David Jeremiah - The Resurrection of Jesus

April 15, 2025 | S25:E16

Because Jesus rose from the dead, we, as Christians, are forgiven from our sins, able to have a relationship with Him, and will live with Him forever.

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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah | David Jeremiah - The Resurrection of Jesus | April 15, 2025

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♪♪♪
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Male announcer: welcome to a very special easter edition
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Of "turning point" with dr. david jeremiah.
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Biblical and historical records account of the death
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And resurrection of jesus christ.
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In these words, we read of the stone miraculously rolled away
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From the soldier-patrolled tomb,
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The angelic messenger's announcement
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That christ was risen, and the empty sepulcher
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And abandoned burial linen.
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Two thousand years later, easter reminds us not of death,
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But of life everlasting.
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Join dr. jeremiah in celebrating the resurrection of jesus
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Today on "turning point."
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ christ the lord is risen today ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ sons of men and angels sing ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ raise your joys and triumphs high ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ sing, ye heavens, and earth reply ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ lives again our glorious king ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ where, o death, is now thy sting? ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ dying once he all doth save ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ where thy victory, o grave? ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ love's redeeming work is done ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ fought the fight, the battle won ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ death in vain forbids him rise ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ christ has opened paradise ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ soar we now where christ has led ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ following our exalted head ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ made like him, like him we rise ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ ours the cross ♪
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♪ the grave, the skies ♪
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♪ alleluia, alleluia ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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Announcer: coming up on "turning point."
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Dr. david jeremiah: jesus said, i'm gonna die and i'm gonna come
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Back, and when i come out of the grave, you're gonna know
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That everything i told you about forgiveness is true.
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And when jesus came out of the grave that day,
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What he proved was that his death on the cross
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Was sufficient for our sin.
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♪ i was buried beneath my shame ♪
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♪ who could carry that kind of weight ♪
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♪ it was my tomb 'til i met you ♪
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♪ i was breathing but not alive ♪
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♪ all my failures i tried to hide ♪
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♪ it was my tomb ♪
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♪ 'til i met you ♪
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♪ you called my name ♪
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♪ and i ran out of that grave ♪
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♪ out of the darkness ♪
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♪ into your glorious day ♪
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♪ you called my name ♪
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♪ and i ran out of that grave ♪
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♪ out of the darkness ♪
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♪ into your glorious day ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ now your mercy has saved my soul ♪
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♪ now your freedom is all that i know ♪
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♪ the old made new ♪
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♪ jesus, when i met you ♪
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♪ you called my name ♪
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♪ and i ran out of that grave oh ♪
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♪ out of the darkness into your glorious day ♪
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♪ you called my name ♪
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♪ and i ran out of that grave ♪
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♪ out of the darkness into your glorious day ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ i needed rescue, my sin was heavy ♪
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♪ but chains break at the weight of your glory ♪
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♪ i needed shelter ♪
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♪ i was an orphan ♪
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♪ now you call me a citizen of heaven ♪
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♪ when i was broken you were my healing ♪
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♪ now your love is the air that i'm breathing ♪
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♪ i have a future, my eyes are open ♪
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♪ cause when you called my name ♪
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♪ i ran out of that grave ♪
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♪ out of the darkness into your glorious day ♪
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♪ you called my name ♪
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♪ and i ran out of that grave ♪
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♪ out of the darkness into your glorious day ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ the sun was darkened and the heavens thundered ♪
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♪ and for a moment death had thought it conquered ♪
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♪ but it wasn't over ♪
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♪ till you said, it's over ♪
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♪ your word is greater still ♪
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♪ the perfect sacrifice ♪
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♪ your body broken ♪
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♪ as you restored to us ♪
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♪ what sin had stolen ♪
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♪ once and for all ♪
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♪ you tore the veil wide open ♪
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♪ your power is stronger still ♪
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♪ all praise, all praise ♪
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♪ to the name above all names ♪
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♪ jesus, you reign ♪
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♪ you're the name above all names ♪
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♪ oh yes, you are, oh ♪
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♪ you turned the grave into a new beginning ♪
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♪ our god is risen ♪
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♪ you're alive and breathing ♪
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♪ there's nothing that can rise against ♪
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♪ your victory ♪
