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Jack Graham - Where Is Jesus?

April 20, 2025 | S25:E16

Jack Graham - Where Is Jesus?
Dr. Jack Graham's mission is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ as Lord to all people.
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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Where Is Jesus? | April 20, 2025
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  • There is no person that god cannot save!
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  • There is no promise that god will not keep!
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  • There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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  • He is risen. indeed. jesus is alive.
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  • Welcome to a very special edition of powerpoint. easter
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  • Is the highest and holiest day on the calendar for the
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  • Believer. nearly 2000 years ago, jesus died on the cross
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  • For our sins and then rose again. he came out of the
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  • Grave, securing our victory over death and hell and
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  • Judgment.
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  • And now we can live with him and be with him forever and
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  • Ever. will you join me as we study a passage from john
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  • Chapter 14, where jesus tells us exactly who he is and what
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  • He stepped out of the beauty of heaven to accomplish for you
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  • And for me.
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  • Let's join in with the congregation now and the
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  • Message, “where is jesus?”
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Take your bibles and turn with me to the fourteen chapter of
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  • The gospel of john. this is easter and it's a day of days
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  • For christians. it is a sacred day.
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  • The greatest message that humanity will ever hear is the
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  • Message that jesus is lord, that jesus lives, that he
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  • Forgives sinners like you and me, who if they will come to
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  • Faith in jesus christ, you are loved as well, and he will save
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  • You by his blood and by his grace and by the power to
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  • Change a person's life. [applause]
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  • So our text says... it begins with:
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  • 1) do not let your hearts be troubled.
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  • So christians, in spite of all that, don't be troubled. don't
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  • Let your hearts be troubled by this. our lord is alive. satan
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  • Will not steal the joy of easter from our heart. and the
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  • Resurrection is real and we know it. so...
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  • 1) do not let your hearts be troubled. (jesus said) trust in
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  • God, and trust also in me. 2) there is more than enough room
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  • In my father's home. if this were not so, would i have told
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  • You that i'm going to prepare a place for you? when everything
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  • Is ready (i love this! the right time and it could be
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  • Today!) 3) when everything is ready, i will come and get you,
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  • So that you will always be with me where i am.
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  • I'm calling this message “where is jesus?”. that was a big
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  • Question in jerusalem 2000 years ago, when the tomb is
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  • Empty. “where is jesus?”
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  • Several years ago, there was a woman who came to our church
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  • And she was looking around and she said to someone, "well, i
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  • See all the crosses but where is jesus?" you see, she grew up
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  • In a religion that magnified a crucified christ... christ on a
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  • Cross. and so she said, "where is jesus?" well, friends, jesus
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  • Is not on the cross! [amen!] nor is he in the tomb! [amen]
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  • The tomb is empty! but the throne in heaven is not! jesus
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  • Lives and is lord of all. and he said, "i go to prepare a
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  • Place for you and when i come, i will receive you to myself,
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  • That where i am, there you will be also." you want to know
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  • Where jesus is? he is preparing a place in heaven for you and
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  • All of you who put your faith and trust in him.
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  • And then thomas said to him:
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  • 5) “no, we don't know, lord. we have no idea where you are
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  • Going, so how can we know the way?”
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  • So glad thomas asked this question! we know him as
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  • Doubting thomas but i appreciate the fact that thomas
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  • Was one of those persons that would raise their hand and ask
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  • A question if they didn't get it. he said, "i don't get this.
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  • We don't know." it was a dark night. the disciples were...
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  • Were troubled and afraid and fearful because there was
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  • Foreboding in that upper room. and so thomas just voiced the
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  • Question of the ages. "lord, we don't know where you're going!
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  • How can we know the way to heaven? how do we get to this
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  • Place?" that's the question that everybody needs to ask and
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  • Answer.
