of meaning or a lack of coherence
[3042.82 --> 3046.90] or a lack of a correspondence to reality as we understand it.
[3047.68 --> 3049.58] And again, in the world of the disciples
[3049.58 --> 3051.10] and in the world of today,
[3051.36 --> 3054.86] we can see how the resurrection doesn't make sense
[3054.86 --> 3056.58] because it doesn't cohere,
[3056.84 --> 3061.50] it doesn't line up with what we ordinarily experience as reality.
[3061.50 --> 3063.42] We can't make sense of it.
[3065.06 --> 3066.38] But here's the thing.
[3069.82 --> 3072.06] As we talk about sense-making,
[3073.58 --> 3078.66] people in our day and age