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♪ your name is higher still ♪
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♪ your name is ♪
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♪ your name is higher still ♪
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♪ all praise all praise ♪
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♪ to the name above all names ♪
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♪ jesus, you reign ♪
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♪ you're the name above all names ♪
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♪ oh jesus ♪
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♪ you're the name above all names oh ♪
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♪ the cross still stands, the blood still flows ♪
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♪ the work is finished and hell still knows ♪
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♪ that the grave is still empty ♪
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♪ the stone is still rolled ♪
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♪ and you're still high and lifted up ♪
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♪ you're still seated on the throne ♪
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♪ the cross still stands, the cross still stands ♪
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♪ the blood still flows, the blood still flows ♪
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♪ the work is finished and hell still knows ♪
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♪ that the grave is still empty ♪
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♪ the stone is still rolled ♪
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♪ and you're still high and lifted up ♪
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♪ you're still seated on the throne ♪
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♪ all praise all praise ♪
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♪ to the name above all names ♪
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♪ jesus, you reign ♪
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♪ you're the name above all names ♪
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♪ hallelujah ♪
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♪ every voice will proclaim there is no higher name ♪
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♪ hallelujah ♪
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♪ age to age we will sing ♪
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♪ there is no higher name ♪
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♪ hallelujah ♪
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♪ we proclaim, every voice ♪
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♪ will proclaim there is no higher name ♪
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♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ age to age, age to age ♪
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♪ we will sing there is no higher name ♪
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♪ all praise, all praise ♪
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♪ to the name above all names ♪
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♪ jesus, oh jesus ♪
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♪ you reign, you reign ♪
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♪ you're the name above all names ♪
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♪ you're the name ♪
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♪ you're the name above all names ♪
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♪ you're the name ♪
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♪ you're the name above all names ♪
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♪ jesus ♪♪
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♪ o praise the name of the lord our god ♪
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♪ o praise his name forevermore ♪
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♪ for endless days we will sing your praise ♪
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♪ oh lord ♪
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♪ oh lord our god ♪
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Michael sanchez: you may be seated.
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♪♪♪
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♪ amazing grace ♪
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♪ shall always be my song of praise ♪
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♪ for it was grace ♪
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♪ that bought my liberty ♪
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♪ i do not know just why he came ♪
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♪ to love me so ♪
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♪ he looked beyond my faults ♪
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♪ and saw my need ♪
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♪ i shall forever lift mine eyes ♪
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♪ to calvary ♪
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♪ to view the cross where jesus died for me ♪
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♪ how marvelous, how marvelous ♪
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♪ the grace that caught my falling soul ♪
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♪ he looked beyond my faults ♪
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♪ and saw my need ♪
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♪ amazing grace ♪
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♪ shall always be my song of praise ♪
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♪ for it was grace ♪
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♪ that bought my liberty ♪
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♪ i do not know just why he came ♪
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♪ to love me so ♪
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♪ he looked beyond my faults ♪
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♪ and saw my need ♪
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♪ i shall forever lift mine eyes ♪
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♪ to calvary ♪
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♪ to view the cross where jesus died for me ♪
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♪ how marvelous the grace that caught ♪
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♪ my falling soul ♪
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♪ he looked beyond my faults ♪
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♪ and saw my need ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ how marvelous the grace that caught ♪
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♪ my falling soul ♪
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♪ he looked beyond my faults ♪
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♪ and saw my need ♪
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♪ amazing grace, jesus saw my need ♪
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♪ amazing grace, amazing ♪
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♪ amazing grace ♪
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Announcer: easter is a time for reflection, renewal,
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And reconnection with god, his son,
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A deeper spiritual connection to the savior
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During the easter season.
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Reflect on two foundational easter passages from god's word,
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Take a 25-day journey of hope as experienced through the promise,
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People, and places of easter with 25 daily devotionals.
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Search for the jesus of easter in the crowds, at the garden,
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At the cross, at the tomb, and in the sky
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Through five inspirational readings,
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And explore ten answers to questions
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To help you better understand the prophecies fulfilled
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And the events that occurred that first easter.
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♪♪♪
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Dr. jeremiah: it's neither the dark fridays
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Or the bright sundays that require
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The greatest amount of grace.