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  • And so jesus gave the most bold declaration of his entire
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  • Ministry on earth, in my viewpoint. he said:
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  • 6) i am the way, the truth, and the life. and no one comes to
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  • The father (god) except by me.
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  • The way, the truth and the life! this is jesus.
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  • Dr. johnston in his book the body of proof: seven best
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  • Reasons you can believe in the resurrection. you should get
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  • It; give it to a friend who may be a doubter or skeptic. but he
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  • Writes:
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  • The resurrection both confronts and comforts culture and should
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  • Also change the christian's perspective. our living hope is
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  • Based on the historical, unchangeable fact of jesus'
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  • Physical bodily resurrection from death. this was not a
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  • Resuscitation.
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  • I've always felt sorry for lazarus. you know, jesus raised
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  • Lazarus from the dead. that's when our lord said, "i am the
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  • Resurrection and the life." and lazarus, his friend, was dead
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  • And in the tomb. he rose to life on the third day. but the
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  • Problem is lazarus had to go back and die again! always felt
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  • Bad for lazarus on that one. but jesus never went back to
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  • Die again! he came out of the grave alive forevermore! the
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  • Unchangeable... and it wasn't a spiritual resurrection, but a
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  • Bodily, physical, factual resurrection.
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  • The bible teaches us that in the resurrected christ we have
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  • A living hope! do you have that hope? he called it a better
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  • Hope in hebrews 7:19 and a sure hope in hebrews 6:19. and we
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  • Know it as a blessed hope because this same jesus who
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  • Came the first time; who lived, who died and rose again on the
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  • Third day, ascended and is on the throne of god. his name
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  • That is above every name! he is coming again, victoriously,
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  • Visibly to receive all to himself who have trusted in
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  • Him. this is the resurrection story.
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  • Easter is not a day that we celebrate just once a year, but
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  • It's the life that we live every day! "to live is christ
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  • And to die is gain." why? because jesus lived! and
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  • Because jesus lives, hope lives! because jesus lives, joy
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  • Lives! because jesus lives, peace lives! because jesus
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  • Lives, we live! we are alive in him. and the significance of
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  • This day is why it's so sacred... this day, it's a day
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  • That is set aside to celebrate and to remember what christ has
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  • Done every single day. because the resurrection proves that
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  • There is no one like jesus! no one else could do what he did
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  • And what he does in our lives.
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  • So he gives us a promise.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • I know you would agree that our world is in trouble, its in
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  • Turmoil. and although it is full of so many uncertainties,
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  • There is one answer for believers and followers of
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  • Jesus. it is the first place we should go, and that is the
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  • Place of prayer. to take our concerns, our anxieties, our
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  • Worries and fears to the lord in prayer.
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  • God is seeking people who will connect with him and connect
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  • With him very deeply. to be plugged in to his spiritual
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  • Power that can transform our lives and people around us.
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  • That power can overcome any trial and transform our daily
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  • Lives. but so many people struggle with prayer and just
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  • Don't know where to start.
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  • [jack graham] amazing things happen when we simply ask and
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  • When we pray god's way, the kingdom way. by prayer, we
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  • Receive god's presence and power for our lives. god wants
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  • Us to always keep growing and seeking after him, so that we
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  • Can know him more and more, and love him better and better.
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  • That we would share his message of hope and compassion to a
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  • World desperately in need.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • A promise is given here. he said literally, "stop letting
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  • Your heart be troubled! believe in god, believe also in me." in
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  • Other words, a peace is promised because of the
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  • Resurrection. this peace that we have with god. because
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  • There's a broken relationship between myself and god. jesus
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  • Brought reconciliation and salvation so that i could
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  • Have... as a sinful man a relationship with a holy god.
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  • That's peace with god. do you have peace with god?
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  • And then peace within ourselves. so many people are
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  • Troubled by life and broken by life's experiences. no peace. i
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  • Think if you could... if you could categorize our society...
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  • Our culture today, i would say it's just so filled with war
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  • And division and no peace, no peace.
