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Cedric Pisegna - Easter Is For Everybody

April 20, 2025 | S25:E16

Cedric Pisegna - Easter Is For Everybody
Father Cedric Pisegna is a Catholic priest. His program will inspire and encourage you to Live with Passion.
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Live with Passion with Father Cedric | Cedric Pisegna - Easter Is For Everybody | April 20, 2025
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  • Father cedric pisegna: easter is for everybody, including you
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  • And me.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: hi, i'm father cedric pisegna, the host of
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  • "live with passion."
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  • I want to begin by wishing you a happy, blessed easter.
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  • I want to share with you the reading from paul the apostle.
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  • This is chapter 3 of his letter to the philippians.
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  • He said that "i want to know christ and the power flowing
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  • From his resurrection that i may share his sufferings, become
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  • Like him in his death, and if possible attain the resurrection
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  • From the dead."
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  • A blessed easter to you.
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  • Easter is for everybody.
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  • It's for you, and it's for me.
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  • Christ being raised from the dead, the most monumental moment
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  • In the history of humanity, means that he is the firstborn
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  • From the dead.
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  • Just as god raised jesus from the dead, he's gonna raise you,
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  • And he's gonna raise me, and we have this living, that's what
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  • The bible says in 1 peter, it's a living hope.
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  • Hope is alive.
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  • It was emily dickinson years ago that wrote, "hope is that thing
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  • With feathers."
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  • You know what feathers do for a bird?
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  • They make the bird fly, and our hope fortifies us against the
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  • Hardships of life, it strengthens us, it gives us
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  • Courage to face life, to even face our own death.
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  • This easter morning more than anything and everything, we
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  • Have hope.
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  • Oh, i want to fill you with hope this morning.
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  • I want to share with you a couple of words i was thinking
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  • About when it comes to easter, the meaning of easter.
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  • How 'bout this, new life, freshness,
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  • Strength, power, victory,
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  • Resilience, resurgence, reawakening.
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  • Easter is that and so much more.
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  • Can't help but get excited, there's energy, there's passion.
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  • The easter season in the catholic church is 50 days
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  • Because we need time to soak this in.
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  • Fifty days, lent was for forty, but easter's for fifty days.
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  • It's not just one day, it's a whole season to receive.
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  • I think about what the scripture says, the gospel, about who it
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  • Was, get this, this is huge, who it was that jesus appeared to
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  • First of all.
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  • It wasn't to the high priests, it wasn't to king herod to say
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  • That "i am the way, the truth, and the life," and to pontius
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  • Pilate that crucified him.
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  • Wasn't to all the political leaders, wasn't to all the
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  • Highfalutin religious people, it was to a woman; and a woman at
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  • That time was lower class in society, a woman--not only a
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  • Woman, we're talkin' about mary magdalene, but a woman out of
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  • Whom was passed seven devils, that's what the scripture says
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  • About mary magdalene.
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  • She had some things going on.
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  • She's the one that go to the apostles and tells them jesus is
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  • Risen from the dead.
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  • Do you know what that tells me?
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  • That the resurrection, the story of the resurrection, the
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  • Narrative, the truth of the resurrection is for everybody.
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  • It's for you and for me.
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  • It's for people that are going to church, and, and this is
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  • Happening a lot on easter and christmas, for people that don't
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  • Go to church, the people that have fallen away, the people
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  • That are having doubts.
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  • This easter message about the resurrection of jesus is for
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  • You, whether you're addicted or doubting or sinful.
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  • I doubt you have seven devils living inside of you, but she
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  • Was the first one to hear the message, and that tells
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  • Me everything.
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  • That the christian message, the gospel message is for
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  • All people.
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  • Father cedric: hope lasts forever, the bible says.
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  • There's three things that last forever, faith, hope, and love,
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  • And hope in heaven will be hope realized, and we are saved
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  • By hope.
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  • One of the popes promulgated an encyclical called, "saved
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  • By hope."
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  • Our hope, as i said, it fortifies us and strengthens us
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  • And energizes us to be able to face the adversities of the
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  • World, so i pray that you will be filled with hope on this
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  • Beautiful morning, this time of easter, this easter season.
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  • I've always been fascinated by the shroud of turin.