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We've all learned, even in our own lives,
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That the greatest grace is needed during
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Eternally long saturdays, when we're waiting
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For what happened to be resolved,
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When we're waiting for the promise to be kept,
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When we're waiting for the diagnoses
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To be confirmed.
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It's those long saturdays that are so hard.
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There's a very famous sermon on easter by a friend of mine,
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And the title of the sermon,
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"it's friday, but sunday's coming."
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Say that with me, it's friday, but sunday's coming.
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That's surely how it was for the friends of jesus
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As the hours of saturday overtook them with emptiness,
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But something was about to happen
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That would change these men and women forever.
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No longer would they be cowards hiding in the backdrop
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Of the crucifixion,
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But something would happen that would change them
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Into flaming evangelists who filled the whole world
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With the gospel, and according to the record,
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Even of secular historians,
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These particular people turned their world upside down.
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It is the experience of the resurrection
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Of the savior that explains all of this,
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And of course, this particular truth
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About his life is found in all of the gospels,
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Matthew, mark, luke, and john.
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I've chosen today to tell the story
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From the 24th chapter of the book of luke
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And the first 12 verses.
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Here we are told of the experience of the empty tomb
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And are met with some visiting women in verse 1.
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"now on the first day of the week,
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Very early in the morning, they, and certain other women
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With them, came to the tomb
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Bringing the spices which they had prepared."
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We see these women on their way to the tomb,
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Engaged in this ministry of love,
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But we forget it was also a ministry
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Of sorrow and hopelessness.
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These women who came to the tomb
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On that first easter would have been
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Some of the last ones at the cross with their savior.
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Luke tells us that "all of his acquaintances,
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And the women who followed him from galilee,
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Stood at a distance, watching the crucifixion."
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It is moving to see them now on this day,
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Early in the morning,
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Coming to the grave of their loved one,
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Bringing their spices.
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They brought the spices as a show of their love
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For their dead master.
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They thought of him as dead, and yet they still loved him
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With a great love.
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The things they had hoped for seemed destroyed,
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But their love for the lord was not destroyed.
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I mean, jesus had been beaten and put to death,
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But the love of these women did not die with jesus.
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They had been told by christ before his death
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About his resurrection,
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But either they did not believe him
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Or it just went over the top of their heads,
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They were coming to embalm the lord's body
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Because they thought this was the end of him.
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Their faith had failed them, but their love was still strong.
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And they brought their spices that day,
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Which would have been sorted into the foldings
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Of the cloth around his body,
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Sort of as an external embalming process.
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They came with love to visit his grave.
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But as they drew near to the grave, something happened.
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Verse 2 says, "they found the stone rolled away
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From the tomb."
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That's not just an incidental detail.
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Let me fill in the blanks.
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This was something that was quite amazing to them.
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In fact, one of the other gospel writers tells us
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That this was the subject of their conversation
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On their way to the tomb that day,
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"they had said among themselves," mark 16:3,
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"'who will roll away the stone from the door
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Of the tomb for us?'"
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Now, matthew records in his writings that
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"a large stone was rolled against the front of the tomb."
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Mark says the stone was extremely large,
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And some of the manuscripts describe the stone
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As a stone which 20 men
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Could not roll away.
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The tomb, according to the scripture,
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Was one that had been hewn out of rock.
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And the door that went into the tomb was about 4 1/2 feet high
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And 5 feet wide, so the question would be,
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What kind of a stone would be necessary
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To close the mouth of a tomb like that?
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Scholars have discussed what it would take for a stone
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To be big enough to cover the tomb where jesus was buried,
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And they have said it would have weighed
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Somewhere between 1 1/2 and 2 tons.
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On that first sunday morning, when the women came to the tomb,
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One of the first things that shocked them
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And made them realize something was going on
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Was this stone was not where it was supposed to be,
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It was not in front of the tomb.
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It was not even rolled back up the slot,
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It was in a place by itself
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Where it could not possibly have gotten
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If humans were involved in the process.
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Now, we've read the rest of the story,
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So we know what happened.
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It was an angel, in cooperation with an earthquake,
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That got that stone out of the place
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Where it was supposed to be.
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But think about this.