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  • And then peace with the people... others. we have peace
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  • With god, peace within and peace without because of a
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  • Relationship with god, and we can get along with others and
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  • Build relationships in our homes and our families and
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  • Marriages. building your marriage, building your family,
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  • Parenting, marrying god's way, the way home, because jesus is
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  • "the way and the truth and the life." but there is peace.
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  • I love the story of jesus walking with two disciples
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  • After the resurrection. the word was out that the tomb was
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  • Empty. but people didn't know exactly what was happening.
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  • They were saying, “where is jesus?” well, jesus joined
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  • These two despondent, discouraged disciples who were
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  • Walking home from jerusalem, on their way to their home in
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  • Emmaus. i actually believe this was a married couple, a husband
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  • And a wife on their home from jerusalem. and they were so
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  • Defeated and so despondent. and the divine stranger joined them
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  • On the road.
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  • They didn't recognize jesus. perhaps blinded by their tears,
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  • Perhaps their heads down. they're just talking to someone
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  • Who was with them, or the lord somehow blinded their eyes.
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  • They did not yet know it was christ. they didn't know it was
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  • Jesus with them. and jesus spoke with them and said, "why
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  • Are you so sad?" and i... i look at that story and i think,
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  • That's what jesus does today with so many people who... who
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  • Are sad and sorrow fills their lives, and tears fill their
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  • Eyes. maybe you! you came here with sadness today. and jesus
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  • Noticed how sad they were.
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  • I can tell you from my vantage point, from this pulpit each
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  • Week, i look across a congregation and i see a lot of
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  • Sad people. not all, of course. but i see the tears. and as a
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  • Pastor, we deal with sadness every single day. and i see it,
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  • But not like jesus sees it. jesus sees when we think nobody
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  • Else sees. god sees, even when you think he doesn't! they were
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  • Crying; they were broken, but god... jesus, the risen christ
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  • Saw their tears and walked with them.
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  • And the same risen christ will walk with you. not one time
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  • Have we walked alone! because the risen christ is with us!
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  • Not on time have we cried alone, because he keeps our
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  • Tears in a bottle. he knows our tears; he understands our
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  • Fears. the risen christ is with us every step of the way. yes,
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  • The tomb is empty, but we are full of his presence because of
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  • A living christ.
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  • But then he spoke of a place that he was preparing. he said,
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  • “i go to prepare a place for you.” and he's talking, of
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  • Course, about our hope of heaven. now heaven is not a
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  • State of mind. we talk about something being heavenly. it's
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  • Not an adjective, this heaven of heavens. heaven is not a
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  • Magic kingdom; it's a real kingdom. it's not a fairy land;
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  • It's not an ethereal existence where you get checked out some
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  • Wings, become an angel, fly around the sky.
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  • No, heaven is a place beyond our imagination, prepared even
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  • As we speak by the lord jesus christ. he said, “i'm going to
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  • Prepare a place for you.” and we often hear this message from
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  • John 14 preached at funerals. but we should not delegate the
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  • Message of the resurrection to funerals and just easter,
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  • Because right now, this moment the resurrection is real and
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  • Jesus who conquerors death is preparing a place in heaven for
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  • Us. and that place is real. it's not a place of our
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  • Imagination; it's a place of the resurrection.
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  • And the bible tells us that we will be raised with him.
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  • Because he rose, we will rise with him and be with him.
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  • That's what makes heaven heaven. jesus said, "that where
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  • I am, there you will be also." where is jesus? he's preparing
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  • A place for you. yes, he lives in hearts by his spirit. he
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  • Lives in our lives... that's where he is, but he is
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  • Preparing a place for you in heaven. that's where jesus is
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  • This moment. this is why we live with hope in a troubled
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  • World.
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  • As a pastor i have delivered messages at literally thousands
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  • Of funerals and i've seen the tears and known the sorrows of
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  • Others. and i have also experienced sorrow and grief.