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  • Turin is a city in italy, and they came upon this shroud with
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  • An image upon it, a negative image of a man who had
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  • Been crucified.
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  • And scientists have done studies on the shroud, and what they
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  • Found out with carbon dating and with other scientific
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  • Experiments, they have found out that there was some type of an
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  • Intense burst of light that they cannot reenact even with all of
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  • Our technology that made-- they called it an
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  • Ultraviolet radiation.
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  • If you had 14,000 excimer lasers, you couldn't do the same
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  • Thing, and it ended up being perfect photograph negative in
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  • 3d of a man who was crucified.
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  • Many are calling this the relic of the resurrection, and i think
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  • It's true.
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  • We even have proof through the shroud of turin, but i don't
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  • Even need the shroud of turin.
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  • There's more proof than that, i'll share that with you in a
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  • Couple moments.
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  • I want you to understand that this resurrection that happened
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  • 2,000 years ago of jesus, this explosive burst of power is
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  • Available for you now.
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  • You don't need the shroud of turin to prove it.
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  • You can experience it through the grace that is the
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  • Holy spirit.
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  • Father cedric: that's why paul was saying in philippians 3, i
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  • Go back to the reading, he said, "i want to know the power of
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  • Christ's resurrection, and then i want to attain resurrection
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  • From the dead."
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  • So, he's saying two things.
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  • He's saying that you can experience resurrection now,
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  • Today, right where you are, and it's for you and for me, and
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  • When it's time that i may attain resurrection from the dead.
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  • So, i hope you get that.
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  • Resurrection is, of course, the resurrection of the body, but
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  • It's also this new, abundant, energetic life that comes in the
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  • Holy spirit.
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  • When it comes to experiencing it, i want you to know that
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  • There's a flow, if you will.
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  • Think about electricity flowing through a cord, and i'm talking
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  • About major wattage here, major volts going through that cord,
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  • There's a flow of energy coming from this monumental event that
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  • We can all experience.
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  • That's why paul said that, i want to know this, he said.
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  • Of course, he already did know it to a degree, but he wants to
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  • Know it more, and i do too, 'cause i've tasted and i've seen
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  • The goodness of the lord, and i want more of the glory, more of
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  • The power.
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  • Jesus said, "behold, i give you power."
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  • This morning on easter, this easter morning, power, energy.
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  • If you are addicted to whatever substance, power to come
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  • Into recovery.
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  • You can do it.
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  • It's a new day.
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  • If you are grieving, energy to go forward and not stay stuck.
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  • If you have negativity and doubts, illumination to be
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  • Positive and to have faith that yes, the resurrection is real.
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  • I'm talking about resurgence and resilience, a reawakening with
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  • God, perhaps that's where the power is greatest.
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  • You can have something real in the holy spirit with god.
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  • This isn't just a historical event from 2,000 years ago, and
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  • The resurrection isn't just some event that's going to happen in
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  • The future, it's for right now.
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  • I think you get that message.
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  • The bible tells us that over and over and over again.
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  • Read romans chapter 8, life in the holy spirit, about how the
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  • Spirit comes, that "the spirit that raised jesus from the dead
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  • Lives in you, then that holy spirit will raise you from
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  • The dead."
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  • That's a direct quote from romans chapter 8, and that
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  • Resurrection, as paul writes about it, isn't just for the
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  • Hereafter, for the here and now.
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  • Wow, love easter.
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  • Easter and christmas, what wonderful solemnities, what
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  • Wonderful feast days, and that's why i produce a program called
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  • "live with passion."
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  • Passion is that god energy that comes by the grace of the
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  • Holy spirit.
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  • It's resurrection power, not so much your body being
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  • Resurrected, but your innermost heart, your spirit, your being,
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  • Your mind, your attitude.
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  • Whew, resurrection.
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  • Hope means that death is not the end.
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  • It's abundant life.
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  • Has a double meaning, abundance now, and hope for the future.
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  • Paul the apostle makes these-- the only way to put it is
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  • Audacious statements.
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  • Get this, he points death--he points his finger at death, and
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  • He goes, "death, where is your sting?
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  • Death, where is your victory?
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  • Thanks be to god," he says, "who gives us the victory in jesus."
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  • Can you imagine?