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If you're the women, you're on the way,
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You've had this conversation,
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What are we gonna do with the stone
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When we get there?
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Then you get there, the stone's not in front of the tomb,
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It's not in the groove.
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It's over here in the field by itself, how did that happen?
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In order for us to understand what was going on,
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We have to get into the minds of these women
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As the story begins to unfold before them.
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Now they approach the sepulcher where jesus was buried,
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And the scripture says in verse 3 of luke 24 that
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"they went in and they did not find the body
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Of the lord jesus."
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Immediately, they noticed that no one was in the tomb.
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And i want to say to you that the gospel rests entirely
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On the fact that the tomb was empty.
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This has been our claim, and no one
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Has ever been able to deny it.
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Let's face it, the jews of jesus's day
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Could not deny it,
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Even though there was nothing they wanted more
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Than to discredit the witnesses of the resurrection.
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And the romans could not deny it in spite of the fact,
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This was the most embarrassing event in the ten-year reign
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Of pontius pilate.
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In order for you to grab the magnitude of this very thing,
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The empty grave, let us remember that the disciples
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Began to preach the resurrection of jesus christ,
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Not in some distant country,
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They began to preach that christ was risen from the dead
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In the city of jerusalem.
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The garden tomb isn't out in the country,
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It's not in the suburbs, it's almost downtown.
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And the disciples began to preach that jesus
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Had come back from the grave, that he'd risen from the dead,
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And anyone who wanted to prove that had only to do one thing,
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Go to the tomb where he supposedly was buried
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And produce his body.
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If they had done that, christianity would have been
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Dead on arrival, and there would be nothing like what we enjoy
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Here today in the celebration of a living christ.
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What was the central truth of the apostles' preaching?
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What was the stimulus of the miraculous afterglow
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Of the resurrection of christ?
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Read the book of acts, and there you will find all the sermons
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That were preached during the after part of the resurrection.
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And they're all about the resurrection.
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They're not really about the crucifixion,
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They're all about the fact that jesus overcame death
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And he was alive.
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When the disciples became aware of this
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And it finally got into their spirit,
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They knew they were doing something miraculous,
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They knew they were living in a moment
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That had never been known before.
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They had a leader who had died and had been dead
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For three days and had come out of the grave
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Victorious over death.
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And not only that, that's what he told him
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He was gonna do before it happened.
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So everywhere they went, they preached on this.
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God blessed the message of the resurrection,
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And the church was born.
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We're here today because of those early days
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Of the preaching of the apostles.
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How many of you know that the world offers promises
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Full of emptiness?
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But easter offers emptiness full of promise.
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Empty cross, empty tomb, empty grave clothes,
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All full of promise.
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Well, that's what happened when the women arrived that day,
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But there's an explanation of all of this about to happen.
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In verse 4, we meet some angels.
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"and it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this,
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Two men stood by them in shining garments."
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Now, we shouldn't be surprised that the angels show up
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At the resurrection, because they showed up a lot
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During the lord's ministry on this earth.
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I wrote a book on angels some years ago,
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And i remember how surprised i was to discover
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How involved the angels were with jesus
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While he was on this earth.
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Let's face it, they got it all started when they heralded
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His coming outside of bethlehem,
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Announced that jesus was to be born.
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It was the angels who told mary this was gonna happen.
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It was an angel who told joseph.
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It was angels that told the shepherds.
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When jesus began his public ministry and he went out into
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The wilderness to be tempted by satan, guess who was with him?
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Angel.
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When he was in the garden of gethsemane,
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In that hour of agony for humanity, guess who was there?
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Angels.
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And who rolled the stone away from the tomb?
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It was the angels.
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And who shared the message of the gospel for the first time?
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It was the angels, two angels that mary saw
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When she looked into the tomb.
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And these angels had a message for mary,
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A very assuring message,
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"as they were afraid and bowed their faces
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To the earth, the angels said to them,
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'why are you seeking the living among the dead?
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He's not here, he's risen!'"
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In other words, jesus is alive,
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The tomb couldn't keep him under.
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All the famous tombs in the world are famous
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For one reason, for the bodies that they contain.
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The tomb of jesus is famous for what it does not contain.