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  • But to know this hope, this blessed hope of jesus christ
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  • Because of the resurrection makes life worth living. it
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  • Puts everything in perspective in life because now we live
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  • With a holy habit. our hearts are turned towards him. we set
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  • Our affection on things above.
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  • Now i know there is a dread of death. and you know what people
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  • According to well-known psychologist has written about
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  • Death... you know what people fear most about death? it's not
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  • Hell because most people write that off and don't believe in
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  • Hell. but there is a hell and jesus talked about it. there is
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  • A judgment. "it is appointed unto man once to die, and then
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  • The judgment." and you will be alive in eternity somewhere in
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  • Eternity forever and ever and ever and ever either in heaven
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  • Or in hell. so... yet people...we don't worry too
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  • Much about hell. you know what the greatest fear according to
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  • This well-known writer and author and psychologist, is the
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  • Fear of non-existence.
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  • Now if you'll just let your brain contemplate non-existence
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  • For a few seconds, it will frighten you. i know
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  • Everybody's a tough guy but the prospect of not living, of
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  • Being dead and gone forever. i remember even as a little boy
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  • Thinking about this. is it possible that when we die,
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  • We're done forever? you just don't exist? is that the dread
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  • That so many people live with today. yes, death stalks every
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  • Life and ultimately as much as we want to prolong our lives
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  • And our health as much as we do, death eventually stalks us
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  • Down.
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  • And yet, for the christian because jesus won over death,
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  • Hell and the grave... "o grave, where is your victory? o death,
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  • Where is your sting?" and so there is no fear of the future.
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  • "don't let your hearts be troubled." when jesus said
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  • That, he literally said, "stop letting your heart be
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  • Troubled." he said, "stop worrying and fretting about
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  • What's twirling around you. stop worrying about the future.
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  • Don't you know "believe in me, trust in me because i'm going
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  • To prepare a place for you. in my father's house..." the old
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  • King james translated that in many mansions, and you know, i
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  • Like the idea of a mansion... a big house. but... (somebody
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  • Said amen right here on the front row, but) [laughter] you
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  • Know, sometimes... i was thinking about that, you know
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  • Sometimes mansions can seem vast and cold. it's not the
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  • Size of the building that matters; it's who's in the
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  • House that matters.
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  • So what jesus is saying here is: in my father's house... of
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  • All the things described in heaven... heaven is described
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  • As a garden; heaven described as a great river; heaven is
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  • Described as a sparkling place with pearly gates and all of
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  • The beautiful symbols of heaven... the beauties of
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  • Heaven. but of all of the illusions, the illustrations
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  • That jesus gave to heaven... the unimaginable prospect of
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  • Heaven, he said, "it's like[clap] a house[clap], it's
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  • Like your father's [clap] house [clap] because your god, your
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  • Father jesus... that he loves you and he's preparing a place
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  • For you. and so going to heaven is like going home.
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  • And when you die, jesus is coming for you. he said, "i
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  • Will come again and i'll take you to myself." he's going to
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  • Pick you up when you go to sleep and he's going to put you
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  • In your room that he's been preparing for you. and you're
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  • Going to wake up to a future beyond your imagination. he
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  • Said, "i go to prepare a place for you." heaven... it's been
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  • Said many times many ways, is a prepared place for a prepared
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  • People. the bible says "prepare to meet your god." are you
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  • Prepared to meet god? is he coming for you? does this
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  • Promise... does it have your name on it?