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  • Death is the thing that everybody's afraid of, it's the
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  • Primal fear.
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  • In the bible, it's called--the book of hebrews talks about the
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  • Fear of death, and here's paul pointing his finger at it,
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  • Saying, "where's your sting?
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  • We've got the victory."
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  • That's what easter is, the victory of our god.
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  • One easter, i'm visiting my mom in florida, and that morning i
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  • Got up early, i wanted to see the sunrise over the atlantic
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  • Ocean, and i'm sitting there on the steps, nobody around,
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  • There's the beach, there's the ocean, here's the sunrise, and
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  • I'm thinking about people goin' to mass all around the east
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  • Coast as the sun rises.
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  • You know, they have the sunrise services on easter morning.
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  • And i'm thinking about all the hallelujahs that are being sung,
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  • And people happy because they're celebrating easter.
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  • All of a sudden, i hear a voice, i hear a voice in my heart.
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  • Picture the moment now, i'm on the beach all alone, it's easter
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  • Morning, and the voice i heard said to me, "cedric, you believe
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  • In the resurrection.
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  • But do you believe that you can experience resurrection now?"
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  • And as i sat there, grace was flowing into me, and i started
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  • Thinking about my attitude and how sometimes i can be negative.
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  • And god was telling me, "cedric, you can be raised up, you can
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  • Be positive."
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  • Those of you who are doubting, you can have faith.
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  • I was thinking about emotions like fear, and fear had had a
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  • Grip on me for many years, panic attacks and all that, and how
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  • God was saying, "cedric, you can experience fortitude and courage
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  • And be strong."
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  • I was thinking about people that are depressed and people that
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  • Are down in spirit and discouraged, and god was saying,
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  • "you can be reappointed, and you can be encouraged and
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  • Raised up."
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  • And what i experienced on the beach was exactly what paul
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  • Was saying.
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  • He said, "i want to know christ and the power of
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  • His resurrection."
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  • This led to me writing a book.
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  • That experience, that easter moment on the beach led to me
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  • Writing a book, and it's called, "rise."
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  • Yes, we're gonna rise, we believe, on the last day.
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  • Jesus taught us that, he said, and no one has ever said this,
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  • He said, "i am the resurrection.
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  • I am the life.
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  • Whoever believes in me will never die."
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  • Oh, but we can experience that resurrection even now, that new
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  • Life in christ, and i wrote a book called "rise" talking about
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  • Our thoughts, our emotions, our relationship, and especially our
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  • Relationship with god, because resurrection has to do with our
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  • God relationship.
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  • If you're feeling empty or feeling dry, there can be
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  • New life.
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  • For the 50 days of easter, the catholic church reads the acts
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  • Of the apostles, and we hear all about the miracles and about the
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  • Preaching and about the holy spirit working.
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  • Some scholars have called the acts of the apostles the acts of
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  • The holy spirit because really it's the holy spirit using
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  • People as instruments, doing all these beautiful things, and
  • 00:15:34.416 --> 00:15:38.387
  • Proclaiming the gospel all around the known world, wow.
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  • Resurrection is for right now.
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  • Because of easter, fears don't have to dominate us, doubts
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  • Don't have to have their way, depression doesn't have to
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  • Overwhelm us, worry and discouragement doesn't have to
  • 00:15:55.971 --> 00:16:00.476
  • Have the last word.
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  • Life has the last word.
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  • Resurrection is power.
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  • It's the power of the holy spirit alive within--talk about
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  • A burst of energy.
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  • It wasn't just on the shroud of turin, we're talking about
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  • Radiating grace, victory, overcoming, achieving, being
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  • Lifted up, being fruitful, that's what easter is all about.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: one time i had a teenager come visit me.
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  • He knew i was a priest, he was catholic, he said, "father
  • 00:16:55.230 --> 00:16:59.501
  • Cedric, it's easter," and he said, "at church they're singing
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  • Hallelujah, there's easter lilies everywhere, the priest is
  • 00:17:05.541 --> 00:17:09.778
  • Preaching about the resurrection," and he said,
  • 00:17:09.778 --> 00:17:12.748
  • "father cedric, i gotta be honest with you and tell you
  • 00:17:12.748 --> 00:17:15.551
  • That i'm sitting there doubting, because the priest wasn't there,
  • 00:17:15.551 --> 00:17:21.824
  • The people weren't there.