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It was empty on that first easter,
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And it is still, and the emptiness
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Is a constant reminder of this angel message,
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He's not here, he's risen, as he said.
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So the angelic messengers give an assuring message,
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And that assuring message is the message
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We celebrate on this day.
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And then there's this moment of awakened memory,
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And i put this in here because it's kind of critical
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To the way some people look at the resurrection.
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Verses 6 through 8, the angel speaking to the women said,
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"do you remember how he spoke to you
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When he was still in galilee, saying that
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'the son of man will be delivered into the hands
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Of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again'?"
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And the lights go on, oh, yeah, i remember that.
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I run into people all the time that say,
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I don't know why you people make such a big deal
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Out of the resurrection,
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Jesus didn't even believe in the resurrection.
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What do you mean jesus didn't believe in the resurrection?
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He experienced the resurrection, but he also spoke about it.
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During his three years of ministry,
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He spoke freely of his death, his burial,
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And his resurrection.
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For instance, early in his ministry,
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Immediately after he cleansed the temple,
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He got into this discussion and he said this
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To the jews of jerusalem, and i gotta tell you
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What he said freaked them out.
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He said, "if you destroy this temple,
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In three days i will raise it up."
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Now, he's standing at the temple that was built--
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That took hundreds of years to build,
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One of the seven wonders of the world,
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And he's talking to the jewish people and he says,
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"if you destroy this temple, i'll raise it up in three days,"
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And they say, yeah, right.
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But you don't have to wonder what he was saying
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Because in the verse it says,
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"but he was speaking of the temple of his body."
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In other words, if you destroy this temple,
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In three days, i will raise it up.
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On another occasion during the second period
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Of his galilean ministry, after he healed a demoniac,
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Jesus said,
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"for as jonah was three days and three nights
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In the belly of the great fish,
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So will the son of man be three days and three nights
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In the heart of the earth."
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What was he talking about?
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He was talking about the resurrection.
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Immediately following peter's great confession,
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We read that "from that time jesus began to show
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His disciples that he must go to jerusalem,
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Suffer many things from elders and chief priests
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And scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day."
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So if somebody says jesus didn't believe in the resurrection,
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They just haven't read the record.
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He believed in it, he taught it to his disciples.
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He told them what was gonna happen,
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He described all the details of it.
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And the fact that they didn't believe it,
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Even after it happened, many of them,
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Is not the fault of jesus, he told them.
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The empty tomb and the resurrection, when it happened,
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Hit the disciples with shock and awe.
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In fact, in the early moments of his resurrection,
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The people who were closest to him,
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Who had heard all these messages i just told you about,
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They didn't get it, they didn't believe it.
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It happened, it happened exactly as he said it would,
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And they were caught in unbelief as his repeated appearances
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To them ultimately broke down their doubt.
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It's an amazing thing that they had been with him all this time,
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They had heard all these teachings,
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But when it happened, of course,
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There's the evidence of the empty tomb
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And the declaration of the women.
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When they went into the tomb and saw that it was empty,
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The bible says, "they returned from the tomb
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And told all these things to the eleven, all the rest.
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And it was mary magdalene and joanna,
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And mary the mother of james, and the other women with them,
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Who told these things to the apostles."
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I must stop here and make a note about the priority of women
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In this story.
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They were the first to see the empty grave.
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Women were the first to see the angels.
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Women were the first to see the resurrected lord.
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Women were the first to hear his loving words.
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And women, believe it or not, were the first preachers.
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I have to admit that,
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It's in the scripture right here.
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And the reason i say that is
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Because while that is commendable
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And while women and their status has been raised incredibly,
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Primarily because of the influence of christianity,
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The status of women today in our culture,
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Especially in our country,
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Is higher than it is any other place they could be.
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But it wasn't that way in jerusalem
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When jesus came out of the grave.
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Women were given no credit for anything,
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They couldn't even serve as a witness at a trial
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And so culturally, such a story from women
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Would be viewed with suspicion.
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One of the main proofs that the resurrection story is credible
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Is the realization that the first century church would never
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Have created a story like that whose main witnesses were women,
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They just wouldn't have done that.
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This is a god story.
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It's not a man's story or a woman's story,
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This is a god story.