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  • So thomas, doubter, but again, i congratulate him because
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  • Doubt is often faith acting up. it's doubt with questions. and
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  • Some of you have questions. and you have fears and doubts
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  • Regarding your future. you don't know whether you're going
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  • To heaven or not. you don't know eternal life or experience
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  • The presence of christ in your life so thomas was willing to
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  • Raise his hand and say, "lord, [clap] wait, [clap] wait! we
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  • Don't know! how can we know the way?" and that's when jesus
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  • Said, "i am the way, and the truth, and the life; and no man
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  • Comes to the father... no one comes to the father, (jesus
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  • Said,) but through me." "there is one mediator between god and
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  • Man, the man jesus christ." "there is no name given among
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  • Men whereby we must be saved (according to the apostle)
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  • Except the name of jesus!" only jesus died and rose again!
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  • Buddha lived and died; he's gone. mohammad lived and died;
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  • He's gone. all the religious leaders in the world died and
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  • They are gone! all the religions cannot get you to
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  • Heaven. all the rituals, all the good works, all the good
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  • Deeds. there is one way to heaven and his name is jesus
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  • Christ! [applause] and when you trust in christ as your
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  • Savior...
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  • You say, well that's... that's extremely narrow. this is what
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  • I don't like about christians. you're all so narrow." well,
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  • Jesus was narrow. and so what jesus said is either true or
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  • It's false. if it's false, then what does that make jesus? a
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  • Liar. and a liar cannot be your lord. so you have to decide if
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  • He is who he claimed to be. and you know how we know jesus is
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  • Who he claimed to be? the way, the truth, the life... "without
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  • Me there is no going; without me there is no knowing the
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  • Truth; without me there is no living." you know how you know
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  • It? the resurrection!
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  • The claim of jesus christ is compounded by the power of the
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  • Resurrection. and the eye-witnesses and the empty
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  • Tomb and all the other reasons that we can believe in the
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  • Resurrection give evidence that what jesus said is true.
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  • Ultimately, it's all about him... who you believe jesus
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  • Really is. and if you will put your faith and trust in him, he
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  • Will take you across to the other side.
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  • We were saddened to see the terrible accident up in
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  • Baltimore when the boat... the ship that collapsed the bridge
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  • And the bridge went down and people lost lives. as i looked
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  • At that, i thought about that faulty bridge... how it failed
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  • And i thought about jesus who is the one who bridges the gap
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  • Between me a sinful man and a holy god. and that bridge...
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  • The bridge through the cross of the lord jesus and the
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  • Resurrection will never fail! that bridge will never
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  • Collapse. so get on the bridge and follow jesus christ.
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  • So what do you believe about jesus? who is jesus? is he
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  • Savior? is he lord? the question is, is he your savior?
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  • Is he your lord?
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  • Today you can know that you can spend eternity with him by
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  • Simply confessing that you have sinned, that you're separated
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  • From god, but when you put your trust in him, repenting of your
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  • Sins, that means to turn away from your sins and to trust in
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  • Christ and christ alone.
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  • The bible says, believe on the lord jesus christ and you will
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  • Be saved. and believe and confess that because of his
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  • Death, for you on the cross and the power of his resurrection,
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  • That he has given you eternal life and right standing forever
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  • With god.
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  • So simply telling something like this, god, i know that
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  • I've broken your commandments, that i've sinned against you,
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  • But i know that you paid the price, the penalty of my sin on
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  • The cross, that you died for me.
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  • I turn from my sin, and i trust in you. i do believe, jesus
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  • That you are the son of god and that you are the lord of life.
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  • Lord jesus, come into my life. be my savior. be my master. be
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  • My king. be my lord. today reigns supreme in my life, and
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  • I will follow you as my lord and savior until you come for
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  • Me. in jesus name.
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  • So if today you will pray and make that decision to follow
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  • Jesus, we want to know so that we can walk with you in your
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  • Journey with him. will you let us know?
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  • You can text the word decision to 59789, and we'll send you
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  • Resources to help you get started in your journey of
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  • Faith. just text decision to 59789.
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  • Jesus is alive. he is risen! he is risen indeed. thank you for
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  • Joining us this easter sunday. and i look forward to seeing
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  • You again the next time, right here on powerpoint.
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  • ♪♪♪
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