The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast) - A Holy Week I Will Never Forget

Episode Date: April 19, 2019

You're listening to the Jeff Kavan Show, episode 112, A Holy Week, I will never forget. Hey, I'm Jeff Kavans. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. It's the Jeff Kaven Show. Thank you for joining me again this week, spend some time together. I know it's a busy, busy week for you, as it is for me and my family, and it always seems to be that way during Holy Week, doesn't it? But I wanted to at least spend a few minutes with you this week. This is not just a show. What I do every week, it's really spending time with friends like you.

And it's been a bit of a difficult holy week for us in Minnesota. And the reason being is that my mother-in-law, as I'm speaking right now, is in hospice. And over the last two weeks, things didn't turn out real well after some surgeries for her. And she's 85 years old, Alice Tobler, my mother-in-law. And so today we are busy with that. And, but I wanted to spend just a few minutes with you and ask you to pray for her, pray for our family, my wife, Emily, of course. It's a beautiful, beautiful time, but it's a difficult time too. And it all kind of comes together here during Holy Week as we take a look at the sufferings of Christ on Good Friday, which I'm talking to you on Good Friday. And then we, of course, we go to the greatest achievement in

the history of the world, overcoming death, hell and the grave with the resurrection. And I know that we study that, and we imagine what that must have been like for Jesus to suffer with the hope of the resurrection up ahead. But to be with your mother-in-law and to watch that suffering, the difficulties, you know, that's powerful. That's a holy week. And it's tough to watch someone suffer. And I imagine that our lady felt like that with Jesus. But we have the resurrection to look forward to. And that's what we're hoping in right now. And we're putting our hope in that. And that's really true for all of us, isn't it, in our lives? Is that we live our life. We do have struggles and mountains to overcome and so forth. But, you know, when it's all said and done, if we're faithful and we walk with the

Lord, we've got that resurrection and life eternal to look forward to. And so I'm witnessing in my mother-in-law, somebody who is embracing the suffering and looking forward to the resurrection where she will be changed and spend her eternity with the love of her life, Jesus, the one that she's been teaching all these years. For some of you that don't know my story, Alice Tobler is, I'm going to do a whole show on her sometime in the future, but she has lived. lived an remarkable life, 85 years old. She is the lady that I first met when I was 18 years old who invited me into her kitchen, and I sat down at the table, and she opened up a Bible and began to teach me about Jesus. And I owe so much to her. In fact, if you've ever taken

the Great Adventure Bible timeline, you owe something to her too, because she's the one that taught so many and has been such a role model for me all these years, one of the kindest persons I've ever known in my life. And so please pray for her during this Holy Week that this will work out and that she will be with the Lord forever and ever. I'm going to do a whole show on her sometime in the future because I think she's one of the people I want to introduce you too. But ask you to pray for my whole family as we kind of live out this Good Friday and the resurrection all in real time here with someone that we love very dearly. You know, the scripture on the resurrection is very powerful. Paul wrote to the Corinthians in chapter 15, and he talks about how much really rests

on the resurrection from the dead. He says in verses 12 through 20, I'll read it to you here. It's very powerful. He says, now, if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there's no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God because we testified of God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, and you are still in your sins.

Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied. But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order, Christ the first fruits, then at his coming, those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority in power. Very powerful. Very powerful stuff. The bottom line is that

everything we do, every good deed, every kind word, every act done in his name has meaning. And it has meaning for one reason, and that is that there is the resurrection of the dead. And our reward comes at that point. Now we're not just working. working for rewards, obviously, but that does come. And so we need to remain faithful all the way through Good Friday and on to Sunday. Resurrection Sunday. Well, I look forward to being back with you next week. At first, I wasn't going to do a show this week, and I thought this morning, I talked to my producer, Christina, and I said, can I still get something in this week? And she said, absolutely. So I just wanted to share this with you and ask for your prayers. I will be giving some

updates on my Instagram account, just Jeff Kavens on Instagram. Probably use Twitter too. But we truly are a family, aren't we? A family of God. And when one suffers, we all suffer. And when one rejoices, we all rejoice. So thank you for being a part of our family. We'll talk to you next week. Thank you.