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And god probably has a sense of humor, and he says,
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Let's just use women, let them be the first witnesses.
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And they've been witnessing ever since, did you notice?
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Witnessing about jesus, you take women out of the church
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And it'll fall on its face.
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Praise god for the faithful women who follow in the train
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Of these first gospel women,
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Who witnessed the resurrection and went everywhere telling it.
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And when they told the disciples what they had seen,
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Verse 11 says, "their words seemed to them like idle tales,
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And they didn't believe them."
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They refused to believe.
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So if you're here today and you're a hard case,
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You're a skeptic, you're in good company,
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The disciples were just like that too.
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They got through it, and i hope you will too.
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But i'll tell you, there's a person
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Who's gonna enter into the dialogue here,
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He's gonna fix everything, he always fixes everything.
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Do you know about peter?
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Here comes peter.
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Peter listened to these women.
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He didn't know if they were telling the truth or not,
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But peter, listen to what it says,
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"peter rose and he ran to the tomb."
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I don't know if it's true or not,
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But i'm gonna find out for myself.
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Did you notice that in the story of the resurrection,
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There is more running than in any other place
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In the bible?
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I'm not kidding you, half of the running experiences
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Of the bible are in the resurrection story.
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The women ran from the tomb.
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Peter and john ran to the tomb.
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The disciples in emmaus ran back to jerusalem.
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And somebody has written, where's that energy
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In the church today?
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We shuffle along, they ran.
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And then they came and they found this discovery,
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"stooping down," when peter got to the tomb,
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"he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves."
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In a real sense, the grave of jesus was not totally empty.
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In fact, some years ago, i preached an easter sermon
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On the title, "the not quite empty tomb,"
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Because the tomb had some grave clothes
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That were still there.
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Now, i'm gonna quote from john's gospel, but first,
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I wanna explain something to you about john.
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John wrote his gospel, the fourth gospel,
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And he never talked about himself by name.
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He coined a special name for himself,
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Do you know what that name is?
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Here's what john--when john talked about himself
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In his writing,
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He called himself the disciple that jesus loved.
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Come on, john, i know you're trying to be humble,
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But that's over the top, man, the disciple that jesus loved?
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Well, it gets worse.
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The bible says in john 20, "so they both ran together,
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And the other disciple outran peter
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And came to the tomb first."
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John could not help himself, he had to put in the text
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That when they ran to the tomb, he was faster than peter.
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The other disciple that jesus loved got there first.
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John left the tomb that day full of faith, but not peter,
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The bible says about peter that "he departed,
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Marveling to himself what had happened."
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So i tell you all of this to let you know
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That the opening mood for easter that day
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Wasn't what you might think,
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That here's all these religious people,
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Maybe in a church someplace, waiting to hear the news,
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Well, he came out, he's risen.
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No, it was surrounded by people just like all of us,
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In all different stages of belief and unbelief
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About the reality of the resurrection.
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Some were sure, some were not sure,
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But seemed to me like the ones who were closest
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To jesus had the most trouble trying to figure this out
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And accept it as fact.
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When jesus came out of the grave,
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He met astonishment and surprise
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And fear and confusion.
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Yeah, he told them this was gonna happen,
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But they didn't get it.
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And easter's still like that today for many people,
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It's a surprise.
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So let me ask you, if all of this is true,
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If he really did come out of the grave,
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If he is alive, if he overcame death,
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If he's the only one who's ever lived,
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Who of his own power took back life,
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If that is true, what does it mean to us?
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Let me suggest three things that it means to me,
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Maybe you agree.
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First of all, it means that i can be forgiven.
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You see, when jesus was teaching and preaching before his death,
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He said things like, if you put your trust in me,
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You can be forgiven.
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If you put your trust in me, your sins can be covered.
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And then he went and did what he said he was going to do,
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He died on the cross, and everybody knew that.
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And he was witnessed by the jewish community
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And by the romans.
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He hung on a cross between two thieves
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And poured out his life and he died.
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And so let's put a period there for just a moment and say,
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If that's all that happened, are we still okay?
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No, we're not still okay.
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We're not okay because a lot of people
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Have died for things they believed in.
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A lot of people have said, i'll die for this,
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Even some of our own patriots have put their lives on the line
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For things they believe.