  • 00:17:21.824 --> 00:17:23.692
  • How do we know there was a resurrection?"
  • 00:17:23.692 --> 00:17:26.462
  • And maybe you're thinking that, especially if you haven't been
  • 00:17:26.462 --> 00:17:29.031
  • Going to church, you've been having doubts, and you're
  • 00:17:29.031 --> 00:17:31.900
  • Thinking, yeah, is easter just this cultural thing society has?
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  • Easter bunnies and all that?
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  • Is that what easter is?
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  • Well, it's a lot more than that.
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  • Faith comes by hearing, and as you hear the truth, i believe
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  • God is resurrecting you, changing your doubts into faith,
  • 00:17:49.384 --> 00:17:55.190
  • Changing your faith into trust, and changing your trust into a
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  • Deep, personal relationship with god.
  • 00:18:00.796 --> 00:18:03.632
  • Right where you are right now, experience resurrection.
  • 00:18:03.632 --> 00:18:07.469
  • I went and told other people about what this young man said,
  • 00:18:07.469 --> 00:18:10.239
  • And i said, "so, how do you know there's a resurrection?"
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  • One person said, "well, because it's in the bible," and that's
  • 00:18:13.008 --> 00:18:15.477
  • Good, and another person said, "because the church has taught
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  • It for 2,000 years."
  • 00:18:18.947 --> 00:18:20.282
  • Yeah, that's true.
  • 00:18:20.282 --> 00:18:21.650
  • Then one woman told me, "i believe there's a resurrection
  • 00:18:21.650 --> 00:18:24.253
  • Because he lives in me."
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  • Isn't that beautiful?
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  • That's called a witness, that's what the acts of the apostles
  • 00:18:27.990 --> 00:18:30.559
  • Was, they were witnesses.
  • 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:32.861
  • Remember what jesus said, "behold, i give you power, and
  • 00:18:32.861 --> 00:18:37.299
  • You will be my witnesses before the whole world."
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  • Goosebump time.
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  • We need witnesses who have experienced the power, who know
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  • The resurrection is true, who can proclaim this to the world.
  • 00:18:49.878 --> 00:18:55.050
  • And that's exactly what's happening in the acts of
  • 00:18:55.050 --> 00:18:57.252
  • The apostles.
  • 00:18:57.252 --> 00:18:58.687
  • And that's what i told that young man, i said, "young man, i
  • 00:18:58.687 --> 00:19:00.756
  • Don't know why you think i became a priest.
  • 00:19:00.756 --> 00:19:02.257
  • It wasn't 'cause my mother wanted me to be one, although
  • 00:19:02.257 --> 00:19:04.993
  • She did.
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  • It's because i experienced the holy spirit when i was 20 years
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  • Old, and the only way to put it is he raised me up.
  • 00:19:11.733 --> 00:19:18.040
  • I was transformed, and i continue to be transformed.
  • 00:19:18.040 --> 00:19:21.577
  • And i know there's a resurrection, not just because
  • 00:19:21.577 --> 00:19:23.512
  • It's in the bible, and not just because the church teaches it,
  • 00:19:23.512 --> 00:19:26.448
  • But because i have experienced the power of his resurrection
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  • That raises me from the dead.
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  • And i believe that one day i will too be resurrected through
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  • That same holy spirit."
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  • I gave a witness to that young man, and that's what we have to
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  • Do, because people can't argue with a story.
  • 00:19:42.130 --> 00:19:46.034
  • Stories proclaim truth, and that's my story.
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  • The resurrection is for everybody.
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  • It has a dual purpose, of course, it's real simple, and
  • 00:19:55.811 --> 00:19:58.747
  • This is all biblical truth.
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  • 1 corinthians, paul talks about the resurrected body, and that
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  • Our bodies will be transformed and changed into what he called
  • 00:20:06.154 --> 00:20:10.959
  • A spiritual body.
  • 00:20:10.959 --> 00:20:12.894
  • It will be changed.