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But jesus said, i'm gonna die and i'm gonna come back,
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And when i come out of the grave, you're gonna know that
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Everything i told you about forgiveness is true.
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And when jesus came out of the grave that day,
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What he proved was that his death on the cross
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Was sufficient for our sin.
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I like to say it this way, his death was the sacrifice
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And his resurrection was a stamp on the document,
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Paid in full, so my sins have already been covered.
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You say, how could that be?
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He was just a man.
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No, he was not, he was the god-man.
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He was the infinite god-man.
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He was god walking around in a body,
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And when he died on the cross,
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His death was infinite just as his life was infinite.
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His death was enough for everyone
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Who had put their trust in him.
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So when he died on the cross, you can be sure
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That it was sufficient for everyone.
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But how do you know it was really, really true
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And that it was really miraculous
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And that it was really from god?
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You know that because three days later,
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He came out of the grave victorious over death.
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Nobody's ever done that before.
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Romans says it this way, "he was delivered up
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Because of our offenses,
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And he was raised because of our justification."
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And paul tells us this, that if we confess
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With our mouth the lord jesus,
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And if we believe in our heart that god has raised him
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From the dead, we will be saved.
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You know, i know that's a term that's gotten thrown
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Under the bus in a lot of religious circles.
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I grew up with that term, people coming up and ask you,
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Are you saved?
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Most of the time, people today don't know what that means,
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But the bible speaks of it very clearly.
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To be saved is to have salvation.
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To be saved is to be forgiven.
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To be saved means that your sins are forgiven
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And god has accepted you and you're on your way
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To heaven.
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And the bible says, "if you confess
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With your mouth the lord jesus
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And believe in your heart that god has raised him
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From the dead, you will be saved."
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So i got saved one day, long, long time ago.
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My dad led me to christ.
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I've been saved ever since, because once you get saved,
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You stay saved.
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And i know that my sins are forgiven.
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I've done some things i'm not proud of,
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As all of you have, but i've confessed them
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To the lord, and the bible says,
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"if we confess our sin, he is faithful and just
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To forgive us our sin and cleanse us
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From all unrighteousness," and that's what he does.
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I stand before you today free and forgiven,
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I'm a forgiven boy, and i know a lot of you
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Are forgiven too, amen?
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But not only are we forgiven, the bible says
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We have fellowship.
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Remember what happened, jesus came out of the grave.
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He came out of the grave and 40 days later,
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He went back to heaven, so what's he doing up there?
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The bible says he's seated at the right hand
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Of the father making intercession for us.
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Literally, he's our advocate in heaven.
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Do you know what that means?
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It means i got an attorney in heaven taking care of my stuff.
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That means when i do something that's not understood,
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My attorney in heaven, he takes that to the father
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And puts it right.
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The bible says he's making intercession for us.
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He is seated right next to god the father, and when i pray,
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He takes my prayers and he puts them in the perfect format
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And gives them to god, and they get answered.
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And here's the goodest of all the good news,
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He's not only in heaven as my advocate
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And my intercessor, he also lives within my heart
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And i can talk with him any time i want,
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And i talked to him today, to my risen lord.
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Last of all, third, not only do i get forgiven and i get
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Fellowship with god, but third, my future is sealed, it's fixed.
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I don't have to worry about what's gonna happen to me
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When i die because the promise is this, jesus said,
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"i am the resurrection and the life.
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He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live.
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And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die."
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Oh, wait a minute, that sounds like double-speak,
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What is that all about?
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The bible teaches that there's two kinds of death.
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In fact, it calls it the first death and the second death.
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Death is a word that means separation,
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That's what the word itself means.
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By the way, i've done some homework on this,
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And death is 100%, did you know that?
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For everybody.
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So death is separation and the first death,
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It means that your soul and your spirit
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Get separated from your body.
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That's what happens when a person dies.
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We put their body in the grave, but the bible says their soul
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And their spirit goes to be with god.
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"absent from the body is present with the lord,"
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That's what the scripture says.
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That's the first death, and all of us
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Will experience that if the lord doesn't come back beforehand.
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But the second death is one that's not understood by many,
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It's the one you don't want to get close to.
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The second death isn't the separation of your soul
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And your spirit from your body,
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The second death is the separation of your soul
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And spirit from god forever.
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Now, listen again to what jesus said, "jesus said unto her,
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'i am the resurrection and the life.
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He who believes in me, though he may die physically,
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He shall live.'"
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When you die, you keep on living.
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"'and whosoever lives and believes in me
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Shall never die the second death,'"
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Because when you believe in jesus,
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You live forever in his presence.
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So what i know is this, i'm not afraid to die,
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I'm not anxious to die.
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I'm like the little boy who was in class one day
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And his teacher said,
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"how many of you want to go to heaven when you die?"
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All the little children raised their hands,
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Except this little boy in the back.
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And she said, "son, don't you want to go to heaven
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When you die?"
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"oh," he said, "yes, when i die, but i thought you were getting
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Up a load for today, you know," i don't want to go--i don't want
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To die any sooner than i have to, but i'm not afraid to die
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Because i know what it is.
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I'll never die spiritually
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Because i've made peace with god.
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I've faced death physically, and i know that it's a scary thing,
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But i'm not afraid of it because i know what it is.
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One day, jesus is gonna come back, and if we haven't already
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Died before then, we're gonna be caught up together, be with him,
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And the bible says, so shall we ever be with the lord.
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Well, that's the resurrection, that's why i believe in it,
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Why i love to teach it, why this is such a special day.
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I'm forgiven, i got somebody to talk to every day in heaven,
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And i'm gonna spend eternity with my father.
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Those are pretty good takeaways from the resurrection.
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Carol wolf tells about a time some years ago
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When she was in a christian theater group,
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And she was traveling around doing a musical
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Based on c.s. lewis's "the lion, the witch and the wardrobe."
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I don't know if you've read that, but it's a pretty good
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Metaphor of the gospel, and the lion, aslan,
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Is a metaphor or a picture of jesus christ.
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I just need to tell you that so you understand
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The rest of the story.
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She said, "i helped prepare the costumes, and the sets,
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And the props, make the bookings."
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She said, "i booked a show at easter in a children's hospital,
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And when the kids arrived for the show in wheelchairs,
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And even on a gurney, as well as by foot,
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We realized that we were gonna be very crowded,
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And we decided to remove some of the set pieces.
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And even when we did that, the children were right next
00:52:57.021 --> 00:52:59.557
To the actors throughout the entire performance.
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At any rate, during this performance,
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There was a scene where the white witch,
00:53:06.731 --> 00:53:09.200
The devil, humiliates and kills the good lion, christ,
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And the children were totally caught up in the action.
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I mean, they didn't stir or speak,
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But more than a few were starting to cry."
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She said, "i was offstage watching this, waiting to go on,
00:53:25.283 --> 00:53:27.852
And the activities director of the hospital came
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And furiously started to chew me out.
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She said, 'what are you doing?
00:53:33.858 --> 00:53:35.560
You didn't tell me this was gonna happen.
00:53:35.560 --> 00:53:37.028
Look at these children, you're breaking their hearts.'
00:53:37.028 --> 00:53:39.130
I said, 'don't you get it?
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Aslan is like jesus, he'll come back.'
00:53:40.632 --> 00:53:45.203
Just then, two actresses playing sisters were singing
00:53:45.203 --> 00:53:48.306
A beautiful song in the midst of this presentation,
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And the song was called, "why did this have to happen?"
00:53:50.942 --> 00:53:54.812
They sang about aslan taking the punishment
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For their traitor brother, all while sitting
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In front of aslan's dead body on the set.
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When they finished their song,
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They cried on each other's shoulders.
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And while in this posture of grief, aslan sat up behind them.
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And that's when the children came to life,
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They shouted with joy,
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They clapped and laughed as if they were full of excitement.
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And the ones closest to the two women were shouting and pulling
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On their clothes saying, 'look, look, he's alive, he's alive!'"
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And that's what easter is all about, we don't have a savior
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Whose remains are languished in some faraway unknown tomb,
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Jesus christ is living today.
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And the same excitement that he brought to those children,
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He waits to bring to us if we will just come to him
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With our arms open to receive him.
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David Jeremiah - The Resurrection of Jesus

April 15, 2025 | S25:E16

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