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  • I remember, i wrote about this in my book "rise," and i
  • 00:20:14.663 --> 00:20:19.001
  • Remember one woman came up to me, and she's got arthritis and
  • 00:20:19.001 --> 00:20:22.604
  • Different things, and she's read my book, and she said, "father
  • 00:20:22.604 --> 00:20:24.873
  • Cedric, i want to experience that resurrection body now,
  • 00:20:24.873 --> 00:20:29.311
  • Because my body's hurting."
  • 00:20:29.311 --> 00:20:30.812
  • And maybe you're thinking the same thing, yeah, i need some
  • 00:20:30.812 --> 00:20:32.948
  • Resurrection in my body right now.
  • 00:20:32.948 --> 00:20:35.217
  • Oh, don't we all.
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  • We have a great saint in our church, st. thomas aquinas.
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  • He talked about some of the elements of a resurrected body.
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  • First thing he said is he used the word impassability, because
  • 00:20:46.228 --> 00:20:50.098
  • You might be wondering what kind of a--what is the resurrection?
  • 00:20:50.098 --> 00:20:53.635
  • Well, read 1 corinthians 15.
  • 00:20:53.635 --> 00:20:56.038
  • It will talk about the resurrected body.
  • 00:20:56.038 --> 00:20:58.707
  • And paul talks about the resurrection in other places
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  • In corinthians.
  • 00:21:01.543 --> 00:21:03.612
  • Well, impassibility, what is that?
  • 00:21:03.612 --> 00:21:05.647
  • Well, we're going--we've been goin' through a pandemic for a
  • 00:21:05.647 --> 00:21:08.884
  • Few years now.
  • 00:21:08.884 --> 00:21:10.852
  • People are dying.
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  • Over 800,000 people in the united states alone have died
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  • From this.
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  • There are diseases, there are sicknesses, arthritis, heart
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  • Trouble, knee problems, hip problems, you name it.
  • 00:21:27.336 --> 00:21:31.707
  • Impassibility is being incapable of getting sick.
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  • Imagine, the body we have now gets sick and it wears out, but
  • 00:21:38.780 --> 00:21:42.417
  • Imagine a body that doesn't get sick.
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  • That's the resurrected body.
  • 00:21:45.721 --> 00:21:47.055
  • And then number two, really quickly, there's agility.
  • 00:21:47.055 --> 00:21:50.459
  • Agility, if somebody's agile, you know what an agile
  • 00:21:50.459 --> 00:21:53.195
  • Athlete is?
  • 00:21:53.195 --> 00:21:54.563
  • Like a decathlon at the olympics, they can throw far,
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  • Run fast, swim quickly.
  • 00:21:57.833 --> 00:22:00.035
  • They're agile, they're quick, they're strong.
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  • Our bodies will have these new abilities.
  • 00:22:03.905 --> 00:22:07.976
  • Every once in a while i have these dreams about flying.
  • 00:22:07.976 --> 00:22:11.880
  • I see birds fly, we can make airplanes fly.
  • 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:16.952
  • Well, if airplanes can fly, why can't i?
  • 00:22:16.952 --> 00:22:22.057
  • What in the world is heaven gonna be like?
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  • It is gonna be so good.
  • 00:22:24.826 --> 00:22:27.062
  • And then, and in terms of agility and impassibility, he
  • 00:22:27.062 --> 00:22:32.901
  • Included something called clarity.
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  • I'm talkin' about saint thomas aquinas and the
  • 00:22:35.604 --> 00:22:37.406
  • Resurrected body.
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  • Clarity is--let me put it to you this way.
  • 00:22:39.207 --> 00:22:43.278
  • When your body--when your face is perfect.
  • 00:22:43.278 --> 00:22:48.817
  • We all know about blemishes and acne and wrinkles and scars
  • 00:22:48.817 --> 00:22:55.323
  • And ugliness.
  • 00:22:55.323 --> 00:22:56.758
  • We all go through that when you take a good look in the mirror.
  • 00:22:56.758 --> 00:23:00.262
  • Well, remember what happened at the transfiguration?
  • 00:23:00.262 --> 00:23:04.399
  • Jesus glowed, he became dazzling white, and it says that his face
  • 00:23:04.399 --> 00:23:12.607
  • Shone like the sun.
  • 00:23:12.607 --> 00:23:14.242
  • And jesus said that about us, about disciples, about
  • 00:23:14.242 --> 00:23:16.812
  • Believers, he said, "your face will shine like the sun in the
  • 00:23:16.812 --> 00:23:20.315
  • Kingdom of your heavenly father."
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  • Wow, that's gonna be one of the most beautiful things about the
  • 00:23:21.883 --> 00:23:25.053
  • Resurrected body.
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  • We're going to be gorgeous and handsome, like we were meant to
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  • Be in the garden of eden, but we lost when we sinned.
  • 00:23:30.492 --> 00:23:35.030
  • But that's all coming again, and that's what we're celebrating on
  • 00:23:35.030 --> 00:23:37.799
  • Easter, that we are not only gonna be alive, and that's so
  • 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:42.204
  • Much, that's magnificent, but we're gonna be able to enjoy our
  • 00:23:42.204 --> 00:23:47.075
  • Life, because we're gonna be healthy, we're gonna be agile,
  • 00:23:47.075 --> 00:23:50.545
  • We're gonna be beautiful, we're gonna be everything that we were
  • 00:23:50.545 --> 00:23:53.582
  • Created to be.
  • 00:23:53.582 --> 00:23:56.084
  • A blessed and happy easter to you, why?
  • 00:23:56.084 --> 00:24:01.122
  • Because we have a living hope that fortifies us, and not only
  • 00:24:01.122 --> 00:24:09.564
  • A living hope for the future, but belief that we can receive
  • 00:24:09.564 --> 00:24:14.936
  • Power in a burst of energy and passion and god's love now.
  • 00:24:14.936 --> 00:24:22.677
  • May you experience resurrection in your life that revolutionizes
  • 00:24:22.677 --> 00:24:27.682
  • Your life.
  • 00:24:27.682 --> 00:24:29.251
  • Don't just live, live with passion.
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  • Father cedric: blessed easter to you.
  • 00:24:37.926 --> 00:24:39.261
  • I get these emails and letters from people and this one woman
  • 00:24:39.261 --> 00:24:42.030
  • Said, "father cedric, i bought all of your books."
  • 00:24:42.030 --> 00:24:44.566
  • Thank you very much.
  • 00:24:44.566 --> 00:24:45.967
  • She said, "you always touch on what i'm going through, and i
  • 00:24:45.967 --> 00:24:49.037
  • Feel like god is speaking to me through you."
  • 00:24:49.037 --> 00:24:52.607
  • Wow, i love that.
  • 00:24:52.607 --> 00:24:54.676
  • I wanted to share with you one time i was on the beach
  • 00:24:54.676 --> 00:24:57.379
  • At easter.
  • 00:24:57.379 --> 00:24:58.713
  • We're having mass, 3,000 people on the beach.
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  • This is down in florida.
  • 00:25:01.082 --> 00:25:02.784
  • And i hear a plane go over, and i look up, and they're on the
  • 00:25:02.784 --> 00:25:05.787
  • Wings, underneath the plane, it said, "jesus is risen."
  • 00:25:05.787 --> 00:25:10.825
  • And i know that, i know that, but i began to weep.
  • 00:25:10.825 --> 00:25:15.397
  • See, that's that power, that energy that comes in many
  • 00:25:15.397 --> 00:25:19.467
  • Different ways, power to your mind and your emotions, your
  • 00:25:19.467 --> 00:25:24.239
  • Body, your spirit.
  • 00:25:24.239 --> 00:25:27.175
  • That's why i wrote a book called "rise," to help you to rise in
  • 00:25:27.175 --> 00:25:31.346
  • All those areas.
  • 00:25:31.346 --> 00:25:33.048
  • And this book will help you to experience the power of
  • 00:25:33.048 --> 00:25:36.551
  • The resurrection.
  • 00:25:36.551 --> 00:25:38.186
  • And i want you to have the best easter season you ever had.
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  • All you have to do is call 844-fatherc or visit my website,
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  • Frcedric.org, or simply write me in houston, texas.
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  • Thank you in advance.
  • 00:25:50.966 --> 00:25:52.467
  • I am praying that you have the best easter that you've ever had
  • 00:25:52.467 --> 00:25:56.304
  • In your life and you experience the power of his resurrection.
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  • ♪♪♪
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